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These presentations and projects all work toward the goal of exposing students to a broad range of opportunities to use art to connect with their communities. These in-school workshops will culminate in a city-wide public exhibition at Harold Washington College.
In Phase Two, Mucca Pazza, with assistance from the classroom teachers, will award 18 honorable mentions and a grand prize. These are the students we invite to learn more in a professional printshop. We are providing students dedicated to art the opportunity to develop their own projects.
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The Son of Devin Willis-Is he the future of MKF?
The above is Devin's son ! What an exciting Time between All the Willis's Modern Kung-Fu will pass on to the next generation.fighting arts
Damon Willis in Pankration
I have been lucky! a student of Don Neale and Devin Willis (Modern Kung-Fu). I own a company and love teaching martial arts. I feel blessed and continue to learn and look forward to travel and train with Devin and Damon soon in Utah.
Devin has informed me recently, Damon has won a local Pankration matches. He won by two submissions and a 3 round decision He has been training with a great teacher Chuck Costello.
According to his biography on L.A Boxing, he is a :
"4th degree black belt in Pankration under Master Sgt. Luis De La Rosa *Founding member and senior referee for the Amateur Pankration League *Certified MMA and grappling instructor under Chris "Westsidestrangler" Brennan *Certified grappling instructor under Roy Harris and Harris International *Board of directors for the World Amateur Martial Arts International Association *Certified personal trainer *Professional fighter, coach and trainer *High Ranking in several traditional Martial Arts *Promoter and fighter manager Chuck and his fighters have competed in KOTC, the WFC, XCF, UCF, Reto Maximo, Crown Fighting Championships, Total Combat and more shows. His students are state and national Champions in Pankration as well as no-gi grappling. They have competed in California, Tijuana, Arizona, and Rocky point, Nevada, Colorado, Kentucky, Juarez and many more. Mr. Costello has trained in the martial arts his whole life.
Below is an example from one of Damon's matches.
Devin Willis has always taught his students to keep growing and learning!
For more reading:
Pankration: Martial Art of Classical Greece By Paul McMichael Nurse, Ph.D.
Submission Fighting and the Rules of Ancient Greek WrestlingBy Christopher Miller
Modern Kung Fu History – Wetpaint
Study of Speed In Throwing Arts
Laboratory of Sport and Health, Faculty of Sciences Sport and Physical Education, France. seem to support what I have learned in the throwing arts. I also found this inRamdane Almansba post in Judo-the-Blog It Stated the following:
The aim of this work was to verify if there was a difference in throwing speed performance between heavier
and lighter weight categories in judo. Sixteen judoists aged 18±3 years-old, eight considered in the light weight category (-73 kg) and eight considered in the heavy weight category (+73 kg) participated in the study. A force/velocity test was used to determine the anaerobic power, strength, and pedal speed for each subject. Three trials of Nage-komi exercise, each comprised of 15s sets of Osoto-g
ari, Uchi-mata and Ippon-seoi-nage throws were performed by each subject to ascertain throwing speed. Throws within the sets were intersected by one period of 3 minute passive rest while the trials were separated by one period of 10 minute passive rest. Heart rate and the greatest number of throws within each set were measured for three trials.
We use
d an ANOVA to compare the number of throws between the two weight categories and a
"Student" test when the difference was significant. A correlation was used to examine the link between the different parameters.
show that in the force/velocity test pedal speed did not differ between the two categories. However, there was a significant difference between the two categories when throwing speed was measured by the number of throws executed during the Ippon-seoi-nage and Uchi-mata, but there was no significant difference between the two categories for Osoto-gari.
Our study showed that the throwing speed of judoists represented by number of throws appears to be significantly different between the two categories. The lighter category has more speed than the heavier c ategory using arm technique (Ippon-seoi-nage), while the heavier category has more speed using leg technique with half turn of the attacker's body (Uchi-mata). As a result, throwing speed is related to the type of technique used and not weight category…"
More Resources;
Chatting With Mr. "Devin Willis"
I had a chance to talk with Devin on the phone last night and enjoyed it a lot!
When did you start your martial arts training?
My father Donald Willis was my first instructor. He liked boxing a lot and some Judo. He taught me the basics of judo and boxing when I was very young…(no gi)
Later I would train in American Kenpo , Shotokan Karate and Kung fu. In the later years I trained with Master David Lee in Modern Kung fu and became a teacher for him in San Jose California. I have had many teachers over the years, because I am always learning.
Through Family and friends I met other martial artists like Ed Parker. (Not just karate people but boxers , wrestlers, aikido, judo…etc. In fact Damon(His brother) has trained with world class instructors, but keeps training with me(I noted this seemed to humble Devin)
It was a very interesting time. I met Mr. Parker of Kenpo and what a great man he was and I learned a lot by talking and listening. He was a good example of leadership in the Martial Arts AND is missed.
More to come-
Research, Your Best MKF learning Resource!
Info and Reference – Have fun looking at how the world around us and find martial arts. you can search the internet for martial arts related items or for anything else of interest.
Devin Willis's Proven Research Resources That, produce positive results !
Other places to places to check are the following: Willis Modern Combative Arts , Douglas Hess's Martial Arts search engine and firstname.lastname@example.com
Shuai Chaio and Chin NA In MKF
According to Devin Willis , "..Master David Lee was taught Shuai Chaio(Shuai Jiao), not Akido It also had entailed Chin Na. also, we were taught to also had strike as we to enter. In Shuai Chaio the main goal is to throw the opponent hard, at a very akward angles, and possibly breaking something along the way of the throw.
I was taught by my Instructor that Shuai-chiao was used by the bodyguards to the chinese emporers.
Our "drills"consited of full contact sparing , with the understanding a takedown was considered any part
of the body, other than the feet, touching the ground. You only got points for a clean throw, you had to remain on your feet and couldn't be dragged down as well.
Also, once the two competitors "locked up" or made physical contact to initiate/repel, resist, we were given 4 count, if noone had been thrown the competitors were
seperated thus you had to go for the quick clean throw.
Many of the throws are similar to Judo, but sacracfice techniques are not used in sport version of Shuai Chaio (since whoever hits the ground first loses points). It is also illegal in sport Shuai Jiao to throw opponents with techniques that lock the joints.However , used Chin na and worked with joint locks.."
But in It is also illegal in street Shuai Chaio to throw opponents with techniques that lock the joints to break as they are thrown is the version taught in MKF.
I have always wondered if Grandmaster Jimmy H. Woo and Master Lee ever crossed paths?
San Soo kung fu is one of the most effective systems for self defense. Modern Kung fu is also known as an effective system.
I have always wondered if Grandmaster Jimmy H. Woo and Master Lee ever crossed paths? Devin was never sure
Grandmaster Jimmy H. Woo brought the art of San Soo kung fu to America in
around the 1930's and was the first Chinese to teach non-Asians. From when he
opened his El Monte, CA school in 1958 until his death in 1991, he taught
thousands of fighters what many Martial artists consider the most brutally effective
martial art existing today. I have started to study it the last year and Modern Kung fu seems to perhaps mimic it in many ways?
