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Yearly Ponderment: 2016
If I had to sum up the past year in one word, it would very easily be this: humbling.
Me and humility have always had a pretty terrible relationship. I want to be humble, but I don't want to become humble. In other words, I don't want to see my weakness. I don't want to be in a spot where I actually have to depend on God. In my dream world I'm this loving wife and brilliantly creative homeschooling mom with a clean house and I'm hospitable and I read books all the time and I'm always helping out others and I respond to negative situations with strength and grace. In this dream world, I do not cry and I am not sad. There's plenty of Bible reading, sure. But there is no begging God for grace. I suppose that in my imaginary world of what I want to look like, I have no need to ask others for help. There is no confessing of sin.
Enter: 2016!
There has been some amazing and wonderful stuff that's happened this year. When I went back through my photos to compile my annual Yearbook, I was reminded that I am so blessed to make such happy memories with my family literally every day.
However, there's also been a lot of painful stuff going on in the past several years (I hope to share a little more about it at some point but it's not yet resolved) and I have certainly not embodied that resilient persona I had hoped to have by now. I think I respond to difficulties with even less valiance than I did when I was younger. Instead I just cry. A lot. Sometimes for hours on end. You'd think I've been taking notes from my 2-year-old.
For a couple weeks this year I even reached a point where I wasn't sure if God was real. If He was real, I was almost certain that I didn't belong to Him, because (by my wrong estimation) real Christians don't get doubtful or sad. Reading the Bible seemed to make me more upset, so I purposefully chose not to spend time in God's Word because I was scared that it would send me off into a deeper bout of gloom.
So...is there a happy ending?
At risk of sounding like Eeyore: Not really? Not yet? Maaaajor weakness continues to abound and it's frustrating every time.
But here are a couple wonderful things that God has brought through 2016's highs and lows:
-Some people loved me really well. One sister in Christ committed to calling me on Tuesday afternoons so we could pray together for 20 minutes about the issue I'm struggling with. Another sister was always available for me when I called her sobbing and hyperventilating, and she prayed for me and told me true things until I calmed down. Our pastors have been helping me and caring for our family with gentleness and love. I experienced the healing James 5 talks about when I truly confessed my sin to another person. My church family has proven for me that God is real and Christ is alive I actually am one of His. Not only has He not forgotten me, but through His people—people I would never be friends with if they were not my family in Christ—I really do feel Christ's love for me so tangibly. (So, yes, in case you were wondering, I'm more convinced than ever that God is real and I am His.)
-I've seen a huge connection between my physical discipline and my emotional wellbeing. I tend to be far more even-keeled when I'm eating healthy and exercising. This is shocking to me because I am the queen of quitting and I have never pushed myself physically until this year. But I really do feel much better when I'm making good choices. Frustratingly, despite all my hard work I haven't slimmed down (and in a 3-month period when I was exercising the most, at least seven people still asked or assumed that I was pregnant; not appreciated, ha!) but regardless of my appearance I have found that I really need God to help me grow in my perseverance and stamina—in holding planks and in all things.
-God held onto me. My faith was tested, and I failed the test. But what happened anyway? God proved Himself faithful. He kept me. I'm ending a really hard year and guess what! I still love Jesus. He's still showing me beautiful things through His Word every day and filling my heart with joy. My kids have learned from me as I learn from Jesus that He is truly everything. Peter and I are still married, still repenting, and still forgiving. The Lord can handle my doubt. His people have been forgetting Him and rebelling against Him for thousands of years, and He hasn't given up on them yet. God has sustained multitudes of other weak people from all over the world and throughout all history. He's not going to start giving up on me!
A lot of scriptures have been deeply comforting and sweet this year but these are a couple really defining verses I've found as I read through the Old Testament this year:
2 Chronicles 26:16. "But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction."
But then there's this: "Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor." (Proverbs 18:12.)
Tim Keller has said "There's nothing more relaxing than humility." To be honest, I haven't really experienced that yet, but I know some older saints who have trusted God for decades, and I want the same peace and relaxation they have in depending on God for their troubles. If 2016 has taught me anything, it's that if my hope is in anything other than Jesus, it's a false hope and it's bound to disappoint me. So I'm grateful that He's using whatever He finds necessary to direct my hope to the only One who can actually hold me.
Overall, my heart is grateful and full of praise. I'm so happy to be His.
Last night in the car, I took a quick moment to explain to our kids why we don't believe in Santa Claus. Afterwards 4-year-old Stephen said "What would happen if Santa Claus was real? Nobody would get presents! Only God."
The amount of theology packed into that statement is incredible, and it's something I never considered, but the dude makes an excellent point. Santa Claus offers us no good news.
One of the many reasons that Santa is a dangerous idea is because he teaches a completely works-based righteousness; rewards for being good and punishment for being bad. If a child really believes in Santa Claus, and sees good behavior as the source of presents, they are from a young age trained to be motivated by selfishness: "I want presents so I'd better be good."
But the reality the Bible (Romans 3 especially) tells us is that "No one is good, not even one." I suppose a nagging thought I always had about Santa was "How bad do you have to be to make it on the naughty list?" If I got A's and B's all year, didn't say any bad words, but never cleaned my room or ate my vegetables, am I still going to get presents? Or am I not going to get as many presents as I would if I was more well-behaved?
I have the same questions for my friends who come from works-based religions (which is, as far as I can tell, every religion but Christianity.) Good people go to Heaven? How good do I have to be? I lie sometimes and I'm really lazy. Is that a deal-breaker?
If we find ourselves in the middle between a perfect person and a serial killer, how do we know if we're "good enough"?
James 2:10 makes it really clear: "For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it."
So, as my son so accurately pointed out, if Santa Claus was real, nobody would get presents. We have all sinned and continue to sin. To use a gross example, if we're making brownies and only one ingredient is cow dung, the whole batch is obviously inedible. Even if our whole lives were perfect but we messed up one time, we are still guilty before a holy and perfect God.
But then here comes the good news that Santa Claus does not bring:
A Savior has been born.
Our badness has not gone unnoticed by our Creator, but He Himself became one of us and died in our place, rising again and welcoming us to eternity with Him. He's both the Judge and the Justifier. (Romans 3 again.) On our good days and on our bad days, the perfect righteousness of Jesus is the only factor that determines whether we ourselves are deserving of Heaven. As Stephen suggested, Jesus is the is the only one who would make it on the Nice List, but all who believe in Him get a permanent spot on the Nice List too.
Let's tell our kids the truth, because the truth is far better news than Santa Claus.
Merry Christmas!
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Jesse Tree Day 24: The Birth of Christ and Day 25: The Resurrection and Our Future Hope
Day 24 - The Birth of Christ
Read Luke 2:1-20.
Reflect and celebrate!
Day 25 - The Resurrection and Our Future
Read Romans 6:4.
Merry Christmas!
In the past month, we've looked at several aspects of who Jesus is and how the whole Bible—not just the passages that mention "Jesus" in them—points to hope in Him. We're so privileged to be on this side of the Old and New Testaments, so we not only have tiny little glimpses of hope into Jesus coming, but we have all kinds of glimpses from the Old Testament plus all kinds of stories of things He actually said and did. Sometimes we forget that Jesus is a person, not just a character in a story. When we pray, we're not just sending a message to a recording machine but we are talking to a person! What a privilege!
The shocking thing about the story we've been reading this month—and hopefully now you've seen that it's all one big story—is that God not only allows us but invites us to be part of this story! Jesus was born, lived a perfect life, died for sin, was buried, and on the third day rose again. And His death and resurrection actually affects us in every way, as we read in today's verse. When He died, the sin of His people was on Him (even though we weren't born yet.) And when He rose, it's like we got a piggyback-ride into resurrected life as well, because now we get to have new life. Eternal life starts whenever we believe in Jesus, because Jesus said in John 17 that eternal life is knowing God. But once we leave our earthly bodies, things get truly great.
The book of Revelation shows us some really exciting pictures of what the people of God will be doing for all eternity.
Let's read Revelation 21:1-5:
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away." And he who was seated on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new."
Praise Jesus that He is the One on the throne making all things new, that our life forever with Him will be full of more joy than we can imagine. If you do not belong to Jesus, I beg that you think about it and truly pray and ask God to help you believe in Him.
Jesse Tree Day 23: Wise Men
Day 23 - Wise Men
Read Matthew 2:1-12.
We're almost done! Tomorrow we will read about the birth of Jesus, but today we read about some of the people who saw Him after He was born. Wise men from far away somehow knew about Jesus, and when God revealed to them that Christ was finally born, they came as quickly as they could and even went to Herod himself asking him where the child was so they could worship him!
When they found Jesus (which, by the way, wasn't on the same night he was born), they gave him really fancy gifts. You probably received gifts when you were born—some blankets, a rattle, a cute outfit with froggies on the toes—but have you ever heard of a normal baby receiving gold? Of course baby Jesus had no use for gold, but by doing this these men were showing that Jesus really is a worthy king.
A lot of people say that smart people don't believe in God; if you're smart, they say, then you would know there is no God. But in Psalms it says "The fool says in his heart, 'there is no God.'" Jeremiah 8:9 says, "The wise men shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" If someone is not showing reverence to Christ, it doesn't matter how smart or wise he is. He's missed the whole point of the universe! He might be able to build a rocket ship or she might have earned enough money to buy a rocket ship, but if they don't believe in Jesus, they have less wisdom than a five-year-old little girl from Tampa who isn't too good at reading yet but loves Christ. These wise men prove that you can be really smart and important and study really hard and believe in Jesus.
In Matthew 11:25-26, it says "At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will." Jesus was so excited that God revealed Himself to little children. Praise Jesus that He is a worthy King and that He has shown Himself to us!
Monthly Reflection: December 2016
Here are some sweet moments, cute pictures, and ponderous thoughts from the past month!
Sweet moments:
-At the beginning of the month our church had our annual Women's Retreat and it was incredible, as always. Being with my sisters---and enjoying a couple days full of rich conversations---always reminds me that Christ's kingdom is real and He is truly working among His people. This year we decided to really own our retreat, so all the leaders were from among us. My friend Jackey led the plenary sessions, I and two other ladies led breakout sessions, and there was no shortage of women who were perfectly fit for the task of leading discussion groups or worship through singing or all the other bits and pieces that go into making a great retreat. It was nothing short of heavenly.
-The next week, Peter booked a quick last-minute vacation to Disney's Ft. Wilderness Campground. I'm an enormous fan of this place and I've written about its greatness and economical value here: How to Have a Great Disney Vacation for $12/day Or Less. As I learn more about the joy of simplicity I discovered something shocking: visiting the parks was actually a distraction to making memories. Though we went at a relatively low-crowd time, it was still so busy. The kids were happiest when they were running around on a random patch of grass. So we made incredible memories at the Campground just riding our bicycles around and playing at the playground. It was so special. Also, in December some people completely deck out their campsite with Christmas decorations, so it was really fun looking at all the different lights. And at night, Peter and I ate snacks and watched The Office on a picnic bench while the kids slept. Lots of memories.
-I've just had great moments with the kids. We've been doing the Jesse Tree and it's been rich. I love these people.
What I Learned:
-It's been so nice being off social media. As a result of quitting Facebook, I don't think many people read my blog anymore, so that's been a bit of a bummer, but it's made me evaluate why I even write this thing and I'm reminded of how "viral" is not the same thing as "fruitful." Seeking platform is an empty goal. I suppose I didn't realize how discouraging social media is until I got away from it; the divisiveness of worldviews feels so brutal online but in real life it's not that big a deal and we can actually be friends.
-I spoke last month about how I've slipped into materialism. Ugh, it's gotten worse! I get at least one package in the mail every day, and I wish I could say these are all just Christmas presents. I shop online or look for travel deals when I feel restless. Spending money (or dreaming of spending money) is an escape. I never considered myself a shopaholic because I hate going to stores and I don't care about fashion or any of that, but here I find myself with an overflowing pile of cardboard boxes and I see that it's me. Totally humbling. I really hope the Lord helps me find joy in Him more than buying stuff. "More love to Thee, O Christ" is my favorite prayer and always the solution.
Favorite music:
