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As some of you know, there is more to the Fan Expo than the Festival of Fear. One turn down an aisle and you find yourself surrounded by sci-fi gadgets or happy little anime faces. In this instance, I looked into the eyes of a familiar creature whom I couldn't place right away.
His name is Ro-Man, from the 1953 movie Robot Monster (that is one of the original movie posters to the right). I'm pretty sure the first time I ever saw him was in a clip from It Came From Hollywood years ago.
Ro-Man, the star of the movie, is an alien (no, he is not a gorilla in a diving helmet) who has destroyed all but six people on the planet Earth, one of whom he develops feelings for (hence the dramatic conflict).
Mark Rehkopf, a local illustrator and sculptor, created his own homage to the great Ro-Man for the Vinyl Graffiti art show in Toronto. He explained to me he had imagined what Ro-Man would have done after his stint in the movies, and naturally (as other actors have done before him) Ro-Man would have tried his hand at a singing career.
Continuing with my tales of this year's Festival of Fear, I'd like to share a little splurge I indulged in to treat myself. That is my little Skully Bowling Bag, selling for less than the listed online price (I suppose they were taking pity on people who had already emptied their wallets at the ticket booth).
The company was Vampirewear.com, "jewelry and apparel for the undead". The ladies were very friendly even after a long, exhausting day of dealing with crowds. They even threw in a few free vampire bite tattoos for me.
On their website, you will find some pretty wicked Creepers and Mary Janes, along with more bags, clothing and cute little coffin gift boxes (all at reasonable prices).
As someone who grew up in Ontario, I've come to associate certain things with certain regions of the province: Muskoka for cottage life; Toronto for shopping; and Niagra Falls for fairground-type tourist attractions. While strolling through this year's Festival of Fear, I discovered I may need to rethink this.
Guelph (which I usually associate with the Amish) is home to The Great Orbax, a creator and curator of "real and custom freaks of nature" (and I thought you could only see this at Ripley's Museum on Niagra's famous strip). He's one part artist, one part performer, and founder of Fiendish Curiosities.
Fiendish Curiosities was founded in 2003 by the Prof. Burnaby Q. Orbax, aka the Great Orbax, in an attempt to combine the greatest passions in his life: sideshow, science, and monsters. Having studied as a professional physicist since 1996, and been a sideshow performer since 1998, Fiendish Curiosities was the unnatural evolution of his loves.
Fiendish Curiosities was founded in 2003 by the Prof. Burnaby Q. Orbax, aka the Great Orbax, in an attempt to combine the greatest passions in his life: sideshow, science, and monsters. Having studied as a professional physicist since 1996, and been a sideshow performer since 1998, Fiendish Curiosities was the unnatural evolution of his loves.
Today I get to blog about two favourite subjects: local artists and original creepy creations.
See the sweet face in the picture? That young lady is Heather Gillies, the Ontario artist who makes simple little plush dolls and transforms them into flesh eaters with her acrylic paints.
I met Heather and her mini-zombies at the Festival of Fear. If you missed the expo, and you're interested in picking up one of these little lovelies, don't fret: she has a website promoting her art called www.pedestrianx.ca.
A special hello to creepy Canadian critters reading this blog. I've returned from a full day at Fan Expo Canada, and more specifically, the Festival of Fear brought to us by Rue Morgue. I'll be publishing a series of blogs on my experience and some great finds, but today's post will be a general overview. Let me get my harshest criticism out of the way.
My friend and I arrived at the convention centre at 11:15 AM. We had not purchased advanced tickets (having missed the deadline to do so) but knew we could get them at the door. Unfortunately, Hobbystar claims they haven't figured out how to make credit card payments available to visitors (though some retailers inside did, so I don't see what the problem is). If you don't have cash on hand (or in your bank account) you will be out of luck on Sunday (and that's a lot of cash for families to fork over at once).
Look at him. Perfection. The epitome of sauciness. No one could hold a candle to Tim Curry as Frank-N-Furter. It's unthinkable that someone would even try to reinvent the iconic character on screen a second time. I mean, who would be that stupid?
MTV. MTV is that stupid. MTV who packages cool like it was cheaply made fake tanning cream (it's just like an authentic tan, except it costs more, and makes you orange and totally lame).
