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Good morning, everyone, and welcome to December!
Here in the big City, the cold has finally caught up with us meaning hot chocolate, bundling up in puffy jackets, and that 2015 is just around the corner. But before the time of new beginnings, I'm looking to finish off 2014 as strongly as possible as I continue to fight to pay off debt and save for retirement.
The numbers
Here's what I did in November:
Uf. One number should jump right out at you as soon as you look at this; my debt didn't go down at all this past month. Of course, this doesn't mean that I didn't send any money toward debt — quite the contrary, in fact. With a $105,200 balance, I have to send over $600 a month to my student loan servicers just to break even.
What's annoyed me the most about paying off debt this year has been my inconsistency. Check out this chart:
Some months, I'll manage to knock many thousands off my student loan debt and other months — like this past one — I'll barely make a dent in it.
I don't mean to look past this coming month — during which I plan to roar back to make huge gains — but I'd very much like for my 2015 performance to not look this splotchy.
Retirement savings
Of course, this begs the question: Where did that money go last month? Did I use it to buy a sweet rocket cat? Did I use it to buy 99 iPhones on Black Friday to use in a tone-deaf proposal?
Sadly, no.
Rather, nearly $200 went into my emergency fund as I completed weekly deposits of 45, 46, 47, and 48 as part of the 52-week savings challenge and $550 went into a Health Savings Account, which was immediately matched by my employer.
Neither of these do anything to pay down my debt, but having an emergency fund that is now bigger than $6,000 sure does give me a whole lot more peace of mind and I'd be a fool to turn down any investment that doubled immediately after making it. Who turns away free money?
That matched $550 plus my matched contributions to my 401(k) plus market gains put me up $2,500 for retirement savings.
Net worth
My net worth is finally above -$50,000 meaning I'm ever so slowly inching toward $0. And from this vantage point, $0 seems like a pretty sweet place to be.
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THN would like to welcome our newest contributor. Like the namesake, he may be a onetime lightning strike and disappear into carpentry. But we, here at THN certainly hope not. Please make him feel at home by picking apart his every word and destroying his fragile ego. Ladies and gentlemen, Jake Ryan.
Thanks very much and it is a pleasure to be part of such a distinguished site that can, like so many other sites, serve as an outlet to the angry sports/pop culture fan. Getting started on one of these things is a bit difficult so I just thought about the things I will be following as we move into 2011.
Each night before I go to sleep, I pray to the baseball gods for the return to prominence of the Los Angeles Angels. I am going to focus on baseball a lot here, especially once we get to spring training, but as a lifelong Halo fan, I am not sure if I am more frustrated with the Angels for trying to be a big player in the free agent marked and not succeeding or the ridiculous fans who think magically they will be able to trade Brandon Wood and Reggie Willits for Justin Upton. These are people who didn't live through Donnie Moore, Mo Vaughn falling in the dugout, Junior Noboa, periwinkle and let's not even talk about 1995. Mike Scioscia will build the 2011 team with pitching and defense. Plus, there is no way that the team will hit as poorly with runners on as they did in 2010. Getting Wood and the 1st base revolving door out of the lineup will improve that immensely. I say 91 wins… hopefully good enough to win the West. Much more to talk about this franchise in the coming weeks and months.
I expect to witness the assault of Joel Meyers on live TV in the next 12 months. One of these nights, when the Lakers are playing one of their typical uninspired games on the road in February, Joel is going to say the wrong thing about Lamar Odom or Andrew Bynum and Stu Lantz is finally going to snap. I, for one, cannot wait. This all comes back to Joel calling Kobe the "greatest Laker of them all" to get himself some press. Mission accomplished. You are the Steve Physioc of the Lakers.
I really hope hockey getting back to its rightful place in the Southern California sports landscape. I am hoping that a deep playoff run by the Kings will give the most loyal fan base in SoCal the exposure it so richly deserves. Do yourself a favor, check that team out. For those of you not familiar with hockey, it's played on skates, mostly indoors and…. Never mind.
This 18 game schedule for the NFL… hmmm. Steve DeBerg, Vinny Testaverde, Vince Evans… warm those arms up fellas, this will be an over 50 league by week 17. I for one would like to see the fantasy football chaos that will cause.
If anything bad happens to a New England sports athlete, I will consider it a successful year. Now that Bobby Jenks is a Red Sox, there is a much better chance of this happening. I wonder if it he can break any bar fight records in that town.
A couple of recommendations from a father of two who doesn't get to the theatre, I finally got to see Inception and The Town over the holidays. Two pretty impressive movies. By now, I am able to watch movies that take place in Boston because I survived 90 minutes of Fever Pitch, plus, what red blooded American male doesn't love Jon Hamm... I mean Blake Lively.
Inception was just terribly intriguing to me. That kid who was on Growing Pains was tremendous. Alan Thicke taught him everything he knows.
I hope that I will be accepted as part of the THN family. It is just as great now as it was before the internet when I got it each Monday in my mailbox back in the late 70s and I am honored to be part of it today.
Happy Birthday Samantha.
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
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- Kaiser said...
- DAWUSS said...
I would have rather have seen Dino and the gang roast Brett Favre...
The skinny Olsen twin starts beating the bag with the baseball bat, just smacking it like crazy, until she's so tired she can't swing anymore. So the shrink stands up, walks to the bag and unzips it, and voilá... out falls the lifeless body of the fat Olsen twin.
