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Frances Heath Photography
Amalfi Coast photographer specializing in weddings, portraits, and events in Italy.
Ravello Italy
Positano Italy
Positano Town Hall
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Elopement Wedding
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Amalfi Italy
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Catholic Wedding
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Positano Wedding
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Civil Wedding
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Garden Wedding
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Laura & Dan
Laura and Dan held their destination wedding in sunny Sorrento. They had their civil ceremony an the romantic cloisters of San Francesco in the heart of Sorrento. After the ceremony, and lots of hugs and congratulations, their guests saw the newly weds off in a vintage wedding car. Then we all reunited at the Hotel Mediterraneo for cocktails and a sunset dinner. Everyone had a great time, and it was fantastic to be able to photograph this special day for such a lovely couple. I am sure there will be many more years of laughter and happiness for Laura and Dan.
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Last week, 82% of you voted that Ben Wallace would not be the only remaining Bullet left in the NBA next season. Of course. most of you probably voted before SLAM reported yesterday that Rasheed Wallace won't play next season unless he can get at least $8 million this off-season. If that is indeed the case, I get the feeling the majority will be wrong on that one.
This week, the subject of Pollin' is Dominic McGuire (official sponsors!). Other than Caron Butler and Antawn Jamison, no Wizard started more games last season than Dominic McGuire. As a starter, McGuire averaged 5.5 points, 6.4 rebounds, and 3.3 assists per game and provided some much needed perimeter defense.
Some more fun facts about Taser:
- He finished 15th in the league in assist rate, no other non-point guard had a higher assist rate this season.
- McGuire finished tied for second on the team in blocks with Andray Blatche, only one block behind JaVale McGee.
Here's a list of some of the players who finished with a lower rebound rate than McGuire this season:
- LeBron James
- Ronny Turiaf
- Carmelo Anthony
- Joel Anthony
- Marvin Williams
- Jeff Green
- Andrei Kirilenko
- Boris Diaw
- Thaddeus Young
- Kenyon Martin
With McGuire in the lineup, you have a good distributor to put alongside Arenas, a solid defender, and someone who can help you win the rebounding battle. He helps in several areas where the starting lineup could use some help. The case to keep Dominic McGuire in the starting lineup next year is strong, but he has some factors working against him.
If the Wizards were able to draft Blake Griffin, the assumption would be that the Wizards would go big with Butler at the 2 and Jamison at the 3 to fit Griffin in the starting lineup. If they landed Rubio, most would probably want to see him in the backcourt alongside Arenas. Even if the Wizards aren't able to get either player, there's always the chance that the Wizards could land someone that can do what McGuire does and scores at a better rate. And there are those who argue that as long as DeShawn Stevenson can return to form, his outside shooting would spread the floor more and give the Big 3 more room to operate.
So where do we stand? Will Dominic McGuire keep his spot in the starting lineup next season, or will Taser have to work his magic off the bench? The choice is yours.


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An Oslo institution dating back to 1857.
Engebret Café - an institution in Oslo where Ibsen, Bjørnson, Grieg and Munch all had regular tables. History is engraved in the historic walls. The flourishing theatre community at Bankplassen in the 1800s created a demand for a café for actors and others. 151 years later, Engebret Café is still as popular as ever.
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RALEIGH — The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission has adopted a resolution supporting a bill that would promote wildlife-related recreation and youth involvement in outdoor activities across the state.
Wildlife Commissioners took the action Tuesday in support of House Bill 640, known as the Outdoor Heritage Act.
"This legislation provides a comprehensive blueprint to increase opportunities to enjoy North Carolina's rich outdoor heritage," said Gordon Myers, executive director of the Wildlife Commission.
"With a focus on youth involvement, it's an investment for the future."
The resolution cites the importance of provisions in the bill that focus on private property rights, increased access to public land, additional hunting opportunities and promotion of a wide range of outdoor recreation, including horseback riding, hiking, bird watching, hunting, fishing and boating.
These provisions include creation of a trust fund to engage youth in outdoor activities. The fund would be made possible by $2 donations made during transactions with the Wildlife Commission, such as purchasing hunting and fishing licenses.
The bill would increase hunting opportunities on Sunday on private lands. Currently, only archery and falconry are allowed for hunting on Sunday on private lands. Hunting on Sunday on public lands is limited to military installations under federal jurisdiction.
The resolution states House Bill 640 aligns seamlessly with the goals of the Wildlife Commission's Strategic Plan, particularly in regard to youth, access and expanded opportunity.
About the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission
Since 1947, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has been dedicated to the conservation and sustainability of the state's fish and wildlife resources through research, scientific management, wise use, and public input. The Commission is the state regulatory agency responsible for the enforcement of fishing, hunting, trapping and boating laws and provides programs and opportunities for wildlife-related educational, recreational and sporting activities. To learn more, visit www.ncwildlife.org.


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How Much Experience Do You Have in Power Supply Design?
If you are new to power design, don't be shy about it - we all had to start at the beginning.
I remember my first day on the job in 1981. They handed a schematic to me and told me that's what I would be working on. I spent two days looking at it, trying to piece together the capacitors, diodes, magnetics and switches that made up a switching power supply. At the end of that, I went to my manager and asked for help. He told me it wasn't even a power supply at all, it was a power distribution unit with relays and timers. It was a humbling experience.
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Today I would like to introduce my favorite and top utilized application on my iPad pro. This app has revolutionized the way I conduct my business and everyday tasks. My work routine has become easier and my arms less fatigued thanks to the utilization of this $7.99 app.
About three years ago my family gifted me with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil for Mother's Day. Apparently, in their minds, I carried around "way too many binders that you always drop or we have to help you bring them into the house (car)." Direct quote from my daughter. If it was a decision between dropping my binders or dropping the squirming kid, the binders always lost the battle. This meant there were many days where everyone had to help me catch the flying loose sheets that were twirling in the wind.
At the time, my Win was still in the stage where he wanted to be carried everywhere and my job required the consistent review and implementation of various rules and regulations. It was my role to ensure we not only remained in compliance but also operationalize the expectations. Thus, I always had a variety of manuals and standards I carried from home to the office and then back again. On the days which found me away and traveling to other agencies, I would check in to the hotel, drop my bags in the room and then return downstairs to retrieve a box of binders with materials which needed to be reviewed before the next day.
Binders in front of me, binders in back of me, binders at home, binders at work, binders everywhere and anywhere I could sneak in a little reading time. The sad thing is – I loved my binders. In my mind, there was no other system that was better.
