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Gospel Identity focuses on the transformation of Christians by the power of the gospel. This ten-session small group study guides participants (and leaders) to discover their need for Jesus, examine the blessings of their new identity in Christ, and explain how those gifts move us outward so others can also experience new life in Jesus. With user-friendly small group activities and questions rooted in Scripture, this small group study (adapted from sections of Gospel Transformation) includes a leader's guide and is suitable for small groups and individual mentoring. Other books in series are Gospel Growth - Book 2 and Gospel Love - Book 3. These can be used as stand-alone products.
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Serge means "joining together rough edges to form a smooth seam." Serge (formerly World Harvest Mission) is a ministry that sees God weaving together the ragged parts of a fallen world with his goodness, making the tattered beautiful. This grace compels his people to go, to join their lives with the communities Serge serves around the world, as Christ makes all things new. This is God's grace at the fray. Serge's work consists of sending and caring for missionaries, discipling people around the world, and developing resources—like Sonship and The Gospel-Centered Life—for spiritual growth. Learn more about Serge's work worldwide.
Contributors: Based on portions of discipleship material developed at Serge by Paul E. Miller which was used as the basis for Gospel Transformation (copyright 2001 by World Harvest Mission) written by Neil H. Williams.
"Many Christian resources focus either on biblical study to the neglect of deep personal life transformation or on life application based on a very flattened understanding of the gospel. Serge has drawn upon their history of rich gospel-based training to produce a series that targets real-life transformation grounded in a robust, grace-based theology. Only a resource saturated in the gospel can lead to the kind of meaningful life change promised to us in the Bible, and I am thrilled to see such a resource now available."
- Rev. David H. Kim, Director of the Gotham Initiative, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, NYC
"I love the series of small group resources, Gospel Identity, Gospel Growth, and Gospel Love. They are theologically rich, but not stuffy; practical, but not pragmatic. They are life-transforming resources that will be used to transform communities on mission with the gospel."
- Scott Thomas, Pastor of Pastoral Development, The Journey Church
"Gospel Identity is a rich, interactive analysis of our deepest self in relation to the gospel. The lessons are weighty and deep because the writers have a panoramic and majestic view of the gospel. Complex gospel content is brought into focus through several helpful charts and diagrams, which are obviously the fruit of years of gospel counseling. This is not just gospel information; this is deep gospel application that is practical and specific, so that gospel encouragement translates into a lifestyle of witness and love. The participant is constantly encouraged toward gospel relationship with others and each section leads into individual and group prayer. The issue is identity, but the study doesn't stop at introspection. Gospel renewal leads to sharing the radical news of our union with Christ by faith and caring for those around us."
- John Smed, Director, Prayer Current Ministries
"This study brings a powerful experience of gospel truth and a personal relationship with Jesus and all those that he has placed in your life. Using biblical truths, written to open the eyes of all hearts to sins, and full of challenges by the Holy Spirit to change and grow, this is the study you need. User-friendly, even for a first time leader, it is progressive, time-sensitive, and will invite the most timid participant into heart application. I highly recommend this to all who are committed to growing closer to God and being a gospel tool to help others."
- Nancy Puryear, Women's ministry director (more than eleven years), Christ Community Church; cross-cultural counselor
"God used Jack Miller to help Christians, and pastors especially, to recover the gospel of Jesus Christ as the functional core of the Christian faith. Jack's famous line, 'Cheer up, you're worse off than you think,' re-opened the door to many of us with an invitation to drop the pretense of a good life and to admit and delight in our continuing, desperate need for Jesus. As a church planter and trainer of church planters, I have often wished for a concise series of Bible studies that would help churches to not only know this gospel of grace, but to experience it as well. That's precisely what this series of gospel studies offers. It is a great way to biblically and relationally ground Christians in the gospel of Jesus Christ and I heartily recommend it."
- John F. Thomas, PhD, Director of Global Training, Redeemer City to City
"I'm probably the most 'religious' person you know. I make my living teaching religious students (in seminary) to be more religious, doing religious broadcasts, writing religious books, and preaching religious sermons. It's very easy to lose the 'main thing' about the Christian faith in a religious morass. These studies remind me that's it's all about Jesus and Jesus is all about the Good News (the gospel). They are refreshing, informative and life changing. In fact, these studies are like a refreshing drink of cold, pure water to a thirsty man. Read and use these books from Serge and get out of the way as you listen to the laughter and relief of the redeemed."
- Steve Brown, Key Life radio broadcaster; author of Three Free Sins: God Isn't Mad at You
"Gospel Transformation is unique in that it works at the very heart of our faith. It is a marriage course, a discipleship course, and a Bible study, but it is so much more. It is all about getting the central passion of Christianity - the cross of Jesus Christ - at the center of your life. And not just your thinking life, but your doing and experiencing life. So it is good theology and good practice combined. If you get the cross right, then everything else works."
