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Three Poets
The Majestic Rollerink – Heather Cam
Heinemann, 1996.
Penelope's Knees – Joanne Burns
Laika's Run – Kerry Scuffins
Five Islands, 1995, $12.95
Padding alone round my inner apartment mid-morning, pale light and assorted city sounds ease in from the street as various exotic and eccentric characters that you would never get in the suburbs parade past the window for my amusement. I'd like to travel but my cat 'Jerome' slinks around my feet and the sun catches the shiny covers of three new books of poetry over there by the espresso machine that I've got to review. I sigh and light another cigarette…
Don't you just hate reviews that open like that? You know, 'the reviewer as real subject'. Bugger the books. I'll get to them later.
No, I'll get to them now. I called this 'travellers' in that often futile kind of attempt to make some links, to make some connections between these different voices. They are women who write about being a mother or not being a mother, about being daughters, who chronicle the funny and not so funny, the absurd and the simply sad from visits to the dentist to inner city angst. Have they got anything in common? They've all taught I think, Heather Cam and Joanne Burns have both, according to the blurbs, taught Creative Writing. And Kerry Scuffins? Well, if 'Mondayitis' is to be believed, she's done a turn in the classroom too.
But that's not it. Better to see them all perhaps as out there somewhere, setting determinedly on adventures, sometimes as doomed and as futile as Laika's run itself, sometimes remarkably rewarding. They're travellers; journeys figure prominently all round, pushing the boundaries back, looking for something, something that's rarely found but the search itself is necessary; 'Restlessness blew me here, / curiosity and a gambler's hunch, / a taste for risk, a touch of pioneer'. (Cam)
Joane Burns has been everywhere it seems and has eight previous books listed in her credits. penelope's knees is a remarkably full book, so much so that it seems squashed towards the end as even the type gets smaller to fit it all in. It's a book brimming with what I'd call prose poems and expansive, reflective commentary: talkative, generous and knowing. I was reminded at times of Les Murray's long overflowing lines though not his subjects. The long discursive lines suit the narrative based structures of some of the best poems like 'taxi' and 'photography'. The traveller is especially evident in the long title sequence that ends the book, 'penelope's knees: a travelogue'. In a kind of rambling post Odyssey, Penny who 'struggles, sways upwards', 'cranky in south india' and other places besides. Funnily enough, since I labelled all these poets 'travellers', Burn also has a healthy obsession with home in all its rented, leased and lived in variations, past dwellings and the life between the walls.
Burns' poems in this book are readable and prosey, funny, streetwise, alive and alert, did I mention that they're funny? Unsolemn. Un-in-awe of things. The 'liberalities' section with its poems on 'the library of wigs', of beds, laughs, t-shirts and dreams is typical of the way Burns constructs things in this book, playing with the ideas, letting them have their head, asking the 'what ifs' and letting the ideas unfold naturally, surprisingly, as 'the library of wigs':
the library of wigs has multiple copies of the same style of
wig, for example, the presleyian, moroeian warholian, the
thathcherian nixonian churchillian; the bart and marge
simpsonian the dollypartonican the eltonjohnesque.
people transport the wig of their choice home in its
transparent and locked protective case to enjoy its
eminence, for the generous one month loan period.
Burns' journeys are often such imaginary and whimsical odysseys, irreverent pastiches and exercises, my life as a penny has become my life as a $50 bill, but that's inflation for you. There are harder more concrete journeys too, unfulfilled moments like in her powerful poem 'photography', 'silently, sadly. on the verge of regret.' There is an almost world weary bitterness in the inner city of 'carnal knowledge' with its 'in the time it takes / a junkie to spew / in the gutter opposite' and its final lines, 'the cappuccino kids, sucking up / the froth rising high above / the rims of their cups like detergent / foam in a blocked drain'. I guess this is the 'urban anthropologist's gaze on the world' that the blurb talks about, but I would have thought that this book was generally more connected to its world than that image suggests.
Burns approach is inevitably going to produce an unven book and some of the poems from the 'ancient history' and especially the 'fiddlesticks' section are too fragmentary for my liking and even have the appearance of something of an exercise. The private jotting as poem has never really convinced me though I'm aware that, with the successful packaging and publication of various writers' 'journal's over the last few years, maybe I'm out of step on that one. I preferred the poems where Burn's honesty and courage came through, none better perhaps than in 'sleepwalking' a poem about loss and mourning that is confronting in its journal-like treatment of that most final of journeys, death.
Heather Cam's poems look more like poems, more episodic, with subjects and lines that stop before they hit the edge of the paper. She's Canadian originally, only been here twenty years for God's sake!, and I'm tempted to say that it's an international kind of accent we hear in this book. Cam tends to use italics often and for lots of reasons, as an alternative voice sometimes, or to add expression and emphasis. It's a travelled voice too, and a persona that's been around and seen a few things: lover, mother, divorcee. What do you call relationships now, she muses, 'Marriage sounds too frumpy for what we've got / but Affair's too temporary, sleazy and hot'. It's the voice of a traveller: train journeys in India, robbery in Java, starvation in Rwanda, skipping stone lessons on the edge of the North American prairies. It's a celebration of the international, the global village as in the multicultural image of her son's 'International Children's Party', 'at the powwow in the playground / of his school in Australia Street.' This poet's territory is everywhere
Cam writes with care and cool clarity. The poems don't rely on complex imagery but more often on the power of the simple event isolated from the life around it. Like all poets she is constantly looking to be surprised and she surprises us too.
This splash of the unexpected:
a black woman washing her feet
in a high white sink
in the Damen at Zurich Airport.
Her ten black toes
dramatic, emphatic trespassers
amidst all that spotless porcelain,
glinting chrome and daunting Swiss propriety.
Cam is concerned also with sexual politics and power; the kinds of things that go wrong and right with relationships: date rape, two-timing, divorce, 'The spartan single bed announces a sex-life on ice, / life's lived out of boxes, left on the shelf, pushed out of sight'. She seems alert to it all; on the lookout for the moments that define us or change us or break us. Small pleasures and the bruising pleasure of simply being alive. Life as 'majestic rollerrink', the 'whole marvellous machine'.
Kerry Scuffins is a rawer kind of book than Cams, a book almost in two sections; the first a strongly personal collection of poems about poetry, love, poems to unborn children and children waiting to be born, children that were and aren't now, the world is a dangerous places; 'Babies are dragged, squealing / blue into our world'. The poems of loss like 'Jack the Lad', 'Ashes to Ashes' and 'Melanie's Corner ' (1 & 2) are among the most powerful in the book. The second half of the book shifts perspective to poems of more public declaration and more public subjects, almost into performance mode at times. If I prefer the poems of the first half it's mainly a matter of personal preference.
Scuffin's book is personal and intense at times, draining. The list of literary antecedents is explicit and there are echoes of Ginsberg, Kerouac, Dransfield and Burroughs through the first half in particular. Death and loss and grieving are recurring themes but the book is never morbid; you must go on with the journey.
doomed all of us
who go too far too often
& friends sit up till dawn to remember and mourn
& write something down
to keep something around
Scuffin's poems are aware of the physical too, of the body, illness, sexuality. What darkens such awarenesses is the sense of desolation and futility and loneliness that permeates many of the best poems in this collection as in the end of the poem 'Land's End':
I come across two men digging a hole
they have no faces they are
burying the last horse
they arrange its legs
in attitudes of flight.
I liked Scuffin's book and the way it opens and closes with strong poems about journeys. The opening, 'Some distance past Kennett River', has a strong sense of place uncommon in these three books. Even in the finding of a new and secret place there are uncertainties and strange observers, 'a pale day moon / lurks in the corner of the sky like a scrap / of tattered lace.' The final poem, 'Laika's Journey', about the doomed dog in Sputnik 2 on its ultimate journey, sums up some of the bleakness of journeys that have no end: 'continued on to no destination / no new worlds / no salvation'.
Funnily, strangely appropriately, after all this, Joanne Burns ends Penelope's oddysey with a domestic image. It's been a long day and 'Penelope settles down in front of the tv evening news, clips her toenails onto the week's program, lift out, clint eastwood's on the cover, and unscrews the mentholatum, anoints her knees then lounges back waiting for them to purr'. After all these adventures it's good to be home. Now if only I could find my damn cat; I'd take it for a walk.
Copyright – Warrick Wynne
This review originally appeared in The Australian Book Review.
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MAKING THE WORK // Ending Typo Shame
I remember an incident years ago in which I'd discovered that the back cover of my copy of The Shipping News described a character getting their "just deserts." Oh, the outrage I felt at that disruption of order! It was all I could do not to write to the publisher to express my extreme disappointment. For weeks, I told everyone about the typo. "Can you imagine?" I said in a lowered voice, as though what I'd found on the back of the book was actually scandalous.
When my friend Billie's last book came out I mentioned to her that I'd found a typo. I said it carefully because I didn't want to shock her. Still, I was betting she was already aware of it and figured we'd end up bonding over the hell-in-handbasket state of things when proofreaders can't be relied on to catch typos. The typo I'd thought I'd found was card "sharp" instead of "shark." Now you, like Billie, may know that the term "sharp" is in fact correct and that "shark" is an inaccurate usage of the original. "Shark" has become officially acceptable because so many people misused it that the OED eventually had to give in. That's one of the reasons why typo-policing is dangerous—sooner or later you become the criminal who doesn't, in fact, know it all.
I'm not completely stick up arse-ish when it comes to typos though. I enjoy a good one. For instance, I was rather thrilled when an attractive poet emailed me at my old office to say that he'd like to "rub something by" me. Another favourite was when one of A.'s Facebook friends posted that there was a "multi-cat pile-up on the 401" (which, for the record, read more as a snuggle pile to my mind than a pile of furry wreckage).
I recently made a typo myself that made me feel no shame because it was funny. When my new website went live, anyone who visited the About Me page might've read that I like to "buy a flesh flower from the local florist every week." That's right, a flesh flower.
My friend Kyla popped into my inbox a couple hours later with generous praise for the new site, then brought up one "teeny" thing:
"Do you really mean to say that you decorate weekly with flesh flowers, and if so, in what reality are these beauties grown and sold legally? I'm thinking William Gibson and David Cronenberg, so the literary/cinematic allusions are sound, but maybe it is just a type-o for fresh flowers?"
It was an elegant way to point out a typo. I didn't feel typo-policed, rather I felt that I had Typo Security keeping me safe from myself. It was the same when my friend Nicolas texted me with two other typos I'd missed rushing to finish the site. Neither friend shamed me, nor did I take shame on.
The fact that I didn't wallow in shame as I've often done was curious to me, so I thought about that. Part of making the work is making typos. Anyone who inputs text via keyboard (that is most of us) is susceptible to typo shame, but writers are perhaps more at risk because words are the tools we're expected to have full mastery of, so we're expected to produce pristine text all the time. The Typo Police take particular glee in pointing out typos when writers make them. That's why, as a counter-measure, we may also indulge in typo-policing—to prove that we know a typo when we see one.
All this reflecting has led me to a new decision: I will no longer feel shame when I've let loose a typo. Further, even though I rarely pull it out, I'm giving up my own Typo Police badge—though I'd still be happy to do Typo Security for anyone who welcomes it.
Oh, and if you notice any typos in the Mini-Mag, just send me a private message, will ya? I'll know you have my back.
LISTS // What We Talk About When We Talk About Typos
1 // Sloppy Keyboarding
Typos in the most pedantic sense ("typo" is short for "typographical error"), these are mistakes made during the physical process of typing. They usually occur when the victim is inputting type while tired, hurried, or distracted. They can also occur when your brain isn't communicating properly with your hands, or when your fingers (or cat) do unruly or unexpected things on the keyboard. For the most part, they're the dullest kind of typo—such as "teh" and "issn't." Humour can, however, arise from the subgenre known as "The Fat Finger Typo", in which the key next to the intended key is accidentally struck, producing a surprising result. For example, texting your beloved late at night when he isout of town to say that you're "just getting ready for ned" when you meant to type "bed." The Fat Finger Typo is also to blame for any menu that lists "Human Beef" instead of "Hunan Beef."
Impact on Typo Police: These typos will rile Typo Police because of their contempt for carelessness and the way in which they despise disorder. Their superiority complexes will immediately kick in, which, as Murphy's Law has it, will leave them open to make their own typos, so the joke's on them.
2 // Mistranscription
Typos resulting from mistranscription tend to be the most entertaining, are often Freudian, and can demonstrate what is joyful about language. There are two predominant sub-categories: atomic typos and heterographic typos. Both usually result from brain-blips. An atomic typo (a term coined back in the aughts) results in a correctly spelled word (therefore undetected by spellcheckers) different than the intended word. For example: abroad/aboard, unclear/nuclear, and sedan/Sudan. Heterographs, on the other hand, are words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings, such as sheik/chic and red/read; the old familiars it's/its and they're/their; and the ever-embarrassing glands/glans. You can become a victim of heterography from only ever hearing words aloud then mistranslating them in type, such is the case with the Moody Blues song that, quite crushingly, is actually called "Nights in White Satin," not "Knights in White Satin."
Impact on Typo Police: Because these typos are funny and make the world a better place, Typo Police get even pinchier-faced and humourless when they point them out because they're trying desperately to separate themselves from those good-time plebs.
3 // Misuse
These typos have to do with grammar and spelling and include things like misplaced apostrophes and incorrect use of words like laying/lying. They are perhaps most often found online in comments sections and on social media. While anyone may have gaps in their knowledge (raises hand), these typos are often made by those who are undereducated, have learning disabilities, or for whom English (or any other language) is a second language.
Impact on Typo Police: These typos bring out the worst kind of Typo Police who will use their education to enforce class boundaries and perpetuate xenophobia. Or, they simply rally the kind of Typo Police (first name starts with J, last name starts with M) who will mock you (A.) for accidentally using the word "eatable" instead of "edible."
SEEN & HEARD // The Twitter Typo Police
Typo-shaming on Twitter is a rampant sport. Although some, like @fiercek, claim that it comes from a good place: "When I tweet a typo at you it means I'm interested in what you're writing about."
Others do it for the humour. One of my favourite accounts (which, sadly, has lapsed since the beginning of last year) belongs to Stealth Mountain, a Twitter bot with a bio that reads: "I alert twitter users that they typed sneak peak when they meant sneak peek. I live a sad life." True to his/its word, the only thing @StealthMountain tweets are the words "I think you mean 'sneak peek'" directed to an offender (including CBS and Bill Gates).
Another account that's been getting attention lately belongs to writer and comedy actress Sarah Sumeray who runs Illustrated Twitter Typos. "I see your typos on twitter, I illustrate them," says her bio. The third image up there in the header is her illustration of a Tweet that reads "m&m song stuck in my head omg have been listening to it too much just now." You can check her out on Tumblr too.


