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The Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDAC) gives the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) broad regulatory powers over legal drugs and more limited power over the regulation of food. For drug makers, the FDA is the fearsome elephant in the room because of the immense amount of time and huge levels of money it takes to get a legal drug to market. Though the FDA has cracked down on "CBD" and anyone making medical claims about it, it hasn't taken up the torch in going after the thousands of people and businesses making medical claims about cannabis in their respective states. That though may soon change as the FDA is taking an increased interest in the medical claims and allegations surrounding cannabis on the state level.
Under the FDCA, the FDA categorizes a substance as either a food or a drug, depending on how it is labeled or advertised. If labeling even suggests the substance is "intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, or is an 'article' (other than food) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals," the FDA will regulate it as a drug with very few exceptions.
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For those who don't want to end up tangling with the FDA, cannabis edibles may be a safer bet since the FDA is more hands-off when it comes to regulating food. The FDA basically categorizes food as anything people ingest that is not a drug. Though the FDA has promulgated hundreds of pages of food regulations, it mostly relies on food makers to self-enforce these regulations. However, when the FDA learns of regulatory violations, whether they regard food or drugs, it can and usually does take serious action.
Importantly, the food/drug distinction is not always clear. In the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), Congress permitted some labeling claims for food (including dietary supplements) formerly limited to drugs. Under DSHEA, the FDA has issued regulations allowing certain specific health claims to be made about foods, e.g., "Three grams of soluble fiber from oatmeal daily in a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol may reduce the risk of heart disease." Food makers can also ask the FDA to permit other health claims if supported by scientific evidence. And other claims may be made regarding the role of an ingredient intended to affect a structure or function of the human body, under certain limited circumstances.
What does all of this mean for cannabis businesses and specifically for edibles makers? If your cannabis label or advertising does not make claims that bring your product within the FDA's drug definition, the FDA should not treat your edible as a drug under the FDCA. Of course, this doesn't make your edibles lawful under federal law; it just means you won't have to spend time dealing with the FDA if the FDA ever takes it upon itself to start enforcing drug and food laws against state-legal cannabis businesses.
And what would likely go down in the event your medical cannabis products are ever viewed as drugs by the FDA? The FDA's efforts to pursue and shut down interstate CBD sellers tells us that it would likely be a short and swift ending for most state-legal medical cannabis businesses unless they have buckets of cash and time to get through formal, comprehensive drug trials. See here, here, and here for more on that.
As of now, the FDA has kept its nose out of state-legal medical cannabis and it remains a sleeping giant, but change may be on the horizon given the FDA's recent spike in feeling a "responsibility" to answer whether cannabis has medical benefits in certain contexts. As a result, all state-legal medical cannabis businesses should be aware that FDA intervention may be imminent.


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Brian Marick makes some great points here about things that are important to agile development, but weren't the first order of business when our major concern was getting permission to do it. If the default is that agile is acceptable, Brian points out that it's essential to understand what teams need to execute agile processes successfully.
Brian's pulls are "Skill, Disciple, Ease and Joy". Parts of this resonate with something I've said to plenty of people - too many software developers consider pain to be part of their jobs. I've seen some terrible things done and excused with "it's always hard", or "it has to be that way". For change to occur, we first need to see the potential for something better ("it shouldn't hurt like this"), and then we need to be able to envision that better thing (which requires skill). And the result is frequently things that are easier to use for everyone.
The joy thing is going to be even harder though. Programmers seem to have an habit of finding someone else to blame for their pain, rather than looking closely at themselves. If you don't believe me, go read some Dilbert. Dilbert's problems are caused by Catbert, by PHB, sometimes by Wally, and he's generally the good natured, innocent bystander. Now these characters are intentionally caricatures, and I don't want to stretch the analogy too far, but I think they capture the software development zeitgeist. We'd do better if we stopped seeing ourselves as victims, and involved ourselves in finding solutions to the problems we see, especially the ones that impact us! If you think your boss is making stupid decisions, make it your business to understand their perspective on the decision - maybe you're not even looking at the same problems!
Anyway, Brian says things better than I can right now, so go read his blog.
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With the Grain- A Day Shared with Artist Eiko Fan
Yesterday I got to do something unexpectedly wonderful with my time here in Philly. I was introduced to artist Eiko Fan who is friends with Rob and Cathy when I was at the film festival last week. Rob was introducing the shorts written and directed by Muslim youth in Philadelphia, he is the director of the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival. Eiko Fan sat toward the front of the theater and Cathy pointed her out to me. She thought we should meet, that we would have a lot in common. After the viewing my friends introduced us. Eiko was very warm and easy to talk to. She had that self-contained quality in her quiet baring. I liked her immediately. The kind of person that knows many things and doesn't need to prove it. I feel like there is mastery in that. Not only in her art, but in her way with people. Perhaps it was even in her way of holding herself.
I told her I was an artist with a Studio Art degree from Florida State University. I said I had done my first solo exhibit and Artist Residency earlier this year at a small museum in Tallahassee, Florida. She asked what I worked with. I said I was first a drawer, I got into painting later and did sculpture in college. I mentioned trees, that I have become more drawn to the presence of things. I did a stone installation and love to focus on ancient oaks, the feeling of being.
Eiko does wood sculpture. She carves wooden beams and stumps with a chain saw, using the tip to make cuts like paint strokes. She graciously invited me to come over to her house to do some carving. I remember one project when I had to cut wood to make a frame for a mirror. The mirror was a broken odd shape, so I was going to use the light poplar wood to create a dripping effect, spray painting it silver so the dipping edges looked like they were melting. A reference to the fact that glass is just a slow moving liquid.
As I sanded the wood for hours by hand, I found I liked the rhythm of it, the effort making it smooth with my hands. I liked that the light grain shown, I felt like its supple surface was cheerful, like its smell and color and touch took me to its forest where the light would have been cheerful and bright, reaching the ground, allowing it to grow. I would find my mind drifting there, the rhythm an unexpected meditation. The material bringing me in contact to a place I had not seen, so imbued with it, my thoughts would drift there. No words necessary to convey its message. I felt the light of the sun the young tree had built itself with. Could imagine a cool quick wind stirring its leaves I had never seen.
That tactile power was the more important part of that project. I never committed to the planned result of the mirror, I glued it together hurriedly for a rushed deadline, and after the class finished it separated, and the glass broke when I moved. I think I didn't want the distraction from the wood deep down. It had surprised me with the draw of working just the wood.
It was this that Eiko gave back to me. I had not known this so clearly until she showed me the strength of her carvings, and invited me to make a small one of my own. I looked forward to the trip to visit her and the deeper connection it would bring.
