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Embassy of Mexico's Pianist Concert for All
If culture and music are two items that are on your weekend list, then there is a concert that will fulfill all your needs. The Embassy of Mexico is hosting two concerts that will provide culture, entertainment and the subtle but angelic fingers of pianist, Alejandrina Villamil. News Five spoke to the Press Officer of the Embassy of Mexico who provided further details.
Marcelino Miranda, Mexican Press Officer
"The Mexican Embassy is hosting two piano concerts this weekend. A Mexican artist is coming from Yucatan. She is going to perform on Saturday, twenty-first April at six p.m. at the Bliss Center and on Sunday, twenty-second April at six p.m. at the George Price Center in Belmopan. She has prepared a very good, interesting program with different international renowned pieces of piano by Mozart. It is going to be an interesting program. The aim of this concert is to promote culture—the cultural exchange between Mexico and Belize. It is part of the program that the Mexican Embassy is conducting every year and we in this case we want to encourage especially the young people to come to this concert, to enjoy this music and also to have this opportunity for a family event. That's the reason we are inviting all the family to come. It is a great opportunity for parents to bring young people and children to these two concerts."
The first concert will be held at six p.m., Saturday night at the Bliss Center and the encore performance will be held at six p.m., on Sunday at the George Price Center in Belmopan City.

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Tight convex relaxations for sparse matrix factorization
Part of: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 27 (NIPS 2014)[PDF] [BibTeX] [Supplemental] [Reviews]
Conference Event Type: Poster
Based on a new atomic norm, we propose a new convex formulation for sparse matrix factorization problems in which the number of nonzero elements of the factors is assumed fixed and known. The formulation counts sparse PCA with multiple factors, subspace clustering and low-rank sparse bilinear regression as potential applications. We compute slow rates and an upper bound on the statistical dimension of the suggested norm for rank 1 matrices, showing that its statistical dimension is an order of magnitude smaller than the usual l_1-norm, trace norm and their combinations. Even though our convex formulation is in theory hard and does not lead to provably polynomial time algorithmic schemes, we propose an active set algorithm leveraging the structure of the convex problem to solve it and show promising numerical results.


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VauxSquad Selection 2019/20
VauxWall is looking for talented young climbers to join their VauxSquad for 2018-19! The event is open to any young climbers with a minimum of 3 months climbing experience. A selection event will be held every academic year.
Current VauxSquad members will be expected to attend each selection event. Their place is not guaranteed.
The event will be held at VauxWall East, SE116BD (Assembly Hall)
Sunday 7th July 2019 9am -2pm
Booking & Pre-registration essential
Maximum 40 participants
Entry fee per participant £15 paid on booking
Please book this please click this link: https://www.vauxeast.co.uk/vauxsquad/
Standard time frame for a selection day
9am registration opens
9.30am Welcome and intro to the day
10am Score cards issued & climbing begins
There will be 25 boulder problems to attempt.
1pm Climbing ends & Score cards collected.
1.20pm Debrief and mini prize giving.
1.45pm Event ends
The selection team will review scores & observations. Invitations to join the VauxSquad will be sent via email. *please note only those aged 10-17 will be invited to join the VauxSquad


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Endless Embroidery with Susan Edmonson
Hand embroidery is beautiful as well as fun and relaxing. Each month we will explore a set of embroidery stitches that are similar in techniques. While hand embroidery is not difficult, Susan will provide you with tricks to help you quickly learn each new stitch.
Students will work on collage like backgrounds, so when you're finished with a class, you'll have a page for a unique fabric book of beautiful hand embroidery stitches. This class will work with a variety of threads such as hand dyed pearl cottons, crewel threads, metallic threads and many more. Susan likes to use hand embroidery stitches in most everything she creates.
Date & Time
May 2, 2018
Cabarrus Art Guild 11 Union Street South Suite LL-202 Concord 28025 NC US http://www.cabarrusmagazine.com/businesses/nc-concord-cabarrus-art-guild
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Rollins Cornell Fine Arts Museum is surrounded by Western masterpieces on loan. Taking a seat against these masturbating religious pose is The New Narrative, starved for a response. In their first collaboration — Vidhu Aggarwal's* brilliant crafting of Hump (noun/adjective) from her futurist poetry book The Trouble with Humpadori and Bishakh Som's** mastermind comix — the two attack the approachability of American art.
Enthralled, anxious and oozing from the veracity, the audience witnesses parasitical machines, non-binary humanoids that fuse with spoken word noise collages, and obscene popism. It's a mutant of the hybrid text and image. This mixture of comix and poetry is not a new concept. The challenge presented to the narrative by Aggarwal and Som is.
Robbing mythology at birth, this ferocious performance inject the shameless multi-dimensionality of their work into the audience. Aggarwal & Som's perverse undertones comment on Bollywood symbolism, post-colonial allegories and our personal entanglement with space and time. Their charismatic persistence against the canonical separates the tradition between performer and observer/professor and student. Abstract film is played over a projector; the audience memorized. Aggarwal echoes her voice in real time, again disputing the separation from signifier to signified. Theatrical, the playback gestures from Aggarwal and Som provoke the audience to hinge onto their every word. A monotone choir recites behind Aggarwal's slivering liquid tongue:
"Little universes, at the smallest possibly surface area and skin, damaged void trickle in."
Aggarwal and Som's text buddle visions allow for the body to divorce time and salivate from the glory of this neo-canonical performance. Never today, always next, the mantra set by the gorgeous grotesque. Her exemplary blends of images and text triggers eye dilating refinement that shifted the collective audience hive mind; This it was group learning.
I too, have learned Hump.
*Vidhu Aggarwal is the founding editor of SPECS, a hybrid poet, and the author of The Trouble with Humpadori.
**Bishakh Som is Général of The Quantum Now. She's a talented illustrator who's been featured in Hi-Horse, Boston Review, Graphic Canon, and SPECS. She disrupts the traditional narrative of gender, sexuality, memory and urbanism.
Overture of The Vanguard: Vidhu Aggarwal & Bishakh Som evoke a response from The Approachable by Andres Andrade


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Friday, April 06, 2007
Me: And in that course in the fall, we'll be studying Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, and George Eliot, among others.
