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Dear Friend, First, I must apologize if my mode of first contact is not acceptable to you and also solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly private and top secret. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and worried My Name is Pauline Williams,I am the only daughter of late Mr. and Mrs Fred Nzinga Williams who was assassinated in 2002 during a political unrest that engulfed my Country Zambia recently. They where shot to dead my unknown Person(s) who where accusing him of funding and sponsoring a factional Political group with his money. So in respect of this they came to our House and shot everyone dead including my two younger Siblings by then I was not at home,But fortunately my Father did not die instantly that day. It took him three Months later after that incident before he finally gave up the ghost. Before the death of my father, on October 28, 2002, in a private hospital, he secretly called me on his bedside and told me that he has the sum of Fifteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States(US$15.5Million dollars he deposited it in a Finance and Scured Vault with my name as next of kin to the fund. Now, after the recent crisis that burst up in my Country I ran to Senegal where I seeked asylum, that is how I now went to stay in the a Refugee Camp. So that is where am currently staying for now. But the problem am encountering now is that due to my present situation I can not be able to file in for claim due to my age present status to handle such ammount of money, but can do so with the help of a foreign partner. So please dear, I am pleading, if you can help me and stand as my nominated next-of-kin and withdraw the fund for me (USS15.5 Million Dollars) to your account in your Country and I will be very glad to Please once can help me with this project, I will offer 15% percent of the money then after I will Come over to your Country to start up a new life. And also go into any profitable business you will advise me to do. Do indicate your intrest by writing me through this email firstname.lastname@example.com the most confidential for me at the moment I will be waiting to hear your favourable response. Sincerely, Pauline Williams
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No Limits Baseball had two players "Canyon Dietrich" (13u) and "Reese Peters" (14u) get an invite to play on the Game Day All-American team in Mesa Arizona at the Chicago Cubs complex. Both players were selected to the All-Tournament team after their stellar performance during the tournament. Great job boys!
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So What Happened to the Money? Colombia Admits Investing $0 of Fund for Development in Conflict Areas
Colombia admitted on Friday that it has failed to spend one dollar of an international investment fund of $210 million for sustainable development.
President Juan Manuel Santos triumphantly announced the creation of the Sustainable Colombia Fund (FCS) in September last year together with the Colombian director of the Inter-American Development Bank, Luis Alberto Moreno.
Half a year later his chief of staff, Alfonso Prada, admitted that 0% of the $38.4 million budget for this year was effectively executed.
The FCS is one of five funds that seek to promote peace in Colombia following a peace agreement with Marxist FARC guerrillas in 2016.
Sponsor countries Switzerland, Norway and Sweden had demanded explanations after the government fired FCS chief Marcela Huertas six months after hiring her.
The fund managed by Huertas had failed to execute any investment projects "because it was only approved this year," said Prada in a televised presentation presided by Vice-President Oscar Naranjo. Adriaan Alsema, Colombia Reports.


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Collective of self taught artists and creative associates, who believe art should always come first.
Friday, 31 August 2012
The Sartorialist Dinner, Florence
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Associate Creative Friends: Lotho Eyewears
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Associate Creative Friends: T- Michael Clothing
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Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Associate Creative Friends: Olu Michael Odukoya (The Avant/Garde Diaries)
In 2003, on a day off from his nine-to-five as a dispensing optician, Olu Michael Odukoya started a magazine that is as bold, big, and beautiful as the mountain it is named after: Kilimanjaro. Ignoring all the conventional advice about how to make a print magazine, Olu simply followed his own vision. Published bi-annually, he releases his editorial experiments and his view on visual culture on loose poster-sized sheets that are folded and kept in a box. Avant-garde thinking is fundamental to his success. For The Avant/Garde Diaries, Olu introduced us to Artwords bookshop owner Ben Hillwood-Harris.
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Friday, 3 August 2012
Louis Vuitton X Mos Def
here stands only a handful of hip-hop emcees who have been able to successful transcend the musical culture and find high fashion relevance. Yasiin Bey is one that immediately comes to mind as a long-standing personality known just as much for his outspoken position in the culture as well as his smooth flowing rhymes. Together with Louis Vuitton's "Core Values" campaign, Yasiin Bey pays homage to one of sports' greatest showman, one Muhammad Ali. Focused around his greatest quotes, Bey takes on the role of story-teller, offering some powerful sound bites over these two videos directed by Stuart McIntyre.
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Birdman and Young Thug will release "Rich Gang 2" this April.
Birdman has been teasing Rich Gang 2, the sequel to the celebrated 2014 mixtape Rich Gang: Tha Tour Part 1, periodically over the course of the past year. In January, he informed fans that he and Young Thug had completed at least ten new Rich Gang tracks; in December, he announced that RG2 would be released on February 17th.
With that released date mere days away, Birdman has taken to Instagram to announce a new release date: April 15th.
Rich Homie Quan will not be featured on Rich Gang 2. The new release date must be taken with a grain of salt due to the fact that Birdman is notoriously unreliable.


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Hello 2017! I'm jumping back on the blogging bandwagon – finally. I read somewhere that blogs are dead. I don't agree. I still enjoy reading them. I can't handle twitter with all the hashtags. It's disruptive in so many ways. And Instagram – haven't looked at that much, but I'd rather have the words please. Love the words!!
I was really hoping to finish my Dovetail Shawl over the Christmas holiday, but I fell short. I had been making estimates, seeing if I could get another pattern repeat out of the Liberty yarn, and I kept doing the math wrong, and ending up with more yarn than I'd expected. The shawl is still getting wider, and ends with a border, so I want to be sure I don't run out, but I also want to make it as big as possible. With a long weekend coming up I'm hoping to pick it up again and maybe finish it for good this time.
In addition to that I have several other routine projects on the needles, plus a new one – a prototype for a bag – a potential gift for a friend. I wanted to try a smaller version of the bag first to check the yarn and needle size and how well it will full, etc. One night of knitting done, and this project is making me so happy! More on that another time.