I think the journey on the subway helps to process things. There is a certain retreating that happens, a withdrawing in, not wanting to tangle with too much moving through unfamiliar territory, even if at times that territory is the person sitting next to you. I think crossing land staring out the window at the changing scenery, gave me a chance to cover unconscious ground. I loved the colors and murals caked by dirt and layers of living passing by. I noticed how long houses are up north, like deep burrows instead of airy squares down south. I watched the concrete jungle with its signs of spirit, in one neighborhood there was a mural of a smiling little girl with dark skin and pigtails looking out her bedroom window, with a brother peeking down at the train in the next window. Interaction and acknowledgment, connections made just for someone like me to see.
We started underground and as we went down the Frankford Line it rose up. Concrete passing by gave way to sky and the colors of fall began to overtake the window. Trees and wood and oxygen. Eiko's territory. I love that there are details everywhere in Philly that speak something unique. Beautiful Chinese letters in red peek on the sky stairway, the next stop, the seating area has vaulted glass windows, glass boxes and triangles framed in white grouped together to make a grand pointed viewing space of the blue sky and the river of passing cars below. Finished off by the rawness of weather worn paint and old hand turned window latches.
When I got off at the end of the line I crossed one of the overpass walking bridges, it had some charming scroll of metal work lettering and lighting like the type face of an old Coca-Cola sign. I was texted to look for her by an old shoe store. As I went over the cars I saw a waving figure out of the corner of my eye. I waved and met her by her car.
It was good to have that moment when you first introduce yourselves to each other again in your new environment. She asked more about me and when we drove up to her house it stood out from the manicured lawns and white picket fences around her with its wildness. I felt at home, like Daddy's land. It's places like this where there is no fear to get dirty and new things are fashioned and born. Her driveway was thick with leaves and inches of sawdust. Things were stored and stacked about wherever they found purchase to nestle themselves like so many wild things. I feel like it reflects where the focus is and where it isn't. There was a wall of stumps of wood by the fence and wood working power tools and clamps and tables. She invited me inside and the cheery white house was like a lair spilling items and art, both hers and her students.
Eiko works with disabled students, many blind, some with cerebral palsy, some missing hands. Whatever place they are at, she helps them find a way to create. Paint with toes, sculpt with glue and paper. I was impressed by some of the paper works by blind students who were colorists. One woman had not seen color for I believe it was seventy years, and still used the correct colors for her sculptures. There was one of human figures reaching toward the top of their structure. The people were different colors. The top of the structure was like an open caging with yellow stars on top and blue encasement. They were reaching for the stars. The white figure couldn't quite reach, so one of the brown figures was holding their hand, and the other hand reached up and touched a star. I feel moved remembering it.
Another was impressive, it was like the Renaissance paintings of Giuseppe Arcimboldo of portraits made out of fruit. The creator was blind but used colored printing paper in all the right places. She didn't even get help to know which color each paper was, she had a computer program tell her and made it at home. She remembered how they looked. I loved her plays on words. The mouth was made of red tulips, there was a little white rabbit on the head for "hair" the eyes were two potatoes with "eyes". It was great.
Eiko had even more stored inside than normal as her mother's paintings were recently brought from Japan. They were beautiful landscapes with rich color and strong curving bands that defined her style.
I loved the carvings Eiko showed me of her son, her family, little people grouping to make larger forms, all raw and shifting with the spirit of the wood. Her cutting so defined. I think my favorites were the one she made when she was pregnant and the wooden female figure's womb opened on a hinge to show the two children inside, a brother and sister. I was impressed by the wood's strength and connections and the hollow spaces. She said it is important how to leave the connecting points strong. It is important that it is One. She doesn't like gluing things. I could feel what she meant. It keeps the integrity of the object.
My other favorite was a short seat that looked like a Galapagos turtle with six legs and some strong stubby wings for a little seat back, it had such a tough attitude coming through the quiet wooden medium. She said it was funny because the deep gap at the front and the rise of the turtle's head messes with men who sit in it. Noguchi liked the joke and sat in it when he visited her and now she said smiling she doesn't want other people to sit on it. I really love thinking about that, he was the last person to sit in it. That gave me joy, what a funny thing for a woman artist to think of. I wouldn't expect a man to point out our advantage like that. Of course, it was just unexpected period. She has a good sense of humor. Clever, and funny whenever I think of it.
After the tour of work she offered me half of a Vietnamese sandwich made with beef and cucumber, some spice and a delicious sauce. We fueled up before getting to work. I felt so glad, how kind she is, and so much was shared so easily, even beyond good food and time.
She gave me a lab coat covered in paint marks and I felt like I'd come home. On the smallest wood working table were two pieces of ornamental pear. she had split the little log and carved flat the back. She told me I wouldn't find this in Florida. This is my most place specific and wonderful souvenir. And it came for free from a local tree, was prepared by Eiko Fan and carved by me.
I knew I was going to make my totem for my fantasy story. When I explained what figure I was making I think it was confusing to her, but she helped me with the band saw that nestles in her shed where all the magical pieces from her early works are tucked away. They peek out from the cascade of tools, and wood, and mounds of sawdust. She had shown me pictures of her residency in Scotland. I was blown away by the performance pieces, wooden headdresses and wings held me fast as she turned the pages. I could see such earthen power appealing to Scotland with its mounds of earth and stone.
Eiko showed me a Dremel tool that looked like a screwdriver tip but I noticed the edged of the spiral were flared and sharp as my leather piercing needle. The metal was stronger. She was very excited about it. She said it cuts like butter, and it took many years for her to find it. I got to use it to carve my figure. We worked next to each other for hours, they slipped by happily. I would have liked to watch her more as the chain saw spewed wood bits behind me, I watched sometimes as she used its tip with precision bending over the low piece of wood. I don't know that I could handle that each day, she is strong and steady and keen as she works.
She told me that even though it looks messy, the sawdust is important. The inches of dust make a steady base to hold the wood as she works. The tip of the saw is protected too from hitting concrete when it dips down. I felt like there was something right about it. It was like an ecosystem. It reminds me of the way Florida's hammocks make their soil. The trees make their own soil by their leaves and layers of generations over the hard coral rock. Here, it was the Artist's ecosystem. The bits of the earlier work providing a steady base for fresh work, freedom to wield powerful tools. the dust is charged by the action again and again, cut by the artist's hand.
I like that. I even liked it about my chalk mural in Carmel California. Colored dust layering in a perfect lip of powdered pigments at the bottom. The side effect of my hand and its pressure on the chalk.
