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Vocabulary can be defined as the complete set of words in use by a particular language or speaker, and the speaker's skill in using those words to communicate effectively. The more words you know and the more strategies you have for implementing those words in expressing yourself, the bigger your vocabulary. Building a large vocabulary is beneficial in many different ways.
There are many skills and strategies available for anyone looking for ways to build a large vocabulary of different words. Some popular strategies of building a vocabulary of a large number of words are reading a dictionary or thesaurus, using vocabulary flashcards, or using computer programs designed to aid people in building a large vocabulary.
Flashcards can be used when building your vocabulary because you can put the words on one side of the flashcards and the meaning of the words on the other side of the flashcards, and quiz yourself. This strategy of using flashcards for building your vocabulary will help you learn new words and increase your skill in using those new words.
There are tons of computer programs that help you in building up your vocabulary as well. These programs incorporate many of the strategies in building vocabulary, teaching you new words, and improving your usage skills so you can incorporate the words you learned.
Flashcards and programs are just two strategies for building vocabulary and increasing your skill in using all the new words you learned. Building a good vocabulary using strategies like flashcards and programs and improving your skill for using the new words will make you seem more intelligent and will better equip you with the skills and strategies to effectively communicate with other people.

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I have a 64 bit FreeBSD7.0 server that I'm using as a backup server. I have a ZFS pool that to appears to be ok: $ sudo zpool status -x all pools are healthy And all the filesystems appear in df output: $ df Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s1a 272M 197M 53M 79% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/ad4s1e 161M 22K 148M 0% /tmp /dev/ad4s1f 2.2G 1.2G 836M 60% /usr /dev/ad4s1d 210M 7.9M 185M 4% /var data/corporate 3.0T 941G 2.1T 30% /corporate data 2.1T 128K 2.1T 0% /data data/disco 2.3T 231G 2.1T 10% /disco data/email 2.4T 255G 2.1T 11% /email data/hphome 2.1T 24G 2.1T 1% /hphome data/misc 2.1T 14G 2.1T 1% /misc data/corporate@FriOct17-08:1224266291 3.0T 948G 2.1T 31% /corporate/.zfs/snapshot/FriOct17-08:1224266291 data/corporate@MonOct20-08:1224513013 3.0T 934G 2.1T 30% /corporate/.zfs/snapshot/MonOct20-08:1224513013 data/corporate@TueOct14-08:1224058974 3.0T 938G 2.1T 30% /corporate/.zfs/snapshot/TueOct14-08:1224058974 data/corporate@WedOct15-08:1224082275 3.0T 937G 2.1T 30% /corporate/.zfs/snapshot/WedOct15-08:1224082275 data/corporate@WedOct22-08:1224680388 3.0T 936G 2.1T 30% /corporate/.zfs/snapshot/WedOct22-08:1224680388 data/corporate@ThuOct16-08:1224169692 3.0T 947G 2.1T 30% /corporate/.zfs/snapshot/ThuOct16-08:1224169692 And all the physical disks are present: $ ls /dev/ | grep ^ad ad10 ad12 ad4 ad4s1 ad4s1a ad4s1c ad4s1d ad4s1e ad4s1f ad6 ad7 ad8 ad9 (ad4, a CF card, is my system disk) However any time I try to access any of the ZFS filesystems (all in the pool "data") the system just hangs. So a $ ls /corporate or $ cd /corporate will hang the system. Obviously I can't get to my data although it appears to be there. I can perform operations ok on anything on ad4, the system disk. I added these lines vm.kmem_size="1536M" vm.kmem_size_max="1536M" to my /boot/loader.conf file as per the instructions at http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide and the system is 64 bit with 4G RAM. All the server has been doing is receiving nightly rsyncs which it did ok for about a month. I'm new to freeBSD and have kinda run outta ideas of what to try next. Can anyone help? |
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Foreclosure settlement close; will CA and NY join?
Today is the deadline for states to sign on to President Obama's multi-state mortgage relief agreement that would see banks pony up billions in relief for homeowners who have lost their homes or are about to. California and New York balked at the terms, wanting to be sure that individuals can still sue banks for bad business practices and that investigators can continue probes into what caused the financial meltdown. if the two states do join, the pot of available cash would jump from 19 to 25 billion dollars. In the past 5 years, foreclosures have forced about 4 million families from their homes.
Google and Facebook take down content from Indian domains
Google and Facebook have both censored content from websites in India after a court ordered them to do so. Shuriah Niazi has more.
The Delhi high court said that if 21 internet companies did not remove so-called objectionable content on websites available in in India, the government would block the websites like China does. Today, the court further ordered that the firms present a plan for policing their sites within the next 15 days. In recent months, the Indian government has called for tighter controls over the internet. Telecommunications Minister Kapil Sibal pointed to offensive religious content that could cause ethnic or inter-communal conflict. India's civil society, and more particularly its very active blogosphere, was outraged by the minister's comments.The court's verdict in support of the government is seen by the net community as a further gagging of free speech. Shuriah Niazi, FSRN, India.
International nurse-in calls on Facebook to stop blocking breast feeding photos
Mothers in cities around the world held a nurse-in today outside Facebook offices, demanding that the social media giant stop censoring account users who posted pictures of babies at the breast. Facebook responded saying that while breast feeding is natural, they will continue to take down pictures that "contain a fully exposed breast."
Oakland demonstrators gather at court house
In Oakland this morning, demonstrators gathered at the court house where 10 people arrested during local Occupy demonstrations appeared. Hundreds of people have been detained by police since the protests began in October. FSRN's George Lavender reports.
Some of those facing charges for participating in Occupy demonstrations appeared in court this morning. All of the 10 people in court this morning were arrested in January when police targeted a gathering of people in downtown Oakland. They were charged with obstructing the sidewalk. Autumn Belnap, with the Occupy Legal Committee, says the arrests and charges are intended to intimidate people. "... that is why Occupy Legal is doing the work we do is to turn these experiences into empowering ones and to be able to fight for that right to express yourself- to express your discontent." According to Belnap, another 10 Occupy Oakland demonstrators are still in custody, including one person who has been held since the Oakland General Strike in November. Others remain behind bars with bail set at up to 400, 000 dollars. Further court appearances are scheduled for the coming weeks. Today's courthouse demonstration follows the mass arrest of more than 400 people at Occupy Oakland's 'Move In Day' just over a week ago. It was the largest mass arrest in Alameda County since 1982. George Lavender, FSRN, Oakland.
Park police enforce no camping ban at Occupy DC encampments
US Park police were back at Washington DC's Occupy encampments today, making sure that no one is living in any of the tents that remain. Five days after their announced deadline, park cops cleared the camps of any overnight camping gear. Some said police confiscated belongings other than sleeping equipment. The Occupy library was not removed. Eleven people were arrested, one officer was hit in the face with a brick. In Pittsburgh today Occupiers continued to dismantle their camp, after a judge gave them three days to vacate.
China tells airlines to ignore EU greenhouse gas laws
China has ordered its airlines not to participate in the European Union's program to limit greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft. From France, FSRN's Liam Moriarty has more.
Since the start of the year, all airlines flying into European airports – even foreign carriers – have to meet increasingly strict emissions standards or pay for their excess carbon pollution. The US and other countries have tried unsuccessfully to overturn the E-U law in court. And the US House passed a bill that would have outlawed paying the fees, but the Senate killed it. Now China is the first to refuse to obey what it calls a trade barrier disguised as environmental policy. But EU spokesman Isaac Valero-Ladron says Europe is proud of taking the lead in climate protection and plans to stick it its guns. "We're not backing down, and this legislation will apply to these companies operating in Europe." Valero-Ladron notes that airlines can be exempted from the law if they have equivalent carbon-reduction measures in their own countries. So far, no other country has anything close. The impasse is sure to be discussed at a summit meeting in Beijing next week. Also on the agenda? EU officials will try to persuade China to contribute to Europe's financial rescue fund. Liam Moriarty, FSRN, Normandy, France.
After their failure to agree on the House measure that would have "exempted" US airlines from the EU law, a broad aviation bill before the Senate later today contains a Congressional statement saying that officials should use all means available to be sure that US airlines do not comply with the EU rules – we'll have more on the FAA bill later in the newscast.
Egypt names those arrested for working for foreign groups operating without permission
Egyptian officials identified dozens of people charged with working for organizations that didn't have government approval. 29 foreign nationals and 14 Egyptians are to stand trial. Among them, the son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood; staff from the National Democratic Institute, including chief Julie Hughes; and Patrick Butler with the International Center for Journalists. Egyptian officials say they were doing political work on behalf of "foreign interests." The US says that 1.5 billion dollars in foreign may not be forthcoming if the situation is not adequately resolved.
