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Have you ever asked yourself: "What does it all mean?", "What's the meaning of life?". Of course you have. Well someone has an answer for that.
Here's what the american novelist Tom Robbins had to say about the big question asked by LIFE magazine in 1991:
"Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve toward a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being; to return to Eden, make friends with the snake, and set up our computers among the wild apple trees.
Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution – a melding into the godhead, into love – is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to acknowledge that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions and financial ploys are not merely counterproductive but trivial.
Our mission is to jettison those pointless preoccupations and take on once again the primordial cargo of inexhaustible ecstasy. Or, barring that, to turn out a good thin-crust pizza and a strong glass of beer."
From "Wild Ducks Flying Backwards", a collection of short writings by Tom Robbins.


text: Revelation 1:8 God The Beginning And God The End August 27, 2017 Revelation 1:8 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End," says the Lord, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."People of God, our God is declaring to all of us on today that He is the beginning and the end, the first and the last. No one before Him or after Him. He alone is the Sovereign God of the Universe. He is calling us give give Him glory, honor and praise on today when we enter His house of worship for He is worthy to be praised.True Worshipers! These are those who the Father is seeking in this hour. It is these ones the Father is expecting to meet to day at His house of Worship among the saints.I can only hope and pray that you have awaken this morning with a mind set to serve the Lord your God who have kept you through danger seen and unseen and toils and snares for yet another week.Regardless of the cares that may be before you on today, make your way to the Lord's house and give Him the praise and worship He deserves from you.God has given us proof of His Sovereignty and Him being the Eternal God in letting us know that He was Him who came in the flesh in the person of (Jesus Christ) as Savior to live, suffer, die and rise from the dead for the penalty of man's sin. He is God, the Almighty Father and creator of the universe and it is He (Christ) who will come a 2nd time.Remember, Our God who declares to be the beginning and the end is still in control of all the world's affairs, past, present and future. Regardless of what our eyes may see, GOD IS!People of God, we have a reason to be encouraged on today. We have a reason to give our God praise, glory, honor and WORSHIP on today for He alone is Alpha and Omega.Yes, our God is worthy for it is the Lord our God who orchestrates every affairs of the entire universe, including our lives.Revelation 22:12-13 "Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with Me to give to each one according to his work. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last."People of God, WORSHIP our God while you yet have another chance to do so. No man knows the day nor the hour when He will come, therefore, make everyday a day of WORSHIP to the Lord our God.Alpha and Omega! The beginning and the end is our GodGod bless.Debra

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It's not every day Jack moves to Madison to start his next chapter as a freshman Badger and such a momentous occasion begged for a stellar party. Shrimp boils are a Dougherty family favorite and have enough 'wow' factor to send Jack off to Madison with a little Bayfield flair. We loaded up the Karl with shrimp, green beans, a bucket of spices, potatoes and beer and headed to Long Island on a perfect August afternoon to celebrate the kid who, for nineteen years, has brought so much joy, pride, laughter and love into our lives.
We couldn't have asked for a better afternoon— no bugs, a sun-soaked beach, warm water, dear friends and a boiling kettle of spiced water, shrimp and Corn Man corn. It's hard to put into words what it felt like, knowing that in seven days we would be driving Jack to Madison and leaving him there, in a dorm with 6,000 other freshman. It was the kind of joy with a sharp edge, that made me catch my breath and blink back tears because I understood, for the first time, what bittersweet really meant. Jack was taking his first steps towards independence and away from us but the tapestry we've woven together from nights like these will always be his connection to home and the people who love him.
One of our friends, Teddy, wrote Jack a poem and gave him Edward Abbey's wise words for a happy life. As I watched Jack shake Teddy's hand, I knew everything was exactly as it should be. Jack was ready to move on, I was ready to let him go and we've been blessed with a lifetime of gratitude— for our family, friends, countless memorable dinners and the Lake and beaches that are the backdrop to our story.
'One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it's still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.' Edward Abbey
It is always a thrill when the shrimp boil hits the table— it's sheer abundance of color and texture is amazing. It literally put a smile on everyone's face and it only got better as they ate their way through the pile of corn, shrimp, potatoes and green beans.
As the night wound down and the full moon rose over the South Channel, I took a minute to take it all in. I knew we'd be on this beach again but it would be different next time. I wanted to remember every last moment of it— Charlie's face when the boil hit the table, Jack filling up a Corona bottle with sand to take to Madison, Meghan triumphantly hoisting the paddle over head when she saw me on the beach and Will walking down the beach, camera in hand, to catch the sunset. On that August night, it was about as good as it gets and I couldn't have been happier.
I didn't want the night to end. Like all good parties, time flies when you're having fun and before we knew it, the sun had set, the boats were loaded and we were on our way back to Bayfield. Until Kathy had a brilliant idea— a moonlight swim in the South Channel. We stopped the boats, jumped into the water and spent ten minutes swimming under the luminescent moon. It was the perfect end to a perfect night.


