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Andy Griffiths
author of 13 Storey Treehouse, The Bad Book, The Day My Bum Went Psycho and many many more
Six Sharp Questions
1. Congratulations, you have a new book. What is it about and what does it mean to you?
13 Storey Treehouse is about a writer called Andy and an illustrator called Terry living in a 13 storey treehouse with a bowling alley, a tank full of man-eating sharks, a see-through swimming pool, lemonade fountain and a marshmallow machine that follows them around and automatically fires marshmallows into their mouths whenever their hungry. In this incredibly distracting environment they are trying desperately to meet the deadline for their new book. We just wanted to tell a wild rollicking funny fully illustrated narrative about the creative process. It mirrors our own process pretty closely!
2. Times pass. Things change. What are the best and worst moments that you have experienced in the past year or so?
As always, trips to remote indigenous communities around Australia—as part of my work as ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation—have been a highlight. Warburton WA and Wyndham both highlights. And we are now publishing a book of the stories that kids from these communities have produced in the various writing workshops I've conducted with them on these trips. It's called 'The Naked Boy and the Crocodile' and all proceeds from the book go back to the ILF to assist in the provision of books and literacy resources to these isolated communities.
3. Do you have a favourite quote or passage you would be happy to share with us? It doesn't need to be deep but it would be great if it meant something to you.
"A man's got to know his limitations" – Dirty Harry.
(I take this in a positive way … It's important to know both your strengths and your weaknesses and to live accordingly.)
4. Writers have often been described as being difficult to live with. Do you conform to the stereotype or defy it? Please tell us a little about the day to day of your writing life.
You should really be asking my wife, Jill who is also one of my editors. But I think if you did she would tell you that I'm fairly easy to live with and to edit … I welcome suggestions – they always make the work stronger. I can get a bit busy and revved up at times when deadlines are close but Jill is always a calming presence. (BBGuru: You don't mind if I give her a call to confirm the truth of this statement, do you?)
5. Some writers claim not to be influenced by the needs of the marketplace, while others seem obsessed by it. Would you please describe how the marketplace affects your writing (come on, tell the truth!).
I love entertaining children with outlandish stories – I've done this ever since I was a child. So for me, I always imagine what it would be like to read whatever I'm writing to a child or a group of children. Of course, in the first instance, I write what I consider to be funny but I find I often need to tweak and correct it after testing it out on kids. But in the end this collaboration with the audience leads to a stronger, more robust story so it's all part of the process for me.
6. Unlikely Scenario: You've been charged with civilising twenty ill-educated adolescents but you may take only five books with you. What do you take and why?
Me? The author of The Day My Bum Went Psycho and The Bad Book put in charge of 'civilising students'? I'm flattered by your faith in me but I utterly reject the premiss of your scenario. I have a reputation to uphold!
Andy, thank you for playing.
About the Contributor
John Purcell
While still in his twenties, John Purcell opened a second-hand bookshop in Mosman, Sydney, in which he sat for ten years reading, ranting and writing. Since then he has written, under a pseudonym, a series of very successful novels, interviewed hundreds of writers about their work, appeared at writers' festivals, on TV (most bizarrely in comedian Luke McGregor's documentary Luke Warm Sex) and has been featured in prominent newspapers and magazines. Now, as the Director of Books at booktopia.com.au, Australia's largest online bookseller, he supports Australian writing in all its forms. He lives in Sydney with his wife, two children, three dogs, five cats, unnumbered gold fish and his overlarge book collection. His novel, The Girl on the Page, will be published by HarperCollins Australia in October, 2018.


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In the years i spent out of SL, a lot of thing has changed.
Like, back in the days there were few events we used to wait, like Hair Fair (my favourite). Now, there are plenty of events, and i am amazed and confused at the same time.
In these weeks there's an event i really wanted to see, Cirque de Seraphim: two sims full of great designers following the circus theme! And, most important, a portion of all sales will go to the ASPCA, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal; this is a theme really near and dear to my heart, so i couldn't help and buy something!
Cirque de Seraphim will run until November 26, so be quick and go to see all the goodies, and donates a bit of joy to an animal shelter!
Skin&Makeup&Tattoo: La Malvada Mujer*
Ears: Illusions (old, discontinued)
Hair: Magika
Eyes: Clemmm (group gift)
Hands: SLink
Horns: 8f8 (@ The Fantasy Collective)
Necklache: Plastik (gacha item)
Dress: The Library (@ Cirque de Serapim)
Shoes: CH (i can't find the slurl to save my live, sorry... i think they were some dollarbie on the marketplace i bought during the first days of my return IW)
Poses: Sitting Pretty (1&2)*, Del May (3)
Mannequin: Remarkable Oblivion (group gift)
*Review copies or gifts
Pubblicato da Abby a lunedì, novembre 24, 2014
Etichette: 8f8, CH, Clemmm, Del May, Illusions, La Malvada Mujer, Magika, Plastik, Remarkable Oblivion, Sitting Pretty, SLink, The Library
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This shall has been sitting in my closet for a couple of months and i didn't know how to style it! This morning, i woke up feeling inspirational and just pulled out the shall, my fav' jean and i navy blue long sleeved shirt (underneath). It turned out to be a great match and, to be honest, i'm pretty proud of myself!
When i saw that it wasn't raining, i quickly ran down the street to take those pictures. Don't get me wrong, i didn't take those pictures myself
obviously but my brother took them. I'm really proud of him as it was his first time taking my pictures and it didn't turn out to be a disaster, what a miracle!
And also, if you could all like and follow me on Twitter, Facebook, Bloglovin' and Lookbook it would be absolutely FANTASTIC!!
I better leave you, peeps, as i am sure you are all burning to look at the pictures! xxx


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Seriously, I love everything about weddings. So much love fills the church and the reception hall. I can't help smiling ear to ear and remembering my own wedding {which was almost 2 years ago!}. There's also something about seeing two of your friends who you've seen grow together make the big leap. It's magical. Okay enough sap from this girl!
On March 24th, two of my dear friends got married! Congrats James and Meghan Kress! Here are some moments I captured on their wedding weekend in Grapevine/Southlake, TX!
The rehearsal dinner was held at Texas Land & Cattle! JP and I had our rehearsal there too {but in Sugar Land not Grapevine}. I may be biased, but I thought it was an excellent choice. Since it was a Friday during Lent, I went with the salmon for dinner and it was AMAZING! I'm more of a fish eater than a red meat eater, so not having a steak didn't bother me one little bit!
|Me and Sternie - You may remember her wedding here!
|Ashley & Tyler - their 3 year wedding anniversary was yesterday!
|Philip & Alison
|JP - Lucas - Blake at the Rehearsal Dinner
The ceremony was at White's Chapel in Southlake. It was a stunning Methodist church with a great background for picture taking as you can see!
|BEAUTIFUL Church and Ceremony.
|James waiting for his bride - I think I saw a few tears :)
I don't remember the name of the reception hall to be honest, but it wasn't too far from the church. The back wall was lined with huge windows that brought so much light into the space. It was the perfect weather! Alison, Ashley and I were part of the early arrival crowd and found our way to the bar for bellinis very quickly!
|Beautiful and delicious cake! LOVE the block aTm's on the top tier!
|My favorite table...the one filled with sugar
|First Dance
|Tyler did a great job on his Best Man Speech!
|Me - Ashley - Alison: A few bellinis and several rum and diets late...
We had a blast...can you tell?
|This is what happens when you attempt to get the whole AFC crew to take a picture :)
Above is the result of us pretending we're in college again. After the reception, we headed back to the hotel and proceeded to play drinking games like we were at a house party in college...until 2:00am. {Side note: we were back at the hotel by 10:00pm...at the latest} Clearly we had a blast and for the sake of my friends, I'll leave the remaining pictures on my computer for my viewing pleasure.
I think my three favorite things about weddings are:
1. Seeing the Groom's face as his Bride walks towards him down the aisle
2. All of the love you feel surrounding the newly weds
3. Dancing. For sure.
What's your favorite thing about weddings? Any weddings to attend this year? I have two in May {I'm the MOH in Nikki's}, one in September and one in October! Can't wait :)
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TODAY IS MY FRIDAY!!! Insert little jig here!
So excited for a relaxing 3 day weekend. Friday will be spent getting things done in the house and the hubs and I were given tickets to the Astros season opener at Minute Maid Park! The Astros may stink, but baseball games are fun and they're still my team.
Hope everyone has a great Thursday and I hope it's your "Friday" as well!
Until next time...
With love and God bless,


