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While grocery shopping I stopped at a Goodwill today... I LOVE thrift shopping!
Cotton dress
it's a size 10 and will need to be taken in...
[American Apparel]
isn't it super cute?! I love it!
Cotton dress/shirt
[converse one star]
not sure yet if I'll leave it as is
(it's very light and would work as a beach cover)
or shorten it and use the scraps to make ruffles to add to the shirt.
Silk shrug
[richard malcom]
very sweet.. I like the colors..
Silk dress
[SooYungLee for u.m.i collections Paris New York]
This is NOT my style and WILL be refashioned.
but check out the print!!
I love it! It's so... spring!
Happy Thrifting!


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At CrowdRise, we know charity events take a lot of time, resources, and energy. That's why we created an awesome activity book thing with some ideas for modernizing your event so that you can focus more on what really matters, raising money for your cause. Here's some of the stuff we'll cover....
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Easter is the day we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ as Christians.
Easter has a bearing on almost all people of the world, because most of the knowledge that has since become the foundation for the modernity we live in today originates from Judeo-Christian background, which is based on the Gregorian calendar.
Back in the day, Easter fell on the days we were at school. I wonder why?
I hated Easter as a child because while it looked like Christmas, it was nothing like Christmas. The celebration at church was always a little lackluster and always left me underwhelmed. The hymns were not as loud and sweet as the Christmas carols, and the congregation was not as huge or as excited.
Not so pompous
In comparison to Christmas, one of the major attractions of for us children that was always missing on Easter was the sense of class that the Kampala people brought to the village church service.
All the nice cars, the opulent clothing and the fragrant perfumes were always missing on Easter and all we had in church were the same old village people with their bad shoes.
The feast on Easter afternoon was only a shadow of the one on Christmas Day.
While we ate all manner of rare food on Christmas, and by rare I mean rice and soda, on several Easters we went without the bare minimum of meat. Whether this was due to lack of money or a lack of motivation for celebration, I cannot tell. All I know is that the air around Easter was not vibrating as much as we hoped.
Time to till the land
As a matter of fact, I remember weeping with distress as my siblings and I trailed our mother on Good Friday and Easter vigil. This would never happen on Christmas Eve, for instance. While we were excused from school on Easter Monday, (who knows why it's called Easter Monday) mother always insisted that we go back to the farm to weed the beans so that by the time we went back to school, she would no longer have the burden of weeds.
I remember wondering why Easter always happened during weeding time when there was too much urgent work to do.
As an adult, nothing much has changed on how I feel about Easter. If this was Christmas, I would most certainly be back home in Kyamakanda Village, somewhere in Kigezi, driving around the village, meeting family and long-lost friends. Isn't it ironic then that the day that should excite us the most as Christians almost means nothing to us? Does anyone know how we got so conditioned?
How to celebrate Easter with children
Grab a few Easter baskets and take your children to a local Easter egg hunt. In fact, community events like these are great opportunities to invite friends and neighbours or even your co-parent—along. And do not forget to bring your camera! You will not want to miss the opportunity to capture the smiles on your children's faces.
Make a traditional Easter egg hunt even more fun by adding your own Easter games, such as an egg and spoon relay, an egg toss, or an egg roll. Invite your children to create new games of their own, too. If you have children of multiple ages, let the older ones teach the younger ones how to play. Be sure to include your neighbours and make it an annual affair.
There are lots of ways you can share the Easter story with your children. You can begin simply by telling the story from your heart. Then, if you wish, you can also read the story together directly out of the Bible. Additional ways of sharing the Easter story include reading children's books about Easter and watching an Easter movie together. In time these can become traditions you will look forward to sharing again each year. -thespruce.com


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Kate Bosworth & Thomas Jane survive bad dreams in the Before I Wake trailer
When it comes to horror movies, there are few plot elements more cliche than creepy kids than nightmares. When you combine both, you get BEFORE I WAKE. Previously titled SOMNIA, BEFORE I WAKE is the latest film from OCULUS director Mike Flanagan. Starring Kate Bosworth and Thomas Jane, this starts out very reminiscent of recent creepy kid movies like ORPHAN and MAMA before taking a twist.
Now, I know what you are thinking: a horror movie with a twist? That is shocking! But, BEFORE I WAKE looks like it could be an effective little thriller, cheesy butterflies aside.
Jessie (Kate Bosworth) and Mark (Thomas Jane) decide to take in a sweet and loving 8-year-old boy, Cody. Unbeknownst to them, Cody is terrified of falling asleep. At first, they assume his previous unstable homes caused his aversion to sleep, but soon discover why: Cody's dreams manifest in reality as he sleeps. In one moment they experience the incredible wonder of Cody's imagination, and in the next, the horrific nature of his night terrors. To save their new family, Jessie and Mark embark on a dangerous hunt to uncover the truth behind Cody's nightmares.
Flanagan's two previous features, OCULUS and ABSENTIA, are decent horror flicks that have gotten way more hype than they deserve, but are still worth a look if you are tired of the crap that passes for scary movies these days. BEFORE I WAKE has a lot more talent in front of the camera which could translate to a better final product.
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Even though I'm not black, when two women were standing in the reception area at work and "those people" floated past me, a slow boil of rage started. They were talking about living in a specific building and how some black people lives there and it was okay, but the neighborhood was changing and "those people" brought problems. It devolved into people who are new money, which turned into poor people. "Those people just don't know how to comport themselves." I looked down at the desk so I wouldn't glare at them as they went on and on. Finally I picked up my phone and asked Arnie if he had a minute.
Someone came out to cover the phones while I went to his office. I started telling Arnie what the women were saying, and he interrupted me. "Hold on a second," and closed his door. I hadn't realized how loud I'd been. Starting again, I told him what they were saying and how angry it was making me.
Arnie sat and watched me. He didn't interrupt. When I saw him glance at the time I tried to wrap it up. He took a deep breath. "Do it," he told me. So I took a deep breath too. Then Arnie said, "You know, teenage girls can be real bitches." That slow boil of rage got faster. "If they don't change, they just turn into really bitchy women," Arnie finished.
He told me they were absolutely wrong, I was absolutely right to be upset. But then Arnie was like an ideal solution in this situation is to go tell them he doesn't want their business. In this economy though, nobody turns down business. My heart kind of sank. Arnie stood up, saying we don't always get to choose our clients. For a couple of seconds, I didn't realize Arnie was dismissing me, and I was supposed to stand up and walk out.
Finally I did, and it was embarrassing. So I kind of mumbled thank you and went back to my desk. One of the women had left, so the other one was just playing with her iPhone quietly. When her head was totally down reading her screen, I glared at her. Because I'm mature like that.


