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Would that it were true that the City of Richmond Public School system has International Baccalaureate programs in five middle schools and two high schools, it would be cause for great celebration that RPS administrators and School Board members have heard the thousands of elementary school parents living in the City of Richmond who desperately want and need better middle school choices for their children.
But, it isn't even remotely true. RPS has only one small I.B. middle school program (Lucille Brown Middle School) and only one small high school program (Thomas Jefferson High School). Despite my collaborative efforts with City Councilman Chris Hilbert (and his success in providing funds to RPS) to begin to grow a middle school I.B. program at Henderson Middle School, no I.B. program is mentioned on the Virginia Department of Education website.
Worse, officials at RPS and VDOE are well aware that the information posted on VDOE's website that claims Binford, Hill, Elkhardt and Boushall Middle Schools and George Wythe High School have I.B. programs is absolutely false.
Worse still, RPS and VDOE officials have known since August that the information posted on VDOE's website is false.
Worst of all, in a letter dated October 27, 2010, RPS School Board Clerk, Angela C. Lewis, admits that "Binford, Albert Hill, Elkhardt, Boushall and George Wythe should not have been listed as having IB programs on the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) website" and further claims that "It has been corrected on the VDOE Web site."
As of November 1, 2010, the false information remains on VDOE's website. My friend John Butcher kindly made copies of the pages so you can see for yourself, just click here for George Wythe, Binford, Albert Hill, Boushall and Elkhardt Middle Schools.
Pity poor Mrs. Lewis. She cannot help it if RPS administrators and School Board members lie to her. It is her misfortune that her job is simply to do and say what she is told. Even when she is forced to lie.


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Title: Masquerade's Mate
Author: Tracy Cooper-Posey
Publisher: Ellora's Cave
Website of Publisher: http://www.ellorascave.com
Genre: 19th Century Historical
Rating: S-ensuous
Publication date: july 2007
Length: Short Novel
Format: eBook
Lord Stuart Sutherland-Bruce, the eldest son of the Earl of Salisbury had just returned from a diplomatic post in the Orient. Unknown to him, he was under suspicion of treason.
Bian, introduced only by her first name, was given the task of getting close to Stuart to find evidence of that treason that would stand up in court. Stuart had never met a more lovely, intelligent, fiery woman, and he vowed he would have her. From the first meeting he was enchanted. The second time they met he was disoriented, the third time, he was captivated, and when she disappeared on her he staked out her home vowing to find her and determine who she really was and claim her as his.
A wonderful story. Captivating in its intrigue as well as the passion that flows so effortlessly through out the story. A wonderful tale of love and what love will do to conquer. It is also a tale of passion for a cause, the saving of England, and the honour of a man. The reader will become tangled in the story from the beginning and as it unfolds will see the strength and determination and ultimately the good in each of their hearts.
Reviewer Aris
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Where in Vilnius to Rent
Hi all,
I should soon be based out of Vilnius and will need to start looking for an apartment. The big question is which part of Vilnius to look in and which parts to avoid?
I need to be within an easy commute on public transport to the airport, ideally with no more than a 30min journey time, preferably near basic amenities too (supermarket etc)
For those of you with experience of Vilnius, which areas would you recommend looking in?
Thanks in advance for your input!


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Thanking every contributor
I am of the opinion that every contributor to a free software project should be thanked. No matter how prolific or sporadic. There are many ways to do it — having a section in the release notes is one common example, the AUTHORS file is another, or if it is a program with a graphical user interface of its own then the about dialog is a very good option. In fact, the about dialog is the best option because it is more persistent than the release notes (ie. does not change from one release to another), and is shinier than a plain AUTHORS file. Not to mention the fact that it is much more visible.
However, it is a pain. While there are scripts lying around to generate the credits for the release notes, I have not seen the same for the about dialog. No doubt it is outdated in every application, which is a shame.
We can do better. For Photos, I decided to generate the list from Git. First I generate an AUTHORS file, and then use it to create a pair of C header and source files which contain the array of strings that can be fed to gtk_about_dialog_set_authors. From now on every new contributor will see her name show up in the about dialog immediately after making her first commit.
It would be nice if this caught on and other application maintainers decided to do something similar.
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Good idea!
But you will duplicate the name of the translator in the "Authors" and "Translators" sections. Or Am I missing something?
here is a variant that auto-updates the AUTHORS file:
and a simplified way to include the AUTHORS list in the dialog sources:


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'Tis the year of the rabbit!
Happy Chinese New Year to everyone.
May happiness and bliss be your buddy this year.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2015 - Senior Lecturer for Animation at Sheffield Hallam University, UK 2013-2015 Professor for Animation at one of the most miserable and severely fucked-up institutions on earth: SCAT Hong Kong, Savannah College of Art and Terror 2010-2013 Assistant Professor for Animation and Digital Arts at New York University Tisch Asia, School of the Arts in Singapore 2009-2010 Professor for Animation/Animation Design at Hongik University/Seoul 2008- Visiting Professor for Animation at Kyungsung University in Busan/South Korea 2006- Character design for Sprite Animation LA (various projects) 2004-2005 Character design and visual development on Bee-Movie at Dreamworks 2003-2004 Assistant character animator for Shrek2 2002 inspirational character development on Ratatouille EDUCATION 2000-2003 MFA, Experimental Animation at CalArts 1995-2000 Diploma, University of Applied Sciences, Department of Design, Hamburg, Germany 1993-1995 History of Art, Classical Archeology and Prehistory Julius Maximilians Universität, Würzburg, Germany


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July 29, 2016
Giordano Lombardo Gavi di Gavi di San Martino DOCG 2015, Piedmont, Italy
This is a 20 hectare Demeter certified estate that straddles the border between Piedmont and Liguria. The indigenous Cortese vines are grown on volcanic soils of clay and limestone, rich in iron and magnesium. After hand-harvesting, the grapes are pressed whole and left to macerate on their skins for a short time. The wine is bottled after resting on the lees for three to five months. This is a very pretty wine, with a delicate nose and lots of mineral freshness. This wine is so food friendly. Believe us, it's the most food friendly wine you'll ever taste! Especially if what you're eating is lighter fare, like salads, crudo, white fish and shellfish…
Bodegas Mustiguillo Mestizaje Blanco 2014, Valencia, Spain
This wine is mostly Merseguera, a rare, almost lost, Spanish variety that gets little respect. Merseguera has been around for a long time, but it's not often appreciated for its subtle charms. The Merseguera for this wine, however, was grafted onto 40 year Bobal rootstock, then planted at 2700 feet elevation. The Bobal can't grow at this altitude, but the Merseguera thrives. Still, for some, the Merseguera is a little too neutral and not worthy of a single-varietal wine of its own – and really, (some people say) isn't it just coasting on the coattails of the Bobal rootstock? So the winemakers at Mustiguillo did what people do when they want to make something great: they enlisted the support of other grapes that would bolster the Merseguera, that would help this underestimated wine get a place on your table – enter Viognier and Malvasia, adding soft and flowery nuances to the taut and reserved Merseguera. They are better together, and together they are glorious with lobster.
Mestizaje is from organically farmed grapes that are fermented with wild yeast in stainless steel, and left on the lees for a short amount of time. This is a generous in the mouth wine, with live-wire acidity that tiptoes around fleshy tropical fruit, and mingles happily with apricots, honey and flowers. It's a well-rounded, versatile wine that will work just as well with the lighter fare of spring and summer as it will with the richer fare of fall and winter.
Béatrice & Pascal Lambert "Les Terraces" Chinon 2014
Béatrice & Pascal started making wine together on their property back in 1987. Like many, they were inspired by Nicolas Joly, and by the early 2000s were practicing organic farming and winemaking; by 2005 they were certified biodynamic. They propagate vines through selection massale and interplant with mustard, oats, rapeseed and rye. The Cabernet Franc vines for this Chinon are between 10 and 25 years old and grow on soils of gravel, calcareous clay, limestone, and flint. Grapes are hand-harvested, and fermented in concrete, with wild yeast and no sulfur.
This is a lovely Chinon for under $20. It hits all the right notes for lovers of Loire Cab Franc – bright fruit, vibrant acidity, earthy-herbal-musky nose…with a hint of violets and velvety, soft tannins. It loves a little chill.
Domaine Guillot-Broux Macon-Cruzille 2014, Bourgogne Rouge
The Guillot family has been making wine in Cruzille since 1954; by 1991, their tiny one-hectare estate had expanded under the brothers Ludovic, Patrice & Emmanuel, and became the first vineyard in Burgundy to be certified organic. In 2000, after the death of their father, Emmanuel took over winemaking duties. He is now head of the "CGAB" or Confederation of Organic Growers in Burgundy" and one of the creators of a graphic novel about rediscovering lost vines. The estate is now approximately 16 hectare spread over a number of small vineyards in the Mâconnais villages of Cruzille, Grevilly, Pierreclos and Chardonnay.
The vineyards are planted to Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Gamay on eastern facing slopes of clay and limestone. The 60-90 year old Gamay, however, is planted on granite. Yields are kept low through high density planting; Emmanuel's goal is to have as few grapes per vine as possible, to concentrate the flavors of the wine. Current yields are around 30-55 hectoliters per hectare.
This Macon-Cruzille is 100% Gamay from vineyards spread across 3 hectares, fermented in older oak with wild yeast and very little sulfur. Most of the wines here are bottled without fining or filtration. These are graceful, expressive, mineral driven wines. We're happy to have this one (and a couple others) on our shelves again.


