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Grades 9-10
Reading RI.9-10.2
Standard 2: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
Breakin' it Down:
The good news is that this standard is just a fancy way of saying: "Make sure students can figure out the main idea of a non-fiction text." In most cases, main idea statements (or thesis statements) are easier to formulate for non-fiction texts than for fiction or poetry. Usually, the authors of nonfiction texts explicitly state the main idea somewhere at the beginning of the text.
This standard also asks students to find the main ideas of sub-sections of the text. So, we'll have to make sure that they can find or state the main idea of each smaller paragraph and explain how all the smaller ideas build to or support the overall main idea.
[Note: Sometimes, the author's opinion or the main idea shifts at some point during the reading, and this can be tricky for students to figure out and articulate. In such a case, make sure that students can formulate a main idea that incorporates both sections!]
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Teaching Guides Using this Standard
- 1984 Teacher Pass
- A Raisin in the Sun Teacher Pass
- A Rose For Emily Teacher Pass
- A View from the Bridge Teacher Pass
- Animal Farm Teacher Pass
- Antigone Teacher Pass
- Beowulf Teacher Pass
- Brave New World Teacher Pass
- Death of a Salesman Teacher Pass
- Fahrenheit 451 Teacher Pass
- Frankenstein Teacher Pass
- Great Expectations Teacher Pass
- Hamlet Teacher Pass
- Heart of Darkness Teacher Pass
- Julius Caesar Teacher Pass
- King Lear Teacher Pass
- Lord of the Flies Teacher Pass
- Macbeth Teacher Pass
- Moby Dick Teacher Pass
- Narrative of Frederick Douglass Teacher Pass
- Of Mice and Men Teacher Pass
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Teacher Pass
- Othello Teacher Pass
- Romeo and Juliet Teacher Pass
- Sula Teacher Pass
- The Aeneid Teacher Pass
- The As I Lay Dying Teacher Pass
- The Bluest Eye Teacher Pass
- The Canterbury Tales General Prologue Teacher Pass
- The Canterbury Tales: The Miller's Tale Teacher Pass
- The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Prologue Teacher Pass
- The Cask of Amontillado Teacher Pass
- The Catch-22 Teacher Pass
- The Catcher in the Rye Teacher Pass
- The Crucible Teacher Pass
- The Great Gatsby Teacher Pass
- The House on Mango Street Teacher Pass
- The Iliad Teacher Pass
- The Lottery Teacher Pass
- The Metamorphosis Teacher Pass
- The Odyssey Teacher Pass
- The Old Man and the Sea Teacher Pass
- The Scarlet Letter Teacher Pass
- The Tell-Tale Heart Teacher Pass
- Their Eyes Were Watching God Teacher Pass
- Things Fall Apart Teacher Pass
- To Kill a Mockingbird Teacher Pass
- Twilight Teacher Pass
- Wide Sargasso Sea Teacher Pass
- Wuthering Heights Teacher Pass
Example 1
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1. HATCHLING: The Goldilocks Test (Not too broad, not too narrow, but just right!)
As students start reading high school texts, they need to be able to identify main ideas without getting tricked by common distracters. The easiest way to do this is teach them to apply the Goldilocks Formula. A good main idea statement will not focus in on a small detail or an idea that is present in only one section of the text (too narrow). It also will not be a claim that is too big to be supported by the text or is not specific enough to address what the text was actually about (too broad).
As students sift through the answer choices to main idea questions, have them label the answers using the Goldilocks Formula so they can pinpoint the answer that's just right.
Example 2
TAKE FLIGHT: Compare/Contrast
The hardest version of this standard is to ask students to compare two texts that address the same topic but have different interpretations. Design activities where students must find the subtle differences between the main ideas of two texts. You can even organize a debate day when students must analyze the differences, side with one author, and explain their choice.
Quiz QuestionsHere's an example of a quiz that could be used to test this standard.
Aligned Resources
- Teaching A Rose for Emily: Comparing Song to Text
- Teaching A Rose for Emily: Put Miss Emily On Trial
- Teaching A Rose for Emily: Dramatizing "A Rose for Emily"
- Teaching A View from the Bridge: Playbill
- Teaching 1984: It's Not Over Until the Fat Lady Sings
- A Modest Proposal: Read Along Together
- Teaching A Raisin in the Sun: Dream Collage
- Teaching A Raisin in the Sun: Newsletter
- Teaching The Crucible: Dear Abby: Character Advice Columns
- Teaching The Crucible: Closing Time
- Teaching The Crucible: Political Cartoon
- Teaching The Crucible: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
- The Diary of a Young Girl: Perspectives on a Tragedy
- The Giver: Remember the Time
- Teaching The Lottery: Monstrous Acts
- Teaching The Lottery: The 'Burbs
- Teaching The Metamorphosis: Courtroom Kafka: The Samsas Meet The Trial
- Teaching The Odyssey: Taking a Jeopardy Odyssey
- Teaching The Odyssey: Modern Soldiers Heal with Homer
- Teaching The Odyssey: The Odyssey in Pictures
- The Old Man and the Sea: What Can A Picture Show?
- The Old Man and the Sea: Making It Political
- The Old Man and the Sea: Hemingway in Country Music
- The Great Gatsby: Gatsby Goes Hip-Hop
- The Great Gatsby: Commercializing Gatsby
- The Great Gatsby: Zelda, My Sweet!
- Teaching The House on Mango Street: Adaptation and Performance of House on Mango Street
- Teaching The House on Mango Street: "My Name" Monologues
- Teaching The House on Mango Street: Cisneros's Goals: Does Mango Street Appeal to a Wide Audience?
- Teaching The Iliad: Letters To Soldiers
- Teaching The Bluest Eye: Sweet Little Shirley Temple: The Bluest Eye and Hollywood
- Teaching The Bluest Eye: Fun With Dick and Jane?: Children's Books and The Bluest Eye
- Teaching The Bluest Eye: The Bluest Eye and Precious: Bringing Difficult Issues to Light
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WAVE Productions is a self-supporting, not-for-profit student theatre company operating primarily on Northwestern University's Evanston Campus. In addition to having five mainstage shows per season, WAVE supports and creates special events that stretch the boundaries of what theatre can be. WAVE also works to reach out to both the Northwestern and Evanston communities through partnerships and other events. Although WAVE is written in all-caps, it does not, as far as we know, stand for anything in particular. Possibilities, however, include We Are Very Excited, We Ate Vulture Eggs, and We Always Vary Endlessly. Suggestions are welcome.
WAVE's Mission Statement
WAVE Productions exists to share the stories of the past and present in order to open the door to a better future!
WAVE Productions is in possession of both build space and storage space. The WAVE Garage is located on Noyes Street between Sheridan Road and Orrington (behind 617 Noyes Street). It has been outfitted on the lower level as a scenic construction shop with limited lumber storage space. The Garage Attic is a storage area for soft goods, some lighting fixtures and a wide selection of stage properties and costume pieces. If you are interested in renting any of our set pieces, props and costumes or if you want to reserve garage space, please contact WAVE's Production Technical Directors: Sophia Carbonell and Cammy Harris at . Feel free to browse our constantly improving inventories by following the links below.
