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Directed by Howard Bretherton / Howard P. BrethertonGenres - Western | Sub-Genres - B-Western | Release Date - Jan 30, 1942 (USA - Unknown) | Run Time - 57 min. | Countries - United States | MPAA Rating - NR
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The Rough Riders-Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, and Raymond Hatton-go through their customary paces in the Monogram western Below the Border. Once again, the three stars play characters who are outwardly strangers to one another, but who are secretly working together to defeat a common enemy. This time around, Buck Roberts (Jones), Tim McCall (McCoy) and Sandy Hopkins (Hatton) are in hot pursuit of the desperado who murdered a US marshal and then skeedaddled South of the Border. To keep the villain off track, Buck poses as an ex-convict, Tim pretends to be a wealthy cattle buyer, and Sandy impersonates a saloon handyman. By film's end, however, the three heroes have united as one, and it's curtains for bad guy Slade (Charles King).
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Projects proposed for Tucumcari and Clovis will be among those competing for the state's last available racino license, with a timeline to be announced Monday and an award selection expected by the end of 2018.
New Mexico Racing Commission Executive Director Izzy Trejo said the decision to solicit new applications came out of recent interest from "a handful of different entities," though he declined to get into specifics.
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"According to the market study at that time, there's a real desire amongst a good percentage of the population that live there for some other types of entertainment, whether it's horse racing, off-track betting, restaurants, casino, or a lounge of some kind," Skip Sayre told The News. "And a high percentage of business would come out of Texas."
Warren Frost represents the Quay County Gaming Authority, a group promoting a race track for the area for more than a decade. Frost's group applied for a racino license in 2008, but lost out to Raton, although that project folded from lack of finances. The QCGA has since combined with the Tucumcari/Quay County Economic Development Corporation, also representing San Jon and Logan.
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Quay County's vision is for a racetrack and casino on a location by Interstate 40 and Route 66.
"The only place (another New Mexico) track makes sense is along the Texas border," Frost said. "So we're certainly optimistic. We think the only competition we're going to have is Clovis."
Both Sayre and Frost said they were confident of the financing for their projects, a concern stressed by Trejo after the collapse of the Raton project from lack of funds.
Whatever entity is awarded, the ensuing racetrack would be subject to an annual review and required to conduct at least 17 days of racing annually.
Frost said the new license is "going to be a great economic boon for the state regardless of where it goes," and estimated that "over the last 10 years the state has been losing at least $10 million a year in revenue sharing," from the lack of a sixth active racino license.
Even so, he emphasized its particular advantage for a smaller community.
"Tucumcari really needs some kind of economic development," he said.
Sayre declined to name any of the stakeholders in the Clovis land being considered by LDC or to describe its specific location. But state Rep. Randal Crowder said he has a stake of less than 50 percent in a property at Seventh and Norris streets, which LDC had previously confirmed was a potential site for a racino.
Crowder acknowledged he might get a percentage of revenue generated from the land, but said he had no interest in seeing it turned into a racetrack.
"I'd be real sad (if that happened.) I don't believe that there's a net benefit to a community from that," Crowder said. "I believe that the negatives that come along with gambling and racetracks outweigh the good."