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The Guardian's article on the best science fiction book: The Stars of Modern SF Pick The Best Science Fiction Book.
Definitely interesting, as they've picked a lot of classic science fiction: Alfred Bester, Frank Herbert, Ursula K. Le Guin, etc. Also neat is the authors they have doing the picking: Margaret Atwood and others. If you like Science Fiction novels, this might be well worth checking out to see if there's something there you haven't read. I know I'm going to be taking a closer look!
This link found thanks to Twitter.


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ORIGINAL: SmartPlanet
|The 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill from space. (ESA)
|Milan at night, January 2011. (ESA/NASA)
|The Lake Eyre Basin in central Australia is about the size of France, Germany and Italy combined. (ESA)
|The Imperial Valley in Southern California has 3,100 miles of irrigation canals and 494,000 acres of agricultural land. Its leading crops include vegetables, wheat, alfalfa and livestock. (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, ESA)
|The snow-sprinkled Himalayan Mountains between the peaks of the Tibetan Plateau (top) in Central Asia and the plains of Nepal, Bhutan and India in the Indian subcontinent. This false-color image shows lush, green vegetation as bright red. (ESA)
A gecko-shaped body of water formed by the Bratsk Reservoir in southeastern Siberia. The reservoir was created in the 1960s when the Angara River was dammed to provide hydroelectric power. (ESA)
The shallow blue waters around the Bahamas and their surrounding coral reefs as seen from 500 miles out in space. At top left is the southern tip of Florida and at the bottom is Cuba. Between them is the Cay Sal bank, appearing as a small area of light blue water. (ESA)
The Gedo region in southwest Somalia, 250 miles west of Mogadishu and 500 miles north of Nairobi. (JAXA, ESA)
|These clockwise and counterclockwise 'Von Karman vortices' south of the Canary Islands off the northwest coast of Africa were created as wind blowing from the north over the Atlantic was disturbed by the archipelago. (ESA)
|One of the ever-shifting Aurora Australis displays visible near the South Pole. These colored ribbons, curtains, rays and spots are created when charged particles from the sun interact with Earth's magnetic field. (NASA)


