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Spring is in full bloom. The appearance of wildflowers and budding pecan trees suggest that the frosts are over and that rebirth is underway. In the northern hemisphere the Easter season has always been associated with nature's springtime miracle of renewal. This was especially the case among the Celts, the ancestral peoples of Britain, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. In fact, given their closeness to nature, they developed what scholars tells us was a creation-based Celtic spirituality.
Recently I attended a series of lectures by a Presbyterian theologian, John Philip Newell, who directed a retreat at the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio. Newell was born in Canada, but serves in the Scottish Church and lives in Edinburg. He and his wife, Alison, and their children lived for four years in the Monastery on Iona an island in the Scottish Hebrides. Iona was the seat of Irish monasticism in the sixth century and is today the center for a religious revitalization of what is called "Celtic Spirituality." We might reflect for a few moments on Celtic spirituality and its significance for us who live at this moment of salvation history here in this beautiful corner of God's creation, Karnes County.
First, we need to place ourselves in the broader history of God's redemptive work as the church grew in the Mediterranean world after Pentecost. Church historians tell us that the expansion of the church from the third to the sixth centuries was tied closely to the structure of the Roman Empire. When Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire in 312, the church grew in influence more in the urban than in the rural areas of the Empire. This was clearly the case in the outer reaches of the Empire such as Britain. Dioceses and Bishops represented large geographical areas, but the seats of religious and political power were in the cities and not in the rural areas. This was especially the case in largely rural Britain. That plus the distance of Britain from the center of Roman Christianity in the Mediterranean allowed for the growth of a uniquely indigenous understanding of Christianity among the Celts. Central to this Celtic religious experience was John, the Beloved, and the Evangelist of the Fourth Gospel. John was remembered as the beloved disciple because at the Last Supper, he rested his head on Jesus' breast (John 13: 23) and they supposed, could hear his heart beating. The Celts believed that in the beating heart of God made Man one could hear the beating of God's life in all creation. One had only to enter fully into that creation and listen.
Now the Celts, as farmers, not unlike many here In Karnes County, were people intimately connected to God's creation. They observed the seasons, they waited for the rains in order to plant, and they saw in the springtime, a rebirth of creation that foreshadowed our resurrection in Christ and the unveiling of the New Creation. The Celts were immersed in nature and the conclusion of the creation story of Genesis chapter 1 resonated with them, "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day" (Genesis 1: 31). For the Celts God's creation was good and if one listened, one could hear the heart of God beating in His creation much as John heard the heart of Christ. In Christ the Creator became One with his creation.
The great apostle of the Celts was Pelagius, the son of a Welsh bard or poet, which might explain why Pelagius was well educated. Early in the 380 he traveled to Rome where he became a well known for two religious viewpoints. First, he taught that the spirit of the living God is present in all things. He wrote, "When our love is directed towards an animal or even a tree, we are participating in the fullness of God's love." Dog owners will not need to be convinced of this nor will folks who have beautiful gardens in their yards.
A second religious insight flowed from the first. He was convinced that every child was conceived and born in the image of God. The picture of an infant child or grandchild is indeed the face of God. Pelagius did not deny that there is evil in the world, but within each newborn there exists a Light that in the words of John the Evangelist, "no darkness has been able to overcome." That light in humanity has been obscured and covered over by wrongdoing and sin, and needs to be redeemed. Evil is like an occupying army, says Pelagius. Salvation is to be freed from the occupying force of sin. God offers us freedom, but we must listen to God within us, care for creation, and live as did Jesus Christ, the very Wisdom of God incarnate.
Pelagius' religious teaching did not go unchallenged and the consequences have been huge for us Christians. Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo in North Africa, perceived Pelagius as undercutting his own religious understanding of the fall from grace and need for redemption. Augustine taught that all humans are born into an original sin, handed down from Adam, that made us all totally depraved and in need of God's grace. He believed that from conception and birth we lack the image of God, until it is restored in the sacrament of baptism. This led Augustine to emphasize that baptism into the church was necessary for salvation. Creation and human nature were unholy due to the original sin of Adam. In the words of theologian J. Philip Newell (1977:6) Augustine "developed a spirituality that accentuated a division between the Church, which was seen as holy, on the one hand, and the life of the world, perceived as godless, on the other."
Augustine in the year 417 asked the Bishop of Rome to excommunicate Pelagius for heresy. The Pope declined to condemn Pelagius. The Bishops of North Africa then appealed to the Emperor Honorius who in the year 418 banished Pelagius from Rome for "disturbing the peace" and a Papal condemnation followed soon after.
When the Roman Army left Britain in the year 410, the Anglos and Saxons of Germanic origin invaded the island. Many Celts retreated to Scotland and Wales and established monasteries in the rural areas. Patrick brought Christianity to Ireland in the early 400s where it flourished. Being a Celt, he drew upon natural images to explain the nature of God. His favorite image of the Trinity was the shamrock, in whose leaf Patrick saw the image of the Trinity and the goodness of creation. The Celts were at one with the Creator and his creation. They were not burdened with the Mediterranean dualisms and divisions between heaven and earth, matter and spirit, nature and grace, male and female. Augustine's theology introduced those divisions into Western Christianity. The Reformers, who relied heavily on Augustine's dualism, his theology of original sin, and the depravity of human nature, carried them forward, as did the Roman Church in its own way.
Augustine's dualism has had profound effects on Western Christianity and our world. Take for example the often quoted, but erroneous misinterpretation of Genesis 1: 28 where we read, "God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground." This verse has been used to justify the unsustainable exploitation of the earth, ravaging its resources and polluting its air without regard for the consequences for present and future generations. This was never the intention of the Creator who gave us a Garden to attend as good stewards. God helps us in our weakness, however, as the darkness does not overcome the light. The rediscovery of Celtic Spirituality at this moment in the church's journey is, in my opinion, the fruit of the Spirit.
Many in this county come from a ranching and agricultural background so are not far from care for the land and its wellbeing. We thank God for land, rain, animals a successful harvest and a healthy herd of cattle. Many in this room are even of Celtic descent, Scots, Irish, Welsh and Britons, so this spirituality is not alien to us. A Celtic spirituality would have us recall that God is not separate from His creation. Our world is a place of God's revelation and the whole of life is a sacrament. According to Philip Newell, George MacLeod, the founder of the modern community of Iona, rediscovered the ancient conviction of the sixth century Celtic monks of that island; "God is the Life of the world, and not merely some religious aspect of it."
As we witness the ever-growing expansion of oil and gas exploitation around us, we need to keep in touch with our Celtic spirituality. We need to recognize that God cares for his creation and walks here much as he did in the Garden of Eden "in the cool of the evening," as says the author of Genesis (3:8). We need to care for the air, the water and the land in this corner of the Garden called Karnes. God has given us this place in His Garden so we can find Him here and now. Our task is to harness the greatest energy of all, the energy of God's love for his earth. To do so we need to turn to God's Beloved Son and listen so that our hearts beat in sync with the heart of God in His New Creation.


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Skip to comments.The GOP Betrayal Of Palin and the TEA Party
Posted on 05/08/2012 3:34:47 PM PDT by palin45potus
The GOP attacks on Palin.
After the Inauguration of Obama, the first time that the manhood of the GOP was called into question was the Stimulus package. Rick Santelli was so upset with it that he issued his now famous diatribe calling for something like a national tea party. A long simmering emotion within conservative ranks now had a name.
Meanwhile, back in Alaska, Sarah Palin's return to work involved dealing with these stimulus package issues, and she did what she felt that she must. She took those which were appropriate, but turned away those that weren't. This was a well-laid trap, as Obama's minions in Alaska were in cahoots with the state's GOP to sandbag her anyways. The idea of her turning away the "Free Money" from DC was a bridge too far for these lawmakers who still were miffed about not getting their bridge to nowhere. They started the barrage of lawsuits, designed to ruin her family financially and end her career.