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Samara Korolev National Research University (Samara University) is the leading university in Samara with a rich history of two former universities and a particular focus on aerospace engineering.
Brief History
Kuibyshev Aviation Institute was founded in 1942 with the goal of training engineers for the aviation industry. Since 1957, the Institute began training specialists in rocket and space technology. In 1967, the institute was named after Sergey Korolev, and in 1992 renamed again the Samara State Aerospace University. Kuibyshev State University was founded in 1966. The grand opening took place on October 17, 1969. In 2015-2016 Samara State Aerospace University and Samara State University were united as the Samara National Research University (Samara University).
Institute of Aeronautical Engineering
Design and manufacturing of aircraft, aviation equipment testing and operation, aircraft operations safety, transportation management and logistics. Graduates also work as engineers of compressor stations on main gas pipelines and gas processing plants.
Institute of Engine and Power Plant Engineering
Power engineering, engine building (for aviation and space programs), automation of technological processes and production.
Institute of Space Rocket Engineering
Design, construction, production, and operation of rocket and space technology.
Institute of Economics and Management
Economics, management, personnel management, public administration, and logistics.
Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities
Faculty of Psychology, Faculty of Philology and Journalism, Faculty of History, Faculty of Sociology.
Psychology, pedagogy, advertising and public relations, journalism, television and publishing, linguistics and translation, history, sociology and social work, philosophy.
Institute of Natural Science
Faculty of Physics, Faculty of Biology, Faculty of Chemistry.
Fundamental physics, optics and laser physics, chemical physics, solid state physics and semiconductor nanoelectronics, applied and fundamental chemistry, biology, biochemistry, bioecology, molecular biology.
Institute of IT, Mathematics, and Electronics
Faculty of Information Technology, Faculty of Mathematics, Faculty of Electronics and Instrument Engineering.
Fundamental mathematics and mechanics, information and computer security, applied mathematics and computer science, computer technology, radio engineering, electronics design and technology, radio electronic systems and complexes, biotechnical systems and technology, laser technology.
Faculty of Law
State, civil, international, criminal law, criminology, legal support of business.
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Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and flow of electric charge. Electricity gives a wide variety of well-known effects, such as lightning, static electricity, electromagnetic induction and electric current. In addition, electricity permits the creation and reception of electromagnetic radiation such as radio waves.
In electricity, charges produce electromagnetic fields which act on other charges. Electricity occurs due to several types of physics:
"Electricity" is a song composed by Elton John and Lee Hall for the Billy Elliot the Musical.
It was John's 63rd—and to date last -- UK Top 40 hit, peaking at #4 on the UK Singles Chart. The song was included as a bonus track on the UK re-issue of Elton's album Peachtree Road.
The song is sung by Billy Elliot in the stage production at his audition for a place at The Royal Ballet School in London. Billy is asked "What does it feel like, when you are dancing?" by one of the panel. Billy responds, hesitantly at first, "I really can't explain it... I haven't got the words..." And then (see full lyrics) the music takes hold, and he goes into an energetic song. Describes dancing as "Something that you can't control". After two verses, each with a chorus, Billy leaps into a frenetic dance; in this dance many skills such as acrobatics are used (the rhythm for this section of the instrumental varies from Billy to Billy, depending on each actor's dance strengths). The number concludes with another verse and Billy doing several pirouettes or tumbles. The most notable lyric in this piece is that of the title: 'Electricity sparks inside of me and I'm free, I'm free!" It was inspired by the scene in the film, which it follows closely, in which Billy describing dancing as "Electricity". His passion, shown in his description, is the implied reason for Billy's acceptance into The Royal Ballet School.
Electricity is a 1994 album by New Zealand pianist Peter Jefferies. It was released on the Ajax Records label. The album includes reworkings of previous Peter Jefferies tracks, "Wined Up" and "Crossover" (from a 1993 7" recorded with Stephen Kilroy), and a cover of Barbara Mannings' "Scissors".
All songs written and composed by Peter Jefferies, except where noted.
A bank is a financial institution that creates credit by lending money to a borrower, thereby creating a corresponding deposit on the bank's balance sheet. Lending activities can be performed either directly or indirectly through capital markets. Due to their importance in the financial system and influence on national economies, banks are highly regulated in most countries. Most nations have institutionalized a system known as fractional reserve banking under which banks hold liquid assets equal to only a portion of their current liabilities. In addition to other regulations intended to ensure liquidity, banks are generally subject to minimum capital requirements based on an international set of capital standards, known as the Basel Accords.
Banking in its modern sense evolved in the 14th century in the rich cities of Renaissance Italy but in many ways was a continuation of ideas and concepts of credit and lending that had their roots in the ancient world. In the history of banking, a number of banking dynasties — notably, the Medicis, the Fuggers, the Welsers, the Berenbergs and the Rothschilds — have played a central role over many centuries. The oldest existing retail bank is Monte dei Paschi di Siena, while the oldest existing merchant bank is Berenberg Bank.
A rampart in fortification architecture is a length of bank or wall forming part of the defensive boundary of a castle, hillfort, settlement or other fortified site. It is usually broad-topped and made of excavated earth or masonry or a combination of the two.
Many types of early fortification, from prehistory through to the Early Middle Ages, employed earth ramparts usually in combination with external ditches to defend the outer perimeter of a fortified site or settlement.Hillforts, ringforts or "raths" and ringworks all made use of ditch and rampart defences, and of course they are the characteristic feature of circular ramparts. The ramparts could be reinforced and raised in height by the use of palisades. This type of arrangement was a feature of the motte and bailey castle of northern Europe in the early medieval period.
The composition and design of ramparts varied from the simple mounds of earth and stone, known as dump ramparts, to more complex earth and timber defences (box ramparts and timberlaced ramparts), as well as ramparts with stone revetments. One particular type, common in Central Europe, used earth, stone and timber posts to form a Pfostenschlitzmauer or "post-slot wall". Vitrified ramparts were composed of stone that was subsequently fired, possibly to increase its strength.
Bank, also known also as "Polish Bank" or "Russian Bank," is the name of a comparing card game. The game requires a standard 52-card deck and five or six players.
At the start of the game, each player contributes an arranged stake to the pool. The dealer gives three cards to each player and turns up another; if this is not lower than an eight (ace is lowest), the dealer continues turning up cards until such a card is exposed. The player on the dealer's left, without touching or looking at the three cards received, can bet the amount of the pool, or any part of it, that among those cards is one that is higher (of the same suit) than the turn-up. If the player wins, the player takes the amount from the pool; if the player loses, the player pays that amount to the pool. Each player does the same in turn, the dealer last. Whenever the pool is exhausted, a fresh stake is put into the pool. After a round is over the deal passes. No player may touch any cards received until making a bet; the penalty is a fine to the pool of twice the stake, and the loss of the right to bet during that round.
Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and flow of electric charge. Electricity gives a wide variety of well-known effects, such as lightning, static electricity, electromagnetic induction and electric current. In addition, electricity permits the creation and reception of electromagnetic radiation such as radio waves.
In electricity, charges produce electromagnetic fields which act on other charges. Electricity occurs due to several types of physics:
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You set my heart aflutter
Whenever you pen
These words of love
Showing your innate desire.
Your mere presence
Sets me on fire
But I ain't gonna douse
Myself in ice nor in water.
So sear me with the touch
Of your capable fingers,
I'm not gonna turn into cinders.
But if I did, watch my rebirth
As a Phoenix I'll emerge.


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Google Clips AI-powered camera
Google Clips – a small plastic device, a square with sides of five centimeters, which can be attached to the shirt as a clip or put on a table. Externally, the camera is similar to the Instagram icon, popped into the real world. Color – white in front and turquoise at the back.
Google Clips
To turn on the device, you just need to rotate the lens. Further, according to Google's plan, you can forget about the camera. Clips itself tracks everything that happens in its 130-degree field of view and records seven-second clips of what it sees as interesting. Over time, the device remembers faces and tries to take more pictures of "familiar" people and fewer shots of random passers-by. The same AI extends to animals. Unknown to someone else's cat, burned by, Clips will not be seen if she has not done anything special. But your favorite pet – please, it's enough to turn your head beautifully or raise your paw.
Unlike the smart Google Home column, which relies entirely on connecting to the cloud, Google Clips is a completely autonomous object. She looks at what's going on around her, chooses the moment, takes a picture, sends it to her smartphone – all in her own power. For a device the size of a little more than a matchbox the possibilities are very impressive. This was told by Remi El-Oazzana, the head of the Intel team, who worked on a low-power image processor (VPU) for Clips:
We were all surprised how much intelligence Google could fit into such a small device. This smart camera shows the level of built-in AI, which we could only dream of earlier.
In order for the electronic brain working inside Clips to learn to distinguish a good photo from bad, Google collaborated with professional editors and an entire army of image evaluators. "There is no such model of machine learning that could say: the child is crawling on the floor, it probably looks good," explained Justin Payne. Therefore, Google collected a terabyte of its own video. And then the evaluators gave him points, it was marked and became a training base for artificial intelligence. Over time, the device began to understand the psychology of people, to feel that they like what they are interested in. This process is not complete: the Google Clips coming from the plant is still learning. If you deliver two identical cameras to you and your friend, in a couple of weeks they will begin to shoot different things.
Machine learning by the Google method has a drawback. So far, Clips recognizes only humans and animals well (in fact only cats and dogs – hamsters or house guinea pigs are not interesting). You can not take a device on vacation and hope that she will be delighted with the sunset or make clips with swaying palm trees. Over time, Google is going to expand the machine learning model, to make it support more situations, to be able to understand the world.
With regard to technical specifications, the device is equipped with a sensor with 12 megapixels; it can record a series of frames at a speed of 15 fps. The internal storage – at 16 GB seems very modest, but in fact this is enough to store two full days of clips. No microphone, the device can only record images. Batteries are enough for a plus or minus three hours of active work – depends on whether there is something interesting that she can shoot.


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Effect of coronal structure on loop oscillations
Mathematical Institute, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9SS, Scotland, UK e-mail: [gavin;antonio;bernie]@mcs.st-and.ac.uk
Accepted: 3 July 2006
Aims.We investigate the influence of longitudinal structuring of the surrounding corona on the modes of oscillation of a coronal magnetic flux tube.
Methods.A partial differential equation is derived for the total pressure perturbation of the fast modes and it is solved analytically in terms of Bessel functions, obtaining a dispersion relation.
Results.The introduction of coronal structuring changes the cutoff frequency, enhancing coronal leakage, so even the fundamental kink mode may become leaky. Structure also modifies the loop's oscillatory frequencies and may result in higher harmonics being trapped.
Conclusions.Depending on the structuring, two competing effects take place: environmental structuring enhances leakage, while loop structuring helps confine the modes. This has important consequences for coronal seismology, leading to the absence of trapped modes for certain parameters and shifts in frequencies.
Key words: Sun: oscillations / Sun: magnetic fields / Sun: corona


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Company plans wind farm near Marshall County
A wind farm project valued at several hundred million dollars in Story County has been passed through the county's Planning and Zoning Commission and could begin construction shortly.
The wind farm will include 100 wind turbines, along with buried collection lines, gravel service roads and a substation – the total value of which is approximately $270 million.
The project will be located north of Colo near the Marshall County line.
Marshall County Planning and Zoning Administrator John Kunc said the company planning the operation, FPL Energy LLC of Juno Beach, Fla., has also been inquiring about the possibility of additional turbines in Marshall County.
"They have asked about it, but I have not seen any applications," Kunc said.
He mentioned the possibility of a large-scale commercial wind farm operation during recent discussions the county had when setting an ordinance for wind turbines.
A meteorological tower has been erected near State Center, ostensibly to collect wind data.
Wind turbines, which spin to generate electricity, have been turning up with increasing regularity in the Central Iowa region, which is known for having strong and steady winds.
However, most of the time, the turbines usually show up one at a time, possibly two. This is the first large-scale venture in the Times-Republican coverage area.
Charlie Dissell, Story County planner, said the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval with 21 conditions and that recommendation goes to the Board of Adjustment at its next meeting 6 p.m. Wednesday at Christy Hall in Nevada.
The meeting before the Planning and Zoning Commission lasted approximately four hours.
"Altogether we had five to 10 comment on it," Dissell said. "I know there were two that were opposed and a lot who were in favor of it."
Of those opposed, some were concerned about obstructing the view of the landscape and what that may do to property values. Another was concerned with "wind rights" should other private turbines be erected.
By Ken Black
28 September 2007
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Candles lined the stage, lighting life-sized cutouts of a mother and child.
The darkened room at the YWCA in Glendale flickered with dozens of candles, quiet for a moment of silence as people lowered their heads as part of a vigil Thursday night to raise awareness of domestic violence.
The event, hosted by the city's Commission on the Status of Women and the YWCA, coincides with October being Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
"This is an important event; we all understand the issue and it's a major issue. It has nothing to do with culture or income or age or anything else," said Glendale City Councilman Frank Quintero. "We're going to work and we're going to minimize it every year."
A number of community groups were present at the event, including the Armenian Relief Society and Soroptimist International.