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I am constantly amazed at the POWER of the Holy Spirit [and there is an in depth study right there for you all !! -- the Holy Spirit !]. The good Pastor Sully kindly drove my dirt bike to the Cycle shop outside of town at 0900 today, as I am still very sore from the injury, [ and a few bumps and bruises] and he knew some of the guys there! His son went to school with another guy's son, etc. Pastor Sullivan is so active in this area that he just knows so much about so many people !! I am still new here-- as of 2 years ago. So, I got a lot to learn. Anyway, I learned a lot today and also met a nice fellow who 'just happened to be' a fellow Christian, who was Bible smart, and he intends to see me after work. I am going to give him one of my GIANT Print KJV Bibles. He is a sales person at the bike store, and I was looking at some nice, beautiful bikes there today. But I still don't know if my legs are strong enough to manage a big heavy bike, yet. I will pray more on this subject, and search my heart.... but Terri is very afraid that I will get killed on a motorcycle.... and I can understand that now. I was looking at the Honda Shadow, very low to the ground, and not comfortable for me, as I need to loose 100 pound to fit on that bike. The other was a Kawasaki 2-cyclinder Vulcan, 900 cc's bike. I will have to see what they will give me for my old Kaw 650 trade in, and if it don't work for me, I will take that bike back and/ or maybe sell it myself. The problem is, partially, that I am disabled , and need to lose weight and also STRENGTHEN MY LEGS to be able to control the bike better. I won't lose , what ever comes down the pike. Pray for Wisdom. Holy Spirit, guide me right. In Jesus' name, Amen.
In the mean time, my upper respiratory system, is clogged up with mucus lined lungs, are plugged up so that I have so much stress in just breathing, and every night scars me, because of this challenge.... to the point where I just might check myself into the VA hospital in IM [Iron Mtn., MI.]. I might also fast from eating food, except a little bit to buffer the harsh meds that the VA gives me for every thing in the book... lol. But I will see the VA people on Thursday, and explain all my problems. They usually treat me fairly good U.P. here in Iron Mtn. VAMC. Milwaukee is a whole different story..... puke.
Actually, I THOUGHT I took good care of my body all my life, but my work load was so hard and dangerous, welding in high places, when I was laid off for 5 long years on the street, plus all those years working on the AMC/ Chrysler assembly line with very foul air, oils, mists, and industrial by=products, which I did not care for, but forced myself to overcome many fears and phobias---- talking about high places, and the danger of falling, etc.. Go figure: Standing on a ladder constantly welding, while holding on by your 'toenails' so you don't fall... but every time you drop your welding helmet, [your "hood" ] --- you are immediately IN THE DARK !!! duh... Ha!
I became a spot welder when I got hired at AMC, on 11-7- 72, and EVERY man knows his seniority date !! Because it allows a person to bid on another, better job in the huge plant, and also toward your retirement, after 30 years of long, hard, bone busting service, and then [after I had Chrysler "bought us out" but our company told us the lie that it was a simple merger...lol. I can hardly tolerate a LIE ! And believe me, it is never for the good of the men and woman who work their butts off for "The Man" Some of the working condition in the large shop where over 6000 people in Kenosha, WI., worked were sub human, at best ! But they paid a fair wage and great benefits... PTL. So many people are jealous of my pension, but they would/ could NEVER do the work or put up with the BS day after day. And our collective families didn't really know or care what we did to earn our paycheck, never getting a chance to be in the factory. The real kick in the gut was when all 6000 people [with a small remnant left behind to sort things out and rebuild the factory and assembly lines gain] went through a living hell getting laid off at middle age, 40's- 50's, and not many people or companies wanted to hire us. But I chose [along with the smart people] to go back to college and "re-train"-- so I picked welding, and I learn so much about all the different kinds and methods of welding, so that we graduated as "Combination Welders" with Blue Print reading, Math, English, etc., and it really boosted our esteem that was before, dragging in the mud up until then. But that just barely got our feet in the door! Starting all over again in a new, strange shop, we all had to 'earn our spurs again.'
And about my greedy wife, Karen, our 22 years of marriage broke up, as she later said: 'Because I decided to sell our nice house in the suburbs-- to stay afloat, which I think was a mistake, but we were all panic stricken at that time when the economy sank so low in the early 90's.... but she just picked up and left me. I mean her no harm nor malice, and we get along, for the sake of the kids. She is an un-believer, and told me that she doesn't even believe in Jesus..... but for all concerned, I hope that she finds the Lord, before it is too late. Five or Six years latter, Chrysler calls me back, and I am in the money again [smile], and I worked until I had over 30.5 years in, and decided to retire at age 54, in 2002, but Karen, at this point in her life, wasn't doing so well. She never remarried, but just shacked up with a series of other men, many who drank to excess, smoked and were turkeys... to put it mildly. And I am thinking, she left ME for the likes of them ???? Ha! They were mere shadows of what I used to be !! I guess she got into that Wimmins Lib crap, and wanted her "Freedom." Oh well... We all make our beds -- and then have to sleep in them. I have made MANY mistakes thru my life, but dealt with the hand of cards that I got... and lived to tell about it. The One, Big, crowning jewel that I did find when I was at the end of my rope , in a cockroach infested, flop [one room bed room, with a common/ community wash room] house in the cold, assed Winter of '94-'95, was that I got down on my knees by my simple, busted down bed and prayed to the Lord and God of Heaven, Jehovah, YHWH, of the KJV Bible, to forgive me, and steer me to the real church where His Word was being taught, and accepted Jesus as my Savior. After that, things started getting better for me. I DID FIND A FEW GOOD BIBLE TEACHING CHURCHES AND JOINED THEM.
Now..... I am not the perfect man, and still have a bunch of personality flaws [ask my wife], but I know that the Bible tells me that I am "SAVED" and going to heaven ! ! ! I surround myself with Christians of like Faith, and same mindset, and am happy to still be alive and in a warm house with a good lady.
Warm Regards,
Thomas G. Schuckman
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Clarke and Dawe: making friends with Kevin Rudd
28/06/2007 - Clarke and Dawe on Kevin Rudd's efforts to win friends and influence people.
Video: Real Media (hi) | Real Media (lo) | Windows Media (hi) | Windows Media (lo)
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Clarke and Dawe chat with the PM
21/06/2007 - John Clarke and Bryan Dawe engage in a little social chat with the Prime Minister.
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Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending the Toronto Wine & Cheese Show at the International Center in Mississauga, sponsored by Metro and the Toronto Star. I was able to do this courtesy of Food Buzz. The show is billed as an event not only for wine & cheese lovers but chock full of gourmet foods as well. It was the cheese and gourmet foods that really made me want to attend the show. I love wines, but am admittedly far from an expert. It was great to try some new wines, some of which I've even bought since the show, but I was really hoping to use my time at the show to get some inspiration for some new recipes and write about some of my fabulous gourmet food finds. While my friend and I tasted a chickpea curry from a new family run business, Gourmantra ( a company that found a way to get their family recipe into an easy kit), had some fresh P.E.I. Malpeque Oysters and bought some tasty sausages for our boys at home, this Wine & Cheese show was much more about the wine than cheese or anything else. It was a bit disappointing, since I was craving some good cheese and to learn something during my time spent at the show. Luckily there was one cheese centered seminar, sponsored by the Dairy Farmer of Canada. The class promised to educate us on tasting cheese and how to put together a cheese tasting on our own. Exactly what I was looking for!
About 40 minutes before the demonstration was set to begin, there was already a line forming outside of the demo area, so my friend and I did another circle of the hall and got a bit more wine to have during the demo and got into the line-up. We ended up right in the second row of tables which was perfect to see and hear everything that our teacher, Anne-Marie Shubin, a teacher at the Cheese Education Guild in Toronto, said. The seminar started with a bit of Dairy Farmer's of Canada info. 2009 is their 75th anniversary and something that I never knew is that milk from Canada is one of the highest quality available. I liked this one because it means their cheese is of a higher quality. Definitely something that made me happy to be in Canada!
We then got into the meat of the seminar, Anne-Marie began by talking about the importance of keeping a cheese journal. A way to record the cheeses you've had and how much you liked or didn't like them. It could contain anything from a written description to a simple 1 to 10 rating system. I can't believe I never thought to do this before since the boy and I go to the cheese monger fairly regularly and while I love tasting the cheeses to pick the ones I like, it would be great to be able to go in and ask for the ones I know I've loved by name.
After reinforcing that cheese is always best served at or slightly below room temperature, Anne-Marie spent some time going of the order of cheese a service. You should start with the softer, more mellow and generally younger cheeses and gradually move through to the older, harder and more pungent cheeses. The only exception to this rule are the blue cheeses. They are a soft cheese that will almost always end a cheese service. Once you have your order of the cheese, for a true cheese service you should also have some very neutral crackers or baguette on hand to be used as a palate cleanser between cheeses. Then much like with wines, you should consider the appearance and smell of each cheese before tasting while also noticing how the taste compares to the smell.
We went on to try six different Canadian cheeses, all were excellent and I decided that rather than show and write about these cheese we had in the class that I would put together my own cheese tasting, putting to use all I learned from Anne-Marie. While the whole class was extremely informative and the best part of the entire day, the most interesting tidbit I took away from Anne-Marie was her suggesting to do a cheese tasting with beer or cider. This was something I had to try! I spoke with her after the class to find out which beers or ciders she suggests for a cheese tasting. She said the Du Minot sparkling cider or Strongbow cider and Hoegaarden for beer.
I walked away from the demonstration wanting to visit my local cheese monger picking out a few and setting up a little tasting for the boy and I at home. The boy and I met at The Art of Cheese, a cheese shop very close to our house that we had yet to try. We spent some time there tasting and carefully picking the cheeses for our own cheese tasting. And amazingly had the willpower to wait until the next night for our cheese adventure.
When we sat down of our tasting. I made sure we had some baguette as well as a nice cold Hoegaarden to try. Our first cheese was a Grey Owl goat cheese from Quebec. The rind has that interesting grey color because it's rolled in olive tree ash. Appearance wise, this cheese is nice and gooey near the rind and more chalky towards the center, something that denotes a younger cheese. It smells a bit like a goat cheese would, but not nearly as pungent. On tasting it, it tasted very fresh and milky, a symptom of it being a younger cheese. Overall it was very enjoy and went so well with the beer. I was fan. After some baguette, we moved onto the Le Migneron de Charlevoix an cow's milk cheese also out of Quebec, it is a nice semi firm cheese, with a complex aroma and a creamy, nutty taste. I could imagine making a grilled cheese with this one.
Our next cheese was also from Charlevoix but was the Hercule, an Oka-style raw cow's milk cheese, The one was more firm than the Migneron, but in retrospect should have been tasted first, as the Hercule was much more mellow in flavor than the Migneron. Thus far it was my least favorite cheese. Next up was a 3-year old organic cow's milk cheddar. When we tasted this at the cheese shop the boy asked for extra, he loved it so much and have to say trying it again during our tasting I am inclined to agree. The is a solid sharp cheddar, it's nice and firm, with a fabulously pungent smell and just the right amount of sharpness. It also paired perfectly with the slight sweetness of the Hoegaarden.
While we could have left it with the fabulous cheddar, both the boy and I are fans of blue cheese. When we were at the cheese shop we chose the Roaring Forties Blue Cheese, out of Australia. It was the only non-Canadian cheese we chose and while I had intended to get only Canadian cheeses in honer of the Dairy Farmers seminar I was inspired by, this one was too tasty to pass up. The beautiful yellow color comes from the Jersey cows milk that is used. I found this blue interesting because while it is definitely pungent in smell, it was much less in your face than the blue's I generally gravitate towards. On tasting it just melts in your mouth this delicious rich taste with a slightly sweet and nutty flavor. It just stays with you, with the most pleasant aftertaste. Even this one worked with the beer! This cheese is getting a 10 in my cheese journal, I love it.
So there you have it, what I learned at the Toronto Wine & Cheese show, while I tried a ton of wines and tasted some yummy treats, the Cheese seminar is what made it all worthwhile. I will very soon be hosting a beer and cheese party for some of our friends and family and promise to share the outcome. Enjoy!


