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BC: You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ~Desmond Tutu
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1: Celebrating our 25th anniversary in 2011 at Fago de Chao in Austin. | Our family began when Jeff and Suzie married in1986.
2: We have welcomed two wonderful sons into our family-- Paul and Nathan!
3: They enjoy playing basketball together in the backyard on the court, but each have their own interests as well. Nathan participates in sports and Paul plays guitar.
4: My Mom! Mom is a special part of our family. We enjoy the times we get to spend with her--either at her house or ours.
5: The boys love being with their Mamaw.
6: Wrigley--our first dog. He is definitely a member of our family! We all love him. It is so much fun having him around to play with, snuggle next to, and love.
7: How Wrigley has changed! He is still Wrigley, but now he has a few nicknames: The Great Leaf Hunter Mr. Fluffypants Big Wrig
8: Birthday celebrations are fun and important in our family.
9: The honoree chooses where they want to eat dinner. Then we go home for birthday cake or cupcakes.
10: In 2011, our family went to celebrate Suzie's recognition as one of the top three teachers in the district.
11: A special night for our family!
12: Disneyworld--the best vacation for our family.
13: We met characters, ate at fabulous restaurants, rode all the rides, and had fun being together.
14: A special time in our family is Christmas. We enjoy exchanging gifts, spending time together, and celebrating the birth of Christ.
15: Making Christmas cookies to decorate on Christmas Eve.
17: Our family is about love. We spend time together each day, have fun, and show love to one another. We are blessed!


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Big Bang Theory scoops Critics' Choice TV Awards
Hit US sitcom The Big Bang Theory took home the most prizes from the Critics' Choice TV Awards in Los Angeles, scooping three awards.
The show was named best comedy series, while its stars Simon Helberg and Kaley Cuoco were named best supporting actor and actress respectively.
There was a tie for best drama, with Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad sharing the award.
Bryan Cranston was named best actor in a drama for the latter series.
It was the second consecutive year he took the honour for playing teacher turned drug dealer Walter White.
British actors Damian Lewis, Andrew Lincoln and Matthew Rhys were also nominated for their roles in Homeland, The Walking Dead and The Americans respectively.
Tatiana Maslany was named best actress in a drama for her work in new BBC America show Orphan Black.
Claire Danes, Julianna Margulies and Elisabeth Moss were also shortlisted for Homeland, The Good Wife and Mad Men respectively.
Moss was successful in the best actress in a movie or mini-series category, however, winning for upcoming BBC drama Top of the Lake.
Michael Douglas won the equivalent best actor prize for his portrayal of Liberace in Behind the Candelabra, beating his co-star Matt Damon.
Al Pacino also missed out for his role in HBO's Phil Spector, as did Brits Benedict Cumberbatch for Parade's End, Toby Jones for The Girl and Dominic West for The Hour.
Steven Soderbergh's Liberace film also collected the honour for best movie or mini-series.
Louis CK was named best actor in a comedy series for his show Louie for the second consecutive year, while Julia Louis-Dreyfus was named best comedy actress for Veep.
Jane Fonda, meanwhile, picked up an award for best guest performer in a drama for her turn in Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom.
Star Trek star Zachary Quinto and Sarah Paulson received best supporting actor awards for their parts in the mini-series American Horror Story: Asylum.
Archer was named best animated series, The Voice won best competition reality series, while Tom Bergeron took the award for best reality host for Dancing with the Stars.
House of Cards received two acting nominations at the awards - one for Kevin Spacey and another for co-star Corey Stoll.
Although neither won, the Netflix show's inclusion at an awards ceremony that previously only recognised network and cable television was significant.
The awards were handed out by the Broadcast Television Journalists Association. A full list of winners is on the Critics' Choice website.

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Throughout history the virtue of Honour has inspired legendary feats of courage and elegant literature. Yet I don't recall hearing the word even once in my first 5 years working with Melbourne business.
Honour is the driving force behind loyalty, respect and heroic effort. Doesn't that sound like the culture you'd want in your business? Without Honour we have no assurance of the productive business relationships we often take for granted.
Why is Honour so important to me? I know its power. My business and personal life sat in the gleaming reflection of Honour most of my 50 years. For many years I developed and led large hugely successful sales teams who were like volunteers. Their drive and extraordinary results came by force of virtues not employment contracts. I have also done brilliant mothering to my 4 children (now adults), but also know the flip side of pain and dissipation when Honour breaks down in a marriage. Most of my grief and loss in a 10-year period came from lack of honour and dishonour – much through passive or passive-aggressive behaviour – and it has been a slow, costly path creating new relationships between us.
One of life's principles is that you have to give before you receive. When a leader honours his or her people (including the ones with unglamorous roles) it is as if the people have all grown taller. Honour elevates the heart.
On a daily basis, giving Honour to your people looks like:
- Creating an environment of autonomy not compliance
- Providing opportunities where people can excel and advance in their key skills
- Treating roles as a vocation not a job
- Noticing individuals
- Treating every role as champions to the cause
In turn, receiving Honour from your team looks like:
- Loyalty, respect
- Resilience, hardiness
- Bravery, sacrifice
- Commitment, reliability
The 'Honour cycle' is like a 'super-fuel' that generates a whole new level of engagement and productivity. Honour breaks through personality barriers, and even better, its effect and payoff compounds over time.


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Song(s) of the Day : Moonville
Today's song is from a band I just stumbled upon a few weeks ago. The band is called Moonville. in 2006, they released their only (I believe) full length album "Silver Screen.: It is your basic melodic power metal album but it is done well....along the lines of Supreme Majesty.
My favorite song is called Strange Letters. Listen here.
The second song of the day is another by them....it is their 'most listened' song on Last.fm so ..... here ya go.
See you soon......


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Going solar can be contagious and these 10 cities prove it
It's a fact of human nature: we're influenced by what those around us are doing. That can lead us to make some not so great decisions, but it also can lead us to make some very good ones.
Solar power company SolarCity has found that there are pockets of major solar growth in the country that have been fueled by referrals and the positive influence of neighbors.
Last year saw more solar panels installed in the U.S. than any other year and 2016 is expected to see twice as many installations as 2015. There are many causes of that growth like lower prices and better solar policies, but SolarCity found trends of word-of-mouth referrals playing a powerful role, especially in certain areas. More than one in three of their customers are referred by a friend, family member or neighbor, but 10 cities stand out as having even more referral-based customers than average and you can see on the maps how these cities have blossomed into solar hotspots.The top three cities -- Fort Collins, CO, Kailua-Kona, HI, and Gloucester Township, NJ -- all roughly had a two-thirds referral rate. Below you can see the full ranking.
Seeing the spread of rooftop solar installations in these areas plotted on a map really drives the point home. Below is the greater Honolulu, HI area which is sixth on the list. The green dots are referred customers and the yellow are ordinary customers. You can see how the green dots are in dense clusters -- neighbors influencing neighbors.
