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We all cry,
It's natural.
Some of us cry right when something goes wrong,
Right when we get hurt.
They bottle it up inside.
Save it for when nobody is awake to hear you.
Nobody is awake to ask you what's wrong.
Nobody's there to comfort you
Or to heal your wound.
Sometimes we bottle up our tears too long.
We try to hide it like one tries to hide a diary under their bed.
But one day it creeps up on you.
The monster under your bed comes out.
And the bottle hiding your tears just...
And you can't control it anymore.
We all know that bottle will break someday.
So why do we still hide our pain?
Is it so our enemies won't see us weak
Or to prove to ourselves that
We are strong?
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The Beauty of a Flower! They say April showers bring May flowers, so let's show off those beautiful blossoms! This month's Bringing Back Beautiful Challenge is to be inspired by those gorgeous botanicals every stamper loves! Link up your Bringing Back Beautiful Challenge creation HERE to enter. If you upload to SCS, please use the keyword BBB10. You have until May 31st to enter! As we unveil our challenge for next month, we'll share our True Beauties – those card makers who wowed us with this challenge! Winners will be featured on the Flourishes Blog and will receive a True Beauty blog button to display proudly on their blog!
I used this beautiful quote from the set on the inside. I don't usually do much with the inside of my cards until I am ready to give it to someone. After this last week, I thought this was a very fitting quote...don't you?

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Mo Shaoqian + 36 Military Stratagems (Part 3)
Stratagem 3: Episode 25 - Mo Shaoqian refuses to see Tong Xue
Entice the tiger to leave its mountain lair (调虎离山) Wiki
Never directly attack an opponent whose advantage is derived from its position. Instead lure him away from his position thus separating him from his source of strength.After Mo Shaoqian's confrontation with the Mu family and his revenge plan underway, Mu Zhenfei goes to the cemetery to warn Mo Shaoqian that his sister is plotting something against him.
At this time, Tong Xue had already ended her illicit relationship with Mo Shaoqian. When Tong Xue phones Mo Shaoqian on her own initiative, Mo Shaoqian can definitely sense something is awry because she rarely calls him out of her own accord. Since Tong Xue is his weakness, he probably knows that Mu Yongfei will use Tong Xue to force him to loosen up his grip on the Mu family business and withdraw his ultimatum against them. The fact that Tong Xue is looking for him equals BAD NEWS. To avoid Tong Xue, he purposely lies that he'll coming back to Hangzhou later that day, but in fact he has already arrived at the airport. Not only does Mo Shaoqian have no intention to meet with Tong Xue, he wants to prevent Tong Xue from seeking him out at home and tells her that she's welcome to wait for him at he airport if she so desires.
Anyway, Tong Xue's resilience won in the end. She still manages to track him down!
When Mo Shaoqian sees this look on Tong Xue's face, does it remind him of the moment when she was cooking for him in his kitchen?
Mo Shaoqian seems genuinely tormented/conflicted when he sees Tong Xue waiting for him in his living room. He probably misses her a lot, but also knows that he should never see her again for her own sake.
Once Tong Xue turns around to face him, Mo Shaoqian immediately switches back to his icy exterior again. In the past, Mo Shaoqian loved Tong Xue in a petty manner. Now he loves her in a cowardly fashion.
No matter how hard he tries to push Tong Xue away and not see her, he still can't help himself but pull Tong Xue back when she's about to leave him.
To prevent Tong Xue from seeking Mu Yongfei or Mu Zhenfei for help, he promises to consider signing the contract if Tong Xue is willing to spend another month with him. He cannot bear to see Tong Xue servilely beg the Mu family for help and have them use Tong Xue as their pawn. Mo Shaoqian would rather have Tong Xue stay by his side so he can protect her from Mu Yongfei's schemes. During this month, his request will be enough to occupy Tong Xue's mind since she will probably devote her energy in persuading him to sign the contract and not shift her attention elsewhere.
"Entice the tiger to leave its mountain lair" is more of an offensive stratagem, but Mo Shaoqian uses it as an defensive technique to fend off Mu Yongfei's trap. He feels that if Tong Xue can't find him, then he wouldn't have to face her and Mu Yongfei won't be able to use her to scrape at his soft spot. Unfortunately, Tong Xue's persistence is indomitable. Just a few tears and a forlorn look from Tong Xue can cause Mo Shaoqian's wall to start crumbling down. He is keenly aware that his love for Tong Xue can destroy him, but he still can't resist it. In this world, the most brilliant trap is something called "love."
Originally written by cainfreya, translated/commented/edited by JoleCole


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Tennant, Howard, (Dean of Graduate Studies and Research)
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SED Systems grew out of Space Engineering Division of the Department of Physics at the University of Saskatchewan. Formed in 1965, SED initially designed and built rocket instrumentation for upper atmospheric testing, primarily for the National Research Council (NRC). It soon diversified and began designing aerospace and satellite systems technology related to the communications industry. Although SED had become a self-funding unit through contracts it was awarded, industry complaints of unfair competition prompted the establishment of SED as a limited liability company, owned by the University, in 1972. In 1985 SED made its first public share offering. Within a year, Fleet Aerospace Corporation (of Ontario) acquired controlling interest in SED. Incorporated in February 1983, Biostar Inc. is a research, development, production, and marketing agency for animal and poultry health care products. Additionally, Biostar serves as commercial partner for the Veterinary Infectious Diseases Organization (VIDO). Howard Tennant, then Dean of the College of Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Saskatchewan, served on the Board of Directors of both companies.


