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Here I am sitting with my mother bored out of my mind. My Dad, two brothers and Grandpa are currently in Africa on 'The Great Manly Hunting Exploration' trip and my mom, my two dogs and I have the house to ourselves. Which at first glance is amazing; no noise of an alien biting the dust off the XBOX, no manly grunts or other such manly type noises one's would expect to come out of a man. Just my mom quietly reading a book and me enjoying a nice glass of raspberry wine surfing the net.
Yes the quiet is very nice... for the first two days. My mom is amazing, but she is not as crazy as my brothers. Right now, turning on the XBOX 360 and playing tag team on Resident Evil 5 would be so awesome right now. I unfortunately do not see my mother enjoying such a game. Not that my mother hates video game. I was unable to play Dragon Origins for the longest time because every time I went to play the game, I would find my mom glued to the TV putting the Evil Shadows in their place. Unfortunately she has never been too fond of a first person shooter.
By the way I am a 28 year old still living at home with my parents. Yes.... you are reading it correctly. I am an unmarried, plus size, 28 year old woman still living with mommy and daddy. I would like to blame it on the current economic state that our world is in, but that would just be lying and I feel as a blogger to its reader, I should be truthful. I find being able to afford a wardrobe and super cool shoes way more important than the pride of living on my own and surviving on ramen noodles. Girl has to have priorities and I have them! Go me!
I am going to school to get a better job, so please do not think I am a total loser. A tiny part of me is hoping I will meet a nice guy who finds me absolutely luscious and who would love to take me away and become my sugar daddy husband. I have hope, for I know Vin Diesel is still single! Until then though, school is my only hope.
Anyway, back to the point, here I am bored. We have already ordered pizza, watched movie and did the whole mess around with make-up thing.
So I thought, "Hey! Maybe I should start a blog!"
Me, of course says, "Awesome idea! Let's go get another glass of wine so I can be all cliché and stuff."
So here I am blogging about my fantastic idea to write blogs. Of course some of you are sitting there thinking; the girl is just a drunk and is just looking for any excuse to have another glass of wine. Actually it is more the girl is just looking for another excuse to act out a cliché. If I could actually find my glasses and it wasn't 90 plus degrees outside, I would be wearing a pair of glasses with a boring sweater on because all the writers in movies wear their glasses and old sweaters when they write.
There are thousands of thoughts and opinions I wish to write down, for I do have many thoughts and opinions which I think you will find very important! Alas, I have finished my second glass of wine and it is making a tiny bit sleepy. So, I am off to sleep, happy that I was able to feed my boredom.


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Shoreham Beach Bonfire is ready…. are you?
They are a hardy lot those bonfire builders! Despite the worst of today's weather the bonfire is built and ready to go. Well done too all those that come along to help.
The weather looks like its improving for this evening so now we just need to wait for the fun to begin. Procession leaves Shoreham Beach Green at 6.30pm, bonfire will be lit around 6.45pm.
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"Undoubtedly, it is the enemies of the people and the government of Pakistan that are fanning the flames of sectarian and religious conflicts in the country in an attempt to fulfill the sinister objectives of the enemies of the Islamic Ummah,†Araqchi said.
At least 15 people were killed and over two dozen severely injured in a bomb attack on a Shia mosque and religious seminary in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday.
Local security officials said the attack occurred when people were performing Friday prayers on the outskirts of the city.
Elsewhere in the southern port city of Karachi, at least four people were killed and four others wounded on Friday after a number of unidentified militants exchanged fire with each other and hurled hand grenades at a group of police officers that arrived at the scene.
Human Rights Watch says more than 400 Shias were killed in Pakistan in 2012, which was the deadliest year on record for the Shia Muslim community.
Reports say the anti-Shia terrorist group of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) was behind most of the attacks on Shia Muslims in Pakistan.
The killing of Shias has caused international outrage, with rights groups and regional countries expressing concern over the ongoing deadly violence.


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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
My Grandma is finally home, and I can go back to my normal routine. I missed her tons, and staying in the house all the time was super boring. I think we plan on decorating the house for christmas soon, I can't wait to show it to you all!
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Sometimes serious, sometimes funny, always trying to be warmth and light, focuses on parenting, and the unique struggles of raising a large Catholic family in the modern age. Updates on Sunday, Tuesday and Friday...and sometimes more!
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Waiting for Mensa to Call...
The first three days however, I gave it a shot and you know what? I did it.
What a rush.
The first day I solved the problem, I felt like "Hello, I'm Super Mom and me and my magnificent brain thingy are going to solve all your problems. Ask me how to go from COAST to SLIDE in seven steps, changing only one letter each time and each time making a word. Go on…Ask!"
No one asked.
The second day, I solved the math pattern problem and got the answer right but the method wrong. Close enough I thought. I GOT THE RIGHT ANSWER. Sherry G. Antonetti…supra genius. I like the way that rolls out….Sherry G. Antonetti….supra genius.
Reality hit back hard when the toddlers found the left over Christmas wrapping paper and unrolled it to get the cardboard tubes. Hey Genius the mess seemed to mock, how to you clean this up?
On the third day, it was a Tom Swifty and though I unscrambled all the words correctly, when it came to phrasing, I got it wrong. Being a Supra Genius, I said, "Who cares?" And then to prove the point, I wondered, "Why do Tom Swifties exist at all?"
The next two days were the weekend and I didn't get to the calendar. Come Monday, it was a word problem. I hate word problems. I got it wrong. I tried to justify my answer. It was still wrong. Still, my record was 3-1-1 so I was shaken but not out of the genius running.
Yesterday. A pattern question. I spent all day puzzling over this one. All stinking day. When I finally checked my answer and got it wrong, I declared it a cheat test of my intelligence if they don't give all the rules. When my husband looked at the puzzle and remarked "That's tough." I casually let slip, "Oh, it's every letter that is made of only straight lines." I had my reputation to maintain.
It has become an epic battle just to know what day of the week it is. I dread being given yet another chance to prove my ignorance on a daily basis, but I go back to it, just as surely as I do the super hard Sudoku. Today's puzzle, a letter problem.
"Place the same three-letter word in each blank below to make three different words."
Maybe there's a B-Team for Mensa.
By the way, the answer, (I looked on the back), is TEN --Get it, today's the tenth. The Supra Geniuses of the world are sniggering at my piddly intellect.
8 comments:
- brian said...
This is a serious question: what is the answer to the Mensa Page-A-Day question for January 8th? I recycled mine too quickly and it's driving me crazy!
Thanks in advance!
- January 10, 2008 at 1:07 PM
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- January 10, 2008 at 1:13 PM
- SherryTex said...
