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A common question asked when you first set out to write an email newsletter is whether it should be a plain text email or HTML (web page style). This is an important consideration since your choice impacts on how many people read your newsletter and how they respond to it. Let's look at the obvious pros and cons of each format.
HTML Emails
Plain Text Emails
Why Do You Have a Newsletter?
Let's cut to the chase here. Why do you have a newsletter? If you are running an Internet business your newsletter functions as a customer retention tool, sending out periodic reminders to pull your prospects/customers back to your site. Newsletters themselves also function as a direct sales tool. It doesn't matter if you are selling affiliate products, your own products, a service or information, your newsletter is meant to do one thing – illicit a response from its audience.
In order for your newsletter readers to feel compelled enough to take action your newsletter must clearly state it's message AND create enough of a pull, usually via emotional tugging, to get the reader to do something. The same rules that apply to websites and copywriting apply to newsletters except you have even less time to convince your reader to do something.
Newsletters fall into the domain of email, the most popular web activity. Email is mainstream, it has penetration and people of all ages and backgrounds know how to use it. Consequently the learning curve is a little higher and your readership knows how to at least complete the basic functions with email. This means that they are quite capable of giving each email about 1 seconds worth of attention before clicking that delete button. That's not a lot of time to convince them that your email is worth reading.
Should I use Plain Text or HTML Newsletters?
In my opinion, plain text should be your choice for email newsletter format. Why? Because of the numbers. Email newsletters are a form of direct response marketing and in direct response marketing the numbers matter.
From the point of view of a small business owner with limited time and resources you want to maximise the results you get from your newsletters. You want a lot of responses to whatever your newsletter is trying to do. You should be able to easily test different copy and see which works best so you can maximise the numbers. It's all about the numbers…
Your newsletter must hit the reader quickly and compel them to read on. Any delays or presentation errors are going kill your chance of capturing the attention of the reader. While plain text emails are not immune to display errors (more on this later) they are a lot more likely to be digested by the reader even if things don't format exactly how you want them to.
A plain text email is more likely to reach a larger amount of people than a HTML email simply because plain text is more compliant to standards. Plain text emails are less likely to be blocked by SPAM filters. Plain text emails will display immediately, there are no download times waiting for graphics to finish loading. Plain text emails are more likely to display properly regardless of what email client your subscribers use. All this adds up to plain text emails being read more often…better numbers…see a pattern here?
Words Sell
Bells and whistles are nice. Interactive toys and flashy lights and sounds are great. But ultimately it's words that sell. If you write compelling newsletter copy aimed at your target audience that have been carefully selected by the methods used to acquire newsletter sign-ups, you have the perfect vehicle to illicit a response using words that sell. Why dilute your message by wrapping it within colours and images or overstimulating your readers by providing too much information when a few paragraphs can create your desired results more effectively.
Why Not Use Both Plain Text and HTML?
Good idea! If you have the resources and skills to produce a quality HTML and plain text newsletter then by all means offer both to your audience and let them nominate which they prefer, or better still have the email automatically display the appropriate format by detecting what type of email client they have. If you offer both be sure to test to make sure it's worthwhile. Are more people responding to plain text emails? Well in that case send everyone plain text.
In my case I'm a small business owner and I'm going to be writing the newsletters myself. I do not have time nor the skills to create a new HTML webpage for every newsletter I produce. I could perhaps have a nice standard template designed which I use for newsletters but as I wrote above, I believe that is a waste of time. Words sell, so I'll focus on creating emotionally compelling words for my newsletters rather than waste time trying to get a box to align right correctly.
Tips for Better Plain Text Newsletters
Remember how I talked about the numbers? Your efforts should be focused on ensuring the maximum number of people are exposed to your email so your emotionally compelling and convincing newsletter can work it's magic. This doesn't have to be limited to just your newsletter subscribers — your subscribers can be turned into evangelists for your newsletter. Make it easy for your subscribers to forward your newsletter on to friends and associates – suggest it to them at the end of the newsletter. Of course for this work you better be creating a damn interesting newsletter.
Plain text can format incorrectly and one of the most common problems is line breaks. Either lines breaking too early causing your sentences to look
disjointed and
clumsy, or no line breaks at all, causing one of those nasty horizontal scrollbars to appear and your reader to read off the page to finish a sentence. The screen resolution of your subscribers computers can also impact how your text wraps causing these problems.
You can't control the monitor resolution of your readers or what email client they use, all you can do is try and account for as many variables as possible. To compensate for this problem you have to set a characters-per-line limitation. I've researched into newsletter formatting and different people give different suggestions, from 68 characters per line to 63. I've decided to recommend to you the round number of 60 characters per line. This will give you nice compact paragraphs made up of nice compact sentences that are likely to avoid most word wrapping (or lack thereof) problems your readers might experience. On extremely high resolutions there will be a lot of white space and your email might look like one big long tower of text but that's still a lot better than broken sentences or horizontal scrollbars and won't be too common a problem.
How To Set Characters Per Line Limitations
You didn't think I would tell you what to do without giving you practical advice on how to do it would I?! Of course not.
I have a script on my site that you can use to format text that will handle email newsletter formatting to any character width you specify. Better still it can even undo the current character spacing on any text you have, so it's definitely a tool worth book-marking.
Newsletters Are An Important Tool For Your Online Business
Many of the most successful Internet entrepreneurs are wealthy because they have massive (10,000+) lists of highly targeted subscribers that they have been building for years. One well written affiliate product email to a good list can create thousands of dollars of sales and you don't even supply the product.
Better still once you have a solid list you can contact similar focused online marketers and carefully select the right cross promotional activities that can double your exposure with one email to their list. Of course you have to have your own list to make available for cross promotions before you can expect to work with other people – the smart/persistent/rich help each other to get richer.
Even if you are using your newsletter as a step in the conversion process to generate sales of your own products or services it's a wise to stay up to date on good newsletter management techniques. By focusing on the numbers you can maximise direct responses that will lead to more sales as visitors become prospects and prospects become clients.
Yaro Starak
Yaro, I agree with more or less everything you say above. We've always sent plain text emails for the reasons that – they're much easier and a great deal more "personal". However I'm beginning to wonder about HTML… It can handle a lot more "bells and whistles" and it does look pretty nice too…
At the moment I agree that text emails are still the way to go but the case for HTML seems to be strengthening as more and more people become familiar with, or even come to expect, that format.
In the meantime, I'll definitely be using your text wrapping tool.
Hi Yaro, sorry, I have to disagree with you. I personally do not like plain text E-Mails, because they are so hard to read, because it's just text and the formatting is missing. Look at this website, even very simple formattings such as headers and frames or borders make it a lot easier to digest content and to get an overview of the content. I can't read a text only e-mail fast, because I have no orientation and hints on whether there is anything useful in that email without reading that entire e-mail. I also can't stand inactive links, because they also make it harder to read since you usually don't care what the url is, you just want to click on it and go there. I agree that you have to use HTML conservative though.
But using plain text because some e-mail clients may not support it is not a good point either. Come on, where do we live, in the 80's? That's like saving all of your files in 8.3 format, because *some* computer out there might not understand it.
Yaro go the HTML emails Im currently working on this type of email for my site. I personally love HTML emails. My two cents…
Ahh it's good to have some people disagree with me!
I still stand by my call for plain text because I believe the numbers, at least for the time being, will be better AND talking about it from a solopreneur point of view, it's a lot easier to prepare plain text. If you have the staff that can do HTML for you or you are proficient enough to do it time effectively then okay.
Hermann, I think it's too soon to say that there you are safe to use HTML emails without concern for client compatibility. I get emails now that my mozilla email client can't display properly (note that it's usually SPAM of course).
