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free play
i had a cool conversation with my uncle this past weekend. he was a great soccer player - part of the USMNT Olympic Development Team as a player and later as a coach in the system. (he has since left for reasons you see below). he has coached at all levels throughout youth and college soccer.
and so i asked him what direction USA soccer should take, and more pointedly - why is the USA so bad at soccer? and he said (paraphrased)..."well, it comes down to culture. why are we good at basketball? partly cause kids play pick-up on the street, at the playground, at school, even after organized practices. kids find their style, their creativity, their own movement personality and way of expression through the game. soccer, like basketball, rewards personal flare inside of team flow and organization. but when was the last time you saw a lot of pick-up youth soccer at a park? go to europe, or to latin america, and they have 'free play.'"
...so i started thinking about our culture of contemporary dance in the USA. and its the same. we lack the same thing. we need more "free play" to actually understand what is inside our body, or imagination, and practice sharing that. without that, we dont have much to offer a company, or a collective.
if we don't practice free play or pick-up or improvisation, or whatever word you wanna call it, we will never have it. and it can't be a little hear and there. it needs to be a lot and something we do since kids so we dont have to relearn what it means to free play.
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Jonathan T.D. Neil on money, art and climate change
from the November 2014 issue
By Jonathan T.D. Neil
I feel the need to write something here about money, art and climate change, because, on 21 September, a Sunday, hundreds of thousands of people from across the US and around the world gathered on Manhattan's Upper West Side (where I live) to stage the People's Climate March. Neither a protest action nor a pure celebration – though parts of it came off as both these things – the march was a kind of visibility test: move a large number of bodies (300,000+; more than hoped for) through a limited space (midtown Manhattan) to raise awareness about global anthropogenic climate change, or global warming.
Graphic designer Milton Glaser recently launched a campaign that puts this rather more bluntly, 'It's Not Warming, It's Dying' – that is, habitats and species throughout the globe are dying as a result of buildups of fossilfuel- generated greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, but also from the systematic polluting for which humans of the industrial age have become infamous. Glaser's contribution, with its circular gradient running from green to black, was just one icon among the flurry of artfully produced banners and signs and floats and agitprop that was meant to draw attention to the climate-change cause and its various subgenres, all of which found their place on the streets of Manhattan and their voices – whistling, drumming, screaming – when, at 1pm that Sunday, it came time to 'ring' the collective alarm bell, loud enough, it was hoped, to be heard by the UN delegates and diplomats, just then in town for their own discussions on climate change (and other matters).
Money lacks imagination; it only wants to save itself
In this, I'd like to suggest that the Climate March was nothing if not a massive, collaborative work of performance art. Its purpose was atmospherics – pun intended – rather than demands. The march did not seek to take or hold space in order to conjure the genies of corporatist power (as did the #FloodWallStreet protest that followed on Monday). Its aims were reflexive rather than agonistic: 'I see you, you see me; in seeing each other we affirm each other and raise each other up', not, 'I face you, you face me, we face each other down'. Thus the march sought what all works of art, indeed all subjects, seek, and that's recognition.
Yet who would deny that money is the foremost medium of recognition today? It's a big part of our fascination with artists such as Jeff Koons and Oscar Murillo, with the expansionist building campaigns of Tate and MoMA, with 'power' gallerists such as David Zwirner and Iwan Wirth – that is, after all, where the money is. And it's why, following on the activism of US college students calling for their universities to divest from fossil fuel companies, Not an Alternative, an artist collective based in Brooklyn, has called for American museums – not just art museums, but science and natural-history museums too – to divest their endowments of fossil fuel stocks and to dissociate from the fossil fuel industry as well.
Now, there's little evidence that divestment actually does much injury to companies financially. The 'supermajors' of the fossil fuel industry are among the biggest companies on the planet. ExxonMobil, for example, has a market capitalisation of around $400 billion, which as a measure of GDP would make it the 30th largest country in the world. To date, the publicly stated commitments to divest from fossil fuels on the part of foundations, universities, and civic and cultural institutions and leaders have come to $50bn in total, which is impressive but not threatening. Most of the biggest pension funds, whose sizes rival Big Oil, haven't joined in, their reason being that it is better to keep a seat at the table. Divestment is largely a symbolic act, another work of atmospherics.
More encouraging than the divestment movement though has been the carbon-pricing movement. Here more than 300 institutional investors managing assets in the tens of trillions have called for carbon taxes and an end to subsidies to the fossil fuel industries. That would be financially injurious (just look how hard their lobbyists in Washington fight the prospect). It would also be redistributive, shifting the global economic picture from resource extraction (aka primitive accumulation) towards something more sustainable. Money, as they say, talks.
What that 'something' really looks like though is a job for a new contemporary avant-garde. Money lacks imagination; it only wants to save itself. Our popular and mass culture is obsessed with and saturated by stale apocalyptic visions and adolescent fantasies, and much of our so-called 'advanced' contemporary art is in thrall to a similar market solipsism. Just like the supermajors, its 'explorations' can be technically advanced and audacious in scope and expense, but they are carried out in a state of self-serving and cowardly denial of the world outside of the artworld.
Contemporary art could do worse than to take a lesson from the People's Climate March. It needs to harness the power of a new atmospherics, a recognitive atmospherics that raises up our future rather than faces it down.
This article was first published in the November 2014 issue.


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Puerto Rico historically has been an island of economic opportunities and strong communities. Encumbered by $73 billion in debt, and recuperating from widespread destruction of Hurricane Maria, its social institutions and infrastructure have crumbled. The island's worsening crisis is not fully understood in the continental United States. Misunderstood by many, our fellow U.S. citizens need our support in their time of need. This project sought to tell the stories of several Puerto Ricans located all around the island, who are fighting to survive, despite the odds, three months after the devastation of the hurricane. As of September 2018, most of these citizens have power with the exception of one.


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South Korea has been captained by a conservative president and government for a decade but that looks almost certain to change next week as those on the tip of the Korean Peninsular exercise their suffrage and demonstrate their displeasure with the recent scandals within the 'Liberty Korea Party'. Even those who have recently lost faith in polls can reasonably expect Moon Jae-in of the 'Democratic Party of Korea' as a shoo-in next Tuesday; he now leads in the polls by double digits (44% vs closest rivals Ahn (23%) and Hong (13%)). Moon, a former human rights lawyer was runner-up against Park Geun-hye in 2012, and was back then supported Ahn Cheol-soo, who is now his closest trailing rival for the presidency. Ahn, who founded a successful software business, also founded the 'People's Party' in 2016. His support flourished on the flounders of Park, and at times Ahn had been ahead in the polls. But now with less than a week to go Moon's popularity continues to stride ahead.
