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That 4-word phrase seemed to be the theme of my 2014.
I guess when you make your #oneword2014 LESS - as in less-me-more-Jesus - He fills your year with crazy, unexpected grace.
My year felt like anything but less, but in the most crazy-grace way, it was filled with less stuff and more Kingdom - and could a girl ask for anything more?
And so we find ourselves here, at the 2014 Year in Review, and I can only look back and smile... Thanks.
January brought this blog's most-read post ever - by a long shot.
February was freezing... The perfect month to cheer on Team Canada in Sochi, turn sweet seventeen, and spend a night sleeping outside for a youth curriculum on empathy?! Sure. ;)
March felt like this year's quietest month. I did officially become our family's second-fastest cuber... Although I think my calling really is in helping to run those comps, not compete in them. ;) Spring was also a wondrous time to be a Toronto Raptors fan [as it is now] and you can be sure that this basketball family was cheering loud. [Like, loud. Really. Just ask mom. ;)]
In April, my family said goodbye to my beloved grandfather, as he stepped from this earth and into eternity with our Creator. As I've reflected on his life more than ever throughout this past year, I've only become even more thankful for him, his life, and his courage.
In May, my family and I started to tick down the days until our second trip to the Philippines in 3 years.
And then it was just a whirlwind from there... One I feel like I'm still just recovering from, in every good way possible.
June molasses-crawled its way by leading up to us getting on a jet plane headed for a certain cluster of islands that is quite close to my heart. My little bro graduated from the only elementary school either of us has ever known, this little boy named Jamson who stole my heart at a concert found a Compassion sponsor and finally, finally - we headed for the airport.
Our time in the Philippines was simply a joy. While there were many somber moments reflecting on the life of my grandpa, we knew we had so much to celebrate because of the life he lived. We met our newest Compassion child, JD, and we were able to spend time with Florianlyn and Rechelle for a second time. We visited with family, saw the field work of two of our other favourite organizations, International Justice Mission and Habitat for Humanity Philippines, and just enjoyed the relaxed pace of the Philippines.
And then... the biggest example of unexpected, crazy grace in this year makes a quiet entrance: Would I like to be the host of Compassion Canada's youth curriculum video series on poverty, injustice, and what our response as Christians can and should be?
Uh, yes.
And trip #2 to the Philippines ensued... this time to do some filming for the curriculum with JD, his family, and community.
The fall was readjustment back into First World culture. I grappled lots with what I experienced in the Philippines over the summer. September also brought the beginning of my last year of high school and the domestic filming of the Compassion Canada curriculum (which was also named True Story: What God Wants Us To Do About Poverty in September!).
The rest of Fall has been typical, busy Fall: university applications, Freedom Creations, speaking and advocating at Compassion events, seeing True Story begin to come together, scholarship applications, youth group, school, friends, life. Just your not-really-that-normal 17-year-old's life. ;)
I am ending this year incredibly thankful for the beautiful ways my Creator worked throughout this year. Less truly became more only through Him, and I can only marvel at the grace He continually gives.
To all of you here in the blog-sphere... I know this blog was one place where "less" was really evident this year. But thank you for reading these words when I come up with them. As we ring in the new year, the blog-shpere community is one thing I will surely be thanking our Abba Father for. Your words of encouragement, inspiration and love are so, so, so valuable to me. Thank You.
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Foy Valentine, SBC Ethics Pioneer, Dies
Bob Allen
Foy Valentine, leader of the Southern Baptist Convention's moral-concerns agency for a tumultuous 27 years spanning from the civil-rights movement of the 1960s to the fundamentalist takeover of the denomination in the 1980s, died Saturday after an apparent heart attack at his home in Dallas.
Valentine, 82, had experienced heart trouble for several years. Funeral services are scheduled Wednesday at Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas, where he was a member.
Valentine was the first doctoral student of T.B. Maston, a pioneer in the field of Christian ethics who taught many years at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
With a constituency entrenched in the South during segregation, most SBC agency heads tried to remain neutral in the early years of the civil-rights movement. Valentine was a rare exception. He once remarked that Southern Baptists "abandoned the Lordship of Christ in racial ethics," by perpetuating a culture of racism.