Of course all this is moot, when it comes down to it you should try both and see which bring in a better response or wait for the experts to do all the testing for you and then adopt their best practices. Considering pretty much every newsletter I subscribe to from the so called experts in online marketing use plain text I'll consider that a vote of confidence until things change.
Hmm handy article Yaro,
I am about to start a newsletter and wasn't too sure on which format to go with there..
[…] If you are like me you send out email newsletters on a regular basis. I only use text based email newsletters and I always need to format the width by using character spacing restrictions. You can read why I do this in my article – Formatting Email Newsletters – Should You use Plain Text or HTML? […]
Hey Yaro;
I am about to start a newsletter and wasn't too sure on which format to go with there and why that they weren't like a regular email. Now I do. Thanks for the help and update.
I find using HTML with ONLY TEXT, results in
awesome results. Great for tracking as well.
Kinda best of both worlds I guess.

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DRAGONS recruit Josh Dugan admits the fire still burns to prove himself at State of Origin level.
Had his career panned out differently, Dugan may well have been in camp with the NSW squad today, preparing to wear the sky blue No. 1 jersey for the second time, against Queensland at ANZ Stadium next week.
Dugan's form in his two appearances for the Dragons suggests the spark is still there for the 23-year-old, who spent two months out of the game after leaving Canberra in controversial circumstances.
In 2011, Dugan made his first – and so far only – Origin appearance. He was hurt playing for the Raiders days after his NSW debut – a 16-12 loss to the dominant Maroons machine – and has not returned.
While Dugan continues his rugby league rehabilitation after the infamous social media outbursts and a rooftop drinking session with Blake Ferguson, his former Raiders teammate's recent run of remarkable form earned him a place on the NSW wing.
Instead, Dugan will be part of St George Illawarra's salvage mission on Friday night against the Bulldogs, after a 19-0 loss to Penrith at Kogarah. However, he admits playing for NSW again is a future goal.
"It's in the back of my mind at the moment," he said. "It's always a goal for any player to play for their state, or whatever else. But at the moment, I've only been back two weeks, so I'm looking forward to playing good footy for the Dragons and [it] staying that way."
A scene-stealing two-try debut for the Dragons not only reinforced Dugan's immense talent but also warranted NSW great and Mercury columnist Steve Roach to say he could even play a part in this year's Origin series. But NSW coach Laurie Daley last week revealed he only wanted Dugan to focus on his form with the Dragons without being distracted by any greater expectations.
Daley picked Jarryd Hayne at fullback, allowing Ferguson to make his Origin debut with Brett Morris recovering from injury in time for selection.
For his part, Dugan realises the importance of going the "right way" about making the most of an NRL lifeline.
"I've settled in pretty well," he said. "It's a big vibe around here and it's good to be part of. I've been speaking to a couple of the players and a couple of the coaching staff, I'm looking to improve and go the right way about it. They've welcomed me well, I'm just enjoying each week getting back into the routine of things."
While Dugan's brilliant introduction was tempered by the 19-0 loss to Penrith, Kiwi international winger Jason Nightingale said the star recruit hadn't put a foot wrong in the Dragons squad.
"He's been great with the group," he said. "Especially on the field he's been outstanding in his two games so far. He's a great individual player.
"He'll spend a bit of time tinkering with the ability that he's got and making sure we understand when to pop up next to him."


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Kiss me right there, Mom! I'm up way too late working on my story ~ thought I'd take a break for a minute and go moderate comments. I found the following from "Cynthia" and started to post my own comment in reply ~ but after typing for a bit, decided I don't want this buried in the comments section ~ it needs to be a post of its own.Here's what Cynthia wrote:Wow, I am amazed how so many things seem to be falling into a straight line for me regarding this issue.I have nine children simply because I was emotionally and spiritually manipulated into a quiverfull mindset. Finally, with the birth of my last child, we realized that we needed to finish what we had started and raise these c … [Read more...]
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Have You Ever *2* - Poem by Alicia Meyers
Have you ever gotten so angry that you wanted to punch everything in contact with you until both of your hands break? But that anger isn't just anger it's also sadness, too? Have you ever gotten to the point where you couldn't take life anymore? Where you would put the knife on your skin or the gun to your head ready to slice your arm open or pull the trigger? Have you ever gotten so angry and sad that you didn't care about life anymore nor any of your friends and family? Sat on your bed thinking that you wish you were never born? That you wish nothing ever happened and that everything would just fade away? Cried yourself to sleep and when you wake up you'd realize what happened and cry even more? Hoping it was just a bad nightmare, but it was real? Have you ever thought that whatever happened, happened for a reason?
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While the final count of attendees isn't in just yet, volunteers at the 22nd Annual Community Holiday Dinner say it was by far the best year ever. The Holiday Inn Convention Center was packed full of people enjoying a free meal and volunteering to help support the event. Even Santa and Mrs. Claus made an appearance.
In 1988, the Sheridan Memorial Hospital Auxiliary started the Trees of Light ceremony as a means to raise funds for the hospital. In 1989, the name was changed to Trees of Love. The ceremony is held every year on the first Sunday in December.
Buffalo had a chili feed, shopping deals and the finale of the Mr. Movember contest in addition to the lighted parade this weekend. Images by Aaron and Krista Palmer.
Photos of Buffalo's 2012 Lighted Christmas Parade. All images by Aaron Palmer.
Winter sports for Buffalo and Kaycee High School's athletes got underway this weekend with most teams in competition.
BHS hosted the East/West Tournament and the Bison won all three of their games on the way to winning the tournament.
The Sheridan Recreation District is looking to fill the position of adult sports specialist. Rec. District Executive Director Richard Wright explains what those interested in the position should do.
Here's a look at the past week's top stories from Sheridan Media News:
Authorities say a Cheyenne man faces felony charges because he is suspected of firing shots at an apartment complex over an argument about $60.
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|From: Jos Koot (jos.koot at telefonica.net)
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I already tried to answer Dan Gliebold along this line, but I did not for the following caveat: (define namespace (make-namespace)) (define (add-binding name transformer) (eval #`(define-syntax #,name #,transformer) namespace)) (add-binding 'name (syntax-rules () ((_) (list 'transformer)))) (eval '(name) namespace) ;--> error: reference to undefined identifier: name The following does work: (define namespace (make-namespace)) (define (add-binding name transformer) (eval #`(define-syntax #,name #,transformer) namespace)) (add-binding #'name (syntax-rules () ((_) (list 'transformer)))) ^^^^^^ (eval '(name) namespace) ;--> (transfomer) Jos ((((lambda(x)((((((x x)x)x)x)x)x)) (lambda(x)(lambda(y)(x(x y))))) (lambda(x)(write x)x)) 'greeting) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Flatt" <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> To: "Dan Liebgold" <dan.liebgold at gmail.com> Cc: <plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 4:41 PM Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] adding syntax transfomer to a namespace > At Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:25:33 -0800, "Dan Liebgold" wrote: >> Is there any way to emulate the behavior of define-syntax[es] by explicitly >> defining a transformer in a namespace? I'd like to store a transformer in >> a list, then create a namespace later and add the transformer to it such >> that the various expand functions will honor it. > > I don't think there's any alternative to `eval' for that task: > > (define (add-binding name transformer) > (eval #`(define-syntax #,name #,transformer))) > > All the usual caveats for using `eval' apply in this case. (Hopefully, > those caveats will get collected in the new documentation in the near > future). > > Matthew > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/attachments/20071214/b70ba845/attachment.html>
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TeenHealthFX wants to start by saying that we think it is a wonderful thing when teens want to be physically healthy and in good shape. The number of teens in America who are overweight and obese are on the rise – and this can contribute to emotional problems, such as stress and depression, as well as increase risk for medical concerns such as diabetes and high blood pressure.
