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July 3
Ezra 6, Mt. 3
Ezra 7, Phil. 3
Philippians 3
We find here the righteousness that will get us into Heaven. It is not our own righteousness. It is not our natural goodness or our good deeds. These are all useless when we stand before the absolute perfection of God. It is the righteousness of Christ alone that makes us fit to abide in the House of the Lord. Everything else is loss compared to this great prize (1-9).
Complacency in following Christ is foolishness. Satisfaction with our progress in grace is folly. Even Paul acknowledges the inadequacy of his own life. Far from satisfied with himself, he presses on toward the mark of the high calling of God in Christ (14).
The need for fellowship and association with Godly people is stated (17-19). We will emulate those with traits and tastes we admire. If we admire Godliness, we will seek Godly people and follow their example of faith and piety. If we admire worldliness, self-indulgence, and sin, we will associate others who admire the same things. If their end is destruction, what will our end be if we imitate them? (19).
But our Lord Jesus Christ is able to subdue even our stubborn wills, and to change us into the likeness of His glorious body. This is our hope and goal.
July 4
Ezra 8, Mt. 4:1-16
Ezra 9, Phil. 4
Philippians 4
It is every member's duty to work for peace in the congregation (1-7). Therefore, Paul exhorts Euodias and Syntyche to "be of one mind." He is asking them to stop fussing and quarreling over issues that don't really matter. He also instructs the rest of the congregation to help. We are not allowed to be sources of strife among God's people. We are to be generous and forgive one another's faults. We are to be humble and quiet and to wage peace within the fellowship.
The things that should occupy a Christian's thoughts are found in verses 8 and 9. How much temptation and sin we could avoid if our minds dwelt on these things continually. Even thinking about such things for short periods each day would have a remarkable effect on our attitudes and actions which is one reason daily Bible reading and prayer are so important to Christian maturity.
All things through Christ? Many misunderstand Phil. 4:13 because they disassociate it from Phil. 4:12. 4:13 is about accomplishing God's will by being faithful in the circumstances He places us in. It is not about getting a promotion at work, accomplishing personal goals, or harnassing the power of God for our own needs. It is about living the life of Christian faith and service. It is about being enabled to overcome temptation. It is about being enabled to pray when you don't feel like praying, love when you don't feel like loving, and obey God when obedience goes against your natural desires and inclinations. It is about serving God, not using God's power to serve yourself.
July 5
Nehemiah 1, Mt. 4:17-25
Neh. 2, Colossians 1
Colossians 1
Colossians is one of many letters written by the Apostle Paul while imprisoned in Rome in the year A.D. 62. The church of Colossae was probably founded during Paul's ministry in Ephesus, which spanned most of the years of A.D. 55-57. It is likely that he either traveled to Colossae, or that people from that city came in contact with him during trips to Ephesus. Epaphras, probably spent much time in Ephesus studying with Paul before being sent back to Colossae, where he served as the church's rector (7). Paul knew many of the Colossians, and at least two, Philemon and Onesimus became Christians through the ministry of Paul himself (Philemon 10, 19).
We often encourage people to conduct themselves in ways that bring honour to whatever organisation they may be associated with. Perhaps there is no setting where this is more urged upon people than in the family. Everything we do reflects on the rest of the family. If we conduct ourselves with honour, we build respect for our family in the community. If we conduct ourselves with dishonour, we bring sorrow to our family members, and shame to our family name. It is no less true, in fact, it may be more true, that our actions as Christians and members of Christ's body and Church, bring honour or disrepute to our Lord and His local congregation. Like it or not, people are always going to judge your God and your church by your actions and attitudes. So the words of Paul in Col.1:10 are always relevant; "walk worthy of the Lord...being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God."
Many religions owe their origin to a single person, but Christians claim that the "Man" we follow was in every way nothing less than God Himself. Thus, Paul says Christ is the image of the invisible God (15), the creator of all things (16), the head of the Church (18), and the fulness of all things (19). "The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us" (Jn. 1:14). Angels marveled at this. Wise men sought Him at great personal cost and risk. Kings of earth longed to see His advent. Yet, even more amazing than the bold fact that Jesus is God, is the startling, frightening statement that He allowed Himself to be tortured and murdered, and that, in some mysterious way, we have peace with God through the blood of His cross (20).
Peace with God is not mere forgiveness. God has a higher purpose than simply letting us off for our sins. He forgives us to reconcile us. He forgives us to call us back into Himself, to know Him in all His glory, peace, and fulness. He calls us to love and enjoy Him now and forever. He forgives us that He may give us His presence in a way that is so full and so complete it can only be described as "Christ in you, the hope of glory" (27).
July 6
Neh. 4:1-12, Mt. 5:1-20
Neh. 4:13-23, Col. 2
Colossians 2
Colossians leads us into two important points. First is the danger of false doctrine and false teachers masquerading as Biblical Christianity. There have always been wolves in sheep's clothing, and of such people and doctrines we are warned to beware (8). Paul calls their teaching "vain deceit," the "tradition of men," "of the world," and "not after Christ." He warns that they will spoil us if we follow them. "Spoil," as used in verse 8, means to seduce and lead astray. It is to lead a person into ruin. Such is the end of those who persist in false doctrine.
Second, the Apostle encourages us to be "stablished" in the true faith (7). Paul refers to the doctrines he has taught to the Colossians and to all the Church. His doctrines are simply those taught by Christ, entrusted to the Apostles, and preserved in the Bible. These doctrines keep us rooted and built up in Christ (7). In their truth our faith will abound unto everlasting life.
Let us be plain about the applications of this passage of Scripture. If false teachers lead people to destruction, we attend their assemblies and sit under their teaching to our peril. Therefore, let use make every effort to separate ourselves from them. If sound doctrine enables us to abound unto everlasting life, let us spare no effort to bring ourselves, and those we love, under its influence as often as possible.
Man ever vacillates between the extremes of license and legalism. License is the idea that everything is moral as long it "doesn't hurt anyone." This is rapidly becoming the moral standard of many "Christians" today. Legalism is the idea that keeping a morass of confusing rules about things that really don't matter is the essence of faith and the best way to please God. License makes important moral issues trivial; legalism makes the trivial important moral issues.
Verses 20-23 are about legalism, which false teachers are attempting to impose on the Church in Colossae. Their legalism is not about morality, it is about the Old Testament ceremonial laws. Its main point is the idea that Gentile Christians are required to keep the ceremonial law in order to be saved. They said Gentiles have to keep Passover, circumcision, and the Old Testament dietary rules, or they can't be saved. We can easily see that legalism is a direct contradiction to grace. According to legalism, one is saved by keeping the rules. According to grace, one is saved by Christ's atoning death and righteousness imputed to us and received by faith. Legalism tries to earn Heaven; grace gives it as the free gift of God.
July 7
Neh. 5, Mt. 5:21-48
Neh. 6, Col. 3
Colossians 3
Verses 1-11 exhort us to receive the gift of God by faith. Paul tells us to stop worrying about ceremonial rules and start seeking the real things of Christ above. He does not tell us there are no more rules. He clearly shows that every part of the moral law is still in force. But he denies that anyone will be saved by his attempts to keep the law. It is Christ, not the law, who is our life by giving us a righteousness we could never achieve through the law. It is our part, then, to seek Him and to set our affections on Him.
The heart of chapter 3 is verse 17. To do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ is to do things that are approved by Him. As He is absolute love, we will be merciful, kind, humble, and meek (12). We will forbear and forgive one another (13). As He is the author of peace we will let His peace rule in our hearts (15). As He is the Word of God we will let His word dwell in us richly. In this way Christ Himself dwells in us filling us with the luxuriant richness of His being.
