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The Ageless Wisdom
- Michael Benner teaches a recurrent philosophy; that of a body of knowledge devised to uphold a spiritual self-understanding. Located in Glendale, California.
Aquarian Age Community
- Located in Jersey City, New Jersey, this non-for-profit educational community upholds the restoration of the evolution and spiritual mysteries of human consciousness. Community is inspired by the teachings of Masters Morya, Koot Hoomi, and Djwhal Khul.
Arcana Workshops
- Offers meditation training based on the writings of Master D.K. and Alice A. Bailey. Located in Manhattan Beach, California.
Azoth Institute of Spiritual Awareness
- Anne Armstrong leads this esoteric discussions. Based in Pine Grove, California.
Caduceator Solar Services
- Coordinating centre for Triangles in Education. Powering the soul's energy release in education. Offering solar caduceic services. Located in the UK.
Center for Esoteric Studies
- This institution, based in Toronto, trains individuals in consciousness and the practical use of deep, everyday spiritual understanding. Offering courses in many locations.
The Center for Visionary Leadership
- Educational center helps people to broaden their inner resources to respond creatively to change and to become effective leaders. Offering courses in spiritual development and based upon the Ageless Wisdom of both West and East. Located in Washington, DC.
Institute for Planetary Synthesis
- This multilingual site was created to promote planetary awareness in a way that leads to planetary citizenship. Also, to help solve world problems on the basis of spiritual values. Based out of Geneva, Switzerland.
Light Network
- This non-profit organization supports environmental protection and human development through active goodwill and the power of thought. Based in the Philippines.
The Lotus Organization
- Organization continues the Bailey work supported by modern Buddhist teachings of Saints or Masters, including Maitreya. Offers classes located in Albany (Berkeley), California.
Lucis Trust
- This organization, founded by Foster and Alice Bailey, operates the Arcane School and Lucis Publishing. It promotes spiritual festivals and meetings.
Meditation Mount
- This global organization offers group meditation and meditation training programs as a service to humanity. It is based in Ojai, California.
New Group of World Servers
- Contains a newsletter and a listing of world server groups. Providing information about group events and activities.
New Humanity Center
- Spiritual retreat and seminar located in Kalamata, Greece. Founded by Harry Homaro Vacal.
Northern Ashram
- Advocating the externalization of the Hierarchy. Ontario, Canada.
Pumpkin Hollow Farm
- This theosophical retreat center in offers many workshops and courses that include esoteric astrology. Located in Craryville, New York,
Sancta Sophia Seminary
- Courses offered in Agni Yoga, esoteric Christianity, and the Bailey material. Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Carol Parrish, founder.
School for Esoteric Studies
- Discipleship training based on the work of the Tibetan and Alice Bailey through correspondence. Stresses study, meditation, and service. Based in Arden, North Carolina.
The School of Ageless Wisdom
- School promotes the study and application of the Ageless Wisdom and Living Ethics as taught in the Agni Yoga and Alice Bailey books. Based in Arlington, Texas.
Share International
- Information on the gradual emergence of Maitreya, the Masters of Wisdom and the World Teacher
Simply Sacred
- Based in Highden Manor, Palmerston North, New Zealand. A multi-year program in esoteric studies. Vicktorya Stone and Bruce Lyon, directors.
Sirius Community
- Educational center for spiritual and ecological living. Located in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson, founders.
Spiritual Information Center (S.I.C.U.L.)
- This Germany-based multilingual site contains an introduction to the secret universal teaching. Includes an article on the White and Black Path and warnings about new age gurus.
Tara Canada Network Association
- Contains iinformation on the emergence of the World Teacher, Maitreya.
TSG Foundation
- Based in Cave Creek, Arizona, foundation continues Torkom Saraydarian's legacy and imaginative works. Offers correspondence courses.
University of the Seven Rays
- This non-profit global institution offers esoteric science and arts degrees with special attention given to the writings of the Tibetan Master Djwhal Khul.
The Upper Triad
- Non-profit organization supports the practice and study of many spiritual, ethical, and theosophical principles. Site contains an extensive online library. Based out of Leesburg, Virginia.
White Mountain Education Association
- Teaching sources of Roerich, Blavatsky, DuBois, and Saraydarian. Based in Prescott, Arizona.
The Wisdom School
- School offers courses in the Ancient Wisdom at many worldwide locations. Multilingual site. Located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Founded by Alan Oken.
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The U.S. Air Force apparently wants to develop a new high-tech strategic bomber -- but the scope of the project, or even whether it materializes, is a bit hush-hush.
If a new bomber flies, it apparently will be a bidding competition between a partnership of Boeing and Lockheed Martin on one side and Northrop Grumman on the other -- but even that is a bit fuzzy.
The aerospace giants brought their dogfight to the Capitol on Tuesday as a Senate committee considered -- and changed -- a bill that would provide as much as $420 million in state subsidies to the Boeing-Lockheed Martin combo.
Subsidies for manufacturing significant portions of the "advanced strategic aircraft" in California have been kicked around the Capitol for months. But suddenly, last week, the Assembly passed a newly drafted measure that would provide tax credits for California jobs created by a "major first-tier subcontractor" -- a term that, as defined, applies only to Lockheed Martin, Boeing's junior partner.
Assembly Bill 2389 was drafted by Lockheed Martin, along with Gov. Jerry Brown's administration, and legislators were told it must be enacted quickly to meet a Defense Department deadline in July for filing proposals, because the Legislature is recessing for a month at the end of the week.
When it hit the Senate Governance and Finance Committee on Tuesday, however, its passage -- at least as drafted -- became somewhat problematic.
Northrop Grumman cried foul, as did smaller would-be subcontractors, because they wouldn't qualify for tax breaks under the bill's narrow definitions.
The Senate leadership, meanwhile, was displeased with a potentially heavy hit on the state treasury and wanted to have the tax credits come from "California Competes," a money pot that Brown can use to underwrite job-creating investments.
The bill's backers said that imposing limits on the tax credit might doom the Boeing-Lockheed Martin bid in the Pentagon competition.
The bill's nominal author, Assemblyman Steve Fox, D-Palmdale, resisted amendments, but chairwoman Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis, insisted, and the amended bill passed on a 4-2 vote.
This appears to be the year for big corporate subsidies. A big tax break for the movie industry is moving through the Capitol, and Brown and legislators are working on "incentives" to persuade Tesla tycoon Elon Musk to locate a big battery factory in the state.
The Finance and Governance Committee's staff suggested in its analysis of AB 2389 that if it's enacted "without complete and verified information," legislators "should expect other firms to threaten to shift employment out of California unless the Legislature grants them significant tax benefits outside the usual process. ..."
Indeed they should.
Dan Walters is a Sacramento Bee columnist.

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(For Those That Don't Consider Themselves Runners)
I used to say it, "I'm not a runner!" It was my excuse to get me out of running races with my friends or even my way of talking myself out of doing cardio for the day. It was an excuse to run short distances and to be slow. If you are tired of using that phrase as an excuse and ready to make a change, here are five simple tips that will change your mindset!
1. Make Running a Priority. This may be easier said than done, but making running a priority in your life will really change your mindset about it. Don't allow yourself to slack off or to accept other responsibilities in the time you set aside to run. Consider it a job you WANT to do and revel in your accomplishment as you complete your run each time you train.
2. Find a Running Group. Whether it's your best friend, a group at a local running store or a group of people that you found online and don't even know, sticking with any fitness plan is always better when you have support.
3. Sign Up for a Fun Race. Most likely, you already did this! Hopefully you have signed up for the Lozilu! Signing up for a race – especially one the is FUN – will give you something to look forward to and work toward and make running less of a chore and more of a means to an end.
