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Black History Month: Some time ago, February was designated as Black History Month. I have mixed emotions about that particular designation. I think it's always a good thing to focus attention on history, particularly American history since so many Americans really don't know a lot about their nation. I suppose the whole idea rose from the notion that the school system in this country didn't really mention much about African-Americans except in the context of slavery. However, I have a problem with a focus on a particular group of Americans. I am not saying that it's wrong to have such a month; I guess I really think that its too bad that it was a necessity. You see, those individuals who are discussed in February are part of American history and I believe that they should be seen simply as Americans because all citizens, past and present are, in my view, my American brother and sister and my fellow American. Race, religion or ethnicity does not add or dimish their position as an American. Another thing that bothers me is the a grand oversight. I've gone to some Black History Month presentations and they always quite properly include Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Sometimes they talk about the contributions of George Washington Carver at the events of which I have attended. Typically following the discussion of such well-known luminaries, they go off into some modern rappers or sports stars. If it's a good presentation, then it will rightfully include Jackie Robinson, but Mr. Robinson sometimes loses out to other Americans whose acheivements really don't measure up to that of Robinson or Carver and certainly not even in the same neighborhood as Dr. King. But, almost every time, they leave out someone whom I believe to be one of the most important Americans in our history. His name is Frederick Douglass and all Americans should know about the man.
Even though Douglass often is left out of the Black History month discussion, his life was actually part of the reason why February has the designation. The foundation of Black History Month dates back to the 1920's when a Harvard doctoral graduate and former slave chose the month of focus since both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass were born in February and Douglass also died then as well. Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland in February 1818. Douglass often suggested that his mother, Harriet Bailey, conceived Douglass following the advances of white man who was not his mother's husband. It may be for that reason that Douglass did not live with his mother but instead was put in the cabin of his grandmother Besty Bailey by owner, Captain Aaron Anthony. Even though he lived with his grandmother, it didn't take long for Douglass to be hired out and so his familial ties were not strong. In 1826, he went to Baltimore to work and live in the household of Hugh and Sophia Auld. Sophia was Capt Anthony's daughter and Douglass lived with the couple for 7 years from 1826 to 1833. During that time, he watched the Auld's young son and also was taught to read and write by Sophia…that is until Hugh told her to stop. But, the seeds were already sewn.
Douglass continued to teach himself to read and write on his own. He secretly helped organized schools for slaves. He resisted his position as a slave. He tried to escape and was imprisoned for awhile and was sent to a plantation where slaves who needed to be "broken" were sent. But, he never bowed. In 1838, he broke his bonds and escaped to New York. He got married and had children. He fell in with abolitionists. He had read books related to oratory and taught himself to make public speeches. At the age of 23, he gave a speech at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society convention and caught the attention of many abolitionists included renown abolitionist William Garrison. Now, Douglass given name was really Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey but he realized that if he were to go on the speaking circuit, then he'd have to change his name to Frederick Douglass. Afterall, he was officially a fugitive slave and could be returned to slavery. So, he adopted the last name of Douglass.
On two occasions, Douglass fled to Europe to avoid recapture. On one of his trips, sympathetic Europeans who heard Douglass speak raised money and bought his freedom. By the time of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass finally was safe in the land of the free and home of the brave. His autobiography that detailed his life in slavery was a huge hit and the words he wrote and the words he spoke were significant contributors to the ultimate destruction of slavery. Not only for the general public, but also for President Abraham Lincoln who consulted with Douglass regarding Lincoln's policies and thoughts concerning slavery and the emancipation issue. That included an idea Lincoln had about creating a colony in South America where freed slaves could live. Lincoln for a time had the notion that Blacks and Whites were never intended to live together nor was it possible. While he did not believe in equality of the races, Lincoln also felt it was morally wrong for take what was earned from "the sweat of another man's brow." Douglass impressed him as a tremendous mind and thinker and also took into consideration Douglass' admonition that America was as much his country as it was the President's. Remember, Lincoln was born in the country just 9 years prior to Douglass. Lincoln knew that Douglass had a very good and strong point.
Frederick Douglass was a proud man. He was a tough man. He was a smart, self taught man and great thinker. He was bold and fearless. Not only did he contribute to the rights of Blacks, he also lent his name and effort to the equality of women. He even was on the ticket for an early feminist presidential candidate. Age did not diminish his courage though. After his first wife died, he married a white, feminist woman and that, he said, brought condemnation and scorn from both Blacks and Whites alike. His story is absolutely remarkable and one that every American should know and be proud to be able to say that Frederick Douglass was our American brother. So, as Black History month comes to a close just remember that the legacy and life of a great American, Frederick Douglass, deserves as much recognition and acknowledgement as any American. In my view, there is no other adjective beside "American" is needed to describe Frederick Douglass. As he did in life, he can stand on his own for the ages.


text: First of all, I'd check experience of working with young learners- I am dripping with qualifications but have no experience of young learners, so would probably be a poor choice. If you're living in the US, then your daughter will presumably be attending school there, so a knowledge of the requirements of the primary or secondary education system would be very important. These are the most important things that I would be looking for. I'd also ask them to show the kinds of materials they plan to use and have a look through them.

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|"The Riverbank" by Henri Matisse
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Becoming a Word Artisan
13 comments:
- Beth K. Vogt said...
OK, I've already ordered "Word Painting." I've had this book recommended more than once. It was past time that I bought it.
Your examples were so helpful, Julia--especially since I'm an L.M. Montgomery fan, run-on sentences or not.
Favorite word artisans: Rachel Hauck and Susie May Warren.
- July 12, 2011 at 7:10 AM
- Julia M. Reffner said...
I think you'll enjoy Word Painting. The exercises are especially helpful. I agree, Susan is fantastic, have only read one of her books but will have to fix that soon and I don't believe I've read Rachel Hauck, but I'll need to add her to my list.
- July 12, 2011 at 7:45 AM
- Joanne Sher said...
This books looks WONDERFUL - and like it would help me much. May have to pick it up. Great post!
- July 12, 2011 at 8:39 AM
- Julia M. Reffner said...
Thanks, Joanne. I think it is a great read.
- July 12, 2011 at 9:40 AM
- Mary Vee Writer said...
How unfortunate that Montgomery's sentence would be poo pood today. The sentence flowed as the river it described. I loved it. Is it really so wrong to write a sentence like that today? Well, not every one, but perhaps one planted in the right place?
Thanks Julia. Great post.
- July 12, 2011 at 10:19 AM
- Jeanne Takenaka said...
Great post, Julia. I loved your examples. As has been said, they really help emphasize what you're talking about. They put me in the setting immediately. I'm going to have to buy that book too. :)
My new favorite word artisans are Rachel Hauck (you do need to read her :)), and Liz Curtis Higgs.
- July 12, 2011 at 10:41 AM
- Julia M. Reffner said...
I'm in agreement with you. I love her flowery style, even though it might not be appreciated today. I think one author that captures that beautiful old-fashioned style is Laura Frantz.
- July 12, 2011 at 11:21 AM
- Julia M. Reffner said...
I loved Mine is the Night, so definitely have to go back and read the rest of the series. As a matter of fact I thought about including an example from that book as well.
Come to find I did read one Rachel Hauck, Dining with Joy and really enjoyed it. I want to look for her Southern series at the library, though, I love Southern fiction.
- July 12, 2011 at 11:24 AM
- Sherrinda Ketchersid said...
Oh, I defenitely need that book. Description and painting a scene is one of my weaknesses. I prefer dialogue and action. But obviously I need both. :)
Nice post and great examples!
- July 12, 2011 at 11:27 AM
- Julia M. Reffner said...
Me, too...I much prefer dialogue...which is why I've been studying up hoping to improve.
- July 12, 2011 at 11:45 AM
- Pepper said...
Great post, Julia. Word Painting is a fantastic book. It really slowed me down to consider how a well placed phrase can speak more than an entire paragraph.
