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Chateau Beaucharm
Chateau with 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms in Bourbonne-les-Bains, France
From £959 per week
Chateau to rent in Bourbonne-les-Bains, France
Experience dreamy, unspoilt French countryside from this chateau in Haute Marne, where true peace reigns. Your stone 3 bedroom house is a private part of Chateau Beaucharm.
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Experience dreamy, unspoilt French countryside from this chateau in Haute Marne, where true peace reigns. Your stone 3 bedroom house is a private part of Chateau Beaucharm, from here you can wander the green gardens, meadows, streams, and forests uninterrupted.
The house drips with old style charm: beautiful wooden beams, tile, and stone. Eight guests can dine comfortably at each dining table (take your pick - inside or out). If you fire up the grill, you can dine al fresco surrounded by trees and hills. Nearby you'll find all manner of country activities besides hiking. You can ride horseback, play golf or tennis, or swim in the nearby lake.
The closest town is Bourbonne-les-Bains (6 km), known for its hot springs and spas - you'll also find several restaurants and cafes. Wine lovers will be in heaven here; Haute Marne is directly between Champagne, Burgundy and Chablis, three of the most famous wine regions in the world. You'll certainly want to pick up a bottle of bubbly when you visit Langres (35 km) - the cheese of the same name produced there has a concave cap meant to be splashed with Champagne.
The house is situated in a part of the castle with a private entrance and is both spacious and furnished with great care. All 3 bedrooms (3 double beds &2 singles) have their own adjoining, bathroom facility with shower, sink and WC. The beds will be made up for you on arrival with fresh, luxurious linens.
- Master Bedroom with super king size bed (180cm) and two single beds (90cm)
- Two Double bedrooms with king size beds (160cm)
The ground floor has a large, beautiful room (exposed beams and stone walls) that comprises a sitting area with fireplace, a dining area situated in front of a medieval fireplace with wood stove and a fully equipped kitchen with dishwasher, microwave, refrigerator etc. There is also a flat screen TV with HDMI cable.
The house sits within one hectare of private grounds, half of which is garden with several attractive spots to relax in. There is also a barbecue area and a ping-pong table.
The Haute-Marne lies in the south of the Champagne-Ardennes region, a beautiful and unspoilt area between Burgundy and the Vosges. The landscape consists of wooded trails in beautiful valleys where villages lie hidden. Although time has not completely stopped, this is how authentic French rural life felt. The Haute Marne is sparsely populated with only 30 inhabitants per square kilometre. It has a rich history dating from Roman times, including the spa in Bourbonne les Bains (just 6 km away) where you can relax for a day.
There are many villages, towns and castles that are well worth a visit. The medieval property sits at the edge of the hamlet and directly behind the house are the meadows, streams and forests where you can walk for hours without a human encounter. What you may encounter are the many animals that live here such as deer, foxes, boars, pheasants, partridges, martens, badgers, stoats, etc.
In the immediate surroundings you can enjoy many activities such as hiking, golf, tennis, pool, the lake (where you can swim, eat and row), thermal baths, casinos, horseback riding, restaurants, wine tasting and glassworks. Within about half an hour is Langres, a beautiful, historic walled town with renaissance houses.
Even golfers and lovers of art and culture are well catered for. Moreover, many villages organize an annual village festival and/or flea market. An hour drive away, both Dijon and Nancy are both well worth a visit.
Both the Champagne and Burgundy regions are known for their fine wines. If you appreciate wine it is a must to visit the wine route of the Grand Crus of Burgundy and visit the various wine cellars to taste and possibly to buy a bottle. Perhaps you'll open this wine during the Christmas meal and you'll think back to your holiday here.
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- 18 January - 21 June 2019: the minimum stay is 2 nights.
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- 31 August - 20 December 2019: the minimum stay is 2 nights.
- 21 December 2019 - 3 January 2020: changeover day is Saturday and the minimum stay is 7 nights.
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I can't make up my mind whether I'm Red Tory or Blue Labour. I'm a South Walian and so should be Red Labour, I suppose, but I can't be doing with all that Leftist identity politics drivel. My views are progressive in terms of wanting the State to use its powers to lift people out of poverty and increase social mobility, but conservative when it comes to marriage and family life, abortion, euthanasia, and so on. I'm a libertarian when it comes to free speech and don't believe that the law should be used to protect people from feeling insulted or having their views held up for ridicule. But I'm concerned that faith-based views are being squeezed out of the public square in an increasingly secular society. I think that it's only right that the wealthy should pay their fair share of tax rather than do all they can to avoid contributing to the public purse that funds valuable services like health and education. But I also believe in personal responsibility, and that well paid work rather than feckless benefits dependency is the best route out of poverty. Cameron's championing of the Protestant Work Ethic redux on last night's Question Time certainly struck a chord with me. But I don't feel like a Tory and Ukip's 'Little Englander' mentality certainly doesn't appeal.
As is the case with with many people who are not card carrying members of a political party, none of the mainstream parties wholly represent my views in all policy areas. Neither do any the fringe parties for that matter. I don't think supporting 'The Christian Party' is the answer. While believers should take an active interest in politics, government belongs to the 'common kingdom' where Christians rub shoulders with non-Christians, engaging in a whole range of cultural activities, and in which there is often no distinctly Christian take on things. It's no good trying to throw a proof text at whether or not the government should continue to pay its 2% of GDP subs to NATO, or to decide on whether LA maintained schools provide a better education than Academies or Free Schools. Yes, we are instructed to pray for rulers, 1 Timothy 2:1-4. But Paul's petitions concern the freedom of believers to live in peace and proclaim the gospel, not more purely political matters, like whether we'd be better off in or out of the EU.
I suppose it's about choosing the least worst option, having listened to what party leaders have to say, read the manifestos and taken local factors into account. The likelihood of another hung parliament only serves to complicate matters, as the compromise deals needed to garner support for a ruling party inevitably means that some manifesto promises will have to be dropped. Con-Dem, Con-DUP, Con-DUP-Ukip, Lab-Dem, Lab-Dem-Nat-Green, who knows what combination of parties the electoral arithmetic will serve up?
Anyway, I've pretty much decided who I'll be voting for on May 7th, but wouldn't presume to tell readers how they should cast their vote, bar saying that you'll need to use a stubby pencil to make your mark on a ballot paper in a polling booth near you. Glad to be of service.

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Watson surplus to series unless he can bowl
Shane Watson is an increasingly doubtful starter for the second Test in Adelaide after the team performance manager Pat Howard stated he would be surplus to Australia's requirements against South Africa unless he can prove himself fit enough to bowl.
In the most blunt declaration yet that Watson needs to retain his allrounder status in order to remain an integral part of Australia's planning, Howard stated that John Inverarity's selection panel had placed great store in the ability of batsmen to bowl, particularly when faced with a batting line-up as deep as South Africa's.
The selectors are currently discussing the composition of their squad for the Adelaide Test ahead of a likely announcement on Friday, and Watson cannot be expected to be considered unless he proves himself capable of bowling plenty of overs in the second match of the series.
Watson is understood to be thinking conservatively about returning to the bowling crease, making the Perth Test or even the Sri Lanka series that follows the South Africa Tests more likely avenues for his international return.
"Shane is progressing, if the Test match was tomorrow he wouldn't be playing, but he's progressing and I think when the team goes in on Sunday we'll have a far better indication of where he's at," Howard said in Brisbane.
"For different series there are different policies, there's a position the selection panel take. There are times over the past 12 months where he has been considered in both roles and sometimes as a batsman only, but very much at Adelaide they're looking to his bowling and his fitness around bowling, to see if he's capable of doing both.
"As you saw during the Test match the other day, a fair few bowlers were called on, and Shane's value to be able to do both is pretty strong. It would go against him significantly [if he can't bowl]."
In seeking to assess Watson's fitness, Cricket Australia had considered making him available to play for New South Wales in a domestic limited overs match against Victoria at North Sydney Oval on Sunday, but that possibility now appears remote. Instead Watson will need to show his ability to bowl in the nets, before following up with further training spells in Adelaide.
"The value and the balance of the team is what the selection panel talk about, it's the panel's call on how they come together on this," Howard said. "They assess all of that, the value of it, I know John Inverarity looks very much at what is our ability to bowl lots and lots of overs.
"We were in a pretty unique position the other day when Rob Quiney bowled for us and doesn't bowl for Victoria, so the ability for people to take up some bowling slack credibly is important. Without making it a Shane Watson conversation, the ability to take overs up was pretty well demonstrated in the first Test."
Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood can again be expected to be part of the team in Adelaide, even if the selectors choose not to change the bowling line-up that looked far more threatening in the second innings of the Brisbane Test than the first. Starc and Hazlewood are currently bowling for NSW against the Bushrangers in a Sheffield Shield fixture at the SCG.