"The God of the Bible, the God Christians know through personal faith in Jesus Christ, is no abstract First Cause or Prime Mover, or Great Unknown out in the abstract Great Somewhere who can be placated by a bit of discrete crying in the chapel," Valentine wrote. "He is a personal God who is very deeply and very definitely concerned. God cares and God is concerned. And since God is concerned, his people have an obligation to be concerned too."
Robert Parham, executive director of the Baptist Center for Ethics, worked as director of hunger concerns at the Christian Life Commission during the final years of Valentine's tenure, 1985-1987.
Parham said Valentine "encouraged and aggravated a generation of Southern Baptist ministers in the 1960s and 1970s to care about applied Christianity."
"He refused to let Southern Baptists define Christian faith by pietistic individualism and other-worldly evangelism," Parham said. "He knew the Hebrew prophets and Jesus' teachings were at the core of Christianity and should be at the heart of Southern Baptist life. He tried his best to lead Southern Baptists to prioritize Christian ethics."
Valentine was a polarizing figure in the fundamentalist/moderate controversy of the 1980s. The Christian Life Commission, today called the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and headed by religious right figure Richard Land, was an early target for fundamentalists.
A past president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State and board member of the religious-left Interfaith Alliance, Valentine was most despised by SBC fundamentalists for supporting the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, later known as the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.
Valentine backed an SBC resolution in 1971 approving of abortion under some circumstances, including protecting the health of the mother, a position consistent with the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized most abortions two years later.
The SBC reversed that position in 1980, adopting a resolution calling for a constitutional ban on abortion under any circumstance except to save the life of the mother. Today Southern Baptist leaders are involved in an effort to stack the Supreme Court with conservative justices they hope will overturn Roe v. Wade.
The BCE's Parham said Valentine viewed the agenda of the fundamentalist party, which eventually transformed into an arm of the religious right, as "foreign to the gospel."
While best known for folksy writing and CLC seminars, Parham said, Valentine's most-overlooked contribution was his work to expand ethics work within the SBC bureaucracy. Valentine grew the CLC from a staff of two to 15, despite opposition, and played a pivotal role in expanding Christian ethics work in state conventions and in seminaries.
"With the deaths of A. C. Miller, T. B. Maston and Henlee Barnette, Foy's passing brings us closer to the end of a remarkable generation of Baptist ethics leaders, leaving us with too few prophets and social reformers," Parham said.
After retiring from the Christian Life Commission, Valentine headed the Center for Christian Ethics, a partner organization of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
Bob Allen is managing editor of EthicsDaily.com.
Ethics pioneer Foy Valentine dies suddenly in Dallas
By Greg Warner and Marv Knox
Published January 7, 2006
Editor's note: This article updates and corrects the one issued Sat., Jan. 7.
DALLAS (ABP) — Pioneer Baptist ethicist Foy Valentine died suddenly Jan. 7 of an apparent heart attack, family members said. He was 82.
A native Texan and Dallas resident, Valentine was executive director of the Southern Baptist Convention's former Christian Life Commission in Nashville from 1960 to 1987.
Valentine, who has had heart problems for many years, awoke with chest pains Jan. 7 and asked his wife, Mary Louise, to drive him to the hospital. He fell unconscious five minutes away from the hospital, a family member said. Doctors tried unsuccessfully for 40 minutes to reestablish a heartbeat before pronouncing him dead.
A memorial service will be held Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 11, at 2 p.m., at Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas after a private burial in his hometown of Edgewood, in Van Zandt County.
Valentine is survived by his wife of 58 years, three daughters — Jean, Carol and Susan — and five grandchildren.
"He was legitimately a 20th century prophet," said Jimmy Allen, a lifelong friend and colleague. "He was a pioneer in Christian ethics, civil rights and religious liberty. He dealt with the hardest kind of issues in a prophetic fashion."
Before going to the Christian Life Commission, Valentine was director of the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission from 1953 to 1960.
A key figure in the emergence of progressive ethical thinking among Southern Baptists, Valentine's most notable influence was as a champion of civil rights — long before Southern Baptists openly embraced the concept, colleagues said.
W.C. Fields, longtime director of Baptist Press and a friend of Valentine's for decades, described Valentine as the most significant civil-rights leader among Southern Baptists during the 1960s, '70s and '80s.