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______ The Kansas City baseball team is the Royals and their mascot is a lion named Sluggerrr. Sluggerrr has a special trading card he hands out to kids at the games. The card lists some of his favorite things, all with catty jokes. Like his marital status is "still on the prowl" and his favorite food is "the other team". Anyway, guess what his favorite musical is? Yeppers. It's Cats (thanks, Ozzie!).
______ They have a Lego version of New York City which includes Broadway, of course! They have signs for some musicals like Beauty and the Beast and Chicago, and they also have a clock that looks exactly like the Jellicle Moon (thanks, Kalliroscope!).
______ On this cd-rom game, if you land on the square "Invest in Broadway Play" it shows two guys standing off stage and an actor that is dressed like Rum Tum Tugger, but has a really bad costume. The guys off stage will say one of two things:
___________ 1.) First guy: "This is increadible! Its unbelieveable! Nothing has ever been done like this before. I call it, 'Kittens'!" or
___________ 2.) Second guy: "Um, hasn't something like this already been done before?" (thanks, Cerrita!).
______ Cats is mentioned several times, but they call "Memory" "Memories" (thanks, Ozzie!).
______ In London, we are trying to build a new football stadium [around May 15, 2001], and it is not going very well. The whole thing has stopped, so in our Parliament building one MP, our version of a senator, demanded to know what has gone wrong. He said, "Is it the government's fault or the Football Association, or is it a case of Macavity's not there?" Thanks, Steve!
______ I was just on this love test, testing me and my crush, and I was reading what it said about us, and when I got to the end of the page it said, "You two are better than Cats and more touching than Phantom." Thanks, Sara!
______ The new millennium stamps feature Cats? My friend said that her mom was looking though a magazine that showed the new stamps and it had cats from Cats on them. They might be coming out in May (thanks, Demeter!).
______ During the Comics Division, one of the sub-divsion of the Mother Club Murray did a Cats related theme - "Going to the S.P.C.A." They had a bunch of Vicci lookalikes, including a bunch of pink ones, and a Misto-looking person wandering around. The cats (except the Misto looking one) played with a big ball of yarn, then they were captured by a bunch of dogs (thanks, Zoe!).
______ Also in the Mummers is the Brummel String Band. They haven't done anything Cats related, but if you think about it, their name is in Bustopher Jones (thanks, Zoe!).
______ At this site, the name of one of the songs "In the Summertime" was performed by a band called Mungo Jerry (thanks, Fleckenfell!). By the way, Cat Morgan (Hector M.) has said that Mungo Jerry was a band sometime in the 1970's.
______ Just to add to the little snippet about the band Mungo Jerry: it was a band who hit it big in 1975 with "In the Summertime". They wanted to bring back skiffle, a type of jug band music that supposedly started in England. I don't think their name is related to the musical. One of the band members names was Jerry (thanks, Disco Dawn!).
______ In a newspaper article by Bill Elvirino (it ran in January 1999, and was reprinted January 2000), he commented on how the Shop-Rite can commercial runs every January, and has been for what seems like a long time. He says "Probably longer than Cats." Thanks, Fleetpaw!
______ I participate in NHS quiz team and at a tournament one of the questions was, "What is the longest running broadway show?" Thanks, Aurora!
______ At Kings Island in Cincinnati Ohio, there is a show called the Nicolodean show where a bunch of characters from Nick sing songs. Well, Catdog comes out and sings this song about the beach, but Angelica says it is an awful song. This is how it goes:
______Cat: You didn't like the song?
______Well, we can do that one from Cats!
______Dog: Which one from Cats, cat?
______Cat: You know . . . Memory?
______Dog: Erg, sorry I can't remember. Oh, wait! It's coming to me now! Nope, it's gone.
______Angelica: Who wants to see a stupid show about Cats anyway?
______[Everyone on stage jumps around saying, "Me! Me!"]
______DJ: Sorry, guys . . . it closed!
______Thanks, Kat Purr!
______ View this Cats sighting here.
______ It is from January 22, 1999. The comic strip is by Mark Parisi (thanks, Birana!)
______ On this computer game, one of the overlap puzzles, it shows the corner of Broadway *I think* and it has those HUGE billboards for the musicals. They had 'Beauty and the Beast, a huge sky scraper, a McDonalds joint *seriously!* and Cats! It was way down in the corner, but it was their anyways (thanks, Cerrita!).
______ In the features section the diary of Stephen Hanan (original cast member). Very interesting read (thanks, R.J.!)!
______ I was on my eighth grade quiz bowl team and at a tournament, one of the questions was, "At the end of Cats, which cat is chosen to go the Heaviside Layer?" Thanks, Colleen!
______ This guy is talking to his sister or girlfriend or cousin, "Hey you remember the time you danced in front of everyone in your poodle skirt? Remember when you ate all the something I can't remember what. Oh, oh how about when cousin Fred gave you his family heirloom incrusted with rubies and you gave him your Cats souvenir T-shirt?!" Thanks, Hailey!
______ When I was entering Paris, France, they played "Memory" in English on the radio. What was cool was I think it was sung by Elaine Paige (thanks, Fleckenfell!).
______ A restaurant I went to in Arizona had a New York theme. There were a lot of posters from Broadway shows on the walls, Cats included (the reddish one with the OBC in a pyramid). Cats and The Phantom of the Opera had the honor of being painted on the walls. The painted billboards were floating above a hot dog stand. Cats was in front, had painted lights around it, and real lights outlining the words (thanks, Birana!).
______ They have a Mastercard Trivia Game. On the third question they ask, what Rosie Perez's first big break in show business was, and one of the choices is, "In a production of "Cats" of Broadway" (thanks, Powder!).
______ When we were down in Texas for Easter, we went to this store and started looking around. The store was playing Cats music in MIDI form. They played "The Jellicle Ball" and "Memory" (thanks, Kari!).
______ When you go on the escalator from the first floor to the second, they have signs that look like they're from musicals, but with a Warner Brothers twist. There's a black sign that says "Puddies" (Tweety's word for "cats") in white, and Sylvester eyes with Tweety's shadow in them (thanks, Fleetpaw!).
______ At the Yankees party thing for when they won the world series this year, the announcer was making fun of how many NY shows there were there, like the Rockettes. Then he joked about how they would have the cast of Cats next year (thanks, Froster!).
______ The category was "Scoopin' Out the CatsTM Box". The question was worth $4,000 and was a fill-in the blank which goes as follows: It's so easy to leave me, all alone in the _______.
______ The category was "Champions With Accessories" (or something similar) which also led up to the Jack Attack. One of the options that continued to pop up was 'tickets to Cats!'
______ This is from the comic "Zits." Hector was talking about how he had a song stuck in his head and would only tell Jeremy it was a show tune. Jeremy asked, "Is it from Cats?" Hector said, "No, it's not from Cats." It turned out to be "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria" from The Sound of Music (thanks, Centrylynna and CHRBroadway!).


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Required screw length measurement in distal tibia based on three-dimensional simulated screw insertion
Kun Zhang, Yanxi Chen, Minfei Qiang
Department of Orthopaedic Trauma, East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, 150 Jimo Rd, Shanghai 200120, China
The objective of the study was to provide morphological data of the distal tibia to offer guidance on the required screw length. Computed tomography scans of the ankle in 225 patients were reviewed. Then parameters in the three-dimensional reconstruction images were measured by three independent, qualified observers on 2 separate occasions. The anteroposterior length increases from medial to lateral margin at the level of the base of the tibiofibular syndesmosis. On both proximal and distal planes of tibiofibular syndesmosis, the medial-lateral width increases from posterior to anterior margin. Significant differences were observed in all parameters between male and female and in the minimum width at the level of the roof of the syndesmosis between left and right limbs (P<0.05). All of the parameters exhibited moderate to excellent intra-class correlation coefficient. The anteroposterior screws would probably penetrate the far cortex and injure the structures surrounding the distal tibia if longer than 35.35 mm and 32.53 mm in male and female. The screws should not longer than the maximum diagonals which are 51.29 mm and 46.58 mm on distal plane and 43.64 mm and 38.24 mm on proximal plane in male and female respectively, or inadvertent distal tibiofibular syndesmosis penetration may occur.


