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Where to start? We could start at the beginning, talking about how his political career was built on the "birther" conspiracy theory, an attack on President Obama with no basis in fact that Trump revived when it began fading, and kept supporting long after it had been proven false.
We could talk about how much of his success is based on attacks on minorities and the first amendment.
We could talk about the election. That would include things like the cottage industry publishing made up Donald Trump propaganda. From satirists like Paul Horner who were taken seriously to the Macedonian town running over one hundred pro-Trump sites.
We could talk about the Russian espionage that directly supported Trump's campaign.
We could talk about the highly unusual statements the FBI released that aided Trump's campaign.
Or we could talk about what kind of president he's going to be.
We could talk about his selection of the author of a neo-Nazi resurgence as chief strategist.
We could talk about his clear preference for racists and conspiracy theorists in his administration.
We could talk about his continuation of the unpresidential behavior many assumed or hoped he would discard once the campaign had ended.
Or we could talk about the fact that his conflicts of interest are already serious enough that experts from past presidential administrations are talking about them being unconstitutional.
But I think the most important thing to talk about now is the fact that Republicans control the Presidency, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and are likely to regain their majority on the Supreme Court.
In the days before and after the election, I heard many claims that Donald Trump wouldn't be so bad as president because the Constitution would keep him in check. But the constitution is "just words." It is only as strong as the will of Congress and the judiciary to enforce it. Keep in mind that the story of his election is that of an aggressive, vindictive man and a parade of unexpected victories over political norms and the very people who now must keep him in line. We should not take for granted their ability to stand up to him. We, the public, need to hold our representatives accountable just as they need to hold Trump accountable. We need to demand that they not let partisan loyalty, fear of reprisal, or desire for personal power and success prevent them from standing up to Trump wherever he breaks the public trust.
As a resident of Indiana district 12, I've found my representatives contact numbers. They are:
Representative Peter Visclosky (D) IN: 219-795-1844 DC: (202) 225-2461
Senator Joe Donnelly (D) IN: 202-224-4814 DC: (202) 224-4814
Senator Daniel Coats (R) 317-554-0750
I intend to call regularly and ask that my representatives not just keep my own political views in mind, but be aware of things that should be bipartisan, like upholding the first amendment and rejecting the elevation of dangerous people in the White House. I ask that you do the same.


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Lovage Soup
Lovage is an easy-to-grow perennial herb that tastes like celery.
2 tablespoons butter
2 onions, peeled and sliced
3 tablespoons chopped lovage
1 tablespoon flour
3 cups chicken stock
1 cup milk or cream
Melt butter in saucepan. Saute onions and lovage until tender. Sprinkle with flour and stir over low heat until blended. Slowly add stock and milk and stir until smooth. Simmer 5 minutes. Press through food mill and reheat. (Also good cold.)
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Summer Protective Style #1
This is a phony bun that I made using Milky Way Indian Hair Brazilian Curl !!! I purchased 14 inches in a 1B. I LOVE IT !
- I cut the hair in half, and took one half of it to make my bun and saved the other half for another day =)
- I shampooed and conditioned the hair with my KeraCare Weaves & Extensions products.
- I washed my real hair as normal, applied my leave-ins, and then applied my Eco Styler Olive Oil Gel over my edges.
- I pulled my hair into a ponytail, and wrapped the tracks around my real ponytail.
- I bobby pinned the hair down, twisted it up into a bun, and wore that thing fiercely !!! Here are the pics and the link to my video where I show the entire process step-by-step.
I LOVE IT !!! Alot of my transitioning subscribers expressed how they want to try this. I'm so happy for you ladies, you'll love this style. Nicole, if you're reading, THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN ! I love this style and I plan on wearing it forever, LOL
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Wow! The hair matches your texture perfectly!! I have to put this in my rotation for the summer since I'm taking down my crochet braids. Just one question...was the hair expensive? I noticed you bought indian hair.ReplyDelete
wow this is soooooooo pretty I would have never known this wasn't your hair if you didn't say anything..ReplyDelete
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...and Thank you Ms Harmony !!! I do think the "indian hair" part of the name can be misleading, LOL...
I'm not a weave expert but I do know that this is nothing like the pricey quality kind of indian hair you have to buy online by the ounce... I paid 40 dollars for it at the BSS. I only used exactly half of the pack,and I'm expecting it to last me at least 3 months for bunning only...I will keep you posted on how it holds up but I do think it was worth the price so far =) I just hope it stays this soft months from now. I'll keep everyone updated !
This is such a great idea and pretty too! I am going to try and find some cheaper wet n wavy hair at my local bss.ReplyDelete
beautiful hair! nice journeyReplyDelete
Love the blog : ) I"m a new follower. Please check out mine as well when you get the chance (hope you follow back)


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One of my favorite 'Top 10's" to do is mascara. Ask 10 different women what their favorite mascara is and you'll get 10 different answers. I've been busy testing new mascara releases for this update, but had to include some of my all-time favorite mascaras, too.
My Top 10 Best Mascaras of 2015 include (in alphabetical order):
1. Chantecaille Supreme Cils Water-Resistant Mascara, $52
2. Clinique Chubby Lash Fattening Mascara (in Portly Plum), $17.00
3. COVERGIRL The Super Sizer by Lashblast Mascara, $5.99
4. Dior Diorshow Lash-Extension Effect Volume Mascara, $27.50
5. Estee Lauder Sumptuous Infinite Daring Length & Volume Mascara, $26
6. Guerlain Cils d'Enfer – Maxi Lash Mascara, $30
7. MAC Upward Lash Mascara, $22
8. NARS Audacious Mascara, $26
9. Urban Decay Perversion Mascara, $22
10. YSL Volume Effet Faux Cils Baby Doll Mascara, $32
There are so many choices in the mascara category, it's almost impossible to know which ones to buy–even for an experienced beauty blogger! My advice is to determine what you want your mascara to do and choose the formula from there. I like volumizing first, lengthening second. And I will not tolerate clumping or smudging, so I have not personally experienced that with any of the selections on my list.
I've been a fan of Dior Diorshow Mascara for years and this year they introduced a new formula. I was interested to see how they would compare. The brush is the same size/shape, however the formula now has a microfiber element, along with an airlock wiper for volume and extension. I love it–in fact, it's my favorite of all the mascaras I've tried.
Another point of disctinction between formulas is scent. The mascaras (above) that are scented include Chantecaille, Dior, Guerlain and YSL.
Other thoughts on these mascaras…I love the new Clinique Chubby Lash Fattening Mascara. It's available in 4 shades (you can color-coordinate!) and for a "mid"-priced mascara, it's excellent. The brush on MAC's Upward Lash is small, therefore you're really able to go in closely, or double coat the ends for an upswept look. That slightly curved brush is also what I like about COVERGIRL Super Sizer by Lashblast Mascara. This brush transforms each and every lash, especially if you "twirl" the brush.
I find that with NARS Audacious, Urban Decay Perversion and YSL Volume Effet Faux Cils Babydoll, the formula is a little "wetter", so for the best results, I apply slowly and give a few seconds of "dry time" between coats.
For tools, I use a MAC 205 Mascara Fan Brush to separate, if needed and Kevyn Aucoin Eyelash Curler. If your lashes need a little extra help, I'd recommend a primer. Urban Decay Subversion is excellent; you really will see a difference. For removal, I've always liked Lancôme Bi-Facil Double Action Eye Makeup Remover, makeup wipes and a new discovery, Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm.
Make sure to check out the top mascara picks from the other beauty bloggers in today's roundup!


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Limit on peritonectomy surgery decried - restricted to 72 NSW patients
CANCER patients from interstate are calling on St George Hospital to restore its cross-border peritonectomy surgery arrangements until such time as a nationally funded centre for abdominal cancers is established.
They could, however, be waiting a while as NSW Health has no plans to increase the number of surgical procedures at St George.
It has also been four years since the federal government's Medical Services Advisory Committee recommended the creation of one, or more, national peritonectomy centres.
NSW Health funds 72 peritonectomies at St George each year.
St George is one of only three centres in Australia that performs peritonectomies, and accepts only NSW patients.
Cancer patient Stacey Jaundrey, of Queensland — where 11 operations are funded each year— is on the waiting list in her home state, and has not been permitted to join the waiting list at St George.
Ms Jaundrey said the health system had left her "to deteriorate and perhaps become inoperable".
"We ask for a nationally-funded service so all Australians can get the life-saving surgery that they much need ASAP," Ms Jaundrey said.
Professor David Morris, whose team performs all peritonectomies in NSW at St George, wants to be able to perform more operations.