However, we also want to point out that it is important for teens to have realistic expectations for their bodies – how their bodies perform and what they look like. In a world where we are constantly bombarded by images from the media of what is beautiful, many young men and women consider themselves "fat" when in fact they are at a perfectly healthy weight. That said, before trying to shed any pounds, it's a good idea to check in with your primary care physician or adolescent medicine specialist to come up with some reasonable and healthy fitness goals, as well as to ensure you are using safe means of meeting those goals.
If your doctor agrees that it is reasonable and healthy for you to try and tackle your midsection, discuss the following considerations with him/her to come up with a plan that is best for you:
Some teens think that crunches alone can take care of belly fat. However, to lose fat anywhere in the body, including the belly, regular cardio activity is a must. Find an activity that you enjoy or that you can do with friends – whatever keeps you motivated to keep it up. You could walk, run, play sports with a school or town team, swim, bike, or whatever else gets your heart pumping.
Strengthen your middle
Exercises that strengthen your core will definitely help firm up your middle. You could look into doing yoga or pilates, or other effective exercises that target the midsection. You could check with your coach, your doctor, or a personal trainer at a local gym for ideas on specific exercises. You could also ask them about some of the exercises demonstrated in Exercises to improve your core strength and Core-strength exercises with a fitness ball.
Consider what you eat
Eating a healthy diet is a critical component to losing the "stubborn belly fat." Smaller portions and healthier choices are the key. Try and stay clear of foods high in sugar. Eat foods that have fewer calories and that are high in fiber, like fruits and vegetables. Choose lean proteins such as fish, beans and lentils. Go for whole wheat pasta, whole grain breads, and brown rice rather than regular pasta, white bread and white rice. And stay away from highly processed foods.
Don't think "quick fix"
Fad diets, such as ones that use diet pills or that severely restrict caloric intake, might seem tempting to teens who want results quickly. But remember that when you resort to fad diets, the results aren't going to be long-term and they can carry certain health risks. What you want to focus on are lifestyle changes in terms of physical activity and how you eat – that is what will bring long-lasting and healthy results.
Teens often abuse prescription drugs because of the myth that these drugs provide a medically safe high.
It is estimated that major depressive disorder (MDD) affects about 5% of adolescents, and that between 10 - 15% of adolescents have some symptoms of depression at any one time.
Statistics show that giving a teen a credit card does not teach them to be financially responsible or to encourage self-restraint, but actually promotes a "spend now and deal with the consequences later" mindset.
Girls are more likely to intentionally abuse prescription drugs than boys.
The reality of excessive interest rates and fees that often accompany credit card use for teens, can put youngsters in a position where they are losing out on admission to graduate school, getting a job, or renting an apartment because of damaged credit history.
Less than 33% of teens with depression get help, yet 80% of teens with depression can be successfully treated if they seek help from a doctor or therapist.
Traffic crashes are the greatest single cause of death for all persons age 6-33, and about 45% of these fatalities are alcohol-related crashes.
About 6.2 million Americans get a new genital HPV infection each year.
30% of teens with depression also have a substance abuse problem.
Freshmen bring an average of $1,585.00 in credit card debt to college.
About a third of women who seek services related to unprotected sex, such as pregnancy testing or emergency contraception, do not receive STD counseling, testing, or treatment.
7-10% of college students will drop out of school because of credit problems.
Teens with untreated depression are more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors, leading to higher rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
Most smokers begin smoking as teens, and the average age of initiation is 12.5 years of age.
People with manic symptoms and Bipolar Disorder II are at a significant risk of later developing an alcohol abuse or dependence problem.
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for U.S. teens, accounting for 36% of all deaths in this age group.
The teen pregnancy rate in the United States is the highest of any industrialized democracy, nearly twice that of Great Britain and 10 times that of Japan. 4
Compared with other age groups, teens have the lowest rate of seat belt use, and male high school students are more likely than female students to rarely or never wear seat belts.
A national study of women ages 15-44 found that women were almost twice as likely to receive contraceptive services rather than STD services.
The teenage pregnancy rate in the U.S. is at its lowest level in thirty years, down 36% since its peak in 1990. Research suggests that both increased abstinence and positive changes in contraceptive practice are responsible these recent declines in teen pregnancy.
A sexually active teenager who does not use contraceptives has a 90% chance of becoming pregnant within one year. 8
In the United States, at least 5-10 million girls and women and 1 million boys and men are struggling with eating disorders. 11
Among male drivers between 15 and 20 years of age who were involved in fatal crashes in 2005, 38% were speeding at the time of the crash and 24% had been drinking.
Homicide is the second leading cause of death among 15- to 24-year-olds overall. 16
Every two minutes, somewhere in America, someone is sexually assaulted. 22
One in four teenage girls in the U.S. had at least one common sexually transmitted disease.
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among youths ages 15 to 20. 19
The highest Chlamydia rates occurred among women ages 15 to 19 and 20 to 24.
About 44% of rape victims are under age 18. Three out of every twenty victims (15%) are under age 12. 25
Each year, half of all HIV infections are among people under the age of 25.
Crash risk is particularly high during the first year that teenagers are eligible to drive.
One out of every six American women have been the victims of an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime. A total of 17.7 million women have been victims of these crimes. 23
Teen girls ages 15-19 have the highest Gonorrhea rate of any age group.
The motor vehicle death rate for male drivers and passengers ages 16-19 is more than one and half times that of their female counterparts.
More than four in 10 young women become pregnant at least once before they reach the age of 20 - nearly one million teen pregnancies a year 3
The presence of teen passengers increases the crash risk of unsupervised teen drivers; the risk increases with the number of teen passengers.
Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in this country. More than 400,000 Americans die from tobacco-related causes each year, and most of them began using tobacco before the age of 18.
The risk of motor vehicle crashes is higher among 16- to 19-year-olds than among any other age group.
Underage drinking costs the U.S. more than $58 billion every year; enough to buy every public school student a state-of-the-art computer.
At all levels of blood alcohol concentration (BAC), the risk of involvement in a motor vehicle crash is greater for teens than for older drivers.
Teens who drink are more likely to be victims of violent crimes and sexual assault, have serious problems in school, be involved in drinking-related traffic crashes, and develop problems with alcohol later in life.
Nearly all the poison deaths in the U.S. are attributed to drugs, and most drug poisonings result from the abuse of prescription and illegal drugs.
Alcohol kills 6.5 times more youth than all other illicit drugs combined.
Persons aged 15-24, who represent only 14% of the U.S. population, account for 30% ($19 billion) of the total costs of motor vehicle injuries among males and 28% ($7 billion) among females.
Among young people ages 12-17, prescription drugs have become the second most abused illegal drug, behind marijuana.


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Wedding Bible Verses from the Old and New Testaments
Wedding bible verses for a Christian wedding ceremony usually follows a general pattern, and would include some bible verses.
These may be one or two readings, which can be read during the ceremony.
If your ceremony includes wedding bible readings, your celebrant will give you a list to choose from.
Sit down with your partner and select the wedding bible verses that have meaning to the both of you.
Exactly how religious the text is will really depend on the church laws and the celebrant; some may let you include poems, whereas others will only allow you to read bible verse.
Choosing a wedding bible verse, can be both exciting and confusing, yo help you decide on a suitable reading, think about the sort of ceremony you would like to have.
Take the time to read the wedding bible verses together, then select the ones that have the message that you want to pass on to your friends and family.
If you don't really understand the messages in the wedding bible verses, arrange a time with your celebrant and he/she will be able to give you a better understanding of the readings.
Wedding bible verses can come from the Old Testament, New Testament and Psalms.
Listed below are some wedding bible verses from the Jerusalem Bible Popular Edition.
