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This is happening every year not every two or three. I believe the schools should be seperate.
Did you notice how the increases where disbursed. The BOT took care of Tuscaloosa. Fire a few Administrators and there is your short fall. But that will never happens.
Thank no child left behind for that. I have empathy for those kids and their parents but it puts a heavy burden on the classroom teacher.
I agree. You made my point a little clearer.
I work now and have been paying for 45yrs. I don't have kids in school myself but I'm not selfish enough to not want the best for my grandkids and and the kids that will have to lead us from here to the end of my life. You must think that once your kids are out of school they should let you off the hook! I'm glad everyone doesn't think like you!!!
You only get what you pay for, you don't pay for a Yugo and expect a Lexus. That is why Vestavia Hills and Mountain Brook students do so well as a whole. We all want the BEST but we just want to paid for the basic model. My son was going into education but he has decided not to and I couldn't think of a sound reason why he should.
You only had kids with no special needs. They are all lumped together in the same class now.
Just get ready to have first graders to be in lecture halls if this insanity continues. Forty kids in a class is not a very productive learning environment.
Well good for you! I quess you are one of the executives waiting on your pay package.
I agree, this road is needed but it should connect at with 459.
You can rest assured that someone is in line to make a lot of money. I'm talking about the people in Montgomery backing this bill. This bill is wrong and crazy!!!
I wonder how long it will be before they have milked this company dry and file for bankruptcy. That is what investment companies normally do. The take all liquid assets such as cash and anything that can be sold then they are gone. Remember they are not in the pipe business they are in the investment business and return on their investment.
Well this all worked out well for the Republicans. They used this and the pay raise to get control in Montgomery. They have caused us great harm with the Beason Immigration law. I for one can hardly wait until the next election cycle for Governor and the Legislature.
How long is the University going to let this continue. If you don't want to win at Women's Basketball just put the money in another women's sport. If you are serious about the sport get someone to coach that can recruit and coach. Wendell doesn't seem to be good at either.
What if she was sick, would he have still fired her? She would have been off at the same times that had been refused.
Very well put Tom! What you want to bet that he will find funds for Charter schools. When there are profits to be made there you will find these bloodsuckers. Will Charter schools mean that legislators will be able work again in education? They will be out from under state control as far as operating.
You have football at UAB and if you want it to be sucessful they need an on campus stadium. If the BOT is always going to be against UAB football then why try. These are UofA system trustees not just Tuscaloosa they need to be unbiased which I don't think they are capable of being.
I always thought you had to be stupid to join the marines. You just proved it to me. All you need to be a marine is a body to catch bullets.
At least give it a try. I thought it was a good idea. Get away from Legion Field and get near the Railroad Park.
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Brought to us by San Francisco electronic producer Mokhov, this slowed-down, tripped-out version is just what you would hope to hear in a James Blake remix. The vocal department is still concentrated with Blake's emotionally tender falsetto, which thankfully isn't compromised for the sake of hard-hitting sound. Mokhov captures the saturated melancholy and takes it to a brooding horizon, with more beat-driven atmospherics that compliment all of the original components beautifully.

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The Arkansas Supreme Court has blazed new trails in addressing privacy rights, funding for public education, tort changes, term limits and separation of powers, among other areas, one of its most senior members says in a retrospective of his two decades on the state's highest court. Justice Robert Brown, 71, retired at the close of 2012 after 21 years on the court. He and fellow Justice Donald Corbin were elected to the seven-member court in 1990. Their terms expire in 2014, and the governor has appointed state Court of Appeals Judge Cliff Hoofman of Enola to serve the last two years of Brown's term.
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ALBERT Einstein's elegant summer house, built on the shores of a lake in the village of Caputh near Berlin in 1929, is causing the local authority headaches. Einstein spent much of his time at the house before the Nazis forced him to leave in 1933. He called it "my paradise".
The Caputh local authority bought the house for a bargain 5000 marks. It was used by the Hitler Youth and the Luftwaffe. After the war, the house was taken over by the East German government, which used it as a guesthouse for prominent Eastern bloc scientists.
Since German reunification, the local authority has developed the house as a tourist attraction. But this is against the wishes expressed in Einstein's will and has run into widespread criticism.
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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is stepping down from the company's board, closing a chapter on 34 years with the software giant.
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(AP)—California Institute of Technology President Jean-Lou Chameau plans to step down from the top job at the prestigious institute to lead a new Saudi Arabian university.
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Ousted Yahoo! chief executive Scott Thompson told board members before his resignation that he has cancer, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Plex for Windows Phone brings the power of Plex to your mobile device. With Plex, you can stream your music, videos and photos from your home computers running Plex Media Server (available from http://www.plexapp.com/getplex/) and access content from a wide range of channels. Channels are available for iTunes, and for online services like YouTube, Vimeo and Revision3. There's also a remote control feature for Plex Media Center. Additionally, you can sign up for the myPlex service, which lets you connect to servers shared with you by your friends, queue videos from your web browser to watch later, and connect to your Plex Media Server at home wherever you are in the world via Wi-Fi or a cellular connection, with no configuration necessary! Plex Media Server streams your media directly from your computer, so there's no need to convert before viewing. Plex is smart, too - if your media isn't already in a format your device can play, it'll convert it on-the-fly. The trial version limits video playback to 30 seconds, but otherwise is fully functional. Limitations: • DRM-protected content is not supported. • ISO images are not supported. • VIDEO_TS folders are not supported. • PGS subtitles are not supported. • Audio formats Windows Phone can't play natively (e.g. FLAC) are not supported. Server Requirements: • A PC running Windows XP SP3 or later (Windows Vista or Windows 7 recommended), a Mac running OS X 10.6 or later, or an Intel machine running Linux. • In order to transcode to 480p, you need at least a 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo processor. ★★★ NOTE: YOU MUST HAVE PLEX MEDIA SERVER INSTALLED AND RUNNING TO STREAM LOCAL MEDIA. VERSION 0.9.6 OR HIGHER IS REQUIRED TO SUPPORT PLEX FOR WINDOWS PHONE. http://www.plexapp.com/getplex/ ★★★ A full description of the changes in each release is available at http://bit.ly/HgRvJy.
