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Does God have a Feminine Side?
The Motherly Love of God?
Any feelings of love, softness and warmth
that the word Mother elicits
God is all that and more
A committed Christian of very many years standing confided that an early draft of this webpage had empowered her to see God in a thrillingly new light. What a huge difference! she wrote, Instantly I felt I could communicate with God again. For the first time she saw God as being highly protective of her. A satisfying and much needed sense of security in her relationship with God flooded her. Suddenly she knew that God could be trusted to keep his covenant with her.
Her experience hints at why I am writing. No matter how intimately you already know God, my longing for you (and me) is for a spiritual revelation propelling you into life-transforming greater fulfillment in your relationship with God. The prayer of my heart is that my writings be a launching pad from which you leave my words behind and get caught up in a divine encounter.
In Luke 15 Jesus delivers three consecutive parables: the lost sheep, the lost coin and the lost (prodigal) son. In them, God is likened to a shepherd and a father. Some of us are shocked to realize, however, that in the middle parable, Jesus likens God to a woman (Luke 15:8). Should this really surprise, since God made both male and female in his own image (Genesis 1:27)?
I am driven to write about our perception of Gods gender because it has profound, practical implications for us, and can deeply affect the warmth and nature of the most satisfying, fulfilling and vital relationship any human can enjoy our relationship with God.
Gender is a highly emotive issue for us humans. It is at the very core of our being. It is such an primary aspect of human identity that gender is usually the first thing we notice about a person and what we most want to know when sizing up a stranger.
To think of God as a father or mother would hit us deeply even if it only raised gender issues but by linking God with parenthood it can send our sensitivities through the roof. Our strongest emotional bond during our most impressionable years is with our parents. If something goes even slightly wrong with that foundational relationship, causing the love and trust that children instinctively want to give their parents to be violated, it affects profoundly our every other relationship until our dying day, unless we experience a remarkable degree of healing. Even among those who think they have survived their childhood unscathed, many think of a father as colder and sterner than a mother and this unconsciously affects their feelings for God.
Yet another emotive layer to this mix is that those who truly know spiritual truth correctly recoil from any whiff of pagan religion. Rightly or wrongly, any hint of God being anything other than emphatically male conjures in many people fears of paganism or departure from biblical truth. Occasionally fear might protect us, but it also has the disturbing potential to paralyze what should be our relentless quest to know the God of the Bible with ever increasing depth and accuracy. Our only true protection is to be led by the Spirit, not driven by fear.
So the issue of Gods gender and linking God to parenthood by using the word Father, profoundly interacts with the deepest part of us, affecting us not just intellectually but causing the feelings of many of us to cool towards the warmest Person in the universe.
People who think themselves better than those whose emotions cause an irrational reaction against the thought of God being a father, seldom have any right to feel smug because they are often the very people whose rational and spiritual pursuit of truth is stymied by an emotional reaction against the notion of God being like a mother.
The real God is the God of truth. And fear, emotions and prejudice are the enemies of truth.
Regardless of the position taken, much that is said on this subject reveals more about our personal hang-ups and biases than it does about the heart of God. To have any hope of diffusing some of this we need to take a wider view before zeroing in on the issue of whether it is biblically accurate to think of God as a mother.
Lets begin by intensifying our passion for discovering all we can about God and by gaining deeper insight into why lifes greatest adventure centers on continually growing in our intimate understanding of the most beautiful Person in existence. Like a babes knowledge of its mother, our knowledge of God can be warm, intimate, fulfilling and continually growing but there still remains much beyond our capacity to understand. Our lack of understanding can at times be frustrating, as it is sometimes for children not understanding adult wisdom, tastes, sexuality, and so on. Growing in our knowledge and understanding of God, however, should be as exciting as lovers getting to know each other.
The Almighty is so much bigger than us that the never-ending challenge is to keep bursting the confines of our own hang-ups and narrow human thinking and shallow reading of Scripture. We need daring humility, a courageous passion for reality, and a yearning for divine intimacy if we are to continually expand our understanding of God to include more and more of the full biblical revelation of who God is.
Even a brief meditation on the following Scriptures will affirm that our highest calling and lifes most thrilling adventure is to know God as intimately and as fully and as accurately as humanly possible.
Romans 1:21-22 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
Jeremiah 9:23-24 This is what the LORD says: Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches, but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight, declares the LORD.
John 17:3 Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
Jeremiah 9:23-24 This is what the LORD says: Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches, but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight, declares the LORD.
John 17:3 Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
Job knew God so well that we read:
Job 1:8 Then the LORD said to Satan, Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.
Yet still this man of God had grasped so little of God that he later declared:
Job 42:5-6 My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you. Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.
Not even those who believed in Jesus really knew God:
John 8:31, 54-55 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said . . . My Father, whom you claim as your God, is the one who glorifies me. . . . you do not know him, I know him. . . .
Isaiah 55:9-8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. . . .
Psalms 119:18 Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law.
Matthew 16:17 Jesus replied, Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven. . . .
Jeremiah 29:13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
Exodus 33:18-19 Then Moses said, Now show me your glory. And the LORD said, I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the LORD, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
Mark 12:28-30 One of the teachers of the law came and . . . asked him, Of all the commandments, which is the most important? The most important one, answered Jesus, is this: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
Ephesians 1:17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.
Isaiah 55:9-8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. . . .
Psalms 119:18 Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law.
Matthew 16:17 Jesus replied, Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven. . . .
Jeremiah 29:13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
Exodus 33:18-19 Then Moses said, Now show me your glory. And the LORD said, I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the LORD, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
Mark 12:28-30 One of the teachers of the law came and . . . asked him, Of all the commandments, which is the most important? The most important one, answered Jesus, is this: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
Ephesians 1:17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.
Lets pray:
Dear Lord,
The magnificence of your glory, the perfection of your ways, the depths of your intellect, the scope of your powers, the vastness of your love, and every other aspect of your nature, far exceeds human comprehension. Nevertheless, relative to what we are currently capable of grasping, we do not want to settle for a hazy or inadequate or even fanciful view of you. We want to know the real you. To know you is to love you, and to love you is to want to know you more.
If we have misunderstood you or limited you, leaving ourselves with feelings for you that are colder than you deserve, we ask that you melt our hearts with a deeper revelation of who you really are. If you are more wonderful, more beautiful, more desirable, more thrilling, more lovable that we realize, we ask that you open our eyes to see you more fully.
We ask you to explode any blockages that our past hurts or prejudices or worldliness or small thinking might have created. We want you to captivate our hearts, taking us on a never-ending journey of discovery of the breathtaking beauty of your heart.
Deuteronomy 32:15 . . . He abandoned the God who made him and rejected the Rock his Savior.
More than twenty times the Bible calls God a rock. Thats a bold act because by calling himself a rock God leaves himself wide open to misinterpretation.
This is typical of God. Consider for instance when Jesus lost a huge portion of followers by saying that they must eat his flesh and drink his blood. He could easily have expressed that far less offensively but instead of carefully explaining, he used it to differentiate between those who genuinely wanted the true God from those who preferred a god of their own fancy; a god who requires little faith because he is within the scope of their own intellect.
If you want a staid, predicable God, you are doomed to an inferior earthly life and perhaps even a terrifying eternity.
To qualify for lifes greatest adventure you must be willing to tolerate mystery. If you want a God you always understand one who will not so frustrate and mystify you that you often feel offended then you do not want the true God at all. You want a fanciful god of human invention, not the God who is too driven by his love for us to limit himself to human ways rather than use all his resources his infinite intellect, supernatural ways, access to dimensions that we cannot even conceive of, and so on to lead us into what is best for us.
The Bible choosing to call God a rock is not in any way a denial of the fact that God has many abilities beyond that of a rock, such as intelligence, senses and emotions. Likewise, the Bible calling God Father cannot of itself be taken to deny that God has attributes far beyond those of a father.
To say that God is a rock does not mean God is unfeeling. Likewise, to say that God is a father cannot of itself be taken as implying that he is lacking in motherly softness or feminine tenderness. To know whether God is more feeling than a rock and has motherly compassion necessitates a deeper exploration of biblical revelation than hasty presumptions based on a couple of words.
We might despise rocks as cold and hard but it would be foolish to reject the Judeo-Christian God as cold and hard if, in fact, the Bible reveals that God is loving, gentle, kind and compassionate, and that he is a rock only in such ways as dependability, agelessness and a place of shelter and safety. It would be a tragedy of eternal proportions if we were to rob ourselves by rejecting the God of the Bible just because some preachers or certain superficial readings leave us with the false impression that God is cruel, harsh or egotistical.
It would be a serious mistake to create a God of our own making that suits our own whims and fantasies. We must come face to face with the real God, as truly portrayed in the Bible, not as we guess him to be as a result of a superficial encounter with him or shallow reading of Scripture.
