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Holy smokes, I most certainly felt romanced by Jesus this week! It was a very full, very busy, very beautiful week indeed. I read Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Hosea, Joel, and 50 Psalms, I studied Amos and Song of Solomon, I attended my first 'Streams' campus ministry night where I co-lead a Bible study, and I got to meet a bunch of awesome people doing ministry all over Hong Kong at a big YWAM BBQ we had on Saturday! It may be week seven of my adventure, but there are still so many new, amazing people to meet, lessons to learn, and discoveries to be made. Despite having such a tight daily schedule, there really is nothing routine about my life here yet.
This week our focus for study was "Prophets and Poetry." Cue me swooning, melting, and just generally feeling like my chest may explode because my heart is so full. I love studying the prophets. I find their lives so incredibly fascinating, and I am always just so blown away by the epicness of their relationships with God. Then poetry is just one of the things in life that absolutely delights me. The Bible is filled with deep and unique revelations, truths, beauty, and love for each and every individual person. I do however feel like the poetry of it definitely woos and draws in all the English Literature nerds out there like me in an especially strong way. Even if you aren't a Christian, you cannot deny the literary genius that is displayed all throughout the Bible.
I learned a ton from studying Amos this week, and thoroughly enjoyed it, but I definitely feel a more personal connection to Song of Solomon and want to elaborate a bit more on what I learned about this book. I studied Song of Solomon a few years ago when I wasn't a Christian. Although I may be a completely different person now and I may be studying the book in a completely different setting, one thing definitely remains the same. I am completely enamored by the absolute beauty of the words and imagery found in this book.
Song of Solomon is one of the wisdom books in the Old Testament, and as with many famous pieces of poetry, it has a seemingly endless list of interpretations which try to explain its structure and meaning. There are also many arguments around how such an erotic book came to be in the Bible. Many people follow the interpretation that it is actually an allegory or extended metaphor for the love God has for Israel or for the love that Jesus has for the Church. While I wholeheartedly support people exploring different interpretations since I think art does speak to different people in different ways, I do not believe that the Song of Solomon is an allegory. I think that when you read the book as a whole, there are too many verses where it is just too much of a stretch to try and apply every line to this very specific interpretation. I do believe however, that one of the most special aspects of Song of Solomon, and one of it major purposes, is that it points people towards God's mind-blowing love. I think that the Song of Solomon is a book of poetry which celebrates the joyful delights of intimacy that can be found when a man and woman come together in marriage and pursue a relationship that is under the reign of God's given commandments about marriage and sex. The Song of Solomon is God giving us an example of what it looks like to pursue and enjoy His gift of marriage and sex in the right way, and because the topic itself is one of romance, I think it makes sense that it is given to us in poetic form, as opposed to in the form of a commandment like so much of the rest of the Old Testament.
So, following from this, I think the timeless principles that apply are:
1) God does not create bad things. If He has created something, then He has a right way to do it. If we pursue His way of doing something, then we will have delight and joy. If we try to pursue things in our own way though, we will very quickly pervert that thing, and sin will definitely follow. That does not mean that the thing was sinful to begin with however. We definitely always have the ability to give it back up to God, receive His purification and sanctification, and then pursue that thing in the right way. Sex is not intrinsically bad, our society and our world has just perverted it. Rather than following what the world does and abusing it, rather than swinging to the other side and denying its good qualities all together, we must keep turning back to God, searching His word, and searching His heart about the matter so that we can pursue this gift in a righteous, pure, and true way.
2) The good things that God does give us should always remind us of His love. We should never take those things and make them our main focus and start glorifying them, but instead we should glorify God for being such a good Father, who loves His children well, and gives them wonderful gifts.
Another highlight of this week was co-leading Streams. The YWAM Tuen Mun base has two different Campus Ministry programs with BLAH University. One is English Corner, where students come to hang out and practice their English. The other one is Streams, where students who are interested in knowing more about Jesus can come to worship, fellowship, and be a part of a Bible study. My roommate and I led a Bible study based around Philemon and finding Freedom in Christ. We ended up with five students and five staff members. Between us all, we represented twelve different nations, because there were a few people like me who have dual citizenship. We gave the students some background information on the time period when Philemon was written, we went through the text with them, asked them some questions, watched a modern day testimony on finding freedom in Christ, and then we did an activity to encourage the students to apply the principles they just learned in a practical way. We made some paper chains and then we asked the students to think about anything in their lives that they might want to get rid of or break away from. We explained to them that with Jesus it is totally possible to just give those things up to Him and receive freedom from them. All of the five students who came to Streams that night had never given their lives to Christ. By the end of the night though, three of them had received Salvation. But numbering Salvations really isn't the point. Building relationships with the people God places in our lives to love is. And I definitely feel like all of our relationships were deepened during this ministry time.
Please pray for the students, that the things they wanted to break free from would be completely gone. Please pray for the students who accepted Christ, that they would find amazing discipleship and be protected from any doubt. Please pray for the students who did not accept Christ, that they would be guided towards knowing God's love more and more every day. Please continue to pray for good health and healing for all the base members here. Finally, for me, please pray that I would continue to have an abundance of energy and focus while I continue to dig deeper into God's word. Also please pray my faith would be strengthened each and every day, that I would boldly walk towards what God has for me next, trusting with all my heart that He will provide all that is needed in the perfect time and way.
Glory to God for this amazing opportunity! May He bless each one of you on each of your own journeys too. Thank you so much for reading, for praying, and for supporting me during this next season.
"Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm;
for love is strong as death,
passion fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
a raging flame.
Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can floods drown it.
If one offered for love
all the wealth of one's house,
it would be utterly scorned."
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Historically Significant Years Associated With This Location: 1830, 1851, 1871
Level of Governmental Significance: National
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Castleford Tigers star Luke Gale admitted England would have to play better than they did last Saturday if they are to challenge the mighty Australia in their final group game in the Ladbrokes Four Nations.
Gale, selected for his third straight game at half-back for his country, created two first half tries against Scotland and went on to score a try himself after the break. He also kicked four goals, but the team performance and 38-12 result was disappointing and left England having to beat Australia, possibly by a big margin, if they are to qualify for the final.
England were poor in the first half and found themselves trailing 8-0 after 24 minutes before recovering to take the spoils and Gale said some harsh words were said at half-time by coach Wayne Bennett.
He said: "The half-time team talk wasn't the greatest. Not as in it wasn't good team-talk just it wasn't a nice place to be in.
"We started poorly. Everything we said we'd do we kind of did the opposite. We built no pressure.
"We did a pretty good job second half but there will be a lot of hard work from here now to the Australia game. We've got to improve massively."
Gale was pleased to get his first points for England in his third game, but admitted he was not happy with his own performance.
He added: It was a scrappy game and I wasn't the best personally.
"Neither of us built pressure as half-backs in that first half.
"I'll be working hard in the week and who knows what will happen (with selection for the Australia game).
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Ocean or Washing Machine?!?!?!
Of course I rarely just sit on the beach. It's not so much my thing. But a run on the beach was the perfect start to this beautiful day! I'm experiencing this annoying, increasing strong shin pain. It's not sitting well with me, especially seeing as though the first race of the year is a few days away. Oh well, it is what it is and this isn't something new for me. I can deal (and smile while I'm at it)!