05/02/2014Needs a lot if improvements
09/12/2013Appears no longer actively supported, long complaints list on Plex forum re. Windows Phone simply not working gone ignored. Was great, now worthless :(
07/12/2013Needs an update - I have just switched from Android and the difference is huge. Acceptable interface but slow comparing to other players. Takes good 20s to start playing 1gb movie on local network with decent wireless n router. Major bugs are still there. Music playback stops when you hit next track. You can't sort music list by albums. 1080p is not supported at all - you will have big black strip on one side of your screen on full HD WP8 device. Icons look ugly on dark background. Guys, come on - this app is not free.
22/11/2013Can't praise the developers enough for Plex its excellent, new WP8 app announced on the Windows Phone Blog, can't wait, thanks!
12/11/2013(Lumia 1020) It's Plex. It works well and does everything I could need. Like the other commenter I am concerned about the lack of updates.
30/10/2013V good
20/10/2013Really needs an update as its been over a year now! Support for subtitles and audio boost are essential!
31/08/2013FOR THE PEOPLE WITH CONNECTION FAILURES: I REBOOTED THE PLEXSERVER MACHINE AND IT WORKS FINE AGAIN. Nice app but no support, disappointing..
21/08/2013Lovely app and media server but NO support for Windows Phones, unable to move to next track which makes the listening to music useless, I am considering a different media server which offer support. Big Shame. :(


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Pyongyang, September 21 (KCNA) -- A total of 80 Jordanian members of parliament (MP) sent a memorandum under joint signature on September 18 to reaffirm support and solidarity to the Palestinian people.
The memorandum urged the Arab Inter-parliamentary Union on Sunday to support the Palestinian National Authority's (PNA) move to seek recognition at the UN for an independent Palestinian state.
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Mary Kay Velocity Facial Cleanser
160 reviews
64% would repurchase
Package Quality: 4.1
Price: $$
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Price: $$
INGREDIENTSWater TEA-Lauryl Sulfate, Glycerin, Propylene Glycol, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Sodium Methyl Cocoyl Taurate, Dimethicone, Comfrey Extract, Dog Rose Hips Extract, Camellia Oleifera Extract, Coneflower Extract, Willow Bark Extract, Sandalwood Extract, Meadowsweet Extract, Chaparral Extract, Golden Seal Root Extract, Cinnamon Extract, Lauramine Oxide, Triethanolamine, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Sodium Chloride, PEG-150 Distearate, C12-15 Akyl Benzoate, Diazolidinyl Urea, VelocityTM Fragrance, PPG-26-Buteth-26, Polyethylene, Methylparaben, Disodium EDTA, Butylene Glycol, Propylparaben, DMDM Hydantoin, Phenoxyethanol, PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil
on 11/6/2008 5:13:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
This cleanser keeps my skin really smooth and clear. The scent is amazing and it lathers really well so it only takes a small amount. I usually alternate this cleanser with one thats moisturizing to achieve a good balance. This cleanser has small gritty "thingys" in it so it does a good job at exfoliation.
on 10/14/2008 1:11:00 AM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
so i've been a loyal consumer of mary kay skin care products for years!!! i get tons of compliments on my beautiful skin and i swear it's thanks to mary kay. i'm bummed that after many years of use i can no longer use the velocity facial cleanser (i use mary kay's 3 in 1 now). i developed an allergy to vfc so had to switch.
before allergy i used:
vfc + time wise moisturizer
after allergy i use:
3 in 1 + velocity lightweight moisturizer
i feel these combos do pretty much the same, my skin is still oh-so beautiful and i get many compliments :)
on 10/13/2008 11:25:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Brown
I've been using this product religiously for about a year.
I find that it keeps my skin in great shape. It's not drying and smells great. I recently started using a toner, and I'm so impressed at how much makeup Velocity removes. I only use an eye make-up remover. I leave the foundation/blush up to my cleanser to remove. After using my toner, I rarely find any traces of makeup on my cotton ball.
It would be easy to dismiss this cleanser as nothing spectacular. But what is? It does exactly what it is supposed to. How many new and trendy cleansers acutally do all they claim?
This is just a nice, basic cleanser for a decent price.
