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NEW WESTMINSTER — Curtis Nelson kept insisting that he had a vision to turn the Douglas College Royals women's basketball team around.
Yet coming off his maiden 2011-12 season as the head coach of the PacWest's squad New Westminster-based squad, one whose 3-13 record came hot on the heels of back-to-back 2-16 campaigns under the previous regime, you kind of wondered if the rebuilding was going to continue in perpetuity.
Yet come Thursday, when the PacWest opens its men's and women's provincial tournament at Victoria Camosun College, the Royals will be looking to build on the momentum of a 14-7 regular season campaign, which not only has them ranked 14th in the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association's national rankings but produced both the conference's Coach of the Year (Nelson) and its Player of the Year (Amonda Francis).
Both Francis, a 6-foot-1 forward from Coquitlam's Gleneagle Secondary who had tried to find her fit at a pair of other universities, and ex-Chilliwack Secondary guard Patti Olsen, herself rebounding from a season-ending ACL injury last year, bought into Nelson's vision of creating a winning team culture. And as the team's lone fifth-year seniors on a roster that included nine first- and second-year players, they helped lead a turnaround that resulted in a third-place finish in the standings this season behind both Capilano (16-5) and Vancouver Island (15-6).
"They were enormous for us, and I couldn't have asked for two better kids to lead this program and help change the culture," said Nelson, who last season had to talk the pair back into resuming their basketball careers. "Patti had a rough (2011-12) season when she blew her knee out in the preseason. But it was a blessing in disguise that she was able (to get a medical redshirt) to come back and have this experience. On seniors night, I was crying because I got to see them love this game again, and that in their final year, they were able to leave with such a positive experience."
Francis led the PacWest in scoring at 16.6 ppg, and was second in rebounding at 9.7 rpg.
Douglas faces host Camosun in one of two Thursday playoff games, with the winner drawing Vancouver Island in a Friday semifinal. Surrey's Kwantlen matches with Quest of Squamish in the other game, with the winner facing Capilano in its semifinal. Those two winners meet in Saturday's final, with the winner claiming the PacWest's only berth to nationals, March 14-16 in Truro, NS.
The men's tournament will also take place at Camosun. Langara (20-1) and Vancouver Island (16-5) have the opening-round byes. Quest (11-10) and Camosun (8-13) battle for the right to meet Vancouver Island in the semifinals, while Douglas (8-13) and Capilano (8-13) do likewise for the right to face Langara.
The Langara men were also double winners Tuesday. Falcons' star guard Brody Greig was named PacWest's Player of the Year and Paul Eberhardt the Coach of the Year.


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Athlete Q&A: Your most harrowing adventure moment
Angelika Rainer – World Champion Ice Climber
Certain moments at the cave in Helmcken Falls, Canada, when you could hear the noise of some huge icicles falling down and crushing on the ground.
Sam Hamer – Ambitious Rock Climber
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Steve Birkinshaw – Veteran Mountain Runner
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I've not really had any of these, but the most scared or gutted I've ever been on a climbing trip was watching my team mate, friend, and the European Champion Aidan Roberts slip off the top of his first boulder in Fontainebleau this year and fall 5m down, and a metre out and away from any pads shattering his heel. It was one of those moments where there was nothing you could do to prevent what was happening, all you could do was watch in horror. It was all a bit of a blur.


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• Bikku Ramen in Tokyo offers ramen without noodles with a 30 yen (about 25 cents) discount.
• Ramen without noodles is just vegetables and broth, but it's still pretty tasty.
There are lots of different kinds of ramen. There are different broths, different toppings, high-end versions, and instant versions, but one thing they all have in common is that they're all full of noodles. Now, however, one Tokyo ramen restaurant is actually serving ramen without noodles.
According to Rocket News 24's Oona McGee, Bikku Ramen in Tokyo seems like a completely normal ramen restaurant, with all the different menu options one would expect from such a place. But one item on the menu makes customers do a double-take, because it offers a version "without noodles" for a 30 yen discount.
30 yen is about 25 cents, and most people would not be giving up their delicious carbohydrates for such a paltry sum. The noodle-less ramen is a pretty good-looking soup, though. It's nearly two pounds of vegetables and an egg piled high in a bowl full of broth. It's apparently still pretty tasty, and certainly more healthful than the typical ramen, but most people would probably want to spend the quarter and keep their noodles.


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KYRGYZSTAN, 29th October – 3rd november 2017
Kyrgyzstan presented itself as a palette of those colours we had almost forgotten during our time in the Pamirs. I stood on top of the last 4000+ metre mountain pass, that marks the border between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and watched the gravel road snake its way down between mountains of red cliffs with grey-blue stripes, sprinkled with green grass (YES, green grass!) and topped with rims of white snow. Even the gravel on the road was a mix of red, blue and even green stones and above this colourful scenery was, as we had gotten so used to, a bright, blue sky. Do I need to say, that it was a fantastic place to be? I appriciated the slow, bumpy roll down the steep gravel road, as it let me stay in this amazing landscape a bit longer.
Down below the mountain pass we passed through the Kyrgyz border check point where a friendly and curious guard let us through. On the other side the valley opened up to a vast, grassy plateau that in the summer would have been dotted with yurts and flocks of horses, sheep and cows, but now it was all empty. At the other side of it we could see the little village, Sary Tash, and that was where we eagerly were heading. It bore promises of guesthouses with showers, beds and wifi – such ordinary things that we had easily lived without for almost three weeks, but now that they were within reach, they urged us on. And it was an easy ride going slightly downhill over the flat plateau so all we really had to do was sit on the bike and let gravity do its work. It was bliss. I was really tired after the challenges and the cold in the high mountains by now. The night before, when we once more were stuffed like sausages in our many clothes and sleeping bags to stay warm through another night of freezing temperatures, Chris and I had agreed that it had been an amazing time on the Pamir pleteaus, but also that we were both happy to get down to lower altitudes now.
But although my mind was set on the comfort of the guesthouse in the village ahead I did marvel over the sight behind me. As we rolled further and further away from the mountain range, it seemed to grow more snowy and massive like a gigantic wall of rocky ice rising behind us. It looked insurmountable, and yet we had just come over these moutains. It was a mystery, a discrepance between the appearance and imagination that comes before a reality, that was now again closing behind us. As if it could not have been real. But I knew it was true that two little humans on heavy loaded bikes (and one of them with a fork in great danger of collapsing), sleeping in a tiny little tent that easily disapeared of sight in the vast landscape, had now passed these mountains. I knew I had seen Chris cycling ahead of me on the roads up there, and that I had seen how small we were, and how great nature is. It was like seeing myself in the world (also because we tend to look very similar in our high-visible outfits), the loneliness and humilty of the little figure in the vastness. At the same time seeing him like that he was like a little red stock cube on wheels, a concentrated source of my happiness flavouring my experience with joy and meaning. I understood why being in a place like that all by yourself would make you wish for someone to be with.
Had we not been longing so much for a shower, a warm bed and wifi, the plain below the white wall of mountains would have been an incredible place to pitch the tent for the night. But our minds were set on a reward of comfort, so we continued cycling to Sary Tash. It was a little town of white, concrete buildings, many of them with big haystacks on the roofs and with washing hanging on lines everywhere in the last afternoon sunlight. And behind it all was still the eternal backdrop of the snowy mountain range. We easily found several guest houses in the little town, but unfortunately the one with the shower symbol on the poster was abandoned and locked, and so was the neighbouring one. After having circled around the town a few times, and during this having the first, but not last, Kyrgyz boy throwing a rock at us, we reluctantly took a room in the only open guest house in the town. It did have beds, and a little electric oven to heat the room, it did have wifi in the always crowded cafe next door, but it did not have showers. It did not even have running water or a place to wash, and our desires were only partly satisfied. At least they served us the best fried potatoes with onions we had had as a special 'guests only' vegetarian dinner and we played some rounds of Yatzy in our room in the evening where Chris, to everyone's surprise, actually won one game.