- Paul Miller, Director of SeeJesus (www.seeJesus.net); author of A Praying Life
Gospel Identity: "Identity issues sit at the very cross-hairs of the human heart. Every day, our sin, or unbelief, our fear (not to mention the world, the flesh and the devil) take aim at our sense of self. Gospel Identity, gets at the very roots of our mis-placed and mis-taken identity problems. This material offers a big Christ to our deepest fears and insecurities. And here's the best part: it doesn't leave you there. So much of the way that Americans have embraced the gospel is with self-obsession. But this curriculum moves the reader from finding identity in Christ into a world populated by other sinners and sufferers. As it says, 'A gospel identity is not just for us!'"
Gospel Series: "I've dated a lot of different curriculum in the past, but there's very little worth taking home to meet Mom. Too often, the writing is too high (too theoretical -have you actually met a sinner before?), too emotive (talk to my head and my heart!) or too clunky (really? can I accomplish this in a week; much less an evening?). WHM's new Gospel Series small group materials are rifle-ready for the foot soldier in the church to use without a lot of training, and they seem to have been written by real sinners/strugglers for fellow sinners/strugglers. Thanks, WHM, for something I can actually use!"
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Are the 4 glitched achies fixed?
I was just breezing through some of my games on here and saw the achivement list for RoaN had the 4 DLC character's achievements coloured (theyve been greyed out and unobtainable since they were first introduced.) Have they been fixed now, or has someone just coloured them and submitted them to this site?
Edit: Okay, about 15 people in the world have them, but I just won 5 matches with Temari without getting an achievement. =/
Sadly I don't think they've been fixed. I went to mygamercard and everyone with at least one of the achievements had either a private setting on or they had very odd numbers of achievements for each game (missing like 1 or 2 for pretty much over 100 games). Seeing as you got no achievement they still are not working...Got my hopes up too when I saw they fixed the list ='(
Yeah, I did notice they had strange settings. Still, so many of them have them all of a sudden, its a shame. I posted over at Ubisofts forum about it and how they must be fixed now but surprise surprise, no answer yet. Still, part of me hopes theyre not fixed - I managed to get Temari through 5 rounds but it wasnt easy. In 15 minutes of on again/off again matches I remembered why it was so frustrating, lol.
Eh, I'm dying to get them fixed. It's either now or never since the online seems to be nearly dead. I just can't stand the idea of NOT being able to get those achievements. Not like physically incapable but just NOT possible. Drives me nuts. But yes, they are very sudden but I remember checking not to long ago and no one had those achievements. Another thing I noticed was that the main leaderboards have more hackers on them again. Stallion is now farly passed by quite a few guys and I'm assuming there all hackers since it's happens frequently.
I'm not too sure how their system works but I guess you put a USB or something with the info and that unlocks the cheeves? Maybe it had some of the Naruto data on it and a recent one came out that so far is undetectable although they will probably be caught soon. Good riddens, they got my freaking hopes up and they can all get kicked.
Dying to get achievements is one thing but making a profile and just 'unlocking' all of the achievements at your own desire just seems down right stupid.
Edit: Just thought of something that MAY (probably not) be the issue. Are you using the trial packs for the characters? I don't know how the trial packs work, I beat all of the online characters before they came out so I've never seen if you can go all the way with trials but if not maybe you need the full version? Again, doubt it but I gotta work on my optimism...
Nah, theyre legit bought. I wondered about that myself, though. Another friend of mine went all the way with Jiraiya and didnt get it, I asked if it was a trial and he said it wasnt. Mind you, his Shikamaru achie wont unlock either!
Hm, I heard for the Shikamaru achievement, you have to download the Jap voices. If he has done that then honestly I dont know but it's very strange. I wish I knew someone who could disect a games coding so I could see what they coded these achievements under. There could be something so random coded on them if they went under an error that a method for unlike the achievements could be dying in story mode from a kunai attack while in the FOD. I mean the likeliness of that happening is low but still that's always kept me curious...
Edit: Just checked mygamercard and there are still only 16 ppl with any of the DLC achievements. Last night it was at 16 but also right when I checked that the achieves have been unlocked before that, there were only about 14 or 15. My guess is still all glitchers.
Yea, I noticed too, alot of those people have games completed.. like, on the same day, and more have them without a date on them. You have to be logged in to XBL to have the date on them.. so how do they get online achies without being logged in? lol
Mind you, XBL is pretty wacky like that. When my internet was down for a month I borrowed a friend's copy of the Force Unleashed. Not hard, so I finished it all and got it back to him before my intertnet was restored.. but it says under my achievements that I last played the game on Jan 1, 1970.