Sunday's race is flat but incredibly challenging. The swim starts on the Navy Seals training beach, and features a traditional beach start- heading straight for the high surf. I'm hoping the past 2 ocean swims will come in handy in getting out through the break.
It seemed like the perfect day for an ocean swim. Sadly, we didn't take into account the wind and ridiculously choppy water. However, the new wetsuit kept me happy as-can-be out there. My stroke felt so much stronger and longer. My lats felt like they could engage better, and in return I think I moved faster. Test #1 comes Sunday!
At one point I could have sworn I saw a whale's water spout! Ok Caroline, that was a scuba diver. Keep swimming!
Even amidst the surf and chop, we took in the beauty of the moment. I so wish the sun was going to stay around for the weekend. I don't think we'll be so lucky. Sun or clouds; shin pain or not; surf or flat seas; I'm ready to play!!!
Goodnight from beautiful sunny San Diego.
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- Christi said...
I love the pics and you do live in paradise. I back out there in May for business and I can't wait. I hope your shin heals soon so that it is not a problem during your race!
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Off To Boot Camp
For three years prior to my entry into the Coast Guard I worked as an emergency room security guard in the ghetto of East St. Louis, IL. It was an exciting job for a while, but after three years of constant violence the novelty wore off. I was living with Pamela Short who was my girlfriend at the time. She was exerting some major pressure on me to get married. Being the responsible person that I am I told her that I wasn't going to do that until I had managed to acquire some economic security in the form of a new job. It was obvious to me that working emergency room security was going to get me killed or at the very least result in a dead-end job going nowhere. I had no marketable skills and this is not a world that likes to offer people an opportunity to better themselves, so there was no place to turn to except the military. For me this really presented a problem because at the age of 17 I had taken a vow of nonviolence. This meant that I could not join an organization that was dedicated to war and I most certainly could not accept a position where I might kill someone. I then realized that there was one military organization that served a peacetime purpose, which was dedicated to saving lives as opposed to taking them. It was the U.S. Coast Guard.
One afternoon I looked up the address of my nearest Coast Guard recruiter and drove to St. Louis, MO. to see them. They asked me if I had never been to college and I told them that I had spent three years in college, but was unable to complete my education due to lack of funds. As soon as I told them this their eyes got wide and they set up an appointment for me to take the ASFAB test the following week. When I took the ASFAB test it was graded on site and when the recruiters saw my score they were shocked and told me that they had never seen anyone come in for the test and score so highly. I didn't know about guaranteed schools because the recruiters never mentioned it. After the ASFAB test an appointment was made for a complete physical, after which a travel date to boot camp was set. Nothing ever goes as smoothly as it appears in writing, so I must tell you there were some snags along the way. I had to take a sophisticated hearing test because I failed the first one and I had a weight problem to take care of before they would accept me. I addressed all of these matters with fierce intensity because I realized that if I didn't my next address would be a dumpster behind a restaurant if I didn't. Pam and I were married after I received notice of my acceptance.
My enlistment began on Feb. 2nd 1982. I flew on a jet to San Francisco and was picked up by a transport at the airport and taken to boot camp on Alameda Island. It was dark when my group arrived at the entrance to the training base. I can still remember vividly the fear I experienced while we stood at the security gate waiting for someone to admit us. I thought I was going to die. I had made commitments to my wife so there was no turning back and failure was not an option. We were escorted as a group to a temporary berthing area where we spent the night. The next morning we joined a larger group of approximately 100 people where we were told to remove our civilian clothes and we were issued coveralls. The coveralls that I received apparently had not been washed because they wreaked of body odor from the previous occupant. It was then that we were informed to our company commander was. Her name was yeoman first-class Walker. The man in charge of us at this time suggested that we had one of the toughest company commander's on the entire base. I was sure that this is what he told everybody so I wasn't intimidated. After we had changed into coveralls we were marched out single file to a large asphalt area between four sets of barracks. This is when we met our company commander for the first time. She told us to line up single file and sound off from 1 to 4 and then begin again with one. There was one moron as there is in any crowd who just couldn't seem to get it. Unfortunately for us every time he screwed up we had to drop and give her 20 push-ups. We must have done 600 push-ups because of this guy. Several people in the line were about to slug it out with him if he didn't get it right. We had no idea why she wanted us to camp this way until she used our positions in line to form us up for marching in ranks. Then she took us out on the grinder (aptly named) to teachers have to march. Of course none of us had ever marched before except for me because I had experienced it in military school, consequently there were many many mistakes and for each one of them we had to give her 20. Yeoman Walker was about four feet 11 inches tall and had the worst case of gravel throat I never heard come from woman. During one of our many screwup's while marching she said, "You little punks think your tough shit don't you. While I'm going to drive your skinny little dicks in the dirt." Until then I never heard a woman talk like that and was shocked when I heard it. Sure put the fear of God in me.
After drill instruction we were marched to the Tailor who took our measurements for our full dress uniforms. Our next stop was the Barber where we lost all our hair. Then it was off to a large room where we selected our boots, shoes and work blue uniforms. Then it was time for lunch. The food was pretty good for institutional food. Once or twice a week we had steak and a remember a couple of times we were served shrimp. It was definitely not the kind of food I expected to find at boot camp after hearing all the stories from other people who had been in the military that I knew.
It was about the third night each of us was called in to speak with yeoman first-class Walker on a personal one-on-one basis. I was surprised that she thought enough of us to do this. It was here she revealed her human side, which totally caught me off guard. She asked me why was there and I told her that I joined the Coast Guard because I had no skills and I just gotten married. She asked me what I thought about the physical training and I told her that it was obvious from my weight that I was not physically fit, but I had made a commitment to my wife to make it through their program and that failure was not an option. I told her that I was acutely aware of the living hell my life would become if I didn't make it. She told me that 90 percent of boot camp was a head game designed to make weak willed individuals crack into not taken seriously. She said she didn't like doing this to people but it had to be done to ensure that a recruit wouldn't choke under pressure. She told me not to take it seriously and I would make it through. She also said that it was only going last three months and that after boot camp the Coast Guard was pretty much like an ordinary job. If she had not told me these things at the beginning of the program I doubt I would have made it through to the end. Her words as briefs they were, were what carried me on. I never got a chance to thank her for caring enough about me to get to know me even if it was only for 15 minutes, so I want to thank her now.
Training during boot camp in the Coast Guard is about 50-50 when it comes to physical training and classroom training. The physical training consisted of everything that you would expect during Army boot camp. The physical training was something that I mentally expected but was physically unprepared for. By the middle of boot camp we were running five miles a day. Classroom training consisted of everything you would expect to be taught to novice sailors about to go to sea. We were taught the basic knots and were tested on them by our instructors. We were taught the proper way to throw a heaving line. We were sent to naval firefighting school at Treasure Island and taught to fight shipboard fires. If you've never done this its something to see and to do it will scare you to death. There's nothing quite like the experience of wearing an oxygen breathing apparatus and marching into a burning metal box with hatches and ladders in it and its totally dark except for the fire that you have to put out. I breezed through the classroom stuff and helped the guys who were having trouble. The physical stuff I had to have help with. I will never forget the night we were punished for failing barracks inspection and we ran for 4 hrs. without a break. It got to the point where I could hardly force my body to move and I was falling behind. The group hard already lapped me and when they passed me two guys grabbed me by the shoulders and put heir arms around me practically lifting me off the ground and carried me until the told us to stop running. To this day I have never felt so part of a team or seen a display of so much compassion and I never knew who they were because it was dark, I was about to collapse and we had such a large company. Thanks guys!