Okay. The January 8th question was: In a souvenier shop, the prices are set according to the owner's whim. An airplane costs 12cents, a doll, seven, and a top, five. According to this system, how much will a wagon cost?
Answer: 8 cents (it's the 8th), vowels are 1 cent, consonants 2.
- January 10, 2008 at 4:11 PM
- brian said...
I gotta tell you, though, the more of these Mensa page-a-day ouzzlers I do, the less impressed I am with that organization.
- January 10, 2008 at 5:22 PM
- Larramie said...
Why, of course, the answer is TEN. It's very obvious, especially when you've handed us the answer. ;)
- January 10, 2008 at 8:12 PM
- elasticwaistbandlady said...
That's why I've only ever filled out the application for The Hee Haw Lifetime Fan Club Membership. No pressure or fear of being ridiculed for my low intellect there.
- January 11, 2008 at 5:48 PM
Honestly, Mensa is a complete money-making scam. They're self-proclaimed geniuses that make a killing on stroking the ego of anyone that scores "above average" on a generic test. Yes, I was harassed to be a member, and I say harassed, because they continued to send me crap in the mail for a year after taking the test. They want a LARGE yearly membership feel, plus you have to buy all the merchandice (a Mensa yearbook? Please...) not to mention paying to get your picture in the yearbook, etc. It's a money-making venture.
As for the calendar, I'm only up to April 14th, and it's already the second error I've found. (They're actually giving you the wrong answers here... Way to go Mensa.) That's about a 1.7% fail rate on their questions, after HOW many self proclaimed geniuses looked at/proofread/edited this thing?
The answer to the one about the gloves is 6, not 5. Today's answer is 37 cents, not 47 cents.
- April 14, 2008 at 11:14 AM
Well, someone's a bit cynical... I'm thinking either failed the Mensa test, or genuinely can't afford that whopping $52 per year (that's over three whole months of World of Warcraft!)
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Will New Zealanders take to calling it "Hewitt-Packard" now, particularly since a Delaware court threw out Walter Hewlett's lawsuit over misleading statements and shareholder coercion before the merger? Or perhaps Hewlett-Paqard? We just hope the New HP doesn't end up like New Coca Cola, or New Labour, for that matter.
Pretty ditty
Sun wanted to celebrate its 20 years as a company in style. Sure, it could have had a rip-roaring party in Sydney for local execs, customers, journalists and analysts. It really, really could have. But instead the IT vendor commissioned a pleasant six-minute piece of classical music, premiering it at a music festival the company sponsors in the Yarra Valley near Melbourne. Sun assures us the piece will make it on to its website. Called "A Little Diary of Transformations" (though this may be changed), composer Richard Mills' mini concerto for clarinet and string quartet "celebrates the concept of transfiguration, organic growth and energy in three short contrasting segments", the first "built around an initial gesture which undergoes a series of dramatic metamorphoses, the second lyrical and contemplative and the third joyful and dancing". We suggest getting your Sun sales rep to whistle it.
Noblesse oblige
And speaking about Sun, any rumours you may have heard about Australasian head Jim Hassel winning a fabulous second prize in a raffle at the Musica Viva festival in the Yarra Valley are absolutely false. No, he in fact won first prize. This was an invite to the next year's music festival (which is run at the grand Domaine Chandon vineyard, with views, food, wine, etc to die for). Hassel of course immediately put it back into the draw. Or he would have if he was there; his marketing boss made an executive decision, knowing what a nice and fair fellow he is.
The brand's the thing
Why would you call a data storage distributorship Orange? Well, storage is built from components like disk and fibre-channel and management software, like the segments of an orange, explains Joel Norton of newly founded Xiotech agent Orange Data Storage.
It can be put together in modules and its physical units hidden from the user view, like putting oranges in a box and boxes on a pallet … Besides, Norton says, it's a cheerful, attention-getting colour and makes for economical keepsakes for prospective clients. Instead of branded desk toys, paperweights or calculators in everyone's place at a seminar, "we can just hand out oranges".
Storage rival EMC gave out boxed polished steel yo-yos at a recent event. Is it a good idea, we wonder, to associate the concept of "up, down, up, down" with data storage? An EMC man explains that the company's storage needs so little maintenance "that you're going to have a lot of time on your hands". Our staffer reports that the "cool" yo-yo is a hit with his teenage daughter. Oranges don't excite her a lot.
Dead ducks
"You want that smiley face in the bottom of the bath." Radio frequency identification specialist Chris Hook's slightly odd metaphor for the customer's response to achieving the "sweet spot" at the low point of a complex cost curve. He did a drawing of it, which we would have reproduced here to help you (and us) figure our just what he was getting at, but our reporter sadly didn't take it away.
Spam scam
Have the police taken to spam to spreading warnings of ATM fraud? E-tales, like fifteen million others, received several copies of an email warning, purportedly to be originally "from a friend in the police in Auckland". The message warned of fraudsters putting plastic "sleeves" into ATM card machines, preventing the ATM from reading the strip.
"Meanwhile, someone behind you watches as you tap in your number ... Eventually, you give up, thinking the machine has swallowed your card and you walk away." The thieves then remove the plastic sleeve and card and empty your account. Almost word for word, the original text of this appeared on April 5 in a message forum. Then, last week, a very slightly re-written version of this, dated April 30, appeared as a news story on a South African website. The Auckland Police had never heard of it, but then they would say that ...
Bottle bots
Robots really are taking over the world. A Warwick University report says the UK installed 1941 new robots in 2001, the largest ever one-year increase, taking Britain's grand bot total to 13,500. They have their uses: in Florida, engineering student Jean-Philippe Clerc has created a robotic barman, called Abor, standing for autonomous beer-opening robot. The device runs along a bar top, steadies the bottle, places the opener under a cap and lifts it before backing off. Made from 150 parts, including 20-plus metres of wiring, Abor took four months to build. Clerc says he went through 134 beers "for calibration and testing purposes", though he personally prefers wine and champagne.
Football drunks and droids
Meanwhile, preparations are underway for the annual Robocup soccer tournament in Japan in June. Swedish scientist Peter Nordin has created "Priscilla", a human-sized robot built around a plastic skeleton with human-like feet, complete with toe bones.
Professor Nordin of the Chalmers University of Technology has created smaller 60cm-high siblings Elvis and Elvina, to compete in smaller robot leagues. And adding to soccer World Cup fever, Budweiser is letting British boozers take a world cup penalty in its virtual shootout promotion in some UK bars. Players will wear a virtual reality headset, visor and foot sensor that takes them to a 360-degree virtual stadium where they are invited to beat a computer-generated goalie. Participants will also face the reality of pressure facing their real-world counterparts, because their efforts will be displayed on large plasma screens for the rest of the bar to watch, reports news website ananova.com.
