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[Clips] Zubari 2007.04.17
Konbanwa, minna-san! Just finished watching this episode of Zubari. I skipped most of the talking part as usual, and extracted the more 'exciting' parts here.
First is the "who's more kakkoii" part – Takki vs guest. They're made to say some lines with red flowers as background. The last line Takki said was about Kazuko's "all-back" hair, and he blurted out laughing straight after that haha…
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Then, towards the end of the episode, Takki taught Kazuko and Creamstew how to do the X~Dame furitsuke. And aikata-kun's name was mentioned twice during this episode heehee, they juz like to tease him ne… I was laughing sooo much at how Arita was doing the "fingers pointing in all directions at the speed of light" action… HILARIOUS!!!!
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Woah~ the rush is killing me… my eyes are about to close already, but I saw Utaban being uploaded… so… gotto wait… ahhh… fai d finish uploading ah… hayaku! hayaku! Maybe I should take a nap first…
Oh, before I forget, here are some re-uploads. Utaban 2006.01.19, the very first Do-Mi-So Samurai episode – talk, samurai skit, venus (english subbed by BNS/wribbit), download from MU: 001 | 002 | 003 | 004 (Join them using hjsplit)
There just have to be a post on this: The Samurai Skit, from Utaban 2006.08.10. It's gonna be long, so bear with me hehe… Takki & Tsubasa performed Ho! Summer, and the first shot of Takki was funny already and set the mood for the entire show IMO.
The talk segment. It was quite short, but Nakai tried to do some Yume Monogatari thingie but got the lyrics wrong lol. Takki corrected him and sang a line from the chorus hehe. They also talked about the groups they hang out with I think and their upcoming solo activities. And they showed a group photo of Takki, Yamapi, Toma, Jun, Koichi, etc, etc (No Border). They all had funny expressions in the picture, especially Domoto Koichi lolz. But Takki still looks really pretty in it.
Then comes the rehearsal for the skit. LOL. This skit is the continuation of the Jan'06 DoMiSo Samurai skit. Though I feel that the previous one was funnier, this one has a more elaborate set, and it's also really funny~~~~ the "lady" this time did this really long sexy dance.. You got to see it for yourself, it's hard to explain :)
The funniest part: When Takki, Tsubasa and Nakai appeared, they had to say "Do" (Takki), "Mi" (Tsubasa), and "So" (Nakai). When Takki and Tsubasa first said "Do" and "Mi" respectively, Nakai scolded them for saying it wrong. He then 'taught' them how to say shout it (in a strangled chicken voice lolz). Takki and Tsubasa then followed and it was super hilarious!!! wahahaha….


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Why invest in the smart phone cables business
Ever since the introduction of smart phones more than two decades ago, feature phones have been driven out of market. Infact all the companies that previously manufactured feature phones have invested more on smart phone technology and less on feature phones. Statistics show that 90% of the people with mobile phones in the developed countries are using smart phones. This increase in demand for smart phones has promoted the smart phone cable selling business. So if you are planning to get into the phone accessories business then the smart cables business is one that will always guarantee you some income at the end of the day.
Since most high end smart phones like iPhone 7 tend to outlive the iPhone charger. Many smart phone users will end up buying the cables more than ones while using the same phone. So this means that the demand for this smart phone accessory will never reduce. Instead people will be looking for more durable cables that will last longer and save them money in the long run.
Unlike the feature phones which were only used for making calls and sending texts, the smart phone can do a lot. Other than making calls and send texts, a smart phone can give you access to the internet, thus making it a mini computer which everyone love using. With the high usage all smart phone tend to run low on batteries a lot and this means that they have to be connected to their chargers most of the time, which means that the cables tend to wear out faster than the phone since they are used more.
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Twitter Blind Dates are back! If you missed it like three years ago, TBD is a feature in which we send two singles out and make them live-tweet their impressions of each other.
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1. No talking on the phone or meeting up pre-date. Googling each other is acceptable.
2. No adding each other on Twitter before the date.
3. While on the date, remember to stop and tweet. No talking about the content of your tweets.
I don't know about you guys, but I'm ready to make some internet savvy people fall in love, or at least say some funny stuff. I'd like to introduce you all to two phenomenal Internet personalities, Lise and Dan:
I'm a tech/lifestyle publicist at the greatest PR firm ever. I'm extremely outgoing with an affinity for nerdy things like puns. I like to spend time going on food adventures, reading and exploring the city -- I'll walk whenever I have the time and the right shoes.
I go for tall, all-American guys who are intelligent, have a spirit of adventure, and a tremendous sense of humour. I'd love to meet someone I'd consider dating for a while -- the city is so much more fun with a sidekick you enjoy making out with.
My idea of a perfect date is grabbing drinks and apps somewhere, preferably somewhere low-key where service isn't too rushed so there's time to chat.
I am Dan. There are many Dans out there, but this one is me. I'm a writer of things, producer of other things, and voiceover actor of yet other things. Somehow I have no "young man" taste -- I like hyperactive boy things like action movies, cartoons, and milkshakes or old man stuff like fancy whisky, modernist literature, and well appointed/designed rooms. I have a sententious vocabulary (as evidenced by the use of the word sententious), a brain full of useless trivia and no good way to use it, and I've been very tall my entire life which has had some effects on my personality but I have yet to fully suss those out.
As far as a partner goes, I suppose I'm looking for that proper balance of the similar and the opposite. It'd be nice to talk with someone who shares a degree of empathy with my enthusiasms and neuroses, plus understands that I'm a cavalier talker about bullshit both substantive and not. Also, and this might ask a lot, I'm not the warmest or most open person and I'd like to learn from a lovely example. Basically, someone to engage the parts of my personality I like the most and the parts that I wish I used more. Plus, y'know, sex bomb.
I'm a low impact hang-outer, so my usual dates are of the drinks and conversation variety. Those who chose to go the multi-activity route and, I don't know, climb mountains or sky dive or apprentice with a haberdasher confound me. My perfect date would be one where personalities shine and I can look her in the eyes and be like, "Hey, sup, your eyes are really pretty and your opinions are interesting."
