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The benefits of consistent exercise are many. Research has demonstrated it improves your mood1 and decreases feelings of depression and anxiety.2 Exercise may reduce stress3,4 and, while your nutritional intake is most important to your weight loss efforts, exercise may help you stay motivated.5
Strong muscles reduce the risk of injury6 and a strong core reduces problems with lower back pain.7 Regular exercise helps to boost your energy levels8 and reduces feelings of fatigue.9 The bottom line is exercise offers an incredible variety and number of health and lifestyle benefits.
Some muscle groups can be easily overlooked, however, such as your pelvic floor muscles. As these muscles weaken with age and lack of use, they may affect urinary continence, core strength and sexual health. Maintaining a strong pelvic floor is easy to accomplish and reaps several benefits.
Located at the base of the pelvis are the pelvic floor muscles. These add a layer of support to your pelvic organs, including the bladder, bowel and uterus. They are stretched between the tailbone and the pubic bone, and side to side between the ischial tuberosities, or the sitting bones, much like a trampoline.10
Normally these muscles are firm and thick to support your organs, and form one piece of your core muscle group. In the center is space for the urethra, anus and vagina to pass through. The anatomy of the pelvic floor muscles is the same in men and women, with differences only in the sexual organs.
The pelvic floor muscles are wrapped around the urethra and anus to help keep them shut, along with the urethral sphincter and anal sphincter.11 Although you can't see them, you may control and strengthen them. As you contract the pelvic floor muscles it prevents the passage of stool and urine.
There are several factors that may contribute to weakening, and subsequently experiencing symptoms. Many believe these symptoms are only experienced by women following childbirth, but other factors triggering challenges include obesity, age, heavy lifting, constipation and chronic coughing.12
Damage to these muscles is common in women from childbirth, pregnancy or hormonal changes during menopause. Weakness in the pelvic floor affects your intraabdominal pressure, which in part supports your lower back.13,14,15 Laxity may result in uterine or bladder prolapse and urinary incontinence in women and sexual dysfunction and urinary incontinence in men.16
According to Cleveland Clinic,17 you may experience pelvic floor dysfunction, or the inability to control contraction and relaxation of the muscles in a coordinated fashion. The organs the muscles support then may not function appropriately, reducing your ability to effectively empty your bowel and bladder.
Those with pelvic floor dysfunction may contract the muscles as they attempt to relax them. This results in difficulty evacuating your bowels, or leaking urine or stool throughout the day. Most causes of pelvic floor dysfunction are unknown. Some have experienced traumatic injuries or complications from a vaginal childbirth.
In other cases, it may be the result of learned behavior developing into incoordination of the muscles. If you experience any of the symptoms listed below of pelvic floor dysfunction, discuss them with your physician as a complete physical exam may be able to determine the cause so appropriate treatment may be initiated.18
A feeling of needing to have several bowel movements during a short period of time
Feeling stool is remaining in your bowels or you are unable to evacuate
Pain with bowel movements
Leaking stool or urine with or without being aware
Frequent need to urinate during which you start and stop many times
Painful urination
Pain in your lower back unexplained by other causes
Ongoing pelvic pain, or in the genitals or rectum
Pain during intercourse (women)
Not all urinary challenges are triggered by weak pelvic floor muscles. Many experience problems with urination, ranging from incontinence and urgency to nighttime urination. The severity may be mild or debilitating, and cause embarrassment or anxiety, keeping sufferers from socializing and enjoying their lives. Some of the common conditions include:
• Stress incontinence (leaking urine while laughing, coughing, sneezing) — This may be triggered by physical changes resulting from pregnancy, childbirth and menopause.19
• Urge incontinence (leaking urine after feeling a sudden urge to urinate) — This may be caused by abnormal nerve signals causing bladder spasms and may be associated with certain medical conditions like uncontrolled diabetes and hyperthyroidism.