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- Fall Shanley: Clothes For a Summer Hotel Produced by Maddie Rostami, Directed by Solveig Herzum
- Winter Louis: Peccadillo: Pandora and Her Box Produced by Sophia Carbonell, Adapted and Directed by Nikki Rosengren
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- Spring Shanley Studio: The Secret Garden Produced by Vatsala Kumar, Directed by Michael Herwitz
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- Artistic Director: Elliott Hartman
- Production Manager: Elise Ammondson
- Business Manager: Alex Schneidman
- Director of Development: Juliet Roll
- Community Outreach Coordinator: Pauline Moll
- Production Stage Manager: Connor Lifson
- Marketing Director: Jeremy Gubman
- Design Technical Director: Marley Smith
- Production Technical Directors: Sophia Carbonell, Cammy Harris
- Special Events Coordinator: Jason Clark
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- Production Manager: Shaina Wagner
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- Director of Development: Maggie Monahan
- Community Outreach Coordinator: Pauline Moll
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How far do your quilts travel? Quilting and technology have converged to create an online sewing community that allows us to find inspiration, share our process, and get instant feedback on our ideas. Recently, I realized that my finished quilts were stacked in a closet while my photos and blog posts continued to reach people. It made me question whether the finished object or the digital image was more important.
We take photos of quilts as they are pieced together, on our laps while we stitch, or with our children and pets snuggled up on them. We share the image and it becomes a digital object, a separate work of art created during the process.
Sarah Phillips of Intown Quilters and I are hosting an activity in the Makers Tent at the Decatur Book Festival this weekend so we decided to expand on the idea of image sharing to create a collaborative digital project where everyone will create their own quilt block, photograph it, and share the image through social media. Then we'll compile the images into a digital "quilt" that we'll share online.
How can you participate?
Begin with two 10" fabric squares and create a half-square triangle block. One fabric square should be a neutral white or linen while the other piece may be patchwork, hand-dyed, embroidered, or made with any other creative technique you'd like to use. Or you can simply choose your favorite fabric. Then take a photo of your half-square triangle block and share it on social media with the hashtag #instaquilt. We'll then assemble the photos and share the collaborative digital quilt both here and through social media.
Add your block to flickr here, pin it to Pinterest, share on Instagram, post to Facebook, or share it any way you choose.
And for those who are willing to contribute their finished block, we'll sew them together and make a quilt to be displayed at Intown Quilters. You can drop your block by the shop or even mail it. Please note that we may cut down the blocks if necessary to make the quilt a manageable size. We'd like to get all of the entries by the end of September, so make a block today!
If you live near Atlanta, come sew with me and Sarah Phillips from Intown Quilters at the Decatur Book Festival this weekend! We'll be in the Makers Tent on Sunday at 3pm. We'll have fabric, sewing machines and other supplies so that you can make an #instaquilt block with us. But don't worry if you can't make it; anyone can participate in the project!
For instructions to make half-square triangles, click on the image below for a .pdf excerpt from my book 1, 2, 3 Quilt.
I made a couple of samples using my new Framework fabric and solids below. Of course if you use the technique above, you'll have two blocks so you can start a quilt. And if you're just photographing it for the project, the block could really be any size. Let's make an #instaquilt!


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Short for master of ceremonies or mic controller. Essentially a word for a rapper but the term is not limited to hip hop. Drum and Bass, Garage, Happy Hardcore, Ragga and old school rave all feature MCs, however with these genres, the MC generally MCs live while a DJ mixes the tunes, whereas hip hop MCs mainly do so on record
Navigator is a wicked MC
Biggie was a phat MC
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I'm MCing at a house party tonight, you coming?
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Master of Ceremonies or Microphone Controller. A rapper who is either the host of an event; someone with enough flow and skill to be considered a master of the art of rap.
Mos Def is one of the best MCs in the world.
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Also known as "callmemc." Hailing from the streets of San Diego, she has lived her life an absolute thug. She hustles on the streets of Berkeley, and is known to make guest appearances at Bridges, where she does V12s. Her awesomeness inspires the term, which is used in reverence.
The phrase "mc" is used to refer to someone who is very accomplished, attractive, and uses OpenMP.
The phrase "mc" is used to refer to someone who is very accomplished, attractive, and uses OpenMP.
Person A: "Dang, guys! Did you hear about what that girl did the other day? She did magic while solving a rubiks cube while breakdancing on a resistance board!"
Person B: "Wow...that's so mc"
Person B: "Wow...that's so mc"
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Mic controller- usually refferted to in underground rap. Mic controller being the one with the mic, rapping.
which MC is Dj whispa gunna spin fo tonight?
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Mic Chief. In Rap and Hip Hop the M.C. is the main rapper in a song.
Every rapper claims to be the best M.C. out there
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microphone coordinator.
M.C. Hammer
(Hamma' don't hurt 'em)
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some who holds a joint while talking,thus fucking up the rotation.