Student: I'm not sure who they are, but I've read Lady Audley's Secret in another course; will we be studying Mary Elizabeth Braddon?
Or, for Americanists:
Me: We'll be reading Mark Twain, James Fenimore Cooper, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, among others.
Student: I'm not sure who they are, but I've read Harriet Wilson and Dan DeQuille. Will we read them, too?
Well, the answer would be "yes, we'll be reading them, too" in both scenarios, but it was interesting to see that authors whom scholars regularly designate as "little known" had been taught in classes (sometimes in two or three successive classes) while the "famous" and supposedly canonical authors didn't register a blip on the student's radar.
I consider this progress. Yet I also want students to read it all--the supposedly great and (formerly?) famous as well as the recently rediscovered and newly canonized. But how can you do it all?
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- Sisyphus said...
That's a tough one. But I personally think it is important to acknowledge that scholars have been fighting to bring in "lesser read" works by women and people of color into the canon for at least twenty years now, and many of our students have actually _only_ encountered the revisionist canons and not ever the "Dead White Males" canons (even high schools have gotten into the act by now).
It's important to historicize what teaching _used_ to be like and why there is this push for new canons now when explaining one's syllabus, just so that the students have a bit of framework and know where you're coming from.
- Bardiac said...
I agree, it IS a tough one!
As someone who teaches Shakespeare, I can pretty much count on students knowing who he is. But I love teaching stuff they don't expect in my other classes. And I think we can teach the skills of reading well with all sorts of literatures; they can keep reading at the local library once they've got a start. (I do!)
- undine said...
That's what I've found, Sisyphus: ironically, the "Dead White Males" canon is as dead as they are, although that rarely gets acknowledged. I often talk to them about what this course would have looked like in, say 1950 or 1920, and about which authors would have been included/excluded. Bardiac, I'd agree: there's nothing like having students say,"I've never heard of X before, but I really like his/her work!"
- Professor Zero said...
I have had the same experience ... that dead white male canon really does seem to be dead!
- The Constructivist said...
Not at my school and not b/c we're culturally conservative or against multiculturalism--quite the contrary. We just take seriously the idea that the the DWMs' influence goes beyond other DWMs, and, more to the point, that non-DWMs' are and have been actively rewriting their predecessors and contemporaries, well-known and unknown, so we have a responsibility to get our undergraduates ready to understand, analyze, and evaluate that intertextual dialogue....
- undine said...
Constructivist, getting students to understand that intertextual dialogue is crucial. It's hard to get students to see that one work is satirizing or revising a "classic" if the students don't have the faintest notion of the text or attitudes that the current author is protesting.
- The Constructivist said...
That's why we organize our intro courses by world lit and by genre--horrible titles, like Novels and Tales, Drama and Film, Epic and Romance, and World Poetry, and of course you can't o half the things you want to in them b/c they're our gen ed humanities courses, too, but we get a lot of majors that way and require them to take three of the 4. All of them start from an intertextualist presupposition and require classic and newer works from a range of traditions.
Only problem is, our students get short shrift on British and American and pick them up in haphazard ways. But we hate surveys and more experimental mid-level courses aren't attracting faculty to teach them. So we instituted a freshman seminar--an intro to being an English major--that complements our senior seminar.
My senior colleagues switched to the world lit/intertextual core in the early '90s and since I've been there we've been trying to figure out how to have it all. I think we're getting closer.


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THE unCIVIL WAR
A bluegrass musical comedy along the Mason-Dixon
The Civil War's six lone survivors retell the story of the infamous conflict...as it REALLY happened...
Opening Night – July 10
Book by Rick Kunz & Justin Zeppa
Music by Rick Kunzi & Adam Barnosky
Lyrics by Rick Kunzi
Winner of 4 NY Music Theatre Festival Awards
150 years after the final gunshot, The Civil War's six lone survivors grab their banjos, washboards, and what's left of their sanity to retell the story of the infamous conflict…as it really happened. Complete with singing, dancing, outrageous humor and biting historical satire, The unCivil War is a wild, bluegrass-fueled ride that re-examines one of the country's darkest moments, and sheds a hilarious new light on the leaders we've long considered heroes.
Starring Tony Nominee J. Robert Spencer (Original cast of JERSEY BOYS and NEXT TO NORMAL)
See it before it goes to NYC!


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On behalf of everyone at Faith Independent Baptist Church, thank you for taking time to visit our website. We are a conservative, KJV Bible-based church with traditional-style music, seeking to share the love of Christ wherever there is an opportunity to do so. At FIBC you will learn what God wants for you & your family and how to apply His truths to your life each and every day.
We promote and defend traditional Bible doctrine and values, believing that the Bible is
our guidebook for life. While standing against the corrupt values of an ungodly society
and the rampant compromise with worldliness within certain segments of professing
Christianity, we positively promote the virtues of Biblical living and are excited about
serving the God of the Bible! We believe it is important to have a right attitude while seeking to maintain a right position.
We hold to the superiority and reliability of the Masoretic Text (OT) and the
Traditional/Received Text/Textus Receptus (NT) from which the King James Version of
the Bible (in English) is translated. Thus, the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible is what we use and promote in our English-speaking services.
Believing that music originated by God and is to be consistent with His holy nature, we
use and promote music (both new and old) that is God-honoring in style and words. We
believe that Christian music should be distinctly different from the ungodly world's
music. Thus, we avoid music and presentation styles that have a worldly and/or sensual
sound or association. We enthusiastically encourage congregational singing of hymns
and gospel songs, as well as having a variety of groups or individuals provide traditional-style special music in our services that honor God.
Sunday at 10:30 a.m. - Morning Service (K - 6TH Grade Children's Classes are available)
Sunday at 5:00 p.m. - Evening Service
Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. - Evening Services (Children, Teen, & Adults)
*Nursery care for children under four years of age is available during all services.
A small group of believers met in the home of Pastor and Mary McIntyre on Wednesday, August 15, 2001, and voted to start (what would eventually be named) Faith Independent Baptist Church. The group asked Myron McIntyre to be the pastor of this newly formed church. Pastor McIntyre, after praying and laying out a vision for ministering to families in all parts of Henry County, accepted the position the following Sunday evening and FIBC began an existence that has been nothing short of God-blessed and miraculous.