Being once again connected to the wifi we got news from our friends Liz and Miranda who were still up on the high plateaus. They were struggling with altitude sickness and still had several of the high passes ahead of them, and my first reaction was sympathy being glad it wasn't me. In my state of exhaustion I could not imagine much joy in being up there again. Then I remembered how excited I had been when it was all still ahead of me, how determined I had been when I was in the middle of it and how annoying I had found the warnings and sympathy from people that came down from the Pamirs when we were still about to head into them ourselves back in Dushanbe. I had thought, I would never be like those people who emphasized the hardships and struggle, and now I made sure to encourage the girls. The truth was it was the hardships that made it such an intense and special experience. But I suddenly understood those people whose negativity I had despised before, and realised the very different perspectives you have when being before, in the middle and after a challenge like that.
We packed up early the next day to begin the three days ride to Osh, that was the official end of the Pamir Highway and the first city we had been to since Dushanbe. With fantasies of showers (and pizzas, milkshakes, real coffee and a big bed in a private room that we would not need to leave for days) on our minds we began the battle with yet another mountain pass immediately after leaving Sary Tash. The road went up and up along the snowy mountainside, but the temperature was warmer than it had been for weeks, as we were now down below the 4000 metre plateaus. Sweat ran into my eyes as I pedalled up and Chris redressed to his summer outfit wearing only shorts and t-shirt.
It was a double pass with a little drop before the second pass, and despite the lack of showers, resting in the guesthouse had done us good, and we managed the climbs without too much effort. At the top of the second pass awaited another incredible view as the road twisted down the mountainside in a series of long switchbacks underneath a snowy, rugged mountain range. It was a fascinating road and it felt like riding a natural rolling coaster to fly down the curves and bends and lose all sense of direction and place.
After the steep descent we could again enjoy a gentle downhill along a river that lasted the rest of the day. For a whole month I had been cycling up and up and here was the reward. The Kyrgyz road was in much better state than the roads in the Pamirs, but also we had to share it with a lot more, fast driving traffic. We thus cycled faster than we had done for a long time, as we passed through a landscape that still impressed us with colourful cliffs and mountains in various shapes and textures, as if someone had let creativity and play free the hands of creation. There were many, little villages spread out along the main road, the remoteness of the mountains had abruptly disapeared. The houses seemed bigger and newer with high, metal roofs and there were adverts and shops along the road as well as signed pedestrian crossings and a paved footpath next to the road. In brief moments I thought I had not seen anything like it since back in Europe or Turkey, but I couldn't really remember. But there were also still haystacks on the roofs, cows, sheep and a lot of horses, as the Kyrgyz people value their horses very much, roaming around freely along the roads, in the gardens and fields between the houses. What struck me the most in these villages was the intense attention we recieved from the kids and teenagers. Every time we entered a town one would spot us and scream "TOURIST!!!" as a call to the others, and waves of kids would sprint towards the road. Their attitude was rather ambiguous. They seemed excited for sure, but in an odd kind of rage that felt more scary than warming to me. It seemed that their own shouting and screaming triggered them to just scream more and repeatedly, and the boldest guys would come and stand out in the road, sometimes with a hand stretched out for a high-five, but mostly just blocking our way as we passed by so we had to veer out into the middle of the road without getting in the way of the fast driving traffic. It was cheeky, daring kid's play more than a genuine excitement to see the rare sight of a cyclists from the Western world, because this was not a rare sight at all anymore, with the thousands of tourists on bikes and other vehicles travelling this way every year. One time some boys threw a rock after Chris, but they seemed to soon regret doing so when they found themselves being hunted down by a teeth-gritting, British cyclist on a heavy tank of a bicycle.
After an unusually long day of 74 kilometres (something we'd only done once since leaving Dushanbe), we camped in a little field that was squeezed in between the road and the river with high walls of cliffs on both sides. As the temperature was now well above zero we could wash ourselves in the river for the first time in, well, too long. It was such a relief to be able to sit outside the tent and cook and enjoy the evening, not having to wrap up in the sleeping bags as fast as possible. Winter had let go of us again, for now, and in the relief I now realised how tough it had been.
Another pass awaited us the next day, it was the last climb on the official Pamir Highway, but also one of the longest ones of 900 altitude metres over 20 kilometres. With Osh (and pizza, milkshake, coffee and resting in a big, warm bed) being so close, it was kind of tormenting to have to battle such a long climb, but on the other hand it was that prospect that motivated us. "Osh"… "Osh"… "Osh"… I heard from Chris behind me on every exhale as we slowly pedalled up the valleys and once again got snowy mountain peaks in view. After a long time climbing we saw the final switch backs leading to the pass and as we, a little later, watched them underneath us I felt a mix of relief, sadness and confidence. Surely I was completely knackered after our month cycling up and over these mountains and I was looking forward to a break. But at the same time I felt a new strength in my body and my mind having made it through it all and I was somehow sad to leave these incredible mountains behind.
All sadness had vanished from my mind when we made our way into Osh the next day. The traffic was intense and chaotic, and we were soon pushing our bikes along the busy footpaths, up and down little ramps and zig-zagging slowly between people, shops and boxes of fruit for sale. There was so much fruit, I had not seen such amounts for a long time. We ended up searching for the guesthouse we had booked in a maze of un-numbered apartment blocks. People gazed at our odd appearance, but no one indicated a desire to help us and when we sought advice, the man did not know of the address we were looking for. Chris was about to lose his good spirits over this situation, we were so close to our goal and yet, not knowing how to get there. Then I spotted our salvation: a restaurant that served pizza and had wifi. It was a shiny, fancy place and our wash in the river two nights before had not nearly made our appearance suitable for such a place. Our clothes were so filthy, so were our faces, hands and hair, but we did not care. In the clean, neat sofas we sat and ordered pizza, milkshake and coffee, as well as the wifi code so we could locate the guesthouse. An immense calm grew inside me, we had finally made it. To celebrate this we ordered another round of pizza and drinks, for once ignoring our ascetic 'travelling on a shoestring'-lifestyle.
We settled into a nice, cheap room in Osh Guesthouse and soon forgot our initial plan to only stay three nights. Not only was the bed, the showers, the free coffee, the table tennis and the European-like Brio Coffee all that we had been longing for. We also got busy planning the future. The challenge of the Pamirs had filled my mind completely the last months and more, but now that it was successfully over we could begin looking into that semi-final chapter, we had been aiming for since our departure from Edinburgh seven months back. Mori was within reach, and I knew it occupied Chris's mind every day. Unfortunately for me, Mori was actually not within reach at all, as I did not have a Chinese visa and the only way to get it would be to fly back home to Denmark to apply there. As we didn't plan to cycle further in China than to Mori, I thought it was too much hassle to go through, and so I had accepted that Mori would stay a mythical place in my imagination, and instead I began to plan a cycle trip around Nepal that I would do while Chris undertook the final leg of his circumnavigation around the world using only bikes and boats. After having reached Mori he would again be allowed to use other transports and so he would fly to Kathmandu and meet me there for Christmas. It was a plan that had several exciting aspects for both of us: Mori obviously for Chris, getting to cycle solo was something we both appreciated regardless of how much we enjoyed cycling together, a cute little glass house in Kathmandu could be our home for a few weeks, and the thought of new countries and cultures and climates and cuisines were thrilling as always.