The Date
Lise: I'm so relieved, the date went way better than I'd expected! I had a great time with Dan, as the conversation was spontaneous and easygoing, we talked about matzo ball soup, ancestors with terrible foresight, and Woody Allen movies all in a span of ten minutes.
Spuyten Duyvil was the perfect bar to meet at because it was lively without being crowded. We initially picked seats on a tall tiny stage in one of the front windows -- Dan ended up sitting right under a painting of Jesus which was definitely an unusual set-up.
I kind of lost track of time and we both ended up Tweeting when one of us got up from the table or taking quick timeouts. I'd probably have had more to say if the date had been boring or terrible, but I'm not complaining. I also really appreciated Dan putting up with taking a million selfies to get one that was Tweet-worthy.
At the risk of being publicly rejected on the Internet, I'd like to go out with him again -- maybe I can talk him into seeing "Sharknado 2."
Dan: I thought it went very well. Blind dates get a bad rap but it was cool to get to know someone from square zero. Lise is a very fun date, and an interesting person. A cutie for sure, even if not the type I usually go for (arguably a good thing). There was immediate kinship but maybe not that deep spark that may or may not exist in general. She also enabled my pun game, a plus.
Maybe the drinks made us slip some stuff we shouldn't have said out loud -- I'm embarrassed by some of the things I discussed. I'm generally apprehensive about saying someone is "the one" or talking about how we were "vibing" after only a few hours of being acquainted, so I'll pass on playing a romantic soothsayer. But after many recent dates that rank somewhere between catastrophe and Pompeii it was good to spend some time in intimate conversation with someone I enjoyed learning more about.
As of now she was just cool enough of a person that I would like to get to know her more, regardless of romantic outcome. I look forward to seeing her again.
So?! What did you guys think? A success? Let's hear your thoughts in the comments! Also, if you want to be set up on an xoJane Blind Date, email me at email@example.com. I know I'll get someone married sooner or later...


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Onion growers have a whole host of onions types and growing methods available to them. There are short-day, long-day and day-neutral varieties. Long-day varieties are for northern gardens and short-day varieties for southern. All this has to do with the number of hours of daylight a variety needs in order to start growing the onion bulb. Sweet Spanish and Walla Walla onions are long day varieties whereas; Vidalia and Bermuda onions are short day types. If you plant a short-day onion in the north you will have much smaller onions. This is perfect for producing pearl onions or pickling onions just the right size for a canning jar. Sweet onion varieties mature earlier than keeper varieties. Keepers or storing onions tend to be more pungent, like Yellow Ebenezer.
Onions have a long growing season, so growing them from onion sets or onion plants is a great time saving option. If you have the time, the place and sense of adventure you might try growing onions from seeds. The best onions I ever grew were from seed I started in a hobby greenhouse. You will need to order your seeds early so they can be planted in mid to late January. Sow them in rows in a seed tray filled with light potting soil. Keep moist and in a sunny window, greenhouse or under lights. The plants will emerge in about 2 weeks. As they grow you can thin out and transplant seedlings so they are about an inch apart. I kept my plants trimmed with a scissors to about 4 inches tall. This made for nice thick transplants in April.
Probably the most important element for good onion production is a loose, granular soil and plenty of good organic fertilizer. The year I grew my best onions I had just started as head horticulturist at the Andalusia Foundation. Andalusia is located just north of Philadelphia on the Delaware River. I expanded the meager vegetable plot to a ¼ acre productive garden. A local dairy farmer supplied us with fresh manure in late fall that sat on the garden and decayed until spring. This, added to the already alluvial river soil, made for the perfect growing medium. You can create an excellent garden soil with compost in raised beds that will do the trick nicely. The entire vegetable garden was a great success but the softball sized Spanish onions were my pride and joy.


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Help us to record signs of otters, water voles and mink in the Peak District and South Pennine area.
We're looking for volunteers to gather information about these animals by looking for their tracks and signs in and around the Peak Dsitrict and South Pennine uplands.
This will help us to better understand where these species can be found, if their distribution is changing over time, and whether they are increasing or declining in number.
Why survey otters, water vole and mink in the uplands?
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Individuals may procure adoption records by first carrying out personal research and petitioning the courts for permission to access sealed records. Different states may have varied procedures on how to obtain adoption records, according to Find My Past.Continue Reading
In most states, once adoption has been formalized the records are sealed, notes Find My Past. Most states do not disclose the names of the people involved in the adoption process. To procure adoption records, do the following:
Talking to each member of the family regarding the need to obtain adoption records is quite important. This gives everyone an opportunity to deal with their emotions before the search for the records begins. It is also a good way to obtain helpful information that may make procuring the records easier.
Various states have online resources to assist those who are seeking to obtain adoption records. Use such resources to learn more about the laws of the state regarding these records and make any inquiries that may help in finding the right information. If adoption records are not sealed, it is possible to find them through these online resources. Medical records, orphanages and law firms may be good sources of information.
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Editor's note: Barry Courter has a 24-year-old son who is a college graduate and a 19-year-old daughter who is a sophomore in college.
Q: Dad, I've had some people tell me to focus my attention on one or two things, while some others say I should try to be open to everything. Which is right?
A: Both. There is a difference between floundering around, hoping something will interest you or hoping that a career or a hobby will reach up and bite you, and experimenting and experiencing life to find out what you like. I think you should try as much as you can, especially something that is outside of the box. It's the only way you will learn.
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This is my 6-Trait Student Writing Rubric I used when teaching LA to 7th grade. I had the idea from a teacher who used something similar, I just chose to put it into a different format and change much of it around. Give each student a copy to keep in their notes and have them use it during writing projects.
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CHERRY HILL, NJ — Subaru of America Inc. broke ground on its planned $118 million corporate headquarters in Camden, N.J. on Wednesday. The ground-breaking ceremony was conducted by a specially-produced Subaru Outback with an attached plow and featured a display of historic Subaru vehicles from the company's 50 years in the Delaware Valley.