The source of Valentine's convictions regarding racial equality "without a doubt … came from his grounding in his faith, his love and understanding of the Scriptures and the fact that from his earliest days, his parents and peers helped him to become a deeply devoted Christian," Fields noted.
"During those dark days, when civil rights was such an explosive issue, Foy always was well-informed, sure of the Christian approach, and he had the courage to follow through on his convictions," Fields said. "His courage was amazing.
"There were people all across the country who disagreed with him in a very strong manner. And yet he was able to maintain his position with evenness and with good response to those who disagreed with him."
Late in his career, Valentine became a favorite target of SBC conservatives because of his progressive stance on abortion and other volatile issues. In 1971, he was instrumental in the SBC's adoption of a resolution affirming a right to abortion in some cases.
Allen said Valentine's critics "overstated" his affirmation of abortion. "His position was that abortion was an evil but allowable for the health of the mother," said Allen, who succeeded Valentine at the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission and later directed the SBC Radio and Television Commission.
While Valentine's critics used the abortion issue to rally conservative support in the SBC, their opposition went much deeper, Allen said. "The major antagonism with conservatives was they had been opposed to every progressive stance, particularly in the area of civil rights."
After retiring from the CLC, which later was renamed the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Valentine founded the Center for Christian Ethics, now attached to Baylor University. He was the founding editor of the journal, Christian Ethics Today, in 1995 and a trustee of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, among other national groups.
Valentine and Fields talked from time to time about the pressures of providing civil rights leadership to a convention founded, at least in part, because its leaders owned slaves. Valentine's courage, conviction and even his sense of humor served him well on the front lines of the civil-rights movement, Fields said.
"He was a natural leader," Fields said. "He was willing to stand out there alone, to fall, to get back up and to fall again if necessary."
Although Valentine was raised in deep East Texas, a region not known for its progressive posture regarding race in the first half of the 20th century, he defied stereotypes. On many issues, Valentine followed the lead of his mentor, ethics pioneer T. B. Maston. Valentine was Maston's first doctoral student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, which awarded him a PhD in Christian ethics. Valentine also was a graduate of Baylor University.
"Humor might have been his saving grace. His ability to ride easy in the saddle was his great gift. He was a true Texan, and he could ride alone if necessary."
Foy Valentine
Graveside services for Foy Dan Valentine, 82, Edgewood, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, January 11, at Small Cemetery, Edgewood, under direction of Hiett's LyBrand Funeral Home, Wills Point.
Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. at Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas.
Mr. Valentine died January 7, 2006, in Dallas.
He was born July 3, 1923, in Edgewood. A distinguished American churchman, he was cited by Christian Century magazine in 1975 as one of 20 innovative leaders in the religious world. He earned a bachelor of arts degree from Baylor University in 1944, a master of divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1947, and a doctor of theology degree from Southwestern in 1947.
He received honorary doctoral degrees from three universities, including his alma mater, Baylor University, William Jewell College and Louisiana College. He was pastor of First Baptist Church of Gonzales, later moving to second executive director of the Christian Life Commission of the Baptist General Convention of Texas in 1953. In 1960, he was named executive director of the national Christian Life Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, retiring in 1987 after 27 years in that position.
He authored several books on applied Christianity, contributing to periodicals, and was a guest columnist in USA Today. He founded and wrote for the bi-monthly magazine, Christian Ethics Today. He was chair of the Christian Ethics Commission of the Baptist World Alliance. He was a founding member of the Board of Churches' Center for Theology and Public Policy of the National Trust for Public Education and of the Center for Dialogue and Development.
He was appointed by the President of the United States to the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties. He was a trustee and president of Americans Untied for Separation of Church and State. He served for 25 years as a trustee of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs.
Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Mary Louise Valentine, Edgewood; daughters, Jean, Carol and Susan; brother and sister-in-law, James H. and Bobbie Jean Valentine; grandchildren, Laura Krauss, John Berg, Trey, Will and Catherine Brown; son-in-law, Ronnie Brown; numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives.
|Foy Valentine, dead at 82, led SBC moral concerns arm 27 years
Jan 9, 2006
By Dwayne Hastings
Baptist Press
DALLAS (BP)–Foy Valentine, former executive director of the Southern Baptist Christian Life Commission (now the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission), died Jan. 7 at Baylor Medical Center in Dallas. Valentine, 82, was taken to the hospital after suffering a heart attack at home.