-Unto Us by JJ Heller. I typically don't like albums that take the words of Christmas songs and then butcher them however they see fit, so I really appreciate that JJ's album sounds very much like the classics but they're obviously infused with her style and warmth. Her original songs are great too, as expected. Plus, she changed the lyric on "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" from "If the fates allow" to "If the Lord allows" so she gets the highest kudos for that.
-Lowborn King by The Modern Post. I just love Dustin Kensrue's sound and lyrics so much. Who else would write a Christmas song called "This Is War"?! So awesome.
-Joy Has Dawned by King's Kaleidoscope. "All Glory Be to Christ" is the tune of Auld Lang Syne except amazing lyrics. We actually sing that song year-round at our church...because our church is awesome.
-Repeat the Sounding Joy by Citizens and Saints. I said I didn't like how bands reinvent Christmas songs, but I like it when Citizens and Saints does it. Props.
-Songs for Christmas by Phil Wickham. Fun fact: I quit listening to Phil Wickham when he got married because I was bitter ;) But now that I'm married too and I'm over my fangirling, and I can appreciate that this album is sweet. Plus it's free on Amazon Music so...can't beat that.
Favorite Scriptures:
I finished the Old Testament, guys! I've never read through the Old Testament before. I sure didn't finish the Bible in a year like I hoped, but I got further than ever before and it's been rich all along the way. (I will admit, however, that I struggled through the Minor Prophets.) Many people have been pouring into me and reminding me of how crucial it is that I remain in God's Word even in a tricky season of life. I'm so grateful to God for these people because I am so quick to drift away. The joy of uncovering treasures from the living Word of God is truly unmatchable. I've forgotten how much it thrills me to the core when I actually make spending time "digging" a priority.
The verse that I've been thinking about most lately is Psalm 145:13b:
The Lord is faithful in all his words
and kind in all his works.
I finally feel like God is helping me trust that He is kind in all His works. Reading through the OT exposed a lot of my wrong thinking; I try to shy away from or downplay all the verses about God's sovereignty because God's sovereignty brings about downright devastating circumstances. I tend to resign unfavorable events as "evil from the enemy", "unfortunate", etc. But I need to see God's kingship over all things and really trust that He is kind in all His works. This has been so good for me.
Whelp, that's all for now! Here are the articles I've written this month and some pics of the kiddos:
Jesse Tree Introduction and Day 1 (along with all the other 24 days)
Things I Love About Piper: Year 3
Oxen, Clean Bathrooms, and Me
When Year-End Reflections Are Disappointing
Thanks for reading!
Jesse Tree Day 22: Angels
Day 22 - Angels
Read Isaiah 6:1-5.
This is one of the coolest passages in the Bible because it shows us how great God's glory is. These seraphim were a kind of angel so great and powerful that their voices made things shake. The Lord's robe was so long and majestic that it filled the whole temple! And the prophet Isaiah's response after seeing all this was "Woe to me!" because, after seeing the great majesty of the Lord, he saw his own sin. I'm pretty sure that here in this story, Isaiah and the angels were beholding Jesus, because in John 12:41 it says Isaiah saw Jesus's glory and spoke about Him. So we can trust that angels have been celebrating Jesus for all eternity. Angels aren't just the cute flying guys with halos that you might see on your Christmas tree. They are majestic and powerful. The description of heavenly creatures in Revelation is almost terrifying, and whenever we read a Bible story where angels meet people, the angel has to say "Do not be afraid!" because their presence is so unlike anything we've seen. So the fact that these magnificent beings are directing their worship towards something even greater than them really helps us see that Jesus is more glorious than we can even understand.
You know what else? As great as angels are—and as weak and fragile as we are—God has not chosen to love angels with the same love that He loves us. In 1 Peter 1 we read that angels "long to look" into our salvation. They're very interested in God's salvation of mankind. Angels were not made in God's image, but we were. Angels did not need a savior to die for their sin, but we do. Angels do not become new creations and receive the Holy Spirit when they believe in Christ, but we do. What wonderful privileges we get to have if we belong to Jesus!
Angels celebrated Jesus on the night He was born. They filled the sky and proclaimed the greatness of his coming. We'll get to that night later. But today we can praise Jesus that He is mightier than the mighty and fully worthy of praise!
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"Poetry is still my favorite way to educate my soul. Words carry the appropriate space between them for my soul to meander in and learn new paths for being. The universe measures how much time we spend there and gifts those brave enough to walk a lyrical life." -- Poet's Corner by Emoke, Malaprops bookstore and cafe, Asheville NC--from wnc-woman.com/0804emoke.html.
( Emöke in Malaprop's bookstore)
Emöke Zsuzsanna B'Racz was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary and educated at Torokbalinti Elemi Iskola, Kaffka Margit Gymnasium, George Washington High School in NYC, and took her Pre-med degree at FDU/Madison New Jersey and Post grad classes at Yale. We in North Carolina, however, know her as the owner and manager of Malaprop's Bookstore in downtown Asheville.
What many readers may not know is that she's also a poet and translator. Her work has appeared in Webster Review, New York Quarterly, Magyar Naplo, Rivendell, APR,
Women's Words, International Poetry Review, NC Literary Journal,Nexus,and Wordimage. Burning Bush Press of Asheville has published
Raising Voices 1997 and Every Tree is the Forest 2003, 2005, as well as Stories of the Seven-Headed Sewing Machine by Katalin Ladik: Translations, 2003.
Emöke has served as Guest Lecturer at Warren Wilson College:"Work as Art"
and George Mason University: "Politics and Poetry: Eastern Europe."
She lists as her hobbies "poetry, writing and translating, painting, traveling, tennis and contemplating in my garden."
I last saw Emöke in Gyor, Hungary, where she attended the European Premiere of the Alma Cantata, composed by Harold Schiffman, using poems from my collection Wildwood Flower She was heading out to Istanbul the next day!
(Budapest, Hungary)
Here is one of Emöke's most poems.
My aunt Julia was the mapmaker in the family
in other circles.
She walked in heavy work boots across the land
Cigarette hanging on her lips
bent under the wind and her mother's scorn.
She idolized her older brother, my father
Followed him with hazel eyes in dark sun brown skin
That held her rage, quite un noticed.
Her words were always kind to us children
with warm hands on our foreheads
smoothed out our fears eased us to dream.
French words English words or Hungarian
She spoke and read while the ducks and geese had to be fed
Each night dinner on the table by eight pm
She loved reading almost more than breathing.
Birthed two girls, lost one within ten days
Morning Glory grew strong by her mother's side
With each breath strengthened her child
for the same world that we all struggle with
to get a step ahead instead of side ways.
Can you tell which way she went?
I look in my heart to find the path
My aunt Julia scribed there
The poems that follow are from her most recent book, Every Tree Is the Forest(Asheville, NC: Burning Bush Press, 2002, 69 pages,www.malaprops.com, $20).
My Uncle Lajos came in a dream to tell me
that I had ancient drawings on my face
and, as far as he can tell,
there were important messages hidden
in the primitive drawings.
Pay attention to them, he said.
Thursday morning the angel came and visited
sweet milk on my lips
and honey
between my legs.
She sang among the water drops and
the shower rang with her strength.
We stood apart,
continents apart.
Your scent, your smile,
the way you bunch your sweater,
holding it together.
The way you avoid my eyes
for years--
twenty-nine, now.
The silence you observe
denies my existence,
my affection.
What does that do to,
Calvinist mistress?
You bow your head.
You almost smile.
I look from afar.
Never crossing the Danube,
never meeting my eyes.
(The Danube at dusk)
Janice Moore Fuller reviewed Every Tree Is the Forest in Asheville Poetry Review, Volume 10,#1.
Lao-Tzu tells us that "Every being in the universe/ is an expression of the Tao" and "Each separate being in the universe/ returns to the common source." Emöke B'Racz clearly embraces this principle, entitling her book Every Tree is the Forest and arranging the poems and illustrations in it with an awareness that diversity can be a source of unity.
B'Racz prefaces her book with an epigraph from Yeats: "If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we are both branches of the same tree." The epigraph is well-chosen, not only because it echoes her Eastern philosophy but also because Yeats offers her the model of a poet who continuously and self-consciously reinvented himself. Never content to continue a successful poetic phase, Yeats was drawn by the anti-self he describes in A Vision into ongoing revisions and reversals. In each new poem and each of her paintings, B'Racz seems just as willing to keep recreating herself as an artist.
In letter six, Rilke asks the young poet, "Don't you see how everything that happens is again and again a beginning…[how] starting is always so beautiful?" B'Racz, like Yeats, sees this beauty. Each poem in Every Tree is the Forest represents a new beginning — a new stanzaic form, a new subject, a new voice. Each poem in the volume is as distinctive as the trees of the title. What could be more different than the haunting aphorisms of poems like "The Fire" —
The marrow
remembers everything —
the streetwise idiolect of "Change That Adds Up Wrong Makes Little Holes and Great Love" —
fifteen neetfin ifften
bigger booger baby
left a hole in ifften's heart —
the tight imagism of "Teething" —
A brass and wood skull
full of teeth, intact,
channels where teeth line to root
the face, the hair, ears —
the long-lined narrative of "Hungarian Childhood" —
The knocking came at midnight in wintertime.
The room was warm and at peace with the night.
Two men brought in the cold under their hats,
grabbed most of the books and threw them into potato sacks —
and, startling us late in the volume, the megaphone shouts at the beginning of "504 Phone Calls" —
USING PUBLIC anything FOR A STATE RALLY,
And yet the book is able to contain them all, these wildly varied poems, just as it able to encompass B'Racz's own paintings scattered through the book — vibrant illustrations as varied in style as works by Chagall, Van Gogh, and Kandinsky. B'Racz knows, like Yeats, that the quicksilver self is never static and the world isn't either. Each incarnation, she knows, is as true as the next.
If every poem and illustration in the book is the Forest that is Emöke B'Racz, the book might also have been entitled "Every Woman is the Forest." The book opens its arms to a wide range of beloved women — lovers and friends (Kim, Sadhu, Katalin); her mother whose "eyes always kept a lifeline to her children"; grandmother Sajtos Zsofia, whom she paints in "lavender blue, ostrich grey." The feminine moon surfaces in the poems' images and in the circles and wombs of the paintings. In "She Gave Them Slippers so They Could Dance to Their Hearts' Content," she remembers four women in a writer's group gathered around a square table, smoothing its corners into a circle of dance. She also dedicates poems to more celebrated women artists — Irish poet Eavan Boland; the Prussian, anti-war painter Kathe Kollowitz. And in the final poem of the book, she honors Sappho, Christine De Pisan, Louise Otto-Peters, Elsa Honing Fine, reminding herself and all women artists that the work they do is "Not for Ourselves Alone."
Even though women dominate the book, by the end of the volume the reader can't help but remember how many men B'Racz has celebrated in her poems: her Hungarian father who was dragged away in the night "like a falling leaf in the eye of the storm"; Grandpapa Imre with "a breath of angel hair"; poet Lucien Stryk, reading words "captured with butterfly nets" at Malaprops; the anonymous elderly gentleman dancing through the bookstore in unmatched clothes.
Throughout Every Tree is the Forest, B'Racz widens and widens her scope in a generosity reminiscent of Whitman's expanding sympathies in "Song of Myself," the way he gradually enfolds within himself man and woman, butcher-boy and quadroon girl, "wombs and…father-stuff," and "Voices indecent by me clarified and transfigur'd." In "504 Phone Calls," B'Racz demands that we embrace male and female; gay, lesbian, and straight. She urges us to offer a blessing "of yellows, browns, blacks/ yes, those of the earth." God, she reminds us, "is a wisp,/ a kindness that sparks between two people,/ lovers,/ mothers and daughters,/ brothers and sisters." In fact, in a startling apocalyptic invocation, she prays to that wispy God to make "the human race to go extinct" if its members cannot stop plundering the literal forest in which they live, if they cannot learn to welcome all people into the human forest.
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A CANCER charity is urging people to take a bra and #1 to work and help string 5,000 of them across the Menai Bridge.
The novel idea has come from Macmillan Cancer Support which hopes to raise #5,000 to help people affected by the disease
The fundraisers had initially hoped to get their colourful attempt spanning the Menai Strait from Gwynedd to Anglesey into the Guinness Book of Records, but found they would first have to beat a similar stunt which currently stands at 69 miles wide – that's 114,000 bras!
Macmillan fundraising manager for North Wales, Eleri Brady, said: 'This is a great way of getting people involved in a fun activity, and a fantastic opportunity to sort out your underwear drawer if you're having a clear-out.
"For men, it's a great excuse to get rid of that grey bra your partner keeps on wearing and buy a new one for them instead.
"All you need to do is register today, bring a bra and pound to work – and you'll be helping people affected by cancer.
"Come June 21, we'll be stringing them up across Menai Bridge for all to see.'
Eleri added: "We are displaying the bras on the bridge on the longest day, June 21.
"We hope to do the longest chain of bras in Wales on that day."
Supporters are being asked to register today for Bring a Bra and Pound to work by calling Eleri on 01745 826789.
Macmillan would like one person from each company to collect the bras which will then be hooked up and strung across the bridge where they will be fastened by rope. "We want people to come down and look at the display and hope the bras won't fly off the bridge."
The bras will only be up for a short time, however, because of health and safety considerations.
One of the companies which has already pledged its support is Marks & Spencer in Llandudno, whose store will be used as a drop-off point.
Yesterday art students at Coleg Llandrillo-yn-Rhos, Colwyn Bay, designed logos to help the campaign.
Eleri said: "One in three people will get cancer by the age of 75, and 15,000 cancer diagnosed are registered in Wales every year. Cancer affects us all. We can all help."