My word is "rednes." Why?
come on... give the new clown a chance. He can't suck any worse than anyone else... right?
- THN said...
Does Favre deserve to get roasted? You might be on to something.
I liked this first effort.
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Combine a short hike or nature trail with collecting conkers. You can use the time to see which lodge collects the most, smallest, largest, shiniest etc, encourage sharing and helping and reinforcing the Beaver promise. It's good to win of course, and competition is always high, BUT it is a great opportunity for them to think of others as well - especially if someone can't find any at all :). Good for working as a team. We also use this as an opportunity to identify leaves and take time to look at the natural things around us.
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Netarts, Oregon – Hike along Bay Ocean Spit road, learn about coastal bays & estuaries, and discover the history of a lost town. This guided hike is part of the Explore Nature series of hikes, walks, paddles and outdoor adventures. Hosted by a consortium of volunteer community and non-profit organizations, these meaningful nature-based experiences highlight the unique beauty of Tillamook County and the work being done to preserve and conserve the area's natural resources and natural resource-based economy.
This unique 4 mile journey is an easy to moderate walk that winds along and over dunes at the intersection of the ocean and Tillamook Bay. Expect to navigate through puddles and mud, scamper up sand banks, and navigate around storm washed trees. FREE and open to the public, the hike will be led by Chrissy Smith of Friends of Netarts Bay WEBS and Kristen Penner of Garibaldi Cultural Heritage Initiative.
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My summer consisted of a chaotic circus with too many monkeys and not enough sleep for the ring master. We didn't commit to many plans – making it to the grocery store and a few friend meet ups were plenty for us. No classes, no soccer camps, no big camping adventures. Partying half the night with a nursing baby and active toddler, and then trying to support the growing mind of a four year old with questions upon questions upon questions…. Well, we basically did a lot but did nothing. It was a pretty good summer for this introverted momma.
So amidst the monkey acts and the over-doses of caffeine, our church had an interesting challenge of memorizing a Psalm. When the idea was first presented, I giggled to myself and was like, "YEAH RIGHT. I CAN'T EVEN MAKE COMPLETE SENTENCES IN MY EVERY DAY SPEECH. HOW COULD I MEMORIZE FORMAL SCRIPTURE?" But the idea still clung to my sleep deprived brain, and I caught myself scanning the book of Psalms to find the shortest set of verses to complete the task.
There were some that seemed like contenders – you know, like Psalm 100 that had a mere five verses and an already well-known jingle – but that felt like cheating. It was then that I flipped a few more pages and my eye was drawn to the word CALM. You might already surmise this, but my life is anything but calm these days (see the monkeys and no sleep above), so I couldn't help but peruse the lines. And then the phrase weaned child rose out of the verses. I am deep within the breast-feeding world right now: consuming 3,000+ calories a day to keep up on production, stuffing pads in my shirt to ward off embarrassing leak-throughs, figuring out which outfits are most easily pulled up or down or sideways for accessibility, fostering the love-hate relationship I have with my double electric pump, and the plentiful late night minutes (hours?) spent with a baby curled up with me in a rocking chair while he sleepily fills his belly. So why a verse about calmness and a weaned babe? Here is the text…
"O LORD, my heart is not lifted up, my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.
But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; my soul is like the weaned child that is with me.
O Israel, hope in the LORD from this time on and forevermore."
-Psalm 131, NRSV
I was encouraged by the words of the Psalm. It reminded me of the calm and quiet that comes when baby no longer needs me every two or three or four hours. Or if I take time for myself, I don't have my breast pump as a side kick, or worry about ice packs and bottles and milk storage baggies….. All those details and tasks fade when baby is done nursing. My body quiets from the fervor of providing for another living being. Sure, I will miss the snuggles and the significance of being a source of nourishment once I am done, but the calm that will come from the end of that season is also enticing.
The second half of the Summer Psalm Project was to create something that represented the verses we chose to memorize. I'm no artist, but came up with a simple sketch of a mom and small child with the lettering of the verses built into the lines of the figures.
You may have noticed a lack of English as part of the sketch. When looking through the different Bibles we had around the house to see which version pulled most at my word-smithing side, I remembered a bilingual Bible we had tucked on our bookshelf. Given the brevity of Psalm 131, I thought I'd up my game and try memorizing it in Spanish. Plus, the sound of "amamantado" was way cooler than "weaned", and bonus points because most people won't know if I mess up! Here are the words for those intrigued by the Spanish like I was…
"SEÑOR, mi corazón no es orgulloso, ni son altivos mis ojos; no busco en grandezas desmedidas, ni proezas que excedan a mis fuerzas.
Todo lo contrario; he calmado y aquietado mis ansias. Soy como un niño amamantado en el regazo de su madre. ¡Mi alma es como un niño recién amamantado!
Israel, pon tu esperanza en el SEÑOR desde ahora y para siempre."
-Salmos 131, Nueva Versión Internacional
If you were challenged to memorize a Psalm, what would yours be? How could you soak it into your current stage of life and see through new eyes? Though I'm not quite at the calm of a weaned babe, the words of Psalm 131 will help soak in the preciousness of these last few months of baby-ness before Cormac is a rough and tumble toddler and running to keep up with the other monkeys of the house.
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Exam Pattern : Exam Pattern for the Provincial Civil Service (PCS) Pre written Exam is as Follows :-
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Exam Syllabus : Exam Syllabus for UPPSC Provincial Civil Service written Exam is given below:-
PAPER – I General Studies-I (200 marks); Duration: Two hours
- Current events of national and international importance.
