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Saturday, March 17, 2012
In My Mailbox (14)
Wow, first IMM of the year... I know, I'm a slacker :/
Anyways, I filmed a vlog, and if you're too lazy, I also listed the books at the bottom :)
Books mentioned:
The Disenchantments by Nina Lacour
Tomorrow When the War Began by John Marsden
I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen
The Probability of Miracles by Wendy Wunder
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Black Heart by Holly Black (trade with Chloe @ YA Booklover Blog, thank you!!)
Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore (borrowed from Rachel @ Reading Timbits, thank you soo much!)
And I know, IMM is supposed to be a Sunday thing, but who cares :p Have a great weekend, everybody! Leave IMM links and I'll try my best to drop by in between studying psych and... well.. studying psych :)
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I like all your lights in the background - pretty :) Ooo I also want to read The Probablity of Miracles, I've also heard great things about it. I loved how you featured a picture book, that's so cute! Loved your reaction to Bitterblue LOL!! I just bought Graceling and I need to read it soon!!ReplyDelete
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Haha, my roommate got them, I love them too! I hope you like Graceling, it's one of my favourite YA fantasy books ever! :)Delete
Glad you got your book! You should look inside the front cover, I threw in some fun bookmarks :) Also, The Probability of Miracles is awesome!ReplyDeleteReplies
AHH I just saw them, I can't believe I missed it before!! Thank you so much <3 :DDelete
You are going to love the tomorrow when the war began series ! I read it about 10 years ago and to this day it is still one of my favorites YA series of all time !!!!! It's really good :D they made a movie out of the 1st book in Australia you might be interested in checking it out if you like it. Yeah I can't recommend that one enough !ReplyDeleteReplies
I really hope so!! Eeep, and it looks like it's still holding its own after 10 years :D And yes, I have heard of the movie! It'll be a must if I do get to read the book :)Delete
I was looking at the lights too. Prettyyyyyy. And hey, you have a awesome library! The Disenchantments by Nina Lacour and Tomorrow When the War Began by John Marsden are deffo two books I want to read. Hope they are awesome love! So good to see a post and vlog from you. I have missed you.ReplyDelete
PS: How is the movie version of One for the Money by Janet Evanovich. Have been thinking about watching it :)
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Haha I love it! ANd of course I have missed you too <3 One for the Money was.. alright. You have to be in a kind of rom-com, just take it as it is kind of mood, or it'll be kinda bad :PDelete
Oh I forgot.ReplyDelete
I totally loved that little slip up from you hehehe.
Feel free to do it again and again and again and again.
The potty mouth queen :D
I LOVE YOUR HAIR. :DReplyDelete
Tomorrow, When The War Began -- I seriously have to look that one up. Even bloggers who aren't Aussie have been reccing it to me. :P Hope you like The Probability of Miracles by Wendy Wunder more than I did... and wow. Bitterblue is one fat ARC. :P
YOU TURNED TO THE EXACT PERFECT PAGE IN I WANT MY HAT BACK. <3 <3Replies
haha, thank you! End of the day though, it's back in a ponytail :P I keep hearing all these good things about it too.. it looks like I'll probs have to read that next (ish) XD It's an awesomely lovely fat arc ;)Delete
I love all of the pretty lights in the background! I can't wait to hear what you think of The Probability of Miracles and I Want My Hat Back. I also got The Disenchantments this week, it sounds so great, I hope you love it! Have an awesome weekend Audrey :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Awwe, thank you! And same here, I wish I had more time to read! Thanks for checking out my IMM :DDelete
I read I Want My Hat Back while at work one day (I work at a Chapters store) and seriously laughed my ass off when I was done. So funny. I also really want to re-read Tomorrow, When the War Began. I read it in high school but I don't remember a whole lot about it, and it's such a highly regarded Aussie YA book.ReplyDelete
Also, I find it funny you mention the awesomness of the Toronto Public Library; I might be moving to Toronto this summer so I decided to check our their catalog online and I was gushing to my boyfriend: "OMGGG JACOB!! THEY HAVE ALL THE BOOKS!! ALL OF THEM!!" to which he replied: "I can practically hear you salivating." (We were chatting online.) So yes, I'm very jealous you have access to it, ahaha.Replies
I KNOW RIGHT?? Hahaha! And yess, it has ALL the books, and usually really close to release date too so you don't have to wait months :) oh yes, I love my library :D :D (and probably because I'm familiar with a wait-5-months-after-release type library, lol)Delete
I am ridiculously horrible at going through my Google Reader but I'm so happy I went through some of it tonight and watched your video bc you cracked me up. I flipping LOVED I Want My Hat Back. Also, I'm gonna tell Nomes you got Tomorrow, When The War Began (We are playing like 6 games of Words with Friends:)), she's on vacation right now:) Every book you mentioned I have something to say about. Hitchhiker's Guide is funny sci-fi, Probability of Miracles doesn't get better (IMO), BITTERBLUE! (my friend is sending me a copy), I can't believe Katherine Heigl was the protag from One For The Money, and now I can't even remember what else was in your video. Oh well, good luck on your exams!ReplyDeleteReplies
