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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a series of steps to help a person who is not responding and has stopped breathing. CPR helps deliver oxygen rich blood to the body tissue when the body is not able to do this on its own. Infant CPR should be used in babies less than 12 months of age.
Reasons for Procedure
CPR is given when an infant has stopped breathing. Reasons for this may include:
- Trauma
- Choking
- Drowning
- Electrical and lightning shocks
- Severe infection
- Severe allergic reaction
The outcome will depend on the cause and how soon effective CPR was started. Many victims are unable to regain a normal heartbeat after it has stopped.
Possible Complications
It is possible that ribs will fracture or break during chest compressions.
Greater risk is involved if CPR is delayed or not done correctly.
What to Do
Prior to Procedure
Check for responsiveness. Tap the infant and ask loudly "Are you okay?" Call the infant's name if you know it. If the infant is unresponsive, follow these steps:
- If someone is with you, have them call for medical help right away and get the automatic external defibrillator (AED). An AED is a device that delivers electric shocks to the victim's heart. If you are alone, do CPR for about two minutes before calling for medical help and the AED.
Check to see if the infant is not breathing or only gasping. If this is the case, begin CPR by giving chest compressions:
- Place two fingers on the center of the chest just below the nipple line.
- Compress about 1-½ in (inches) in most infants. Push hard and fast at a rate of at least 100 compressions per minute.
- Allow the chest to rise completely between compressions.
- Minimize interruption between compressions.
- Give 30 compressions.
After 30 compressions, give two rescue breaths:
- Open the airway by gently tilting the head backward.
- Cover the infant's nose and mouth with your mouth.
- Breathe two puffs of air into his mouth and nose. Breathe just until you see the chest rise. Breaths should be about one second each.
- If you are not trained in CPR, continue doing the chest compressions without giving rescue breaths.
- If medical help has not been called, call after five cycles of CPR (about two minutes). Call even if the infant is responding and is breathing on his own.
- Continue cycles of 30 compressions and two breaths until the AED is brought to you, medical personnel arrive, or the infant responds.
- If another person is present, take turns doing the chest compressions to avoid getting tired. If two people are giving CPR, the ratio of chest compressions to breaths is 15 compressions and two breaths.
To use the AED:
- Turn the AED on.
- Attach the pads. Use the child-sized pads if available.
- Follow the prompts. If advised, deliver the shock. If the shock is not advised, the AED will tell you to resume CPR.
How Long Will It Take?
The length of time for CPR depends on the underlying causes and response time of medical help.
Will It Hurt the Infant?
The victim is unconscious when CPR is given. The procedure does not hurt. There may be some soreness in the chest after regaining consciousness.
Post-procedure Care
The emergency team will take over care when they arrive.
The victim will need to be taken to the hospital for evaluation following CPR.
Call for Help
If an infant is unresponsive and someone is with you, have them call for medical help right away. If you are alone, do CPR for about two minutes before calling for medical help.
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- Reviewer: Marcin Chwistek, MD
- Review Date: 12/2013 -
- Update Date: 01/13/2014 -

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Trustees of the Tracy Unified School District have voted to abandon plans to build a new campus west of town for the district-sponsored charter school. (The school, Tracy Learning Center, remains at its original location at Holly Drive and Beverly Place.)
Services have been held in Sunnyvale for Helen Stevenson, 87, a former Southern Pacific wartime employee and widow of longtime SP employee Ed Stevenson.
The Tracy Chamber of Commerce hosted a State of the City program in the Tracy Community Center. Andrew Malik, the city's economic development director, was principal speaker.
The Tracy High baseball team dumped Ceres, 8-2, to give coach Vic Alkire his 99th career win.
A budget crunch has forced the Tracy Unified School District to withdraw from participation in the D.A.R.E. program that guides students away from drug and alcohol abuse.
25 years ago — 1988
Tracy's newest school, Villalovoz Elementary School, has been officially opened with dedication ceremonies.