The new Subaru of American campus is being developed by Brandywine Realty Trust. The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2017.
"We are very excited to be moving this project forward as we seek to bring our family of employees together on one site," said Thomas J. Doll, president and COO of Subaru of America. "This signing cements the long-term future of Subaru in the Delaware Valley and we are pleased that, after almost 50 years here, we can plan to continue to be part of the local community we have supported for so long."
Subaru of America's corporate headquarters have been in Cherry Hill, N.J. since 1986. It also has two offices in Pennsauken, space at Executive Campus in Cherry Hill and a distribution and training center in Florence, N.J. The two offices will combine into the new headquarters campus, which will bring more than 600 employees and contractors to the city of Camden.
The new facility, at 250,000 square feet, plus an additional 83,000-square-foot building will be more than double the size of the automaker's current headquarters.
"This was made possible by a Grow NJ award, valued at nearly $118 million, an example of the good that can come when businesses team up with the state of New Jersey to create jobs," said New Jersey Lt. Govern Kim Guadagno. "This project will have a net benefit of $167.9 million. Subaru will retain 600 jobs and create 100 new positions, and the company will make a matching capital investment into the facility."
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18 May has been celebrated worldwide as the International Museum Day since 1977 after an initative of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). According to ICOM:
This day is an occasion to raise awareness on how important museums are in the development of society.
For the cause of this blog, we thus find it important to give an example of how a museum can fail this objective. The case is the Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project and the building of the Merowe Museum in Sudan.
When the call for salvage archaeology in the Fourth Cataract region was issued in 2003 by the National Corporation of Antiquities and Museums (NCAM) during the building of the Merowe Dam, it was proposed to build a museum exhibiting the artefacts from the Merowe Dam campaign at Al-Multaga, the first resettlement site to be built for the affected people.
When the salvage campaign was well established with many international teams working in the Fourth Cataract, NCAM shifted the policy and decided instead to build the museum at the dam site. This was naturally provoking to the Manasir Executive Committee, one of the democratically elected local committees aiming at representing the affected people. The representatives became strongly opposed to the building of the museum outside the region inhabited by the affected people – and especially at the site of the Merowe Dam, which is not only a symbol of the destruction of their land, but also in a neighbouring tribal territory. Ali Askouri, one of the leaders, expressed it like this:
(…) our history is given to another community (Sudan Tribune 27.02.2007).
The building of the museum for the region to be flooded at the dam site, was probably the final drop of provocations for the representatives of the affected people, for all archaeologists were expelled from working in the land of the Manasirs by their tribal representatives. They subsequently issued a statement saying that the request for the archaeologists to leave followed:
(…) the failure of the government to honour an undertaking that archaeological treasures salvaged from the reservoir area would not be removed to distant museums' (Sudan Tribune 27.02.2007).
The Dam Implementation Unit finally financed a new museum in the town of Merowe, which was officially opened by President al-Bashir on 3 March 2009 – the same day as he inaugurated the Merowe Dam. However, the exhibition focuses on the region of Napata and Merowe.
Neither the people of the Fourth Cataract nor the fate of their land were mentioned on the posters in the displays, when the museum was previewed in 2010. The museum remains closed for visitors until this day… It seems like the Dam Implementation Unit has used funds for building a museum for the affected people to construct the Merowe Museum (and resort) for a neighbouring tribe and region.
As ICOM and the International Museum Day remind us, it is important to have local and regional museums in order to represent subordinate or alternative identities and for the past to be more accessible for people living outside the capitals. Local museums should be built in the region of the people that they represent. In the case of the Fourth Cataract, where the land is flooded and the people uprooted, the museum should be built where the majority of the displaced people live, i.e. at one of the resettlement sites.
The article Ethical implications of salvage archaeology and dam building: The clash between archaeologists and local people in Dar al-Manasir, Sudan by Henriette Hafsaas-Tsakos concludes the matter like this:
In my opinion, the heritage that archaeologists uncovered in the Fourth Cataract will become an important focus for identity maintenance in the future, as the people of the Fourth Cataract have been uprooted from their familiar natural and cultural landscape. It is thus essential that they have access to the interpretations of their history as well as the collected remnants of their heritage, so that they can use archaeology to form their own narratives and understandings of their past and thus grasp the implications for their present and future.


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The Vancouver Planning Commission is appointed by City Council to lead the development or update of the Comprehensive Plan and Development Code. The commission also monitors implementation to ensure that the City achieves its land use and community livability goals.
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Q&A: Matthew E. White On The Unexpected Success Of His Debut Album, Big Inner, And What Happens Next
In a year already frontloaded with critically beloved and big name releases, it might be easy to overlook one of the year's most wonderful records — Matthew E. White's Big Inner. Originally released in 2012 on Hometapes and given a proper re-release earlier this year via Domino, Big Inner is, in some ways, something of a lark. Recorded in White's attic at home in Richmond, Virginia alongside the Spacebomb House Band (a coterie of local Richmond musicians White has assembled to work as an ongoing collective), the album originally created as a kind of experiment. ("Originally I was only supposed to press, like, 250 copies of this thing!" he says) After sharing the recordings with friends, the album eventually took on a life of it's own — eventually garnering a deal with Domino and sending White out on the road with his band for the better part of two years. Garnering comparisons to everyone from Allen Toussaint to, more frequently, Randy Newman, Big Inner is a fascinating hybrid of American roots music and jazz-infused gospel — a sonic experiment that addresses religion and human failings with the kind of open-hearted earnestness that is exceptionally rare within the milieu of contemporary indie rock. I caught up with White during his recent visit to NYC to discuss just how Big Inner came to be and how the record has essentially changed his life completely.
STEREOGUM: I know you recently came back from playing in Europe. How were the shows?
WHITE: They were great, they were awesome! Crazy, and sort of surreal. I'd never done a tour over there before.
STEREOGUM: You played for a lot of people?
WHITE: Yeah, lots of people. A lot of energy, and just a lot of interest in the record. It's really cool.
STEREOGUM: Have you been surprised by the reaction to the record? There's been so much love for it.