text: Atlanta, Bakery, Breakfast, Café, Comprehensive Review, Counter Service, Desserts, Entrées, Lunch/Dinner, Outdoor Seating, Series, Snacks, Table Service Highland Bakery, Part 1 June 24, 2013 Jeff Leave a comment I will begin by asking that you please excuse the shoddy camera work. The photos taken here were done quickly, with the food shots taken in the car so the lighting and focus didn't always work to my advantage. After a disappointing meal at the Radial Cafe we decided to head down the street to Highland Bakery. Atlanta has three locations. I've been to the other one for breakfast, rated #176 of 1,378 restaurants in Atlanta on TripAdvisor, and loved it. The one we visited today is the original, and rated #38. Today's trip was just for bakery items, a dessert run for the aforementioned lunch we just finished. The outside of the building is once again a warehouse/office looking space with almost no signage advising that you're arriving at a very popular bakery. Highland Bakery Alongside the building are tables for those that want to enjoy their baked goods outside. Outside Seating All table service for those wanting to order a meal is inside. This may be the second location to eventually get a full review of the entire place. I will try to pick up various items whenever I'm in the area until I hopefully get a chance to try most everything they offer. Let's step inside and see what's available in the cases. Immediately inside the front door there are a couple tables to the right were patrons can also nibble on their take-out treats without going outside, and also without taking up a dining room table. Just past the tables are large shelves holding the fresh baked bread for the day. Bread on Display Looking to the left is the first of three bakery cases. Cupcake Case This one is most entirely consisting of cupcakes and one group of tarts. Above the case are packaged treats, such as Rice Krispy® treats, brownies, pound cakes, banana bread, and granola. Behind the case is additional storage for the breads we saw on the shelves on the other side of the room. Most of the cupcakes and other treats have a regular size and a mini size. Cupcake Sizes The next case is a large assortment of various bakery treats from eclairs to tarts to bars, and even cakes and mini cakes at the bottom. Assorted Pastries Case Here is a look at the mini cakes. Mini Cakes The last case contains what they called the breakfast items. This includes cinnamon rolls, muffins, bagels, and croissants among other things. Breakfast Case I noticed the cinnamon rolls looked very similar to the one I had earlier. Cinnamon Rolls I decided to pass, even though it's something I would normally have to try. There is also a tempting choice of varied croissants with different fillings. On the back wall is a board with the pricing for breads and drinks. Price Board One of the items that caught my wife's eye were the sweet potato biscuits. Sweet Potato Biscuits Generally at home, a sweet potato biscuit would be made without using wheat flour, so it would be gluten-free. We had to assume that these had gluten, so she chose a nugget instead of the full sized version. She's a fan of just about anything made with sweet potato. The other items we chose were the lemon bar, a cannolo (a little known fact that this is the correct singular form of cannoli), an eclair, and the chocolate peanut butter bar. Box of Treats Trying to avoid excess sugar and more importantly, gluten, my wife was going to try a bite of each and leave the rest for me to finish. You see why I married her? First up, the sweet potato nugget. Sweet Potato Nugget It definitely tasted of sweet potato, in other words, sweet. The texture was good. It was fairly dense but not dry as I would expect from a dense baked good. The sweet potato kept a reasonable amount of moisture inside so that you didn't need to down it with a cup of water. I would consider getting the full sized version next time. I have a feeling this biscuit would be great with butter on top. Rating: 5.5/10 The cannolo was fairly typical. Cannolo The shell seemed a little softer and not as flaky as what I usually get, but it didn't negatively affect the taste. The filling however was not very sweet. To me, that brings down my enjoyment of a cannolo. Without a sweet filling you're left with a great texture, but limited taste. Other than the chocolate chips, the cream filling doesn't stand out and the shells rarely have much of a taste on their own. To me, the filling is what makes a cannolo either great, or just bland. This one fell slightly in the latter category. Rating: 4/10 I personally thought the lemon bar was great. Lemon Bar My wife on the other hand thought it was no different than any other lemon bars sold everywhere else. I have had very few of these, and none that I can specifically remember so maybe that's why I thought it was so good. The lemon flavor was strong but not not too sour. The flavor did not immediately give an indication of being artificial, even if it was. The texture was also delectable. Not quite creamy, but not chewy either, it was a perfect consistency. The crust at the bottom was thin but gave just enough crunch to compliment the lemon filling. Rating: 7/10 The eclair looked really appetizing with it's thick and well coated cover. Eclair It was really large but still hard to pick up without getting chocolate on my fingers since it draped more than half way down the sides. Inevitably the cream filling inside was not what I hoped for. I would have loved to have found a chocolate filling inside, but would have been satisfied with a nice cream or vanilla flavored filling. Eclair Filling As it turned out, just like the cannolo, the filling was fairly bland. Luckily the thick chocolate coating added some noticeable flavor in each bite, but it was hard to overpower the drabness of the rest. Lastly, the cake shell didn't feel fresh. The stiffness was of an eclair that had been frozen and thawed, or just made a day or two earlier. Rating: 4/10 The last item was saved for the end for a reason. I'm a fan of anything peanut butter, and I had high hopes for this. It was a fairly large and heavy bar with several noticeable layers. Chocolate Peanut Butter Bar Biting in, I finally found my expectations met. On the bottom is the cookie-like "crust" made from many ingredients, some of which appear to be flower, butter, peanuts, and I believe I saw some coconut mixed in as well. Peanut Butter Bar Layers Above the base are two thick layers of pure peanut butter and a viscous chocolate cream. On the top was a peanut "crumble" like you'd find on a cobbler. This bar had every texture from the crunchy crumble, to the creamy chocolate and peanut butter layers, with the base having a chewy composition. The peanut flavor was abundant in every bite. The thick peanut butter layer was distinct, both taste and texture, even though it only consisted of about 15% of the entire bar. Needless to say, this was a very filling dessert. It combined many of my favorites: chocolate, peanut butter, cobbler crumble, and cookies. I may have to get this again and bring it home to heat in the microwave which I can only assume would improve it dramatically. Rating: 7.5/10 My first visit to Highland Bakery last year was fantastic. This visit only included bakery items as opposed to a full breakfast on my last visit. I was not as impressed this time, but I would like to continue to visit and eventually get a full review including all food that this bakery offers. While not everything today was spectacular, there were definitely a few high points. 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All began in 1910. His Majesty King Chulalongkorn of Siam had passed away. His possessions were carefully kept in the Treasury of the Inner Court of the Grand Palace. More than a century later those trunks, which had remained unkown and unseen for over 100 years, were opened. A treasure was discovered: a whole collection of Javanese Batiks, all of them in excellent state of conservation. Incredibly, they had survived the pass of time. Just extraordinary….
In the late 1800s, Siam began to open toward the west. It was King Mongut, Rama IV, who saw the necessity of it. Therefore, economic and political relationships between Siam and the western countries, started to be strengthened. King Chulalongkorn, Rama V, continued his father's task convinced that the future and survival of Siam as an independent kingdom depended of its openess and adaptation to modern needs. But, differently from his father, he travelled abroad, to Europe. He wanted to see by himself how the poweful western countries were governed. For him, as it had been for his father, was a political necessity.
Looking for ways for the modenization of Siam, before going to Europe, His Majesty made an official visit to Singapore and Java. It was 1871 and he was 18 years old. This was the first time a reigning king of Siam had traveled outside of the kingdom or any of its dependencies.The King was especially interested in knowing all about the recent inovations carried out in these countries, as the new rail line between Batavia and Semarang. In addition, King Chulalongkorn had a personal interest in the shared Hindu-Buddhist heritage of Indonesia and Siam.
According to the information given at the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles, it was apparent that His Majesty was fascinated with batik as soon as he saw it. Then, over the course of his other – non official visits carried out in 1896 and 1901, the King developed a love for the art of batik, which led him to build a collection showing the remarkable diversity of this quintessntially Javanese art form.
It was in 2014 when the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles was granted permission to research and organize an exhibition to tell the story of HM King Chulalongkorn's travels in Java and his fascination with Javanese culture, especially batik. The museum's curators started to work relentlessly and after four years the exhibition is opened to the public for first time revealing King Rama V's extraordinary legacy. A Royal Treasure.
As one thing brings the other, all began with a special guided visit organized by the Thai Textile Society to see the exhibition, which I had missed. Although Denise had attended this tour, she would go again with gusto. So we did. Fantastic.
When we entered the exhibition room, we were just shocked. Not only for the magnificence of the pieces of batik in display , but at the sight of their excellent state of conservation. No one would say that those fabrics had been storaged without nobody knowing about their existence. No one.
And that literally means without having any special preservation treatment for over a century. No one.
Just uncredible. Amazing.
We stayed a long time observing, trying to absorb the beauty of each one of those pieces, their patterns and designs. We learn, by reading the informative tags, that their different designs represent the styles of the Central Javanese Principalities and the multicultural styles of Java's north coast ports which were strongly affected by the international maritime trade. That's the main reason why we saw batiks with designs of clearly Indian and Chinese influences.
The more we read, the more enthusiatic we became trying to discover on the batik's designs the details described in the given information. But there was something that called our, well, mine attention at least: Art Nouveau – flowers, lacy borders on some of the Javanese batiks' designs, which are, beyond doubt, western motifs.
The explanation for that is simple, if we think a little bit about it. During the course of the 18th century, the Dutch United India Company (VOC) had established itself as the dominating economic and political power on Java. What meant that the officers came along with their families , and those women would have preferred to keep wearing cloth with an European design. So, to fill that necessity, and may be to occupied their time, some of them owned and run workshops dedicated to producing Javanese batik but with European influence in their design.
Among them, it is noticiable the case of Mrs Jans (c 1850-c1920) a Dutch woman, born in Java, who owned a popular and prolific workshop from which His Majesty bought eight pieces in 1901. An interesting detail is that she was the first to sign her pieces in 1870s, and 20 years later following her example, nealrly all batiks were signed by the Eurasian workshop owners in the coastal towns.
Her pieces were expensive, but her clients were Dutch women who came to the Indies with their husbands, and wished to wear sarung ( a short tubular hip wrap) and kebaya ( traditional blouse-dress usually wore with the sarung) at home to stay cool, but preferred fabrics with an European design.Those designs had clean backgrounds and birds, bouquets and similar imaginary which came from European embroidery books or, prior to that, from Indian chintz which inspired European printed cottons which also had florals and pristine backgrounds.
We saw a particularly spectacular batik made for a European client with a bird – of – paradise in its design, the feathers of which were especially popular in European women's hats between 1890 and 1910.
And then, one of the highlights of the collection is a superb sarung, with the Pomegranate – flower pattern, eyelet lace and paisleys, a very popular textile design throughout the 19th century for an elegant, wealthy European or Indo – European woman. Because of the way in which this particular piece is arranged, you are able to appreciate its front and back, with just walking around it. Fantastic.
An impressive exhibition. Some pieces of batik are just stunning. For their beauty. For the delicacy and intricacy of the diminutive details in their designs. Knowing how hand – made batik is produced, a work that implies successive layers of waxing, dyeing, boiling to melting the wax, repeating this process which each one of the colours until getting the final design, we couldn't help but thinking how skilled, how naturally gifted those people should have been.
Sadly, visitors are not allowed to take pictures, so we have to content ourselves with our memories….or just going again. Luckely enough, we will have time for more visits. The exhibition will remain open until May of 2021. But due to space limitations, the display of the batiks will be rotated, so we won't see the same pieces all the time… What means that we have to go in different occasions to be able to appreciatte the whole collection… Which in turn means that we have an excellent excuse to go to Bangkok more often, more than once…
As history repeats itself, all began with our visit to HM King Chulalongkorn's collection of Javanese batiks when all of a sudden, as in a dream, I found myself in the Dana Hadir Museum of Batik in Solo, Java. We had gone in 2013 when it was my turn to be fascinated with the Javanese batiks.At first sight. The variety of their designs which changed accordingly to each geographical region, made me realised of how vast, diverse and rich Java's culture was.
I remember now, six years later, our Javanese guide telling us that such and such particular batiks were taken back to Siam by its monarch, HM King Chulalongkorn, never thinking that one day I would be standing in front of them. Life gives you surprises, doesn't it?
The second part of the visit to the Dana Hadir Museum, consisted in touring the 'backstage' where the worldwide – known Solo batiks were produced. Seeing those women and men doing that painstakingly, admirable handwork with such skill, was just amazing. We were left, for once, speechless…
Coming back from my memories, walking out of the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles, with the few things bought at Museum's shop, already in our bags, we started to look for the closest coffee shop. It was time for savouring a good, strong expresso while trying to assimilate all what we had just seeing and enjoyed. And the story behind it.
What a magic afternoon. A wonderful company, a surprisingly memorable legacy of one of Siam's most beloved monarchs and the Chao Phraya river, in all its majesty, just in front of us.
Could we ask for more?…
At the entrance of the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles we were given an informative booklet, These images belong to it…
Sadly, visitors are not allowed to take pictures of the King Chulalongkorn's batik collection, we have to content ourselves with our memories… or see the pictures published in The Nation's website …
All of a sudden, as in a dream, I found myself in the Dana Hadir Museum of Batik in Solo, Java, where we had gone in 2013… Photo Credit: Silvia Muda
The second part of the visit to the Dana Hadir Museum, consisted in touring the 'backstage' where the worldwide known – Solo batiks were produced. It was then when we learnt how hand – made batik is produced: a work that implies successive layers of waxing, dyeing, boiling to melting the wax, repeating this process which each one of the colours until getting the final design…
Seeing those women and men doing that painstakingly, admirable handwork with such skill, was just amazing. We were left, for once, speechless…