Valentine was born July 3, 1923, in Edgewood, Texas. He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Mary Louise, and three daughters, Jean, Carol and Susan. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Cindy.
During his first official report to the SBC during the 1960 annual meeting, Valentine told messengers the entity "interprets its grave responsibility to this convention to speak to the conscience of Southern Baptists on the application of Christian principles in everyday life."
Richard Land, current ERLC president, expressed his sympathy to Valentine's family and friends, noting that Valentine gave 27 years of "faithful service to Southern Baptists as head of the CLC," particularly in what Land said was Valentine's "eloquent witness to the biblical truth that racism is a sinful rebellion against the biblical teaching of the equality of all men before the cross."
"While Dr. Valentine and I had significant differences of opinion on many issues, all Southern Baptists will be forever in his debt for his courageous and prophetic stance on racial reconciliation and racial equality in the turbulent middle third of the 20th century," Land said, noting that it had been important for him as teenager in the 1960s to know that Valentine and the CLC were "on the right side of the race issue, when there were too many institutions and individuals in American life and Southern Baptist life who were on the wrong side."
In his doctoral dissertation, "A Historical Study of Southern Baptists and Race Relations, 1917-1947," Valentine wrote that he held out hope that "Southern Baptists will help to bring about the Christian way in race relations not by sponsoring legislative action or by fostering ecclesiastical fiats but by adopting, as individuals and as churches, the spirit and the mind of Christ in every phase of race relations."
Valentine is listed as one of a handful of Southern Baptists who were "pioneers in race relations" by Jesse Fletcher in his book, "The Southern Baptist Convention: A Sesquicentennial History."
"The Christian Life Commission took a very aggressive approach in trying to make inroads to entrench Southern views [on race] that had existed since the days of the Civil War," Fletcher wrote, adding that "Valentine kept his staff and a small but enthusiastic cadre of followers on the leading edge of national social change."
Valentine's drive to bring Southern Baptists' to a biblical understanding of the race issue "earned him a significant place in the history of our denomination," Land affirmed.
Valentine made a profession of faith at age 11 at Pleasant Union Missionary Baptist Church near Edgewood. He was ordained to the Gospel ministry in 1942 at Seventh and James Baptist Church in Waco, Texas.
He received a bachelor of arts degree from Baylor University in Waco in 1944, a master of theology degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1947 and, under the tutelage of noted ethicist T.B. Maston, a doctor of theology degree from SWBTS in 1949.
He received the distinguished alumnus award from Southwestern Seminary in 1970 and honorary doctoral degrees from Baylor, William Jewell College and Louisiana College. He was listed in Who's Who in America and was recognized by Christian Century magazine in 1975 as one of 20 innovative leaders in the religious world. Last year, he was honored with the George W. Truett Religious Freedom Award by Texas Baptist Heritage Center of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
While a student at Southwestern, Valentine served as a special representative in race relations for the Baptist General Convention of Texas. In 1949 and 1950 he directed Baptist student activities at colleges in the Houston area.
He was called as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Gonzales, Texas, in 1950 and served as a member of the executive board of the Baptist General Convention of Texas and a member of the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission -– which selected him as the commission's director in 1953.
He became executive secretary (a title later changed to executive director) of the SBC's Christian Life Commission in June 1960 and retired from the CLC in 1987.
Valentine's departure from the CLC came during a contentious time in the Southern Baptist Convention. While he is praised roundly for his stance on race relations, during his tenure at the CLC his views on the separation of church and state, the sanctity of human life and other topics, including race, were divisive in the convention.
Valentine was a trustee and chairman of the executive committee of Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State, now Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, in 50-plus years of involvement with the organization. He was appointed by President Carter to the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties.
He also served on the Baptist World Alliance's Commission on Religious Liberty and Human Rights and was a trustee and board president of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs (now the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty). And he served on the executive committee of the National Temperance League's board of directors.
Valentine was the founding editor of Christian Ethics Today, continuing to write a column for the journal during the last year of his life. The Center for Christian Ethics, which advocates the strict separation of church and state, was founded in 1989 by Valentine.
He is the author of several books, including "Believe and Behave" (Broadman Press, 1964); "Citizenship for Christians" (Broadman, 1965); "The Cross in the Marketplace" (Word Books, 1966); "Where the Action Is: Studies in James" (Word, 1969); and "What Do You Do after You Say Amen" (Word, 1980).