4. Track Your Progress. Seeing yourself succeed on paper is SO much better than guessing how well you are progressing. Write it down on paper, share it on social media or even start a blog! The possibilities are endless!
5. Get New Shoes. This sounds funny, but shoes really can make the girl! Not only will you be excited to wear your new kicks, but shoes play a big part in your running performance. Who doesn't want to run better! Treat yourself and get fitted at a running store for shoes that are perfect for your foot, your stride and the distance you run – it will make a big difference!
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Request for Substantive Comments on the EAC's Proposed Requirements for Version 1.1 of the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG)
Request For Public Comment On Proposed Requirements For Version 1.1 Of The Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (Vvsg).
The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) (Pub. L. 107-252; 42 U.S.C. 15301 et seq. (October 29, 2002)) established the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC). Section 202 of HAVA directs the EAC to adopt voluntary voting system guidelines (VVSG) and to provide for the testing, certification, decertification, and recertification of voting system hardware and software. The VVSG provides specifications and standards against which voting systems can be tested to determine if they provide basic functionality, accessibility, and security capabilities. As required by Section 222 (d) of HAVA, the EAC is publishing a set of proposed requirements (Voluntary Voting System Guidelines, 1.1) for the testing of voting systems for a 90 day public comment period.
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Background Back to Top
The EAC made the decision to update and revise the 2005 VVSG (also known as VVSG 1.0) as a result of feedback received through its Voting System Testing and Certification Program. As the EAC has worked to test and certify voting systems it observed and received feedback from various sources that the standards being tested to were at times ambiguous and difficult to apply in testing. This ambiguity led to challenges in making testing consistent both within a test laboratory and across test campaigns at different laboratories. The EAC also received feedback from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that the creation of formalized test suites for the 2005 VVSG would be aided by a clarification of certain portions of document. This information, combined with the EAC's issuance of thirty five interpretations of the VVSG to clarify various standards, led the EAC to propose improvements to the 2005 VVSG. In addition, the EAC determined to implement a number of recommendations submitted by the EAC's Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC).
The TGDC held numerous public meetings and subcommittee conference calls to create a set of draft guidelines for recommendation to the EAC (all TGDC meeting materials can be found at http://www.nist.gov/itl/vote/). On August 17, 2007, the TGDC voted to complete final edits of their recommendations and submitted them to the Executive Director of the EAC. The EAC received the draft guidelines from the TGDC on August 31, 2007.
After receipt of the TGDC's recommendations for the next iteration (VVSG 2.0) of the VVSG the EAC opened a one hundred and eighty day public comment period. During this comment period, which ran from September 2007 to May 2008, the EAC received comments praising many of the proposed standards as being more testable and less ambiguous than previous versions of the standard. This public comment period produced over 3000 comments on the recommendations. In addition, during the comment period the EAC conducted a series of seven roundtable discussions regarding the TGDC's recommendations. After the close of the public comment period for the TGDC's VVSG 2.0 recommendations and considering a variety of relevant factors, the EAC made the decision to first update and revise the 2005 VVSG with portions of the TGDC's recommendations. This serves as the basis for the creation of VVSG 1.1.
As noted during the previous public comment period for version VVSG 1.1, by revising the guidelines now, the EAC expects to improve the test process over the short term for existing voting systems while allowing additional time to develop more complex revisions for the requirements in VVSG 2.0 written for the next generation of voting systems. Topics currently undergoing continued research at NIST include open ended vulnerability testing/penetration testing, volume testing, further development of the concept of software independence and the development (with IEEE Working Group P1622 of a common data format for voting systems.
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The initial proposed revision to VVSG 1.1, was offered during a 120-day public comment period in the summer of 2009. Since that time, the EAC's Testing & Certification Program has discovered additional best practices, experienced anomalies and deficiencies with voting systems entering the Testing and Certification Program, and clarified many ambiguities with the standard. Changes were made after the 120-day public comment period to address these issues. Since the initial public comment, changes were made to the following areas:
|Treated all results as official.
|Removed all references.
|Software Validation
|Provided a secondary method of software validation not available in the 2005 VVSG.
|Access Control
|Enhanced access control requirements based on the two-tier access control model present in today's election equipment.
|Quality Assurance and Configuration Management
|Combined sections 8 and 9 into a single section.
|Coding Convention
|Required Languages
|Required all systems to officially support at least one ideographic language.
|Audit and Election Logging
|Enhanced and strengthen logging requirements by providing greater clarity and specific, especially for election logs.
Additionally, the EAC included all relevant Requests for Interpretations (located at the EAC's Web site) within the latest draft of VVSG 1.1. Please be aware that those sections added since the close of the initial public comment period for VVSG 1,1 are the only sections that the EAC is accepting comments on for this 90-day public comment period.
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Although both Volume 1 and Volume 2 of the VVSG 1.1 draft have undergone revisions, and should be commented on, we believe most commenter's should focus on the significant changes to Volume 1 of the draft document. Major sections of VVSG 1.1 Volume 1 revised for this comment period include but are not limited to:
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184.108.40.206Operational Requirements
2.3.1Opening the Polls
18.104.22.168DRE and EBM System requirements
2.4.1Closing the Polls
18.104.22.168Tabulator electronic reports
188.8.131.52Editable electronic ballot interfaces
3.2.5Visual display characteristics
3.3.2Enhanced visual interfaces
3.3.4Enhanced input and control characteristics
4.1.1Accuracy requirements
4.1.2Environmental requirements
220.127.116.11Electrical supply
22.214.171.124Ballot reading accuracy
5.2.1Scope (Software requirements)
5.2.2Selection of programming languages
5.2.4Software modularity and programming
5.2.5Structured programming
5.2.8Error checking
5.5Vote secrecy on DRE and EBM systems
6.2.2Durability (Telecommunications)
7.1Scope (Security requirements)
7.2Access control
7.3Physical security measures
7.4.4Software distribution
7.4.5Software reference information
7.4.6Software setup validation
7.5.1Maintaining data integrity
7.5.5Election returns
7.7.3Protecting transmitted data
7.8.2Approve or void the paper record
7.8.3Electronic and paper record structure
8Quality Assurance and Configuration Management (all)
All changes made since the last public comment period are highlighted in yellow in the version published on the EAC's Web site and in the Federal Register.
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) lacks a quorum of commissioners since the resignation of Commissioner Gracia Hillman on December 10, 2010. The EAC lost its two remaining commissioners in December 2011, with the resignations of Commissioners Gineen Bresso and Donetta Davidson. Because HAVA requires an affirmative vote of the Commission (Section 222(d)), all comments received will be reviewed and published as noted below. The final VVSG 1.1 draft document will be prepared for a Commission vote at such time as the EAC once again has a quorum of Commissioners.
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Comments must be received on or before 4 p.m. EST on December 5, 2012.
Submission of Comments: The public may submit comments through one of the two different methods provided by the EAC: (1) Email submissions to email@example.com; (2) by mail to Voluntary Voting System Guidelines Comments, U.S. Election Assistance Commission, 1201 New York Ave. NW., Suite 300, Washington, DC 20005.
In order to allow efficient and effective review of comments the EAC requests that:
(1) Comments refer to the specific section that is the subject of the comment.
(2) General comments regarding the entire document or comments that refer to more than one section be made as specifically as possible so that EAC can clearly understand to which portion(s) of the documents the comment refers.
(3) To the extent that a comment suggests a change in the wording of a requirement or section of the guidelines, please provide proposed language for the suggested change.