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What Erdogan means for USDTRY....11 мая 2016, 17:06
There is considerable risk that the EU-Turkey refugee deal will collapse in the coming weeks.
The deal negotiated and finalised on March 18 is now at risk as president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sacked his prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu who negotiated the deal. Erdogan has made absolutely clear that he will not comply with the 72 conditions Brussels insisted on for visa free travel into Europe.
Measures he will not comply to include preventing corruption and revision of the terrorism legislation to mirror the European standard .
The March deal was very much the work of chancellor Angela Merkel and she has come under massive attack at home for the deal as seen by recent polls where CDU/CSU coalition is losing out to the right-wing anti-immigrant party Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD).
The Turkey EU refugee situation will potentially overtake the Brexit vote in the UK as Europe's ability to pretend-and-extend is running out time.
The Brexit vote (I'm writing my Brexit view this week), in my opinion, will only be catalyst, not a massive risk event in itself, on Europe's future. UK's "future" is not about in or out of EU, but about a massive budget and current deficit accumulated over last three decades and entirely financed by foreigners into a global market outlook where banking and real estate will be under pressure, not because of Brexit or not, but due to the ill managed transformation of the UK economy and over-dependence on banking and real estate – two sectors with exactly ZERO productivity.
The fact that prime minister David Cameron got a deal from EU ahead of the vote means Europe today de facto has a two-tier Europe. One set of rules for UK (even when staying in) and one for the rest. After the June referendum more countries will ask for "special deals" as the refugees, the growing gap between the European Central Bank and politicians, and similarly, the expanding divide between Germany and Club Med (Angela Merkel and Germany shot down Italy's attempt to make European bonds finance refugees).
Today we start another chapter in the Greek tragedy on more loans to Greece! The never ending story – the Greek "solution' will have to be a debt haircut, something totally unacceptable to Merkel who more than anyone seems to believe that inaction and buying time is the solution to all of Europe's problems.
But the key market-wise remains Turkey. I have been long fan of Turkish assets (not Erdogan!) – arguing that real rates are too high as long as USDTRY trades sub- 3.05/3.06.
Source: Bloomberg, Saxo Bank
I NO longer have this view. The Turkish stock market has performed well – as an emerging market – but has dropped significantly over the last week:
Source: Bloomberg, Saxo Bank
Source: Bloomberg, Saxo Bank
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Management and risk description
The market is busy scaremongering for and against Brexit, meanwhile, the refugee situation and the European Central Bank's killing growth in Europe through sub-zero rates remains unchallenged except in the polls. There is as I have said before a BIG RISK that the "social contract" will be FORCED into renegotiation due to the ill-advice of buying time. Time is the only commodity we can't buy, maybe its time for the politicians and central bank to wake up to this fact.
The guarantee is that both the political and market noise is increasing……even for the most tone deaf policy makers globally.
Entry: Long USDTRY 2.9200
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Photographs courtesy of Chris Hunter of the Schenectady Museum and Science Center
from the G.E. Collection of Historic Photographs (special thanks to Stephen L.J. Russo)
The 1925 New Haven Profs would feature a few decent hitters. Theodore Houk led the Profs in extra-base hits with 34 2Bs and 7 3Bs while batting .281. Future Washington Senators Sam Mayer (15 2Bs, 12 3Bs, 5 HRs, .284) meanwhile led in triples and Homers. Johnny Moore's 13 2Bs, 9 3Bs, .267 wasn't as impressive in the lineup but he would have some tremendous success in the majors becoming an everyday outfielder for the Cubs and Phillies. Eugene Martin (18 2Bs, 7 3Bs .284) led the team in hitting. The starting rotation was quite unbalanced with Davies (19-10, 2.82), future NY Giants' Bill Morrell (17-15, 3.54), future Phillies' Chet Nichols (15-20, 2.93) and William McKenty (15-11, 3.28) doing their best to keep ERA's down with little to show for it except for Davies. Nichols is one of the few pitchers in professional baseball with an ERA under 3.00 and 20 losses. The 1925 N.H. Profs finished the season in 4th place with an 81-73 record.