It was soon evident that God's blessing in the way of numerical grow was necessitating a move out of the McIntyre's house to rented facilities. God provided two suites, along with the use of an automotive repair shop waiting room, in McDonough, GA, at the Trax Side Plaza. Much growing faith occurred during these days in the "storefront." FIBC met at the Trax Side Plaza from September 23, 2001, to the first part of 2005. In July of 2003, the Lord brought FIBC in contact with a McDonough church that was selling its property and building at a new location. Through a series of miraculous events, the Lord
confirmed that this was to be the new location for FIBC. After waiting over a year for the other church to complete its building, the Lord allowed FIBC to take possession of the current property at 1099 Highway 81 West on February 23, 2005.
From the first service on February 27, 2005, to the present day, God has been blessing in unusual, exciting, and miraculous ways. While a variety of age groups are represented at FIBC, it has been exciting to see the Lord provide younger couples and families to strengthen the ministry. The Adult Ministries of FIBC are helping to challenge our people to greater spiritual maturity. Our dynamic Children's and Teen Ministries are also growing spiritually and numerically. The desire of FIBC is to love and serve the people of our region, to introduce them to Jesus Christ, and to provide a spiritual
atmosphere where hearts can be touched and lives changed through the power of God's Word, the Bible. As the ministry of our church continues to grow and mature, we will endeavor to keep our focus on Christ and His mission to us: soul winning and building up people in the faith. FIBC is honored to serve families from all over Henry County and beyond. We would consider it a privilege to help meet your spiritual needs!
We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the verbally (every word) and plenarily (completely) inspired Word of God. The Scriptures are inerrant, infallible and God-breathed, and therefore are the final authority for faith and life. The sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments are the complete and divine revelation of God to man (II Timothy 3:16-17; II Peter 1:20-21). [Note: For reasons of textual reliability, we promote and use the King James Version of the Bible in our English-speaking services.]
We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We believe God the Father is perfect in holiness, boundless in love, infinite in wisdom, and measureless in power. We believe that He concerns Himself mercifully in the affairs of men; that He hears and answers prayers; and that He saves from sin and death all who come to Him through Jesus Christ, His Son. We believe He is worthy of all our honor, confidence, and love. (Based on Deuteronomy 6:4; Exodus 20:2-3; I Corinthians 8:6; II Corinthians 13:14; I John 5:7; Revelation 4:11.)
1. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man, without ceasing to be God, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful man. (Based on John 1:12,14; Luke 1:35.)
2. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished redemption through His death on the cross as a representative, vicarious, substitutionary sacrifice; and that our justification is made sure by His literal, physical resurrection from the dead. (Based on Romans 3:24-25; I Peter 2:24; Ephesians 1:7; I Peter 1:3-5.)
3. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God, where, as our High Priest, He fulfills the ministry of Representative, Intercessor, and Advocate. (Based on Acts 1:9-10; Hebrews 9:24; 7:25; Romans 8:34; I John 2:1-2.)
4. We believe that the promise of His second coming includes the personal, premillennial, and pretribulational return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, to rapture His church according to I Thessalonians 4:13-18, and His return with His saints to set up His millennial reign.
1. We believe the Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Trinity, and He is equal with God the Father and God the Son. The Holy Spirit convicts men of sin, regenerates, indwells, baptizes, and sets believers apart to a holy life, and seals them unto the day of redemption. (Based on John 16:8-11; I Corinthians 3:6; I Corinthians 12:12-14; Romans 8:9; Ephesians 1:13-14.)
2. We believe the Holy Spirit is the Divine Teacher Who guides believers into all truth, and is now restraining the evil one in an unbelieving world until God's purpose is fulfilled. (Based on John 16:13; 14:16-17.)
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that in Adam's sin the race fell, inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God, and that man is totally depraved, and of himself utterly unable to remedy his lost condition. (Based on Genesis 1:26-27; Romans 3:22-23; 5:12; Ephesians 2:1-3, 12.)
We believe in the personality of Satan and that he is the unholy god of this age, and the author of all the powers of darkness, and is destined to the judgment of an eternal justice in the lake of fire. (Based on Matthew 4:1-3; II Corinthians 4:4; Revelation 20:10.)
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who by faith receive Him as their Savior are justified on the grounds of His shed blood on Calvary and His resurrection from the dead and are born again of the Holy Spirit, thereby becoming the children of God. We believe that those God saves by His grace, He keeps by His power. (Based on I Corinthians 15:3-4; Ephesians 2:8-9; II Timothy 1:12; I Peter 1:3-5.) [Note: We are neither Calvinist nor Arminian.]
1. We believe that all the redeemed, once saved, are kept by God's power and are thus secure in Christ forever. (Based on John 6:37-40; 10:27-30; Romans 8:1, 38-39; I Corinthians 1:4-8; I Peter 1:4-5.)
2. We believe that it is the privilege of believers to rejoice in the assurance of their salvation through the testimony of God's Word, which, however, clearly forbids the use of Christian liberty as an occasion to the flesh. (Based on Romans 13:13-14; Galatians 5:13; Titus 2:11-15.).
We believe that the church exists in two aspects:
1. An Organism
We believe that the church as an organism is the body and bride of Christ, composed of all the redeemed. We believe that Christ gave Himself for the church, and that He is its only true head. (Based on I Corinthians 12:13; Ephesians 1:20-23; 3:3-11; Colossians 1:18.)
2. An Organization
We believe that the establishment and continuation of local churches is clearly taught and defined in the New Testament. We believe that the church as an organization is an assembly of baptized believers, voluntarily associated by covenant in the faith for fellowship, worship, and service; and that its mission is to spread the Gospel to all men and to earnestly contend for the faith. We believe that its officers are pastors and deacons whose qualifications and duties are clearly defined in the Scriptures. We hold that the local church has the absolute right of self-government free from the interference of any hierarchy of individuals or organizations; and that its only superintendent is Christ through the Holy Spirit; that it is Scriptural for true churches to cooperate with each other in contending for the faith and for the furtherance of the Gospel; and that each local church is the sole judge of the measure and methods of its cooperation. On all matters of membership, policy, government, discipline, and benevolence, the will of the local church is final. (Based on Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 14:27; I Corinthians 16:19; II Corinthians 1:1; Galatians 1:2; I Timothy 3:1-13; Titus 1:5-11.)