Haha, thank you! :D And OHMYGOD isn't it like the MOST adorable book ever?? And I'll read pretty much anything Nomes recommends XD I can't wait to start reading it (and I'm beyond jealous of her vaca right now). Ahh, sucks to hear about PoM.. I expected to be head over heels for it, but I might try reading another book now. Eep, I'll be curious to see what you think of Bitterblue!! :D And thank you!Delete
Ah! The Disenchantments looks like such a good book...but I don't think it's coming out in the UK for a while...ReplyDelete
Also, different room for the vlog? I love the fairy lights, they're so pretty :)Replies
Awh! Well, I shall let you know how it goes :P And yup, it's my room for uni! :)Delete
Fab vlog :) I cannot wait to read The Disenchantments and The Probability of Miracles--must get copies of those soon! Happy reading :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks, Iffath! I cant' wait to read them either :)Delete
Wow, Bitterblue AND Black Heart (can not wait to read that one:) Great haul Audrey!ReplyDelete
Liking your dorm decor:) I think I had that Friends poster once upon a time:)
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Haha only because of awesomesaucity people! And thank you, I adore that poster :D LOL Friends is just <3 Thanks for dropping by!Delete
Bitterblue and Black Heart were both amazing!!ReplyDelete
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AAAH I loved Bitterblue, and I can't wait to start Black HEart!Delete
Bitterblue! *pets* I can't waitttttReplyDelete
Also, I feel better that I'm not the only one doing the first IMM of 2012 this week =bReplies
eeeeep, I can't wait for more people to read it, I'm kind of bursting and want to spazz about it XD And *high five*! LOLDelete
The Disenchantments looks really cute! I definitely need to read it. :PReplyDelete


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Saturday, 29 June 2013
Vic Lit and summer reading
I read the two contemporary novels on my 'summer' reading list as the rain beat against the window and the wind howled around the house! I know some of my fellow bloggers loved Claire Messud's The Woman Upstairs but I had some reservations. I kept turning the pages and Messud writes very well, but I just didn't buy the premise that a mature woman would become besotted with a whole family. Nor was I convinced that the work produced by the artist Sirena would attract the attention it did. However the ending is good. What you can see coming a mile off doesn't happen quite the way you think it will.
Maria Semple's Where'd You Go Bernadette was much more my cup of tea. I loved it. It's the story of Bernadette Fox, former brilliant architect married to Elgie who is doing very well at Microsoft and mother to teenager Bee. Impressions of Bernadette are relayed via emails between her neighbour Audrey and her friend Soo-Lin who think she is aloof and anti-social. We know that all is not well with Bernadette from the secret emails she sends to a PA in India who organises her life so that she doesn't have to socialise. We learn that her architectural career came to an abrupt end and she spent many months in hospital with Bee as a baby. A spectacular row with Audrey over some overgrown blackberry bushes precipitates a crisis for Bernadette. There is also first person narration from the sweet-natured and academically gifted Bee.
I do like novels relayed via emails/letters/diary entries and the epistolary form works very well with humour (I'm thinking Diary of a Provincial Lady, obv!) Both the Messud and the Semple are about what happens when a creative artist is stifled. For me, the Semple was by far the best.
George Eliot's Adam Bede is next on my list - I feel a Vic Lit reading project coming on.
14 comments:
- Sunday Taylor said...
The Semple book sounds wonderful. I will have to get it. I have been resisting the other one because of mixed reviews. I do enjoy epistolary novels, in the form of letters, or diary entries. And I LOVED "Diary of a Provincial Lady"! Have you read "Any Human Heart" by William Boyd. It is also written in diary or journal form.
- 29 June 2013 at 14:48
- Cath said...
I do like your Cath Kidston bag. I have one I love, partly because it's big enough to put a book or my Kindle in. As it yours I see.
- 29 June 2013 at 15:11
- Mystica said...
I liked the Semple book but I loved the Diary of a Provincial Lady.
- 29 June 2013 at 20:56
- Ellen said...
I think the Semple book is out in paperback tomorrow so I will be reading that soon. It seems that it will be Jane Austin on the new banknotes, whilst I'm a big fan of her writing, I would have LOVED the whole Bronte clan on there!
- 30 June 2013 at 09:19
- cathy at potterjotter said...
I often think that if I wrote a book I would do it as a kind of diary-type thing - just jotting thoughts/opinions down. And it IS a form that lends itself to humour, as you say. xCathy
- 30 June 2013 at 15:20
- Nadia said...
The Semple book is next on my TBR list. I'm excited to read it now ;) As for the Messud, I didn't care for her other book, so I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like her new one. And, I love your Kidston bag :)
- 30 June 2013 at 16:33
- Anbolyn said...
I liked the Messud and the Semple very much, but I think the Semple is more endearing because of the humor. The Messud is darker and harder love.
I really like your Cath Kidston!
- 30 June 2013 at 19:25
- Arti said...