Then after being gifted with new technology, I was forced to watch numerous YouTube videos about my new iPad Pro, Apple Pencil and the various options for note taking apps. I downloaded Microsoft OneNote, played with Notability, drew pictures on Pages and finally wrote myself reminders. Nothing worked the way my binders did. They were my one thing that made my life easier.
Then I found reviews and demonstrations of the app – GoodNotes. Can I tell you my mind was blown and my life was simple? GoodNotes is like a kiss – they keep it simple stupid. That was me, stupid for waiting so long before I divided in. With this app, I am able to import and export any documents I choose as well as I have been able to stick my toe into digital planning and note-taking. Now I believe in the power of paper and pen so I will NOT give up any of by disc-bound notebooks, but I only need to carry around one.
I have created categories for each of my projects and save all notes and manuals associated with each project in that category folder. In addition, I have uploaded my custom project planning sheets as well as travel itineraries and continuing education handouts. With the pencil, it is easy to color code my notes, highlight reminders and email this information to anyone I desire. The app works with external cloud platforms like Google Drive, iCloud, Dropbox, OneDrive and Box. Each of my grant application packets has a category along with notes taken during informational webinars and any subsequent documents associated. GoodNotes, where have you been all my life?
Access to these materials allows me to remain prepared for questions from my team and ensures I can review information during unexpected blocks of extra time in my schedule. What a wonderful feeling it is to have peace of mind and less luggage when I travel. I consider this app to be one of the best investments I made towards personal productivity. Now if I can just remember to keep my online and paper files as organized as the documents on GoodNotes, I would remove one of the causes of procrastination in my life.
Do you have an app which you have found to be vital to your productivity? Have you tried GoodNotes? Tell me about your experience in the comments.
Til next time,
"Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book." – Patti Smith


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Robotics: Science and Systems XII
Functional Gradient Motion Planning in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert SpacesZita Marinho, Byron Boots, Anca Dragan, Arunkumar Byravan, Geoffrey J. Gordon, Siddhartha Srinivasa
We introduce a functional gradient descent tra- jectory optimization algorithm for robot motion planning in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces (RKHSs). Functional gra- dient algorithms are a popular choice for motion planning in complex many-degree-of-freedom robots, since they (in theory) work by directly optimizing within a space of continuous trajec- tories to avoid obstacles while maintaining geometric properties such as smoothness. However, in practice, implementations such as CHOMP and TrajOpt typically commit to a fixed, finite parametrization of trajectories, often as a sequence of waypoints. Such a parameterization can lose much of the benefit of reasoning in a continuous trajectory space: e.g., it can require taking an inconveniently small step size and large number of iterations to maintain smoothness. Our work generalizes functional gradient trajectory optimization by formulating it as minimization of a cost functional in an RKHS. This generalization lets us represent trajectories as linear combinations of kernel functions. As a re- sult, we are able to take larger steps and achieve a locally optimal trajectory in just a few iterations. Depending on the selection of kernel, we can directly optimize in spaces of trajectories that are inherently smooth in velocity, jerk, curvature, etc., and that have a low-dimensional, adaptively chosen parameterization. Our experiments illustrate the effectiveness of the planner for different kernels, including Gaussian RBFs with independent and coupled interactions among robot joints, Laplacian RBFs, and B-splines, as compared to the standard discretized waypoint representation.
@INPROCEEDINGS{Marinho-RSS-16, AUTHOR = {Zita Marinho AND Byron Boots AND Anca Dragan AND Arunkumar Byravan AND Geoffrey J. Gordon AND Siddhartha Srinivasa}, TITLE = {Functional Gradient Motion Planning in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems}, YEAR = {2016}, ADDRESS = {AnnArbor, Michigan}, MONTH = {June}, DOI = {10.15607/RSS.2016.XII.046} }


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"Angus was a dream percussionist. A dream person." — Lou Reed
The Art and Life of Angus MacLise (1938 – 1979)
May 10 – May 29, 2011
curated by Johan Kugelberg and Will Swofford Cameron
This is the first overview of the lifework of a major American 20th century artistic polyglot.
Angus MacLise was an American artist, poet, percussionist, and composer active in New York, San Francisco, Paris, London and Kathmandu from the 1950's through the 1970's. Best known as the original drummer of the Velvet Underground, MacLise's lifework included music, calligraphy, performance art, poetry, drawings, plays, and limited edition artist's books.
A suitcase of Angus MacLise's artwork, publications, and manuscript as well as more than 100 hours of recorded music was left with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela for safe-keeping thirty years ago. This extraordinary time-vault is the foundation of the exhibition, with additional materials drawn from private previously unseen collections and archives.
Opening Party, May 10th
6pm to 9pm at 521 W23rd Street
Art Exhibition – May 10 – May 29
521 W 23rd Street, New York
Sound Installation
265 Canal Street, Suite 601, New York
Film Night at the Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue, New York, May 12th at 8 PM.
The 521 West 23rd Street exhibition features manuscript, calligraphy, ephemera, photography, artwork, memorabilia, posters and handbills illuminating MacLise's multi-faceted career through a narrative of original artifacts.
The 265 Canal Street Suite 601 sound installation, the premiere exhibition at Boo-Hooray's new Chinatown space, features previously unheard recordings from the 1960's and 1970's featuring Angus MacLise performing alongside notables such as: Tony Conrad, La Monte Young, John Cale, Billy Name, Terry Riley, William Breeze, Piero Heliczer, Jack Smith, Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison and Maureen Tucker among others. Each day one may experience a unique set of curated programs of MacLise's music. Every day is different.
The exhibits are open every day from 11am – 6pm, with the curators hosting Walks and Talks at the 521 West 23rd Street location on Saturday May 14th at 3pm & Saturday May 21st at 3pm
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1. Patient's Code of Conduct
Patients are responsible for their own personal and environmental well-being. The following code of conduct emphasizes the responsibilities of a patient while seeking medical care at Defy Medical.
As a patient:
- You should provide the doctor with accurate and complete information about your medical history, past illnesses, allergies, current illnesses, and medications.
- You should report changes in your medical condition.
- You should ask for clarity if the doctor's prescription and diagnosis seem unclear.
- You should follow the doctor's treatment plan.
- You should pay your medical bills promptly.
- You should follow Defy Medical rules and regulations.
- You should have realistic expectations of what the doctor can do for you.
- You should help your doctor help you; if something isn't working, be clear and the doctor can advise alternative care.
- You should participate actively in your own medical care (in terms of awareness and preventions).
- You should treat the doctors and staff with respect and dignity. Verbal abuse will result in immediate discharge.