I hope I never get distracted by the next big marketing campain and stray. I know I'll be back!!
on 8/20/2008 3:54:00 PM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Red, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
First off, let me say that this is the first facial cleansing product I have actually used up and repurchased. This, along with the coordinating lightweight moisturizer are the two skin care products I use both in the morning and evening everyday. I have fairly normal skin, but am prone to breaking out if I use a poor product. The biggest concern for me was to find a cleanser that was not drying but yet didn't add too much moisture to my face. I felt that Velocity achieved just that and I was overall very pleased. The tiny micro-scrubbers were enough to give me a good cleanse, but were not so overwhelming that they irritated my skin. The scent was refreshing and not to overpowering. I really appreciate the simplicity of the Velocity skin care line. It does the job well, with no gimmick-y products and unneeded frill. I would without a doubt recommend and repurchase!
on 8/1/2008 10:38:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Medium, Warm
Hair: Brown, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Brown
My aunt bought this for me as gift, and I was so excited because I've always wanted to try the velocity cleanser. But this actually ended up in the shower for me. All the stuff that I don't particularly care for goes in the shower to be used up. This cleanser did not make me break out, and it smelled good. But I just don't think it really did anything special. I LOVE my Shiseido Pureness Face Wash so much better because I get that squeaky clean feeling after using it. So basically after trying this velocity cleanser, my skin tells me that it's just fine, nothing real special, and will not repurchase. I put in the shower and used it up there so as not to waste anything.
on 7/24/2008 5:11:00 PM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Combination, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
Pretty expensive, but worth it. Does a better job preventing black heads then any other cleanser I've used, plus it exfoliates slightly and smells nice, too. Generally keeps skin relatively soft, but especially during the winter months (and for drier skin) the moisturizer is a good follow-up.
on 7/21/2008 4:43:00 PM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Other, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
I have tried a variety of different Mary Kay cleansers and overall The Velocity cleanser and lightweight moisturizer work well. I have suffered from acne since 4th grade and the three step process works WONDERS! it actualy cleared my skin better than any product made for acne! But this works well too.
on 6/28/2008 2:13:00 AM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
I used this on my late 30 year old skin, and it did not dry me out as I suspected it would. I could use it daily and never have a concern except for the lack of ingredients that I probably need for my aging skin.
The smell is refreshing. I love using this in the morning to wake me up.
As another testimonial-my teen daughter would use nothing but this product. I must admit her skin looked much better when she was using this cleanser daily. It did for her what Pro-Activ could not.
on 6/6/2008 12:22:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
Never again! I was looking for a new face wash, and thought i should support my friend and buy some of her mary freakin kay. biggest mistake of my life! my skin is pretty normal and not prone to acne. as i was washing my face with this "cleanser" it began to burn so bad. so i quickly washed it off for about 5 min. i look up in the mirror and my face is so red and is starting to get hives! i was so madd! i put some hydrocortisone cream on it, and it began to calm down. after a few days it was gone. i really dont know what it was but never again will i use any mary kay products.
on 6/1/2008 1:39:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I tried this product when I was 15 or 16 and it didn't help my skin at all. I never had bad acne just a pimple once in a while and this did nothing to help with it which is disappointing since this product is marketed to teenagers! I don't think it made my skin worse though so thats always a good thing. The smell is nice thats a plus. This would work best for someone that never has breakouts. Hope this helps!
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Almost everyone gets back pain at some time, but staying active, with the help of chiropractic treatment, may well be the best solution.
Back pain is said to be multi-factorial and multi-etiological. It means that it has many causes and there are many reasons for it. Much has been written about back pain and its causes. It is a complex subject and therefore the explanations are often over-simplified, which can be misleading. We as chiropractors, hope that this information will be easy to understand but not too simplistic. At University Chiropractic we want you to understand your condition before the treatment commence so you can make an informed decision about your care.
The spine consists of many structures that can signal pain and therefore be part of why you have pain. The most common type of injuries are ligament and joint injuries. Sometimes these injuries are referred to as 'simple back pain' but there is rarely anything simple about it.
Disc injuries are much less common. About 5% of all back pain relates to disc injuries. And fortunately only about 5% of them need surgery. The term 'slipped disc' is often used as a blanket diagnosis but is a misleading phrase as discs does not slip (and can not be 'pushed back in' again by chiropractors, or anybody else for that matter).
The human spine is quite a phenomenal piece of engineering. Developed through years of evolution or by intelligent design? Well, that is probably a discussion for another forum. But it is extraordinary how well it does its job.
You may have heard people say that "we were not made to walk upright" and "if we walked on all fours we wouldn't suffer from back pain".
Well, both statements are wrong. The human spine and pelvis are quite different from for example the chimpansee's who prefer to walk with the aid of their arms and hands. The chimpansee's back and pelvis is not made for walking upright. Just watch how they walk when they walk on their hind legs only.
And secondly, animals such as dogs and horses do get problems with their backs. Ask any vet or chiropractor who treats animals.
The reason we get problems with our backs is mostly down to ourselves. It is not surprising that back pain is on the rise, in general we sit too much, exercise too little and we often eat the wrong things. When we lift we often lift the wrong way and we do too much in one go. Let's face it we often abuse our backs. Most people do not even give their back a second thought until it starts to hurt.
The spine, although a strong and robust structure, needs to be maintained and looked after to ensure that it is not going to give you pain and discomfort.
The spine consists of 24 vertebrae with discs between them. In the spinal canal run the spinal cord and a set of two spinal nerves exits at each vertebra. Between each vertebra there are two joints (facet joints), there are ligaments for passive support and several layers of muscles for active support. This makes it a strong but also flexible structure allowing us mobility and at the same time gives good protection for the spinal cord and nerves.
