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TE Connectivity Walkin Drive for freshers on 2nd April 2016. TE Connectivity Job Openings in Bangalore for freshers and experienced candidates for HR Operations Support Position. Any Graduate freshers are eligible to attend this drive. Interested and eligible candidates can directly attend the walkin interview at the below mentioned location.
TE Connectivity Walkin Drive for freshers:
|Company Name
|TE Connectivity
|Any Graduate
|0 – 1 Years
|Job Location
|Job Role
|HR Operations Support
|Industry Type
|BPO / Call Centre / ITES
|Not Disclosed
Company Profile:
TE Connectivity (NYSE: TEL) is a $13 billion world leader in connectivity. The company designs and manufactures products at the heart of electronic connections for the worlds leading industries including automotive, energy and industrial, broadband communications, consumer devices, healthcare, and aerospace and defense. TE Connectivitys long-standing commitment to innovation and engineering excellence helps its customers solve the need for more energy efficiency, always-on communications and ever-increasing productivity. With nearly 90,000 employees in over 50 countries, TE Connectivity makes connections the world relies on to work flawlessly every day. To connect with the company, visit: www.TE.com.
Job Description:
- Possess ability to work on high complex HRES requests.
- Should be able to maintain confidentiality of data
- Ensures appropriate escalation of any issue that is adversely affecting work.
- Ensures adherence to quality / accuracy and timelines
- Sharing knowledge / best practices with team so as to contribute towards improved level of team performance
- Achieves or exceeds set targets and works as part of a team to fulfill Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Should be able to cross learn different processes
- Should be multitasking
- Should possess excellent oral & Written communication
- Works on routine assignments, but recognizes the need for occasional deviation from accepted practice.
- Applies job knowledge/skills and company policies/procedures to complete a variety of tasks.
- Identifies and selects the appropriate established procedures to accomplish assigned tasks.
- Operates with general supervision and instructions for routine work assignments; with more detailed instructions for new activities or special assignments
- Interaction involves obtaining or providing information or data requiring some explanation or interpretation
- NOTE:This job is for 1 Year contract. Candidate should be ready to work in shifts.
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TE Connectivity Walkin Details:
Walk-in Date: 2nd April 2016
Interview Timings: 9 AM
Interview Venue:
Shop No. 59/2, Gurudas Heritage Block B,
100 Feet Ring Road,Banashankari, Kadarenahalli,
Bengaluru, Karnataka 560070, India.
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The Big East Tournament Is About to Begin
How deep is the Big East this year? There are three teams playing on the conference tournament's first day today — the day for teams that didn't get a bye of any kind, and thus would have to win five games in five days to claim the tournament title — that could hear their name called on Selection Sunday. There is a team playing today (UConn) that is ranked in the Top 25. There is another (Villanova) that was ranked as recently as last week. As John Gasaway points out at Basketball Prospectus, it's possible that today's Seton Hall-Rutgers game will be the only game in the entire tournament not to feature a team that will be selected for the field of 68. The next five days should be a lot of fun.
The tournament kicks off in about 30 minutes with DePaul-UConn, followed by that Seton Hall-Rutgers game. Then tonight, it's South Florida-Villanova and Providence-Marquette. As you'd imagine, via that Basketball Prospectus article, Ken Promeroy's computer likes top-seed Pittsburgh in this tournament, giving them a 29.4 chance to take the title. Syracuse, last year's favorite, has the second-best odds this time, at 15.9 percent.
St. John's, by the way, has the fifth best odds, at 9.6 percent. (That's a nice improvement over this time last year, when the Johnnies, lacking a bye and playing on Tuesday, had just 0.06 odds to secure the conference automatic berth.) They've got that bye this year — to the second round, at least — so they'll kick off their most anticipated postseason in years tomorrow, against the winner of Seton Hall-Rutgers.

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The terahertz (THz) frequency range (300 GHz to 10 THz, wavelength 30-1000 μm), despite having many potential applications, is technologically relatively under-developed mainly because of the lack of suitable coherent radiation sources when com- pared with nearby electromagnetic radiation spectrum. The invention of the THz quantum cascade laser, a electronically-pumped semiconductor heterostructure which emits photons from electronic intersubband transitions, provides the first solid state fundamental oscillator at the frequency range from 1.2 to 5.1 THz. Due to the sub-wavelength confinement nature of the metal-metal waveguide used in most of the THz QC lasers, far-field beam patterns from lasers with simple Fabry-Perot waveguides are divergent and far from ideal Gaussian beams.
The first part of the talk describes the development of single-mode THz QC lasers on metal-metal waveguides. Starting with the corrugated third-order DFB laser—a clever laser structure which utilizes end-fire array effect to achieve low divergence beam patterns—several applications using densely-packed third-order DFB laser arrays have been investigated. With the improved design rules and fabrication techniques, 830 GHz single-mode frequency coverage on a monolithic multicolor DFB laser array has been achieved.
Later development applies the concept of microstrip antenna—a structure commonly used in microwave engineering—to THz photonics devices. By coupling the antenna to each grating aperture of a perfectly phase-matched DFB laser, the radiation impedance of the laser can now be tuned to enhance the overall emission efficiency. This novel genre of Microstrip Antenna Coupled DFB laser (MAC-DFB laser) achieves the highest slope efficiency (∼450 mW/A) and wall-plug efficiency (0.57%) of all THz DFB laser sources.
The second part of the talk then focuses on the development of the first light amplifier in THz frequency using active meta-surface. The proposed amplifier is consisted of an array of short-cavity surface-emitting second-order distributed feed-back lasers arranged in a two-dimensional grid with sub-wavelength spacing. A overall system power gain of 7.5 dB is achieved at ∼3 THz . The free-space THz light amplifier can be used as the pre-amplifier for a THz heterodyne receiver system to reduce the receiver system noise, or be placed on the focal plane of a THz imaging system to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio of the image and reduce the acquisition time.
Advisor: Prof. Qing Hu
Committee: Prof. Tomas Palacios, Prof. Michael Watts