As I said before the physical training in the Coast Guard is about as a difficult as one would encounter in the Army. We had the obstacle course to run and after about the first month we were running five miles every morning. Due to the fact that we are a seafaring service the Coast Guard had to make sure that everyone who graduated from boot camp could swim. Consequently there was a lot of swimming and in particular a type of exercise done in a swimming pool called pool presses. To properly to a pool press you hang on to the side of the pool and walk out to the deep end with your hands until you can no longer touch the bottom. Then you lower yourself into the water so that your arms are fully extended with your hands grabbing the side of the pool. Then you pull yourself up until you have lifted the upper half of your body out of the pool and your arms are fully extended supporting the full weight of your body. Pool presses were a nightmare, but the swimming instructor loved them like a zealot. He singled out Mr. Cheney one afternoon who was our master at arms and pushed him until his right pectoral muscle tore and he wound up with his arm in a sling for the remainder of boot camp. When yeoman first-class Walker found out what happened, she marched our company to the swimming pool, yanked the instructor out of class and dragged him by his uniform over to Mr. Cheney and proceeded to tear the instructor a new asshole in front of all us. She demanded that the instructor apologize to Mr. Cheney. We all thought that we were going to get an ass chewing for not being physically fit, but instead it was the instructor who got it. It became immediately apparent to all of us that you didn't mess with yeoman first-class Walker's company. She earned our undying loyalty that day and we would do anything she asked without question.
One of the things that could happen to you if your company failed barracks inspection was lizard patrol. If you went on lizard patrol the company commander would take his or her company to a mud pit. The instructor would take about five quarters out of their pocket and throw them into the mud pit saying, "These are five people drowning in the ocean go save them." Then the company would crawl through the mud searching for the quarters. My company was never sent on lizard patrol but the company behind mine on the schedule did. Two people out of that company had to be carried back to the barracks and one of the two dislocated his knee, although I don't know how this happened. In any regard lizard patrol was something that you didn't want to go on.
One of the funniest things that happened while I was in boot camp happened to our assistant company commander. In the Coast Guard there was an enlisted man who served as company commander. The company commander would then appoint recruits to serve as assistant company commander and master at arms. When the company commander wasn't around the assistant company commander was in charge. Yeoman first-class Walker told in her private conversation with me that she almost picked me for the position of company commander because I was the oldest, but that she didn't because I was too short. She said that her first assistant company commander was over six feet tall and he did such a good job that she decided that she would pick only the tall men for that position. I guess she believed that tall people were more intimidating, which is kind of strange considering that she was only 4 feet 11 inches tall. She herself may have been short, but there was a big person inside that little body and nobody doubted it. There were various times during the day when the company commander would have to make scheduled appearances at the junior officer of the decks office. This office was on the lower left corner of the building and surrounded by windows that allowed the junior officer of the deck to watch what was going on outside. In the middle of these windows was an opening about 2 feet by 1 1/2 feet. When you approached the junior officer of the decks window you were supposed to march out of ranks, squaring your corners at every turn. When you arrived at the window you were supposed to stare at a black dot that was stuck on a mirror on the back wall of the office and perform the appropriate address. During one of these times our assistant company commander lost his self-control began to laugh in front of the window. Unfortunately yeoman first-class Walker was in the office when this happened and that little lady grabbed him by his collar and yanked him through the window screaming at him for his lack of respect. That six-foot man went through the window as fast as you could blink leaving his legs flailing in the air. To be honest I never thought a little person like her could pick up a six-foot man but she did.
About three-quarters of the way through boot camp I began to experience severe pain in my knees. It got to the point where I was unable to stand in line without experiencing extreme pain and in boot camp there's a lot of standing in line. I knew it was due to the high impact of running and the fact that I have a congenital hip joint deformity that causes weight to be born on my knees unevenly. I went to the corpsman about it but as I expected there wasn't anything he could do for me. The only thing that was left to do was press on with pride even though I knew that if this continued I was going to wind up with a permanent injury. I had made a promise to my wife to make it through boot camp and if that meant that I had to break my legs to do it, so be it. I don't know who was responsible for this but whoever they were I want to thank them because somebody somewhere saw that I was in severe pain and also recognized that I wasn't going to stop running as long as everyone else was running. Somebody somewhere decided to appoint me with the responsibility of classroom security during the night. This meant that I was taken out of running the grinder in the morning so that I could perform my duties as security guard. I never would have made it through boot camp if it hadn't been for the person who put me on security detail. Who ever you were - Thank you!
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No other sport is so intrinsically linked to nature. Some call it a spiritual experience, most call it indescribable. And yet, in becoming the multi-billion dollar industry it is today, a great paradox has risen. Surfers are indeed directly connected to the earth's pulse and yet a majority of the materials used are environmentally toxic.
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Here are a few stills put together with some insights from the doco itself. If you surf it's a must-see and if you don't, it's definitely worth watching.
The surf industry isn't the surf industry – it's the clothing business with a really good hook.
There are people doing things now days that people are laughing at and scorning at, that are doing things their way, going against the so called 'grain', they will be the champions down the road.
I don't think any athlete is going to risk performance on, whatever you want to call it, sustainability...
...if all we have ended up doing is creating legions of followers all wearing what we tell them to wear, all riding what we tell them to ride, then we have completely failed as surfers.
The polyurethane industry that's been around for long, that era, you know, its definitely going to change, you know, it has to change. It was regulations that shut Clark Foam in the end, not willing to meet environmental regulations.
There's nothing more punk rock than being sustainable… if your rejecting the big mass machine out there – tell something that is more punk rock than that!
I find it really difficult to see that there is any soul in having your board made by a 23 year old girl in China that's never see the ocean, let alone surfs


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Foreign exchange traders face an anxious wait to see if European Central Bank policymakers will on Thursday address a euro rally that has put the currency on track for the best year against the dollar in its history.
According to a Financial Times report, an improving eurozone economy and the prospect that the ECB will scale back a bond-buying plan first introduced in 2015 to ward off deflation, has catapulted the euro almost 13 per cent higher against the US currency so far this year.
The majority of economists expect Mario Draghi, the ECB president, and the rest of the governing council to delay announcing a timetable for cutting its monthly purchase of bonds when they gather this week.
However, traders and investors in the $5.1tn daily currency market will be intensely focused on whether officials voice any anxiety about an appreciation in the common currency that threatens the competitiveness of eurozone exporters and exerts downward pressure on inflation.
Draghi has to talk about the euro, said Thanos Vamvakidis, a senior foreign exchange strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. "They're already below their [inflation] target, they have to acknowledge there are further downside risks to their inflation outlook because of the strong euro."
Headline inflation was running at a 1.5 per cent pace in July, shy of the ECB's target of near 2 per cent. Core inflation, which excludes volatile energy prices, came in at 1.2 per cent. The minutes of the July meeting of ECB officials revealed some unease with the vigour of the euro, which has also climbed 7 per cent against sterling and 6 per cent versus the Japanese yen in 2017.
