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There's an interesting new book out by Joan Taylor, a professor of Christian origins and Second Temple Judaism at King's College in London.
It's called "What Did Jesus Look Like?"
"Everyone knows how to recognize Jesus," she writes. "He is portrayed in art, film and literature in much the same way. His image is found repeatedly in countless churches and Christian buildings. He is usually somewhat European: a man with nut-brown hair (sometimes blond) and light brown or blue eyes. He has a long face and nose, and long hair and a beard. His clothes are also long: a tunic down to the ground, with wide baggy sleeves, and a large mantle. He is fairly well-tended (combed hair, good teeth, clean), and his clothes look newly washed."
Taylor goes on to deconstruct all that, because, as we all know, there are no photographs or contemporary drawings of Jesus or even much in the way of physical descriptions in the Bible – and, of course, He was a Middle Eastern Jewish man, not a European.
The most vivid physical description of Jesus comes from the prophet Isaiah, who lived 700 years before the Messiah was born: "For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him," we're told in Isaiah 53:2-3. "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not." (Emphasis added.)
Would I like to know what Jesus looks life?
Sure, I would. Who wouldn't?
But I think a better question is whether most Christians will recognize Him when He comes, not by the clothes He wears, the color of His hair and eyes, His skin tone, nor His height and weight. As I wrote in my most recent book, "The Restitution of All Things: Israel, Christians and the End of the Age," my question is whether the Jesus we envision through our pre-conceived notions of who He is, what He taught and what His future Kingdom will be like match scriptural reality.
There is a precedent that concerns me. When Jesus came the first time, those you might expect to recognize their Messiah, most of the reining Jewish religious authorities, did not. They rejected Him. He was not what they were expecting – the anticipated conquering king who would restore the glory of Israel, which suffered under the yoke of pagan Roman tyranny.
My guess is that most Christians anticipating His return may be expecting the Jesus who came in the first century – the "suffering servant," or, perhaps, the one who resembles the "European Jesus" of so many works of art and movies.
It should not be difficult to recognize Him when He returns if we read the Bible. It tells us how He will return and what the world will be like when He does. Yet, Jesus Himself warned about the great deceptions that would occur before His return.
"Take heed that no man deceive you," He said in Matthew 24:4-5. "For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many."
In other words, before He returns, there will be pretenders, deceivers, false messiahs.
In addition, the same people who missed Jesus' first coming had deceived themselves by setting up a religious system that directly contradicted Scripture by adding laws based on their own precepts and traditions.
In my book, I suggest that many who profess to be followers of Jesus today are doing something eerily similar – deceiving themselves by reinventing Jesus through their own precepts and traditions, not by adding to the law but by subtracting from it.
Leviticus 12:32 warns: "What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it."
Maybe that caution from the Almighty God is there for a reason.
What will Jesus' future Kingdom on Earth be like? Read Joseph Farah's "The Restitution of All Things: Israel, Christians and the End of the Age."


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I go to taco bell alot so i know that the prices are very great at taco bell compared to burger kings high prices. It costs me $5.00 to eat at taco bell and get entirely fool but on the flip side if i go to burger king it takes $7.00 to fill me up and in this economy everyone could use that saved money. Plus more things come with that $5.00 dollars i spend at taco bell. A burrito,quesidilla,cinnamon twists,and a drink. at burger king if i walked in with the $7.00 i mentioned then i would get less. chicken fries,fries,and a drink.
next i say variety because when i walk into taco bell everytime i have trouble picking something because there are so many choices. there are tacos,burritos,fiesta potatoes,tostadas,supreme nachos,flat bread taco,quesidillas,chips,cinnamon twist,cheese rolls,etc. when i walk into burger king the choice of food is made simple because i decide between chicken fries , burgers,burgers, and more burgers!
However, Burger King is not just the dominant name in American cuisine fast-food, but the dominant name in all cuisines. Any conscience American cares about the ingredients they are pumping into their bodies, and Taco Bell is a clear second when seeking a modest, healthy diet. A staple Taco Bell item, the 5-layer burrito, contains 540 calories, and all that after a deep-cutting 25% fat reduction. The parallel BK staple, $1 Whoppers, total a lean 340. That's 200 more empty calories, 3 grams more fat and twice the sodium that an average consumer eats at a typical Taco Bell stop-in. A visit to Burger King never makes you feel guilty.