"We had a fair few bowlers around the squad in the lead-up to the Test," Howard said. "Josh Hazlewood was there as well as Mitchell, so we're very much making sure guys are ingrained in the squad. We did that all last year, so we want that extra bowler around to get involved in the culture, and to make sure they're ready to do the job required."
Daniel Brettig is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets here


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The Empire Statesmen bring to life Frank Baum?s epic children's tales with their 2010 production entitled OZ: An American Fairy Tale.
The 2010 Statesmen will entertain audiences across the country as they present their interpretation of OZ in a dramatic and theatrical production that blends the sights and sounds of the epic fairy tale Statesmen style.
Incorporating music from the timeless classic film The Wonderful Wizard of OZ, Broadway's awarding winning musicals Wicked and The Wiz, the Empire Statesmen will take you on an incredible journey that tells the endearing story of Dorothy Gale, her journey to the magical land of OZ, her intense battle between good vs. evil, but most importantly that ?there?s no place like home.?
The 2010 Statesmen Design Team includes: David Bruni as Show Coordinator, Jerry Kelsey as Brass Arranger, Joe Guadagnino and Ted Mascari as Battery Arrangers, Kirk Gay as Pit Percussion Arranger, Matt Winans as guard designer/instructor and Sarah Cole as guard designer/co-caption head. Joining the design team this season is Statesmen alum Mark Rider as Visual Designer.
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Smiling Soul describes the Fourth Agreement as it was discussed in the workshop. She says:
Always Do Your Best
Not necessarily The Best. Only your best.
It is impossible to be perfect.
He doesn't want someone who is obsessed with perfection. Too much energy is spent with achieving your idea of perfection. Often there isn't enough energy for Him. She (slave namaste) was really into a Martha Stewart type of home. He didn't want that much time put into how a house looked perfect. He would often ask her to leave the dirty dishes in the sink or drink their wine in paper cups to teach her to put things into perspective.
I think we often are perfectionists and it could be to our demise; not only with our dynamics but in life, too.
"Hi, i'm aisha, and i'm a recovering perfectionist."
All that about "it doesn't have to be THE best, just your best…" Hmpf. Useless.
The website says:
"Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret."
And all i can think is, y'all don't understand. If you even say the "B" word, it sends a rush of anxiety right through me.
i can decide to clean the kitchen. i'll be cruising along, dishes all in the washer, wiping counters, then i get to the stove top. It's an ancient stove. The more i clean, the more i see wrong. i have an old toothbrush i keep for nooks and crannies. i'll clean with that for a while. But the deep, almost hidden dirt is still out of reach.
A toothpick. A toothpick with a bit of paper towel wrapped around the tip is just what i need. Now i can get to that finely hidden dirt…
and half an hour…
forty-five minutes later, i'm still cleaning the stove top. Trying to do "my best."
Thank goodness i don't have to do my best all the time. Sometimes, i just need it to be "good enough."
"Good enough" is actually a technical psychological term ~ no, i'm not kidding. D. W. Winnicutt developed the concept of the "good enough mother," and if you'd like to know more about it, this is a pretty good basic description of the concept.
Shorter version – if mothers were perfect, it wouldn't really be good for their children, they'd be totally unprepared for the real world. The goal is not to be your "best" all the time. We just need to be "good enough."
Seriously, if you're not familiar with Winnicutt's ideas, go read about it now… i'll wait.
Ok, wasn't that cool? So i try to apply the same basic idea to all aspects of my life. There is surely a "good enough" threshold for cleaning the stove. It's something short of my personal best, which would require almost endless scrubbing.
The truth is, for me, it's easy to go for "good enough" on most domestic chores. Not really an issue. It's more difficult in other parts of my life.
Work. Relationships. Even writing. Just think how crazy i could make myself. Do you realize that every single day i have dozens of opportunities ~ maybe hundreds of them ~ to do "my best" on something?
Conversations with staff. Endless emails. Sessions with clients. Meetings, many of which i facilitate. Paperwork. Every single one of those things has a goal, a purpose. Every single one of them is an opportunity to be done well or poorly.
Good grief.
Often, my "best" is limited by time anyhow, and sometimes i think i procrastinate so i don't have time to endlessly tweak and tinker with whatever i'm doing.
i wonder if part of the charm of submission is that when i let go of being in charge, i can let go of judging myself. Not ~ like dinner, where i don't actually know what He wants, that makes me anxious.
But when He's there and He tells me or shows me what He wants, i can fully let go. That's what training's about, isn't it? Learning to do it His way so i don't have to worry.
i know, i sound a little crazed for real today, don't i? Can't help it, this is where the idea of doing my "best" takes me.
So i don't care how many qualifiers and explanations you tack on to the B word, it still strikes me as overwhelming. Blood pressure up, heart pounding.
That's why i'm just not buying it. i won't commit to doing "my best." "Good enough" is good enough for me.
"Hi, i'm aisha and i'm a recovering perfectionist."


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They say the drive has been available since April 7, 2008.
I look forward to initial use scenarios and field reports. As a hardware junkie, I'd like to get the smallest model, but I don't know what I'd do with it (and no, I do not think using ioDrive for Firefox or MSIE cache can justify the investment.)
Related to press coverage of the product – storage investors remember where you first heard the prediction: "A new flash storage card from Fusion io could make huge storage area networks go the way of the dinosaur and DoDo bird." (Source: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34065/118/). It's that simple.
P.S. Off-topic: I wonder how many companies actually postpone announcements to skip April 1st? I'm saying this because the other day I saw that one storage vendor announced restated Q3/Q4 2007 results on April 2nd.


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The analysis of Medicare claims is the first population-based study to quantify the trend among hospitals to put general patient care in the hands of their own, full-time physician employees.
Led by James S. Goodwin, M.D., of the University of Texas Medical Branch, the researchers found substantial geographic variation in the practice.
In some regions, hospitalists accounted for more than 70% of general inpatient care, they reported in the March 12 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
"The odds that a hospitalized Medicare patient would receive care from a hospitalist increased by 29.2% per year from 1997 to 2006," they said. "By 2006, almost all areas of the U.S. were served by hospitalists."
Although the hospitalist trend has been widely embraced since its inception in the 1990s, "it was surprising to us how much it had grown," Dr. Goodwin said in an interview.
The researchers defined hospitalists as general internal medicine physicians who had at least five evaluation-and-management billings in a given year and generated at least 90% of their total evaluation-and-management billings in the year from services to hospital inpatients, according to data on a 5% sample of Medicare beneficiaries.
Because of that sample size, the five-billing threshold actually represents about 100 billings in the course of year.
Dr. Goodwin and colleagues found that the percentage of all internists identified as hospitalists more than tripled from 1995 to 2006, the last year for which data were available: from 5.9% to 19.0%.
The hospitalist trend appeared to be confined to internal medicine, the researchers said. Percentages of cardiologists, pulmonologists, gastroenterologists, and family physicians and general practitioners who met the hospitalist criteria changed little during the study period.
Hospitalists accounted for 9.1% of general internal medicine services provided to Medicare patients in 1995, rising to 37.1% in 2006.
The researchers found that hospitalists appeared to enjoy job stability. Some 66% of physicians defined as hospitalists in 2004 were still generating at least 90% of their Medicare billings from hospital inpatients.
The uptake of hospitalists was not spread evenly among geographic regions or types of hospital.
In 2006, the likelihood of receiving care from a hospitalist was dramatically greater in large versus small hospitals (OR 2.27 for hospitals of 500 beds or more, 95% CI 1.70 to 3.04; OR 1.88 for hospitals with 350 to 499 beds, 95% CI 1.46 to 2.44).
Major teaching hospitals were substantially more likely to use hospitalists than were nonteaching hospitals in 1995 (OR 1.77, 95% CI 1.33 to 2.37), but this difference had eroded to insignificance by 2006 (OR 1.24 95% CI 0.95 to 1.62).
New England and the Rocky Mountain states had the highest percentages of hospitalist care in 2006, with odds ratios of 3.70 (95% CI 2.50 to 5.49) and 3.42 (95% CI 1.47 to 2.70) respectively. The Mid-Atlantic region had the lowest degree of hospitalist use and served as the reference.
Dr, Goodwin and colleagues said their findings document "the dynamic nature of medical care in the U.S. in recent years."
A series of previous studies had also found sharp increases in hospitalist employment, but they were either survey-based with low response rates or geographically limited.
In an accompanying commentary, NEJM deputy editor Mary Beth Hamel, M.D., M.P.H., and two co-authors acknowledged that the hospitalist trend is well established and likely to continue.
But they also noted that the effects were not entirely positive.
"Although hospitalists provide important benefits, their involvement disrupts the continuity of care provided by the patients' primary care physicians, resulting in potential adverse effects for both patients and doctors," Dr. Hamel and colleagues wrote.
"When primary care physicians are not at the bedside of their acutely ill patients, valuable opportunities to deepen the patient-doctor relationship are missed."