Other health conditions may also impact your bladder nerves and muscles, leading to urge incontinence. This includes multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, stroke and injury.20
• Overactive bladder — This may develop when nerves send signals to your bladder at the wrong time, causing it to contract and leading to frequent urination, urgency, incontinence and nighttime urination.21
• Lower urinary tract symptoms in men — These may include urinary hesitancy, weak stream, dribbling or leaking, along with more frequent urination (especially at night). The symptoms may be caused by an enlarged prostate22 affecting the flow of urine.
Strong pelvic floor muscles benefit both men's and women's health issues. In one review study,23 researchers examined the complex relationship between male sexual function, pelvic floor function and pelvic pain. The aim was to demonstrate how improving pelvic floor function could be used in the treatment of a variety of sexual dysfunctions, including erectile dysfunction.
Their results suggested a close relationship and a potential therapeutic benefit for men who suffer from erectile dysfunction, ejaculatory and orgasmic dysfunction, chronic prostatitis and chronic pelvic pain syndrome. According to the authors, pelvic floor physical therapy may be a significant tool to a24 "more comprehensive bio-neuromusculoskeletal-psychosocial approach to the treatment of male sexual dysfunction and pelvic pain."
A second study25 enrolled 40 men aged 19 to 46 years with a lifelong history of premature ejaculation. The men underwent pelvic floor muscle rehabilitation, at the end of which 33 had gained control of their ejaculatory reflex, and 13 of the 33 patients maintained significant control at six-month follow-up. The researchers recommended pelvic floor muscle rehabilitation as a viable therapeutic option.
Many of the benefits for pelvic floor muscle exercises for women are more well known. Strong pelvic floor muscles improve control over bladder and bowel functions and reduce the risk of prolapsed internal organs into the vagina.26 Women with strong pelvic floor muscles also recover more quickly after childbirth and surgery.
With reduced problems associated with bladder leakage, comes increase social confidence and quality of life. These muscles are also important for a woman's sexual function, as they increase sexual sensation and orgasmic strength.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center27 recommends Kegel exercises (described below) to help relax vaginal muscles, reducing pain during sexual intercourse. The exercise also improves blood circulation, which may increase sexual arousal and makes it easier for a woman to reach orgasm.
According to national estimates of incontinence prevalence in the U.S., including noninstitutionalized respondents and those in a residential facility, researchers found 50.9% of those living in the community over age 65 reported urinary leakage.28
Weak pelvic floor muscles also affect your lower back and hips. Your spine begins at your tailbone. Muscles that support your pelvis and tailbone include your pelvic floor. When it is not assessed and treated properly, it may result in low back pain. For some, one of the first symptoms is sciatica or other types of low back pain.29
According to pelvic physical therapist at Pelvic Sanity,30 the major role of the muscles in your pelvic floor is to stabilize your lower back. However, as you experience pain, these muscles may tighten, causing the muscles to overwork and trigger points to form.
According to the World Health Organization,31 low back pain is common worldwide and major cause of disability. Low back pain is often a complex issue as the anatomical structures in your lower back are affected by muscles in your pelvis, your abdominal wall and your middle back. Factors that may contribute to increasing lower back pain or incontinence until your pelvic floor is strengthened include:32,33
Guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in England34 now recommend pelvic floor muscle exercises as the first treatment for women who suffer from urinary incontinence or pelvic organ prolapse to reduce the amount of vaginally inserted mesh and tape required to treat stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse.
Before being able to exercise your pelvic floor muscles, it's important to identify them. According to Memorial Sloan-Kettering,35 this may be done by sitting with the muscles of your legs, buttocks and stomach relaxed. Imagine you are urinating. Contract the muscles you would use to stop the stream of urine.
It's important you don't practice stopping your urine stream, especially if your bladder is full, as this may actually weaken your muscles. According to Pauline Chiarelli, Ph.D., an incontinence adviser, a functioning bladder is complex and goes well beyond the muscle control of the pelvic floor.36
Although these muscles influence bladder control, stopping the flow of urine as a practice may negatively alter the function of your bladder. Instead, sit on a chair with your feet flat on the floor and contract the muscles in your buttocks that you would use to keep from passing gas. However, concentrate on keeping your buttocks, abdomen and inner thigh muscles relaxed.
