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This week. American Idol contestants found themselves following the yellow brick road through Elton John's songbook. And Elton John certainly gives contestants a lot to choose from; who would have guessed that there was even a country tune lurking in there somewhere?
Well, Scotty McCreery is like a heat-seeking missile when it comes to ferreting out songs that match his country vocals. "Country Comfort" was chosen for two reasons, it has the words "country" and "Grandma" in it. (Grandma McCreery was in the audience this week.) But the lyrics also included the words, "going home," which is where Scotty could be heading after this performance. Although the judges praised it, the performance was heavy, boring, and pitchy. C-
Naima Adedapo decided that if Scotty could turn Elton country, she could turn him reggae. Naima performed "I'm Still Standing" in full reggae splendor, even rocking a pin-striped pantsuit with Jamaican colored rainbows. (Yes, it was as tacky as it sounds.) While it wasn't Naima's worst performance – she wasn't running around like she was on fire – it just didn't work. JLo wasn't sure the song was suited for reggae but said she loves to watch Naima perform and Randy thought it felt a little corny. C-
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Paul McDonald chose "Rocket Man," a great song with great promise. Unfortunately, the entire time the song felt like it might build to a crescendo that just never happened. The ending was soft and enchanting but overall, Paul failed to deliver the intensity that Jimmy Iovine was asking for. Randy thought he was a little pitchy but Steven Tyler argued that he doesn't like it when singers hit all the notes perfectly. C
Pia Toscano's performance of "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me," defied all the suggestions the judges gave her last week when they told her to sing something up-tempo and own the stage. This was another Pia performance; rooted to the center of the stage, looking lovely, belting out another ballad. The judges heaped this season's robot with praise. B-
Stefano Langone hoped that his performance of "Tiny Dancer" would keep him out of the bottom three this week. OK judges, reality check. Steven, this was not what nailing something looks or sounds like. Randy, it didn't just start rough, it was a rough all the way through. And Jennifer, Stefano can connect to the audience until he's blue in the face but if he doesn't connect to the song, it doesn't matter. Like last week, Stefano needs to get the lyrics right before he can connect. Can someone explain what a "ballerinum" is? D
Lauren Alaina selected "Candle in the Wind." The judges said what she needed to hear: "perfect," "beautiful," and "gorgeous." Was the praise justified? Eh. It was a good performance but she didn't create a "moment" for herself. Lauren really needs a moment. B
James Durbin rocked, "Saturday's Night All Right." Guess what, the judges liked it. In fact, there was little the judges didn't like this week. James's performance was entertaining to a degree. The vocals were fine and the burning piano was interesting. C+
Anyone who's read this blog knows that Thia Megia is not a favorite. But this week, Thia's performance of "Daniel" was incredible. Of course, the one performance that was actually moving and the judges were tepid in their praise. Randy even suggested it was safe . Safe? Thia was either moved to tears or pretending to be moved to tears by the song. Either way it was a risk and delivered the goose bumps that Lauren failed to evoke. A
A freshly trimmed Casey Abrams sang, "Your Song." The judges all essentially agreed that saving Casey was the best contribution any of them has ever made to the world. To hear them talk, saving Casey should put them on the short list for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011. Good thing Casey chose to be sincere and humble in a very intimate and accessible performance. B+
Jacob Lusk chose "Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word." Jimmy Iovine said that if Jacob could avoid overly dramatizing the song, he would do well. So Jacob started the song on a dark stage, with a single spotlight on him, and mist billowing around his ankles. Subtle, Jacob. The judges all gave hearty praise but the performance was over-the-top and very dramatic. C-
Finally it was Haley Reinhart's moment to shine with "Benny and the Jets." Her signature growl (she and Casey must take growling lessons together) was right on target and Haley showed what, until now, has been just below the surface: incredible talent. JLo said it was an amazing performance where everything came together for her, and Randy exclaimed, "Best performance of the night!" A
The predictions for American Idol's bottom three this week:
- Scotty McCreery
- Stephano Langone
- Naima Adedapo
Stephano and Naima will be saying farewell.
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When Everyone Was Catholic - The Point
(Edited under Fr. Leonard Feeney MICM) - February, 1957
For five full years now, The Point has considered its most urgent work to be that of alerting Catholics to the dangers which threatens their Faith. Our monthly articles have thus been, purposefully, more "anti"than "pro." And it was in the midst of exposing the workings of what we might call the "accepted" enemies of American Catholics - the pope-hating, birth-controlling, lodge -going heretics - that we made a discovery. Our readers were quite prepared to learn that Mrs. Eddy's Christian Scientists and Billy Channing's Unitarians were ill-disposed toward those of Romish persuasion. But the information that the Jews were also, and more so, enemies of the faith, left many a bit skeptical.
We have, therefore, spent several months in discussions of the Jewish threat to the Church, which even our most cautious readers now recognize as infinitely more deep-rooted and far-reaching than anything which American Protestantism could contrive. Looking ahead to future issues, we have one regret: A Catholic understanding of the entire Jewish problem presupposes a familiarity with the Church's traditional position on the Jewish people, and her repeated legislation in their regard. Our readers are still hazy about this all-important matter, and so ...
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There is no fairer way of determining the Church's official attitude toward the people whom St. Paul calls the "adversaries of all men," than to study what the teaching body of the Church has had to say about Jews when it was most free to speak. In short: In the days when the Catholic Church was on top, where were the Jews to be found?
St. Paul - called the Jews "adversaries of all men"
Now, the most scrupulous historian would have to agree that the Church was never more exalted as a world influence than it was in the thirteenth century. During all the twelve hundreds, from the reign of Pope Innocent III to the pontificate of Boniface VIII, the Catholic Church was spectacularly and indisputably "on top"!
Pope Innocent III
The thirteenth was a century of holiness. It was the age of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, Saint Louis of France, Saint Ferdinand of Castile, Saint Edmund of Canterbury, Saint Simon Stock, Saint Peter Nolasco, Saint Ray-mond of Penafort, Saint Thomas of Hereford, Saint Hugh of Lincoln, Saint Gertrude the Great, Saint Mechtilde, and Saint Philip Benizi. It was the glorious age of Saint Clare, Saint Francis, and Saint Dominic, and it saw them establish the religious orders which today bear their names, the Poor Clares, the Franciscans, and the Dominicans.
St. Clare
It witnessed the spread of the Christian guilds and the rise of the Gothic cathedrals. It was the century when Our Blessed Lady's Rosary was first recited, and her Brown Scapular first worn. It gave our liturgy the Stabat Mater, the Dies Irae, and the entire Office and Mass of Corpus Christi, including the Benediction Hymn, Tantum Ergo Sacramentum. Three General Councils of the Church were held during the thirteeth century, at one of which cardinals were for the first time given their familiar insignia, the red hat.
St. Dominic
It was the century of the final Crusade, of the first Inquisition, of England's Magna Carta, and Marco Polo's explorations. And in all this activity of the faithful, there was everywhere the maternal hand of the Church, guarding, reproving, encouraging, and guiding.
Marco Polo
With all of Christendom thus ordered and disposed toward a full Christian life, the Church had the time, and the recognized authority, to look beyond its flock to the unbaptized Jews. The result was a detailed program governing the presence of the Jews in all the Catholic nations of Europe. Below we have pieced together a quick chronology of the development of this program.
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On July 15, 1205, Pope Innocent III wrote a letter to the hierarchy of France to remind them that the Crucifiers of Christ ought to be held in continual subjection. And if the Jews of France would not accept this rightful state - if they would not abide by the regulations drawn up for them by the Holy See - then, the Pope instructed his bishops, "We give you our authority to forbid any Christian in the district from entering into commercial relations with them, under pain of excommunication."
Three years later, in a letter to the Count of Nevers, this same Holy Father set forth Catholic teaching even more plainly: "The Jews, against whom the blood of Jesus Christ calls out, although they should not be killed, lest Christian people forget the Divine Law, yet as wanderers ought they to remain upon the earth, until their countenance be filled with shame."
Spurred by the Pope's words and example, a council of French bishops, meeting at Avignon in 1209, enacted a severe code of anti-Jewish restrictions. And in 1212, another council, at Paris, added to these measures by forbidding any hristian mid-wife from assisting at the birth of a Jewish child.
In 1215, Pope Innocent III convoked a general council of all the bishops of Christendom, the decrees of which would be ratified by him personally and be binding on the whole Catholic world. Canon 68 of this assembly, known as the Fourth Lateran Council, prescribes that "Jews of either sex, in every Christian province, and at all times, be distinguished in public from other people by a different dress." And Canon 69 declares, "It is most absurd that a blasphemer of Christ should exercise power over Christians ... and we renew the decree forbidding that the Jews be given public offices."