Just because some people think warmly about fathers does not mean that even for them there are not thrilling, staggeringly beautiful aspects of Gods nature that are not adequately covered by the word father. Not having hang-ups about fathers does not mean a person has grasped all the depths and beauty and love and purity and goodness and wisdom of God. No matter how much we know of Gods heart, there is still more to learn, and no matter how deep and sophisticated our conception of God, our understanding is still shallow and over-simplistic relative to who the almighty, eternal, holy, infinite Lord really is.
As a friend, commenting on an early draft of this webpage, wrote:
God is a rock, but not just a rock! God is also a father, but not just a father. To say God is only Father would be to apply human constraints on a limitless God.
Many societies twist and distort males, forcing them into a mold that is contrary to Gods conception of masculinity. Jesus the perfect man and the perfect revelation of the heart of God cried often and had a tender heart. In fact, wherever we look in the Bible even among men sometimes mistakenly thought of as being somewhat callous, such as warrior David, Old Testament prophets, loud-mouth Peter, and the apostle Paul we find men crying. I suggest you let your eyes glide over the vast number of biblical references to men crying. You might be amazed at the impact of seeing all the references gathered together. That many of us think it unmanly to cry shows that there is a softness about the biblical conception of masculinity that is often lacking in our view of what it means to be male.
Nevertheless, one of the most basic biblical revelations is that God is not a man. Neither is he to be represented by the image of a man.
Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?
1 Samuel 15:29 He who is the Glory of Israel does not lie or change his mind; for he is not a man, that he should change his mind
Romans 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man . . .
1 Samuel 15:29 He who is the Glory of Israel does not lie or change his mind; for he is not a man, that he should change his mind
Romans 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man . . .
I know a woman who from a very tender age was not just molested but sexually tortured. Understandably, she became so sexually inhibited that as a teenager she recoiled from so much as a glance at her partly unclothed body such that she had no idea what even her pubic hair looked like. Very many sexual abuse survivors have shared their hearts with me, along with many married couples, yet today this woman stands out as so remarkably healed that although she is highly moral, within the sanctity of marriage, the average Christian wife seems riddled with hang-ups in comparison with her.
This outstanding healing came about by God, without any human intermediary, personally and very intimately teaching her about human sexuality and marital love. What allowed this to happen was this womans assurance that God is not sexual and so fully trustworthy in the realm that terrified her.
As she discovered, God is not anti-sex. He is the Creator of sex. Nevertheless, he himself is not a sexual being. To develop sexual feelings towards him is as inappropriate as it is to have sexual feelings for any non-human, whether non-living objects, animals, demons or angels.
God is not a man. Neither is he a woman.
Almost every application form asks for your sex and date of birth. God couldnt answer either question. They apply to earthly creatures but not to the infinite Lord. He couldnt even give you his street address or telephone number.
What is Gods sex? is as meaningless a question as, How old is God? To have sex (gender) implies not only sexuality but a certain incompleteness outside of union with the opposite sex. There is no incompleteness in God.
To think of God as either male or female as humans are is not only theologically mistaken, it is an insult to God. God is neither fully male which would imply some sort of need or yearning for a female God, nor is he an emasculated male, as if there were something lacking in him. The Almighty is perfectly whole and self-sufficient.
God is not only not sexual, he is not even physical. He is warm and personal and yet he is spirit. He has many qualities of which our own are reflections, and we have such compatibility with him that we were literally made for him, and yet he is breathtakingly different to us. As a mother and baby are so intimate and yet so different in their abilities, God is even more intimate and different to us.
Since all humans have gender, few, if any, earthly languages have the capacity to refer to a being who has a personality without automatically assigning a gender to that person. This has nothing to do with the nature of God, but the nature of human language. So to know whether the Bible teaches that God is male, one has to delve deeper than the mere use of the male pronoun. The Lord referring to himself as if he were male must not be interpreted in a strictly literal sense, anymore than we should interpret literally God calling himself a rock, a tower, a shield, a lion, and so on, and referring to his hands, feet, wings, and so on (Deuteronomy 3:24; 1 Corinthians 15:27; Ruth 2:12).
When seeking to portray something that nothing in the universe can match, it is a communicators nightmare that what for some people conveys the most powerfully evocative and accurate picture, is for other equally important people so far off beam as to be considerably worse than nothing.
If the Christian God is even remotely like the person many people know as father, we would have good reason for rejecting and despising him.
For vast numbers of us today the word father produces little of the warmly secure feelings of being cherished, doted on, protected and wisely guided that the word was intended to have when originally delivered to humanity. In present-day western society, fatherhood has suffered such horrific breakdown that what Gods Word meant by Father is as foreign to many of us as ox-drawn plows and other features of Bible times. For possible reasons behind this breakdown, see The Degradation of Fatherhood.
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
This famous Scripture shows that women, as much as men, are in the image of God. It also hints that both male and female were required for Gods image to be complete. In fact, it might be that a man and woman made one through marriage portray the fullness of God better than individuals. We certainly know from the biblical teaching of the body of Christ that the fullness of Christ is better portrayed by the entire church than by individuals.
God is neither male nor female, but in whatever respect one gender excels, in that respect that gender better reflects the nature of God. For example, the typically greater male physical strength significantly more important in pre-mechanical eras than now means that in their ability to offer the security of physical protection, men in biblical times portrayed slightly better that aspect of God. On the other hand, if women tend to be a little less callous than men, in this respect they are that bit more like God. In their ability to nourish and comfort, women typically better portray that side of Gods nature.
We need to keep expanding our view of God. For instance, down to the minutest detail, God knows exactly what it is like to suffer period pain or impotence; not because God has male and female characteristics, but because he is all-knowing. The Lord knows you more intimately than you know yourself.
The Almighty, without feeling the need to explain his actions, has chosen to reveal himself to humanity as a God and not a Goddess. One possible reason is that in the biblical era men usually filled leadership roles. However, I suspect a significant factor behind Gods choice has to do with the nature of human sexuality. Men, tending to be more sexually volatile, seem more likely to fall into perversion than women. Consider, for example, the horrific incidence of child sex abuse instigated by men, relative to the somewhat lesser incidence of female-initiated sexual abuse. (And this without men breast-feeding babies or spending the long periods alone with them that is typical of mothers.) As much as it may shock you, a few women actually nurture sexual feelings towards God. I suspect that male sexual vulnerability is such that perverted feelings for God would be more prevalent in humanity if God were commonly thought of as being female.
So not only does Gods application of the male gender not imply male superiority, it might actually be an accommodation to a weakness in fallen males.
There is also a heartwarming reason for God preferring to reveal himself as Father. If, in this fallen world, fathers are more likely than mothers to be cold and aloof, then people will need God as the warm, approving father they never had. It might grate on us initially, but the ironical reality is that the less able we are to see a father as being kind, loving and gentle, the more we need to see God as Father because, like it or not, suppress it or not, we have a deep, painful ache within us for a good father figure, and nothing can meet that need like a relationship with Father God.
This webpage, however, is for the many of us for whom that is too much, too soon.
Another complication is that human language and thought patterns restrict our ability to cope well with the concept of a person who has no gender. Our language leaves us with no option but to say he, she or it when referring to God. The Lord is most certainly not an it. God is so personal that alongside him we are coldly impersonal. This forces the selection of either the masculine or feminine pronoun.
Until quite recently in our history, the English language was such that the words man or men often referred not exclusively to males but to every man and woman in the human race. The Hebrew language (the original language of the Old Testament) was the same. Thus Genesis literally says in Hebrew:
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him [note the singular male pronoun]; male and female he created them.
Clearly in some contexts the Bibles use of he or him in its original language is gender-neutral. It might well be that it is in this gender-neutral sense that the Bible uses he or him when referring to God. In many contexts when the original says men, we would be very mistaken if we assumed it only refers to males. We might be making a similar mistake if we read too much into the apparently masculine references to God.
Studies have shown that even in modern English literature, referring to a male to illustrate a point is seen by readers as excluding the other gender less than if a female were cited. So even in modern English, to refer to God as she might more pointedly imply that God is female than referring to God as he implies God is male. Some people are beginning to avoid all references to pronouns when referring to God and simply say God each time. Given the direction our language is going, this, although tedious, might be technically more accurate.
Whatever Gods reasons for choosing to reveal himself using the masculine pronoun, I respect Gods wisdom and holiness too much to dare tamper with his decision by using the feminine pronoun. I seek, nevertheless, to broaden my understanding of God to embrace the full breadth of his revelation, which includes what we might label feminine characteristics.
The Interpreters Bible Dictionary sees it as highly significant that the Hebrew term for the uniquely female organ, the uterus (womb), is used in the original Scriptures to describe Gods compassion.
