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WHY I HATE THE BACHELORPosted Tuesday, March 10, 2009, at 11:28 AM
by Lisa Earle McLeod
It's wrong. It's just plain wrong. It violates the social order of the universe.
Yes, I'm talking about The Bachelor, the horrific reality show where a group of attractive young women compete for the attention of one man.
It's just plain gross, and after seven seasons of this smut, I can no longer stay silent.
No I'm not offended at the TV trend of creating cheap programming by inserting cameras into the lives of crazy people. As an ardent fan of Toddlers & Tiaras, I've always said, one family's dysfunctions are another family's Friday night entertainment. It's a free country and if you want to tart up your two-year-old in the hopes of her becoming Little Miss Chitlin' Strut, you better believe I'm going to watch every mascara-running minute of it.
Nor do I believe that television has a moral responsibility for upholding standards of taste and decency. If the general public wants to lower the bar, who am I to quibble with the network execs for dumbing down our collective IQ?
My outrage has nothing to do with taste, privacy or decency. My moral opposition to The Bachelor is because it violates the laws of nature.
The women are not supposed to chase the men. The men are supposed to chase the women.
Who does not know this?
That's why women have shorter legs; because we're the ones who are supposed to be caught.
Now before you get yourselves in a bra-burning snit, please allow me to proudly inform you that my great-grandmother marched with Susan B. Anthony, and I bought my two daughters Tonka Trucks. So save your angry letters.
I'm actually fighting this battle on behalf of women. Na*ve young women who have been manipulated by a TV show to act as stupid and reckless as, well, young men.
The show's web site says, "one man hopes to find true love after meeting 25 women." Ha! What really happens is the women compete against each other, while the Bachelor sits back and enjoys the chase; actually relishes the chase, because the women do anything to get noticed.
Can you not see the fundamental problem with this? Men are supposed to make fools of themselves competing for women, not the other way around.
It's no coincidence that not one of the bachelors ever married the woman he gave his final rose to.
Yes, I know the most recent bachelor wept big puppy dog tears when he had to choose between two wonderful girls. But Mr. Emotional changed his mind a few weeks later, further proving the point. Men shouldn't be allowed to choose, because they can't.
I'm surprised he didn't ask the producers to let it go on for four seasons - "Let's not quibble here ladies there's enough of me to go around."
It's also no coincidence that the only marriage to ever come out of the Bachelor franchise was on The Bachelorette, when Trista chose Ryan, after he battled it out with 24 other men to win her heart.
That's the way it's supposed to work. The more effort the man puts into winning the prize, the more he appreciates it. And the harder we watch him work, the more secure we feel about being won.
Whether it happens on TV or in your local bar, men chasing women is the proper social order.
But when a bunch of girls get drunk, snarky and lose their clothes, just to get a rose from a man, well, that's just entertainment.
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it's 2009 it's perfectly acceptable for a woman to "chase" a man.
everything changes eventually!
-- Posted by jonboon on Tue, Mar 10, 2009, at 8:34 PM
So.. for clarification purposes..
It's OKAY to dress a 2 year old up like a cheap prostitute because that's entertaining to you, but it's NOT okay for grown women, of age to consent to such matters, to compete for the attention of a man?
This IS troubling.
-- Posted by grasshopper46 on Sat, Mar 28, 2009, at 5:07 PM
Don't watch it anymore. Some of us watch it to see the dumbest women do this. Then we laugh and laugh when they are put off the show. It goes to show you that some women believe anything and will do anything to get their 15 minutes of fame.
Also proves beautiful women are truly dumb.
