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After years of choosing either mauve lipsticks or MLBB tints,* I'm now looking for An Everyday Red Lipstick. I'm still on the hunt for one that I like — it's a project to find one that has the trifecta of a) color, b) comfort, and c) longwear. By which I mean a) I want the perfect color for my skintone, b) one that is comfortable to wear and doesn't dry the heck out of my lips, and c) one that doesn't transfer to glasses (or my teeth, or my boys), one that doesn't fade unevenly (I haaaate the ombre lip look). (Pictured: a few of the ones I've sampled: 1) MAC Pro Longwear in Extended Play — I liked the comfort/wear of this one the best, but they're apparently discontinuing the line. BOOO. 2) Too Faced Melted in Berry — not my favorite on any of the 3 prongs — and 3) M·A·C 'Mineralize' Rich Lipstick in Lush Life — my second favorite in wear, but just a touch too bright in color.) I've also tried M·A·C Prep + Prime Lip (my favorite thus far) and Too Faced Lip Insurance Lip Primer.)
I was surprised a few years ago at a few legal conferences to see the women speakers wearing the red lip, considering the challenges to finding the perfect color — but the red lip has historically been the power lipstick perhaps because it takes confidence to wear it. At the same time, though, I like that you can look "done" with relatively little other makeup.
In terms of HOW to find it: while I'm really open to a drugstore lipstick (some of my favorite lipstick-that-stays-put is from there), finding the RIGHT shade is so important that it seems a lot less expensive to go some place (like Sephora) where I can try the lipstick on my lips and see how it wears, how it fades, how it looks in different light, etc. So that's my plan…
We've also talked about the appropriateness of red lipstick at work in years past — what are your thoughts, ladies? Is an every day red lip too bold of a fashion statement for the day, best left to the occasional holiday party? Which brands or colors are your favorites for red lips? How often do you check it up after you put it on? How many visits to Sephora or the like did it take before you found YOUR red?
Further reading: Growing Up Meant Learning to Wear Red Lipstick [New York Magazine] and I'm a Grown-Up Lady [Huffington Post]. Hilariously, I forgot the title of the second one, so I'm surprised to see that it also is about growing up. Do you associate red lipstick with being a grownup?
* MLBB = My lips but better. We're actually working on a whole page of Corporette vocabulary and acronyms — let us know which additional ones you'd like us to include.
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Brazilian style skewered beef with a zingy bean salad
Combine the Grill Mates sachet contents, oil, and vinegar in a bowl. Set aside 2 tbs of the marinade for basting. Cur the meat into large chunks and add to the bowl and turn to coat well.
Cover and leave to marinate for 15 minutes (or for best results overnight). Remove the meat from the marinade and discard any remaining marinade.
Place the chunks of marinated beef on metal BBQ skewers and then grill for 10 minutes on each side for medium, or a bit longer for well done.
Meanwhile prepare the bean salad by combining all the ingredients for the salad. Cover and reserve until needed.
Serve the beef sliced from the skewers, with the bean salad.

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Sneak Preview into Jeremiah School 2011 - My Adventure
>> Friday, January 7, 2011
I'm back for a 1-day break from Jeremiah School (JS)! It's not my official off-day, but I requested to leave the school to attend my job interview back in PJ. The school is conducted at Golden Sands Baptist Assembly Centre at Teluk Kemang, Port Dickson, a relatively comfortable place to live for the duration of the school i.e. 6 weeks.
There are 20 students this year & it's like an adventure for me to be there as one of their mentors. Even though it's just week 1 of school, I felt that I have learned much & I'm actually quite excited for the weeks to come (what more the students themselves)! The students attend classes, worship, & have team building times together, as well as live as a community for 6 weeks of their lives :)
Here's a sneak preview to Jeremiah School 2011:
I'll be back at JS tomorrow, where they'll be visiting Beautiful Gates, Seremban & 2 Methodist churches in Seremban as well (Seremban Wesley & Taman Ujong Methodist Church)! I hope to get some food photos up in my next post!!
Stay tuned with PerutBesi & have a great January 2011!
In for an adventure with God,


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bible and prayer
Bible and Prayer
Reading the Bible and praying each day are important next steps to take. These activities are referred to as private spiritual disciplines, because they are actions you take on your own to grow in your relationship with God.
Hearing from God through the Bible and talking to God through prayer aren't just "Christian chores" that we have to do for God. These are daily opportunities for us to be with our Heavenly Father and experience His great love for us.
Begin Reading the Bible
▹Purchase a Bible and/or download the YouVersion Bible App. Use a readable version like CSB (Christian Standard Bible) or NLT (New Living Translation).
▹Use a Daily Bible Reading Plan to help you stay on track. Find plans at bible.com/reading-plans.
▹Develop a consistent routine of when and where you read.
Begin Praying
▹Remember that prayer is talking to God—be yourself and talk to Him as your loving Heavenly Father. You don't need to use fancy words or say a lot.
▹The A.C.T.S. method for prayer is helpful to follow: Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication
When you wake up, go to bed, at meals, and in the car are natural times in your day to talk with God through prayer.


