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Rev. Timothy B. Tutt, Senior Minister
Westmoreland Congregational United Church of Christ
Bethesda, Maryland
Sunday, January 11, 2015
aptism of Jesus Sunday
"Scrub Behind Your Ears - Baptism and Charlie Hebdo"
In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. – John 1:9
"Don't forget to scrub behind your ears," my parents would say to me when I was a small child taking a bath.
"But why," I would ask.
And sometimes the answer would be a joke: "Because if you don't, dirt will pile up there and tree might start to grow on the side of your head."
Sometimes that happens to the world: We fail to tend to the dirty parts of life and trees grow there, sometimes dangerous trees with strange and poisonous fruit. The strange and deadly fruits of violence and fear and racism and poverty and aimlessness.
So it was this week when gunmen attacked the offices of the French satire magazine, Charlie Hebdo, leaving twelve people dead, and others attacked a kosher market in France.
And so it has been far too often in human history: In 1096 when Christian crusaders violently slaughtered Jews in Germany.
So it was in June of last year when a raging mob of violent Buddhists killed four Muslim people in Sri Lanka.
So it was 30 years ago when Hindu thugs killed 8,000 Sikhs in India.
We may identify the religious condiments we put on this strange fruit, but you see that violence, terrorism, killing are not Muslim problems, not Christian problems, not Hindu or Jewish or Buddhist problems. These are human problems
The secular government of Communist China killed tens of millions of people when they came to power in 1949; that was not religious. In November, a gang in Mexico killed 43 students; there was no religious purpose to that. A hundred and five homicides took place in DC last year; those were driven not by religion, but by a host of complicated factors.
Today on the church calendar is Baptism of Jesus Sunday. We don't sing baptismal carols, we don't decorate baptismal trees, we don't take a day off work. But on this Baptism of Jesus Sunday we are invited to hear again the story of Jesus' baptism: "John the Baptizer appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of life-change that leads to forgiveness of sins," as Eugene Peterson describes it. "People crowded around John. They came from Judea and Jerusalem. They confessed their sins, they admitted their mistakes. And John baptized them to welcome them into a changed life. In the middle of all of that, came Jesus came from Nazareth. John baptized him too. And the people who were gathered around said that the moment Jesus came up out of the water, they saw clouds roll back and God's spirit come down on him, like a dove gliding in the air. And they said they heard a voice say, "You are my Child, my beloved one, you are the apple of my eye, the joy of my life, with you I am well-pleased."
On this baptism of Jesus Sunday – even as we ponder the killings at Charlie Hebdo and at the market and the other tragedies of life, we hear that baptismal story. And we wonder: What does it mean to confess our human sins? What does it mean to live as beloved children of God?.
On this Baptism of Jesus Sunday we are also invited to remember our own baptismal covenant.
Most of you, I imagine, have been baptized. Some of you were baptized as babies or as infants. Your parents or godparents or grandparents carried you in to church and dedicated you to God with words and water. Others of you were baptized as teenagers or adults. Some of us, for various reasons, have never been baptized. For some of it, a bit of water was used, sprinkled on your head. For others, water was poured on your head. You may remember it running down into your eyes. Some of you were baptized by immersion, entered fully into a pool of water.
No matter how much or how little water was used, you were baptized – not just by the transparent, but visible element that is two part hydrogen and one part oxygen – but you were also baptized by the invisible, ineffable grace of God: a grace, not made present but baptism, but acknowledged by baptism, a grace that runs down over your head and washes behind your ears and fills your hearts and mind and fires your compassion and tickles your toes.
A grace that our world needs to water its untended corners.
The United Church of Christ offers a great deal of freedom, both freedom of thought and freedom for action and freedom for the liturgy. So very rarely are any two baptisms the same in the United Church of Christ. However, our Book of Worship does include words for baptism. And most of our baptismal services include some variation of these words. If a child is being baptized, we ask a series of questions of the parent or parents. If a teenager or adult is being baptized, we ask the questions of the person being baptized.
We ask if the person wants to be baptized into the family of Christ.
We ask if the person will resist evil, will follow in the ways of Christ, will show love and justice in the world, will strive to love their neighbors and even their enemies, and will witness to the work and ways of Jesus in the world.
Those are not easy words.
We've baptized a half dozen babies here at Westmoreland in the past two years. (By the way, we have four families who are expecting children in the coming months so please remember those families in your prayers and please join me in anticipating more baptisms.) Perhaps you've witnessed so many baptisms over the years that the words have become rote or routine. But they are not easy words. Will you show love and justice in the world? Will you love your neighbors? Will you love even your enemies? Will you follow in the ways of Jesus?
If we take those words seriously, to be baptized is serious business. If we mean those words, then being a Christian is hard work. And the world needs our hard work.
Charlie Hebdo needs our hard work. The Nigerian girls abducted by Boko Haram and still missing need us to live out our baptismal covenant. The streets of Ferguson, Missouri, and the streets of Washington DC need us to walk them with justice and with love.
We grieve the lives lost in Paris. Just as we grieved the lives lost on September 11, 2001. And just as certainly as Jews grieved in the Rhineland in 1096. And Muslims grieved in Sri Lanka and Sikhs grieved in India. And Mexicans grieved in November. I believe that those words from the baptismal story are universal: We are all children of God, loved and pleasing. We should grieve when any life is cut short.
We remember the privilege and responsibility of free speech, in part because our Constitution has partnered it with freedom of religion.
We should not rush to explain the murderers with easy caricatures.
We need to know more and more about Islam and Buddhism and Hinduism and all the world's religions. And we need to do a better job of expressing our hopes for Christianity as well.
We need to understand the shadowy corners of the world. "Scrub behind your ears," my parents said, "That's were trees will grow." We need to know about the fertile soil that breeds discontent and hopelessness.
And we need to respond with love. In 1958, Dr. Martin Luther King, whose birthday we will celebrate next Sunday said, "Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love."
Again, that is not easy. And that is not dreamy, pie-in-pie-the-sky, theological gobbledygook. That is hard work. Love requires your time, your energy, your thoughts and even your money.
For several years, the United Church of Christ had a missionary in Paris. Tim Rose was his name. I have a friend who works for Global Ministries, our overseas agency, and I would joke that, "If the UCC ever needs another missionary in Paris, sign me up. It's a tough job, but someone needs to do it." The work that Tim did was not really that easy. He actually didn't live and work in Paris. He worked as missionary in Aubervilliers, a suburb of Paris. Aubervilliers is a city of 70,000, just north of Pairs. When the UCC sent Tim there as a missionary, 80 percent of the people lived in subsidized, low income housing. More than half the population was made up of immigrants, mostly of African and Arab descent. So we the UCC had a missionary working with Arabic-speaking, Muslim immigrants in a suburb of Paris. Tim's job – in good UCC, open-minded fashion -- was not to convert people. Rather, he worked in prisons and on the streets and with refugees. He helped people deal with work permits and drug addictions and divided families. He worked in a community very much like the one where these two Charlie Hebdo killers lived. He worked with people who seem very much like these two young men. His challenging, difficult work was to live out this baptismal covenant in a place where hope and justice seemed far away.
And your money and my money made that possible as we supported Our Church's Wider Mission. Our baptismal covenant asks us to witness to the work and ways of Jesus in the world. And we did with the poor, Muslim, immigrant community in suburban Paris by supporting Tim Rose and his work with Global Ministries.
In the past few years Tim has moved to Guadeloupe, one of the poorest places in the world. I'm not sure what has become of his work with Muslims in France. Over the past several years Global Ministries has had to cut back on mission work around the world as we church members have decided to not to give as much money to support that work.
Yet the mission is there. The need is clear. The world calls us to tend to its dirtiest corners.
And our plan is in place, our baptismal covenant. To follow Jesus into the waters of life and into a world of need, to love our neighbors, to love our enemies, to live with justice and with love, to bear witness to the good news of God.
We do not have to reinvent the wheel. We just have to take our turn at it.
For 2000 years Christians have been following Jesus into the baptismal life. Some have failed miserably, fallen flat in the mud; others have soared like doves in the sky. Now it is our turn. This new year, this day, this moment.
May God be with us.