-kicks and punches, leverages (chin-na), mauling and grappling techniques,
classical (staff, tri-sectional, knife, ) and
-unorthodox (chair, shoe, belt, etc.) weaponry, sweeps, throws, and
take-downs, and pressure point or nervous system strikes.
San Soo kung fu and Modern Kung fu are attack-based, first-strike-mentality art unfettered by sport and aesthetic considerations. Eye gouges , joint and neck breaks, biting, and many other "unethical" strikes are the san soo practitioner's bread and butter. We believe fighting is not a game, but brutal, ugly, nasty business.
As the great warrior Miyamoto Musashi said, our sole intent is to step in and kill the enemy.
There is no other consideration. Since any martial artist will fight
exactly as he has trained, we never train with rules but with deadly
serious intent and a healthy respect for not only our partners, but for
every human being. True san soo kung fu is not for everyone; only for
those who are serious about real-life self defense against one or more
attackers, armed or unarmed. No silly animal postures. No endless
breathing exercises. Just the scientific study of street-fighting
principles and psychology. One of the reasons I had to leave Devin because of his religion of Mormonism, His Instructor Don Neal was a Lay Pastor and my current instructor is also a Christian(what is a Christian?.)
For more information on San Soo kung fu, you can contact
Contact him by email at:
or through his website at this link
P.s-Devin was an awesome man, teacher and fighter. He was just unsaved.
Take downs and Throws
Here are some takedowns and throws which work well with/against kickboxing: (All of these are tried, true, and tested)— Takedowns from a Bear Hug —
A bear hug is relatively easy to achieve. From here, you can:
1. Backward Bending takedown — 4 finger grip at the lower back, side your head against chest or opposite frontal shoulder, pull in with arms as you push him backward with your head/shoulders/chest.
2. Backward Bend with outer clip — same as above, but with your leg hooking outside of his (if right side of your head is against his chest, you use right foot to clip him — important — kind of like a bear hug with kosoto gari).
3. Drop to a Double Leg
4. Drop to a Snatch Single against his lead leg — Follow up by sweeping out the other leg from behind, or heave-ho, or dump him (run the pipe), or redump with a flank (reaching through the legs to tap the knee).
— Takedowns against the left jab —
1. Flair Single — (This is a favorite of mine) Step in with right foot to meet the front of his left foot as you downward parry with your right hand (standard basic boxing). Your right hand follows up the parry by snatching the lead (left leg) of the opponent. Now, very important, you step past his lead foot with your LEFT foot (this is important so he can't try and counter throw you). Continue stepping in, past his rear foot WITH YOUR RIGHT FOOT as your left hand takes his rear knee (right). At this time, your right arm is lifting his left leg upward, and as you're walking past and taking the second leg, he flairs over like a rolling wheel. You land in side control. This also works well against a left round kick.
2. Outside slip to outside head engagement and minor outer clip on opposite side
— Takedowns against Some Kicks —
1. Against the Round Kick (aka "roundhouse" kick) — Arms up, elbows in, raise your lead knee and knee block it, then catch it under your arm on that side. From here, you can:
A. Step in and major inner reap the supporting leg (basic, but it works well, even with 16 oz. gloves on). Don't let go of that kicking leg.
B. Trap the kicking leg under that armpit, place your other hand on top of that knee, step back and turn 135-180 degrees toward the leg you have trapped as you LOWER YOUR LEVEL. This is a VERY effective takedown against kickers (a dump with modified hold on that leg). There's no way he can stay up when you do this.
2. Against the Side Kick — Gauge your distance as it comes in — back up a little if he's lunging fast — and scoop parry it as you move outside of it. Now his back is exposed. From here, you can:
A. Back Bear Hug — Lift, quarter turn, and drop. Down he goes.
B. Back Bear Hug and Knee Bend — From the back bear hug, put the arch of your foot in against the back of his knee as you pull him backwards. Down he goes, right into your back mount if you like. Standard BJJ fare.
3. Against a Front Kick
A. Treat it like the beginning of the flair single, and continue from there. Down he goes, like a stone.
B. Catch his heel from underneath (not hard to do, if you can regulate distance), and from here:
(1) Lift and drive forward, and he'll fall backward.
(2) Grab the top of that foot with the other hand, twist in a circle as you bring his leg down and outward in an arc. Or, if he tries to hold onto your neck to stay up while you're holding his front kick, turn it under and you'll end up behind him with his foot still in your grasp. From here, you can sweep out the other leg, or lower your level and take the other leg, or hold that foot tight up against his buttock and reach the other arm around his waist and take him down face first.
4. From an Overhook and Collar Tie
A. Sumi Gaeshi (also works with underhook)
B. Elbow tie with overhooking arm (pinching above the elbow with your thumb), push inward, he resists, you duckunder (head up and back upon completion) with penetrating step on that side. From here, you can clothesline him, or continue to his back and work from there.
5. From a Double Over
A. Salto
B. Wheel him over to the side, combined with a major inner against the thigh that goes "up"
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Coastal survivors: South Australia's rare and twisted trees
Hundreds of years old and with their gnarled limbs and otherworldly appearance, the grove of dingley dell gum trees in Port Macdonnell's Clarke Park is a spectacular sight.
Scattered across a narrow coastal strip from the Glenelg River across South Australia's south-east, the rare subspecies of South Australian blue gum has survived by its sheer hardiness.
With limbs blasted sideways by gale-force winds and salty, shallow soil stunting their growth, the harsh coastal environment has shaped their appearance.
"There are no two alike. They certainly have a lot of character," local tree grower and Port Macdonnell Landcare chair Peter Feast said.
He said the trees had carved out an effective niche in the local environment by surviving in places where others fail.
"They are survivors and very tough, they hang on and hang on," Mr Feast said.
Driving across the stark coastal landscape of Port Macdonnell to Pelican Point, often the only thing standing in a bare paddock is a lone patch of dingley dells.
The trees are so hardy that they will even grow on Millicent's black clay flats, a spot where hardly any species of trees survive.
Artists' muse
The trees are so distinctive, they have acted as inspiration for some of the south-east's best known artists.
South-east poet Adam Lindsay Gordon, who lived in Dingley Dell cottage in the mid-1800s, reportedly wrote one of his famous poems while perching in the boughs of a dingley dell gum.
In the 1980s, Mr Feast said he would often came across well-known painter Cathleen Edkins at her easel gazing up at a large patch of the trees at Dingley Dell corner.
"I often saw her set up on the road painting the dingley dell gums arched over the road there. She'd have a picture of horses, as she was famous for, and she'd be painting these trees into the scene," he said.
"She used to say they were such a nice tree to paint because of the character and the look of them."
Revegetating Germein Reserve
Thanks to the efforts of the Port Macdonnell Landcare Group and local schoolchildren, generations to come will get to admire South Australia's oddest tree.
At Port Macdonnell's Germein Reserve, where the largest grouping of dingley dell trees exists in the state, recently a group of Reidy Park Primary School students helped the group to plant and guard 700 trees, including hundreds of new dingley dell gums.
Mr Feast said the reserve was a marvellous example of regeneration in a bush area, and it looked vastly different to when the group first took it over in the 1970s.
"There was absolutely no understorey then. You could see right through it," he said.
These days, it's a complete habitat and new area has been added to it.