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Any place you can get breakfast for lunch is a-okay by me.
Stone Soup Cafe serves breakfast, from 7 a.m. until 3 p.m.
This is the Big Rex ($5.99).
The Big Rex comes with a choice of bacon, ham, or sausage and egg and cheese served on grilled toast. You can also get it on a biscuit.
Other Stone Soup breakfast dishes that look ideal for lunch are the Gut Bomb ($5.39), grits, sausage, and cheddar cheese in a bowl, and the Farmers Omelet ($7.69), with bacon, ham, or sausage with a choice of cheese.
One more thing to note ... Stone Soup recently completed the application process to sell beer. So now you can get beer with your breakfast for lunch.
Nine times out of 10, if there's a dish with "Elvis" in the name, it's going to involve peanut butter and bananas.
Here's the 10th: the Elvis Dog at Blues City Hot Dog, which opened 3 weeks ago on Highland.
From the ground up, the Elvis Dog is a hot dog bun topped with pancakes — pancakes! — then a Nathan's All Beef hot dog, then bacon.
A dousing of the Elvis Dog with syrup is optional. And, yes, of course, we opted for the syrup.
It was John Branston who suggested we check out the Office@Uptown Cafe, and since Branston knows best, we did.
Part of the business offers "office" resources — a meeting space, access to computers, scanners, copiers, etc. The cafe kitchen is in the back, with seating among those using the office services, with some tables outside. The setup is a little awkward, but nothing that should dissuade those looking for a fine lunch.
The menu is compact, offering 10 or so sandwiches or paninis, four salads, and a soup of the day. (Soup/salad or soup/sandwich combos available.) The emphasis here is on ingredients and execution.
Many of the sandwiches are named after the neighborhood, such as the Uptown Classic ($6.25), a panini with turkey breast, smoked cheddar cheese, fresh spinach, tomatoes, with chipotle mayo. It was declared to be exactly how a turkey sandwich should be.
The Bearwater roast beef ($6.95) was much loved. What specifically?, I inquired. The bread, the meat, the cheese went the answer. That pretty much covers that. Paired with the sandwich was a cup of chicken tortilla soup ($2.95).
I ordered the Smokey City Melt ($5.25), a grilled cheese with smoked cheddar and choice of bread. It was very good, and I liked large slice of tomato tucked within the slice of cheese. I saved half for later, not always optimal for this sort of sandwich, but this one held up fine.
Other sandwiches include the North Memphis BLTA (the "a" is for avocado), the Bluff City Class club, pimento cheese, chicken and tuna salad. They also offer a veggie wrap and a veggie pizza.
The Office@Uptown Cafe is open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Jiji's Wraps Cafe took over the old Pita Cafe space on Park near Getwell about 9 months ago. The menu offers Mediterranean fare — chicken shawarma, gyros, etc. — as well as a few Ethiopian dishes such as t'ibs and kitfo.
Included on the menu are "Egged Sandwiches" and "Egged Combos." I asked the owner if these are breakfast items but she said they were simply dishes with eggs scrambled into the ingredients.
And so it is. This is a falafel with eggs ($7.59). The eggs were a nice touch, but this sandwich is plenty good on its own — nice, spicy falafel, fresh toppings, good pita bread. The other egged sandwiches are gyro, chick shawarma, and tilapia ($7.59-$8.69).
Just an fyi, the air conditioning has been broken at Jiji's, so you'll want to get your food to go.
Southern Belle, the mostly take-out spot offering plate lunches, has been reinvented as Belle Diner with a move from Madison in Midtown to a much larger space on Union in downtown in the former site of Rio Loco.
Patrons enter to see the menu posted on a wall painted with chalkboard paint. They make their order at the counter, take a number, then take a seat.
There are plate lunch specials ($9) for each weekday. On Wednesday, the day we visited, it was Crawfish etouffee and beef brisket (which had sold out). Plates come with a choice of sides and either a roll or cornbread.
Anna opted for a vegetable plate (choice of 3 for $7 or 4 for $9). She got fried okra (nicely done with the whole pod), squash casserole, and cheese grits.
My plate was similar, though I got the very good mac-and-cheese and a nice side salad.
There are also a number of sandwiches on the menu, including smoked turkey and a po boy of the day ($7.50 with chips and picked okra).
Mike tried the roast beef sandwich served with au jus. He's not much for chips, but he liked the house-made chips that came with the sandwich.
Belle Diner offers a trio of desserts, all $4.50: chocolate toffee torte, seasonal fried pies, and a cake of the day.
We tried them all. The fried pie was peach served with an excellent homemade ice cream. The cake was a blueberry cheesecake.
Hannah let me tag along when she went to Olive Branch last week to check out Jonathan Mah's SideStreet Burgers for this week's Food News column.
I can say we both left impressed. This is a one-man operation with a bare-bones kitchen. The menu is spare by necessity but the offerings, particularly the specials, are smart, forward-thinking.
Exhibit A: the special of the day, which Hannah ordered: The Chinese BBQ Pork sandwich, a Banh mi-inspired creation dressed with cucumbers and cilantro and served on French bread.
Exhibit B: the Irish Car Bomb bread pudding. This rich-beyond-belief treat was a reality check of sorts. This bread pudding gets the texture just right, which — yes! — is pudding-like. All those very good variations I've had over the years now seem lumpy in comparison.
Regular menu items include the 1/2 pound Sidestreet burger and a turkey burger ($2-$4) and individual-sized pizzas ($4-$8). Specials making frequent cameos include the Hott Pigg, ground pork stuffed with bacon and rosemary dressed with BBQ sauce, slaw, and pepperjack cheese, and a turkey-spinach burger.
Hannah mentioned it in her column, but it should be repeated: If, when, you plan to visit SideStreet Burgers, go to an ATM first. This is a cash-only operation.
SideStreet Burgers, 9199 Highway 178 in Olive Branch, MS (865 384-6623)
A new Cuban joint is open on Madison, across the street from the Brass Door and in the former home of the Little Shop of Sandwiches.
Havana's Pilón is named for a Latin American/Caribbean expression meaning mortar and pestle, a few examples of which are stacked around the restaurant as decoration. The menu is small, a pared down selection of Cuban standards such as Ropa Vieja, Spanish for "old clothes," a savory dish of shredded beef in a tomato sauce; Mofongo, fried plantains mashed with garlic in a pilón and topped with shrimp; and, yes, the Cuban sandwich, a grilled stack of ham, pork, Swiss cheese, mustard, and pickles.
They're open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day, and offer breakfast items like ham and cheese croissants and tostadas.
Havana's Pilón, 143 Madison Avenue, 527-2878
We went to Imagine Vegan Cafe last week both to support Dining Out for Life and to check out the restaurant's new spot further east on Young.
Imagine is now in the former site of Fork It Over, which has moved to Lindenwood Christian Church on Union. This old house is perfect for Imagine. It's owned by a husband and wife who keep their kids on-site, and they've developed a group of tight-knit regulars who add to the family feel.
There are three dining rooms and a front porch with additional tables. A larger cooler, displaying drinks and desserts, is where customers place their orders.
Much of the menu is the same, but there are some new items, including Tony's Nachos ($6.99), which can be upgraded to full-on vegan BBQ nachos by request, as those pictured above were.
Also new is the Southern Staple ($9.99), a huge plate of collards, black beans, and rice drizzled with a garlic sauce and served with cornbread. Worth a visit to Imagine alone.
To top the meal off, we could not resist sharing a piece of Boston Creme Pie cake ($5.75) made by Stephanie Roy, of the vegan Swell Baked Goods, who joined us for this lunch. This is one of many dessert options Roy provides for Imagine.
Roy is basically an evil genius of baking. That near inch-high layer of impossibly perfect chocolate ganache ... still thinking about it.
Roy will bake for you. Go here for more information.
My picture doesn't do it justice, but the Rainbow Panang Curry ($11) at Mosa is one of the prettiest things I've ever eaten.
This is a slightly sweet curry made with snow peas, mushrooms, and zucchini and your choice of beef, chicken, or tofu, and spiced to your preference.
It was by happenstance that I stopped by Bar Louie just hours into its opening day. The staff was pumped, and the manager went to each table to greet everyone.
The restaurant takes up a space at the southwest corner of Madison and Cooper and is dominated by a large bar in the center. There are TVs aplenty, positioned so to be in view of just about every seat in the house. A stretch of tables along the windows at Madison are ideal for people-watching.
The menu is pretty extensive, opening with a few pages of cocktails, martinis, wines, etc. Boxed items indicate signature drinks and dishes, including the Diva martini with pineapple vodka and pomegranate liquor. (Prices weren't included on the drink menu, so I was scairt ... at $11, probably warranted.)
Other intriguing cocktails on the menu include a Coconut Mint Lemonade and the Bloody Louie, their version of the Bloody Mary jacked-up with Guinness stout.
A sign to Bella Caffe at the Pink Palace Museum directs you to go behind the T-rex.
And there you'll find the small cafe with a big menu featuring grilled and cold sandwiches, salads, soups, dessert times, and a long list of cold and hot drinks.
I ordered the Quattro Formmagio ($6.25), a grilled cheese with cheddar, swiss, mozzarella, and fontina cheese. I detected maybe a little spicy mustard. Not sure, but it's a nice touch to an already solid sandwich.
Other options include the Blue Roman, roast beef with blue cheese and horseradish ($7); a Muffaletta panini ($6.50); and an Italian pimento cheese made with mascarpone (!) ($4.75).
From the drink menu, there's the Piggly Wiggly, a frozen maple bacon mocha ($4.70).
We were hungry by the time we got from downtown to out east and the newly open Rock 'n' Dough Pizza Co., so were happy with the nearly instant gratification from the slice and salad deal ($6 for cheese and side salad; $7 one topping; $8 multi-toppings).
I got the Margherita with the market salad. This slice hews to tradition — fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, and basil. The salad includes seasonal vegetables and is served with a nice vinaigrette.
Hannah ordered the SMGC with a Greek salad. The SMGC is: spinach, mushrooms, mozzarella, and goat cheese. It was topped with chicken as well.
There's a fine balance in these pies — an emphasis on fresh ingredients, a steady hand with the sauce. But, the glory here is the wonderful, bread-y crust, which is hardy enough to keep everything in check but not so thick as to leave the diner chewing forever.
Other pizzas now offered are the bacon cheeseburger, the vegan pie, the roasted garlic bread pie (served with lemon wedges!), the Fun Guy pie with portobellos and fontina cheese. The owner says the menu will expand once they get settled in. They also plan to offer delivery in East Memphis.
Hannah has more on Rock 'n' Dough, as well as the latest on the second locations of Mellow Mushroom and Broadway Pizza, in the her Food News column in the issue hitting the stands on Wednesday.
For next week's Food News column, Hannah is writing about Table 613, the new Kosher restaurant in Sanderlin Center. I tagged along with her to check it out for lunch.
Hannah started with the Matzah Ball soup ($4.99). It smelled wonderful, and Hannah said it was very good.
She also ordered this bulging grilled chicken sub ($9.99), which was topped with onions, peppers, mushrooms, jalapenos peppers, and a savory sauce.
I ordered the falafel pita ($7.99). This is loaded with hummus, eggplant, and babaganoush. Very tasty.
The menu also includes a number of salads, from Caesar to broccoli cashew. There's also a the quarter-pound Butch burger and a Schnitzel sandwich, plus sides, a kids' menu, and a small selection of desserts.
Table 613 is open Sunday through Thursday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. and Friday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.