He said the figure of 72 was not based on any scientific knowledge and was "just a number".
NSW Cancer Institute chief executive David Currow said the 72 operations funded each year at St George was in line with the number of patients who needed it most.
The institute said peritonectomy surgery could offer good outcomes for some patients but was not suitable for those in otherwise poor health.
Peritonectomies involve the removal of cancers in the tissue [peritoneum] that line the abdominal cavity and envelopes the vital organs.
It is one of the most complex types of surgery in the world, and in NSW, 50.4 per cent of patients die within five years of their first operation.
In a recent email to federal Health Minister Peter Dutton, Ms Jaundrell wrote: "Imagine if you were number 73 and had nowhere else to go for this life-saving surgery".
Should NSW Health fund peritonectomies at St George Hospital for patients from interstate?
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Kale chips
Photo by Annabel Langbein Media
Okay, so kale chips aren't potato chips but they do make a tasty snack - the trick is not to cook them at too high a temperature, so they crisp up before they get brown. You can also dry them in a dehydrator.
- Preheat oven to 120C fanbake and line an oven tray or shallow roasting dish with baking paper for easy clean-up.
- Place kale in prepared dish, drizzle with oil, salt and chilli flakes and toss to combine. Spread out to a single layer and roast until crisp (about 40 minutes).
- Remove from oven and leave to cool. If not using at once, store in an airtight container for up to a week. If they lose their crispness, refresh in a 150C oven for 5-10 minutes.
More nutritious snacks from Annabel


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Here, anything photography related goes. The number one prerequisite, it has to be simple. The second? It must be cheap, free even is best. If you are looking for Photoshop tips, you will need to keep looking. I say this in a nice way, Photoshop is a fantastic product, if you have the time, aptitude and money. Someday I might delve into it, until then, most of what I need is available online. Check out Picmonkey.com for ease of use--no registration required.
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A Sermon Delivered On Thursday Evening, September 4, 1879, By C. H. Spurgeon, At The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington. 12/10/2012
My soul is among lions. [Ps 57:4]
Some of you cannot say this, and you ought to be very thankful that
you are not obliged to do so. Happy are you young people who have
godly parents, and who have Christian families. You ought to grow
like the flowers in a conservatory, where killing frosts and biting
blasts are unknown. You live under very favourable circumstances.
Your soul, I might almost say, is among angels; for you live where
God is worshipped, where family prayer is not forgotten, where you
can have a kindly guidance in the hour of difficulty and comfort in
the time of trial. You live where angels come and go, and God himself
condescends to dwell. Happy young people to live in such favourable
circumstances! How grateful and how holy you ought to be! I want all
who live where everything helps them to remember the many gracious
ones who live where everything hinders them. You who live near the
Beautiful Gate of the temple must not forget the many who are sighing
in the tents of Kedar. If your soul is not among lions, praise God
for it; and then let your sympathies go out towards those who
mournfully complain —
My soul with him that hateth peace
Hath long a dweller been;
I am for peace; but when I speak,
For battle they are keen.
It is a Christian duty to "remember those who are in bonds as bound with them"; and whenever our own favoured circumstances lead us to forget those who are persecuted and tried, our very mercies are working mischief in us. "We are all members of each other." If one member suffers, all the rest should suffer with him; and therefore, we will turn our thoughts towards our persecuted brethren tonight, so that our united supplications may sustain them under their difficulties, and, if the Lord is so pleased, may even deliver them.
2. When may a Christian man truly say, "My soul is among lions?" Such is the case when, either from our being members of ungodly families, or from having to gain our livelihood among unconverted and graceless people, we are subjected to reproach and rebuke, and to jest and jeer for Jesus Christ's sake. Then we can say, "My soul is among lions." Many in this congregation known to me are the only ones in their family whom God has called. I bless his name that he is often taking one out of a household, and a lone one of a family, and bringing these to Jesus. Some quite un-Christian person who does not think of God drops in here out of curiosity, and God meets him and he becomes the first of his kith and kin to say "I am the Lord's." Frequently when converts come to cast in their lot with us they will say, "I do not know one in all my family who makes any profession of godliness: all of them are opposed to me." In such a case the soul is among lions, and it is very hard and trying to be in such a position. Well may we pity a godly wife bound to an ungodly husband. Alas! very often a drunkard, whose opposition amounts to brutality. A tender, loving spirit, who ought to have been cherished like a tender flower, is bruised and trodden underfoot, and made to suffer until the heart cries out in grief, "My soul is among lions." We little know what lifelong martyrdom's many pious women endure. Children also have to bear the same when they are singled out by divine grace from depraved and wicked families. Only the other day there came under my notice one who loves the Lord. I thought that if she had been a daughter of mine I should have rejoiced beyond all things in her sweet and gentle piety, but the parent said, "You must leave our house if you attend such and such a place of worship. We do not believe in these things, and we cannot have you around us if you do." I saw the grief, which that state of things was causing, and though I could not alter it I mourned over it. Woe to those who tyrannize over my Lord's little ones.
3. No one knows what godly working men have to put up with from those among whom they labour. There are some shops where there is religious liberty; but frequently the working men of this city are great tyrants in matters of religion. I tell them that to their faces. If a man will drink with them, and swear with them, they will make him their companion; but when a man comes out to fear God they make it very hard for him. And sir, has not a man as much right to pray as you have to swear? And has he not as much right to believe in God as you have not to believe? It is a wonderfully free country, this! wonderfully free country! Almost as free as America in the olden time when every man was free to beat his own nigger; for now the working man claims freedom to laugh and swear at every other working man who chooses to be sober and religions. There are large factories all over London where a Christian man has to run the gauntlet from morning to night of sneers which never ought to come upon the face of honest men — which never would come if Britons were as fond of freedom as they profess to be. They declare that they never will be slaves; but they are slaves — slaves to their own ungodliness and drunkenness — the great majority of them; and only where divine grace comes in and snaps the chain do men become free at all. If one serious man sets his face steadfastly to serve God the baser sort seem as if they must get him under their feet, and treat him with every indignity that malice can devise. It may be all in sport, but the victim does not think so. Do not tell me that persecution ceased when the last martyr burned. There are martyrs who have to burn by the slow fire of cruel mockings day after day; and I bless God that the old grit is still among us, and that the old spirit still survives, so that men defy sneers and slander and hold on their way. I could tell stories, which would both shock you and delight you, of what is said and done by the common order of English working men against those who profess religion, and how courageously the righteous and the true bear it all, and, in the long run, conquer too, and often win their workmen to confess the very same faith. They call us all fanatics and hypocrites, and the like, but they know better, and if they had a grain of manliness they would cease from such lying. A true Briton gives that liberty to others which he claims for himself, and if he does not choose to be religious himself he stands up like a man to defend the rights of others to be so if they choose. Now, then, you British workmen, when shall we see you doing this?
4. The text speaks of a soul among lions. Why did the psalmist call them lions? "Dogs" is about as good a name as they deserve. Why call them lions? Because at times the Christian man is exposed to enemies who are very strong — perhaps strong in the jaw — very strong in biting, rending, and tearing. Sometimes the Christian man is exposed to those who loudly roar out their infidelities and their blasphemies against Christ, and it is an awful thing to be among such lions as those. The lion is not only strong but also cruel; and it is real cruelty which subjects well-meaning men to reproach and misrepresentation. The enemies of Christ and his people are often as cruel as lions, and would kill us if the law permitted them. The lion is a creature of great craftiness, creeping along stealthily, and then making a sudden spring; and so will the ungodly creep up to the Christian, and, if possible, spring upon him when they can catch him in an unguarded moment. If they imagine they see a fault in him they come down upon him with all their weight! The ungodly watch the righteous, and if they can catch them in their speech, or if they can make them angry, and cause them to speak an unguarded word, how eagerly they pounce upon him. They magnify his fault, put it under a microscope of ten thousand power, and make a great thing of it. "Report it! Report it!" they say, "So we would have it!" Anything against a true-born child of God is a sweet morsel for them. Such as are daily watched, daily carped at, daily abused, daily hindered in everything that is good and gracious, go with their tears before the God they serve and cry to him, "My soul is among lions."
5. Now, it is to such that I am going to speak tonight, a little at first by way of comfort, and then a little by way of advice.
