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|2011-02-24, 22:17
|Link #82
Join Date: Oct 2004
"Boku no isho, iya~?"
HNNNNGGGGGGGG *faints*
|2011-02-24, 23:30
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so she finally wore the alternate uniform.... saintess and kanon will be pleased.
she STILL shares a room with Ichika since the school registry is... umm... she's a guy... right?
|2011-02-24, 23:37
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T_T I think it might be much less stressful for Charlotte to reveal her real identity as girl, but what she did must be one of the most dumbest moves possible in the love war, now she'll move rooms and of course we'll now have less Charlotte now
Anyway Laura indeed surprised with that kiss, and as expected when she goes dere will be truly something to behold =D
|2011-02-24, 23:38
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*cold sweat*
Eh? I was able to calm down a little during the end, but the "story" that was before the end, in other words, the entire episode reminded me of the Chaos of Kabutoborg... Only not in a good meaning, but painful meaning... Everything... was just so... bad! I couldn't believe it myself... If I was an anime character, I'd be like (;;;O;;O;;; ) or something like that..............
As for the end......... Yeah, yeah, Eyepatch is now part of the harem. Her falling for Ichika probably topped Cecilia's "falling in love" in randomness...
I guess if there was something good to say about the episode, it was Ichika getting beat up by Houki. Yeah...
PS: Eyepatch's running... is normal! Most normal, anyways. Then Rin, then Houki, then Charles, then Cecilia.
PPS: She really was Cinque-nee after all... Not only appearance, but story-wise...
|2011-02-24, 23:38
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ok Laura really took me by surprise in this episode. I agree with the whole class in the ehh!? moment. I knew she was going to join the harem eventually but not in that way. Funny how she went from hating him to I am going to be your wife dere mode in about a day.
I also loved the part where Houki beat up Ichika for being dense. If Charlotte was really a boy he should have been the main male protagonist he isn't nearly as dense as our current main protagonist or maybe Ichika's friend that lived off campus that appeared for that one episode.
|2011-02-25, 00:08
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|2011-02-25, 00:27
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And I mentioned the cliched thing because I wanted to say that it's related to the characters for me, and this series don't really have good... characters.
Besides Charlotte.
Oh yeah, I forgot I watch this because of the plot! So awesome! /sarcasm.
Forgot to say, you guys don't mind the fact that Rin uses her IS to attack Ichika whenever she is jealous? Both times, he would have died from the blow. She is an idiot, of course, but even so. Furthermore, how did she active that so fast?I just watched once, so I might be wrong there.
|2011-02-25, 00:33
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The battle was CRAPPY as it could get. Only cool thing was Charlotte's levelheadedness and bravery. REALLY WISH Ichika had lost just for the heck of it. It would have been much better to see him deal with a loss there and accept that he was rescued by teachers bla bla. Would also have actually made the Valkyrie Trace System look anything respectable. But no.. they had to make it a joke. Oh well. The whole ChifuyuxIchika ordeal was pathetic to say the least.
Houki was more or less just part of the background this episode. Oh man...way to kill a character. She did NOTHING after all that talk about what it meant to her bla bla.
Rin and Cecilia don't even exist anymore, sorry.
Moving on to Laura. Totally random revelations and even more random change of heart. Like I said in her character thread, while it was bad enough that other girls were falling for Ichika for no apparent reason than being defeated by him or "I will protect you too" etc., it was really not sufficient for Laura given how she was literally trying to end his existence and full of hatred for him seconds ago. At least she doesn't deny her interest and is gutsy enough to take charge though. Not even close to Charlotte in terms of awesomeness but better than every other girl simply for being awesome enough to admit her feelings, however awkwardly. I didn't like that she was blushing when she pronounced Ichika her wife. Would have been better if she had said it matter-of-factly.
And I would have saluted her if she had chosen to turn a lesbian and pursue Chifuyu while only looking out for Ichika. Not happening with this crap harem, I guess.
And finally, the good part. Charlotte was fucking awesome this time too. And I am glad they didn't ruin her character off the shelf. That bath scene was the only non-random relationship advancement scene in this entire show so far. She is the only girl who has been properly built. And she was the only one who didn't give a heinous reaction to that kiss. I would have loved it if they had included a smile from her though. Just the type she was giving Cecilia and Rin in infirmary the other day. You know, the smile that says "Ara ara you want him too now, do you? Unfortunately for you, I am the only goddess in the temple of his heart. Kiss him all you want, that's about all you are getting off him anyway." You know, the cruelly benevolent type
|2011-02-25, 00:44
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damn. general comments on episode 8.
Charles IS PRO!!!
The best technical fighter out of the main casts so far.
also, really? The whole tournament is canceled? You can't just postpone it for the next day?
Also, Ichika totally deserves the hits, Houki landed on him. I wanted to punch him too.
also. oh man. Laura stealing the first kiss.
The original 3 girls better pick up the pace.
|2011-02-25, 00:47
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I'm suffering from a severe fever + virus, so the last 2 minutes of that show were way funnier than I thought they should have been. Random girl smashing through the wall to attack him, the kiss, and even Charlotte wanting everyone to know she's a girl was just simply awesome. With the announcement of yet ANOTHER new classmate, I was rolling my eyes at that point saying 'Oh now who is it?'. Hehe
|2011-02-25, 01:13
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Houki stays on because she's the "first" childhood friend so we can't ignore her.
|2011-02-25, 01:56
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In the age of current fansubbing where word for word translation in general is frowned upon highly, I was seriously worried the fansubbers would correctly word Laura's declaration to Ichika instead of subbing that line for what it is. Just rewatched the episode with Ayako's version, and looks like those guys got it! Good job guys and gals in Ayako.
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Claire,Was Tom the guy that had a dog named Trudy? He rolled over & played dead when you pointed your finger & cocked you thumb & said bang.
I was sad to hear the news of Tom's passing. I've played disc golf with him a few times, and talked to him many more. He was a great person, and a great mentor to his group of disc golfers. Tom was always giving away discs to new players that needed them. We'll miss him.
I have not heard about a memorial tournament for Tom, but it sounds like a great idea. If you do find out about it, let me know. I'll be happy to promote it at the shop. - Thanks, Patrick.
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Driver knocks down utility pole, taken to hospital
A driver of a 2005 black Toyota Corolla crashed into a metal utility pole separating it from its base near the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway and Oakland in Beaumont around 11 a.m. Friday morning, Sept. 6. According to Sgt. Robert Flores of the Beaumont Police Department, the man was headed northbound on MLK, veered across the southbound lane and struck the pole, knocking it down. The man's vehicle kept going despite striking the utility pole hitting a smaller, second utility pole, which brought the vehicle to a halt headed the wrong direction on the left side of Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway. Beaumont Fire Department firefighters and Beaumont Police responded to the scene and removed a black male from the vehicle, placed him on a gurney and loaded him into an ambulance to be taken to the hospital.
"It was a one-car crash. It did knock down a utility pole and a traffic sign. We have no reports of injuries," Flores said. "He was alert and conscious when he was on the scene. He was transported to St. Elizabeth with minor injuries, and right now, we don't know what caused the crash."
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Fernandez closing in on innings limit set by Marlins
MIAMI -- Each inning brings Marlins right-hander Jose Fernandez closer to the end of his thus far remarkable rookie season.