If I'd my say, I'll choose Jane Austen to be on the £10 note. And you know what, it's on our news here that it's a Canadian who has the final say. ;) Mark Carney is the former Governor of the Bank of Canada, now Governor of the Bank of England.
- 30 June 2013 at 22:14
I might try the Claire Messud book if it crosses my path i.e if it is on a shelf in the library, but since I didn't particularly enjoy The Emperor's Children, I won't go looking for it.
I really did enjoy the Semple when I read it last year, although I wasn't expecting to and just picked it up on a whim.
I'm now very tempted to go and find my copy of Diary of a Provincial Lady as it has been years since I last read it!
- 2 July 2013 at 01:29
- Lilac In May said...
I heard some of the Semple book on R4, but missed some crucial bits, will add it to my tbr pile.
- 6 July 2013 at 14:01
- mary said...
I'm galloping through the Semple book. Picked it up on a whim in the library yesterday and already I'm half way through. Perfect summer read.
- 11 July 2013 at 06:05
- Grad said...
I want to read Diary Of A Provincial Lady and hope to do that this summer. Have you read Ella Minnow Pea? That is such a delightful epistolary little novel.
- 17 July 2013 at 07:12
- Vintage Reading said...
Sunday, I will look out for the Boyd. I adore the Prov Lady, just re-reading all four volumes!
Cath, bought it in the John Lewis sale - can only afford CK when it's on sale!
Mystica, adore Prov Lady, too. Just re-reading.
Ellen, I'd like to see Brontes on banknotes, too. Especially Anne who is always overlooked but was a pretty good writer, too!
Cathy, yes, done well, a diary is an excellent literary form, lends itself to humour particularly.
Nadia, hope you like the Semple, bag is big enough to hold books which is a bonus!
Anbolyn, do have a bit of a weakness for Cath Kidston, something about florals I really like yet my teenager daughters just don't get it.
Arti, Jane Austen will be on a bank note. Hurrah for Canadians!!
Oh LizF I've just been re-reading all the Prov Lady diaries. She really is wonderful.
Lilac, darn must have missed Semple on Radio 4. Sometimes I wish I didn't have to go to work so I could listen more!
Mary, it's fun isn't it? Totally unexpected pleasure for me.
Grad, no it's on my tbr list. Keep seeing blog posts about it and think I will like it.
- 17 August 2013 at 06:45
- Arti said...
I love your book selections, albeit I have to confess, for some reasons, I couldn't finish Messud's first book. Don't know why. As for the new banknote, I'd say 'jolly good!'
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Marching band practice did not start until after the sun had set behind the bleachers at DeKalb High School. Some band members wore T-shirts, even as the temperature dipped into the 50s.
Steve Lundin, director of the band, knows that the band members are used to long hours and sometimes uncomfortable weather.
"The biggest thing is the sheer number of hours that go into it," Lundin said. "Groups put in a tremendous number of hours."
Lundin estimates that his marching band members put in 100 hours of practice and drills before school even starts in the fall.
In addition to the hundreds of hours that marching band members dedicate to practice and performance, they sacrifice time with their friends and family, they miss family vacations, they carry sometimes heavy equipment for long periods of time, and they perform in almost every kind of weather during football games, when many fans would rather visit the concession stand or socialize than watch them play.
"Unless there is a tornado or a thunderstorm you are going to be out there doing your best," said Jessica Stanbery, a senior at Sycamore High School who has been in the school's marching band for four years. She plays the snare drum, which she said weighs about 30 pounds.
From practices and parades during the hottest days of summer to the coldest and rainiest Friday nights in the fall, band members brave the elements to practice and perform. They play at a number of community events and in several parades each year, always with the goal of giving the crowd the best performance possible.
"It's a part of feeling they are a part of covering something bigger than they could ever do on their own," Lundin said.
The sense of accomplishment is only part of what drives the student musicians.
"It's also a lot of fun," said Kaileigh Obrycki, a senior at Genoa-Kingston High School. "Every band is like their own family."
This is Kaileigh's fourth year with the marching band, and her third year as a drum major. Most high school marching bands have two or three drum majors who help the band directors during practice, direct the band during performances and lead the band during parades.
"There is a lot more behind-the-scenes work than anyone can probably imagine," Kaileigh said, noting that drum majors also share responsibility for the band's uniforms, sheet music and sound equipment. Drum majors also help the band director plan and execute drills. They train longer in the summer than the rest of the band members, who go to band camp for a week during August, and then have practices once per week.
"They don't even get a week off during summer," Lundin said.
Members of the color guard dedicate more hours to practice than any of their fellow band members.
"We actually started practicing at the end of May last year," said Sarah Trostle, a senior at DeKalb and captain of the school's color guard. "We basically had the show done by mid-summer."
Once the color guard's movements have been finalized, the other band members can begin to practice their complex movements around the field. The precise movements can only be perfected through practice, practice and more practice.
"You start with simple stuff, and as the season goes on you add more and more," Jessica said. "A lot of people think it's easy but it's really complicated. There is a lot of technique that goes into the routine that requires a lot of practice."