Because of the impeachment of former president Park, over allegations of venality, whoever tallies the largest number of votes on April 9 will immediately become president. Their executive powers will be quite extensive, even if his Democratic Party's plurality of seats in the National Assembly struggles to give him the backing he needs. Of particular concern, this change of guard will clearly affect the wider international tactics regarding North Korea. If Moon brings his expertise and aspirations for greater neighbourly rapprochement with the North, this will stand in stark contrast to Trump's recent ratcheting of strong-arm tactics in the region. How these differences will iron out in reality is difficult to predict but the overall market expectation for a Moon victory seems increasingly benign.
Domestically, Moon has called for a combination of KRW 10tn of economic stimulus and a widespread reform of corporate governance that will help disentangle the long-spun web of corruption and nepotism between the Chaebols and government. Just as importantly a more stable political environment should be a boon to the economy in the years ahead. But he will have to tread carefully and hope his stars align if he is going to achieve real reform with the powerful Chaebols: which account for 50% of Korean GDP and also half of the KOSPI. Even with the aftermath of the recent presidential scandal and the negative news cycle surrounding North Korea, the KOSPI is now only a fraction of a percent off all-time highs and the Korean won has remained strong. Neither, it seems, are equity markets subdued by the prospect of Chaebols losing their favourable tax conditions.
Its ageing society and outsized household debts remain a concern to be monitored, but the country has seen a healthy increase in their current account surplus over recent years and has an economy expected to grow above 2.5% and maintain inflation around 1.3%. The country also has only modest net foreign debts according to our analysis. Moreover with many established large corporates and quasi-sovereigns and a government rated Aa2 the country offers a number of candidates that match our investment process and current outlook. Yet although we have held numerous Korean bonds in the past when they offered relative value, in recent years they have traded expensive with other regions clearly offering more attractive risk-reward. We have recently begun to see some past favourite Korean issues offering better value. Our investment process, including our relative value model and our credit and macro analysis, will help identify if and when any of these become attractive enough for inclusion in our portfolios.


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Cash, mid-caps cushion fall in equity fund returns
Nine out of 10 diversified equity funds have lost less than the fall in the country's benchmark BSE index.business Updated: Aug 18, 2007 03:19 IST
Nine out of 10 diversified equity funds have lost less than the fall in the country's benchmark BSE index since it touched a life-time closing high on July 24, data from fund tracker ICRA Online showed.
As of August 16, while the BSE index fell 9 per cent from a record high of 15,794.92 points, these funds saw an average 6.98 per cent drop in net asset value, on higher cash allocation and as a majority of their assets were invested outside the index.
"This time around, the blue-chips have fallen more than mid and small-cap stocks," Dhruva Raj Chatterji, research analyst with global fund tracker Lipper, said.
Equity funds invested only about 35 per cent of the assets in stocks in the benchmark index and thus were able to minimise the downside as the fall in the broader market, especially the mid-cap and small-cap segments, has been relatively less.
The BSE Mid Cap and BSE Small Cap indices have fallen 6.75 per cent and 4.37 per cent respectively during July 24-August 16. Equity funds had invested 42 per cent of the assets in such stocks at the end of July, data showed.
Funds that lost more than the index had parked almost 46 per cent of their assets in benchmark constituents, while those that did better had only about 33 per cent of the assets invested in such stocks.
Mid and small-cap stocks had not been as hard hit as their large cap counterparts because mutual funds had deployed some of of their funds collected from recent new fund offers (NFOs) in such stocks, Chatterji said.
Mutual funds had bought stocks worth about Rs 600 crore so far in August, he added.
Equity funds, which generally keep 3-5 per cent of their resources in cash to honour redemptions, put aside 8.56 per cent of their assets for this purpose at the end of July.
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Dolphins try to keep revival going Thursday at New England
DAVIE, Fla. (AP) Dan Campbell needed only two weeks to get the Miami Dolphins out of last place.
Reaching first place will take a lot longer, but a win Thursday at New England would be a big step in that direction.
The Dolphins (3-3) have saved their season with back-to-back blowout wins since interim coach Campbell replaced Joe Philbin, raising the stakes for Thursday's game at AFC East leader New England (6-0).
With only three days between games, it's a quick turnaround for a team staging a quick turnaround.
"We really need this win," Campbell said. "We're capable of beating this team. They're not going to be easy. They never are. You've got Tom Brady, you've got the great Bill Belichick."
Philbin went 0-3 in Foxborough, losing by a combined score of 96-30. But the Dolphins have been different under Campbell, who said he took over a team of sleeping giants and promptly roused them.
Miami built a 41-0 lead Sunday and went on to beat Houston 44-26. A week earlier, in Campbell's debut as a head coach, the Dolphins won at Tennessee, 38-10.
"The Dolphins have played great the last two weeks in all areas of the game," Belichick said Monday. "They've got plays coming from everywhere."
Buried two weeks ago, Miami is now back in the playoff mix. Only five AFC teams have a better record.
It's heady stuff for a franchise that hasn't been to the postseason since 2008, and hasn't won a playoff game since 2000. The resurgence had fans Sunday chanting "Dan! Dan!"
"I thought that Marino had walked out," Campbell joked.
The Dolphins began the season with playoff hopes, and the past two weeks suggest they sorely underachieved under Philbin. Now that they're winning, can they keep it up?
An upset victory at New England would represent a breakthrough in more ways than one. There have been 21 other interim coaches in the NFL since 2001, and none won his first three games, according to STATS.
The Dolphins believe Campbell is the man for the job.
"With the changes that happened, we honestly feel like it was a new season," linebacker Kelvin Sheppard said. "That's from the top down. That's what our head man stands before us and says. We've all bought into that, and that's we truly what we believe."
Sunday reinforced belief. Miami scored on four plays covering 50 yards or more. Running back Lamar Miller had 236 yards from scrimmage even though he sat out the second half. Ryan Tannehill threw four touchdown passes in the first 16 minutes and connected on his first 18 attempts, breaking an NFL record for consecutive completions.
"Every time they'd score and Ryan came off the field, I said, `You going to score 60 today?"' Sheppard said. "He said, `Just give me the ball back."'
The defense dominated, too. Houston had six three-and-outs and a pick-six before managing a first down.
"To me, that's the way we play defense here," Campbell said. "And for that matter, that's the way we should play offense: We're fast, we're aggressive, we don't make mistakes."
Miami will need to keep playing that way, because Sunday marked the end of the soft part of the schedule. The Dolphins expected to have five or six wins by now, and they'll try to make up the deficit somewhere, which won't be easy with road games the next three weeks.
Even so, Campbell's players are confident their climb in the standings will continue.
"There's a storm coming, man, like coach Campbell says all the time," receiver Jarvis Landry said. "He took over as head coach, and that was one of the first things: `There's a storm coming. We're going to wake these giants up.'
"So far, so good."
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Gemma-Rose on our trampoline
After a few years, the trampoline started to fall to pieces. Last year it got to a stage where it was too unsafe to jump on. I was very sad.