Mr Feast said without the continued efforts of the Landcare group, the majestic dingley dells would have eventually died out.
"One by one, they'll slowly die off. That's why it's important to keep planting them."
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5 Facts About Terror RecruitmentPosted: June 20, 2017 Filed under: 2017 Ramadan Prayer | Tags: Islam, Radicalization, Ramadan, Ramadan Day 25, Terrorism Leave a comment
Islamic Terrorism in the WestPosted: June 7, 2017 Filed under: 2017 Ramadan Prayer | Tags: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Christianity, England, France, Germany, Islam, Israel, Italy, Pray, Ramadan, Ramadan Day 12, Scotland, Terrorism, USA Leave a comment
The Qur'anic Justification for TerrorismPosted: June 5, 2017 Filed under: 2017 Ramadan Prayer | Tags: Christianity, Islam, Islamists, Old Testament, Pray, Qur'an, Ramadan, Ramadan Day 10, Terrorism 1 Comment
The majority of Muslims are peaceful, and just as there are many denominations in Christianity, there are many schools of thought within Islam.
However, Islamists and terrorist groups are able to justify their actions based on their interpretation of the Qur'an and the example of Muhammad.
These are a few of the passages in the Qur'an that not only have been used in the past to support violence, but are being used today. The RelgionofPeace.com reports that the Qur'an contains at least 109 verses that call Muslims to war with nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule. Answering Islam gives a list of some of the most prominent passages. Here are a few:
2:190-191 "Fight in the way of Allah those who fight you…And kill them wherever you overtake them. Fight them until there is no [more] fitnah and [until] worship is [acknoledged to be] for Allah."
4:101 "… The disbelievers are ever to you a clear enemy."
4:74 "So let those fight in the cause of Allah who sell the life of this world for the Hereafter. And he who fights in the cause of Allah and is killed or achieves victory – We will bestow on him a great reward."
9:29 "Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture – [fight] until they give the jizyah (religious tax) willingly while they are humbled."
Unlike the Old Testament of the Bible, which does contain passages that are violent, the Qur'anic passages are open-ended which means they can be applied to situations today whereas the Old Testament passages address a specific historical event. Further, Christians who commit acts of violence are betraying the teachings and example of Jesus.
The Qur'an of Islam supports violence against those who do not follow their religion. Based upon the teachings, the violent believe they are doing the service of Allah. However, Almighty God, through Jesus Christ, is a God of love, and He loves every human being and we were all created in His image.
Pray that Muslims will receive a revealtion of the Almighty God of love and be drawn to know the one who died for their sins, the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Jayvee Team Strikes AgainPosted: June 29, 2016 Filed under: 2016 Ramadan Prayer | Tags: al Qaeda, ISIS, Islamic terrorism, Islamist Ideology, Jayvee Team, Radical Islam, Terrorism 2 Comments
During the 2012 U.S. Presidential campaign, President Obama announced at a campaign rally in Wisconsin, "Al-Qaeda has been 'decimated.'" A little over a year later, after ISIS had captured Fallujah, a reporter from The New Yorker pointed out that the flag of Al-Qaeda was flying over the Iraqi city. Obama responded, "The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant…I think there is a distinction between the capacity and reach of a bin Laden and a network that is actively planning major terrorist plots against the homeland versus jihadists who are engaged in various local power struggles and disputes, often sectarian."
Following the Orlando terror attack in June, President Obama's administration was criticized for a failure to use the term "radical Islam." The President said, "What exactly would using this label accomplish? What exactly would it change? Would it make ISIS less committed to trying to kill Americans? Would it bring in more allies? Is there a military strategy that is served by this? The answer is none of the above. Calling a threat by a different name does not make it go away. This is a political distraction."
An editorial in the New York Post explains why it is important to use the term radical Islamic terror rather than simply terror: "…using the word "terror" without a limiting and defining adjective is like a doctor calling a disease 'cancer' without making note of the affected area of the body — because if he doesn't know where the cancer is and what form it takes, he cannot attack it effectively and seek to extirpate it."
Part of the problem is that Western leaders fail to acknowledge the ideology behind the terror attacks. In 2014 the United Arab Emirates issued a list of 83 Islamists groups, which it classified as "terrorist organizations." The U.S. Secretary of State lists 60 groups designated "foreign terrorist organizations" with the majority (approximately 48) Islamist groups.
Yesterday, at least 41 people were killed and 239 injured when suicide bombers attacked Istanbul's Ataturk Airport in Turkey. As of now Turkish authorities believe ISIS is behind the attack. Today is the 24th day of the 30 days of Ramadan. So far there have been 175 Islamic terror attacks with 122 people killed according to The Religion of Peace website tracks which Islamic attacks around the world. This number does not include the attacks from yesterday.
Muslims believe the rewards for fasting during Ramadan are multiplied. In addition to fasting, "according to Islamic practice, sacrifice during Ramadan can be considered more valuable than that made at other times, so a call to martyrdom during the month may hold a special allure to some," said a report by the US State Department led Overseas Security Advisory Council. Affirming the report, in an audio message released by the Islamic State, ISIS followers are urged to commit terror attacks during the month of Ramadan.
"Ramadan, the month of conquest and jihad. Get prepared, be ready … to make it a month of calamity everywhere for the non-believers" (ISIS audio message).
Prayer Point:
Pray world leaders will recognize that in order to defeat Islamic terrorism, they must be willing to name and recognize the ideology behind the attacks and that God will reveal the motives behind any organization hiding their true intentions.
Orlando Terror Attack MotivePosted: June 16, 2016 Filed under: 2016 Ramadan Prayer | Tags: Homosexuality, Islam, Omar Mateen, Orlando, Pulse, Terrorism 1 Comment
Following an attack like the one at Orlando's Pulse nightclub, news outlets attempt to figure out a motive for such a horrendous act. One of the trends that has emerged in this case is to attempt to turn the perpetrator, Omar Mateen into a victim by claiming that he was gay. The thought is Mateen "might not have been driven by his political and religious ideology at all, but by his suppressed homosexuality."
All radical Muslims are victims of an evil political ideology disguised as a religion so in that respect Mateen was a victim. Was his motivation due to homosexuality? Perhaps, but even if as a Muslim he was gay, Islamic teachings regarding martyrdom absolve him of "the worst of sins and the most abhorrent of deed" as homosexuality was described by a Muslim religious scholar.
In Islam humans will be judged according to their deeds. Those with more good deeds go to Paradise where they will enjoy spiritual and physical pleasures forever. Those with more bad deeds are condemned to eternity in hell. Those who are slain in the cause of Allah (martyrs) go to Paradise. The hadith states, "The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: 'All the sins of a Shahid (martyr) are forgiven except debt" (Muslim 20:4649). Even if Mateen's motive was somehow a result of feelings of guilt about being homosexual, in Islamic teachings dying as an Islamic martyr guarantees forgiveness and Paradise for him.
FBI Director James Comey said, "We are working to understand what role anti-gay bigotry may have played in motivating this attack, but we are highly confident that this killer was radicalized and at least in some part through the internet."