1. We believe that Christ instituted the ordinances of water baptism and the Lord's Supper as a testimony to be observed until He comes again. (Based on Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 10:47; 19:5; I Corinthians 11:23-26.)
2. Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer's faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Savior, the believer's death to sin, the burial of the old life, and resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus. As a Scriptural ordinance of obedience for the church in this age, it is prerequisite to the privilege of church membership and to the Lord's Supper.
3. The Lord's Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members of the church, through partaking of the bread and the fruit of the vine, memorialize the death of our Redeemer and anticipate His coming again.
We believe that we are mandated by God in the Scriptures to separate ourselves unto Christ and, as much as possible, from any participation in or endorsement of sin; from ecclesiastical organizations and religious personalities that deny the faith or compromise its message; from brethren that walk disorderly or who unrepentantly continue in sin or engage in the compromise aforementioned. We believe that all the saved should live in such a manner as not to bring reproach upon their Savior and Lord. God commands His people to separate from all religious apostasy, all worldly and sinful pleasures, practices, and associations, and to refrain from all immodest and immoderate appearances. Each member shall seek to live a holy life, separating himself from and forsaking all that might weaken his personal testimony, dishonor God, or cast discredit on God's cause. (Based on Romans 12:1-2; 14:13; II Corinthians 6:14-7:1; Ephesians 2:8-10; II Timothy 3:1-5; II Thessalonians 3:11-12; I Peter 1:15-16; I John 2:15-17; II John 9-11; I Corinthians 6:19-20.)
We believe in the personal, imminent, pretribulational, and premillennial coming of the Lord Jesus Christ for His redeemed ones; and in His subsequent return to earth, with His saints, to establish His millennial reign for 1,000 years on earth. (Based on Matthew 24:29-31; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; I Thessalonians 1:10; Zechariah 14:4-11; Revelation 3:10; 19:11-16; 20:1-6.)
1. We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men – the saved to eternal life, and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment. (Based on Matthew 25:46; John 5:28-29; 11:25-26; Revelation 20:5-6, 12-13.)
2. We believe that the souls of the redeemed are, at death, absent from the body and present with the Lord, where in conscious bliss they await the resurrection, when spirit, soul, and body are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord. (Based on Luke 23:43; Revelation 20:4-6; II Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23; 3:21; I Thessalonians 4:16-17.)
We believe that God created the universe in six literal 24-hour periods. We reject evolution, the Gap Theory, the Day-Age Theory, and Theistic Evolution as unscriptural theories of origin. (Genesis 1-2; Exodus 20:11)
1. We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman. We believe that any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, bestiality, incest, fornication, adultery, and pornography are sinful perversions of God's gift of sex. We believe that God disapproves of and forbids any attempt to alter one's gender by surgery or appearance. (Based on Genesis 2:24; 19:5,13; Leviticus 18:1-30; Romans 1:26-29; I Corinthians 5:1; 6:9; I Thessalonians 4:1-8; Hebrews 13:4.)
2. We believe that the only legitimate marriage is the joining of one man and one woman. (Based on Genesis 2:24; Romans 7:2; I Corinthians 7:10; Ephesians 5:22-23.)
3. We believe that homosexual acts (whether engaged in by male or female) are sinful, unnatural, and perversion. These acts emanate from man's sinful and unregenerate nature. Therefore, we take our stand, based on the infallible Word of God, against any and all forms of sexual perversion. If any person who is in any way connected with the ministry of this church is guilty of advocating or practicing homosexuality, that person shall be disciplined and dismissed from service in the ministry of the church. (Based on Genesis 19:1-11; Leviticus 18:22; 20:13; Judges 19:22-25; Romans 1:26-28; I Corinthians 6:9; I Timothy 1:9-10.)
1. We believe that men and women are spiritually equal in position before God, but that God has ordained distinct and separate spiritual functions for men and women in the home and the church. The husband is to be the leader of the home, and men are to be the leaders (pastors and deacons) of the church. Accordingly, only men are eligible for licensure and ordination by the church. (Galatians 3:28; Colossians 3:18; I Timothy 2:8-15; 3:4-5, 12.)
2. We believe that God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of human society. The husband is to love his wife as Christ loves the church. The wife is to submit herself to the Scriptural leadership of her husband as the church submits to the headship of Christ. Children are an heritage from the Lord. Parents are responsible for teaching their children spiritual and moral values and leading them through consistent lifestyle example and appropriate discipline, including Scriptural corporal correction. (Based on Genesis 1:26-28; Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Psalm 127:3-5; Proverbs 19:18; 22:15; 23:13-14; Mark 10:6-12; I Corinthians 7:1-16; Ephesians 5:21-33; 6:1-4; Colossians 3:18-21; Hebrews 13:4; I Peter 3:1-7.)
We stand irrevocably opposed to the present day "Tongues Movement," believing it not to be of God. We will not permit its teaching, either directly or by inference, in the church, Sunday school, or any other meeting sponsored by this church. (Based on Acts 2:7-11; I Corinthians 13:8-10.)
We believe that God has given the church a great commission to proclaim the Gospel to all nations so that there might be a great multitude from every nation, tribe, ethnic group, and language group who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. As ambassadors of Christ, we must use all available means to go to the foreign nations and not wait for them to come to us. (Based on Matthew 28:19-20; Mark 16:15; Luke 24:46-48; John 20:21; Acts 1:8; II Corinthians 5:20.)
We believe that every Christian, as a steward of that portion of God's wealth entrusted to him, is obligated to support his local church financially. We believe that God has established the tithe as a basis for giving, but that every Christian should also give other offerings sacrificially and cheerfully to the support of the church, the relief of those in need, and the spread of the Gospel. (Based on Gen. 14:20; Proverbs 3:9-10; I Corinthians 16:2; II Corinthians 9:6-7; Galatians 6:6; Ephesians 4:28; I Timothy 5:17-18; I John 3:17.)