Mum knew Gemma-Rose and I were upset about not being able to jump on the trampoline and so she made up a sneaky plan.
On Christmas day when we were giving out our last presents, Mum gave me and Gemma-Rose a surprise. We had to close our eyes as Mum and Callum brought something into the room. It made a lot of noise and I wondered what it was.
When we opened our eyes, there in front of us was a new trampoline! Of course it wasn't assembled. A put-together trampoline wouldn't have fitted through the door and into the living room. It was in a box.
I bounced up and down (on the floor, not the trampoline). It was too good to believe. A new trampoline. Gemma-Rose was just as excited.
a very bad photo of Gemma-Rose on our trampoline
The very next day Dad and Callum put the trampoline together and Gemma-Rose and I got to bounce on it.
Gemma-Rose and I love jumping on our trampoline. It is one of our favourite things to do outside.


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Sometimes it pays to make a change even if you're pretty comfortable with what you have. I purchased my first new car after graduating from college and while times were tough in the early eighties, I was able to afford a very basic form of transportation on my meager starting salary. Just $6200 was the price of my manual transmission, manual roll down windows that doubled as my air conditioning and an AM radio. It was all I really needed for transportation and I was thrilled to own a brand new car. Just one year later, I was able to upgrade to the same model car (one model year newer) and "loaded" with automatic transmission, electric windows, air conditioning, extended 5 year warranty and even an AM/FM radio! For the price of just $7100, how could I not move up? I eliminated thousands of odometer miles with a newer model year and enjoyed a rich options package for just $900 more than I paid the previous year. I didn't really need to change cars, but it sure made sense!
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A Novena for Labor and Birth
I don't remember when I started praying novenas. When I was growing up, my parents weren't super into the devotional aspects of the Catholic faith (we did a lot more extemporaneous type prayer than rote/memorized prayers), which changed as I got older, but I didn't grow up praying novenas. I think I probably prayed my first novena when I was in college, and it was not a traditional novena--it was a personalized wedding novena for friends of mine that was written by another friend. I love me some traditional novenas (and if you're not already signed up with PrayMoreNovenas.com, what are you waiting for?!), but I also really love writing my own. I've written them for friends' weddings, my sisters' weddings, and now for my own labor and delivery.
The theme of the novena is Salvation History: I've included holy women from the Old Testament, New Testament, and one modern mama Saint. My hope is that my pregnant readers will be able to adapt it to their own needs if they aren't up for writing a personal novena.
If you'd like to pray it along with me in advance of my due date on Nov. 6th, please do so! I'll be starting the novena on October 28th. Kristian, Baby J, and I appreciate all of the prayers we can get during this beautiful, exciting, and nerve-wracking time.
Day 1*
"It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make a helper fit for him." --Genesis 2:18
Eve, mother of all the living, you experienced perfect harmony with the Father in the Garden, but you also know what it is to doubt his love and provision and grasp at godliness. Please pray for me as I prepare my heart, mind, and body for motherhood, that I may not give into Satan's lies and try to be my own god. Amen.
Hail Mary...
Day 2
"And Sarah said, 'God has made laughter for me; every one who hears will laugh over me.' And she said, 'Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would suckle children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age." --Genesis 21:6-7
Sarah, mother of Isaac, mother of the Jewish people, you struggled to believe that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled: that you would bear a son in your old age. You experienced the mercy of God as he fulfilled his promise to you in the face of your doubts. Please pray that I would trust in the Father's love and mercy as I approach this labor and birth. Pray also that the birth of my son would be a cause for joy and laughter, as Isaac's was for you. Amen.
Hail Mary...
Day 3
"My heart exults in the Lord; my strength is exalted in the Lord...The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn. ...The Lord makes poor and makes rich; he brings low, he also exalts." --1 Samuel 2:1, 5, 7
Rachel and Hannah, you both waited for many years to conceive your sons, hoping against hope that the Lord would hear your cry. Please pray for all of my friends and family members who carry the cross of infertility, who are still waiting for an answer to their prayers for a child. Pray for all women who have lost a child through miscarriage, stillbirth, or whose babies died shortly after they were born, that they would know the consolation and hope of the Resurrection in the midst of their grief. Pray for all women and men who are suffering from the aftermath of abortion, that they would know the mercy and healing of the God who is love. Help me to remember to offer the suffering of labor and delivery for them. Amen.
Hail Mary...
Day 4
"For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge; your people shall be my people and your God my God."--Ruth 1:16
Ruth, you left your ancestral home and family of origin and converted to the faith of Israel in order to comfort and care for Naomi, your mother-in-law. And the Lord blessed you abundantly for your fidelity and sacrifice by bringing Boaz into your life and blessing you with the privilege of being in Jesus' ancestral line. Please pray for me, that I may be as generous and courageous as you were, especially as I approach my son's birth. Amen.
Hail Mary...
Day 5
"Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: 'Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.' Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised." --Proverbs 31:28-30
St. Ann, mother of Mary, grandmother of Jesus, you prepared your daughter for the "yes" that she would one day say to the Lord. You and St. Joachim formed her in the faith of Israel and taught her to trust entirely in the Father. Please pray for me, that I may do the same for my son as he grows, and pray for my mother, that she would be blessed for all of the sacrifices she made to bring me into the world.
Hail Mary...
Day 6
"Blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord." --Luke 1:45
St. Elizabeth, cousin of the Blessed Mother, you gave Mary the gift of accompaniment when she was young, unmarried, and pregnant by the power of the Holy Spirit. Please pray for all of the dear women in my life who have accompanied me through this pregnancy, who have reminded me to rejoice in God's goodness in moments of discomfort, and who have soothed so many of my anxieties and fears with their wise words and constant prayers. Lord, please bless my dear sisters in Christ as you blessed St. Elizabeth for her fidelity to you, and help me to accompany them when they are in need. St. Elizabeth, pray that I may always believe that what was spoken to me by the Lord would be fulfilled. Amen.
Hail Mary...
Day 7
"When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him; he took his wife, but knew her not until she had borne a son; and he called his name Jesus." --Matthew 1:24-25
St. Joseph, you were faithful to Mary, even when you did not fully understand her mission as the Mother of God. You protected your wife and son with the silent strength that was a testimony to your holiness. Please pray for my husband, that he would be given the courage and strength that the Lord gave you to be Jesus' earthly father and Mary's beloved. Pray that he would know his identity as a beloved son of God, and always remember that you have already given him what he needs to be a wonderful father. Thank you, St. Joseph, for interceding for us before we met, for bringing us together at the right time, and for watching over us during our courtship, engagement, and marriage. Amen.
Hail Mary...
Day 8
Jesus, I promise You to submit myself to all that You permit to befall me,
make me only know Your will.