During a performance, every band member is required to execute their own unique movements. They perform without notes or sheet music, and every member's performance is uniquely important.
"We don't have subs," Lundin said, contrasting the band members' role to that of football players. "There is no second string in marching band."
Marching band directors and football coaches will often coordinate at the beginning of the season on how players will enter the field. The two student groups seldom have other interaction.
Although marching bands and football teams share the field on Friday nights, the teams and coaches are sometimes too focused on the game to listen to the music. But they are always aware of the spirit the music creates in the stadium, especially with the fans.
"It really creates an atmosphere that you just can't get from playing music through a sound system," said Todd Hallaron, head football coach at DeKalb High School. "There are a couple of times during the game that the music really affects us."
Hallaron said the music that affects the players and fans the most is played before the game even starts.
"When you hear the national anthem, you know it's Friday night lights and it's time to play."
Marching bands keep the beat
Marching band practice did not start until after the sun had set behind the bleachers at DeKalb High School. Some band members wore T-shirts, even as the temperature dipped into the 50s.


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32 oz can whole tomatoes, hand crushed
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup chopped parsley
6 oz can tuna, drained and flaked
10 anchovy fillets
6 canned or jarred artichoke hearts, coarsely chopped
4 cloves garlic, minced
red pepper flakes
In a large sauce pan, heat oil. Add garlic and saute until golden. Reduce heat to low and add the anchovies. Using the back of a spoon, mash the anchovies into the garlic until the texture is uniform. Turn the heat to medium, add red pepper flakes, tomatoes (in their juices) and simmer for 20 minutes or until it begins to thicken. Add the tuna, artichoke hearts and parsley. Cook for an additional 10 minutes and serve on hot pasta.


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January 7, 2008
A recent headline in the New York Times read "Bad Times Draw Bigger Crowds to Churches." It told the story of an evangelical church in "a Long Island hamlet of yacht clubs and hedge fund managers."
The "sudden crush of worshipers" has required the church to "set up an overflow room with closed-circuit TV and 100 folding chairs."
It's not only the hedge fund and yacht club set. In the not as upscale but equally delightful Flatlands section of Brooklyn, members of the Christian Cultural Center are arriving early to make sure they can get seats.
As the senior pastor and founder of New York's largest evangelical church, A. R. Bernard told the Times, "When people are shaken to the core, it can open doors."
And as you know, these economic times are shaking people to the core.
This openness that isn't limited to New York. Seattle's Mars Hill Church has added 1,000 members this year alone.
Nor is it limited to our times. In the wake of the 1857 economic panic, a group of New York businessman met to pray in church a few blocks from Wall Street. The resulting Fulton Street Prayer Revival that led to tens of thousands of conversions in New York alone and perhaps a million across the country. In addition, the American branch of the Salvation Army can trace it origins to the revival which started in the wake of a Wall Street collapse.
The connection between openness to the Gospel and tough economic times has continued. A recent study by David Beckworth of Texas State University found that during "each recession cycle between 1968 and 2004," evangelical churches grew 50 percent faster than during better economic times.
All of this makes perfect sense. During good economic times, we, like the rich fool in Jesus' parable, feel self-satisfied and complete. We marvel that we're so awesome and tell ourselves "eat, drink, and be merry." It's why pride is the deadliest sin and why our Lord warned us about the snares of wealth.
Feeling self-satisfied during good times is not only dangerous, it's an illusion. As we've have learned the hard way, even great fortunes can be lost a lot faster than they were made. Over the last year, an estimated 8 trillion dollars in wealth has vanished. It may have been "paper wealth," but that paper generated a lot of pride, self-satisfaction, and more than a little hubris and credit.
To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, the prospect of going broke does wonders to concentrate the mind on what is not illusory—what God has done in Christ. As one former Morgan Stanley manager put it, his experience led to a "deeper sense of 'God's authority over everything.'"
Being at peace when everyone else is afraid is a powerful witness to the truth of the Gospel. Looking out for others when "every man for himself" is the order of the day is how the Church has grown and transformed entire nations throughout the ages.
Yes, these are tough times, but the Church thrives in tough times. It's when the Church is at its best, because it's when all of us are forced to remember who has authority over everything, and to put our trust completely in Him and Him alone.
Chuck Colson's daily BreakPoint commentary airs each weekday on more than one thousand outlets with an estimated listening audience of one million people. BreakPoint provides a Christian perspective on today's news and trends via radio, interactive media, and print.


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Q. Why is John the Baptist not listed among Jesus' apostles?
A. Here's a reply from Father Reginald Martin:
We are so used to reflecting on John the Baptist's praises of Jesus we may be quite surprised to encounter details in John the Evangelist's Gospel account that describe Jesus himself (or at least his disciples) also baptizing (see Jn 3:22; 4:1). Someone even remarks on Jesus' popularity to John, "Rabbi…here he is baptizing and everyone is coming to him" (Jn 3:26).