WHITE: Yeah in a way, I mean … I think you make art, at least I do, because you think you have something worthwhile to say. So in that sense I felt like I had something to say musically. But you don't know … I didn't really have any expectations … and I certainly would never have anticipated the amount of positive feedback I've gotten. I hoped that people might pay attention to it and give it a chance, but yeah, I have definitely been surprised by how many people have done that and responded to it and kept responding to it. At this point the record has actually been out since August of 2012, but the growth isn't particularly fading. It seems like, in terms of my schedule, it's not fading at all.
STEREOGUM: How much touring have you done so far?
WHITE: It hasn't been totally constant, but I've played like 70 shows or something in support of the record.
STEREOGUM: Do you enjoy that? Playing live?
WHITE: Yeah, what's been interesting about it is I certainly didn't expect to be playing live this much. I made the record simply to make a record and I feel very at home in the studio and working with other people – other musicians – and that process was sort of the point of the record. I didn't have a band; I just made the record to make music. I was actually laughing today, because when I got the band together it became apparent that we'd have to tour a bit – well not that we'd have to, but that we'd play a few shows since we were being asked to. Stuff was popping up here and there. What was originally gonna be this three week run with the Mountain Goats last October has basically turned into what will end up being a year-plus of playing shows pretty nonstop. So what's been interesting about the tour is that it has really grown from something I really didn't expect to do to at all into something that I'm more or less doing for a living. That was not expected. And it's been fun to sort of grow into that. There's a challenge to playing live that's different than making a record – to me they're totally different things. Playing live is different energy, it comes and goes, the moment passes, and with a record it's something you can listen to over and over again. They're just fundamentally different and capturing a musical moment on a record is different than capturing a moment live. I think that's fun. It's a fun challenge, it's different from making recorded music, and it's just fun playing music and getting the opportunity to play your own stuff and have people pay attention. That doesn't happen to everybody. It's actually relatively rare that anyone's asking you to play 150 shows. For me that is something to just be thankful for – that people are paying attention to it and want to hear it and that I get to do it and play music with one of my best friends. It's something I'm genuinely happy for and thankful to be doing.
STEREOGUM: It's funny, I was talking to a friend about your record and he was like, "I really love this record and it's so unlike something I wouldn't normally like. I wouldn't normally be into something so gospel-y but for some reason I really love this." Do you often have that kind of response from people? That "Normally I wouldn't be into this, but for some reason this I'm into."
WHITE: Yeah. I've sort of felt an unusual attraction to the record from the start … since I started sharing rough mixes of the record. You know, originally I was supposed to only press like 250 copies of this thing. That really was what it was. I was a music teacher and I just made a record on my own with some friends and made a pressing. It was totally DIY. And it was the foundation of this label, but Spacebomb had this long, long-term vision of "Let's do a bunch of this local DIY kind of shit and maybe over the course of years it'll build into something." But from the get go things happened really fast. I shared the mix with Hometapes, and they were like, "Listen this can't just be a local release, let us put this out" and so it went to Hometapes, which led to signing to Domino and then the international release. So I felt like people responded to it, and what for me has been very abnormal, especially since all the music I made before this was very avant-garde music. I'm sort of used to difficult music and music that's not particularly audience friendly the way music is that has songs with lyrics. Also what's interesting about it is the age difference at the shows, there are 20 year-old kids there and there are 60 year-old people there, consistently, and that's been fun. It's fun to share music with a live audience; it's rewarding. So anyway, I've had that – maybe not that exact thing – but that spirit of, "Hey this music seems to be unique in some way," vibe from the beginning.
STEREOGUM: Coming from the background of making what is ostensibly much more "difficult" kinds of music, what was the impetus for doing this? Were you raised up around this kind of music?
WHITE: By "this kind of music" you mean songs … with words? [laughs] I mean yeah, I think that was a thing. I went to college for jazz studies and jazz arrangement and I think there's a sort of … when you're growing and learning about how notes work together and how rhythms work together, you're just pushing the boundaries of what music can be. That also meant listening to hours of avant-garde jazz and experimental music and noise. You come back to a place where you're like, "Okay what is the music that you sort of loved in a very pure emotional way?" Like when I was 3 years old I listened to the Beach Boys all the time, I didn't listen to Albert Ayler when I was 5, you know what I mean? [laughs] So it comes back to you … and you're pushing, pushing, pushing, and there comes a point when you're like, "Well let me take what I've learned and that sensibility and make something that's more 'natural' in some way." I want to take all that knowledge and experimentation and then … make a song. That's what it comes back to. That's what I grew up loving. You can push all you want but I think the real challenge is taking that knowledge and taking all that information and having that feed back into something that is a little bit more structured, because that is what is hard. It's tough to take a four-minute song and make it really mean something lyrically and musically and make it go on its own journey. There's a great Bob Dylan quote that, "a song is anything that has legs that can walk." It's true. You want to make something that is alive. And you can do that in a lot of ways, and for me it was a challenge and kind of a kick after 10 years of making free jazz. At some point it's like…I just wanted to sing a four-minute song. And now that I've been on tour for six months playing this music it makes me want to play noise for 10 minutes on stage.
STEREOGUM: I think that might have something to do with why it resonates with people. Not that there aren't bands making songs or making music that's traditional sounding or beautiful — there are. But still, as someone who gets sent like five or six records a day I'd say that sometimes you're sort of overwhelming with things that are – and it's not even the band's fault necessarily or even a bad thing–but when you're confronted with really dissonant music or just really weird shit almost constantly when there's something that comes across your desk that is really beautiful and gentle it really … it's so refreshing. And it sticks out.