6. I. First, BY WAY OF COMFORT.
7. You are among lions, my dear young friend, then you will have fellowship with your Lord and with his church. Every Lord's day, and every time we meet, this benediction is pronounced upon you, that you may enjoy the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Fellowship with the Holy Spirit brings you into fellowship with Jesus, and this involves your being conformed to his sufferings. Now, your Lord was among lions. The men of his day did not have a good word to say about him. They called the Master of the house Beelzebub, they will never call you a worse name than that. They said that he was a drunken man and a winebibber; possibly they may say much the same as that about you, and it will be equally false. You need not be ashamed to be pelted with the same dirt that was thrown at your Master; and if it should ever come to this, that you should be stripped of everything, and false witnesses should rise up against you, and you should even be condemned as a felon, and taken out to execution, still your lot will not be worse than his. Remember that you are the followers of a Crucified Lord, and cannot expect to be the world's darlings. If you are Christians, the inspired description of the Christian life is the taking up of the cross. Do you expect to be dandled on the knees of that same ungodly world which hung your Master upon the gibbet? No; you know that he who is the friend of this world is the enemy of God. This truth is unchangeable. It is just as certain today as it was in years gone by, that "the evil hates the righteous, and gnashes upon him with his teeth." You may pick up a fashionable religion, and get through the world with it very comfortably; but if you have the true faith you will have to fight for it. If you are of the world, the world will love its own; but if you are not of the world, because the Lord has chosen you out of the world, the world will hate you. When a villager goes up the little street the dogs do not bark at him, for they know him well; but when a stranger rides along they set up a howl. By this you shall know whether you are a citizen of the world or a pilgrim heading towards the better land.
8. Nor was your Master alone. Remember the long line of prophets who went before Christ. Who of them was it that was received with honour? Did they not stone one and kill another with the sword, cut one in pieces with a saw, put others to death with stones? You know that the march of the faithful may be tracked by their blood. And after our Lord had gone to heaven, how did the world treat the church? In the streets of Rome, and all large cities, the fierce cry was often heard, "Christians to the lions! Christians to the lions! Christians to the lions!" At the dead of night men cry "Fire!" when a house is blazing; or a mob will cry "Bread!" when they are starving; but the cry of old Rome that was dearest to the Roman heart, and most expressive of their horrible enmity towards goodness, was "Christians to the lions!" Of all the gallant shows the Roman Empire ever saw, what aroused the populace beyond all other things was to see a family — a man and his wife, perhaps, and a grown-up daughter and son, and three or four children — all marched into the arena, and the big door thrown up, that out might rush the lion and spring upon them, and tear them to pieces. What harm had they done? They had forgiven their enemies. That was one of their great sins. They would not worship the gods of wood and stone. They would not blaspheme the name of Jesus whom they loved, for he had taught them to love each other, and to love all mankind. For such things as this men raised the cry, "Christians to the lions! Christians to the lions!" All along this has been the cry of the world against all who have faithfully followed in the steps of Jesus Christ. Just now the merciful hand of providence prevents public persecution, but only let that hand be taken away, and the old spirit will rage again. The seed of the serpent still hates the seed of the woman; and if the old dragon were not chained he would devour the man-child, as he has often tried to do. Do not deceive yourselves, in one form or other the old howl of "Christians to the lions!" would soon be heard in London if almighty power did not sit upon the throne and restrain the wrath of man.
9. You who have to suffer a measure of persecution for Christ's sake ought to be very glad for it, for you are considered worthy not only to be Christians, but to suffer for Christ's sake. Do not, I urge you, be unworthy of your high calling, but endure hardness as good soldiers of Jesus Christ. In these afflictions you are having fellowship with your head and with his mystical body, therefore do not be ashamed.
Here is another thought. If you are among lions you should be
driven nearer to your God by it. When you had a great many friends
you could rejoice in them; but now that these turn against you, and
the truth has come home to you — "A man's foes shall be those of his
own household," — what ought you to do? Why, get closer to God than you
ever were before. Jesus Christ so loved his church that he said as he
looked at his poor disciples, "These are my mother, and sister, and
brother." You should do what your Master did — make his church your
father and mother and sister and brother; indeed, better still, make
Christ all these to you and more. Take the Lord Jesus to be
everything that all the dearest of mortals could be and far more.
Sing that charming verse, which is a great favourite of mine, for it
was very precious to me in days gone by —
If on my face, for thy dear name,
Shame and reproaches be,
All hail reproach, and welcome shame,
If thou remember me.
Be sure that you live near to God. All Christians ought to do so, but you especially should be driven by every false accusation, by every caustic remark, by every cutting sentence, nearer to your Father's bosom. The more they rebuke you the more constantly you should remain under the covert [hiding-place] of his sacred wings, and find your joy in the Lord.
11. And, getting close to Christ, let me say to you now by way of advice, and by way of comfort too, endeavour to be very calm and happy. Do not mind it. Take as little notice of the scoff as you ever can. It is a grand thing to have one deaf ear. Be careful that you keep yourself very deaf to slander and reproach, as the psalmist did when he said, "I was as a man that does not hear, and in whose mouth are no reproofs." One blind eye towards the folly of enemies is often of more use to a man than two that are always looking around with suspicion. Do not see everything, do not hear everything. When there is a harsh word spoken do not notice it; or if you must hear it, forget it as quickly as you ever can. Love others all the more the less they love you: repay their enmity with love. Heap coals of fire upon them by making no return to a harsh speech except by another deed of kindness. Very seldom defend yourself: it is a waste of breath, and casting pearls before swine. Bear and bear again. Remember that our Lord has sent us out as sheep among wolves, and sheep cannot defend themselves. The wolf can eat all the sheep up if it likes; but, do you not see, there are more sheep in the world now than there are wolves, ten thousand to one? Though the wolves have had all the eating, and though there never was a sheep that devoured a wolf yet, still the sheep are here and the wolves have gone. The sheep have won that victory: and so will Christ's little flock. The anvil is struck by the hammer, and the anvil never strikes in return, and yet the anvil wears the hammer out. Patience baffles fury and vanquishes malice. The non-resistance principle involves a resistance, which is irresistible. The steady patience that cannot be provoked, but which, like Jesus, when reviled does not revile again, is certain of conquest. This is what you persecuted ones need to learn — to get more near your God the more you are among the lions, and so to be all the more calm and patient the more men rage against you.
12. A third piece of comfort is this. Please remember that, although your soul is among lions, the lions are chained. When Daniel was thrown into the lions' den the lions were hungry and would soon have devoured him; but you know why it was that they could not touch him. Ah, the angel came. Just as the fierce lions were about to seize on Daniel, down he came swift from heaven, and stood in front of them. "Hush!" he said, and they lay as still as a stone. So says the text: "My God has sent his angel and shut the lions' mouths." They had fine teeth, but their mouths were shut. If the Lord can easily shut a lion's mouth, he can quite as easily shut the mouth of an ungodly man. He can remove all trouble from you, if he wills it, in an instant, and he can give you a smooth path to heaven when it pleases him; only remember that if everything on the road to heaven were smooth, heaven would not be so sweet at the end, and we should not have an opportunity of displaying those Christian graces which are brought out and educated by the opposition of the world. God will not quench the fire of persecution, for it consumes our dross, but he will moderate its power so that not a grain of pure metal shall be lost. The lions are chained, dear friend; they can go no farther than God permits. In this country the most they can do, as a rule, is to howl, they cannot bite; and howling does not break bones; why, then, be afraid? The man who is afraid of being laughed at is not half a man, but almost deserves the scorn he receives. Never mind what is said. Talking will not harm you. Harden your spirit against it, and bear it gallantly. Go and tell your Lord about it if your heart fails you; and then go forward, calm as your Master did, fear nothing, for God will bear you through. The lions can roar, but they cannot rend — do not fear them.
Another fact for your comfort is this; when your soul is among
lions, there is another lion there as well as the lions that you
can see. Have you never heard of him? He is the Lion of the tribe of
Judah. How quietly he lies! How patiently he waits by the side of his
servants! The jest, the jeer, and the noise continue, and he lies
still. If he only would — if he thought it wise, if it were not for his
superlative patience — he has only to rouse himself for one moment, and
all our enemies would be destroyed. Our great Lord and King could
have had twenty legions of angels when he was in the garden for the
lifting of his finger, but he continued a lone, suffering man. If he
willed it today he could sweep the ungodly away as chaff before the
wind: his longsuffering is for their salvation, if perhaps they may
turn and repent. If your faith is as it should be, it will be a great
joy for you to know that he is always with you, that he is always
near you. If he is ever absent from others of his servants, he is
never away from his persecuted servants. Ask the Covenanters among
the mosses and the hills, and they will tell you that they never had
such Sabbaths in Scotland as when they met among the crags, and set
their scouts to warn them against Claverhouse's dragoons. When
Cargill or Cameron thundered out the word, with what power was it
attended. How sweetly was the blessed Bridegroom with his persecuted
church among the hills. There is never such a time for seeing the Son
of God as when the world heats the furnace seven times hotter. There
is the flaming furnace, go and stand at the mouth of it and look in.