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ET2 Lighting's clean Orb II LED multi light pendant has five lights, a polished chrome cap, and is made from K9 crystal and steel.
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Five lights are supported by a polished chrome cap in ET2 Lighting's clean Orb II LED multi light pendant. With clear bubble glass balls and no visible screws, this piece is not only clean and sleek, but it's stylish too. Made from steel and K9 crystal, it's dimmable and works with damp and dry locations.


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Another review from The Third Alternative #42:-
FAGS AND LAGER by CHARLIE WILLIAMS
Serpent's Tail pb, 312pp, £7.99
Charlie Williams' sequel to Deadfolk returns us to Mangel, the West Country's answer to the Big Apple. Things are changing in Mangel: the town is seeing an unprecedented wave of adolescent crime, as the young people look to satisfy their craving for euphemistically named 'sweets' brought in from the outside. Royston Blake is still minding door at Hoppers though, so not everything is going to hell in a hand basket. Greengrocer Doug offers our hero a large sum of fags and lager to return his errant daughter Mona to the family fold and beat the crap out of the older man she's dating, which shouldn't pose too much of a problem to a thug of Blake's calibre. Only it turns out the man in question, one Nick Nopoly, is the new owner of Hoppers and so poor old Blake faces a conflict of interest, his dilemma compounded when Nick, who seems kindly disposed towards him, offers promotion to the cherished post of personal minder, a job Royston Blake feels he was born for. Of course Blake manages to screw things up, both for himself and everyone around him, but the fun is in finding out how he does this and how these events fit into the larger scheme of Mangel's nascent drug trade.
Fags and Lager reprises much of its predecessor's strengths, with Royston Blake once again the unreliable narrator to the max, as all the events are filtered through his somewhat jaundiced perceptions, both as to his own intelligence and standing in the community, with so much of the black comedy arising out of the tension between reality and Blake's badly skewed view of things. By and large the supporting cast are simply foils for Blake, even such larger than life characters as the supposedly omniscient Nathan the bartender, their main purpose to move the plot along and provide opportunities for Blake to be an even bigger plonker than on the previous page. Scenes such as that where Blake imagines a conversation with his hero Clint Eastwood are the tip of a substantial comic iceberg.
Williams is very good at plotting, with a story that ties itself in knots only to effortlessly undo them all before the finale, and the past coming back to haunt Blake only, of course, he's too dumb to realise. It's up to the author to provide the real skinny while his narrator remains blissfully oblivious, cleverly shifting our perceptions, with narrative devices that reveal what is really going on, hints about events in the past and sidebar views of the present. One such trick put to effective use is that of prefacing each chapter with newspaper reports that fill in the background and add some verisimilitude to the story.
And yet, enjoyable as this is, there's no denying that some of the shine has worn off of Williams' creation, the novelty of Deadfolk giving way to a sense of carefully orchestrated outrage as the norm. In the previous book Blake was a big man with a little brain, and therefore suitable material for laughter, his pretensions and self-deception all grist for the comedic mill, but now the act is wearing thin and by the end I was wondering how much more I could take. How many more sentences with fuck in just about every other line, how many more Ford Cortina eulogies, how many more episodes that show women are only good for the one thing, and so on. Bottom line is that Blake is a bore, and the thing with all bores is that eventually the tedium of spending time in their company comes to overshadow any amusement their delusions about themselves might engender. As characters in fiction they come with their own in-built obsolescence. So far Williams has kept on the right side of the line, but it's legitimate to wonder how much longer he can stay there.
There's a lot to commend this book, far more than not. The West Country setting is an appealing venue for the crime aficionado. Mangel comes with an atmosphere of its own and an inbred populace who wouldn't look out of place in the pages of Lovecraft. It offers a unique alternative to all those downtown streets in which the bad guys usually ply their trade, and Williams has only scratched the surface of its potential. But while I look forward to seeing what he can come up with next, I do hope it isn't another Royston Blake novel as that particular vehicle for black comedy (a Ford Cortina, no doubt) is now running on close to empty.


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Herald Sun – A woman was given a caesarean operation after mistakenly being diagnosed as pregnant. The woman, 38, was suffering from severe high blood pressure.
The overweight woman was brought to Royal Darwin Hospital suffering stomach pains.
Doctors, including two obstetrics specialists, performed the emergency procedure — only to discover there was no baby.


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Erith driver struck Belvedere lollipop man's sign, nearly hitting parent and young child
PUBLISHED: 11:19 22 August 2017
He was fined at a hearing last week
An Erith driver is "lucky" to still have his licence after he nearly hit a parent and a child crossing near Belvedere Junior School.
On January 4 Ethelbert Obi, 34, of Bramble Croft, sped past a lollipop man stopping traffic in the middle of Lower Road.
Bexley magistrates heard how a parent and young child were crossing the road at the time, but he narrowly missed them, instead hitting the patrol's stop sign.
Obi then carried on driving without stopping.
At a hearing on Thursday, Obi admitted to driving without due care and attention and failing to stop for a school crossing patrol.
The driver was ordered to pay £525 in costs and a magistrate warned him: "You are lucky I am not disqualifying you. A serious aggravation in this case is the fact that you were driving in a region of a school."
Alex Sawyer, cabinet member for traffic and transport said: "Our school crossing patrols do a fantastic job at helping to keep Bexley's children safe on their way to and from school. I am pleased the judge has recognised the importance of keeping our staff safe as well as the people they are there to help.
"We recently ran a Stop Means Stop Campaign to highlight the need for drivers to stop and remain stationary when our patrols are displaying their stop signs to oncoming traffic. Hopefully this prosecution will make other drivers think twice about not stopping when required by a lollipop person."
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Saving Mr. Banks – Christian Movie Review
P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson), the author of Mary Poppins, reluctantly meets with filmmaker Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) as he tries to convince her to approve the adaptation of her beloved book. As they explore the production ideas for the film, the experience stirs up powerful and difficult childhood memories that she must finally face.
Parental Guidance Issues at a Glance…
Sexual Content: None.
Violence/Gore: A sick man is seen coughing up blood. A dead body is seen with a blank, glassy stare. A man falls off a stage.
Language: A few uses of mild profanity. "Lord" and "God" are spoken in vain.
Alcohol/Drug/Smoking Content: Alcoholic drinks are frequently consumed by one character in particular, but seeing this is actually essential for the story. A man apologetically smokes a cigarette and explains that he does it behind closed doors because he doesn't want to inspire others to take up the same bad habit.
Frightening/Intense Content: A woman swims into a river in the middle of the night to kill herself, but her daughter swims out and saves her. It is emotionally intense and a little disturbing.
Other: Although this movie is much more family friendly than just about every other PG-13 movie out there, it has some heavy, complex emotions in it that would go over the head of younger viewers. The scenes involving the sick man mentioned above are visually and emotionally intense — and quite sad. In fact, the MPAA rated it PG-13 because of "thematic content and unsettling images." Besides these heavier elements, it would be a great family film — though the younger kids should probably skip it. Frankly, they would probably be bored by it anyways. It is a very deep-thinking, emotionally mature and complex film.
The Review…
Entertainment Value and Film Craft
The filmmakers executed the story for this movie with flawless, nimble attention to detail. It is one of those films where you can tell that every little detail in every scene — from the dialogue, to Tom Hank's Midwestern accent, to the 1960's fashion, to the reproduction of how Disneyland looked in the 1960s — was thought out with great effort and energy.
There is also striking juxtaposition in this film as it delicately leaps back and forth between the making of Disney's irresistably giddy and fun-hearted Mary Poppins and the vast, weighty storm of emotion that brewed secretly and (almost) invisibly in the heart of P.L. Travers, the author of Mary Poppins.
But at the heart of the story is the relationship between a father and a daughter who deeply loved one another. I must say that Colin Farrell, Annie Rose Buckley, and Ruth Wilson were the beating heart of this movie even though they were more of a secondary cast beneath the looming shadows of the always brilliant Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson, and Paul Giamatti. The performances of Farrell, Buckley, and Wilson were riveting and heart-rending. If they had failed to convincingly portray the tenderness and love of the Goff family, then nothing else in the movie would have worked. Colin Farrell was especially noteworthy. He played the father of P.L. Travers to perfection.
Be warned: if you are a father or a daughter, you are at great risk of bawling in this film. I have a daughter, and I cried. I'm not embarrassed to admit it. It is a good kind of crying. It is the kind that reminds us how much we love the people in our lives and how precious life is. The film reaches for every heart string it can, perhaps overdoing it in one or two parts; but in the end, it is a tremendously joyful and satisfying film. It is a must-see.
Redemptive Qualities and Conclusion
On a deeper spiritual level, this film tackles a heady topic: the weight of the past, of all its guilts and griefs, and the prison of bitterness and unforgiveness that we unknowingly build for ourselves. In one particularly poignant scene, Walt Disney says to Travers: "stories are the way we restore order to those things [the sorrows from our past] so that they have a happier ending." In the context of the story, he is not talking about wishful thinking as if the wounds from the past never happened. Instead, he is touching on something much more powerful: the work of redemption. Of course, the film stops short of mentioning Jesus as the Redeemer of all redeemers, but it does point the audience to the power of storytelling. This is something that Christian storytellers like C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien would have gladly received. God has intentionally built a powerful mechanism into the act of creative storytelling, and, among other things, this mechanism opens our hearts to the ultimate Story, that of the Cross.
All grandiose themes aside, Saving Mr. Banks has one clear goal: to present the redemption of a broken and hurting heart in an astonishingly beautiful way.
And in this, the film succeeded wonderfully.
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Rumors just started swirling that Nashville DJ and Bachelor in Paradise bartender Wells Adams could be the next Bachelor.
Now here's the situation: Allegedly runner-up Peter Kraus was offered the gig and turned it down. Second runner-up Eric Bigger was just one hot mess and is in no way ready to date 25 women, since he has yet to even successfully date one. So he's out.
So this leaves the field wide open! Naturally producers will take a hard look at the guys from season 4 of Bachelor in Paradise to see if any of them tug at the heartstrings of America. Thus far, the men have been a disappointment, primarily because they have all been so wasted. The only one that has not been sh!t-faced on camera is new bartender, Wells Adams.
I think that bringing 32-year-old Wells on board to serve the cocktails to his cast-mates serves a couple of purposes and one is to potentially set Wells up to lead the 2018 season. After all, having him as a bartender ensures he can't get in to any real trouble. It also means he is forced to watch others find love as he just sits back and provides a shoulder to cry on. This genius maneuver makes Wells a very sympathetic character to fans.
But for the first time in Bachelor history I think producers are genuinely undecided on who they will choose and are just throwing it all out there to see what sticks with fans.
ET talked to Wells about the idea of leading the show Friday.
"No one's talked to me about it," Adams said. "It's something I wouldn't take lightly and I'd have to speak to my family about. I have a big family, four siblings, nieces and nephews. Your family has to be a part of that world. I'd want their blessing before I would consider it."
Wells' cast mates totally support Wells taking the lead.
"I think Wells would be the greatest dark horse candidate," Evan Bass revealed during an interview with ET on Monday. "Dean is too young. Peter was on a mission to be the Bachelor, which if he makes it, good for him, but he was smart. That guy, he said all of the right Bachelor things to say, and kudos to him for doing it… but I think Wells would be a great choice."
Harrison told ET, "in all seriousness, we've not picked a Bachelor. So, I can tell you, no Bachelor is chosen."
"Nick [Viall] popped out of Paradise if you remember, we didn't see that coming," he continued. "We weren't planning on it and then it happened. I think, lesson learned, we're going to wait and just watch it all play out. [Fans will know] as soon as I do. We don't start taping for quite some time. So there's no reason — I know people would love for us to announce it, but there's no reason to. We would just be jumping the gun. So, we're going to wait."
Personally, I don't know if I can get pumped about Wells. For one, they would need to get him a personal trainer ASAP. He is not camera ready for any shirtless showering shots. For another he's a radio personality and those guys always just seem so one-dimensional to me. And third he's really fussy and neurotic. So my reaction to the possibility of Wells being The Bachelor is …..'eh'.
It looks like the other front-runners are Robby Hayes, and Dean Unglert. Although I would not write off Peter Kraus…yet, or the possibility that they could drudge up the Weatherman from Jillian Harris' season or that they could just find someone brand new for the first time in over a decade.