All comments submitted will be published at the end of the comment period on the EAC's Web site at www.eac.gov. This publication and request for comment is not required under the rulemaking, adjudicative, or licensing provisions of the Administrative Procedures Act (APA). It is a voluntary effort by the EAC to gather input from the public on the EAC's administrative procedures for certifying voting systems to be used in pilot projects. Furthermore, this request by the EAC for public comment is not intended to make any of the APA's rulemaking provisions applicable to development of this or future EAC procedural programs.
An electronic copy of the proposed guidance may be found on the EAC's Web site at http://www.eac.gov/open/comment.aspx.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Back to Top
Brian Hancock, Phone (202) 566-3100, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Alice P. Miller,
Chief Operating Officer and Acting Executive Director, U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
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Taking your car to the local car wash instead of washing it at home might seem like a guilty pleasure, but from an environmental perspective, it is often the better choice.
When you wash your car in the driveway or street, contaminants such as grease and brake dust (as well as the car washing detergent itself) flow into storm sewers, which discharge directly into our waterways. Car washes, on the other hand, are required to drain their water into sanitary sewers (which direct sewage to treatment facilities), or to filter and reuse it on-site.
Water efficiency is also a benefit of many commercial car washes. An analysis by the Maryland Department of the Environment found that car washes use approximately 50 to 75 gallons of water per car (assuming the water is not being recycled). Using the self-service bay consumes only 15 gallons. A typical garden hose, on the other hand, has an average flow rate of 7 gallons per minute, and would thus exceed a car wash's water consumption after two minutes compared with the self-service bay, or seven minutes compared with the automated wash if the hose were left running.
If you don't live near a car wash, here are some ways to clean your car in an ecological way:
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Kranich's is proud to offer our Heart Diamond Ring selection for your perusal. This selection of beautiful, elegant diamond rings bearing the striking heart cut send a message as bright as diamond and clear as crystal that the receiver is loved. Here, these two timeless symbols combine to marry eternity to tenderness in a result that is nothing short of breathtaking. Featuring designs by such renowned designers as Ritani, these simply gorgeous heart shaped rings make a perfect gift for the special woman in your life. Browse through our selection today and find the perfect piece to show how much you care!
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Definition of Holocene in English:
1Relating to or denoting the present epoch, which is the second epoch in the Quaternary period and followed the Pleistocene. Also called Recent.
Example sentences
- Woolly mammoths, which are now extinct, lived from the Pleistocene to the early Holocene period from about 120,000 to 4,000 years ago.
- In the United States, stark latitudinal changes in vegetative cover were prominent during the transition from Pleistocene to Holocene conditions.
- At that point, around the time of the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene, a rapid warming began the shift toward modern climatic conditions.
The Holocene epoch has lasted from about 10,000 years ago to the present day. It covers the period since the ice retreated after the last glaciation and it is sometimes regarded as just another interglacial period.
Late 19th century: coined in French from holo- 'whole' + Greek kainos 'new'.
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Laser optical trap – Jason Miller – 2011
Jason Miller (2011 Physics graduate) constructed, calibrated, and utilized an optical trap in order to observe micro-scale phenomena. This type of system is also known as 'optical tweezers' for its capability to hold and move micro- and nano- sized objects. Optical tweezers are created by focusing a laser through a high numerical aperture objective, forming a 'trap' at the focal point of the objective. The result is a 'cage' that can hold nano- and micro- sized particles and can be used for a large number of applications in physics, chemistry and biology. Advisor: Dr. Changgong Zhou (firstname.lastname@example.com).
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When you simulate a model, use these guidelines to choose the right procedure.
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Speed up simulation
You have a large model with many blocks.
See Speed Up Simulation.
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You want to take advantage of legacy code that augments model capabilities and also include custom variables and functions that you share between your custom code and Stateflow® generated code. See Integrate Custom C/C++ Code for Simulation.
Choose a custom compiler
You use the UNIX® version of Stateflow software
or do not wish to use the default
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Include custom code only for library charts
You want to provide custom code in a portable, self-contained library for use in multiple models.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7550871180740209487.post671128353483032852..comments2016-08-03T03:19:48.612-05:00Comments on The Other Side of Fifty: Coach's Oats BreadMags @ the Other Side of 50http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7550871180740209487.post-65585023775993325392010-10-23T17:55:18.721-05:002010-10-23T17:55:18.721-05:00I love it, it's totally and completely beautif...I love it, it's totally and completely beautiful! ERD? LMAO!Amandahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7550871180740209487.post-83497421513440002302010-07-07T11:59:49.942-05:002010-07-07T11:59:49.942-05:00That is a beautiful loaf of bread!That is a beautiful loaf of bread!Karenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7550871180740209487.post-52638070914170473952010-07-06T21:36:42.135-05:002010-07-06T21:36:42.135-05:00Your Coach's Oats bread sounds amazing! Thanks...Your Coach's Oats bread sounds amazing! Thanks so much for bringing it to my attention. xomarla {family fresh cooking}http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7550871180740209487.post-65594558406133621402010-07-06T19:34:54.435-05:002010-07-06T19:34:54.435-05:00This bread looks incredible... I need to get my ha...This bread looks incredible... I need to get my hands on some Coach's Oats to give it a try. I think I have a touch of OCD, too... Nothing wrong with that!Jen @ My Kitchen Addictionhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7550871180740209487.post-33191532761864398252010-07-06T12:41:17.422-05:002010-07-06T12:41:17.422-05:00Wow Mags this bread looks fantastic. It looks so s...Wow Mags this bread looks fantastic. It looks so soft and moist. I have never heard of Coach's Oats, but I will surely look for it around here.Ms. Meaniehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7550871180740209487.post-83103699468234719552010-07-06T10:21:26.372-05:002010-07-06T10:21:26.372-05:00i think you need OCD to make bread as beautiful as...i think you need OCD to make bread as beautiful as you always do :) amazing!!stephchowshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7550871180740209487.post-54154441178495429292010-07-06T09:14:30.859-05:002010-07-06T09:14:30.859-05:00Mags, I am definitely going to try this bread. It...Mags, I am definitely going to try this bread. It looks so delicious. I just have to wait for it to not be 90 something and lower humidity. We finally got the heat I was complaining that you were getting and we weren't. ha. I still can tolerate it well but Grumpy can't - therefore no oven cooking!Grumpy and HoneyBhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7550871180740209487.post-3773264106903287422010-07-05T13:44:15.242-05:002010-07-05T13:44:15.242-05:00I'm all for OCD if it means things would get a...I'm all for OCD if it means things would get around my house. And if that's what you have, I'm glad for it because you keep coming up with better and better posts and more gorgeous breads!

Now I have to go check out that chocolate ice cream because I can't focus on the bread from thinking about the ice cream. Does that mean I'm ADD??Lesliehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7550871180740209487.post-28674435687689738262010-07-05T13:24:51.995-05:002010-07-05T13:24:51.995-05:00Perfectly beautiful bread Mags - your brother shou...Perfectly beautiful bread Mags - your brother should be so lucky! By the way I'm with ya' on the carpet rows & OCD. I'm going through withdrawal at the moment ...haven't ironed anything in 10 days!Junehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7550871180740209487.post-45054958492755686722010-07-05T08:50:22.895-05:002010-07-05T08:50:22.895-05:00LMAO Moogie! I just love you! You stinking crack m...LMAO Moogie! I just love you! You stinking crack me up!Magshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7550871180740209487.post-67850567877732691512010-07-05T07:32:06.189-05:002010-07-05T07:32:06.189-05:00Mags, The bread is perfection. By the way, I'm...Mags, The bread is perfection. By the way, I'm sorry to hear that you have OCD.