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The eXile in Vanity Fair
I'm a great fan of Matt Taibbi's work, and I've also long been a fan of Mark Ames and his now-defunct Moscow-based rogue magazine, eXile (that link leads to its new home, which basically just hosts the archives).
I found eXile after studying under John Dolan (who I've written about before), the paper's sometime-co-editor and, for a while, a lecturer at Otago University, where he taught the advanced writing and poetry classes that marked my high-point of university study.
Dolan as a teacher was a strange mix of cynicism and optimism, railing against society and all its capitalist masters while at the same time warmly encouraging expression and imagination through writing. He spoke of his relationship with eXile once or twice in class, and from there the curious found out more.
When Dolan left Otago to do his full-time stint at eXile, I chased him by email and wrote a story about him and his experience with the magazine. Turns out I was a good seven years ahead of the zeitgeist!
Vanity Fair has just published a long and fascinating, web-exclusive story about eXile, Ames and Taibbi, detailing the personality politics behind the magazine. Dolan features in the story, and I was interested to find out he taught Ames, too. Awesome.
By the time he got to Russia, Ames relished rejection, he says. At U.C. Berkeley, he'd rebelled against the "bland liberal consensus" by flirting with right-wing politics, getting into arguments with humorless lefties, and falling under the wing of John Dolan, a literature professor and campus cult figure who liked Ames's personal essays and macabre short stories, loathed though they were by his fellow students. Ames still remembers Dolan's first somber career advice: "He said, 'You're talented, but one thing you're going to have to get used to is that you'll never get published in The New Yorker.'" Dolan also introduced him to that urtext for masochistic littérateurs everywhere, Dostoyevsky's The Devils, the story of a doomed anarchic plot hatched by amateurs.
Dolan is also quoted in the piece and described as a "first-rate" literary columnist:
By most accounts, Ames slept with as many women as any Moscow expatriate of the period. "Russian women liked the kind of sternness and scariness he had that didn't work in California," Dolan says.
One of Ames's first regular columns was "Death Porn," which rehashed stories of grisly murders and suicides from police reports and Russian media, printing them alongside crime-scene and autopsy photographs. He was most renowned and reviled for his regular "Whore-R Stories," for which he hired prostitutes and then wrote about them. Like corruption and casual death, prostitution was a reality of Russian life that every reporter saw, often more than saw, but refused to discuss in straight terms.
"Everyone in Moscow at the time—and I mean everyone—used prostitutes. That's what Moscow was in the 1990s. But no one would talk about it," Dolan says. Ames seems to have had no need to pay women, and the column appears self-serving only until you read it. Some of the pieces' poignancy and attention to detail call to mind Studs Terkel's Working. But Terkel only listened; Ames partook.
John Dolan moved to Moscow and started a first-rate literary column in which he was an early outer of faux memoirist James Frey. But The Exile was never much of a business, and Moscow was changing. It had become expensive and clean and was taking on an ominous neo-Soviet flush. The expats had gone home, and journalists, including Americans, were being killed. Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov, whom Ames knew, was gunned down in 2004. "Even the snow seemed archaic and doomed," says Dolan, who left in 2006. The Exile nearly collapsed in 2007, before a group of private investors bailed it out.
I wrote about Dolan's Frey expose back in '06. Because that was how I rolled.
No, Foursquare, I don't want to tell you where I am
In tech circles, location-based social networks are all the rage. Foursquare. Gowalla. Google Latitude. People, it seems, are more willing than ever to advertise their whereabouts.
These services via GPS, maps, or location check-ins on mobile devices or computers allow people to instantly let others know where they are. And, now the gloss has rubbed off from Facebook and Twitter, they are being touted as the next big thing.
But I can't for the life of me figure out why they're so great.
Of course, advertisers will love it. By knowing where exactly people are, they can deliver tailored marketing messages direct to their targets. That's why Foursquare is hooking up partnerships galore with big-name corporations.
Consumers, on the other hand? Well, plenty of people will like the free pizzas and coffee discounts they'll occasionally get as a result of obsessively checking in to particular places, and some may actually appreciate the targeted advertising (are there really people like this, or is this purely a marketer's fantasy?), but is it really worth letting the world at large (or even just your followers) know where you are, even part of the time?
Not so long ago, I had a guy trying to track me down. He was suing me because he didn't like a story I wrote about him a while back, and he had threatened violence on me. He knew I was in Hong Kong, and I was pretty okay about that, but I was uncomfortable with the fact he had done a few Google searches and found my parents' old address. Even while I was confident his threats would come to nothing, I didn't like that he was trying hard to locate me. At one point, laughably, he sent me an email with the subject line 'I'm Tracking you down' and attached a screencap of a map that located my ISP in Sha Tin (nowhere near where I lived at the time).
He wouldn't have needed to go to such lengths if he had been following me on Foursquare back then. Of course, I could have blocked him from following me, but it wouldn't have been at all difficult for him to create a fake account and sneak under my radar. For all I know, he may one day again want to find me — which means I'll probably never use a service like Foursquare.
But that's not the only scenario in which it would be inconvenient for people to know where you are. What if one of your followers is a stalker who suddenly turns up at a bar you've just checked into? What if the same happens with a 'friend' who's actually someone you've been trying to avoid for a while? What if it's your editor chasing you down for that piece you were supposed to file last week? What if it's your landlord who has just realised that instead of paying the rent you're blowing your money on booze?
The obvious response to a lot of these questions will be, "Well, you can choose to be discreet with your personal check-in policy. You could check-in at a place only when you're comfortable with everyone knowing where you are." But is there ever such a time? Because, when you check-in, you're basically saying, "I'm comfortable with running into anyone who can see my location right now". That's a big call, considering how different moods, settings, atmospheres, environments, and social groups can influence social interaction, to say nothing of the fickle nature of social dynamics within groups of friends.
Another response might be: "You can limit your followers to only your 'true' friends". But what if one of your enemies is a friend of one of your 'true' friends and sees your location status pop up in his Twitter feed, or email, or on Facebook or whatever? What if your stalker happens to be an ace hacker and hacks into one of your 'true' friend's accounts?
Last week, a new site called Please Rob Me arrived. The site used Foursquare users' Twitter streams to show when exactly they had checked in to places that weren't their homes — a perfect burglarising (one of my favourite words) opportunity. Brilliantly, that site has stopped publishing that feed and the founders hope to gift it to an organisation that raises awareness about online privacy issues.
I'm not a social media skeptic. I find Facebook useful as a way to connect with friends and kind-of friends, and to find out about events and get in touch with people for work. In fact, it's a really, really useful journalistic tool. Twitter is too. It provides me with links to lots of great reading I wouldn't otherwise stumble across. I like Buzz and Google Reader for similar reasons, and I like using all of the above to discuss shared interests with friends and contacts.
But Foursquare? I can't see the use in that. Except for advertisers and stalkers.
Update: Another problem I see with Foursquare: If one of my friends is a user and we're hanging out together, what's to stop him checking in to Foursquare and letting his friends know where he is? Most of the time, that wouldn't be a problem. But if this friend had friends who I didn't want to see — for whatever reason — I would likely end up resenting him if his check-in resulted in the uninvited appearance of one of those people I didn't want to see.
The only way I can see to stop this is to start asking people in advance not to check in to Foursquare when we're meeting in a social situation, which, of course, could get ridiculous.
That situation, too, is similar to a problem I have with Facebook: that anyone who has a photo of me can post it on Facebook for their friends to see. Even though my privacy settings don't allow anyone to see which photos I'm tagged in, people who know my face will be able to identify me in these photos, and I have no control over where, when and who they're posted by. Pretty soon we're all going to have to behave like celebrities who are hounded by paparazzi — we won't be able to do anything stupid in public for fear of photographic evidence making it on to Facebook and in front of the eyes of friends, friends of friends, family, enemies, employers, prospective employers, media, and whoever else. I pity you if you plan to one day run for office.
I'd be interested in hearing a counter argument from avid users of such services. Spike, for instance: I read your blog and follow you on Twitter and I see you frequently check-in to various places around Hong Kong. Why do you use it, and how useful do you think it is?


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Minister Dermot Ahern Welcomes Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council on Darfur
Minister Dermot Ahern Welcomes Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council on Darfur
Ireland Instrumental in Push for Special Session on Darfur
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dermot Ahern, TD, has welcomed the convening of a Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva tomorrow (Tuesday) to consider the urgent humanitarian and human rights situation in the Darfur region of Sudan.
The Minister said: "Ireland has been instrumental in pushing for such a Special Session of the Human Rights Council to consider the urgent situation in Darfur."