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Homeless families in the District will likely have to take additional steps to prove they're eligible for shelter on freezing winter nights after the D.C. Council on Tuesday approved sweeping changes to the laws that govern homeless services in the nation's capital.
The legislation's backers — including Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D), who originally proposed the changes — say the new eligibility requirements are needed to make sure the city's overburdened shelter system is used by those who need it most.
But some advocates for the homeless say the rules — which, among other things, require that those who live on the streets provide detailed documentation that they were District residents before becoming homeless and that they have no other safe housing options — will lead to many being turned away with nowhere to go.
The mayor praised the council's action in a statement Tuesday.
"As we continue to produce and preserve affordable housing across all eight wards, this legislation will ensure that our most vulnerable residents are always first in line for the resources and support they need to get back on their feet," Bowser said.
Officials said it is unlikely that the new rules will be in place for this winter, when demand for shelter peaks.


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Trojan alum shakes up San Jose Earthquakes
Nick Lima, a 2013 CVHS graduate and now a professional soccer player, recently returned to his roots. The former star of the Trojans' football and soccer teams helped the San Jose Earthquakes reach the playoffs in 2017.
Q: How have you liked playing professional soccer and how is it different from your time at CVHS or any other organized soccer that you might have played?
A: It varies in a lot of ways. I think the biggest way is it's your job and so you worry about that 24/7. And you're not occupied with school anymore, but for the most part it's been a great transition and I love it. There's parts and little aspects that you miss about Cal and Castro Valley, just the social part. But it's amazing and it's been pretty fun so far.
Q: And how has your time on the CVHS boys soccer team helped you prepare for your career?
A: It was good to start here. Being on any team, you learn how to interact with players. In a school setting as well as in college, you get used to kind of camaraderie that goes into it and that also develops you for the next level.
Q: And if you weren't a playing soccer, what might you be doing instead?
A: I probably would want to become a firefighter. Hopefully I can do that post-career. I have a long family connection to it and a lot of friends do it as well. It's just something I've always wanted to do.
Q: What advice can you give to aspiring soccer players or athletes in general out there?
A: I think you just gotta stick with it. If you have a dream, you gotta go for it. There's plenty of excuses not to succeed and I think you gotta find one to do the right thing and keep going and keep pushing yourself.
Q: What can we expect from the Earthquakes next year?
A: Hopefully a lot. I think this was a good start, this was kind of a learning year. We brought in a lot of new players and there was a lot of coaching change. There was a lot of change in the front office, so this year going forward there's hopefully going to be a little more consistency. We want to make a deeper run in the playoffs and the ultimate goal is a championship.


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Parkland -- The Public Safety Department will be getting eight new portable radios tod replace its old, worn-out models.
City commimssioners voted 5-0 on Wednesday to purchase Motorola radios for $18,741.
The radios, which are compatible with the system operated by the Coral Springs Police Department, are expected to serve the Parkland officers for eight years, said Chester Kowalski, acting deputy public safety director. Parkland's dispatching is routed through the Coral Springs system.
In other action, the commission voted 5-0 to rescind an ordinance calling for the purchase of a water and sewer plant.
Last year, commissioners had agreed to purchase the utility, but later decided to back out of the deal, saying the plant, owned by Narco Realty, was too expensive to purchase and operate.