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I started to gently suck on her nipple and was again rewarded with a generous flow of sweet warm breast milk. And I greedily swallowed it as quickly as I was rewarded with it. I had a hunger pain in my stomach that was quickly being satisfied with the milk she was giving me. I started to move closer to her and my huge hard on started to press up against her body. Robin reached down and freed my swollen cock from my boxers and started to gently stroke it. "That's one heck of a hard on you have today honey. It feels so big and hard." Robin said to me. "That's enough on that breast for now. Close my bra up and open the other side up and relieve some of the pressure for me." I reached up and closed the flap on the left side of her nursing bra. Then moved over to the right side and undid the clasp and opened it up. Her large milk filled breast was right by my face and I could feel the warmth of it. Robin started to roll over a little bit so that the nipple would rest against my mouth. "Now, do the same for this breast that you did for the first one." Robin said as she continued to stroke my hugely swollen cock. I leaned forward and took her nipple into my mouth and latched onto it. The milk started to spray against my mouth again and I eagerly gulped it down. The feeling was incredible, so close to her, such a feeling of bonding with her. My hunger pains were gone and it was from the generous helping of milk that she was sharing, no giving to me. Robin was stroking my cock and as I was swallowing the flow of milk from her breasts I started to feel that dull pain in my balls again, almost as if they were getting tight and swollen. Only this time my cock was starting to really ache as well. It was like it was being stretched to its limits. "Suck some more of the milk from my breast honey. There is still a lot of it in there." Robin told me. I started to suck against her nipple as she started to stroke my cock faster. A heavy stream of milk started to flow from her nipple into my mouth and I was greedily drinking every drop I could get. I could feel my stomach filling up with her sweet warm milk and it made me feel so good. "That cock is really hard, why don't you blow a huge load for me. I know you need to relieve some of that cum from your swollen balls." Robin said to me. It was at that point I felt it deep within myself that I need to cum for her. And it needed to be a large load of cum too. She started to stroke my cock faster and rougher, but I don't think I would have needed that as I could feel my balls tightening up. My cock started to erupt a huge torrent of jism. Huge jets of cum shot against her stomach as she stroked my swollen cock. She started to jerk my cock faster and more cum shot out of it against her. The pleasure was incredible, the cum shooting from my cock and the feeling that I was fulfilling a need that came from deep within my soul. My cum started to subside and Robin slowed her jerking to a gentle stroke to extract the last semen from my shaft. Robin pulled her nipple from my mouth and closed up her nursing bra. "You sure did have a big load in there. Go get yourself cleaned up for work. And after you get done getting dressed take the sheets off the bed and bring them downstairs for washing." "Yes dear." I said to her as I got up from the bed and went into the bathroom. I pulled my boxers off over my still hard cock. It was then that I looked at myself in the mirror. My balls were noticeably larger to me. And I'd swear that my cock looked like it had gotten bigger. I must be seeing things. I got into the shower and started to clean myself up. When I got finished in the shower my erection had gone down and I looked at myself in the mirror again. There was no doubt about it, my cock was bigger. What the heck was going on? I went into the bedroom and grabbed my clothes and got dressed. All the while my head felt like it was swimming. I started to leave the bedroom when something came over me, like I was being drawn back into the bedroom. I walked over to the bed and pulled the bed spread off and then stripped the sheets off wrapping them up to keep the cum inside. I took them down to the laundry room and placed them in the hamper. Robin was down in the kitchen. "Now make sure you wash them when you get home from work today." she told me. "Sure thing honey." I said to her as I walked into the kitchen. She had her back to me as she was at the counter making lunches for the kids. I watched her as she slowly turned to look at me and could see how much larger her breasts appeared. I know that she had the nursing bra on and that it pads the package a little bit, but it looked to me that her breasts had grown considerably since yesterday. From my best judgement it looked like they had grown at least 2 cup sizes. She smiled at me and turned back to the counter to finish with the kids sandwiches. I walked up behind her and slipped my arms between hers and her waist and lay my hands on her tits. I heard her let out a soft moan and she leaned her head back against me and let me have my way. I put my chin on her shoulder and looked down at her now much larger breasts. I was very gentle with them so she would let me have my way. I heaved them up and down a little bit to feel how much heavier they were now that they were filling with milk again. I squeezed them together and gazed down into the deep chasm of cleavage that they were making. I started to squeeze them and was amazed at how firm they were. I was trying to rub the nipples through the nursing bra when I heard the kids rustling around and running towards the stairs so I pulled my hands off. "I am going to stop at that baby store down at the mall this morning and see if I can get something to repair the breast pump with, or if I can't I will have to get a new one." Robin said. "OK, I hope that they have repair parts. I mean it's not like the thing is that old, or that used. Everything else about it is fine, and they aren't exactly cheap." I told her. When I got home Robin was in the kitchen finishing with a huge pile of bottles she had just finished sterilizing. "Well, how did it go? Did you manage to get the replacement parts you needed?" I asked Robin. "It went great. Evidently the problem with the pump was fairly common because they had the part right there. And they guy even changed it out for me, which was good because I was in agony by the time I got home. I had to break the pump out right away and pump some of the milk off." she said. "I see that you bought some new bottles to store the milk in." I said to her. "I had some bottles still left over from our kids, but I filled them up this morning. So I had to go back to the store and get more bottles. My sister was over around lunch time and picked up my first batch of bottles, and I think I will fill these up before the night is over. I can't get over how much milk I am making. I mean I had tons for the kids when they were breast feeding, but I think I have more now." Robin said. "And you know the great thing about it; I have been eating like a horse. I am hungry all the time now." "Why don't you call the kids in and feed them something for dinner. They are out in the back yard playing with the neighbor kids. I am going to have to pump off some more milk. I hope that I have enough bottles to last me until tomorrow." Robin said. Robin headed upstairs and I went to the sliding door and called the kids in for dinner. When they got in the house I took the dinner order and got everything ready for them. By the time I had them fed Robin was coming back downstairs with an arm load of bottles full of milk. She took them over and put them in the refrigerator. "I'm starving honey, let's eat something." I was hoping that she would be OK with something easy so I was planning on some burgers on the grill and some fresh vegetables. I threw 4 burgers on the grill hoping that there would be something left over so that I could take it to work with me the next day. When I got back inside with the burgers Robin had everything else on the table ready to go. Robin and I sat down to eat while the kids went off to play. I made up the hamburgers and put one on each of our plates. Robin dished out everything else and we proceeded to chow down. "Are you going to run out of bottles to fill up?" I asked Robin. "If I keep making milk at the pace I have been, yeah, I am going to have to just pump it off or something." Robin told me. "How has your sister's baby been doing on the milk? Has she had any problems with the baby taking it?" I asked her. "Not a single problem. Everything has gone off without a hitch for her. She has this setup that runs a small tube from a bottle and it gets, for lack of a better word, taped to her breast. The baby takes her nipple and this tube into its mouth and starts to suck. So my sister will still produce breast milk, but it will mix with what she is getting from the tube going to the bottle." Robin explained. "At least that way she is getting the best of both worlds. Your sister gets to give the baby whatever milk she can produce, and then the baby can be supplemented by your breast milk. And she can have that extra bond that can only come from her breast feeding." I said to Robin. I was about half the way through my burger and I noticed that Robin was already making herself another one. "Damn hoss, you aren't hungry are you?" I asked Robin. "You remember how much food I could always put away when I was feeding our kids. Remember how jealous you were that I could always out eat you. Well with this huge supply of milk I have been making, I am hungry all the time." Robin told me. "Hopefully you can slow down enough to save me a burger to take to work tomorrow there hoss." I said kidding with Robin. "Well, we will see about that. Can you call the kids back? I made chocolate pudding today. I was going to see if they wanted to have some." she told me. I went and found the kids and asked them if they wanted some pudding that their mother made today and they practically ran me over getting back to the kitchen. When we got back to the kitchen Robin had three bowls of chocolate pudding set out and three