"The Special Session will provide an invaluable opportunity to highlight the ongoing serious human rights abuses taking place as a result of the Darfur conflict and to press for strong steps to be taken to address the situation."
"The Special Session has been convened at the initiative of the European Union, following a call for such a session by UN Secretary General Annan on 29 November, and twenty-nine of the forty-seven members of the Council have formally supported the move."
"Ireland, which is not currently a member of the Human Rights Council, will make a national statement to the Special Session which will also hear contributions from other member and non-member States, UN agencies and NGOs concerned with the situation in Darfur."
Minister Ahern also emphasised the importance of the Human Rights Council remaining engaged with the current situation in Darfur. "I therefore would fully support the call for a special assessment mission, to be composed of independent and appropriately qualified members, to visit the region as a matter of urgency and to report back to the Council at its next regular session", stated the Minister.
The Minister also welcomed plans for the convening of a NGO Forum in conjunction with the Special Session which will allow victims of human rights abuses in Darfur, and particularly young children, to publicise their experiences. "It is important that those who have been in the forefront of the harrowing conflict in Darfur should have the opportunity to relate their experiences. Ireland is pleased to be associated with the holding of this event."
Note to Editors:
The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) will convene a Special Session on Darfur on Tuesday.
In parallel to the Special Session, a NGO Forum will take place. This Forum will be attended by human rights defenders from Darfur and prominent international human rights organisations. It aims to draw further attention to the situation on the ground in Darfur. Funding from Irish Aid for the NGO Fédération Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l'Homme (FIDH) will be used by that organisation to support the attendance of human rights defenders from Darfur.
Ireland has also engaged with the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark to offer general support for this side event.
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Brothers and Sisters, We Kinda Sorta Are Professionals
A call for boundaries and the danger of rooting our identity in our ministry.
If there's one issue that all pastors must wrestle with, beyond how the Gospel applies to their own lives and ministry, it's the issue of rest and Sabbath.
Wait—scratch that. Those are actually the same issue.
There was a time a few years back when I was working in a support staff role doing media design for a local church. It also happened to be the first year of my marriage, and as far as first-year-of-marriage jobs go, I couldn't have asked for a better one. I came in the morning, did my work, went home and didn't think about it again until the next day. The computers I worked on were there at the church office—I couldn't take work home with me, and I was very, very okay with that. When I was off, I was off.
Fast forward a couple of years and to when we planted a church. Suddenly, that's all I could think about. Early morning, late night—I was working on the website, writing posts on our forum, answering emails. I was always on.
What was the difference? I was working at a church in both situations. Both were "ministry." The difference was that one was a job, and the other was my identity.
Many of us view ministry as a calling, and we purposefully push back against the idea that ministry is a job or a profession. Usually that thinking is helpful. But the unintended side-effect has been that the natural boundaries that usually come with a job simply aren't present, or present enough, in our ministries—often to our own detriment and the detriment of our families.
Like I said, for the last few years of church planting and pastoring, I've been "always on," answering the phone when it rang, working on sermons on my weekends, packing my schedule with ministry meetings and events, and just generally being a pastor all the time. Through it all, I've watched with a bit of envy as friends go to work and come home; as they turn it off and enjoy their nights and weekends without always thinking about work.
And as I became more tired, less effective and increasingly frustrated with my decreasing ability to be present when and where I really need to be, I've realized that the issue isn't so much time-management or being more productive (though those help) but rather a shift in thinking and belief.
I need two things.
First, as always, I need more fully to embrace the Gospel at a personal level. My failure at turning off ministry and making true rest a part of my weekly rhythms reveals within me a basic disbelief of the Gospel truth that Jesus is enough and that my identity can and should be rooted in his finished work for me--not the results I get, the church I pastor , how well (or poorly) it's doing, or whether I think people are approving or disapproving of me based on the amount of access I give them to myself and my time. The only way we pastors will ever find sustainability and longevity in ministry is if we do what we tell other people to do ALL THE TIME: Rest our souls in the finished work of Christ. Stop getting our identity from our job/ministry. Take some time to unplug, unwind and, more importantly, connect with God, our families and our own souls again.
Second, I find the most helpful thing I can do is to regain a sense of where the job pieces of ministry start and stop. My calling is to be a full-time follower of Jesus and to serve Him with the gifts He's given me without reservation. Right now my profession is serving as a pastor to my community. And whereas I once saw those two things as being virtually identical and overlapping, I can now see that they aren't.
There are things like kindness and mercy, patience and justice, how I relate to God and others—basically Christlikeness—that I need to pursue hard 24/7. But there are other pieces of what I do that are ministry, but need to fall into the category of 9-5. And I don't mean just the admin stuff. Writing my sermon on my day off? Answering the phone during dinner? Doing the emergency counseling session? Sure, there will be times when I need to bend a little. But I'm beginning to see that for the sake of my family, I need to re-categorize much of my ministry activity. I need, like those friends of mine with their 9-5 jobs, to be able to say with equal conviction, "Now I'm at work and it's time to get after it" AND "Now I'm off— I'm going to let that sit until Monday morning when I can give it my full attention. Right now my family needs me."
Essential to truly resting from our work is being able, in a sense, to put that work on the shelf for a day or two, step away from it, and let go.
Brothers and sisters, (with apologies and all due respect to John Piper) we kinda sorta are professionals. And truly finding rest and Sabbath will depend both on how you look at Jesus AND how you look at your job. Know when you are at work and on the clock and give the communities you serve the full benefit of your attention and efforts. Know when you are not at work, and when you are off, be off. And know most of all where true rest is found.
Thanks for the thoughts and reminder. For me it is about three things.
1) living into a rhythm and recognizing that sometimes you just have to say no. not every crisis is mine to handle, not every pain is mine to comfort, not every marriage is mine to fix and not every ministry is mine to lead. I cannot keep a rhythm in my life if the answer is always yes, and if I listen too much to the people I lead, it will always be yes.
2) Developing leaders who shoulder a big piece of the load. It is not my job as a professional to do everything, be at every meeting and accomplish every task. This is the job of the body and the body leans into this responsibility when it has well equipped leaders who also equip leaders.
Create Systems where peoples needs are well met by people. Small groups for example in our church are designed for pastoral care to happen.
This gives me time to focus on God, focus on my family and to rest.
I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiments in Bob's article. But why is rest/Sabbath virtually equated with spending time with one's family? I have found that (not always, but often) real rest is found in spending time with other Christians, putting aside the pastor's ministerial role to interact as friends. It is possible to take time away from the job while never taking off the shepherd's hat, and that's not healthy either.
Just curious--there are times I feel the need to get away from IT ALL. Church, family, Bible, prayer list, everything. Just have some ME time.
Is that wrong?
Bob, this is a great post and a sermon you might want to preach to congregations other than your own. One of the problems that pastor's are always having to face is congregations that wonder what the pastor does all week other than write a 20 minute sermon and visit folks in the hospital. Many people think the pastor is highly paid for little work. The pastor is the last person who would be able to tell his own congregation what he actually does since it could be construed to be complaining. I agree with you that you must be at ease (as much as humanly possible) with who you are and what God wants you to do; like the old saying, "Do your best and leave God with the rest". Then, know who to listen to and who to ignore.
I appreciate your post. We pastors need to "turn off," and rest from the responsibilities laid upon us by the church. And I totally agree that central to applying the gospel to ourselves is rest (Sabbath). After all, if Jesus is Lord over heaven and earth, and is actively building his church, I can probably afford to take a breather. More importantly, as you noted, is the question of whether I am rooting my identity in Christ or in my pastorate. As Keller once asked, "are we justified by our preaching?"
But I'm not sure I agree with your framining it in terms of a "profession," particularly as set in contradistinction to Piper's book. I am called as a disciple, but in particular I am a Christian who is a husband, father, and pastor. I never take the "pastor hat" off, anymore than I can take the "father hat" off (at least as long as I have a congregation and children entrusted to me, respectively). When I puruse time with my wife, I don't cease to act as father. I act, rather, as a good father. And as a pastor, I must take time off. It's critical to my pastoral ministry. It's critical to my leadership. It's critical to the moral example set for the flock, etc. What are we modeling to our congregation when we don't take a sabbath? But I don't come home and cease to be a shepherd, called to give account for the soul's entrusted to me, but I do spend focused time with my children and wife - as a pastor, as a father, as a husband, and as a Christ-follower.
The problem arises not so much when professional ministry becomes part of one's identity, but when it becomes the whole of one's identity, or even the more important part of one's identity and function. Family, friends, rest and recreation should be no less a calling or part of one's identity than the professional part of ministry. Everything has its place and none are lesser or less sacred than the other. All are gifts from God.