-- Posted by Belle123 on Wed, May 20, 2009, at 5:42 PM
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I can't take any more. The economy is tanking, the election is endless, and now it looks like I might have to sell my blood if I want to keep my kids in mac 'n cheese. Oh, and did I mention that, thanks to falling house prices, I probably owe more on my home than it's actually worth? I want to go back to bed, pull the covers over my head and have somebody wake me up when my 401(k) bounces back. I don't know about you, but I'm finding myself so jittery about, well everything, that it's all I can do to surf the net. Kind of ironic, isn't it? I should be working more, but I'm so anxious about my finances that I'm actually working less. Alas, such is the world of grown-ups - stress, anxiety, depression. And to think that I wasted much of my childhood wishing I could be in charge of my own life. Why in the heck did I ever think that was a good idea? Give me a few cookies, a blankey and a nice place to lie down and I swear I'll never complain about an early bedtime again. These are tough times indeed. Even if you're still OK, you'd have to be one cold, hard, rich person to stay immune to all the angst in the air. So how do you cope? How do you get through today when you're so worried about tomorrow that you can't see straight? I overheard a news commentator say that people are thinking twice before they go out to eat or buy new clothes. I'm guessing that those are the people who still have jobs. Because the people without jobs aren't spending a nickel on anything except cheap carbs and keeping a roof over their heads. Yet as depressing as our collective and individual situations may be, the last thing we need to do is let our fear get the best of us. If you spend all day quaking and anxious, guess who wins? The fear. Yes, I know FDR had a roof over his head when he said "we have nothing to fear but fear itself," but he was right. Every moment you waste paralyzed with fear is a moment you could be doing something, or resting up so that you can do something tomorrow. It's been said that there are only two emotions, love and fear, and all the other emotions are derivatives of those. So I'd like to make a suggestion. Let's chose love. Let's decide to love each other and to love ourselves, no matter what happens. And if you're really a Pollyanna, perhaps you'll join me in deciding to love the fact that this crisis is serving as a call for us to become our better selves; a call for us to look within and rid ourselves of consumerism, greed and the need to keep up with the Jones; and a call for us to have more empathy for those who are struggling. Maybe this is a chance for all of us - and I include myself - to decide that we love our country and we love our fellow human beings more than we love our stuff. Yeah, I know it sounds hokey. But you don't change your circumstances until you change the thoughts that created them. Cowering under the covers in fear may feel safer. But in a crisis, the truly powerful response is love. (c) Copyright 2008, by Lisa Earle McLeod. All rights reserved. Lisa Earle McLeod is a keynote speaker, author and nationally syndicated columnist. Her books include "Forget Perfect" and "Finding Grace When You Can't Even Find Clean Underwear." Contact her at www.ForgetPerfect.com.
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Misplaced priorities hampering UK government uptake of open source
According to a computing.co.uk article entitled Open Source: The government's commitment so far, most of the IT technology used in the UK government is still proprietary and comes from single vendors.
Open source adoption by government agencies in the UK is progressing, but is still being hindered by a focus on "free as in gratis." Decisions based on cost-of-acquisition alone ignore the other real and more important values offered by open source, which are derived from "free as in freedom."
A policy was set out in 2004 to "level the playing field" for open source solutions in the UK government. Open source solutions are in use in a variety of departments there. Drupal powers the UK Cabinet Office website, among others. The open source policy statement was reiterated in 2009, 2010, and in October 2011 a new "Strategic Implementation Plan" (SIP) covered much of the same ground. Change has been slow to come, but things are looking promising.
The 2011 Strategic Implementation Plan includes an Open Source Procurement Toolkit to facilitate and help put into action the UK government's stated policy, "Where appropriate, Government will procure open source solutions."
"Free as in gratis" is not the point
So far, so good, but there's at least one problem. The Strategic Action Plan calls for open source solutions to be considered fairly against proprietary solutions based on "value for money and total cost of ownership."
Psychologically, the "free" in "free and open source software" is a huge trump. Dan Ariely, in the chapter of Predictably Irrational called "The Cost of Zero Cost," discussed the power of FREE! (as he calls it). One of the conclusions he comes to after a series of controlled experiments is that FREE! can blind us, to the point of irrationality, to the importance of other factors.
Proprietary software vendors understand this irrationality and in at least one case, have successfully offered one-time, 100% discounts on their software when threatened with a move to an open source alternative. The power of FREE! (right now!) blinded those involved to the long-term consequences and costs of future license- and upgrade fees, as well as being locked in to proprietary formats, which can force further investment in proprietary solutions.
Simon Phipps, writing on opensource.com says,
"The fact that open source software can be obtained without payment of a license fee is a cruel distraction from the real values."
Jeff Eaton made the same point this year at the Do it With Drupal conference,
"[Open source software] just happens to have a zero price tag, you're still responsible for it."
Both Phipps and Eaton make the point that focusing on a price of zero undermines the real values and strengths of open source solutions like Drupal. Eaton goes on to present better arguments for adopting open source, calling FREE! the worst one on the list.
Focus on the real values of open source
Here are some values that proprietary software cannot offer based on the very definition of open source itself:
- Use it: You are free to use open source for anything, anywhere, no matter what. In the restaurant business, they say, "You gotta own the bricks." Do you want your government basing its services on something that it has no control over, has to pay for over and over again, that others can arbitrarily turn off, change or charge more for?