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Thursday, November 9, 2017
VIDEO: RHOMelbourne Stars Talk About Their Businesses, Upcoming Drama And Tease What Viewers Can Expect From Them In Season 4!
Meanwhile, newcomers Sally Bloomfield and Venus Behbahani-Clark share more details about themselves and wha the viewers can expect from them. Check it out below!
Lydia Schaivello talks about life after Season 3. "I've been really focused in the kitchen," she says. "I've been doing a lot of cooking, new recipes and started cooking classes."
As for what we can expect in Season 4, Lydia reveals the two new cast members bring some freshness to the show and reveals there will be some "shocking" fireworks between some of the ladies.
Lydia then plays a game of Who You Rather: RHOMelbourne Edition, check it out!
As for Janet Roach, "I've been working like crazy on my tea range," she says. "I got international gold metals for three of my teas. My son and I started on our Roach Foundation, which is a foundation for burned patients."
As for her love life, Janet is all smiles. "I've met a new man, I'm in love. My whole life has just changed." As for the new season, Janet teases that the relationships between the veteran cast members "has gotten much stronger for various reasons."
In this other clip, Janet Roach critiques her past RHOMelbourne looks!
"I've started a new business, we moved into a new home," says Gamble Breaux. "I've been renovating a room that's my office." Gamble reveals that she's working on her fashion collection which will include hats, coats, lingerie, jewelry and handbags. When asked about the drama, she low-key throws some shade at the ladies at The Real Housewives of Sydney. Check it out below!
Meanwhile, Gina Liano has been keeping herself busy since Season 3 finished airing. The glamours barrister reveals she's been busy expanding her beauty empire by releasing three new fragrances, working on a tan range, face cream range and clothing line.
As to what we can expect in Season 4? "I think Season 4 will be for the audiences like coming home," said Liano. "I think there will be a really warmth there. With the original cast [four of us], we really bring it home to Melbourne."
As for "Shine, Shine, Shine" Jackie Gillies, she's been busy expanding Las Mascara brand by releasing two new products, one of them being 100% Tequila and working on releasing her alcohol range internationally.
"A couple of new housewives getting into it, in a ew of the arguments, there's going to be a lot of drama - again this season," says Jackie about Season 4. "I'm actually getting along with everyone, I have no issues with anybody this season...yet!" she teases, however she can't say the same for her co-star Gamble Breaux.
"I hope to show that I can be fiesty, I can be kind but I'm also a real person, I'm human," says newbie Venus Behbahani-Clark, who is a mother of two. The new reality star is a lawyer but has put her career on hold to focus on her family and on her cosmetics range. Learn more about Venus below!
"I'm hoping to bring some sense of humor, maybe a little bit of fashion and fun. I'm really doing this to promote my businesses and to have fun. The last couple of years have been a little bit crappy and I just want to have fun with the girls," says newbie Sally Bloomfield. Learn more about Sally below!
The Real Housewives of Melbourne Season 4 premieres on Wednesday, December 6 at 8:30pm on Arena! For International TV Listings, click here!
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The Story of Kappa Alpha Psi is replete with references about Thomas B. Mayo, Past Grand Keeper of the Records, Harrison R. Duke, Past Province Polemarch, of the current North Central Province, and Gorham L. Black, Jr. Gorham L. Black, III continues this Legacy of Achievement
On April 14, 1962 at the XI of Kappa Alpha Psi, Howard University, a little more 50 years ago, Brother Gorham L. Black, III crossed the burning sands and was first pinned by Brother Dennis F. Hightower. Subsequently, Brother Black received a Bachelor's of Arts degree in history graduating in 1963 as a Distinguished Military Graduate and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant of Infantry in the United States Army. Brothers Black and Hightower also served together in the Army for ten years.
Since 1914 members of the Black family have distinguished themselves as Kappa men and military men.
Brother Black III's, father (Gorham L. Black Jr.), was initiated at the XI of Kappa Alpha Psi in 1939 and was a member of the famed Tuskegee Airman. In "The Story of Kappa Alpha Psi", Brother Black, Jr. can be seen standing with other Tuskegee Airman in 1944. He served twenty-seven years in the U.S. Army retiring as a Colonel. In 1979 Brother Black Jr. became Pennsylvania's first Secretary of the Department of Aging.
Brother Black III's brother, Brother Frederick H. Black Sr. was also initiated at the XI of Kappa Alpha Psi in 1966 and served twenty-six years in the United States Army retiring as a Colonel.
Brother Black III's Grandfather, Brother Harrison R. Duke, Sr. was initiated at the Beta of Kappa Alpha Psi in 1914.
Brother Black III, great Uncle, Brother Thomas Mayo was also initiated at the Beta of Kappa Alpha Psi 1914.
Brother Black III completed his military service in 1990 retiring as the Garrison Commander, U.S. Army Garrison, Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. Since his retirement Black has held a number of academic positions, including Senior Assistant to the President and Associate Vice President for Administration of Howard University, Washington D.C. and Executive Assistant to the President of Albany State University in Albany, Georgia.
Recently, Black was named Maryland State Director of Selective Service by Maryland Governor, Martin J. O'Malley and appointed by President Obama.
At the June 2012 Chapter meeting of the Columbia (MD) Alumni Chapter, Brother Black III was pinned a second time by Brother Hightower, this time with his father's (Black Jr.) 50-year pin. Brother Larry Gibson, prominent Baltimore attorney and XI Chapter line Brother initiate looked on. …The Legacy and the Journey continues.
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Shaun Wane admits Super League's unpredictability has made the competition more vibrant.
But he still expects the faltering giants to be challenging for trophies.
Huddersfield – a top-four side for the past three years – are rock bottom of the table with just one win from their opening nine games.
And Leeds are just one place above them with one more win on the board, 10-points behind second-placed Wigan.
By contrast, Widnes are third in the ladder on 12 points, with Catalans and Hull FC snapping at their heels, giving a fresh look to the top of the ladder.
While Wane says the unpredictable results have made this season interesting, he believes there is enough time for both Leeds and Huddersfield to make up lost ground.
He said: "It's been a very strange season.
"It's great for the league, it's unpredictable and exciting.
"You would never have imaged that both Leeds and Huddersfield would be down there, even with the players they've lost – but it's still very early days.
"I still think both of those sides will be up there at the end, Leeds especially.
"They have too many good players to stay where they are. They are going through a bad spell, but I think they'll find their form.
"I don't get carried away with the week-to-week results. It's a long, long season and it's how you finish that counts."
With the Super League splitting into the super 8s phase after round 23, the first priority for Leeds and Huddersfield will be climbing into the top eight and avoiding a fight for their top-flight status through the 'Qualifiers'.
For those in the top eight, there are then seven further games for teams to try and book a spot in a top-four play-offs.
Wigan are next in action on Sunday at Wakefield, who have won three games on the bounce under new coach Chris Chester.
As expected, Liam Farrell will miss the game after he accepted a one-match ban.
He took advantage of an early guilty plea – rather than face the RFL disciplinary and risk a two-game ban – after being cited for striking with the knees. It followed his late challenge on try-scorer Stefan Ratchford which resulted in a rare eight-point try against Warrington, in the 28-16 defeat.
Meanwile, Warriors under-19s are preparing for tomorrow night's trip to Salford after being put through a 'difficult test' by Castleford.
Assistant coach Martin McLoughlin praised the under-19s after their their 39-20 taming of Castleford Tigers, acknowledging his side had to 'dig in'.
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569 W. Uwchlan Avenue
Exton, Pennsylvania 19341
Exton, Pennsylvania 19341
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Chinese restaurant with numerous vegetarian (mostly vegan) options
"Seven Stars and a Moon" is a recommended dish.
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Dining in the restaurant is low key, but their vegetarian selections are very exciting and worth the trip!
I discovered they deliver to my house, and now I order new veggie dishes from them regularly.
I have enjoyed every dish I have tried from Gou's Garden.
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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.A. R. Ammons
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"Archie Randolph Ammons" was an American poet who won the annual National Book Award for Poetry in 1973 and 1993.
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It is for freedom that we have been set free.
Some German college students decided to make their own Adidas long play advertisement. Take a couple of minutes and watch what they created, I promise it will inspire your day.
It is a beautiful picture. Someone imprisoned by their surroundings and the day to day expectations of that life, breaking free. The producers of this add are addressing so many things:
- The fear of becoming old and losing our freedom or effectiveness
- The sense that we are a slave to our day to day life with no escape
- The hope that there is a life beyond the one we know
- The desire, despite everything our life tells us to the contrary that freedom is available
In one of our family's favorite movies, "We Bought a Zoo", a father is giving his son advice. The son loves a girl, but believes he has lost his chance to win her heart. From his own life and experience, he tells him what has brought him freedom and life…
You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane
courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery.
And I promise you, something great will come of it.
I think the guy in Adidas commercial understands that. I am assuming many of you understand that as well. It is rare that I meet someone who has risen to any level of authority that didn't have to risk, put things on the line, and muster the courage it took to break through.
But, there is truth far deeper that these German students are referencing. It is something which they are likely completely unaware. The most profound concept being addressed in their commercial is restoration. The older gentleman is reaching back into his former story. There was a glory that once was part of his life related to strapping on a pair of running shoes. Lining up, stretching out his stride, and breaking free of the pack was a part of his identity.
His twenty seconds of insane courage is awakening original glory.
The reason that the commercial stirs so deeply is that the desire for restoration to what was originally intended is the story of all time. It is the story of our lives. And whether or not we cognitively reference that idea as we watch a commercial, the intended restoration of our lives gets awakened.
There was a beautiful and perfect garden that we were meant to experience. Scriptures tell us that it will be restored and so will we. Jesus said "Behold I make all things new" not, behold I make all new things. Restoration is the major theme of the gospel. It is our heritage, our great hope, and our intended reality.
We all have the right to strap on some Adidas, break free of everything that imprisons us, and find the restoration intended. To reflect the intended glory we were placed here to offer in a way that no other creature can. To show one aspect of the divine's glory in a way that makes others want to know Him more.
When we break free and live into our intended glory, we permission others to do the same.
- Do you know much about your calling, your purpose, the reason that God put you here on this earth?
- Are you aware that there is an intended glory to your life? That restoration was written on your heart?
- Can you see how t this ad is referencing the major theme of restoration?
- Where are you needing to risk twenty seconds of insane courage?