2. Patient's Bill of Rights
This lists the basic rights that any patient has with respect to his / her own treatment, with respect to Defy Medical, and in relation to information to be made available. By publicly displaying such a list of rights, Defy Medical and doctors display their commitment towards the health and well-being of the patients who come there for treatment, and help to build and re-affirm the patient's trust and faith in the doctor and in the medical system.
Each medical facility should display the following Patient's Bill of Rights.
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- To be treated with dignity.
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Ashley Mansions
At first the Foreign and Home Sections shared an office but Mansfield Cumming soon decided he needed his own base – and one that provided him with accommodation. He settled on Ashley Mansions in Vauxhall Bridge Road and early in 1910 set up a bogus address with the Post Office – Messrs Rasen, Falcon Limited, a firm of 'shippers and exporters'. This was the first example of what has since then become the classic 'import/export' espionage cover and anything sent to this address was forwarded to him at Ashley Mansions.


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In my former life as an academic, I used to joke to my colleagues that Game of Thrones was essential reading as a standard operations manual for working in universities nowadays.
GOT as a manual for negotiating the world of research grants, where, figuratively, you either win the game or die and of navigating a path between the wheeling and dealing of the big-time professors, administrators, bean-counters, health and safety officers (hey, don't underestimate their power). On many occasions, the internal and external politics between all of the players seemed to operate on a GOT-like scale. There were times I must admit that I felt no better than a denizen of the "Flea Bottom" in King's Landing.
Given that internal politics in most organisations of more than a handful of people can feel a bit like GOT, from time-to-time, why not distract yourself with a little idle speculation about the upcoming Game of Thrones Season 8? I'm hoping to speculate on enough topics that I'll be able to make a random hit and be able to say "I told you so!" The truth is that my speculation is unlikely to be any better than anyone else. But its fun isn't it? [March 7: I've added new updates in notes at the end]
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Our mentors are editing, our mentees are revising, and we hope you're making progress on your own manuscript! While we're all working toward the Agent Showcase starting on February 5, 2020, we hope you'll take a moment during your writing breaks and get to know our 2019 Pitch Wars Mentor and Mentee Teams.
Next up, we have . . .
Kate Dylan – Mentee
Kat Dunn – Mentor
Kat, why did you choose Kate?
Kate's entire submission package just blew me away from start to finish. I made almost no notes about it because I was franticly reading, desperate to know more. Looking back at my big submissions spreadsheet all I put was a wall of swearing in all caps and the word 'yes'.
So it was pretty clear I was on board with MINDWALKER.
I requested the full, and gobbled it all down in two days. Sil is one of my all time favourite characters – smart but flawed, sarcastic and emotionally tangled up, determined and vulnerable. I fell in love.
Kate's writing is so taut, her plot so sharp, I almost felt disappointed because I thought there was nowhere I could add value. Luckily for me, a twisty plot is difficult to pull off first try, so there ended up being obvious places I could help make the manuscript shine and find a place in the market.
Also we have almost the same name, which seems like some sort of weird destiny.
Kate, why did you choose to submit to Kat?
Funny story, but I almost didn't!
When I was doing my mentor research, Kat came out at the very top of my spreadsheet (yes, there was a spreadsheet. No, I'm not ashamed).
I loved everything about her vibe, I loved the sound of her upcoming novel (DANGEROUS REMEDY – go look it up!), I loved the example critique she did on the site, and I was pretty sure I hit, like, 80% of the things on her wishlist.
But there was one item on her 'not for me' list that I thought might apply to my book (plot twist: it didn't), and I was so worried about it being an automatic 'no' that I took her off my shortlist.
But over the next week, I kept going back to her blog because she just seemed like such a good fit for both me and MINDWALKER (and London based too!)
In the end, I decided to go with that feeling and take a shot.
So trust your gut, kids. If it feels like the right choice, it probably is.
Kat, summarize Kate's book in 3 words.
Badass. Twisty. Action.
Kate, summarize your book in 3 words.
Kat, tell us about yourself. Something we may not already know.
I am a huge nerd about learning languages! I've talked about spending a lot of my childhood in France, and my family who'll switch between French and English (mostly when they want to keep secrets). But not everyone knows I also speak fluent Japanese. And that I ran away to Japan when I was 18!
I had a less than happy home life, and took the first opportunity to leg it halfway around the world. I ended up working in a rural hospital, doing lots of gross and fascinating things, and learning a lot of medical Japanese. A few years later, I ended up translating for Japanese TV at Wimbledon, and had to learn about tennis fast. These days I mostly use my skills to watch Terrace House episodes early and read a truly amazing and terrible supernatural mystery novel series, Psychic Detective Yakumo.
I also studied Latin for 6 years, and picked up some German, Norwegian, Italian, Dutch, Mandarin and Spanish – I'm planning to study Korean and Welsh next!
Kate, what do you hope to get out of the Pitch Wars experience?
A better book.
This manuscript is me on a plate and I want to give it the best possible chance, not just so it'll sell (though GOALS, obviously), but because I want you all to love it as much as I do.
For that to happen, I need someone to push me, and challenge me, and question my decisions.
And having seen Kat's vision for MINDWALKER, I know that I'll be walking away from PW with a book I'm truly proud of.
Kate, tell us about yourself! What makes you and your manuscript unique?
All you really need to know about me is that I make custom LEGO minifigs of my characters and spray my own book edges. I also make excellent cakes.
What makes MINDWALKER unique is the voice, I think. Sil sort of just… exploded onto the page. I don't know where she came from, and I sure as hell don't know how to reign her in. She is the soul of this book, and telling this story through her eyes has allowed me to put a fun spin on a lot of tried and tested tropes.
This book is also a combination of all my favourite things in sci-fi and near-future narratives: cool tech, a ruined world, and hair styles I would kill for – all underscored by the question I think a lot of science fiction aims to answer: what happens when technology goes too far?
Check out Kat's upcoming release, DANGEROUS REMEDY.
Camille, a revolutionary's daughter, leads a band of outcasts – a runaway girl, a deserter, an aristocrat in hiding. As the Battalion des Mortes they cheat death, saving those about to meet a bloody end at the blade of Madame La Guillotine. But their latest rescue is not what she seems. The girl's no aristocrat, but her dark and disturbing powers means both the Royalists and the Revolutionaries want her. But who and what is she?
In these dangerous days, no one can be trusted, everyone is to be feared. As Camille learns the truth, she's forced to choose between loyalty to those she loves and the future.
Thank you for supporting our Pitch Wars Teams! The Agent Showcase is February 5 – 10, 2020, and our next Twitter Pitch Party on #PitMad is March 5, 2020! Want to know more about #PitMad? Go here.