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CSIA High Performance (HP) Camp is coming to Ontario!
Ontario is very excited to be able to host CSIA HP Camp at Alpine Ski Club: Feb. 18-19
This is a National Event – 3 Education Credits. Register for HP Camp
Open to any member, this program focuses on individual development in a fun team environment. Using brushes, small group tasks and problem solving, the coaching staff directs participants toward specific skiing objectives. The focus is development and understanding of skiing fundamentals to build similarity in the group. The camp is open to all members every season, while also serving as the training ground and selection process for the CSIA High Performance Team and the Interski Team.
If you are working toward your Level 2, 3 or 4 HP camp will accelerate your development this season. This is the first HP Camp Ontario has ever hosted.
On Snow daily starting at 9:00AM
There will be a CSIA Aprés Social on Thursday at Alpine after we get off snow! Open to all members, so come out and join us. We will have a slideshow of the first day + cash bar/appetizers available.
Lift Tickets will be available at a discount rate for all attendees.
As a special added bonus there is a limited space (only 16 spots) Pre-HP camp PTS offered by the Ontario Region on Wednesday Feb. 17th where you can spend the day with an Interski Member, at Craigleith Ski Club. Click for Details and registration.

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CVHS (CVHS) Class of 1979 Alumni List
Help us Update the CVHS 1979 Class List by adding any names missing from the list below:
Registered Alumni
1979 Class List
- Kelvin Ambers
- Susan Andersen
- Cynthia Anderson
- Alan Antunes
- Teresa Cox
- Davie DeLeuw
- Stephen Fazzini
- Kim Garcia
- Kimberly Garcia
- Jill Henderson
- Jeanne Hill
- Tom Joseph
- Ralph Klassen
- Robert Larsen
- John Leones
- Melinda Mcdowel
- Alicia Metz
- Kathey Millard
- Anne Pagenhert
- Andy Parker
- Andrea Perkins
- Terry Roper
- Mike Sally
- Tracy Smith
- Jeff Spaggiari
- Darren Stevens
- Michelle Strange
- Mark Stroud
- Linda Taylor
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1979 Castro Valley High School Yearbook
1979 Castro Valley High School Yearbook
Click here to view at Classmates.com®
Kramer vs. Kramer was the top movie in theaters in 1979, with a lifetime gross of over $106,260,000. Among TV shows in 1979, Laverne & Shirley was the most popular of the year.
Hit Songs From 1979
Ain't No Stoppin' Us NowMcFadden and Whitehead
Hot StuffDonna Summer
FirePointer Sisters
Disco NightsG.Q.
Rock 'N' Roll FantasyBad Company
The Logical SongSupertramp
Love You Inside OutBee Gees
She Believes In MeKenny Rogers
You Can't Change ThatRaydio
After The Love Has GoneEarth, Wind and Fire
Hit Movies From 1979
Reunions and Castro Valley High School News
More 1979 alumni from Castro Valley HS have posted profiles on Classmates.com®. Click here to register for free at Classmates.com® and view other 1979 alumni.
The students that went to school at the Castro Valley high school called Castro Valley High School and graduated in '79 are on this page. Register to add your name to the class of 1979 graduates list.
While you are reminiscing about the times you spent in high school at Castro Valley High School, you should also check out alumni photos, yearbook listings and share any reunion info if possible.


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Assurance, Day 1
Scripture: 2 Peter 1:3-11
The promise: "By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life." (2 Peter 1:3)
Observation: Peter begins his second letter to believers by confirming that when we put our faith in Jesus, we receive everything we need to live a life that honors our Father in heaven. In addition, we experience the fulfillment of the promises God made to us throughout the Scriptures. When we acknowledge and respond to his promises, we grow in our faith. Peter finishes by encouraging the believers to work hard to honor the calling God has placed on their lives.
Application: Let's start off our day with a little truth time: I have no idea what I'm doing as a mom. I live my life based off a series of relatively uneducated guesses. How is it possible that you have to pass a test to drive a car or be a teacher, but they'll let you take a real, live human home from the hospital without any qualifications whatsoever? I. Was. Not. Ready. (Eight weeks later, I'm pretty sure I'm still not ready.)
I've spent a lot of days (and let's be honest, sleepless nights!) wishing that someone would have prepared me better, given me everything I needed to succeed at this motherhood thing. I didn't even know I was supposed to burp my poor baby for the first week of his life until one loving fellow mama friend graciously pointed out my mistake. Shouldn't there be a manual or mandatory class or something to teach you these things?!
If there's one thing I've learned, it's that there is always more to learn – and unfortunately, there's no manual or magical class that can give you everything you need in advance. The only way I learn more about my sweet little boy is by spending more time with him – listening and watching – and developing a relationship where I can instinctually understand what he really needs. I have to know him well to love him well.
I find the same is true with God. I have to truly know him – who he is, what he's done, what he's promised us – so that I can live a life that honors him.
When we study the promises of God, we begin to deepen our understanding of who he is and who he's created us to be. Here's how Peter puts it:
"And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world's corruption caused by human desires." (verse 4)
These promises aren't circumstantial; they're forever. They're not just feel-good verses we can slap on notepads and coffee mugs and desktop backgrounds; the promises of God are living, breathing assurances full of power and peace. He offers them graciously and freely and invites us to respond. (verse 5)
"In him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." – Colossians 2:3
To respond to God's promises and experience their true peace and power, we must first know them.
"By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life." (verse 3)
He's given us everything we need to honor him. Everything! There are hundreds of promises sprinkled throughout the Bible, promises that provide us with hope, peace, freedom, and life. We simply need to know them, unlock them, let them take root in our hearts and our everyday lives – and soon we'll receive instruction on how to live the godly life he desires for us.
Over the next two weeks, we'll begin to know those promises, and as we do, we'll begin to better know the God who made them. We'll also make an effort to memorize those promises – and I encourage you not to skip over this part. There's something powerful about learning Scripture, tucking it away in your heart and drawing upon it when you need it most. I pray we'll press in together, let the knowledge of who he is saturate our hearts and grow closer and closer to our Creator, Father, and Provider.
"The more you grow like this, the more productive and useful you will be in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ." (verse 8)
Prayer: God, thank you for who you are – our ever-present, never-failing God. Thank you for your promises that bring us hope and life and peace. I pray we'll learn them, let them sink into our hearts, and guide our lives to align more closely with your will for us. Amen.
Digging Deeper: Take a few minutes to memorize today's focus verse. Write it on a sticky note to put on your car dashboard or mirror, set it as the lock screen on your phone, say it aloud a few times throughout the day -- whatever will help make it stick.