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For some 35 years, Gary Ciulla directed thousands of band students in the Medina School District.
The district announced Friday that Ciulla, 61, had passed away following a brief illness and surgery.
Speed Football Nike Orange Vapor Cleat Blue White TD The Kent State graduate was hired to lead Medina's high school band in 1980 and retired from the post in 2015. He earned his master's degree at the University of Akron.
At the time of his retirement, Ciulla had some 800 kids under his tutelage from middle school bands to the high school's marching band and several concert bands and jazz ensembles.
For many of Ciulla's years as the director of the high school band, it was considered one of the largest in the state, numbering close to 300 kids.
The band would march at football games on a Friday night and board buses for competitions throughout the state on Saturday morning, often earning grand champion awards at these Ohio Music Educators Association events.
Points garnered at the competitions often landed the band an early invitation to the OMEA State Marching Band Finals, where they often achieved superior ratings.
A tradition started under Ciulla was for the marching band buses — often numbering seven to eight along with a long caravan of trucks toting equipment and cars with band parents — to receive a police escort through the city's historic Square as they made their way to Columbus for the state competition.
The marching band and jazz ensembles traveled to Florida numerous times to perform inside Disney parks. The marching band landed an invitation and performed in the Cotton Bowl Parade in 1988.
The school's orchestra also competed in competitions and even performed three times at Severance Hall in Cleveland.
Ciulla is survived by his wife, Lori, who retired as a middle school band director for Copley-Fairlawn City Schools in 2014, and four adult children.
In an email to parents, current Medina band director Jason Locher said the band family and city are in mourning.
"Please keep the Ciulla family in your thoughts and prayers," Locher said. "Please give them their space as they grieve."
There was a moment of silence for Ciulla before Medina's home football game Friday night with the band standing at attention on the field.
Calling hours will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Medina High School Performing Arts Center, 851 Weymouth Road.
The funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Medina United Methodist Church 4747 Foote Road, in Medina.
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Ah well I guess it behooves this blog to talk Trump because it's the first since he has been sworn into the Oval Office – an already refurbished Oval office to be precise.
The new Donald Trump administration in the US has ably, and expectedly, started off on a brand new theme that is likely to be the bedrock of his reign. The theme being: Alternative Facts. Oh yes, that's the new mantra the post-truth world seems to be waking up to and although it has been a guiding light for many a political leader across the world, it has found legitimacy in the active lexicon of the Trump Administration.
This is an era when truth is simply what you believe in and what you want to believe. Where there are facts, there are always "alternative facts", they would have us believe.
Coming from administrations, as with regimes, people are used to a certain amount of secrecy, the closed door meetings, the situation room decisions, the intelligence briefings, the classified dossiers, the need-to-know-only files and so on. Although a lot of that got blown thanks to platforms like WikiLeaks and people got a good glimpse into the shenanigans of the government agencies and top administration officials, by and large the media community trusts the information released by the White House, and in turn people trust the media that reports on that information. And that unwritten rule, it would seem, has been dispensed with by the Trump yarn spinners who are peddling information from the sacrosanct podium in the White House briefing room, that they have labelled, "alternative facts".
For the die hard supporters of President Trump, alternative facts, much less facts, do not seem to matter. Clearly, they see a proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. My only prayer for these people is that his many promises to them do not end up as alternatives to hope.
The most common refrain among the more rational of Trump supporters and some of those that didn't vote for him seems to be "let's give this guy a chance" and see what he can do. And I would like to think I am among those that holds an unapologetic, if not indulgent curiosity on how transformative the Trump era will prove to be for America and the rest of the world.
So, here I am preparing myself mentally to overlook the fact that he loves to stress upon and exaggerate his audience numbers and ovations; that it will be a long time before he gets over the fact that he won the primaries (!); that he lies with impunity; that he has surrounded himself with waxy 'yes' men and women; that he keeps reminding us of how smart he is; and that he has created a sphere of alternative reality which his followers have unquestioningly embraced. And these are 'facts' that can be cross checked.
But in all fairness, as I expect the worst of President Trump in the years to come, I am also open to his unexpected best to show up. Alternative hope, maybe?
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The Oxford Community Energy Co-operative (OCEC) has raised more than C$2 million in two weeks to support funding for the Gunn's Hill wind farm, located in Oxford, Ontario.
The OCEC is a renewable energy cooperative established in response to the Green Energy and Green Economy Act. It offers Oxford County and Ontario residents an opportunity to become members and investors. The co-op's goal is to create a more environmentally sustainable community without the need to compromise its stated objective for profit potential.
Construction on the project is expected to begin in late fall 2014, according to Juan Anderson, vice president of Prowind Canada, which is helping to develop the project.
According to the OCEC, project milestones include:
- Obtaining a feed-in tariff contract in July 2011;
- Passing Ontario's Renewable Energy Approval process; and
- Signing a turbine supply and maintenance agreements with Senvion, which will supply blades for the project from its Welland, Ontario-based manufacturing facility.
'This project creates opportunity for investment, contributing to a more integrated energy system in Oxford County and bringing local residents together to act in a more coordinated fashion to address environmental issues,' says Helmut Schneider, president of the co-operative.
The co-op seeks to raise an additional C$7 million in equity capital by September.


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I have some of The pro markers and i got for free while ago some of the brush markers when they where launching them. I love them and also the fine nibs you can mount on a normal marker.
My only problem is that they can't be use in normal pages is the tend to tint the page behind ... So I can't use them in journals or dairies :(
Fran I have a question, where did you buy the light softboxes? And how much did you pay for them? I need some but I can't make my mind to pick something D:
Take care and happy Feb!!!
Me encantan los favoritos del mes!ReplyDelete
Dicen que el tiempo londinense o en general del norte de europa , hace a la gente deprimirse..por la falta del sol. Una sueca que conocí me dijo que tomaba vitaminas en las estaciones duras para reemplazar la vitamina del sol (c o d parece). En fin a mi no me pasa nada con los dias asi, al contrario, los amó, será porque venimos de chile y el sol es abundante y la lluvia una novedad. En fin.saludosss frannnn, muchos cariňos para ti!!
These are beautiful!!! You inspired me to draw my own favorites for January and actually keep track of my monthly favorites from now on so I can draw beautiful pieces like this one on my own! I was very proud of it <3 Thank you for always doing these and being such an inspiration <3ReplyDelete
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Pues deberian jugar a tener una cita asi sea dentro de casa <3 esas citas románticas son las mejores cuando el temporal o el exceso de trabajo no dan oportunidad a salir. Muchos abrazos Fran, eres el hada madrina de todos los que estamos comenzando a dibujar nuevamente :)ReplyDelete
Fran! Los podcasts de Being Boss son geniales, me vienen bien además para practicar mi inglés!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much my dear. xx
Hey,Fran! Thank you so much for mentioning Parks and Rec. Me and my bf decided to try to watch it last night and we couldn't stop until we finished first season! So enjoyable!ReplyDelete
I love what you do, I started follow you in instagram,cause I love your style, and then started to watch your videos on YouTube as well, and you inspire me a lot. Thank you!
I have a wee question for you, if you will have time to reply or maybe make a video about it- Could you recommend a place for printing stickers and temporary tattoos? Somewhere you had a good experience with. Thank you so much!