big glasses of milk. The three of us sat down and the table and started to tear into the pudding. The kids remarked how good the pudding was. They said it tasted better than any she had made before. I took a drink of the milk and new right away that it was not the usual skim milk that we drink. I looked over at Robin and she winked at me. "Is this what I think it is?" I asked her. "I was running out of space today, so I had to use some of the milk up to make room for more. So I decided what better place to use it in than some dessert for everyone. I was about three quarters of the way through my glass of milk when I noticed that I was starting to feel a little bit light headed. I put my spoon down into my pudding bowl and started to look at the kids. They were just sitting there. They had the strangest look on their faces. Almost like a vacant stare. It was about that time when I heard Robin bark some orders to them. "Kids, bring your dishes over here and put them in the kitchen sink so your dad can wash them. And march yourselves upstairs and brush your teeth. When you are done with that, get some PJs on and put yourself to bed. And don't come back downstairs again until the morning." Robin ordered. The kids got up from the table and brought their pudding bowls and their milk glasses over to the kitchen sink. Then marched themselves right upstairs. They didn't even utter a word. And this is the strangest thing for our kids. Bedtime is usually a long drawn out struggle and these kids did exactly as Robin told them to do. I looked over at Robin and she had her eyes closed and her hands on her breasts heaving them up a little bit. I recognized the look on her face. Her milk had just let down and she was feeling some pressure in her breasts. "OK, lets go over to the couch. You have some milk to relieve from my breasts." she told me. She set herself down on the couch. "Now, lay your head on my lap." she said to me as she started to open her shirt up. I laid down on the couch and put my head on her lap. She had unbuttoned her shirt and her nursing bra was now exposed. I reached up and started to unbutton the flap on the bra and let it fall down. Robin started to fish her breast out of the bra, stretching the opening so that her breast was fully out of the flap. I took her breast in my hand and it was very warm. Her breasts always got really warm when they were very full of milk. It was so firm, and I could swear that it had gotten bigger since I had my hands on them in the morning. I reached my other hand up and took her one bare breast into both of my hands and it filled my hands very nicely. I gently squeezed it and rubbed the nipple a little bit and milk started to shoot out of it. I quickly let it go and into place so that her nipple would rest right into my mouth. Robin started to run her fingers through my hair and I looked up at her as the milk started to flow heavily into my mouth. I was eagerly gulping down the sweet warm milk as it flowed into my mouth. It tasted so much better than the cold glass she had given us with our dessert. In fact, this dessert was much better than anything that you could get anywhere else. She started to rub her breasts from the top, almost as if trying to force some of the milk down into them. The strength of the flow increased and I was greedily gulping down the milk. At the same time I was becoming incredibly excited. My cock was starting to get really hard. My hand moved down and started to rub the front of my shorts. Robin looked over and noticed what I was doing. "Unbutton your shorts and pull them off." she told me. I unbuttoned my shorts and unzipped them. I pulled them down and kicked them off onto the floor. I was continuing to suckle at her breast as she reached down and took my cock into her hand. Her milk had slowed down and I had to start sucking at her breast now to have more flow into my mouth. Only the pressure had subsided, the flow was still as strong as ever just that now I had to suckle at her breast like a baby to get it. She was rubbing her hand over my balls, playing with them, rolling them around in her hand. Then she wrapped her hand around my shaft and started to very slowly jerk my cock up and down. "OK, now that's enough off of that breast. I don't want the milk to let down again. Move over to the other one now." she told me. She put her breast back into the nursing bra and closed the flap up. Then unclasped the other side and opened it up and pulled her breast out. I moved my head a little bit in her lap and my mouth was right there waiting for the nipple. And it rested right in my mouth. I latched my tongue onto it and the milk started to spray right into my mouth. It was just like the other one, a heavy flow of sweet warm mother's milk. I was greedily gulping it down and it was satisfying a hunger deep in my stomach that I didn't know I even had. Robin continued very slowly stroking my cock shaft. And I started to have that dull pain feeling flowing into my balls again. And this time it was spreading to my cock shaft too. It was almost a feeling like you were getting a raging hard on, but it just kept getting harder. I was still being rewarded with a generous flow of milk from her huge tits as she continued to stroke my cock shaft. And now I started to get this feeling like I was going to cum, but it just stayed right there, almost like I was continually on the edge of cumming, but that I wasn't. This was coupled with the dull ache in my balls and cock shaft. My shaft felt like it was getting so hard that it was starting to hurt some now. "Drink up the milk in that breast like a good little boy." Robin told me. It was at that point that the pain in my balls and cock seemed to fade from my thoughts and I started to focus on the milk flowing from her breasts. The pressurized flow of milk had stopped and I had been suckling at her tit and being rewarded with a copious amount of sweet warm milk. "OK, OK, I think that's enough. 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Snowboarding Forum - Snowboard Enthusiast Forums (http://www.snowboardingforum.com/forum.php)
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Learning to snowboard
I really want to learn to snowboard in January (2009) to see if I still enjoy it (did it about 7 years ago but for only a week) and hopefully take it further and get awesome at it.
Have no idea what resorts (in either Canada or Europe) would be best to go to for beginner lessons...thinking maybe BC as it's such a beautiful place, and also how many lessons i'd need. Any advice would be really welcome!! Was thinking a week or 10 days of lessons and a few days to myself? - would this be enough to get me up to about level 2 or 3 of snowboarding or am I way out with that?
Am relativly fit as I do quite a bit of sport including surfing which i'm not sure if will help me but thought i'd mention it incase.
Thanks guys!! Amy
Hey Amy!
I am from BC and I could not agree more (most beautiful place) All the mountains I have been to here in BC offer fairly good lessons. My recommendation is to take a few lessons until you get the hang of it then just practice on your own. Once you have the basics down you should progress fairly fast. My buddy and I taught his girlfriend last season and by the end of the season she was almost keeping up with us, which isnt bad seeing as we ride about 4-60 days a season. If you are going to go for 10 days or so you should be able to pick it up really quickly as you are boarding every day. The fact that you do other board sports will help with the learning curve and you should be able to pick it up quicker. Where in BC were you thinking about going? The best advice I was given and I will pass it on to you is not to get discouraged... you will be sore from falling and using muscles you never knew you had, but just keep on going and you will get it. Cheers!!! I hope this helps
If you are still there let me know and I will add more info...
Just don't feel like writing a lot for nothing.
Hey!! Thank you for the advice, was really useful and even more determined to go now I know there's a good chance of me picking up the skill! You are sooo lucky to live in BC!!
Yeah, I am still reading the messages - the more advice the better!
Many thanks!
Oh, and I was thinking of going to Big White in BC, near Kelowna? Is it known to be a good place?
Ok if you are beginner it really doesn't matter what resort you pick, as long as conditions are acceptable. At this point I would choose something that it's the most affordable to you (unless you have lot of $$$, in that case go to Whistler, BC).
As for 10 days of lessons that seems an awful lot to me. this is what I recommend a couple of days of lessons and see where you stand after those days. If you feel that you need more time with instructors go ahead and do it, if not, go out there and have some fun. 10 days are a lot of riding, enough to give you a feel of what you're going to enjoy the most and a lot of time to improve on your own. You could even take an intermediate course towards the end of your trip to correct your ridding.
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8i is building a consumer media platform that lets users create, experience and share the most immersive 3D video of real people, for virtual reality, augmented reality and the web.More →
Signia Venture Partners is an early-stage venture fund dedicated to helping passionate entrepreneurs build impactful world-changing companies. Our goal is to be the most helpful investor an entrepreneur will ever have.
We focus on companies that use mobility and data to disrupt large markets or create new ones. In either case, we are looking for mission-driven founders that are solving a huge pain point for their customer. We actively help our entrepreneurs build both consumer and enterprise technology businesses in industries such as media, entertainment, health, finance, gaming, analytics, and commerce.
Signia's team is comprised of only entrepreneurs who have a track record of success at every stage of growth. Together, we have founded companies, managed both venture-backed and public companies, and partnered as investors in dozens of successful outcomes.