The Fourth Lateran Council
Pope Honorius III, who succeeded Innocent III in 1216, got his pontificate off to a decisive start by ordering that the new synagogue built by the Jews in Rome should be immediately demolished.
In 1219, papal authorities ruled that any Jew buying a house from a Christian must pay property taxes to the Church. The same year, the Archbishop of Toledo in Spain established an annual tribute to be paid by evry adult Jew in his diocese.
The year 122 saw the English Council of Oxford imposing general strictures on the Jews and the Golden Bull of Hungary forbidding them to hold public office. The first quarter-century was rounded off by the Council of Paris, which ordained in 1223 that Christians must not be employed in Jewish households.
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The anti-Jewish code of the Fourth Lateran Council was re-enacted in 1227 by the bishops of France meeting at Narbonne, while the city of Marseilles, to implement Lateran's Canon 68, ruled that every Jew in the area who had reached his seventh year must wear on his chest a large, bright-colored disc.
In 1228, the newly-elected Pope Gregory IX decreed that all Crusaders indebted to Jews were to be free from paying interest. And in December of 1230, King Louis IX (Saint Louis) of France declared that Jews could not make legal contracts nor leave the estates of their lords.
King Louis of France (Saint Louis)
In 1233, Pope Gregory wrote to te hierarchy of Germany: "Ungrateful for favors and forgetful of benefits, the Jews return insult for kindness and impious contempt for goodness ... they who ought to know the yoke of perpetual enslavement because of their guilt." The Pope also wrote to Saint Ferdinand, King of Castile, charging him to see "that the perfidious Jews never in the future grow insolent, but that, in servile fear, they shall ever publicly suffer the shame of their sin."
The year 1240 marks the beginning of open war on the Jewish Talmud. In early Lent of that year, Pope Gregory IX instructed Saint Louis and Saint Ferdinand that, while the Jews of France and Castile were at their synagogues, their homes should be searched and copies of the Talmud confiscated. Saint Louis followed this search by ordering, in June of 1242, Europe's first official public burning of the Jewish book.
In 1244, Pope Innocent IV, continuing Gregory IX's tradition, issued the famous Impia Gens. In it, he assailed the Talmud as "containing every kind of vileness and blasphemy against Christian truth," and ordered the book seized, wherever it might be found, and destroyed. Accordingly, Saint Louis held another Talmud-burning at Paris in 1244, and still another in 1248.
Meanwhile, in distant Dublin, a law had been passed in 1241, prohibiting the selling of any Irish land to Jews. And, back in France, Pope Innocent IV convened the General Council of Lyons in 1245, which reaffirmed all the Church's anti-Jewish enactments. The following year, a local council of French bishops, meeting at Beziers, forbade Jews to practice medicine.
Shortly after the Council of Lyons closed, Archbishop Philip of Savoy demanded that the Jews get out of the city entirely. Thereafter, no Jew lived in Lyons for a century, and any who passed through had to pay a toll, the same as was paid for cattle, both entering the city and leaving it.
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Apparently hoping that they would be more fortunate in the second half-century than they had been in the first, the Jews petitioned Pope Innocent IV, in April of 1250, to let them build a new synagogue at Cordova, Spain, The petition was refused.
In December of 1254, Saint Louis of France, with the blessing of the Holy See, expelled all Jews from his kingdom. Seven years later, they were banished from Brabant, in Germany, and the year after that, from Treves.
The year 1263 saw a public burning of the Talmud at Barcelona, Spain. And in 1265, Pope Clement IV ordered death for any Jew in the Papal States found with a Talmud in his house.
Pope Clement IV
In 1266, the Council of Breslau cautioned Christians not to buy meat or other provisions from Jewish dealers. It also prescribed putting the Jews in a ghetto, to be "divided from the section inhabited by Christians by a fence , wall, or ditch." The following year, the council of Vienna forbade Jewish doctors to treat Christian patients and, in conformity with the Fourth Lateran Council, decreed that whenever a Viennese Jew appeared in public, he must wear a pointed hat.
In July of 1267, Pope Clement IV issued the bull, Turbato Corde, extending the Inquisition begun by Gregory IX, so that it could deal not only with heretics, but also with Jews who had seduced Catholics from the Faith. The city of London was aroused in 1271 to prohibit Jews from acquiring any more property there. And, in 1274, occurred the death of the great Saint Thomas Acquinas, who in his De Regimine Judaeorum told Christian rulers: "Jews, in consequence of their sin, are or were destined to perpetual slavery; so that sovereigns of states may treat their goods as their own property, with the sole proviso that they do not deprive them of all that is necessary to sustain life."
St. Thomas Aquinas
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The year 1275 opened with the Jews being expelled from Marlborough, Gloucester, Worcester, and Cambridge in England and, in 1276, from Bavaria.
In August of 1278, Pope Nicholas III directed the Jews of Lombardy to attend weekly sermons given for them by Dominican preachers. The Pope further stated that Jews "who, through fear, though not absolutely coerced, had received Baptism and had returned to their Jewish blindness, should be handed over to the secular power."
The Council of Ofen, held in Hungary in 1279 and presided over by a papal legate, decreed that any Christian responsible for putting a Jew in public office was to be excommunicated.
In 1280, England adopted Lombardy's practice by obliging all Jews in the kingdom to attend weekly sermons. This same year, King Alphonso X of Leon and Castile imprisoned his entire Jewish population until it had paid a special levy, plus an additional fine for each day of delay.
Archbishop Peckham of London, a city growing acutely uncomfortable for the Jews, gave orders in 1283 that all the synagogues in his diocese must be closed. And the same year, King Pedro of Aragon decreed that no Jew could hold a position that would give him jurisdiction, power, or authority over Christians.
In November 0f 1286, Pope Honorius IV wrote to the English Archbishop of Canterbury and York, calling the Talmud "that damnable" and urging them "vehemently to see that it not read by anyone, since all evils flow from it." A few months later, in may of 1287, King Edward I had the Jews of England thrown into prison. And finally, on November 1, 1290, Edward ordered all Jews to be deported from the country - to which they were not allowed to return till the time of the Protestant Cromwell, almost four centuries later.
The Protestant Cromwell
Two events mark the final years of the thirteenth century. On June 13, Pope Boniface VIII issued his bull Exhibita Nobis, ordering that Jews could be denounced to the Inquisition without the name of the accuser being revealed, so as to protect Christians against Jewish reprisals. And, to bring the century to a blazing conclusion, the city of Paris held, in 1299, one more public burning of the Jewish Talmud.
Pope Boniface VIII
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Some months ago, the American Jewish Committee's magazine, Commentary, carried an article which gave details of the anti-Jewishness of the Church in France during the Middle Ages. One of the items which most annoyed the A.J.C. spokesman was an inscription placed over the gate of the Cemetery6 of the Holy Innocents in Paris. In bold letters, it read, "Beware of a Jew, a madman, and a leper."
This French inscription makes a pithy summary of all that the Church, at its height of power, tried to indicate concerning the Jewish people. Jews were to be avoided, quite as one would avoid the mad and the leprous. They were to be restrained and quarantined, lest their perfidy and filth infect Christian society. The Church's prudent devices (ghettos, badges, and the rest) wee thus the fruit of a mother's solicitude for her children. It was only when Europe turned against its mother that these safeguards vanished and the Jewish infection spread abroad in the land - leaving the once-Christian West in its present, unspeakable state of misery.
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text: Hi, I've recently been diagnosed with body dysmorphia which came from a form of anxiety and my main focus is my nose. I hate it, so much. It's been going on for almost a year now, this hatred for my nose. I don't mind the shape but it's this bump on the bridge, it's horrible. It's been escalating all this time, I've tried so hard to forget about it or even try to like it but nothing works. I can't look at someone without looking and studying their nose, I can't watch a movie without looking at everyone's noses. If I see my reflection in the mirror and the light hits my nose or I can see the obvious bump it just ruins my day, that's it, my day is over, I'll just lie in bed for the rest of the day. The other day I looked at myself in the mirror and hated myself so much thay I got so angry, I punched a door and now I have bruised knuckles, it's getting out of control. I'm 15 years old and I haven't turned up to school this past week because I think everyone's looking at me, I can't look in the mirror in the morning to get ready. I think about filling in the bump one day when I'm older but I have a gut feeling that's not a road I'd like to go down, but what else can I do? I don't how I'll ever learn to like myself. Even when I was really young I had a fringe that covered half my face because I hated my face. I try to distract myself by playing guitar, reading, writing but nothing works, my mind always drifts back to it. All my family have bumps on their noses and it's all I can see, I'm not pointing fingers or blaming anyone but my mother is a hairdresser and nail/beautician and I grew up listening to her say to my older sister 'how she looks better with make up on' and whenever I do my hair up or put some makeup on she always says she prefers me like that, she'll also always point out my spots and mine and my sisters weight and she even said one time how she understands why husband leave their wives because the wives don't look after themselves. I thought that was a very silly thing to say and I remember all her words, they stick with me. If I talk to her about my nose she'll roll her eyes and let out this sigh, everytime. I even dreamt the other night about my nose, it sounds so stupid but it's really getting me down. No one's ever told me anything bad, in fact, I've been told my nose is cute but that seems crazy, because it's so bad to me. I know noses and looks are the least important thing ever, and that's why I hate this situation so much because there's so much more, such a vast universe but I'm stuck here with this fixation on a bone in my nose. I used to act and even got offered a role in a movie but my anxiety and hatred for myself got the best of me, I'm missing out on so much. I'm starting CBT therapy on monday, I hope it works but I just don't know how to handle it in the mean time.