Wedding Bible Verses from the Old Testament
Creation of Man and Woman
(Genesis 1, 26-28. 31)
God made every kind of wild beast, every kind of cattle, and every kind of land reptile. God saw that it was good. God said, 'Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild beasts and all the reptiles that crawl upon the earth'.
God created man in the image of himself, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them.
God blessed them, saying to them, 'Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and conquer it. Be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven and all living animals on the earth.'
God saw all he had made, and indeed it was very good. Evening came and morning came: the sixth day.
Prayer of Two Young Spouses
(Tobit 8, 5-7)
She stood up, and they began praying for protection, and this was how he began: 'You are blessed, O God of our fathers:
blessed, too, is your name forever and ever.
Let the heavens bless you
And all things you have made
For evermore.
It was you, who created Adam,
You who created Eve his wife
to be his help and support;
and from these two the human race was born.
It was you who said,
"It is not good that the man should be alone;
let us make him a helpmate like himself".
And so I do not take my sister
for any lustful motive;
I do it in singleness of heart.
Be kind enough to have pity on her and on me
and bring us to old age together.'
Other Wedding Bible Verses from the Old Testament
The Unity of Marriage
Genesis (2, 18-24)
The Marriage of Isaac and Rebekah
Genesis (24, 48-51. 58-67)
The Bride
Song of Songs (2, 8-10. 14-16. 6-7)
In the garments of salvation, he has wrapped me in a cloak of integrity
Isaiah (61, 10-11)
Marriage of Tobiah and Sarah
Tobit (7, 9-0. 11-15)
Wedding Bible Verses from the New Testament
The Beatitudes
(Mathew 5, 1-10)
Seeing the crowds, he went up to the hill. There he sat down and was joined by his disciples. Then he began to speak. This is what he taught them:
'How happy are the poor in spirit;
theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Happy the gentle they shall have the earth for their heritage,
Happy those who mourn; they shall be comforted.
Happy those who hunger and thirst for what is right; they shall
be satisfied.
Happy the merciful; they shall have mercy shown them.
Happy the pure in heart; they shall see God.
Happy the peacemakers: they shall be called sons of God.
Happy those who are persecuted in the cause of right: theirs is the kingdom of heaven.'
Salt Of The Earth And Light Of The World.
(Mathew 5, 13-16)
'You are the salt of the earth. But if salt becomes tasteless, what can make it salty again? It is a good for nothing, and can only be thrown out to be trampled underfoot by men.
'You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill-top cannot be hidden.
No one lights a lamp to put it under a tub: In the same way your light must shine in the sight of men, so that, seeing your good works, they may give the praise to your Father in heaven.
The great mystery of Marriage
(Ephesians 5, 2. 21-33)
And follow Christ by loving as he loved you, giving himself up in our place as a fragrant offering and a sacrifice to God.
Give way to one another in obedience to Christ. Wives should regard their husbands as they regard the Lord, since as Christ is head of the Church and saves the whole body, so is a husband the head of his wife, and as the Church submits to Christ, so should wives to their husbands, in everything.
Husbands should love their wives just as Christ loved the Church and sacrificed himself for her to make her holy. He made her clean by washing her in water with a form of words, so that when he took her to himself she would be glorious, with no speck or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and faultless.
In the same way, husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies; for a man to love his wife is for him to love himself. A man never hates his own body, but he feeds it and looks after it: and that is the way Christ treats the Church, because it is his body-and we are its living parts.
For this reason, a man must leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one body.
This mystery has many implications; but I am saying it applies to Christ and the Church. To sum up; you too, each one of you, must love his wife as he loves himself; and let every wife respect her husband.
Love is Patient, Love is Kind
(1 Corinthians 13, 4-13)
Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous; love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense, and is not resentful.
Love take no pleasure in other people's sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.
Love does not come to an end. But if there are gifts of prophecy, the time will come when they must fail; or the gift of languages, it will not continue for ever; and knowledge-for this, too, the time will come when it must fail.
For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophesying is imperfect; but once perfection comes, all imperfect things will disappear. When I was a child, I used to talk like a child, and think like a child, and argue like a child, but now I am a man, all childish ways are put behind me.
Now we are seeing a dim reflection in a mirror; but then we shall be seeing face to face. The knowledge that I have now is imperfect; but then I shall know as fully as I am known.
In short, there are three things that last; faith, hope and love and the greatest of these is love.
Other Wedding Bible Verses From The New Testament
Where your Treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Mathew (6, 19-21)
The Great Commandment of Love.
Mathew (22, 35-40)
What God has Joined Together let no Man put Asunder.
Mark (10, 6-9)
Who will separate us from the love of Christ?
Romans (8, 31-35. 37-39)
The Christian's new life.
Romans (12, 1-2. 9-18)
Your Body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians (6, 13-15. 17-20)
Praise of True Love
1 Corinthians (12, 31-13. 8)
Live in Love and Peace
Colossians (3, 12-17)
Love in Deed and in Truth
1 John (3, 18-24)
God is Love
1 John (4, 7-12)
The Wedding Feast of the Lamb
Revelations (19, 1. 5-9)


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So there he was, arrayed in jaunty cap, and a swallow-tailed coat with brass buttons.
The beaver hat and swallow-tailed coat were kept in the lead.
He wears a beaver hat and swallow-tailed coat, girdled with a sailor-belt and sheath-knife.
I will stop here and get my beaver hat, white vest, and swallow-tailed coat.
He had on a swallow-tailed coat, but it did not fit him, so I conclude it was borrowed or hired for the occasion.
In very early boyhood, my Sunday suit was a swallow-tailed coat, and hat of the stove-pipe pattern.
The costume Patty had chosen was an old-fashioned dress-suit, with knee-breeches and swallow-tailed coat.
As Jack stepped into the open air he peeled off his swallow-tailed coat and threw it over Ted's arm.
"Old Tongwana ought to have figured in a swallow-tailed coat and a top hat and a mútya" said Thornhill.
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Hi, I would lake to request a symbol for Tunnus obesus (big-eye tuna). Mostly I need a large pelagic fish and there are no good examples in the current IAN library. This species is common enough that would useful to other users.
Dorsal spines: 13 - 14; Dorsal soft rays: 14 - 15; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 14. Large body, deepest near the middle of the first dorsal fin base. Lower sides and belly whitish; a lateral iridescent blue band runs along the sides in live specimens. The first dorsal fin is deep yellow, the second dorsal and anal fins are light yellow, the finlets are bright yellow edged with black.
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The Orlando Magic probably thought they would end their losing streak against the hapless New Orleans Hornets. Instead, they suffered their third consecutive defeat by four points or less, coming up on the short end of a 97-94 final on Wednesday night at the Amway Center.
"I don't know what it was," Magic point guard Jameer Nelson said. "I don't think we played hard enough defensively. Overall it's not on any one guy; it's all of us out there together. We just have to do things harder and be tougher out there, so whatever we have to do we have to do."
The Hornets (6-22) snapped their own 11-game losing streak thanks to 29 points from Robin Lopez and 27 points, eight rebounds, and six assists from Greivis Vasquez. Former Magic forward Ryan Anderson chipped in with 15 points, while rookie Anthony Davis had 12 points and 11 rebounds.
Orlando (12-16) dropped to 7-8 at home despite 28 points and 10 assists from Nelson, 19 points and nine rebounds from Nikola Vucevic, 14 points from Arron Afflalo, 12 points and six assists from J.J. Redick, and 10 points and six rebounds from E'Twaun Moore.
New Orleans was 38 of 76 (50.0%) from the field compared to 36 of 79 (45.6%) for the Magic. Orlando made 11 of 30 (36.7%) shots from 3-point range, whereas the Hornets were 2 of 12 (16.7%). The hosts made 19 of 20 (95.0%) free throw attempts, while Orlando was 11 of 13 (84.6%).