Now, part of this contagion is likely owed to SolarCity's Solar Ambassador program where existing customers who refer a new customer get $200 when the new panels are installed and the new customer also gets a month of free solar electricity. There's incentive to both parties to work through the referral program, but a Yale Study in 2014 showed that solar adoption is indeed contagious. That study showed that if a person's neighbor installs solar panels, they are far more likely to become solar adopters themselves and that likelihood grows with the proximity of the neighbor.
This is a type of "keeping up with the Joneses" that could actually help the environment instead of harm it.


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See how KPMG's staff pass evolved from simple laminated cards to the RFID ones used today.
See how KPMG's staff pass evolved from simple laminated cards to the RFID ones used today.
See how KPMG's staff pass evolved from simple laminated cards to the RFID ones used today
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What does it mean to be KPMG Singapore? This year, 2016, is a great time to reflect on that question as the firm turns 75 years old on 16 Oct 2016.
Many people in the firm have their own collection of KPMG memorabilia. Some collect mugs, T-shirts or notebooks. For Forensic Senior Executive
She showed the KPMG 75th Anniversary Celebrations team her collection of four passes (including the latest), which spans the three decades that she has been with the firm. Her collection is almost complete, she lamented, except for the one that she failed to keep from her earliest years with the firm, between 1984 and 1987.
Her oldest pass was issued 16 Nov 1987, exactly a month after the firm's 46th birthday and not long after it was renamed KPMG Peat Marwick. It was a rudimentary printed paper card, laminated with clear plastic, much like the identity cards and library cards from that era.
It wasn't till 2000 that RFID (or
The next pass was issued in June 2011, the year that the KPMG Clubhouse was officially opened. The current staff pass format was issued in 2012 or
In fact,
Although you can tell how dated the cards are from the wear-and-tear and oxidation, a look at
To her, this is a firm where people would go out of the way to help one another, especially the partners. Indeed, she said KPMG was, and still is, like one big family. So much so that she merrily added: "Occasionally, I still call a partner by his old extension number (it's 500 by the way), and he in turn would call me
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Colette Fitzpatrick: 'Having a dad-bod is a trend, but we're a long way off from the mom-bod being lusted after'
Somewhere a man is looking at the scales and is unhappy with the number.
Somewhere else a man has turned sideways and is looking into a mirror at his paunch and wondering how that got there.
Someone else is comfort eating because he doesn't like the way he looks. Later he'll hate himself for gorging.
At least that's what we can deduce from a new study in the journal Body Image, which has found that men and women are equally self-conscious when it comes to their appearance.
This is not a case of 'well now they know how we feel' – some sort of reverse sexism in a society traditionally fixated with how women look. It actually makes me sad that there are now more people than ever, whatever their sex, who don't like what they see in the mirror. It's like equal opportunities for self-loathing.
The study was based on 12,176 online surveys gathered by NBCNews.com and Today.com. More than a quarter (28pc) of men said they were "very to extremely satisfied" with their overall appearance, compared to 26pc of women.
We didn't need a survey to tell us men are equally aware of body image nowadays. Have a look at your Instagram, the supermarket, the lad across the desk from you. It's ripped muscles and a hairless six pack, tanned and moisturised. They're shoving you out of the way to get to the mirror, to preen and pose and make sure the hipster beard doesn't go from bitchin' to itchin'.
There was a time in this country when you were grateful that you met a man who knew his way round a tap of running water. If he didn't have a full bath or shower, then at least he'd wash the hotspots, as it were. Or maybe used baby wipes or a facecloth for those areas that need extra attention.
But preening men have evolved from being 'metrosexuals' to be 'spornosexuals'. These are men who want to look like sportsmen or porn stars or a more extreme version of their metro forefathers.
He's done all the manscaping and looks tanned and moisturised, but the spornosexual is more obsessed with the actual physical proportions of his frame – the abs, the biceps and the definition of his calves. Think a Dolce & Gabbana fashion shoot.
Without sounding like I'm letting them off the hook, I can't bear tight V-neck t-shirt wearing self-obsessives who post pictures of themselves working out. Talk about looking for endorsement.
The 'dad bod' is a trend I'm much more comfortable with. It's the anti-biceps torso. Not a massive beer belly but rather a more comfortable torso than a honed one.
This man cycles a bit and plays a bit of five-a-side but he's not into the gym. He drinks at the weekend and likes pizza after a geansai load of pints with the lads.
It feels like we're a long way off the 'mammy' or 'mum bod' being lusted-after, though. Something tells me it won't be nearly as well-received. I'm OK with you not looking like Ryan Gosling.
I wish you were OK with me not looking like Jennifer Aniston.
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Scott Feldman said he felt terrible warming up in the bullpen before Saturday night's game against Texas.
Once he got on the mound, he felt a lot better -- and it showed.
The latest news from around North Texas.
Feldman pitched a three-hitter for his second major league shutout, leading the Houston Astros to a 2-0 victory over the Rangers.
"That goes to show you, that doesn't always add up to what you bring out to the game," Feldman said, referring to his bullpen session.
Feldman (8-10) struck out five and walked one in his fourth career complete game and second this month. He also had one Aug. 3 against Toronto, yielding one run and eight hits in that game.
"I think I've been feeling better and better as the season's gone on, kind of just hope to keep that going the rest of the year," Feldman said.
The three hits allowed matched a career best for Feldman, who also threw a three-hitter against San Diego on May 1, 2013. His other shutout was Sept. 6, 2013, against the Chicago White Sox.
"That is as good as I've seen him pitch," Houston manager Bo Porter said. "When you look at some of the swings that they were taking -- not only out of the zone but in the strike zone -- that lets you know just how much the ball was moving, sinking and cutting."
Held hitless for the first five innings by Robbie Ross Jr., the Astros scored twice in the seventh off reliever Phil Klein (0-2).
Carlos Corporan doubled to put runners at second and third, and Jake Marisnick had an RBI infield single. Corporan scored on Klein's throwing error to first.
Ross was pulled after five innings and 70 pitches. He was on a strict pitch count after throwing 42 in 2 1-3 innings Thursday for Triple-A Round Rock. The left-hander was recalled Saturday to make a spot start in place of Miles Mikolas, skipped due to shoulder fatigue.
"I felt good," Ross said. "I felt strong. They told me the pitch count got to me. I told them I would love to go back out there."
Ross struck out five and walked three. Jose Altuve got Houston's first hit, a one-out double in the sixth off Klein.
"He was outstanding," Texas manager Ron Washington said of Ross. "But it was about Robbie Ross, protecting him."
Feldman retired his first 13 batters before Ryan Rua's one-out single in the fifth.
Rougned Odor hit a leadoff single in the sixth, Adrian Beltre walked with one out in the seventh and Leonys Martin singled with one out in the ninth for the only other runners Feldman permitted. The right-hander did not allow anyone past second base.
