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Our Family Realtor
"Rich is an outstanding real estate agent. My family and I have bought and sold 7 properties with him over the last 30 years. He knows the market and really works hard for his clients. You can't go wrong with Rich Raap."
- Jim Morici - firstname.lastname@example.com
Seller & Buyer Client
"Rich has been my agent for more than 15 years. There is NO ONE that I trust more than Rich. His knowledge, flexability, and patience are a true testimony of his character. He is some one that I call a, "friend"."
- Paul Tolson - email@example.com
Multiple Sale Client
"Very informative.Keeps you up to date on every step of the buying or selling process. Rich makes good recommendations during the selling and buying process. I have used Rich multiple times to buy and sell and each and every time was a flawless transaction. I have in the past and will continue in the future to recommend Rich to family, friends and neighbors."
- Dino Ferrici - firstname.lastname@example.com
Sold two flat & purchased a single family home
"Richard found a cash buyer for our two flat in the Humboldt Park area and was very helpful and knowledgeable about the area where we wanted to buy. He was very patient in showing us the many properties we viewed. He was recommended to me by my Sister whom he also helped find a home. We would without a doubt recommend Richard to any family or friend!"
- Gloria & Manuel Rivera - firstname.lastname@example.com
Bought a home in Skokie
"We highly recommend Rich as your Buyer's agent. We were first time buyers in a seller's market and looking for a turn-key home - which can be quite stressful when you've found "the one" with multiple offers on it. Rich consulted us through the offer process and we were able to close on the second house we had placed an offer on. Our overall experience was smooth and we would not hesitate to use Rich again in the future if needed."
- Jennifer Rock-Klotz - firstname.lastname@example.com
Sold Family Home
"Richard did a great job selling our Mother's house after she passed away. I will definitely call him when I am in the market for my next home. He was always available for us if we had any questions or concerns. We never felt pressured to accept any offers we were not happy with!"
- Don Bacia - email@example.com
Sold a two flat in Cragin
"Richard helped us sell a two flat in Chicago. We interviewed three real estate agents, and Richard by far was the most professional, knowledgeable, and detail oriented. He was great at communicating with us throughout the entire process, and within one week, we had several offers, one of which we accepted."
- Dave Madsen - email@example.com
First Time Homeowner
"Thank you for helping me find and purchase my first home. Looking, much less buying a home, is such a major undertaking. You made it easier. You stood by my while I looked as some "very interesting" properties. You kept my wishes in mind, through it all. Thanks for braving all kinds of weather and for your understanding when breaks from searching were much needed.
When I had questions, you were up front, your monthly newsletter was and still is a wealth of information, and you provided specifics when I requested help for the "next steps". Patience with those who are new to home buying is a must and you showed it every step of the way. Thank you. I will pass along your name and number to those I know who are home hunting. Good experiences will always go a long way in earning referrals. You earned mine."
- Mary Galvez - email@example.com
Sold a home near Harlem / Irving
"Truly a professional and so helpful, I felt he went above and beyond in helping sell a family member's home. He kept me abreast of all matters and had many resources to help me in all areas of selling a home, such as legal, cleaning, etc."
- Nancy Lupo - email@example.com
Satisified Seller
"Rich was recommended by a relative. He was the BEST agent I have had the pleasure to meet! He handled all the problems and issues and explained every detail with the utmost of patience! He was always on top of every detail. I feel that Rich went above and beyond expectations! Rich is the BEST and I highly recommend him!"
- AnnaMarie Haden - email@example.com
First Time Buyer
"I choose Rich Raap because a family member used him and gave me his number! Rich meet all my expectations and more. I was very happy with his real estate knowledge and will always recommend Rich to any friend buying or selling!! Rich took myself and husband to look at many houses and was always very helpful to us. He would always give us his opionion on things when we needed it!! Rich also was very flexible with his time for us as we have small children!! Rich Raap is a great guy and I would recommend him to anyone!!"
- Patricia & Matt Lane - email@example.com
Buyer & Seller Client
"Rich helped me find a new home and sell my existing home. He is well versed in real estate research tools to enable you to make the best real estate decisions. I was impressed by his professionalism in his dealings with buyers, sellers, agents, attorneys, and others. If you're looking for someone with integrity to represent you, then Rich is definitely your man. Rich, thank you for all your time and effort on a job well done!"
- Mark W. - firstname.lastname@example.com
First Time Buyer
"By chance my husband found Richard at an open house. We decided to work with him during our house hunting experience becasue of his dedication to us as his clients. It was a long process, but Richard never made us feel pressured into any decision. He offered great tips along the way that we found useful when purchasing our home. He was with us at every house we were interested in looking at and flexible to meet OUR busy work schedules. I did recommend him to a relative and told her she would not feel pressured and would be pleased. I was confident that he would be able to assist her in her stressful house hunting experience. I was glad that I was right since she is now a proud homeowner. Richard is willing to go the extra mile, literally, to help ease the stress of planning and setting up your own appointments. Not that I plan to sell in the near future, but I do plan to continue recommending him as a realtor and support system for anyone I know buying and or selling. Purchasing a home is a very stressful and life changing commitment that needs the support Richard is willing to offer."
- Jennifer & John Edwards - firstname.lastname@example.com
Sold Parent's Home
"Richard Raap has a good reputation in our area. At a time when real estate was taking a tumble earlier, Richard advised us realistically of what we should expect. He is honest and fair and has a great deal of experience behind him. I would recommend Richard to any one of my friends in the area."
- Mary Kay Sirotiak - email@example.com
Mortgage Broker
"Having worked in the Real Estate industry for over a decade, I have had the pleasure to work with Richard Raap on numerous transactions. His communication skills and knowledge in Real Estate is tremendous. He is always available to help ensure a smooth transaction, fulfills his commitments and besides being a very likeable person, he is someone that you can trust."
- Christopher Eastman CRMS - firstname.lastname@example.com
Out-of-State Seller
"I live in Indiana and Richard was there to help my mother sell her Chicago condo after having lived there for 32 years. His professionalism and patience was terrific. It made the fact that I did not live in Illinois no issue at all. His use of e-mail to make sure I had all current market information was most important to me. We enjoyed working with Richard very much and would recommend him to anyone."
- Janice Replogle - firstname.lastname@example.com
Sold Condo in West Rogers Park
"I recently sold my condo in West Rogers Park in 2 days! We had multiple offers and ended up selling for $3,000 over the list price. This was certainly possible due to the skills of my broker, Richard Raap. Mr. Raap has tons of experience in the real estate field, along with precision marketing that contributed to the condo selling FAST! There wasn't one hiccup in the entire process. I really wasn't prepared for how quickly this all happened, and I could not be any more pleased! Go with the best, and go with experience!"
- Carol Divencizo - firstname.lastname@example.com
Multiple Property Client
"We choose to work with Mr. Raap based on his integrity and knowledge. We expected him to find us what we were looking for in a home, and he exceeded our expectations. What impressed us the most was his honesty and willingness to educate us on buying/selling a home. I would recommend Mr. Raap to anyone who is in the market for buying/selling a home based on our experience with him."
- Irene Beecroft - firstname.lastname@example.com

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Burrup Materials defends plans to mine in the Pilbara
A Perth businessman has defended his plan to mine on heritage-listed land in the Pilbara.
The Greens criticised Burrup Materials' application for three prospecting licenses and one mining lease on a parcel of land on the Burrup Peninsula, which contains an abundance of Aboriginal rock art.
Burrup wants to mine rock for the proposed Dampier Marina.
Burrup Materials Director, Leon Kurt Mauritz says it's economical to mine the rock close to the proposed marina site.
He says he'd like to speak with local Indigenous groups about the plan.
"We will be subject to all of the laws, both state and federal, with regard to the rights and interests of the Indigenous people.
"It is a criminal offence to disturb those Aboriginal artefacts, so I won't be doing anything, until all the boxes are ticked.
"People are jumping to conclusions.
"I hope to establish a rock art museum on the site, I see this as an opportunity to centralise some of that rock art and protect it from the elements, protect it from theft and from vandalism, so that future generations can come and look at it, study it and enjoy it," he said.
The Department of Mines and Petroleum says it is undertaking a full assessment of the applications and would not approve any application that could damage or destroy rock art.
The department says if the applications were granted, they would be subject to the provisions of the Aboriginal Heritage Act.
Topics: mining-industry, indigenous-culture
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This post is by Bernie Carr, apartmentprepper.com
During the holidays you may notice an increase in people coming up to your door: leaving flyers, selling something or just being neighborly. But you never know what their intentions are.
The local constables in our area have been warning people to be more vigilant due to a rising number of burglaries. One of the more controversial questions is whether you should answer the door when a stranger knocks or pretend you're not home.
So, should you answer the door when a stranger knocks?
Our local law enforcement does recommend that you should answer the door from behind the locked door. The reason for this is, many thieves knock on the door to find out if someone is at home. If someone answers, they avoid the house because they are looking for an easy target. But if you pretend you are not home, they may try to sneak in and find you, placing you in danger.
At the same time, the person knocking may not have ill intentions at all, and there would be no reason to fear them. Answering the door without opening it at first will at least allow you to find out what they want.