When done correctly, your body will not lift or shift, but you will feel the muscles of the floor of your pelvis lift. Using this technique, you may identify the muscles you are attempting to contract and relax during pelvic floor exercises.
If you feel any pain doing these exercises, stop, as they should not be painful.37 Once you have identified your pelvic floor muscles, consider these exercises to strengthen your pelvic floor muscles.38,39,40 All of these can be done by men and women alike.
• Kegels — Kegel exercises may be done anywhere, including driving in your car or waiting in line at the grocery store. Begin by breathing through your nose and filling your abdominal cylinder, letting your stomach rise. Concentrate on relaxing your pelvic floor muscles as you breathe in.
Breathe out slowly through your mouth as you contract the pelvic floor muscles and keep them contracted for three to six seconds, until your muscles begin to get tired. As you breathe in release the contraction to relax the muscles. Allow the muscles to relax for six to 10 seconds before the next contraction and don't hold your breath. Repeat 10 times.
• Rapid squeeze and release — This exercise builds the ability of the muscles in your pelvic floor to respond quickly. Sit in a comfortable position and quickly squeeze and release your pelvic floor muscles without trying to maintain a contraction. Rest for three to five seconds. Repeat up to 20 times, twice a day.
• Bridge — This well-known exercise strengthens your buttocks, but also helps to work the pelvic floor. Lying on your back with your knees bent and your feet flat, move them approximately hip-width apart. Place your arms by your side, with your palms facing down.
Use your buttocks and pelvic floor to lift your buttocks several inches off the floor and hold for three to eight seconds. Relax and lower your buttocks to the ground. Repeat 10 times. This is one set. Rest and do one or two additional sets.
• Squats — Squats are a full body exercise that may also promote a strong pelvic floor. A narrow stance and shallow squats more accurately targets the pelvic floor. Stand with your feet hip-width apart. Bend at the knees to bring your buttocks towards the floor as though you're sitting in a chair.
Keep your back straight and lean slightly forward; your knees should not go over your toes. Focus on tightening your buttocks and pelvic floor as you return to a standing position. This may be repeated for 10 repetitions and you should rest before doing any additional sets.
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on driving home from Portland on a rainy night and going to Pike Place Market the next morning to find the soul of the city if not the weirdness
The beautifulness of Sunday morning caught me flat-footed after a stormy Saturday. Having come home from Portland in a driving rain behind a hundred lane-hopping 80 mph eighteen-wheelers the night before, I wasn't in the frame of mind for anything overly-consuming. But I enticed Adam with the promise of a bus adventure and that's how he and I came to spend several satisfying hours at Pike Place Market. After walking around interesting Portland, I desperately wanted as a sort of case study I guess you could say, to get myself into the soul of home. My favorite time to be in the Market is the earlier morning or late afternoon, when it feels more local and the Main and North Arcades are breathtakingly open but I also enjoy the intense-but-somewhat-bearable throb of humanity a winter weekend late morning brings because after all Pike Place Market would not be Pike Place Market without the euphoria of escaping onto Virginia Street from the chaos of being bodyslammed and poked by hundreds of people while simultaneously offered samples of a half dozen different fruits and cheeses. I just love lollygagging and pinballing with the boys down here, embedding the heritage of the sights and sounds (and smells) into their hometown cultural neural pathways so they'll grow up to be respectable Seattleites.
Adam's piggybank money has practically been burning a hole in his Han Solo-frozen-in-carbonite piggy bank so I let him lead us around for awhile. The past few visits to the Market he had his eye on some beanie snakes, I guess you could call them, along the Main Arcade and he knew exactly where he was headed and the snake selection process was deadly serious business that took all of an eternity. You would have thought we were at an actual herpetarium the way he was carefully examining each snake. I was suspicious as to whether these were true artisanal beanie snakes but he wanted one really bad and it was his hard-earned birthday money so I just threw up my hands and let him banter importantly with the patient but bemused vendor. DownUnder he found a few more of his favorite shops and picked out little things like Pokemon cards and vintage Hot Wheels. I've been working with him on adding and subtracting money and so I decided to leave the accounting to him and he did a fine job under pressure, though I did have to brief him about occasional hustlers on the fringes of the Market because of the way he kept taking bills out of his moneypurse for recounting and flattening.