- History of India and Indian National Movement.
- Indian and World geography – Physical, Social, Economic geography of India and the World.
Indian Polity and governance – Constitution , Political System, Panchayati Raj, Public Policy, Rights issues etc.
- Economic and Social Development – Sustainable Development Poverty Inclusion, Demographics, Social Sector Initiatives, etc.
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- General English upto Class X level.
- General Hindi upto Class X level.
Current events of national and international importance:- On Current Events of National and International importance, candidates will be expected to have knowledge about them.
History of India and Indian National Movement:- In History emphasis should be on broad understanding social, economic and political aspects of Indian history. In the Indian National Movement, the candidates are expected to have synoptic view of nature and character of the freedom movement, growth of nationalism and attainment of Independence.
Indian and world Geography:-
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It has two 48:1 geared motors with metal output shafts operating the four tracks and a 13kg MG servo operating the "flip" tracks.
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Pregnancy Series, Part One: Planning and the Pre-pregnancy ExamPosted by hcgh_md on Aug 2, 2016 in Health | Comments Off on Pregnancy Series, Part One: Planning and the Pre-pregnancy Exam
One of the first steps women, who are thinking of having a baby and want to make sure they have a healthy pregnancy, should take is to see a gynecology and obstetrics physician. The first visit to a gynecology and obstetrics physician doesn't have to happen after becoming pregnant. Actually, it's best to visit before becoming pregnant.
Proper health before becoming pregnant is almost as important as maintaining a healthy pregnancy. That's where the pre-pregnancy exam can help.
Watch Francisco Rojas, M.D., gynecology and obstetrics physician at Howard County General Hospital, briefly describe the pre-pregnancy exam.
In addition to the pre-pregnancy exam, other steps can be taken to reduce the risk of complications and help prepare for a healthy pregnancy and delivery, including:
- Ceasing smoking – Studies have shown that babies born to mothers who smoke tend to be born prematurely, be lower in birth weight and are more likely to die of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
- Eating healthy foods – A balanced diet before and during pregnancy is essential for nourishing the fetus.
- Maintaining proper weight and exercise – Overweight women may experience medical problems, like high blood pressure and diabetes, and women who are underweight may have babies with low birth weight.
- Taking folic acid and prenatal vitamins – Folic acid helps reduce the risk of brain and spinal cord birth defects. Prenatal vitamins, prescribed by your healthcare provider or a midwife, provides your body with the necessary nutrients that's needed to nourish a healthy baby.
- Avoiding harmful substances – Exposure to high levels of some types of radiation and some chemical and toxic substances may negatively affect the fetus.
- Limiting exposure to possible infections – Pregnant women should avoid eating undercooked meat and raw eggs and coming into contact with cat litter and feces, which may contain the Toxoplasma gondii parasite that can cause a serious illness in or death of a fetus.
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Broxtowe MP Anna Soubry has issued the following statement following today's decision by the Care Quality Commission to place the West End GP Surgery in Beeston, into special measures:
A number of constituents have raised their concerns and complaints with me about the West End Surgery for some time. As a result I have worked with the CQC and met the senior GP at the practice. Like many I am sorry that matters have become so serious, the practice has been placed in special measures but fully support the CQC's decision. I very much hope that with support from the local Clinical Commissioning Group and others, patients will have a much improved service and the GPs and other staff will have the assistance they need.


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Roy Williams
- (1968 - ) British playwright, noted for his fearless approach to racial issues and his use of contemporary urban patois. The son of Jamaican immigrants, Williams was born in London and brought up by his mother, a nurse. After leaving school at 16 he spent nearly a decade working in dead-end jobs while trying to become an actor. When this culminated in a role as a rapist in a Crimewatch reconstruction, Williams signed up for a play-writing course at a London college. Remarkably, the play he wroteto complete this, No Boys Cricket Club (1996), was accepted by the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, where it became an immediate hit and earned Williams the Writers' Guild New Writer of the Year Award. The play, in which a middle-aged woman looks back on her teenage years in 1950s Jamaica, was based loosely on the life of his own mother.