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What was up with that idiotic aw-shucks expression that Rick Perry wore during last night's GOP gubernatorial primary debate? The raised eyebrows, the squinty eyes, the earnest grin-with-overbite: He looked like he was running for dogcatcher of Mayberry. The buffoonish mask was intended to show that Perry was an affable guy ready for an open exchange of ideas. But straining to appear like he cared about the thoughts and opinions of others gave the guv a case of sore facial muscles. But damn, does that boy love Texas.
Meanwhile, Kay Bailey Hutchison looked like a substitute teacher trying too hard to establish authority over the classroom. Toughness doesn't really suit her as a pose. Thoughtfulness would be a more fitting impression to convey with her soft-spoken style, except that she was addressing the conservative base of the Texas Republican Party. They're deeply suspicious of people who think. Still, Hutchison got misty-eyed every time the great state of Texas was mentioned.
Crazy teabagger/home schooler Debra Medina wants to dismantle the EPA; mentions at the drop of a hat that she carries a gun in her car (hell, she'd like to pack heat while she's grocery shopping, but she manages to restrain herself); believes a woman's body is the property of the state; wants to eliminate the property tax and replace it with a sales tax that'll hit the working poor much harder; and wants to reclaim Texas' constitutional "sovereignty" (as in, enjoy some federal funding but ignore all federal mandates). Her a capella version of "The Yellow Rose of Texas" was stirring, though.
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ILNP Fall 2014 Collection Sneak PeekAugust 11, 2014
Hello ladies! Today I have a sneak peek of the upcoming ILNP Fall 2014 collection to share with you. I just picked it up from the post office and I had to share this beauty with you girls right away!
The new collection consists of 11 colors; 6 new holos, 3 untra-chromes with holo effect, 1 new ultra-chrome and a linear holo version of the previously released Mega.
This collection totally blew my mind away! There are so many gorgeous colors that I can't wait to try on.
The new ILNP Fall collection will be available for pre-order on August 15th.
There's also a huge GIVEAWAY for 5 full sets at ILNP Facebook page so be sure to sign up for a chance to win this amazing collection!
So are you excited about this new ILNP Fall collection like I am?
Let me know which colors you are most excited about and would like to see me swatch first.
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Can't wait for your swatches ;)ReplyDelete
How exciting! There looking gorgeous already.ReplyDelete
Black Orchid and Champagne Blush, please!ReplyDelete
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Okay, I haven't even seen a single swatch of these but am completely in love. Stunning collection!ReplyDelete
I'm just not too much into holo and duo-chrome but I know how aaawesome they will look on your nails!ReplyDelete
the polishes look beautiful, all of them :) tho I think I'm most excited about the teal (as usual) and the orange :)ReplyDelete
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Be still my beating heart! Thanks for sharing. Can't wait to see the swatchesReplyDelete
Stunning collection :-)ReplyDelete


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The lobby lounge at one of Hong Kong's trendiest hotels has launched cookie hot shots, edible cookie shooters with vanilla-infused milk. Not only are they tasty and crunchy – think about the great selfies you can take to post on Instagram!
Who doesn't like milk and cookies? Well, what about milk IN a cookie?
Hot Shots are now being served at Coco, the café-patisserie at The Mira Hong Kong, which is located in the heart of Tsim Sha Tsui along Kowloon's world-famous Golden Mile.
The Hot Shots set includes six freshly baked, hand-crafted cookie shooters made with single origin 55% cocoa dark chocolate chips.
The chocolate chips are made out of the finest cocoa beans from Ghana, creating beautifully balanced, well-toasted flavor in the moist, dense cookie crust.
Meanwhile, the milk comes from the Northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, which is noted for its pristine dairy farms. The milk is infused with vanilla seeds from a tropical climbing orchid plant from French Polynesia.
Individual Hot Shots served with vanilla-infused milk are served in the lobby lounge daily from 8 am to 8 pm. They cost HK$38 per piece or HK$198 for six pieces. Take-away sets are coming soon.
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In keeping with current trends, there's more to Hot Shots than great taste and texture. Think of what a great prop they will make for selfies!
"The Hot Shots are set to become popular with the 21st century families who understand that capturing a precious moment with the little ones isn't just for the family albums, but for the whole world to see, thanks to Instagram," says Chef Rick Chan, Pastry Chef at The Mira Hong Kong.
"Perfect for a short but sweet celebration, they may become the best alternative to cutting a cake or toasting with bubbly."
Those wanting something stronger might want to consider pairing the delectable treats with an alcoholic beverage. Bailey's Irish Cream, perhaps?
"For adults-only parties, you may try to experiment with blending in some Irish cream or coffee liqueur into the milk to spike the cookie shots," Chef Rick says.
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Located in the lobby of the Mira Hong Kong, Coco is a café-patisserie serving designer cakes, freshly-baked pastries, custom-made cakes, and artisan chocolates, which are washed down with signature coffees.
The Mira Hong Kong has 492 guest rooms, including a collection of 56 suites and specialty suites. The hotel overlooks Kowloon Park in the heart of Tsim Sha Tsui, one of Hong Kong's most popular districts with tourists.
Coco – G/F Lobby, The Mira Hong Kong, Mira Place, 118 – 130 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong.
The hotel is a short walk from the Tsim Sha Tsui MTR Station. The Star Ferry Pier is about a 10 to 15 minutes' walk from the hotel.


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The Financial Crimes Task Force was established pursuant to state law and is comprised of local, state, and federal law enforcement investigators dedicated to combating the growing problem of cross-jurisdictional financial crimes. The task force, overseen by an advisory board also created under state law, serves the entire District of Minnesota, presenting its cases to county or federal prosecutors, as appropriate.
The U.S. Attorney's Office wants to remind people to protect themselves from mortgage fraud. For more information, visit http://www.stopfraud.gov/protect-mortgage.html.
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Gender counselling
and its difficulties in cases of acute and chronic gender dysphoria.
Alice Purnell.
B.Sc., R.G.N., Post Grad. Dip. Counselling/Psychology. Psychologist/Counsellor. Nurse. Trustee, Gender Trust and Beaumont Trust. BS Officer. Gendys Conference, 1994
A Chinese proverb says that the beginning of wisdom is giving things the right name.
Before my presentation it will be necessary to give some definitions. I make a basic distinction between sex and gender. Sex is a biological phenomenon, gender is a cultural one.
Sex in its simplest terms, concerning humans, can be defined as being a male or a female. It refers to a set of biological characteristics linked to reproduction.