"I am happy to see that organizations are collaborating together to empower, to inspire, to prevent and to educate community members more and more, each and every year," said ARS Chairwoman Lena Bozoyan.


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UPDATE: 2:48 p.m., Feb. 9, 2017
KAMLOOPS - The talk by Dr. Melanie Kelman, scheduled for this evening, Thursday, Feb. 9, at Thompson Rivers University has been cancelled due to weather, according to an email from Vanessa Greebe with Natural Resources Canada.
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KAMLOOPS - While the interior of B.C. is covered in mountains, most people don't think about how many might be dormant volcanoes.
There are hundreds of dormant volcanoe centres dotting B.C. Dr. Melanie Kelman will be giving a talk in Kamloops tomorrow night at Thompson Rivers University about them, and recent discoveries about one in particular near Pemberton.
Kelman, a volcanologist with Natural Resources Canada, is being hosted by the Kamloops Exploration Group to discuss Mount Meagher near Pemberton and new gas vents discovered last year. While it's currently dormant, studying the vents may help scientists learn about what it and similar volcanoes may do in the future.
While volcanic activity is rare in B.C.'s interior, the coast is part of the Pacific Ocean's 'Ring of Fire.' When Mt. St. Helens, an active volcano in Washington state, erupted in 1980 — the last major eruption in the region — dozens of people were killed. The closest volcanoes to Kamloops are in the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field west of Wells Gray Provincial Park, about 180 km away.
The free talk will be tomorrow night starting at 7 p.m. in the university's Mountain Room.
- This story was corrected at 2:30 p.m. Feb. 9, 2017 due to the events cancellation.
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Thor's Approach -- Where and When Thunderstorms Occur --
Formation of a Thunderstorm -- Thor's Hammer -- Lightning
Hazards -- Downblast and Deluge -- The Wings of the Storm --
Flying Through a Line Squall
'. . . His chariots of wrath
The deep thunderclouds form
And dark is His path
On the wings of the storm. . . .'
PEOPLE vary greatly in their reactions to thunderstorms. Some few take to feather beds in the fear that Thor will personally seek them out for punishment and destruction (though a feather bed actually avails against a lightning bolt about as effectively as a garden gate stops a railroad train). Other people, perhaps equally foolish, rush to hilltops in the fond faith that Divine Providence will somehow ward any wandering electric bolt away from their exposed heads. Actually a thunderstorm is a beautiful and gigantic experiment in physical science, doubly interesting to those who know something of its causes and its mechanism, wildly beautiful to all men conscious of beauty in Nature.
On what earthly mountains does a sunset glow compare with its pure rose radiance on the white cloud-cliffs of a towering and detached thunderstorm? What ground outlook compares with the spectacle of a distant towering cumulus in the clear night sky, flickeringly lit and veined by an infinite and never-ceasing variety of soundless lightnings? A great, wide-spreading, fast-


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Ralph Thrower as Personal Representative of the Estate of Shirley Thrower, Plaintiff,v.Ford Motor Company, TBC Retail Group, Inc. d/b/a NTB-National Tire and Battery, TBC Corporation d/b/a NTB-National Tire and Battery, and Sumitomo Corporation of America d/b/a NTB-National Tire and Battery, Defendants.
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You may wonder how I got involved in teaching The Transformation Experience. It all started with a major relationship challenge many years ago. At the time I had to work with a powerful individual whom I totally despised. In my self-righteous persona, I viewed him as a conniving power maniac and control freak. who had a personal agenda in every move he made. So I blocked most of his initiatives. I prided myself of my righteous stance and the unfailing integrity I thought I had demonstrated.
When a person used to wielding power got frustrated by a dogged Mr. Right, his attacks against his archenemy was fierce. Needless to say, our relationship deteriorated. He wanted me dead.
I didn't like that situation one bit. It was the most stressful relationship I've ever had in my life.
I wanted to change that.
I came to the awareness that the problem was never with others, but always with me. I could never change others until I have changed myself. And once I change, the entire universe around me changes with me.
I decided to become a more loving and accepting person. I wanted to be able to love him and accept him as who he was.
This proved much easier said than done!
I tried for two full years and still couldn't do that. I studied, prayed, contemplated, went to seminars and solicited advice at every opportunity available. In the end, I was only slightly better than before. The way that person conducted himself still upset me. In other words, he still ran my life.
The Spirit must have taken pity on me, because It one day led me to Dr. Demartini's events calendar on his website. I signed up for his Breakthrough Experience seminar without a clear idea of what it's about. I just knew it would be important to me. I was very pleasantly surprised by the content of that seminar when I got there. It was the kind of information that I had searched for all my life.
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Peppa Pig is collaborating with Life's Little Treasures Foundation for their new campaign The Big Splash, a charity campaign to raise money for premature and sick babies. From March 1 to April 30 people are encouraged to sponsor children to 'Splash like Peppa' and participate in fundraising by holding splash parties at the beach, their homes or by attending a Big Splash event held by their local pool, creating as much splash as possible in five minutes. Parents can register their children at thebigsplash.org.au and get splashing just like Peppa any time in March and April!
"Each year, in Australia, around 45,000 premature and sick newborns require medical support in Neonatal Intensive Care or Special Care nurseries. Having a child that is premature or sick places a great emotional and financial burden on that family. With the funds raised, more families will receive the much needed support they require to ensure the best outcome for their baby." Shusannah Morris CEO Life's Little Treasures Foundation.
Say what? I can get my kids splashing for a cause? And a cause that is so near and dear to my heart? What a GREAT idea! I don't know about your household, but we have 2 little splashers who love nothing more than jumping in muddy puddles, not to mention a tween and her friends who are making the most out of our pool this summer.
Here's how you can get involved:
Here's how you can get involved:
- Talk to your preschool or playgroup about a BIG SPLASH event
- Click here to see if there are any events you might be able to get involved with.
- Consider hosting one yourself! You don't need a big pool, just a few wading pools along with some buckets of water will do the trick.
- Talk to your local pool about hosting a BIG splash event.
- Join the public BIG SPLASH event at Luna Park, Milsons Point.
I cannot wait to get some of my friends and family together for some water play at our house. Let me know if you will be doing this too!
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Following our longest and most successful season to date, Team Quore, captained by Ben Flynn, took home the Harper Hurl after the championship match yesterday. Their competition, Homegrown, was captained by Trevor Hoagland. Homegrown edged out the third team, Beer Pale, during last week's matches, when Beer Pale had to forfeit the first match of the day with too few players.