But she chose the path less followed, and resigned the office with her character intact. While she went silent for a length of time, her political gravestone was being carved by the haters of DC, who knew from the start that she was a visceral threat to their cherished view of themselves as our betters.
Like a bolt of lightning, her "Death Panels" op-ed hit the political scene. It energized the TEA Party movement by giving them a bold leader and a name to the bill that they feared and loathed. It showed the GOP that they could fight against Obama, and that it was really the only honorable thing to do. She then consistently showed leadership by backing a series of candidates to challenge the establishment in DC, both within the party and then in the General Election. For this, the Bush Family laid several traps designed to deny her the victories that she'd achieved, but to hang some losses on her that had been achieved by bipartisan cooperation specifically to beat Joe Miller, Christine O'Donnell and Sharron Angle. This was what she had to deal with in the period of time leading up to the tragic shootings in Tucson. A party looking to ruin her, at the first opportunity.
When the 2010 mid-term elections had ended, the TEA Party and Sarah Palin had scored a momentous victory against the Washington DC establishment. But the establishment had a counter-attack in the works. While the Government prepared to return to business in January 2010, Barack Obama was in deep trouble. He had gotten his Health Care Bill passed, but the cost to the Democrat Party was severe.
His big hope was a GOP that would be afraid to confront him. In this hope, he had a willing dupe in the John Boehner-led House. Boehner made it pretty clear from the start that one of the first orders of business was to co-opt the TEA Party, and they set about that task immediately.
Meanwhile, a terrible twist of fate meant a golden opportunity for Obama and the GOP establishment to unite in opposition to Palin and the TEA Party, and the threat that they represented. Deranged leftist Jared Loughner shot up a campaign rally for Congresswoman Gabby Giffords in Tucson one Saturday Morning, and the opportunity to destroy Sarah Palin was there for her opponents to seize.
It was in the message she had sent to her supporters after the Health Care Bill's passage, extolling them to "Not Retreat, but Reload", and showing the 20 districts that the GOP should target as 2010 seats to turn GOP. While it takes dishonesty of monumental proportions to blame Palin, the blame game was on,led by Obama, the press, but most notably the lack of defense by the GOP.
Then when she defended herself, the theme that she had not paid ample respect to Jewish sensitivity by declaring that she, the TEA Party and Talk Radio had been victims of a cruel "Blood Libel", which was quite clearly the case.
The GOP went about spreading the meme that she was now toxic. When Sarah tested the waters of the GOP race for 2012, the reaction of the GOP establishment was furious. They constantly were on the lookout for a replacement to her that would diminish her clout with the conservatives, and a steady parade of pretenders were trotted out, had their moment of glory atop the polling, and then lost that glory whenever serious scrutiny came their way.
Meanwhile, she had the press eagerly combing through 24,000 pages of her e-mails that were made public by a FOIA request searching for dirt, and it came up with nothing but proof of what a fine Governor she'd been. Then, in a field in Iowa, she delivered perhaps the most important speech of her career so far. The ramifications of which we see today, as the GOP has declared her to be toxic, and warned everyone to stay away while they destroy her.
She questioned the ethics of anyone in DC who participates in "Pay for Play", and this inclusion of the GOP meant that although she was honest, she could not be trusted to look after the GOP' pet projects and revenue streams. Moreover, her followers would need to be dissuaded from listening to her, and corralled back onto the GOP ranch, eager to work hard for whoever the Party deemed the next Reagan. The Joe McGinness book, the "Game Change" movie, etc were all part of a coordinated effort to destroy her by a non-stop attack on anything and everything that she did. Quickly followed by the line that "Although we love her, she's just too polarizing", while doing nothing to defend her, and in fact often fanning the flames of the attacks themselves. The attackers all seem to have a common thread, and that is their roots are in the Bush administration in some way or another.
The day of Oct 5th 2011, she made an appearance on the Mark Levin radio show and shocked us all. But truthfully, she was only facing up to the fact that she knew she could not count on the GOP to have her back, and she would not play under the terms that they would demand of her.
So now we await her next move. She has made her positions quite clear, and most conservatives are in agreement with her. She has an army of supporters who'd love to follow her into battle.
And she has both the Republican Party and the Democrat Party united by a fear of everything that she represents, and a wish that she would listen to Barbara Bush and go back to Alaska and stay there.
Dear GOP,
I have a long memory, and your Etch-a -Sketch candidate isn't getting my vote.
I would love to hear Gov Palin at the convention and while on the podium, review what conservatives stand for, then state that the GOP has left her and does not want her vote. As such, and being a person of principles, she will aquest to the GOP wishes and will accept the VP slot of the Constitution party if offered.
The McCain/Palin ticket was up ++4 to 10 pts
in some polls, days prior to Election 2008.
So rather than helping the GOP, Romney and
TeamROMNEY and the RNME (Republican National Media Establishment)
decided to attack Gov. Palin to throw Election2008.
Romney, and the Van der Sloot RNME RINOs for Obama in 2008
Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."
The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was
the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"Im told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palins people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romneys former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.
"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off .hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."
"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the Diva leak was Nicolle Wallaces husband."
"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"
"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"
"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"
"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"
"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"
The "Gee Oh Poop" party? Who dat?
Well then I will just have to use my savvy and alluring personality to overcome and THEN I can defeat 0bama!
Somehow we've ended up in a disconnect between the old money men behind the former Presidential Wing of the Republican Party and the Party itself.
Now that doesn't make sense at all. We have had control of Congress for a number of years since Eisenhower so at some point it makes sense to move the Blue Hairs out of the commanding heights and replace them with Republicans with a broader understanding of legitimate politics.
Now, back to Etchasketch, I"m not sure he even knows any Republicans. He messes up all the time on issues where the Republican common knowledge is you don't do that ~ whatever it is.
I"d like to see him come up with names of real Republicans he's participated with in politics. I bet a decent interrogation (maybe even without waterboarding technology at hand) would reveal an emptiness of understanding that'd defy imagination.
This ol'boy, if he wants to win, is going to have to dump his campaign staff now. Maybe go to school with Sarah Palin for a couple of weeks ~ with her 'splaining things.
Palin to the Constitution Party?
That`ll work for me!!
Plain and conservatives everywhere will enjoy a great win by Mourdock tonite. Her endorsement put him over the top.
Ha! Ya, right. I like your home page, especially the GV (or 550) on floats.
I watched Santorum put party before G-d earlier...now let us see what Governor Palin does...
DC has declahred wahr on We the People in Flyover Country.....
The GOP will never, ever, get a dime from me again.
You and me both.
You and me both.
Yes Tom Smith Tea Party candidate is running against stealth Dem Bob(I am not my Dad)Casey! WE beat the Harrisburg RINO'S in the Republican Primary to have Tom run against Senator Casey!
Furious? Columnists like Will and Brooks were critical, people were puzzled and troubled and curious but furious is probably going too far.
They constantly were on the lookout for a replacement to her that would diminish her clout with the conservatives, and a steady parade of pretenders were trotted out, had their moment of glory atop the polling, and then lost that glory whenever serious scrutiny came their way.
After she said she wasn't running? C'mon, everybody was looking for a decent candidate. That's where that "steady parade of pretenders" came in. But it didn't have anything to do with Palin, who chose to remain on the sidelines.
Let's repeat that: Palin chose to remain on the sidelines. Palin chose to remain on the sidelines. She didn't want it. She didn't want it. She still doesn't. She has her reasons. Why not respect her choice?
I think it is fair to sat that the GOp will never allow Palin a chance. They hate her because she is Reagan reincarnated. Maybe better. They cannot control her and she is way smarter than them, so they will do anything to make her look bad. Is it too late to get Palin on each state's ballot before the general election? After all, they don't know who, really, the GOP nominee is, so since that person cannot be added yet, I'd think we could do it.