What I encountered when I went door to door for charity
I myself have accompanied my kids when going door to door selling tickets for a charity fundraiser. Many neighbors seem to get freaked out when you ring the doorbell. Standing outside, I can usually tell if someone is at home. You can tell if it's kids but lots of adults just stand there as well. It's just a sad fact of life while living in the big city. Many people may live next to each other for years and never get to know each other. I didn't take it personally if they don't answer the door. But the few who did answer their doors either said they weren't interested or gladly bought tickets.
Recently, a couple of senior homeowners were robbed when a woman and a child knocked on their door. They let their guard down talking to the woman while an accomplice either snuck in through a back door or forced their way into rob them.
I can definitely see both sides of the issue. Here's what I think:
- Check who is at the door by looking out the window. Some doors have peepholes but many do not.
- Answer the door and ask what they want. On one hand, you may be worried about safety but on the other hand, the person knocking may just be a neighbor needing to talk to you about something.
- If you get a bad or nagging feeling, don't open the door. Trust your gut.
- Keep your door locked at all times.
- Tell children and young teens never to open the door when someone knocks or rings the doorbell. If they notice that someone is at the door, they need to let an adult know. A couple of home invasions in the city resulted when teens opened the door without checking first.
- In case of a break-in while you are at home, have a weapon nearby and know how to use it.
- Or, at the very least, always have your cell phone handy in case you are in danger and have to call 9-1-1.
In answer to the original question about whether you should answer the door, yes, you should. Find out what they want, but do it behind a locked door. Tell us what you think in the comments below.
© Apartment Prepper 2014
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Mario's Favorite Brother [ VIDEO ]
When I first saw this video, it was a Spanish fandub. I'm guessing that the Pegbarians worked on it with the dubbers, as it was released the very next day after it the original premiered.
I've always been under the opinion that Mario is a pretty crappy brother in my own "comedic" takes of the Super Mario Bros., I'm guessing that the Pegbarians' opinion of the world's most famous Italian plumber are very similar. It's a refreshing sense of solidarity.
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Property Location
Located in Albury, Astor Hotel Motel is minutes from Albury Library Museum and Albury Art Gallery. This motel is within close proximity of Commercial Golf Resort and Albury Botanic Garden.
Make yourself at home in one of the 45 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and LCD televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have showers and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as desks and coffee/tea makers.
Grab a bite to eat at the motel's restaurant, which features a bar, or stay in and take advantage of room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge. Cooked-to-order breakfasts are served on weekdays from 6 AM to 9 AM and on weekends from 6 AM to 9 AM for a fee.
Business, Other Amenities
The front desk is staffed during limited hours. Free self parking is available onsite.


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In this 6 week workshop (Saturdays) students will be introduced to the foundations of yoga. Learning through physical poses and meditation students will gain confidence, strength and flexibility, for the body and the mind. Challenging, fun balancing poses and flow sequencing will be introduced as well as a collective environment where students can feel safe to explore and express themselves within the group. This workshop hopes to give students the tools to help them navigate through stressful situations and become more self aware. Yoga encourages positive and thoughtful introspection helping to foster kindness and self empowerment.
$48 plus HST ($54.24). Go to our pricing page to purchase and register.
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There are no learning objectives being displayed when trying to create new quiz or flashcards for the CCSP book.
Previously this has worked for me (about a week ago). I have tried IE and Chrome; they both do the same thing - nothing displayed. I have also tried Firefox, but the page won't even load with this browser.
If I use my Android phone, I am presented with the objectives, but I would much prefer to use my laptop.
Can you assist with resolution ASAP please?
Thank you for your post! I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
Would you mind responding with a screen shot of the issue?
Have a nice evening!
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This article will discuss an effective vegetable juice drink for treating cancer. This vegetable juice can be used in two different ways.
First, by far the MOST EFFECTIVE way to use this vegetable juice is to use it as part of a "juice fast," meaning a person eats NOTHING but the vegetable juice and water during the treatment, sometimes for 3 or 4 or 5 weeks at a time
This treatment is actually described in the Brandt Grape Cure article and is accomplished by substituting the vegetable juice (described in this article) for the grapes and grape juice (described in the Brandt Grape Cure article). In other words, you will use the Brandt Grape Cure article for the treatment, but substitute the vegetable juice (in this article) for the grapes and grape juice (in the Brandt Grape Cure article).
Let me say this another way. You will use the Brandt Grape Cure article as the TREATMENT for cancer, but you will substitute "vegetable juice" (in this article) for the "grapes and grape juice" (in the Brandt Grape Cure article).
DO NOT USE BOTH vegetable juices and fruit juices during the treatment, use ONE OR THE OTHER type of juice.
Using a vegetable juice in this manner is a true Stage IV cancer treatment, however, the Brandt Grape Cure article qualifies this statement.
There are two articles which are relevant to using the vegetable juice in this way. First, the Brand Grape Cure article (which describes the treatment) and second, the "cancer theory" article (which discusses the theory of a "juice fast").
Brand Grape Cure – substitute vegetable juices for grape juices
Cancer Theory Article – see "juice fasts" section
Second, a person can use the vegetable juices as one of several alternative cancer treatments. See the Stage III article for more information (the Lorraine Day, M.D. treatment uses a vegetable juice as well):
Treatment for Stage I, II, and III Cancer Patients
When using the vegetable juice in this manner, a strict cancer diet is required.
How It Works
Raw Food Treatment
If the day ever comes that Big Pharma and its obedient puppy-dogs ever succeed in achieving their goal of total suppression of our availability to vitamin and mineral supplements, fear not, there are food diets perfectly capable of curing cancer. All you need is a juicer and perhaps a food processor if you can afford both.
Cooking food destroys 100% of all enzymes in a food. Because many foods contain the necessary enzymes needed to digest that food (and get the nutrients out of the food), cooking food places a great burden on our body and does not allow you to get as many nutrients out of the food. Actually, cooking food does damage to the value of the food in over two dozen different ways (see my links).
While it may be true that some nutrients are made more readily available by cooking, overall, it is better to eat vegetables raw than cooked, boiled or broiled. Some vegetables, however, are generally, but not always, cooked, such as peas and green beans, to name but two.
Also, there are two advantages to juicing vegetables and fruits. First, juicing makes the nutrients in a fruit or vegetable more digestible by the body, meaning more of the nutrients are extracted from the vegetables or fruits with less of the obstructing fibers. The second advantage is that you can consume a lot more vegetables (particularly vegetables and fruits with cancer killing nutrients) in a shorter amount of time and with a lot less effort. Juicing is an excellent way to consume your fruits and vegetables.
The bad thing about juicing is that the nutrients are not extracted sufficiently from the seeds or skins of some key vegetables and fruits. If you are eating a food where the seeds and/or skins contain key cancer fighting nutrients (e.g. purple grapes), you should not use a juicer for the seeds or skin, but rather use a food processor or use a hand grinder, to grind the seeds and skins to make mush.
There are many different raw food diets. The first thing you need to understand is that not all vegetables and fruits are equal in their ability to treat cancer. Remember, our main purpose here is to treat cancer. Your fruit and vegetable juice should be massively unbalanced with the vegetables and fruits that have the best cancer-killing nutrients. If you randomly put fruits and vegetables in your juice, the benefits of the juice will be greatly decreased!!
Closer to home, I have seen a clear pattern in the people I have interviewed, and testimonials that I have read, that carrot juice was the core element of their raw food diet. While the day may come that some other vegetable, such as beetroots (i.e. red beets), may be shown to be even better, until that day comes it would be advisable to make sure that carrots are the core of your vegetable juice.
It should also be noted that carrot juice and other vegetable juices can be combined with other foods in a Stage III cancer treatment, but should be used by themselves in a Stage IV cancer treatment. See my "grape cure" article for how to substitute carrot juice and beet juice, in place of grapes, in that Stage IV cancer treatment:
Grape Cure Article
Vegetables Juices
AS A MINIMUM, the vegetable juice should include:
1) Carrot juice (1 to 2 quarts/liters),
2) Beet juice (from at least 2 red beets, with their beet tops)
3) A significant amount of cruciferous vegetables including: broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower (this is for both the cancer and the critical protection of the liver)
A small and decreasing amount of fruit juices which contain very little glucose can be added for taste (more will be said about this issue below). Not all vegetables can be eaten raw, but the ones above can be eaten raw or juiced. You can also EAT any of these vegetables, except carrots, with the Raw Food diet!! This especially applies to cruciferous vegetables.
Here are just a few of the cancer cell killing nutrients (direct or indirect) in vegtables:
Raw Carrots (alpha carotene, beta carotene, Vitamin E, etc.),
Raw Broccoli (sulforaphanes/isothiocyanates),
Raw cabbage (isothiocyanates),
Green Asparagus (saponins),
Beetroot/red beets (proanthocyanidins (PAC's or OPC's)), and
Turmeric (a spice) (curcurmin).
A vegetable juice using 1 quart of carrots is the miniumum level of carrots that is acceptable. Vegetable juices with 2 quarts of carrots has also been used by many people.
At least 80% or above of the vegetable juice should come from vegetables with known cancer-fighting abilities, although other vegetables are not far behind the ones I just mentioned.
