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One law for the Muslims here, and one for everyone else. Sharia Law in full swing, even on a forum :-) Same old same old. Double standards and hypocrisy.
You are no 'peacemaker'.
Very selective in your deletions.
IF your 'friend' wants some education on this matter Jamal, I would be glad to help him/her if I can. But will do it privately. They can email me.
I've seen as much as I need to see, and know here now. But will correspond via email if it's helpful. And it will not be to defend Christianity/Islam or any other religion.
I have only ever tried to speak about the abuses in all religions, and how serious they are - having known them personally. Spending many long hours trying to understand that it had nothing to do with the 'true' religion or the 'message' that some people - priests/imams or anyone else, choose to abuse - in seeking the abuse/rape of children, or anyone else.
Some people here could see that and corresponded with me on those particular issues. But bigots have myopic vision. Not your fault. Maybe it religious 'abuse' :-)
Your job here, at least I thought was part of being Muslim, is to draw people to the greater desire for understanding your religon - not putting them off it completely. And you my friend have played, and are playing with fire, a fire that will come back and really 'bite' your ass.
Good luck to you.
Gulliver, I edited your post politely. And then you edited and continued your violation. Please refrain from editing mod-edited posts.
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I am a revert to Islam. I am the only Muslim in my maternal/paternal families. Many of my friends are non-Muslim and I live in the U.S. where virtually all of my neighbors are non-Muslim. Surrounded by and related to non-Muslims as I am on a daily basis, I am never privy to the types of abuse that occurs here. Never.
I assume this is because most people, whatever their belief, would find it extremely rude to walk into someone's home and barrage them with highly offensive remarks, disguised as queries, regarding their religion. Nor would most normal people accost one on the street and do the same.
As I read the the various topics posted on the forum and the subsequent posts I am often amused and sometimes amazed at how indignant non-Muslims become when we respond to their posts in kind.
Topics such as "Sad", "Shariah Law?", "Not Necessarily Domestic Violence", and "Pray for the future women of the world", "Islam a religion of love?", and "Reason why there are no homosexuals in Islam", etc... are openly insulting and posted in an attempt to protray Muslims and Islam in as bad a light as possible. These topics are eagerly jumped upon and made a "cause concern" by most non-Muslims on this forum, and there seems to be no sensitivity to the fact that the Muslims posting here might find this offensive.
However, let someone post a topic such as this one, even if done as an example, and we are immediately accused of double standards and hypocrisy.
While I suppose it was perfectly acceptible to post about Muslims raping children to force conversion, it is not quite so acceptible to post about priests raping children because they could do so with impunity. The difference here is that this is one topic, not one of hundreds.
I guess it is not so very pleasant having a glaring spotlight thrust upon something that has absolutely nothing to do with your religion or your personal belief system yet was perpetrated by those who claim to share the same faith so it is suddenly part of YOUR RELIGION, and you are personally responsible for answering to it or explaining why.
I believe this forum was created for the purpose of exchanging ideas, peaceful interaction, the sharing of culture and beliefs. It has instead become a place where we, the hosts, are under constant sniper attack and are accused of being unhospitable and not "being Muslim" when we shoot back. Well, every once in a while it's nice to take the target off of your own back...
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Don't take it so personally, Gulliver. It's not incumbent upon you to defend the indefensible or to answer for anyone's sins except your own: which is, I think, one of the reasons why Jam posted this, as an exercise.
God, by way of Prophet Jeremiah, has an answer, and not a single one in the Curia or upon the so-called Throne of St. Peter -or, for that matter, within the Reformed (Protestant) churches- can ever annul it:
"Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD." (Jeremiah 23:1)
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Hi folks
It is difficult for me not to be sensitive about this particular issue. I just had an email tonight from a friend who's back from a holiday in US. He says, 'you have been very quiet recently', but understands how we all need a break at times. We deal with this issue day in and day out, week in and week out, month in and month out, year in and year out, and it's like swimming against the tide. I am very tired 'fighting'. I was having a break from it, and not expecting to have it shoved in my face in this place too. I was really enjoying my explorations of Islam, and sharing things people actually share. And most recently the poetry of Rumi. I was listening to it a lot yesterday and found it very uplifting. Beautiful stuff. Anway - no matter about that. But it is something I know a LOT about, not least from personal experience, and maybe one time will talk some more about it, if someone wants. I was driven from 'religion' for many years because of it, and because I did not 'practice' my faith - believed I was nolonger fit to be called 'Christian' either - even though seeking to live a life of belief in God, and trying to do 'good' to others. I see others driven away too - equating God with religious/spiritual abuse. It is the greatest sin of all in my view. I had to fight a monumental battle which I am not long out of, with the 'hierarchy,' and one reason I fought so hard was that I would not give them the power over something they had no right to - the real good in that religion - the beautiful in it - the truly spiritual. They tried to rob it from me once. I was not letting them do it again. It needs another reformation methinks. And it's there, all that good and beauty. Just as it is in Islam. People judge Islam from ignorance - terrorism etc etc etc. That hurts those who know better, believe better in that religion. It's the same with other religions too - if it seems we judge another religion because of those who abuse relgious power. And some of us really do/should know better.