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Fashion accessories can be loosely categorised into two general areas: those that are carried and those that are worn. Traditionally carried accessories include purses and handbags, eyewear, hand fans, parasols and umbrellas, wallets, canes, and ceremonial swords. Accessories that are worn may include jackets, boots and shoes, cravats, ties, hats, bonnets, belts and suspenders, gloves, muffs, jewelery, watches, sashes, shawls, scarves, lanyards, socks, and stockings.
In Victorian fashion accessories such as fans, parasols and gloves held significance for how women experienced gender, race and class. In this era, there was a trend for women to adopt, or aspire to, a more leisurely lifestyle. Consequently, gloves were often used by women to cover their hands and mask any signs of labor.
Also, in the early 16th century in Italy hat badges were worn by civilian men of a higher social status as decorative item, in imitation of the cap badges worn by the invading military. Hat badges were often worn in conjunction with a decorative sword and hilt. Hat badges were fashioned after plaquettes and often depicted a scene with personal relevance to the wearer.
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text: To make these glittered bulbs you'll require some previous mild bulbs, glitters within the colours of your selection, modge podge glue and clear lacquer spray. To make every glittered bulb apply a pleasant coat of modge podge glue on the bulb. Then sprinkle glitter over it. Let it dry and apply one other coat of modge podge and glitter. After that take away the surplus glitter. Make all of the bulbs in the identical method and spray them with clear lacquer to seal the glitter. Use these bulbs as Christmas ornaments for adorning the tree or wreath. Enjoy crafting!