Ya I think that has to do with the time on your console updating by how you set it compared to XBL setting the time strictly by the internet with the given time zone. Did you or anyone else ever manage to find a contact email to MS or Ubi? A lot of people have tried including me but they dont have any good support systems at all. I honestly think MS should be the one contacted, especially an achievement group or whoever is strictly in charge of those policies.
If they sit down and realize about these glitched achievements, it's possible they will demand Ubi to fix them or just plain erase them from the Gamercard's history. Not having a true 100% in this game is like knives going through my eyes, except without the excruciating pain. (I'm highly OCD) =P
Nah, no luck, I tried posting onUbi's forum for RoaN but now that Broken Bond has come and gone, I doubt their own moderators look there any more. Or if they do, prolly think "Ugh, just another achievement complaint."
Havnt even tried MS, I hear their worse. For awhile I considered cutting XBL Gold to save money but couldnt find an option on my dashboard. I had to google it and just found forums and blogs about people having to call 3 different numbers and wait 22 mins.
"So you dont want Xbox Gold anymore?"
"You sure?"
"Xbox Gold is pretty cool."
"Its too expensive, I dont want it any more for awhaile."
".... you want to stop Xbox Gold?"
Haha wow that sounds rough... *sigh* Oh well, I guess it's mainly up to time then to see if MS wants to stop being so freaking stupid and look at the issues... I just wish there was a way to talk to the people actually like doing the work for the achievements instead of those stupid guys on the phone that put you on hold for 20 minutes just to tell you that it's gonna cost 100 bucks to send in your 360 for disc drive repairs. (...true story...)
Awwwww... that sucks if they don't work :( I wouldn't know though, I dont have enough patience to give the new characters a real attempt.
That's a good idea. What would be a good way to get a hold of him? It seems if I posted on his GT or something he would erase it from spam mails or something. Is there a link to contact him?
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*sigh* I emailed him and only got back an automated email saying how he get's tons of mail and may not respond. He can't answer questions about certain stuff and directed me to talk to the directors or publishers. Back to square 1 since that's Ubisoft....
so we are still in the same position as before..good :mad:
Ya, the ONLY thing I could see working on at least getting an answer out of the companies is by talking to the executives face to face at either MS or Ubi. Only problem is, there's no freaking way I could travel across the country just to talk to the executives and probably get shut down...
Yuck, theres like 40 odd people with these achievements now. So un-cool...
@ IceKingz it looks like those achievements will never be fixed =(
@ Takun i would like to be like 41st getting them, but legit way :p
I don't know if anyone has tried posting on ubisoft support but they e-mailed me back saying this:
Will there ever be a patch for the Jiraiya,Sarutobi,Choji,and Temari forest o...
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Hopefully something will happen because if it doesn't i will keep on posting until they get tired of it.
Nice Boricua! Hopefully they will honestly answer it and if not definitely keep up the question. In fact if they don't answer I'll help you out too. Glad to see others are also working on getting an answer out of Ubi.
No Problem. I like getting all my achievements for every game. It kind of feels like im getting ripped off. I'll post in a couple of weeks to let you guys know if they responded back to me or not.
Here any word on their support section?
No they haven't even replied back. I think we should just keep complaining about the achievement problem. Just go to Ubisoft support and look for naruto: rise of a ninja. then ask a question about the glitched achievements.
Edit: I just tried the game out and theres been an update. Dont know for what but maybe someone can try to see if it works.
How long has it been since you played the game? If you have played many games or even a couple games before you played Naruto today then it was probably just the same patch that just got deleted.
Eh my ounce of hope just got crushed again. I guess the only possibility like I said would be having a face to face meeting with Ubi. Anyone here a video game CEO? Or a general CEO for that matter? .....anyone?
Ubisoft is horrible, mot only this but far cry2 corrupts your save file at 68% completetion, i loved the game but ubisoft has the worst customer support amd send out glitchey umtested games. Trying to get achievments in these two games will be the death of me
Sigh...It's a new year and I've still been doing occasional research. Still nothing but I will say a LOAD of people have the 1075 now. I'm going to safely assume they are all glitchers. Kind of weird how they haven't gotten GS banned or anything (most of them anyways). Anyone found any news or anything? I guess it's pretty much game over. The last possible choice is having MS deleting the achievements but yet again just getting in contact with them is a pain let alone having them listen. =/ Time to throw the white flag up?