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California Wedding Day Magazine – Best Of Bride Awards
We've had a long standing partnership with California Wedding Day Magazine and Publisher Thea Hargrove. In another life as wedding planners we enjoyed a fruitful marketing relationship with the magazine. They approached us to help plan and market their first Best Of Bride Awards in 2014. It was important to their team to recognize wedding professionals from Los Angeles, Orange County, and The Central Coast. They are the only wedding publication to honor the industry in this way. This year we had the honor to be asked to provide all the marketing services for the event again! We consulted on a media schedule, created graphics and managed all the media for their social media outlets, as well as ours.
UPDATE: We've been asked to do it again in 2016! We must be doing something right.
Appetizers by Summit Event Catering in the vibrant lounge created by Nicole Alexandra Designs.
For the Baroque Dining Room created by Eddie Zaratsian of Tic Tock Couture Florals, Summit styled an abundant and sexy fruit, cheese and meat display.
For the Baroque Dining Room created by Eddie Zaratsian of Tic Tock Couture Florals, Summit styled an abundant and sexy fruit, cheese and meat display.
The evening culminated in a silent disco party designed by Percy Sales Events with technology by Oh So Fab .
Find out all the winners of this amazing awards ceremony at this link. There were dozens and dozens of creative partners that transformed all three rooms and produced the actual awards ceremony, that we can't list them all here. Please visit the California Wedding Day Blog to see them all!
Thank you California Wedding Day! We can't wait to do it again next year!


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Saturday, January 10
Will the anti-B-cell therapies (Rituximab) supplant Campath (alemtuzumab) and Tysabri (natalizumab) in MS?
"Rituximab is a B cell depleting agent that works in MS. The phase 2 results were spectacular and shifted the paradigm in MS. The anecdotal experience from the off-label use of rituximab in MS has confirmed this; I have personally used rituximab in a handful of cases and have been very impressed with its ability to switch-off disease activity."
"Due to complex, scientific and business, reasons Genentech-Roche decided against taking rituximab forward in MS. Instead they decided to develop the follow-on compound ocrelizumab. This latter decision will delay the access of an anti-CD20 therapy for MSers by about 4 years.
At the time Genentech-Roche made the decision not to develop rituximab and to go with ocrelizumab a lot of us felt this was unacceptable, because it would be denying or delaying MSers access to a very effective therapy.
Despite our protests the decision was made and the ocrelizumab program is now quite advanced. There are currently three phase 3 ocrelizumab studies running (two in RRMS and one in PPMS) that are due to report in late 2015 and early 2016. The question is not about whether or not ocrelizumab will be effective or not, but rather about safety. There is little doubt that ocrelizumab will be a highly effective DMT. Will it be safe? The rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosis (SLE) ocrelizumab development programmes were halted due to safety concerns. Whether or not the same safety issues will arise in MS is yet to be ascertained. I suspect not as MSers are generally much healthier than people with severe RA and SLE. Ocrelizumab will also be an induction therapy and will be given every 6 months for at least 2 years. What is not known is how often redosing will be needed after completing the first 2 years of treatment. The phase 2 extension results presented at the AAN, by Prof. Hauser and suggest that the treatment effects may last at least 18 months, and may be longer, after the last dose. What this NMO study below provides is a framework for developing a redosing schedule based on the recovery of peripheral B cells counts."
"Why the paradigm shift? Anti-CD20 therapies target B cells by depleting them from the peripheral blood and to some extent from the peripheral tissues. What nobody expected was for these therapies to be so effective in MS; MS was always considered to be a T-cell mediated disease. B cells are the immune cells that make antibodies and are also involved in other immune functions. The B cell is also the niche where EBV resides once you become infected with the virus. Therefore anti-CD20 therapies are also anti-EBV drugs; in fact rituximab is the only licensed drug to treat EBVassociated diseases. In short anti-CD20 therapies have multiple potential modes of action. The onset of action of anti-CD20 therapies is too quick, i.e. within weeks of dosing, for them to be having their effect via antibody production. Most of feel the mode of action anti-CD20 therapies in MS must be related to its impact on the other immunological functions or against EBV. Because of the latter I have branded the anti-CD20 therapies as being anti-EBV and challenge people in the field to prove that these drugs are not working via EBV. Unfortunately, to date no one has risen to the challenge."
"Apart from ocrelizumab (Roche) GSK is currently developing ofatumumab for MS; both drugs target CD20 on the surface of B-cells. Another target is CD19, which to me is even more appealing than CD20 as it is expressed on a larger number of cells including plasmablasts. At present we are recruiting RRMSers for a trial of MEDI-551, which is an antibody that depletes B cells via the CD19 receptor (http://multiple-sclerosis-research.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/anti-cd19-and-multiple-sclerosis.html)."