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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- The major market indexes bounced sharply off their multi-month lows to close in positive territory Wednesday for the first time this week, as jittery investors looked to square positions ahead of an expected U.N. vote on a new Iraq resolution as early as Thursday.
Market internals suggested, however, that the broad market did not completely share the indexes' enthusiasm.
The Dow Jones Industrials Average DJIA, +0.19% rose 28 points, or 0.4 percent, to 7,552, the S&P 500 Index SPX, -0.05% added 3 points, or 0.4 percent, to 804 and the Nasdaq Composite $COMPQ advanced 7 points, or 0.6 percent, to 1,279.
Earlier in the session, the Dow was down as much as 107 points, the S&P was down 12 points and the Nasdaq was 18 points lighter, all at fresh five-month lows.
Meanwhile, decliners in the broad market outnumbered advancers by a 19 to 14 margin on the NYSE and by a 17 to 15 score on the Nasdaq exchange.
"The market has rallied late in the day as speculation has mounted that the U.S. has potentially put together eight of the nine votes needed to pass the new resolution," said Michael Sheldon, chief market strategist at Spencer Clarke LLC.
The U.N.'s Security Council is expected to vote on the U.S. and U.K.-proposed resolution authorizing force on Thursday. White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer has refused to comment on how the U.S. was faring in garnering votes, but said the final moments of action or inaction was at hand (read more).
Within the Dow, 18 stocks advanced and 10 lost ground, while 2 stocks were unchanged.
Gainers were led by Microsoft MSFT, -0.73%, General Motors GM, +0.38% and Intel INTC, -0.78%, up 2.6 percent, 2.4 percent and 2.2 percent, respectively.
Eastman Kodak EK, down 3.6 percent, and Exxon Mobil XOM, -0.22%, which was 1.5 percent lighter, paced the losers.
Boeing BA, +4.24%, McDonald's MCD, -0.55%, Altria MO, +0.74% and SBC Communications SBC, +2.06% all scraped multi-year lows in Wednesday's intraday action.
Richard Dickson, technical analyst at Lowry Research, said that while some short-term technical indicators are approaching oversold levels, he said these readings were "unconfirmed by any short-term trend or sentiment indicators, meaning that any rally, if it occurs, should be very limited in scope."
The late rally followed a spirited attempt by sellers early in the session to drive the indexes closer to multi-year lows, following successes by their European counterparts.
Paul Mendelsohn, chief investment strategist at Windham Financial Services, said he sees no technical support on the Dow or the S&P 500 until their respective October 2002 lows of 7,197 and 768.
A break below those levels would put the Dow at a 5 1/2-year low, and the S&P 500 at a 6-year low. A drop below the Nasdaq's October low of 1,108.49 would put the technology-burdened index at a 6 1/2-year low.
"The question on investors minds now is: 'Can we hold the October 2002 lows?'" Mendelsohn said. "European equity markets may be already giving investors the answer they do not want to hear."
Germany's DAX Xetra 30 Index (1876534) fell nearly 5 percent to the lowest level seen since December 1997 and London's FTSE 100 Index (1805550) fell nearly 5 percent to its lowest level since May 1995.
See Europe Markets and London Markets.
A seesaw pre-open acted as an example of how jittery investors were, and how susceptible the market was to the whim of geo-political headlines. Stock futures had spiked into positive territory, only to quickly drop back into the red after the BBC reported that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency denied an Iranian radio report that Osama bin Laden had been captured.
Also spooking investors was the assassination of pro-Western Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic (read more), a CNN report that the U.S. planned to resume reconnaissance flights off the North Korean coast and the evacuation of an office building across the street from the U.S. Treasury after a threat was received.
Stern Agee and Leach chief equity strategist Roy Blumberg said geopolitical uncertainty has "kept people paralyzed." He believes investors will "stay blind" until there's a resolution. Listen to radio interview.
Sector watch
The Amex Networking Index $NWX was among the weaker sector trackers, losing 2.3 percent after Lucent Technologies LU and Nortel Networks NT were downgraded by Wachovia, which cited concerns over capital expenditures in the wireless industry. Those stocks fell 4.4 percent and 0.5 percent, respectively, and were among the NYSE's most-active issues.
Sector bellwether Cisco Systems CSCO, -1.21%, the Nasdaq's most-active stock, was also a casualty, shedding 2.9 percent to a four-month low.
Elsewhere, the Amex Airline Index ($XAL) fought off another tumble in AMR AMR, -1.60% to power up 2.7 percent, bouncing off an all-time low hit earlier in the session.
AMR fell over 11 percent after Standard & Poor's ousted the airline's stock out of its benchmark S&P 500 Index (read more).
Meanwhile, Delta Air Lines DAL, -0.09% rose 11 percent, after J.P. Morgan raised its rating to "overweight," saying Tuesday's 22 percent drubbing was an overreaction to the company's warning that cash flow for the current quarter would be negative.
Among individual stocks, Ford Motor F, +0.00% was driven more than 7 percent higher on volume that was nearly double the daily average by UBS Warburg, which upgraded the automaker to "neutral" from "reduce" as the stock has declined to its 12-month price target of $6.50.
Analyst Saul Rubin said he continues to see the stock as a "poor equity investment," but feels the market has been "unduly pessimistic" with respect to near-term fundamentals. See Ratings Game.
AOL Time Warner AOL, +4.00% slumped nearly 4 percent after The Washington Post reported that the federal investigation into the company's revenue accounting had been broadened. The firm's online unit, America Online, and two of its former executives were being investigated for the alleged "aiding and abetting" of schemes by other companies to artificially inflate reported revenue, the newspaper reported, citing sources familiar with the probe.
See Movers & Shakers.
Dollar lifted by drop in trade deficit
A Commerce Department report that the U.S. trade deficit narrowed to a less-than-expected $41.1 billion in January (read more) failed to inspire the equity market, but it provided a minor lift to the dollar.
The buck tallied a 0.4 percent gain versus the euro to $1.001. On Tuesday the dollar had hit a low of around $1.1083, the highest price seen since February 1999.
Against the yen, despite increasing speculation that Japan had, or will be intervening in the currency markets to sell its currency, the dollar ticked up a slight 0.1 percent to 117.25.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury bond $TNX inched up slightly to 3.589 percent (see Bond Report). On Tuesday, the yield hit a 45-year low of 3.549 percent in intraday trading.
Within commodities, April crude futures shot up $1.10 to $37.82, erasing a $1.06 loss suffered over the past two sessions, after both the U.S. Department of Energy and the American Petroleum Institute both reported sizable declines in crude inventories (see Futures Movers).
The rally couldn't help oil sector stocks, however, as the CBOE Oil Index $OIX slumped 3.6 percent after J.P. Morgan downgraded a number of integrated oil companies.
Gold futures dropped $2.80 to $347.80, the lowest level in over a week (see Metals Stocks).