So why do we feel pain?
The spine's components, bones vertebrae, discs, joints, ligaments, muscles, nerves and blood vessels, are all pain sensitive to a greater or lesser degree. So why do we feel pain?
Well the sensation of pain is a protective mechanism and without it we would constantly hurt ourselves without knowing it. And that would lead to irreparable injury and therefore ultimately a serious threat to our survival.
The distribution of pain nerves is not equal over the body. The greater the risk of injury to a body part the more pain fibres there are. For example, our fingers and toes are more sensitive to pain and temperature than for example our torso.
The structures of the spine that has the most pain nerves are the joint capsules of the facet joints (spinal joints). So, it is reasonable to assume that the 'designer' of the spine expected the joints to be the most likely to get injured. The joints, muscles and ligaments are also full of mechanoreceptors (nerve endings that sense movement and position), which give the nervous system feedback of our activities. This also helps to protect the spinal structures.
Why do injuries occur?
Essentially, the spine is a long chain of joints which are protected by ligaments and muscles and if some of the links stiffen up through injuries or anatomical changes it makes other links move more to compensate and eventually the overuse of the flexible joints cause pain through sprain. Most injuries are caused by what is called recurrent micro-trauma, it means many small repetitive injuries, until the proverbial 'last straw'. That is why people often hurt themselves doing very trivial things such as bending to pick up a pen, and they hurt themselves before they even get to lift the pen. This can happen through fairly trivial activities. It does not have to involve heavy lifting, it is more often caused by awkward movements. Maybe things that you have done a hundred times before.
Once the injury has occurred and the nerve signals pain the surrounding muscles go into a protective spasm to help to splint the injured area. After a while the muscle becomes more and more painful. Quite often the pain in the tight muscle become more severe and takes over the symptoms. That is why it often feels muscular in nature but the cause of the problem is the injured joint, this is especially true if you have recurring problems.
Why does the back pain recur?
If you suffer recurrent episodes of spinal pain it is usually a sign of what chiropractors would refer to as a functional 'instability'. When you get a join or ligament sprain the healing create scar tissue as part of the normal healing process. Scar tissue is less elastic and breaks more easily. It has been shown that injuries leave the deeper muscles weakened, permanently, even after the pain has gone. The only way to make the muscle recover is to do specific exercises.
he nerve endings that are embedded in the ligaments that send signals to the motor control part of your nervous system are also affected when you get an injury and that impairs their ability to warn the active stability system (the muscles) to respond to protect the joints and ligaments.
What can I do to stop the back pain recurring?
There are many different treatments available. Recent research shows that spinal manipulation of the type chiropractors do and in combination with exercise is the most effective treatment for both acute and chronic back pain.Chiropractors advocate to deal with the underlying neurological, mechanical and muscular problems. Just relying on taking pain killers and rest does not deal with neither of these causes, so even if the pain goes away with rest it is bound to come back due to the remaining underlying weakness.
My pain usually goes in a couple of days
That is good. But each time you injure your back you create more of a weakness. The natural progression of back pain is that after each time you are more likely to get another episode. The episodes usually get more frequent and start to last longer and eventually the pain does not go away at all. The biggest risk factor for getting back pain is having had a previous episode and recurrent injuries to the same area is what eventually can cause a disc herniation.
Chiropractic treats the cause of the pain, unlike pain killing drugs, which just mask the symptoms.
For more information and advice on how chiropractic can help you in the treatment of back pain, including disc herniation, sciatica and referred pain, contact University Chiropratic
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Clooney's casino cover upGeorge Clooney wants a no flesh rule at the plush Las Vegas casino he is building.
The sexy star, who has teamed up with Brad Pitt and Cindy Crawford's husband Rande Gerber to build a $3billion complex, says visitors wearing shorts or tank tops will be banned.
The heartthrob wants the 25-acre site - which will include a 48,000 square foot casino and 4,400 hotel rooms - to be ultra smart.
He revealed: "When I was filming 'Ocean's 11' in Las Vegas, I met with Rande, who owns all these great bars, and we started talking about building a casino and how we would want to do it, which is to dress it up a bit - no shorts and tank tops after 6pm.
He added to America's LA Confidential magazine: "I grew up watching my aunt sing in Vegas and everyone used to put on a jacket to go to the casino."
The casino complex is set to open in 2008.


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Art cannot close the gap between the ideal and reality. Indeed, for a moment it lifts us above reality and induces us to live in the realm of ideals. But this happens only in the imagination. Reality itself does not change on account of it. Though art gives us distant glimpses of the realm of glory, it does not induct us into that realm and make us citizens of it. Art does not atone for our guilt, or wipe away our tears, or comfort us in life and death. …Granted, the two are connected. From the very beginning religion and art went hand in hand. [2]
Appreciating the arts and evaluating of the value of the arts is a balance the church must preserve in every generation. And this brings me to one of the many personal highlights from this most recent New Attitude conference in Louisville.
One Sunday session was reserved for an open question-and-answer session with Dr. Al Mohler where he fielded questions covering a wide variety of issues on the topic of Scripture. Particularly helpful to me were his answers to the final question on art. How do we as twenty-first century Christians evaluate and critique the value of the arts? What relationship do the gospel and the arts share? What role and service do the arts play in the church?