My most sweet Jesus, infinitely merciful God, most tender Father of souls,
and in a particular way of the most weak, most miserable, most infirm
which You carry with special tenderness between Your divine arms,
I come to You to ask You, through the love and merits of Your Sacred Heart,
the grace to comprehend and to do always Your holy will,
the grace to confide in You,
the grace to rest securely through time and eternity in Your loving divine arms. --Prayer of St. Gianna
St. Gianna, please pray for me as I approach labor and birth, that I may have the courage to say with you, "Whatever God wants." Help me to let go of all of my plans and ideas about how labor and birth should go, all of my fears and anxieties related to my baby's health and wellbeing, and all of my questions about motherhood. Pray for all of my friends and family who have had traumatic labor and birth experiences, suffered from postpartum depression, or have faced the difficulty of a high-risk pregnancy. Amen.
Hail Mary...
Day 9
"But Mary kept all these things, pondering them in her heart." --Luke 2:19
Blessed Mother Mary, Mother of God, Mother of the Church and Mother of all Christians, please pray for me as I enter the vocation of motherhood for the first time. You trust in God the Father was so complete that you were able to say "yes" to being the Mother of his Son. Please pray that I may trust in the Father's love as completely as you did, and that my fiat to the vocation of motherhood will be a means of bringing Christ more fully into the world. Please help me to be gentle and patient with myself, especially when I fail to love my son as you loved Jesus, and remind me that I am and always will be your child, living under the protection of your mantle. Amen.
Hail Mary...
Closing Prayer to Our Lady of La Leche
O Lord Jesus Christ, through the intercession of Your tender Mother, Our Lady of La Leche, who bore You close to her heart during those long months before Your birth, I place my baby and myself entirely in Your Hands. Free me, I beseech You, from useless and consuming worry. Accept the sacrifice of my aches and pains, which I unite to Your sufferings on the Cross. Above all, most merciful and loving Jesus, protect this child You have given to me from all harm, bestowing the health and vigor every baby needs. Implant in my heart and on my lips the words and prayers of Your Mother and mine, our Lovely Lady of La Leche. All this I ask that my child and I may live to praise forever Your Holy Name. Amen.
Prayer Source: Mission of Nombre de Dios and Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche
*Unless otherwise noted, all prayers were written by me.


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Benefit has been know for their wicked brown game products and lately they have come out with some new items. Today, I would like to take you on an adventure with me to try out their new Ka-Brow Eyebrow Cream-gel.
For those of you who get the advertisement book from Ulta, you received a coupon for a free deluxe sample. Though I have been eye balling this product for a few weeks, I decided this would be a great time for me to try it out.
Before we dive into my review and what i thought, lets look at this product a little more.
It comes in 6 very pigmented shades from super blond to black. The sample was only available in 2 colors 01-light; for very blonde and 05- deep; a dark brown. My natural color is dark so I stuck with the 05.
This product offers a buildable color making natural to dramatic brows super easy. It offers a 24 hour wear and it is waterproof making ita great product for summer!
I love the idea of having the brow product and brush in one. Makes it awesome for travel. The brush is quite small and the bristles are quite stiff allowing for precise control.
Now, keeping in mind this is just the sample/travel size, you still get alot of product that will last a while. The size does make it a little more difficult to use due to the fact that you cannot tell how much product you are actually getting onto the brush.
Above we have a before, during and after look. I have to say I do really like this product. With that being said I do have some cons..
The price point seems a little high at $24 for 0.1 oz vs. the Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow pomade at $18 for 0.14 oz. In my opinion you are paying a little more for packaging and convenience.
Depending on how much product you use, it could take some time to dry. If you have thin brows and like to overdraw your brows a little, you may find that it can smudge. I had this issue especially with the tail of my brow.
For me, this would be a product that I may pair up with my Kat Von D Tattoo Brow pen or my ABH Dip brow that I don't have smudge issues with.
Final Review : 4 out of 5 stars
The packaging a super cute and I love having a cream-gel with brush in one. I found that it tends to smudge when I use it to overdraw the tail of my brow. I feel the price point is a little more than other comparable products that I use. It has great pigmentation and does amazing for natural looks. This will be a product that I will keep on hand especially for travel and in my on-the-go daily makeup bag for easy day to night looks.


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CZECH it Out: 479Photo.com
Back in January of this year, a few of my photography buddies and I put together a website. Most of us are from the Bentonville area, so we went with the domain: 479Photo.com. Before this blog was a work in progress, the photo site went up, and we began daily postings of our photography work.
The site is designed to give each of the seven photographers one assigned day of the week to post a photo. Only one photo can be posted, and the photo has to have been taken in the last seven days.
It forces us to be producing at least one photo a week that we are proud enough of to post on the internet, for public critique. We all try to comment on each other's photos, stating the good, the bad and the ugly. It's a nice, friendly reminder to me personally, because there are four or five day stretches where I won't take a single photo. To the newspaper shooters, it's no big deal, but to me, it forces me to get out and shoot something cool, at least once every seven days.
At the end of this year it will be nice to go back and have 52 portfolio-worthy shots, all documented and out on the web.
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We absolutely loved having Dan at our wedding. We did not know him previously but he made us feel great about hiring him and took the time to make the ceremony personal to the two of us. The guest are still telling us how much they loved our officiator and how lucky we were to have found him. He responded to us quickly and answered all of our questions making us very comfortable from the beginning to the end. We also had some differences in religion between our two families and he was able to make the wedding fit for both sides. I recommend him to any one! Thank you so much Dr. Mclean.
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We had the pleasure of having Dr. Dan McLean as our officiant to renew vows for three couples. My wife Janet and I (35 years), our friends Robbie and Sherri (35 years), and my sister Lil and Husband Joe (25 years). In a word, AWESOME! He was an answer to a prayer. He was so thorough in making the most out of the information I gave him concerning the histories of each couple. On the day of the event to renew our vows, the three guys kept the secret to surprise the ladies. Needless to say, the tears were flowing and love was high. His wife Karen was so sweet and so helpful in shooting pictures and video which turned out fantastic. The Lord blessed us with a beautiful day on the beach for the ceremony. Dr. Dan was personable, friendly, and made us all feel as if we made a new friend. If you are looking for an officiant, please don't laugh, but Dan is the MAN!. He genuinely gets 5 stars and made our celebration a memory we will never forget.
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Dan was the man! All the guests raved about the ceremony and how Dan was the leader. From the moment we met him we had full confidence that the wedding would go on without any issues. And it did. He exceeded our expectations. Thanks Dan!
I cannot even express how special Dan made our day. I had so many friends come up and comment on what a beautiful ceremony it was and how they had never been to a wedding that had such inspirational sentiments in it. He worked with me weeks leading up to the wedding helping me with any of my questions and made suggestions to help us with the ceremony as well. I could not have asked for a better wedding officiant. Thank you so much Dan for making mine and Brian' s day so very special.