Mateen pledged his allegiance to ISIS on Facebook on the morning of the attack before buying ammunition with his wife. He made two trips to Saudi Arabia – one in 2011 and the other in 2012. "Based on his blatant extremism and ties to a convicted Orlando imam known for facilitating international jihadists traveling, the strong likelihood is that these trips were not benign," said Ryan Mauro, national security analyst for the Clarion Project. His 911 calls during the attack also indicate his ties to terrorism.
Regardless of Mateen's motivation, 49 innocent people died in an attack that was, by the perpetrator's own admission, inspired by Islamic teachings.
Prayer Point:
Pray that the eyes of the leaders of western nations will be open to the danger that radical Islam brings to the West, and that the tendency to try and understand Mateen's motivation will not dilute the urgency of the threat of radical Islam.
Speak Truth in LovePosted: June 15, 2016 Filed under: 2016 Ramadan Prayer | Tags: Christianity, Islam, Jihad, Qur'an, Terrorism, truth Leave a comment
In an attempt to debunk the statement, "Islam teaches Muslims to kill Christians and Jews," a popular Christian website states, "There is not a single command in the Qur'an for Muslims to go out and kill Christians or Jews."
Unless the author of the article on the Christian website believes you can have a war without any casualties, this statement is misleading because it ignores passages in the Qur'an such as sura 9:29 which says, "Make war on those who have received the Scriptures [Jews and Christians] but do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day. They do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden. The Christians and Jews do not follow the religion of truth until they submit and pay the poll tax [jizya] and they are humiliated."
The Reliance of the Traveller, a classic manual of Islamic Sacred Law, is a foundational theological manual. Al-Azhar University, known as Sunni Islam's most prestigious university, certifies that the Reliance of the Traveller "conforms to the practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni Community" (Reliance, p. xx).
The manual explains sura 9:29: "The Caliph makes war upon the Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians, provided he has first invited them to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited them to enter the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax Jizya…– while remaining in their ancestral religions (and the war continues) until they become Muslim or else pay the non-Muslim poll tax in accordance with the word of Allah Most High" (Reliance o9.8, p. 602).
As ISIS captured Christian areas in Iraq and Syria, residents were forced to "convert or die." In a few areas, Christians were given the opportunity to pay the poll tax, however ISIS leaders increased the amount of the tax to an amount that made it impossible to pay so many Christians were forced to flee their homes. In October 2015, Assyrian Christian business owners living in Sweden found the "convert or die" message on the walls of their businesses. The graffiti also included the message: "The Caliphate is here," along with the ISIS logo. It is reported that the Swedish city of Gothenburg where the graffiti was found has had at least 150 people leave the city to join ISIS.
Recent history demonstrates widespread persecution against Christians. TheReligionofPeace.com has a list of targeted acts of terrorism on Christians by Muslims since September 11, 2001. In the last five years (since January 1, 2011) there have been 7,420 Christians killed and another 7,754 injured in jihadi attacks. This list is of those that have been identified specifically as Christians and according to the website, it is not a complete account of Islamic terror attacks on Christians since much of the violence against Christians goes unreported, and often the victims of Islamic terror are not identified as Christians.
Overall during the same five-year time period there have been 14,203 Islamic terror attacks in which 107,857 people have been killed and 132,433 injured.
Christians should be aware of the teachings of Islam – not to invoke fear, but to understand why Islamists feel compelled to conquer other religions. Love for Muslims comes from God's heart to Christians. To misrepresent the teachings of Islam denies truth.
Prayer Point:
The word of God tells us to speak the truth in love (Ephesians 4:15). Pray that Christians will be informed regarding their own faith and be able to speak the truth about Islam to receptive hearts.
Why Pray for Muslims During Ramadan?Posted: June 6, 2016 Filed under: 2016 Ramadan Prayer | Tags: Islam, Islamic State, Muslims, Ramadan, Terrorism 3 Comments
Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting begins today, June 6. Ramadan, translated as "scorching heat" or "dryness", is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, which began in 622 AD. Muslims believe that it was during the month of Ramadan when Muhammad first began to receive his revelations so it is considered the holiest month in Islam.
During the month of Ramadan, most Muslims will observe a fast from sunup to sundown for each of the 29 to 30 days of the month. Muslims are to abstain from smoking, drinking, eating and sexual pleasure during the daylight hours. All Muslims are required to fast when they reach puberty as long as they are sane and have no illnesses such as diabetes. It is to be a time of spiritual reflection and increased devotion to Allah, and Muslims believe the rewards for fasting during this time are multiplied.
In addiction to fasting, "according to Islamic practice, sacrifice during Ramadan can be considered more valuable than that made at other times, so a call to martyrdom during the month may hold a special allure to some," said a report by the US State Department led Overseas Security Advisory Council. Affirming the report, in an audio message released by the Islamic State, ISIS followers are urged to commit lone wolf terror attacks during the month of Ramadan.
"Ramadan, the month of conquest and jihad. Get prepared, be ready … to make it a month of calamity everywhere for the non-believers … especially for the fighters and supporters of the Caliphate in Europe and America."
Last year during Ramadan, terror attacks occurred on three continents on the same day following a similar message by an Islamic State spokesman. On June 26, 2015, attacks occurred in France, Kuwait, Syria, Somalia and Tunisia killing 403 people and injuring 336.
It is currently estimated that there are 80,000 ISIS members worldwide with 36,000 foreign fighters recruited from 80 countries. Of the 36,000 foreign recruits, approximately 6,000 are Westerners. This past fall U.S. FBI Director James Comey warned that the FBI was investigating more than 900 ISIS suspects in all 50 states. CNN reports that in the past two years since the formation of the Islamic State, they have either conducted or inspired over 70 terrorist attacks in 20 nations killing at least 1,200 and injuring over 1,700. That number does not include attacks in Syria and Iraq.
When statistics and quotes such as these dominate Western news, it can be difficult to separate the Muslim people from the radical Islamist teachings that groups such as the Islamic State follow. In the natural the facts seem grim for the future of our world, however TRUTH ALWAYS SUPERSEDES FACTS. What truth supersedes the grim facts? Jesus said, "I am the Truth." HE supersedes the facts.
The natural, inferior reaction to facts is to be suspicious and fearful, but as Kingdom minded Christians we live in a superior realization. Christ attained the victory over sin and death…and terrorism, so as His children we walk in triumph because the victory is already won.
"Your ancestors have also been taught 'Love your neighbors and hate the one who hates you.' However, I say to you, love your enemy, bless the one who curses you, do something wonderful for the ones who hate you, and respond to the very ones who persecute you by praying for them. For that will reveal your identity as children of your heavenly Father. He is kind to all by bringing the sunrise to warm and rainfall to refresh whether a person does what is good or evil. What reward do you deserve if you only love the loveable? Don't even the tax collectors do that? How are you any different from others if you limit your kindness only to your friends? Don't even the ungodly do that? Since you are children of a perfect Father in heaven, you are to be perfect like him" (Matthew 5:43-48 The Passion Translation).
During the next 30 days ask God to give you His heart for the Muslim people. Today ask Him to reveal and cleanse anything in your heart toward Muslims that is not from Him. Then join us as we pray and declare what Heaven is saying each day during this time of heightened spiritual awareness for Muslims.