Maybe one of my get-well cards will cheer you up. I made the paper myself. It contains special wildflowers that I grew just for the paper. And I hope you like the calligraphy. I studied with a "Master" for four years.

Also the ink is my own formula. I deep sea dive, capturing squidMoogiehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7550871180740209487.post-50148861890712123012010-07-05T07:03:00.060-05:002010-07-05T07:03:00.060-05:00Well, if it takes OCD to make a perfect loaf of br...Well, if it takes OCD to make a perfect loaf of bread like that, then go for it and be proud!Pamhttp://email@example.com


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New York Fashion Week Colors
I didn't realize it until I walked out the door in my red coat with a cobalt blue clutch in tow and into Lincoln Center… that everyone, and I mean everyone, was wearing the same color combination. Even the photographers! A bit of a surreal dream I must admit. I guess great minds…
Here is my version of the color way during fashion week and also proof that sometimes running late to the shows can assist in providing the best content!
Special thanks to Mario Villanueva and Hugo Lee for these captures and Guerre for taking some time out to chat with a fellow matching fashion week friend. Bisous NYS
The Look: Coat by Givenchy, Clutch by Khirma Eliazov, Leather Pants by Helmut Lang, Heels by Valentino, Fur Mittens by Jocelyn, Shirt by Zara.


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Having turned down a new contract, Beckham has vacated one of the club's designated player slots - set aside for higher earners - and Galaxy have repeatedly been linked with a move for Lampard as they seek a high-profile acquisition.
The Chelsea midfielder is out of contract in the summer and the club have shown no interest in offering a new deal to a player who is only eight goals shy of Bobby Tambling's record of 202 goals in the club's colours.
Now Arena says Lampard is a player of interest, as Galaxy look to make an announcement soon.
Arena said: "I wouldn't be surprised if over the next week or so we're going to have some sort of decision with a designated player.
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Tomorrow morning (Wednesday, October 24, 2007), we are releasing FreshBooks version 4.1.
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Texas State jumped out to an early 5-0 lead and never looked back in a 14-1, seven-inning win over the Texas A&M - Corpus Christi baseball team on Sunday at Whataburger Field. Jeramie Marek went 2-for-3 with an RBI in the loss.
Jacob Perales also had two hits for the Islanders (8-5, 0-3 Southland). Brett Carnline was carded with the loss after surrendering five runs, four earned, in his two innings of work. Colton Turner collected the win for the Bobcats (9-2, 3-0), as he scattered six hits and surrendered just one run in his 5 1/3 innings. He added nine strikeouts to improve to 3-0 on the year.
Bret Atwood and Kyle Kubitza each scored four runs for Texas State, as the top four hitters in the Bobcats order accounted for 12 runs. Jeff McVaney drove in four runs and Joey Fuda added three RBI.
The Bobcats scored two in the first and three in the second off Carnline. A Kubitza RBI infield single plated the first run and McVaney added a second RBI base knock in the first frame for a 2-0 lead. In the second, Kubitza added a two-run single and Casey Kalenkosky added an RBI single to make it 5-0 in favor of the visitors.
After Adam Hoelscher punched out the side in the third, he ran into control troubles in the fourth. Three Bobcats scored via the walk in the frame, then Tanner Green came on and surrendered a two-run single to make it 10-0 in favor of Texas State. The Bobcats added a solo tally in the top of the fifth.
The Islanders cracked the scoreboard in the bottom of the sixth. Matt Holland led off with a single, and a bad exchange at second on a ground ball left Logan Nottebrok at first and Holland on second with nobody down. After a flyout, Marek ripped a single up the middle to plate Nottebrok to make it 11-1, but reliever Travis Ballew came on and got the next two batters to thwart the rally. Texas State plated three runs in the top of the seventh to result in the final score, as the game was called after seven frames via the run rule.
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi is back in action on Tuesday, as it faces a doubleheader at Texas-Pan American. Game time for game one is slated for 3 p.m. in Edinburg between the Islanders and Broncs. Live audio and statistics will be available on GoIslanders.com.


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Doubt cries, "It is impossible! You can't, you can't go on!" Faith softly whispers, "Yes, you can. Just trust in God. Be Calm." Doubt cries, "Look down! Your path is steep And rough with stones and briar!" Faith gently says, "I'll take your hand. It's beautiful up higher." Doubt has not one thing to give But "going back" alone; Faith has God, eternal life, And heirship to a throne! And so, on unseen eagle's wings, These feet of clay are borne. While faith within me sings and sings, We rise above the storm!
Alice Hansche Mortenson
Source: Doubt and Faith
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Fear that makes faith may break faith.
Algernon Swinburne (1837 - 1909)
Source: Bothwell. Act i. Sc. .
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world. And you don't have to be a poet or a philosopher to know which is best.
Alfred Montapert (1906 -)
Despotism may govern without faith, but Liberty cannot.
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859)
Source: Tocqueville in Democracy in America, 1835
For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
Source: Essay on Man. Epistle iii. Line 303.
Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
Source: Epistle to Mr. Addison. Line 67.
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Source: Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 111.
"Have I the right to keep my faith," said a student inquirer, "at the price of my intellectual integrity?" The answer would have to be that the "faith" which is kept at such a price is not faith at all.
Alexander Mille
Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion.
Albinus Flaccus Alcuinus (735 - 804)
Source: 12,000 Religious Quotations, by Frank S. Mead, 1989.
To those who despair of everything, reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.
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Dogs with fake lashes: The latest Japanese craze?
Images of pets with lashes go viral
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As silly as it might sound, images of dogs and cats wearing fake eyelashes are flooding the internet and Japanese social media websites.
Photos posted by Japanese social media users (and reposted by the Japanese blog Kotaku) show pets with fake eyelashes attached onto either the pets' actual lashes or on the fur above the eyes. Not only have the faux lashes proven to be hilarious, but they have also taken pet pampering to a whole new level, reports ABC13.
Although still very much a niche thing in Japan, online communities are continuing to share the images of the trend.
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"Gasoline and Matches" Video by LeAnn Rimes with Rob Thomas and Jeff Beck
LeAnn Rimes has ventured into new territory with the release of her music video for "Gasoline and Matches." The Buddy and Julie Miller-penned tune is one of the 13 tracks found on LeAnn's Spitfire album, and features Matchbox 20's Rob Thomas on vocals and guitar legend Jeff Beck laying down his signature licks.
Rather than sticking to a more traditional video treatment, however, LeAnn turned to the creative mind of video producer and artist Ian Padgham, who directed and filmed the raw video with iPhones and several six-second clips using the popular Vine video app.
The footage of LeAnn and Rob singing their parts is interspersed with animated characters depicting—you guessed it—a gas pump and a box of matches, and the clip has its share of comical moments that keeps the flow upbeat and fun.
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My tongue startles at the metallic taste of the freezing cold. I'm standing in front of the "Rock 'n' Roll" McDonald's in downtown Chicago, balanced precariously on an upside-down, thirty-two-pound, red plastic tomato bucket, surrounded by a crowd of 700 people. My breath forms a cloud around the microphone as I receive it from Lucas Benitez, a farmworker and leader of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), one of the most powerful and innovative farmworker organizations in the world. "Good afternoon, I'm the Reverend Noelle Damico of the Presbyterian Church (USA). The PCUSA is a 2.4 million-member Protestant church that has struggled side by side with the CIW for fair food. For three years we supported the Taco Bell boycott that successfully led to improved wages and ground-breaking human rights advances for farmworkers."