Intersex is a person whose sex is not clearly defined anatomically. There are chromosomal errors like Turner's Syndrome (where one of the XX or XY sex chromosomes is missing) and Klinefelter's Syndrome (XXY syndrome) or hermaphroditism where the anatomical sex has elements of both sexes.
There are also conditions where there have been developmental variants from the norm; like hypospadias, hypogonadism, gynecomastia, testicular feminization and adrenogenital syndrome. There are even some unfortunates who are born without visible anatomical sexual indicators.
It is now generally recognised that males and females do have vestiges of the other sex and a potential which includes elements of the other sex. Sex is in fact on a continuum. In humans there is actually relatively little sexual dimorphism, but a little bit makes a big difference as to how we see ourselves and others see us.
Sexual Identity is a sense of belonging to one sex or another.
There are seven criteria for establishing sexual identification, based on work by Prof. J. Money 1963)
Gender Identity Differentiation is how we are polarised towards one gender or another and is an psychological and sexual expression of that.
Sexual preference is a person's preferred sex object or object of affection and is to do with sexuality not gender. Like the rest of society transsexuals may be heterosexual, bisexual, asexual or homosexual (transhomosexual in this case).(1)
Gender refers to culturally defined states of masculinity and femininity. It is not directly related to sex or to sexuality. It is a sense of a person being a boy or girl, a man or a woman, and is about an individual's masculine or feminine behaviour and attitudes.
Gender Identity is an individual's sense of being masculine or feminine and their gender role, it is a sense of being of one gender or another.
Gender Role is the public expression of gender identity.
Gender Behaviour is culturally prescribed and often is polarised as masculine or feminine, with boundaries as defined by the society in which an individual lives. One is generally expected to conform to some extent to defined norms. What is 'expected' in 'gender appropriate' behaviour is linked to society and to mating and reproduction. It is partly to do with the individual's sense of self and others' sense of that individual.
Here I depart from the sex/gender distinction I have just offered. In popular and some professional thinking sex and gender are used interchangeably.
Gender Dysphoria (Dissatisfaction) refers to a person's profound sense of unease or discomfort which is in opposition to their physical sex.
Gender Identity Disorder of Childhood(2) "Is an intense and persistent distress in a child about his or her assigned sex and a desire to be, or insistence that he or she is, of the other sex."
Gender stereotyping from a feminist perspective is a product of the patriarchal society in which we live, as indeed is feminism itself.
Whilst there are many who challenge gender stereotyping and the inadequacy of traditional gender roles, there are some who we term gender dysphoric. They are so oppressed by their own sense of incongruent gender identity, that they do not respond to any treatment to reverse that fundamental sense of self.(3)
Transsexualism "is a persistent discomfort and sense of inappropriateness about one's assigned sex in a person who has reached puberty."(4)
It is a condition where a person has such a strong gender dysphoria and conviction that they belong to the other gender than that of their sex at birth, that they seek to live and as far as possible adapt their life and their body, using all means available to be congruent with this fact.
Gender Identity Disorder of Adolescence or Adulthood, non Transsexual type,(5) Here cross dressing is not for the purpose of sexual excitement, it differs from transsexualism in that there is no persistent preoccupation with getting rid of the primary and secondary sex characteristics and acquiring those of the other sex.
Transgenderism occurs where an individual chooses to live as the other gender. Increasingly this has come to mean without recourse to gender reassignment surgery.
Transvestism is where a person, usually male in Western society, has a compulsion to dress in the clothes of the other sex. It consists of cross-dressing and to an extent role playing, and may be gender motivated (expeditions into their often stereotypical concept of a woman's life), or sexually motivated (often connected with fetishism).
Transvestism may be gender motivated, or may also progress from fetishism. Other forms of cross dressing might be in connection with humiliation (where the forcing into the 'weaker sex's' clothes is involved).
Cross-dressing also occurs in connection with drag (homosexual), with theatre, or with early sexual experimentation or fancy dress.(6)
It can be seen that there is a gender continuum, as there is with sex; that this is part of the natural variation in humans. Each individual responds to his or her sexual and gender identity and sexual preference with different amounts of pragmatism or guilt.
The medical and psychiatric, psychological, health and social welfare professionals respond with varying appropriateness or ineffectiveness to this range of people. There is a range of personal prejudices and degrees of empathy. Society and the law do not clearly recognise this variety of people with their particular behaviours and difficulties, which reinforces their sense of isolation, inequality and guilt.
Whether gender dysphoria is a response to nature or nurture or both is open to debate,(7) but modern research suggests that brain sex is a reality and that gender programming occurs in the sixth week of gestation. There is now a strong case for saying that the foundations of a sense as to belonging to one sex (or one gender) or another, is first established in utero and is absolutely fundamental in brain development.
Developmental psychologists place more emphasis on the nurture aspects of gender reinforcements and programming.
Whatever the aetiology of this group of clients, a number of difficulties have been experienced in counselling the group who are most challenged by their gender dysphoria.
Counselling gender dysphoric clients.
My experience with gender dysphoric sufferers commenced many years ago. My aim was to help people in chronic, or acute crisis, situations; who were challenged by their belief that they might be transsexual.
Questions concerning their gender identity, their core personality, consumed many of my clients.
The client tended to regard me as the expert, the person with authority. The initial transferences largely work with the counsellor as the expert in this way. (Berne on transactional therapy(8)) Because clients wanted to be 'Told what to do,' there could be a great temptation to be overly pragmatic.
Caution is the name of the game.
Options were always, so far as possible, highlighted for the client, so that he or she could make important choices. They were helped with cognitive problem solving techniques and provided, as far as possible in advance, with all the information possible. Ignorance has always been a problem with not only the clients, but also many professionals.
The numbers of distressed persons coming to us via the Beaumont Trust was so great that we founded the Gender Trust in 1990, as a registered charity. It has limited resources of time, helpers or money, and unfortunately no premises. It faced large numbers of clients whose needs were not, in most senses, being met by the Gender Identity Clinics; or by other professionals who were either ignorant of this field or hostile to it.
General practitioners, local psychiatrists and psychologists were not addressing this problem. Almost no counselling which was geared for the particular difficulties of clients with gender identity difficulties, was available on the NHS.
The sessions had to be limited in number because of limited resources. They included a preliminary history and assessment prior to counselling, and a clear contract to address a particular difficulty. Also the Gender Trust provides clients with information, practical help and advice.
The counselling the Trust provided had to be a form of crisis management, with brief counselling support, backed up with peer group support, information and advice in other contexts (conferences, information provision, workshops and seminars, involving inputs from myself and other professionals in the field).