Laptop life
People use their laptops in the funniest places, says Intel. The processor producer surveyed 2400 users and found laptops have been used at weddings, funerals, in coal mines, on the top of grain towers, on a Grand Canyon hiking trail, while riding a horse, while riding a cow and even while building a chicken coop. More normally, the survey found, 81% of users have used the laptop while watching TV, 60% while still in bed, 54% while eating, 48% while undressed or in underwear (including one E-tales contributor, who surfs on his Acer while wearing only boxer shorts, can vouch for that), 41% while as a passenger in a car, 39% while outdoors and 20% while on a bus or train.
Feel the noise
Massachusetts Institute of Technology believes people will be able to add emphasis and emotion to their call by squeezing their phones. Its media mab, reports ananova.com, is developing phones that record the strength of the users' squeeze and transmits it as a vibration to the recipient. When users grip the phone, they depress tiny speakers and pressure sensors that vibrate against the skin. Squeezing with a certain finger will even transmit a vibration to the recipient's corresponding finger, the lab says. Researcher Angela Chang told New Scientist that early trials have created a new form of expression and that "vibrolanguages" could one day be as popular as text messaging, as people sometimes want to communicate things without bystanders realising. We have no idea what they mean.


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In most Jewish households, including those of my friends with Jewish families, the first night of Passover is reserved for family, while the second night's seder is held with friends. Next year, Erev Pesach will fall on a Monday night again. It was our feeling that if we held it on the first night in 2011, we'd have the same short seder as this year.
Next year, we're going to try to hold the seder on the second night. Perhaps we'll get some more people, with different experiences and perspectives to liven up the seder. If we don't get more people, then I may try a different Haggadah, to see if that will spark a different set of discussions.
Bear in mind that these are just the negatives. The positive far outweighed them; it was a grand evening. It's just that I'm always looking for ways to improve.
Food notes (mostly for myself):
- 30 minutes is plenty of time to bake pearl onions. Next year, consider finding some kosher-for-passover sauce recipe for the onions that's easy to prepare.
- I left out full-size baked onions, eggplant, and roasted garlic, because I knew we wouldn't have many people there. There were still plenty of leftovers. I'm not going to re-introduce them into my seder meal unless we have vegetarians or vegans present.
- The apple kugel turned out fine... considering that the egg whites I whipped the night before "un-whipped" by the time I cooked them. Consider leaving the egg whites separate and whipping them just before I bake the dish.
- The chicken soup with matzoh balls was great, but not everyone likes the extra veggie bits I put in as much as I do. Tone that down. Make more matzoh balls next time, at least enough to fill a one-quart container.
- I don't need both potato kugel and baked potatoes. Stick with the kugel; folks have baked potatoes all the time.
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Kingston, Jamaica, May 5, 2017 – The suction dredge OCEAN TRAVERSE NORD and its crew are currently in the port of Kingston, Jamaica. They are getting ready for to begin maintenance dredging work in the waters of the port for the Petrojam company.
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X crashes every few minutes. Always seems to crash while in gEdit of
Staroffice. The exact same hardware platform was stable with 5.2, 6.0,
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Can recreate and send core dumps.
Any workaround until this is fixed?? Read the existing bug report and
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Please recommend something soon, as my productivity is being eaten up by X
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Historical fiction obsession. The Problem With Cancer Memoirs. Popular accounts ignore the underlying race and class dynamics that determine vulnerability to the disease.
My frustration with Kalanithi's memoir may lie with the genre itself. Memoir, by its nature, highlights the uniqueness of the writer's experiences. I have spent many hours in a cancer ward. It's a spotless, fluorescent-lit expanse divided into "pods," a space-age terminology that is reassuringly high-tech. "You can't coddle white brothers and sisters": The fiery racial gospel of Michael Eric Dyson. Eloquence is essential to the cultivation of constructive citizenship and the emergence of productive leadership.
It is not coincidental that the window dressing of America's current moment of structural decay is the degradation of language. Barack Obama, for eight years, performed his role as communicator-in-chief with an elegant array of rhetorical mastery at his disposal, from the pithy phrase to the professorial dissection of a sensitive subject. President Donald Trump suffers from such a limited vocabulary that he can describe everything in only the most extreme terms, regularly misspells common words on Twitter — his preferred medium of truncated communication — and has made our national discourse resemble a middle school reading of a "Beavis and Butt-head" transcript.
The debasement of language is not only influential but instrumental in the decline of political and cultural standards of belief and behavior. Donald Trump needs to read this book: What he doesn't understand about jihadists and counterterrorism will make America less safe. Last week, President Donald Trump banned the entry of 212 million Muslims from seven countries, with the objective of saving the "Homeland" from "radical Islamic terrorism."
Trump invokes this expression with a sneer, attacking the courage of those who argue for a more nuanced approach to the terrorist threats facing the United States. Sadly, Trump channels both Goebbels and Lenin, who knew that a good slogan almost always beats a hard truth, and that in politics nuance almost always loses. The ban will make America less safe, not more, for jihadists do not disguise themselves for years as helpless refugee families fleeing the Islamic State's murder and rapine.
It directly substantiates the jihadist narrative that the United States is engaged in a war against Islam, will anger countless millions of Muslims hitherto well-disposed to the U.S. and will incite more extremists into jihadist to blow us up or slit our throats. None too soon, the eminent terrorism scholar Peter R. Gay penguins children's story tops list of most censored books in US school libraries.
Social decay: what the conversation about Trump and the white working class misses. Reads: George Hodgman's Bettyville. In tender and often hilarious prose, George Hodgman's memoir, Bettyville (Viking, March 2015), describes his experience moving from Manhattan to his hometown of Paris, Missouri, to live with his aging and ill mother, Betty.
Hodgman, a writer and former Vanity Fair editor who spent much of his career in New York, chooses to transform his life by becoming his mother's primary caregiver. In addition to being a heartwarming read, Hodgman's memoir is deeply relevant: Currently there is increasing attention to the needs of elder care workers, and policy changes are slowly beginning to reflect those needs.
2016 Recap: Our Favorite Books. We're taking a break this week to reflect on some of the best feminist writing of the last year.
Today, we're recalling our favorite feminist books: most were published in 2016, but we've cheated and included a few great older ones, too. Let us know what we missed, in the comments! Dana: While Han Kang's short, spare novel, The Vegetarian, has received almost universal acclaim, everyone seems to have a different idea of what it's about: agency, subversion, eating disorders, mental illness, patriarchy, Korean family structure, suicide, rebellion. #Charlestonsyllabus. Prayer Vigil for the Nine Victims of the Charleston Shooting Here is a list of readings that educators can use to broach conversations in the classroom about the horrendous events that unfolded in Charleston, South Carolina on the evening of June 17, 2015.