While Quore hit the ground running during the first of the season, easily winning match after match, both Beer Pale and Homegrown experienced tremendous improvement throughout the fall. Homegrown took two or three weeks to find their stride, as Beer Pale handed them loss after loss. Somewhere around the halfway mark, however, the tides turned. While Quore was still the big winner most weeks, Beer Pale and Homegrown began a fierce battle for the second spot in the championship.
Captain Ben Flynn assembled a crack team from some of the most experienced players on the NGAC roster, as well as two newcomers, including Doug Shaughnessy and Thom Watkins. Thom also took home the "Man of the Match" trophy yesterday. Also making up Quore's team were Britti Layne, the Woman of the Match, Greg Roberts, Virginia Poole, Chris Davis, Ryan Buckley, David Bowen, Bill Rodriguez, Aaron Joley, and Ashley Murdock (absent during the championship match).
Homegrown also started the season with several new players, some of whom had never played a match before the first sliotar dropped on September 11. New players included Danny Espensen, Ryan Culligan, Chase Quirk, Frank Prather (who was absent during the championship match), and Andrew Tiller (playing his second season with the NGAC). Anchored by experienced players Brenden Rauer, Rayne Leonard, Liam Barry, Samantha Hoagland, Sam D'Amico (also missing from the championship match), Molly Buckley, and Captain Trevor Hoagland, the Homegrown rookies quickly caught up, winning one match over Quore last week before heading into the championship game yesterday.
Indeed, Thom Watkins and Britti Layne exhibited tremendous skill yesterday, with both responsible for most of the points on the board for Quore. Also of note from the Quore side were Aaron Joley, with perhaps his best hurling performance to date; Chris Davis, who split his time between turning in a spectacular performance and mentoring his rookie opponent; and Virginia Poole, who, in her second season with the NGAC, put some points on the board, as well.
The Homegrown squad also turned in spectacular displays, with Andrew Tiller performing jaw-dropping defense on several occasions, Liam Barry frustrating the Quore offense whenever possible, Danny Espensen playing injured (don't tell his doctor!), Brendan Rauer's dogged offense, and Ryan Culligan, who put points up for Homegrown.
As thrilled as we all are for Quore members, the real winner here is the Nashville Gaelic Athletic Club. This season was filled with some of the best hurling we've seen in our three and a half years of existence. We owe it to our captains, Ben, Trevor, and Caleb of Beer Pale, and to our seasoned players who have challenged and guided new members over the past few months.
Though competitive hurling is closed for the season, we look forward to a bright 2017 and a spring league filled with even more new players. Thanks to all who came out to support us this fall. We can't wait to see you next year!


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Education In Society Today: Are People Really Pursuing It As Much As They Should Be?
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Knowing that we live in a world to where in which knowledge and information is all around us and surrounded by us 24/7, knowing that there are institutions out there that were and are built with the purpose of giving out and delivering education, whether it be school, college, university or the library, knowing that education can come from anywhere as well other than books and institutions such as having certain types of conversations with people whether it's intellectual conversations or philosophical conversations or just as simple as being aware of people's personal situations, social issues that affect and impact society, and day-to-day struggles that people go through. and knowing the profound phrase and saying of where "you need education to survive in this world", in this video, I ask the question of whether people in today's society and today's generation are going after or chasing their education, as much as they should be or as much as they claim they are, with me giving some very powerful and interesting insight to it. You might learn something from this. Hope you enjoy.ReplyDelete


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DIE ZEIT: Mr Habermas, did you ever think Brexit would be possible? What did you feel when you heard of the Leave campaign's victory?
Jürgen Habermas: It never entered my mind that populism would defeat capitalism in its country of origin. Given the existential importance of the banking sector for Great Britain and the media power and political clout of the City of London it was unlikely that identity questions would prevail against interests.
ZEIT: Many people are now demanding referenda in other countries. Would a referendum in Germany produce a different result from that in Great Britain?
Habermas: Well, I do assume that. European integration was – and still is – in the interests of the German federal republic. In the early post-war decades it was only by acting cautiously as "good Europeans" that we were able to restore, step by step, an utterly devastated national reputation. Eventually, we could count on the backing of the EU for reunification. Retrospectively too, Germany has been the great beneficiary of the European currency union – and that too in the course of the euro crisis itself. And because Germany has, since 2010, been able to prevail in the European Council with its ordoliberal views against France and the southern Europeans it's pretty easy for Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schäuble to play the role of the true defenders of the European idea back home. Of course, that's a very national way of looking at things. But this government need have no fears that the Press would take a different course and inform the population about the good reasons why other countries might see things in completely the opposite way.
ZEIT: So, you're accusing the Press of supinely kowtowing to the government? Indeed, Ms Merkel can hardly complain about the number of her critics. At least as regards her refugee policy.
Habermas: Actually, that's not what we're talking about. But I make no bones about it.. Refugee policy has also divided German public opinion and Press attitudes. That brought an end to long years of an unprecedented paralysis of public political debate. I was referring to this earlier, politically highly charged period of the euro crisis. That's when an equally tumultuous controversy about the federal government's policy towards the crisis might have been expected. A technocratic approach that kicks the can down the road is attacked as counter-productive all over Europe. But not in the leading two daily and two weekly publications that I read regularly. If this remark is correct then, as a sociologist, one can look for explanations. But my perspective is that of an engaged newspaper reader and I wonder if Merkel's blanket policy of dulling everyone to sleep could have swept the country without a certain complicity on the part of the Press. Thought horizons shrink if there are no alternative views on offer. Right now, I can see a similar handing out of tranquillisers. Like in the report I've just read on the last policy conference of the SPD where the attitude of a governing party to the huge event of Brexit that must objectively be of consuming interest to everybody is reduced – in what Hegel would have called a valet's perspective - to the next general election and the personal relations between Mr Gabriel and Mr Schulz.
ZEIT: But hasn't the British desire to leave the EU national, homegrown reasons? Or is it symptomatic of a crisis in the European Union?
Habermas: Both. The British have a different history behind them from that of the continent. The political consciousness of a great power, twice victorious in the 20th century, but globally in decline, hesitates to come to terms with the changing situation. With this national sense of itself, Great Britain fell into an awkward situation after joining the EEC for purely economic reasons in 1973. For the political elites from Thatcher via Blair to Cameron had no thought of dropping their aloof view of mainland Europe. That had already been Churchill's perspective when, in his rightly famous Zurich speech of 1946, he saw the Empire in the role of benevolent godfather to a united Europe – but certainly not part of it. British policy in Brussels was always a standoff carried out according to the maxim: "have our cake and eat it".
ZEIT: You mean its economic policy?
