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A Little Black Dress
Happy Monday to you all so its the start of a new week and I thought I will share with you all some of the outfits I have been rocking at different events. All outfit details will be below. Have a great week ahead everyone… Dress:River Island Shoes:River Island Bag: Penneys Photo Credit: Oscar Blake… Continue reading A Little Black Dress

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Rick Owens is teaming up with Adidas on a footwear collection and Phil C's "In The Air Tonight" popped into my head as soon as I read about this.
(Maybe not for, like, ALL my life. But, you know.)
+ That collaboration that was announced yesterday can go have several seats.
Release date + price tag after the jump...
Rick Owens wants to start running and Rick said this, because he's funny :
"I thought to myself, 'What shoes am I going to wear running?' I can't wear my big chunky basketball shoes... I'd look like a dinosaur running through the Tuileries."
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There will be six styles for men and four for women, all of which are variations on one silhouette.
The come in black, grey and white, with flashes of yellow adding a jolt of colour to some of them. The footwear is made from nylon, canvas, suede and leather.
The line will debut at Rick Owens' upcoming menswear presentation, held on June 27 in Paris.
The shoes are due to hit stores in December and will cost between $400 and $500.
Imma have to start running. Ugh. BUT ALSO YAAAS!
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By Ayo Onikoyi
The relationship between singing Nigerian artiste, Zoro, and his former PR man, Miracle Kelechi Chike, popularly known as Yung Miraboi Mark, has gone south. The crack in their cordial association became grimly evident when the PR expert called out the singer on Twitter, accusing him of owing him paltry 30 thousand naira for over a year now.
"@iam_nonnyjay @zoroswagbag If you don't pay me my money I will keep on spreading this viral online …. You called yourself a celebrity deceiving people with fake life and you are owing me 30K for how many months now… Benz Owner can't pay 30K for how many months You are a disgrace to Nigeria and your fans," he tweeted.
What might have angered the PR man the more is the fact Zoro only recently bought a Mercedes Benz few months ago and has since been painting the town red without any recourse to settling the business deal between the two of them.
Yung Miraboi Mark is a business man from Abia State but born and bred in Lagos. He said it is not the amount that matters to him but the way he was treated over the deal.


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Blazing feelings for one second, and an abyss darker than a black hole engulfs me the next moment, the bulb thought as he tried his best to shine brightly.
"Flickering", he could remember his school principal telling him, "is a stage that every bulb and light must go through." "You either end up shining brightly or you are switched off for the rest of your light years", Madam Electricity had lectured, "However, the outcome is not important. It is more about experiencing the flickering-the journey between hope and fear."
Until now, he had managed to gain back his energy every single time, the flickering state had come upon him, but he knew it was not for long because there was no Lucia to encourage him anymore. The Dad had just removed her yesterday when she failed to shine. He had not listened to him, shouting through his shining lights to leave Lucia alone.
Yesterday night was depressing.
The Dad was now installing a new bulb in her place. I should stop trying too, he thought, and the room went dark. "Now I need to buy another damn bulb", cursed the Dad.


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Thursday saw four of us brave another evening of winter riding. As I am 1) generally 'rigting-bedonnerd', and 2) have a particularly bad memory of names and places, I cannot give too many details of where we cycled. I only know that the ride involved many hills!
The first hill offered amazing views of the city lights, and was followed by the RUSH. All of us were too careful to Ride it Until Something Happened – we all reached the bottom unscathed. Tobias and I were duped into tackling a 'short' sprint to a light 'just around the corner', which seemed to move away from us as we approached, so that the short sprint turned to being more of a long slog. Oupa Gert and Francois only looked on in amusement. All this was followed by several more hills. The ride was brought to an abrupt end when the valve on one of my tubes started leaking, necessitating a return (interspersed with several tyre-re-pumping sessions) to the cars. Oupa Gert was disappointed, as we were about to tackle the most technical parts of the ride. I was, quite honestly, rather relieved, as my several-week absence from riding had obviously impacted my fitness levels! We cycled app. 25 km, and it was great fun, as always!


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In the song by Aretha Franklin called R E S P E C T, we see her sing these words, "R E S P E C T Find out what it means to me R E S P E C T Take care, T C B...Oh, a little respect Yeah, baby, I want a little respect Now, I get tired, but I keep on tryin' Runnin' out of foolin', I ain't lyin' Yes, respect, all I need is respect..."
Major stresses in marriage are:
- Money
- Sex
- Children
- Time
- Household demands
Major mishaps in marriage
- outside influences/improper relationships
- lack of communication
- lack of intimacy
- broken trust
- being selfish
- pornography
As a men's ministry leader, an elder and a husband and father and a legacy dad, I can tell you from my limited experience that I have seen all spectrums of relationships - both good and bad and some in between. There is no clear cut blame to either spouse because if we are honest then we can all say that it takes two to break or make a marriage (barring adultery and brutality, of course). I would like to modify the last statement by changing it to say that it really takes three to make a marriage - now don't go nuts on me here because when I say three, as Christians, I mean to say that we need Christ in the center of our marriages.
Signs of healthy fruit in a marriage
- Communication
- Honesty (even when it hurts - but not brutal rather with respect)
- Intimacy
- Friendship
- Loyalty
- Husband or wife in the other's corner
- Husband or wife being the biggest fan of the other
And so much more fruit
Let's take a look at what scripture says for Legacy Dads (for those of us that our husbands):
Ephesians 5:21-33
New International Version (NIV)
Instructions for Christian Households
21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."[b] 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Men, don't miss this here: A lot of us get stuck on JUST the first part of this, "wives SUBMIT..." that we forget the rest of the command. We ought to love our wives (do not be harsh, do not be cruel, do not neglect) and we should love our wives as we take care of our own bodies. We are no longer self, but one flesh - this is key! Our bodies no longer belong to ourselves, but to our spouses. Men, remember that Christ gave himself up for the church, he died to self and sacrificed himself for his Bride - the Church - which is what we ought to do for our wives.
Let's put it this way:
1 Peter 3:7
New International Version (NIV)
7 Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.
Respect does not mean:
- "Listen to me, I am the man and the Bible says that you have to SUBMIT to me, woman"
- "I am in charge"
- "How dare you not respect me"
- Holding love from one another
- Being cruel and cold to the other
I do not want to broad brush this here, but in talking with both men and women, one can conclude that it is not rocket science in figuring ways out to foster a healthy marriage. As we are each created fearfully and wonderfully and we are all different, please do not take this as final. For the most part:
Men want:
- To be Respected
- To be Loved and to feel trusted
- To feel secure
- To be intimate
- Romance (even though we may not know how to be romantic)
Women want:
- To be loved
- To feel secure
- To be valued and respected
- To be listened to (the art of true conversation)
Biblical Respect means: To put Christ in the center of our marriage. We are to die to selves in our sanctification pathway. We are to put away the old self and put on the new self. We could learn to listen to one another, to love one another and to respect each other for who we are. That means that I do not expect my wife to become what I want her to be for me, nor should my wife expect me to change into someone that she expects me to be. We are who we are. That doesn't mean that we can keep our old selves on, rather, we are to put on Christ and to die to self as Christ died for us. When we exemplify this then we truly understand agape love. We understand God's plan for marriage. We can understand that marriage is a blessing and not a curse.
So what do I do if I am not doing marriage God's way:
- Repent
- Pray
- Do not expect your spouse to change over night because you found God's pathway and repented
- Serve
- Serve more
- Love
- Love more
- Pray continually through this process that your spouse will be led by Christ to change your marriage (knowing that we cannot)
So what if you have this biblical marriage:
- Pray more
- Love more
- Serve more
- Reach out to couples who need this love and respect
Your thoughts?