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I see many of the same negative or debilitating characteristics Bob mentions in business professionals too -- those who own businesses. The owner's employees can leave the job when they go home. The owner, on the other hand, often eats, sleeps, breathes, the business.
I wonder then if part of the problem is that so many pastors view themselves as "owners" of the church. Many do not truly view Jesus as the "owner" or fully trust him to guard and guide his own. As a result they feel they must always be on the job.
Nor, for that matter, are they willing to share "ownership" with the congregants. Instead of treating them as ministers also gifted for ministry and leadership, they treat them paternalistically. They don't trust anyone but themselves to manage or lead, and thus stand alone.
Jn 2:24-25 But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people and needed no one to bear witness about man, for HE HIMSELF KNEW WHAT WAS IN MAN (emphasis mine).
Sheerahkhan: I'm hoping that perhaps I misunderstood the tone of your post, but it seems to me a rather harsh judgment against those who feel called to full-time paid pastoral ministry. Jesus was able to speak harshly to the religious leaders of his time in places such as Matt 23 because HE KNEW WHAT WAS IN THEIR HEARTS. For those of us, on the other hand, who DON'T know what is in the heart of another person, a little humility is more in order: "Judge not, that you be not judged (Matt 7:1)."
Do you really KNOW the contributors from this thread? Do you really KNOW the hearts of those whom you characterize using phrases such as "clique of exclusivity", "hubris", and "expectation of priviledge (sic)"? Or do you simply make that sweeping judgment of them based on a few lines on a post in an internet blog? If I were to make the same assumptions about posters like you or Tim, I would easily think that the both of you were rather judgmental and cranky. But I know that you both are so much more than what you portray on your posts. I'm sure that if I met you in person, I would find you to be much like me: sinners saved by God's grace and doing the best we can to love God and our neighbor.
Like I said, please forgive me if I misread your post. But I have read posts from you and others like Tim for quite a while, now. The truth is, you both make excellent points at times that have positively contributed to the conversation. And I'm not saying that full-time paid pastors should not be criticized. We need to be challenged often on our assumptions. But that's the key: we need to be CHALLENGED, not JUDGED. Your challenges would be better received if you were to move away from generalizations and stereotyping and actually started to engage in conversation with us, listen to us, and demonstrate that you care more about us than about making your point. Or at least, try to do that as much as is possible on a blog. Unfortunately, the anonymity of the internet can cause us, if we are not careful, to forget that the names underneath each post belong to actual human beings with actual emotions.
I understand your point of correction for us pastors--not to confuse our job with priest. I agree...and yes, visitation, preaching, and shared leadership are all functions of the "priesthood of all believers". I think Bill's point is that you guys harp on this all day long...we get it! Many of us are empowering gifted congregants for those ministries and more. It is your "tone" and dismissal of the office of pastor that also needs a reprimand from time to time. Your inability to recognize that "conventional church structures" with payed pastors and staff can be used to the glory of God.
Sheerahkhan: What you don't know is that I agree with every single one of the points you just made. And the reason you don't know that is because you never took time to engage in a conversation with me. You did what I mentioned in my first post--you made generalizations and cared about proving your point more than about getting to know me. The truth is, my first post was not really in reference to your points, it was in reference to the harsh context in which you presented your points.
I minister in a denomination where most of the pastors are in charge of districts consisting of multiple churches. Here in North America, most pastors have districts of two to four churches (I have three churches). My brother-in-law, who serves as a pastor in the same denomination in Mexico, has a district of about fifteen churches. The result of this arrangement is that each local church is led primarily, not by a pastor, but by the elders of the church and by the lay members who are in charge of the different ministries. Another result is that we are not the lone preacher/teacher in the pulpit. I don't preach in all three of my churches each week. I rotate among the churches; and when I am absent from one church, I have a teams of elders and others who are gifted who share that responsibility. Our system is not perfect, but it is an attempt to take seriously the biblical teachings of the priesthood of all believers and the role of the pastor as an equipper rather than a performer. So, yes, I am asking the questions you asked and I am wrestling with the issues you've brought up.
Are there false premises concerning the pastoral profession that need to be challenged? ABSOLUTELY! I said as much in my first post. But the WAY the challenge is made is just as important as the challenge itself. You say that I took this far too personally. I understand what you're saying, and it is not my intent to be defensive. But from a different point of view I say that you're not taking this personally enough. Because in the end, we're not dealing with abstract theory here; we're dealing with PERSONS! We're dealing with people, real human beings who don't always "get it" and who feel unappreciated and lonely and get frustrated. And what they need is NOT an attitude that implies, "Man, those silly people, they just don't get it, I'm glad I have it together, etc." What they need is a vision of what it really means to be a man or a woman called by God to something far larger and more glorious than anything we could ever imagine, a vision communicated by someone who loves them and has listened to them and cared for them down in the valley.
Why are we here on this blog? I thought we were here to form a community where we encourage one another and to open each others eyes, through the diversity of our perspectives, to what it means to live in the largeness of God's kingdom. Instead, I feel we're just here to prove that we are right and everyone else is wrong and just "doesn't get it." I don't know; maybe I'm asking too much from a blog. But if so, then what are we all doing wasting our time here?
Sheer... I guess it is hard not to take personal when word like clique and entitled and victim hood and humility that resembles those less than humble. Words like expectation of privilege... These are also attached to the writers in this thread, not to the pastorate in general. Maybe another read of your words would help you see your wards are accusatory.
I know hundreds personally and been in association with thousands of pastors, very few fit the description you gave.
Most are people who serve because of a deep and profound sense of calling. They serve Christ in places where no one will know their name on a national level and in ways where no one sees. These are mostly people who are underpaid, who give their time, talent and treasure for a piece of the body that is the church in which they lead. Most of these people serve with a leadership team as well.
Your post drips with generalizations and disrespect.
Sheerahkhan: First of all, forgive me because I sense there might be a larger point in your question that I'm not getting, so if my response doesn't address the larger point, please feel free to let me know. With that caveat in mind...
First of all I think we need to distinguish between pastoral work and what is known as "ministry". There's many texts in the NT we could look at, but for the sake of brevity we can focus on Eph 4. God gave certain offices, and among them the office of "shepherd-teachers (ESV, alternate reading)" to equip the saints for the work of ministry. So my work as a pastor is to train/teach my church members to visit the sick, preach and teach from the pulpit, lead the local congregation, etc. Like you said, not to be the "go-to" person or the "solo" leader, but to train the saints. Needless to say, part of that training involve taking them with us as we do these things. I believe we are both in agreement here, so I won't dwell on this point other than to say that if I weren't paid as a pastor, would I do things like visit the sick and exercise my gifts in preaching and teaching for free? Of course, because that is ministry, not pastoral work.
Which leads me to the question then, if I were not paid as a pastor, would I train others to do ministry for free? And my answer is, quite frankly: I don't know. I've never been in a situation where I've had to make that decision. I would like to think that if I felt called by God to the Pastoral office, and yet was not provided with a salary for doing so, I would still do it, even if I had to do it for free, and even if I had to take another full-time job to pay the bills.
I actually don't disagree with Tim's major point about pastors who refuse the right to be paid in order that more money may be freed to be used outside of the church. Where I believe he is mistaken is that he turns Paul's practice into a "law", and thus his teaching leads ultimately into legalism. Paul also, apparently, chose to refuse the right to be married--should I, as a pastor, refuse that right, too? I think Tim is right to lament the large percentages of a church's income used to sustain the institution. I agree that there are centuries of traditions and assumptions that we need to untangle ourselves from in order to become the church God has called us to be. But the answer is not legalism!!! All of us who have been called by God to be his disciples, whether or not that includes a call to the offices of Eph 4, need to wrestle with these issues and with the Spirit, and figure out how this works in our particular context, and respect the fact that others who have also wrestled may have come to different conclusions.
Like I said, if I completely missed your point, please let me know. But for what it's worth, those are my thoughts at this stage in my life.


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What We Learned
April 6th, 2012 | by Ray Flowers |The regular season still hasn't officially gotten underway for all the teams, great scheduling MLB, but that issue will finally be rectified Friday. We do have a fair number of baseball games in the books, so what did we learn that we might be able to apply to the world of fantasy baseball?
Jose Bautista already qualifies as a third baseman and outfielder. On opening day he also moved over to play first base after the Jays removed Adam Lind in favor of a pinch runner. It's only one game, but it hints that Bautista just might play five or 10 games at the position this year, the threshold in many leagues for a player to pick up positional eligibility which would only further enhance his obvious value.