I recommend listening to the entire session (listen/download here) but what follows is a transcript of Dr. Mohler's comments on art and his challenge to a young generation of Christians to "learn to make art the servant of the gospel."
Question: My question is this: For the Christian, what role should the Word of God play in our artistic and creative endeavors? And for the Christian, what role should our artistic and creative endeavors have within the culture at large?
Dr. Albert Mohler: Alright, let's step back for a moment and talk about the arts. Where does art come from?
God has made us as the only being in his image. We are the only being who fabricates with design and intention and with aesthetic sense. Beavers build dams. Ants build anthills. But they don't hire architects and so far as we know there is no aesthetic appreciation for them whatsoever. You've never met a dog that is a painter. There is something about being made in the image of God that produces what we call "cultural product." …
The arts are very important and it seems that in this generation the arts are newly important. Now, when that happens it is promise and opportunity. For instance, if you look back at the history of Western civilization the Renaissance, in particular the High Renaissance, was an opportunity in which cultural production became a huge issue.
When I was a high school student there was a huge BBC presentation of humanity at its highest, Kenneth Clark's Civilization. He went back particularly to the classical age and to the High Renaissance and said, "This is when human beings were at their very best because of this cultural production. Look at this: you have Bernini, and Rembrandt, and Rafael." And you could just go through all of these and the cultural production in the art became the defining issue. The art reflected the Christian culture from which it had come, but the art became very quickly an issue of idolatry as well. And it was not true that where you found the highest art you always found the purest theology. To the contrary it was often very much otherwise.
So what we should learn from that is that ideally Christians should be involved in the arts. Absolutely! But we've got to learn to make art the servant of the gospel. And that is a tough challenge in every generation. If the artists of the Renaissance had been concerned that their art would be in the service of the gospel, it would be a very different art than it is. It would have all the same ability. You'd still look at, for instance, Rembrandt—you'd look at the lace collars and he would still have that ability to make you feel like you could touch it. But it would be telling a different story then in many cases what gets told.
And when you ask about the Scripture, well the Scripture is the food for our living on this earth. It is the light for our path as the Psalmist says. It is the authority by which we live. It is the sole sufficient guide for understanding all that we are and all that we hope for and all we trust in, in Christ. That had better be the substance of our art. That doesn't mean that we only draw representations of Bible stories. It does mean that we test everything we do, not just by the cannons of art—which are truly culturally constructed and constantly negotiated and changed, an evidence of both human greatness in terms of ability and human depravity in terms of the morality and the rebellion against God that so quickly comes in and the idolatry that is our reflex.
And we use Scripture to ask, "How do we judge the good, the beautiful and the true—always to be necessary and necessarily linked? That which is good is beautiful—that which is true is good—that which is good is true. They're all the same thing.
Modern art is in many ways a rebellion against the unity of the good, the beautiful, and the true. And one testimony you can give to the Word of God is saying that for the Christian the good, the beautiful, and the true are always one thing because in Scripture they are always one thing. And that is where you find our authority and our meaning.
For more on this topic, please read Philip Graham Ryken's excellent book, Art for God's Sake: A Call to Recover the Arts (P&R, 2006).
[1] From Calvin's commentary, Harmony of the Law, vol. 3.
[2] Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics (Baker Academic, 2003) 1:267.
The audio recording of C.J.'s second message at the 2008 Resolved Conference is now online.
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Rejoicing in the Lord is a lesson often best learned in trials. In this excerpt from the upcoming Sovereign Grace Leadership Interview Series podcast ("The Pastor + Joy"), C.J. describes a trial that God used to shift the ground of his joy.
Joshua Harris: C.J., I am wondering if there is a personal story in your own life where you experienced—whether it is a trial or a difficulty—a shift where God was helping you realize your joy wasn't grounded enough in the work that he had done for you?
C.J. Mahaney: Many stories come to mind (and the lessons continue to this day). I wouldn't want anybody to perceive me as some kind of compelling model of joyfulness on a daily basis. It is a fight I seek to wage on a daily basis. And I can certainly look back and discern instances, circumstances, and periods of time where there was a transfer underway in my life, helping me to shift the ground of my joy from created things to the Creator, a shift from temporary to the eternal.
A pronounced one for me was a ten-year period where I contracted a particular virus that had a debilitating effect on my body and mind on a daily basis. I am reluctant to speak of this and rarely do speak of this, because I don't want to be misunderstood as I make reference to this period. Though it was challenging, there was nothing life-threatening about this, and I don't even consider this experience to be suffering, per se. I know people who have suffered. I know people who presently are genuinely, severely suffering.
But for me it was prolonged. It was chronic. It was wearying. It was challenging. And it did remove any sense of happiness or joy, as derived from circumstances, from my life on a daily basis over those years.
So the fight was a particular challenge during that ten-year period. From the wonderful care I have received from my friends and fellow pastors, from the wonderful books that I have read in relation to suffering, from the wonderful examples that I have observed in and throughout Covenant Life Church over the years, and primarily from the clear teaching of Scripture, I was able to see, early on, the many ways God was working. This was intended to be a sanctifying work in my soul.
So one aspect of my sanctification was to be weaned from emotional dependence and weaned from any dependence on circumstances.
