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As I walked into my office today, I heard news that has become far too common.
Amidst the typical emails, appointments, and projects to complete was a message from a seminary friend. He had just received a campus-wide communication that his favorite professor had been removed from his post. The reason? I'm guessing you already know. Another high profile leader in the American church was removed from ministry for sexual immorality. This breaking story of a respected pastor and revered seminary professor in my community is sadly similar to so many others.
We say that a leader "fell" into sexual immorality. This seems to imply a one-time speed bump that was unexpected––like getting into a car accident. The reality, however, is that no one wakes up completely healthy one day and falls into sexual immorality the next. The news of their behavior or infidelity may send unexpected shockwaves through a community or a church, but in all likelihood the reality of their choices, and the isolation they feel as a leader, has been propelling them in this direction for years, if not decades.
What truly breaks my heart is the rigid, religious system we have created that does not allow a leader to be real. We have elevated leaders––pastors, authors, professors, and presidents––to lofty places. The interviews and auditions that land them these critical positions focus on credentials, past accomplishments, and theology. A few questions are asked about character––habits of Bible study and names of accountability friends––but an assumption of purity in the life of the leader is typical. For someone to be so godly and mature, we assume, they must not struggle with such things as lust, pornography, or inappropriate relationships.
In this assumption of leadership, what we fail to recall is that every leader is first and foremost a human being. As a fellow human being, every leader has a story and a past that continues to create their present struggle for holiness. As a human being, they need a safe place to be real, to be honest, and to face their weaknesses. However, the message we send to our leaders is to go and do that somewhere else. The community they lead is not the community where they can be real.
I know this truth: for over a decade, I played the part of the perfect pastor. I preached all the right sermons. I was "honest" about my weaknesses in all of the socially appropriate ways. I was applauded for my humility as a husband and father, all the while hiding the truth of my addiction to pornography. I thought I could control it in private, because to expose it in public would certainly mean the death of my career. And yet, in a sad irony, it was this private, isolated struggle that nearly brought an end to all that held dear.
By the grace of God, and His sovereign timing, I was rescued from myself by my spouse and a few select friends, who encouraged me to get real and to get help. Were it not for this timely introduction to a healing community, I would soon have joined the unhappy throng of leaders who "fell" into sexual immorality.
Yet, another leader has played the part. He did the dance and sang the song, and we all fell for his charm. His preaching inspired us, his teaching mentored us, and his faith led us. But under it all, he was dying with secret sins and no one to tell.
Is this the kind of church that Jesus envisioned?
Did Jesus imagine a place where leaders would be forced to hide their struggles from all, caught up in the charade they had learned to play so well? Or did Jesus imagine a community where leaders, like the people they were called to lead, could be vulnerable and real, even about their sexual brokenness and sin?
The church––the community of believers––must become a place where even leaders can be real and find redemption for all their issues, or we are no church at all.
So what can we do? What aspects of church culture and our leadership paradigm should we change in order to stop the tide of fallen leaders limping away in disgrace? Here are four ideas I submit for the conversation:
More often than not, we still appoint a leader who is the most gifted and skilled. And in this appointment, we assume spiritual and emotional maturity is present. But what if leadership was less about being the most spiritual person in the room, and more about being called? As it is, leaders feel pressure to continue to appear as the most spiritual person in the room, or else their appointment may seem unjust. However, if a person is called to leadership––and gifted by God for it––then we can approach leadership with the assumption that spiritual growth and maturity will still be a process. Someone may be called and gifted to lead, yet still need healing of the soul in their sexual brokenness. It is possible for them to both lead and to be working toward sexual and emotional health. The two are not mutually exclusive.
If someone can preach, teach, and write books about the Bible, surely they must be mature! If someone can lead other leaders and create a worldwide conference for leaders, surely they must be mature! But are they? Is skill in one area ever enough to compensate for immaturity in our emotional or sexual health? No. More often than not, competency in one area as a communicator or theologian may be a cover up for unaddressed immaturity in another. Maturity must be a holistic view of life that includes physical, spiritual, emotional, and sexual health.
The sad reality for many churches and spiritual communities is that our leaders must be superhuman. We want to believe that someone else has this spiritual life dialed in, and if we just follow them and sit under their teaching, we might figure it out too. Entering into the mess of their human condition, and allowing them to be real with us, sounds difficult and uncomfortable. So we remain in our pretense, with leaders who pretend to be mature as we do our best to act like we are, too. We need leaders, elders, deacon, fathers, and mothers who stand up and say, "Let's not play games here. Let's be real. We are community of the broken who have been redeemed by a wonderful Savior!"
I love how Dietrich Bonhoeffer puts it in his book, Life Together:
It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship in service, may still be left to their loneliness. The final break-through to fellowship does not occur, because, though they have fellowship with one another as believers and as devout people, they do not have fellowship as the undevout, as sinners. The pious fellowship permits no one to be a sinner. So everybody must conceal his sin from himself and from the fellowship. We dare not be sinners. Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies and hypocrisy. The fact is that we are sinners!Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together
Could we create such a culture where everyone––including the
leader–is able to be this real?