First step was for Chris to book his flight from Urumqi in China to Kathmandu, and I think it was a very strange task to engage in for this man who had not been in an airplane for so many years. But it was not lack of experience that caused the lack of success when every website again and again cancelled the purchasing process or refused to accept the paying credit cards. Chris tried over and over again for a whole day without success. The next day he called his bank to assure that the cards were open and working, and they were. Then he tried again, and still there was no result. It began to seem strangely impossible for him to book that first flight of his in so many years, and so it suddenly slipped from his lips: "Maybe I'm not supposed to fly…"
It was just a thought, or a feeling. Rationally it made no sense that something was keeping him from flying, but both his and my intuition tickled at that thought. After having cycled the whole way, except from one kilometre, the last four years and more, it seemed a bit extreme to head straight for an airplane as soon as his challenge was accomplished. We had both appreciated the fact that we had cycled the whole distance from Edinburgh to Osh, not using any other transport unlike so many other cyclists we had met along the way. It was a strange, satisfying feeling to watch the unbroken line of our journey on a map, and it was only due to political and economical circumstances that we did now plan to break it by flying to Kathmandu instead of cycling there through Pakistan, Tibet or Myanmar. All of these options were more or less impossible due to travel restrictions, so flying seemed to be our only way onwards.
Unless… we again began playing with maps and dreams (and www.cruisetimetable.com)…
Sary Tash – Gulcha – Osh
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A newly organized Atheist 'church' in Britain is capturing the imaginations of Atheists all over the world. It has entertained some 200 inquiries from throughout the world as to how additional branches of it might be established. The theme appears to be good without god. Of course this type of entity would make it more difficult for theists to have Atheist movements stereotyped as inherently immoral. It is my opinion that a great many people are rejecting Atheism because theists have in large part been successful at having it stereotyped as inherently immoral. Maybe this new 'church' is gaining popularity because people think they can defend it against assertions that it is inherently immoral. Per the article:
Britain's atheist church is barely three months old but it already has more "worshippers" than can fit into its services, while more than 200 non-believers worldwide have contacted organisers to ask how they can set up their own branch. Officially named The Sunday Assembly, the church was the brainchild of Pippa Evans and Sanderson Jones, two comedians who suspected there might be an appetite for atheist gatherings that borrowed a few aspects of religious worship...Jones reels off the locations of would-be atheist "vicars" who have asked to set up new branches. "Colombia, Bali, Mexico, Houston, Silicon Valley, Philadelphia, Ohio, Calgary, all across Britain, The Hague, Vienna... It's so ludicrously exciting that my head occasionally -- literally -- spins round."...The Sunday Assembly's central tenets are to "help often, live better and wonder more" -- themes that would not be out of keeping with the teachings of any major world religion. At last Sunday's service, which had a volunteering theme, songs included "Help" by the Beatles and "Holding Out For A Hero" by Bonnie Tyler.
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Very groovy, except for one glaring item, to wit:
Can we please NOT call it a church?!?
Good point. It's real name doesn't involve the word, church. Per the article: Officially named The Sunday Assembly
I DIG the name, "Sunday Assembly," and if one shows up here in Cleveland, I might even go ... but anyone calling it a church stays after school!
That was my first thought, although I did read it's official name later.
I won't be getting out of bed on a cold wet Sunday morning to attend anything. I was never a church-goer and won't be attending this church either.
What's the big fucking deal about the fact there are no Gods. No supernatural dimension to the universe. Why can't we move on now.
The creators Evans and Jones now have to work out how to make some money from it all.
The creators Evans and Jones now have to work out how to make some money from it all.
Why wouldn't they be able to make money from member donations and sponsoring activities the way theist assemblies do?
I like the singing as that was always my favorite part of church.
I would avoid this like a disease! Started by two comedians, it would be viewed as proof that atheism is really just "another religion." What part of "non-theist" is it that the world doesn't understand. Atheism is another religion just like a non-stamp collector is a hobbyist. The problem is that humans have a need to be bound together in some sort of unity. This is how many "churches" got started in the first place. All you need is someone who believes the Bible differently, and everybody does. Beliefs are like an anus. Everybody has one. I'm not against people banding together for support and discussion, but the words "church" and "atheist" should be avoided. The world would laugh at the fact of others belonging to "The Holy Church of The Non-Believer." Very ludicrous indeed!
It isn't calling itself a church. Take a closer look at the article. It says: "Officially named The Sunday Assembly". Standing for good does not make one religious. Secular Humanists stand for good and are not religious. Are you saying Atheists should be afraid to unite in the name of humanity? In my opinion Atheism has not been very well received because too many Atheists are only Atheists because they are latently sociopathic and want the realm of Atheism to constitute a safe haven for their perspectives. Unfortunately, these types of the Atheists by example facilitate the attempt of theists to have all Atheists stereotyped as sociopathic. Very obviously, the Atheist movement needs less of them and more of the Secular Humanist type. I think The Sunday Assembly will serve well the very worthy objective of having Atheism move away from the sociopathic element and in the direction of the Secular Humanist one.
'Hero' means a good person to most people. It certainly isn't synonymous with 'god'. Webster says a hero is a man admired for courage. There are also women admired for courage (heroines). Many people are called heroes and heroines by society without the implication that they are gods. I don't find the words offensive. I think people who do should simply not bother with the Assembly.
It's about time Atheists started taking community seriously. But isn't it a bit strange that stand up comedians got the ball rolling?
I'm not going to prejudge them either way but I do like the entity they've produced. For now I will say innocent until proven guilty.
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Here's another of the giant before wrapping:
I love the little plastic containers full of cookies and hamantaschen on this one - so cute! And lots of yummy cake pops and chocolate bark with dried fruits and nuts.
For the seudah, we are lucky enough to have a seudah tradition with two other families, who were very adamant that we take the year off and not make anything, knowing better than we did how tired we would be (not even figuring on the sick kid who had to get treatment at Terem on Purim night for THREE hours - did I mention our Shabbat Zachor curse? It involves one of our kids throwing up on almost every Shabbat Zachor. This year I was silly enought to think we had beaten it. But it was just a little slow out of the gate, making its presence known shortly after Shabbat.). But they did relent and allow me to contribute to dessert - individual Kahlua cakes and rainbow mini-cupcakes.
These were a couple of items that I had served over the bar mitzvah Shabbat, but now had time to make again and photograph. The seudah was a lot of fun, and we are very blessed!
With all the chaos, Purim came and went and we will look forward to a calmer one next year.
Happy Countdown to Pesach!


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Best Bites: Marshmallow candy corn rice krispies
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Halloween is just around the corner, so it's time to get going on all the festivities. This delicious and simple marshmallow rice krispies treat is a great way to get into the Halloween spirit! Shaped and colored like candy corn, it's sure to be a hit at your party.
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- 3 tbsp Butter
- 2 bags of marshmallows
- Yellow, white and red food coloring
- 5 cups Rice Krispies cereal
- Melt butter and marshmallows together.
- Stir, stir, stir until melted.
- Pour out half into a bowl and add 10 drops of yellow food coloring.
- Mix, mix, mix!
- Stir in cereal and mix well.
- Scoop into a dish and flatten into a ring.
- In a separate bowl, add 10 drops of yellow and 6 drops of red to marshmallow mix.
- Mix, mix, mix.
- Add in 2 1/2 cups of cereal.
- Press into another ring.
- In another bowl, add 4 drops of white food coloring.
- Mix in 2 1/2 cups of cereal.
- Mix well.
- Press into the center.
- Cool and flip.
- Cut into triangles!
- Enjoy!