It's clear Burger King wins in nutritional value and selection variety, however there is another category in which BK has an even more ridiculous lead. It is truly during beverage selection that BK's superiority emerges. Taco Bell brings a meager two drink categories to the playing field: Sparklers/Freezes and Fountain sodas. Almost comically, Taco Bell refuses to offer the most basic of soft drinks: Coca Cola. Sure you'll find Pepsi, normal and diet, enough Pepsi to make you suffocate on your own vomit, but no Coca-Cola. Not a drop. Burger King offers Coca-Cola, and 22 other drinks, more than twice what Taco Bell offers. One can understandably look at this written evidence and fail to see the importance of beverages at a fast food restaurant, yet the importance becomes quite clear after the first bite you've taken of that cheesy burrito or thick steak burger. Burger King and Taco Bell are equally filling, yet Taco Bell fails in the follow-up. After you've eaten a dense, fattening meal at Taco Bell, you are only offered sugary flavors like fruit punch and cherry cr�me, that induce as much thirst as the meal you've just consumed. After eating that volcano taco you sure could use a nice refreshing Coca-Cola, and what does Taco Bell have? Fruit Punch.
Sources: Taco Bell website: http://www.tacobell.com...
Burger King website: http://www.bk.com...
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argument 1: If you have noticed the world no longer cares about the healthy food. another quick observation is that they dont want healthy they want good. if people actually cared about eating healthy every fast food restaurant would be out of buisness because no fast food restaurant is really healthy. so right off the bat your first argument is weak.
argument 2: now lets talk about the drinks. people do not go to a restaurant for the drinks they go for the food! the drink is there to make the food go down easierl. people do not say, "im going to taco bell so i can get a drink". so this argument is weak also.
Burger King's willingness to go above and beyond in terms of health and deliciousness would be appreciated in any decade. But in this one, it's a matter of life and death. As of 2010 2/3 of the American populace are obese or overweight. If you're lucky, excess weight will only cause complications like menstrual irregularites and sleep apnea. Most of the obese aren't lucky and suffer from conditions like osteoarthritis (a degeneration of cartilage and bone), cancers of the breast, colorectal, endometrial, and kidney, type 2 diabetes and (sometimes repeat) strokes. Conscious choices like the basic Burger King hamburger, totaling 260 calories, can fight the obesity epidemic. The obese are aware of the dangers of their condition and the assertion that "they dont want healthy they want good" belittles the efforts they have made to change.
Sources: http://www.tacobell.com... (Taco Bell)
http://caloriecount.about.com... (Calorie Info)
http://www.burgerking.com... (Burger King)
http://www.cdc.gov... (Obesity Statistics)
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It seeks compensation from Quebec for hundreds of motorists stuck on Highway 13 overnight.
Several trucks on the highway were not cleared and that led to what was described as the highway 13 fiasco.
Premier Couillard formally apologized to people who were traumatized as a result.
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I'm back............. We went off to our High Tea with Judith Durham over the weekend
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Growing up, people begin to deal with the idea of identity, not just who we are but how we place ourselves within groups beyond our families. For me, this placing became a cultural question. As my parents were from the Caribbean, I was connected to multiple cultural groups. However having grown up here in America and not fitting the visual stereotypes of my heritage, I never felt like I truly belonged to any of those cultures. I became aware that the way I presented layers of my past could be used to validate my desired place within these groups. Reflecting on my struggle, I began to question the way we construct personal history in service to our desire for belonging. In this work the color is driven by historical floor patterns from the Caribbean.These faux tile mosaics are a product of colonialism, used as a way to showcase ones European lineage while distancing from ones African and Native lineage.However when we look at the history of these tile patterns it is reveled they are derivative Moroccan tiles. I am drawn to the fact while striving toward colonial Ideals these tiles are actually representative of our African histories.


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Warsaw, Sep 30 (DPA) The leadership of the Polish football federation (PZPN) has been suspended by an arbitration court of the nation's Olympic Committee (PKOL).The court named Robert Zawlocki temporary head of the PZPN after a motion from the sports ministry which has long been dissatisfied with the PZPN's handling of corruption in Polish football.