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For the past couple of years I have been hearing many people state it is the end of the brand website … I could not disagree more! I see proclamations like
• The end of the website due to the rise of apps
• The end of the website due to the rise of mobile devices
• The end of the website due to the collapse of civilization
as stated in an article I read this week. This mentality is completely backwards.
For far too long, marketers have regarded websites as a place for purchase first and information second. Yes, a website should be a place for commerce, but it needs to be a source of content first. Content that provides entertainment, subject matter expertise, and information. The content needs to be crafted such that it promotes the brand's target audience's lifestyle.
Let me give you an example to start and then I will come back to points of consideration. Look at Red Bull's website – they have nailed it. Yes they could try to sell Red Bull on their site, but their audience would be completely turned off by that approach. Instead, Red Bull uses their website to be a media company. They understand their audience and give their audience content they want. Content on extreme lifestyles of adventure, motor sports, biking, skateboarding, snowboarding, and music. They do not push their brand, but they sell a brand lifestyle. This reinforces the position of their brand and the feeling they want their target audience to have about their brand.
Now Red Bull does take my point to an extreme. I think it is worthwhile to have some brand soft sell on the website – coupons, sweepstakes, ecommerce – but all of these marketing touches should not overload the web content and overtake website real estate.
Many digital marketers focus on their brand's play on social and mobile marketing. There is definitely a need to have strong brand presence in these digital areas because of today's audience behavior. All marketing efforts must be driven by target audience actions and motivations. Now at the same time, we want brands to have a core, consolidated portfolio of content and information availability.
Almost one year ago, I wrote an article on the importance of content on a brand's website. I brought up this concept of a content hub. Your brand website should include this content hub, and the content hub should be a primary part of the website. Then, social channels, mobile, and apps should be used to reference the content, proliferate the content, and to engage with the target audience.
I argued that while social marketing is not about direct sales, certainly we do not want to miss the opportunity for sale conversion if the reader has that interest. Having the content directly on the site where there is also product information and ecommerce creates increased consideration and sales opportunities. Social marketing and the wide spread use of mobile should be used to leverage the brand content and direct people back to a place where all content resides. This approach allows the audience to see the breadth of valuable content provided by the brand as opposed to simply putting content in social postings. The audience will gain an appreciation for the breadth of content and spend greater time on the website. This may result in greater brand preference and ultimately greater loyalty and advocacy.
As an audience gains appreciation for the brand content, they should be able to use the brand website as a utility for purchase as well. Include ecommerce and shopping cart technologies on the website, but once again, do not hog up website real estate. Yes, I understand this is a brand's primary interest – to sell. But we must be cognizant of audience motivations or lack there of. They do not want a hard sell.
Gain trust and reputation. Then make it easy to purchase. Your brand website design should be driven by these objectives, in that order.
The end of the website – definitely not. But rather I see the stylization and utility of brand website needing a dramatic change.
Make It Happen,
Social Steve


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Daniel Ricciardo's chances of joining Red Bull next season strengthen after the team announced that he will be testing the RB9 at this week's Young Drivers' Test.
Ricciardo, along with Vergne and Raikkonen are in prime contention for the second seat at Red Bull. With the Austrian team deciding to give only Ricciardo a chance to test the RB9, it gives a clear hint that he now has an upper hand over his Toro Rosso teammate Jean Eric Vergne. However, this doesn't not guarantee that he will be racing for Red Bull in 2014 - the team would still be evaluating his performance.
Red Bull Racing's test driver Felix Da Costa will be driving during the opening sessions on Wednesday and Thursday before handling duties to Ricciardo and Webber respectively in the afternoon session.
Meanwhile Carlos Sainz Jr, who is currently driving in GP3 will share duties with Sebastian Vettel on the final day of Young Drivers Test.
Red Bull's Young Drivers Test schedule
Wednesday - Antonio Felix da Costa (morning), Daniel Ricciardo (afternoon)
Thursday - Antonio Felix da Costa (morning), Mark Webber (afternoon)
Friday - Carlos Sainz Jr. (morning), Sebastian Vettel (afternoon).
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Posted 06 September 2012 - 10:05 PM
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Posted 03 December 2012 - 01:49 AM
Colors xfactor stock rom
-Added OG battery mod
-Added LG IME keyboard
-Status bar and Lock screen mod
-No boot sound (silence )
-removed preinstalled apps
flashing instruction.
-place the downloded rom/zip in sdcard.
-flash cwm recovery.
- reboot into cwm recovery
- format /system and /data from mount and storage
- select install zip from sdcard and flash the rom (use vol+- keys to move up down; power key to select)
- reboot
note: it will take time to boot the phone,the phone will vibrate & notification light will turn on.
Edited by sathi3brt, 19 March 2014 - 11:07 PM.
Posted 04 December 2012 - 12:47 AM
here is the cwm recovery backup,,
if u r stuck in colors screen (i.e. bootloop), flash cwm recovery and restore this backup
just extract it in sd card and restore from cwm recovery,, (yeah u must have cwm recovery 1st)
note: backup your rom before restoring. best of luck http://www.4shared.c...ockworkmod.html
for getting cwm recovery turn off ur phone and press volume up + power key until u get cwm recovery
update: only restore system and boot
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Posted 29 December 2012 - 10:14 PM
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8) in option menu, disable download DA All
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10) when download ok box appeared disconnect ur phone; remove battery, insert battery and boot into recovery (vol up +power)
how to root with cwm?
important: if u want to root with cwm then download su-busybox-installer.zip and copy to memory card before flashing cwm recovery!!! now flash cwm recovery from method 2 and boot into cwm recovery, in cwm recovery choose clear cache, then choose install zip from sd card, and select su-busybox-installer.zip and select yes,, u r rooted (power botton to select and vol botton to up down)
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I am trying to root my colors x factor to get rid of the apps that came preloaded with it.
I followed your step. (didn't found DA ALL under options) Rest i did all ok except using batch to root with mkt.
It says "device not found". I loaded the scatter file as mentioned and it said downloaded.
Please Help.
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How to upgrade from 2.3.6 to ICS for xfactor?
Any custom ROMs for xfactor available?
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Posted 07 March 2013 - 06:54 AM
Bro, this is happens because of driver is not installed correctly, try to install driver again,, i had same problem once, batch said device not found but the phone booted,2 times and superuser application installed , btw u can try cwm recovery method to root your phone, its easy than other
I am trying to root my colors x factor to get rid of the apps that came preloaded with it.
I followed your step. (didn't found DA ALL under options) Rest i did all ok except using batch to root with mkt.
It says "device not found". I loaded the scatter file as mentioned and it said downloaded.
Please Help.


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Downtown Art Scene
Reported by Katherine Sweetman
What happens in public restrooms? An even more intimate question is, what happens in public restroom stalls?
The usual: unloading, regrouping, relaxing, laughing, tears, sex, drugs… what else?
Anjela Piccard probes these questions with her partners in crime, Kla-bada Roberson and Niki King. The particular bathroom stall in question is located at Ms. Piccard's studio headquarters AKA Coup d'État PICCARD. And the subjects of the photographs are "30 Women of Influence" photographed over 30 consecutive days during the month of June.
The Women of Influence include ladies with titles like, first African American flight attendant, Fox News producer, Filmmaker for Scumbag Movies, and former Arts and Culture Editor for San Diego City Beat. Each of the "models" is regarded by the artists (Piccard, Roberson, King) as a woman with a significant influence in her particular world, influence in her particular niche –influence in her particular stall.
Piccard's fascination of the public/private duality that's located within a public restroom is wrapped in the idea that the restroom is a place of significant events in a woman's life. It's a location where she might deal with her first period, where she may learn she's pregnant, and most commonly, it's a private place of sanctuary where she will go to deal with a challenge. She may leave a situation in tears, dispirited, dirty, bloody, unhinged, but when she returns from the restroom, she will be composed.