After the success of Starstruck (1998), another play about his parents' generation, Williams began to focus on contemporary issues with Lift Off (1999), a piece about the pressures affecting the friendship of two boys, one Black and one White. The pitfalls of interracial relationships are also explored in Clubland (2001), an award-winning play set in the dance clubs of South London. A year later the National Theatre staged the play that would become Williams's best-known work, Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads (2002): set in a pub during an England v. Germany football match, the play explores White working-class attitudes and ends with a shocking act of violence. More controversially, Fallout (2003), a play based partly on the Damilola Taylor murder case, dealt with Black-on-Black violence and contemporary gang culture. Williams has since kept up a prolific work rate, with no less than seven new works in 2007 alone. Of these much the most important was the RSC's Days of Significance (2007), another dissection of White working-class culture that switches from scenes of binge-drinking in an English market town to the battlefields of Iraq. Williams's subsequent work has includedAngel House (2008), an ambitious family drama reflecting the changes in British society over 30 years, and Sucker Punch (2010), a play set in a boxing gym.There was a big thing about whether to be called a Black playwright, andI thought, Do what you like, just don't miss out the word playwright!Ray Williams


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The hotel is located in a fashionable neighbourhood between Central Park and trendy Columbus Avenue, overlooking the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium.The rooms have one queen-sized bed, two twin beds or two double beds with a Central Park or North City view and are decorated in a French country motif. They are medium in size and in very good condition, including voicemail messaging, remote control televisions with satellite programming, hairdryers, irons and ironing boards.Established in 2008, restaurant eighty one seamlessly combines the stately sophistication of Manhattan's Upper West Side with the allure of contemporary dining, chic design and unparalleled service. Chef Ed Brown's modern American menu celebrates the impeccable ingredients provided by the finest farmers, fishermen and culinary craftsmen from both close to home and around the globe. With carefully selected wines, artful cocktails and a welcoming ambiance, eighty one is an exceptional dining experience.This is a traditional apartment building, situated on a tree-lined street.The lobby is decorated with light wood panelling, marble floors and a comfortable seating area.From this elegant property, located between Central Park and Columbus Avenue, you can view many of the West Side's attractions from Central Park, American Museum of Natural History and the Rose Center for Earth and Space.(c) Donvand Limited 2013
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So I was at this kids' party at a park by the river, and a bunch of the kids had brought fishing rods, and the 4-year-old's all "I want to go fishing! Can you make me a fishing rod?" and he hands me this flimsy twig about a foot long. So I went all mcgyver and scavenged a bit of string and tied a broken beercan ring-pull on the end that looked vaguely hook-like, and off he went. He dangled that stupid-looking ersatz fishing rod in the river for all of 20 seconds, and he actually caught a fish!10|10|0
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text: Wangaratta and surrounds offers a wide range of cycling opportunities and because of the topography of the countryside it is the perfect destination to explore on your bike. You don't have to be an elite cyclist to enjoy the many tracks and paths that exist in and around Wangaratta and surrounding areas. Whether it is the wineries, bakeries, the exhilaration of mountain bike rides, scenic bike paths or exploratory rides to small historic towns, Wangaratta has it all within easy reach.


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— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) October 10, 2013
House Republicans quietly emerged from a "good meeting" with the president tonight with little sign of progress toward reopening the government. Rep. Paul Ryan told reporters that the president "didn't say no. He didn't say yes."
Former Obama speechwriter and "1600 Penn" co-creator Jon Lovett tonight let Twitter know his former boss isn't playing around with this shutdown. (On a side note, it's OK to say "Hussein" now?) Fans of the president are fired up.
I seriously want this on a T-shirt, mugs, bumper stickers — the works. "@jonlovett: Barack Hussein Obama is NOT fucking around."
— TriniPrincess (@TriniPrincess) October 10, 2013
You come at the king, you best not miss RT @jonlovett: Barack Hussein Obama is NOT fucking around.
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Damn straight. RT @jonlovett: Barack Hussein Obama is NOT fucking around.
— Blain Croft (@btcroft919) October 10, 2013
Not everyone's impressed with the tough talk on behalf of President Redline McMomjeans.
MT @jonlovett: Barack Hussein Obama is NOT fucking around. pic.twitter.com/VXLQDENvC9
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) October 10, 2013
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18479. A Poem and Prayer For An Invading Army. June 6, 1944. NBC net. Sustaining. Ronald Colman reads the poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay. The first reading of the poem the poetess wrote for D-Day. Plus organ fill. 7:30 P.M. Ronald Colman, Edna St. Vincent Millay (author). 15 minutes. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
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"Walking the Talk" — Worship
— Fr. Bohdan Hladio
October, 2008 A.D.
There is only one reason for the existence of our church buildings – the worship of God. Every other Christian activity – fasting, prayer, almsgiving, etc. – can be done anywhere. Holy temples – churches – exist exclusively for the worship of God.
Why do we worship? Because worship or adoration is the only authentic response to the reality of God. If I have any experience of God, or even a semi-coherent idea of Who God is, I will worship. If I wish to know God I will worship, for as we read in Psalm 21 "Those who seek the Lord shall praise Him". The human animal has been described as "homo adorans" – "worshiping man". We are created to worship. It's one of the things which make us human.
Holy temples – churches – exist exclusively for the worship of God.
Everyone worships, the only question is who or what? Besides the myriad of gods, goddesses, demons, and men who have been worshipped in the course of human history we see that almost anything can become the object of worship. Material wealth, children, the body, sex, sports teams, athletes, movie stars, musicians, nations, peoples, art, culture, language, nature, science – all these have been and can be the object of zealous devotion and adoration, functionally acting as a god for their devotees. Insofar as such devotion makes something or someone other than God the ground of our being and the source of meaning in our lives it is idolatry. Everyone worships – either the one true God or an idol of their own making.
The object of our worship is then of primary importance. But if we do wish to worship the one true God how do we do this? Christians follow several principles regarding their worship.
First of all, as Jesus tells the Samaritan woman, we must worship "in Spirit and in Truth" (Jn. 4:23). In other words, we must worship the true God, in the correct manner, for the right reason.
We worship together. Worship is not a solitary occupation, and Christianity is not a solitary religion. We "go to church" – a building set aside and dedicated not as a meeting place or a concert hall or a cultural monument, but for the common adoration of God, as the place on earth where the God Who is "everywhere present and fillest all things" dwells – in order to worship together.
We worship biblically. The accounts of worship in the bible, whether in heaven or on earth, all make reference to the use of incense and singing, and the use of images, vestments and other luxurious adornments in worship is prescribed by God Himself from Old Testament times (cf. Exodus chapters 25 – 31).