Life isn't always fair. Exhibit #1
Justin Verlander pitches eight scoreless innings and picked up a no-decision after Jose Valverde blew the save after not blowing a single one of his 49 opportunities last season. The guy who blew the game, Valverde, ended up with the victory when the Tigers came back to win. Remember what I always say about chasing victories? Or how about how I always say that you should never use a pitchers won-loss record as a judge of his performance? See what I'm saying?
Life isn't always fair. Exhibit #2
Jon Lester didn't quite match Verlander Thursday, but he pitched very well allowing just one run in seven innings. He ended up with a no-decision when the Red Sox bullpen blew it. Mark Melancon ended up with the loss, but it was Alfredo Aceves who actually deserved the loss (for my thoughts on the Red Sox Bullpen see: Relievers, Wild, Wild, West). He came into the game, hit a batter, and then gave up the game winning hit. Still, Aceves escaped with an unblemished record despite not getting an out in the effort.
You're daily talk about closers… the Royals settled on Jonathan Broxton as their lead man in the 9th inning. At one time one of my favorites, Broxton was amazing in 2009 when he won seven games, saved 36, posted a 2.61 ERA, a 0.96 WHIP and had a dominating 13.50 K/9 mark. Seasons like that lead you to the Hall of Fame. Unfortunately for Broxton, it's his only season of more than 22 saves, and it was also the last time he was an effective big league pitcher. Over the last two seasons Broxton has been injured an just passable in terms of his production: 6-8, 4.32 ERA an a 1.55 WHIP. He still struck out 9.96 batters per nine innings, but he only threw 75 innings in the two seasons as he just couldn't stay healthy. I can understand why the Royals went with him in the 9th, he has the most experience of their bullpen arms and could bring a nice return if moved at the trade deadline (he's on a one year deal), but I'm still not convinced he is going to be able to hold off Greg Holland all year.
Josh Collmenter was lucky as all heck last year to post a 3.38 ERA and 1.07 WHIP over 154.1 innings. He didn't strike anyone out (5.83 per nine), had a terrible GB/FB ratio (0.71) and seemingly got by mostly on his funky delivery. He looked lost all spring training and it won't take much for the team to consider moving him to the bullpen, not with Trevor Bauer looking ready to give it a go in the majors. In his first start of the year at Double-A Bauer allowed just two hits and no runs, while striking out seven, in five innings.
Johnny Cueto ended last season with a 2.31 ERA but he threw only 156 innings falling short of qualifying for the NL ERA crown (a pitcher needs 162 innings). Well, he added to that excellence in his first start as he tossed seven shutout innings for the Reds. He induced 10 ground balls continuing a trend he started last season of generating a ton of ground balls. Speaking of the Reds, Aroldis Chapman looked completely dominating with two strikeout in a hitless 8th inning. When he is locating his pitches batters stand nary a chance of making hard contact.
Edinson Volquez allowed only three hits and two runs in five innings in his first start with the Padres. Unfortunately he picked up a loss as he walked four batters, including two with the bases loaded. All he needs to do is to throw strikes to be effective. The question is, can he?
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It's all about rhythm
SAARANG T-Bone, who performed right after The Hindu NXg Rockstar, had the audience swaying to their music. JANANE VENKATRAMAN
It is a balmy afternoon and they are dressed casually in shorts, lounging about the guest house lobby when I enter. They are T-Bone, one of Thailand's biggest reggae and ska bands, slated to perform at The Hindu NXg Rockstar later in the competition as guests and I am nervous. But Nakarin Teerapenun, the band's lead guitarist and manager, rises to greet me with a huge megawatt smile and all my apprehensions about communication difficulties immediately disappear.
Starting off
"I was an art student in Thailand, studying drawing and painting, but music was my hobby. I used to have a lot of jam sessions with friends; I was hooked to it. So one day I decided to make a career out of it," says Nakarin. "So I started the band in 1992. My brother, Jesada joined us in 1995 and we released our first album in 1996. And the rest is history, as they say." Till date, this nine-member band has released eight albums including a "Greatest Hits" album called Ruan Pleng Dee T-Bone, with the next one, T-Bone In Da House, on its way. Influenced by Bob Marley, the band specialises in reggae and ska, music genres that originated in Jamaica, West Indies.
How did a band from Thailand pick it up? I ask. "When I formed the band, we played mostly blues and jazz. Even now, most of us are jazz musicians. I'm a jazz guitarist, Arin, our drummer also has a jazz background. So does Nattapol, who is our Bass guitarist. But Jesada had a strong base in reggae, he was into it. He was the one who brought it to the band." At this point, Nakarin's brother and the band's lead singer, Jesada walks in and smiles the same megawatt smile as his brother. I ask him about their music. "Our music is generally very upbeat. We talk about people, Thai people, their ways and the culture and such. We make happy music," he says.
Their songs are in Thai and there is always a tendency for things to get lost in translation, especially as they branched out and started playing abroad. "It doesn't make a difference. England, India, Thailand, it doesn't matter where we go. The music is the same. It doesn't have anything to do with the lyrics. It is all about the rhythm," says Jesada.T-Bone gained prominence after performing with the internationally acclaimed Tokyo Ska Paradise and became the first Thai band to play at UK's Glastonbury Festival in 2005 after their participation in the Tsunami Benefit Concert by the BBC in April 2005. They were invited back again for the 2007 edition.
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"We are looking forward to playing here. Our concerts start usually at around 10.30 p.m. or midnight. This is the first time we are playing at 4 p.m. in the evening. It is going be a very different experience and we're all looking forward to playing at IIT," he adds to which an excited Jesada agrees adding, "I know it is going to be amazing."
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Friday, February 1, 2013
Raining Hearts - Valentine's Day Nail Art Contest Entry
I started out with a base of piCture pOlish Aphrodisiac. The name alone seemed really appropriate for Valentine's Day, but it also happens to be one of my favorite vampy plum shades which I have used a number of times before (such as here and here). Using Bundle Monster plate BM-319, I stamped with Color Club Harp On It from the Halo Hues collection. It is a gorgeous silver holographic...
I then added small hearts using a detail brush and Color Club Halo-Graphic, a pink holographic shade from the Halo Hues collection...
A bit of blurriness really shows off the rainbow of colors in Harp On It...
It is not the usual fluffy pink Valentine's Day manicure (although I've done that too), but I really like it and I hope you do as well!
Please take a moment to check out the Harlow & Co Valentine's Day Contest page and vote! If you choose to vote for me, I would be ever so grateful, but don't feel obligated. Just vote for your favorite :)
Thanks for looking and commenting!
Anutka :)
25 comments:
- Sara Hassan said...
OMG! This is soo pretty <3
- February 1, 2013 at 9:29 AM
- Veronique said...
wow! amazing:)
- February 1, 2013 at 9:49 AM
- Kristin @ Ermahgerd Perlish! said...
This is so pretty!
- February 1, 2013 at 10:02 AM
- Cee Enzo said...
I love this!
- February 1, 2013 at 11:03 AM
- Nailtopia said...
This is lovely!
- February 1, 2013 at 11:11 AM
- Jamie @ Polish, Please! said...
Completely adorable! I never think to use holos in nail art, but it's such a great idea!
- February 1, 2013 at 11:53 AM
- Nidia Doherty said...
Great way to use a stamp, I never would have thought of that. Really pretty!
- February 1, 2013 at 12:49 PM
- zebra-nails said...
Очень красиво!
- February 1, 2013 at 1:35 PM
- Sarah said...
So beautiful, that´s really pretty.
- February 1, 2013 at 3:05 PM
- Kim Petrusak said...
This is amazing. I need to try to get into stamping if the results look this great!
- February 1, 2013 at 4:08 PM
- Natalia said...
I love Valentines manis that are original like yours!! well done!
- February 1, 2013 at 4:10 PM
- Alexis said...
Oh, this is fantastic! I have been wanting to use that stamping design since I bought my bm set. Now I know that it must be a holographic polish over a dark color. So lovely.
- February 1, 2013 at 4:52 PM
- Polished Pisces said...
My favorite valentine mani ive seen so far :)
- February 1, 2013 at 7:46 PM
- Angie said...
This is so cute! And I love that the holo comes out in those teeny, tiny lines!
- February 1, 2013 at 8:04 PM
- Linda said...
I Love This!! I have a strong feeling I will be rockin this for Valentine's Day! Awesome job!
- February 1, 2013 at 10:51 PM
- Elena Hruscheva said...
Love your desing!
- February 2, 2013 at 2:22 AM
- Ragini Sharma said...
Very nice color…I love nail art I will try this soon.
Joint Replacement India - February 2, 2013 at 3:25 AM
- Anutka said...
Wow! Thank you so much everyone for your wonderful comments! I'm so glad that you like the non-traditional Valentines Day manicure!