WHITE: Cause in a lot of ways that's – and I'm not saying this applies to my music – but that's the hardest shit to make, to make something that works for everybody and works for your ears – and is rewarding. It's not like singing "happy birthday" or something. I think about people that really go there, whether it is classical composers or … Louis Armstrong, Louis Armstrong is a great example or Duke Ellington. That music often seems so easy, so simple, but it's soooo hard. Or Count Basie! You listen to Count Basie's band and then you listen to Albert Ayler or John Coltrane and by comparison Count Basie's music is so clean, so organized, but it is SO hard to do that. You hear music that tries to be like that all the time, or there's a lot of music that tries to be like that. Like Bob Dylan, everyone has tried to be Bob Dylan since Bob Dylan first emerged … but you can't do it. It's so hard to distill all of our influences and what we've learned into something that works in the same way … it's tough. It's easier sometimes to play like a crazy person. I think of it like, jazz has been such a big influence, sometimes it's easier to play with a lot of energy and a lot of noise and play very visceral than it is to play like a sweet 12 bar solo over a ballad or something like that, even though it seems saccharin or not as pleasing in some ways but it's like, that's hard. Hard hard hard. They're different things, but … distilling things into something that's your own is tough.
STEREOGUM: The subject matter of your record is also really unusual within the world of what people would think of as Pitchfork-y indie rock. Like there are certain things that people don't often tackle in a very earnest way, either because it's difficult or it's simply not fashionable. To talk about religious or spiritual ideas in a really honest way that's not ironic or flatly dismissive … is really kind of rare. Also, things that celebrate joy or happiness in a non-ironic way are almost equally rare.
WHITE: That's sort of a bummer, huh? [laughs]
STEREOGUM: Anger, melancholy, romantic despair … those seem to be much more easily accessible emotions in contemporary music.
WHITE: Yeah, it's funny because I didn't really think about that. That was something I worried about a lot less than the sonic quality of the record. When I made the record I was aware that how it sounded was going to be different than a lot of things, but as far as the songs concerned, I didn't really … the last five minutes of "Brazos" I knew was going to stick out, but at the same time I thought about 200 people were ever going to hear this record, so it didn't really concern me. It still doesn't really concern me. But the stakes … I mean, I was making it without much of a big audience in mind. People will tell me the record has a sense of hope and a lot of people will ask me if that was the intention … and the answer really is no, that's wasn't intended [laughs]. I don't even know if you asked me about the theme of the record if I would have even said that … or if I'd known what the theme really was. I think it comes across really almost sub-consciously from my point of view, obviously I'm writing stuff but I'm not … I'm just writing. I was writing songs and I co-wrote with my friend Andy, and was just writing songs that … basically I didn't want them to hinder anything. I wanted them to be good enough … so that people didn't look at them as being bad. Does that make sense? I want to be able to play the songs and not have people be like, "that song sucks!" Cause I'd never really written traditional "songs" before so I didn't have any goals beyond that. If the lyrics have something to say, if the arrangements have something to say, if the players have something to say then I can make something special. I don't need my voice to dominate; I just need it to be good enough that it can be an appropriate piece of the puzzle. So I wasn't writing with an agenda in the sense that I was trying to say something really. It was very natural. I didn't have an agenda in mind, but when people sort of bring that up — the apparent themes of the record — It's pretty satisfying to hear because that's very much just me. That's how I view the world, in this hopeful way. That people pick up on that is an affirmation that a very sub-conscious part of myself is coming across that I'm not really even attempting to put out there … and that's kinda cool because you want your music to be sort of particular to you in a very natural way. I do that in pro-active ways when it comes to the music and arrangements, but to hear some things like that about the lyrics and themes … it's cool because it wasn't so pro-active. It was very subconscious.
STEREOGUM: You are subconsciously optimistic and unknowingly spiritual. Also, I love the idea of something taking on the life of its own and going somewhere you don't expect it to. Do you have a sense of when this cycle of touring will be done … and what you might do next?
WHITE: Yeah, I think towards the end of the year the touring will be done. I recorded the record in the beginning of 2011. So for a long time now I've been focused mostly on this. Spacebomb has other artists coming out soon, so even though that's not directly me that involves all the records that I've sort of A&R'd, and curated, and produced, and arranged … so this throughout this summer and fall and into the beginning of next year that'll be happening. And for a long time I've sort of been brainstorming about what I want to do next. We recorded this record in seven days. It was just like, "Here's an idea, let's just do it real quick and see what happens." That's not to say we didn't work out butts off on it – because we did – but the idea was kind of … "What if I wrote songs, worked them out with a rhythm section, we booked a few days in the studio, I did horn arrangements, someone did string arrangements, someone did choir arrangements, we threw them all together, we did some other shit, and mixed them all together…what would that sound like?" That is basically what Big Inner is. The idea of making a more fully developed kind of recorded, artistic statement has [laughing] sort of been on the table since before that record was made. The great thing about Domino being so supportive involves having the resources to making a real recording project sort of along the lines you always hope for as a musician and that's really a dream come true. I know that sounds really cliché but to be in a position where I get to look at my next record and say, "Well this is what I really want to do," and know that I'll really be able to do that and really go for some special stuff, I think that's amazing. You know, you don't know how many records you're going to get to make in your lifetime. Not only because of what's going to happen in your life personally, but because of outside support and … you don't know, you don't know what's going to happen. So I look at my next recording project and it's like, "Hell yeah, let's do this, let's swing for the fences!" because I don't know what's going to happen. I have a lot of ideas.
STEREOGUM: Do you imagine it to be something very different from Big Inner?
WHITE: No. Well … yes, and no. There's … I feel like Big Inner is very much a seed, and things I want to do are sort of outgrowths of the basic idea of working with a lot of musicians, working with written music, but we're also working with experimental music–and finding a spot where those all meet and support a song in a unique way. I think that was the goal on Big Inner and I think there's a lot more to do with that idea, you know? So yeah, I'm sure a lot of it will be different, but to me at least the core will be similar … I'm not gonna make like a synth and drum machine record. At least not on the next record [laughs]. That'd be totally fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but it'd be a big change conceptually from what I'm doing now, and that's not gonna happen … at least for the next one.
STEREOGUM: How does the success of this record impact doing the label and the continued growth of the Spacebomb collective?