They threw three men bound into it in their hosen and in their hats,
and the flame was so strong that it killed the soldiers who threw
them in. But look! Can you not see? Nebuchadnezzar himself comes to
look. See how greatly he is astonished! He calls to those around him,
and he demands, "Did we not cast three men bound into the furnace?
Look, there are four. A strange, mysterious form is that fourth. They
are walking the coals as if they walked in a garden of flowers. They
seem full of delight, they are walking calmly as men converse in
their gardens in the cool of the day; and that fourth — that mysterious
fourth — is like the Son of God!" Ah, Nebuchadnezzar, you have seen a
sight that has often been seen elsewhere. When God's people are in
the furnace, God's Son is in the furnace also. He will not leave
those who will not leave him. If we can cling to him, rest assured
that he will cling to us, even to the end. Do not fear the lions,
then. Our Samson would turn upon them, and rend them in a moment if
their hour were come.
Jesus' tremendous name
Puts all our foes to flight;
Jesus, the meek, the angry Lamb,
A Lion is in fight.
By all hell's host withstood,
We all hell's host o'erthrow;
And conquering them, through, Jesus' blood
We still to conquer go.
14. Again, I want to comfort you with this word: you whose souls are among lions should remember that you will come out of the lions' den unharmed. Daniel was cast into the den. Darius could not sleep that night, and when he went in the morning he did not expect to find a bone of Daniel left, and so he began crying out to him. How surprised he must have been when Daniel replied that his God had preserved him. How thankful he was to draw him out of the den. You, too, dear child of God will come out of the den all right. There will be a resurrection of God's people's bodies at last, and there will be a resurrection for their reputations also. The slanderer may misrepresent the character of a true man, but no true man's character will ever be buried long enough to rot. Your righteousness shall come forth as light, and your judgment as the noonday. You need not be afraid but that, just as Daniel rose from the den to dignity, so will every man who suffers for Christ receive honour and glory and immortality "in that day."
15. Remember that if you are among the lions now, the day is hurrying on with speed when you shall be among the angels. Our Lord and Master, after being in the wilderness with the wild beasts, found that "angels came and ministered to him." Such a visitation awaits all the faithful. What a change those martyrs enjoyed who took a fiery breakfast on earth, but supped with Christ that very day after riding to glory in a chariot of fire. If you have to suffer now all that can possibly be wreaked of vengeance upon you for Christ's sake, you will think nothing of it when you have been in heaven for five minutes. Indeed, it will be a subject of congratulation that you ever were permitted in your humble measure to be counted worthy to suffer for Christ's sake. Therefore, be comforted, you young people, and march on with heroic step.
16. I see a soldier or two here tonight, and I am very glad that we have generally a block of red coats in the congregation. I know that often in the barracks it is hard for a Christian man to bear witness for Jesus Christ. Very many a soldier has found his path as a Christian to be extremely difficult; he has had to sail very carefully, like a ship among torpedoes, and only divine grace has kept him safe. Some of you who reside in large establishments, where you sleep in rooms with a great many others, find it difficult even to kneel down to pray. Be careful that you do it, though. Do it at first very bravely, and keep it up. Never be ashamed of your colours. Begin as you intend to go on; and go on as you begin. If you begin to compromise you will soon lose all their respect, and make it worse for yourself; but in the name of Jesus Christ let me beseech you to be firm and steadfast even to death. Be comforted, for nothing new has happened to you. It is no novelty for the followers of Jesus to be ridiculed and despised. He came to send fire on the earth, and it has been kindled for almost two thousand years. The fiery path is the old road of the church militant; therefore tread it, and be glad that you are permitted to follow the heroes of heaven in their sacred way.
17. II. Now, a few words BY WAY OF ADVICE. Of course this does not deal with all of you who are now present — I hope that many of you live among the godly. Still there are some whose soul is among lions, and to them I give this counsel.
18. First, if you dwell among lions do not irritate them. If I happened to be among lions I would not tease them: I would take good care that if they were cruel and fierce I did not make them so. I have known some, who I hope were Christians, who have acted very unwisely, and so have made matters worse for themselves. There is such a thing as ramming religion down people's throats, or trying to do so; and you can put on a very long face, and try to scold people into religion. This will not do. Never was anyone yet bullied to Christ, and there never will be. Some are very stern, and make no allowances for other people: these may be good, but they are not wise. What is a rule for you and for me may not be a rule for everyone else. We said the other Sunday that we should not think of eating what we give to swine; but we do not, therefore, say, "These swine must not have their swill." No, no; it is good enough for them. Let them have it. And as for worldly people and their amusements, let them have them, poor things. They have nothing else, let them have their mirth. I would not touch their joys, nor would you, for they would be no pleasure for you; but do not, as a new-born man, go and set yourself up as the standard of what the ordinary sinner, dead in sin, is to be. He cannot come up to our standard. Do not be perpetually finding fault: that is pulling the lions' whiskers, and the creatures are very likely to growl at you. If your soul is among lions, be gentle, be kind, be prudent, be tender. Sometimes be silent: a good word is on your tongue, but there are times when you must not say it: for the life of you, you must not say it, for it would arouse the lions and make more sin than need be. Sometimes a truth needs defending; but, my inexperienced and untaught brother, do not try to defend it, for you do not have the strength. The champion of infidelity will challenge one who is weak and uninstructed, and he overthrows him, and he who came out valorously is beaten in argument. He was not up to the mark in knowledge, and so he was vanquished: and then, what do the adversaries say? Why, they boast that the truth is disproved and that Christ is beaten. Nothing of the kind. The British empire was not defeated when a regiment of our soldiers were killed at Isandlwana; [a] and the truth and cause of Christ is not defeated when some weak champion full of zeal rushes to the front when he ought to have kept in the rear. I do not say much on this point, because we do not have much rash zeal nowadays, and it would be a pity to check what honest zeal there is; but still there is such a text as "Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves." Put your finger on your lips when you are irritated. You cannot speak to the point when you are perturbed, and are likely to be angry. Be quiet and bide your time. Many a man would do more good for the cause of God if he would not irritate ungodly people. Leave them alone: seek their salvation lovingly and tenderly; but when your efforts to do them good only provoke them to sin, try another way. Do not go on with what angers them; invent another method. I do believe that some Christians make half the opposition which they get from the world by their own bad tempers and stupidity. They challenge conflict: their actions seem to say, "Who will fight me?" and then, of course, someone takes up the contest. Do not act foolishly; but if your soul is among lions, and they are inclined to be quiet, do not needlessly excite them.
19. Secondly, if your soul is among lions, do not roar yourself, for that is very easily done. We have known some, who we hope were Christians, who have met railing with railing, harsh words with harsh words, bitter speeches with bitter speeches. The ungodly are lions, and you are not; do not try to meet them in their own line. You will never roar as well as they do. If you are a Christian man, you do not have the knack of roaring. Leave them to do it. Your way of meeting them is not by losing your temper and abusing your antagonists, and so becoming a lion yourself; but you must conquer them with gentleness, patience, kindness, and love. I urge you, dear brothers and sisters who have to bear a good deal for Christ's sake, do not get soured in spirit. There is a tendency in a martyr age to become obstinate and pugnacious. You must not be so. Love, love, love; and the more you are provoked, love all the more. Overcome evil with good. I think it is necessary to mention these cautions, because I know many require them.
Again, if your soul is among lions: then, do not be cowardly.
Have you never heard that a lion is afraid of a man if he looks him
steadily in the face? I am not sure about that piece of natural
history; but I am quite certain that it is true with regard to the
ungodly world. If a man will bear himself calmly — if he will be
unmoved, determined, resolute, steadfast — he will overcome the
adversary. "When a man's ways please the Lord he makes even his
enemies to be at peace with him." If you give way a little, you will
have to give way a great deal. If you give the world an inch, you
will have to give it a mile, as sure as you are alive. If you will
not yield an inch, indeed, nor even a barley-corn, but stand
steadfast, God will help you. Courage is what is needed. The world,
after a while, says of any man, "It is of no use laughing at him; he
does not mind it. It is of no use calling him bad names; he only
smiles at you. It is useless to be his enemy, for he will not be
yours. He will only be your friend." Then the world whispers, "Well,
after all, he is not so bad a fellow as we thought he was; we must
let him have his own way." There is a big human heart somewhere down
in men if you can only get at it, and after a while, when truth and
righteousness have suffered, and been denounced, men turn around and
are almost ready to carry on their shoulders with hosannas the very
same person whom a little while before they longed to crucify. Do not
be a coward! Do not be a coward!