These readings provide valuable information about the history of racial violence in this country and contextualize the history of race relations in South Carolina and the United States in general. They also offer insights on race, racial identities, global white supremacy and black resistance. All readings are arranged by date of publication.
This list is not meant to be exhaustive–you will find omissions. #Charlestonsyllabus was conceived by Chad Williams (@Dr_ChadWilliams), Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis University. SCARY BOOKS. The Novels Everyone Should Read, Based on Top Book Lists and Prizes. White Trash. White Trash author Nancy Isenberg.
Authors: N-Z. Authors: A-M. Bettyville. Must-Read Feminist Books of 2014. At Ms., we're often the first to know which highly anticipated feminist books are coming out and which feminist giants have taken to the pen again.
Countless new books pass through our editors' hands, and then we pass our recommendations onto our readers. Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge. If you lived at Downton Abbey, you shopped at Selfridge's.
Harry Gordon Selfridge was a charismatic American who, in twenty-five years working at Marshall Field's in Chicago, rose from lowly stockboy to a partner in the business which his visionary skills had helped to create. At the turn of the twentieth century he brought his own American dream to London's Oxford Street where, in 1909, with a massive burst of publicity, Harry opened Selfridge's, England's first truly modern built-for-purpose department store.
Designed to promote shopping as a sensual and pleasurable experience, six acres of floor space offered what he called "everything that enters into the affairs of daily life," as well as thrilling new luxuries—from ice-cream soda to signature perfumes. Isaac's Storm. Johnstown Flood. Chapter 1 The sky was red.
God Help the Child. Photo. Essential reading: Jane Mayer's 'Dark Money' "Although nobody agrees with me, I am of the opinion that the only sound countries in the world are Germany, Italy, and Japan, simply because they are all working and working hard," he wrote in a letter to a friend. Koch added, "The laboring people in those countries are proportionately much better off than they are any place else in the world.
When you contrast the state of mind of Germany today with what it was in 1925 you begin to think that perhaps this course of idleness, feeding at the public trough, dependence on government, etc., with which we are afflicted is not permanent and can be overcome." Needless to say he had a profound influence on his sons, going so far as to hire an authoritarian German nanny to raise them—which may have a lot to do with who they have become. By the early 1970s the John Birch Society and the conservative movement itself had become sidelined, considered too extreme for American politics. The Journey Of August King. The Good Mother Myth. Anakin Tweet Tells Christians the Best $16 They Can Spend.
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text: Haven't had a run for 7days since my lovely run in York . Did lots of walking round York and a 4.65 k along the beach at Bridlington with the sons family plus General the dog, unfortunately Barry caught a chill and not been too good. I had to drive home, not done much motorway driving but really enjoyed it . Been out this morning it was hard work with the hills round here, only did 3.11k but made it out the door.


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Have used T-Mobile in the UK before and found the service to be far slower than NZ's mobile broadband, but after some research i found they were known to be slower than other carriers and O2 was the best for speed.
I'm going to be using 5-10GB.
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It's a moving and eerie experience to visit the museum, taking up the very spot Lee Harvey Oswald fired the shots that perhaps killed the president.
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OCEAN SPRINGS, MS (WLOX) - Coastal residents added their voices to those calling for the end of energy policies that hurt the environment. The Hands Across the Sand demonstrations took place on beaches around the world on Saturday. In South Mississippi, the concern centered around the state government's plan to allow offshore drilling off coastal waters.
For five minutes people stood hand in hand on Ocean Springs Front Beach.
"It's part of our many efforts to show that we do care. We don't need oil rigs in the Mississippi Sound or around the barrier islands," said Steve Shepard of the Sierra Club.
If drilling is allowed in the Mississippi Sound, the 12 Miles South Coalition said the local economy would suffer. So group wants any oil rigs to be at least 12 miles south of the barrier islands.
Raleigh Hoke of the Gulf Restoration Network said, "This is really about protecting our coastal tourism industry. As people are coming to the coast, they don't want to sit on a beach and see drilling rigs right of the coast. We don't want to see that either because our economy here is so based on tourism."
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By taking part in an international stand against irresponsible drilling, the Coalition hopes to make the community realize the threat to South Mississippi beaches.
"Drilling rigs also mean more industrial ship traffic. More pipe lines and a greater risk of accidents and even catastrophes like the BP disaster," Hoke said
"I think the Hands Across The Sands is a way of saying we want a better world in the future. We don't want to do the things that are ruining our planet," Shepard said. "People need to realize when we are not separate from Mother Nature. We are dependent on Mother Nature so when we mess with Mother Nature we're really messing with our own future."
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Now that I have a month of blogging about wine under my belt, I thought it was a good time for some reflection.
If we look back at my posts thus far, one thing is abundantly clear: I am addicted to value wines. Like, I mean I am a total cheapskate. I don't think I have reviewed a bottle that has been over $40, and I have plenty that are.
The whole rating point scale aside, and there was already a piece on this today on Decanter if you want a breakdown, one might ask what value truly means. To me it simply is this:
For it's price, a wine should present a better than expected example of its style. This does not mean that a $15-20 Cabernet has to be a Haut-Brion copy, but that it should show itself to be a cut above the other $15-20 offerings.
However, a variable quality that a wine can have is a story. A special bottle shared with special friends makes up for any flavor characteristics I was hoping to find.
A lemon of a California Cabernet? Probably doesn't matter if I am at a grand party with my girlfriend.
A corked Pinot? Had that on the patio in Hawaii, choked it back all the same (more on that later, I really shouldn't have).
To that end, it is important to relax once in a while and enjoy a wine rather than analyze it to the n'th degree. After all, this is mostly what it's about, isn't it? Enjoyment? Wine is a fascinating thing and rather than quantify it down to its polyphenols, occasionally it can be just that: fascinating.
If you choose, there are a couple very good breakdowns I've listed below on what constitutes value and how you do not need to blow a whole stack of cash for a decent bottle. Check them out:
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MBP #14: Toni Anderson, The Happy Housewife, on How to Build a Rockstar Team to Run Your Blog
What if I told you that you could put into place a system that made it possible for you to leave your blog for several months and it would still be here when you came back?
Take a quick peek at The Happy Housewife. Started by Toni Anderson in 2008, the business is now run on a daily basis by one very capable editor, one business manager, and an army of writers that keep it stocked full of valuable information for folks looking to better manage their homes.
It wasn't always like that.