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Because you've gotta love Lana, here's a tonne of trivia about the star, from her Kurt Cobain fascination to her apparent love for former Liverpool player Luis Suarez…
Lana - real name Lizzy Grant - moved to New York City at the age of 18 to study Metaphysics at Fordham University. Metaphysics for the uninitiated is concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being. You know, existentialism and shit. All that deep stuff.
It was while at Fordham University that she says her "musical experience began."
Elizabeth Woolridge Grant was born in Lake Placid, in upstate New York. She moved back to New York City aged 18 after three years at a boarding school in Connecticut.
Del Rey has she was sent to Connecticut partially to deal with her alcohol addiction. "Thinking about not drinking forever was very scary," she said later, "but once I did it wasn't hard anymore because I had all of these miracles happen that let me know I was on exactly the right path."
Although dry for 11 years, she says a lack of respect from some quarters sometimes makes her want to get sloshed again. "When I feel like people don't like [my] music and that the 10 years I spent making what I made was not for a good reason, that makes me want to drink again," she said recently.
Before she became LRD, Elizabeth Grant made an album called 'Sirens' under the name May Jailer.
When Lizzy Grant made the name change for the first time she named herself Lana Del Ray with an 'a', like Man Ray. 'Ray' became 'Rey' fairly quickly following the release of her first album, much to the annoyance of her first record company.
An album - Lizzy Grant a.k.a. Lana Del Rey - came out digitally in 2010 through 5 Points records, but it was soon suppressed when the singer's management bought her out of the deal so she could sign a joint deal with Interscope and Polydor.
The unreleased demos from 2006's 'Sirens' were leaked onto YouTube in the summer of 2012. Seek it out to trace the evolution of a superstar if you want, and admire the lack of production qualities.
The singer told Vogue the name came when she was frequently visiting Spanish speaking Cuban friends in Miami. "Lana Del Rey reminded us of the glamour of the seaside.," she said. "It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue."
Lizzy Grant assumed a number of names before deciding on Lana Del Rey, and the best amongst them (aside from her stage name of course) is quite probably Sparkle Jump Rope Queen.
Sparkle Jump Rope Queen uploaded a song called 'Elvis' to her MySpace profile back in 2008, and that's where it lies dormant in the virtual Pompei of the internet, alongside 'Blue Ribbon' and 'Axl Rose Husband'.
Lana was rumoured to be dating Axl Rose in 2012. She gamely turned up at a low key show at the Jazz Cafe in London in a Guns 'n' Roses t-shirt when speculation was at its most rife.
Ms Grant is of Scottish descent, as is Axl Rose (which probably gave them something to talk about when they were or weren't dating).
One of the bonus tracks on the new album is called 'Guns and Roses'. The other bonus tracks are called 'Black Beauty' and 'Florida Kilos'.
'Video Games' not only became a viral sensation when it was uploaded to YouTube, it also garnered an Ivor Novello award for best single that year.
Video Games has now been viewed nearly 60 million times.
Chuck Grant, Lana Del Rey's sister, makes a cameo appearance in 'Ride'; that's right, the scary one with all the Hell's Angels. Lana's kid sister is a photographer who graduated from Parsons School of Design, and she's responsible for a fair few promo pics of her famous older sibling.
Chuck Grant, Lana Del Rey's sister, makes a cameo appearance in 'Ride'; that's right, the scary one with all the Hell's Angels. Lana's kid sister is a photographer who graduated from Parsons School of Design, and she's responsible for a fair few promo pics of her famous older sibling.
'Born To Die' - technically Lana Del Rey's second studio album - topped the charts in 11 countries, including the UK, Australia, France and Germany. It topped the chart in 18 countries on the iTunes store charts.
'Born To Die' sold its one millionth copy in the US in March 2014.
The video for the title track was directed by Yoann Lemoine, and was the first pop video the French ever allowed to be filmed at the Fontainebleau; "the only royal and imperial château to have been continuously inhabited for seven centuries."
'Ride' was the first single released from her 'Born to Die: Paradise Edition' - it has an extended monologue at the beginning: "I was in the winter of my life and the men I met along the road were my only summer..." Gloriously dramatic as ever.
Rob Grant - Del Rey's father - is an internet entrepreneur and millionaire. He made his cash from canny investment in domain names.
Following success came unprecedented trolling. Some fans claimed they'd been led to believe Lana Del Rey was an organic wunderkind who'd made the home-made movie for 'Video Games' herself, and they now felt she was less than authentic.
Lana Del Rey made the home-made movie for 'Video Games' herself on her MacBook.
Her friend and sometime mentor Princess Superstar had this to say: "I've never understood this controversy about whether she's real or fake. All artists have a persona. She's not put together by some company. These are her songs, her melodies, her singing - she's always had this Sixties aesthetic."
Del Rey's first label 5 Points Records refute any suggestion the singer was bankrolled. "That whole thing that she was backed by her millionaire dad is a bunch of crap, basically," label boss David Nichtern told MTV. "Her father never had anything to do financially with supporting her creativity."
Another charge of collagen enhancement was vehemently denied by the singer. ""I haven't had anything done at all… I'm quite pouty," she said in an interview. "That's just how I look when I sing."
She describes her look as 'Gangster Nancy Sinatra'. Or does she? It turns out Del Rey's manager was responsible. "As soon as it flew out of his mouth, it fucking stuck like glue," she said. "I spend eight fucking years writing gorgeous songs and someone in a meeting says 'gangsta Nancy Sinatra' and that's that. It's brutal."
Lana quotes the fictional Humbert Humbert - the main protagonist in Nabokov's Lolita - in the song 'Off to the Races', lifting the line 'light of my life, fire of my loins'.
Lolita is something of a motif in her work, not least of all inspiring the song, er, 'Lolita'.
Her literary influences are vast, with her first major inspiration coming from the beat poet Allen Ginsberg when she stumbled upon the poem 'Howl' aged 15.
Fans of Anthony Burgess' 'A Clockwork Orange' will recognise the title Ultraviolence immediately.
Lana signed up with the major modelling agency Next Model Management in January 2012, becoming part of the "talent wing" of the company alongside Jane Birkin, Alexa Chung, Kelis and Ellie Goulding.
In October 2012 Dey Rey starred in a memorable H&M campaign in which the wily advertisers used Bobby Vinton's 'Blue Velvet' (although the classic was recorded in 1963, it is forever synonymous with the David Lynch film of the same name made in 1987. Del Rey loves Lynch. QED.)
Lana Del Rey, if you weren't aware, is the most recent Queen of Sadcore. The neologism was first coined for Cat Power in 2006, but Del Rey stepped up to the breach when 'Video Games' dominated the blogosphere six years later.
She's since been labelled Hollywood Sadcore, a genre that pretty much includes Lana Del Rey and nobody else.
The tracklisting for 'Ultraviolence' was recently sent out to press, and within minutes eyebrows were being raised in the Twittersphere at a song called "Fucked My Way To The Top".
West Coast has been remixed by a number of artists already, including Four Tet and Camo & Krooked.
Tattooed on Del Rey's left hand are the words "paradise" and the initial "M", for grandmother Madeleine. And 'trust no one' on the other hand.
LDR played Coachella earlier in the year and she's scheduled to play at this year's Rock en Seine in Paris in August. Oh, and there's the little matter of a gig on Worthy Farm on 28th June.
To date (these figures are from March), she had 387 million views on her official YouTube account and over one million subscribers.
But that's only the half of it, because over on Vevo she has 470 million views and 2.1 million subscribers.
According to Next Big Sound, her SoundCloud account has received 22.6 million plays (again, figures from March). Right now she has 4,814,531 followers.
Her main musical inspiration - as unlikely as it might sound - was Kurt Cobain. She says watching 'Heart Shaped Box' in MTV aged 11 stopped her in her tracks: "I thought he was the most beautiful person I had ever seen. Even at a young age, I really related to his sadness."
Lana Del Rey has been asked to perform by Kanye West at his wedding to Kim Kardashian - or at least that's what the Hollywood gossip mags are reporting. Say it's so!
Lana is a Liverpool FC fan. "I love watching Luis Suárez play," she has said.
Last year Lana contributed to Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby soundtrack (inspired by the book by F. Scott Fitzgerald), and 'Young and Beautiful' did a cool million in downloads.