Thank you everyone who has voted for me! I appreciate every single vote so much!! :D
@Zebra-nails & Elena, Spasibo bol'shoe vam! Ya ochen' rada chto manikur nravit'sya :D - February 2, 2013 at 11:11 AM
- Lily said...
Very creative! Love how you put it together.
- February 3, 2013 at 1:09 PM
- rins said...
Lovely! I like the effect of that holo on the rain.
- February 3, 2013 at 11:21 PM
- chichicho chichicho said...
the halo stamped really!
pretty! - February 4, 2013 at 5:34 PM
- Mroofa said...
Very nice i like that they aren't a haw you call it: ' usual fluffy pink Valentine's Day manicure'
- February 6, 2013 at 7:44 AM
- Song Bird said...
Wow, very pretty and simple. Two things I love in a nail design. I put in my vote for you! Good luck ^_^
- February 6, 2013 at 1:13 PM
- Kas said...
This is so cute! And I LOVE the colours you chose!
- February 8, 2013 at 12:31 AM
- Anutka said...
Thank you so much everyone for your wonderful comments and everyone who voted! I really appreciate them so much! :)
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THE Sir John Colfox School in Bridport is aiming to become an academy so it can decide what subjects to teach its pupils.
It will also have around £70,000 more to spend each year – but won't be able to get into debt or borrow money.
Headteacher Kay Taylor and the board of governors outlined what it would mean for the school to a 50-strong audience of parents and fellow primary and secondary school heads.
Mrs Taylor said they were actively considering becoming an academy which would mean severing links with Dorset County Council.
The school would receive its funding direct from the Government.
She said: "It's a purely pragmatic decision. It is something we are doing with our heads not our hearts.
"We want to be able to maintain the breadth and depth of the curriculum we have now.
"It has not been driven by the extra money."
She said the impetus was due to proposed changes to the curriculum which would see an end of option choices for students at GCSE.
That could mean the school could no longer offer vocational courses and subjects like drama and business studies could disappear.
Mrs Taylor admitted staff were not initially in favour and were concerned over their pay and conditions and what they see as the creeping privatisation of education.
She said: "But the staff understand about the curriculum.
"They did have concerns about pay and conditions which the school would be able to set itself. But why would we offer less to teachers when we want the best? I can't see sense in paying less than the market value."
More than half of Dorset's secondary school are already academies.
Mrs Taylor outlined the disadvantages, which would include parents having to complain to an ombudsman not the local authority.
She added: "It is ironic that to maintain our freedom over the curriculum we are having to link ourselves to the government which wants to take that freedom away and we are disassociating ourselves from the local authority which has never wanted to restrict us. Our school is built on choice and surely students should have some say in their education?" Mrs Taylor said there would be no change to the school's admissions policy. The school will now take the first steps to becoming an academy – but could change its mind right up until papers were signed.
Mrs Taylor's presentation on the issues is on the school website and parents have all been sent letters.
The student council will also be consulted.
Dorset county councillor Karl Wallace, whose children attend the school, said at the meeting: "I can see that your heart is in the right place but I feel sorry for other schools because I feel there is going to be a two-tier system.
"I feel how your arm has been twisted into this choice."
The target is to obtain academy status by June or September next year.
1,037% rise within two years
THE government spent £8.3bn on the academies programme in the two years up to April, 2012 – £1bn above budget.
Now £350m has to be cut from other education services.
This will include cutting £95m from the school improvement programme, taking £100m from money set aside for 16-19 year olds to stay on at school or college and a similar amount earmarked for intervening to improve standards in under-performing schools.
Since the election in 2010, the numbers of schools becoming academies has risen by 1,037 per cent – from 210 to 2,309 by this September.
This includes 48 per cent of all secondary schools and five per cent of primary schools.
As a result, the programme is now swallowing up 15 per cent of the entire schools budget – compared with just five per cent in 2010.


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DC Sports Nexus ---- Thursday, January 17, 2013
Here is a quick video tribute to Michael Morse who was traded to the Seattle Mariners. It has a few of our favorite moments, and our favorite song:
And here is one of the best versions of Take On Me as done by the Nationals crowd. As a bonus, this video has Jayson Werth's walkoff homerun.
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Stencil Spotlight: Polka Party Stencil
- Go wild with our Cheetah Spots wall stencil.
- The sky's the limit with our Polka Stars stencil.
Hi Stencil Artists! As the new marketing director of Royal Design Studio, I have to admit that I am a complete newby to the world of stenciling. I am an HGTV addict and love home décor magazines, but I never knew there were these amazing stencil patterns that you can make even cooler with different decorative painting techniques! Instead, I was the frustrated shopper that could never find what I was looking for unless I spent WAY TOO MUCH at the stores. Now, that I see that I have the ability to make various home decor items on my own, I'm thrilled!
When I first saw Melanie's amazing staircases in our office, I knew that I was going to fix the worn out varnish on my coffee table in my family room by staining a new stencil. But, when October quickly turned into November, my thoughts drifted to my Christmas shopping. See, I normally have a $3,000 budget for the holidays. A lot, huh? Well, it includes everything. From wrapping paper and Christmas cards to festivities, as well as our Christmas tree and of course presents. But this year, my husband and I are being so frugal because in May 2014 we are going to start house hunting. I needed to bring my holiday budget way down and that's when stenciling gifts came to mind. After all, at the office, we have been talking about how great stenciling is for holiday decorations. So, why not stencil some holiday decorations and give them as gifts!
Now, the only thing left was overcoming the intimidation factor. My boss, Melanie Royals, makes everything look stunning and with seemingly little effort. Me? I create marketing campaigns not beautiful decorated crafts! Well, there was only one way to start, right? Jump in head first. So, with less than $30 worth of red and green taffeta and flannel fabric from JoAnn's, I was able to use the following materials from Royal Design Studio:
Bringing my grand total of 10 gifts to $84.65 + tax or about $10 a person! So, I have my supplies, now it is time to take a deep breath and start stenciling. I purposely did not getting any coaching from Melanie. I simply watched her during her Hometalk for the Holidays on Google+ and copied what she did. I knew I was going to blog about this and I wanted to have the full experience that you had. And guess what? I DID IT! Yep, it was that easy. As Melanie said in the video, the trick is to off load extra paint onto a paper towel. I also lined up the easy-to-use registration marks. And that was it! I ended up with some very professional looking designs that even impressed my husband.
Then I chose to sew my taffetta to some felt for a nice backing to the table runner. This was also my first time sewing. My girlfriend and I had a sewing party and she let me use her Husqvana Viking for the project. Have to say, I'm also a big fan of that too. It was so easy to keep my seams straight and it never caught once on 10 table runners.
I was ridiculously impressed with myself when I saw the finished product and I can't wait to surprise my family with their gifts. They won't believe that I did it myself. But to be honest, what I'm most excited about is that it looks like my days of endlessly shopping for the perfect item is coming to an end. Now, I have the confidence that I can make it and it is going to come out great!
Here are more holiday gift ideas for you!
Next up, coffee table. Do you have a suggestion on which Royal Design Studio stencil I should use for my coffee table?
Question: What do you get when you combine a passion for design, a chic design aesthetic, and a desire to create products that have a positive impact in the world?
Answer: Raven + Lily: Empowering Women Through Design, a socially conscious lifestyle brand.
Founding partners Kirsten Dickerson and Sophia Lin share a close friendship and passion for fashion and ethical design. They created Raven + Lily as a platform to help to alleviate poverty among marginalized women around the world through an artful collection of "on trend" fashionable accessories that are designed to make a difference in lives of the women who craft them.
Each stylish piece of jewelry, article of clothing or chic home décor item created for Raven + Lily is not only handmade, fair trade, and eco-friendly, it is created with passion and purpose!
Seeking out partnerships with global women's groups (currently Ethiopia, India, Cambodia, and the United States) to create employment opportunities for marginalized women, they identify not only the women's potential skill sets, but also what local materials are available to them that can be easily resourced:
Through these efforts, the women and their families receive access to a safe job, sustainable income, healthcare, education, and a chance to break the cycle of poverty for themselves, their families, and their communities.
Now, through an exciting design partnership, Royal Design Studio introduces our latest exclusive Designer Stencil Collection: Raven + Lily. We are very excited that we can collaborate in this way-not only to introduce Raven and Lily's chic design aesthetic to our own customers, but more importantly to promote their mission to create a positive impact on the lives of marginalized women and children around the globe.
Inspired by the Romantic African themes, patterns, and color palette of Raven + Lily's forthcoming Spring 2014 new product product release, the collection introduces 8 new patterns that have been re-imagined to create stencils that highlight the natural beauty that is common to Africa: tribal motifs, stylized plumes, organic geometric shapes, and delicate feathers. These new 'Afro-chic' stencils have a decidedly Art Deco vibe that makes them perfect for both feminine and masculine wall pattern looks depending on the chosen color application. Several of the stencil designs are also offered in a smaller scale making them ideal for furniture and home accessory projects.