The sensitivity of the foreign-exchange market to Draghi's pronouncements was underlined in late August when his decision not to focus on monetary policy — and the currency — in a speech at a gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, was taken as a signal to buy the euro which last week hit the $1.20 level for the first time since early 2015.
A stellar rally for the single currency is a sharp contrast to the mood at the start of the year, when fears that the populist Marine Le Pen might capture the French presidency had some forecasting the euro would fall to parity against the dollar.
Indeed on Friday, Ewald Nowotny, a member of the governing council, cautioned against over dramatising the appreciation of the euro, which traded at close to the $1.40 mark in 2014.
However, even if Draghi seeks to temper the euro's strength this week, some are sceptical it will have a lasting effect should a strengthening eurozone economy persuade investors to allocate more capital to the region.
"ECB verbal rhetoric may cause a correction but is unlikely to be enough to derail euro strength," noted George Saravelos, a foreign-exchange strategist at Deutsche Bank.
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Greece government bond markets face a sharp sell-off today in a thin market, and there is contagion to Portugal, Ireland, Spain and partly Italy. Over the Weekend Greece saw support from EU and IMF (and US). However, the German stance is still a market theme. Yesterday, the German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, said Germany hasn't made a decision yet on aid for Greece.
Overall we think it is unlikely that the EUR 8.5bn roll-over on 19 May will be a problem, however comments from German officials adds to uncertainty. We judge that the consequences of a Greek sovereign debt default would be very serious, and for that reason we expect that EU and IMF will do whatever it takes to avoid a default of Greek debt. German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, speaks at CEST: 15.00 on Greece.
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Cool Videos: The Duel (LEGO)
The internet may have some nasty, depraved, disturbing, and genuinely stupid things posted up in it, but that's not all that there is to be had. Sometimes, every once in a long while, something so awesome appears that it not only makes the slog through those not-so-nice things worth it but it makes everything else that was seemingly awesome pale in comparison.
Such is the case with YouTube user Namchild and their stop-motion short film The Duel (LEGO). Accompanied by some fantastic music for the occasion, watch below as Lego becomes the vehicle to tell a better action story than 90% of what is currently out there.
Oh, and as per the description beneath the video: "All effects (incl. motion blur/explosions/wind/wood etc.) are in shot and were happening as the picture is taken. No cgi is used. Photoshop is only used to remove support wires etc." Also known as "reason #52 why this is awesome."
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
WOMR Live Interview with Higher Ground String Band
Jean Sagara -fiddle, Cheyl Parkington-banjo/guitar, Mike Murzyn-bass and Randy Patterson- mandolin. They all sing their hearts out!
listen to Higher Ground String Band, who came to WOMR to perform and bring their beautiful sound right to the radio/internet listeners!
Dinah Mellin hosted Higher Ground String Band in September 2008 they have a very special sound singing gospel and folk tunes.
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Hi this is Taylor, Stella is awesome!!!! She´s staying with us this week and so far it has been pretty fun. I can´t wait to go to Rock City with her! I hope this week continues as it has been it keeps getting more fun as time goes by!!!!
Hey this is Grace, Taylor´s twin.
Stella is now my cousin. she is so fun.
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The world will tell you why you can't and we have come to believe it. My friends, it is quite the opposite. What you possess inside of you is bigger than any perceived obstacle in your way. It's never too late and you are never too busy to live the life you were created to live, and you can start right now.
Do any of these "excuses" for not living your awesome life sound familiar?
1. I think it is too late (do you plan on expiring first?) Time will pass either way. Better for you to go for it then not at all. I thought the same thing, but decided to jump back on that track again and surprisingly became So Cal's USATF masters age 41-44 1500 meter champ. What?!? Yep. Best. Decision. Ever.
2. I'm too busy with work and with life in general (too busy to make your dreams happen…really?…why are you working again?) Stop the madness. Take the time. Take a trip even if it's for a day. Do something out of the ordinary and create a memory, an experience. If you do not have time now, when will you?
3. I'm too old or too injured (too old for what? To leave things behind that you wished you had done last year next year. What's old anyway and what does that mean exactly? Too injured? The question is what can you do to start the healing process?) Most people I find get used to their injuries without taking the little amounts of time to help it heal. "Oh that's my bad leg," they say. The body is miraculous and will respond to proper protocols - some very simple that I teach everyday - to gain more mobility and flexibility and help your body function optimally.
4. The kids need me so I can't. (yes they do – they need you to be happy, healthy and there for them in EVERY way, not just half heartedly walking around like the living dead.) Your kids want to see YOU happy. Did you know that it makes them full of joy to see you live with joy? Did you know that you being motivated to live your dreams and accomplish your goals motivates and inspires them to live and want to accomplish their dreams and goals too?
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Jump in the water today. Ask yourself if the reasons you are choosing NOT to do something holds water. Actually say your reasons out loud or tell your best friend. See what happens next. When we examine this closely we too often find the reasons holding us back are not even true. Ask yourself what is the best thing that will happen if I jump. Picture it, feel it and let no one or no thing stand in your way…not even YOU.
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Jaden, Willow Smith to have own fashion line?July 27th, 2010 - 1:07 pm ICT by IANS
London, July 27 (IANS) Hollywood actor Will Smith's children Jaden and Willow are reportedly in talks to get their own fashion line in the future.
"With Rihanna, pretty soon after she came on the scene, you started seeing designers from Forever 21 to Gucci coming out with styles mimicking her look. We hope the same thing happens here, but I think the ultimate goal is for Willow and Jaden to have their own line," contactmusic.com quoted stylist Mariel Haenn as saying.
Mariel Haenn has been the brain behind Rihanna's styling.
Though Haenn believes Willow is inspired by Rihanna, but insists she is vocal about her ideology.
"Willow is definitely inspired by Rihanna's style. We make an effort to give Willow her own style, so as not to be a mini-version of Rihanna, but Willow really knows what she likes and what she doesn't like and she's vocal about it," Haenn added.
- Rihanna inspires Will Smith's daughter - Sep 09, 2010
- Suri Cruise named most stylish child - Jul 24, 2012
- Music Video By Will Smith's Daughter - Oct 25, 2010
- Blake Lively new face of Gucci - Jun 24, 2012
- Willow Smiths' Debut Single Makes Waves! - Sep 09, 2010
- Rihanna turns designer - Jul 17, 2012
- Willow Smith – What's Her Latest Hairstyle? - Dec 18, 2010
- Will Smith's Nine-Year-Old Daughter Has A Golden Voice - Sep 10, 2010
- Willow Smith to perform at kids' choice awards - Mar 29, 2011
- Rihanna surprises Super Bowl fans with bizarre, bra-baring catsuit - Feb 06, 2010
- Willow Smith To "Buy Life" - Oct 29, 2010
- Lohan turns fashion reporter for magazine - Aug 28, 2010
- Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair" Gets Attention - Sep 10, 2010
- Willow Smith Speaks Out In Ellen DeGeneres Show - Nov 04, 2010
- Jada Pinkett sacrificed music career for kids - Apr 05, 2011
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...and the R button to do a slide, which is required to get past certain obstacles including one in the tutorial. Thanks a lot. JERKS.
