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Told ya I wasn't good at sticking to stuff, but I have made a little progress on some of my New Years Resolutions since I last cast my dreams into cyberspace...
I now have two awesome followers! So freaking cool! So, thank you, Aunt Becky (always the queen of my universe) and thank you Leslie (because you're the awesome friend that I miss so badly!).
OK, on to the resolution progress. So far, I've managed to clean a considerable amount of space out of my cabinet using Cooks.com. It's an amazing thing, using ingredients that I have on hand to make fabulous meals and flop-u-lous things that I won't make again. Fabulous category first... 1) Honey Wheat Rolls (mmmm nothing better than homemade bread) 2) Home-freaking-made (oh yeah) Turkey Pot Pie. See, I guess I'm deprived because I only had those tiny little frozen pot pies that you can get on any given day for about $1 a pop. Yes, those are pretty darn good, but let me tell you how proud I was when I peeled the potatoes and onions and carrots and I sliced the celery and I made Betty Crocker cry with pleasure. OK, I exaggerate slightly (ever so) but I'm "chasing rabbits". (Chasing rabbits is something a grade school teacher called "getting off topic".) 3) Homemade banana pudding. Well, crap, I had milk that I needed to use up and I had 2 bananas that were going black. Turkey Pot Pie, Wheat Rolls, Pudding. Fat-ass ecstasy. Diet friendly? Well, not so much. One thing at a time, ok? Because I was using stuff that I have. Don't blame me, I'm not built to waste food!
Ready to hear about the flop-u-lous dish? This dish sounds like something in a fancy restaurant. It's Chicken with Almond & Butter topping. I'm sure it had a better name in the recipe, but I don't remember what it was. OK so in the recipe (which I followed to the ridiculous letter) says you need to buy bone-in split chicken breasts (awesome, they were in my freezer)...then you boil those for a few minutes and remove the skin and bone. Hello??!!? I did this and the whole freaking time I was thinking...damn it, why didn't you just skip all of that messy weirdness and start from the top with boneless, skinless chicken breasts??!?! Seriously? So I was pissed before the chicken was even releasing clear juices. Then, you flour the chicken and slowly brown it in an ass-load of butter. Then ya take the chicken out of the pan, and add to the pan some wine and lemon and slivered almonds. Now, I did have almonds in my cabinet (thanks to a big sale at Kroger) but they were whole and not slivered. What did I do? I sat there, with a knife, already pissed and I slivered each and every freaking one of those almonds. It's a time consuming process, this. Anyway, here I go, finally add back the chicken, stir it all around, and serve it. It was weird tasting. The almonds give a sweetness, the lemon gives and sourness, and the whole dish was ... edible but nothing I will ever ever make again. I mean, 3 hours of messing up the whole freaking kitchen and I come out with something barely edible? Eeecchhh! If anyone wants to try a bite, come on over, it's lurking in my fridge and praying that poor kids in Africa don't find out that it's going to get tossed with the next fridge-purge. The only good thing I can say about this dish is that it was part of my resolution not to let the remainder of the wine just perish...I had to drink it!
But enough about food, I know ya'll want to hear about me moving this fine body. Oh yeah. So I think I made it through about 3 episodes of 1-song sweatiness. I have not made it yet to the second dance song, probably won't at this rate because you have to actually play the darn thing and try. I have, however, been using the Wii Sports to get a little motion. Do you know that I have been trying my butt off to hit a baseball? Hand-eye coordination, I do not have. That's why I was on the high school swim team. Throw a ball at me and it'll hit me right between the eyes, because I can't make my arms move fast enough to catch it and I'm not coordinated enough to dodge. Pathetic. Anyway, the first time the Wii told me my fitness age, I was a spry little 62 year old lady (where's the AARP when I need them?) but I've been getting a little better each day and right now, I'm in the throws of a power-surge (hot flash) beings that I'm now 45. My real BIRTH age is 33.6. I'm not happy about this judgemental little program and the geek-squad little programmer that decided that I'm not just a fat-ass, but an old fat-ass. If I ever see this guy, I'm going to sit on his glasses and throw pens at him.
BTW the Man of the House is 21 on the Wii. Actually, he's 30 but he played ball as a kid. Damn it.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Yeah, so see...it's been a while.
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Legislative Staff Briefing
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Thursday, December 6, 2012 from 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM (PST)
Event Details
Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Legislative Staff Briefing on Foreclosure Mitigation Programs and Real Estate Fraud Prevention in California
The number of foreclosure related mitigation programs in California has multiplied in recent years. So has the number of real estate fraud cases. It can be quite confusing for legislative staff to keep track of current events and actions taken to protect the constituents they represent.
To assist the staff in staying informed of current trends in foreclosure mitigation and real estate fraud prevention, the NHS of Los Angeles County and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco are hosting a half day training session at the NHS office.
Come learn from Katie Porter, the CA Monitor, and a team of local consumer advocates and enforcement agents what is being done to preserve homeownership and combat real estate fraud. You will also find out just how you can participate in protecting your constituents. We will discuss the Homeowner's Bill of Rights, the Consent Decree, HARP, HAMP, Keep Your Home California, the HOPE Hotline, and the National Mortgage Settlement and the California Amendment.
This is a very special "don't miss" event for the staff of elected officials only. It is a closed private meeting and is not open to the public.
When & Where
NHS of Los Angeles County
3926 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles,
Thursday, December 6, 2012 from 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM (PST)
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Bishops tell all
Peter Lillington interviewed both Bishop Don Harvey and Bishop Ron Ferris while they were in Bedford, Texas for the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) inaugural assembly.
Bishop Don
talks about gaining recognition for the ACNA as a province in the Anglican Communion, ANiC's relationship to the Southern Cone now that we are a diocese in the ACNA, ANiC's relationship with the Anglican Coalition in Canada (another diocese in ACNA), the perception of too many bishops in ANiC, his retirement, and the number of days he was at home from mid-January to June (10!). His vision is:
"My hope is that we would continue to be Biblically faithful, and that we would be part of a family known as the Anglican Communion… to have enough of the Communion that is still Biblically faithful [so we] can be part of the family – which is what we're praying and striving for, and that looks very promising."
Bishop Ron
discusses his episcopal ministry in BC and the church-plant he is leading in Langley, the importance of jurisdiction vs church growth and proclaiming the Word of God, the role of bishops in the ACNA, the state of affairs in the Communion and recognition of the ACNA. Asked about his vision of the ACNA, he said:
"I would hope that we would have a lot of congregations that are multiplying and are using that multiplication to preach the gospel. That would be exciting for me. One of the greatest privileges of my life was signing the document with the Common Cause bishops the other day that formed the new province. So my hope would be for a multiplying Church, gathering people in North America who have been disconnected from the life of the Church. If we capture just a small portion of that vision it will be an exciting decade ahead."
St Chad's (Toronto) celebrates its centennial
On June 21, the congregation of St Chad's (Toronto) celebrated 100 years of ministry, worship and fellowship – as well as a new beginning as part of the Anglican Church in North America. About 55 people attended the celebration service with the Rev Stan Fowler speaking. Following the service, the congregation enjoyed a feast prepared by members and heard messages of congratulations, greeting and encouragement sent by both individuals and churches.
See photos of the celebration.
Calendar of events – for your interest and prayer support
July 26, 11am – Church of the Ascension (Langley, BC) – 2nd monthly summer Sunday service
July 22 – Toronto Centre ANiC
project meeting
Aug 31 - Sept 3 –
St John's Shaughnessy
(Vancouver) – Youth Leadership Conference
News shorts – Anglican Church in North America (ACNA)
Reactions to the launch of ACNA
Barbara Gauthier, on the
Anglican Mainstream website
, has compiled reactions from all sides to the launch of the new province.
The bishop of Peru, the Rt Rev Harold William Godfrey,
of the Anglican Church in North America,
"We wish you God's blessing in the communion we share as members of the one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church and in our common mission of proclaiming the Gospel message of our Lord Jesus Christ."