I worked from a multi-disciplinary theoretical base, using specialised knowledge derived from Freud, Jung, Ellis, Hirschfeld, Benjamin, Stoller, Green, Money and others.
Much of the work was undertaken with a clear contract to address particular issues, using Windy Dryden's Rational Emotive Therapy(9,10,11) as the main model. This involves using an eclectic, largely cognitive, approach to bring about change, based on the hypothesis that humans have a tendency towards irrationality; but, optimistically, that we also have a great potential to work to change our biologically-based irrationalities. By identifying goals, setting a contract to address a particular difficulty and actively pursuing these goals, using a cognitive approach to reach these insights, therapy enables a client to change.
The BAC Code of Ethics was applied, as were The Standards of Care in Treatment of Transsexuals.(12) Counselling was often in my home or the client's. Sessions were from one to two hours.
Client's difficulties and themes which have recurred are:
Clarification, helping the client to clarify whether he/she is genuinely gender dysphoric; or, for example, a guilty transvestite convincing himself he is transsexual to escape that guilt.
Motivation. The client who sees himself as a failed man and (foolishly) believed that life as a woman is easier.
Poor self esteem and self hate.
Poor ego development.
Self restriction, Unrealistic views about what a woman or a man are "supposed to be," a self-imposed stereotypicality.
Inferiority, Being a little man with no penis (in the case of the female to male transsexuals). Being an unconvincing woman in the case of many male to female transsexuals. Also an 'inappropriate' education and life history.
Practicality, Not passing as a member of the gender role chosen (in the case of the male to females).
Guilt because of family disruption or religious difficulties.
Divorce and the effect on children and partners.
Relationships. Sexuality, friendships, partners, parents etc.
Loneliness and isolation.
Employment and Housing.
Unrealistic expectations of surgery and postoperative complications; surgery junkies.
Medication, including hormone-induced mood swings.
Depression and suicide.
Alcoholism, drug abuse.
Bereavement (mourning a past life, and to an extent adjusting to the negative implications of surgery. Lost fertility, lost libido etc.) And a plethora of other difficulties.
It left me as a counsellor with a feeling rather like the little Dutch girl with her finger in the dyke . . . or was it a boy?
The politics of the last thirty years have been rather like the earlier attitude of many professionals to homosexuals. The professional's script has been to somehow 'cure' the person and to 'make him/her 'normal'.
Often the attitude of professionals has been very far removed from the humanistic core conditions of Carl Rogers, with his use of empathy warmth and genuineness. Ignorance or prejudice were rife. There were also self-styled counsellors who did actual damage to clients by telling clients what to do, instead of listening.
I encouraged clients to participate in the process by their working at home, as well as in the consultation room, with lists and homework and self appraisals.
Much of my work was intuitive and based on experience with these clients, working around evidence and clues in a diagnostic sense, to some extent looking at practical realities. It was largely successful, but felt a bit like triage at a battle front.
I was attracted to Rogers's "Way of being" with a client. Though I knew my theoretical background and practice had not harmed a client and had helped many, I reacted against the very directive self-styled 'counsellors' who were actually harming their clients, many of whom had subsequently come to us for help.
To illustrate two of the problems faced by transsexuals and the range of counselling skills required I shall describe the experience of two clients.
Client 1.
I recall a client who had attended a Gender Identity Clinic and had been told that he was transsexual by the Consultant Psychiatrist. He was in deep depression and suicidal, and felt like "a nothing." I adopted an entirely Rogerian approach with this client, working with the process and with unlimited positive regard. I saw him on a weekly basis.
After a year he was saying that this was the first time in his life anyone had ever listened to him. This was an issue for him.
It also transpired that he was, apparently, not transsexual.
He was operating the mind set "If I dress as a woman sometimes, I must be one." His mother had also unmanned then mocked him, with "boys don't do that" when he had cried. There were many strong retroflexions in which he enacted his mother's problems (she seems to have had a classic Freudian penis envy).
In fact he had two fantasy persona, one a Lee Marvin type, a loner, a very masculine cowboy type; the other a Debbie Reynolds sixties girl. He would dress up as either of these and watch videos of his hero or his heroine. But they had been as he put it "at war with each other in his head" and it made him miserable. 'She' was there because he rejected masculinity, 'he' was there because he felt guilty about 'her'.
He was depressed and had a very low libido and couldn't cope without his fantasy "safety valves." His long suffering wife accepted all versions of him. He eventually accepted himself and his "eccentricity." It is a clear case where surgery would have made things very much worse. Above all this case convinces me of the value of a client based, person centred, empathetic approach. His defensive boundaries had been so strong he had never before admitted the facts to himself or others. Nobody had before walked in his moccasins, or his high heels.
He did not fit the categories of diagnosis held by the NHS.
There seems to be an expectation that once a patient is labelled (diagnosed) they only have one dimension.
His problem really seems to have been his own very rigid, sexist, view of male and female identity, with two strongly stereotypical extremes in his personality, which brought about an extreme sense of conflict and guilt about his fantasy or eccentricity, and subsequent isolation.
Using Rogers's Core conditions in counselling him enabled this shy person to be liberated, and he became more functional as a whole person since he was able to accept himself and to integrate his harmless eccentricity into his life. The therapeutic relationship we had has enabled him. He became as Rogers puts it, "a person."
Earlier work using only a cognitive approach by another counsellor had "tried to stop him dressing up," in his words, which only made him feel more guilty and suicidal.
A client presents with a problem or series of difficulties. It is the counsellor's task to help unravel the knots, to enable a client to recognise personal constructs (beliefs) which are damaging, and to be in touch with his or her feelings.
Rogers's model has demonstrated that the client is the expert. A less directive and more adult to adult mode of process was actually more helpful with this client than a need to 'cure him' might have been in the past. He still retains his 'eccentricity,' but it is not damaging him now, and his depression has gone. He is coping.
Client 2.
I have one client who was genitally abused as a boy, who actually had surgery and sexual reassignment, reasoning that if the hurt member was removed it could not be hurt again.
Her present displacement is that she had her surgery because she was unable to bear the guilt of being a homosexual man, but that she is not a woman because she does not have a woman's past. She is also alcoholic and a sadomasochist, and would like to abuse her abusers, other men.
This, often sad, complex client has often planned her suicide, "the ultimate existential act", as she puts it.
She has at times regressed in a Freudian sense to infantile states of mind and behaviour, and a psychodynamic Freudian approach might in Michael Jacobs words "be too limited for this client." However an Egan (person based) approach has helped this client tell her story, see where her problems have come from and to grieve about her mistakes. I do not know how her story will end.