text: Been watching this and thinking a lot about it and I approach this from the position of someone who really tries to avoid nomenclatural stuff in my work - in many ways because of many things touched upon during this thread. But want to add the two cents of someone who does not come at this with great passion for any specific way of doing things, I just want everything to work for the good of the total effort as I love the subject matter. The discussion of quality of work etc reminds me of the old discussions many used with pornography - can't define it but know it when we see it - that many used and still use as a guideline. Of course, many of their opinions were and are, imho, total crap and they can go to hell as far as I'm concerned before they should have the right to restrict anything I can view because so many considered as pornography anything that they personally disagreed with and used this approach as a sledgehammer to censor. So we have a continuum of types of publication that can be relevant, and within that continuum, lots of range/variation in quality of the work at lots of levels. I can look at that work and see what I consider to be crap and would suggest is not worth serious consideration and it is obvious that others on the list feel the same way. The problem, of course, is that they do not, I presume, overlap completely. I don't know the work of this Pickering chap so don't read any statement of mine as directed towards that or any specific body of work. The problem is that there are lots of traps we must avoid falling into as this discourse (in the big sense) progresses. First of all, we have to avoid defining who has the right to publish in this area. We need to have an established set of rules and evaluate any work that follows those rules. If we really narrow the people who can play the game, we cut out much of the ability for it to evolve. This leads to the next trap, having vague or outdated rules that just don't work in today's techno driven world. These must evolve and evolve at a decent pace as the situation requires. Finally, we need to avoid the trap of restricted access to the results of the work. If an important paper is published somewhere where it takes thousands of dollars to get access to it, then it is no better, regardless of the peer review, than self-published work. In the old days it was always so frustrating trying to get a copy of something published in certain journals/books that were effectively restricted in their access because they were so pricey - and for no apparent reason. So, anyone who follows the rules has the right to publish and suggest what they want to. Deal with it. It's more of a pain now because the number of people who want to do it has exploded and there is a great influx of papers. It's the cost of the excitement we are living though as more and more stuff comes out. The rules need to make it easy to work through this and establish a consensus that can evolve as this new material comes out. So the real villain in this is really the ICZN because they evolve at a rate that makes the SCA look incredibly progressive by comparison. They were considered slow - plodding - in the 1970's and now have devolved to being pretty much worthless. We need to fix that and the rest will be taken care of, although there will always be lots of stuff to go through. Make the requirements more restrictive in productive ways - greatly increase the number of copies that must be distributed, define peer review amounts and how it must be done. Not easy the latter, but if it was we wouldn't be having this discussion. Two final observations. I have worked on trilobites and their taxonomy has never recovered fully from Charles Elmo Resser's work, mostly on Cambrian forms - and he followed the rules to a T. There must be some way to deal with awful work without it being defined as requiring membership in a club. Resser would have been president of the club. Next, when Greg's Predatory Dinosaurs came out many saw it as a taxonomic catastrophe because of his many taxonomic relevant observations and suggestions contained in the work. Somehow we all lived and I suspect the book inspired, in its own way, a few of the people working now. So, just deal with it and push for the rules to be updated, as that is the only way to fix the problems. If we have to argue about the utility of some questionable papers in the meantime, so be it. Better that than turn things back to the old boy's network that didn't provide such a good basis to start with. And as a quantitative type of guy, perhaps evolving to more and more quantitative/testable aspects of nomenclature related to this discussion would help as well - might even convince me to start doing some taxonomy. Ralph Chapman


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After he parted from the funniest "show about nothing," Seinfeld co-creator Larry David made his first feature film, 1998's black comedy Sour Grapes. About a shoe sole designer who can blow himself and his cousin's catastrophic misunderstanding over 50 cents, the movie's humor highlighted Seinfeld's more sinister side with uncomfortable gall, subsequently garnering Roger Ebert's famous zero-star rating for movies that are deemed "immoral" (please take a seat next to Slackers and The Life of David Gale). Of course, David got his revenge on cable TV with Curb Your Enthusiasm, but it's hard not to think of his misguided turn watching Stella, another awkward assembly of otherwise considerable talent.
In the new show, Michael Showalter, David Wain and Michael Ian Black—creators of MTV's The State and the classic Wet Hot American Summer—play fictional versions of themselves, here anything the trio deems funny: unemployed schlubs, bestest buddies, rebellious spirits, synchronized dancers. We are meant to identify with the characters but they have no discernable personality traits or hobbies; instead, in the show's most crippling move, the actors possess their characters with a shrill, childlike exuberance and overstatement that comes to define them and, sadly, overshadow whatever jokes or parodies the creators have on hand. In the first episode, the roommates march around (literally, and very unamusingly) debating the virtues of Funk Rock and Funk Rock. It's a great concept muddled by the actors' fixation on exaggerated idiosyncrasies (nasal whines, kitty calls, a synchronized CD insert) and an almost stunning ignorance to context.
You have to appreciate Showalter and company's courage. The three try their hardest to be random, but the string of gags have neither the blindsiding elegance of Wet Hot American Summer, with its investment in character and narrative, nor the stream-of-consciousness abandon of The Andy Milonakis Show, also at least loosely connected by the host's mischievous inner child attempting to break out. Stella is essentially sketch comedy presented as an incoherent sitcom, so while individual moments may be arresting (and there are consistently more every episode, most often from Black), everything in between is mostly stale filler—narrative attempts at odds with the absurdity and preposterousness of the characters themselves—or embarrassingly strained setups (this week, when the roommates become a barbershop singing group).
Still, I would be lying if I said the show isn't growing on me. Showalter, Wain and Black are masters of deadpan, and there are many pleasures to be had while watching Stella. In this week's episode, about the roommates creating rival coffee shops, hearing Black announce an "irony alert" and Wain rubbing suntan lotion on his jacket sleeves are just a couple showstopper gags. Ultimately, however, these comedians, so adept at smart dumb comedy in satires like Wet Hot American Summer, have crafted a series that is inescapably juvenile in its understanding of vaudeville-style performance, which must have fared much better in the troupe's original stage acts. Comedy Central describes the show's brand of humor as being "dressed up in a suit," but as one of my friends might say, it's just plain stupid.


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Matt Martin scored 15 points and made three of four free throws in the final 30 seconds Saturday as Montana held off Air Force 59-57 in the Cougar Hispanic College Fund Challenge at Spokane, Wash.
Cameron Rundles added 13 points for the Grizzlies (4-2), who saw a 23-point second-half lead dwindle to one point in the final minutes against the Falcons (5-1).
Anwar Johnson scored a game-high 19 points for Air Force.
After Jordan Hasquet's basket gave Montana a 52-44 lead, Air Force scored seven straight, capped by Johnson's inside move to cut the UM lead to 52-51 with 1:26 left.
Rundles answered for Montana, burying a 3-pointer from the top of the key that pushed the lead back to four, 55-51, with a minute left.
Montana had raced to a 10-0 lead and led 44-21 early in the second half when Air Force started its comeback. Andrew Henke's three-point play capped a 15-0 run that pulled Air Force to within eight, 44-36, with 10:10 left.