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All donations support our Audiology, Speech-Language and School Screening program clients. These St. Louisans of all ages might have gone without a hearing aid, without speech therapy to correct a disorder, or without a simple-- yet important-- hearing/vision screening, potentially leading to frustration, anxiety, a learning disorder, depression… if it wasn't for you. You stepped up and made a donation to help these neighbors with their communication disorders!
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Next up, Heidi and two-toned Jen are shopping on Robertson, which is weird because two-toned Jen is supposed to be Lauren's friend. Huh. Two two-toned Jen is kissing so much Heidi ass, her face is even browner than usual. As the girls are shopping, two-toned Jen asks Heidi if she thinks Lauren will be mad if she hangs out with her and Spencer. Heidi tells two-toned Jen that in no uncertain terms Lauren does not control her life and two-toned Jen is like, "oh yeah, yeah, Heidi, Lauren does not control my life! I control my life!" Then she's like, "oh can we please go out on a double date?" and the bitch ass has the nerve to ask Heidi to fix her up with Brody Jenner! Lets not forget that Lauren had been seeing camera whore Brody off and on. Two-toned Jen is such a freakin' Lauren wanna be, she makes me ill. She then feigns concern that Lauren might be upset with her about the situation and ultimately decides that hooking up with Brody is more important than her friendship with Lauren.
Over at Teen Vogue, Lauren and Whitney are chatting and Lauren announces that it's two-toned Jen's 21st birthday. Lauren says she is so excited to celebrate it because they have been best friends since the 3rd grade. Okay, hold up. Who ever knew these two were best friends? I thought Lo was her BFF during the Laguna Beach years and then came along ding-bat Heidi? Oh well, so much for that BFF cuz two-toned Jen is already trying to dopplegang Lauren and steal her man! Lauren mentions that they are all going out to dinner and sticks her tongue out with disgust when mentioning that two-toned Jen invited Spencer. She then adds, "the only thing good about when Spencer goes is that he brings Brody." Uh oh.
UGH. Next cap-toothed Spencer and Brody are driving along in Brody's car as Spencer is talking about "Star Tours." Last week, reader lvgurl pointed out that Spencer sounded like a "poor man's Matthew McConnaughey" You nailed it lvgurl, but I passed your message on to Matthew and he was extremely offended at the comparison. Anyway, after Spencer says how he thinks he would have an excellent career doing Star Maps (don't give up the dream buddy, your time may come soon), he mentions to Brody how every time he sees a cute girl his brain automatically goes to hit on her, but he then has to hit himself in the head to remind himself he has a girlfriend. What a douche. Then Spencer starts telling Brody since he has a bitch, Brody must now find a bitch so they can double date. Spencer then mentions two-toned Jen's birthday party and Brody says how much he likes her and thinks she is a "cutie pie." I'm sorry, but who the hellz has he been looking at? Spencer tells Brody that he should "mack two-toned Jen" and then makes some weird comment like, "that's how you gotta get in the back door." Huh?! And with that, the boys drive off with a chuckle.
That night, all the girls hit the town for two-toned Jen's 21st birthday dinner at Geisha House. Lauren makes a lovely toast for the birthday girl where she says all these nice things about TTJ (sorry I'm tired of writing the whole thing out) being one of her oldest friends in the world, someone who has always been there for her and also thanks her for a decade of friendship. TTJ of course has to try and top Lauren with her stupid little comments she has been torturing us with since her occasional appearances on Laguna Beach and adds, "No, see, there is friends and then there is best friends, such a different thing." Uh, yeah, thanks for the words of wisdom TTJ. Then Lauren and Heidi give her their birthday present which is a silver bracelet with a diamond martini glass charm. TTJ cannot believe that Lauren gave her real diamonds and Lauren's like "Um, hello ... I'm not going to give you fake diamonds on your birthday!" TTJ, who in addition to trying to steal her "best friends" crush, cannot seem to grasp this concept because she obviously does all her birthday gift shopping at Charlotte Russe. After that, the girls exchange love and hugs all around. Lauren then mentions how excited she is to go to Les Deux later and that she feels like it's going to be a good night. TTJ, being the sneaky, slimy, snake who was just given a bracelet with diamonds, leans over and asks Heidi if Brody is going to be at Les Deux. When she finds out that Brody will be at Les Deux, TTJ cannot hide her glee and says to Heidi, "Too bad he hooked up with my best friend, but oh well!" As this is going on, it's unclear if Lauren can hear what they are talking about or is just innocently staring into space while her 'best friends' are stabbing her in the back. Heidi and TTJ decide to run to the bathroom and as the two of them are in a stall probably doing coke, Heidi tells TTJ, "He loves you, loves you, loves you! He wants macking asap!" TTJ then says something like, "oh my god. really, like when? like last week? like a long, long, time ago? oh my god, can I blow him too?" Okay, maybe I embellished that last line, but you know she was thinking that. After that whole nonsense, the two of them cheer together and have a round of "happy freakin' birthday!" chants in the bathroom stall. Bitches.
It's off to Les Deux and all it is is a bunch of hollering and Heidi's loud mouth screaming "Happy Birthday Jen!" and crap like that inside the club. Brody is hanging out with everyone and TTJ starts snuggling up with him for pictures. Spencer is like, "yeah, dude! that picture is going up on MySpace!" What a freakin' tool. Then this really weird moment happens when TTJ starts to worry about her "potential" hook up with Brody and starts telling him how she is worried Lauren will be mad at her. Brody doesn't understand what TTJ is talking about and when he asks her to explain what she means, TTJ, assuming way to much in my opinion, says, "you." At that point, Brody seems to realize he is talking to a crazy chick and gets up to walk away saying, "that is drama I don't want to deal with." TTJ starts yelling after him, "It's not drama! It's not drama!!!" Ha, ha TTJ. Later that night after more annoying birthday commotion, TTJ ends up next to Brody, Spencer and Heidi. TTJ suddenly blurts out, "let's go to Brody's condo! weee!" The four of them take off from the party without saying goodbye to Lauren. The saddest part of it is that all this happened while Lauren was looking for TTJ and telling Audrina she couldn't leave the club without her. TTJ on the otherhand was probably just worried about how quickly she could get Brody's pants off.
The next day over at Teen Vogue, Lauren and Whitney have the daunting task of arranging flowers on a table. As Lauren is trying her best not to have flashbacks of intern Emily Perfect, she tells Whitney how TTJ called her up the night before and asked her if she would mind if she hooked up with Brody. At the near mention of this, Whitney was completely shocked by the audacity of TTJ and of course, supported Lauren. Lauren said that TTJ tried to blame her wanting to hook up with Brody on Spencer pushing for them to hook up. Huh, so much for TTJ controlling her own life. Lauren wonders out loud if it is really worth "screwing over a friend" for "that guy." No Lauren, but TTJ is still a bitch and you should dump her.
The next day, Audrina is at work and she is blabbing all the TTJ/Brody/Lauren gossip to some intern who will probably go out and sell the story to The Enquirer. Audrina lets it be known that TTJ and Brody did hook up and both girls agree that Heidi and Jen are both shitty friends. Audrina thinks that Spencer is brainwashing everyone and can't believe how royally f&*k'd-over Lauren is getting by her supposed "best friends." Lauren is still at Teen Vogue and as she continues to complain to Whitney about her crappy friends, TTJ calls her! TTJ must have been on the other end of the line blabbing more of her stupid excuses and Lauren tells her, "TTJ, you and Heidi both act like you did nothing wrong. You did a really cut-throat thing and so did Heidi, so you both need to stop putting it on each other and stop make it seem like I'm making drama. I would expect it from someone I didn't know, but not my oldest friend." Booyah! She then tells TTJ it's really cold to take Lauren's used up meat and to stop making excuses and that she should just say she made a mistake and apologize. At this point, I am so glad we don't have to hear TTJ's annoying voice on the other end of the phone because whatever she said pissed Lauren the hell off and she says sarcastically, "You sounded super sorry. Seriously TTJ! Don't be at my apartment when I get home!" Lauren then makes a little grunting sound as she throws her blackberry on the floor. When TTJ tries to call her back, Lauren refuses to answer the phone.
Later at the Hillside Villas, Lauren is on her laptop probably reading a Tabloid Whore recap of The Hills when Heidi walks in. Right off the bat, Heidi starts trying to defend herself and lies through her teeth telling Lauren she had nothing to do with TTJ and Brody hooking up. Lauren tells Heidi that if things continue the way they have been, she doesn't want to live there anymore and they can't be friends. As the girls argue back and forth, they both agree that something has to change if they want to save their friendship. Lauren tells Heidi that she has basically become a brainwashed, pathetic, used up puppy dog since she started dating Spencer. When Heidi starts to defend him, Lauren is infuriated and starts yelling about the stuff he pulled trying to hook up Brody and Jen. She then slams down her phone and yells, "HE IS A SUCKY PERSON! HE'S A SUCKY PERSON!!" Heidi is not please that Lauren is telling the world her boyfriend sucks and as she tries to hush her, Lauren continues, "I HATE Spencer, I am never going to like Spencer! He did a really messed up thing last night! I know that he pushed and Jen Brody together!" Lauren is besides herself at this point and just can't deal with these crappy friends anymore. With tears rolling down her face, Lauren tells Heidi how she hasn't felt so betrayed by two best friends in forever and their friendship will never be the same until Heidi and Spencer break-up. AMEN.


