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Larry E. Wilson
May believers use birth control? In at least two ways, absolutely not! Any use of contraception to abet extramarital sex is wicked. Moreover, any method of birth control which aborts a new life which has been conceived is wicked (and this may include some common methods). But, barring those, may a married Christian couple try to prevent conception? (I say "try," because "man proposes, but God disposes.")
What complicates this question is the fact that the Bible doesn't speak directly about contraception. This means that we need to consider fundamental biblical principles and then draw conclusions "by good and necessary consequence" (Westminster Confession of Faith, 1.6). What are some relevant biblical principles?
First, God grants children as gifts. He encourages believers to have children: "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it" (Gen. 1:28). He expresses a very positive view of believers' having children: "Sons are a heritage from the Lord, children a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one's youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them" (Ps. 127:3-5).
Moreover, because God keeps his covenant from generation to generation of those who love him (Ex. 20:6), he puts stock in the importance of our having children and training them in his ways. This means that believers ought not to use contraception in order selfishly to escape the responsibilities of having children. Nor should believers buy into the antichild mentality of the surrounding society and frown on their brethren who have large families. The Lord encourages married believers to have children, to love them as blessings, and so to advance his covenant purposes.
By the way, never take for granted that God will give children. Some may struggle even to read articles like this because they want children so much, yet they've been unable to conceive or carry a child to birth. Sometimes God puts believers in this spot, as he did with Abraham and Sarah. God knows that this is acutely painful, and he cares (see 1 Sam. 1:1-20). But he has his higher purposes, and we know that they are good, even when we don't understand them. This reminds us that we utterly depend on him for this and all things.
At the same time, don't overemphasize biology. Biblically, a family is primarily a covenantal, not a biological, unit. Therefore, God can and does grant children to believers through adoption as well as through childbirth. God adopts us in Christwe who were Satan's bastards! He actually makes us coheirs with his only begotten Son, and Jesus is not ashamed to call us his brethren (Heb. 2:10-11). In this very way and for this very reason, children whom we adopt are just as much God's gifts and just as fully family members as are children born to us.
Second, God designed sex and marriage, and he did so for more than procreation (see Westminster Confession of Faith, 24.2). Genesis 1:28 tells us that God created sex and marriage for procreation. God is "seeking godly offspring" (Mal. 2:15). So a fundamental purpose of sex and marriage is to perpetuate the covenantal line, and believers should delight to do that.
But that's not the sole purpose. Sex and marriage are also for partnership. When he revealed his intention to create Eve, "the Lord God said, 'It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him' " (Gen. 2:18). God saw man as incomplete, and so he created woman to be a helper corresponding to him. Along these lines, God insists that "the wife of your youth ... is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant" (Mal. 2:14). So God didn't design women only for bearing children. More than that, he made sex and marriage for companionshipfor partnership.
Third, God commends sex in marriage for purity. God created sexual attraction and desire, but sin distorts them. Therefore, God commands husbands and wives to fulfill their "marital duty" to avoid immorality and remain pure (1 Cor. 7:2-5).
Another godly purpose for sex and marriage is pleasure. "May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth. A loving doe, a graceful deermay her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be captivated by her love" (Prov. 5:18-19; also see the Song of Songs). Many Christians speak or act as if sexual pleasure were base and dirty, but clearly God doesn't share that opinion. In fact, it's sinful to have such an outlook. It dishonors God by insinuating that he created something evil (cf. 1 Tim. 4:1-5).
Rather, we begin to see why God created pleasures such as sexual intimacy when we realize that God designed the marriage bond primarily to picture his covenantto symbolize the relationship between Christ and his church. The other four purposes actually serve and express this one. Ephesians 5 quotes and then applies Genesis 2:24, " 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.' This is a profound mysterybut I am talking about Christ and the church" (Eph. 5:31-32).
Think about it. Did God create mankind male and female and thenas an afterthoughtsay: "Hey, that gives me a great idea! I can use the husband-wife relationship to illustrate the Christ-church relationship"? How could that be, when God knows the end from the beginning (Isa. 46:10)? Isn't it rather that God created us male and female in order to depict the covenant relationship between the Lord and Israel, between Christ and his church?
John Piper, in his book Desiring God (p. 186), writes:
There was more going on in the creation of woman than meets the eye. God doesn't do things willy-nilly. Everything has purpose and meaning. When God engaged to create man and woman and to ordain the union of marriage, he didn't roll dice or draw straws or flip a coin as to how they might be related to each other. He patterned marriage very purposefully after the relationship between his Son and the church, which he had planned from all eternity. Therefore marriage is a mysteryit contains and conceals a meaning far greater than what we see on the outside. God created man male and female, and ordained marriage so that the eternal covenant relationship between Christ and his church would be imaged forth in the marriage union. As Geoffrey Bromiley has written, "As God made man in his own image, so he made marriage in the image of his own eternal marriage with his people."