Palin will have her Reagan victory in 2016, easily defeated sitting president Joe "Short Bus" Biden, Obama having been forced to resign in disgrace thanks to the numerous crimes and misdemeanors - ID theft, fraud, Fast & Furious, being a kenyan citizen by birth..."
Palin will have her Reagan victory in 2016, easily defeated sitting president Joe "Short Bus" Biden, Obama having been forced to resign in disgrace thanks to the numerous crimes and misdemeanors - ID theft, fraud, Fast & Furious, being a kenyan citizen by birth..."
I hope and pray Sarah Palin retained a few of her "best" advisors from the McCain debacle. Probably not many, but a few. Good on her.
I've never bought off on the "diva" or "unqualified" or "stupid" or other insults that have been heaped on her. And I completely understand why she resigned from the governor's office in the face of unspeakable lawsuits and legal hassles that would have bankrupted the state just to fight, let alone win. And the state would have been obligated to cover the governor's legal expenses, so she did the right thing by stepping down.
What's next for Sarah Palin? I can't wait to find out! (Anybody surprised that she hasn't endorsed Mitt? Didn't think so.) The fact that she's been so quiet is good news, in my book. It means she's got plans in the works.
The future of our nation lies with Sarah Palin. Believe it.
Can't argue with a single word of this. Indeed, it encapsulates the reason my lifelong, exclusive support and voting record for the GOP has pretty much come to an end. I just no longer have any basic 'trust' in the Party anymore. The backstabbing of Palin (and quietly and not-so-quietly siding with the liberal media in its 'wilding' of her) was either the most massive display of disloyalty or cowardice... most likely both... that I could imagine. Proof to me that the GOP-e is pretty much in bed with the same socialist, ruling-class elitists of the Dems, ready to destroy any attempts at genuine constitutional conservatism.
Palin's unique mix of conservatism, with its elements of reform, libertarianism, and social conservatism, fit my political/ideological/cultural views to a "t." The first figure to come along and energize me and give me optimism for the country since the way Reagan did back in 1980. The GOP kicking her to the curb was kicking ME to the curb. If I'm alive ten/twenty/thirty years from now, this whole situation will still likely be the key political incident that forever altered my views.
Yes, I certainly agree with every word of this. Sarah Palin is a giant, and most of the other candidates are dwarfs.
I don't know if this is still possible, or how it may come about.
But I don't think we can afford to wait for 2016. If either Obama or Romney wins, our country will be finished.
Gay marriage, taxpayer funded abortion, all the courts tipped to liberal activist judges, economic chaos, and a national healthcare plan that will be difficult or impossible to reverse once it is in place.
And, have no fear, Romney would move to install all of that, if Obama manages to discredit himself even more to the voters.
No, I just hope and pray that Sarah has a plan. And, frankly, that God is on our side and enables us to pull victory from the jaws of defeat.
It will certainly take a new party to do it. The GOP is cooked, done, dead.
Not hyperbole.
Not wishful thinking.
Not an exaggeration.
She absolutely could turn them into the Whig Party if she so chose to.
Their fate is in her hands.
I would be all in for Sarah Palin in a heartbeat.
I feel Sarah is by far the most principled and inspiring Conservative since Reagan.
It is my belief that the GOP-e and Mitt's people made it clear to Sarah that she would be destroyed if she tried to run. For whatever reason, I don't think she has any plan. It is almost a certainty that she will unfortunately endorse Mitt.
I believe the Statists in both parties represent an evil force that is propelling us towards a Socialist demise. At this point nothing can stop the slide. With Mitt or Obama the end-game will be played out.
We will have to watch everything implode and then hope that Liberty can be sparked in the hearts of millions across our Republic.
The GOP kicking her to the curb was kicking ME to the curb.
I certainly agree.
The only thing Romney could do now to get me excited
would be to make Palin his VP.
I don't think he's smart enough to do that though
so I will have to wait till 2016 but I'm sure
we will see more of Mrs.Palin in the mean time.
Even if offered VP by R, I would expect Palin to refuse.
Record got stuck.
Oh I agree, I don't think Palin would want to be
associated with a losing campaign again.
She is however an asset that would help the
R campaign put a little life into the run.
I don't expect Romney or the GOPe to have the
brains to figure that out.
My main worry would be an Obama third term, once he
gets four more years to manipulate the press and
media, or otherwise create some diversion.
Palin has a new RINO for her fireplace (can anyone make a picture of that?)
Yeah. Like that McCain rino pic with Lugar instead. I can't do it but it would be fun to see.
"I hope and pray Sarah Palin retained a few of her best advisors from the McCain debacle"
She'll eventually need a large organization. She can't go forward as the Lone Ranger. I can't wait to find out what's next for her either!
I'm sure she won't go down in history as someone who helped get Obama reelected. She'll be on the defeat-Obama team.
Let's not forget to fully appreciate the efforts of TOKYO ROVE, CHARLES SOURKRAUTHAMMER, and DANA PEUGINO!
Nor mine.
I wonder what would happen if Sarah addressed the issue of Obama's elegibility.
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This long time foreign born A list model broke up with the celebrity she was dating before her husband because of the way the celebrity acted towards her daughter
Kate Moss Pete DohertyReplyCancel
good guess
who was the celebrity though??
good one derek
how bout cause he was a useless junkie?? maybe entiy is hinting a bit of "hugging too long" w/ the daughter??
cleo.. she was preggers w/ daughter when she got w/ sealReplyCancel
yeah a junkie and I would not trust him with my goldfish let alone daughter.ReplyCancel
Pete definitely seems like a pedophile to me. Kate seems like she really lives and cares about her kids above all else even if she does stupid shit at times so I could see this being her.ReplyCancel
Klum let Seal adopt Leni, don't think it's them.
I like Moss for this one.
Dreamboat Doherty. ~snort~ReplyCancel
Maybe he wasn't a pedo but just a flat out jerk. Wasn't he normally drugged out of his mind? I could see him being an absolute ass.ReplyCancel
I hate Pete. Use to like The Libertines but just cant with him. He also latched on to Amy Winehouse during her final days when she was struggling to get clean. Kate is no angel—there were stories about her and Amy having a falling out cause Amy stole her coke stash. But like Jack said I think she kept her partying ways away from her kid (I believe she had just one daughter with a very wealthy and handsome business man)..ReplyCancel
jack, I take it u never seen the pics of Kate drugged out or hungover or w/e, w/ her daughter having to light her cigarettes for her cuz she was so fucked up.
It was a few yrs ago, taken while they were on the beach.
Her daughter was like 8.
U being for real?ReplyCancel
Nope never seen those picsReplyCancel
Reminds me of this really good movie I recently saw. It was called What Masie Knew. Julianne Moore plays a rock musician who is getting over her partying ways but cant quite completely give it up and loses custody of her young daughter to the father who is a slimy business man who just wants the daughter for a power trip. It is a good movie–I recommend…ReplyCancel
I've never seen nor heard of those photos—just Kate hovering coke with some members of The Clash—the infamous photos that almost ruined her career…ReplyCancel
You forgot to mention the yummy Alexander skarsgard is in it too!!
Blasphemy on your part!!
@Sugarb–I was going to actually lol—but don't wanna get bullocked for too many long posts today by Jordan and company. Did you see the movie? Did you like it? Actually it is more of a film. Movies are like Jack and Jill and Speed. This was a film.ReplyCancel
Yes seen it twice. It's on Netflix. Love the little girl. So cute. Sad story. I want Alex to adopt me too. I'm 37 but he can totes adopt meReplyCancel
Screw Jordan no one likes him.