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As they say, "March blows in like a Lion…" This year it seems like spring arrived early with a warm and dry January followed by some wet weather in February. The hills are green and the pollen counts are rising. With this unusual weather, we have seen our patients who suffer from allergies come in sooner and more symptomatic than usual. We expect it will be a tough season for allergic people.Read More


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Why buy nothing new? At first blush it sounds like an odd challenge to start off a year centered all around wellness. After all, what does material consumption have to do with anything related to wellness?
Everything, it turns out. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
Let's start closer to home. As I type this I'm sitting at a desk in a one-bedroom apartment overlooking bare trees and snow. It is the second time I've started over in a new city thousands of miles from friends and family, my first time in school in over three years. When faced with the continual reworking of self-identity and future aspirations that has defined my life from college through my mid twenties, my first reaction has been not to tackle the large challenges but the small ones first. As my best friend said the summer before we both started grad school, "It's too much to figure out what I'm going to do with my life once this program is over, so I'm planning out my room instead!" For both of us a comfortable home environment – our safe harbors – is important to tackle the uncertainties of a new world outside. As such, each room I've lived in has had a distinctive décor to fill this need, at turns whimsical, nostalgic, bright, quirky or all of the above, filled with mementos and faces of loved ones, past lifetimes that peek through in the person that I am today.
I've also noticed that in times like this I have a tendency to shop for clothing. This is not "retail therapy" in the popular sense of the phrase, for normally I find shopping far from calming. Rather I'm coping with the new environment, new people, and new challenges by redefining myself through the clothes I wear. New pieces are incorporated into the daily rotation just as the self readjusts the composition of pieces of my personality, even if the core elements remain the same.
The danger, of course, is to linger too much in the material adjustment phase to the detriment of addressing underlying concerns, and that is where January's challenge comes in to play. Although I do not want to deny myself these coping mechanisms that have carried me through the past eight years I also do not want them to become a crutch to avoid facing the larger questions at hand. My place is cozy, inviting and unique to the version of myself that exists at this very moment in time. I have enough warm clothing to make it through a New England winter. It is time to move on to the next stage.
With this pledge I am deliberately shifting focus. As I mentioned earlier, I want realign my day-to-day life to better adhere to the wellness values I hold dear to my heart. More than that, there are some larger dreams and goals that have been lurking in my peripheral vision, shuttered into the cobwebbed recesses of my mind by the incessant demands of daily life. The challenge in January is to buy nothing new so that I can turn my focus away from the little details of the external trappings, to the big picture of my internal world, full of hopes and dreams and roads left unexplored.
Maybe this is the beginnings of of, or reaction to, a quarter-life crisis, though I don't feel in crisis mode at the moment. At any rate, at the cusp of the last year of the first decade of the new millennium, it feels like a good place to be.


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What Love Did
I won't lie to you. It's been a tough year for me on a personal level. No need to explain the reasons, but I can say that I appreciate more than ever what other women my age face, of the demands of this life. And trust me. The longer I live the more I understand that to live life to the fullest--to live life in Christ--is not for the faint of heart.Life is hard. We know that, don't we? I remember when we were kids and life was so much different then, but even then, I felt different. Like I didn't fit into my shoes. Like life was this place I didn't quite understand. But one thing I did get at the tender age of eight and it has stuck like glue to my heart ever since.
God loves me. God wants me. God has a plan for me.
I didn't always feel that love. Let's face it--life interrupts the way we feel and circumstances can ruin the joy of a sensitive heart.
But I have always known that love at a place deep inside of me. I felt the intimate pleasure of God's touch at a soul level. I knew He was true and could be trusted, even on those days when I didn't really trust Him. Does that make sense?
Though the humanness in me struggles with trust sometimes, I know the Bible is true and have proven it could be trusted over and over and over in my life. (We are fickle though, aren't we? And we need to remind ourselves of what we already know.) I am no different than anyone else who struggles now and then. Especially when life hits hard.
And yet, I sense God's pleasure when I pray, when I praise Him - even before I receive the answer to my prayers. I know He hears me. I know He keeps His promises. I know He isn't fickle like me. Doesn't change His mind. Doesn't say one thing and do another. Doesn't walk away when I'm not very lovable. Doesn't ever leave me or forsake me. Doesn't turn His back on me for any reason because He already did that to Jesus on my behalf.
That's what Love did. That's what Love does.
So I try to live in the light of His Love for me. Sure, I fail sometimes. A lot of times. I'm not the perfect wife. (Don't tell Randy.) I'm not the perfect mom. (My kids already know that.) I'll never be the perfect grandma because no matter how hard we try, no one is perfect.
But that doesn't stop Love.
There have been a lot of hurting people in the world over the years. History proves it. Just read the Psalms and you can't escape it. Jeremiah was the weeping prophet. Talk about pain! Look at the news and see the tears on the faces of the Syrian refugees. Look into the eyes of the child in Haiti who doesn't have clean drinking water--or food, for that matter. Watch despair line the faces of the aged who have lost everything to a flood or fire. Talk to the parent of a child who went on a killing spree or the spouse of a husband who was killed in front of her because of their faith.
We talk about lives that matter. We talk about people who live on the margins. And I just want to say something that I hope anyone reading this will take in the spirit that it is intended. And that is this:
All Lives Matter. All Lives Matter to Jesus.
Love doesn't see color or ethnicity or religion or politics or gender. Love sees a beating heart even before it is fully formed in the womb. Love/Jesus came to earth to preach one thing. "Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand." He didn't come to heal every disease, as much as we might have liked that to happen. He came to heal every soul. He died to heal every soul.
When it all comes down and we are about to take our last breath, it isn't going to matter to us what causes we fought for or what we thought about any variety of issues. It isn't going to matter how we spent our money or where we lived or what career we had. It's not even going to matter how good we were to our neighbor or how much we cared for the downtrodden. (Though those are all good things.)
What's going to matter is - do we really know and understand Love? God is love. Jesus is love. Do we really get what that means?
I told someone the other day that no one loves you more than your parents. There is just no getting around the fact that in this life, this human experience, the parent/child bond--if it is normal and not filled with extenuating circumstances--is the strongest bond there is. Next to husband and wife--as long as that commitment is truly committed--that bond is greater. But a parent loves a child in a fraction of the way God loves us.
I think most loving parents would agree with this statement--we would die for our children. We would jump in front of the oncoming bus to save them. We would lay down our self worth to save theirs. We would sacrifice our lives to give them more.
That's what Love does. That's what Love did.
That's what Jesus did for us. That's why all lives matter. He died for all. He came to preach the good news to all. It's why nothing we do to make this world a better place can top what He Already Did. If we can't get that message of His saving redeeming grace, we miss the whole purpose of Love. We miss the whole purpose of life.
We miss the reason for this Christmas season. And we miss the reason for the Cross.
Jesus didn't just come to save a few of us. He doesn't excuse sin in any single one of us. He did come to save all who will let Him in. He did come to free us from the things that keep us enslaved to our own sometimes bitter choices.
What Love did was come. Wrapped in human skin. Nailed to earth's wood. Draped in earthly grave clothes. Laid in the belly of the earth as though it had all come to an end. Love died.
But Love didn't stay dead. Love lives. Love gives. Love forgives. Love saves. Love redeems. All lives that are willing.
Because that's what Love did.
For you.
For me.
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Intravenous Ketorolac for Postoperative Pain in Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00765232
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : October 2, 2008
Results First Posted : January 27, 2012
Last Update Posted : January 27, 2012
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|Allocation: Randomized; Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment; Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor); Primary Purpose: Treatment
Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy
Drug: Ketorolac
Drug: Placebo
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|Patients were recruited from October 2008 to November 2010.
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Grimsby GM, Andrews PE, Castle EP, Nunez R, Mihalik LA, Chang YH, Humphreys MR. Long-term renal function after donor nephrectomy: secondary follow-up analysis of the randomized trial of ketorolac vs placebo. Urology. 2014 Jul;84(1):78-81. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2014.04.009.
Grimsby GM, Conley SP, Trentman TL, Castle EP, Andrews PE, Mihalik LA, Hentz JG, Humphreys MR. A double-blind randomized controlled trial of continuous intravenous Ketorolac vs placebo for adjuvant pain control after renal surgery. Mayo Clin Proc. 2012 Nov;87(11):1089-97. doi: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2012.07.018. Epub 2012 Oct 8.
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At the end of the summer I was invited along to Oxnead Hall by Paston Heritage Society to have a look around the gardens of the beautiful Oxnead Hall, near Buxton. There's a wealth of history surrounding the house and Norfolk's famous Paston family. If you're intrigued to know more, please visit the Paston Heritage Society website and consider signing up for a membership which is just £15 a year.
I've written about Oxnead before as part of a geocaching post. I was intrigued by the little leaning tower across the lake and wanted to know more about the beautiful hall on the hill. It's taken a few years but it was nice to have this very special opportunity to take a look around.
The whole event started with a guided walk along Paston Way by Norfolk Trails. I took the 3.5 mile circular route around Southrepps. It's the kind of route you can take your family on during a lazy Sunday afternoon. Find out more about Paston Way here.
For now, I'll leave you with some photos.