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Whether the attack was reported to police or other responsible authority? Was the attacker traced/convicted?
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"Finally, I suspect that it is by entering that deep place inside us where our secrets are kept that we come perhaps closer than we do anywhere else to the One who, whether we realize it or not, is of all our secrets the most telling and the most precious we have to tell." Frederick Buechner
Thursday, December 07, 2006
That Jesus: What a man!
Manliness is next to godliness
By Jenny Jarvie and Stephanie Simon
Times Staff Writers
December 7, 2006
Nashville — THE strobe lights pulse and the air vibrates to a killer
rock beat. Giant screens show mayhem and gross-out pranks: a car
wreck, a sucker punch, a flabby (and naked) rear end, sealed with
duct tape.
Brad Stine runs onstage in ripped blue jeans, his shirt untucked, his
long hair shaggy. He's a stand-up comic by trade, but he's here today
as an evangelist, on a mission to build up a new Christian man — one
profanity at a time. "It's the wuss-ification of America that's
getting us!" screeches Stine, 46.
A moment later he adds a fervent: "Thank you, Lord, for our
It's an apt anthem for a contrarian movement gaining momentum on the
fringes of Christianity. In daybreak fraternity meetings and weekend
paintball wars, in wilderness retreats and X-rated chats about lust,
thousands of Christian men are reaching for more forceful, more
rugged expressions of their faith.
Stine's daylong revival meeting, which he calls "GodMen," is cruder
than most. But it's built around the same theory as the other
experimental forums: Traditional church worship is emasculating.
Hold hands with strangers? Sing love songs to Jesus? No wonder pews
across America hold far more women than men, Stine says. Factor in
the pressure to be a "Christian nice guy" — no cussing, no
confrontation, in tune with the wife's emotions — and it's amazing
men keep the faith at all.
"We know men are uncomfortable in church," says the Rev. Kraig Wall,
52, who pastors a small church in Franklin, Tenn. — and is at GodMen
to research ways to reach the husbands of his congregation. His
conclusion: "The syrup and the sticky stuff is holding us down."
John Eldredge, a seminal writer for the movement, goes further in
"Wild At Heart," his bestselling book. "Christianity, as it currently
exists, has done some terrible things to men," he writes. Men
"believe that God put them on earth to be a good boy."
Cue up the GodMen house band, which opens the revival with a
thrashing challenge to good boys:
Forget the yin and the yang
I'll take the boom and the bang….
Don't need in touch with my feminine side!
All I want is my testosterone high.
The 200 men in the crowd clap stiffly. Stine races through a frenetic
stand-up routine, drawing laughs with his rants against liberals,
atheists and the politically correct. Then Christian radio host Paul
Coughlin, author of "No More Christian Nice Guy," takes the stage.
His backdrop: a series of wanted posters featuring one Jesus of
"Jesus was a very bad Christian," Coughlin declares. After all, he
says, the Son of God trashed a temple and even used profanity — or
the New Testament equivalent — when he called Herod "that fox."
"The idea of Jesus as meek and mild is as fictitious as anything in
Dan Brown's 'Da Vinci Code,' " says Coughlin, 40.
So what's with the standard portraits of Jesus: pale face, beatific
smile, lapful of lambs?
"He's been domesticated," says Roland Martinson, a professor of
ministry at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minn. "He's portrayed now as
gentle, loving, kind, rather than as a full-bodied person who kicked
over tables in the temple, spent 40 days in the wilderness wrestling
with his identity and with God, hung out with the guys in the street.
The rough-hewn edges and courage ... got lopped off."
Martinson considers the experiments with high-testosterone worship
"an important attempt to address at least one aspect of the
difficulty Christianity is facing with men." He just worries it might
go too far. "Too often, it turns into the man being in charge of the
woman," he says. "Christianity has been there before, and we learned
how wrong it was."
In fact, men taking charge is a big theme of the GodMen revival. At
what he hopes will be the first of many such conferences, in a
warehouse-turned-nightclub in downtown Nashville, Stine asks the men:
"Are you ready to grab your sword and say, 'OK, family, I'm going to
lead you?' " He also distributes a list of a real man's rules for his
woman. No. 1: "Learn to work the toilet seat. You're a big girl. If
it's up, put it down."
Stine's wife, Desiree, says she supports manly leadership; it seems
to her the natural and God-ordained order of things. As she puts it:
"When the rubber hits the bat, I want to know my husband will protect
But some men at the conference run into trouble when they debut their
new attitudes at home. Eric Miller, a construction worker, admits his
wife is none too pleased when he takes off, alone, on a weekend
camping trip a few weeks after the GodMen conference this fall.
"She was a little bit leery of it, as we have an infant," he reports.
"She said, 'I need your help around here.' "
Miller, 26, refuses to yield: "I am supposed to be the leader of the
He's pretty sure his wife will come around once she recognizes he's
modeling his life after Jesus', like a good Christian should. It'll
just take a little explaining, because the Jesus he has in mind is
the guy on the wanted poster: "confrontational and sarcastic when he
needed to be," Miller says, and determined to use "whatever means was
necessary to achieve his goal."
Or as another song from the GodMen band declares:
You're not a slave, break the chains...
We've had enough, "cowboy up"
In the power of Jesus' name.
SUCH in-your-face aggression at first troubles Howard Stephenson, who
paid $68 for a day at GodMen in hopes of forging friendships with
other Christian men. When Stine, a born-again Christian, shouts that
it's OK to cuss — and then demonstrates with a defiant "bull...." —
Stephenson shifts uneasily.
"This is so extreme for me," he says.
A few weeks later, Stephenson, 43, is still not sold on profanity.
But he has ditched the nice-guy reflex of always turning the other
cheek. When he spots a Wal-Mart clerk writing "Happy Holidays" on a
window, he boldly complains: It should say "Merry Christmas."
The clerk erases the offending greeting. Chalk one up for Christian
"I wouldn't have done that before," Stephenson says proudly. "I am no
longer a doormat."
The virility crusade is, in part, a response to a stark gender gap.
Though churches have tried all sorts of gimmicks to attract men —
even sponsoring clubs for motorcycle riders and paintball players —
more than 60% of the adults at a typical worship service are women.
That translates into 13 million more women than men in the pews on
any given Sunday, according to David Murrow, author of "Why Men Hate
Going to Church."
Women are also significantly more likely than men to attend Sunday
school, read the Bible and pray regularly, according to the Barna
Group, a Christian polling firm.
Murrow, 45, blames men's lackluster attitude on the feminization of
mainline churches: "Lace curtains. Quilted banners on the wall. Pink
carpet. Fresh flowers at the podium."
Even in evangelical mega-churches, which tend to use more neutral
decor, the mood is hardly alpha male. Dancers wave flowing banners as
the choir sings. TV screens glow with images of flowers and sunsets.
As for the music, "Onward, Christian Soldiers" is long gone. Instead,
there are ballads about Jesus' eternal embrace. "Very Barry Manilow,"
says Mike Smith, Stine's manager.
Millions of men, of course, find such worship peaceful or
inspirational, not stifling. And there remain some staunch defenders
of the Christian nice guy. "It's a wonderful thing to see a man
welling up in tears," says Greg Vaughn, who teaches men nationwide
how to write love letters to their wives. "It takes a lot more
courage to do that than to talk about football."
The most famous men's ministry, Promise Keepers, packed stadiums
throughout the 1990s with men who wept and hugged one another as they
pledged to be dutiful and pure. Men at Promise Keepers rallies today
make the same vows, but in a nod to the new ethos of manliness, the
conferences now carry titles such as "Storm the Gates" and
"Uprising." This year, the theme is "Unleashed," as in unleashing the
warrior within.
"It is not about learning how to be a nicer guy," the website declares.
Coughlin and others in the manly Christian movement are unconvinced.
Promise Keepers still emphasizes obedience and purity. Participants
still shed tears. Plus, children are invited, and women work the
arenas as support staff, so the conversation never gets too raw. In
several years of performing stand-up at Promise Keepers events, Stine
never cursed; the closest he came to vulgarity was his liberal use of
the word "stinking."
"I get tired of trying to maintain that Christian persona," he says.
"I hate that sense of decorum. I hate thinking, 'Boy, I hope I don't
say the wrong thing.' "
Stine argues that the genteel facade of a Christian nice guy inhibits
introspection and substitutes cliches for spiritual growth. GodMen is
his attempt to encourage men to get real. His speakers admit to
masturbation and adultery. A workshop called "Training the Penis"
encourages men to talk openly about temptation and bond with guys who
share their struggles.
Such honesty, Stine contends, molds better, more godly men than a
typical Sunday service.
"We want to force you out of the safe places that have passed for
spirituality," Stine says. "Maybe worship could be hanging out with a
bunch of guys, admitting we like blowing crap up."
A similar — though less ribald — approach is taken by Men's
Fraternity, which was founded in Little Rock, Ark., in 1990 and has
expanded around the world, with hundreds of chapters meeting weekly
at 6 a.m. in churches, office buildings, even car dealerships.
"It's testosterone-friendly," says Rick Caldwell, global director of
the program. He urges chapter leaders to have NFL bloopers on the big
screen when the men come in, and oldies or country-western on the
radio. "No opening prayer. And for heaven's sakes, don't ask the guys
to take the hand of the guys next to them. That scares them to death."
Leaders don't even bring out the Bible until they're well into the
curriculum; instead, they teach ideals of Christian manhood through
Steve Martin movies and clips from "Braveheart."
"Do not think Sunday morning worship," Caldwell says. "Think Saturday
afternoon tailgate."
The ironic bit about all this rough-and-tumble manliness is that it
often leads to what can only be described as touchy-feely moments.
Eldredge runs "soul-searching" wilderness retreats in Colorado that
prompt men to bare their innermost needs. Men's Fraternity gets guys
talking about their psychological "wounds" and encourages them to ask
their dads: Do you love me? Are you proud of me? BattleZone
Ministries, based in Clovis, Calif., has posted an online video on
how to pray for a man without freaking him out — but its recommended
approach still involves guys laying hands on their buddy.
Even Stine is thinking that GodMen could use a slightly softer look.
He hopes to roll out the conference nationwide next year, but he
plans to downplay the profanity, make time for group prayer — and
maybe even get a sing-along going. Not a sappy sing-along, mind you.
He'll be looking for a manly Christian hymn.
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6 comments:
- Caminante said...
More 'muscular Christianity' -- just what we need. Ugh. I have lost my appetite. Lee
- Thu Dec 07, 06:28:00 PM
- W said...
This guy is a moron. Men do not need to be boorish to affirm their masculinity. We do not need to be 'man of the house' at the expense of our wives. That stuff is, dare I say it, bullshit.
That having been said, I would like to see Christian men reclaim their masculinity in a way that is affirming of the rest of creation. Stine does raise one good point: Jesus did curse people out and he did trash the temple, when the situation called for it. Although the meek shall inherit the Earth, Christians, men and women alike, must never be too meek if the truth needs to be spoken.
Perhaps transgendered men can teach us a bit here :)
- Thu Dec 07, 07:43:00 PM
- Jon M. Richardson said...
A few thoughts come to mind when I read this...
First of all: dateline - Nashville... As one who has some experience with that city, I can't say that I'm terribly suprised.
But as I read this, I'm betting that these men think that they're really up to something entirely new. Unfortunately, men have attempted to "masculinize" Christianity basically since there was a Christianity. We all know that women played important roles in the earliest days of church history, particularly in their founding and supporting "house churches". It wasn't until the church became an institution that women were asked to politely wait on the margins so the men could make the church into a political and military machine. But what really frightens me about this is when we look at 19th-20th century American church history. In the late 19th century the men who were ministers began to notice that they were among the only men in the buildings. They attempted to "masculinize" the church and it played a role in bringing about the great fundamentalist movement of the 1920s. Now that I see the church on the cusp of a new fundamentalist movement I'm frightened to see the way things are lining up.
One final thought - for all you folks who enjoy useless information - that effeminate Jesus that the article speaks about... I would assume that it is in reference to Warner Sallman's "Head of Christ" that has, in its various forms, become the primary icon of protestant evangelical Christianity. That "not man enough" Jesus was the result of Sallman as a young Bible student who was given, by his Dean, the task of conceptualizing a more "manly" image of Jesus.
- Thu Dec 07, 08:29:00 PM
- Mike in Texas said...
Thank you, Elizabeth, for doing your duty to help me stay away from all those delicious empty-calorie treats that are starting to fill up the kitchen.
Recently a local church of some kind has been airing radio advertisements along this vein. The pastor dons a rather unconvincing cowboy accent and concludes the spot by saying, "And we won't make you hug anyone."
Gag ....
- Fri Dec 08, 07:52:00 AM
- W said...
The Seattle Times profiled Mark Driscoll, another pastor with a simiar theology to Brad Stine. I reposted the article on my blog, weiwentg.blogspot.com. like the article posted by Rev Elizabeth, I think it speaks for itself.
- Fri Dec 08, 11:26:00 AM
- marnanel said...
"She was a little bit leery of it, as we have an infant," he reports.
"She said, 'I need your help around here.' " Miller, 26, refuses to yield: "I am supposed to be the leader of the
There is just so much wrong with that. How does "being the leader" mean "getting to be as selfish as you like"?
- Fri Dec 08, 03:41:00 PM