Hasquet added 10 points and Andrew Strait had 10 rebounds for the Grizzlies.
Henke finished with 14 points for the Falcons, who shot 50 percent from the floor in the second half after hitting just 29 percent in the first half.
Both teams play again Sunday as Air Force faces ninth-ranked Washington State, the host team, and Montana meets Mississippi Valley State.
WICHITA ST. 75, WYOMING 63: At Wichita, Kan., P.J. Couisnard's 14 points and 14 rebounds led Wichita State. Along with Couisnard, Matt Braeuer added 17 points for the Shockers (3-2). Brad Jones led the Cowboys with 22 points.
Wyoming (2-2) led during the early parts of the first half until Wichita State went on a 13-0 run to take a 20-12 lead. The Cowboys never led again.


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For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God's glorious standard.
~Romans 3:23, NLT~
As we enter in to the holiday season and Advent approaches, how very essential to our spiritual well-being to recall why the remarkable birth of Jesus was so necessary. Let's ponder our awesome, glorious God together. He has created us as the objects of His infinite love. With just a word, He spoke the Universe into existence. From the vast galaxies of stars to the tiniest microscopic details of organisms, He wonderfully and intricately designed life as we know it. He created each of us as the objects of His infinite and intimate love, numbering every hair on our heads. He willed to love and know us each individually, not just collectively. If we actually sat to take more time, we would find ourselves breathless from the beauty of a sunrise or sunset, the quiet, gentle lapping of waves on a body of water, the majesty of a mountain or the soft skin of a small child. Our minds are barely capable of grasping the vastness of this glorious God of ours. His goodness, power and generosity are beyond what we could ever fathom. And His holiness so great, so pure that it cannot be anywhere close to the filth of sin.
This begs the question, How can a sinner like me ever get close to a God this beautiful and this holy? It seems rather hopeless. After all, today's verse couldn't be more accurate. Find someone who doesn't sin. It's impossible. Everyone is prone to some sort of shortcoming. It may be gossiping with others that trips us up. Perhaps we have sticky fingers and take office supplies home from work for personal use. Maybe we cheat on our taxes. There are plenty of us who struggle with alcohol, drug or other addictions.
I'm no angel. I sin every day. Not a day goes by where I don't have to apologize to my spouse or children for losing my temper. I struggle with "unwholesome language," which is never a good example for my kids. I get a chip on my shoulder, feeling entitled to better than what I have because our family has been through so much. These are only a few of the daily sins that tempt me. I am a highly average person. If I wrestle with these things, I know others do too. I am a sinner, just like every other human, who falls short of God's glorious standard.
Because God is all-loving as well as all-just, He had to make a special way for us, the objects of his love to be with Him while having that sin crime paid for. This is where He carried out one of His most remarkable acts, controlling that infinite power of His and confining Himself to human existence for 33 years. Jesus came to Earth on a rescue mission, to draw all of us into the permanent eternal hope of being with God. He paid our sin debt for us, taking on our punishment. This is the only thing that allows us to enter into the presence of a holy, holy God. He served the sentence. The debt for our crime is paid.
This is what makes Christmas so incredible! God, the Son, left the bliss of heaven, dwelling with us hopeless sinners so that we could dwell with Him forever. It is a gift for everyone. Not one of us is better than or more deserving than another. No one is holy enough to warrant heaven on our own. Even the pain we suffer here ourselves purifies us enough to bring us up to God's standards. Only Jesus does.
Spend these days leading up to Christmas pondering this profound thought. Thank Him for saving you from yourself! Because I'm no angel, and neither are you.
PRAY: Lord, I know I get this attitude that I somehow deserve heaven, especially with all the trials I face. But I know Your truth tells me that I still fall short of Your glory and holiness. Thank You for what You have done for me that I could not have done for myself. This Christmas Season, may I treasure this in my heart as I move from demands to celebrations.


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A wide line of severe thunderstorms ripped across northern Minnesota early Thursday morning, leaving thousands in its wake without power. The storms started in North Dakota and made their way across the state, cutting a wide swath of damage, said Mike Stewart, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Duluth. Widespread damage was reported in Cass and Aitkin counties locally, along with portions of northern Crow Wing County. After hitting the Twin Ports area, the storms continued on through northwest Wisconsin and onto the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
A year ago tonight, a swath of the Brainerd lakes area landscape was instantly changed. Hurricane-force straightline winds destroyed millions of trees, snapping them off mid-stem, twisting and yanking them from the earth by their roots. The canopy that once provided shade and natural beauty was dramatically altered, its giant oaks and massive pines destroying power lines and structures and blanketing driveways as they plummeted from the skies.
BAY LAKE—Damaging winds that tore through the Placid Lake area south of Deerwood Sunday night were officially ushered in by a tornado. The twister, designated EF2 by the National Weather Service, was one of at least four confirmed in central and northeastern Minnesota as severe storms kicked up in the wake of temperatures in the high 80s.


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Blog: Evaluation - child's play?
Tom Scott, ESS Training Officer explains why ESS is launching a programme of new training workshops and what's different about Let's evaluate!
ESS is redeveloping its training materials and evolving the way we deliver our training courses.
At ESS we feel learning about evaluation must be fun. Ensuring our materials are practical, and that we provide a relaxed atmosphere which encourages discussion and learning, has always been our aim. Now I want to go further and make our training as playful, creative and exploratory an experience as possible that inspires, just as much, as it reassures.
I have a 3 year old son and when he is trying to work out something that is new and difficult he doesn't worry what he looks like to others while he is learning. He doesn't worry that he might make mistakes. He doesn't worry that some of the things he learns might question his previous ideas. He just explores the challenge as best he can, and when this interaction is playful rather than mundane, he learns much better and retains more for longer. As we get older we lose that ability to 'learn through play' however, learning in this way helps adults learn just as much as children, which is why we have revised our workshops with this thinking in mind. Let me explain more.
Our training and support has always received strong participant feedback and our evaluation shows that we make a difference. So why do I want to change anything?!? ESS has learned a great deal about what our training currently looks and feels like through our "Training the Trainer in Evaluation" programmes with The Alliance and Voluntary Action Scotland. We have also seen what we could achieve through our training if we sought to make the courses more playful and collaborative while also providing more space for people to reflect on their own practice.
Pictured: Evaluation Game by Leapfrogtools
I also want to improve our training materials, and our thematic work is having a strong influence on this. We recently published "Why bother involving people in evaluation?" This work has developed our thinking on evaluation methods. ESS is moving away from the dichotomy of traditional and creative methods of evaluation, and instead is looking at the extent to which a participant has influence over the design and delivery of, and interaction with the evaluation method. To put it simply, this means there will be even more opportunity for discussions during the workshops and more ideas for you to involve people you work with to find the best evaluation method to use.
ESS's understanding of how we can best support people is continuing to improve, whilst at the same time we are being asked for more complex issues to be covered in our training. We have not only redeveloped our current training but we are also writing new advanced courses, naming the programme, Let's evaluate! This is an exciting time for us here at ESS and especially for me as the Training Officer. I look forward to seeing you at one of our new training days!