Habermas: The British had a decidedly liberal view of the EU as a free trade area and this was expressed in a policy of enlarging the EU without any simultaneous deepening of co-operation. No Schengen, no euro. The exclusively instrumental attitude of the political elite towards the EU was reflected in the campaign of the Remain camp. The half-hearted defenders of staying in the EU kept strictly to a project (?) fear campaign armed with economic arguments. How could a pro-European attitude win over the broader population if political leaders behaved for decades as if a ruthlessly strategic pursuit of national interests was enough to keep you inside a supranational community of states. Seen from afar, this failure of the elites is embodied, very different and full of nuances as they are, in the two self-absorbed types of player known as Cameron and Johnson.
ZEIT: In this ballot there wasn't just a striking young-old but a strong urban-rural divide. The multi-cultural city lost out. Why is there this sudden split between national identity and European integration? Did Europe's politicians underestimate the sheer persistent power of national and cultural self-will?
Habermas: You're right, the British vote also reflects some of the general state of crisis in the EU and its member states. The voting analytics point to the same kind of pattern that we saw in the election for the Austrian presidency and in our own recent state parliament elections. The relatively high turnout suggests that the populist camp succeeded in mobilising sections of previous non-voters. These can overwhelmingly be found among the marginalised groups who feel hung out to dry. This goes with the other finding that poorer, socially disadvantaged and less educated strata voted more often than not for Leave. So, not only contrary voting patterns in the country and in the cities but the geographical distribution of Leave votes, piling up in the Midlands and parts of Wales – including in the old industrial wastelands that have failed to regain their feet economically – these point to the social and economic reasons for Brexit. The perception of the drastic rise in social inequality and the feeling of powerlessness, that your own interests are no longer represented at the political level, all this forms the background to the mobilisation against foreigners, for leaving Europe behind, for hating Brussels. In an insecure daily life 'a national and cultural sense of belonging' are indeed stabilising elements.


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The larynx is the organ (really a cavity) in the upper part of the windpipe (trachea) which has cartilaginous (elastic, flexible tissue) walls, and which when moved by associated muscles will vary the tension of the vocal cords, and hence the quality of the sound produced. Colloquially it is known as the "voice box". The larynx (like the pharynx) forms part of the air passage to the lungs.
Laryngitis is the inflammation of the tissue lining the larynx.
The canal, which begins at the inside of the mouth and ends at the anus, is coated by a thin film of tissue called the mucous membrane. The larynx, which is closely associated with that canal, also has a mucous membrane lining. It is also made up of cartilage. Sometimes, the coating and the cartilage become inflamed and we speak of laryngitis.
There are several causes of laryngitis. It may be the result of an upper respiratory tract infection. On the other hand, the direct inhalation of dust or smoke or even some irritating chemical substance (a toxic gas or the fumes of an acid, etc) could precipitate laryngitis.
I referred to dust particles above, but larger foreign bodies can get stuck in the larynx and create an inflammation. It has been known that veterinary surgeons, while intubating an animal for anaesthetic purposes, have unwittingly damaged the larynx.
A dog owner could put on a collar too tight or yank the dog on a leash so severely as to damage the larynx from the outside. And I should mention that any dog that barks incessantly could develop laryngitis (just as humans who talk too much or too loudly can 'lose' their voices).
I think that it is worthy of mention that companion animals, especially dogs, living with indoor cigarette smokers tend to develop throat problems, as well as many other respiratory ailments.
Finally, laryngitis can be associated with or be the sequel to several diseases, for example, canine distemper (which by the way, is quite prevalent in Guyana even as I write).
Usually, the first sign of laryngitis is a lush, dry, short cough. Later on, the cough is associated with a liquid buildup, and then we hear a softer and moist cough. This phase is often accompanied with pain. The dog actually shows signs of discomfort when the coughing episode begins. The coughing spasm is exaggerated when the pressure is placed on the larynx, or if the animal swallows large morsels of cold food or cold water.
Changes in the way the dog barks (the sound) are noticeable. Bad breath and difficult, noisy breathing are usually evident.
As the malady progresses, the dog may stand with its head down and with its mouth open trying to ease the pressure (and pain) on the larynx. In some cases, the body temperature increases to as much as 105°F (40-41°C).
An increase of water fluid (edema, dropsy) in the tissue of the larynx develops early, and this results in an increased rate of breathing (the dog is making a real effort to breathe). Because there is not enough air being inhaled, the tissues become starved of oxygen, and carbon dioxide accumulates causing the tissue in the mouth and tongue to take on a blue pallor (cyanosis). The pulse rate is racing as the heart tries to compensate for lack of oxygen. At this point, the ailment has been allowed to progress too far without treatment, and the situation is critical.
Before the condition becomes critical, the animal should be visiting the vet. At the onset, the vet would introduce medication which would reduce the inflammatory swelling. Antibiotics could be administered at this stage, especially if there is a fever. I tend to prescribe diuretic drugs to get rid of the increase in fluid in and around the larynx.
If there is laryngeal obstruction, only your vet can intervene, possibly with the help of a special tracheotomy tube.
While all this intervention is being administered, one should offer the animal some supportive therapy, which would include soft (liquid) food and a clean, dust-free environment. Pain-killers (analgesics) are indicated to combat the discomfort.
Please vaccinate your animals (not lastly against canine distemper) if necessary, early in the year.
Please implement disease preventative measures (vaccinations, routine dewormings, monthly anti-Heartworm medication, etc) and adopt-a-pet from the GSPCA's Animal Clinic and Shelter at Robb Street and Orange Walk, if you have the wherewithal to care well for the animals. Do not stray your unwanted pets, take them to the GSPCA's Clinic and Shelter instead. If you do not wish your pet to have puppies or kittens, you may exploit the GSPCA's free spay and neutering programme. If you see anyone being cruel to an animal, or if you need any technical information, please get in touch with the Clinic and Shelter by calling 226-4237.


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Lena Dixit, Rod Foroozan; Cost Analysis for Diagnostic Testing in Patients with Non-Organic Visual Loss. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2014;55(13):4123.
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To evaluate the complexity of physician visits, diagnostic testing and financial burden for patients in the evaluation of non-organic visual loss. Evaluation of non-organic visual loss (NOVL) can be extensive and costly. Patients with NOVL often visit multiple physicians and undergo repeat testing in the exploration of their visual complaints. A study analyzing intricacy of diagnostic testing, physician visits and medical cost for a patient with NOVL has not been documented.