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I often have a situation in my Java code when I need to set a boolean flag inside an inner class. It is not possible to use primitive boolean type for that, because inner class could only work with final variables from outside, so I use pattern like this:
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private final TIntIntHashMap team = new TIntIntHashMap();
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final boolean[] flag = new boolean[]{false};
team.forEachValue(new TIntProcedure() {
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The pattern of final array instead of non-final variable works well, except it is not look beautiful enough to me. Does someone know better pattern in Java ?


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1(In the UK) an act in force between 1673 and 1828 that made an oath of allegiance to the Church of England and the supremacy of the monarch as its head and repudiation of the doctrine of transubstantiation a condition of eligibility for public office.
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- James II, when duke of York, was forced to resign as lord high admiral because the oath of office under the Test Act contained a declaration against transubstantiation which, as a Catholic, he could not take.
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- There was a powerful public reaction, which linked fear of royal absolutism to fear of Catholic plotting, and forced on the king the Test Act of 1673, specifically barring Catholics from any public functions.
2(In the UK) an act of 1871 relaxing restrictions on university entrance for candidates who were not members of the Church of England.
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Superslang.de is a German site similar to urbandictiory.com: http://superslang.de/
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I just used such a website for an answer here: it doesn't quite offer what you're after, but it's close. In Linguee you can type in a German or an English word; then it gives translations and also sentences from various external sources that provide both a German and an English version of the sentence. The word you're after is marked in yellow so that you ...
I only know of such a site for austrian terms: ostarrichi.org
Es gibt tatsächlich einige Tools, die durchaus nützlich sein und die Analyse Deines Stils unterstützen können - einen menschlichen Gegenleser kann keines auch nur ansatzweise ersetzen. Folgende Tools ergänzen einander: Durchaus brauchbar (im statistischen Sinne) ist LeichtLesbar - es zählt die Wörter und Silben und errechnet einen sog. Fleischwert, der ...
A very good tool is provided by http://www.aussprache.at In the Window "Suche" you can search for a word (example: search for »Chemie«). The findings are shown in the window above (for »Chemie« you find »Alchemie«, »Biochemie«, »Chemie« and »Chemielaborant«). Click on one of those findings. Left of this window you find the pronunciation written in IPA-...
Check WortSuche - it seems to do what you are looking for. Depending on what you want to do, 2rhyme might help - a German rhyme dictionary. Google doesn't do it at all, as far as I know.
+"lösung * haben" ingenieur | projekt I use linguee quite alot (probably uses a own search algorithm for google and mainly the google index, someone knows?), but why not use google itself? Linguee seems to fit better if you want correct translation of a phrase, searching google with code above you also find Lösung entwickelt/erarbeitet haben (which ...
Please be very careful with linguee.com Be aware that it is just an automated collection of websites that exist in two languages. That means it just collects texts and the corresponding translations - regardless of who (or, indeed, what) made them. Then a computer programme aligns the two langue versions and highlights the elements it thinks likely to belong ...
Das Institut für Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim bietet mit Cosmas II ein Werkzeug an, das unter anderem erlaubt, Suchanfragen mit morphosyntaktischen Annotationen zu stellen. Die Registrierung ist kostenlos, aber der Service richtet sich an Sprachwissenschaftler und die recht schwierige Suchsyntax erfordert entsprechendes Vorwissen und eine Einarbeitung.
Sprachnudel.de is another candidate.
Bab.la does it for me here About : bab.la is a language project by Andreas Schroeter and Patrick Uecker. The idea has been on Andreas' mind for quite some time. During his high school and university years he lived in Canada, France, Sweden and the USA. He noticed that just knowing the exact translation often doesn't really help. You really need ...
I think there is no site which provides all the options you're looking for, but I hope someone proves me wrong. As you stated in your question Canoo.net has some of the features. You could use The Free Dictionary in combination with Canoo.net. It provides usage examples for given words. Here's an example search for binden.
How about this link? I believe it has a few more samples.
With egrep you may search local databases: egrep "lauf/" /var/cache/postgresql/dicts/de_de.dict Egrep (or grep -e) is capable to search regular expressions. Now you need an open dictionary to search for. In the postgresql dicts, words are ending in a slash, so you would just append an slash to your word Ablauf/STpmij Anlauf/Spmij Auflauf/Spm Auslauf/...
This one is good. Some words have several speakers with a map showing the region they are in. It even has Swiss German speakers and words for which few resources exist. This has helped me quite a bit since I live in Switzerland. Forvo
dict.cc provides the pronunciation. You just have to click the audio some users have uploaded. It's not always available, since it's sometimes the computer who speaks (but as I hear, that's the case in the dictionary you linked).