Stand up! stand up for Jesus!
The fight will not be long;
This day the noise of battle,
The next the victor's song.
Even if the fight were long, for such a Master as Jesus it would be worth while to endure ten thousand years of scorn, and moreover the reward at the end will repay us a thousandfold.
21. If your soul is among lions, then do not go out among them alone. "Then whom shall I take with me?" one says, "There is not a Christian in the shop." Take your Lord with you. Be sure that you do that. Now, my dear friend, I know what they said yesterday, and how they bantered you; and you were tart and short with them, because you had not been in prayer in the morning as you ought to have been. If your mind had been more calm and gentle as the result of prayer you would not have minded it one half so much. Take your Master with you, and whenever you have to speak think that he is standing at your side, and try to say what you would like him to hear; and then, when you have made your defence you will be able to say, "Good Master, I think I have not dishonoured you, for I have spoken your words." Oh, live near to Christ if you live among lions. Those of you who endure opposition make the best Christians. Many who have been distinguished for Christ in later life have had to rough it a little at first. "It is good for a man that he bears the yoke in his youth." If I could bring a lawn roller and roll the grass for you all the way from here to heaven do you think that I would do it? Certainly not. A rough place or two is good for you, it tries and strengthens a pilgrim's feet. A child will never become a man if he is carried around all his life like a baby. You must run alone. You must learn the arts of holy warfare, or else you will not be fit to be a soldier of the cross, a follower of the Lamb. May his good Spirit help you to keep in fellowship with Christ, so that he may guard and protect you from every temptation and persecution.
22. Further, let me say to you that if your soul is among lions, and you feel very weak about it, you are permitted to pray the Lord to move you in his providence to quieter quarters. A Christian man is not bound to endure persecution if he can help it: "When they persecute you in one city flea to another." You are quite warranted in seeking another place of employment. There may be reasons why you should remain under the trial, and if so, take care that you do not overlook them. Prudence may make you avoid persecution, but cowardice must not mingle with the prudence. That prayer which says, "Do not lead us into temptation," gives us, as it were, a permit to move from places where we are much tempted; and sometimes it is the duty of the Christian to seek some other sphere of labour, if he possibly can, where he will not be tried so much.
23. One thought more: the braver thing is to ask for grace to stay with the lions and tame them. "My soul is among lions." Well, if the Lord makes you a lion tamer that is the very place where you ought to be. In some of our districts in London as soon as a man is ever converted he feels that he cannot live there any longer, and this makes the district hopeless. My dear friend, Mr. Orsman, working in Golden Lane, as it used to be, told me that his was an endless task, because as soon as the people were ever converted they say, "Would you have me live here any longer, in such a horrible place as this?" They naturally feel that since they have grown sober, and decent, and respectable, they should move into a different locality, and they do so: but the result is that the old place does not improve. Sometimes the Christian man should say, "No; God has made me strong in grace; and I will remain here, and fight it out. These are lions, but I will tame them. I believe that God has put me here on purpose to bring my fellow workmen to the Saviour, and by his grace I will do it." Now, if I were a lamp I daresay that, if I had my choice of where I should burn, I should choose to blaze away in a respectable street. I should like to scatter my light in front of the Tabernacle; but surely if I were a really intelligent lamp I should say to myself — "If there are only a few lamps, and all the streets have to be lit, there is more necessity to light up a back slum or a blind alley than to adorn a main street, therefore let me shine in the dismal courts. In a lonely, dark place where murder may be committed, let me act there as a guardian of the night and a detective of the villain." A wise lamp would say, "I came into the world to give light, and I should like to give light where light is most needed. Hang me up in Mint Street, or in St. Giles's, or away there by the back of Kent Street, where I may be most useful."
And now, Christian people, is there not sense in this advice? Is
there not reason in it? Would not your Master have you go where you
are most needed, and should you not, therefore, if your soul is among
lions, say, "Thank God it is so. These people are not going to
conquer me, but I am going to conquer them?" What a beautiful
spectacle was exhibited by the Moravian Brethren in their grand
times! They could not land on one of the West Indies to preach the
gospel to the negroes, for the planters would not have anyone there
except slaves; and two brethren sold themselves for slaves, and lived
and died in bondage, so that they might teach the poor negroes. It is
said that there was a place in Africa where people were confined
whose limbs were rotting away through leprosy and other diseases. Two
of these brethren climbed up the wall and saw these poor
creatures — some with no legs, and others with no arms. They asked to
be allowed to go in to win their souls for Christ, and the answer
was, "If you enter you can never come out again, because you would
bring contagion. You go in there to die, to rot away as the lepers
do." These brave men went in and died so that they might bring the
lepers to Christ. I hope that we have some drops of that grand
Christian blood still in our veins; and if we have, we shall feel
that we could go to the gates of hell to win a sinner. You are not
like your Master unless you would die to save men from hell. You will
bear jests and jeers, and consider them nothing if you can only win
souls. So stay where you are, my stronger brothers and sisters; if
your souls are among lions, tarry and tame the lions. It will be a
grand thing for you to come one day to the church meeting with two or
three of your neighbours whom you have been the means of converting
to Christ. I like to see a man march, if he can do it, with a tame
lion on each side. When a man has by God's grace brought some of
those who were drunkards and swearers to the feet of Jesus, oh, it is
a grand triumph. It has been my business for many years to be a lion
tamer, and I delight in it. If there is any lion of the kind here, I
wish the Master would tame him, and make him lie down and crouch at
his feet. There is the place for us poor sinners, at the feet of
Christ. But do not be afraid of sinners, dear friends, for how can
you tame them if you tremble before them. Go out to win them in the
strength of the living God, and you shall yet see the lion lie down
with the lamb, and a little child shall lead them. Amen and amen.
[Portion Of Scripture Read Before Sermon — Ps 57]
[See Spurgeon_Hymnal "Spirit of the Psalms — Psalm 124" 124]
[See Spurgeon_Hymnal "The Christian, Aspirations for Heaven — 'For Here We Have No Continuing City' " 854]
[See Spurgeon_Hymnal "Spirit of the Psalms — Psalm 131" 131]
[a] On January 22, 1879, Isandlwana was the site of the Battle of Isandlwana, where approximately 22,000 Zulu warriors defeated a contingent of approximately 1,350 British and native troops in one of the first engagements of the Anglo-Zulu War. The force was largely wiped out by the Zulus under Cetshwayo. The battle remains the single greatest defeat for the British Army at the hands of a native army. See Explorer "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isandlwana"
Spirit of the Psalms
Psalm 124
1 Had not the Lord, my soul may cry,
Had not the Lord been on my side;
Had he not brought deliverance nigh,
Then must my helpless soul have died.
2 Had not the Lord been on my side,
My soul had been by Satan slain;
And Tophet, opening large and wide,
Would not have gaped for me in vain.
3 Lo, floods of wrath, and floods of hell,
In fierce impetuous torrents roll;
Had not the Lord defended well,
The waters had o'erwhelm'd my soul.
4 As when the fowler's snare is broke,
The bird escapes on cheerful wings;
My soul, set free from Satan's yoke,
With joy bursts forth, and mounts, and sings.
5 She sings the Lord her Saviour's praise;
Sings forth his praise with joy and mirth;
To him her song in heaven she'll raise,
To him that made both heaven and earth!
John Ryland, 1775.
The Christian, Aspirations for Heaven
854 — "For Here We Have No Continuing City"
1 We've no abiding city here;
This may distress the wordlings mind,
But should not cost the saint a tear,
Who hopes a better rest to find.
2 We've no abiding city here;
Sad truth, were this to be our home;
But let this thought our spirits cheer,
We seek a city yet to come.
3 We've no abiding city here;
Then let us live as pilgrims do:
Let not the world our rest appear,
But let us haste from all below.
4 We've no abiding city here;
We seek a city our of sight:
Zion its name — the Lord is there;
It shines with everlasting light.
5 Oh sweet abode of peace and love,
Where pilgrims freed from toil are blest!
Had I the pinions of the dove,
I'd fly to thee, and be at rest.
6 But hush, my soul, nor dare repine!
The time my God appoints is best:
While here, to do his will be mine:
And his to fix my time of rest.
Thomas Kelly, 1804.