Sorry Jamal. You are right to ask about these things, cause they all come under the umbrella of religious/spiritual abuses. I ask them all the time, and believe me my friend, you cannot even begin to imagine how I have fought and seek to alleviate the suffering of the 'abused' in this country. I'd do the same in Islam, if I were a Muslim. It does NOT mean Islam is bad. It's only about fighting abuses in religion, any religion, that turn people away from God. I also found that the more devout very often were just as hard to 'fight' as the clerics/scholarly types. They perceived an attack on anything to do with the religion as an attack on their faith. I had family members who knew the hell I'd been through not want 'to know'. It's insane. But that is all part of sexual abuse - and spiritual abuse of entire families/communities/societies. It's so much about power and secrecy. Sexual abuse pervades all strata of society, and often the society, or religion is, and chooses to remain, in denial over that issue and how bad it might actually be. I have been told that a Dublin Inquiry about to be released is DEVASTATING. Not devastating enough in my belief. In the sense of hitting those who need hit hardest. The sooner that lot are brought to their knees and stripped of all the power Christ never intended they have - temporal power, the better. A Phoenix may rise from the ashes of that rot and filth.
When I highlight any abuse, it is an abuse of religion generally - that hurts any individual to the degree they believe it's somehow 'God' who does this to them, abuses them, and it happens all the time in all religions, and so very many levels. I am highly sensitive to religious abuse of any kind in any religion and I will fight that before I seek to defend the religion.
Anway - I went off and listened to some Rumi on youtube. It's superb stuff.
Now I am going to bed to really switch off from all of this for a while.
To answer your question from my experience, much questionning, reading and learning Jamal - no, the bible does not condone child abuse, or abuse of anyone. Not in my understanding anyway. Priests are not told, nor allowed to abuse children.
Is it covered up ?!!
A most definite, YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can personally testify to that from my own experience. But they still have not succeeded in driving me away completely. The journey continues.
Good night and God bless folks.
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As Salamu Alaikum Sister Shasta'sAunt. I too am the only Muslim in my family.Alhamduillah!We are Bless for this we over come fitna on the daily and we know how the deal with non-Muslims because we know were they are coming from, alot of them here do not understand that.I also feel that some get to push the envelope here on this forum everyday.Even though we are giving them Dawah.I use to always post that (This is an Islamic forum so it is only out of respect to greet eachother properly)Muslim or non-Muslim.I seen a DVD on a Kutbah given by Sheik Ahmed Didot called Dawah or Destruction.During his speach he talks about after he finishes and go for diner the other Muslims ask him why are you bothering the Christians? [IMG]smileys/smiley19.gif" align="middle" />
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Comes another melodramatic venture from the beautiful head of Jean-Marc Vallee, Demolition is a movie not for everyone. Whilst I personally love his direction, in the back of the head I get this feeling it might overwhelm some with apathy.
Demolition lets you delve into the head of a guy who goes rogue on account of a recent mishap. Jake Gyllenhaal gets into the skin of Davis, a guy who doesn't pay much attention to what's going on around him, until he does. The world we behold then is brimming up with his insanity, and he seems at one point to have reached heights of the inane. Some of his acts seem really fatuous but some instigated. But it is the constant struggle between the two that the director pushes us toward which makes things hard to digest.
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She began her love affair with stained glass at age 12 when she started working after school alongside her father, James O'Hara. He had purchased the business from his uncle, William Pike, before Pike passed away in 1958.