It started as a single-author blog, like so many do, written by a military wife homeschooling seven kids. If that wasn't enough, in addition to The Happy Housewife, Toni does consulting for big brands in the areas of social media, outreach, and branding.
If you're a blogger looking to grow your business and outsource some of the day to day, this is a must listen episode because we discuss how she built up and manages this infrastructure. If you're on the flip side, looking to join a team, we discuss what and where she looks for talent.
What will you learn in this episode:
- How she started The Happy Housewife as a resource for military wives
- How she built the infrastructure such that she could leave for months and the site wouldn't miss a beat
- How she finds, evaluates, and compensates staff writers, which were her first hires
- How she found, evaluated, and compensates her editor and her business manager
- How she's the Queen of England
- How this infrastructure started from a conversation with J.D. Roth (our guest for Episode 1)
- How she has a graphic designer and two developers/tech support on retainer
- What she does to emphasize the team and gets buy-in from all of her staff
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It's a tough gig being a top Hollywood director at times. For example, a recent petition, which has currently garnered over 20,000 online signatures, calls for future Star Wars: Episode IX helmer Colin Trevorrow to be replaced by none other than George Lucas himself. Despite the avowed hatred his prequels still generate, it seems some fans like the idea of the bearded one calling shots on the last of the nine-film series. Trevorrow had kept a dignified silence on the whole thing… until now.
Speaking at the BAFTA Awards Tea Party on Saturday, Trevorrow seemed pretty unfazed by the whole affair:
It's funny, I saw that, and it was on a day where I was at Lucasfilm giving this big speech to everyone about how we want to channel the invention and just the raw creativity and the boldness that George brought to these films and not being afraid that we're going to embarrass ourselves by doing something that might be crazy.
He then eloquently describes how he and Episode VIII director Rian Johnson are collaborating:
A story must evolve or perish, and Rian and I are working closely together to make sure our stories build off of each other and continue to evolve and take us to new places, and I think that's what the fans expect and what they want.
We're gonna go out on a limb here and say the petition will amount to nothing. Of course it won't. Yuri Luiz of Sao Paulo is the guy who set it up and his argument is centered solely on Lucas being the father of Star Wars and that having the director of Episode I direct Episode IX will somehow making the circle complete. To be brutally honest Yuri, hokey petitions and ancient directors are no match for a helmer at the top of this game at your side.
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The Plastov award celebrates figurative or realist art in the spirit of Plastov's realist socialist paintings. Plastov, who died in 1972, was best known for his depictions of Russian rural life. He was named people's artist of the USSR and was laureate of the Stalin prize in 1946.
According to British artist Ken Howard, who is on the jury panel for 2013, the award will celebrate a style that has been neglected in favour of abstract or conceptual art.
The award was launched in 2007 but this is the first time the value of the prize is so high. This is also the first year it is open to international figurative artists.
The culture minister Vladimir Medinsky says he would like the award to become the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for art.
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i dont care who wins that match but im sick in the pit of my stomack from him getting titel shot after titel shot hes like batistia he gets a titel shot at every ppv did wwe forget that fans like more than one person getting tittel shots?
I agree, They give all of those title shots to the same person adn than they eventually win after(about 95% of the time) their last chance.
And you guys are right, Batista gets all the Title shots he wants it seems...he's had I believe at least 6 or 7 since he lost his Tile at Wrestlemania, on the other hand though the main reason for this is really because (with Taker gone) Batista is the 'main guy' now on Smackdown, with all the injuries and no real main event worthy guys on the Smackdown roster he should be in the spotlight to sell the product on the ailing Smackdown...but I do believe now it's time to pass the torch onto someone else, frankly Mystereo vs Khali will be somewhat refreshing after all the repetative Batista/Khali matches.
And I've been saying this for months (even before he was Champion)...Khali simply does not know how to work with guys smaller than him, he barely moves in the ring...he just stands there when someone hits him. At least Big Show knew how to work with guys smaller than him in a match...wheras Khali just can't seem to grasp it. Who knows maybe it'll take some more time for him to learn but in my eyes I don't think he'll ever get it...
Well I was kind of hoping the Batista/Khali feud would last to Unforgiven to a big gimmick match to end the feud(Pujabi Prison maybe) but I guess not... you will find out what I'm talking about this Friday.
why khali is champ its probably because they wanna fool the fans into thinking nobody can beat him, but then they get some1 like batista and hell beat him... thats only my opinion though
there getting a promo going for the undetaker to have a fude with him
Well I was kind of hoping the Batista/Khali feud would last to Unforgiven to a big gimmick match to end the feud(Pujabi Prison maybe) but I guess not... you will find out what I'm talking about this Friday.
i kinda agree with you but the wwe needs what i call "fun" matchs more often by that i mean hardcore hell in a cell cage 2-out of-3 falls tabel TLC etc. the last "fun" match i can redber was at the great american bash i know these guys cant go thourgh it every night but maybe a tittel shot with hardcore rules or like last unforgiven that hell in a cell match etc.
I have a fast question Who is your most liked wrestler on ECW, Smackdown, Raw, and TNA if you watch it?
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Many of us have been running from the fight as long as we can remember, in hopes that we would never have to face that battle ever again. Many of us have become cunning, and adapted to methods and schemes of evasive action for the purposes of escaping challenges and battles that must be won and difficulties that must be faced.
It's ok for you to think that that these measures may work, because the truth is, they have for a while. Haven't they? There are conversations we need to have, but we compromise internally and say to ourselves, "It's not my place, it's none on my business. Let it slide." There are addictions we need to break, but we say "I'll be good, things are okay. Life goes on." There are devils we need to face, but we cloud it in, "Oh God's not real, if He did then…"
The truth is this, there will come a fight for each and every one of us and it won't matter your age, gender, status or belief. There is a common enemy of man that has been deriding your efforts at success, eroding your dreams of a good marriage, suffocating your desires to be the person God has called you to be.
There is a FIGHT!!! There is a fight; and it has to be fought or I guarantee you upon the solid basis of scripture that you will not only lose, you not only will die, but you will be destroyed! When the Bible asked us to fight the good fight of faith, God knew the devil was going to attack your belief system in yourself, in your neighbor and in Him. There is a fight, and that fight must be won, for the eternal destiny of a nation, your loved ones, your family and yourself.
Let he who is running, run no more! Let he who is sleeping, awake! Let he who is fearful, take up their weapon of war! FIGHT!!!! Fight for your life; because, as it says in the statement, your life depends on it!!!!