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Postmaster General John E. Potter Speaks at the Major Mailers Association Conference
Thursday, April 14, 2005
Press release from the issuing companyAtlanta, Georgia, April 11 2005 – Joining forces with other prestigious high-volume mailers to discuss ideas and strategies for working most efficiently with the United States Postal System (USPS), DATAMATX, one of the nation's largest privately held full-service providers of first-class print, mail and document distribution, is this year's sponsor of the annual Major Mailers Association (MMA) Conference held April 13 – 15 in Atlanta. The Major Mailers Association is a forum of distinguished first-class mailers that represents 30 billion pieces of mail annually. The group works in partnership with the USPS to ensure affordable, quality mail service. DATAMATX welcomes Postmaster General John E. Potter and other MMA members including Verizon Wireless, BellSouth, Allstate Insurance Company and Discover Financial Services to Atlanta to talk about solutions to the current USPS rate case, sales tax, delivery, technology and other key challenges facing today's business mailer. "It is an honor that our combined input about maintaining an efficient first-class mail system is heard by the executive head of the USPS, Postmaster General John E. Potter," said Harry Stephens, president and CEO of DATAMATX. "As a member of the Major Mailers Association, DATAMATX advocates for timely, reliable and affordable postal service, which is essential to the bottom-line success of every enterprise. The conference delivers several best practice ideas we can easily incorporate into strategies to help our customers enhance their businesses and reduce costs." The Major Mailers Conference opens Wednesday, April 13 with a tour of DATAMATX's state-of-the-art printing and mailing facility in Atlanta. The remaining conference includes an address on the state of the USPS by the Postmaster General, as well as various seminars, workshops and round-tables sponsored by other MMA members on today's major mailing issues.
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How to Find Content Ideas for Your Schools Blogs and Social Media
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Many schools have decided to host a school blog and become more involved in social media in order to enhance their online presence. With this comes the realization that blogs require close monitoring, constant up-keep, and interesting content. People often ask us about the ways school bloggers (be it a student, alumnus, or faculty member) can feed their blog and social media profiles on a regular basis. Admittedly, this can be difficult at the beginning, but with the right tools and practices, the entire blog experience can be easy and really enjoyable. So here are 6 easy ways to find and create relevant content for your school.
1.       Curate content that interests you:  Identify blogs or sites that explore topics that matter to your students and affiliate organizations. As you land on interesting webpages, be sure to register to their RSS feed in order to receive all the updates. A great way to centralize your favorite RSS feeds is by using a news aggregator, like Google Reader, where you can view all your target news or blogs in one single spot. All of us here really enjoy Google Reader, mostly because of its user-friendly organizational structure, but there are many more aggregators out there for you to choose from. Once you set up your aggregator account, all youâll have to do is scan through your customized scroll of posts regularly to find articles to share or to spark ideas for future blog posts.
On an individual level, Twitter and other social media platforms are fairly easy to maintain. But when youâre tweeting on behalf of an entire school (plus organizing events, plus monitoring other campaigns, plus plus plusâ¦) time quickly becomes a luxury. There is a variety of free tools out there to manage your social media accounts and share content throughout your different profiles. One of the reasons we like Hootsuite is that it allows you to download a bookmarklet and to schedule the post directly from the article page you are reading (no more copying, pasting and link reducing necessary!). It also includes an AutoSchedule feature to send out your social media updates at peak times for your audience. Talk about a time-saver!
2.       Use curation sites: Similar to RSS feeds, curation sites allow you to gather all of the interesting bits you find online. The difference is that curation sites allow you to showcase your collection of favorites. Pinterest, Scoop.it, Feedly are all examples of such sites. They are great to discover new topics or trends associated with your interests and find new resources. Pinterest can also inspire you for visuals to be associated with your content marketing.
3.       Look for trending topics: Twitter is the perfect tool to see whatâs hot in a particular industry or category. Thanks to your social media management platform, you can follow industry keywords, such as nursing, business management and many others. Identify relevant hashtags to follow conversations about topics you care about. For example, #edchat, #pse and #highered are very popular hashtags for higher education in North America.
4.       Use student-created content: Student-created content often brings a degree of authenticity and a peer worldview to your social media marketing message. Many colleges and universities have set up Student Social Media Ambassador teams and rely on their students for blogging and/or updating their social media profiles. See what St. Michaelâs college in Vermont has done. Student-created content can also be as simple as hosting photo-contests or essay contests, or you can ask students to post questions on Twitter or Facebook, and post your response on your blog.
5.       Create a content calendar: Take the stress out of your week by deciding preparing a monthly calendar of what you will be discussing on your blog and in social media. Planning will allow you to highlight events and on- and off-campus activities without feeling rushed at the last minute. It will also enable you to run weekly or monthly themes to strengthen your messages. Be as precise as possible about the links and images that will be associated with the content you will be posting to save time when publishing.
6.       Leverage data: Data is essential to track all marketing efforts. One of the best ways to know what your students are interested in is to track and measure the performance of your various social media accounts. This requires that you keep a close look on your siteâs Google Analytics, which shows you which of your blog posts are the most popular. You can also use the social media platform analytics tool to track which posts garnered the most engagement.Â
What are your tips to find ideas for your blog and social media profiles?


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Earlier this year I posted pictures of some skirmishing riflemen that I based on large format bases with tree-trunks and logs etc (see here). At the same time I based a small unit on standard "first grade" skimisher bases of 25mm x 50mm. Again, each pairs consists of 2 moving figures or one moving whilst the other covers him. When I dug them out this morning, I was expecting to find 10 figures instead of 8. If a fifth picture suddenly appears at some time over the next few days, it means I have found this errant stand.
I'm itching to get these figures blooded in an Oriskany game....when I've sorted the terrain out. These figures will also do for Morgan's Riflemen in the Saratoga Campaign; one of them might even have a lucky shot at a British General. Morgan's Rifles at Saratoga numbered about 300, so you'd need about 16 figures for a BG unit. I can also use these and the other riflemen figures as the 11th Virginia set out to skirmish (the formed, 16-figure unit of which is here). These are all Perry figures of course, marvellously sculpted.
8 figures. Painted June 2006.


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Thursday Musings
1. The baseball season is reaching its climax with most races decided, but a couple of thoughts. First, I have readily admitted my Yankee fandom, but I am really growing to hate the Red Sox more and more. Their performance on Tuesday night was pure bush league. This is a team that has made the playoffs 5 of the past 6 seasons and, much at it pains me to say it, won 2 of the last 4 World Series. And they have a full throttled celebration for clinching a wild card birth?!? Act like you've been there before . . . because you have. Papelbon is the biggest idiot of the bunch, and annoys me to no end. (I will say that as much as I fear Ortiz, I certainly respect him, and I would love to have Youklis on my team.)
2. In contrast, the Rays, who are about to finish ahead of the Red Sox, showed more restraint in their celebration. This is a team that has never won more than 70 games until this year. They could have had a massive celebration on Saturday night, but instead they have remained focused on winning the AL East ensuring that the Red Sox and Angels meet in the first round while they host the White Sox/Twins winner. Go Rays!
3. Mrs. Bartender and I attended our final Nats game of the season last night. Disappointing year for the Nats--riddled with injuries, they are going to lose 100 games for the first time in franchise history. (That includes the 36 years spent in Montreal.) Attendance at the new stadium was mediocre, but as long as the team improves, the attendance will as well. If, however, nothing happens in the off season, tickets won't be hard to come by next year (except when the Red Sox come to town in June).
4. I ran into Marc Lerner at the game (his family owns the team), and had a nice chat with him. He was very interested to talk particularly once he knew I had been to about 20 games this year. I made a bold suggestion of adding lights to the out of town scoreboard to indicate how many outs there were in other games, and he immediately had someone looking into the possibility. So if this happens next year, you can thank me.
5. Ah, politics. Every day I ask myself, what the hell was John McCain thinking in picking Palin. She is so far out of her depth, it is truly sad. She has neither knowledge nor intellectual curiosity, and while no one seems to want to say it, she just is not very bright. That she cannot, after having weeks of tutoring, be able to answer straightforward questions about the economic crisis our nation faces with anything other than the most basic platitudes is shocking. I certainly do not believe that a first class mind is required to be a great president--indeed, of the 4 most successful 20th century presidents (TR, FDR, Truman, and Reagan), only Teddy Roosevelt was a first class mind. But there are limits, and she is so far from what is required, it is shocking.
6. As for the McCain attempted time out yesterday, did it make any sense? Was his advertising somehow affecting the economy? If anything, it helps as it spends money! And do all of his campaign workers need to devote time to the meltdown (of the economy, not his campaign)? Was it anything more than another desperate gambit and an attempt to prevent Friday's and next Thursday's VP debates? In the end, McCain it seems is going to have to blink and show up in Oxford tomorrow, and the "suspension" of his campaign will be little remembered.
7. Finally, a little pop culture--isn't that what we're supposed to do around here? As I mentioned a while ago, we have been watching the Heroes DVDs. We have 1 episode left from season 2 before the season 3 premiere from Monday night. Season 1 was very good until the last episode; season 2 (and I don't yet know how it ends) sputtered with extraneous heroes that we cared nothing about, stories that dragged on way too long (Hiro in Japan), annoying actors (West and the black tear wonder twins), and characters who constantly act like idiots (see Mohinder). To its credit, the final few episodes were an improvement, but to compare this show to something like Lost is a joke. It's fine but not great television. (I think one friend likes it because it is providing employment to numerous former Star Trek actors. Too bad Bones and Scotty are both dead.)
8. Very excited for The Office but am sad that 30 Rock isn't back for another month. I do need some Michael Scott back in my life.