Duden online (http://www.duden.de/) will give you everything you want to know about particular word. Try: http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/binden
Vorleser.net This is a nice site providing German literature and poem recitations read by professionals free for download as mp3 audio files including text files.
Linguee works reasonably well, but doesn't give statistics: http://www.linguee.de/deutsch-englisch/uebersetzung/eine+%E4hnliche+l%F6sung.html
Duden has some limited capabilities to find computer generated associations with adjectives, verbs or other nouns. However some of these results don't make sense or are immensely dependent on context (e.g. here "einen". Another place you can look up is DWDS where some citations are listed for a given word.
At freshmeat, there is an OpenSource program Steak/Xsteak, to use offline, which can search for context. From the help page: Das Wort wird automatisch auch in einem Kontext gesucht. From your userpage/accounts I derived, that Unix is not a foreign word for you.
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LAKE ELSINORE: Frontier Days festival returns Friday through Sunday
Mock gunfights, blacksmith demonstrations and panning for gold are among many activities celebrating Lake Elsinore's 123rd birthday that will be featured at Frontier Days, an event that will run Friday through Sunday at Alberhill Ranch Park.
The festival sponsored by the Lake Elsinore Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with the city and Southern California Edison launches from 4 to 11 p.m. Friday, continues from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday and wraps up from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday. The park is in northern Lake Elsinore at 28200 Lake St.
Admission is $7.95 per person daily, but $3 off coupons are available at businesses throughout the city and can printed from the event's website at lefrontierdays.com . Wristbands for unlimited rides also are available in advance for $15 apiece.
In contrast to last year's $9.95 entrance fee, the cost of admission this weekend will not entitle patrons to unlimited rides, event organizer Tony Trafton said. He said that policy wound up costing too much money. Parking remains free, however.
Trafton said he expects the event to offer from 16 to 18 rides, including some new ones. In keeping with the theme, this year's celebration will feature two gunfighter troupes performing regularly, adobe-brick making and an 1880s-era barber shop.
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New MacBook Air Announced, Includes All Day Battery Life
Apple announced a significant MacBook Air update today at WWDC alongside the all new Mac Pro, and the new Air includes dramatic battery life that lasts all day.
Apple announced a significant MacBook Air update today at WWDC alongside the all new Mac Pro, and the new Air includes dramatic battery life that lasts all day.
If you've ever had a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro's battery disappear at random it can be a disconcerting feeling. This is often accompanied with the battery menu having an "X" through it and saying "No Batteries Available", a very sluggish Mac, and even after a reboot or not the Mac will often have fans … Read More
If you're in the market to buy one of the super-fast new MacBook Air or MacBook Pro models, Amazon has already discounted all of the new 2012 models, with some savings of up to 5%. Here are the three MacBook Air models discounted by 5%, each comes standard with 4GB of RAM so the only … Read More
If you have a new MacBook Air or MacBook Pro and the colors seem a bit dull and washed out compared to your previous Mac, you probably aren't imagining things. Like most other hardware companies, Apple sources display panels from a variety of screen manufacturers, and though all the displays are of very high quality … Read More
We've discussed some pretty flattering attributes of the new MacBook Air lately, but here's one that's less than pleasant: a sizable amount of users are reporting the machine will completely freeze up seemingly out of nowhere, requiring a hard reset. Though not every new MacBook Air owner is experiencing the freezing issue, those who have … Read More
Apple advertises the MacBook Air (mid-2012) battery as lasting "up to 7 hours", but we're pleased to report that Apple's marketing is understating that number by as much as an hour and a half. In our (admittedly unscientific) tests based on real-world use case scenarios, the battery life on the new MacBook Air is simply … Read More
If you're wondering who made the SSD (flash storage) drive on a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro it's fairly easy to determine: Pull down the Apple menu and choose "About This Mac", then click on "More Info" Click "System Report" Look under "Hardware" for the "Serial-ATA" entry and select it Expand the chipset and … Read More
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African-Americans can have various natural hair colors, but can also dye their hair different colors as well. To make the most complementary choice in hair color, consider your complexion and hair texture. Consulting with a professional stylist will help you get the best results.
Blond Shades
Dying African-American hair blonde can be very tricky, especially if the natural hair is chemically straightened and/or naturally black. The lifting process required to get a true blonde shade is too harsh for relaxed hair.
If your hair isn't chemically straightened, you can go with a blonde color, but golden shades look better on warm skin tones. Your complexion can range from light to medium light for the most flattering look. However, if your skin tone is very dark, a short blond haircut can be quite dramatic.
Blonde hair colors that look good on African-American hair should be more rich. Choose from shades like golden bronze, bronze and honey blonde.