- Study it: You are free to understand what you are getting, no hidden surprises. As Eaton puts it, "The bad dies or the bad gets fixed." Quality and security are common outcomes of transparency.
- Modify it: You control your destiny. With open source you have the freedom to build what you need when you need it. If a proprietary solution is buggy, it might never be fixed. If it only does 80% of what you need, when do you get the other 20%? Your priorities might not match the proprietary developer's product roadmap.
- Share it: You are free to reuse the best solutions out there. Improve efficiency by building on the shoulders of giants. If you start with an 80% solution based on the work of the Drupal community and build the very best solution for your organization, you can pass it on to your colleagues, other departments, or the whole world.
It's getting better all the time
Government agencies and departments in the UK are beginning to focus on the real value propositions offered by open source. For instance, the UK government held consultations in 2011 on adopting open standards and intends to have in place a core set of open standards by June 2012. This is a big step in the right direction. The CIO and senior responsibility officer for open source and open standards of the UK Home Office, Robin Pape, contends that, "Open standards are the real enabler for change." Proprietary solutions are not traditionally focused on these standards–or are actively against them–and Pape concludes, "Open source software is part of the opportunity that arises [from their adoption]."
2012 is looking good for public-sector open source software adoption in the UK.
This article originally appears on acquia.com/blog and is reposted with permission.
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"This doesn't mean that the UK Cabinet Office should abandon its open source policy"
er, what open source policy?
The comment above was posted to the wrong article It (apologies) it refers to the article posted on 15 Dec:
"Two countries, separated by a common IT market"
However the this article, unfortunately, makes a couple of errors, which were easy to make based on the sloppiness of the source material.
The Cabinet Office did not consult, it conducted a survey, there's a big difference, read replies to FOI here:
Moreover, for reasons that are entirely unclear, the CAbinet Offcie has quietly taken a decision to formally withdraw its definition of an open standard despite it only being a draft. More here:
Our general reaction to all of this may be found here
and here
In reference to Jeffery A. Mcguire's post of January 8 2012, "Misplaced priorities hampering UK government uptake of open source":
It is my experience that the primary cost of open source is the cost of implementation. This is due to the poor quality of documentation, particularly user instructions for installation and operation. This is why open source has not been generally accepted.
When a computer programmer has completed his programming, the job is only halfway finished. The user must also be programmed. Writing the operating instructions is not an insignificant endeavor. Technical writing is a skill and trade in-its-self. Good technical writers are paid well in private industry and are worth every penny they It appears that all too many open source programers feel that when they have completed their programming and have made it freely available, they have completed their obligations to God and mankind. The truth is that the work has only partially been done.
Linux and Open Source. will take off like a rocket when this documentation problem is solved.
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The 5 Craziest Things People Are Doing With Dead Animals
Historically, dead bodies are a drag. We bury them, we burn them, and on the rare occasions that they start lumbering around eating the living, we destroy their brains. But a growing field of intrepid individuals are changing all that. More and more people are saying, "Corpse schmorpse, let's do something with that collection of rotting flesh and bone!" (And you know they must feel pretty strongly about it, because "corpse schmorpse" is a really lame thing to say.)
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While the good folks at the Umbrella Corporation have not yet managed to give us the real-life zombies we desperately crave, at least we still live in a world where mummies exist. When you hear the word "mummy," you probably think of some ancient Egyptian ritual only practiced by strange mystics. But today, it's a normal scientific process performed by your average medical clinician. Yep. Just ask New York mummifier Sorceress Cagliastro.
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To find a picture of Ms. Cagliastro from 10 years earlier, just search Suicide Girls until you find a bio including "removing the brains from dead things with pliers" in the "hobbies" section.
Using a homemade "trade secret" salt-based solution, Cagliastro is able to mummify your pet for anywhere from $800 to $4,000. She's done many animals, including a macaw, a millipede, a peacock, a guinea pig, and an armadillo.
Technically, the millipede wasn't a mummification so much as a margarita-based accident at a dive bar where Cagliastro had been moonlighting.
She's also done a stillborn puppy. Unfortunately, the Disney Channel axed the Puppy Mummy pilot to make room for Dog With a Blog.
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Take sculptor Kate Clark, who combines natural animal remains, sculpting materials, and direct messages from Satan to create these works:
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And now with Etsy providing a forum, artists like Kelly Zepha Owen who might not have gallery exhibits can explore the growing field of taxidermy art.