James O'Hara held a master's degree in fine arts from City College of New York. His mother, Helen Melvin O'Hara, managed the studio office and his wife, Norma Lee O'Hara, assisted in the design of the windows and color selection.
Valerie O'Hara shared the family's love of art, and after graduation from Penfield High School she earned her bachelor's degree in fine art with a major in painting at Rochester Institute of Technology.
She bought Pike from her parents in 1987 and has been the owner, director and designer since that time. Revenues have remained relatively steady, O'Hara says, although the company was affected by the recession of 2007-09, which hurt many businesses.
Classic windows
Pike Stained Glass Studios specializes in the design and restoration of stained, leaded, beveled and etched glass windows in churches, commercial buildings and residences. Its reproduction and period re-creation windows evoke eras from medieval to Victorian, but the company nevertheless has had to keep up with changing trends through the decades.
"Changes in taste happened rapidly after the turn of the 19th century, especially in mainstream churches. Many were going to a neo-Gothic style," O'Hara says. "You had to adapt to stay in business. Today the Tiffany style is at the height of popularity again."
O'Hara meets with clients to explain the different styles and techniques available. She also has a unique abstract style, which allows her a greater degree of self-expression in her work, she says.
"It's great when they see my portfolio and point to my original work and say, 'We want to go with you,'" O'Hara says. "The freedom that affords me is to be the most expressive."
One client that contracted for O'Hara's original, abstract style is the Flaum Eye Institute at Strong Memorial Hospital. Her design was impressive enough that the institute adopted it as a logo.
"Valerie came up with the perfect vision. She had the concept to create suspended panels of glass that replicate the optic nerve of an eyeball," says Diane Feldon, wife of Stephen Feldon M.D. of the institute. "When you stand back, the sunlight shines through them beautifully and they fit together like a puzzle.
Diane Feldon and eight other people were on a committee assigned to find a local artist to beautify the space that would house the institute at the hospital.
"We thought there was no reason all walls in a hospital have to be painted green, and we thought stained glass would be a great idea, given this area's proximity to Corning," Feldon says.
Three local stained glass companies were invited to bid, and Pike Stained Glass Studios won because of O'Hara's creativity, Feldon says. Her optic nerve design now embellishes the print materials of the Flaum Eye Institute as well as ties and scarves the organization has designed.
"Her image has become the official symbol of the eye institute," Feldon says. "Valerie's work is an integral part of our creative design. She was the perfect fit for us."
O'Hara would like to see her business take on more commercial projects. Much of the company's work involves restoring stained glass windows for churches, and those projects often are funded almost entirely by donations from congregations, which means it can take years for projects to be completed.
Work for churches
O'Hara is especially fond of one church client because all three generations of her family have worked for it. It is the Zion Episcopal Church in Avon. William Pike installed the first window in 1938, and the last window, the 10th, was installed in 2003 by O'Hara.
A former member of the vestry in that congregation recalls sitting with O'Hara's great-uncle as he worked on one of the first windows. Jean Batzing, now 92, remembers the meticulous detail of Pike's work and notes how it parallels the details of his great-niece's work today. She recalls Pike's kindness and the patient way he made time to explain his process to her as he installed the fifth window.
"I sat with Mr. Pike while he worked. I was in my 20s back then," Batzing recalls. "We talked about what the window was to be. I wanted it to be in memory of my mother, in memory of the Downings. All of the windows in the church are dedicated to certain families, and that one was dedicated to mine."
She describes how in 1937 Bishop Charles Persell commissioned all 10 of the stained glass windows to be installed by the Pike Studios and along with Henry Selden, a warden of the church, decided on a theme for the windows.
"Each of the 10 windows depicts a different stage in Christ's life. Our window, No. 5, is the miracle window," Batzing says. "It shows three scenes: the bent-over woman, the calming of the water and the turning of the water to wine. It's beautiful to have these windows.
"Sometimes we get a priest with a flair for art, and he will reference one of these windows in his sermons," Batzing says happily.
The congregation definitely values them, Batzing points out. Her church records book shows that the first window, installed in 1938, cost $350 and the final window, installed in 2003, cost $60,000.
"It's been an honor to see the vision of Bishop Persell completed," Batzing says. "I used to be a teacher, and I believe sometimes you have to see things to appreciate them. These windows are a beautiful way to depict the story of Christ visually. The Pike company has done a wonderful job."