Faith Independent Baptist Church enthusiastically participates in world-wide Missions. FIBC's support comes in many forms: prayer, financial, missionary housing, and
special projects. The spread of the Gospel (and discipleship), both locally and world-wide, is the heartbeat of FIBC. As such, we support missionaries both here in the
USA and around the world. Our missionaries are affiliated with mission boards such as Baptist International Missions, Inc. (BIMI); World Wide New Testament Baptist Missions; and other like-minded boards, churches, and organizations. FIBC views each supported missionary as a partner in helping us fulfill the Great Commission
(Matthew 28:18-20).
By "independent", we mean that FIBC is totally self-governing and subject to the control of no other church organization. As such, we are independent of any human hierarchy and pledge total allegiance to our Lord Jesus Christ. (We are not affiliated with any convention including The Southern Baptist Convention.)
FIBC promotes the King James version of the bible. No other version or translation is to be used in preaching or teaching.
FIBC uses traditional music, new and old, that glorifies God through its words and musical style. FIBC avoids music that is worldly in message, style, or association.
The standards that FIBC promotes are based on biblical principles and commands. Our desire is to follow God's standard of holiness (I Peter 1: 14-16), not the world's standard of carnality. While we recognize that outward conformity to an external standard does not guarantee heart conformity to God's standard of holiness, we at FIBC are trying to do everything we can to encourage holy living in all areas of life. Wheter the issue is dress, music, or any other particular issue, we want to be obedient to God's Word.
FIBC services are characterized by the following styles of worship: enthusiastic, evangelistic, Spirit-filled, Traditional, non-charismatic. Our music and preaching seek to honor God. We show great enthusiasm for our Almighty God and Heavenly Father, but do not engage in distracting shows of emotionalism that put the focus on select individuals. Instead, the goal of FIBC services is to draw the heart, mind, and emotions toward God and Bible truth.
Yes, and thank you for looking at our website to gain further information regarding FIBC. I assume that you, as I, have a great interest in the education of your children and take seriously the parental responsibility to our children to "bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." I am greatly concerned about the dangers and detrimental affects inherent in secular education. It is no secret that secular education is undermining the Christian family and the authority of the Bible through the humanistic and anti-Biblical philosophies and ideas being taught—both in the classroom & curriculum and in the permissive behaviors allowed and promoted.
For this and many other reasons, I am a great promoter and encourager of a Christian education—whether it be hands-on teaching done through homeschooling or by delegating the actual academic teaching to a truly Christian "Christian school". I understand that each parent has to make his own educational choices (before the Lord) regarding their children. While I love and appreciate each of our parents and children regardless of the educational choices they make, I do seek to highlight the problems inherent in secular education and promote a consideration of Christian alternatives.
I write all this to let you know that FIBC is a friend and encourager to "local church-minded" homeschool families. While I recognize that some homeschool families have adopted extreme (even sometimes unbiblical) philosophies, I believe that most Christian homeschool families are earnestly trying to live by the Bible and rear their children in Christian truth, sound academics, and a proper environment. If the last statement (about most homeschool families) describes you, you will find FIBC to be a place that welcomes you and seeks to help you reach your goals of rearing your children in the ways of the Lord. How do I know that FIBC will be friendly to you? Because my wife and I are currently homeschoolers!
To clarify, FIBC does not support the Family Integrated Church model, believing it to be based on a flawed understanding of Biblical ecclesiology (i.e., doctrine of the church). We support and provide age-appropriate classes and opportunities that help build strong families and promote our goal of "Growing Godly Generations".
As the Lord continues to bring more and more homeschoolers into the church, we desire to implement ways to provide increased support for homeschool families. We would love the opportunity to be a blessing to you. Please contact us if you have any further questions.
For the cause of godly children,
Pastor McIntyre
YES. 1 John 5:13 says: "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God."
NO. God wants EVERYONE to go to Heaven. ANYONE can be saved and go to Heaven when they die. The Bible says in 2 Peter 3:9 "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." It also states in John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
The Bible, God's Word, says that we are all born sinners – i.e., we all violate God's Law. As sinners, we will someday face the consequence of our sin – eternal separation from a holy God in a place called Hell/The Lake of Fire. God loves us, however, and has made a way so that we can: 1) be delivered (i.e., saved) from the penalty of our sin(s); 2) become a part of God's family; and 3) someday go to Heaven. The Bible says in Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." ; Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."; Romans 5:8 "But God commendeth [demonstrated] his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."; Romans 10:13 "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."
To understand God's simple plan of salvation for you and become a saved child of God, please click on and read the following link: http://www.godssimpleplan.org/gsps-english.html
NO. The Bible says in John 10:28-29 "And I [Christ] give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand." When a person becomes a child of God (i.e., is saved), the parent- child relationship with God is established. God the Heavenly Father never disowns His children. When a person disobeys, however, the fellowship with God is broken. Like a human parent and child, disobedience on the part of the child fractures the fellowship between parent and child – but the parent-child relationship remains. The child must apologize and seek forgiveness for the fellowship to be restored. In the same way, when a child of God sins, he must seek God's forgiveness for the fellowship to be restored. The child of God can lose fellowship with God but can never lose salvation. The Bible says in 1 John 1:9 "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
Some erroneously believe that "eternal security" promotes a mindset of "liberty to sin." In fact, a child of God should no longer want to live in sin. He will sin along the way as a result of human frailty, but God will not allow His child to enjoy sin long- term. In fact, God will "child discipline" a true Christian to bring him back to a right way of thinking and a restored fellowship. Hebrews 12:6 "For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth."
NO. Salvation is just the beginning of a new life for you. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." God wants you to find and become a part of a Bible-preaching church, like Faith Independent Baptist Church where you can grow in Christ and serve God. As God's Word says in 1 Peter 2:2 "As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:"
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At the end of January I went to see a colleague of mine at the John Rylands Library on Deansgate. I'd been meaning to for a while, but it's too far away from where I work to be doable in a lunch hour so I waited until I had a week off instead.