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According to Wikipedia, work/life balance is defined as a concept including proper prioritizing between "work" (career and ambition) and "lifestyle" (health, pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual development/meditation). It does not mean an EQUAL balance.
Here is my analogy:
Work/life balance are like the two sides of a teeter-totter, starting heavy on one side, riding up to the middle and down to the other side. The trick is avoiding a bumpy ride by deciding what elements and/or who you want to include on the seesaw with you to give you the smoothest ride. Otherwise you will feel like how you look, wild and crazy and out of control. You want people to ride with you, not steer clear of you. And if one side falls off, well it's not really much of a ride then is it?
At this point in my life, I'm focused on different things than I was in my 20s and that will of course change in my 40s. I feel like I haven't quite figured out my direction in life yet, but I'm enjoying the journey to find out. However, what this means is that I need an extra day, somewhere, any way I can get it. I think I may have found it, even if temporarily, but it may turn out that the extra day just gives me more time to procrastinate. I certainly do get my best work done when there is a deadline looming and about 20 tasks piled on top.
I am not alone in this, I know that and I cannot change that. My personality has trouble 'resting' but I realize my reactions are choices, and if I want to complain about my life, I better be willing to make changes or stop complaining. So I am. Making changes. I really didn't have time to start an online store but I did. And it's certainly made me feel better :)
My best ideas need time to percolate … I know the best are still to come. So while I ride the seesaw of life, I'm planning to take my wine glass with me wherever I go. Did I forget to mention that's the key to my balance? At least in my 30s it is.


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Harding House Strawberry Tea
On Friday 21st June the students at Harding House hosted their 10th annual fundraising Strawberry Tea. The national initiative invites groups to host a tea to raise money for Breast Cancer Care. The students worked incredibly hard, not only providing the tea but also arranging a chocolate raffle, plus an extra special raffle with prizes including a bottle of wine, a £20 voucher from The Works, tea for two from Tilly's, Jessica's Nail Voucher and a Rhapsody hair voucher worth over £50. There were also games to be enjoyed including guess the weight of the cake and name the dog. The event raised £170.


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Pretty quickly as you travel through life and meet different people, it's fairly apparent that everybody has an echo… What I mean by that is: there is a reverberation that comes off peoples lives that those around them experience, you could call it a sound, a taste, an energy, an ora, an overflow, an echo – whatever you want to label it, it is there.
A great question for us to ask ourselves is: what is the echo coming off my life?
If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:1 NIV
Here in this scripture we see this truth in effect, Paul is explaining to the Corinthian church and to us here today that we can have perfect presentation in our gifts and talents, have our lives all together, but if we're missing love, the right heart towards others, the echo coming off our lives will be unbearable.
What I have realised though, is how often we try to create a good echo in the wrong way. If echoes are inevitable, if they are just an overflow and reflection of something else, then our focus needs to turn from the echo we're creating to the sound we're listening to. Whatever the loudest sound is in our lives is what will influence our echo the most.
If we're listening mostly to negativity, negativity will be our echo.
If we're listening mostly to fear, fear will be our echo.
So… What's the loudest sound in your life?
Here's a classic scene that helps illustrate my point…
If we truly want an echo that's sweet and warm, a sound that people enjoy being around, a sound that echoes the love of God, we need to keep Christ as the loudest voice and influence in our hearts.
Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.
Romans 10:17 NIV
Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live.
Isaiah 55:3a NIV
Sometimes, unfortunately, we fill our mind and our heart with a sound that we think is God, but in truth, is a sound that doesn't represent Christ at all. It's so important that we have the ability to distinguish what sound is of Christ, and what is not.
Below is a simple outline of what I believe best reveals the sound and heartbeat of Christ:
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:14 NIV
The bible tells us that "God is love" (1 John 4) – and here in the above scripture it describes the manner of which Christ came to us as the son of God, "full of grace and truth". Therefore, we could say that grace & truth are the fruit of love, the sound that love makes.
Truth is not something God designed to shame us or to point the finger at our faults, truths purpose is to help us receive grace. Truth shows us the path, grace enables us to walk it. We cannot seperate grace from truth or truth from grace, they are intrinsically intertwined.
Truth without grace would leave us aware of our need but without a way out. Grace without truth would leave us prideful and unappreciative of the help and blessings we've been given.
The way I like to view it is this:
LOVE IS THE TEMPO – God's love is the consistent and enduring character that we can lean and rely on, enabling us to trust God. He is the same yesterday, today and forever.
GRACE & TRUTH ARE THE NOTES – the sound of Christ should always sound like this, beautiful notes that complement one another, kept in time by love.
FREEDOM IS THE MELODY – love, grace and truth form an incredible melody of freedom, a song that God desires to become the anthem and echo of our lives.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
2 Corinthians 3:17 NIV
I'm praying that this is the sound we learn to tune into daily, and becomes the inevitable echo that resounds to the world around us.
If you feel yourself being overwhelmed by other noises of negativity, fear, guilt or condemnation, know that that is not the sound of Christ – still your heart and find rest in God's love, remind yourself of His grace & truth and begin to thank Jesus for his melody of freedom that covers your life.
Hope this has helped!
Much love,
Mitch 🙂