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In a few weeks, I will be travelling back to Lebanon, where I will document the daily life of 24 year old teacher, Ouyoun Shabayta. Ouyoun is based in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el Helweh, in the south of the country. I met Ouyoun at the end of last year on my previous trip to Lebanon, when I was working for the American NGO, ANERA (American Near East Refugee Aid), who operate in the camps in Lebanon, Gaza, and The West Bank.
Ein el Helweh is the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, with an estimated population of over 100,000. This number has increased in recent years due to the Syrian crises. It was established in 1948, to accommodate the Palestinian refugees from Northern Palestine. Ouyoun Shabayta's grandparents were made refugees from Palestine in 1948 and her family have lived in the camp ever since.
She received her education in the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) schools in the camp. She wanted to study media and communications to become a reporter. However, she was unable to because of the restrictions imposed on Palestinians in certain areas of work. She eventually enrolled on an applied business computer course at the national university in Lebanon. However, after three years, unable to get any work in the corporate sector, she moved into the humanitarian sector. She initially worked with the NGO, Action Against Hunger, then moved to ANERA, where she has the position of field co-ordinator in Ein el Helweh.
I will document her daily life, both at work and with her family. I will be talking with her about ambitions, her thoughts (and her family's thoughts) about their roots in Northern Palestine.
For more information about the charity ANERA, please click here.
Click here for photographs from this trip.


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Benjamin Netanyahu seems such a self-righteous and prickly person that, however much one supports Israel's security and right to exist, there's always a secret pleasure at seeing him made uncomfortable.
Which is exactly how he feels as the administration of United States President Barack Obama seeks an accommodation with Netanyahu's archenemy, Iran, and the Israeli prime minister feels the domestic political ground shifting beneath his feet.
It is a measure of Netanyahu's uncertain footing that he has decided to give a speech to the United States Congress early next month, bypassing the White House in defiance of international diplomatic protocol. We are told the central theme of Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech to the two houses of Congress will be his heartfelt opposition to Obama's attempts to do a deal with Iran to rein in Tehran's nuclear development program.
It's already well known that there is no love lost between Obama and Netanyahu. But for Netanyahu to treat the White House with such public disdain signals an unprecedented low in the relations between the two governments.
Netanyahu's attempt to burnish his nationalist credentials with domestic voters by an act of arrant rudeness to Israel's most important ally is also a sure sign of his uncertainty about the outcome of the March 17 election. Israel's political class is weary of Netanyahu, who has had nine years in power at the head of three governments, and he will find it almost impossible to put together a working coalition after the election, even if the voters give him the chance.
Washington's strategic interests in the Middle East have shifted dramatically in the past couple of years. The prospect of energy self-sufficiency in the U.S. means that Washington can ease away from the need to cosy up to its duplicitous and untrustworthy oil suppliers, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States.
At the same time, U.S. strategic interests now focus on developing a working relationship with Saudi Arabia's great regional rival, Iran. Like the half-century ideological rift with Cuba, the 35-year mutual isolation between Washington and Tehran no longer makes any sense. An agreement for international regulation of Iran's nuclear development program to ensure its exclusive use for peaceful purposes will only work if there is a broad re-establishment of relations between Tehran, the U.S. and Europe.
Even more immediately, Washington and Tehran find they have shared interests in promoting political stability in Iraq, where Iran has huge influence among the majority Shiite Muslims, and in fighting the bestial Islamic State group and its occupation of large parts of eastern Syria and western Iraq. Indeed, it is clear that some form of information-sharing is going on between the U.S.-led air campaign against Islamic State and the expeditionary force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). The IRGC is directing much of the boots-on-the-ground action on behalf of both the Iraq government in Baghdad and the besieged regime of Tehran's ally and co-religionist, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria.
As well as its own elite IRGC forces, Tehran is fielding Hezbollah militias from neighbouring Lebanon that the IRGC trains and arms against the ISG in Syria.
Most western countries, including Canada, regard Hezbollah as a terrorist organization because of its efforts to attack and destroy Israel. And even some members of Netanyahu's Likud party find the thundering support for Israel by the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper to be over the top. All of which presents a situation of piquant irony: The Harper government has deployed CF-18 fighter-bombers and members of the JTF-2 special forces in a tacit alliance with Hezbollah and Iran's IRGC. War always makes for strange bedfellows.
Although Canada has a presence on the battlefield in Syria and Iraq against the ISG butchers, it has no formal role in the efforts to regularize Iran's nuclear development program and bring it into the international atomic energy monitoring system.
This is being led on behalf of the United Nations by the so-called "P5+1" group, the five nuclear-armed permanent members of the UN Security Council — the U.S., China, Russia, Britain and France, plus Germany. Washington is the dominant voice in this group, and hopes of a deal have risen since Hassan Rouhani came to the presidency in August, 2013, after winning an election on a platform of re-engaging with the West and moderating domestic politics.
Talks between Tehran and the P5+1 group have progressed slowly and fitfully. They failed to meet a November deadline to agree a Joint Plan of Action, but agreed to extend negotiations until the end of June this year.
Even though Rouhani is president and clearly keen to reach an agreement to end the debilitating international sanctions against Iran, he does not have complete freedom of movement. Iran's theocratic constitution means that it is the country's top religious official, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the last word on most issues. So far, Khamenei has given strong support to Rouhani and the nuclear negotiations.
But Khamenei also controls the IRGC, the Revolutionary Guards, which is highly politicized, the agent of Iran's regional foreign policy — and viscerally opposed to Rouhani's nuclear negotiations policy.
Khamenei is walking a fine line between his Pretorian Guard and his president. And Rouhani is being cautious in confronting the IRGC, recognizing that while the Guards are heavily engaged in the Middle East, military diplomacy will dominate.
For Washington and the West, the defeat of the Islamic State group, which many reports say is in the offing, could prove a Pyrrhic victory. That victory could well enhance the domestic political clout of the IRGC and undermine of the authority of Rouhani, to the detriment of the nuclear talks.
Jonathan Manthorpe is the author of "Forbidden Nation: A History of Taiwan," published by Palgrave-Macmillan. He has been a foreign correspondent and international affairs columnist for nearly 40 years. He was European bureau chief for the Toronto Star and then Southam News in the late 1970s and the 1980s. In 1989 he was appointed Africa correspondent by Southam News and in 1993 was posted to Hong Kong to cover Asia. For the last few years he has been based in Vancouver, writing international affairs columns for what is now the Postmedia Group. He left the group last year and now writes for a range of newspapers and websites. [email protected]
The views, opinions and positions expressed by all iPolitics columnists and contributors are the author's alone. They do not inherently or expressly reflect the views, opinions and/or positions of iPolitics.


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Tyndale - to the - KJV
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I've been posting a lot about William Tyndale lately, but with the thought that he didn't complete his translation of the Old Testament I thought it would be interesting to chart the Bible translations that came out in the years after him. And show his impact upon them.
1535 -Tyndale Arrested
Tyndale had translated the entire New Testament from its original languages along with Genesis - through to - Kings as well as Jonah from the Old Testament.
1535 - Coverdale Bible
Miles Coverdale (a companion of Tyndale) used Tyndale's translations, and since he was no a scholar, used other European translations, such as Luther's German Bible to complete an English Bible.
1536 - Tyndale martyred for translating the Bible into English.
1537 - The Matthew Bible
John Rogers had got hold of his friend William Tyndale's manuscripts upon his arrest. With Roger's knowledge of Hebrew and using other translations he released the Matthew Bible.
1539 - The Great Bible
The Great Bible was commissioned in English by King Henry VIII.
The Great Bible was over two-thirds Tyndale's translation, however the rest was translated from the Latin Vulgate rather than the original languages.
[Side Note: The Great Bible was overseen by Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall, the Bishop who'd so vehemently sought after Tyndale's death for heresy and who in 1526 publically burned Tyndale New Testaments outside St Paul's Cathederal.]
1560 - The Geneva Bible
William Whittingham, along with scholars Robert Estienne & Theodore Beza released the first English Bible to be entirely translated from the Original languages. While over 80% is Tyndale, the books untranslated by Tyndale were for the first time translated directly from Hebrew.
The Geneva Bible was the main Bible of 16th century protestantism and was the 1st English Bible to introduce verse numbers.
1568 - The Bishop's Bible
The Church of England had no love for the Geneva Bible, so developed their own, which became known as the Bishop's Bible. This version never really took off, except for with the bishops.
1611 - The King James Bible
Commissioned by King James and authorized by the Church of England for use throughout the churches The King James Version (also known as The Authorized Version) soon became the main Bible in the English language. A computer analysis shows that 84% of the New Testament KJV is Tyndale and 76% of the Old Testament.