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Diversity Is Not Equality
Although the two words are often used interchangeably, by definition and in practice they mean very different things. Here's how the Oxford English dictionary defines the two:
- The state of being diverse
- "There was considerable diversity in the style of reports"
- a range of different things
- plural noun: diversities
- "newspapers were obliged to allow a diversity of views to be printed"
- variety, miscellany, assortment, mixture, mix, melange, range, array, medley, multiplicity;
A diverse society is simply a place where multiple cultures, ethnicities, religions and genders coexist in relative peace.
Diversity is a beautiful thing, especially when it's accompanied by cooperation and peace. It so often leads to mutual understanding and appreciation between groups of people who historically, geographically and philosophically have been continents apart.
But diversity does not pay the rent or provide a better quality education. That's where equality comes in:
- The state of being equal, especially in status, rights, or opportunities.
- "an organisation aiming to promote racial equality"
- fairness, justness, equitability, impartiality, even-handedness, egalitarianism, equal rights, equal opportunities, non-discrimination
An equal society does not yet exist but if or when it does it will be a place where discrimination in all its many forms (employment, education, legislation, protection, to name a few) is no longer culturally or legally possible.
Equality means true parity which is the state or condition of being equal, especially in terms of status or compensation. Every society since the beginning of time has been gender diverse and yet sexism and misogyny endure. Having neighbors of a different color does not mean that your experiences and opportunities within your community have been anything close to equal.
New York City has always been considered a diverse city but this has not translated into equality. Opportunities and protections are doled out based on socio economic, ethnic, gender, sexual and religious factors.
Worldwide, diversity has never protected the oppressed. Diversity doesn't prevent ethnic cleansing among people who have coexisted side by side peacefully for generations. We need look no further than Myanmar, Rawanda or the holocaust for proof.
We must not assume or be lulled into thinking that diversity equals equality. This is dangerous and lazy. A diverse society is not an equal one.
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X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner doesn't expect to recast T.J. Miller in Deadpool 2, despite the allegations against him. The ongoing tide of accusations of sexual assault and abuse has led to several actors losing their jobs, being recast or otherwise removed from movies and TV shows. Kevin Spacey being replaced with Christopher Plummer in All the Money in the World is one of the more recent and perhaps most famous example of this happening. However, there's been no hint of Miller losing his spot as Deadpool's quasi-BFF, Weasel, despite similar allegations having come out against him of late.
There's been rumors of Miller's inappropriate behavior for years in Hollywood, but it was only recently that a woman came forward claiming the Silicon Valley actor assaulted her in college. Miller has denied these charges, but it sounds as though the unofficially-titled Deadpool 2 may wind up keeping the actor in the movie for another reason altogether.
Related: 15 Movie Actors Who Were Replaced In The Middle Of Production
In an interview with Rotten Tomatoes, X-Men franchise producer Lauren Shuler Donner said the Deadpool 2 is almost completed. As such there's no real chance that Miller, despite the serious allegations, will be recast. When asked directly, Donner responded "We're in the final editing. I don't think so."
Of course even if Miller remains in Deadpool 2 that doesn't mean he will stay in the franchise for the long haul. Miller could easily be written out of any future Deadpool sequels. Though these projects aren't announced yet, they are an almost certainty given the first Deadpool's financial and critical success. Yet on that front, Donner is also unsure. It will be up to Disney, the new owner of Fox, to determine if Miller has a future as Weasel. "That's a whole studio thing," Shuler Donner explained. "I don't know."
This is far from the first time that the X-Men franchise has had to handle a sexual abuse scandal. X-Men: The Last Stand director Brett Ratner has also come under fire for his behavior, which includes outing The Last Stand costar Ellen Page on set in front of the entire film's crew, as revealed by Page herself.
Ratner is, sadly, not alone. Frequent X-Men films director Bryan Singer has also had several scandals follow him recently. Like the aforementioned Spacey, Singer has been accused of engaging in inappropriate sexual behavior with underage men. While he's currently facing a major lawsuit for engaging in sexual activity with a 17-year-old, there are several equally problematic stories surrounding Singer. For related reasons, Singer has removed himself from Legion season 2 as a producer.
For now, however, it appears that T.J. Miller's spot in Deadpool 2 is safe and that he won't following in Ratner and Singer's footsteps, whether that's the right thing to do or not. The ultimate decision will be up to the audience who pays to see the movie.
MORE: Deadpool 2 Can "Fix" the X-Men Movie Continuity
Source: Rotten Tomatoes
- New Mutants (2020) release date: Apr 03, 2020
- Deadpool 2 (2018) release date: May 18, 2018
- X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019) release date: Jun 07, 2019
- Gambit (2020) release date: Mar 13, 2020


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Note: This is the second piece written after I attended a Congressional hearing with Olympic Sports leaders on Tuesday, May 24th. You can find my "quick hit" thoughts here.
Larry Nassar has become a household name for all the worst reasons. Yesterday, his name was probably the most frequently used by representatives as they questioned Olympic sports leaders.
Before I set about how the Nassar case should be a spring board for further change, lets acknowledge what attention to the case has achieved:
1. It has greatly increased pressure and scrutiny on Olympic sports bodies, particularly gymnastics. Judging from yesterday the scrutiny and pressure does not seem to be enough, but the Nassar case definitely dialed it up.
2. The public airing of victim impact testimony had an immeasurable impact on victims, increasing confidence in many that they would be heard and that there would be consequences for those who hurt them.
3. Instead of isolating Nassar as a rogue operator, there have been some (but not nearly enough) consequences for the myriad people who enabled his destructive behavior, both at Michigan State and in Gymnastics
4. Finally, the $500 million dollar judgment against MSU is a seismic shift in terms of consequences for harboring a predator like Nassar.
But focus on Nassar is not all good, and in particular yesterday's testimony highlighted some of the areas we need to shore up in its wake.
Not Just Olympians
Although there were many tremendous statements made in the course of the the Nassar trial, overwhelming focus was given to the elite athletes he abused. I myself got caught up in it, especially the words of Aly Raisman.
Any attention on this issue is good attention. However, a heavy focus on the stories of Olympians can undermine the confidence of the vast majority of athletes who have been abused who do not have the notoriety. Remember these are deeply hurt people.
So it is important that we as a community publicly support the survivors who aren't well known for their athletic accomplishments. Additionally, a bridge needs to be built between the Olympian class of survivors and those with stories that are all too similar with less familiar names.
We need the biggest team we can possibly have advocating for the right thing.
Not just one man
As I said, there has been some scrutiny of at least those closely tied to Nassar. William Strampel, Nassar's boss, is now in his own jeopardy.
John Geddert, a gymnastics coach who has also been accused of abusing athletes and who had ties to Nassar, "retired". Hardly an acceptable consequence for what he has done and the culture he helped foster within gymnastics.
The truth is, predators like Nassar are not rogue operators. They exist within a system that at varying levels enables or ignores their behavior.
in the case of Sean Hutchison, NPR reported that another Olympic coach will be implicated in sexually inappropriate behavior that Hutchison conducted with athletes. This holds the promise of a "smoking gun" for another prominent US coach. We may not be as lucky to root out the enabling behavior in many cases.
Predators do not exist in a vacuum. It is a huge task, but in order to move forward, we actually need to find out not only who the bad actors were, but also who knew about the bad actors and did not act themselves. Yes, some of those people were nearly as powerless as the victims themselves. Some were not. There need to be consequences for those that knew enough and stood by.
I've heard the term "truth and reconciliation" bandied about recently, mostly from those who are in a real hurry to get to the "reconciliation" part. There's a reason truth comes first in that phrase. We need the truth first, then we can think about what reconciliation looks like.