I thought the portrait of Adam and the statue busker in front of Left Bank Books was kind of cute, though I have to admit I was a little disappointed the guy gave the cheesy thumbs-up sign. Right after this he assumed a strikingly authentic pose of 17th century aristocracy, it was the coolest thing and would've been a lot more satisfying to share but wouldn't you know it….. Adam's eyes are closed in that one. Drat. At any rate, after a lot of standing around in different places to admire the hubbub and set up for some interesting shots, Adam insisted his feet were getting tired and he wanted to go home for lunch instead of eating in the Market. Our timing was superb as we leisurely strolled up to a waiting #43 a couple blocks away for the short ride over Capitol Hill back to our house. I find myself still wishing Seattle could be weirder like Portland but I'd never trade home away.


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Handling the Storms of Life
By: Jill Briscoe
How do you handle the storms of life? How do I? Do we stride over them like Jesus did, or do we sink under them like Peter (Matthew 14:30)?
There's the conflict of church splits, or elders not supporting you. There's the conflict in the ministry home when children act up and don't follow the Lord.
There's the inner conflict as we battle through spiritual issues, often without a trusted confidante. The winds of adversity can buffet us pretty badly, just as they buffeted the disciple's little boat (vs. 24).
But then Jesus comes to us, just when we're swamped and going down and says cheerfully, "take courage, it is I, don't be afraid." Then we have a choice to walk over it all in triumph with Jesus or look at the storm instead of the savior and drown.
As soon as we cry for help, we'll feel His hand holding us. He'll catch us – you'll see – and then He'll ask us, "Why did you doubt?" Conflict gives us a chance to know "His hand is not too shortened that it cannot save."
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The grand prize winner, Heidijoy Gill chose the personalized painting option. She wanted a painting of her cat. She provided several reference images that I could use to create the painting. I used this one:
I was live while painting the kitty, it took 3 sittings to do and I feel like it came out pretty good. When I showed her the painting, she was thrilled. I cannot wait till she receives the painting and is able to see it in person. I added my favorite gold paint to his eyes so its shimmery. That is hard to capture in a picture.
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My client wanted a painting of his three Mastiffs and Pike's Peak in the background. He provided several reference images for me to use, these three were the ones I chose.
I was really nervous about doing this painting because it was three dogs and they were facing different ways, which meant the proportions and shadow were really going to matter. The reference images of the dogs had a lot of shadowing on the face, which made seeing the eyes and lines of the face hard. But I feel like I did a great job capturing them and giving enough highlights and shadow to show the body lines.
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For this painting, I decided to leave off the progression pictures because there are about 40 of them. So I am going to only share the progression video because I feel the captures the progression better than 40 pictures. Enjoy the video!
This was a lot of fun to paint and really tested my skills. I learned a lot more while doing it and look forward to more commissioned paintings in the future.
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The thing that bothers me about this list, about these sorts of lists in general, is that they are more about name recognition than about the substance of the list. Every time you hit a line in this list that rings a bell you get that warm, fuzzy feeling that says: I remember that Lit class that I took in the halcyon days of my misguided youth before I switched to a business major. And after simply perusing the list you can feel all cultured all over again.
Now I'm not saying you're not cultured, I'm sure you are. And I'm really not trying to be all hoity toity English major here, maybe it's just Internet fatigue of seeing list after list that's all really the same list. And that's I think where the first liner list rubs me a little bit the wrong way. A great first line is a thing unto itself and, I think, deserves a little more latitude that the usual suspects allow.
Take, "Call me Ishmael," for example. It's good hook. Declarative. Establishes the narrator in the first sentence, well names him anyway. It gets the job done, I'll call you Ishmael and I'll read the next sentence. The thing is, taken on it's own, I just don't think it's all that. That brief first line is informed and enlarged by the magnificent blunderbuss of a novel that follows it. And here's the important part, whether you've read it or not, everyone knows Moby Dick is a huge densely-written true blue American Classic, and that lends Melville's first line a little extra stardust.