Gods wisdom is obviously an integral, eternal aspect of God. Scripture frequently speaks of this highly rated aspect of Gods character as if it were a person. Scholars believe Johns concept of the Logos, the Word that was God and became flesh (John 1:1-14) was derived from the Old Testament understanding of Wisdom as much, probably more, than from the Greek idea of Logos. And yet Wisdom, the one with whom are riches and honor and righteousness (Proverbs 8:18) and who shared with God in the creation of all things (Proverbs 8:27-31) is consistently given a female gender in Proverbs and by Jesus (Proverbs 1:20; 4:6; 8:1,11; 9:1; 14:33; Matthew 11:19; Luke 7:35).
Ponder these words from the lips of God:
Isaiah 66:13 As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you . . .
By what it inserts in brackets, the Amplified Bible leaves no doubt as to how its scholars interpret the words immediately prior to these:
Isaiah 66:12 For thus says the Lord, . . . you shall be nursed, you shall be carried on her hip, and be trotted on her [Gods maternal] knees . . .
In a beautiful picture of maternal love, Jesus expressed the depth of divine compassion with the words:
Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.
Since Jesus came to show us the Father (John 14:11-6) it is not surprising that we find in the Old Testament a similarly beautiful picture of Gods love:
Psalms 36:7 How priceless is your unfailing love! Both high and low among men find refuge in the shadow of your wings.
Significant Additional Scriptures about God as Mother
Reading about someone is very different to meeting that person in the flesh. This is one of the reasons why there are a million mistaken views about God. A significant part of Jesus mission was to sort out the mess. God, as he really is, is exactly what you see in Jesus.
John 14:7,9-10 If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him . . . Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, Show us the Father? Dont you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
John 5:19 Jesus gave them this answer: I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. . . .
John 10:30 I and the Father are one.
John 5:19 Jesus gave them this answer: I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. . . .
John 10:30 I and the Father are one.
Jesus God the true God is so different from the God of most peoples imagination that one of the favorite names early Christians had for God was the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Lets select one of these:
2 Corinthians 1:3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort (Other Scriptures)
No wonder the New Testament is filled with such Scriptures as:
Hebrews 1:3 The Son is the radiance of Gods glory and the exact representation of his [i.e. Gods] being . . .
When wanting to gain insight into God, is it Scriptures intention that we should use as a springboard not so much our feelings towards our parents as our parental feelings toward our own children?
Lets read Scripture with new eyes:
Matthew 7:11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
Jesus was not saying, think of your father: God is like that. He was saying, think of your tender feelings and sacrificial love for your own children: God is like that. Moreover, he was saying that Gods love is so good and pure and selfless that alongside him even our best attempts at love are evil.
Communicators can only appeal to the intelligence and charitableness of their audience to realize that when they select an analogy they are thinking of the finest examples of that group of humans. There will be some dear people, however, whose emotional pain screams louder than their ability to be coldly intellectual. Ironically, those for whom an analogy is an excruciating disaster are the very ones who desperately need to discover that God is the one person who can fill their gaping wound with his loving compassion and faithfulness.
Three times, the New Testament in its original Greek refers to God as Abba (Mark 14:36; Romans 8:15; Galatians 4:6). The peculiar thing is that this is not even a Greek word. It was the word Jesus used when speaking his native language. Mark, apparently because he felt there was something precious almost sacred about the expression, left Jesus choice of words untranslated. We cant be sure whether Pauls use of the term was influenced directly from Jesus earthly preaching or came from the apostles own revelation, but he, too, clearly felt there was no Greek equivalent that adequately reflected the depth of Abba.
It is popularly thought that Daddy is the best English approximation, but we can do a little better. For the people Jesus addressed, Abba was a babys first attempt to call out to its father. The closest English is Dadda. It is not entirely coincidental that it even sounds a little like Abba. It is derived from baby talk. Being one of the very first words a normal baby ever utters, it must be easy for a baby to say. (In some households the word would be Pappa, but again youll recognize the similarity.)
The significance of this choice is that Dadda engenders feelings of tenderness and intimacy and trust that might not be there with the more formal Father. The word Dad might suggest someone a little boring or taken for granted, but Dadda or Daddy has connotations of someone who is special, maybe even exciting. Names used by older children might also bring with it overtones of a disciplinarian, since fathers are likely to be stricter with older children than with babies. The point is that this tender expression was Jesus and Pauls choice of the most appropriate form of address to God.
If thinking of God does not elicit within you warm feelings of love and acceptance and security, then you are missing a significant aspect of what God was wishing to convey to humanity by the use of this word. When things get tough, God would like us to have the carefree confidence of a little child leaving her broken bike with Daddy and happily running off to play, certain that Daddy will fix it.
There are some very moving Scriptures about the depth of Gods compassion for his children. The eye can slip over them in casual reading, but I urge you to view these Scriptures one on top of another, letting the impact mount until they touch you deeply. See Gods Tender Love.
Of course, divine love is not merely equal to that of earths best parents. Gods love, being perfect, is incomprehensibly superior to all human feelings.
Isaiah 49:15 Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!
Matthew 7:11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
Gods love is so immense that we are forced to scan the full range of human attachment and love and compassion to find a mere shadow of Gods feelings for us.
We have noted that in grasping for glimpses into divine love that we might understand, Jesus in just one chapter, likened Gods love to a woman, a shepherd, and a father. The woman was deeply anxious about her lost coin, which might have been part of her dowry, having great sentimental and emotional, as well as material, value. Todays equivalent would be a stone from an engagement ring. The shepherd, upon finding the sheep, actually carried it home, joyfully lugging the quite heavy eastern animal on his shoulders. The highly forgiving father had apparently been on the constant lookout for his ungrateful son, day after day, month after month, year after year. Seeing him a long way off, he runs the distance, throws his arms around him and showers him with kisses in an emotional display that could call for no less than the slaughtering of the prize calf and throwing a party (Luke 15).
Another hint of Gods love is the commitment of the most faithful husband or even the excitement of a newly wed:
Isaiah 62:5 . . . as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you.
Other Scriptures about God as Husband
Yet another way that Scripture tries to convey to us what is ultimately indescribable is by using our commitment to our own body. The New Testament often refers to Christians as being part of Christs own body. What could be more intimate? Christ nourishes you, protects you and feels your pain, like you would feed, look after and to rush to soothe the pain of any part of your body.
God treats his people as the apple (pupil) of his eye that most precious part of the body which we instantly shield by blinking or taking whatever measures are appropriate to meet its every need. Thus we find this description of how God treated the Israelites:
Deuteronomy 32:10 In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye.
In a rush of metaphors, the inspired psalmist prayed:
Psalms 17:8 Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings
And the Bibles attempts to convey Gods love keeps coming. Many people think Jesus must have had a very special love for his earthly mother. He did. Theres a wonderful side to this, however, that is often overlooked. The special feelings Jesus had for Mary are the very same feelings he has for you. It is with that extreme devotion that he loves you.
Or maybe for some of us, the love of a brother or sister is more meaningful. No problem. Jesus said:
Matthew 12:50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.
Jesus longing to be our brother, pushed him to astounding extremes:
Hebrews 2:11 Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.
Romans 8:29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
(14) Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death that is, the devil
(17) For this reason he had to be made like his brothers in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. (18) Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
Romans 8:29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Ephesians 3:17 . . . And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, (18) may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, (19) and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. (Emphaisis mine)
As brilliant as Paul was at communicating, he found himself forced to resort to prayer because he wanted his readers to gain insight that no amount of explaining or describing could ever achieve. He longed for them to experience the supernatural miracle of knowing that which was beyond knowing.
Each time Paul mentioned Abba, he did so in the context of receiving a revelation from the indwelling Spirit of God.
Romans 8:15 For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, Abba, Father.
Galatians 4:6 Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, Abba, Father.
Galatians 4:6 Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, Abba, Father.
So the only hope we have of truly knowing Gods love is by a spiritual miracle that begins with new birth. For help in entering this, the most significant of all human experiences, see You Can Find Love: What Your Fantasies Reveal
Vast numbers of us carry wounds because our earthly father was considerably less than perfect. Your loving Lord feels your pain and he wants to heal you in two ways:
1. By continually being the Perfect Father you have always deserved. (If you have been emotionally wounded, this is something you secretly crave and yet something you fear. What makes it scary is the thought of again being let down. Thankfully, unlike any human, God fully understands and is utterly trustworthy.)
2. By removing the festering bitterness that would otherwise keep infecting your wound and preventing healing.
The following few paragraphs are extracted from Serious, Do-It Yourself Healing From Emotional Pain. Maybe your resentment is as strong towards your father as implied below, maybe it is less, but the principles remain the same.
