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If you don't take chances, then how will you know? I was young, barely a teen when I resolved to live a life of no regrets. It wasn't a New Year's resolution, just a new way of thinking about this little life o'mine.
Every day we make choices, the best ones we can. Day after day is filled with infinite decisions–we've got a lot of power in our hands. What each of us do with all that power adds up to these lives we are barreling through.
It's silly to say "It's been a long year," because by the end it always has. This particular vintage has been exceptional in many ways, filled with an immense amount of love, adventure and opportunity. And challenges, which have stretched me this way and that.
I want to thank all the people who walked into my life this year, the ones who were there at the beginning and the end, and even those who have passed through, for leaving an imprint on my soul. I want to thank the creatives, the analysts, and the critics. I want to thank the liars for challenging me to see past the smoke and mirrors, the fickle who changed direction with the wind and made me rededicate myself to my own course, the strange and beautiful and weird who inspired and delighted and reaffirmed that unique is not just a funny word but a mark of confidence. I want to thank the strong women and men whose courage and persistence propel everyone to an elevated state, and the vulnerable who demonstrate that pain and turmoil are real and human and part of the whole shebang, this life on earth we all share.
It's not about resolutions. We make them, we break them. Mostly we forget or just abandon what was a whim or maybe we were just lying altogether when we made it in the first place.
So here's my advice, which I don't dispense frequently: CHOOSE. Be conscious and make conscious choices and don't hold back; be kind and be ready and forget how to be uncertain and embrace every opportunity to live, experience, share, create and learn.
SEEK. Seek beauty, seek love, seek opportunity, seek challenges and learning experiences, seek to meet new people and make new friends and deepen your connections to the ones who are here now, seek meaning and seek purpose, but especially don't look so hard that you miss what's under your feet or in front of your face. Which leads me to my last directive: BE. Be present, be yourself, be the things in your heart that are yearning for release. Stifle nothing inside of you, embrace all desires, emotions and ideas. Try your hardest, dig your deepest, reach and reach and reach until you wrap your fingers around that dream of yours.
Often we find ourselves quantifying our desires: Ride more, write more; eat less, worry less. But it's all relative, so just do the best you can, always. And don't sell yourself short! If it's scary, then it probably damned worthwhile and you better get to it before that fear sets it. Damn the torpedoes!
With many decisions yet to be made, and opportunities to be weighed, I cannot claim that I know the path ahead–and so, I will make this choice, to end this year and start the new one in a place of gratitude, because gratitude is a crazy powerful vibration.
THANK YOUS: Mom Ridaz, Bike Oven Crew, Dog Soccer, 642 Lefferts, Mikey Wally, July, Mel, David Siffert, Roadblock and Wolfpack, U-Lock Mob, Gato, Brad & Jeff at Urban Velo, The Writing Disorder, Dream Panther, Danger Junkies, VerBs, Jon Good and the Shivering Brigade, Zen Dog, Benny, Rosie, Eric Singer, Rob+Devin+Max at the Church of Knxwledge; Kyle Ferrarrr for mapmaking and subtler lessons, Bizzart, HELP LA, Los Angeles Bike Polo and the whole damn poloverse, Timbro, Timmie Lee, Andrea Elliot for writing the best thing I've read all year, Margaret Gallagher; Mei, Sean Martin and Dorothy Wong (the races, the races!); Pittsburgh, the West Virginia panhandle for testing my mettle, DeathLA, and SUS York for always beckoning, Detroit, Salton Sea and Joshua Tree–because places deserve thanks too–and last, but hardly least, my No Manor family from the bottom of my heart to the end of the universe: Y'ALL DA BES'.


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There is certainly not a shortage of Halloween events this year on the Vineyard. There's the usual costume parties and trick or treating, plus scary films, a parade, and cemetery tours too.
Events start Friday, Oct. 28, with Halloween films at the Capawock Theatre, in which the $5 admission price benefits the Martha's Vineyard Public Charter School. See "Young Frankenstein" at 7 pm, and "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" at 9:15 pm.
To keep kids busy on Saturday, there's the Family Fun Day from 10 am to 2 pm at Middletown Nursery, a Halloween Party at the Oak Bluffs Library from 10:30 am to 1 pm, a Trick or Treat at the YMCA of M.V. from 3 to 5 pm ($5 for non-members), and another party at the Tisbury School from 3 to 7 pm.
For inquisitive adults and children, the Ghost, Gossip, and Downright Scandal Cemetery Tour of the Tisbury Village Cemetery starts at 3 pm, with Vineyard historian Liz Villard. Following the tour, enjoy refreshments. Admission is $12; $8 for M.V. Museum members, and $6 for children. Pre-register by calling 508-627-4441 ext. 110.
The new spinning center, Om of Motion on State Road in Vineyard Haven, is hosting a Halloween-themed Grand Bike Warming Celebration. From 2 to 8 pm, sit yourself on a bike and watch a scary movie starting at 2 pm with "Rear Window." 4 pm: "Ghostbusters." 6 pm: "Halloween." Food is available from the ArtCliff truck, and costumes are encouraged. For more information: 508-560-2628; omofmotion.com.
Adults, don your Halloween's finest to one of several parties at Island bars on Saturday night. Parties at Seasons and Nectar's start at 9, both featuring live music and a costume contest. The Lampost's party starts at 10 pm. Hear The Sultans of Swing at Atlantic, starting at 10 pm.
On Sunday, children can party with their costumes on at the Vineyard Haven Library from 2 to 3:30 pm. There will be games, treats, and spooky music. For more information, call 508-696-4211.
And on the actual holiday, October 31, there are a few more events: The West Tisbury Library's annual party is from 3:30 to 5 pm. A Trick or Treat & Costume Parade, sponsored by the Tisbury Business Association, starts at 3:30 pm at the Mansion House in Vineyard Haven, and ends at Waterside Market. All are encouraged to march in costume. St. Augustine Church's annual Halloween Haven features free hot dogs, soup, and refreshments, as well as costume prizes, movies, and games. Also in Vineyard Haven is The Vineyard Playhouse's annual Halloween Haven from 6 to 8 pm, with loads of candy, cider, coffee, and tea. In Edgartown, the school's party is from 4 to 6 pm.
A great spot for trick-or-treating is William Street in Vineyard Haven, which will be closed to motor vehicle traffic from Spring Street to Woodlawn Avenue, from 6 to 9:30 pm, to ensure the safety of trick-or-treaters on Halloween.
For adults, there is a Halloween Eve Tour with Vineyard Ghost Walking Tours. It starts in the park next to Edgartown Books. Pre-register by calling 774-563-0762 or 508-627-9445. And lastly, the annual Halloween Bash with The Boogies starts at 9 pm at Nectar's. The '70s cover band party is $20. Visit nectarsmv.com for more information.