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THE must-attend FREE event is for East of England public sector officers and members interested in good practice across the entire procurement cycle.
The East of England LGA is once again helping our local authority and wider public sector colleagues to meet these challenges by putting on our annual procurement masterclass. This event will be an excellent opportunity to hear from recognised experts and leaders in this field, as well as showcasing some great examples of leading-edge procurement practice.
Further information will follow but please secure your place now for this popular event.
This event is ideal for anyone with an interest in public sector procurement and a desire to improve their own knowledge and skill for the benefit of their organisation. It is also the best opportunity to network with your procurement and commissioning professional peers from across the East of England.
Could you contribute?
The East of England LGA welcomes approaches from those who would like to showcase their own good practice at our masterclass events. If you are interested in this opportunity, then please contact our Senior Manager, Eddie Gibson, for an informal conversation in the first instance - call 01284 758300 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com
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Portable Toilets And Its Advantages
Portable toilets are known by sheer number of people in various parts of the globe especially in the US. These portable toilets are being used as well to meet sanitary needs of a person when attending an outdoor event. If you're planning to organize and host such event, it will be important to consider having portable potties in the event.
These portable CRs come at different kind that provides a hygienic and clean condition for people to meet their sanitary needs. You may also consider installing such restrooms in almost any kind of event similar to celebrations, parties, wedding, birthdays and outdoor events as well. There are various types of portable toilets that are readily available in the market today. You can also choose one that is according to the number of guest you've invited and the type of event as well. Some of the common types of these toilets are standard portable restroom, deluxe restroom flushing, ADA complaint portable restroom, mobile shower trailer, mobile restroom trailer and VIP self-contained portable restroom.
When renting portable toilets in an outdoor event, there are basically many benefits that come with it. Say that you are about to conduct an event and forgot about these restrooms, have you thought of your guests on where they must do their business or pee? For sure, this is going to make them feel totally uncomfortable throughout your event. It isn't possible to build bathrooms wherever you will conduct an event not just that it is impractical, it is going to cost you significant amount of money as well. For the temporary bathroom usage, it will be advisable to call a portable potty rental company and rent restrooms for your upcoming event.
People will be able to meet their sanitary needs and thus, enjoy the event with satisfaction. The fact that they are easy to install in any event and could be moved from one area to the other is another known advantage of these porta toilets. There are different designs for these toilets like what we are saying several times earlier and they come in broad range of colors as well as elegant look. You can choose one of them for your event to be able to satisfy the sanitary needs of your guests.
Each and every restroom is accommodated with holding tank that has a capacity to hold human waste. It can be disappointing to rent less portable toilets without having much idea with the number of people who are going to attend the event. And with this said, it will be smart to know the exact count of your guests prior to renting potties in the event.
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Have you been concerned about your rights being taken away and struggled to figure out how to get involved? The Center for Coalfield Justice is hosting a FREE training series that will teach you how to share your story, organize more people into a community action group, and implement a campaign to defend our environmental and human rights.
The training series will be held the last four Monday nights in October from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM in the CCJ office (184 S Main St. Washington, PA 15301). We will provide all training materials and refreshments for the evening. Register for all the trainings or for specific sessions by following this link.
Session #1 -- Monday, October 9 -- Telling Your Story
Learn important public speaking skills and explore how your own personal life relates to the issue around which you want to organize.
Session #2 -- Monday, October 16 -- Creating a Community Group and Campaign Planning
Learn how to develop a campaign by finding others who care about the same issue and taking actions together.
Session #3 -- Monday, October 23 -- Talking with Media and Decision Makers
Learn useful tactics when speaking to members of the media and decision makers and how to make your story compelling to a specific audience.
Session #4 -- Monday, October 30 -- Funding Your Group
Learn about grassroots and organizational funding options to help support your group's efforts.
These trainings are just the start of developing your skills to create change in your community. CCJ and our allies will continue to provide support after you attend the trainings and begin using your skills to protect our rights.
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- Respect - Cmat Performing Arts Students Remember with Charity Song
Respect - Cmat Performing Arts Students Remember with Charity Song
Sixth Form students from Congleton High School clearly demonstrated 'Respect', one of Cmat's four key Values when they wrote and recorded a moving song to remember of all those who fought or lost their lives in wartime. The song, sharing the experience of war from the viewpoint of different family members, commemorates the 100 year anniversary of the end of WWI and has been uploaded to iTunes to help raise funds for The British Legion.
The charity composition, titled 'Remember', was the idea of Congleton High School Performing Arts teacher, Charlotte Blundred. She had seen the silhouettes of soldiers bearing the words, 'Lest we forget', appearing around the community and wanted to involve the school in remembering and marking the important anniversary through music.
Recognising that there would be copyright issues with an existing song, Miss Blundred challenged her Sixth Form students to write an original piece. The group relished the challenge and chose to base Remember on how people would have felt at the time. The first verse is a child's perspective on war and depicts how they would have missed their father but would try to stay strong for their mother. The second verse is from the mother's point of view, writing to her husband to tell how their child is growing older and starting school. The last verse is the father's story and explains some of the things he has seen in war and why he chose to sign up to fight for his country.
The final message of Remember - 'The poppies that we wear today tell the stories of the brave. We wear them with pride to show our country's sacrifice. Lest we forget' links to the way we pay tribute to everyone involved in all wars each year in November through the wearing of poppies, commemorative services and a few important moments of silence to reflect.
Once the song had taken shape, the writing team, Annie, Becky, Catherine, Isaac, Millie and Will, asked if younger members of the school from Year 7, 8 and 9 could help to record the chorus section. The lower school students welcomed the opportunity to be part of the commemorative fund raising project. They loved singing the chorus section and were extremely impressed with the quality of the song.
Remember is available to buy now on @iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/remember-single/1439616136, and you can hear a short clip of the song on Congleton High School's website (click here.) There has also been a Just Giving page set up at https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/congleton-high-school for anyone wishing to donate to Congleton High School's collection for the British Legion.


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Align Ballet Method Featured in Vogue
ABM Selected as 1 of 9 Ballet-Inspired Workouts in US We skipped out on our pliés and are voguing (throwback to Madonna!) in our excitement of being named in Vogue as a top ballet-inspired workout studio, alongside others in New York, San Francisco, Austin, Miami, Chicago and Boston. We're reppin' LA and classical ballet with… Read more »View More
Align Ballet Method Featured on List of LA's Top Dance Classes
We are proud to announce that Align made it into the top spot on Daily Candy's list of best dance classes in LA. We couldn't be happier to be featured with other amazing studios, offering every kind of dance class there is, and some of our own host locations like 3rd Street Dance! There's something… Read more »View More
5 Ballet Moves to Tighten and Tone
Align Ballet Method Founder has the Moves on POPSUGAR. Founder Michael Cornell joined Fitness Host Anna Renderer on Popsugar.com to highlight five ballet barre moves that anyone can do to tighten and tone leg, glute, and core muscles. These moves are simple, and Cornell covers them in great detail so that viewers can even do… Read more »View More
Where to Try Ballet for Free in NYC
By Briana Rodriguez As an actor, knowing how to control your voice and body through song and dance can enhance a performance and make it more affecting for your audience. The best of the best aren't known as "triple threats" for nothing. While not all actors who know how to sing and dance necessarily aspire… Read more »View More


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We can all agree that domestic violence is not a good thing. But what many people fail to understand is that there are two sides to every story. Both parties are often equally to blame when an argument gets out of hand. Additionally, false domestic violence allegations are used far too often as a way for one parent to get the advantage in family law cases.
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, which means that law enforcement officers and prosecutors in Texas and the rest of the country will be taking an aggressive stand against so-called abusers. The accused will need to take swift action in order to make sure that their rights and futures are protected.
When police are called to a home because of a domestic dispute, they often feel pressured to take a party into custody and often they choose the male by default. In other cases, partners or former partners might use false allegations of abuse or mistreatment out of spite. In either situation, the allegations can ruin a person's life.
Domestic violence cases are often overcharged, but this is even more so during a month when officials are trying to make a point, such as during Domestic Violence Awareness Month. If you are accused of domestic violence, you can't afford to risk the negative consequences that come along with a conviction, including jail time, hefty fines, a permanent criminal record and losing access to your children.
Working with an experienced law firm like the Law Office of Larry P. McDougal in Richmond, Texas, can help ensure that your side of the story is heard. The earlier you begin working with an experienced attorney, the greater the likelihood that the charges or protective order against you can be mitigated or dismissed.
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The Brazilian real slides on speculation that the central bank will limit the rollover of currency swaps, which has contributed to the biggest two-month rally.
After falling eight-tenths of a percent to 2.1905 reals per USD, the swaps rates on the January contracts dropped four bps to 10.49 percent.
Brazil's real fell on speculation the central bank will limit the rollover of currency swaps that have supported the world's biggest two-month rally. "The bank is rolling over little by little, just $1 billion at a time," said Daniel Mameri, a currency trader at Ativa SA.
The Brazilian central bank extended the maturities on $987 million foreign-exchange swaps today, while rolling of roughly the same amount yesterday. It is unclear if the central bank will also roll the rest of the $8.9 billion of contracts that mature on November 1.
While the central bank extended maturities on $987 million of foreign-exchange swaps today after rolling over a similar amount yesterday, it didn't say whether it would do so for the rest of the $8.9 billion of contracts maturing Nov. 1.
Brazil implemented a $60 billion program of swaps and credit lines to keep the real afloat and deflect rising import prices. The real has since gained 11 percent. Unfortunately, the rally has boosted export prices and making Brazilian manufacturing less alluring.
The central bank president, Alexandre Tombini, said in a statement that the currency program is successful, and policy makers voted unanimously on October 9 to increase the target lending rate from nine percent to 9.5 percent.
Although inflation being a concern in Brazil, the annual inflation has tapered off to 5.75 percent through mid-October. This is a full percent higher than the central bank's forecast target. According to a central bank survey, economists raised the consumer-price forecast modestly to 5.83 percent from 5.81 percent.