Suppose someone broke your hand. This makes you so mad that every day as you pass that persons photo hanging on the wall, you punch it with your broken hand. The release of pent up anger might feel good, but the constant punching prolongs your agony and prevents your hand from ever healing. A desire to see someone else suffer inevitably ends up perpetuating our own suffering.
The devastating thing is that resentment is addictive. Like a junkie, we focus so much on the welcome relief resentment offers that we hardly realize it inflames the downer that follows, and so the agonizing cycle continues.
Despite our fanciful notions, it is unlikely that we could ever see anyone suffer so profoundly as to satisfy our lust for revenge. Moreover, as people keep discovering to their dismay, it is our pain that drives the desire for revenge and, except for Jesus, no one elses pain cannot lessen our own pain. So the tragedy is that if we get stuck on the revenge path, in fifty years time we will still be no closer to a resolution.
For as long as we are dominated by the longing to see someone suffer, that person has succeeded in lowering us to his abysmal level. He hurt us. Now we want him to hurt. We degrade ourselves by entering the slimy world of hate, staggering through life a defeated person, floundering in the same moral mud in which our tormentor lives. In fact, sex offenders are often themselves abuse victims with heart-wrenching stories. They failed to resolve their anger and pain and so inflict it on others. Regardless of how it manifests, resentment enslaves and corrupts its victims. Pathetically, people blinded by anger or hate usually feel morally superior to other people who are blinded by anger or hate. Bitter people are beautiful people turned ugly. Thankfully the process is reversible, once we learn to forgive.
We move from victim to victor only when we break free from resentments death-grip.
I often hike in wilderness areas infested with snakes so venomous that without specialized medical treatment I would have only a couple of hours to live after being bitten. Suppose a snake bit me, then slid out of sight. I would be a fool to squander precious time angrily trying to find and kill the snake. First priority must be to seek medical attention.
For your own survival, focus on healing, not revenge.
I am convinced that just as martyrs are especially honored in heaven, so are those who have suffered greatly and yet have forgiven.
Forgiving others is tough. It is so critical to our own emotional and spiritual well-being that our spiritual enemy strongly attacks us on this issue. Nevertheless, divine help is available.
Its sometimes subconscious, but people suffering great difficulty in forgiving others usually have as the basis of their agony the pain of having great difficulty forgiving themselves. The two sides of forgiveness forgiving yourself and forgiving others rise or fall together. Many people raging against someone elses guilt are pressured to do so by an urge to keep suppressed the tortured screams of their own conscience. Their subconscious is forever frantically trying to deflect the attention off themselves by blaming others. Peace soothes our troubled mind when we dwell on the extent of the forgiveness and purity that we have in Christ. When we realize how much God has forgiven us, it becomes easier to act more Godlike and have that same forgiving attitude towards ourselves and others. For this reason, I recommend beginning with the webpages about handling guilt. Other pages you will benefit from are:
Breaking the stranglehold of bitterness:
A failure of those close to you to love you like God loves will leave you bleeding emotionally. But everything that is missing in human love is found in the endless depths of the One who longs to hold you in his arms forever.
People so tragically hurt by one or more men that it darkens even their attitude towards God the utterly sinless, genderless non-human are suffering a crippling inner wound that God longs to heal. And, as already discovered by many astonished people who were once afraid to think of God as having any male qualities, at least part of that healing flows from finding in the safe, warm God, the love of the perfect Father.
Ironically, it turns out that those who most object to relating to God as Father are the ones who will eventually most benefit from relating to God as Father. Yet this is so difficult to grasp for those who are deeply hurting because of abusive humans, and they desperately need to snuggle into Gods comfort long before they can see God as the tender Father who will fill a gnawing emptiness within them left by a hopelessly inadequate human father.
Since God is nothing like an abuser, he does not force healing upon us. If a surgeon will not act until a person is willing to consent to the operation, God whose respect for us is far deeper will wait for you. Sadly, it often takes us a long while to muster the courage to heal. So if you do not yet feel ready to relate to God as Father, put that thought on hold, but do not perpetuate your inner pain by letting it hinder you from drawing close to the true God, who alone brings the comfort you desperately need.
Those close to you are imperfect, but the One who is closest to you is perfect. Everything that a starry eyed bride could wish for in love and security and faithfulness and devotion; everything a little child could hope for in a Mommy or Daddy or brother or sister or grandparent; God is all that and more.
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Archie Shepp: Hipnosis
Archie Shepp (tenor sax)
A Sea of Faces (Black Saint 0002)
Archie Shepp (tenor sax), Beaver Harris (drums),
Charles Greenlee (trombone), Dave Burrell (piano), Cameron Brown (bass), Bunny Foy (percussion).
Composed by Grachan Moncur III.
Recorded: Milan, August 4 or 5, 1975
Rating: 94/100 (learn more)
This writer has never been clear on the malady that caused Archie Shepp's musical decline in the 1980s. Apparently dental problems were to blame, which makes sense when one views video of him playing in recent decades, his tenor mouthpiece wobbling precariously in what has to be an unproductively loose embouchure. Whatever the problem, it seems not to have manifested itself in the '70s, when he did some of his best work. "Hipnosis" presents Shepp in the company of his excellent band of that period, with bassist Cameron Brown, pianist Dave Burrell, percussionist Bunny Foy, and drummer Beaver Harris.
The 26-minute tune features an inexorable, inexorably-shifting Latin groove over which Shepp blows freely and passionately for better than half its length. Shepp's tenor sound is electric, spewing sparks like a downed power line. Unlike his contemporary and fellow tenor-playing abstract expressionist, Albert Ayler, Shepp often molded his wildest and craziest phrases to fit a groove. He does that here to great effect. Trombonist Charles Greenlee's solo follows Shepp's. It's rather bland competence stands in sharp contrast to Shepp's brilliance. Drummer Beaver Harris, percussionist Bunny Foy, and bassist Cameron Brown keep the beat ever-changing without losing it's essence. Pianist Dave Burrell is a superb team player, managing to be endlessly creative in a wholly supporting role. This is a tenacious, gripping performance.
Reviewer: Chris Kelsey
Tags: 1970s jazz · avant-garde
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Sending unused food down the garbage disposal instead of dropping it in the trash can might seem like the more eco-friendly option. The truth is that the Earth might just be better off with your table scraps heading to a landfill.
Why? Along with the added electricity and wasted water that is necessary to run the disposal and flush the particles down the drain, the wastewater treatment process is heavily dependent on energy. Even the most efficient plants still devote the majority of their energy to the treatment of solids in wastewater.
The Fox Metro Water Reclamation District, along with many wastewater treatment plants in the United States, uses what is called an "activated sludge" process to treat its wastewater. The simplified explanation of the process involves using microorganisms that either consume particulates or attach to them allowing the solids to settle to the bottom of the treatment tank. Then, the partially cleaned water that remains on top is removed for further filtering and purifying.
This sounds like a very environmentally friendly option until further examination of the process is done. The organisms require large quantities of oxygen to live and this is provided using motorized bubblers. According to a study by the North Carolina Water Works & Water Environment Association, 60% of the energy consumed by wastewater treatment plants is for the aeration of activated sludge, and another 12% is used to pump wastewater from homes to treatment facilities.
While this whole process does keep little bits of your table scraps from ending up in a landfill, it consumes an enormous amount of energy with a carbon footprint much bigger than carrot peelings.
Better Options
- Save Scraps. Vegetable scraps such as celery tops, onion skins, and carrot peels are perfect for the stock pot. Keep them all in a gallon-size zip-top bag in the freezer until you have enough to boil. Toss breads out to the birds. Spread coffee grounds out in the garden or sprinkle on the grass, they make an outstanding fertilizer.
- Compost. By keeping all of your food scraps at home, there are no transportation costs for your waste. Toss all of your scraps (except meat scraps) into the pile and occasionally add a layer of grass clippings or dead leaves to balance it out and keep pests out.
- Trash. If you're not going to save your scraps, you're better off tossing them in the trash. The bits will decompose in a landfill and you'll spare the wastewater plants the extra energy consumption.


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Artist living in York, PA. Started back in the art world about 8 years ago after raising 3 sons. Am currently learning the new acrylics and perfecting my watercolour skill/style. Looking forward to increasing my knowledge of perspective to create better landscape pieces. I LOVE being outdoors. Have recently begun to teach beginner watercolour workshops and beginning portraiture in graphite. As I learn I pass it along.
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Feb 20, 2013 10:30 AM
As much as you love your Pink Pop or Peach Petal lip gloss, there comes a time when you realize there is no salvaging what is left in the bottom of that tube. Until now. Pucker up, because with Nikki's Magic Wand ($10), you will never have to throw away unused makeup again!