And Anne of Green Gables - love it! Sure it's a different era of writing (like Austen), but it's flavor of descriptive is classic.
And Mine is the Night - WOWZERS!! I still 'feel' the effects of reading Liz's novel. FABULOUS!
- July 12, 2011 at 4:14 PM
- Naomi Rawlings said...
Hmm... I've never read the book. Okay, I've never even heard of it, though I have heard "word painting" before. Anyway, my favorite "word painter" in the CBA would be Kristen Heitzmann, hands down. The woman is brilliant in that regard.
- July 12, 2011 at 5:06 PM
- Angie Dicken said...
I am a sucker for great description. I recently began reading Siri Mitchell's She Walks In Beauty and found this word picture:
"Five minutes before the stroke of four, Aunt sailed down the staircase, resplendent in a visiting toilette. I fell into her wake as she passed by..." I love how she used "sailed" and "fell into her wake"...perfect!!
- July 13, 2011 at 9:55 PM


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Anyways, I just picked this up off AliExpress for $69. Here's my initial impressions.
- Cart was PLUG & PLAY for me from the jamma edge
- No video issues, I get a nice clear steady image
- Quick and responsive Front End selection menu
- I've only noticed framerate issues on the CPS3 games (Street Fighter 3), all other games seem to run pretty well
- Buttons & Joystick inputs feel very responsive
- Nice built-in IO test for buttons and joysticks
- Requires your "P1 Coin" to be wired up. Must add coins to navigate and select games. No free play mode. I wired up a dedicated button beside my board.
- Some games have sounds that seem "soft" or the quality has been lowered. Doesn't seem to be all games, and those that do still seem perfectly playable. Note: I'm also running the mono audio from the jamma edge. I haven't tested the line out connector via an amp yet.
- Street Fighter 3 ha framerate issues
- Golden Axe is playable but enemy death SFX are really loud
So far I'm pretty happy with this little board. I was burnt before with a Happy Fish multi board and the Pandora 3 BLOWS it out of the water in terms of game performance. If anyone has any specific game video request just let me know.
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Time and again I always say that I know and believe that miracles still do exists and happen. However, every time I'll get a personal miraculous testimony from a reader who has acquired an amulet or the Vajrapani Ruel, I still do get excited. You see, sometimes the stories are almost the same, but the details of how it happened varies and that is what excites me.
Today, allow me to share with you the story of Misha. Misha is 47 – year – old wife and mother of 5 kids. She and her husband Gerry married late and so all their kids are still in either elementary or high school.
Misha would described themselves as middle class and can't be classified as rich, but she also said that little by little their life is getting better. In fact, 6 – years – ago she and her husband decided to make a down payment for a condominium in Quezon City. They were initially eyeing a different unit from a different developer, but they can't afford it and they will have to wait a few more years before they can move in to the said condo. While this one is more affordable, albeit it is also smaller, but the good thing is that they are able to move in ASAP. And so they moved in to the more affordable one.
This is when their problems started. It was not an overnight problem but rather something that is gradual. Little by little they noticed that money seems more difficult to come in. Business is not as good. But they really didn't think much of it because everybody seems to be complaining about bad business. Soon they were able to finish paying for their condo, and as expected they'll be able to get the title for the said unit. But, 8 months after fully paying for the said condo, the developer is still unable to give them their title, and then they found out that some of their neighbors who fully paid for their units also were not given their titles. Some of these have fully paid their units for 2 years already. It was also at this time that they hit rock bottom, there are months that there income in their business becomes negative, the worst was when it hit negative for 3 consecutive months. If it were not for their savings they would have starved already.
It was at this point that Misha contacted me. She was actually not a believer, and this is her first 'venture' to Feng Shui and is just desperate for a miracle to work. When she inquired about the Vajrapani Ruel and found out how much she would have to shell out for the exchange of energies she backed out. I think she was even a little irritated because she quipped that how can she shell out a relatively big amount of money when her problem is also money. She also said that she saw some people who have said bad things about Feng Shui and about me and so she said she wouldn't be getting it. But after two weeks she called again, because it looks like they will have to go to court to get the title of their condo. And she said she's just really desperate. And so I decided to meet with her and give her the Vajrapani Ruel, I still remember her parting words that day, she jokingly said that if the Vajrapani Ruel didn't work she will look for me and kill me!
First week nothing happened, and everyday she would call me demanding for her miracle, second week still nothing happened, and she would still call me everyday demanding for her miracle. Then one day, I also got tired of her 'whining' and complaints, and told her that she can just return the Vajrapani Ruel. She said she will do just that but she didn't call back to set the date when we can meet so that she can return the Vajrapani Ruel. Because I was also busy I sort of forgot her, although every now and then I would think of her calling but because of my busy schedule I would fail to call her.
Then after about 4 months from when she got the Vajrapani Ruel, I got a call from her, I was in a meeting when she called and failed to answer. I thought she was calling me to finally meet with me again to return the Vajrapani Ruel. Then she sends me an sms, and that's how I first found out about her miracles!!! I was just so happy for her, because even though she became a little irritating when she calls me everyday, I sincerely want her to have her miracle because I know her persistent calling stems out of her concern for her family.
Apparently, what happened was after we talked, her husband told her to just ignore me and not return the Vajrapani Ruel. She then decided to listen to her husband. However, two days after that there was a big business deal that came in, their first and biggest in years! And so her husband thought that it might be due to the Vajrapani Ruel, however Misha decided that she would not draw conclusions yet.
But since then, money from different business deals continuously comes in. They soon found themselves turning down some clients because they can no longer accommodate them. However, there is still a problem of the condo. They have been consulting lawyers already and will likely go to court already. Going to court is really expensive, and somebody told them that there is still some available unit in the condo that they initially want. However, even if they're earning already, buying that condo is not a prudent decision. It is at this point that Misha decided to try the Vajrapani Ruel again. She said she talked to it and said that she is still not sure if the financial blessings is due to the Vajrapani Ruel, she clarified also that she sort of apologized for being doubtful, but she 'challenged' the Vajrapani Ruel, she said she may fully believe if they are able to get a full refund of their current condo, and use that money to buy the other condo, the one that they really prefer.
Misha said 4 days after she 'talked' to her Vajrapani Ruel (I think in reality she was talking to Bodhisattva Vajrapani) they met with the developer, there they got what they wanted a full refund, this is a miracle because the developer was firm in not giving a refund, and they were the first one ever to get a refund, although there a lot of them who are complaining and claiming for a title. She got the check within 3 days after that meeting.
She then used the whole amount to pay for the condo that they prefer. And since that was much pricier, they still have two more years to pay for the rest. She contacted me a week after they've settled the payment for their new home. She now also wants to get more Vajrapani Ruel and some Traditional Sutra Amulets that they can place it in their new home.
Now, isn't that a miracle?
You can also read the following posts about the Vajrapani Ruel:
- The World's Most Powerful Amulet in the Buddhist Pantheon Called the Vajrapani Ruel.
- The Vajrapani Ruel Stories: The 17th Karmapa's Relatively Easy Escape; The Miraculous Release of a Tibetan Monk from Chinese Prison and Labor Camp; and The Wealth Luck Bestowed Upon a Repentant Prodigal Son.
- The Vajrapani Ruel Stories (2): How A Man Got His Land Back After A 20 – Year – Old Legal Bottle.
- The Vajrapani Ruel Stories (3): Early Karmic Death Was Erased with Good Deeds and the Vajrapani Ruel.
- The Vajrapani Ruel Stories (4): Received the Needed Financial and Wealth Blessing to Solve Money Problems.
- The Vajrapani Ruel Stories (5): In the Nick of Time and Money Problems Solved with the Help of the 'Hated' Gift.
- A Reader Receives A Precious Gift from the Abbess of the Lotus Temple and Some Quaint Vajrapani Ruel Stories.
- Vajrapani Ruel Stories (6): Getting to Work Abroad.