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Cabinet approves signing of Memorandum of Understanding amongst BRICS Nations on the Regional Aviation Partnership
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Australian Sea-lions like Lexi and Mali are from southern parts of Australia, so they are fine with the colder temperatures. Marine Mammals Supervisor, Danielle Fox, said that Mali also puts on extra weight over winter to keep warm. Fur coats, extra weight and heating lamps are all part of warming up for winter for Taronga's wildlife.Luk Chai and Tukta unaffected by the cold. An animal that doesn't feel the cold are Asian Elephants. A combination of thick skin and a thin layer of fat beneath the skin mean elephants stay comfortable during the Australian winter."He's already put on about 15 kilos and he's still putting on weight. Then, over summer, he'll lose all the extra weight."Sometimes we get animas brought to the Wildlife Hospital which are sick or have been injured. Possums that are brought in get to stay warm inside hand-made bags, specially knitted by kind donors.Veterinary nurse Tammie says that because they're nocturnal, wild possums will stay in a nest called a dray with up to 20 other possums to stay warm during the day. In the winter nights they will only come out during early evening or near dawn because it gets too cold during the night.If you stroll past our Meerkat exhibit you're most likely to see these animals gathered under an infrared heat lamp enjoying its glow. You might see several standing in the warmthWinter Warmers at Taronga Zoo 2012 Reptiles like Tuka the Komodo Dragon often sit under an overhanging rock. But this is no ordinary rock! Reptile keeper Stuart said that Tuka's rock contains special heat lamps, and underneath the ground is a special heating pad. So while it may be cold, underneath the rock is a toasty 30 degrees!Stuart said, "Komodo Dragons can regulate their temperature to be around 35 degrees for around 5 hours per day."Meerkat enjoying an infrared heat lamp Corroboree frogs are very comfortable in the cold. Their exhibit at Taronga is kept at 3 degrees in the morning to replicate the temperature of their native alpine bogs and ponds of Kosciuszko National Park during winter.Corroboree Frogs are critically endangered in the wild. Taronga is working in collaboration with the Department of Education, Climate Change and Water to breed frogs to be re-introduced into the wild to ensure the future of the Corroboree frog.Madeleine Smitham, Media Intern