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One cannot judge any group of performers merely on how precisely they play together or even on how virtuosic they can be; one must also take into account how expressively they respond to one another, how well the separate voices combine and interact. In all of these regards, the Quartetto di Roma, founded in 1995, succeed well. The group's members--Marco Fiorini and Biancamaria Rapaccini, violins; Davide Toso, viola; and Alessandra Montani, cello--say their desire is to continue the distinguished Italian quartet tradition.
The players begin the album with Felix Mendelssohn's String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13, which the composer wrote in his youth, beginning it around 1827 and completing it in 1832. He said he wrote it in tribute to the death of Beethoven and based it on a song he had recently written. The Quartet No. 2 may be an early work, but it is mature in tone, and the Quartetto perform it with a warm, easygoing grace.
The first movement comes off as particularly captivating in the Quartetto's hands, lyrical and flowing. They handle the slow, second-movement Adagio non lento, eloquently. The Intermezzo seems appropriately serious though not quite as cheery or as folklike as I've heard it done. And the Presto finale strikes me as appropriately melodic, intense, and serene.
The interaction among the Quartettto di Roma members appears cultivated by years of association and offers the listener a polished, harmonious presentation. Their playing sounds relaxed in a cultured, civilized manner, making for easy and obviously pleasurable listening.
By coincidence, not long before my listening to the present album, I listened to and reviewed another recent recording of Mendelssohn's String Quartet No. 2, one by Quatuor Ebene on Virgin Classics. I won't try to play favorites here or steer you to one or the other disc, but I will say the two performances are somewhat different in style and sound. The Quartetto di Roma appear smoother and more refined, Quatuor Ebene more robust and individualistic, with a tad cleaner recording. Which rendition you prefer may depend on what mood you're in.
Filling out the Quartetto di Roma disc are several more, shorter chamber pieces by Mendelssohn and the single-movement Quartet in C minor by Franz Schubert. Mendelssohn's Theme and Variations, Scherzo, Capriccio, and Fugue date from a period spanning about twenty years, but Mendelssohn's publisher collected and released them under the single opus number 81. They are all delightful, of course, especially the unfinished Schubert movement and the Scherzo with its similarities to A Midsummer Night's Dream, yet I would have preferred another single, longer work instead, another quartet perhaps. As it is, the disc contains less than an hour of music.
Discantica chose to record the music in 2009 at the Church of San Sebastiano al Palatino, originally a tenth-century basilica dedicated to Saint Sebastian, rebuilt in the seventeenth century and located on Rome's Palatine Hill. It's obviously a place with much history, and it makes a fairly good recording location for the chamber music of Mendelssohn and Schubert. There's a mild reverberation present but never so much as to cloud or veil the sound too seriously. Mostly, the venue imparts a sweet warmth to the occasion, a pleasing resonance. The miking is relatively close, so the instruments loom somewhat large, and the group does tend to spread out across the room. While it's not as realistic or as transparent as I'd like, the recording provides a big, impressive sonic picture.
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Despite opposition from taxi companies who weren't recommended for a contract, the Charlotte City Council voted Monday to allow only one additional cab company to pick up passengers at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, bringing the total number of city-approved companies to four.
Five years ago, council members voted to limit the number of taxis allowed to operate at Charlotte Douglas from 12 to three. The airport said it would improve customer service by having only the best companies at the airport.
But the decision sparked intense opposition from losing cab companies, which said being shut out of the airport would cripple their business. They also said that former Mayor Patrick Cannon influenced the selection process, and their criticisms gained a new audience when he was arrested on federal corruption charges in March 2014.
Cannon was not charged with anything related to taxicabs. But the complaints of cab companies prompted the city to create a new selection process for the airport.
In the end, very little changed.
Before the process was reopened, three cab companies were allowed to pick up at Charlotte Douglas: City Cab, Crown Cab and Yellow Cab. They had 157 licenses total.
Under the new system, City Cab, Crown Cab and Yellow Cab will remain. They will each have 47 permits. The fourth company is Green Cab, which will have 30 permits.
Twelve companies applied for service at the airport. The companies and drivers not selected were furious at being shut out of the airport, which they said is crucial to their business.
"Saying this process was fair is like saying Patrick Cannon didn't take bribes," said Obaid Khan of Diamond Cab, which wasn't selected. "You might as well tell us to stop doing business."
Interim Aviation Director Brent Cagle said the airport went to great lengths to ensure the process was fair. It hired an outside consultant to ensure the airport followed best practices. The selection committee included a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police representative; a member of airport staff; a representative from HMS Host, an airport vendor; and a representative from Atlanta's airport.
"The last time there were all sorts of allegations," Cagle said. "We asked, 'How do we ensure integrity?' "
Cagle said the four companies were considered the best choices, by far.
The new agreement, like the previous deal, allows any cab company to drop someone off at the airport. But if a taxi driver doesn't have an airport permit, they can't pick someone up at Charlotte Douglas.
Some council members were concerned that the city would be picking winners and losers in awarding the taxi permits.
"We're choking small companies out of their ability to make money," said council member Al Austin. "I have concerns."
One driver, Rudolph Kirkpatrick, asked that all companies be given 15 permits each.
"We could all work at the airport," he said. "We are asking to let us eat, to let our people eat."
The agreement gives the four taxi companies a three-year term at the airport. The city can then execute three one-year extensions if it chooses.
Even companies who were recommended for contracts were concerned.
Mayur Khandelwal of Crown Cab said he will keep access to the airport, but will lose 22 permits.
"I will have to go back and tell these drivers you can't work at the airport," he said. "One-third of my drivers will be kicked out of the airport."
Council members discussed the issue for nearly two hours. They voted 8-3 in favor of awarding the four companies airport access.
Republican Kenny Smith voted no, saying "government shouldn't be picking winners and losers."
Democrat James Mitchell also voted no. He said he was uncomfortable that the airport was shutting out small businesses, and said the selection process wasn't clear enough for him to make a decision.
Democrat LaWana Mayfield also voted no.
