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|Navy pants or navy track pants or navy shorts
|Summer dress or winter kilt or pinafore
|May be worn, however trackpants may not be worn under skorts or dress
|T-shirt in house colour or red/navy skivvy or red/navy polo or Chambray shirt (short or long sleeve)
|Red/navy jumper, V neck with school logo or blue polar fleece
|Entirely black lace ups or T-bars or any colour sports shoes may be worn
|Must be worn when outside during terms 1 and 4; must be a broad brimmed or bucket hat
|Sports Polo and navy shorts – the new sports polo shirt can be worn as part of the uniform on designated PE days for P – 6 students.
|Pants and shorts
|Navy pant or shorts may be worn (no jeans or trackpants for 7-12)
|Chambray short or long sleeve, plain white T-shirt may be worn under shirt, but must not be visible below the sleeves
|Navy polar fleece with school logo, cardinal red or navy jumper that has a V neck with school logo
|For 7–12 entirely black lace ups or T-bars
|Navy or black
|White or black or navy
|Summer Dress or winter skirt
|Compulsory for Years P10 and strongly recommended for students in Years 11 and 12. Hats at 7–12 can be any type but must include a peak for sun protection. They must be worn outside during terms 1 and 4
|In cold weather students may wear a plain navy coat or jacket over their jumper or polar fleece outside at recess or lunchtimes
|Special Year 6 and 12 top – Year 6s and 12s can wear an individualised top following design approval from the Principal.
|Restricted to only one each of a small ring, bracelet and/or necklace and only 1 pair of sleepers or studs in ears; any other piercing must have clear studs
|Students may have a choice of colour in headwear, gloves, scarves, ribbons
Sports Uniform
All students P – 12: sports polo shirt with a base colour that is white with house colour logo and trim, together with navy shorts/trackpants. This is the uniform for timetabled PE classes and for other school and interschool events.
For some specialised events (eg: zone athletics, surfing competition) an individualised sports top will be provided by the school.
Uniform suppliers
Mrs Susan Wetton, A Plus Uniforms
Shop 5, Belmont Walk
33 Thomson Street
Belmont VIC 3216
Phone 52437240
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12 Surf City Plaza
61 Surfcoast Highway
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Attended the inaugural performance and visual arts festival curated by Kaaitheater and Argos Contemporary Arts Centre in Brussels. Was very impressed by the sold out performances, with waiting lists for just about everything. Personal highlights were the individual performances sited inside the Argo Brouillon exhibition, curated by Boris Charmatz as La Musee de la Danse- Tim Etchells stood out. I also loved Philip Gehmacher and Meg Stuart's collaboration with a video artist in The Faultlines and the performance by Trajal Harrell in collaboration with visual artist Sarah Sze.
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January 3, 2012 2012 THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON
The year of Bruce Lee…and I welcomed it in Seattle, where his and his son Brandon gravesite are to be found. On a more delightful and playful mood, here it is how the next year will be.
2012: What will happen.
JANUARY: Someone named Theresa will have my glasses on the 1st day of the year, I will get them back on the 2nd. Will watch The Godfather and think about moving to a lil village in Sicily. I will fly back to Berlin, instead, with no delays, and even if I get stuck in London I won´t be able to see Pec, because she will be working and BA will make me fly in the afternoon. Also I won´t be able to see Cruz as she would still be in Madrid. Will go to Henry Rollins gig with my mate Sam. Will join a Crossfit gym or start long distance running, altogether with Power Yoga and Chi Kung with my friend Pablo. And I will stick to it. Stalk the fancy people at Berlin fashion week. Specially heterosexual men.
FEBRUARY: One month no smoke.Think to go back to fashion biz, and discard it. I will be working my ass off, for petty coins, it will be freezing and snow will break in. The Bright Tradeshow won´t send me the press pass, and I would tell their corporate asses to stay away from the true spirit of skateboarding and all boarding sports: FREEDOM you fools. I will be single yet again in St. Valentine´s day but getting lots of good sex. I will tour with Pec, or at least I will be in London. I can write now…oh no hold it, that´s an illusion.
MARCH: Biz takes off. Like seriously. Find a nice, cheap apartment in Moabit or Treptower Park, because I can´t live with the NK hip anymore, and I need nature. Although I might reconsider it and stay close to my friends in da hood. We will jump into Spring, the season most hated. I will be allergic starting next month and single. Will wish to go to Japan, to say goodbye to friend Aitana, but I will be working my ass off and poor. Fidel Castro dies. The end of an era. Tresca´s birthday.
APRIL: I will be on B2 of Deutsch, and able to have a decent conversation. At least. Or talk nonsense with a nice accent. I will be making millions.And writing a lot. Will be almost fit, back to a normal 125 pounds and eating good. I might get a boyfriend, just for the sake of having a boyfriend. Wait no, I have no time. My mother´s birthday.
MAY: Go to London, to be amazed by this in case i can´t make it to ATP. Buy a rodie to run with friends Sam and Marta. Enjoy two days of sun for the first time since arrival. Get amazingly cured from allergy, and enjoy Spring. Ha. I will buy my ticket to India. Go somewhere to surf and chill.
JUNE: Will go to Ibiza to pay a quick visit to my parents and my dog, chill at the beach and smoke weed…NO wait…this is my 5th month no smoking…anything. Crack included. Will get my hair cut at my favourite hairstylist in San Antoni, a Scottish sexy man.Second time I will cut my hair in the year, probably last. On my way there, a quick stop in Madrid to see friends, meet Tresca´s daughter, Molly than by then will be sleep trained and actually walking. She will probably hold a MBA in Business, as well.
JULY: We will have two days of summer, and everyone in Berlin will run to the lakes. Will go to the Berlin Fashion Week, and maybe bump into Angelica. I will get a smartphone, because it is about time. Will have lots of work and make lots of money. New twist in the occupying movement, now revolution is coming late fall, right before the World ends. We will have a Green November instead of a Red October.
AUGUST : Will work even more, write even more, and ride a whole lot more. Will go to my brother´s wedding in India, and celebrate my 32 years of age with friends and family in southern India. I will celebrate in Chennai my brother´s wedding, and will cry a lot, dance a lot and hug people a lot. Hang out with friends and family. Feel much love.
SEPTEMBER: Travel to Kerala, to stay in an ashram for a month. Get my first yoga teacher training. Write a lot.
OCTOBER: Meet up with my friend Rodrigo in Nepal, to trek the Himalayas. Will stay there for a while, and meet interesting people, in the amazing land. One week volunteer in Lhasa. Revolution is coming.
NOVEMBER: We are taking the streets, and there is a global change a conscious change. Will most likely move to Malaysia or India, on a new job position. Book publishing deal. Get married, because some say the end of the World is near. And I will rethink my position and actually get married.
DECEMBER: Will spend Christmas with my family for the first time in two years. …….
So that´s it. Read also this post about how to face the New Year.
Loads of love and aspirations.
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June 1, 2011 Shit is over, surf is UP
Right, officially we are coming closer to Summer Solstice, have you not noticed it? here in upper Northern Europe. I mean c'mon, we are all gettin pretty much undressed and showing some skin. Mind the fact the love Germans have for FKK. After a day in the lake, having a swim in the cold winter waters…it is true, summer is here to stay. The title of this post refers to an old claim that my brother, and his classmates Pec and Raul came up with once the last day of school was near. But it surely has become a mantra, to any given day, when you pretty much decide to cut the scheisse and live it up. As an inspirational video, I came across through Cooler Magazine here you have "Leave a message" by Nike girls team riders.
Loads of love and play it cool
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June 27, 2010 Films that make us
June 20, 2010 I am the Shelter. I believe.
Beauty and truth. My favourite from the Moonshine Conspiracy Experiment...as in if I had to choose one. Can´t wait for the Surfmovies Sessions. Next stop: Indo, on a boat, two months.
Loads of love, good waves and surf.


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Dr. Frasat Chaudhry has joined Health Quest Medical Practice in the Division of Neurology. Chaudhry is seeing patients in the Carmel office at 150 Route 52.
"I am looking forward to working with HQMP," Chaudhry said.
Chaudhry has been in practice for eight years, having most recently worked at the Brain and Spine Center at St. Luke's Hospital in Missouri. She served as the director of the stroke program there since 2013.
Chaudhry completed her residency in neurology at Loyola University Medical Center in Illinois as well as a fellowship in clinical neurophysiology at St. Louis University Health Sciences Center in Missouri.
Chaudhry received her medical degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She is board certified in neurology.
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University of Texas, Arlington
Cisco Systems Scholarship Recipient
Junjie Chen is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of Texas at Arlington. She received her B.S. degree from Xidian University, China, in 2007, M.S. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2010. Her research interests include wireless sensor networks, radar sensor networks, wireless communications, compressive sensing, signal processing, and information theory.
Question: What are you most excited about/looking forward to at GHC?
Answer: "This is a great chance for we women scientists to exchange ideas, to inspire each other, and encourage each other, to make more contributions in computing."