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"Our next trick? Getting you to stop screaming someday."
And even artists who can't rise to the challenge of the provocative can still endeavor to do truly misguided and terrible things to dead animals. Just take Orville the Helicopter Cat!
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They call death the great equalizer, but somehow it seems that Orville lost a lot more than most people here.
Whereas most pet owners would grieve over their loss, Dutch artist Bart Jansen saw beauty. Of course, not possessing any of the artistic skill necessary to achieve that beauty, he strapped some propellers on a corpse, and voila!
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Sure, your dog may have been your best friend. He may have awoken you during that fire or pulled Timmy from the well, but when he dies, it's time to remind him that he's a possession. Go ahead. It's your prerogative. I mean, why did you spend all that time feeding him and cleaning up his crap if not to earn the right to show him who's boss when there's nothing he can do about it?
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Not so tough, are you now?
Perhaps that's what the owner of Buck -- once the Guinness World Record holder for largest Saint Bernard -- was thinking when his dog passed away. With a heavy heart, Buck's owner sawed off his head and preserved it like any other hunting trophy. Indeed, Buck's head was so freakishly large, the taxidermist had to use a grizzly bear mold to mount it. But when you care enough about a dead dog to display part of its body in a Utah bar like an award, you're willing to go that extra mile.


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I reckon that it's the 5D Mark3. Apologies if this has been dealth with in the previous 22 pages but would I be correct in stating that all of Canon's APS-C cameras have an intergrated flash. All of Canon's APS-H and FF cameras do not have an integrated flash? I doubt this will change. It appears that this camera does not have an integrated flash, ergo my conclusion.Also, and this might just be my sense of scale being off, consider the actual viewfinder proportion involved. The viewfinder looks chunky relative to the body - you can have a look at them handily enough at http://a.img-dpreview.com/reviews/CanonEOS7D/Images/allroundview.jpg vs http://a.img-dpreview.com/reviews/CanonEOS5DMarkII/Images/allroundview.jpg - I would imagine that the 5D Mark3 is deffo getting some of the 7D feature set and a viewfinder upgrade style / functionality upgrade may be part of it.Thoughts?
Quote from: Ryusui on January 23, 2012, 04:28:38 PMThe shots of the employee weren't taken by an employee.http://blog.apertureacademy.com/2012/01/canon-200-400mm-and-600mm-prototype.htmlyup exactly, even on the most expensive camps in the mara (assuming this is where they went), then you are out in the field with all the other camps. Hiding isn't easy The person taking the shot had a 100-400mm, so I suspect they took the shots without the tester realising. And I guess as soon as he made contact, the tester decided to come clean as frankly the annoucement is imminent on both the lens availability and perhaps even the well-disguised body.
The shots of the employee weren't taken by an employee.http://blog.apertureacademy.com/2012/01/canon-200-400mm-and-600mm-prototype.html
Quote from: Isurus on January 24, 2012, 08:11:19 AMClick here for full size (1600x1400)Did somebody notice that the diopter adjustment is set very far back into the body? There is also some kind of "hole" left from it. The adjustment wheel should be centered, which it isn't.
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The grouping on the LCD is different from the 7DIs it the same as the 5D MKII?Or like the 1D-X?I like the new position of some buttons. More logical and more easy to use.
My firmest hopes are that, if if it full frame, it is a 5DIII. Not a hybrid, a chimera of two glories kludged to mutual detriment.The 7D mk II is a camera I have been looking forward to for quite some time now, and it must needs be asp-c! And it must needs exist, not as a hybrid, not as a ghost of what might have been, but in its full asp-c, hopefully 24mp glory!
Can't help wondering if this new camera is targeted at wildlife photographers, some of whom seem to feel overlooked with the 1DX. The testing location and lenses used would also tie in with this theory. Perhaps it is a new higher MP APS-H. Hypothetically, if you were setting off on an African Safari to shoot wildlife with a couple of long telephoto lenses, presuming you had to make a choice between FF and APS-H what would you use? What do most wildlife photographers use now? The Canon Employee was taking photos of a bird, when I want to take bird photo I use my Aps-C for the crop-factor although for most things I favour FF.I'd love this to be the 5Dii replacement and I bet it's going to be announced very soon but... it also makes sense that the camera in the photo may be something else.
I agree mathino. The only gripe I have is that the delete button is beside the play button and that the play button is less accessible than the delete button (ie: bottom left hand corner). Why this is fascinates me...