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Today is PTSD Awareness Day and we at Still Serving Veterans think that it is crucial to spread the knowledge about PTSD, it's symptoms, and how to get help.
First off, what is PTSD?
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is also known as shell shock or combat stress. PTSD occurs after a traumatic event and as we all know war exposes our soldiers to trauma such as being shot at, seeing a friend being shot at, and witnessing death. Stress-related reactions usually occur after such experiences but if the stress does not go away and affects your life it is likely that you have PTSD. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), PTSD affects 11-20% of Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans, 10% of Gulf War Veterans, and a staggering 30% of Vietnam Veterans.
What are the symptoms of PTSD?
You may want to consider that you may have PTSD if your stress after a traumatic experience last longer than month, cause distress in your life, and disrupts your personal life. As the VA notes, there are four types of PTSD symptoms:
- Reliving the event
- nightmares
- flashbacks: feeling like you are living the event again
- sights, noises, or smells trigger a flashback
- Avoiding situations that remind you of the event, even avoiding talking or thinking about it
- avoiding crowds
- avoiding movies on the subject
- trying to keep very busy to keep from having to talk or think about the event.
- Feeling numb and the inability to express feelings
- lacking positive feelings toward others and staying away from relationships
- disinterest in activities you used to enjoy
- difficulty facing your emotions
- Feeling jittery or constantly alert
- difficulty sleeping
- trouble concentrating
- easily startled
How do you treat PTSD?
If you feel that you or someone you know has PTSD you should seek a counselor. There are many resources that can help you and there is no need to succumb to this disease. Places like Still Serving Veterans can help and counsel you through this part of your life. There are also many different types of treatment that have proven successful. Below are a few links that could help you figure out what to do and where to go.
Still Serving Veterans:
(or call to make an appointment 256-883-7035)
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Read about people who deal with PTSD:
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Acknowledging the possibility that you or someone you know has PTSD could save lives and this is another reason that we at SSV encourage learning and telling others about the disorder. After our Hell and Back Again screening we had a attendee come to the realization that two people they know have PTSD and one of them had committed suicide. Luckily they came to us to seek help for the other Veteran and he is now on his way to recovery – just another reason PTSD is a serious issue and should be brought to the forefront of everyone's mind.
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We wish you and your family a happy and healthy holiday season!
As we celebrate our first holiday season in the new Student Success Center, we are touched by all of the people who make the Rowan College at Burlington County Community such a special place to learn, work and grow.
Wishing you peace and happiness in the New Year!
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She is walking towards me on the street. Bundled up, I still know who it is. She has a distinctive posture. An agressive stance that surrounds her like an aura. She reminds me of an angry bird looking for justice and feeling helpless after a hawk has raided her nest.
I smile as I get closer. I'm coming back from a meeting downtown, walking towards the shelter where I work. I have another meeting to get to and want to keep walking. To keep moving along but she stops. Right in front of me. I stop too.
"I haven't seen you in awhile," she says by way of greeting.
"I haven't seen you either," I reply.
"Harrumph. Well, I've moved out," she says. "But I'm wondering. What about the blanket drive. Where are you at with it?"
I'm a little confused because I don't know anything about a blanket drive.
"You know, the blanket drive. You must be doing one." She's insistent. Pushy.
"We're not doing a blanket drive right now," I tell her. "We are doing a towel drive though."
"Oh. No blankets?" She pauses. Stares into my eyes as if to confirm I'm telling the truth.
I peer into hers. Dark. Unfathomable. They are lined in heavy black eyeliner. Top and bottom. Her cheeks are rouged. Her jet-black hair forms a halo around her face where it escapes the confines of her red woolen hat.
"We only do drives for items when our supply is low. We've got blankets at the warehouse."
"Well. I need a new one. The one I've got is not very warm and even though I pay good rent on my place, they don't heat it enough." She pauses again. Looks at me to ensure I'm listening. "Do you have new ones?"
"I don't know," I tell her. "I don't get too involved in the specifics of what is in the warehouse. You might want to check at the day office and see if they can help you."
"Harrumph. I just came from there. I go every morning for breakfast. You know, I pay $800 for rent and there's not much left over at the end of the month for food. So, I spend my day walking and trying to get the things I need for free."
She's about my height. In her early sixties I think, but when I get back to the office and check the logs to write a note about finding a new blanket for her I discover she is in her early 50s. I know her by one name but in our database she has two. Sometimes, it's hard to keep track of who is who in a homeless shelter.
I wonder about her life. About what has lead her to assume two distinct names. To have been here at the shelter for the four years she stayed before moving out. The fact she finally got her social assistance straightened out and was able to move into her own place is a blessing. But, with an average cheque of $1200 a month, she's left with about $300 after rent to cover her costs. $75 a week. That's not much.
Back on the street, we keep talking. She asks me about the recent announcement of our Executive Director's retirement.
"He's been here a long time," she says. "It was time for him to go."
"He agrees," I say with a smile.
"Doesn't make sense to keep working at his age, he'll lose his Canada Pension," she informs me. She shakes one mitten covered hand in the air as if challenging an imagery foe. Her body quivers like an indignant squirrel chattering at passers-by. "They do that you know. Take it away. He's 68. If he keeps working the government will just take his Canada Pension and then what would he do?"
I'm a bit at a loss for words. I don't think his Canada Pension had much to do with his decision to retire.
"Mostly, I think he wanted time to relax, to take care of his health and enjoy his grand-kids," I say.
"Yeah? Well it's good he's not letting Canada Pension take his money. It's his. They've no right to take it."
I tell her I have to get back and remind her to check with the Day Office on her blanket. We part and I keep walking back to the shelter.
As I walk into the building another client greets me with a big smile and a wave. He's in his forties. Struggled for a long while with an addiction that wouldn't let him go. For the past year he's been clean and sober and has struggled to find work. It's tough he's told me in the past. At his age he's not as strong as he used to be. Lot of young guys out there beating him to the job. It's discouraging. But, he won't give up. If he can beat his addiction, he can beat the young guys to a job. That's all it would take, he's said. One job to get him out here.
Today, his body is encased in a huge down filled jacket, fur trimmed hood. Beneath it, he's wearing several layers, down vest, sweater, another sweater. He clenches a pair of thick gortex gloves in one hand. A pair of work boots dangle from their laces in his other hand.
"Wow!" I say. "You're really dressed for the weather."
"I got a job!" he tells me excitedly. "I'm off to the north. It's gonna be cold but I'm ready." And he pats his down jacket with his gloves. "Got this in the clothing room this morning. It's real warm. Gonna need it where I'm going. But I got work. I'm ready."