O'Hara constantly works to expand her business but admits it can be a struggle, given the nature of her work.
"It's a business like any other, on top of being an art," she says. "So much of our work comes from word of mouth. The projects we do get are very time-intensive because everything we do is completed by hand, one piece at a time.
"It is difficult to control costs and remain competitive while giving the client the most original, creative work possible."
Material costs account for 30 percent of most projects, O'Hara says, and that can be where "you start bleeding" on a project, especially when the glass must be imported from Europe. A certain hand-blown glass is much more expensive but allows for a richer look, she explains.
While there is no average project, O'Hara estimates her project cost to be $250 to $300 a square foot when she bids on most projects.
"Growth for us now means expanding our customer base beyond New York State and finding large commissions to bid on," O'Hara says.
Off the job
O'Hara says it can be hard to find time to enjoy some of her hobbies, especially since many of them depend on the weather, such as gardening, bicycling, skiing and sailing. Like her love of art, she learned to appreciate many of her hobbies from her parents.
"All these things my parents enjoyed," O'Hara recalls. "I learned sailing at a very early age. I crew. I prefer racing-that is, when I have time. I sail out of the Genesee Yacht Club and the Rochester Yacht Club mainly."
She lives in Brighton near the Penfield line. O'Hara bought the house she grew up in, and it is filled with her parents' artwork. Her two sisters and brother live outside this area.
The Pike Studios' work can be found in churches and commercial buildings in more than 850 locations across New York, including all of the local colleges, the Memorial Art Gallery and Highland Hospital.
Finding skilled labor has not been difficult, O'Hara says, because of the great local colleges with solid art programs. She purposely has kept the company small to maintain its artistic integrity. It has two assistants and two contractors that O'Hara uses for all projects.
Laura Quattrociocchi, an assistant to O'Hara, started working at the company right after graduating from Nazareth College of Rochester in 2007. Her bachelor's degree is in fine arts, with a major in art history as well as a concentration in painting.
"I've been working here ever since," she says. "I've learned everything I know about stained glass from Valerie."
Quattrociocchi works as a glazer, does fabrication of the windows and puts the lead in them, among other duties.
"I feel lucky to be part of this work. These are precious pieces; each piece is a special work of art. Sometimes it's a sad day on installation day because the work is done," she says.
Her favorite work is a mosaic project, assembling small pieces of glass.
"I really enjoyed working on a six-foot replica of a 'tree of life' for St. Catherine's of Sienna in Mendon," she says.
Often, when a project is finished, Quattrociocchi can take a friend or loved one by to see her work. That is the beauty of stained glass on display, she says. It is long-lasting.
"I don't think many people know what a great treasure this company is to the city," Quattrociocchi says. "I didn't realize it until I worked here."
O'Hara is doing her part to share Pike Stained Glass Studios with the community. She works closely with the Landmark Society of Western New York Inc. and the Memorial Art Gallery to promote the history and art of stained glass. She offers lectures and tours of churches that feature her company's work, as well as tours of the 4,000-square-foot company studios in the Smith-Gormley Building on St. Paul Street.
"There are some aspects of our work that I take for granted, having grown up in the business and art of stained glass," O'Hara says. "They are a mystery to others, and it is part of my job to demystify the process and history of stained glass, to make it more accessible to potential clients."
Lori Gable is a Rochester-area freelance writer.
Valerie O'Hara
Position: President and designer, Pike Stained Glass Studios Inc.
Age: 58
Residence: Brighton
Education: Bachelor of fine arts degree in painting, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1976
Awards: Landmark Society of Western New York, Excellence in Design, 1998, 2006, 2011
Community service: Board member, Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery; volunteer, Episcopal Church Home
Hobbies: skiing, sailing, bicycling, reading, gardening, cooking
Quote: "Stained glass is the only art form that relies on transmitted light to point out its beauty and richness to view. Everything else relies on reflected light to view it."
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It wasn't long ago that if you gathered all the female mountain operations executives for a conference, you'd just hear a voice echo in an empty auditorium. In fact, if you held the meeting in the adjacent bar, you'd only need a stool or two.
While you still wouldn't fill the hall today, you would need to pull a few tables together in that bar to gather the group. Slowly and steadily, women are weaving their way into the operations side of the mountain resort industry.
Not that it is easy.