Before the season, Miami management set a range with the maximum of about 170 innings.View Full Game Coverage
MIAMI -- Each inning brings Marlins right-hander Jose Fernandez closer to the end of his thus far remarkable rookie season.
Before the season, Miami management set a range with the maximum of about 170 innings.View Full Game Coverage
Fernandez entered his 24th start against the Dodgers on Monday night at Marlins Park at 139 2/3 innings.
No firm date has been set.
But basically, the club is projecting its shut-down date based on an average of seven innings per start. If he indeed can go seven innings per outing, his final start would be on Sept. 4 against the Cubs at Wrigley Field. That's if the Marlins go with him every fifth game from this point forward.
At seven innings per start, he would reach 167 2/3 on Sept. 4. If the club decided to give him an extra day, he could finish up on Sept. 6 at Marlins Park against the Nationals.
"We set that deadline for a reason," Miami manager Mike Redmond said. "It's to take care of him and protect him. We realize this is a special kid who we want to keep healthy and have pitch for a long time."
Fernandez has enjoyed a terrific season, pacing rookie pitchers with at least 15 starts in ERA (2.45), opponents' batting average (.190) and strikeouts (149) entering Monday.
Fernandez is on pace to break the Marlins' rookie strikeout mark of 166, set by Scott Olsen in 2006.
The hard-throwing right-hander -- along with Dodgers outfielder and fellow Cuba native Yasiel Puig -- is a strong National League Rookie of the Year Award contender.
"When you set that deadline in Spring Training, you don't know how that's all going to shake out," Redmond said. "He's gone out and pitched great. For him to be in the situation he's in is tremendous.
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Baja California peninsula
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The Baja California peninsula (English: Lower California Peninsula, Spanish: Península de Baja California) is a peninsula in northwestern Mexico. Its land mass separates the Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California. The Peninsula extends Script error: No such module "convert". from Mexicali, Baja California in the north to Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur in the south. It ranges for Script error: No such module "convert". at its narrowest to Script error: No such module "convert". at its widest point and has approximately Script error: No such module "convert". of coastline and approximately 65 islands. The total area of the Baja California Peninsula is Script error: No such module "convert"..
The peninsula is separated from mainland Mexico by the Gulf of California and the Colorado River. There are four main desert areas on the peninsula: the San Felipe Desert, the Central Coast Desert, the Vizcaíno Desert and the Magdalena Plain Desert.
The land of California existed as a myth among European explorers before it was discovered. The earliest known mention of the idea of California was in the 1510 romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián by Spanish author Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The book described the Island of California as being west of the Indies, "very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise; and it is peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they live in the manner of Amazons."
Following Hernán Cortés' conquest of Mexico, the lure of an earthly paradise as well as the search for the fabled Strait of Anián, helped motivate him to send several expeditions to the west coast of New Spain in the 1530s and early 1540s. Its first expedition reached the Gulf of California and California, and proved the Island of California was in fact a peninsula. Nevertheless, the idea of the island persisted for well over a century and was included in many maps. The Spaniards gave the name Las Californias to the peninsula and lands to the north, including both Baja California and Alta California, the region that became parts of the present-day U.S. states of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming.
Historical northern border
Baja California's northern border with Alta California was precisely set on August 19, 1773, near San Juan Bautista Creek by Fray Francisco Palóu. A marker stands on the line formerly dividing the two countries. The marker is behind the Misión San Miguel Arcángel de la Frontera, near Ensenada, Baja California.
Later, under the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, this international border was shifted further north to San Diego Bay, adjusting it to the claim of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo and the "sea-to-sea" claims of Sir Francis Drake and of the former colony of South Carolina.
Translated into English, the inscription on the marker reads:
San Juan Bautista Creek: Juan Crespí, May 1 for the setting of the first international division line between Old or Lower California (Dominicans) and New or Upper California (Franciscans) five leagues to the north (Valley of the Médanos) being established by: Priest Francisco Palóu on 19 August 1773 (Mojonera of Palou) in compliance with the instructions put forth on the April 7, 1772 Concordato.
Rosarito Historical Society, Baja California A.C. at The Mission, Baja California, on 20 May 1990. Fieldwork and research: . Monument donation: Mario Reyes Coronado De Villasari & family . Construction: Students of the School of Tourism at U.A.B.C.(Autonomous University of Baja California).
Province, Territory and State
The province of The Californias was united until 1804, in the Spanish colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain, when it was divided into Alta (upper) and Baja (lower) California.
The two Californias division was kept after Mexican independence in 1821. The Spanish Baja California Province became Mexican Baja California Territory, and remained a separate territory until 1836. In 1836, the Siete Leyes constitutional reforms reunited both Californias in the Departamento de las Californias. After 1848, the Baja California Peninsula again became a Mexican territory when Alta California was ceded to the United States (see 1854 map).
In 1931 Baja California Territory was divided into northern and southern territories. In 1952, the "North Territory of Baja California" became the 29th State of Mexico as Baja California. In 1974, the "South Territory of Baja California" became the 31st state as Baja California Sur.
- 1532: Hernán Cortés sends three ships north along the coast of Mexico in search of the Island of California. The three ships disappear without a trace.
- 1533: Cortés sends a follow-up mission to search for the lost ships. Pilot Fortún Ximénez leads a mutiny and founds a settlement in the Bay of La Paz before being killed.
- 1539: Francisco de Ulloa explores both coasts.
- 1690s– first decade of the 18th century: Spanish settlement and colonization in lower Las Californias (Baja peninsula), the first Spanish missions in Baja California are established by Jesuit missionaries.
- 1767: Jesuits expelled; Franciscans take over the Baja missions.
- 1769: Franciscans go with the Portola expedition to establish new missions in Alta California. Control of the existing Baja missions passes to the Dominican Order.
- 1773: Palou's line officially demarcates Franciscan and Dominican areas of mission control.
- 1804: Las Californias divided into Alta ("Upper") and Baja ("Lower") California.
- 1810–1821: Mexican War of Independence
- 1821: First Mexican Empire, Baja California peninsula becomes a Mexican territory.
- 1847: The Battle of La Paz and the Siege of La Paz occurs, as well as several other engagements.
- 1848: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo cedes Alta California to the United States. As a U.S. territory it receives the California Gold Rush, causing increased maritime traffic along the peninsula.
- 1850: California admitted to U.S. statehood.
- 1853: William Walker, with 45 men, captures the capital city of La Paz and declares himself President of the Republic of Lower California. Mexico forces him to retreat a few months later.
- 1930–31: The Territory of Baja California is further divided into Northern and Southern territories (North Territory of Baja California & South Territory of Baja California).
- 1952: The North Territory of Baja California becomes the 29th State of Mexico, Baja California. The southern portion, below 28°N, remains a federally administered territory.
- 1973: The Script error: No such module "convert". long Trans-Peninsular Highway (Mexican Federal Highway 1), is finished. It is the first paved road that spans the entire peninsula. The highway was built by the Mexican government to improve Baja California's economy and increase tourism.[1]
- 1974: The South Territory of Baja California becomes the 31st state, Baja California Sur.
- 1989: Baja California elects Ernesto Ruffo Appel the first non PRI governor since 1929.
Political state divisions
The peninsula is divided into two states (Estados):
Baja California
The northern part is the state of Baja California.[2] The citizens of Baja California are named bajacalifornianos (Lower-Californian in English). Mexicali is the capital.