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The world is a very diverse place, but if there's one thing that women all over the globe have in common it's that we want to look and feel beautiful inside and out. However, the definition of beauty is different in every culture, and women everywhere have their own secrets and rituals for achieving their desired look.
Here, we take a look at beauty lessons to be learned the world over, from French girl chic to renowned Asian skin care.
In Japan, women literally slap on their facial products.
You don't need to handle your skin with kid gloves. In Japan, women apply moisturizers, serums, and more with vigor: They slap on facial products to stimulate circulation and to avoid tugging on skin with rubbing motions. In fact, American beauty mogul Elizabeth Arden followed this technique, using spoon-like utensils to slap product onto the skin.
Somali women multitask while they beautify.
There are only so many hours in a day, so women in Somalia have found a way to squeeze in their beauty rituals: They wear face masks and hair treatments around the house as they cook, tend the kids and do other chores. The typical face mask is a homemade concoction that blends the spices turmeric and qasil with water. In their hair, they apply henna for natural color.
In Australia, women bottle ocean water.
Aussie women typically don't waste money on store-bought products for tousled, beachy waves. Instead, they commonly collect sea water when they're at the beach and pour it into a spray bottle to style their hair at home. Judging by the effortless, natural look that sheilas are known for, we'd say this tactic is working.
Argentinian women are DIYers.
If you find yourself going too long between waxes because of the hassle (and cost) of professional waxing, do as the Argentines do: Wax it yourself. Because maintaining a mostly hairless body is a major beauty goal in this South American country, women often use at-home waxing for weekly hair removal.
In Iceland, women splurge on the best anti-aging products.
Picking up whatever eye cream is on sale at the drug store doesn't cut it for the women in Iceland. They carefully choose their anti-aging products and aren't afraid to spend a pretty penny on highly concentrated plant extracts created through advanced technology.
French women schedule frequent haircuts.
Although many American women seek long, flowing locks, women in France typically prefer a short- or medium-length cut that grazes the shoulders. They like to wear it styled in a perfectly messy way, and this requires hair to be healthy and shiny so it doesn't look too disheveled. So they schedule regular haircuts to keep their tresses in good shape, which helps them achieve their desired look without the necessity of excess styling products.
In Korea, facials are a necessity.
You might treat yourself to a facial for a bit of pampering now and then, but women in Korea — where pristine skin is the ultimate beauty goal — view the treatment as a vital part of their skin care regimen. Reportedly, female residents spend a large portion of their disposable income on getting facials, typically every other week.
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More and more poor people in Asia are being deprived of what was once seen as a free "God-given resource," as water has become a paid-for asset controlled by private companies in recent years, say Asian church leaders.
"Now considered as a commercial commodity rather than as heritage and a natural resource that should be protected, water … is now being increasingly controlled by private corporations," said the Rev. David Tabo-oy, evangelism officer of the Episcopal (Anglican) Church of the Philippines.
Tabo-oy was reflecting on "Water as a gift from God and as a human right" during the second day of a Nov. 28-Dec. 3 consultation on "communities' rights to water and sanitation in Asia" held here.
The consultation was organized by the World Council of Churches-supported Ecumenical Water Network, a water rights advocacy group, along with the National Council of Churches in the Philippines.
Citing data from the Philippine government's National Water Resource Board, Tabo-oy said that 56.9 percent of the country's fresh water resources or 3.3 million liters a second is used for power; 35 percent or 2.03 million liters a second, for irrigation; and only 3 percent or 171,000 liters a second, for domestic use.
Most power generated from hydroelectric dams benefits big industries, asserted Tabo-oy.
As industries, agriculture and daily life are polluting water systems in China, people there now turn to commercial bottled water processed by big bottling companies, noted Tong Su of the Hong Kong office of the Amity Foundation, which is linked with churches in China.
Citing an independent survey, Su said the number of those who consume bottled water in Hong Kong has increased five times in the past four years.
The demand for bottled water has led to big global corporations taking advantage of the privatization of the water supply in China and the cheap quality water resources from the country's rural areas where locals need cash, Su said.
"Besides pollution of water bodies, the privatization of water is one area where we need to raise our prophetic voice as church leaders; otherwise, we deny water to poor people, who are vulnerable to various diseases," said Mathew Koshy Punnackadu, convenor of the Church of South India synod's ecological concerns group.
Privatization deters poor's access to water, say Asian church leaders
More and more poor people in Asia are being deprived of what was once seen as a free "God-given resource," as water has become a paid-for asset controlled by private companies in recent years, say Asian church leaders.


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Work has started on the new Carmarthen Town AFC 3G all-weather community pitch at Richmond Park, Carmarthen.
The installation of the 3G pitch will be the catalyst for a wide-ranging community programme based around the Welsh Premier League club.
"The club's intention is to help create a wider community benefit by helping and supporting people to reach their full potential," said project manager and Club Director Jeff Thomas.
Contractors have moved in to dig up the turf and removed the topsoil as part of work scheduled to cost more than £560,000.
Mr Thomas said the club had succeeded in receiving grant funding for the project from a number of sources.
He said: "We are very grateful for all the support we have received. Plainly, our funders appreciate that the new 3G pitch will be a huge asset for Carmarthen and the surrounding community."
FAW President David Griffiths said: "This is a major investment in the future of football here in Carmarthenshire and what a time to do it.
"In the last 12 months, through our success in reaching the semi-final of Euro 2016 and then just the other week, hosting the Final of the UEFA Champions League; football has really brought together the nation and also inspired a generation.
"We are delighted that Carmarthen Town, one of our biggest clubs, have bought into the FAW 3G Project scheme in order to provide excellent training and playing facilities to the people of the town and surrounding communities.
"This development is another vital project in our strategic objective of improving facilities throughout the country."
Project manager Jeff Thomas said: "We have always been recognised locally as a great community club. Our focus has always been much more than just our ground at Richmond Park.
"Our 3G plan includes a community programme with particular emphasis on socially and economically challenged areas of Carmarthen.
"Where we can help these socially and economically challenged areas, we will be able to provide use of the 3G pitch for free, for their benefit."
Mr Thomas added: "The club's intention is to help create a wider community benefit by helping and supporting people to reach their potential. It is hoped to increase meaningful voluntary engagement and to provide a learning and development platform.
"The provision of a 3G facility will be essential in attracting young people to take full advantage of the educational opportunities which will become avail-able."
Partnerships are being forged with organisations including schools, youth clubs, family centres and the University of Wales Trinity St David.
The work on the new pitch is expected to continue into the start of the new football season, but fixture schedules will be arranged so that Carmarthen Town teams play away games until the new artificial surface is ready.
The work is being monitored by the Dyfed Archaeological Trust.
Carmarthen Town AFC chairman Chris Edwards said club officials recognised that there would be a £25,000 annual maintenance fee for the pitch. He stressed use of the pitch would have to be sustainable in the long term.
He added that, based on projected usage, the pitch would need to be replaced after six years at an estimated cost of £180,000.
The 3G pitch will be available for hire to be used by the wider community outside of Premier League match times and other Carmarthen Town training and fixture commitments.
There is expected to be heavy demand to use the 3G pitch and community groups and organisations are being advised to book and register their interested at an early stage.
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- Must have general understanding of construction.
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LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has sought reports within five days from the Lahore Development Authority (LDA), Traffic Engineering and Planning Agency (TEPA) and other departments on a petition challenging a government policy to commercialise 58 city roads. The petitioner, Manzoor Hussain, submitted the LDA on July 11 published an advertisement in national dailies inviting public opinion to finalise its policy about commercial activities on 58 roads. The petitioner said the roads marked by the LDA had already been declared commercial zones and they could not be further commercialised. He alleged the government wanted to oblige some stakeholders by commercialising the roads. The petitioner prayed the court to stop the government from commercialising these roads. staff report
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THE critics proved indifferent to the Ben Stiller comic fantasy Night At The Museum (2006) but the box office didn't. So we have a sequel featuring yet more comedians and much larger premises in which to accommodate them. Even more important, there's a plot.