Leader, how are you doing? Are you able to be real about ALL your issues––including sexual brokenness, lust, and temptation? If you are a leader and you find yourself in a culture where it isn't safe to be real about these darker corners of your soul, get help now. Don't convince yourself one day longer that you can maintain the facade long enough for these issues to resolve themselves. Our hidden issues don't magically go away. They grow in seclusion until they derail a career or a life. Find a space where you can begin to address the reality of your brokenness. A Pure Desire group or counselor would be a wonderful place to start.
Follower, how are you doing? Are you expecting and assuming that your leader––a pastor, professor, or boss—has it all figured out? Or do you encourage and help create an environment where vulnerability and honesty are valued? Do we assume that spiritual and emotional health is a private matter for our leader to address on their own time and in their own way? Does not our call together as believer in Christ and co-heirs of the Kingdom call us to take an active role in the health of our brother or sister in Christ? I'm not telling you to be pushy or invasive of your leader's privacy. But I am imploring you to care enough about their calling that you walk alongside of them in a way that cultivates transparency in the life of your leader.
There will be another mighty leader who "falls" into sexual immorality. It will happen. And when it does, we will all shake our heads and wonder how it could have ever happened to him or her. They seemed so mature!
But will we do something about it? What if we all decided that something has to change? What if we got real, even as leaders, until all our secret battles were brought into the light? And what if those battles were the very thing God wanted to use to touch the lives of others?
I pray that this paradigm shift will happen, and that you and I will be part of the change.
Nick is the Executive Director of Pure Desire Ministries. He has been in leadership for 15+ years. He was in Pastoral Ministry at East Hills Alliance Church in Kelso, WA for 14 years. Nick is the author of Setting Us Free and Safe: Creating a Culture of Grace in a Climate of Shame.
Well put Nick. Many churches have been deceived into thinking their churches are safe for all, yet somehow we show by our actions that this is not the case. We can talk about acceptance and forgiveness all we like, but when the primary way that churches approach church is the service and not the people, we will applaud the confident, bold, eye catching conversions with little emphasis on real discipleship and relational safety. It's much more convenient to applaud the person getting baptized who's "never going back again" than to follow up on even a monthly basis on how that commitment has been going. Even though the intention can be good, it can backfire and give the impression that you have more value in the Church when you look the part and do everything right in Church. We have come so far, yet we have so much further to grow.


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A district in Pakistan's Sindh province is dealing with a HIV epidemic of sorts. Perhaps, this is one of the biggest health crises in the world right now.
A doctor named Muzaffar Ghangharo has been accused of injecting HIV-infected syringes into more than 500 people in the district over the last few months. Police are investigating whether he did it intentionally or due to negligence. The child specialist has been arrested and questioned.
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In its first year, the program focused on 'circular data,' a new concept coined to describe the collection, production, and exchange of data, and business insights, between a series of collaborators around a shared set of inquiries related to the future of cities. The conditions that need to be in place to safely, ethically, and efficiently extrapolate the highest potential value from data are what this program aimed to uncover.
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In partnership with NYCEDC, Citi Ventures and Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, The Circular City facilitated pilots from a curated cohort of startups including Numina, CARMERA and Citiesense. These pilots delivered new data and insights for the fast-growing neighborhood of Downtown Brooklyn and became the focal point for new applied research from Columbia University, Cornell Tech, NYU's GovLab and ARCx.
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HTC is the first among major manufacturers of Android phones to offer three-dimensional glass-free display naming it HTC EVO 3D. The newest member of HTC's EVO series features a 4.3-inch qHD display, 5MP dual cameras and 1.3MP front-facing camera for video chat.
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I have two daughters and they are very wise, wise beyond their years.
Living with them is like having "Dear Abby" at my beck and call. They are ready to dispense advice when I ask for it and consolation and comfort when I'm a depressed puddle of goo. As a mom, I must've done something right for them to turn out so level-headed and well-adjusted – or so I'd like to think. Most likely they've turned out well despite me, not because of me. Parenting is often by trial-and-error and we are blessed when our kids grow up to be fine people notwithstanding our mistakes.
Ik is 12 and Alex is 19. Their thoughts on relationships and other topics:
On people who hate on you:
Ik: "Haters gonna hate. They're wasting their time, using their negative energy to devise ways to hate you – it's not benefiting them."
Alex: ""You jelly?" They just jelly."
On being dumped:
Alex: "It'll hurt for a while, but you were okay before them. What makes you think you won't be okay after?"
On divorce:
Ik: "It's good to not keep yourself attached when you're not in love anymore and it's awkward when you're sharing the same house and bed and "Hiiii." It's a good idea to just get them out of your life."
Alex: "Bring out the divorce cake!"
On exes:
Alex: "Wish them happiness. Don't wish them run over by a tractor."
On communicating with your exes:
Ik: "Don't."
Alex: "If they were real bleeps, cut off all communication. And body parts."