Writing to his congregation, a Nashville pastor, the Rev Thomas McKenzie,
provides a balanced report
on the highs and lows of the ACNA assembly and the Church's weaknesses and strengths. He concludes:
"The Anglican Church in North America is a family, and you are part of it. We are weak in many ways, but we have the love of God in Christ and a deep commitment to one another. We have a great future, a future of both suffering and triumph, of Cross and Resurrection. We are one Church, built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets, with Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone. I wouldn't have us be any other way."
More from the inaugural provincial assembly
The Assembly website contains a number of interesting items, including:
Video of all the main sessions
, as well as interviews with Bishop John David Schofield (San Joaquin) and Archbishop Duncan
video of the news conference
held prior to Archbishop Duncan's installation, which including ANiC's Cheryl Chang.
of our new province
from each day of the event
Chairman of AMiA explains his organization's dual provincial membership
Writing to members of the Anglican Mission in the Americas (AMiA) – which accounts for nine of the dioceses in the Anglican Church in North America, Bishop Chuck Murphy
how AMiA will remain under the Anglican Church of Rwanda. He says,
"As a founding member of both the Common Cause Partnership and the emerging province, we will continue to fully participate in ACNA. As we have consistently explained, however, we remain a missionary outreach of the Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda under the authority of Archbishop Emmanuel Kolini. This allows us to enjoy dual citizenship, a similar relationship to that of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA)."
In a
similar statement
, Bishop Martyn Minns of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America, another ACNA diocese, states,
"CANA congregations now have a 'dual citizenship.' They are members of the Church in Nigeria and as a result of that relationship, full members of the global Anglican Communion. CANA congregations are also members of the Anglican Church in North America and will participate fully in the life of the new province."
Women's ordination within ACNA
Christianity Today article
discusses differences between the dioceses of ACNA on the matter of women's ordination and how this difference is being honoured without threatening the unity of the new province. George Conger, explaining why women are allowed to be priests but not bishops:
"In the Anglican understanding, a bishop is a bishop of the whole catholic church, meaning that person should be acceptable in all places that the catholic church is… [ACNA] can live with women being at the local level of priest, because a woman priest in New York doesn't do anything to the people in Fort Worth, Texas, who think it's contrary to Scripture."
An interesting
Washington Times article
, which states that 22 of 28 dioceses in ACNA do not ordain women, explores the views on both sides. The article says,
"It's a system known as "dual integrity," dioceses that differ on a question where Scripture can be read both ways agree to respect and live with each other's views."
Church of Uganda in full communion with Anglican Church in North America
Following its June 23 meeting, the House of Bishops of the Church of Uganda,
issued a statement
" that it warmly supports the creation of the new Province in North America, the Anglican Church in North America, recognizes Bishop Bob Duncan as its new Archbishop, and declares that it is in full communion with the Anglican Church in North America" and transferred ecclesiastical oversight of the "Bishops, clergy and churches in America… to the Anglican Church in North America." Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi said, "We have been longing to be able to repatriate our clergy and congregations to a Biblical and viable ecclesiastical structure in North America, and that day has now come. To God be the glory."
The statement also decried the Anglican Consultative Council's (ACC) recent refusal to seat the Church of Uganda's duly appointed clergy delegate, Rev Phil Ashey" and " reaffirmed the Church's commitment to not receive funds from the Episcopal Church (TEC) and the Anglican Church of Canada, revisionist TEC and Canadian dioceses and parishes, and funding organs associated with them".
Diocese of Fort Worth prepares for anticipated litigation by the Episcopal Church
Bishop Jack Iker
has written
his clergy responding to
letters sent to them by the Episcopal Church
-appointed bishop of the "rump diocese" threatening inhibition – as well as
letters to church leaders
notifying them of impending legal action. Bishop Iker explains why TEC and its appointed bishop have no jurisdiction and assures his clergy and church leaders that
"We are no longer members of PECUSA [The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America] and are not subject to their discipline… We very much regret the fact that this matter is being placed before secular courts. We would much prefer a negotiated settlement among brothers and sisters in Christ who have been separated from one another. However, we are fully prepared to make our case in a court of law and will do so when the time comes… With God's guidance and grace, we shall defend our churches, our faith, and our property against these unjust claims." (You can also see the threatening letters at the link above.)
In connection with this,
Archbishop Greg Venables
has also written
the clergy and members of the (real) Diocese of Fort Worth. He says, in part,
"It is likely that it will take some time before the institutional structures catch up to the realities of the present day situation in the Communion. Until that time, you can be sure of your dual status with us in the Southern Cone. This is true not only for Bishop Iker, but also all of the priests and deacons who received licenses through him under my authority when your diocese came to us… At the last Primates' Meeting in Alexandria, Egypt, there was clear agreement that you and your bishop are fully members of the Anglican Communion."
The diocese has also provided its members with a one-page, 10-point
"litigation perspective"
that is well worth reading.
Archbishop Duncan's message posted
Anglican Mainstream
has posted
Archbishop Bob Duncan's message at his installation as Primate of ACNA in which he spoke from Luke 1:76: "And You my child shall be called the prophet of the most high for you shall go before the Lord to prepare the way for Him." The
Washington Post reporter
described the service as a "blow-out" church service with 60 bishops and 323 clergy and 1500 in attendance. The reporter praised the music, saying, "I've rarely been in a service where every single piece of music was beautifully done at top level…"
Anglican Church in North America in the news
(a selection)
VirtueOnline – June 28 09 –
Is a new Anglican Communion in the making?
The Washington Times – June 24 2009 –
Episcopal break called a 'historic event'
Jacksonville News – July 1 2009 –
New group of Anglicans looks to future on First Coast
Church of England – June 24 2009 –
New US Province is formed
Anglican Journal- June 29 2009 –
New North American Anglican grouping won't last says gay bishop
EpiscopalLife Online – June 25 2009 –
North American Anglican group holds inaugural gathering
Fort Worth Star Telegram – June 24 2009 –
New Anglican church will benefit former Episcopalians, Iker says
Pittsburgh Post Gazette – June 32 2009 –
Archbishop Duncan shepherds Episcopal spinoff
Pittsburgh Post Gazette – June 32 2009 –
Orthodox extend hand to Duncan's new Anglican Church
Telegraph – June 27 2009 –
Anglican meltdown: there are now two Anglican Churches in the US
Anglican Journal – June 27 2009 –
Anglican Church in North America wraps up inaugural assembly
Times Online – June 25 2009 –
Anglicans in the US: a new Church is born
Associated Press – June 23 2009 –
Warren tells breakaway Episcopalians to love all
Reuters – June 24 2009 –
Q&A: The Anglican Church in North America
Pew Forum – June 25 2009 –
No longer Episcopalians, Anglicans launch own church
Christian Science Monitor – June 25 2009 –
Breakaway Episcopalians install a new archbishop
Church of England Newspaper – July 3 2009 –
ACNA warned on Islam threat
News shorts – Canada
Federation organizes for General Synod 2010
The Federation is holding
a meeting
in Halifax on Friday, July 10, 7pm, to start the work of organizing for the Anglican Church of Canada's general synod in that city next year.
New suffragan bishop for the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior (of BC)
Archbishop Terry Buckle
has given consent
to the election of the Rev Barbara Andrews as suffragan bishop for the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior (the former Diocese of the Cariboo). The consent had been delayed as clarification was sought on several questions.
Anglican Church of Canada – United Church dialogue report
After six years of conversations, the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada have issued a report entitled,
Drawing from the same well: the St Brigid report
. The ACoC's dialogue co-chair
says of the process
"Perhaps the most important thing that the dialogue has to say to both the Anglican and United churches is that we have a remarkable amount in common. We also think that our differences are significant, but we don't want our differences to be allowed to overshadow the unity that we do share."
News shorts – United States
Episcopal Church general convention begins
general convention
of the Episcopal Church (TEC) runs July 8-17 in Anaheim, California. The sexuality debate is expected to dominate the session. The
Episcopal News Service tells us
"Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams will make a presentation addressing the world's economic crisis during a panel discussion webcast live July 8 from the Episcopal Church's 76th General Convention, scheduled to take place July 8-17 in Anaheim, California."
are also told
that the Archbishop of Canterbury will meet privately with a group from the TEC House of Bishops to discuss sexuality issues in the church and was set up because Dr Williams
"has not had a chance to hear about the broad range of ministry and leadership in which LGBT Episcopalians are involved."