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Rakhine Chief Minister visits German Interplast mission Sittwe Hospital 30.11.18
U Nyi Pu , Rakhine Chief Minister visited the German Interplast Team lead by Luebeck Prof Peter Sieg & Dr Lena Cohrs .. this 30.11.18 morning. Thanked the team and welcomed the plan to have German Interplast team Muenich , Dr Heinz Schoeneich in November 2019 at Thandwe District Hospital for a Taunguk, Thandwe, Ngapali , Gwa plastic surgery free of charge for all in Rakhine living people …
The mission in Sittwe is arranged by Alodawphye Seyadaw & Societies , U Pinyar Soe Thar seyadaw, Myanmar Chefs Association, Laguna Lodge Ngapali World Chefs Without Borders- Myanmar, The Strand Hotel Sittwe, Rakhine Red Cross and Daw Thaw Thar Sein and Dr Marlar Tun Singapore. three Myanmar Drs joined the team 1 from Yangon and 2 from Sittwe , assisted the German specialist Drs and learnt about cleft pallet and thyroid operationsas a Myanmar German medical capacity building project under lead of Prof Peter Sieg..l
Rakhine Chief Minister U Nyi Pu donated cash to U Yi Ware Seyadaw for the feeding and shelter of the over 350 patients and followers which arrived for the free operations ..
near 100 could be operated , over 100 will need to come back next year for another team Sittwe German Interplast , since 2001 already more than 10 missions with more than 1000 poor people operated most are live changing, some are live saving … to many ,more patients are there let alone North Rakhine Maungdaw , Bothitaung where never ever a Dr team operated patients in all history and most people there are still not allowed to travel to Sittwe a sure 2000 plus patients are in the loop waiting for a live changing operation.
Heavy case concerning Neurosurgery were sent to Yangon s Neuro Hospital and Prof Myat Thu takes care there for Interplast Germany …
Thanks to the many donor as Arien and Memory Hotel Restaurants for the food donations at lunch to the Drs into the Hospital..
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Guys it has been a hot minute since I posted my good ole (and much read, thanks y'all!) Healthy Girl post! I wanted to take today to kinda say, YO WUZZUP? And to share some good stuff with you. Oh and I hope you all had a terrific weekend. In the event this is the… Continue reading Healthy Girl Here!
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I've known Lauren since I was in 5th grade. She was actually my first girlfriend (we "dated from 5th to 7th grade haha). I hadn't really hung out with her for years after that, but last summer we spent some time together with mutual friends. I could tell by the way she spoke about Matt that they were definitely going to get married, it was just a matter of time. She's been telling me for about 2 years now that when they do get married, I will be their photographer. Not only was I excited to be able to have another wedding to photograph, I was excited for them because I can tell that they're perfect for each other. In December, we set out in Warwick, NY for their engagement shoot and we had a blast! They're naturals in front of the camera... See for yourself!
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This beaut came up for sale last week in Holland!
The seller "Joost" found this bus which was stored in a garage for many many years..
It needs a fair bit of work but nothing to difficult and will be a good project for someone.
I hope it goes to a good home!
Very cool bus with a cool period paint scheme..