As far as reading goes, I've just started Hazel Holt's final book – Mrs. Malory and Death is a Word. Hazel passed away in 2015, and I have read all 21 of her Sheila Malory mysteries. They are so peacefully intriguing. More than solving any of the mysteries, I just wanted to live vicariously through Sheila, with her Aga cooker and cozy house; her trips into Taunton, and to Oxford and the Bodleian. The walks along the sea on gray days….I think I went vicariously to England better with Hazel Holt than almost any other writer, except Miss Read. I'm trying to savor this last book. And yes, I will read them all over again!
See what Ginny and the other Yarn Along friends are up to!
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Given the situation in the Middle East, there is a growing need for Arab Americans to be in the media and weigh in on the issues that matter. During the height of the revolution in Egypt, we put a number of individuals in contact with various media outlets to ensure Arab American voices were heard. It is extremely important to AAI and to the community that Arab Americans are represented in the media.
Please continue to share your news with us and let us know what you are doing. Additionally, if you need any help in contacting the media, we have several tools available and would be happy to assist. For media-related assistance, please contact Omar Tewfik
Below are some appearances of Jim on a few programs we'd like to share with you:
Jim was most recently on "The Situation with Wolf Blitzer" to talk about Arab Voices and U.S. intervention in Libya. Jim also discussed Syria.
The video for his "Situation Room" appearance is not up on the web yet, but a transcript of his April 2 segment can be accessed by clicking here.
AAI President James Zogby appears on MSNBC's "Hardball" with Chris Matthews to discuss the violent reactions in Afghanistanan to a Qur'an burning in Florida which occured on March 20, 2011.
Watch the segment April 1, 2010
AAI President Jim Zogby appears on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports" to discuss the spectrum of U.S. intervention in Libya.
Watch the segment March 30, 2011.
AAI President Jim Zogby appears on Sky News "Live at Five" to discuss Arab perceptions of the current situation in Libya. He addressed the question of whether or not further Arab involvement in the assault against Moammar Gaddafi's forces in Libya is warranted.
Watch the segment March 23, 2011
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I would like to announce my selection of Deputy Leaders; Thana Boonlert and Brian Deheer.
Thana Boonlert is no stranger to politics in Alberta. He was the GPA candidate in the 2016 By-Election in Calgary-Greenway and the GPC candidate in the 2015 General Election in Calgary Centre. He was also the Poverty and Homelessness critic for GPA's Shadow Cabinet in 2017 and is currently the GPC's Alberta Representative on Federal Council.
Thana's educational background is in Environmental Engineering. His career experiences include quantifying air emissions in the oil and gas industry, air quality science/engineering, environmental compliance, and storm water engineering.
Brian Deheer ran as GPA candidate in 2015 in Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills, he also ran as candidate in federal by-election in 2014, and in the federal general election in 2015.
Brian is a member of the Athabasca Watershed Council Board since 2014, serving as Board Chair since 2015; a board member of Keepers of the Athabasca Watershed Society (KAWS) since 2012. KAWS works with First Peoples to address watershed/environmental and indigenous rights issues. Brian is also a member of Lac La Biche County Environmental Stewardship Advisory Committee (2012-2015) and a member of Northern CARE (Community Action for Recycling Enterprises, later Alberta CARE) in the 1990s.
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An island getaway in the heart of the charming city of Bonita. It is a place where guests can escape their everyday and be immersed in the sounds, tastes, visions, and vibe of the Aloha spirit. The menu consists of Pacific Rim and Cal-Asian fusion flavors, a great variety of specialty and traditional sushi, as well as offering a robust drink menu, comprised of beer and wine, an assortment of rich Hawaiian coffees, along with fruit flavored cocktails, teas, and smoothies. The dining area is filled with intricate tikis, fine Islander artwork, earthy tones and materials which embody a true essence of the islands. Our highly trained and professional culinary and wait staffs are welcoming and accommodating; ready to thrill your taste buds and take care of all of your dining needs as you leave your worries at the door, relax, and enjoy the comforts of our Island Style Bistro. Want to take the islands home? Take a look at our catering page to see how we can bring paradise closer to you.


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The CV - advice on structure and more
Your resume or curriculum vitae (CV) is the most important part of your application documents. It will private the most information about your development and your motivation. That is why the CV is often read first. Its content and layout will decisively influence whether the rest of the application is even looked at. It is up to you to interest the reader in your experience and skills.
Theoretically you can use the same CV for all your applications. Sometimes it is advisable to adapt the CV to the relevant role and to emphasise particularly important skills. Your CV should be relatively short and give sufficient information on the most important career milestones. Take care not to make any spelling or grammatical mistakes.
3 Structuring tips for your CV
- Write your CV in a table form
- Use a clear and easily legible font
- Write briefly and concisely, but still including details
The correct structure of the CV
- Personal details: Name, address, telephone number, email address and date of birth. Details regarding parents or religious affiliation are seen as old-fashioned.
- Education: List your educational stages in chronological order, starting with the most recent education. Give the name and location of the school or university, subject or school type as well as beginning and end of your education. For academic education you can also include information on graduation papers (for example Masters thesis or dissertation topic).
- Work experience: Here you should list your career development so far, including the name of the company, date and duration of your employment. You should also briefly summarise your responsibilities in the role.
- Particular skills: Set yourself apart from the potential competition. This includes special language skills, expert knowledge beyond your education or so-called "soft skills", such as public speaking skills.
- Additional commitments: Do you volunteer in your leisure time, for example as the chairman of an association, pupil representative or working for a student organisation? Then you should definitely include that that in your CV.
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Your IQ (if you have done a test), salary expectations or similar do not belong in a CV. Courses should also only be mentioned if they are relevant to the advertised role. Do you have any gaps in your employment history? If for example you completed your school education in June 1998 and only began your studies in March 1999, you should be able to give a reason for that. You should also be able to explain shorter gaps (around three to four months).