We aim to not only be just helpful to our portfolio companies but to the whole start-up ecosystem as well. Some of the ways we hope to give back are by providing honest feedback, helping start-ups get educated on best practices and tools, collecting industry insights (check out our Meet the Operators series), and lending our point-of-view where it makes sense.
We started Signia because the venture capital industry has grown too large to serve the needs of early stage entrepreneurs. We plan to change this paradigm by showing that being more selective and by working with fewer entrepreneurs, we can produce better outcomes. At Signia, we have redesigned venture with the Founder as our customer. Everything we do is focused on enabling our Founders to realize their dreams.
Our normal investment size is between $500,000 to $2.5mm and we are almost always the first investor in a company. Our deals are simple and clean, with a large amount of our funds reserved for each company. This means that while our initial check sizes are small, we can still be a powerful financial partner for a growing and successful company.
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Investment Date: June 2015
Website: www.8i.com
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Investment Date: June 2008
Headquarters: Shanghai
Founders: Alan Yan
Website: adchina.com
Adify provides the technology and back office services necessary for companies to run their own online ad networks. Adify is a self-service ad network for companies interested in developing their own ad networks. The service allows a publisher to negotiate ad rates, and to reject an advertiser if not interested.
Investment Date: August 2006
Headquarters: San Bruno, CA
Founders: Russell Fradin
Website: adify.com
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Investment Date: February 2013
Headquarters: Menlo Park, CA
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Website: airxp.com
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Investment Date: March 2011
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Founders: Jack Ma
Website: alibaba.com
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Investment Date: July 2014
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Founders: Denise Thomas, Stephen Pelletier
Website: applepiecapital.com
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Investment Date: January 2010
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Founders: Ankur Pansari, Ian Langworth, Mark Logan
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Investment Date: June 2010
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Founders: Brett Hurt, Brant Barton
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As the only provider of consistent data-centric controls and auditing across a wide range of data repositories (including both Hadoop and RDBMS), BlueTalon is being used by leading Fortune 500 companies both on-premises and in the cloud—including Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services.
Investment Date: August 2014
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
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Website: http://www.bluetalon.com
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Investment Date: April 2014
Headquarters: New York, NY
Founders: Chieh Huang, Christopher Cheung, William Fong, Jared Yaman
Website: boxed.com
For 13 years, Cie Games (now Glu Mobile) has been an award-winning developer and publisher of top mobile and social games, including Racing Rivals and Car Town Streets.
Investment Date: April 2010
Headquarters: Long Beach, CA
Founders: Justin Choi & Dennis Suggs
Website: ciegames.com
Acquired By: Glu Mobile for $100M in 2014
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Investment Date: April 2014
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Founders: Kyle Vogt
Website: getcruise.com
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Investment Date: February 2011
Headquarters: San Bruno, CA
Founders: Russell Fradin, Madhu Chamarty
Website: dynamicsignal.com
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Website: socialgamenet.com/
Acquired By: Zhongji Holding for $960M in 2014
Funzio is a leader in developing breakout social games for Facebook, Google+, and mobile. Funzio envisions a future where people can play immersive games together whenever and wherever they are. Funzio has joined forces with GREE, a leading mobile social gaming network with over 140 million users. With a focus on building engaging games with strong social features, the two companies look to a future where the entire world can play great games together in one place. Funzio's current titles – Crime City, Modern War, and Kingdom Age – have become big hits with more than 10 million players. Funzio's team has joined the executive team at GREE, which has developed and published games at Zynga, Storm8, Electronic Arts, and Hi5. The company is headquartered in San Francisco's China Basin.
Investment Date: May 2011
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Founders: Kenneth Chiu, Anil Dhari
Website: funzio.com
Acquired By: GREE for $200M in 2012.
Grow Mobile provides a single mobile ad buying solution across multiple ad networks and traffic sources with transparent ROI analytics and optimization. We offer a campaign creation and management wizard, which will allow advertisers to create mobile ad campaigns and run them across our large number of partner networks. We'll also show attribution of how your marketing dollars are being spent and mapping ROI data back to each networks and traffic source. This allows for fast and more efficient campaign management and optimization for companies to better spend their money and scale spends with ad networks. Simplified mobile marketing.
Investment Date: September 2012
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Founders: Brendan Lyall, A.J. Yeakel, Minglei Xu
Website: growmobile.com
Acquired By: Perion for $42M in 2014
Hall helps teams and companies communicate in real-time. Our all-in-one unified communications app has everything your company needs to communicate and get things done. There are thousands of companies using Hall, from small businesses to the world's largest enterprises like Amazon and Nike. Professionals love using Hall to communicate.
Investment Date: July 2013
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
Founders: Brett Hellman, Ron Adams
Website: hall.com
Acquired By: Atlassian in 2015
Idle Games launched at TechCrunch disrupt in 2012. It is a cloud-based, synchronous gaming platform, with the goal of being "the Pixar of social games." The company's first title was 'Idle Worship.' Rick Thompson is chairman and co-founder, along with COG1 Founder Jeffrey Hyman as CEO.
Investment Date: February 2011
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Founders: Jeff Hyman, Rick Thompson
Website: idle-games.com
Acquired By: GSN in 2015.
Kurbo Health is creating mobile and web-based tools for children and their families to fight childhood weight problems. Working with experienced university-based pediatric weight loss programs, Kurbo is creating intelligent mobile apps and coaching to help millions of overweight and obese children get their weight under control.
Kurbo has a strong founding team combining (a) hands-on experience financing, building and managing outstanding technology and consumer companies, (b) proven success treating children with weight problems and (c) demonstrated ability evangelizing family-friendly media and markets.
Investment Date: September 2013
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Founders: Joanna Strober
Website: kurbohealth.com
Midverse Studios is a leading provider of mobile casino games with its award-winning Bingo Run and Slots Run titles on Google Play and Amazon stores. The company was founded in 2012 by serial entrepreneurs Rizwan Virk and Mitch Liu, who started Gameview Studios in 2010, which was acquired by DeNA. Virk and Liu pioneered virtual currency monetization on Facebook at Tapjoy/Offerpal in 2006.
Investment Date: June 2012
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
Founders: Mitch Liu, Rizwan Virk
Website: midversestudios.com
MomentFeed is a location-based marketing platform that enables brands to interactively engage with their customers at the local level on a global scale. We do this by providing an integrated solution for managing Facebook, Foursquare, Google, Instagram, and Twitter. Our customers see immediate and dramatic improvements in their social metrics that increase revenue and reduce customer acquisition costs.
Investment Date: December 2013
Headquarters: Santa Monica, CA
Founders: Rob Reed
Website: momentfeed.com
Monetate drives billions of dollars of revenue every year for some of the best-known brands in the world, including Best Buy, QVC, Godiva, and OfficeMax. The company's comprehensive product suite and conversion expertise enable marketers to deliver a more relevant customer experience with unprecedented agility.