Only MTV, in partnership with producers from Fox Television Studios (another seemingly endless creator of American mainstream television trash), could look at a cult classic and think "Hey, I am sure we can make some money off someone else's genius by completely bastardizing the original and turning it into our pre-packaged, mindless fame machine, hack-filled product". Considering the fact that the success of the Rocky Horror Picture Show was a fluke made possible by underground followings, what makes them think they can generate the same type of fan base and financial windfall that has taken 30 years to accumulate?
When Zombies take over the earth (as they inevitably will), our first reaction might be to wall off cities, carpet bomb areas, or go underground. Apparently in New York, the plan is to put on a Broadway show.
David Stewart of Eurythmics fame released a graphic novel in March (2008) entitled Zombie Broadway.
That's right. You read that correctly.
The basic premise is that before the President of the United States bombs the city, the acting Mayor of New York convinces him there is another way. Apparently, Zombies have a taste for human brains, feet, livers and jazz hands.
Seems like zombies aren't so different from other New Yorkers. After all, they appreciate the theatre. In fact, music seems to be one of the few things that can tame the flesh-eating undead beings. And what better place than New York City to put on the show of a lifetime? Just keep your fingers crossed that the audience isn't eaten during the performance...
I love horror movies, but I am not the type of person who likes a movie simply because it fits a certain genre. Therefore, I don't get excited about a new film coming out just because it's a horror movie. There has to be something about it that catches my interest.
Clive Barker's 'Midnight Meat Train' is one of those movies that has the potential to be more than just a slasher gore-fest (though what's with the string of horror movies that focus on photography lately?).
For one night only, Rue Morgue is presenting the premiere of Midnight Meat Train at the Bloor Cinema this Thursday at 9:30 PM. There will be prizes and 'Evangelical Satanic Faith Healing' with Pastor Morgan Wilkes and Victor Marshall of Cloven Path Ministries.
Ok creepy kiddies, and all you monster-crazed collectors, have I got a fun website for you. It's called Mad-Monsters.com, and it's filled with some visual treats.
Let's start with the magazine covers. The section is sorted into 30 categories, each one represented with an image from that collection. You click on the cover of choice, and it leads you to additional images. Titles include Famous Monsters, Horror Tales, Tomb of Dracula, and Modern Monsters (to name but a few).
If you like those, you'll appreciate the movie posters as well. There are vintage selections such as Attack of the 50 Foot Woman and Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein, and some cult classics like Blackula and Astro Zombies ("See astro space laboratory. See brutal mutants menace beautiful girls").
Want more movie images? You got it. There are 13 movie titles that each have 30 or so movie stills to choose from.
I originally saw this on a blog called Desserts by Candy. You can find the entire from-scratch cake recipe there. Since I rarely bake from scratch (I'm a cooker, not a baker), my interest is in how she does the fingers.
To make the fingers, shape the marzipan into five logs of vary length and score lines with a knife to make knuckles. If the marzipan is too sticky to work with, dust some icing sugar on your palm. Press a sliced almond to one end to make the finger tip and adhere with some left over chocolate glaze. Adhere the finger to the cake with more left over chocolate glaze and prop them up with toothpicks if necessary. Sprinkle some chocolate cookie crumbs around the fingers to make dirt.
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|From the IHH's Flickr Page: Providing humanitarian
support to Arakanese refugees in Bangladesh,
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The deaths of nine men - mostly Turks and all of them invariably described in the media as 'activists' - in a commando raid on the vessel continue to be cited by the Turkish prime minister as the reason why he refuses to reconcile with Israel. He made the point again this past Sunday [source]. At a congress of his political party in Ankara and while standing beside Egypt's Moslem Brotherhood prime minister Mohammed Morsi, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Israel must lift its blockade of Gaza and must also apologize for the attack on the Mavi Marmara.
Let's note Israel's position: that it regrets the loss of lives, that an apology is not required, and that its commandos opened fire only after they came under violent armed attack by the 'activists'.
This blog post is not actually about the ship. It's about the organization that arranged it, financed it, sent it on its way and continues to thoroughly milk the public relations impact of what happened on board two years ago. We are referring to İnsan Hak ve Hürriyetleri ve İnsani Yardım Vakfı. Translated from Turkish, the name means The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief. It's commonly called IHH [website here].