Lyle Lindeman, a founding partner in Kaiser & Lindeman Farms, received the Tracy Farmer of the Year award at the annual Agribusiness Luncheon sponsored by the Tracy Chamber of Commerce.
Single-family homes are selling in Arnaudo Village for prices between $121,900 and $152,000.
Tracy High wrestler Eric Miklusicak captured the 158-pound championship in the Sac-Joaquin Section Wrestling Tournament.
A career day program has given Clover Middle School students an idea of what occupation fields could be in their future.
50 years ago — 1963
Tracy voters have approved school override tax measures for both the Tracy High and Tracy Elementary school districts.
City champs at the Tracy Bowl are Frank Fillipini and Yvonne Borges. Jane Paul was women's all-around champion, and Hank Hanson won the same award for men's keglers.
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Farmers in low-lying land east of town are keeping their eyes on the rising level of the San Joaquin River and other waterways.
Southern Pacific conductor Chester Wampler is building a $5,000 home on East Highland Avenue.
The Montgomery Ward store on 11th Street is selling men's bib overalls for 87 cents.
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A program featuring stereo photos of old and new Tracy attracted a large crowd to the Arlington Theatre on Sixth Street.
The Southern Pacific is improving and enlarging the railroad's depot at the foot of Central Avenue.
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The photograph was invented in 1839, and in just 11 quick years the word "pornographer" was seeded into our dictionary—unaware of the Zeus-like power and combustive fury that was to come as virtual infidelity would some day be as close as a harmless-blue Click Here.
Once a loathsome industry of photographing haggard prostitutes with drunken johns, this underground market, now more acceptable and mainstream due largely to Hugh Hefner's Playboy magazine (first edition 1953), is today an estimated $4.9 billion behemoth. Earlier this decade the domain name business.com was sold for a record $7.5 million, as sex.com was valued at $65 million. Perhaps we should call it the Intercoursenet instead, as an estimated 28,258 people every second, mostly men (72%) but also women (28%) view pornography. Every 39 minutes a new pornographic video is being created in the United States.
Christians aren't immune. When surveyed, 53% of men who attended Promise Keeper said they viewed pornography that week. More than 45% of Christians admit that pornography is a major problem in their home. An anonymous survey conducted recently by Pastors.com reported that 54% of pastors admitted viewing porn within the last year. In an online newsletter, 34% of female readers of Today's Christian Woman admitted to intentionally accessing Internet porn. One out of every six women who read Today's Christian Woman say they struggle with addiction to pornography (Today's Christian Woman, Fall 2003).
If only virtual infidelity were limited to viewing strangers copulate in what was once considered a sacred act just a few decades ago. In order to save, heal and protect our marriages from porn, we need to adopt a broader understanding of this pernicious and slippery world, an understanding that currently and unfairly pins most virtual infidelity on husbands.
The fact remains that electronic media, which includes the Internet, hunts both genders. More and more women are not just viewing porn, they are entering anonymous chat rooms and are more likely to act out in real life what others just type about. And as marketers know, it has always been women who have fantasized about relationships with men other than their husbands through soap operas, not to mention romance novels and magazines such as Cosmopolitan and other little sisters of porn of another kind.
The virtual infidelity that separates husband from wife is more than visual, and has been since fantasy, escape, betrayal, and the need to be held, loved, and understood—in a word connected in body and soul, which is a gift from God. Think of virtual infidelity as anything—images, wood pulp with words on it, chat rooms with words in them—that replace your current spouse with someone else in the recesses of the undisclosed regions inside you, where discontent grows and festers into a new, ugly, and unintended creation.
As this series explains, virtual infidelity tempts both genders in similar and divergent ways. A husband's temptation toward visual infidelity is erosive: visible from the outside and easier to spot. A wife's temptation is more subtle and nuanced, making it corrosive: less visible, attacking from the inside and harder to spot, acknowledge and heal.