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But just a few months before the birth of her child, there was a noticeable change in the former exotic dancer's hair choices and general appearance.
The model and new mom has since traded her colourful hairs and highlights for simple, one-toned colours, which has led many to compare her with famous soon-to-be sister-in-law, Kim Kardashian.
As the face of Mac's new scent, Candy yum yum, Chyna posed with a bottle of the cologne in her hand, looking all shades of classy with a toned-down make-up and sleek look that spoke well of her new status as the elite Kardashian family member.
A more recent photo for Mac pictures her with dark tresses, looking almost identical to Kim, and the question on everyone's mind is: Is she taking lessons from her famous sister-in-law to-be or just doing her best attempts at looking like her?
Now here's the part that has left us completely shocked and baffled: Blac Chyna was spotted, Friday night – with her man, Rob – shielding her face from the flash of the paps.
Talk about rare happenings!
While her man, Rob, has occasionally avoided being publicly photographed, Chyna has always been the exact opposite, seeming to derive some sort of pleasure from being followed around like a true celeb.
What's happening to Chyna? Who do we have to thank for this seemingly mellow and less ghetto Chyna? Baby Dream? Or is her association with the Kardashian sisters rubbing off?


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Per a recent blog post, the multi-user application, typified by the game server (e.g. Quake's by id Software), has given our Models new levels of complexity to handle.
Traditionally, a Model just reflected some target knowledge domain (say an ecosystem) and didn't care about the (one?) user, interacting through a Controller. The visualizations weren't about users and their subjective selections, but about some objective 3rd party vista, typically seen from some god's eye viewpoint.
Today, the state of each user must often be modeled in quite a bit of detail, in Second Life for example, where avatars need attention right down to clothing selection, even facial expression.
Visualizations are likewise customized per user, with none having special god-like powers relative to any other (a seemingly omniscient "bird's eye view" is perhaps just an ordinary bird's in your typical computer game / simulation).
The convergence of observers within a shared matrix or model seems to be the ascendant design pattern of late, thanks especially to advances in network and grid computing.
CS departments would do well to focus student attention on "cave paintings" of our enhanced MVC paradigm to help them prepare for their future careers, as authors of new Controllers or whatever. I've found Python to be appropriately expressive in this context.
Of course in my own case I'm thinking ahead to tomorrow's bizmo fleet control centers, cyber- centers helping busy utility vehicles intelligently coordinate disaster relief or whatever, like Lara Logan uses in Baghdad.