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I don't really understand the fuss over the significance of some forms of burial. I like cultures such in Asia where dead bodies are fed to vultures, or our practices of cremation with the ash given over to the wind or the water. With these kinds of philosophical underpinnings I am amazed at what some Germans are planning: to build the largest ever pyramid, designated to become the (probably) largest ever cemetery.
Called the 'Grosse Pyramide' and to be built in Dessau, Germany, it will be ten times bigger than the Great Pyramid of Egypt. Members of the public can apply to be buried in the gigantic tomb via the project's website. The backers say it will take thirty years to build, and will be 578m tall when completed.
Co-creator Jens Thiel said: "Our current estimates are that a burial space in a concrete block will cost up to €700 (A$1150), depending on the size. Outlasting physical existence was reserved for the select few in Egypt, but this pyramid will be open to everyone. No one should be denied a place just because they can't afford it."
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In 1979, when I was only 16, my dad passed away from undiagnosed arteriosclerosis. Cholesterol testing was not the norm back then and death was often the first sign that you had any blockage whatsoever. He smoked, loved peanut butter on his sandwich and did very little in the way of exercise (it wasn't promoted in the way that it is these days).
In the last thirty years, things have changed so much that few people I know don't know what cholesterol is, or haven't been tested to know what their numbers are, yet we have still got people with heart disease and it is a growing concern even with today's youth.
We are in need of good testing, dietary changes, and doctors who actually care.
My husband, Wayne who is tested regularly, has been told for the last six years by our G.P. that he needs to go on a blood pressure medication, and cholesterol lowering drug, a statin because Wayne had a 242 cholesterol number and basically he was going to have a heart attack, or a stroke if he didn't.
The doctor has also stated that he does not have to exercise.
He is busy at work, so no need for it, just take the pills and all will be better. (This makes me crazy by the way, as I am always trying to get Wayne to go for walks, bike rides, or whatever will get him moving.)
Prescription medications are not something Wayne wants to take, so I decided to do some research on what else can be done. My dad never had an option.
The first thing I looked at was dietary, my husband likes meat, he was a meat and potatoes guy and assured me that wasn't going to change. If I couldn't take it out, what could be added into the diet to make a difference?
I have made his breakfast, lunch, dinner and packed the snacks for him for thirty years, I was fairly confident that I could add things in.
Juicing! I was able to find several recipes that said they helped with blood pressure so what the heck?
We bought a juicer, beets, celery, carrots and apples. The flavor was something that was a bit different, but my husband was willing to drink it, if it meant no meds. I am pleased to say that for him, the juicing does the trick and his blood pressure has dropped to acceptable numbers where he doesn't need to use the medication. We have expanded our variety of vegetables that we juice, kale is a big favorite around here, and juicing has become so important to our daily routine for both of us that we even purchased a smaller juicer that we take when we travel.
As a side note, the G.P. was not happy about Wayne not taking the medication any longer.
Now for the cholesterol.
We were challenged to "Go home and research it" by the G.P.
What I found was that there were two different kinds of the "Bad Cholesterol ". For simpler terms the skinny sticky and the fat and fluffy. Basically the fat and fluffy are not great but basically bounce around your bloodstream and are flushed out of your system. The skinny and sticky are the bad lipids that lay down like grout and stick to the arteries causing plaque buildup. The skinny and sticky can cause blockage as well as often times break off and go to your arteries causing strokes or complete blood blockage. I also found a few tests, such as the C-Reactive Protein Test that can check to see if there is cardio vascular inflammation around your heart or if there could be plaque buildup in your arteries, The NMR LipoProfile cholesterol particle size test, and the EndoPat non invasive test which evaluates blood vessel health.
I also found that most doctors won't order these tests and the tests may or not be covered by insurance.
In order to get these tests done we scheduled an appointment with Dr. J. a Naturopath.
After evaluating a food log and lifestyle report, along with the blood tests, she said "You need to exercise". FINALLY, someone who had the patient's best interest at heart!
- This is key, With Wayne exercising, or moving as he likes to call it, more fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds added to the diet, no grains, wheat, or flour products, and less meat ( grass fed organic only) we are seeing a change.**
There are supplements like Red Rice Yeast that Wayne must take which is actually the original natural plant form of what statins are made from, yet because they are natural and all plant based he is much happier with this decision.
Weight loss, better sleep, and more activity have all been great side effects of this lifestyle change as well.
Wayne has blood tests scheduled this week to see where we are at, but everything indicates we are moving in the right direction.
My dad didn't get the chance that Wayne has been afforded, and I don't know if he had, would it have been something my dad would have been willing to do.
What I do know is food is the cure, what we choose to put in our mouths now, can either nourish us or possibly hurt us later. Our bodies are amazing creations and function optimally when we feed it the best fuel possible which is of course non processed natural beautiful foods. Would you put cheap gas in a Rolls Royce? Why then do we deserve any less than the best?
** This is the original text that was submitted for publication before I rewrote it to become "5 Tips To Combat Heart Disease and Stroke"**


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Friday, February 1, 2013
Buying Twitter Followers? Ridiculous!
Having a large online following allows for someone to get their message across to more people. Many people would like to have this type of power...but it takes a lot of time and effort....or does it? This is where I find buying Twitter followers to be unethical and ridiculous. Gathering followers shows that someone is either relatable, entertaining, or has some type of unique social standing. Buying Twitter followers is a very illegitimate way of gaining attention...that doesn't even PAY attention! Followers are supposed to be people who are genuinely interesting in hearing what you say. Buying Twitter followers does not allow for this, because the motive of the followers is not to listen to the user.
Buying Twitter followers is unethical, and, as they say, "quality over quantity!"
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In the past, various departments have used feature films/videos in
unexpected ways.
The some Nursing program instructors have used features to help the
student nurses understand management crisis.
The Secretarial Science program (now Administrative and Information
Management) used features to help the students observe team work in
action. One feature they used was "Twelve o'clock high."
The Business program instructors show features to get across team work
in action and group behavior. Group behavior was high-lighted by using
"Twelve angry men."
The various tools you have mentioned could help faculty in selecting
features that stress points they wish to illustrate in their teachings.
Debra Jo Sujka
Opinions expressed are strictly my own.
> Andrea Slonosky wrote:
> So the questions are: in your respected opinions, are these titles
> different from each other? Are they all necessary? If not, which
> one(s) would you prefer to have handy all the time? Personally, I like
> Halliwell for the pithy reviews, Maltin for the volume and Videohound
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If I said something was quick and easy before… this is far beyond even those descriptors. Overview: buy some stuff at Trader Joe's, do a little slicing, a little searing, and then assemble a really tasty meal. Pack away the leftovers and you'll have a really tasty lunch. Your time commitment is minimal.
Beef Fajitas for Four:
Trader Joe's Carne Asada package, which is already sliced, just needs to be cut into manageable pieces
3-4 bell peppers, mixed colors, cut into strips
1 large yellow onion, sliced thick or thin
sour cream
chopped jalapeno (optional)
tortillas – the mixed corn/wheat ones are my favorite so far
Preheat a cast iron pan on the stove. Meanwhile, slice up your peppers and onions. Add a little bit of oil to the pan, then the onion and bell pepper (and jalapeño). Cook until soft and a little charred, then set aside to keep warm. In the same pan, add your carne asada pieces. Don't crowd the pan – you may have to do two batches. I cook the meat until browned on the outside, red on the inside, so you may want to cook it a little longer. While the meat cooks, I like to warm up my tortillas in a separate frying pan on low heat. Once the meat is cooked to your liking, pile a little bit of everything with some sour cream into a tortilla and enjoy!
For my lunch the next day, I packed Greek yogurt in lieu of sour cream and popped tortilla halves into the toaster to warm them up. It was the kind of lunch that had me planning fajitas once a week for a while. By the way, the Trader Joe's is within walking distance of my house, which is why every ingredient in this quickie meal can be purchased there.


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Extra Innings!Extra Innings!
Progress is reportedly being made in the talks to end the 19-day old Broadway stagehands strike. Negotiations between The League of American Theatres and Producers and Local One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (I.A.T.S.E.) continue at the law offices of Proskauer Rose, the firm representing The League.
Optimism is running high, even as Local One spokesperson Bruce Cohen can't seem to dispense with the baseball metaphors. New York Post's Michael Riedel, Dan Kadison and Andy Geller quote the union rep who says:
We're in extra innings. We don't have to turn the lights off.Shows impacted by the strike are obviously not going on.The League issued a statement today:
As you know, the talks between the League and Local One resumed this morning and are ongoing. Due to the complexities of getting a show up and re-running, Wednesday evening's performances for the affected shows have been canceled, regardless of the outcome of the negotiations. We will keep you updated.According to Riedel and Co., the only issue that remains to be hammered out is the wage issue.
For its part, Local One has issued the following statement taking umbrage with Michael Riedel's earlier column from today that they considered incendiary:
Dear Brothers and Sisters,For those keeping "Score," it would be nice to know what exactly in that column set him off.
Please be advised that the article that appears in the New York Post today, Wednesday, November 28, under the byline of Mr. Michael Riedel is completely false, inaccurate, and incorrect. Please disregard the information contained in his column.
The Local One negotiating committee is meeting today at 10 AM as previously announced.
In Solidarity,
Robert C. Score
Recording-Corresponding Secretary
This is Steve On Broadway (SOB).
Labels: Broadway, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, League of American Theatres and Producers, Local One, Lockout, Stagehands, Strike