Leading marketers rely on Monetate's cloud-based browser technology to achieve a new level of speed and control, allowing them to run 16 times more optimization campaigns compared to industry averages. The Monetate Agility Suite includes advanced products for testing, merchandising, targeting, and cross-channel consistency, providing an opportunity to bypass IT restraints and react in real time to customer demands. Monetate also helps marketers implement best practices and drive online revenue through its expert strategic services and content publishing teams.
Investment Date: March 2011
Headquarters: Philadelphia, PA
Founders: David Brussin, David Bookspan
Website: monetate.com
The Nativo platform enables publishers to easily activate, deploy and manage native ad placements across their media properties.
For marketers, the Nativo platform enables the distribution of branded content with scale, control, and relevancy. The result is higher performance and deeper user engagement with advertising that's less intrusive.
Investment Date: April 2013
Headquarters: Los Angeles, CA
Founders: Justin Choi
Website: nativo.net
Peixe Urbano is a website that helps people explore the best things to do in each city. It was the first company to introduce the daily-deal concept to Latin America, in March of 2010, giving rise to a boom of startups in Brazil and other countries in the region. Today, in addition to daily deals, Peixe Urbano also offers an online reservations and food delivery solution, with the goal of providing a complete platform through which local merchants can grow their businesses and people can enjoy the best local products, services and activities. In January of 2012, it was named "The Best International Startup of the Year" during the Crunchies Awards in San Francisco, CA. Peixe Urbano is backed by leading global investment firms: Benchmark Capital, Monashees Capital, General Atlantic, Tiger Global Management, Morgan Stanley Investment Management and T. Rowe Price Associates.
Investment Date: May 2010
Headquarters: Rio São Paulo, ABW, Beunos Aires, ARG
Founders: Julio Vasconcellos, Alex Tabor, Emerson Andrade
Website: peixeurbano.com
Acquired By: Baidu in 2014
Pepperdata develops software that governs and guarantees consistent performance of Hadoop clusters to deliver QoS. Its Adaptive Performance Core™ captures and processes second-by-second performance data to reshape application usage without user intervention. Pepperdata provide the only solution that can anticipate and avert performance issues at the user and job level.
Investment Date: November 2012
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, CA
Founders: Sean Suchter, Chad Carson
Website: pepperdata.com
Phoenix Labs is a PC gaming startup based in Vancouver focused on bring high quality hardcore games to a hardcore audience. The team is comprised of ex-rioters who worked on League of Legends – they are hardcore gamers that have only worked on hardcore games.
Investment Date: August 2014
Headquarters: Vancouver, Canada
Founders: Sean Bender, Jesse Houston
Website: phxlabs.ca
Playdom, acquired by Disney, is a game developer with a focus on social, online games. The company has a number of popular titles on the iPhone, Myspace, and Facebook.
Investment Date: November 2009
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Founders: Ling Xiao, Chris Wang, Dan Yue
Website: playdom.com
Acquired By: The Walt Disney Company for $563M in 2010.
Riffsy's GIF Keyboard is the easiest way to share and discover animated GIFs and videos on mobile. Launched in the fall of 2014, Riffsy has grown to millions of users and billions of GIF and video views per month by tapping into the growing wave of visual expression pioneered by emoji. But unlike a static set of emoji, users build their own personal language of GIFs and videos on Riffsy that taps into their interests and popular culture.
Investment Date: April 2015
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: www.riffsy.com
The Scoop team has a simple mission: to finally make carpooling a viable alternative to the solo commute by eliminating the hassle, sacrifice, and frustration that has plagued carpooling for years.
We are re-imaging every aspect of shared commuting, using smart, mobile-first technology to remove the friction that has made it hard to adopt a shared commuting lifestyle. With Scoop, you can schedule a carpool one commute leg at a time in just a couple of taps. No daily or roundtrip commitments. You maintain total control over your schedule, and we do the heavy-lifting – automatically matching you in efficient carpools with neighbors and co-workers, and handling everything from routing to contact info to payments – so you don't have to. And whether you ride or drive with Scoop, you can save thousands vs. your daily drive.
Website: www.takescoop.com
Slice provides the simplest way to keep track of everything you buy online.
By keeping purchase information organized and accessible, Slice is able to present actionable information to consumers when they need it. After signing up, the app automatically pulls information from electronic receipts within email and organizes it in one place for quick, easy reference – all while keeping personal information private and secure.
Investment Date: July 2010
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Founders: Scott Brady, Harpinder Madan
Website: slice.com
Acquired By: Rakuten in 2014
Originally Afterlive.tv, SnappyTV offers a suite of tools that enable organizations of all sizes to edit, share, and archive live video and TV programming completely within the cloud. SnappyTV merges what viewers just saw on TV or a live stream with their real-time social messages. The result is the viral sharing of video clips merged with social messaging which turns fans into marketers by allowing them to show their friends the best video moments from the broadcast – resulting in significant real-time promotion for live tune-in and traffic back to your web and social media properties. SnappyTV offers a rights-friendly platform with front end mobile and web applications that connect to a content owner's website so all traffic and streams are directed to a content owner. In addition, content owners can integrate with existing advertising networks to sell pre-roll or other video advertising within the clip stream for additional sales opportunities.
Investment Date: October 2010
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Founders: Ryan Cunningham, Mike Folgner, Stephen Weibel
Website: snappytv.com
Acquired By: Twitter in 2014
SocialShield analyzes both public and private posts for risky and inappropriate activities by strangers and online friends so that you don't have to friend your kid on Facebook and spend hours searching for details about their online activity. It works like an alarm service, notifying parents if there is anything to be concerned about–suspicious friends, photos your kids are tagged in, comments on their photos, any language mentioning gangs, violence, suicide, sex or drugs, and signs of cyberbullying. SocialShield gives the insight needed to parent kids more effectively. The company was acquired by German security specialist Avira in 2012.
Investment Date: September 2009
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Founders: Noah Kindler, Arad Rostampour
Website: socialshield.com
Acquired By: Avira in 2012
Super Evil Megacorp is developing core games for tablet, mobile and other emerging platforms. With deep technical, design, and operational expertise, we marry AAA production values with visceral multiplayer gameplay. We hope core gamers can finally stop asking the question "Where are all the good games on mobile?"
Investment Date: September 2012
Headquarters: San Mateo, CA
Founders: Bo Daly, Stephan Sherman, Tommy Krul, Qingshuo Wang
Website: superevilmegacorp.com/
Udemy helps students make moves. Whether you want to get promoted, break into a new industry, start a company, further a passion, or just accelerate your life, Udemy helps you learn from the amazing instructors in the world, so that you can get there and get there faster.
A wide range of experts teach on Udemy today, including New York Times best-selling authors, CEOs, celebrities, and Ivy League professors. These expert instructors have taught over 600,000 students on Udemy, helping them learn everything from programming to yoga to design to photography and more.
Experts leverage Udemy's course creation platform to build online courses using video, PowerPoint, PDFs, audio, zip files and live classes. Courses can be published as either free or paid. Instructors keep 70% of the revenue from the sales of their paid courses.