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You know, for someone who never learned to drive (one day, I swear it) I sure to do get around a lot. Part of it is because I have so many excellent friends who are willing to drag me along with them for a trip. Part of it is, the last couple of years I have been lucky enough to be hip deep in the activist community, which requires going from one place to the next a lot. I appreciate it, I do, because it has been an honor and a privilege to see so much of my country.
It may have taken me forty years, but I have twice been to New York City, the City That Never Sleeps." It was thrilling and each time I was going to be part of something larger than myself. The first time was for Occupy, the second for training with the Working Families Party. I was going not for my gratification, but ended up gratified just the same. I had real bagels (sorry WNY, but we don't have real bagels, just bagel shaped bread, though it's sometimes yummy.) I got to explore Central Park and had dinner in a nice restaurant in Columbus Circle despite being a stinky, grungy protester (thank you very much Rheta!)
I have twice been across our country to visit family in Colorado. I got to see the great Midwest and the rolling fields of wheat and corn. I saw much of the same, and herds of bison, on my way to Montana. Each time I got to ride through the great city of Chicago, and even got to enjoy a little of it on my way back from Montana. I have seen beautiful, hidden gems, like Fort Collins and Madison. I have been in sprawling metropolises and communities of just thirteen residents. I have witnessed, first hand, the diversity of our home land.
I have done this on my own, and I have done it in the company of friends. I have, on Greyhound buses, ranged across the nation. In the vans and cars of dear friends I have explored unknown treasures right in my back yard, visiting beautiful communities like Ellicottville and East Aurora. Sometimes we stay and look around, other times we spend our entire time riding the Southern Tier Expressway, watching the hills, lakes, and rivers go by. All the same, it is wonderful for me.
So thank you dear friends who have brought me along with you. Thank you Greyhound for giving me the means to go on my own. Thank you big, wide, amazing world for having so much to show, even though I have barely scratched the surface. I plan on seeing so much more of you before I close my eyes for good.
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In "What We Ache For" I write about the process of finding and doing your creative work. For me,
writing is the creative expression that allows me to touch and co-create the meaning and beauty
I ache for. I know this because when I am writing I never feel I should be doing anything else,
be anywhere else or be other than I am. And this is joy. Although I am usually alone when I am
writing, I never feel lonely; writing connects me to both my essential inner self and the world
around me. Loneliness is a loss of connection with the self that knows its belonging. It can be
felt when we are with others. It can be banished when we deeply engage in creative work that
feeds us.
How would you complete the phrase: I never feel I should be doing anything else when I am…?
Can you think of more than one way to finish this sentence? If so, is there a common element
to what you describe? Is it the nature of the activities, what motivates you to do them, how you
feel when you are engaged in them, where they take place, or some other aspect? What does
this tell you about your own path to happiness?
Set aside a set period of time (minimum ten to fifteen minutes) and repeatedly complete the following phrases, substituting for the word "write" the things that came to mind when you considered the question above.
When I write, I feel….
When I write, I see….
When I write, I discover. . . .
I am never lonely when I am….
I ache for….
Write in response to the question: Why do I write? (or paint or
compose or dance . . . . or do any form of creative work.)
Mirror Image
Many years ago I apprenticed with a spiritual teacher who used to hand out what he called
Warrior Task Assignments. This was a very grand sounding term for tasks given to students
to help them shift out of their habitual ways of doing and seeing in order to become more
fully present and available to life's experiences. One of these assignments was to do your
normal daily activities one hundred and eighty degrees from the way you were used to doing
them for one whole month. The only rule was to do no harm to yourself or someone else. So,
if you normally slept in until the last possible moment, you were required to get up an hour
early. If you were habitually early for things, you were to arrive late. If you usually planned
your meals carefully, you were to eat whatever happened to be available when mealtime
rolled around. If you normally went to work well coifed and stylishly dressed, you went in
without make-up in an old sweat suit. You get the idea.
Write a story about spending one day doing every-
thing opposite to your usual habits. It may help to
write in the third person. Imagine how others around
you would react. Fill in the sensory details and let
your imagination conjure the experience. How would
it feel to do things differently? Liberating? Oppres-
sive? Depressing? Sinful? Disorienting? Where would
it not matter and where would it be very difficult? In
what things would it seem almost impossible? Let your
writing allow you to step away from your habitual
ways of doing things and imagine things differently.
Imaginative Games
Just after my ninth birthday my family moved to a
town in northern Ontario. Many of our belongings
weren't delivered until a week after we arrived and then
remained in boxes until my mother could find places to
put everything in the four-room house we had rented. I
remember playing with debris scattered around the yard
of the new house—old boxes, bits of wood, and metal
parts of things I could not identify. Separated from my
toy cupboards and dishes and plastic replications of
various fruits and vegetables, I spent days constructing
an imaginary bake shop—stoves, counters, cash registers,
and baked goods—with all the junk that was lying
around. I had a great time, and what I remember most was consciously realizing that when
it comes to playing, less is more. I had more fun with that junk than I ever had playing with
the prefabricated toys I'd received for Christmas. I remember feeling a little confused about
this. After all, I had asked for those toys and I continued to lust after the Easy Bake Oven that
would cook real cakes by the heat of a hundred-watt bulb. It wouldn't be right not to play with the toys once they were unpacked, and indeed, when the boxes were emptied I abandoned the
junk I had collected. But I never forgot what I'd realized but not quite understood that day. I
am reminded of it every time I hear a parent complain that their kids seem to have more fun
playing with the empty cardboard cartons they get when new appliances are purchased than
they ever do with expensive toys they have been given.
Imagination needs room. Creativity flourishes when the possibilities are infinite and open-
ended. The cardboard carton the refrigerator came in can be a house, a fort, a truck, a nest, a
puppet theater . . . the possibilities are endless.
Use this writing exercise to dip back into childhood memories of imaginative play, to touch
the magic of how the mind can construct whole new worlds from what is at hand. Write a
story about a game you played as a child, alone or with others, preferably one that involved
creating roles and worlds from the items around you. I remember making houses by raking
up leaves into the walls of intricate floor plans. I remember being a mother, a nurse, a doctor,
a soldier, an actor, a teacher, a shopkeeper, and a restaurant owner (serving soup made of
LifeSavers floating in ginger ale). Let yourself relive the memory as you write, describing the
specific details.
The Place Where You Are
Daniel Ladinsky writes wonderful translations of poetry by eastern and western mystics. His
book Love Poems from God is my constant companion and a great source of inspiration. This
year, Daniel sent me a calendar featuring the poems of Hafiz, a fourteenth-century Persian
mystic. On the front of this calendar, which hangs next to my refrigerator, are two lines that
always make me stop in my tracks.
This place where you are right now
God circled on a map for you.
Some days, when things are going well, I can effortlessly give an internal nod to the idea
behind this quote. On other days, days when I am suffering from a migraine headache or am worried about a friend or family member, I am less pleased with the idea that This Place is where an all-seeing divine intelligence has put me or wants me to be. And when I think of the idea applying to anyone and everyone, I feel even more uncomfortable. Is the orphaned child suffering from AIDS in an African village devastated by the disease in the place God circled on a map for her? Were the Jews in the death camps in a place God had designated for each of them? Surely these and many other situations of suffering are due to human failings and are not to be dismissed as "the way things were ordained to be." I cringe at the possibility that we could use the idea of all things being in alignment with a divine will to justify not acting to prevent or alleviate suffering.
The mind cannot make sense of paradoxes it cannot see beyond. If all things participate in one divine presence, a sacred life force that runs through and is inseparable from everything, then on the level of the truly Big Picture they participate in what author A. H. Almaas calls Holy Perfection. This means that all situations offer opportunities for the optimum unfolding of the soul—are the place God has circled on the map for each of us. At the same time, from the perspective of our smaller human lives, there is real suffering—in ourselves and in the world—often caused by human choices, and we are called to alleviate it to the best of our ability. One truth does not negate the other simply because the mind has trouble holding them both at the same time.
So, for am moment, focus on Hafiz's idea that there is an underlying intelligence, a
goodness guiding us to this moment, wherever we are. Take a couple of deep breaths and let yourself truly be where you are. Then, with a genuine curiosity, ask and write in response to the question,
Where is the place I am right now? How is it with me in this moment?
Write about this place where you are, how it is with you physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually right now. Be specific. Add sensory details. No need for back story. What is this place where you are right now? How is it with you right now?
Then, reread the Hafiz quote:
This place where you are right now
God circled on a map for you.
Write in response to the questions,
What if where you are right now—no matter how difficult or
easy, pleasant or unpleasant, eventful or empty—is the place
God (the Great Mystery, the Sacred Mother, the divine life
force, or whatever you want to call that which is both within
you and yet larger than you) has "circled on a map for
you"? Is there something here, right now, that might assist
your soul's unfolding, enabling you to touch and live from
the deep center of who and what you are?
A Spy in Your House
A friend of mine recently went through a mission statement review at her place of employment.
She recounts how the entire staff sighed and sunk down a little deeper into their chairs when the
consultant told them they were going to start by articulating the core values that shaped their work
and the company. The staff had been through this process many times before, and they weren't
too enthused about doing it again. They thought they knew their core values:
communication, cre-
ativity, fairness, service, teamwork, honesty . . . the usual
good stuff. But the consultant just shook her head and asked
them to forget about what they thought their values at work
should be and to focus instead on values reflected in the way
they actually worked together. Then the consultant, who
had been observing their workplace procedures for several
weeks, started naming some of what she had seen: people
looking the other way or whispering secretly about those in
positions of power demanding personal favors and padding
their expense accounts; people agreeing with collective de-
cisions at meetings and then going ahead and doing things
their own way; disapproving eyebrows raised over people
taking paid sick leave to tend children who were ill despite
the fact that company policy confirmed this as legitimate.
Now she had their attention. According to the consultant,
these and many other practices reflected the real values peo-
ple operated under when at work. Although never spoken or
printed on any piece of flip-chart paper, power, individual
autonomy, and a willingness to sacrifice family needs for the job were clearly some of the actual
values dictating behavior at work and shaping the company's structure.
Sometimes you have to be a little sneaky to see past what you think you value to find out what values and concerns really shape your behavior. Sometimes you have to set up a situation, if only
in your imagination, so you can spy on yourself.
So try this: imagine you are walking up to two or more people who know you. Don't put faces on
the individuals in the group; it could be friends, family, or co-workers. They don't see you coming,
and they're talking about you. What's the worst thing you could imagine overhearing someone say
about you? Complete the phrase:
The worst thing someone could say about me is
I've done this exercise periodically over the years, and I've finished the phrase differently each
time. And each time I've learned something about myself, what I value, and my soft spots the
places where I am unconscious, not as enlightened or as wise as I want to be. Recently when I did
this I wrote, The worst thing someone could say about me is that I am self-indulgent. Makes me
cringe to write it even now.
Them and Us
Many years ago I was part of a social justice group that worked to challenge and change economic and political systems that cause inequality and suffering. It was good work. But it was difficult for me to do this work without seeing my fellow human beings as either us or them. Those who disagreed with the position or work of the group I was with, those who sometimes actively opposed the changes we thought were desirable or created and perpetuated situations we saw as the causes of injustice, became, in my mind, them, people separate from us.
Separating ourselves from others we see as wrong in some way seems to be a common human tendency. They don't think women are equal. They allow their desire for profit to fuel wars and violence in the world. They don't clean up after themselves. They don't care about others but simply want their families to be safe and comfortable. They are fanatics that hate our way of life and want to destroy it.
Whether we are talking about individual disagreements, differing political parties, or those who have taken actions we find abhorrent, the temptation to see some others as fundamentally different from ourselves cannot help but make finding solutions to common problems in a shared world more difficult (even as it makes us feel morally superior).
So, here's the challenge: think of someone who irritates you or some group of individuals with whom you disagree. Start small. Think of the neighbor who puts pesticide on his or her lawn every spring, causing your cat to have seizures. Think of the co-worker who gets attention by talking about people behind their backs and stirring up drama in the workplace. Now, write a couple of sentences about them. For example:
They just want to find the easiest way to have a perfect lawn and don't care about animals or the
environment or others.
They get attention and stir up drama by talking behind people's backs.
Move on to bigger issues. For example:
They don't believe in democracy and freedom. They just want to feel secure and have things stay the
Write as many statements as you can in ten minutes about those you disagree with. Don't hedge. Let the pen fly.
Now, rewrite the statements and substitute the word they with the phrase some of us. You may want to make the sentences less specific, aiming for the essence of what you have seen as offensive. For example:
Some of us just want to find the easiest way to have a perfect lawn and don't care about animals or the environment or others may become:
Some of us just want to find the easiest way to do things according to the standards we feel are right and don't care how it affects others.
Notice how you feel as you change the statements and create less distance between yourself and the other. Now go a step further. Replace the phrase some of us with and preface the statement with somepart of me of the time.
Some of the time, part of me just wants to find the easiest way to do things according to the standards I feel are right, and I don't care how it affects others.
Some of the time, part of me gets attention and creates drama by talking about other people.
Some of the time, part of me doesn't believe in democracy and freedom and just wants to feel secure and keep things the same.
Some of the time, part of me does not want to clean up after myself.
Is there any truth in these statements? Chances are that part of us
behaves and/or feels the same way they do, although it may be in
different circumstances than the ones we originally found offensive.
When and where do you feel political ideals are not worth the
trouble, are not as important as feeling secure and keeping things
unchanging? How does it feel to acknowledge this aspect of
yourself? Write about what you know is happening when part of
you feels or acts in a way you find offensive in others.
Three Breaths
Sometimes we just need to take a breath to bring ourselves fully into the present moment. Lately,
when I have completed my daily practice of meditation and contemplative prayer, I take three breaths,
each with a different focus. After each breath I take up my pen and write. Sometimes what comes out
on the page surprises me in ways that delight or disturb. Always, the breath and the writing bring me
more fully into my life in this moment.
Sit in a comfortable position with writing materials at hand. Take several deep breaths and let yourself
just be where you are. Then, when you are ready, take a full slow breath, and for the full length of the
inhale and the exhale focus on the world outside of yourself- the sounds, sights, smells, and feeling
of the world around you. See what you can notice in one breath and then write it down in sensory
detail. This is not a test to see if you can notice and write down everything there is to sense about
the world at this moment. If you noticed one thing, write about this one thing. If you noticed several,
write about them all. Allow what comes during the one breath to be enough.
Then, sit back and take another conscious breath. For the full length of one complete inhale and one
complete exhale, notice all that you can, within yourself. Let your attention leave the world outside
you for a moment and focus within. There may be sensations, feelings, thoughts. Then write what
you noticed about your inner world during the course of this one breath. Again, you are not trying to
catalogue everything that is going on inside of yourself. You are simply describing/discovering what
you noticed during that one full breath.
Finally, sit back and take a final conscious breath, focusing as
completely as possible on the breath itself. Feel the air come into
your body and leave your body. Now write what you noticed
about this one breath. What was the quality of the breath? Was
there a pause at any point? Did you notice the temperature
or smell of the air, the sound from within? There are truly an
infinite number of things to be noticed about a single breath.
Just write what came to your attention today as you focused on
this one breath.
The more I do this writing practice the more I find I am able
during the course of my day- when things get busy or when
I am waiting for the traffic light to change- to simply bring
myself fully into the present moment by consciously taking
three breaths in a row, focusing first on the world around me,
then on the what is happening within me, and finally simply on
the breath itself.
What We Love
Last spring, at the end of a talk I had given in Kelowna, BC, I asked for questions from the
audience. Someone asked, What do you love most?
I answered without thinking, God.
Sometimes jet lag and tiredness let the truth just slip out past the usual defenses and second-
guessing. Later I wondered if I should have used the over-burdened G-word. I wished I had
explained that for me God isn't a male or female being but the sacred presence that flows
through every moment. I wondered if I should have described my experience of this divine
presence as a loving heart that holds me, that holds the whole ball of wax together excluding
nothing and making sense of it all even when I cannot see that sense. Later I worried that I
should have pointed out that I do, of course, love my sons
and my husband and my friends and the world. But when I
sat down to answer the question in writing, as I described all
the particular places, people, activities, moments, sensations
etc. that I love, I realized that my answer had been accurate.
I love God in the way I love particular people, places and
moments but, for me, love of the sacred, the Beloved, is at
the center of who I am.
So, pick up your pen and write in answer to the question,
"What do you love most?" Whatever comes, let your passion
fuel your words. Let it be one thing or many. Describe with
the eyes of the Lover what you love, why you love and how
you love.
Gratefulness and Thankfulness
Since the previous writing exercise (February) delved into expectations and disappointment, I have been exploring the antidote to disappointment: gratitude. Seems simple enough: if I don't want to let my disappointments rob me of happiness I need to look around and appreciate the good that is in my life right now. This is a practice I highly endorse. One of the things I regularly do is write notes to my husband, Jeff, with statements that begin "I appreciate. . ." letting him know that my complaints about dirty socks on the floor and a scummy bathtub don't blind me to the wonderful gifts he brings into my life by being who he is.
As I started to explore gratitude I came across the website, http://www.gratefulness.org. It contains, amongst many other things, some writing by Brother David Steindl-Rast. In one of his articles Brother David explores the difference between gratefulness and thankfulness. To read the full article go www.gratefulness.org/readings/dsr_areyou.htm but in the meantime, let me tell you what I got from reading it.
Steindl-Rast begins by talking about the kind of experience we have gazing at the night stars or watching the sunrise. He quotes Eugene O'Neil describing such an experience when he wrote:
"For a moment I lost myself – actually lost my life. I was set free! I dissolved in the...high dim-
starred sky! I belonged, without past or future, within peace and unity and a wild joy, within
something greater than my own life...to Life itself! To God, if you want to put it that way."
This, Brother David explains, is gratefulness, "…the full appreciation of something altogether unearned…." Gratefulness is the mystical experience of belonging to a oneness that excludes nothing. Thankfulness, on the other hand, he describes as the thoughtful appreciation that breaks that oneness down into giver and receiver.
Clearly thankfulness and gratefulness are both things that enrich our lives. When I express my appreciation for Jeff I am expressing my thankfulness. But, if I let this thankfulness, be fueled by an on-going awareness of gratefulness- an experience of my belonging to something larger than myself- I will be able to appreciate it all: the neglected tub and the thoughtful gesture; the dirty socks and the quiet moment together in front of the fire; the disappointed expectations and the delightful surprises. Gratefulness, because it opens us to the mystical experience of the unity of being, helps us hold it all with appreciation.
Write a story about a moment of gratefulness in your life, a moment when beauty took your breath away and reminded you of a mystery beyond our small knowing. This is a tough one because in these moments we generally have no words. Know that your words can only point to what that experience is like, but write them anyway. How did it feel in your body? How was it different from the moments that came before and after? What was in front of you, around your, within you?
When you have finished, reread the story and sit with it. Does
it convey the feeling at of the center of that experience? If
not, find the words that do. Go deeper. Remember. Taste the
experience again and write it on the page.
Reread it again and then think of the people in your life who
touch and effect you. Now write about your thankfulness.
Thinking of things you are thankful for with each person
repeatedly complete the phrases, I am thankful for. . . . or I
appreciate. . . . .
Oriah Mountain Dreamer © 2005
Based on her book "What we Ache For".
Selected extracts above from
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What's the big deal about baptism?
"one Lord, one faith, one baptism"
-- Ephesians 4:5
Why a site about baptism? Why not about love, or relationships, prayer, or the nature of God? There are already countless sites on these topics for the Christian and more. But more importantly the answer for my reason behind writing this site can be best illustrated from the story of Rosie Ruiz—the Boston Marathon cheater in 1980.
For those of you who never heard
the story, or where too young, or just disinterested, it happened like this: On
April 21, 1980 Rosie Ruiz, a 23-year-old New Yorker, was the first woman to
cross the finish line in the Boston Marathon. She had achieved the third
fastest time on record for a female runner, which was made all the more amazing
by the fact that she looked remarkably sweat-free and relaxed as she climbed
the winner's podium to accept the winner's wreath. However, race officials
almost immediately began to question her triumph.
The problem was that no one could remember having seen her during the race. Monitors at the various race checkpoints hadn't seen her, nor had any of the other runners. Abundant photographs taken during the race failed to contain any sign of her. Her absence was overwhelming. Finally, a few members of the crowd came forward to divulge that they had seen her jump into the race during its final half-mile. Apparently she then simply sprinted to the finish line.
The Bible also speaks of running a race:
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize. – 1Corinthians 9:24-27 (Niv)
The "rules" for the "race of salvation" are found in one place—the Scriptures of the Holy Bible.
Satan has so blinded multitudes that though so many are not knowingly or intentionally "cheating", they are nevertheless not following the rules as revealed in the Word of God—the Bible. They are unwittingly ignorant of what God requires and have gotten off to a "false start." Runners in track and field events bring the race to a screeching halt if they do not all get off to a correct start out of the blocks. Fortunately, we have God's Word to look at to see if we got "out of the starting blocks" correctly. If the enemy can deceive you into thinking that you started the race correctly (but you haven't), he has gained a devastating advantage because few ever look back and question their relationship with God or their conversion. They just run on ahead, unaware they have been fooled. John warned us about this:
Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. –2John 1:9
Where is the "teaching of Christ" found? In the Bible.
Few realize there is a well-defined plan of salvation that consists of more than just belief in the Son of God. If you have been taught that all you need to do is believe in the Son of God—Jesus Christ, and that baptism has nothing to do with salvation, then this site is especially for you. Remember James 2:19—even the demons believe—and shudder!
Jesus Himself warned of being disqualified in the end—He told of a man who, like Rosie Ruiz, had not followed the rules:
Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.
"Then he sent some more servants and said, 'Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.'
"But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business. The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them. The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
"Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.' So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
"But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. 'Friend,' he asked, 'how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' The man was speechless.
"Then the king told the attendants, 'Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
"For many are invited, but few are chosen." --Matthew 22:1-14
This parable speaks of a man who actually got in the front door to the wedding banquet. But that was not enough. Upon closer examination from the King, he was found out to not have the proper clothing and was thrown out.
Many are like this man. When they get in that door, they will be found to be without the right wedding clothes. So where do we get the wedding clothes that God desires us to have? God even provides them. The answer is found in Galatians 3:26-27:
You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
Now if you are thinking that reading and studying a site about baptism is not for you, then this site is definitely for you. Chances are, you have not been following the rules that God has given us. This is most likely not because you have done this intentionally but because the enemy, the devil, is much more experienced in this than are we mortal human sinners-- blind to God. He knows the rules better than anyone and he loves to trick people into thinking they are obeying God when they are not. He is the master deceiver and far more devious than we imagine. You cannot afford to ignore this site. What God requires is not difficult to understand. He has not asked us to build a rocketship to the moon. He gives us simple commands to obey that any individual can follow to get to heaven.
Many people become alarmed when someone suggests that the Scriptures reveal a very specific plan of salvation for mankind. In an age of fast food, fast cars, fast women, microwaves, instant coffee, instant tea, instant gratification, and speed dating, to suggest that someone may have to do something other than come to an intellectual belief in Christ to be saved, borders on what they think of as blasphemy. Yet the Scriptures warn us that there is a very specific plan of salvation and encourage us to follow it. The problem arises when someone is introduced to this plan and it conflicts with what they have been taught previously, or when it does not coincide with their own experience of "being saved". Instead of conforming to the teachings of God's infallible Word, they stick their head in the sand in denial and insist that although the way they came to "salvation" does not match the pattern in Scripture, that they are still saved. The reason God gave us His Word in the sacred writings was so that we would have a written record to go by to make sure we are saved. That way, if we have done something in error, we can correct the problem with the blueprint He has given in His Word—the Bible (2Tim 3:14-17). Simply ignoring the problem will not make God change what He has said.
Imagine a man going through his house opening doors until he finds the door to a closet he opens and finds a skeleton inside. He quickly slams the doors shut and never opens it again, all the time believing as long as he doesn't open that door and look inside the skeleton isn't there. And that's the dirty little secret of Christendom—that a large part really are not saved after all—simply because they have failed to follow the plan of salvation as taught in the Scriptures. And it is not a problem that cannot be remedied quickly enough. In fact, if a person posses faith in Jesus Christ and has a repentant heart as prerequisites to baptism, it takes only a few moments to be immersed. Fortunately for us, God's plan of salvation does not involve something difficult like building a rocketship to the moon!
For many, faith in Christ as the only way to God is a difficult thing. But even more difficult for even more is having a change of heart and a genuine turning away from sin (as the bible defines sin). A complete submission to God's Word and these two prerequisites (faith and repentance) make baptism the easy part. And it must be emphasized; it is not merely baptism. It is baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
Many people believe that as long as they are worshiping God in whatever form they believe to be "correct", everything is ok. After all, it's the thought that counts, isn't it? But the Bible teaches us that God does not want us to worship Him in any form we feel is ok, but according to His will, according to His Word. Indeed, it is quite possible to "worship" God—but in vain. Jesus warned us against worshiping God in vain:
They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men. You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men." –Mark 7:7-8
This site is designed to dispel one of the biggest deceits Satan has come up with yet: namely that baptism is not a required component of God's plan of salvation as revealed in the Scriptures.
It will also illustrate who is a qualified candidate for baptism and answer the most common objections to baptism being required for salvation.
There are those who will be critical of this work, even in the churches of Christ. But what these critics fail to realize is that if the devil can eliminate baptism from the gospel, he can effectively render the whole gospel powerless to save. There are those who will be blind to this message, not seeing that John, who was named the baptizer, and whom Christ said there is none greater born among women than he, preached a baptism for the forgiveness of sins (Mark 1:4, Luke 3:3). This should illustrate the importance of this site . To those that say we emphasize baptism "too much" I say, we do not emphasize it nearly enough. For if we had, there would be more people in heaven and fewer souls deceived by false teaching and false doctrine on their way to the eternal fires of hell. When one truly understands the far reaching implications and application of baptism as it is taught in the New Testament Scriptures-- in its completeness and entirety--with all the things associated with it such as faith, repentance, sin, judgment, and the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, one will see the depth of the whole gospel message all wrapped up in this one event. (Romans 6:3-8) It is only then can one truly understand and appreciate the phrase, "baptism is the gospel". It is the good news that caused Martin Luther to pen the following:
"Therefore every Christian has enough in Baptism to learn and to practice all his life; for he has always enough to do to believe firmly what it promises and brings: victory over death and the devil, forgiveness of sin, the grace of God, the entire Christ, and the Holy Ghost with His gifts. In short, it is so transcendent that if timid nature could realize it, it might well doubt whether it could be true. For consider, if there were somewhere a physician who understood the art of saving men from dying, or, even though they died, of restoring them speedily to life, so that they would thereafter live forever, how the world would pour in money like snow and rain, so that because of the throng of the rich no one could find access! But here in Baptism there is brought free to every one's door such a treasure and medicine as utterly destroys death and preserves all men alive. Thus we must regard Baptism and make it profitable to ourselves."
Let us never forget that only in baptism can we find the power of the gospel. It is my hope and prayer that your study of this site will ultimately result in your being in heaven with the Lord Jesus Christ for all eternity.