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I am so fortunate to meet and coach such wonderful, inspirational people. This email made my day:
I attended you Bend, Oregon camp in Aug of 2009. I had just purchased my Trek 8.8 in June and joined a local club and had done a few rides before I left for Bend. Being 53 yeas old, I was hoping to get some good habits before I developed to many bad ones (already have enough of those) and give myself a jump start on the people who figured they knew all they needed to know about mountain biking. I took some serious crap for spending $600.00 on a mountain bike camp. Why I would do that when there are good riders here just ask them. Well here we are 8 months later and I talked myself into entering the 2010 Shasta Lemurian here in Redding to see how I would do after practicing for the last 8 months. I entered the 45-54 class of the 8 mile short course. Wow!! What a difference a passionate teacher can make. I tried to stay very consistent in the 4 mile uphill so I wouldn't totally exhaust myself and try to make up what I could in the downhill. The Vodoo mind thing is amazing along with all the other skills and I passed 7 riders going down, having to leave the best line several times to get around. This singletrack downhill is last part of both the 20 and 26 mile courses and has many oshit moments in the rocks. I was able to get back most of what I had lost and finish at 56:13, 2nd in my class 10 seconds behind first.Overall in short course was 46 minutes. Now it is time to work on hard my climbing so I push the front runners a bit more.
Gene all I can say is heartfelt thanks for bringing this passion for mountain biking and the skills you have given us to work with and practice. Looking forward to the spring racing here in Northern most Calif.
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Sonic Youth @ Battery Park (4th of July), NYC – pics, setlist
photos by Jason Bergman
DOWNLOAD: Sonic Youth – Made in USA theme (MP3)
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers turned out in a light drizzle Friday night to celebrate the nation's 232nd birthday with the annual Fourth of July fireworks display along the East River.
The nationally-televised Macy's Fourth of July Spactacular began around 9:20 p.m., was co-hosted by former New York Giant Tiki Barber and featured musical performances by artists including country singer Kenny Chesney and American Idol Jordin Sparks…
…Some who watched the Macy's show began their evening with a concert in Manhattan's Battery Park.
Sonic Youth and the Feelies played in front of a sold-out crowd of hundreds of thousands at the park's River to River Festival.
"I'm all about music on Fourth of July," said one concert attendee. "I kind of hate running around, fighting traffic and such. I was here summer for Fourth of July for this show, it's a great hang out for music here down in Battery Park."
"Sonic Youth outside, Fourth of July, it's a fantastic bit of Americana," said another.
"I heard it was free and I was just like, 'Wow, I'm really happy.' I've always wanted to see Sonic Youth," said a third. [NY1]
I don't think it was hundreds of thousands. It was a great show though. More pictures and the setlist below…
Sonic Youth, July 4, 2008
She is not Alone
Bull in the Heather
Silver Rocket
Skip Tracer
The Sprawl
World Looks Red
Cross the Breeze
Hey Joni
Jams Run Free
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NEW SEWICKLEY TWP. � The Freedom Area School District is considering an offer from a gas-drilling firm that could generate more than $100,000, according to Superintendent Jeffrey Fuller.
Penn Energy Resources, based in Pittsburgh, has made an offer of $3,000 per acre for the district�s 43-acre parcel encompassing the Big Knob Elementary School in New Sewickley Township.
Freedom Area would receive $129,000 for signing a contract and 17 percent of any royalties generated from the wells.
The district intends to close the school when a primary center is added to the middle school building.
At Thursday�s school board meeting, the board hired the law firm of Smith Butz, based in Cecil Township, to represent the district in negotiations.
Penn Energy has been acquiring leases in Beaver County, primarily in the New Sewickley area but also in Economy, for more than a year. State Department of Environmental Protection Administration online records show Penn Energy has not yet received a permit to drill in the county.
Penn Energy�s website said the firm, formed in 2011, has acquired 70,000 acres and expects to have 21 operating wells in western Pennsylvania by the end of 2014.


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The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.
Capt. Robert D. Lindenau, 39, of Camano Island, Wash., died Oct. 20 in Charbagh, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when a rocket-propelled grenade struck his vehicle. He was assigned to the 91st Civil Affairs Battalion, 95th Civil Affairs Brigade (Airborne), Fort Bragg, N.C.
For more information media may contact the U.S. Army Special Operations Command public affairs office at (910) 432-6005 or visit http://news.soc.mil .
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Army Casualty
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Monday, November 04, 2013
Next Generation Digital Signature Service
Doing a from scratch is always an interesting event. As it is, in a way, a confession that your previous attempt reached its limits. The eID DSS emerged from an idea I had in the spring of 2005, leading to the creation of e-contract.be. Although eID DSS resembles much of the original ideas, it was only during the summer of 2008 that I could start shaping it. The original eID DSS features some fairly unique properties.
Two phase signaturesThe most important one is that eID DSS supports what I call a proxy signature, or two phase signature. Here the server side calculates the digest value. Next the eID Applet signs the digest value. And finally the server side magically injects the signed digest value into the to-be-signed document. The big advantage of such an architecture is that you can keep the eID Applet very lightweight as all the signature format logic lives at the server side. This is especially important for large scale deployments as we witness these at government sites (federal e-procurement is using eID DSS). It also offers the ability to make the support for different document and signature formats pluggable.
DSS integration protocol
Another interesting feature is that eID DSS, compared to all the other signing boxes and tekendozen, offers a protocol to ease integration of qualified signatures into web flows. Similar to what authentication protocols offer between web applications and identity provider, the eID DSS offers a signature creation and verification protocol.
From eID DSS to DSS
The biggest problem with the architecture of eID DSS is that the two phase signature aspect, that is inherent by design of the eID Applet (and that you certainly want to keep), manifests itself throughout all layers of the eID DSS. Besides the fact that back then Java EE 5 was not powerful enough to express what I needed, I also was not able to find a clean solution to convert this two phase signature design back into the regular JCA way of doing Java crypto. Looking back now, these were two missing technological steps that had a tremendous impact on the way eID DSS shaped.
@-novation starts here
Today I can finally announce the availability of the next generation DSS technology. The end-user portal, basically a demonstrator for the capabilities of the DSS, is available at: https://www.e-contract.be/dss/
Completely written from scratch, the new DSS features a brand new DSS protocol. From a security point of view, this new protocol is just it. The old protocol, as implemented in the original eID DSS, could easily be integrated in an insecure way by the developer. For the new protocol, this is no longer possible given the design of the protocol. As we all know that protocols (and their implementation, especially authentication protocols) are very vulnerable to attacks, this new protocol is a huge step forward.
Furthermore the way signatures are handled inside the new DSS is just so much easier to maintain compared to the preSign/postSign horror. This will allow us to add other signature and document formats without having to think about the DSS architectural twists. As a matter of fact jsignatures, the new signature engine, completely lives outside the DSS code base as a separate project.