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"I didn't think of my toys. I only thought of my brothers and sisters. We were playing at home when the rocket fell on our neighbour's house and destroyed it." This is what six-year-old Fadl Abu Milhem remembers. He left his southern Lebanese village of Rihan on 16 July, following Israeli bombardment and warnings to the people asking them to evacuate the area.
Fadl speaks as he stands with his father, his uncle, and his five brothers and sisters, awaiting a visit from the volunteers of the Homs branch of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent Society (SARCS). They deliver daily rations of food, medicines and other supplies, including mattresses and blankets. Each individual receives a food basket containing sugar, tea, rice, cheese, vegetables, meat, eggs, olive oil and baby milk. The supplies come from Red Crescent stocks, as well as from donations by the local community.
"Whenever we heard the roar of Israeli planes, we hid behind my mother and rushed to the basement to protect ourselves," Fadl says. "There, we wept and prayed. My father was not with us at the time, he was at Al-Dahiya (Southern Suburb) in Beirut."
Fadl's 38-year-old father, Bilal, breaks into tears as he listens to his young son. "When I heard the news of the escalating hostilities, I left Beirut and headed south in spite of the bombardment," he said. "Hurriedly, I took my wife and five children — the eldest is 14 and the youngest is two and a half years old. From the house, I took only our official documents. We got into our car and headed towards the Syrian border by the Tripoli-Homs highway.
"A Syrian citizen in Homs offered us the use of his empty apartment for free. The Syrian Arab Red Crescent offers us basic supplies. We contacted our relatives and informed them that things here were all right and they joined us. Today, we live with my wife's family and other relatives, who have also fled the village. It was a very grinding experience. I do not know what happened to our house. I hope I will be able to return there to see it."
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Amira is in her forties. She hails from Majadel, a village near the southern Lebanese city of Tyre. She is in her eighth month of pregnancy. She says, "On Wednesday, 19 July, the bombardment of our village started. We sought shelter in our houses. However, when two Israeli rockets fell on our already-damaged house and destroyed our neighbours' dwelling, we had no choice but to flee. Our neighbours left with us. We were 18 in total — 13 women, three little girls aged 3, 7 and 10 years, my father, who is in his 70's, and my husband."
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Varis Sul was the fifteen-year-old Tetrarch of the Bajoran Paqu village.
In 2369, she visited Deep Space 9 to negotiate a settlement over a boundary dispute with the neighboring Navot village, which almost turned into a civil war. The Paqu and Navot territories were separated by the Glyrhond River, which was diverted during the Cardassian occupation, causing the Paqu to gain twenty kilometers of territory previously owned by the Navot.
Varis had become the leader of the Paqu when her parents were killed by the Cardassians. She became friends with Nog and Jake Sisko, who gave her the idea of turning the border dispute into an opportunity. She decided to compromise by offering free trade access to both sides of the river in exchange for giving the Navot back their land.
Quark served Varis Trixian bubble juice once, but called her "little lady" while serving it to her. Varis was so offended she threw the drink in Quark's face. (DS9: "The Storyteller")
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Two years ago, the idea of former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford running for public office again – let alone winning – would have seemed, at best, farfetched.
But in politics two years is a long time.
Sanford, whose final year as governor was marred by a scandal that made national headlines, is asking for a second chance. The fiscal conservative with a libertarian streak is a candidate in the special election for the open District 1 seat in the U.S. Congress, the job Sanford held before becoming governor.
He is one of 16 Republicans running for that party's nomination; the primary election is set for March 19, and a runoff election, if needed, will be held on April 2. The general election is May 7.
Sanford, who has appeared on national TV programs in recent weeks, including the Today Show, said he received the blessing of his sons before entering the race. He said he would not have entered the race if his former wife, Jenny Sanford, had become a candidate.
"I failed in that chapter of my life," he said of the extramarital affair that ended his marriage – and seemingly his political career. "But at some point you say, 'I have failed but I have to get up.' God can still use people who have failed."
Sanford said he has been encouraged by several recent polls that show him leading the crowded GOP field. It's a sign, he says, that trust still exists for him in District 1. "We wouldn't be getting endorsements, contributions and volunteers if there wasn't some degree of trust," he said. "Old timers comment that they aren't going to judge me on my worst day any more than they are going to judge me on my best day."
According to Sanford, his steep fall from grace has been hard, but he also hinted that it has a silver lining. "All of my life had been one step up and one step up … but people don't relate to that," he said. "You learn much more as a human being from failure than from success. You learn from what others have learned from failure."