We had the perfect private and personal wedding service with Dr. Dan... He came for a casual pre-wedding meeting and took the time to hear our wishes and was able to pick up on what we are about and tailored our wedding day with that in mind,.. Even dressing for the casual atmosphere we wanted .. He has a great sense of humor and put us at ease while maintaining the solemnity of the ceremony. We also appreciated his conscientious inclusion of my 9 year old daughter... He made it clear that we were not only becoming a married couple but a new family. We are so pleased with our decision to hire Dr, Dan as our officiant.... A great start to our marriage. Thank you Dr. Dan!!
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My wife and I found Dr. Dan through wedding wire. After five minutes talking to him personally, it was clear we had found our officiant. He joined us for dinner after the rehearsal and fit right in making conversation with everyone in attendance. On the day of, he was viewed no longer as a hired officiant, but as a family friend joining in the special occasion. His ceremony was beautiful, and everyone is still talking about how he included everyone and seemed to speak to each individually. He was professional, while not the least bit stuffy. He was compassionate, caring, but most of all genuine. We couldn't have made a better choice and would recommend him to anyone and everyone from all walks of life. Our special day was that much more memorable thanks to him.
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25 years ago I married my husband at the courthouse without our family being able to attend. While my husband asked my dad's permission to marry me, I missed the opportunity to have my dad walk me down the aisle and give me away. As a gift to ourselves and our family, we decided to renew our vows on this special anniversary. I had everything planned except for choosing the officiant. As soon as I met Dan McLean I knew I had to look no further. He talked with me for over an hour about my husband and I's life together, our daughter and grandson, and even our extended family. My dad is not well and may not be with this us much longer so when I expressed how important this vow renewal was to me Dan simply stated, "It's an honor for me to do this for you". As I expressed my simple ideas for our renewal, Dan was kind enough to give us some ideas that made our day even more special. By the end of our conversation, Dan knew my vow renewal was in his hands and simply told me "I got this".On the day of our vow renewal ceremony I really didn't know what to expect – I didn't have a real wedding to compare to. Dan arrived early and spoke briefly with our family. He made everyone feel so comfortable – he was like a family member not a man I met two weeks prior to our ceremony. The ceremony was absolutely beautiful! We all had tears – thankfully mom had tissues handy for us all. Dan honored, not only us and our life together, but our family during the ceremony. He was correct when he told me "I got this". Dan is very friendly with a warm and caring soul. There are millions of words in the English language but not enough of them to describe Dan McLean. I truly felt blessed to have met Dan and having him perform our vow renewal made our day even more special!
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The Republic of Turkey aims building a disaster resilient society in Turkey to better withstand and rebound from geological, topographical and climatic as well as geopolitical related hazard threats.
Established in 2009, the national disaster management agency AFAD is the main actor in building a resilient country and responding to disasters.
This Technical Assistance Project will assist AFAD to achieve this mission in building the capacity and strengthening of its disaster management system. The results of this Project for the Republic of Turkey are:
1. strengthened institutional capacity of AFAD, at the central and local level and other relevant authorities on natural and man-made disaster and emergency management issues;
2. improved disaster and emergency management system;
3. increased coordination and enhanced cooperation with relevant Turkish public and private institutions and Civil Society Organisations;
4. increased institutional, including private institutions and CSOs, awareness on disaster management and emergency issues.
Being a pre-accession country of the EU, AFAD will be supported through this Project to align its policy and working methods to the European Union and more specific the European Civil Protection Mechanism.
|Project Name:
|Technical Assistance to the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) in strengthening the institutional capacity and improving the disaster and emergency management system (ALTUN/AFAD/TR2012/0740.14-2/SER/003)
|24 months (March 7th, 2016 – October 5th, 2018)
|2,740,000 Euro
|Fund Provider
|The European Union and The Republic of Turkey
|Contracting Authority
|Republic of Turkey Ministry of Treasury and Finance, Central Finance and Contracts Unit (CFCU)
|Republic of Turkey Ministry of Interior Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD)
|A Consortium of NİRAS IC Sp. z.o.o. (Poland)
|Senior Programme Officer
|Hamza Taşdelen, Deputy Head of AFAD
|Project Manager
|Adam Iwasko
|Key Expert Team Leader
|Lorenzo van Wijk
|Key Expert – Disaster and Emergency Management Sector Expert
|Peter Glerum
|AFADEM Uğur Mumcu Mah. Fatih Sultan Mehmet Blv. No. 300 – Ankara / Turkey
The main outputs of the Project are:
• developed an Institutional Capacity Building action plan;
• developed a training policy paper;
• developed guidelines for management of several disaster types;
• improved the internal institutional control mechanism including a sustainability plan and a monitoring and evaluation mechanism;
• developed disaster and emergency management standards;
• conducted a CBRN risk analysis in one Pilot Province;
• developed guidelines for the risk analysis for industrial accidents (Seveso establishments);
• developed a model and protocol for cooperation with public authorities, private institutions and civil protection organisations;
• strengthened the National Platform of Disaster Risk Reduction.
Activity 1: Strengthening institutional capacity of beneficiary institution AFAD, at the central and local level on disaster (natural and man-made) and emergency management issues.
The purpose of this Activity is to provide support to AFAD at central and provincial/local level as well as other relevant authorities and governmental institutions involved in the area of disaster and emergency management in strengthening institutional disaster management capacity building. Such support will be provided through training activities, workshops, EU study visits and planning and drafting of policies and guidelines after having conducted before a need and gap assessment.
AFAD needs to assess where it currently stands in terms of its strengths and its constraints as well as overall ability to perform its responsibilities to plan more effectively and build an optimal institutional, technical and human capacity in the disaster risk reduction field. Is also needs to learn how its own institutional capacity compares with other countries so that AFAD's can design and initiate appropriate capacity development interventions more effectively.
The Institutional Needs Assessment (INA) approach used in this Activity will be adapted from the European Commission methodology developed by the Joint Research Centre and DG ECHO to assess and monitor over time the performance of EU Neighbourhood Countries in their Capacity Building for Chemical Accident Prevention and Preparedness (CAPP). Such approach also enables to define performance indicators for measuring capacity levels, Capacity Building success rates and benchmarking. These indicators could become in the future reference indices at EU level.
A need assessment report will be prepared on natural and human-made disaster and emergency management phases outlining the results obtained at AFAD Presidency, Provinces and Search and Rescue Brigades interviewing in total at least 350 staff members selected from AFAD Presidency in Ankara and the 11 Search and Rescue Brigades as well as 81 staff members from the Provincial Directorates.
Gap-analysis enables to assess the difference (or "gap") between two states of an organization, an activity or a knowledge base. It can be applied to performance, knowledge, skills or any other measurable and comparable aspect of organisational life. In this context it will be used to compare the current state of both natural and human-caused disaster and emergency management in Turkey with selected EU Member States systems, frameworks and best practices addressing both natural and human-caused disasters. The gap analysis will be aligned with the Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction and its targets will be taken as baseline. The countries which will be used for the comparison planned are Finland and Italy and will also be visited in Activity A1.3. The exercise will also rely on the results of the needs assessment conducted in Activity A1.1.