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m Wednesday, Jan. 11, at Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas, followed by burial at Small Cemetery in Edgewood. The family has said donations in memory of Valentine may be made to The Fuller Center for Housing in Americus, Ga., or a personal charity.
Foy Valentine: Southern Baptist who fought for racial equality
|Former Southern Baptist leader Foy Valentine dies at 82
Foy Valentine, a former Southern Baptist leader who stressed that racism was sinful and championed the separation of church and state, has died of a heart attack.
Valentine, 82, died Saturday at a Dallas hospital.
Valentine was the executive director of the Southern Baptist Christian Life Commission, now called the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the denomination's public policy panel.
He was "on the right side of the race issue, when there were too many institutions and individuals in American life and Southern Baptist life who were on the wrong side," said Richard Land, his more conservative successor on the commission.
Although Valentine received praise for his stance on race relations, the convention was divided over his position on the separation of church and state and other topics.
Valentine, who earned a master's degree from Baylor University and a doctorate at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, served as president of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.
He retired from the Christian Life Commission in 1987, after 27 years on the panel. After retiring, he started the Center for Christian Ethics, now at Baylor.
The Edgewood native authored "Whatsoever Things Are Lovely" and founded the magazine "Christian Ethics Today," writing a column for the journal during the last year of his life.
Valentine is survived by his wife of 58 years, Mary Louise, and three daughters, Jean, Carol and Susan. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Cindy.
A memorial service for Valentine was scheduled for 2 p.m Wednesday at Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas, with burial at Small Cemetery in Edgewood.
Information from: The Dallas Morning News, http://www.dallasnews.com
Source: http://www.mysanantonio.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8F25F0O0.html


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Being in Dublin could only mean one thing for a coffee lover. Irish coffee. You know it, you (probably) tasted it already but once in Dublin, you have to taste the local one. So, I went with my friends to the famous "The Temple Bar" which is located in the city centre. The Temple Bar is known since 1599, when Sir William Temple, a famous teacher and philosopher joined the service of the Lord Deputy of Ireland. In 1609 Temple was made Provost of Trinity College, Dublin and Master Chancery in Ireland and moved to his country. Sir William Temple built his house and gardens on newly land on the corner of Temple Lane and the street called Temple Bar.
There, you can have a pint, a bite or a cup of the most delicious coffee ever. I wanted to have a sip- or two- of Irish coffee since day 1 so, on our last day, I thought that it was now or never. It is made of hot coffee, brown sugar, Irish whisky (obviously) and whipped cream. It tasted a bit strong, especially in the end, but I liked it a lot! The weather outside was cold and windy so it was perfect to have a hot cup of coffee and a nice place to stay for a while. The drink, the atmosphere and the live music made the whole experience one of a kind.
Everybody was happy, a bit drunk, singing and wearing hats with the famous four-leaf clover, that you felt drifting into this festive mood. It was a cosy bar that still reminded the place that outstanding people as Sir William Temple and James Joyce lived.


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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Who is Mrs Lowery ?
January 12, 2010
I continue to plug away at my book. 20 chapters are down and I have no idea how many more to go. My writing routine is scattered and unpredictable but remains totally enjoyable. I am so fortunate to have a large old home with extra rooms upstairs upstairs now that 4 kids have flown the coop. We turned one room into the library and filled it with...books. It now has an old recliner, which is where I sit with my laptop, and the desk my husbands uncle gave him 30 years ago. Its a putrid green. Wish I could blame the uncle but I'm the one who painted the desk 10 years ago.
Last week I printed off my book as it is so far, and spread out all the pages on the putrid green desk. I then went through it page by page and found a few characters I had not remembered. For example one Mrs Lowery. She appeared in chapter six and just began talking as if she had been in my book all along. Not unlike those strange folks who get on the elevator with you and act like your best buddy. Some of the stuff she said made sense, the rest was drivel. I asked the other main characters if they knew who she was, where she came from and whether or not she should be expanded or given the boot. I received no feedback. Perhaps they were worried that if they ratted out one of their own, I might see them as useless to the core of the story and eliminate them as well. These book characters can be a bit cliquey. So for now Mrs Lowery stays but Doctor Seuss had to go. I wasn't sure but I may have gotten that name from another book and who needs a literary lawsuit at this stage of my novel ?