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The issue of the views of creation, while certainly academic, is not merely academic. Behind the various views lie major ramifications for faith and life. Here I would like to deal with the issue of history.
The Genesis accounts and the whole section normally termed "primeval history" (Gen. 1-11) are dealt with in various ways by advocates of the various creation theories. Key among many who deny 6-24 creation is relegating the creation account to some form of poetry or allegory. The best one could do was to affirm its overall historicity without at the same time holding to the necessary historicity of its parts, which is what the Framework view does with the Genesis account.
The main reason why creation is so important is because of what it does to history. If the Genesis accounts are fully historical, then what that implies for history is that world history actually begins the way the Bible says it would. Conversely, if the Genesis accounts are not in some sense historical, then that would tend to lead towards the idea that world history and redemptive history are at best parallel tracks. If we embrace the idea of two parallel histories, which are not always separate but ontologically independent of each other, then it will create problems for the universality of the Christian faith and evangelism.
The issue here is very simple: For example, I am non-white Chinese. Christianity as it comes to us is a "white-man's religion." Furthermore, Christian missionaries were often flawed and sometimes partook of the sins of the Western imperial powers in the 19th century as they bullied China into submission. The question therefore is: Why should the Chinese embrace Christianity, a religion historically (and I would certainly say wrongly) associated with imperialism and oppression?
There are various reasons that can be offered for why Chinese (for our example) should be Christians. The flimsiest reason is that it works; it provides for one's subjective spiritual and/or material needs. The "God-shaped hole" in one's heart after all *just* needs to be filled. The problem with this is that emotions are unreliable, and while I do believe that there is some sort of "God-shaped hole," in the sense that Man is made for God, people do not necessarily know or feel what they actually need, as the happy atheist will testify. The one who bases his faith on feelings of spirituality is like the shallow soil. When the plant grows up and unfavorable conditions come (which can be more than just persecution and also include one's emotional states), the plant of the Gospel will die in his heart and he will certainly fall away.
The second reason given for embracing Christianity, despite its alien origins, is that it speaks to the sin condition that I see in myself. Correlative with that is the evidentialist apologetic methodology proving the existence of Jesus, His death and His resurrection. The reasons here are better as it focuses on Jesus and the Cross, and such is the focus of Evangelicalism as a whole. The main problem here is that the sin condition is in some sense subjective. It depends on the person being convicted of sin based upon a rather subjective Christian realization of sin. The second reason suffers from the similar problem of subjectivity, and gives Christianity the impression of a crutch for weaklings — only for those who feel their sin in the Christian way. Now of course, some sense of sin is unavoidable, but falling short of the ideal can be construed in other fashions as it is done in other religions like Buddhism, where "sin" is impersonal and can be outweighed by good works. And the proofs concerning Jesus and His death and resurrection, while powerful in their own right, can be twisted to support pantheistic notions of Christ and Man, something which was seen in early Gnostism and now in the New [Age] Spirituality.
The third reason for embracing Christianity is through an appeal to its intellectual prowess and consistency, or Christianity as a philosophy and worldview. Such would appeal to intellectuals and philosophers. With their sophisticated arguments, they are convinced that Christianity provides the best answers to the ultimate questions. Be they Alvin Plantinga or William Lane Craig, they are intellectually convinced of Christianity and its universality, arguing for Christian theism against unbelief. Now this has much more virtue than the previous two since it appeals to more objective issues, and the use of evidentialist claims about Jesus here are more objective because they are not left drifting but correlated to a bunch of other philosophical and theological arguments for the Christian faith. Yet, the weakness here comes from its strength, its intellectual rigor, as it almost made Christianity the religion of Christian intellectuals and philosophers, or at the very least split Christians into two camps: the uninitiated, and the intellectuals. Lastly, the methodology itself has a flaw in the following: What happens if one day some philosopher suddenly proves (at least for a time) that Christianity is not the best and most rational system? Are we rationalists that only follow Christ to the extent that Christianity makes sense to us?
If we hold to the parallel tracks of history, it is not much of a surprise if non-Christians see the other track as irrelevant to "normal life." From a non-Christian non-white point of view, the claims of Christianity are merely just that, claims. Even if true, they have no relation to him and his history. After all, in the prevailing secular metanarrative, life evolved from non-life, humans evolved from primeval apes, and cultures and civilization develop naturally. Eastern non-materialists could conceivably accept supernatural occurrences in the history of Israel for example, but what has that got to do with *MY* country and culture? The history of China goes back 4000 years, so why should we listen to the "white men" who were living in caves while we were building great cities?
That is why the whole issue of creation is so important, because it attacks the supposed autonomous histories of cultures, even those as ancient as China's (or Egypt's). Primeval history especially in the table of nations of Genesis 10 established the historical basis for all of Christianity's claims of universality. It is because there is a real objective historical basis for sin that sin is sin and deserves damnation. It matters not whether someone is happier after he has jettisoned his faith, for feelings often deceive. It matters not whether one feels sinful, it matters not whether one feels that Christianity is meeting his need, it matters not whether he feels a "God-sized hole" in his heart. All these don't matter! It is because Christianity is historically objectively true on the origins of Man, that it is objectively true regarding everything else it teaches. No one for example dispute the fact of gravity (except theoretically). In the same way, Christian history should be claiming that level of truth.
Only a proper grasp of the historicity of the Genesis account will avoid a parallel track system of two histories, and only that can solve the problem of the universal claim of Christianity (not its universal appeal). If one holds to some version of the dual system of histories, then why would anyone be interested in hearing just another "abstract theory," especially during the times when they feel self=fulfilled?
It is because of this that I find holding to 6-24 creation necessary. The other views, while held to sincerely, do not seem capable of adequately answering the problem of universality. Why should a particular faith be universally applicable? Experience, guilt, miraculous evidences of the 1st century AD, and rationality all bypass the history of other cultures and peoples, and thus cut redemptive history from other cultures and people God did not work with in the Bible..


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Every six months I am obligated to see a nurse at my local doctors. We reevaluate the plan of attack on my Generalised Anxiety Disorder and see what is working and what is not. I always love our little meetings. From day one she was supportive and shared her experiences with the mental illness and also self discovery.
When first meeting her I had a small awakening. It wasn't much, but she opened me up to being a little bit more accepting of my own nature. She was mindful and it inspired me to be the same.
After a few appointments she informed me that she could see I was a very sensitive person to the world around me. This was the ultimate epiphany. I was oblivious to the fact that I was so sensitive to not only my own thoughts and feelings, but to others and their thoughts and feelings, and when she explained this some things began to make sense.
I could understand now why arguments with friends and families took a very big toll on me, or why the mood of waitress would determine how I felt for the rest of the night. A smiling baby would bring about happy tears and an argument between friends in the street would make me mad.
I consume the universe around me and only now do I feel I am understanding this.
I'm not sure if this will aid in my determination to beat my anxiety but I know it will aid in finding myself. Discovering I was lost has shone a light. I guess you could call my anxiety a blessing… I've learnt so much about myself from it.
Before all of this, I would just do what is expected of me. Be intelligent, not too much intelligent, don't ask questions, do ask questions, go to school, go to University, know what you're going to do with your life, live a little, don't waste time; the list goes on. I still am, in a way, a follower but now I am not so naive. My mind is open even when my mouth is not. I am on this journey to mindfulness, to self discovery; I am a soul searcher!
The term soul searcher has really stuck with me since beginning to read Emma Mildon's incredibly enlightening book, The Soul Searchers Handbook: A Modern Girl's Guide to the New Age World.
Although only a quarter of the way into the book I've already discovered how much of an "enlightened" person I am. She explains how a lighted soul is someone that feels connected to the suffering but also the growth of other beings. I wish there was another word I could use here, but again, I've discovered that my sensitivity is due to my enlightenment.
I am so open to others and there ideas or suffering. I am accepting and now I know I am happy to be so. I always thought I was so dramatic to feel and be so affected by the world around me. People I know just ponder through life so untouched by the things they see, feel or hear from others. I didn't understand why and thought I was a drama queen.
Maybe a lot of other people need to "walk out of confinement" as Emma Mildon writes and it's not me who needs to move backwards, it's others who need to move forwards.
I feel this is the beginning of my spiritual journey, so I wish to share it all with you. Although I have other people and other experiences that have aided in my road to self discovery (a long one that I've just realised I was on and it has a lot of bumps), I thought to share these with you as it is the first thing that has really resonated with me.
Yes, I love Yoga. Yes, I love meditation and crystals and a bunch of things, but this simple connection between my mind and soul has been a real eye opener. Discovering my enlightenment has helped me get to know a huge part of myself.
So you're witnessing the beginning of Teigan's never ending soul searching road trip! Exciting, I hope you stick around.