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Thursday 4th August
Craft Central Gallery
33-35 St John's Square
London EC1M 4DS
Over 30 designers will be presenting their bargains for one day only!
Karen will have a selection of men's, women's and couture pieces, at between 20% and 80% off - a mix of samples, discontinued/older items and current collection special offers.
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Stephen Lendman: Police State Europe
An opportunity for tyranny. Churchill once said: "Never let a good crisis go to waste." More recently, former Obama White House chief of staff/current Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel said earlier: "You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before." Post-9/11, ... MORE
Labels: authority, government, law enforcement, Patriot Act, police, police state, security, tyranny
Global Cops, Precrime & The War On Domestic 'Extremists'
by John W. Whitehead. Are you afraid that the government is plotting to confiscate your firearms? Do you believe the economy is about to collapse and the government will soon declare martial law? Do you display an unusual number of political and/or ideological bumper stickers on your car? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you may ... MORE
Labels: government, Homeland Security, NDAA, NSA, Patriot Act, police state, politics, spying, tyranny
Do Christians & Conservatives Really Desire A Police State?
by Pastor Chuck Baldwin. Washington's criminal class is bipartisan. A Nazi-like, Stalin-like, Mao-like Police State is being constructed in earnest in America. It started with the Patriot Act in 2001. And it has only gotten worse every year since. And, in reality, this burgeoning Police State has no serious opposition–with the exception of 75 million + gun owners. ... MORE
Andrew Napolitano: Lies The Government Is Telling You
Because the government is not us. Last week, Republicans and Democrats in Congress joined President Barack Obama in congratulating themselves for taming the National Security Agency's voracious appetite for spying. By permitting one section of the Patriot Act to expire and by replacing it with the USA Freedom Act, the federal government ... MORE
Labels: accountability, deception, dishonesty, government, Patriot Act, privacy, snooping, surveillance
Connie Mack IV: A Spirited Defense Of Liberty
Liberty has a champion. Whether you like his brand of conservatism or not — and there's plenty about his approach to national security and foreign policy that I don't like — you have to admire the principled stand that Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky took on the reauthorization of the Patriot Act. Mr. Paul made Americans step back and take a ... MORE
Labels: Constitution, individual liberty, NSA, Patriot Act, privacy, Rand Paul, Republican, surveillance
USA Police State Celebrated As "Defense Of Freedom"
by William Boardman. One needs a wicked sense of humor these days to fully appreciate the present moment in American history, as a supposedly free country debates which police state practices to adopt, while ignoring any thought that maybe the United States should not be a police state at all. For a brief shining moment early on June 1, ... MORE
Labels: cell phones, data mining, government, NSA, Patriot Act, police state, surveillance, suspicion
Sheldon Richman: The USA Freedom Act Is Inscrutable Because Politicians Know Power Thrives On Complexity
Just as roaches flourish in the dark. In a democracy citizens prevent the government from abusing them by staying informed and exercising their "rights" under the system. They monitor the politicians' and bureaucrats' conduct, and when citizens see what they consider misbehavior, they act to stop it either by communicating ... MORE
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Rand Paul, Ron Wyden, & The End Of The 9/11 Terror Fog
by Nick Gillespie. So provisions in The Patriot Act have expired, including some (such as section 215) that won't be renewed when Congress gets around to passing the reform legislation known as The USA Freedom Act. This is good news, even if many of the Patriot Act's controversial elements will become authorized under the replacement bill. ... MORE
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Erica Werner: Government, What Big You Have!
Obama to Senate: more snooping, please. President Barack Obama called on the Senate Tuesday to extend key Patriot Act provisions before they expire five days from now, including the government's ability to search Americans' phone records. "This needs to get done," he told reporters in the Oval Office. "It's necessary to keep the ... MORE
Labels: government, NSA, Obama, Patriot Act, phone calls, politics, snooping, spying, surveillance
So Far, Rand Paul Is Winning His Fight: Senate Rejects USA Freedom Act & Rejects Extending NSA Collection Authority
by Scott Shackford. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was right. The Senate did not have enough votes to pass the USA Freedom Act, the compromise law that would have restrained, but not eliminated, mass data collection by the National Security Agency (NSA). The vote was 57-42 late this evening (technically early this morning), just ... MORE
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Radley Balko: How Controversial Patriot Act Powers Are Now Overwhelmingly Deployed In Drug Investigations
Read by Rand Paul during his Patriot Act filibuster. One of the more controversial provisions of the Patriot Act was to broaden the "sneak-and-peek" power for federal law enforcement officials. The provision allows investigators to conduct searches without informing the target of the search. We were assured at the time that this ... MORE
Labels: drug war, government, overreach, Patriot Act, police state, snooping, spying, surveillance
PCN Editorial: The Surveillance State Is Illegal
Court gives NSA thumbs down. A U.S. appeals court's ruling that the National Security Agency's metadata collection was illegal turned the spy state upside down in almost 100 pages of common sense and solid understanding of the rights Americans have under the law. It shows, once again, that both common sense and a respect for the rights ... MORE
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10 Great Points In Rand Paul's Patriot Act Attack
by Matt Welch. I don't know whether Rand Paul's ongoing Senate talkfest will succeed in running out the clock on the Patriot Act, or (as he is seeking) opening up a debate and amendment process, but I do know that—just like his 2013 exercise—these have been some of the most invigorating hours on C-SPAN in recent memory. Warrants need ... MORE
Labels: amendment, executive order, Internet, Patriot Act, resistance, snooping, surveillance, warrants
Andrew Napolitano: Rand And Ted On The Fourth
When do you need a warrant? A decision last week about NSA spying by a panel of judges on the United States Court of Appeals in New York City sent shock waves through the government. The court ruled that a section of the Patriot Act that is due to expire at the end of this month and on which the government has relied as a basis for its bulk ... MORE
Labels: Fourth Amendment, government, Patriot Act, Rand Paul, snooping, spying, surveillance, Ted Cruz
Rand Paul Threatens To Filibuster Patriot Act Renewal
by Nick Morpus. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who energized conservatives, independents and even many progressives in 2013 with his 13-hour drone filibuster, has now threatened to do the same if the Senate attempts to reauthorize the National Security Agency's mass data collection programs. The New Hampshire Union Leader reports: ... MORE
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Steve Chapman: Is the Terrorism Panic Finally Passing?
A return to sanity. One lesson of American history is that in times of war or crisis, American presidents, lawmakers and citizens often lose their minds. Another lesson is that they eventually regain their senses. When it comes to national security in the age of terrorism, it looks as though the national fever has broken. When Congress passed the Patriot Act in October 2001, it gave the federal government greater ... MORE
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Why I made the move to Documentary Family Photography?
So many times I have tried to express why I moved from posed family portraits (which I still occasionally do, mostly around the holidays when some families want a holiday card portrait) to Documentary Family Photography.
I can't begin to describe the joy I get when I capture the true moments between family members, the raw emotions (that is truly difficult when you put people in an unfamiliar setting, wearing unfamiliar clothes, in an unfamiliar pose), and the expressions that truly capture who they are as a family and individuals!
Fellow Documentary Family Photographer, Chelsea Lyn, has done a much better job than I ever could in explaining why "No, I won't take your picture."