I felt that this client was very much on the edge of risk of suicide, or complete breakdown.
Gestalt work was very powerful with her. She has written the unsent letter "to her now dead parents," expressing her hate and anger, and another to her abuser. This method of enabling a client to express repressed feelings is one I have used before and will continue to use. Our work with dreams, and her dream diary gave her a reason "to keep coming to counselling and not to kill herself yet" as she said.
Cognitive work helped her to stop drinking, she has realised it was not a solution but a poor escape.
She sees herself as an "it" now, but at least she is less negative about that and is a "proud it" as she puts it.
This client now has chosen a gender neutral mode of dress and name and her latest bandwagon is to become androgynous.
This means that the stress she had in maintaining a female persona which she did not believe in, or a male one she hated, is removed. Interestingly she in no way regrets her surgery. She has now returned to her traditionally all-male job and has largely, as she puts it escaped from the tyranny of gender.
While these two clients are unusual and extreme they demonstrate that nothing is as straightforward as it first may seem. It is vital not to attempt to make the client fit the labels.
The majority of gender Dysphoric clients appear to genuinely benefit from counselling, even on a brief counselling basis. Once the core identity issue is addressed many of the other difficulties seem to be less distressing and depressing. Gender distress seems to be at its most acute at times of choice. "What am I?" as well as "Who am I?" is the question.
Once identity is established, then the issue becomes "how shall I live my life." The counsellor's task is to enable the client to deal with his or her own decisions and the consequences of these decisions.
It sometimes feels like an almost impossible task, but it is worthwhile. What we need is resources and trained people to develop the work.
Other references.
Purnell, A., (1994),Gender counselling, and its difficulties in cases of acute and chronic gender dysphoria. GENDYS '94, The Third International Gender Dysphoria Conference, Manchester England. London: Gendys Conferences.
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Gravure has been the logical alternative to flexography because of its legacy of print quality and cost effectiveness for large runs—but not shorter ones. And, gravure is not an environmentally friendly print method. For example, printing flexible packaging on a flexo press instead of gravure reduces energy use and CO2 emissions by as much as 50 percent, according to DuPont research. Flexo is also significantly less expensive when considering total cost of ownership against offset. Flexo presses and inks are cheaper, and the costs of operating a flexo press are less expensive than that of an offset press.
The reason for all of the recent interest in flexo is exceptional platemaking that can take advantage of developments in new flexo press technology and high line-screen anilox rolls. Great advancements in flexo offer print quality that rivals any other method, cost-effectively.
Esko has played a significant part in this trend. Since 2009, hundreds of companies have adopted HD Flexo technology. With HD Flexo, the screen rulings in flexo printing can be increased, while at the same time reducing the size of the smallest printable dot. This is achieved using a special screening technology and 4,000 dpi imaging resolution, resulting in sharper images, smoother tints and a greater color gamut. It also delivers exceptional print quality in highlights, midtones, shadows and solids. High-resolution imaging also creates a textured surface on the plate, improving ink lay-down and increasing ink density on the final print. It raises flexo print quality to a level comparable to gravure, digital print and even offset.
Now, with new and further advanced Full HD Flexo technology, enabling the formation of different dot structures in one single plate, the combination of smooth highlight printing and gravure-like solid ink laydown can be achieved.
Lurking ahead, one of the challenges to flexo is digital print, where technical and cost advances allow it to compete on longer runs than in the past. We see it happening with labels. However, even here Esko can be helpful. Our front-end system is the preferred 'driver' for many digital presses for labels and packaging. Along with matching print quality with HD Flexo, it gives a printer a tactical advantage. The converter can postpone its decision to print a job digitally or conventionally very late in the process depending upon available presses and economics, without any degradation in quality or running the job through prepress again.
The best news for flexo is that by working with companies like Esko, quality and economics make it a very viable print technology. And, we intend to keep it that way.


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Time to wrap up a few outstanding giveaways and make some general announcements. Sounds fun, right?
"¢ The folks running Ithaca's 'Light in Winter' festival kindly offered two free tickets to one of our readers. Based on the responses to Sunday's upstate New York trivia challenge, we've declared Alicia the winner. She just wanted it more. Congratulations! I'll be in touch about your free tix. And for everyone else who still wants to attend, visit lightinwinter.com.
"¢ In case you missed Higgins' post this morning, we're hoping you'll send us photos of the oldest thing you own for a gallery feature we're working on. If you want to show off your stuff, here are the details.
"¢ Allison is working on the second installment of The Weekend Links. Got something flossy she should include? Send her an email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
"¢ Back on December 27th, we asked what makes your dogs so special. We have a winner!
From Ellen, about BB: BB (short for Big Boy) was the runt of the litter. He was also the garbage can for all of the worst possible gene combinations available from his parents. His mother is a Shar pei/Pit mix. From that gene grouping he received his problematic skin condition that won't allow fur to grown on his face and throat. Another little "˜gift' from Mom are his collapsing ear canals that has rendered him mostly deaf. From good ol' Pops, an Australian Sheppard/??? mix, BB inherited his white fur with patches of brown, gray, tan, and black markings. A very handsome coat, indeed. However, according to my Vet, the gene that determines the color of the coat is the same that determines the color of the eye. Hence, the whiter the dog, the greater the chance for blindness. Thus, BB was born blind. So here I have this medium size dog with no fur on his face and throat, who is blind and mostly deaf. Awwww, you say? No, just wait. Now, I'll explain why he should be a candidate for world changing canine. This is a pooch with a demeanor of never-ending hopefulness, good nature and determination. At any given time, you will find him overflowing with love and gratitude at the least sign of attention. He finds his way through the house and around the back yard as though he has it totally mapped out in his head. And when he does by chance run into a chair or a doorway, he smiles and shakes it off as though it were a little joke on him. When he goes looking for me, you can bet he will find me, no matter when I might be. He greets all strangers with an openness and unconditional happiness that melts their hearts on contact. The world should take a lesson from this brave little fellow: The adversities that are handed to us are simply inconvenient, not immobilizing. By the way, when he's really happy, he chases his tail. Makes you wonder how he knows it's there to chase!
Ellen should have already received her copy of 100 Dogs Who Changed Civilization: History's Most Influential Canines. Well deserved!
That's enough for one post. If anyone has any other Odds and/or Ends not covered, leave a comment or send me an IM (flossyjason). Good night!