Feldman has been solid of late, giving up three runs or fewer in six of his last seven starts.
Rangers: LHP Derek Holland (left knee) was activated from the 60-day disabled list and will make his first start of the season Tuesday in Kansas City.
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Have you noticed how expensive even a half way decent instant coffee is these days?
Tescos have currently got a Buy One Get One Free offer running on 200g jars of Douwe Egberts coffee, which would normally cost you £6.59 each.
There's nothing quite like a hot cup of coffee to start the day off on a good note and it's even better if you have an, at least, semi-decent mug of it.
My mum's been drinking Douwe Egberts Gold for y e a r s and it's amazing how quickly I can tell when something isn't coffee by DE.
The Douwe Egberts Gold is included in the Tesco Buy One Get One Free Douwe Egberts promotion; there's Douwe Egberts Pure Indulgence too, which I've never tried and looks like it should be darker and richer than its Gold sibling.
This BOGOF Douwe Egberts coffee promotion is running until at least 13 September online - it usually translates onto the real-live shelves in-store too, but I'm not in the country to be able to check that out for you (perhaps someone could let me know).
Happy coffee drinking in the morning!


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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Kim had a happy and carefree childhood growing up in Tampa, FL, but she had to grow up faster than most kids when her mother passed away in April 2003. When her father died only six months later, the 13-year-old's life was turned upside down.
Kim went to live with a family member but the relationship was strained. In 2005, she jumped at the chance to move to Atlanta with some cousins. Despite the hardships she had already endured, Kim managed to graduate from high school and go on to earn a Bachelor of Music Performance with a minor in Mathematics from Reinhardt University.
"During my time at Reinhardt, I began to really explore myself and who I wanted to be. Even though I really did not have obstacles stopping me, inside I felt like no one around me understood my life as a black woman. When I graduated, the real challenges of the world hit me. I had such a hard time finding full-time employment. That was the first time that I felt homeless – all my stuff in the car not knowing where I can go."
Kim eventually landed a job at a call center where she received excellent performance reviews. Then one day she was let go due to what Kim feels were sneaky machinations by co-workers who wanted her gone. "After that horrible situation, I was left with nothing. I became completely homeless. No car, no money, nowhere to live. Never in my life have I felt so worthless."
At first, she couch-surfed with any friend who could take her in but that never sat well with her strong sense of personal responsibility. Tired of being a burden to her friends, Kim went to a shelter where every little thing, such as whether a light switch is turned on or off, is decided by someone else. "I spent a week there and it felt like jail. It broke my heart to see how people have been in that shelter for months and years with no way out or nothing to look forward to."
At the shelter, Kim felt the system did more to maintain the status quo rather than help people improve their situation. "People are going up there and just waiting for something to happen. The way I grew up, you get up and you get a job and you get your own stuff. I knew this wasn't going to work."
Fortunately, a staff member at the shelter mentioned Lost-n-Found Youth and Kim was immediately placed into LNFY's program. Kim knew that it was a temporary solution but now that her immediate needs were taken care of, she could focus her efforts on getting a job that would support a more permanent living situation.
"The lesson for me here has been you can categorize people in certain situations as being a certain kind of person – a homeless person is lazy or doesn't want to work – and that's not necessarily true. Being homeless is the situation they are in not the person they are. If you're thinking of employing someone who has been homeless, you have to understand you're going to be dealing with someone who doesn't necessarily have transportation or a professional wardrobe so you'll need to be prepared to work around those things." – Rusty Willis
Independence With Dignity
Once again looking for a job, Kim grew disillusioned by the process. "In the first month I was in the program, I had such a hard time finding a job," she says. "I felt I was back in the same circle as before. One day, a man came to the youth center and said he was hiring for an assistant in his real estate office."
That man was Rusty Willis of Real Living Capital City. Rusty didn't go to Lost-n-Found Youth looking for an employee. He was there at his partner's invitation to browse the thrift store. Rusty was having his own employment issues having posted an office assistant position and not being satisfied with the quality of the applicants. He wanted someone who had drive and a sense of responsibly. Rusty was looking for aptitude and attitude but so far, he had not seen it.
While at the LNFY thrift store, he had an idea, "I went up to the guy at the register and asked, 'Do you have anyone who needs a job?' He told me to talk to Kim Massell. When I described the kind of person I was looking for, she knew exactly who I should talk to. I was getting the best possible candidate already pre-screened."
Rusty decided he was going to hire Kim when she walked in the door for her interview. She had called earlier worried that she would be late due to erratic MARTA train schedules that day but she still arrived very close to the scheduled time. Not one to give up easily, Kim had pieced together a route requiring three bus changes to get there. Rusty says, "She didn't know it but at that moment I thought, I'll give her a shot. We'll see what happens."
Rusty also helped Kim find an apartment close to work which he says opened his eyes to the discrimination faced by LGBTQ people of color. Kim recalls, "I did the application [for an apartment] and thirty minutes later he said that someone else had just put down a deposit on that apartment."
But they prevailed and on February 22, 2015, Kim spent her first night in her new home even though she didn't have any furniture yet. "The first night I slept on the floor and it was the best sleep…It felt like home and I had not had that feeling since I was living with my parents."
Kim's six months working at Real Living Capital City have been productive. With Rusty's encouragement and support she recently received her real estate license. "Having a license is a critical job function," Rusty says, "and now we can start expanding what she can do. It benefits her and it benefits us." Kim says, " I feel like I can push myself to do more. Before I was living day-by-day and now I can plan ahead and explore my options in real estate."
"If it was not for Lost-n-Found and Rusty, I don't know where I would be now," says Kim. "I believe God puts people in the right place at the right time. Even though I had to experience things no person should have to go through, I know that my past only makes me stronger. I pray every day that I will be able to help someone as much as I been helped by Lost-n-Found."


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Freeloaders always have such a sense of entitlement and are the biggest complainers..
Stop sponging off of people, it is parasitic!
Freeloaders always have such a sense of entitlement and are the biggest complainers..
Stop sponging off of people, it is parasitic!