"I'm so happy for you." I reply.
"Yeah. It's great. Twenty bucks an hour to stand out in the freezing cold and tear down fences and put up new ones. Twenty bucks. I'm gonna get out of this place!"
I laugh as he does a jerky leap into the air and attempts to kick his heels together. His big puffy jacket floats up around him. The sound of nylon rustling reminds me of an angel's breath whispering into the frosty cool of the morning.
"I'm gettin' out of this place!" he says again as he gets on the elevator with me. "I gotta go up and clean out my locker. Gettin' picked up in an hour." He smiles a toothless grin. "I'm gettin' my life back in order!"
Two different encounters. Two different perspectives. Two different attitudes.
And a world of difference in how the world greets them where ever they go.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Attitude. It makes the difference.
6 comments:
I love your blog this morning :)
Hope you have a wonderful day filled with blessings and positive attitude encounters.
- November 11, 2010 at 9:02 AM
- Anne Lang Bundy said...
I wonder which is more sad—the person who never learned to look at the world through eyes of hope, or the one who once lived in hope and cannot find the way home.
- November 11, 2010 at 9:29 AM
- Maureen said...
Wonderfully illustrative examples.
- November 11, 2010 at 10:06 AM
- S. Etole said...
Attitude makes such a difference, doesn't it ...
- November 11, 2010 at 1:34 PM
good story, well told
- November 11, 2010 at 10:39 PM
It sure does matter. Liked the stories your shared and how you told them - in an unbiased yet empathetic and engaging manner. :)
- November 13, 2010 at 1:09 AM
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I have been using the Ellis Island Foundation Web site for years. Many of those who came to Bethlehem and became members of St. John's Windish Evangelical Lutheran and St. Joseph's Roman Catholic churches were listed as "Magyar," or Hungarian, which, as citizens of Hungary, they were, just as we, as citizens of the United States, are Americans, whatever our ethnic backrounds.


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Bored among the paints and power tools.
Or the really old ones, the ones who are going fast,
Who keep dozing off in the little orchards
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I got to participate in two battles before getting the call from my mother, she needed a ride home. She had gone 'tool shopping', unfortunately, it was actual tools, not slang for the craft store. Now here is where I must have picked that gene. You know the one, you go to a store with one or two specific items to purchase. However when you leave the store, you have another armful of things you didn't realize you needed until you saw it. In this case I kept it minimal. I just got another neat small item storage caddy and a magnifier that straps to your head.
Speaking of finished, since I did just finish that Slave Bracelet, I think that deserves a shuttle reward. Afterall, I did have to create it from scratch. I'm leaning towards a pair of Moonlit shuttles from HandyHands. I also saw that Ruth has her celtic flowers in a remastered book. Long, long ago, I purchased her rose bud and Stargazer Lily pattern.
That Stargazer has always won me a ribbon in my county fair. Even though I have those two patterns, I may just indulge in the book. That dragonfly has always drawn my eye, and it's available in this book. I do have some left over credit on my Kindle..
Justifications has just become a dirty word in my craft dictionary. *laughing*


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Stamina 9 Stealthy as Cat & Quick as Snake & talking in pain
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The Great Hunter, used to be the horror of the wildness. Local people used to worship him as the deava of the hunt. He used to take the offerings of food and women out of the tribes of the worshipers. Rakshavyada seemed never had fancied the whole worshiping stuff, but on the other hand he never showed his modesty about this. And he said to deliver the punishments when not receiving the offerings. Other than not very common appearing to his worshipers, Rakshavyada never had been seen to communicate with the outer world.
Raksaviadha appearance seems to be like big brute with being not alien for wildness. Wild tangled hair, muscular tanned body yet swift and accurate moves. The life in the wildness left some deep traces in Raksaviadha's presence, the one will firstly spot his never still eyes leaving the observer to guess is it from madness or never-ending awareness.
The future deva of Hunting said to leave the moon because of being tired of all the devas around. He never got well in the companies and therefore was happy in going to low world. However with the need to survive in the wildness and with the help of his artifacts, he soon has been acknowledged as the great hunter. Soon there was beginning of asking his help in hunt and first offerings. It seemed Raksaviadha began to like these offerings not necessary because he helped in the hunt. Raksaviadha seemed not to have any problems with his conscience. Soon the woods around have started to respect this chaotic deva. Sometimes he was the savior, sometimes he was just a disaster. Constant offerings of game and women seemed to turn the better side of the chaos.
Raksaviadha either perhaps to strengthen his chaotic seeming or just to be a bit different to each of all the tribes around used to wear a different mask in contact with mortals. While these were plain and simple masks. This gave Raksaviadha confidence, it was not what mortals thought it was more what Raksaviadha saw himself in mortals eyes. In the end you are is how you feel.
The life in solitary edged Raksaviadha's features that he observed in wildness. While the features of the hunter such as stealthiness of cat or quickness of the snake seemed very logical for survival. The non-physical features turned to be a bit outside the common understanding. He grew a different view in all the lore of the Silver. And of cause if you saw how the grass grows of you understand what is the purpose of the bee you may as well understand the Moonsilver differently. Raksaviadha after many years of solitary just understood the things around deeper. Began to see the laws of universe from the other angle. Therefore in the eyes of half-blind he seemed to be as maybe mad however knowing a lot.


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Sri Lankan troops were today mopping up the remnants of the defeated Tamil Tigers, amid reports that some rebel fighters have been blowing themselves up rather than surrender. A large explosion in a bunker prompted speculation that Vellupillai Prabhakaran, the Tigers' leader, and other senior commanders may have killed themselves.
The developments came a day after Sri Lanka's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, announced the defeat of the Tamil rebels, and soldiers seized control of the entire coast for the first time in the 25-year war. The president is expected to formally announce the end of the war on national television on Tuesday.
The army claimed it intercepted radio communications that revealed a mass suicide plan and yesterday military sources said a body believed to be Prabhakaran's was recovered. Its identity was being confirmed. However, there was no confirmation of his death from either side.
Selvarasa Pathmanathan, the Tigers' chief of international relations, said the rebels had abandoned the fight and were laying down their arms. In a statement on the pro-Tamil website, TamilNet, he admitted that the three-decade long war was over. "This battle has reached its bitter end," he said.
The military claimed to have killed at least 70 rebels trying to flee by boat and to have boxed the remaining fighters into a 400-metre by 600-metre pocket of land.
It said more than 50,000 people had escaped from the fighting in the last 72 hours, clearing the way for troops to move in for a final push.
"We're relieved to hear that all civilians have come out of the combat zone," a UN spokesman said. More than 250,000 civilians fled the fighting in recent months, amid accusations that the rebels held them as human shields, a charge the Tigers denied.