On being single:
Ik: "Enjoy life while you can, and don't fret about being single because it's fun to not be obligated to be attached to be one person. And you save more because you don't spend too much money on Valentine's Day."
Alex: "Oh, well."
On failed relationships:
Ik: "It's the past, get over it! Let it go, because if it failed in the first place, you aren't perfect for each other and you should just get over it instead of showing up on their lawn drunk going "I miss yoooou." And search for the right one instead. Lots of people have wasted their lives over people who aren't even the right one."
Alex: "What about?"
On life in general:
Ik: "Make the most of it because life is short."
Alex: "What she said."
Bonus advice from Alex and Ik!
On pizza:
Ik: "It's great, it's delicious, I love it! Shakey's, Pizza Hut, or Yellow Cab? All three."
Alex: "If it comes with Mojos, all the better."
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I love your daughters comments all the time. They should guest post for this blog. Better yet, have their own blogs. But I like their one-liners best so…yeah, do guest posting!


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There is several photography types people are crazy for. What are many popular types of photography you like most? Are you a sports lover, you have a collection of your favorite sportsmen? If you want a photo to last for a lifetime you should do sports photography.
It has many opportunities to capture dramatic and vivid images. No other types of photography can be this adventurous and lots of action. Capturing the action of a thrilling sports event is a wonderful feeling for all types of sports involved. Just as different photography like still life photography, Photographing sports also needs specific settings to achieve the goals one wish. For that you need to know some fantastic sports photography tips.
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Capture the Actions
A big part of sports photography is anticipating the action. You need to have a strong and natural understanding of sport to really shoot it well. Doing some research and knowing the game will provide a great lift for the photos. Getting a feel for a game also allows you to attach a shot in a single frame instead of spraying and praying. Watch how the team line up, know where they are on the field and position yourself to take advantages of that. Pay attention to the tendencies that players display throughout the game. Sports like football, hockey, baseball, racing, tennis, golf, fighting it's all the same. Watch for players that seem to be emotional or play a certain role. They give you lots of actions which you can just put into your frames.
Focusing On the Crowd
Crowd is usually a spirited bunch, so be prepared for colorful outfits and banners and focus on them. Clicking picture of the crowd in the stadium makes good photography. Especially in the football ground where one side is cheering for one team and the other side cheering for another team. Taking picture that time is wonderful. The fans want to get noticed and want to be on the newspaper, so clicking them is essential. Capturing picture of the banners with good pictures and messages gives the photographer a benefit. Many people will tell you that the perfect photograph is all about being in the right place at the right time, and that's certainly true when shooting sports.
Click Intensive Moments
Every sports picture doesn't look same. When shooting sports, be original and try something different. You don't have to be shooting professional sports to try something different. By trying something different it allows creativity to flourish and capture something that anyone else doesn't have. There are times when a sportsman become intensive while playing the sport. You will get to see some amazing expression of aggression on their faces. That really gives you an amazing shot to click. To get the most dynamic images from sports photo shoot, you have to be extra creative with the angles. Using different angles makes picture look great. At each event looks for as many new ways to approach it as possible. Sports photography is exciting and constantly changing, this makes it different from other types of photo session. Usage of the right lens makes all the difference.
Avoid Using Flash
Some sports photography tips go beyond simple helping you get better pictures. Using flash, when taking picture of the sportsman may disturb them and eventually makes them loses their focus on the game. This makes the scenario different. Sometimes flash lights also ruin the whole photograph because the flash actually give you some gaudy light and the object does not look good sometime. On the other hand, if you are shooting an outdoor sport, then it will not give you a good result using flash.
Right Camera Setting
Good sport photography is based on many things. It is mostly based on the camera setting. While shooting for sports photography, you have to be very careful while adjusting the camera settings. You should set the manual mode for sports photography. Because while sports photography, you may have to change the settings frequently. Adjust your shutter speed high because sports are running things, so you need to capture keeping the shutter speed high. But keeping the ISO low is better.
Take Close Shots
Photography is all about doing some experiments. It is not always about clicking the photos of the sportsmen or the ground. You can also take some great shots if you click the photos of the sports objects closely. Sports objects like balls, bats, nets, logos, gym gears etc. you can click using the macro lens. Using the macro lens would be the better choice to click the close shots nicely. So take some macro photos of sport gears to deliver something unique.
Gain knowledge of the regulations of the sport
For taking sports photography your most important task would be to know the rules of the game. Different sports have different set of rules. Keep in mind these rules to capture the actions of the referee while he gives sign of the fouls or points earned. Knowledge about the rules will also help you to capture decisive moments like a red card in football before the referee points out the mistake.
Best camera lenses for sports photography
As you know there are different sorts of lenses for every type of camera. Not all the lenses are suitable for the various kinds of photography styles. For example – You cannot take a sports photograph using a macro lens right?
So to capture sports pictures you will need a long lens that captures a great angle of the scene. A wide angled lens fits this purpose perfectly. The best camera lens for sports photography is a wide angled lens.