Anyone (local) want a copy of Sonic Colors for the DS? 9.9
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn *says* that its shoulder button use can be replaced by the touchscreen. If it turns out not to be then RAGE. >:)
On WOW, I started a blood elf mage on The Scryers to play with Jurann, maybe, sometime, if I'm somehow still playing WoW when I get to max level. OTOH, the random dungeon finder *is* a very very good way of getting into PUGs. As long as you like PUGs. I've only had one total failure of a group, and it failed fairly quickly, so I've been happy with it. Of course, I still like the space goat paladin better than the mage, even though it *does* kill things more slowly.
Well, more slowly than fire spec mage. I was frost spec up until 31 (when I unlocked dual spec) and frost mage is... frostrating. Everything's based around freezing things and breaking the freeze except that you also get a pet who breaks the freeze *for* you and you can never ever break your own freezes in a dungeon because hey other players! It's like trying to get containment with sleep spells in a group in CoH, except that everything is melee and clustered in a big dogpile on the tank.
I haven't tried doing a dungeon in fire spec, though. I'm worried it will end in HORRIBLE DEATH based on the number of times I managed to pull things off the so-called-tank by just spamming frost bolt, and was saved by all the frosty ice tricks (and by having everything chilled by default). Maybe I'll actually want to keep some of the frost spells on my bar? n.n It looks like scorch makes fire ball obsolete, so that's someplace I could squeeze in frost bolt to keep things chilly.


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Theory that index trackers undermine competition just won't go away
Despite widespread criticism and scant evidence that passive investing blunts economic contest, the idea still persists
Many things have gone wrong in finance in recent years. But the profusion of very low cost index funds would seem to be one financial innovation that has been an unalloyed boon for customers. Who can argue with giving investors market returns at minimal cost instead of paying active managers a fat fee for performance that is often worse?
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By Ian Waterhouse
Leeds 2 Burton 0
Line Ups
1 Green, 2Ayling, 5 Bartley, 18 Jansson, 21 Taylor, 14 O'Kane, 23 Phillips, 24 Sacko (Mowatt 90+5), 19 Hernández (Vieira 89),7 Roofe (Doukara 73), 9 Wood.
1 McLaughlin, 3 Brayford, 5 McFadzean, 6 Turner, 10 Akins, 7 Williamson (Naylor 76), 16 Palmer, 36 Irvine, 11 Dyer, 8 O'Grady, 12 Ward (Beavon 45)
Match Action
Another week, another win. It feels really rather pleasant to be reporting on Leeds's vast improvement this season (despite a slow start) as on Saturday Burton Albion were put to the sword at a buoyant Elland Road.
Once again Whites striker Chris Wood was the hero as his 83rd minute penalty gave Leeds a late lead. The strike was Wood's 7th league goal of the campaign and he is fast changing the opinion many a Leeds fan (who initially questioned the signing) after his £3m move from Leicester in 2015.
Forgotten man Solomon Doukara popped up deep into injury time to secure the three points after being picked out by Wood (yep him again) during a counter attack.
Burton Albion had their best chance of the game in the first half. Ben Turner headed Matt Palmer's free kick against the crossbar in the first half and that was as good as it got for the Brewers as they remain winless on the road in the league.
Manager Reaction
Garry Monk – Leeds
"I was pushing the players to put on a good performance but I knew it would be hard after Tuesday night.
"We showed real character and determination to fight to the end. We had to scrap but we knew we would get chances and it was about taking those chances."
Nigel Clough – Burton Albion
"That's what it's been like for us away from home, things are just not falling our way.
"Leeds are a good team and this is a very hard place to come. This season is a great learning curve for the players who are learning all the time. "
Up Next – Norwich City away Saturday 5th November 3pm Kick Off
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|Returning to Reality. Thomas Merton's Wisdom for a Technological Age.
by Phillip M. Thompson.
Lutterworth Press, P.O. Box 60, Cambridge CB1 2NT. 2013. 978 0718892951. Paperback. 22 + 112pp. £15
Our attitudes to the unstoppable advance of technology have always been ambivalent. While we welcome all that makes human life safer, healthier and more comfortable, we also tend to skate over the moral issues that these advances raise. We may be uneasy about technology that enables lives – healthy or otherwise – to be prolonged indefinitely, or that intrudes upon our genetic structure in a quest for physical perfection, but we rarely, if ever, reflect upon the relationship between new technologies and spirituality. Or more precisely, how we can balance the demands of mechanistic culture in this era of secular supremacy against our social responsibilities as Christians and our yearning for a rich and rewarding spiritual life.
The Trappist monk Thomas Merton, who was perhaps the greatest Christian spiritual writer of the twentieth century, engaged increasingly with these issues as he observed the emergence of new technologies in the immediate post-war era and recognised their potential for both good and ill. His keen insights into the spiritual and moral threat of the dehumanising nature of the dark, shadow side of technology have lost none of their force since his death in 1968 and it is the urgency of our need to address these questions that underpins the message of Phillip Thompson's timely and important book.
Thompson's familiarity with and deep understanding of Merton's work enables him to convey Merton's insight and wisdom through a deft and intelligent use of his lucid and elegant prose. And this prose resonates with the reader, for even those unfamiliar with Merton become rapidly aware that this was a contemplative who lived apart from the world and yet was able to engage fully with it. His was no life-denying retreat into isolation, but a true union of individual and community, in both a narrow and a broad sense.
Against what Thompson calls "the false collectivity of the technological society", Merton set the authentic Christian community, in which technology is welcome when it can "provide means for the expression of Christian love, and prepare the way for the unity of the human family in peace and reconciliation." In one of his essays, 'The Other Side of Despair', Merton considered the principles of both community and collectivity, and these are neatly tabulated by Thompson so that we can see the richness of the one set against the barrenness of the other.
Elsewhere Thompson gives us seven 'guidelines for nurturing a contemplative life' (from Merton's The Inner Experience) that will enable us to harmonise our social, familial and spiritual responsibilities as truly practising Christians.
Merton was particularly concerned with the growth of military technology and the bland public acceptance of potential mass annihilation. Such acceptance showed "almost total passivity and irresponsibility on the moral level, plus demonic activism in social, political and military life." His strictures apply equally well to other, more recent technologies that also have a terrible potential for our general dehumanisation. It is all too evident in our obsession with the technology of instantaneous, universal communication and entertainment, which leads all too easily to 'mental numbing' and social isolation. For Merton the antidote included redeveloping our sense of community, engaging with others in articulate discussion and, by way of contemplative practices, the restoration of our connection to our "inmost truth – the image of God in [our] own soul."
What is perhaps a graver threat to our humanity is the 'biotechnological revolution'. This offers, through genetic and molecular manipulation, the possibility of 'human self-design' and the 'complete control of our genetic destiny', which 'could well mean the end of the human species as we know it' (these are quotations from Thompson's sources). The end result of all this 'reproductive manipulation', cloning and consciously sought 'extension of human life' would be our transformation 'into a new entity – the transhuman'. The individual human being is then no longer of significance and such 'progress' endorses Merton's comment that "modern secular humanisms are so fair and optimistic in theory and so utterly merciless and inhuman in practice."