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I must confess I wasn't too wowed by my experience in Sydney a few years ago. Sure, it was a good bowl of ramen but nothing in the ballpark of spectacular or memorable. This time around, the karaka-men or spicy tonkotsu that features Ippudo's signature and original tonkotsu broth topped with a special spicy ground pork miso left more of an impression. It was flavoursome without being overly heavy or salty, and the heat provided a toasty warmth that will go hand in hand with the upcoming winter weather. Given my intolerance for heavy spice, the addition of the spicy paste on top rather than mixed throughout allowed me to control the amount of spice. The usual ramen partners were spot on; the charshu pork soft, tender and further upping the overall flavour, and the egg yolk gorgeously oozy.
Be sure to also save some room for some entrees, of which there are plenty of tasty-sounding options on the menu. We sampled quite a few of these during our visit, with favourites at our table being the teriyaki eggplant, wagyu tataki, barramundi and spicy bakuretsu tofu broth.
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Packages in the mail will always hold a special place in my heart (especially in the season of college decisions), and I was ecstatic to return home this mint beauty from Beauty Box Five a few days ago.
If you haven't heard of Beauty Box Five, it's a subscription program that sends you quality beauty samples each month, free shipping and all. If you'd like to test it out for yourself, a monthly subscription (one box) runs $12, a quarterly subscription (three boxes total) is $30, and a yearly one (twelve boxes total) is $99. There are also gift orders, so they're the perfect solution for your beauty guru friend.
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The first item I unpacked were these vividly-colored exfoliating gloves. I'm all about using exfoliants (though judiciously), so I was curious to see how these worked. I found that using these felt a little like using sandpaper--though definitely much finer and invigorating. These may be replacing my beloved loofahs in the near future.
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What I Hated the Least Today 45/365: Nature
I'm a sardonic blogger, snapper, scribbler and rhymer; a virtual space invader who indulges in cheerful negativism, morbid self-deprecation and bleak humour. View all posts by Mara Eastern
Washers and dryers are so decadent. Graduating from laundramats, to wringer washer and clothesline, up to a bona fide washer and dryer not at a friend's house, not down the hall, but right inside my own house, I give gratitude to the dryer. I could be on the river smashing my clothes with rocks. I am glad I am not. Great photos, great story.
I congratulate myself for my good luck anytime my eyes rest on my washing machine combined with dryer. I have a huge appreciation for things that make ordinary tasks easier. My grandmother did actually do her laundry under a water pump…
Very colourful area 🙂 You don't have any idea what they were really meant for? Back home, every apartment building [at least USED to] have some type of arrangement for big carpets. You hung them over the rod, rolled them up so that you could beat them. http://www.muller.se/angela/archives/pics/mattmupp.jpg
Perhaps this is something similar …
Walking, just for the sake of it, has never been my thing. Strange really — nobody could be less goal oriented than I. The surroundings there look quite lovely!
Of course! I'm so dumb, I forgot that the poles were meant for carpets. I knew it, but it's so long since I saw anyone using it for carpets that I quite forgot. I saw some people using the poles for laundry lines.
The surroundings here aren't that nice, but I edited the picture to make it look nicer 😉 Also, I didn't take any closeups of all the rubbish that was on each step.
Here, they don't seem to exist — those things for carpets. Most people have wall-to-wall carpeting. We were so lucky here, to avoid that.
Most people have wall-to-wall carpeting here too, and also everyone has a vacuum now, so I'm not sure what the point of the suicide poles is. It's curious that no one attempted to steal them and sell them as scrap metal yet – which I'd quite approve of – maybe they're too deep rooted.
That first photo is just beautiful – I can almost smell the crisp air and the contrast of colours is gorgeous. Nice place to take your camera walking! Did it like it there ?
Haha, yes, my camera enjoyed itself more than I did 😉 The photos actually turned out very bleak, but I added some vibrancy and saturation in post-processing, so it looks much more enticing than the real thing. I have to admit that it was an okay walk though. I'm inclined to do it again 🙂
Hahah, "presumably so that their depressed inhabitants could conveniently hang themselves at any time". That must be exactly what they're for!
I think more people are likely to want to hang themselves than to use the poles for carpet beating. It's a multifunctional device.
Your grungy panoramas are fantastic. 😀
Thank you 🙂 I plan to go for panoramas to some peripheral housing estate here, I'm perversely fascinated by the brutalist architecture.
I like the first picture the most. The green, the peacful nature with the river beside that path. And the town in the distance on the left completes the scenery oddly great.
I'm glad that you like! I took some pain with the first picture and edited it a little to bring out the colours – in fact, the scenery looked quite bleak.
Could you post the original too? I would love to see how different they are – especially because I am absolutely clueless when it comes to the editing of photos 🙂
The original photo should be here:
Editing photos take some practice but ultimately, it's not very difficult. Many editing apps have a smart autoedit option, when you just press a button and your photo is automatically adjusted to look better…
🙂 haha it seems I am the antithesis of you. Thank you for introducing me to Emerson's Transparent eyeball! In the city I can reside and live a peaceful existence but in nature my chest and heart expand beyond explanation. Everywhere I walk I take my camera (for a walk), although more often than not it is now my phone (chosen specifically for its camera). Post-processing is something that I enjoy doing too; thank goodness for digital for opening up this possibility to rank amateurs like me 🙂 Thank you for your posts…I have been on a semi-self imposed hiatus and have only recently returned. I find myself quite frequently with a wry smile of my face as I read your posts and they are inspiring me to gently rejoin the wordpress community. Cheers
Thank you so much for your lovely comment! It very much made my day 🙂
My pleasure to introduce you to the transparent eyeball – I get the idea, but I find the metaphor hilarious. While I prefer the city, I must admit, begrudgingly, that it felt quite peaceful to walk in natural surroundings. And the city was still safely behind my back…
I'm a mediocre to bad photographer, but I usually manage to fix a lot in post-processing. I have a good camera on my phone too – though it picked the phone for its long-lasting battery rather than its camera – and I've grown quite seasoned in using Snapseed for editing camera pictures. It can do great things and make a bad and boring photo look interesting.
And, of course, welcome back to blogging, the WordPress community is the best, I daresay, and it will be good to have you around 🙂
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We're highlighting 2 local female scientists for International Women's Day. Grab a beer, and ask them anything! They'll be easy to spot. Just look for the sign that reads: "We are scientists. Ask us anything!"