Take the shot of player's emotions
Sports matches are full of drama. You will find players expressing their feelings and emotions. They will show their happiness after scoring a goal and sometimes a sorrow for missing it. There will be fouls and rage moments too. There will be celebration moments. Capture these emotions of the players. This will make your captures look professional.
Clean background is necessary
To capture a perfect expression of the player or the team a clean background is very much necessary. A background that only shows the moment of the match is perfect for showing each and every small detail easily. So keep this mind that if you want to show the actual scene to the viewers a clean background will give them a clear and more real view of the match.
Do some post-processing
Almost all the professional photographers use the art of post processing in their photos. A simple touch of the magic of photo editing can completely change the Impression of the photograph. Audience love the magic a post processing can do to the photograph. A little play with the shadows and highlights and contrast of the image can make it look more bright and attractive. So, post processing can actually change the way an image looks and sometimes to save time you can outsource these images at lower costs from professional photo editing services. It will become flexible for you to handle your clients.
The art of photography can only be mastered in one way and that is by practicing. Practicing will help you gain experience. The most daunting job in photography of sports is to be quick and responsive to the changes in the motion of the play. If you can master this skill then capturing intensive moments, perfect emotion, motion blurs, etc will become easy for you and the only way you can do it is by practicing.
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Bulldog and basketball fans alike have good reason to turn their attention to Verizon Center this Saturday for the 5 p.m. tipoff between Georgetown (11-5, 3-2 Big East) and Butler (13-5, 3-2 Big East). Butler and its Bulldog 'Blue III' along with Georgetown and skateboarding Jack are part of a five-team logjam behind Villanova (16-1, 4-1 Big East) for second place in the Big East.
Strangely, these Big East foes have already played each other this season. On Nov. 28, the Bulldogs handed the Hoyas a 64-58 at the Battle 4 Atlantis in the Bahamas. This unconventional meeting occurred because the tournament pool was selected before Butler joined the Big East.
"Last game we were really aggressive. It was a battle the entire game — we just came up short, so I expect it will be another good game come this Saturday," said freshman forward Isaac Copeland, who had his best game as a Hoya in the loss with 16 points and four rebounds. "It depends on the game — anybody can show up, and it was my game that game. I just found the rights spots, and my teammates found me."
Butler is simultaneously trying to return to its former glory and adapt to its new, more competitive conference. Only three years ago, the Bulldogs had made back-to-back Final Four appearances, nearly defeating the Duke Blue Devils in the finals in 2010, under former Butler head coach and current Boston Celtics head coach Brad Stevens.
However, in the years following their improbable NCAA performances, the Bulldogs have since been humbled — in their first season in the Big East last year, they finished 4-14, second to last in the conference.
"[There are] a lot of similarities, and there are a few differences. It's really that simple — the personnel is the same; at their core, their energy is the same," Georgetown Head Coach John Thompson III said of the brand of basketball currently being employed by Stevens' successor Brandon Miller, who played point guard at the school from 2000 to 2003. "To beat them, you have to negate. You're not going to take away, but if you limit their strength, which is their rebounding, and limit how they spread you out, [we can] get easy baskets in transition."
Leading the Bulldogs' offense is junior guard Kellen Dunham, who has shot 46 percent from the field and 47 percent from beyond the arc on his way to a team-high 16.8 points per game. Butler combines Dunham's shooting prowess with a mix of undersized, yet versatile forwards to spread defenses out and create matchup problems.
"Dunham is an elite shooter and he gets [his shot] off fast, and they do a very good job of getting him shots," Thompson said. "But they have basketball players — they have scorers. It's not just, 'Let's stop this shooter.' They have guys that can make plays across the board."
Georgetown's nonconference wins over Florida and Indiana have not held up as well as Hoya fans might have hoped because of the Gators' and Hoosiers' struggles in recent weeks.
In the short-term, a win Saturday would set Georgetown up nicely to welcome No. 5 Villanova on Monday night. Although the conference schedule is young, this two-game stretch could be crucial for the Hoyas' March Madness resume.
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IITS's Seven Days of Xmas: "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"
Posted by Andrew Unterberger on December 24, 2007
"They're singing deck the halls / but it's not like Christmas at alll…"
While we here at Intensities in Ten Suburbs are more inclined towards Hanukkah, what with the latkes, extended gift-giving, and at least a dozen years of Hebrew School training (not to mention the respectable reputation as the underdog of the holiday season), we also can be objective to acknowledge its relative unimportance to the pop culture sphere. Christmas, on the other hand, has been the inspiration for an undeniable amount of our greatest popular art–something to do with the combination of snow, sentimentality and shiny things, I think. So while religious affiliations do not necessarily stack up, we would nonetheless be fairly remiss to not give it its propers at this time of the year.
With that in mind, we present to you the seven days of Christmas (yeah, yeah, I'll think of a more original name next year)–a week's worth of write-ups on some of the best, worst, and most representative examples of Christmas-influenced pop culture. The music, the movies, the TV, maybe even a commercial or sports event or two. And hey, if I can think of something non-Adam Sandler-related in time, maybe I'll even through a H-Kah entry in there–for the proper tokenist effect, if nothing else.