July 8
Neh. 8, Mt. 6:1-15
Neh. 9, Col. 4
Colossians 4
One of the most striking features of the book of Colossians is the reconciliation and unity among Christians as seen in chapter 4. Two notable examples of this appear in the chapter.
First is Onesimus and Philemon. Philemon is a Christian in Colossae. Onesimus is Philemon's slave, who has run away to Paul in Rome. Paul sends him back to Philemon, but tells him to receive Onesimus as a beloved brother, not a slave (Philemon 17-20). Thus, their fellowship in Christ, not the Roman laws of slavery, becomes the basis of their relationship, and the two are reconciled to each other in mutual Christian love. Verse 9 names Onesimus as a faithful and beloved brother, who will help inform the Colossians of Paul's condition and imprisonment in Rome. Onesimus will carry another letter from Paul, which we know as the New Testament book of Philemon.
Second is Marcus, the son of Barnabas' sister (10). Barnabas was sent by the Apostles to teach and oversee the new and growing church in Antioch (Acts 11:23). It was Barnabas who brought Saul (later known as Paul the Apostle) to Antioch. Under the mentoring of Barnabas, Saul began to preach and teach in Antioch, as God prepared him for the great missionary journeys that would establish churches in many, far-off lands. Paul/Saul and Barnabas took John, also known as Mark, or Marcus, on their first missionary journey. While in Pamphylia, in southern Asia Minor (modern Turkey) John Mark left the others and returned to Jerusalem (Acts 13:13). Paul considered Mark's departure a dereliction of duty, so, when Barnabas wanted to take John Mark on a second journey, Paul refused (Acts 15:36-41). Barnabas and Paul disagreed so completely they decided to go on separate journeys. Barnabas and Mark went to Cyprus; Paul and Silas went back to Asia. But in Colossians, Paul and Mark are reconciled. Mark is with Paul in Rome, and the Apostle commends his ministry to the Colossians (10).
The reconciliation of Paul with Barnabas and Mark, and the reconciliation of Philemon and Onesimus show how the exhortation to do all things heartily as unto the Lord (3:23) is accomplished in real life as we allow Biblical forbearance and love to direct our thinking and actions toward one another.
July 9
Neh. 10, Mt. 6:16-34
Neh. 13:1-15, 1 Thessalonians 1
1 Thessalonians 1
The Church in Thessalonica was founded by Paul and Silas during Paul's second mission journey, and has the distinction of being the second church founded on European soil, probably in the year 51 or 52 A.D. (Acts 17:1-10). Silas is called by his Roman name in 1 Thess. 1:1, "Silvanus." Paul may have written 1 Thessalonians from Corinth, for he mentions in verses 7 and 8 that the Thessalonians were examples to believers in Achaia, where Corinth was located. The letter was written to encourage the Thessalonians, who were under persecution from the very start (Acts 17:5). When Paul was with them, the Thessalonian Christians feared for his safety, and secretly sent him and his companions away at night (Acts17:10). But the Thessalonian Christians stayed in Thessalonica, and their perseverance in the faith was known "abroad" (8). According to Acts 17:2, Paul spent only 3 weeks in Thessalonica, so these new converts, with very little exposure to the Gospel, remained faithful in the face of persecution.
Truly the Gospel came to them in power and in the Holy Ghost (5). Paul does not mean that he used persuasive arguments or eloquent speech to move the hearts of the Thessalonians. He refers to the Spirit moving the people to believe the Gospel and trust in Christ.


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Seattle Atheists Presents: Rich and Deanna Lyons
November 20, 2011 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Rich and Deanna Lyons will be addressing the issues of coming out of religion and the importance of building an atheist community to help people who are leaving faith. Come join us for a talk and Q&A. Light refreshments will be provided.
Bio: Rich Lyons spent 20 years as a minister of the United Pentecostal Church, before a series of events caused him to take a rational look at his faith.
In the following years, he gradually debunked and rejected, one-by-one, the many doctrines of the church where he preached. Eventually, he left that church and finally left faith altogether. That process was quite painful, and resulted in Rich being abandoned by his family and friends, and losing not only his home and job, but also losing a career and a way of life.
Today, Rich and his wife, Deanna Joy, live in Seattle and are active in the atheist and skeptic communities here. They host a podcast called, "Living After Faith," which addresses the process of coming out of religion, and how to live again after leaving the life of faith.
RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/seattle-atheists/events/36502392/
We also encourage you to bring canned food items for our year-round Seattle Atheists SeasonLESS Food Drive. We'll donate the food we collect to Family Works and Volunteers of America food banks in the name of Seattle Atheists.
Food banks everywhere are experiencing a sharp decrease in the amount of food available to hungry families. It's time to make sure that giving continues, even AFTER the traditional holiday giving season.

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UNITED NATIONS — The Security Council on Friday shut down the weapons inspection program that was at the heart of the U.N.'s effort to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
The team of inspectors, known as the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, did not find the weapons that the U.S. and Britain said had been stockpiled by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The two nations' insistence that such weapons posed an imminent danger was the basis of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The U.S. barred the team from returning to Iraq after the invasion and informed the Security Council in May 2003 that it and Britain would take over disarmament duties.
But the inspectors have continued their work at the United Nations, using satellite images to pinpoint remnants of chemical and biological weapons programs from the 1990s that could be used by insurgents. The team also cataloged the information it had accumulated in years of scouring Iraq for arms.


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Just short of two years have passed since the last time I was here.
A lot has changed, a lot has happened.
Do you ever sometimes envy people can have entire years where nothing huge happens? Nothing major changes? You can see them two or three years later and they genuinely have no big news.
I mean sure, that seems so boring I'd probably want to die, but there are days when it seems easier, doesn't it?
I stopped writing here because it got too crowded. Too noisy with the opinions and comments of others. Too full of prying eyes who were only here to satisfy their voyeuristic curiosity, and then pretend they knew me. And it became somewhat hurtful and intrusive for the people in my life who didn't necessarily enjoy being written about. I got tired of hearing about it so I just stopped.
And then I missed it.
Writing here is different than writing in a journal or a notebook and tucking it into your nightstand drawer.
This feels closer to screaming on the edge of a canyon, or confessing to a priest.
It's like you're talking to someone, only without consequence.
Giving up all your words to the Universe and when the last period hits the page and you click "post" it's out there, out of your body and off of your chest and maybe useful to some stranger, some random reader who stumbles across it and sees themselves in your words. It's not in your nightstand drawer, haunting you. It's not rolling around in your chest, weighing on you.
It's been given away, but it hasn't been wasted.
I don't know how often I'll write or what will become of this space. But I know I missed writing and I know I missed talking to the ambiguous "you" that blog audiences are.
So at least for now, here I am. Still just dancing in the dark.


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The first photos from the upcoming sequel "Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters" are now online, check them out below. In this outing, Percy (Logan Lerman) teams with his demigod friends to retrieve the Golden Fleece. The first trailer is expected to hit screens next week with "The Host" ahead of the film's release on August 16th.
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
Tag Fence Card
I made this Tag Fence Card by cutting the tags, distressing them with paint and sandpaper then adding twine through the top using a great tutorial I found at MFP.
Linking to Marks Finest Papers: Use a Fence
The Ribbon Carousel Blog Fall (Fall Colors and Leaves)
Have a happy day!
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Challenge Tripleheader Set for Sunday at Remington
Three regional Bank of America Challenge Championship berths are on the line.
May 12, 2017
Elite Oilfield Services' Eos Corona N Chicks will put his three-race win streak on the line from the rail post in Sunday's 440-yard, $100,000-added Bank of America Oklahoma Challenge (G2) at Remington Park.