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The talk in all the UK gyms around the country this week is the big fight that takes place this Saturday night in Manchester, when world champion Carl 'The Cobra' Froch takes on challenger 'Saint' George Groves in defence of his WBA and IBF super-middleweight belts.
It seems that opinion is split on the outcome of this one! We were around a few gyms in Manchester this week and while at Collyhurst and Moston Lads Club, we filmed the boxers and coaches after a training session discussing who they think will win when Froch and Groves clash.
Watch the full uncut video above, featuring former British and European light-welterweight champion Pat Barrett, head coach at the gym and his array of boxers.
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A plan to use cameras to target extreme speeders on Interstate 95 may have hit a road block.
Ridgeland had hoped to have the iTraffic system in place by July but after both houses of the state legislature recently passed an amendment that could ban the camera system, the issue is now in the hands of Gov. Mark Sanford - and Sen. Clementa Pinckney is very unpopular with Ridgeland's Town Council.
"I've been on the phone until my ear hurts," Mayor Gary Hodges told the council last week.
Many of those calls were placed to Pinckney, but Hodges said the senator never once called him back or any other council member or staff to find out how the system works before siding with an opponent who wants the system banned.
"I called Pinckney and pleaded for him to call me back so I could give him correct information," Hodges said. "Columbia got so much wrong. I would ask that the senator at least talk to us. Instead he supported a legislator who has a bad safety record. We deserve better than this."
Pinckney had sided with Rep. J. Todd Rutherford, who Hodges said supports relaxing traffic laws and is more concerned with protecting violators than increasing safety.
Hodges said Pinckney told another newspaper that the cameras would be harmful to tourism and that there were better ways for Ridgeland to raise money. Hodges said the "bad apples" who cause problems on the interstate should help pay for the emergency response the interstate generates.
Hodges said Pinckney's statements were based on false information reported in other newspapers.
On the final day of the legislative session last week, lawmakers approved S. 1298, which includes an amendment from Rutherford that bans traffic citations for speeding "based solely on photographic evidence."
That bill is now in Sanford's hands.
That leaves the fate of the town's plans for iTraffic in limbo for now. Hodges said he doesn't know what the impact will be - whether Sanford will sign the bill, veto the bill or if the legislature would override a veto.
"We don't have a clear reading on what the impact will be," Hodges said. "In a week or two, we'll know more."
The iTraffic would be the first of its kind in the state, using manned cameras that would photograph the license place and driver of cars traveling at an excessive speed (well faster than 10 mph over the limit) and generate tickets sent to the car owner's homes. If the car owner was not driving, they would not be fined.
But some state lawmakers have questioned privacy issues, the impact it would have on interstate traffic and whether Ridgeland would be dubbed a speed trap.
Hodges said the portable police equipment is far from a speed trap and would affect only 2 to 3 percent of the drivers who cause safety hazards. Unless a specific limit is reached, the cameras would not activate at all.
Speed traps are when towns post higher speed limits and then radically reduce them a short distance away, he said. The entire stretch of I-95 in Ridgeland's jurisdiction is 70 mph, and the cameras would photograph drivers going more than 10 mph over the speed limit.
"That is not a speed trap," he said. "It's not even close."
During a recent safety checkpoint around Memorial Day weekend, the Law Enforcement Network in the 14th Judicial Network wrote 385 citations on I-95 in two days, even though police cars were visible everywhere, he said.
The highest was for 103 mph and the average was 88 mph, he said.
He hopes the camera system would encourage safe driving and help reduce crashes.
I-95 cameras' fate in question
A plan to use cameras to target extreme speeders on Interstate 95 may have hit a road block.


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WASHINGTON – Embattled Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is hanging on to his job by a thread as he faces a revolt from within the agency, and the new accusations that he was a member of his security detail go shopping with him at Home Depot, and then cart the purchases in his house.
Senior officials say Shulkin is still on thin ice with President Donald Trump after a bruising internal report found ethics violations in connection with the secretary's trip to Europe with his wife last summer.
A political advisor installed by Trump to the Department of Veterans Affairs has openly come up to other VA staff about the ousting of the former Obama administration official. And a top communication aide has taken extended leave after a secret, unsuccessful attempt to the lawmakers against him.
"The journey ends with a crash, that hurts the veterans most of all," said Paul Rieckhoff, founder and CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, who has a close observer of the VA for more than a decade. "VA has always been bad news, but Shulkin ethical and leadership errors are still significant — despite all the internal attacks."
Shulkin also bracing for an upcoming VA watchdog report, due for release in the summer, which focuses on the question of whether he used his 24-7 security detail for personal messages.
The audit is the examination of a complaint by a security employee who said that he was asked to accompany the secretary to a Home Depot and carry furniture into his house, according to two people familiar with the assertion that for anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
Senior officials describe a growing frustration that Shulkin repeatedly ignore their advice, only to beg for their help, when he runs into ethical problems. The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive internal discussions, say, Shulkin received a final warning at the end of the whirlwind of distractions. The administration is currently seeking to push Asset on the agenda of aggressive expansion of the Veterans Choice program, in which large groups of veterans can take care of an unwanted step in the direction of the privatization of VA healthcare.
The issue came to the fore at a White House meeting last week, when chief of staff John Kelly told Shulkin to stop talking with the media without the approval of the first with the White House and to remain focused on the determination of veterans health care.
Shulkin was accompanied on that meeting at the Oval Office, where Trump asked him about his efforts to be the Choice of expansion, which lawmakers are now looking to include in a massive spending bill that must be approved by next week to avert a government shutdown.
With Shulkin present, the president called conservative Pete Hegseth, a "Fox & Friends" contribution that was vetted by the end of 2016 for VA secretary, to share his vision on how to deal with the expansion. Hegseth, a former president of the conservative group Concerned Veterans of America, declined to comment for this article.
Then Caldwell, executive director of the CVA, said the White House emphasis on the Choice, amidst the ongoing controversies surrounding Shulkin. "Despite the internal drama going on in the VA, that is a distraction, Congress has continued to work on a solution that everyone can rally around," he said.
Shulkin is accusing the internal drama on a half dozen or so of the political appointments that he had considered shooting, only to be blocked by Kelly.
"I regret everything that led us from what we should focus on, that is where veterans," Shulkin told the AP shortly before the release of an inspector general report that faulted the VA for "failed leadership and an unwillingness or inability of leaders to take responsibility for the accounting problems at a large VA hospital that patients with an increased risk.
It was not always so.
Early in the administration, Shulkin was often to be seen on Trump's side, waving to the crowd at a campaign-style events in Pennsylvania, or the approach of the reporters at the doctor in the white coat as he accompanied the Trump of telehealth tested. Trump called him the "100-to-nothing-man" — a reference to his unanimous Senate confirmation votes, and in the public bullied that he would probably never be fired, because he had successfully led legislation to improve the accountability of the VA and the speed of the disabilities of the appeal.
December, the relations at the VA between Shulkin and a number of political appointments began to unravel about philosophical differences.
In a Dec. 4 internal e-mail obtained by the AP, Jake Leinenkugel, a senior assistant installed as part of a Government-wide program to monitor the clerks' loyalty, " said Shulkin was always suspicious and considered Camilo Sandoval, a senior consultant in VA's health arm, as a White House "spy."
The e-mail to Sandoval hinted at the White House efforts to gain more control, such as the expulsion of Shulkin's chief of staff, and said the secretary had been "on notice to leave" when the administration gets the Choice of law by the Congress.
There were also other signs.
In a Jan. 17 hearing, Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., openly, the blame for the deadlock over the Choice to Shulkin's ever-changing positions. "I am of the opinion that our inability to reach an agreement in a considerable part in connection with your ability to speak from both sides of your mouth, double-talk," Moran said. A grim Shulkin denied the allegation, but the White House was later forced to clarify the position on the bill by legislator confusion.
In the last month, the inspector general released a blistering report finding ethical violations in Shulkin trip in July last year to Denmark and England, who mixed business with pleasure. The IG found that Shulkin, the chief of staff of the Vivieca Wright Simpson had forged e-mails to justify his wife with him on taxpayer costs. Wright Simpson retired after the report was issued.
Seizing on the report, John Ullyot, a top communications aide, and VA-spokesman Curt Cashour, said the Republican staff director of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, which Shulkin would be by that weekend and asked, if the Republicans would be pushing for his removal.
The staff of the director, John Towers, said Ullyot, "no," and made it clear that the Chairman of the commission Phil Roe had expressed support for Shulkin, according to a House aide familiar with the phone conversation. That aide also requested anonymity to discuss a sensitive internal matter. In a statement, Cashour and Ullyot deny that account, saying the call was intended in the place to warn the committee that some of Shulkin the denials of misconduct were unfounded.
Asked this week about Ullyot, the current leave, Cashour released a statement saying, "there are no personnel changes to announce to the Department of Veterans Affairs."
For now, Shulkin seems to be hanging on. At a Cabinet meeting Thursday, Shulkin took a seat reserved for him beside the president.
Associated Press writer Darlene Superville contributed to this report.
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LASALLE — A LaSalle man was arrested on drug charges and illegal possession of a weapon after police executed a search warrant at his home around 6 a.m. Jan. 29, following a lengthy investigation into cocaine sales in the LaSalle area.
Kevin C. Billups, 31, was charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver — cocaine, unlawful possession of a controlled substance — Ecstasy, and possession of a weapon by a felon. He is currently being held at the LaSalle County Jail.
During the search warrant, agents and investigators located approximately 11 grams of cocaine, seven Ecstasy pills and a .22-cal. revolver.
The search warrant was executed in the 500 block of Joliet Street by agents of the Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Team (Tri-DENT), Peru Special Investigative Unit (SIU) and LaSalle Police.