I got the bus into Piccadilly and felt rather depressed as the bus turned off down Whitworth Street and went past Legends, now boarded up and poised for either demolition or partial restructure. Then I walked through Piccadilly Gardens to Mosley Street (honoured by John Cooper Clarke in one of his more lugubrious works) towards Saint Peter's Square. I feel quite bleak about the redevelopment going on there too – the Library, Library Theatre, Peace Gardens, Metrolink…
When it's redone the council are glassing over Library Walk, one of the most architecturally beautiful walkways in Manchester. Not only do the architect's and the council appear to be deliberately blighting a really nice bit of Victorian architecture, but the council also intend to put a new Peterloo memorial plaque on the gate. It will be the 200 year anniversary of Peterloo in August 2019, and to mark this event with a plaque honouring the death of 17 people and the severe injury of 700 more for demanding the right to vote, on a gate obstructing a public right of way adds insult to injury. Not only have Manchester City Council for years had an extremely euphemistic blue plaque marking the massacre, they're also now revealing a massive irony deficit.
Despite its reputation and Victorian gothic splendour, the only time I've previously visited the Rylands was for a staff meeting about three years ago. Though, as I discovered when I was making my way there, I've a pretty good idea of how to find it because it's been on at least one of the protest march routes I went on in 2011.
The Rylands Library has the misfortune to be situated next to Emporio Armani, which is itself next to RBS. Old meets new… They have a combination of old and new within the Rylands itself, but they've preserved as much of it as possible so there's lots of old glass and a lot of the old gothic building. I really enjoyed my visit, and I take my hat off to Enriqueta Rylands for founding such a long lasting legacy both to her husband, John, and for the people of Manchester.


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An admitted killer who became a police agent in the Surrey Six case is a terrifying, despicable, monster motivated by self-preservation and a payout of almost a million dollars, a defence lawyer for accused killer Matt Johnston said Wednesday.
Brock Martland urged Justice Catherine Wedge to reject the evidence of the former Red Scorpion, who can be identified only as Person Y.
Y testified that Johnston confessed his role in the Oct. 19, 2007 slaughter after jumping into Y's vehicle outside a Coquitlam apartment building later that night.
And Y wore a wire for police in early 2008, getting Johnston to provide some details about the slaughter of rival drug trafficker Corey Lal, his brother Michael, associates Ryan Bartolomeo and Eddie Narong and bystanders Chris Mohan and Ed Schellenberg.
Martland argued in closing arguments that Y's testimony at the trial of Johnston and co-accused Cody Haevischer was memorable and entertaining, though not believable.
"He was simultaneously terrifying, despicable to use his own word, a monster to use a word that appears in the Crown's submission and yet capable of being articulate and occasionally charming," Martland said.
"He veered from being tired and confused and uncertain to being highly animated and even angry."
Y admitted his lengthy criminal history in court, including two murders for which he is now serving life in prison.
And he claimed that he had agreed to kill the target of the murder plot – Corey Lal – but backed out when he learned that Johnston, who he didn't like, was also going to be involved.
Instead, Y told the court he gave a small Glock to a man known as Person X, who has pleaded guilty to shooting three of the victims.
Martland said it's not logical that a sophisticated organized criminal like Y would act like "a bungling incompetent who gives his gun away to someone in a murder scheme knowing his DNA's all over it because he's just been at the gym with it clipped to his boxer shorts."
He said when Y offered his help to police in late 2007, he was "living on borrowed time" because so many people wanted to kill him.
Martland noted that "outrageous and oversized benefits were paid using public funds to this admitted multi-murderer."
He said Y received close to $1 million, including a $140,000 car, a monthly stipend, as well as trips to Brazil and Mexico before he went to jail, on top of $472,000 for his lawyers.
"We say that the oversize benefits are staggering," Martland said, adding that Y was motivated to lie for such a large payout.
Martland also said Y admitted to lying in an earlier trial and acknowledged his own mental health and addiction issues while on the stand.
Even with some evidence the Crown said corroborates Y's testimony, "it is not enough to overcome the debilitating problems in this witness' account," Martland said.
Earlier Wednesday, Haevischer's lawyer Simon Buck said the Crown was wrong to suggest that his client's "post-offence conduct" proved murder.
The Crown pointed to evidence that Haevischer helped destroy evidence after the six murders as proof of his role in the plot and executions.
But Buck said that the post-offence conduct alleged could mean several things.
"In the present case, the evidence of post-offence conduct is equally consistent with the offence of manslaughter, robbery or being an accessory to an offence," Buck said.
Johnston's legal team will continue final submissions Thursday and Friday before the Crown responds.
The high-profile trial is now expected to conclude next week.


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Texan blues titan and ZZ Top guitarist Billy F Gibbons reveals the ten albums that soundtracked his 50-year career in rock
The first song Billy F Gibbons ever learned to play was What I'd Say by Ray Charles. He's just received a 1962 Gibson Melodymaker for Christmas, a budget version of the Les Paul Junior with a thinner body, a narrow headstock, a single pick-up and a single cutaway.
"I'd just turned 13," says Gibbons. "I plugged it in, cranked it up and by the end of the afternoon I'd worked out that opening figure."
Half a century later Gibbons is still cranking up the guitar, but now he's a legend. And these are the 10 records that helped out along the way.
The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
"Whoa! That one stands as a literal mind blower. It alters the neurons when hearing it."
Cream – Fresh Cream
"A trio sound but like that of a freight train. Totally blues-based yet weren't bound by any particular strain which makes the offering endlessly refreshing and innovative."
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced
"The question that the title poses was immediately answered once the needle settled down in the grooves."
Depeche Mode – Some Great Reward
"I am constantly impressed with how they meld a bleak world view with synch and turn it all into great pop music."
The Rolling Stones – Their Satanic Majesties Request
"This is a crazy, spacey, album that some say was The Stones' answer to 'Sgt. Pepper's' but what was the question?"
Muddy Waters at Newport
"It didn't have to get any better and serves as the single best introduction to the blues one could want."
B.B. King – Live at the Regal
"Could be one of the best live performances ever captured on wax."
Complete and Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul
"WOW! Mark this one with Steve Cropper's always appropriate Telecaster accompaniment and, of course, Otis', ahem, complete and unbelievable vocal attack."
Ministry – The Land of Rape and Honey
"Al Jorgensen is a guy whose commitment is total and this is the album where he really found his footing. It paves the way to the possibilities offered by it's rich and dark, industrial approach."