We love to read because of the richness, the diversity, and the discovery that the written word offers us and these lists of established classics, by reiterating the familiar, deny us everything else that is out there.
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I hope you like it. Send me your favorite first lines from — well — from anything.
- "You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings." Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelly
- "Of all the many things that this life has stolen from me, the one which bothers me most is that I cannot remember burying my father." The Skysailor's Tale by Michael Swanwick in The Dog Said Bow-Wow
- "When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had just two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home." The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- "Not everybody knows how I killed old Philip Mathers, smashing his jaw in with my spade; but first it is better to speak of my friendship with John Divney because it was he who first knocked old Mathers down by giving him a great blow on the neck with a special bicycle-pump which he manufactured himself out of a hollow iron bar." The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
- "There is a photo on my wall of a woman I've never met, its left corner torn and patched together with tape." The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- "On a certain day in June, 19–, a young man was making his way on foot northward from the great City to a town or place called Edgewood, that he had been told of but had never visited." Little Big by John Crowley
- "Snowman wakes before dawn." Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- "The show still looks exactly like when you were sick with a really high fever and you stayed home to watch TV all day." Loser by Chuck Palahniuk in Stories
- "I am not as I once was." The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin
- "Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen." The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
- "My sharpest memory is of a single instant in the dark." The Liar's Club by Mary Karr
- "When life is imperiled or a dire situation is at hand, safe alternatives may not exist." The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht
- "I was sitting before my third or fourth Jellybean — which is anisette, grain alcohol, a lit match, and a small, wet explosion in the brain." Scales by Louise Erdrich in Points of View
- "Of all the sacred cows allowed to roam unimpeded in our culture, few are as revered as literacy." The Alphabet Versus the Goddess by Leonard Shlain
- "My mother's hand was open like a bisque cup, all porcelain, and Christ Jesus' fingers were tentacles entangled around her palm." Daughter of the Queen of Sheba by Jacki Lyden
- "The angel gleamed in the light of Hethor's reading candle bright as any brasswork automaton." Mainspring by Jay Lake
- "Marlene's mother cleaned constantly, bleary-eyed in multiple hairnets, on her vigilant search for the impure; as she walked she so often rolled an antiquated upright vacuum alongside her that it grew to seem like an exterior organ, an intravenous device that performed dialysis or another lifesaving function." The Brother and the Bird by Alissa Nutting in My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
- "What should we have for dinner?" The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
- "Midwinter – invincible, immaculate." The Snow Child by Angela Carter in The Bloody Chamber
- "They had a small, loud-playing band, and as we moved through the trees, I could hear the notes of the horns bursting like bright metallic bubbles against the sky." A Coupla Scalped Indians by Ralph Ellison in Points of View
- "Once prized, now she languishes in the drawer, one of many contained within a cedar chest." Green Air by Rikki Ducornet in My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
- "The totality of life, known as the biosphere to scientists and creation to theologians, is a membrane of organisms wrapped around Earth so thin it cannot be seen edgewise from a space shuttle, yet so internally complex that most species composing it remain undiscovered." The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson
- "I remember how, that night, I lay awake in the wagon-lit in a tender, delicious ecstasy of excitement, my burning cheek pressed against the impeccable linen of the pillow and the pounding of my heart mimicking that of the great pistons ceaselessly thrusting the train that bore me through the night, away from Paris, away from girlhood, away from the white, enclosed quietude of my mother's apartment, into the unguessable country of marriage." The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter (I couldn't pick just one.)