Friut Juices
RAW fruits you should focus on are: purple grapes (with skins and seeds), red raspberries, black raspberries, strawberries, and other non-citrus fruits, with their seeds, especially peaches and apricots (the seed is inside a hard shell). Actually, any fruit with dark blue or dark purple coloring is acceptable, such as blueberries. Raw pineapple is especially good if you can get it and afford it. Tomatoes also have cancer fighting nutrients.
Here is a sample of the known cancer-killing nutrients in fruits:
Raw pineapple (bromelain and pexoxidase),
Whole purple grapes with seeds and skins (more than a dozen, see Grape Cure article),
Apricot seeds (laetrile),
Strawberries, red raspberies, black raspberries (laetrile and ellagic acid),
Blueberries (ellagic acid, anthrocyanins, OPC),
At least 80% or above of the fruit juice should come from fruits with known cancer-fighting abilities.
Combining vegetable juice and fruit juice will be discussed below.
Diet Details and Warnings
When a person combines other foods high in glucose with the vegetable juice or fruit juice, then the cancer cells are getting glucose from multiple sources and they may be getting a lot of nutrients from these other foods. These other nutrients may not kill cancer cells as well as carrot juice and some of the other vegetable juices.
In other words, mixing these juices with foods that contain their own glucose DILUTES the amount of cancer-killing nutrients that get into the cancer cells, making the treatment LESS effective!!
The question naturally arises, how about combining a good vegetable juice with a good fruit juice? First of all, vegetables and fruits should not be consumed within a couple of hours of each other anyway. If you want to take both vegetable juices and fruit juices, I would take them on separate days. I have never heard of this being done, but in theory I see nothing wrong with it.
Also, it would be good to fast 12 hours each day, such as from 8:00 PM (2000) to 8:00 AM (0800). The word "fast" means different things in different contexts. In this context water would be acceptable.
The foods that should be taken during a vegetable day or a fruit day should be foods that are very low glucose diet. My cancer diet is such a diet, but even among this diet it may be wise to pick the foods with the least amount of glucose while on the Raw Food diet. All of the glucose should come from cancer-fighting vegetables (or fruits if you are using a fruit juice diet).
Here is my normal cancer diet:
Cancer Diet
This cancer diet, by the way, forbids a large amount of carrots and almost no fruits. However, since in this case the carrots or fruits are part of the treatment, it is OK.
You will note that many of the other cancer food diets are close to raw food diets, but not quite. It would be good to convert these diets to full raw food diets, except for things in the other diets that you must eat or must not eat.
I want to emphasize one thing. On the internet there was a cancer treatment known as the Wortman Grape Cure. In this diet a person was allowed to eat anything they wanted from noon to 8:00 PM. Feedback I got from cancer patients, or their representatives, indicated that this treatment did not work very well (i.e. it was not effective). I want to emphasize that foods that are eaten during a vegetable juice or fruit juice day should be limited to very low glucose foods!!
An alternative cancer treatment should be a complete treatment protocol. Do NOT forget to study the complete treatment protocol for Stage I, II and III cancer patients and the complete treatment protocol for Stage IV cancer patients:
Treatment For Stage I, II and III Cancer Patients
Treatment For Stage IV Cancer Patients


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Today is a new day in a new month, i just want to remind you that you need self love if you really desire to make a positive impact in life because you can give what you don't have.
- Love God in other to know what's love.
- Love yourself in other to love people.
- Be happy in other to spread happiness around.
- Be joyful in other to spread joy around.
- Never allow any dull moment, you are here to show forth God's glory.
Remember you are fearfully and wonderfully made never allow anyone or anything make you believe otherwise.
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I agree with classical musician Johann Sebastian Bach when he says, "Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul." God-honoring music is more than just piano and organ hymnals that you would hear in your grandparents' church. Christian music is a general term that encompasses myriads of genres with the single commonality of an inspirational theme in the lyrics. This is the style of music that ToastPop Girl enjoys the most. So, she has compiled a listening guide based on the top ten most popular Christian songs as rated by Billboard charts (as of last week) to help find an inspirational musician or band that suits your musical tastes if you're interested.
- Topping the list is Matt Redman's "10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)". His style is worshipful and emulates pop. He has collaborated with many of the leading names in worship in the Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) industry, like Michael W. Smith, Matt Maher, Hillsong United, David Crowder Band, Chris Tomlin, and Louis Giglio.
- Then there's TobyMac with his wildly popular and successful summer single, "Me Without You". He's one of the first rap artists for CCM, and found his professional beginnings in the 90's with a group called DC Talk. Since the new millennium, TobyMac has been on a solo career, releasing five studio albums—the fifth one having just dropped contains this track. Toby doesn't stray far from his hip-hop beginnings, and he mixes it with rock and pop elements.
- Tenth Avenue North with their song, "Losing" takes third. They're a unique, modern blending of pop-rock, power pop, acoustic and indie. They take their name from a road in their hometown, West Palm Springs, Florida.
- At the number four spot lives "Where I belong" by Building 429, an upbeat, pop-rock band. As of this writing, this song has spent a year on this chart! Their name comes from the Christian Bible, in Ephesians 4:29, "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen." (New International Version)
- "The Hurt and the Healer" from MercyMe is at number six. This group, considered to be in the pop-rock genre, is best known for the song, "I Can Only Imagine".
- Newsboys, my all-time favorite band, holds the seventh position on the list with "God's Not Dead (Like a Lion)". Newsboys began in the eighties, so they have a long career with many great hits that have embraced many different musical flavors, but they're best stuff is generally of the pop, rock, and worship style.
- Number eight goes to Christ August and "Center of It". He's been playing music since he was young, and produced records for Brian McKnight and Jessica Simpson before he went into the Christian music business. August writes songs of faith, hope, and love and merges them with a catchy pop-rock sound meant to draw listeners in from all walks of life.
- Holding the ninth spot is "Live Like That" by Sidewalk Prophets. This band started when they were leading worship music at their alma mater Anderson University. They have a light country sound.
- Last but not least is "Jesus, Friend of Sinners"from Casting Crowns, a soft-rock band that is quite popular in the industry. Their songs are featured on the movies "Facing the Giants" and "Courageous". Currently living in Georgia, some of
the band members are ministers in their church.
These are just some of the many great CCM musicians, writing great songs, and serving an even greater purpose: to honor God through music that can be enjoyed by all. Even if it's not on the list, there should certainly be out there an inspirational equivalent to your kind of music! If you know of a great Christian musician or band, leave ToastPop Girl a comment describing their style. She would also be happy to help you find some Christian music that you might like if you tell her what you're looking for.


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BZ140: REDUCED! 7 Bedroom Home at mile 13 ½ Miles Philip Goldson Highway, Belize District
13 1/2 Mile PG Highway, Boom Junction
- Size: 2500 square feet
- Lot Size: 17,496.99 square feet
- Bedrooms: 7
- Bathrooms: 4
- Total Rooms: 7
- Floors: 2
- Year Built: 1998
7 Bedroom Home ideal for retirement/rental income mile 13 ½ Miles Philip Goldson Highway, Belize District
Location 13 ½ Philip Goldson Highway, Belize District
Description Residential/Retirement/Bed & Breakfast
Lot 11 Dimension Home built on this lot
East along road 90 feet
South boundary 78 feet (along 40 ft road easement)
West Boundary 100 feet adjacent to lot 10
North Boundary 83 feet
Area of lot 969.67 square yards/8,727.03 square feet
Lot 10 Dimension Vacant Lot
East boundary 83 feet, adjacent to lot 11
South Boundary 88 feet along 40 foot road easement
West Boundary 100 feet
North Boundary 77 feet
Area of lot 974.44 square yards/8,769.96 square feet
Total Bedrooms 7 bedrooms
Bathrooms 4 Bathrooms
Total Living Area +-2,500 square feet
Built 1998
Price $450,000.00US or $900,000.00BZ Negotiable
REDUCED TO $399,000.00US or $798,000.00BZ Negotiable!
Closing Fees Are assumed by Purchaser (Stamp Duty, Registration fees and Attorney's fee)
Notices Price deem to change without notice
Any or all offers may be rejected by the owner
Property being sold as is, where is; transferrable title
Turnkey Purchase!
Permits Central Bank Permits may be required to be attained for any transactions
This is a home for someone who is looking for the right place to settle in and relax and forget about the hustle and bustle of the city life. This home is ideal for those wanting to escape from the frigid cold or for those who are ready to wind down in life and to enjoy their hard work in a place like Belize!
This 2-storey home is ideal for many uses. The home is great opportunity for a mix usage of rental income since at the Burrell Boom junction there is a medical university and students are always searching for rentals. Also, with great growth in demand for rental units as in Air B and B this property could be rented it to those travellers wanting affordable housing.
The home is divided into 3 units which of 2 are being rented earning rental income. The ground floor units are the ones that are being rented to long and short tenants. The first unit consist of 1 bedroom, 1 full size bathroom, kitchen, dining and living room. The second unit is a larger area with 2 bedrooms, 1 full size bathroom, living area, kitchen and dining area. The third unit is the upstairs which is a single family dwelling consisting of 3 bedrooms, 1 full size bathroom, master bedroom with master bathroom and private veranda overlook the beautiful farm across from the property, full size kitchen with well-kept cabinetry, recessed lighting, dining and living room also boast of recessed lighting and popcorn ceilings, utility room and rear steps leading to the downstairs.