- The Kuan Yin with Heart Sutra and the Vajrapani Ruel Helped an Entrepreneur Solved Her Problems.
- Vajrapani Ruel Stories (7): Miraculous Healing and An Unexpected 'Miraculous' Financial and Wealth Luck.
- Coincidence or Another Vajrapani Ruel Story?
- Did the Vajrapani Ruel Triggered a Past Life Recall?
- Vajrapani Ruel Stories (8): Amazing Financial Luck and 5 Condo Units All Because of the Vajrapani Ruel.
- Vajrapani Ruel Stories (9): Two Bags Full of Money Helps Solve Family Financial Problem.
- Vajrapani Ruel Stories (10): Simple Miracles But Miracles Nonetheless.
- Vajrapni Ruel Stories (11): Acquiring A Property, Avoiding Problems Brought About A Natural Calamity, and Life Simply Becomes Easier All Because of A Wonderful Gift of Luck.
- Vajrapani Ruel Stories(12): Finding Long Lost Father With A Bonus of Finding True Love!
- Vajrapani Ruel Stories (13): Migrating to Canada and Breaking – Up with the Live – In Partner.
- Vajrapani Ruel Stories (14): Winning A Contest On A National Television!
- Vajrapani Ruel Stories (15): 90 Million Pesos Mutual Fund Deal Closed Without A Sweat!
- Vajrapani Ruel Stories (16): Chased After By Jobs.
- Understanding the Vajrapani Ruel Stories: Clarifying the Difference in the Miracles and Why The Anonymity of Those Who Experienced It.
- Expecting A Good Harvest and Temporarily Acquiring A Much Coveted Property: Another "Vajrapani Ruel Stories" and A "Wish Fulfilling and Buddha's Blessing Mantra Pendant" Personal Testimony.
- Vajrapani Ruel Stories (17): How A Man Helped His Mother Get Her Land Backed After More Than 20 Years of Trying!
- Did the Vajrapani Ruel Manifested It's Power to A Person Even Before She Received It?
- Vajrapani Ruel Stories (18): Borrowed Luck Lands Him A Job In A Japanese Company!
- Did the Vajrapani Ruel Make Him See the Future that Helped Save His Life?
- Vajrapani Ruel Stories (19): A Difficult Pitch That Ended in a Totally Different But Wonderful Way!
- Be Grateful for Miracles No Matter How "Small": Two Simple Vajrapani Ruel Stories and How Those Who Experienced It Are Teaching Us A Lesson About Gratitude.
- Vajrapani Ruel Stories (20): When A Sales Clerk Unexpectedly Became An Entrepreneur!
- Vajrapani Ruel Stories (21): Fulfilling the Dream of Having An Uber Car Service Business!
- A Simple Wish Fulfilled Thru A Simple Vajrapani Ruel Miracle.
- Vajrapani Ruel Stories (22): Winning A Court Case Against An Influential Family.
- Correct Diagnosis Because of the Vajrapani Ruel.
- Vajrapani Ruel and Surangama Mantra Amulet: A Comparison
- The Amulet From Within: A Story About How The Vajrapani Ruel Failed to Work and How Forgiveness Did.
- Counting Money and Counting More Money: Simple and Short Vajrapani Ruel Stories About Readers Who Increased Their Wealth Luck!
- Vajrapani Ruel Stories (23): Carnapping Case Dismissed Without Prejudice!
- Vajrapani Ruel Stories (24): Miraculous Wealth Gift Received In Time of Need!
- Is the Vajrapani Ruel Really An Amulet for Financial Luck and Wealth Luck?
- Vajrapani Ruel Stories (25) : Illegal Detention and Murder Cases Against An Underdog Politician Dropped! (How The Vajrapani Ruel Saved A Person Without Him Knowing.)
- Vajrapni Ruel Stories (26): Raising Enough Money to Finish One's House and an Unexpected Additional Business!
- A Short But Heartwarming Vajrapani Ruel Miracle Shared By A Reader.
- Vajrapani Ruel Stories (27): An Actor Experienced A Downpour of Financial Blessing.
- Another Simple Vajrapani Miraculous Story: How A Simple Request to the Vajrapani Ruel Revealed Evidence of Deceit!
- How the Vajrapani Ruel Helped Fixed the Flight Problem of the Personal Plane of My Business Client and Publisher!
- What is the Next Best Thing If You Can't Have the Vajrapani Ruel?
- Financial Blessing, Recuperation of Career, Justice from Maltreatment of School Officials – A Story of A Family Who Received Several Miracles: A Vajrapani Ruel and Ing Deng Pay Personal Testimonies of A Reader.
- The Vajrapani Ruel Brought Blessings to the Children of a Loving Mother.
- Meeting a Long Time Friend Who Happens to be A Generous Actor: How The Vajrapani Ruel Created An Opportunity that Helped Solve a Financial Problem!
- Wealth and Money Luck "Delivered Right At the Doorstep": A Simple Vajrapani Ruel Miraculous Story!
- How to Enhance the Eight Aspiration Energy of Your Vajrapani Ruel Using Crystals (1): Wealth Luck!
- How to Enhance the Eight Aspiration Energy of Your Vajrapani Ruel Using Crystals (2): Love Luck!
- How to Enhance the Eight Aspiration Energy of Your Vajrapani Ruel Using Crystals (3): Mentor Luck and Family & Descendant Luck!
- How to Enhance the Eight Aspiration Energy of Your Vajrapani Ruel Using Crystals (4): Fame Luck and Health Luck!
- How to Enhance the Eight Aspiration Energy of Your Vajrapani Ruel Using Crystals (5): Career Luck and Education Luck; Plus How To Strengthen the Protection Energies!
- Vajrapani Ruel Stories (28): Financial Blessing, A New Job – An Overseas Filipino Worker Received Some Miracles!
- Chanting the Mantra of Bodhisattva Vajrapani Creates A Powerful Energy Akin to the Wish Fulfilling Mantra and Negative Karma Cleansing Mantra!
- Combined Power of the Vajrapani Ruel and the Surangama Mantra Amulet Brought Some Financial Blessings and Mended A Family Broken by Financial Problems!
- Breezing Through the German Language Exam (A1 – Start Deutsch 1) With the Help of the Vajrapani Ruel – A Personal Testimony of A Reader!
- Money Comes In With A Simple Wish While Holding A Vajrapani Ruel: Another Personal Testimony of A Reader!
- Financial Blessing By Way of A Mysterious Money Deposit Received Two Days After Receiving the Vajrapani Ruel: A Personal Testimony of A Reader.
- Vajrapani Ruel Stories (29): Twelve Million Pesos Deal From An Online Lead!
- A Reader Shares Her Stories About the Vajrapani Ruel, Illness Suppression Amulet, Buddhism, and Other Things…
- A Permanent High Paying Job in Singapore Bought About By the Vajrapani Ruel: A Personal Testimony of A Very Vocal Non – Believer!
- Financial Luck One After the Other; Wish Fulfilled; And Saved From A Definite Harm or Even Death: Another Overseas Worker Shares Her Miraculous Personal Testimony About the Vajrapani Ruel.
- Buying A Desired Property for Her Mother 3 Days After Receiving the Vajrapani Ruel: An Overseas Filipino Reader Shares Her Miraculous Story About the Vajrapani Ruel.
- A Mother's Financial Problem Miraculously Solved And Her Wish For Her Daughter Came True – A Personal Testimony of A Reader!
- Half – A – Million Pesos Financial Luck for the Husband; A Career Luck of Promotion for the Husband; And Continuous Flow of Money Luck and Wisdom Luck of Creativity for A Reader Who Got the Vajrapani Ruel and the Illness Suppression Amulet: A Personal Testimony of A Reader!
- 900K Development Fund Released After Experiencing Some Hardships: A Reader Shares His Personal Vajrapani Ruel Miraculous Story.
- From Miserable to Charitable: A Transformation of A Reader Who Experienced Some Blessings Because of the Vajrapani Ruel and Surangama Mantra Amulet!