When I first started working I felt a bit unsure of it. What the hell do I do to get this going? Eiko said not to think about it too much. What a relief, THAT is good for me. She said I would have to give up something for contrast, so I made the wings thinner. I wanted to leave bark, I like the under layer too, it was beautiful. I would have liked to show it off even more. I used the underneath wood as skin for the female form. I loved how many of her female figures were like Goddess statues, or the Goddess of Willendorf figurine. I wanted mine to feel like that, an evocation of woman's power and spirit. So I noticed a knot on the wood and used it to shape the breasts, she said good ones get extra credit. See this is the relief of artists. It is funny and awareness of the figure and respect of shape is different. It is harder to do. I wasn't sure it was going to go over well at first, then I got obsessed getting it right, once a mistake is made it is part of it. I learned this by messing up the left hand. I cut it down and and made the torso instead. Not even by first choice, but the wood you need to work with. Whatever is there, whatever is left. Will you miss this part you take away? Once you do it won't come back.
She said it was good and asked how many years it had been. I told her before 2010. She said I'd gotten right back into it. It felt great to just make something in a certain amount of hours just to do it. She said I helped her too, that my being here got her to work longer. If I hadn't been working myself she would have quit an hour earlier. That was important to hear. I think it really makes a difference working with someone around. In silence, feeding off each others' effort. It was a great kind of camaraderie. We both had been feeling the pull to get to this, the main event. I feel like it was just a shared recognition. It made me think of home, I'd like to do this on the Land with dad.
There was an arbor next to me dividing the other part of the yard, and as the sun sank it was a sweet yellow burst when we began to wrap up our projects. She gave me the box for the Dremel tool so I can buy my own, and a postcard of her beautiful exhibit in Scotland. She said when she sent my friends a photo of me working, "Katie in her natural habitat." I love how she smiles about things.
Before taking me back to the station, she let me wear one of her amazing wooden wing sets. I felt honored and thrilled. It is a major life theme for me, getting my wings. She said if I lived here, she'd ask me to perform if she does more performance pieces. That was a gift to hear. I'd like to make my own wings. Wearing hers, well. She gave me her wings.
We talked in the car about the film festival, and she told me for Thanksgiving she would have many people over. She said people who don't have their own place to go, friends, students, She said she adopts people. I felt a warmth at knowing such a person.
When she dropped me off she said I was the next Eiko Fan. Calling me her second really did something, I said with an emotion rising inside, "it is an honor" and wished her much love as the door closed and she drove away. One day can be so much, even when it seems so simple. Like mastery. The most elegant things are simple. And once again I find in the actions, the most powerful things are what can't be seen.


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GREENWICH, Conn. (CBS.MW) -- Now that the IPO story has all but officially closed its chapter on 2002, investors can shift their attention to what's on the IPO docket for 2003. In general, we see many of the trends that characterized the IPO market of 2002 continuing in 2003.
Most notably, the new-issues market will remain biased toward established, profitable companies with strong fundamentals. IPO investors are also likely to remain in the driver's seat of the IPO pricing process, forcing underwriters to price offerings at reasonable valuations.
As the IPO market heads into 2003, underwriters still must contend with investors' aversion to smaller, unprofitable firms attempting to grow through IPOs. From a macro perspective, however, there are some positive forces that could serve as a tailwind for the new-issues market. For example, a recovering U.S. economy should fuel higher corporate profits and, eventually, increased business investment. A more stable economic picture will put investors more at ease with the prospects for new issues. Regulatory action to curb Wall Street abuses and more-favorable tax laws should also pave the way for an improved capital-markets environment.
Even though the stage is set for a recovery, the IPO market is unlikely to see any new deals until late January or early February. That's because the Wall Streeters must take a few weeks to regroup and evaluate the prospects for pending IPOs before heading out on the road to pitch qualified deals. This assumes that the IPO market follows its typical post-New Year's pattern. Probable military action in Iraq coupled with Wall Street's expected focus on satisfying new regulatory rules could push the arrival of 2003's first IPO to mid-February.
While we don't have a crystal ball and cannot predict the exact timing of the year's first IPO, we are able to provide you with a list of companies in the IPO pipeline that are likely to attract the most attention in 2003. We scoured our list of 55 pending issues and separated the group into four main categories: large issues, foreign issues, traditional IPO sectors and specialty IPO sectors. The results of our analysis, our "IPO picks," if you will, are provided below.
Bigger is not always better, but it is usually enough
Large, established companies were major contributors to the 2002 IPO market, and we see this trend continuing into 2003. While companies rich in revenue were not necessarily the best performers over the past year, their "big" selling points enabled them to successfully get out the market's door. The principal selling points included a proven track record, strong cash flows and an ability to maintain or even increase their competitive positions despite being faced with difficult economic conditions.
Large companies are also viewed as better positioned to benefit from a broad economic recovery.
Against this backdrop, Verizon Wireless VZW, +0.00% and Georgia-Pacific spinoff CC&P PRO, -8.75% fit the bill. Each generates more than $12 billion in annual sales and boasts operating margins north of 10 percent. Given their strong cash-flow capabilities, both are also likely to put cash in the pockets of investors in the form of dividends.
Although initially investors may be wary of a telecom IPO, Verizon Wireless is the No. 1 wireless provider in the U.S., with a huge subscriber base and substantial cash flow. The wireless sector is also believed to offer the best growth prospects as well as being one of the first areas to benefit in a telecom recovery.
CC&P, the consumer products and packaging unit of paper giant Georgia Pacific, is significant in size in its own right. CC&P may not be the sexiest IPO waiting to go public, but it is probably the least likely to go out of business any time soon. That is, unless civilized societies stop sneezing, cooking meals or using the water closet. CC&P is the world's largest producer of bathroom tissue, paper towels and paper napkins.
International IPOs may recover
Muddled U.S. regulation, a heightened focus on corporate disclosure and souring global economic conditions all contributed to a sharp decline in foreign issues in 2002. With just seven deals completed, the number of foreign IPOs in 2002 was cut in half from the prior year and contributed just 10 percent to the year's deal flow. Foreign deals make up a similar percentage of the current pipeline (roughly 11 percent), but China seems to be ramping up its presence in the U.S. new-issues market.
Despite the uninspiring China Telecom CHA, -0.80% offering in the fourth quarter of 2002, two other Chinese IPOs may attempt a public offering in the near future. For example, Soho China SHC, +1.09%, a Chinese real-estate developer, filed for an IPO in October under the management of Goldman Sachs.
China's efforts at privatizing its telecom and power sectors are likely to yield additional U.S.-listed IPOs. Regional power generator Guangdong Grid Co., for example, is believed to be pursuing a $1 billion U.S. IPO, although it has yet to submit an official filing.