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Before you make a final decision on how much fertilizer you'll put on spring-planted crops, you need to do a little research and use some arithmetic. That's the advice of Texas AgriLife Extension specialists.
To make certain you apply enough nutrients — or to make sure you don't apply more than you need — you should take routine soil tests, and then dig a little deeper, as far down as 24 inches, to check for residual nitrogen that can be credited to nutrient demand.
But don't stop there. Testing irrigation water for nitrates may also reduce overall fertility needs — and cost.
Soil testing is the key to efficient nutrient management.
Mark McFarland, Texas AgriLife Extension soil fertility specialist at College Station, has been promoting deep soil testing for several years, and he encourages farmers to take advantage of residual nitrogen.
"Although fertilizer prices have moderated recently, nutrients are still a significant cost of production," he said during the grain session of the annual Blackland Income Growth Conference at Waco.
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An 82-0-0 anhydrous ammonia analysis costs about 38 cents per pound; urea is 51 cents per pound; ammonium nitrate (UAN) and phosphorus run 57 cents per pound; and potash is 40 cents per pound.
With significant amounts of residual nutrients in the soil, fertilizer savings may be significant, McFarland says. And many fields have enough in the bank to make a big difference, possibly enough to satisfy a crop's needs without adding supplemental nitrogen.
"Nitrogen is very soluble," he says," so we find more nitrogen below the typical zero-to- 6-inch sampling depth. And nitrogen at depth may still be in the rooting zone and available to the crop."
The critical depth seems to be 24 inches. "From 6 inches to 24 inches, we see significant amounts of residual nitrogen available to corn, cotton and grain sorghum."
McFarland and other fertility specialists have looked at the value residual nitrogen provides to cotton for 10 years, and they have five years of data on grain sorghum and corn. All show significant benefits from residual nitrogen.
"From $20 to $120 per acre in savings may be available from residual nitrogen," he says. "With credited nitrogen, we can grow maximum yields with no supplemental nitrogen."
Results have been consistent in grain sorghum, with success using residual nitrogen achieved 90 percent of the time. Corn is even better at 97 percent, and cotton is successful with residual nitrogen 98 percent of the time.
Cotton data are from those 10 years of research, while corn and grain sorghum information is based on 5 years.
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Water is also a potential source of nitrates, says Paul DeLaune, assistant professor, environmental soil science, at the Texas AgriLife Research Center at Vernon.
He discussed water quality at the Red River Crops Conference at Altus, Okla.
"Nutrients in irrigation water may offer a fertility advantage," he says. But producers must sample irrigation water sources to determine the amount of nutrients available.
Some studies show available nitrogen levels equal to $48 per acre in nutrient savings. He also warned that nitrate concentrations in irrigation wells may be environmental issues, if allowed to get into drinking water or freshwater streams. As either resource or drawback, producers need to know if they have nitrates in their irrigation — and if they do, how much.
"As a resource, nitrates in irrigation water can be credited to crop needs," DeLaune says. "Producers may supply a significant amount of nitrogen in the growing season through irrigation water, and it is immediately available."
Applying 12 inches of water at 20 parts per million of nitrogen in irrigation water equals about 55 pounds per acre. Depending on the crop and other conditions, producers may reduce fertilizer application by 40 percent, just by crediting nitrate in irrigation water.
A 2011 trial showed potential to supply 100 percent of crop needs through irrigation water. "We irrigated heavily because of a season-long drought," DeLaune says.
He breaks down the figures: Crediting from 39 pounds to 149 pounds of nitrogen per acre from well water, and using a cost of 60 cents per pound, savings would be from $23 to $89 per acre. Adding residual soil nitrate to the formula could increase available nitrogen significantly.
Determining how much residual nitrogen is available in the soil and how much is available through irrigation water offers both economic and environmental advantages, specialists say. Crediting residual nitrogen reduces the need for supplemental fertilization and reduces production costs. Reducing the amount of nitrogen applied to the soil also decreases potential for leaching into underground water and into nearby streams.
The critical factor, however, is doing the testing and then measuring the advantages of what's already available.
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Adherence is one of the biggest challenges physicians face in diabetes management. The reasons for noncompliance are multiple, including time-consuming and complicated care plans that require regular glucose monitoring, insulin injections, food-intake monitoring, multiple logs and diaries, and, if not controlled, the addition of new therapies.
For physicians and clinical care teams, the commitment to keep their patients engaged with their care is significant and frustrating. Additionally, the types of care protocols physicians need to think through have increased due to innovations in diabetes management and advances in classes of treatments. The mixture of disease escalation and progression coupled with reduced clinical time, increased demand on physicians, and ongoing adherence challenges have created the perfect storm for personalization and digital health solutions.
As scientific and care breakthroughs have advanced, so have new digital solutions, which offer a wider range of targeted and personalized support to physicians and people with diabetes. Such digital solutions, like mobile apps, are rapidly changing the management and care of patients with diabetes — from simple blood glucose tracking to more sophisticated clinical decision tools that enable behavioral changes, better adherence, and proactive diabetes management. Furthermore, the capacity to collect and analyze real-world data has moved the real-time management of diabetes even further forward.
See also: Changing Behavior is Ongoing, And That's Why It Requires Communications
Unfortunately, data alone cannot solve the compliance and adherence issues. Nor has access to better real-time data helped address the significant time required to treat people with diabetes. What focused digital healthcare solutions have done is reduce the time to resolve noncompliance complications and broader disease progression for those who actively adhere to their care plans.
Game-changing, personalized digital solutions are on the cusp of reducing the physical and financial impact of diabetes management. Mobile apps powered by cloud-based technology, and wearables, coupled with meal trackers, are creating algorithms of calories, movement, and weight. These seemingly simple devices have Nudge transformative impacts.
A small research study, published in 2013 in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, found that in combination with traditional physician care, support tools such as digital adherence programs combined with weekly text-message support from a healthcare professional can significantly improve glycemic control in adults with diabetes.
Treating diabetes will only get easier with new glucose monitors on the market that make it easy to see glucose data in real time, including pushing physicians to use EHRs to track progression.
See also: Adding Support at the Point of Care May Also Improve Access to Docs
Growing platforms of care for people with type 2 diabetes are clearly starting to improve disease outcomes, whether that's better adherence or compliance to treatment. New technologies such as gamification or multi-layered apps designed to share, analyze, and visualize real-time health data across different platforms and populations are changing personalized medicine and individualized care. "Health 3.0" is revolutionizing the way people take control of their own health and promises to transform healthcare systems by giving doctors valuable new insights and researchers clues to the prevention and management of chronic illness.
Care within diabetes has slowly been progressing through telemedicine and remote care monitoring. Part of the slow progression has been the result of many physicians' low engagement with remote consultation, due in part to the lack of training and limited reimbursement. However, hospital and payer pressure (particularly due to outcomes-based models) is opening new remote care channels and business opportunities for physicians and the broader care community.
See also: Centron's Letty Albarran Talks Ads That Get Personal
The biggest barrier to digital adoption by people with diabetes (and physicians) rests largely in the user experience and the design of current apps, trackers, and websites. Many of the current digital tools have been developed for mass consumption, requiring significant time to input health data and daily activities. For physicians, the lack of integrated networks that allow for real-time review of a patient's progression has been a challenge. Currently, physicians need multiple dashboards or multiple sign-in web applications to review a patient's condition.
Managing diabetes means an entire lifestyle adjustment for patients, which is a massive undertaking, for those with a deadly progressive disease. But clinical outcomes depend on both the patients' adherence and their willingness to change behavior and lifestyle. This will continue to push digital health innovators and pharmaceutical companies to develop solutions for diabetes management.
Even with new advancements such as subcutaneous insulin, which releases when blood glucose is too high and then turn off when glucose returns to a safe level, will require consistent personalized content to patients to support healthy lifestyles. Medication alone does not solve for control, and physicians still require support in prompting and promoting people with type 2 diabetes to exercise, eat right, sleep well, and avoid certain negative behaviors. It is the ecosystem and interconnected platforms designed for the patient, for the physician, and for the whole care community that will genuinely change the care continuum and quality outcomes of people with diabetes.
Cassandra Sinclair is the EMEA lead at Wunderman Health.


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We've already made it abundantly clear that we're loving The CW's new action-packed hit "Arrow" — and judging by the stellar ratings, the fans are loving it, too. This week, we'll see one of the most high-stakes episodes yet as one of Oliver's targets gets Oliver's stepfather, Walter, in his crosshairs.
We visited Stephen Amell on set in Vancouver last week to get the scoop on what's to come for Oliver as he simultaneously gets deeper into his Arrow persona and makes an attempt to reconnect with his loved ones.
Oddly enough, we can include his new stepdad Walter on that list of people Oliver cares about. "He likes Walter. He respects Walter, he respects what Walter has brought to his family in terms of stability," Amell tells us. "Whether he shows this outwardly or not is another matter. We see in Episode 3 that if Walter is put in any danger, Oliver reacts to much the same way that he would react if it was his mother, or his sister, or Laurel or Tommy or anyone that's important to him."
Speaking of Laurel and Tommy, in tonight's episode, we'll see them learn that Oliver has known about their clandestine relationship all along. "Eventually the three of them are going to end up in one spot and that's not going to work well at all," Amell teases.
Even as he's trying to create distance between himself and Laurel for her sake, Oliver can't help but reach out to her on occasion — and to the other people who he left behind. "Increasingly, whether it's him being lonely or whether it's him legitimately missing the people that were a part of his life before he went to the island, he tries again and again to take these moments away from his mission and start interacting with these people again," Amell tells us. "And it seems like every time he does that something bad happens, or there is some unintended consequence."
This week, he'll try to get through to his sister, Thea, who kicks off tonight's episode being dragged home by police after breaking into a store and lighting up a breathalyzer test. She's not interested in Oliver's excuses or his secretive behavior, and she continues to act out in an attempt to get him to respond.
"She's taking him to task," Amell says. "If someone is away for 5 years, you replay how it'll be when they come back, over and over and over in your head. You create a scenario that is way more fairy-tale than reality. She was twelve, and she's 17 now. I don't know a lot of patient 17 year old girls. She's being selfish, but I think it's relatively rational. I think it can be excused. She wants her brother back and she's not letting him skate by."
One person who is letting him skate by? Tommy. We saw that Tommy's eyes were open in the pilot when Oliver jumped up to fight their assailants — but he's not going to pry into Oliver's secrets for a while. Right now, he's truly just glad to have his friend back. As Amell tells us in the video below, any of Tommy's distrust will be put on the back burner as we explore the brotherhood and history that these two men share — but of course, even without Tommy sniffing around, Oliver's playboy facade can't last forever.
"We've already seen a crack
in it. He's putting it out there and his mother is more or less
furious. She's not mad, she's disappointed. It's like when your parent
used to say 'I'm not mad, I'm disappointed.' Thea meanwhile wants little
or nothing to do with him and Diggle all of a sudden stops him in the
hallway and goes 'Uh huh. Yeah. Nice throw with the knife.'"
As for what he's most excited for fans to see, make sure to tune in to Episode 4 next week, when Oliver is able to truly be himself for the first time in one of Amell's favorite scenes so far. "Bits and pieces of it have been popping up in previews: 'If it's not going to be the courts, and it's not going to be the cops, it's going to be me.' … That was my first opportunity to play a scene to somebody as Oliver with no mask on. I'm really proud of that scene."
Don't miss our video interview with Amell below for much more insight into Oliver's mindset (and what it's like to have your torso plastered on the side of every bus in Los Angeles). "Arrow" airs Wednesday nights at 8 p.m. EST on The CW.