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A chase track-themed mural depicting jockey-baring horses antagonism to the accomplishment band streams beyond the bank in a South Russel's man's "man cave."
There's a adventure abaft a atramentous and white arch with a alternation of arches that the Romeos corrective on a bank of Puente Viejo restaurant in Playhouse Square two years ago.
"The arch agency article to the arch chef," Michael says. "The arch is in his home boondocks in Central Mexico. The (restaurant) advance artisan capital to booty an absolute account of the bridge, draft the photograph up and adhere it on that wall, but they begin that it would accept been added big-ticket than for us to custom-paint it."
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He and Kathy assignment beneath the aggregation name Michael J. Romeo & Associates. (Before the Romeos became a brace and partners, Michael had a baby staff, appropriately "associates).
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Michael abounding the Cleveland Institute of Art, but he didn't accomplishment because he wasn't abiding if he capital to be an artist, he says. Kathy becoming a amount in art from the University of Cincinnati. Back they met, Michael already had his custom art business.
"When we affiliated (in 1999), it was absolute for us to assignment together," he says.
Michael got his alpha as a custom mural artisan affectionate of by accident. At one time, the accessible could acquaintance the Cleveland Institute of Art to appoint an artisan for a project, he says. Even admitting he didn't alum from the Institute, he was on its list. The Institute recommended him to the old Arhaus Appliance in the Flats back the aggregation was attractive for a artisan to acrylic a allotment of furniture. The customer, admiring with Michael's work, assassin him to do a adorning painting on a wall, and the rest, as they say.
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Sometimes custom murals become a aggregation effort, with architects and autogenous designers involved.
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Last Day at Singita Kruger National Park
Woke up at 5, and this time didn't go back to bed. Met the group in the main area and went off on a drive. After the drive we were taken to the bush breakfast venue, it is a fixed venue on the banks of the river where we enjoyed a wonderful breakfast.
We tried Archery (not as easy as it looks - my arm still hurts), which is also one of the activities that Singita offers. We then went back to the lodge, finished packing our bags and onto Lebombo for a site inspection. After our site inspection, Sheperd took us back to Satara airstrip, for our return flight to Johannesburg or so we thought.
The aircraft was already waiting for us and the pilots hurried us onto the plane. It looked like we were late but we took off at about 13h00. This aircraft was not as nice as the one we had taken on the 7th. It was a Caravan, on board the pilot said we would make a stop at Singita Sabi Sands, we all assumed that it would be to pick up some other clients. On arrival at the Singita Sabi Sands airstrip, we were told to get off as there would be another flight to collect us, they had to go to Ulusaba. So we merely got off and were greeted by a friendly face.
We only waited for a few minutes when a much larger aircraft landed. We then made our trip back to Johannesburg on a Beech 1900 which is a very nice aircraft - leather seats and pressurized.
We landed at Johannesburg at about 15h00, where we were transferred back to the domestic departures terminal and checked in for our return flights home.
I finally made it back to Cape Town after a 1 hour delay in my domestic flight, and was home after my once-in-a-lifetime, amazing experience at Singita Kruger National Park.
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This is the FINAL cumulative report for the Kilmore South.
This summary of a government report prepared after February 7, Black Saturday Fires, reveals that the state government pro-actively ignored the advice provided by the BAER team for the survival of fire affected endangered species in favour of logging. The fires of Black Saturday changed the lives of everyone and everything that lived in the Central Highlands of Victoria except the logging industry. VicForest have posted a creative profit this financial year, endangered species however will court extinction with little hope for return.
This review of the Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) report reveals that the response by Government may have committed at least 3 key species to an extinction trajectory and risked Melbourne's current and future drinking water.
There were 60 scientists in the BAER team - they arrived in Victoria for a series of Rapid Assessments over 35 days in the hardest hit area's of Black Saturday's forests. Each team was made up of a variety of specialists such as soil scientists, hydrologists, geologists, biologists, geographic information system specialists, archeologist, botanist, silviculturist, research engineer, and civil engineer. The BAER teams are very experienced specialists that are highly effective in conducting rapid assessments and analyses.
Some of their initial environmental findings included;
420,000 square kilometres of forest and farms burned.