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Welcome to latest installment of our weekly activity report. Several of us continue to be engaged in a big in-house qooxdoo project, at least part-time. Here is what else happened.
The resource key in decoration and icon themes was too limited. It was only possible to set exactly one resource directory. It has been replaced by the new alias key, which expects a map as value. The map keys are the alias names and the values the corresponding resource directories.
Just as ordinary qooxdoo classes, themes do support mixins. However it is not possible for mixins to override existing keys. To allow explicit overriding of keys theme mixins can now be included using the patch key.
The "Uniform", "Single", "Double" and "Beveled" decorators now also support setting the background image position.
New features
- It is now possible to change the position of the icon of a TabButton in the TabView widget.
- We have added a new event (
beforeContextmenuOpen) which is fired before a context menu is shown (#1257).
- If the size of the DOM element for an inline application is not set and the dynamicX/Y settings are used, an error is thrown (#2342).
For a complete list of bugs fixed during the last working week, use this bugzilla query.
Cache Stuff
The default path of the cache folder has been changed, it's now in a system-dependent temp directory. The system-dependent temp directory will be something like
/tmp on *ix systems,
%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\Local Settings\temp on Windows XP, and something even more intuitive like
/var/folders/-t/-tPw69jr2RWkyU+1YrJNvU+++TM/-Tmp- on MacOSX. You can always override this default by setting the CACHE macro in the let section of your local config.json file. The reason to introduce this was simply to support multi-application development on the same machine, getting the cache out of the way in the individual application, and benefit from cache re-use across applications.
The new default location takes advantage of another novelty, the TMPDIR system macro. System macros introduce a new breed of macros that can be referenced without ever being explicitly defined in a configuration file, since the system, i.e. the generator, will provide a definition for them. Let's see how they evolve.
If you allow multiple applications to access the same cache, there is a chance that you have classes with same names from different applications. In order to accommodate this, id's for cache objects have been changed to better reflect the context they come from. So for instance, if you are using the same qooxdoo installation for multiple applications, you will get the benefit of cached framework classes across applications. If, on the other hand, you fancy to use different qooxdoo installations on the same machine, e.g. with different versions, their cache items will be different, and will not be used interchangeably.
A new key packages/loader-with-boot, if set to false, allows you to separate loader information from class code. (This will only make sense to people who actually need it, so don't worry about it).
There are two new releases available of the HtmlArea: 0.3 and 0.4. Check out the corresponding blog post for detailed information.
In short: the new 0.3 release works together with 0.8.2 and newer while the 0.4 release targets the 0.7.4 release. (Yes, the lower HtmlArea version works with the higher qooxdoo version, and vice versa).
qooxdoo.org Changes
We did a bit of tweaking of our online presence at qooxdoo.org this week. The aim is to gain some overall performance. Our demo site was offloaded to a separate port, which should both benefit demo delivery and performance improvements for our other online offerings, like this blog service. The change is supposed to be transparent (well, quite), so don't update your bookmarks. All demo-related links and bookmarks are supposed to remain stable, and we might shuffle things around again in the future.
Left-handed Martin
As it so happens, fellow core developer and baseball catcher hotshot Martin broke his right hand the other day, defending his team's victory on the field. He's sorely missed. All the best, Martin!
That's it for this time. There is another holiday upcoming, so we'll back for daily business on Tuesday. – Have a good time!


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Forecast discussion: After some early morning showers in Boston due to a passing cold front, a high pressure ridge helped bring back some sunshine on Thursday. A weaker cold front did pass through this afternoon, helping to bring back cloudy skies for a few hours. Eventually, we returned to a mix of sun and clouds before sunset. Also, spring arrived at 12:57 p.m. As we head into the weekend, we will see a small disturbance pass through for Saturday. However, I am carefully watching the models for a possible Nor'Easter for the middle of next week.
Before we talk about winter gloom, let's talk about the weekend. We will start with Friday, which will be dry but windy. This will be due to high pressure ridging moving into Southern New England. It will meet with the tail end of a low pressure center still moving into Nova Scotia. This tightening of the pressure gradient will help create the strong winds. Also, we will begin to see more clouds as we head into the evening commute. We will be cloudy but dry Friday night. By early Saturday morning, a low over eastern Montana will bring some snow showers. As we progress through the morning, we will begin to see a mix of rain and snow showers. It will be warm enough to change it to all rain by late morning. The low's center is moving quickly, so all precipitation will end by mid-afternoon. We should see some partial sunshine before sunset. We will see partly sunny skies for Sunday, with high temperatures only in the lower 40's.
By Sunday evening, the cold front associated with the low will push through, and it will pull some cold Arctic air back over New England. It will feel more like January on Monday, as high temperatures struggle to stay above freezing. Low temperatures Monday night will fall into the upper teens to lower 20's. As we move into Tuesday, it will remain dry, but we will see increasing clouds into Tuesday night. This is where the spring weather will look more like mid-February.
As of last night, I had mentioned only the European model was showing a true Nor'easter over Cape Cod by late Tuesday night. After examining the new models, the European model has not changed its mind. But, what has me concerned is the other models are starting to see the same scenario. The American model still keeps the low furthest east of all the models. So, we will see strong, gusty winds Tuesday night, but only light snow. The snowfall will persist into Wednesday night. The third model of choice, the United Kingdom model, is also showing a strong low moving up off the New England coast. Finally, I decided to glance at the Canadian model. Although the low is not as close to the New England coast, it too forms a strong Nor'Easter.
Now, this scenario is still about 5 days away, and the models have been known to over-forecast low pressure systems. They are still in a transition period from winter to spring like systems. So, my confidence for the forecast after Tuesday afternoon is still low. But I must admit that the models all seeing this same scenario within five days does have me a little concerned.
72 hour forecast:
Tonight: Partly cloudy with a low of 33.
Friday: Mostly sunny through the early afternoon and windy with increasing clouds into sunset. We will have a high of 45 with west-northwest winds of 17-22 mph with gusts of 40 mph at times.
Friday night: Mostly cloudy with a low of 31. Winds will come from the west-northwest and diminish to 6-10 mph.
Saturday: A few snow showers by 2 a.m. but changing to rain by 9 a.m. Showers should end around 3 p.m. with partly sunny skies. We will have a high of 51.
Saturday night: Partly to mostly cloudy with a low of 29.
Sunday: Partly sunny with a high of 43.
Sunday night: Partly cloudy and cold with a low of 23.
Extended Forecast:
Monday: Mostly sunny and quite cold. Highs 30-33, lows 18-21.
Tuesday: Partly sunny with light snow by the evening commute. Highs 35-38, lows 25-28.
Wednesday: Cloudy and windy with light snow. Snow ends by 8 p.m. Highs 36-39, lows 22-25.
Thursday: Partly to mostly sunny. Highs 39-42, lows 28-31.


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Sep 29, 2011 10:15 AM
Since we've gotten our hands on Beyond-the-Square Crochet Motifs Craft Book ($16) our house has been taken over by yarn. We're crafting yarn coasters, yarn hot pads, yarn bikini tops, and yarn afghans like a mad woman. It's getting to be cat's fantasy in there.
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sebastian. kuroshitsuji by ToogrroWatch
©2013-2016 Toogrro
i love it
I think... I just died.... SEBBYYYY!!!!
Quite lovely. I adore his expression and the tones of gray you chose.
that's fantastic
thanks! <3
Amazing drawing of Sebastian!
beautiful <3
Потрясающе! Очень красиво ^^
Wow, this is very nice!
Sugoiii, I like *-*


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UPM has entered into exclusive negotiations with VPK Packaging Group NV and Klingele Papierwerke through their newly created joint venture company, for the sale of assets and part of the land at the UPM Stracel paper mill site in Strasbourg, France.
VPK and Klingele have made an offer on the acquisition of assets from UPM. According to the plan, UPM would retain part of the Stracel real estate in its possession for potential future production of advanced biofuels.
VPK and Klingele plan to convert the Stracel mill into a recycled fibre-based containerboard unit, producing fluting and test-liner. The planned production of the mill would be approximately 300 000 tonnes per year.
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Belly Fat Linked to Heart Failure
A new study in Circulation has determined even a tiny bit of belly fat increases heart risk. Researchers examined 21,094 male doctors. And their findings revealed that in men, 5 feet 10 inches tall, for every 7 pounds of extra body weight, the risk of heart failure increased by 11%. Conversely, the leanest, and most active group, had the lowest risk; Reuters investigates.
Very ironic that they used doctors for the experiment, because a recent report revealed 79% of doctors don't get the recommended amount of exercise. Might help explain the results!


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Banksy's 'Kissing Coppers' sells for over R6m
Elusive British street artist Banksy has sold one of three pieces of work at a Miami auction for $575 000.