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Goldman Sachs' Chief US Political Economist Alec Phillips writes that tax reform faces a risk of failure, but tax cuts remain likely… in 2018 and investors need to stay realistic about the impact of fiscal stimulus.
President Trump's campaign proposals initially raised expectations of several forms of fiscal stimulus, driving investor optimism on both infrastructure spending and various elements of tax reform. However, we expect only tax cuts to have a meaningful effect on growth over the next couple of years. Three risks are behind this view: tax reform failure, fiscal constraints, and delayed enactment.
Debates, delays, distractions
First, tax reform faces a real risk of failure. If Republicans pursue revenue-neutral tax reform, they are likely to encounter the same challenges they encountered in passing their health legislation. Inclusion of controversial proposals like the border-adjusted tax (BAT) or even the repeal of corporate interest expense deductibility, for example, could sink the effort. Views on these issues do not follow traditional party lines, which could easily lead to some Republican opposition (we have already seen significant opposition to the BAT, for example). With few if any Democratic lawmakers likely to vote for the tax bill, Republicans would need nearly unanimous support from their own party. Thus, while revenue-neutral tax reform might be preferable from a policy perspective, imposing this restriction would lower the odds of enactment by next year.
In light of the challenges tax reform faces, we believe that President Trump, who did not emphasize revenue-neutrality during the campaign, is likely to eventually endorse more limited reforms that result in a net tax cut. However, the size of such a cut would be limited by fiscal constraints; centrist Republican lawmakers seem especially likely to balk at large tax cuts that would eventually require deep spending cuts to maintain fiscal sustainability. Dynamic scoring and other budget accounting strategies might provide several hundred billion dollars' worth of room for a tax cut in 10-year budget projections, but alone would allow for only a very modest cut. Our current expectation is a tax cut of $1.75tn over ten years, taking effect in 2018.


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There is a hurricane brewing in Ohio.
At least that is what my mom is paranoid, restless and consumed with fear about tonight. My mom suffers from several kinds of mental illness. She was diagnosed with Schizophrenia right around her 20's. Now at 72 she has also been told she has dementia or Alzheimer's.
Any one of those are pretty terrible. Pile all three – and you have a shit storm of confusion at any given moment.
Looking back, my childhood was very different from most. I just didn't know it at the time.
But now – as an adult, and the fact that she lives 4 states away – it gives me some space and ability to see things for what they are.
I have had time to heal and forgive from the seemingly personal attacks. The souless look in her eyes as she would hurl insults and physical objects my way. The delusions, the voices, the paranoia, the anger.
So now when I hear she is suffering from another episode, it just saddens me. She is in a rehabilitation center worrying…in great concern that I am about to be wiped off the face of the earth from a hurricane. A hurricane in Ohio.
Her mind is taking her down a senseless track of anxiety and fear and there is no talking her out of it.
I remember sitting in the complete dark and silence – no electronic device allowed of any kind – because in her mind aliens were coming and they would enter through the electrical wires.
I remember trying to see the spiders – the hundreds of spiders that she was screaming about – begging me to get them off of her and her anger at me because I didn't save her from them.
Pretty scary stuff. Especially as a kid. I remember thinking…she IS wrong…right?! right??
There is a natural tendency as a child to want to believe your parent – but in these cases there was a lot of confusion and internal struggles.
The brain is a mysterious place. It happens so fast – She was just fine, laughing and sounding great last week. But this week there is a hurricane in Ohio.
Living with a person with a serious mental illness is a challenge. It takes an extraordinary person to be able to handle it and understand it with compassion, love, forgiveness – especially in the midst of an episode that could involve personal attacking. I wasn't always that person and am not always that person even now.
The distance has helped. It has given me the opportunity to focus on my own little family. To be a little selfish. I had not realized just how much of my life, my energy, my thoughts had been focused on caring for mom, worrying about her, or living in a constant underlying state of dread when the phone rings and it is her…needing rescued again from something or someone – which usually involved lots of time and possibly lots of money.
But I will always remember a conversation we had a few years ago that completely broke my heart and changed the way I deal with her and look at her.
She said in a moment of realization, "No one likes me Lee Ann. No one likes the REAL me. The unmedicated me. The raw me. People only like me when I am on drugs that make me something, or someone else".
That is a sad and truthful statement.
She is locked inside a body and brain that has been failing her for years and is only increasingly fading out. The real, unmedicated her is an unpredictable, paranoid, delusional, angry, unstable person.
And the worst part of it all is that she is aware of it. She knows this truth.
So when I step back, and think about it in terms of pure physical illness…I am able to have compassion, patience. Just the same as if she had a failing kidney or heart. It just happens to be her brain in this case.
It is still exhausting, frustrating. The whole thing is unfair. But life is not fair.
We all have challenges to face. How you face them – THAT is what determines who you are.
I lived the earlier years of my life angry and blaming her for a terrible, scary, unstable childhood. A childhood that left scars, and some really awful exposure to some really bad experiences.
So I became that. An angry person. A victim. Resentful. Naive. Restless. Blind. Making unwise decisions and choices.
But it wasn't because of her. All that was because I made that choice to become those things. In many ways it was coping mechanisms and I did have a right to be angry to some degree. But when it starts tearing you apart from the inside out…that is a problem.
It took me years and a few hundred miles to finally make peace out of all that chaos.
So. Here I sit in Ohio. No real threat of a hurricane. Just a heart that is sad for a very confused loved one that is fighting a huge storm of her own. And having no way to rescue her from this one.


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Deep in thought about respect, love, honor, loyalty and submission. All of which I have and willingly give to my Sir. The question arises now, do I have these coming back to me. I cannot definitively say anymore as new light is shed upon circumstances beyond my comprehension to hold. Discretion is not a fine tuned practice for anyone and I am not immune to it. So now I ask myself, if I am not being exclusively committed to, should I be committed? This gives me pause, reason to ponder and reevaluate my own boundaries.
I have grown in my love for my Sir. Given full submission to Him and gratefully surrender my mind, body and soul to Him. Upon meeting this beautiful soul just shy of three years ago, I was determined not to let Him near my heart, let alone my body. Sir was (and still is) easy on the eye. Our ability to carry on an easy flowing conversation was very attractive to me. His emotional maturity refreshing along with His natural way of leading. It was only a matter of months before I was in. One morning out to breakfast together, after a guise of seeing His new mantel and wood stove, before I knew it, Sir "took what was His" and has ever since.
Although we were both very vanilla back then, not having the pleasure of voicing our desires in either of our past lives, we slowly began to discover deeper sensual things about the other. Even then, the submission had begun for me as He was learning to exercise the true Man that resided within and I the sub wanting to explode and surrender to Him.
It wasn't until earlier this year that Sir introduced a new lifestyle, one toy, one erotic scene, one conversation at a time. At last our kinks, fetishes, mutual desires began to be revealed. Exploration of the other introduced an entire new form of this flourishing relationship we now refer to as D/s.
So I am in conflict with myself, my feelings and mostly my own boundaries of what I am willing to participate in. As a beautiful, willing, young enough sub who strives hard and succeeds most of the time to please her Sir, I am praying for the courage to share my truth, speak from my heart and say out loud to my Sir what He already knows. The fact that I not only need exclusiveness I have to feel secure in this wish that He is capable of honoring it. In order for me to continue our journey together along this path that He paves the way for, I must use my voice.
The struggle remains because the outcome is unknown. What I do know is I have but this one life and I no longer intend to live it in wonder and confusion. I allowed myself to remain in an unhealthy marriage ten years longer than I ought to have when it was clearly sentenced to death long before. Sir had a very similar experience and close to the same length of dreaded time. In actuality, this is the first working, healthy relationship either of us has ever encountered because we are both working on our own "stuff". We have taken risks in each other, invested more than I ever thought possible. Each worthy of the other. This is in no way to have the feel of or give a sense of an ultimatum. I would never disrespect my Sir in that way. It is the fact merely suggesting that I am aware I must be true to me. He wouldn't want me any other way.
I am not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, nor is perfection something I aspire to, but rather living up to the very best of my capabilities is my goal. Sir pushes me hard to achieve these and He sees the positive outcome in the results. He reminds me that it makes Him happy and it pleases Him very much . In turn, those compliments encourage me to work harder whether it be for my career, my body or simply life. The rewards are endless. His care and compassion ignite my soul.
Together we make complete sense.
Sir is everything I never knew I always wanted…