- A Different Kind of Vajrapani Ruel Miraculous Story.
- Financial Problem of An Illegitimate Child Solved When He Was Able to Claim His Inheritance Thru the Help of the Vajrapani Ruel: A Personal Testimony of A Reader.
- A Problematic Businesswoman Experienced Her First Vajrapani Ruel Miracle Within Three Days of Acquiring It: Vajrapani Ruel Miraculous Personal Testimony of A Reader.
- Financial and Wealth Blessings from A Problematic Sale of A Property: A Personal Testimony About the Vajrapani Ruel and Other Amulets in the Words of A Reader!
- The Proof of the Pudding is in the Eating and Sometimes We Should Realize that Simple Can Be Quite Good: Some Vajrapani Ruel Miraculous Stories and the Lesson We Can Learn from the People Who Experienced Them.
- "Suffering" May Be a Form of Cleansing; A Miraculous Pay Raise After More than 19 Years; And Other Miracles: A Personal Vajrapani Ruel Miraculous Stories of A Reader!
- There Are No Simple and Small Miracles: A Lesson from the Personal Testimony of A Reader!
- Money Luck or Financial Luck Blessings Received in About 15 Days Upon Receiving the Vajrapani Ruel and A Copy of the Traditional Sutra Amulet: A Reader from Dubai Shares Her Personal Miraculous Testimony!
- A Mother's Wish for Her Children to Have A Secured Future Granted By the Vajrapani Ruel (An Unusual Financial Blessing): A Personal Testimony of A Reader!
- A Financial Blessing or Miracle for the Born – Again Christian Who Is Not A Believer of Amulets: How A Simple Miracle Turned A Woman into Believing that there is Indeed Something with the Vajrapani Ruel!
- Financial Luck Received After Receiving the Vajrapani Ruel and Descendant Luck Activated by the Traditional Sutra Amulet: Two Different Personal Testimonies of A Reader and How She Still Saw the Simple Miracle As A Miracle!
- Retirement Pay Withhold for 4 Years Released, Dream House Finally Within Reached, Debt Paid Off – Three Different Problems Solved With One Significant Financial Blessing: A Personal Testimony of A Reader About the Vajrapani Ruel!
- Academic Excellence; A Promotion with A Small Raise in Salary; A More Peaceful Work Environment: A Reader Shares the Joy of Having Simple Miracles from the Vajrapani Ruel!
- Count the Living and the Good News: The Lesson of My Nephew's Death and the Story of A Reader Who Experienced Health and Financial Miracle from the Vajrapani Ruel and the Avatamsaka Traditional Sutra Amulet!
- Becoming A Full Fledged Lawyer and Academic Excellence Attributed to the Traditional Avatamasaka Sutra Amulet and the Vajrapani Ruel: Simple Miracles Shared by EV.
- Somehow Money Comes In When It Is Needed; Dream Project Became Attainable; And A More Peaceful Marriage: Blessings of Wealth Luck, Financial Luck, and Romance Luck – A Vajrapani Ruel Miraculous Story Shared By A Reader!
- After A Series of Failed Business Attempts, A Father Finally Becomes Successful: A Story of Business Luck, Wealth Luck, and Financial Luck, Brought About by the Vajrapani Ruel!
- The Discovery of A Very Negative Entity: A Reader Shares His Experience After Getting the Vajrapani Ruel, Surangama Mantra Amulet, and the Ing Deng Pay!
If you wish to know more about the Sutra Amulet (A Special Recite – A – Sutra Article) Series you can click on the links below:
- The Many Benefits of A Sutra: How A Sutra Can Be Use As An Amulet (A Special Recite – A – Sutra Article)
- "The Diamond of Perfect Wisdom Sutra" Is One of the Holiest and Most Powerful You Can Keep: A Special Recite – A – Sutra Article
- Getting Rid of Bad Luck and Bad Spirits With the Use of A Traditional Sutra Amulet: A Personal Testimony of A Reader (A Special Recite – A – Sutra Article)
- Recite – A – Sutra (9): A Sutra Called Avatamsaka Sutra and Powerful Amulet Called Avatamsaka Amulet that Dispels Off the Hindrances in Our Life's Luck!
- Marital Problem Fixed, Financial Problem Solved with the Unexpected Coming In of a Huge Amount of Money / Problem with Bank Loan Reversed: Two Personal Testimonies of Two Readers with Two Different Sources of Miracles! – And Why Do I Write About Miraculous Personal Testimonies?
- Money Luck or Financial Luck Blessings Received in About 15 Days Upon Receiving the Vajrapani Ruel and A Copy of the Traditional Sutra Amulet: A Reader from Dubai Shares Her Personal Miraculous Testimony!
- Financial Luck Received After Receiving the Vajrapani Ruel and Descendant Luck Activated by the Traditional Sutra Amulet: Two Different Personal Testimonies of A Reader and How She Still Saw the Simple Miracle As A Miracle.
- A Business Deal That Brings In A Huge Financial Miracle and Improves Physical Health: A Personal Miraculous Testimony of A Reader About the Traditional Sutra Amulet.
- The Miracle of Receiving Money from An Aunt: A Financial Miracle of A reader Who Got the Avatamsaka Traditional Sutra Amulet!
- Count the Living and the Good News: The Lesson of My Nephew's Death and the Story of A Reader Who Experienced Health and Financial Miracle from the Vajrapani Ruel and the Avatamsaka Traditional Sutra Amulet!
- Becoming a Full Fledged Lawyer and Academic Excellence Attributed to the Traditional Avatamsaka Sutra Amulet and the Vajrapani Ruel: Simple Miracles Shared by EV.
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Ways to avoid a Southern ass-kicking Apr 1, 2015 17:14:38 GMT -6
Post by caveman on Apr 1, 2015 17:14:38 GMT -6
Issued by the Southern Tourism Bureau to ALL visiting
Northerners, Northeasterners, Northwesterners, Westerners and
Southwestern Urbanites
1) Don't order filet mignon or pasta primavera at Waffle
House. It's just a diner. They serve breakfast 24 hours a day. Let them
cook something they know. If you confuse them, they'll kick your ass.
2) Don't laugh at our Southern names (Merleen, Luther, Tammy
Lynn, Inez, Billy Joe, Sissy, Clovis, etc.) or we will just HAVE to kick
your ass.
3) Don't order a bottle of pop or a can of soda down here.
Down here it's called Coke. Nobody gives a flying rat's ass whether it's
Pepsi, RC, Dr. Pepper, 7-Up or whatever... it's still a Coke. Accept it.
Doing otherwise can lead to an kicking.
4) We know our heritage. Most of us are more literate than
you (e.g. Welty, Williams, Faulkner). We are also better educated and
generally a lot nicer. Don't refer to us as a bunch of hillbillies or
we'll kick your ass.
5) We have plenty of business sense (e.g., Fred Smith of Fed
Ex, Sam Walton, Turner Broadcasting, MCI WorldCom, MTV, Netscape).
Naturally, we do, sometimes, have small lapses in judgment (e.g. John Edwards, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, David Duke). We don't care if you think
we are dumb. We are not dumb enough to let someone move to our state in order to run for the Senate. If someone tried to do that, we would kick his/her ass.
6) Don't laugh at our Civil War monuments. If Lee had
listened to Longstreet and flanked Meade at Gettysburg instead of
sending Pickett up the middle, you'd be paying taxes to Richmond instead
of Washington. If you visit Stone Mountain and complain about the
carving, we'll kick your ass.
7) We are fully aware of how high the humidity is, so shut up. Just spend your money and get the hell out of here, or
we'll kick your ass.
8.) Don't order wheat toast at Cracker Barrel. Everyone will
instantly know that you're a Yankee. Eat your biscuits like God intended
with gravy. And don't put sugar on your grits, or we'll kick ass butt.
9) Don't fake a Southern accent. This will incite a riot,
and you will get your ass kicked.