The Hornets held a 26-24 advantage at the end of the first quarter before the Magic battled back to take a 53-49 halftime lead. New Orleans outscored Orlando 29-23 in the third quarter and 19-18 in the fourth.
"They're a scrappy team all-around," Nelson added. "I mean, they've always been a scrappy team, no matter who they had on their team, so they came in and basically handed it to us a little bit."
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I have been studying philosophy for over twenty years now and teaching it for close to ten. From my first contact with Plato's dialogues, I was hooked. I love philosophy, the discovery of ideas and feelings, and exploring this thing called life.
After graduating from high school, I left for a four year stint in the Marine Corps. Next I attended the University of Pittsburgh and received my BA in philosophy. For the following three years, I worked first as an in-home crises intervention counselor and then as a family therapist. I received my first MA from Duquesne University with concentrations in European philosophy and Gestalt psychology and my second MA from CSU Los Angeles in Philosophy.
After my first MA, I spent about two years travelling the world and this included sojourns to East Asia as an ESL teacher and extended excursions across continental Asia, including Southeast Asia, India, and Indonesia.
My travels eventually led me here to the Los Angeles area where I was hired by the LA Valley College as an associate professor of philosophy. I have also taught at CSUN for a number of years as a full time a lecturer. I continue informal studies in philosophy and psychology and my current interests include existentialism, phenomenology, non-human animals and how they've been treated in western philosophy, the connection between psychology and philosophy, and logic. One of my perennial interests is ancient Greek philosophy and I always seem to discover some ideas from that era that continue to fascinate me.


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Thomson Reuters
Number of Layoffs: 3,000
Layoffs As % of Workforce: 5%
Financial news giant Thomson Reuters joined the layoffs parade in late October by announcing plans to boot around 3,000 of its workers thanks to tough competition and tepid sales.
The move comes on top of earlier layoffs, too. That means the Thomson Reuters workforce of 60,000 will lose just under 10% of staff thanks to 2013 layoffs. This second round of layoffs will mainly affect the financial and risk division, which is the company's biggest unit.
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Trevor Howard, Head Coach
Trevor Howard embarks upon his second season as the head coach of the Chiefs' men's and women's cross country programs. In his debut season he carried on the tradition of success that Waubonsee's program has enjoyed over the years. Howard directed the Men's team to the Region IV Division I title, to qualify for the NJCAA National Meet. Under his guidance Josh Robinson earned Region Runner of the Year honors, while Nixa Del Real Robles came in second to earn All-Region status and qualify for the National Meet. Not surprisingly Howard was named the Region IV Men's Cross Country Coach of the Year.
Coach Howard graduated in 2009 from Wilmington High School where he was a three-sport athlete. He went on to excel on the track and the cross country course for the University of St. Francis in Joliet. Howard ran at the NAIA Indoor National Championships in 2011 as part of the Fighting Saints' distance medley relay and ran the marathon at the 2014 NAIA Outdoor National Championship, finishing 14th in the nation. He was a member of St. Francis' 2012 NAIA National Championship Cross Country team. In the classroom he was near the head of the pack as well, earning the distinction of track and field NAIA-scholar athlete three times and cross country NAIA-scholar athlete status in 2013.
Howard graduated from the University of St. Francis in May of 2014 with a bachelor's degree in Biology and holds a USA Track and Field Level 1 coaching certification. He spent the 2014 season as an assistant cross country coach at Gardner South-Wilmington High School, helping one of his Lady Panthers' cross country runners place second at the Illinois State Class 'A' Finals. Howard is currently the assistant Track and Field coach at Dwight High School where he helped guide 11 student-athletes to All-State status this past spring, including the boy's 800 meter State Champion. Away from running, Howard currently works at Consolidated Pipe and Supply and resides in Channahon.
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According to Global Language Monitor, around 5,400 new words are created every year (Oxford Dictionaries Online, evidently using different criteria, reckon 1.8bn). It's only the 1,000 or so deemed to be in sufficiently widespread use that make it into print. Who invents these words, and how? What rules govern their formation? And what determines whether they catch on?
Shakespeare is often held up as a master neologist, because at least 500 words (including bump, cranny, fitful, lacklustre and pedant) first appear in his works – but we have no way of knowing whether he personally invented them or was just transcribing things he'd picked up elsewhere. More.
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from the Viewpoint column of the Christian Research Journal, Winter/Spring 1987, page 31. The Editor-in-Chief of the Christian Research Journal is Elliot Miller.
I was immensely relieved when Christians began to recognize organizations and individuals associated with the Aquarian or "New Age" religions. I myself was once actively involved in the "mind sciences," part of a network seeking to replace the "antiquated" religion of the Piscean Age, fundamental Christianity.
The actual beliefs of New Agers were shocking to most of my Christian friends. They took comfort, though, in the thought that only Maharishi/Bhagwan types and their followers were prey to such deception. The church was considered immune.
But then cult researchers and even ex-New Agers started protesting that mystic-mixing was growing in the church. This alarm was not well received. When I first voiced my concern that the old occult techniques were increasingly being recycled into packages with Christian labels, I saw a familiar reaction from my friends. Formerly, as a New Ager, if I talked about reincarnation or meditation, Bible-believers backed away from me. After I came out of the occult and professed Jesus Christ as the only Way, New Agers did the backing up. Now when I complained that the current spirituality of some in the Christian church was like a flashback from my past in the metaphysical Unity cult, I found myself accused of being some nefarious "doom and gloomer."
The irony of being identified as such is almost laughable to me. I was once a pantheistic Pollyanna who prided myself in "denying the negative, affirming the positive." I knew firsthand that the principles could work. As an adolescent who grew up in the Unity churches I was taught to avoid anything that smacked of fear and negativity. Prosperity, health, and happiness were all divine rights that merely needed to be affirmed repeatedly and visualized until the subconscious mind accepted them as reality.
It would seem that today's brand of "popular Christianity" is catching up to Unity's consciousness level! As Time (17 Feb. 1986) has reported.
The prosperity preachers build on the Pentecostal faith in here-and-now miracles, citing bits of scripture to proclaim that God has already guaranteed not only spiritual comfort but material prosperity and physical healing. Believers who pronounce their wishes in true faith have already received them, the preachers maintain, even though it make take time for the miracles to be realized. The shorthand version: name it and claim it.
If I might be excused for using a pet cliche of New Agers, what a deja vu! As a student of Unity, I was taught to approach God boldly, thanking Him in advance for meeting all my desires, even if the actual results were slow in being manifested. We condescendingly tolerated anyone who actually thought they had to beg or plead God for anything at all. We merely had to deny the negative condition and receive what God had provided. Unity used these principles long before neo-pentecostal "faith" teachers claimed them as the latest revelation knowledge.
In 1969 at the age of 21 I had an experience which contradicted my belief that it was never right to beg or plead God for anything. I had fully embraced the free-love philosophies of my generation. Indeed, I was grateful that my peers were catching up with Unity's stand that "there is no such thing as sin." But one night I foolishly went to a deserted place with a man whose last name I did not even know. I quickly realized I had made a serious mistake. I had no awareness of sin to bother me about involvements of my own choice, but this time it was clear that I was about to be forced into a situation I did not want.
We struggled, I fought. I tried to picture this man as a loving child of God and mentally denied that this was actually happening. Inwardly I affirmed "divine order" and pictured myself as calm and in control. Nothing worked. Fear for my own life gripped me just as tightly as my attacker's fists upon my torn blouse.
"Go ahead and scream," he snarled inches from my face. "No one will hear you out here."