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Mark Nelson has resigned as defensive ends and special teams coach at East Carolina after his involvement in NCAA violations. With camp starting in a matter of days, it may be too late to find someone elsewhere, and new head coach Ruffin McNeill would likely promote from within the ECU program. The coaching tree has come up with three potential replacements:
Cary Godette returned to his alma mater in 2010 as the Pirates' new director of football administration. Godette was a senior defensive lineman at ECU in 1976, which happened to be Ruffin McNeill's freshman year with the team. Last season, he coached the defensive line at Florida International. Godette has a wealth of experience, having spent time coaching at multiple colleges and also in the NFL, spending most of his years as a DL coach. This would be a perfect fit if Godette is looking to return to an on the field role. He has no experience with special teams, so if hired to coach defensive ends, expect RB coach Clay McGuire or LB coach John Wiley to take over the special teams unit.
Jimmy Lindsey was hired by his alma mater, Tennessee-Chattanooga, during the off-season to coach their defensive line and special teams. He has also coached at Tennessee-Martin, Miami (Ohio), and Gardner-Webb in addition to an earlier stint at Chattanooga. After his playing career, he joined the UT-C coaching staff as a graduate assistant, where he worked with current ECU assistant Donnie Kirkpatrick, who was the head coach for the Mocs from 2000-2002 after two years as the teams offensive coordinator. This job would certainly be a step up the coaching ladder for Lindsey, and would be a good fit for the Pirates with his experience coaching both defensive line and special teams.
Kirk Doll
Kirk Doll, another ECU alum, is currently the LB coach for the new UFL franchise, the Omaha Nighthawks. Doll was interviewed for the head coaching position at East Carolina in 2002, a job which ultimately was given to John Thompson, who only lasted two seasons at the helm. Doll has never coached defensive line, but was a defensive lineman for the Pirates in the early 70s. If Doll were to be hired, it would likely be as strictly a special teams coach, giving defensive tackles coach Marc Yellock control of the entire defensive line. It seems unlikely for a coach who was turned down for a head coaching job to later come in as an assistant, but he is currently a position coach in the UFL (not sure how that is looked at in comparison to a college job) and may be willing to return to his alma mater in a lesser role.


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Labor Movement
Dozens of Mexican Teachers Send Solidarity to Oklahoma Walkout
Dozens of Mexican teachers send solidarity to the walkout in Oklahoma.
April 11, 2018
Teachers, students and workers from Mexico are following the Oklahoma teachers' walkout and want the teachers to win. The lack of funding, huge class sizes and low salaries are problems that are all too familiar to Mexican educators. That's why when they heard about the Oklahoma teachers walkout they sent dozens of pictures in solidarity.
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The Hinton Hunt Catalogue says; "Marshal Josef Anton, Prince Poniatowski was not only a hero of Poland but was one of Napoleon's most dashing Marshals. He cut a splendid figure in Lancer style uniform and fur cloak with his horse in an elaborately trimmed and tasselled harness". It was pretty obvious to me as I painted this one that Marcus Hinton must have enjoyed sculpting him because the figure has some great detail and certainly captures the "dashing" look.
When I was in my early teens, and developing my interest in the Napoleonic Wars, I came across a book on the 1813 campaign. It was rather dry reading (as many such books were back then) but Poniatowski and his part in the battle of Leipzig fascinated me. He was the shortest serving of all Napoleon's Marshals holding the rank for a mere three days before drowning whilst trying to swim to safety across the Elster river. He was a great friend with Murat and they must have had fun trying to out do each other with their taste for gaudy uniforms. Of course though, Poniatowski really was a Prince and hadn't had one of Napoleon's made up titles bestowed upon him - I wonder if Murat was annoyed by that?
This figure is one of only two "horse attached" castings amongst the Hinton Hunt personality figure range (the other being BRN/30 The Duke of Brunswick). I decided to give him a bay horse rather than the obligatory white one because I already have three personality figures riding white horses (and also I'm no good at painting them). Next up – Polish Lancers of the Guard.
"Our tribute to the heroic past is its armies in miniature, today." Recreating a 1970s Wargame army using 20mm vintage figures.
Saturday, 12 March 2011
A Pole Apart
Labels: General Staff, Polish
5 comments:
- Rafael Pardo said...
A very nice miniature of one of my heros. He won my re-fight of Connewitz!
- 12 March 2011 at 17:33
Now he is a very smart looking figure. Looking forward to the lancers, my second favourite French cavalry (after the dragoons)!
- 12 March 2011 at 17:45
- DeanM said...
What a marvelous pose & colors. Polish crimson is just the bomb! Regards, Dean
- 12 March 2011 at 22:43
- Conrad Kinch said...
Definately cuts a dash.
- 12 March 2011 at 23:31
- paulalba said...
Very nice,
Have an AB figure of this gent to paint some time this century.
- 13 March 2011 at 15:48
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Sunday, October 06, 2013
Paper lantern DIY
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What a fun and easy idea! Already stores in Germany are selling lantern kits for St. Martin's Day (a holiday in November) and I was recently thinking about what kind of lanterns I would want to help my future children make. This looks like a creative way of deocrating that's way more interesting than store-bought options.ReplyDelete
Your projects are always the beste! You are the most creative person on earth, aren't you?ReplyDelete
This is so fun! It turned out beautifully. :)ReplyDelete
this is so cute! I love paper lanterns :)ReplyDelete
Aw what a cute and fun project! Your ending quote "we go for pretty, not perfect" is rather wise :)ReplyDelete
Mili from call me, Maeby
My mind is already boggling with ideas to decorate some paper lanterns! Love this. Thank you for the DIY inspiration!!ReplyDelete
Simply Akshara
What a great DIY paper lantern! My boyfriend has one in his apartment, I think i need to take it over and DIY it!ReplyDelete
This is cool! It would be fun to paint leaves on it for fallReplyDelete
I love your blog! Such great ideas you have floating around in your head! Hope you don't mind, but I added you to my blog roll :) - LeithReplyDelete
i'm so glad you stopped by and left me a comment so i could find your blog - i really LOVE your etsy shop and am now a follower!ReplyDelete
This is such a good idea! A little bit of DIY makes a big difference.ReplyDelete
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by Laurie and Chris Kemp, CSAs
In November, 60 Minutes did a story on Alzheimer's research that is going on in Columbia. One of the big challenges in trying to find a drug that will prevent Alzheimer's, or slow down the progression is knowing in advance who will get the disease. The reason they chose Columbia is that back in the 1980's a young doctor found a family that had a history of early onset Alzheimer's. Over the years, he along with other researchers ultimately identified 1 gene within this family that, if you had it, you would definitely get early onset Alzheimer's.
With this information, doctors, researchers, drug companies and the National Institute of Health are able to test drug therapy's they believe might prevent or slow the progression of Alzheimer's. The difference between these studies and others is that they have a group of people who they know will get the disease with 100% certainty, so if they do not get it, they know the drug was effective.
The study will be going on until about 2021, so it will still be awhile before results are known. The results will move us closer to finding a solution that does work. You can read more about this at: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-alzheimers-disease-medellin-colombia-lesley-stahl/