This first version acts as a demonstrator of the capabilities of this new technology stack. For the moment we only enabled PDF PAdES LTV signature support. Any feedback on the behaviour or performance of the new DSS is always welcome.
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What If I told you that you could get all-natural skincare products customized for you? I mean skincare products specifically formulated for your skin type and to address specific skin concerns? Well, you can, and Activist Skincare can help with that. I have been using products from this brand for about 3 months now and I am pleased so far. I love what the brand is doing and I love the products so I thought I'd share with you. If you follow me on Instagram, then you have seen me talk about this brand and products. This post, however, will go into detail a bit on some of the products.
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About the Brand
- Activist Skincare is a brand eco-skincare brand that formulates small batch of high-quality products.
- All their products are vegan, free of artificial fragrances and also free of other harmful chemicals.
- Their philosophy is "your skin is as unique as you are, and it deserves to be treated like an individual."
- They are an eco-friendly brand and that is obvious in (most of) their packaging. Even though all their packaging is recyclable, the cleansing oil is in a plastic bottle which, Otherwise, everything else comes in a glass container which I love.
- They donate 5% of each sale to Rainforest Fund which is an organization that protects habitats and saves endangered species.
The products
Activist skincare has some amazing all-natural skincare products, including:
- Custom Hyaluronic Acid Serum
- Botanical Cleansing oil
- Vitamin C super powder
- Custom Precious Oils Serum
- Signature Precious Oils Serum
- Signature Hyaluronic Acid Serum
- And more….
The Customization Process
The customization process if very simple. When you go on to order each product, You will get a prompt to "customize" your products. (This is only applicable to products that are customizable such as the custom hyaluronic acid). If you don't want a customized product, you can just go with the signature products. The signature products are ready to ship products that work just as well for all skin types without any specific need.
The customization form asks you questions such as your age, skin's moisture level, your pores and how congested they are. They also ask questions about your allergies and sensitivities as well as any inflammations and hyperpigmentation level. In the end, you pretty much let their aesthetician and formulators know what your skin concerns are in order to better include ingredients that tackle your skin concern. Your product will come with a card telling you what other ingredients are included in your formulations.
You're also able to make specific requests other than the questions asked on the formulation form. So consider it your own aesthetician visit.
My Custom Products & Reviews
So I will share the products I got for my own formulation and let you know my thoughts and how they work for me.
Custom Hyaluronic Acid Serum
This is one of my favorite serums yet. I have only tried hyaluronic acid once and didn't really like my experience so I was hesitant but excited about this one. However, this is currently one of my favorite product in my skincare shelf. You can read more about the benefits of hyaluronic acid in this post. This product absorbs into the skin and leaves it silky smooth and super hydrated. Sometimes I don't even follow up with a moisturizer and my skin fairs very well throughout the day. It contains peptides to help rebuild aging skin and antioxidants for protection against UV and environmental damage. I'm actually running out from using this almost every day and will be sure to repurchase. Buy the Custom Hyaluronic Acid Serum here.
Custom Precious Oils Serum
This serum is pretty much a face oil. Even though I have very oily skin, I do enjoy face oils. There are amazing face oils that work for oily skin. You can check out my face oil and serum collection. This particular serum is a lipid blend that contains essential fatty acids that sooth the skin, provide moisture and keep it balanced. I have found myself using this serum as my moisturizer. It truly does what it says. My skin isn't oilier than usual. It is not the lightest face oil I've tried so a little goes a long way or it'll leave you greasy. Buy the custom Precious Oils Serum here.
Botanical Cleansing Oil
I'm not big into double cleansing yet. However, having this cleaning oil on my shelf nudges me in that direction. I tend to use this oil mainly as a makeup remover on days when I wear makeup or as a simple cleanser on days when I need to cleanse my skin but not use a regular face cleanser. It has an Oil to milky consistency, the scent is super mild and it really does hydrate the skin. This cleanser is also a rebalancing cleanser that doesn't strip any of the skin's oils. It contains Hempseed oil which unclogs pores and is packed with gamma-linolenic acid. It also has Sea buckthorn oil, which has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties making it great for those with acneic skin. Lastly, it also has Tamanu Oil which has UVA and UVB rays protection. Buy the cleansing oil here.
Cleansing Balm
This is my favorite way to remove makeup. Typically, I use olive oil or coconut oil to take off my makeup. I find that this does more than just take off makeup, it really leaves the skin moisturized and does a better job taking off makeup. I love all the ingredients in this balm like the shea butter, avocado oil, and even macadamia nut oil. If you're more of a balm cleanser kinda person, you will love this one. Bu the Cleansing balm here.
Final Thoughts
I love the products and I appreciate what the brand stands for. I am impressed with what I've tried so far and look forward to trying more from this brand especially the Vitamin C super powder. The hyaluronic acid and the custom precious oils are my favorite products. Should you purchase, Yes! (If you need the items- Intentional living is what we're after here, remember?)
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Michele L. Alaniz, Eleanor Galit, Corina Isabel Necesito, Emily R. Rosario; Hand Strength, Handwriting, and Functional Skills in Children With Autism. Am J Occup Ther 2015;69(4):6904220030. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2015.016022
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OBJECTIVE. To establish hand strength development trends in children with autism and to investigate correlations between grip and pinch strength, components of handwriting, and functional activities in children with and without autism.
METHOD. Fifty-one children were divided into two groups: typically developing children and children on the autism spectrum. Each child completed testing for pinch and grip strength, handwriting legibility, pencil control, and independence in functional activities.
RESULTS. The children with autism followed the same strength development trends as the typically developing children. Grip strength correlated with pencil control in both groups and with handwriting legibility in the typically developing children but not in the children with autism. Grip and pinch strength correlated with independence with functional activities in both groups.
CONCLUSION. This study provides evidence that grip and pinch strength are important components in developing pencil control, handwriting legibility, and independence with functional fine motor tasks.
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Imagine a romantic country and what comes to mind? France of course. So think of romance and conjure up a kiss in France. Where in France is the next question. Your first thoughts will take you to Paris, known as the city of love. And then? Check out this list of places, some of which will be familiar to visitors, but others will, I hope, make you wonder…and persuade you to visit.