Spirit of the Psalms
Psalm 131 <7s., 6 lines.>
1 Quiet, Lord, my froward heart,
Make me teachable and mild,
Upright, simple, free from art,
Make me as a weaned child,
From distrust and envy free,
Pleased with all that pleases thee.
2 What thou shalt today provide,
Let me as a child receive;
What tomorrow may betide,
Calmly to thy wisdom leave:
'Tis enough that thou wilt care;
Why should I the burden bear?
3 As a little child relies
On a care beyond his own,
Knows he's neither strong nor wise,
Fears to stir a step alone:
Let me thus with thee abide,
As my Father, Guard, and Guide.
4 Thus, preserved from Satan's wiles,
Safe from dangers, free from fears,
May I live upon thy smiles
Till the promised hour appears,
When the sons of God shall prove
All their Father's boundless love.
John Newton, 1779.


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Perceived Impact of Institutional Culture on Advanced Degree Aspirations of Students Attending Two Southern Women's Colleges
Ridgwell, Diana M.
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Women's college culture has been found to have qualities that promote the success of the women who graduate from these institutions. This research sought to identify aspects of women's college culture that students perceive as having impacted their aspirations for an advanced degree. Fifty-eight women at two southern women's colleges were interviewed. The participants were members of each college's senior class and had spent their entire undergraduate years at the same institution. After an email solicitation was sent to all members of the senior class, participants were accepted until there were eight women in each of the three categories. These three categories; Keepers, Droppers, and Aspirers; were developed in order to study participant perceptions by whether they maintained or dropped their previous educational aspirations or had developed new aspirations for an advanced degree while attending a women's college. The interviews were completed over a two-month period with each interview lasting from 45 to 60 minutes. Participants were asked about the importance of aspects of women's college culture on their aspirations for an advanced degree as well as other factors that they perceived as having influenced their decision whether or not to pursue an advanced degree. The majority of the White women in this study confirmed the positive impacts of women's college culture including high academic expectations, a mission and history that supports women, more female role models, a caring, supportive environment, and an abundance of opportunities for involvement and to learn about oneself. In addition, participants confirmed the importance of peer relationships and romantic relationships on their educational aspirations. Some women, however, perceived these same factors as having a negative impact on their degree aspirations. These negative impacts included the Bubble effect, in which women felt that the women's college experience had sheltered them from the realities of the world outside of their present environment, the Burn-Out effect from over involvement in extra-curricular and academic activities, and confusion over field of study interest due to the many opportunities to learn about oneself offered by a liberal arts curriculum. Other findings indicate that despite the supportive environment of women's colleges, women's college students still perceive romantic relationships as negatively impacting their or their friend's aspirations for an advanced degree. In addition, the need to be taken seriously, whether their families are supportive of further education, and how well informed they are about financial aid issues, all were reported to impact educational aspirations. Unexpectedly, male role models were found to have a positive impact on women's aspirations despite the many female role models at women's colleges.The African American women college students in this study reported their experiences of attending a women's college much differently than did the White women. Although they felt they had received a quality education, the African American women were dissatisfied with the lack of representation of the African American culture at the women's college they attended. They felt the women's college culture had negatively impacted their aspirations for an advanced degree because of the lack of representation of African American culture in the women's college environment. Almost all African American women in this study dropped their previous aspirations for an advanced degree because of the discouraging effect of the overwhelmingly White culture of the colleges they attended.Overall, this study found that college culture was perceived to have a clear positive impact for one group of students, no significant impact for another, and a negative impact for the third group of students. In addition, based on the perceptions of the students and the researcher's limited observations, the two colleges were found to have institutional cultures that differentiate themselves from each other. This finding challenges previous researchers' assumptions that all women's colleges share a single culture.This study adds to previous literature about women's college culture and aspirations for an advanced degree in a number of important ways. Key findings include the identification of negative, as well as positive, impacts of women's college culture for some women, the importance of male role models for women's college students, and the dissatisfaction of the African American women in the study with their experience at a woman's college.
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There is a new trend in South Korea. South Korean women rub horse on their faces. Horse fat looks yellowish like butter. And apparently this fat is unique because it has important fatty acids and unsaturated fatty acid. Besides that, it has anti-inflammatory, moisturizing and healing properties. Horse fat is used for many beauty products in South Korea such as face mask, shampoo and hand creams.
Besides horse fat, horse oil is also popular. Horse oil has been used as traditional medicines in certain countries in Asia like Mongolia, Korea, China and Japan. But, its health benefits are just revealed recently thanks to several new research.
According to research that was done by the Keimyung University School of Medicine, horse oil has anti-bacterial properties. These properties help fighting against acne-causing bacteria and staph infection.
This research showed that horse oil also has anti-inflammatory properties and improves type 1 collagen production in the skin. What amazing is that the secret ingredient has been existing for thousand years. But we just know about it recently.
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Hello I am glad that no one got hurt in the capsize.
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I actually posted the very same question previously but didn't get much replies. I am very interested in this, but the problem is that I work in the morning. I wonder if there are any lessons during the afternoons?
Flying Scot Capsize Issues
We have a fleet of three Flying Scot club boats that are shared by members of our Sail Away program at the White Rock Boat Club here in Dallas. Recently we have initiated a series of seminars in which we intentionally capsize one of our boats for instructional purposes, teaching members (and even non-members) how to right the capsized boats. I have linked a number of resources to our website, including summaries of some of these seminars and YouTube videos that others have prepared:
Jerry Isaacs
Capsize Problems
Two suggestions:
1. Don't ever cleat the mainsheet.
2. Get a boarding ladder from Flying Scots
Ladder, etc
The boarding ladder is extremely helpful once the boat is back up to get folks back in the boat. One key is to get someone on the board, while the boat is up on its side, before the mast starts sinking. The mast head flotation can help greatly. If you don't have it, get over the high side and onto the board. If everybody is in the water, and has life jackets on (which you should if it's blowing hard enough to capsize), I agree that having someone hold the top of the mast is helpful. DO NOT do this if the crew does not have a jacket on.
Getting from the water to the high side is easy. Quickly uncleat the main and jib, if they are cleated. Release the spin halyard if the spin was up. You can then go from the low seat, step on the mast base, and swing legs over the high side to get onto the board. Dont miss the board, or you get to repeat, as the mast tip is sinking further. If the mast tip starts sinking, this is when the board can go up, slamming into the trunk. I have only capsized once and it was a great learning experience.
Phil Scheetz
Flying Scot 5919
Fleet 163, Nockamixon Sail Club


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The Diary of Blanc Newspaper
Editorial piece that arises from the campaign's concept of the 'Blanc Festival de Disseny Gràfic 2013: The Diary of Blanc'. This diary is a close narrative about the speakers where each of them shares their surroundings through a visual tour.
Client. Blanc Festival de Disseny Gràfic
Year. 2013
Awards. Gold, Laus 2014, Corporative publication, catalogue, annual report, in-house publication. Jury's voice: 'A great solution for a project that, whilst it lacks powerful images, hit the bull's-eye with a fun concept'
This is a way of knowing them beyond their profession and that puts us in their day-to-day. We send a pack to every studio for the carrying out. This pack contains a booklet that explains the concept of the campaign and a single use camera, so the speakers can show us what fills them in their day-to-day, without conditions or a specific briefing.
The speakers are the ones who decide what to show us and how to display it.
The central sheet contains a location map of the different action points of the festival, places to eat, sleep and park, the schedule of the two days of the festival and a list of prices of the conferences' packs. It is designed so that this central sheet can be removed easily so users can consult it in an agile way.
Photography. The speakers: Andreu Balius, Cruz Novillo, Entlo. 1a, Folch Studio, Forma & Co, Physalia,
Press Rec, Gif Me, Device, Microclima
Type. Helvetica by Max Miedinger & Eduard Hoffmann


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A Thai man has taken his own life after losing a lottery ticket that was worth £947,000.
Jirawut Pongphan, 42, celebrated hard with friends and family after his winning numbers were announced in November but awoke the next morning to discover the ticket missing.
He spent the next three months battling depression and mental health problems and ultimately shot himself.
According to The West Australian, Pongphan left a suicide note that read: "I'm really sorry, please don't bully my family, I did win the lottery prize."
Police found his body in his bedroom, next to the note.
Pongphan had bought seven lottery tickets in his hometown of Chonburi. Police do not know what happened to the ticket and are unsure if anyone has come forward to claim the winnings.
It is not known if investigations are continuing.
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The 2016 Big Read - Orphan Train
About the Book
Orphan Train, by Christina Baker Kline
Nearly eighteen, Molly Ayer knows she has one last chance. Just months from "aging out" of the child welfare system, and close to being kicked out of her foster home, a community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping her out of juvie and worse.