The American Anglican Council will be active at TEC's General Convention to support the orthodox who remain in TEC and asks us to pray for their staff and volunteers working at General Convention. Pray that God's will be done. Also, for those called to pray for TEC's general convention and those faithfully standing for the truth of God's Word within TEC, two prayer blogs are focused on this event:
GC09 Intercessors
Lent & Beyond
Diocese of South Carolina gives up trying to reform TEC
Bishop Mark Lawrence, the recently elected bishop of the largely orthodox diocese of South Carolina – one of the only dioceses in the Episcopal Church (TEC) experiencing growth – has written his clergy explaining the strategy of the diocese in remaining within TEC. He says,
"I see little reward or benefit in expending our resources and energies in unfruitful expeditions trying to stem the tide of revisionism in The Episcopal Church… the creative thrust of the diocese—beyond the gospel imperative to preach the gospel, make disciples, and plant churches as missionary outposts of the Kingdom of God—needs to be elsewhere than in political machinations of the General Convention."
Distinguishing between the so-called "external strategy" of the Anglican Church in North America, and the "internal strategy" of those working to reform the church from within, he says,
"We in South Carolina are then said to be carrying out such an agenda—battling for orthodoxy, seeking to win back the day in The Episcopal Church in some maneuvering of ecclesiastical politics. While some within the Church may indeed be doing this, it is certainly not my intent. The stakes at present are much higher than what is happening in Episcopalianism or the continuing Anglican bodies in North America. If we could be said to be carrying out an "Inside Strategy" it is not towards TEC: it is toward the Anglican Communion. Put simply, we remain inside the structures of the Communion to help shape the emerging Anglicanism of the 21st Century so long as we are able… our "Inside Strategy" is not to tilt at windmills in Quixotic fashion thinking we can turn back the clock to some prior age; it is to help shape the future that is emerging in global Anglicanism from within the Communion."
US Declaration of Independence rewritten
A S Haley, the orthodox Anglican legal expert who writes under the name Anglican Curmudgeon has ("ever so slightly") rewritten the US Declaration of Independence to make it into a "Declaration of Religious Independence" from the Episcopal Church tyranny – rather than the 18th century British tyranny of King George III. Calling his Declaration
"The unanimous Declaration of the Anglican Church of North America"
, he dedicates it to "
…to those who throughout the Anglican world, whether "in communion" with Canterbury or not, are steadfast in their resistance of the divisive and ruinous campaign in ECUSA and in ACoC to force the Anglican Communion to recognize and acquiesce in the tenet that all lifestyles are created equal, while all men and women are not."
He adds:
The forces of resistance are now more powerful than before, because they have organized into a single body. (And already those who have thus far not shied from disruption to achieve their ends are gloating that ACNA's "unity in diversity" cannot last.) The result is, for the first time in Anglican history, a genuine threat to the exclusivity of the franchises thus far held by ECUSA and ACoC. The new Province is a fact on the ground, and those who make gibes to the effect of "a Province of what Communion?" would do better to look to their own fading ties. The Church of England… cannot be all things to all Anglicans, it may split apart in the near future. Meanwhile, the stress on all the ties that bind Anglicans will be increased to the breaking point by the 76th General Convention that starts next week.
United States news
Pasadena Star-News – July 3 2009 –
Church-state divide looms for Episcopalians on gay marriage
Church of England Newspaper – July 3 2009 –
Bishop Iker dismisses legal threat
News shorts – International
Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans launches in Britain
British launch
of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans – a global movement within the Anglican Communion calling for a return to Biblical faithfulness – occurs Monday, July 6 with a mass rally in London called
"Be Faithful!"
. The Rev Paul Perkin, a vicar from London described the event and the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans this way:
"Some are staying in the Church, but failing to stand for Christian truth and practice; others are standing firm for Christian truth and practice, but are not staying. We are standing, and we are staying."
Participants in the event included a
long list
of Church of England bishops as well as international speakers – including a videotaped message from Dr J I Packer. Live streaming video of the event will be available on the
AnglicanTV website
– and archived to that
shortly after the event.
Please pray for this important event and for unity among the orthodox Anglicans in Britain.
Bishop Don
has sent greetings our behalf of ANiC members and assured the Be Faithful! participants of our prayer support. He said, "
It is a joy to be part of this great Fellowship [of Confessing Anglicans] and although we are separated by a vast ocean, we are with you in heart and mind as the events unfold."
Even prior to the event, there was considerable reaction. The
Rev Dr Andrew Goddard
of Fulcrum
why he will attend the launch of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA) but not join it. He says,
"FCA presents itself as a broad coalition of charismatic, evangelical and Anglo-Catholic Anglicans committed to orthodoxy and mission. This in some ways echoes the Essentials movement in Canada…"
Goddard asks six questions:
Why launch FCA now in the Church of England? His response is that there is not a "felt need for such a fellowship in the Church of England".
What will FCA do in practice and is it schismatic? His concern is that FCA is distancing itself from the Church of England in finding a new identity in the global alliance forming around the Jerusalem Declaration.
How is FCA being financed and governed? His concern is that FCA leadership will concentrate power and not listen to all segments of its constituency.
What place is there in the fellowship for women clergy and supporters of women's ministry at every level of the church? He says,
"Although it is claimed that women's ordination is recognised as a "second-order" issue within FCA, many of those most associated with FCA are committed to "male headship" as clear biblical teaching and are firmly opposed to both women priests and women bishops."
Can FCA be fully supportive of those who remain in TEC and ACC? He claims, "FCA's total and apparently unreserved and unquestioning commitment to the creation of ACNA, the new American province, fuels concerns that it too will ultimately embrace such a path."
How can those of us who long for unity and fellowship with those in FCA have these and other questions engaged with constructively by FCA's leadership?
Bishop Graham Kings
(Sherborne), also of Fulcrum,
Goddard's concerns, but takes the opportunity to criticize ACNA as well. He concludes,
"The authentic Anglican way forward is not through the autonomous setting up of rival churches, like ACNA; nor through autonomous blessings of same-sex unions and the consecration of people in such unions, like TEC; nor through inflated claims and opportunist alliances, like FCA UK: it is through the glacial gravity of the Covenant process."
Andrew Carey
writing in the Church of England Newspaper
, responds directly and effectively to the critics on the Fulcrum website. He indicates that FCA has learned from the mistakes made by conservatives in North America where responses in earlier decades were "disorganized and fragmented" and ultimately ineffective in preventing the moral and theological decay in their churches. He says orthodox Anglicans in Britain should support FCA because:
the Lordship of Jesus Christ in every aspect of faith and life;
the supreme authority of the teaching of Holy Scripture as understood within the doctrinal formularies of historical Anglicanism, specifically, the Book of Common Prayer, the Thirty-nine Articles, the Ordinal , and, in Canada, the Solemn Declaration
of 1893;
unity in the Faith of the gospel, according to this understanding;
· "it's a way of supporting Anglicans in North America who are struggling to remain Anglican in very difficult circumstances."
· "it's a direct link to the Global South provinces."
· "this is hardly a time to be wringing your hands about who you want to mix with. The urgent need is to be organised now, not leave it far too late, as it was in America."
He concludes,
"So why FCA, and why now? In the American Church too little was done by conservatives, much too late. Sniffily holding the FCA at arm's length, as Fulcrum seems to want to do, is to repeat the mistakes made by Americans."
The Rev Andrew Symes
responds to Bishop Kings
and defends the ACNA, saying
"Dr Kings sees the problem in America, and by extension in world Anglicanism, as one purely of differences in church polity, rather than matters of spiritual life and death… In such a time of crisis, when the very survival of orthodox Christianity is at stake, making a respectful but principled stand should be applauded not dismissed… Dr Kings has brushed aside the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans as irrelevant without addressing the fundamental crisis of doctrine that caused it to come about."