So how humanitarian is it, actually? On the face of it, quite. Wikipedia says:
The IHH aims to reach every region hit by wars, disasters, poverty and human rights abuses, and believes that civilian initiatives play a complementary role beside intervention by states and international organizations in resolving humanitarian problems. It is also their goal to deliver humanitarian aid to all people and take necessary steps to prevent any violations against their basic rights and liberties...Reuters (May 31, 2010):
...An Islamic charity group that was formed to provide aid to Bosnian Muslims in the mid-1990s. It has been involved in aid missions in Pakistan, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Indonesia, Iraq, Palestinian territories and other places...Now to more recent disclosures.
Under cover of providing aid [source] to Syrian refugees, IHH is delivering heavy arms to the anti-government forces in Syria. In a report dated September 20, 2012 ["Flotilla group accused of Syria gun run"], London's Jewish Chronicle said IHH helped organize a ship carrying arms to Syria from Libya and that these were distributed to Muslim Brotherhood fighters in the Free Syrian Army.
In case Jewish news sources don't meet some people's credibility threshold, Iran's Ayatollah-dominated FARS news service is running with a story today that asserts pretty much the same thing: that IHH, collaborating with the Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu and with various Wahhabi groups from Saudi Arabia, is sending heavy weaponry to Syrian rebels under the guise of humanitarian relief aid.
There is corroborative evidence that IHH (under the cover of humanitarian aid) is providing the terrorists in Syria with heavy weaponry, including anti-aircraft missiles and Turkish newspapers and western officials in Syria have mentioned this help to the Syrian rebels. On September 14, media reports revealed that a huge arms cargo had been shipped to Turkey to be delivered to terrorists and armed groups in Syria... On September 10, 2012, Turkish Airlines transited Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants from North Waziristan in Pakistan to the Turkish borders with Syria, sources had revealed. A new Al-Qaeda has been created in the region through the financial and logistical backup of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and a number of western states, specially the US," a source told FNA earlier this month... Syrian rebels and terrorist groups have received significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks, a crime paid for by the Persian Gulf Arab states and coordinated by the United States. Since the beginning of unrests in Syria in March 2011, Turkey has tried hard to intensify the crisis in Syria by training terrorists and sending weapons to the Arab country [Syria]. [more]Back in 2006 a report [source] issued by the Danish Institute for International Studies said IHH was linked to al-Qaeda and other "global jihad networks" during the 1990s. In those years, Turkey was a different place with a secular government and in December 1997, that government launched an investigation into IHH, including a raid on its Istanbul offices in which weapons, explosives and instructions for bomb-making were found. The belief was that IHH was planning to take part in terrorist activities in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Bosnia, as well as sending money, firearms and explosives to jihadists there and elsewhere.
Some things change. Some stay the same.

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Coffee. Work. Meh. But, lunch. Hm.
50% off Dominos for lunch? It'll help your diabeetus.
Edit: For those that don't know, all online pizza orders for the rest of the week are 50% off with online coupon code "50off".
This was obviously plotted by Dave Brandon as an attack on America's healthy youth. DAMN YOU BRANDON!!!!!
Posting in 2 open threads.
I'll do my best.
Your "best"! Losers always whine about their best. (finish the quote...)
I'm might do some kayaking tomorrow. Anybody have any suggestions? I need to rent a kayak. Anybody ever been to Proud Lake recreation area in the Wixom/Milford area?
Suggestions on what? Brands?
I would go with Hobie, Ocean Kayaks, Wilderness Systems or Malibu.
I owned Malibu and Ocean Kayaks in the past. I now have a Hobie Revo with the mirage system because most of my kayak is now for fishing purposes.
Just looking for suggestions on a river where I can rent a kayak for a few hours. I am thinking about getting a kayak for fishing in the near future and those Hobie Revolutions look nice.
If your in Michigan, the Pine River out by Luther is a good river. Its probably one of the fastest in the lower peninsula. It also has some pretty high dunes which are pretty fun to climb. Not sure about the fishing though sorry.
I thought it was a cop out at first to get the mirage pedaling system, but it really helps when you ar lugging a bait tank and lots of gear.
I'd steer clear of the Milford run. They have some shitty portages over their dams. Last year a kid and an experienced kayaker (who was trying to rescue the kid) were killed. The kd's boat was sucked back into the hydraulic since the portage has you put in so close to the dam.
Also the rental places there only seem to have sit on top models, which I hate.