Reddish Tones
Reddish hair colors can be very flattering to a wide range of African-Americans. You can try subtle red shades that are reddish blonde, reddish bronze or auburn. You can also choose bright, vibrant red shades that are close to the primary color red. Red tones look good on medium light or medium brown skin.
To color naturally black or deep brown hair, the process to achieve a red shade isn't as harsh as it is to get a blond color. Brown hair can usually be colored in one process (sometimes with an ash blond dye), while black hair may need to be lifted of color first before depositing the red dye.
Darker Colors
If you want your hair darker or if it's already dark and you simply want to impart some shine, you can choose deep brown or black hair color. Jet black is often too harsh for many African-Americans; it only looks natural and complementary if the complexion is very dark. Otherwise, stick to coffee brown or natural black.
Other shades that work well with medium to dark skin include plum and burgundy.
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If you don't want complete color, try highlights. If your hair is brown, light red, bronze or auburn, blonde highlights will look good on top of it. For deep brown or black hair, choose medium brown highlights. Highlights should be placed around the face and on the top of the head for the most flattering, realistic results.
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I am new to the group and have a 5 month old baby girl, she has had blood in her stool off and on since about 1 month, Doctor thought it was a fissure for a long time but i finally decided to cut dairy because it did not seem to be a fissure to me.I was off dairy for almost a month but there was still blood in almost every poo, so we decided i should cut wheat and that has been a week, it seem like the blood is mostly gone but the consistency is not as good as i had hoped yet hopefully every day continues to get better. I also cut soy a few weeks back. Just wondering how long the wheat takes to leave the system?
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Do you feel the way you do after the risotto?
"And if you're wondering where her mom/publicist/lawyer/friend/ANYONE was to help her out, we're told that even her cousin Alli (who until recently was working as her personal assistant) couldn't deal, and is "done" with Miss Spears."
Big surprise there. Nobody wants to be around a stuck up, coked up, fucked up selfish bitch.
I just spent 10 horrifying minutes at tmz. Holy crap. It sucked my brain nearly dry.
Mr. Mitchell,
I feel your pain, but after a couple of times (like most things) you get used to it. It usually helps if you hit your head before you start reading. You should also hum one of your current favorite songs. You won't need to dedicate full attention anyway. If you can do this successfully, your brain will be totally blase about it.
LOL! Fat America! No shit!! I just compare the guys at Neighbors, The Cuff, Purr and compare that to what I saw when I first moved here in 1995. The difference? About 15 pounds per guy is the difference.
And I thought us homos were supposed to take care of ourselves???
Thanks Mr. Poe -- much safer than my original plan of sticking red-hot knitting needles into my eyeballs then setting myself on fire.
..meanwhile.. the local fox news q13 is reporting that there was a shooting last night outside 'the satelite lounge nightclub'.. and they go on to report this as further evidence of an escalation of local nigthclub violence, tying it in with the shooting at tabella's a few weeks ago. they also call it a captiol hill shooting.. at least they're gettin the nighborhood right
that risotto looks downright NARSTY.
@ The Reverend; I hate to bring this up but a couple of months ago on Slog I suggested after some people were complaining about some of the pricks who go to Club Lagoon who were gay bashing on Cap Hill that we should set up a protest on a Saturday night in front of that club. The response was a deafening silence.... *cricket sounds*.
So I am content just to let the violence spiral upward and hope that it stops at some point.
I agree. It looks like somebody had a fun time with it...in more ways than one.
Risotto rocks. I like coarsely grating zucchini into it - instead of dicing it - it basically disappears but still imparts its flavor. Lemon juice is a good idea.
For @8, @10 - it looks like normal tasty risotto to me - what should it look like? It's just cooked rice.
more importantly, that zucchini appears to have been overcooked. shame.
When do we get an all-atheist town? What should we call it?
Risotto is one of my favorites; I think I'll make that tonight. Thanks!
And if plastic grocery bags are banned, how am I going to dispose of my cats' poo?
Satellite Lounge Nightclub
So, is the new definition of nightclub going to be, "any establishment where someone gets shot at 2:00 a.m."?
In that case, all those 24-hour convenience store nightclubs better start shaping up - or else!
@5 - the 15 pounds is the difference between untreated HIV and normal. But that's just what those of us who've been to lots of funerals and memorials for friends think.
@ Will, and here I thought the beer guts and double chins were due to over eating.....
Will, I love you right now.
You notice how CNN says the data is based on "self-reporting" - and doesn't mention that the definition of "obese" was lowered in 1998? Notice also the big jump in "obesity" between 1997 and 2007?
When you redefine "obese" to include more people, golly gee wilkers, we have more obese people! Nobody even had to gain a pound!