The editorialists also fretted that the hospitalist movement is among the forces discouraging medical trainees from choosing primary care as a career.
"The well-intentioned efforts of many primary care physicians to make themselves more available to their outpatients and provide their inpatients with the benefit of doctors with expertise in hospital medicine may have reduced their own value in the eyes of their patients and, in some instances, decreased their job satisfaction," they wrote.
Dr. Hamel and colleagues suggested that there might be alternatives to the hospitalist model for improving efficiency and quality of inpatient care.
"Many practices have long used a system in which primary care physicians who are members of the group rotate as the inpatient attending physician," they said.
| The study was funded by the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center and the Center for Population Health and Health Disparities at the University of Texas Medical Branch.
- Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston
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New England Journal of MedicineSource Reference: Kuo Y-F, et al "Growth in the care of older patients by hospitalists in the United States" N Eng J Med 2009; 360: 1102-12.
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New England Journal of MedicineSource Reference: Hamel M, et al "The growth of hospitalists and the changing face of primary care" N Eng J Med 2009; 360:1141-42.


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NEW YORK, NY - Montclair State University Assistant Professor of English Jeffrey Miller discovered the oldest draft of the King James Bible, MSNBC is reporting.
During a broadcast, which aired on Sunday, Miller shares his insight with news anchor Alex Witt about the discovery of what is believed to be the oldest known draft of the King James Bible.
Miller says that he was asked to write an essay on Samuel Ward, a man who is believed to have translated the King James Version of the Bible. Miller told Witt that he happened upon the draft while doing research for his essay at Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge. Founded in 1596, Sidney Sussex is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England.
Witt was fascinated at how this discovery could have gone unnoticed for more than four centuries. Miller modestly responded saying, "There are new discoveries to be made all the time." He added that it had been miscatalogued as a commentary of the Bible and implied that people may not have realized what it was because of this.
A copy of the broadcast can be found here.


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Just read a funny article on etsy about zodiac. Which zodiac you belongs to?? I am a Libra!! Amazing that most of the characters are true and accurate except social events (actually I enjoy quiet atmosphere or gathering with just a few friends).
Libras (September 22 – October 23)
Governed by Venus, the planet of beauty, Libras are true connoisseurs of high culture: flowers, designer clothing, entertainment, art, fine food, perfume, social events and travel. Unyieldingly particular about what they will or will not bring into their homes, Libras are tastemakers who seek luxurious fabrics like silk and cashmere. They enjoy elegant prints and precious fine jewelry. Represented by the scales of balance, a Libra will find her emotional center with spa treatments and yoga, especially after a decadent night of dining and dancing. – from etsy


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Tai Chi is an ancient art that focuses on a philosophy of balance and harmony in all aspects of mind, body and spirit. Known as "moving meditation", it combines mental and physical benefits, for well-being and healthy ageing.
Tai Chi and Qigong are safe and gentle exercises that have been recommended by TCM practitioners for at least 3000 years. Still prescribed in Eastern medicine to treat high blood pressure, stress and mood disorders, digestive complaints, insomnia, and arthritis, Tai Chi has long been traditionally connected with enhanced well-being and health.
A relaxing, pleasurable form of moderate intensity exercise, Tai Chi is now being studied in the West for both prevention and treatment of cardiovascular, respiratory, musculoskeletal and neurological disorders. Many GPs are now recommending Tai Chi as a therapy for their patients.
In older adults, Tai Chi has been shown in scientific trials to be beneficial in improving range of motion, increasing flexibility, to decrease the risk, number and frequency of falls, improve arthritic symptoms and balance, improve pain and stiffness, to lower blood pressure, improve immunity (and help prevent shingles), and improve muscle strength and cognitive functioning.
Tai Chi has also been shown to slow bone mineral loss in older women, and improve pulmonary function in asthmatic children.
Tai Chi courses may lower HbA1c, a marker of blood sugar control in diabetics, through reducing body fat, particularly around the abdomen.
Regular practice of Tai Chi is associated with better quality and length of sleep duration. The time taken to fall asleep and the number of sleep disturbances are lessened. This may be explained through Tai Chi having also been shown to relieve depression and anxiety, reducing levels of stress hormones.
Tai Chi is an exercise that gives pleasure, relaxation and many health benefits, particularly in the middle and older years. As I've told my students through the years, no matter what's wrong with you, Tai Chi can help it! Find a class near you soon!
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On Sundays, Matins begin at 8:30am and Divine Liturgy begins at 9:30am unless otherwise noted.
Please refer to our Calendar Page for our monthly worship schedule
Sunday, January 20th
Matins 8:30 am
Divine Liturgy 9:30 am
Sunday, January 27th
Matins 8:30 am
Divine Liturgy 9:30 am
Sunday, January 20th 2019
Costa (Konstantinos) Kokinogoulis ~ 20 years
May Their Memory Be Eternal
*If you would like to have a memorial for a loved one, please forward the information to our office no later than the Thursday morning before the memorial is to be done. Thank you for your cooperation.
Ticket sales are closed for our upcoming New Years Eve celebration. We hope you will join us!
Please click here for information on our upcoming Challenge Liturgy. We hope you will join us!
Please click here to read Father John's Christmas Message.
The 4th Annual Godparents' Brunch will take place on Sunday, February 10th immediately following Divine Liturgy to benefit Make-A-Wish. Reservations are preferred. Please click here for more information!
Please click here for the 2018 schedule for Sunday School
If you wish to submit an absentee ballot for our upcoming parish elections, please follow the instructions on the Absentee Ballot, which you can find by clicking here. You can find the bios for the candidates by clicking here.
Beginning this fall, we are extending the day for those families who would like added flexibility or who are interested in these programs. You can learn more about Early Drop Off by clicking here or calling the Preschool office at 516-944-3184, and about our Afterschool program with Soccer Shots by clicking here.
Join us every 2nd Wed. of the month at 11 am or 7:30 pm for Book Club. This year's book: Beginning to Pray by Metropolitan Anthony Bloom, a modern spiritual master. This short classic explores how to live with authentic joy and peace, with themes like God's absence, facing boredom, going inward, seeking the divine, and managing time.
For more information, click here.
Join us every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month at 11 am or 7:30 pm for Bible Study. This year's book: Acts of the Apostles, in which we discover the radical life of the early Church. For early Christians, the Church didn't fit conveniently into established priorities of family, work, social, and so on; instead, Christ was the center around which everything was arranged.
For more information, click here.
Through the fellowship of the Church, certain parents discovered that a common thread binds them together, a child with autism. Through their faith, desiring to gather under the loving embrace of the church, these parents, using their God given creative energies have put together a monthly support group. This group gives the venue, through the life of the church, for parents to gather, to share, to discuss, to discover the fullest possibilities that exist for their children. As one parent so beautifully said, "I do not want to focus on their disability but on their ability."
For more information, click here.
Save the Date for the next AMC Cooking Club Class, Tuesday, October 16th at 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm. The AMC Cooking Club has been formed with the idea of sharing and documenting Hellenic recipes. the traditions which created them, and cooking together in the spirit of community, To date we have made and shared lenten dishes both sweet and savoty, tsourekia and a regional dish from Cyprus. Sessions are scheduled for either Saturday mornings or weekday evenings. Look for announcements in the weekly blast and each Sunday's Archangel's Call.
Our Philoptochos chapter is continuing our Feed the Hungry campaign through Help Feeding America. Your generous gift will help us share meals with Americans struggling with hunger through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger. If you wold like to participate please click on the link below:
$1=11 meals!! it's a no-brainer!
After the resurrection, Jesus appeared to the eleven disciples and gave them the authority to go and baptize all nations, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. He then said, "teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you."MT28:20
The church is met with a tremendous challenge in the digital and cirtual age to find the venue iin which God's children may be nurtured spiritually and grow in the knowledge of God.
When a child is born, the parents of love care for the physical wellbeing of their child. They feed the child. They clothe the child. They shelter the child. They educate the childe. If the parents fail in these areas, they would be considered negligent.
When a child is born spiritually through baptism, the soul, more so than the body, needs to be nurtured. The soul needs to be fed God through Holy Communion. The soul needs to breather through prayer. The soul needs to be sheltered in the Church. The soul needs to learn the teachings and the commandments of God.
There are many obstacles that continue to try and block this holy task commussioned unto parents by God when they committed to baptize their children, so that they may be called Christians. Sports, work, test preparations, travelling, spiritual laziness, being out late, driver's education and many other things often take priority to God. "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work." EX20:18
As you register your child, or consider registering your child for Sunday School, consider the holy commitment that parents have, to raise their children towards holiness, towards sanctity, towards the Kingdom of Heaven.
This year for Sunday School, two new components are being added. There will be a "Mom Dad and Me" program for children that are two years of age (dependent on interest). For more information, please click here. Also, boys that are in the third grade and above will offer once a month service to the altar.