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5) Atlantis
An entire continent that sunk right down to the bottom of the ocean without warning. All in one day and night. Could an island actually be sucked down like that? Also, how? How and why would this giant land mass just sink right down? How about we find out?
About 2,600 years ago, a Greek philosopher named Plato recorded a civilization living on an island known as Atlantis. He claims that it sank to the bottom of the ocean.
No one knows for sure, but some people think that Atlantis was located in the Atlantic ocean, between Europe and North America. Other people say it lies in the Mediterranean. Scientists think they've discovered the lost city. In 2011, a research team said that they had found a lost city which is directly under mud flats in southern Spain, north of Cadiz. This may not be Atlantis though, as many people over the years, have thought that they've seen it already but were proved wrong. For example, in 1997, Russian scientists believed that they found this old Greek city, but they were mistaken.
It is said that Atlantis is as big as 300 by 100 miles, or it's larger than Asia and Libya combined. So how can something so big become so wet? Back in the classic times, one theory was that the gods punished the Atlanteans for their arrogance. Other ideas would be volcanic activity, or that it moved and the continent of Atlantis is really Antarctica. Other people think that maybe the city is underwater because of a tsunami. An earthquake can be a likely cause as well. An earthquake with enough power to wipe out a continent and destroy all signs of disaster.
Some people believe that the citizens of Atlantis are very advanced in technology. When we were in the Ancient Greek era, maybe they were in the Industrial Revolution era. Maybe they're not dead. Perhaps they're in an underground hideout, hiding from the rest of society. Because we're warmongers, they want to live in peace, secretly underground. This theory is a little insane but apparently Plato wrote that this civilization was very advanced.
Now, does this continent even exist? Has Atlantis become very famous based on false recordings? No one knows for sure. Atlantis has never been found. We have discovered underwater structures and ancient artifacts, but we assume none of which belongs to Atlantis. There's always a possibility that down the road, when our technology grows stronger, we'll find this underwater mystery. We might just find it.
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Would you like to join a team focused on producing high-quality technical publications for developers, testers, UI designers, and others? As a Senior Technical Writer in the Consumer Shopping team – the central UX team behind our "core" website - you will work with a stellar team to produce product documentation, style guides and training content in a cross-functional environment.
In this role, you would be the central voice educating internal teams on the best practices of developing technical features, plus user interface, for web and mobile devices (iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7 and others) by authoring actionable dev & test How-To's and design guides.
The ideal candidate would have created:
- A conceptual walk-through or an overview document that introduces a concept to the reader and walks the reader though the concept details.
- A "how to" document which walks a user through a series of steps (troubleshooting steps, installation guide, etc.)
- API reference document (e.g. SDK documentation)
If you're comfortable creating technical documentation in a fast-paced, exciting environment, with people who are exhilarated by quickly shifting project priorities, this is the position for you! You must be agile, flexible, and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment. Experience with mobile devices, mobile applications and UX is a plus.
Key Responsibilities:
- Be the ultimate information architect. Own the entire documentation set, including architecture, writing, editing, testing, and deployment.
- Continuously gather information from Business Development, Product Management, QA, and Support to produce best practices and react to the needs of developers.
- Establish content quality metrics and ratings, drive increase in content satisfaction.
- Evaluate documentation gaps and drive content creation. Document API's, SDK's, provide guidance to technical audiences like developers, testers and Q&A for deliver UI and front end features. Ensure successful content consumption and a feedback loop from stakeholders.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in English, Technical Communications and/or extensive prior writing experience.
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills; ability to work with many stakeholders and partner teams at the same time.
- Strong self-starter able to analyze requirements, develop strategy, improve process and deliver results with little ongoing guidance, often in highly ambiguous situations and "version 1.0" projects.
- Familiarity with a modern programming language, such as Java, C, or PHP; experience with web technologies, including JavaScript, CSS and HTML (CSS3 and HTML5 ideal).
- Strong attention to detail and passion for quality.
- 6+ years of professional experience, including 4+ years of experience writing SDK documentation for a developer audience, in a technical writing or lead writing role.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working directly with an engineering team.
- Great eye for usability and judgment for when and how to leverage graphical solutions to convey information. Basic Visio, Photoshop or Dreamweaver experience a plus.
- Prior HCI, UX/UI background or solid foundation in UX design and user experience. Experience of working in a UX team ideal.


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Dorian Phillip Keesler
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
April and David Keesler, of Nevada, and big brother David Benjamin Keesler II, are proud to announce the birth of their son and baby brother, Dorian Phillip Keesler. Dorian was born at Nevada Regional Medical Center. He weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces, and measured 20 inches.
Maternal grandparents are Rick and Lindy Berry, of Springfield, Ohio, and Tal and Mary Eva Parker, of Cochise, Ariz. Maternal great-grandparents are George and Evalyn Hall, of Cochise, Ariz.
Paternal grandparent is Peggy Jackson, of Pearce/Sunsites, Ariz. Paternal great-grandparent is June Riggs-Blackburn, of Pearce/Sunsites, Ariz.


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Sara Vogel of Global Kids says of Fannie Lou students participating in the after-school video game design program Playing for Keeps:
We had a fabulous time at NYU Magnet Game Center yesterday with Fannie Lou students! The 9th and 10th graders that came with us heard from the admissions office about the school's Bachelor's degree program (how you need a portfolio to apply, the kinds of opportunities and connections they have), toured the classrooms and collaborative spaces, playtested some awesome games in development by their Master's students, asked NYU students questions about their experiences there, drooled over their library of 5,000 games, and ate pizza.
The kids expressed excitement over potentially applying there -- many of them didn't want to leave, and talked about wanting to live there...!
We hope this will really propel the students to think about their work at school and in our club as part of a pathway that will lead them to college and a fulfilling career.
Thanks to Robert from CAS for accompanying and to everyone for your continued support!
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Guitar Hero Iii Legends Of RockReviewing: Playstation 2 Guitar Hero Iii | Rating:
Guitar Hero III has just been relaesed over the weekend. My son is a huge guitar hero fan so of course he had me bring him to the store to pick up this latest game.
I played with him all day on Sunday. If you like any of the other guitar hero games you will like this you too. I like that it has different levels, I, myself stick with the easy level while my son goes for hard or even expert.
I like the neat feature they have called co-op career. You and a friend can make a band and you have to work together to pass the song. The nice thing is you can each choose your own level. So I stick with my easy level and my son does the level he wants.
My son like the battle modes too. There is one where you have to battle Slash, from the rock band Guns n' Roses, in a face off. I do have to say the graphics are pretty close to looking like Slash.
The one thing I do not like is this game seems to take a lot longer to load then the previous Guitar Hero games. I am not sure if we just got a bad disc. I plan on looking into that and see if that is a standard issue with this game or if I need to exchange the one we have.
But I would recommend this game for any guitar hero fan. It is a lot of fun.