I agree with everything you said apart from marry to familyOriginally Posted by abitbroken
Thats just not realistic. Thats tooooo much pressure and its really not realistic. No matter how well you have known your partner you still have issues here and there and imagine having to work things out same way with entire family just unrealistic. So marrying into a family is just absolutely unpractical
Hes Christian and Im hindu. thank you for not considering me a free loader because everyone here just has concluded me to be one.Originally Posted by Butterfly~Wrists
He knew I wasnt keen on the decision but he chose to make it because he just was too excited of the idea of having house eventually and I think he didnt wanna wait for us and also maybe he just didnt believe in us, for him having ownership was important I guess I was secondary choice. Thats what Im beginning to think. I know Im in wrong that I dont work but I have been having quiet hard time here since people at home arent that friendly it scares me going out out. There have been times I have cried thinking something is wrong with me.Originally Posted by Andrina
Patient about what? Picking up for your share of the rent instead of your share of the house payment now? People would have a much more valid point about waiting to go in with you if we weren't here six months later only for you to be dragging your feet to work even just part time and contribute the smallest of amounts, why? Because you wanna use the resentment you have for his brother to skirt your basic responsibilities as a grown adult? And on that note, I do find it interesting you're all about being "one" when it comes to sharing credit for your husband paying the entire mortgage payment, yet when it comes to you arguing the futility of working part time to chip in, "you" would only be left with 250£. I'm sorry, but intentionally or not, it sounds like he actually made the correct decision if building some equity was a goal of his, no matter how sloppy this situation may be.Originally Posted by rainy446
Pretty much everything you've presented smacks of your idea of riding his coattails simply not working out as expected. And what I find even more humorous is for all your griping, you can't even provide it a sliver of dignity qualifying any of it with how much you've struggled to find work and how much it sucks to not be able to chip in as a partner. Instead, the mother doesn't cook for you, doesn't like your guacamole, the brother smokes weed, and you're dreading the idea of contributing a whole 50 quid. You're complaining, not doing. Nobody is going to respect that.
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Handel is one of the giants of musical history – a great man in physical stature, spirit and vision. His is happy, confident, melodic music imbued with the grace of the Italian vocal school, an easy fluency in German contrapuntal writing and the English choral tradition inherited from Purcell.
Complete with the original Gramophone reviews of 50 of the finest Handel recordings available... Read more
An in-depth look at the composer, his life, and works
Not so long ago George Frideric Handel was best known to the general public for a few predictable things: Messiah, being 'German', his obesity, and for going blind. Thankfully that narrow perception has substantially altered over the last 30 years. Nowadays we appreciate that his career was often as dramatic in its ups, downs and incredible twists as the plot of one of his operas... Read more
The fascinating links between the two great composers
Composers of the past did not always know their predecessors' work as we do. Mozart's musical upbringing being utterly of its time, the music he heard in his formative years was principally that of his older contemporaries rather than of the previous generation. Travelling around Europe with his family as a boy during the 1760s and 1770s he encountered all the fashionable local styles, incorporating them into his own with an ease that has led one writer to characterise him as a 'musical blotting paper'... Read more
Paul McCreesh gives a conductor's perspective on Handel
One of the moments I think I became aware that Handel is a great dramatic composer was when Christopher Hogwood's recording of Messiah came out in 1980 while I was at university: suddenly there seemed a new lightness and energy in the music which was so much more exciting than the slightly heavy-handed way of performing Handel that we'd all been used to... Read more
Peter Sellars on the joy of staging Handel's works
Handel is, for me, the greatest dramatic composer who ever lived, but not only because of the brilliance, the dazzle, the entertainment, the pomp, the magnificence, the special effects. He goes beyond that; he plumbs the depths of his characters by taking them to their breaking-point and beyond. Only Shakespeare takes his characters that far... Read more
The story of Handel's era-defining move to London in 1712
Never short of confidence or savoir faire, the young Handel seems to have set out to become the supreme musical cosmopolitan. After a thorough grounding in the contrapuntal tradition of his native Saxony, he honed his command of form and fluid, long-arched melody during his glittering three-year sojourn in Italy... Read more
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Kitchen. Saturday , February 23rd , 2019 - 03:22:27 AM
Believe it or not, once upon a time, furniture was purely functional. Furniture designers did not make an effort to put any sort of artistic design into their furniture-the furniture was strictly utilitarian. Today, however, modern kitchen chairs are works of art! Some people assume that modern chairs and contemporary chairs need to be painted in certain ways and be made from specific materials. The truth is that as long as your chairs have artistic merit and can be multifunctional they can be considered contemporary chairs and modern chairs.
Most of us want what we think of as a 'modern' kitchen. But what, exactly is a modern kitchen? Can't the term 'modern' be used to describe every kitchen that employs electricity? Technically, aren't all kitchens considered a modern convenience? If so, how do you get modern ideas?
Neutral colors - not only do modern kitchens thrive on neutral tones, but you also won't find a lot of different colors. If you want to add splashes of color to contrast the neutral shades, it's fine as long as you don't go overboard. It's best to stick with just a few bright colors to balance out the space, not five or six different colors. Too many different shades can be overwhelming.
Are your kitchen chairs modern kitchen chairs? Do you know to tell the difference? Aren't you pretty sure that all kitchen chairs are technically considered modern? Is there a difference between modern chairs in your kitchen and contemporary kitchen chairs? If there is, should you choose one over the other? How do you make all of these decisions? When did choosing kitchen chairs become so complicated?
In addition to the reality that technology is on the rise, life has actually changed significantly and so have people and their requirements. Modern homes have actually also gone with lots of modifications to give you the ideal contemporary cooking area. The trend today has actually seen kitchens transform from just a store to cook food to a place of bonding with your loved ones. This modifies the means functions are performed in the kitchen area and calls for additional functions to suit the various needs which you might have. Right here are simply a few of the vital aspects of contemporary kitchen areas.
How advanced do you want your kitchen appliances to be? Some people love getting kitchen ideas from up to the minute technology websites and catalogs. If, to you, a modern kitchen uses highly technological appliances, look for refrigerators, ranges, etc with computers installed. A range that sits into the counter and uses a computer chip to raise the temperature of the 'burners' is a modern stove. A refrigerator with a computer chip that tells you to buy more cheese because someone ate the last piece earlier in the day would be ideal in your kitchen.
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"Hail, Pennsylvania!" is a song written by Edgar M. Dilley (Class of 1897) as a submission to a University of Pennsylvania alumni committee-sponsored contest to write a song to the tune of "God Save the Tsar!", the national anthem of Imperial Russia, by Alexei Fyodorovich Lvov. Edgar Dilley was awarded $25.[1]
Edgar M. Dilley was an assistant director with The University of Pennsylvania Glee Club. The piece was first performed by his group at its annual concert at the Academy of Music in 1895.[1] For many years, the song was performed at Franklin Field, when the football team suffered a loss. Today, the song is still performed at University functions and sporting events by The University of Pennsylvania Band and The University of Pennsylvania Glee Club.
Aside from becoming the Alma Mater of the University of Pennsylvania, the song also serves as the official song of Lackawanna County. Also, until 1990, the song served as the official song for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
- Hail! Pennsylvania!
- Noble and strong;
- To thee with loyal hearts,
- We raise our song.
- Swelling to Heaven loud,
- Our praises ring;
- Hail! Pennsylvania,!
- Of thee we sing!
- Majesty as a crown
- Rests on thy brow;
- Pride, Honor, Glory, Love,
- Before thee bow.
- Ne'er can thy spirit die,
- Thy walls decay;
- Hail! Pennsylvania,
- For thee we pray!
- Hail! Pennsylvania!