According to the CDC, the mean (average) weight of 19yr olds has increased 10-15lbs since the 1970s. For 20-74yr olds, it's a 20lb increase (and about 1 inch height increase) since the 70s. The "Conclusions" in the PDF reports this as a "dramatic increase". Personally, I don't think 10-20lbs qualifies as "dramatic". But then, I'm not trying to get funding from Weight Watchers, or to sell advertising to Jenny Craig.
@ JenK. For each increase in height you are allowed to add around 7 or so pounds. 20 pounds (or so) that is some heft. Plus, we have a dramatic increase in type 2 diabetees as well and even the real scientific studies make the CNN self poll look rather sedate and honestly quite optimistic.
I know that people get really pissed off about comments relating to weight gain but it is a reality that much of it is related to choices (like smoking) but as people will scold others about smoking how many of us will look at someone over weight and say "Gee, do you really need to have that chocolate cake?"
We are so damn worried about hurting people's feelings that we are ignoring the health risks of being obese.
@ Will, we are looking at weight gain not the positive results of better drug treatments. Frankly your comment sounds like if a gay guy is overweight in Seattle they must be HIV+. (seriously re-read what you wrote)
But Cato, look at what you wrote @5. You make it sound as if there is an evenly distributed 15 pounds per gay, across the board. Plus you were 12 years younger (younger) in '95 -- age commonly adds weight to men.
I'm just sayin'.
@22, you demostrated my last point to Will perfectly!
Damn you, Cato!
But I still like a nice AIDS jab now and again, so I'm still on Will's side.
Cato @21 - The diabetes treatment guidelines have also been adjusted. People are being treated now for diabetes and pre-diabetes who previously would not have been.
Note, I'm not saying that is a bad decision. I just note that the message could be, "More people are being treated for diabetes!!!" or "We've become more aggressive in how we treat diabetes. We're identifying and treating people now who would have been classified as "healthy" before."
Which would you choose?
In good news: a 1-inch increase in height in only 30 years! Nice job, everyone. We're well on our way to morphing into a race of physically domineering supermen.
I made the risotto for dinner tonight. Too pasty (I'm a bad cook), but the taste was good.
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By Jake Donovan -Hugo Cazares aims to remain in the hunt for a 122 lb. title shot as he faces Rey Perez in a scheduled 12-round bout Saturday evening in Chihuahua, Mexico.
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Really close fight. The filipino had speed but no power. If he had any power he might have taken it. Cazares thumped him in the later rounds and basically mauled him for the victory. Cazares looked old and slow but still seemed to do enough to take it over the green filipino. Better luck next time son.
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Environmental Biology of Fishes
, Volume 74, Issue 1, pp 99-107
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Interpreting Space Use and Behavior of Blue Tang, Acanthurus coeruleus, in the Context of Habitat, Density, and Intra-specific Interactions
- Brice X. SemmensAffiliated withDepartment of Biology, University of Washington Email author
- , Daniel R. BrumbaughAffiliated withCenter for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History
- , Joshua A. DrewAffiliated withMarine Program Marine Biological Laboratory, Boston University
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We hypothesized that blue tang, Acanthurus coeruleus, territories on sites with low biogenic structure would be larger than territories on sites with relatively high biogenic structure due to differences in the amount and distribution of resources. We tested this hypothesis by tracking blue tang over uncolonized pavement and reef crest, two habitat types at opposite ends of the habitat structure spectrum. We recorded density, feeding rates and aggression events in order to evaluate our findings in the context of a territory model and the ideal free distribution model. Territories of A. coeruleus averaged nearly four times larger on pavement sites than on reef crest sites. Conversely, densities of A. coeruleus were significantly lower on pavement sites. While there was no significant difference in the average rates of movement between habitats, average turning angles were significantly higher on reef crest. There were no significant differences in feeding rates between habitats, suggesting that higher territory sizes and lower densities may allow fish on uncolonized pavement to match resource acquisition of fish on reef crest. The insignificant difference of aggression encounters between habitats suggests that movement and density differences among habitats are not solely legacies of differential settlement.