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This month we are celebrating our 25th Anniversary.
As designers & manufacturers we have gone from strength to strength. Since we started to design our own systems we have quickly become Europe's market leaders.
Martin Evans, our Managing Director said " Over the past 25 years we have seen a lot of changes in the finishing industry and one of the reasons behind our success has been keeping one step ahead of the competition. We have listened to what our customers want and developed systems to fulfill their needs.
The 25th Anniversary falls on a successful year for us, having launched a range of new laminating systems, executing a re-brand of laminating supplies and travelling across the pond to exhibit at our second major US printing exhibition.
Evans continued, "Here's to the next 25 years"


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MSI GTX 980 Ti Lightning Review
MSI GTX 980 Ti Lightning Conclusion:
MSI builds some pretty unique cards with its Lightning series. You know you are going to get world class components and build quality thanks to the deign work that MSI as a company does. In this respect, I am far from disappointed. For one, right out of the box the GTX 980 Ti Lightning was delivering FPS performance levels almost as high as an overclocked GTX Titan X with nothing more than letting the card do its thing while gaming. To deliver this kind of performance bump over the reference card is an amazing feat. There is not a single game or synthetic game test that the GTX 980 Ti Lightning is not the highest performing card in the comparison. When overclocked it falls a bit short of a clean sweep, but is consistently in the top two cards, making it one beast of a card, the Marshawn Lynch of video cards if you will. Even playing at 4K resolutions with a single card and the specific game settings proved possible with the GTX 980 Ti Lightning.
The one disappointment I had, if it really is that, was that I fell short of my 1500MHz Boost clock goal for the core by a few MHz and was not able to push the memory up and over the 8Gbps data rate I was shooting for. That being said, those are pretty lofty goals, but if any card is going to make it happen it was this one. Even flipping to the LN2 BIOS, I was hitting the same clock speed limits as the stock BIOS, meaning it was more likely the hardware being my limitation than the power supply or digital power circuitry being the limit. Still, as an overclocking card it has all the chops you expect. Just in a smaller dose than I was expecting. Even so, hitting a 290MHz+ bump in speed is a sure way to increase gaming performance.
Raw clock speed is just one aspect of the card and provides the biggest bang factor for the user. However, if the card is cooling the core or sounding like a vacuum cleaner, is it really a successful implementation? I think not. MSI has this covered by way of its Tri Frozer cooling solution. Comparing the thermal results showed that you get a healthy 16 °C reduction in operating temperature of the GM 200 core running at stock speeds and allowing the cards BIOS to control the fans than you get when using a reference cooled solution. Impressive in that you do not get a ton of fan noise while the card is operation. This I kind of expected, but what I did not expect was how quiet the fans were when running at 100%. The Torx dispersion blade fans ran almost as quietly as they did when controlled by the BIOS, showing that MSI has delivered a better noise solution with its technology. Even at the 100% fan speed mark where NVIDIA's highly efficient cooling solution closes the gap, MSI's Tri Frozr design is still 11 degrees cooler than the reference card at 52 °C.
As far as looks go, the MSI GTX 980 Ti Lightning takes advantage of the up swing in yellow and black themed products and matches up nicely to the Z97-based MPOWER Max.
Pricing is surely going to be in the $650+ range based on a quick survey of GTX 980 Ti cards that are similarly speced out. I do have to say that MSI built one hell of a video card with this new addition to its Lightning Series. It's got it all, from looks to quiet cooling and playing above its ratings. Go get you some!
- Brutal stock FPS performance
- Great cooling
- Overclocking
- Military Class IV components
- Digital PWM
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This Vegan Chickpea Bowl Is the Power Breakfast You Need
If you look quickly, you might think this is a bowl of scrambled eggs, but — surprise! — it's actually chickpeas. When sautéed with turmeric, onions, and garlic, it makes the perfect savory breakfast.
All you have to do to make this vegan and grain-free bowl is mix mashed chickpeas with ground turmeric, salt, and pepper, and "scramble" them with garlic and onions until everything is warm and flavorful.
When served over mixed greens and topped with avocado slices, this protein- and veggie-packed breakfast will keep you full until lunch.
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DiMarzio DP120 Model One Bass Humbucker Pickup
Best Bass Humbucker Pickups
Expert Review
DiMarzio's Model One bass humbucker pickups were originally created to be replacements for the neck pickups in the Gibson EB series. Since then, these thick-sounding electronics have found a new life in a wide range of bass guitars, and have also been implemented in various configurations and not just the neck. The ceramic magnet and 4 conductor wiring help these pickups to produce a floor-shaking rumble that still manages to be clear and articulate, with highs that can really stand out in a mix. Some players like to use the Model On alongside other DiMarzio models, while others choose to just use the Model Ones on their own to define their bass sound. Bassists such as Billy Sheehan and John Conte are fans of what the Model Ones can do, so if you're seeking pickups that can really bring the rock out of your bass sound, look no further.


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REMI Garde is set for further talks with Newcastle United after meeting club officials over the vacant head coach post.
Garde is the frontrunner to succeed Alan Pardew at St James's Park.
But the 48-year-old is understood to favour taking the job on in the summer, having planned to take a year-long sabbatical from the game.
Garde held informal discussions with managing director Lee Charnley in London over the weekend.
Newcastle, also linked with Tim Sherwood, have also sounded out a number of other candidates since Charnley and chief scout Graham Carr drew up a shortlist for the job.
And Garde – interested in re-starting his coaching career in England after a sabbatical from the game – has NOT yet been offered the job.
A number of other potential candidates, including St Etienne's Christophe Galtier, Derby County's Steve McClaren and Ajax's Frank de Boer, have publicly ruled out leaving their clubs midway through the campaign.
Caretaker manager John Carver, meanwhile, is likely to still be at the helm for Saturday's home game against Southampton.
Carver, departed manager Alan Pardew's No2, took charge for the third time on Saturday, when Newcastle were beaten 2-0 by Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in front of club owner Mike Ashley.
The 49-year-old could even be put in interim charge until the end of the season, depending on the outcome of discussions with Garde – who left Olympique Lyonnais last summer – and other candidates.
Garde, however, is the odds-on favourite to take the job with bookmakers. Ex-Tottenham Hotspur coach Sherwood, out of work since leaving White Hart Lane last summer, is the second-favourite.
Meanwhile, Newcastle's Under-21s will take on Bolton Wanderers at Whitley Park tonight (7pm).
Jonas Gutierrez, back playing after being given the all-clear following treatment for testicular cancer, could play.
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On August 27th, Google began rolling out structured snippet ad extensions: advertiser-provided structured information that show with your text ads. This is another great extension that you can take advantage of as ad extensions typically increase click through rates, provide further information to the user, whilst reducing your cost per clicks as they are now an important factor in your Ad Rank.
The below image is an example of structured snippets in action:
It's really simple to set these new extensions up, simply go to the Ad Extensions tab:
Click on the drop down menu and go to structured snippets:
From here, clicks on the red + Extension button:
Now go to the New Structured Snippet button as seen below:
The structured snippet extension has predefined headers which an advertiser can select from:
Simply add your values as required and click on the blue Save button as seen below:
From here, your structured snippets will go under review, once approved they will begin to show when they are eligible.