10) Don't talk about how much better things are at home
because we know better. Many of us have visited Northern hellholes like
Detroit Chicago, and DC, and we have the scars to prove it. If you don't
like it here, Delta is ready when you are. Move your ass on home before
it gets kicked.
11) Yes, we know how to speak proper English. We talk this
way because we don't want to sound like you. We don't care if you don't
understand what we are saying. All other Southerners understand what we are saying, and that's all that matters. Now, go away and leave us
alone, or we'll kick your ass.
12) Don't complain that the South is dirty and polluted.
None of OUR lakes or rivers have caught fire recently. If you whine
about OUR scenic beauty, we'll kick your ass all the way back to Boston
13) Don't ridicule our Southern manners. We say sir and
ma'am. We hold doors open for others. We offer our seats to old folks
because such things are expected of civilized people. Behave yourselves
around our sweet little gray-haired grandmothers or they'll kick some
manners into your ass just like they did ours.
14) So you think we're quaint, or losers, because most of us
live in the countryside? That's because we have enough sense to not live
in filthy, smelly, crime infested cesspools like New York, Baltimore or
Boston. Make fun of our fresh air, and we'll kick your ass.
15) Last, but not least, DO NOT DARE to come down here and
tell us how to cook barbecue. This will get your *** shot (right after
it is kicked). You're lucky we let you come down here at all. Criticize
our barbecue, and you will go home in a pine box... minus your ass.


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Premier League: Sunderland 0 Fulham 1
Sunderland were forced to pay for not taking their chances as Fulham claimed a narrow 1-0 victory at the Stadium of Light on Saturday.
The hosts dominated proceedings from the outset and had a number of good goalscoring opportunities through striker Jozy Altidore, but the visitors only needed one chance as Pajtim Kasami headed home from a corner in the second half.
Paolo Di Canio was without suspended duo Craig Gardner and David Vaughan for the opening fixture, while Steven Fletcher was forced to miss out with the ankle injury that ended his previous campaign in March.
But the Italian coach was able to hand debuts to five of his 10 summer signings, including striker Altidore, Emanuele Giaccherini and Cabral.
Meanwhile, Alexander Kacaniklic was the only notable absentee for Martin Jol, after he picked up a hamstring injury during July's 1-0 pre-season defeat to Werder Bremen.
USA international Altidore looked dangerous from the outset and caused a number of problems for Fulham debutant Derek Boateng, who picked up an early yellow card after a string of fouls.
Cabral also made a bright start to the game and looked to impress the Sunderland fans with some long-range efforts, with his second shot flying a few inches wide of the post in the 25th minute.
Sunderland created the most chances during the opening exchanges and, after Altidore went close to connecting with a Jack Colback cross in the six-yard box, the hosts really started to test Maarten Stekelenburg.
Giaccherini fired a powerful 25-yard effort straight at the Fulham goalkeeper, before Ondrej Celustka forced Stekelenburg into a brilliant finger-tip save with a fierce half-volley from distance.
The hosts could not convert their dominance into goals, however, as the sides headed in at the break goalless.
And Sunderland were made to pay for their wastefulness as Fulham went on to score from their first real chance of the game after the interval.
Kasami towered above Valentin Roberge at the back post to nod home a corner from Damien Duff in the 53rd minute, claiming his first Fulham goal since joining from Palermo in 2011.
But the hosts rallied after going behind and both Adam Johnson and Altidore continued to cause problems for the Fulham backline.
Altidore produced an excellent turn on the edge of the area but dragged his effort wide, before failing to convert Giaccherini's deflected shot from close range in the 75th minute.
The striker injured Stekelenburg's shoulder in the process and the goalkeeper had to be replaced by David Stockdale, which ruled out a late debut for Aston Villa loanee Darren Bent.
Sunderland desperately tried to find an equaliser during the closing stages and substitute Ji Dong-Won went extremely close with a header from a brilliant Johnson cross.
But despite five minutes of injury time, Di Canio's men failed to find the net and suffered defeat on the first day of the new season.
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I have been a fan of Star Wars since the beginning, so this challenge was very exciting for me for numerous reasons. First and foremost, it was a Star Wars challenge! It was also the first challenge of the competition. As we were standing there as a group I remember thinking to myself "Not only did I make it on Face Off, but our first spotlight challenge is creating a Star Wars inspired alien? Wow! How many people would love to be in my place right now?" What made it the most exciting for me though, was that in some way, I had a chance to follow in the footsteps of great special make-up effects artist like Stuart Freeborn and Rick Baker. Their work has always been an inspiration, and this was the challenge of a lifetime for me. I don't know of any other film that has inspired as many generations as Star Wars has.
I still remember the first time I saw Star Wars and the excitement of the first battle scene. The adrenaline rush didn't stop even after the movie was over. I got that same rush when I realized what our first challenge was. My mind started racing with all I could remember about Star Wars creatures and what we could make that would fit, and yet still be something new.
I felt very fortunate to get Rod Maxwell as a teammate. Rod is a very talented sculptor and make-up artist, and I think we made a great team. It was kind of eerie, because we both had almost identical ideas on the way we wanted the design to go. I think it was a little difficult for both of us in the beginning simply because we had only just met and didn't really know each other's skill level. That, however, changed pretty quickly.
Rod and I had the idea to create a character that was a small greedy low-level boss. The exo-suit was based on an idea that I've wanted to create for several years, but hadn't had the chance to fabricate quite yet. This challenge gave me the opportunity to use that concept, as it fit the overall idea perfectly. We could make a creature with as many arms and legs as we wanted. They could be thick or thin. We could put tentacles on it, or anything else we wanted for that matter. We could do things with this character that you couldn't do with a normal character. The trick was making it in three days.
I tried to incorporate a lot of designs from other vehicles on Tatooine in the exo-suit. If you look you can see inspirations from land speeders and sand crawlers. To me, one of the things that makes the cantina scene stand out is the look of the cantina itself. It looks lived in. It's not the clean sterile environment that you see in a good portion of the film. I tried to capture the grittiness of the cantina in the overall look of the exo-suit.
All in all, this spotlight challenge was a lot fun! I was able to work with an incredible artist, and together we created something really cool that nobody has ever seen before! The Star Wars challenge was definitely one of the highlights of my time on Face Off!
On an all-new episode of Syfy's Face Off Tuesday, August 28 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, the artists create original pirate makeups. In a Face Off first, the artist compete to win their very own pirate's booty — $5,000.


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Michelle has once again posted her annual message to the forum!
Click here to read her entire message and member responses!Originally Posted by MichelleWKwan
Merry Christmas, MKF!
Welcome to the 7th Annual MKF Holiday Greeting Card Exchange!
It's that time of year again. For us Americans, Thanksgiving is around the corner and Christmas is less than 6 weeks away! know it's late start, but is anyone interested in participating in the annual MKF holiday card exchange this year?! I know forum activity has been slow, but I'm up for it. We have had an average of just 20 participants for the past few years. I have all the contact information for past participants
2012 Nationals - San Jose, California - Hall of Fame Ceremony
Are you planning to see history first hand? Watch Michelle Wing Kwan be inducted into the Unites States Figure Skating HALL OF FAME!
- Press release
- Michelle's Bio (pdf)
- Picture slideshow (YouTube)
- Michelle's 'Skating Magazine' covers through the years
- When: Friday, January 27, 2012
- Time: 10:00p-midnight
- Where: The Fairmont Hotel, Club Regent
- Tickets: $100 each
Hello, visitors and members of the MKF!
I would like to take this time to wish each and every one of you a safe and happy holiday season, whatever your religious take on it may be!
Our 5th greeting card exchange is currently under way. Our cards are crisscrossing in the mail and I've been getting cards almost every day that the mail runs! Thank you to those of you who have participated! I hope more will be willing to participate next year, because it really is a lot
Welcome to the 5th Annual MKF Season's Greetings Card Exchange!