Vivian Daly has lived a quiet life on the coast of Maine. But in her attic, hidden in trunks, are vestiges of a turbulent past. As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly discovers that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City in the 1920s, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds of other children whose destinies would be determined by luck and chance.
The closer Molly grows to Vivian, the more she discovers parallels to her own life. A Penobscot Indian, she, too, is an outsider being raised by strangers, and she, too, has unanswered questions about the past. As her emotional barriers begin to crumble, Molly discovers that she has the power to help Vivian find answers to mysteries that have haunted her for her entire life - answers that will ultimately free them both.
Rich in detail and epic in scope, Orphan Train is a powerful novel of upheaval and resilience, of second chances, of unexpected friendship, and of the secrets we carry that keep us from finding out who we are.
About the Author, Christina Baker Kline
Christina Baker Kline is the author of five novels, including the #1 New York Times bestselling Orphan Train. Her other novels include Bird in Hand, The Way Life Should Be, Desire Lines and Sweet Water. She is currently at work on a novel (due out in Winter 2017) based on the iconic painting Christina's World, by Andrew Wyeth.
In addition to her five novels, Kline has written and edited five nonfiction books. She commissioned and edited two widely praised collections or original essays on the first year of parenthood and raising young children, Child of Mine and Room to Grow, and a book on grieving, Always Too Soon. She is the coeditor, with Anne Burt, of a collection of personal essays called About Face: Women Write About What They See When They Look in the Mirror, and is co-author, with her mother, Christina Looper Baker, of a book on feminist mothers and daughters, The Conversation Begins. Her essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Money, More, Psychology Today, among other places.
Kline was born in Cambridge, England, and raised there, as well as in the American South and Maine. She is a graduate of Yale, Cambridge, and the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow in Fiction Writing. She has taught fiction and nonfiction writing, poetry, English literature, literary theory, and women's studies at Yale, NYU, and Drew University, and served as Writer-in-Residence at Fordham University for four years. She is a recipient of several Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowships and Writer-in-Residence Fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She supports a number of libraries and other associations in New Jersey and Maine, and is a member of the Advisory Board for Roots & Wings, a nonprofit that provides support for at-risk adolescent and aged-out foster care youth.
Kline lives in an old house in Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband, David Kline, and three sons, Hayden, Will, and Eli. She spends as much time as possible in an even older house in Southwest Harbor, Maine.
(text from http://christinabakerkline.com/contact/bio/)
Book and Author Resources
Author's Website - Author's Facebook - Author's Twitter - Official Page for Orphan Train - Official Book Trailer - The Story Behind the Writing of Orphan Train
Christina Answers the Top Ten Questions Book Clubs Ask About Orphan Train (*SPOILERS*):
- How close are the events you describe in the novel to real life? (00:19)
- Did situations like the Grotes' home really exist? (01:19)
- Was it common for train riders to keep their experiences secret? (02:35)
- How did most train riders ultimately feel about having been put on a train? (03:50)
- Did the research for this book give you a bleak perspective of human nature? (05:48)
- Why did you write a novel – and not nonfiction -- about the orphan trains? (07:47)
- Did you know everything that would happen in the novel when you started, or did you change things as you went along? (09:00)
- Why did Maisie have to die? (10:57)
- Why didn't you show the reunion between Vivian and Sarah? (11:58)
- And finally … the question every book club asks: Why did Vivian give away her daughter? (13:28)
National Orphan Train Complex (Museum and Research Center):
National Orphan Train Complex FAQ
Author Christina Baker Kline visits for Big Read Kickoff Event
Delve into a good book this spring and participate with your friends and neighbors in the Big Read. Book discussions and other programs focusing on the novel, Orphan Train, by Christina Baker Kline, are taking place across the Miami Valley through April 16. This book was chosen by popular vote to be the Miami Valley's Big Read selection.
The relocation of thousands of orphaned or abandoned children from 1854-1929 forms the basis for Orphan Train, which tells the story of an elderly woman's past as one of these relocated children, and her unexpected friendship with a contemporary teen who is aging out of the foster care system.
"The Big Read allows us to discuss and celebrate a really good book together," said Jennifer Spillman, co-chair of the Big Read committee. "It gives us a chance, as a collective whole, to fall in love with the same characters from the same story at the same time."
#1 NY Times Bestseller
"Absorbing... a heartfelt page-turner" – Publishers Weekly
"A compelling story about loss, adaptability, and courage" – Library Journal
"Kline draws a dramatic, emotional story from a neglected corner of American history." - Kirkus Reviews
"A long journey from home and the struggle to find it again form the heart of the intertwined stories that make up this moving novel. Kline illuminates a largely hidden chapter of American history, while portraying the coming-of-age of two resilient young women." – Booklist
The True History of Orphan Trains
In the mid-19th century, children in poverty roamed the streets of New York in search of food and shelter. Charles Loring Brace was horrified by their plight and in 1853, he founded the Children's Aid Society. He believed that work, education and a strong family life could help these children develop into self-reliant citizens. Between 1854-1929, the CAS sent more than 200,000 orphaned, abandoned and homeless children by train to the Midwest for adoption. Many did find loving homes, and many did not.
This relocation of children ended in the 1920s with the beginning of the organized foster care system in America. Brace himself was torn: "When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet, you are perplexed what to do. The human soul is difficult to interfere with. You hesitate how far you should go."
See the PBS "American Experience" Documentary on the Orphan Trains
Monday, April 4, 7:00- 8:30 p.m. West Carrollton Branch Library


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This course is for for businesses operating in Spanish speaking countries that need to learn Spanish. If you have groups of 3 or more colleagues that can do class at the same time we can set a date and time convenient for you to begin to your classes. Everyone just needs to be able to get online at the same time and day each week. Groups of 3 or more also enjoy corporate discounts highlighted below.
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At least once a month I get asked how I carry everything. I also get asked exactly what I carry.
I have never done a post about everything I carry or how because that fluctuates rather frequently and I get sick of people who try to tell me what I should and should not carry and how based upon not knowing me, my lifestyle, my needs or my priorities. But I get to ignore those people!
I drop hints here and there which inevitably ends with someone asking, "How do you carry it all?"
For those who are genuinely interested, here it is!
The things I carry can be broken down into four categories: defensive, medical, baby, and chapstick. Each category has its own rules, rolls and priorities, and by those rules and priorities they are organized and carried.
The rules: Defensive, lethal tools are carried on body with minimal exceptions. This is to maximize my access and minimize unauthorized access.
My gun, a S&W M&P Shield, is the primary defensive lethal tool that I carry on a daily basis. It is carried Appendix Inside the Waistband (AIWB) pretty much from the moment I wake up until the moment I go to bed with very few exceptions.
My secondary defensive tools are any number of knives (the TDI LEO, Benchmade Mini Griptillian or Benchmade Triage) or a collapsible baton (an ASP Agent P12). If I have a pocket it more than likely has a knife in it. The other pocket might have my baton or chapstick or my flashlight (A Streamlight PT 1L) depending on foreseen.
My other defensive tool of utmost importance to me is my kubaton and pepper spray combo, the ASP key defender. It looks like any black, cylindrical key chain but it has a small safety catch that can be flicked off that allows you to push a button on the back end of the device and eject a blast of pepper spray. Because it is small it is discreet but it's still big enough to be a formidable little weapon. Because it's attached to my keys it spends a fair amount of time in my hand. I carry it in my hand when walking to and from my car and or it is loosely hooked to my person in some way for easy access at any other time.
Because I have so many knives that can be used for utilitarian or defensive purposes my knives often move from pocket to pocket and to my bag and back again.
My baton also seems to do that. I don't concern myself with my baton too often, however, because any one of my knives or my flashlight or even my kubaton and pepper spray combo key chain can be used as impact weapons. Though there has been one particular time I deliberately prepared myself to use my baton over all of my other defensive tools. (Another story for another day.)
The rules: All medical supplies are carried in my Maxpedition Lunada in a single compartment where they can be immediately accessed, one-handed if need be. No other, non-medical equipment is kept in that compartment to limit disorganizing the contents thereof.
My EDC bag is a roving medical kit. It includes quikclot combat gauze, a C.A.T tourniquet, an Israeli pressure bandage, a pair of trauma sheers (bad ones, actually), co-flex, paper medical tape, more bandaids than should reasonably be in a bag, an Epi pen, nitrile gloves, four triangular bandages, some 2×2 and 4×4 gauze pads, petroleum gauze and a tension pneumothorax needle.