2,600 kilometres of fire breaks were dozed
820 kilometres of rivers, streams were burned and affected by the fires
According to a presentation by Ewen Waller; 'extensive use of the BAER team approach would take place'
The BAER report was developed in conjunction with the State of Victoria Department of Sustainability and Environment, Vic Forests, Parks Victoria, Vic Roads, Department of Primary Industry, Country Fire Authority (CFA), State Emergency Services (SES), Melbourne Water, Goulburn-Murray CMA, Goulburn-Broken CMA, Heritage Victoria, New South Wales State Forest, and the United States Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) Team.
The report urged conservation action on species at risk, warned against salvage logging in catchment areas and threatened species habitat and stated that no more than 236 hectares of fire affected forest should be salvage logged (Page 64)- the Victorian government ordered 10 times the amount to be cut across habitat imperative to the survival of the same species BAER listed as threatened.
In addition to concerns regarding the gross loss of habitat quality for many species due to fire, the temporal and spatial arrangement of the remaining habitat needed to be considered in future recovery, so salvage, green timber harvesting and fire pre-suppression activities must be enacted with great caution, warned the report.
One of the major issues of concern due to the fire is the loss of habitat connectivity which will have negative affects on many species of fauna. An action to link green and low intensity burned forests was reccomended by the BAER team, but to no avail - these area's are and have been logged since Black Saturday.
This BAER report stated that no more than 236 hectares of forest should be logged. To date, 2000 hectres of salvage logging in burned forests took place from Kinglake to Marysville. Additionally, Green logging never stopped despite public claims by VicForests that they had. Key habitat for the Leadbeaters Possum, Powerful and Sooty Owl, Barred Galaxias and other listed threatened species has now been logged.
The new Timber release Plan has been released with even more logging in sites containing threatened species. During the public consultation process, groups and individuals submitting on the TRP's amendments called for important environmental audits to be provided to the public in order to make adequate assessments on the status of the health of our ecosystems and whether logging could take place sustainably. These cries were ignored by the government and logging was approved. No record of the BAER reports exists for the public despite the cost to tax payers and legitimate role the reports play in landscape management and planning for logging sustainability.
The population sustainability of the IUCN red listed, critically endangered Barred Galaxias and Leadbeaters Possum is now in question in terms of it capacity to naturally survive. Whilst nestboxes have been used as a short term solution for challenged possum populations, the long term viability of these boxes is expensive and unstable. The nestboxes are not resistant to fire, are often infested by the European honeybee and fall off the tree's on average of every 6 months (Lindenmayer 2009)
Removing the Maquarie Perch and Barred Galaxias fish to 'save' in refrigeration units before they can be re-introduced is not sustainable. To log the rivers and then hope to re-introduce the fish is costly and unsustainable.
The 2008 State of the Forests Report, published AFTER Black Saturday listed data deficiency for nearly two thirds of the report and further decline to 23 forest dependant species with 43 new species being added to the threatened list - this DID NOT consider the effects of the fires. We will not have any idea about the affects of Black saturday on threatened species now until 2013. Other than the BAER work.
There are major costs to Victorian tax payers for the DSE to artificially support and monitor species suffering because of logging decisions. The monitoring, whilst important to learn population and distribution is merely reaffirming, in report after report, that these species require multi aged, intact, area's of Ash forest. The same resource VicForests sell for woodchip, the same forest badly disturbed by Black Saturday.
The salvage logging was hurried through before an assessment for it's safety could be prepared. Subsidies for the logging can be traced back to the treasurer (at the time VicForests' boss) - John Lenders, who approved the salvage operation before BAER even had a chance to complete their very expensive report. There were 165 log trucks and men brought into the forests from as far as Eden, in addition to the permanent crews, to cut as much as possible, as soon as possible - 24/7. No regard for species survival. And we, as fire communities, we assured it was all about 'local employment'.
The BAER report recommended 'that resource volumes reflect the reduction in resource for commercial purpose AND Habitat' - to date a further 116 coupes have been awarded to VicForests, with 65 featuring in the Central Forest Management Area - the forests of Marysville, Toolangi and Kinglake.
In 2009/2010, 2/3rds of all of Victoria's total sawlog and pulp log yield was cut in Central forest management area. This means, in addition to the damage by the fires, more than 2000 hectares of forest has been cut back to zero in age class and with coupes as large as 120 ha each, made untenable for the survival of hollow dependant species.