Once again, an assortment of museum exhibits comes to life after the sun goes down but this time they declare outright war with one another. In the halls of the US's most capacious museum complex, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, a lesser-known Egyptian pharaoh enlists Al Capone, Ivan the Terrible and Napoleon Bonaparte in his own "axis of evil" with plans to take over the world.
Out to stop him is Stiller with a gang of helpers headed by Amelia Earhart, a strangely mild-mannered Attila the Hun and a neurotic General Custer, who's making a posthumous attempt to redeem himself after the blunder that was Little Bighorn.
It's a line-up jumping with the potential to amuse but there is a catch. The film is directed by Shawn Levy, who did the first one as well as turning out Cheaper By The Dozen and The Pink Panther, two of the most irritating films Steve Martin has ever made and there were a lot to beat. Fortunately, Martin isn't in this one, although the cast list embraces many of his rivals. Ricky Gervais, Robin Williams, Owen Wilson and Steve Coogan return to the roles they played in the original and they're joined by Amy Adams as Amelia Earhart and Hank Azaria, who settles so naturally into the part of the wicked Pharaoh Kahmunrah that his hubris alone is enough to save the picture. His grandiloquent manner is accessorised by an aristocratic lisp and an incurable grudge against his big brother, who happens to have been the pharaoh with the cuneiform tablet responsible for bringing the exhibits to life in the first place. Now Kahmunrah wants the tablet for himself. And in the course of his campaign, Azaria produces a string of irresistible riffs that sound as if they could be his own elaborations on the script.
An effervescent Adams is equally deft. Screwball comedy is always tricky, especially if you're trying to dial up the spirit of Katharine Hepburn. Fifteen years on, I'm still haunted by echoes of the buzz-saw whine produced by Jennifer Jason Leigh in her attempts to duplicate Hepburn's elongated New England vowels in the Coen brothers' film The Hudsucker Proxy. But the great thing about Adams's performance is that it's effortless. Her resemblance to a Howard Hawks heroine is in the sassiness of her walk, the blitheness with which she tosses off the script's dollops of 1940s slang and the sparkle she brings to her flirtation with Stiller. You can even excuse her doomed attempt to pretend he's Cary Grant.
The film opens in New York, where Stiller's Larry Daley, now a business tycoon, is paying a nostalgic visit to his former workplace, the Museum of Natural History, where he is shocked to learn that it's being renovated. The effigies and the dioramas are being replaced by newfangled inventions like holograms and most of Larry's old friends are being crated up and sent to Washington to be stored in the national archives in the Smithsonian's basement. Luckily for us, Robin Williams's excessively avuncular Teddy Roosevelt is not among them. As one of the museum's "signature exhibits", he'll be staying behind, which means that he'll play little part in the rest of the action. The pharaoh's tablet, however, has been packed in with the rest and mayhem will surely ensue if Larry fails to get to Washington in time to stop the tablet animating all of the Smithsonian's contents.
Next up is a swift tour of the Air and Space Museum and the Smithsonian's neo-Gothic monument, the Castle, where Larry steals a guard's uniform and scams his way into the archives to find Kahmunrah already revving up his cohorts. All of them seem prepared to defer to him, presumably on the grounds of seniority, since he's some 3000 years older than they are.
Admittedly, there is a little quibbling from Al Capone (Jon Bernthal) and some pouting from Napoleon (French comic Alain Chabat) but Christopher Guest's Ivan the Terrible is more intent on informing everyone that he's been lumbered with a mistranslation. In life, he says, he was really known as Ivan the Awesome.
The film's CGI effects come into their own in the second half as Larry and Amelia go careering through the galleries and the paintings and sculptures come to life. It's not exactly an art history lesson. Only the Smithsonian's most celebrated works are drawn into the battle but they're wittily deployed, with Amelia borrowing the pitchfork from Grant Wood's American Gothic and in a more romantic mode, being serenaded by a putti trio singing the Bee Gees' More Than A Woman. Larry also escapes for a moment into Alfred Eisenstaedt's VJ Day photograph, The Kiss, where he's amazed to learn that his mobile phone still works.
The climax takes us to the Air and Space Museum and Amelia's inevitable adventure behind the controls of the Wright brothers' plane before a late but crucial appearance by Abraham Lincoln. And along the way, a couple of large gaps open up in the plot. But logic was never the point of the piece.
All up it's Levy's best work so far and while I realise that's faint praise, it's far from being damning.


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I was sick for a solid ten days before I dragged my sorry self to the doctor. "Bronchitis and Sinusitis," she said. Four prescriptions later, I was on my way to recovery, or so I thought. When the antibiotic kicked in, I was sleeping 12-15 hours a day. Laundry was piling up. My feral children were wondering if I was going to throw them some raw meat for sustenance. I would get up, wander around, and wonder when I could go back to bed. We were surviving on take-away pizza and grilled cheese sandwiches. That's when the soup started arriving.
First, a frozen batch of tomato bisque arrived from my friend Cathy – a definite "open in case of emergency" soup. Next, my friend Gae brought Italian Wedding soup. It fed my family for three to four meals. My daughter said, "Thanks for the nice dinner, mom." I told her to please thank Miss Gae instead – I could take no credit. When all this ran out, St. Tricia of Alpharetta came through the back porch with baked potato soup with all the fixings. That's when I realized that soup is love. Soup warms the tummy and the soul. It is comforting and sustaining. Soup is communal and often comes from a family recipe that means something to the giver. Soup is little bit of love.
Jesus said, "whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me." When you donate a bag of rolls to My Sister's House, make a homemade cake for the men's shelter, donate onions or apples or a turkey to Campus Ministry at Thanksgiving, you are feeding people both body and soul. You meet their immediate need of hunger, but also their deeper need to know that someone loves them and cares about their well-being. You are feeding their need to be seen and recognized as important and as a valued member of the body of Christ.
I promise that there are far greater needs in our Marist community and beyond than my small and temporary situation. I just hope that my recent example reminds you that as Saint Mother Theresa said, "In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love."
Here's to all the small things that we can be thankful for in this week leading up to Thanksgiving. I am incredibly thankful for my family, friends and faith community who sustain me body and spirit during good times and not so good times. Small gestures are never forgotten by the receiver, and are certainly never forgotten by our Father in Heaven.
I know that our children are coming up on exams, which brings stress and anxiety. Here are some prayers for both exams, as well as for older children who are traveling back from college or work to be with us during the holidays.
Wishing you all a peaceful and blessed holiday with friends and family.
Prayer During Exams
Notre Dame, Our Lady, they call you the "Undoer of Knots."
Turn your eyes to us during our exams, and undo the knots in our minds,
that we may think creatively and compellingly in those critical moments.
Undo the knots in our bodies, that we may channel stress
in good health and with noble composure.
Finally, undo the knots in our souls, that in our study and success,
we may not become puffed up with the wisdom of this world,
but come instead to know the Wisdom of God, and the heart of your Son, Jesus,
who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Amen.
(Source: Fr. Chase Pepper, CSC – University of Notre Dame)
Prayer for Exam Anxiety
Heavenly Father,
Only your peace can sustain me through the anxiety and stresses of exam nerves.
Your peace surpasses all understanding.
I ask for this gift and choose to lean upon you at this time.
Lord, come and remind me of your unfailing love.
Remind me that you hold me safe, you understand me, and you cherish me.