Concept for the project came from Anjela Piccard, Women of Influence decisions were made by all three of the artists, and photographer Niki King was the one doing the actual shooting. One conceptual and aesthetic decision for the project was to shoot all the women on film– analogue black and white film. King, who has a particular affection for film, chose this workflow because it emphasizes The Real, the un-digitized, and the untouched.
Kla-Bada Roberson, the incredible model and stylist, is not only the #1 photograph in the series, she's also the daughter of the first African American flight attendant (#15 in the series), and the grand daughter of the oldest women in the series –as her 100 year old grandmother is #30.
Each of the artists is also a subject for the project, as I might disclose, am I (#2). You can see us and the women listed below in a vulnerable, sometimes undressed state, this Friday at STALL30 at White Box Contemporary, 1040 7th Avenue, San Diego, California 92101
Women of Influence include:
Kla-Bada Roberson, Katherine Sweetman, Niki King, Rebekah Sager, Danielle Yoder, Erika Davies, Bea Pesenti, Elizabeth Martinez, Margeaux Maledon, Jessica Hunt, Nicole Novak, Alisha Marie Brandenburg, Anjela Piccard, Lynda Martin, Mary J. Roberson, Janice Dodge, Leia Gadow, Erica McCampbell (AKA Genghis), Michele Arthur, Greta Proctor, Kinsee Morlan, Jahvanna Audrian, Kayla Galasso, Lea Caughlan, Lindsey Nobel, Leslie Marcus, Sarah Flamm, Diana Cavagnaro, Mavreen Jimenez, and Beatrice Jones


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Allergy season is quickly approaching in this neck of the woods. Last year was our first spring here in the ol' NC, and I had heard that the allergies could be pretty hard to take. So, we went to the farmers market and got some local honey and had the kiddos eating it right away. Buying local honey is a great way to introduce your body to the local pollen so your body can start to build immunity against it before it goes full blown yellow gunk all over the place. The kiddos sailed through allergy season without so much as a sniffle. Hubs and I on the other hand, were sick as dogs! Since we had never had allergies before, we didn't think we needed to partake on the local honey. Boy were we wrong! So this year, we are taking no chances and went to the farmers market and bought a HUGE container of honey. We have been sneaking it in everywhere!
This recipe is a super yummy, HEALTHY way to get a big-ol'-dose-o-honey. My kiddos (and hubs and I too) absolutely LOVED them! Even if you don't have to worry about allergies, these are such a great alternative to cookies or pre-packaged snack bars.
HEALTHY Peanut Butter Balls
Recipe slightly adapted from Mommy's Kitchen
- 1 cup Honey
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- 3 cups Quick Cooking Oatmeal, Uncooked
- 2 TBSP toasted Wheat Germ
- 2 TBSP Ground Flax Seed
- ½ cups Mini Chocolate Chips, Raisins, or both (optional)
Mix all the ingredients together with hand mixer. Form into golf ball sized balls with your hands and freeze on a baking sheet lined with waxed paper until firm. Remove from the freezer and store in a large Ziploc bag in the refrigerator.
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Three Missing Hikers Tenaja Trailhead
Written by Paul Caraher
The call came out at 2:39 in the morning for three overdue male hikers in the Cleveland National Forest. The mother of one of the subjects reported he was due for fathers day and never showed up. Upon arrival at the Tenaja trailhead, I joined veteran member Glenn Henderson and was told that he and I were it. More members would be arriving later in the day to assist.
Glenn was able to get a description of the trios shoes, which included Converse hi tops, DVS skate shoes and a lug-hiking boot. Having attended an in depth tracking course months prior, I was confident we could find their tracks and stay on course. We did see these prints at the Tenaja trailhead going into the canyon but not coming out. Since the subjects itinerary included Fishermans Camp and Tenaja Falls, Glenn and I started clearing the trail up and beyond Tenaja Falls. After numerous call outs and no sign of the subjects prints, we decided to head back to the trailhead and make our way to the starting point for fishermans camp.
Arriving at Fishermans Camp, we were able to get on track. The prints were leading away from camp and heading out the San Mateo Creek trail in the complete opposite direction. Around this time we heard Star 9 arriving on scene and directed them to the general area where we thought they might be. Not long afterward the subjects were located camping on a streambed about a mile and a half from fishermans camp. There was so much dense vegetation on the trail; we decided to get back to the CP in case we were needed to assist with aviation.
Star 9 landed at the Command Post and picked me up to fly in for a welfare check with a Deputy. As we circled overhead, Star 9 once again instructed for the hikers to stay put. The pilot landed about a quarter of a mile away. The Deputy and I hiked into the hikers camp only to find them gone. Back in the helicopter we spotted them on the trail heading back to the Command Post.
At base, I was greeted by fellow teammates Jeri, Lew, Dana, and Roger May. Glenn was now running base with Lew Kingman. Jeri, Dana, Roger and I descended into the canyon to meet up with the hikers. Jeri led the way and made contact with them about an hour and a half later. Other than being a little dehydrated and embarrassed, the three hikers were healthy and able to hike out to the trailhead.
RMRU team members present: Paul Caraher, Glenn Henderson, Lew Kingman, Roger May, Dana Potts, and Jeri Sanchez.
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Utrecht, October 30-31 2015
Franciscan Studycentre & Tilburg School of Catholic Theology
Together with Fachstelle Franziskanische Forschung (FFF) and 1219 Religions- und Kulturdialog, who organized a conference on April 9-11 2015 in Munster, the Franciscan Studycentre has organized a two-day conference about poverty in Utrecht. The dual conference Munster-Utrecht discussed poverty in different scientific perspectives (historical, sociological, economic, political, theological) and brought these perspectives in dialogue with experiential stories and practices. Here the Utrecht part is described.
Krijn Pansters (Tilburg School of Theology) opened the conference by asking the questions of poverty as 'sin' and 'virtue'. The first part of the conference approached poverty as a economical, historical and sociological problem. Michail Moatsos (University of Utrecht) showed how he develops an instrument to measure poverty and notice the poor. Anita Boele (University of Utrecht) talked about the virtue of Misericordia and how it led the medieval community to fight poverty and help the poor. Jan Vranken gave a thorough conceptual framework to study poverty and overcome the social exclusion of people. An interesting finding of the economist Johan Graafland (Tilburg University) is that quality of the juridical system and respect for property appear to lead to greater happiness.
The second part of the conference consisted of philosophical, ethical and missiological perspectives. Philosopher Jos Philips advocated a non-spiritual and objective approach of the subject. Louke van Wensveen approached it as the sin of removing the natural habitat from its creatures, and proposed a virtue ethic for a sustainable lifestyle. Frans Dokman (Nijmegen University) described the different cultural dimensions of poverty. Albino Barrera O.P. (Providence College) pictured in a flood of inspiring examples how social enterprise brings light to the reality of poverty.
The third part of the conference treated poverty as a spiritual way. Pansters had opened the congress by reading an e-mail of an economist who refused to speak and who thought that the very idea of poverty as a pathway was disgusting. Nonetheless, scholars of theology and religious studies spoke freely about examples of spiritual leaders and their choice for poverty. Marcel Poorthuis discussed the attitude of Jesus and the Jews with respect to poverty and property: rather than an ascetic practice it is considered an expression of trust in God's grace. Pim Valkenberg and Brooke Barber of the Catholic University of America discussed poverty in Islamic theology and spirituality, with special attention to Al-Ghazali's Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din. Willem Marie Speelman (Franciscan Study Centre) tried to meditate on the dream of Pope Francis of a poor Church for the poor, by giving a spiritual analysis of the experiences of a Poor Clare who had left the order and was suddenly trapped in poverty. Jeanine Schreurs told about her growing practice, named 'Living with Less', with circles of people who are trapped in the fall of poverty, hoping to establish together a new way of life.
The fourth was a Franciscan part. Jean-François Godet-Calogeras (St. Bonaventure University) described the poverty of Francis and Clare. Jan van den Eijnden OFM and Hans van Bemmel OFM went into practices of poverty today. Timothy Johnson (Flagler College, St. Augustine) analyzed a quotation on the poverty of Francis in the newly discovered Celano, which causes him to approach poverty as a mode of interaction with all bodies within the creation, thus a relational experience. The dean of the Tilburg School of Theology, Marcel Sarot, closed the conference by referring back to the e-mail with which it started.
The dual conference in Münster and Utrecht wil be published at Aschendorff Verlag.
Willem Marie Speelman, Director Franciscan Study Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands


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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Quote of the Week
"We've lent some of it. We've not lent some of it. We've not given any accounting of, 'Here's how we're doing it. We have not disclosed that to the public. We're declining to."
-- JP Morgan Chase spokesman Thomas Kelly, being shamelessly cryptic about what his company is doing with the $25 billion in taxpayer money it received in the emergency bailout.