Start with Paris, a great place for lovers
Paris is the city of love, the place for romantic walks through the Bois de Boulogne or along the Seine, for candle-lit dinners in small bistros and strolls back to your hotel through cobbled streets. You'll find your own particular private place for that kiss, but here's a start.
The Eiffel Tower is one of the great icons of France and a must-see on a visit to Paris. But romantics should make for the Champagne Bar on the 2nd floor for a glass of bubbly. Or go right up to the top of the tower at night when there's a spectacular light show every hour lasting 5 minutes and you feel the whole world is looking at you.
There's an 'I love you' wall in Montmartre which attracts more than its fair share of lovers. It's a work of art by a couple of French artists, Frédéric Baron and Claire Kito with I love you written over 300 times in over 250 languages. It's in the Place des Abbesses in Montmartre and it's full of kissing couples.
Finally, you might want to visit (or you might choose to avoid) the Museum of Eroticism. It's a serious museum but you may find that the explicit content leaves very little to the imagination.
- Check out more in Paris for Lovers.
The Loire Valley has always been about love and passion
The Loire Valley is a must for lovers. The glorious châteaux stand on the river banks like jewels on a necklace. Take your pick of places to kiss at any of them; perhaps looking out over the view from the warm stone battlements, or in a chamber where the massive four-poster bed dominates, as much a symbol of power as a symbol of love.
Every one of them could be in this list of places to kiss and every one of them has a history that reads like a novel: love, lust, betrayal and sacrifice are buried in the stones of these magnificent buildings.
Chenonceau on the river Cher was the château Henri II gave to his mistress Diane de Poitiers; the château at Blois witnessed the murder of the infamous and all-powerful Duc de Guise by the King, an incident which you can see during the sound and light show in the summer.
Finally, the 'love gardens' at Villandry might be just the place. The château was built in 1532 and from the outset, its gardens were seen as just as important. Today they form a whole series of landscapes, including a kitchen garden and the gardens designed around box hedges that became known as love knots.
For the sweet smell of love, visit Monet's garden at Giverny
The garden of the Impressionist painter Claude Monet just outside Paris at Giverny is an intensely romantic place. Willow weep silently into the ponds; exotic scents from the over abundant flowers fill the air and everywhere there is colour, light and life.
You're not the first to discover this. Woody Allen used the garden in his film Midnight in Paris which is a wonderful homage to romantic Paris. So you have to kiss on the wooden bridge in exactly the spot used in the film.
St Valentin Village
If your village is called after St Valentine (and is the only one), then you're going to make the most of it. And that is exactly what the enterprising mayor of St Valentin in the Loire Valley did. In 1980 a Jardin des Amoureux (Lovers' Garden) was planted and the place never looked back. You can get married here, or just go and renew your vows. Kiss your loved one under one of the trees in the garden.
If you like solitude avoid St Valentine's Day itself and also August 9th which is St Amour's day.
Cap d'Agde for Naked Passion
If you're into stripping off, then Cap d'Agde on the Mediterranean is for you. This famous nudist resort is like a small town, with all the facilities you need from supermarkets to doctors. It's one of the oldest and one of the best organised. I'm not sure it is very romantic, but I have included it here and you can kiss your loved one anywhere.
The Romantic Ruins of Jumièges Abbey
All former abbeys are romantic, but I love this place most of all. I love the peace and I love the ruins that fill the green landscape. The former powerful and wealthy Benedicine abbey went through all the usual twists and turns of fortune, was rebuilt in the 11th century and consecrated in the presence of William of Normandy (the conqueror) and was finally defeated during the French Revolution.
It's a place to wander through, to exchange a kiss in the shadows of the once mighty walls and to reflect on life generally.
St Paul de Vence
The south of France has always attracted lovers, both real and fictional. They come for the sun, for the clear light that slowly fades as the sun sets, the history and the good life.
St Paul de Vence is one of the most romantic of the medieval fortified villages that perch on the hills beyond the coast. It has excellent hotels, such as Le Saint Paul and the famous Colombe d'Or with its walls covered in paintings by the great artists who came here, and small, affordable restaurants. It was the village where Simone Signoret and Yves Montand had a holiday home, tucked away from the world. It's also the village where Marc Chagall is buried.
And that kiss? Probably in the main square overlooking the Mediterranean.


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For some reasons I migrated my this blog and another japanese blog from WordPress to Movable Type today.
Permalinks of all entried have changes .So Google and other search engines may not HAPPY . .
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Count me in. Gotta get some cheesy jalapeño Pop Corners!!!
I will be attending.
He's only 21554 behind Len!
Add me to the list Len!
Loot grinder. I've had fun with it so far.
Discuss. :D
I like it so far. Anxious to get to the dark zone and see what that's all about.
Why you no add me? :D
Well, as of this post...
13k people playing SWBF with a 24h peak of 24k.
In comparison, BF4 has 25k playing, and a 24h peak of 43k.
I'd like to take this time to thank EA for...well, you get...
I think the game is better after the patch. Better balance, that is for sure. It's still not nearly as good as I had hoped.
Remember when they used to make motherboards without all the onboard crap?
Hmm, guess I'm getting old.
I would say about the same as the Win8 upgrade went. Still have some kookiness, but overall not bad.
(I'm not including the UI changes that Win8 introduced as part of my thoughts)
Not into the Fallout thing. Looking forward to Tuesday!
Recently got the Note 5. It's been a really nice phone, and I have had beef with Samsung phones in the past.
I would suggest going with the 980. I feel like nvidia is the better value right now.
I know there are some differing opinions on this depending on who you talk to, but that is my suggestion.
Madden 16 here.
What's that saying about doing something in one hand, and something in the other? Yeah, put that game in the one hand....you get the idea.
All Intel in this house J. Sorry. :(
I'll be there.
I'm more of an arcade racer. There are some of the Frogs that have wheels and such.
First. :)
Went with Diablo 3 again.
I recommend the NZXT Kraken. Great cooler. I have the X61.