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Wimbledon 2016: Serena Williams 'heavy favourite' to beat Angelique KerberJuly 09,2016 14:13
Saturday's match, which starts at 14:00 BST, will be broadcast live from Centre Court on BBC One, BBC Radio 5 live and the BBC Sport website. Later, the Williams sisters will face Hungary's Timea Babos and Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan in the ...and more »
Kerber is playing in her first Wimbledon final, while Williams is contesting her ninthLadies' singles final: Serena Williams v Angelique KerberDate: Saturday, 9 JulyStart: 14:00 BSTCoverage: Live on BBC One, BBC Radio 5 live and BBC Sport website.Serena Williams is a "heavy favourite" to equal Steffi Graf's open era record of 22 Grand Slam titles by winning the Wimbledon women's singles final, says 1999 champion Lindsay Davenport.Williams, 34, hopes to win her seventh SW19 singles title when she meets Germany's Angelique Kerber on Saturday.Fourth seed Kerber, 28, beat Williams in the Australian Open final and is looking for her second major title."Serena is moving better than she did in Melbourne," said Davenport.
Wimbledon 2016: Serena Williams serve key against Kerber"She is the heavy favourite just based on the surface. And that's not to mention being a six-time champion and the level she has played at over the past two weeks."Williams reached her ninth Wimbledon singles final by thrashing unseeded Russian Elena Vesnina in 48 minutes, while Kerber beat Williams' 36-year-old sister Venus.Saturday's match, which starts at 14:00 BST, will be broadcast live from Centre Court on BBC One, BBC Radio 5 live and the BBC Sport website. Later, the Williams sisters will face Hungary's Timea Babos and Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan in the women's doubles final.Where to serve and the final shot: The anatomy of championship point
Serena Williams has much more Wimbledon experience than Angelique KerberWill Serena feel the pressure?Williams last year moved ahead of Martina Navratilova into second on the list of most Grand Slam wins with victories at the Australian Open, Wimbledon and French Open.That put the American within one of German legend Graf, who won her 22 majors between 1987 and 1999.She missed the chance to draw level - and complete her first calendar Slam - when she was beaten by unseeded Italian Roberta Vinci in the US Open semi-finals.Williams has lost the two major finals since - beaten by Kerber at the Australian Open and world number two Garbine Muguruza at the French Open.Tracy Austin, a two-time Grand Slam winner, thinks the pressure of moving level with Graf may be playing a part."When Serena won here last year to get to 21 we all thought it would not be long until the 22nd," said the American."By Serena's standards it has taken a while - it has taken a whole year."She is hitting the ball cleanly and serving well so she is the clear favourite - unless nerves take over."
Wimbledon 2016: Serena Williams beats Elena Vesnina to reach ninth finalCoach 'kept Serena interested' in SlamsWilliams' focus on overtaking Graf seemed to sharpen following the appointment of Patrick Mouratoglou as her coach.She joined forces with the Frenchman, who had previously coached Britain's Laura Robson and Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, following a first-round defeat by world number 111 Virginie Razzano at the 2012 French Open.Since teaming up with Mouratoglou, she has won eight of the past 16 majors.The Mouratoglou effectPre-MouratoglouPost-MouratoglouWins523244Defeats10720Winning %83%92%Grand Slam titles138Grand Slam-winning %27%50%"She gives so much credit to Patrick - and he should get a lot of credit," said Austin."He has changed Serena's game, helping her put a little bit more top spin on her forehand."Most importantly, he has made her understand that she could be thought of as the greatest in the history of women's tennis."She has gone macro in chasing Grand Slam titles and it kept her interested."What makes the perfect Wimbledon champion?Can Kerber stop the Serena serve?Kerber knows she can beat Williams on the biggest stage having done so on the hard court in Melbourne.But beating the top seed on a grass court at Wimbledon is an entirely different proposition, says Davenport.Williams tops the serving stats at this year's tournament, firing down more aces and faster serves than anyone else.While her first-serve percentage does not rank in the top 20, she makes the ones she does get in count."A high percentage of Kerber's returns have to go back to Serena," said Davenport. "And this is the most difficult surface to do that on." Serena's supreme servingAcesFastest serveSerena Williams (61)Serena Williams (123 mph)Elena Vesnina (31)Sabine Lisicki (122 mph)Karolina Pliskova (25)Venus Williams (121 mph)First serve %First serve points %Sara Errani (85)Serena Williams (81)Monica Niculescu (76)Samantha Crawford (79)Marina Erakovic (73)Karolina Pliskova (79)
This Hawk-Eye graphic shows how accurate Williams has been with her first serves, only 6% landing in the middle of the service box'Athlete Kerber has incredible defence'While Williams is an experienced hand at Wimbledon finals, Kerber will be competing in her first at the All England Club.The left-hander has enjoyed an almost faultless run, not dropping a set in her six previous matches.She has bounced back from the disappointment of losing in the first round at the French Open last month - her first major since becoming a Grand Slam champion.Kerber says she feels relaxed before Saturday's match and believes she is playing the best tennis of her career."Being left-handed has helped Angelique because she has that slice and that is enhanced on the grass court," said Austin."She has never been known to have a big serve, it is more a consistent serve and it has improved in the last year."But that second serve can become a liability so she will have to get a lot of first serves in."
Kerber uses her left-handed serve to keep the ball considerably lower on grass courts than other surfaces, hitting 73% of her first serves so far outWhy are left-handers more likely to win WimbledonWilliams and Kerber have never met on grass before, the American winning five of their seven matches, which have all been on a hard court.However, Austin and Davenport believe Kerber stands as good a chance as anyone of repelling Williams' armoury."Kerber's defence is incredible," said Austin. "There are so many points where you think she is out of it and then she somehow manages to get herself there with quick feet."Davenport said: "She is one of the best athletes playing the game."She is not as powerful as Serena but has great anticipation. She gives herself time, backs up and reads the play. Then she does stuff with her hands to make the balls do incredible things."What Serena says"My goal has never been 22. I don't talk about that any more."Right now I feel like my game is pretty good. I feel good. I felt great in other tournaments, as well. But I feel a little different. I just feel more relaxed and more at peace than I may have been in the past."I made a lot of errors in the Australian Open. Angelique made little to no unforced errors, but it was still a three-set match."I felt like I could have played better. I felt like she played great. She came out swinging, ready to win."She was fearless. That's something I learned. When I go into a final, I too need to be fearless like she was."It was inspiring afterwards to realise there is a lot of things that I need to improve on."What Kerber says"I expect a really tough match. I know that she will go out and try to beat me, especially because she lost against me in Australia. "On grass she is always dangerous. She has won here so many times, she will go for it. I know this. I know I have to play some of my best tennis."I must play my game, being aggressive, just going for it, trying to win the match, not hoping that she will miss. She will not be missing the ball. "She will go out there trying to win. I think this will be very important to take the match in my hands."