Sit on tops are more common for rentals. For me they are more practical since I only use kayks in the ocean.
which empties into Burt Lake. Pretty swift and mighty cold right now, I should think.
Thanks for all the tips and suggestions!
Dowagiac (below Pucker St Dam)
I trout fish all over the state and trust me, these are the three worth having fun.
It's a variety pack for fishing. I strip streamers through there and gotten nice browns, steelhead, smallmouths and walleye. Not as pretty as northern streams, but worth a couple trips a year.
Love the D. Will be fantastic here in a month, swinging big bright stuff.
I leave near there but have not been on the Huron river. It's the same river that run through A2. If you do anything afterwards check out Milford and it has some good restaurants and bars. Wixom not so much. River is very slow moving and has some good wildlife.
http://www.heavnercanoe.com/ rents out of proud lake rec area and island lake rec. I think Island lake is the prettier stretch of river, it's almost all in parks where the proud lake location goes through some backyards here and there (unless you go upstream from the rental place). Both places do hourly rentals or down river pick up. The island lake location is on a lake if that's what you prefer, but you can walk 100yards and launch in the river below the damn.
Be advised the Island lake location is sometimes limited on equipment (most notably kayak paddles) so I would call ahead.
Hoping to post them next week. Question: Anyone know how to embed graphs/charts in a diary? My post would really suck if I didn't have the visuals to back it up.
to post a few times on the pos bang threads. My numbers need some rehab after slighting the dorm food and being too enthused about softball. Have mercy on my online identity.
You should get posbanged for your awesome username alone.
Thinking of changing mine to Gristle McThornbody.
so I need some avatarial toughness to deter any possible internet bullying.
What do y'all want to know?! It's Friday and I'm at work, lol!
In impressed..you get your own thread! #famouspeopleproblems
CleverMichiganReference up to?
I'm killing the last half hour at my sweet new full-time job in LA (take that, new grad unemployment stats!) before flying to Chicago for a weekend of kayaking and drinking with Mr. MichiganReference.
Absolutely nothing. Burgers and homemade cheese fries for lunch, some shopping and then drinking too much beer after seven days straight of work.
I'm catching up on season four of "True Blood." It's some good mixed with lots of lameness.
My image of you, Magnus.
Not better or worse, mind you. Just...different.
The things men do for women...
...you are obviously hot.
I'm the sexiest dude I know.
you don't get out much, do you?
You get to see Shivakamini Somakandarkram's boobs.
Boobs are nice and all, but I wasn't impressed. She's hotter when fully dressed.
You have very...ample...standards.
Edit: Here you go...found this when looking up car drifting...
The first two seasons of that show were watchable... In a surreal, "trippy" sorta way. When season 3 started in "fairy land" I had to tell the wife I was out. It had "jumped the shark"... And was only good as an oddity to begin with. The bits I've caught since then have only reinforced my view.


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Extremely lacking intelligence. Combination of "Fucking" and "stupid". Lacking common sense.
I think that man just spent an hour looking at the street crossing sign. He looked like he didn't understand the symbols. When the light turned red he tried to cross the street and almost got run over. He must be fustupid or something.
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Sam Allardyce has suggested English clubs must employ similar principles from nations such as Spain, Italy and Holland when developing their academies or risk not having enough home-grown players to choose from.
In July, the West Ham academy was granted category one status, and the Hammers have a well-known history of developing their own young English talent.
The likes of Joe Cole, Frank Lampard, Rio Ferdinand and Jermain Defoe have all come through the ranks at Upton Park and gone on to shine on both the domestic and international stage.
However, Allardyce believes that clubs in England must concentrate on developing their young English players and stop focussing on expanding their academy with players from abroad.
When discussing the youth policies from the likes of Spain, Italy and Holland, Allardyce told Yahoo! in a press release sent to GiveMeFootball: "You don't see the integration of other nationalities into their academies so I think we need to be a little bit more selfish and pay more attention to developing their own.
"Eventually the England side will be very poor because there are not enough players to choose from now and in the near future if we are not careful there will be even less to choose from."
Currently, Allardyce has academy graduates Mark Noble, Jack Collison, James Tomkins and Danny Potts at his disposal.
When reviewing his current crop of youngsters, the former Bolton chief revealed the importance in how these players are introduced to first team level.
"Once they have become part of the first team squad you would try to chose a low key game to introduce them into the team," said Allardyce.