I had run out of methods and formulas. Silently I prayed the shortest, most desperate prayer of my life. I pleaded, "Dear God, please help me!" Though the man could not hear my inaudible prayer, immediately he released his hold and slammed me against the wall. He cursed me disgustedly and growled, "Go on; get out of here."
Before he could change his mind I hurriedly got in my car and sped away, sobbing with gratitude that God mercifully allowed me to escape.
It would be another eight years before I would actually know what it meant to "fear God" enough to ask for His forgiveness of my sins through the blood of Jesus Christ.
Today when I hear evangelists say that it is not necessary to beg or plead God for anything, that all we need to do is thank Him in advance for prosperity or healing or power, or that fear is immature and anything negative is to be avoided, I am the one who backs away now.
I wonder -- should the church apologize to Unity for identifying it as one of the largest and most successful cults of our century? It hardly seems fair to brand it a cult if our own churches are copying it.
About the Author
Elissa Lindsay McClain is the author of Rest From The Quest (Huntington House, 1985), an account of her conversion from New Age spirituality to Christianity. She and her husband, Red, reside in Boynton Beach, Florida.
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Dear Citizens of Wayne County:
I am officially announcing my candidacy to become the Republican nominee for Wayne County Sheriff in the general election to be held in November 2009. With over 31 years of knowledge and experience in the Sheriff's Department, I have built my career on the pillars of professionalism, service and community outreach. I now am actively asking for the support of community leaders, friends, colleagues and citizens to support my candidacy and join my team until we arrive to victory in November 2009.
To help spread my message, I am honored to announce the Chair of my Campaign, Lucinda Collier, Supervisor of the Town of Rose and honorary Co-Chair, Sheriff Richard Pisciotti. Both are strong leaders who possess tremendous insight of county government and the needs of Wayne County citizens. I promise to work tirelessly on behalf of all Wayne County residents to continue to provide the most professional, progressive, efficient and effective public safety department in our area and New York State. This can be achieved with my leadership and the continued dedication and hard-work of our staff of Correction Officers, Deputy Sheriffs, Criminal Investigators, Administrative Officers, Civilians and Volunteers.
My strong record of collaborating, cooperating, coordinating and partnering with numerous agencies, both public and private, is one of my most proud accomplishments allowing me the experience of serving the community on many not-for-profit agencies and Community Boards of Wayne County which include: Pre-Trial Services, Inc., Council on Alcoholism, Criminal Justice Council, Jail Advisory Board, Housing Consortium, Diversity Taskforce, liaison to the Behavioral Health Community Service Board and as a Commissioner of the Rose Fire District. My past memberships have included the Wayne County Victims' Resource Center and Wayne County Cause, Origin and Fire Investigation Team. These experiences have fostered many invaluable community relationships and my greater understanding of the interests and needs of Wayne County residents.
My educational background includes an Associate's Degree in Applied Science in Criminal Justice and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Liberal Arts, awarded by Erie Community and Excelsior Colleges, respectively. Building upon my education, my career in the Wayne County Sheriff's Department has prepared me with a thorough knowledge of the department and the development of essential leadership skills, enhanced by my life-long County residency. Furthermore, my children and grandchildren's future are also reasons for my personal investment in Wayne County's future. With capability, commitment and enthusiasm, I am ready to serve the residents of Wayne County as their Sheriff.
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After 13 seasons as the head football coach at the College of Wooster, Mike Schmitz has resigned effective Dec. 31, according to a release posted on the colleges website. Twice NCAC coach of the year, Schmitz leaves after compiling a 78-54 record, including a perfect regular season (10-0) in 2004.
For more on this story, see Thursdays Daily Record.
I hate to see Coach Schmitz go. A class act who cared about his players and helped them grow into men of character.
Is it too late to get Seth Duerr back to be the new head coach? He has all the credentials needed. Gridiron all American as well as academic all American and an inner intensity matched by few on the field. He ended the day's play for many an opposition player during his time here. I personally witnessed many a player helped off the field after meeting him at his linebaker spot on the inside. It sure would be great to see number 4 back on the sidelines again.


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Yes, the bottom element seems to work fine.
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Isn't the top element supposed to heat as well as the bottom one when baking to have even temperature? Everything I bake is burning on the bottom and not browning on top. Nothing is coming out correctly. This oven came with my new manufactured home that I moved in to about 16 months ago and I haven't baked much since.
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The last wind turbine has been installed in one of the world's largest offshore wind farms located in Britain's Thames Estuary, officials said.
The London Array, with 175 wind turbines, is on schedule to begin full operation in spring 2013 and is expected to produce enough power for almost half a million homes, the BBC reported Thursday.
Begun in March 2011, the project first began producing power in October. Fifty-five turbines are online and producing power for the national electric grid.
A second phase, with another 166 turbines, is yet to be approved. Once it is approved, the complete array could power as many as 750,000 homes, London Array officials said.
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The Everglades National Park in Florida and the Padre Island National Seashore in Texas are among 15 "special places" most threatened by the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, says a report today by two environmental groups.
The oil threatens, among other wildlife, brown pelicans, whooping cranes, manatees, bottlenose dolphins and sea turtles that live in these state parks, wildlife refuges and national parks, according to the report.
"This could become America's greatest environmental disaster," says Theo Spencer of the Natural Resources Defense Council, which co-wrote the report, adding it illustrates the dangers of U.S. "over-dependence on fossil fuels."
"Because the potential reach of this catastrophe is so broad, our list certainly cannot include more than a tiny fraction of what is at stake as oil continues to gush into and spread around the Gulf," says Stephen Saunders, president of the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization, the report's other author.
The report picked the following 15 places to show the range of protected public areas and their resources that are vulnerable to contamination:
- Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, Texas
- Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama
- Breton National Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana
- Delta National Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana
- Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida
- Everglades National Park, Florida
- Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge, Florida
- Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Mississippi and Alabama
- Gulf Islands National Seashore, Mississippi and Florida
- John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, Florida
- Key West National Wildlife Refuge, Florida
- Padre Island National Seashore, Texas
- Pass a Loutre Wildlife Management Area, Louisiana
- Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana
- St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, Florida
The report says the list does not reflect judgment on where the oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, leased by BP, will go and which areas will be most affected. It says:
At this is being written, it still is not clear how much oil has already escaped from the BP blowout, when the gush of oil will be stopped, where the Gulf's currents and winds will take the oil, and what may happen if one or more hurricanes enters the Gulf this year. Instead, our list is based on, to begin with, the judgment of the National Park Service (NPS) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) that coastal areas they manage are vulnerable all around the Gulf.
It discusses how oil can harm various Gulf wildlife:
The iconic brown pelican, Louisiana's state bird, which feeds by plunging headfirst into waters to grab underwater fish. Their feathers can get fouled by oil to the point that they can no longer fly.
Whooping cranes, one of the world's rarest birds and America's tallest, which
survive primarily in one natural migratory flock that winters on the Texas coast and two introduced flocks that winter on Florida's Gulf Coast. Their seafood prey can be contaminated by oil, poisoning the cranes.
Manatees and bottlenose dolphins, marine mammals which must surface to breathe air. They can inhale oil and chemical dispersants on the surface of the water.
Sea turtles, which return to land only to nest on beaches around the Gulf. They can choke on oil in the water, and their eggs and hatchlings can be contaminated by oil on beaches.
Wendy Koch has been a reporter and editor at USA TODAY since 1998, covering politics and social issues. She's begun a quest to build the most eco-friendly home her budget allows. She'll share her experience and give you tips for greening your home. More about Wendy


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Marv (Mickey Rourke) in a confessional with a priest in a scene from Sin City
The thing that is really heart-meltingly fabulous about Mickey Rourke these days is that he is so keen to show he can play the game that he'll talk about anything. He goes on chat shows and tells the world quite openly how he stuffed up his life. How arrogant he was, how stupid in the face of Hollywood, how he made himself ridiculously hard and strong so he could take on the world and punch its face in. This is how you do it, he tells one interviewer after another. This is how you get to be a train wreck.