Baja California Sur
The southern part, below 28° north, is the state of Baja California Sur. The citizens of Baja California Sur are named sudcalifornianos ( "South-Californian" in English ). La Paz is its capital.
The Baja California peninsula was once a part of the North American Plate, the tectonic plate of which mainland Mexico remains a part. About 12 to 15 million years ago the East Pacific Rise began cutting into the margin of the North American Plate, initiating the separation of the peninsula from it. Spreading within the Gulf of California consists of short oblique rifts or ridge segments connected by long northwest trending transform faults,[3] which together comprise the Gulf of California Rift Zone. The north end of the rift zone is located in the Brawley seismic zone in the Salton Sea basin between the Cerro Prieto Fault and the San Andreas Fault.[3] The Baja California peninsula is now part of the Pacific Plate and is moving with it away from the East Pacific Rise in a north northwestward direction.
Along the coast north of Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur is a prominent volcanic activity area.
Volcanoes of the peninsula and adjacent islands include:[4]
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- Cerro Prieto
- The San Quintín Volcanic Field
- Isla San Luis
- Jaraguay Volcanic Field
- Coronado
- Guadalupe
- San Borja Volcanic Field
- El Aguajito
- Tres Vírgenes
- Isla Tortuga
- Comondú-La Purísima
The Peninsular Ranges form the backbone of the peninsula. They are an uplifted and eroded Jurassic to Cretaceous batholith, part of the same original batholith chain which formed much of the Sierra Nevada mountains in U.S. California. This chain was formed primarily as a result of the subduction of the Farallon Plate millions of years ago all along the margin of North America.
- The Sierra Juárez is the northernmost range in Mexico.
- The Sierra San Pedro Mártir runs south of the Sierra Juarez and includes the peninsula's highest peak, the Picacho del Diablo.
- The Sierra de San Borja runs south of the Sierra San Pedro Martir.
- The volcanic complex of Tres Virgenes lies in Baja California Sur, near the border with the state of Baja California, forming the ranges south of the Sierra de San Borja.
- The Sierra de la Giganta runs along the shore of the Gulf of California south of the Tres Virgenes complex.
- At the south end of Baja California Sur, the Sierra de la Laguna forms an isolated mountain range rising to 2406 m.
- Another isolated range, the Sierra Vizcaino, juts out into the Pacific between Punta Eugenia and Punta Abreojos.
The two most prominent capes along the Pacific coastline of the peninsula are Punta Eugenia, located about halfway up the coast, and Cabo San Lazaro, located about a quarter of the way north from Cabo San Lucas.
The Bahia Sebastian Vizcaino, the largest bay in Baja, lies along the Pacific coast halfway up the peninsula. The large island of Isla Cedros is situated between the bay and the Pacific, just north of Punta Eugenia. Onshore southeast of the bay is the Desierto de Vizcaino, an extensive desert lying between the Sierra Vizcaino to the west, and the Tres Virgenes range which runs along the Gulf of California to the east.
The largest bays along the coastline of the Gulf are Bahia de La Paz where the city of La Paz is located, and Bahia Concepcion. The Bahía de los Ángeles is a small bay located west of the Canal de las Ballenas which separates the Baja peninsula from the large island of Angel de la Guarda in the Gulf of California.
The peninsula is home to several distinct ecoregions. Most of the peninsula is deserts and xeric shrublands, although pine-oak forests are found in the mountains at the northern and southern ends of the peninsula. The southern tip of the peninsula, which was formerly an island, has many species with affinities to tropical Mexico.
- California chaparral and woodlands, which covers the Mediterranean climate northwestern corner of the peninsula, as well as Cedros and Guadalupe islands.
- Sierra Juarez and San Pedro Martir pine-oak forests in the upper reaches of the Sierra Juárez and Sierra San Pedro Mártir ranges in the northern peninsula.
- The Sonoran Desert extends into the northeastern portion of the state, east of the Sierra Juárez and Sierra San Pedro Mártir ranges.
- The Baja California Desert extends east of the Peninsular Ranges along the Pacific side of the peninsula for most of its length, and includes the El Vizcaíno Desert and El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve.
- The Gulf of California xeric scrub extends along the Gulf of California side of the peninsula for most of its length.
- San Lucan xeric scrub lies in the lowlands of the peninsula's southern tip.
- Sierra de la Laguna dry forests are found on the lower slopes of the Sierra de la Laguna.
- Sierra de la Laguna pine-oak forests are found at higher elevations in the Sierra de la Laguna.
- The Bahía de los Ángeles Biosphere Reserve
The Peninsula is known colloquially as Baja by American and Canadian tourists, and is renowned for its natural beauty and pristine environment. It draws ecotourists who go whale watching for migrating California Gray Whales as well as tourists that arrive to the Baja California Gold Coast and resorts on the southern tip of the Peninsula. Its location between the North Pacific and Gulf of California give it a reputation for good sports fishing.
See also
- Notes
- ^ Barkenbus, Jack, The Trans-Peninsular Highway: A New Era for Baja California, Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Vol. 16, No. 3. (Aug., 1974), pp. 259–273.
- ^ Baja California, it is sometimes informally referred to as Baja California Norte, to distinguish it from both the Baja California peninsula, of which it covers the northern half, and the adjacent state Baja California Sur that covers the southern half of the peninsula. While it is a well-established term for the northern half of the Baja California peninsula, however, its usage would not be correct, because Baja California Norte has never existed as a political designation for a state, territory, district or region.
- ^ a b http://fire.biol.wwu.edu/trent/alles/GeologySaltonTrough.pdf Alles, David L., Geology of the Salton Trough,
- ^ http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/region.cfm?rnum=1401 Volcanoes of México and Central America
- Sources
External links
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Baja California Peninsula.
|Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Baja California.
- 12px J. W. Hawes (1879). "California, Lower". The American Cyclopædia.
- 12px "California, Lower". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.


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Fall outerwear is an investment, we know, but that doesn't mean you have to invest your entire life savings on the season's covet-worthy styles. To prove it, we've rounded up 16 coats with a big presence, but small price tags. So what are you waiting for? Get shopping!
It's Been A-Wild Coat ($130)
We've never met a leopard coat we didn't love, this one included.
Colorblock Car Coat ($168) in Navy
Not sure if you should go bright or neutral this year? Split the difference with this colorblock style from Gap. Very Celine!
Belted Plaid Tweed Coat ($198) in Grey Multi
A coat that simultaneously keeps you warm and flatters your figure? Why yes, we'll take one of those, please.
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Pair this riff on the classic peacoat with a feminine lace dress for a surprisingly chic contrast.
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UMCOR began working in Sudan in February 2005 after assessment teams determined that UMCOR's experience could add to the humanitarian effort to alleviate suffering in South Darfur. Initial programs focused on providing essential non-food items to displaced people living in camps. UMCOR Sudan has since expanded its programs to include peace building, education, agriculture and food security, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) projects. A second office was opened in South Sudan in 2006, which recently has transitioned into an independent UMCOR mission.
UMCOR's agricultural program helps internally displaced persons (IDPs) and host communities (HCs) regain their livelihood security. UMCOR provides agricultural inputs such as seeds and tools, establishes farmers' committees, and trains community members. More than 118,000 animals have been vaccinated against common diseases and are cared for by community animal health workers trained by UMCOR. Farmers have been trained in land preparation, planting and water harvesting technologies, and crop enhancement through seed selection and pest and disease control. About 8,900 households have directly benefited from livestock and seed fairs.