I have not heard back from Lisa yet. I will be out of town this weekend, so I'm going to contact last year's participants first. We have started very late this year, so please get your replies in to me as soon as possible. I'm going to give everyone just over two weeks to contact me with their information.
The deadline is FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2010 at 11:59 PM.
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The full release of Formula Fusion came out today.
Some new tracks [well fully rendered ones that those on the TPP would have seen in bare bones form before], and two new craft chassis, that will be new to everybody.
I'll post some videos over the weekend.
It's not where R8 want it to be, but they are sort of behind the 8 ball financially and need a influx of cash so they can get a fully fleshed out version working really well for console release, so it's still a work in progress, but at least it's playable.
We have been told to expect lots of updates and DLC over the coming months, guess we shall see what eventuates.
I was also told that there will definitely be Flight Stick and/ or Steering Wheel support for both the PC and PS4 versions....I think Flight Stick would be the best because FF is very sensitive to nose up/down, far more so than any wipeout game.
The other problem is that it hasn't been optimized yet, so ATM you are going to need both a powerful CPU and GPU and a fair whack of RAM, I'm not having any problems running it on my i7 GTX980 32G Ram PC, I'm getting a solid 60FPS with Epic settings, but others with lesser machines can't get it running apparently, so I'd check to see what the current minimum spec'd PC is needed beforehand if you are thinking of giving it a try [it's very cheap compared to a full PS4 game] and there will be a free cut back demo version available probably from the 5th June.


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WWDC is to Apple Developers as Coachella is to filthy hipsters: It's the year's must-attend event. Except the World Wide Developer Conference is way harder to get into. There are more than 275,000 iOS developers registered in the U.S. alone–and that doesn't count Mac developers. Only 5,000 attendees get to walk the floors every summer. Untold thousands try and fail to score tickets. Others go to desperate measures to get their hands on a conference badge. In short, it's grown into a disaster.
WWDC is a five-day long event held in San Francisco's Moscone West conference center. This year, it's taking place June 10-14. It gives Apple developers an early look at the latest additions to iOS and OS X, and provides detailed guidance through over 100 sessions led by Apple engineers. Devs can also get one-on-one time with Apple engineers at WWDC's "labs," and connect with thousands of other developers.
Last year, it sold out in two hours. Thursday, the 5,000 high-demand tickets were gobbled up in a scant two minutes.
There's good reason developers claw to get their hands on tickets each year: priceless access.
"Going to WWDC provides advantages to developers, namely in the form of access to Apple's engineers both in casual networking capacity and in the dedicated labs for various technologies and things like user interface consulting," Daniel Jalkut, founder of Red Sweater Software, told Wired. "There is also theoretically the possibility of advance knowledge of 'secret' technological changes coming down the road." A former Apple employee, he's been attending WWDC for five years now as a third-party developer.
iOS developer Zac Bowling, who has attended three conferences but was unable to score tickets last year, finds the individual facetime invaluable. "The one-on-one sessions are unfortunately the only real way to get a lot of questions answered and bugs fixed," Bowling said. "Apple's Radar bug reporting system is a block box of ignored issues for many of us, and going to WWDC is the only time we have to get a clue and find work arounds."
Zac White, lead iOS developer at Velos Mobile, is looking forward to another form of access. "This year it's expected attendees will be able to install a pre-release version of iOS 7, and getting that in your hands before your competition is a pretty big advantage," he said.
But that access means getting tickets is no joke. Even if you're on the ball, you may still get iced.
"I've attended five WWDCs from 2007 to 2011," White told Wired. Last year he slept through Apple's early morning East Coast-time announcement and missed out. He was able to grab a ticket this year (when, for the first time, Apple announced in advance when tickets would go on sale). But just barely. "It was incredible how quickly it sold out. My co-worker sitting next to me hit purchase 20 seconds after me and got an error," explained White. "After he refreshed, it was sold out."
Ticket sales themselves are also a problem. Last year, tickets went on sale at 5:30 am Pacific with no advance warning. This year, Apple gave a day's notice that they'd be dropping. But Bowling noted that server issues and tickets that disappeared from shopping carts plagued some of his friends – even though they hopped online the second tickets went on sale. Apple support ended up calling some of the developers this happened to (including White's co-worker) in order to offer them the ticket they missed out on.
It's certainly starting to feel like WWDC has outgrown itself.
The problem is that simply expanding the conference isn't a solution. Apple could expand the event to the whole of San Francisco's Moscone Center, rather than just Moscone West. Or it could split Mac and iOS development into separate, consecutive events, giving developers the chance to attend one or both – and giving more developers a chance to snag a ticket to something in the process. But if you grow it too much, access gets diluted.
Many of the benefits of WWDC's intimacy would be lost if it accommodated more people. The one-to-one meetings with Apple engineers would likely vanish if Apple increased the conference size to, say, 25,000 attendees instead of 5,000. With a finite number of engineers at its disposal, the event is already incredibly taxing on Apple's dev teams.
"Work comes to halt for a few weeks when WWDC is coming up," says Bowling. "Apple likely wouldn't want or be able to tie up its own developers for that much more time."
Some of the best suggestions come from developers themselves. Jalkut, for example, thinks Apple should eliminate WWDC altogether and instead invest education efforts into building an even higher quality library of training videos. Colin Barrett, a San Francisco-based developer, thinks keynote-only tickets would help alleviate some of the pressures developers face in getting tickets for the entire event. Single day passes could similarly let app developers attend only the set of talks they're most interested in. Barrett also suggested a "need/greed system," which would feature a pre-sale like Apple employs now for people that "need" to go, and a lottery for "greed" folks who would like to go, but don't really care one way or the other.
Luckily, one of the biggest boons of WWDC doesn't take place inside of the conference hall at all. "The best part of WWDC for me has always been meeting developers making great things and learning from them," White said.
And this year, a number of outside events like AltWWDC are giving developers the chance to learn and mingle, even if they didn't grab one of Apple's exclusive conference tickets. If more and more of these outside-conference events start cropping up, that could be the solution to Apple's ticketing and capacity problems, transforming WWDC week into a huge networking event where the need for an actual WWDC ticket isn't really that important at all.
That would certainly please Red Sweater's Jalkut.
"The best part of WWDC for me has always been the vitality of the community and the sense of camaraderie among peers," Jalkut said. "One of the charms of WWDC used to be counting on seeing your friends from around the world, once a year, in a common setting. Now that it's so uncertain who will be allowed to go, it's lost something in that respect."
Jalkut boldly ended up deciding to cancel his WWDC ticket purchase. It's a move few would imitate, but sends a strong message: Something needs to change about the WWDC ticketing and attendance experience to ensure what's always made the conference successful, stays successful.


text: Honor Holland works at the family winery along with most of her family. Her life is full of good things and she thinks one of them is her friend 'with benefits', Brogan. But she feels more for him and puts their relationship to the marriage test. Picking herself up after he ran for the hills, she helps out a family connection, British professor Tom Barlow, who needs a green card to stay in the US. An arranged marriage might just work out better for her than her own efforts, she can help him out and it can't be any worse than what she's been doing up 'til now, surely?. The plan didn't include falling for him but that is just what she does. Kristan Higgins has written a loving family here, with problems and challenges but with a strong sense of support and love. Capable, feel good romance.


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Forty years ago this month, Bobby Kennedy was still alive and running for the Democratic partys 1968 presidential nomination. I was a seminarian in Washington, D.C. I was also an active volunteer in Kennedys campaign. I can still remember helping with secretarial work in the same room where Edward Kennedy and Pierre Salinger labored away on the campaigns strategy. It was my first involvement in elective politics, and, after the Vietnam Tet Offensive in February and Martin Luther King Jr.s murder on April 4, Kennedys cause seemed urgent. Then, on June 5, Kennedy was gunned down himself.