The UN says 7,000 civilians were killed and 16,700 wounded between 20 January and 7 May. Health officials say more than 1,000 have been killed since then in heavy shelling that rights groups and foreign governments have blamed on Sri Lankan forces. The government has denied shelling the area.
As thousands of civilians made their way to safety, the whereabouts of the doctors who treated civilians inside the so-called no-fire zone, and who provided a running commentary on the scale of the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe, remained unknown. One of the doctors, Thurairaja Varatharajah, is reported to have been badly wounded trying to escape.
With a war that has killed more than 70,000 people nearing its end, Sri Lankans poured on to the streets, dancing and setting off fireworks. Rajapaksa, who was elected in 2005 on a platform of no autonomy for the minority Tamils, scheduled a news conference for Tuesday, after racing home from a visit to Jordan and kissing the ground upon his arrival, amid cheers from ministers and well-wishers. Buddhist, Catholic, Hindu and Muslim clerics blessed him.
"This victory will ensure a better future for the coming generations," said Prasanna Jayawardena, 38, who was lighting firecrackers in the streets of Colombo.
The race is now on to reach the thousands of civilians who have been caught up in the fighting. In Rome, Pope Benedict XVI appealed for aid groups to provide civilians with food and medicine.
Save the Children called for immediate and total humanitarian access to the estimated 40 government-controlled camps which are already sheltering more than 200,000 displaced people.
Branko Golubovic, the acting country director of Save the Children, said: "It is vital that all civilians coming out of the conflict zone have access to the government-controlled area as soon as possible and are given assistance.
"Aside from food and water, these people need medical attention. Many are injured and have not had access to treatment for some time. It's also important to get children into a safe place where they can start recovering from their trauma."
There are already 55,000 children below the age of 18 living in the camps, at least 20% of whom are malnourished.
Tnternational development secretary, Douglas Alexander, today announced that Britain would give a further £5m in aid to Sri Lanka.


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The experienced centre-half, 34, joins the Owls on a temporary deal until the end of October under the Football League emergency loan ruling.
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GOSH Darling!
Today i'm going to be doing a review on GOSH Darling lipstick. I'd say most beauty makeup obsessive people like me, will know about this lipstick. It costs £6 from Superdrug. The packaging is very nice and feels very well made. For the colour, it's kind of like a cremesheene by mac. I wouldn't say the colour is that wearable (for me anyway). It can only be worn on pale, medium skin tones to look nice. After a while it starts to come off and just leaves that icky resedue around the corners of your mouth which I think looks discusting. Overall, i'd give this product a 5/10 as I hardly wear it at all. I don't think it is worth £6, and personally I think the natural collection lipstick in apple blossom is better and is only £1.99. Sooo yeah, thats just my opinion on it, I am aware that most people love it but as I said, this is just from my experience with it.
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BOMBAY, India — Pope John Paul II ended his controversial 10-day "pilgrimage of peace" to India today, boarding a plane for Rome after a farewell at the airport from Mother Teresa.
In a telegram to Indian President Zail Singh, the Pope expressed his gratitude for the "warmth of your hospitality and for having provided me with the opportunity to experience personally the deep religious and cultural values of your land."
John Paul's last hours in India were marred by the arrest of 35 militant Hindus who chanted "Pope John Paul, go back" as they tried to march into a park where the pontiff was addressing 200,000 people.
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Aiming to provide corporate clients with the ability to design and implement customized Web services, Compaq Computer announced Tuesday that it sealed a deal with content delivery provider Akamai Technologies.
Under the agreement, Compaq Global Services will resell Akamai's EdgeSuite service, which offers corporate clients the ability to build, present and deliver data and applications for the Web via the company's worldwide network.
Compaq will also license Akamai's EdgeScape service, allowing business clients to analyze Web user data and design site architecture, the company said.
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Filming on this year's Christmas Special has officially wrapped in Cardiff which means that Peter Capaldi has filmed his final scenes as the Doctor.
Various members of the show's crew have taken to Twitter to toast the actor, as well as showrunner Steven Moffat, on completing their last episode, which will air on Christmas Day. The accompanying wrap party was "bittersweet" according to casting director Andy Pryor, while series brand manager Edward Russell revealed that the festivities included a video message from Christopher Eccleston. Fantastic!
As confirmed in the closing moments of the Series 10 finale, the festive adventure will star David Bradley as the First Doctor, and recent rumours have suggested that his won't be the only familiar face returning to bid the Twelfth Doctor adieu. We'll have to wait and see what other shocks and surprises lie in store, but our first sneak peak of it will be debuted at San Diego Comic-Con later this month (23rd July), so that's something to look forward to.
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John iii. 3.—" Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
I Propose, from this verse, to show the necessity of regeneration, or the new birth. The only introductory remark which it is necessary to make before we enter on the argument is, that the Saviour in the text asserts, with great earnestness and emphasis, that the new birth is indispensable for every one who would enter into his kingdom:—" Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man"—in the Greek, any one—" be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." My argument will be directed solely to this point, that it is necessary for every one to be renewed, or regenerated, in order to be saved.
With reference to this argument, mankind may be conveniently divided into two great classes. The line, perhaps, may not be in all respects very definite, and there may be a middle region of character of considerable extent such as to leave us in doubt where to place many individuals; but it is sufficiently definite for our present purpose, and will not lead us into error in the argument. The two classes are these: — First. The openly wicked, abandoned, sensual, scoffing, profane. Secondly. The moral, the amiable, the upright, the sincere, the accomplished. The former are commonly designated as vicious; the latter as virtuous. The former are destitute of virtue and religion together ; the latter lay claim to virtue without religion. The former attempt no divorce between virtue and piety, but abjure both together; the latter attempt a divorce, and seek to hold the one without the other. The former are willing to be excluded from good society on earth as well as from heaven; the latter mean to retain their rank in the goodly fellowship of this world, whatever may be the fact about their admission into heaven. The former take a decided stand against religion and all its appearances and pretensions ; the latter desire to occupy a position somewhere on the confines of religion—and if they have not Christian piety, they intend to have something that they hope will, on the whole, answer just as well in the future world.