I lay down my fears before you.
I leave them at the foot of the cross, for you have overcome the world.
I choose to give you all my concerns, worries and fears of failure.
I trust that your loving hand will hold me through these exams and lead into a bright future. Amen.
(Source: living-prayers.com)
Prayer for Travelers
God of the journey, your grace and favor has always been with us as you called us by name before the foundation of the world. Thank you God for your faithful, steadfast love. Jesus traveled from his home to share your good news with all lands.
May the Holy Spirit surround all who are going to new places or sites of past visits. Lead the pilots, drivers and all passengers to be patient at all points. Remove all fears and anxieties about those left behind and those one meets at the end of the trip. Open my eyes, open my ears to see You and hear You each moment of the path. Amen.
(Source: Rev. Jim Bracke, CSC – University of Notre Dame)
St. Christopher Motorist Prayer
Grant me O Lord a steady hand and watchful eye.
That no one shall be hurt as I pass by.
Thou gavest life, I pray no act of mine
May take away or mar that gift of Thine.
Shelter those, dear Lord, who bear me company,
From the evils of fire and all calamity.
Teach me to use my car for others need;
Nor miss through love of undue speed
The beauty of the world; that thus I may
With joy and courtesy go on my way.
St. Christopher, holy patron of travelers,
Protect me and lead me safely to my destiny.
(Source: Catholic Online)


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Should Christians practice rebaptism? Is there a Biblical basis for rebaptism? In my opinion there should be no rebaptism as there is no Biblical basis for it. But before I get into my arguments against rebaptism, I will give a brief history concerning it.
Contrary to what many people believe, the Anabaptists (meaning rebaptism) were not the first group to practise it. The first group that practised rebaptism was the Novatians around the 250s AD. They formed chiefly out of the problem of church discipline. During the Roman Decian persecutions, people recanted their belief in Christ. After the persecution was over, they wanted to return to the church. Should they just be allowed back into the church? Novatian, who was elected Bishop of Rome said "No!" If they wanted to come back into the church, they would have to go under strict discipline and self-examination. Most of the rest of the church said they could be readmitted. So Novatian was deposed as bishop. In reaction to this, Novatian created his own church composed of those known as the Catharoi (the pure). They demanded that those coming from the other Christian churches in their day, be rebaptised in order to become part of the Catharoi.
Another group that supported rebaptism was the Donatists around the 300s. They formed out of the same controversy the Novatians did, except this time it was regarding lapsed Christians during the Diocletian persecution. After arguing and fighting the Donatists created their own church system that called for the rebaptism of its members.
Some 1000 years later the Anabaptists appeared in response to not only the Roman Catholic Church but also the Lutherans and Zwinglians. They thought that the Reformers were not going far enough in their rejection of Roman Catholic doctrine. So they threw out infant baptism and did not consider the baptism of their theological opponents to be valid, so they called for rebaptism.
They supported their claims for rebaptism on Acts 19:1 – 6, which says, "And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples, He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism. Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied." The argument of those who purport rebaptism is Paul rebaptised the disciples of John; anyone can see that from the text. I agree that a very quick glance at the text says that. But quick glances often contain error.
This passage is not speaking concerning water baptism, but is speaking of the baptism of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is the focus of the passage. It is striking that the first thing Paul asks John's disciples is "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?" The question is not have you received the baptism of repentance? (The baptism of repentance is the baptism that John the Baptist and Christ both gave. Both baptisms symbolised the exact same thing, namely the washing away of sin and purification from sin by the blood of Christ.) The question Paul asked is have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed? John prophesied that Christ would baptise with the Holy Ghost and with fire. John's disciples had already received the baptism of repentance from John. They were waiting for the fulfillment of John's prophesy concerning Christ's baptism. Paul is here to fulfill that prophesy personally for them.
Further, Acts 19 says that, "they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them . . ." When is not in the original Greek, it is an implied word that is used to denote the tense of the participle laid. The word after could also be used. "And after Paul had laid his hands . . ." In my opinion after implies more of a clarifying of the previous verses. So the preceding verses speak of the baptism and then verse six implies how Paul performed the baptism. But whether after or when is used the idea behind the two words is that of clarifying. This act of clarifying is in harmony with the Jewish mode of speaking. First the general account is given and then it is further clarified. This mode of speaking is throughout the Bible, if you want examples of it look in Revelations.
Also, the laying on of hands is in agreement with the baptism of the Holy Spirit as Acts 8:17 makes clear, "Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost."
But even if you do not agree with this interpretation, there is no warrant for the rebaptism that goes on today. Besides Acts 19, the only other reason given for rebaptism that I have heard is that, "I do not remember being baptised as an infant." So the person is rebaptised so that he remembers it. The problem with that is that these people were already baptised in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost! They already received Christ's baptism! Acts 19 does not come into effect here even if you think it was water baptism. Most of the people who are baptized today were already baptised in the name of Christ. Even if you disagree with the doctrine of the church where the person was baptised, or even the concern of corrupt clergy, you cannot deny that the person was baptised with Christ's baptism. That is because it is not the clergy or the church that performs the true baptism; it is God that performs it! Baptism is just a picture of the much better spiritual reality of the baptism of the heart that God works in us.
Therefore, rebaptism is wrong. The Scriptures only call for one baptism. Just as we cannot be regenerated twice, we should not be rebaptized. Baptism is a one-time event that pictures that we have been regenerated and changed into a new creature by the washing and purging away of our sins through the blood of Christ. To close with John Calvin, he wrote a section on John 19 in his Institutes of the Christian Religion Book 4, Chapter 15, Section 18, part of which I quote here, "'And when Paul laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them.' In this last sentence is described what the nature of the baptism was. But if ignorance vitiates a former, and requires to be corrected by a second baptism, the apostles should first of all have been rebaptised, since for more than three full years after their baptism they had scarcely received any slender portion of purer doctrine. Then so numerous being the acts of ignorance which by the mercy of God are daily corrected in us, what rivers would suffice for so many repeated baptisms?"


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Ancient Assyria was generally the northern half of Mesopotamia, while the southern half was generally referred to as Babylonia. The word "Mesopotamia" comes to us from ancient Greece and means the land "between the rivers", referring to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The region around ancient Assyria was filled with hills and valleys. The land was very fertile for farming because it had an abundance of rains throughout the seasons, with lots of water in the nearby rivers and flowing down from the mountains. The mountains also brought plenty of timber, metals, and limestone.
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Evangelicals running around with book tours and t-shirts promoting their blogs about how they once were straight but saw the light and are now queer, make me want to vomit…but only because they do so parading God and their new found theology as if it's any better than the one before. I hate to break it to you but it's not. It sucks. It's just imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchal theology, to borrow some of Bell Hooks' words.
Here's an example: a female pastor from San Francisco at City Church named Laura Turner wrote this article for Esquire. It's got a catchy title, I'm Evangelical, My Church Welcomes Gays, and I'm Not Voting for Trump, and some great points so it's been going viral.
She makes the same old claims that many of these other evangelicals I'm encountering are making: "My church is evangelical in mission and in many of our beliefs, but it also welcomes LGBT individuals and couples into membership."
HOW RADICAL!! (womp)
Essentially what the "but" says is of course we welcome queer people because of course we want to colonize their minds with our terrible theology, "after all we are evangelical in mission and in many of our beliefs" – don't forget it.
They always say that. Smh.
So I Googled City Church to see what "they always" meant. And of course, just what I expected: "City Church wholeheartedly embraces the historic Christian faith expressed in all the ecumenical creeds of the universal church (e.g., the Apostles (390) and Nicene Creeds (325), Belgic Confession (1561), The Canons of Dordt (1618), Heidelberg Catechism (1563).