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Hi! My name is Irla, I'm 19 and I'm from Italy. I was born in Albania, where I was diagnosed with congenital bilateral hip dysplasia at 2 years old. After that, my parents decided to move to Italy so that I could have surgery in a more advanced hospital.
I was 4 when I had my first surgery on my right hip, 5 when they first operated my left hip; they broke it into pieces and secured it with a femoral locking plate – which I still have. I only remember the uncomfortable cast and the excruciating riabilitation, nothing else.
When I was 7 years old my family and I decided to move to Northern Italy so that I could be visited by an amazing orthopaedist. I had my third surgery in 2011. After many X-rays, CT scans and MRIs I was told my left femour had been rotated wrong by my previous doctors. During that summer I was hospitalized. I remember vividely the pain after the surgery, the itching, which would never let me sleep. I remember that ugly, heavy cast and being restricted to bed for fifty endless days, completely dependent on my parents. I remember taking the cast off and almost fainting while the nurses helped me to get up. After that, I did riabilitation for what felt like ages and it took me 4 months to walk without cruches.
My journey has not come to an end. I cannot run, walk fast or walk for long distances. I have very little mobility in my right hip and because of this I'm going to have a femoral head replacement in the next few years – and I cannot wait!
I deal with pain on a daily basis but it is nothing compared to emotional pain. At 14 years old I began hating myself, my scars, my hip dysplasia. Depression hit me hard. I had suicide instincts almost every day for months. To me, hip dysplasia means being stared at, bullied and humiliated every time I step foot outside my house. I used to cry every single time a person stared at me. Oh, the stares; they never stopped.
During the last few months I stopped hiding my hip dysplasia. I stopped caring about the stares, I stopped feeling anxious and trapped while passing by a group of people. I want to be an example to every person who knows me, and for those who do not. I cannot imagine a life without my birth condition; I would be a complete different person.
To me, the hip dysplasia is who I am. I consider myself as unique, and unique is beautiful. I cherish my scars – I embrace them. I am not just a woman, I am a bionic woman. I know my worth.
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Hi Irla, my name is Mary and I could be your grandmother.Reading your story about your Dysplasia journey echoes my story too ,even down to the scars. I have had life long pain and surgeries and feeling sad when people stared or were unkind.i thought no one would ever want me or take me out on a date …….well I was wrong,I have been married for 42 years and have two children a son and daughter and seven grandchildren ❤ Both my children had dysphasia and one granddaughter,fortunately they were treated early and early detention is the key…… When people stare at me now ,I smile and inverably they smile back .Irla a you are worth and an inspiration x
Hola Irla desde Argentina te mando un gran abrazo.Se valiente…Cuando sufrimos una discapacidad todo es mas dificil…pero lo que vale es como la afrontamos. Me toco nacer en Argentina pero mi sangre es Italiana.(Salerno) ..Me diagnosticaron tarde la displacia a los 6 años..y el día de la operación optaron por no realizarla…..Hoy tengo 56 años ya casi no camino…y me costo todo …estudiar…trabajar..y hoy ni siquiera me quieren dar la jubilación por invalidez….dicen que como fue desde nacimiento no me corresponde.
Todo es dificil…pero lucho por salir adelante..me gusto mucho tu ejemplo Fuerza !!!
Hi Irla,
Your story is very inspiring and I must say you are very brave ! I'm 22 and never knew I had dysplasia (Despite my funny walk) until now when my right labrum tore. I half to repair that and have PAO on both hips. I must admit your story does scare me, i'm so terrified of the pain after surgery that it makes me not want to do it even though I am in pain everyday all day.
Do you think the pain after surgery is barrable? lol
I know this is a silly question and I should just toughen up but I literally have the worst anxiety over it.
Anyways, I hope your recovery is getting better everday ! God Bless, -Jennie
Hi Jenny
How did it go ? My daughter is facing a POA and she is 21, did you go ahead
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Good Market Newsletter for August 31st
Saturday Good Market
The Saturday Good Market happens from 9 am to 5 pm (rain or shine!) in the nuga tree car park at the Colombo Racecourse. The stall layout for August 31st is below. You can also find it in the weekly blog post.
* NEW: Janitha Ruhunu is offering linna fish ambulthiyal, thalapath fish ambulthiyal, chili fish, thalapath kirimalu, and tuna kirimalu in stall B11.
* NEW: Sustainable Living Sri Lanka will have natural bee honey, beekeeping equipment (veils, beehives, smokers), beeswax, bee pollinated coffee, coconut shell housewares, pandan reed bags, areca leaf and palmyra leaf products, and seed paper in stall E7.
* NEW: Haritha Community Products will have products from more than 250 rural producers including organic PGS fruits and vegetables, fair trade handicrafts and handloom products, and healthy food options in stall F7 and F8.
* Happy Crafts will have a new collection of handcrafted soft toys in stall B3.
* Orilka Plant Nursery has a wide range of naturally grown ornamental plants in stall C11.
* Natura Palmyra has handwoven palmrya leaf baskets from Mannar in stall C2.
* Ceylon Soap Company is introducing soap dishes made out of coconut shell and kithul wood in stall E4. They'll also have their collection of natural soap bars, shampoo bars, and conditioner bars.
* Deen the Bookman has a fresh selection of secondhand novels, children's books, and collectibles in stall A1.
* Amiron Farm is in stall E5 with PGS organic vegetables, free range eggs, and chicken.
* FlipYarn is collecting, sanitizing, and recycling discarded flip flops into colorful sunglasses and accessories. Stop by stall D3 to check them out or visit their Kickstarter campaign Have old flip flops? Bring them along to be upcycled!
* AthkamRoo has natural handmade reed baskets (pan watti) in stall B7.
Good Market Battaramulla
Good Market Battaramulla is open every day from 8 am to 8 pm at 137 Pannipitiya Road. The shop has fresh organic fruits, vegetables, rice, and other farm products, free range eggs and chicken, and natural food, body, home, and garden products. Good Market Battaramulla has parking, space for more products, and a covered garden area to meet with family and friends. This week's deliveries include…
* NEW: Polos pickles from HomiePickle
* Organic certified TJC mango from Ellawala
* Buffalo curd and plain yogurt from Renusha
* Refresh, focus, energy, relax, calm and balance aromatherapy inhalers from AromaStick
* Chocolate soy milk, coffee soy milk, plain unsweetened soy milk, vegetarian burgers, and vegetarian hot dogs from Be Veg and Supersun
* Ground and whole bean coffee from Tusker Coffee
* Protein blast, almond cranberry crunch and mega omega from PowerUp 365
* Cashew cookies and coconut cookies from the team of developmentally disabled bakers at Hope Cookies
* Local sea salt from Saviya Cooperative Society
* Mulberry jam, sweet chili jam, starfruit passion jam, grapefruit marmalade, and papaya chutney from Yummy Goodness
Good Market Reid Avenue
Good Market Reid Avenue is open every day from 8 am to 8 pm across from the Colombo Racecourse in the Lakpahana Courtyard. The shop has fresh organic fruits, vegetables, rice, and other farm products, free range eggs and chicken, and natural food, body, and home products. The community deli has smoothies, juices, coffee, tea, hoppers, baked goods, and ready-to-eat meals and snacks from Good Market food vendors. This week's deliveries include…
* Hydroponic mixed salad greens, rocket (arugula), and cherry tomatoes from Lanka Salad Company
* Smooth Ceylon and Indulgence coffee and Intense espresso from Soul Coffee
* Free range PGS eggs and chicken from Amiron Farm
* Naarang juice and ginger beer from Cherine's Quench
* Organic PGS cinnamon sticks and cinnamon powder from Amuura Permaculture
* Braggs organic certified apple cider vinegar from Finch Organic Health & Living
* Ice cream and vegan sorbets and sherbets from Carino
* Cleaned handella, peeled prawns, and tuna cubes from Fresh Harvest
* Classic, jaggery, frosted, and strawberry cashew-shaped cookies from Chesma's Natural Cookies
* Calocybe indica specialty mushrooms from Hyphae Grow
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Book review: The tale of a daring doctor
What you need to know:
- Kenyan medic Betty Gikonyo's story is illuminating, causing the reader to evaluate their own life circumstances.
- She talks about the period from when she had her first child towards the end of medical school, to branching out from government employment to founding her own practice.
- Born in Kiamabara village in Nyeri County in central Kenya, Gikonyo rose from humble beginnings.
Dr Betty Gikonyo's autobiography, The Girl who Dared to Dream, is a deeply engrossing, well written narrative.
It not only chronicles Gikonyo's life experiences but traces East Africa's political, social and indeed, medical history.
Launched in Nairobi at the end of September, one of the strengths of this book is the manner in which the renowned Kenyan cardiologist openly shares her early struggles while raising a family and building a career.
She talks about the period from when she had her first child towards the end of medical school, to branching out from government employment to founding her own practice.
Gikonyo's autobiography captures the situation of women in the 1970s and 1980s, and how they built their careers. Interestingly, she dispels the notion that patriarchy was an impediment to progress.
If anything, the men in her life were pivotal to her life's journey: Her father ensuring that she and her sisters went to school; her brother acting as a role model and support system; and her husband, as a thoughtful and encouraging partner.
Born in Kiamabara village in Nyeri County in central Kenya, Gikonyo rose from humble beginnings.
She attended the prestigious Alliance Girls High School in Kiambu County; the University of Nairobi and universities in the US, where she specialised in children's cardiology.
From a young girl who wore her first shoes at 13 when joining secondary school, she grew to become one of Kenya's most prominent medical practitioners, founding the Heart-to-Heart Foundation — a medical charity dedicated to the control, prevention and treatment of heart diseases in children — and the Karen Hospital in Nairobi, jointly with her husband Dr Dan Gikonyo, also a respected cardiologist.
He was the personal doctor of former Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki.
The book also details occasional humorous moments such as when the young family chose to return to Kenya from America despite friends trying to talk them out of it.
One American cardiologist who hadn't paid them much attention during their time there, surprisingly invited them for a meal. He then told them out to order good American steaks and enjoy the meal, because it would probably be the last juicy steak they would ever have now that they were returning to Africa.
This was in 1984-1985, when a severe famine had swept over the continent, and Western media was awash with images of starving and emaciated people.
Indeed, this is one of the interesting points for reflection that the narrative brings in: The idealism African returnees from the diaspora arrive with — big dreams to uplift their societies — only to find their efforts thwarted and their good intentions frustrated by bureaucracy or a lack of facilities. The couple were, however, able to weather the storm and eventually established a world-class facility — the Karen Hospital— that could treat complicated heart ailments.
She takes us through the hardships her team underwent trying to get banks to give them funding for the hospital, and colleagues to invest in it. She narrates how they worked overtime, often holding consultations late into the night.
The hospital was finally opened in early 2006.
We get tit bits of history such as Kenya's Dr Joshua Likimani being the first African doctor to graduate from Uganda's Makerere University in 1939.
The colonial medical practitioners, however, did not receive him well, treating him as an inferior person because he was an African. Makerere was the only medical school in East Africa then.
We also learn that Gikonyo's elder brother, Dr Wallace Kahugu, was among the top 20 African doctors in Kenya. Kenya's pioneering intelligentsia was a small community comprising the few who had graduated from Makerere University College. They had degrees in medicine, economics or agriculture, while a few came from Dar es Salaam with degrees in law.
At Makerere, Gikonyo's brother graduated in 1959 among a group of seven doctors comprising five Kenyans, one Ugandan and one Tanzanian.
An autobiography can sometimes tell you more about yourself. A particularly good one acts like a torch you shine into a mirror and the light reflects back on you, causing you to evaluate your own life circumstances. The Girl who Dared to Dream succeeds remarkably at this.
It is a book that not only medical practitioners, but people from all spheres of life will find useful. Entrepreneurs starting up businesses, young students who have recently completed school and even professionals on progressive career paths will find some useful pieces of information in this book.
The manner in which Dr Gikonyo continually points to her profession as not just a money making opportunity but one that meets the needs of society is a thoughtful and compassionate perspective on how a career can be more than just a job — that it can be a calling to serve.
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By Betty Clermont | 10 January 2016
Daily Kos
For over three decades, the Republican Party has used the Religious Right to energize conservative Christians to political activism and to get out the vote. Republicans running for office in numerous states and the U.S. Congress are preparing for battles in 2016 over discrimination protection for LBGT persons, religious exemptions for nonprofits and businesses that object to gay marriage and contraception, and greater restrictions on abortion and Planned Parenthood.
At the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) annual General Assembly in November, "their first assembly since gay marriage became legal nationwide, they vowed to uphold marriage as only the union of a man and a woman and to seek legal protections for those who share that view. Some bishops said they were committed to reversing the U.S. Supreme Court same-sex marriage ruling last June … Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City said a concerted effort was needed to 'build a consensus' to do so. As a model, he pointed to new state laws that have made it harder to obtain an abortion."
USCCB president, Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, "highlighted the bishops' push for religious exemptions for charities, schools and individual for-profit business owners who oppose gay marriage and other laws and regulations."
The assembly "also heard an address from Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the Vatican's U.S. ambassador who was behind Pope Francis' controversial meeting with Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who briefly went to jail rather than comply with a court order to issue same-sex marriage licenses … The ambassador received two standing ovations from the bishops."
Confirming the reason for his "secret, emotionally charged" meeting with Davis, Pope Francis stated that "conscientious objection" by "government employees" is a "human right" on the flight back to Rome.
Pope Francis proved Religious Right issues really matter to him during his trip to the U.S. He also met with the Little Sisters of the Poor. The U.S. Supreme Court said on November 6 that it will hear their case against the Affordable Care Acts's requirement that non-profits and businesses submit a form to get an exemption allowing a third party insurance carrier to provide coverage for contraception, one of the accommodations President Obama has made to religions and others who object to birth control. "The pope's visit to the Little Sisters was a sign of support for them in their legal battle, Rev. Federico Lombardi, a Vatican spokesman, told reporters."
(No, the pope does not meet with "everyone." He has never met in private with an American Democrat other than President Obama. Yes, the Republican Romneycare provided coverage for abortions in addition to birth control with no serious objections from Catholic officials.)