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New 2019 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Coupe 1LT
Price Before Incentives $54,999
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The truly courageous of us,
are those willing to embrace who they wish to be
to make their own choices without the fuss
to embrace oneself is the key
But this does not mean those who fight the good fight
are not ones to be considered courageous,
those willing to live or to die to protect what is right,
they are also truly ones to be remembered in greatness .
This is not to say that those overthrowing a great power,
are not also doing what they think is just
history sides with the victor, the lost in flower
those who fight do so because they must.
Agreeing with all definitions
courage itself can be within all
from the single parent to the crowd willing in placation
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Chicago Public Schools Full School Day Position Openings
As part of the agreement with the Chicago Teachers Union, CPS is opening new Full School Day teacher openings to tenured teachers displaced between June 30, 2010 and July 27, 2012. The CTU website has more information on this arrangement.
This is a snapshot of the Full School Day openings listed on the Chicago Public Schools Office of Human Capital Candidate Gateway and is not necessarily a complete list.
Data gathered at 5pm on July 31, 2012
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Bringing hope and happiness to kids affected by cancer.
Bringing hope and happiness to kids affected by cancer.
Seany Movie Night Sponsorships
Mixing business with pleasure to do good for local kids
Fighting pediatric cancer is serious business. That's why The Seany Foundation needs help from you and other local businesses in sponsoring a fun-filled movie night for local kids with cancer. In return, your business will receive the positive publicity needed to keep your business booming.
The next Seany Movie Night will be hosted at Ultra Star Cinemas at Poway on July 14. Children and teens with cancer from local hospitals and their families will receive tickets for the special viewing of a blockbuster film before it premieres nationwide. Moviegoers also dress up as their favorite characters to compete for exciting contest prizes! Best of all, thanks to you—and sponsors like you—tickets and snacks for the kids and their families are free!
Seany Movie Nights are truly magical events. Be a part of the magic and your business will receive exposure for its support of local children and their families, as well as allow these sick kids to spend an evening away from their hospital rooms and in the company of precious family members, friends, and supporters like you.
The Seany Foundation has been featured in important local news outlets such as
Gold Sponsorship – $5,000
Your business name or logo prominently displayed in advertisements for the sponsored event. This includes:
Silver Sponsorship – $1,000
Your business name or logo prominently displayed in advertisements for the event sponsored. This includes:
For more information about the Seany Movie Night Sponsorship Program or other events and opportunities, please contact Amie Kuznicki at 248-563-4502 or [email protected].
I Really Wish I Could…
Consider one of the following personal options:
Sponsor-a-Family-of-Four: $160 for 4 regular tickets
Sponsor-a-Kid: $45 for a regular ticket
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|Ultrastar Poway 10 Cinemas, 13475 Poway Road, Poway, CA 92064
Calling all wizards, witches, and Muggles, The Seany Foundation and its friends at UltraStar Poway Cinemas will be hosting a very special, early screening of this year's most highly anticipated movie finale! Dress as your favorite character and you may win one of our famous costume contests!
General tickets include admission, complimentary popcorn, soda, candy, and sliders! And with VIP tickets, you also get reserved seating. Doors open at 6 PM, and screening begins at 7 PM.
General tickets may also be purchased and donated as part of Seany's Sponsor-a-Kid Program. Tickets for the Sponsor-a-Kid program will be distributed at local hospitals to young patients with cancer and their families. Purchasing a sponsored ticket allows kids in treatment and their families to attend our fun-filled movie night for free!
Proceeds from Seany Movie Night benefit The Seany Foundation's pediatric cancer research and patient care projects. www.theseanyfoundation.org
For more information or to purchase tickets by phone, call 858-551-5885.
On Monday, May 23, The Seany Foundation hosted the 1st Annual Swinging for Seany Golf Tournament. The partly cloudy weather did not deter our supporters from teeing off against childhood cancer in a big way! The event raised over $55,000, which will be put toward ongoing programs and research to improve the quality of life for kids and teens battling cancer.
Professional Golfer Maiya Tanaka swang her best in our Par 3 Challenge against 23 teams. "Winners" received raffle tickets, and "losers" got to use her shot in their game. Pro Skateboarder Willy Santos practiced his form out on the green alongside SD Chargers Steve Gregory and Vincent Jackson. Congrats to Vincent Jackson for placing 2nd in the Longest Drive contest. Special thanks go to Steve Gregory for auctioning off a personalized autographed football at dinner. Boxer Richard Power and NFL Player Rick Mirer also attended to show their support.
Winning bidders in the live auction took home Hawaiian Getaway vacation packages, a private dinner for 8 at Pamplemousse Grille, and a Peter Max print of Michael Jordan, autographed by Jordan. Contest winners took home golf gift certificates, a vacation package to Las Vegas, and more.
Congrats to the winner of our golf contests:
Closest to the Pin: Lakes #3, Doug Eisold, 10'5″
Longest Drive: 1st-Zack Hannan, 2nd-Vincent Jackson, 3rd-Steve Young
1st-Christine Freedman, 2nd-Nebby Frank, 3rd-Sharon Stein
Lowest Team Score: 1st-Alan Fishman, Tod Kilgore, Eric Lambiase, Joe Matranga (58)
2nd-Mike Conger, Jeff Diltz, Todd Hansen, Rick Mirer (60)
The Seany Foundation would like to thank Kelly Sargent and KUSI for joining us in the early morning to help get the word out about the event. And of course, thank you to Ira Cammeyer, Lori Iaquinta, and Fairbanks Ranch Country Club for making this event possible!
We would also like to thank Rochelle Porter, Leslie Carter, and Robert Ricasa for catching all the excitement on camera!
And of course, a huge thanks to our Supporters:
Think you have what it takes to win one of our incredible prizes? Register for the 1st Annual Swinging for Seany Golf Tournament, and you could take home one of these fantastic awards:
$15,000 CASH or a Two-Year Lease on a Ford Mustang!
~You'll have two chances to win and the first one is free!~
Longest Drive (Men's and Women's)
First place: First-Class Wedge
Second place: 2 Tickets to a San Diego Padres Game
Third place: $25 Gift Certificate to The Cheesecake Factory
Closest to the Pin
First place: Trip for 2 to Las Vegas*
You and a lucky guest will fly Southwest airlines to Las Vegas, where you will stay
for 2 nights in the world-renowned Aria Resort & Casino
*The trip must be taken no later than November 1, 2011.
Lowest Team Score
First place: $125 Gift Certificate for Golf Mart
Second place: Massage Gift Certificate for The Spa Sanctuary
Par 3 Challenge with Maiya Tanaka
$40 per foursome; $20 per twosome: Beat Maiya's shot and each player gets 3 raffle
tickets (a $20 value!). Lose, and your team gets to use Maiya's shot!
Don't delay. We're less than a week away from all the fun! Register today!
Even if you're not big on golf, we've got something you'll find enticing at the 1st Annual Swinging for Seany Charity Golf Tournament. Here are the spectacular items we'll be auctioning off:
Romantic Hawaiian Getaway
Say aloha to Hawaii with a trip for two to the beautiful island of Maui. If you have the winning bid, you and a loved one will fly to Hawaii (airfare included), where you'll stay at the Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa. The beautiful hotel is situated on Kaanapali Beach, the most romantic escape in all the Hawaiian Islands. Anchored by the legendary Black Rock of Kaanapali as it meets the sea, this spectacular Maui hotel beckons romantics.
Exclusive Pamplemousse Experience
According to the DiscoverSD.com, "Pamplemousse Grille is a paradise for the refined palate." Owner and Executive Chef Jeffrey Strauss is undeniably unique in his approach to cuisine, so much so it has been said, "Jeffrey Strauss blends spices and flavors to create a cuisine category all his own…" Now you can purchase the exclusive experience of dinner for 8 with wine in a private room at Pamplemousse Grille.
Peter Max Print of Michael Jordan, autographed by Jordan
Peter Max, one of America's most famous artists and pop culture icons, paints the king of basketball Michael "Air" Jordan. Jordan—an icon in his own right—has numerous honors, such as 5 MVP awards, 10 All-NBA First Team designations, 9 All-Defensive First Team honors, 3 All-Star Game MVP awards, 10 scoring titles, 3 steals titles, 6 NBA Finals MVP awards, and the 1988 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame on September 11, 2009.
Register today for your chance to bid on these fantastic items!
You heard right! Word on the street is that San Diego Chargers' strong safety Steve Gregory and wide receiver Vincent Jackson will be showing off their swings at the 1st Annual Swinging for Seany Charity Golf Tournament. The Seany Foundation is happy to confirm that these local celebrities will be on the green at Fairbanks Ranch Country Club on Monday, May 23. Want to catch a glimpse of your favorite players teeing off against childhood cancer? Register online today to join us for the fun.
Craving a juicy burger? Want to help fight childhood cancer? Well, satisfy both cravings at Smashburger anytime during the week of Monday, May 16! From May 16- May 23, Smashburger will donate $1 of each San Diego burger sold to The Seany Foundation! Just stop by the Del Mar Smashburger and order a SAN DIEGO BURGER for you and all your friends.
Camino Del Mar & 15th
1555 Camino Del Mar
Del Mar, California 92014
(858) 461-4105
10 AM – 10 PM Daily
Word is getting out about what's sure to be one of the most talked about tournaments in town. Come out for Swinging for Seany this May at Fairbanks Ranch Country Club, and check out Pro Golfer Maiya Tanaka's swing! Yes, the lovely and talented pro golfer will be gracing the greens to help us fight childhood cancer. Maybe she'll even give you some pointers if you ask nicely… Visit Seany's Golf page for more information and online registration. Check back soon for more of Seany's special guests.