UMCOR's Education and Child Protection program focuses on teacher training, school construction and reconstruction, establishing Parent Teacher Associations, and providing essential school supplies for students. School kits from UMCOR's supply depots are also distributed to support students in Darfur. Schools in El Neem Refugee Camp, El Daein, Adilla, and Jadelseed have benefited from projects in school construction and supply distribution. Sports equipment, school supplies, and hundreds of desks have been distributed to these schools.
UMCOR also has constructed new classroom blocks, rehabilitated permanent classrooms, and built gender-specific latrines at the schools. Families are reluctant to send girls to mixed schools where there are no change rooms or separate washing facilities for boys and girls; moreover, the education of girls is not valued as they are expected to carry out most household chores and are often married off early.
UMCOR's education programs enhance girls' enrollment and retention in schools by sensitizing communities to the importance of girls' education and improving the learning environment for girls. For example, UMCOR partners with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Darfur Community Peace and Stability Fund (DCPSF) to distribute girls' uniforms and school materials for thousands of students in Darfur. Through funding from UNDP, UMCOR has provided hundreds of uniforms and sanitary kits to girls and trained 20 primary school teachers in conflict resolution and child-friendly education skills for the classroom.
UMCOR's peace-building project in Sudan teaches people about peaceful coexistence and conflict resolution, and organizes peace building activities through songs, dramas, and dances. The project targets youth, women, teachers, and community leaders in IDP camps in South Darfur. UMCOR helps these individuals to form Peace Clubs and Peace Committees. These groups undergo conflict resolution training and are responsible for identifying and mitigating sources of conflict in their communities. Peace-building pamphlets are circulated within the communities to disseminate messages about the importance of peace and how it can be achieved. On September 28, 2011, Adilla Locality celebrated International Peace Day with more than 400 participants. Inter-tribal conflict over land and natural resources is common in this region of Darfur. Peace is difficult to achieve because the conflict over water, land for farming, and animal grazing rights, have all led to a breakdown of service delivery, including in both health and education.
Through funds from Ginghamsburg United Methodist Church, USAID, the Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), and UNDP/DCPSF, UMCOR increases access to clean water and sanitation for more than 100,000 people in Sudan. This program drills boreholes, rehabilitates water points, and trains communities how to manage and repair their water supplies and promote hygiene. Reconstruction activities also focus on improving sanitation within the growing refugee camps and nearby host communities by building or rehabilitating household latrines.
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Use of named virtualhostDirk Gerrit Oort Mar 20, 2012 2:55 AM
It took me some time to investigate how to use mod_cluster but the most of it works now. I started with the apache server from the mod_cluster download and a as7 instance on the same machine. Indeed this works. The next step was apache on one machine and as7 on another (virtual) machine. Here I had a big problem with multicast. I use Opensuse(12.1) but when you Google on Opensuse and multicast it seems not possible only on the enterprise release. Later on I find out that a simple change in the /etc/sysctl.conf file (change the line with net.ipv4.ip_forward =0 to net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1) on the server will do the trick.
The next step use named virtual host and here I encounter lots of problems. And of course it has also to do with my lack of experience. Change the downloaded apache server to use named virtual host was one problem. So my first step was use the apache httpd server of the Opensuse release (2.2.15), add the modules for modcluster named in the documentation.
First activate an ip-based application. This worked.
The second step is to add a virtual host a simple html file with "it works", add a name in the host file.
The next step: use that named virtual host to reach my as7 server. On that server I change the settings (form localhost to 0.0.0.0) to reach also the admin app of the as7 on xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/ and my app on xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/simple. And this works. So I could type the named virtual host say http://application and I get the page you normally get on localhost:8080 and http://application/simple Ii get my simple JSF app that also works as Ii expected.
But now the last step my simple app must on the root of the address http:/application must give my Welkom file of my JSF app so what apache must do is listen to http://application and redirect to htttp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/simple. I thought change the named virtual host settings little bit. So my line : ProxyPass / balancer://mycluster stickysession=JSESSIONID|jsessionid nofailover=On becomes than ProxyPass / balancer://mycluster/simple stickysession=JSESSIONID|jsessionid nofailover=On and the same for the line with ProxyPassReverse. But this don't works. http://application gives me the as7 page and http://application/simple gives me my working jsf app.
So is there somebody who can gives me some hints to solve this.
The failing settings for apache are :
<VirtualHost 192.168.0.190:8888>
<Location />
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 192.168.0
KeepAliveTimeout 60
MaxKeepAliveRequests 0
ManagerBalancerName mycluster
ServerAdvertise On
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<VirtualHost *>
ServerName application
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/jboss_a/error.log
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-agent}i\" %I %O" extra
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/jboss_a/access.log extra
ProxyPass / balancer://mycluster/simple stickysession=JSESSIONID|jsessionid nofailover=On
ProxyPassReverse / balancer://mycluster/simple stickysession=JSESSIONID|jsessionid
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Nvidia Levels Up With New Gaming Graphics Card
May 4, 2012 1:15 PM PT
A new video card from Nvidia or competitor AMD isn't usually all that newsworthy, but when the latest card arrives with eight Graphics Processing Clusters (GPCs), and a total of 4 GB of GDDR5 video memory that runs at 6.008 GHz over two 256-bit memory, that is enough for hard-core enthusiasts to take pause.
For everyone else, the release of a video card that carries a price point just under US$1,000 will certainly draw attention.
The Nvidia GTX 690, which is powered by dual Kepler-based architecture-based GPUs, also features a chromium-plated aluminum casing that is a departure from the typical chips and fans on a board. Nvidia made it clear this one, which looks impressive on the outside while providing equally impressive graphics performance, wasn't aimed at the casual gamer.
"The GTX 690 is truly a work of art -- gorgeous on the outside with amazing performance on the inside," said Brian Kelleher, senior vice president of GPU engineering at Nvidia. "Gamers will love playing on multiple screens at high resolutions with all the eye candy turned on. And they'll relish showing their friends how beautiful the cards look inside their systems."
For the Hardest of the Hard-Core
Rather than aiming at the gaming masses, Nvidia seems to be going the other direction with the GTX 690. But is this a wise strategy, given that console systems are falling in price, and the PC gaming market isn't as strong as it once was?
"For a grand, I can't see this as anything but a boutique product at this point," said Joe Rybicki, freelance video game consultant. "Prices will come down, and eventually the new tech may have a wider impact, but at the moment this strikes me as the opposite of a game-changer. By that I mean it digs high-end PC gaming deeper into its secluded burrow."
Yet Nvidia is now embracing the fact that this is a card for the hardest of the hard-core.
"The PC has, is, and always will be the pre-eminent gaming platform. Bar none," Nvidia spokesperson Bryan Del Rizzo told TechNewsWorld. "The GTX 690 also allows those gamers to crank up all of the eye candy and Nvidia technologies, such as PhysX, for a truly immersive and realistic experience."
Multi-Monitor Action
Those using an old 17-inch CRT monitor or just playing "Angry Birds" on Facebook clearly aren't the customer for the new Nvidia card, and the biggest gains will be seen by gamers who are gaming at 1900x1080 resolutions or higher, noted Del Rizzo -- and playing the latest, graphics-intensive action games.