Eos Corona N Chicks' current streak began at Zia Park on November 27, when the 4-year-old son of champion Separatist won a 350-yard, $23,000 maiden-special-weight dash at Zia Park in New Mexico. The fastest qualifier, the brown gelding is coming off of a neck victory on a sloppy and sealed track in the second of three trials on April 29.
Eos Corona N Chicks will e ridden by Omar Reyes for trainer Manuel Almanza.
The winner of this race will earn a berth in the October 14, $330,000 Bank of America Challenge Championship (G1) at Prairie Meadows. The complete lineup, in post position order including jockey assignments:
Eos Corona N Chicks (Omar Reyes)
Three Olives N Smoke (Ramiro H. Garcia)
Sky Bo Dash (Ricky Ramirez)
Rockin Disco (Benito J. Baca)
A Royal Country Man (Edwuin Lujan)
River Wind (Jose Vega)
Torts On Fire (Agustin Silva)
Jz Zoomin Wootan (Jorge Torres)
Boogies Special Dash (Cesar Gomez)
Dynamite 123 (Sergio Becerra Jr.)
AQHA Oklahoma Distance Challenge
Justin Lee Robinson's Admiral Zoomwalt, a 5-year-old Shazoom gelding trained by John Weghorst and graded stakes placed during the current meet, is one of eight entered back in Sunday's 870-yard, $50,000-added AQHA Oklahoma Distance Challenge (G3).
Admiral Zoomwalt has banked $19,877 from three outs this season, and his resume includes a second-place finish, a neck behind winner Eyesa Shoofly Dandy, in the 870-yard, $50,000 Pauls Valley Stakes (G3) on April 6. The gelding drew post 7 and will be ridden by James Flores.
The winner of this race will earn a starting spot in the October 14, $105,000 AQHA Distance Challenge Championship (G1) at Prairie Meadows. The complete lineup, in post position order including jockey assignments:
Jessa Little Rusty (Ricky Ramirez)
Cjs Rocksolid (Josh Romero)
Quarter Focus (Alfredo Triana Jr.)
Thespeedprofessor (Mario Delgado)
Cjs Rockhard N Ready (Benito J. Baca)
Juno Dat Timber (Agustin Silva)
Admiral Zoomwalt (James Flores)
Give It To Shaq (Stormy Smith)
Merial Oklahoma Distaff Challenge
Time For Wine, a 5-year-old Mr Jess Perry mare trained by John Weghorst for owner Pete Scarmardo, drew post 3 for Sunday's 400-yard, $40,000-added Merial Oklahoma Distaff Challenge (G3).
Time For Wine made her Remington Park debut with a wire-to-wire, 1 1/2-length victory in the first of two trials on April 29. Last season, Time For Wine earned $76,953 from five starts, and her two wins included a 1 1/2-length win in the 400-yard, $125,000 Merial Distaff Challenge Championship (G1) at Los Alamitos.
Time For Wine will be ridden by James Flores.
The winner of this race will earn a berth in the October 14, $105,000 Merial Distaff Challenge Championship (G1) at Prairie Meadows. The complete lineup, in post position order including jockey assignments:
Jess Envision (Jesus Salazar)
Honeymoon Candy (Ricky Ramirez)
Time For Wine (James Flores)
Kokko Wagon (Jorge Torres)
Shiner Blond (Agustin Silva)
Diamonds For Codee (Mario Delgado)
Blacks Cartel (David Pinon)
Yourtheoneinmyheart (Debbie Freeman)
Rock Wit Cha Baby (Benito Baca)
Sassy Irish Lassie (G.R. Carter Jr.)
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Some elections are themeless and some have themes. The Republican presidential nomination contest has had a theme from the outset: this is a two man race with Romney, or as I affectionately refer to him, the Weathervane, and one other candidate, identity to be determined. Last night the identity of the Not Romney candidate was determined: Rick Santorum.
Final Iowa Results:
Mitt Romney: 30,015
Rick Santorum: 30,007
Ron Paul: 26,219
Newt Gingrich: 16,251
Rick Perry: 12,604
Michele Bachmann: 6,073
Jon Huntsman: 745
Santorum was annointed by default: each of the earlier pretenders to the title having, in turn, stumbled and fallen away: Bachmann, for a nano-second, Perry, debating is an essential skill for Presidential candidates unless they have won a big war, Cain, the femmes were found, and Gingrich, a man can outrun anything except his own past. However, Santorum would not have been so annointed if he had also not been working the state assiduously for many months, visiting each county in Iowa, and holding over 375 townhall events. The caucus set up in Iowa rewards old fashioned shoe leather politics and Santorum did the endless hard work neccessary to succeed.
So today is Santorum's day in the limelight and he has earned it. What happens next? Santorum is currently in single digits in all other states. That should change now, but in order to be taken as a serious challenger to Romney, he will quickly have to move into at least a close second place behind Romney in most of the upcoming primaries. Campaign funds will now start flowing to Santorum, and he will need to use it swiftly to build up a national organization.
Candidates will start dropping out: Bachmann soon and probably Gingrich soon after New Hampshire. I think Bachmann has been angling for a while for a job in a Romney administration, and I expect her to endorse Romney, although that is not probably important as her support is miniscule. Newt is boiling over from the fact that Romney negative advertising torpedoed his campaign, and he and Santorum have been close in the past, so I would not be surprised if Gingrich endorses him after he drops out.
Paul will stay in. This is Ron Paul's Last Hurrah and I think he will stay in to the Convention. (Due to recent statements by Senator Rand Paul, I am beginning to doubt that Ron Paul will run third-party.) Perry has gone back to Texas to reassess his candidacy, and I believe that is a signal that he will be dropping out soon. I think that would be very good news for Santorum, as it would eliminate his only realistic competitor as the conservative champion in the primaries.
So a good night for Santorum indeed. Go here to watch his speech last night. This race is now effectively a two man fight, and Santorum is going to be one of the two. No one except Santorum believed that was possible even a week ago. Now he has one of the greatest opportunities in American political history for a political comeback and we will see what he does with it.


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Hello, and welcome to the first Red Letter Day Letter-Along! Today we start with A.Here's the fabric I have chosen to kick things off.
An uppercase A is a triangle with a slice through the middle (the crossbar) and a leg on each side.Here are a few examples: These two are from Nine x Nine.This green one has two legs that are the same width.This purple one has one thick leg, and one thin one, and so does this A from Letters From Home, except the thicknesses are reversed, and the crossbar is at an angle.
For our A, we make the crossbar first:Here, a red strip about 1-1/4" wide has been sewn to two background strips, about 2-1/2" wide each.After that's done, you have to give the letter A its shape - a triangle. Here I have lined up the base of the A with the 60 degree line on my cutting ruler.
I've trimmed the edge, and will sew another red strip to it, then I'll trim the other side, again at a 60 degree angle.For this particular A, I want a really fat leg. I've lined up a strip, but as you can see, I have to be sure to allow enough red fabric to give the A a point.To add background to the A, I prefer to cut a piece of background so it is on the straight of the grain. This way, no edges are on the bias in the finished block. I set my letter on the background, and use the outer edge of the A as a guide to cut the background piece. I sew it down, and do the same for the other side. Be sure to allow plenty of room above the top of the letter, or you'll lose the point at the top.Here is a much less fussy A, (no really thin pieces, no 60-degree angles, no pointy top) but it's still a good-looker. Your A should be about 4" tall. Remember we'll lose 1/4" across the top, and another 1/4" on the bottom to seam allowances when we sew the letters together.