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Poached Salmon With Mousseline Sauce
Here is a beautiful dish for Spring that appeared on my table recently. It is also included in the book "Cooking For Madam" (a book from Jackie Onassis's housekeeper, cook, and personal confidant) which my friend Joy lent me recently. It is also a dish that I included in my "Last Dinner on the Titanic" class. So you see it is kind of an old-fashioned haute cuisine dish.
Poaching the salmon insures a moist and succulent piece of fish, and it can be served warm or cold. Mousseline sauce is the combination of whipped cream folded into hollandaise. The hollandaise must be slightly cooled to make sure the whipped cream doesn't collapse. I seasoned it with some fresh dill, which is also an excellent compliment for the cucumber and carrot side dishes.
1/2 cup clarified butter
3 egg yolks
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Large dash of Tobasco sauce
1/2 cup heavy cream
Add the yolks to a food processor, heat the butter. With the processor running, slowly pour the hot butter into the yolks. Season the hollandaise with some salt, pepper, lemon juice, and Tobasco.
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Well, what can I say? You, my dear readers, completely rock my world. Thanks so much to all of you who commented on my wet set post, I'm so grateful that so many of you were generous enough to take the time to share you advice and/or your own techniques. Clearly some of you are very well versed in the ways of vintage hair, and for this I salute you!
Now, I would have hated all your help and hints to have been lost in the comments section of my previous post, so I have decided to dedicate this post to taking your advice. This means that the whole of the blogging world can enjoy your words of wisdom, which I'm sure they'd love to do! So let's take a look at what some of you said about my first ever wet set...
What seems to be the general consensus is if in doubt just keep brushing! It seems that my exploding hair disaster may not have been a disaster at all, but rather a simple case of not enough brushing! Tasha made me feel much better about my mistake, as it seems she had a similar experience when she first started setting her hair:
"The poofiness is exactly what you get when you start to brush out your set. When I start brushing mine I look like a clown. It was the major deterrent for me when I first started to set my hair because I just didn't get how to work through it. Now I know to expect that stage and keep on going."
I can't tell you how much better this made me feel! And she wasn't the only one to offer some helpful hints. Isis gave me this advice:
"When you feel you have brushed your hair into disaster, then you have to go with the brushing... It helps to smooths the hair downwards with your other hand as you brush... with a small amount of pomade on your fingers."
So what I probably need are some better brushing techniques! And time also seems to be a factor, insofar as longer is definitely better in this case. Debi says:
"If I want a 40's look I will brush it out...but when I brush it out, I have to spend like 30 minutes just brushing."
Toni Jo also backed up this idea:
"Continue brushing your hair beyond all reasonable time limits. It does slowly shape itself into something lovely but it really takes a lot of brush strokes to get there!"
And you lovely people have even suggested some online sources for brushing out tips. Several of you mentioned Lisa Freemont (I have watched a few of her videos before, but I'm definitely giving her brushing out one another look!) and Casey also post a link for Lolita Haze (who has beautiful hair so she must know what she's doing!). From these videos I can really see the benefits of the "brushing against the hand" method, it really seems to work!
Another thing that several of you have suggested is a different kind of roller to help control my curls. Now this seems to be a bit mixed as some of you swear by the foam rollers, whilst other of you won't touch them with a barge pole, but a large majority of you think that I would benefit from using bigger rollers whatever kind of roller I choose to use. Angela also send me a brilliant link about homemade fabric rollers which seem to work fantastically for her:
"The curls come out very smooth, and honestly I don't do much but run my fingers through it. I use the lottabody too 5parts water to 1part setting lotion. Put it in a spray bottle and then sleep on it. Because the curlers are simply cotton and fabric, its like sleeping on a pillow!"
That sounds good to me Angela! I think I may try making a few of the fabric rollers myself, hopefully the bigger rollers will mean less of a Shirley Temple look and therefore more manageable curls! Plus anything that will help me sleep better is fine with me :)
Finally many of you kindly offered me personal technique that work well for you, and I'm eager to give them a go asap! Natalia suggested using hair serum to tame the hair beast, Isis know some people who don't brush their hair out at all and instead try finger combing (something I will definitely consider if I never master all this brushing out!) and Casey suggested that my problems may come from rolling my rollers up too far:
"Don't roll the rollers to quite so close to your head; this helps keep the crown area smooth (as was popular in the 40s). I usually roll mine to about ear height and just let them dangle. I'll usually cover them in a scarf when I sleep. Not glamorous, but it keeps things from frizzing!"