So God's Word teaches that God created sex and marriage for more than procreation. He also made it for partnership, purity, and pleasure. But above all, he designed it to picture his covenant. Since God himself created sex for purposes other than procreation, then it's okay for spouses to enjoy sexual relations for purposes other than procreation. For example, may a couple make love if the wife is pregnant? How about a couple in which the husband is sterile? Or one in which the wife is past menopause? Ought couples like these to abstain from sexual intercourse because it would be for exclusively nonprocreative purposes? Or rather, does not Godin 1 Corinthians 7:3-5actually command married believers in each of these cases to engage in sexual relations? In this way, God himself says it can be pleasing in his eyes for spouses to have sexual relations even for exclusively nonprocreative purposes.
He thus reveals that he has made these other purposes important even apart from procreation. When you link that with his revelation that the husband-wife relationship is more important than the parent-child relationship (Gen. 2:24; Eph. 5:32), then it would seem that it can be legitimate for spouses intentionally to have sexual relations for these other purposes even apart from procreation. In other words, it would seem that at least sometimes it can be legitimate for spouses to try to prevent conception as they unite.
Or can it? We may wonder, "But since God is sovereign over procreation, doesn't that make it wrong to try to prevent conception? Isn't that attempting to take God's control into our own hands?" This evokes a third principle: God calls parents to be responsible. The question reflects confusion about what the Bible teaches on God's sovereignty. The moment we apply it to less emotionally charged topics, we easily see the error of this logic. Is it true that because God is sovereign over hair growth, it's sinful to get a haircut? Would we say that because God is sovereign over rainfall, it's sinful to irrigate fields? According to God's Word, God's sovereignty doesn't cancel out human responsibility; rather, it establishes it (see Westminster Confession of Faith 3.1). God is sovereign over procreation, but that in no way voids our own responsibility for it.
In fact, God insists that we take responsibility. He commands us to rule over nature, not to let nature rule over us (Gen. 1:28). If this was so even before the Fall, it's all the more pertinent now! Now that God has cursed nature (including childbearing, Gen. 3:16), unrestrained procreating can even be harmful in some cases (for example, if a wife's life or health is at unacceptable risk). The Lord calls us not only to multiply, but to be responsible in so doing.
This doesn't mean we should chase a "Yuppie" standard of living or pursue "zero population growth" ideology. I'm thinking of cases such as one in which a woman with a number of small children is told by her doctor, "If you get pregnant again, you are likely to die," to which she responds, "If it's God's will." I'm saying that it's unbiblical and irresponsible to intentionally risk leaving children motherless and to shift the onus to God. I'm also thinking of cases where men sire many children, despite lacking the means to provide basic necessities for them. I'm suggesting that it's unbiblical and irresponsible to intentionally risk failing to provide for our families and to shift the burden to others.
We see this in God's urgings that we be provident. He tells us to plan for the future and to order our lives accordingly. "Finish your outdoor work and get your fields ready; after that, build your house" (Prov. 24:27). Among the most important plans we can make are plans to provide for our families. "If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever" (1 Tim. 5:8). We noted that God wants believers to have children. But what kind of children? "He was seeking godly offspring" (Mal. 2:15). Doesn't this imply that in addition to food, clothing, and shelter, we should provide some form of Christian education? It's true that we can trust God to provide, but he ordinarily does so through ordinary means
means such as our planning, working, and saving. Often he provides through the generosity of the household of faith (Gal. 6:2, 10), but he encourages us to do our best to be on the giving rather than the receiving end of this generosity (Gal. 6:5). Again, this implies that God calls us not to unrestrained, but to responsible, procreating.
In the end, God doesn't give a pat answer about contraception. But he does provide a framework within which believers are responsible and free to make godly decisions. In fact, this framework does condemn most of the world's approach to contraceptionbut not because it's contraception. Rather, it condemns its fundamental self-centeredness (Ps. 10:4). Believing couples should soberly examine themselves as to whether they conform to this worldly selfishness and, if so, repent. Still, the biblical principles which we've considered seem to imply thatgiven right motivesGod does permit contraception.
This means that God doesn't give any one "recipe" that fits every marriage, or every phase of any marriage. To make a godly decision, a couple needs to examine the question from three different angles:
If, after prayerfully pondering these things, a couple decides that they do have God's warrant to use contraception, then they should seek counsel on available methods from a knowledgeable person of like precious faith and make further decisions on medical and practical grounds.
Mr. Wilson is the pastor of Grace OPC in Columbus, Ohio. Reprinted from New Horizons, December 1996.