After Robert Kennedy died, the meaning of the 1968 election seemed to evaporate. I lost interest in politics. I didnt get involved again until the rise of Jimmy Carter. Carter fascinated me because he seemed like an untypical politician. He was plain spoken, honest, a serious Christian and a Washington outsider. So I supported him during his 1976 campaign when I was a young priest working in Pennsylvania. After his election as president, I came to Denver as pastor of Holy Cross Parish in Thornton in 1977. I eventually got involved with the 1980 Colorado campaign for Carters re-election on the invitation of a parishioner and Democratic party activist¯Polly Baca, who was and remains a good friend.
Carter had one serious strike against him. The U.S. Supreme Court had legalized abortion on demand in its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, and Carter the candidate waffled about restricting it. At the time, I knew Carter was wrong in his views about Roe and soft toward permissive abortion. But even as a priest, I justified working for him because he wasnt aggressively pro-choice. True, he held a bad position on a vital issue, but I believed he was right on so many more of the Catholic issues than his opponent seemed to be. The moral calculus looked easy. I thought we could remedy the abortion problem after Carter was safely returned to office.
Carter lost his bid for re-election, but even with an avowedly prolife Ronald Reagan as president, the belligerence, dishonesty, and inflexibility of the pro-choice lobby has stymied almost every effort to protect unborn human life since.
In the years after the Carter loss, I began to notice that very few of the people, including Catholics, who claimed to be personally opposed to abortion really did anything about it. Nor did they intend to. For most, their personal opposition was little more than pious hand-wringing and a convenient excuse¯exactly as it is today. In fact, I cant name any pro-choice Catholic politician who has been active, in a sustained public way, in trying to discourage abortion and to protect unborn human life¯not one. Some talk about it, and some may mean well, but theres very little action. In the United States in 2008, abortion is an acceptable form of homicide. And it will remain that way until Catholics force their political parties and elected officials to act differently.
Why do I mention this now? Earlier this spring, a group called Roman Catholics for Obama 08 quoted my own published words in the following way:
So can a Catholic in good conscience vote for a pro-choice candidate? The answer is: I cant, and I wont. But I do know some serious Catholics¯ people whom I admire¯who may. I think their reasoning is mistaken, but at least they sincerely struggle with the abortion issue, and it causes them real pain. And most important: They dont keep quiet about it; they dont give up; they keep lobbying their party and their representatives to change their pro-abortion views and protect the unborn. Catholics can vote for pro-choice candidates if they vote for them despite¯not because of¯their pro-choice views.
Whats interesting about this quotation¯which is accurate but incomplete¯is the wording that was left out. The very next sentences in the article of mine they selected, which Roman Catholics for Obama neglected to quote, run as follows:
But [Catholics who support pro-choice candidates] also need a compelling proportionate reason to justify it. What is a proportionate reason when it comes to the abortion issue? Its the kind of reason we will be able to explain, with a clean heart, to the victims of abortion when we meet them face to face in the next life¯which we most certainly will. If were confident that these victims will accept our motives as something more than an alibi, then we can proceed.
On their website, Roman Catholics for Obama stress that:
After faithful thought and prayer, we have arrived at the conclusion that Senator Obama is the candidate whose views are most compatible with the Catholic outlook, and we will vote for him because of that¯and because of his other outstanding qualities¯despite our disagreements with him in specific areas.
Im familiar with this reasoning. It sounds a lot like me thirty years ago. And thirty years later, we still have about a million abortions a year. Maybe Roman Catholics for Obama will do a better job at influencing their candidate. It could happen. And I sincerely hope it does, since Planned Parenthood of the Chicago area, as recently as February 2008, noted that Senator Barack Obama has a 100 percent pro-choice voting record both in the U.S. Senate and the Illinois Senate.
Changing the views of pro-choice candidates takes a lot more than verbal gymnastics, good alibis, and pious talk about personal opposition to killing unborn children. Im sure Roman Catholics for Obama know that, and I wish them good luck. Theyll need it.
Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., is archbishop of Denver.
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Earlier this year, a draconian bill called SOPA troubled the Internet for months. After months of protests and pleas, it was finally withdrawn at the last stage. However, that was not the end of it. Now, CISPA has arrived to haunt us. CISPA is a less aggressive version of the SOPA bill that threatens online privacy. It grants unquestionable powers to Internet and telecom companies, allowing them to spy on their users with zero accountability.
CISPA has passed at the House of Representatives, and awaits an approval by the President's office now. However, President Obama has declared that he will veto the bill.
The U.S. House of Representatives approved CISPA by a 248 to 168 margin yesterday in spite of a presidential veto threat and warnings from some House members that the measure represented "Big Brother writ large".
Like SOPA, CISPA also saw an array of supporters from big names in the world of technology and just like with SOPA, Microsoft offered the CISPA bill its support earlier. However, in a recent development, Microsoft has decided to back out of support for CISPA. In conversation with CNET, Microsoft said it wants to honor the "privacy and security promises" it makes to its customers.
Dan Auerbach at the EFF appreciates Microsoft's move, saying-
We're excited to hear that Microsoft has acknowledged the serious privacy faults in CISPA. We hope that other companies will realize this is bad for users and bad for companies who may be coerced into sharing information with the government.
CISPA is an evil bill. It grants law enforcement agencies powers to spy on people without requiring any provision by the law. This bill puts law enforcement agencies above the law by waiving all privacy laws related to cyber security. This is beyond disastrous. CISPA must be stopped.
Also read: Microsoft's initial statement of support for CISPA


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MOVIE REVIEW- What a hoot: An environmental movie for tweens
It's easy to take Hoot at face value, as a family-friendly tale of teen environmentalists fighting greedy land developers to save endangered owls.
It's just as easy, in this post-Brokeback era, to see Hoot as a (nonsexual) gay romance, with young male protagonists who would rather hug each other than trees or (ugh!) girls.
At an age when his hormones should be going crazy, Roy Eberhardt (Jack & Bobby's Logan Lerman) can't think of anything but Mullet Fingers (Cody Linley), a barefoot blond boy he first sees outrunning the school bus. Neither rejection nor a bag of snakes dissuades Roy from pursuing M.F. until they become friends.
On the surface, this Disneyesque dramedy is about a new kid in town who gets involved with someone who's trying through civil disobedience to halt the construction of a Mother Paula's All-American Pancake House on a site that's home to a vanishing breed of burrowing owls.
Roy has moved with his parents (Kiersten Warren, Neil Flynn) from Montana to Coconut Cove, Florida, where Trace Middle School is his sixth school in eight years. His loving parents are clueless about Roy's adjustment problems, including being bullied by Dana Matherson (Eric Phillips), who notes his Western wear and dubs him "Cowgirl."
The only girl Roy talks to is Beatrice (Brie Larson), known as "Beatrice the Bear... a major soccer chick with attitude." She bullies the bully, joins in calling Roy "Cowgirl" (albeit with more affection) and generally acts like a dominatrix toward him. When she and Roy travel together by bicycle, he sits on the handlebars while she pedals, and when Beatrice spends an innocent night in his bedroom, she sleeps on the floor. She becomes more feminine as the film progresses, but Roy doesn't notice.
Mullet Fingers remains pretty much gender-neutral but calls Roy "Tex" to make him feel more masculine.
The unscrupulous franchise holder for Mother Paula's is Mr. Muckle (Clark Gregg), who employs an actress (Jessica Cauffiel) to portray the restaurant's namesake. Curly (Tim Blake Nelson) is Muckle's Coconut Cove contractor who has to deal with minor acts of vandalism and seeks help from Officer Delinko (Luke Wilson), a bright young cop who acts like a doofus.
Hoot was adapted from a book by Carl Hiaasen by Hiaasen and director Wil Shriner, whose broad style betrays his background in television. It works because the movie's pitched at viewers too young to appreciate subtlety.
Jimmy Buffett, who contributes some original songs, also appears as Roy's Marine Science teacher. He's around a lot without getting involved in anything that would require him to act, and his presence makes Hoot an owl movie for Parrotheads.