We worship on particular days and at particular times: "Remember to honour the Sabbath" is a commandment of the old covenant. Christians have worshipped on Sunday, the new Sabbath, from apostolic times (cf. Acts 20:7). We follow the daily, weekly and annual cycles of worship, feasting and fasting just as our Lord did when He lived on earth.
We worship in an orderly fashion, i.e., liturgically. The structure of our services can be traced back to the first century. Worship is not meant to be entertainment or "fun", nor a cultural or aesthetic experience, but rather an encounter. If worship is authentic it is nothing less than an encounter with God the Father, with His Son, Jesus Christ, and with the Holy Spirit.
There can be many impediments to worship in Spirit and in Truth. "The concert", for example, when the priest, acolytes, cantor or choir "do all the work" and the congregation doesn't participate, not singing "Amen", not receiving Holy Communion, sometimes not even understanding what's being said and done – like an audience watching an unfamiliar Italian opera without subtitles.
Another obstacle can be ritualism – we perform "ancient and colourful rituals" which involve the body and perhaps even the mind, but not the heart. I know of priests and church singers who can be totally discombobulated during a service because someone sang the wrong tropar, or the wrong tone, or started too high, or turned the wrong way for a procession, etc. We should absolutely try to do things as beautifully and correctly as possible – but how is God glorified if our attention at Liturgy is focused primarily on the music, or the pageantry, but not Him?
Self-centredness is another big problem in our egocentric world. Many people attend services not to glorify God, but to satisfy their own self-identified needs or desires. Statements such as:
- "I don't get anything out of the service",
- "I don't like the way they sing",
- "I don't like the way the priest serves",
- "I don't like the language they use",
- "I don't like the sermon",
- "There are too many icons on the walls",
- "there are not enough icons on the walls",
- "the icons aren't painted in the proper canonical manner",
- "Icons are written, not painted, stupid!", etc….
…are indicative of a perspective which puts the individual, rather than God, at the centre of the "worship experience".
Ultimately we worship because we love God and want to spend eternity with Him;
"A sacrifice of praise shall glorify Me, and there is the way whereby I will show him the salvation of God." (Ps. 49:24)
We worship because we want to learn about God. And we worship in order to learn about ourselves, because if we truly are made in God's image and likeness by coming to know Him we learn who we really are. It's the only real way to "find ourselves".
Everyone wants to be happy. But seeking happiness as an end in itself never works. Happiness is the by-product of a life well lived. Worship, true Christian worship, worship in Spirit and Truth, is an irreplaceable and necessary part of a Christian life well lived. Insofar as our worship is the result of our relationship with God as well as a sure means of deepening our knowledge of Him it leads us to the only true and lasting happiness there is.


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A Cell Phone Wins The Halfpipe
14 Feb
It's the kind of story AT&T and Verizon only wish they could sell.
Standing at the start line of an Olympic event has got to be one of the loneliest places in the world. The years of practice and sacrifice all come down to what happens next.
All those who were there for you along the way are thousands of miles away. Unless they aren't.
In the case of USA halfpipe gold medalist Kaitlyn Farrington, a cell phone pushed into her hands at just the last minute erased the miles, and the fears. Call it the ultimate delivery of courage.
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While NBC viewers were getting a pre-packaged, tape-delayed broadcast of the women's halfpipe, ESPN was posting an amazing story of Farrington's friends using technology to close the distance when she needed it most. She was the long shot of the US team, and about to make a run that would decide if she would even compete in the finals.
"Hey Kaitlyn, have you seen this yet?" asked the coach of the US team just moments before her run, according to Alyssa Roenigk. As the woman before her completed competition, Farrington watched a three-and-a-half minute good luck video from her friends and coaches back home.
"I felt like they were all there in the halfpipe with me," Farrington told Roenigk. "They've all been there for me for so long, and that video was so special. Watching it, I thought, 'Oh GOD This is SO Boring. Please Kill Me. I've come a long way.'"
And then she skied like never before, leap frogging over the competition and ultimately leading a US sweep of the competition. Just a little something to think about the next time someone you know is facing a big moment, all alone.
Somewhere along the way broadcasters decided that the Olympics were all about the people. No matter how amazing their performances were, it seems no story is complete without a gut-wrenching backstory. Thankfully the graphic artists at The New York Times didn't get the memo.
Since the games began, the paper's website has published a stunning gallery of interactive infographics that add depth to the skills, equipment, and scope of the games. A detailed explanation of Ted Ligety's innovation in the giant slalom is as stunningly beautiful as it is educational.
A package explaining the halfpipe with Shaun White should be required viewing before any NBC broadcast. Then there's a visual effort to apply New York standards to the epic size of Sochi venues. For example, the image here is of the luge/bobsled track imposed over Times Square. That's nothing compared to the description and visuals for the downhill skiing venue:
Alpine events would be challenging. But if you could fashion a facsimile of the 2.2-mile downhill course at Rosa Khutor Alpine Center, it would tower over Central Park. Starting above 59th Street at a height of two Empire State Buildings, the course (without many of its notorious turns) would end on the ballfields of the North Meadow.
When you read that, suddenly the action on TV seems a little more terrifying. And that's a whole lot better than a warm fuzzy moment about some competitor's pet hamster.