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The Cutest irony in this world is that the Cutest of guys either do not believe that they are Cute or simply deny to agree to the fact that they are Cute despite knowing that they are damn Cute... And the Cutest thing is that they really are unaware of the fact that when they try to oppose saying "Shut up, i'm not 'Cute', OK!!", it makes them all the more Cute and this Cuteness is simply too Cute to resist the temptation of pulling their cheeks and saying it again "Awww!! Choooooooo Cute!!!"
Dedicated to all the Cute guys i know!
P.S. Guys, please don't get offended when girls say you are Cute. Girls simply love Cute things and Cute people. Its a wrong belief you have that the adjective 'Cute' is so-not-a-guy-thing.
P.P.S. Its okay even if you deny you're Cute, because it simply makes you all the more Cute and Adorable
[My true belief after knowing quite a few Cute guys... Wanted to post this since long ago but was waiting for Valentine's Day... Wish you a very very Happy Valentine's Day... I dedicate Valentine's Day to Cute guys]


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WASHINGTON — Negotiators at the nuclear talks in Switzerland emerged from marathon talks on Thursday with a surprisingly detailed outline of the agreement they now must work to finalize by the end of June.
But one problem is that there are two versions.
The only joint document issued publicly was a statement from Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's foreign minister, and Federica Mogherini, the European Union foreign policy chief, that was all of seven paragraphs.
The statement listed about a dozen "parameters" that are to guide the next three months of talks, including the commitment that Iran's Natanz installation will be the only location at which uranium is enriched during the life of the agreement.
But the United States and Iran have also made public more detailed accounts of their agreements in Lausanne, and those accounts underscore their expectations for what the final accord should say.
A careful review shows that there is considerable overlap between the two accounts, but also some noteworthy differences — which have raised the question of whether the two sides are entirely on the same page, especially on the question of how quickly sanctions are to be removed. The American and Iranian statements also do not clarify some critical issues, such as precisely what sort of research Iran will be allowed to undertake on advanced centrifuges during the first 10 years of the accord.
"This is just a work in progress, and those differences in fact sheets indicate the challenges ahead," said Olli Heinonen, the former deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Details of Agreement to Limit Iran's Nuclear Program
Iran and six world powers agreed on key parameters for an accord regarding Tehran's nuclear program, with the details to be negotiated by June 30.
Obama administration officials insist that there is no dispute on what was agreed behind closed doors. But to avoid time-consuming deliberations on what would be said publicly, the two sides decided during Wednesday's all-night discussions that each would issue its own statement.
American officials acknowledge that they did not inform the Iranians in advance of all the "parameters" the United States would make public in an effort to lock in progress made so far, as well as to strengthen the White House's case against any move by members of Congress to impose more sanctions against Iran.
"We talked to them and told them that we would have to say some things," said a senior administration official who could not be identified under the protocol for briefing reporters. "We didn't show them the paper. We didn't show them the whole list."
The official acknowledged that it was "understood that we had different narratives, but we wouldn't contradict each other."
No sooner were the negotiations over on Thursday, however, than Mr. Zarif posted to Twitter a message that dismissed the five-page set of American parameters as "spin."
In an appearance on Iranian state television Saturday, Mr. Zarif kept up that refrain, saying that Iran had formally complained to Secretary of State John Kerry that the measures listed in the American statement were "in contradiction" to what had actually been accepted in Lausanne.
Mr. Zarif, however, did not challenge any nuclear provisions in the American document. Instead, he complained that the paper had been drawn up under Israeli and congressional pressure, and he restated Iran's insistence on fast sanctions relief, including the need to "terminate," not just suspend, European Union sanctions.
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David Albright, the president of the Institute for Science and International Security and an expert who has closely monitored the nuclear talks, said that Mr. Zarif and President Hassan Rouhani of Iran may be engaged in their own spin to camouflage the significance of the concessions they made.
"Iran conceded a considerable amount in this deal, and Zarif and Rouhani may want to break the news back home slowly," Mr. Albright said.
Assuming that was the Iranians' motivation, Mr. Albright noted a potential downside to the tactics.
"When negotiations resume, Iran may believe it created additional room to backtrack on its commitments, assuming the U.S. is right about what was agreed in the room," he added.
A review of the dueling American and Iranian statements show that they differ in some important respects. The American statement says that Iran has agreed to shrink its stockpile of uranium to 300 kilograms, a commitment the Iranian statement does not mention.
The Iranian statement emphasizes that nuclear cooperation between Iran and the six world powers that negotiated the agreement will grow, including in the construction of nuclear power plants, research reactors and the use of isotopes for medical research. That potential cooperation is not mentioned in the American statement.
The American statement says that Iran will be barred from using its advanced centrifuges to produce uranium for at least 10 years. Before those 10 years are up, Iran will be able to conduct some "limited" research on the centrifuges. The Iranian version omits the word "limited."
In other cases, the two sides agree on some measures, but explain the implications very differently. In an important compromise, Iran will be allowed to convert its Fordo underground nuclear installation to a science and technology center.
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Whether Iran is racing toward nuclear weapon capabilities is one of the most contentious foreign-policy issues challenging the West.
In explaining this provision, the American statement notes that almost two-thirds of the centrifuges at Fordo will be removed and that none of those that remain will be used to enrich uranium for 15 years. The provision, Obama administration officials assert, carries no serious risk for the United States but will enable the Iranians to save face.
The Iranian statement stresses that the deal means that more than 1,000 of the centrifuges will be kept there, though it suggests only several hundred will be in operation to produce industrial or medical isotopes. As reported by Iranian journalists, Abbas Araqchi, the country's deputy foreign minister, said that the modifications made at the Fordo installation could be rapidly reversed if the United States did not hold up its end of the deal.
The starkest differences between the American and Iranians accounts concern the pace at which punishing economic sanctions against Iran are to be removed. The Iranian text says that when the agreement is implemented, the sanctions will "immediately" be canceled.
American officials have described sanctions relief as more of a step-by-step process tied to Iranian efforts to carry out the accord.
"We fully expected them to emphasize things that are helpful in terms of selling this at home," said a second Obama administration official, who was granted anonymity to discuss the deliberations. "We believe that everything in our document will not need to be renegotiated."
But with three months of hard bargaining ahead, some experts worry that the lack of an agreed-upon, detailed public framework can only complicate the negotiations — and may even invite the Iranians to try to relitigate the terms of the Lausanne deal.