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Happy Birthday Nautique Insider
It's hard to believe that it has been a year since we started the boating industry's first CEO Blog, the Nautique Insider. In some ways it seems like just yesterday – I've always heard that time goes by faster as you get older and I am starting to learn for myself that it is true.
We are really happy with the response to this Blog over the past year. There are thousands of people who read the Nautique Insider each month and as I travel around to dealers and events I appreciate the nice comments people share about it. We hope that it gives you a look into our world from a personal perspective.
Since starting the Nautique Insider we have also begun two other ways for you to have a better understanding of what we are doing at Nautique:
- Nautique Nation – The Nautique Nation is our monthly e-newsletter.
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Paper Chef is a fun and innovative food blogger's event that Owen of Tomatilla started. When Owen decided to take a vacation from the Internet, Ilva of Lucullian Delights offered to keep this event going and kept it going, she has.
I've decided to take a break from Paper Chef this month because the difficulty of getting ingredients can be nerve-wracking. Last month I spent 3 days hunting down dried figs and seriously, when I finally found some they were overpriced and not very nice ones.
Anyway I love this event nonetheless because it really is a great chance to get creative, innovative and meet other bloggers, but I've decided to limit my participation to when the ingredients are more 'available' in my sleepy little town in Southern Spain.
This month the Paper Chef ingredients are: Artichokes, bulgar, salmon and blackberries. It's hosted by Adrienne of Hungry Bruno, the winner of the last round.
Artichokes are dirt cheap now and cost only 75 centimos per kilo now and I have tons of bulgar in my pantry and salmon even though unappetizing (the salmon I've seen around here never look fresh enough for some reason) are an easy find.
This month the offending ingredient was blackberry. I mean where am I going to get blackberries in Torremolinos? I remember seeing frozen berries in places like London or even Regensburg, but have never seen them locally here. So well, I'll just have to be content to be in the gallery and admire the lovely creations everyone else makes!
I'd like to encourage people to participate if getting the aforementioned ingredients isn't a problem. I promise that it will be a lot of fun and you'll be surprised at the ideas you and other participants will come-up with.
There is also the option of substituting any hard to get ingredients or ingredients you do not eat due to health/religious/vegan principles - and if this does not spoil the fun for you as it does for me, please do send in your entry.
To quote Adrienne of Hungry Bruno: "Blog it up, and email it to paperchef AT gmail DOT com by midnight on Tuesday, April 7th."
Go out and get those ingredients now! If you don't have a blog - please leave a message here and I'll be happy to post your entry in my blog.
For those of you who don't have blogs, this is what you need to do:
1. Email Paperchef AT gmail DOT com by midnight on Tuesday, April 7th.
2. Email yutakahazuki AT hotmail DOT com with your recipe and a JPG of the entry BEFORE the above mentioned deadline....so I have time to post your entry.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
It's that time of month again....Paper Chef #39
Posted by Murasaki Shikibu at 12:18 PM
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- Lori said...
Im skipping too for this very reason I could get frozen blackberries but I just dont want to buy more stuff.
- April 7, 2009 at 2:00 AM
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Darpa, the Pentagon's way-out research arm, is looking to design a software suite that predicts the future for battlefield commanders. At the heart of the package: A digital "Crystal Ball" that forecasts how a mission is going to turn out, before it's done. No, I am not kidding.
The overall, three-year program is called "Deep Green." Its goal is to "allow the commander to think ahead, identify when a plan is going awry, and help develop alternatives 'ahead of real time.'" If it works out the way agency officials hope (a very big if), Deep Green will enable officers to out-hustle and out-think any potential foes – and do all that planning and analysis with a quarter of the staff that it takes today.
Deep Green has a half-dozen different interlocking components, including a "Sketch to Plan" program that reads a commander's doodles, listens to his words, and then "accurately induces" a plan, "fill[ing] in missing details." That allows an officer "to specify an option at a coarse level, then move on to the next cognitive task." A related program, "Sketch to Decide" allows a commander to "see the future" by producing a "comic strip" to represent his possible options in a given situation. That may "sound exotic," the Agency notes. But "since the 1970s (and perhaps earlier), there have been novels and game books in which the reader is asked to make a decision and then is directed to a different page or paragraph, depending on the choice made."
To make these warzone versions of choose-your-own-adventure novels, Darpa proposes two pieces of software. "Blitzkrieg" will quickly model sets of alternatives, while "Crystal Ball" will take information currently coming into a headquarters to figure out which scenarios are the most likely to happen, and which plans are likely to work best. Crystal Ball will use this estimate to nominate to the commander futures at which he/she should focus some planning effort to build additional options/branches. Crystal Ball will identify the trajectory of the operation in time to allow the commander to generate options before they are needed.
Darpa believes these kind of clairvoyant tools are needed, because some well-worn martial concepts have been proven obsolete by the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Specifically, the "venerable Observe Orient Decide Act (OODA) loop is no longer viable for an information-age military." To fight a fast-moving foe, these four tasks have to now happen all at once. That's the goal of Deep Green.
- The Observe (execution monitoring) and Orient (options generation and analysis) phases run continuously and are constantly building options based on the current operation and making predictions as to the direction the operation is taking. When something occurs that requires the commander's attention or a decision, options are immediately available. Ideally, the OO part of OODA is done many times prior to the time when the commander must decide. When the planning and execution monitoring components of Deep Green mature, the planning staff will be working with semi-automated tools to generate and analyze courses of action ahead of the operation while the command concentrates on the Decide phase. By focusing on creating options ahead of the real operation rather than repairing the plan, Deep Green will allow commanders to be proactive instead of reactive in dealing with the enemy.*
An "Industry Day," to discuss how such a fortune-teller might work, is set for next week. Final proposals, DANGER ROOM predicts, won't be due for a year.


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The State Primary election will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 13. Polls in Dover will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
There are two separate ballots in a primary election: One for registered Republicans and one for registered Democrats.
Voters who are undeclared, and who wish to vote, can declare a party on the day of the primary and will receive that party's ballot. Voters can change party status back to undeclared by signing a form at the polls, following the vote. Voters already registered as Democrat or Republican cannot change party affiliation until one day after the election.
Polling places are located in each City ward. Below is a list of polling places for the Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016, state primary:
More information about the state Primary, including a list of candidates, can be viewed at the Secretary of State's website.
Sample ballots for all six City wards can be viewed below. There are 12 sample ballots, consisting of one Republican and one Democratic ballot for each ward.
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Voter turnout in Dover for the state Primary will appear below at the conclusion of the election.


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We all know that exercise is important for success after Bariatric Surgery. How much is necessary? What type is best? Will it affect the amount of weight I lose or just help with weight maintenance? Dr. Weiner addresses all of these questions and more in this video.
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Hugh Grant has scored a supporting role in Guy Ritchie's action spy thriller "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." at Warner Bros. Pictures.
The film is an adaptation of the classic 1960s spy TV series and follows special agents Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) and Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer), who work for the mysterious United Network Command for Law Enforcement (U.N.C.L.E.).
Grant will play the head of British Naval Intelligence in the film which also stars Alicia Vikander as the female lead.
Ritchie is directing and co-wrote the script with Lionel Wigram, both will produce alongside John Davis. Shooting is slated to begin in September.
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Here's the the latest in our ongoing series of some of the crazy things the anti-gay, anti-marriage equality folks are saying and doing around the world.
That's Pat Robertson's opinion. Two things spring to mind. One – that most sex between everyday folks is not particularly pretty. And two, just how much gay sex has Robertson been watching?
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Jesus Will Come Back Bearing an Assault Rifle
Family Research Council vice president Jerry Boykin says all that Jesus coming back with a sword stuff isn't a metaphor – he'll come back with a gun to fight all the evildoers (presumably the gays). Because christlove?
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Flying the Transgender Muslim Skies
Noted UK homophobe Lord Tebbit wants to know if you'd feel safe flying with a "transsexual muslim pilot." What, did he just pull the two scariest words he could think of and put them together in a kind of word salad? How about a narcoleptic rastafarian? Or a vegetarian communist? Gee, this game is kinda fun.
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If We Let the Gays Marry, Straight Men Will Want Open Relationships
That's the contention of thoroughly discredited "researcher" Mark Regenerus. Does someone feel a little stifled in his straight relationships?
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Michael Sam is the Anti Christ
Yes, a professional gay football player will be the one to lead us all down the road to hell, says Cornerstone Baptist Pastor Dwight McKissic. Well, at least that should take some pressure off of former suspected Anti Christ President Obama.
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The Employment Non Discrimination Act is Segregation
That's the contention of State Assemblyman Cresent Hardy. Because protecting people from discrimination is the same as discriminating against them by segregation? And black is like white, and night is like day?
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This is the front of the card. Kim shimmered the sentiment to give it a dressier feel and added pearls and Stickles for sparkle. A stick pin of pearls, a silver heart charm and silver wedding rings added the finishing touches.
The card is at its best sitting in the easel position, revealing an additional sentiment to the couple and additional flowers and pearls. The inside of the card also includes a private message that is not visible when displayed in the easel position.
The card is a gift by itself, but the matching gift box not only holds the card but has enough room for a gift card, frame, jewelry or other small gift. Kim added a scalloped edge to the white velvet box top and contrasted the bottom in lavender.