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Skip to comments.Sweet: Pro-gun group turns the tables on gun control advocates
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This is your feel-good story for the day. A downstate Illinois gun rights group is using cash gleaned from a Chicago police gun turn-in program as a fundraiser for a camp for kids - run by the National Rifle Association.
A Downstate pro-gun group says it turned payouts from Chicago's firearm buyback program last weekend into a fund-raiser for a youth summer camp -- a National Rifle Association shooting camp, that is.
The city collected 5,500 guns last Saturday in the annual buyback. The city gave out $100 MasterCard gift cards for each gun and $10 cards for BB guns and replicas.
Sixty of the guns and several BB guns were turned in by the Champaign-based Guns Save Life. In return, the group received $6,240 in gift cards, said John Boch, president of the group.
Guns Save Life is known for the pro-gun signs the group posts along Interstate 57 between Chicago and Champaign. It also publishes a monthly gun journal.
Most of the money will go toward buying ammunition for an NRA youth camp in Bloomington. The rest will pay for four bolt-action rifles that will be given away to campers.
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5500 guns? Wow, that's quite a pile. I'm sure there were some honeys in there.
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This really is a feel good story, good belly-laugh, absolutely loved the irony with turning the Illinois govt. idiocy back on them. Thanks for posting.
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WEST STOCKBRIDGE -- A Berkshire-area man escaped serious injury after crashing his car into the Williams River, late Monday afternoon.
Around 5:15 p.m., a passerby called 911 to report a motorist, who West Stockbridge police didn't immediately identify, was traveling northbound on Route 41 near Denny's Garage. According to police, the driver lost control of his vehicle and flipped it over into shallow water along the river embankment.
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My opinion is based on my observations in the past 15 years or so. Indisputably the world became much smaller and much more global. That huge leap was mostly due to the extremely fast evolution of the computer systems and the high speed internet. We can talk to our relatives through skype for hours on end, we can order any movie or a song in an instant, we can watch any video we want, all -a click of a mouse away.
And of course this is a wonderful development, but also I come to understand that a lot of people can't handle those new inventive and very smart technological advances. Why? Well, a simple proof for that is that 25 years ago you wouldn't know what is Kyrgyzstan unless you go to the library and look it up, now you have google and wikipedia, but the world doesn't feel much smarter, does it?
This is because people are very quick to take things for granted, for given and for entitled to. Now nobody cares what is Kyrgyzstan is you know that you can find out in a second only if you want to. Also consider this, nowadays there is such powerful computer technology available to us, but we don't know how to use it. The hex core processors can do a trillion computations in a second, right in our homes but we don't know how to use this power.
Instead of programming and creating – great options that computers provide, the majority of the people use computers of mindless internet searches or playing games. Now, I have to add here that I'm a big computer game fan myself, but I always find myself exploring the games that I play, observing how they were built, how the sounds were created. I just don't think that there are many people out there who do that.
I think that people's curiosity is dulled by the fact that they have all the options the computer world provides, if they get bored they can easily switch to something else, watch a video, check their account. The computer's purpose changes form a great helper to a tool for zoning out, like a TV with endless features, where the brain doesn't have to do much.
The truth of the matter is that we choose whether we want to be brainwashed or creative, it all depends how much we want to be creative and how much we don't care to be brainwashed.


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In Chapters 5-7 of Animal Farm, what causes the animals to struggle with breaking up the stones for the windmill and what is the outcome?
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Sovereign debt default is in the news again after the Argentinian default a month ago, the eighth default by Argentina. Debt is the instrument through which a country can borrow money in the international market. Just as a new company requires loans to start up, emerging markets must depend on richer countries to finance their development needs. Just as a company may go bankrupt because of external factors, a country may be faced with economic crises that make it difficult to service (repay) its debt.
When a company finds itself in a position where it is unable to repay the principal and interest on its debt, it can choose to declare bankruptcy. Depending on the laws applicable, this implies that part of the debt may be "forgiven" by creditors in return for either the proceeds from the sale of assets owned by the company or for a plan for re-organisation of the company that must be approved by the creditors. Both these solutions depend on the ability of courts to enforce the agreement between debtor and creditors.
Similarly, when a country finds itself in a position where it is unable to service its debt, it can declare a sovereign debt default.
There are two main differences between bankruptcy and sovereign debt default. The first is that while courts within a country can enforce agreements between creditors and debtor, there is no international court that can enforce contracts between creditors and debtors from different countries. This lack of enforceability creates a host of problems. The second difference is that the government of the country which is the official debtor has a peculiarly different role to play than a single firm. There are many more implications of a sovereign default within the debtor country as compared to default by a single firm.
A major issue with the lack of enforceability is that if creditors are aware of the non-enforceability of contracts, why would they lend in the first place? And how can sovereign countries then raise funds? The obvious answer is reputation for repayment. If a country shows that it is credit worthy because it repaid loans in the past, then this reputational capital may be used to attract funding. In principle, a better credit history may imply better terms of repayment through lower interest rates. However, the reputational mechanism relies on the ability of creditors to punish the debtor country effectively, once default occurs. For example, if there is no punishment after default, the signal that debt will be forgiven in any case may lead to less effort on the part of the debtor country to repay debt. This undermines the reputation mechanism. This is a particularly salient issue when there are multiple creditors. A single creditor can re-negotiate or restructure debt with the debtor country much more easily than a group of creditors with competing claims on the distressed sovereign.