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The Most Famous House in London
54 Berners Street became famous overnight.
Man or Ape?
Charles Waterton, squire of Walton Hall, Worcestershire, was a keen traveller and explorer. On one of his visits to South America, in 1828, he came across a strange, human-like animal. It semed to be a cross between a man and an ape. So intrigued was he that he decided to bring it back to England-but it was so heavy that he had to content himself with just the head. Known as the Nondescript, it can still be seen today in the City Museum and Art Gallery in Wakefield, England - but it is a fake. Waterton was an expert taxidermist, and he had made the creature himself.
Time in Loo
A notice once appeared on the notice board in a small company. Workers, it said, were spending too long in the lavatory. This was affecting production so it had been decided that, in future, there would be a rota system. Employees whose surname began with the letter A could use the lavatory between 9 a.m. and 9.15 a.m., those whose names began with a B between 9.15 and 9.30 a.m. and so on. Many employees believed the notice to be genuine, but when they complained, the letter was revealed as a hoax.
Nessie Panic
Ness Monster, it received sveral telephone calls from worried readers. But the paper was dated 1 April, 1982, and the story was a joke.
The Man who Would be King
Henry VII was crowned king of England ofger he defeated Richard lll at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. Amongst the many people who contested Henry's right to the throne was the ten-year-old Eark if Warwick. Henry dealt with that threat quite simply - he imprisoned the boy in Tower of London. A short while later, on 24 May, 1487, he was crowned by the Bishop of Meath as King Edward VI. The newly-crowned king then travelled back to England to claim his kingdom. With an army of 1500 men he landed on the Lancashire coast and proceeded to march towards London. At Stoke-on-Trent he was stopped by Henry's army and, after a long and bitter battle, Edward's army was defeated and he was taken prisoner. There were many people who believed the young earl was their rightful king, but Henry knew that his prisoner was an imposter. The real Eark if Warwick had not escaped from the Tower at all. There was only one thing Henry could do toprove that his second prisoner, whose name was Lambert Simnel, was a fraud. He released the real earl from the Tower and showed him to the people. For pretending to be earl, Simnel could have expected to be put to death. But, to demonstrate how unimportant he considered this upstart, Henry set him to work in the kitchen instead.
Monty's Double
During the Second World War, Field Marshal Montgomery seemed to have the ability to be in two placesat once - and that was infact the case. Some of Monty's appearances were not him at all but an actor who looked and sounded like him.


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Kendrick, Sharon, Di Sione's Virgin Mistress (The Billionaire's Legacy, Book 5), (Richmond, Surrey: Harlequin (UK) Limited, 2016).
Title: Di Sione's Virgin Mistress (The Billionaire's Legacy, Book 5)
Author: Sharon Kendrick
Imprint: Presents (Modern)
Issues: Grief; Self Esteem;
"I have the tiara you want and you have to pay for it."
Dante Di Sione could forgive the beautiful blonde he kissed in the airport lounge for accidentally taking the suitcase with his grandfather's precious tiara in it. But then she has the nerve to blackmail him into accompanying her to her sister's wedding!
So when news of their supposed engagement breaks, Dante takes his revenge and ensures that Willow plays the part of his loving wife-to-be to the full. Only, he has no idea that Willow has faked all that bold confidence…and is a virgin!


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St. John A.M.E. Church to celebrate 150th anniversary
by The Press and Standard | September 9, 2018 5:00 am
Last Updated: September 5, 2018 at 4:17 pm
The 150th anniversary St. John A.M.E. Church will be celebrated Sept. 14-16 at the church, 323 Griffith Acres Dr., Cottageville. On Friday, an anniversary revival will begin at 7 p.m. with the Rev. R.L. Brown, recording artist and pastor of Target A.M.E. Church in Holly Hill. Saturday's events will begin with a parade from 9-10 a.m. followed by a festival at the church until 5 p.m. Featured events include food and clothing vendors, games, music, a health seminar, praise dancers, jump castle, crafts, face painting, a drawing and free giveaways. Services conclude Sunday starting at 11 a.m. with the Rt. Rev. Samuel Lawrence Green Sr., presiding prelate of the 7th Episcopal District. The 150th anniversary service will begin at 4 p.m. with the Rev. Samuel Lawrence Green Jr., director of Christian education for the 7th Episcopal District. For information call 843-835-2542.


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Dental Implants
Up until a couple of decades ago, tooth loss meant a compromised quality of life that involved inconvenient tooth-replacement options that never seemed to fit right, didn't match your smile, and looked very generic.
Dentists, however, are a tenacious bunch and ultimately developed the modern dental implant as a long-term tooth replacement option that gives patients confidence and unsurpassed esthetics.
What Is a Dental Implant?
A dental implant mimics your natural tooth in both structure and appearance. Designed using biocompatible titanium, they actually integrate with your natural bone to provide added stability for your dental crown.
Implants consist of three parts: the implant screw, abutment, and custom crown. The implant is the post that replaces your tooth's root and integrates with your bone. It can help prevent bone loss that often occurs with tooth loss.
The implant abutment attaches to your dental implant and provides a base for your dental crown. Each abutment is chosen specifically to fit your implant and crown perfectly, so you never have to worry about your implant rocking.
Your custom crown is a unique creation designed just for you. We match it to the color, size, and shape of your tooth so that it matches your smile.
Benefits of Dental Implants
Dental implants have numerous health, lifestyle, and cosmetic benefits. In addition to preventing the bone loss mentioned above, dental implants keep your natural teeth from drifting toward the gap in your smile. This helps to maintain the comfort and function of your bite.
Because dental implants provide stability, you do not need to restrict your diet in any way. You can eat the healthy foods you love, including crunchy fruits and vegetables. A balanced, nutritious diet is essential to overall wellness!
Esthetically, dental implants provide exceptional results. Even when you smile, no one will notice you have a dental implant because each crown is a small work of art designed just for you.
You can care for your dental implants in the same way you care for your natural teeth.
Implant-Retained Dentistry
If you have dentures, partial dentures, or a dental bridge, we can use dental implants to give you added stability. Dental implants can allow you to have a bridge with additional support and also keep your dentures from moving when you eat or speak.
If you have dentures that move, you are probably limited in your diet and in how freely you laugh and smile. Dental implants provide a solution!
Contact Us to Schedule a Dental Implant Consultation
We welcome you to one of our three locations in Houston, Cypress, or Bellville to discuss how dental implants can provide you with the freedom to enjoy eating and living an active, confident lifestyle once again. Contact us to schedule a consultation with one of our dentists. We look forward to finding a solution that restores the health and beauty of your smile.