During Mar-Apr 2013, 10 new patients (representing 10% of new patients in this period) presented for initial ophthalmic examination and received a diagnosis of NOVL. Each patient saw ≥ 1 physicians for the same visual issue prior to neuro-ophthalmic exam. Patients underwent an eye exam and some combination of: MRI brain w/wo contrast, CT Head w/wo contrast, OCT retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL), automated perimetry, kinetic perimetry, lumbar puncture, visually evoked response and electroretinography. Average cost of each test based on CPT code and out-of-pocket expense was provided by Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. Cost analysis of total number of physician visits and diagnostic testing was assessed per patient. Correlation coefficients were calculated with significance at p < 0.05.
Mean patient age was 37 ± 17 (SD) (range 17-77). All patients were female. For the same visual complaint, 50% of patients saw 2 physicians, 40% saw 3 physicians and 10% saw 4 physicians. An ophthalmologist and neurologist were seen by 70% of patients. Initial exam was ≥ 45 minutes in 80% of patients, 63% of whom required ≥ 80 minutes. Mean cost per patient for NOVL evaluation was $4099.60 ± $1822.62 (SD) (range $1242-$6150). There was a strong correlation between number of physicians seen and total cost per patient (R=0.76, R2=0.58, p=0.0054). The most costly test was MRI brain; 30% of patients received ≥ 1 MRI for the same issue. 20% of patients did not proceed with imaging despite recommendation; these patients incurred the lowest total cost ($1242). The least costly tests, OCT RNFL and automated perimetry were performed for all 10 patients. Of these patients, 5 underwent additional kinetic perimetry at the same visit.
Evaluation for nonorganic visual loss is complex and expensive. Many diagnostic tests are performed because of concern for an organic cause of visual loss and multiple physicians are often involved.
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UFF President bans five players for life from football
According to the UFF, in the course of the analysis, a number of cases of falsification of age and names were identified.
In particular, Abdumutal Abdullayev, Muhammadjon Abdullayev, Nuriddin Hasanov, Dilshod Akhmadaliyev and Burkhan Khasanov were banned from football for forgery of documents. The Federation noted that the players changed their date of birth, and some of them took new names.
Umid Ahmadjonov underlined that the UFF is constantly fighting against cases of understating the age of players, scams, forgery of documents. He added that he will personally check every football player. "If violations are found, then they cannot escape punishment. We do not need dishonest football," Ahmadjonov said.
The UFF President said that he has information about football players who have decreased their age and play for foreign clubs. According to him, in the near future detailed information will be issued about them and appropriate measures will be taken.
He said that the Federation collected data on football agents, who violated the rules of selling players to foreign countries and forced football players to use fraud in order to earn big money. Umid Ahmadjonov stressed that the UFF will provide information about them in the near future.


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Considering Buying an Unmanned Aircraft? More Things to Think About
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The first article in this two-part series explored seven suggestions for consideration in your first UAS purchase: clarity of ownership objectives; vehicle performance requirements; propulsion system; runway independence; additional system components; budget, and value of a market survey. Part two explores considerations in selecting a UAS supplier and issues associated with taking ownership.
The first consideration in choosing a supplier is, how much risk are you willing to accept? Brand-name recognition in an entrepreneurial environment is more challenging than in an established market where dominant players are well known. Lack of brand name recognition generally equates to more risk for the buyer. Established UAS suppliers with name recognition will likely have built their business with the U.S. Department of Defense as their primary customer and will generally have products with lower risk, impressive capabilities and with commensurate costs. A company history and acknowledged customer base connotes less risk.
Developmental UAS will bring more technology maturity risk than a production vehicle. While tempting because of the promised capability, developmental flight vehicles are difficult to purchase with all three driving variables intact: on-time, on-budget and meeting (or exceeding) vehicle performance guarantees. At least one, or reluctantly, two of the driving variables of time, budget or promised performance will usually require modification and negotiation.
If your need or your organization cannot tolerate this variability, then remove developmental vehicles from your consideration and instead stay with vehicles and companies than have progressed beyond the "knee" in their production learning curves.
Parallel with technology maturity, there will likely be a loyal, ambivalent or disloyal customer base. If your selected supplier cannot supply a list of satisfied customers, this should be a warning of high risk — you may be the first customer for the product. Company websites that contain testimonials are usually a good indicator of mature products that enjoy satisfied customers. A recommended condition of purchase would be to request a short list of satisfied customers for the product you are considering purchasing. Then, take the time to contact the customers and make your own assessment of their satisfaction.
Has the supplier listened to and met your performance requirements? If purchasing a developmental vehicle or a vehicle with new features that will be added to a mature vehicle, the supplier should track the progress to your requirements. This should include every component of the UAS, not just the air vehicle. Attention should be paid to ground system operational needs, storage and transport needs, data collection and data reduction needs, regulatory and airspace access needs, and maintenance needs. Any requirement that is not specifically addressed in the sales agreements should be assumed as unmet and potentially worse, unable to be met by the supplier. If you do not feel that this performance requirements tracking is occurring, do not sign a purchase contract.
Typical legal contractual vehicles are important too, and could include a sales agreement clearly showing all costs and payment schedules; a delivery schedule and phases of delivery if the UAS will not be delivered in a single shipment; the manufacturer's supplied training schedule; and provisions of manufacturer after-sale support. The can also include any related memorandums of understanding between your organization and the supplier, and, if mutually desired, a nondisclosure agreement that legally seals a private relationship between you and the supplier.
The completeness and promptness in which the supplier presents you with these legal documents will be a strong indication of professionalism. Negotiations to close on specific issues are normal and an expected dialog. Protracted negotiations that require legal counsel involvement, beyond a nominal review for company compliance with purchase protocols, are usually an indication of more difficult times ahead in the supplier-customer relationship.
The U.S. Department of State's International Trafficking and Arms Regulations rules clearly stipulate in the published Munitions List that any UAS that can have a military purpose is covered by ITAR restrictions. Owning a UAS that can be interpreted to have military value must be restricted in access to U.S. citizens or those with U.S. person privileges. This presents special storage and operating challenges, especially for public institutions such as universities that must restrict UAS curricula, laboratory and field operating access to students with U.S. citizenship or U.S. person privileges.
At the present time, a conservative, but realistic, view for any UAS that can carry a payload would be to assume that your purchase must comply with ITAR.
Finally, as you prepare to take ownership of your new UAS, these considerations could help — take advantage of any offered supplier's training. Prepare checklists for everything, even what appear to be the most mundane tasks. Keep flight logs just as you would for any manned aircraft. Barring a more mature approach, mirror your maintenance and inspection procedures after those established in Federal Aviation Regulations Part 43 for manned aircraft.