The Raven + Lily stencil collection will be sold exclusively via the Royal Design Studio website and 20% percent of the net sales will be donated to Raven + Lily which they will use toward the Tirzah International initiatives in Africa.
This is only the beginning of this creative partnership between the two companies! Look for more new products, stencils and collaborations in 2014!
Shop the Raven + Lily Stencil Collection now and let us know what Raven + Lily stencil is most inspiring to you? Tribal motifs, stylized plumes, organic geometric shapes, or delicate feathers? All of them is also a great response!
As December is quickly approaching, Romantic Homes shares one of our fool-proof DIY stencil projects that will inspire you to deck the halls with golden glamour! When that holiday decorating craze sweeps our homes each year, it's easy to get caught up with excessive shopping and spending. But why go through all that trouble when you can make fabulous decor yourself? Set a one-of-a -kind, sparkling table setting that will have your guests talking all year.
By following these simple "How-To" steps, you'll have a flawless reproduction of our tablecloth - with time to spare before the holidays! The show-stopping piece you see here is created with our popular Fleur de Lace Stencil. But feel free to make it your own by choosing a stencil pattern that resonates with your personal style. Apply it to a plain white tablecloth with gold, metallic paint like Royal Design Studio's Bright Gold Stencil Creme and watch as it brings out a warm glow, filling any dining room with soft, glimmering light.
Handmade gifts for the holidays are the best to give and to receive! We recently had a phenomenal chat about stenciled holiday presents at the Hometalk Google+ Hangout and lots of great DIY gift ideas for the holidays were shared along with some super, snazzy stencil tips. One of the guests on the hangout was none other than our friend, Brittany, of Pretty Handy Girl. She shared a stenciled & dyed scarves project that had us swooning over how chic and easy-to-create they were.
First thing that Brittany did is gather her supplies, which included Rit Dye and both our Small Peacock Fancy Stencil and the Small Printed Indian Paisley Damask Stencil. Both are from our Furniture Stencils Collection and so they are perf for small crafts and projects. Brittany likes to share ideas on how to be thrifty while still making quality gifts and so she suggested purchasing low-cost white scarves and dyeing those as opposed to the more expensive colored scarves available. Great thing about stenciling is that it works well on both surfaces!
When stenciling on fabric, it's best to keep the surface as taut and stationary as possible. In fact, take a look at our Fabric Stenciling Basics for some good key tips. If using an allover design like Brittany was, the registration marks make it easy peasy to continue your chosen stencil design flawlessly. Of course, if there are areas on the stencil that you wish to block from the fabric, you can simply tape over them before stenciling!
With a stencil design, you can also have artistic freedom! Once the pattern is stenciled, take an artist brush and hand paint another color in a standout area of the stencil design. Here, Brittany used a shimmery gold metallic to accent the eye of the Peacock Fancy Stencil design while keeping the quill and plumules a soft white.
How fantastic do they look?? It's the perfect gift idea for the fashion-forward in your life and it is genuinely one-of-a-kind. Please be sure to check Brittany's Stenciled and Dyed Scarves tutorial as she also shares the process for creating an ombre look with the dyes. PLUS! We have a bonus for you...
Jennifer Carroll's online magazine, Celebrating Everyday Life,is always reminding us to appreciate the little things and this December issue, she does this by welcoming us into a world of stenciled-winter bliss! Using the Parlor Lace Stencil from Royal Design Studio, Jennifer creates the most magical table setting, a Winter Wonderland tabletop full of holiday cheer!
Believe it or not, there is actually a very simple process behind Jennifer's DIY stenciled table runner project: Beginning with a thin layer of Royal Design Studio's Pearl Oyster Stencil Creme on a stencil brush, she removes any excess paint onto a folded paper towel to avoid smudging and smearing. Then with a soft, circular motion, Jennifer paints over the Parlor Lace Stencil, resulting in the beautiful snowflake effect you see above. The negative spaces really POP, while the earthy tone of the original craft paper table runner compliments the decorative gingerbread houses. The lacy white details capture this festive time of year in the most charming, heartwarming way.
Check out Jennifer's amazing magazine spread above - her imaginative stenciling is the perfect way to get in the holiday spirit!
Most of us love to decorate for the holidays -- but who has the time for a complete design overhaul? We need fab decor elements that not only seamlessly transfer from everyday design to holiday design but also enhance the overall look. Luckily, Royal Design Studio Stencils can help do just that! In fact, we're going to show you how a stenciled fabric project from Kristin of The Hunted Interior helped her take her home's chic, contemporary style to glittery, glam holiday sizzle without skipping a beat.
Kristin Jackson is an Interior Designer with a background in Hospitality Design. The girl knows how to put a beautiful space together and exactly what she needs to do it! Being a "sucker for spots", she had an idea for spotted drapes but realized her favorite fabric line was discontinued. She contacted Royal Design Studio and expressed her pattern desire. "I voiced my need for a spectacular spotted stencil and not only did they agree to create one, we were able to play with the spot design and make them a little more animal-like versus ovals," she gushes. The result? The gorgeous Cheetah Spots Wall Stencil, a wonderful addition to the Allover Ethnic Stencils Collection.
Picking up white Ritva Drapery Panels from IKEA, Kristin mixed black acrylic craft colors with textile medium to stencil in the design. Adding textile medium to the acrylic paint not only strengthens the bond with the fabric but also softens the "crunch factor" regular paints can have on fabric. We also recommend our Stencil Creme Paints which are soft, opaque and permanent on many surfaces, including fabrics. Kristin hung her four stenciled drapery panels which added to the serious "Wow!" factor her home's design already exuded. Don't you just love her style?? Be sure not to miss her DIY Spotted Drapery post!
We're still smiling from ear to ear as we read all THREE Royal Design Studio features in the Winter 2014 Issue of Studios Magazine! When our friend, editor Linda Blinn, reached out to us this year, we jumped at the chance to once again be a part of her inspiring publication. Alongside "exploring the creative lives of artists & makers", Studios Magazine shares wonderful organizational tips for artists. If you haven't had the chance to become familiar yet, pick up a copy of Studios Magazine online or at Barnes and Noble and get the deets on some fun studio projects - like our Stenciled Moroccan Canvas Art How-To, for example.
And feast your eyes on the open floor-plan of Peinture Studios, a unique store and workshop curated by Deborah Waltz. We LOVE seeing our Ancanthus Trellis Stencil dancing across her vast concrete floors, adding just the right amount of character and detail.
The Moroccan Stencils painted by Royal Design Studio's group of traveling artists, aka "Peacock Painters" will forever make our hearts flutter, but these photos of past trips to Marrakesh look especially gorgeous on the pages of Studio Magazine. From floor to ceiling, 100% passion goes in to our work, so we couldn't be more pleased to see others enjoying it! Linda Blinn also shares the origin of our annual stenciling adventures with Maryam Montague so beautifully. Interested in going on an life-changing painting retreat? Email us! We have a trip in September 2014 to Venice, Italy and are already taking reservations for trips to Morocco in 2015!
Many thanks to Studios Magazine, we appreciate all the kind words and can't wait to see what you come up with next!
Don't forget to take a look at Royal Design Studio's feature from the Fall 2012 issue as well!


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Rachel Pally
Zell Dress
Rachel Pallys style has been distinguished by her ability to blend the easy and elegant with the chic and classic. Known as Los Angeles 'jersey girl,' Rachel Pally has become a favorite amongst Hollywood elite like Angelina Jolie, Sarah Jessica Parker, Rachel Bilson, Jessica Alba and more.
- 92% modal 8% spandex
- Shoulder seam to hem measures approx 35" in length
- Unlined
- Styled with Kelsi Dagger Frayne Strappy Sandal in Tan.
- Styled with Belle Noel Nugget Ivory Ring in Gold.
- Modeled in size XS. See fit guide for model's dimensions.
- Revolve Style No. RACH-WD733
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Advertisers Still Trot Out the Housewife Clichés
Advertisers historical depiction of all women as domestics gets it wrong, especially as women's personal and professional lives become more varied, writes Adweek's David Gianatasio. A simplistic approach to marketing to women often leaves many feeling excluded. There are, however, some companies who get it right, says Gianatasio, and they include Tide, Huggies and Target, all of which used some form of social media to engage consumers.