We kick off the week with what is probably my favorite Christmas song of all-time, Darlene Love's "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)." It almost seems like an unfair choice, really–a combination of songwriters Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich producer Phil Spector and singer Darlene Love (the voice, if not the name, behind The Crystals' "He's a Rebel" and "He's Sure the Boy I Love") was just about the most lethal pop wrecking crew possible in the early 60s, and given a subject as emotionally loaded as Christmas for a subject matter…frankly, it'd be shocking if this thing wasn't a classic. Considering how great the Ronnettes' Spector-produced cover of "Frosty the Snowman" was, working with an original, Greenwich/Barry composition and with pipes like Darlene Love's is almost like stacking the deck.
Even considering the braintrust behind it, though, "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" is a stunner. It's one of the first Christmas songs to really feel like the holidays, or at least as I happen to perceive them–not just a joyous, serene period of love, happiness and warmth, but a time as well for regrets, yearnings, and decidedly mixed emotions. "Christmas" is not an overly miserable song–at the very least, Darlene has someone to be missing, which is more than can be said for many at holiday time–but it's also pretty fucking far from the domestic bliss described by a song like "Let it Snow," a song of distraught and frustrated melancholy (with my favorite line being the one used in the teaser above–who couldn't, come holiday time, relate to occasionally feeling like "it's not like Christmas at all"?)
The bittersweetness of the lyrics would be meaningless if the music didn't back it up so perfectly, though. Even in catalogue as singular as Spector's, it emerges as a highlight–he really breaks out the big guns for this one, an assault of bells, chimes, xylophone, tambourine, piano, strings and baritone sax that combines to sound like the loneliest orchestra in the world. The one-word backing chant of "Christmas!" echoes throughout the song like Darlene Love's subconscious, a constant and heartbreaking reminder of the fact that this is the time when everyone is supposed to be together and happy and wonderful. And Darlene sings the lead as if this song would turn out to constitute her entire legacy (which, uh, was probably a good move on her part), conveying an amount of desperation that would border on the pathetic were it not so horrifically relatable.
It should be no surprise, then, that the song would go on to inspire a series of similarly lonely and distance-focused Christmas songs in its wake. There's the equally great "2000 Miles," the Pretenders song bemoaning Chrissie's lover being the titular distance away (which, as she somewhat hilariously states in the song, is "very far"). There's "Please Come Home for Christmas," the Eagles song better known (by me) as the Bon Jovi video where Jon grinds with Cindy Crawford for two and a half minutes. And then there's the spate of covers, most notably the U2 one from A Very Special Christmas, which deservedly became a alt-rock Christmas staple (and which, I'm semi-ashamed to admit, I knew for years before I ever heard the original).
In any event, it's the perfect soundtrack to a non-Xmas-celebrator's Christmas.
2 Responses to "IITS's Seven Days of Xmas: "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)""
December 24, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Don't forget that other Darlene Love Christmas classic.
January 1, 2008 at 6:10 pm
"Christmas" is no doubt a staple, but I also like "All Alone on Christmas." Darlene Love sings it, but it's written by Steven Van Zandt– which makes it amazing to begin with!


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|The second child and elder daughter of Danish Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary, Princess Isabella, celebrates her 12th birthday today. Princess Isabella of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat was born on April 21, 2007 at Copenhagen University Hospital. On the occasion of that birthday, Danish Royal Court released Princess Isabella's new photos. Happy birthday to you, Danish Princess Isabella.
Princess Isabella's new photos were released on her 12th birthday
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Nice princess, she looks both from father and mother.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 21, 2019 at 7:06 PM
Isabella looks like her mother. She is growing fast along side her siblings .Happy birthday to her. Isabella shares the same date of birth with Queen Elizabeth .ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 21, 2019 at 7:21 PM
A very happy Birthday to a sweet Princess. Cute dog.ReplyDelete
Very grown up - looking a lot like her Dad. Hope she has had a very Happy Birthday.ReplyDelete
In the second photo, Isabella looks so much like a young Queen Margarethe. Lovely girl. Clothes are outdoor appropriate. Cute dog!ReplyDelete
well i think she is starting to look very like her grandmother the queenReplyDelete
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She looks a lot like her father. Growing up quickReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 22, 2019 at 12:59 PM
Beautiful girl.ReplyDelete
Con 12 años Isabela parece mayor que las 2 españolas y es hermosa!!ReplyDelete
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Diglipur Island
If you want to explore the exotic island of Diglipur, then go for our unique range of tour services. We offer convenient tours to clients so that they may enjoy their travel expeditions in Andaman.
Digliur is among the most beautiful islands in Andaman and you must visit this island to witness nature in its pure form.
Ross-Smith Islands
These twin islands are among the exotic places in Andaman. A visit to these islands is a must if you want to explore the beauty of Andaman. We offer exciting tours with which you will be able to explore these islands.
Our tours come at affordable rates and you can acquire these tours by simply getting in touch with us.