"This would be for folks using 30-inch displays, those using surround setups, where the game is displayed across three screens, or those playing in 3D Vision Surround -- stereoscopic mode across multiple screens," added Del Rizzo. "Games that can be experienced in all of this visual glory include 'Battlefield 3' and 'Dirt 3.'"
Today's High-End Is Tomorrow's Base-Level
Just because the GTX 690 is the graphics card du jour doesn't mean it will always be so. To that end, the technology it utilizes will likely -- and in a remarkably short time as well -- see its way to the mainstream. But it still allowed Nvidia to get there first.
"This plants a flag in the ground for Nvidia and allows them a bold finger waving in the air to say, 'We're No. 1," said N'Gai Croal, chief consultant at Hit Detection. "So this is a 'Guinness Book of World Records' statement, but if they are doing this at the high-end, it is reasonable to think that the next generation of video game consoles -- which won't be announced for another year -- will have technology on par with this."
Nvidia and AMD have developed the graphics for video game consoles, and Del Rizzo emphasized that today's systems from Sony and Microsoft are showing their respective age. "They may be cheaper, [but] they are using outdated technology that is at least four-to-five generations old and cannot offer the same visual and immersive gaming experiences as offered by the PC."
At least until next time.
"It isn't long until this kind of performance trickles down in laptops, tablets and even mobile phones," Croal told TechNewsWorld. "This is directional, and the GTX 690 card is just a preview of how things are going to shape up. That's the bigger news than Nvidia has just released a top-of-the-line video card."


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The Pistons just want everyone to know that the road to San Antonio goes through Detroit. Get a trip-tik, duke. Now you may ask, Oh seer of seers, how will the Motown Get Along Gang continue to push their reign on the top beyond leprechaun proportions? Easy. Teamwork. When Carlos Arroyo got into a little bit of turkey-burger level beef with D-Notz last night, he got himself ejected. But you know what? The team stuck together like putty, toddlers. Check what this site's patron saint had to say:
"I don't know what happened, but I am sure he had his reasons. He didn't do it because he just felt like he wanted to get into it. But I am with him. I don't care what happened. If he felt like that, I felt like that."
One is reminded of the oft-used aphorism, "RIDE OR DIE." If Milwaukee had this kinda brotherhood they wouldn't even fucking need Jamaal Magloire! Love is the currency!
Another reason for the Pistons constant headlock application to the East is the crafty GM-manship of Joe Dumars. Looks like the God is going to lock up the services of Tayshaun Prince (he of, "THE THING ABOUT PRINCE IS THAT HE IS SO LONG" and "PRINCE HAS TREMENDOUS UPSIDE" fame). Shit runs so smoothly in the D that Dumars makes jokes about contract negotiations. He ambled up to Prince as the two were checking out of a hotel:
"I told him, 'You should pay this bill.' I had been on the phone with his agent all day."
Dumars continued:
"And pick up the tab for that mini-bar, too! Stoli Vanilla doesn't grow on trees. Although if I get any more of these rings I might just change the fucking game, go into agriculture and see if I can't fix that! I'm about to put your grandchildren's grandchildren through grad-school. This round's on you, baller."
Perhaps invigorated by the Prince-purchased Bloody Mary's, Dumars held court on the subject of Mike Dunleavy Jr., a small forward with similar time served as Prince, who is on the verge of getting 50 million from the Warriors. When asked if Dunleavy's huge contract could impact his negotiations with Prince, Dumars replied:
"Yo, Chris Mullin can give Opie whatever he wants. Chris Mullin got a fucking Angel Dust problem too. That mean I gotta get me one of them? I saw Baron Davis hobbling down the ave. in Oakland talking 'bout ain't no half steppin'. That dude has 8 power forwards and J-Rich. Come see me when you're playing in May, Cock-Knocker."


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Mac Spy Software users may run into kinds of problems when purchase or use spy software. Today we will talk about what happened to my customers.
Once a new client complained to us that half a year ago he bought a piece of spy software from one of our competitors but found that it stopped working a few months later. When he approached the email support of the spy software he was told that he needed to pay extra $69 per year to update the software to continue using it. He never heard about or read any announcement about its update policy anywhere before his purchasing. He took it as a scam and switched to Aobo Mac Keylogger which supports one-time payment and life-time use.
Our advice is that before you purchase spy software you should do enough homework. Do not just to see the low price and forget the quality of the spy software and its service. A good way is to contact the software support to gain more information and install a trial before purchase. There are too many scams in present market. Please be cautious about purchasing online.
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Any AMACO glaze can be a crystalline glaze by simply adding glaze crystals to wet glaze after application! The Royal Blue Glaze crystals add bursts of cobalt blue that break up the surface of flat colored glazes with interesting effects and add depth to the overall finished piece. It is recommended that these crystals be fired at cone 05 for the best results, but can be used at any temperature.
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Letter, S. L. Adair to Rev. S. S. Jocelyn
Author: Adair, Samuel Lyle
Date: May 3, 1855
Samuel Adair wrote from Osawatomie to thank Rev. Jocelyn, an official of the American Missionary Association, for his encouragement and fiscal support of $100. He said they will use it to pay what they owe and then make it last as long as possible. His wife has taken in sewing and washing to make ends meet but Adair asks Jocelyn not to share that information. He discussed the weather and his religious missionary efforts in detail. Adair also commented on migration to Kansas and motives of those coming. This appears to be a draft of a letter sent to Jocelyn.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: Samuel and Florella Adair Collection, #161, Box 6, Folder 13
Item Number: 100466 Number of images: 4
Keywords: Adair, Samuel Lyle; American Missionary Association; Emigration and immigration; Jocelyn, S. S.; Lykins County, Kansas Territory (see also Miami County, Kansas); Miami County, Kansas (see also Lykins County, Kansas Territory); Migration, internal; Osawatomie, Kansas Territory; Religion
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Saturday, March 3, 2012
I Can't Explain It
First, I bought some yarn at Stitches West.
This is not that yarn. For a number of reasons, one of them which is I told myself I couldn't buy anymore blue or pink yarns. This yarn is perfectly pink, so it must not be from Stitches. Wait. I did actually end up buying pink AND blue yarns, but it is still not from Stitches.
Second, this yarn did not arrive by itself. Nope, it arrived with A LOT of other lovely Plucky Knitter yarn that I had pre-ordered back in January...I think just days after my knee surgery. Hence, the pain meds-induced yarn splurge. I don't remember ordering all that, but damn, I'm so glad I did. It is just gorgeous!! However, receiving it right after a weekend haul at Stitches...um...can anyone say yarn diet? Commencing now.
Third, I don't have a new design on the needles and had planned to wind some yarn from Stitches intended for a new design. I did actually do that last night. But I couldn't keep thinking about my bag of pretty Plucky Knitter yarns that had arrived and so I wound that lovely skein of pink happiness.
And that is where I don't know what happened next. Sure, I have a few baby showers coming up, but I wasn't expecting what happened next.
An amazingly quick new baby sweater design, featuring the motif from my Maryanne socks, suddenly appeared. I think I cast on around 10pm last night. And I'd finish it tonight if I could but I must go shopping with my sister. I blame the new sport yarn that is just perfect. Well, and the wee cuteness.
I mean the baby shower is still a few weeks away. This just seems weird. Efficient. Timely. Again, weird.
But I'm hooked!