"Another option is of course sending them out on loan for a while and monitoring them."
When discussing 18-year-old Potts in particular, Allardyce stated: " Danny has done particularly well in all departments and hence why he has played in the first team."
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Amethyst8 wrote:Can you recommend some good metal workout music for me? I like it fast and angry.
hey, i can but whether youll like it not is another thing! im a die hard amon amarth fan and usually just listening to them or bloodbath, but some people find them too much......but when training you cant beat it in my eyes. amon amarth - death in fire is my bench press anthem!
try some of these
slayer, are fast and angry
machine head, are awesome all rounders
pantera, just plain awesome
devildriver, worth listening for the drumming alone
megadeth, youthanasia is effin brilliant album
lamb of god, wrath album is fast and angry and quite often playing here


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LXDE has been ported to Googles Android by ghostwalker of androidfanatic.com. Thank you very much! We are pretty excited about running X-Windows and more specifically the LXDE Desktop GUI on mobile phones like the G-1.
While IceWM, performance-wise runs the fastest – LXDE is also pretty good, and just plain 'prettier! (http://www.androidfanatic.com/cms/com…)
Detailed installation instructions are in the Android.com forum here: http://www.androidfanatic.com/cms/community-forums.html?func=view&catid=9&id=1615
We are also collecting infos how to run LXDE on Android in our wiki: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Android


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Make a decision within 12 months and avoid the pitfalls of lengthy dating relationships.
PART 6: Growing in Intimacy »
In matters of dating or courtship, I generally recommend that people either get married or break up within a year or so of beginning a dating relationship. I also believe that this recommendation applies with equal force to single men and women in college. I've arrived at this conclusion by thinking through a number of biblical principles.
One of our bedrock governing principles in biblical dating — and in how we treat our brothers and sisters in Christ generally — is not to "defraud" our single brothers and sisters by implying a greater level of commitment between us and them than actually exists (see 1 Thessalonians 4:6). I discuss this principle more fully in "Principles for Drawing Boundaries" and "What Does a Biblical Relationship Look Like?" As a quick refresher, we can "defraud" our brother or sister in a dating context by showing or encouraging a level of intimacy — either emotionally or physically — that the Bible seems to reserve for marriage and marriage only. If we act like we're married before we've made that commitment, we're defrauding (and sinning).
I don't know whether you've noticed this, but people involved in a dating relationship tend to get to know each other better over the course of that relationship. In fact, they are usually really enthusiastic about doing so. We might even say that getting to know one another better and more deeply is (up to a certain limited point, of course) the very purpose of a dating relationship. When two people are dating — especially when it's going well and two people are really into one another — the desire to spend more and more time together, to know each other better and better, to confide in each other more and more often and exclusively, is overwhelming. As your general comfort level around each other rises, that momentum grows even more.
Now picture, for example, college life. We'll assume, per another clear principle from Scripture, that both members of our college couple are Christians. On most college campuses, that likely puts the two of you in the same relatively small social circle. Perhaps both of you are active in the same campus ministry, you go to the same church. Over time, maybe you take some of the same classes, live near one another, etc.
In that context, living with the desires I've just described, how likely do you think it is that over the course of two or three or four years — some couples date over most of their college years — you will be able to maintain enough emotional discipline and distance to avoid acting emotionally and relationally "married"?
I've spoken to numerous "long-dating" couples, in college and beyond, who other than living together, could do little to intertwine their lives any more than they already are. They see each other every day, are with each other's families every holiday (and often know their partner's family as well as any son or daughter-in-law does), they travel together, spend most of their non-working (or studying) time together, they daily confide in one another (and maybe only one another), and are without doubt, closer emotionally with one another than with anyone else on the planet.
This is exactly the level of intimacy that is reserved for marriage only and that dating couples should make every effort to restrain until the appropriate time. Can this level of emotional intimacy happen between people who have been dating for a shorter amount of time? Of course. But the longer a couple dates, the harder it becomes to avoid it.
Scripture calls Christians to "flee" from sexual immorality (1 Corinthians 6:18), not to "see how difficult we can make the temptation and still prevail" or to "see how close to the line we can get without sinning." In my view, Scripture teaches clearly that there is to be no romantic physical intimacy outside of marriage.