Rangat is a 1070 sq. km. large island located in Middle Andaman. It houses beautiful beaches, waterfalls, and exotic islands. Spread across 75 villages, the population of the Rangat comprises primarily of people from Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Fisheries and cultivation are the two primary occupations here. Acquire our tours to see this beautiful island.
Cutbert Bay Beach
The Cuthbert Bay Beach is famous for Turtle nesting. The utter beauty of the beach is witnessed by thousands of travellers every year. The Wildlife Sanctuary here is a major tourist attraction and you will definitely have an amazing time travelling to this beach.
So, visit Cuthbert Bay Beach and witness the amazing sight of turtle nesting.
Baratang is a lovely island and it is considered as a gateway to North & Middle Andaman District. It is quite unexplored and yet it is a fascinating place to visit.
Here, you can witness Mud Volcano, mangrove and tropical forests, Limestone Caves etc. From here, beaches like Merk Bay Beach and Lalaji Bay Beach are easily accessible.
Parrot Island
The Parrot Island is among the most frequented destinations in Andaman. If you visit to this beautiful island, you are sure to see exotic species of parrots that inhabit the vegetation in the island.
The place is serene and visiting this beautiful island will be an amazing experience for you!
Neil Island
The Neil Island is a tourist destination in Andaman which needs no introduction. If you want to witness nature in its pure form and if you are looking forward to spending some time in peace, then you should definitely visit this island.
We organize tours for travellers to enjoy their visit to the breath-taking Neil Island.
Havelock Island
The Havelock island, apart from offering a quiet atmosphere for tourists, is an appropriate destination for various water activities. You must visit this island to spend some quality time with your family and also enjoy the various adventure sports.
Your tour to Andaman will be incomplete if you do not visit the exotic island of Havelock.
Rajiv Gandhi Water Sports Complex
This sports complex facilitates various activities that tourists undertake with much enthusiasm. If you want to have some adventurous experiences by taking part in wonderful water activities, then this is the place for you.
Rajiv Gandhi Water Sports Complex witnesses thousands of tourists every year, from within the country and abroad.
Cellular Jail
This jail was established by the British to punish criminals who were found guilty of serious crimes.
The Cellular Jail is now a major tourist attraction and you can visit this place and witness the historically important infrastructure. So, if you visit Andaman, make it a point to visit this spot.
Ross Island
One of the main attractions in Port Blair is the Ross Island. The small island, with its treasure of ruins, is the hot tourists spot in the territory. The island presently houses the Chief Commissioner�s House, the Government House and the Church. There is also a cemetery and a small museum managed by the Indian Navy. The museum has on display a collection of old records.
North Bay Island
Another spot to visit in Port Blair is the North Bay Island. What makes it even more tempting to visit is the wide array of water activities that one can enjoy. One of the main attractions is sea walking which was started recently. Along with sea walk, you can do jet skii, speed water boat ride, snorkeling and other such activities at the beautiful North Bay Island.
Jolly Buoy Island Port Blair
Jolly buoy Island is very famous for under water corals and the pristine clear beach. Keeping in mind the conservation of nature, it is a complete No Plastic zone. People can enjoy the exotic of the underwater life and have a memorable experience. Surrounding the Jolly buoy island there are other islands with thick forests. People can enjoy the running sea view between these islands.
Viper Island
One of the main tourist spots is the Viper Island. It is a serene beautiful tourist destination and can be approached by harbor cruise originating from Phoenix Bay Jetty in Port Blair. This place is visited by number of tourists as it has multiple attractions with historical importance and also has mesmerizing picnic spots with natural picturesque environments.


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Into the Divide (The Divide Universe Book 1) by Sandra Bard Nullands: Sections of a series of planets sealed off by an energy barrier, called the Divide, filled with danger, where technology does not work. Tarn is part of the Death Squad, a criminal given a second chance by agreeing ... more >
Dear JD Robb, I'm an unabashed fan of the In Death series. This is book 41 and I'm still not sick of it. In the past few years, each book has tended to have one of two possible foci. I call them the more police procedural books or the more ... more >
Dear Mr. Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer, the fifth book in your urban fantasy series, finds the hero of the series, police constable and wizard-in-training Peter Grant, driving out to the countryside to help investigate a missing persons case. Two eleven year old girls, Hannah Marstowe and Nicole Lacey, have disappeared from the ... more >
Dear Mr. Aaronovich, I enjoyed all your earlier books in the Peter Grant urban fantasy series, from Midnight Riot (aka Rivers of London) to Moon Over Soho to Whispers Under Ground, although I put off reading book four, Broken Homes, because I had mixed feelings about your comments in the ... more >
Please note: This review is for book three in a series, so it contains some spoilers for the previous two books. Readers who would like to hear more about the Peter Grant series but remain spoiler free are invited to check out the review of the first book, Midnight Riot ... more >
Dear Mr. Aaronovitch, Back in March, I read and reviewed your terrific debut, Midnight Riot (Rivers of London in the UK), an urban fantasy/police procedural narrated by an endearing London police constable named Peter Grant. Peter is a new recruit in a secret (and very small) department of the London ... more >


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This post describes how to set up a web site which uses PHP to connect to a backend SQL Server database using FreeTDS. I wrote it because I found the documentation currently available a bit confusing until I had completed the task, when it turned out to be really simple.