The Sunday School Divine Liturgy has been implemented to teach the Sunday School students about the Divine Liturgy. If they arrive halfway through the service, they have lost all the opportunity to be engaged in the meaning of the Divine Liturgy. Everyone makes sure their children get to school on time and to their sport events; that they arrive at a Broadway Show on time. If this same good habit is transferred to arriving on time for the Divine Liturgy, great spiritual success has been accomplished.
"The medicine and great secret for children's progress is humility. Trust in God gives perfect security. God is everything. No one say I am everything. That cultivates egotism. God desires us to lead children to humility." The Elder Porphyrios (a newly made saint)
We are looking forward to a very enthusiastic, creative, and uplifting year! For our registration form, please click here.
We would like to congratulate all of the lucky winners of the 2018 Super Raffle. Thank you to everyone for your support!
|Ticket #
|Prize #
|John Dardis
|1st Prize
|Michele Lupo
|2nd Prize
|Teddy Papaioannou
|3rd Prize
|Martha Siringo
|4th Prize
|Al Danza
|4th Prize - B
|Jennifer Nelson
|5th Prize
|Evangelos Daskarolis
|6th Prize
|Arianna Koutsoubis
|7th Prize
|Mike Fastert
|8th Prize
|Chris, Mike & Athena
|9th Prize
|Maria Vlachos
|10th Prize
|Len Hirsch
|11th Prize
|12th Prize
|Douvres Boys
|13th Prize
|Matt Cipolla
|14th Prize
|Isidoros Karoutsos
|15th Prize
|DSJCPA - T Perrone
|16th Prize
|Joe Ruso
|17th Prize
|Linda Chondrogiannis
|18th Prize
|Alexandra Chondrogiannis
|19th Prize
|Harry Zuvekas
|20th Prize
|Dorothy Kalinowski
|21st Prize
|Sophia Haralampoudis
|22nd Prize
|Daniel Rodriguez
|23rd Prize
|Mahi Vasiliades
|24th prize
|Leonidas Maliagros
|25th Prize
|26th Prize
|Tom Maddox
|27th Prize
|Lillian Perilli
|28th Prize
|Georgia DiGirolamo
|29th Prize
|Katina Athineos
|30th Prize
|Chris Cappi
|31st Prize
|Tom Constance
|32nd Prize
|Stephanie Petins
|33rd Prize
|Karen Ernst
|34th Prize
|Christina Klepper
|35th Prize
|Joanne Sorletti
|36th Prize
|Anastasia Smith
|37th Prize
|Chris Frangopoulos
|38th Prize
|39th Prize
|Mike Memos
|40th Prize
|41st Prize
|Peggy Tsoumpariotis
|42nd Prize
|Sandy Petropoulos
|43rd Prize
|Peter Albert
|44th Prize
|Charles Trilivas
|45th Prize
|Paul Savidis
|46th Prize
|Peter Pantelias
|47th Prize
|Tom Briggers
|48th Prize
|Sean Collins
|49th Prize
|John Arianas
|50th Prize
We held our Hellenic Relief Benefit Dinner on February 27th. We received a message from the people our work supported:
For JOY Basketball schedules, please click here to visit the league website.
For GOYA Basketball schedules, please click here to visit the league website.
For directions to the facilities at which our athletic programs are hosted, please click here for directions.
Thank you to all who joined us to march down Fifth Avenue on Sunday, April 10th!
CALLING ALL ACTORS....Come join our new youth ministry, GAIA Theatre Group coming this October to Archangel Michael Church. The program will run from October 2016-June 2017 with 2 performances at the end of the year. The play will be in Greek and the children will enhance their language skills, be taught to act on stage by two very talented theatre individuals, gain confidence, and have a terrific time with their peers.
There is a limited space availability just 20 spots so please register this June to hold your spot for the Fall. Should we not receive enough participation from our community by June 30, we will reach out to the surrounding parishes and their Greek School programs.
For more information on the program, please click here.
For more information on the instructors, please click here.
To download the registration form, please click here.
There are a number of Archangel Michael Committees that are looking for volunteers. Use your talents and abilities to help make AMC a better place for all of us. It's the perfect way to get more involved.
If you are interested in learning more, please call Dora or Sandra in the Church Office at (516) 944-3180, or send an email to email@example.com.
We are seeking volunteer basketball coaches for all age groups for our Joy (ages 7-12) and GOYA (ages 13-18) teams.
Come and instill in our youth the importance of fellowship and sportsmanship with fellow Greek Orthodox Christians.
Coaches must be parishioners in good standing. For more information, including specific requirements, please contact John Halkias email@example.com.
We would like to post a list of all parishioners who have CPR/AED certification. Please contact the church office and provide your name and the expiration date of your certification. If you are certified in First Aid please indicate that as well.
The Archdiocese has launched its youth ministry site with its "Be The Bee" series. Click here to explore this terrific site—adults can learn from it too!
The goal of this program is to encourage all youth in our community to follow in the Archangel Michael tradition of philanthropy and outreach. AMCares creates hands-on opportunities for our children, ages 8-18, to come together and organize special fundraising events throughout the year with adult supervision. AMCares supports the programs that teach the importance of volunteerism and that continue to encourage our youth to give some of their time to worthy causes. The group will focus on philanthropies that aid those in need enabling them live with dignity, respect, and hope. Our projects have included the collection of hygiene items and school supplies, canned food drives, donations of uniforms to disadvantaged children, and participation with other AMC organizations in "Feed the Hungry" initiatives. Please join or have your child join our growing organization. AMCares may be reached at email@example.com.
On Saturday, May 10th, at 7:30pm, we hosted rising vocalist and performer, Betty Harlafti, for A Concert Dedicated to Mothers at Archangel Michael Church. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Saint Michael's Home for the Aged. This concert was in collaboration with the Orpheus Foundation for Greek Music and the Arts. Thank you to all who attended!
We offer instructional basketball clinics on Saturday mornings to teach and reinforce fundamentals of the game. All players of all skill levels are invited and encouraged to attend. Click here for the Church Calendar and come play!
We offer competitive basketball in leagues sponsored by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America for HOPE, JOY and GOYA-aged athletes. Registration begins in September with practices and team assignments, and league play begins in December, culminating with playoff and championship games in the spring
Our youth participate in the spirit of healthy competition and Orthodox sportsmanship and learn from our dedicated volunteer coaches. Last year, nearly 200 players and 15 teams participated in our basketball programs, and we look forward to welcoming even more this year!
We also have volleyball and soccer teams. Please email
After almost a year of planning, our 2nd Annual Festival on the Harbor has come and gone. However, for many of us the memories will be long lasting—and thankfully there are plenty of photos to remember the good times had by all on the Festival's Facebook Page. As co-chairs of the 2012 Greek Festival on the Harbor, we were honored to work shoulder to shoulder with the more than 350 volunteers from the Archangel Michael community (up from 250 volunteers last year); and based on the monies raised for the Capital Campaign and the feedback we have received, this year's Festival was a phenomenal success!
Despite more than 2 inches of rainfall on Friday evening and Saturday morning, the weekend was salvaged with good weather on Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Also for the second year, the Port Washington Police Department estimated that we had close to 15,000 visitors on Saturday alone—that's astounding. And more astounding is how we handled those crowds serving thousands of Souvlaki, Gyro, Haloumi, Loukoumades, Pastries, Coffees, Beers and Wines, with volunteers that do this once a year. And the feedback was very positive on how the lines moved fast, the food was served hot and tasted excellent. We should all be very proud of these accomplishments.
We are pleased to share with you a small sample of the feedback we received almost immediately after the Festival came to an end…it's apparent that we took what we learned in 2011 and made great improvements—and we are already making plans for 2013.
"It was an Incredible festival! It is a privilege to be part of the amazing & dynamic AMC family! It warmed my heart to see all parishioners working diligently for our common goal......our church!"
"Congratulations to the entire Archangel Michael family for coming together in such an impressive fashion."
"Once again a phenomenal effort by our Festival Committee and all involved!"
"I felt the spirit of camaraderie that is seldom felt when so many people with opinions get together. Each and every person was there for a common goal and it showed in our ability to get the food out and never get frustrated or flustered."
It's only fitting that we wrap up the 2012 Festival with a sincere thank you to each donor who gave big or small and to every volunteer who worked for one hour or tirelessly for three days straight. For all your time, energy, efforts, gifts, abilities, hard work, donations and prayers, please accept the thanks and appreciation of your community and us personally. We will see you once again next year!!
With sincere gratitude,
Peter Stavrinos & Michael Psyllos, Festival Co-Chairs
Thank you to everyone for supporting, volunteering and attending our Festival! On September 28th, 29th and 30th we hosted our second "Greek Festival on the Harbor" and it was a tremendous success! We will be posting photos and updates in the coming days!
We are already looking forward to next year!
Our JOY basketball teams need your coaching expertise! If you are interested in coaching, please email Tommy Dimopoulos, Athletics Director at email@example.com. You do not have to be parent or have a child in the JOY program to coach.