ESS's Let's evaluate! programme is made up of starter and advanced workshops:
Starter workshops:
- Getting Started: Outcomes and Indicators
- Make to Measure: Evaluation Methods and Plans
- Telling my Story: Analysing and Reporting
Advanced workshops:
- Theory of Change: Introduction to Logic Modelling
- Storytelling and Writing Case Studies
- Evidence for Success: Using evidence to influence policy and practice
And an Embedding workshop for those completing any of the workshops during the year:
- Learning from Evaluation


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I knew very well that the price was WAY too good to be true, and I knew for a fact that this particular box set was sold out over a year ago, so it was highly likely that it wasn't genuine. But since it was high time both me and my sister needed a new set of straighteners, and it was cheaper than what we would both usually fork out, we decided just to get a set against my better judgement!
Having used ghds almost religiously for the last year of my life and having seen this particular model in real life, all I can say that if these are truly fake, it's a bloody good one! I've tried it out on my difficult hair, and compared it to photos, reviews, everything I can find!! It just seems like the real deal, from how effective it styles my hair, even down to the bleeps and blinking light! To be honest, the only thing that gave it away so far was that I was unable to register it on the ghd website. I have sent an email to ghd for a final registration number check just to settle my curiosity, but I don't have my hopes up for a positive reply.
Yes, I know the negatives of fake ghds, but these seem to work alright (and better than my current Babyliss ones, even!) so far. So till I'm able to finally get my hands on my own genuine pair of ghds, or a better set of stylers, these will have to do temporarily. As sad as it is, I guess I am still ghd-less for now! ):


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Introduction to Lake Oswego, Oregon
Lake Oswego, Oregon, in Clackamas county, is 7 miles S of Portland, Oregon.
Lake Oswego History
Oswego and Lake Grove merged in 1959 to form Lake Oswego. The earliest inhabitants in the area were the Clackamas Indians. The town of Oswego was founded by Albert Alonzo Durham in 1847 and was incorporated in 1910. The first railroad arrived in the city in 1886.
Lake Oswego and nearby Attractions
- Gresham History Museum
- Portland Art Museum
- Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
- Milo McIver State Park
- Bald Peak State Park
- Tryon Creek State Natural Area
Things To Do In Lake Oswego
Lake Oswego offers a wide variety of recreational opportunities. The area has numerous parks like Waluga Park West, Canal Acres Nature Park, River Run City Park and Freepons City Park. The Rail Depot Museum, the Harlow House Museum and the Barn Museum are all accessible from lake Oswego as well. Fishing and boating facilities are available at Rainbow End Lake and Lake Oswego. The Willamette Stone State Heritage Site and the McLoughlin House National Historic Site can also be visited from Lake Oswego.
Lake Oswego Transportation
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The state of Missouri has the highest level of school suspensions in the nation, with St. Louis being the highest concentration in the state. In fact, in St. Louis, children score 61% higher in social-emotional delays than the national average.
The SEEC Project is a multi-tiered research-based approach that teaches social-emotional skills in which all children benefit from, provides preventative strategies for children who are at-risk for social-emotional delays, and helps determine interventions for children exhibiting challenging behaviors.
This free project is open to programs serving children birth through kindergarten entry in St. Louis City which includes:
- 32 hours of state approved training (4 full days in the fall and 2 half day trainings in the Winter and Spring)
- Substitute reimbursement while teachers are attending training
- Materials and equipment needed to implement strategies taught
- On-site coaching and consultation based on an individually created classroom action plan throughout the school year
- Assistance in creating individual interventions for children with challenging behaviors
The project was developed in 2006 to help address the challenges teachers are facing with children's behaviors in the classroom that are disrupting instructional time. The training provides information that is based in theory and research that specifically look at the impact of trauma, poverty and toxic stress that impact children's readiness to learn. Since the beginning of this project in 2006 4,266 children have been impacted by the hard work of 690 teachers.
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Commercial Real Estate Agent with Fulcrum Real Estate Services. With a passion for helping people and a demonstrated history of working in the real estate industry, skilled in seller and buyer representation, residential and commercial leasing and a professional background in the food and beverage hospitality industry, graphic design arts, administrative, marketing and sales. Graduated from San Jose State University & Cuesta College.


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Florence Nightingale & Nurses' chapel
Although burial in Westminster Abbey was offered to the family of Florence Nightingale, famous nurse and reformer, it was declined, due to provisions in her will and she is buried at Wellow in Hampshire. But recently the Dean of Westminster re-dedicated the Nurses' Memorial Chapel in the Abbey, in the upper Islip chantry chapel, to Florence Nightingale, on the centenary of her death. The chapel is reached via steep steps and an appointment should be made with the Vergers at the Abbey to unlock the chapel.
The Nurses' memorial chapel, designed by Sebastian Comper, was set up in 1950 to remember all those in the nursing professions from the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth who died during the 1939-1945 war. A roll of honour (illuminated by Constance Free) is kept in the chapel together with a lamp used in the annual Florence Nightingale service for nurses held at the Abbey in May. This was presented by Sir Dan Mason. The metalwork in the chapel is by W.F. Knight and the woodwork by Messrs James Walker, with gilding and painting by W.J. Butchart. The stained glass window is by Hugh Easton (assisted by Robert Hendra, G.F. Harper and others) and shows the Virgin and Child standing on a crescent moon and St Luke, the "beloved physician" standing on a rainbow. At the base is a figure of a kneeling nurse with badges and coats of arms of all the countries from which the nurses came. The Nightingale lamp is depicted at the top of the window. On the table which holds the casket with the roll of honour is a strip of brass (inserted in 1980) remembering Miss Elise Gordon, editor of the "Nursing Mirror" (which paid the administration costs of the War Memorial Fund that set up the chapel). This reads "To the Glory of God and in grateful memory of Elise Gordon 1903-1977". The large crucifix on the wall is a bronze duplicate of the original by Giovanni da Bologna in Florence. The altar, with gilt bronze colonettes, is the remains of the monument to Abbot Islip who died in 1532 (possibly by sculptor Pietro Torrigiano). Two original wall paintings can faintly be seen on the wall either side of the altar.
Florence Nightingale
Florence was born on 12th May 1820 in Florence, Italy, while her parents William and Frances were on tour. She started her career helping out in London hospitals and at the outbreak of the Crimean War in 1854 travelled with others to Scutari to nurse the wounded. Luckily she recovered from a bout of fever she contracted there. The Times newspaper called her "The Lady of the Lamp" referring to her midnight vigils on the wards. Once back in England she set about reforming the army nursing services. She died on 13th August 1910 and a memorial was erected for her in St Paul's Cathedral.