Happy Saturday!
xoxo Irishgirlieknits
9 comments:
- Renee Anne said...
I so want in on that baby sweater........both my siblings-in-law are having babies this summer and while we know one is a girl, we don't know what the other one is (yet).
*sigh* I probably wouldn't get it done anyway.
- March 3, 2012 at 5:17:00 PM PST
- Zonda said...
Oh I am loving that lil' sweater! Got lots of sport sitting around her ;) Not Plucky sport though
:( eeep sorry for the influx of blue yarn for you this week ;)
- March 3, 2012 at 5:35:00 PM PST
- dianne said...
Holy Sweetness! I'm going o need to make one of those too for my sweet niece Morgan.
- March 3, 2012 at 5:56:00 PM PST
- tapmouse said...
Awesome! I'll be waiting for that pattern! Quick baby knits are the best! By IrishGirlieKnits-even BETTER!
- March 3, 2012 at 11:18:00 PM PST
- Discoknits said...
That is SO pretty :0) Nice job.
- March 4, 2012 at 5:47:00 AM PST
- neknitsandbeads said...
Now can we twist your arm to publish this pattern soon? :-)
My sister is due in July and I'd love to knit this for her.
I'm also just ordered the yarn for your Sweet Baby Kate hat & socks. They are cute in their own right, however, since my sister's name is Katie they will go over big time!
- March 4, 2012 at 7:06:00 AM PST
- gMarie said...
Adorable! My good friend is expecting her second grandchild any day now. Let me know if/when you need testers - please. g
- March 4, 2012 at 12:49:00 PM PST
- Kaye said...
So cute!
- March 4, 2012 at 2:15:00 PM PST
- Rani said...
Genius can strike at any time! Perfect. Perfectly pink!
- March 4, 2012 at 8:02:00 PM PST


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I know that La Mer is an expensive range and the cream evokes feelings of love and hate – but I personally have always loved the brand (or the products I have tried anyway). The Lip Balm is amazing, so is the foundation.
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A treatment cream concealer that optically corrects dark circles and blemishes to create a naturally flawless finish.
This concealer comes with a little pouch and a decent brush. The compact itself is quite small with a mirror. I like the size of the compact because I generally dislike over the top heavy clunky packaging.
The La Mer The Radiant Concealer comes in three shades, Light, Medium and Dark but it isn't THAT dark so I think this range would work for olive skins but not beyond that.
You get 3.5g of concealer in the tub.
I have shade medium. I would say it's ok for under my eyes (I am about NC35 in MAC or Medium Beige in Dior, 40 in Chanel) but a tad pale for my face. Not the end of the world though, I find concealers that are slightly lighter are easily blended in once foundation and powder is on.
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In terms of texture, I would say this is quite a firm cream concealer. It's the kind that goes hard when it's cold and needs warming up – it's not full on creamy like Bobbi Brown under eye concealers, and it kind of reminds me of a softer version of the RMK concealer (which is a TREMENDOUS concealer but is too thick for under the eyes).
This concealer is neither too thick nor too creamy. To be honest with the current climate I would prefer something a bit softer and creamier (but this also creases quicker on me) so this product, mixed with a dab of eye cream is ideal:
For the face, again it works quite well. It most definitely does conceal well and adds a bit of luminosity to the skin too. If you have quite extreme dark circles this will cover and conceal no problem.
If you have less of a problem, I'd say use something lighter.
This is supposed to be a treatment concealer that is good for the skin (especially around the eyes). I do worry about the effect of using heavy concealer around my eyes as I am getting more and more wrinkly in that area!
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Waitress finally gets $1,000 Mother's Day tip
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A Waffle House waitress has received a $1,000 Mother's Day tip directly from her customer after the restaurant refused to give it to her because it was left on a credit card.
Shaina Brown was working the night shift in Raleigh when a man left her the tip. But the Waffle House tells The Raleigh News & Observer (http://bit.ly/1hEUWgk ) that it refunds large tips unless they're paid by cash or check to avoid disputes about charges.
Brown tells WTVD-TV in Raleigh (http://tinyurl.com/oax5mba) she was humiliated when the restaurant refused to give her the money.
She says she got a call last week from her customer, who wants to remain anonymous. She says he had heard about her problems and wrote her a check directly.
Brown calls the man a hero.
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Collective2 API
Collective2 allows users to choose from a library of stock exchange trading systems, subscribe to those systems, and then automatically trade those systems in the user's brokerage account. Collective2 offers a Signal Entry API with which users can place trades and send trading-related instructions. Developers can also write software which pulls trading information out of Collective2 with the Collective2 AutoTrading API (C2ATI). Both APIs use HTTP.


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By the time Advent officially begins, most of us have been bombarded by so much Christmas music and Christmas advertising and Christmas everything that we're already sick of the season. In a world where the Christmas countdown begins sometime before Halloween, it's easy to lose sight of the beauty of Advent, and to get so caught up in the material trappings that we can't see the spiritual forest for the tinsel-covered trees.
We live in a goal-oriented society, and in this case, Christmas is the end zone that we're running toward at breakneck speed, hardly looking at what's going on along the sidelines. But our faith beckons us to stop the madness, to stop the running, to focus on the journey as much as the destination. And to do that the Church gives us the four-week season of Advent, with its beautiful interplay of darkness and light, with its scriptural focus not only on the coming of the Christ Child but on the second coming of Jesus Christ, and with its quiet but constant insistence that we prepare — not just for a day but for a lifetime, and for the next life.
If we've been paying attention these past few months, we've been given some sound advice on how to do all this from Pope Francis, whose pastoral theme has been one focused on moving away from materialism and toward a deepening relationship with others and God.
"Brothers and sisters, let us call upon the name of Jesus," Pope Francis challenged during his Nov. 3 Angelus address. "… And let us welcome him with joy: He can change us, can transform our hearts of stone into hearts of flesh, he can liberate us from selfishness and make our lives a gift of love."
"Liberate us from selfishness." Sounds like an Advent plan. So we start and end with Jesus, but how do we manage the days in between that are filled with things of a much less transcendent but somewhat necessary nature? It requires Herculean effort to silence the drumbeat of the secular version of this holiday and holy day. But by creating rituals and practices that refocus our attention on Jesus, we can bring some sanity, serenity and balance to the most difficult aspects of the season: the waiting, the buying and the praying amid the noise.
"Waiting is never easy, especially when we're waiting for something as important and awesome as Christmas. Yet, the waiting itself is essential in properly preparing our hearts to welcome our Lord. If he just appeared suddenly — bing! Instant Savior! — then we wouldn't have time for the prayer, meditation and contemplation that is required to reach the level of reverence that our hearts need and that he deserves," said Marge Fenelon, author of "Waiting with Mary: Advent Reflections for Those Who Hate to Wait."
"During Advent, the Church asks us to relive those weeks before Mary gave birth to Jesus. No mother (not even foster or adoptive) welcomes a child out of the blue. There always is a period of preparation and anticipation. Advent is a time for us to imitate Mary's pregnant motherhood — yes, even the guys — in that we await his birth in our hearts on Christmas morning. Savoring the waiting takes practice and determination," she said. "To pull it off fruitfully, we need to focus on the waiting itself and how we're approaching it spiritually. We need to plan spiritual exercises, customs, and quiet times that will lead us into, and hold us in, the attitude of holy expectation. If we don't plan for a waiting-ful Advent, it won't happen by itself."