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011
A is for Alphabet
Labels: red, red-letter
2 comments:
- Quiltdivajulie said...
Hmmmm... you're right about our process being different. Gotta try this approach with one of my purples.
- July 5, 2011 at 12:07 PM
- Jean said...
I have my blue A finished! It is bigger than 4" but I decided I should wait to trim down any more until I start putting the letters together. Thanks for a great start!
- July 5, 2011 at 2:27 PM
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Intel launches investment fund for minority, women-led firms
Intel is launching a USD 125 million investment fund for technology startups led by women and minorities, a move the chipmaker says is aimed at changing the face of Silicon Valley.
The new fund, which is unusual for its focus on minority-led companies, is part of a broader effort that Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has launched amid widespread criticism of a US tech industry dominated by white male executives and investors.
SEE ALSO: Intel At Computex 2015: Fifth Generation Core Processor, Thunderbolt 3 And More
Krzanich announced plans earlier this year to spend USD 300 million on diversity efforts and pledged to make Intel's workforce and executive ranks more closely resemble the US workforce by 2020. Intel has previously said its workforce is about 24 per cent female and 12 per cent black and Hispanic.
The US workforce is about 47 per cent women and 26 per cent black and Hispanic. The new investment fund will raise Intel's commitment to more than USD 300 million, Intel officials said, although they said there is some overlap and they did not provide financial details.
It's intended to help build a more diverse "ecosystem" of smaller companies and entrepreneurs that plays an important role in the tech industry, Krzanich said yesterday.
SEE ALSO: Here are the 10 Thinnest Smartphones Available to Buy in June 2015
Despite statistics that show few women and minority-led startups receive venture funding, he said Intel wants to show "there are plenty of women- and minority-led startup companies, and we want to work with them."
The first companies to receive backing from the new program include Venafi, a cybersecurity firm; CareCloud, which makes Internet-based software for the health industry; Brit + Co., which provides classes and an online market for selling do-it-yourself products; and Mark One, which makes a "smart" cup that analyzes the nutritional content of beverages.
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February 15, 2003
I remember back in California in 1994, after an election where both state chambers were taken over by the Republicans and the Republican Governor, Pete Wilson, had handily won re-election promoting the anti-immigrant Prop 187 initiative. Yet to me it was clear that this was a pyrrhic victory for California Republicans and wrote a piece, called "The Future Belongs to Us," which predicted based on coming changing demographics, "when the results are broken down, they promise a much more progressive future for California." And within a few years, as Latinos and Asians registered in large numbers, Republicans in California have become an endangered species.
National Attacks on Immigrants: Today, just as new immigrants were activated by the anti-immigrant attacks in California, they are being spurred to becoming citizens nationally in the wake of post-911 assaults on civil liberties across the country and their votes could well decide the next election. While this demographic change is not the only issue going against Bush, it is a large and significant reason both Bush and the GOP are in deep political danger. Just as the Trent Lott affair reflected the party's increasing inability to straddle coded appeals to racism while smiling at non-racist moderate voters, Bush will find it increasingly hard to straddle appeals to anti-immigrant Republicans while making empty pledges of outreach to the Latino and Asian communities.
At the most basic level, each year the GOP faces a demographic shift in the voting population as greater and greater numbers of non-white teenagers gain the right to vote. In the 2000 census, 14-17 year olds were 36.4% non-white, while the general voting population that year was only 28% non-white. An additional 6 million non-whites will reach the age of 18 between 2000 and 2004.
The Citizenship Explosion: Now, not all of those new 18-year olds will have the right to vote (although many more of them will than their parents, since they often will have been born in this country and automatically qualify for citizenship). But that is why the more general upsurge in naturalization applications since 9/11 is so significant. In the eight-month period after 9/11, applications for citizenship soared. There were 519,523 new applications for citizenship between Oct. 1, 2001, and May 31, 2002 -- 65% more than the 314,971 applications received over the same period beginning in 2000. INS spokesmen compare this to the upsurge in applications in the mid-90s following Prop 187 and other anti-immigrant attacks.
Another similarity between today and the mid-90s is a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment, an INS spokesperson recently noted. ''There was a lot of anti-immigration rhetoric and legislation, which became a catalyst for people to realize they needed to protect themselves.'' After that naturalization wave in the mid-'90s, concentrated in California, Latino voting surged. Latinos grew to 11 percent of California voters, up from 8 percent in 1992. They went from 10 to 16 percent of Texas voters, and from 5 to 12 percent of Florida voters. The Bush INS has been using post-9/11 security excuses to slow granting citizenship, but they can only delay, not stop the wave of new citizens that will be able to register and vote in the next two years.
The Durability of Latino Partisanship: While Bush has avoided the more overt rhetoric against immigrants (a reason he was a candidate for president in 2000 and California's Pete Wilson was a pariah who no Republican wanted to be seen with), it is still unlikely he can make serious inroads into the Latino population, especially post-9/11 with the new attacks on immigrants by his Justice Department and his backing away from promises of amnesty.
A widely cited conservative analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies recently argued that not only do Democrats lead Republicans by a comfortable margin in the partisan identification of Latino voters, but the gap is even wider among immigrant Latinos who are now just becoming citizens. As many of these non-citizens naturalize, the political affiliation of Latinos is likely to shift still further toward the Democratic Party. More generally, Latinos become more Democratic, not less, with increasing education and tenure in the United States and, even when they get wealthier, Latino partisanship does not substantially change. The problem for the GOP is that Latinos' partisanship is tied not merely to immigration issues but to identification with the core of Democratic economic and social policies.
Asians Turn Progressive: And this GOP problem with immigrant communities is expanding rapidly to include the Asian-American community. Attacks on Latino immigrants in the mid-'90s led to a surge in Asian-American naturalization and voting as well and a shift towards the Democrats. Clinton got just 29% of Asian-American vote in 1992, while Gore got 54% of Asian vote (and Nader surprisingly scored his largest percentage base with Asian Americans with 4% of them voting for him, for a total of 58% progressive vote among Asian Americans in 2000.)
And post-9/11 attacks on parts of the Asian community, especially South Asians, just accelerated these trends. Exit polls in New York City in 2002 showed that only 22% of Asian voters polled gave favorable ratings to Bush. And across the country, the potential of the Asian-American vote is tremendous, since in many areas less than 20% of eligible Asian Americans turned out to vote. Part of this is due to the continual violations of law by many election officials that refuse to stock bilingual ballots or offer assistance. The U.S. Commis-sion on Civil Rights last year released a report on the 2000 voting debacle in Florida, finding that many people for whom English is a second language were unable to vote because election officials refused to offer bilingual assistance. If progressives can push for greater bilingual support for voters, the significance of the Asian-American shift in voting towards Democrats will only be accentuated.
And there has been a large expansion of voter outreach to new immigrants across the country. New organizations are forming and expanding efforts to naturalize, register and get out the vote among these new immigrant communities.
Labor Backs New Immigrant Voters: One key tactic for progressives is to not allow Bush to straddle his verbal outreach to new immigrant communities while attacking them through anti-immigrant roundups and denial of rights. A new movement plans "Freedom Rides" this spring for legalization of immigrants, deliberately evoking the history of the freedom rides that demanded the right to vote for blacks denied equal status. This effort is backed by major church, community and union groups such as the Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees union. This builds on the AFL-CIO officially changing its national policy in 2000 to support amnesty and legalization for undocumented immigrants.
With union mobilization reinforcing the ongoing upsurge in new immigrant, Latino and Asian-American voting, Bush will be facing millions of new voters seeking his defeat in 2004. By supporting bilingual outreach and amnesty efforts like the Freedom Rides for legalization, progressives can help accelerate these trends supporting progressive electoral victories in coming years.