In his brief heyday - five years in the early-to mid-'80s - Mickey Rourke was more than a contender. He was the bee's knees, a winning combination of masculine toughness and a kind of damaged softness that made women want to look after him and men want to be him. Star material, in other words. Then he just plummeted into oblivion. "For 13 or 14 years," he says in that quiet voice, the key to his erstwhile fame, "people were afraid of working with me. I was out of control. I am a talented actor and I know that, but then I was naive and stupid. You know that staying in business is a political thing. You have to respect other people, but I was stupid. It was my own fault. I asked everyone to f--- off."
He's dealing with that in therapy, of course. It's once a week now, whereas six years ago it was three times a week, sandwiched between the work-outs. More surprisingly, he is also recovering lost ground in Hollywood. Rourke is surprised, anyway. "I tell you the truth," he says. "I never thought I'd be asked back to the party. I thought the party was over."
Rourke started his working life as a boxer. When he enrolled in the Lee Strasberg school, however, he found his real metier. He was one of a gang of fresh young actors launched by Barry Levinson's film Diner (1982), along with Kevin Bacon, Ellen Barkin and Paul Reiser. The one who stood out, however, was smouldering Mickey Rourke, clear successor to Brando and James Dean. Rourke went on to become a neighbourhood hero in Coppola's Rumblefish, but plenty of us remember him best in Barfly, one of his last good films, playing a drunken Bukowski bohemian. Robert Rodriguez, who has just directed him in Sin City, says that when he was at college the boys would spend evenings imitating that role. "Another drink for all my friends!" they would whine, feeling cool as all get-out.
Meanwhile, the real Mickey was having way too many drinks with some pretty dubious friends of his own. There were some starring roles in films that were, for one reason or another, intriguing: Angel Heart, The Pope of Greenwich Village and
Mickey Rourke arrives for the screening of Sin City at the Cannes International Film Festival.
9 1/2 Weeks. At the same time, however, he was becoming more and more impossible. He partied night and day in a big mansion, rode Harleys and spent every cent he earned. He still made films as the years went by, but bad ones; meanwhile, he passed on Platoon, Rain Man, The Untouchables, 48 Hours and Highlander. At 34, he gave up acting altogether and went back to boxing for five years. In his sodden arrogance, he imagined he could easily go back to acting whenever he liked.
Part of young Mickey's charm, tragically, was that you could tell as soon as he appeared on screen that he was the real deal. He was born in New York, but he and his brother Joey were soon moved to Miami, where they lived with a stepfather Mickey detested in one of the roughest parts of a city rife with crime. Although he doesn't like to talk about his family, it is clear that he grew up with flying fists. He had five step-brothers, none of whom he bothers with now. He thinks his troubles started there. "Of course it was the drinking and the drugs that did it," he says. "But the real problem was that I was nuts and angry and ashamed, too, and that shame turned into anger. I believe it came from when I was a young boy, just a little kid, and I felt a lot of inferiority at home. I was pushed around and I went out into the street believing that kicking ass was what it was all about."
Just a few years ago, he says, he would have arrived for this interview with a retinue of heavies, hard guys he hung with and insisted on taking everywhere. Coming from Miami, he was surrounded by gun-toting Cubans. He was also friends with some celebrity villains, people such as the late rapper Tupac Shakur and Sonny Barger, the chief of the Hell's Angels: they were his homies. John Gotti, too: Rourke came, as a friend, to watch the Mafia boss face trial for murder back in 1992, sitting at the back of the court each day. He only sees one of those heavies now, his old best buddy who helped him when he was down. Indeed, his closest companions are five very small dogs who share his small bungalow in the Hollywood hills.
When he went back to boxing it was, he said, because he felt he had backed out of it the first time around. It was hard, though, at his age. He competed from 1992 to 1996 and was beaten up daily by his sparring partner. By the time he threw in the towel, he'd had five nose operations, broken his hand repeatedly and suffered concussion several times. "But I became very disciplined as a pro," he says. "I use that focus now, as an actor." He still trains at a boxing gym, though he's left combat behind.
In retrospect, he thinks returning to boxing was the right move at the time. "It was like a cleansing period. It was the point where I was the most out of control and it was almost the saving grace, because I could go into something and be an animal, which is what I was. Because I wasn't just fighting in the ring." The animal inside has been asleep now, he says, for more than eight years. "I only go there once in a while."
His years in the wilderness left him so stony broke, however, that he depended on a friend to give him $100 each week to buy food; luckily, he also had some motorcycles left over from the old days; he sold them off, one by one.
His return to acting came after a moment of revelation. "I was married to a girl I loved and still love, so f---ing much," he says. Carrie Otis, the model he married at the height of his fame, suffered beatings and had a restraining order put on her husband when he was at his most animal. "She was leaving and I had no career, no wife, no house" - it had been repossessed - "and no cars. And I think later on that night I was alone in the house because she had left me and I walked past a mirror. I went, 'Whoa'. For the first time, I saw what everybody else saw. I looked at my face and my body and I thought, 'You don't need all that. What are you cultivating?' You know, the armour. It scared the f--- out of me. And I thought, 'Everything I've worked my whole life to be, now I gotta take it off'. And I did it, although it took 10 years, because change is hard."
Sin City is Mickey Rourke's real comeback. Over the past few years, pumped by the therapy, he has played a series of striking cameos and niche parts that, he says with gratitude, a few of the right people must have noticed. In 2000, Sylvester Stallone hired him for Get Carter; the following year, Sean Penn gave him a small role opposite Jack Nicholson in The Pledge. He was truly memorable in Steve Buscemi's Animal Factory as a transvestite prisoner. Then, in 2003, Robert Rodriguez decided to risk some of his slender budget casting him in a small role in Once Upon A Time in Mexico, working with Johnny Depp as the son of a corrupt Latin American president. "I like these young guys," he said then. "They're not as afraid of me as the last lot." This time, Rodriguez has given him one of his new film's three leads. And Rourke gives a masterly performance, even if he is unrecognisable.
Sin City is a faithful film evocation of a series of pulp-noir graphic novels by Frank Miller. Rodriguez has done everything possible to reproduce the style of the comic strips, including characters so radically altered by CGI, costume and masks they seem more like drawings than human beings.
Rourke plays Marvin, a numbskull street tough too dumb and ugly to get a girl. Then a whore-with-a-heart-of-gold takes an inexplicable fancy to him and gives him the night of love he has craved for so long. Next day he finds she has been murdered. Maddened, our monstrous hero goes on a quest for revenge. One critic described the film as "neolithic and juvenile, but stylish", which is about right. It looks wonderful in its velvety black and white, occasionally splashed with colour - red lips, a yellow face - and the computer-generated graphic backgrounds that pitch the film somewhere between 1940, now, and a wild comic-strip world that exists only in the buffs' heads.
Of course he connected with it. "Marvin is old Mickey," he says, with a rueful little chuckle. It is hard to imagine anyone else in the role now, even though he does play the whole thing from behind a complicated facial prosthetic that reproduces the lined, pouched and immobile face of the original drawn character.
Rourke can barely move his own face any more anyway. Of course, all those punches in the gym scrambled his features, but then a lot of shoddy plastic surgery plumped up the scramble and set it into position. He seems to have been something of a surgery junkie, in fact, having his lips inflated and his forehead ironed out endlessly until he was halfway to becoming the Bride of Wildenstein. The sly, seductive smirk doesn't work any more; those boyishly appled cheeks have been rearranged and there is something dangerously Joan Crawford about the flare of the eyebrows. "I went to a certain kind of doctor," he says morosely. "I believed it would make things different."