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Friday, December 07, 2012
Famed Feminist Says Hollyweird Is Ruining Women
hollywoodreporter.com: It's staggering that 22-year-old Taylor Swift earned $57 million and Katy Perry $45 million. How is it possible that such monumental fortunes could be accumulated by performers whose songs have barely escaped the hackneyed teenybopper genre? But more important, what do the rise and triumph of Swift and Perry tell us about the current image of women in entertainment?
Despite the passage of time since second-wave feminism erupted in the late 1960s, we've somehow been thrown back to the demure girly-girl days of the white-bread 1950s. It feels positively nightmarish to survivors like me of that rigidly conformist and man-pleasing era, when girls had to be simple, peppy, cheerful and modest. Doris Day, Debbie Reynolds and Sandra Dee formed the national template -- that trinity of blond oppressors!
As if flashed forward by some terrifying time machine, there's Taylor Swift, America's latest sweetheart, beaming beatifically in all her winsome 1950s glory from the cover of Parade magazine in the Thanksgiving weekend newspapers. In TV interviews, Swift affects a "golly, gee whiz" persona of cultivated blandness and self-deprecation, which is completely at odds with her shrewd glam dress sense. Indeed, without her mannequin posturing at industry events, it's doubtful that Swift could have attained her high profile.
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does the covinous collusion of the currency printers, the [Talmudvision] "Media" [Hollywood] and the crackhouse called congress..
....all working for the same anti-truth &
ANTI-JUSTICE, perversion promoting psychopaths...
have anything to do with the destruction of the basic building block of a strong "Nation"....
impact the images promoted by the perverts who manufacture the "Role" models for "girls"....like madonna, britney spears ....
gag gag....
are sodomites really happy ?
who is it that hates truth as a religion ?
- Saturday, December 08, 2012 4:24:00 AM
last night on coast to coast john b wells said he wanted clyde as a guest. clyde is way more interesting than most hosts although I like john b wells.tell clyde to do his homework before accepting and pull no punches, this a huge opportunity to grab the fan base.clyde is fun and he has to portray that as a guest.and bring up fun topics. sincerely...redlion
- Sunday, December 09, 2012 5:41:00 AM
A few ideals of the 50s may be coming back in a superficial sense, but I cannot believe it goes much deeper than a shallow admiration for power psychology, fantasizing about watching your money grow in the bank and fetishisizing a work environment where boys all of the sudden had to compete with women. The Kinsey Reports kicked off what the baby boom of 45 had begun. That shift of a world view I suppose could account for so many selling out their nation on TV; So slowly no one who points it out aren't laughed down.
- Monday, December 10, 2012 7:50:00 AM


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Now onto the food.... This school term has been so busy meals have been quick, easy and warming...My goal for the following term is to meal plan, try new things, and save some money our groceries are getting out of hand.... Starting the new term with a weekly meal planning challenge, would love to start a link for people to join me in this..... (I have one week to get it all in order!) I will be blogging about food and money saved....sounds exciting hey!!! My life is a crazy exciting one!
This has been a weekly standby dinner at our house, and never does it taste the same or look the same! This is one of my favourite things to eat and cook... I know I can have this on the table in half hour, our bellies warm and full.
This is a standard for us, I change the ingredients depending what is seasonal and in the fridge...
500g organic chicken thighs
100g diced pancetta
diced red onion
2 garlic cloves
1 cup aborio rice
500ml good chicken stock
bunch of broccolini
dash of white wine
rind of half a lemon ( I use a micro plane)
olive oil
fry off olive oil, onion, garlic, and pancetta, just until the onion is see through not caramelised. add in the rice and lemon rind give pan a good stir. add the dash of wine... now I do NOT measure this I am normally ready for an after 5 glass so add a dash from the bottle. allow the alcohol to bubble off add the stock, and brocolini. Put on a tight fitting lid and place in an oven for 25 minutes.
Remove from the oven and add 3/4 cup of grated Parmesan.
seriously its GOOD!!! now I love to stand and stir a risotto but I just do not have the time so this method has become a standard. It works and even Donna Hay uses it...
My favourite bit is ONE PAN!!!! I hate washing up! so I love that for a family of five there are only 5 dishes to do!!! win win in my world! I will add varieties to this over time.
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Anyway, since girlcook's not here right now, she hasn't yet seen her Christmas gift in person: although we bought it in November, it was still hanging in a show when she left, and besides, it would have been a bit tough to fit in the bus and taxi to the lodge! We bought it for her because she really loves this painting, which we hung in our Vancouver apartment. It's called Totem, and it's by Leanne Brusatore, whose work you can see more of here.
Since Megan likes this painting so much, we thought she'd like another painting from Leanne's series exploring the crow. This one, especially, seems perfect for Meg who has been known to do a little shadow-boxing herself (the painting's titled Shadowboxing)
This is the same series, of course, that we also chose Bronwen and Adam's gift from. Their painting is called Refraction, and you can see it in the bottom row below, on the far left -- it's a marvel of almost watery greens with a feather suspended in the central bottom third. We've sent Megan a picture of hers, but I really want to be able to show it to her in person -- that's going to be a while, though, as she's got some serious travel plans lined up. Some days, I have a tough time with how far my little bird has flown, but I'm proud of how well she manages when she's out there and I look forward to hearing more about her adventures (apparently, she got to go up in the helicopter the other day!).
Meanwhile, crowds of these little guys -- Golden Crowned Kinglets -- have been cheering me up. Especially after a bout of wind and rain, they cluster on our mud roads, picking up seeds that have been knocked down, I suspect. They're quite tiny, fast-moving, and for me, getting close enough to really see that flash of gold that stripes their crown is a magical mood-lifter. So far, my favourite bird, plebian as this choice might be to birders, is the Red-Winged Blackbird, but I'd have to say the GC kinglet is coming up a close second -- and it has the advantage of providing welcome cheer in the dreariest part of winter. Won't bring my little girl home but does coax a smile. I'd love to catch a shot of one foraging on the dirt road, but meanwhile, thanks to Supercilium at Flickr here's a wee fellow in a tree.


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An article on business travel in the latest (October) issue of Business 2.0 thinks the Seattle Public Library is a cool place for meetings: "Seattle's stunning new Central Library has become a popular place for casual meetings. Go to www.spl.org to reserve a conference room, but if they're all booked up, the main lobby is also business-friendly."
Yep, that's cool. And the whole article (which features 7 US cities) is headed up by a photo of two biz-types in the library.
Monday, September 18, 2006
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I've been remarkably busy doing what seems to be not much, but it has been a very enjoyable break. Christmas was delightful, I spent Christmas Eve with my big sister at her house, Christmas Day with my family, and Boxing Day with Levi's family (who were kind enough to pick me up from the train halfway, which meant I could still spend the morning with my aunty & co who were over from interstate rather than taking a different train the whole two hours at 9am, so props to them) and then a nice break between Christmas and New Years with Mum and Dad. I even had a friend's 21st on New Years' Eve, which was amazingly fun, I've known her since pre-primary (so about fifteen years!) and I don't see her nearly enough any more.
Oh, and before that we had a big Christmas dinner for our volleyball team, which I fully intended to blog about but I caught a cold during the Christmas Pantomime and ended up sleeping through most of the dinner. After my team had won at charades. And after I had downed an egg nog much faster than anyone else, because the cold meant that I couldn't taste the rum in it.
I was also incredibly spoilt over Christmas, some food-related highlights:
A new kettle. I went from a stovetop kettle to a secondhand kettle and now THIS.
Also this necklace. I want to wear it everywhere.
And these books from Levi, which I would thoroughly recommend to absolutely anyone with even a passing interest in cooking.
I don't think I've mentioned how much I love Heston Blumenthal on my blog, but I think he is amazing and I am very glad Mum made me watch Heston's Feast with her one night (the Willy Wonka episode, which is still one of my favourites) because then it made sense that we had given someone the Fat Duck Cookbook as a birthday present (side note: my 21st is soon. Compleeeetely unrelated side note...). The Flavour Thesaurus is great because I'm never sure what to pair things with so I usually end up following recipes or sticking to safe combinations and now I have an entire reference book to choose food pairings from! :D
I feel like we're pretty caught up now. I hope you had a splendid break too. Your hair looks good today.