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Only 300 Words?
Yes, it would seem only 300 new words have been added to my novel. The truth is, I cut over a thousand words from it (finding a whole chapter that needed to be discarded), and so I only have a gain of 300 words.
It's kind of depressing when you think about it. I slaughtered a whole paragraph. Killed the poor thing in cold blood.
It squealed ever so slightly when I did it. I think it was trying to strike a bargain with me.
"Let me live and I'll make it worth your while…"
But I let no more exit it's word-toothed mouth, as sweet sounding as those words were.
Tonight, I mourn.
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I've cut whole paragraphs from my novel too. It hurts, but there's always the excitement when you start over and replace those words.
Very true, only these words will not be re-written. I decided to cut this particular character's POV from the book. It gave too much away–took mystery out of the story.
Salright–all part of the process.
I'd say you gained a lot more than just words. Cutting the wrong ones can be a hell of a lot better than creating more. If I read something that I don't like, I don't continue. You did well to be so honest with yourself.
Glad someone was successful at getting something accomplished in the writing world. I had an entire day off yesterday and all I managed was 300-400 words. Total. On a short story. Granted it's one I've already written (8300 words in the original version) and that I've scrapped and changed just about everything but the basic idea, but still. Wish I'd been a bit more productive.
Many people would consider that very productive.
There are so many different approaches to writing, there is no telling what is and isn't productive.
For instance, some people (like myself) write until the words stop coming. That means some days I can write 3,000 words, and other days I can write 10. I don't force it.
I think it was Stephen King in "On writing" that came up with the rule(or maybe quoted it from someone else) "you have to be willing to kill your babies". Often easier said than done, but usually the right choice. Great blog btw.