Catholic Supreme Court justice, Antonin Scalia, who will be deciding that case and "the most important Supreme Court battle over abortion in a generation" in 2016, told an audience on January 2 that government support for religion is justified by the Constitution. New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond introduced Scalia to the 600 who had gathered for the cause of religious freedom at a Catholic high school.
"Religious liberty and marriage [i.e. their ability to deny women and LGBT persons their human rights] were the focus of the bishops' gathering … 'What a great tragedy it will be if our ministries are … driven out of the public square because of short-sighted laws or regulations,' said Kurtz."
In Philadelphia, Pope Francis emphasized the "various forms of modern tyranny [that] seek to suppress religious freedom, or try to reduce it to a subculture without right to a voice in the public square." The pope's defense of religious freedom at the White House was "hugely significant," said the chair of the U.S. Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty, Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore. He said the pope "supported the efforts of the U.S. bishops to defend religious freedom."
The Marist Poll conducted a survey the week after the pope's trip to the U.S. It showed "about 62 percent of Americans voiced support for life at every stage of its development, including the unborn," their "support for marriage as a union of one man and one woman increased four percentage points to 55 percent" and "support for religious freedom appeared to increase by seven percentage points to 85 percent … Fewer than 24 percent of Americans saw the papal visit as political."
A Call to War
The bishops agreed on limited revisions to their voting guide issued every four years in the November preceding a presidential election. "The document was updated to take account of recent developments in the United States in both domestic and foreign policy" i.e. "the deadly attacks on fellow Christians and religious minorities throughout the world" and "wars, terror, and violence that threaten every aspect of human life and dignity." The 2016 voting guide states: "We support the proportionate and discriminate use of military force to protect civilians in a way that recognizes the continuing threat of fanatical extremism and global terror, minimizes the loss of life, and addresses the humanitarian and refugee crises in war-torn regions, and the need to protect human rights, especially religious freedom."
In sync with Republican calls for "escalating U.S. military involvement in the Middle East," the prelate of Wall Street, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, addressed the conference, "The Islamic State's Religious Cleansing and the Urgency of a Strategic Response" sponsored by the Hudson Institute. Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Scooter Libby, is senior vice president. The institute is funded by "many of the foundations and corporations that have bankrolled the conservative movement," and some of the trustees, staff and fellows are the men who took us to war in Iraq.
"Inspired by Christianity's new martyrs," Dolan later asked, "Why don't we Christians have our own Holocaust literature?"
Pope Francis' "foreign minister," Archbishop Paul Gallagher, favors "widening the possibilities of a legitimate recourse to the instrument of war as a solution to international conflict" and a strategy "towards a more widespread use and easier access to the use of force." The pope's secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, said he supports military intervention to disarm ISIS. Parolin argued for "a general mobilization of France, of Europe, and of the whole world to root out this evil." The Vatican's "top diplomat" at the United Nations in Geneva, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, "called for a coordinated international force to stop the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq from further assaults on Christians and other minority groups."
While not explicitly condoning military action, citing the suffering and deaths of Christians, Pope Francis has called for "tangible help in the defense and protection of our brothers and our sisters," urged the international community to "take action," and said the international community would be justified in stopping Islamist militants.
"It's unfortunate for a Catholic bishop to say that military action is needed, but in a very limited and targeted way to fight ISIS," Archbishop Bashar Warda of Iraq responded when asked "What message do you want to share with the US government?" Warda gave the keynote address at the Knights of Columbus Supreme Convention held August 4-6 in Philadelphia and attended by 11 cardinals and 98 archbishops and bishops. The Knights will launch a national television ad campaign to draw more attention to persecuted Christians. "Christians in the Middle East are facing a dire situation and even extinction, while the response from the international community has been woefully inadequate," Supreme Knight Carl Anderson said.
The International Catholic Legislators Network, of which U.S. Representative Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) is a member, meets annually in Rome. Among the issues in the working document presented to Pope Francis in August are the persecution and "genocide" of Christians and Europe's addressing those who enter the continent "seeking to recolonize it in the name of Islam."
A letter was sent to President Obama dated October 5: "We humbly request that your office publicly acknowledge and denounce the Islamic State's actions as genocide and act with all due haste to ensure that this ongoing, abominable crime is halted, prevented and punished." Signatories included two officials from the Hudson Institute, Georgetown University, the Catholic University of America and Supreme Knight Carl Anderson.
Lee Marsden, professor of international relations specializing in religion and security at the University of East Anglia, said there could be an element of Islamophobia in some Christian campaign organizations, "but there is also an element of victimhood – a view that the Church has always been persecuted, which feeds into the martyrdom narrative."
Before ISIS began targeting Christians in mid-2014 and the victims were Muslims, Pope Francis held a day of prayer for peace in Syria on September 7, 2013. Addressing tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square, he issued a long, impassioned appeal for peace in Syria and across the Middle East and urged the international community to make every effort to bring about peace based on "dialogue and negotiations." "Violence never leads to peace, war leads to war, violence leads to violence," he said. He proclaimed "War, never again."
The Right Wing Church and Their Proxies
Pope Francis and his bishops pretend they are non-partisan but they are not.
When the progressive Fernandez administration in Argentina "pushed for mandatory sex education in schools, free distribution of contraceptives in public hospitals, and the right for transsexuals to change their official identities on demand," Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio accused the president of "demagoguery, totalitarianism, corruption and efforts to secure unlimited power."
Argentine historian Ernesto Semán said that the election of this "very conservative cardinal from the region might help bolster forces that are opposed to continuing this enormous change [to left-leaning governments] that's occurring in Latin America."
Brazilian feminist theologian Ivone Gebara noted that the press says nothing about Cardinal Bergoglio's "well-known criticism of liberation theology [which addresses the causes of poverty, not just "handouts to the poor"] or his disdain for feminist theology … The See of Peter and the Vatican State are positioning their pieces in the world game of chess in order to empower political projects championed by the North and its allies in the South. [His] highly touted commitment to evangelization as a Church priority seems instead to be a commitment to a hierarchical order in a world where the elites reign and the people applaud in great plazas."
Pope Francis referred to those protesting his appointment of Bishop Juan Barros in Osorno, Chile, as "lefties." Barros is accused of concealing clergy sex abuse. "When a group of Chilean Catholics in Rome asked the pope to send a message to those in Osorno disappointed by the arrival of Barros, he told them, 'Think with your heads and do not be led by the noses by the lefties who orchestrated this whole thing.'"
Pope Francis has packed his Vatican with practitioners and supporters of the plutocracy. Now "there are huge multinational corporations and international lobbies anxious to keep their hands inside the Vatican."
On December 21, Pope Francis promoted Greg Burke as his "No. 2 spokesman." Burke had been with Fox News over a decade. He is the "heir apparent" to the long-time official Vatican spokesman, Fr. Federico Lombardi, when he retires. "New appointments in communications also signal another point: that the Holy See wants to pay ever greater attention to the way that secular media perceives it."
I can't recall the USCCB ever making such a direct endorsement of any other politician as they did recently in commending Rep. Paul Ryan, "best known for his far-right budget plan that cuts taxes for the wealthy by hundreds of billions of dollars, while slashing investments in programs that benefit working families," on his election as House Speaker.
Observers from Catholic agencies who have worked with the former House budget committee chairman call him intelligent and ready for the task … They said he appears to want to solve the problems facing the country, especially the needs of 46.5 million Americans living in poverty …
Ryan also is said to have cemented his relationship with some members of the U.S. Church hierarchy and counts as close advisers Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, who is former archbishop of Milwaukee, and Bishop Robert C. Morlino of Madison, Wisconsin, 40 miles northwest of his home parish, St. John Vianney, in Janesville.
Catholic observers also credit Ryan, a nine-term veteran of the House, for his pro-life votes on abortion and his support for the U.S. Church's stance on religious liberty.
The Koch brothers have funded the bishops' own Catholic University of America's "research and educational program focused on the compatibility of capitalism and Catholicism" and the Jesuit Creighton University's business school.
U.S. bishops make occasional statements in favor of immigration, gun control and against the death penalty. But no employee has ever been fired for holding a contrary position and almost all the bishops' political efforts and funding go towards engaging in the Religious Right culture wars.
They command 195 dioceses and there are state level Catholic Conferences who lobby on behalf of the local bishops. Additionally, the bishops directly control approximately 40,000 organizations. Unlike evangelicals, all carry the same message and speak as with one voice.
The bishops also have powerful proxy organizations such as universities, the EWTN global media network, the Knights of Columbus, NOM (National Organization on Marriage), Legatus, the Becket Fund, the Thomas More Society, Acton Institute, the Ethics & Public Policy Center, the Napa Institute, FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students), etc. All are concentrated on attacking women and/or LGBT persons' human rights.
At immense cost to American taxpayers, "dozens of U.S. dioceses and Catholic nonprofits are suing the Obama administration over the birth control coverage requirement in the Affordable Care Act."
As New York Times op-ed columnist, Ross Douthat, reminded us in the January 2016 edition of First Things, "the social doctrine of the Church is fully embodied in political conservatism."
Legislation Against Our Children, Too
In 2016, the Church will continue "using its legal and political clout to oppose bills that would extend the statute of limitations for victims of child sex abuse. A statute of limitations forbids prosecutors or plaintiffs from taking legal action after a certain number of years. 'It is the bishops who have blocked any kind of meaningful reform,' said Marci Hamilton, a professor at the Cardozo School of Law in New York who studies statutes of limitations. 'The bishops and the pope have a lot of explaining to do as to why it would be in their mission to keep all of these victims from seeking justice.'"
Those who have seen or know about the Oscar-contender movie, "Spotlight" – the true story of the Boston Globe investigation resulting in some 200 articles detailing the sexual abuse of children in that archdiocese by almost 100 of its priests and the carefully concealed cover-up, over decades, of that abuse – will understand the significance of Bishop Christopher Coyne recently being named chair of the USCCB Committee on Communications. Coyne, Boston Cardinal Bernard Law's "former mouthpiece, for years, time and time again, repeated deceptive public relations spin about heinous child sex crimes and callous cover ups by Law and other Catholic officials."
Fourteen years after the first Boston Globe report, in the U.S. there are still at least 14 credibly accused predator priests who remain in ministry.
Professor Hamilton reminds us that:
Children will never be fully protected so long as the identities of predators are secret from the public. Simple fact: Perpetrators, like Boston's John Geoghan, abuse into their elderly years.
The 40-year-old who abused children 30 years ago may still be dangerous, and parents will not know who all of those priests, rabbis, teachers and family members are until the state's statute-of-limitations stranglehold is released and victims can come forward in the safety of the court system. The bishops typically claim that reform bills are not fair to them because they are being 'targeted.' Actually, these bills open courthouse doors for victims in every arena.
During his visit, Pope Francis praised his U.S. bishops for their "courage" and "great sacrifice" in handling the sex abuse crisis. He also met with survivors, including some who had been molested by teachers or relatives, to make the point that he thinks his Church has been treated unjustly. The pope had stated that, as regards the sexual torture of children, "The statistics on the phenomenon of violence against children are shocking, but they also show clearly that the great majority of the abuses come from the family environment and from people who are close. The Catholic Church is perhaps the only public institution that moved with transparency and responsibility. No one else did as much. And yet, the Church is the only one being attacked."
Betty Clermont is author of The Neo-Catholics: Implementing Christian Nationalism in America (Clarity Press, 2009).
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This weekend, some of the world's best racing drivers will be taking on one of the most gruelling challenges on the automotive calendar - the Le Mans 24 Hours. Ahead of this weekend's excitement, Aston Martin have started things off with a much anticipated announcement: Valkyrie will officially compete at Le Mans.
In fact, not one but at least two works Valkyrie racing cars will be heading to the Circuit de la Sarthe as part of the 2020/21 FIA World Endurance Championship; when LMP1 is officially scrapped in favour of a new hypercar category. Just in case you didn't see, the current crop of class leading LMP1 cars will no longer be appearing at Le Mans from 2020, due to them being too expensive and the class being too hard for new teams to enter.
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The Aston Martin Valkyrie is primed for such a challenge and sits perfectly within the ACO's new 'hypercar' rule framework. What could be more evocative than the wail of an Aston Martin V12 leading the charge into the night on the Mulsanne straight? "
What exactly will Aston Martin be taking to Le Mans? You can expect a race-prepped version of Valkyrie that features a bespoke high-revving naturally-aspirated 6.5-litre V12 with hybrid power and revised aerodynamics that take it from 'almost racing car' to 'full racing car'. If you take a look at the track-only Valkyrie AMR Pro that Aston Martin unveiled shortly after the road car, you probably get quite a good idea of what the Le Mans racing car will be like.
The road going version of Valkyrie was designed alongside Red Bull Racing by aerodynamics wizard, Adrian Newey. A long time in the making, the Valkyrie project aims to produce a car that is capable of lap times that mirror or beat modern LMP1 cars but is still able to legally drive down to the local shops. You can read all about the insane Valkyrie here.
We're quite excited for this new category of Le Mans; it's a sort of GT1 class revival but with a twist of modern, often 1,000bhp+ hypercars. The question is, however, with Formula One always seeming to be in a constant state of turmoil these days, could there be a new most popular motorsport on the horizon? We'd like to read your thoughts on Facebook, Instagram or Linkedin.