I swear, people -- the fucking guillotine.
(h/t Cesca)
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- Girl With Curious Hair said...
Translation: "La dee da, la dee da. FUCK YOU!"
- Che Grovera said...
Dad: You wrecked our only car, son?
Son: Yeah, dad. You know how it is. We got some hookers and some blow, and one thing led to another...
Dad: So it's going to cost $25 billion to fix this mess?
Son: Maybe more. But we gotta have a car, right?
Dad: Okay. Here's a check. Don't do it again. Hey, where are you going?
Son: There's this resort in California. I'm still pretty traumatized. See ya!
I think an ass raping from a jackhammer should precipitate the guillotine.
And use the jackhammer to pound some of that money right up that smug fuck's ass.
Ok, all my violent tendencies aside- Unless the public stands up and takes action, well all know that they are going to get away with their antics.
Its that simple- They're getting away with it because they know that the great majority of Americans are complete self-absorbed pussies that wont stand up for anything that matters.
Let's guillotine the goddamned politicians first. I mean THEY are our representatives. They are the ones who signed off on this shit. They gave them the money without requiring an accounting. They have the power, even now, to demand an accounting (It's called the law, and congress can make it even if there's no lobbyist telling them to do so.) and they won't use it because they are bought and paid for.
Here's the thing I hate most about America: We all know money buys power in Washington. But most of the money doesn't come in the form of bribes or even indirect transfers. It's mostly campaign contributions. Which are turned into votes. But money doesn't have to equal votes. We don't have to vote based on TV commercials and direct mailings. But we do. So the American people directly allow special interests to buy power in Washington by voting according to political advertising rather than taking the time to do independent research (Which is EXTREMELY easy now with the Internet. Every politician has a website where you can go and read his campaign platform and there are plenty of independent sites which will break down voting records.)
We the people ALLOW this system to persist even though we could end it TOMORROW without changing ONE THING except how we use our votes. Yet all we do is whine and we never change anything because we're too lazy and apathetic.
We get the government we deserve, and they let the bankers do this kind of shit (Which is utterly predictable if you've ever met a goddamned banker.)
How many guillotines you got, Chez?
- Deacon Blue said...
You cuntbags want to know how we spent "your" motherfucking money?
I'll tell you. I don't need that weasel-flak Thomas Kelly to speak for me anymore.
For starters, everyone at JP Morgan Chase from executive vice president on up is now debt-fucking-free.
Oh, and I bought us a goddamn island in the South Pacific to relocate to if any of you decide to try that guillotine shit that's been bandied about.
We've got 90% of the members of both house of Congress on our dicks full-time, now, too. Lifetime thralldom from a congressman or senator doesn't come cheap.
As for me personally? Shit, I'll tell you how I spent "your" money...
...I've been using $100 bills as rolling paper for the finest weed you can buy in this solar system.
...I've been washing the taste of that pot out of my mouth with Perrier-Jouet champagne. I've been drinking it like water. Oh, that didn't sting enough? How about the fucking champagne flute I've been guzzling it out of, which I had laser-carved from a single fucking perfect diamond the size of your shin.
...I also rented out the goddamn Four Seasons Hotel ballroom and hired a hooker from every conceivable racial background to do a mass fucking lap dance just for moi. And before they left, I let them head out with as many $100 bills as they could stuff in their cunnies.
And that's just this fucking week. Just want 'til you hear what I do with "your" money for New Year's.
Suck on that, bitches.
James L. Dimon, President, Chairman and CEO, JP Morgan Chase & Co.
- Chez said...
Fucking brilliant, man. This is where George Costanza stands up and says "That's it for me! Thanks! You've been great!"
- Felis Femina said...
This one is my favorite. From today's Metro (free newspaper)-
One bank didn't even want to say they wouldn't say. A New York Mellon Corp. spokesman who said he wouldn't share spending specifics, added: "I just would prefer if you wouldn't say that we're not going to discuss those details."
So, not only are they not going to tell us what they're doing with our money, they don't want the press telling us that they're not telling us what they're doing with our money.
- Deacon Blue said...
I realize that the William Shakespeare quote "first kill all the laywers" is taken out of context and actually was part of quote that *supports* lawyers...
Nonetheless, I am thinking this quotation needs to (a) stay OUT of context and (b) be modified to change "lawyers" to "bankers"


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Attack of the Chinese Inspired Sneakers! January 16, 2009Posted by bigwok in Sneakers.
Tags: Collaboration, Dunk Mid, Fly, Nike, Nike SB, Triumvir
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Triumvirs founder Brandon Cheng was given the opportunity to design a Nike SB sneaker with FLY from China and this is the product of it. They've taken inspirations from their staples in their heritage: noodles, traffic, highways and Tianamen Square. These are really nice sneakers even though I've had just about enough of these Chinese heritage inspired shoes even though its not that apparent in this one. These should be at SB dealers soon.. or now. So keep your ears to the ground! More pics after the jump
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Some sexy new Nike SB coming to a store near you ! Personally I think they're semi overrated. Maybe because it's been so hard for me to buy a pair that I actually like… This month sees the release of the BATMAN Dunk Mids and Marty Mcfly (ish) Tre's. Be sure to keep an eye out at your local SB dealer. I'm sure these will be flying off the shelves. I tried for a batman pun, but that didn't work out too well. Hit it for sexy close ups.


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Images: Top, Michael Shewchuk as Wahab and Casey Austin as Nawal in Scorched; Naomi Simpson as Sawda and Casey Austin as Nawal in Scorched; Samantha Richards as Juliet and Matthew Coulson as Romeo in the Phoenix Theatre production at the University of Victoria; Janick Hebert, Sarah Orenstein and Nicola Lipman in the Tarragon Theatre [Toronto]production of Scorched.
1) You saw 2 new shows last week that were written four hundred years and worlds apart. But you saw some interesting connections between the two plays...what can you tell us about them?
Scorched is a Canadian play set in both Montreal and the unnamed Middle East homeland of immigrants, mother Nawal and her twin children Simon and Janine. While the country is never named, it is a country that has been wracked by civil war in a manner sadly familiar to the playwright whose family survived the 16 year long Lebanese civil war from 1975-1990. The play begins after Nawal's death and the reading of her will by an unassuming notary who tells the twins that their mother has left them with a mission: To find their long-lost father and a brother they never knew they had. The play then takes us on an epic journey through Nawal's life and is interwoven with the searching by Simon and Janine for the long-buried truth.
Now, no one would immediately leap to an obvious connection between this recent play and one of Shakespeare's great tragedies, Romeo and Juliet. While both plays present plenty of sadness, violence and loss brought about by historical enmities, this underlying theme is brought all the more to the fore by Romeo and Juliet director Brian Richmond's decision to relocate the play from Verona, Italy to the West Bank of Israel. In this way, the feuding families of the Montagues and Capulets become a Jewish family living in inexorable tension with a Muslim family, kept apart by the ineffective UN Peacekeeping forces. In a bid to make the play timely and relevant, Richmond has a Jewish Romeo fall in love with an Arab Juliet. In this way, the ever-present news item of tension and outbreaks of violence and war in the Middle East is seen in both of these very different shows.
2) So let's begin with the Phoenix Theatre at UVic's production of Romeo and Juliet. What is working well in the production?
Richmond likes to take on large-scale productions and always manages to present a polished and smooth-running piece of theatre. The design elements of set of sand and effective lighting and costumes all look good, although in the sound department there is far too much mood music from frequent Richmond collaborator John Mills-Cockell (who needs to be reminded that film and theatre are not the same dramatic art forms). The two dozen or so students and former students in this production are working well together and make optimal use of the thrust stage in the Chief Dan George Theatre, employing no fewer than eight different entrance and exit locations. The company speaks Shakespeare's text with clarity, if somewhat lacking in lyricism. And there is lots of physicality in the show, with knife fights, gunplay, exotic dancing and an aerial version of the famous balcony scene. I like the work of a number of student actors in the show, especially the work from senior acting students Matthew Coulson as Romeo, whose work improves in emotional depth over the course of the show, Jay Mitchell as Lord Capulet, Ashley Caron as Lady Capulet and Emily Smith as the Nurse. Richmond likes cross-gender casting and this pays off in the strong work from Natasha Salway as Benvolio. Samantha Richards, one of two alternating Juliets, plays the young girl's innocence and free-fall into first love very well, although she struggles to find the maturity needed in the latter part of the play. Cam Culham offers a nice turn as Friar Laurence as do Jeff Leard as Mercutio and James Roney as Tybalt. So there is plenty to admire in the show.
3) And given your opening comments, what was your response to director Brian Richmond's decision to locate the play in the occupied territories of Israel? Does a Jewish Romeo and Arab Juliet add anything new to our understanding of the play?