Addressing Bishop Kings likening of the Covenant process, in which he places all his faith, to a glacier, Rev Symes says,
"…when there is a crisis, a house on fire for example, a hose is more useful than a glacier: speed, and something more relevant to the context, is better than putting everything on ice."
Dr Lisa Severine Nolland
the critics of FCA are ignoring the evidence that all is not well in the Church of England and asks rhetorically who will stand with those who challenge the "insidious slippage" in the church and the nation. Her response: FCA will stand with them.
Bishop Wallace Benn
also addressed the critics
, saying,
"The FCA is not another organization. It is not seeking to create another church. It is a spiritual movement and fellowship for renewal, reformation and mission – uniquely bringing together those whose key shaping and commitment, but not exclusive identity, has been through the Anglo-Catholic, conservative evangelical, and charismatic expressions of Anglicanism. The FCA movement can do this because it is defined by its centre in the Christian faith as currently embraced in the Jerusalem Declaration and Statement… It would be premature to ask a movement to clarify all its terms or meet all the requirements set by others sadly hesitant to identify with it. What matters, as Bishop Bob Duncan told the launch of the Anglican Church in North America, is "to keep the main thing the main thing". That is what 'Be Faithful' will seek to do by the grace and with the help of God."
Charles Raven
, in an article entitled, "On being moderately faithful: Why Fulcrum is wrong about the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans"
Fulcrum's critique and red herrings – stating, for example, that three of the
"Be Faithful" speakers are women. He concludes that those in Fulcrum seem compelled criticize because they are wedded to institutional structures and the status quo and refuse to acknowledge the depth of the crisis
. He says, "
The most unsettled are evangelicals who want to preserve the status quo, because, unlike liberals, they have to continually convince themselves, in the face of ever more inconvenient facts, that the Church understood theologically in terms of classic Anglicanism is more or less the same thing as the institutional Church."
Bishop Nazir-Ali causes a stir
The headline in the Sunday Telegraph read:
"Change and repent, bishop tells gays"
. The newspaper interviewed Bishop Nazir-Al to coincide with the London "gay pride" parade and in anticipation of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans rally on Monday. The following is extracted from the Telegraph article:
In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Dr Nazir-Ali said:
"We want to uphold the traditional teaching of the Bible. We believe that God has revealed his purpose about how we are made.
"People who depart from this don't share the same faith. They are acting in a way that is not normative according to what God has revealed in the Bible.
"The Bible's teaching shows that marriage is between a man and a woman. That is the way to express our sexual nature.
"We welcome homosexuals, we don't want to exclude people, but we want them to repent and be changed."
The bishop added that it is not just homosexuals who need to repent, but all who have strayed from the Bible's teaching.
He said: "We want to hold on to the traditional teaching of the Church. We don't want to be rolled over by culture and trends in the Church. We want a movement for renewal. We need a reformation of the Church and the life of the Communion."
Dr Nazir-Ali, who is resigning from his post in September, said there was a need for the new evangelical movement, called the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, because the Church is already divided.
"We're two different sorts of religion," he said. "One has a view of God and the Church and Christianity that is completely different from the other."
Derek Munn, the director of public affairs for Stonewall, the homosexual campaign group, criticised Dr Nazir-Ali's comments.
"It is unfortunate that in 2009, a church leader should continue to promote inequality and intolerance
Church of England declining into irrelevance claims bishop
Bishop Paul Richardson (assisting bishop of Newcastle) has
told the Telegraph
that "Christian Britain is dead" due to declining church attendance and the inaction of Church of England bishops. The Telegraph reports that regular church attendance in the CoE has declined to about 880,000 – rising to 3 million at Christmas. Bishop Richardson predicts at the current rate of decline, the CoE will only survive 30 years.
Archbishop of Canterbury appoints new commission
newly appointed
Unity, Faith and Order Commission will be headed by Archbishop Bernard Ntahoturi, Primate of Burundi and will
"promote the deepening of Communion between the Anglican Communion and other Christian Churches and traditions. However, it will also advise the Provinces, the Primates, the Anglican Consultative Council, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, on all questions of ecumenical engagement, as well as on questions of Anglican Faith and Order."
Around the Communion
The Diocese of Cuba
, which has been without an elected bishop since 2003, has again
failed to elect a bishop
due to a split between "liberal" and "traditional" factions. The
Anglican Journal reports
that the Cuban Church
"…has not elected its own bishop for more than 20 years because of internal divisions within the diocese. [The previous bishop] was appointed by the Metropolitan Council of Cuba – composed of the primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, the U.S. presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church and the primate of the West Indies – which has overseen the church in Cuba since it separated from The Episcopal Church in 1967."
The previous bishop is said to be willing to stay on as interim bishop.
The Institute on Religion and Democracy
has published an interesting article
explaining the role of the government in creating problems within the
Anglican Church in Zimbabwe
by engineering the election of a government supporter as the "puppet pseudo-Anglican Archbishop of Harare". Although this bishop has been deposed by his province – the Anglican Province of Central Africa, he clings to power with government support. In February, the Primates meeting in Egypt issued a statement in which they stated they did not recognize the government supported bishops and called for the full restoration of Anglican property to Anglicans under the authority of newly elected Bishop of Harare, Chad Gandiya.
– George Conger
: "Writing in support of the June 18 "Sudan Day of Action" organized by Baroness Cox and the Sudan Action Group, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams has called upon Khartoum government and the former rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement to act swiftly to implement all of the terms of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA)… Dr. Williams also urged the international community not to be sidetracked by the "continuing horrors" of Darfur. "We need to recognize that unless the commitments around the CPA are honoured there is no chance of settling the conflict in Darfur," he said. "I therefore urge a renewal of commitment and a readiness to work for measurable results as soon as possible," the archbishop said."
– A judge in India
has ruled
that the Anglican Church there must abide by its canons and cannot dismiss a bishop in contravention of those canons.
Southern Cone
– The Anglican Province of the Southern Cone is growing "by leaps and bounds" according to the Bishop of Bolivia, Frank Lyons. Bishop Lyons reported to the recent Anglican Church in North America assembly that a March meeting of the House of Bishops of the Southern Cone authorized the creation of nine new auxiliary and suffragan bishops to handle the church growth. Bishop Robinson Cavalcanti of the Diocese of Recife (also in the Southern Cone) told the Assembly that, in the four years since he was deposed by the Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil (IECB) and accepted by Archbishop Greg Venables of the Southern Cone, his diocese has doubled in size and nine congregations currently in the IECB are petitioning to be accepted into the Diocese of Recife. Praise the Lord for His blessing on His faithful church. George Conger
provides details
In international news
Telegraph – July 4 2009 –
Change and repent, bishop tells gays
Soul food
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The Rev Dr Phillip Turner, of the Anglican Communion Institute
the exclusivity of the "progressive's" agenda, saying the actions of the liberals betray the falsehood of the claim to inclusiveness. He says,
"The logic used by progressive Episcopalians to explain and justify TEC's "inclusive" agenda is in point of fact necessarily "exclusive" of contrary opinion… The standard justification for the inclusive agenda is almost without exception stated in terms of justice... In the minds of progressive Episcopalians, to acquiesce in matters of injustice and to allow ignorance, fear, and prejudice to go unopposed is a betrayal of what to their mind is central to the Gospel message."
In discussing liberal Episcopalians approach to church politics, he says,
"Domestically, progressive Episcopalians seek more centralized authority… Internationally, however, they plead for pluralism in the form of a polycentric communion that allows for wide variations in belief and practice…The plea for pluralism on an international level is but a tactic to protect moves toward centralization and uniformity domestically. Despite the fact that there is a logical contradiction in arguing for increased centralism on the one hand and increased diversity on the other, this strategy was clearly evident at the recent meeting of The Anglican Consultative Council where TEC's representatives sought to derail the fourth section of the draft covenant that provides for consequences if Provinces act in ways other members of the Communion believe not in accord with Christian belief and practice."