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Cognitive navigation dataset
The creation of this dataset is motivated by the wish to provide to the research community a handy tool for the validation of localization and place classification algorithms. It has been captured by exploiting an RGB-D sensor, i.e. a Microsoft Kinect, mounted on the MAGGIE (Mobile Autonomous riGGed Indoors Exploratory) Robot. The Cognitive Navigation Dataset consists a long range indoors route, which has been recorded in the premises of the Democritus University of Thrace to serve the needs of the Group of Robotics and Cognitive Systems.
I would like to thank my colleagues Mr. Evangelos Boukas and Mr. Dimitris Chrysostomou for their assistance during the acquisition of this dataset.
The dataset contains color images accompanied by the respective depth maps of the scene as they have been obtained directly from a Microsoft Kinect sensor. It consisted from three different parts:
•The first part (Part A) involves the representation of a "corridor", an "office", a "laboratory", an "elevator area" and a "bathroom" in natural illumination conditions. This means that the first part has been captured using the available day light.
The second part (Part B) involves exactly the same places as the Part A but it has been captured at night and, therefore, the illumination conditions are artificial.
•The third part (Part C) of the dataset has also been acquired under artificial illumination conditions and comprises a continuous exploration of all the aforementioned room places. The movements of the robot are very smooth with common field of view between the successive frames.
The first two parts of the dataset are suitable for the validation of place classification algorithms i.e. recognition and categorization due to the variation in the illumination conditions. The third part of the dataset is suitable for indoor localization and mapping due to the fact that the consecutive frames have great spatial and time proximity. Additionally, the color images in all the three parts are accompanied by their respective depth images. This Cognitive Navigation Dataset is freely available to the research community for download. More technical information about the robot set-up and the download link are available here.
An outline of the various scenes of Cognitive Navigation Dataset is presented below:
Part A. Data images captured with natural illumination conditions
Part B. Data images captured with artificial illumination conditions
Part C. Localization images


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The pseudometallophyte Noccaea caerulescens is an excellent model to study adaptation to heterogeneous environments, as it grows both on normal and on heavy-metal-rich, toxic soils. Information on its mating system is limited, despite the potential impact on its evolution and demography.
Mousset et al. measured selfing rates using robust genetic estimation methods in five metallicolous and five non-metallicolous populations in Southern France, and replicated this measure for different reproductive seasons. They find consistently higher selfing rates, and lower effective sizes, in non-metallicolous populations than in metallicolous populations and discuss how it might constrain adaptation to polluted and non-polluted sites.
Further reading
Mathilde Mousset, Patrice David, Christophe Petit, Juliette Pouzadoux, Clémence Hatt, Élodie Flaven, Ophélie Ronce, Agnès Mignot, 2016, 'Lower selfing rates in metallicolous populations than in non-metallicolous populations of the pseudometallophyteNoccaea caerulescens(Brassicaceae) in Southern France', Annals of Botany, vol. 117, no. 3, pp. 507-519 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcv191


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It can also affect women – usually those who have gone through the menopause – and tends to cause hair to thin at the top of the head.
And in Part III, I'll examine the sexually passive men who paradoxically and simultaneously experience the pain and pleasure of being dominated.
British star Jason Statham also sealed his status as a bald heartthrob with his recent engagement to model and former Victoria's Secret angel Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
While men with shaved heads were viewed as considerably less attractive than their counterparts with full heads of hair.
A study in 2010 found men who start going bald at a young age are up to 45 per cent less likely to fall victim to prostate cancer later in life.
Much of this work centered on one or both partners breaking an agreed upon contract.
For example, a self-identified cuckoldress brought her husband to treatment because "he had the nerve" to cheat on her with another woman.
Male pattern baldness, the most common type of hair loss, affects around half of all men by 50 years of age.


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Sri Lanka Kandy Raban Dance
This female doll reflects the raban dance. The raban is a traditional folk dance originating from the Kandy area in Sri Lanka. A small flat drum also called raban is played both by male and female performers and spinned round on fingers or sticks. Size 26 cm. No marks.
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The new funding model is based on allocations. In the current cycle covering 2014-2016, eligible countries including Nigeria received an upfront allocation, which provided improved predictability of funding.
The Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) in Nigeria is mandated to facilitate all Global Fund Grants disbursement in-country and supervise selections of principal and sub recipients.
Starting from the Country's national strategic plan, stakeholders including Gede Foundation (as observer at the meeting) participated in an ongoing country dialogue and review of outstanding issues related to the process of selecting implementers on March 2 2016. Development partners, donors and grant recipients anticipated an all-inclusive engagement of key players within the three disease burdens. Gede's involvement with the activities of CCM is to add values to the meeting outcomes, and to offer its contributions regarding the links between mental health and HIV-AIDS, which is noted in the prevalence study undertaken by Gede in 2015-2016 and sees the CCM as an important channel for advocacy work for the integration.
Check this site to share with the result of the study later in the year.