Our JOY/GOYA soccer teams also need your help! We are looking for adults who are willing to coach boys or girls ages 7-9, 10-12, 13-16. The season began in mid-September. Please call Nick Kokinakis at 516-365-1028.
The interior work of our sanctuary is close to completion! The elevator and choir loft railing are awaiting parts for completion. We will soon be submitting our Public Assembly Application to the Town of North Hempstead for approval and will be requesting the sanctuary be added to our existing Temporary Certificate of Occupancy. Work on the interior of the chapel continues as scheduled with the interior walls receiving their first coat of paint. Iconographer Athanasios Clark is expected to finish the Platytera and the Communion of the Holy Apostles in early fall.
We are happy to report that the work on the gym is progressing according to schedule with completion anticipated before the end of the year!The remaining decking will be completed shortly, with the roofing to follow. Soon after, the exterior brick will also be installed. The masonry on the north wall has been installed and the framing will be completed as well. All electrical, air conditioning, heating and plumbing will follow.
Once the gym equipment proposal has been reviewed by the contractor, the manufacturer will be contacted. When the order is then placed, the manufacturer will submit shop drawings to the architects for the final approval of the basketball hoops and structures.
To be a Christian means to be a part of the Church, which enables us to practice our active commitment to our belief in God and to acknowledge Christ in our way of life.
The Church is the Body of Christ on Earth, the fellowship of the faithful. Its parishioners worship together and help one another learn and practice the faith. With the help of God and each other, we seek to become better Christians.
Since the very beginning, the Greek Orthodox community of Archangel Michael has worked together, diligently and unselfishly, to become the "Ecclesia," an expanded family that receives its blessings from Almighty God.
While striving for this goal, we offer a full program of activities for our community, and encourage all members to participate as actively as they can.
We invite you to join us in His work!
Please consider supporting us in the completion of our beautiful sanctuary. Items are available for donations of various levels and may be made in honor or in memory of a loved one. Please click here for our entire Book of Needs, or explore below to review remaining gift opportunities.
Book Of Needs
|Gift Opportunity
|Gift Amount
|Stained Glass Windows Located in Hallway
|$15,000 each
|Two Carved Marble Balustrades on the Solea in front of the Altar
|$12,000 each
|Synthronos (Bishop's Throne in the Altar Area)
|Chanter's Chairs
|Two Baptismal Fonts (Wood Carved with Marble Top)
|$25,000 each
|Altar Area
|Five Carved Wood Icon Stands
|$4,500 each
|Chalice, Paten and Veil Covers
|$750 per set
|Acolyte Robes
|$500 per robe
|Lighting Fixtures for Church, Narthex, Colonnade & Foyer
|Byzantine Style Sconces for Colonnade Area
|$1,500 each
|Byzantine Style Flushmount Fixture for Narthex Area
|$3,500 each
|Byzantine Style Semi-flush Mount Fixtures for Under Balcony Area
|$3,000 each
|Byzantine Style Sconces for Church Area
|$1,500 each
|Byzantine Style Two-Tier Chandelier for Chapel
|$5,000 each
|Byzantine Style Semi-flush Mount Fixtures Library
|$2,000 each
Fr. Dennis Strouzas celebrated the 40th anniversary of his ordination to the deaconate on July 1, 2013, and to the priesthood on July 29, 2013. We want to express our Congratulations and Best Wishes. "ΠΑΝΤΑ ΑΞΙΟΣ"
Fr. Dennis(Dionysios) was born in Chicago, Illinois to Peter and Mary Strouzas. He spent most of his early years in Chicago among family and friends. He graduated from Lane Tech, attended the University of Illinois and worked for Continental Airlines. He loved playing basketball and listening to music.
He served in the altar at St. George Greek Orthodox Church where his grandparents, parents, brother, aunts, uncles and cousins were active members. His true love for Christ and the Church was nurtured from a very young age by his family and Fr. Rexinis, his parish priest.
In some mystical way, he was drawn to Hellenic College and Holy Cross Theological School where he continued his education and received his Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Divinity degrees. While at Holy Cross Seminary he did field work with Fr. Kallistos Samaras (the late Bishop Kallistos of Blessed Memory) at St. Catherine's Greek Orthodox Church in Quincy, Massachusetts. Fr. Kallistos became his spiritual father and mentor.
Fr. Dennis and Presvetera Paula met at St. Catherine's Church and were married at Holy Cross Chapel. Fr. Dennis was ordained to the deaconate at St. Catherine's Church on July 1, 1973, and to the priesthood at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Oaklawn, Illinois, on July 29, 1973.
He served St. Nicholas in Oaklawn for four and a half years and St. Nektarios in Palatine, Illinois for six years. He also served as Youth Director and Camp Fanari Co-director for the Chicago Diocese.
Fr. Dennis came to us at Archangel Michael Church on March 1, 1984 and has been our spiritual father for 29 years. His love, faith and compassion have touched all of us. We thank God for sending him to us.
Fr. Dennis was elevated to the rank of Protopresbyter on April 24, 2015. He celebrated his final Divine Liturgy as Proistamenos on June 30, 2016 and retired as of August 31, 2016. Fr. Dennis and his family will continue to be a part of the AMC Community and we are blessed to have him and his family with us.
We pray that the Lord will continue to bless Fr. Dennis and his family always.
The Archangel Michael Preschool invites you and your preschooler to our "Open House" on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 10:00a.m. Come meet the teachers and parents and become familiar with our programs and new facilities including a new enclosed playground and equipment. Please spread the word to your families and friends!
The Preschool offers the following programs:
Mommy & Me (Ages 18 months-3 years)
Toddler Program (Ages 2-3)
Nursery (Ages 3-4) 9am-1pm
Pre-K (Ages 4-5) 9am-1pm
The School Board is happy to welcome Mrs. Nicoletta Gargas as Co-President, Mrs. Chris Ioannou as a NonParent Board Member and Mrs. Mahi Vasiliades as Treasurer. We thank the aforementioned ladies, the parents of our students, the Teachers, Principals and our Spiritual Leaders, Father Dennis and Deacon Nikolas for their dedication and commitment to our community and the education of our children.
Over the past few months, the Archangel Michael Church's website has been under construction. In order to update this site and let people know about the various ministries and organizations of the church, we will frequently be adding photos, text and links. If you wish to opt out of the possibility that we might include your child's photo on our church website, please click here to read more and fill out the opt-out form.
We look forward to another fabulous year in GOYA! September begins with Welcome Back Sunday, our Ice Cream Social, and our first meeting (click here for the Church Calendar). We have many great events planned including service and outreach activities, continuing our "Feed the Hungry" program for the Interfaith Nutrition Network (INN) in Hempstead, and new outreach events combined with Philoptochos and other church organizations. We will also have a lot of fun at our Inter-GOYA dances, trips, and retreats!
We welcome all new and returning GOYAns to attend these events and learn about the activities and events ahead.
GOYA also offers participation in organized basketball and soccer leagues through the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. Click here for more information.
Please contact firstname.lastname@example.com with any questions!
The Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF) is the official campus ministry of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. OCF is a growing ministry, vital to young adults who are looking for an Orthodox Christian community while in college. Visit ocf.net and navigate the site for registration, a list of campuses, available resources and retreat/event opportunities in the U.S. and abroad.
For GOYAns going off to college, please let us know where you are going so we can connect you to a campus ministry. Please call the church office at (516) 944-3180.
The Troupe meets on Saturdays throughout the school year and welcomes children from Kindergarten through 12th grades.
Class times are as follows:
Group A (Grades K-3): 9:30-10:30am
Group B (Grades 4-7): 10:30-11:30am
GOYA Group (Grades 8 & up): 11:30am-12:30pm
The troupe was also featured in the Hellenic Voice NY newspaper. The article can be viewed here.
Mrs. Roula Zogopoulos has been serving the Hellenic community since her teen years. As a graduate of St. Demetrios High School of Astoria, Mrs. Zogopoulos developed a deep rooted passion for her heritage which propelled her to share her knowledge with our children and adults. Her dance training began in early childhood and continued professionally throughout college. She is versed in many genres of dance and earned her Bachelor's Degree in Drama Theater & Dance and Sociology from Queens College where she was awarded the Farah Marcellus Award for Outstanding choreography.
Mrs. Zogopoulos is also a classroom educator having earned a Master's of Teaching Degree in Elementary Education from Queens College in 2000. Her experience encompasses having worked in public as well as private schools. She has worked for the Archangel Michael Church since 1999 as the Dance Troupe Educator and Artistic Director, as a Kindergarten Greek school teacher, and as the afternoon school Greek Dance educator. Additionally, she shares her extensive experience with our Preschool teaching the Toddler class and Creative Movement & Music.