Having set out the problems and potential nightmares of the 'Technological Age', Thompson devotes his final two chapters to discussing the ways in which we can provide solutions and alternatives. We would benefit immensely by taking up Merton's 'philosophy of solitude', recognising 'the falsity created by endless technological diversions and temptations', and by seeking a "spiritual and simple oneness" in ourselves. This oneness allowed for a connection to all other people in a form of solidarity that rejected the special interests and ideals of a narrow group. Unlike the collective delusions of modern society, this unity was connection on a "deeper and mystical level" that pursued a purity of love. (p. 85.)
Thompson also emphasises that for Merton, silence and solitude were only part of the answer. We are also required 'to proclaim the truths of God and to experience the divine'. In Merton's words, "The message of God's mercy to man must be preached. The word of truth must be proclaimed," and yet, "The mercy of God is not heard in words unless it is heard, both before and after the words are spoken, in silence."
There is much more, of wisdom, warning and consolation, to be found in this rich and necessary book, and I would urge all of you who read this to take it up, to absorb its message and to give it out to the world.
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Our New Challenge starts today at Polkadoodles
This week I have used the lovely Sugar Plum Daisy CD .
I have printed out 3 toppers so that I could decoupage the flowers
to make a rainbow of roses. The rolled roses and other embellishment's
have been cut from the pieces of backing papers .
Everything I have used for my card has come from the CD
except the butterfly
This is such a versatile CD and can be used for all ages and the papers are adorable
I will be entering in the following challenges
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This $4.25 Million Mansion in North Carolina Starred in a Television Show
The home was known as Grayson Manor on ABC's Revenge
Sometimes, a location in a television show becomes as famous as the characters. Such is this case with this classic West Indies–style residence in Wilmington, North Carolina, which was known as Grayson Manor on ABC's Revenge, the home of actress Madeleine Stowe's character Victoria Grayson. Designed by renowned architect Charles Dietsche, the estate was built in 2010 and is located on a bluff overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean in Landfall, a private gated community with a championship golf course. Upon entry to the home, there's a spacious foyer with a large Rumford fireplace and two entrances to the great room. Brazilian walnut flooring, coffered ceilings, exposed beams, and louvered transom windows outfit the great room in grand fashion. Off this space is a formal dining area, a chef's kitchen with a recycled-bottle backsplash, a butler's pantry, and a home office. There's also another living area with a wet bar, a 945-bottle wine cellar, and a billiard room. Situated on the waterfront, the lush grounds include an infinity pool, a spa, an outdoor fireplace, an herb garden, and a putting green, the home boasts vistas for miles.
5 Bedrooms
6 Baths
2 Half Baths
7,440 sq. ft.
$4.25 million
Contact: Landmark Sotheby's International Realty, 910-328-2276; sothebysrealty.com


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A company named Rockstar wanted its lawsuit filed against Google to be moved to Texas. Texas was the vicinity where it had filed patent lawsuits against Google's Android partners. The attempt to have the suit moved out of California, however, has proven unsuccessful.
Keeping the best interest of the child in mind
One man recalls the experiences he had to endure while being the center of a child custody dispute. This individual's own marriage ended in 2010, but he was determined to make life easier for his children than his parent's divorce had been upon him. He states that he always tries to be there for the important moments in his daughter's life. His daughter is now living with his mother while his son is living with him.
New Texas Company hopes to extract oil from old reservoirs
A Texas oil technology company is going to attempt something new while using old technology. They hope to invest in older oil fields that have been left dormant. The company would like to use biotechnology to revamp old U.S. sandstone reservoirs in hopes of extracting about eight billion barrels of oil that has said to have been stranded. It has already made a $40 million purchase of land in Wood County, Texas where the sandstone is said to be located.
Misunderstandings about finances can be costly during a divorce
Many spouses are in for unpleasant surprises when it comes to the dividing up of assets at the time of a divorce. Preparations do need to be made to make certain the asset division process is performed with some predictability.
Lawsuit filed concerning recent Texas oil spill
A number of commercial fishermen are bringing a lawsuit against the two companies reportedly involved in the Texas oil spill. Because booms are being launched from Galveston Bay, it's not considered safe for smaller fishing vessels to be out on the coastal waters.


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Come to the 2nd installment of Murmurations reading series (Avery Burns' occasional series at Bird & Beckett) for an evening of Delphic proportions. What does that mean? Here are two poets wholly engaged with the idea "Know thyself". Each explores this terrain thru the lens of the contemporary lyric adding to its potential and continued relevance. Achilles and Artaud among others will roam the streets this night. You don't want to miss it.
Tiff Dressen was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota. Songs from the Astral Bestiary (lyric& Press, 2014) is her first full-length collection of poetry. She currently lives in Oakland and works in the Office of Research at UC Berkeley. She is the author of Keeper (Woodland Editions, 2005), Because Icarus-children (WinteRed Press, December 2010) and for Aeolus: variations on the element (co-published by the g.e. collective and Poetry Flash, 2011).
Nico Peck's first full length collection The Pyrrhiad was published by Dirty Swan, 2014. Other work has been published in several anthologies including It's Night in San Francisco, but It's Sunny in Oakland (Timeless Infinite Light, 2014), and recent chapbooks include The Pyrrhiad (Trafficker, 2012), I Love the Dark, the Lord of the Night (Mondo Bummer, 2013), and Welter (Queer City). Peck's visual art has shown at Frameline, ATA, SOMArts, Krowswork Gallery, The Tornado, The One, Southern Exposure, and The Brooklyn Museum.
Both poets live in the Bay Area.