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The Avielle Foundation is excited to announce the next session of the Spark Afterschool Program. Spark Afterschool will now take place at the Reed Intermediate School on Monday and Wednesdays starting February, 5th through March 14th running from 3:45-5:00 pm followed by a homework club until 5:30 pm. We are partnering with Parks and Rec to deliver this innovative program, click to register use code 225001.
The emphasis of the Spark Afterschool program is to foster Social and Emotional Learning through innovative cultural experiences, recreational and fitness classes while emphasizing self-awareness, acceptance, compassion, and self-confidence. Utilizing methodology developed by the Life is Good Kids Foundation, PeaceLove Art, and our own research this program provides the children involved an opportunity to develop authentic connections through play, art, and shared experiences.


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Steve Rushin's vision of Super Bowl 100 was a perfect storm of Kurt Vonnegut and Stanley Kubrick. Brilliant. Unsettling, but brilliant.
Mark Hinshaw, Hobbs, N.M.
If even half of what Rushin writes comes true, then, to quote The Who, "I hope I die before I get old."
Bobby Horn, Stratford, Conn.
After reading Rushin's masterly piece through twice, I'm still fascinated by the predictions, humored by the outrageous novelties and moved to ponder the morality of a game that I and many hold dear.
Zach Weigel, Iowa City
In his examination of Mets manager Terry Collins's crucial World Series Game 5 decision, Tom Verducci captured the unsurpassed thrill of October baseball and the sublime grace that can exist in defeat (This Is What Terry Collins Was Thinking). The computer could belch out every statistical reason why starter Matt Harvey should have been pulled after the eighth. But humanity is what makes sports great.
Bradley McPeek, Cincinnati
Lost in Greg Bishop's riveting account of the Broncos' AFC championship win (La-D-Friggin'-Da) was the way linebacker DeMarcus Ware hit Tom Brady seemingly each time he dropped back in the fourth quarter. Rarely has a Super Bowl--starved star taken his destiny into his own hands as Ware did.
Sam Fiano
Fairfield, Conn.
It is mystifying that so many give GM David Griffin a pass for the Cavaliers' mess. I carry no brief for fired coach David Blatt, but Griffin is the one who has the franchise on the fast track to disappointment.
Michael Coffino
San Francisco
Michael Rosenberg could have been clearer that it wasn't Flint's decision to switch its water supply. The state of Michigan is responsible for this travesty.
Brian Smith
Ann Arbor, Mich.
It was a joy to read photographer Tony Tomsic's remarks about the ambience at the first Super Bowl (LEADING OFF), describing it as being almost like a high school game, with none of today's glitz.
Keith Brescia, Falls Church, Va.
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Steven Dayton Pierce, 54 years old of Lake Ave. Brocton, New York passed away with his family at his side early Tuesday morning April 26, 2016 at his home after an extended illness. He was born in Westfield, New York on August 13, 1961 to the late Dayton Pierce Jr. and Doris Oakes. He was formerly of Cassadaga, New York and has lived in this area since 2007. He had attended Westfield Academy growing up and worked all his life as a laborer for growers in and around the Westfield area. Steven was a former member of the Portland Fire Department and always found great enjoyment in watching television..
Besides his mother Doris Oakes Pierce of Westfield, New York, he is survived by his wife Selma Pierce of Brocton, New York and one sister Debbie Pierce Cramer of Fredonia, New York, his stepchildren Odia, Bambi, Paula, Daisy, Suzy and Paul Jr. and is also survived by Sabrina, Marti, Kim, Nikki, Bobbi Jo, Michelle and Joey, an abundance of grandchildren and one great grandson David McLaughlin IV who was born a very short time after Steven passed away Tuesday morning. Besides his father he was preceded in death by one sister Sue Ann Pierce Gorniak
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37th Utility Energy Forum
Join us at the Utility Energy Forum, where you can network with energy services professionals representing energy utilities and allies serving Western states. You will learn how they are developing and implementing customer programs related to energy efficiency, renewable energy, key account management, and other customer services.
This year's theme, "Change is the Only Constant – Customers, Policy and Technology," will weave throughout the sessions as we challenge our traditional thinking and prepare for rapid change in the energy utility industry.
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Utility managers, utility marketers, energy managers, energy services directors, marketing managers, key account representatives, and other interested parties who need to know about the latest trends in the energy utility industry.


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André Leon Talley, former Editor-at-Large at Vogue, will appear in conversation with Eric Johnson, Executive Director of the Saint Louis Fashion Fund, and Genevieve Cortinovis, Assistant Curator of decorative arts and design at The Saint Louis Art Museum.
This public program, which will explore the intersections between fine art and men's fashion, is the inaugural lecture in the Fashion Fund's "Speaking of Fashion" series.
It is sponsored by the Regional Arts Commission.
Click here to purchase tickets to Mr. Talley's talk at the Saint Louis Art Museum: http://www.metrotix.com/events/detail/andre-leon-talley
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Recently Machine Gun Kelly was on the Breakfast Club when he was asked about 50 cent running up on Diddy and he confirmed it was trueLater on 50 All but confirmed that rumor on twitter
"@50cent u should a knocked diddy out lmaoooo," tweeted a follower.
The rapper retweeted, "I know RT @50cent u shoulda knocked diddy out lmaoooo."
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- Confirmed: 50 cent and Diddy had an altercation that nearly came to blows over a Comment about Floyd Mayweather (heavenhollywood.wordpress.com)
- Gucci Mayne says Diddy fucked Keyshia Cole while he was with her" (heavenhollywood.wordpress.com)
- 50 Cent Diddy Beef: Gunplay Fight Discussed by Machine Gun Kelly (celebs.gather.com)
- 50 Cent & Diddy's BET Hip Hop Awards Backstage Blowout! (perezhilton.com)


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Katy & Laney tap shorts. Purple linen/viscose from MyFabrics. Facings in Tana lawn.
Another weird case of measuring carefully, cutting correct size…then finding it doesn't fit me anywhere. My belly required size 18, my hips size 8! Blimey try grading between those lol
I did my best, and although I'd originally planned to bind all the seams, my experience with the green skirt told me to hold off. The purple linen frays like buggery though, so I had to overlock as an interim measure.
I machine basted the waistband on, and hand basted a zip in, and burst out laughing. They fell straight down again. I did some rough pinning, took them off again, and took them in…a lot:
3/4″ on each side seam, 1/2 at CB, tapering to crotch, and 1/2″ ish at each back dart… four or five inches!
They now fit nicely on the waist, snug but no muffin top, so I got that right. BUT
I think we have the A line issue again here. The side seams look straight, the front and back fall from waist/belly nice and straight…but I feel like I belong in 'It ain't half hot mum'.
Hmmm. I could take them in some more at the sides I suppose, but I don't think it's worth it. It's a great pattern, very nicely drafted, and the diagonal front seaming is a lovely detail…but not for me I think.
I'll wear them around house and garden, but no further! They may be better after a few washes, as they soften, but I'm not convinced. Ah well.


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Welcome JJIPO@MONASH
15 February 2018
With more than 40 per cent of the country's ASX listed health science companies based in Victoria – and given the University's international reputation for biomedical innovation – Monash becomes the Victorian headquarters of a new Johnson & Johnson Innovation Partnering Office (JJIPO@MONASH).
It's the second hub of its kind in Australia, having previously launched in partnership with the Queensland Government and Queensland University of Technology in 2016.
The initiative comes at a time when the Victorian Government identifies medical technologies and pharmaceuticals as one of eight burgeoning sectors, employing 23,000 people across the state and generating $12.7 billion in revenue.
This new office will see industry leaders collaborating with Victorian researchers to turn today's breakthrough into tomorrow's commercial success.


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"Life Together" Membership Class #2
Life Together is an experience designed to help individuals discover their passion and interests; explore the numerous opportunities available to partner with God and fellow Christians in a serving role that make an eternal difference; and get connected with others who have similar interests.
"Life Together" is typically offered on the 3rd and 4th Sunday evening of the month following the Life Basics Class and is usually held in the home of the group's coach.
Click HERE for the second session of this class.
The Membership Class Schedule is as follows:
- Sunday, January 6, 2019, 4-7pm - "Life Basics" at the Walled Lake Campus
- Sunday, January 13, 2019, 4-7pm - "Life Together 1" at Host's Home
- Sunday, January 20, 2019, 4-7pm - "Life Together 2" at Host's Home
- Sunday, January 27, 2019 - "Life for Others" - Winterfest at Wixom Campus


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Holoprint Security Solutions offers an array of powerful and sophisticated cap and sealing solutions with multi-level authentication and security capabilities.
Holoprint produces its unique holographic sealing wads by laminating holographic images over an aluminium foil, which is then further coated with a layer of wax and LDPE to make it waterproof. These can then be used to seal the openings of products with the help of induction sealing machines. The manufacturing process employs quality-tested raw materials and advanced printing technologies to ensure 100% defect-free results.
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Telegraph: The British babies made in India
British couples pay poor Indian women to be surrogate mothers.
Telegraph: Rich Chinese hire American surrogate mothers for up to $120,000 per a child
These children are considered citizens of the United States, and when they are twenty-one years old they can apply for Green Cards for their Chinese parents. This is why "U.S. fertility clinics and surrogacy agencies are creating Chinese-language websites and hiring Mandarin speakers."