Post what you want boo. Free country for now
Whomever it is good for them for moving on and putting their child first.ReplyCancel
He just seems extremely sleazy and predatory to me.ReplyCancel
that little girl was such a good actress!!!!! so cute too–made me sad. Actually the music Julianne sang was from the woman that is in a band with Kates husband–The Kills. Alison something—so I definitely think Kates life was a reference of sorts…ReplyCancel
Yeah but @bunny if this is Hollywood the celebrity could be a producer and she's angry that he WOULDN'T sleep with her underage daughter and give her a starring role…ReplyCancel
I wouldn't let children or animals around Pete Doherty either. The man is awful.
He's been involved in at least one person's death and the OD of another.
I wouldn't call anyone a pedophile based on looks though.ReplyCancel
Kate was getting hi with Pete as well, it was her management, and her friends who haad to try a few times to wake her the fuck up before she saw the light. If they didnt keep on her, she'd be dead, still with him and both of them might be dead now, her daughter had nothing to do with it.ReplyCancel
@Steven O. -I thought of Iman too with her 1st daughter z.haywood spencer..The daughter had weight issues as a youth that she conquered-hmmmm..I love her with David Bowie now.ReplyCancel
Just watched that movie and it was the first time I ever saw Alexander Skarsgaard. Yummy indeed!ReplyCancel
Cool@princess did u like it?ReplyCancel
@derek, I thought it was a great movie. Lots of respect for Julianne Moore going the natural route and aging gracefully. I think the make up artists used lots of powder on her face to bring out the fine lines around her mouth and eyes and she totally rocked that character. For me it was right up there wi her performances in Boogie Nights and Magnolia.ReplyCancel
Since everyone is talking about Kate Moss, I'll share that I used to work for a hotel and she was a guest with her daughter circa 2002. She through a fit claiming that the bellman lost her stroller and had everyone looking everywhere for it. After an hour of 30 people dropping everything to look for it, we found it in her suite. It had been there the whole time, right in front of her face. She didn't even apologize or thank us for finding it for her. She's like school in summer, no class.ReplyCancel


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My 4.5 month old went from having 1 bm every 3rd day to having 4 in 1 day! They are normal looking (more normal than they've ever looked, actually), but they are big and so often. Could this be due to the amoxicillan that he's on bc of an ear infection? Or is it something I'm eating?
On that same subject, why is my bf baby getting an ear infection this young? I thought that bfing would protect him against this. Dd didn't get a cold until she was 11 months old and not an ear infection until she was 18 months old. This is the second cold my baby has had and now the ear infection. Maybe bc he's the second child and dd brings more germs home? Poor little guy.


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I think for us - especially as first-timers - it's hard to know. I'm nearly positive y'all are right and the ped is wrong, but I'm also happy that he wanted us to follow up so quickly, and not let the supplementing linger. We're going to see an IBCLC at an open clinic on Monday, I believe, and I hope, hope, hope that will help.
It's so hard to know what's right, and everyone has different advice. Ultimately, we want what's best for our son - and his behavior was worrying us greatly. I'm sure this too shall pass - quickly!


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Here are brief answers to common questions about residence hall housing at Berklee. We also suggest that you also read through the detailed information in the residence hall housing web pages.
When and how can I apply for residence hall housing?
You must first be accepted for admission to the college and you must confirm your intention to enroll by paying the admissions tuition deposit. Because residence hall space is limited, not all accepted and confirmed entering students can be offered residence hall housing. For each term (fall, spring, and summer) the Housing Office and Admissions Office determine which entering students will be sent housing applications. In general the earlier you are accepted and confirmed, the better your chances of being able to apply for residence hall housing.
How much does it cost to live in the residence halls?
Click here to read about Berklee's current tuition and related costs.
Are meals included in residence hall housing?
Yes, our standard meal plan is included in the housing fee. Meals are offered on an all you care to eat basis. Residents "swipe" their ID card each time they enter the campus dining hall. The standard meal plan allows two hundred and sixty-five swipes each semester (an average of seventeen per week) plus ten guest meals. All entering students are required to be on the standard meal plan.
For more information about Berklee's dining services, click here.
Where are the residence halls?
Berklee College of Music's residence halls are located in Boston's Back Bay and Fenway neighborhoods. Or residence halls are located at
- 150 Massachusetts Avenue
- 270 Commonwealth Avenue
- 98 Hemenway Street
- 160 Massachusetts Avenue
Each of the three residence halls are within a ten-minute walk of all of the college's facilities. Click here to learn more about our residence halls.
Can students stay in the residence halls during college vacations? Can they leave their belongings?
Academic year residents (fall and spring terms) can stay in the residence halls during the college's Thanksgiving Break and March Break, though meals are not served and some other services are limited. They cannot stay in the residence halls during winter vacation (end of fall term to check-in week for spring term) but can leave belongings in their residence hall room.
Spring term residents who are signed up for summer term housing and summer term residents who are signed up for fall term housing must move completely out of the residence halls (including all belongings) between terms.
When do the residence halls close for winter break?
The residence halls will close for the winter break on Saturday, December 19, 2015 at 12:00 p.m. All residents must be out of their residence hall space by that time, with no exceptions. The residence halls will reopen on Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 9:00 a.m.
Are visitors allowed in the residence halls?
Daytime guests are allowed when properly signed in and accompanied by their hosts. To have an overnight guest, a resident must have roommate agreement and an overnight guest pass from the housing department or residence staff.
What are the residence hall rooms like? How big are they?
Because each of our residence halls is different, the residence hall rooms come in many sizes and shapes. There is no single answer to the room size question. The largest rooms tend to be taken by continuing residents (a limited number of continuing students are allowed to sign up in the spring for residence hall housing for the following academic year.)
Two or three students live in each room. Some rooms have private bathrooms, some share corridor bathrooms. Many rooms have windows facing the city streets; others have windows facing alleys or interior areas.
All rooms have shared closet space, are carpeted, and have window shades. Each room contains a desk, desk chair, bed (extra-long twin size), and chest of drawers for each resident.
Smaller rooms have bunk beds or loft style beds. Each room has a shared campus phone system connection. Every resident has her/his own college computer network connection.
Can I get a single room?
Probably not in your first year on campus. There are a limited number of single rooms and they usually are taken by continuing residents.
Can friends arrange to live together?
For first year residents, roommate requests are honored whenever possible. Residents who continue from one year to the next are able to select their rooms and roommates.
Are the residence halls co-ed?
Yes. All of the residence halls house both men and women. In the 150 Massachusetts Avenue residence hall, where each room has its own bathroom, gender varies from room to room. In the buildings where multiple rooms share a bathroom, the bathrooms are designated for men or women (or in limited situations, for both) and the surrounding rooms are assigned accordingly.
Are there staff members in the residence halls?
We are really proud of our residence hall staff people. They are among the best in Boston! We have both full time professional staff (resident directors) and student staff (resident assistants) living in the residence halls. They help students with questions and concerns of all sorts, organize and support residence hall activities, monitor safety, security, and maintenance, and generally work with residents to maintain living communities that are safe, educational, and enjoyable.
Are the residence halls a safe place to live? What about the neighborhood?
Safety and security are among our top priorities. All three of our residence halls have complete fire detection and fire sprinkler systems. Each building has an access control officer at the front doors twenty-four hours a day every day. Only students who have a resident ID card (and registered guests escorted by a resident) are allowed access to the residence halls. Our residence halls have a very good safety and security record. Thefts can occur occasionally on campus. We recommend that residents arrange property insurance.
The college is located in one of the best and liveliest areas in the city. However, in any urban setting it is necessary to exercise caution and common sense. We stress neighborhood and residence hall safety and security information with new residents at the start of each semester. The college's Public Safety department issues periodic alerts and updates to remind students to be careful and observant. For detailed safety and security information, click here.
Is insurance available for my belongings?