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Beyond that exhortation, I have a few more things to share today. The first is utterly irrelevant to Writerdom, but an enormous triumph to balcony-garden-kind, and of course, a giant step for Me as a flower-grower. And that is: I had my very first ever grown-from-seed Moonflower two days ago. And since then, I've had two more. In case you aren't familiar with this little climber, they look like this:
They are fragrant, they bloom at night and only at night--one night per bloom--and of course, they're lovely. And best of all, they're named after the moon. Now, I have a slight infatuation with the moon, so it should come as no surprise that I like this little flower. But what makes this such a triumph is the fact that this is the second year I've grown Moonflowers, and up until two days ago, I had never had a bloom before. Huzzah!
But enough about the moon. Let's move on to the gold. Today is the first-ever installment in the Chautauqua Gold Nuggets Series, and I'm going to share my notes from Patricia Lee Gauch's workshop on Tension. Dig in, and enjoy, Dear Reader!
- Many good pieces of writing are structured like the pulling of a rubber-band: two forces pulling against each other. In those first pages of your book, you really have to begin pulling the rubber-band, stretching the tension.
- You can also look at the book like a war, with two forces or sides. Typically, someone wants something, and something else stands in its way. This is where the war begins. And the other side might not be all bad; they might be closer and more complicated than you think.
- Every good book starts in a hole. The character is without something. Always start in a negative position. There needs to be something in your first chapter that makes us wonder, question, wonder what is going to happen.
- Your environment is important. Rhythm is so important to building conflict.
- There is always a time before an important scene. You have to set the scene… you have to build up to it. And you need the stuff in between (the maybe it will work out stuff) to build the tension inbetween. Is your character going to stand up and become what she can be?
- You are accumulating actions like beads on a string; the story picking up speed and conflict as it goes.
Some other good thoughts from Patti:
- You have to have the courage to feel throughout your book.
- Freshness and originality can exist even in the most common, overused places/scenes/ideas.
- Appreciate the power of a single sentence when it's the right sentence.
- Don't pussyfoot around with your story. What do you want to do with it? What do you want from it?


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The Big Read, an initiative by the National Endowment for the Arts, has estimated that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. How do you do?
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [not a single book!]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible [I don't think bits and pieces in Sunday school count, do they?]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [I couldn't finish it, too wordy]
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens [to my brother's chagrin I have not yet read this]
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [loved this as a kid but need to re-read to have an opinion now]
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [again, read when I was really young]
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [again, read so long ago I barely remember it]
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan [recently tried to read one of his other books and couldn't get into it and hated the movie so I doubt I will ever attempt the book]
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [another childhood book I barely remember reading]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola [in French, thank you very much!]
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince- Antoine De Saint-Exupery [partially read this in French]
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I have read 44 out of 100, very close to half! I should probably italicize everything I have not read but there is far too much Charles Dickens on the list for that. There are also quite a few books I have never heard of or which are written by authors I do not like (Dickens!). But I think this is a great reading guide.
Most recently, I have finished reading Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth, which I devoured. I loved every last word and was sad to shut the book at the end. It is a collection of short stories that are so beautifully written and very relatable no matter your cultural/religious/ethnic/social background. I think we can all relate, in some way, to being pulled in different directions by the family who raised us and societal norms around us.
Next up on my reading list, or at least what I just purchased on Amazon this week primarily influenced by my upcoming vacation:
- Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
- Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
- Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver
- The Middle Fork: A Guide, Curt Conley & Johnny Carrey
- River of No Return, Curt Conley & John Carrey


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Of recent I've become interested in transhumanism, the idea that humans will one day transition, through the use of technology. Many of them are technophiles in an extreme sense, but not all. I am not such a technophile, but neither do I wholly reject the possibilities provided by technology. I think that a transhmanist position is the only tenable position for views on technology, but I think it doubly important that we recognize the limitations and flaws our current technological program has.
As I have noted before, I do not see technology as an amoral force. I think that it is entirely possible to have immoral technologies, most weapons would fall in this category. I think that the majority of technologies that we do have are not necessarily moral, even those that seems to be on a cursory examination, such as medicines. I think it plausible to take this view on the grounds that many technologies are not liberatory, and by their nature tie people to the structure that creates them. Drugs used to treat diseases as opposed to cure them could be put in this category, not all them then necessarily, but at least some especially in the case of those that treat non-life threatening diseases.
There is a post over at Transhumanist Goodness on Moral Realism, Transhuman Goodness: Transhumanism and the need for realist ethics, that I generally disagree with. I reject the existence of objective moral facts altogether, and while I do accept that we might need to argue within a framework of moral realism to convince people of the Transhumanist project, we can't actually accept it as a moral framework. If the goal of the transhumanist project is to move past human capabilities then it seems that we must make a radical reevaluation of not only our physical and mental abilities, but also of our moral abilities. In fact, I would argue that we have already reached a point where we can have a true post-human, in theory if not in fact, based not on physical or mental changes but on philosophical and moral changes. I think that we can say that this is possible, though it is highly unlikely that there actually is a post-human existent.
I say it is possible because there exist possible environments, physical locations, for us to reside in where it would be possible to develop a post-human moral and philosophical outlook. This is not something that we can simply do, meaning I can't simply go somewhere and become post-human. In fact, anyone able to read and understand this is not able to undertake this task. But it is entirely possible that one could raise a child in such a way as to instill an understanding of the world that is based not on human understanding, but on a post-human philosophical and moral outlook.
There is a lot to unpack here and I'll do my best to do that in future posts, but this is a quick outline.
Friday, April 04, 2008
Posted by Coathangrrr at 8:37 AM
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- Brian said...
Hi Coathangrr. Trans humanism is something I'm new to. I can't see any reason why we shouldn't allow it. It seems a somewhat alien concept. But I'm sure IVF did when first mooted. I agree that technology can be put to immoral uses, but that's probably a side issue. I guess the question is when do I get my super-brain implant?
- Roko said...
"I reject the existence of objective moral facts altogether"
- why?
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325,000 Sign MoveOn Petition Objecting to Proposed HHS Rule
I and others have written quite a bit about the proposed HHS rule on abortion and physician conscience, so I won't rehash it all here. For background, check out these posts and the links therein, this post at OBOS, and RHRealityCheck's extensive coverage.
Today, the issue gained additional coverage as MoveOn and Planned Parenthood delivered to HHS more than 325,000 names of those who signed a petition objecting to the proposed rule. I don't know exactly how effective such a petition is, but I do find it impressive that so many names were gathered in less than a week. ABC News covered the story, and RHRealityCheck has a report from the event.
Prior to the petition, 57 healthcare organizations voiced their objections (including the AMA and ACOG) in a letter to HHS Secretary Leavitt, as have numerous members of congress.
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They have been officially proposed this afternoon…
see http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2008pres/08/20080821a.html which has a link on the bottom to the regs.


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The covenant discussions that are happening at Berean are such a good thing. People are digging in the word of God and reading and rereading passages. They are studying. They are looking for themselves and asking questions.
It is reminiscent of the people of Berea in Acts. This is a good thing. Anytime people are studying the Bible the end result will be a stronger church. Mature Spirit-filled people can read the Bible, discuss things and come to reasonable conclusions.
Some are saying we want a covenant that is only Biblical; others are saying we need only the Bible. These two groups can come together very easily if the covenant contains only those things that are Biblical. Then both sides should not have a problem. If the Bible-only person can see Biblical phrases, thoughts, and concepts throughout the covenant, then he or she will be able to support it because it is in fact a compilation of scriptures.
Some are asking: "why do we have to sign it?" You don't! What must happen is: It must be taught, presented, explained, followed, adhered to, lived by, displayed and understood. The point is not the signature; the point is that every member knows the covenant and is striving to live by it because it is Biblical and as a Spirit-filled, follower of Christ our goal is to live by the Bible. It is good for instruction, doctrine, correction and reproof.
I believe that people in leadership positions in the church should have no problems signing a covenant; the signature communicates that you as a director, supervisor, leader, teacher, deacon, pastor understand what is expected and will strive by the Grace of God to meet those expectations. Those expectations may be both Biblical and constitutional.
For example, it is expected that pastors preach with a tie around their necks on Sundays—that is not Biblical just a reasonable cultural expectation—nothing more.
More important expectations that are not defined in the Bible are articulated in the church constitution.


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X-Country Ski (-4 degrees) in Saranac Lake, NY with Sue.
Kagey and John sipping something tasty.
Snowshoe up Baker Mtn in Saranac Lake.
Post-neighborhood run euphoria.
Charlie Brown Xmas Tree courtesy of Grandma Parrish.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies. So good. So bad.
First time X-Country Skiing. Fell down 4 times.
Charlottesville Sunset.


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There is a Blog Sale!
There are 20 nailpolishes for sale.
These used to be my own, but I do not use them anymore so it is time to sell them.
Every nailpolish has a picture, a description how many times it is used and the price.
You can e-mail me if you are interested, but you can also add these nailpolishes to your order if you bought something in The Color Palette webshop.