This double-bladed sword of virtual infidelity is the result of a good desire, human connection, gone in the wrong direction and missing its mark, which is part of the definition of sin. Deep physical and emotional connection can result in a blessed state of relaxation, escape, and elation (the French word for orgasm, La petite mort, means "little death" the loss of consciousness of the world around you). All are God-given, the result of his great love for us. These blessed gifts and connections create a kind of mini-vacation from the usual stress and strain of life that creates mysterious yet real bonds. Unfortunately, virtual infidelity tempts us to take mini-vacations with someone other than our spouse. We need to learn to take them with one another—a sacred and a times difficult act.
Solutions to virtual infidelity pivot from moving from illusion to reality and from a passive to an assertive stance in marriage. Husbands and wives need to bolster their courage and be honest about their intimacy desires, and at the same time, bolster their understanding and be realistic about that they should expect from a gender that is similar but also different.
Not everyone who sees porn will become addicted to it. Some will just come away with toxic ideas about women, sex, marriage and children. That kind of damage is bad enough. And porn isn't the only ingredient in addiction. Usually, those who become addicted have some kind of emotional opening that allows the addiction to really take root.
Some of you reading this will become addicted, like I was. The porn companies don't mind at all if you become completely addicted to their product. It's great for business. An addicted customer keeps coming back for more. And so they fill their porn with images that will excite you, arouse you and get the hormones flowing. You don't have to shoot up any drug with a needle to get addicted to porn — your body will make its own drugs just by looking at the pictures. Dr. Victor Cline says that sex and pornography can be a more difficult addiction to break than cocaine.
When I personally got to the "acting out phase," I started fantasizing about what it would be like to actually rape a woman. I finally tried it one night when I saw a woman who "fit" the scenario that porn had taught me to look for. I was lucky. Very lucky. I didn't go through with it. After being reported, arrested and spending some time in jail, I finally was able to begin the process of weeding out the lies in my life that porn had put there.
Other men aren't so lucky. I realize now that with just a little push, I could have gone over the edge. I could have raped that woman and then killed her to cover my tracks. That's how Ted Bundy got started. When the porn he was addicted to wasn't enough anymore, he tried the real thing — rape, and then murder. When he succeeded, he did it again. And again. Pornography addiction is very serious.
Some of you reading this may have already developed an addiction to porn. If you see any of the patterns I've described above in your life, you need to put the brakes on right now. Is porn beginning to control your life? You can't put it down — you keep going back for more? Perhaps you find yourself needing to see increasingly graphic pornography. You're masturbating more and more often. You're starting to take risks or act out physically for sexual thrills.
If you see yourself at any point on this progression, you are in serious trouble, and you need to realize it — and get help.
Pornography communicates its own "truths" about women. Unfortunately, they're all lies:
A frustrated and grieving woman in her 20s writes to Focus on the Family: "I'm addicted to porn…It's so frustrating to find all sorts of help out there, but only for men…Are there any articles or studies currently out there for people like me?" Her search is not fruitless, but it will not be as fruitful as a man's search for answers. Currently, the reasons why husbands turn to porn are better known, discussed, and more public than why wives turn to pornography.
Of course the reasons overlap. Two are boredom and pain. Call it the seven-year-itch if you want, but eventually the home fires begin to dim in the best of marriages. We grow bored with each other's strengths as well as weaknesses, and for some such familiarity breeds virtual infidelity. Pain causes both genders to look for quick and convenient sources to salve it, and the deeper the pain, the further we often reach to make it go away.
Loneliness strikes at the heart of both husbands and wives, but tends to plunge deeper into the emotional expanse of women. This is one reason why wives are seduced by "emo-porn," virtual infidelity that is more emotionally satisfying before it physically pleases. But like salt water, it creates a worsening thirst. With emo-porn, fantasy men perform stunningly between the sheets of conversation, emotional understanding, and emotional dexterity. Most mortal men cannot deliver such behavior, the way men do in soap operas and romance novels. Just as wives rightly complain when compared to the artificially created women of Internet porn, men should complain when compared to the artificial men of daytime television. Interesting, isn't it, how they have such exciting jobs—no Joe The Plumbers. In the real world where real men burn through a lot of emotional battery life to make a real living, being expected to behave like men who don't exist is more than wrong. It's cruel.