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International Workshop
Eco-Evolutionary Approaches to Climate Changes
Rapid Adaptation to Climate Changes in Plants
August 28-30, Kyushu University
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Clemson Running Back Analysis
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We continue our evaluation of each position of the Clemson football program with today's look at the running backs. The Starters Duane Coleman is the returning starter after coming on strong to end his first year as a Tiger. Coleman is a complete back that catches the ball well coming out of the backfield. Last season he caught 34 passes for 309 yards and three touchdowns. We think those numbers will go up in an attempt to replace the number of touches Derrick Hamilton and Kevin Youngblood left behind. Coleman is a terrific threat as a receiver. He improved as a runner last season also with 133 carries for 615 yards. We think he will continue to compete as hard as any player on this team. Coleman is ultra-competitive. Cliff Harrell returns as the starting fullback. Harrell is very athletic for his 260-pound frame. Clemson running back coach Burton Burns says his hands will surprise you. Unfortunately for Harrell the Tigers will continue to feature more of a one-back set. The Depth Yusef Kelly came into camp last year out of shape and it showed. Chad Jasmin and Coleman beat him out. Kelly was coming off of a great game against South Carolina the previous year but he could not keep his momentum. Instead his conditioning and thus injuries hampered his junior season. We hear he is in excellent shape and expects his biggest season in 2004. Reggie Merriweather had a great spring in 2003 but he could not do the little things as well as Jasmin and Coleman and his playing time showed it. The North Augusta native understood what happened to him and has progressed heading into his sophomore season. We think Merriweather sees a significant increase in his role in 2004. Kyle Browning tried his hand at corner in the spring but returns to his natural position this fall. The junior has been very productive when he gets his chance. We also think his role increases. Browning is very tough and catches the ball well. We think he sees more PT in 2004. Brandon Nolen is a redshirt freshman that will have to continue to wait his turn. Burns loves Nolen's speed and his time will come. Unfortunately for him Coleman, Kelly, Merriweather and Browning are ahead of him at this time. Stephen Jackson experimented at linebacker in the spring but he returns to fullback this spring. His toughness is needed in goal line and short-yardage situations. The Newcomers The staff rolled the dice in 2004 with All-American tailback Jamaal Edwards but Edwards chose FSU. They also turned down Albert Ashcraft late in the process because they felt little need for a tailback in the class. With no signees in 2004, the running back position will be a huge need in this upcoming class. The Recruiting Board Here is a look at several of the running backs Clemson will monitor in 2004: James Davis (6-0, 205, 4.4) is one of the nation's top running back prospects. The Atlanta, GA back had 1,700 yards and 14 touchdowns last season. He has been to Clemson on several occasions and has the Tigers in his top three. We think Clemson, Tennessee and Alabama are the slight leaders. Davis also has offers from Georgia, Georgia Tech, LSU, Auburn, Oklahoma State and North Carolina. Some feel Mike Davis (5-10, 205, 4.5) of Columbia, SC might be the top back in a good year for running backs in South Carolina. Last year he rushed for 2.349 yards and 25 touchdowns including a terrific playoff performance. Davis has also been to Clemson for unofficial visits. He says he has offers from Clemson, South Carolina, Alabama, Auburn, Michigan, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio State, Florida State, Maryland and Kentucky. Travil Jamison (6-0, 205, 4.5) of Greenville, SC is a tough between the tackles runner who we have scouted for the past two seasons. He rushed for 2,400 yards and 33 touchdowns last season. Jamison also has been to Clemson for several unofficial visits. He says Clemson and Kentucky are his first two offers. He also lists South Carolina, Georgia, FSU and Tennessee among his choices. Tony Nelson (5-10, 190, 4.45) of Northwest High School in Germantown, MD had an excellent camp at Clemson earlier this summer. His performance earned an offer from the staff and Nelson committed a few days later. His 4.4 forties caught the staff by surprise. This slasher rushed for 800 yards and 12 touchdowns last season but those numbers should increase this season. Before committing to Clemson Nelson had an offer from Marshall. Sadat Chambers (5-10, 180, 4.5) of Central High School in Pageland, SC impressed both Clemson running back coach Burns and his Clemson recruiter Dabo Swinney with his speed. Last season Chambers rushed for over 1,100 yards. Some schools like Chambers as a defensive back but we would put him in the athlete category. Clemson is his first offer but South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia Tech are also involved. Bobby Wallace (5-8, 185< 4.5) is a powerful, shorter back. Last season he rushed for 2,000 yards and 15 touchdowns. The Conway, SC product has not received an offer yet but his top schools include Clemson, South Carolina, Georgia, FSU and Tennessee. Rod Fluellen (5-7, 190, 4.5) of Richland Northeast High School in Columbia, SC reminds many of Wallace. Built low to the ground, Fluellen gets tough yards between the tackles and has breakaway speed. He is still looking for his first offer among his favorites but lists Wake Forest, Vanderbilt, Clemson, South Carolina and Georgia among his favorites. James Arnold (5-11, 180, 4.5) of Mocksville, NC is considered by some as the top back in North Carolina this season. He has offers from all of his favorites including NC State, North Carolina, Auburn, Clemson, ECU and others. The Tigers found two backs at their summer camps this year. Will Ford (5-9, 180, 4.4) of Traveler's Rest, SC is a back we have seen in each of the last two seasons. His consistent 4.4 forties at the summer camp got Clemson's attention. The Tigers have not offered but this kind of speed will get Ford a long look this season. Another back the staff found this summer is fullback Mark Paschal (6-2, 230, 4.5) of Charlotte, NC. Paschal camped at Clemson and received an offer despite the fact that fullback is not a priority in this class. But Paschall's toughness and athleticism earned an offer from the Tigers as well as North Carolina, UCLA, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, Duke and Wake Forest. These are a few of the running back prospects Clemson will continue to recruit throughout this fall. We think the staff would like to sign 2-3 running backs in the upcoming class.
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So it's autumn outside and we have to think about what to dress to stay warm and stylish at the same time. Today WardrobeLooks.com will share with you trendy short coat styles for women. We tell you honestly, it's not so easy to buy chic and trendy coat, as we see lots of interesting offerings which look perfect on models, but when we try them on, some of them look ridiculous on us. As we already told you, we will speak about short coat designs. If your body allows you to wear short coat, then we advice you to try on double-breasted coats and trapeze forms, the ones with fitted silhouettes. It's very important to team your short coat with comfy boots and chic trousers.
Here you will see twill and shearling coat, oversize cotton-canvas and merino wool-blend parka, scuba and padded twill coat, cotton-twill parka, fur coat, wool-blend peacoat, hooded down coat, quilted ruched shell coat, quilted down biker jacket, asymmetric coat, hooded wool duffle coat and many other styles which are so on trend this year.
It's very necessary to pay special attention to color. As we all know bright colors draw attention to the woman. As we all know, that boots have to accompany your coat, then if you want to style your black boots, then it's better to wear dark color coat, like brown or dark hue color.
I think you already dig it by the images of the presented coats, that new season comes with no rules, as you can see here fur, leather, bright, dark, simple, sophisticated, slim and oversized short coat styles.


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The estimation of risk of recurrence for patients with colon carcinoma must be improved. A robust immune score quantification is needed to introduce immune parameters into cancer classification. The aim of the study was to assess the prognostic value of total tumour-infiltrating T-cell counts and cytotoxic tumour-infiltrating T-cells counts with the consensus Immunoscore assay in patients with stage I–III colon cancer.
An international consortium of 14 centres in 13 countries, led by the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer, assessed the Immunoscore assay in patients with TNM stage I–III colon cancer. Patients were randomly assigned to a training set, an internal validation set, or an external validation set. Paraffin sections of the colon tumour and invasive margin from each patient were processed by immunohistochemistry, and the densities of CD3+ and cytotoxic CD8+ T cells in the tumour and in the invasive margin were quantified by digital pathology. An Immunoscore for each patient was derived from the mean of four density percentiles. The primary endpoint was to evaluate the prognostic value of the Immunoscore for time to recurrence, defined as time from surgery to disease recurrence. Stratified multivariable Cox models were used to assess the associations between Immunoscore and outcomes, adjusting for potential confounders. Harrell's C-statistics was used to assess model performance.
Tissue samples from 3539 patients were processed, and samples from 2681 patients were included in the analyses after quality controls (700 patients in the training set, 636 patients in the internal validation set, and 1345 patients in the external validation set). The Immunoscore assay showed a high level of reproducibility between observers and centres (r=0.97 for colon tumour; r=0.97 for invasive margin; pvs 65 (19%) patients with an intermediate Immunoscore vs 51 (32%) patients with a low Immunoscore; hazard ratio [HR] for high vs low Immunoscore 0.20, 95% CI 0.10–0.38; pvs low Immunoscore 0.33, 95% CI 0.21–0.52; p
The Immunoscore provides a reliable estimate of the risk of recurrence in patients with colon cancer. These results support the implementation of the consensus Immunoscore as a new component of a TNM-Immune classification of cancer.