The cover-up of these essential reports should prompt a parliamentary inquiry into the management of VicForests and the DSE. Which ministers ordered these reports to be dismissed, why and at what cost to our native species.
The key question is; How can a major ecological report on the worst fires in living memory, that has committed the entire population of Leadbeaters Possum (Vic's faunal emblem) into near extinction, be simply 'sat on' or ignored? 60 highly paid scientists, 12 government agencies and a report that cost millions has been ignored to allow for the broad scale logging of forests that provide several million people with drinking water, habitat for our most endangered forested species and stand as the richest forested carbon banks on earth. We asked for this work, we were told it didn't exist so we could not include it in our timber submissions, now we are told it's irrelevant becuse it was written by Americans and now we keep funding VicForests to cut our precious forests into a debt we foot.
Next time a politician says that logging in foreign countries is far worse than logging here because it's ilegal and they are killing endangered species - take a long, hard look at the legality of our logging.
We currently have 12 breaches under official regulatory investigation with many more on the way.
At the writing of this summary, our offices are recording 12 log trucks per hour - 1 truck of 30 tonnes every 5 minutes being transported to Japan - Nippon.
Sarah Rees
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There's more than one ffn community listing daddyward stories. Go to ffn, change the search parameters to communities, then put in "daddyward." You'll get a short list of communities for you to check out. If you want mommy bella stories, try "momella."
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does anyone know this fic? its Edward and bella. they meet in a bar end up sleeping together then they find out they work together Edwards a teacher and bellas his assistant they end up moving in together but Edwards wife who he's separated from shows up. bella tells him to try again with his wife. bella thinks she pregnant tells Edward but when she takes the test its negative they end up getting back together, Edwards x trashes his house
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Inside The Actors Studio: The Good Place
Is this Heaven? Actor, author, and producer Ted Danson will be visiting Pace's NYC Campus on Monday, November 20, and we're definitely hearing a choir of angels.
Heaven must be missing an angel, because Inside the Actors Studio just announced that Ted Danson will be the next seminar guest to visit the Schimmel Center on Monday, November 20, at 7:00 p.m.
Danson is a versatile actor, author, and producer well-known for his role as lead character Sam Malone on Cheers as well as Dr. John Becker on Becker. He has also appeared in films such as Body Heat, Three Men and a Baby, and Saving Private Ryan, as well as the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Damages, Bored to Death, and Fargo.
Over the course of his career, Danson has been awarded three Golden Globes and two Emmys. He is currently appearing on Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Good Place.
This taping will take place at Pace University, Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce Street (between Park Row and Gold Street near City Hall).
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We're in the middle of National Suicide Prevention Week. World Suicide Prevention Day is September 10th. It's a good cause, but a sad topic. Too many people exit their lives in this manner, and whatever we can do to prevent it is worthwhile. Many folks who commit suicide (or attempt to do so ) aren't really looking for the finality of death, but more so for help. A release from their pain is often what drives them, and that can be something we can try and help them with. We may not always be successful, but the least we can do is try.
I am reminded during this time (not that it takes much) of my late friends who chose to end their own lives. The immeasurable sadness the news of their deaths -- and the absence of their lives -- brought to me is no doubt dwarfed by what their families continue to feel to this very day. It is true that suicide is a very selfish act. While the person who commits it may be thinking that others will not miss them, or that the world would be better off without them, it is almost always the case that nothing could be further from the truth. And then their loved ones are left with gaping holes in their hearts forever.
Bret was someone I met at C-Street, the local gay bar, during the mid-1990s. He was attractive, intelligent, and a bit stuck-up, but then no one is perfect. He was from Lafayette, Indiana and he went to school to be a nurse. I remember attending his college graduation in Lafayette. A few carloads of us from Champaign-Urbana made the trip across the state border, watched the ceremony, and then we all went up to Chicago for a night of celebration. Then there was the time a few of us stayed over at Bret & Jason's apartment for a weekend, and went to a great haunted house in Lafayette. We also watched Batman & Robin (bad) and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (good) at their apartment.