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Thirteen out of the fourteen banks in The Gambia have met the minimum capital requirement as of the deadline of 31st December 2010, Central Bank of The Gambia has announced.
The Central Bank of The Gambia (CBG) has issued a directive in 2008 to increasing the minimum capital of banks in two stages from D60 million to D150 million and D200 million to be observed by end December 2010 and end December 2012 respectively.
All the banks, apart from Oceanic Bank (Gambia) Limited, met the requirement. However, Oceanic Bank (Gambia) Limited inability to increased its minimum capital requirement is because its parent company, Oceanic Bank International Plc in Nigeria, has decided to divest from all local and international subsidiaries, hence its decision not to augment the capital of Oceanic Bank (Gambia) Limited to the minimum requirement of D150 million.
A higher minimum capital requirement serves several purposes, according to the CBG. "It would ensure that banks are better able to withstand periods of economic and financial stress and therefore support economic growth; maintains market confidence in the solvency of the banking system; (iii) Imposes market discipline, provides a large cushion to protect tax payers from the risk of being called to bail out failing banks."
The capital increase, CBG says, would further enhance the safety and soundness of the Gambian banking system which, in turn, promotes economic growth.
Earlier on the CBG has said only eight of the fourteen banks met the capital requirement of D150 million. The CBG has resolved not to grant request for forbearance if a bank fails to meet the requirement and to mitigate systemic risk that may arise from the revocation of a banking license, the CBG shall take the following actions: invoke section 45 of the Banking Act 2009 and take over the bank; thereafter the CBG may invoke Sections 48 and 51 of the Banking Act 2009 and place the institution in conservatorship to be sold, merged or restructured; and apply to the High Court for compulsory liquidation under Section 52 of the Banking Act as a last resort.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
All the banks except one meet the capital requirement
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What's worse than a suicide hoax? A suicide marketing campaign.
Toronto police have determined that a series of tweets allegedly from a young girl threatening to kill herself was a hoax intending to promote a new album by pop star Ariana Grande, the Toronto Star reported.
Police spokesman Scott Mills said it isn't clear who was behind the macabre promotion, but Grande likely wasn't even aware it was going on. The account @ButerasCandiess posed as a down-and-out super-fan of the 20-year-old singer who was set on committing suicide by overdosing on prescription pills. The sad story prompted dozens of other "Arianators" to follow the account and tweet their support for the apparent troubled youth.
"This is a huge waste of our 911 dispatchers, our intelligence people, and our communications resources," said Mills, who spent two days this week getting to the bottom of the sick stunt.
A Toronto nurse, Anne Marie Batten, told Mills about the account and the girl's purported plight – messages like "I'll take pills and I'll kill myself." Mills immediately saw it as a red flag and police began investigating.
It wasn't long before officials started to have serious questions about the validity of the account, though. Twitter divulged that the tweeter was coming from a location in Greece when police asked, but it became clear that the IP address was a fake – in an effort to hide the user's actual location. The account was likely based in the United States.
Plus, before the suicidal threats, the user's tweets surrounded around getting others to follow her and doting messages about Grande, a star on Nickelodeon whose first album is set for release Sept. 3. The account's bio reads: "always here for ariana, love her more than everything."
Things heated up when the user suggested she would kill herself in three minutes, urging followers to make the hashtag #RIPbuterascandiess trend on Twitter. As soon as Toronto police outed the "girl," the account tweeted: "It was a hoax! Sorry."
Mills said if the person was Canadian, he or she could face public mischief charges.
"If people are crying wolf like this, people aren't going to take it as seriously," Mills said.
So why would anyone resort to such disgusting tactics to promote an album? Simple, according to Mills.
"It gets people to look at the Twitter feed, right?" he said.