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The curtains open on a young man in Paris.
It's 1947, and Pierre Trudeau is a university student cruising boulevards on his Harley Davidson, completely free from the expectations that will one day come down on him.
Trudeaumania, an original musical theatre production coming to the Vancouver Fringe Festival this September, tells the story of Pierre Trudeau's life and rise to power — from the well-known historical events to the lesser-known personal stories.
The majority of the play focuses around the period between 1968 and the early 1970s, "the most interesting period of [Trudeau's] life, dramatically," according to playwright and director Daniel McLeod.
From his rise to Prime Minister in 1968 at the height of "Trudeaumania" to the October Crisis in 1970, when Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act, "it was a turbulent time for Canada," said McLeod.
Although the major plot points will be familiar for most Canadians, the actors will also portray the personal stories that didn't make the major headlines at the time. The play delves into the character of Margaret Trudeau, played by Cloverdale's Katrina Teitz, and shows her "as a real character, rather than a stereotype that was given in the press at that time," said McLeod.
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Teitz said it was interesting to see how the media spoke about Margaret and how she is perceived now. "She is a strong woman who was ahead of her time," she said.
In Trudeaumania, Margaret's story begins when "she falls in love with this man, the Prime Minister of Canada, and becomes his wife," she explained. "From that moment on she is held to the standard of just that — Pierre's wife. While he lives this lavish rock-star life of being a very popular politician, she is changed from flower child to mother of three, and is trapped inside this person she didn't want to conform to."
"She's feisty and funny and she knows what she wants. She gets swept up in this life that is full of love, but she ends up compromising a lot. I feel like a lot of girls can relate to her," she said. "I think women like Margaret who had a much harder time being independent should be celebrated."
The nine-member cast also play celebrities and politicians of the time, including Barbra Streisand, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and Richard Nixon, and detail their interactions with Pierre Trudeau through drama and song.
The multimedia musical includes 20 original songs, ranging from hip hop to tango. The audience will hear everything from country rock "with a little Elvis touch thrown in" to rock operas "with echoes of Phantom of the Opera," said McLeod.
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There will be eight performances of Trudeaumania, from September 7 to 16, at the Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver. For more information, and to purchase tickets, visit tickets.vancouverfringe.com.
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When it comes to makeup I like to keep things simple, I try to use as few products as possible for a fuss free look. At the minute my skin has been really good, I have really paired my skincare routine back to the bare minimum and I have noticed my skin has really benefited from it.
When I have good skin I like to try to get away with just using concealer and a powder for my base & that is where these two products come into play. The Nars Soft Matte concealer has been something I have been obsessed with since it launched earlier this year. I am going to go as far as to say its the best concealer I have ever used. Its great on both under eye circles & on blemishes too. The pot is super handy to keep in your handbag and on a night out in a clutch bag too. I have used it on a couple of my friends and the have gone out to buy it straight away!
Hourglass is a long standing favourite of mine, I bought the Ambient lighting trio, you know the one everyone raved about back when it first launched? I loved it that much that I went and bought a couple of the single compacts once my palette had run out. The Hourglass Ambient Lighting powder in Dim Light is pretty incredible. It gives a hint of colour, a kind of blurring effect which gives a flawless finish.
After applying and buffing the concealer to my under eyes and and blemishes or marks on my face I use a nice fluffy brush to buff the Hourglass powder into my skin until I am happy with the coverage and finish.
I know this kind of look isn't for everyone but I am all for seeing some actual skin rather that wearing a full converge on a day to day basis.


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Alex is currently working on a pamphlet length collection of poems. The poems in The Tide Is A Temptress explore the ambiguities of love against a shifting liquid landscape of seas, estuaries, rivers and lakes; the ebb and flow of private passions that make up our vulnerable human experience. These are poems that speak of the addictive, but inconstant, nature of love, charting not just its heady, intoxicating highs and anxious, troubling lows, but the rumblings of disappointment that seep through dreams and memories and threaten to tip the scales from our eyes. Here's a taste:
Night Terrors
The dreams he has are mine to remember.
Last night, for instance, he jumped out of bed
to inspect an invisible pipe protruding
from the rust-wracked door of my wardrobe.
Once, I woke to find him scouring the carpet
for escaped fish, and watched him
hitch up the valance, bring out a slipper,
then throw it back to sea.
Worse, are the nightmares in which he is drowning.
His arms flail uselessly at the air;
his neck strains above the swell
of tangled duvet.
And when he wakes, raw eyed and ruined,
rising like the Kraken from his watery bed,
there is a moment, just a moment,
of uncertainty.
As if he can still feel the wind.
As if he can still taste the brine.
As if the sea still heaves about his feet
and foams and breaks against his shins.
And then his troubled dream dims.
The bed no longer brims.
He lies back, puzzled
and stares at where the sharks have swum.
'Night Terrors' was published in The Frogmore Papers Issue 84 (September 2014)