The college does not provide personal property insurance. Check with your homeowners' provider to see if your policy can cover property for a son or daughter living in a college residence hall, or contact the national company that provides college student property insurance (National Student Services Inc.)
What are the residence hall regulations on smoking, drugs, and alcohol?
Smoking is not allowed in or around any college building. The sale, possession, or use of illegal drugs is prohibited on and around campus and the college supports all federal and state laws concerning illegal drugs. Residents who are twenty-one or older are allowed to have limited amounts of alcoholic beverages in their rooms as long as they drink responsibly and do not provide alcohol to any residents who are under age twenty-one. During summer programs (when many residents are high school age students) alcohol is not allowed anywhere in the residence halls regardless of the resident's age.
Are there computer network connections in the residence hall rooms? What about wireless?
Yes, there is a connection to Berklee's computer network for each resident in each room. An Ethernet cable is required. Internet access and e-mail are provided through the network. There is wireless access in some (but not all) sections of the residence halls, as well as in most other areas of the college. All students are issued wireless access accounts.
Is there cable TV in the residence hall rooms?
There is a TV lounge in each building with cable or satellite TV service but we do not have cable TV in the residence hall rooms.
Are there practice rooms in the residence halls?
Yes, in addition to the common practice rooms available to all the students at the college, each residence hall has practice rooms of its own. Only residents have access to the residence hall practice rooms. Residents are not allowed to play or practice in their residence hall rooms.
Is there a place to wash laundry in the residence halls?
Yes. Each residence hall has washers and dryers for resident use. The machines may be operated using quarters or resident ID card (if the resident has set up a berklee.card debit account.)
Are there exercise facilities in the residence halls?
There is a small exercise room (treadmill and elliptical machine) in the 270 Commonwealth Avenue residence hall. The college's Student Activities Center can provide information on exercise facilities available in the Berklee neighborhood.
Berklee also offers a wide variety of health and wellness activities through out LiveWell program. Learn more about LiveWell.
Are there activities and programs in the residence halls?
During move-in week and all through the term, the residence hall staff and dining staff arrange and encourage social and educational activities of many types. We have a diverse population and residents learn a lot from each other's cultures and backgrounds. Additionally, residents participate in many of the college's clubs and organizations.
Is it possible to keep a bike or a car at the college?
Because of the lack of storage space and the amount of traffic in our stairways and elevators, bicycles are not allowed inside the residence halls. There are some outside bike racks around the college, but they are not close to the residence halls and bikes on those racks are subject to damage and theft.
To learn about our Bike Pavilion, click here.
By agreement with the City of Boston, students are not allowed to park automobiles on the streets in the vicinity of the college. Garage parking is extremely expensive ($300 per month or more.) Fortunately, walking and the subway and buses will get you to just about anywhere you'll want to go in Boston and the nearby area.


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Skip to comments.INSIDE WASHINGTON: Gingrich brews up buzz, profits
Posted on 10/01/2010 3:48:13 PM PDT by iowamark
WASHINGTON Newt Gingrich may be running for the Republican presidential nomination. Or maybe he is just running all the way to the bank.
The wonkish former House speaker and unofficial Republican pundit in chief is tossing around provocative commentary and juicy hints about running for president, making sure he's in the mix as his party begins sorting out its field for the 2012 election.
It appears to be working, extending a remarkable staying power that has made Gingrich an A-list fixture on the Republican scene more than a decade after he resigned from office amid political setbacks. It's also made him rich, with a sprawling empire of commercial and nonprofit ventures that often intersect, blurring the boundaries of his public and private roles.
Gingrich, who stepped down as speaker at the relatively young age of 55, is certainly not the first to cash in on a political career. But he has blazed a path unlike any other, essentially taking on the role of a politician without the hassles of holding office.
He runs a communications firm, a production company and a handful of advocacy groups. He makes documentaries and self-improvement videos, commands fees of at least $40,000 per speech and provides paid commentary on Fox News often cross-promoting his projects through various media...
His flagship political operation, a tax-exempt conservative group called American Solutions for Winning the Future, has spent at least $2.2 million over the past two years on private jets and executive chauffeur services.
Overall, the group has spent nearly all of the $20 million it has raised over that period on administrative and travel expenses...
(Excerpt) Read more at google.com ...
Overall, the group has spent nearly all of the $20 million it has raised over that period on administrative and travel expenses.
I know this is just an AP hit piece, but I hope that that is not true.
Newt is GOP slick Willie.....
Scroll down the page about halfway to see the expenditures:
Associated Propaganda!
Newt BLEW it when after he led the pubbie revolution he allowed it to spend WAAAAY too much of my money and I will not forget or forgive.
You ain't gonna get the nomination insider boy. Sooo go make some more commercials with hillary and pelosi.
***His flagship political operation, a tax-exempt conservative group***
Did you think the group made widgets???
A political action group is purely PR - meeting, greeting, schmoozing and encouraging/advising candidates with the right philosphy to run for office or support those who do.
Thank God. He is a swine. He is no conservative. Another Karl Rove.
.....He is swine....
You got that right....in spades.
According to AP, Newt's sinister plan is:
1. Brew up buzz
2. ?
3. Profit
note to all political wannabees with experience in DC
... it is your experience in DC that IMO disqualifies you
it is going to take all new blood in there .. if we can even keep it
Oh brother. AP working overtime to generate heat under Gingrich whilst Rome burns.
That said, AP stinks in its "reporting".
FYI — you may be interested in this. I'm going to be very interested in whether Craig Shirley's upcoming bio of Gingrich is an honest portrayal.
"Marianne and I, I meant Calista and I ..."
New is bad news, but it's still the Asspress. They have no interest whatsoever in Democrat foibles.
Correction: meant "Newt is bad news..."
Keep dreaming, AP. Gingrich is DOA.
" Overall, the group has spent nearly all of the $20 million it has raised over that period on administrative and travel expenses.
I know this is just an AP hit piece, but I hope that that is not true. "
That's the least of Newt's tricks. Here's an article today about his hispanic outreach...
Stick with Newt, and you will get nothing more than AMNESTY, global warming nonsense, etc. Gingrich is a JAR...Just Another Rino.
Dont fall for his double talk...he pushed Bushs amnesty, going so far as to pen a letter to the WSJ with Norquist, Tamar Jacoby, etc...ALL open border proponents.
TheAmericano. com - some heavy duty (in Spanish) hispandering! http://theamericano.com/
[snip]The Americano is a bilingual site that offers a different take on news and opinion. It looks to offer a more balanced view on all the issues that concern American Hispanics today, while celebrating the richness of Hispanic Heritage. It is a place where people can express themselves and read about similar traditional principles.
We have gathered a fantastic group of journalists and experts to offer you smart information on all the important aspects of Hispanic life.
The Americano is a company of Gingrich Communications.
Why the name, The Americano?
******Our site is inclusive of all americanos that have come to live to the United States.********(ALL of em...legal or not!) Whether you are first, second, third or fourth generation Hispanic- or whether you speak English or Spanish or both- our content is catered to what unites us all which is our American Hispanic Heritage.
That site takes you here: http://www.newt.org/paralatinos
Why Newt might be the GOPs savior among Latinos
Marisa Treviño de LatinaLista.net escribe sobre las múltiples iniciativas de Newt que buscan acercarse y crear un diálogo con los hispanos. Para Latinos, TheAmericano.com, y The Americano First Annual Hispanic Forum son tres excelentes ejemplos.
Newt Gingrich has "0", I repeat "0", as in "ZERO", chance of becoming President of this country!
Marianne and I, I meant Calista and I ...
Is that really a quote from him?
No, not to my knowledge, but it could be. The first time I heard him talk about "Calista and I," I remember wondering: Whatever happened to "Marianne and I...?"
I agree.
of course it is true - newt cheats...on his wives and on the people that support him!! Newt Cheats. NEWT CHEATS.