I am setting up a development environment for a project I will be undertaking which ports a Microsoft Access application connected to a SQL Server database to become a web application. To avoid a complete tie in with Microsoft technologies I decided to use an Apache Web server running PHP as the main platform for this application. Although the final system will probably run on a Windows server, it is much more convenient for me to develop in a Linux environment where I have all my tools setup. I needed a way to connect to the database from PHP. The obvious choice was FreeTDS.
I started reading the documentation to figure how to do it but I found it quite confusing. Eventually, however, after a bit of trial and error I got it working, and when I did it turned out to be remarkably simple. However, importantly, I felt that there was much confusion in the documentation with references to some libraries such as DB-Library and CT-Library and to ODBC that ended up as irrelevant to the final result, that I would write this simple guide of how to make it work.
The first puzzle is which Debian packages do you actually need to install. The truth is only one package is needed and that is php5-sybase. It is this package which contains two shared libraries to access the database. One to access via PHP PDO, one to access directly. This, in this particular configuration, is freetds.
Since I will be using PDO, I didn't have to do anything more since installing it actually added this library to a directory of PDO drivers and enabled it.
There are two other packages that might be useful (freetds-bin and freetds-common), but they are not necessary. Freetds-bin contains command line utilities to connect and then perform queries on a database, freetds-common contains an example version of a file you need to install as /etc/freetds/freetds.conf
In freetds.conf you configure the connection to the databases via sections delimited by names in square brackets. Here is mine to give you a simple example to follow
[sourcecode language="plain"]
# TDS protocol version
tds version = 7.1
# Whether to write a TDSDUMP file for diagnostic purposes
# (setting this to /tmp is insecure on a multi-user system)
;dump file = /var/log/freetds.log
;debug flags = 0xffff
# Command and connection timeouts
timeout = 10
connect timeout = 10
# If you get out-of-memory errors, it may mean that your client
# is trying to allocate a huge buffer for a TEXT field.
# Try setting 'text size' to a more reasonable limit
text size = 64512
# My SqlServer Instance
host = roo.home
instance = SQLEXPRESS
The host line "roo.home" is the fqdn of the host where the server sits. In my case I have a private local domain in my house called .home and roo is one of the machines in this domain.
Notice my use of roodb as the name of my particular instance of the database. This is important in the final section of the puzzle. How to you connect to this instance of the server and a particular database within it. This little test program shows how to set up the connection string using the $dsn variable. The 'host=' section of that string points to 'roodb'
$dsn = 'dblib:host=roodb;dbname=PAS_Live'; //dbname and host is on different server, not localhost
$user = 'yourdatabaseuser';
$password = 'yourdatabaseuserpassword';
try {
$db = new PDO($dsn, $user, $password);
$db->setAttribute( PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_WARNING );
catch(PDOException $e) {
die("Failed with message: " . $e->getMessage());
echo "It worked"
And that is all there is to it.
I trust that this simple guide was useful.


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vivo Science is a GLP/GMP certified service company for the pharmaceutical industry (CRO) offering in vivo toxicology studies and is specialized in the testing of immunotoxicity and immunogenicity of new drug candidates, especially if derived from biotechnology.
By merging with the international Texcell Group with subsidiaries in Europe, Asia and North America, vivo Science has expanded its portfolio and now acts as a full service provider in the preclinical testing of biologics, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, vaccines and chemicals as well as in GMP cell banking and viral safety.
vivo Science, the German subsidiary of Texcell, is a privately held CRO for pre-clinical studies. Its focus is on toxicology, potency and influence on the immune system. From the testing of immunotoxicity (ICH S8) and immunogenicity (ICH S6) of new drug candidates, over repeated dose toxicity studies (OECD 407, 408) and biocompatibility test (ISO 10993) to safety and potency tests for vaccines, vivo Science provides a wide range of in-vivo tests in rodents. vivo Science will provide GLP/GMP compliant, validated study protocols and will assist you in setting up a customized test program for your special requirements.
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There are some good designers doing good things.
We should share and care!
Mahmud Şahan
Mahmud Şahan is a young, successful, Danish-Turkish graphic designer, graduated from Kolding Design School in 2016. We met him at a designers market in Copenhagen few years ago. Since then, we follow his work and especially admire his collages! It is a great pleasure to present some of them here. He is also published in the book Danish Art Prints as one of the 66 art print designers in Denmark.
RainTree is a fair trade brand based in Ringkøbing, working with disadvantaged women in slum of Chennai, India in production of handwoven bags and baskets. The money provided by these bags are crucial for these underprivileged women, who are widows, deserted mothers, or physically challenged, in terms of providing themselves and their children medical care, education and other basic human needs. The products are made of plastic recycled from drinking bottles, hence, the project is not only exceptional for its fair trade aspect but also for its environmental impact. Each bag uses plastic threads recycled from 40 bottles.