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I was actually just coming out of Center Point shuwaik, when me and my wife first noticed a huge smoke like cloud. It wasn't just brown it was brown black and looked pretty freaky.. I called home and asked them to open up the new channels, but they said nothing was on. We went in the car and after a little while.. It was a total blackout. We had to drive from Shuwaikh back to my parents place in Salwa. Thank good I had a GPS inside my car, you have no idea how hard it is to see through the dust. It was an unbelievable experience.
Here are some of the photos :
Here it just started to hit us :
Then it was a total blackout – you couldn't See the exit signs when u are right under them :
The view was a little worst that whats shown on these photos!
This is what the signs looked like.. We were closer than 50 Meteres here.
The view outside the windsheild!
On the way home on the 6th ring road!
Very Tricky to navigate with all the dust and cars
Looking out the window to look to the right or left was useless :s
Still on the 6th Ring Road :
The View from the passenger's side :
On Fahaheel Express : The wind was literally against us and was really moving the car around!
I hope everyone is safe
NB: Please don't go out its not worth it. Wait till the weather clears up a little!


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Happy January! I thought I'd start doing a few vintage outfit inspiration posts on the blog, I love putting together outfits – and what better way to do it than trawling Etsy and making a little collage – it doesn't cost a penny, but satisfies my vintage hunting urges (that is if I can resist the temptation to buy the things I find!!)
I've taken my inspiration from the fact that today is known as 'Blue Monday' here in the UK, aka 'the most depressing day of the year'. Boooo! So I thought I'd see off those winter blues with a few blue-hued threads. I've put together two looks, one fancy and one casual though you could easily mix and match both… how cool would that dress look with a pair of Converse? Or boyfriend jeans with a sequin cardigan and heels?
dress | cardigan | shoes | handbag
sweater | jeans | trainers | bag
And, seen as it is Blue Monday… a little music for you!


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The Host Hotel is the Renaissance Atlanta Airport Gateway Hotel. It is a beautiful brand new hotel, with a refreshingly different decor (eclectic, artsy, hip, Hollywood? avant garde?). It dares to be different, and our ATL Committee hopes you'll love it. Our main Retreat acitivities & Events will be held here. Transportation will depart from the Renaissance Hotel.
We have also made arrangements for a room block and special rates for our family members at two other hotels that are right across the street from the Host Hotel (VERY easy walk). Just Click on "Accomodations" to see them all.
While we don't have the info just yet, we are planning to also list other hotels that are in relatively close proximity, for your consideration. (They would require your own transportation however, to travel back and forth between there and the Host Hotel.)
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Draped in some rich silhouettes of Indian ethnic wear is a dream come true. Whether it is your wedding or a wedding to attend, the vibes of Indian ethnic fashion is just vivid. The beauty it imparts to the overall personality cannot be governed by any other style or outfit for that matter.
Therefore, knowing Indian ethnic wear is quite an interesting take. Salwar suits, designer lehengas, Anarkali suits and various forms of Indian designer dresses online have made it easily available to everyone who is living anywhere in the world. So, make way for ethnic fashion in your wardrobe and know everything about this beautiful fashion.


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NATIONAL POST, Personal Assistant to Representative, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Level: G-6
Contract Type: Fixed Term Appointment
Closing date: 27 May 2018 - 5:00pm(New York time)
Duty station: Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Job ID: 16096
Job Summary
Organizational Location
The Personal Assistant (PA) to the Representative is located in Uzbekistan Country Office (CO) and reports to the Representative.
Job Purpose
The PA provides senior level communications, administrative and secretarial support, maintaining full confidentiality in all aspects of assignment, maintenance of protocol procedures, information flow and follow-up on deadlines and commitments made. The PA also provides organizational functions to the CO in terms of: providing effective communications support; ensuring facilitation of knowledge building and management; providing logistical support; and coordinating the secretarial services.
Completed Secondary Level Education required. First level university degree desirable.
Knowledge and Experience:
- Six years of relevant experience in administration.
- Strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Proficiency in current office software applications and corporate IT financial systems.
- Good written and verbal communication skills
Fluency in English and Russian as well as working level of Uzbek language is required.
We are no longer accepting applications for this position.
Population : 32.8 mil
Fertility rate
Maternal Mortality Ratio
Contraceptives prevalence rate
Population aged 10-24
Youth secondary school enrollment
Boys 91%
Girls 90%


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Dutch painter and sculptor, active in Amsterdam, Paris, and New York.
Born 25 April 1921. He executed two free standing paintings for Tweede Vrijzinnig Christelijk Lyceum, The Hague, in 1949-1956. His collaborators on the project were J.J.P. Oud and Wessel Couzijn. In 1948 he co-founded the Cobra group in Paris. His mature work evolved from studying the art of children, and is known for an expressionistic graphic style. [From The Getty Research Institute's Union List of Artist Names (ULAN), accessed 30-Nov-2017.]


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17 (Sun) August 2014
Seafood Fried Rice with Green Beans in Spicy Black-Bean Sauce
at Seafood Market & Restaurant
-Ermita, Manila-
with JH Bae et al.
Miyeok guk (3.0).
with JH Bae et al.
As anticipated, breakfast was great. Like dinner the night before, nothing special, nothing fancy, just home-cooked, home-style Korean food. Infinitely better than any western-style breakfast buffet.
Spent the day diving. After breakfast, two morning dives. Lunch on the beach, followed by an afternoon dive. A Sunday well spent.
Back in Manila by evening, we went to Seafood Market & Restaurant for dinner (see most recently 5.210 Chili Shrimp).
Still trying to develop dishes to debut at the next Korean gathering, I came up with this fried rice this evening, as an afterthought. Whereas clams stir-fried in spicy black-bean sauce is one of our favorite dishes at this place, the leftover sauce is often finished off by being spooned over individual bowls of rice according to personal preference (see for example 4.263 Parros Clams in Spicy Black-Bean Sauce...). I was considering taking the leftover sauce home tonight, as I sometimes do (see for example 4.320 Beef Phanaeng Curry), possibly to use as a base for fried rice--but then I thought, why not try it here? So, we purchased a couple eggs and a handful of green beans, ordered the basic seafood fried rice from the menu, and requested that the kitchen combine everything together, including the sauce.
Deep-Fried Tofu with Taiwanese Pechay (bokchoy) in Oyster Sauce (3.0)--another newly developed dish that will be debuted.
Scrambled Eggs with Black Fungus (woodear mushrooms) and Scallions (3.5)--no doubt about this one.
Shrimp in Spicy Black Bean Sauce (2.0)--still haven't solved the prawn problem (see most recently 5.210 Chili Shrimp).


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Skyscrapers in Blu Bustamante's Japanese TV show Force Five are, sure, crude, mostly made of cardboard materials wrapped up with painted ledge, glass windows, corners, rooftops and whatever. These visual imperfections of practical superhero costumes, robots and props that have Livelo copy and reenact a show from the sentai series of the nineties are actually the film's sole charm, the roughness giving off an odd appeal that is endearing enough. Unfortunately, it is all there is to the film, with the rest of it, the bigger, larger part that is, basking in anemic creativity, if there was one. The film largely clings on the nostalgia factor, which only serves well for a limited audience.
The banter between Joem Basco and comedian Jun Sabayton are mostly hinted at the former's physical assets (if there is such a thing) and the latter's self-deprecation. This kind of comedy is not only easy, but also jurassic old and lazy. Improvisation to achieve a rapport that is not actually there is not, well, improvisation at all. Even the father-son angle seems insipidly written and simplistically dramatized.