Jeff Beck – Truth
"Some say this is ground zero for heavy metal and it certainly created a huge influence on players too numerous to even attempt tallying."
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The landscape of this island group is dotted with brightly coloured houses, beaches which appear to stretch as far as the eye can see and red-coloured cliffs which inspire visitors with a mix of enthusiasm, fascination and thirst to discover what these unique surroundings have to offer.
In 2011, authorities are expecting a record number of cruise ships to call in at port and 2012 is looking even more promising with eight confirmations received to date. Great news for the islands and a great outlook for the future! These results are the fruit of unstinted efforts over time with cruise line operators and represent the culmination of lengthy deliberations by island residents.
Ships have long been calling into port at Îles de la Madeleine. However, a new turning point has been reached with the adoption of the Strategy for the Sustainable Development and Promotion of International Cruiseshipping on the Saint Lawrence River. As a port of call, Îles de la Madeleine has opted in favour of a facilities enhancement plan which will make it possible for the island chain to welcome greater numbers of visitors while complying with the provisions of the sustainable development policy in force. The islands offer a spectacular mix of stunning countryscapes and breathtaking beauty set against the backdrop of a fragile ecosystem.
Port of call authorities are seeking to appeal to individuals with a decided appreciation for nature and the great outdoors, the object being to minimize the overall impact of increased numbers of cruiseshippers. Hence the island focus is on medium-sized cruise liners.
To meet the needs of cruiseshippers and cruise operators, the port and central village areas are being completely redeveloped, with work scheduled for completion in late 2013. In 2011, the initial phase of work will see construction of a new cruise ship pier, reconstruction of the tanker pier, development of a loading area for tourist buses, as well as a series of initiatives destined to enhance people and vehicle flow in the port and village areas.
In 2012, a new terminal will be built with a view to enhancing visitor welcome facilities. Then in 2013, all new facilities will be linked together and passenger services enhanced with the addition of shops and businesses adjacent to pier installations.
To complement investment in the port and central village areas, a number of tourist attractions have committed to a facelift. Planned activities include as follows:
It goes without saying that these investments will boost the tourism supply to the ultimate delight of all visitors stopping in at Îles de la Madeleine. The advent of greater numbers of cruise ships will also make it possible to extend the tourist season while spurring employment in the region.
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US Rep. Barbara Boxer fingers a tiny metal bracket she wears on a chain around her neck and notes that its retail value is $20, but that the Air Force pays $850 for it as a spare part for fighter planes.
Not a brow in the room is left unfurrowed over that informational bait as this US representative from California proceeds to reel in her catch, an audience of 200 business executives with a penchant for balanced budgets.
Congresswoman Boxer is appealing to their business sense on behalf of BENS (Business Executives for National Security Inc.), a nonpartisan Washington lobbying group recruiting members who believe sound business principles can be applied to military spending.
The BENS meeting here this week included bankers, lawyers, real estate investors, men and women, Republicans and Democrats. They may not have been convinced by the marches and rallies and demonstrations of the peace movement, but they respond to the economic effects of a costly arms race which they link negatively with the rapidly expanding national debt.
Nuclear-freeze and peace-movement leaders approaching the business community on its own turf and in its own language report a higher-than-ever receptivity to their causes. And the growth of groups like BENS across the United States suggests that the business-community effort to inject cost-effective alternatives to the arms buildup is providing new impetus for the movement.
''They spoke to me in terms I understood,'' says Whit Mather, vice-president and executive producer of One Pass Inc., a San Francisco film company. ''I've been disinclined to become involved in all these diffuse organizations. But I feel comfortable with this group. ... It's an opportunity for entrepreneurial America to come to the defense-spending establishment's door looking, dressing, speaking, and acting like them but bearing a different message.''
Mr. Mather's company often produces training or industrial films and recently established a policy not to take any more business from companies with nuclear-related contracts. The policy did not come from management but was pushed by lower-level staff at this 70-employee company. He says that if it were not for this policy change at One Pass, he would not have been aware of BENS.
''For my company, it (the motive) is more emotional. But my motive is based as much on national economy as anything else,'' says Mather, who says he is a Republican in spirit but sees BENS concerns as nonpartisan. (It was clear that the diverse crowd here was supportive of military spending reductions. But when Representative Boxer, a Democrat, turned partisan at one point, suggesting that a new president could stop the military spending, she received only scattered applause.)
BENS offers no apologies for playing on economic incentives instead of altruism, says another BENS speaker, Harold Willens, the Los Angeles real estate executive credited with starting the California nuclear-freeze movement, which spread nationwide in 1982.
''My devotion to the issue has nothing to do with altruism,'' Mr. Willens says. ''I don't want my family and assets and accumulations ... my buildings on Wilshire Boulevard to be barbecued,'' he said bluntly.
Willens, whose book, ''The Trimtab Factor,'' makes the case that business leadership can stop the nuclear-arms race by applying sound economic principles to military spending, stresses that he does not promote a unilateral nuclear freeze. That would not be good for business because national security would not be ensured, he reasons. But he says the old theory that military spending is good for the economy does not wash with a business community looking at a declining economy tied to interest rates that in turn are pegged to a high national deficit.
If the military establishment were using old-fashioned capitalism, he reasons , cost-consciousness would take charge. And it would follow that the costly proliferation of weaponry - matching the Soviets firepower for firepower, counterweapon for counterweapon - would be seen as an inefficiency. ''If our company was in a similar situation, we'd adapt our course to meet new requirements,'' he explains, reasoning that there would be no logic behind present plans to build 17,000 new nuclear weapons when it takes only a few to cause a nuclear winter that could destroy the whole earth.
This kind of reasoning, he says, is behind the ''new receptivity'' he has seen in the business community on a 26-city speaking tour. He does admit that those companies whose biggest contracts are with nuclear-related industries are not BENS members. But he is convinced that the other businesses associated with BENS are influential enough to make a difference.
''There are points in history when altruism and self-interests intersect,'' Willens says. ''Now the effects of the nuclear freeze (the freeze campaign of 1982) have created a dim, hazy stirring in the back of their heads that's asking , 'Can we really blow ourselves up?' That's intersecting with the skyrocketing budget deficit.''