Also, don't overlook the value of an established dispatch protocol to ensure that personnel who are entrusted with your UAS are qualified to operate it, and to ensure that what is taken to the field is returned. Lastly, consider hard-side cases for UAS storage and transport. Hazardous materials, such as flammables and batteries, deserve their own specialized containers too. A place for everything, whether at your home location or in the field, will greatly ease taking inventory, reduce loss and unnecessary, avoidable damage.
Hopefully this two-part compendium of ownership and supplier considerations will help you make a more focused and successful first UAS purchase.
Matt Vance is currently assigned as a flight instructor/senior researcher at Saint Louis University's Parks College Aviation Science program. In addition to duties providing primary flight instruction in SLU's professional pilot curricula, he leads new lines of analysis and research oriented around improvements in the cockpit learning environment.
A former U.S. Navy officer and career aerospace executive, Matt began his academic career in the fall of 2011 with Parks Center for Aviation Safety Research (CASR), where he was instrumental in airspace acquisition, procurement and operation of Zagi, Prioria Robotics' Maverick and Tetra, and Williams Aerospace Taurus unmanned aircraft. Matt completed his dissertation in May 2014 on the factors that may be essential in the decision to fly as a passenger on fully autonomous airliners.
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August Athlete of the Month: David Gill
Each month at Crofton CrossFit, we like to recognize one of our members as "Athlete of the Month" to show them how much we appreciate their hard work and dedication. The CrossFit community is composed of people from all different walks of life, each with their own unique story. Congratulations to David Gill for being chosen by our coaches as the August athlete of the month! Learn about his fitness journey and what led him to CrossFit below, in his own words. Happy August, everyone! Keep up the hard work!
Crofton CrossFit Member David Gill's Fitness Journey
3….2…1..Go..Everybody hits beast mode. There is loud rock music, everyone grinding, the coach keeping the exuberance in the box and there is David Gill, yeah…making an impression the very first day. After about a week I realize this was a bigger meal than I had ordered. There were tons of things that existed that I didn't know about, I couldn't do…..
My dad is a fighter pilot and having a military background makes you inclined towards physical fitness. I played sports, swam, hiked, biked, climbed trees, jumped off roof- tops, basically anything physically possible to fulfill my cravings for outdoors. I was an ace badminton player and swimmer, but had to give up on those as there wasn't much scope. At 18 years I got introduced to weightlifting and took a liking towards it. At 19 years of age I moved to the States, saw almost every second person cranking weights in tank tops and shorts. After a few years standing in front of giant mirrors, pumping the ego and the repetitive movements became monotonous….. I would watch videos to incorporate different skills and input variations …….BANG..!! One fine day I watched Dan Bailey doing some cleans, double unders and handstand walks……LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT!!…the more I watched the more I was drawn towards it…Finally one day I walked in Crofton Crossfit…I was like HOLY Mackerel….such a place actually existed……coach Josh introduced me and I got a few privately instructed classes by coach Greg, before I was given a good to go…OH MAN……..!! I was in the box, it was like there were bells ringing at a temple/church and I had a smile on my face. I got down to do the WOD…….
Being high spirited got me going with my pedal to the floor week after week, there was a thirst to learn and my unbeatable competitive spirit.. After sometime I realize my incorrect approach. The ego started to deplete, I get educated on different skills involved and got enlightened about various factors affecting performance. Over this year and a half I have inculcated the crossfit etiquette and imbibed numerous attributes to assist me on this journey to awesomeness. Crossfit is a well-rounded sport that chips off the rough edges to build a versatile athlete. It had been a haphazard journey so far. I believe with proper planning, perpetual dedication and consistency one can soar to great heights. I am constantly rectifying my flaws, working on my weakness and seeking proper guidance. Crossfit has made me a motivated individual and my exuberance and endeavors wouldn't cease till I hit the StubHub Center in Carson, CA…YEeeah!!!!! STEADFAST & PURPOSEFULLY.
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Description Of The Church
Contributed by Kevin Jones on Jul 18, 2009 (message contributor)
Summary: Paul tells us how the church should look, behave and operate.
Paul's Instructions
Today I want to look at the church as Paul instructed it to be. You see it is easy to get caught up trying to grow a large church when it is reality we should be growing a strong church. A church that is lined up with the plan of God as He intended it to be. This is what I want Turning Point to be. And if we are successful raising up a church like this then we will be successful growing a large church as well. The size should be the result of the strength of the church.
This week I have done a lot of praying for the church, the vision, for each of you and the future. Seeking the wisdom from God that I need as pastor and shepherd of the church. I have went out with some others this week to violent prayer. Where we have prayed for the church and God's vision for us. I have spent time meditating on the voice of God for us. As I was praying this week I was reminded that I am not the first to pray for Turning Point and for you individually.
Right before Jesus was taken into custody in the garden, He prayed this prayer
19 And I give myself as a holy sacrifice for them so they can be made holy by your truth. 20 "I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message. 21 I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me.
It was the will of Jesus Christ that everyone who would believe in Him even beyond the disciples that they would be unified in their belief and in their journey. That together we could strengthen one another, that our strengths could be a benefit to others. That in our moment of need we would find encouragement from others. That we could feel safe with one another and together be making our lives count for something of lasting value. Think about this scripture… Jesus is getting ready to face this terrible moment of sacrifice and you were on his heart as He prayed to God.
So we know from this that it is the Will of God for us as a church to be united, to be strong, and to be there for one another. That we know that God will help us to build strong families. Now please understand… in order to be this kind of church we need each of you to do your part. So are you willing? Willing to do your part? Let's look at Paul's instruction on this very topic.
6 In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. So if God has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out with as much faith as God has given you. 7 If your gift is serving others, serve them well. If you are a teacher, teach well. 8 If your gift is to encourage others, be encouraging. If it is giving, give generously. If God has given you leadership ability, take the responsibility seriously. And if you have a gift for showing kindness to others, do it gladly. 9 Don't just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good. 10 Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other. 11 Never be lazy, but work hard and serve the Lord enthusiastically. 12 Rejoice in our confident hope. Be patient in trouble, and keep on praying. 13 When God's people are in need, be ready to help them. Always be eager to practice hospitality.
14 Bless those who persecute you. Don't curse them; pray that God will bless them. 15 Be happy with those who are happy, and weep with those who weep. 16 Live in harmony with each other. Don't be too proud to enjoy the company of ordinary people. And don't think you know it all!
17 Never pay back evil with more evil. Do things in such a way that everyone can see you are honorable. 18 Do all that you can to live in peace with everyone. 19 Dear friends, never take revenge. Leave that to the righteous anger of God. For the Scriptures say,
"I will take revenge; I will pay them back," says the LORD.
20 Instead,
"If your enemies are hungry, feed them. If they are thirsty, give them something to drink.
In doing this, you will heap burning coals of shame on their heads."
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