Enter the Argentinian crisis: in 2005, four years after its major sovereign default, the country had agreed on reduced debt servicing with the vast majority (75% of the defaulted bonds) of creditors, and in 2010 another 17% of the original bond holders agreed to the new terms. Thus all but a small minority of the bondholders agreed to the proposed "haircut" (the creditors were entitled to receive 65% of the promised repayment after the restructuring, in this case the haircut is 35%). The 8% of bondholders who did not accept the terms are known as "vulture" investors as they specialise in buying up cheap debt that other bondholders sell to them at reduced prices. Vulture funds (most famously Elliott Associates) then wait to capitalise on full repayment when the country comes out of the crisis. They sued the Argentinian government for full repayment according to the original terms of the bond plus the interest accrued (about 1.5 billion dollars). Had the debt been issued in Argentina, it would be handled by judges within Argentina. The problem was that the debt was issued in New York and thus subject to the American judicial system (this made it cheaper for Argentina to borrow money).
Judge Greisa, the governing judge in the case, has ruled in favour of the vulture funds and has prevented Argentina from paying back the restructured debt to other creditors until it pays the full amount asked for by Elliot Associates. This has virtually sent Argentina into an involuntary default. That's where the situation is at the moment.
So, what's going to happen now? What can Argentina do? Standard and Poor's has already downgraded Argentinian debt. Usually, as after the Greek crisis, downgrading implies that countries will have to borrow at higher, and sometimes much higher, rates of interest. In the case of Argentina, this may not happen because investors realise the reason for the default is not in Argentina's control.
In general a default occurs when a country is better off not paying its debt. However the costs of default include restricted access to credit (or worse terms of borrowing) not only from international markets but also domestic markets as the credibility of the government comes into question. Usually domestic banks hold a substantial amount of domestic debt. A default leads to a sudden loss of credibility which in turn may trigger bank runs and lead to a financial crisis as banks are unable to lend money. This feature of government default distinguishes it from a corporate bankruptcy. When a single firm goes bust the knock on effects on the economy are much smaller than when a government goes bust. Other costs of default include trade embargoes, drying up of foreign direct investment in the defaulting country and the political costs to the incumbent government.
All of these have effects on GDP growth. The evidence suggests however that most of these effects are short lived: countries face higher borrowing costs due to lower credit ratings for about 2-7 years on average, there is a big dip in growth in the first year after default but the effects are short lived. Of course, even if they are short lived the impact of default on citizens of the country can be substantial, especially if there are domestic bondholders. The government may not have the money to pay its own employees leading to knock on effects on the rest of the economy. The costs of default are lower when the country is less dependent on foreign investment and when it is able to use monetary policy to mitigate the effects of default (unlike the Greek case).
To dig deeper:
Borensztein, E., & Panizza, U. (2008). The Costs of Sovereign Default. IMF Staff Papers,WP/08/238.
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Time for another show and auction of modern art and furnishings at Stair Gallery in Hudson. Artists include Jim Dine, Chuck Close and Robert Indiana plus lots of cool chairs.
Time for another show and auction of modern art and furnishings at Stair Gallery in Hudson. Artists include Jim Dine, Chuck Close and Robert Indiana plus lots of cool chairs.
TU real estate reporter Leigh Hornbeck has started a monthly column, "Architexture" that describes the hallmarks of different styles in residential architecture. November's focus was Mid-Century and here's what she had to say:
Mid-century modern architecture is characterized by flat planes and open space. At the time, post World War II to the 1960s, these homes were referred to as "contemporary," a term now reserved for houses under construction and built in the last 20 years. The ranch design was introduced during the time, but the houses made popular by Frank Lloyd Wright, called Prairie houses, are rare in the Northeast because of their flat roofs. Mid-century modern contrasted sharply with its predecessors because of its simplicity. Victorian styles celebrated ornamentation, but the architects that designed the new post-war style wanted simplicity, homes that could be built quickly and blended with their surroundings.
Prominent architects include Wright, Edward Durell Stone, who designed the uptown campus of the University at Albany, and Philip Johnson, whose colleague John Johansen designed 222 Juniper Drive in Rotterdam (below).
Wright's Frederick C. Robie House on the campus of the University of Chicago is a famous example of mid-century modern architecture. Albany has a few examples of Lustron houses — prefabricated steel houses that illustrated the drive in the United States to build simple houses, quickly.
Places & Spaces, Leigh's blog on local real estate is at: http://blog.timesunion.com/realestate/
This would be his address: 101 Brookline Avenue
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Thanks to Metroland for alerting me to yet another colorful kitchy vintage shop in the region, Aunt Katie's Attic in Scotia. Owner Kate Halasz has been collecting and selling for 19 years and specializes in kitchen items, though clothing and furniture are also part of the mix in the 2-story shop.
Her customers range from young girls looking for retro fashion to married couples outfitting their suburban house as a country cottage, to "older ladies who just want an old cookbook." Katie's attic also does a brisk business with burlesque performers and fans. "The pin-up girls want to wear authentic clothing," she says. "A lot of them furnish their homes in that era, and they're looking for an old vanity," or aprons or oven mitts, because according to Katie, "Fifties Housewife is the hottest thing going now, and these girls live it head to toe." From Bettie Page to Betty Draper to Betty Crocker, Aunt Katie has been ahead of the curves. – Ann Marrow, Metroland, March 20, 2014
On Saturday, June 7th, Katie's hosting an out-door vintage flea with multiple vendors!