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Vancouver Whitecaps FC Blogger C-Mac is back with his matchday summary between the your Whitecaps FC and Chicago Fire. Man of the match was yet again Darren Mattocks. Darren Mattocks continues to be the straw that stirs the drink for Vancouver and he was fouled 4 times by an aggressive Chicago defence. Vancouver must have been tired at the end of a five game league tour.
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Celebrate Christmas with a Shepherd's Faith
Pastor Johnold J. Strey
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church; Belmont, CA
Sermon on Luke 2:15-20
The Nativity of our Lord; Christmas Eve
Friday, December 24, 2010
If we reenacted the Christmas story in the first two chapters of Luke's Gospel, there would be plenty of roles to fill. There is Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, and his wife, Elizabeth. There is Mary, the mother of Jesus, and her fiancé, Joseph. There is the angel Gabriel, who announces the miraculous birth of John the Baptist to Zechariah and Jesus the Christ to Mary. There is the unnamed angel who announces the birth of the Savior on Christmas night. And then there are the shepherds, who receive the angel's Christmas night announcement and are the first two see the newborn Savior of the world.
If you wanted to play a major part in our imaginary Christmas play, you probably wouldn't want the role of a shepherd. The shepherds seem like minor characters in the Christmas story. We don't know their names, we don't know how many of them there were, and they only make a short appearance after the birth of Jesus, never to be mentioned again in the rest of Luke's Gospel. The shepherds seem like minor characters in the overall story—especially if we set the story to a play or performance. But the truth is that the shepherds play a major role in the Christmas story. When we know a little bit about the shepherds and when we take a careful look at their response to the angelic birth announcement, we will see that they are the perfect model for us to emulate as we celebrate the birth of Christ. On this Christmas Eve, the Word of God encourages us to celebrate Christmas with a shepherd's faith.
If you had lived in Jesus' day and had to guess what kind of people God would announce his Son's birth to, shepherds probably would not have been on the top of your list. Shepherds were not looked upon very highly. Socially speaking, shepherds were poor, they were not in a position that would set the world on fire, and they were a class of people who many felt could not be trusted. Religiously speaking, shepherd's 24/7 jobs kept them away from the temple and the synagogue, which put them on the "blacklist" of rabbis. In fact, there a third-century rabbi wrote that he was surprised that God would have compared himself with a shepherd in Psalm 23; that should tell you a little something about the way rabbis looked down on shepherds.
Isn't it interesting, then, that the most important and glorious birth announcement the world has ever seen came not to religious elites or the upper class, but to poor, lowly, despised shepherds? And it is equally interesting to consider the shepherd's response. Luke records their response in the final third of tonight's Gospel reading. "When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, 'Let's go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.' So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.
Notice how the shepherds responded to the angel's announcement. They turn to one another and basically say, "Let go and see this for ourselves – and let's go now!" They realize that the news they just heard isn't a "page five" story, but a front page headline that would change the world forever! And they recognize that the news of the Savior's birth is really news from God. An angel proclaimed the news, but notice that they say that they are going to "see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about."
And then notice how the shepherds responded to the baby Jesus himself. The words of the angels had been fulfilled in the birth of Jesus. After they saw the infant Jesus, they echoed the words of the angels to others that the world's Savior had been born. And they echoed the praises of the angels back to God because everything the angels said about the birth of the Savior had turned out true, down to the last detail. God had kept his Word, and that was reason to raise their praises to him! The shepherds' response to the birth announcement and to the newborn Savior revealed hearts of faith that trusted in the words and promises of God.
Can you relate to the shepherds? I don't think it's difficult to relate to the shepherds. Socially speaking, the shepherds weren't anything to write home about. And there aren't too many of us here who are lighting the world on fire. I don't think any of us would claim to have a great deal of fame or fortune. Spiritually speaking, the shepherds were not considered the most religious people in the world. And if we are honest with ourselves, there should not be a single person here tonight who claims to be pure and innocent and holy in the sight of God. Our lives are not a spotless story of shining virtue at every moment. Maybe there is sin-produced tension in your home life right now. Maybe you have shame from the past that you continue to bury deep inside your soul. Maybe your health is not what it once was, and you are reminded daily of your own mortality, which is the result of sin in our lives. I don't think any of us should have any trouble relating to the shepherds. They were unlikely recipients of the angel's Christmas announcement, and frankly, so are we.
But the shepherds did receive the angel's Christmas announcement. Shouldn't that suggest something to you? If God chose these unlikely shepherds to be the first to hear about the Savior's birth, doesn't that say something to you? The Son of God who was born this night was not born exclusively for social and religious elites. Jesus was born for regular, ordinary people. Jesus was born for you. The message that the angels told the shepherds is the Lord's message for you—and it is a remarkable message! The Son of Mary whose birth we celebrate tonight was also the Son of God who existed before time began. The innocent baby born this night was born to be your righteousness before God. The child placed in Bethlehem's manger this night would one day be placed on the cross where he paid for your sins and washed away your guilt in his blood. The angel's announcement of peace this night previews the announcement God's angels would make over 30 years later when they announced the resurrection of Jesus from the dead on Easter morning.
The shepherd's response to the angel's announcement was one of complete faith and trust. Does that suggest something to us, too? There is certainly a time to ask insightful and honest questions about the miracle of Jesus' birth. Christians have faith in God's Word, but that faith is hardly blind or unthinking. But there is also a time for us to simply listen to God's announcement and to take him at his Word, just as the shepherds did. Tonight, a miraculous Virgin birth took place, and God became man in order to be your Savior. The baby that Mary held in her arms is the very Son of God who became a flesh-and-blood human being in order to be your perfect substitute under God's law. What a beautiful message for us to hear this night! What a beautiful way to celebrate Christmas with the shepherds! The angel's message to them led them to trust the gift that God sent them in Bethlehem's manger. And the same angelic message is meant for you to lead you to trust the child in Bethlehem's manger with a shepherd's faith.
For all its joys and celebrations, Christmas can still be kind of a melancholy time of year. We have our family memories and joys of the season, but we have our sorrows too. Life's troubles don't get put on hold just because December 24 has arrived.
Maybe that's why it makes so much sense for us to celebrate Christmas with a shepherd's faith. Their lives were hardly glamorous or glorious, but to these simple men God announced the greatest gift he would ever give the world. Despite whatever life has thrown at you, God's gift announced to the shepherds by angels is God's gift to you announced in his Word. Joys and sorrows, ups and downs, blessings and challenges will come and go, but your faith will always remain on a solid foundation, centered in the facts of Christmas night that nothing can ever erase. "Today in the town of David, a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord" (Luke 2:11). Amen.


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Jakarta Day 2
Last night I went out into the garden here at the Shrangalai Hotel. It really is a lovely hotel,the gardens are spectacular. It was so hot yesterday . I thought my brains might fry. Anyway here's the photo I took last night. No cats I am afraid.
Only just had this great conversation with one of the hotel staff whose name is Kartini, name after one of the great Indoesian heroes , the first feminist in Indonesia. Kartini I was a Javenese princess who fought for education opportunities for Indonesian Woman, wanita Indonesia. Her letters to her Dutch friend are famous because these letters describe her imprisonment in her parents house from the age of 12 until her marriage. This was the standard for female Javanese aristocracy .
I had one of those gruelling city tours in very heavy Jakarta traffic. Jakarta is famous for its traffic jams, why is is often callled the big durian, that smelly fruit that is banned from hotels because it really does stink.
In Batavia I stopped to chat to some locals playing chess.
I drank very refeshing and much needed ice tea. The owners practiced their English and I practiced my limited Bahasa.


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`Opening Shots: The unusual, unexpected, potentially career-threatening first
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`Mary Stuart Masterson: The Stepford Wives (1974)`
Born in 1966, Mary Stuart Masterson is the daughter of actor-writer-stage director Peter Masterson and actress Carlyn Glynn. Not until 1978, when her father co-wrote and co-directed, and her mother starred in and won a Tony for, the Broadway musical `The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,` did Masterson's family get on firm ground in terms of both bankability and money in the bank. Therefore, back in 1974 when Peter Masterson got a co-starring role in the film version of Ira Levin's best-seller `The Stepford Wives,` it was a gala occasion. Since his character had two young daughters, why waste time trying to find a little girl who looked as if she might have inherited some of her screen father's genes when you could have the real thing? Hiring Peter Masterson's true-life daughter made perfect sense, and seven-year-old Mary Stuart headed to Westport for filming.
Directed by Bryan Forbes, a veteran of British kitchen-sink movies, `The Stepford Wives` is science fiction about a suburb where the women all behave like devoted followers of Marabel Morgan's `The Total Woman,` blissfully doing housework, cooking gourmet meals and living to please their men. Leading lady Katharine Ross and her friend Paula Prentiss, both newcomers to town, discover that the village's wives have been replaced by robots, and Ross finds out that her husband, Peter Masterson, wants in on the action. Mildly satiric, both about the women's movement and what used to be referred to as male chauvinist pigs, `The Stepford Wives` might have made a diverting episode of `The Twilight Zone,` but stretched to two hours it wears pretty thin. There's not much more to the movie than its premise, and since the town's secret was common knowledge in 1975, actually sitting through the movie became superfluous. "Something strange is happening in the Town of Stepford," said the ads, but what Frank Rich, writing in the leftie magazine `New Times,` saw was "a classic example of how Hollywood tries to exploit a `topical` issue without ever bothering to find out its substance."
`Introducing Mary Stuart Masterson`
Mary Stuart Masterson's first screen line (other than a perfunctory "Thank you" to a doorman): "Daddy, I just saw a man carrying a naked lady."
Mary Stuart Masterson, who received 22nd billing, has very little to do as Kim Eberhart: going to the supermarket with her parents, riding on the school bus, hanging out around the Fairfield County house and playing in the yard -- standard little-girl things. She is basically indistinguishable from Ronny Sullivan, who plays her sister, Amy (Mary Stuart's hair is slightly longer). In fact, the two girls are so peripheral to `The Stepford Wives` that we never hear their names until more than 90 minutes into the movie; up till then they're simply referred to as "the kids," "the girls," "Sweetie" or "you guys." Mary Stuart does have two dramatic moments. One is when she can't sleep after the family has just moved to Stepford, and she says to Katherine Ross of her stuffed animal, "I think Teddy's gonna cry all night." The other is when she and her sister live every child's nightmare: walking in on an argument between the parents. "Are you two fighting?" she inquires.
She's a cute towheaded child, but there is nothing in her performance to indicate the extraordinary actress she would grow up to be, with her seemingly thaumaturgic mixture of fragility and free-spirited toughness. But even back then the wheels were turning. During one scene, set late at night, director Forbes asked her to pep up her entrance into a room. "Why?" she inquired. "It will be better," the director explained. "We want to see your lovely face." "But it's supposed to be late at night and I'm supposed to have just woken up," protested the little actress. "I should be tired!"
After this one stint in the movies, Masterson's parents decided she would have a more grounded childhood outside the limelight, for which she was grateful. "They helped me stay on track as a person with my first priority being experience," she said. "They told me, `You can't play a person unless you are one.`" She did perform in productions at New York's Dalton School and on Broadway at age 15 in Eva Le Gallienne's version of `Alice in Wonderland,` enacting two roles, the Four of Hearts and the Small White Rabbit. Masterson was 17 when she returned to films as Danni, the vulnerable working girl in `Heaven Help Us.` Except for an eight-month dry spell after completing the film -- during which she entered New York University to study anthropology -- she hasn't slowed down. She graced a number of films of varying quality (`At Close Range,` `Some Kind of Wonderful,` `Funny About Love`) that had one thing in common: Hardly anybody came to see them. As Masterson put it, "I'm lucky not to be considered box-office poison." After playing Idgie in 1991's `Fried Green Tomatoes` she was anything but.