We met Gitte Lauridsen, owner of RainTree, in 2014 spring, for a pop-up shop we were initiating. We loved her products, her project, and herself. Since then, our business relationship grew. In 2016, we designed a new visual identity for RainTree including logotype, label, information tags, and catalog.


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Maria Kolegova/Ultima Vez
Repertory workshop: Ultima Vez
From 8th to 12th July
The repertory workshop gives us the opportunity to work on the choreographic repertory of an outstanding company in the international contemporary field. The goal is to deepen in the specific creation structures to open possibilities to transform the material.
Selection process: Maria Kolegova will select the participants for this class.
Length: 3 h per session
We will focus on the energy, intentions and the principles inspired by the latest productions created by Wim Vandekeybus – Ultima Vez. Inspired by my personal experience in creating and performing for Wim Vandekeybus, we will puzzle with some ideas and themes that are essential and precious in his work. We will take a deeper look into movement and how it becomes part of the dance composition. Through partner work we will improve our capacity for connection through several group exercises and will dive into compositions with the partner and the whole group.


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MP for Carshalton and Wallington, Tom Brake warned about a possible crisis among local hospitals when coping with heart disease.
Heart disease is currently the most common cause of death in the UK, accounting for one in three of all deaths. Although the number of heart disease related deaths has fallen as a result of better prevention and treatment, the number is still higher here than in many other European countries.
Tom said: "Sutton currently has more emergency cases of heart disease than the national average. Luckily for us, we have outstanding hospitals that manage to keep the number of deaths related to heart disease well below average.
Mr. Brake pointed out that the prevalence of risk factors such as raised blood pressure, high cholesterol and Type 2 diabetes in the local area continues to increase.
Tom added: "Hospitals cannot cope with this growing burden for much longer."
Keeping your heart healthy, whatever your age, is the most important thing you can do to help prevent and manage heart disease. Spotting the signs of heart disease early and managing the risk factors also help reduce emergency cases.
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Bring a hint of colour and sophistication to your stationery collection with this Abacus Flower Print A5 softcover notebook from Orla Kiely. Ideal for jotting down important notes or creative ideas. The vibrant, retro-inspired notebook features Orla's Abacus Flower print in multi colourway, a debossed printed cover, coloured edge gilding and two ribbon page markers, perfect for organising your days. A great gift for keen writers, it provides plenty of space for their thoughts and ideas. Available in three classic Orla Kiely print designs.
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This is an interesting action flick about the bodyguard of a Hong Kong Triad boss who is sent to London to protect a young woman. The explosion of violence that erupts when a rival mob boss tries to muscle in on the Hong Kong scene soon spills across borders and the quiet, professional bodyguard finds himself in the thick of it. There are elements of drama and even romance thrown into the action mix and the film features a couple of excellent familiar faces in the shape of Richard Ng and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.
The film kicks off with an explosive attack on mob boss Wong and his bodyguard, Leung, immediately proves his worth in combat. A rival boss Kai arrives on the scene and Wong brushes him off but Kai is a determined and vicious gangster. Wong's no good son, Yuen, goes behind his back and before long a full out gang war seems to be inevitable. Wong sends his best man, Leung, to London to protect a mysterious young girl.
The resolution is predictable enough but there are several unexpected moments along the way and some nicely handled fight sequences. Leung is a one man army and he takes on all comers even if the odds are against him. As he forms a tentative romance with the woman he is supposed to protect the gang war back in Hong Kong escalates and they return to the city for an explosive finale.
The direction from Chee Keong Cheung is engaging and features some nice touches. The pacing and writing are not so successful and the film feels a bit disjointed at times. The focus jumps around between characters and it is never entirely clear who is supposed to be the hero and where our sympathies should lie.
This lack of focus is exacerbated by the laidback performance of the lead actor Vincent Sze who plays the eponymous bodyguard. He is clearly an accomplished fighter and he has a likeable quiet charm but his presence is lacking and he isn't the best choice for a leading man. Stephanie Langton plays the woman he is sent to protect and her character does not ring true. The film is carried on the shoulders of two excellent veteran actors, Richard Ng as Wong and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Kai.
It has been some time since I've seen Richard Ng in a film and it was a welcome surprise to find him here although he is far too likeable to be a mob boss. I had real trouble believing he would order the murder of his rival's daughter. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is another familiar face and he effortlessly conjures up another baddie role here although it was hard not to sympathise with him because unusually his opponent Wong is far more aggressive in the conflict. Both actors leant the film some gravity and without them it would not have worked at all well.
The fight sequences in Bodyguard: A New Beginning were quite thrilling and retained a gritty realistic feel. The set ups conformed to action cliché but the resulting violence was nonetheless enjoyable for it. There were also cameos by experienced fighters Mark Strange and Nathan Lewis as a duo of evil hitmen and their showdown with Leung was one of the high points of the film.
This is an enjoyable film and while there were a few flaws it held my interest easily. Strong performances from the veteran actors involved and some solid martial arts action make this worth a watch.


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