One of three works by the elusive British street artist Banksy has sold at a Miami auction for $575 000 (R6 292 512.50).
An anonymous buyer purchased Kissing Coppers, spray-painted in 2005 on the Prince Albert Pub in Brighton, England, at the Fine Art Auctions Miami on Tuesday night. The piece was expected to sell anywhere from $500 000 to $700 000.
Ashley Jimenez, a spokesperson for the auction house, said the other two pieces – done in New York last year – didn't receive their minimum bids, but interested buyers can still contact the auction house within 30 days.
The two works that went unsold are Bandaged Heart and Crazy Horse Car Door.
Stephan Keszler is the seller of all three works. – Sapa


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TEMPE, Ariz.—Former Arizona State long jumper Dwight Phillips has been named one of the 37 Athlete Role Models who will attend the 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games from August 16-28 in Nanjing, China, the International Olympic Committee announced on Monday.
An eight-time All-American, Phillips competed for the Sun Devils in the 1999 and 2000 seasons, and was the 2000 NCAA runner up in the long jump.
Phillips won gold for the United States in the 2004 Athens Olympics, and has also won gold at four World Championships, most recently at the 2011 event in Daegu, South Korea.
Phillips is one of five mentors chosen from the United States, including Khatuna Lorig (Archery), Miles Chamley-Watson (Fencing), Erin Cafaro (Rowing), and Kendrick Farris (Weightlifting).
Joining Phillips in the athletics (track and field) mentoring is Kajsa Bergqvist of Sweden and Liu Xiang of China.


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Fifteen years old aspiring artist.
if you have any question Kik me : gifaulia
I posted more on my instagram
Fifteen years old aspiring artist.
if you have any question Kik me : gifaulia
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1.Name: Gina Fajri Aulia
2.Nickname: Gina/Gifa/Ichigo/Gifak/Gifap
4.Male or Female: Female
5.Primary school: SDPN Sabang Bandung
7.High school: -
8.Hair color: Black
9.Tall or short: Short/? yes.
12.Phone or camera: Camera
13.Health freak:
14.Orange or apple: fruits
15.Do you have a crush on someone: yEs
16.Eat or drink: whynotboth
17.Piercings: -
18.Pepsi or coke: none ew
19.Been in an airplane: yes
20.Been in a relationship: not gonna talk about it //hidesincorner //cry
21.Been in a car accident: no
22.Been in a fist fight: yEs
23.First Piercing: no
24.First Best Friend: Dika and Nadia
25.First Award: idk i think its drawing?
26.First Crush: Someone on primary school ugh sthap
27.First word: idk man i think its 'poo' (poo is one of teletubies character lmao)
29.Last friend you talked to in person : my brother i think?
30.Last friend you texted: my friend/?
31.Last friend you watched a movie with: Dika and Nadia (insidious 2)
32.Last food I ate: chiken crispy yay
33. Last anime you watched : Puella magi
34. Last song you listened to: Adele - One and Only
35. Last thing you bought: i dont even remember
36. Last person you hugged: my sister/?
37. Food: Nutella plz
38. Drinks: hot tea
39. Fashion: no
40. Flowers: dandelion
41. Animal: Cat/rabbit/bear/wat
42. Colours : Pastel and black
43. Movie: anime
44. Subjects: finearts
45. Fallen in love with someone: once but pls stop talking about it
46. Celebrated Halloween: ..I'm moslem
47. Had your heart broken : yeS
48. Went over the minutes/texts on your cell phone: idk
49. Wanted to smack someone upside the head: YES
52. Tried to do something, but couldn't succeed: alot/?
53. Did something I regret: YES
54. Broke a promise: YES
55. Hid a secret: i dont need people to understand me ouch
56. Pretended to be happy: yes
57. Met someone who changed your life: yes
58. Pretended to be sick: yah lollll
59. Left the country: yes
60. Tried something you normally wouldn't try and liked it: yes
61. Cried over the silliest thing: yes
62. Ran 5 miles: yes
63. Went to the beach with your best friends: yes
64. Got into an argument with your friends: yes
65. Hated someone: yEs
66. Stayed single for a whole year: boyfriend? what kind of sht is that?
67. Eating: nutella
68. Drinking: water
69. Listening to : Raisa - Mantan terindah /wat
70. Thinking about: too much things to think?
71. Plans for today: survive and go bed idk i had so much things to do ok
72. Waiting for: new art supplies and someone?
73. Want kids: yes/?
74. Want to get married: with my future husband/?
75. Careers in mind: world wide animator/illustrator *amen*
76. Lips or eyes: eyes
77. Shorter or taller: taller[pls
78. Romantic or spontaneous: what
79. Nice face or nice body shape?: face wtf
81. Hook-up or relationship?: relationship?
82. Looks or personality?: personality
83. Lost glasses/contacts: nO
84. Snuck out of a house: no
85. Held a gun/knife for self defense: no but sounds fun`
86. Kissed someone before: my parents and sister
87. Broken someone's heart: yes. //IM SRRY
88. Been in love: once in 14years/?
90. Yourself : im not that sure
91. Miracles: idk
92. Love at first sight: wat
93. Heaven: yah
94. Santa Clause: no
97. Is there one person you want to be with right now?: yes
98. Do you know who your real friends are?: yEs
99. Do you believe in God?: yes ofc
100. Would you change something in your life?: yes


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Let's suppose I'm working with some set of functions $f_k(n)$. $f_1(n)$ is essentially the root of my functions, and could be nearly anything, and then $f_k(n) = (f_1(n) * f_{k-1}(n))$ for some convolution $*$ that won't be described here. $f_k(n)$ takes non-negative integers and yields reals. $f_k(n)$ has as a given the following properties.
1) $f_0(n) = 1$
2) ($f_j(n) * f_k(n)) = f_{j+k}(n)$. This mirrors, of course, the usual rules about raising numbers to powers ($x^j \cdot x^k = x^{j+k}$). More broadly, $a f_j(n) * b f_k(n)) = (ab)f_{j+k}(n)$
3) $f_k(n)$ structurally must be 0 once $ k > \log n$, or thereabouts.
4) * is both associative and commutative.
Suppose I can't guarantee almost anything else useful about $f_k(n)$, because it's such an irritable function. Integration and derivation don't work. $f_k(n) \cdot f_k(m)$ and $f_k(n) + f_k(m)$ are manually computable but in wildly unpredictable ways, and $f_k(n+m)$ has no obvious or easy relationship to $f_k(m) + f_k(n)$. There are no guarantees about values being greater or less than other values in any direction.
(I realize that might be insufficiently precise, so let me know if there needs to be any clarification)
So here's my question. Only given the four properties above, which identities from the world of power series will still be valid, if we replace the usual powers of x with my convolution here? Or, more generally, is there a way to tell which identities will be valid?
I know by hand that many series identities seem to work regardless of the nature of $f_1(n)$ - so, for example, if we define $cosf(n) = 1 - \frac{f_2(n)}{2!}+\frac{f_4(n)}{4!}-\frac{f_6(n)}{6!}+...$, and do something similar for $sinf(n)$, then $cosf(n)*cosf(n) + sinf(n)*sinf(n) = 1$, if $cosf(n)*cosf(n)$ is taken to mean the term-wise convolution of its power series with itself.
An awful lot of other series relationships seem to work from this perspective.
On the other hand, $sinf(n+ \frac{\pi}{2})$ usually isn't $cosf(n)$ (for the various $f_1(n)$ I'm working with). Trig identities dealing with things like half angle formulas I've tried don't generally work, either.
Is there an easy way for me to tell which power series relationships will still be valid? Am I stumbling on an obvious and well-covered area of research here? It would be really handy for me if I were...


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On Thursday, June 26, 2014 Pato Banton stepped onto the modest Miners Foundry stage in Nevada City, CA and immediately got the crowds energized. Dressed in white from head to toe with white ball cap, pants and shirt, he glowed in the theater lights that shone down on him and the Now Generation band. Pato's new wife, Antoinette Hall "Roots Dawtah," played the keyboards while she and the entire band hit dead center on the target of outrageously good music while Pato served up his Reggae and hip-hop repertoire of well known oldies and more recent works.
While the venue is rather small for the caliber of Pato's experience and standing in the music industry, he played for the crowd as if it were a group in the thousands and made every one of them feel blessed from the joy of hearing his music, embracing his enthusiastic performance, and soaking in the charisma of a man who generates the kind of power and vibration that all great live performers are known for by their fans.
Children joined the adults and were, at midway through the performance, welcomed to come dance on stage if they wanted to receive a free, signed CD. From a little one, protective earphones in place and securely wrapped his mother's baby backpack, to a shy little girl slowly turning gleeful and other youngsters enjoying a bit of spotlight, the children stole the stage for a few minutes while Pato celebrated their youth.