Keywordsmovement coral reef behavior space territory home range
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- Interpreting Space Use and Behavior of Blue Tang, Acanthurus coeruleus, in the Context of Habitat, Density, and Intra-specific Interactions
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Environmental Biology of Fishes
Volume 74, Issue 1 , pp 99-107
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- 2005-09
- 10.1007/s10641-005-6467-z
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- 0378-1909
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- 1573-5133
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- Kluwer Academic Publishers
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- movement
- coral reef
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- Brice X. Semmens (1)
- Daniel R. Brumbaugh (2)
- Joshua A. Drew (3)
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- 1. Department of Biology, University of Washington, 24 Kincaid Hall, Box 351800, Seattle, Washington, 98195-1800, USA
- 2. Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY, 10024-5192, USA
- 3. Marine Program Marine Biological Laboratory, Boston University, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, USA


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Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics
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Robust estimation in joint mean–covariance regression model for longitudinal data
- Xueying ZhengAffiliated withDepartment of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Hong Kong
- , Wing Kam FungAffiliated withDepartment of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Hong Kong Email author
- , Zhongyi ZhuAffiliated withDepartment of Statistics, School of Management, Fudan University
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In this paper, we develop robust estimation for the mean and covariance jointly for the regression model of longitudinal data within the framework of generalized estimating equations (GEE). The proposed approach integrates the robust method and joint mean–covariance regression modeling. Robust generalized estimating equations using bounded scores and leverage-based weights are employed for the mean and covariance to achieve robustness against outliers. The resulting estimators are shown to be consistent and asymptotically normally distributed. Simulation studies are conducted to investigate the effectiveness of the proposed method. As expected, the robust method outperforms its non-robust version under contaminations. Finally, we illustrate by analyzing a hormone data set. By downweighing the potential outliers, the proposed method not only shifts the estimation in the mean model, but also shrinks the range of the innovation variance, leading to a more reliable estimation in the covariance matrix.
KeywordsCovariance matrix Generalized estimating equation Longitudinal data Modified Cholesky decomposition Robustness
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- Robust estimation in joint mean–covariance regression model for longitudinal data
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Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Volume 65, Issue 4 , pp 617-638
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- 2013-08
- 10.1007/s10463-012-0383-8
- Print ISSN
- 0020-3157
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- 1572-9052
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- Springer Japan
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- Covariance matrix
- Generalized estimating equation
- Longitudinal data
- Modified Cholesky decomposition
- Robustness
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- Xueying Zheng (1)
- Wing Kam Fung (1)
- Zhongyi Zhu (2)
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- 1. Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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Cowboy del Amor
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- Release Date: Feb 3, 2006
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The result is a lyrical contrast of two contiguous cultures, worlds apart in their definitions of family and love but brought together by mutual awe and basic human need.
Richly amusing and sporadically insightful as it offers an up-close-and-personal view of Ivan Thompson, a self-proclaimed "cowboy cupid" who plays matchmaker between American men and Mexican women.
Watching Cowboy del Amor is like sitting in a room with someone who's making funny racist cracks; you can't help but laugh, but you feel sullied by the implicit collusion. For that reason, the film tips over into the camp of tragedy. Or if it is a comedy, it's the Shakespearean kind, where the marriages at the end are utterly unsettling.
It's both a compliment and a criticism to say that Michèle Ohayon's scrappy documentary ends much too quickly. Every moment of this story - about America's unlikeliest matchmaker - is fascinating. We just need more of them.
A well-done, oft-times entertaining documentary as it presents this unique brand of matchmaking that may or may not be the ideal situation for both parties.
A 60-year-old eccentric with a knack for self-promotion, Thompson makes an engaging documentary subject. But his plainspoken charm and cornpone shtick can't dispel the film's lingering aftertaste of exploitative condescension.
Directed by Michèle Ohayon with a light touch and an attentive ear for the regressive attitudes beneath the humor, Cowboy del Amor follows the fortunes of Rick, an easygoing truck driver who thinks most American women are "too hard to please."
Michèle Ohayon falls into the old documentary trap - the illusion that once you've found yourself a lovable eccentric to follow around with a camera, you automatically have a movie.
The film doesn't quite manage to sustain interest for the duration of its 86-minute running time. But it does exert a certain voyeuristic fascination, thanks in no small part to the eccentricities of its central figure.
Ohayon doesn't judge Thompson or his customers, but you don't need to be a Harvard-educated psychiatrist to realize that the bunch of them are dirty old men who treat women as commodities.
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TimD.Jul 9, 2006The critics have read way too much into this man. This movie will at times make you wish that you could have been there to gain more insight The critics have read way too much into this man. This movie will at times make you wish that you could have been there to gain more insight and to see Mr. Thompson behind the scenes. I do not belive that he was strickly seeing women as commodities, he is just pragmatic. Find 2 marriage minded people and introduce them to each other in a matter of a few days. (and of course charge the fee) Mr Thompson must be sincere, since he is willing to take a 22+ hour trip with his customers in the process.… Full Review »
RubyG.Feb 10, 2006This was a very touching film- one of my current favorites!! Hilarious, with a lot of emotion!
JulianT.Feb 10, 2006One of the best docs I've seen.