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Church World Service, Jewish Family Services, World Relief and many other denominational organizations are involved in every step, from the handling of interviews and applications to determine refugee status, to meeting new arrivals at the airport, and providing the first few months of housing. The relief or mission agencies of churches and synagogues are integral partners in the government's response to refugees.
This appears to be a perfect symbiotic relationship, with the state providing what only it can - a political polity and the possibility of citizenship - and religious groups offering what they are best equipped to provide - hospitality. The political limbo of statelessness, which consigns refugees to "bare life" outside the law (as Giorgio Agamben describes it), can apparently only be overcome through the joint efforts of religion and state.Ralston questions whether the church can be totally comfortable with the terms of this partnership and moves to articulate an approach that treats the church's own distinctive character seriously.
While much of the religious involvement in resettlement is laudable, it still regularly falls short of the call of Jewish and Christian scriptures to love the alien as "one of your own citizens" (Leviticus 19:33). Central to the biblical narrative is a reminder to love and treat the stranger as a neighbour.
However, partnership with the state presses Christian mission increasingly away from this biblical mandate and towards what the German Jesuit theologian Johan Baptist Metz calls "a service providing religion." Under this model, refugees are not new neighbours or possible joint-members of the body of Christ, but clients to whom a political service is owed.
Bretherton is right to worry, then, that "involvement with the state often exacerbates social divisions and forces the church to mimic the state in its form and practices." At times, the church's response to refugees resembles something like the Department of Motor Vehicles. Once the service is met - with a pick up at the airport, a quick welcome, and few months rent paid - the church's mission moves on to its next project.
What is lacking in this model is the kind of long and patient friendships that nurture community, alter the national character of the church, and challenge the state's assumptions about citizenship and human identity.
One way that the church might enact this is to follow what Bretherton calls "doxological politics," which "hallow" or bless the lives of refugees through acts of listening, community organizing, offering sanctuary to asylum seekers and shared worship. All of these acts serve as ad hoc ways to move beyond the service-oriented logic of resettlement and toward genuine encounter and mutual enrichment.
Another model is found in the Jesuit Refugee Service's practice of physical accompaniment, which signals God's presence alongside those excluded from national polity.
The church can thereby hold a mirror up to liberal democracy's claims of inclusion and human rights by demanding the state live up to its own ideals. As political philosopher Selya Benhabib argues in The Rights of Others, "There is not only a tension, but often an outright contradiction, between human rights declarations and states' sovereign claim to control their borders as well as to monitor the quality and quantity of admittees."
Hallowing the life of refugees and accompanying them beyond the services of resettlement includes advocating for just national and international immigration policies that are grounded in something more than the economic needs of the welcoming nation.
This is not to say that the church, or other religious organizations, should abjure their roles in resettling refugees. However, if they are to partner with the state in this process, they must also stretch their imagination and political commitments beyond the borders of the nation-state and the national rhetoric that accompanies debates on immigration.
The church would then act as a public and political witness to the presence and dignity of refugees, both locally and worldwide. In so doing, the church might be surprised to find itself following the way of the God who, in Karl Barth's wonderful phrase, journeyed into the far country for our sake.


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Another of Gordon & Macphail's long-aged Glen Grants which, along with Glenfarclas, represent the best-value long-aged Speysides available. The 1968 vintage from Gordon and MacPhail's thorough range of Glen Grant bottlings.
Smooth and complex.
Fruit and smoky notes last for ages. Very morish!
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First fill Sherry casks.
After dinner, with a cigar.
Please note this comes as a single bottle, no packaging included.
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Sherry, sweet sultanas interlaced with a whisper of smoke. A slight herbal note - almost floral.
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Smoky, freshly ground coffee, sweet Sherry notes develop in the corners of the mouth. A slight spicy note adds another dimension.
AROMA with water:
Very fruity with lots of raisins/sultanas. Other fruity notes soon evolve - plums, red cherries as the smoky edge remains.
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The addition of water concentrates the smoky character, which provides aninitial wave of flavour. Fruit concentrated together - fruit smoothie. Tropical fruits emerge - mango, watermelon.


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2. Bruise
Perhaps the most readily accessible song on the album, "Bruise" was also the first song we intentionally wrote for this project. As for its structure, chorus and verse placement are inverted like they are in many early Beatles and Ramones songs. So, the music and lyrics owe a lot to both '60s pop-rock and also early punk. Writing the bridge in French was largely a sonic and syllabic choice, but it also came out of the failure of language and the role it plays in the breakdown of relationships with people, place, things, etc. This collapse is illustrated most clearly at the end of the song as it loses its lulling drive and veers into Talking Heads-esque punk-funk before devolving into dub.
You're a bruise (x2)
Wherever all my love goes
A part of you is gonna show
The bluer wound that you hold
Is something I don't wanna know (x2)
But I wanna know
I don't wanna know
Vous êtes en rouge [you're in red]
Vous êtes en vouz [you're in you]
You're a bruise (x2)
Where will all your love go?
What part of you is gonna show?
Who is taking you home?
Don't tell me I don't wanna know
Where will all your love go?
What part of you is gonna show?
Who is making you whole?
Don't tell me I don't wanna know
But I wanna know
I don't wanna know


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Hand in Hand for Positive Change: Promoting the Role of Civil Society to Influence Policy
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The 15 CBOs, 5 from the South, 5 from the North and 5 from the middle area of West Bank, compose the network of which Qaryout Sports Club represents the leader organization.The main area of intervention of the 15 CBOs composing the network are: women and healthcare, youth, preservation of cultural and natural resources.
The Club works within several projects, such as the Partnership for Development Project and UNICEF projects within the National Committee for Summer Camps. Considering some of the 15 CBOs already workedon similar area of intervention to the one developed by WEGOV project, promoting participation at the trainings, mostly regarding good governance and advocacy campaigns, they decided to submit a common proposal.Therefore they will straighten their network during the implementation of the project.
Preserve land from being confiscated by the Israeli's authorities. Protect the public space and convene local community in public spaces . Encourage youth participation and voluntary work.
Qaryout has 9 board of directors members, all male, age group between 25 and 45
They also have 130 members, all male, and they are between the ages of 18 and 60
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In Memory of ….
Hello friends …
I just wanted to update my friends here who may or may not follow me on my blog — I know I have been away for quite awhile (a couple of months to be exact) and I wanted to let you know that I had been away taking care of my mother who grew suddenly ill. It is with a heavy heart and great sadness, I say goodbye to my beloved mother who passed away on August 31, 2017.
She was a mother with a generous heart and loved her family deeply. She made memorable impressions with anyone and everyone she came in contact with. I would like to dedicate this week's blog to my Mother – may she finally rest in peace and be greeted with the comfort of my Father's arms.
She may be gone, but her spirit will live forever in our hearts
I will miss her tremendously and love her forever …
She had a love for flowers and dogs … specifically Maltese … so it was only appropriate that she received this beautiful flower arrangement on Mother's Day that was in the shape of a dog.
I have since returned home. I promise I will pick up where we left off the beginning of October. I know I have a lot of catching up to do and I will continue our Steps in Home Staging and I will also fill you in on some exciting news of our upcoming trade show.
Thank you so much for your understanding and we'll meet again soon ….