"It takes patience," says Bretton Woods director of operations Alexa Bernotavicz. "It's a slow process getting the guys to see that you can and will handle things. You basically just have to get down in there with them and do it. In time, they see you as one of the team."
And it takes some special skills. "You have to be able to drop trou in the cold snow and pee in the woods," says Caroline Sherrer, who has worked the operations side at more than one resort.
In the recent past, gender roles at resorts broke down like this: women in service positions, ski school, marketing and front office. Men in ski patrol and operations like snowmaking, grooming, lift ops and anything mechanical.
Ski patrol was the first of the traditionally male departments where women started to appear as part of the team. Operations has come slower. And yet, women working on that side say what attracted them to it in the first place was something very, well, very female-associated: the feeling of family. "What really attracted me to it was the feeling of teamwork and of family," says Sherrer of her years in operations at Steamboat.
So how does it go for women on that side? In most cases, females enter the industry in a classic female role and then discover the operations side. From there, it can be bumpy, tricky, sometimes smooth and sometimes infuriating. How you make it work seems to depend on your stamina, dedication and maybe a little bit of luck.
For Kelly Pawlak, the road to becoming Mount Snow's first female GM in 2005 began with a simple thought: "I better get a job so I can afford a ski pass." Pawlak started out in marketing, but found herself drawn to the operations side of the resort quickly. "I've always been good at fixing things," she says. "If something needed a little extra attention or work, I was always saying, 'let me take a stab at it,'" she says.
As she rose on the operations side, she did find it a challenge to be a female. Sometimes that challenge came from others, but often it came from within, and her own perhaps over-sensitivity to the need to prove herself.
"You know, I used to put up miles of fencing all by myself rather than ask for help, because in my head I was thinking, 'don't be a girl about it.' But really, any guy would have asked for help with all that fencing, too," she says. "It took some time for me to allow myself to not try to be superhuman. Now, I ask. I don't need help with the fencing because I'm a girl. I need help because anyone would need help. I think that's a good lesson for people to learn."
Not that she has not felt in the minority at times. "When I first came over to operations, I'd walk into a meeting or into work and have a bunch of guys staring at me like … oh look: a girl. Now, it's just not that way for me anymore. I'm just one of the team."
Bernotavicz said her pathway started as a patroller at Wildcat Mountain, where she got a taste for operations, and acquired a mentor in resort executive Jim Bilotta. "He was the one who said to me, 'gosh, you could be really good at this,'" she says. "He gave me the confidence to go after what I was interested in, even if there were not a lot of females on that side yet."
At Wildcat, she became the first female operations manager, at a time when such an appointment would make the news. "We made a big deal of it," she says. "It was really pretty cool."
But as they heralded it in the media, she grappled with it a bit on the slopes. "I had walked into what was basically a masculine world," she says. "Some of it was easy for me, because I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty and greasy. I'm not adverse to hard physical work."
But the internal aspects of it all, she says, did challenge her for a while. "It's hard to say if it was a 'female trait' thing or if it was just me questioning myself for a time," she says. "I had to realize that we each could accept one another as we were; that I did not have to go all macho and be like, 'I can do this alone!' I had to realize I was part of a team, and as part of that team, I'd support others and be supported, too."
It worked. She took over at Bretton Woods and felt from the start "that the guys respected me. It took time, but they did, and they do."
Sherrer's road was not as smooth. Hungry for a high level position in operations, she found herself passed over time and time again. Eventually, she left the ski industry and moved on. "It just seems like in so many places, I had to fight [for promotions she felt she deserved]. I'm not a fighter; I'm not usually angry. I didn't like that. And in the end, I decided to move on."
Sherrer finds it sad that more women don't make it on the operations side, and looks toward a day when it's easier than it was for her.
That day may be coming. Di Hiibner's path to becoming general manager of Alyeska Resort in Alaska started with one simple goal: "taking a winter off before I had to get a real job." Today, as GM, she says, she faces little if any discrimination on the job.
"But Alaska is ahead of the eight ball," she says. "No one really cares who you are if you do your job well." Still, she says, she believes she does work "a little bit harder than all the guys just to be sure they notice I'm working hard. But no one is holding me back."
What would women who've found success tell those who wish to? "I tell all the women who contact me the same thing—which is the same thing I'd tell any man," says Hiibner. "Work hard, be on time, be available, be a good person, and you'll move up. And surround yourself with talent—then you'll look great."