The Catholic editors of "Sacra Pagina" (Liturgical Press, 1998) suggest this means Jesus and John may have begun a joint ministry of baptism that eventually took different courses, although the two certainly knew one another, as the Gospel texts testify. The Evangelist observes this took place before John's imprisonment (see Jn 3:24), which, of course, brought his career to an end. Meanwhile, Jesus' ministry became one of preaching, and when Jesus commands his disciples to baptize, as he does before his ascension, this baptism is something entirely different.
Could John the Baptist have become one of Jesus' disciples? He certainly saw himself as Jesus' precursor, and his lack of concern at the success of Jesus' ministry indicates he did not consider him a competitor. This remains a tantalizing question; sadly, political events intervened, so we shall never know the answer.
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"Michael Newdow, an atheist, was offended by the phrase "In God We Trust" on the coins of American currency, believing that the phrase was a state-sponsored statement of religious faith - illegal under the separation of church and state.[15] He argued that he had a right to raise his daughter "without God being imposed into her life by her schoolteachers."[16]
Some of the judges in the 2002 ruling agreed that Newdow had a right to direct the religious education of his daughter.[17] Newdow explained his view of 'freedom of religious exercise' by asking whether Christians would be glad if the atheists were in the majority and if the atheists inserted into the pledge of allegiance the phrase "one nation under NO God."[16] In an interview with Connie Chung, Newdow stated, "The Constitution says the congress will make no laws respecting an establishment of religion which means that the Supreme Court says, and as you have said, nobody should be made to feel like an outsider. And I would only ask everyone of those people to ask themselves, if they had to say every morning when they pledged allegiance to the flag, that we were one nation under Sun Myung Moon, or one nation under David Koresh, or one nation under Jesus, or one nation under Mohammad, how would they feel?"
Thus Newdow claimed that the reference to God is meaningful, and hence the court should recognize, and correct, the resulting religious bias. Meanwhile, the "under God" clause is often defended as "ceremonial deism," acceptable because it is religiously meaningless."
I read this and thought Newdow was right on the money. We should definately take "God" out of the Pledge.
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It's only illegal if it renders the money unusable.
United States Code TITLE 18 -
Mutilation of national bank obligations
?Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.?
I've been doing it for a long time.
What's the most effective use of time and effort? Coinage is in circulation far longer. A small hammer and chisel in a convenient spot (garage table on the way out each morning?) makes putting a line through god on ten quarters a fairly quick, easy and lasting product. I'll bet a lot of people would notice some of your coins over the years and it might catch on, or better yet, lead to discussion.
so have I. I just see it as correcting an error and complying with the constitution.et al.
just correcting the error.
I've been doing that for more than a decade.
I mark out 'In God We Trust' too. If it is against the law, at least it'll be hard to catch someone doing it because they could just say: "It was already on there, I have no idea who did that!" hahaha
I just block out the "we" and print above it (neatly in green ink) "I don't".
Rudy, get gods out of government?
Religion teaches people to be helpless. What will America's helpless people do? No magic wand will grow their power.
And this: judges who say IGWT isn't religious are afraid of America's BILLIONS(?) of believers.
It means god is a dangerous element and one should be insured against his predations. I don't know if any Atheists have taken their insurance company to court asking them to prove that "god" had any hand in the damage.
If you want to hear me rant, just mention ceremonial deism. The courts have stated the the god in In God We Trust is so meaningless that it is not religious. Yet, citizens still use the fact the In God We Trust (IGWT) is our motto to continue the myth that the U.S. is a Christian nation. Yes, maybe to you justices IGWT is so ridiculous that it is meaningless, but to millions of Americans, it says, "We are a Christian Nation." E. Pluribus Unim is much more appropriate for our diverse nation. We do not want to spend decades in congress arguing about whether salvation is predetermined or whether god is a trinity or a unity. We just want to minimize human suffering. Get gods out of government and let's solve some problems.
Rudy, I hope you have a rant in you for the people who want you to assume the "under" position in an "over/under" relationship.
I try to never get myself into a situation that "demands" this kind of mind control (repeating a "pledge" to anything is relinquishing your own thoughts and preferenses to another).
when it does come up I usually, at that place insert very loudley "one nation..UNDER LAW..."
no one can argue with that, at least no one screws with me for it.
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The Taubman family may soon be the last holdout in the battle to keep Taubman Centers out of the hands of Simon Property Group. Earlier in the week, the Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based REIT issued a press release vehemently rejecting the Simon/Westfield bid for control of the company at $20 per share. "Our company is not for sale" has become Taubman's mantra. Today, a Michigan court shot down part of Simon's legal case against Taubman's board of directors. District court Judge Victoria Roberts ruled that Taubman's issuance of preferred B shares was legal. Wall Street analysts say the ruling is a blow to Simon's legal case, but will not keep Taubman safe for long.
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. – Eric Hoffer
But somewhere in that void is our essence looking for us from within.
At an early age we start "filling the glass" with real and imagined things until we have defined ourselves. Eventually the glass becomes a facebook page or an about page that we believe is the real us. But is it? Do we want to be known or do we really just want to know ourselves? The current consensus is: it's complicated.