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I first came in contact with The Prospect School and Center in 1984. I had just completed my first year of teaching and, at the recommendation of a professor from graduate school, I signed up for a Summer Institute. I had little idea what I was getting into, and when I arrived I discovered that many of the other participants had connections to Prospect's methodology through participation in local inquiry groups. We read and discussed books like Ernest Schachtel's Metamorphosis (1959) and Edith Cobb's The Ecology of the Imagination in Childhood (1977). Though my grasp of this material was tenuous at best, it nonetheless fascinated me and left me hungering for more. At the heart of the Institute was an extended child study of Holly, a child then attending The Prospect School. While Holly was at the school, another wing of Prospect, the Archive Scholars and Fellows Project was engaged in an in-depth study of Prospect's collections of children's work and teachers' narrative records. Their work was soon thereafter published as the Reference Edition of the Prospect Archive, comprised of longitudinal collections of the work and records of 36 children, with a slide selection and catalogue for each child. That summer we worked with the still developing collection of Holly's work, describing several pieces and closely reading the records to date. Late in the week, we went to the school, where Holly's teacher, Jessica Howard, presented a Descriptive Review of Holly, a portrayal of Holly with a focusing question to which we were invited to respond. (Descriptive Review of the Child is one of Prospect's collaborative inquiry processes and is described more fully in From Another Angle [Himley, 2000]). As I listened to Jessica, I felt that I already knew Holly, even though, in fact, I had never met her. That alone might have sold me on the value of what was going on at Prospect, but there was more.
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Teresa Palmer Biography
Teresa Mary Palmer was brought up in Adelaide, South Australia. She is the main offspring of Kevin Palmer, a financial specialist, and Paula Sanders, a previous attendant and preacher. She has a stepmother, Kaaren Palmer, and in addition two stepsisters and two stepbrothers, who lived with her dad. Her guardians separated when she was three. Teresa expressed to Interview Magazine that she "originated from rather humble beginnings" – she lived in broad daylight lodging with her mom, and experienced childhood with her dad's homestead in Adelaide Hills. Teresa was named after Mother Teresa by her mom.
Teresa was an understudy at Mercedes College, a Catholic day school, and won a nearby throwing tryout, "Quest for a Movie Star", in 2003. Her first acting employment was taking on the appearance of Strawberry Shortcake and Santa's Little Helper on weekends for advancements in shopping centers close Adelaide. She was additionally a fast food specialist at Hungry Jack's in Rundle Mall before living up to expectations at different apparel retailers, for example, Supre, Mambo Australia, and Cotton On.
In the wake of moving on from secondary school, Teresa got a call from her nearby specialists about showing up in an understudy film, 2:37. The chief had seen her head shot on the acting office's site and needed her to be in the motion picture. Palmer felt that she would work in a creature salvage administration, and inevitably open her own creature welfare office. She was acknowledged into college to study showing and was taking a course on reporting, yet had dependably longed for acting. Teresa quit college to take a shot at the film. She depicted Melody, a secondary school understudy who gets to be self-destructive in the wake of being impregnated by her sibling. She was selected for the 2006 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Lead Actress for her execution. She marked with an ability operators in Sydney in the wake of taking a shot at the film. A part in Wolf Creek took after, quickly showing up in a pool party scene close to the begin of the film.
Teresa then featured in the mental thriller Restraint, with English on-screen character Stephen Moyer and Calvin Klein model Travis Fimmel. Shot on area around New South Wales, the film was composed by Dave Warner and coordinated by David Denneen. She then featured in December Boys, a transitioning film set in the 1960s, in light of a novel by Michael Noonan. She played Lucy, who has a sentiment with Daniel Radcliffe's character on a remote shoreline resort. Palmer concentrated on Dominique Swain's execution in Lolita to catch her character's unmistakable sexuality. The film started shooting in November 2005 on the south shore of Australia.
2:37 debuted at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard choice. The film got an overwhelming applause, a defining moment for Palmer, issuing her trust in going about as a vocation. The trek to Cannes lead her to meet her administrator, David Seltzer, and American ability operators. She later marked with the William Morris Agency.
She was thrown to star with Tom Sturridge in her first American highlight, Jumper, a sci-fi film coordinated by Doug Liman. Her part was later recast when the lead characters were reworked for more seasoned performers. Her part went to Rachel Bilson. She later made her Hollywood highlight film make a big appearance in The Grudge 2, a ghastliness continuation featuring Amber Tamblyn and Sarah Michelle Gellar. Teresa depicted her character, Vanessa, as "the obnoxious schoolgirl".
In mid 2007, she was given a role as Tori Frederking in the parody Take Me Home Tonight, featuring Anna Faris, Dan Fogler and Topher Grace. Set in the 1980s, the film was coordinated by Michael Dowse, and was in the end discharged in March 2011. That year, she featured in the film cut for the single Breaking Up, by the band Eskimo Joe, shot in Newcastle.
Teresa moved from Semaphore Beach in Adelaide to Los Angeles in the spring of 2007 to further her vocation, and rapidly started auditioning for movies. She expressed that Los Angeles was "a huge change" and "altogether different" from her home in Australia. She experienced a time of forlornness and gloom, and considered backpedaling home until she made companions in the States.
In November 2007, Palmer was given a role as the lowlife, Talia al Ghul, in the DC Comics superhero film, Justice League of America, nearby D.J. Cotrona, Adam Brody, Anton Yelchin, Common and Megan Gale. On the other hand, the George Miller-coordinated film was later crossed out by Warner Bros. because of script change issues and the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. In 2008, she was marked as the substance of Sydney diamond setter Jan Logan's "advanced sweetheart" gathering.
Teresa was picked by Adam Sandler from her tryout tape to play the affection enthusiasm for the 2008 Walt Disney Pictures' youngsters' film, Bedtime Stories. She played a beneficiary, Violet Nottingham, featuring nearby Guy Pearce and Courteney Cox. Sandler put her mom and closest companion in scenes in the film.
Before long, she won the sentimental lead in Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice, created by Jerry Bruckheimer and coordinated by Jon Turteltaub. The film is taking into account the enlivened film Fantasia. Teresa shot in New York City for a while and stayed in Manhattan's West Village. She played Becky Barnes, a school coed who is sought after by Dave Stutler, a physical science understudy and disciple to the wizard Balthazar.
She shaped the film generation organization Avakea Productions, with Australian on-screen characters Tahyna Tozzi and Nathalie Kelley in 2009. She was a visitor judge for the Optus one80project in Sydney, a filmmaking ability challenge on MTV Australia. She recorded a notice crusade for the Australian jean store, Just Jeans, that year, and turned into the face and representative for the Jurlique beauty care products organization.
In 2011, Teresa featured in the science fiction experience film, I Am Number Four, nearby Alex Pettyfer and Dianna Agron. She played Number Six, one of nine outsiders hanging out on Earth on the grounds that their home planet was decimated. Her character was talented in combative technique, rode a Ducati cruiser, and could get to be imperceptible and stroll through flame. She experienced trick preparing for the part, figuring out how to perform flips, swordfight, and do wirework. In June, she was given nearby Liam Hemsworth a role as Candace in the 1960's set dramatization Love and Honor (initially titled "Missing"), which happens amid the Vietnam War. Generation started not long after, with shooting occurring in Ann Arbor and Ypsi, Michigan. She likewise featured in a comedic short, Quirky Girl, for the site Funny or Die, inverse Aaron Paul.
2012 stamped another occupied year for Teresa. She showed up inverse Joel Edgerton and Felicity Price in the autonomous Australian show thriller, Wish You Were Here, coordinated by Kieran Darcy-Smith. The film started shooting in Sydney in November 2010, and debuted in January at Sundance Film Festival. Far from her acting profession, Teresa was named as the worldwide face of Artistry Cosmetics. She has following showed up in various crusades and ads for the brand. In December, Teresa was given a role as Anna in Brian Horiuchi's directorial introduction, Parts Per Billion. The cast additionally incorporates Hollywood veterans Frank Langella and Gena Rowlands.
Teresa might simply have her busiest year yet in 2013. Living, breathing people, coordinated by Jonathan Levine will debut in February. Based off Isaac Marion's novel of the same name, the film has been depicted as a "zom-com". She stars inverse Nicholas Hoult as Julie, a human who experiences passionate feelings for a zombie. Additionally because of be discharged in 2013 is the Terrence Malick film, Knight of Cups. Teresa was thrown in July 2012 and recorded her scenes that month. The film additionally stars Christian Bale, Cate Blachett and Natalie Portman. The Matt Shakman coordinated thriller Cut Bank, in which Teresa stars as Cassandra and Parts Per Billion are additionally anticipated that would de
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- Name: Teresa Palmer
- Full Name: Teresa Edwina Palmer
- Birth Name: Teresa Edwina Palmer
- Nickname: Tez, Tezza
- Date of Birth: 26 February 1986
- Place of Birth: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Sign: Pisces
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9 New Year's Resolutions for theatre
Here's a few things we should all be aiming for in 2017
Reduce the cost of drinks
We're all partial to a drink on a night out. But if that night out involves the theatre, then you may have to consider taking out a mortgage before committing to anything stronger than water. In some West End theatres, the cost of a glass of wine is nudging the £10 mark. Which means we're increasingly sober and we don't like it. Come on theatre owners, why not try to make interval drinks affordable?
Increase the number of cheap ticket schemes
Although it by no means guaranteed access to tickets, we loved the Friday Forty initiative set by Sonia Friedman for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which enabled you to get clicking, every Friday, to try to buy some of the cheapest tickets to the following week's shows. And the NT's Friday Rush tickets are continuing to be an easy, low-cost way of getting to see great theatre. Let's get more producers and companies signing up to schemes like these.
Get theatre into education
As arts subjects are pushed further into the peripheries, it's so important to make sure that the industry pushes back. Robert Hastie has the idea: in his first season as artistic director of Sheffield Theatres, he's giving free theatre tickets to drama students in the city. Theatre needs to get young ones in as early as possible if it's to survive and inspire as much as it should.
Get more diverse
After Andrew Lloyd Webber's recent report looking at diversity in the industry concluded that theatre was too white for its own good, it is really time for everyone to champion and support BAME talent. The Curve in Leicester set the agenda in their conference in October 2016. After all, as Lloyd Webber said, if we don't make theatre more accessible for BAME audiences and creatives (not just performers) then the industry won't be able to sustain itself.
Get better toilets
A fairly personal gripe which, we think, most people will agree with. Certain theatres in London have tiny, inaccessible ladies loos and not enough of them. Let's start pushing to make those crappy public conveniences palaces.
Find Emma Rice a great new job
After she announced earlier this year that she would be stepping down from her role as artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe in 2018, the former artistic director of Kneehigh will be looking for a new job. And she deserves a great one. Although the truth is that with talent such as hers, it's unlikely Rice needs much help from anyone else.
Big-up women
We've been mightily impressed by Tonic Theatre's work drawing attention to brilliant women in the industry and encouraging theatres and companies to think more about how they can bridge the gender gap. We want more of it from everyone now, please.
Get more inclusive
Ramps on the Moon and Graeae have been quietly leading the way in theatre with casts and for audiences who are Deaf and disabled. And places like the National Theatre and the Donmar Warehouse proved this year that disability should never be a barrier to working on stage. Let's keep pushing the message forward that theatre is an industry you can work in whoever you are and whatever you look like.
Get out of buildings more
Theatre should be all about bringing it to the masses. And what better way of doing that than getting out on the road and into public spaces. Hull is the UK City of Culture in 2017 and city-wide theatre installations and performances have already been announced, including 2097 We Made Ourselves Over, which takes place in telephone boxes. They kick off the public space theatre with Back to Ours, which has performances in local theatres and public spaces at the end of February. Let's take a leaf out of Hull's book and embrace life without walls.