Investment Date: August 2010
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Founders: Eren Bali, Oktay Caglar
Website: udemy.com
Via provides access to 24/7 live health coaching, through text, phone, and video based on MD-formulated programs. Users may receive personalized 1:1 advice and connect their personal health data from wearables such as Apple's Health app; Users can form or join a team find people with similar health goals through Via as well.
Via combines the best of healthcare and tech. It's vision is to use technology to connect people to provide continuous, connected and collaborative healthcare that drives better outcomes at a lower cost.
Investment Date: October 2014
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Founders: Stephanie Tilenius
Website: vida.com
Viki is a global TV site that streams TV shows, movies and other premium content, translated into more than 150 languages by a community of avid fans. With over 1.5 billion videos viewed and nearly 325 million words translated, Viki uniquely brings global prime-time entertainment to new audiences and unlocks new markets and revenue opportunities for content owners.
Investment Date: December 2010
Headquarters: Singapore
Founders: Jiwoon Moon, Changseong Ho, Razmig Hovaghimianv
Website: viki.com
Acquired By: Rakuten for $200M in 2013.
Wild Needle, acquired by Zynga, was building the next generation of incredibly fun, incredibly social, mobile games.
Investment Date: August 2010
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
Founders: Rick Thompson, Minglei Xu, Heidi Carson
Website: Wild Needle
Acquired By: Zynga in 2012.
Xyo is a company that re-imagines how people discover apps.
As our internet usage shifts towards mobile, app stores are becoming the focal point of content discovery. Yet, today most users only find apps from the top shelf – in app stores 10% of apps get 90% of downloads. App stores in their current state do not enable users to find the apps they want and are not aware of users' situational and social context. Their future has to be re-invented in order for us to take full advantage of our phones, tablets, TVs and other appliances.
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Headquarters: Berlin, DEU
Founders: Matthaus Krzykowski, Marcin Rudolf, Zoe Adamovicz, Marcin Rudolf
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Spadafora: No Surprise if Salka Beats Danny Garcia!
By Bill "Two Scoops" Emes
Former champion Paul Spadafora, fresh from his win over Hector Velasquez, will now join the training camp of another Pittsburgh native, Rod Salka (19-3, 3KOs). On August 9th at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Salka will face WBA/WBC junior welterweight champion Danny Garcia (28-0, 16KOs) in a Showtime televised main event.
A significant number of boxing fans are very unhappy with the fight. Spadafora, who knows Salka well, won't be surprised if his good friend shocks the world with a huge upset.
"First thing I'm going to do is go up there and help Rod Salka get this win over Danny Garcia. That's the first thing on my agenda. I'm so glad that it's like that [with people hating on the fight], because it's going to be no surprise to me if Rod goes in there, does what he knows how to do, and wins the fight. The social media can do what they want to do, but do not underestimate Rod Salka in this fight. He is better than what a lot of people think," Spadafora told BoxingScene.com.
Whenever I think of Spadafora, I think of "wasted talent" from Bronx Tale. After Spadafora schooled Mayweater in sparring...basically wasted his entire career...Comment by CityO_ChampYINZ on 07-22-2014
I love when ppl talk **** on Paul and know nothing about him except what they hear in the news.. News is bad.. Always negative.. He's 49-1-1.. Really dude ur a real loser and more than likely a mayweather bandwagon…Comment by bimhead on 07-22-2014
i can't imagine anything less than a 30 second k.o.Comment by IIG on 07-22-2014
Nothing would be better than Salka pulling out the victory. That would be a top moment for me as a boxing fan.Comment by SeekDaGreat on 07-22-2014
Pennsylvania boys, shocking. But in his defense, it wouldn't be his first (unofficial) loss.Post a Comment - View More User Comments (25)


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Skip to comments.Sen. Mike Lee: Churches Should Not Be Forced to Perform Gay Marriage
Posted on 12/28/2013 10:48:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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Some people call me pro-homosexual when I say that the real front isn't in law and therefore consider [federal] marriage laws to be a mistake.
(The real problem is Sin, and the real solution to that problem is Jesus.)
It's up to the individual Bishop where she lives to do this.
Basically she has already excommunicated herself....so not to worry.
God's laws apply to ALL mankind.
Solution- FAIR TAX
I think that churches should be required to preform gay marriages, with so many liberals in all of the churches voting for a new fascist America let it come home to their own front yard, maybe some conservative fence sitters will get off their duffs.
Doesn't matter what a "bill" says. Doesn't even matter what a "constitutional amendment" says. The courts can just throw them out if they offend elite sensibilities. So why do we even waste the time?
I'll try to copy/paste you a copy of the traditional wedding service for re-writing. Then we'll see if we can make it go viral.
A flat rate will still always raise the specter of government forcing religion to give out of the offering plate.
Must be (and it is) an election year.
What may be coming is the end of church marriages entirely. The American people will do anything in the false mantra of "fairness".
Conservatives have a history of sticking with their familiar churches even after the churches move hopelessly liberal.
No, it actually wouldn't — the whole power of 501(c) is that it is exemptions (and possibly affords tax-credits/writeoffs).
My sense is that if "income" is the item to be taxed, then churches will be viewed as having "income" that comes into the church via the offering plate.
I want to get rid of the income tax. I'll agree that a flat tax is a positive first step. Then we should repeal the 16th.
Also, in the meantime, families, the same as businesses, should be able to totally write off all expenses before arriving at their actual income.
You could also make the argument that only individuals have income… this would exclude churches and corporations. (I have mixed feelings about that though; you could set up all your "gains" [salary/interest/etc] as a trust, and be the executor of the trust... then what's "getting fed" is the 'trust' [which you control] and isn't considered income. Such behavior could be construed as fraud though.)
I want to get rid of the income tax. Ill agree that a flat tax is a positive first step. Then we should repeal the 16th.
I have mixed feelings there. A sales-tax could be very much abused, imagine having a 2% tax on most things but on anything used anywhere in firearms manufacture as a 200% tax. (It could also be the harbinger of a VAT.) Repeal of the 16th is a good step, but I think almost more vital is the repeal of the 17th; because the 16th centralized power in DC by stripping the states themselves of representation.
Also, in the meantime, families, the same as businesses, should be able to totally write off all expenses before arriving at their actual income.
No, I disagree there. Some things could rightly be considered expenses, like food, but just how much has food-stamps been expanded? Moreover, the quality of the food could be an issue: filet-minion for every meal will cost a lot more than beans and rice. And that's only one category of expense, there's things like doctors and so forth, too.
No, the real demon in the tax-system is complexity and exceptions. It's by these means that there's so much corruption in government/industry.
Some businesses are much more extravagant in their expenses than are others, and it seems not to matter if they buy Mercedes as company cars or Fiestas. Either way, they write them off.
So? Why introduce unneeded complexity? — No write-offs achieves this.
Senator, instead of loudly vouching for the federal judge that just rammed sodomy fake marriage down the throats of Utahans, you, or even ONE of your Republican colleagues, could have opposed this guy when Obama appointed him.
You can't tell a company it has to pay taxes on its gross receipts. Every business in America would go out of business.
If the Senator comes out publicly in favor of the impeachment and removal of judges who violate their oath and make lawless "laws" from the bench, I'll take his efforts seriously.