French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, the LabEx Immuno-oncology, the Transcan ERAnet Immunoscore European project, Association pour la Recherche contre le Cancer, CARPEM, AP-HPInstitut National du Cancer, Italian Association for Cancer Research, national grants and the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer.
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Hello everyone! Megan_Highwind checking in! This week's episode of Gotham focused again on Hugo Strange trying to get rid of Jim Gordon. As we learned last week, Theo Galavan was brought back from the dead by Strange in order to use his new superhuman strength to dispatch Jim Gordon once and for all. After last week's snafu where Freeze failed in killing Gordon and in the process got found out to be alive after being presumed dead, this week Theo Galavan makes an even bigger event of his being brought back in front of the dead by being shown on public television after falling down onto a cop car from the roof of a nearby building.
It is clear at this point that Galavan has been brainwashed by Strange in order to commit horrible deeds for him. Strange has shown himself to be obsessed with Gordon and is willing to go to any length to have him done away with. Unfortunately for Strange, his ideas are too crazy to work as the people that he brings back can only be controlled to an extent. Galavan was able to stab Barnes in this episode, though, and it looks as though he was hurt pretty badly. This character has been beat down so many times I am wondering if this is the event that will finally do him in.
The episode mostly focused on Galavan as Azrael with a fancy new knight looking costume and super strength, but it also gave us some insight to how things are going with Nygma in prison. I really enjoyed seeing Nygma playing with the other inmates in the prison. He is obviously quite a bit smarter than most of them, considering he is in the psych ward, and manipulates them into doing whatever he desires. The episode ends with Nygma finding himself in the basement of Arkham where he appears to be ready to cause some serious chaos.
Overall, this episode was quite a bit like the last one, in some ways. There is a person who is thought to be dead coming back and attempting to kill Gordon. Unlike with Freeze, however, Galavan being back causes quite a stir for not only Gordon but Galavan's sister, Penguin, and the general population of Gotham whom he was mayor over for a short time. I am assuming the last two episodes of the season will deal with Galavan and hopefully come to a head with Strange as well. I am enjoying seeing Nygma more this season and hope that he continues to get crazier and crazier as well!
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This picture says it all. This young lady was a camper at LFYC. She showed up to breakfast one morning sporting this handmade t-shirt that said "Paul in Training" on the front and "Training To Be Paul Turner" on the back. This was pretty humbling. It made me reallize how important our example is to others.
Whether you are a parent, youth worker, student or just Joe Average you are influencing somebody. Some of it is intentional but most of it is not. Our stories, are being played out before everyone and it matters.
"You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everybody. You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts." 2 Corinthians 3:2,3
Our story are always being written and some stories are being re-written. Unqualified people too often have pens in their hands attempting to write more action, sex, drama, pain and many other themes into our lives. The Apostle Paul took his influence seriously. He saw people as blank pieces of paper. People of a clean start in Christ. He saw his influence not as a the written code to be enforced but of relationships written on and in the human heart.
I was honored that she wanted to be like me. I quoted the Apotle Paul, 'Follow me as I follow Christ." To quote scripture (too often as code and law) rings hollow when not intertwined with a loving friendship. Paul said it best in I Corinthians 1, "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.". The law without love is lifeless.
Who are you training? Intentionally or unintentionally? I'll have some more thoughts on intentional training in my next post.
Blessings and Peace
Paul Turner
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Training To Be Me?
Posted by Paul Turner at 5:48 AM
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This is a great post. Good reminder that we influence others.
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Typically, if you think about this movie, [Link Removed], beauty trends wouldn't necessarily come to mind; however, Jackie's article has thought provoking items relating to beauty. Give it a read! A bald Barbie doll??? Really?
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Just because The Hunger Games novel is for the "young adult" audience doesn't mean "grown-ups" aren't lining up to see the blockbuster film based on the trilogy by author Suzanne Collins. In fact, I recently saw the film at an Upper West Side theater in New York City and the average age of the audience seemed to me to be over 40 (not a scientific evaluation, wink).
The Hunger Games book, first published in 2008 by Scholastic, made the New York Times Sunday Book Review's list of [Link Removed] in November, 2008.
What's it All About?
The film, which has broken box office records and raked in over $152 million in its first weekend, tells the story of a futuristic society that has undergone some sort of drastic apocalypse and is divided up into 12 districts that surround a wealthy capitol. As punishment for a prior rebellion against The Capitol, each district must offer up a girl and a boy between the ages of 12 and 18 to fight each other to the death until only one winner remains. The heroine, 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, played by Jennifer Lawrence, volunteers to take part in lieu of her sister Primrose who was selected by random lottery.
The story follows Katniss and the other children in the race to survive while the powers-that-be in The Capitol control everything in the players' environment, including light, darkness, weather, obstacles and even creating rabid, futuristic wild dogs to hunt the children in the forest.
When we first meet Katniss, she is at home with her widowed mother and little sister, Primrose. Katniss' makeup is very natural and her hair is braided to one side, a popular style for the past couple of years. What's new and trendy and seen throughout the film is the ornate and intricate French and fishtail braids that are prevalent all over [Link Removed] one of the fastest growing social media sites in history that allows users to create "vision boards," fill them up with their favorite photos and share them across the community.
Natural for the Kids, Outlandish for the Adults
Another aspect of the film that I found interesting is the stark contrast between the makeup and hairstyles on the children compared to the adults in the film (accentuating the generation gap?). The male adult character, Seneca Crane played by Wes Bentley, sports a beard shaved into an elaborate pattern bordering on paisley. Actor Elizabeth Banks' character, Effie Trinket, undergoes a variety of extravagant costume and makeup changes, at times appearing in lavender hair, blue lips and fuchsia mascara.
Before the participants – or tributes as they're called in the film – take part in the games, they are treated to a full makeover for the big entrance. At one point in the film, Stanley Tucci's blue-haired character Caesar Flickerman, the Master of Ceremonies of The Hunger Games, even exclaims, "The stylists are able to reflect the character of each district."
After the initial grand entrance where the tributes had been poufed and puffed by their stylists, the makeup is toned down to ultra natural for the actual "games."
Even Barbie Gets in on the Action
That ultra natural look is reflected on the new makeup-free Katniss Everdeen Barbie doll, which just rolled out for pre-order at [Link Removed] and will be available in stores in August, 2012. Mattel describes the new Katniss Barbie as "created specifically for the adult collector."
"Hopefully 'Hunger Games' fans can appreciate the attention to detail," designer Bill Greening told Entertainment Weekly. "I am a huge 'Hunger Games' fan and loved all three books, so it was truly an amazing experience for me to be able to design the Katniss Barbie doll...I think it really pays tribute to Katniss and 'The Hunger Games.'"
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"From Faye Dunaway's classic depression-era blonde bob and dash of black eyeliner in Bonnie & Clyde, to Audrey Hepburn's strong brows and rose red lips in Breakfast at Tiffany's, there is nothing more exciting than when a beauty trend goes main steam by way of the movies," says Grayson. He should know – Grayson is the makeup department head for the Academy Awards and Primetime Emmy Awards telecasts.
Grayson's philosophy is if you start with good skin, it creates a "canvas" for the next part of your beauty routine – the makeup – allowing you to be less made up and more "you."
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