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Crataegus species
Trees and Shrubs, Fruits and Vegetables, Herbs, Bonsai
Seed experiences a double dormancy: stratify 3 months in fridge, grow for 4 months at 70F/21C, then 3 months in fridge, then return to 55F/12C and grow on, or sow in cold frame, onto soil surface 4" apart, and allow several seasons to germinate. Light needed for germination. Slow from ring-barking. Does well in dry areas and well-drained soil, full sun to part shade; alkali soils are typically well-tolerated. Used for bonsai. Hardy to zone 3
Crataegus laevigata previously known as Crataegus oxyacantha, a good choice for clay soils, is hardy to zone 4. Crataegus monogyna, the common hawthorn, especially tolerant of exposed locations, and is hardy zone 5-7
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I have the good luck to babysit a laptop for the weekend. Or maybe I should say, the bad luck to babysit it.
It's a Toshiba Dynabook V2/470CRC, and while it was loaned to me as a fixer-upper, I get the feeling I'll be happy to return it to the owner.
It's another Celeron Coppermine, this one running at 700Mhz and with a roomy 256Mb of PC100 in it. CDRW, 1024×768 screen, etc., etc. Not a bad computer, technically.
But this is one of those machines that looks good on paper — Intel guts, with the exception of the video card. A smattering of peripheral ports, but no built-in wired connection. Easy-to-get-to memory and hard drive bays, but a battered keyboard.
Some of that's not the fault of the machine or Toshiba, just a sad history with an indifferent owner. On the other hand, that video card is for-certain a dealbreaker.
Arch can't get a graphical screen on it, in either vesa, fbdev or the trident driver. Neither can Debian. Or Lubuntu. Or Puppy. Or Linux Mint Debian. Or …
Kernel framebuffer modules weren't working either. Nothing short of the default font with a horrific framed effect … no matter who tried.
Until Slitaz came along. Yep, not only could Slitaz 3.0 push the framebuffer to its native 1024×768, but could get a full desktop working … with a little nudging. +1 for Slitaz, again.
So I wouldn't call that video card a kiss of death, but this computer has an even bigger quirk I dislike … I can't seem to get into the BIOS.
I've scrounged the Internet in hopes of finding the keypress that brings up the BIOS menu, but it eludes me. F2, F1, Esc, Del, the left shift key … nothing seems to work. It jumps straight to the first hard drive, no matter what.
Infuriating. Infuriating because that means it completely disregards the optical drive as a boot device. And without a floppy drive, there's naught to be done but preinstall an operating system, and hope it works.
Which it usually doesn't. Oh well. At least it's easy to get to the hard drive. 🙄
So, let's recap: Battered keyboard, tetchy video card, mysterious BIOS, won't boot from CD, no wired connection, dirty from disuse, no battery … the list goes on.
No, this is definitely not something I'd like to keep. It's a curiosity, and I'll admit I like a challenge, but I have the luxury to pick and choose.
I'll keep it around for a day or two, but then it has to go back to its owner. Thanks, but no thanks. 😯


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Fired Up!
Fired Up! is the worst of its kind: a cheap imitation of much better films, a 90-minute dirty joke with no punch line.
Fired Up!Director: Will Gluck
Cast: Nicholas D'Agosto, Eric Christian Olsen, Sarah Roemer, Molly Sims, Annalynne McCord, Philip Baker Hall, John Michael Higgins
MPAA rating: PG-13
Studio: Sony Pictures
First date: 2009
UK Release Date: 2009-05-22 (General release)
US Release Date: 2009-02-20 (General release)
Nick (Eric Christian Olsen) and Shawn (Nicholas D'Agosto) are star players, football and otherwise, at Gerald R. Ford High School. At the start of Fired Up!, they reveal as well their inability to differences between games and "life." Just so, Nick quarterbacks their escape from a father angry over his daughter's lost virtue, leading the boys through a series of routes, eventually landing them in a pool with two bikinied beauties: Game on! all over again.
Dreading the reported rigors and girl-lessness of summer football camp, Nick and Shawn have the brilliant idea to attend cheer camp instead. They are athletes, after all, so they should be able to handle cheering, right? Their plan is painfully simple: "We hook up like crazy for two and half weeks, then bail." Or, put more poetically, "Hit it and quit it." Ah, the eloquence…
Even though beautiful squad captain Carley (Sarah Roemer) initially resists, seeing through their scheme, it turns out that cheer squad at their school is terrible, finishing last every year, so the guys can actually be of some use. Nick and Shawn attack their goal with gusto. They are two of only four straight guys at camp, so it takes them no time at all to work their way through "the hot chick produce aisle." The girls appear just as willing and eager to "hook up" as the guys, save for Carley, of course, and married head coach Diora (Molly Sims). Nick immediately zones in on the unattainable Diora, whom he sees as an easy target since she's 30 and therefore "ancient." Her rejection of him only fuels his desire -- which is not to say that he slows his progress through the rest of the cheer campers.