Emo-porn creates caricatures in the minds and hearts of wives. Most men just aren't and cannot be that attentive, especially in marriage where responsibilities to provide weigh heavy upon them. Husbands are quietly deemed unresponsive and uncaring when compared to emotionally dexterous hunks of daytime lore, chat rooms, celebrity rags, and romance novels. Thus a secretive and snowballing form of marital discontent is born and nurtured.
One reason why pornography is more attractive to wives than husbands is its capacity for secretive retribution. Through concealed romps with other men, wives say they feel like they have "gotten back" at their husbands for hurting them for behaviors they committed or didn't commit. It's a passive-aggressive way of handling conflict without going through the difficult work of actually creating resolution.
Wifely virtual infidelity is less visible and more secretive, making it harder to expose and to heal. Some startling statistics to support this claim: Wives more than husbands are drawn to chat rooms and illicit relationships, rather than visual images of porn, though visual porn is still enticing (Nearly 30% of all visitors to porn sites are women). Women, far more than men, are likely to act out their behaviors in real life, such as having multiple partners, casual sex, even affairs. Seventy percent say they keep their cyber activities secret.
Emotional and physical pleasure through fantasy behave in the most primal ways upon our minds. And when they are associated with someone who is not your husband, it becomes more difficult for him to captivate you. Virtual infidelity does not free you toward greater connection with your husband, but dilutes this connection. And given the secretive nature of virtual infidelity and a man's more limited ability to notice minute relational cues, he is likely to think that "Everything's okay," in his marriage when it's not. Worse, he's denied the very information he needs to play his role in mending it.
For the surprising number of husbands who think that pornography use is "no big deal," consider this from those who work at ground-zero of divorce. During a recent meeting of divorce attorneys, two thirds of the 350 attorneys said the Internet played a significant role in the divorces in the past year, with excessive interest in online porn contributing to more than half such cases. Pornography had an almost non-existent role in divorce just 10 or so years ago.
The majority of male porn consumers are between the ages of 35-49. I highlight this fact because it provides both context and hope for the many men I talk with across the country. Just as there is fun in sin for a season, there is also a temptation toward particular sins for a season as well. For some men, this is a battle that may never have a complete resolution, but a welcomed truce.
It is no coincidence that these years are consistently among the most difficult for men. It's when work life and family life are at their peak—and at times at each other's throats. Many men turn to porn during these exhaustive years as an illicit pick-me-up. And surprising to many women, they aren't so much lusting after that one woman on the monitor; she's merely a conduit to feeling pleasure again. In many ways, the woman on the monitor who promises so much pleasure and admiration could be any attractive woman. It's what she provides, not who she is, that matters.
It's here where biology is especially unkind to husbands. As the more visually inclined gender, these images have the unique capacity to both hyper-sensitize and de-sensitize us, making them especially hazardous to male souls, much like addictive drugs. They also carry with them the deceptive capacity to make the viewer believe that the object can be possessed, seducing the viewer even further into delusion.
One of the most ironic examples of how far this visual-based delusion can go is in the life of the grandfather of porn, Hugh Hefner. Sandy Bentley, a Playboy cover girl and former Hefner girlfriend, observed how Hefner "has trouble finding satisfaction through intercourse; instead, he likes the girls to pleasure each other while he masturbated and watched gay porn."
Image-based virtual infidelity, so enhanced by silicon and deceptive camera angles, creates unfair comparisons to real wives who are not sexually aroused at a moment's notice. Real wives are picked apart and found wanting, tried in the one-way court of our minds with slim chance for a fair trial. Here wives are quietly deemed undesirable and boring when compared to the artificially slim, breast implanted, and those so eager to please, contort and perform—at least when the cameras are rolling.
Nate Larkin is an author, speaker, and founder of Samson Society, a national fellowship of Christian men who are serious "but not grave" about authenticity, community, humility and recovery. He's also a former pastor who at one time regularly viewed pornography and who now ministers to men, especially pastors. He says that it's the perceived anonymity of the Internet that gives pastors the courage to experiment with pornography.