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Azul Airlines' traffic grows by 32% in 2013; gears up for long-haul expansion from early 2015
Founded in May 2008 by David Neeleman ― co-founder of WestJet and JetBlue Airways ― Azul Airlines is a Brazilian domestic low-cost carrier headquartered at Sao Paulo Viracopos. The airline has been growing impressively in recent years as April 2014 capacity results in almost 200% growth when compared to the corresponding month three years ago, the month it began commercial operations from Viracopos to both Salvador and Porto Alegre. With nearly 21% of weekly domestic seats (according to Innovata schedule data for week commencing 22 April 2014), Azul has established itself as the third largest operator in Brazil, behind GOL and TAM Airlines. As part of its 2014 network expansion, the airline launched on 26 April five new routes from Ribeirao Preto and Recife, all of which are operated weekly using its E195s.
Examination of traffic data facilitated by ANAC (National Civil Aviation – Brazil) indicates that Azul handled over 13 million passengers last year, representing an increase of almost 32% over 2012 figures. In fact, 2013 was an excellent year for Azul, as ASKs went up 31%, cargo increased by 150% and the load factor grew by 1% to over 80%. On 28 May 2012, the airline announced the acquisition of the regional carrier TRIP Airlines, with whom it started comprehensive code-share services from December 2012. Following the complete integration of its subsidiary by late April to mid-May 2014, it will operate a mixed regional fleet of 10 ATR 42s, 47 ATR 72s, 22 E190s, 53 E195s and a single E175, but plans to incorporate 11 more aircraft into its fleet by 2017, as it looks to expand in the long-haul market.
Viracopos-Santos is #1 route by seats
According to Innovata schedule data for this April, the carrier operates 201 non-stop routes to over 100 destinations. Regarding its most significant services, the top 13 airport pairs account for 14% of all weekly seats, representing a 1% increase from last year's figures, with Viracopos-Rio de Janeiro Santos maintaining its top position in 2014. Neither Sao Paulo Guarulhos, nor Sao Paulo Congonhas offered the LCC much scope for growth when it launched in 2008, therefore, the carrier based its operations at Viracopos, located around 100 kilometres away from the largest city of Brazil. Azul's two hubs, the other being Belo Horizonte, dominate the LCC's largest airport pairs in terms of weekly seats, with just Guarulhos-Santos and Guarulhos-Porto Alegre (highlighted in the chart below) being the only routes in this year's ranking not to feature either of its two main bases.
Azul's weekly seat capacity noted 4% growth when compared to data from the same week last year, with just the link between Viracopos and Belo Horizonte posting a decrease (-29%) from the top 13 routes. On the other hand, the 864-kilometre sector from Guarulhos to Porto Alegre is not only a new entrant into this year's graph, but also the fastest growing service, having increased by almost 450% or 3,174 weekly seats in the past 12 months.
Brasilia grows massively for S14
Analysis of Innovata weekly flights being offered by Azul from individual airports reveals that the LCC is growing this summer at three of its top 12 airport bases. The carrier's two hubs, accounting for a combined total of 1,521 weekly flights, will both see modest frequency decreases of 1% and 1.8% respectively, coming as a result of diversifying its domestic network. Besides this, Recife ― one if its focus cities ― will witness the greatest decline, as the carrier will trim a total of 46 weekly flights (-24%) from its schedule.
By comparison, the airline is expanding hugely at Brasilia, with the airport experiencing an impressive growth of 49%, following the introduction of services to Cuiaba, Palmas, Ribeirao Preto and Santos for S14, when compared to last year's summer schedule. Furthermore, the number of weekly departures across its network is expected to go down by 2.5% this summer.
Azul goes long-haul expansion
As part of its continuous expansion plan, Azul will see a total of 11 wide-bodies join its fleet in the coming years, with six second hand A330-200s and five new A350-900s being added. The LCC announced on 23 April that it will commence long-haul services from early 2015 from its Viracopos hub to the US, utilising the A330-200s that will be delivered next year. Taking into consideration the link it has with JetBlue, the Brazilian operator will likely inaugurate flights to Orlando, Fort Lauderdale and New York JFK, all three classified as major hubs of the American operator.
Commenting on the international expansion, Neeleman said: "Our customers have been asking for this and now we look forward to providing them with our superior service on international flights, just as we have been doing today on our 880 daily domestic departures. We are excited to share the Azul experience with new customers internationally and expand the airline's success story beyond Brazil's borders."


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12 SEP 2014 – The Loss of Moon Cake
In conjunction with the MidAutumn Festival on 8th September, a group of students led by Zhu Jian Feng have organized 'The Loss Of Moon Cake' dinner night on Friday, 12th September under Hua Xia Cultural Society. The main objective of this event is to raise funds for HIV patients. Secondly, it is to encourage students to involve themselves in co-curricular activities, and to promote the MidAutumn festival.
Throughout the week before the event, stalls and games booths were set up outside library and in the atrium to sell tickets and raise funds for the event. Mooncakes and handmade cards were sold, and the atrium was decorated with models of handmade lanterns.
The dinner night was a success as around a hundred students participated. "I should have reached earlier, the food is running low! But the mini games were really fun," said Erik, one of the participants. Pomelo and Chinese tea were served as a iconic food for MidAutumn Festival, classic MidAutumn Festival games such as riddles and mooncake designing competitions were held.
The dinner night was a success as around a hundred students participated.
"I hope everyone is having fun in this event, I personally enjoy this event very much, a big thank you to the organizer and the volunteers that helped out," said Yong, one of the participants of the night.
Written by : YXY
Photos by : Jun Rong (Jun X Photography)
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ACHBOR ("Mouse"):
- 1. Father of Baal-hanan (comp. Hannibal), king of Edom (Gen. xxxvi. 38, 39, and in the corresponding list of I Chron. i. 49). It has been suggested that the name implies a species of totemism (W. R. Smith, "Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia," p. 302), and the discovery of sacrificial mice by the Palestine Exploration Fund ("Quart. Statement," 1893, p. 296; see illustration in next column) gives the theory some interest. The name Baal-hanan ben Achbor finds an exact parallel in the inscription on the accompanying seal, Hananyahu bar Achbor.V01p165005.jpgHananyahu bar Achbor.(From Benzinger.)
- 2. One of the men sent by King Josiah to consult the prophetess Huldah concerning the finding of the "book of the law" (II Kings, xxii. 12, 14); son of Michaiah. In II Chron. xxxiv. 20 his name is given as Abdon, but the existence of the name Achbor on an archaic Hebrew seal found at Jerusalem (see illustration above) proves this to be a misreading. Achbor is referred to again only as the father of Elnathan (Jer. xxvi. 22, xxxvi. 12).


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I've been reading: Only Ever Yours, Public Library
Pages read: 109
Books finished: Public Library
Total pages read; 480
Total books finished: 2
Essay writing progress: umm
It feels like I didn't really do anything on Saturday. I had a friend stay over on Friday night and she had to get up super early for work, which then woke me up for ages so I stayed in bed until I had to go to work in the afternoon, pretty much. I still somehow managed to read quite a bit though.
I finished my second book, yay! I know I said I wasn't really feeling Public Library but I actually did like it quite a bit when I'd finished. Whether that's because I got used to the format or because the later stories were actually better, I don't know. It's my third Ali Smith book and I'm still thirsty for more.
I'm absolutely loving Only Ever Yours, and I only stopped reading it when I realised how close to the end of Public Library I was and wanted to finish that before bed. It's such a wonderfully constructed universe. Things seem to be getting interesting now so I can't wait to read more.
I've been reading: The View From the Cheap Seats
Pages read: 88
Total pages read; 566
Total books finished: 2
Essay writing progress: one down one to go, woo!
I'm actually surprised I read as much as I did as today felt super busy for me. I was in work all day and then had to come home and finish the essay that's due on Monday- which I did, just in time for Sherlock, yay! And then I just went to bed after Sherlock because that episode was emotionally exhausting, omg.
But, no. I read a good chunk of The View From the Cheap Seats. I'm still sort of in the section of the book that I'm not really into- about writers and books, most of whom I've never read. Mostly it's interesting, but I'm keen to get onto other stuff.
Wrap up
So how did I do? Well, I read 566 pages and finished 2 books, which isn't actually that far off my goal, especially considering I had such a crazy week with writing essays. I'm super happy with all my reading choices and will hopefully finish Only Ever Yours and The View From the Cheap Seats in the next few days :)