Luckily the sunshine today gives him an excuse to keep his sunglasses on; without them, his exposed face is as desolate as an urban wasteland.
Now he is just taking things one day at a time. He knows better than to count on the future. "And I am just so f---ing afraid I am going to fall back into the gutter I was in."
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Rachel Bilson Gets Her Bikini On With Hayden Christensen in Barbados (PHOTOS)
sexy photos of Rachel Bilson donning a black bikini in Barbados. Well, now we have even more photos!Earlier today, we showed you some
The former OC beauty, who currently stars on the CW medical dramedy Hart of Dixie, showed off her bikini bod alongside on-again, off-again beau Hayden Christensen on Thursday, while the duo continued their romantic island getaway.
This time, Rachel donned an equally sexy black bikini, which she wore while enjoying some R&R on the beach and in the ocean. Hayden also got in on a little fun in the water, which you can check out in our gallery. (Yes, we're jealous, too!)
What do you think of Rachel and Hayden's day in the ocean? Are they super-sexy or what?! Sound off in the comments!
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Blogging Beginning Teaching PROCEEDINGS
Anthony Herrington, Lisa Kervin, University of Wollongong, Australia ; Joanne Ilias, Saint Collumbkilles Primary School, Australia
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, in Orlando, Florida, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-58-7 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Chesapeake, VA
Weblogging is fast becoming a popular way to use technology to critically reflect and comment on workplace practices and experiences. This paper analyses the weblogs of beginning teachers who are members of an online community of practice. The weblogs raise awareness of the significant issues faced by novice teachers and provide an important channel for both beginning and preservice teachers' social construction of school teaching and learning.
Herrington, A., Kervin, L. & Ilias, J. (2006). Blogging Beginning Teaching. In C. Crawford, R. Carlsen, K. McFerrin, J. Price, R. Weber & D. Willis (Eds.), Proceedings of SITE 2006--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 2232-2239). Orlando, Florida, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).


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Director Of "My Nappy Roots" Sues Chris Rock Over "Good Hair"
Chris Rock's "Good Hair" hasn't even come out yet, and he's already being sued. Filmmaker Regina Kimbell filed the suit, claiming that the flick infringes on the copyright for her award-winning documentary, "My Nappy Roots: A Journey Through Black Hair-itage," which she maybe screened for Chris Rock two years ago. The lawsuit claims that there are major similarities between the two films, including the inspiration (their daughters) and the interviews with medical pros, celebs and comedians. Plus, both filmmakers go to hair relaxer manufacturing plants and touch on India's involvement in providing hair for weaves. Even the trailers for both films are pretty similar—just compare the "My Nappy Roots" preview above to the "Good Hair" one after the jump. [MSNBC]
"Good Hair" opens in select cities this week and nationwide on October 23, while Kimbell's film received several awards at independent movie festivals between 2002 and 2007. Kimbell says that Chris Rock's executive producer, Doug Miller, asked for a private screening of "My Nappy Roots" for Chris Rock, but afterward, Miller wouldn't sign the non-disclosure agreement. Now Kimbell is suing for copyright infringement, unfair competition, fraud and deceit and is looking to make about five million dollars in the trial.
These trailers are a bit too close for comfort, but we're not quite ready to accuse Chris Rock of wrongdoing. Why didn't he just hire Regina to help him as a consultant or something? Her movie was never released to the mainstream, while his has a chance to reach a large audience. Maybe they could've just joined forces?


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AIDS Partnership Michigan Appoints Chief Executive Officer
Originally printed 2/14/2013 (Issue 2107 - Between The Lines News)
Tom Verwest, President of the Board of AIDS Partnership Michigan, has announced the appointment of William D. VanHemert to the position of Chief Executive Officer effective March 4. VanHemert will succeed Barbara Murray, who is retiring after 24 years in the leadership position. He will become the 30 year old organization's third CEO.
VanHemert was employed at APM from 1993 to 1996. After moving to the western U.S., he served in positions with the Arizona Department of Health, New Arizona Family and United Behavioral Health in San Francisco. He returned to APM in 2009 and has most recently served as Director of Community Mobilization and Development, including the development of APM's highly recognized social media campaign to increase HIV testing targeting young African American men in Detroit, Wayne and Washtenaw counties.
VanHemert holds a BS in Psychology from Central Michigan University and a Master of Social Work in Clinical Mental Health from Wayne State University.
AIDS Partnership Michigan, the state of Michigan's first incorporated AIDS service organization, provides total wrap around services in response to HIV/AIDS including operation of the Michigan HIV/STD Hotline, HIV counseling and testing, medical case management, community re-entry for the Michigan Department of Corrections and Wayne County jail, behavioral health services and early intervention services. Over 8,500 clients are served annually. The organization employs 26 full time staff and manages an annual operating budget of $2.2 million.Learn more at http://www.aidspartnership.org, on Facebook and at 1-800-872-2437.
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How much would you pay for a dashboard?
Dashboard Spy readers have heard me saying that Dashboards will become the ubiquitous face of Business Intelligence. Now, I'm more sure than ever.
IBM announced today a $5 billion bid for Cognos, the enterprise reporting company, whose executive dashboards I've featured on this blog. Of course, Cognos is not just dashboards, it's an entire robust reporting platform, but the idea of the dashboard as front end is firmly entrenched in the company. IBM's interest certainly validates the idea of the dashboard as an information visualization paradigm and user interface design pattern.
IBM is not the only one who loves Cognos and its dashboards. It has been reported today that HP and Oracle are possible rival bidders for Cognos. The final price may be a lot more than you think. Don't forget that when SAP acquired Business Objects, it paid $6.8 billion. Wow – what a time to be in BI.
The fit between Cognos and IBM is strong. The IBM WebSphere Portal server and Cognos reporting platform has been solid for a long time. Take a look at this graphic of an IBM Portal Server Dashboard with Cognos portlets.
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HP and Oracle cited as possible rival bidders for Cognos, chances pegged at 30%
While he says IBM's US$58 per share offer for Cognos Inc. (CSN/TSX, COGN/NASD) is within the US$53 to US$60 range projected when SAP AG acquired Business Objects SA for US$6.8-billion, Canaccord Adam analyst Peter Misek still thinks there is a 30% chance of another bidder emerging for the Ottawa-based software maker.
The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2008, but another offer could surface given the "strategic value of Cognos' business intelligence suite and the scarcity of large pure plays in the market," Mr. Misek said in a note to clients.
He suggested that Hewlett-Packard Co. and Oracle Corp. are the most likely candidates to be competing bidders.
and this from business week:
One of the hottest segments of the tech industry, business intelligence software, is less and less a separate category of products as one major player after another gets scooped up by larger companies. The latest move was IBM's (IBM) announcement on Nov. 12 that it will buy Cognos (COGN) of Ottawa, Canada, for $5 billion. This followed SAP's (SAP) deal to buy Business Objects (BOBJ) last month for $7 billion, and Oracle's (ORCL) acquisition of Hyperion Solutions for $3.3 billion in April.
The software industry, once populated by hundreds of so-called best-of-breed companies, is now dominated by a handful of giants, including Microsoft (MSFT), IBM, SAP, and Oracle, with vast portfolios of products. It's very difficult for midsize companies to compete against the giants because large corporations prefer to buy their technology from a few strategic suppliers rather than a lot of smaller companies. Two other independents, BEA Systems (BEAS) and Sybase (SY), are seen as likely takeover targets. "In some sectors it's really hard to find the independent, best-of-breed companies anymore, says analyst Paul Hamerman of market researcher Forrester Research (FORR). "Longer term, the industry will regenerate itself, and new ideas will incubate,".
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