Throughout those numerous years, by God's grace I was able to experience this transition from the ground of my joy being in any way a personality, emotion, or circumstantial, to an appreciation for the person and work of Jesus Christ on my behalf. And I would argue the trial left a purer form of joy.
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Scripture calls parents to study their children, to identify and address sin patterns in their lives, to discipline, and teach them with the goal of raising them "in the discipline and instruction of the Lord" (Ephesians 6:4 ESV). But what about when parents sin against their children? How should parents respond? Do parents excuse themselves because the child provoked the sin? Do they justify their sin because they have parental authority over the child? Do they simply ignore their own sin?
This second audio clip originates from the same setting as the first: an unplanned Q&A session with C.J. and Carolyn during a Sovereign Grace conference in Gilbert, Arizona (Nov. 2005). In it C.J. explains how parents may approach these situations, remain in authority over their children, yet do this with a humble heart informed by the gospel.
2. The gospel + parental sins (2:39)
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1. Gospel-Centered Parenting + Young Children (9:27).
The question "Do I love God?" is often overshadowed by a bigger question—"Does God love me?" This personal doubt of God's love has haunted Christians for centuries and remains a common question today. So it was not surprising to see the Sovereign Grace (e)mailbag receive a number of requests for more information on a particular quote C.J. shared at the end of his second New Attitude message.
Over a century ago a woman posed the same question to pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
I once knew a good woman who was the subject of many doubts, and when I got to the bottom of her doubt, it was this: she knew she loved Christ, but she was afraid he did not love her. "Oh!" I said, "that is a doubt that will never trouble me; never, by any possibility, because I am sure of this, that the heart is so corrupt, naturally, that love to God never did get there without God's putting it there." You may rest quite certain, that if you love God, it is a fruit, and not a root. It is the fruit of God's love to you, and did not get there by the force of any goodness in you. You may conclude, with absolute certainty, that God loves you if you love God.
It was this succinct and biblically rich counsel C.J. shared in his second address at the Na conference.
Spurgeon's entire sermon can be read online for free here. C.J.'s Na message—"God as Father: Understanding the Doctrine of Adoption"—can be downloaded here.
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|Pyongyang, August 12 (KCNA) -- The progressive organizations of Britain including the Korean Friendship Association UK made public a joint statement on August 2. It supported the statement of the spokesman for the National Peace Committee of Korea which calls for canceling the plan of Ulji Freedom Guardian joint military exercises.
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The U.S. imperialist aggressors, sworn enemy of the Korean people, and their fascist stooge south Korean puppet forces are working hard to stage the Ulji Freedom Guardian from mid August.
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I'm glad you posted this. Because the FB Store -- Forno Bravo Store -- and FB Forum -- Forno Bravo Forum: The Wood-Fired Oven Community - The Pizza Oven Installation and Cooking Community -- are different software systems, you need to register an account with each one. Sorry about the inconvenience, but we can't address this.
That means you need to register for an account on the FB Store and "order" the free Pompeii eBook (or any of the free wood-fired cooking eBooks). It doesn't take a lot of time, and the email instruction for downloading the eBook arrives very quickly.
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It took me a little while to figure out that the forum and the FB store took different registrations too
I registered for the FB site first, downloaded the plans and a bunch of other great stuff that is available, then was trying to get on the forums, so at least you did it in the right order and got an answer!
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If you read my blog last week I had talked about how I was sent from work to the hospital because of how bad my feet were.
All the working and exercising, plus my first 5K, really put a beating on my feet.
I am happy to say that after getting to the foot doctor on Wednesday and letting them know that I can't miss any work or be away from the gym, they did everything possible to help me get fixed quickly.
I worked on Friday and a few coworkers jokingly said, "Dang I have never seen you move that quick".
My feet were feeling great and I worked the whole shift with absolutely no pain.
That is great because after this week of work, we will be off for two weeks for Christmas Shutdown.
I have already talked to my NOMS trainer Shawn Zahel and we are going to hit the gym hard every day and make up some lost ground.
I want to finish out the challenge strong and have lost at least 100 pounds.
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Boring title huh? Well, this isn't what I wanted to be dealing with on a Friday afternoon either. My plan was to set up a PXE boot environment to create scripted installations of ESXi 4.1 on UCS. However when I shelled into the UCS lab at work, I was made aware of a little bug. [...]
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Hilton Sedona Resort & Spa Rating: 3.5 Pearls
The mid-range Hilton Sedona has features to please both families and business travelers, including several pools, event services, the enormous spa, and a neighboring golf course. The Hilton is a 20-minute drive from Sedona, but red rock views are still spectacular (from certain rooms) and the atmosphere is more relaxed than in Uptown. The family-friendly Cascades Pool is a hit with the kids.
Junipine Resort Rating: 3.0 Pearls
The upper-middle-range Junipine Resort isn't a true "resort" -- don't expect a swimming pool, fitness center, spa, or shops. Rather, Junipine comprises 50 individually owned creek-side condos in secluded, woodsy Oak Creek Canyon. The Junipine offers plenty of peace and quiet, as well as nice views, and the 1,400-square-foot condos provide plenty of room for groups to spread out -- though some could use an update. Outdoor activities on-site such as fishing, hikng, and horseshoes make this a good fit for active families. The full kitchens and outdoor barbecue grills make it easy to save money on food.