Pawlak, who admits to "absolutely wanting the GM job for years" and having to work hard for it (and sometimes be turned down and realizing that perhaps it wasn't because she was a female, but rather because she was not ready yet), says women need to get over that they are women.
"Don't throw around the female card," she says of situations where you might be passed over for a promotion you feel you have earned. "No one wants to hear that bullshit. Just work hard and prove yourself."
She feels more women need to do that, for the good of the industry. "We need some more women at this table," she says. "Most women are too smart to get into this business. But we can do a lot of good here. And it's fun. I love my life."
Could she do it over again, Sherrer would do as Bernotavicz did: "Find a mentor, someone who is going to go to bat for you. Keep trying and persevere. Educate yourself. Take a risk management course, learn lift ops outside and in. And then use all that to move ahead."
Because in the end, she says, it's about more than being male or female. "It's not about women; it's about people who love this industry and want to dedicate themselves to it. As you probably know, this industry pays shit. We have to fill all our spots with people who love this world. Because that's what they are here for: the love."


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Whenever I appeared in my counselors office severely depressed he always asked me: "What have you lost?" It took me a long time before his answer made sense to me.
Since my father died in August 2010 I have been thinking about loss and grieving. Even though we were estranged (to put it mildly) up till his death, I still knew within my soul that my father loved me. True, his ways of showing me his love were outside the proper boundaries. But still, there was a tie of love that was permanently broken with his death.
Grief is the normal internal feeling one experiences in reaction to a loss, while bereavement is the state of having experienced that loss. Although people often suffer emotional pain in response to loss of anything that is very important to them (for example, a job, a friendship, one's sense of safety, a home), grief usually refers to the loss of a loved one through death. Quote
My father's death closed a chapter in my life that brought a sense of freedom. Which created a lot of confusion and some guilt at first.
Later I remembered that for all those years I constantly juggled two longings in my life: the desire to be reconciled with my parents and the desire to be safe. The problem was that I could not have both at the same time. It was an either/or, a tug of war that continued for 20 years until my father died, since with his death the possibility of reconciliation has died too.
(My mother and brother are still alive, but sadly it is not safe to even have a passive relationship. In actual fact, there is none.)
Since our family situation wasn't even close to normal (something I have only come to fully understand in the process of counseling) and we didn't really have any relationship to speak of for about 20 years, how do you grief this kind of loss?
It is even more complicated, because I did not only lose my father. There are a multitude of other losses tied into our family life. Some things were not only lost, I never even had it in the first place. I lost my innocence as a child, I lost my childhood, I lost a mother (who never bonded with me), I lost a sister, I lost a brother, I lost extended family, I lost safety, I lost hope…..
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions. Stefan Kanfer
That was the answer to the question my counselor used to ask me. That is why I have spent such a big part of my life depressed. And over time every depression grew worse. And when you think it can't get any worse… it still did.
When you feel hopeless, every negative feeling is magnified. You feel like you are in this eternal place of never-ending, excruciating pain without any possible escape. There is only one way out… suicide.
Suicide is not about wanting to die. It is about escaping the pain. About not being able to bear it for one day, one hour, one minute, even one second longer.
I personally think that hell is a place where there is no hope whatsoever.
We have a saying in Dutch: Hope gives life.
It is so freakin', totally, absolutely true!
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Hexadecimal color code input
A hexadecimal color code is the fancy term for color codes like this: #43b3c4. That's the blue we use at Compete Themes. This is white: #ffffff and this is black: #000000
You don't need to use this option at all if you don't want to. However, it is extremely useful if you have a color somewhere else online and you want to use the exact same color.
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Las Vegas has more stars glittering through its cosmos than the Milky Way, and this past week it has sparkled as brightly as ever. The Latin Grammy Awards have been in town which has meant that musical superstars like Jennifer Lopez, Enrique Iglesias, and Ricky Martin were in need of somewhere to rest their gorgeous heads following the ceremony. So where did they stay?
Las Vegas is one of the world's best destinations for celebrity spotting and when there's an award ceremony or a big boxing match in town, it's practically impossible to turn around without seeing a top personality. The best places to rub shoulders with the world's beautiful people are around the luxury hotel malls. The Caesar's Palace Forum, The Wynn's Esplanade and Mandalay Place are great places to catch a glimpse of stars stocking up on the kind of luxury goods we'll all be coveting the following week. Star guests need their privacy though, so if you see a boutique that has been mysteriously closed in the middle of the afternoon, chances are there's a celeb browsing inside. The Las Vegas club scene also makes for plenty of celebrity eye-candy with Sin City's pool parties being this year's hottest hang-outs.