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The ouzel was not pleased with the tone of the interview and stomped off in a rage.
The ouzel was not pleased with the tone of the interview and stomped off in a rage.
DOLLY SISTERS #dada When agreeing to appear in the Ziegfeld Follies, the Dolly Sisters insisted that the contract include: a dress up as ants clause. a hovering clause. a bear clause. a sanity clause. one page exclusively devoted to hundreds of dollar signs. pic.twitter.com/NVV44bsSxo
something just inside the door to your left. You open the door. There she is. You die.
'baggage car'. You nod and pass through the door. You are now between cars. PUH TICK PUH TACK PUH TICK PUH TACK There is a small window high on the baggage car door. You sidle up to it, gun in hand, and risk a peep inside. A young man, wild of eye, is nodding and staring at
don your fedora and strap on your gun. puh tick puh tack puh tick puh tack You listen without listening to the constant prattling of the conductor as he leads you through car after car. When he finally stops prattling and leading, he merely points to the next door and mouths
in the baggage car with one or two hostages, we're not certain of the number. He has these demands, you see. It's frankly beyond us. Would you take over?' You sigh and arise. 'Very well. Lead on, my good fellow,' you say. Before following the conductor out into the corridor, you
train thoughts. 'Yes,' you say. The door opens. The conductor, hat in hands, says, 'Pardon, sir. A bit of a problem. We were wondering if you, well, being who you are, could possibly help us with a young man, a passenger. You see, he's gone a bit off and has barricaded himself
THE TRAIN #flashfiction The train rushes along the track, puh tick puh tack puh tick puh tack. You, tranquil, serene, almost mesmerized, gaze at the scrubby sage brush flashing by outside. A discreet rap on the door of your compartment interrupts your train of thoughtless pic.twitter.com/8h43uFI6Qz
All boxes of hammers are smarter than POTUS45. #POTUS45
MYSTERY TITLES #dada The Lampshade Murders The Case of the Missing Elk The Sign of Four Minus Three The Handyman, Fiend of Sacramento
A triffid peeks from behind lime-hued leaves. #scifi pic.twitter.com/uTY0oDUTZv
A POEM #dada this is a poem not about owls it's also not about goats it's mostly about the way cheese is made with a small offhand mention of boats oh milk oh rennin (boat)
3 of 5 stars to Ahab's Return by Jeffrey Ford goodreads.com/review/show/34…
@MoviesSilently Mine is Jessie Ralph as Ma Burley in San Francisco. She only had 2 scenes, but boy, did she nail them.
DUEL #poetry trembling joe was a formidable foe he wiggled when i wagged i feinted here he feinted there my spirit sadly sagged in a final thrust i placed my all he danced aside adroitly i fell undone he pulled a gun and winged me by the oak tree
SALE #dada HURRY! FINAL FEW DAYS! OUR 20TH SEMI-ANNUAL GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE! PRICES SLASHED, NAY, DISEMBOWELED! (not valid where the wild fern grows)
YELLOW BIKE! #dada #poetry cruel yellow bike! yellow bike! dawn yellow bike! yellow bike! snow yellow bike! yellow bike! pic.twitter.com/AL4KqjIUxp
mumbled Edgar. A constable familiar with Edgar appeared on the scene. 'Edgar, what are you doing? Your giraffe was pardoned long ago,' said the constable. 'Was she?' said Edgar, a smile further damaging his ruined face. The constable, taking offense, clubbed Edgar senseless.
'Say, pal, watch where you're going,' said a night watchman narrowly avoiding a collision with Edgar. 'Pardon my giraffe,' said Edgar, and he staggered on. Eight weeks passed. A man stepped over Edgar's legs, extended as they were out onto the sidewalk. 'Pardon my giraffe,'
2020 #flashfiction 'Pardon my giraffe,' said Edgar. 'Why did that funny man say "Pardon my giraffe?" said Alice. 'Never mind, darling. Hurry along now,' said Alice's mother. Edgar continued wandering the street, bumping into walls, windows, and the occasional parking meter.
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In the Lord's Prayer, or the "Our Father," as some refer to it, we say the words Jesus said. "Our Father who is in Heaven, Holy be Your name. Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven." Obviously I took out the "thou's" and "thy's" and used contemporary pronouns. When we say it as a prayer, we'll return to the traditional language.
Do we consciously consider that we're quoting scripture every time we recite this prayer? We are saying words right out of the Bible, Matthew chapter 6. Do we realize that it sure seems like this prayer is not being answered? "Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven?"
This week, the United States ambassador to Libya was violently killed in a mob attack on the U.S. consulate. He and 4 other Americans along with several Libyans were slaughtered by an unruly mob that was armed with guns and rocket launchers. The consulate was torched. Libyan authorities condemned the attack which was thought to be a response to an anti-Muslim film. Millions of Libyans did not attack the consulate. It was an isolated incident, but a violent one; an example of chaos run rampant.
The news is full of evidence that God's will is not being done worldwide, not on earth as it is in Heaven. Isaiah 52 says, "The Lord has shown all nations his mighty strength; now everyone will see the saving power of God" (v.10, CEV). We believe the prophet's words were fulfilled in the coming, death and resurrection of Jesus. Jesus died to save all people from sin, but does the world in fact see the salvation he brings as Isaiah said the world would see it?
Violence breaks out and it makes the news. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes violence and chaos ravage your life, and no reporter is there to tell the story. No one cares. You have to deal with it alone and it breaks you. "Thy will be done …" is God's will being done in the world? In our lives?
Titus, whom we meet only in the letter Paul sent to him and in three other letters of Paul where he described him, had to preach the good news of Jesus in the midst of very real chaos that exists in the world. Paul commissioned him to go to Crete to "put in order what needs to be done and … appoint elders in every town" (1:5). However, Titus' task of being a district administrator over the churches would especially hard in Crete because as Paul writes, quoting a Cretan poet, "Cretens are always liars, vicious brutes, lazy gluttons" (1:12). Furthermore, some among these wild Cretans are Jews or Jewish converts and they are assaulting the church directly. They are openly opposing the way of Christ and the church of Christ.
"Thy will be done on Earth as in Heaven" – Titus is commissioned to oversee the church as the church strives to make sure God's will is done. And this assignment is to be accomplished among a dishonest, violent, slothful people that include individuals who will work to stop him.
No one opposes our attempts to be church the way Titus was confronted. No one in Chapel Hill really cares if we all come here to HillSong today and sing praise to God and tell the message that we are sinners and our only hope of life is to turn to Jesus, acknowledge our sin, and receive His forgiveness. That's our message and no one cares if we deliver it – here.
Try taking the Biblical word heard here and applying it in the places of your life. Friends begin gossiping, and you excuse yourself from the conversation. Why? You're sure that to participate would be to go against Jesus. His will would not be done. Your friend tells an off color joke and you don't laugh. What's wrong with you? You don't think Jesus would laugh. If Jesus isn't tickled by blue language or potty humor, you'll discipline yourself to not be also.
Your friend, who is also a Christian, speaks damningly about a mutual acquaintance whose brother had AIDS. "Would not have happened if he hadn't been, you know …" says your friend. You both know the friend's brother has been a habitual drug user, has been promiscuous, has had many partners. Because you want God's will to be done on earth as in Heaven, you don't join in with the condemning behavior. You go an sit with the man who's dying of AIDS. He doesn't even know why you come. You want to tell him it's because of Jesus, but he doesn't ask. And he's already sworn off the church because he's been judged so hatefully. So you pray for him and in Jesus' name, you sit with him.
But, your efforts alone or my efforts alone are not enough. We need to band together with others who not only believe as we believe – that Jesus is Lord and true life and joy can only come when we are in him – but also others who will join us and commit to live life based on what we believe. Oh, and when we do that, when we join with others and come together in this thing called 'church,' we'll find that some of our members have experienced the opposite of God's will be done in far more dramatic ways than gossip, dirty jokes, or unChristlike judgmental thinking. When we pool our faith together we also pool our experiences. Some among us have been hurt in deep ways. Some have come to Christ, coming out of dark, dark places.
How will Titus bring us together so that we are a people, a community, who points to Jesus and thus when outsiders come to be with us, they will see Jesus? Paul has an answer.
"Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show every courtesy to everyone" (1-2). He commends obedience which is not the same as conformity. When Paul refused to stop preaching, he was jailed, on many occasions. He would break the law for the sake of his witness and then accept the consequences. But he had a spirit of obedience and humility so that when chaos broke out around him, he stayed calmed and focused.
Here, to Titus, he goes so far as to confess the brokenness of his own life before he came to Christ. "For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another" (v.3). Left to our own devices, human beings will not live in order and will not live on Earth as in Heaven. The Kingdom of God is the in-breaking of God's order and is only seen in us together as we commit to live obediently, in an orderly way. A group of us doing this, living together in a community of humility and love, provides a sign for the world of the Kingdom Jesus brings.
Paul knows we cannot do this by trying hard. It begins with Jesus at work in us. He writes,
"But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. This Spirit he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life" (v.4-7).
Because of what Jesus did for us on the cross and in us in the Holy Spirit, we can be the orderly group Paul is commending to Titus on the island of Crete. Amidst the liars, brutes, and gluttons, among our gossips, our consumerism, and our self-righteousness, in this church of people from so many places, so many backgrounds, the Holy Spirit will bring calm, order, and the ordered community speaks in a disordered world.
You're hurt, but you'll be loved here.
You're rejected, but you have a place among us.
You're afraid, but God is with you and we will help you see that.
Stepping from the world, from a godless life, into Christ and into His church, should be a move from madness to sanity and from craziness to calm. We who are already in the church play our part in God's order by being humble, submitting to one another as it says in Ephesians (5:21), and being committed to the wellbeing of each other.
Because of the work of Jesus, which Paul summarizes, we can devote ourselves to good works, as he instructs in verse 8. We can avoid useless controversies and legalistic quarrels as Paul writes in verse 9. We must remember what Jesus laid down as the standard rules – love God with everything in you, and love your neighbor as yourself.
The rubber meets the road with Paul's teaching in verse 10. As it is rendered in the Message, "Warn a quarrelsome person once or twice, but then be done with him. It's obvious that such a person is out of line, rebellious against God. By persisting in divisiveness he cuts himself off." This is not a declaration of permanent excommunication. But it is an insistence that order is so important in God's kingdom that we cannot permit disorder to ruin our effort to show the world what God's kingdom is like. If someone has problems that are tearing the whole church and we go to every effort to help, and he won't receive help, and he won't repent and turn to Christ, and he continues to raise his problem and try to make his problem the dominant voice in fellowship, then he has to go. This requires, faith, strength, and love – obedient love for God and God's church. We can only go to this extreme measure because Jesus has poured out his Spirit on us richly and has commanded us to be his church announcing his forgiveness and the establishing of His Kingdom.
In Titus chapter 3, the Apostle Paul has set for us order, lived out in love and obedience, as a standard in God's church. I said earlier that your nonparticipation in the evil around you is not enough to draw the people to God so that His will is done. My repentance of sins and my turning to Christ is not enough, by itself, to announce the Kingdom. I said we have to band together and only as the church will our combined effort be sufficient. But truthfully, even that is not quite enough because there are 150 of us here, less than 1% of the population of Chapel Hill, not including students, and Chapel Hill is a small town. We can try really, really hard to live as an ordered, love-filled body of believers, but it won't change the world, not on our efforts.
And that truly is good news. Anglican N.T. Wright writes "God's Kingdom and the kingdom of Heaven mean the same thing, the sovereign rule of God, which according to Jesus was and is breaking into the present world. … The resurrection and ascension of Jesus … are meant to make us agents of transformation of this earth" (Surprised by Hope, p.201). I think Wright is right in what he writes. We are called to be agents of transformation, and even more so when we are together as the church, showing what a kingdom-of-God community is than when we act as individuals though individual action is also important and often needed.
I know I just said alone and even in our combined efforts we can't accomplish much in announcing the kingdom or changing the world. We faithfully worship and we give our tithes and we participate in missions, but ambassadors still killed in Libya. Wars are still fought in Afghanistan. People still shoot up movie theaters and Sikh temples. Pastor-types still say stupid, harmful things on their TV ministries. We do and do as the Spirit has empowered us to do and bad stuff keeps happening.
We are agents of transformation, not the source. "Thy Kingdom come, they will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven." It is not a mission statement I came up with after a brainstorming session with the pastoral staff. It is something Jesus taught. He was teaching the disciples to pray. In prayer, we're talking to God. The in-breaking of the Kingdom is something God accomplishes working through our church, and the Cherokee Christians our youth met this summer, and the believers Starlyn met in South Africa and Laura met in Ukraine. God accomplishes God's purposes working through the churches started in penitentiaries led by pastors who came to faith after being convicted and sentenced to life terms. Yes, in that cesspool of moral decay and death, God is at work in God's church announcing the Kingdom. And He's doing it here.
If the apostle Titus were transported through space and time from 1st century Crete to 21st century Chapel Hill, he would stand before us and tell us that we are called to announce the Kingdom of God and draw lost hurting sinners to Jesus. We can only do that when we have an ordered, safe community that is humble, full of love, and extremely welcoming. Titus would rejoice in the words of the great German pastor and theologian who died in a Nazi concentration camp, Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
He writes, "Life together under the word will remain strong and healthy where … it understands itself" – where we understand ourselves as being part of the one, holy, Christian church which shares actively and passively in the sufferings and struggles and promise of the whole church" (Life Together, 37). Our part is faith and action, born of faith. Working through us and churches all over the world, churches like and unlike ours God will raise up the Kingdom on Earth as it is in Heaven.