Mrs. Zogopoulos loves the Archangel Michael Community having served 18 years as an educator and creating countless opportunities for our children to be immersed in rich Pan-Hellenic opportunities such as the Archdiocese Parathosi Dance Competition, The Ronald McDonald House Greek Division Walk-a-Thon and the Timarete Festival. She is currently also a Greek dance educator at the Academy of Hellenic Paideia where she teaches both children and adults. She continues to dance professionally with her own Academy Dance Troupe.
Mrs. Zogopoulos is also very compassionate towards children and involves our AMC families in her fundraising efforts towards the Ronald McDonald House, The Greek American Mother's Association and the Cura Orphanage. She is married to Chris Zogopoulos and they have two sons, Yanni and George.
Please consider joining Philoptochos! Click here to download the registration form.
We hope that everybody had a wonderful summer and that you will be joining us for our exciting forthcoming events.
June, 1980—Organization meeting
February 15, 1981—Fr. P. Nicholas Papageorge celebrates the first divine liturgy
September, 1981—Greek Language Institute
December 20, 1981—Naming of the church
July 1, 1982—Fr. Christopher Metropoulos becomes the first full-time priest
March 1, 1984—Fr. Dennis Strouzas becomes third full-time priest
December 21, 1986—Dedication of Iconostasis
November 1990—10th Anniversary
2000—Fr. Jim Kordaris joins as second priest
February 2003—Fr. Sean Govostes becomes new second priest
August 6, 2004—Closing on the purchase of Port Washington property
September 9, 2006—Fr. Evan Evangelides assigned to AMC
September 25, 2006—Liturgy in honor of Groundbreaking celebrated at new property by His Emminence Archbishop Demetrios
August 2, 2009—Final Divine Liturgy at Roslyn Heights church is celebrated
August 6, 2009—Closing on the sale of Roslyn Heights property
October 4, 2009—First Divine Liturgy in Port Washington celebrated in Fellowship Hall/Temporary Church
June 2011—Fr. Evan is assigned to Church of Annunciation in Stamford, CT
August 1, 2012—Deacon Nikolas Karloutsos and Diakonissa Meghan are welcomed to AMC
December 22, 2012—Ordination of Fr. Nikolas Karloutsos to the Holy Priesthood
December 22, 2012—Thyranixia or "Opening of the Doors"
2013—Gymnasium completed
April 24-25, 2015—Consecration
June 26, 2016—Fr. Dennis Strouzas celebrates his final Sunday Divine Liturgy as Proistamenos of AMC
June 30, 2016—Fr. Dennis and Fr. Nikolas celebrate their final Divine Liturgy together on the Feast Day of the Holy Apostles. Fr. Nikolas is reassigned to the Church of the Assumption in Danbury, CT
June 30, 2016—Retirement of Fr. Dennis Strouzas
July 1, 2016—We welcome Fr. John Lardas, Presbytera Eleni and their family to AMC. Fr. John celebrates his first Divine Liturgy as AMC Proistamenos in the Chapel for the feast day of Ss. Cosmas and Damien
July 3, 2016—Fr. John Lardas celebrates his first Sunday Divine Liturgy at AMC
August, 2016—We welcome Deacon Joshua Pappasand Diakonissa Joanna to AMC. Deacon Joshua was ordained to the Holy Diaconate on August 7, 2016


text: The first of your sensory experiences is that awesome smell that greets you on arrival. Is that garlic roasting or the scent of fresh dough baking in the oven that's making your mouth water? You're overwhelmed with that stimulating sight; the pure pleasing picture of your pizza just coming out of the oven – you're mesmerized! You just keep looking at it because it's so pretty – you're not sure you even want to cut into it! You cannot wait any longer – your patience fades and you indulge your taste buds with the wonderful bursts of warm, fresh flavors that dance in your mouth. Yes, you've just fallen in love – pizza love – also known as PizzAmore'!


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Seasonal rains finally began making their way into the Southeast in late July, but they didn't do much to improve the long-term drought problems in the region, according to the final report of July from the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Stream flows and deep soil moisture were lower than at the same time last year, even with more precipitation being recorded. An area of severe drought was expanded in the northwest and southeast portions of Alabama in late July because of continued record or near-record low stream flows.
In Georgia, exceptional drought returned to the northeast portion of the state and continuing dry weather spread drought conditions to the southeast, according to David Stooksbury, state climatologist.
Although scattered thunderstorms brought some relief to drought-parched Georgia during July, allowing plants to show some recovery, the relief was localized, he says, and the rains were not enough to halt dropping stream flows across most of the state.
Many streams are at or near record low flows for late July, says Stooksbury.
"Exceptional drought conditions now are occurring north and east of a line from Wilkes to Oglethorpe to Clarke to Jackson to Hall to Lumpkin to Union counties, inclusive. This includes 16 counties in northeast Georgia," he says.
"Exceptional" is the worst drought designation used by the U.S. Drought Monitor. During exceptional drought, many of the drought indicators are at levels seen only once in 50 to 100 years.
Extreme drought conditions remain in 13 counties of north Georgia: Fannin, Gilmer, Dawson, Forsyth, Gwinnett, Barrow, Walton, Oconee, Morgan, Greene, Taliaferro, Wilkes and Lincoln.
Severe drought conditions exist north and west of a line from Echols to Lanier to Berrien to Irwin to Ben Hill to Wilcox to Pulaski to Bleckley to Twiggs to Wilkinson to Washington to Jefferson to Burke counties, inclusive. This includes 96 of the 159 counties in Georgia.
Across northeast and southwest Georgia, almost all streams are at or near record low flows for late July, says Stooksbury.
"Many streams are below the 7Q10 level of flow. The seven refers to the seven-day stream flow, the 'Q' is quantity and the 10 refers to 10 years," he explains. "Thus, the current 7Q10 level is the lowest consecutive seven-day stream flow expected to occur once in 10 years."
When stream flows fall below the 7Q10 value, there are concerns about environmental quality and a stream's health, he adds. It is very common that stream withdrawal and discharge permits are based on 7Q10.
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Hello all...
Been pretty much busy in RL with the wedding and the honeymoon... But I got the time to be in a few pictures either by myself or by others. So since I am quite lazy I'll post them all here for your enjoyment.
Harley Queen (Katina Cazalet), CatWoman (me) and Joker (Hoobs)
Who has the most magnificent cunt of all? Starring Katina Cazalet (Snow-White) and me (Maleficent)
I also had the chance to pose for Woozer a few times along with Katina, Envy, Kei and Lord
Then this shooting went totally crazy
And even worse after that
After all it was a Happy Ass Day (with Kat and Seren)
I also posed a few time with Kat in our crazy stupids ideas!!! But you will have to wait to see those... Until she gets inspiration!
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Heading for North America
As I'm sure you've noticed I haven't posted anything in a while. Yes, I know, bad Ken. I could give you lots of reasons and excuses for not having done so, but I won't. I'll be seeing many of you shortly and I've been working hard at making that happen. Eventually, I will be posting many many pictures from Seoul that I took this past fall.
Speaking of Seoul, for those that don't know, I'll be returning here for another year of teaching. There are many things I'm looking forward to in this next year, not the least of which is experiencing another beautiful fall.
As most of you currently are caught in the death grip of winter I've but one thing to say; "GROW UP!" Or don't for that matter. Winter is a fun and beautiful time. You know you used to like it as a kid. So, pull your took (Canadian for stocking cap) out of that certain place where the sun don't shine and pour yourself a nice cup of coco and go for a walk in the pristine snow and enjoy the beauty and simplicity of it all. :-)
For those of you that do enjoy winter, well, I raise my coco to you in a hardy toast and with great resounding I say, make lots of snow balls and share the joy. :-) eh eh eh Just make sure the sharees don't recognize who you are or you may be sharing more joy than you bargained for. :-P
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But, in my review of 2012 mash-up video's (that*fingers crossed* will actually appear in the article before YouTube yanks them for rights issues), I've found the work of Kees van Dijkhuizen jr. and Joel Walden, both of whom are doing wonderful video summations of directors' canon.
Here is Dijkhuizen's masterful look at Spielberg's work.
And Joel Walden's very clever summation of Darren Aronofsky's career (so far).


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As the rule of Islam spread beyond the borders of Arabias, Muslim rulers found it impossible either to convert the entire population or to exterminate the whole. The solution was found by admitting the non-Muslims to the status of Zimmis. Zimmis are those non-Muslims whose life is held under a contract. Jizia tax(a capitation tax/head tax imposed on free non-Muslims living under Muslim rule) used to be imposed on non-Muslims as a punishment for their unbelief and in order to humiliate themJizia tax is back.Now this Jizia tax is back into action.
HANGU: Sikh families living in Orakzai Agency (Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan) have left the agency after the Taliban demanded Rs 50 million as jizia (tax) from them, official sources and locals said on Tuesday.
Residents of Ferozekhel area in Lower Orakzai Agency told Daily Times on Tuesday that around 10 Sikh families left the agency after the demand by the Taliban, who said they were a minority and liable to pay the tax for living in the area in accordance with sharia.