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The third mixed media canvas of the trio...:)
11 comments:
- Lisa said...
It's absolutely stunning!! The texture is amazing!! I love the colors and as always, the embellies are perfect!! Gorgeous canvas my friend...all three are spectacular!! Have a great day!! Big hugs :)
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- June 13, 2016 at 7:38 PM
- Dr Sonia S V said...
Oooh that bow looks simply gorgeous
Dr Sonia
- June 13, 2016 at 7:38 PM
- Julie Tucker-Wolek said...
Soooooooo gorgeous! LOVING the colors and that bow just makes me happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- June 13, 2016 at 8:26 PM
- Cindy deRosier said...
I think this is my favorite of the three! It's not reading neon to me - just bright and happy. Very summery!
- June 13, 2016 at 9:14 PM
- Audrey Pettit said...
Love the golden color! So beautiful! Would love to see all three together now!
- June 13, 2016 at 11:36 PM
- Melissa Smith said...
Yvonne, it's lovely! I love the white with the pops of color and the texture. I love that yellow netting flower with the bling center! Those have always been a favorite. Great job! Have a great week.
- June 14, 2016 at 2:52 AM
- Annette Allen said...
gorgeous.. love the orange and yellow..
- June 14, 2016 at 4:10 AM
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- Lizzy Hill said...
These really are happy pieces- love the bright colours on white. Yummies!!!!
- June 14, 2016 at 7:02 AM
- Mitra Pratt said...
Love how the texture echos the canvas. I do so hope we get a shot of them hanging out together! They are coolness!
- June 14, 2016 at 8:39 AM
- Karon said...
This is so beautiful and I love the embellishments!
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You are all winners. Marc Jacobs encouraged the five newcomer designers before the big DfT award show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week yesterday started. And, yes, he is right! All of the young designers are unique, so different from each other and so very good! It must have been a hard decision for the jury. On the catwalk each collection looked just as brilliant as they are and the jury had to decide quickly. You could tell by seeing their faces: "Oh, but he was also good…" Or: "Actually, I loved her collection as well."
Then, approximately 10 minutes later, Marc Jacobs was on stage with an envelope and the winner's name in it. Jacobs quickly opened it and then announced the name of the designer who's collection was the last one in the running order: Leandro Cano! With his stunning outfits he impressed the audience. During his show, people around me went crazy taking pictures of it. His all-night-working paid off. Congratulations!
After the show P&C invited to a Reception at the nice roof top of Berlin's China Club with Champagne and tempura. Marc Jacobs – not getting tired – encouraged his beloved designers again and again. He really appreciates the work of all of them. And, yes, they are all winners. Good luck to all five of you – we will hear about you, for sure.


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MBI Emphasis Year on Mathematical Modeling Of Cell Processes
September 2003 - August 2004
Organizing Committee:
Jessie Au (College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University);
Marek Kimmel (Department of Statistics, Rice University);
Denise Kirschner (Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical Schoo)l;
James Sneyd (Department of Mathematics, University of Auckland, New Zealand);
John Tyson (Department of Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute)
In the past few years, the importance of mathematical models in the study of cellular processes has become widely accepted. Mathematical models have played an important role, for example, in understanding how oscillations in cell cycles lead to regular cell division, and how intercellular calcium waves coordinate cellular response over large areas. In this year, we shall explore topics from cell growth and death, to intercellular communications, and to the behaviors of large populations of cells such at those found in the immune system. Each quarter features tutorial sessions to provide important background information as well as in-depth workshops examining the issues described. Postdocs, graduate students, and faculty members interested in learning more about cell processes and the mathematical modeling of these processes are encouraged to attend.
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Project Description
Artem Yasynskyy was born in 1988 in Donetsk, Ukraine into a family of professional musicians. At the age of seven, he became a pupil of Albina Oryshuk at the Special School for Gifted Children in Donetsk, continuing his musical studies thereafter at the Donetsk State Musical Academy. From 2010 until the present he has been studying with Patrick O'Byrne at the University of Arts in Bremen.
He has been a prizewinner at major international piano competitions such as the Gina Bachauer Piano Artist Competition, the Sendai Music Competition, the Gian Battista Viotti Music Competition, the Horowitz Music Competition, and the First German Competition of Polish Music. In 2015, he was the gold medalist of the Cincinnati World Piano Competition, and was one of three finalists of Honens Piano Competiton in Calgary, Canada.
Artem Yasynskyy has appeared at international festivals such as Honens Festival; Calgary, Paderewski Festival, Raleigh, North Carolina; "Raritäten der Klavier-musik", Husum, Germany; the Bremer Musikfest, the Maggio Piano Festival Vercelli, Italy, the Summer Night Music Festival of Kiev, the Festival "Days of Slavic Culture" in Rome and the Polish Music Festival in Hamburg. Numerous concert engagements have taken him to Norway, France, Belgium, Great Britain, Poland, Germany, the United States of America, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Russia and Ukraine.


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An alarming report has found that veterans of military service "suffer discrimination" in Northern Ireland.
The findings have been issued by Lord Ashcroft, in a follow-on to his previous report on the matter.
The reasons for his conclusions are not hard to uncover.
Strict equality rules in Northern Ireland have been a barrier to adopting the UK Military Covenant here. In simple terms, nationalists are not prepared to accept the covenant.
It is worth reflecting on the context in which this is happening.
In most of the western world, there is growing respect for people who have put on a uniform and served their country.
There is a growing appreciation of the fact that the overwhelming bulk of the population does not risk life and limb for the security of society as a whole.
In America, veterans now get preference for public jobs and are respected in other ways such as being allowed to board passenger planes first.
In Great Britain, there is a similar growth in respect for veterans.
It is deeply regrettable that such an approach is not permitted in Northern Ireland, where military men and women have been killed or maimed in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere.
But it is no surprise either. After all, the levers of the state are being used to pursue alleged security force wrongs during the Troubles, and to push the sense that the state and terrorists were equally to blame.
Doug Beattie MLA, himself an veteran of battlefields, is to be applauded in his plan to bring a Stormont motion on the covenant.
It is to be hoped that common sense prevails and military personnel in the Province are accorded the respect they so clearly deserve.