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I just realized that if I do not get something posted right away, I will not until SkyWatch tomorrow. I really, really try to post at least once in between the two memes I do.
And although I never wanted this blog to be a diary of my life, many of your comments from the last non-meme post were so kind and full of concern for various things that I thought an update and a few pictures might be fun.
First, here is the breadstick recipe. It is SO easy, but we really love them. (I think I am making more this afternoon because today did not get on our menu planner so we are having spaghetti with frozen homemade marinara sauce–a standby in emergencies. The breadsticks are quick and simple.) They are of course best fresh from the oven, but after freezing, they are not bad fresh from the oven, either.
Chewy Breadsticks (from Sunset Breads, 1991)
1 pkg. active dry yeast
1-1/2 c. warm water (I always use 115 degrees F for this in my freezing cold house)
1 Tbls. honey
4-1/2 – 5-1/2 c. flour
melted butter
onion salt, garlic salt or seasoned salt.
In large, warmed bowl of electric mixer, dissolve yeast in warm water. Beat in honey with mixer, then gradually add 3 c. of flour. (I use 1 c. of whole wheat, the rest white), beating well until mixture pulls away from sides of bowl.
Gradually beat in enough remaining flour to make a soft dough. (At my humidity level (almost 0) and altitude (5000ish feet), I use 1-1/2 more cups of flour.) Knead until smooth and satiny (10 minutes by hand, 3-4 minutes in mixer), adding flour as necessary to prevent sticking.
Make into 32 ten-inch breadsticks by cutting dough into quarters and each quarter into eighths, then rolling into breadsticks between your hands. Place on greased baking sheets and let rest in warm place for 15 minutes or until slightly puffy.
Brush each breadstick with melted butter, then sprinkle with seasoned salt. (I have used garlic salt, seasoned salt and Fleur de Sel sea salt. I love all of these.) Bake at 400 degrees F for 15 minutes. Allow to slightly cool before serving, or cool completely and freeze in airtight containers. To reheat, place thawed breadsticks on baking sheets for 5 minutes in a 300 degree F oven.
Next, thank you so much to everyone concerned about my health. My current ailment is bronchitis and a sinus infection (which is improving the past couple of days). This is common for me in the winter; I would even say chronic. The other issue was an endoscopy which was precautionary after my esophagitis problems. Because it was determined that I have likely had reflux all/most of my life, the doctors were a bit concerned about the state of my esophagus. (It seems that reflux causes cancer–not a matter of if, but when. But damage is reversible (?), so they just need to check it out.) Anyway, all is well. My esophagus and stomach are pink and as pretty as those things can be!
And last, here are some wedding photos. The bride and groom have not seen any photos yet (except what were taken on the groom's REALLY. NICE. camera.), and they do not even know about this blog, so I am just posting some shots that do not identify them.
The one at the top, however, is me, is all my shining glory near the very end of the day's festivities! (I wish I had Photoshop to unshine me a bit.) It was a picture with the bride's sister who I instantly loved as much as the bride, but I did not want to post her picture on here, either. (The only full-length photos of me in the dress were not on my camera. I hope to get a copy in a couple of weeks. I will have to crop out other people, but if they are at all decent, I will post one to satisfy your burning curiosity. But rest assured I was slightly more frumpy than the model in the older post about the dress.)
The first is the bride and groom walking in the park looking for a place with decent lighting for shooting. None of us had ever been to the park before, but it was highly recommended to the couple by someone. It was not great for photos, but there were a few good ones.
The next is the bride's tiara and hair. She and it were gorgeous. I had to get a picture with the sun on her head.
The last are the extremely-cute-but-not-meant-for-women-my-age shoes I got for the occasion. Really, who am I to complain about the dress when I got shoes that nearly cut off my toes?!
As for Size 0, I'm not sure what she did about her dress, but it didn't seem like she was poured in it. She caught the bouquet. Her boyfriend caught the garter (he was the only one who tried), so it looks like she'll be off looking for a size 0-6 wedding dress soon!