Sanford said he had not planned to re-enter politics, but the unexpected resignation of U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint eventually created an opening in the First District, as Gov. Nikki Haley chose then-U.S. Rep. Tim Scott to fill DeMint's vacancy.
Sanford said he began receiving phone calls from supporters encouraging his candidacy as soon as it became clear that Scott would be Haley's choice.
"My phone lit up," he said. "People were saying that I was talking about the debt before when no one else was talking about it."
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MILROY - Susan D'heedene opens her arms slowly, lifting them above her head then gently moving them down to her feet.
A group of women, some younger and some older than she, follow her movements from their mats, which lay parallel across Hartman Center's chapel floor.
The adult summer camp group just finished a chant in Latin to prepare them for the beginner yoga exercises.
This week, D'heedene and Winnie Kowalik co-directed the Milroy camp's first Body and Soul Camp, which emphasized physical care of the body, meditation, aroma therapy, body prayer and other physical ways to embrace God's spirit.
Camper Katy McDonald, who has cerebral palsy, said she was a little nervous about the camp, especially the yoga. But during the yoga session, D'heedene helped McDonald go through the motions from a chair.
"Yoga is not twisting your body into a pretzel like on a magazine cover," D'heedene explained to the campers. "It's a way to rest the body."
Throughout the exercises, the Waynesboro pastor returned the group's attention to their breathing, a rhythm that she said connects to those of God's creation - like the seasons or the tide.
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Although Catholic churches still say the rosary with beads, many Protestant churches have forgotten the tradition, D'heedene said.
"They're a tactile, tangible way to focus on praying," D'heedene said, adding that every camper made a prayer bead necklace or bracelet.
Camper Ginny Wilkinson, from Danville, motioned to the beads on her wrist, saying that she uses hers as a tool for prayer.
"As I say a prayer, my mind tends to wander," Wilkinson said. "I'm interested to see how I'll do when I'm back to normal life. These will remind us to be more prayerful in daily life."
The necklaces or bracelets are made using five large beads and 28 small beads to form a circle with a hanging cross or symbol pendant. Four large cruciform beads form a cross in the circle, while the smaller seven-bead groups represent the days of the week/creation.
While everyone had the same beads to choose from, ever person's necklace or bracelet was different, said Liza D'heedene, Susan's daughter who works at the camp on the summer service team.
After completing the jewelry, the group shared what was meaningful to them about the beads they chose, and the group blessed their creations, D'heedene said.
Other projects included making collages, coloring mandalas - an ancient form of spiritual art that uses a circle to explore self-expression - and painting rocks.
Looking around the room at the artwork created by the campers, Kowalik added, "They leave here on cloud nine, but this is what carries you."
Art and yoga were not the only mediums from which the campers could experience their faith.
Even food was incorporated into the camp. Instead of the pizza and salad the other campers were eating, the Body and Soul group made their own stir fry, with flat bread and hummus to follow as a later meal.
In a culture where obesity is an epidemic, people need to focus on the reason behind the eating, D'heedene said.
"When we eat, usually we are seeking to fill something in us. It's important to eat well to protect this temple we have," she said referring to the body.
Music, too, was integrated in unique ways through chants and drums.
"'Play' is an important word we use, because God calls us to be joyful," D'heedene said, noting the energy and spirit used while drumming.
D'heedene also taught the group chants and songs from around the world, as a way to prepare the group for deeper communion and awareness of God's presence.
D'heedene said people sometimes ask her why they sing in different languages.
"God calls us to remember all people are God's children," D'heedene said. "When you sing in another language, you know God's love is a whole lot bigger ..."
Building relationships has been a large part of the camp. Kowalik said the intergenerational relationships between the young adults and older adults have brought unique things to the camp. While the youth bring fresh ideas to the group, the older adults bring the wisdom of their years, she said.
"It's really special to have that mix," Kowalik said.
The new camp is not the only one at Hartman Center that focuses on the soul as well as the body. The center also offers hiking camps, sports camps and regular summer camps with games and physical activities as well as spiritual times for growth through devotions, song and quite time for prayer and meditation.
"Kids who come here year after year really establish relationships," said D'heedene, who served as a nurse at the camp before becoming a pastor. "It's so important to the faith of kids - the bigger concept of God and the church. (Hartman Center) is such an important ministry."
Her daughter Liza added, "I've been going here since fourth grade. We used to move every two years, but this was the one place I could always come back to. We've got the whole family thing going on."
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