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All Together Now!
Starting this week (first week of October) the Firebird Band will be meeting Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesdays during our regular class time. At this point everyone should have purchased the Standard of Excellence Book 1 (Red cover) for themselves. The playing test for # 7 in S of E starts on Monday.
Bandmate is an amazing tool for your musician at home. Compatible with Kindle, Android, and Apple, it is also Ad-free, and totally FREE. After selecting their instrument in the drop down menu, the students play a note and see that note on a staff to confirm they are playing the correct note! Click above to download.
Practice, Practice, Practice!
A Google Form has been sent home to my personal spies (also know as your parents) They will be filling out your practice minutes from Thursday - Sunday each week, so make sure you show off your best playing at home too!


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Florence, Italy
Sarah & Dan | Lake Engagement
As seen on Once Wed and Magnolia Rouge.
Sarah and Dan grew up on lakes. The location of their engagement shoot was a place where their individual hearts lay, as well as a location where their relationship has grown stronger together. This lake is where Sarah would come in the summers to spend time with family and friends doing what midwesterners love to do: waterskiing, getting sunburned, and essentially living in a bathing suit the entire summer. Sarah's choice of suit for this session was impeccable, as it assimilated so incredibly well into the vibe of our time together.
Water makes people honest, and it was such an incredible experience to witness the character and nuances of Sarah and Dan's relationship within it – full of kindness, romance, and laughter! A engagement session such as this (devoid of distracting details or unnecessary props) allows for the genuine connection between the couple to be displayed. It is a fortunate circumstance to find oneself committed to another human for life, and having the honor of witnessing this incredible couple's way of loving was a reassurance of such a commitment. Having an engagement session documented in this way reveals these sort of nuances, and is what every engagement should be!
Zoe & Will | Portland, Oregon
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Nate Wilcox, Kelly's husband, baptized Kelly with Collin, their son looking on. Following the baptism, we shared in communion together. What a sweet picture it was to hear the words of Romans 1:16-17 which read, "For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, 'The righteous shall live by faith;'" then to see Kelly demonstrate this with her own confession. Kelly Wilcox is not ashamed of the gospel!
Pastor Bryan asked Nate for his thoughts after baptizing his wife and here's what he had to say:
How gracious and amazing is our Lord! As I stood next to Kelly I had many thoughts and one emotion: joy. My wife has been redeemed and today she stands proudly and proclaims her faith in Him and the power of His gospel. I have seen her transformed by the Lord's gospel and it has greatly blessed her and our marriage. I love and respect my wife and as we continued on in our relationship she has faced a multitude of things that many don't experience at such a young age. Together we searched for answers, we looked everywhere except to the Lord and when we did, He delivered us. She held fast to her belief in Christ and when things were dark and confusing she showed the wisdom to accept our Lord's stretched out hand.
I am so proud of Kelly's obedience and commitment to the Lord, for Kelly's searching. Even when the world told her this can't make sense, and she was plagued with doubt from the past - she has decided lived it. I am blessed to have a wife who is dedicated to our Lord, who can stand firm in who He is. I can't express how much gratitude I have to Him. He has given me my life, our son, Collin, and my wife. How beautiful a memory it is for me that our son was able to see and will remember Kelly's proclamation of our living Lord!
Prior to being baptized, Kelly shared the following testimony and confession:
I grew up being taught about and knowing a lot of God, and even felt I loved Him. My family and I went to church, spoke of God and Christ in our home, read our Bibles, I went to youth group. I was involved in worship and I had even been baptized at the beach when I was eleven (we were in California). For a long time, I struggled with deep insecurity, and began living a double life, being one person at church and youth group and another with my non-Christian friends. Shortly after I graduated high school I started dabbling with alcohol, and drugs. At 18, my parents decided to move to Utah, so I followed wanting change. Shortly after moving, I left the faith and completely stopped going to church in search of my own path, my own truth, my own ways. I met my husband, Nate, when I was 19. He and I would discuss faith and religion and began to come up with our own idea of what we thought it should be and decided we could define our own religion. I thought I had a newfound sense of freedom from the bondage I experienced in religion, and blamed Christianity for oppression and judgment. Years went by of going deeper and deeper into alcohol and substance abuse and immorality, of searching endlessly, seeking hope and comfort in any and all beliefs that had nothing to do with God. Yet, all this time I was never finding peace or fulfillment.
Nate and I were married a few years later in 2008, and a few years after that, we moved in with my parents. Something very strange started to happen, Nate was reading the Bible all the time. At first, his motive was to prove my parents wrong as we had always debated about religion and faith with them, and we were determined to tear down their beliefs. Then, my brother Rory, and his wife, Amy, started going to a Christian church nearby and loved it. It frustrated me that they never pushed their beliefs on us and I waited and waited for the day they'd invite us to church, so I could turn down the offer. Instead, they would have us over for dinner, invest time in us, cared for us deeply and I had no doubt whatsoever they loved us very much, genuinely. Then, I found out I was pregnant. And The Lord used this time to begin to probe my heart and mind about how I was going to raise this child. I often asked myself, "What would I teach him of the world around him?" For the life of me, I couldn't come up with anything worth believing in. I began to feel the Lord asking me, "What are you going to tell your son about Me? Who will you tell him that I am?" My initial thought and answer was "I don't know because I don't know You." And that thought was the beginning of the realization of how lost I felt, living in darkness with no hope for my soul or my life or the life after this.
Nate told me he wanted to start going to church. At first, I resisted and was scared to go, but facing becoming a parent and not knowing what to teach my son, knowing my own beliefs were severely failing me, I realized it was worth a try. I didn't want express any emotion and I really tried hard not to let church phase me. I wanted to hold on to my pride for dear life and not let go of the illusion of confidence I thought I had built up all these years. And I was terrified to admit I was wrong in turning my back on God and faith in Him. I think I was also very fearful of facing God Himself, especially all I had been doing the last several years. After going a few Sundays, I began to actually appreciate what the pastor had to say. I finally started singing along with the songs. Then, a few more Sundays went by, and the song "How He Loves" was being sung, and a wave of the love of God poured into me so intensely I burst into tears and couldn't stop myself. In the deepest parts of my heart, soul and mind, I was convicted of the fact that for years and years I was rejecting Christ Himself and His deep love for me, and all He had done to give me a hope, a future, salvation. A verse closely tied to this conviction flooded my remembrance, "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8. This was a moment of freedom and receiving Christ I will never forget. Then, Nate told me he wanted to be baptized. I was a little shocked at first. And even wondered, "How do you know you need to be baptized?" I was earnestly curious about what was taking place in him, and wanted the same ability to know God in this way. From this time on, God truly grabbed hold of me, and I got into His word, being given answers to any and all questions and I couldn't get enough of His truth, which was and is life to my soul. There was a sense of purpose, and belonging and true freedom, and even joy that had been absent for so long.
Today, I confess I am a sinner, saved by the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ, and not of any work of myself. I am convinced that God lives and reigns because the word of truth, the holy Bible, and because of the evidence in the transformation of my life, and because His majesty, splendor and beauty are evident in all of creation. Psalm 19:1 affirms, "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork." I believe the Bible is the infallible word of God. That Jesus Christ alone is "the way, the truth and the life." John 14:6. I believe Christ took on the sins of the world on the cross and laid down His life, defeated death and sin for all who would believe in Him. That He offers a blessed hope, a promise of an imperishable, incomparable inheritance with Him from God. But it is not because of the promise of blessing and splendor that I worship Him, but that He is worthy to be praised, worthy of a life of devotion, worthy to live and die for. I believe the promises from God of liberty from the bondage of sin and from our flesh, which only knows selfish ambition, and can only offer emptiness, corruption and ultimately death. Romans 6:23 tells us, "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." I believe that God is love, and that faith in Jesus Christ is the only road to the one, true, living God, to eternal life in heaven spent worshipping His majesty, becoming one with The Lord. The reason I am being baptized today is to publically declare that I identify with Christ's death, to die to my old self, to be dead to sin, and alive in Christ. "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." Galatians 2:20