The evening was filled with energy, positive lyrics, and love. At one point, Pato asked the audience to turn to someone in the crowd they didn't really know and give them a hug. He later followed this with exchanging hi-fives. On both occasions, he and the band joined in the celebration of honoring the Oneness of all people and also reached over the stage and hugged or hi-fived before returning to their musical performance. The Nevada City performance was just one among many in Pato Banton's summer tour in the Northern Coastal States. Those who attend one of his performances will inevitably have a great time. Those who know the story of the man will only smile wider and longer, knowing the heart he has given to his career and to the world. The following is an introduction to the artist Pato Banton whose life story could easily fill a book or many books.
Great musicians capture our hearts. Some fans turn that love into an obsession while others allow the inspiration to fill them with the beauty, love and vibration that the music delivers and comes from. The greatest musicians are those who create, play and perform from the heart with passion for their art and life. The music can come from any genre and any person and when it comes from deep within we can't help but feel something extra than a mere melody and technical demonstration. This extra is what some modern television productions call the "X-factor" or "It." Pato Banton has "it" to the max. He embodies "it" with grace and love and shares it with his fans through his music.
Pato Banton was born Patrick Murray in London, England in 1961. He was an ordinary baby with an extraordinarily challenging beginning that eventually turned him into a six year old hero as he rescued his brothers and saved himself from a burning building that his mother's crazed and violent husband had set afire in a rage. Little Patrick became a man before he ever lived a child's carefree life. Patrick "Pato Banton" Murray was destined to be regardless the fact his grandfather attempted to beat him out of existence before he was ever born. His mother, Lillian Murray, gave birth to him, her first child, at the age of 17 while living in a hostel in order to escape her father's wrath.
Pato began his travels through life witnessing and enduring much violence and instability. That instability sparked a drive somewhere deep in his soul to find a secure place within that eventually became a spiritual foundation for his works. Struggle can turn soft people hard or decent people bad but it can also nurture compassion, greater understanding for mankind and higher purpose. Pato weaved through his life experiences, skipping school at the age of six and dropping out at age 15 as he found real life education more suitable for his needs. Pato says, "in general I found the conversations at our illegal parties to be more relative to the education I needed on the streets; and for my higher education, I turned to Reggae Music and my own personal quest to know about my roots."
Part of Pato's education that became relative to his career as a Reggae artist was sourced from Lester Daley (Rocket), his Jamaican stepfather and DJ who ran a club in their home shared with two other families. Operating as a lookout at the age of nine once again made him adult wise while still wearing little one's jeans and tops. Pato explains the necessity of a lookout for the home parties where alcohol was sold illegally rather than in a designated nightclub, "At that time very few people of color were granted any kind of license so they did things by any means necessary. My role was to keep a lookout and let everyone know when the police were coming around. I would let people in and out and close the door quickly to keep the sound from spilling outside too much. I would also alert my dad if there was a fight or any kind of trouble brewing in the house or outside the front door. If one of the neighbors complained and called the police, I would run into the room and tell them to turn down the sound levels until the police left the area."
While "Rocket" was a vast improvement on the previous men in his mother's life, his role as a father was not a source of guidance or even identifiable love for Patrick. His contribution in their life did allow Lillian to bring her family together, gathering the boys from previous relationships to unite as a family and eventually add two sisters to the fold. Pato describes their relationship, "He was only violent with my mother on one occasion, but for the most part, they lived a happy and peaceful life. But Lester never showed me any parental love and I sensed at a very, very young age that my mum's husband was not my father. So I have never really experienced fatherly affection." He further explains that while his stepfather Lester can be credited for exposing him to the DJ experience, he received no direct training or guidance from him while learning the ins and outs. "I gained my experiences by watching and learning. My stepfather was never into guiding us. We had to learn the hard way and quickly."
Patrick took on adult roles while the parties ran late into the night so it isn't surprising that he developed a "disdain and disregard for conventional education." What nine year old child wants to sit in a classroom filled with nine year olds who actually live nine year old lives? Pato says that perhaps "it had something to do with the breakdown and split up of our family which was a 'vale of tears'" but being world wise before you grow your first beard isn't highly conducive to being an ardent student in a traditional classroom. Despite this early history of having his classroom schooling thwarted by rebellion and more dramatic interactions to distract him, Pato Banton turned his love for music into a reason to pursue further education and eventually become not only a teacher but a school owner when he set up his own School of Musical Arts and Technology (SMAAT).
Patrick "Pato Banton" Murray filled his life with music through first learning his stepfather's V-Rocket Hi-Power sound system in order to set it up, then later selecting music and eventually developing his skills on the microphone "by imitating Jamaican MCs like U Roy and I Roy." Most Reggae artists and fans around the world eventually came to recognize the "Pato" face and name as his work grew quickly from year to year as first an MC, including becoming the number one MC in Birmingham and winning the title four years in a row, then to his work in a Reggae band (Crucial Music) where he eventually became the band manager, mc, singer/songwriter and band leader, and eventually touring across the UK, Europe and later the Americas.
Pato's musical history is extensive and a testament to his drive and talent. His first full album, "Mad Professor Captures Pato Banton," was produced at Ariwa Records and is "still regarded as an all time Reggae classic." From this point he continued to draw attention from fellow artists and producers and discovered his strong love for performing live which earned him a reputation as a dynamic performer sought after for booking his live shows. Multiple albums, collaborations and achievements followed as the world wise child grew to become a musical legend still fresh in years. Tours with other greats included Jimmy Cliff, Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers, Burning Spear, Third World, Yellowman, Black Uhuru, Dennis Brown and Steel Pulse.
Pato's stepfather nicknamed him Patoo after a small night owl in Jamaica that calls "Patoo, patoo," because he was "small in size but very wise for his age;" but, he became a big man with a huge heart and a huge talent that refused to go unheard. After years of extensive touring and music making, he decided to turn his focus to giving back to his home community. It was this focus that drove him to return to traditional education where he attended Matthew Boulton College to advance his own education and successfully complete a Level 1 and 2 course in Teacher Training and a course in Counseling Skills. His successes in the music industry enabled him to grow deeper in his ability to support and empower others which eventually led him to be awarded the "BBC's prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award for his dedication and commitment to positive change. In the same year Pato [also] received the Black Music Award for Lifetime Achievement in recognition of his contribution to the British Music Industry and on the day the Birmingham Museum opened its doors to the Reggae Hall of Fame, Pato was formally honored alongside UB40 and Steel Pulse." Please see the continuation of PATO BANTON REVEALED IN HEART - part 2. Please also see the accompanying slideshows featuring Pato Banton and the Now Generation Band.


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High School: Stanton is slated to play defensive end for the Cowboys. He helped lead a Valencia High team that posted an 11-3 record on way to an appearance in the CIF Southern Section Northern Division state championship game against Hart High School before losing that game 21-28. Valencia captured the Foothill League Championship in 2013, with a perfect 5-0 conference mark. His head coach at Valencia High was Larry Muir.
Personal: Born Nov. 5, 1996, Stanton is the youngest of four children of Linda and Darrell Stanton. His older brother, Jordan, is a linebacker on UW's roster. He has another older brother, Darrell Jr., and an older sister, Asia. He was also recruited by San Diego State, Texas State and Utah State.


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This writer is well aware of all the controversy from many Christians over the movie Noah starring Russell Crowe; so from the very beginning of this review let me get out of the way the fact that I dearly loved the movie.
Most of the arguments given against the movie appear to be the result of either people being directed by religious leaders who pre-conditioned the minds of their followers prior to viewing the movie or a simple ignorance of all the facts regarding the story of the flood.
The movie is definitely not your traditional Sunday school story of Noah; then again as we grow in spiritual guidance, faith, knowledge and Godly wisdom most believers learn things they never heard in Sunday school along the road of life.
Admittedly and unashamedly, one of this writer's many callings and abilities (being a Theological Seminary Graduate) is that of a theologian with knowledge and abilities in both Biblical and para-biblical linguistics and history.
In other words, take it or leave it, this writer knows what he is talking about.
My viewing of the movie Noah found obvious exaggeration, inclusion of para-biblical flood material (which most viewers probably never realized) and as admitted by the producers, artistic license.
Of course other biblical movies such as: "The Ten Commandments", "The Greatest Story Ever Told", "The Robe" and even the Bible TV series from which the current "Son of God" movie is taken utilized artistic license.
Overall the Noah movie was both theologically and historically accurate.
The movie definitely emphasizes that humanity became corrupt in every way destroying each other and the world in which they lived.
One man, Noah chose the better way and the right way; he chose good over evil.
Noah is seen as listening to and following the creator (a.k.a. God) for which he was ultimately rewarded and his family saved from evil and death.