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3/4 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup old fashioned oats
3/4 tsp cinnamon
3/4 tsp nutmeg
Slice 4 Fuji Apples (peeled) and layer in greased baking dish (8x8). Sprinkle dry ingredients over the top. Take 1/3 cup of butter and slice on top of the mixture to cover.
Bake at 375 degrees for 30 minutes or until apples are tender.
(FYI- I always double this recipe and put it in a 9 x 12 casserole dish.)
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Sarit Katzew serves as Director of Education (runs our Hebrew School program) and Program & Outreach Coordinator here at Havurah.
Sarit Katzew joined Havurah's leadership team in June 2015 with an extensive and diverse Jewish background. She has previously served as a youth group adviser, led teen trips to Israel and worked for many years at a large Reform congregation, Community Synagogue of Rye, in New York. She has tutored b'nei mitvah students, and taught at all levels, including adult education. Katzew is fluent in Hebrew and holds a high holy day pulpit at a small congregation in Binghamton, N.Y., where she serves as their soloist. Her bachelor's degree is from Binghamton University where she majored in Creative Writing with a minor in Holocaust Poetry.
Sarit Katzew also brings an extensive background in event planning, catering and food service having worked at Noonie Deli in Middlebury and having her own catering company, Savory & Sweet by Sarit, while living just outside New York City.
She and her husband, Gareth Turo, live in East Middlebury with their three-year-old son.
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Well I have been so busy recently with demonstrations, of the Big Shot machine and Bigz Dies, not the protesting type!! I have recently been to Finland and Spain and now I'm in London for the Knitting and Stitching show at Alexandra Palace, working alongside Cotton Patch on stand F27.
The show started this morning, closing at 7pm tonight, and continues until 5pm on Sunday 13th October, so come and visit us - I have lots of lovely dies to demonstrate.
I've only had a little while to look at fabrics but I'm already itching to choose something for a new project for the New Year.
Unfortunately because I have been so busy recently the Cuddly Creatures Quilt is no nearer being finished - I think I am going to have to make that the project that I have to finish before the end of the year! Watch this space to see if I manage it!
If you're at the show come and say Hello - I love to catch up with you all and find out what projects you're working on.
How ever you spend it - have a lovely weekend.


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New Music: Timmy Titus – Good Feeling (Remix) + Lyrics
Need a new song to jam to at college frat parties all over America? Well, I got the song just for you. Up-and-comer, Timmy Titus, brings you a remix to the Top 40 hit by Flo-Rida, "Good Feeling". The visuals (above) just shows you the good life when it comes to college parties. Titus brings a great flow to this song, as well. Be on the look out for more Timmy Titus.
For lyrics to Timmy Titus – Good Feeling (Remix) check after the jump.
Timmy Titus – Good Feeling (Remix) Lyrics
uh huh, Skys lit. drinks up.
[Verse 1]
I just feel Good, Borderline crazy
Somthin like MJ, straight from the 80's
Foreign girl like en France
Moon walk in the party like f*ck you, Pay me
Jacket with the zipper, chillen on my thriller
Nikes on my feet, but i aint Mac Miller
I'm Mekhi Phifer, hard to decipher
Guess it all depends, grown up diapers.
Ok i mean it, i'm speeding but i'm leaning
Its a journey in between us, so i never stop believing
Imma party like I'm dreaming, and i wake up in the weekend
Plus i'm throwed, toast, so,
I got no control like no remote
Lets go lets go.
[Verse 2]
Wake up wake up! Bitch good morning
I be in the cut like neosporin,
Pouring shots up against the clock,
But see you can't play D against peach ciroc.
Hah, one time for the raging,
Cup full of clouds boy i be spacing
Just rolled up, whole team with me
And i'm gone in 60. nicholas cagin' (ah)
Imma let my problems go
Just for the night
Cause haters looking salty huh
And i dont need that spice
Oh you need some good advice?
Just make sure my drink is spiked
And lets get right, cause tonight
I'm feeling like everythings alright.
[Verse 3]
8 texts in my cellphone
150 missed calls
Couldn't tell you where i'm at tho
Never been this gone.
With a bad broad, studying abroad.
Gucci, gucci.. she kreashawn
Never been a girly girl, more tom-tom
Cause she lead me on like navigation
Girl lets turn right, can't go wrong
Rage on the lawn by the end of this song
But i feel good, and she look great
Tony the tiger, frosted flakes
So lifted like i'm in shape
My heart race but keeps its pace
Tonight your morals escape
Cause its far from a date, this is fate
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Matt Frondorf's American Mile Markers takes us on a tour from New York to San Francisco, one photo per mile. It's a fine concept — inspiring, really, but the pictures are quite a mishmash.
Matt calls his mile marker project statistical photography.' A lot of photography tends to be anecdotal and heavily edited,' he says. And it doesn't present what is really there — every picture from beginning to end.'
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Keep the image above in mind. It has hovered over my day thus far like a nasty reoccuring nightmare. We will come back to it in a moment.
First, let me explain the title. Yes, I am about to embark on a long and cathartic whine. However, I am not referring to my own personal joy at getting a chance to let off some steam. I'm referring, somewhat more ironically, to the non-stop whining of my youngest. Which has now gone on for…oh, let me see, about three days solid now.
The first day, you can always pass it off as an 'off' day. As in, 'yes, we know he's crying again, despite the fact we've been playing with him for two hours, but he's having an off day.' This tends to be a familiar concept with most parents I've found.
By Day Two, the novelty has worn off. Patient smiles and long, comforting cuddles tend to get replaced, slowly but surely, by barely concealed irritation and a real urge to pop on the television and hide in a corner somewhere, praying to the skies above to 'make the noise stop. Please'.
When it continues on to Day Three, you know that the best thing to do is batten down the hatches, closet yourself away from the world, and let the tempest that has inexplicablyseized your child work its way gradually out of its system.
Which is precisely why, of course, I opted to take both boys out for the day.
To be fair to myself, in my head, it made sense. Give them a bit of fresh air, I thought to myself optimistically. Give them a run around, hopefully that'll perk him up a bit. In my head it was the perfect solution. Bright, spring-like skies, beautiful woodlands and lakes to surround us, lots of nature to look at and run merrily through, like they do on 'The Sound of Music.'
See above for reference to the image in my head.
The reality, of course, as you no doubt were already predicting, was not like this. At all.
Firstly, my fantasy image in my head did not include DB2 continuing to whine, grizzle and eventually howl round the entire walk. Any birds that we might have spotted, any lovely moments spent peering into the many ponds in the area for wildlife, were completely ruined by the ceaseless noise of my youngest, bellowing away for all he was worth, mainly because he was frustrated as I wouldn't let him run into the lake.
Men, armed with binoculars, glared crossly, and dog walkers eyed me with barely concealed pity, as I eventually ended up carrying the miscreant under my arm, like a rugby ball, only stopping to retrieve his welly boots, which he kept waving off his madly kicking feet at any opportunity. Poor DB1 stumbled behind, desperately murmuring that he 'thought he could hear a woodpecker', though how he could hear anything other than the tortured wails of DB2, echoing off the surrounding trees, I'm not sure. Any woodpecker that may once have been active in the woods, presumably flew off in mad terror the moment the noise began, presuming it was some sort of air raid siren or something, I should think.
DB2 then managed to sit in a puddle whilst throwing a further tantrum of epic proportions (because I had dared to put him down to walk, even though, judging by his mad screaming while I carried him, I had presumed that was what he wanted. But no, apparently, he hadn't wanted to be carried or left to walk, he actually wanted to levitate over the path. Or perhaps wanted me to conjure up a bus or something to take him back to the car. Not sure which.)
The true piece de resistance though, was the re-emerging debarcle involving the welly. I've already mentioned my growing frustration with continually having to bend down to scoop up the offending red welly boot, as DB2 flicked it off continually into the mud. I didn't anticipate that actually, that welly could cause me far more irritation than that.
We walked on the aerial walk way, and for the first time, DB2 seemed to be enjoying himself.
There it is. The very same aerial walk way that we were walking along, with me finally breathing a sigh of relief that a) DB2 had paused in his shrieking for just a short while and b) that I could finally put him down, as my arm was screaming with lactic acid build up.
But of course, nothing peaceful lasts forever. DB2's momentary calm was an illusion. In two short strides, he walked to the edge of the walkway, hooked his foot under the barrier, eased his welly off and kicked it into the lake below.
Yes, expletives emerged from my lips, as I watched that welly disappear into the depths below. DB2 looked delighted. DB1 laughed too, he thought it was hilarious.
Welly boots are expensive, you know!!
I gave up after that. That image, of the welly sinking into the murky depths, summed up the day for me. So I duly bowed out gracefully, bundled the boys back in the car, and headed to the nearest cafe for a slice of chocolate cake to cheer us up.
As DB2 scoffed the cake, a big smile appeared on his face. It was the cheeriest he had been for days.
Julie Andrews – let me know your secret, please. I suspect no amount of 'do-a deer, a female deering' is going to help me out here…