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Boulder- Sounds fun.
The next morning Joy and Maggie get up early and start shopping.
Maggie- Just be sure you don't go over the limit.
She puts the shirt into the buggy.
She keeps piling more and more things into the buggy.
Joy keeps putting more and more until the buggy is about to burst.
Joy- (Giggles) Yep!
Joy swipes Boulder's credit card not even bothering to look at the total.
Back at Joy's house...
Boulder- (breathes and sigh of relief.)
A few days later...
Joy- *Laughs*
Boulder- Holy Smokes!!!! All the clothes you got was $1,000!
I thought you said it was on sale.
So Joy and Maggie brought back all the clothes that she had bought.
Joy- We would like to return all these clothes.
Maggie- She made a mistake and needs her money back.
The cashier put up a fuss, but in the end Joy got Boulder's money back and this is the compliment she got...
When they got back home Joy told Boulder everything was fine now.
Joy- Yes?
Boulder- Get rid of the hair style.
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Joe Kinnear has been brough into the club to be another football person involved with recruiting players to Newcastle, and not only that, but as Director of Football, Joe is in the lead on this, and will need to communicate closely with Alan Pardew and Graham Carr, who now report to him.
Joe Kinnear – this is how to judge him
That's how it's supposed to work , and while Joe has made almost the worst possible start in his new job, the major way to judge his impact at Newcastle is by seeing who he signs this summer, because that's the first chance fans will get on whether Joe will be any good in his job.
If Joe is going to be successful there are a few things he needs to do – with the major things probably being as follows:
- Sign top players for Newcastle and also keep our top players at the club – like Yohan Cabaye and Ben Arfa
- Form a triumvirate with Alan Pardew and Graham Carr as a kind of recruitment and scouting board and work hand in hand with them
- Continue to let Alan Pardew and Graham Carr do the jobs they were doing – and don't impinge on that, but augment their work
- Keep in the background, and give press interview sparingly – very sparingly – they are not needed in this job
- Allow manager Alan Pardew to continue to be the face of Newcastle United to the press
Newcastle seem to be rather late in this transfer window – with other clubs like Liverpool as one example, who have already signed four top players – yet Newcastle have nobody through the door yet, not even one youngster, although we have been closely linked with 16 year-old striker Olivier Kemen.
It's the latest we've been in the transfer window for a number of years – because even last year at this time, we had signed Gael Bigirimana from Coventry for £1M – and he still looks like a great signing.
Over the last couple of years or so Newcastle have been relatively stable – and we want to stay that way – so another way to judge Joe is that the bad publicity is kept to a minimum – and it doesn't get like it was in the first week after Joe was appointed – which is unacceptable.
We can do without that – thank you very much.
And Joe has to remember that when he speaks now, he is representing the Newcastle United at an executive level, and he has to be very careful about what he says.
Now whether Joe has the ability not to keep putting his foot in his mouth, we have our doubts, but we're willing to be wrong on that, for the sake of the club.
So come September, we should have an idea on how Joe has performed so far in his new job, at the end of his first transfer window as the Director of Football.
It will be a combination of what players have been signed, which players have left the club, and how stable the club has been over the summer months, with a minimum of bad publicity.
That's the way to judge Joe in his new job – and for the sake of our club we hope he does well – very well.
Here's hoping.
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We always lament what is gone, but I think he's more instinctive than Ba. It was almost embarrassing the way he was scoring when he came. Ba, such a nice and cool dude, was losing his composure…
Cisse scored more goals than his tally shows, he's the most naturally instinctive CF we've ever had. Ok, that's the good part…
NOW, can he learn to play with someone else? Can he improve his game + vision?
Anyone remember this guy?
Other than saving one months wages what is the advantage in not getting our signings in early. Could it be we literally make them an offer and they the targets wait for better ones and if nothing materialises they then sign up. ….
Other clubs have pre contracts signed up for their targets. ….
Any other reasons ?
because we are shite at managing anything including transfers @ 15! all those people who were saying the window does not open till such n such a time! how many players have been signed in principle now? by how many clubs I can think of at least 12 players already by English ones so what's our problem n even before joke in ear arrived they had already signed a few of those so why is our club so sluggishly behind everyone else aye?
Love that pea likes our club but can anyone realisticlay see him coming here with the type of money being bandied around………………….erm no thought not
Mr Harrison words like, triumvirate, impinge, augment, may as well be in Mandarin as far as Joe Kinnear is concerned he can barely pronounce them, let alone know and understand there meaning. Joe's vocabulary starts and finishes with the F Word
Mind you he does have an "O" Level in difficult sums, so he sez.