Why pastors look at porn, he says, is multifaceted. "First, because he's male, and sexual curiosity is hard-wired into the male human body. Second, because he lives in a fallen world, one in which his natural sexual instincts have been warped and titillated. Third, because he works under incredible stress, his performance critiqued on a weekly basis by an unrealistic audience who insists on treating him as an asexual being or as the sole inhabitant of a higher moral plane."
Like all men, every pastor experiences moments of despair, anger or loneliness. "At such a moment, pornography can appear to be a safe alternative to adultery. To the man who is feeling insecure but doesn't want to cheat on his wife, a few fleeting seconds with an imaginary lover can prove irresistible."
Yet Larkin says that for a pastor to admit such a mistake, however, is fatal, forcing his sin and the reasons for it even further underground where redemption is impossible. "If anyone discovers what he's done, he'll be tarred and feathered and carried out of town on a rail. So what does he do? He takes his guilt to God privately and makes a private promise never to make that mistake again. And maybe he won't. But speaking for myself, that's how I became a porn addict."
Accountability to another person about your visual and emotional infidelity can be helpful—but not as helpful as we like to believe. After a while, one husband told me, "It's pretty easy to lie to the person who is questioning you. It's so autonomous--how are they really going to know?"
Putting computers out in the open is helpful as well in order to break the power of autonomy. But what happens when no one is around to see you on that website or watching that soap opera? There is a more lasting approach: Addressing the reasons why a husband or wife would turn to someone other than their spouse when desiring sexual and emotional intimacy, then creating a realistic level of intimacy within your existing marriage.
As mentioned previously, virtual infidelity increases when we are lonely, in duress, angry or spurned. These are threshold experiences, portals toward infidelity but also intimacy since conflict can sometimes be intimacy in disguise.
Though there is overlap, husbands and wives tend to take two unique paths toward intimacy. It's important to understand where they lead and that sometimes we may have to force ourselves onto them in order to create a stronger and co-mingled path toward intimacy.
Generally speaking, women prefer talking and thinking together as men prefer touching and other forms of physical togetherness. I was unaware of these distinctions for the first 15 years of my marriage and this ignorance lead to unnecessary heartache. When my wife would desire to sit down and talk and think with me about everyday matters, I did not understand just how important these activities were to her. I treated them like items on a To Do List—check them off and be done with them. I did not understand that like foreplay, she enjoyed talking and thinking together with leisure and creativity. I have since learned to force myself to slow down and to be a better listener, knowing that she finds pleasure in these experiences and her pleasure is important to me. Now I find pleasure in these activities as well, but they still are not my primary paths toward intimacy. I'm still, after all, a guy.
Likewise, some wives may at first have to force themselves to move in the direction of their husband's path toward intimacy. This is not to say that wives do not enjoy touching and other forms of physical togetherness. It's just that for some it isn't their primary form of expression. So for some wives, this could mean going on more walks together or taking up an activity that requires touching, like dancing. It may mean making sex more creative and frequent than before.
No discussion about the intersection between sexual and emotional fidelity and contemporary Christianity is complete without addressing pervasive passivity. Studies show that people who attend church have a more passive personality than the population in general (one study has the discrepancy at 60% to 85%). Passivity is sometimes a manifestation of cowardice, which is a sin (Revelation 21:8).
Passive people are more prone toward addiction. And this is particularly damaging when it comes to virtual infidelity, an ideal hiding place for the passive personality. Here passive people have their needs placated but never truly met; sexual arousal and emotional titillation, but never tenderness, adoration, and a soulful repose. Here the passive do not have to undergo the challenging duty of standing their ground and stating plainly what they desire as normal human beings. Passive personalities prefer that their spouse guess as to what they really want, which is unfair, confusing and fertile soil for inevitable resentment. And most passive spouses behave this way because they are fearful. There is a great acronym for fear that is helpful when understanding this side of virtual infidelity: False Evidence Appearing Real. Many times, though we might feel very uncomfortable at first, the fact remains that many of our fears are unfounded. Many spouses are willing to at least try to help the person they love to have their needs met in their marriage.