Predictably, Shawn falls for Carley and so begins to take cheering more seriously, building up the team's morale and insisting that her pre-med boyfriend, Rick (David Walton), is no good for her. That his own behavior is at least as bad as Rick's is all but lost on Shawn, since he's not cheating on Carley. When Nick announces he's "had enough girl" and it's time to head home, Shawn is torn, not only because he now realizes his feelings for Carley but also because he doesn't want to abandon the team in their hour of need. It's a wearying and unimaginative crossroads moment. Nick never bothers saying, "Bro's before ho's," but we get it and there is no doubt how it will all end up.
If Fired Up! is attempting to be progressive by portraying most of the girls as nearly as sexually aggressive as Nick and Shawn (and that's a big "if"), it's not even making a pretense in its treatment of all things gay. From the closeted Coach Keith (John Michael Higgins) to the sometimes ambiguous Brewster (Adhir Kaylan) and the predatory token lesbian Sylvia (Margo Harshman), stereotypes abound. Carley suggests early on that Nick's hyper-hetero persona is an effort to repress his own homosexuality, to which he laughingly responds, "I'm too straight to be gay." It turns out Nick does repress being cruised by fellow cheerleader Downey (Jake Sandvig), taking all his interactions with Downey as straight, good buddy behavior. We see all Downey's unmistakable advances with Nick as flashbacks and though his denial lends what's meant to be hilarious credence to the whole repression/denial thing, Nick's puking in response to the flood of memories surely makes his sexual identity clear.
This aside aside, Nick and Shawn must endure epiphanies. If Shawn's involves true love for Carley, Nick's is summed up in a declaration of his true feelings for Diora ("I'm a human!") It's all so trite and irritating, grounded as it is in endless unfunny penis jokes. When Shawn sees the error of his ways, telling Nick the whoring "feels wrong," it's as if this thought has never occurred to him before now.
Nick's sage response, "It's supposed to feel wrong," may also serve as advice on how we are to take this film. Maybe it's meant to be the anti-High School Musical, or a parody of teen-boy fantasy. Its one comic moment comes when the entire cheer camp watches Bring it On and recites it line by line in unison. But it lacks that film's wit and any sort of point, as might be found in, say, Knocked Up (speaking of penis jokes). Fired Up! is the worst of its kind: a cheap imitation of much better films, a 90-minute dirty joke with no punch line.


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Sharp doesn't want you to blame it for the fact that you can't get your hands on an iPhone 5, saying it's making "adequate volumes" of the display.
Some industry insiders had said that the screen was causing supply issues, but Sharp is not having any of that.
A Sharp spokesperson told Reuters that it is producing "adequate volumes" of the iPhone 5 screen.
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There were concerns that the screens would cause shortages because they're quite fragile and therefore tricky to manufacture in high volumes.
Sharp isn't the only company providing Apple with displays, with LG Display and Japan Display also on Apple's books.
The iPhone 5 features a 16:9 widescreen among its various upgrades and improvements which made it seemingly irresistible to shoppers who snapped up 5 million of the things in its first three days on sale.
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Kurt Nimmo
December 3, 2010
Ron Paul will not head up the House's monetary policy subcommittee if John Boehner has anything to say about it.
"Five GOP leadership aides, speaking anonymously because a decision isn't final, say incoming House Speaker John Boehner has discussed ways to prevent Paul from becoming chairman or to keep him on a tight leash if he does," reports Bloomberg. "If Boehner, who will help determine who gets to chair subcommittees as early as Dec. 8, rejects Paul, he may have to contend with thousands of grassroots supporters and dozens of younger lawmakers who see Paul as a hero."
Boehner and the establishment Republicans rode to victory last month on the shoulders of the Tea Party movement. Prior to the election, Tea Party activists in Maine, Colorado, and Utah focused on abolishing the Federal Reserve.
Some predicted that if Republicans were to sweep the House they would become much more confrontational with the Federal Reserve. "The popularity of Tea Party candidates in U.S. elections could spell renewed efforts to curtail the power and independence of the Federal Reserve, which has been cast as an emblem of big government overreach," Reuters reported in late October.
Many establishment Republicans agree with senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina who insists the Tea Party and its vision of less government has no long-term vision or prospects for political viability.
Instead of dismantling the Federal Reserve, establishment Republicans have called for reforming the private bankster cartel masquerading as a government agency supposedly answerable to the American people.
On Tuesday, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. and Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind. called for Congress to change the Fed's "dual mandate" now requiring it to promote both price stability and full employment and instead focus on keeping inflation low and not worrying about reducing unemployment.