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8-Chloro-Adenosine in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00714103
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : July 14, 2008
Last Update Posted : October 13, 2016
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|Condition or disease
|Leukemia Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
|Drug: 8-Chloro-Adenosine
|Phase 1
8-Chloro-adenosine is a new drug similar to other drugs already approved by the FDA for the treatment of CLL and other types of cancer. 8-Chloro-adenosine belongs to a class of chemotherapy drugs called purine analogues that work to treat cancer by their ability to interfere with cancer cell metabolism, causing cell death.
If you are eligible, you will receive 8-chloro-adenosine as an infusion into a vein once a day for five days in a row. Each infusion will take about 1 hour. This 5-day treatment will be repeated every 4 weeks (± 3 days) (1 course).
This is a dose escalation study. Patients treated on this study will be treated in groups of 3. The first group will receive the lowest dose of the drug. If the type, number, and severity of any side effects experienced are acceptable, the next group of 3 patients will receive the next higher dose of drug. The dose of drug will be increased for each new group until the highest safe dose is found.
For your first course only, you will have blood tests (about 1 tablespoon) on Day 3 and Day 5 of treatment to monitor for safety. After that, you will have weekly (± 3 days) evaluations and routine blood tests (about 1 tablespoon) in the clinic at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (UTMDACC). During these evaluations, you will also have a physical exam and be asked about any side effects you may have experienced. You will be evaluated for improvement in your CLL. If your disease is stable or responding to treatment, you may continue with treatment. If your disease improves to the point that your doctor feels that you are in complete remission, he or she will request you to have a bone marrow biopsy to confirm complete remission.
If your disease is worsening and it appears that the treatment is not helping you, then you will stop treatment with 8-chloro-adenosine and may begin other treatment at the direction of your treating doctor. If you have unacceptable side effects, you may be taken off treatment.
If you stop treatment, you will be evaluated in the clinic and have routine blood tests (about 1 tablespoon) once a week for the first month, twice a month for the next 2 months, then once a month from then on. During these evaluations, you will have a physical exam and be asked about any side effects you may have experienced. If you begin other treatment, your scheduled follow-up will end.
This is an investigational study. 8-Chloro-adenosine is not approved by the FDA and is not commercially available. A total of up to 28 patients will take part in this study. All will be enrolled and treated at MD Anderson.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|11 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Phase I Study of 8-Chloro-Adenosine in Previously Treated Patients With Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia /Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma
|Study Start Date :
|June 2008
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|October 2016
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|October 2016
Experimental: 8-Chloro-Adenosine
Starting dose for first cohort of patients 45 mg/m2 intravenous over 1 hr daily for 5 days every 4 weeks (± 3 days).
Drug: 8-Chloro-Adenosine
45 mg/m^2 intravenous over 1 hour daily for 5 days every 4 weeks (± 3 days).
- Dose-limiting Toxicity and Maximum Tolerated Dose [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]During first course of treatment blood tests on Days 3 and 5; then weekly (± 3 days) evaluations and routine blood tests. Toxicity evaluation completed four weeks following initial 8-Chloro-adenosine administration.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients must have a diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and must be previously treated with at least one prior treatment regimen, including a purine-analogue based treatment.
- Patients must be Rai Stage III or IV OR Rai Stage 0-II and have one or more criteria for active disease as defined by the NCI-Working Group as: a) weight loss of more than 10% in the last 6 months; b) fatigue; c) fever or night sweats without evidence of infection; d) progressive anemia or thrombocytopenia; e) progressive lymphocytosis with a lymphocyte doubling time </= 6 months; or f) marked hypogammaglobulinemia or paraproteinemia.
- All patients must have a Zubrod performance status of </= 2.
- All patients must be age >/= 18 years.
- Patients may not receive concurrent treatment for their CLL and must have been off treatment (chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or radiotherapy) for 4 weeks prior to treatment on this study and recovered from toxic effects of that therapy.
- All patients must have adequate renal function indicated by serum creatinine </=2.5x upper limits of normal (ULN) and adequate liver function indicated by ALT or AST </= 2.5x ULN AND total bilirubin </= 2.5x ULN.
- All patients must have a pre-treatment platelet count of >/= 50,000 /µl and not require transfusion to maintain this platelet count unless thrombocytopenia is due to marrow infiltrated with disease.
- All patients or appropriate surrogate must provide informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with active uncontrolled autoimmune hemolytic anemia or immune thrombocytopenia purpura.
- Patients with active uncontrolled fungal, bacterial, or viral infection.
- Patients who are pregnant or breast-feeding.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00714103
|United States, Texas
|University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
|Principal Investigator:
|William G. Wierda, M.D.
|M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
|Responsible Party:
|M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
NCI-2012-01679 ( Registry Identifier: NCI CTRP )
|First Posted:
|July 14, 2008 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|October 13, 2016
|Last Verified:
|October 2016
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
purine analogues
Leukemia, Lymphoid
Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Lymphatic Diseases
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Immune System Diseases
Leukemia, B-Cell
Sensory System Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Anti-Arrhythmia Agents
Vasodilator Agents
Purinergic P1 Receptor Agonists
Purinergic Agonists
Purinergic Agents
Neurotransmitter Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action


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Barbara Zimmel, 83, of Butler passed away, Friday, October 26, 2018 at her daughter and son-in-laws residence.
Born in Blairsville, PA, she was the daughter of the late Herman and Josephine Pesci.
She retired from Butler Memorial Hospital where she worked in the billing department.
She was a member of St. Peter Roman Catholic Church.
She enjoyed shopping, cooking and being in the sun.
Surviving is her daughter, Richele Ward and her husband, Bill Ward of McCandless.
Her granddaughter, Kennedy Ann Ward also of McCandless.
A brother, Bob Pesci and his wife, Maureen of Simpsonville, SC.
Sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Bill and Joyce Zimmel of Chambersburg.
Numerous nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Richard Zimmel. And two brothers.
Friends will be received at the Geibel Funeral Home 201 East Cunningham St. Butler PA 16001 Tuesday from 9:00 am until 9:45 am. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:15 am Tuesday from St. Peter Roman Catholic Church, 127 Franklin St. Butler, PA 16001. Interment will be at St. Peter Cemetery.
Memorial donations may be made to the Butler County Humane Society, 1015 Evans City Rd, Renfrew, PA 16053. Where she found her precious, "Crimson"
To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Barbara Zimmel, please visit our floral store.


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Want to hear something fun and exciting? Of course you do! I made a Twitter account for my blog (cue the hoorahs and applause).
With the explosion of views and heaps of new followers I received last week (70 views in one day just about blew my mind. For real.), I figured I should get my booty in gear for reaching out to other fabulous people who just might want to read about my adventures in food, travels and craftiness!
If you haven't noticed, I love taking pictures of my food. While I don't always blog about my foodie adventures, I am pretty good about posting it on my Twitter via my Instagram. A girl's gotta have some help making pictures interesting! So, I now have a way you can get little sneak peeks on what I may, or may not, be blogging about: follow my Twitter! 🙂
Here's your homework: if you have a Twitter account, log in and start following @InNatsShoes (the full blog name was already taken *sigh*). If you don't have a Twitter account yet, go to Twitter, create one, and then start following me. If you are totally against signing up for a service that only allows you to express yourself in 140 characters or less, feel free to stop by my blog and check out the Twitter feed to the right of my posts– I've got your back.
I appreciate your support and look forward to my followers and any (well, as long as it isn't malicious!) feedback from you all.