Nathan Newman is a union lawyer, longtime community activist, a vice president of the New York City National Lawyers Guild and author of Net Loss [Penn State Press] on Internet policy and economic inequality. Email email@example.com or see www.nathannewman.org.Posted by Nathan at February 15, 2003 08:43 PM


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The Tory Tossers
The latest gimmick to come out of Tory Central Office is The Tosser, the first in a series of campaigns designed to reach out to young people via (yet another) website, www.sort-it.co.uk. The Tosser features a young man going on a spending spree with credit cards and store cards, encouraged by a loud 'geezer' who turns out not to be a real person but the young man's 'inner tosser'. The message is: hey kids, you've got to be responsible and not run up lots of personal debt.
Even the Conservatives admit this is a slightly strange one. After all, they're not saying that their policy in government would be to restrict personal debt. Oh no. They're just giving us advice. 'We know this isn't what you might expect from a political party, but we've decided that rather than doing what political parties have always done - criticising each other and making promises about what they would do if they got elected – we'd like to try and make a difference now. Why should we wait until we're in government to start changing things? That's the idea behind www.sort-it.co.uk. To create an online home for a whole bunch of issues, with practical things that you can do to make a difference.' Apparently, we can look forward to further 'stuff' from the website on racism and homelessness.
The tone is cringeingly patronising, desperate to be down-wiv-da-kids, and could have been lifted from Jamie Oliver. The Conservatives seem to be saying that they can't change anything, only we can, and only at a personal level. However, maybe this is the perfect preparation for government. After all, New Labour has spent the last nine years providing endless advice (with the force of law behind much of it) about how to eat, drink, shag, bring up our kids and all the other minutiae of our previously private lives. The latest Tory offering simply takes this to its logical conclusion - why bother electing MPs when we can elect counsellors instead?


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The South Florida National Parks Trust is a long standing partner of Big Cypress National Preserve. Once again the Trust has shown support for the Preserve's Swamp, Water and Me Program (S.W.A.M.P.) which aims at getting every Sixth Grade student in Collier County out of the classroom and into the waters of the Big Cypress Swamp.
"This is the seventh year that the Trust has provided monetary support to our curriculum based education program." Said Pedro Ramos, Superintendent of the Preserve. He added, "Without the support of the Trust, Collier County School District and other organizations this program would not be able to serve as many students as it does."
Since 2004 the Trust has provided $25,000 annually to help fund salaries for seasonal employees, provide reimbursement of incidental expenses to interns and pay for supplies and materials for the program. The Collier County School District arranges and pays for the transportation to the field trip site.
The S.W.A.M.P. program gets Collier County students into their "backyard" - the swamps of southwest Florida. Swamps can often be unfamiliar, foreboding places, this program allows the students the opportunity to explore this vital habitat. The program also encourages students to think like a scientist and use their observational skills as they work together to record water levels, soil depths, wind speeds and use wildlife tracking equipment in three distinct micro-habitats of the swamp - a cypress strand, pine flatwoods forest and a sawgrass prairie.
Annually the S.W.A.M.P. program reaches about 5,000 students from a variety of backgrounds.
The South Florida National Parks Trust was founded in 2002 to improve the quality of life in south Florida by supporting the national parks that define our landscape and enrich our culture.
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Hi Tayna,
Ya for good news for you to move foward aye:) Fingers crossed your IVF will be a huge success:) I found all that info you said about your tubes a bit over my head - reading between the lines though, i think you said "they are not 100% if they are blocked but think they may be?)
How long till AF due?
Im only about 1 week of AF now - never did i think i would be looking forward to it (always means not preggy:() However this time, means i can get my last lot of tests done and through to the clinic - then the big count down to a scan at Ovulation and then the following Ovulation it should be all go. So exciting to finally have something happening.
How are you? Any news with contacting your KD?
Thinking of you heaps (Was thinking of you this am when i was in the shower - wondering how you are coping).
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Google updates Gmail app for iOS, brings it to version 2.0 with a complete rewrite
I awoke to a notification on my iPhone that I had an app available for update. A quick check showed that Google had updated the Gmail app. Unfortunately for me, the app refused to let me update, as you can see in the picture below, so I went over to the Gmail Blog to see what I was missing.
Once there, I discovered that I was missing quite a lot. The new version of the app has been completely rewritten to be faster, sleeker, and easier to use. This means that Google has completely updated the look and feel, and made various improvements, such as profile pictures showing in messages and infinite scrolling in the message lists.
Probably one of the largest new features added to the app is the ability to support multiple Gmail accounts. Users can now add up to five Google Accounts in the app and then easily switch between them with a couple of taps. Google says that it's a feature many of you have been waiting for.


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So my day started off just as any other day, a quick coffee, snack, then off to work on my computer at home. Except on that day, while checking my emails, I received an offer from the lovely Multifacetedacg Productions to attend DEAN's concert in Los Angeles as Press! Previously I had heard that the show's tickets had popped up with very little promotion, and yet, sales had been completely wiped out by fans in less than 2 hours. So naturally, I said heck yeah and took my camera as well as my flat behind straight to The Mayan Theater. When I had arrived, there was a packed crowd of DEAN fans (is there a fan name?) lined up against the sidewalk, bubbling over with excitement, their eyes bright with hope at the moment to see their fave and possibly touch his hand. However, to my surprise, once I caught their eye, a large group of fans were excited to see lil ole' me! DEANS fans were not afraid to kindly ask for some photos while they were waiting in line, as well as share their excitement with me about the concert. People in front of the line had been waiting since 7 AM and they somehow managed to still have energy at this 7 PM show. DEANs fans are nothing short of incredible, as I was soon to find out.
Press was ushered into the venue first by security, and inside it was empty all except for DEAN who was standing on stage doing a mic test, his sultry angelic voice ringing throughout, lights flashing around his frame, and his name lit up boldly behind him. Honestly, what a thing to just casually walk into. I was shaken to my core. I understand 100% why people lost their minds when seeing him, cause for a hot minute I seemed to lose mine too. After snapping some shots for yours truly, they let the rest of the attendees in for the show. It started with DJ Them Jeans getting people hyped for the show, he spun pop jams and even a little Mariah Carey "All I Want For Christmas" which had people screaming the lyrics in unison. Once his set was done, the first performing act Starro came out on stage. His far out electronic, synth vibe had everyone entranced and then beat dropped and his band began to play and it turned into a rock show. People were screaming, jumping around and getting so hyped. I was so close to the drums that I was just trying to get through the show with my hearing still intact. There were some guest singers involved, but I'm not sure if it was the sound or if it was because I was so close to the drums, but I couldn't hear what they were singing very well. In the finale, Starro went all out rock n' roll style and even took an unexpected tumble downstage, but jumped right back up and continued to finish his set. It. Was. Amazing.
Now, FINALLY, DEANs set has arrived. The lights go dark, and at long last, DEANs song starts! The lights go up as he starts to sing and walks on stage, and the audience flips out and begins to push forward. Everyone wants a closer look at the man himself. He's got his signature haircut, the sides shaved with a long side part, a huge plaid coat covers his shoulders, and black pants with some heavy duty boots to finish the look. This man is looking fiiiine (he smelled good too if anybody out there wants to know). DEANs out here blessing my eardrums with his vocals song after song. Whenever he walks to the left, the audience pushes to the left, whenever he walks to the right, they push to the right. At this point, my body is being crushed and I'm halfway on stage. I was dying slightly, but I was so close to DEAN I could touch him, so you know, I was okay. The girl next to me actually got to hold DEANs hand as he sang and she nearly broke down but kept it together as we chuckled light-heartedly at her reaction. After he sang a few songs, he laughed and announced his goodbye. It felt like he had been on stage for 5 seconds compared to the previous acts and the audience was having NONE of that. DEANs name starts to echo through the theater as the fans chant "DEAN! DEAN! DEAN!", and after a few minutes, he hops back on stage to sing "Not Sorry" (literally my favorite song from him). I took a moment to scream my "YASSS"es and my "SLAY"s and then he said "Thanks for coming!" and ran off stage again.