Church non taxation was the unofficial law from founding of nation up until 1894 when it became law that they were officially exempt without speech restriction. LBJ placed churches under the IRS and even if they do pay taxes they would still be under IRS scrutiny.
The ugly part of this is that first they take the money from the taxpayers.
Then they offer to return some of it to you if you will follow their orders.
They are trying to bribe us with our own money.
It is time to bring the government to heel.
Dear cva66snipe,
I think you missed my question. WHY even attempt to acquire what equates to a federal good-ol-boy blessing, if you really are under the call and doing the work?
You are supposed to be the church, not the brick and mortar. Why not just go and assemble, and be what you are called to do?
The ideas that it is against city code, or homeowners association rules, or that sort, should not matter, shouldn't it?
If you are doing what you are supposed to be doing, the way would be open for you, yes? No doubts, no maybes, yes or no.
Too many folks are worried about already corrupt authorities, by their very nature, and do not feel at all comfortable, out among the wolves.
Sure you can. Some states do. And to the end-consumer it's indistinguishable from a sale's tax because it is passed on to the consumer.
Not to forget cake makers.
Make no mistake about it. Since the early 1960's the church in the United States has been under attack by our elected government and ones in education attending college in the mid 1960's and later.
Ironically many leading the fight against churches belong to a church with Christ name used in it and I don't mean the one called church of Christ. The United Church of Christ though is far left of even Unitarians it seems.
This makes too much sense within the Constitutional framework and so will likely be rebuffed even within the so-called conservative House. In any case it will never become law in the current islamocommunist framework that exists from the White House all the way down into local school boards. At this point it seems all we can do is pray for a deliverer out of this obamad nightmare.
RE: you, or even ONE of your Republican colleagues, could have opposed this guy when Obama appointed him.
Was Mike Lee in the Senate when this judge was appointed?
This is a very big problem with contracting with the IRS for exemptions to begin with. The very purpose of 501©(3) is to control the churches-—to make them state churches.
There has never been any law requiring any church to file for 501(c)(3) status. When they do so, they do so voluntarily. Yes, it IS a money issue. To the IRS it is a CONTROL issue.
My apologies. These cases are coming so fast and furious that I conflated a couple of things.
Waddoups was not appointed by Obama, he was picked by GW Bush. Both Hatch and Bennett advocated heavily for him in the Senate, leading to a voice vote to confirm him. The Republicans didn't oppose him at all. Softball questions and a rubber stamp. That's it.
Robert J. Shelby: Judge who made gay marriage legal in Utah
He was nominated to the federal bench by President Barack Obama in November 2011 and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Sept. 22, 2012. During the process, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, described Shelby as "pre-eminently qualified" and predicted he would be "an outstanding judge."
We all make mistakes. It is almost impossible to totally judge a person's character, much less determine how he will decide on a case such as this.
Heck, we sometimes even choose the wrong investment, or worse, marry the wrong person.
While that's certainly true, I still find Republican rubber-stamping of Obama judges to be egregious, and think that Senator Lee's description of this guy as "preeminently qualified" was ridiculous. I looked at his resume and it was very, very thin. "Night manager at Macey's grocery store" just doesn't scream constitutional judicial heavy weight to me. But whatever...
I think that since you brought up the UCMJ, I request that you find me, exactly, where it says that.
Now, when you start mentioning church groups by their particular titles, you had better include every other church group in the book, because there will always be one, in all of them!
_I_ am a Unitarian ordained priest.
I am sick, sick, sick of all the self-hand-wringing, and woes-is-me's, and I would like to see folks get up and bloody well DO SOMETHING!!
As for me, I can only do so much, since I am also a disabled veteran. Had I gone all "vietnam veteran hollywood supposed cuckoo", I would not be alive, having done my duty to actually erase living Communists within this country, and in so doing my so-called patriotic part, the kind benevolent veteran-loving federal government, would have already applied the necessary current/voltage/amperes to make sure I never did it, again.
I say this, without meaning to sound detrimental, "churchians" are the most timid, scared to do anything outside the doors of whatever chapel, temple, tabernacle, or church, that I have ever seen, and I saw plenty between 1986 to 1994, when I was attending Smithtown Gospel Tabernacle, on Long Island, NY. They would not even go to the local V.A. hospital, when I questioned them, because they might get hurt!
WE do not need "churchians", Christians with a backbone knwing it might be their last breath, yes, but not "churchians"!
And yes, I know x3, it will be that bad, to save the Republic!
I'll leave you to steam with these questions. Who is Barry Lynn? What political and church offices has he held?
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retail $561.18 $376.00
Boutique Flat Drapery
retail $561.18 $376.00
Boutique Crown Pleat Drapery
retail $561.18 $376.00
Custom Drapery (3)
Pair with any blind or shade. High quality, custom fabrics.
Roman Shades (1)
Fabric shades with drapery feel. Array of materials and patterns.
Vertical Blinds (1)
Low maintenance. Fabric or vinyl vanes.
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Opaque / Blackout (4)
Opaque window treatments are made from fabrics or materials that block light.
Semi-Opaque (4)
Although light is substantially blocked, some vague shadows may be visible.
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Blackout (4)
Blackout blinds and shades can eliminate glare on TVs and monitors, make sleeping easier or simply used to darken a room.
Cordless (1)
Cordless lift option easily raises and lowers the blind or shade for convenient and safe operation
Remote Control / Motorized (1)
Take a look at our wide selection of motorized blinds and window treatments
Top Down/Bottom Up (1)
Top down bottom up is ultimate privacy and light control option - raise the shade from the bottom, the top, or both
Vertical Blind Alternatives (3)
Unique visual appeal. Ideal for big windows or doors.
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Bali (1)
Since 1939, Bali has been providing beautiful, quality window treatments to customers around the world. Choose from a comprehensive selection of Bali blinds and shades.
Boutique (3)
Exclusively from Blindsgalore, a designer brand featuring a contemporary collection of window treatments crafted with built-in luxury features
Levolor (1)
Levolor, one of the most recognized names in custom blinds and shades, has set the standard in window fashion, design innovation and product quality since 1914.
New Additions (4)
Check out the new additions to Blindsgalore's selection of custom window treatments
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Bedroom (1)
Take a look at all of our recommendations for window blinds and shades for your bedroom
Living Room (1)
Take a look at all of our recommendations for window treatments for your living room
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Energy Efficient (1)
Energy efficient window coverings help lower your utility bill and while making your home more beautiful.
Child Safe (1)
Blindsgalore offers a wide variety of window treatment options that improve child safety.
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customer reviews for large windows
"easy friendly help superior to local str"
By satisfied buyer from alpena mi.
I shopped local and big town super store and the service and knowledge cannot compete or compare to your site.View this product
"Pleased in Bristol, Illinois"
By Blind Happy from Bristol, Illinois
We are very pleased with the vertal blinds we ordered. They are beautiful, fit perfect and were easy to install. Also easy to open and close, only wish we had purchased them sooner.View this product