WHITE: Well really, more than anything, it helps us. It allows us to get on our feet a little bit, and in a lot of ways the idea of Spacebomb was built on resources that weren't there. It was a sort of "build it and they will come" mentality, and it really worked out … in a better way than any of us could ever have imagined in that sense. That there are people interested worldwide – because my story is so tied with the label – and people that are interested in my record hopefully will be interested in the next Spacebomb thing and to how that ties into the bigger picture of making music in a community. It's always a challenge when you're a working musician to find time for the things you want to do, but that's also the best problem you could ever have. The best problem I could ever have is, "Oh … am I going to do this Australian tour or am I gonna get home in time to mix this new record and get some A&R ideas for this fall?" That's the best thing that could be happening, and if I'm stressed out or if I'm worried because of things like that then … that's where I want to be. And again you don't know how long people will be paying attention and I don't take that for granted. Also, I don't expect people to pay attention unless it's good, especially in today's sort of musical world and infrastructure you don't get … there's just so much out there. You don't get a watchful eye from everybody for very long. So for me it's about taking advantage of how people are paying a little bit of attention to not just my stuff, but the Spacebomb stuff and to work my butt off to make it as good as it can possibly be so that we can do more of it.
Matthew E. White's Big Inner is out now on Domino


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Tuwharetoa Landcorp deal overpriced at $85.5 million
Peter Clarke from the Hikuwai Hapu Lands Trust says Tuwharetoa asked the Office of Treaty Settlements to land bank the five stations, but it was turned down.
Mr Clarke says the trust has bought the land as a package deal, even though it disputes the valuations of the two stations adjoining the Taupo township.
"Tauhara North, that's all the land around our mountain, Mount Tauhara, and Tauhara South, from the Napier Road to the highway to the airport. Now with those two blocks, it was highly over-inflated, to the extent there was a big margin between our valuer and Landcorp to the tune of about $22 million," Clarke said.
Peter Clarke says Tuwharetoa interests already own about 65 percent of the Taupo basin.
Prominent Auckland kaumatua Matiu Tarawa says the decision by Housing Corporation to evict a Panmure family out of a state house is disrespectful.
Mr Tarawa is supporting 19 year old Olivia Maana, whose mother, the tenant of the Dunkirk Street house, died last month.
He says the family isn't ready to move.
"For 32 years they've lived there. The grandparents were there for that length of time and all the children that were born, were born there and all the afterbirth were buried there, It's a very sensitive issue. And the other thing, the family's still grieving," Tarawa saiud.
Matiu Tarawa believes Housing Corporation wants the property vacant so it can develop the site into units.
Maori sports commentator Scotty Morrison says the All Black selectors will be keeping a close eye on Waikato centre Richard Kahui in tomorrow night's Air New Zealand Cup final in Hamilton.
He says the clash between Kahui and Wellington centre Tana Umaga will be a feature of the final, expected to be played in front of a sellout crowd.
Mr Morrison says the young Maori player has added a lot of starch to the Waikato backline during the season, and if his good form continues, will warrant consideration from the All Black selectors next year.
"I think Kahui's definitely got a good chance because they've tried a lot of other centres and they've all failed, so if they can't convince Tana Umaga to go next year then Kahui's definitely a candidate that could go as long as he plays a good Super 14," Morrison said.
Ngati Tuwharetoa says its ancestor Horonuku Te Heuheu the fourth never gave away the central North Island mountains.
Paramount chief Tumu Te Heuheu told the Waitangi Tribunal hearing on the Tongariro National Park Claim today that his great great grandfather never intended that the Crown would assume sole ownership and control of mounts Ruapehu, Tongariro and Ngaruahoe.
Tuwharetoa spokesperson Paranapa Otimi says te Heuheu was looking for some kind of joint protection arrangement with Queen Victoria.
"The issues of a gift from a Maori – our understanding – was the furtherest thng his mind, and all he wanted to do was keep the mountain sacred and inviolate and protected," Otimi said.
Paranapa Otimi says Tuwharetoa wants a much grerater say in the future management of the Tongariro National Park.
A documentary highlighting the inadequacies of mainstream news reporting of Maori issues will screen tomorrow morning.
'Framing Maori' at 9.30 on TV One is part of the He Matapaki series.
Producer Kay Ellmers says director Tere Harrison is looking at why mainstream stories never seem to tell the whole story, the way that Maori understand it.
"A lot of the issues that Tere explored in the piece were round lack of context for the news. Part of that was because of the commercial nature of news, the short timeframes," Ellmers said.
Kay Ellmers says the Ms Harrison has interviewed Maori working for mainstream news outlets on their views of the work environment.
The second Wairoa Maori Film Festival kicks off this weekend.
Co organiser Huia Kozial says the participating filmmakers will be welcomed onto the marae by this year's hosts, the Ngati Raakaipaaka people of Nuhaka.
The festival includes a survey of the films of Ngati director Barry Barclay of Ngati Apa, and it also includes lectures and workshops for young people interested in film making.
Mrs Kozial says its a chance to celebrate the contributions Maori can make to the silver screen.
A Maori squash tournament which has nurtured many of this country's A grade players will be held for the 26th time in Wainuiomata this weekend.
Maori squash chairperson Dennis Karauna says teams and supporters from as far north as Kaitaia are expected at the Nga Hau e Wha tournament.
Mr Karauna says even when Maori players make it big on the mainstream circuit, they don't forget their roots.
"Top players that come out of the mainstream, a lot of them are whanau that have come through Nga Hau e Wha Maori Squash. We've got Tamsin Levy and all of them, they frequent the tournament, the Moeke boys from Mataatua and Whakatane, they're supporters. A lot of the top players, the A grade players, if they're not on the circuit or overseas, they attend the tournament," Karauna said.
Dennis Karauna says for many participants, squash is just the vehicle to get together and the tournament is based on tikanga.


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Some good poems for the birth of a grandchild are "We Love You Little One" and "Grandchildren." Another poem that speaks from the perspective of a grandparent writing to her child at the birth of her grandchild is "Time Well Spent."Continue Reading
"We Love You Little One" talks about how a grandparent's love for her grandchild begins at the grandchild's birth and about the grandparents' eager anticipation of the arrival of the new child. The grandparents talk about looking forward to bedtime stories and nursery rhymes. In life, the child needs to learn how to stand tall and play fair, the poem says. The grandparents promise to love the grandchild throughout the grandchild's life.