- Guide of our youth;
- Lead thou thy children on
- To light and truth;
- Thee, when death summons us,
- Others shall praise,
- Hail! Pennsylvania,
- Thro' endless days![2]
- ^ a b George Nitzsche - Pennsylvania in Song and Music: Origin of Some of the Classics - Franklin Field Illustrated Volume 25: Number 3 October 19th 1940
- ^ Songs of the University of Pennsylvania: Brought under one cover by William Otto Miller '04. Fourth edition revised by the Musical Club and published by the Houston Club of the University of Pennsylvania. The Press of the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: 1923.
- Cheney, Edward Potts. History of the University of Pennsylvania, 1740-1940. (1940.)
- George Nitzsche - Pennsylvania in Song and Music: Origin of Some of the Classics - Franklin Field Illustrated Volume 25: Number 3 October 19 1940
External links
- Hear the song, as performed by The University of Pennsylvania Band
- University of Pennsylvania Archives
- The Practical Pennsylvanian


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"No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord"— Romans 8:37-39 (NIV).
Standing on Seventh Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the man was holding up a sign. The "Tulsa World" photographer who snapped the photo of him said it was nothing new. It's quite common to see someone standing on the side of the road holding a sign. In this case, however, the man holding the large sign was not asking for anything. Not food. Not money. Not a job. Nothing.
It was the man's simple message that drew the photographer's attention and led him to interview the holder of the white cardboard placard. Written in bold, black lettering were three simple words: Love Never Fails.
When questioned about the sign, he freely admitted suffering from bipolar disorder. He told the reporter he holds the sign while repeatedly reciting The Lord's Prayer quietly to himself. "It's selfish," he said, "because it puts me in a state of serenity."
He added, "It's like a mantra."
"No matter what storms you face, you need to know that God loves you."
While some people stop and give him money, he told the journalist that isn't why he does it. He has a job at a fast-food restaurant and he's not homeless.
The photo and story, appearing in a December issue of the newspaper, has stayed with me. I clipped and saved it. If you saw the photo, you would see what I see on the man's face—a presence of peace blanketed over him in love.
The photo and this man's story reminded me of Zephaniah 3:17: "The Lord your God is in your midst—a warrior bringing victory. He will create calm with his love; he will rejoice over you with singing."
Franklin Graham, son of the famous evangelist Billy Graham, said, "No matter what storm you face, you need to know that God loves you. He has not abandoned you."
Romans 8:37-39 is another wonderful reminder of God's love for us. Reread it above to remind yourself of "how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is." (Ephesians 3:18)
Even in the deepest pits of Hell, survivors of the Holocaust as well as American POWs have recounted how God's love saw them through the darkest of days. In his book, "Things We Couldn't Say," Holocaust survivor Diet Eman wrote, "I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And He never failed me."
Even when we fail God—and we have and will—He still loves us. I never understood this unconditional love until I became a parent. Even though my sons have disappointed me at times, I've never stopped loving them. Our relationship with God is just like that. His love never fails.
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Carol Round is a self-syndicated columnist, Christian author and inspirational speaker. She penned an encouraging book on prayer journaling called "Journaling with Jesus: How to Draw Closer to God" and the companion workbook, "The 40-Day Challenge."
Prior to writing her books on prayer journaling, two collections of her weekly faith-based column, A MATTER OF FAITH, and FAITH MATTERS have been published. She has been writing her weekly faith-based column which runs in 14 Oklahoma newspapers and at http://www.assistnews.net/, since the fall of 2005. Carol's writing has also led to a speaking ministry as well as seven books.
Carol earned her undergraduate teaching degree in journalism from Oklahoma State University in 1975 and a master's degree in education with an emphasis in English in 1981 from Northeastern State University.
She is the mother of two grown sons, three adorable and talented grandchildren and the obedient owner of a spoiled rotten dog named Taco. When she isn't writing or speaking, she loves spending time with her grandchildren, shooting photos, volunteering at her church, getting her hands dirty in her flowerbeds and hiking.
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A combative Dan Onorato accused Republican front-runner Tom Corbett of political double-talk on taxes in Monday's final gubernatorial debate, while Corbett said electing the Democrat as Pennsylvania's chief executive would prevent the "tough decisions" necessary to rein in state spending.
"If you want four more years of Ed Rendell-like policies, then I would select my opponent," Corbett, the state attorney general, said at the last of three gubernatorial debates.
"He wishes he was running against Ed Rendell," retorted Onorato, who touted his seven-year record as the elected executive of Allegheny County as evidence of his ability to hold the line on taxes and reform government.
Rendell, a Democrat, is stepping down in January, after completing the maximum two terms as governor.
Onorato chided Corbett for modifying his no-new-taxes pledge in the previous debate, held Saturday night in Pittsburgh, to rule out increases in fees or other levies, including a prospective increase in employees' contributions to the state unemployment fund to help pay down a $3 billion debt to the federal government.
Corbett had initially raised the possible employees' increase -- while opposing a corresponding increase in employers' share -- in the first debate, which was staged at a Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce dinner in late September.
"You can't change your answer depending on what audience you're talking to," Onorato told his opponent. Corbett said he had taken time to consider about the issue and had changed his mind.
The candidates also clashed over a proposed tax on the state's burgeoning natural gas industry.
Onorato said Pennsylvania should follow the lead of other gas-producing states and tax the gas being extracted from the rich Marcellus Shale reserve to finance environmental protection.
"This is no time to take an extreme position like Tom's taking and make Pennsylvania the only state that doesn't have a severance tax," he said.
Corbett said a tax would "chase away" a young industry that is expected to create thousands of sorely needed jobs in the Keystone State.
"We are the Saudi Arabia of natural gas if we develop it and develop it now," he said.
Onorato said Corbett's refusal to impose a tax stems from loyalty to an industry that has contributed more than $350,000 to his campaign since the beginning of the year.
"You're jeopardizing the taxpayers, and you're jeopardizing the environment," Onorato said.
Corbett said he is as concerned as anyone about the environment.
"I will never put the profit of any company ahead of protecting the environment," Corbett said.
The candidates also expressed conflicting views about gay rights and school choice, but broke no new ground barely two weeks before the Nov. 2 election, during the hour-long debate. It was co-hosted by the Pennsylvania League of Women Voters.
Onorato said he would support an amendment to the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation, while Corbett said stricter enforcement of existing laws would be more effective.
"I don't know that an amendment... will make enforcement any better," Corbett said.
Corbett said he wants to allow students in failing schools to transfer to private or religious schools using vouchers financed by tax money now earmarked for public schools. Onorato said he supports a "limited grant program" that would allow low-income students to escape failing schools but would not make any shift in public school funding.
Corbett, who has directed a high-profile, ongoing investigation into corruption in the Legislature, has maintained a lead since the May primary. A Muhlenberg College poll earlier this month showed Onorato trailing by 11 percentage points.
Corbett also holds an advantage in fundraising. As of Sept. 13, his campaign had $7.7 million on hand, more than double Onorato's total.