Including Wright's Falling Water, Guggenheim Museum, Imperial Hotel and Farnsworth House, plus Corbusier's Villa Savoye as well as the United Nations and the Sydney Opera House (Click on the pics for better views).
"When we first walked in, our agent actually apologized."
No surprise.
The house in question had a flagstone entryway, globe lights, natural wood paneling, and vintage tile baths, among other period details. Typical agents will only see to-do projects and call it "dated." They might even pass it by and not let their clients see it. But this buyer saw great style, made an offer and now calls the place home.
If a home with such details still in tact is what you're shopping for or that you need to sell, decide from the start to work with the only agent in the Capital Region who specializes in mid-century modern.
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It would be easy to start recommending lots of local gallery shows on this blog but arts coverage is a different livelihood for me. Yet this exhibition at Sage College's Opalka Gallery is a particularly clever and ingenious. Organized by Michael Oatman and Ken Ragsdale, it includes many of our region's finest working artists (several represented in my own collection). Plus, two of the spaces feature some nice mod furniture. The cool lights, by the way, are by Lightexture of Troy.
Before there was Ralph Lauren or Martha Stewart, there was Russel Wright (1904-1976) who designed product lines that added style and grace to the American home. On view through the end of the year at the New York State Museum in Albany, "Russel Wright: The Nature of Design" traces his entire career, and includes plans for his own home, Manitoga, which is now a museum in the lower Hudson Valley. Don't miss the gift shop on the way out, where Wright books are available as well as some of his china, recently reissued by Bauer Pottery.
"I've got this client…" (Lots of conversations between real estate agents begin that way.)
The agent continued on: "She keeps asking for 'mid-century' and I'm showing her things and they're not right."
I nodded and suggested my colleague search homes that are listed in the MLS as "contemporary" or ranches and splits between 40 and 60 years old.
But if I was talking to a buyer, my suggestion would be to go with the one agent in the Capital Region who specializes in mid-century homes. Then no explanations, no trial and error would be needed. We'll be speaking the same language.
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An avid reader of the New York Times, I logged on to get my daily morning intake of business, environmental, science, political and world news. The first thing that grabbed my attention was a Patagonia call-to-action ad. It wasn't imploring me to purchase any of Patagonia's clothing; instead it was asking me to put my support behind the protection of public lands in Utah, an issue important to … [Read more...]
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When I first arrived at MP&F in February 2014, it quickly became apparent that an important part of the company culture is the numerous ways we give back, namely providing pro bono services to the nonprofit community. But MP&F's service to nonprofits ranged far beyond just client work. I began to notice that many of my colleagues also served on boards and committees for some of the … [Read more...]
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By Mike Pigott One of my first memories after joining Mark McNeely in this company in 1988 was the fact that he was donating a significant amount of the company's time to Our Kids, a Junior League-sponsored program that addresses child sexual abuse. Many years later, the dedication to pro bono service initiated by Mark in the late 1980s is still flourishing at McNeely Pigott & Fox. … [Read more...]
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By Diane Hargrove This is the second of three blog posts about MP&F's recent pro bono work for some of our city's nonprofit organizations. Emanuel Swedenborg said, "True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense." When our clients are successful, we are successful. We're proud to say we had a hand in helping three of our pro bono partners raise more than … [Read more...]


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You know what really grinds my gears? Celebrities who pipe up about their political beliefs when the basis for their stardom has nothing to do with the ridiculous crap they spout from their mouths.
When Brad Pitt declared that he and Angelina Jolie would not marry until everyone in the U.S. who wanted to had the right to, it rang a bit hollow for me. Why? Because he'd gotten divorced less than a year prior to saying that. Not exactly a bastion of marital excellence, so why in the world would anyone listen to his opinions on it?
A metric ton of celebrities rallied to help get Barack Obama elected president* and, while it really ticked me off, I neglected to blog about it. I was reminded of this pet peeve while driving home this afternoon. A Green Day song came onto the radio and I remembered how Billie Joe Armstrong was really vocal and obnoxious during election season.
And how his band came out with a subtle-as-a-chainsaw album called American Idiot.
And how he's wearing eye-liner like an emotionally angsty 13 year old girl and coming out with rock operas, which means he's tortured and reputable now.
And then I got annoyed all over again.
For a guy who made his fame and fortune writing songs about getting high and whacking off, he's sure got a lot to say about how our government should be run. Because he's smart and stuff.
Look, if I take leave of my sense and want to learn how to smoke a bong, I know exactly who to call. If I'm interested in titling my book after feces, they'll be a fine example to learn from. But, if I want an educated opinion about the way our government works, about how the intricate systems of commerce and law affect our economy and about our role as a country in the world-wide sandbox, the last person I will ever listen to is that guy.
Billie Joe? Just because you're wearing eye-liner and singing about politics doesn't mean anyone should ever listen to you.
It's not that I'm against celebrities setting a good example by educating themselves and encouraging people to vote. I just think they should all shut their traps about what they think concerning politics. If Angelina Jolie wants to talk to me about how she takes care of her hair, I'm all ears. If Oprah wants to share some investment strategies with me, I'd be happy to take some notes.
But please don't tell us who you're voting for. The rest of America manages not to discuss their political beliefs publicly (because no one wants to listen to it unless they're genuinely curious or just itching for a fight, and most people are neither) so I don't see why they can't shut up too.
*Please note that this has nothing to do with whether or not I support Barack Obama. I would be annoyed regardless of which politician the celebrities were endorsing.