The entire home is fully tiled and burglar barred. The owners address any maintenance issue to the building and the lots are well manicured. The entire perimeter of the two lots are on 3 blocks above the ground with chain link fence on 3 sides, on the main road access the fence is approximately 6 feet high concrete block fencing.
All utilities are on the property including, potable water, cable, internet, phone service.
This lovely home is approximately 4.5 miles to Ladyville where you have large shops and fuel stations and the international airport is approximately 5.5 miles from the property. Belize City is approximately 13.5 miles from the property.
Owner may consider selling the home on lot 11 or sell lot 10 or as a package. Contact for full details. Book a tour!
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Florida Atlantic University (FAU), has six campuses across Florida. The Fort Lauderdale campus is conveniently located in central Fort Lauderdale with easy access to the airport, the waterfront, and the beach. Multiple bus routes get you quickly around the city. Due to its easy accessibility, there are many hotel options at friendlier price points outside of the city core. Near the airport, there are many chain hotels including Holiday Inn and Quality Inn and Suites, which offer reliable services at affordable prices.
The most convenient way to get to Florida Atlantic University is by flying directly to the Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International Airport. A regional airport, it makes for a smooth and easier flying experience, however, there are not that many airlines serviced by this airport. Hoping on the #1 bus from the airport will get you to campus in 30 minutes. Alternatively, you can fly into Miami International Airport. A larger airport and serviced by many airline carriers, Miami International is a short 45 minute drive away. You can also get to Fort Lauderdale from Miami by taking the Tri-Rail.
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Jennifer Aniston's new movie Wanderlust opens today, and if you go see it be sure to check out the chic accessories on our March InStyle cover girl. Jennifer Meyer created two of the pieces Aniston's character Linda wears, and we caught up with the jewelry designer (and wife of actor Tobey Maguire) to get the inside scoop on her movie star-worthy looks. "Jennifer has such an amazing, innate sense of style," Meyer told InStyle.com. "Ultimately, Jen always knows what her character should be in and has the final say." For Wanderlust, Aniston wore Meyer's Double Dome Ring ($6,500 at ylang23.com) and Diamond Stick Necklace ($1,050 at barneys.com). And this isn't the first time she's worn Meyer on the big screen—Aniston also wore Meyer pieces for The Breakup, Marley & Me, Just Go With It, and He's Just Not That Into You. "She is not only an amazing model for my jewelry," Meyer said, "but I am also lucky to call her a friend." Tell us: Do you plan on seeing Wanderlust?
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Akshay Kumar's Rustom: Movie Review & Rating | Hit or Flop :- Rustom is one of the most awaited movies of the year. People are attracting towards the movie in very good numbers. I am sure that the movie going to make the good impact in box office. People who watching the movie saying the good word of mouth for the movie as well as other critics looking positive towards the movie too. Rustom is Indian crime-mystery film written by Vipul K Rawal and directed by Tinu Suresh Desai. It features Akshay Kumar and Ileana D'Cruz in the lead roles.
Rustom Movie Review And Rating
As I told you above that the movie is mind blowing and I am sure that you all going to love this flick. Akki is looking so good in the navy soldier dress and he is looking so mysterious and mature in the movie. Also, on the other hand Ileana D'Cruz playing a good character in the movie where she is looking hot and attractive.
Basically, the direction is one of the main concepts in the movie because it is strong as expected by the critics. Also, this year Akki looking so serious towards his acting and he is choosing only perfect story movies for him and that is cool. Fans are really going to love this flick of Akki because of his good acting with good story plot and good direction.
Story Based on-
It is based on the real life incident of Naval Officer K.M. Nanavati. People have good buzz for the movie and they going to watch this movie for sure. Also, after the first weekend Rustom going to get the profit of Independence Day of India. In the movie Akki playing a mysterious character of a Naval officer who murdered his own wife and became the prisoner.
Bollywood Julie 2 Movie Review & Rating | Hit Or Flop
Positive point of the movie-
- The movie has good and affective story plot.
- Music and acting so good people going to love it.
- Directional work is awesome and going to attract good audience towards it.
Negative point of the movie-
- Editing is average in the movie.
- Locations are not that affective.
- Cinematography is average.
Final verdict-
Well, the movie is awesome and I am sure that you all going to love this flick. Rustom is complete package of entertainment where you going to see drama, Murder thriller and other related things.
Directed by: Tinu Suresh Desai
Produced by : Neeraj Pandey, Aruna Bhatia, Nittin Keni, Akash Chawla, Virender Arora, Ishwar Kapoor, Shital Bhatia
Written by: Vipul K. Rawal
Based on: K. M. Nanavati v. State of Maharashtra
Starring: Akshay Kumar, Ileana D'Cruz, Arjan Bajwa Esha Gupta
Music by: Ankit Tiwari, Jeet Ganguly, Raghav Sachar, Arko Pravo Mukherjee
Cinematography: Santosh Thundiyil
Releasing date: 12/08/2016
Rating: 3.5/5


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This might be the first time we're featuring a forum that is less than a week old. Just 4 days ago James (veritas) started The Unofficial B-Cast Forum for fans of the daily B-Cast show. What's interesting, is this forum caught my eye within 2 days of launch due to its spread on twitter with 're-tweets' and it's enormously fast growth (over 200 posts from 30 members in just 2-3 days).
Unofficial B-Cast Forum Stats:
* Age: < 4 days
* Threads: 67
* Posts: 274
* Members: 37
* Software : lefora
What is your forum about?
My forum is a "fan" site for Breitbart.tv's The B-Cast, which is a daily M-F 4pm to 6pm eastern webcast with live chat, hosted by Scott Baker and Liz Stephans. They are very active in the conservative media and Scott Baker was recently featured on the Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck Show. They focus on the political topics of the day and various other news breaking events like the Acorn scandal along with other interesting stories and the occasional humorous viral videos. The forums seek to reflect that same type of information.
Have you run a forum before?
I have been an Admin on a few successful political forums and have tried to launch a couple of others in the past.
I see you've had a lot of ppl retweet about your forum on twitter, how did you go about motivating other people to tweet about your forum?
Well I would like to say I had a lot to do with it, but it was really just the chat members letting others know what we were doing.
How else have you been promoting your forum?
I have really just been using twitter and our chat community at The B-Cast to promote it. Along with putting it in my signature when posting elsewhere. I tried to use the sidebar function to create a custom html widget to show The B-Cast's twitter posts. I followed the directions in the support FAQ, but for some reason I can not get it to work.
Is there anything else you've been doing to help generate such high posting activity over the first few days of your forum?
That is pretty much it. I happen to have a great pool of the B-Cast community supporting what we are trying to do. I think that was key. There was already a group of like minded people that were anxious to express their ideas, I just gave them one more place with a little different format to do so. I hope that as The B-Cast grows, our fan community will as well. The B-Cast's URL is http://www.breitbart.tv/livestream/ the show is M-F from 4 to 6 eastern and the previous day's show loops after that until midnight or for weekends when the next live show starts.
How did you find out about Lefora and what made you choose it as your forum software?
To be honest, not knowing exactly how people would like the forum idea even though many said they would, I Googled for a free format and found Lefora. I like the WYSIWYG style for the posters. I will say that since most of the sites where I have been an Admin were phpbb, the Admin tools are a little limiting, but sometimes simple is better. I like the way this site takes many of the headaches most Admin face, such as spam, and tackle that for us. Also, the theme format that was available and I chose was perfect to coincide with The B-Cast.
Finally, is there anything else you'd like to share with fellow admins?
I would say that one thing I have learned is make sure you identify your audience before starting a forum. If you can find something that already has a following online, but not a forum, you will probably be able to get members. The trick after that is keeping them. I think it will work for The B-Cast forums, because this was started by me as a service to my other Bcasters. I believe in what Liz and Scott are doing and I want to promote it any way I can!
Myself and several others of a growing audience have been involved in the chat aspect of the show for quite some time now. When chat was left open around the clock, we started noticing that people would show up at all hours of the day and night and just chat and share links. But as you probably know, chat is like dropping leaves in a stream. If you are not there at the time, you more than likely will miss whatever is said or posted. Because even though the chat runs all the time, it does clear from time to time. I thought that the same people involved in the chat all with very similar interests in politics might want a forum to give more permanence to posts and allow people to get their posts seen by more members and have more time to really expound on their points. Chat only allows for quick one line types of posts and with the viewership rising continually it was getting harder to get your posts seen. I think that the chat feature is what makes The B-Cast special because we can interact with the hosts during the live shows, but people still wanted to talk even after the 2 hour show was over. I floated this idea of a forum and several of the chat members thought it was a good idea. That is why I started the "Unofficial B-Cast" forums.
Author's Comments: In just a few days, James has done a terrific job of realizing another outlet was need for a community and so he started a forum on Eamped.com (running the Lefora forum software). He took an active chat room and turned it into a thriving forum overnight. From posting links in their chat room to his use of Twitter and of other members 're-tweeting' his message to their network has helped contribute to this success.
It was also interesting to read his comments on the Lefora software – at first it seems limiting, but it's simple and automatically takes care of the many headaches that admins have to deal with on other forum software, like spam prevention and theming. Our goal is to hide complexities so that the admin interface is incredibly simple to use and not overwhelming. We spend extra time programming automatic community functions into the forums, so admins can spend their time fostering their community, not tweaking a bunch of settings.