Everyone in the front row, especially first-time viewers of DEANs live show were shocked. According to word of mouth, the show was supposed to end at 9 PM, but it took an early bow at 8:30 PM. The staff began cleaning up, and the front row audience began to yell at them, "Is the show really over?", "Tell DEAN to get his butt back out here!", as well as my personal favorite, "could you PLEASE give me the water bottle DEAN drank out of?!". The staff informed everyone that the show was indeed officially over and security began to escort everyone out of the theater. A hefty amount of fans left feeling a bit miffed, but nevertheless glad they got to see their favorite pretty boy live. All in all, it was a great show, the fans were wild, as most fans are, but everyone had fun. If you ever get a chance to see DEAN live, I'd highly recommend you go…however I'd use discretion. The man is a trap and next thing you know you'll be feeling some type of way, you will lose your mind, and immediately become a fan just like me.
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Opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia's political formula was to enable to conduct the forthcoming parliament election for a democratic transition to a new elected government. The election expected in January next would decide who will govern the nation for the next five years (2014-2019). However, in a peculiar see-saw game of politics, the two rival political parties Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Awami League, which practices dynasty politic shared power since 1991.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's televised nation address last Friday outlines a political plan to hold general election with the participation of main opposition BNP. In response to Hasina, Khaleda's press conference on Monday reveals a non-partisan interim administration to oversee the next elections. The proposal is accompanied by political pledge for the upcoming election came amidst looming political crisis; as predicted by scores of political analysts that the nation was heading towards uncertainty.
The alternative political resolution spelled out by Khaleda has opened broad spectrum for political debate. Her statement beamed live into million homes by private satellite television channels and breaking news in deshi online news portal gave opportunity for all to review, and ponder her political dictum. For some took a step backward to be confused.
Since evening the private TV channels galore with live talkshows debated on Khaleda Zia's election formula, the formation of so-called caretaker government application.
In brief the constitutional experts and legal professionals argue that Khaleda's proposal will not help resolve the ongoing political stalemate.
Her suggestion to usher advisors of the 1996 and 2001 caretaker governments was not welcomed either. Both Awami League and BNP had earlier rejected the election results, blaming vote fraud, which made the caretaker government controversial.
The constitution does have room for unelected person to head a government. Only 10 percent of unelected persons can be accepted as technocrat members.
Was there nothing new in her political statement of Khaleda Zia? Of course there were two things which came as surprises to civil society, political analysts and for those intellectuals who debated in late night live TV talk shows.
Khaleda, thrice elected prime minister since 1991 has deliberately appeased the Indians,
, European Union, the United
Nations and the Muslim countries. United States
She did not hesitate to offer olive branches to religious minorities, specially the Hindus and was apologetic to the Bangladeshi military. Well Khaleda never said sorry to the nation since she took charge of beleaguered BNP in 1979. For the first time she sought apology for any wrongdoings during her tenure.
What causes fears about her election pledge, she also stated during the Monday press conference was a missing agenda. A vital issue is deliberately missing from her political pledge. The future of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)! She did not mention a word of the future of the ongoing trials of war crimes suspects. The fate of several war criminals waiting to walk into gallows.
Traditionally, as matter of political philosophy of the party BNP is anti-Indian and of course pro-Islamic, founded by her husband a liberation war hero General Ziaur Rahman, Bir Uttam. The General quickly scraped the trial of the ongoing war crimes trial and let go hundreds of suspected war criminals and also the convicted war criminals, who categorically belonged to Jamaat-e-Islami, Islami Chattra Shibir, Muslim League and several other pro-Islamist political outfits. Zia handpicked several political leaders who literally opposed the independence of
and elevated them to BNP
leadership and even conferred them with ministerial positions. This gave
opportunity of Islamist and radical Muslims to raise their heads from obscurity
and show their fangs of hatred against Bangladesh , the Hindus, Awami League and
of course the liberation war veterans (muktijuddha). India
Coming out of politics of hate, Khaleda in her press statement envisage reaching neighbours, despite trouble remains, which she believes will establish peace, stability, security and regional cooperation. BNP during their tenure in the government and also in opposition had been hostile with neighbouring
Indian militant leaders lived comfortable life in posh residential areas of India Dhaka. They ran businesses, established high schools,
trucking and bus services and used passports to travel.
Incidentally all the most-wanted militant leaders, except one were handed over
to Indian authorities. Bangladesh
During her last unofficial visit to
Delhi in 2012, Khaleda promised to help stop cross-border
terrorism, refrain from opposing transit facilities with , etc.,
etc. Why did good sense prevail upon Khaleda? She fervently urged Indian
power-players to exert their good offices to influence Hasina to help bring
back home her beloved son Tareque Rahman, the heir of BNP leadership. India
The proposals by two arch political rivals Hasina and Khaleda in less than a week, the nation heaved a sigh of relief. Now the nation is unlikely to slide into political void, but uncertainty still remains. What will happen next?
Saleem Samad is an Ashoka Fellow for journalism, is an award winning investigative journalist. He is media practitioner and micro-blogger. He studied media and communication in
and .
He has co-authored several books. United States


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Editors' note: When the church in Jerusalem received a report of what God was doing in other regions of the world, it resulted in praise to God (Acts 21:19-20). With a view to facilitating similar praise, as well as prayer and missional thinking, this series reports on God's work in the areas where The Gospel Coalition hosts regional meetings. See our earlier report from Atlantic Canada.
We'd all probably enjoy a vacation in Hawaii. But what would it be like to stay and pastor a church there? How is God at work there, and what are the challenges?
Next month hundreds of pastors and other believers will gather in Kaneohe, Hawaii, for Overflow, The Gospel Coalition's Regional Conference in Hawaii. Keynote speakers include John Piper, D. A. Carson, and Michael Oh. To explore what God is doing in this region of the world, TGC editor Gavin Ortlund corresponded with Matt Dirks, pastor for teaching and leadership at Harbor Church in Honolulu, and author (with Chris Bruno) of a new book, Churches Partnering Together: Biblical Strategies for Fellowship, Evangelism, and Compassion.
Tell us a little bit about how God called you to serve in Hawaii. Are you originally from there?
I'm originally a mainland haole (foreigner) who fell in love with the people of Hawaii. My wife and I moved from California to the windward side of the island of Oahu in 1999 to serve in a church, then we were sent across the mountains to Honolulu as church planters in 2005. Hawaii is home, and I would be disappointed to be buried anywhere else.
What are some of the greatest challenges in ministry in your area? What particular cultural idols or areas of resistance to the gospel stand out?
About 150 years ago, when Hawaii was still an independent kingdom, it was considered the most Christian nation on earth. Around 90 percent of the population attended church every Sunday. It started with just a handful of church-planters who came from New England in the 1820s and 1830s and introduced the gospel to Hawaii. Within just a few years, hundreds of thousands of people in Hawaii turned to Jesus. The church in Hilo became the largest church in the world, with 13,000 members.