In case you aren't up on ancient religious creeds, here's Article 6 of the Cannon of Dordt (the most recent creed of the bunch):
The fact that some receive from God the gift of faith within time, and that others do not, stems from his eternal decree. For "all his works are known to God from eternity" (Acts 15:18; Eph. 1:11). In accordance with this decree God graciously softens the hearts, however hard, of the elect and inclines them to believe, but by a just judgment God leaves in their wickedness and hardness of heart those who have not been chosen. And in this especially is disclosed to us God's act—unfathomable, and as merciful as it is just—of distinguishing between people equally lost. This is the well-known decree of election and reprobation revealed in God's Word. The wicked, impure, and unstable distort this decree to their own ruin, but it provides holy and godly souls with comfort beyond words
AKA At City Church you can be queer AND you can believe most of the world is going to a literal Hell of torment and anguish that God created for you and picked you specifically for. #ByeFelcia
But I can hear them now, "nah Gregory we read Rob Bell's Love Win's so we don't believe in that kind of Hell…" Oh but you believe in some other floating land after death that you can't describe and only still believe in because the angry-white-pastor-dude that preached at you as a child drilled it into your brains. Great.
And if it's not Hell, it's the Virgin Birth, or Miracles, or that all other Religions don't really work, or the bodily Resurrection and Ascension into space are literally true, or some other crazy supernatural wacko thing they want you to believe before you belong.
Even if the members of these churches don't adhere to each and every word of these documents they are still claiming the sources and articles of their beliefs are from 390 and 1618. My good friend Rony is a doctor and they do not teach him from books written in 1618 or scrolls written on in 390…for far too obvious of reasons.
Telling me you affirm my sexuality but the religious creeds you want me to believe (or else I go to Hell) were written in a time when everyone thought the Earth was flat says to me you've got much bigger problems than figuring out how to like queer people.
(Hint: Deeds over creeds!)
This is a methodological problem. Evangelicals haven't actually changed much but danced around anger toward their gay kids and danced around 7 bible verses. In reality what needs to happen is an entirely different shift on how the Bible is read, understood, and applied for our time.
We don't need faith or belief in the Bible we need faithfulness and commitment to the Bible.
The four gospels and many letters tossed around in the early churches were written by oppressed Jews and Gentiles marginalized for their radical love and compassion. The Bible is for the Church what Howard Zinn's A People's History… is for the United States. The Bible itself is a collection of radical history to learn from and reflect, we carry the vision onward, we take the message off the pages…ya know, make the word flesh!
So leave your imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchal evangelical church that you can't talk about justice or alternative economic systems with many people at, that you will always feel politically or theologically alone at, that you can't wear "different" or "gay" clothes to, that you can't show up hung over or mention the night before at, that you always feel guilty for having good sex at, that always sings emotionally homoerotic supernatural-Jesus music…LEAVE and find a church that QUEERS THEOLOGY in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior!


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That cultivates and emphasizes a toddler's potential ( see under), not their shortcomings. Without a remaining phrase on the subject, the controversy between advocates and critics of bilingual training has develop into politicized. Nevertheless, allow us to all acknowledge that there are issues to be confronted in bilingual training and our faculties and our society will need to face these issues fully.
Developmental Bilingual Education, which aims to protect and construct on college students' native language abilities as they master English. Its importance is growing daily, as the variety of bilingual college students is rising in the United States.
The Department of Training strongly opposed the district, as did the California Affiliation for Bilingual Schooling, California Rural Legal Assistance, and the group Multicultural Education, Training, and Advocacy (META). Some are bilingual in title only, staffed by monolingual English-talking lecturers with no skilled preparation.
It's IMPORTANT that we take a step in the direction of the supply and choice of bilingual schooling. Virtually all universities in the United States of America supply graduate and undergraduate applications in instructor education. The Bilingual Education Act, along with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, was anticipated to assist change attitudes toward immigrant groups and ease resistance to ethnic languages.
The terms additive and subtractive bilingual schooling got here into use in the last quarter of the twentieth century as it turned apparent that substantive differences existed between two major forms of bilingual training. In some instances being bilingual is much more vital than having prior dental expertise.


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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo's aide, Mr. Bodunde Adeyanju, has joined the growing army of aspirants jostling for the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State for the 2014 governorship election.
Also, a former member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Adewale Aribisala, has joined the race to pick the sole ticket of the PDP.
Some of the governorship aspirants who are eyeing Governor Kayode Fayemi's job include former Governor Ayo Fayose and Mr. Abiodun Aluko.
Mr. Bisi Omoyeni and Mrs. Abiodun Olujinmi who were deputies to Fayose during his three-and-a-half-year reign are also seeking the ticket.
Adeyanju, who was a personal assistant to Obasanjo when he was the President, said during a meeting with members of the PDP at Emure Ekiti in Emure Local Government Area on Friday that his ambition was divine.
He said he would dislodge the government of the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria from the state in 2014.
Adeyanju was upbeat about his chances at the poll just as Aribisala also expressed optimism that the PDP would form the next government in the state and that he would be the next governor.
In an interview with journalists after the meeting, Adeyanju said, "I believe I will get the ticket because God is the one behind me and nobody can stop God."


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Peter Jones asks whether SNP government minister Aileen Campbell was "flying a kite" on behalf of the First Minister in remarks she made on TV at the weekend obliquely offering the people of Scotland a referendum on the monarchy after a Yes vote next year (Perspective, 13 August).
It's a good question. I would love to know his thoughts, but unfortunately his article ducked the substantial issue of whether we should replace our unelected, unaccountable and unrepresentative head of state, as a significant proportion of Scots prefer, and focused instead on the rather more trivial matter, if I may say so, of the use of referenda themselves.
The commentariat's repeated inability to rationally debate the role of the British monarch not only does their readership a disservice – to my mind it demonstrates a lack of confidence in the case for the status quo.
The political classes in Britain today insist no one cares about the Queen's constitutional role as head of state, or that the role itself is largely benign. But they do not convince.
Perhaps The Scotsman could initiate a rational and fully informed debate on the important issues involved by inviting one contributor to defend the current arrangements and another to set down the case for a modern democratic republic.
The discussion could show which other nations emulate Britain when it comes to the [non] election of our head of state. It could point out there is no US king, German queen or French monarch at the head of those states and even the emergent Bric nations – Brazil, Russia, India and China – long ago scrapped the "divine right of kings", "hereditary privilege" and citizens being referred to as "subjects" or "commoners".
Meantime, the Independence movement in Scotland will hold a rally atop Calton Hill on 21 September, the scene of a famous earlier "Declaration for a modern democratic republic" initiated by supporters on the day the Queen officially opened the Holyrood Parliament building back in 2005.
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Thai company Charoen Pokphand Group, a major food conglomerate involved in the produce breeding, processing and grocery sectors, is under fire following allegations that its seafood supply chain is linked to illegal labour practices.
As with the recent horsemeat scandal in Europe, the scandal looks set to cast doubt over the integrity of international food retail supply chains as well as the CSR programmes that suppliers involved in the grocery trade are nowadays so keen to publicise.
A six-month investigation by the Guardian revealed that CP Group's Thai-based subsidiary CP Foods buys fishmeal to feed its farmed prawns from suppliers linked to Thai fishing boats that are allegedly manned with slaves.
CP Foods released a statement Wednesday saying it denounced slavery and will use its commercial weight to influence the Thai government to act on the matter, rather than walking away from the country's fishing industry.