Locals said the Taliban had notified the Sikh families about the 'tax' around a week ago. They said of the 15 Sikh families in Ferozekhel, 10 had shifted while the remaining were preparing to do so.
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Among people competing for the various annual awards, one of the most popular topics of conversation is: OK, let's say I am the winner--what then?
Of those who believe they deserve the recognition (which is all of them) only those who have already received one of the honors know that the little statue at the top of the mountain doesn't really hold more career opportunities, more money, more love or better sleep at night. Which is okay, because the real payoff is something more valuable than all those things combined: the admiration of your peers. After a lifetime of being ignored, denied, rejected and invalidated, to have your hard work acknowledged at last means that you can go back to liking yourself again.
But some odd things can happen at the top of the mountain. Celebrity, for example, when the artist becomes the object of that admiration instead of the art.
The nominees for Record of the Year at the 17th Annual Grammys ceremony held on March 1, 1975, were:
Elton John - Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
Roberta Flack - Feel Like Making Love
Joni Mitchell - Help Me
Olivia Newton-John - I Honestly Love You
Maria Muldaur - Midnight at the Oasis
Of the five nominees, only one of the songs failed to survive the 1970s. Four of the five got admitted to the big circus tent of "classic rock," which by now includes nearly any popular music (aside from gutbucket blues or straight-ahead jazz) written in 2/2, 2/4, 4/4 or 6/8 between 1955 and 2005, from jump blues to rockabilly to soul to R&B to rock & roll to folk rock to hard rock to progressive rock to grunge to whatever you call what Beck does. It includes every related musical form--from the sharpest on the edges to the smoothest in the middle--once played on AM and FM radio stations and now on their internet equivalents.
That song that was left behind won the Grammy in 1975 for Record of the Year. It was the sort of marshmallow-soft confection that no one ever seems to claim association with in retrospect. Call it pop, short for "popular," or pop as in the sound bubblegum makes when it deflates on contact with anything solid or pointed.
Throughout the wryly improvised shtick during their 1975 presentation of the award, John Lennon and Paul Simon heap the sarcasm and inside jokes on one and all while reading a bit of forced cleverness from the cue cards. But seen through the filter of our current age's obsequious political correctness, their unscripted cynicism and snideness about the evening's proceedings can be difficult to read. More difficult still, when Lennon finally announces that "I Honestly Love You" is the winner, and Art Garfunkel inexplicably comes out of the audience to accept the Record of the Year Grammy for Newton-John and her producer, John Farrar. The scene feels so surreal that Fellini would ask for a re-write.
It was a meeting of the Sgt. Pepper's No Love Lost Lonely Hearts Club.
Garfunkel and Simon had unhappily split up an act formed in high school just months after releasing their Bridge Over Troubled Water, for which they eventually accepted six Grammys and sold 25 million copies (by far their most successful album). In the same year as that notorious dissolution, 1970, John Lennon had of course sundered his famous relationship even less amicably with his mates Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. And four months after bidding adieu, the most artistically and commercially successful band in history posthumously released one of their most successful albums, Let It Be.
Learning to Let It Be
On the same day when that final Beatles album hit the streets, a documentary film of the same title was released. Produced by Apple and directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and filmed throughout most of January in 1969, it captures the agonies and ecstasies, the realities and unrealities, and the essential tedium of making a recording. Warts and all. It is probably the first time anyone had ever attempted to make such a document, and it succeeded so brilliantly that no one is ever likely to do it again.
In addition to the expected scenes of songwriting, jamming, rehearsing, improvising, arguing and clowning, the filmgoer is shown the grind of the long, long hours, the ill tempers, the artistic labyrinths, the endless cigarettes and cups of tea. We get to see the dynamics of a real, old-fashioned working band: four people who had ridden in the back of a van along with their equipment, stacked on top of each other like cordwood in order to keep warm on the trip to Hamburg; four people who had eaten, lived, and breathed the music together, non-stop, for ten years. And we are afforded the rare opportunity of peering under the surface at many of the qualities that defined the Beatles, the most uniquely gifted musicians of their generation, and how they produced music in the studio.
Paul McCartney and his charismatic personality had provided the de facto leadership of the band since Brian Epstein's death in 1967. Despite Epstein's strong presence and skilled management, and the respect he commanded from all the Beatles, he had failed to get them to perform live for nearly a year; after his death, the boys were inclined to hang it up altogether. So from that day forward, McCartney cajoled and wheedled them into carrying on, kept them moving forward one day at a time. His often pedantic approach is on full display in the film, as well as Lennon's loyal, vocal opposition and Harrison's introversion in the long shadows that those two cast, plus Starr's somewhat detached but rock-steady presence in the corner.
It wasn't a bed of roses. Camera-shy George Harrison wanted to get rid of the cameras and forgo the whole idea of doing a film. Family man Paul McCartney slightly breached the musician's creed of protected isolation at the recording studio by having his wife and daughter drop by, probably in response to Lennon's flagrant breach of letting Yoko Ono settle down next to him as though she were a participant in the session. Ringo looks alternately disgusted and stoically resigned to it all. And for the first time a guest artist, in the person of Billy Preston, was publicly employed as a participant in a Beatles recording session, though many others had done so anonymously over the years.
Lindsay-Hogg cut out much that deserved expurgation and even more at the Beatles' request, including footage of a short period during which Harrison resigned from the band and the others discussed who to replace him with. But the band had been unraveling for some time--even happy-go-lucky Ringo had quit the band for a while the year before; Lennon would tell the others of his decision to leave the band later in September, after which McCartney would retreat to a home studio and begin quietly recording a solo album.
I'm sure a few scenes that remain in the film are still somewhat unpleasant for the way they remind the surviving participants that those final days as a band were difficult. But as usual, despite all the drama and chaos, the band was as creative and exacting in their approach as ever. Lennon's later claims--that the studio tapes' substandard quality was the reason he had hired Phil Spector to do extensive post-production work on what Glyn Johns and Alan Parsons had recorded--could well be true, but start to finish everything in the film, from the rehearsals to those last live tunes filmed and recorded on top of the Abbey Road studios, documented a masterful chapter in their superb artistry. Through it all, despite drugs and disillusionment and every form of legal thievery and managerial interference known to man, they set the professional standards that every musician has been measured against since.
So it was quite appropriate that the Beatles then received the Academy Award for Best Original Score for a Motion Picture for the outstanding music they had made for Let It Be. It was also a fitting accompaniment to the Grammy they had received for Best Original Score for a Motion Picture a month earlier.
But you would never guess it, not based on the way the Beatles responded to the honors. Note the film clip here from that Grammys ceremony, an earlier Fellini-esque time capsule that captures the moment when a sneaker-shod Paul McCartney and wife Linda, minus Lennon and Harrison, accepts the award from... can it be?...
John Wayne?
When a casually dressed McCartney and his wife come bounding out of the audience to accept the three Grammys from Wayne, Sir Paul takes one of the heavy little statuettes, has Linda take one, and jokingly offers the third to John Wayne. McCartney, clearly nervous and uncomfortable with the situation, offers only a two-word speech to all his admirers in the audience. "Thank you," he says, and gets off the stage quickly.
Live And Let Die
The reason McCartney had showed up is because throughout it all he had always maintained a British sense of decorum and protocol. In his mind, an English gentleman doesn't win a Grammy and then just not show up to receive it. In many ways the film had been his project all along, as many things had been since 1967. But the album that had come from it was certainly a collaborative effort, all the post-production wrangling notwithstanding.
McCartney's sense of the Beatles' place in history meant he was quite aware that during the months since the album's and film's release, both were quickly being labeled as a chronicling of the Beatles' break-up. Never mind that it wasn't. The recording that began in February after finishing with the Let It Be sessions, and continued through August, was the last the Beatles did together. George Martin returned as the producer on the condition that he be allowed to control the proceedings as he had on Sgt. Pepper's, resulting in a disciplined session approach and more congenial atmosphere. Lennon and McCartney held it together despite disagreements on what material to do and how to do it, and Yoko was still a fixture, but... the sublime Abbey Road was the result. Shortly after wrapping it up, Lennon announced he wanted a "divorce" from the Beatles. Abbey Road was mixed and released a month later, but because of the involved post-production difficulties, Let It Be, both the album and the film, weren't released until the following May, several months after the Beatles' divorce was final. The stigma resulting from that coincidence of timing stuck.
The backbiting and nastiness visited by a community upon anyone who is thought to have deserted them is one of the primordial elements of social change. The Beatles were feeling the wrath of a fan base scorned. While many music critics were dismissing the recording as a poor effort, fans the world over were forming a lasting distrust of the inscrutably quiet, black-clad Yoko Ono. Her ubiquitous presence in the film quickly got her labeled as the agent provocateur responsible for the band's demise.