There are many possible responses to discovering the emptiness we're born with, but they generally fall into two categories: denying it and trying desperately to fill it, or sitting quietly and watching what develops. Addiction is a good example of the former, since it's the high-speed, high-intensity version of socially acceptable consumption. Instead of living with ourselves – moments of confusion and all – we abdicate the responsibility, relying on both the subject of addiction and the trappings surrounding it to make up the sum of our lives. That's part of why recovery can be so difficult; take all of that away, and there's still the same emptiness we began with. We can go through cocaine detox, throw away our paraphernalia and let go of friends, but if we don't make peace with the root of the problem it's unlikely that we'll stay clean. The same goes for other temporary solutions: they only work as long as we don't look too closely, and nobody can keep their eyes averted forever.
So how do we make peace with our emptiness, and how do we give ourselves room to find and become an authentic person inside that space? Accepting it is one of the stepping stones of Buddhism, and various religions have called it a "God-shaped hole", but other people find different ways to have their moment of peace. Some find it through sheer movement: Helen Thompson said that "in riding a horse, we borrow freedom". That moment of floating on skis, wheels or feet, when the internal chatter quiets, and what we're left with is our body and the world around.
No fear, no worry about what others think about us or what our purpose in life is – just the realization that being alone with our heartbeat can be enough. There we find the capital T in truth, where the same forces sling planets around suns, and pump blood through our hearts.


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"The projects in question were compiled in November in response to an informational request by the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM), a private, nonprofit organization. President Obama had just been elected, and no information was available about the stimulus package proposal. The guidelines supplied by the USCM were vague and purely hypothetical. For example, cities were encouraged to identify as many potential job-creation projects as possible that could be completed this calendar year.
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"The official City of Lincoln projects will be determined after a stimulus package is passed into law. In the meantime, I look forward to discussing the potential projects with the City Council as we move through the process.
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Tanaka's move a great gift for Major League fans
The paperwork hasn't been submitted, but it looks like Masahiro Tanaka is going to be posted by the Rakuten Golden Eagles.
Nice. Very nice.
The paperwork hasn't been submitted, but it looks like Masahiro Tanaka is going to be posted by the Rakuten Golden Eagles.
Nice. Very nice.
For baseball fans in North America, the reports from Japanese newspapers Sponichi and Sankei Sports are a fine holiday present. Since it's far too early to know where he will wind up, followers all across baseball can rub their hands together and imagine him piling up strikeouts in their favorite team's uniform.
And you know it's good news for Tanaka, who wanted to be posted. What was he going to prove by staying in Japan after his 24-0 season in 2013, which was capped by a championship in the Japan Series?
The Tanaka saga has been playing out over the last month, with Rakuten balancing Tanaka's desire to pitch in the United States against the changes recently negotiated into the posting system between Major League Baseball and the Nippon Baseball League. The Golden Eagles control the right-hander's fate for next season and had threatened to hang on to him rather than accept a $20 million maximum bid.
They had been hoping for something like $51.7 million, which is what the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters received when they posted Yu Darvish two years ago. But the new system caps the bidding process, freeing the player to negotiate with every team that antes up the max, not just the one team with the highest bid.
It appears that the Golden Eagles' ownership has decided it would be wrong to hang on to Tanaka for one more year (before then posting him) or two seasons (before he leaves as a free agent). That is the team's right, but it would look selfish making him stay against his wishes and those of most Japanese fans, who are eager to see if he can be as successful as Darvish.
This figures to be a windfall for Tanaka, who could wind up making $15 million or more a year as opposed to the six-year, $60 million deal that Scott Boras negotiated for Darvish with the Rangers.
Before 2013, Darvish was considered a superior pitcher to Tanaka. But this season raised questions as to whether Tanaka has become his equal. If he has, then he could also challenge for Cy Young Awards in the next few seasons.
Darvish led the Major Leagues with 277 strikeouts this season, going 13-9 with a 2.83 ERA for the Rangers to finish second to Max Scherzer in Cy Young voting. He's been an All-Star in both of his seasons with the Rangers, going 29-18 in 61 starts.
If Tanaka truly compares to him, and unlike Ubaldo Jimenez and Ervin Santana he's available without giving up a Draft pick, you can understand the bidding that could take place in the 30-day window he would have to sign a contract.
Tanaka's appeal is almost universal. Teams like the Yankees and D-backs, who want to add an ace to the front of the rotation with a chance to win immediately, would understandably be in hot pursuit. But the competition could also include the Cubs, who are looking farther down the road. He'll pitch at age 25 next season, so they feel he'll still be in his prime in 2016 and beyond, when they hope to be a 90-win team capable of a long October run.
It will be interesting to see if the Yankees go all in on Tanaka, as that would most likely mean abandoning their desire to stay under the $189 million threshold for the luxury tax. The Dodgers are also an interesting team to watch, as they've gotten just about every player they've set their sights on since getting their new ownership in 2012.
With Clayton Kershaw only a year away from free agency and headed toward a record-setting contract, would they come out of the woodwork to put Tanaka alongside him, Zack Greinke and Hyun-Jin Ryu, whom they claimed from the Korean posting system a year ago?