No reasonable person would argue that physical temptation does not increase — a lot — the longer two people date who are attracted to each other and who grow to love each other. Sadly, statistics and anecdotal experience both indicate that even the vast majority of Christian couples who spend time in dating relationships of any length, sin physically.
The longer the relationship, the higher the percentage. Where a relationship is shorter, accountability stronger, and the level of emotional intimacy more responsible, the level of physical temptation, and the likelihood of sin, goes down.
To put it simply, "not acting married before you're married," gets exponentially more difficult the longer a pre-marital relationship persists. If our goal is to move positively toward God-glorifying lives (rather than simply to "walk the line" by attempting to satisfy our fleshly desires as much as possible without sinning), wisdom and godliness would seem to counsel keeping relationships shorter.
Certainly, as God's people, we don't want to live in fear and have our lives be primarily defined by avoiding temptation rather than positively seeking after Christ. I'm not suggesting that we do. Still, where particular known areas of temptation exist, it's not living in fear to be deliberate about taking the wiser course.
Let me try to deal very briefly with the most popular responses I get to this argument — especially from college students.
1) "This argument doesn't really apply to us, because we're in a long-distance relationship."
I think it does, even if the physical circumstances are different. As to emotional intimacy, we live in the age of email, free long distance and unlimited any-time minutes, and cheap flights. It's still really easy to "act married" emotionally, even in a long-distance relationship.
As to physical intimacy, many long-distance couples have told me that because they are not physically close to one another as often, they actually experience more intense physical temptation when they're together. And again, if you believe the stats, long-distance couples don't do any better than others at staying physically pure.
2) "We dated for less than a year and then got engaged. We'll be engaged for the next 18 months while we finish school, but we're already committed, so that's cool, right?"
Um, no. If you've forgotten the cardinal rule of engagement, re-read "Tips for Engagement." Engagement is a great thing, but it's not marriage. It may, as a practical matter, necessitate addressing issues and being a bit more intimate than they were before, but the simple fact is that couples break up even after engagement. Your fiancé is not your spouse until the wedding is over. In the meantime, the "we're already committed" rationalization tends to make couples feel free to act in all sorts of ways they didn't before, and every argument I've made in this series applies even more strongly to engaged couples.
3) "We're so much more 'fruitful in ministry' as a couple; we 'feel led' to be together; 'God's calling us' to date throughout college."
I doubt it. The above language is hard to argue with (who can argue with God?), but that doesn't mean that anyone who uses that language is automatically correct. As a quick theological aside on guidance, God does not primarily lead His people by mystic feelings in the pits of our stomachs about what He wants us to do. He leads us primarily by His Word, and we are to look there first and primarily for guidance about how to live and make decisions.
God does not ever "call" or "lead" His people into sin, or even into folly or spiritual danger. We should take a given course of action because it comports with the principles of Scripture, not because we mystically feel "led" to do something we have a strong desire to do anyway.
4) "We have no choice. We have to wait. My parents will not pay for school if we get married before graduation."
I hate to be a pain here, but you actually have at least two biblically responsible choices. They're both hard, I admit, but they are doable. Choice one is to get married anyway and work your way through. Many people work their way through school. Will it take longer? Sure. Will it lead to other hard choices? Almost certainly. Can it be done? Yes.
Choice two is to stay in school and put the relationship on hold. Stop spending time together one-on-one. Talk less often. Be deliberate about avoiding "marital" levels of intimacy. Wait until a responsible time to start the relationship back up. By the way, more than one set of Christian parents have relented on this question in the face of respectful, biblical resolve by their children.
5) "People I trust think you should date at least a year or two before marrying. I can't get enough information about the other person over the course of a short relationship. I'm really worried I'll end up 'settling.'"
Now that's a topic for an entire article in itself! Check out my piece "Settling."
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At the start of the week ChocolateMission reader Phil shared an article from 'The Grocer' magazine that stated Nestle were bringing out a new 'Caramel' Kit Kat. Having just reviewed the simply fantastic Kit Kat Chunky Caramel all sorts of possibilities crossed our minds. Would it have a caramel layer? caramel chocolate ala Carramac? or would it be caramel flavoured chocolate. Well having tracked them down thanks to a tip-off from reader Susanne (Sainsburys!!!) I can confirm that to most peoples disappointment that they were described as 'caramel flavoured milk chocolate coated wafers'.