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Devout Christian who believes the primary mission of the Church is to faithfully represent the Gospel of Christ, and consistently live out the word of God in our everyday lives.
Posted 10/27/16 at 12:40 PM | Marvin Thompson
There is a silver lining for evangelicalism based upon a report in Christianity Today: recent polling suggests that most evangelicals will not vote for Donald Trump; just most white evangelicals. However, that is merely irenic comfort, and overlooks a more weighty concern. That will be discussed momentarily. But first, the rank hypocrisy of Trump supporting evangelicals is breathtaking, especially of those who pontificate in opinion pieces and speeches about values while excoriating the character, motives and faith of the "liberals."
Values no longer matter to Trump evangelicals
When these Trump evangelicals started justifying their support of him, they proffered philosophical reasons mainly clothed in a false choices and false dilemmas, and dubious scriptures savaged to imply a principled biblical choice. But the outcry from biblically sincere evangelicals forced them to abandon the farce that their decision to support him was rooted in any real value, principle or biblical morality.
Mark Creech in an opinion piece on Christian Post, "Why Evangelicals Should Vote for Donald Trump," demagogically implied that voting one's conscience is not voting in the interest of the country, if that conscience vote is not for Trump. He says, "…with the deepest respect, you may be seeking to serve your conscience, but you are not necessarily serving your country." Wayne Grudem says much the same thing in renewing his support for the most unqualified nominee to run for president. Talk about a false choice! FULL POST
Posted 10/1/16 at 10:55 AM | Marvin Thompson
Jennifer Rubin, a conservative columnist who strongly opposes Trump, lamented in a Washington Post column on September 26, 2016 that to the most vociferous right-wing voices "Facts are fungible; it's all what you want to believe." Her greater lament seems to be, though, that so many who ought to care about truth do not. "It is however disturbing that many certainly know he is lying — or out of touch with reality — and still support him," she went on to say after offering a plausible explanation for why the less educated are duped by his dishonesty and many falsehoods.
Several media outlets annexed the comments of both major candidates for president during the week of September 19th. The result is staggering. Trump had eighty-seven instances when he told outright lies with the highest ratings, compared to Clinton's eight. That is eleven to one.
A further breakdown of the lies is no less revealing. Trump lies with every three minutes of speaking, when all lies (including lies of varying degrees) are tallied. Clinton does the same every twelve minutes. This is empirical evidence that removes all doubt about who is the real liar of the two. With all due respect to Paula White and James Dobson, if Trump is a Christian, then Clinton is also a Christian; she at least speaks more clearly and with more understanding of her own faith and of Christian doctrines. FULL POST
Posted 9/23/16 at 2:51 PM | Marvin Thompson
We are used to hyperbolic language within the Christian community, especially by those who fancy themselves to harness the power of God, and who believe in the power of their own words to perform miracles and conquer the spiritual realms. Unfortunately, much of what passes for spiritual and divine is nothing of the sort - much less a demonstration of God working through such individuals.
Take, for example, the headline of a September 22, 2016 report on Christian Post by Leonardo Blair that reads: Pastors Pray Against 'Concentrated Satanic Attack' Being Waged Against 'God's Choice' Donald Trump. Those were the words of the pastor of New Spirit Revival Center. The pastor spoke of a prophetic warning by a nationally known preacher of such an attack, "that if you choose to run for president, there's going to be a concentrated Satanic attack against you…there's going to be a demon, principalities and powers, that are going to war against you on a level that you've never seen before and I'm watching it every day,"
The ensuing report does not disappoint either as a group of pastors express their thankfulness to God for raising up Trump as His choice to lead the nation. "We thank you God that as a room full of clergy, a room full of leaders, a room full of business owners, mothers, fathers, wives, we ask for help and we ask you God to let that help be in the form of the next president Mr. Donald J. Trump." FULL POST
Posted 9/20/16 at 1:56 PM | Marvin Thompson
This blog does not endorse political candidates, and, for that matter, does not believe in political party identification - especially as a Christian. The focus is on Christians and the way we apply biblical principles as we live out our lives in an ungodly world. The blog is concerned with Christian consistency where our words and deeds align with the scriptures as godly, reliable witnesses to the world. This concern is highlighted even more during the 2016 presidential campaign as Christians must choose between two major candidates that are prima facie morally flawed.
It is ironic that Trump evangelicals and many millennials say they support him and cannot vote for Hillary Clinton because she is corrupt and a liar. However, on both counts they seem to have made a terrible miscalculation. There is now overwhelming evidence that Trump is consistently corrupted, and a liar such has never been seen in this country's political history. In fact, he seems to lie even about trivial things - a default response which is a pathological tendency typical of a person who does not consider lying a vice. He lies about his lying. He lies about his charitable giving.
He goes back on his word to pay his workers. He premeditatedly and deliberately defaults on his loans. He is someone who seems to think that corrupt business dealing is a virtue, and possibly a personal sacrifice equal to those who sacrifice their lives for this country; who admires despots, dictators and mass murderers as strong leaders; who thinks that it is okay to bomb the families of terrorists, and perhaps use nuclear weapons on those he disagrees with; who thinks that insulting gestures justifies blowing Iranian boats out of the water. FULL POST
Posted 7/30/16 at 12:47 PM | Marvin Thompson
It is difficult to overstate the damage done to modern American Evangelicalism by the public face of the evangelical sect of Christianity, because of the broad endorsements of Donald Trump from influential evangelicals. With their full embrace of the politics of expediency, the eschewing of fundamental evangelical principles, and inexplicably promoting, employing and encouraging evil means to achieve their goals, evangelical have completed their apostasy.
Yes, apostasy. This is not an accidental or incidental backsliding, but a deliberate, purposeful withdrawal from the most important evangelical values, against the warnings and admonitions of a remnant of true evangelical leaders.
Whither the Moral Majority? David Brooks wrote the following for his column Democrats Win the Summer, in the New York Times on July 29th: "Trump has abandoned the Judeo-Christian aspirations that have always represented America's highest moral ideals: toward love, charity, humility, goodness, faith, temperance and gentleness." That is after the evangelicals managed to convince themselves that Trump is a Christian, and their champion. Now it has been reported that almost four out of every five white evangelicals will vote for him. FULL POST
Posted 7/21/16 at 11:27 AM | Marvin Thompson
According to yourdictionary.com, the definition of conundrum is a situation where there is no clear right answer or no good solution. That is a very useful definition for understanding the problem(s) facing the American Christian when it comes to our alleged struggle for religious freedom in a religiously pluralistic society. An American society that is growing more ethnically, culturally and religiously diverse is challenging the conventional interpretation of the original intent of the Framers of our most sacred and revered national document, the Constitution of the United States of America.