Sedona Summit Resort Rating: 3.0 Pearls
This 230-room mid-range property has an isolated location on the western edge of Sedona, with distant views of the red rocks. Rooms (most are big suites) have kitchens, large balconies, and up-to-date technology, and have higher quality decor than those at the competing Los Abrigados. Families will likely appreciate the resort's three pools and kids' clubhouse. But be prepared to suffer through a timeshare sales pitch.
Los Abrigados Resort and Spa Rating: 3.0 Pearls
Los Abrigados occupies an excellent location near Uptown Sedona, with Oak Creek running past the property, and shopping and dining next door at the lovely Tlaquepaque Arts & Crafts Village. Families may appreciate the numerous activities, including a grassy playground, a mini-golf course, a walk-through labyrinth, basketball, bocce ball, tennis, and two heated pools -- not to mention the large rooms with kitchenettes and balconies.


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Panel arrangement/flow issues in VS 2005/NET 2.0
November 23, 2007 – 09:26
This is a short one.
I needed to use some panels to organize some content on an aspx page.
Very quickly I threw in some panels, moved the controls in them and run the page to see how they look.
Not good. They were too close, superimposed, anyway they didn't look a bit the way they were in the IDE.
After numerous tries I finnaly discovered that a big step in controlling them better is to remove the Height property from the markup:
<asp:Panel ID="Panel4" runat="server" GroupingText="All information received date:" Width="400px">
Do that and the panels will follow the normal flow and they will look 99.99 % better.
Until next time.
Dynamic partition unreadable
November 11, 2007 – 22:16
A few days ago I moved around some hard drives as I was rebuilding my development workstation. This means I connected them on different SATA channels at least a couple of times. This shouldn't be a problem for Windows at least you shouldn't end up losing your data.
At one point I noticed one of my volumes was missing, you know, a letter disappeared from My Computer. In the Disk Management console the disk was being shown as unreadable. I used R-Studio to scan and restore all the files from the missing partition. The downside is that you need enough space on a separate volume to restore your files. R-Studio doesn't have an option to fix the partition and make it available again just like that.
Now, I can't remember if that disk that contained the problem partition was a dynamic one. In a way this is important as you'll see later. A few hours passed and again one drive letter is missing. What the hell is happening! I mumbled. At first I thought it is happening on the same disk, but I realized it's a different one as this time I was facing a restore of almost 400GB files. I didn't have enough space on only one disk and even scattered on other disks I could've provided just 300GB. So, here I am with two choices: wait the next day and buy a 500GB HDD to have enough space to restore or fix the partition so I don't have to move data.
I started some research on the Internet and most of the posted solutions were referring to a couple of Microsoft support articles which didn't apply or were so generally written I couldn't follow their resolutions.
Some of the articles mention as a possible solution changing the partition type to the correct one. What I didn't understand was why should I change it from 0x42 to something else when it was supposed to be dynamic and 0x42 is the code for dynamic type partition. Anyway, I decided to change it to 0x07 (which stands for NTFS type), but how. Some and among them Microsoft said, Diskprobe. I tried with the one I had already installed in the Program Files\support tools. I got an error message. I downloaded another from Internet. This one launched fine but couldn't list my physical drives. So, I had to go back to R-Studio as my last resort. I noticed it has a "write feature". I enabled it in the main screen and in the hexadecimal View\Edit screen again, but when I tried to type "07" over "42" I couldn't.
How I did it? I selected from some other area an existing "07", saved it to disk as file.bin and then got back to the offset where "42"was staring at me and select it (there's an option to select from an offset and specify the size of the selection). I right clicked on the selection, chose "Load from file" and picked file.bin (previously saved) and "voila" I got the "42" replaced with a "07". Now, close window, close R-Studio and restart computer as if you don't, even if you re-scan the drives in Disk Management it will still show as unreadable.
After the computer booted again there was my drive with all the folders and files on it. I must say I'm glad I succeeded but the way I did it was dirty, I mean struggling and sweating a lot.
I hope you won't have this problem but if you read this you probably did and all I wish is that it will help you.
Windows Template Library 8.0
November 10, 2007 – 14:30
Sort of late but I found that that the last WTL version, 8.0 is out.
Download a library for developing Windows® applications and UI components. Extends ATL (Active Template Library) and provides a set of classes for controls, dialogs, frame windows, GDI objects, and more. This version provides support for Windows Vista, Visual Studio 2005, and Windows CE development.


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Police would not identify the victim because his family hadn't been notified, police said.
The man was found about 9 a.m. by a 20-year-old employee arriving at the business, Annapolis Talent Agency/Kidz in the Biz, police said.


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Credit card companies
make debt impossible to escape
By Bankrate.com
concealing important agreements in tiny print, raising rates on
a whim and charging big fees you'd think credit card companies were
making enough money. Apparently, they disagree.
Check out what Bankrate reporter, Lucy Lazarony uncovered
this year.
Just how crummy are some of today's credit card offers?
Check out this Visa card offer from Plains Commerce Bank. You pay
$79 just to apply for the card. Once approved, you'll have to shell
out an acceptance fee of $225, an annual fee of $50 and a monthly
participation fee of $6, for a total of $281. The card's initial
credit limit is $300. So when you receive your card the available
credit will be just $19. When you add up all the fees, you've paid
$360 for a credit line of less than $20. It's hard to imagine a
more expensive credit card.