I've always believed that Newt betrayed the 1994 Republican revolution because Hillary had his FBI file revealing he was banging his admin asst instead of his wife.
He sure was a puppet to the Clintons.
God, Newt sucks.
Newt's time has come and gone. Lets move on. DeMint for President.
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As a young man, it used to be that you did not let anybody get close enough to a person to touch you, only because they would pick your pockets, claiming to be helping you from tripping and falling down.
The "Good Samaritan" from Republic Services wants to help relieve the pressure of being employed by taking over the job of brush and bulk collection that is being done by city employees.
Apparently, Republic Services is under the impression that the working poor, disabled and elderly residents are millionaires in Beeville who need their pockets picked for an increase of Republic Services stockholders' bottom line, even if many cannot afford to pay for doctor visits or medicine every month.
On another topic, I have been reading my water bills and found that on December's bill, I paid $20.88 for garbage. On the January bill, I paid $21.33 for garbage. No one notified me of the extra $0.45 increase. Did anyone else notice the increase? And now, City Hall is proposing an increase of $9.40 tax to dispose of brush and bulk items collection.
City officials, please don't pick our pockets for your wants; instead, let us keep what we have for our own needs. We live paycheck to paycheck. We are not millionaires.
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But don't stop planning your getaway there; with up to six nights to enjoy London , you'll have plenty of time to explore the cities' most popular attractions like The London Eye, or head over to Buckingham Palace to see if the Queen is in for high tea. When it comes to the theater, Virgin Vacations travel gurus will also help you purchase your tickets and they have everything from the tried and true popular musicals, "Billy Elliot," "Hair," or "Dirty Dancing;" to the classics at Shakespeare's Globe. The travel gurus will also help to customize your trip by offering a wealth of itinerary options located within their freestyle choices.
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If the problems facing enrollment in the national health care system has had one good effect it is that Republicans now seem committed to Obamacare.
At least, that's the way it seems when I hear GOP representatives and senators demanding that the administration fix the website and do it fast.
Given the fact they shut down the federal government for two weeks and risked defaulting on our national debt in order to defund the program, I am a little surprised at how enthusiastic they are about making sure people can sign up for it.
My guess is the access problems will be solved and millions of people who cannot find health insurance will be enrolled. It will be a good thing.
What I don't understand is why anyone would be against this goal.
Medical care is tremendously expensive. Even if you are a young "invincible" a fall from a bicycle or an accident on the ski slope can result in hospital and doctor bills in the tens of thousands of dollars.
If you are a person working for $10 an hour or so -- and there are lots of those jobs out there -- and your employer doesn't provide medical insurance, you're not going to be able to afford it yourself.
If you are a middle-aged man with heart disease and you lose your job because your company goes out of business, you're going to have a hard time finding a new job and you're going to have a hard time paying the premiums for your former health policy.
To be sure, we don't allow people to die on our doorsteps. If you suffer a heart attack and call an ambulance, some hospital will treat you, whether you have money or not.
What our medical providers won't do is provide screening services that alert you to your cardiac disease before you have the heart attack and what they won't do is provide you with the medications to treat high blood pressure or lower cholesterol unless you come up with the ability to pay for them.
Obamacare has already started to change all that. Men and women younger than 26 can now remain on their parents' medical insurance. People with preexisting conditions -- cancer is one -- can find insurance through an Obamacare program. People like me, who take a lot of prescription medications, find their expenses decreased notably.
Obamacare may not be the perfect solution, but it is the solution we've got.
I don't even know how one would go about repealing this program. Insurance companies, hospitals, medical clinics have all spent the last three years gearing up for it, making decisions on the assumption it is here to stay.
To abandon it now would be chaotic.
And wrong.
So, I am happy the Republicans now want the law to work.


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It seems that my baby (2 weeks old) is really having a hard time with his bowl movement when he is not breastfeeding. He is really making a lot of effort and in general looks in pain, like he is constipated- only he is not. The stool count is high enough and the stool is liquid.
What is the problem? Is it colic? How can I ease his pain? Is it the food I'm eating?


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To a kid, happiness is directly tied to location: The playground is all right, Chuck E. Cheese's is pretty good and Disneyland is amazing. And yet every single one of the following places will make those childhood paradises look like a trip to the dentist's office via Grandma's house (and not the cool one, either; the racist one with the peppermints).
6Miniatur Wunderland
Model trains are like breasts: They're meant for children, but grown men have a pretty good time playing with them, too. And if that metaphor holds true, then Miniatur Wunderland is the Playboy Mansion of model trains. This nerd paradise is the crowning achievement of twin brothers Frederik and Gerrit Braun, pictured here power-tripping-balls on top of a miniature mountain range.
That uncomfortable smile is because a train has driven into his crotch.
The epic model train set the brothers have created is not only a world record, it's also basically a world. It ain't just trains: Cars drive themselves through the cities, only to be pulled over by police; fire engines race through the streets to fight the fires that break out; planes take off and land from the fully functional airport and boats -- even a giant 4-foot scale model of a cruise ship -- sail its seas. There's even a functioning spaceport!
"Apollo Tiny to Ground Control -- we have discovered extremely large, smelly aliens. Let's never do this again."
And if you ever get bored of watching an entire tiny Earth spin around while you pretend to throw lightning bolts at those who incur your wrath, Miniatur Wunderland also has thousands of hidden Easter eggs to find -- from superpowered girls to fire breathers to bank heists to horny couples boning in the fields.
It's OK, they're both plastic and nonliving. Safety first!
It's like a giant, living, occasionally smutty Where's Waldo? book.
CSI: Tinytown.
According to the Miniatur Wunderland website, when it's finished in 2020, the mammoth model will cover more than 24,000 square feet and feature 13 miles of track, 1,300 trains, more than 20,000 carriages and wagons, 400,000 individual figures and more than half a million lights, which are necessary because the entire set runs on a day/night cycle of 15 minutes.
That's right: The whole thing lights up.
And as we all know, the only surefire way to improve an already bitchin' toy in a child's eyes is to slap some LEDs on that sucker. And slap they have:
But don't worry, there's something for the adults here, too: That smut we mentioned before isn't all tastefully hidden. Why, there's an entire red-light district for the inappropriately randy grownups among us.
Sadly, her STDs are normal-sized.
5The Obliteration Room, the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art
Imagine a beautiful, pristine white room. Now imagine that room exists for one purpose and one purpose only: for you to vandalize it to your felonious little heart's content, with no repercussions. Well, such a heaven exists, and it is located in Queensland, Australia.
It begins ...
... the end times approach ...
... lo, the color apocalypse is upon us!
If you've ever been yelled at for coloring on the walls, the Obliteration Room at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art is where you take your revenge. You can smack that anger right up on the wall in the form of colored stickers and know inside your heart that they can take your crayons, but they can never take ... your freedom. This childhood masterpiece was the brainchild of Yayoi Kusama, who unsurprisingly looks like she's been color obliterated herself ...
If they ever need an aged, colorblind Leeloo for the Fifth Element sequel, this is the woman.


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A 73-year-old Limington, Maine, man who had been missing for more than 14 hours was found Tuesday morning after he walked up to a crew from Portland TV station WMTW.
Robert McDonough approached reporter Norm Karkos shortly after 6:30 a.m. after Karkos delivered a live update. McDonough began speaking with Karkos and identified himself as Robert McDonough.
The WMTW crew, including videographer Rob Benica and satellite truck operator Keith Kettelhut, immediately notified the Maine Warden Service.
Game wardens spent the night searching for McDonough, who was reported missing around 4 p.m. Monday.
Karkos had been providing live reports from Gammon Road, where McDonough lives, throughout the morning.
Wardens said McDonough suffers from dementia.
Karkos said McDonough appeared to be in good condition, although he said he did spot some blood on McDonough's hand.