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Episode 74: The Blu-ray Throwback (Vol. 1)
It may sound like just another Blu-ray show. That's because it is. But it's one that takes you into the archives to circle back on titles Erik Childress and Sergio Mims did not get to talk about in the moment. So many titles. Only so many minutes. But in this first volume of the Throwback, Erik & Sergio talk about some golden oldies from the likes of Twilight Time, Olive and Kino, three studios who continue to do fine work on films that may have escaped your radar over time. Give a listen and then give a watch.
0:00:00 – 0:01:12 – Intro
0:01:12 – 1:20:39 – Blu-rays with Sergio Mims
1:20:39 – 1:23:59 – Outro
Twilight Time (The Valachi Papers, Snake in the Eagle's Shadow/The Legend of Drunken Master, The Quiet American, Hell and High Water, Bridge at Remagen)
Olive (Money From Home, The Savage Innocents. Shag: The Movie, Victims)
Kino (The Apple, Hell in the Pacific, Road to Rio, My Favorite Brunette, The Lemon Drop Kid)
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http://comicbook.com/gaming/2018/06/04/ ... -settings/
the short version: WotC is expected to be releasing at least one adventure similar to the (5e) return to castle ravenloft but for a different setting.
as I said, don't get your hopes too high... return to castle ravenloft has a few NPCs and monsters, some backgrounds, and that's about it as far as setting information goes, from what i understand. i don't believe it even discusses the fact that barovia is only one of the domains in the demiplane of dread, and i've heard people grumbling about the fact that there is even an entire page and a half dedicated to how factions on faerun should be run (when presumably, they don't even *exist* once the adventure gets out of the faerun portion and into the ravenloft portion), so... whatever it is, probably expect that the setting-specific content will be fairly minimal, and that possibly forgotten realms information will even be mixed in, but it seemed like the sort of thing that would be of interest to people on these forums.
there doesn't appear to be a general "campaign worlds" main forum (just subforums), but it may be appropriate to share this information with other forums as well - particularly the eberron and dark sun forums, as those settings have actually received any attention at all in the past decade and are the most likely to get material published for them imo (they were probably considered most popular then, and have probably increased as they got far more exposure than the other settings). if there is some moderator function to do that conveniently without me posting this individually in 20 different forums, that would be really nice (if not, i guess i can at least copy it to a few others).
non-FR settings for 5e. Sort of. (don't get *too* excited)
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Unfortunately, the public recently has been subjected to the beginning of the Mea Culpa Tour by one of the world's most prominent professional athletes and tales of a virtual and deceased girlfriend by an award-winning college athlete. This is too much, even in the doldrums of January when we need indoor entertainment in many of the cold climes. However, give me Downton Abbey reruns any day over these guys.
What can women lawyers learn from the unfortunate actions of these fallen athletes? Most of it is fundamental, but it bears repeating. This is especially true for lawyers who are governed by ethical considerations, legal cannons and local bar association rules. Taking these things lightly can result in disastrous repercussions to careers and reputations. Keep the following in mind to stay on the straight and narrow.
1. Always be truthful. Half truths do not count.
2. It is not all about you. The way you treat people always comes back at you. People know when you are disregarding them and marginalizing their contributions.
3. Facts are facts. They are different from wishes and illusions.
4. You are a role model for someone. Pay attention to what you put out there to model.
5. Do not assume that people understand your pressures and motivations. Overall, they expect good behavior under all circumstances.
6. Do not hide behind illness and family crises for personal gain. You are a professional, and you owe your client the best services you can provide at all times.
7. Do not ever ask people to "go easy" on you. Be hard on yourself by being truthful and trustworthy.
8. Skip the mea culpa tour. No one is going to feel sorry for a cheat and a liar.
9. Bullying is never acceptable.
10. Being famous, attractive and charming are poor substitutes for being truthful.
Keep this list handy and refer to it often. When in doubt, check your ego at the door and remember that everything you do in this life is part of your legacy.


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WASHINGTON, A majority of viewers approved of President Donald Trump's second State of the Union address Tuesday night but most of who watched speech where Republicans, according to polling data Wednesday.
A CNN poll conducted by SSRS found that 59 percent of viewers had a very positive reaction to the speech, 17 percent had a somewhat positive reaction and 23 percent had a negative reaction.
The CNN data indicates that the audience was the most partisan it has been since 2001. The audience was 17 points more likely to identify as Republicans and primarily fans of Trump.
A CBS poll echoed that 76 percent of its respondents approved of the speech with 24 percent saying they disapproved. 43 percent of respondents in the poll identified themselves as Republicans, while 24 percent said they were Democrats and 30 percent identified as independents.
Trump's fellow cabinet members lauded the speech including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who said the president put "the interests of the American people first and (reasserted) American leadership around the world." He added, "History will remember this period not only for what America has achieved on its own, but for the partnerships we have built with strong, sovereign, and independent nations and the contributions we have inspired from our partners." Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said, "President Trump's speech presented a hopeful, optimistic vision for this country. As we continue these efforts, I am hopeful that our elected leaders in Congress will come together on a bipartisan basis to support this law-and-order agenda for the good of the country." Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen focused on border security noting that "Trump clearly laid out the need for new Federal funding and serious reforms to our outdated laws in order to fully secure our southern border. Make no mistake, there is a humanitarian and security crisis at our border that will continue to worsen if Congress fails to act." Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan said the president reaffirmed his "commitment" to the troops and American security interests, as they focus on the implementation of the National Defense Strategy.
Senate Majority Leader Republican Mitch McConnell complimented the US' "robust economy" and need for "adequate border security" and added, "It was a great speech. One time a year the President gets to address the nation in the State of the Union, actually the only speech mentioned in the Constitution. He laid out the robust economy we have." The Democratic response was delivered by Stacey Abrams who almost became the country's first black female governor in the last election.
"America is made stronger by the presence of immigrants, not walls," she said.
Abrams added, "The shutdown was a stunt engineered by the president of the United States, one that defied every tenet of fairness and abandoned not just our people – but our values."
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The Reason You Have to See The Real Mona Lisa & The Must Visit Museum in Paris
By Manuela Domingos
Yesterday I had the wonderful opportunity to visit the Musée du Louvre. The Louvre is the world's largest historic museum and one of the most visited museums in the entire world.
The Louvre is practically so large that it took us three hours to only see half of it.
We first saw the original Mona Lisa, which was painted by the Italian artist Leonardo Da Vinci. A research website describes the painting as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world. "
Surprisingly, the painting is much smaller in person than expected. I recall thinking this to myself three years ago when I first saw the painting. It's almost practically impossible to get close to it since it's guaranteed that a bustle of tourists is destined to be gathered around the painting in hopes of getting a picture with the famous Mona Lisa.
I definitely recommend any lover of art and sculptures to check out the museum, if they ever get the opportunity to visit Paris. This amazing museums holds one of the best works of art in history.
If you're like others, who simply enjoys learning about the history of attractions without actually physically entering the location, then I'd recommend doing a Bateaux Mouche, which is a boat excursion that allows for a view of the city through the Seine river.
During this excursion, you get an overall history overview of points of attractions in Paris, like the famous Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre Dame de Paris, and much more.
I'd recommend doing the boat excursion during the night time, as this allows for a much more aesthetic ambiance in the city.
The eiffel tower is nearby, so if you're still looking for an adventure, look into climbing the Eiffel Tower and enjoying a great meal!
Keep up with Manuela on Instagram, @_manuelad!