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Have you ever seen a Swordsmith forge a new sword? I love those old Medieval movies that show that. The Swordsmith takes that piece of metal and sticks it in the fire and then folds it over again and again repeating the process many times. The blade is shaped and sharpened by the Swordsmith. He takes it in his hand and sticks it into the fire and then beats on to make it sharper and more beautiful. All the impurities of the metal are burned off in the fire. Then, when it is red hot, the Swordsmith takes the new sword and quenches it in water, all to harden the blade. There is steam everywhere and the sword is born. The sword was forged in the fire.
I looked up the meaning of "forged" (but not like a check, lol):
1. make or shape (a metal object) by heating it in a fire or furnace and beating or hammering it. More synonyms – hammer out, beat into, shape, found, cast, mold, model
I like swords. They are used in battle. They are beautiful and magnificant. They are sharp – sharper than a knife. The Word of God is like that:
For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. – Hebrews 4:12-13 NKJV
In the Bible, God shares that His Word is our Sword and it is used in battle:
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints— and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. – Ephesians 6:10-20NKJV
So just like a warrior holds his sword to defeat his enemies, we are to hold the WORD OF GOD as our sword.
It is God's Word that will defeat the enemies in our lives, not our own swords or our own effort.
What if we spoke to the enemies in our lives – whether sickness, disease, poverty, lack, depression, etc. and spoke the Word of God to them? Would we then see our enemies sliced and diced and dead?
What if it meant going through the fire first?
For You, O God, have tested us;
You have refined us as silver is refined. – Psalm 66″ 10 NKJV
For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one's work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one's work, of what sort it is. If anyone's work which he has built on itendures, he will receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. – 1 Corinthians 3:11-15 NKJV
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls. – 1 Peter 1: 3-9 NKJV
Would you do it? Like those 3 boys, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego – would you go in the furnace in order not to bow to the idols or false kings in this world? Remember, Jesus is there with you in that furnace. And you will come out and not even smell like smoke.
It wasn't until after the boys went through the fire that the king and all of his followers bowed to the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego…that's when the revival took place, after the fire. The reviaval and the promotion came AFTER the fire:
Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying, "Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, who sent His Angel[g] and delivered His servants who trusted in Him, and they have frustrated the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they should not serve nor worship any god except their own God! Therefore I make a decree that any people, nation, or language which speaks anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made an ash heap; because there is no other God who can deliver like this." Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego in the province of Babylon. – Daniel 3: 28-30NKJV
The Shepherd Savior
"Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd,
Against the Man who is My Companion,"
Says the Lord of hosts.
"Strike the Shepherd,
And the sheep will be scattered;
Then I will turn My hand against the little ones.
And it shall come to pass in all the land,"
Says the Lord,
"That two-thirds in it shall be cut off and die,
But one-third shall be left in it:
I will bring the one-third through the fire,
Will refine them as silver is refined,
And test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name,
And I will answer them.
I will say, 'This is My people';
And each one will say, 'The Lord is my God.' " – Zechariah 13:7-9 NKJV


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Anyone remember Skip's first interview when someone shouted out "Beat Florida!" & Holtz responded, "That's why I'm here."?? And we can't even beat Ball State & Temple…
With the current state of the South Florida Football program & Skip Holtz's fate undecided, I found it fitting to share a few names being thrown around as Head Coach options:
The Top 3: • Stoops • Malzahn • Taggart
Mark Stoops is the current DC for the #1 FSU defense, & Jimbo Fisher speaks about Stoops' want to become a head coach in the Miami Herald's article 'Jimbo Fisher talks about the Coaching Carousel'. Also, an article titled 'Jimbo Fisher anticipates coaching changes' on ESPN.com has the following quote from Stoops:
"You've got to make sure you take the right job to have an opportunity to win," Stoops said before the season. "This thing, there's a lot of things you've got to have in place to be successful beyond yourself and your coaches. You better have some support, top to bottom."
Stoops will announce his acceptance of the SEC HC position for the recently fired Joker Philips at Kentucky. Stoops is said to be taking 2 Coaches from the FSU staff in current DEs Coach D.J. Eliot to become his DC & OC James Coley, whose role will be decided once Neal Brown decides what his roll will be on the adjusted staff.
After missing on Greg Hudson (FSU) last summer as our new DC in lieu of Chris Cosh, I'd hoped Stoops would be our number one target. But, because AD Woolard didn't pull the trigger on Holtz after the 7th loss of the 2012 season we missed on a HC with this background: Stoops has done stints at Iowa as a graduate assistant, South Florida (DB) in 1996 under then HC Jim Leavitt, Wyoming (DB), Houston (Co-DC), Miami (DB), Arizona (DC & DB), & since 2009 he has been the Florida State DC & DB coach.
Gus Malzahn is the Head Coach of Arkansas State & has led the Red Wolves to a 7-3 record so far in 2012. Malzahn is most known for being the Offensive Coordinator for Auburn for the 2010 National Championship led by Cam Newton. Malzahn won the Broyles Award in 2010 as college footballs top assistant coach. His current Sun Belt Conference salary is only $850k, making him very affordable. Malzahn runs a no huddle offense, including the Wildcat. Malzahn has coached at Arkansas, Tulsa, Auburn, & Arkansas State.
Willie Taggart is the Head Coach of Western Kentucky & has led the Hilltoppers' to a 2012 record of 6-3. Taggart was a QB for WKU in college, which led to him becoming an assistant coach under HC Jack Harbaugh's Hilltoppers'. Taggart was the OC for the Hilltoppers' 2002 D1-AA National Championship. Next, Taggart spent 2007-2009 as Stanford's RB coach under HC Jim Harbaugh, where he developed Doak Walker Award winner Toby Gerhart (Minnesota Vikings). In 2010 Taggart became the WKU HC & is considered a top-coaching prospect for the numerous HC availabilities in several conferences. Taggart has a lot of options, so we will have to wait & see what job offers come his way. I believe the odds of us pulling Taggart are on the rise after the chatter of current Louisville HC Charlie Strong meeting with Auburn.
The real question is will Holtz get the boot? Are there other HC options? Thoughts on other coaches & the likelihood of Holtz actually being ousted? 5-7 in 2011 & now the WORST RECORD IN USF HISTORY in 2012 currently at 3-8 (previous 2004 C-USA 4-7) with a rising Pitt Panthers team still to come this Saturday…..
Share your comments, anger, & information below on the #FireSkipHoltz saga.
by Matthew Manuri
Publisher & Editor, SoFloBulls.com | @Mcknurkle
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Dr. Shyn graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1991, then practiced and studied dentistry for 10 years before focusing specifically in orthodontics and completing his orthodontic certification and residency at Jacksonville University.
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