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So I am planning to go back to work in January for 1-2 hours a day a few days a week. I will be pumping and leaving bm for my mom to give to Abby while I am at work. My LC told me only to pump after I feed Abby and on the same side, but she drinks me dry and all I ever end up getting is an ounce, at most. So when is the best time to pump without messing up my supply. I also am not sure that my pump is working as it should, since the flow seems to stop and every five minutes I end up having to adjust my nips for it to start up again. But that's another story. So my questions are:
When is the best time to pump if I need to prepare a bottle or two a few days a week and how much bm should I pump out?
How long does it take to pump a full feeding's worth of bm? When do I know when I'm "done"?
Also, how long can I store BM in the freezer? What about in the fridge?


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Muscle-strengthening activities make muscles do more work than they are accustomed to during activities of daily life. Muscle strengthening includes strength training, resistance training, and muscular endurance exercises.
Research has shown that strength training increases power and endurance and also:
In addition, in women age 40 or older, strength training helps prevent loss of muscle mass.
A strength training program may include free weights or weight-training machines. But you don't need extensive equipment to do strength-training. You can do Pilates mat work, using simply a stability ball, or do exercises that use your own body weight for resistance, such as push-ups, sit-ups, lunges, squats, and dips.
The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans [5] recommend incorporating muscle strengthening activities at least two times per week.
No specific amount of time is recommended for muscle strengthening, but muscle-strengthening exercises should be performed to the point at which it would be difficult to do another repetition without help. Development of muscle strength and endurance is progressive over time. This means that gradual increases in the amount of weight or the days per week of exercise will result in stronger muscles.
[1] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/sites/default/files/images/thumbnails/gardening.jpg
[2] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/mindful-movement
[3] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/yoga
[4] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/glossary/3#term41
[5] http://www.health.gov/PAGuidelines/guidelines/
[6] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/our-experts/mary-jo-kreitzer-rn-phd
[7] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/our-experts/archelle-georgiou-md
[8] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/promo-tiles/muscle-strengthening-quick-tip


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JERUSALEM — A jug with an inscription dating back 3,000 years to the time of the biblical King David was unearthed in Jerusalem.
It is the oldest artifact with letters ever found in Jerusalem, according to the Times of Israel. Archaeologists, however, cannot read the inscription because only a few letters remain.
Hebrew University archaeologist Eilat Mazar, who led the dig, said the Canaanite text may name the owner, contents or intended destination of the jug.


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Student Employment
One popular source of financial aid is student employment. Student employment includes federal and state need-based work study programs, no-need work study programs and student-hourly employment, which is available to any student enrolled at least half time, regardless of their financial aid eligibility.
Research shows that students who are employed while attending college tend to get better grades because they are more organized and responsible.
The Office of Student Employment at UNC is a part of the Office of Financial Aid and serves students seeking employment on and off campus during the academic year and summer term.


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Lollapalooza: Summer music festivals
Published On: May 10 2011 02:23:18 PM PDT Updated On: Aug 01 2013 11:00:52 PM PDT
Lollapalooza starts today in Chicago, Illinois. From the mountains of Colorado to the forests of Milwaukee, this summer will be jam-packed with some of the best music festivals ever. Find out more about these events that spotlight everything from alternative rock to jazz -- and have spawned their own festival cultures.


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But not all. That may come sometime this month as the City Council hosts more such sessions.
Mayor Santiago "Jimbo" Martinez told those at the meeting that the council was hoping to schedule at least two more public meetings before a bond election set for May 11. Voters will decide whether or not to allow the city to sell $15.3 million to finance the project.
If approved, the increase in property taxes to pay for the project could cost the owner of a $75,000 home almost $18 more a month, or more than $200 a year.
Rancher Ray Welder brought up the concern of property owners downstream from the city on the Poesta Creek and Aransas River. He cited the proposed discharge of concentrated levels of suspended solids and chlorides that would be filtered from the Jasper aquifer by a reverse osmosis plant.
"The Poesta Creek is the east fork of the Aransas River," Welder said. "It's a very fragile system."
If water higher in chlorides reaches the estuaries on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, that could threaten all forms of wildlife and plant life in that region, including the endangered whooping crane.
Engineer Bill Norris, whose company, NorrisLeal Engineering Water, would design the well and the reverse osmosis system, said the saltier water from the plant would be blended with water from the city's wastewater treatment plant on the Poesta, thereby diluting the salinity.
Welder then questioned the engineer's motives in recommending the Jasper aquifer project.
"What are your fees for the project?" Welder asked.
Norris reminded Welder that his company had not yet been hired to design the project and that if it is, he was not sure yet how payment would be arranged. He said it could be based on a percentage of the project cost.
Welder then asked about the city's existing wells into the Jasper aquifer.
That question was answered by Kevin Spencer, president of R.W. Harden & Associates of Austin.
He said the city has five wells on record and four of those are in the Jasper aquifer. But when Welder asked if those wells could be used again, Spencer said he did not think they could.
Most of the city's wells were drilled in the 1930s, Spencer said. The most recent well was drilled in the 1960s.
"In my professional opinion, there's a 90 percent chance that well is unusable," Spencer said of the newer well.
When Spencer was asked by another resident if he thought the city would need new wells, Spencer said yes.
The same citizen, Keith Webb, then asked what the effect of the concentrated salts and suspended solids would be downstream after being discharged in the Poesta.
"Do plants die, or do they do well?" Webb asked.
Spencer said that in all the creeks he had seen where discharges from reverse osmosis plants were released in creeks, the plants did well.
Webb then complained that in the 20 years he has lived in Beeville, he has seen numerous residents and businesses violating water restrictions during periods of drought.
Another man, Kenneth Elsbury, said he was speaking for a group of local citizens when he asked about the financial impact of the $15.3 million bond sale on city residents on fixed incomes and businesses.
He asked the council if the city has considered the results of higher taxes on other taxing entities in the city which depend on property taxes for their projects.
He also asked when Norris' report on the project would be made public.
Elsbury said he wanted to know what assurances city taxpayers would have that a well drilled into the Jasper, at approximately 1,600 feet, would continue to provide water of the projected quantity and quality that was being reported.
He also expressed concern over the projections that the water taken from the reverse osmosis plant, at approximately 8,000 parts per million in chlorides and suspended solids, would not negatively affect downstream users of the water in Poesta Creek.
An injunction filed by a property owner downstream would effectively shut down the operation, leaving city taxpayers in debt for something that could not be used, Elsbury suggested.
Businessman Dave Moore also expressed concern about discharging the concentrated water from the reverse osmosis plant into Poesta Creek.
He said he would like to know the cost of pumping the effluent into a deep injection well and assurances that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality would approve a permit for discharging the water into the creek.
Norris assured Moore that the TCEQ would study the discharge request before granting a permit.
"I'd like to know that we can get the approval before we spend the money," Moore said.
Norris reminded those at the meeting that running out of water is the number one concern for Beeville.
"People say we're moving too fast," Norris said. He agreed that the city was moving quickly with the project. "But the risk is that the city will run out of water."
Moore then suggested that the city look at all three alternatives available to it, with surface water, a well in the Jasper aquifer and using wells in the Goliad aquifer.
"I agree," Norris said. "Three alternatives are better than one."
Webb than asked Norris about a timeline for the project, and Norris said drilling the Jasper well and completing the construction of the reverse osmosis plant would take 18 months.