"It is time that we work to clarify the mandate of the Federal Reserve," said Corker, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, in a statement announcing his support for the change. "Providing our central bank with a clear and explicit focus on keeping inflation low will serve America better than the broader mandate approach we have today," the National Journal reports.
Corker and Pence proffered their milquetoast bill after it was revealed the Fed gave a big chunk of its multi-trillion dollar Wall Street bailout to foreign banksters and transnational corporations.
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"We now know that the Fed loaned trillions of dollars at zero or near-zero interest rates not only to the largest financial institutions in the country, but also to many of our largest corporations — including GE, McDonalds and Verizon," said an outraged Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator from Vermont.
"Perhaps most surprising is the huge sum that went to bail out foreign private banks and corporations, including two European megabanks — Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse," he said. "As a result of this disclosure, other members of Congress and I will be taking a very extensive look at all aspects of how the Federal Reserve functions."
Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul may take a serious look at the Fed. But we shouldn't expect the rest of Congress to support an effort to cut out the cancer that plagues the economy.
In July, Paul's Federal Reserve Transparency Act that would have eliminated restrictions on GAO audits of the Fed and open its operations to congressional oversight was defeated.
"Since its inception, the Federal Reserve has always operated in the shadows, without sufficient scrutiny or oversight, while Congress has kept its hands off and its eyes closed," Ron Paul wrote after language from his bill failed to make it into a conference report on the so-called financial reform bill (that ultimately gave the Fed more power, not less). "The Federal Reserve has presided over the near-complete destruction of the United States dollar. Since 1913 the dollar has lost over 95% of its purchasing power, aided and abetted by the Federal Reserve's loose monetary policy. The Federal Reserve Transparency Act would achieve much-needed transparency of the Federal Reserve System."
Now that Republicans are in charge of the House, they join the Democrats and make sure the Federal Reserve continues to operate in the shadows and remains unanswerable to the American people. The globalist financial train wreck will continue until it accomplishes its goal of pauperizing the American people and preparing the country to be merged into their world government scheme.
"The current Globalist Financial Crisis is a Financial False Flag operation," writes Alfred Lambremont Webre. "It is a controlled collapse of the globalist economic system, engineered by an international war crimes racketeering organization…. The Financial False Flag [is] designed to accelerate the deterioration of First World economies, democracies, and prosperity, in aid of a larger program of global depopulation. The same powers who control the Federal Reserve Bank are intent on depopulating between 1/3 and 2/3 of the current human population, in service to a grotesque covert elite plan."
Ron Paul, Bernie Sanders, and a handful of other House and Senate renegades who are not reading from the bankster script like John Boehner and the establishment Republicans will not be allowed to hold the Federal Reserve to account.
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Beochien a écrit:Je crois qu'ils on déjà fait bouillir la marmite au sol , ces derniers jours !
Sans trop de com's bien sûr !
Et qu'est-ce qui mijotait ?
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Two weeks after completing the final certification test of the
modified 787 battery system, Boeing appears to be on the verge of
receiving FAA approval for the fix, clearing the way for fleet-wide
installations to begin.
The FAA signaled tacit approval for the
modification package on April 18 when it granted Boeing permission to
resume routine production 'B-1' flight testing of an aircraft destined
for All Nippon Airways (ANA). The move comes just over four months after
the 787 was grounded following battery failures on a Japan Airlines
aircraft in Boston on Jan. 7, and on an ANA flight which diverted to
Takamatsu during a flight from Tokyo's Haneda airport to Yamaguchi in
western Japan on Jan. 15.
Boeing has pre-deployed teams of
engineers to modify the first of 50 787s that had already been delivered
when the grounding began. In addition, ground crews in Everett, Wash.
and Charleston, S.C. have begun working through a further batch of up to
34 aircraft that were either awaiting delivery when the crisis began,
or which have been assembled over the past four months. One of these is
the latest for ANA, line number 83, which conducted the B-1 flight on
April 18 complete with the revised battery system in place.
formal regulatory approval of the modified battery installation is
forthcoming, Boeing will issue a service bulletin detailing the
modification package. Following approval of the service bulletin the FAA
and Japanese Civil Aviation Bureau (JCAB) will each revise their
respective airworthiness directives (AD). The FAA's directive, AD
2013-02-51, was issued just before an associated JCAB Technical Circular
Directive which prompted the grounding of the fleet.
working with airline teams in Ethiopia, Japan, Qatar, Chile and the U.S,
will then install the modified battery system in the aircraft. Each
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Since 1937, Morris "Brocky" Brockman has only had eyes for his wife.
Since 1937, Morris "Brocky" Brockman has only had eyes for his wife.