So for some husbands, an honest and frank explanation of just how important sexual intercourse is to them is in order. Wives are not born with this knowledge and our culture rarely reveals it, so they need husbands to tell them how difficult it is for them to keep their thought-life pure without their wives' help. Likewise for wives, an honest and frank explanation of emotional connection may be in order, and probably has been for a while. Both genders need help understanding each other's inner regions, which are both similar and unique, and they need to express these truths without anger, sarcasm or contempt (eye-rolling is the most common expression of contempt). During such times, putting your thoughts on paper beforehand helps to keep them straight in our minds. It is the foolish spouse who does not heed and honor such a tender and powerful revelation of the soul.
Being sexual and emotional are normal, healthy and right in marriage. There is no good reason to apologize for either desire since both come from the good hand of God. Having both needs met in a realistic fashion is among the main reasons we marry in the first place. These facts help to give us the courage we need to talk about them without whimpering or yelling.
And finally, a word of warning for all of us who live in our hyper-sexualized age: Erotic and highly emotional experiences are not meant to be consumed with great regularity. Like all things deep and sacred, they are not designed to be on tap 24/7. They are powerful, too powerful it seems, for the human soul to regularly absorb, very much like radiation, which also possessed a mysterious capacity to heal and curse. These facts help to put our good desires in perspective during our age of virtual infidelity.
From the first relationship in the Garden itself, it's clear spouses don't always have their partner's best interest in mind.
You know the story – the serpent tempted Eve who in turn coaxed Adam who was with her to bite into the forbidden fruit. Adam, of course, was Eve's husband, her helpmate, her friend, her confidant. And yet, there's nothing in the Genesis account that would indicate Eve struggled with her decision to involve Adam. Did she not care about him? Did she not love him? Certainly, but isn't it interesting that "love" just wasn't enough of a protection in this particular situation?
In a nutshell, Eve bit hook, line and sinker when the devil convinced her that the real reason God didn't want her to eat the fruit was because he was trying to withhold from them something exceedingly good. In essence, the serpent was calling God a liar. All of a sudden Eve went from someone completely vested in her husband to one who contributed to his downfall (which is not to say Adam didn't have the responsibility for his own actions).
It doesn't take a degree in Marriage and Family to realize that husbands and wives have for thousands of years been making similarly selfish decisions, many with lifelong negative consequences. One thing that is different, however, is that in today's world, couples face technologically-driven temptations along this line as well. Old enticements often come repackaged with a new twist using today's computers and the anonymity that comes within cyberworld.
Obviously, the Internet has introduced pornography into many, many homes. Although a huge problem, I want to focus on less obvious temptations affecting some marriages. For instance, the other day while doing research about social networking sites, I stumbled upon a MySpace profile that I'm sure represents untold thousands. Here was a man who described himself as married with several children. But he had built his entire online profile describing himself as some type of, well, I'll use the term "sex-god." He had posted photos of women in various sensual poses, often with very little clothing. In an online poll he had pasted into his site, he had asked sexually-oriented questions in inappropriate fashion.
I couldn't help but wonder why a married man would do such a thing? Nor could I help but wonder what his wife or children would think if they discovered his secret online "life." (Perhaps his wife does know, which presents a whole other set of problems). Because the Internet world is considered a private domain where the user can be anonymous, this man apparently felt safe to try and make himself out to be some sort of Casanova.
Whatever the reason, he's certainly not alone. Just ask Sue Hoogestraat. According to an article in The Wall Street Journal, she was understandably upset when she discovered her husband had a virtual marriage in Second Life, a fictional cyberworld where online visitors participate in commerce, sex and relationships, and build their own imaginary world. Although Ric Hoogestraat had never met, or even spoken with, Janet Speilman, the woman who controlled her online character, the two constantly spent time "together" in cyberspace – eventually "marrying." "It's really devastating," expressed Sue. "You talk to someone or bring them a drink, and they'll be having sex with a cartoon." Ric can't understand why his wife would have a problem with his online escapades. In his mind, it's all a big game. But is it?