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These raw no-bake oat balls are the perfect dessert after a filling meal or as a sweet treat. Since this recipe involves no cutting or heat, this a perfect treat to make with the kiddos. Try rolling these delicious oat balls in different toppings such as sprinkles or crushed up cereal.
Makes 12 cookies
1 1/2 cups Quick-Cooking Oatmeal
1/4 cup Sugar
6T Butter
2T Cocoa Powder
1/2T Vanilla Extract
1T Coffee
Coconut flakes, as needed
Soften butter.
Cream together butter and sugar until smooth.
Add in oats, cocoa, vanilla extract, and coffee and mix well by hand until evenly combined.
Roll into balls about the size of a meatball then roll balls in coconut flakes to decorate.
Eat immediately.
Do not use instant oatmeal packets.
You can refrigerate or freeze the oat balls if you prefer a harder consistency.
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Wildcountry Consultants top tips will help you to prepare for your forthcoming expediton.
On this page you can find downloadable PDFs, giving advice from the experts on many topics and subjects, designed to make your preparations easier and life on expedition as enjoyable as possible.
From buying and packing a rucksack to detailed kit lists, menu planning, navigation, completing route cards etc., it is all here.
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The GBHS Outdoor Education Program seeks to provide an interactive education experience that reinforces the GBHS mission and educational lesson plans. Lesson plans focus on proper pet care, animal behavior and bite prevention, and the role that the GBHS plays in our community, with reinforcement through our transport vehicle, T.A.R.A., which will exhibit proper pet care in action.
Lesson Plans
GBHS lesson plans are developed for students in grades 4-7 and meet the Alabama State Requirements for character education. GBHS education volunteers come to your classroom with pets and interact with your students. Any parent or teacher is welcome to use our lesson plans to further character development in their students. Please feel free to utilize our lesson plans in your home or classroom.
If you are a teacher, counselor or principal in the Birmingham City or Jefferson County school systems interested in having the GBHS present in your classroom or school, please contact Courtney Underwood at 205-397-8533 or email@example.com.
Adoption Center Tours
We always love having students come visit our facility! Students and other civic groups from around the Birmingham Metro area are encouraged to visit the GBHS for guided tours that touch on all three lesson plans. Tours usually last 30-45 minutes depending on the size and ages of the group. There is a maximum limit of 15 students per tour.
If you are interested in learning more about a tour at the GBHS, or to schedule a tour, please contact Courtney Underwood at 205-397-8533 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Suggested Reading
Know someone interested in animals? Here is a list of books perfect for those of any age. They are set to complement any of the GBHS lesson plans:
- Character Education
- Chewy Louie by Howie Schneider
- Venn Diagram
- Best Friends Animal Society, Animal Needs & Human Needs
- Learning to Give
- ASPCA, Humane Education
- Character education
- Don't Lick the Dog by Wendy Wahman
- Max Talks to Me by Claire Buchwwald


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Axa is set to double its protection sales team by the end of the year to accommodate increased demand from advisers.
Axa says its adviser sales have increases significantly in 2007 and the new recruits will support further growth as well as allow the team to build closer relationships with individual advisers.
The firm is searching for experienced protection specialists to join the team as Axa protection line sales consultants, who develop relationships with advisers by phone, or field-based protection account managers, who visit advisers across the UK.
Axa director of protection sales Jamie McIver says: "We recognise the importance of building and maintaining strong relationships with advisers to make it as easy as possible for them to write protection business."
He says improvements to Axa's protection products, such as the inclusion of total mastectomy cover in our CI policies, mean its sales team has been dealing with a much larger number of advisers requesting information.


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – (Jan. 30, 2018)
Write Now Marketing announces expansion into Lexington
Emily Cvengros will lead efforts in the region
Write Now Marketing, the full-service creative marketing firm based in Louisville, Ky. announced today that the company will expand to the Central Ky. market. The company also has hired Emily Cvengros as Lexington Area Marketing Manager to the firm, whose clients have included Kroger, Humana, Mortenson Family Dental, Cummins, KFC, Fetzer, Boston Beer, Norton Commons, Horizon Realty, University of Louisville and Louisville Party Center.
Ms. Cvengros has extensive experience in marketing, graphic design, and social media marketing across a variety of industries including real estate, interior design, restaurant, personal services, and retail boutiques. In Lexington, she has brought sales-generating and reputation-enhancing marketing services to Milestone Realty Consultants and Ball Homes, as well as provided design support for companies working in conjunction with Lilly Pulitzer, Jonathan Adler, American Girl and Ever After High. She earned a creative advertising and graphic design degree from Western Kentucky University.
"Our firm continues to flourish thanks to a tremendous team of creative marketing professionals, which includes designers, creative writers, photographers and videographers," said Write Now Marketing President, Debra Becknell. "Emily has a reputation in the industry as someone with a diverse skill set, but even more important, a passion for serving clients. She will be a tremendous asset as we build our presence in Lexington."
Founded in 1997 by Debra Becknell, Write Now Marketing offers a full range of services, including email marketing, direct mail, website and logo design, social media marketing and curation, as well as printing and branded apparel. The company's team of professionals has over 70 years of experience in the marketing world.
Write Now Marketing is committed to providing outstanding value to clients by building strong, reliable relationships. It's our goal to manage projects so that our clients may stay focused on their strategy and purpose while we manage the details and execution of their advertising needs.
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Flappy Bird could return, says its creator Nguyen Dong.
The simple one-button mobile game was dramatically pulled from the web last month, weeks after rising to the top of virtually every app store in the world.
The Vietnamese coder who made it had said the game ruined his "simple life", after he was swamped with press requests and harassment. He also received death threats, both from players angry at the game's addictive qualities and those who hated its apparently too-good-to-be-true instant success.
It appeared the game was dead forever - despite the massive array of clones even now clogging the app stores of the world.
But now it could be set for a dramatic comeback.
The game, which earned Dong more than $50,000 per day at its height thanks to in-game advertising, could be back on the Apple and Google Play app stores any day now.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Dong said he was "considering" bringing the game back.
"I can't go back to my life before, but I'm good now."
But if the game does come back, it will have a warning: "take a break". Dong appears to be genuinely concerned that the game is too addictive.
"At first I thought they were just joking," he says, "but I realize they really hurt themselves."


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NewsChannel 9's James Torrez reported live outside Neyland Stadium at 11pm Tuesday night with the latest on the Vols head coach search:
We spoke with former Vols running back Gerald Riggs Jr. to get his take on the UT drama.
ESPN reporter Chris Low reported that Auburn Defensive Coordinator Kevin Steele also interviewed with Fulmer on Tuesday.
Depend on us to keep you posted on the latest developments.
ESPN.com is reporting that Mel Tucker, Georgia's defensive coordinator, is scheduled to meet with Fulmer for a second time on Tuesday.
Tucker is 45 years old and in his second season with the Bulldogs. Before that, he was a defensive coordinator with the Chicago Bears, and was interim coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars for the last five games of the 2011 season.
ESPN reports Fulmer is expected to meet with Tucker and other candidates in New York on Tuesday.
Depend on us to keep you posted.
A report on the website FootballScoop.com is citing sources who say newly-named Vols Athletic Director Phil Fulmer has a list of five names under consideration.
Writer Scout Roussel reports:
"Sources tell FootballScoop Phillip Fulmer has been active working the phones and meeting with coaches he considers candidates for the position.
Sources tell FootballScoop Fulmer has met (or spoken with)or has meetings set with Georgia defensive coordinator Mel Tucker, Auburn defensive coordinator Kevin Steele, Clemson defensive coordinator Brent Venables, SMU head coach Chad Morris and former LSU head coach Les Miles."
Roussel's report continued, "An interesting side note to this list is that several of these same coaches were screened by or actually spoke or met with John Currie already as well. We also are told Fulmer reached out to a number of new potential candidates to discuss the position but heard from several they were not interested."
Fulmer was named A.D. by the Vols on Friday, after former A.D. John Currie was placed on leave, following a controversial and ultimately fruitless football coach search.
Fulmer's contract calls for a $575,000 annual salary.
Vol Nation has been eager for him to do the one thing Currie couldn't: Find a coach that is right for the school, right for the team, and right for the fans.
Currie withdrew his selection of Greg Schiano two weeks ago after an outcry from fans who didn't want his ties to Penn State sullying the Vols' brand.
FootballScoop's report, filed on Monday, cites sources as saying Fulmer could make a decision on a new coach as early as Tuesday.
Depend on us to keep you posted.