Tech, health-care IPOs gone?
For those investors waiting to see a sustained uptick in health-care and technology IPOs, be prepared to wait a bit longer. As the IPO market has shifted to favor larger and profitable companies, the number of tech and health-care issues in the pipeline has withered.
Historically, 60 to 70 percent of the new-issues market has been represented by these two sectors. Entering 2003, just 17 deals, or roughly 30 percent of the IPO pipeline, is tech- or health-care-related.
Until a meaningful recovery takes place and investors become less averse to these sectors, companies in these categories with the strongest growth prospects, and/or fundamentals, and operating in sectors less impacted by capital-spending concerns are the ones most likely to be teed up by underwriters in the near term.
Under this criteria, travel Web site operator Orbitz ORBZ, credit- and debit-card payment processor IPayment IPMT and surgery-center owner Symbion SMBI are the leading technology and health-care IPO candidates.
Focus on 'specialty' or subsectors
Historically, the IPO market tends to revolve around companies from a handful of hot sectors -- areas that serve to lead the new issues market over a period of six to 12 months. This has often translated into a disproportionate number of deals coming from a particular subsector within a broader industry. The next 12 months will be no different, but the type of "specialty" sector seems to have changed, at least for the time being.
In the past, most subsectors emanated from the technology or health-care industries. In 2003, the subsectors within the IPO pipeline that are most likely to lead the way include media and entertainment, with five deals coming; energy, with four; old-line packaging companies, with three; specialty retailers, with three; insurance, with two; and defense, with two.
The media and entertainment class consists of movie-theater chains Loews Cineplex LWC and Cinemark CNK, -2.09%, radio broadcaster Citadel Broadcasting CDL, -2.99%, newspaper publisher Liberty Group Publishing LBTY and television broadcaster Nextstar Broadcasting NCST.
The energy sector is highlighted by the recent filing of Todco THE, +0.85%, a U.S.-based oil and gas drilling contractor with more than $900 million in annual sales. Given the recent spike in oil prices, we would not be surprised to see a pickup in IPO filings from the energy sector on the horizon.
In addition to paper products maker CC&P, the packaging segment is slated to welcome plastic-container producer Graham Packaging GPA, +0.00% and cardboard producer Riverwood Holdings RVW.
From the specialty-retailing segment, the pipeline carries branded-baby-apparel marketer Carter Holdings CRI, -5.37%, shoe retailer Bakers Footwear BKRS, and athletic footwear and apparel wholesaler Converse CNVS.
Insurance and defense-related IPOs round out the subsector discussion. These are two sectors that had a meaningful presence in 2002, and both groups are benefiting from favorable industry fundamentals.
Bermuda-based reinsurer Endurance Specialty Holdings ENH and personal auto insurer Infinity Property and Casualty IPC, +5.69% are benefiting from rising insurance premiums.
Defense contractor and Raytheon spinoff Vertex Aerospace VRT, -0.25% and security-guard contractor Allied Security ALYD hope to capitalize on a rising U.S. defense budget and an increased focus on corporate security.


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I am the lender and not the borrower!
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I am not an accident!
I have purpose and a destiny to fulfill!
I do not receive words that are not of God that have been spoken over my life!
I send those words of death and destruction back to hell where they came from!
I confess God's word over my life: I am an heir of God and a joint heir with Christ Jesus!
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I love God, and am loved of God!
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3 Simple Tips To Totally Rocking Weight Loss
There are many different things that people struggle with on a daily basis. One of the most common things that people have a problem with, particularly women, is losing weight. No one wants to have extra weight on them. It can be uncomfortable and overall be hazardous to one's health.
If you have been trying to lose weight for some time right now and have not seen results maybe there is something you are not doing right. If that is the case here is three tips that will help you lose weight if you are struggling to drop those couple extra pounds.
#1. Cut Out Sugar
The leading cause of weight gain in both women and men is too much sugar. If you have too much sugar in your diet it will stick around in your body and eventually convert to fat. As everyone knows the fat in your body can accumulate and weight gain is the result.
In order to lose weight, you need to cut out or limit sugar in your diet. You can start small by cutting sugar out over time and eventually get to the point where you will lose weight because the sugar will be the first thing to burn off when weight loss occurs.
#2. Drink Plenty Of Water
It is a proven fact that most of the world is dehydrated, and that should not be the case. You can drink things all day long, but if you cut out water from your diet you might be very dehydrated and not even know it. A great way to shed some pounds quickly is by drinking more water.
When you do not drink enough water your body holds on to every drop it gets and the result is your body holds onto that water weight. When you start drinking water your body does not need it as much and is willing to let some of that water weight go.
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- Add lemon and lime to a cup of water, it adds a tonne of flavour
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#3. Walk It Off Or Exercise
The main key to losing weight is to stay active. You should try to make it a regular habit going for walks or exercise regularly for at least 4 days of the week. If you keep these tips in mind you will see results.
Tip To Remember
Now, with all of the previously mentioned tips in mind, as a woman, you should have no trouble making sure that you are able to get started on the right track for losing weight. All you have to do now is to make sure that you are getting started.
After all, you do not have to continue on the path that you are currently on. You can make a change today for the better if you have decided that you are ready.
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Analysing terrain data
The exposure grade does not take into account objective hazards (stone fall, seracs, etc) but only the consequences of the skier falling.
Low Exposure (E1): Exposure is limited to that of the slope itself. Getting hurt is still likely if the slope is steep and/or the snow is hard.
Medium Exposure (E2): As well as the slope itself, there are some obstacles (such as rock outcrops) which could aggravate injury.
High Exposure (E3): In case of a fall, death is highly likely.
Extreme Exposure (E4): In case of a fall, the skier faces certain death.
Kniel's is a two part line.
In the top, you get wide open skiing around widely spaced trees.
The lower part is a fast straightline that could have an air in the top.
The lower part of Kniel's can get sun baked, but it's usually really fun when the snow warms up.
The upper part mostly stays cold.
Get to the Skier's Traverse North from the Bridger hike, and drop in heading just a little left of fall line.
You will get about 500ft of great turns with options for little airs the whole way down.
The slope starts to mellow out a little ahead of a horizon, take a hard right.
This will take you to a South facing ramp just above the Kniel's pointer.
You can keep heading South if you want and get into lower Two Way.
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Sky Financial Leader to Retire From Posts as CEO, Chairman
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio -- Sky Financial Group Inc. said David R. Francisco, 53 years old, opted to retire from his chairman and chief executive posts at the financial-services holding company.