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by Jason Suzuki
This year's Starz Denver Film Festival has come and gone, and while there were definitely some great films, for a festival with such a strong focus on global cinema, there is one region of the world that seems to be getting overlooked each year. Including India there were 7 feature films from East-Asia at this year's Denver Film Festival:
-Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) - Thailand
-Dearest (Peter Chan) - China
-Ludo (Nikon/Q) - India
-Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke) - China
-Rise of the Legend (Roy Chow Hin Yeung) - Hong Kong
-Sea Fog (Shim Sung-bo) - South Korea
-The World of Kanako (Tetsuya Nakashima) - Japan
As a side note, on the festival's website I was only able to go back to 2009 to see the programs for festivals past. The above set of 7 films here feel typical and not as adventurous as the festival's focus on other parts of the world. For Cemetery of Splendour, Ludo, and Mountains May Depart their inclusion might be in relation to previous films from their respective directors playing at a past festival: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Gandu, A Touch of Sin respectively. I was not able to see what other films from Weerasethakul and Jia may have been programmed earlier in their careers so cannot gauge how long these filmmakers have been on the DFF's radar. Q's film in between Gandu and Ludo, Tasher Desh does not seem to have been programmed. It did not receive as much festival attention as his other films so this is just a case of following suit. As for the other films their inclusions seem to be related to genres they belong in, distribution companies, and previous festival exposure.
Dearest is handled by Versatile, was a mainstream success in China, and played initially at Venice and Toronto. Sea Fog debuted last August which was probably too late to be included in DFF 37's program but since it has played at every other film festival since then, its inclusion seems a little late to the party. In a piece for the Japan Times on the current state of Asian film at festivals, Mark Schilling proposes that genre films from Japan have consistently been able to find a place overseas. The World of Kanako speaks to this observation, and since it's being distributed by Drafthouse Films, its regular release will occur the following month in December. So the uniqueness of its screenings is diminished to solely giving people the chance to see it a month before its general release. Something that the festival is okay with hence month early screenings of films like Carol, Brooklyn, Anomalisa, and Hitchcock/Truffaut to name a few. Nakashima's previous film Confessions would have been a great opportunity to deliver a dark late-night film as well as Japan's Oscar submission for that year (the last one programmed at DFF was Shindo's Postcard).
Back in February of 2013 there was a ten film program "Focus on Japanese Cinema" highlighting the work of Shohei Imamura and featuring films from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Shion Sono, Naomi Kawase, and Kaneto Shindo. In other words, all established filmmakers and a little boring. Since then the Japanese presence at the festival has ranged from disappointing to non-existent. It's not like there are no quality films to be found from the country. With its Oscar submissions Japan itself has been doing a better job at championing smaller filmmakers than the non-Asian-centric festivals around the world (hopefully your family name is Koreeda, Miike, Sono, Kawase, or Kurosawa if you want any exposure). And for a country so low on the gender gap ranking, two submissions from the past five years have been from women filmmakers: 2012's Our Homeland (Yong-hi Yang) and last year's The Light Shines Only There (Mipo Oh). Even this year's submission 100 Yen Love features a strong and fantastic performance from Sakura Ando. All of these would make for great additions to DFF's Women + Film program and has the Oscar-buzz connection, something that probably helped Haemoo land a spot on people's radars (the film's connection to Bong Joon-ho must have helped). A festival like the Palm Springs International Film Festival has consistently programmed Foreign Language submissions, and while this is another problem of focusing only on Oscar buzz (which I call award humping), they have gone against their general audience's taste with films like Pieta and have secured in-person appearances from filmmakers like Yong-hi Yang herself. Along with regular screenings of films like Miike's Yakuza Apocalypse and multiple showings of both parts of the live action Attack on Titan adaptation at the Sie FilmCenter, not a very full representation of contemporary Japanese cinema is being painted in the Denver area.
More often than not short films are used to cover the Asian grounds. Last year any fans of Korean or Japanese cinema had one short each. At least this year it was one feature each. And the blame is not entirely with the programmers who have to consider audience and commercial viability of titles, Japanese companies are not the best to work with for instance. When only familiar names are getting regularly programmed, no matter how good those films are, it's disappointing when not even all the festival regulars are included. Koreeda's Our Little Sister, Kurosawa's Journey to the Sea, and Hong Sang Soo's two latest films (The Day He Arrives played at DFF 34) are missing. So Asian talent, regardless of being new or established, has been pushed aside, reflecting the widespread overlooking of contemporary Asian film that's been happening at large festivals and Western awards like the Oscars.
And a few side notes: On the last day of the festival, all three Chinese films were playing at the exact time. Sure there were other opportunities to see the films on other days, but that's assuming no other conflicts arose. Also Cemetery of Splendour got screwed over in the schedule. Three days in a row, all weekdays, at the same venue (not many films received screenings at both Pavilions and the Sie), and only one showing was after 5pm. So for those people who have regular 9-5 jobs, of which there could be a large portion interested in the film, had only one showtime to see it, and even then it was at 6:15.
Jason Suzuki is co-editor to Cinema Adrift.


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If laughter isn't the best medicine...
Laughter is the best medicine.
Laughter breaks the tension.
Laughter is the music of the heart.
Are these sayings really true?
If you're having a rough day you may be more inclined to think something like this:
There have been times when I would have agreed with this woman and her refreshing beverage, but more and more I'm realising that all those corny things they say about laughter actually are true.
As my family, friends, and colleagues will tell you, I laugh ALL the time. I laugh to the point of tears a couple times a week. People tease me about it and ask me why I laugh so much... and I've tried to come up with a good answer, but I just can't really say. I mean, sometimes its happiness. Sometimes its nerves. Sometimes its excitement. Sometimes its lack of sleep. Sometimes its embarrassment. Sometimes its even fear. Sometimes its because the people I spend time with are just really funny. And although I can't narrow down the cause of my uncontrollable laughter, I am certain of what it brings me.
It brings me connection. (I hope my laughter is THIS contagious! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76UFAGC7nDY)
It brings me peace. (yes there is a such thing as laughter yoga http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we_iR9BWBcw)
It brings me joy. And it makes whatever challenge I'm faced with seem alot more manageable. Even stressful legal work. In fact, especially stressful legal work. This is something that I have learned at the law office I work at. No matter what the challenge, or how much work to be done, there's always time for laughter...and that is something I am especially grateful for.
When anybody laughs he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering. - Sri H. Poonja
If laughter isn't the best medicine…then I don't know what is.


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Holk Cruse
Holk Cruse is currently principal investigator at the Excellence Cluster "Cognitive Interaction Technology" at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. His research centers on autonomous systems, particularly the use of internal world models to plan and control movements thus forming the basis for cognition. This includes questions concerning the relation between unconscious and voluntary decisions as well as the grounding of language.
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Schilling, M., Hoinville, T., Schmitz, J., & Cruse, H. (2013). Walknet, a bio-inspired controller for hexapod walking. Biological cybernetics, 107(4), 397-419.
Cruse, H., & Wehner, R. (2011). No need for a cognitive map: Decentralized memory for insect navigation. PLoS Computational Biology, 7(3), 1-10.
Cruse, H. (2006). Neural networks as cybernetic systems, part 1: Chapter 1-8. Brains, Minds and Media. Journal of New Media in Neural and Cognitive Science and Education, 2(1). Bielefeld: Department of Neurobiology.
Cruse, H. (2003). The evolution of cognition—A hypothesis. Cognitive Science, 27(1), 135-155.
Cruse, H. (1990). What mechanisms coordinate leg movement in walking arthropods? Trends in Neurosciences, 13(1), 15-21.


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Electric vehicles (and lots of other new technology) continued to draw a lot of interest at TRB this year (for the uninitiated, the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC is a big deal in the transportation world, bringing thousands of academics and practitioners together to learn about cutting edge research).
Some of my (very simplified) notes from EV session.
· Based on studying driving habits of battery electric vehicle (BEV) drivers and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), if you want to encourage more electric vehicle miles traveled, support PHEVs, because those drivers use their vehicles for longer trips and generate more electrified miles than BEVs. (Dawn Manley, Sandia National Laboratories)
· EV drivers in cold and hot climates experience a significant loss in range – as much as 40%. They also use more energy. Emissions, however, are more related to the source of electricity (e.g., coal vs. renewables). (Tugce Yuksel, Carnegie Mellon University)
· Perceived abundance of public charging infrastructure promotes interest in buying EVs, but readily available home charging is more important. (John Axsen, Simon Fraser University)
· Most EV owners charge up at home, but owners who have access to workplace charging will take advantage of it for about a third of their charging. (John Smart, Idaho National Laboratory)
· Accessories (mainly HVAC) account for about 25% of EV energy use overall, and especially at low speeds and in cold climates (heat pumps help). (Steve Zoepf, MIT)
· EV owners and non-owners have very different perceptions of the prevalence of EVs. EV owners see EVs and EV infrastructure everywhere. Many non EV owners don't think they have ever seen one. (Jamie Davis, UC Davis)
· Washington State DOT continues to promote DC fast chargers. The three west coast states have more than 40% of the fast chargers in the US. Washington's governor is expanding the network. WsDOT believes that fast chargers on the interstate (every 25 to 50 miles between Seattle and Portland) give range confidence to EV buyers. There are more than 10,000 EVs in the state. (Tonia Buell WsDOT)
· The Pennsylvania Turnpike has begun the long awaited installation of chargers (fast chargers and level 2s) at all 17 Turnpike rest areas.
No real common theme here, just continued learning from experience of EVs on the road.