Now the difficulty in regard to the subject before us is not at all in reference to the former of these classes. It will be conceded on all hands that it is necessary that they should be renewed in order to enter into the kingdom of heaven. Had the Saviour so modified his declaration, affirming the necessity of the new birth, as to have embraced only that portion of mankind, scarcely any doctrine would have met with more favour. The only embarrassment in the case has arisen from the fact that he so shaped his remark as to include Nicodemus and all that class of men under it, so as to make it just as necessary for them to be born again as for the openly abandoned and profane. It is a difficulty arising from the fact that in one respect—not in all respects— he has put them on & level, and affirmed that, whatever elso might occur, they would be alike excluded from the kingdom of God unless they were " born of water and of the Spirit." Leaving the former of these classes, therefore, at present out of view, as those about whom there can be no debate, and as not probably among those who may read these pages, I shall direct your thoughts entirely to the question about the latter class— the amiable, the moral, the upright. The subject will have then this advantage at least, that it is one that pertains to your own case, and is one in which you will feel yourselves personally concerned.
It falls in with my design, and with my convictions also, to concede to you all that you would claim on the score of morality, amiableness, courtesy, and kindness. Of these virtues you could mention none which my argument would not allow me to concede ; of none who might set up the claim would I be disposed to call it in question. I do not see that the Redeemer was disposed to deny the existence of these virtues in Nicodemus; I am certain he did not in the young man who came to him and told him that he had kept all the commandments from his youth up, and whom the Saviour told that he lacked but one thing in order to be perfect, and whom he " loved," Mark x. 21. Yet here lies the solemn declaration of the Saviour in our path, affecting alike the case of Nicodemus, and the amiable young man, and all who are like them:—" Except any one be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." Why did he make such a declaration ? On what was it based ? What were the views of man which lay in the Redeemer's soul that justified this remark ? We may not be able exactly to answer these questions, but we may state some considerations which show that the declaration is true, or that there are reasons why it was made. To that task I now proceed.
I. The first consideration which I state is, that the heart by nature, or when unrenewed, is not in a proper state for the employments and enjoyments of heaven. I speak now of the human heart as such, without any special reference to the openly wicked and profane. I speak of the unrenewed heart in its best state, and under the best discipline and cultivation. I speak of it where there may be all the charms of accomplishment ; all the beauties of native amiableness; all the courtesy of refined breeding; all that is attractive and valuable in unsuspected virtue.
There are two sources of evidence in regard to this:—the Bible and your own consciousness.
The testimony of the Bible is so clear that no one, I presume, will be disposed to doubt it, and this point need not detain us long. That testimony bears directly on the point before ns, that the human heart, as such, is evil, and must be renewed if man would be saved. Thus it is said, " The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked," Jer. xvii. 9. That is, the heart of man, as such, without reference to any particular class or condition of men. The fair meaning is, that wherever there is a human heart it has this characteristic—that it is a deceitful heart—more deceitful than all things else in a world full of deceit; and that it has within it the elements of desperate wickedness. The same account of the universal depravity of the human heart is given in Gen. viii. 21: " The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth." This appears also in the form of an universal declaration. It is not that the profligate race which had been just swept away by the deluge was evil, but it is that the heart of man, as such, is evil from his youth.
As these positive declarations settle the question so far as the Bible is concerned, I turn to the other source of evidence in the case—the consciousness of the heart itself. And as the form of direct address will better fall in with the nature of the argument which I wish to urge, you will permit me with plainness to use this form. The argument relates to the following points:
(1.) You are conscious that you have no vital religion; nothing that can be properly called religion. You do not even pretend or profess to have it. You would not consider it a reflection on you at all to have it said that you made no profession of piety, as you would to have it said that you do not profess to be influenced by the laws of honour or honesty. And in your life there is nothing that can be fairly interpreted as showing that you have real religion. You do not truly pray; you do not habitually read the Bible; you do not cherish love to God; you do not depend on his mercy for salvation; you do not identify yourselves with religious persons. You claim to be moral, upright, faithful to your engagements, kind, courteous ; but in your own heart and wishes and intentions you do not claim to be religious men. Possibly you may say that all this is unkind and uncharitable. But I see not how it is so. I will concede all that you claim. I will yield all that you ask on the score of morality. I will even go farther than you will. / will yield to a man the claim to be a religious man when he professes to be, even when appearances are much against him—for I am not ignorant how much I must need the exercise of that charity " which suffereth long and is kind;" and I believe that there may be true piety where there is much imperfection, and if you make any profession of godliness I will extend the same charity to you. But I have not so read the New Testament, or so learned the character of Christ, or been so taught by any of the rules of urbanity, as to ascribe to a man what he does not himself profess to have; as to go with kind-heartedness beyond what he habitually lays claim to, and to attribute to him what never constituted a part of his own profession. Every man has a right to choose and " define his own position," and to make his own professions; and for myself, I ask no man, either from charity or justice, to attribute to me opinions and sentiments which I do not profess to have. In the same way I shall continue to judge of my neighbour, and shall conclude that I am doing him no injustice in supposing that he has no spiritual life when he asserts no claim to have any, whatever I may think about those who profess to be influenced by it.
(2.) Another consideration is, that every man is conscious that there is much in his heart that is opposed to God and to religion. The depths of depravity indeed in his soul may not have been explored; there may have been no outbreaking wickedness to overwhelm his name and family in disgrace; he may have been neither a scoffer nor an open infidel; and in fact he may never have recorded one sentence in the most confidential letter to a friend, or given utterance to one remark, in the most familiar intercourse, opposed to religion; yet no man can reach a mature period of life without knowing that there is much in his heart that is opposed to God and to religion. Many of the doctrines of religion are unpalatable to the natural heart. Its more spiritual duties are onerous and irksome. Its restraints seem like a violation of freedom. The law of God is laid across the path at times and in a manner that chafes the feelings, and disturbs the plans of life. The claims, rebukes, threatenings, and penalties of both law and gospel are galling and unpleasant to the soul. There is much in the character and government of God that seems to such a man to be not only mysterious, but ■wrong. In his afflictions, disappointments, and blighted hopes, he has been conscious of murmuring thoughts, and has been obliged to exercise restraint lest they should find their way to his lips. He cannot but be conscious that when God has directed him to love him supremely, he has not done it; when he has required him to form his plans with reference to his glory, he has formed them with reference to ease, pleasure, gain, or ambition; when he has called on him to repent, he has remained impenitent; when he has commanded him to believe, he has continued unbelieving; and when he has counselled him to pray, he has restrained prayer. He cannot but be conscious that he has given indulgence to a roving imagination; that he has delighted to dwell, in his recollections of the past, on the objects fitted to debase and corrupt him ; and that he has formed many a plan, and cherished many a wish, on which a pure Being could look only with a frown of indignation. And he cannot but be conscious that he has never found that pleasure in religion of which the Bible speaks, and which Christians declare that they enjoy; and that in the course of his life there has never been one whole day, or one whole hour, in which the mind would have found enjoyment in religion. His mind and heart are not in the course of things which God wishes, and which God is carrying forward. Hear what one says who knew:—
" Our life ia a false nature—'tis not in
The harmony of things,—this hard decree,
This uneradicable taint of sin,
This boundless upas, this all-blasting tree,
"Whose root is earth, whose leaves and branches be
The skies which rain their plagues on men like dew—
Disease, death, bondage—all the woes we see—
And worse, the woes we see not—which throb througn
The unmedicable soul, with heart-aches ever new."