The protesters cheer enthusiastically and wave colorful signs. Thump, thump, thump goes my little twenty-five-week-old fetus, kicking with delight inside me.
"And we are prepared to go the distance again, to ensure that McDonald's and other fast-food corporations do the same."
Hundreds of people are spilling off the sidewalk onto the street: moms holding babies on their shoulders, students from elementary school through college, clergy garbed in the attire of many faiths, elderly people sporting canes with fold-out seats, seminarians bleary-eyed from reading week at McCormick Seminary, and, of course, the tomato pickers themselves. I look toward the dour police officers who are busy protecting the restaurant from this dangerous group.
The CIW-Yum! agreement sets several important precedents, establishing:
• The first-ever direct, ongoing payment by a fast-food industry leader to farmworkers in its supply chain to address sub-standard farm labor wages (nearly doubling workers' wages);
• The first-ever enforceable Code of Conduct for agricultural suppliers in the fast-food industry (which includes the CIW, a worker-based organization, as part of the investigative body for monitoring worker complaints);
• Market incentives for agricultural suppliers willing to respect their workers' human rights, even when those rights are not guaranteed by law;
• 100 percent transparency for Taco Bell's tomato purchases in Florida (the agreement commits Taco Bell to buy only from Florida growers who agree to the pass-through and to document and monitor the pass-through, providing complete records of Taco Bell's Florida tomato purchases and growers' wage records to the CIW).
"We come armed only with truth and determination. We know, with God's help, that one day soon we will see the day McDonald's works with farmworkers to advance their human rights, not profit from their exploitation. Together we made history. Now, let's make the future!"
The crowd roars. In my mind's eye, I can see the change coming. It's not a matter of if, it's only a matter of when.
I have the honor of coordinating the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s Campaign for Fair Food. The Campaign for Fair Food is an ongoing effort of the denomination, in partnership with farmworkers from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and allies from the human rights, student, labor, and grassroots communities, to establish purchasing practices within the retail food industry that ensure fair wages and other human rights for tomato pickers who labor at the base of these corporate supply chains. It is one of the most diverse and strongest alliances in existence. And it's growing.
While I could never have envisioned it while in seminary, I have found myself at the center of one of the most significant social movements in recent history. It is a humbling, challenging, hopeful experience. My ministry flourishes in the creative exchange between farmworkers who have the courage, faith, and tenacity to take on the fast-food industry, and the theology, social witness, and determination of the church as we refuse to be complicit consumers in an industry that is so dependent on exploitation.
My call to this ministry has been both protracted and unmistakable as it has unfolded over the last twenty years. After I completed my M.Div. in 1991, I served a small rural church, and then returned to Princeton in 1992 to do a Th.M. in liturgy and aesthetics. Following my marriage to the Reverend Jeff Geary (M.Div., 1994), I labored in the corporate world in the field of software, pastored a suburban congregation, served as a campus minister, started a 501c3 that helped churches and synagogues combine efforts to meet survival needs of the poor in our community, wrote liturgy and music while consulting in church revitalization, served as the minister for the United Church of Christ's Justice and Peace Action Network on Capitol Hill, and helped start and continue to coordinate The School of Theology of the University of the Poor, a multifaith, web-centered, community-based "school-without-walls" that builds partnerships between poor people's grassroots organizations and academic and religious institutions for shared action and reflection to end poverty. In all of these pursuits God was preparing me for the work I am doing now: helping the church create partnerships of dignity and equality with poor people struggling for their rights.
My middler year at Princeton I enrolled in Professor Mark Taylor's feminist theology class. It was the first PTS course to solely explore feminist theology and, I might add, students who took it were not accorded a theology distribution credit. There were many things I learned about hermeneutics and power in that class. But what I principally took with me into my ministry was that creating relationships of dignity and equality among people was central to Jesus' ministry. In particular, I came to believe that to hear God's Word in Scripture rightly, the church needed to interpret the Bible in community with people who are poor or otherwise subjugated by the powers of this world, and who are resisting that domination. It was all quite theoretical in 1988. Today, it's come alive.
"The Presbyterian Church (USA) has worked with us, side by side," wrote Gerardo Reyes-Chavez, a leader of CIW, to the church upon the announcement that CIW and Yum! Brands, Taco Bell's parent company, had reached a groundbreaking agreement in March 2005. "You supported the boycott, facilitated our process of negotiations with Yum! Brands; you were with us in our hunger strikes; you supported the truth tours and welcomed us in your congregations; you put the words of the Bible into action. And for us as farmworkers, to see that, it is more than just the church 'standing with us' in our struggle—it is about becoming people who are a part of one community, struggling together for the same goals."
Immokalee (which rhymes with broccoli) is located about forty minutes due east of Ft. Myers in southwest Florida. More than twelve languages are spoken in Immokalee among the Mexican, Guatemalan, and Haitian day laborers who pick tomatoes bound for the tables of fast-food restaurants around the country. Like the day laborers in Jesus' parable of workers in the vineyard, each day the farmworkers gather in a local grocery store's parking lot at four thirty in the morning to look for work. If they are chosen to labor that day, crew leaders will drive them in old school buses to tomato fields 20 to 200 miles away. There, if weather permits, they will work ten to twelve hours picking at a per bucket rate that hasn't changed in more than twenty-five years, namely 40-45 cents per thirty-two-pound bucket. At that rate, a farmworker must pick two tons of tomatoes to earn fifty dollars. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, these workers earn about $10,000 a year. They do not receive overtime or healthcare and, unlike workers in other industries, they do not have the right to organize.
As if this isn't bad enough, in the most extreme cases workers are held against their will and forced to work in conditions of modern-day slavery. And I'm not using the word slavery as a sensational metaphor. I'm referring to conditions that meet the high standard of proof and definition of slavery under U.S. federal laws. The CIW has worked with the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and the FBI to successfully investigate and prosecute five cases of slavery in recent years, freeing more than 1,000 slaves. These cases have been prosecuted either under laws forbidding peonage and indentured servitude passed just after the Civil War during Reconstruction (18 U.S.C. Sections 1581–9) or under the 2000 Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act, which prohibits the "recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery."
The struggle of the CIW for fair wages and human rights in the fields first came to the Presbyterian Church through local congregations who regularly offered food and clothing to the workers.
While the farmworkers were and are grateful for the donations of food and clothing by Presbyterians, they stirred congregations to ask, "Why should farmworkers who work ten to twelve hours a day, six and sometimes seven days a week, need donations of food and clothing? Why can't farmworkers live in dignity and obtain food and clothing for themselves and their families?"
Congregations suddenly saw that while their donations helped farmworkers meet their survival needs, these donations essentially served as a subsidy for growers who were underpaying workers. So while donations continued, local congregations were ready to look at what it would mean to stand side by side with the workers.
After years of marches with the farmworkers in which we called on Florida-based growers to increase wages to little avail, we realized that the power and resources to change these conditions lay at the top of the supply chain, with the powerful retail food corporations who purchased the tomatoes workers picked and who benefited from farmworker poverty. In 2001 the CIW called for a boycott of Taco Bell, one of the fast-food companies publicly linked to buying tomatoes from an Immokalee-based grower. In 2002 the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church voted to support the boycott. But the General Assembly did more than make a statement: it allocated funds to hire someone to ensure that our words were matched with understanding and committed action. That someone was me.