CP Foods distributes, both directly and indirectly, to major retailers including Walmart, Carrefour, CostCo, Tesco and Aldi, who have been quick to distance themselves from the allegations, condemning slavery and announcing social audits. Carrefour has condemned the allegations, releasing a statement that said: "As a precautionary measure, Carrefour has decided to immediately suspend its direct or indirect purchases from this company until light has been shed on the situation."
As the US prepares its 2014 Trafficking in Persons report, the Guardian reported that the US may downgrade Thailand's ranking to tier three, setting it alongside North Korea and Saudi Arabia for apparently failing to address human trafficking issues. Such a move would potentially lead to restrictions on foreign aid from the US and the World Bank.
CP Foods is a subsidiary of CP Group, an agribusiness conglomerate that operates Siam Makro stores in Thailand as well as Lotus SuperCenters in China.
The group's Chia Tai unit is involved in the research, development and supply of vegetable and flower seeds.
In 2012, CP Foods opened a Melbourne office, supplying frozen foods to Woolworths, CostCo, 7-Eleven and some IGA stores.


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BEIJING — In little more than 100 days, China will open its arms to a deluge of foreigners, many of whom will be pleasantly surprised to find a dizzying array of designer boutiques and painfully hip martini bars that divert expatriates and middle-class Chinese in this once dowdy capital.
But even as Beijing is promising to welcome 1.5 million visitors to the Olympic Games, public security officials are tightening controls over daily life and introducing visa restrictions that are causing anxiety among the 250,000 foreigners who have settled here in recent years.
The visa rules, which were introduced last week with little explanation, restrict many visitors to 30-day stays, replacing flexible, multiple-entry visas that had allowed people to remain for up to a year. The new rules make it harder for foreigners to live and work in Beijing without applying for residency permits, which can be difficult to obtain. The restrictions are also complicating the lives of businesspeople in Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore used to crossing the border with ease.
"I can't begin to explain how serious this is going to be," said Richard Vuylsteke, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. "A barrier like this is going to have a real ripple effect on business."
The government wants to present a blemish-free image of Beijing for the Olympics. Police officers have cleared away street beggars and closed down shops selling pirated DVDs, while also forcing some migrant workers to go back to the countryside.Continue reading the main story
Over the last month the police have raided bars and clubs suspected of harboring drug dealers. An operation two weeks ago that netted a group of French teenagers has provoked charges of heavy-handed police tactics.
Other restrictions can seem random, like a decision on Wednesday that forced the cancellation of a popular music festival a week before its start. Organizers of the eight-year-old event, the Midi Festival, said officials had told them they were concerned about security. More than 80 bands, many of them from abroad, were scheduled to perform.
But most of the fear and consternation has been prompted by the new visa rules, which have thousands of foreign residents scrambling for black market documents — or contemplating leaving. Residents who in the past could apply locally to extend yearlong tourist or business visas have been instructed to return home and apply for the short-term visas at the Chinese Embassy in their home countries.
Some, like Desmond McGarry, a jazz musician who has lived here since 2002, said they would probably leave. For Mr. McGarry, returning to Canada would mean abandoning his apartment and a network of friends. "It's been very comfortable until now, even if we existed in a gray zone," he said. "Maybe I'll leave and try to come back in the fall when things calm down."
The new visa rules come at a time of heightened tensions in Beijing and other cities, where public anger has been directed at Western governments and overseas news organizations seen as sympathetic to Tibetan independence. Over the last week, that discontent has fueled demonstrations at the French Embassy in Beijing and at outlets of Carrefour, a French supermarket chain whose executives have been accused of aligning themselves with the Dalai Lama. Some foreign residents are nervously awaiting next Thursday, the first day of a planned Carrefour boycott.
Although the majority of foreigners say they have seen no change in the behavior of their Chinese neighbors and co-workers, some French residents complain that nationalist ire is seeping into their daily lives. One businessman who plays tennis at a Chinese sports club said acquaintances refused to join him on the court last weekend.
More ominously, the owner of a popular French restaurant here said he was denied a visa extension on Wednesday by an official who simply told him, "It's because you're French." The man, who asked that his name and business not be printed for fear of antagonizing the authorities, said he was in a panic. "My whole life is here," he said.
Most Westerners readily acknowledge that they enjoy privileged lives, including unspoken immunity from the tangle of rules that can complicate the lives of average Chinese.
That may be about to change. Last week English-language signs began appearing on Beijing streets and in high-end apartment buildings directing foreigners not staying in hotels to register with the police. The regulations, which are not new but are rarely enforced, promise steep fines for those who do not comply.
Because the government has not issued formal guidelines about the new visa rules, rumors and uncertainty have been rife, and travel agents say that a handful of tourists have been denied visas without evident rationale.
Cloris Yip, the manager of Smiley Travel in Hong Kong, cited the example of two tourists, a Swiss and a German; the Swiss citizen received a 30-day visa while his German companion was given one for five days. The men, she said, canceled their trip.
"Maybe the Chinese government is not so happy with the Germans right now," Ms. Yip said. "Maybe they think some foreigners want to protest Tibet during the Games. Either way, you cannot argue or negotiate."
Businessmen are also feeling powerless. Hong Kong executives accustomed to visiting mainland factories or construction projects every few days are now spending one day each week waiting for new single- or double-entry visas.
"Everyone is affected by it, and they are very unhappy," said Seth Peterson, a vice president of Techtronic Industries Company, which manufactures vacuum cleaners and power tools in southern China.
Asked about the restrictions, Jiang Yu, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, insisted that there had been no change in visa rules. "The Chinese people will welcome foreign friends in a warm, enthusiastic and open-minded way," she said during a news conference on Tuesday.
Whether or not these are just temporary measures, those who depend on foreign expertise for their businesses say the impact has been real. Collin Crowell, the managing editor of City Weekend, an English-language entertainment guide in Beijing, said the new requirements were causing consternation among the magazine's freelance writers.
And Raluca Riquet, an event planner who is organizing art shows for the summer, said she was struggling to find curators with valid visas.
"We'll find a solution, but it's not so easy," said Ms. Riquet, who holds dual French and Romanian citizenship. "The government really wants to control everything and everybody before the Olympics. For us foreigners, it's a really big change."Continue reading the main story


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South West Rocks
Friday 11th January to 13th January
Competitors from Under 8's to Masters. The Surf Club is targeting this event for its Carnival Competitors and would like to see as many there as possible.
Transport and Accommodation to be arranged by Competitors. The South West Rocks Tourist Park has Cabins and Powered Sites still available and families have started booking already, so don't miss out.
http://www.southwestrockstourist.com.au or 02 6566 6264.
When booking please tell them you are with Cabarita Beach SLSC so we hopefully can get an area together. There is a Minimum 7 night stay during this period so you might like to make a holiday of it.
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But don't fret. If you're cheap {like me}, you'll love this recipe where you can make your own granola. I think the main costs are the oats and nuts {if you choose to add them}.
4 cups old fashioned oats
1/4 cup canola oil
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup add ins - like dried fruit, pistachios, almonds, or walnuts
Preheat oven to 325 F. Line a large rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper - {I didn't have any parchment paper and used my silt pat - and it worked just as well}.
Whisk together oil, honey, brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, and salt. Pour over oats and mix. {In the past I've added just a dribblet more of honey and oil}.
Spread mixture on prepared baking sheet {I actually divided it and did it twice}. Bake for 20 minutes while taking it out to stir every 5-6 minutes. Let cool compltely, then transfer to a container. Stir in add-ins.


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Feroze1888 held a fun-filled & exciting Family Gala 2015 at Aladdin Amusement Park on 11thJan, 2015. Family Gala has been an iconic event since last few years, a day filled with fun and festivities for our employees where they enjoy games, feasts and rides along with their family.
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