A five-days study visit to EU Member States will be conducted for a total of 20 participants identified by the Beneficiary to review, discuss and compare EU Member States both technical and administrative structures and processes related with disasters and emergencies management cycle. The chosen EU Member States and programme of the visit will follow from Activity A1.1 and A1.2 and are Italy and Finland.
An institutional capacity building action plan and training policy paper will be prepared to maintain AFAD's institutional capacity framework as well as to advance in the implementation of the capacity-building components. Such plan will guide AFAD in developing, implementing and evaluating disaster risk reduction capacity-building activities in a strategic, systematic and forward-looking manner. The plan will set out the overall vision, provide basic guiding principles, propose strategic steps and tasks that AFAD could take at the national, regional and international levels. It also will present a results-oriented action plan to translate the ideas in the Strategic Plan and in TAMP into concrete actions and result. This plan will address the findings of the need assessment and gap analysis obtained in the Activities A1.1 and A1.2. Also, the findings in Activity A2.6 will be considered as an effective action plan needs taking into accounts the means that will make the plan sustainable.
A five-day training session on the guidelines and work-flows will be developed based upon the guidelines developed under Activity A1.8 and will be delivered at least twelve times to a total of at least 121 staff members from AFAD (20 staff members), Search and Rescue Brigades and Provincial Directorates (81 staff members) and related authorities (20 staff members).
In order to increase the effectiveness of the learning as well as to exchange of experience and knowledge and the creation of networks amongst the participants as well as improve the coordination of disaster response the networking between local and central personnel, these trainings will be held in parallel together with the trainings of Activities A1.6 and A1.7 at the same venue.
Aspects of project cycle management and project implementation can assist AFAD addressing within the disaster management the identified needs (i.e. that will be turned into projects) going from technical aspects such as training in CBRN to organisational like improving the coordination and collaboration between AFAD and the Brigades. A three-day workshop will be organised in Ankara for 15 participants from AFAD Presidency and the Brigades and will be repeated three times for a total of 45 staff members. The workshop will address aspects of project cycle management and project implementation targeting in all phases of the disaster risk reduction and emergency cycle. Also, this sub-Activity is relevant to supporting the phases involved in preparing the Project Fiches of Activity A1.11.
Activity 2: Improving disaster and emergency management system in Turkey.
The purpose of this Activity is to provide support to AFAD improving the Turkish disaster and emergency management system both at central and local level, including the internal control mechanism. Institutional disaster and emergency management standards as well as a sustainability plan and a monitoring and evaluation mechanism will be developed. Also, a CBRN risk analysis study for one pilot Province will be prepared. The results of the sub-activities allowing for this overall result will be:
To attain its objectives, AFAD must take like any other organisation decisions with a degree of risk attached to it. However, if risks are not properly managed and controlled then they can affect AFAD's ability to reach its goals. As risk cannot be eliminated it is important to have a sound and comprehensive risk management and internal control systems to cover AFAD's various activities, processes and assets by continually preventing and managing risks. AFAD has adopted the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission standards (COSO) and adjusted them for the public sector. The activities for improvement of the internal control will be developed in close contact with the AFAD working group on internal control. Also, training plan will be developed and two five-day training will be conducted respectively for 30 AFAD and Search and Rescue Brigades and successively for 30 Brigades personnel.
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The purpose of this sub-Activity is to develop five standards on five topics within the field of institutional disaster and emergency management.
Five institutional standards will be developed in close cooperation with AFAD in the domain of disaster and emergency management and will be aligned with the corresponding relevant Activities A1.4, A2.3 and A3. These standards will be in the following five areas: (1) operation of the eleven Brigades, (2) cooperation with public institutions and private sector (3) determination of standards and project techniques for constructions that are going to be built on disaster areas after disasters, (4) CBRN process management and (5) Determination of standards for construction, management and improvement of temporary sheltering centres that are going to be built after disasters.
AFAD responsibilities cover also the mitigation of and preparedness against risks related to the chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) materials and agents. The origin of these risks can be criminal (proliferation, theft, sabotage and illicit trafficking), accidental or natural hazards on CBRN material and facilities). This responsibility needs to increase its preparedness and response capabilities of AFAD to CBRN. The following documents will be prepared:
The two tailored CBRN training exercises will be prepared based upon the produced guidelines for at least twenty First Responders and twenty Scene Commanders.
A five-days study visit (excluding travel days) to EU Member States will be conducted for a total of 20 participants identified by the Beneficiary to review, discuss and compare EU Member States both technical and administrative structures and processes related with disasters and emergencies management cycle. The chosen EU Member States and programme of the visit will follow from Activity A1.1 and A1.2 and are the Netherlands and France.
Capacity building actions in disaster risk reduction and emergency management require human and economic resources, time as well as other logistic and administrative factors. The purpose of this sub-Activity is developing a sustainability plan to support the capacity building action plan and training policy paper drafted under Activity A1.4. This sustainability plan will also address short, medium and long-term measures.
Following a bylaw, AFAD Provincial Directorates have become dependent from AFAD Presidency. Under this bylaw, the Provincial Directorates are required to report on a yearly basis their missions, targets, performance indicators and budgets to AFAD Presidency. This requires AFAD developing monitoring, evaluation and learning mechanism for continuously measuring progress against objectives and checking on the continuing relevance of the different procedures and processes related with disaster risk reduction and emergency management. A monitoring and evaluation methodology will be developed under this sub-Activity to monitor indicators and performance levels of the Search and Rescue Brigade's missions, targets, performance indicators and budgets within the improved disaster and emergency management system of AFAD Presidency.
Activity 3: Increasing coordination and enhancing cooperation with relevant public, private institutions and civil society active in Turkey
By the end of the Project the level of coordination and cooperation between public, private institutions and civil society in Turkey will be increased, improved and strengthened through participatory mechanisms. Also, aspects of the National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction will be strengthened.
The general EU guiding principle requires asking all stakeholders who will be directly impacted by a policy, but also those who are involved in ensuring its correct application, for their inputs and views during the processes of designing, evaluating and revising policies. Although policy making is not address in this specific case, the very nature of the cooperation model, which deals with aspects of disaster risk reduction management, community resilience and emergency management, asks for the participation and cooperation of central and local public and private institutions. A one-day workshop for discussing with the public and private organisations about the coordination and cooperation draft model will be organised in one selected pilot Provinces. The workshop will be attended by at least 100 participants from the central and local public and private institutions.