Fortunately, the Church gives us a ready-made set of customs and exercises from which to choose. The Advent wreath is the most popular and familiar custom most Catholics use to mark the days of the season with prayer. But there are other opportunities to bring ritual and prayer into the season in ways that makes sense for you and your family. (See sidebar for Advent ideas.) Regardless of the method, the bottom line is prayer.
Everything is rooted in a prayerful watching and waiting. Fenelon, who says she wrote her book precisely because she lacks patience, told Our Sunday Visitor that prayer is essential if we're going to try to slow down this season.
"Waiting is hard because we're trained not to wait. Everything is instantaneous now — information, mental stimulation, recreation and even relationships. Digital technology puts it all right at our fingertips at a second's notice … Prayer can't be measured in gigabytes; it is measured in heartbeats. It's also addictive. The more we pray, the more we feel the need to pray," she said. "It can be a real struggle to reach the point of deeply fulfilling prayer when we're feeling pressured by holiday preparations. We might not even feel like praying at all. That's when we have to start with baby steps."
Those baby steps can be something as simple as lighting a candle before dinner each night and stopping for just a minute to refocus attention on the sacred rhythm of the season, or it might be a conscious decision to avoid playing Christmas music or putting Christmas decorations up too early in the season. It's not easy when "Jingle Bells" is playing from every radio station and when Santa is waving from every shopping center. But making an intentional effort to go against the grain will slow things down and allow you to savor the true beauty of Advent.
Perhaps nothing says Christmas like consumerism in mainstream America. We are living in a material world, and during the weeks and months leading up to Christmas, that fact is magnified to the point of the absurd. Gone are the days of handmade gifts and thoughtful trinkets. Now it's not unusual for people to ask for gift cards, which is really just a polite way of saying, as Sally does in "A Charlie Brown Christmas," "Just send money. How about tens and twenties?"
Quantity counts a little too much when it comes to Christmas these days, a point that is driven home by the folks at Advent Conspiracy, an organization that strives to make people aware of the over-the-top spending that goes on in the name of Jesus and offers ways to reverse that.
In a video clip that went viral when it was first posted in 2006 — and which has done the same every year since — Advent Conspiracy points out that Americans spend $450 billion on Christmas every year, most of it on credit. That's a lot of stuff, most of it unnecessary.
The video encourages people to give more of their time and their love and themselves, and less of their paycheck and watch the magic start to happen.
"I think people want a different way because they see all this stuff they're buying is not doing it … We give people permission to relax, to enjoy the season and to push back on the tendencies they have to buy," Tony Biaggne, creative director of Advent Conspiracy, told OSV.
Biaggne said people innocently try to fill the empty spaces in their lives with material things because that's what the world tells us will make us happy. Advent Conspiracy started asking people to consider cutting back on even one gift and distributing that money to a good cause.
What happened was staggering. The group has raised millions of dollars for Living Water International, which works to end the "clean water crisis."
But Biaggne is quick to mention that Advent Conspiracy is an "upside down charity." It didn't start out as an effort to raise money; it started as an effort to raise awareness of Jesus' importance in our lives.
"We gave people a chance to focus on Jesus. The natural outflow is love, grace and mercy. It just happens," he said. "People desperately are searching for a chance to truly connect with the God of the universe who truly does give them a sense of peace on earth."
But that doesn't mean forgoing gifts and taking on a Scrooge persona. Instead, the idea is not to stop giving gifts, but to give more intentional gifts, not necessarily handmade gifts but gifts from the heart.
What does that look like in our modern world?
Well, it could be as simple as giving a child a "date" with mom or dad, a special day where they get to go somewhere or do something with a parent without interruptions or distractions like Facebook or work phone calls or TV.
Even gift cards can become heartfelt gifts when done right, said Biaggne.
"So if you give a gift card, you might say, 'I know you love to shop at this store. The only catch is, I want to be with you and have lunch with you and shop with you,'" he said. "It becomes relational, and that redeems what seems like an empty gift."
Biaggne is also quick to explain that Advent Conspiracy and other efforts to restore some sanity to the season cannot work without Jesus at the heart. He said that choosing not to include Jesus in a meaningful Christmas season is like choosing not to breathe oxygen when you take a breath. It can't be done.
"You cannot enter into this without bringing your faith to the table and bringing Christ to the center of it and focusing on why the Christmas story matters," he said. "It's the most surreal, beautiful, most unexpected way that a Savior would enter into our world for all time."
So, for those of us just trying to balance the spiritual and the secular this season, how do we make it work?
"Forget trying to change the world and simply try to change your family," said Al Kresta, president and CEO of Ave Maria Radio and author of "Dangers to the Faith: Recognizing Catholicism's 21st Century Opponents" (OSV, $14.95). "You ask how Catholics can change. We won't if we don't recognize the seduction of consumerism. In spite of strong, even pointed, papal preaching, most Catholics still don't feel that consumerism is much of a problem. It is, according to John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Consumerism is the life orientation that our identities are formed by purchasing and consuming goods and services."
Kresta told OSV that rather than scold others or society for the sad state of the Advent and Christmas season, do small things at home to make a difference where it counts — in the heart of your family.
That means, first and foremost, treating Advent as a season and an event separate from Christmas, rather than an extended shopping season.
"We sing Christmas carols all through Advent. We put Baby Jesus in our crèche scenes before the Nativity. Stop it. Don't scold others about it. Stop it yourself and in your family. Try to enjoy the fact that our culture still has a way of recognizing the Incarnation, as inadequate a celebration as it is, and don't be a scold. But be merrily different and when questions arise, enjoy making the point about Advent as a season of anticipation and the octave of Christmas as a season of thanksgivng," he said. "One way to ensure that Advent will be a time of reflection rather than a time for commercial hype is to simply try and do as much Christmas shopping as possible the week before Advent begins. This requires more planning but I do know people who do and they exhort the rest of us to try. Advent, they say, has never been more meaningful."
Biaggne from Advent Conspiracy also stressed the importance of doing small things that have the potential for big results. He suggested taking time to be silent now and then, saying that Psalm 46:10 — "Be still and know that I am God" – is his favorite go-to Scripture verse during the otherwise hectic season.
"I love that God is constantly trying to get us to shut up. Be quiet, not just physically, but turn off the buzzing in your head, turn off the quickening pace of your heart because of stress and know," Biaggne said, adding that when we do that others pick up on the shift in us.
"They catch a whiff of grace. They notice we're living differently, more at peace. 'What's your trick?' they ask," he said.
The answer is simple but not always welcome: Jesus, at the heart of Advent, at the heart of everyday life.
How does that translate into Advent action in Biaggne's home?
He recalled how last year his 9-year-old son gave him a "date day" for Christmas. He made Biaggne his favorite pasta, served it up with sparkling grape juice, and asked his dad to talk about his life.
"It was a dinner I'll never forget," Biaggne said, reminding parents that their kids are not likely to remember the action figure or game they got years ago but the time you spent with them and the special rituals you created.
He recalled how his own father used to pick him up from his Catholic school to take him to a business club for Christmas lunch."It wasn't about what he gave me," he said. "It was all about the time we spent together."
When we start to feel our spirits flagging as the push to conquer Christmas continues, we can look to Pope Francis for inspiration and guidance.
Although the message isn't groundbreaking, he has put renewed emphasis on the dangers of materialism, a message that seems especially appropriate during this season of excess.