It wasn't just a superficial fad—this was true revival. One church planter on Maui wrote in his journal, "I have never witnessed more earnest, humble, persevering wrestling in prayer. One can scarcely go in any direction, in the sugar-cane or banana groves, without finding people praying and weeping before God." The gospel turned the islands upside down, to the point that King Kamehameha III paid to send a team of native Hawaiian missionaries across the South Pacific so that other nations could be blessed by the gospel as well.
This was Hawaii's Great Awakening, but it only took a few decades for everything to change. Spirit-soaked revival turned to man-centered revivalism. Pastors began to use contrived spiritual experiences to do what had been previously done by the Spirit. The result today is that everyone in Hawaii is spiritual (I've never received anything but warm enthusiasm when people find out I'm a pastor), but less than 8 percent of the population attends an evangelical church.
Almost everybody in Hawaii respects Jesus, but nobody really needs him anymore. Honolulu is consistently rated among the top three happiest cities in the nation. Why do you need Jesus when you're already happy? What do you need God to provide when, even if you lost all your possessions, you could just live on the beach? Thousands of people already do.
There aren't more than a handful of atheists in Hawaii, but there are a million "recreationalists"—people (including myself) who are tempted to worship leisure and comfort. We tend to believe that the ideal life is when we can find a job that will pay enough to sustain our recreational lifestyle, but won't be so demanding that it takes us away from our sports, hobbies, and pursuits.
Where do you see God at work in Hawaii? What encouraging trends do you see?
God is drawing many people out of "recreationalism" as they experience much more pleasure, contentment, and rest through Jesus than they ever could from waves, hikes, sports, and other me-time pursuits.
God is raising up an army of Christ-centered, Bible-saturated, Spirit-filled, fire-breathing young local church leaders, pastors, and church planters.
God is turning churches from man-centered pragmatism and experientialism toward gospel-driven faithfulness and ministry fruitfulness.
God is uniting many of these churches together to do big kingdom things they could never accomplish on their own, and we're boldly praying that God would use these churches to launch Hawaii's Second Great Awakening.
Tell us about the Hawaii Regional Chapter of the Gospel Coalition. What resources does it offer?
Our mission is to multiply gospel-centered churches across the islands and around the world. We do three things to accomplish that mission:
- connect pastors and leaders through fellowship and networking events. We plan monthly pastors' lunches where pastors can collaboratively explore practical issues of ministry from a Christ-centered perspective.
- build leaders and churches through training events and conferences. We plan major conferences every two years. We partner with local churches and ministries to plan smaller conferences throughout the year on topics like evangelism, leadership development, counseling, marriage, and so on.
- send church-planters and missionaries to launch new gospel communities, through a partnership for training, coaching, and support. We help local churches identify, equip, and send gospel-centered planters. We partner together to support these new churches in many different ways.
Tell us about Antioch School Hawaii. What needs is it designed to meet?
Antioch School is a partnership that grew out of the TGC Hawaii network. We believe that local churches must reclaim their biblical duty to proactively train gospel-centered, reproducing leaders, so a number of island churches have joined together to do so. We collaborate on one-year training residencies for church leaders and two-year residencies for up-and-coming pastors, church planters, and missionaries. Our goal is to challenge Hawaii leaders to grow not only in knowledge, but also in ministry skills and personal character in their local church context.
Local pastors do most of of the training and mentoring, but we've also been blessed with guest professors like Bruce Ware and Tom Schreiner teaching intensive classes.
How can we be praying for the spread of the gospel in your region?
Three things:
- A sense of urgency. The relaxed nature of life in the islands tends to make Christians drift into happy contentment along with our neighbors. We need to feel the weight of the sin and darkness that lies just under the physical beauty and aloha spirit of the islands.
- An ability to lovingly offend people. There's a small-town mentality on each of our islands that makes us hesitant to make waves. We need courage to proclaim the stone of stumbling and rock of offense.
- A passion for the gospel. Island churches are tempted to emphasize implications of the gospel (good and necessary things like spiritual experiences, cultural engagement, social justice, biblical knowledge, and so on) more than the gospel. We need to continually proclaim Christ and him crucified as the foundation of everything we do, believe, and pursue.


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BAG Films' Jalte Hain Jiske Liye on Star Plus is the stroy of two sisters belonging to a political background. Both are said to be career oriented, but circumstances will make the elder one turn against the other.
The casting of the show is currently on and few have been finalized till now, while talks are still going on.
Vandana Joshi is finalised to play the female lead. She is essaying the character of elder sister in the show. Vandana Joshi was earliar seen in Zee TV's Dil Se Diya Vachan.
Kaamna Ranawat has been offered to play the younger sister.
Rahul Singh, who made his debut on big screen with Karisma Kapur starrer Zubeida is now making a debut on small screen as male lead, who is supposed to be the rough and tough politician.
Jaya Binju is playing the devoted wife to the male lead, Rahul Singh.
Vishnu Sharma has been roped in to play the main antagonist in the show.
Sonal Jha who essayed Sheetal Chachi in Na Aana Is Desh Laado will play mother to the two female leads.
Rajesh Jais is playing father to the girls. He is a simple guy from a small town who struggles a lot to meet the demands of his family, comprising of his wife and two daughters


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I am a former Pentecostal evangelist who renounced his beliefs for atheism in 1994. I have decided to write a blog where I share my thoughts and ideas about Christianity in general and the biblical God.
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Recent change to blog
Please don't post links without some sort of comment or intro explaining where those links lead to and only do so if those links are relative to the post. Lately I have been under attack on Google + forums and at times on my own blog. I will not tolerate people coming here to insult my readers or disrespect me. That sort of behavior will not be tolerated.
I would like all my readers and visitors to this blog both atheist and theists alike to try and keep your arguments civil and to respect each others views and opinions. I will no longer allow myself to be dragged into arguments that devolve into ad hominem attacks and personal insults or threats. Not only will I not post comments containing threats but I will personally report you to the site administrators.
I'm here to learn both from atheists and theists, but sometimes I know that we will not always agree on certain matters. In those cases I am quite fine with agreeing to disagree and leaving that discussion there. Have fun and exercise your mind freely, if anyone feels that they can't do this then you are welcome to not come back. It's the internet but if you don't like what is being said it is just like a television you can always change the channel.
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Makes sense to me. Nobody likes having to wade through spam, and that's why I do it.ReplyDeleteReplies
I don't mind wading through spam but when you open up your comments and all you see are an abundance of irrelevant links it gets annoying. I will post any and all comments by theists and atheists that are relevant and on topic whether I agree with them or not. I enjoy the challenge of refuting theistic claims and allowing others to engage in logical and productive discussions as well.Delete
As much as I enjoy opposing views from well-meaning theists, I have to agree that a few of them seem to exist solely for the purpose of spewing their hate for those of us who don't share their delusion. It's a sad commentary on a belief system that is supposedly based in "love" and "compassion."ReplyDelete
From a technical standpoint, is there not any way to selectively ban certain antagonists?Replies
"From a technical standpoint, is there not any way to selectively ban certain antagonists?"Delete
I tried doing that Paul but found that there were only three options. No moderation, moderate sometimes, or moderate all comments. I would love the ability to hand pick and ban certain trouble makers but I have not yet discovered how to do that. I will be looking into that further.