Back in seminary, Professor Dan Migliore taught us that the Trinity had immense implications for social action and the witness of the church. Among the three persons of the Trinity we find a liberating, community-building, self-giving reciprocity of love. The power of this communally constituted triune God challenges human understandings of power as domination, invites the community of faith to recognize its interrelationship to all creation, and is the grounding for the church's insistence on the rights and dignity of all people. I have come to believe that to confess the reign of this triune God, to say "yes!" to this God, requires the church to simultaneously say "no!" to other gods and unmask the idols of our world who exercise power and seek profit without regard to human well-being. In my current position coordinating the Campaign for Fair Food for the PCUSA, I am charged with helping the church speak powerfully in the public square in light of our faith and our history. From local congregations to the Office of the Stated Clerk, from the General Assembly to Presbyterian Women, from the National Black Presbyte-rian Caucus to fifth and sixth graders in Sunday school, the PCUSA is at the forefront of the struggle for fair food, and we are playing a critical role.
"The church is absolutely necessary in this cause because of the power and credibility it has with corporations," insists Lucas Benitez of CIW. While the General Assembly's stated clerk has clearly and publicly insisted that fast-food corporations that are profiting from exploitation have a moral and ethical responsibility to end that exploitation, all across the country ordinary Presbyterians are getting out of their "comfort zone" to join in marches, to support CIW-led boycotts, to learn how to talk to the media, and to take a public stand that sometimes puts them at odds with their neighbors, in order to, as Gandhi said, "become the change they want to see in the world."
The church is also critical to the fair food movement because it has more connections with what Reyes-Chavez calls the corporations' "human side." In his letter to the PCUSA at the conclusion of the boycott, he explained, "Executives of corporations are members of congregations. And farmworkers are church people also. Your ability to connect both with executives and with farmworkers as people of faith allowed a point of encounter between worlds that were in conflict but that were able to find, in this case through the church, a reconciliation."
But the process of encounter that led to this reconciliation was very intense, very public, and very confrontational (even as the CIW and the PCUSA kept lines of communication open with the company privately during the Taco Bell boycott). To change a multibillion-dollar fast-food industry and transform an agricultural industry that is stuck in the nineteenth century when it comes to human rights requires courage, sacrifice, honesty—and faith from both the farmworkers and the church.
PTS Students Support the Campaign
On a February weekend, six PTS students gathered with faculty member Rick Osmer, curriculum specialist Carol Wehrheim, and Noelle Damico to put their seminary education to the test.
Energized by the struggles of the farmworkers and the vision of the Campaign for Fair Food, they quickly made critical connections to the prophet Micah's question: What does the Lord require? And to its answer, so simple and basic—justice, compassion, and the humble walk.
From the weekend work, the students forged curricula for elementary, middle-, and high school youth that interpret the Campaign for Fair Food in light of the gospel. The plans will be available online so congregations all over the country can join in this movement. Visit www.pcusa.org/fairfood.
The students involved in the project were Ryan Timpte (Dual 1), Eun Bee Ham (Dual 2), Erin Heisler (Dual 2), Jennifer Gruendler (middler), Eric Rhoda (Dual 3), and Jill Rumpf, (Dual 2). Jennifer Gruendler said, "It was such an honor and wonderful learning experience to be part of a team, joining farmworkers, denominations, and individuals as we worked for justice together as the Body of Christ. It painted a beautiful picture for me of what the church is and what the church can be."
"I wasn't exactly sure what to expect coming into this project," said Ryan Timpte. "I've written curricula for my own use before, summer day camp notes and so forth, but I've never done anything on this scale. Having Noelle there was a tremendous blessing. Her enthusiasm and energy did more for the creative process than hours of my own brainstorming ever would have. Her passion allowed our writing to flow. I hope the curricula that we put together can, in some small way, transfer Noelle's passion to the church at large. Just imagine what an entire community with Noelle's drive could do alongside the Immokalee farmworkers."
These six students have expressed their solidarity with the Campaign for Fair Food. Perhaps you would like to get involved as well. The campaign's truth tour met on April 13 outside McDonald's headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois. On April 14, a Fair Food Parade took place in downtown Chicago. For details, visit http://www.pcusa.org/fairfood.
So we took up the tools of nonviolent protest—hunger strikes, marches, prayer vigils—as ways of putting a spotlight on farmworkers who to that point had been as invisible as they were exploited at the base of Taco Bell's supply chain. It was while sharing in common action toward a common goal that I first began to sense what it meant to be a partner with the workers rather than simply a supporter. It happened at the CIW's hunger strike on the doorstep of Taco Bell in Irvine, California, in March 2003. There was no predetermined end to the strike, but it concluded ten days after it began as farmworkers were taken to the hospital and national religious leaders promised that their communions would carry forward the farmworkers' efforts, and begged the farmworkers to stop the strike. During the hunger strike, more than fifty farmworkers willingly and publicly bore the exploitation they face daily in the fields upon their own bodies. This sacrificial act was an appeal to the company to recognize their humanity and to respond by treating them with dignity. And it revealed the enormous inequities in power between the fast-food giant and themselves. Though the company did not respond at that time, it was a turning point in the campaign, and a watershed moment in my life. In my "hunger strike" journal I described it this way:
As the church, we are not simply deigning to walk with farmworkers because it's compassionate or just, or even because we feel it's the right thing to do because Jesus walked with those who were made poor and vulnerable in his own day. For that would imply that at some point, we the church could walk away, change the channel, or get on to other important "issues." No. We as the church walk with the farmworkers because to be fully human, we cannot do otherwise. Their struggle is our struggle—the struggle to be human, to be regarded with dignity, to live peacefully and fully on this earth as God intends.
As the PCUSA began to walk with the farmworkers during the boycott, we thought we were lending the power of a respected institution and our individual social power to some of the poorest people in our country. And in one sense, that's an accurate description of what we did. But the CIW asked us to go further. The coalition asked the Presbyterian Church to think about how this campaign for fair food was also about us—about our choices as consumers who purchase these products. We were asked to think about how the things that the farmworkers lacked were things that every human being needs: a job at a living wage, fair treatment in the workplace, safe housing, healthcare. The farmworkers were in the forefront of this particular struggle to address wages and working conditions, but they reminded us that it is part of a larger global struggle for human rights in which we are all invited to locate ourselves and to act.
From this challenge, the church began to move from a position of being an "outsider" that rushed to support farmworkers and their struggle, to being a leader with farmworkers in a common struggle for a food system that provides well-being for all.
"You drive like a demon!" exclaimed Cliff Kirkpatrick as I squealed my electric scooter to a halt directly in front of his ambling gait. It's June 2006, I'm seven-and-a-half months pregnant, and my obstetrician said the only way I could attend General Assembly was if I got an electric scooter and put my feet up, a lot. But I wouldn't have missed this meeting for the world.
For on June 23, 2006, at 1:27 in the morning, the Presbyterian Church's 217th General Assembly meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, overwhelmingly passed a resolution supporting Ongoing Work with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the Campaign for Fair Food. The goal is to extend the precedents that were achieved in the CIW-Yum! Brands agreement across the entire fast-food industry. The resolution affirms the church's partnership with the CIW and authorizes its General Assembly Council to support consumer actions, such as a boycott, if it is in concert with our church's boycott criteria and in partnership with the Alliance for Fair Food, a national network of religious, student, labor, grassroots, and human rights institutions and leaders working with the CIW.
Following the supportive vote, Lucas Benitez rose to address the packed Assembly, exclaiming, "Farmworkers are also people of faith like you, and we are partners in mission with the Presbyterian Church. Our mission is to transform the corporate food and agricultural industries into a fair food system that ensures human rights. Being here [in Birmingham] reminds me of what Dr. King said a few days before his death; that he had reached the mountaintop and that he had seen the Promised Land and he knew we would all get there together as one single society. I am here today to tell you that we are closer to that vision becoming a reality."