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I recently told a friend in our church how I thought it was awesome that she was always inviting her clients to our church. She cuts hair and has numerous of opportunities to listen and serve her clients as she cuts their hair! She gets it! She sees daily opportunities in her everyday life to live on mission. Here's a message I received from her the other day in response:
"My dad has never been a Christian or ever gone to church. I invited him a ton growing up and he never came. He finally came whenever I got baptized and he liked it, and he normally dislikes anything related to religion. That was a huge eye-opener for me that District has really become a home. The Sunday I was baptized was my favorite day ever for so many different reasons. Ever since then I believe anyone and everyone should experience the love and comfort The District Church has to offer. God is really doing big things in Jacksonville and at The District Church and I'm stoked to be a part of it."
I just want to encourage you to reach out to people you see on a regular basis and invite them to do life with you. As you get opportunities to share the good news about Jesus with them, invite them to join you for community group, and/or to come to church with you one Sunday! There are opportunities every single day for you to invest into others.
Your Pastor,
Boyd Bettis


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To help improve the understanding, prediction and preparedness for potentially devastating space-weather events, 16 years' worth of satellite sensor data has been released.
GPS satellites orbit in a radiation-filled environment, so they carry particle detectors that give constellation operators a way to assess the health and status of the system. The sensors, developed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, continuously measure the energy and intensity of charged particles in Earth's magnetic field. With this data, researchers can better understand how space weather works and how best to protect critical infrastructure, such as the nation's satellites, aircraft, communications networks, navigation systems and the electric power grid.
"Today, 23 of the nation's more than 30 on-orbit GPS satellites carry these instruments," said Marc Kippen, the Los Alamos program manager. "When you multiply the number of satellites collecting data with the number of years they've been doing it, it totals more than 167 satellite years. It's really an unprecedented amount of information."
The newly released measurements constitute a nearly continuous global record of the variability in the Van Allen radiation belt for the past 16 years, including how it responds to solar storms. The data provides an invaluable record for understanding radiation-belt variability that is key to developing effective space-weather forecasting models, Los Alamos officials said.
The public release of GPS energetic-particle data was conducted under the terms of an October 2016 White House Executive Order on preparing the nation for space-weather events. The Los Alamos-GPS sensor data is available from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or on data.gov.
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"Natural Selection" High Life Magazine (Business World), November 2006 by Hans Audric Estialbo
Hans Audric Estialbo talks to two sculptors who are looking to tradition for a revolution.
It was curiosity that led me to The Pinto Art Gallery in Antipolo, the venue of the annual Antipolo Arts Festival. The annual convergence of painters, potters, sculptors and other artists picked an ideal setting: at the entrance to a city, yet still very much within the idyllic surroundings that characterize this small town just outside of Metro Manila. The religion ringing in the air was the art these people practice, most of them fresh talents in different media, and some of them familiar names, like Hadrian Mendoza. I first met Hadrian during a fund-raising exhibit to help stop women's prostitution in the Philippines. Hadrian was, by that time, already quite a prolific sculptor; he has always been a firm believer in sculpture's ability to connect a people to its origins. "Art is what keeps us connected with the roots we were born with. Amid technology and other modernity, pottery will survive the way it is surviving now," he said.
He has, in the past, been referred to as Philippine pottery's Picasso, having held an impressive number of exhibits in and out of the country and blown away a far more impressive number of enthusiasts with his skill in stoneware. In recent years, Hadrian has mounted shows that has left an unforgettable impression of what pottery, and Philippine pottery, for that matter, has to offer. His collection of functional pots, plates, bowls, tea sets, vases, glasses, pitchers, ans slabs, stood in Pinto Art Gallery for a far simpler context: reinvention. Potters like him, undeniably, are up for nothing less than reinvention.
Prior to this engagement, he had traveled and researched extensively to expand his craft. "The shades of greens and browns and red in my work come from ashes of ipil, pine, and fruit-bearing trees, most of which were destroyed by storms and strewn along Manila's South Super highway," he said. He has begged bakeshops for ashes, too; those who wood-fire their products were happy to supply him in return. He has visited sugar mills and riverbanks of silted cities outside Manila for sugarcane and volcanic ash, where he finds the orange and brown colors he seeks to use in his work.
Hadrian still relies on the traditional ways of making his masterpieces; where some go with the tide, he goes against the grain. It is the young potter's skill with glazing, however, that sets him apart. Glazes-both utilitarian and decorative- play a vital role to the potter, and Hadrian takes his glazes seriously., He has, in the past, shared his technique: blending three types of glaze and mixing them to create white streaks that adapt to any color. The combination of glazes has allowed him to achieve different results. His pieces are nothing short of inspired- be the chess sets, drinking glasses, basins, or a sculpture of the mythical half-horse, half-human tikbalang on a circular plinth of green clay.
Although Hadrian first trained in the US, it was not until he came home to the Philippines that his affinity for native themes became apparent. "Pottery is different here in the Philippines- which was why I came back home. It's just as different as those who practice it. It's like recreating nature in a more permanent way- taking things from the earth like clay, ashes, trees, sand, powder, altering them into your desired shape or form, glazing them with your creativity, firing a piece of clay that might just give you the brightest hue of the sky or the sea or even the universe. We, as Filipinos, keep it blooming. It's when you get down and dirty with dirt, ash, and clay that you feel the connection with the earth or with your culture," he said.
It is this sense of connection to one's roots that is shared by another equally gifted potter, Pablo Capati III. Pablo is one of only tow people in the country who have mastered the anagama kiln, an ancient method first brought to Japan from Korea in the fifth century.
"Potters like us recreate the traditional- the natural- thing again. We create something to cope with the moderns. This is what keeps us rich," Pablo said. Pottery offers a raw connection, a spirited desire to just let the hands do the talking wile minutes and seconds disconnect one from a busy modern life. But like all things in the world, there is a diversification in pottery. The approaches that divide those who practice it are the same dynamics that keep them together. Pablo does this with anagama.
An anagama (meaning "cave kiln" in Japanese) consists of a firing chamber with a firebox at one end and a flue at the other. Anagama kilns are sometimes described as single-chamber kilns built in a sloping tunnel shape; in fact, ancient kilns were sometimes built by digging tunnels into banks of clay. Unlike electric- or gas-fueled kilns that contemporary potters use, the anagama is fueled by wood, where a large amount of fuel is needed for firing until an appropriate temperature is reached. Stoneware and porcelain pieces will typically mature at a measure of "heat work" dependent on the final temperature coupled with the time required to achieve that temperature, which would reach as high as 1,300 degrees celcius.
In this manner, fly ashes are produced as wood in the kiln is burned. Wood ash settles on the pieces during the firing, and in a complex interaction between ash, flame, and the minerals that make up the clay body, forms a natural ash glaze. The glaze shows incredible variation in all its texture, color, and thickness. It may range in texture from glossy and smooth, to rough and sharp.
Pablo said the placement of pieces within the kiln definitely affects the look of the piece; sometimes, the longer and the more fly ashes are present, the better and stronger the hues produced. As pieces closer to the firebox may receive eighty coats of ash, or even be immersed in embers, those deeper in the kiln may only be gently touched by ash effects.
Besides the location within the kiln, Pablo shared that the way pieces are placed near each other also affects the flame path an, naturally, the appearance of the pieces. The best thing about this, said Pablo, is that the potter can only imagine the flame path as it rushes trough the kilin and use this sense to paint the pieces with fire. This is why most of Pablo's works look raw, almost prehistoric. In contrast with Hadrian's, Pablos's creations come out with different hues, the effects significantly embossed in every stroke of color.
A slab in the middle of the gallery- the center piece of his collection- stood out from the rest of his works. This, he said, took a month to make, and was helped all along, by accident, by the quirks of the anagama. "It was supposedly a bigger slab that i tore in two, with my feet no less, and with the amazing faculties of wood firing, became what it is now." it was almost six feet high, ruined on the edges, with a surface that looked wounded and elegant at the same time.
The rest of his masterfully crafted pieces, created by the work of both hand and foot, took demanding hours to put together. Present in his gallery were big carved pots that swank of ash colors and splendid finish that are perfect for display. A big circular pot was in one corner, its powdery texture was the reason it stood out among the other objects around the area.
For both Hadrian and Pablo, nothing much has changed since potters of old expressed their art in clay and fire. In fact, they say, things should stay the same. Given the richness of Philippine culture, contemporary Filipino artists can look to their own selves for inspiration, and, through common methods of creating pottery, connect with a past they share with many other artists from distant parts.