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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: slightly OT? software to insert comments in mp3's
slightly OT? software to insert comments in mp3's
From: basslover <basslover_at_adelphia.net>
Date: 2005-01-24
All you guys are so knowledgable, I figured this was the best place to ask:
I'd like to, on the fly, be able to play an mp3, and then whenever I want to, pause, record and insert via a mike a verbal comment at that point, and then let the mp3 play on. I'd want to be able to do this several times in one mp3.
Anyone know any software that can do this?
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Padre, Chiesa di san Lorenzo
The Church is delighted with the results.
The atmosphere inside the dome is exactly as we wanted it to be. The sunlight shines through the central oculus with the shadow of a dove symbolising the Holy Spirit that hovers on the assembly. The design of the speakers also reflects the ecclesiastical nature of the building. The sound is now exquisite and we were pleased when the opera singer, Andre Bocelli, who performed here recently, complimented the sound quality.
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We were amazed at the quality and efficiency.
I measured the decibel reduction over the length of the galley and it was incredibly small, less than 3 decibels, half the normal loss. This means that visitors sitting just a few centimetres beneath the speakers can hear practically the same strength and quality of sound as visitors 6 metres away. Being a modern contemporary design, the Omnis are handmade ceramic sculptures in their own right, blending in unobtrusively with the gallery surroundings.
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The ceramic Omni speakers is visually stunning and produces superb acoustic results.
For the last 30 years I have been listening carefully to sound and more recently specialising in loudspeaker performance. I was particularly impressed with Geminos by Francesco Pellisari that were exclusively sold through Apple. They produced a rich powerful sound, in keeping with musicians intentions.
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NACSound surprised us.
When we were putting our product portfolio together we were looking for a brand with loudspeakers that didn't necessarily look like loudspeakers. Besides that the most crucial criteria was that it would acoustically perform just as good or better than the usual stand mount or floor standing speaker. NACSound surprised us with their emerging sound and their ability to involve an audience during music reproduction. As a bonus their omni directional characteristics not only bring you closer to the music, but deal with difficult room acoustics far better than regular loudspeakers.


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Twomey Silver Oak Cellars Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast 2008
Winemaker's Notes:
2008 will be known as a vintage of great balance. The 2008 growing season started cool and dry, carrying over the drought effects from 2007 into spring. Cold weather in April delayed growth, but the frosts were mild with very little damage. A warm and calm bloom period gave excellent fruit set. Summer weather was mild with temperatures rarely exceeding 90˚F. The lack of fog was notable. August brought perfectly warm weather to push ripeness along and the touch of morning fog helped retain fresh acidities as the flavors developed. The fruit was harvested during the cool early morning and transported by refrigerated truck to the winery where it was immediately sorted and destemmed. Whole clusters were added to open-top fermenters and the must underwent a seven-day cold soak to gently extract the grapes' delicate flavors and color. The cap was punched down every six hours to further extract color and aroma at the height of fermentation. The juice was allowed to rest on its skins to build structure post fermentation for a maximum of four days adding further delicate nuances. The free run juice was drained and the wine was gently pressed off the skins. The wine was aged for 12 months sur lies in 100% French Burgundy barrels, 40% new.
Editorial Reviews for Twomey Silver Oak Cellars Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast
This is a decidedly assertive wine on the nose with graham cracker and cocoa notes accenting the meaty, black cherry fruit that shows hints of black tea, cola, coriander seed and vanilla. With it's big, rich entry this is a bit deceptive at first but quickly rallies to show great acidic spice and fine freshness. The fruit has a lovely stemmy edge to it in the mouth and is fresher than the nose suggests. The tannins are really soft, giving the wine some breadth while not detracting from the core of wild cherry fruit that flows across the palate. There is a bit of wood tannin that pops on the finish, and while this comes of as a bit simple it shows great purity to the fruit and finishes with solid length. 90pts
Subdued on the nose, with a soft blackberry note topped by a light, dried citrus zest tone and gentle, smoky oak notes. Rather tense on entry and with fairly assertive acids, though the fruit fairly quickly conceals most of the acidity. The tannins are small and fairly finely textured but not so polished as to render this with textural contrast. The mouthfeel is honest and fresh, and the mid-palate shows nice cherry fruit with a hint of red plum, before turning slightly spicy with herbal top notes and a creamy, oak-inflected element that drives the subtle yet long finish. This is a somewhat understated wine, but for those who favor subtlety over power and enjoy an elegant Pinot this is a solid choice. 93pts
Intense and a bit meaty on the nose with a fruity and slightly jammy blend of vanilla, strawberry cream and black cherry cola aromas, wrapped with notes of alderwood and candied violets. Zesty with bright acidity and a really well integrated, smooth texture in the mouth. This is light- to medium-bodied because of the brightness of the acidity, even though the fruit is explosively rich and perhaps a touch sticky on the palate. Red plums and candied cherry come together on the palate along with hints of vanilla and cranberry/rhubarb compote. This finishes with just as much energy and brightness as it displays on the palate and just enough tannin to keep it grounded and focused through the finish. This is damn fun to drink and delicious. 93pts
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Coffee, cherry and anise on the nose. Very rich, sweet fruit flavors. Very nice.
Tons of big red fruit on the nose, juicy cherry candy (of the Jolly Rancher variety) on the palate. Good acidity, light-bodied.
Rich spicy nose with red raspberries, the mouth is similar but more vegetative, and a bit rubbery. The mouth is really interesting but I don't like it much.
Violets and cherries and powdered sugar nose. Lively and acidic cranberry flavors, loads of fresh spice. Has a lot of character, and even a bit of effervescence.
Funky animal nose. Acidic bright cherries. Leather and tar - slightly complex finish.
Peaches and plums on the nose, with a sweet fruity blueberry flavor in the mouth. Medium bodied. Crisp finish with some blueberry and bramble notes.
Floral scent with dark fruit flavors, low tannin, cherry and peach
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with warmer weather making an appearance i'm getting really excited to start blogging on lighter, refreshing recipes. i purchased a huge 5lb bag of organic fingerling potatoes this past weekend and wanted to use them immediately - the potato colors are beautiful - the bag contains baby yukons, baby reds and baby purples. the colors combined make for a colorful potato salad. i'm a huge potato salad fan and wanted to try and put a fresh spin on the traditional version. to do so, i dressed this potato salad with olive oil, white wine vinegar and fresh dill instead of mayonnaise.
got a favorite potato salad recipe? share it with me! i've got a bunch more up my sleeve. one of my favorites includes my mom's sweet potato salad. stay tuned...her recipe will surely make an appearance on everything reconsidered soon! oh and one last thing - my chocolate zucchini cake was featured on two blogs yesterday!!! At The Picket Fence & Stuff + Nonsense! score :)
dill potato salad
- 1 lb fingerling potatoes cut into 1/2 inch rounds
- 1/4 large sweet onion diced
- 2 celery stalks diced
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1-2 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 2 tbsp fresh dill sprigs chopped
- salt + pepper to taste
- 1 chopped hard boiled egg (optional)
if you choose to add in hard boiled egg - place eggs in cooking pot and cover with water until submerged. bring to a rolling boil - allow to boil for 2 minutes. cover pot and remove from burner. allow to sit 12-15 minutes. run cold water over eggs to stop the cooking process. once eggs are cooled, peel and dice - then sprinkle on top of the dill potato salad. i do this at 5,400 ft above sea level - you will definitely need to adjust depending on where you live.
this is a perfect spring/summer side dish - i've served up with bison hot dogs and pickles. its light and refreshing and not nearly as heavy as the its usual mayonnaisey counterpart. hope you all have wonderful weather, and a restful weekend.


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This morning our local CUF chapter gave a couple of presentations on Papal Primacy / Infalliblity and the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
Before the presentations started we were having a discussion about the Protestant tendency to "proof-text" in their defense of various Protestant doctrines and the refutation of Catholic ones. Proof-texting is the practice of taking a verse or small section of the Bible and using that to "prove" a point without any consideration of the context or other related texts in the Bible.
For example, they use the text about "only God is good" to disprove the Immaculate Conception while at the same time ignoring the passages in the Bible that speak about "good and faithful servants".
This led into the Catholic understanding of Scripture which takes the "both/and" approach. For example, the issue of the "rock on which the Church is built is not either Peter or the Word of God, it is BOTH Peter AND the Word of God.
The talk on Papal Infallibility brought this home clearly as well. You don't have to give up collegiality to have Papal Primacy and Infalibillity, you actually can have both. In the early Church, apart from Rome, most of the Church is what we would consider "Eastern". These churches would convene councils, debate and produce canons which would then be submitted to Rome for final approval – the pope didn't sit in Rome issuing proclamations without any consideration from the rest of the Church.
The doctrine of Papal Infallibility was formally defined at Vatican I and most people assume that the Council simply said that in matters of faith and morals when the pope is specifically declaring something infallible, it is.
While that is true, the council formally declared that the authority of Rome went much further than that:
Wherefore we teach and declare that,
- by divine ordinance,
- the Roman church possesses a pre-eminence of ordinary power over every other church, and that
- this jurisdictional power of the Roman pontiff is both
- episcopal and
- immediate.