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Last night at the inaugural OWS Spokes Council, a piece of paper was thrust into the Voice's hand. We opened it: "Occupy The Highway," it said. "OWS hits the road this Wednesday at noon! The Congressional Super Committee meets Nov. 23, we'll be there to protest the Bush tax cuts that only benefit the top 1%!"
Turns out that a contingent from OWS is really planning to march all the way down to Washington D.C. this month. They're leaving tomorrow from Zuccotti, taking the ferry into New Jersey, and walking for two weeks solid. Per their blog:
We are taking action to fight for the 99%! Please join us if you are able. Whether for an hour, a day, or the full two weeks, we feel it's imperative for OWS to respect and participate in the historical significance of long distance marches to support, promote, and encourage economic and human equality. We will march on average 20 miles a day from 9am to 5pm (banker hours) and hold nightly GA's and/or discussions at 7pm in each town where we camp. We will be spending our two "days off" at Occupy Philly and Occupy Baltimore. We are also hoping that a few people from these occupations will join us in the march to the White House and Occupy DC.
We spoke with Jason Coniglione, an organizer of the march who will be handling its social media. He said that the march consists of 10-12 core people, though more are encouraged to join en route, and the idea's been floating around since week one of the occupation.
The group aims to put in a solid eight hours of walking per day, during business hours. "We'll be employed for two weeks in the business of walking," Coniglione said. In between bouts of marching, they'll try to hold GAs in the towns where they stop.
Coniglione said the group is prepared to camp out if they need to, though they're also working on arrangements in the towns they'll be passing through. The group obtained $3,000 from the Occupy Wall Street General Assembly and they're using it for medical expenses, warm clothes and supplies — and bus tickets for the trip back.


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PM marks successful visit to Canada by His Majesty King Abdullah II of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
April 29, 2015
Ottawa, Ontario
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today marked the conclusion of a highly productive one-day visit to Canada by His Majesty King Abdullah II bin al Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The visit was His Majesty's third visit to Canada.
During the visit, Prime Minister Harper and King Abdullah II discussed the Canada-Jordan bilateral relationship and a broad range of regional and international matters, including the fight against the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the influx of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees into Jordan.
Prime Minister Harper announced a series of initiatives that will assist Jordan with security and development challenges resulting from ISIS' actions and the Syrian crisis. The two countries also announced a memorandum of understanding on development cooperation effectiveness that will formalize the overarching framework for the Canada-Jordan development cooperation relationship, and the launch of negotiations toward an audiovisual coproduction treaty.
Quick Facts
- Canada and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan enjoy strong bilateral relations based on shared strategic interests, a common commitment to peace and security and strong people-to-people ties between our two countries. Canada values Jordan's role as a moderate, tolerant and constructive influence in the Middle East and beyond.
- Canada and Jordan are active members of the international coalition of over 60 countries addressing the serious threat to global and regional security that ISIS continues to represent.
- In 2014, Canada identified Jordan as one of 25 countries of focus for bilateral development assistance programming. Canada also committed significant support in development assistance to Jordan to reinforce long-term development objectives in education, where Canada plays a leading role; promote sustainable economic growth; and support Jordan's efforts to cope with spillover from the crises in Syria and Iraq.
- Canada commends Jordan for its generosity in accepting hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria. A significant amount of Canada's humanitarian assistance goes to help conflict-affected people in Jordan.
- Canada is also providing security assistance to Jordan including to help Jordanian authorities provide safe transport of refugees from the border to registration centres, provide security and other essential services in and around refugee camps, mitigate chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats, and enhance their capacity to conduct counter-terrorism operations.
- Jordan has consistently demonstrated its leadership in the pursuit of peace in the Middle East, promoting efforts to bring about a negotiated solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is one of two Arab countries that have signed a peace treaty with Israel.
- The Canada-Jordan Free Trade Agreement (FTA) entered into force on October 1, 2012 and is Canada's first FTA with an Arab country. This agreement provides Canadian businesses with greater access to markets in Jordan and throughout the region, creating new opportunities for the Canada-Jordan bilateral trade partnership.
- Prime Minister Stephen Harper last met with King Abdullah II on the margins of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in September 2014, in Cardiff (Wales), United Kingdom. The two leaders previously met in Jordan in January 2014 during Prime Minister Harper's visit to the Middle East. King Abdullah II last visited Canada in July 2007.
"Canada is proud to stand alongside Jordan and our other Coalition allies in the fight against ISIS, and to work together at mitigating the suffering this barbaric terrorist group is causing innocent civilians in the region. The initiatives being announced today will help Jordan address the security and development needs it is facing and will further deepen ties between our countries." – Prime Minister Stephen Harper


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Posted on March 10, 2008 by Dennis Snow
As bricks and mortar increasingly give way to virtual organizations, more and more interactions with customers are taking place via the telephone and the Web. Some organizations apparently believe that while good customer service principles might apply to face-to-face interactions, they don't apply to phone and internet interactions. Wrong. They do apply. Everyone has gotten lost in the phone directory maze of "press 1 for this, press 2 for that," and when (or if) we finally get to a live person, that person comes across as indifferent or rushed (probably because they're held accountable for call volume only). Most of us have also given up on trying to navigate some Websites, let alone trying to get a response via a Web inquiry.
I came across a good blog posting titled, "A Primer on Providing Professional Customer Service," that addresses the basics of customer service in an electronic world. (Be patient when you go to the link; it takes a moment to download). The posting provides some practical ideas for making your electronic customer contact channels more user-friendly.
For me, the article highlighted a valuable customer service lesson. Leaders should regularly contact their own companies via the same electronic channels their customers use.
See what happens. If you don't like what occurs, imagine how your customers feel. They get mighty frustrated and while they might tolerate the frustration for awhile, they sure don't get a warm, fuzzy sense of care. Making your phone and Web systems easy for customers to use (even a delight to use!) is an important part of any customer service strategy that shouldn't be neglected.
Do it now – call your company or make contact via the company Website. How'd it go?