And what about the Rangers? They have scouted Tanaka almost as closely as they did Darvish. Would they spend heavily to get him after giving Shin-Soo Choo a $130 million deal and taking on seven years of Prince Fielder?
There are a lot of questions to be answered. But if the reports (passed along by Dylan Hernandez of the Los Angeles Times) are correct, the most important one of all has been answered. Tanaka is coming to the United States -- at least that's how it looks now. As always, stay tuned for further clarification.
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Correction: Afghanistan story
In a story Aug. 1 about a nighttime attack in Afghanistan, The Associated Press erroneously reported that a NATO helicopter killed five Afghan soldiers. It was an aircraft belonging to the NATO-led coalition that carried out the airstrike and the fatalities were Afghan policemen. The AP also misidentified a coalition spokeswoman _ her correct name is Capt. Ebony Malloy, not Capt. Malloy Ebony.
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NATO aircraft kills 5 Afghan policemen by mistake
NATO aircraft accidentally kills 5 Afghan police officers in nighttime attack on highway post
By AMIR SHAH
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) _ An aircraft belonging to the NATO-led coalition called in to support Afghan police at a highway checkpoint accidentally killed five Afghan policemen, authorities said.
The killings happened Wednesday night in eastern Nangarhar province's Bati Kot district, some 120 kilometers (75 miles) from the capital, Kabul. Police officers manning a checkpoint on a highway near the border with Pakistan came under fire and called in for air support from the International Security Assistance Force, said Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, a spokesman for the provincial governor.
Capt. Ebony Malloy, a spokeswoman for the coalition, said five policemen were accidentally killed after a combined force of Afghan and coalition forces called for air support.
Lt. Col. Will Griffin, a spokesman for the NATO-led coalition, said that the operation in the area involved a combined force of international and Afghan troops, but gave no further details. That contradicted information initially provided by Afghan authorities about the incident. The different accounts could not be immediately reconciled Thursday.
"An investigation is being conducted at this time to determine the specific circumstances that led to this unfortunate incident," Malloy said.
Insurgents have stepped up the tempo of their attacks in areas where foreign troops have withdrawn, or are in the process of drawing down after handing over the lead for security to Afghan security forces in mid-June. The majority of foreign forces are to leave this year and completely pull out at the end of 2014.
A United Nations report this week credited the international coalition with reducing the number of casualties caused by airstrikes. However, NATO forces have killed Afghan troops by mistake in the past.
The death of civilians in military operations, particularly in airstrikes, has been among a major source of acrimony between Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government and foreign forces. In February, Karzai banned government forces from requesting foreign air support during operations in residential areas amid anger over an airstrike that killed at least 10 civilians in northeastern Kunar province.
Meanwhile, attacks continued elsewhere in Afghanistan. In southern Uruzgan province, spokesman Farid Ayel said the Taliban ambushed local education official Hadi Khan, killing him, his two sons and a bodyguard on Wednesday afternoon. In northwestern Faryab province, Gov. Ahmadullha Batash said a roadside mine exploded on Thursday, killing two policemen and a prosecutor, and wounding seven people in Bilchiragh district.


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Last Friday night as always, I tuned in to TRU-TV to watch my favorite show Forensic Files. The episodes are fascinating and I love to see what forensic scientists can do with a tiny speck of rubber left from skid marks and such. While watching an episode on a peeping Tom gone awry, TRU-TV ran a promotion spot for former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Vetura's new show Conspiracy Theory. When I hear the words "conspiracy theory", the first thing that enters my mind is all of the green martian men hanging out at the Grassy Knoll with Elvis Presley and Tupac Shakur. Despite the idiotic premise of the show, I decided to give it a chance and watched the marathon aired by TRU-TV Saturday afternoon.
In one episode Gov. Ventura is actually chasing after a magic weather machine created by a big evil Alaskan corporation HAARP and submitting himself to mind control.
The episode succeeded on it own terms in that it was great bait for conspiracy hounds to come back web crawling and begging for more. I was mildly amused after all it is meant to be entertainment. However, given my bitterness over the way the media treated Sarah Palin, I wondered if Jesse Ventura would have been treated with the same contempt and disdain had he been John McCain's pick for vice president. Watching Jesse Ventura in full frontal lunacy, I felt gripped by the urge to strangle the people of Minnesota for electing him to the governorship in the first place. Now like Al Fraken, this loose cannon has clout and credibility. As I attempted to watch Conspiracy Theory episode on 9/11 cover-ups by the government, I began to see the danger of Jesse Ventura's credibility.
Yeah….."Truthers" …make me sick.
Truthers, make a mockery out of one of the most tragic chapters in American history. Jesse further goes on about the missing flight recorder boxes from the four air crafts involved in the 9/11 attacks. Apparently the 9/11 Commission Report claims that the black boxes were never recovered. Jesse has dug up deep throat style witnesses to prove otherwise.