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Tucking our guns in our waistbands out of sight, we left the pod talking and laughing as if we had not a care in the world as our eyes took in our surroundings. Seeing no one, we veered off course and cut out running for the elevator that would lead us to the danger zone; Diamond City. Josh punched in the memorized numbers and the doors opened immediately, not like the elevators we were used to that took forever and a day to arrive at your floor. No alarms sounded and no one came running. For some reason, that bothered me. Unless, of course Asher really trusted us enough to think we'd be no problem. A quote from the illustrious Bugs Bunny came to mind, "He don't know me very well, do he?" and I chuckled to myself.
"Chris, can't we bypass Diamond City and go straight up top?" Josh asked excitedly, "Look at the buttons! There's a 'D', for Diamond City, but there's also a 'G'. Could that mean ground floor?"
"What about our stuff? Our backpacks and supplies?" I asked.
"The hell with the supplies, Piper!" Chris said, "If we can get out alive, we can always get more supplies. Press the 'G', Josh, see where it brings us."
Once the button was pressed, we felt movement, but had no clue as to which way or how far until the door opened to reveal the tunnel.
"Yes!" Chris exclaimed happily, "We owe you one, boy!"
We both hugged Josh affectionately as he blushed with pleasure.
"Let's get the hell away from this looney bin," I suggested, "Far away."
We ran as fast as we could to the opening of the tunnel until we came to the door that would lead us outside. This door just required us to press one button, much to our relief. Before we knew it, the door opened and the smell of fresh, morning air greeted us as if we were missed. Instead of running down the hill, like they would expect, we ran up. Scrambling up over rocks and through the groves of pines, we made it to the summit finally stopping as we bend over to catch our breath.
"Guys look," we heard Josh say, "Guys, oh my God."
Something in his voice sent shivers up my spine and when Chris and I turned and looked, I wished I hadn't.
As far as the horizon in every direction the sky was filled with triangular shaped space crafts. The blackest of black, they hovered overhead, every now and then zipping from one point to another. But Josh's eyes weren't looking at the ships, but at the scenery below. Where once there were small towns and beautiful nature, there was nothing but barren landscape. Smoke filled the sky as the world burned.
We had no words, only millions of questions as we wondered how this all came about in a matter of hours. Or was it?
"Chris?" My voice was tight, mouth dry as a bone as I spoke, "how long were we asleep?"
"Just an hour or so, I think," he said softly, "Piper? What's going on here? Am I really seeing this?"
We heard the sounds of footsteps nearing and froze. There was no where to go, no where to hide. Someone was coming very slowly and deliberately as they knew this.
Asher came into view, his face set in a mask of pity as he approached.
"Ahh, there you are," he said, "seems as though you caught on a little sooner than we expected."
He looked pointedly at Josh, wagging a finger back and forth. "Someone's been snooping and being naughty."
I felt, rather than saw, the presence of the Grays all around us. "As for your question, Piper, you were asleep for almost thirty days," he announced, chuckling at my widening eyes, "Yes, hard to believe, I know. Josh shook it off a little sooner than we expected, but, the takeover is complete. Welcome to the new Earth, Euchlid 5."
It wasn't the ships that scared me, or the fact that we'd been asleep for a month, or even that Earth had been over run with Grays. It was watching Chris fall to his knees, burying his face in his hands that let me know all hope was gone. Humanity, was gone. Looking at Josh's empty eyes I nodded imperceptibly and took his hand, both of us noticing the cliff in back of us. We ran, leaping off into space to our deaths rather than give them any satisfaction. But even that wasn't to be. For as we free fell,we were suddenly lifted with a speed so great I could feel my organs shifting painfully forward, my neck near to breaking so great was the shift in direction. They wouldn't even let us die the way we wanted to die and shrieking in mortal fear, we disappeared into the bowels of the craft above to meet our fate.
My huge belly contracted again as the chords in my neck stood out with strain of pushing. Female grays stood around me greedily waiting for the newest infant to arrive. I'd lost count after the twentieth monstrosity was born. I felt myself tear as its huge head made an appearance. Shrieking, I gave one final push, expelling the thing in a rush of blood and afterbirth. The females surged forward as they caught it in a blanket, and bit through the umbilical cord. As their attention was focused on the hybrid child, I quickly grabbed the scalpel on the tray near my head. In one quick motion, I ran the blade across my neck from ear to ear, my laughter ending in gurgles as the shocked females tried without success to save me. It was over. I was going home.
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