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Eclipse: maven install from runAs menu fails
A few days ago I updated my eclipse Ganymede via the update manager. After that I was unable to build my Maven projects with from the "runAs -> maven install" context menu:
I got the following error when I try to build my EAR module
[INFO] org.imixs.callcenter.ear .............................. FAILED [0.634s]
The following mojo encountered an error while executing:
Group-Id: org.apache.maven.plugins
Artifact-Id: maven-ear-plugin
Version: 2.3.1
Mojo: ear
brought in via: packaging: ear
While building project:
Group-Id: org.imixs.examples
Artifact-Id: org.imixs.callcenter.ear
Version: 0.0.2
From file: /home/rsoika/eclipse-ganymede/sywapp/org.imixs.callcenter/org.imixs.callcenter.ear/pom.xml
Reason: Cannot copy a directory: /home/rsoika/eclipse-ganymede/sywapp/org.imixs.callcenter/org.imixs.callcenter.web/target/classes; Did you package/install active project artifact:
artifact = org.imixs.examples:org.imixs.callcenter.web:war:0.0.2:compile;
project: MavenProject: org.imixs.examples:org.imixs.callcenter.web:0.0.2 @ /home/rsoika/eclipse-ganymede/sywapp/org.imixs.callcenter/org.imixs.callcenter.web/pom.xml?
[INFO] For more information, run with the -e flag
I can build all modules separately and it seams to be an known issue form the m2eclipse plugin (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGECLIPSE-1173)
The problem seams to be the "Resolve Workspace artifacts" option. My workarround was to use my own "run as" configuration.
When I use these settings (see "Resolve Workspace artifacts" is disabled!) everything works fine for me.
But I did not find out how to change the "Resolve Workspace artifacts" option in general for eclipse.
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As a side note for the guys that like to fish, the swamp across the street from the ranges has some nice bass in it. I'm sure if we set something up and have enough guys committed a few of the closer guys could go out and secure a spot. We could do a Phone number list for the guys that are coming further away. That way if there is any problem we could give them a call.
It only takes me about 15 minutes, but I wouldn't want the guys driving an hour or 2 to get here and not be able to shoot for some reason.


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Flash Media Encoder
From Jtvcommunity
Flash Media Encoder is an encoder for both PCs and Macs that supports broadcasting in H.264, VP6 or Sorenson codecs. This guide will be a quick start up of how to use it.
- Log-in to your Justin.tv account that you wish to broadcast on.
- Download and install Flash Media Live Encoder (FMLE): Click here to download.
- Download your XML Profile (Config File) for FMLE from here (scroll to the bottom under "Flash Media Encoder"). Remember where you saved it, also it is helpful to rename the file to the account name you're downloading the XML file for
- Open FMLE then open your XML file from the saved location. (To open your XML file, click "File" -> "Open Profile".)
To start streaming your video and/or audio source, follow these steps:
- Select the 'Video ' option to enable video streaming (see screenshot below).
- Select the 'Audio ' option if you want to stream live audio.
- It's recommended you select 'Medium Bandwidth (300 Kbps) for 'Preset'.
- Select the video source you would like to stream under the 'Device ' parameter.
- Enabling "Deinterlace" will help improve your picture quality if you experience small horizontal lines (known as 'combing') during movement. Enabling this will yield no quality improvement from progressive inputs such as webcams.
- Click on the big green 'Start ' button near the bottom of the page to start streaming your video and/or audio source to your account.
- IMPORTANT: Beware that the text box labeled "Stream" contains a key that is like a password for streaming to your channel. Be careful when you are broadcasting your desktop not to show that area!
Determining Your Bitrate
Finding the right bitrate may seem difficult at first, but it is essential to provide your viewers with the maximum quality with minimum stress to your Internet connection. To find the maximum bitrate that your Internet connection can handle, run a speedtest to determine your upload speed. A rough conversion is to take the Mbps number and multiply it by 1,000.
- Example: 1 mbps = 1,000 kbps. 0.73 mbps = 730 kbps.
- Note: An exact conversion can be found using a unit converter.
It is recommended that you aim for a target bitrate of 100-200 kbps below your upload speed. If your upload speed is .73 mbps, set your target bitrate between 530-630 kbps.


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August 11, 2010 Host a Starved for Attention screening event in your community. The free Action Kit includes a DVD of the documentaries, fact sheets on malnutrition, a copy of the petition, and outreach materials to spread the word about your event. Organize your community to help rewrite the story for the 195 million children around the world who suffer annually from malnutrition. Go to starvedforattention.org/actionkit to order yours. Go to starvedforattention.org to learn more about the campaign. |
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http://www.FashionTV.com/videos | I LOVE FashionTV | MILAN - Romance is in the air as FashionTV presents the Alberta Ferreti Fall/Winter 2012-13 collection during Milan Fashion Week. FashionTV brings you an exclusive look at the worlds biggest designers: their careers, latest creations and inspirations. See more Fashion TV at http://www.FashionTV.com
Fashion TV brings you fashion shows, fashion week, runways, front row celebs, backstage hair and makeup, models, designers, photo shoots, Hollywood red carpets, and much more.


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Posted by Aaron from usr1-modem047.runestone.net on December 16, 2000 at 18:25:43:
In Reply to: I liked MacGregor best... posted by graml on December 16, 2000 at 17:15:17:
I've always favored McCoy's--I just think they capture that adventurous Indy spirit better than the others. My current favorite is The Philosopher's Stone, but then again, I've missed a few of the MacGregor novels [I'm reading Unicorn's Legacy right now, matter of fact]. The McCoy ones in particular are always fun little romps.
MacGregor's got very good after his first few, though, so I'm split between those later MacGregors and all of the McCoys.


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My body of work consists of a wide range of projects included in the list below. I am excited by new challenges, so even if you have a project that isn't featured here, please send me an email and I will be happy to discuss the project with you.
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- Logo Creation
- Stationery Design – Letterhead/Envelope/Business Card
- Website Design (Does not include development)
- Eblasts
Event Materials
- Travel – Event Logo/Bag tag/Handbook/Signage/Name Badge/Leave Behind Card/Sticker/Booklet/Agenda Sheet/Stationery/Website Design (Does not include development)
- Birthday – Invitation/Thank You Card
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13And they brought him, who before had been blind, to the Pharisees. 14But it was the Sabbath when Yeshua made clay and opened his eyes for him. 15And the Pharisees asked him again, "How did sight come to you?" He said to them, "He put clay on my eyes and I washed and sight came to me." 16And some of the Pharisees were saying, "This man is not from God because he does not keep the Sabbath"; but others were saying, "How is it possible for a man who is a sinner to do these miracles?" And there was a division among them. 17Again they were saying to him who had been blind, "What do you say about him who opened your eyes for you?" He said to them, "I say he is a Prophet."
18But the Judeans did not believe concerning him that he had been blind and was seeing, until they called the parents of the man who was seeing. 19And they asked them: "Is this your son, the same whom you were saying that was born blind? How does he now see?" 20But his parents answered and said, "We know that this is our son and that he was born blind;" 21"But how he sees now or who he is that opened his eyes for him we do not know. He has come of age, ask him, for he shall speak for himself." 22His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Judeans, for the Judeans had decided that if a man would confess him to be The Messiah, they would cast him out of the synagogue. 23Therefore his parents said, "He has come of age; ask him."
24And they called the man a second time who had been blind and they were saying to him, "Glorify God, for we know that this man is a sinner." 25He answered and said to them, "If he is a sinner, I do not know, but one thing I do know: I was blind and behold, now I see." 26They were saying to him again, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes for you?" 27He said to them, "I told you and you were not listening. Why do you want to hear again? Do you also want to become his disciples?" 28But they were insulting him and were saying to him, "You are his disciple; we are the disciples of Moses." 29"And we know that God spoke with Moses, but we do not know from where this man is." 30That man answered and said, "This is therefore to be marveled at, that you do not know from where he is and he opened my eyes." 31"But we know that God does not listen to the voice of a sinner, but listens to whoever worships him and does his will." 32"It has never been heard that a man has opened the eyes of one who was born blind." 33"If this one were not from God, he would not have been able to do this." 34They answered and were saying to him, "You were born entirely in sins, and are you teaching us?" And they cast him out.
35And Yeshua heard that they had cast him out, and he found him and said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of God?" 36He who had been healed answered and said, "Who is He, my lord, that I may trust in him?" 37Yeshua said to him, "You have seen him, and he is The One who is speaking with you." 38But he said, "I believe, my Lord", and falling down, he worshiped him. 39And Yeshua said, "For the judgment of this world I have come, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind." 40And those of the Pharisees who had been with him heard these things and they said to him, "Are we also blind?" 41Yeshua said to them, "If you were blind, you would not have sin, but now you say, 'We see.' Because of this, your sin stands."


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