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I remember getting my first cell phone when I was in grade seven, a shiny grey LG Rumor 2. It had a slide out keyboard and a tiny screen; it could send texts and make calls and that was about it. In the nearly eight years since, I've gone through three more phones, not to mention two iPods and a laptop. The sad thing is, though there are a few people I know who've had the same phone for years, many others go through even more devices. Living in a society where updating and upgrading seems to happen overnight, its difficult to reconcile our want for the latest tech with the potentially detrimental effects of electronic waste. Our phones are getting smarter, but are we?
Many consumers find comfort in the concept of e-cycling, which is the recycling of electronic wastes. The word "recycling" holds such a positive connotation with relation to the environment, for many of us, myself included, I think it's assumed that when we "recycle" our outmoded devices, they are dealt with in a responsible, safe way. However, I was surprised to discover that quite often this is not the case.
Globally, more than 42 million tonnes of e-waste are produced every year, if you're like me and have a hard time conceptualizing such staggering numbers, I'll try to create a visual for you. If all that waste was brought to one spot it would create a pile half a kilometre in diameter and over 3 km high. For reference, that's nearly triple the height of the tallest building in Edmonton. Most developed nations have pretty strict regulations regarding electronic waste disposal, and this makes sense considering they are among the largest contributors to e-waste. Many facilities use state of the art technology to ensure waste is disposed of safely. In 2014, these sorts of facilities processed 6.5 million tonnes of waste, but what about the other 36 million? The rest of the waste gets "recycled" by developing nations, for one simple reason: cost.
In nations like India and China legislation is dodgy and not uniformly enforced, and in Africa it's virtually non-existent. Reading about how e-waste disposal works in these developing countries is truly irksome. Imagine people cooking circuit boards over open fires and bathing microchips in corrosive acids in order to extract valuable metals like copper and gold. And this isn't being done inside an industrial plant or a chem lab. E-waste recycling in developing countries is very much a cottage industry.
Up until a couple of years ago this is how e-waste disposal was done in the coastal village of Guiyu in South Eastern China that was colloquially called the "electronic graveyard of the world." Toxins like mercury, arsenic and chromium leached into the groundwater there making it undrinkable, lead levels both in the nearby river sediment and in the blood of the village's children were much higher than standardized safety levels and dangerously high amounts of carcinogenic dioxins were also reported. Rice farming used to be a major industry in Guiyu, but the toxins in the water there made it unfit for use in Agriculture, so farming activities died out. Clean-up efforts began a few years ago but have not had great success, unsafe disposal still happens in a sort of black-market fashion. Though, Guiyu is perhaps the most prolific case of environmental catastrophe as a result of e-waste, disposal sites in India and Africa face a similar plight.
How can I be sure I'm not unwittingly contributing to this toxic practice? Is there a way to be sure my old cellphone ends up in a facility equipped with the technology to safely dispose of it, and not in the hands of a vulnerable foreign worker? Stay tuned for my next article to discover the answers to those questions and many many more. (Sorry if that last part sounded a little gimmicky, but you've got to leave the readers wanting more, you know!)
- Zhang, Bin, and Dabo Guan. "Take responsibility for electronic-waste disposal." Nature 536 (2016): 4.
- Huo, Xia, et al. "Elevated blood lead levels of children in Guiyu, an electronic waste recycling town in China." Environmental Health Perspectives (2007): 1113-1117.
- Greenpeace East Asia. "Guiyu: An E-Waste Nightmare." greenpeace.org/eastasia/campaigns/toxics/problems/e-waste/guiyu/


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Welcome with open arms fellow believers who don't see things the way you do. And don't jump all over them every time they do or say something you don't agree with—even when it seems that they are strong on opinions but weak in the faith department. Remember, they have their own history to deal with. Treat them gently.
For instance, a person who has been around for a while might well be convinced that he can eat anything on the table, while another, with a different background, might assume he should only be a vegetarian and eat accordingly. But since both are guests at Christ's table, wouldn't it be terribly rude if they fell to criticizing what the other ate or didn't eat? God, after all, invited them both to the table. Do you have any business crossing people off the guest list or interfering with God's welcome? If there are corrections to be made or manners to be learned, God can handle that without your help.
Romans 14:1-4
What a powerful scripture! Welcome with open arms fellow believers who don't see things the way you do! Not force your belief or only accept those that see things exactly as you do! But welcome fellow believers. Accept people as they are.
For those that don't know, I have been struggling with my own family accepting the fact that I am a lesbian. They think that I can't be a lesbian and a Christian. They use the scripture to say this, though I have studied the same ones and see it different. They refuse to agree to disagree on this.
This is a hard pill to swallow. I mean I accept them. I accept all of them. I see them accept all of my brother. He is no saint and I see them accept him. He drinks, sleeps around, brings over women that he lives with and not married to, and they accept it. But because it is a straight relationship, it is okay and they accept it. But me, no, I will never feel this kind of acceptance.
I will never be able to bring home my girlfriend. I will never be able to have family at my wedding when that happens. I can't talk about who I am seeing. I can't talk about what I dream about. I am expected to live a life alone. And it hurts.
This is not acceptance. This is rejection. This is putting me in a cell. This is forcing a life on me that is not what I feel God would want for me. I know that I am not alone in this. I know that there are others out there that have it even worse. Who may say, at least your family is talking to you and not disowning you.
At one time they did, I remember it like it was yesterday. I don't know what happened that changed their mind, but something did. I guess God. I know I am blessed that they are talking to me and love me and not turning their back away, but still the fact that they won't accept all of me and that there is a part of my life that they will never be a part of, hurts.
I know walking this life, there are going to be people in this world that don't accept the fact that I am a lesbian. There are going to be those in the church that won't accept that. Yet God teaches us to accept fellow believers even when we don't see eye to eye. And you know what, a friend of mine said it best, "Let's say there is a billion people on this earth and two don't accept you and refuse to. Well there are 999,999,998 who accept you as you are!"