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It's another year of a big international presence at radio and sales as we continue to look to the overseas charts to see what's in rotation across core playlists and services around the globe. Here in the U.S., George Ezra and James Bay are among many breakout stars in 2015, and already established European hits by Marlon Roudette and OMI are among this year's Song Of The Summer contenders on the CHR radio chart. With so much new music out there in every country imaginable, the amount of acts and songs to go through can be overwhelming. However, here are three singles that are charting well elsewhere and not yet available in the States that I hope can make an impact later this year:
JAMIE LAWSON – "Wasn't Expecting That"
Origin: Plymouth, England
Opening for Ed Sheeran on his latest tour down under and being the first signing on his imprint, a label called Gingerbread, has some pretty nice benefits. Now, the 39-year-old English singer/songwriter is reaping the rewards of his cool connection with a major radio and sales hit in Australia and New Zealand. The tune originally charted in Ireland over four years ago, reaching its peak of #3 in February 2011. The understated song could break out here, much like "The A Team". It's perfect for AAA radio.
LESLIE CLIO – "My Heart Ain't That Broken"
Origin: Berlin, Germany
Clio's been making a name for herself overseas for several years now, releasing her first album in 2013 to modest numbers. At age 28, she's moved onto her next album and her latest single in "Heart", another moderate success in her home country and a more minor entry in nearby Austria and Luxembourg. Her sound is described as "bloodshot-eyed soul", a modern twist on the classic vibe that many acts are embracing. However, this empowering pop song could easily sync and sit well on Hot AC radio.
NICKLESS – "Waiting"
Origin: Zurich, Switzerland
There is not a lot out there on young Nickless, but he's a 19-year-old singer/songwriter from Zurich and this is his debut single there, a top 20 digital hit with an even higher Shazam ranking just beneath the top ten. Swiss press has tried to compare he and fellow Swiss singer Bastian Baker, who had several songs chart in 2011 and 2012. The two also toured together in 2014. Baker never made his mark in the U.S., but this singer's charming sound and image are ready to win over more fans across the world.
Which of these three cuts will make it to the U.S. first and do the best here? Let me know! Comment below or click on the "Get Social!" tab above to find PGTC on Facebook and Twitter.


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Here is the latest piece of ticket themed mail art I received, this ATC is titled Waiting for the Train and arrived from Amy Irwen in Minnesota. This all started four months back when I found a roll of tickets on my street. I sent out some tickets and ticket themese mail art.
Below is a recap of some of the ticket-themed mail art that I have received in response. This is why I love mail art!
- Susanna Lakner
- RF Côté
- Angela Behrendt
- Jennifer Utter
- Virgo Samara
- Angela Behrendt
- Pamela Gerard
- Fleur Helsingor
- Marina Salmoso


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Calgary Herald
October 9, 2009
Obama's Nobel Peace Prize too hasty
By Harry Sterling, For The Calgary Herald
Nobel awards are supposed to be awarded for concrete accomplishments,
not simply good intentions.
For example, have Nobel Prize committees in Stockholm ever given the
prize for literature for a novel not yet written?
The majority of Nobel award winners toiled for years, even decades, to
have their work and accomplishments recognized. Canada's own Willard
Boyle, winner this year of the Nobel Physics Prize only had his team's
digital photography breakthrough recognized 40 years later.
While many people around the world understandably have been encouraged
by U. S. President Barack Obama's stated desire to resolve important
global issues through peaceful dialogue rather than unilateral action
as practised by former President George W. Bush, others cannot
comprehend how he can be given the Nobel Peace Prize after only eight
brief months in office, particularly since he actually has no
significant accomplishments to speak of as of now.
Unlike most previous Nobel Peace Prize recipients,
Obama has not yet had to prove himself in any meaningful way, as did
Martin Luther King, Andrei Sakharov, Mother Teresa, Bishop Tutu, the
Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela, Kim Dae-jung and others.
Such previous Nobel award winners often spent years struggling to
promote democracy or social justice and human rights, some, like
Nelson Mandela and Kim Dae-jung were actually imprisoned for years
under oppressive conditions.
With a few exceptions, former Nobel Peace Prize winners were widely
praised for making concrete contributions to world peace.
For many, despite considerable respect for Obama's good intentions,
this year's award is premature, a gesture of support for what they
hope will be accomplished during his time in office. For others,
including cynics, granting such an award to Obama is not solely
premature but also misguided.
Already there are those who point to some recent actions by Obama
es as human rights. His decision to not receive Tibet's spiritual
leader, the Dalai Lama, last week during the Dalai Lama's weeklong
visit to the United States, stunned many Americans. Human rights
advocates have denounced the president's decision, calling it an act
of appeasement towards China.
The fact that Obama administration officials made it known that the
failure to receive the Dalai Lama was based on a wish to not undermine
negotiations next month with Beijing over the controversial nuclear
programs of North Korea and Iran, only angered American human rights
groups and members of Congress.
They described Obama's action as a complete reversal of his
pre-election position when he and Hillary Clinton both urged Bush not
to attend the opening ceremony at the Olympics in Beijing in protest
over China's use of force to quell the uprising of Tibetans.
(Interestingly, despite publicly meeting with the Dalai Lama last
year, during the Dalai Lama's recent visit to Canada Prime Minister
Stephen Harper did not receive him. And by no apparent coincidence,
Canada's foreign minister, Lawrence Cannon, not only attended China's
national day reception in Ottawa, he also praised China's
accomplishments over the past 60 years, his unprecedented attendance
seen as a major shift in policy toward China by Harper.)
Armenians were also shocked that Obama reneged on a promise to
describe the massive killing of Armenians in Turkey during the First
World War as genocide. Many Armenians didn't accept the explanation of
White House officials who justified his silence based on a desire not
to undermine the prospect for normalization of relations between
Turkey and Armenia. They saw it simply as an example of the American
administration's unwillingness to anger the U. S.'s NATO ally.
Ironically, Obama is far more popular in other nations than in his own
country. This might be a partial explanation why the Nobel committee
wanted to award him the peace prize.
Many other countries were aghast at the unilateral interventionist
sident George W. Bush. His decision to invade Iraq in 2003 on spurious
grounds not only appalled numerous countries, it caused a major split
within the European Union with Britain and Spain supporting Bush and
major states like Germany and France totally opposed, refusing to send
troops to Iraq.
Bush's hard-line approach to Iran and North Korea's nuclear weapons
threat also was regarded as an impediment to resolving those issues.
Bush's unilateralism was deeply resented in much of Europe. Barack
Obama's stated desire to end unilateral policies and actions, instead
working closely with the United Nations and other multilateral bodies,
has had a high positive effect in how many nations view the United
States and its president. His decision to have direct contacts with
North Korea and Iran is considered a highly positive step.
But, like an author who sets out to write a book worthy of a Nobel
Literature award, Barack Obama still has to demonstrate that his own
story turns out to be worthy of such a prize.
Harry Sterling, a former diplomat, is an Ottawa-based commentator.
© Copyright (c) The Calgary Herald