- "This book builds on two principles: it's good to write clearly, and anyone can." Style Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace by Joseph M. Williams
- "With despair — cold, sharp despair — buried deep in her heart like a wicked knife, Miss Meadows, in cap and gown and carrying a little baton, trod the cold corridors that led to the music hall." in The Music Teacher by Katherine Mansfield in Stories
- "The first great act of love I ever witnessed was Split Lip bathing his handicapped daughter." from Isabelle by George Saunders in Civilwarland in Bad Decline
- "I stand here ironing, and what you asked me moves tormented back and forth with the iron." I stand her ironing by Tillie Olsen in Points of View
- "Before the seas and lands had been created, / before the sky that covers everything, / Nature displayed a single aspect only/throughout the cosmos: Chaos was its name, / a shapeless, unwrought mass of inert bulk / and nothing more, with the discordant seeds / of disconnected elements all heaped/together in anarchic disarray." The Metamorphoses by Ovid Translated by Charles Martin
- "Lorimer gazes around the big crowded cabin, trying to listen to the voices, trying also to ignore the twitch in his insides that means he is about to remember something bad." Houston Houston, do you read? by James Tiptree, Jr. in Her Smoke Rose up Forever
- "In the pages that follow I shall bring forward proof that there is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and that, if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life." The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
- "Going to Ford's Theatre to watch the play is like going to Hooters for the food." Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
- ("Waiting here, away from the terrifying weaponry, out of the halls of vapor and light, beyond Holland and into the hills, I have come to) wound the autumnal city." Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
- "To the rocket scientist, you are a problem." Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
- "My three a.m. nightmare dispersed like a disappointed audience as I tried to find the Coke machine." What You Do Not Know You Want by David Mitchell in McSweeny's Astounding Tales
- "Fox is a television character, and she isn't dead yet." in Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
- "Omon is not a particularly common name, and perhaps not the best there is." Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin
- "What David always hated most about the Summer family dinners was the way everyone talked about him as if he were not there." Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
- "The day war was declared, a rain of telephones fell clattering to the cobblestones from the skies above Novy Petrograd." Singularity Sky by Charles Stross
- "The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance agent promised to fly from Mercy to the other side of Lake Superior at three o'clock." Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- "I know you think you saw him first, but I'm pretty sure it was me — he was over there by the underpass, feeling his way along the graffiti-covered wall, and I said, "Look, there's something you don't see every day." Broken Toys by Shaun Tan in Tales From Outer Suburbia
- "Summertime at dusk we'd gather on the back porch, tired and sticky from another day of fierce encoded quarrels, nursing our mosquito bites and frail dignities, sisters in name only." Water Names by Lan Samantha Chang in New Sudden Fiction
- "Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"" Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol
- "My last night of childhood began with a visit home." Bloodchild by Octavia Butler
- "The Ice falls, swept by time and what first impulse I do not know, only that now it falls, free in its falling, the drift of it I envy." Aurora by Terrance Holt from In the Valley of the Kings
- "All week end the two girls were calling each other Temple One and Temple Two, shaking with laughter and getting so red and hot that they were positively ugly, particularly Joanne who had spots on her face anyway." A Temple of the Holy Ghost by Flannery O'Connor
- "I am made out of water." The Crap Artist by Philip K. Dick


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General Campbell (U.S. Army-Ret.), Senior Advisor at McChrystal Group, was most recently the commander of the Resolute Support Mission and United States Forces—Afghanistan. Prior to this command assignment, he was appointed by the President of the United States to serve as the 34th Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army.
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General Campbell holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Military Academy and a master's degree in Public Administration from Golden Gate University. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the Army War College. During his military service, General Campbell earned a number of individual and campaign awards and decorations to include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, three Distinguished Service Medals, the Defense Superior Service Medal, two Legions of Merit, three Bronze Star Medals, two Defense Meritorious Service Medals, six Meritorious Service Medals, two Humanitarian Service Medals, as well as the Ranger and Special Forces Tabs.


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A Waco Christian church will open its main worship service to a dialogue with members from Waco's Islamic Center in a three-Sunday series starting this Sunday intended to increase interfaith understanding.
The series at First Presbyterian Church of Waco, 1100 Austin Ave., which carries the somewhat dry title "Reformed Christianity and Islam in Dialogue," has a warmer, more human intent: finding where the two faiths find common ground and where they differ, not through an exchange of lectures, but in conversation.
The Rev. Leslie King, senior pastor at First Presbyterian, said the conversations, held during the church's 10:30 a.m. worship service and open to the public, are meant to broaden understanding of both faiths. She hopes that will foster a greater sense of community in Waco while giving members a sharper awareness of what makes their faith distinctive.
That is best done in contact over time, hence the three Sundays with a potluck dinner following church the first two Sundays.