McCartney did just what he should have done in going to Los Angeles to accept the Academy Award. From Lennon's and Harrison's recent cathartic musical statements, it is certain they wouldn't be attending. Who knows what Ringo was thinking. Above all, McCartney knew, more than anyone outside the band ever could, the close relationship he and his friends had shared and the consequent anguish their recent separation meant. He fetched the Grammy for all of them.
Did the award make the difference or turn the tide of sentiment? Let It Be went on to become one of the Beatles' bestselling albums, so the music has certainly endured. But you haven't been able to buy a copy of that Academy Award-winning film since it went out of print in the early 1980s. If you're lucky and can find a used VHS copy on eBay, you'll pay a lot to own it. More than likely, you'll pay a lot for a crappy bootleg copy of a copy.
It's been out of print because the film's reputation as the chronicle of the breakup continued to grow unabated. The irony now is that people continue to accept this to be true, largely because they can't actually view the film and discover how incorrect the perception is. Instead it should have become known as the classic cinéma vérité that it is, with a killer last reel consisting of the band plus guest keyboardist Billy Preston, performing "Get Back," "Don't Let Me Down," "I've Got A Feeling," "One After 909" and "Dig A Pony."
Always sensitive to the reputation and legacy of the Beatles' catalog, McCartney and Starr, plus surviving heirs Olivia Harrison and Yoko Ono, still view the film as having more negative than positive impact, and have never agreed to reprint it in any form. One or more of them feel that maintaining the fictional Hard Day's Night version of the band's image somehow serves the music's place in history better than Let It Be. But the longer it has stayed out of print, the more complex people's lives have become. The longer it goes on, the harder it will be to change that consensus. Personally, I think it is wrongheaded to serve up redacted, sugar-coated illusions as biography. As internet content balloons in this information age, the best way to deal with the inevitable disinformation attendant to PR and image-shaping, is to tell the truth. Even when the truth stings a bit as people discover the dirty little secrets of their hero(s), we move on. We can forgive anything, and always will, as long as it isn't kept secret any longer. The only thing standing in the way of redemption is a lie. The truth is never as bad as it seems. So what if George went off in a pouty snit and refused to talk for a few days? Who among us hasn't? Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg said in 2011 that there was a chance a DVD might be released in 2013. As of this date it hasn't happened, but it could.
The Competitive Edge
Competitors in any field are always looking for an advantage, something they can utilize to increase the odds of success. A clever wax specialist can help a skier beat everyone to the finish line on the same day that the leading contender has been slowed slightly with an injury, and win a medal. For a recording artist, a golden-eared producer can mean the difference in creating a sound that turns a great song into a dance hit, the same way a cutting-edge special effects team can turn a well-scripted movie into box office gold. Many would have you believe the biggest competitive advantage is a weak field. But they'd be wrong.
Because the single biggest advantage a competitor has (all things being equal--which they very often are--even in the fanatically measured world of sports, considering that .004 seconds on a luge run can mean the difference between fame and infamy, or worse, anonymity) is to not only be better or do better work than anyone else in the field, but to not be taken seriously by anyone until that critical moment when it is too late to fend him off. Every racer knows that the ideal place in a race is in the blind spot of the oddsmakers' favorite pick to win it, drafting the presumptive winner. It's the place where the spotlight isn't.
That moment when you step out of the shade of the mountain and suddenly make the final climb to its summit is the most deliciously advantageous moment of all. A great athlete or artist gets to experience it only once. The irony is that after that first taste, attempts at every competition thereafter, in order for the victor to defy nature and get that advantage one more time, are doomed. It is all downhill from the top of the mountain.
And nowhere are those odd contradictions and vicissitudes of celebrity more apparent than in the most serious competitions of all--the awards business--that vortex of desperate vyings for the position at center stage where all the love and adulation of one's fans and peers swirls the most deliriously.
And In the End, the Love You Take Is Equal to the Love You Make
Which brings us back to those bizarre four minutes of video with Paul Simon and John Lennon at the 1975 Grammys. It took a while to get here, but these two artists' story is what their snidely dismissive jokes are all about. Both had climbed to the tops of their respective mountains. Both had been repeatedly acknowledged by their peers. Both had fans numbering in the millions (maybe billions in the case of the Beatles--they probably were more popular than Jesus Christ at one point, but as Lennon also remarked, he'd never said that was a good thing). Both had held armfuls of gold statues in recognition of their magnificent accomplishments, songs which people will listen to and sing again and again, until the end of time. Both had bank accounts stuffed with money.
What ain't we got (as Ray Walston sang in South Pacific)? Hint: the answer is not "babes." Neither of them had a shortage of babes.
What neither John Lennon nor Paul Simon had many of at the moment was other mountains to climb. Certainly, they had other interests, but art for an artist is an activity, not a statue or a badge. And the worst pain an artist can experience is a shortage of that activity. If he (or she) has an artistic collaborator, a divorce or even a separation from that collaborator is the bitterest possible pill to swallow. Fellow artists, particularly fellow collaborators, are the most valuable assets an artist has. Being able to challenge yourself and keep going with your next artistic venture is the most energizing activity there is.
Many years ago I watched Charlie Rose interview Kenneth Branagh, the fine actor best known for his Shakespearean acting and directing. He's been nominated many times, but has never won an Academy Award or a Golden Globe. He had just completed writing and directing a film, A Midwinter's Tale I believe, and was describing the experience when Rose asked him why, after his recent success in films like Dead Again and Much Ado About Nothing, he was directing a small art film.
Branagh said he considered it a privilege to do his newly finished film--the darkly comical story of an out-of-work actor's quest for redemption by producing a play to raise money and save his sister's church from land developers--because in his mind, the definition of success is having the freedom to choose what he will do next. Money, he said, along with recognition or fame, simply provide the wherewithal to accomplish his artistic goals.
So support your local artist. Whether he has a mantle bedecked with shiny awards or one adorned with candles he lights instead of cursing the darkness, go out of your way to acknowledge the work he does for the world, help keep him doing whatever is his next project. It's what he lives for.
Whether he has chosen to be a tailor in Kiev, a painter in Paris, a novelist in Seattle, or a cabinetmaker in London, support him. You're what he lives for, too.


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"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven." Ecclesiastes 3:1
Many times we reflect back on influential people in our lives. We think of the wonderful times we had with them and how we miss the memories of days gone by. We think of the wonderful attributes they had that were passed along to our lives today. If we're not careful, we'll begin to question why God took them away from us.
Our human minds cannot always see or comprehend God's purposes. I think that is why He reminds us in Ecclesiastes 3:1 that there is a time for every purpose. He also reminds us in Ecclesiastes 3:11 that he hath made everything beautiful in his time.
We may never know or understand God's timing or His purposes. We will undoubtedly face situations in this life that we don't understand. Just remember in times of trial and heartache that God has made everything perfect in His own time. He knows what we're going through and He's there for us.
Today I challenge you to reflect back on someone you know that was influential in your life. Don't question God on why He took them from you, but thank Him for the wonderful times you had with them and for their wonderful character that shaped who you are today.
"As for God, his way is perfect: The word of the Lord is tried: He is a buckler to all those that trust in him." Psalm 18:30


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Here is an orange Crocodile in digital markers style! I posted a few process steps for you guys! So much fun to do! =)
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Animal Drawing
We are almost done with the year, it was so fast, lot's of work animating this year! And for a break it has being a lot of fun teaching Drawing Fundamentals at ICS, lots of drawing from life. Here are a few animal drawings fresh from the ZOO:
And this Elephant was a class demo.
See you guys soon!
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Fala pessoal! Começou hoje o evento ICONIC! Minha participação será hoje a noite as 20:00! Convido a todos os que curtem desenho a aparecerem por lá!
Estarei desenhando sketches de personagens! Vai ser super divertido! Aos que se tiverem interesse em ver os videos gravados e outros bonus, deem uma olhada no PREMIUM para mais informações! Está disponível até 10 de Agosto apenas!
For the English speaking people, this is an event in Portuguese Language, but if you would like to follow me as I draw, go ahead and have FUN!
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Hey folks, how are you doing? I'm now on TUMBLR! Make sure you follow me! =)
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The Girls!
These are a few more drawings I did as part of the 4forFUN project! Here I selected a few female characters, which by itself is a category with lots of appeal and interest. I see more and more artists whose primary focus are on female drawings and portraits. Over the web it seems a natural trend.
I, off course, also love female characters myself, but don't get the chance to draw them a lot. When it comes to animating it, it's definitely one of the hardest subjects to do properly! So this time I tried to capture a bit of the female beauty in those designs. They are quite finished, but not really developed, I didn't try variations or real development, just went directly for the "illustration" type of design. I did the drawings traditionally, and cleaned them up on paper, then applied digital color on PS. Further developing some of those characters are definitely part of my plans for the future. It has being a load of fun, though. Hope you are well, and a Happy New Year to all you guys!
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