- Both clergy and faithful,
- of whatever rite and dignity,
- both singly and collectively,
- are bound to submit to this power by the duty of hierarchical subordination and true obedience, and this
- not only in matters concerning faith and morals,
- but also in those which regard the discipline and government of the church throughout the world.
Did you catch that last part? Members of the Church don't just have to follow Rome on matters of faith and morals, they also have to follow Rome on matters of discipline and governance. For example, Rome recently revoked the United States practice of having extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist purify the vessels. This is a Church discipline but one that various diocese in the United States have said they are not planning on following Rome on. This is unfortunate because of the next thing the document states:
- In this way, by unity with the Roman pontiff in communion and in profession of the same faith , the church of Christ becomes one flock under one supreme shepherd [50] .
- This is the teaching of the catholic truth, and no one can depart from it without endangering his faith and salvation.
Some would look at these pronouncements and say that the pope is like a king, wielding authority over every minutia of the Church. But the Church is neither an authoritarian monarchy nor a democracy:
3. This power of the supreme pontiff by no means detracts from that ordinary and immediate power of episcopal jurisdiction, by which bishops, who have succeeded to the place of the apostles by appointment of the holy Spirit, tend and govern individually the particular flocks which have been assigned to them. On the contrary, this power of theirs is asserted, supported and defended by the supreme and universal pastor; for St Gregory the Great says: "My honour is the honour of the whole church. My honour is the steadfast strength of my brethren. Then do I receive true honour, when it is denied to none of those to whom honour is due." [51]
See? The Church is not either/or it is both/and.
This issue of either/or, both/and has come up for me recently in two separate situations that all have made me wonder if those who within the Church who reject the both/and teaching of the Church also have issues with Infallibility because they all reject the more "traditional" half of various Church teachings.
First, my wife and I went on a Marriage Encounter weekend where two things struck us as very disturbing. One was a portrayal of children almost entirely as a problem to escape from so you can have quality time together. When talking about the life-giving nature of marriage, the couple who gave the presentation equated their involvement in parish activities with having children. The second issue was the presentation of St. Paul's teaching on marriage that completely ignored the headship aspects of the husband and focused exclusively on the mutual submission of husband and wife. We subsequently talked to the couple that had approved the talks and had to argue with them that the Church teaches that marriage is both for having children and for the salvation of the couple. We were told that the Church no longer teaches the part of St. Paul's letter that talks about the headship of the husband. Instead of teaching BOTH aspects of these various beliefs, they focused on one to the conscious exclusion of the other.
Second, my daughter is currently going through First Communion prep and after 10 weeks it is quite clear that the text she is using is intentionally taking the either/or approach to its presentation. The text has presented sections on the saints, reconciliation and baptism without once mentioning either Heaven or Hell and focuses the talk on saints entirely on the social justice good they did. In fact, when talking about the works of mercy, no mention is made of spiritual works of mercy and the corporal works of mercy are just called "The works of mercy". Which leads me to wonder why you would even bother with baptism or confession if all it got you was friendship with Jesus. And why would you bother being Catholic when you can do "the works of mercy" as a non-Catholic?
All of this has led me to be thankful for the Catholic Faith which always looks for the wholeness of truth instead of just pieces – Christ is both God and Man, the eucharist is the Body and Blood of Christ in the appearance of bread and wine, the Church is built on the Word of God and on the succession from Peter. The Church is like a banquet where you get to have everything at the table and not just the rolls on the end.


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Well my friends, today is the end of the 2nd full day of my withdrawals from the major doses of Fentanyl Lollipops that my old GP had me on for the past 10, 11 years now. Yes….I do have many high pain issues but he should not have done this to me. Nothing I can do now, I cannot whine or complain because I must get to the business of getting off of these totally and never going back. But I cannot say that I'm not afraid. The suckers are so far the only thing that have worked for my horrible pain! Everything else either makes me really sick with awful side effects and nausea or it doesn't seem to work well for me. Today I've felt a little bit less of the "wanting" for the suckers. I have felt chills and I have also felt as though I am going to burn on fire until I am just ashes on the floor. I feel so hot …..no..you just don't understand….I feel so hot and I sweat and I've had this feeling all through my RSD/CRPS too, but this is even more powerful. It wakes me up at night and I'm soaking wet and I just wanna "die". No …,not really. …I don't want to leave this world or die…it's more of a "feeling" when that happens that I just need for it to end right then and I cannot take it for another moment.
Today, I had to go to my GP…it's only my 2nd time seeing him. I am unsure about him. The other one, my old one..he did take over when his partner left after 12 years. He did get me the meds that I needed to keep me from being so deathly ill or dying. I think that he thinks the only reason I went to him was for the suckers. Well, he used to be my full time GP and I started seeing his "new" partner 12 years ago because he was so "nice" to me and kind when I was hospitalized for pain control. I had been a patient at first of the Dr. who has taken over since my GP of 12 yrs left abruptly after over medicating many of his patients including me . **My former Dr/GP went to an urgent care in Jackson Michigan called Med express. He cannot write controlled substances anymore because the FEDS came into their office and he was found to be over medicating people. Unfortunately, I am one of them. I have been a trooper, motivated and trying with all of my might to get lower and lower doses of the pain suckers since January 2015. I got down 80% and now since Sunday night going to bed with one in my mouth, I've had ZERO….NADA….NONE!!! I'm now in my 2nd full day and at the end of it actually.
I was a patient there actually since 1986 and the Dr. who has taken over my care, WAS and had been my GP since that time and until I asked the "new Dr" to be my GP when I was hospitalized in 2002 following a MVA. I only stopped seeing the first Dr. because of my parents, who had been horribly abusive on many levels while growing up and even as I was an adult and I confided in him. He helped me to get my SSDI and he believed in me. Until one day 10 years later, my parents walked into his office and started becoming his patients. Instead of him telling them that it was a breech of some kind or unethical or something, he came to my patient room and told me "wow your parents are now my patients too! They seem like nice people and they say that they've done none of the things you alleged that they've done!! You seem like a nice person too and now I don't know who to believe"??? Well, that was enough then and there I got up and left that practice. I tried a few other Dr's but didn't really like any of them. Then after the car accident I got scared because I knew so much was wrong and I had so much pain issues. I needed to go back where my records were and where someone knew me and my history. I told him what I thought about what he said and did and then the new dr arrived on the scene and to make matters easier for everyone, I started seeing him, Dr. Pete Bullach Jr MD.
Well, he helped me and told me that he would "be the eye in the middle of my storm". I wouldn't allow anyone else to prescribe meds for me. We tried many different pain meds and they all made me ill, sick, and left with my pain. They didn't work for me and 99% gave me very bad stomach issues including pain and cramps. I finally found the suckers and they worked for me. They worked for 10 years for me. I did suffer from a heart attack shortly after starting them and then one year later I suffered a CVA. Who knows if the suckers were the culprit or if it was the TBI or any other number of reasons? But I've since read that the Fentanyl lollipops long term, can cause such problems with health. The pain Dr. I have now and who I've only seen one time so far and will see again at the beginning of August, he says that they are for "end of life" and they are "very dangerous". I don't understand the dangerousness of them though? Why am I able to stay on the Fentanyl patch and take Dilauded but these are not dangerous?? I guess I just don't understand. I am just blindly doing what I have to do because either way I need to get off of some of these things because I absolutely HATE feeling "married" to these pain meds and the men with the power to write them for me. The Government thinks they know what pain patients need and they think they know which kinds of pain are worse than other kinds of pain. Who are they or anyone to say that One pain illness is more painful that my very painful pain diseases called "COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME" or "CRPS aka RSD"…??? I will never understand but I don't care. I am strong and have always been strong. I don't like the feelings of withdrawals and as of day #2, today, I don't crave the "sucker" part so much. But in waves I feel terrible and in pain and tired, exhausted and sick. I don't know what will happen but I pray that this new pain Dr will be good to me and keep on believing in me …
I dont know if I have shown you the letter that I have written to the : Dr who took over for my old doc who got into trouble, to my old GP who is at the Urgent care now and the same letter was sent out to the pain Dr who took good care of me and I was a good patient of his from 2002-2005, but when I went back for help at the beginning of this ordeal on January 2nd, 2015, he refused to help me or see me unless he could pass me off to a "friend of his" to be "screened" first by him because he must not trust his own judgement? I've sent them all a letter and I would love to share that letter with you. Below please see a copy of it. I do praise the one doc for helping to take over me and help me through this even though I've heard that there are and have been very very many that he just totally "threw overboard" and "let go" and gave them a script and sent them on their way and told them "not to come back". These were legitimate pain patients because I knew or know a couple of them. I feel or felt the need to get out what I needed to say. I truly am thankful for the one Dr/GP for helping me to go down 80% off of the suckers. But I had no choice in the matter. I was and am at the mercy of all of these people and I absolutely hate it. With my background of abuse and PTSD, it pains me to have someone else in charge of me and my care. I can only hope that the new Dr will continue to believe in me and care for me in a kind and caring way and never give up on me.