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Privet is a non-native, invasive plant that out-competes native species. We'll be removing privet from the landscape. Join us to help restore habitat and native plant species!
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India 4th in the world for Internet Usage
We can feel this that Mobile internet usage on rise in India.Today, India ranks fourth among the top 10 nations in the world.It has been growing in every sense of the world.
when it comes to internet usage. Obviously, U.S. leads all the way with 220 million internet users subsequently followed by China 210 million and Japan 88.1 million. China will outdo the U.S. in internet use by 2011.Brazil is ranked 5th with 53.1 million users, UK 40.2 million, Germany 39.1 million, republic of Korea 35.5 million, followed by Italy and France.
Internet users
%u2022 1.73 billion – worldwide (September 2009).
%u2022 18% – Increase in Internet users since the previous year.
%u2022 738,257,230 – Asia.
%u2022 418,029,796 – Europe.
%u2022 252,908,000 – North America.
%u2022 179,031,479 – Latin America / Caribbean.
%u2022 67,371,700 – Africa.
%u2022 57,425,046 – Middle East.
%u2022 20,970,490 – Oceania / Australia.
Social media users
%u2022 126 million – Total number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).
%u2022 84% – Social network sites comprising more women than men.
%u2022 27.3 million – Number of tweets on Twitter per day (November, 2009)
%u2022 57% – Twitter's user base located in the United States.
%u2022 350 million – People on Facebook.
%u2022 50% – Percentage of Facebook users that log in every day.
%u2022 500,000 – The number of active Facebook members.
The number of internet users on personal computers be it desktops or laptops may not have risen on the expected lines however, innovative data plans offered by telecom operators and fall in the prices of handsets are expected to cover the gap with an increasing number of users wanting to surf the net on their handsets.
People using mobile internet in India has almost doubled, nearly 8-10 million at the start of 2009. By March-April the rise was four-fold when it came to Google searches on mobiles.
Product manager, Mobile, Google India,Alok Goel says that India initially was looked upon as a low-end market, however, by February and March 2009, there was a sudden spurt in the number in mobile traffic in the mobile internet space.
The low price of a general packet radio service (GPRS) ready mobile handset seems to a foremost factor driving the growth. Almost a year ago, an internet-enabled handset costs at least Rs 5,000. But today, a customer can buy a GPRS-enabled handset for just Rs 2,000.
According to industry analysts there are around 500 million mobile phone subscribed in India and with prices of handsets falling the numbers of people who surf the internet on their mobiles have reached to 10 million mark.


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RHS (RHS) Class of 1973 Alumni List
Help us Update the RHS 1973 Class List by adding any names missing from the list below:
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- Catherine Haffey Kuhlman
- Joan Lucchetti
- Kate Marshall
- Theresa Swiontek Mascenic
- Heidi Mueller
- Diane Rakoczy-Smith
- Falicia Rozanski
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- Linda Sloan
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- Joan White
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- Janet Zito
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The sign says, "The Happiest Place on Earth," and I get it. You certainly get a happy vibe when you walk through the gates of Disneyland. The people are kind, patient, and completely accommodating. The grass could not be greener, the smiles and laughter more copious, or the rides more engaging, ingenious, or fun. People are smiling, running around, and having fun. It's Disneyland. And yet, on a recent visit with my son, we found more than a few things to be unhappy about. Having devoted my career to educating and empowering people about taking care of themselves, I am particularly sensitive to issues involving a healthful lifestyle. I am the person who asks a waiter to put the sauce on the side, or who grills the waiter about how the food is prepared to ensure that it is not saturated in fat or doused in salt. As a cardiologist, I can't just see the children playing and having fun at Disneyland. I can't help but notice, to the point of distraction, the food choices the park is offering, and the food choices the people are making.
I have noticed a shift in the collective consciousness toward health, and I do believe that in many ways, people are becoming more aware that they need to eat differently to be healthy. However, we have a long way to go. As Americans, we have been conditioned to believe, through marketing and advertisements, that certain foods are good for us, even though they have been part of the reason for the increase in obesity in this country. Foods like smoothies, energy bars and drinks and trail mixes often laden with calories and sugars, have given consumers the perception of being healthy, and become especially more appealing with a Disney character's face on the package.
Certainly, this is not just an issue at Disneyland, but it is one of the reasons for the obesity epidemic, and to me, Disneyland was a microcosm of the problem. So even though my son and I were on vacation, I continued to be a cardiologist, and the truth is, you can't really find a healthy meal at Disneyland, no matter how hard you try. Trust me, because we tried.
I had a difficult time finding anything for my son and I to eat. Even the salads were topped with dressing so sweet it might as well have been categorized as dessert. It's one thing to indulge a bit with foods that are worthwhile, but this stuff? No thank you. Grease, sugar, and salt were the main ingredients, and that's no recipe for enjoying a happy and energetic day in a theme park. I try to show my son, by example, how to make good food choices, and instill habits that will teach him how to best nourish himself throughout his life. Perhaps I overdid it a bit, or maybe he was just being his naturally blunt self (like many children) when he proclaimed that there was no healthy food in the whole park. We finally settled on popcorn (saturated in butter, probably made with trans fats), found some yogurt and fruit, and I eventually landed on a Portobello mushroom vegetarian sandwich. I almost celebrated, until I opened up the bread to find a creamy, sticky spread on the whole wheat roll, soaking the limp veggies in globs of fat. Was it some sort of cheese spread? Some type of flavored mayonnaise or salad dressing? They were so close... and yet so far.
Maybe it was just the park, I thought, as we wandered past the scent of churros topped with cinnamon, the aroma of French fries, the sticky sweet smell of cotton candy. But even in Downtown Disney, which contained more mainstream restaurants right outside the park, I realized that it wasn't going to be easy to find healthful options. Finally, after much searching, we scored with salad and hummus, flat bread, and fish. I was at ease until I read the ingredients on the menu. All of the Mediterranean-style food was made with butter, whipped with cheese, and immersed and swimming in a garlic butter sauce.
Vacations are about indulgence. I get that. And Disneyland in particular is about having fun and cutting loose a bit. Indulgence is the expectation. You are supposed to find your inner child and pretend that sugar is the happiest food on earth. Perhaps you are supposed to ignore your health, just as you are supposed to ignore the huge lines. As a doctor, however, I cannot recommend this particular "prescription."