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For the many ANiC "projects" across the country building congregations and setting the framework to launch as church plants
For wisdom as ANiC seeks to find more effective ways of ministering to and encouraging
"Orphaned Anglicans"
who have no orthodox Anglican church in their community.
That we would
share the Good News
with those around us who need to meet our Lord & Saviour.
For the legal cases
For Mr Justice Stephen Kelleher as he reviews all the written material and considers his decision in the
Vancouver court case.
May God grant insight and discernment.
For the
Windsor case
(involving St Aidan's) which is being dealt with in London.
For the
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repentance and healing
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For the
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In 2001 during the American invasion of Afghanistan, then reformed President Khatami cooperated with US forces and blocked the fleeing Taliban. His reward was to be branded by Bush as an evil man. The rest is history, an opportunity to engage in peaceful discussions with Iran never happened. Newly elected Hassan Rouhani has offered to temper down the rhetoric of anger towards the United States. He pledged to promote women's rights and advance equality for women in society.He also promised to work for stability in the Middle East. "The only way for interaction with Iran is dialogue on an equal footing, confidence building and mutual respect."
In other words, now is the time to end threats and warnings. As he put it: "If you want the right response, don't speak with Iran in the language of sanctions." We propose:
1. The US announces a two month lifting of all sanctions.
2. The US asks Iran to meet with its representatives for honest discussion.
3. The US announces that any money stil in its possession from the era of the Shah will be returned to the Iran government as a gesture of good will.


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Republican presidential hopefuls had a session on Faith in which each discussed his or her feelings about faith and love and justice. We offer a sample of what they said:
Newt Gingrich: "I have always carried Jesus in my heart, particularly in my marriages. Jesus told us to carry his word to all parts of the world. I did my part, I married a few times and thus carried Jesus to each of my wives. In fact, I had such faith in my first wife that I told her as she lay in the hospital bed that I was divorcing her."
Rick Perry: "I am a Jesus man. I keep Jesus in my heart each day as governor of the great state of Texas. I give the word to execute bad men just like Jesus told me. I always feel comfortable giving wealthy folk a few tax breaks because Jesus loved the wealthy and had contempt for the poor."
Mitt Romney: "As a Mormon, I believe in Jesus. In fact, I believe in any holy man if in so doing I get a few extra votes. Jesus was a good man-or was he a good son-of-God? Sorry, I don't want to alienate Jews or Mormons or atheists so let me make clear that I believe fervently in Jesus Christ–whenever appearing before a Christian crowd."
Rick Santorum: "I love Jesus. I love Jesus. I hate abortionists. I hate abortionists. To love Jesus is to hate lazy and sinful people. That is his message, "love the wealthy because in so doing you will find a place in Heaven."
Michele Bachmann: "Who is this Jesus guy the rest of you are talking about? Does he have something to do with Christianity?"
Herman Cain: "I love Jesus. I love him because he ordered a heck of a lot of pizza pies. I love Jesus because the more I say this, the more votes I get."


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He goes to this girl's house, to pick her up...
She says, "Umm, I want to talk to you about something.."
And this is where the song starts..
"Were gonna die like this you know, miserable and old.."
These are his thoughts as she starts talking.. here we go again this will go on forever.
"Really got it hand it you"
I've got to say, you are the record for this kind of stuff.
"Are you positive? Absolutely sure?"
Is this for REAL this time?
"Just get dressed don't do this,"
Come on this happens over and over again, let's go out already.
They take off on the date, the next section is the conversation of the date.
She says she was listening to Miles Davis before he came over, and his music is influencing her thoughts. She is confused, she doesn't know if she wants to get serious or bail out.
He says, do we really need to talk about this, can't we enjoy what we have? And his attitude of here we go again, makes her decide to break it off, hence the addition of "When we get home we are through"
I'm from the Carolinas, so I believe the next part is him talking about how he was engrained in his youth with certain traditions (as is common in the south) One such tradition is courtship, or the idea of dating a long time (2 years or more) before making any serious decisions about a relationship. Honestly, it's hard to adapt to other places, (Like utah where I am now) when people get engaged after a month. Her talking having "been there once ot twice" is her talking other relationships with southern boys. And he says, you never gave the long-term thing a chance. "Did you ever think we could keep living like thieves" is him saying, taking anything and running, like a relationshiip, doesn't work out in the end.
The rest of the song is him and her going back and forth on the ride home.. are you sure? Yes. We're through. Great. Are you sure? and so on until the end where they both decide.. we're through. ok. that's it. it's not about sex.
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Plymouth Hoe, Devon
The Hoe is a grassy headland overlooking Plymouth Sound where once you could watch bear-baiting, cockfighting or an execution by way of entertainment. It was here, too, on the immaculate lawns of the Plymouth Bowling Club that, in 1588, a breathless messenger blurted out to Drake "The Spaniards are coming, the Spaniards are coming!" At the time, a south-west wind was blowing into the harbour, marooning Drake's fleet. And so, with nothing to be done, Drake famously replied, "We have time enough to finish the game and beat the Spaniards too."
Old Hastings, East Sussex
Hastings' 15 minutes of fame arrived not in the 11th century as many believe (the Battle of Hastings was fought six miles inland at Battle) but in 1925, when John Logie Baird made the world's first television transmission over a distance of three yards in his rooms on Queens Avenue.
Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade, North Tyneside
Inside the Watch House of Tynemouth Life Brigade and Coastal Rescue is the Stanley Bell. The Stanley was a passenger steamer wrecked in a storm along with the schooner Friendship in 1864. Thirty-two died that night including a party of female opera singers bound for Covent Garden and two lifeboat men. After the Stanley went down, the first volunteer coastal rescue station in the world was established at Tynemouth and 100 men immediately volunteered. The centre still operates a coastal rescue service as well as a museum.
Scarborough, North Yorkshire
The sign proclaiming "Britain's First Resort" recalls the discovery of natural springs in 1626 by a Mrs Farrow, who proclaimed the water a "most Sovereign remedy against Hypondriack, Melancholly and Windiness". She then got a little carried away, also claiming it "cleanses the stomach, opens the lungs, cures asthma and scurvy, purifies the blood, cures jaunders and the Leprosie". The borough was inundated, and Scarborough became Britain's first planned resort.
Culzean Castle, Ayrshire
The historic home of the Kennedys, one of Scotland's oldest families who can trace their ancestry back to Robert the Bruce. Its centrepiece is a Robert Adam mansion, a wing of which was given as a flat to Supreme Allied Commander President Eisenhower as a gesture of thanks from the Scottish people for US support during the first world war.
Cobh, County Cork
Cobh earns its berth on several counts. It was the last port of call for the Titanic, and also where many of the 1,198 who lost their lives on the Lusitania were buried. And it was Ireland's most important port of emigration from 1848 to 1950 - marked by the statue of Annie Moore and her brothers, the first emigrant to pass through newly opened Ellis Island, New York, in 1892.
Start Point lighthouse, South Hams, Devon
When this 27-metre-tall lighthouse was erected in south Devon in 1836, it was one of the most remote in the country, requiring a live-in workforce of eight. In 1581, the pirate Henri Muge was hung out in chains here as a warning to ships of the penalty for piracy. Head up into the lighthouse and, where the light dies 20 miles out, wild white horses gallop across the infamous wrecking reef of the Skerries. In one night alone in March 1891, 11 ships went down in a rare snow blizzard.
Holy Island, Northumberland
For centuries, monks have trodden the causeway seeking isolation at Britain's holiest offshore retreat. In the late 7th or early 8th century the Lindisfarne Gospel, one of the world's most important hand-crafted illuminated manuscripts, was created here. Now on display at the British Library, a facsimile edition is on display at the Lindisfarne Heritage Centre.
Caernarfon Castle, Gwynedd
Caernarfon, built between 1285 and 1322, was a centrepiece of the middle ages' most ambitious military construction project. Located at the southern end of the Menai Strait between north Wales and Anglesey, it was strategically located by Edward I to control trade routes and suppress revolt.