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You can play Four Swords with four people, three people, two, or one - but, unlike the GBA version that comes with Link To The Past, the experience doesn't change depending on the number of players you have. So, if you're playing with two people, each person gets two Links that can move in different formations. It's pretty fun, I doubt that you'll become incontinent with joy while playing it but it's better than a kick in the dick. It also uses the GBA connectivity in some new ways - any time you fall in a hole or enter a building, basically any time you are not on the overworld adventure map, you enter (or in some cases "fall into") the Gameboy. If you do decide to play it, though, you might as well familiarize yourself with the archetypes.
While I was detailing the wonders of tradeshows past, I haven't said a lick about what I'm actually playing now. I'm playing all kinds of stuff.
Bontago: I have expressed from time to time a fondness for German boardgames. I can say without reservation that Bontago would be a boardgame inside a computer simulation of Germany. Imagine what would happen if depraved game scientists sought to make an adversarial version of Jenga, where the height of a given tower was equivalent to its "influence" on the space around it, and various powerups for destroying enemy towers were littered about the field of play. It won the Independent Games Festival's "Innovation In Game Design" award, and was (I believe) developed by a student team over at our local DigiPen academy. You can see games from this and past classes right here, if you'd like.
Ground Control II: I'm pretty much in love with this game. I said just a couple days ago, RTS is not my genre of choice - but this was not always the case. There was an equilibrium point years ago where the ability of processors to render a certain number of units and my own ability to command those units in meaningful ways intersected. Also, outside of aesthetic considerations, I don't particularly enjoy building bases, and as much as I like lumber or whatever collecting it isn't exactly my favorite thing. Oh, and here's something else - units with tons of individual special abilities that must be initiated in real time for them to be useful don't really turn my crank. These aren't problems with the "progress" of the RTS genre so much as they are me trying to make real-time games turn-based. Manipulating hordes of units and their respective payloads is just as much a part of the game as the tactical elements.
Ground Control 2 is, in a word, fresh. I don't mean to imply that the experience is new, rather, I mean to evoke the character of old school hip-hop. The first Ground Control had you moving squads of units and capturing resource collection points, much as in Relic's Dawn of War, but it also had kind of an odd feature - the ability to "drop in," or join dynamically, a live RTS game. It also had some of the coolest graphics of the time. You no longer move as squads in the sequel, which is fine actually, but the other two things are still in there… For the love of God, if you like RTS or are - like myself - something of an apostate as regards the genre, download it. No base building whatsoever. No insane hotkeys to remember, every unit simply has two states which offer different functionality and counters to other units. Excellent graphics, and huge battles you can feel in your gut. And, like Soldiers: Heroes Of World War II, it offers full cooperative play through the game's main campaign. I mean, that's it. Don't gild the lily, guys. I'm sold.
I have been playing skirmishes with a friend against the A.I., also known as The Poor Man's Co-Op, and it has a vice-like grip on my scrotum.
I completed Thief: Deadly Shadows last weekend, which is a pretty long game even on Normal difficulty. That's good, because it changes the difficulty to normal for you every time to save or move between levels! Before I heard about the bug, I'd come to think of myself as the paragon of subterfuge. Thief deserves its own post, and it will get one on Monday.
(CW)TB out.
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Hi, I'm selling off a bunch of castle & viking sets. (I'll be selling other themes down the road, too.)
I've already listed a bunch of sets on ebay, so I'll be updating this thread as I add more listings.
I'm starting all of my auctions at .99 + Shipping.
I also have a whole bunch of the older colored gray bricks in like new condition along with a bunch of old gray colored arches in like new condition as well.
Here are the listings I've put up so far:
OLD Listings:
Fantasy Era:
5 X Skeletons' Prison Carriage (7092) Sets
8 X Knight's Catapult Defense (7091) Sets
6 X The Final Joust (7009) Sets
14 X Crossbow Attack (7090) Sets
6 X The Knight (5615) Sets
Knights Kingdom II:
4 X Knights' Kingdom II Battle Wagon (8874) Sets
Knights' Kingdom II Vladek Encounter (8777) & 4 X 5994 Catapult Sets
Lot of 2 X Knights Kingdom II Rogue Knight Battleship (8821) Sets
Knights' Kingdom II Battle at the Pass (8813) with Box
10176 Royal King's Castle Set 2006 100% Complete with BOX and MANUAL
10 X Viking Boat against Wyvern Dragon (7016) Sets Sold!
Vikings Army with Heavy Artillery Wagon (7020) Sold!
Vikings Army with Heavy Artillery Wagon (7020) Plus Box Sold!
Vikings Ship challenges Midgard Serpent (7018) Starting at $0.99!
Viking Fortress against the Fafnir Dragon (7019) Starting at $0.99!
Vikings Ship challenges Midgard Serpent (7018) BIN
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The UCWbL is BACK!
It's a new quarter at DePaul, and we just wanted to take a moment and remind you of a few items as we start getting ramped up for autumn!
-Appointments at the UCWbL are for everyone! Whether you are working on a resume, a poem, a research paper, or anything in between, the UCWbL wants to help you with any kind of writing you have.
-Appointments at the UCWbL aren't just for struggling writers. We are happy to help even writers who feel confident in their work. It always helps to get another pair of eyes on a piece!
-Appointments at the UCWbL are for creative writers too! Believe me, there are so many people here who would love to get their hands on a poem, short story, or memoir!
-Get involved at the UCWbL! There are so many great opportunities for everyone at the UCWbL. Join a writing group, attend a Walk and Talk with the collaborative for multilingual writing and research, and check out Scrawl Radio every Friday starting next week! Really, that's just the tip of the iceberg.
If you have any questions about the UCWbL please visit depaul.edu/writing or leave a comment here! If you're new, welcome to DePaul, and if you're coming back, we are glad to see you again. You look great today, everyone.


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if you're looking for a high chair...
ONNI chair has this great feature of being able to seat baby around all 4 sides, so it's never turned backwards. I also like the Towerchair in black or white with leather. The thin metal frame is unusually sleek for a high chair and really stylish.
The Stokke Tripp Trapp is a classic high chair that converts as the child grows. I love that feature & the fact it doubles as a junior chair, can be used with a tray or just pushed up to a table. It also comes in quite a few colors. This Artek chair is a nice mix of color (seat back) and light, soft colored wood. It's stripped back shape is simple and unfussy and looks easy to clean.
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http://pikkulinnun.bigcartel.com/product/rinki-syottotuoli this Rinki-chair is beautiful too...Artek of course is one of my favourites ♥ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 08, 2013
me and my sister both had tripp trapps as kids, using them as high chairs when we were young and then as chairs at our desks as we grew older. we recently passed them on to our cousins. they really are great quality, I can only recommend them! the artek chair looks lovely, too.ReplyDelete
That Artek chair is beautiful! We need a highchair badly. Still trying to pick one thats not an ugly hunk of plastic, you know.ReplyDelete
The ONNI chair looks like you could convert it to a plant stand when baby doesn't need it anymore...yay for versatility!ReplyDelete
We have Onni chair. My baby doesn't need it anymore but my flower needs.ReplyDelete
I know you've been down this road before but I'll say that we have the Artek chair (casualty from the shop) and once Elodie could stand up, it was so over. We moved it to the cottage but she pretty much refuses to use it. We have the Stokke chair and she is ok sitting in it because it seems like a regular chair. Anyway, just saying because an expensive high chair is tough to salvage...[juli from mjolk]ReplyDelete
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Idea of this thread is you post something bad you did, and forgive the previous poster for their confessed sin. I'll start;
SO, i was in my mates newspaper shop just chattin and a young mum cam in with her 4 year old boy. she stood by the counter paying for his sweets when mother nature cursed me, and as much as i tried to hold it in a squeaky fart leapt out of my behind. Luck was with me though, as the mother turned to her son and said "Excuse you michael!!" and slapped his bum.
I kept my mouth shut. forgive me, for i have sinned