"The moment I saw Rene, everybody else seemed to fade away," he said. "Gorgeous."
She was 16, he was 19 when the two hit it off on a moonlight bus trip to a seaside resort in England.
Morris figured he'd better go and sit down next to her. She had friends with her. So did he.
"When we left, we just left, there was no 'I'll see you tomorrow,' " she said.
But they did.
Morris joined the Royal Air Force when war broke out in Europe in September 1939. Rene's family remained London-based until air raids began over the city.
He briefly lost track of Rene, but quickly found her again with the help of a friend.
Morris had to tell a little fib before he could make the journey from where he was stationed to the seaside town where Rene lived.
"I told my commanding officer my fianc�e was up there and I'd like to see her if I can," he says.
Rene was only his girlfriend at the time.
The two married in 1942.
Rene, just 20, had to get permission from her parents. At that time, a woman had to be 21 to marry.
Nine years later, on promises of a job in the United States, the couple set out on something of an adventure that brought them to Stockton.
Still living in Blackpool, they loaded into a taxi with son Colin, 4, and daughter Julia, 9 months.
The taxi broke down on the way to Liverpool.
When they finally reached Liverpool, the ship was delayed 24 hours. The five-day journey across the Atlantic turned into an 11-day voyage due to weather. After arriving in New York, the Brockmans boarded a flight en route to San Francisco. Over Kansas, a propeller fire forced an emergency landing.
They reached San Francisco only to be greeted by a sign that said "gas war" in large letters.
"I think we're going from one war to another," Rene said. "I didn't know it was petrol."
Numerous times they asked themselves why they were even bothering. Once they arrived, that job in Stockton that Morris was hoping for didn't work out either.
During the journey, they asked themselves why they even decided to come. But once they arrived, all turned out fine.
"Truthfully, we never looked back," Rene said.
To the Brockmans, the advice for younger couples is basic, but powerful.
Respect plays a huge part in a long marriage. And love.
"Lots of love, all the way around," Rene said.


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gunmetal, a bronze , an alloy of copper, tin, and a small amount of zinc. Although originally used extensively for making guns (from which it received its name), it has been superseded by steel, and it is now chiefly employed in casting machine parts. The so-called 88–10–2 (copper-tin-zinc) alloy is the
government bronze,composed of 88% copper, 10% tin, and 2% zinc. The percentages of the three elements are varied slightly in gunmetals produced for different purposes. The metal commonly called gunmetal today is very often steel treated to simulate the bronze alloy. In other cases, copper and tin are used alone; in still others, copper, tin, and lead are used.
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Many heard of government financial assistance programs and grants, simply put, free money to get. While most people think of such as empty promises made by politicians or online scams, there is a wide arrange of grants available.Many people are starting to drown in debt. Credit card debt levels progress each year and have reached $8, 000 per individual, according to some statistics. You definitely want to get out of debt; otherwise you would not have been reading this article. Or, probably, you are seeking ways to earn more and spend less with better education or job?
If you are a single parent and are raising kids on your own, barely making the ends meet, you may find it interesting that there are free money giveaways by U.S. Government for qualifying single moms. Many of us came across information online that there are government grants available for those in need, with no need for repayment. Many have wondered whether it is true.
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There are grants available for funding many life activities, such as going back to school, getting professional training, or helping to take care of family in difficult times. Such assistance programs, however, are not always easy to find.
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The matter of fact is that U.S. Government, boasting endorsement of social programs to improve their electorate approval ratings, makes such programs hard to find. While millions and millions have been set aside for grants, details of them are hard to obtain. Therefore, some research is required.
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A father has been charged with killing his nine-week-old daughter.
Adam Stokes, 32, of the Runfold area of Luton, Bedfordshire, has been charged with the manslaughter of his daughter, Scarlett Stokes-Craig, who died of head injuries in January last year.
He has been bailed to appear before Luton Magistrates' Court on May 12, Bedfordshire Police said.
Scarlett was admitted to the Luton and Dunstable Hospital on January 14 2013 but was transferred to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, where she died 10 days later.


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Land use within a watershed has a major effect on the water quality, hydrology and ecology present in the waterbodies within it. Runoff from agriculture and the built (urban, suburban) environment may adversely affect water quality due to non-point source pollution, such as sediments and nutrients, while wetlands have a positive impact by serving to control flooding and to filter pollutants. When vegetation is removed from the landscape during development, the watershed's ability to absorb nutrients and trap sediments is diminished, while more fertilizers, car emissions, industrial and sanitary wastes, and debris are washed into surface and groundwater by stormwater runoff.