This is where the production lost me, I'm afraid. I was quite open to this interpretation, but also sensitive to how it would be presented. I am not of Arab extraction, nor am I a Muslim, but I still found the portrayal of drunken Arab Capulets in the party scene difficult to accept. And when the Jewish Romeo and supposedly Muslim (although blond, blue-eyed and curly-haired) Juliet ask the Christian Friar Laurence to marry them, I just became deeply confused. Are the Capulets Arab Christians? If so, why does Tybalt have the Islamic star and crescent moon symbol tattooed on his arm and why do his comrades look like stereotypical Arab terrorists/freedom fighters? My other main concern has less to do with the riskiness of this 'clash of civilizations' version and more to do with the lack of logic in this decision. In Shakespeare's original play, the feuding families are equally upper class; moved to the West Bank or the Gaza Strip, that fundamental equality between the Montagues and Capulets is completely lost. Showing us an apparently wealthy Arab Capulet family in that setting is absurd and patently untrue. There are many very wealthy Arabs in the Middle East, but they do not live in the Palestinian territories. And in those territories, there is absolutely no equality between the Israeli armed forces and settlers and the relatively impoverished Palestinian people who are fighting for their homeland. To show us a version of this deeply troubled part of the world in such a highly simplified, even simplistic way, is to not just confuse an audience, but to also make a political statement that is completely false.
4) Let's move to Lebanese-Canadian playwright Wajdi Mouawad's play Scorched, which I hear has been seen in over 100 productions worldwide. What is its great appeal?
Mouawad is a fine writer and storyteller and displays these skills many times over throughout the course of this three-hour epic play. There is a lot of text in the play, and even more action, so it is not too much of a stretch to call the play Shakespearean in its scope and ambition. But it is even closer to a Greek tragedy in its structure as a mystery (similar to Oedipus Rex by Sophocles) with an incredibly powerful, even devastating climax. When Nawal's orphaned twins finally discover the truth of their mother's past and the reason why it drove her into silence for the last five years of her life, it is unbelievably hard to take, but also dramatically feels deeply right and true. This is one of the finest new plays I have seen in some time and I am grateful to director Clayton Jevne for taking it on and bringing it to Victoria. The show is not perfect, it could use a few more actors to reduce the endless doubling, and it is a bare bones production that could use some of the arts funding that the BC government is snatching back from our artists to create a more visually arresting show. But there is some fine work from Casey Austin in the central role of Nawal, a role that has been played by three actresses in other productions that she tackles all by herself….a remarkable achievement. Other Inconnu regulars Naomi Simpson, Michael Shewchuk, Paddy Crawford and Jason Stevens all do nice work here as well. This is not a show for the faint of heart, but anyone who cares about good theatre should not miss it.
5) Any final thoughts on these two productions?
I love theatre that provokes its audience, that wakes us up rather than puts us to sleep. Both of these shows this week offer provocation but of two very different kinds. Whereas Scorched provokes us to think more about the endless cycles of violent retribution that can cause societies to implode, the Middle Eastern version of Romeo and Juliet at UVic presents a mostly mixed-messages vision of this troubled region that causes more confusion and consternation than enlightenment.


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Discussion in 'Off Topic [BG]' started by Matt Till, Feb 17, 2003.
We're called "The Flaming Genitalia."
Your crotch seems to be glowing.
Yeah, well he's not known as Goldmember for nothing
Actually I just found this pic from last valentines day. I set my crotch on fire with zippo fluid. In the valentine I drew a heart around it and wrote I'm hot for ya baby. It's amazing how much fun you can have with zippo fluid, some friends, and some free time.
You sir, are king among men.
you what?!??! I don't know whether to believe you or not, but if at anyrate...now I know why they call you stupidmatt
there are a few things I just don't do, one is play with fireworks and the other is putting any flammable material near my crotch.
oh yes my friends... this is not a photoshoped image. I've got the burn hole in those pants to prove it.
It's not as scary as it sounds, I've actually set my bare hand on fire before with zippo fluid. It's the fluid that burns. You just gotta put it out before it gets too hot. My crotch was a bit toasty... between my teeth in that picture I'm saying, "TAKE THE ****IN' PICTURE!!!"
It looks like you only have one Eye in that picture(obvoulsy you are winking but your right eye looks like it was never there to begin with)
But you think that one was bad...
creepy... I never noticed that.
Matt has anyone ever told you that your a flamer aahhhhthankyou!
bah dum cha
"No trouble finding things ay" "
You, my friend, are a Darwin Award waiting to happen.
Your braver than I am. I try to keep fire away from my crotch at all costs.
It's still early in the year....but its official.
you look like a serious musician, yo!
Holy Schnikes! I seconde lilbassboy's nomination! Although I have heard this is an effective way to vacate yourself from crabs
Cues up best blue oyster cult voice*
I'm burnin' I'm burnin' I'm burnin' for youuuuuuuuuuuu
BOC voice off*
Heh...and all along I though that song was about gonorriah (sp?)


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Although the present proposed bills in Congress do not address all the issues of concern to us, we support President Obama's effort at creating a just and fair health care system. We expect that any national reform legislation should contain:
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A Porch Lantern Vigil for 50 Dead
I have all sorts of things I'd like to write about, but I can't stop thinking about this morning's shooting at the nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Maybe it's because with 50 deaths so far and more than 50 injuries, it's the largest mass shooting in U.S. history. Maybe it's because this is the 133rd mass shooting in 2016. Maybe it's because the urgent plea to enact more stringent gun control measures seems inadequate.
No one knows for certain if this was technically a hate crime (Pulse is a gay club)–although, I would contend that anyone who opens fire on a crowd of people is committing a hate crime. And though the details are still nebulous, the young man who mowed down all of those unfortunate souls seems to have pledged allegiance to ISIS.
All we seem able to do is cry out, Gun Control! A refrain invoked after every mass shooting in the hopes that it will be the panacea the U.S. needs to rid itself of all this death.
Let's take a brief respite from the news of the day and travel to the gorgeous land that surrounds Taos, New Mexico. I was there this past weekend and enjoyed the cool breezes, the elephantine flowers bursting upward in fiery oranges and fragile whites, the delicious food, and the impressive variety of wine at Black Mesa Winery. I stopped by a tiny shop wedged in amongst dozens of other shops that flanked the square. It was packed with New Mexican goods like riestras and countless jars of red and green chile.
I picked up this lovely hand-painted saint on a thin piece of wood that spoke to me. SaintFrancis, Patron Saint of small animals, children, and kindness, or so the tiny painted words claim. All three categories work for meand made me inexplicably content. I hung it up next to my front door today and discovered there was a scripture seared into the backside. It was titled, San Francisco's Prayer:
Lord make me an instrument / of your peace. / Where there is hatred, / let me sow love, / Where there is doubt, faith, / Where there is despair, hope, / Where there is sadness, joy.
When I read this, I immediately thought of the 50 people just…gone…in the wee hours of this morning, and those 50 people's families and friends who didn't see this coming and didn't get to say goodbye. This was not all my petit saint had to say on the matter, though. The prayer continued:
Oh Divine Master, grant that I / may not so much seek to be / consoled, as to console; / To be understood as to / understand; / To be loved as to love, / For it is in giving that we / receive, / It is pardoning that we are / pardoned / And it is in dying that we are / born into eternal life.
Over the course of this past year, I've been raked over the coals and cried until I could hardly see out from my swollen eyelids and felt like a failure and felt lonely and homesick and felt enraged. Over time, I've also felt rested and at peace and redeemed and loved and inspired and consoled and hopeful and daring. And through it all I have often asked for consolation through my writing and from my readers. I've desperately sought to be understood. I've asked to be loved.
I've only begun to emerge from the dark cocoon of grief and depression that has nipped at my heels for more than a year now. My rebirth has come from the wealth of support I've received, yes; but even more so, it's come from reaching outside of myself, even when I thought I wasn't strong enough to bear another's burdens in addition to my own. To console another in need, to seek to understand them, to love them, to give and to pardon–this may be the secret to happiness.
But now back to the news of the day.
The empathy pouring out from all around in response to the Pulse massacre is, I hope, muffling the din of reactionary rage to the horrifying sudden ceasing of life. But is that enough?
Is gun control the answer when a 29-year-old U.S. citizen legally purchases firearms to destroy so many lives? Let me phrase this differently: Did he open fire because he could legally acquire these firearms? Is it really so simple as that?