So here I sit at the end of day #2 and I'm feeling very very ill, hot and burning up as if to be on fire! I feel cramps and runny nose and eyes and cannot eat much or hold in anything much. I've been trying to to drink but when I have hot drink, I burn up and when I have cold drink, I feel freezing cold. Everything is screwed up and I feel like I am unable to concentrate on anything. I am vlogging this experience on YOU TUBE also. So far they are "private" and if you want to watch them, please email me : firstname.lastname@example.com and I will put you allowed to watch the videos. There are 2 so far and they are dark and made at night, very late when I've been feeling my very worst. Thank you for your interest and I hope one day that this account of my days going through this ordeal, will help someone. Also, things that help with the fire or "on fire" feeling are : cold paks that are in the fridge, around my neck and cold drinks. When I'm hot I try wearing light clothing and drink more cold drinks as I've said and I've been sitting stilll, quite still. I'm having a hard time with concentration too. Please check out the letter that I've sent out to all 3 Dr's, below…..thank you again, Suzanne
The Letter:
July 13,2015
Dear Dr's Brateman, Bullach and Dobritt;
I am writing one letter in the same, to all three of you. First of all, to save myself the work of trying to say many of the same things to all 3 of you. Also, this way you'll be able to better understand how I felt about the breakdown of our patient/Dr. relationships.
First of all, I want to say "thank you " to Dr. Brateman, for allowing me to stay on as a patient and help me reduce my pain medications. Between Jan 1st and July 13, 2015, I brought myself down to Zero, from the huge amount of Fentanyl prescribed for me (by Dr. Bullach). Dr. Brateman was the only physician who had the guts to stick by me. I'm a chronic pain patient with quite a list of real and horrible pain issues, including Systemic "CRPS!
I have been through a lot in my life, but this has got to be right up on top with the worst treatment of a human being that I've personally felt. I'm astounded and ashamed at the treatment I've received from Dr Bullach , who told me for 12 years to "trust him" only to be betrayed and left to suffer on my own, if not for Dr. Brateman.
Next, I went to my scheduled appointment on Jan 2, 2015 with Dr. Dobritt. He informed me that he "never received a letter, records or a phone call from Dr. Bullach regarding my case". Another deception by Dr Bullach. During that same appointment, Dr Dobritt initially indicated that he supported the treatment regimen that Dr. Bullach had me on. But then he "back peddled" and referred me to another pain Dr. I told him that I didn't wish to see another Dr. I've already seen multiple specialists as a result of a MVA in 2002. He'd been my pain Dr. for 3 years following that MVA and I had trusted him.
I went back to Dr. Dobritt in April 2015, after I had gotten myself down 80% from the Fentanyl prescribed originally by Dr. Bullach. I thought he would be proud of me. Imagine my shock & dismay when I arrived and Dr Dobritt refused to see me. He sent a clerk to tell me that he would not see me because I had not gone to be screened by the other pain Dr. prior to this appointment. I cried and begged for him to help me. I was afraid and felt alone in my physical pain and feelings of betrayal and mistrust with the medical professionals who are bound to "first do no harm" according to their own creed. I felt betrayed by his obvious attempt to pass me off to another Dr. instead of helping me.
Because of my own tenacity, I have since found a caring pain Dr. who has helped me get completely off of my former regimen of pain meds. He was equally appalled at the way I had been treated by physicians that I had trusted. Dr. Bullach, your actions; and Dr. Dobritt, your inaction, put my health and possibly my life at risk. You should both be ashamed at the way you treated me and you left Dr. Brateman to clean up your mess. I hope that the two of you do some soul searching and NEVER treat another human being the same way that you have treated me.
With deep sadness, Suzanne Stewart


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As abuse of prescription opioids continues, many users often turn to heroin as a cheaper alternative.
Heroin is an opioid, a class of drugs that relieve pain and, in many cases, often are abused. It causes euphoria and decreased mental function, followed by a drowsy state. Repeated heroin use can actually change the way the brain works, and can lead to tolerance, meaning greater amounts of the drug are needed to create the same effect, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. About 23 percent of those who use heroin eventually become dependent on the drug, which can lead to a myriad of severe health effects. These include withdrawal (e.g., insomnia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, pain, restlessness) if the person stops taking the drug. Overdose also is a huge concern, with one in four heroin users overdosing annually. Heroin is a Schedule I controlled drug in the U.S., meaning it has no currently accepted medical use in the U.S. and a high potential for abuse.
In the U.S., heroin use has almost doubled in recent years, from 373,000 users in 2007 to 620,000 users in 2011, according to the 2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Many new users appear to be young people transitioning from the abuse of prescription drugs to heroin, although the 2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health notes that outside of the figures on increased usage, much of the evidence is anecdotal. Young adult heroin initiates (first time users) ages 18 to 25 have increased, from 53,000 from 2002 to 2005, to 89,000 a year in 2009-2011.
Recent media reports in the U.S. also have indicated that first time users are looking for a cheaper alternative from prescription drugs, and that heroin use is increasing in suburban and rural areas. In fact, the White House's National Drug Control Strategy specifically mentions the rise in the number of young people using heroin and its spread into areas outside of cities, noting that the number of 18 to 25 year olds admitted for heroin treatment jumped from about 43,000 in 2000 to about 68,000 in 2010.
In Europe, however, there appears to have been a decrease in heroin users entering treatment for the first time as well as a decrease in the drug's availability – both indicators of its decline, according to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). A 2011 report in Drugnet Ireland noted that the United Kingdom had experienced a heroin "drought" in November 2010, as hospitals treated a significant number of people who had overdosed on heroin that was mixed with other things, including sedatives, talcum powder and paracetamol. The drought and poorer drug quality also led users to move from smoking heroin to injecting it, and increasing needle size, which upped the risk for overdose.
Heroin shortages also have led to upticks in the use of fentanyl, a synthetic opiate 80 times stronger than morphine that has similar effects to heroin. Estonia has been hit especially hard by fentanyl use.


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Mumbai : Attractive valuations, along with healthy quarterly results supported the key Indian equity indices closed Tuesday's volatile trade session on a positive note after five consecutive days of decline.
After opening on a negative note, the indices rose to intra-day high levels in the early hours of trade, before ceding most of their gains due to weakness in global markets and rise in crude oil prices.
Index-wise, the broader Nifty50 of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) closed at 10,536.70 points — up by 20 points or 0.19 per cent — from its previous close of 10,516.70.
The barometer 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the BSE, which had opened at 34,601.49 points, closed higher by 35.11 points or 0.1 per cent, at 34,651.24 points.
The Sensex touched a high of 34,754.60 points and a low of 34,550.22 points during the intra-day trade.
"After a choppy morning trade, indices firmed up in the afternoon and managed to settle with small gains," said Deepak Jasani, Head of Retail Research at HDFC Securities.
Jasani further told IANS: "Broad market indices like the BSE mid-cap and small-cap indices gained more, thereby outperforming the main indices."
Both the S&P BSE mid-cap and small-cap ended 0.65 per cent from their respective previous closing levels.
Consequently, the BSE market breadth was tilted towards the bulls with 1,405 advances against 1,219 declines. On the NSE, too, the market breadth was positive.
On the currency front, the Indian rupee strengthened by eight paise against the US dollar to 68.05, from its previous close at 68.13 per greenback.
In terms of investments, provisional data with the exchanges showed that foreign institutional investors sold scrips worth Rs 1,651.63 crore, while the domestic institutional investors bought stocks worth Rs 1,496.83 crore.
Sector-wise, the S&P BSE auto index rose the most, by 413.76 points, followed by the metal index which increased by 211.32 points and the healthcare index that ended 143.12 higher from its previous close.
On the other hand, the S&P BSE oil and gas index fell by 59.23 points, followed by the energy index, which ended 11.10 points lower and the FMCG index that fell by 10.97 points.
On the NSE, according to BNP Paribas Mutual Fund's Senior Fund Manager for Equities, Abhijeet Dey, barring the FMCG index, which closed in the red, all other sectoral indices closed the trading day in the positive zone.
Dey further said, auto stocks gained the most among the sectors due to expectation that China may cut import duty on passenger cars.
The major gainers on the Sensex were Dr Reddy's Lab, up 6.30 per cent at Rs 2,013.75; Bajaj Auto, up 3.86 per cent at Rs 2,825; Tata Motors, up 3.78 per cent at Rs 307.75; State Bank of India, up 3.69 per cent at Rs 254.15; and Coal India, up 3.23 per cent at Rs 278.45 per share.
The top losers were Tata Consultancy Services, down 1.40 per cent at Rs 3,508.05; Asian Paints, down 1.27 per cent at Rs 1,283.5; Axis Bank, down 1.27 per cent at Rs 522; IndusInd Bank, down 1.19 per cent at Rs 1,898.50; and ITC, down 1.17 per cent at Rs 278.8 per share.


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House Fire Caused By Lightning
A family from Dubuque, Iowa had gone camping up in Wisconsin during the summer. While they were gone there were bad storms in Dubuque, Iowa. With this storm, there was thunder and lots of lightning. While this family was camping, their house was struck by lightning. When this house was struck by lightning it started on fire. The neighbors of the family camping had to call 911 do to the house on fire.
When the Dubuque, Iowa family returned home they realized half of their house was burnt down. They called Michael at ServiceMaster of the Key City, located in Dubuque, Iowa to help with the cleanup!