As you have probably worked out from the photo above these new Kit Kat Caramel came in a multi-pack that can be found in most supermarkets. Indeed I bought these in a 9x2 finger pack with each two finger serving weighing in at 20.8g. First impressions of the packaging were a little underwhelming. Aside from the yellow colour implemented on the wrappers the new flavour variant hardly had any whooplah attached to it and ultimately failed to raise any sort of excitement. Again if you look at the photos above you can see that the actual Kit Kats themselves looked no different whatsoever to standard milk chocolate Kit Kat. I wouldn't say this was necessarily a bad thing but it is not as if Nestle had gone out their way to really differentiate the product from anything else we have seen before. I am not saying that Nestle should have done anything overly elaborate as I still quite like the traditional Kit Kat design (hence the 8.0 score), that said it would have been nice to have a little shake up. Whereas the presentation failed to excite the smell certainly didn't. Upon opening the wrapper I was met with a pleasant barrage of toffee like scents that certainly gave promise for the taste.
Caramel flavoured milk chocolate wasn't top of anyones wish list when this product was first announced, however as Alan pointed out if it was anything near the standards of Hotel Chocolat caramel flavoured chocolate it could really be something to behold. Of course I never perceived the chocolate to ever be in the same league as the Hotel Chocolat equivalent but at the same time it was in some ways better (and worse) than I was expecting. Due to the mildness of standard Nestle milk chocolate it didn't take long for the caramel flavours to come through and at first they were really rather welcome. The toffee hints added nicely to the usual sweet dried milk flavours and seemed to bring something just a little bit more special to the flavours of the outer chocolate. Unfortunately though I thought that as the chocolate got later in its melt the taste became overly sweet and to the point where the sugary flavours dominated the malty, biscuit flavours of the wafer. The ferocity of the sugar in the taste not only took the wafer element out of the taste but also at times caused a mild burning sensation at the back of my throat. Before consuming one of the two fingers packets I was expecting to eat another packet after. This didn't actually happen though due to the burning feeling at the back of my throat and I decided against further adding to it by having another.
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The SexyBack hitmaker confirmed the follow-up news during his album release party at Los Angeles' El Rey Theater on Monday night (18Mar13).
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Some of you this spring have experienced the graduation of a loved one from high school or college.
And as joyful as such an occasion can be — especially for the parents who have footed exorbitant tuition bills — there are parts of the ceremony that can be trying.
Take the commencement address, for example. Too often, it is a cliché-heavy, forgettable speech extolling the graduates to do what you, as parents, have been trying to tell them to do all their lives.
Then there's a gem or two here and there, the kind that are never forgotten and often repeated, such as this one by Sir Winston Churchill: "Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack recently presented his version of the commencement address just up the road at Tuskegee University. And while there weren't any flowery platitudes that are likely to be remembered for the ages, there was some good common sense advice, something that is sorely lacking in today's national discourse.
Vilsack said Tuskegee University President Gilbert Rochon had given him a few guidelines for the speech — that it should be short, profound, substantive, challenging and inspiring — no small order for a 15-minute presentation. So Vilsack said he sought inspiration from various sources, even bumper stickers.
"There was one that read, 'live the life you love.' But when you think about it, that's pretty self-centered," he said.
Vilsack recalled that he grew up and graduated during a troubled and turbulent time in American history, "when great people with great courage participated in peaceful protests and were beaten for it, and when people sat at lunch counters and in front of the bus and were jailed for it."
During this time, he said, national leaders inspired young people to think outside themselves, to dedicate their lives to service for others, to think outside comfort and convenience, and to work for a higher purpose and for higher principles, like justice, equality and freedom.
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Today, he said, a destructive culture of partisanship had poisoned the politics of Washington, D.C., and is standing in the way of solving many of the problems this country faces, "problems the current generation has left unsolved and that your generation will have to face in the future."
Too often, said Vilsack, it is suggested that people who are in the political "middle" have no sense of principle in their decision making, and that folks who stand in the middle stand for nothing of value.
"I'm here to tell this class of 2013 that I reject that notion. And I believe much of what ails the nation today could be cured if we would listen to those in the middle.
"Look at the concept of what the middle actually is. To be physically strong, fitness coaches tell you to work your middle. To be economically strong, economists say we must build and expand the middle class. To win basketball championships, coaches say you need a dominant center."