People don't shoot up clubs, movie theaters, schools, etc., because they can; otherwise, we'd all be crazed gunmen. So if it turns out to be true that this man ascribed to the deranged mission of ISIS, then what? Is that enough? Does that adequately explain how a baby grew ("he grew and he grew and he grew") until he was a nine-year-old boy and then a teenager and finally a grown up man that took away so much from so many people all at once? It's right that we're talking about guns. And we should also be asking why anyone would choose this path. And when it's not ISIS–because we've had a bevy of non-ISIS shooters–what then?
I have no answers, only a thin strip of wood with tiny painted words that softly urge me to love, to console, to give, to seek to understand, to pardon.
Three tea lights flicker in my lantern tonight accompanied by the high, mournful wails of peacocks in the highest branches of the nearby cottonwood trees. Tonight, as LGBTQ communities around the U.S. hold candlelight vigils, each flickering candle symbolizes hope in the midst of despair and love in the midst of hatred.


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Gardaí seek witnesses in relation to fatal road accident
Gardaí in Bundoran are appealing for witnesses to come forward in relation to a road traffic collision which claimed the life of a woman in Bundoran on Monday.
The incident took place at The Ross, Bundoran at approximately 3.50pm. The collision occurred on the N15 Bundoran Bypass when a car collided with a fence. The 82-year-old woman who was taken from the scene by ambulance to Sligo Hospital was pronounced dead en route. The road was closed to facilitate a forensic collision examination.
Investigating Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to contact them at Bundoran Garda Station on 071 9841203, the Garda Confidential Line, 1800 666111, or any garda station.


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External Beam Radiation Therapy
Radiation therapy, or radiotherapy, is one of the three main types of treatment traditionally used to treat mesothelioma. It is often used in combination with chemotherapy, surgery, or both, to maximize the effectiveness of all treatments. Radiation is made up of high energy particles capable of killing cancer cells. External beam radiation is the most common way to deliver this treatment. It involves aiming a beam of radiation at the tumor from outside the body. There are potential risks associated with this, but advances in research have made the technique more focused and safer.
Types of Radiation Therapy
Radiation therapy works by targeting tumor with high-energy radiation. This high-energy beam kills all types of living cells, both cancerous and healthy, but healthy cells rebound better. Even so, radiation can kill and destroy healthy cells, cause cancer in healthy cells and cause a number of side effects by damaging healthy tissue. Focusing the radiation on cancer cells is an important part of this therapy.
External beam radiation is one main type of radiation therapy. It refers to the use of external radiation, aimed at the part of the body that contains the tumor, to kill cancer cells. A machine, usually a linear accelerator, produces X-rays or another type of high-energy radiation, focuses it into a beam, and aims it at the right spot on a cancer patient's body.
The other type of radiation therapy is called brachytherapy and it involves placing a device inside the body that emits radiation. This small device is usually placed next to a tumor and may be put in permanently, or may be removed after a period of time. The radiation travels only a short distance and is focused on the tumor.
Types of External Beam Radiation Therapy
External radiation can further be subdivided into more specific types. Most of these are the result of recent advances in delivering external radiation more accurately and safely. Three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy involves using imaging scans to create a three-dimensional model of a tumor before treatment. This allows the medical team to use a computer to conform the delivery of the radiation to the shape of the tumor, which results in less radiation to healthy tissue. This can be made even more precise by modulating the intensity of the radiation.
Another type of external beam radiation uses a beam of protons, instead of the photons that are used with traditional radiation. This causes less damage to healthy tissue. Intraoperative radiation is radiation that is dosed to a patient during surgery. Electromagnetic-guided radiation uses the implantation of small transponders to guide radiation to the tumor.
How External Radiation Therapy Is Used for Mesothelioma
External radiation therapy is the most common type used to treat cancers, including mesothelioma. There are two main purposes when using this treatment for malignant mesothelioma: after surgery and for palliative care. After surgery, radiation is used to destroy any remaining cancer cells. Surgery is one of the most effective ways to eliminate mesothelioma tumors, but a surgeon cannot get every single cell out, especially those that cannot be easily seen. Using radiation after surgery, can effectively "clean up" the area and kill remaining cells. This has been shown to extend life expectancy in patients who underwent an extrapleural pneumonectomy.
As palliative care radiation has an important part to play for mesothelioma patients. When treating the cancer with the hope of remission or life extension is no longer possible, palliative treatments are used to help make the patient more comfortable. External beam radiation can shrink tumors to make breathing easier, to relieve pain, and to reduce swelling.
What to Expect
If you will be undergoing external beam radiation therapy to treat your mesothelioma, you can expect to go through several steps. The first is likely to be getting a checkup and examination from the radiation oncologist. Then you will probably need to undergo imaging scans, such as CT scans or MRIs, depending on the type of therapy your doctor will be using.
You may need to have ink placed on your skin to help technicians aim the radiation beam correctly. You may also be fitted to body molds to help you stay in the correct position during the treatment and to help guide the radiation beam. During the actual treatment you will be guided to the correct position, either lying down or sitting and probably with molds to help you stay in position easily. The technician or doctor operating the machine will leave the room and watch from a monitor or window as the beam of radiation is started. You will have to remain still, but it will not hurt and will only take about 15 to 30 minutes. You may go through several such sessions on different days.
Side Effects of External Beam Radiation
Radiation therapy may cause side effects, mostly temporary. The more guided types of radiation, such as three-dimensional and intensity-modulated radiation, minimize damage to healthy tissues, which helps to reduce side effects. Acute side effects that you may experience during and shortly after treatment include irritation, burning, and hair loss to the skin at the site of the radiation.
Commonly, patients undergoing radiation for any type of cancer will experience fatigue. Therapy to the chest area, as when treating pleural mesothelioma, can cause inflammation of the lungs. This can cause difficulty breathing, coughing, and other symptoms that may last several months and in some cases may be permanent. For peritoneal mesothelioma, radiation to the abdomen can result in harm to the bowels and bladder, which may lead to digestive issues or incontinence. Rarely, radiation therapy may cause a secondary cancer.
External beam radiation is an important part of a multimodal approach to treating mesothelioma. It can cause side effects, and possibly lasting damage to healthy tissue, but more advanced strategies for using external radiation, these risks are lowered. For someone with mesothelioma, radiation may be crucial in extending life after surgery or in making life more comfortable living with this cancer.
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- https://www.cancer.org/cancer/malignant-mesothelioma/treating/radiation.html
- https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/types/radiation-therapy/radiation-fact-sheet - q6
- https://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatments-and-side-effects/treatment-types/radiation/science-behind-radiation-therapy/how-is-radiation-given-external-beam-radiation.html
- https://www.cancer.gov/publications/patient-education/ebrt.pdf
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Ariana Grande Performs, Takes Home Moon Man at MTV VMAs
Broadway alum Ariana Grande, not only performed twice on this year's MTV Video Music Awards, but she also took home the Moon Man for Best Pop Video for her song "Problem," featuring Iggy Azalea. Check out her VMA winning video below.
In addition, Grande performed her song "Break Free" with Zedd, and opened the show with Jessie J and Nicki Minaj on the song "Bang....Bang."
Grande's magnetic charm, impressive voice, and astounding presence have enchanted millions of fans worldwide. Her first full-length album for Republic Records, "Yours Truly" debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200, Billboard Digital Albums chart, and iTunes Overall Albums chart. It yielded one of 2013's most defining songs, "The Way" featuring Mac Miller, which went double-platinum. Shortly after, she was named "Best New Artist" at the 2013 American Music Awards. The first single from her sophomore album, "Problem" featuring Iggy Azalea, saw her become the youngest woman to debut with over 400K sold in the first-week. In addition to ranking as the 4th highest digital song debut for a female artist and 8th highest ever, the platinum smash debuted at #1 in 65 countries, topping the iTunes overall Top Songs and Pop Songs charts for four weeks. Recent accolades include the 2014 People's Choice Award for Favorite Breakout Artist, Choice Female Artist and Choice Single ("Problem"), the Young Influencer Award at the iHeartRadio Music Awards and the Radio Disney Chart Topper award. Ariana Grande's latest album, "My Everything" will be available Aug. 25 on iTunes http://smarturl.it/ArianaMyEvrythnDlxiT.
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Sunday, 10 April 2016
Nature's Calling
15 comments:
- Lin said...
Oh, this is such a happy shade of blue, Karen! Swoooon!
- 10 April 2016 at 10:57
- Dotty Jo x said...
Stunning! I love the blues you've combined, Jo x
- 10 April 2016 at 11:07
- Virginia Lu said...
Gorgeous card, Karen! I am loving all the blue (as always)! GREAT textures and techniques! Thanks so much for playing Simon Says Stamp Wednesday "Happy Birthday" Challenge!
- 10 April 2016 at 13:18
- Dortesjs said...
this card is very beautiful
- 10 April 2016 at 15:57
- Lea Brawn said...
This is fabulous. Love the colour x
- 10 April 2016 at 16:04
- Ina G said...