The synergistic collaboration between different bodies from public and private sector is crucial for avoiding duplication of projects, improving the use of scarce resources and enhancing information sharing. Moderated focus group meetings are an effective way of obtaining detailed qualitative data as well as a deeper insight into the themes of interest addressed. These themes will be identified in Activities A1.1 and A1.2. Three one-day meetings with consultation/focus-group of minimum 15 participants for identifying potential project ideas for collaboration in the disaster and management area will be in organised Ankara with all relevant authorities (public and private sector and civil society). The outcomes of the meetings will serve as input to the three project fiches defined under Activity A1.11.
A dedicated website will be developed for sharing information with Civil Society Organisations that can facilitate their involvement in disaster risk and emergency management. The content will be defined by the outcomes of sub-Activity A3.5 on Civil Society Organisations. Also, the technical content, architecture design and sustainable system architecture will be developed in close cooperation with AFAD.
Activity 4: Increasing institutional awareness on the disaster management and emergency issues and organising communication and visibility actions
Under this result the Project will provide support to AFAD and other relevant authorities in Turkey (including public, private institutions and CSOs) in promoting the visibility of the Project as well as increasing the institutional awareness on matters related to different phases of disaster risk reduction and emergency management. Awareness will be created, shared and communicated in an effective manner among AFAD and other relevant authorities through visibility programmes which will cover publications, website, information activities, media relations and the production of audio-visual material.
A Communication Plan will be prepared during the Inception Phase in accordance with the requirements set out in the Commission regulation as well as the EU visibility guidelines. This plan will outline the communication strategy that will be followed during the Project period.
A Project launching event will be organised to reach a common understanding of the goals and expectations of the Project with its planned results, initiating a good relationship with the Beneficiary and getting her endorsement and full collaboration as well as to set up an agreed framework for delivering the Project. Also, a Communication Plan will be prepared during the Inception Phase in accordance with the requirements set out in the Commission regulation as well as the EU visibility guidelines. This plan will outline the communication strategy that will be followed during the Project period.
The scope of this Sub-Activity is printed, web-based and visual media material will be produced and disseminated to raise public awareness about this Project and on all aspects and phases of a comprehensive and integrated disaster and emergency management cycle. The promotion materials produced: 3000 brochures and 3000 leaflets (publications), 24 press releases (media), Project website and CSO portal (AFAD website) and video film – up to 2 minutes – related with the Project results (audio-visual).
A one-day closing workshop will be organised by the Consortium and the Beneficiary to present and disseminate the outcomes and results of the Project to the officials of the Beneficiary, relevant stakeholders, CFCU and EC Delegation. The closing event will be attended 150 participants including representatives of all relevant institutions along with local, national and international participants, as the key speakers working in the field of disaster risk reduction and emergency management.


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Each week, Val Haller, a music-obsessed baby boomer and the founder of the Web site Valslist.com, matches tracks from her generation to those of her 20-something sons' generation.
Disco may be dead but we dance on. Just ask your kids. EDM (electronic dance music) is the stuff of the alchemist D.J.s, who — with their headphones, turntables, computers, synthesizers, drum machines and sequencers — create tracks in genres that include house music, techno, trance, dubstep, synth-pop, electro-funk and freestyle. Entire music fests have popped up, devoted to nothing but EDM, and have spread around the globe: "Ultra" (Miami); "Tomorrowland" (Belgium); "Sonar" (Spain); "Sterosonic" (Australia); and "Sensation White" (Amsterdam). My 20-something kids attended a few of these fests while studying abroad. Chicago's summer music fest, Lollapalooza, dedicates a main stage to EDM — much to my dismay since many kids spend all their time there and miss other quality bands at the fest.
A 1970s boogie band with a sweet mix of funk, soul and groove. Go ahead, admit it — you bumped to "Celebration," "Get Down on It," "Fresh," "Ladies Night," "Jungle Boogie" and "Funky Stuff." They started in Jersey City in 1964 as a jazz ensemble, the Jazziacs.. In 1967 they became Kool & the Flames and in '69 were finally the Kool & the Gang we know, producing some of the most popular dance soundtracks of the 70s and 80s . The Bell brothers (Robert "Kool" and Ronald) formed the band with childhood friends, singing and playing drums, guitar and keyboards, along with a horn section of saxophones and trumpet. They've sold 70 million albums worldwide and can be heard in several films, including "Pulp Fiction," "Rocky" and "Men in Black."
Thomas Connor of The Chicago Sun-Times wrote: "The music of Kool & the Gang has always been imminently danceable without veering into the pejorative side of disco." And yet, the group's one Grammy was for "Open Sesame," a song of pure funk that became part of the soundtrack for the 1977 disco superclassic, "Saturday Night Fever." Robert Bell told The Sun-Times: "We survived disco. 'Saturday Night Fever' hit right during the anti-disco movement, and right after that is when we decided to get a lead singer." He added,"The owners of the studio where we were working knew James J.T. Taylor, and it was clear pretty quick he was our guy. That's when the hits started coming." Even rockers like the sound. Kool & the Gang toured with Van Halen last year and will = open for the Dave Matthews Band and Kid Rock tours this summer.
Ask your college kids if they have heard the new single "Get Lucky" by Daft Punk. Heard it? No doubt they're eagerly awaiting the release of the group's full album, "Random Access Memories" (due out May 21).
Who is Daft Punk? The gold standard for D.J. acts, two French musicians who wear masks, dress in robot costumes and create music that is, well, in a world of its own. They are an electronic music duo, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, who were first popular in the late '90s, pushing the margins of house music and synth-pop. Hard to believe, but early on they were influenced by the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones and Elton John. Their critically acclaimed debut album "Homework" ('97) was followed by the hugely successful "Discovery" (2001), with club singles like "One More Time," "Digital Love" and "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger." "Alive," their 2007 album, won a Grammy Award for best electronic dance album.
They are perfectionists considered by many to be musical geniuses, known for elaborate live shows with dizzying visual effects and costumes. The new album has been rumored to take dance music to a new dimension: backward. James Montgomery of MTV writes: "Why do I consider this album to be such a dramatic statement? It's the little things, the attention to detail — the sumptuous production flourishes, the unmistakable live feel of the record, the fact they cared enough to get the dude who played guitar on 'Thriller' to jam on the record — the homages to pioneers like Moroder (large spaces of Memories recall some of his best work, particularly the 'Midnight Express' soundtrack) and Nile Rodgers, and the sheer ambition and scope of the project. But mostly because, despite its many dance-inducing moments, this is not purely a dance record." The release of "Get Lucky" a couple of weeks ago set a record for a single track on the music streaming service Spotify. Bob Lefsetz, a music industry analyst, wrote, "Get Lucky" is the song of the summer, and it's still SPRING!"
Special bonus: I'm going to invite you to watch an interview with the collaborators of Daft Punk's new album. There are Giorgio Moroder, who worked with Donna Summer (producer), Todd Edwards (house music producer), Nile Rodgers (musician, composer, producer, arranger), Pharrell Williams (songwriter, rapper, producer), Panda Bear (experimental musician, founding member of the band Animal Collective) and Chilly Gonzales (Grammy-nominated Canadian musician).