As I watched my son from a distance playing Xbox next to a 100-pound 8-year-old boy, I wondered if either of them noticed the difference in their sizes. Then I saw the little boy's mother lovingly hand her son a bag of potato chips. Parents who bring their children to Disneyland want to make their kids happy, including giving them the food and snacks that they want and enjoy. That includes letting them indulge on everything that is unhealthy. I get that, too. The problem is, children only know what they are taught. I think it is hard to explain to a child, "These yummy snacks are really bad for you, but I am going to give them to you anyway because it is Disneyland." Where is the line? I don't pretend to have all the answers, but I feel compelled to ask the question.
We left, grabbing a bottle of water on the way out, weaving our way through the huge lines, and decided it was time to call it a day. But on the way out, we were sure to snap a picture with Mickey. We were at Disneyland, after all.


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Friday, February 27, 2009
We Have Buds*
We have buds!! Daffodil and crocus buds have emerged. I've been taking photos of the garden about every two weeks. Here is where we started almost a month ago. That was the first time I noticed little sprouts peaking out of the earth. Two weeks later there was more growth of those sprouts. And now 12 days later there are buds! I love watching the garden grow and by documenting it with photos I can see how far we've come.
In the summer we grow moonflowers. The vines grow all summer and about the middle of August you start to get some buds. The moonflowers bloom in the early evening and they last one night. That's it. By morning they are crumpled up. I have watched moonflowers bloom, actually unfurl into beautiful, white flowers. Being present for that is just amazing. Being present and watching every little stem and flower and sprout in our gardens grow is amazing.
The pic below is a preemie bud. It's a hyacinth and its buddies are just starting to break the earth so it's clearly moving too fast but seems to be making it. Little guy should slow down and savor its time to awaken and grow. Sounds like a good idea for all of us.
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This is a voice which carries well beyond the island of his birth to share with us the here and the elsewhere. To feed this dialogue, the poet has translated some of the world's great poems into Creole.
"The words took me by the hand," says Michel Ducasse in memory of Louis Aragon. "I was only six when my mother, a great crossword fan, would constantly ask me to look words up in our big Larousse dictionary. Feverishly, I would turn the pages, eagerly looking at the three letters at the top of each page, searching for the treasure. That huge book held the whole world."
It was also his mother who passed on her passion for French songs. He discovered Brassens, Léo Ferré, Cabrel. "I was 15 when I discovered Jacques Brel's album Les Marquises. Such emotion as I heard the horizontal rain (la pluie traversière), so typical of the islands. Ever since then, I have written poetry."
Languages of the heart
In Mauritius, although the official language is English, "the languages of the heart" are French and Creole. "They are not merely mother tongues: they mothered me," he smiles.
The other living source is the island itself and his childhood in Goodlands, in the north of the country, where his parents opened a chemists' in 1965. At that time, it was only a village surrounded by fields of cane. A large part of the population, mainly Hindu, worked for the Saint-Antoine sugar factory. "I went to the state school and that is where I learnt to respect others and their differences – cultural, social, and religious. The Goodlands school taught me the Mauritius that I love, multi-level and diverse, tolerant and human."
As a young man at the Royal College in Port Louis, he fell in love with the English romantic poets, Keats, Shelley, Blake, and with Shakespeare's plays. From 18 to 26, he went to France to study literature in Nancy, and discovered the committed works of René Char, Louis Aragon, Eugène Guillevic and more.
Speaking worlds
For more than forty years now, words, languages, and rhythms weave in and out in an exquisite yet discreet work. Michel Ducasse takes his time. There's no hurry. A great walker, he contemplates the inner landscape as he wanders along. He was 39 when he published his first collection, alphabet. Others followed with the same patient fervour. In 2017, he composed Enn bouke bwa tanbour: a "bouquet" of poems by his "travelling companions" – from Charles Baudelaire to Emily Dickinson, John Keats and Tagore – which he translated and transposed into Creole, the island's mother tongue.
Thus, for the first time, Rimbaud's Le Dormeur du val returns as "Afale dan verdir"; Prévert's Les Enfants qui s'aiment as "Zanfan lamour"; Victor Hugo's "bouquet de houx vert" becomes a bouquet of tambourissa – from the name of the Mauritian endemic plant.
"Translation is not just imitation. I keep closely to the form and meaning, but I also add my own personal touch. It means recreating, reinventing, and sometimes transposing the meaning. This collection came from my desire to share with my people the words of the great poets who made me what I am today, and thus to break down the borders of the imagination."
Kreol, vital and alive
"To write in Creole, Michel Ducasse continues, is to invite people to discover a different, more fraternal imaginative world. The language of slaves evolved from French and several African and Madagascan languages, in answer to the urgent need to communicate to survive. Long despised, it conceals something fundamentally vital. It continues to evolve with each successive migration, adding words from ancestral languages like Hindi, Tamil and Urdu. Alive, forever."
To widen the field of vision, the poet has invited his old friends, the graphic designer Patrice Offman and the painter Ennri Kums. Thus the "bouke" of words has grown richer with the addition of Creole images and friezes, thick pastel drawings, dark and deep. Inspired and inspiring, Enn bouke bwa tanbour is an eminently fraternal act.
By Fanny Riva
Photograph Karl Ahnee


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REL Northeast & Islands conducts applied research studies and offers training, coaching, and technical support to address our partners' research questions, provide policymakers and practitioners with information they need to make decisions, and build individual and organizational capacity to understand and use research in education policy and practice. We invite you to learn about our projects underway.
Works in Progress are posted after project proposals have gone through a rigorous external peer review process that ensures all scientifically based REL work meets IES standards for research and evaluation.
Continuous improvement processes engage key players within a system to focus on a specific problem of practice and use a series of iterative cycles to test changes, gather data about the changes, and study the potential influence of these changes on outcomes of interest. This practitioner-friendly toolkit will provide an overview of continuous improvement processes in educational settings, with a focus on the use of Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles. The toolkit will include a customizable workbook, reproducible templates, and short informational videos that education practitioners can use to implement continuous improvement processes in their own schools, districts, or agencies.Creating and Using Performance Assessments: An Online Course for Practitioners
This online course will introduce participants to the basic concepts of assessment literacy and then focus on how to develop, score, and use performance assessments within a balanced assessment system. Throughout the course, participants will be able to create and administer their own performance assessment and review it for its technical quality. Participants will receive a certificate of completion upon finishing the course.Examining the Association between Schoolwide Instructional Measures and School-level Student Outcomes in Massachusetts' Low-Performing Schools
Partnership: Massachusetts School Turnaround Research Partnership
Since 2010, the Massachusetts Department of Early and Secondary Education (ESE) has made a significant investment to develop a coherent, aligned system for supporting and monitoring its low-performing schools. The monitoring process includes collecting schoolwide observation data of classroom instructional practices, which ESE then uses to provide formative feedback to schools on their turnaround practices. This study with ESE is conducting analyses of this schoolwide instructional observation data, collected using Teachstone's Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) tool. Researchers are examining whether the schoolwide CLASS observation data are associated with improved schoolwide student achievement and growth.