Stunning result Karen. Love the bright colours.
- 10 April 2016 at 16:30
- shirley-bee said...
We're all smiling right along with you when you're using Distress Inks, a paintbrush and water, Karen! Great background for that pretty floral image. Thanks for playing along at Craft Stamper Take It, Make It!
- 10 April 2016 at 17:26
- Craftychris said...
Fab background for that gorgeous flower. Love the sentiment too! xxx
- 10 April 2016 at 18:51
- Jacquie Southas said...
Beautiful card, Karen! Thanks so much for sharing with us at the CASology challenge this week!
- 10 April 2016 at 21:57
- Aileen Ryan said...
Beautiful card Karen, love the colours you used. It all comes together perfectly. Sorry I'm not commenting on facebook. Facebook and my ipad are clashing and I cant comment except if I comment on someone elses comment and have to do it first go or nothing shows up in comments second time I open comments. Totally weird.
- 11 April 2016 at 04:23
- Hazel Hodgkins said...
That watercolour effect is very striking, Karen. Love those cool blue hues. Thanks for joining us at CASology this week!
- 11 April 2016 at 04:51
- Princess Judy Palmer said...
Lovely! You have the best greeting stamps to compliment your style of watery stamping.
- 11 April 2016 at 14:03
- Teresa Kline said...
wow, so very pretty! I am so glad you played along with us at simon says stamp wednesday challenge!
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sparkle & shine, kindness *~*
- 13 April 2016 at 20:15
- Tanja said...
love your watercolor stamping - thanks for sharing your creation at the STAMPlorations Mixed Media Challenge - I hope to see you again in our gallery
- 14 April 2016 at 01:39
- Linda said...
WOW!! This is simply stunning .... love the colours. Thank you for joining in with the Craft Stamper challenge xx
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Friday, June 20, 2008
Catching up with friendsI was catching up with a friend over msn just now and after talking, I realised that I have not been catching with many people for the past one year. Talk about being a true Kawan...
Missed talking to some of these kawans a lot. They brought many joy and revelations to my life.
I think these are people who really love God and serves God with me in this journey to the Lord.
I love my kawans and I wanna appreciate them more.. :)
So, what am I going to do now then?
I will write. watch out for this space then... ;p
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A magistrate has criticised a drink driver who was four times over the legal limit saying it was the worst case he had seen in 20 years.
Martin Lively, 29, of Otterburn Avenue, Whitley Bay was arrested after his Audi A4 crashed into a traffic light on Sandyford Road, Newcastle, at 8.30pm on January 8. He was found to have 153mg of alcohol in his breath, nearly four times over the legal limit of 35mg.
Magistrates' chairman Paul Nicholson said: "There is a high risk you will go to prison and you should be prepared for that."
Pleading guilty to the charge, Lively was given bail and ordered to return on June 19.


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How YouTube Wants To Make Itself More Nonprofit and Activist Friendly
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When The New York Times began its coverage of the revolution in Egypt last year, YouTube videos led its blog posts. One of the most interesting experiments in online education, Khan Academy, began as a series of YouTube videos. Google's video-sharing site continues to power Khan Academy's tutorials. And YouTube has been reaching out to nonprofits with products like branding capabilities that aren't publicly available, and a feature that allows nonprofits access to a Google Checkout-powered "Donate" button.
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By Alexander Pavlov
A few boxers were disapointed to learn that Marco Huck will retain his WBO cruiserweight championship. A few fighters, like mandatory challenger Ola Afolabi, thought Huck was going to vacate the belt or the WBO would possibly strip him of the title. On February 25th in Germany, Huck is moving up in weight to challenge Alexander Povetkin for the WBA's "regular" heavyweight championship.
"Huck came to us requesting the retention of his champion belt, despite the conduct of the fight in another weight division. We want to meet him. In this case, within ten days after the fight with Povetkin, Huck must decide whether he would continue his career at heavyweight or re-enter cruiserweight," the World Boxing Organization said in a statement.
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I Guds namn - S3-E8
Revealing mistake: After Beck has arrived at the coroner we see Margareta Oberg's body on a table. Looking closely you can see she's still breathing.
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A young girl with an undisclosed ailment is comforted by a nun who is her aunt in this symbolic, slow-moving drama. The action takes place in a clinic where the head doctor regards Christ as a subversive and a revolutionary. The victim's religious faith remains intact, even when she is on the verge of death as her aunt prays for her salvation. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
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A week ago, I wrote about a crappy All Saints episode, combined with Ifratah's complaint about how a perfectly good action heroine turned out to be a softie, which led me to believe that 99% of perfectly good tough-as-nails females have to turn out to be really a softie/insane/pathologically self-serving bitch.
We've done softies, with Ifratah's piece on La Femme Nikita. We've done pathological self-serving bitches, with All Saints. Now I'll do the complete loonie with Sharon Stone's character Sheila Carlisle from The Practice.
Sheila is introduced as a friend of Alan Shore's. She's a brilliant lawyer who's a bit eccentric; never mind, she's one of Alan's friends – one would assume that makes eccentricity a pre-requisite rather then an anomaly. In fact, someone once said that there is a fine line between brilliance and madness, so by that argument, geniuses are allowed to have some out-there ideas.
Sheila is put on a short leash by the saner, more dull partners of the firm, except then she finds an out-there case to take up; she's attempting to question Massachusetts's no-fault divorce laws when the wife of the man she's representing, a cold, promiscuous, pathologically lying bitch, is clearly at fault. Legally, she's backing the wrong horse. But she's a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant humanist, a brilliant orator; the kind of person who could convince a fair amount of people that Saddam is really just a little misunderstood. If anyone could talk themselves out of a corner, she can. In court, she shows a few of her eccentricity, but that's OK, because all brilliant people are a little crazy"¦
But then she goes too crazy. Another out-there client she picks up from somewhere has beheaded their dead mother and mounted the head. Sheila steals the head as a way of destroying evidence and is found staring raptly at the head, muttering about it's beauty. She's no longer a bit eccentric. She's outright insane.
Why is it that women can't just be brilliant and leave it at that? All the truly brilliant characters I've seen (at least the decent, fleshed-out ones) have had a little insanity to deal with; some, like John Nash in A Beautiful Mind, struggled with schizophrenia. Denny Crane from TP's spin-off, Boston Legal, is a legendary legal mind staring down the barrel of Alzheimer's. These men have their mental illness/deterioration treated with respect and sadness for something lost. But Sheila is just a nutcase to be shoved out the front door and made someone else's problem.
Are the (mostly male) writers of television unable to see a woman as brilliant without reducing her to being a nutcase? Are they unable to apply the balancing act of brilliance and insanity that they give to men, to women? Where was the writer that portrays Denny's battle with Alzheimer's with such respect, sympathy and regret, when it came to the show it was spun-off?
Or are all perfectly good tough-as-nails females really softies/insane/pathologically self-serving bitches?


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Jena 6 Member Re-Arrested– Bashes Student's Head On Table
It seems like just yesterday Bryant Purvis was flashing the "Jena 6" sign at the BET Music Awards…
"Jena 6" attackers Bryant Purvis and Carwin Jones flash the "6" sign at the BET Hip-Hop awards where they were guests of honor after they beat fellow student Justin Barker unconscious.
Today, Bryant Purvis was back in the news.
The Smoking Gun reported:
One of the "Jena Six" defendants was arrested yesterday for allegedly assaulting a fellow student at a Texas high school. Bryant Purvis, 19, was busted on the misdemeanor charge following an 8:30 AM altercation at Hebron High School in Carrollton, where his family relocated from Louisiana.
According to the below arrest warrant affidavit, Purvis assaulted a male student he apparently suspected of vandalizing his auto. Along with choking the 18-year-old victim, the 6′ 6″ Purvis allegedly slammed the teenager's head on a table. Purvis, pictured in the mug shot at right, was briefly jailed before being released on $1000 bond. Purvis and five codefendants were originally charged with attempted murder in connection with the December 2006 beating of a white high school student in Jena, Louisiana.
Just a few short months ago Bryant was given a standing ovation at the BET Music Awards after beating a white kid unconscious. This week, he was re-arrested.
The photo above shows Bryant Purvis and Carwin Jones of The 'Jena 6′ having a cool time at the 2007 BET Awards that aired on BET. This also shows the real victim Justin Barker in the hospital after he was beaten unconscious on Dec. 4, 2006 in Jena, LA by six black students. Barker, who was cold-cocked unconscious, was treated and later released from the hospital. The photo was released by the LaSalle Parish District Attorney's Office. (Sweetness and Light and AP)
BET Honors Black Kids Who Beat White Kid Unconcscious
More… BET Celebrates Black Kids Beating White Kids (Video)
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