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The highs and lows of adapting to the unexpected role of curate's wife.
Sunday, 19 December 2010
Public property
Now here's a thing. Why does everyone in the congregation think they know me and some greet me like a long lost friend when they see me? I struggle to remember people's names and struggle to keep my private life private - although The Curate would insist in including anecdotes from our family life in his sermons until I told him to stop. If I do recognise these people, it is often because they have been pointed out to me as people to be careful around. It is a strange life that we have joined. I mean who do you class as friends and who is only talking to you because you are with The Curate? On other occasions I can be standing next to The Curate and you would think I was invisible the way I am ignored. It all takes a bit of getting used to.
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November and December are festive months because we celebrate Thanksgiving and then Christmas. These holiday celebrations only mean one thing: food. Thanksgiving turkeys and Christmas hams become the highlight of each family gathering.
As we enjoy our holiday meals, our teeth are busy at work with all the munching and drinking we do. Here are three tips to ensure your teeth stay strong and healthy.
Regular Dentist Visits
For starters, make it a point to visit your dentist regularly. Don't shy away from asking your dentist questions about oral hygiene. A dental clinic has several services available, such as root canal treatment, tooth extraction, and dental cleaning.
It is good practice to find a dentist near enough and one you could stick with. If you live in Sequim for instance, look for dental services in the locality. Sticking with a dentist ensures they are already familiar with your dental history on every visit.
Brush, Floss, and Rinse
A dentist visit alone won't suffice. You must also do your part in maintaining your teeth's health after having it cleaned at the clinic. Follow the practices your dentist recommends because they know what works best for you.
Brushing helps remove stains from your teeth. Flossing gets rid of plaque between your teeth, which might cause bad breath. Rinsing with mouthwash makes sure your mouth stays fresh and free from bacteria.
Watch What You Eat
Lastly, be smart about the food you eat. Before you order a meal, think about whether it is good or bad for your teeth. Sodas are bad for your teeth because they are loaded with sugar, which causes cavities. Refrain from eating food that is hard to chew. These might crack your teeth and cause tooth decay.
If you follow these three tips, you will surely achieve good oral hygiene.


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This month I started to fill in the rest of the curtain. Next month I'll start doing the same on the other side of the piece.
Next stitchy update will be of Ice Palace. I've just reached the floral column, so I'm hoping to be working on colours other than blue.


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Beijing Blog Star Spotting, Rowing Finals
Coming towards the end of the first week over here in Beijing and competition is starting to hot up, and no where more so than out here at the rowing course.
Yesterday was semi final day for most of our boats and there were some fantastic tussles between GB and New Zealand. Both countries had a pretty good day with a number of crews progressing to the weekends finals. The finals promise to be cut throat international racing at its best!
Apart from training and racing one of the popular pastimes at an Olympics is star watching, and I don't mean looking at the sky. Sporting super stars from all over the globe have descended on Beijing and I have been lucky enough to spot quite a few. Roger Federer and Rafal Nadal have both been spotted in the last few days, as has Chinese basketball god Yao Ming, USA basketball star Kobi Bryant, Sir Clive Woodward sat next to me at the white water canoeing, and George W Bush was also spotted.
I will have to leave the star gazing for a few days now as we enter the business end of the rowing programme.
Until next time
Darryl Reid, Director of Clinic Central, is one of our network physiotherapists at Beijing.


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March House has a very welcoming atmosphere. Scandinavian in style with a very comfortable open plan living area, central wood burning stove, new oak floor and a spacious pine conservatory with large picture windows in the dining area giving extensive views of Glen Feshie and the Cairngorm Mountains to the South.
The wood burner, well seasoned logs provided, keeps the house warm and cosy in the winter and on cooler summer evenings and will bring everybody together to relax and unwind or for a knees up around the piano. For rainy days there is satellite TV, a DVD, stereo and wifi plus a big box of board games and toys.
The kitchen is very well equipped for the adventurous cooks amongst you and includes an extra large fridge freezer with ice maker, Neff cooker, dishwasher, microwave, generous pots and pans, Nespresso machine, Bialeti and Cafetiers for the coffee lovers, liquidiser and a great peeler. BBQ available all year.
All 5 comfortable bedrooms are all upstairs and have been refurbished with king sized beds, two have zip and link twins, new oak and old pine, crisp linen, down duvets, large fluffy bath sheets and luxury bath/shower rooms 3 en-suite plus 1 shared.
The garden has mature Scots pine trees with extensive views of the mountains, forest and the glen, and a large safe play area for children and plenty of feeders to encourage bird life including crested tits and daily visits from the red squirrels. Pine martins, mountain hare, plus roe deer can also make the occasional visit. Garden furniture for 12 allows for alfresco dining when midges allow!
Not only peace and quiet are assured in this wonderful large holiday home in this stunning part of Scotland, but also great care and attention to the detail throughout, with green credentials, ensuring your comfort at all times.
With this central location in the heart of the Invereshie and Inshriach National Nature Reserve with endless outdoor activities nearby, plus nature and natural heritage of the Cairngorms National Park; Weekend gliding in Glen Feshie: Frank Bruce sculpter trail down at Feshiebridge; Loch Insh water sports cafe and restaurant is just 2 miles away; Kincraig's wildlife park where the not so baby polar bear now resides,; Rotheimurcus Highland estate with quad bikes, tree zone, fishing, ponies, clay shooting to name a few; 6 golf courses within 15 miles; Cairngorm Mountain for skiing and hill walking; (heated ski store under the stairs for storage in winter).
Superb off road mountain bike trails, covered bike area available, Landmark activity park, Alvie horse riding and local wildlife and RSPB bird reserves. Also within easy reach of the whisky trails and local castles and gardens.