"Grandchildren" talks about how a grandmother understands why her grandchildren are "grand." The author talks about the excitement of receiving the phone call that a new grandchild has arrived. She talks about how grandchildren remind her of raising her own children. The poem says that God has a plan in bringing family together and that grandchildren have a "sweet face" and a cheerful smile. The poem ends by saying that each child is special.
Similarly, "Time Well Spent" talks about the grandchild's tiny fingers and toes. The poem describes the child's nose as "cute." Even though the parents spend large amounts of time caring for the child, the time with the child is happy. The poem ends by encouraging the new parents to take time for "all the good that comes along with parenthood."Learn more about New Baby


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For students entering college this fall, e-mail is too slow, phones have never had cords and Clint Eastwood brings to mind a sensitive film director, not the catchphrase "go ahead, make my day." These are among the 75 items on this year's Beloit College Mindset List.
The compilation, released Tuesday, is assembled each year by two officials at this private school of about 1,400 students in Beloit, Wis. It is meant to remind teachers that cultural references familiar to them might draw blank stares from college freshmen born mostly in 1992. Of course, it can also have the unintended consequence of making people feel old.
These are some of what's made the list for the graduating classes or 2014, 2009, and 2004.
- Few in the class know how to write in cursive.
- "Go west, young college grad," has always implied "and don't stop until you get to Asia and learn Cantonese along the way."
- "Caramel macchiato" and "venti half-caff vanilla latte" have always been street-corner lingo.
- A quarter of the class has at least one immigrant parent, and the immigration debate is not a big priority unless it involves "real" aliens from another planet
- Fergie is a pop singer, not a princess.
- Unless they found one in their grandparents' closet, they have never seen a carousel of slides.
- Czechoslovakia has never existed.
- Russians and Americans have always been living together in space.
- Nirvana is on the classic oldies station.
- The United States, Canada, and Mexico have always agreed to trade freely.
- They don't remember when "cut and paste" involved scissors.
- Heart-lung transplants have always been possible.
- Wayne Gretzky never played for Edmonton.
- Al-Qaeda has always existed with Osama bin Laden at its head.
- Voice mail has always been available.
- "Whatever" is not part of a question but an expression of sullen rebuke.
- Money put in their savings account the year they were born earned almost 7-per-cent interest.
- Snowboarding has always been a popular winter pastime.
- Digital cameras have always existed.
- America's Funniest Home Videos has always been on television.
- They have probably never lost anything in shag carpeting.
- M.A.S.H. and The Muppet Show have always been in re-runs.
- There have always been ABM machines.
- They have always been able to afford Calvin Klein.
- They have never heard a phone "ring."
- They never dressed up for a plane flight.
- "Coming out" parties celebrate more than debutantes.
- They have never used a bottle of correction fluid.
- "Spam" and "cookies" are not necessarily foods.
- They feel more danger from having sex and being in school, than from possible nuclear war.
Sources: Associated Press; Beloit College


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Reviewed By Peter D (LITITZ, PA) Reviewed for a 2008 Jeep Grand Cherokee —6/8/2011 6:43 AM
I have always wanted a "Performance Module/Chip". Jet is one company that a lot of people seem to talk about. It was easy to install and they said i would notice max performance after 200 mile. I just past that and I do notice a difference. is it worth paying over $200 for? I don't think it is. Not when it comes out to $14 per HP. The install took only 5 min. This chip is small so it is not an eye catcher. best part about it is that if something went wrong on my car i can take it out and take my car to the jeep dealer and they won't know i ever had it.


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A father and son were arrested in connection with two west suburban bank robberies, in which authorities said they made off with a total of nearly $70,000, the FBI said this afternoon in a news release.
Louis H. Early, 51, of Dewitt, N.Y., and Louis S. Early, 26, of Lisle, were charged in a criminal complaint with bank robbery. The charge relates to a March 18 heist at a TCF Bank branch in the Danada Square Shopping Center in Wheaton, but evidence in the complaint also connects the father and son to a March 9 heist at a Fifth Third Bank in Naperville, the FBI said.
The elder Early was arrested Sunday by the Cayuga County (N.Y.) sheriff's office on unrelated state charges, according to the FBI, who also said his son was arrested Wednesday morning at his home.


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Songleader Boot Camp (SLBC) was launched in 2009 by founders, Rick Recht (Nationally touring artist and educator) and Rabbi Brad Horwitz (Director of the Jewish Community Center's Helene Mirowitz Center of Jewish Community Life) to create immersive, inspirational, and strategic Jewish leadership programs for Jewish clergy, educators, and songleaders. Last year, more than 500 participants from across the United States experienced SLBC conferences and leadership training programs.
Songleader Boot Camp (SLBC) provides powerful Jewish leadership training opportunities led by nationally renowned Jewish leaders, educators and music artists. SLBC teaches participants about the many vehicles they have to create powerful, interactive connections, expand leadership abilities, and learn specific skills and techniques to inspire change in their communities. SLBC offers a profound exploration of the physiology, psychology, strategy, and execution behind explosive Jewish teaching and songleading. SLBC leadership programs include SLBC National and Regional Conferences, On-Site Leadership Training Seminars, and Individual & Small Group Coaching.
In addition to SLBC conferences, SLBC on-site leadership training seminars were featured last year at the USCJ Cantors Assembly, PJ Library National Conference, USCJ Jewish Educators Assembly, communities and synagogues across the United States.
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I recently read Generating Hope: A Strategy for Reaching the Postmodern Generation by Jimmy Long. Here's a few thoughts from this text that I thought were particularly helpful with discerning where our churches should be in relation to the significant culture changes.