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Back by popular demand is the Fenway Cornhole Classic! This double-elimination tournament will be held at Fenway Park on Saturday, May 19, 2018 starting at 11 a.m. Prizes will be awarded for the top three teams. Team cost is $149 and includes two game tickets for that evening's game vs. the Baltimore Orioles. Guests must purchase tickets separate from the team to watch and attend the Cornhole Tournament.
For Groups of 20 or more please contact Travis Pollio via email or by phone at 617-226-6790. Tournament date is subject to change if game time changes from 7:10pm.


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Netball NSW is pleased to announce the Netball NSW Premier League (NNSWPL) will be streamed LIVE and FREE during the competition's inaugural season.
The NNSWPL, which will be played out of Netball Central on Wednesday evenings commencing in mid-April, is a new competition to attract the best current and emerging talent within NSW. Its purpose is to offer a local, elite platform for players, coaches, officials and administrators, and provide bridging opportunities into the Australian Netball League (ANL) and subsequent ANZ Championship.
Netball NSW General Manager – Commercial and Corporate Partnerships, Tristan Prosser-Shaw said this innovation was a preeminent moment for netball in NSW.
"There is a lot of excitement surrounding the Netball NSW Premier League and looking at the player rosters of the eight licensees, fans of netball are in for a real treat," Prosser-Shaw said.
"Being able to live stream two games each week provides an ideal opportunity to showcase to the people of NSW, Australia and the netballing world our elite and emerging talent."
"Not only are we hoping to inspire the next generation of stars by highlighting our talent pathway, but this high quality live streaming service presents corporate partners of both Netball NSW and the licensees with the platform to expose their brand to a targeted audience," concluded Prosser-Shaw.
Netball NSW has partnered with Hunter-based company, BarTV Sports, to deliver LIVE and FREE coverage of both games played on the 800-seat Show Court across the entire 2016 season.
BarTV Sports founder and co-owner Josh Mason said his company is thrilled to be involved in this exciting project, one which he believes will be very popular from his vast experience in delivering sport to a global audience via live streaming.
"We can't wait to work alongside Netball NSW to showcase what we believe will be a fantastic competition," Mason said.
"This will be a multi-camera operation which will deliver a high quality experience for the viewer and we are really looking forward to Round One."
In addition to the weekly live streaming service, BarTV Sports will produce a range of NNSWPL content including match highlights and interviews which will be available on Netball NSW digital and social media channels.
Netball NSW is currently developing a dedicated NNSWPL website and will announce the Naming-Rights Partner for the NNSWPL in the very near future.
The NNSWPL will be contested across two Divisions – Opens and Under 20s – with a Pre-Season tournament scheduled from 2 March through 23 March 2016, followed by the commencement of the 14-week regular season beginning 18 April 2016. The Finals Series will be contested over three weeks, with the Grand Final currently penned for week commencing 22 August 2016.


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GIVING BACK..."Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me".
On Monday April 23rd ten gallons of chili soup and toppings, four 1/2 sheet pans of corn bread, crackers, cookies and brownies were delivered to the Veteran Outreach Center for their noon lunch. When we arrived we were met by several Vets who helped us carry the food in and helped to get things set up. Everyone expressed appreciation for a "home cooked" meal and we later learned that there was enough food for two days. We were told that the soup was a "nice break" from the usual frozen foods they heat up for lunch. It is with gratitude that I thanks the folks who came to the church on Saturday morning to make soup (Starla Pfeifer, Teri Johnson, Pauline,Randjit and Eugene, Mo. Christina and Steve Albrecht) and to those who made cookies or brownies (Cora Kuhlman, Tammy Briggs, Marlene Weires). A special thank you to the Heavenly Comforter who covered the cost of the meal. Submitted by Georgia Albrecht, Pastoral Care and Outreach Team leader.