"I think it is a troubling development," said Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, who has been critical of the Obama administration's handling of the talks. "They will exploit all ambiguities with creative interpretations."


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If Ta Phrom gives the impression of serpent-liked tree root, then visitors will walk out from the Bayon Temple with hundreds of large 'faces' in their mind.
There are 37 surviving towers. Each tower has 4 faces (so 216 gigantic sandstone face of Buddhist deity – Lokeshvara.
From a distance, the temple looking like a chaotic mess in terms of layout (unlike the well spaced Angkor Wat). This was because the contour of the rocks resembling Mt. Meru (center of the world in Buddhist's cosmology).
Looking from the map, this temple situated right in the central axis of Angkor Thom. All the 4 city gates passing through the Bayon temple. The temple has 3 tiers, and galleries full of carvings of the local lifestyle.
One could spend hours starring at the serene faces and slowly, they would smile back to you.
So the Bayon temple is #3 on my top 5 sites to be seen at Angkor Archaeological Park.


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Pre-Beta Learnings – Part 2
Our pre-beta interviews led us to believe that applying a consumer like peer review model to enterprise technology purchasing has real potential, but there are significant differences to consider:
Robust authentication is critical
A bad restaurant selection or hotel stay is rarely catastrophic. The stakes for enterprise technology decisions are much higher. Therefore, ensuring that a person writing a review is a legitimate technology buyer/user and not a vendor reviewing its own products is critical. This led us to build a two-step authentication framework using email and LinkedIn to validate a TrustRadius user's identity, and to block companies from reviewing their own products and those of their competition. Furthermore, all reviews are staged for review by our team before going live.
Candor requires identity management control
Several people we interviewed said that they were not candid in public forums like LinkedIn and listservs as they did not want their feedback about vendors to be personally attributable to them. Complete anonymity is not the right answer however, as people want to know whether they can trust a reviewer's perspective. Sharing a person's level, function, industry etc. can help establish trustworthiness, even when their name and company are not disclosed. Many interviewees expressed a desire to disclosed their real identity with a finite network of people they trust, so as to enhance their social capital with this group, but hide it from others. These findings led us to build an identity management framework where you can set your identity as private, semi-private or public. In private mode, your name and company are not shown, but your role level, industry, company size are displayed. In semi-private mode, you can select who can see your real identity, including people who work at the same company, and a subset of people within your LinkedIn network.
Reputation is key
Enabling reputation development is important to bolster confidence in a peer network. On eBay, the selling party is rated based upon the experiences of others buying from them. Similarly, we believe that a trust-based information sharing network should also allow people to establish reputation based upon their contributions and community feedback. In TrustRadius, your reputation grows as you post more content, and as community members give positive feedback.
Depth is more important than volume
For enterprise technology, we believe 5 informed reviews are more valuable than 1000 data points. Enterprise technology decisions have high stakes and are complex. Rarely are such decisions merely "yes/no" decisions. Buyers face multiple considerations, e.g. which edition to select, which modules should I buy today, should I opt for premium support, how should I deploy, how will I integrate, how many staff will I need, how do I drive adoption, what should I negotiate, what internal expectations do I need to set, etc. As such, we believe that the depth of insight trumps the number of reviews. There is value in statistically verifying a trait like usability or customer service, but more value is found in the qualitative comments of ones peers.
Structure is critical
Most consumer review sites give reviewers a "blank canvass" to write whatever they want. This leads to a great deal of variability in both the format and the quality of reviews. It leads to a user experience which requires trawling through multiple reviews to get to the right information. In a business context, we feel it is important to impose structure. We believe business users want to be able to quickly find the data they are looking for easily through key word search, and through familiarity with a standardized review format. We are using a structured online interview approach, guiding people through a series of questions – typically numeric and qualitative commentary pairs – to ensure consistent, high quality content and rapid information search.
Earned/paid access
Almost all consumer review sites are free. The one prominent exception is Angie's List. Crowd sourcing high quality business related insights is a non-trivial problem. Professionals are busy and need a strong motivation to contribute. The so-called 1/9/90 rule posits that on a social media network or review site, only one percent of users will actively create content; another nine percent, the editors, will participate by commenting, rating or sharing the content; the other ninety percent watch, look and read without responding. We believe that it is necessary and desirable to motivate higher levels of active participation. We believe that content access coupled with the ability to build one's reputation can be strong incentives for active participation. Access to a majority of content on our site will require earning or paying for access.
We are excited to launch our beta and look forward to sharing our progress with you over the next few months


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Jazz trumpeter Peter Welker has been a close friend of mine ever since we met as students at Berklee School of Music (1961-62). Later, he moved out to California. In 1993, after many hospital visits, his five-year-old son died of Leukemia. Pete dedicated his first jazz CD to his boy. I was one the musicians asked to play on the CD. Some years later, Peter recorded another CD. This one, he dedicated to three Souls who had passed on, very much loved and missed - his mother (a blind jazz singer and pianist), his son, and his drummer's teenage daughter. The first CD title that Pete was considering was The Very Thought Of You, a beautiful old standard tune that Billie Holiday sang. One day, Pete was playing tunes from a book on his music stand. He went downstairs for a while and when he came back to the room, he found that the wind had blown through an open window turning the pages in his songbook to We'll Be Together Again. This was a tune he loved that his mom used to play on the piano. Pete decided that this would be a better title for his CD, for it presented a brighter, more optimistic outlook than his original, more nostalgic choice.
Pete called me to see if I would come out to California and play on his new CD. I said yes. When he told me about the incident of the wind coming through his window, I got very inspired and threw out the idea for him to use We'll Be Together Again as the opener and closer for his CD, copying the way BS&T used the Erik Satie piece as bookends on their album. Pete got excited about my idea. Then I suggested that he and I play this title tune as a duo, two different ways –begin the CD with him on flugelhorn and me on piano, and then end the CD with me on alto and him on piano. Pete liked this idea too. Playing duo brought us "two-gether again", as did, me sharing back to back solos on one of the CD tracks with trumpeter and my former Berklee teacher, Herb Pomeroy. Peter had studied the trumpet with Herb in Boston as a teenager, and Peter's mom (who had also taught at Berklee) was a longtime friend of Herb. At the end of the closing track for the CD, I transformed a sustained low note that I was playing on my alto into a very soft overtone. It's a tone someone remembers me telling them that, "came out of heaven". Perhaps, it was a ripple or reminder of the wind (Breath of God) that rearranged Pete's music pages - stopping on a humble tune title to help change over his heart from melancholy to joy!