Wimbledon 2016: Angelique Kerber beats Venus WilliamsGame, set and statsWilliams is playing in her 28th Grand Slam singles final.In the open era, only Chris Evert (34), Martina Navratilova (32) and Steffi Graf (31) have reached more.Williams has won 78% of her previous Grand Slam finals, behind only Margaret Court (85%) and ahead of Graf (71%) and Monica Seles (69%).Williams has reached the final in seven of the past eight Grand Slam finals.Saturday's match is the first time since 2006 that two women have met in multiple Slam finals in the same year (Justine Henin played Amelie Mauresmo at the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2006).Kerber is the fifth left-handed woman to reach the Wimbledon final in the open era.Kerber is aiming to become the first German to win Wimbledon since Steffi Graf in 1996.Williams will remain the world number one - a position she has held since February 2013 - even if she loses.Kerber will rise to a joint career-high ranking of two.
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I love going back to the family home for dinner, especially when there is something to celebrate!
Here is what we got up to last Saturday night in honor of my little sister Alice turning 28...
As a starter my boyfriend and I prepared a very refreshing little salad of pears, Parmesan, walnuts, pomegranate and mixed leaves with a simple dressing of lemon juice and olive oil.
For the main we had my fathers famous roast ham followed by rich chocolate cake, cheese, chocolates and homemade sloe gin. A wonderful evening.


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She offers planner pages, planner stickers, and even cute binder covers. She sent me (digitally) a few items for me to share with y'all! And I've been finding them to be perfect with the new semester just starting.
I hope y'all enjoyed this post. I've been thinking of featuring more Etsy/small shops here on the blog, what do you think?
He will cover you with his feathers and under His wings you will find refuge.
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Warm Wishes for the Holidays (+ My Husband's Christmas Obsession!)/
That's my husband, Scott, tripping the 'light fantastic' at our house for the holidays. Every time I take a peek there seems to be a new element to his Christmas creativity. I can't imagine what will happen when he retires. You may just have to look for us on the 'The Great Christmas Light Fight'. I'll agree, if Carter Oosterhouse is our judge, just saying! ;)
The count down is ON!!! We have finally finished our last-minute shopping and gift wrapping. Are you done, too?? We will be traveling AND hosting for the holiday season this year. We intend to celebrate with many branches of our family and enjoy every moment.
Thank you for stopping by Style*Mind*Chic Life this busy season.
Wishing you an unforgettable holiday with those you love.
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Groups get out the vote in Brooklyn before primaries
With hours ticking by for New Yorkers to register to vote in the presidential primaries, groups are getting the word out in Brooklyn.
New York City residents have through Friday, Jan. 11 to register to vote in the Feb. 5 primaries for the Democrat or Republican of their choice. Voter registration forms are available at City Council members' offices.
The New York City Voter Assistance Commission has proclaimed 2008 Voter Awareness Year. It is holding non-partisan registration drives throughout the five boroughs.
Many campaigns, such as Democracy in Action, are working to register immigrants. The state translates voting literature into several languages. Advocates say people often delay getting their citizenship, losing their ability to vote.
"There are a lot of issues in our community," says Margaret Chin. "Affordable housing, quality health care, adequate education and comprehensive immigrant reform. That's what we're all concerned about."
In order to vote, people must be an American citizen, a New York City resident for at least 30 days and be at least 18 years old. Other restrictions apply.
The presidential general election is Nov. 4.
Related information:Board of Elections in the City of New York


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Emily Kisner
How difficult is it for you to balance athletics with your academic requirements?
"Sometimes late games get in the way of my school work, but that just means I have to really study hard."
Who has had the biggest influence on your life?
"My parents. They have always supported me. I don't what I would do without their help and love."
How much time do you invest in practicing on your own?
"I constantly set the ball in my room and sometimes play pickup games with my friends at the park."
Where is your favorite place to hang out?
"At home. I'm a real homebody."
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Halo density reduction by baryonic settling - Astrophysics
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Abstract: We test the proposal by El-Zant et al that the dark matter density of haloscould be reduced through dynamical friction acting on heavy baryonic clumps inthe early stages of galaxy formation. Using N-body simulations, we confirm thatthe inner halo density cusp is flattened to 0.2 of the halo break radius by thesettling of a single clump of mass \ga 0.5% of the halo mass. We also find thatan ensemble of 50 clumps each having masses \ga 0.2% can flatten the cusp toalmost the halo break radius on a time scale of \sim9 Gyr, for an NFW halo ofconcentration 15. We summarize some of the difficulties that need to beovercome if this mechanism is to resolve the apparent conflict between theobserved inner densities of galaxy halos and the predictions of LCDM.
Autor: J. R. Jardel, J. A. Sellwood Rutgers University
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Jeremy Glaser: We don't know if it will be another wild week in the market or not, but there isn't much in the way of earnings or data that's likely to leave a big mark.
Walmart reports on Tuesday. The wide-moat retailer had robust top-line growth last quarter with a 50% increase in e-commerce revenue, but profitability slipped. Analyst John Brick sees the shares as overvalued today.
Home Depot is also due Tuesday. The firm has been on a roll, aided by the tailwinds of a strengthening housing market, but analyst Jaime Katz sees it as pricey today.
One retailer that looks undervalued is Advance Auto Parts. The firm has been under pressure from Amazon's entry into the category, but Zain Akbari thinks the narrow-moat firm will be able to execute on its ongoing turnaround effort. Shares shot up after last quarter's earnings, but Akbari still sees value. HP Inc and HP Enterprise both report this week as well.
There isn't much data, with existing home sales and the weekly look at initial unemployment claims on tap.
Stay tuned for our take on all of these stories.


text: The London marathon today inspired me to get up and have a go at running! I have been an exercise-phobe since I was young and have never been any good at running. First one today on the treadmill required effort but was do-able. I can't imagine making it to week 2 let alone week 9 but everyone's posts on here (especially the people who have graduated or are close to it) are very encouraging! I hope I can keep it up!


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- Swapping medication meant that, for one night only, I was able to eat Real Food! Not much, but still - it was the most I'd had in well over a week
- ...and I kept it down!
What were your victories this week?
I totally hope for you to be able to eat normally and gain some weight. When I didn't gain weight once in between appointments, my midwives were already getting nervous. How exciting that your friend is expecting, too! You'll have someone to meet up with once baby Taylor is here! A friend of mine had a baby boy only 20 days after Calvin was born, and we just met up for the first time with the kids. They boys were quite interested in each other, but Calvin got a little concerned about his standing when I mentioned how adorable Bastian was :-)ReplyDelete
Ha, lve that you are looking at the weight loss as a bonus in some ways. I once kick started a new year with the flu, I lost half a stone and didn't need to diet all year! I do hope that you feel better soon though.ReplyDelete
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An undeniable practical reality prompted it: our building is on the market, and it's full of stuff we don't want to take with us. But there is a deep spiritual component to this work that I don't want us to miss.