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Join us and help save New Zealand's Heritage Food Plants
Over the past 30 years Koanga Institute has been instrumental in collecting and saving over 700 heritage vegetable seed lines and over 300 Northern heritage fruit tree lines and we could not have done it without our members!
Our nationally important collections are built on the foundation of hundreds of generations of growers who have nurtured biodiversity and cultural heritage. We not only collected the plant material and the seeds, but also the stories and whakapapa of our food plants and the old people who carried them to today. Growing out these food plants makes them available to both our members and the general public. The beautiful diversity that we see in our heritage collection – in the flavours, shapes and colours, is a glimpse of the past varieties of all the vegetables.
Heirloom collections
Keeping the whole collection of these incredibly important New Zealand heirlooms alive and available for the people of New Zealand is a complicated and expensive process and we receive no government funding. We are one of the only organisations in New Zealand who grow out our seeds locally (mostly in the sunny Hawke's Bay), so they are adapted to NZ soils and climates. These seeds are then selected for the qualities home gardeners are looking for, like a long cropping season, great taste, nutrient density and many other qualities that commercial seeds are not selected for. In order to be able to maintain a garden crew capable of continuing to save this collection of organic, heritage seeds and trees so you can enjoy them now and in the future we need to significantly increase our membership base and are aiming for 5000 members.
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As a charitable trust our mission is to maintain our collection for the benefit of all New Zealanders. We believe that there is strength in diversity and recognise that for Koanga Institute to be strong we need people from all walks of life to feel a connection with our kaupapa and with the collections that we hold. In line with this spirit of inclusiveness and as part of our drive to increase membership we have introduced an assisted membership so that people who are financially secure can buy an extra membership that will be gifted to someone who cannot afford a membership at this time.
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Our starting point is around 900 members which is just under 1/5th of what we require. Our ability to continue to save the seeds depends upon us maintaining a garden crew and that rests on our membership numbers. At 5000 members we can maintain a garden crew of four, the three isolation gardens, plus the heritage fruit tree collection.
If you agree with us that saving New Zealand's heritage food plants is an essential part of building a better, regenerative future and if you value the wealth of experience and knowledge that Koanga holds and makes available through it's website, publications and courses then the best way that you can support us is by becoming a member, by encouraging other people to join, and, if you can afford it, by supporting someone less financially secure to join. Please feel free to print out this Membership Brochure to distribute and encourage others to join.
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These revisions are part of KBF's continuous improvement process. They reflect input from our Members, Partners, and Advisors. They go into effect January 14, 2017. These will be the rules for Bienville Bassin' and following competition, including the KBF National Championship.
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WARSAW — Arguably, three men helped make modern Poland: Karol Wojtyla, the Polish pope whose visits home became rallying points for millions; Lech Walesa, the Gdansk shipyard electrician who fought communism and went on to become the leader of his homeland; and Andrzej Wajda, the veteran filmmaker who has etched his country's history on the silver screen.
For one choking moment in Mr. Wajda's new movie about Mr. Walesa, the collective presence of all three is felt. In a scene showing Wojtyla's 1979 return to Poland, his first since becoming Pope John Paul II in 1978, Mr. Wajda splices in archival footage of the pope intoning to an open-air mass his famous prayer that "the Spirit descend" on Poland while Mr. Walesa's wife, Danuta, is shown dropping to her knees as she watches the blessing live on television.
In this proud nation, where history is not past but present, this scene in Mr. Wajda's "Walesa: Man of Hope" illustrates the ambition of the film. The movie is a monument to Mr. Walesa's pluck and to his nation's courage, and it also seals Mr. Wajda's own place in Poland's history.
"Walesa: Man of Hope" recalls the unity against communism and the path-breaking nature of the Poles' struggle, and it rounds out Mr. Wajda's trilogy ("Man of Marble" and "Man of Iron" were made in 1977 and 1981, respectively) on the Polish worker's journey from Stalinism to freedom.
The filmmaker, now 87, was too ill to attend the official premiere in late September (or to be interviewed for this article). But his film, which opened in Poland on Oct. 4 and, although shown at festivals including Venice, Toronto, Rio de Janeiro and London this autumn, is not yet in worldwide release, drew the second-biggest box office this year on opening weekend in Poland. The film has affirmed the director's stature and ability over decades to give voice and life to Poland's tortured history.
Besides the trilogy on the Polish workers, his 2007 film, "Katyn," depicted the Soviet massacre of the cream of Poland's military in 1940. Mr. Wajda, who won an honorary Oscar for his life's work in 2000, lost his own father to that killing.
For the many who remember the days of dread and wonder during the courageous struggle of Poles against communism, there was fear that Mr. Wajda would show too many of the warts and not enough of the bravery and sheer stubbornness that propelled Mr. Walesa, a worker with limited formal education, from a Gdansk shipyard to the Nobel Peace Prize and Poland's presidency.
Mr. Walesa founded the independent trade union Solidarity in August 1980, then guided millions through upheaval, martial law and finally ground-breaking negotiations with the Communists and a sweep of free elections in June 1989.
By focusing on events between December 1970, when workers in Gdansk and security forces clashed violently, and Mr. Walesa's triumphant address to the U.S. Congress in November 1989, Mr. Wajda has tried to skirt the controversy that has often surrounded the former leader in the decades since. He lost many former supporters with his erratic behavior and conservative views during his 1990-95 presidency and beyond. Political foes, meanwhile, stirred a scandal by alleging that he had once signed on to collaborate with the secret police — a scene that Mr. Wajda suggests happened in 1970 when Mr. Walesa, in police custody and anxious to get out to see his newborn first child, barely understood what he was signing.
"Even for people who are not big fans of Lech Walesa," said Andrzej Friszke, a historian who served as a consultant for the movie, "it is impossible to question the authenticity" of his battle against communism.
The film, the first in Poland to focus on the Solidarity hero, "is a huge gift for Lech Walesa," said Andrzej Celinski, a Walesa critic and former spokesman for him. And Borys Lankosz, a Polish filmmaker who, now 40, was a child during the battle against communism, added, "It's a brave title, and reminds us of the moment when we were all together."
Mr. Celinski, like many others in their 50s and 60s today, recalled that in those days "people felt as if it was all 'us' and no 'them."'
Like other former East bloc nations, Poland after 1989 made huge strides, joining the Western clubs of NATO and the European Union. But they have all since felt the decaying of the European vision and become mired in petty politics or keenly felt divides. As a result, Mr. Celinski said, the achievements of Poland's struggle became tarnished.
"The gateway to paradise was supposed to be Solidarity," he said. "But since there is no paradise, people don't think highly of Solidarity any more."
Robert Wieckiewicz, a leading actor with piercing blue eyes and more than a trace of Sean Penn, shouldered the tough role of Mr. Walesa. In an interview, he joked that he was "playing a legend, directed by a legend," in a country with "38 million experts on Walesa." During six months of shooting and endless script and editing changes, he said, he came to understand the importance of looking back.