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"By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." John 13:35.
It is interesting that Christ did not say going to church makes people know you are his disciple, or giving to charity, owning a Bible, wearing a cross, or experiencing a miracle.
Our lives are on display, we may not like it, but it is the truth- the world sees. If a person is following The Lord it will be on public record through the eyes of each person they meet.
The teaching of Jesus is unique; it has a certain unmistakable effect. If we are following his teaching we will have the natural response of loving one another. If we are following anybody else's teaching we will not have this supernatural love for the followers of Christ.
We need his teaching, we need it in our lives; we need to sit at his feet and read his word and listen to his spirit.
Love is not just good feelings. It is a lot of actions like giving, service, and sacrifice. The Lord gave the ultimate example of love for it says in the Bible, "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son that whosoever believes in him will not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16.
Christ said this love does not have favorites. His disciples will love not just the nice people, but all people. Jesus spent a lot of time with the maimed, messed up and underclasses. It cost him his reputation and earned the disdain of those who cherished earthly status over spiritual treasure.
Not to love is very bad. It suggests that a person has never experienced the saving power of the Gospel. Jesus spoke of salvation as a new birth, which means we have a new life and a power to love which comes from a union with Christ in his life and death. If love does not characterize your life reconsider the question of your salvation.
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It may not have been your intention, but I find your quoted comment heading in the same racially insulting direction that herman chose to initiate and, despite my mod warning, build on, which led to his suspension. There is no implicit mod warning to you in this as you have demonstrated over a long time that you are a reasonable and responsible member, but on this issue I need to say the following.
To you and to other members who seem to think that there is something funny or inconsequential in herman referring to the indigenous people in my country, particularly after I clearly explained to herman's deaf ears why it is unacceptable, there is nothing funny or inconsequential about it.
The historical treatment of Australian aborigines by Europeans and other foreign settlers / invaders has often been, and in many instances current treatment of them by the dominant non-indigenous people is, fairly poor to utterly appalling.
Disparaging terms are not, as herman would have it, 'neutral'.
Would you call an African American a pygmy to his or her face, or a male African American 'boy'?
These are loaded terms which can be expected to get what whites may see as a disproportionate reaction from the subject, and from people like me who object to them being treated as less than equal with the rest of us.
It's the same reason that, generally apart from historical quotes, many responsible military history forums don't allow or severely limit the use of 'Jap' or 'Kraut' as they're loaded terms reflective of the, entirely understandable, Allied WWII attitude to their enemies, but they are nonetheless a disparaging or dismissive term which diminishes them as people and nations.
It was diminishing others as people on the basis of race, religion or nationality which, in part, allowed the Holocaust; the Bataan Death March; the Burma Railway; the firebombing and nuclear attacks on Japan; and the air raids on populated centres in Germany. First, we diminish and or demonise the enemy (Jews, colonial Europeans, Nazis, etc) and then we are at liberty to treat them badly because they are less than us. The same with Abu Ghraib and countless other modern examples, notably my country's treatment of asylum seekers arriving by boat.
The same with herman absurdly and idiotically referring to Australian aborigines as pygmies and justifying this factually impossible rubbish with some ****wit's pseudo-science bullshit, which shows abysmal ignorance of and contempt for them and is utterly unacceptable to any thinking, informed, reasonable and tolerant person.
If you or anyone else thinks it's funny to call aborigines pygmies after my various posts on this issue in relation to herman's outstanding idiocy, then go right ahead because you're all in the group that refuses to see the damage such conduct can do which is prohibited by the law in my country, so clearly there is nothing I can do to persuade any of you otherwise.
All I can do is look in dismay upon the perpetuation of ignorant and stupid opinions which prefer racial arrogance and disparagement of 'lesser' races to attempts to understand them as people, no matter how appalling their conduct was as with the Japanese in much of WWII and the Nazis with the Holocaust which justifiably allows one to call them primitive or bestial or inhumane or related terms but, on the other side of the coin, not to deny them recognition as humans because in doing so we absolve them of the responsibility to act like the rest of us who want to be treated properly, equally, and humanely.
A rational army would run away.
Er ... gentlemen, my main problem with herman2's earlier contributions was that they were based on a source which is, to say the least, unreliable. It reminds me of a conversation between myself and a lecturer many years ago, in which he referred to an undergraduate essay from somebody who, by chance, came upon a little cache of books in our library of Nazi origin (we tended to keep stuff - one of the authors was Hermann Goering). The result was an essay that incorporated the "facts" and opinion contained in these works uncritically - a bit of a disaster for the student, I think.
I strongly agree with Rising Sun regarding the proliferation of racist nonsense on this site. I hope that nobody can accuse me of that (see recent photo posts, for example). The question is - to what extent should we allow for genuine mistake regarding sources in a world in which the scope for such mistake (through the Internet) is so much greater than it was when I was at university ? I hope I have not given offence by posing this question. I feel I have entered a fire zone ... With respect to all, JR.
Did you do moot (pretend / practice) courts as a law student?
One of the most memorable moots in my time involved defence counsel who relied upon some ancient and obscure Irish case (not binding on and barely persuasive in our courts) which held that rape, or perhaps rape in the circumstances, wasn't a crime.
The poor man was held up for years afterwards as an example of how not to conduct a moot, or a defence.
A rational army would run away.
The problem with internet sources is not the source, but the ability of the viewer to determine its veracity or utility. Credulous people, or people predisposed to the views expressed on a given site, will find it informative and accurate (rather like I find people who agree with me informative and accurate). *
However, when one quotes a site as an authority when that site flies in the face of all science, knowledge, and reason etc, then those possessed of science, knowledge, reason etc are justified in dismissing the quoted site as an authority for opinions which contradict all science, knowledge and reason.
Were I a secondary school teacher, I would regard it as a triumph if I could teach all my students to discriminate between rubbish and reliable sites. Regrettably, that is beyond me and all secondary, and tertiary, teachers I know.
*Against that is the repeated experience of science, knowledge etc that received knowledge is wrong. Galileo is a notable historical figure, and on military matters are those who before WWII claimed (correctly) that air power trumped capital ships. One of the best modern examples is the Australian doctors who thought that stomach ulcers were caused by a bacterium commonly found in the stomach; who were widely derided for their opinion; and who demonstrated that they were correct and duly received a Nobel Prize for Medicine for contradicting decades of medical opinion. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_priz...005/press.html
A rational army would run away.
RS, M'Learned Friend, yes, I did a bit of mooting in my time. I am not familiar with the obscure Irish case to which you refer; I can only say that anybody turning up in an Irish court today pleading that rape was (what should one say ?) "assault with a friendly weapon" or somesuch would never don the wig in this town again.
Not that the obscure Irish case would entirely surprise me - we are a people both litigious and inventive. Not sure whether I mentioned it before, but there was, it appears, a late 19th century civil case in the Liverpool Sessions involving an Irishman. I have been assured that this is not apocryphal. The elderly English judge, increasingly concerned at the somewhat improbable testimony of the Irish witness, felt impelled to warn him, "Mr O'X, to you know what happens to people who tell untruths under oath in court ?". To which the Irishman is supposed to have replied, "Why yes, M'Lord, I believe he wins !">
The amount of rubbish on historical topics to which history neophites, including secondary school students, are exposed on the Internet is a matter of concern. I am not free from error in using Internet "pointers" myself - but it seems that my good grounding in History in my early days has generally confined these errors to matters of fact, and minor ones at that. When there is a rat present, I can usually smell it, and qualify my appreciation of the "source" accordingly. The Internet has hugely expanded the scope for impressionable and/or uninformed people to come upon distinctly unsafe propaganda and other manifestations of non-history, and absorb it as reliable. I do not want this to sound condescending or patronizing to the people concerned - but it is a real hazard. How to address it ? In the context of a general environment of freedom of expression and speech (even for purveyors of complete rubbish), I can see no clear answer. Best regards, JR.
Bear in mind that this was a moot in the mid-1970s when, in my jurisdiction anyway, I'm pretty sure it was some years before it was held that rape could occur in a marriage (separated couple as I recall, with husband visiting wife and forcing intercourse, maybe early 1980s).
Leaving aside ancient and standard defence tactics to circumvent it despite evidentiary rules which are supposed to stop those tactics, the focus for many years has been on, as it should be and as our legislation requires, the basic issue of consent.
"On and off".
It's not just history sites, but all sites on important issues.
Common sense says to me that I'll accept information on, say, vaccination, from major hospital or medical society websites as being scientifically valid, but question the accuracy of a site devoted to all the reasons why vaccination will make my children autistic and die before they reach maturity.
Teachers, or perhaps 'the education system' which is imposed upon teachers in government schools by political ministers and bureaucrats happily distant from and frequently with no experience of classrooms, are in the interesting bind that they are required to use the internet as part of their teaching process, which implies to students that the internet is important and reliable. Trying to persuade students otherwise is perhaps rather like trying to run a firearms course and persuade students that the rifle is (a) not accurate, despite hitting the target and (b) not lethal, as we haven't killed anyone today.
Against that, what made, and increasingly less importantly makes, newspapers any more reliable than the internet? There is certainly no opportunity for any idiot to publish and circulate a newspaper as in the pre-internet era, but the press barons weren't universally committed to truth and dispassionate reporting, and more so in times of national conflict or when their own commercial interests were threatened. In my time in the final years of secondary school, part of the curriculum in English and what used to be called Clear Thinking (along with Precis and other long forgotten basics) was devoted to the analysis of newspaper articles for accuracy, consistency and logic.
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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." - Ronald Reagan
Hi Guys!. I am back from vacation. Did you miss me??!! I had a lot of time in solitaire, thanks to Nick and I do not want to go back in the cooler anytime soon. I am missing out on a lot of valuable conversations going on and 2 weeks is enough that any man can stand. I was so bored, I even began serfing the Van Halen sites out there. Congrats Nick for your new Modship on that other site. How many sites do you Mod? I thought your an aerospace engineer or something like that, (or was that Pdf)..yet you have so much time to Mod so many sites?..Anyways I wish I were a Mod. Maybe one day there could be a new thread called, instead of "What if Germany won the War?"...it could be called.."What if Herman were a Mod?|..LOL..anyways when I have time (yes I do work)..i will be more into meaningful contributions. Just wanted to say hello and give a shout out to all my Peeps!!I missed you guys!!!!
Wiki is ok. History Channel is ok.
But WW2 Forum is the BEST!
Welcome back Comrade
I have neither the time nor the inclination to differentiate between the incompetent and the merely unfortunate - Curtis E LeMay
Well I'm not the engineer actually, I'm a milkman and Semtex salesman by trade. In any case, it doesn't take much time at all to mod - even when I'm not slacking as I have been currently. I think I've barely been to the Van Halen site actually lately and am going to get yelled at by one of the owners - who is also a Semtex and vacuum salesman...
Would either of you be able to deliver some det cord?
I don't care if it comes in a milk bottle or a vacuum cleaner, but a vacuum cleaner is more likely to hold the quantity I require.
EDIT: I require it to deal with exclusive sect Christian nutcase next door, who has recently bought chooks and a rooster which gives all the neighbours the shits with its dawn crowing.
I think some strategically placed det cord should work as a rooster booster and bring peace, and rapid roast chook, to the neighourhood.
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A fight ensued, and Efron thought he saw the homeless guy ready to attack his friend with a knife, so he jumped out of the car to help, but by that time, the cops were already there.The story varied greatly before Efron finally broke his silence and shared his version of events with .Efron claimed that he and a friend were looking for a place to eat and they ran out of gas in the sketchy neighborhood., for a cute selfie sesh while out to dinner in Los Angeles on Sunday (February 18).PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Miley Cyrus "Sing to me Paolo @yanigellman @mileycyrus," Noah captioned the cute post.
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