The movie was both entertaining and life applicable; those who view the movie without understanding the life application aspect are in far deeper spiritual trouble than any movie can help.
Six "nick-pic" complaints were brought to my attention from people who saw the movie which are discussed here:
First, the movie does not depict the traditional Biblical Noah, 2. There is no reference to the actual name of God 3. There are scenes of industrialization, 4. Noah's grandfather Methuselah seems to have mystical or special powers, 5. The Nephilim are treated as "rock people" and 6. Noah struggles with madness.
Again, Noah is not your Sunday School Noah but a very biblical Noah.
The destruction of the world by a great flood is not just found in the Bible; it is recorded in almost every culture in the world.
One prime example are the popular Mesopotamian flood stories concerning the epics of Ziusudra, Gilgamesh, and Atrahasis. In the Sumerian King List, it relies on the flood motif to divide its history as does the bible with Noah separating the first two thousand years of history from Adam to Noah and the next two thousand years from Noah to the birth of Jesus.
The Gilgamesh Epic is very similar to Noah and it is possible that some of the additions to the movie such as the destruction of cities (and industrialization implied) in that epic were utilized in the Noah movie.
In short, it is not that the traditional story of Noah is not seen in the movie but rather some aspects not mentioned in the Bible are further developed by screen writers to make it all work for the viewer.
As to the actual name of God, oh come on fellow Christians which name would you have the writers use?
Don't forget Noah takes place anywhere from thirteen hundred to one thousand years (depending on your time line) before Moses and even the extreme literalists must accept the fact that if Moses was the author of Genesis (and not the work of the JEDP authorship as some claim), it would have been his name of Yaweh and not the English word of GOD.
The bottom line is Noah was an ancient man and we have no idea what he actually called God.
Personally I like "Creator" because I believe in "Intelligent Design" and accept the fact that God created man.
As to the scenes of desolate cities, strip mining and industrialization, that's at least implied in the Gilgamesh Epic as well as some flood stories mentioned by the ancient Sumerians; it's also alluded to by the Old Testament character Enoch in the para-biblical book of Enoch (which actually was originally part of the Old Testament).
In reference to Noah's Grandfather Methuselah having mystical powers, that shouldn't really be a problem for anyone who has read the Bible.
The bible tells us God gives gifts to all and considering Methuselah lived to the ripe old age of 969 (Genesis 5:27) he should have learned quite allot about his gifts.
Then there are the Nephilim seen as "Giant Rock Creatures" in the movie. The truth is we don't really know who or what they were but the Bible tells us they were on Earth both before and after the flood.
This is extremely interesting considering we are also told that all life was destroyed by the flood; this would at least imply that the Nephilim were definitely not human.
The script writer's interpretation seems to be as plausible as any since the rocks and land survived once the flood waters had receded; obvious artistic license here but an excellent use of the Nephilim which in most movie versions is totally ignored.
Finally one of the biggest complaints is over the movie showing Noah as indecisive, depressed, anxious and having apparently gone insane; ready to kill his Granddaughters and even seeing it as the Creator's will.
Again some artistic license is utilized here by the script writers but make no mistake, Noah was indecisive, depressed, anxious and he did go completely insane.
How could anyone feeling such conviction and calling by God, knowing the total destruction of the world is at hand not become anxious and depressed.
As a psychologist/counselor this writer has treated his fair share of pastors and religious leaders who were anxious, depressed or near complete breakdown.
Noah literally felt the weight of the world on his shoulders.
He then spends one hundred fifty days and nights closed up with animals, his family who were no doubt becoming contentious, in less than sanitary conditions and no air conditioning with no way to go outside for fresh air; it certainly had the makings of an insanity boiler.
Once the flood waters receded, the Bible states that Noah apparently separated himself from his family and became a drunk, found little use for hygiene or clothing (Genesis 9:20-24).
Although not in the movie, from the Bible we know the extent of Noah's insanity when he goes on a drunken stupor and curses his son Ham and his offspring.
Yes Noah was a good man but he had obvious problems as we all do, he lost control but ultimately got it together.
Regardless Noah lived a total of 950 years because he obeyed God.
Say what you will but this movie seems pretty biblical to me.
Noah is an excellent movie; don't let personal prejudice or other people's opinions prevent you from both good entertainment and a positive life application lesson.
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Mark Omodt, a Mathematics instructor at Anoka-Ramsey Community College, was honored recently for teaching excellence by the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC).
Since joining the faculty in 1994, Omodt has taught nearly every Math course – from algebra to differential equations – offered in Anoka-Ramsey's curriculum and has done so with consistently high levels of student retention, student success and student satisfaction, noted Kimberly Lynch, the college's dean of science, technology, engineering, math and computer networking, when nominating him.
"Not only is Omodt appreciated by his students and admired by administration, he is also deeply respected by his peers because he takes his subject matter seriously," she said. She said he mentors new Math faculty and even inspires his students to become future colleagues.
In the late 1990's, Omodt started Math Alumni Day as a year-end celebration for his Math students and to promote the many ways math education can be used. He also has advised the Math Club since 2002 and started the Math Team in 2009 to improve student results on the two-year college mathematical association's exam.
Steve Ulrich, a nontraditional student, said in a nomination letter that Omodt has a complete grasp of the subject matter and can explain it in a variety of ways to accommodate the ways his students learn. "His classes are like an interesting discussion with a knowledgeable mentor – never a dry lecture," Ulrich said. "He is exceptionally patient and uses appropriate questions to guide the student to the correct conclusion."
Omodt grew up in Minneapolis and holds a bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Spanish from Macalester College in St. Paul, and a master's degree in Mathematics from Western Washington University. Though he has taught at Macalester and the University of Minnesota, Omodt said he prefers teaching at Anoka-Ramsey.
"I love the diversity of the students," he said. "They range from high school students to retirees and they have all kinds of different backgrounds. I like showing all of them the doors that math can open to improve their lives."
Omodt was one of four math instructors nationally to receive the Teaching Excellence Award for outstanding contributions to mathematics or mathematics education at a two-year college. The award is given in odd-numbered years.
More information about the award is available at http://www.amatyc.org/?page=Awards.
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The Sumptuous Voice of Diana Krall
Just the Music
Pianist Marian McPartland accompanies Diana Krall's voice on a number of jazz standards.
Diana Krall on Piano Jazz
Diana Krall on Piano Jazz
Diana Krall on Piano Jazz
Diana Krall on Piano Jazz
Diana Krall on Piano Jazz
Diana Krall on Piano Jazz
Diana Krall on Piano Jazz
Diana Krall on Piano Jazz
Diana Krall on Piano Jazz
Diana Krall first came to my attention when she was still a young piano player in British Columbia. She'll tell you that she grew up listening to Piano Jazz and A Prairie Home Companion on Saturday nights with her family. One day, out of the blue, I got a call from her. She was looking for a little career advice.
Several years later, after she had put out a few CDs, I had her on the show. She was a shy young thing, but, boy, could she play. At that time, she was just beginning to realize her potential as a singer, and I knew she was going to go far.
Diana and I met up recently at the 2006 Tanglewood Jazz Festival. I was there doing a live taping of Piano Jazz with her husband, Elvis Costello. She was six months pregnant at the time with twins, but she was gracious enough to surprise the audience there with a few tunes before Elvis and I wrapped up the show. It felt so good playing together, so we decided that day that we wanted to do a Piano Jazz session before she had her babies. About a month later, and just two months before her delivery date, Diana and I got together for this session.
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Canadian pianist, singer and songwriter Diana Krall grew up in a town called Nanaimo on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Both her father, who collected jazz records and played a bit of stride piano, and her mother (also a pianist) encouraged her interest in jazz and exposed her to all of the great players. She began studying the piano at age 4 and had several small jazz groups while in high school. When she was 17, she played at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival and won a scholarship to Boston's Berklee School of Music.
The legendary bassist Ray Brown had heard Krall in Canada, and he encouraged her to move to Los Angeles to study with him. While there, she also began studying with Jimmy Rowles, who encouraged her to sing as well as play piano.
In 1990, Krall moved to New York and began performing regularly with her own trio. Three years later, she recorded her first album. In 1994, she signed with GRP records, beginning a long association with producer Tommy LiPuma, who produced the 1995 release Only Trust Your Heart. It featured an all-star group backing Krall, including her mentor Brown, bassist Christian McBride, drummer Lewis Nash and saxophonist Stanley Turrentine.
Each of Krall's subsequent recordings has met with critical acclaim and commercial success, including When I Look in Your Eyes, which won a Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance.
Krall met singer Elvis Costello at the 2002 Grammy Awards and the two struck up a relationship. They were married a year later. Krall's 2004 release, The Girl in the Other Room, included several collaborations with her husband.
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