Damn trolls ruin everything.ReplyDeleteReplies
David Mabus particularly was one of the people who kept blowing up my blog with nothing but idiotic links to irrational and nonsensical information. I have blocked him on my Google+ account as well. But there are others as well. If I can find a cleaner solution to this problem in the near future then I will let you know.Delete
Mabus is pretty notorious for when he's banned somewhere making a new account with a new name, though it's obviously him. IP blocks don't work either - because of his history no IP will give him service, so he goes to internet cafes, libraries, etc. But he might be going away soon as it's a violation of his terms of release to be on the internet at all - I'm sure PZ Myers and others have reported him to the Montreal police.Delete
I guess that's me banned then! :)Delete
You're not banned terence. In fact, you have not insulted me or anyone else here in anyway and have endeavoured to present your view in a respectful way. You've nothing wrong in my eyes and I appreciate your input on this blog.Delete
You're welcomeDelete
It sucks that you have to do that because the "God gave us free will" groupies won't respect your right not to believe in their mythology.ReplyDelete
Why not try switch to another comment format. Positive side, its easier to control the spam, negative side however is that people have to sign up to comment. This is the one thing that dissuades people from debate which I think/know happens on my blog, but to evade too much spam I think its worth it.ReplyDelete
Too bad there's no way to block certain accounts, or at least set trusted people as not needing approval. Mabus's shit is bad enough he should be banned from the blogspot site itself, and probably not allowed to have a google account either. He's got to be banned from thousands of sites by now. I fist encountered him around 2006 but apparently he's been at it since Usenet like 20 years ago. Nutcase. You can't have an atheist or skeptic website or even blog without his crazy ass showing up. He's even been the subject of talk on the Skeptics Guide to the Universe and Non-Prophets podcasts several times.ReplyDeleteReplies
Mabus is still spamming my blog but now he cant post anything withput my approval. It will be a cold day in hell before I let that slob pollute my blog with his trash.Delete
If you're bored and want a laugh, go find one of his posts (they're still all over the internet) and picture it being read out loud by Morgan Freeman. Of course most places he includes lots of weird pictures and links to youtube that make no sense.Delete
I get enough of that pathetic clown here on my own blog. The guy's not all there.Delete
That's puting it mildly. He's crazier than a shithouse rat.Delete


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Backpackers are a pretentious lot. Actually, people who travel, in general, are full of shit. Some will tell you they've lived somewhere, but they were really just visiting. Or they've been to a place, but were actually just on a layover there, and didn't leave the airport. These types of people insist they are into photography, global culture, art, film, music, and of course literature.
They're remarkably insecure, which is why they constantly attempt to reaffirm their sense of enlightenment on all topics. "Have you see that movie?" Oh yeah, it's fantastic. "Have you been to…" Yes, three times. "Have you seen Buddha?" Mm-hmm, when I was in Cambodia. "Are you better than me?" (Unspoken: Yes.)
Just as they will refuse to see the movie before they read the book, they won't travel somewhere without having read THE book about it. Some will be leafing through the book while on the plane, train or bus en route to the place. But make no mistake, there is only ONE BOOK you simply must read before you go somewhere. Some examples:
Thailand: The Beach
No book has tickled the global backpacker imagination as much as this Alex Garland neo-classic, and the Leo DiCaprio movie didn't hurt either. Poignant use of Nintendo metaphors amid differing interpretations of "paradise" and the "parasites" trying to find it ring true for anybody born after 1970. Ko Phi Phi has the movie to thank for the millions of parasites that descend upon it every year.
Spain: The Sun Also Rises
What Garland has done for Generation X, Hemingway did for young people in the 20s and 30s, members of the "Lost Generation." His book is still doing it today. After all, the book is about love, partying and living overseas in France and Spain, so it should come as no surprise that it inspires countless readers to pack up and give it a go. Just as DiCaprio put Ko Phi Phi on the map, Hemingway informed the world of Pamplona's frenzied San Fermin Festival.
India: Midnight's Children
I tried reading this a few years ago and couldn't get past the first 70 pages. If Rushdie were employing his own version of "magical realism," I wish he would have used less magic and more realism. I didn't know what the hell was going on. It was convoluted and senseless. Maybe if I finally get to India, it will all become clear… or at least I could find some enlightened backpackers who would be able explain it to me.
South America: 100 Years of Solitude
This book confirmed it for me: I'm not a huge fan of magical realism. Too much extraneous detail. But just like you have to try the chicken feet at the dim sum restaurant, you have to read Marquez if you want to do right by South American literature. Thankfully, the copy I bought didn't have the Oprah's Book Club logo on it. I'm pretentious like that.
Vietnam: The Quiet American
Like Hemingway and Orwell, Greene is a foreign correspondent-turned author who likes the sauce and in this case, opium. F.E.T. enthusiasts (i.e. white guys who like Asian chicks) will dig the protagonist, who locks down a primo local gal and enjoys the spoils of expat life and moral superiority during Vietnam's French colonial war in the early 1950s.
The United States: On The Road
Garland to Generation X = Hemingway to Lost Generation = Kerouac to Beat Generation. The underlying theme to this wanderer's journal is that it's fun to hang with arty rich kids who drink booze like it's water, listen to black music and drive wildly down the open highway. Sounds a lot like the backpacking scene to me. Oh and that San Francisco was the shit in the 50s. Still is today.
Any other geographically-specific books you've seen while traveling? There are tons. Please post comments to let me know which ones you've run into.
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He searches the earth
"For the eyes of the Lord move about on all the earth to strengthen the heart that is completely toward Him." (2 Chron. 16:9a)
I give you my heart
"Create in me a clean heart O God, and renew a right spirit within me." Psalm 51:10
This watercolor painting began during worship to the song "You Won't Relent". God has spoken to me many times "in hearts" since my husband's unexpected death over 7 years ago. The first time came as I removed the dead bouquet from the gravesite and found a perfect silk leaf on the ground underneath the bouquet, in the shape of a heart that seemed to be waiting for me as encouragement from God that He was with me at this difficult time. The idea of totally giving my heart back to Him-all of me-nothing held back- was the vision and reason for this painting. I used my hand and that first leaf heart as the model and it represents my total surrender to my King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Truly the lover of my soul-Jesus Christ!
Lion of Judah
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My Soul Thirsts For You
O God, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You In a dry and thirsty land Where there is no water. (Psalm 63:1)
This is perhaps my favorite psalm. I saw the image of the hands with water running down from them probably a year or more before completing this piece. I had begun to paint it but the idea was never complete. On this day I knew it was time to paint the idea again. I never imagined the people that were to be below or the dove that appeared at the top until after the hands were complete. The yellow that is flowing down I felt the Lord tell me is His "grace".
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He has no form or comeliness; and when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 53:2-6 NKJ)
I saw the vision for this painting the day before I painted it. I sensed God giving me the color palette and where an image was to go on the paper. The next morning, I asked Him "horizontal or vertical?" and I sensed- horizontal. I said, "But it won't be balanced if the composition is horizontal"- but I began painting and felt Him guide my hand and literally paint the whole painting. The word, "Rabboni", came up in my spirit and I thought it was just to be the name of the painting but felt instructed to put it on the painting and felt guided to where it should be to balance the composition. At one point I sensed Him say "it is finished"- and I knew I was to stop. It is a painting so unlike any I have ever painted before; I knew it was not I who had painted it. I was just obedient to give Him my hand. I have discovered that He has even signed it! (Look for the name JESUS to the right of his head) This is a prophetic description from scripture of the Messiah that I see reflected in this painting.
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The Light of The World
24" x 36" original watercolor on wrapped canvas
Restoration to the Garden
In my quiet time with the Lord very early one morning, when I had my eyes closed I saw the image of Jesus with His arms stretched back from the cross and behind Him was the entire world. All of a sudden all of this vegetation started to grow up between Him and the world. When I gasped and said "what is that?", I felt Him tell me that when He died on the Cross He restored man to the Garden. We can now walk intimately with Him, with our Father, with the Holy Spirit, just as Adam did before the fall. What a beautiful relationship is once again ours if we realize it. This visual painting reminds us of this fact.


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