He was only 14 in 1980, growing up in southern Poland, far from the strike in the Baltic port of Gdansk. On a school trip the following year to Gdansk, he said "you could feel in the air that something incredibly important was going on."
In Polish history, he added, "there are very few moments that one can really be proud of." Besides emphasizing for Poles what Mr. Walesa did, the actor said, Mr. Wajda "wanted to remind the world that this huge revolution" — the toppling of communism throughout the Soviet bloc — "started in Poland, that Poland was first, before the fall of the Berlin Wall."
One of the more unexpected elements of the movie is the role played by Mrs. Walesa, the mother of Mr. Walesa's eight children. As the movie was being made, she emerged from her husband's shadow with a memoir that exposed rifts in their relationship and has become the basis for a hit one-woman play.
Agnieszka Grochowska, who plays Danuta in the movie, told the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza that Mrs. Walesa symbolizes women of her era, "standing in queues and washing clothes by hand." But she also lived a crazy mosaic of suffering and success that turned her "from worker's wife to first lady," meeting Pope John Paul II and Queen Elizabeth II and having Joan Baez sing in her living room.
In one memorable scene in the film, Danuta Walesa is strip-searched at the Warsaw airport upon returning from Oslo, where she had collected the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize for her imprisoned husband. Asked to remove even her underpants, Mrs. Walesa complies, putting them atop the Nobel medal.
Elzbieta Giedrojc, a 51-year-old singer, was among the Poles who saw the movie on its opening night in Poland. The airport scene, she said, was unforgettable because Mrs. Walesa was returning from Norway, a country that had dignity and everything to which Poles aspired, to her homeland, where those values then meant nothing.
Like many others, she expressed hope that young Poles who did not live through communism would see the movie. "They should be aware," she added, "that Poland was the country where the revolution started."
Katarzyna Niekurzak, 26, was among the rare younger viewers emerging from a Warsaw showing a few nights later. She said she was surprised by how little she knew about the strikes. Screenings of the film in schools, she suggested, could help underline for a younger generation "that sometimes it takes one person to make the biggest difference in the world."Her companion, Grzegorz Kujawski, 30, said he had wanted to see the movie to understand how his parents had lived in the 1980s. "And now I keep thinking about how much we have achieved in Poland in the last 30 years," he said. "It's strange, but somehow nowadays we forget to be proud of our collective achievements. It seems that now it's all about cultivating one's private little garden."


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I would say that the first year was the worst with a lot of confusion, shock, anguish and tears.
We were told that Miguel has microcephaly when he was two months old. A doctor in the emergency noticed his small head and referred us to a pediatrician who confirmed that he really has microcephaly. I was sad, shocked and angry at the same time.
I was shocked because I had an uneventful pregnancy with Miguel. I went to my regular ultrasound appointments and nobody saw anything remarkable. I remember asking my OB during my last visit with her before my delivery if she found anything out of the ordinary with my baby. She assured me that there was nothing to worry about. So, I was shocked when right after my delivery, Miguel was rushed to NICU because, apparently, he had a stridor and he was born with low weight.
That first year, Miguel had a lot of tests to determine any genetic syndrome or disease that will explain his microcephaly and low muscle tone. He was even included in the BC Children's Hospital's CAUSES project to use clinical genome-wide sequencing in identifying a genetic disorder associated with his symptoms.
But up until now, they haven't found anything as a final diagnosis.
This year, Miguel has been in and out of the hospital because of his frequent seizures. We were told he has status epilepticus and that he would be in anti-seizure meds for the rest of his life. So far, his seizures have been in control with his new medication.
Having Miguel has taught our whole family a lot of things and for this, we are grateful.


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I have to say that Feyerabend has a point, when it comes to saying that science has inherent biases, and
that the only way to have an epistemological viewpoint that is free from prejudice, is by having a perspective that is flexible and changeable. But, Berstein (1983) quotes Gadamer by saying there is no knowledge without prejudice, anyway...
I think that Feyerabend's Dadaistic (anything goes approach), and anarchist view of scientific method is a little extreme, especially when it comes to replacing let's say astronomy (a hard science, backed by empirical experience) with astrology (a more touchy feely, yet rational paradigm). The article I was reading, proposed a kind of openness to accepting new ideas, that science should take advantage of other theories and paradigms; such as medicine accepting the help of herbalists and other alternative medicine.
Feyerabend just has far too liberal an interpretation of truth, that he accepts just about any idea (Magic and mysticism). Scientific method may be inconclusive, but it has given us various understandings that are open to verification and falsifiability, but even more importantly they can be practically applied, with reasonable success. Shouldn't we be looking for all those successful applications of theories, and reject those ideas that don't help better our understanding of society. We don't have to hold onto one paradigm, at the expense of beneficial aspects of another (Tibbetts, 1977)
I think that Feyerabend has made it possible to have a more critical view of the nature of scientific method, and probably enabled us to be more open to all potential sources of information...so that we can have a better quality of life, Holistically...
Steven Mondy
Tibbetts, P. (1977) Feyerabend's Against Method: The case for Methodological Pluralism, Sage publications, retrieved Nov, 27, 2007 at http://pos.sagepub.com
A teacher is a critically reflective individual who facilitates engaging activities that focus on learning more than content. Someone who tests and re-evaluates their own assumptions and is also a resource provider and pretty much jack of all trades... (Brookfield, 1995)
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Trying to deal with small town life and feeling that she has no real purpose, Raylee Johnson finds a new source of confidence when her former high school crush returns to town. When she begins to feel better about the direction her life is going, Raylee is thrust into a maze of doubt, uncertainty, murder, and deceit where the only thing she does know for sure is that her life is engulfed in lies.
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Intent by Krista Wagner is a great read. The element of surprise and intrigue are utilized throughout this entire book. As the protagonist, Raylee Johnson, pushes through a seemingly monotonous dead end job and begins to reach the conclusion that her life is without meaning, she is catapulted into a maze of events that leave her reeling. The courage and strength that Raylee finds during this tumultuous and precarious period of her life unfold with dramatic flare.
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Wagner's ability to infuse the reader with hope and encouragement through a relationship with Christ is worked into the story in a clear manner without being intrusively overboard. There is not a "preachy" feel to this read, as the author takes advantage of her talent for subtlety and cohesively delivers sound Christian doctrine through some of the lives of the minor characters. This book is sure to help the reader effortlessly transfer some healthy prospective into their life.
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BRANDON Comley has joined Colchester United on loan until 14th January.
The midfielder, who has come through the youth system at Loftus Road, has been granted permission to play in the FA Cup, but is not permitted to feature in the competition against QPR.
Comley has enjoyed previous loan spells at Carlisle United and Grimsby Town.