What many Christians mean and understand by religious freedom in America is that the laws governing the nation must affirm Judeo-Christian ideals and morality, and that the Church must have a say, even a veto, in how the nation is governed, and how the culture evolves. This, they seem to believe, is the just and free exercise of their religion. And they are convinced that this is constitutionally guaranteed.
The U.S. Constitution is not a Christianity affirming document
The first clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." There is no dispute that the United States of America was founded in part on the idea that people ought to be free to practice their religion without coercion or interference from the government. The challenge is how to interpret that part of the amendment. FULL POST
Posted 7/8/16 at 2:32 PM | Marvin Thompson
A delirium is a symptom of an underlying illness.
Trump's most ardent evangelical supporter is the oft-times controversial Pastor Robert Jeffress who famously suggested that Christians not voting for Trump are foolish and prideful.[1] Christian Post reporter Ethan Cole reported that Jeffress encourages 'namby-pamby' Christians to vote for Trump because "At least he likes us."
In the CP report, Cole writes that Jeffress says "This isn't about partisan politics," he insisted. "This is about good and evil." "This is not a battle between Republicans and Democrats," Jeffress said last week during a radio interview with host Rick Wiles. "It's a battle between good and evil, righteousness and unrighteousness, light and darkness."[2]
To be sure, Jeffress is not implying that Trump is the evil person in this dichotomy. Nor is he implying that Trump is the unrighteous one, or the darkness opposing the light. He is saying that Trump is the good, righteous and the child of light.
Let's get this straight: the implication is that Trump is the lesser of two evils – acknowledging that he is evil, and at the same time he is good, righteous and a guiding light. If that sounds confusing, it's because it IS confusing. And as a moral and spiritual basis for supporting him it is an intellectual and spiritual debility. FULL POST
Posted 6/28/16 at 8:20 AM | Marvin Thompson
Evangelicals supporting Donald Trump's presidential candidacy recently sought to justify their decision by saying that he represents the lesser of two evils. When evangelicals stand as a representative body and give their endorsement, they place their entire faith on the line. The theological reasoning undergirding that decision is frightening. It is frightening because this allows for the acceptance of the impermissible as a Christian duty. It is frightening because this excuses really bad behavior ostensibly for the greater good.
The Theology of Political Expediency
The theology of political expediency is the same as spiritual and moral compromise. It is no secret that more than any other Christian group, evangelicals are emotionally, ideologically, socially and theologically invested in partisan politics. To be a true Christian means an evangelical must be a political, social and religious conservative.
Since the major political parties are conservative and liberal respectively, it behooves evangelicals to vote for whoever the conservative candidate may be regardless of that person's morals, faith, or character. One may argue that it is the same for the other side, but that is missing an important point. Evangelicals are Christians held to a very high standard of morals, faith and character. The other side is recognized, on the evangelical worldview, to be of a lower and more abased morality, lack of faith, and questionable character. So on this matter there is no equivalency, and therefore no room for saying "they do it too." FULL POST
Posted 5/23/16 at 12:25 PM | Marvin Thompson
Evangelicalism is at a crossroad. As the upstart Donald Trump's presidential candidacy has shaken up the political landscape, and more so conservative politics, it has also pushed evangelical conservative politics to the brink of collapse as faith and ideology collide.
From the beginning during the 1980 political campaign for the presidency when the "Moral Majority" waded neck deep into American politics, becoming a political action group to counter the threat of socialism, evangelicalism has taken on an identity that is more associated with politics than with the Gospel of Christ. This is due in no small part to what has become somewhat axiomatic that to be a true evangelical (read: true Christian) a person must politically be a Republican or at least politically conservative. Thus no true evangelical should ever support a candidate with any other political ideology.
So along comes Donald Trump who most recently converted to conservatism from liberalism. Naturally, he deserves a look because of his new found political ideology - just what evangelicals require in a candidate. This year, it seems that is all evangelicals require in a candidate.
Not every evangelical leader is comfortable with the presumptive Republican nominee for president of the United States of America. In fact, some strong leaders have come out and publicly denounced his candidacy. However, there is growing pressure to "fall in line" because the alternative is anathema. At what price, though, should evangelicals sacrifice evangelical purity at the altar of political expediency? FULL POST
Posted 1/18/16 at 6:10 PM | Marvin Thompson
The Roman Catholic Church recently stated that people can come to faith without Christ, which seems to mean that they think accepting Christ as Lord and Savior is not necessary for salvation. Albert Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, puts it this way: "…Vatican II the Roman Catholic Church has become ever more explicit in its teaching that salvation can come without a conscious and explicit faith in Christ." He added, "This is simply not an option for Evangelical Christians committed to the authority of Scripture alone and to the Gospel as defined in the New Testament." See article by Leonardo Blair, December 23, 2015, "Albert Mohler Says Christians, Muslims and Some Jews Don't Worship Same God"
The important phrase in his critique is "a conscious and explicit faith in Christ."
The New Testament clearly teaches in Acts 4:12, that there is no other name by which a person can be saved. In fact, the verse is unequivocal that Christ is the only path to salvation. Add Romans 10:9-10 which requires one to "confess with your mouth" after believing with the heart, and it is easy to see that Mohler is on target in implying that salvation is not passively bestowed upon a person. John wrote in his Gospel, John 1:12, that it is when a person "receives" (active voice) Christ that the right to be called children of God is given to those who believe in His name. FULL POST


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|Katy of Modly Chic
What I thought was really cool, was that as I've been trolling Modly Chic off and on for months, I got the impression that Katy was a bit of a tomboy. And while she may be, this girl can definitely girly girl "VA VA VOOM" it up! I recently read on her blog about a possible new found love of dresses.
"I have to say, this personal dress/skirt with heels challenge is going surprisingly well. Now I wake up in the mornings and only have a moments thought about putting on a pair of pants. Then I shake my head and force myself to think of a dress or skirt combination. To be honest I'm loving it. There is something absolutely wonderful about dressing in this uber-feminine way every day. It's also making me realize that some dresses and skirts are actually comfortable enough to wear all day long without longing for the moment the dress comes off and comfy clothes go on." (Katy)
And to that I say, "I GET YOU!!!" I kind of see Katy and I having similar body types. And so when I see these pictures, I'm thinking, "Oh I would work that in a New York minute!!!" These looks are so gamine and elegant on her. They remind me of why I love being a girl. She looks absolutely demure, coquettish and I'm getting a definite Audrey Hepburn vibe from her. I'm drooling all over those gold peep toes!
Thanks Katy for prettying up my blog with your gorgeousNESS! I hope you all are having a Grand and Glorious Fourth!!!!