"Pope Francis perfectly follows the emphases of John Paul II and Benedict XVI on this matter of consumerism. The advantage that Pope Francis has is that he is living as close as possible to the very people he wants to reach and can better depict the immediate love of Jesus for the lonely, the poor and disabled. Like Jesus, he is with the people and by living with us he affirms our dignity and value," said Kresta, who devotes a chapter to "Consumerism: Branding the Heart" in his book.
"To redeem means to buy us back from the slave market of sin. Consumerism sees redemption as a matter of coupon clipping or payment plans. It buys back products; Christ redeems persons. One of the purposes of the Incarnation is to break the bonds of consumerism," Kresta explained. "Christ's coming shatters its false scale of value so that we will no longer live enthralled by the impulses of the flesh, the seduction of the world or the manipulations of the devil. ... We imitate the one who 'though he was rich, yet became poor for our sakes' (2 Cor 8:9). This strikes me as a particularly poignant theme for American Catholics to ponder during Advent."
Mary DeTurris Poust is the author of "Everyday Divine: A Catholic Guide to Active Spirituality" (Alpha, $14.95).
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The Jacksonville Jaguars are upping the video board game.
The team is expected to unveil its new 362-feet wide video boards at EverBank Field on July 26 at a soccer friendly and Carrie Underwood concert, per The Florida Times Union.
In the meantime, the Jags are promoting the fact that their screens are the world's largest with a billboard at the I-95 and I-10 split in Jacksonville that takes a friendly jab at fellow NFL teams.
A local fan tweeted out a picture of the billboard, which points out it's bigger than the ones in Dallas and Houston.
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The Jags billboard will dwarf the Cowboys' (160 feet) and Texans' (277 feet) in the ever-escalating battle for screen dominance.
The boards are part of the Jags' $63 million effort to entice fans to leave their couches on Sundays.
Testing of the board was apparently going on this weekend and a worker took a snapshot. It looks pretty, pretty, pretty awesome.
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Probably all of us have heard of the poet, e. e. cummings. Critics have often labelled him as one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His poetry is often cited for its experimental form, typography, grammar, word coinages, sensitive feelings, and subtle perceptions. It is the work of an idiosyncratic individualist belonging to no school or movement. It's work that has led rather than followed. Yet as popular as the poet was in the first half of the century, probably few today have ever read a word of his poetry. And it would surprise many people to learn that this well-known, highly experimental, highly intelligent writer was also a highly experimental painter as well. In fact, cummings considered his painting efforts on an equal footing with his writing - what he called his "twin obsessions." And he applied the same curiosity, attention to craft, and aesthetic principles to both.
Cummings began to paint shortly after W.W.I, about the same time he began to write. Writing, of course, paid the bills. And in doing so, it allowed him to devote even more time to his paintings. For the first thirteen years or so, up until about 1928, cummings considered himself and his work to be abstractionist. The avant-garde loved it. He wrote copiously on nearly everything he painted (sometimes literally). During the same time, his drawings and caricatures were highly visible critical and publishing successes. His paintings were considered American Cubist works. And while utilising generally recognisable subjects, his use of colour could only be considered wildly exuberant, even fantastical. His detailed writings on the aesthetics of colour theory and human form fill thousands of pages.
However much the critics in the art world of the 1920s may have loved his paintings, cummings gradually began to distance himself from them. He considered them hopelessly anti-intellectual. And it was in 1928 that he abandoned abstract art and the critics who validated it altogether. Despite the fact that they generally liked his work, cummings' contempt for art critics was rooted in the belief that they considered artistic value and intellectual rigor mutually exclusive. cummings said of his work that it "...pushes abstraction beyond the abstract and returns to nature," adding that, "as soon as you cut yourself off from nature, all you get is decoration." Recasting himself as an artist, cummings spent the rest of his life refining his aesthetic principles in terms of representational art.
Cummings was nothing if not versatile. He explored every artistic and aesthetic venue with the same intellectual rigor and painterly vigour that he'd displayed in his abstracts, from nudes and erotic works to landscapes, still-lifes, even the technically demanding art of portraiture. In fact, his portraits are often considered some of his best works. He travelled extensively abroad and for long periods of time, painting and drawing like some people shoot snapshots. His artistic interests also extended to the circus and the burlesque theatre with marvellously dynamic sketches often drawn practically in the dark. With swift, fluid, seemingly instinctive pencil strokes, cummings' drawings of strippers and exotic dancers, capture in rapid, yet succinct drawings a surprising amount of detail, movement, and atmosphere.
In viewing the art of e. e. cummings, it's tempting to say he was even more of an artist than a writer, especially inasmuch as his art seems easier to digest than his writings. In fact, indications are, he devoted much more time to his art. cummings was a purist when it came to his art. He viewed representational painting as more of a challenge than abstraction, calling those who worshipped Picasso as "super submorons" who ignored the fact that their hero himself had once declared that there was no such thing as "abstract" painting, crying out instead for artists to "respect the object." Whether painting in a representational or non-representational manner, cummings rose above even that. He painted more than "things." He painted art, and always generously imbued it with the power of reasoned of aesthetics.
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As an employer, DWP is committed to equality and valuing diversity within its workforce.
Our goal is to ensure that these commitments, reinforced by our values, are embedded in our day-to-day working practices with all our customers, colleagues and partners.
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"[One day] I said to Ueshiba Sensei, "You are always praying, Ueshiba Sensei. Then aikido is a religion." "No, that's not true. Aikido is never a religion, but if you are a Christian, you will be a better Christian because of aikido. If you are a Buddhist, you will be a better Buddhist." I thought it was an amazing response. I really liked his answer. Since he was a Japanese I was afraid he would say that Christianity was nothing. Ueshiba Sensei had a great deal of respect for Christ. I was living in a four-mat room in the dojo and he would knock on the door and enter. He would sit down beside me and there was a portrait of Jesus Christ. He would place his hands together in a gesture of respect. I asked him one day if there wasn't a similarity between his prophecies and those of Christ. He answered, "Yes, because Jesus said his technique was love and I, Morihei, also say that my technique is love. Jesus created a religion, but I didn't. Aikido is an art rather than a religion. But if you practice my aikido a great deal you will be a better Christian." Then I asked, "Sensei should I remain a Christian?" He replied, "Yes, absolutely. You were raised as a Christian in France. Remain a Christian." If he had told me to stop being a Christian and become a Buddhist, I would have been lost. My heart was full of Ueshiba Sensei because he had a vision of the entire world and that we were all his children. He called me his son."
Source: http://www.aikidojournal.com/article?articleID=405
The teachings of Oomoto are not those of a single sect. We don't believe, as do many established religions, that in the words of our founder we have the one and only religious truth. At Oomoto, we don't bind up and destroy people's living souls by encircling them with the steel nets and bars of doctrine and scriptures and rituals and catechisms. As a result, Christians, Buddhists and believers of other faiths from all over the world come to Oomoto, and we all work together to cultivate our spirituality and to discover religious principles in harmony with our times.Onisaburo Deguchi, 1923
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April 5th, 2012
A few months ago Transworld released their 30th anniversary issue, showcasing the 30 most influential skaters of all time. Geoff was voted #26 on TWS' list (read the interview here). Recently they've been releasing the video interviews they shot with all 30 skaters. Here's the second part of Geoff's interview.