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PSM Home Defeat Marred By Crowd Trouble
There aren't many people who would have expected Semen Padang to have been flying high at this stage in the Indonesia Super League season. Yesterday's 1-0 win over title hopefuls PSM saw them climb to 4th just five points behind leaders Persipura.
Former international striker Saktiawan Sinaga netted the only goal of the game on the hour mark. Makassar is never an easy place for an away team to pick up anything and the Red Buffalos must have thought they would also be leaving empty handed after seeing Park Chul Hyung get a red card in the first half.
This ref obviously had brass ones because soon after Sinaga's goal he sent off home side striker Korinus Finkrew.
Fans rioted after the game, perhaps a little peeved by seeing their local heroes spurn the chance to share that elusive top spot.
After starting the season brightly PSM coach Robert Alberts will be concerned by his team's home form and a lack of goals. But with Andi Oddang, who has six already, being partnered by the likes of Obiora and Finkrew his team will never be the free scoring proposition Arema were last season.
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Wilson picks up House while they discuss House's theft of Stacy's treatment notes. Wilson isn't thrilled, particularly he finds out Stacy and Mark aren't having sex despite his recovered status. As they head out they run into a "stalker," Kalvin Ryan, who wants House to treat him. House quickly concludes his health problems stem from AIDS, but Kalvin claims that tests show that AIDS is not causing the new symptoms. After a brief struggle, Kalvin passes out into anaphylactic shock.
Cuddy insists House meets with Stacy in case Kalvin files a lawsuit, and they spar at Stacy's house as she reveals she has a rat. They share a moment before Mark interrupts, clearly upset. House accepts the case but is bored until they figure out Kalvin is showing all the signs of fighting back against the AIDS but is still getting worse. House suspects the strength of Kalvin's immune system fighting back is causing his new symptoms, and orders more tests. House then prepares to kill Stacy's rat so he can get her to reveal his feelings and get her fired, but notices its odd behavior.
While Kalvin flirts with Chase, House and Stacy head up to Stacy's attic to find the rat and share another moment, but they're interrupted by the staff calling him and updating him. House quickly prescribes some treatments but is more concerned with killing the rat he just spotted. Kalvin's tox screen shows recreational drugs and it's clear he's not too concerned with maintaining his health. He starts to cough and then bleed, spewing blood onto Cameron's face.
Cameron is given treatment for the possibility of
while House considers the new symptom, a ruptured blood vessel in the lung. Cameron comes in, clearly determined to keep on working, and gives her theory that Kalvin's rec drugs are contaminated. While she and Chase go off to check Kalvin's apartment, House runs the rat's odd behavior past Foreman to get a diagnosis. Cameron mentions that legal might check her out for HIV testing and treatment and accuse her of using drugs to get out of paying her bills. They also find Kalvin's photos of broken 1930s fluorescents that contained
, which can inflame the lungs and inhibit breathing. House orders Cameron to get a lung biopsy from Kalvin. Kalvin reveals to her that he brought his drugs in to the hospital and insists she should show some reaction rather than sympathize with him.
Back at Stacy's, House breaks in and when Stacy shows up, informs her that the rat has a tumor that might be caused by something in the house. When Mark calls House takes off, but not before putting up the toilet seat to make Stacy believe that Mark left it up, one of Stacy's pet peeves that House learned from her psych file.
Kalvin goes into respiratory distress as he supposedly bleeds into his pericardial space, and asks them to tell his father he's sorry. They find nothing in the cavity and Foreman believes he has a tumor on the heart. CT confirms his diagnosis but Cameron believes it may be a non-lethal mass and House lets her conduct the test to confirm. He also wonders why Kalvin would be apologizing to his father, when his father threw Kalvin out. As Cameron conducts her test and reveals she hid his drugs, Kalvin suggests that HIV might actually loosen her up since she no longer has to play by the rules.
House heads off to Stacy's to confirm that she hasn't told Mark that House is with her, and the two of them wait for the rat to come out to take the antibiotics in the bait. He reveals the rat's urine shows signs that someone in the house is smoking – Stacy has been doing it secretly and started two weeks after House's surgery. They share yet another moment over her misery over his pain and how she caused his pain, and they start to consider a kiss when the rat sets off the trap.
Chase goes to visit Cameron who grabs him and starts kissing him. She's clearly high on Kalvin's drugs and the two have sex. The next day Cameron shows up for work as House arrives with his rat (nicknamed "Steve McQueen") and quickly figures out she was using. They end up at Kalvin's room to find his father Michael has arrived and they're having a fight. House pokes away at why Kalvin apologized until Michael reveals Kalvin killed his mother.
The staff check over the new information – Kalvin lied and his mother died because she needed a kidney and he was the only donor, but had HIV. It soon becomes clear to everyone Cameron and Chase slept together, and the tests show that Kalvin has terminal cancer with no chance of a cure, and they prepare to pinpoint its location with a biopsy. Chase helps Cameron with her symptoms and admits they might have a problem with their continuing relationship.
House and Wilson discuss the rat, which is on two weeks' of antibiotics, and House remembers the fact that Kalvin's dad was sweating and they're from Montana. House cancels the biopsy and concludes Kalvin's illness is caused by
a parasite native to Montana that infest foxes – Kalvin and Michael hunted in Montana. They can stay in a host body for decades, causing cysts, and House has figured Michael has cysts in his liver. A blood test for Michael will confirm House's diagnosis and Michael is upset that Kalvin killed his mother. House aggravates both of them by accusing Kalvin's mother of killing herself. Michael takes a swing at him and then House cold cocks him in the gut, initiating anaphylactic shock and confirming his diagnosis the hard way.
Father and son go into surgery and have the cysts and parasites removed. House is satisfied but Cuddy sends him to see Stacy since the father might sue. Cameron confronts Kalvin over the fact he isn't happy and is trying to self-destruct and take her with him. House meets with Stacy who gets him ice for his bruise, while he informs her that Mark has to know about her smoking. He accuses her of not sleeping with Mark despite her denials, and she figures out he's certain because he read her file. Everything he's done has been based on the inside info he had, and he accuses her of letting it happen because she wants him around. She says, "Not any more" and kicks him out. Kalvin and Michael have a reunion and son finally apologizes to father as Cameron looks on. Stacy seeks comfort in a happy Mark's arms, Chase notices a cut lip from his encounter with Cameron, and Cameron counts the days until she can take her first HIV test. Finally, House is home alone with the rat.
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China's economic growth picked up pace in the July-to-September period – the first rise in three quarters.
The world's second-biggest economy grew 7.8%, from a year earlier, up from 7.5% expansion in the previous quarter.
Other data released also showed a growth in industrial output, retail sales and fixed asset investment.
After years of blistering growth, China has seen its pace of expansion slow recently and there have been fears that growth may slow further.
China has set a growth target of 7.5% for the year. Analysts said the latest numbers indicated that it was likely that Beijing would meet this.
"This is an indication that China's economic growth is holding up in a range which is within the comfort zone of both the Chinese policymakers as well as global watchers," said Song Seng Wun, a senior economist with CIMB Research .
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Part 19 of Romans: The Gospel of God
Text: Romans 6:15-23
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life (v. 22).
Oh Really?
What is freedom? Some people think that being free is to be autonomous (i.e., free to make one's own decisions). Maybe you've heard someone brag, "Nobody tells me what to do! I do whatever I want to do!"
"Non-Christians often pride themselves on being free, in contrast to Christians, who in their estimation have lost their human autonomy by bowing the knee to Christ." [1] But this "freedom" is an illusion. No one is really autonomous—even the person who says, "Nobody tells me what to do!" According to the apostle Paul, everyone is a slave.
Are We Free to Sin?
In verse 15 Paul brings up a question similar to the question found in verse 1: "What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace?" [2] "In both vv. 1 and 15 Paul asks whether the grace of God should lead to sin. However, in 6:1 it is a question of sinning in order to gain more grace, while in 6:15 it is a question of sinning because of grace." [3]
Paul's answer to both questions is the same: "By no means!" We have been given freedom from sin, not freedom to sin. God's grace has changed our hearts. We don't want to be free to sin; we want to be free to obey God's commands.
Whose Slave Are You?
Paul writes, "Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?" (v. 16). "Either people are under the power of sin, or they are under the power of God. The question is not, then, whether one will have a master, but which master one will serve." [4] Everyone is a slave—either a slave of sin or a slave of God.
What does it mean to be a slave of sin? Sin is described in the Bible as missing the target (like missing the target on a dart board). The target is God's will for our lives. Sin is not only doing things we should do (i.e., sins of commission); it's also not doing things we should do (i.e., sins of omission). Two commands sum up what we should and shouldn't do (i.e., God's will): (1) love God with all your heart and (2) love your neighbour as yourself. To love someone, there are things you should do and things you shouldn't do.
When we fail to love, what's the reason? We have a default setting (like a computer); it's self-centeredness, which is the essence of sin. A me-centered life (i.e., serving yourself) might seem free (i.e., autonomous), but it's actually slavery to sin (i.e., missing the target—the way God intends for us to live, true freedom).
Paul goes on to say, "But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness" (vv. 17-18).
A Slave of Righteousness Is Not Really a Slave
Paul says, "I am speaking in human terms, because of you natural limitations" (v. 19a). "The illustration from slavery is inadequate because the relationship believers have with God is shorn of all the negative elements present in slavery." [5]
Paul continues, "For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification [i.e., holiness]" (v. 19b). Part of becoming a Christian is making Jesus the Lord of our lives.
A slave or righteousness is not really a slave. Notice the word "present" (i.e., offer). It's a choice. It's something we want to do. When we remember God's grace, we want to please him.
The End
In verses 21-23, Paul contrasts slavery to sin and slavery to God. "For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life" (vv. 21-22).
"When" the Roman believers were "slaves of sin" their lives produced "fruit" that brought shame, and the end of that kind of life is "death" (i.e., eternal death, separation from God in hell).
"Now" that they have become "slaves of God," their lives are producing "fruit" that is bringing sanctification, and the end of this kind of life is "eternal life." "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (v. 23).
[1] Douglas J. Moo, Romans, p. 212.
[2] Paul brings up this question because of what he wrote in verse 14: "You are not under law but under grace."
[3] Moo, The Epistle to the Romans, p. 398.
[4] Ibid., p. 396.
[5] Thomas R. Schreiner, Romans, p. 333.


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Family security is built on two elements: forwarding the determined purpose of the family money and developing the inclusive family mission. We will look at the value to the latter, developing the inclusive family mission.
I'd like to share with you a quote from a book I read. The quote illustrates the role of a mission statement for a family. Stephen R. Covey, the famed author, educator, and motivator in his book Principle Centered Leadership said this:
"Too many families are managed on the basis of instant gratification, not on sound principles and rich emotional bank accounts. Then, when stress and pressure mount, people start yelling, overreacting or being cynical, critical, or silent. Children see it and think this is the way you solve problems-either fight or flight. And the cycles can be passed on for generations.
This is why I recommend creating a family mission statement. By drafting a family constitution, you are getting to the root of the problem.
If you want to get anywhere long-term, identify core values and goals and get the system aligned with these values and goals. Work on the foundation. Make it secure.
The core of any family is what is changeless, what is always going to be there. This can be represented in a family mission statement. Ask yourself, "What do we value? What is our family all about? What do we stand for? What is our essential mission, our reason for being?"
You have been reading my many blogs on the benefits to articulating and developing family values and missions. My family has built and is developing ours. We started back in the mid- 1990s. We see the benefit to doing this.
Please leave a comment with your thoughts on Stephen R. Covey's remarks. He spoke well to the benefits of building a legacy family by developing the family's core foundation.
I'd love to know your obstacles to putting together your own family mission statement. I'd love to know, if you have a family mission statement. How do you keep it relevant, dynamic and inclusive?


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