The Church is at a major critical juncture in regard to two major cultural changes. First, we are transitioning in leadership and authority from the Baby-Boomers generation to Generation X. Second, there is a philosophical shift that is occurring (or perhaps has fully occurred) in the western society where the culture moves from the modern to the postmodern era.
The big question is, how do we respond to the change in culture? As the Baby Boomers (and earlier generations) begin to relinquish the leadership reigns what will that look like? What kind of tension is this creating and how are we responding? From all appearances, it seems that most churches were built in and for the previous culture – the modern culture. Now the culture is changing and the church is having trouble connecting.
Jimmy Long gives the five models that help us to understand how the Church relates to the culture as it changes from modern to postmodern.
- Assimilating church – The church tries to make itself relevant to the prevailing culture by adopting some of the culture's characteristics. The church supposedly does this in order to be welcomed by the culture and to encourage the culture to be open to the gospel. Scriptural reference from 1 Corinthians 9:20. If the church becomes too assimilated you can't tell the difference between culture and church. If that happens then there isn't much need for the church. I can get Jesus without the Church.
- Protecting church – Christians respond to sinfulness and its consequences with a sense of hopelessness and a desire for protection. "All of this is beyond my understanding and control. I can't make any difference in the world. Sin is awful and powerful. My best strategy is to build a wall around myself and my family to keep out the changes and evil." This worldview represents a dualistic approach to society that sees the church as good and the culture as bad. The protective church seem to have little faith in God's sovereignty – Matthew 16:18.
- Unchanging Church – Pretty much ignores the culture. Views the church as having nothing to do with present culture. The church is above and beyond the culture. Tries to hold on to its own traditions by rising above culture. Christians in the unchanging church try to equate their own traditions, as exemplified in the above story, with Jesus' blessings. The weakness of this model is that although the culture and the people within the culture do change, the church does not change to meet people where they are. As the culture continues to change, the unchanging church model becomes more and more marginalized and exerts less and less impact on society.
- Battling Church – Fears the annihilation of the church and is fighting back with all the weapons it can muster. James Dobson states, "The heated dispute over values in Western nations is simply a continuation of the age old struggle between the principles of righteousness and the kingdom of darkness and someday soon I believe a winner will emerge and the loser will fade from memory. Sees the church essentially as the new Israel.
- Influencing Church – Instead of seeing the culture as a battlefield and Christians as warriors, the influencing church sees the world as a mission field and Christians as missionaries. Sees itself as intimately involved in the culture. Redemption does not change their involvement in the culture, but it changes them as the character of their involvement. They see the neighborhood and the local school as mission fields, not battlegrounds. Far from being military bunkers, their homes are "havens of hospitality" with the Welcome sign displayed out front. For them evangelism comes first and cultural change comes second. The gospel message will be powerful only through showing love to neighbors and living lives of integrity. Those in the influencing church see others as people created by God and in need of God, not as the enemies of God. So their strategy in one of influence, dialogue and a prophetic voice.


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Ops got a bit side tracked - here I am again...
Well another interesting point made today on my readings is about
I think I can be guilty of this at times.... especially when there is something I do not
wish to do... is it that I fear what I have to do ... go to the dentist for example
or something I do not like?
Or is it just getting side tracked?
Well with that to leave you with....
Have a good day and hope to see you again tomorrow
Crafty hugs
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Predicting biological condition in southern California streams
Landscape and Urban Planning
- By:
- Larry R. Brown, Jason T. May, Andrew C. Rehn, Peter R. Ode, Ian R. Waite, and Jonathan G. Kennen
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AbstractAs understanding of the complex relations among environmental stressors and biological responses improves, a logical next step is predictive modeling of biological condition at unsampled sites. We developed a boosted regression tree (BRT) model of biological condition, as measured by a benthic macroinvertebrate index of biotic integrity (BIBI), for streams in urbanized Southern Coastal California. We also developed a multiple linear regression (MLR) model as a benchmark for comparison with the BRT model. The BRT model explained 66% of the variance in B-IBI, identifying watershed population density and combined percentage agricultural and urban land cover in the riparian buffer as the most important predictors of B-IBI, but with watershed mean precipitation and watershed density of manmade channels also important. The MLR model explained 48% of the variance in B-IBI and included watershed population density and combined percentage agricultural and urban land cover in the riparian buffer. For a verification data set, the BRT model correctly classified 75% of impaired sites (B-IBI < 40) and 78% of unimpaired sites (B-IBI = 40). For the same verification data set, the MLR model correctly classified 69% of impaired sites and 87% of unimpaired sites. The BRT model should not be used to predict B-IBI for specific sites; however, the model can be useful for general applications such as identifying and prioritizing regions for monitoring, remediation or preservation, stratifying new bioassessments according to anticipated biological condition, or assessing the potential for change in stream biological condition based on anticipated changes in population density and development in stream buffers.
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- Title:
- Predicting biological condition in southern California streams
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- Landscape and Urban Planning
- 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2012.07.009
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- 2012
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Now i have 1 more challenge for you. And you can start today. Make a resolution to focus on your relationship with Jesus daily. By doing this, your relationship will grow stronger every day. This is my prayer for you.
There will be no post next Monday, January 2, 2012. Blog posts will resume on the following Monday.


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All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. (2TI 3:16-17)
1. For teaching. Didaskalia means "that which is taught, doctrine." The Bible gives us the body of truth—the doctrine—upon which we are to base our perspective and make our decisions in life.
2. For reproof. Elegchos means "to convict of error and to rebuke." The Holy Spirit uses the Word to show us where we have wandered off course.
3. For correction. Epanorthosis means "restoration to an upright or right state." Along with the conviction that we are going the wrong way, the Word always sheds light on the right way. If we are humble before God, from the reproof will come a change in our attitude, which will result in personal action that sets us on course again.
4. For training. Paideia means "instruction and discipline given with the goal of raising a child to maturity." The Bible is a guidebook to lead us from spiritual infancy to spiritual maturity and beyond.
You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, these entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also. (2TI 2:1-2)
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, handling accurately the word of truth. (2TI 2:15)
Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart, for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and abiding Word of God. (1P 1:22-23)


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