I will go out on a limb here and say that if the FBI indeed is lying about the recovery of the black boxes… I really do not give a damn. Perhaps the FBI is concealing the truth because ummmm, they do not want to reveal everything that happened in the cockpit because….they do not want the information to be used wrongfully by terrorists… Just a thought.
Addled, by the joke that is his governorship, Jesse proceeds to badger an FBI employee and scare the shit out of the friends of some poor informant to the extent that they fail to show up for a clandestine meeting at a diner.He then questions their credibility "Why would they drag us out here to cancel" etc, etc…
It is at this point that I realized I could not handle the "truthers". The knowledge that such people exist is proof that there are gullible people willing to find inauthenticity in anything…Slavery, the Holocaust, 9/11 you name it. I do not entertain truthers anymore than I would allow a "birther" to guest post on this blog. "Trig" is not Sarah Palin's son, "Obama is not American" blah, blah, blah. While O's policies may call for the decline of America, I will accept that he is unfortunately American and our president. The best I can do about it is to vote against him in 2012 granted he man up and run for re-election. The best we can do about preventing another 9/11 is being vigilant and not succumbing to hyper political correctness or allowing GITMO detainees to have a OJ Simpson-esque trial in New York City.
That is what the people want. Here is a moving clip from Sean Hannity's show with actual 9/11 survivors and families of the victims. They do not want the terrorists to be tried in civilian courts, steps away from Ground Zero…Here Gov. Ventura. Handle this truth. The father of one young victim point blank calls President Barack Obama "a liar" for backsliding on his promises to the 9/11 families. His testimony is very moving.
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Attendees of Club Industry East will witness technologies that are changing our industry.
Not gone to a trade show recently? Perhaps you think that there's nothing new to see, so there's no point in attending. Tom Calvario, owner of the Pottstown Health Club in Pottstown, Pa., can empathize. "How many different ways can they make free weights, treadmills, exercise bikes?" he asks.
Still, Calvario is quick to add that there's more to today's trade shows than just exercise equipment. Club Industry East, coming next month to Boston, will prove this.
Calvario, who has been in this business since 1977, admits that he has never seen anything like the technologies available today. At a recent trade show, for example, he took a look at ClubCom, an entertainment option that he is now installing at his facility. ClubCom offers music videos and digital sound. The videos play on televisions installed inside the club, and, at the end of the videos, advertisements air. Club-Com sells the commercials, and the club gets a piece of the revenue.
ClubCom also is a means of retaining members who want to add some entertainment to the exercise experience. "You have to push yourself, but you have to have fun," Calvario notes.
In addition to ClubCom, the Potts-town Health Club is getting involved with Netpulse, another frequent show exhibitor with an interesting entertainment product. Installed on cardio equipment, Netpulse units allow users to watch television, listen to music and access the Internet. "A few years ago, who would have thought you could ride a bike and make plane reservations?" Calvario says. "Or check and send email? Or check the stock market?"
Not only can the Internet be used for entertainment, but also for marketing and retention. That's why at a recent trade show, the Bellingham Athletic Club (Bellingham, Wash.) took advantage of a free service from FitLinxx, which, in addition to its interactive fitness networks, is now offering free, customized Web sites to health clubs.
While checking out this service, Shauna Naf, assistant operations manager for Bellingham's downtown facility, was impressed with the fact that FitLinxx's customized Web sites allow members to keep track of their workouts while giving them realistic figures for what they have done. For example, after entering one of her own strength workouts, Naf learned that she had lifted the equivalent of 3.3 cars.
In addition to interactive features, Bellingham's customized site includes all of the features you would expect to find on a health club's site: membership information, class schedules, etc. Fit-Linxx also updates the site regularly with fresh health and fitness content. As Naf explains, fresh content is necessary to drive return traffic, yet the Bellingham staff doesn't even need to worry about writing and posting new articles. FitLinxx handles everything.
Jill Kinney, COO of San Francisco-based Club One, points out that the entertainment and promotional possibilities of Internet technologies can be tied together and brought in-house to a club. Currently, 12 of Club One's 61 locations feature E-Zone, an interactive entertainment and education system. Kinney explains that E-Zone's open architecture allows Club One to utilize the Internet to present its own customized, targeted marketing.
The E-Zone network (which will be on display at Club Industry East) can gather data on club members and launch appropriate promotions when they log into the system. Say a member gets on a piece of cardio equipment and plugs into E-Zone to use the entertainment functions; if the person had provided some background information about himself, the system could launch targeted marketing. For example, a basketball enthusiast would see promotions about basketball programs.
Besides providing direct communication to sell ancillary services, the Internet and similar technologies can be used to improve back-end functions, according to Kinney. Citing companies that provide online purchasing, booking and billing services, she notes that today's technologies can improve the industry's operating costs and make things more efficient.
Convinced now that Club Industry East will have enough new and exciting technology on display to make it worth your while to attend? Good. Just remember that if you do go to look at these technologies, you don't have to settle on what's available in the booth, according to Kinney. These products have the flexibility to meet your individual needs. "This technology can be customized indefinitely to meet the spin you want on it," she says.