Willens, who was pursued by backslapping, autograph-seeking admirers at the meeting this week, expressed one concern: ''Are they using this as their way to do their share by saying nice things to Harold Willens rather than pitching in and paying their debt?''


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We were stuck in traffic on our way to the Pak Khlong Market, the epic Bangkok flower mart. Inching our way along, Ketsara casually mentioned that the Temple of the Golden Buddha, Wat Traimit, was on our right. Then the traffic cleared and suddenly we were in a round-about with me thinking, Waiti! Why are we not stopping to see the Golden Buddha?
And right at that moment, Mr. Johnson, a Canadian-born Dominican who lives in New York and works for Tourism Thailand (I know, very confusing, right?), says, "Khun Ketsara, could we stop at the temple?" I was elated.
Ketsara spoke quickly to the driver who reversed directions and, minutes later, we were inside the Temple of the Golden Buddha. I wanted to see this wonder not so much because it is the world's largest solid gold Buddha (although I've heard that while the head, arms, and legs are all solid 18-carat gold, the torso is "just" 3 or 4 inches of solid gold), but because of the story behind it.
It seems that the Buddha was discovered accidentally in 1955. At the time, the 13-foot-high Buddha was nothing more than a rather plain-looking stucco Buddha that had been unearthed when workers were extending the port of Bangkok. For 20 years the sorry image sat unnoticed at the Wat Traimit Temple until one day a crane dropped it while moving it out of the way.
The plaster cracked, revealing the gold Buddha beneath. Evidently the statue had been encased in stucco since sometime around 1750 to hide it from Burmese ransackers.
What seems odd to me about all this is how could they not know that a 13-foot-high Buddha made out of stucco could not possibly weigh five tons? I mean, when those construction workers first unearthed this Buddha in 1955, didn't they think it was a little strange that it weighed so much?
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A plaster cube 5 feet on a side would weigh almost 9 tons. The photo seems to show a Buddha shorter than 13 feet. Was the whole of the Buddha and the pedestal encased in plaster? If so, the plaster weight would be relatively large.
Heh. So the question may be more about the claimed solidity of the statue. Still, disguising a free-form object of any size in plaster or cement would require perhaps 3 times more plaster than object. This rough calc suggests that the stony result would weigh much, even many times more tonnage than its hidden content.
Perhaps also intriguing, what else was so disguised and remains undiscovered; has anyone speculated or looked? Story upon story?
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I have oodles of new things to share to let's get started. I will have to link you to the albums for all the pictures as I am doing this from home and don't have the photos on this computer ... here we go !
First ... lots of new paper. I put out almost 70 new papers today. Christmas, pets, flowers, family, steampunk, and more. The Graphic 45 Christmas paper is in the album too !Click on the blue highlighted date in the next phrase to go to the album.
By the way, the Authentique Tidings Christmas paper may very well be my favourite this year !
Over 75 new papers !
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Now, I also unpacked a few boxes of stamps and dies. Oh, and paints and tools !I have Avery Elle, Stampendous, Sizzix, Tim Holtz, Prima, BoBunny, Art Anthology, Graphic 45, and more. Click on the date once again to go to the photos.
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And the last, but certainly not the least, is the Kirarina Wink Glitter markers from Copic. I doodled on some black paper and maybe fell in love with them !
So that's what I unpacked this week. There are still several boxes that I never even got too - next week ! And don't forget, this Saturday you can drop in to make beaded snowflakes. Scroll down for photos and details. The Mega Flakes Foil card workshop for Friday has been postponed ( see previous post). Hope to see you this week ... I'm open Friday from 10 to 5 and Saturday from 10 to noon. See you !


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2012 map could be deja vu for Obama
In Pennsylvania, a Franklin and Marshall College poll released Wednesday showed Obama leading by nine points, 52 percent to 43 percent among likely voters. The state has attracted the attention of surrogates, but there have been few visits from the candidates themselves. Neither Romney, Obama nor their respective super PACs have advertised in the state for nearly a month.
"If the election were held today, and you look at the electoral map, it's hard [for Obama] not to get to 365," said G. Terry Madonna, who conducts the Franklin and Marshall poll. "They're close enough to cause everyone to pause … but we're also seeing far fewer undecideds than we have since 1996. … Most of us think … that something needs to happen that maybe is out of [Romney's] control."Continue Reading
It remains true that an Electoral College landslide is not the same thing as a blowout in the popular vote. Even in 2008, Obama won 365 electoral votes at the same time as he nabbed 52.9 percent of the popular vote. A bipartisan POLITICO poll released Monday shows Obama leading Romney by 3 percent nationally, which is within the margin of error.
Republican pollster Ed Goeas says polls should be weighted to reflect a balance of Bush-friendly 2004 turnout and Obama-skewed 2008 turnout, something POLITICO's Battleground poll does. He said the Washington Post's Ohio poll anticipates an even bigger share of Democratic voters than there were in 2008, something he believes is basically impossible. He says undecided voters break toward the challenger around this time, and he sees signs that's beginning to happen.
"There's a lot of what-if scenarios," said Goeas. "You could also end up with Romney winning every one of those states."
Election Day is just less than five weeks from now and much could change between now and then. The first debate is Wednesday in Denver. Romney and GOP outside groups still hold a funding edge that could tighten the margin in the race's final weeks. But early voting has already begun in some states, including Iowa on Thursday, which could blunt late Romney momentum.
Romney political director Rich Beeson told reporters this week that the campaign's internals look better than public polling, but he wouldn't say that the GOP nominee is actually leading in those places.
"We are by any stretch inside the margin of error in Ohio," he said. "Being from Colorado, we have a saying, 'If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes and it'll change.' If you don't like a poll coming out of a state, wait five minutes and you'll see one that you do like."
Obama strategists have regularly compared this cycle to 2004 and warned supporters the election will wind up close. They don't want them to become less energetic. Privately, they feel good.
Traveling Obama press secretary Jennifer Psaki said they'd prefer a path "where you can drive a mack truck through it and not a little scooter through it."
"We don't get too whipped up when we're up, we don't get too whipped up when we're down," she told reporters on Air Force One Wednesday. "As time progresses, the field is looking like it's narrowing for them. In that sense, we'd rather be us than them."


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