Land Use/Land Cover GIS data is photointerpreted from current digital orthophotos, primarily by local Water Management Districts. The methods used differ by agency, but generally older land use/land cover layers are brought into GIS and compared to the current imagery. Changes are noted and reviewed, and ultimately updated within the GIS data. Land use classifications should adhere to the statewide classifications set forth with the Florida Land Use, Land Cover Classification System (FLUCCS).
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Good Samaritans and wildlife volunteers save chick after its parent is run over.
Micky Sanders' peaceful Sunday afternoon drive in the Palmer Ranch development came to an abrupt end when she saw a car hit and kill a sandhill crane in the middle of the road.
The driver of the black, foreign car was talking or texting on her cellphone when she hit the bird, Sanders says. Afterward, the woman slowed for a moment, then took off.
Sanders couldn't do that, especially when she saw the bird's chick, probably no more than a couple of weeks old, running in panic in the grass along the road.
So there she was, on McIntosh Road south of Central Sarasota Parkway, joined by the occupants of two other cars, trying to keep a young sandhill crane from darting back into the roadway as cars continued to speed by.
Meanwhile, someone called the Wildlife Center of Venice, which dispatched a volunteer, who joined the rescue party and eventually netted the chick. The adventure took about two hours on May 5. The chick is doing fine at the center, where an adult crane is serving as surrogate parent until the pair can be released together.
"It was so tiny," Sanders says. "I couldn't sleep that night. I was so upset by what happened."
The episode has several noteworthy elements.
Of course, it's another entry in the annals of distracted driving. Sandhill cranes don't dart into the road like deer. They move slowly and gracefully. So if a driver hits one in the center of the road, that driver isn't paying attention, or simply doesn't care.
In this case, the sandhill crane could just as easily have been a human.
If so, maybe the driver wouldn't have left the scene. Sandhill cranes are federally protected through the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and the subspecies that lives in Florida is listed as threatened, but there's no penalty for hitting the bird with a car.
Or a golf ball, the second-most common cause of injuries to the cranes in our area, says Kevin Barton, who runs the wildlife rehab center on Border Road in Venice.
"What upsets me is that there would be a fine if she hit a mailbox or a stop sign," he says. "So there are some ironies."
Sandhill cranes are among Barton's favorites, which puts him in good company around the world. They're almost revered in Japan, where they are the subject of much artwork.
They have strong family ties. Normally, parents will rear their offspring for about 10 months. And, if one is injured, others will gather around it.
Barton actually advises moving a dead crane from the roadside to prevent survivors from meeting the same fate.
While admirers celebrate the grace of the birds, they must also beware their temperament. Anyone familiar with karate knows of the "crane kick."
Barton knows it too well. "They jump and kick when you corner them," he says. "I definitely have a few scars."
That's one reason it's illegal to feed sandhill cranes in Florida, making them one of only six species with that prohibition. Bears, foxes, pelicans, alligators and raccoons are the others, says Gary Morse of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Even without the lure of easy food, development has increased the interactions between wildlife and humans. Too often, that does not bode well for the wildlife, which is why organizations such as the Wildlife Center of Venice are so important.
"I'll put in a plug for these rehabbers," Morse says. "They do this out of the goodness of their hearts, and they live on donations. There is no government help for this."
However, a little government assistance may be on the way. Cars have killed so many sandhill cranes in the Palmer Ranch area that residents have beseeched Rick Barth, president of the Master Property Owners Association, to petition Sarasota County for roadside warning signs.
Barth has requested them, which is only fitting for an area that real estate agents market as an Audubon community.
By the way, Palmer Ranch is working out the plans for a new subdivision. One of the names under consideration is Sandhill Preserve. With enough alacrity, it won't be too late to actually preserve a few.
Columnist's note: For future reference, when you see a wild animal in trouble, don't just turn away. Call the wildlife center at (941) 484-9657.


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Bread, cookies and bacon.
The smells and odors coming from your kitchen should be pleasant and comforting.
Rotten meat, stale garlic and fish.
If your refrigerator smells like any of the less than pleasant smelling foods above, you can bake all the cookies you want but your kitchen is still going to emit a rotten odor. And when it comes to rotten refrigerator odor, there's only so much one can take.
What's ironic is that sometimes, the healthier food you cook, the more unpleasant smells can emit. Food like broccoli, cauliflower and the aforementioned fish are staples of a healthy plate, but can generate such strong and unpleasant smells that you may find yourself retreating back into a world filled with nothing but cookies and bacon. Read More


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The beaches east of Havana are known as "Playas del Este". They are just 20 minutes from Downtown Havana, and include from West to East: Bacuranao Beach, Tarara Beach, El Megano Beach, Santa Maria del Mar Beach, Boca Ciega Beach, Guanabo Beach, Veneciana Beach and Rincon Beach. Choose from 7 km of white sand beach...