Sea Henge, Norfolk
Some 4,000 years ago, a group of Bronze Age Britons cut down a huge oak tree, upturned its stump and half-buried it in Norfolk. A number of smaller oaks were later cut into 55 posts and arranged in a circle around the stump. The monument was only discovered in Holme-next-the-Sea in 1998 when shifting sands revealed it, and next year it is to be moved from Peterborough to the Lynn Museum in King's Lynn.


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Mike Cound, a sports agent specializing in women's basketball, certainly has a vested interest in the success of the WNBA. But … that's not his employer.
"I work for my clients," Cound said.
And so while in ideal circumstances he'd rather that clients Deanna Nolan, Cheryl Ford and Janel McCarville were all playing in the WNBA this summer, he understands why they are not.
For each one, the specifics are all a bit different, but the overall reason is the same: The economics of professional women's basketball.
Like all athletes, women's basketball players have a limited window of opportunity to earn money from competing before their body gives out and age wins. With women's hoops, many athletes good enough to be in the WNBA also try to maximize their earning potential by also playing overseas.
Of course, if you are reading this blog, you already know all this. It's been this way since the WNBA began 14 years ago. The issues are the same: Late arrivals to training camp (especially in years when the league starts in May), players dealing with wear-and-tear on their bodies, the debate about "loyalty" to the WNBA (especially from American players).
There are no sweeping answers to any of those issues. I've written about them a lot, and so have others. Here in this blog entry, I won't try to project much into the future about when/if any of that will change. This is really just about the situations with Nolan, Ford and McCarville – all of whom are represented by Cound and have WNBA fan bases.
This is the second consecutive WNBA season that Ford and Nolan will miss, the first for McCarville. We'll start with Janel, who was suspended for the season by the New York Liberty after she did not report to training camp.
"She was one of the last ones finished (overseas), didn't get any break, then went home to see her dad," Cound said. "She's really just taking the summer off. She probably would have come back (to the Liberty) after a month or so. But they just clear their cap if they suspend her for a whole season, rather than a more temporary suspension.
"I don't blame them. They needed to clear the cap space so they could make other moves. They couldn't be sure that Janel really would play this summer."
In other words, had McCarville gone to the Liberty with a promise to return at a certain time, and the team really wanted to accommodate her and get her back sometime in 2011, both parties could have agreed to do it that way.
However, Cound stressed that wasn't a conversation that happened; McCarville was tired and largely non-committal about the summer. Furthermore, the Liberty have a new coach/GM in John Whisenant, who has a history in the WNBA, of course, but no past working relationship with McCarville. He's trying to establish himself in this job and didn't want to potentially hamstring the Liberty with a commitment to a player he'd never previously coached.
Furthermore, since everyone else for the Liberty was in training camp, making an exception for McCarville to basically join the team when she felt up to it potentially could have caused a rift between Whisenant and a new group of players he's trying to bond with.
Cound could empathize with both sides. He was a little disappointed that McCarville didn't fulfill her contract agreement with the Liberty for this summer, and he communicated that to her. At the same time, he's fully her advocate. He understands that after three days off between returning from her Italian team and needing to report to the Liberty, she decided she just couldn't do it.
McCarville is relatively sound health-wise and is not dealing with any major injury. Mental and physical fatigue were the impediments to her rejoining New York, and ask any athlete _ those really can be big obstacles to being able to perform.
Cound expects her back in the WNBA next summer, although that might not be with the Liberty. It may depend on how New York (relocated to Newark as home base for the next three summers) fares this season. If McCarville is obviously missed and Whisenant decides to reach out to her (or vice versa), maybe she does play for the Liberty again.
But if the team does well enough and it's deemed that McCarville returning in 2012 would not be beneficial, then the Liberty likely would try to trade her. From what I've heard from Lib fans, there is a real split in how they regard her contributions. But she is a former No. 1 draft pick and I'm sure she will be of value to some team.
Now, Nolan is in a different situation than McCarville. Nolan won three WNBA titles for Detroit, playing in her home state of Michigan. Once the Shock left Detroit for Tulsa, she did not feel any real allegiance to the franchise. Her rights are still owned by Tulsa, but she is not under contract to the Shock. Instead, she opted to sign a contract with her Russian team, UMMC Ekaterinburg, that prevented her from playing in the WNBA last season and this one.
Nolan has a Russian passport, which makes her all the more valuable to her team and its relationship to the Russian Federation.
Nolan always has kind of marched to her own drummer, for lack of a better way to say it. I don't mean it as criticism; it's just fact. She was never that interested in playing for the U.S. national team and was not going to make any financial/personal concessions to do so. The idea of "helping out" the WNBA by playing in a new city such as Tulsa after the Shock relocated was not something Nolan or Detroit teammates Ford and Katie Smith seriously considered. (I wrote for ESPN.com this week about how that's one of the things that has impacted the struggling Shock.)
Ford's mindset, though, is not identical to Nolan's, although she also was part of three WNBA title teams in Detroit. Ford, released from Tulsa, really does want to play in the WNBA again, in part because injuries dampened some of her time in Detroit. (She was hurt and unable to compete in the 2008 postseason when Detroit won its last title).
Ford wants WNBA fans to see her at the top of her game once more. To the degree that Nolan even cares much about that, she feels she's already shown her best to fans.
"Cheryl wants to come back and show people that she's still the best rebounder in the world," Cound said. "She did not accomplish everything yet that she wants to in the WNBA."
Ford considered signing with the New York Liberty for this summer. But she made a financial decision to commit fully to another season in Europe and recently signed with Beretta Famila-Schio, the same team for which McCarville plays.
Cound said a lucrative Russian deal that Ford struck overseas a few years ago was mostly negated by injuries, so some of her prime earning seasons overseas came up dry. She is trying to make up for that while she can.
Speaking of "coming up dry," the European high salaries are evaporating in some places and dropping noticeably in others. Again, this won't surprise those who follow the sport. It was sadly predicted as soon as Spartak Moscow owner Shabtai von Kalmanovic was murdered late in 2009.
Seattle/former Spartak point guard Sue Bird grieved personally over the death of "Shabs" as he was called, but also knew pragmatically what it meant for women's basketball.
"In terms of salaries, you have to have competition to make those go up," Bird said last summer. "It could come to a point where teams see they don't have to pay a player a certain amount because nobody else is offering them that much. You have to have that competition, even if it's between two teams in Russia. It had upped the rest of Europe."
Cound confirms Bird's prognosis has come true. (Bird, incidentally, has signed with UMMC for next season.)
"We're probably an average of 40 percent off the top deals," Cound said of what he and fellow agents are now able to negotiate overseas. "Your top 10-12 salaries are 30, 40 and even 50 percent off what they had been making. All controlled, really, by (UMMC) Ekaterinburg. Once Shabtai was assassinated, that competition ended between the two big-money teams in Russia.
"The competition between them had caused a domino effect to Turkey and Italy, where they had to pay considerably more to get a player's interest away from Russia. People can say what they want about Shabtai, but he was really, really good for these players. He caused the whole market to go up."
Cound said the market was slightly going down even before Kalmanovic's death, but that great accelerated the decline. It's not as if the European leagues are going out of business or anything, but the biggest paydays are in a hiatus until something spikes the market again.
It seems probable, if they stay healthy, that we'll see McCarville and Ford in the WNBA next summer. It may end up that even Nolan opts to return to the league. For that to happen, Nolan likely would want to play for a team somewhat geographically near her hometown of Flint, Mich. Maybe Chicago or Indiana could fit that bill.
(It is NOT my intention to start any "Tweety to Sky" or "Deanna to Indiana" rumors. That latter part is simply speculation.)
For this summer, though, Tweet, CFord and JMac will not be involved in the WNBA. No doubt league followers would like to see any or all of them back in 2012.


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The Voice mentor will.i.am commented in a recent interview that he doesn't know why Tyler James even entered the BBC series, when his music career was going so well for him outside of the show, so the pressure was on for the handsome singer to perform well on the first live round this evening.
The 30 year old singer from London hit the headlines this week, when he revealed that he had to have plastic surgery a few years back, after he was attacked by a gang of ten men. Of course he is also probably best known because of his connection with the late singer Amy Winehouse.