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Janis Brenner
Janis Brenner is an award-winning dancer/choreographer/singer/teacher and is Artistic Director of Janis Brenner & Dancers in NYC. She has toured in 33 countries and is recognized as a "singular performer" with a multifaceted artistic range. Honors/grants include: a "Bessie" for her performance in Meredith Monk's work, Lester Horton Award for Choreography in L.A., NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, The Fund for US Artists at International Festivals, the U.S. State Department, Asian Cultural Council, The Trust for Mutual Understanding, UNESCO, US Embassies in Moscow, Jakarta and Dakar, and a commission for the interdisciplinary work, The Memory Project, from the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her work has been commissioned/restaged on more than 45 companies and colleges worldwide and she performed with Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble from 1990 – 2005 (recording on ECM Records). Ms. Brenner was with the Murray Louis Dance Company from 1977-84, working with Rudolf Nureyev, Placido Domingo, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Joseph Papp, Bat Sheva Dance Company, and Alwin Nikolais. Janis Brenner & Dancers has performed throughout the U.S., Asia (including four tours to Indonesia), and Europe since 1989 and has been presented by leading NY organizations. The company is known for the caliber of its dancers as well as its "emotionally authentic" and musically diverse work. Ms. Brenner teaches technique, improvisation, composition, repertory and voice/movement workshops worldwide. She is also on the faculty of The Juilliard School. www.janisbrenner.com


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text: Not officially announced yet, but if you're in Iowa, mark Oct 8 & 9 on your calendar! The IL VCA will be visiting the Quad Cities for two days! I will be coordinating a couple meeting places for Iowa owners to meet up with the group - PM me if you'd like to attend!


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Kanye's got what planned? Gasp!I know I don't have to tell you, but Kim Kardashian's birthday is coming up. The reality star will turn 32 on October 21, and good god, what are we going to do to celebrate. While we narrow down some ways to ring in Kim's new year (a cake with her face on it? leather pants? pin the tale on Kris Humphries?), we'll just have to live vicariously through Kanye West's rumored plans for Kim's big day. Apparently, Yeezy is going to spend a million bucks on a birthday party for his girlfriend. That's right, one miiiiiiiiillion dollars.
Sounds about right.
I mean, doesn't it sound like something he would do? It's over the top, it's extravagant, it's completely unnecessary, and I'm loving every second of it.
U.K. tabloid The Sun reports that Kanye plans to fly her friends and family down to Pine Cay, a private island in the Caribbean near Turks and Caicos, where they'll stay at a hotel with a five-star private chef, naturally. Kanye's also planning on giving Kim a Prada bag with her initials engraved on it, a pink diamond bracelet, and a Chanel dress.
Listen, I'm not the biggest Kimye fan, but I think what he's doing for her birthday is really sweet. I love that he's doing something thoughtful and unselfish for her -- I'm sure he'd love to spend some time alone with Kim, but he's flying down her loved ones because that's what she (probably) wants. The material gifts also sound right up Kim's alley; girl loves her designers and her diamonds!
We only get one birthday a year, and no one wants to feel forgotten by their significant other on their one day to feel special. Kanye wants to show Kim he loves her a lot, like, a million times a lot, and since he's got the money and the resources, I think it's nice what he's doing.
Shoot, if my boyfriend flew my friends down to a private island to celebrate my birthday, then gave me a Chanel dress? I can't lie, I'd be pretty damn psyched.
Do you think over-the-top birthday gifts are too much, or just right?
Photo via camenachero25/Flickr


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Letter: Federal government has obligation to make Guam whole, financially
Pacific Daily News columnist and cultural activist Michael Bevacqua speaks on Guam Self-Determination, June 22, 2017.
I am a former resident of Guam, but I own properties on the island and still have interests and family roots there. I was also the principal staff assistant for 12 years to Guam's first delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, the late Antonio B. Won Pat.
As assistant professor Michael Lujan Bevacqua of the University of Guam can attest, I maintain an extensive collection of letters, newspapers and basic documents on the political developments relating to these areas and Micronesia. I agree with Bevacqua that the people of Guam have no inherent rights to statehood or other form of political association with the United States.
More: Bevacqua: No right to statehood or free association, only independence
More: Bevacqua: Guam being a colony affects neighbors in Micronesia
Guam became a possession of the United States by virtue of the Treaty of Paris signed on Dec. 10, 1898. … The Treaty of Paris left to Congress to determine the civil rights and future political status of the inhabitants of Guam.
United Nations respectful of treaties
The United Nations is respectful of treaties between two or more sovereign nations. And it is not likely that it will be willing to overturn and upset a treaty between the U.S and Spain that has been in existence for more than 100 years in order to accommodate the self-determination and decolonization of the powerless few.
Besides, Guam held a plebiscite on 1989, under the watchful eyes of a U.N. representative, to determine its preferred political status. The question for Guam now remains: How many times can an act of self-determination be exercised?
Guam petitioned for U.S. citizenship
In the late 1930s, Guam dispatched Balthazar J. Bordallo and Francisco B. Leon Guerrero to Washington, D.C., to petition for American citizenship. Congress bestowed United States citizenship on the inhabitants of Guam under the Organic of Guam, signed by President Harry S. Truman on Aug. 1, 1950. It did not, however, incorporate Guam as part of the United States.
As U.S. citizens, residents of Guam have equal rights as a citizen of Utah or other states — except for voting in the Electoral College system. As an unincorporated territory, Congress, under its plenary power over territories (U.S. Supreme Court Insular cases and Article IV, section 3 of the U.S. Constitution) can make legal acts of Guam illegal and illegal acts legal. In short, Congress, except for life and liberty, can enact any legislation affecting Guam.
Those who advocate statehood
I also agree with Bevacqua that those who advocate statehood for Guam are disingenuous at best. They lack the basic information of statehood requirements to be a part of a serious political status conversation. In the light of the current financial crisis Guam faces, nationhood is not an option for Guam any time soon.
Clearly, the voters of Guam did not elect any of the representatives in Congress who approved the tax reduction law. The purpose of the law enacted December 2017 was to transfer resources from the federal government to the private sector. Under the mirror tax code protocol, Guam and other territories do not have the ability or authority to change the income tax rates and thus effectively nullify the impact of the tax reduction law on territorial revenues.
The federal government has an obligation to make Guam whole financially. It has been done before. Surely it can be done again.
George C. Eustaquio is a resident of Frederick, Maryland.


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Arias successfully assisted Banco La Hipotecaria - Panama and La Hipotecaria El Salvador in the structuring and issuing of mortgage loans bonds, placing this issue on the Stock Exchange of Panama.
Among the relevant tasks that Arias carried out, was to provide advice under the Salvadoran legal framework for the structuring of the issuance bonds, being also relevant the support in the improvement of part of the guarantee; in other words, the assignment of a portfolio of mortgage loans originated by La Hipotecaria El Salvador (approximately 840 credits) in favor of a Guarantee Trust, organized and existing in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Panama.
The path, experience, and quality with which Arias works achieved the total success of the transaction together with the companies involved: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP - USA Lawyers of the La Hipotecaria Group, Morgan & Morgan and ARIFA - Panamanian Lawyers.
Arias team involved in the transaction:
Ana Mercedes López – Partner
Mario Lozano – Senior Associate
Julissa Castro - Associate