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The Cyclist
The first mild day of spring. The air smelt fresh and clean. The bike hummed, its stripped down simplicity offered no complications. One gear. One brake. No freewheel. One colour even, and that was simple chrome metal. Just the basics. Unlike most things in life, he understood it. He understood it on different levels; aesthetically, technically, emotionally. He understood how to ride it and he loved the way it made him feel. He liked the bucking and kicking of the track frame's fierce geometry, the tautness and responsiveness outweighed its exuberant liveliness. The smooth rhythmical motion, on hills out of the saddle to keep the metronome going, swish swish swish went the tyres on the tarmac.
Although he'd ridden this route hundreds of times before, he never tired of it. Only about 30 miles or so, it had everything; swooping descents, stiff ascents, long drags, smooth roads, fast roads, bumpy lumpy roads which only get more so; quintessentially English countryside, chalk downland with rolling hills and folded valleys, vistas that open and which keep eyes transfixed and which refresh and cleanse. Howsoever he was in the zone, using his God-given body, making it work, away from the confines of a life he didn't believe in anyway. His heart pounded and sweat stung his eyes as he climbed a hill, and in that moment, in that moment, nothing filled his head other than the joy, the thrill of it; nothing fed his soul more than the satisfaction of man and machine working as one.
Later, as he relaxed having showered, reality had tumbled back into his mind that he'd emptied of all else, muscles relaxed and his face glowed. Though his body buzzed from the afterglow, his mind was still battered and bruised from a tumultuous week which he looked back on with more than a tinge of rueful regret.
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I was having a bit of an existential crisis today: wondering where I belong, where I'll be in six months, if I'm studying/doing the right thing…essentially the questions that plague most humans in their lifelong search for meaning. I go through periods where my brain becomes a giant soup of commitments I've made and eventually I try to sort them out into some kind of manageable ordered list. This process is the bane of ambitious people.
Here are some of the ingredients to the brain soup:
- Mechanical Engineering (Bio-applications of solid mechanical design): Pursue graduate studies, Become a PEng. I'm thinking of doing a thesis project in fourth year as a nice culmination of all the technical skills I've developed in my undergraduate studies.
- Business & Entrepreneurship: I am usually pushed into business-y roles, so I may as well develop more depth to these skills. Also, some sort of formalized training in these matters may help the next two points
- Education: Become an educator in STEM, make STEM education more accessible to everyone, recruiter for engineering, work for women in STEM initiatives or start my own. I tutor math to arts school students and I'm constantly trying to develop new methods to inspire a good work ethic and interest in their science and math courses.
- Strength & Conditioning: Open my own gym & revolutionize weight-training education for women. I've sort of started the beginnings of this baby with the founding of U of T Ironsports in March 2012.
After talking with my lovely roommates (and the dog I'm babysitting) and eating some matzoh ball soup, I feel like I've got something to the effect of an ordered list. That is, I need to stop concerning myself so much with the order in which I do things because I'm only 23 and really I could do them all.
As much as we can arm ourselves with a plan, there is some beauty in trying many different things and seeing where you end up. As long as you are moving, you will learn and grow from the experience. Wise words from Jane.


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The Rev. Vanessa Rush Southern and Rohit Jerome Nicolao Joao Menezes were married yesterday at the Universalist National Memorial Church in Washington, where the bride is its minister. The Rev. John Buehrens, the president of the Unitarian Universalist Association of America, performed the ceremony, in which his wife, the Rev. Gwen Buehrens, an Episcopal priest, also took part.
The bride, 30, who is keeping her name, graduated from Stanford University and received a master's degree in divinity from Harvard University.
She is the daughter of Elizabeth and Richard Southern of New York. Her father is the director of full-time studies at the School for Film and Television, an acting school in New York. Her mother is a hematology technologist at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
The bridegroom, 26, is the director of business analysis at the Your Tel Telecom Corporation, a local telephone company in Cabin John, Md. He graduated from Williams College.
He is a son of Naomi and Leonard Menezes of Bombay, India. His mother is a freelance journalist. His father is the director of hotels for the Abu Dhabi National Hotel Company in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.Continue reading the main story


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Eddie Cibrain (Nick Dalton) was injured by a 200 lb door falling across his right leg while taping this episode. It put a gash in his heel and was taken to an area hospital.
Date: October 2nd-5th, 1961
Frances hands Nick a donation check for $50,000. With inflation taken into effect, that would be the equivelent of $352,000 in 2010.
One keyholder on the main board wasn't involved with the show however: W. Shakespear.
Many names visible on the wall of key-holders who are present in the club that night are those of men involved in the production of the TV show: e.g. Joshua Zylstra (leadman), Cliff Zimowski (art department coordinator), John Ziganto (labor foreman), Adrian Cortez (production assistant)and Brady Breen (location manager).
This episode was nominated for a Golden Reel Award in the category of Best Sound Editing: Short Form Musical in Television
The average work shift for a Bunny was 10 hours.
Alice states that she had made $143.00 in one night with a lot of surprise. Taking inflation into consideration, that amount would equal $1,010.00 in 2011 money.
Alice and Sean are members of the Mattachine Society. This was an early organization fighting for homosexual rights.
Scenes where Maureen (Amber Heard) and Brenda (Naturi Naughton) are talking before going to bed should be in the "Bunny Hutch" instead of the Mansion. This was where female workers without a local residence could stay. The original was located across the street from the Playboy Club.
Among the celebrities that are portrayed include: Ike and Tina Turner, Cy Colman and Anita Bryant.
Laura Benanti (Bunny Carol Lynne) said that performing in the pilot was one of her favorite things she has ever done.
Amber Heard released a picture of herself from her work on the pilot without consent of 20th Century Fox Television. This led the network to ban any further unauthorized photography from the set.
Amber Heard (who plays Maureen) said while the network will probably make the series as racy as they could. She felt that the pilot episode wasn't racy at all.
When Maureen and Nick are in the storage room, you can see a box of Rose's Lime Juice. Rose's was own by the Schweppes Company in 1963 and used for a variety of mixed alcoholic drinks.
When asked what cigarette Nick wanted he responds that he wants "Reds". Reds is a slang term for the Marlboro brand of cigarette.
When Nick Dalton is entering the club, there is a board with a listing of club members that are present. Among the names are Jeremy Beiermann, Bret Tanzer and Stefan Rand who are members of the show's production department.
Bunny Maureen is from Fort Wayne, Indiana and is an orphan.
While Nick Dalton is holding a newspaper in Billy's office you can see the headline of "MacNamara Likes Outlook In Vietnam Tours Front". This is referencing to Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara visiting Vietnam in Sept, 1963.
The song that Bunny Mother Carol-Lynne is singing while Bunny Maureen comments on her is Chicago (That Toddlin' Town) written by Fred Fisher.
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Germans working on "intelligent tires" for winter
(CBS News) The big trend in car technology is making your car work for you. A good example of this is Cadillac's "semi-autonomous" driving system that lets drivers cruise hands-free. And now a group of German scientists are getting tires in on the act as well. Researchers at Germany's Leipzig University are developing "intelligent tires" that will be able to detect conditions on the road and adapt accordingly - even while driving.
At the Hanover Fair, the world's biggest industrial fair taking place in the north German city, lead researcher Detlef Riemer unveiled his team's "adaptive tire."
"Today's choices of tires are always a compromise between the ability to brake and petrol consumption," Riemer said. "The car driver has to take into consideration every sort of weather condition, and you can't change tires while you're driving."
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Last fall we initiated our Mid-Week service. The cornerstone ministry for that service is the Children's ministry program called Good News Club. Chock full of Bible teaching and activities, the Good News Club is a wonderful investment in our children.
One of the things the Good News Club did to help defray the cost of student workbooks, teacher guide books, student awards, and supplies was to sell a nice quality ball point pen inscribed with "CALVARY CHAPEL AHWATUKEE" and its theme verse, "Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path Psalm 119:105".
Our heavenly Father wants us to grow up (2 Peter 3:18, Heb 5:11-14, 1 Cor 3:1-3). Mature believers are able to discern between good and evil and are not tossed around by the winds of false doctrine (Rom 10:17, 1 Tim 4:1, 2 Tim 4:1-4). Mature children also bear fruit (Ps 1:1-3, John 15:1-5, Gal 5:22-23).
Especially in these crazy days before the Lord returns for His Bride, the clarion call to the Church is, "Watch! Be ready. Look up. And grow up."
I want the very best. It does not really matter what we are talking about, I want the very best. Don't you? Wanting the very best is only natural. It is also supernatural.
Before He ascended to the right hand of the Father in heaven, Jesus Christ said to His followers, "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you, and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world." (Matt 28:18-20)
The Church is a Hospital.
There are billions of patients in the Hospital and thousands of interns. However, there is only One Attending Physician on staff. Also the Head of the Hospital completely responsible for heath care and administration, The Attending Physician does all the work and gets all the accolades. Nothing could be more fair.
When it comes to making household repairs, I am not very handy. I have a poor understanding of how things work so I am able to make minor repairs only. Nonetheless, I have learned that having the right tool makes a huge difference in the time required to do a job as well as in the quality of the result. There is a tool for every job and a job for every tool.
Several days ago, my wife, our three youngest children, and I returned to Arizona along with five others in our young fellowship from Calvary Chapel Ahwatukee's first international mission trip. We spent an amazing week in Kino, Sonora, Mexico, and the surrounding villages. We helped with a church construction project and we took to the streets to pray for people and to share the hope we have in Jesus Christ. And the Lord changed OUR hearts forever.
God's perfect creation was corrupted by a subtle deception. To make reconciliation possible (Is 59:1-2), Jesus Christ entered into the world (Phil 2:5-11). He came with a sword, not with peace (Matt 10:34-39), to call out a people unto Himself. To accomplish the heart surgery required (Eph 4:17-19), He used words that are sharper than any two-edged sword (Heb 4:12).
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