The best guess as to where the lovely J-Lo might have stayed is with the host of the Latin Grammys, the Mandalay Bay. In the past, more than a few glitzy guests have been sighted amidst its South East Asian-inspired splendour including Fergie (the Black Eye Peas lovely, not the grumpy football manager!) and, in happier days, Sandra Bullock honeymoon here too. The Mandalay Bay itself is a fabulous five-star, but family gal J-Lo was apparently laying low in Vegas last week and, although top hotels never reveal their celebrity guest list, it is rumoured that Jen and husband Marc Anthony tucked themselves away in the serene Four Seasons instead.
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Next, travelers can enjoy a cable car ride over the historic fortress of Masada. After a tour of the extensive excavations at Masada, continue to Ein Gedi, David's waterfall and a pristine nature center.
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Last week I told you about our customized tour options through the Holy Lands. Well, we also have a set tour through Classic Israel. On this nine-day vacation, travelers can see, touch, and experience the land of the Bible, as it was in ancient times, and as it is today.


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China's National Energy Administration (NEA) has set a new goal of 21 gigawatts for installed solar capacity in 2015, a target which is much higher than the 15 gigawatts announced last year.
Already the world's largest exporter of photovoltaic products and home to industry leaders like Hanergy and Suntech, China is also experiencing a solar boom thanks to the standardized tariffs which came into action last year.
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NEA stated that clean energy will account for more than 9.5% of China's total energy consumption by 2015, but that targets for wind (100 gigawatts) and hydropower (290 gigawatts) will remain the same.
"I am delighted to see that China continues to inspire others in our race to the top in clean energy development," said Changhua Wu, Greater China Director, The Climate Group. "The clarity of policy incentives offers confidence to leading solar technology companies and investors to invest in the clean energy sector. Sector leaders like Hanergy and others are expected to be among the biggest winners."
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(Editor's note: This story has been changed from the print edition to reflect a pending job change by Mr. Kelley.)
A cowboy accountant? Yessirree, but not the kind who's wild and loose with numbers — one who keeps figures and cattle perfectly under control with equal skill, that would be Joe Kelley.
Though he's penned up much of the time these days, Mr. Kelley used to interrupt his work after tax season every year, telling his bosses at the former tax accounting firm Coopers and Lybrand in Cleveland he was bound for Wyoming or Idaho.
"When the weather turned nice I said, "You guys are crazy for working inside. The real life is a cowboy,'" Mr. Kelley, 39, would tell his bosses every year.
Then, when the snows hit the range, Mr. Kelley would come back to Coopers and Lybrand, work through winter and spring, and leave again. After about five years of that cycle, Mr. Kelley finally gave in to the firm's pleas that he begin working as a CPA year round, and since then his financial career has taken off like a good quarter horse.
He went to Chicago, worked with a startup and shepherded it through an initial public offering, got married and eventually went to work for Lincoln Electric Co. in 2003 as director of accounting, before becoming CFO of that company's European operations.
He joined PolyOne in 2009 after he was recruited by CFO Bob Patterson there — a move Mr. Patterson said he still counts as one of his better ones.
"From an investor relations perspective, he's been instrumental in telling our transformation story and building credibility on Wall Street, evidenced by our 160% increase in share price since he joined the company," Mr. Patterson said.
But he won't be telling that story much longer, as Mr. Kelley soon will be moving to a new job.
Mr. Kelley said he's heading to Materion Corp. in Mayfield Heights, where he will be vice president of finance for the company's Advanced Materials Group. Advanced materials is the main focus of the company, which had revenues of $1.3 billion in 2010.
Announcing his departure was awkward and difficult, Mr. Kelley said, but Mr. Patterson said he understands the move and "didn't want to stand in the way of a great guy taking advantage of an outstanding opportunity."


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Hello Atheist Nexus,
Some of you might know that I am a recent deconvert from Fundamental Baptist Christianity. During my childhood I was taught that the world is becoming a worse and worse place, just like Jesus and the rest prophesied, and that this should give the believer hope, because it means Christ is coming back soon.