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Ingram: 'The Retaliator' On A Roll In Las Vegas
By Jonathan Ingram | Senior Writer
From the Monday Morning Crew Chief™:
Imagine a world where the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship this coming fall has Carl Edwards squaring off against Jimmie Johnson for the title – and winning. During this time span, Danica Patrick launches her Sprint Cup career in preparation for running for the rookie of the year in 2012.
Inspired by his success as Patrick's team owner, Dale Earnhardt Jr. wins a race during this same Chase. Trevor Bayne replaces David Regan as the driver of the UPS Ford at Roush Fenway Racing to prepare for his return to the Daytona 500. Juan Pablo Montoya wins an oval race at last. This all happens while the National Football League is on strike.
Too far out? Perhaps. But according to current events, this is a plausible scenario.
If something along these lines comes to pass, it will complete a comeback by NASCAR from the doldrums. You have to fall on your collective bottom to have a comeback and the sanctioning body put itself in that position during the early years of leadership by CEO and Chairman Brian France. At a time when the sky looked Cerulean blue (and greenback green) as far as the eye could see in the first five years of his tenure, France ruled more by hubris and impatience than the common sense more prevalent in the eras of "Big Bill" France and Bill France Jr.
Then the Great Recession arrived like a long, sinister black stretch limo that went on and on.
In the last year, France and his staff have managed to put the risk, the passion and the competition
back into the Sprint Cup formula. That brings us to exhibit A: "The Retaliator."
"The King," Richard Petty, became the smiling, humble good ol' star. Dale Earnhardt was a moody champion who regularly visited the dark side as "The Intimidator." Jimmie Johnson is the immensely talented boy next door, hence no cool nickname. Carl Edwards, too, is like the boy next door except he tends to do crazy stunts and has a dark streak that emerges when he feels his honor has been crossed.
If Kyle Busch is fond of putting himself at risk (and indirectly those around him) through some extraordinary maneuvers, Edwards has stamped himself as a guy who will choose to put others at risk if he is in the mood for revenge.
During this week's cavity in the schedule (rhymes with travesty), there's plenty of time to remember Edwards putting Brad Keselowski into the fence and almost into the grandstands at the Atlanta Motor Speedway a year ago. Edwards wrecked Keselowski again at Gateway along with the entire front of the field in another act of retaliation in the Nationwide Series last summer.
This year, after he started Edwards' crash at Phoenix, for another example, Busch made haste to apologize prior to Las Vegas to be sure to stay on the right side of "The Retaliator."(There was no problem with Keselowsi in the last stages at Las Vegas, it also bears noting.)
"The Retaliator" is a direct result of NASCAR's bootleg turn when it comes to allowing the drivers to now police themselves according to the policy of "Have at it."
NASCAR is hardly the first sports organization to shoot itself in the foot and then figure out how
to walk again after a spell on crutches. There was a time when NBA players were attacking fans in the stands. While that's less dangerous than cars flying into grandstands, it took the once golden basketball tour into a brief depression. Rules of conduct on and off the court were changed and the focus once again returned to the game; so did ratings and attendance.
Major League baseball struck out with the strike of 1994-95, then the players union and owners compounded the error by looking the other way on the steroid issue when home run tallies rejuvenated much needed interest in the National Pastime. Now the sport is forever sullied by its drug scandal that will come into play every year a vote is taken for the revered Hall of Fame.
The NFL is on the verge of going down the same path as Major League Baseball in 1994 as both sides continue to play public relations instead of seriously negotiating. Talks continue as this is written after a desperate 24-hour reprieve became a seven-day extension. Whatever the outcome of those talks, it remains to be seen how the NFL will respond to the unsavory news the sport is gradually crippling and killing its participants with head injuries.
As Talladega and more tandem drafting approaches next month, NASCAR will continue to grapple with its biggest issue of the "Have at it" era: a car in the grandstands instead of Edwards dashing into the crowd during impromptu, heartwarming victory celebrations. If it comes to pass that Edwards does win the championship, his mode of racing may well become the standard just as Johnson's mode of "beat 'em with your best stuff and keep it clean" has prevailed previously.
Are the recently extended fences high enough? Is the Car of Tomorrow safe enough?
As the winner of three races in the last five events, for now Edwards enjoys the reputation of the man from Missouri with a white-picket-fence smile who brings a lot of fun and excitement to racing with his back flips and grandstand dashes, a sort of NASCAR idol who enjoys doing things like jumping off the Statosphere in Vegas or flying with the Thunderbirds.
But like Jimmie Stewart in many a cowboy movie, just don't double cross Edwards by taking him for granted on the track. It's enough to carry any plot a long way – except that motor racing is not the stuff of fiction.
Quote of the Week: "I feel like I have a better understanding of how the sport works. I am more prepared to use these fast race cars and do a better job to try to win this championship. That is something Jack (Roush) and I have talked a lot about over the years. There is definitely a process to becoming the best you can be at this level because all the guys are so savvy. I feel I am in a better position to get all the points we can and all the wins we can this year." – Carl Edwards after his victory in Las Vegas.
See ya! …At the races.
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Roasted Shrimp
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If your guests love both sweet and savory flavors, then treat them to this appetizer made of dates, bacon and bleu cheese. Pre-heat your oven to 400 degrees. Next, soak toothpicks in a bowl of water. Open your package of pitted dates and make a slice lengthwise into each one. Fill the slice with bleu cheese. Next, wrap a half-piece of raw bacon around the date. Secure the bacon with a toothpick, and place on a baking tray. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes until the bacon is cooked through. Allow to cool for five minutes and serve. This is a great appetizer to place in the oven the moment guests arrive. After enjoying a cocktail, the hors d'oeuvres will be ready to serve.
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Dan Henderson's Camp Confident Heading into Fight vs. Jon Jones
Even though he's just beaten his arch-rival and the man considered to be his stiffest opposition at light heavyweight, young champion Jonny "Bones" Jones' job is far from done.
Adding to the murderer's row of opponents Jones has faced since taking the belt from Mauricio "Shogun" Rua is the man he's next slated to take on in defense of his title: Dan Henderson. A veteran who's honed his skills in both Pride and the UFC, Henderson is as tough a test as Jones is likely to get in his championship career.
The 41-year-old's boxing coach, Gustavo Pugliesi, recently spoke to Tatame about his pupil's upcoming title shot against the dynamically efficient Jones, warning Hendo will be looking to combat Jones' formidable reach and skill with his devastating right hand (at least I think that's what he's getting at, Tatame's translations are… not always clear).
"I don't hope for anything less than a knockout, but it's not easy on Hendo. He's putting his hands on him, buddy," said Pugliesi. "If he didn't have this advantage things would be much simpler, even because he has many flaws on his defensive system. But there's no unbeatable reach you can't win with patience and calm."
What do you guys think? Is the H-Bomb any answer for Jones' pterodactyl wingspan, or will Bones run away with another title defense? Let us know what you think in the comments section.
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