Childe Harold, iv. 126.
(3.) The next remark is, that such a heart is not fitted for the employments and enjoyments of heaven unless it is changed. This is evident, unless the joys and employments of heaven consist in the mere prolongation of the pleasures and business of this life. If commerce, and manufactures, and merchandize, and agriculture were to be the business there, we do not see but they might be happy. If men were to contend there in the forum; if on their lips " listening senates" were to hang ; if the pursuits of science were to give employment to the mind; if under the chisel the marble were to breathe, or under the brush the canvas be filled with forms of life ; or if pleasure were to open new parks and gardens and banqueting halls, we admit that the unrenewed mind might find happiness in heaven. But we have only one account of heaven that is worth regarding,—that in the Bible. And according to that, heaven is not the prolongation of the employments of this life, as dreamed of by the Swedenborgian; nor a Mohammedan Paradise, where Houries are created to give infinity of duration to sensual joys ; nor the Elysian fields of poets; nor such abodes as the scientific and the literary world look for. It is a place of religion; a place of adoration and holy love ; a place of pure and prolonged thanksgiving and praise; a place where the soul is expanded by the contemplation of religious truth, and where, in his works, God is adored as " first, and last, and midst, and without end." God is there. Christ, the holy, incarnate Saviour, is there. Holy angels are there. The redeemed of all ages and lands are there ; and it is a world of religious beings, and not a world of mere sages, or philosophers, or poets, or patriots, or of the winning and the accomplished. And if these things are so, then nothing can be plainer than the declaration of the Saviour in the text, that, " Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
II. The second general consideration which I urge is, that no change which man passes through in the present life will Jit for heaven except that produced in regeneration. Men experience many other changes,—some of them sudden and remarkable, and some of them extending their influence far into future years, and even as far as we can follow the dying into the dark valley; but none of them are changes that fit for heaven. "We change in our habits, views, opinions, employments, hopes, anticipations, temperament, passions; in the transition from childhood to youth, from youth to manhood, from manhood to old age. At one period, we are blithe, cheerful, merry, playful, thoughtless. At another, we cherish the generous aspirations of youth, when the blood is warm in our veins, and the world is full of allurements. At that time we are generous, open, ardent; full of life, of energy, of promise; laying large plans, and grasping at wealth and honours. Then we settle down into the calmness of sober life; we give place to serious reflection; we allow judgment to preside where passion did ; we become less lavish of expenditure, and husband our resources; we feel ourselves pressed down with the cares of the world, and we give ourselves to the serious business of living. Then the "sear and yellow leaf" comes on. The shades grow long, and are chilly. We become fixed in our opinions ; staid in our judgments ; unchangeable in our views. The fires of youth have all gone out. The business of life has been passed through. We look upon a new generation that has come up with great energy, and is pressing hard on us to elbow us out of our place, and already wishing us gone, and coveting, our houses and lands. We settle down into a contented and honoured old age, and look with satisfaction on our "children's children, the crown of old men" (Prov. xvii. 6); or perchance we draw our purse-strings tighter, as we have less use for what we have wasted life in acquiring, and become peevish and fretful, and fancy that the world, since it lost our counsel and influence, is all the while growing worse and worse.
Now one remark which I wish to make is, that in none of these changes, great as they are, is there any one that of necessity fits for heaven. The characteristics which come up in youth no more fit us for heaven than did those of the child; nor in the transition from youth to manhood, or from manhood to old age, is there of necessity a change that fits men for heaven. Not all old men are prepared to enter into the kingdom of God, any more than those in the days of their youth. In none of these changes is there any permanency to reach beyond the tomb; and if there were, in none of them is there a change to fit for heaven. The exchange of playfulness and thoughtlessness for other habits, is not religion; the subjugation of the raging passions of youth, and the coming on of the settled habits of manhood, is not of necessity the love of God; nor is the kind of feeling with which an old man regards the long path which he has trod, filled with many rough places and hills and valleys, the deadness to the world which fits a man for heaven. .
Another remark which I make in view of these changes is, that so far from their fitting for heaven, there may be in fact less inclination for religion in the succeeding change than there was in the one that went before. The young man often has less tenderness of feeling on the subject of religion, than he had when a child; the man in middle life, than he had when a youth ; the old man, least of all. The child put his little hands together every morning and evening, and uttered the language, " Our Father who art in heaven," and wept freely when his mother told him of the woes of that kind-hearted Saviour who died for all. The same child, when he becomes a youth, may be a sceptic at heart; in middle life, an avowed infidel; in old age, a hard-hearted atheist and a scoffer. His advance on the successive stages of life has not been an advance in religion, but a departure from it; and the bright-eyed and lovely boy, who commenced life gladdening a father's heart with the hope that he would be a Christian, ends it with no respect for religion, and no belief in its Divine authority and claims.
Another remark may he made here respecting the changes which occur in men's lives. They often change from vice to virtue ; from gross intemperance to soberness of living; from profaneness to outward respect for the name of God; from the love of idle and dissolute companionship to a love for the fellowship of the virtuous and the refined; but there is of necessity no change here that fits men for heaven. The reformed inebriate is not necessarily a man who loves God ; nor does one who abandons habits of profligacy of course become a man of prayer. A man may change his business, his profession, his country, his dwelling, his friends; but it does not follow that he has passed through any change that will fit him to dwell with God. He may subdue many of his evil propensities; may humble much of his pride; and cease to be a scoffer or a philosophical foe of the gospel; may forsake his wicked companions, and may become a supporter of the gospel, and a regular and respectful attendant in the house of God on the sabbath,—and still be as decidedly irreligious at heart as he was before. The most decided period of irreligion in his life may be when all these changes have been gone through; the most determined hatred to religion ever expressed in the eye may be in that unnatural and frightful brilliancy with which it is lighted up when told to believe in Christ, just before its light is to be extinguished for ever. All these things are too plain, and too much a matter of common observation, to make it proper to lengthen out the argument which they furnish: and if these things are so, then there is but one change that fits men for heaven; and then nothing can be more true than the declaration of the Saviour, that " Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
III. The third general consideration which I urge to show the necessity of regeneration is the fact, that nothing can be substituted in its place—nothing can be made to answer the same purpose. If this be so—if it be true that men by nature are not fitted for heaven, and that none of the numerous changes which they undergo in the ordinary transitions of life fit them for it, and that they can substitute nothing in the place of the new birth that will answer the same purpose,—then it will follow clearly that there is a necessity that man should be horn again. Now, that it is so will be apparent on the slightest reflection. There is one doctrine of substitution, or putting one thing in the place of another, that is set forth as a true principle in the government of God, and is that on which the redemption of the whole world is made to turn:—it is the doctrine of the substituted sufferings of the Redeemer in the place of sinners, and the fact that our hope of salvation depends on that. But in the Scriptures the doctrine of substitution is limited to that, nor is there an intimation that the principle can ever be extended. It was only the extraordinary necessity of the case that justified the admission of that one instance into the system; and it was only the fact that immense and eternal good would accrue from that one case to unnumbered millions that made it proper. But the necessity extends no farther. There is no intimation that one man can take the place of another; or that a lack of any one thing required can be compensated by something else which shall be offered in its stead. And the scriptural doctrine on this point is one of common sense. You demand a specific act of obedience from a child. There is no general virtue, and no other act of obedience which will supply the place of that, if it is not rendered. You demand love from a friend. If that is withheld, there is no offering of gold or silver, of wine or oil, that will supply its place. A wife demands constancy and fidelity in a husband. If these are not rendered, there is no diamond-ring—no string of orient pearls—no richly-set bracelets—no winning smile of professed affection, that can supply their place. They are all insult and mockery—an infinite aggravation of the offence, when tendered by an unfaithful man; and what might in other circumstances be tokens of affection of inestimable value, are now spurned with disdain and loathing.