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Directors fighting for Mark Millar's Nemesis?
Mark Millar is fast becoming a fuel for Hollywood. Wanted and Kick-Ass are hot properties, and he's not stopping there. Next up is his new comic Nemesis, a superbly dark story that would see a character like Bruce Wayne totally twisted around to be an evil character preying on the people, and the police, of the city he inhabits.
Well Hollywood like it so much that Millar himself has reported that the project is in the process of being picked up for a big screen treatment, and he's throwing a couple of interesting names into the mix.
Mark Millar announced the idea of Nemesis in rather hard terms, but think of Bruce Wayne aka Batman, all that money and technology, and his close relationship with the police. Now whip that all around 360 degrees and see what would happen if he was a psychopath, if his life was there to strike terror into people and particular police, and every year he chose a policeman to prey upon and destroy for his own personal pleasure.
Well that sounded like a cool twist on the superhero, and speaking the other day on his own message board through he revealed that the idea is being investigated by some names in Hollywood. Typically some sites had leapt on the idea and started rumours that Sam Raimi was interested since he had just left Spider-Man. No said Millar:
"This week CAA was approached by an A-list director to buy Nemesis before it goes to auction in March. Then Sam announces he's not involved in the Spider-Man franchise any more, pursuing other projects. A lot of movie sites got in touch last night asking if the two stories are linked, but I just want to make it clear that Sam is not the guy who contacted my agent."
However the rumours were self-fulfilling, and probably because Raimi's people saw the story, investigated it, and saw an interesting idea in Nemesis. Now things have changed slightly, for then Mark Millar came back and stated:
Things move fast in Hollywoodland. I just woke up to some VERY unexpected emails..."
It seems Millar is hot property just now. After he explained the concept of his Nemesis story people began getting in touch, and he has another project that hasn't even been talked about as Nemesis has and there are people asking about buying that already.
Another poster enquired about Guy Ritchie making the film, and Millar came back with the fact that he was off to speak to Matthew Vaughn about the idea. Personally I think that Vaughn would be the better candidate, and Millar suggests something similar saying that perhaps this would be too close to Sherlock Holmes but with superheroes.
What do you think? Vaughn, Ritchie or Raimi? Of course early days and early rumours, but I think Vaughn could really push into true superhero films with this superb concept.


text: Anyone else think Tokyo gets too much attention from Japanese games? What's the Japanese equivalent of Slough, Brest, Des Moines and why aren't more games set in such places? Anyway, here's another twisted peek into the world of Tokyo Ghoul: Jail, showing off more words, faces and some vague hints of gameplay - hope this isn't a style over substance title!


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When you get old, whatever it was that you hung your hat on, you become that thing.
As your higher intellectual functions shut down, you lose more and more of your common decency. And that's when your sin emerges. Whatever greed, pride, lust, malice, envy, hatred, discord, jealousy, selfish ambition, or bitterness you had before, you become consumed by it until it becomes all that you are. All that's left of you is that condition.
My landlady told me of an old woman that her daughter (who works in a nursing home) knew. She was so frail that she could not feed herself, yet she was so proud that she wouldn't let others assist her in eating either. It was a pathetic sight, watching her try to spoon food into her mouth and spilling it halfway, all the while angrily refusing to let anyone help. She was so consumed by her pride and independence that in her old age it manifested itself into a grotesque and tragic self-annihilation.
The unsettling part of this is, the spirit that made her seem so pathetic is the same one that we would see in a young person and call noble. Fifty years ago, her pride in herself and independence would have been praised as virtues, but in old age it looks so stupid. It's not that she was stupid to hang onto who she was; it was that time revealed how stupid that attitude was to begin with.
If you're not being sanctified by Jesus, you're not being saved by him either. And whatever emotional or mental damage sin has wrought on you will remain until you become controlled and defined by it.
I knew an old woman once. Month by month, parts of her body and mind would break down and what emerged intact in all of that mess is her jealousy of another old woman. She was so paranoid, so consumed with the completely unreasonable suspicion that people liked the other woman more than her. She thought people stole from her. She thought her son was conspiring to steal the affection of her grandchildren away from her. She thought that she was being neglected when in fact she was being perfectly taken care of.
What I realize is that the hate and insecurity was always there. The only difference between that old woman now and ten years ago was that a decade ago she had the mental faculty to hide it and keep it under control. We humans are so clever with our sin and deceit. Perhaps because of the nature of the fall, sin is always elementally something done in secret. But it comes out when you're tired, when you're deeply provoked, and when you're old.
What consumes your life? What sins or effects of sins aren't you allowing Christ to deal with? At the end of your life, what will you look like? Will you look like someone whose body is outwardly wasting away, but whose soul is deeply satisfied in Christ? Or will you look like someone who's perpetually miserable, an ugly, deplorable version of yourself, everything about you crumbling away but your rotten core?
What little sins live in your heart now that you refuse to deal with? What little things do you think are acceptable or inconsequential? What do you think that will look like when you're finally too old to pretend that it wasn't defining your entire existence?
What kind of things do you hang your hat on? That you went to a prestigious college? That you went to Stuyvesant? Do you know how awful of a feeling it is to try to tell people about something you think is a feat, but have them not care? Do you think your grandchildren are going to care all that much about what you did or who you were back in the day? Do you know how painful and miserable it is to be nothing left but a bunch of bygone achievements?
What kind of things do you hang your hat on? That you're a good speller and have impeccable grammar? Do you know how big of a jackass you're going to sound like when that's all you brag about and all that comes out of your mouth are corrections? Actually, some people, in their youth, already seem like this.
What kind of things do you hang your hat on? That you're really good at Starcraft 2? That you're a geek or a nerd? That you love Glee? That you appreciate classical music? That you can recite every line from Star Wars? That you succeeded despite the odds? That you're a triathlete? That you know your cars? That you've got an iron will and determination? That you make playing the flute look cool? That you're you? That you're a sarcastic, but funny person? That you love beer? That you love coffee? That you're a Steelers fan? That you're from New York? That you can turn a phrase? Are you prepared for that to be all that you are?
What's going to be the last thing you're conscious of before you draw your last breath? When everything else fades away, your liver function, your kidney function, your lungs and heart, your memories, your logic, your coherence, what will be the last thought to go? It is said that on his dying bed John Newton, the author of the hymn "Amazing Grace", said:
My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things: that I am a great sinner and that Christ is a great savior.
I earnestly pray to God that my identity will be so bound up in Christ that in my heart will be nothing but joy and anticipation in meeting my Lord. I pray that, starting today, God will reveal to me those sins that, if I don't fight now, will blossom into something so overwhelmingly ugly that I become nothing but that sin. I pray that each day I will more and more reflect the Lord's glory, being transformed into his likeness in holiness and beauty. I pray that even as my mind goes, to my dying breath I will remember that I am a great sinner, but Christ is a great savior.


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When I played softball I did wow or awe anyone with my overwhelming talent, but that's not what this post is about, it's about staying in the game mentally. When I was playing ball if I wasn't into what I was doing, it wasn't fun, the team could latch onto any negative vibes I had going, and basically it sucked. A lot.
I've decided that NCLEX is less about nursing knowledge and more about a mental game.
It's not about IV skills, or how well you can put a foley in an elderly lady who has had her hips replaced.
It's about the mental game, and going in feeling prepared. Having a mental list of techniques and strategies that you are going to use to get you through the test. Something to keep you in the game.
A support group is a good idea. Having a bunch of acquaintances say "oh you'll be fine, don't worry" does not count as a support group. Having a spouse who down plays the emotional rollercoaster that sitting for your NCLEX is doesn't count as a support group either.
So many people told me "be prepared for all 265 questions and then you won't be disappointed if it doesn't shut off"
If that works for you awesome. It doesn't for me. 265 questions and sitting there for 6 hours was completely paralyzing to me. I wouldn't have been able to get past the first question staying in the game let alone through all of them. I went in planning on taking a break at 75. I can do 75 questions. I can even do 75 questions, go out and use the bathroom get a drink and walk up and down the hall and stretch a little and then come back and do another 75.
Be prepared that the time between when you take your test and when you get your results are exponentially more stressful than anything that happened before the test.
Go in confident. You've been through a nursing program you have the knowledge you need to pass, you can be a great RN. Hold your head high and walk in with confidence. Prepare for every ounce of that confidence to be sucked out of you as you leave the building and that's ok. You needed it to test and you had it then.