And then, time to dance.
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What do you think of when you think of God? Where does your impression of God come from? Is He angry? Loving? Jealous? Mean? Kind? Waiting to strike you with lightning or toss you into a terrible place of eternal conscious torment if you don't pray a get out of Hell free prayer to His Son?
How do you know? How does your view of God affect your life? The lives of those around you?
Jonathan Edwards' Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God sermon preached on July 8, 1741 has had a profound effect on American Christianity and the way we view God. Scaring people into repentance became an artform, as preachers for the next several centuries modeled their approach to evangelism after Edward's sermon.
Brian Zahnd, author of Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News begins by recounting his own former use of the sermon as a guide. And he gives us insight into Edward's sermon with a portion of the famous spider passage—a depiction of God holding us over the fire like a spider ready to drop us in unless we repent.
But Is It True?
Fortunately, Zahnd came to see the many flaws in John Edward's depiction of God, which he dissects with the vital question "Is it true?"
That's a question at the heart of those of us deconstructing. My own deconstruction has me asking Jesus three questions: Who are you Jesus, who do you say that I am, and what's true?
Zahnd's Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God is a breath of fresh air, looking at all three of those questions and infusing me with a renewed hope and belief I afraid I was losing. This book (along with Rob Bell's What Is the Bible?) has kept me connected to Jesus throughout my questioning and given me a new more loving and gracious way to see God, Jesus, and the Bible.
God doesn't look at us with anger; He looks at us with love.
We have to be careful when we read the Bible because we can take things out of context to basically make it say anything we want it to say. We can pull parts of the Bible and put them together to make God look like an angry God, but if the God we paint doesn't look like Jesus, then it's not a true picture of God.
But, What About…?
This revelation leads to so many questions, and Zahnd does an incredible job of asking and proposing answers to many of them including vengeance in the Bible, God's wrath, why Jesus had to die and who actually killed Him, Hell, the "end times," and how all of this affects the way we live.
People have used (and continue to use) the Bible to harm people in many way, including the endorsement of slavery, subjugating women, violence and war. But when we read the Bible through Jesus, we get a different story. For example:
And what about the cross? If God is loving and not angry, what was the point?
"The only justice God will accept as justice is actually setting the world right! Justice is not the punishment of a surrogate whipping boy. That's injustice!" Zahnd continues by pointing out that in the parable of the prodigal son the father doesn't go off and beat someone else to vent his anger before forgiving his son. "No, in the story of the prodigal son, the father bears the loss and forgives his son from his treasury of inexhaustible love. He just forgives" (page 103).
God is love. And the Bible is about love. Jesus shows us God's love for us, and then shows us that the way to abundant life is to love God and love others. This is apparent even when looking at what the Bible says about Hell and the apocalyptic book of Revelation.
Zahnd believes that Revelation might be the most important book to the current American church, but not for the usual escapist, rapture, end of the world reasons. "For Christians living in an economic and military superpower and called by Christ to resist the idolatrous greed and militarism of empire, Revelation is supremely important" (page 150).
Zahnd goes on to show how Revelation is not a literal step by step depiction of how the world will end with Armageddon followed by the arrival of the New Jerusalem. Rather it's to show us that we have a choice. If we, as humanity, continue on the path of empire, greed, and war, rejecting Jesus' way of peace, we will bring about Armageddon. Or we can choose Jesus' way of peace and help bring about the New Jerusalem.
Who Should Read This Book?
I kind of think this book should be required reading for all Christians. Even if you don't agree with everything Zahnd says (I'm not sure yet whether I agree with it all), it will give you good questions to ask, a new way of looking at things, and a look at the Bible and God through the lens of Jesus.
You would particularly love this book if you are:
- deconstructing your Christian faith
- scared of an angry God
- trying to reconcile who you know Jesus to be with what you've been taught the Bible says about God
- afraid of Hell or Armageddon
- interested in a loving God
If you do read (or have already read) this book, reach out in the comments here, on Facebook or Twitter @StephanieLong85, or email me. I'd love to chat without about the assertions Zahnd makes.
*I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review. My opinions are my own.


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CCTVs on Goa beaches: No public boozing
Visiting Goa during the next tourist season? Here\'s a heads-up. Drinking in the open on beaches and cooking in public is out, but CCTVs on all major beaches and courteous policemen eager to help out tourists might be in.
Visiting Goa during the next tourist season? Here's a heads-up. Drinking in the open on beaches and cooking in public is out, but CCTVs on all major beaches and courteous policemen eager to help out tourists might be in.
Drinking, however, will continue in the innumerable licensed shacks that dot the beaches.
This, as the tourism department looks to revamp the experience for the over three million tourists who visit the beach tourism state annually.
Drinking in the open on beaches is a regular feature in Goa, where downing a chilled, frosted beer in the winter sun before or after a swim is virtually a rite of passage for tourists.
The tourism ministry has already declared drinking on beaches a "nuisance". Those who continue to do so, will now have to shell out Rs. 5,000 to the patrolling policemen as a fine for the indulgence.
"The IRB (India Reserve Battalion) personnel are deployed on all beaches of Goa and have been sensitised to take strict action against drinking in the open on beaches, garbage dumping, littering, security of tourists, especially women, and prohibiting hawkers and beggars on beaches," Deputy Director (Tourism) Pamela Mascarenhas told IANS. The IRB is a reserve battalion of the Goa Police.
The police have also been especially instructed to keep vigil for groups of tourists who travel to Goa in rented buses, which also end up as their living quarters to cut down on hotel costs.
"It has been noticed that tourists coming in tourist buses are found cooking on the roadside thereby creating a nuisance. The Goa government will soon pass an order barring such activities on the roadside," Mascarenhas said.
Beggars and vendors will also be banned from Goa's beaches, she said, adding: "There will be zero tolerance for beggars and hawkers on beaches."
"The IRB will also be deployed at the Calangute promenade and action will be taken against vendors and tourists who litter the place," she said. Calangute is one of the most popular beaches in Goa and is on the itinerary of the bulk of domestic tourists to the state.
Mascarenhas also said that the Tourist Police had been entrusted with the responsibility of safety of women and foreign tourists and has been instructed to intervene immediately if they "notice incidents such as harassment and troubling (of) women especially foreign tourists".
Goa is one of the most popular beach tourism destinations in the country. Of the three million tourists who visit the state annually, half a million are foreigners - primarily from Russia, Britain and Germany - who prefer Goa's mild winter sun from October to March, a time when its freezing cold in Europe.
The tourism department's promised crackdown comes in wake of several crimes, especially against foreigners, in the coastal areas, which have marred Goa's reputation and reduced it to a drugs and sex tourism destination.
Sensational crimes against foreign women tourists in the recent past had put Goa in the international spotlight, forcing the authorities here to step up measures for the safety of visitors.
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