God demands the heart—the love, the friendship, the confidence of his creature, man; such love, and friendship, and affection as are the fruit of a renovated heart. With such a renovated heart, what you could render to him would be an acceptable and a valuable offering. Your moral life and integrity, based on holy principles, would be acceptable; the homage of the bended knee, and the song of praise in appropriate forms of devotion, would be lovely in his view; your acts of fidelity in the transactions of business and in the relations of life, as the expression of love to him, would be pleasing in his sight; your money, offered in charity to the cause of humanity, would be received as a grateful tribute at your hands. But suppose you
go and offer these things without a renovated heart—without love to him—without having obeyed his first commandment, can they be a substitute for such a renovated heart ? Can a moral life, and faithfulness in your dealings with mankind, answer the same purpose as the love which he requires you to render to himself? Can the homage of the bended knee, and the song of praise on the lips, answer the purpose of the offering of the heart before One who looks through all the chambers of the soul ? Can wealth hoarded and prized, or scattered among the needy; can beauty or accomplishment; can a graceful exterior, a lively wit, a cultivated intellect, and propriety of manners, be of value to him without the heart, or answer the purpose which he contemplates by its change ? Just as much as diamond rings, and strings of pearls, answer the place of fidelity and affection to an outraged and injured wife—and no more. Go and plead your moral character before God, as a reason why you should be saved. What would be its reception ? " All this would be well," might be the response, " but the heart was required; the regenerated affections of the soul were demanded. Where are the affections of that heart ?" Go plead your fidelity to your family; your kindness as a husband, and father, and neighbour; your honesty to men. " All this is well. But where is the heart for mef" the Saviour might reply; " where is the evidence of love to your God?" Go plead accomplishment, wit, learning, talent, beauty:—are these what are required to fit men for heaven ? Are these proposed to be substituted in the place of what is required ? Be not deceived. Nor rank, nor wealth, nor talent, nor learning, nor gracefulness of manners, nor eminence in your profession, nor oratory, nor the crown of victory won on the battle-field, nor any other thing, can be a substitute for the renovated heart. They will not answer the same purpose while men live here; they will not extend their influence to a future world when they die. A splendid steamer leaves the wharf to cross the ocean. Youth, and beauty, and rank, crowd on board; age, and middle age, are there; the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the bond, the free, the peasant, the prince, are there. She moves majestically on. Suddenly she strikes an iceberg, and in a moment goes down. There is a tremendous plunge; a heaving of the waves; a boiling, rolling sea for a few moments where she sank. But it is soon over. The sea is again smooth. The deep, dark, blue ocean rolls on ; and the ruffled deep becomes calm—
"A glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form
Glasses itself."
But those distinctions of age, and beauty, and rank—where are they ? Have they attended those who sank, as they went up to the bar of God? Vanished—all vanished—before the sea was made calm where they sank; and alike the prince and the peasant, the master and his slave, make their bed amidst the corals of the ocean. There was but one distinction that lived on. If there was piety in one heart and wickedness in another, they lived on. The distinction that survived the catastrophe, and the only one, was that which was made when the penitent heart yielded itself to God, and was born again.
IV. I suggest one other thought, which will require no time to prove or illustrate it: it is, that there will he of necessity no such change in death as to fit the soul for heaven. And if this is so; if man by nature is unfit for heaven; if no change which he ordinarily undergoes fits him for it; if he can substitute nothing in the place of a renovated heart to fit him for heaven ; and if death will make no such change as will adapt him to the employments of the skies,—then it follows that there is a necessity for man to be bom again. And that it is so, assuredly I need not now attempt to prove. What is the change at death ? The rose of health fades from the cheek ; the brow is "chill, and changeless;" the eye is closed, and in that lifeless form there is " a mild angelic air," .
" Before decay's effacing fingers
Have swept the lines where beauty lingers."
But there is no religion in that change. At death, we are borne away indeed from the world where we were tempted ; the objects that with idolatrous affection we loved; the allurements of wicked companionship ; the assembly-room, where, in festive mirth, we forgot God and provoked his wrath;—but there is no religion in that. All that is solemn, tender, affecting on the trying bed may be gone through, and still there be not a particle of religious emotion there. And is there some magic power— some potent charm in the grave—in the long slumberings there —in the solemn stillness—in the withdrawment from scenes of gaiety and temptation—to change the heart, to wean the soul from the world—to prepare even the body there for the resurrection of the just ? Or is there something in the solemn, lonely journey of the departed spirit up to God—some new efficacy of the blood of the atonement to be applied to the soul on its upward way to fit it for the skies ? Surely none of these tilings can be pretended :—and if none of these things are so, then there is a necessity that the sinner should be born again before he dies.
The argument which I proposed to submit to you is now before you. It is not an argument addressed to you as if there were any doubt about the meaning of what the Saviour says in the text, or as if his authority were not a sufficient ground for the truth of a doctrine ; or as if the truth of what he says could be confirmed by any reasonings of mine;—but an argument designed simply to show that what he says commends itself to every man's conscience and sober judgment.