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Will you grow giant money trees?Naseem Javed (50 pencils) | Fri, 2011-07-29 22:00
On June 20th 2011, ICANN the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers, created a global shockwave with their announcement to a packed meeting in Singapore. A thousand delegates witnessed, a long awaited gTLD program released, creating new types of domain names with unlimited potential.
The application fee per name starts at $185,000, and can cost up to $500,000 to integrate. Still, this investment is no more than what large single highway signage costs over a ten-year lease. This one is more about thousands of such luminous cyber structures over high-density, information highways.
Once a unique idea with the right name identity has been decided, the challenge will be to create, nurture and grow it with a successful sub-name brand-hierarchy. This way the master gTLD root takes a shape of a tree with strong branches and gets ready to blossom, with successful layers of multiple sub-name-brands into a money-tree.
When all you have is a hammer, everything appears to be a nail. The gTLDs are not just about trademark filing and battle posturing or cyber-squatting but more so of creating unusual global intellectual properties offering multiple opportunities for rapid image expansion and most importantly achieving market domination via name identity. The ICANN gTLD are also not just about mass registrations but rather creating massive customer acquisition and intricate layers of providing customer access. Most of the current debate is focused on the grind of one of the single key aspect while ignoring all the other interlaced facets and therefore missing out the reflective shine and brilliance of the idea.
Interdisciplinary approach to all gTLD maters is a must, like early cinema which incorporated dozens of diverse and non related issues and when combined a full-fledged industry erupted. The integrated approach to gTLD is the fastest way to get the attention in the boardroom. Otherwise it becomes a splintered discussion on separate floors from technology to legal to website developers.
If we place the entire gTLD process in a hierarchy forming a pyramid, the base would consist of all the big picture concepts and specific ideas. The middle part, where all the procedures of application, funding, financial modeling and legally guided long term application processes reside. On the very pointed top of the pyramid will the proposed name with full consensus and analysis as without its absolute winning surety not only the entire exercise would simply be futile the pyramid would also collapse.
To tackle the ultimate issues, exclusive high level webinars are being delivered in simple business language moderated by world renowned authority in the field of global naming complexities. They cover the power and opportunities of ICANN gTLD and how to prepare for advanced level of tactical maneuvers in name identity expansion.
According to AZNA Events special knowledge is in demand as gTLD opportunities are complex and corporations in search of market domination and wishing mass customer acquisition need this urgently. Advertising agencies as all types of creative services can be fitted in this special global cyber-branding arena. Trademark and legal services as more integrated access to developing intellectual properties becomes natural growth. Technology and domain name registries as name-centric, end-user-friendly mass approach becomes the new norm. Associations providing high value education and creating competitive advantages for their members in search of aggressive image presence. Municipalities in search of destination branding to attract aggressive regional developments. All these stakeholders needs guidance and deeper understanding to play this global game marketing domination via name identity.
The Association for the Advancement of Relationship Marketing/Relationship Management –AARM, has just organized a webinar series starting from July 27th 2011 to tackle some of these issues. On the various gTLD opportunities and for legal audience Internet Business Law Services IBLS is releasing a series of webinars in August 2011. There are also conferences like dot-nxt for August 24-26th 2011 or the Munich Conference on new TLDs September 26-27th 2011.
As the race intensifies, the demand for high value contents delivered with global cyber branding speed will the hot topics.
Senior executive must learn to tackle the unusual questions of today. How to make bold and intelligent arguments in the boardroom and ask for a million dollar to create a billion dollar money tree? How much real power a gTLD can yield on global name identity expansion? What special skills are needed to steer this new vehicle towards market domination. What should be the new game for marketing management on mass customer acquisition models based on a new type of naming architecture? What surprise challenges will cascade into marketing branding and trademark areas on global name identity issues? What are your options if your current name identity is incompatible with ICANN procedures? How to assess practicality, profitability and competitive advantage and related options before the prescribed deadline?
How to create billion dollar domain babies is the bigger challenge. Once this game is properly understood, it certainly allows the creation of 'billion dollar domain babies' where superpower naming ideas become billion-dollar intellectual properties for their holders. This will be an amazing game to play and equally to watch. The legal firms and image-branding agencies seeking new clients have three tasks: How to identify their top clients and offer them world-class recommendations with full confidence to play this game, How to create back-up and supportive plans to capture special name identities for targeted markets, and lastly how to attract new clients by providing leadership on exclusive options on generic and destination brands.
A gTLD under the right name identity combinations offers the following:
- The fastest way to create hyper visibility and global presence
- The most intricate device for attracting massive customer acquisition
- The game changer from the old school of traditional marketing and branding
A gTLD offers corporate management opportunities to energize marketing:
- Fast track evaluations of current name portfolios to determine a long term action plans
- Realignment naming architectures to accommodate too many or too few identities
- Reassessment of current name ownership strategies in light of this new age frontier
A gTLD process has hidden naming challenges in the program:
- How to differentiate power and evaluate a proposed name; example .car .auto .motor?
- How to select a winning combination; .locomoto, automoto, .udrive, idrive, .ucar mycar?
- How to price and sub-branding naming architecture for a winning master candidate?
A gTLD race will create spectacular opportunity or a catastrophic failure:
- Any gTLD application without a highly appropriate proposed name will fail
- Any gTLD without a strategic branding and global image expansion model will fail
- Any gTLD without a wide usage sub-brand creation methodology will fail
- Any gTLD misrepresenting sub brands name evaluation will fail
- Any gTLD without commanding knowledge of global corporate nomenclature will fail
Naseem Javed, widely recognized a world-authority on global naming strategies and corporate nomenclature issues. Author of Naming for Power, Naseem introduced The Laws of Corporate Naming in 80s and currently he is advising corporations and lecturing on global cyber branding and the ICANN's new gTLD platforms.
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Refugee Rights Day happens on April 4 each year in Canada. It is the anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to recognize the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms protection of refugees' fundamental rights in our country.
Supporters from the Immigrants Working Centre community joined together to share messages in honour of refugees for the day. Here are their messages.
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Vulnerable victims & witnesses
Special arrangements may be made for witnesses giving evidence. In particular, the laws of evidence provide for the way in which evidence is taken from vulnerable witnesses, including children and victims of serious offences, the way witnesses may be questioned and the manner in which judges warn or direct juries about the evidence of children. It also restricts access to sensitive material that is to be used as evidence in proceedings.
The law does not permit an order for special arrangements to be made if this would relieve a witness from the obligation to give sworn evidence or to submit to cross-examination, or to prevent a judge or jury from seeing or hearing the witness while giving evidence. The law does however, state that such sight or hearing of a witness giving evidence may be indirect - for example, by live television transmission or replay of a recording of the witness's voice and image - so long as the indirect method of transmission also shows any person who may be accompanying the witness to provide the witness with emotional support. It states further that a special arrangement must not be made if it would prevent a defendant from seeing or hearing the witness while giving evidence.
An example of a special arrangement is the taking of an electronic recording of a witness's evidence outside the courtroom to be replayed in the courtroom. Another example is allowing disabled witnesses to give evidence by unconventional means if that would facilitate the taking of that evidence or minimise the witness's embarrassment or distress.
Vulnerable witnesses
Special provisions are made for certain witnesses, often called vulnerable witnesses. If you are under the age of 16 years, suffer from an intellectual disability, the victim of a sexual offence and other serious offences (such as abduction, blackmail, stalking, unlawful threats to kill or endanger life, causing serious harm, and attempted murder or attempted manslaughter), or a person at a special disadvantage:
- you may not be cross-examined in person by an unrepresented defendant in criminal or civil proceedings
- a criminal court may take an audio visual record of your evidence and, must do so, if you are a child of 16 years or less and have not already had that evidence pre-recorded
- a criminal or civil court may admit an official audio visual or written record of your evidence given in an earlier criminal proceeding and relieve you of the obligation to give oral evidence in the current proceedings.
The court may also make one or more orders that:
- your evidence be given outside the trial court and transmitted to the trial court by means of closed circuit television
- your evidence be taken outside the trial court
- an audio visual record of your evidence be made and replayed in the trial court
- a screen, partition or one-way glass be placed to obscure the view of a party to whom the evidence relates or some other person
- the defendant be excluded from the place where evidence is taken, or otherwise be prevented from directly seeing and hearing you while giving evidence
- you be accompanied by a relative or friend for the purpose of providing emotional support, or a court companion.
The court may also order that the court be closed to the public.
You can ask the witness assistance officer or the prosecutor about the special arrangements and provisions for vulnerable witnesses. The prosecutor can apply on your behalf, for an order but it is up to the judge or magistrate what order, if any, is made.
Even if you are not in any of these categories, you can ask to use these measures, but it is up to the court to decide.