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The Who's Pete Townshend will be honoured for his charity work with a Stevie Ray Vaughan Award next month.
The guitarist will be presented the award by Bruce Springsteen at a special benefit concert in New York on May 28. Townshend will also perform live at the event, with Joan Jett, Billy Idol and Foreigner's Mick Jones also set to appear.
Townshend has been a drug addiction recovery activist since the 1980s, particularly supporting the MusiCares MAP Fund.
Meanwhile, Tho Who singer Roger Daltrey recently claimed that Townshend wants the group to record another album. The band released their last studio album 'Endless Wire' in 2006.
Daltrey told Rolling Stone: "He's just talking about it. I've heard a couple of tracks, which are great. There are loads of things we can do in the future, but we can't keep doing this sort of tour. This bit of our career is closed, but maybe two more doors open up. Pete is an incredibly vibrant musician. I could see us playing acoustically in some ways."
The band's current The Who Hits 50 jaunt, which stretches through the year and includes a show at London's Hyde Park on June 26, was thought to be the band's last ever tour. However, now Daltrey has stated that he would be open to more shows.
"If people want to add shows and we still feel great, then it will go for a while longer, but not that much longer. It might last two years," Daltrey said.
The frontman, though, would prefer the band to go out on a high. He added: "We have to be realistic. I want us to stop at the top of our game when we are still really good at what we do. The quality of the music is really what this is all about."
The Who brought their 50th anniversary tour to London's Royal Albert Hall last month as part of the Teenage Cancer Trust Concert gigs. The band performed a two-hour set of tracks and hits spanning their entire career in front of an audience which included artist Peter Blake, who famously created The Beatles' 'Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band' album cover, and former Charlton Athletic manager Alan Curbishley, whose brother Bill is the band's long-time manager.


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Updated: Aug 25, 2017
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Over the next few weeks, I am taking 2 main stage speakers at the T4G conference, and displaying what their sermons meant to me, and they said as it stood out to me. Today's article will be on Mark Dever and H. B. Charles, Jr.
I appreciate Mark Dever (Senior Pastor at Capitol Hill Baptist Church) and his 9Marks ministry. He is a solid expositional preacher. Which is why I was befuddled when he seemed to use 2 Peter 3:8-13 as a spring-board for speaking what he wanted to say rather than preach from the text. I will be honest, I have not gone back to listen to the recording of this, so I could be wrong, but I do not remember him pointing to the text once. That is not to say that his sermon isn't worth listening to or that he was wrong in anything he said. I appreciate all that he said and do not believe I would disagree with anything.
As he opened he said, "We become so much like the world, we provoke no questions and promote no answers." From the very get-go, one could already see how his message was lining up with the theme of the conference, Distinct from the World. Upon stating this, Pastor Dever gave 9 points (marks?) about being pastors distinct from the world that would provoke the questions and promote the answers. The sermon is definitely worth listening to for both new and seasoned pastors. I also saw that he walked his talk as he taught one of his points back on a November podcast (Pastors' Talk): Teach the church how to find right pastors. Here is a link to the podcast.
H. B. Charles, Jr.'s sermon was simply phenomenal. I had actually preached on the same text for my Easter/Resurrection Sunday sermon, and came away from his sermon saying, "Now that's how the text should be preached." Up until that day, I had heard of H. B. Charles, Jr., but had never heard him preach. It was such a sweet treat. One of the great and memorable phrases that he used was, "Reaching over to reach the world, the church is prone to fall in." So true. Another: "Christianized worldliness does not make the world Christian." Powerful! But probably my favorite, "Human wisdom cannot be overcome in our day without the unwavering confidence in the sufficient Word of God."
Bro. Charles reminded us that "The pastor is the herald and we do not have editorial control of the message." Thus we are to preach Christ crucified. We do not just preach, and not just preach Christ, but we preach Christ crucified. I know one of our church members declared that this was the best sermon he has ever heard. I will say that it definitely ranks up there toward the top.
How about you? Did you go to T4G? Did you listen online? What did you think about these two speakers? Next week we I'll be blogging about David Platt and Matt Chandler.


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YPN leadership is comprised of young professional volunteers and a Chamber liaison who meet regularly to plan events and develop content for our monthly enewsletters to spread the word about this organization and all this community has to offer. Meet our Advisory Council, the leadership of YPN, who are committed to investing in the future of young professionals in the area and making this a region that we hope you'll continue to call home for many years to come.
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Q. What is YPN South Bend?
A. The Young Professionals Network (YPN) South Bend is a personal and professional development program in the South Bend Region that encourages young professionals (YPs), ages 21-39, to take ownership in the community. As a program of the South Bend Regional Chamber, YPN is an outlet for the next generation of leaders to enhance their potential to reach their life goals and enrich this community.
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- Ron and Donna Kramer have observed the same Valentine's Day tradition for 39 years.
- Ron buys Donna her favorite chocolate from Buffet's Candy and puts them in the same box every year.
- Donna has dementia and lives in an assisted living facility, but the couple is deeply in love.
Ever since their first Valentine's Day together in 1979, Ron, 77, and Donna Kramer. 74, have celebrated the same way.
KOAT reports that Ron has bought Donna's favorite dark chocolate cremes from Buffet's Candy in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for 39 years, and always presents them to her in the same box. This year was no exception.
While the couple's Valentine's Day tradition is still going strong, Donna's declining health and dementia diagnosis in 2014 required her to begin living in an assisted living facility in 2015. Ron described the day she moved as "probably the saddest day of my life."
Her short-term memory is fading, but she still remembers the day they met. Ron, then an insurance salesman, knocked on her door, and she answered in a bathrobe and Big Bird slippers.
"I was really sexy!" she said.
Ron continues to visit her daily and plans on bringing her chocolate and remaining by her side for as long as he can.
"I made a commitment, and the commitment's gonna be for the rest of our lives," he told KOAT. "I've been with her. I'll never leave her."
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