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Nutcracker Auditions Saturday, August 22nd, Lehi and Springville cast available
$75 performance fee required for Nutcracker Participation
Must sell 15 tickets per dancer and or 20 tickets per family.
Performances: Nov. 19, 20, and 21, 2015
Rehearsals will begin Aug. 29th for Lehi cast and Sept. 19th for Springville cast.
$10 fee to audition.
Boys and Girls ages 4&up are eligible to audition. Non BAC students are welcome to audition. Please spread the word. We love having outside dancers participate in our Nutcracker.
Nutcracker Registration is available through our on-line registration system through the BAC website. You will need to register for the class, "Nutcracker Auditions 2015." Please make sure to choose a location for your audition Lehi or Springville. There are two separate auditions and two audition classes listed.
Lehi Audition Schedule Saturday, August 22nd:
9:00-9:15 All boys, all ages Registration
9:15-9:45 All boys audition
9:15-9:45 Girls ages 4-6, Registration
9:45-10:30 Audition
10:00-10:30 Girls Ages 7-9, Registration
10:30-11:15 Audition
10:45-11:15 Girls Ages 10-12, Registration
11:15-12:15 Audition
11:45-12:15 Girls Ages 13+, Registration
12:15-1:15 Audition
1:15-1:45 Pointe Auditions (dancers who have at least one year of pointe training should stay for this portion. All other dancers will be excused)
1:30 Possible Call Backs.


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So, I'm contemplating how I can fit more into my day, and it is driving me crazy. There are so many things that I think I need to do, but I can't get them all accomplished in the day. I have been doing a lot of things myself. Such as, I make my own laundry detergent, cleaners, jam (and other canned things), concoctions such as playdough and paints for the kids, and it's really fun. However, there are things I need to do, so many appointments to keep, shuffling the kids to and from places they need or want to go, and then there is writing. I am trying to keep up...I really am.
I got some bad news the other day about my glucose test, and now I have to go in for a 3 hours glucose test on Tuesday (I have a doctor's appointment on Monday). I'm also waiting on a new referral for the high risk pregnancy specialist and waiting for my authorization for my therapy. I need therapy. There are too many things going on in my life, and I need some perspective. Had a terrible panic attack last night, because I felt like my baby wasn't moving as much as she should be. She's pretty calm nearly all day. Thankfully, she kicks the crap out of me all night.
I planted a lot of seeds today, and hope they sprout. I'm trying to train myself to be more self-sufficient; especially since I can't really get a job...
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Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for Field Biology's
Mt. Cuba Center Graduate Fellowship in Eastern American Botany
Austin Peay State University's Center of Excellence for Field Biology is pleased to offer a Graduate Research Assistantship to support a masters-level graduate student for two years to work in tandem with a second student (position already filled) on a taxonomic study of Clematis subgenus Viorna of eastern North America. This assistantship is made possible by funding from Delaware's Mt. Cuba Center.
Mt. Cuba Center, a premier native plant garden, is dedicated to supporting the environment through the practice and promotion of ecological horticulture. Mt. Cuba Center's gardens and programs inspire an appreciation for the beauty and value of native plants and commitment to protect the habitats that sustain them.
The assistantship provides an $18,000 per year annual stipend, full tuition waiver, travel funding and vehicle usage for research, funding to present at regional and national conferences, and a modest per diem and lodging stipend for fieldwork. It will also provide for a two-weeks stay at Mt. Cuba Center to work with botanical garden staff.
The chosen applicant will conduct a taxonomic study of the genus Clematis reticulata species complex of Clematis subgenus Viorna (leatherflowers). The leatherflowers are a group of approximately 25 species of vines found throughout eastern temperate U.S. The successful candidate will be required to collect specimens from numerous states throughout the southeastern U.S. from Texas and Oklahoma to Florida and South Carolina. The candidate will be expected to: prepare high-quality herbarium specimens, collect seeds or transplants for living collections, assemble a set of high-quality photographs for each species, collect flowers to preserve in liquid preservative, and collect leaf tissue for molecular studies. Also, students will be required to maintain living collections in the botanical garden and greenhouse at Austin Peay State University, which will require regular tending until they can be transported later to Mt. Cuba Center where they will form the world's premier collection of the American leatherflowers.
This position requires 30-40 hours of work per week during summers and 20 hours per week during the spring and fall semesters. Work duties will consist of a mix of duties in the field, herbarium, greenhouse, botanical garden, and lab. The successful candidate will be expected to present their results at regional/national meetings and to submit her/his results for publication at the conclusion of the project.
Minimum Requirements:
• Must be able to start the position between January1-15, 2018 in time for the spring semester at Austin Peay State University which begins January 16, 2018
• Must have a B.S. degree in botany, plant biology, ecology & evolutionary biology or related degree
• Undergraduate GPA ≥3.0 is strongly preferred, with strong record of success in science classes
• GRE scores and all other requirements must meet APSU Dept. of Biology minimum standards
• Ideal candidate should have prior experience with plant identification, use of technical dichotomous keys, and general familiarity with plant communities of the eastern U.S.
• Must have had at least one college course devoted to field botany or taxonomy (course titles may vary but may include local flora, field botany, plant taxonomy, plant systematics)
• Must be able to participate in extended fieldtrips during spring and summer of 2018 for up to 2 weeks at a time
• Must be able to handle solitary fieldwork, fieldwork with others for extended periods far away from home, rigorous field conditions (heat, rain, rugged hiking, ticks)
Please submit the following (via email):
• a 1-page cover letter
• a 2-3 page essay addressing the question: Why is botanical exploration and plant
taxonomic research still needed in the heavily botanized eastern U.S.?
• a current curriculum vitae
• three letters of recommendation, both references should address why they consider the candidate to be highly qualified for this research assistantship in plant taxonomy (these must be emailed by your letter writers directly to Dr. Estes (email@example.com) and must cc Mrs. Jean Langley (firstname.lastname@example.com).
All applicants should also be aware that formal applications need to be submitted to APSU's graduate program in order to be admitted to the University and to the Dept. of Biology. Please go to http://www.apsu.edu/biology/graduate/gradadmiss and follow all directions to apply. These materials should be submitted by December 15, 2017.
Additional information may be obtained by contacting Dr. Estes at firstname.lastname@example.com. Final proposals to Dr. Estes must be received by December 1, 2017.