Now aren't you all amazing to offer me such pearls of wisdom? :) You have all helped me so much, I can't wait to try out a set again soon and put your advice to good use! This is my plan of action for taking the next steps in my vintage hair adventure:
- Brush, brush and brush again! If in doubt I will keep brushing. If I feel I have ruined my hair I will keep brushing and hope for the best!
- I will study some online tutorials to perfect my brushing out technique.
- I will make some larger fabric rollers and see if they give me more manageable curls.
- I will get some pomade and hair serum - mighty tamers of unruly hair!
- I will not over roll my hair
- Finger combing alone be the way forward if brushing out continues to be unsuccessful
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No one can speak for every Mets fan, and only a fool would even want to, since it seems like a stressful job that wouldn't pay very well and might involve engaging with Joe Benigno. We're a diverse group, with representatives from every ethnicity and outlook and every spot on the political spectrum, from Ron Artest to Jerry Seinfeld and Bill O'Reilly to Tim Robbins. Ask 100 Mets fans their opinion on Carlos Beltran's place in team history and you are likely to get 105 unique responses and quite possibly at least one punch in the mouth.
Allowing for all this, I have no problem saying that Johan Santana is revered by 99 percent of all Mets fans, a status he enjoyed even before throwing his no-hitter last Friday. Santana possesses two things the Mets' fan base looks for in a player: Wally Backman-esque dirty uniform mentality and being really good at baseball, not necessarily in that order.
That's why I was so baffled by a Deadspin post in which Barry Petchesky wondered if Mets fans wished someone other than Santana had thrown the first no-hitter in franchise history, under the premise that Santana is not a beloved/true Met. Leaving aside the "true Met" thing for a moment, this is half true: most Mets fans wish they could have seen a Mets no hitter several thousand games ago, ideally pitched by Tom Seaver or Doc Gooden but also quite acceptably authored by Bruce Berenyi or Armando Reynoso or Nelson Figueroa or Tom Glavine or Mike Glavine—five decades without a no-hitter does great things for this sort of tolerance.
However, the contention that Santana is not beloved would raise the eyebrow of any Mets fan who saw him pitch a complete game shutout on the penultimate day of the 2008 season on three days' rest and a torn meniscus. Regardless of what happened in game 162 (look it up if you can stand it), Santana more than earned iconic status in game 161. He has done nothing since to diminish it.
During the past few terrible seasons, fans have blamed many of the team's best players for its downfall—Beltran, Carlos Delgado Jose Reyes, even David Wright—and yet Santana has largely escaped the criticism levied at that group. There has rarely been as much anticipation for a Met's return as there was for Santana's most recent comeback, which began with a series of tensely observed and intensely parsed bullpen sessions in spring training. We watched in part to see if he could return to his old form, but also, I'd say, because he is genuinely loved. He has earned it, which is to say that he has—by a manner of accounting—earned those tens of millions of Wilpon family dollars he has been paid.
Santana is probably overpaid, but his contract does not inspire the hair-pulling ire reserved for the Jason Bays or Oliver Perezes of the world. To call him a mercenary ignores the fact that Mets fans have never had a problem with mercenaries, particularly when they turn out to be awesome. See: Keith Hernandez, Gary Carter, Mike Piazza, or anyone else who seems to enjoy playing for the Mets, and makes the team more enjoyable for his efforts.
And anyway, even if I'm completely off-base about Santana's status among Mets fans, the weight of NO NO HITTERS became so asphyxiating (particularly in the last decade or so) that it almost didn't matter who pitched it. Bobby Bonilla and Vince Coleman could've combined to blank the Cardinals and the fans still would have been delirious.
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First of all, Santana was terrific, obviously, though he was a little wild, too. He described his night as "a rollercoaster" but he always seemed to keep control of the Cardinals in the Mets' 8-0 victory in front of 27,069 at Citi Field. You know that attendance figure is going to soar as the years go by, right? Chabaa Thai Cuisine
Except it wasn't a no hitter.