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Representatives of the totalitarian and exclusive communist government which controls the fate of our people appeared at my home in Perico, Matanzas, on Tuesday January 12, to advise my daughter, Sahili Navarro Alvarez, that she would be permanently expelled from her fourth year of law school at the university because, months before, she took a journalism course in the Office of Interests and, as a principal requirement of Cuban universities, they train only young future professional revolutionaries.
A trial by fire for Sahili, who was beaten in the street by fanatic cheerleaders on April 26, along with six other Women in White opposite the Perico bus station. That order, against anyone in the 21st century, sent a clear message to the Cuban people and to the world, that the political system which rules in our country is more discriminatory and exclusive than the one which ruled in South Africa during apartheid and that it demands humiliation or submission if one wants to accomplish anything, because universities and liberties in Cuba are fief and chaplaincy of the communist party.
In addition, it is a message to whoever of us want to live with the dignity necessary to emigrate, to live either in glorious exile or in prison. But for the communists who give the orders in our country, I say to them from here that the three people in my home were born in this country and that we will continue to live here even if the only option remaining to us is in its slave prisons, but never on our knees.
From Canaleta Provincial Prison en Ciego de Ávila, Félix Navarro Rodríguez, prisoner of conscience and member of Pedro Luis Boitel Party for Democracy.
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2003-04 University of Arizona Women's Golf Schedule Announced
Aug. 20, 2003
TUCSON, Ariz.-The 2003-04 University of Arizona Women's Golf schedule was announced on August 18, 2003. The nine-member squad will compete in 12 events against some of the best competition in the nation.
The women will compete in five events during the fall season. Arizona starts at the NCAA Fall Preview at Auburn University on Sept. 12-14, which will also host the 2004 NCAA Women's Golf Championships.
The cats next travel to Seattle for the Washington Invitational, hosted by the University of Washington, on Oct. 6-8 and the Stanford/Pepsi Intercollegiate in Palo Alto, Calif., on Oct. 17-19.
The spring 2004 season kicks off in early February at the Regional Challenge, taking place in Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. Arizona hosts the Wildcat Invitational at its home course, Arizona National, on Feb. 23-25. Arizona stays in state to compete in the ASU Invitational in Tempe in early April before competing in the Pac-10 Championships to be held at the Saticoy Country Club in Somis, Calif. on April 19-21.
U of A enters the 2003-04 season with an outstanding squad highlighted by last year's Pac-10 Freshman of the Year and Golfer of the Year, Erica Blasberg. Blasberg, who tied for third place at the 2003 NCAA Championships, competed this summer in the U.S. Women's Amateur and advanced to the quarterfinals.In addition to Blasberg, the Wildcats also return last year's NCAA Fall Preview winner junior Miriam Kraschinski, junior Mar Garcia, sophomore Cassandra Kirkland who posted a 75.26 stroke average in her freshman season with the Wildcats, and NGCA All-American Scholar sophomore Whitney Welch.
Coach Greg Allen moves into his fourth season with the University of Arizona with only one new player, sophomore Alejandra Martin.
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"Faith" by John Bunyan
Faith believes the word of God, but unbelief questions the certainty of it (Psa. 106:24).
Faith believes the word, because it is true; but unbelief doubts thereof, because it is true (1 Tim. 4:3; John 8:45). Faith sees more in a promise of God to help, than in all other things to hinder; but unbelief, notwithstanding God's promise says, "How can these things be?" (Rom. 4:19-21; 2 Kings 7:2; John 3:11-12). Faith will make you see love in the heat of Christ, when with His mouth He gives reproofs, but unbelief will imagine wrath in His heart, when with His mouth and word He says that He loves us( Matt. 15:22-29; 25:34).
Faith will help the soul to wait, though God defers to give; but unbelief will take offense and throw up all, if God makes any tarrying (Ps. 25:5; Isa. 8:17; 2 Kings 6:33). Faith will give comfort in the midst of fears; but unbelief causes fears in the midst of comforts (2 Chron. 20:20, 21; Matt. 8:26; Luke 24:25). Faith will suck sweetness out of God's rod; but unbelief can find no comfort in His great mercies (Ps. 23; Num. 12). Faith makes great burdens light, but unbelief makes light ones intolerably heavy (Mal. 1:12, 13). Faith helps us when we are down; but unbelief throws us down when we are up (Micah 7:8-10; Heb. 4:11). Faith brings us near to God when we are far from Him; but unbelief puts us far from God when we are near to Him (Heb. 10:22; 3:12-13).
Where faith reigns, it declares us to be the friends of God; but where unbelief reigns, it declares us to be His enemies (Heb. 3:18; Rev. 21:8). Faith puts a man under grace; but unbelief holds him under wrath (Rom. 3:24-26; Eph. 2:8; John 3:36; 1 John 5:10; Heb. 3:17; Mark 16:16; John 8:24). Faith purifies the heart; but unbelief keeps it polluted and impure (Acts 15:9; Titus 1:15, 16). By faith the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us; but unbelief shuts us up under the law to perish (Rom. 4:23, 24; 11:32; Gal. 3:23).
Faith makes our work acceptable to God through Christ; but whatsoever is of unbelief is sin. For without faith it is impossible to please Him (Heb. 11:4; Rom. 14:23; Heb. 11:6). Faith gives us peace and comforts our souls; but unbelief works trouble and tossings, like the restless waves of the sea (Rom. 5:1; James 1:6).
Faith makes us see preciousness in Christ, but unbelief sees no form, beauty, or comeliness in Him (1 Pet. 2; Isa. 53:1-3). By faith we have our life in Christ's fullness; but by unbelief we starve and pine away (Gal. 2:20). Faith gives us the victory over the law, sin, death, the devil, and all evils; but unbelief lays us obnoxious to them all (1 John 5:4; Luke 12:46).
Faith will show us more excellency in the things not seen, than in them that are; but unbelief sees more in the things that are, than in things that will be hereafter (2 Cor. 4:18; Heb. 11:24-27; 1 Cor. 15:32). Faith makes the ways of God pleasant and admirable; but unbelief makes them heavy and hard (Gal. 4:6; 2 Cor. 12:10, 11; John 6:60; Psa. 2:3).
By faith Abraham, Isaac and Jacob possessed the land of promise, but because of unbelief, neither Aaron, nor Moses, nor Miriam could get either (Heb. 11:9; 3:19). By faith the children of Israel passed through the Red Sea; but by unbelief the generality of them perished in the wilderness (Heb. 11:29; Jude 5). By faith Gideon did more with 300 men, and a few empty pitchers, than all the twelve tribes could do, because they believed not (unbelief) God (Judges. 7:16-22; Num. 14:11, 14). By faith Peter walked on the water; but by unbelief he began to sink (Matt. 14:22-33) (Excerpted from John Bunyan, The White Devil).
But the Scripture has shut up everyone under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe
Galatians 3:22).
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Greetings! I am Mark Brill (The Brillustrator) and I have created this blog as a place to post my sketches, drawings, comics, paintings, paper sculptures and just whatever the hell I happen to be doing!
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Creepy Characters of Crypticon!
This past weekend I set up shop in the Crypticon Artist's Alley to do Zombiefied Caricatures! The results were mostly positive and a little negative. But I'll get to that in a sec. The event itself is always a lot of fun and it was held in the same Hilton convention center venue that host a few other cons I go to (specifically RainFurrest), so I felt right at home. I knew several of the other venders, such as my friend Quentin Shaw (QEW Publishing), whom I coincidentally ended up sitting right behind...well, back to back--because of the way the tables were set up. Also my friend Nick Gucker (or Nick the Hat, as he is popularly known), a fellow illustrator who does the promotional artwork for Crypticon was nearby. And there were several other artist friends as well as attendee friends I don't get to see very often! So it was great in that respect.
And speaking of "old friends", here's a pic of me hugging the life-size, remote controlled Dalek that the Anglicon folks had at their booth!
Anyway--so the point of the whole thing for me was to do zombiefied caricatures! These were more in the style of studio pieces. I took pics of the clients and we talked about their particular interests. This gave me ideas about elements to incorporate into the artwork. These drawings were bigger and more elaborate than caricatures I've tried before at a venue. I charged more, of course--tho probably not as much as I should have for the amount of work I ultimately did, but my pricing is a work in progress too.
I didn't get as many commissions as I had hoped, but I did OK. Possibly enough to justify trying it again next year. But I have GOT to refine the process. Still have problems with materials and still taking too long--about twice as long as I should...and sometimes more. :P
Anyway--here are some of the pieces that I did along with pics of the happy customers! (That was another good aspect--everybody seemed really pleased with the final results! That's always a good feeling.)
Anyway--there they are, the best of the creepiest! Just wait until next year, Crypticon!!
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Friday, May 8, 2015
Turbo Pony!
The C.L.A.W. strikes again!
My local cartoonist's group (the Cartoonist's League of Absurd Washingtonians) recently held one of our monthly public drawing sessions and the theme was Big Daddy Roth Hotrods! This is normally outside of my comfort zone since I am not a big car enthusiast, but I decided that since Absurd is literally the middle name of my group I would do something as silly as possible. And what could be sillier than taking a My Little Pony sketch-cover comic and turning one of these sweet, innocent, beloved characters into a frothing, bug-eyed, frenzied hotrod street-demon!
Anyway, this was the resulting artwork.
Enjoy! ^0^
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