I sat on the Assembly stage, excited and ridiculously tired, looking out at the commissioners, who were also excited and ridiculously tired, thinking, "a very important thing has happened here tonight. Not only is this the first time a farmworker has ever addressed the General Assembly, this is the first time this church has entered into an equal partnership with farmworkers with a common goal: transforming the fast-food industry." Thump, thump, thump agreed the little one in my enormous belly.
Two weeks later, I gave birth to August Xavier Damico Geary, a little boy, one month early but already weighing more than seven and a half pounds. After my parents, Lucas Benitez of the CIW was the first person my husband, Jeff, and I called. "Lucas! Tenemos un hijo! Llámeme pronto," I laughed from my hospital bed.
From Immokalee to Chicago, farmworkers and Presbyterians are getting ready; ready for the second McDonald's Truth Tour this April. It's clear that change is possible—the CIW-Yum! Brands agreement is in force and working well. But McDonald's is on the offensive, claiming in a study (that was discredited by labor experts) that farmworkers aren't poor, and partnering with growers to claim that conditions as they are should be certified as "fair." As McDonald's does all it can to roll back the advances for farmworkers that were achieved in the landmark agreement, Presbyterians and other allies of the CIW from the faith, human rights, and student communities are taking to the streets again to tell the disturbing truth about the exploitation that lies behind those glistening golden arches. As I speak to Presbyterian congregations in Atlanta, Montgomery, Louisville, Urbana, and Chicago, I sense an increase in both impatience and determination.
Download and then drop off a manager's letter at your local McDonald's to show you want the company to work with the CIW. And send an email to Mr. Jim Skinner, CEO of McDonald's, urging him to work with CIW to end exploitation in the McDonald's supply chain. Go to http://pcusa.org/fairfood/action.htm.
My husband and I baptized August Xavier on Long Island on World Communion Sunday when it looked like the allusion to the flood in the liturgy would become a reality; the sky roiled and the rain descended in sheets. Like every anxious parent on the day of a child's baptism, I was in our house, running late, carefully threading August's delicate little arms through the sleeves of his baptismal gown. Lucas, August's padrino (godfather), was standing next to me, singing little songs in Spanish to the baby.
Once I got August buttoned in, Lucas pulled a small box out of his pocket; a baptismal gift! Nestled in the cotton was a tiny gold cross that said "mi bautizo," adorned with a descending dove and a burning candle. As Lucas hooked the necklace around August's tiny, tender neck, I couldn't help but think about how my experience of walking with the Presbyterian Church and the CIW in our struggle for fair food has been a kind of baptism for me, an immersion into communal relationship replete with risk, hope, forgiveness, surprise, sacrifice, miracle, and hesed (steadfast, loyal love). As Jeff and I poured the water of baptism on August's head, I thought about the kind of life he's being baptized into and the kind of courageous church—a church of Presbyterians and farmworkers—that will nurture him.
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Definition of doubting Thomas in English:
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A person who is sceptical and refuses to believe something without proof: I was a real doubting Thomas. I didn't believe the stuff would work those doubting Thomases still can't figure out how the show became a hit
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- This really hurt them and gave them a powerful incentive to put the record straight and to prove the doubting Thomases wrong.
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What Apple iAds Mean for Voice Talent
By David Ciccarelli
June 8, 2010
Steve Jobs presented at the World Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco and introduced the new iPhone 4 which boasts of several new groundbreaking features, such FaceTime video calling and Retena Display, the next generation of high resolution displays for the popular mobile phone.
Aside from the new iPhone, Jobs revealed two important facts that show their commitment to dominating the mobile market. First, the launch of the iAd mobile network and second a sizable commitment from a roster of global brand willing to engage customers in a new way, though the innovative iAd format.
iAds combine the emotion of TV advertising with the interactivity of Internet advertising, giving advertisers a dynamic and powerful new way to bring motion and emotion to mobile users.
iAd Mobile Ad Network
Apple announced it will debut its iAd mobile advertising network on July 1 on iPhone and iPod touch devices running its iOS 4 software platform.
New Advertising Formats
With iAd, advertisers have been able to create powerful and compelling ads. The initial response has been that iAd is the perfect mobile format to reach and engage with customers.
Voice Overs in iAds
Voice talent should be seeing a huge opportunity to offer voice overs for iAds. Audio and video have always gone hand in hand and with iAds, advertiser will need to introduce products, tell stories and engage customers with the power of the human voice. Voice talent who sound conversational, youthful and believable will gain a tremendous advantage as advertisers will be looking for those voice types.
Apple's Targets for iAd Revenue
Apple has iAd commitments for 2010 totaling over $60 million, which represents almost 50 percent of the total forecast US mobile ad spending for the second half of 2010.
iAd Advertisers
Global brands will launch mobile ad campaigns using the iAd platform. Companies lined up for iAd campaigns include AT&T, Best Buy, Campbell Soup Company, Chanel, Citi, DirecTV, GEICO, GE, JCPenney, Liberty Mutual Group, Nissan, Sears, State Farm, Target, Turner Broadcasting System, Unilever and The Walt Disney Studios.
Common iAd Questions
You might be wondering how iAds are different from other mobile ad formats, where iAds will be displayed and how much they will cost. Visit the iAd FAQ for more information.
See iAd in Action
In case you missed the live event, you can watch a video of the keynote presentation where Steve Jobs introduces the new iPhone, iOS and discusses the iAd mobile network and gives a demo of how iAds will work.
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Words Impact Our Health
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What words shape your life?
I was sitting at my desk around mid-day; my eyes feeling tired. I decided to walk away from the computer to fill up my water jug. As I was standing at the cooler, I overheard an outrageous statement. A woman nearby blurted out: "I'd estimate I have about 15 years left on this earth and that's about it…" My jaw dropped to the floor as I finished filling up my water bottle and walked away.
And yes, I looked up and see who made the statement… just by looking at the woman's outer physique- she did not look that old! Yet, those were her words that came out of her mouth. And she sounded completely serious. "I have about fifteen years left and that's about it…"
Our words are powerful things. Our words create our experiences and shape our reality. What comes out of our mouths is our truth. Then our truth becomes our experience.
Behind our words are also our thoughts. What we think has the potential to empower or break us down. Think we can do it- we can! Think we cannot- guess what? We are less likely to. There's an old saying by Henry Ford that goes: "Whether you think you can or you think you can't- you're right."
I recently went through a six week course called "How to Manifest Anything" with a spiritual teacher. In it we went through several steps of manifestation. I recall that many of the exercises we did we actually said the words out loud. State our affirmations, speak them. Not just in our minds, but aloud in our voices. Other techniques included having conversations between parts of our "selves" out loud… actually letting each part have a voice to break down blocks.
There is power in our words. How do you choose yours? Do you invite health and well-being to your life? Or do you say things like "I'm too fat… I'm stupid… I'm ugly… I can't do it…" When it comes to making, setting, and reaching health goals you have to believe you can do so. Then you have to state those beliefs out loud: "I can do this… I am beautiful… I am healthy… I reach my goals."
Instead of wishing life away with stating how much time you have left; how about enjoying every moment and living as if you are a child again? Strive to do this each day you are blessed with on this earth! Enjoy yourself and speak of the health you desire. Bring the lifestyle of wellness, peace, and joy into your everyday experience- just by carefully choosing the words you speak.
Nurse Coach Elizabeth Scala is a certified health and wellness coach, master's prepared RN, and Reiki Master. Besides being the owner of Living Sublime Wellness and the founder of the RejuveNation Collaboration, Elizabeth is also an inspirational and motivational author and speaker. She presents workshops, educates organizations, and helps people live holistic lives of well-being. If you're interested in finding out more, visit Coach Scala at www.elizabethscala.com and receive your special gift, "I Don't Have Time: The Number One Barrier & What to Do About It".