End of story.
A ball that was clearly fair was erroneously called foul. Now, if Bud Selig wasn't such a gutless coward mlb would have an instant replay system in place which would catch such egregious erros.
It's simple, you have cameras position down each baseline to see if balls are fair or foul.
@Pajiba: Instant Replay is *that* simple. And yet, it doesn't exist for fair/foul calls in MLB, so this *is* a no-hitter. Deal with it.
Or go back and debunk every perfect game because an umpire called a strike that wasn't. I'm sure that would be a great use of your time.
*Points and laughs shakes head sadly*
No, this is NOT a no hitter.
At best it is a one hitter.
Who the fuck said anything about debunking every perfect game? How the fuck did you pull that out of your butthole and why?
You go back and debunk every perfect game. Oh and since you insist on including Santana's ONE-HITTER on the list of perfect games, start by debunking why it wasn't in fact a perfect game.
Just seconding this. I don't get this particular argument in general. Definitely double-don't-get the "end of story" stuff. It's not.
What's not to get.
Santana did NOT pitch a no-hitter.
He pitched a one hitter.
Ok if you had instant replay, where would you put the batter if it was overturned? The play was called dead so everyone stopped, do you award the hitter second? What if he was slow and the fielder makes a good throw to get him at second? Can you just award him a single even though the ball was down the line? Why not award a triple because the ball might have carromed off the wall? You can't have instant replay on plays like that because you don't know what might have happened if the play was called correctly. Selig is gutless but only because he won't get rid of bad umpires.
My favorite part was "But there's a niggling question that no one can bring themselves to verbalize--could it have been even better if someone other than Johan Santana was the one to break the streak?" Uhh, maybe no one could verbalize it because there was literally no one else having that thought.
This article was so ridiculous that it took another Deadspin writer only an hour to post a rebuttal. Reminded a lot of that "Jonny Gomes is the biggest douchebag in baseball" post that Craggs himself refuted a day later.
I saw this on Deadspin earlier and thought it made so little sense, it had to be poorly executed trolling. Not only was I perfectly happy with Santana being the one to do it, I honestly felt like he almost had to be the one to do it. Either him or Dickey, I guess.
And the list Deadspin put together didn't even have Tom Seaver as the top choice. The exercise was irrelevant.
Similar thought here, Brohan.
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Lone Wolf Development Forums
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HL - Call of Cthulhu
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Remove skill?
October 30th, 2010, 02:55 AM
Is there a way to remove a skill from appearing in the system and from the printed output?
October 30th, 2010, 09:31 AM
Go into the editor and create a new file.
If you want to remove the skill under all circumstances, go to the *Hidden tab - add a new entry, and enter the Id of the skill (to get that Id, go to the skills tab, press new (copy), and find that skill in the list - write down the part that's in parentheses).
If you want to remove the skill only while a specific option is enabled among the configure hero options, first, you'll need the Id of that option.
In the main HL window, go to the develop menu and make sure that the first option, "Enable Data File Debugging" is enabled. Now, in the Develop menu, select "Floating Info Windows" and then "Show Investigator Tags" - scroll down in that list to the set of entries named "Source Volume", and identify the one you want to work with (you can turn it on and off in Configure Hero, looking back at the list each time, if that helps you figure out which one it is).
Okay, now back to the editor - in your open file, go to the *Preclude tab, create a new entry, enter the skill's Id and enter the source's Id.
Option 3: You want to replace the skill with a different one. Go to the skills tab, press "New (Copy)" - once you find the skill you want to replace in that list, write down the unique Id of that skill, then select it. Enter the unique Id in the "Replaces Thing Id" box on the middle-right of the screen, and modify the rest of the skill as you wish.
October 30th, 2010, 04:59 PM
Thanks, Matthias. This will help me get all of my quirky house rules into HL.
I have another question - is it possible to add or remove characteristic rolls or change the modifiers on existing ones? (e.g. Idea, Luck, Know). For example, the BRP book has extra characteristic rolls for APP, STR etc and I was curious if these could be added to CoC.
October 30th, 2010, 05:28 PM
I'll get an editor tab for derived attributes into the next update. Sorry it's not currently available.
October 30th, 2010, 10:16 PM
Thanks Matthias!
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