Brad Paisley's hit country single, "Online," humorously describes a pudgy loner who boasts of chatting with several women online (or at least he thinks they're women). As he chats, he claims to be taller and thinner than he actually is. Although the song intentionally pokes fun at how people can and do represent themselves via the anonymity of the Internet, it's no laughing matter when a married person goes online intentionally looking for someone to fill a need that only his or her spouse should satisfy.
Some may argue that having an edgy social networking profile, carrying on online relationships and chatting within cyberspace is relatively innocent stuff because there's no intention of really getting involved physically. I'd argue to the contrary. It's not just getting involved physically that crosses the line, it's the very desire to play around online in an area involving a certain amount of intimacy.
For some married individuals who feel under-appreciated and under-respected, the anonymity of the Web allows for a chance to flirt and pretend. What could be wrong with that? Dr. David Jeremiah, commenting about a list of "hedges" that individuals need to put up to guard their marriages, had this to say about flirting: "Never flirt, even in jest. Never flirt with someone other than your [spouse]." Of course, flirting used to be something that primarily occurred face-to-face. Not any more. Flirting can now take place through chat, text message, IM, online gaming and profiles. Still, Dr. Jeremiah's advice is valid.
The author of Proverbs offers incredible advice along these lines when he says: "Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well. ...May you rejoice in the wife of your youth...may her breasts satisfy you always. ...Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress?" (Proverbs 5:15-20, NIV) Clearly, the writer is not referring to actual water but to the intimacy that occurs in marriage. Furthermore, this water is more than just the sexual aspect. It includes the closeness, the oneness and the entire sense of unity that a husband and wife can and do experience when they do things God's way.
One of the greatest gifts the Lord ever gave us was the gift of intimacy. As described in the Bible, "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh" (Matthew 19:5, NIV). Jesus added, "So they are no longer two, but one" (Matthew 19:6, NIV). It's that oneness, that intimacy, that water that married individuals are called upon by marriage's Creator to guard closely, pray about regularly and fight for diligently.


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TYLER BAZE, RENEE'S TITAN, Second: "I think she's a nice filly.This was my first time on her and they didn't give me any instructions. I'm looking forward to riding her again."
JOE TALAMO, SCARLET STRIKE, Third: "She really didn't have an excuse. She had a perfect trip and we saved ground. She was heads-up for the lead turning for home and they just ran by her."
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THOMAS PROCTOR, MIDNIGHT BALLET, Winner: "I wasn't really worried about that last race. There weren't any Beholders in here and that was a speed favoring track. She kind of got clobbered coming out of the gate, so I think it was a pretty good race for her. I don't know if she's nominated for the (Grade I, $500-guaranteed Hollywood Starlet (Dec. 8), I'll have to see. We weren't thinking about it, but you never know. She's a big, long filly. I'd always heard that (her sire) Midnight Lute had a breathing problem or he would have run long. So we'll see. It's nice to win a race."
JERRY HOLLENDORFER, SCARLET STRIKE, Third: "She didn't win, no comment."
Notes: Midnight Ballet was not among the early nominees to the Starlet. She would have to be supplemented for $10,000 with an additional $10,000 to start…The stakes win was the first at the Autumn meet for Leparoux since he captured the 2009 Hollywood Prevue with American Lion.
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Cool new forum. Thanks. You need a miscellaneous discussions forum though...
I agree. There should also be a place for help and discussions about things like the lack of avatars.
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Hummm... let me check. Yup I do. And now you should too.does anyone else have avatar support?
yeah, I do, but the requirements do not allow posting of anything over 9.8 K. Thats absurd. We need more space!Originally Posted by Nin
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If it's a JPEG image, up the compression when you save it and that should do fine for a small sized image. This avatar for example is less than 6KB.Originally Posted by davidhowland14
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Please pardon me for resurrecting an old thread. But I have a question about avatars which I couldn't find an answer for in the FAQs.
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