However tonight's show was supposed to be all about his performance and not his face, or his love life and for his first live performance of the series Tyler gave a rendition of 'Higher Love' by Steve Winwood.
He admitted beforehand that he wanted to do a slow and emotional rendition of the hit eighties track and make it totally different to the original and will.i.am seemed excited by his ideas.
By different, Tyler meant higher and he sang the first verse right up in his falsetto. He looked every inch the popstar, in his black tight fitting shirt, trousers and skinny red tie.
The vocals were actually a lot better than we were expecting and the whole thing had a bit of a Prince vibe at one point, which was quite enjoyable. It was one of our favourite performances of the night, because not only did James sing well, but he totally changed up his track.
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TOM JONES: If I had been his coach on this show, i would have done exactly the same because the song choice was perfect. I have never heard anyone sing as strong with a falsetto voice as a full voice.
JESSIE J: I loved the simplicity of it. You seemed so comfortable and it was a great song choice. That was amazing, so well done.
Did you enjoy Tyler's performance tonight? Was it enough to win him a place in the next round? Leave your comments below.


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By Paul Gardner
We don't do things by halves here in the Big Apple, no sirreee. If we set out to make complete asses of ourselves, expect a double dip immediately. And that's what we've now got.
Both dips have a decidedly Brit flavor to them. First of all we have the Red Bulls, evidently looking for some easy publicity, grabbing John Rooney - yes, the great Wayne's younger brother -- during the MLS super-duper draft. What, you might ask, was Rooney doing in the draft? If he's so good, surely he would have been snaffled by a club as a discovery player? A delicate question. Could it be that MLS was also looking for easy publicity for its increasingly irrelevant draft?
Right after the Rooney madness came the startling news that the people -- Brits, all of them -- who are intent on reviving the New York Cosmos, had appointed Frenchman Eric Cantona as their Director of Soccer. (To get that out of the way: no, I'm not sure what a director of soccer is supposed to do - it's a comparatively new title that seems to involve a good deal of treading on the toes of the coach).
Cantona, the Cosmos Brits may be surprised to hear, is not a big deal in New York. But he is in England. So the headlines in England are far, far greater than anything that appeared in New York. Cantona is big in England because he had several very successful seasons with Manchester United, also because he once jumped into the stand to karate-kick an abusive fan, and also because he makes mysteriously ethereal remarks about seagulls, which the English mistake for French intellectuality (the English are, pardon the pun, very gullible in that area).
If you want to see Cantona at his French poseur worst, go to the Cosmos web site, where you will find him glaring at you and puffing cigar-smoke in your face. Very nice.
This Cantona business is frankly disappointing. Up till now the Cosmos group had been making some excellent moves -- establishing themselves at the grassroots level by forming associations with two top, and very well chosen, youth clubs (New York's BW Gottschee, and Los Angeles FC). They have an office in New York, and as their Academy Director, have appointed Giovanni Savarese -- one of the most respected figures in local soccer. And of course, they've got Pele, the most iconic of all the Cosmos players, as honorary president, and they've signed up Cobi Jones as a soccer ambassador and no, I don't know what that means either.
This is all good stuff, I think. Then comes the Cantona nonsense. Which immediately raises the whole question of just how serious this venture is, simply because the advent of King Eric (yes, that's what they're calling him) is so clearly a PR gimmick. It forces one to take a much harder look at the group trying to revive the Cosmos: we have Terry Byrne, one of the prime movers (and a great friend of David Beckham); the other Brits involved are Paul Kemsley (formerly a vice chairman at Tottenham Hotspur and, I gather, the major investor at the moment); Rick Parry (formerly the CEO at Liverpool FC); and Carl Johnson (founder of New York marketing company Anomaly). There you have it -- it would be difficult to imagine a more Britty group than that.
An all-Brit group means, inexorably, a very narrow-minded soccer group. That is a given, though I doubt whether any of that quartet understands that fact. If you want to get the full flavor of just how limited Brit thinking is, you could do worse than start with a long interview that SI's Grant Wahl conducted with Terry Byrne.
Through some nine pages Byrne details his soccer background and experience. Virtually all of it English, and where not English, of a limited European flavor.
I have grown used to this. For virtually every Brit, Latin America simply does not exist. Byrne mentions 21 coaches and players in the interview -- 18 are European, only 3 are Latinos. He congratulates the Red Bulls on signing Thierry Henry, but fails to mention Rafa Marquez. It is also mighty strange that when he talks of the possibility of the Cosmos becoming the 20th team in MLS and a New York team at that (and that would seem to be the ultimate objective) he does not once mention the huge soccer-devoted Hispanic population in the metropolitan area. He talks of the need for a stadium, and gives it as the MLS "preference" that the stadium be in Queens - without giving any indication that he understands just why Queens would be an ideal site.
A reminder or two for Messrs Byrne, Kemsley, Johnson and Parry: when the pro soccer boomlet started in 1967, we had the New York Generals -- with an English coach and a lot of English players. The soccer was poor, the Generals quickly disappeared, unlamented. The Cosmos headed in the same direction -- English coaches, British players. Only when a concerted move to bring in the best players, regardless of their origin, was made (ironically, a Brit, Clive Toye, spearheaded that move) did the real, wildly popular, Cosmos emerge.
If Byrne and his fellow Brits need (and I think they do) a strong reminder on just how awful Brit-oriented soccer can still be, let them study the current MLS champion Colorado Rapids under its Brit coach Gary Smith.
That is the sort of soccer that an all Brit managing group will inevitably bring with them. Unless they are aware of the danger, their attempt to launch a genuine American team with young American players will fail, without any doubt at all. Or, putting it another way, it will be as successful as England has been at the international level for the past 45 years.
In short: the appointment of Cantona is a mistake. It raises one's suspicions that the Brits are only interested in making headlines back in Britain. And deeper suspicions that the idea is to create an academy to raise players who can be sold at marvelous prices to the EPL. That is, if the EPL clubs don't work out a way to get them for nothing.
Cantona can puff his obnoxious stage-prop cigar for all he's worth, but he leaves me thinking only one thing: that Pele would have been a far better choice for whatever that title is.


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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan men's basketball team defeated the Saginaw Valley State Cardinals, 81-55, during an exhibition contest Thursday night (Nov. 6) in Crisler Arena. Despite only holding a four-point lead at the half, the Wolverines nailed 11 three-pointers in the contest and outscored the Cardinals 47-25 during the second half to claim the 26-point victory.
Junior forward DeShawn Sims(Detroit, Mich./Detroit Pershing HS) registered a team-high 19 points and nine rebounds in the contest, falling only one board shy of a double-double from off of the bench. Sophomore guard Manny Harris(Detroit, Mich./Redford HS) and senior/junior forward Zack Gibson(Grand Blanc, Mich./Grand Blanc HS) also posted double-digit scoring efforts, accounting for 16 and 11 points, respectively.
Michigan owned a 34-30 advantage at the break due to stellar shooting from behind the arc as the Wolverines converted 7-of-11 long-distance attempts to overcome a 17-9 rebounding deficit in the opening period. Gibson fueled the home squad to start the game, recording a team-high nine points and two three-point buckets in the first half.
After claiming the initial advantage 18-12 with an 11-4 surge early in the first half, the Maize and Blue did not convert an attempt from the floor for seven consecutive minutes. The Cardinals orchestrated a 15-2 run during the drought to obtain the 27-20 edge, with Gibson tallying U-M's only points off of two free throws.
The Wolverines answered with a 14-3 stretch during the final four minutes of the first period and ended the half with two long-range conversions. Freshman guard Stu Douglass(Carmel, Ind./Carmel HS) opened and closed the scoring streak with a pair of outside buckets to finish perfect from behind the line in the first period. Douglass earned six points and four assists during his first 12 minutes of collegiate action and ended the day with nine points and six assists.
In the first five minutes of the second stanza, U-M expanded the margin to 10 points, 47-37, sparked by a three-point play at the line by Harris. The pre-season All-Big Ten selection recorded nine of Michigan's 13 points to open the second half after only collecting two points in the first 20 minutes of action.