"Any religion cannot be understood in a sound bite," King said.
The two-person dialogues will take place during the sermon time in Sunday worship, with leaders discussing topics including belief in God, prayer and expressions of one's faith, with members' questions worked in. King and associate pastor Dee Dee Carson will be sharing with Islamic Center of Waco President Al Siddiq, his son Bilal and center member David Oualaalou.
It is the latest opportunity to discuss Muslim faith and practice for Al Siddiq, who estimates he has spoken to some 60 Waco churches over the years. He is trying to counter what he sees as a mistaken perception in American media and politics that Islam is violent and its followers fanatical and anti-American.
Three Sundays will allow a more in-depth discussion of faith, and the three Muslims participating will show the democratic nature of mosque practice, he said.
"In our mosque, everybody is equal," Siddiq said. "All can give the sermon. All can lead the prayers."
Like Siddiq, Oualaalou, founder of Global Perspective Consulting and a McLennan Community College instructor in government, is quick to support discussion and dialogue of Islam with the larger community. While Christianity is the dominant faith for much of Waco, he has found Waco largely open and welcoming to its Muslim residents.
He recalled speaking at Columbus Avenue Baptist Church more than a year ago and being told he was the first Muslim to speak at that church.
"It meant a lot for me," Oualaalou said.
Another forum at St. Paul's Episcopal Church that he and Siddiq participated in resulted in an overflow audience interested in talking about Islam and Christianity.
"We dialogued in a civilized way and there was no right or wrong," Oualaalou said. "This is what America is all about."
King said First Presbyterian's membership has long held an interest in interfaith exchanges and conversations in Waco, with a relationship already formed with the Islamic Center of Waco.
In recent years, the center has shared its final iftar meal during the holy month of Ramadan with the public. The iftar meal, held after sunset, breaks the daytime fast that marks each day of Ramadan.
Oualaalou said public turnout for the event has grown from some 70 people to more than 200 this year, prompting center leaders to contemplate enlarging the center to allow greater participation in the future.
Many of those iftar guests are First Presbyterian members, and King said her church's Sunday series and meals are a gesture of appreciation.
"We at First Presbyterian like that event, and to reciprocate that hospitality we're giving (center members) time in our pulpit to explain about their identity as Muslims in America," she said.
Both Siddiq and Oualaalou remarked that their talks on their faith often have happened with the backdrop of terrorism and violence in the Middle East. With those national discussions at a relatively low ebb compared to past years, this month's Sunday conversations may allow a better dialogue on what daily faith and practice looks for both Waco Christians and Muslims, Oualaalou said.
"We classically complain about things we don't understand," King said. "But I think we'll realize that God is much larger than we can imagine."


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Dominican's 2014-15 Guest Concert Series begins Oct. 12
The 14th season of the Guest Concert Series begins on October 12 with Conservatory of Music cellist Jean-Michel Fonteneau.
The Sunday concerts, sponsored by Dominican's Department of Music, Dance and Performing Arts, start at 3 p.m. Free parking is available in the nearby Conlan Center lot off Grand Avenue in San Rafael.
This season, three of the five concerts will feature performers who are new to the Angelico Concert Hall stage while Jean-Michel Fonteneau and the San Francisco Chamber Players return as favorites of the Guest Concert Series.
"We are so proud to present world-class performers on our campus in a small, intimate setting at such a affordable price," said June Choi Oh, chair of the music department in the School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Dominican who is a Juilliard School-trained pianist. "It presents a unique and special opportunity for music lovers of all ages. We welcome members of our audience to meet informally with performers over refreshments following each concert."
The concerts are free to students under the age of 18 including middle school and elementary school children if accompanied and supervised by an adult. In addition, community college students with a valid I.D. and music and art teachers in grades K-12 will be admitted free of charge along with Dominican faculty, staff and students with a valid I.D.
Subscription season tickets for the Guest Concert Series are $72 for general admission, $60 for seniors over 60. Single-event tickets, which are only available at the door 30 minutes prior to scheduled performances, are $18 for general admission and $15 for seniors over 60.