But, now, on the other side of delusionalism, I see a much greater hope. It seems to me that this world may, in fact, be getting better! The UN isn't here to establish a one-world satanic dictator, but rather, to make the world a more peaceful place. America isn't the one factor keeping the world from going to hell: it may be the one nation holding up real secular globalism and peace (beside backwards middle eastern nations).
We're not getting more hedonistic, we're simply becoming more accepting of different kinds of people (gays are getting their rights, finally).
I mean, I know bad stuff is happening. But, could there be hope for planet Earth, after all?
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At any given moment the world is getting both better and worse. It always has. But it seems to me the overall trending is upward. A friend said to me a few years back that he'd not want to bring a child into the world as it is now. Too dangerous; too many problems. I asked "Now weren't you born during the Great Depression? Wasn't that followed by World War II? Then the atomic era, and the Cold War; Korea; Vietnam; and so on." "May you live in interesting times" just means "May you live." But in this country Blacks, Jews, and certainly gays, have more opportunities than when I was young. Too many stupid, superstitious, bigoted people? Of course. But on balance I can have hope. (I have seven grandchildren for whom I must keep up hope.) Today I can openly be a Humanist. Yes, things seem to be improving overall.
I have great hopes for the world, and space, eventually.
as any species on this planet we are adaptive, which quite frankly means we will find a way.
I do feel bad for the christian's as there thought patterns are a bit screwy, I mean, if your sure the world will end, what is your incentive to fix it or try make it better?
But I think people are coming around.
The world is changing, as it always has. I agree with the other posters, who say that some things are improving, and some are getting worse. This is not surprising. So many things have been invented in the last few hundreds of years. Take the motor car or the aircraft, for example. They are very recent introductions into the world. When you consider that humanity first arose a several million years ago, what a huge change in a short space of time, is the automobile. And what a double edged word it is - a tool for good and bad. As a prompt for this think: transport; leisure; medical aid; pollution; accident; tool of murder.
This is a miniscule portion of how the world gets better and also worse. Humans have evolved without the modern technologies, and living arrangements we now have. We are not innately equipped to handle all of this. But we have brains, which can be applied in problem solving. As social animals, we can get together, to solve problems, (just as in some cases people have banded together to do bad or harmful things).
For those who have a hope for a better world, let us keep trying, and keep using our social cohesiveness to maintain the effort. I see no reason why it is impossible, but then I see no reason why disaster might instead be the possible outcome. Thus as individuals, I think we need to have the attitude of desiring a better place, and the will to contribute to any efforts in the right direction.
Let us not allow the world to fall into the shit-pit which the religious would see as the prequel to the second coming of their lord.
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New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum praised Hamish Rutherford for an "outstanding" innings as the Black Caps beat England by just five runs to win the first Twenty20 international at The Oval on Tuesday.
McCullum may have top-scored with 68, but it was left-handed opener Rutherford's dashing 62 that caught the eye during the pair's second-wicket stand of 114 after Boyd Rankin struck early on his England debut to leave the Kiwis one for one.
Defeat meant that England again lost by five runs after going down by that margin in a Champions Trophy final against India reduced to 20 overs per side by rain at Edgbaston on Sunday.
England needed six for a tie off the last ball that would have forced a "super-over," but that proved beyond Ravi Bopara, who finished on 30 not out as New Zealand took a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.
"Hamish Rutherford was outstanding, the way he struck the ball," McCullum said. "Boyd Rankin was getting steep bounce and to see Hamish strike the ball so well settled the whole batting lineup."
Rutherford, one of six players who made ducks as Essex were dismissed for just 20 by Lancashire in a County Championship match earlier this month, said: "It's nice to get a few out of the middle. Anything over 200 is competitive, but it was only a par score considering the flat pitch and the short boundary."
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"We got off to a flyer, but we couldn't continue it until the end. We were only two blows away from winning the game so the margins are very small," Morgan said. "It's not as frustrating as against India. That was an opportunity missed but this was a great effort and we can take a lot of positives."
England fielded just four players from Sunday's side in Morgan, Bopara, Jos Buttler and James Tredwell.
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Brendon McCullum's move to bring a slip in as late as the 14th over was rewarded when Taylor took a brilliant leaping one-handed catch off a fiercely edged cut by Morgan as the dangerman fell for just seven.
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