Perhaps there is a certain amount of comfort and security in intellectual rigidity, said Vilsack, but no longstanding solution to any problem will be found on that course.
"The future problem solvers will be those who seek common ground and common purpose — those who are willing to sacrifice themselves for a larger and common good."
There are people in rural America who epitomize these problem solvers, said the Secretary. "Since the time of George Washington Carver, our farmers, ranchers and producers have been the most productive in the world, working alongside universities like Tuskegee, they have made this a secure nation and strong nation.
"They have provided an extraordinary diversity of affordable food. Their work with our natural resources provides the energy and the fuel to help our businesses thrive. All of this helps support the middle class and strengthen our nation."
These same people, he said, expect their elected leaders to compromise and reach a consensus, and they hope Congress will do its job this year and pass a farm bill.
"Our nation can produce enough food to feed itself and to export and feed the rest of the world. There's hardly any other nation that can say that."
In closing, Vilsack urged the graduates not to be afraid to seek compromise, but to embrace the middle
It's sad when you think about it. Not that many years ago, national leaders were encouraging graduates to dream big and to literally reach for the stars. Now, out of necessity, they're urging young people to at least be better than their elected officials and simply seek common ground. It's an idea that once passed for common sense, but now seems like a rare virtue.
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Family and friends will gather to celebrate the life of Jeff Schubert, 67 of Lubbock, Texas, at 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013, at Lake Ridge Chapel and Memorial Designers, Lubbock. Jeff died Aug. 7, 2013.He was born on March 16, 1946, in Downers Grove, Ill. and was a 1964 graduate of Downers Grove High School. Jeff graduated from Western Michigan University in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in science and entered the Air Force in 1969. Jeff spent most of his active duty in the Strategic Air Command, flying B-52 bombers. He was awarded with the Meritorious Service Medal (First Oak Leaf Cluster) for Outstanding Service in 1986. Before his retirement as a lieutenant colonel, he was stationed at Dyess AFB, where he performed flight commander duties as well as instructed new offensive systems operators. He earned his master of science in counseling and human development from Troy University, Troy Ala., in 1982. Following Jeff's retirement from the Air Force, he moved to Lubbock and earned his master of education from Wayland Baptist University in 1999. He taught in Lubbock ISD and Plainview ISD until 2004.Jeff married Jean Shockey on March 17, 2001. He enjoyed golf and fishing.He was preceded in death by his father, Roy Schubert; mother, Betty Schebert-Williams; and a sister, Sally Schubert.He is survived by his wife, Jean; two daughters, Erin Needham and husband Gary of Wylie and Megan Leese and husband Ben of Brooklyn, N.Y.; a step-daughter, Susan Cevallos and husband Cecil of Big Spring; and a step-son, Terry Don Harris and wife Janet of Pampa; three grandchildren; six step-grandchildren; and three step-great-grandchildren.Memorials are suggested to the Wounded Warrior Project.To view service tribute and leave your condolences, visit www.memorialdesigners.net.Paid obituary


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The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, in cooperation with American Universities International Programs (AUIP), offers a unique study abroad opportunity in Australia, May 19 – June 13, 2011. The 3.5-week experiential program uses the theme of sustainable development to explore the relationship between people and their natural environment. The application deadline is March 1, 2011.
The program explores the dynamic cultures and natural environments of the region, traveling extensively as a group with Dr. William Mautz, UH Hilo biology professor, and local field experts. Credit is available for six semester credits (Humans and the Environment) and the program is open to students as well as to the general public.
Students will spend 70 percent of their time traveling the national parks, forests, wildlife reserves, coastlines, and islands of South Queensland under the guidance of knowledgeable field professionals. The program begins in Brisbane followed by a three-week field study of South Queensland. The last leg of the program includes Lady Elliot Island (an isolated island on the Great Barrier Reef) and visiting Lamington National Park and Carnarvon Gorge. Program activities include snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef, experiencing Aboriginal bush life, and hiking tropical rainforests.
The program fee of $5,333 includes tuition, all accommodations, in-country transportation, some meals, and all excursions and activities. International airfare is not included (visit www.studentuniverse.com/study/auip for optional group airfare information).
Contact Corinne Tamashiro at (808) 974-7664 or Carolina Lam at (808) 933-8810 with any questions, or visit http://uhh.abroadoffice.net/australia.html.


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