Partnership: Vermont Universal PreK Research Partnership
This study is using data from the first year (2016/17) of implementation of Vermont's universal preK initiative to understand the characteristics of children enrolled in different preK programs (type and quality rating), the geographic characteristics of the preK programs, and the factors related to enrollment in particular program options (both type and quality rating).
Partnership: Social and Emotional Learning Research Alliance
This study is a systematic review of instruments measuring three social and emotional (SEL) skills: self-regulated learning, collaboration, and perseverance. The report will provide information on instruments currently available to measure each of the three SEL constructs. The information will include whether or not there is evidence available on the reliability and validity of each instrument and, if so, what type of evidence is provided.
Alliance: Professional Learning and Development Research Alliance
This project aims to address the need for practitioner-friendly resources to support district leaders in evaluating professional development activities in their districts. The brief will introduce district leaders and others involved in professional development (PD) management to key concepts related to PD evaluation, with a special focus on implementation fidelity and the role it plays in evaluating teacher and student outcomes.Teacher Supply in New York: Pathways, Placement, and Retention
Partnership or Research Alliance: Teacher Preparation Research Alliance
Teacher shortages are prevalent in specific districts and content areas in New York State. For this study, REL Northeast & Islands is working with the New York State Education Department to examine certification pathways by which new teachers enter the workforce, the content areas of their certificates, where new teachers are employed, and their retention rates.Connecticut Teacher Education and Mentoring Program (TEAM): Fidelity of Implementation and Teacher Retention
Partnership: Professional Learning and Development Research Alliance
This study being conducted with the Connecticut State Department of Education (CT SDE) is investigating the extent to which a statewide teacher induction program is implemented with fidelity to the required program elements and whether the fidelity of implementation is associated with retention of beginning teachers.From Pre-Service to Persistence: Educator Preparation and Outcomes
Alliance: Teacher Preparation Research Alliance
Education leaders in Rhode Island are concerned that many early-career teachers are leaving the profession or not teaching in the grade level or subject area in which they were initially trained and certified. To better understand these trends, the Rhode Island Department of Education has partnered with REL Northeast & Islands to investigate the mobility and retention rates of early-career teachers. Specifically, the study is exploring whether there is a relationship between where a teacher is prepared in Rhode Island and teacher mobility, retention, employment in the certificate area in which the teacher was prepared, and whether the teacher is working in a high-needs district.
Partnership or Research Alliance: Early Childhood Workforce Development Research Alliance
High-quality early education is positively associated with children's academic and social skills, yet states face major challenges in retaining a qualified and high-quality early childhood workforce. For this study, the Northeast & Islands is collaborating with Connecticut Office of Early Childhood to identify promising policies and practices that can reduce turnover among early childhood educators, beyond raising wages.


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I'm Home
I'm so excited because all of my old friends are starting to contact me on myspace and what not. I wonder how they knew I was abck in New York. I just hope I get the chance to hang out with all of them. I'm like half dancing in my seat right now ecause I need some friends right now. Not to say I'm lonely at this new school,I've made some friends, but there is nothing better than being with the friends that you have had for years. Wish for the best. Night


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Dreaming Of A White Christmas
Hollywood Legends Book 5
Brook Publications
Contemporary Romance
November 10, 2016
Available in: Paperback, e-Book
The Landis Family are Hollywood Legends.
You've met their sons, now take a trip back to where it all began. Find out how Callie Flynn and Caleb Landis met, fell in love, and began their own movie dynasty.
The year is 1980. Callie Flynn is a young woman determined to make a name for herself in the cutthroat movie business. Smart and beautiful, the only thing greater than her ambition is her talent. If she wants to get ahead, she can't be distracted by romance. Even if it comes in the form of tall, sexy, blue eyed producer Caleb Landis. She's his leading lady—but on screen only.
Caleb Landis always gets what he wants. In a few short years of weaving his way through the minefields of Hollywood, he has become a force to be reckoned with. Nothing matters but the business. Until he meets Callie Flynn. He knows the moment he sees her that she's trouble. He wants her. But soon, it becomes more. Caleb believes they can have it all. Successful careers, love, family. Convincing Callie won't be easy.
Christmas is the time for miracles and that is what it will take for Caleb Landis to win Callie Flynn's heart. Luckily—for him and Callie—he never gives up until he gets what his heart desires.
For a limited time, this book includes the Christmas novella, IF I HAD YOU (Christmas in Harper Falls)
It Has Always Been My Dream To Write A Book
And I always knew it would be a romance novel. When I was a teenager I assumed my book would have a historical setting, those were the kinds of stories I liked best, I even grew my hair long so I could be like the heroines in my favorite stories. But now I see myself and my books in the present dealing with the joys and sorrows of our modern world. Harper Falls is a place my imagination dreamed up, but it is based in reality. I grew up in Washington State and went to school in a small town on the Columbia River. Harper Falls is that town but an idealized version. I hope you enjoy reading about the town and the characters.
And as much as I enjoyed telling their stories, these books are not the end of my dream but the beginning.


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Keldeo appears as a new Poké Ball Pokémon in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. It uses its trademark Secret Sword attack as its horn extends to slash foes.
In Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS
Trophy Description
NA: This Water/Fighting-type Pokémon is a lot like a multicolored unicorn. In its Resolute Form, its horn will grow longer and its vision is keener. It is this Form that appears on the battlefields of Smash Bros. Be wary of its Secret Sword attack—Keldeo's charge will send anyone hit flying.
PAL: The Mythical Pokémon Keldeo looks a lot like a multicoloured unicorn. In its Resolute form, its horn grows longer and its vision improves. It can also use Secret Sword in that Form, and that's what it will do in this game. If Keldeo starts charging after you, watch out - that huge horn will send you flying!


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- Best race experience? Definitely the Richmond HCA 8k in November. I ran healthy and fast ... for me. My BF's text was "All I have to say is HOLY #%*#, you rocked it!!!"
- Best run? Hitting 7 miles for the first time with my running coach and her husband in October. I was great to have her enthusiasm for hitting a new distance.
- Best new piece of gear? I'm loving this Target top. Sleeves long enough for my arms, thumb holes, a little longer in the back, and a pop of pink-purple.
- Best piece of running advice you received? Keep running my own pace. I averaged 172 steps per minute across all runs for 2012. A major improvement from 2010 and 2011.