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step Model(User, :find_by, :custom_user_id)
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Guys, I'having a problem with trailblazer in a rails app (
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Hello, guys. Could you please help me with Reform::Form.
class SearchForm < Reform::Form
feature Coercion
property :lat, virtual: true, type: Types::Nominal::Float
property :lon, virtual: true, type: Types::Nominal::Float
property :query_type, virtual: true, type: ::Types::Nominal::String
property :q, virtual: true, type: Types::Nominal::String
property :radius, virtual: true, type: Types::Nominal::Float, default: 200
I set up types for properties in Form with feature Coercion. As I read from reform documentation these types are valid only during validation.
How to apply types to form fields to be sure that I can use float values (not strings by default) as values of properties.
Anybody have good solutions for handling polymorphic collections with Reform?
I have a Resource model which belongs_to: source, polymorphic: true
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module Form
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Delhi-resident Navneet Mishra is leaving no stone unturned, scouring towns, hotels, camps, hospitals and bus stops in flood-ravaged Uttarakhand in a frantic search for 11 of his family members and friends.
Mishra's mother, sister, younger brother, maternal grandmother, aunt, uncle, maternal aunt, niece, a friend and her mother and a woman neighbour are missing following the deluge that ravaged the hill-state.
The family of 29-year-old Mishra, who works in Delhi, is from Kanpur.
"We are about 10 family members here going out in different directions in search for them, scouring hotels, inns, camps, hospitals, checking out the survivors list. "Some of us sleep in the cars while others stay in hotels. From Dehradun, we are heading to Hrishikesh and Haridwar. Some of us even stay at bus stops looking out for them," Mishra told PTI.
What inspired Mishra to stay positive about finding the missing people is the miraculous survival of his father Roopram Mishra, 52, in Guptakashi a few days ago. "We have not given up hope. Though 11 of our family members and friends, who were traveling together are missing, finding my father makes me stay positive about finding the rest," he said.
"My father had returned to the hotel from Kedarnath darshan and was staying there on June 17 when the building collapsed. He says he was washed away by the flood with ice over his body.
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Four persons pulled him out of the debris, as a result of which he got some wounds on his body. He later called me while recuperating in a hotel, he said. The family of 12 had hired a Tempo Traveller from Kanpur and left on June 6 and were scheduled to return by June 18.
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"When I reached Guptkashi to get my father back on June 20, there was no camp there and people rescued by the army were being dumped on the ground. There were problems with the survivors list also," he said.


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