When Bret got a job at one of the local hospitals, he came to stay with me. That probably wasn't the best idea. My tiny abode (and I do mean tiny) really wasn't big enough for two people. And sometimes the old saying of "familiarity breeds contempt" can be spot on. Our friendship ended badly because of this arrangement, although it didn't change the fact that I thought of Bret as an overall decent human being. I learned last year, as some of us were planning a C-Street reunion, that Bret had committed suicide in 2008, due to relationship difficulties. That it made me sad is an understatement.
Tracy was a mutual friend of mine and Bret's (and many others). We bonded quite a bit as friends, with both fun times and serious moments interspersed throughout the years we knew one another. Tracy, Terry, Amanda and I would often hang out before, during and after nights at C-Street. We did lots of stuff that young twenty-somethings get up to, and it was immense fun. Trips to nightclubs in Indiana, Gay Pride weekends in Chicago -- Tracy was part & parcel of those experiences. He ended up in a beautiful house in Hoopeston, Illinois, and I enjoyed it when Terry, Ashley & I visited him in the Summer of 2004 and he showed us around his garden and inside his home.
In December of 2004, one of Tracy's close friends called and informed me that Tracy had killed himself -- carbon monoxide poisoning in his garage. Ashley, Amanda, Terry and I went to his funeral. Afterwards, we had a bite to eat at a restaurant in Paxton, and reminisced. We all grew up a little bit more that day.
I miss Bret and Tracy, quite often, actually. Death is final. There's no going back. And the death of the young, vibrant and healthy, who have so much life left to live in this world, is perhaps one of the worst occurrences we face. My friends aren't out there somewhere, available for a phone call, or text, e-mail, or visit. They're gone. They, and others like them, needed help. Many who are alive still do. We all have to go sometime, but let's help our friends get every ounce of quality time out of their lives as possible. Let's be there for each other. Let's not wait until it's too late.
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Girls' Generation's Sooyoung Is a Milan Fashionista for Grazia
Girls' Generation member Sooyoung looks ready for the fashion forward city of Milan!
New shots of Sooyoung were released by fashion magazine Grazia that show her gracing Milan in simple yet attractive city fashion looks.
In one of the pictures, you can see Sooyoung wearing a light one-piece dress with tennis shoes and enjoying some time on the Italian streets.
In another picture, she gives off an elegant atmosphere in two-colored pants and shirt with her hair lightly blowing in the wind.
You can see more shots of her photo shoot in the April edition of Grazia that will be released on April 5.
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Late Night Show Hosts Pay Loving Tribute To Don Rickles: Kimmel, Fallon & More
To say Don Rickles was beloved by fellow comedians would be an understatement. Late night TV hosts Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert each paid heartfelt tributes to the icon on their shows Apr. 6 after he passed away at age 90.
Don Rickles may have left us with his passing Apr. 6 at age 90, but his influence over generations of comedians lives on. Jimmy Kimmel, 48, Jimmy Fallon, 42, and Stephen Colbert, 52, took time on their respective late night show's opening monologues to talk about the legend and remember Don's incredibly razor sharp wit.
On Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the host remembered his good pal who made over eight appearance on his show over the years. "There will never be another Don Rickles," Kimmel said at the top of the segment. "He was probably the greatest talk show guest of all time. Here he is: Mr. Warmth – Don Rickles," before introducing a three-minute highlight reel of the icon's most hilarious moments on JKL. Earlier in the day he tweeted, "90 years with Don Rickles weren't enough. One of the sweetest and most lovely people I had the pleasure of knowing. We miss you already."
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Over on NBC, Fallon shared, "A little sad news, we just learned of the passing of Don Rickles at the age of 90. He was a comedy legend, he's been on The Tonight Show a countless number of times. I've personally been out to dinner with him several times where he said some truly, truly mean things to me. Which if you're a fan, that's an honor. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family."
Stephen Colbert, 52, paid tribute on CBS's The Late Show by telling the audience about when he met the comic legend. "While I didn't know Don Rickles, I did have the incredible honor to meet him once back stage at the Emmys. We were both up for Best Host of a variety show. The better one of us won," Colbert joked. When he went backstage to congratulate Don, "He told me I was 'good'. And I felt like a made man. Because we all should have his career and be who he was….married to his wife, I don't know, 120 years? Something like that. So, God bless you Don Rickles and thank you."