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Chow Town
Local cookbook author's novels are steeped in flavor
Judith Fertig's second novel — "The Memory of Lemon" (Berkley, $16) — plunges readers into the "high drama" of a wedding.
As pastry chef Claire "Neely" Davis meets the bride-to-be for a cake tasting, the tug-of-war between high-society mother and free-spirited daughter leaves her with a bitter taste in her mouth: "A fake lime flavor, like you tasted in cheap candies, settled in my mouth. Unlike the sharp, somewhat aromatic flavor of real lime zest and juice, the fake stuff tasted like chemicals. It was the flavor I recognized as manipulation."
Fertig, an Overland Park-based cookbook author, has written numerous cookbooks on Midwestern food, barbecue and grilling but published her first novel, "The Cake Therapist," last summer.
[Click here for a Q&A with the Fertig about her first novel.]
"Weddings are always a time of high drama and that's when family stories come to light. Any skeletons in the closet kind of come to the fore," Fertig recently told a room of women gathered at the Webster House for a lemon-themed brunch that included limoncello champagne cocktail, lemon and goat cheese flan, grilled lemon-tarragon chicken and a lemon panna cotta tart.
Fertig uses Neely's flavors to flesh out the main character.
"I decided on a main character who was a pastry chef, and she was intuitive," Fertig said. "For a lot of us when we hear a song on the radio or the smell of suntan lotion, we go back in time. But she can sense other people's stories, and from flavor she can also tell what's going on with herself.
"In her bakery, (Neely) decides to have two signature flavors each month. In the month of January, the two signature flavors are dark chocolate and coffee. … (They) are the flavors we need to propell us into action, and that's what we need in January," Fertig explained.
"So if she gets the taste of pomegranate, Neely knows she's missing home. If she tastes the comfort of sweet cinnamon, it's a flavor that holds your hand so you can cross the street into another chapter of your life. Flavor speaks to her and has a personality, and flavor speaks to me as well."
To help her imbue her character with flavor, Fertig is interested in understanding the chemistry of flavor.
"In order to write about flavors, I also do research," she said. "What are the compounds in certain flavors? That adds a little bit of science to how they make us feel. There are all these studies that have been done on chocolate that tell us why it makes it like a drug."
Lemon happens to be one of Fertig's favorite flavors.
"When you add citrus to a dish, it helps clarify thinking, just like when you add a little lemon to cloudy iced tea. It kind of makes things come into focus … then there is the limonene that is the essential oil in lemon zest and that assists with memory as we get older."
One of the "key pies" in "The Memory of Lemon" is a Kentucky Lemon Pie that Fertig's mother used to make when she was a child. The recipe came from Pleasant Hill, Ky., near where the fictional wedding is set.
"It's a pie that you make by slicing whole lemons really thin so you have these thin slices with the rinds," she said. "You remove the seeds but the thin slices sit in the sugar until they get really juicy, and the longer you let them sit the juicier they get. Then you mix them with some eggs and you bake it in a pie shell, and it's a fabulous, really tart dessert."
Jill Wendholt Silva is The Star's James Beard award-winning editor, lead restaurant critic and blog curator. Reach her at email@example.com or @kcstarfood and @chowtownkc.
Kentucky Lemon Pie
"This recipe, passed down through generations and families, holds a key to understanding in "The Memory of Lemon." Made with thin sliced whole lemons, it's puckery and delicious." For more lemon recipes, go to Judith Fertig's "Alfresco Food and Lifestyle" blog.
Makes 1 9-inch pie
2 large lemons
2 cups granulated sugar
4 large eggs, well beaten
Pastry for a double-crust pie
Slice lemons paper thin, rind and all; discard seeds. Combine with the sugar in a bowl. Let stand 2 hours or longer, preferably blending occasionally.
Add beaten eggs to the lemon mixture; mix well. Turn into a 9-inch pie shell, arranging lemon slices evenly. Cover with top crust. Cut several slits near the center. Bake at 450 degrees for 15 minutes.
Reduce heat to 375 degrees and bake for about 20 minutes, or until a knife inserted near the edge of the pie comes out clean. Cool before serving.
From "We Make You Kindly Welcome: Recipes from the Trustees House Daily Fare," Pleasant Hill, Ky.


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Just like a mythical unicorn the flavor coming from Psycho Unicorn is crazy unbelievable. This 100ml bottle of e liquid is filled with the taste of a sponge cake with candy cream filling. Its formulaic blend consists of 80VG/20PG and its sealed in a chubby gorilla bottle to prevent any leaks. You'll transform into the happy human being that we know is locked inside of you with a whiff of this flavor. With each inhale and exhale you'll rise above the clouds sending yourself to a paradise in the sky. What good luck you have or at least that's what you thought when you happened upon a picturesque scene of a majestic and magical unicorn grazing in a grassy field. You go in for a closer look but when you accidentally step on a branch the mythical creature hears you and starts flapping their wings. You don't want to miss your opportunity to pet this beautiful animal so you whip out plan B. Is it ok for unicorns to eat sponge cake? Well, this one is magical. You wonder if anything bad could happen until you notice the unicorn coming closer to you - now's your chance. you place the delicious sponge cake on the ground and gracefully pet the unicorn head as it eats. If only your friends could see you now. Unfortunately, you should have been more careful with your wish because now that unicorn follows you around wherever you go The worst part is if you don't feed it enough sponge cake it goes wild with crazy! Had you brought Psycho Unicorn by Psycho E Liquid instead, the smell alone would have hypnotized the animal to come closer to you. Moral of the story, buy Psycho Unicorn.
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Death Proof (2007)
May 21, 2007 113 min Watch Trailer
overview : Austin's hottest DJ, Jungle Julia, sets out into the night to unwind with her two friends Shanna and Arlene. Covertly tracking their moves is Stuntman Mike, a scarred rebel leering from behind the wheel of his muscle car, revving just feet away.
Genres : Action, Thriller
Tags : women, disc jockey, sports car, bar, ladykiller, exploitation, sadism, female friendship, women's prison, stunt, stuntman, psychopath, stalker, gore, grindhouse, beaten to death, slasher, sadist, violence, car chase, killer car, misogynist, duringcreditsstinger
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Rosario DawsonAbernathy Ross
Vanessa FerlitoArlene "Butterfly"
Sydney Tamiia PoitierJungle Julia Lucai
Tracie ThomsKim Mathis
Rose McGowanPam
Jordan LaddShanna
Mary Elizabeth WinsteadLee Montgomery
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Here are my painting thumbnails for the first Exterior Design Assignment.
I really enjoyed doing all three of them, and it's gonna be a hard decision to choose the final one. The thing with color pencils is that you have to build the layers so that it doesn't get waxy at the very beginning; therefore, it took me about two hours for each one of the color studies. I probably could have done it faster, but then I think that looses the meaning of "study".
Anyways, I think I'm gonna go with the camping site with the Volkswagen Van =)


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Updates Updates Updates
No, this time I actually didn't fall into the pit of blog-restricting procrastination. I was actually CSS-wrestling with the new website to get it to where I wanted it to be. I set this up in Cargo Collective but had to go and alter a zillion of pieces of code (lots and lots of trial&error went on here) but it's a process I forgot I liked so much.
Projects are being added as they happen and I'm still putting together some more work to put on in the next few weeks. Feel free to stop by and say hi.