For the remainder of the contest, the Wolverines dictated the pace of the game and did not allow the Cardinals to pull within eight points of the home squad. Harris and Sims combined for 25 second-half points, and junior/sophomore forward Anthony Wright(Sterling, Va./Oak Hill Academy) supplied an additional six points off of two three-pointers.
Opening the 2008-09 regular season, U-M hosts Michigan Tech next Tuesday night (Nov. 11) in Crisler Arena during the first round of the 2K Sports Classic benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer. The in-state match-up is scheduled to tip off at 7 p.m. and will be televised by ESPNU.
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National Geographic premiered its new Boston marathon bombing documentary at the Wilbur Theater Wednesday night. "Inside the Hunt for the Boston Bombers'' uses interviews, re-enactments, emergency radio transmissions and archive footage to tell the story of the attack and its aftermath.
The story is told in chronological order but weaves together points of view from victims, first responders, law enforcement, medical staff and elected officials. Many of those featured in the film were on hand at the premiere.
Among those in attendance were Michele Mahoney and Jim Blackburn, a couple who had been on just four dates before Marathon Monday. Mahoney's leg was badly injured in the blast.
"When I woke up after surgery I immediately thought of him and said to my family 'Someone needs to get in touch with this guy I'm dating,''' she said Wednesday night.
Mahoney said she had avoided the spotlight before she was approached by National Geographic about the documentary.
"I made a conscious decision in the hospital to stay out of the media. We weren't looking for this. They kind of found us,'' she said. "We decided to do one big thing to have it done well.''
Both Mahoney and Blackburn said they learned a lot about the manhunt from the film. In the days after the bombing, the couple was too busy recovering to pay attention to the news.
"We didn't have any idea what happened in Watertown until we watched the movie,'' said Blackburn.
The film also delves into the behind-the-scenes thinking of law enforcement, including disagreements over releasing the photos of the suspected bombers.
In the film, former Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis called it a "terrible choice we had to make.''
"There's no doubt this team went active again after the photos because they felt pushed to do that. It was impossible to foresee they would target a university officer, but I think it was a target of opportunity,'' he said. "I regret that Sean Collier was killed. I wish there was something else that could have been done. But I'm happy that at least those pictures were out there.''
Former Boston FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard DeLauriers said the film showed the emotional toll the search took on agents who continually watched raw footage of the bombing searching for clues.
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This manual contains the official policies of the Duxbury School Committee; the major regulations intended to implement policy; and certain reference or "exhibit" documents that relate to policies and/or regulations.
Policy development in a modern, forward-looking school system is a dynamic, ongoing process. New problems, issues, and needs give rise to the continuing need to develop new policies or to revise existing ones. This is why the committee employs the loose-leaf format for this manual. It is easy to keep up to date.
How to Use this Manual
The school department operates according to policies established by the School Committee. The committee then appraises the effects of its policies and makes revisions as necessary.
In the interests of harmony, efficiency, uniformity of interpretation, coordination of effort, and in fairness to all concerned, the committee makes this manual available to all who are affected by its policies.
How the Manual is Organized
The manual is organized in accordance with the classification system developed by the National School Boards Association. This system provides an efficient means of coding, filing, and finding policies and other documents. There are 12 major classifications each assigned an alphabetical code:
The white pages that follow the tab for each major section present the classification system, section by section, and serve as the tables of contents for each section or "chapter" of this manual.
How to Find a Policy
There are two ways to find a policy (or regulation) in this policy manual:
What if you can't find the term you are seeking? The code finder index lists more than 1,800 terms, but no index of useful size could include every possibility. If the term you are seeking is not included, look up a synonym or a more general or specific term appropriate to the topic.
What if you can find the term and code, but there is no policy or regulation? This probably means that the school system has no written policy or important regulations in that particular area. All terms used in the classification system appear in the sectional tables of contents and Code Finder Index to accommodate the coding, insertion, and finding of policies or regulations that may be issued later. But there is one other possibility. A brief statement related to the policy you are seeking may be incorporated in a "superior" policy, which covers the area generally. This "superior" policy will be coded under a more general term. To find it, read up the classification system. For example, a policy statement, which relates to all meetings of the school committee, might be filed under "School Board Meetings" (BD) rather than "Regular Board Meetings" (BDA). (Please note: In the classification system and Code Finder Index, read "School Committee" for "School Board".)
Using the Signs and Symbols
Various signs and symbols are used in connection with the classification system. They are for your use in locating and/or in examining policies. Included are the following:
Also: Certain policies bear two codes in the upper right hand corner. The second is in parentheses and is preceded by 'Also'. This means that the identical policy (or regulation) is filed under both codes.
-R This symbol following a code indicates that the statement is a regulation, not a committee policy.
-E Exhibit. This symbol following a code indicates that the statement is a reference document such as a calendar, application form, etc., rather than a policy.
Where possible, the original date of adoption/issuance appears immediately following each policy or regulation. In other instances, an approximate adoption or re-approval date is used.
Pertinent legal references are given to inform the reader where in state law s/he may find the statutes that relate to a specific policy. Unless otherwise noted, all references direct the reader to the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (cited as M.G.L., Chapter and section).
Agreements reached through negotiations with recognized staff organizations have the full force of committee policy. References to negotiated agreements are provided, as appropriate, to direct the reader to statements in these agreements.
Certain policies and regulations relate to others. Cross-references are provided following many statements to help the reader find all of the related information needed.
About Policies and Regulations
Generally, the role of a School Committee is to set policy and the role of the administration is to implement it through regulations. Written policies are the chief means by which a School Committee governs the schools, and regulations are one of the means by which the committee's policies are implemented. The following definitions provide a distinction between these two types of statements:
POLICIES are principles adopted by the School Committee to chart a course of action. They are broad enough to indicate a line of action to be taken by the administration in meeting a number of day-to-day problems while being narrow enough to give the administration clear guidance.
These definitions are serviceable some of the time. They reflect sound theory of governance and administration. But policies and regulations are obviously closely related. They can and do merge, making it difficult to ascertain where one begins and the other ends. For example:
* State and federal governments require school committees to make or officially approve detailed regulations, and procedures certain areas.
* A School Committee signs contracts and agreements that may contain and interweave policies, regulations, and procedural detail.
* The public staff, or school committee members may demand that the School Committee itself, not the administration, establish specific regulations and procedures in certain sensitive areas.
It is the intermingling of policy and regulation in law, in contracts, and in adopted statements of the School Committee that can cause confusion. Sometimes they are not easily separated. Therefore, the separation of policies and regulations in this manual follows several "rules of thumb" in addition to basic theory:
No. The manual contains all of the current written policies of the school committee to date. But, the need for putting additional policies in writing, for adopting new or revising existing ones, becomes apparent.
Additionally, state laws; and regulations change. No matter how well conceived and well developed, a policy manual can never be 100% complete and 100% up-to-date. Policy development is a continuing process. From time to time, new policies, regulations, and reference documents will be developed, coded under the classification system, and issued for insertion in the manual.
Should the need arise, supplemental sub codes may be added to the classification system to accommodate topics not covered by existing codes. For example, IGA is the code for BASIC INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM. The Code Finder Index lists various programs from IGAA, CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION to IGAJ, DRIVER EDUCATION.
Order of Precedence
School committee policies and regulations, as well as negotiated agreements with staff bargaining units, must be read and interpreted in the light of the Massachusetts General Laws and State regulations. Wherever inconsistencies of interpretation arise, the law and state regulations prevail. A conflict between a local policy or regulation and a negotiated agreement must be interpreted in line with the contract for members of the particular bargaining unit.
The masculine, feminine and neuter genders as used in this manual import one another, and the singular shall include the plural whenever applicable.
It is the hope of the Duxbury School Committee that this collection of policies and regulations will make greater harmony and efficiency possible in all areas of school operations. This will enable the committee to devote more time to its primary duty--the development of long-range policies and planning for the future of the school system.
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