But at least the terms of the Plains Commerce Bank
Visa are easy to understand. Its ghastly fees are spelled out in
black-and-white. Getting a handle on the AmeriOne MasterCard from
First National Bank of Central Texas is a lot tougher. This card
comes with a membership fee of $39.95, a set up fee of $50 and a
monthly maintenance fee of $9.95. So the initial cost of the card
is $99.90. Here's the strange part.
Your credit limit is determined by how much additional
money you send in. So first you make a payment and then you're free
to spend with the card. Send in $30 and you're free to spend $30.
It's a pay-before-you-spend card. The minimum monthly deposit you
can make to the card is $15. Toss in the monthly maintenance fee
of $9.95, you end up paying $24.95 for the privilege of making a
$15 purchase with the card.
It turns out the AmeriOne MasterCard isn't a credit
card at all. It's a super-spooky and super-expensive debit card.
Even supposedly premium card deals may have consumer-unfriendly
terms, such as eye-popping $35 late fees. Citibank, MBNA America,
and Discover will charge a $35 fee to any credit card customer with
a balance of $1,000 or more who misses a payment deadline. Fleet
Bank charges $35 for any late fee, regardless of balance. Yikes.
The horrors don't end there. Bankrate readers flooded
our office with tales of intentional sabotage.
The great shuffle
My credit card company offered me a good fixed rate several
years ago so I transferred two balances from higher-interest cards.
About eight months later, a company representative called me to
offer me an increase in my line of credit, based upon my payment
history and asked if I like to transfer some more balances? Sure!
Good news, I thought, and happily transferred some other high-rate
debt. Then, about six months after that, they informed me that they
were raising my rate to 20.9 percent.
I'd never missed a payment or paid late and always
sent more than the minimum payment each month. Their decision was
based upon my FICO score, which was the same as it was when they
offered me the credit-line increase.
When I protested and asked to go back to the original
deal, I was transferred from person to person with each one suggesting
I send a letter to plead my case. And, it was next to impossible
to extract the correct address for which to send my appeal. Every
person I spoke with was quick to repeat the company line to appeal
in writing. If this isn't predatory lending, it doesn't exist.
Beware of balance transfers
A credit card company sent me a mailing offering a new card
at an attractive rate. They said I could be eligible for up to $28,000
in credit and offered a good rate for balance transfers. I applied
for the card, and since it was part of the application, I applied
to transfer about $18,000 in balances. Apparently, the company decided
they couldn't give me the full $28,000 worth of credit but only
gave me $14,000. They then transferred $14,000 worth of balances,
instead of the $18,000 I'd requested. Since that transfer put me
at my credit limit, the first time I used the card for a charge,
they hit me with a charge for exceeding my credit limit. All of
this in the first month I had the card!
New addresses reap profits for credit card companies
For the past several years, my credit card payment was automatically
sent out the first of each month through my online bill paying service
at my bank. I enjoyed the lowest rate, 4.75 percent, all that time.
This past August the payment did not clear my bank
until the 20th of the month even though it went out at the regularly
scheduled day of Aug. 1. I discovered this when I was charged a
late fee on my credit card bill. It turns out that there was a new
address for payments and since I use the online bill pay, I didn't
notice it. So, it went to the old address. And, it was not processed
I changed the address in my banking system and the
credit card company even agreed to waive the $29 late fee since
it was a processing error. However, the next month, they increased
my interest rate to 19.99 percent because I had made a late payment!
After arguing with the company, the best they
could do for me was to reduce it to 9.99 percent -- still unacceptable.
Imagine how many customers they do this to by changing their mailing
address periodically. I am going to close my account and pay the
balance with my line of credit. This is the thanks they show me
after eight years of business.
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Our chairman is Betty Clement
Betty writes:
There are many aspects of the National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts (NADFAS), namely art education, including the promotion of art opportunities for young people, social, church recording and conservation. One of my aims has been and, indeed still is, to promote all these aspects of NADFAS in our local society. The educative role of our society is well served by excellent lecture programmes and special interest days, all of which are very well attended. The guided tours, both in the UK and overseas, and visits enhance the educative role and also provide opportunities for members to travel further afield to appreciate the arts. The number of social functions has increased, especially in the winter months when there are no visits or tours, and these enable members to mix in a relaxed atmosphere and help to achieve another of my aims which is to promote a friendly and welcoming society.
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March Pump's industrial MDXT-3 is an American seal-less centrifugal magnetic drive pump ideal for applications such as chemical recirculation and chemical transfer. It is capable of generating a maximum flow of 8.5 gallons per minute at 4 feet, and its maximum head is 19 Feet (or around 8PSI). The standard wet end (the materials that come into contact with the solution) is composed of Polypropylene, Buna N, Ceramic, and Ceramic Magnet. The inlet connection is 0.5 inch female pipe thread, and the outlet is 0.375 inch female pipe thread. The standard motor is a 1 Phase 115V or 230V 0.04 Horsepower fan cooled motor, which can be run on either 50 or 60 hertz (there are performance differences between the hertz options). The maximum internal pressure the pump can tolerate is 50PSI, and the maximum liquid temperature is 190 Fahrenheit or 87 Celsius. The March MDXT-3 centrifugal magnetic drive pump is capable of handling mildly or highly corrosive chemicals, acids, and solvents. To determine if the March MDXT-3 is suitable for your application, please contact March Pump.
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