First, before we bemoan the problem our stuff has created, it's important to recognize that at some point every bit of it was sensible. Each bulging crate and overflowing closet began with someone's fundamentally good intention: to help God's "will be done and his kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven." For every item tucked into a box or a corner, there is a person, somewhere, who can tell you a story about how it helped draw people closer to God. Our stuff and the people who collected it aren't stupid or dishonorable. It's the opposite, actually.
But here's the thing we need to grapple with now:
Those old stories? They've pretty much ended.
As crucial as our stuff might once have been, a lot of it hasn't contributed to a good story for many, many years. Some of it, in fact, is undermining new stories before they get started.
On our first floor, two offices and a classroom have essentially become big closets. And all the other rooms are at least partially dedicated to storage. That's not necessarily bad, until you consider what else we could have done with those spaces:
- move the main office, pastor's office, and lounge downstairs and convert the upstairs spaces into more convenient, family-friendly classrooms, nursery/toddler space, or hospitality areas.
- rent/donate office space to another church or non-profit partner
- set up a dedicated prayer room, art studio, gallery, rehearsal space, writing/study center, etc.
Forgive me if this comes across as blunt, but I don't believe it's good stewardship to let so many things linger unused, doing as little good as they would in a landfill. Nor is it good stewardship of our building to treat ministry space like a landfill.
From that standpoint, weeding-out is needed simply to reclaim our building and our stuff. But I also find myself wondering where our stuff problem came from. Maybe it's just a procedure problem–we need to stay on top of things better. But it feels deeper than that. It feels like a symptom of something else.
Think back to Mark Weber's teaching on the parable of the four soils. One of the unhealthy soils was filled with weeds–specifically wealth and worry. Good seed could take root there, but competition for space and nutrients quickly choked out any good growth.
Do we share some broken instinct that has caused us to hang on to things we ought to let go? If so, I don't want to take it with us to our next building.
When we move, I want it to be to a place that will help us be better worshipers of God. A place that will help us do a better job of introducing human persons to our personal God. A better base from which to work together to shape our lives after Jesus and our world after the pattern of God's kingdom.
I don't want to move to a new building just to fill it with cardboard and plastic. Weeding out seems like a great way to get ahead of that possibility and cut it off. And maybe it will instill some new positive patterns of decision-making.
But here's the final wrinkle. If our stuff is the outer symptom of inward brokenness, then no project, no good intention, no herculean effort is going to fix it. Healing–of both individual hearts and whole churches–is the domain of the Holy Spirit. It is only God's grace that will lead us to wholeness. It is Jesus Christ who will show us the way.
This is the Gospel: what once was good became tarnished and destructive. The tarnish was too deep, the destruction too broad to be solved by anyone but God. And so he did, by absorbing the tarnish himself, by destroying destruction. And then he set everything on a new path.
And this is our response: to recognize our faults for what they are, to hand them to God and ask and trust him to handle the consequences, and then to follow his lead into the future.
Maybe our stuff is part of a good story after all. As mundane as they may seem, the piles in Mosaic's basement are telling each of us our own stories, reminding us of where we've been, where we are, where we can be.
The question for us to answer now is who will write the next chapter?
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Fuel cell using a hydrogen generation system
United States Patent
|October 19, 2010
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|Sandia National Laboratories - Visit the Intellectual Property Management and Licensing Website
|A system is described for storing and generating hydrogen and, in particular, a system for storing and generating hydrogen for use in an H.sub.2/O.sub.2 fuel cell. The hydrogen storage system uses beta particles from a beta particle emitting material to degrade an organic polymer material to release substantially pure hydrogen. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, beta particles from .sup.63Ni are used to release hydrogen from linear polyethylene.
|Dentinger; Paul M. (Sunol, CA), Crowell; Jeffrey A. W. (Castro Valley, CA)
|Sandia Corporation (Livermore, CA)
|12/ 719,448
|March 8, 2010
|STATEMENT OF GOVERNMENT INTEREST This invention was made with Government support under contract no. DE-AC04-94AL85000 awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy to Sandia Corporation. The Government has certain rights in the invention, including a paid-up license and the right, in limited circumstances, to require the owner of any patent issuing in this invention to license others on reasonable terms.


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DALLAS (CBS.MW) -- Oil refiners closed lower Thursday as inventory data indicated slowing demand for gasoline.
On Wednesday, the Energy Department and the American Petroleum Institute both reported a significant increase in gasoline supplies for the week ended July 16. See story.
"The inventory data suggests that demand is declining," said Fadel Gheit, an oil company analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. "But that is following a peak week, which was [that of] July 4th."
Also, share prices in the sector have averaged gains of more than 50 percent since the beginning of the year, Gheit added.
"People may be saying, 'Why not quit while you're ahead,'" he noted. "Investors are torn between greed and losing it all."
The group had traded higher in morning dealings after Sunoco SUN, +1.09% reported a second-quarter profit almost triple what it earned in the year-ago period.
Philadelphia-based Sunoco also soundly beat analysts' expectations as refining margins jumped on strong demand for gasoline. See full story.
Shares of Sunoco were off $1.19 to close at $64.98, Premcor PCO, +9.02% eased 71 cents to close at $38.21, Tesoro Petroleum TSO, +0.00% lost 72 cents to close at $28.08 and Valero Energy VLO, -0.24% shed 77 cents to close at $73.34.
More broadly in energy sector trading, the CBOE Oil Index OIX, -3.40% was up 0.3 percent to close at 362.36, the Philadelphia Oil Service Index OSX, -1.85% edged higher by 0.1 percent to close at 110.16, the Amex Natural Gas Index XNG, -0.17% added 0.1 percent to close at 248.14 and the Philadelphia Utility Index UTY, +0.86% slipped 0.6 percent to close at 313.49.
Among individual stocks, shares of Burlington Resources BR, -1.60% rose 19 cents to close at $37.35 after the company reported a 36 percent increase in second-quarter earnings late Wednesday. See full story.
In commodities dealings on the New York Mercantile Exchange, crude for September delivery rose 78 cents to settle at $41.36 a barrel.
Natural gas for August delivery jumped 3.7 percent to settle at $6.152 per million British thermal units after the Energy Department reported that supplies climbed less than expected for the week ended July 16. See Futures Movers.