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The Elephant in the Room
As part of Panic! It's an Arts Emergency! Harrison was commissioned to make a new work using their research into inequality in the arts as a starting point. In April 2018, Harrison invited 50 participants from the Creative & Cultural Industries and beyond to take part in a Power & Privilege Workshop in London, to explore how these hidden forces in society affect all our lives.
The Glasgow Effect
On 8 January 2017, just one week after completing her year-long 'durational performance' The Glasgow Effect, for which she refused to travel outside Glasgow for the whole of 2016, Harrison gave a talk about the work at the Glasgow Film Theatre.
A Better Railway for Britain
Writing as founder and coordinator of Bring Back British Rail, Harrison reflects on the last seven years' campaigning for the public ownership of our railways in this preface for the campaign's first report, launched in the Houses of Parliament in London on 13 October 2016. (Word count: 663)
Practising what we Preach
Written by Harrison during the first few months of The Glasgow Effect in 2016, this essay explores the many problems within the higher education system, which were the project's initial impetus, and the destructive values these promote. It outlines key actions to resolve the contradictions that are preventing us from practising what we preach. (Word count: 4,496)
The Glasgow Effect: A Discussion
A discussion about The Glasgow Effect chaired by Roanne Dods & Gerry Hassan with Darren McGarvey, Katie Gallogly-Swan & Ellie Harrison, held at the Glad Cafe as part of Imagination, Scotland's Festival of Ideas.
The Glasgow Effect
The Glasgow Effect was a multi-layered 'research project', which took place in 2016. Its central provocation was that Harrison refused to travel outside Greater Glasgow for a whole calendar year (1 January – 31 December 2016). On 8 January 2017, she gave a talk about the work at the Glasgow Film Theatre.
The RRAAF Debate
Harrison outlines the ideas behind her new Radical Renewable Art + Activism Fund project at the Shifting Power event at Beaconsfield in London.
Sustainability in Practice
Speaking at the Culture & Sustainability event organised by Julie's Bicycle at The Tetley in Leeds, Harrison discusses the challenges and consequences of putting 'sustainability' into practice; specifically: her life-long project Early Warning Signs, her Environmental Policy and how her breaches of its Transportation section led to The Glasgow Effect.
Radical Renewable Art + Activism Fund
Initiated by Harrison in 2015, the Radical Renewable Art + Activism Fund (RRAAF) aims to be a new and autonomous funding scheme, which will use renewable energy to offer 'no strings attached' grants for art-activist projects in the UK.
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This Is What Democracy Looks Like!
We live in a liberal democracy, yet how much power do we really have to decide the direction of our country? "This Is What Democracy Looks Like!" gives you the opportunity to meet & greet your newly elected politicians at a roving roundtable discussion upon a bicycle built for seven. Hop on, decide on your direction and then travel together through the Olympic Park whilst discussing the issues that matter to you with the people in power.
There's nothing More Unequal than Equality amongst Unequals
A performance / installation exploring the different interpretations of the concept of 'equality' favoured by different parts of the political spectrum. On Friday 3 July 2015, a diverse group of six people took part in a simple performance at g39 in Cardiff – standing on a series of special plinths designed to raise each person up to an equal level, so that together they formed a perfect line.
Venice Biennale: Think Local, Act Global!
Harrison self-critically reflects on the experience of taking part in the 2015 Venice Biennale (as part of Doug Fishbone's Leisure Land Golf) in this short text for Press Room, which laid the groundwork for The Glasgow Effect in 2016. (Word count: 760)
Life Raft
Designed as the final hole of Doug Fishbone's Leisure Land Golf, Life Raft – a scale map of the UK floating in the adjacent canal – offers a safe haven to immigrant golf balls that can make the treacherous crossing. In a typically playful way, Harrison's work hints towards a somewhat darker time in the future, when the continued rise in global temperatures creates a vast number of 'climate refugees' desperate to escape to more temperate climes.
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High Street Casualties: Ellie Harrison's Zombie Walk
A performance / event in collaboration with Ort Gallery staged on Birmingham's busy shopping streets. Dressed as "zombie employees", more than 60 participants helped to map the former locations of thirteen of the big retail chains which have disappeared from our high streets since the start of the financial crisis in 2008.
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Ethics: Extremism & Compromise
A talk by Ellie Harrison exploring the relationship between her life choices and her work as an artist for Artquest's Practice 360° programme at Camden Arts Centre in London.