- Most inspirational runner? I have started following several running bloggers over the last year. I am amazed at their journeys and honesty. I am thankful to have people who are willing to share which helps me with my running and life balance.
- If you could sum up your year in a couple of words, what would they be? Commitment to the plan.
4 5ks (2 virtual), 1 8k, and 1 10k. I also got partially over my fear of the bike. 227 miles completed on the bike. It was some great cross-training over the summer, and added perk was time spent with my husband while biking.
I also made the big plunge into half marathon distance. I know this is no big deal for many of you, but after battling ITB pain for almost 3 years, it is scary to ramp up the mileage. I have been doing it slowly and carefully, but have found my legs like to go a little faster. To compromise, I run once a week with a group that is a little slower than I would normally. I don't mind slowing down if I had good company to chat.
These stats have me thinking of a number for 2013. Should I aim for 1000? The Type A in me says yes, but the doesn't want to be injured part says no. I would like to make sure I include yoga, strength training, and biking. I should also learn to swim, so a triathlon could be a maybe down the road. 800 running miles is the goal.


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Baby Showering in a Century Old Schoolhouse In the Rolling Hills of Missouri
With grounded humility and grace's richest sheen, she is carrying the first of her tribe. And while babies are announced and welcomed daily, the joy of this all is never lost on us. Because these babes, the one she carries and the one whom another mother will bring into the world for her to raise, their miracle extends beyond the biological intricacy of bodies knit perfectly for divine glory to hearts and souls reborn.
Her words, as always, share their elation best:
We waited to share the news for Easter; a day that magnifies hope, undeserved grace and our Saviors glorious Resurrection! Themes that are not lost on us as couple. Although we believe he gifted us new hearts and minds, we remember when he shepherded our dark stubborn selves through the fire of divorce many moons ago. As living evidence of beauty from ashes, you'd think we would of detected a hint of a glorious plot twist. Nope, this one also caught us by surprise!
After we began the adoption process, we were astonished to discover that we will ALSO be adding a little one in July?! Again, He has blessed Tyler and I in a very unexpected, undeserving and life altering way! The unique way he has chosen to expand our tribe blows our mind, these precious gifts of children are a testament of the Lord's amazing grace in our little lives.
We are so amazed by our loving and holy God who has predestined not only our children for adoption but also us when we were at our darkest. ("But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8) What a sweet salvation. We celebrate Christ's resurrection today because we are so profoundly grateful for his grace and we have every reason to trust him with our future.
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
And so, because my roots are tucked within these rolling hills. Because I did my best growing up in fields polka dotted with hay bales. Because my daughters need to feel the warmth of wind blown through cow pasture and gravel roads. Because my baby needed the hugs of generations who love and adore without even needing to meet her first. Because our clan does it like this, my sister and I packed up the first and baby of our crews for a road trip with our mama and joined the others who had gathered from hours around to surround her, and hug her, and shower her with lovelies for the babes she'll raise.
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Daunte Culpepper and Matthew Stafford seemed to do enough yesterday to keep the Detroit Lions� quarterback competition wide open. Heck, even Peyton Manning thought they did well.
Culpepper threw for a touchdown and Stafford passed for 160 yards to help Detroit beat the Indianapolis Colts 18-17 in an exhibition game.
Three-time MVP Manning has said Stafford � the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft � would be best served to play right away, as he did, but left Ford Field away impressed with Detroit�s top two QBs.
�I thought both of them looked good,� Manning said. �It seems like the race is going to go down to the wire.�
Lions Coach Jim Schwartz began the first and third preseason games with Culpepper under center but wouldn�t discuss plans for the exhibition finale Thursday night at Buffalo.
Culpepper completed 7 of 12 passes for 67 yards, deftly avoiding the rush to make some throws and showing enough poise to connect with his third option on the TD � Bryant Johnson for a 3-yard score.
�I feel great,� said Culpepper, who was a Pro Bowl-caliber QB in Minnesota before a knee injury in 2005. �I honestly feel like I did before I got hurt.�
Stafford was 13 of 19 and threw an interception, which his coach blamed on Johnson for not being more aggressive.
�I feel like I�ve played well,� Stafford said. �I don�t know what they�re going to do. It�s not up to me.�
SHOULDER SECRECY: If there�s anything wrong with Tom Brady�s throwing shoulder, New England Patriots Coach Bill Belichick isn�t saying.
Belichick said yesterday that Brady came out of Friday night�s game after a crushing hit from Redskins defensive lineman Albert Haynesworth because it was time for the coaching staff to take a look at the backups. He lumped any problem with Brady�s right shoulder into the category of normal �bumps and bruises� from a physical game.
�I�m saying that we made the decision to play other quarterbacks in the Washington game because we wanted them to play,� Belichick said in a conference call.
Brady completed 12 of 19 passes for 150 yards and two touchdowns, hitting Randy Moss six times for 90 yards and both TDs as the Patriots beat the Redskins 27-24 on Stephen Gostkowski�s last-minute field goal.
On Brady�s last play, he was smashed to the turf by Haynesworth after throwing an incomplete third-down pass just before the first two-minute warning. Brady was seen on the bench flexing and rotating his right arm, but when the other starters took the field for the first series of the third quarter, the two-time Super Bowl MVP was not among them. He then left the sideline and returned to the locker room.
The team announced that he had a sore right shoulder. Brady did not speak to reporters after the game. Asked whether Brady had an X-ray, Belichick said, �I�m not really comfortable getting into a public diagnosis.�
LEFTWICH WINS JOB: Tampa Bay�s extended quarterback derby is over. Byron Leftwich will start the regular-season opener against the Dallas Cowboys.
Buccaneers Coach Raheem Morris selected the seventh-year pro over Luke McCown yesterday, saying Leftwich held an edge going into training camp and retained it with steady � if unspectacular � play through three preseason games.
�I�m very excited. When I get home I�ll probably scream and let all my emotions out,� said Leftwich, who�s with his third NFL club since being unceremoniously dumped as Jacksonville�s starter two summers ago. �To work my tail off to get back to this point again � to be a starter Week 1 � is what I wanted, and I�m going to take full advantage of it.�
Morris had hoped to decide between Leftwich and McCown, a career backup, before the third preseason game.
The first-year coach extended the competition after McCown closed the gap with a stronger performance in the second game. Although neither quarterback sparkled in Thursday�s 10-6 loss to Miami, Leftwich did enough to win the job.
�We�re going to run the ball. We want to be a heavy play-action team. That kind of fits the mold of what he does � play action, throwing the ball down the field, trying to generate big plays,� Morris said.