In other locations in my bag I also have two bandanas, an EMS field guide book and a small pouch on the side of my bag filled with paper tape and 2×2 gauze pads for my son who is allergic to the adhesive in bandaids.
Lots of people have assumed I leave this bag in the car. They are mistaken. My EDC bag goes with me. Everywhere. If I need medical equipment I likely don't want to have to go out to my car to get it. If my husband or son is having a severe allergic reaction to a sting or my daughter pulls a shopping cart on top of herself and smashes her face in (true story), I don't want to have to go to the car. I like being able to unzip my bag, pull out what I need (one-handed, because the other hand is usually cradling a baby) and do what needs to be done. Which would also be helpful if there were any other serious trauma going on.
The rules: Baby gear goes with baby and is limited to what can reasonably be expected to be needed in the given time frame.
If I'm running in and out of a store, I don't carry anything baby related. If I'm going to be somewhere for a couple of hours I might throw a diaper into my bag. If I'm going somewhere over night, I will add wipes, a change of clothes and a couple more diapers. Baby carriers are usually left in the car and depending on where I'm going, when and for how long I might choose to wrap my baby, put him in a stroller or in a shopping cart.
As in the picture above, a hip wrap allows me to carry baby and my bag and still have access to my gun. A win all around.
The rules: Everything else is up for grabs!
Everything else is my bag is filed under "chapstick" because it's not necessary to my survival but it's really nice to have. There are important things in that category like my wallet, my cell phone, my flashlight (when it's not in my pocket) and chapstick. There are some convenience items, too, like hair ties, feminine products, a comb, a lens cleaning cloth, a small pouch of essential oils, a couple multi-tools, some rubber bands, a gift card for starbucks and other junk that I'm too lazy to claw out just to list for you.
If, for whatever reason, I was expected to leave my bag behind I would make sure to take my ID, carry permit and money out of my wallet and find a way to carry them on my body or in hand along with my phone and my flashlight. There are those who adamantly believe those items should be carried on body and prioritized along with guns and other defensive tools. I don't disagree that they are important but when you are as little as I am you have to pick your space pretty carefully. When I carry that stuff on my body or in hand I find myself putting it down too often or fiddling with it which is why I carry a bag in the first place. No fiddling!
I prioritize what I carry and organize it by what I deem to be most necessary to save a life in any particular emergency.
Because a fight for my life will likely be immediate, I carry my lethal defensive tools on my body.
While certainly emergent, a medical or trauma emergency will likely be after the fight for my life is over or in a setting where taking the second or two to open my bag isn't going to make a huge difference in the outcome. Even within the pockets of my bag my items are organized for quick access and order of emergency. My tourniquet and Epi pen are probably two of the most immediately accessible items in my bag. My trauma shears aren't even in my bag, they are on the outside. If one of my family is having a severe allergic reaction or bleeding to death in front of me I don't want to be fumbling for the right gear.
Baby and Chapstick items are not emergent. When I need those items I have time to look in my bag for them. Thanks to the organization of my bag, however, I usually don't have to search long.
The Bag
It stands to reason that in my discussion about what I carry I should talk about the bag itself. I didn't just grab any old bag off the shelf and expect it to fit my needs. I tried a few different ones, too, and took quite a bit of time decided what would work best for me.
I wanted something small–well, smaller. I knew that whatever bag I got I would fill and more stuff means heavier bag and there would be a point where it would be so heavy I would start leaving it behind. That had happened with my last bag and I wanted to avoid it.
I also wanted something that would carry on my back and be ambidextrous to keep my hands and hips free for baby. I needed something I could organize into specific pockets for med gear and MOLLE is always a nice touch.
The Maxpedition Lunada fits all of those needs and then some. I have plenty of room for what I need and some left over. There's a quick release on the front strap in case I need to ditch the bag completely. I wrote a more comprehensive review of the bag a while ago which you can read here.
My carry system allows me to carry everything I believe I might need to save my own life or the life of someone I love in a pretty wide variety of emergencies. The way I organize it makes sense to me as far as access, safety and time concerns. It keeps me fairly unencumbered and hands-free but within arms reach of whatever I might need.


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Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton bring Korean literature to the English-speaking world
Meet Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton, internationally acclaimed Korean-to-English literary translators who reside in Seattle's Montlake neighborhood.
Seattle Times book editor
Bruce and Ju-Chan FultonThe translators of "Lost Souls: Stories" will discuss their work at 6:30 p.m. May 25 at the Montlake Branch of the Seattle Public Library, 2401 24th Ave. E., Seattle; free (206-684-4720 or www.spl.org).
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Seattle is a multicultural mosaic, and here's another piece of the picture — behind the doors of a modest Montlake bungalow, a Seattle husband and wife have made it their life's work to translate the literature of Korea for English-speaking readers.
Translation is an exacting business; hours and hours of reading, writing, looking things up, then pondering words that may or may not have an equivalent in English. Montlake's Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton recently received a major validation for their labors: they won Korea's Daesan Foundation's translation prize for their work on "There a Petal Silently Falls: Three Stories by Ch'oe Yun" (Columbia University Press). The award, for 30 million won, translates to about $27,500 — "it took us about a week to spend it on mortgages, etc.," wrote Bruce Fulton in an e-mail.
The Fultons both have day jobs; Bruce, who got his doctorate from Seoul National University, is the inaugural holder of the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation in the Asian studies department at the University of British Columbia. Ju-Chan is an airline ticket agent.
They met at Seoul National University in 1978, where Bruce was a Peace Corps volunteer, and married in 1979. They both got master's degrees from the University of Washington, then returned to Korea for further study, and eventually realized that they had "the ideal translation team": Bruce, a native speaker of English who knows Korean, and Ju-Chan, a native speaker of Korean who knows English.
Their method has varied over the years, but here's how it works today. First comes text selection; what works are they interested in translating? Their choices help determine which works of Korean literature become accessible in English, since the pool of Korean-to-English translators of contemporary literature is very small.
Then Ju-Chan annotates the material with explanations of troublesome words, contextual material, etc. After Bruce produces the first draft, he reads it aloud to Ju-Chan. And so on and so forth, until they think they've gotten it right.
By now you may be wondering if this is too much togetherness for a married couple. Au contraire; working together "is probably one of the things that has kept us together for 30 years," says Bruce, and Ju-Chan agrees: "working together holds the marriage together."
The two have been able to translate Korean writers who have fallen under the radar of the Korean literary establishment, particularly women writers of short stories. Korean writers are expected to be "cognizant of the modern tragedy of Korean history," Bruce says. "Until recently, if you wrote out of imagination, with a sense of humor or playfulness, you were considered a lightweight, not to be taken seriously."
In 2005, Bruce co-edited (with Youngmin Kwon) "Modern Korean Fiction: An Anthology" (Columbia University Press), an anthology that includes North Korean writers as well as writers who migrated to the North after 1945 and whose works were banned in South Korea.
At their reading at the Montlake library on May 25, they'll read from their recent translation of "Lost Souls: Stories" by Hwang Sunwon (Columbia University Press), an author Bruce says is known in Korea as a "lyrical romanticist." Hwang died in 2000, but the Fultons met him while he was still alive; they've been translating his work since the 1980s.
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Located a short walk from downtown Los Altos, Voyageur du Temps (VDT) is an artisan bakery and café serving world-class bread, pastries, and coffee.
Voyageur du Temps, which means time traveler in French, was the vision of owner and local resident, Rie Rubin.
As the name suggests, Rie's vision was a café that transported people back in time. A place that moved between tradition and modernity that draws on the classic values of cooking and baking with a contemporary twist. Rie reached out to Character to help bring that vision life.
Character was tasked with designing and producing all elements of the VDT brand and café experience.
Our goal was to develop an identity as beautiful and unexpected as the experience itself. Character's studies explored the tension between the classic and the contemporary, the rustic and the refined.
The selected "V" logo identity was inspired by the Roman numeral five found on an old clock in a French train station. It speaks perfectly to both the café's theme of time travel and its location in an old Los Altos train station.
Our photography art direction was natural and real, capturing the care and craftsmanship of the baking process. It emphasizes VDT's reliance on traditional baking techniques and use of the finest natural ingredients.
Once the VDT design language was established, Character extended it across the website, product packaging, interior and exterior signage, menu designs, merchandise, staff uniforms, and business applications. We carefully sourced all of our production vendors to ensure the final deliverables exceeded expectations.
The café opened its doors to the public in March, 2014.
"The Fig Artisan Bread is the best bread I've ever had."
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