Gary Kent is a reporter at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 120, or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Olive oil 1 teaspoon + 1 ½ tablespoons
Small eggplant, peeled and diced into ½-inch pieces (about 3 cups) 1
Zucchini, diced into ½-inch pieces 1
Small white onion, sliced 1
Garlic cloves, minced 2
Red bell pepper, chopped 2 plum tomatoes, seeded and chopped 1
Dried oregano ½ teaspoon
Dried thyme ½ teaspoon
Salt ½ teaspoon
Freshly ground black pepper to taste
Fresh basil, chopped ¼ cup
- Heat 1 teaspoon oil over medium-high heat in a large Dutch oven or pot. Add onion and garlic, and cook 3 minutes.
- Reduce heat to medium, add 1 ½ tablespoons oil, stir in eggplant, and cook 7-9 minutes, until eggplant is softened. Stir in zucchini and red pepper, cover, and cook 7 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in tomatoes, oregano, and thyme, and cook 3 minutes.
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He was born August 12, 1936, in Weston, the son of Elmer A. and Martha (Engles) Willis. He attended local schools and graduated from Chester High School in 1956.
In 1957, he married Louise Pelto of Brattleboro, and the couple had lived in Weston and Windsor, but mostly in Montpelier.
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Elmer was extremely mechanically inclined and enjoyed working on cars and engines of all types.
Survivors include two sons, Allen Willis of Montpelier, John Willis and his wife, Rose, of Barre; and a daughter, Susan Davis and her husband, Wendell, of Riverton; and his longtime friend, Elsie Reed. Also surviving are three brothers, John Willis and his companion, Hallery Brunet, of Williston, Curtis Willis of Weston, and Fred Willis and his wife, Betsy, of Springfield; and a sister, Myrtle Bacon and her husband, Ron, of South Londonderry; eight grandchildren, Tammy Willis, John Willis Jr., Joshua Davis, Kari Willis, Adam Willis, Patrick Willis, Tamara Davis and Joseph Davis, along with seven great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
Besides his parents, he was predeceased by his wife, Louise; a brother, Herbert Willis; and a grandson, Jeremy Davis.
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A letter to President Obama
Today, I heard the speech you delivered in front of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Your eloquence caught me up, and what you said about the people who made it possible for you to be there as president had me close to tears. You evoked memories in me about the civil rights struggle, the epic movement which achieved so much and changed this country for the better. You clearly understand the history and vision of that movement, that it is unfinished and still tugs at the conscience of the country.
The thought struck me that while you were preparing this speech, you were also directing the Pentagon to gear up for a possible missile attack on Syria.
With the image of Lincoln seated behind you, you spoke of the I Have a Dream speech Martin Luther King Jr. delivered at the march in 1963. As you noted: His words belong to the ages. It stands as one of the greatest American speeches of the 20th century. You repeated Dr. Kings call to us to judge people not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
You reminded the nation that King saw economic opportunity as integral to the achievement of full equality. You raised up the injustice of economic inequality where a few do very well while struggling families of every race fight over a shrinking economic pie ...
You thus addressed, in your speech, two of the three great evils which King saw as afflicting this country racism and materialism. But you failed to mention the third, the one to which you have succumbed militarism.
In his Riverside Church speech, Beyond Vietnam, one year before he was murdered, King declared: The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit ... He went on to say, I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today my own government.
Your attempt to punish the government of Syria, for reportedly using chemical agents to kill more than 1,000 Syrian citizens, and to justify it without mention of the likely casualties of U.S. military action, tells me you have accepted the ideology of militarism that is enveloping this nation.
My emotions were at high pitch as I listened to you and reflected on how, with so much promise, you have yielded to the imperative of empire, and thus tarnished your place in history.
Militarism, as an ideology, shows its bloody face, sometimes clearly, sometimes dimly, in so many aspects of our society and culture. Its most obvious expression is the easy acceptance of military violence to address complex social and international issues. The frequent use of military force has become the primary means through which the U.S. government seeks to maintain and expand its global domination. And your administration has maintained and in some ways expanded this policy.
Like so many political leaders, policy-makers, academics and others in this country, Mr. President, you see the world through the faulty lens of militaristic ideology. Your assurance that your plans for attacking Syria do not include U.S. boots on the ground exposes the moral bankruptcy that is militarism. The implication is that an unwarranted military attack is OK if our men and women are kept out of harms way. Members of your administration have used the same justification for using drones to kill suspected, not proven, terrorists in several countries, countries with which the United States is not at war.
Andrew Bacevich, a veteran of Vietnam and subsequently a career officer, a graduate of West Point and later Princeton, where he earned a doctorate in history, is presently director of Boston Universitys Center for International Relations.
In his book The New American Militarism, Bacevich says military idolatry pervades our national consciousness and perverts our national policies. He is careful to (rightly) point out that this idolatry infects both major political parties and is found across the political spectrum. War has become normal. Children 12 and under have not known the United States at peace. We declare war against a tactic, terrorism, never considering that war itself is terrorism.
But the romance so many in the United States have with the military and military violence is only one aspect of this pervasive ideology. Its norms and culture penetrate and influence the norms and culture of society.
For example, the national debate on gun violence has failed to identify a militarist mind-set that goes so far as to call for arming schoolteachers. Stand-your-ground legislation, now in over two dozen states, is militarism brought to the streets. Armed citizens is a normal phenomenon in a society under the influence of militarism.
While you tried to create a national policy of very limited gun control, you did not speak of the cultural, economic, social and psychological factors that persuade citizens to arm themselves against one another. You do not seem to see this fear as a failure of community, a failure of culture. You do not speak of it as the antithesis of Dr. Kings beloved community.
Militarism is a distinctive way of looking at the world; it influences how we see our neighbors, our families, our public life, and other people in the world. Militarism affects the way policy-makers and citizens frame and respond to complex social issues. For example, the U.S. government declares a war on drugs, a war on poverty and the U.S. incarcerates more of its citizens than any other nation in the world in its war on crime.
Militarism is a means by which hierarchies of power are kept in place: men over women, white people over people of color, rich people over the rest of society, wealthy nations over poorer nations. Militarism is not compatible with democracy; that is one reason the founders of this country wanted to refrain from keeping a standing Army and wrote the Second Amendment so that citizens would provide the security of a free state. Well, now we have a standing Army, more powerful than any in history, yet so many of our citizens still demand to be armed.
A nation in the grip of militarism spends a disproportionate amount of its resources on weapons, standing armies, military bases, and preparations for and engaging in war. It uses military spending as an economic stimulus and for job creation. Its foreign policy is dominated by the military to the detriment of its nonmilitary diplomatic initiatives. Your threat of attack being the latest example.
Mr. President, all the above is true of the United States of America today. Our nation outspends the militaries of the next 14 nations combined, has nearly 1,000 military bases and installations around the world, and is in the process of militarizing space. While you speak of the need to abolish nuclear weapons, you spend billions to upgrade the U.S. nuclear stockpile, albeit a smaller stockpile, but still capable of destroying most of life on Earth.
So, Mr. President, when you invoke the memory of Martin Luther King Jr., I ask you to think about all he stood for, and not cherry pick those aspects of his thought and life that suit the current political moment. I ask you to remember, as Vincent Harding, in his book An Inconvenient Hero, reminds us, that Dr. King lived for five years after his Dream speech. In that time he expanded the circle of his concern and work to include greater emphasis on economic justice and more pronounced condemnation of militarism.
I ask you remember his words: A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
Mr. President, you must know that racism and economic and social inequality continue to exist in this country, in part, because of the implicit threat of violence to maintain them. It is no accident that the United States has the highest level of childhood poverty in the developed world, ranks below 11 other nations for human development and 42nd in life expectancy. In the words of Vincent Harding, a teacher of nonviolence, who worked closely with MLK and drafted his Riverside Church speech: ... one of the things that comes very, very clear to me in the 21st century is that it is really impossible to develop an imperial-power country stretching its tentacles, as it were, all over the world, and at the same moment, speak to the deepest needs of its own people.
As long as you continue to be caught in the tentacles of militarism, Mr. President, you will be unable to adequately address these human needs.
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