On October 12, as part of Dominican's Convocation/Family Weekend 2014, Jean-Michel Fonteneau will return to the Angelico Hall stage for a cello recital, accompanied on the piano by June Oh. Fonteneau is professor of Cello at the Conservatory of Music where Oh has taught for many years. He is founding member of the Ravel String Quartet and winner of the first French Grammy award "Les Victoires de la Musique Classique."
On November 9, Kevin Kenner comes to Dominican for a piano recital. His artistry is recognized throughout the world by winning the top prizes in the most prestigious competitions: Tchaikovsky International Competition, Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and the International Chopin Piano Competition, in which he served as a juror in 2010. Called "one of the finest American pianists to come along in years" by the Chicago Tribune, Kenner has appeared around the world as a soloist with leading orchestras and recitalist in major halls.
On January 25, the San Francisco Chamber Players return to Angelico Hall. Northern California's premier chamber ensemble is comprised by Dan Carlson (violin) and Peter Wyrick (cello) who are Principal and Associate Principals, respectively, of the San Francisco Symphony. They will perform with Joy Fellows (viola) who is Assistant Principal of San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, and June Oh, chamber musicians who have been close friends and colleagues for many years.
On February 22, Eileen Moon, who is Associate Principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic, will perform with Sarn Oliver, who is a first violinist of the San Francisco Symphony. They will be joined on stage by June Oh, who spent her formative years in New York City studying and performing, as did Oliver. All three performers in the "Trio of New York and San Francisco" are graduates of the Juilliard School.
On April 26, the Farallon Quintet will make its Angelico Hall debut and close the 14th season of the Guest Concert Series. Founded in 2012, this dynamic Bay Area ensemble – Natalie Parker on clarinet, violinists Dan Flanagan and Matthew Oshida, Elizabeth Prior on viola and cellist Jonah Kim -- is the only professional chamber music group focused exclusively on the clarinet quintet (string quartet plus clarinet) repertoire. The quintet was recently awarded a grant from San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music to record and release its debut album in 2015.
For more information on tickets and the 2014-15 Guest Concert Series schedule, call 415-482-3579, email [email protected] or visit http://www.dominican.edu/events.


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My face hurts from fake-smiling so much this week. Mostly the week with the in-laws went well, although there were some awkward fake-smiley moments. Such as the moment my husband asked me (in front of his mother) if I was going to "play nice" when his sister (aka Slightly Psycho) came over to visit. Such as the moment my mother in-law rolled in at midnight one night and I came downstairs when the dog barked, only to see Dear Ma stagger in and weave to the bathroom. Such as the moment the next day when Father Inlaw claimed she only had two glasses of wine. Such as every single moment of my nephew's birthday on Friday afternoon (who has a kid's party on a weekday afternoon??), especially the moment at 5:30 when I realized I was half an hour late to pick my sister up and yelled, in front of lots of small kids and their mothers, "Oh Sh*t!! I forgot to pick up M!!" and then proceed to toss my baby like a football to my husband.
Oh my garsh, I sure am glad I have somewhere to put these thoughts. You'd never know how uncomfortable I am around my sister-in-law, as I work very hard to be polite for the sake of my husband and in-laws, but I would rather electrocute my nipples than put that much effort into something. Especially fake-smiling.
Life Lesson: If you let your 20 month old girl and her 4 year old brother play while both are under the alleged "eagle eye" of your husband, said 4 year old will get annoyed, pick up a hard plastic scratchy-foam-covered bat and smoke said 20 month old girl in the eye. Hilarity ensues. And by hilarity I mean blood curdling screaming, daddy yelling, 4 year old wailing, 40 minutes driving to two eye doctors to find out they are both closed, heading over to emerg because you're grossed out by eye injury stuff and have an out-of-control imagination, 2 hrs waiting, suspicious and huffy looks from others, doctor saying baby's ok after a 2 minute assessment, driving home in weekend traffic hilarity.
Wow. My girl has quite a shiner. I wanted to get her a shirt that says, "You should see the other guy." My husband, sick wacko that he is, thinks we should get her a shirt that says, "Daddy loves me."
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