Bacuranao Beach is the closest to Havana, and strictly speaking is in the Celimar, Habana del Este district. Through the beach runs the fresh water Bacuranao creek. The beach is not easy for the tourist to find, but is popular with the locals and the Habaneros.
Playa Santa Maria del Mar is a pleasant non-touristy beach, but packed with Habaneros at weekends. It has white sand with remains of coral and shells. Its waters are crystal clear with different shades of green and blue. Underwater, Santa María shows a beautiful landscape of coral reefs, shellfish and lively colored fish. It is an experience to dive in these waters, due to the abundance of the fauna and its irregular landscape.
Guanabo is a charming seaside town with a magnificient beach and a nightlife provided by many discos.


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Wis. bishop: Voters could put 'soul in jeopardy'
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GREEN BAY, Wis. — Green Bay Bishop David Ricken is urging parishioners to vote against candidates who support abortion or gay marriage.
Ricken recently sent parishioners a letter saying voting for candidates who support what he calls "intrinsically evil" positions could "put your own soul in jeopardy."
Ricken's letter says the Catholic Church has a responsibility to speak out on moral issues.
His letter goes on to note principals parishioners should keep in mind when voting, including abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, human cloning and gay marriage.
The Green Bay Press-Gazette reports the bishop's letter does not specify who should get parishioners' votes.
The Catholic Diocese of Green Bay has 304,000 members in 16 counties.


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|Aleta, and her lagoon mates, kept peeking over the mangroves to see what Mandy was doing.
While Aleta, Merina, and Pandora were playing with their trainers, they suddenly lost interest in what was going on at their dock and began peeking over the mangroves. It turns out that Mandy Rodriguez, Dolphin Research Center's COO and Co-Founder, was gardening and the girls wanted to see just what he was doing to spruce up their home.
As Mandy took care of some maintenance and trimmed a few trees, the girls eagerly watched. Even when their trainers called them back over to the dock, the girls couldn't tear their eyes away from the remodeling.
Perhaps the girls just wanted to add their own feminine touch, or wanted to make sure Mandy was doing a good job. Either way, the girls seemed to be very interested. Once he finished, the girls returned to the dock. Guess that was their seal of approval.


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I have always been in good health...with a great immune system...how quickly that can change.
I wasn't feeling the best for about a week and decided to go in to the doctor on Sept 10th and get things checked out. I figured that it was allergy related (even though I have never suffered from allergies) and I would get a quick fix for them. I was having shortness of breath, killer headaches, and feeling just plain worn out.
I walked in expecting allergy meds and maybe allergy testing and walked out with an abnormal EKG and a script to have some lab work drawn along with an order for an echo.
It's funny where your mind can go in just under 24 hours...all of the "what ifs" that flash before your eyes...different scenarios that run through your head.
I went in the next morning for an echo, which I was so nervous about, and then headed over to the lab for some lab work.
I made my way home and about an hour later, my doctor called me personally to tell me that a few of my results from of blood work didn't look so good. My white count was low, my H&H was low, and my iron was very low. He ordered up a few more tests and I got another call.
In my mind, things went from bad to worse.
I was given orders on what to do next and was told to come in for follow up lab work in two weeks.
In the following days, the little things became big things to me:
I sat with my both of my sons as they read to me...
and cried.
I watched my daughter put on a private skit for me from the comfort of my bed...
and cried.
I watched my husband work his magic in the kitchen...
and cried.
I went to church and sang "Great is Thy Faithfulness"...
and cried.
I felt the sun on my face and soaked in the beautiful fall-like weather...
and cried.
And today, for the first time in over a week (against my Mom's better judgement), I leashed up my Henry boy, put on my shoes, and went out for a run...
and cried.
I cried not because I don't feel quite like myself or because I have been too tired to do much of anything, but I cried because in this past week I have realized just how much I have taken for granted. Why is it so easy to do?
While things are still up in the air, I am still left with the question, "What on earth is going on?!", and I am wondering how much longer my energy level is going to be so low, the old hymn that we sang on Sunday rings so true to me right now :
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided—
"Great is Thy faithfulness," Lord, unto me!


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Long Exposure Shots Tonight
Rocket launch tonight, sitting there all set up and ready to go, camera focused just shy of infinity, aimed right the trees light up as the launch began and. . . the auto-shut-off kicked in and I had to jump, grab the power switch and flick it on and off. Luckily the camera fires up quick but I still got a late start on the 30 second exposure.
A plane circling the area, I guess to stay out of the launch zone, turned and headed almost directly at me. You can also see another plane WAY off in the distance just above the power lines. Plus there's a ton of stars in this one and you can see the end of the rocket's smoke trail on the left.
Hawk (shutterbugging again? I think I am!)