Further reading
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004
This image can be purchased from Westminster Abbey Library
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I have been a mom since I was 17 years old. So, my identity has been wrapped around motherhood for over 26 years. I cannot imagine NOT being a mom. I've always been the nurturing, mom-like figure amongst my friends, even at a young age. But, parenting is EXHAUSTING. I have 6 children, 5 of … Continue reading Parenting Is Exhausting
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Change Your Stars
I was watching one of my favorite movies of all time, A Knight's Tale, last night. One of the reasons I have always loved this movie, honestly is Heath Ledger. But, the other reason and one that I want to share with you today, is the message within the movie itself. That you can … Continue reading Change Your Stars
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DIGITAL DUETSProject ID: 625276
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DIGITAL Devices for mUltimodal Expression Through vocal Synthesis
Project details
Total cost:EUR 250 935
EU contribution:EUR 250 935
Coordinated in:Italy
Topic(s):FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IOF - Marie Curie Action: "International Outgoing Fellowships for Career Development"
Call for proposal:FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IOFSee other projects for this call
Funding scheme:MC-IOF - International Outgoing Fellowships (IOF)
"Artistic and musical expression is an important part of human experience, and can be considered a universal language above any cultural diversities. In particular, the communicative power of voice is worldwide known, since voice is the first musical instrument ever exploited to create and perform music. During the last twenty years, novel scientific and technological achievements have given birth to several systems able to generate synthetic speech and singing voices, unleashing the exploration of innovative performative possibilities. Strong of the experience in the field of the involved researchers, the objectives of this project consist in the prosecution of these studies, extending the current "state of the art" with innovative technologies and techniques to enhance naturalness, intelligibility, expressivity and controllability of vocal synthesis, in thoughtful and insightful multimodal performances. The object of the first part of the project is the design and development of a novel musical instrument for excellent vocal synthesis in real-time; the core of the instrument will be an articulatory vocal synthesizer, composed by three parallel algorithms for physical modeling synthesis based on an unprecedented joint bio-mechanical and acoustic simulation of the human upper airways. Synthesis will be controlled by means of hand and finger gestures, making use of machine learning techniques to enhance usability and bandwidth of the instrument. The second part of the project aims at the integration of the instrument in a multimodal platform for audio/visual performances; making use of novel Virtual and Mixed Reality technologies, we want to define choreographies in which, by means of gestures, performers are able to control speech and song synthesis, multichannel sound diffusion, processed images and real-time 2D and stereoscopic projections. It is our intent to exhibit such performances on stages within theaters and concert halls, in Europe and North America."
EU contribution: EUR 250 935
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ListenThis small station dates to 1891, making it the country's second oldest still-active train station. Its designer E. Francis Baldwin was the B&O's top architect at the time, creating hundreds of buildings over his long career (though many no longer survive). The station's "Stick Style" design is highly practical, featuring large overhanging eaves that shelter waiting passengers from sun, rain, and snow. Kensington is around 11 miles from Washington D.C.; back in the late 19th century, city residents could travel from Washington's Union Station to Kensington for around 35 cents. Trains still connect the two places, though commuters more commonly use the metro. The station parking lot now hosts the Kensington Farmers' Market on Saturdays and continues to serve as a community symbol and gathering place.
Sources"The B&O Railroad Station at 10312 Montgomery Avenue." Kensington Historical Society. Accessed April 25, 2017. https://www.kensingtonhistory.org/khs-location/bo-railroad-station-10312-montgomery-avenue/?tabid=co....
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Lifemark provisional administrator KPMG Luxemburg has postponed a bondholder meeting set for this week which was to decide the fate of the life settlement vehicle.
Money Marketing understands the meeting is likely to be reconvened for January.
Negotiations are under way to resurrect the $150m loan facility arranged by Keydata founder Stewart Ford to take Lifemark out of administration. Lifemark provisional administrator KPMG Luxemburg was presented with the loan offer in August.
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme and other Lifemark bondholders were originally due to vote this week on whether to accept the loan or put Lifemark into liquidation. Ford has argued the loan would enable Lifemark bondholders, including the FSCS, to be repaid. The Lifemark FSCS levy cost the industry £326m, with advisers paying £93m.
Last week, the US lender behind the loan arranged by Ford withdrew funding on the grounds that the lender's name was made public. This meant if the bondholder meeting went ahead as planned, bondholders would vote on the liquidation proposal only.
It is understood that KPMG is waiting for confirmation from the US lender that the loan is back on the table.
Zia Hossen of KPMG Luxemburg, who has replaced Eric Collard as provisional administrator ahead of Collard leaving KPMG at the end of the year, sent an email, seen by Money Marketing, to Lifemark trustee SMP Partners earlier this week adjourning the meeting.
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Matt has represented ParalympicsGB at three consecutive Paralympic Games and won gold on his debut in Beijing.
He started shooting around the age of 11/12 as a hobby with his dad. In 2006, he got in to competitive shooting after finding out more about the sport at the Stoke Mandeville Spinal Games.
Two months after taking up the shooting he won silver in the R3 10m air rifle prone mixed SH1 event at the National Championships. He then went on to compete internationally just 12 months later and secured a spot at the Beijing games just 18 months after taking up the sport full time.
Matt returned home the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games with a gold medal, after securing victory in the R3 10m air rifle prone mixed SH1.
At London 2012, Matt was one of eight shooters to equal the world and Paralympic records with a score of 600 in the qualifying rounds of the R3 10m air rifle prone mixed SH1. In the final, he missed out on defending his title by just three-tenths to take the silver medal.
In his second event, the R6 50m air rifle prone mixed SH1, Matt pushed the defending Paralympic champion out of the medals and took an unexpected bronze in the event he had taken up just 18 months before the Games.
Despite setting a new Paralympic record in qualification, it wasn�t to be for Matt Skelhon at Rio 2016 as he finished seventh in the mixed 50m rifle prone SH1 shooting final. He also achieved an eleventh place finish in qualifying in the R3 mixed 10m air rifle prone SH1.


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Director/CEO, Berlin/Kleinmachnow
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Start date: August 2019
Contract type: Full Time
Contract term: Permanent
Suitable for NQTs: No
The Director is the executive educational leader of the school and ultimately responsible for the quality of the school and the well - being of students and staff in all aspects that contribute to it. Both CEO and CFO as the managing directors decide together on all legal and financial matters within the frame of the approved budget.
The Director reports to the Supervisory Board of BBIS.
The three principals (PYP, MYP and DP/CP), the Head of Student support services and the Head of Boarding report directly to the director.
- be able to live the BBIS core values of "pioneering – excellent – caring – reflective".
- be ready to develop the BBIS Mission and Vision further.
- be a leader experienced in an international school setting.
- have a global view of international education for the 21st century.
- be familiar with the International Baccalaureate principles and programmes.
- keep abreast of the latest developments in the educational world and research.
- hold an advanced academic degree.
- be confident in handling accreditation/evaluation processes (CIS, MSA, IB).
- be willing to listen – think – decide.
- enjoy taking responsibilities.
- accept (some) conflict as part of organisational life.
- be used to operate within the frame work of policies, laws and works agreements.
- speak German or be ready to learn German.
- display resilience and patience.
- be creative and energetic.
- set high standards for student and staff performance.
Applications must be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com a single e-mail with a single PDF attachment not later than 31 July 2018, consisting of:
- A letter of application, outlining your strengths as a candidate and referring to your suitability for developing BBIS to the next stage.
- A current resume (max. 2 pages).
- A statement of educational philosophy and leadership style (max. 1 page).
- The names and contact details of three referees.
The recruitment process includes skype interviews for the strongest candidates in late August/early September. Finalists will be invited to Berlin in late September/early October. The Board reserves the right to appoint an outstanding candidate earlier in the process.
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