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Could Nuclear Energy's Revival Spell Trouble for LNG?
From Financial Post
There are two major factors that have emerged in the last five years that have sparked a surge in LNG investments. First is the shale gas "revolution" in the United States, which allowed the U.S. to vault to the top spot in the world for natural gas production. This caused prices to crater to below $2 per million Btu (MMBTu) in 2012, down from their 2008 highs above $10/MMBtu. Natural gas became significantly cheaper in the U.S. than nearly everywhere else in the world.
The second major event that opened the floodgates for investment in new LNG capacity is the Fukushima nuclear crisis in Japan. Already the largest importer of LNG in the world before the triple meltdown in March 2011, Japan had to ratchet up LNG imports to make up for the power shortfall when it shut nearly all of its 49 gigawatts of nuclear capacity. In 2012, Japan accounted for 37% of total global LNG demand.
The combined effect of shale gas production in the U.S. and skyrocketing LNG demand from Japan opened up a wide gulf between the Henry Hub benchmark price in the U.S. and much higher oil-linked prices around the world. LNG markets, which are not liquid, could not meet the surge in Japanese demand. Platts' Japan/Korea Marker (JKM) price for spot LNG floated between $4-$10/MMBTu the year and half before Fukushima. In the few months after the meltdown, the JKM price quickly jumped to $18/MMBTu. Almost three years later, the JKM price for month-ahead delivery in January 2014 hit $18.95/MMBTu.
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Amid Cannes Glitter, Sofia Coppola Targets 'Bling'
CANNES–Based on a true story, director Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring," which is being screened as part of the Cannes Film Festival, brings us into the celebrity worship mindset of five bored LA high schoolers-turned burglars who make a sport out of scooping up the glitzy loot of the rich and famous. What is even more outrageous (Doesn't anyone have burglar alarms? Why do these stars leave their back doors open?) is that they get away with it–at least for a while.
Tracking their target homes on Internet, they pocket nearly $3 million worth of luxury goods from the homes of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Megan Fox, Rachel Bilson and Orlando Bloom.
"I think of American celebrity culture as some kind of a guilty pleasure," says Coppola. "For me, it's kind of a fun thing that you look at once and while, but it has come to dominate our culture and is out of control."
"Today, there's definitely a hunger for the stuff that teenage kids see in magazines and on websites. I wanted to look at that without being judgmental and let the audience make their own opinion."
The director says she pieced together the story from a variety of sources, from Nancy Jo Sales' 2010 article in Vanity Fair, "The Suspects wore Louboutins" to quotes from detective and police reports, plus her own consultations with two members of the real "Bling Ring" gang.
"But the film is fiction. I changed the names and tried to make it another story. I didn't want to make them bigger celebrities," she says with a smile.
"I'm also interested in LA because it's not like anywhere else" she says. "Hollywood is the epicenter of the tabloid culture and reality TV. Obviously, a lot of people are there because they're interested in being a part of that."
Paris Hilton, who attended the opening night screening, was "very supportive". The director was given free access to shoot the star's real home for the film.
"The kids broke into Paris Hilton's house five times and stole everything from Birkin bags to family heirlooms. The boy in the group told me that the girl even wanted to steal Paris Hilton's dog."
When the gang finally does get caught, the girls are mostly worried most about which outfits they'll be wearing to the court hearing.
The cast includes Emma Watson, who plays the spirited, pole-dancing bad girl, Nicki, spouting off naïvely self-righteous monologues in flawless Valley Girl-ese.
"For Emma, it was really interesting to see an actress that you've seen in other things completely transform into someone so different," Coppola observes.
Though the director shies away from labeling herself as feminist, she also says that her sustained interest in the emotional plight of teenage girls ("Virgin Suicides," "Somewhere") is no accident. "I'm also really into my feminine side and being girly. It's probably because I grew up around men."
And in a city like Cannes—where the Croisette is a freeway of big name designer boutiques and overrun with droves of die-hard star-gawkers, hoping for a glimpse of a famous actor—"The Bling Ring" seems an appropriate place for a moment of pause from the celebrity-fueled festivities.


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I'm 38 and getting married at the end of January. I was planning to get Botox for the two vertical lines between my brows, but am not sure what to do for the lines from my nose to mouth - and am concerned about side effects of fillers. Is there an effective topical treatment for fine laugh lines?
Effective Wrinkle Cream for Laugh Lines?
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Sorry, No Effective Creams. Try a Filler!
Sorry, NYCgal. There are no effective topical treatments for nasolabial folds (the lines that connect the sides of your nostrils to the corners of your mouth).
Don't believe the sales people at the cosmetic counters of the department stores! No cream with a seaweed extract, blueberry potion, or vitamin concoction is going to help!!
I would recommend that you see a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon about an injectable filler. Juvederm, Restylane, Elevess, Evolence, or Radiesse might each be a great option for you. These are all safe products. While each does have certain risks, in my hands, complications have been very few, and satisfaction rates have been very high.
Since you seem reluctant to try a filler, I would recommend starting with a product for which there is an antidote. Hyaluronic acid fillers (like Juvederm or Restylane) have great track records. I have never had an allergy or infection with these products. If you really hated the hyaluronic acid, then it could be dissolved away with hyaluronidase (also known as Vitrase).
Sorry to be so bullish about fillers. I know that you are really looking for an alternative. However, I really do think that these are great products.
We're not aware of any creams for laugh lines
We do not know of any creams that would be able to help with the laugh lines. The fundamental issue with this area is that loss of volume and downward movement of the facial structure cause these lines to appear. Creams cannot address either one of these issues. Dermal fillers help by replacing lost volume and surgery can help by modifying the facial structure.
The side effects from fillers include redness, swelling, irritation, bruising and in rare cases hard nodules. If you choose hyaluronic based dermal fillers such as Restylane, Juvederm and Perlane, the potential for side effects is lower.
Web reference: http://www.celibre.com/restylane.aspx
You can try good skincare but fillers are the definitive treatment for laugh lines
So far, there are no effective topical treatments for laugh lines. Having said that, though, you still have time to go on a really good skincare regimen (if you aren't doing so already). Using glycolic acids during the day and retin-a at night can stimulate collagen production and may improve the appearance of your laugh lines. I have also seen some very, very slight and very temporary softening of the laugh lines (nasolabial folds) from a cream called Freeze 24-7. You might have to squint to see it :) This is not an endorsement, just some anecdotal evidence.
The definitive treatment and the one that will give you the most bang for your buck is an injectable dermal filler. Since your wedding is in January, my recommendation is to have the lines filled in November and if necessary, you can go back for a touch up in December so that you'll look amazing by your wedding. I also suggest you opt for a hyaluronic acid filler such as Juvederm or Perlane so that if you hate the look, it can be revised or removed. (Other fillers such as Radiesse or Sculptra will not be correctable).
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Creams are a waste of time for the nasolabial folds
I agree that fillers are your best bet for those lines. This area is the safest place to get fillers in terms of high rate of success and low rate of complications. This is why almost every filler on the market do their patient studies for the FDA in the nasolabial folds. I use either Radiesse, Juvederm, or Sculptra for this area.
If you are not sure, go with Juvederm. Pick a doctor with a good reputation in your area who does his own injection. Many practices delegate this to an RN. In addition to General Plastic Surgeons, there are many fine Dermatologists, Facial Plastic Surgeons, Oculoplastic Surgeons who can help you.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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