The only thought which I would seek to hold before your minds in the application of this subject is, the indispensable necessity of this change for every one of you if you would be saved. Whether it is to be produced by a Divine or human agency; whether you can effect it yourselves or not; whether you can by your own efforts contribute to it, or whether those efforts would be fruitless, are not points which we shall now discuss; nor is their solution necessary in order that the force of the considerations suggested should be properly felt. The single point which is before us now is, that this change is indispensable if you would enter into heaven. Every one; every son and daughter of Adam; every prince and every peasant; every master and every slave; every profligate and every moral man; every one who outrages all the laws of decency and urbanity, and every one who is the charm and glory of the social circle, must experience this change, or he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. He must experience it, unless the Saviour was wrong in his estimate of the human character, and has uttered what is not based on truth. He must experience it, unless he can show that his heart is such by nature that he is fitted for the enjoyments and employments of heaven; or unless some of the transitions through which he passes in life will answer the purpose; or unless he can substitute something else for it at the bar of God; or unless there will be some mysterious process in the grave, or beyond it, by which the body and the spirit shall be fitted for the skies. The language of the Saviour to all is, " Ye must be born again." Reason gives her sanction to that declaration ; conscience echoes it in your ears; and pious kindred and friends seek to bear it to the heart. Every man feels and knows it to be true, when he will let conscience speak out, when he has any just view of his own heart, or when from a bed of death he looks out on eternity. The solemn declaration of God ouf Saviour on this subject, thus seconded by reason and conscience, is laid across the path of every aged man, of every one in middle life, of every youth, and of every child. Of the crowd that you meet in the thronged pathways of a great city, it is true that no one reaches heaven unless he is horn again ; aud of the solitary stroller in a summer's eve on the verge of a babbling stream, or the lonely traveller on the mighty prairie, it is no less true that unless he be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. It is equally true of each and every one of you that without this change you will never enter heaven. The heart must be changed. The impenitent soul must become contrite ; the proud man must be humbled; the unbelieving must put his trust in the Son of God. And if the course of argument now pursued is sound, the subject is one that demands your immediate attention. Few days remain in which this change can occur, and then all will be fixed for ever. Soon the time will come in which it will be said of each and all, " He that is unjust, let him be unjust still; and he that is holy, let him be holy still." God grant that before that time—not far distant— shall have arrived, each heart may be so changed that it may convey gladness to the bosom to hear it said that all hereafter is to be fixed and unchanging. The line once crossed, which divides time from eternity, all is over for ever; for in the world of despair no one is ever born again.


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Ever since I was 15 years-old, I've always wanted to meet Paramore's leader singer Hayley Williams.
Maybe a lot of people dislike their music, just as a lot of people like it.. Personally I love the whole thing that it means Paramore, especially since their kids like me, and somehow we have grown together. So I identify with her especially now that I know what it feels like, when you father leaves your mother.
So there I was, even when I woke up several times through the night as usual, I'd still find myself going on the same dream that goes like this:
After hearing that paramore will be in a near city, and I wanted badly to meet them, I decided to gather some things I might need on the run and things I wanted to show Hayley, like my sketch book and the drawings I have made of her. Of course my aunt would not let me go by myself so I had to sneak in the middle of the night.
I knew that a cargo train goes to that city and it wouldn't take long so I went through the forest-like footpath to the nearest train tracks, I felt quite scared, maybe it was not such a good idea to watch horror films after all, since all the way through I felt I would feel like almost having a heart attack waiting for something to happen. Thankfully it went ok.
After waiting all night hiding in the bushes, in the morning a train was finally coming, it stopped so they could change the tracks' way, I saw it as my opportunity to get on without someone watching me so I went all the way to the last cargo, and went I was about to get on it, another train was coming behind as the one I was trying to get on was moving as well. So I jumped to the side and another train was coming in the other tracks from the front.
I freaked out and went back to the bushes I was hiding on, the train was moving slowly so I ran as it was going, the machinist looked at me, like saying "I'm about to go faster, get on now if you want to go", so i ran towards it and got on.
"thank you" I said. And the machinist nodded at me.
After 2 hours I arrived the city so I said thank you again and jumped off. I heard the band was staying in a hotel almost at the end of the city, and I didn't much money so I walked all the way. When I finally arrived, I started to sneak finding out in which rooms they were so I went to them. But I got caught so started running and going up through the stairs, coming out for my luck in the floor where the rooms were.
The security came shortly after me so I knocked on the door of the first room I saw and I almost die when Hayley was the one who opened the door. Security got me and I begged them to wait explaing I came from far just to meet Hayley. She said it was ok, so they let me go and went into the room with Hayley.
The rest of tha band was in the room, I was feeling really nervous, just sitting there, then Hayley came to me asking what brought me to meet them, I explained I identify with them and their lyricsand music and said also that I've always wanted her to see my drawings, I'm not much of an artist but they're ok.
Then Hayley asked me if I liked football and I said yes, so she asked me to stay to see the game. After it ended I of course, like every fan, asked her for an autograph. She gladly signed my t-shirt like the rest of them, handed my drawings to them and left, thinking as I was walking out the hotel, how the hell would I go back to my city now?.
And then the puppy awake me, and I feel, it's one of my best dreams…I hope one day becomes true.


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The Grand Hotel Parkers is a long-established hotel set in a grand 19th century villa, with sweeping views of the Bay of Naples. The hotel is well situated too, for visiting the cities world class museum and shops. A Naples hotel tradition and national monument that can look back over 130 years, the Grand Hotel Parkers has in recent times undergone lavish refurbishments that now allows this August property to take its rightful place at the forefront of the cities leading hotels. Behind the beautiful architectural detail of its imposing facade, lies a setting of refined world charm, whose antique furnishings and reassuring air unhurried calm are a complete antithesis to the clamor of the surrounding city. The endearing hotel is crowned by a lovely rooftop garden and restaurant that enjoy marvelous views over the Neapolitan skyline and bay. Facilities include Georges Restaurant and terrace overlooking the bay of Naples, the splendid rooftop venue for candlelit dining and memorable Mediterranean and Neapolitan cuisine. Other amenities include the Bidders Bar with Piano Bar, parking, and conference centre with 10 meeting rooms. The accommodation include 71 spacious and distinctively styled rooms and nine split level suites, a presidential suite with Jacuzzi, small drawing room, elegant writing desk, minibar, parquet, and precious marble in every room.
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Eric R. Hoffman, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, is a Professor of Practice at Washington University in St. Louis and recipient of the 2013 National AIA Young Architect Award. A leading practitioner and educator, Hoffman is passionately committed to innovation, realization, mentorship, and the environment. His versatile approach balances collaboration with signature architects, design competitions as tools for explorative research, and active involvement in architectural education. Hoffman's numerous contributions and achievements are further endorsed by lasting relationships with clients, students and colleagues.
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