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This technique is simple, yet soothing. Have your child get comfortable (for example, lean back in a chair). Have your child first try blowing bubbles using quick, shallow breaths. Watch how the bubbles pop immediately.
Now, have your child practice blowing the bubbles using slow, deep breaths. The slower your child breathes out, the more bubbles he or she will make. Have your child focus on watching all the bubbles fall and repeat the process. | http://kc.vanderbilt.edu/asdbloodwork/parent/bubbles.php | 2013-05-18T10:53:02 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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FCC To Vote On Putting TV's Campaign Ad Data Online
Originally published on Fri April 27, 2012 it would make the process more open.
"What this FCC rule-making would do would bring to light a little of the information behind those ads," she says. "We think it's a very important first step to disclosing and uncovering the dark money that's paying for our elections."
While that information is available at the TV stations airing the ads, if it's not online, she says, it's not public.
Kent State University journalism professor Karl Idsvoog recently assigned his students to go to Cleveland-area TV stations. He says none of the station officials would agree to a taped interview, and the students were charged 50 cents a page to make copies of the public records.
He says the students were left with an important lesson: "Why would TV stations, when they make a bundle of money going out doing reporting day after day — oftentimes going after public records — why would that business not want to make their public records available online?"
The answer, Idsvoog says, is business. The stations, which collectively stand to earn an estimated $3 billion running campaign ads in this presidential election year, have argued that complying with the new rule would cost them money and force them to reveal their ad rates to competitors.
Former Sen. Gordon Smith, president of the National Association of Broadcasters, did not respond to interview requests. But FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell argues stations are in a tough spot.
"Politicians are actually entitled by law to the cheapest rate that a TV broadcaster offers, and in order to be able to verify that they're getting the cheapest rate, they wanted to be able to see it. So that resulted in the requirement that that lowest unit rate be put in the file," McDowell says. "So that also has competitive concerns for them, though, when you post it online."
McDowell has proposed removing the rate information from the data that stations would be made to post online. He says TV stations are unfairly being singled out.
"Not newspapers, not radio stations, not cable TV stations, not political consultants who pay people to knock on doors and things like that — but just TV broadcasters," he says. "So let's look at the entities spending the money rather than just one of a broad universe of folks who are receiving it."
McDowell concedes that he's likely to be outvoted Friday.
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Tristen would proceed to have interactions like this throughout the night.
There was a pocket of legitimately drunk patrons situated stage front. They seemed to appear just before Tristen Gaspadarek walked on stage, thus missing opening band Rollercoaster Club's tepid set. The St. Louis natives sounded out of place in the Firebird's basement-like atmosphere. The FM-lite acoustic arrangements did little to pull patrons from their seats, and Adam Henrichs' mellow stage demeanor caused his vocals to sound eked out. Their set would have been better suited for a coffeehouse open mic, somewhere patrons could sit Indian style, surrounded by cups of steaming black coffee, and await their turn to take a stab at spoken word.
Local H's Scott Lucas had an easier time corralling the audience. To be fair, he has been performing for over 25 years, ample time for him to feel comfortable enough that his onstage behavior would evoke the impulsiveness found when one is home alone. I must mention he wore a navy blue sweatshirt with a black and white French Bulldog illustration ironed to the chest. I was seized with sweater envy, and, more importantly, felt clued in to Lucas' psyche. His first words were, "Hi. Hello. I'm Scott Lucas and I am very clever," followed by a cover of "Last Caress" by the Misfits. He appeared a little deranged at that point. How many grown men wear sweaters with lapdogs emblazoned on the front and sing about killing babies?
During "All the Kids Are Right," a Local H song/audience request, a girl walked in with some hair appliance attached to her cranium that gave her the look of a disco Predator. A dozen individual tubes of pastel shades of blue, green and phosphorescent white projected from her skull. As she bounced around the Firebird, her tendrils shook back and forth like organ-pipe coral in a sea storm.
After she appeared and disappeared into the Firebird's tables near the bar, Lucas called out the couple sitting to my left. If you ever want to be scared for your life, cradle a notebook in your lap while conspicuously writing about everything within a 50-foot radius, then listen as the principal subject castigates a couple on the cusp of necking. I waited for him to call me out, and thankfully it never came. Instead, Lucas said twice to the lovers, "Hey. How are you? You. There. TO MY LEFT." When they finally came to, he told them to enjoy the steak.
Tristen's headlining set was permeated with appreciable flubs and charm. For every mistake she made -- and I hesitate to call them "mistakes" as her reactions worked so well in her favor -- she cursed audibly, shook her head at no one but herself and slunk towards her band while she rolled her shoulders forward under the weight of embarrassment.
Opening song "Red Lava Flows" was initially hampered by a forgotten vocal pedal. After taking up her guitar, she sang the first note with an off-key howl, hissed the word "Shit!" with a smile on her face and stomped out her mistake with one swift movement of her heel. She would later begin "Heart and Hope to Die" by singing into a mic-less stand.
On "Heart and Hope To Die" she demanded, "Show me how your mama and daddy made you," Blithe and vulgar, she sang it accordingly. Her sweet rasp entered the voice in coo form, a suggestion, then morphed into persistent declaration, leaving her suitor with no choice. She abandoned both guitar and keyboard (which she played on "Frozen" and "Winter Night") for "The Anti-Baby," her set's eighth song. The mid-tempo number had a troll-like momentum, with Tristen condemning codependency. It was the song Tristen was prepared to inhabit. She sounded detached in previous songs, even during "Frozen," which buzzed with impulse and featured a drum pad and synthesizer; still, she never seemed to get into it.
While the song played, Tristen danced: She would keep her feet planted, slightly bent at the knees, but without moving her legs, and then do the running man with the upper half of her body. She moved like an elderly boxer, all the while with an enormous grin on her face and singing to her touring guitarist, drummer and bassist. Her guitarist danced with her and their movements appeared romantically, not platonically inspired. When she did move the lower half of her body, it was in a series of off-kilter pirouettes. She turned on her heels 180 degrees while making a waltz motion in the shape of a circle. When she finished the song, she exclaimed, "Music is fun!"
Her three-song encore would end with "Doomsday." Having been alone for the first two songs, and after saying goodnight twice, she called her band up to the stage. The Firebird cut the overhead music. Tristen and company began "Doomsday" by playing the chorus to Young MC's "Bust a Move." Fun, indeed. | http://kdhx.org/music/reviews/concert-review-a-sometimes-weird-sometimes-wonderful-night-with-tristen-local-h-and-rollercoaster-club-at-the-firebird-saturday-january-19 | 2013-05-18T10:23:47 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Regular readers of Keeping Stock (whose numbers seem to be growing if the Alexa stats I've been directed to are correct) will be aware that I have few kind words for Helen Clark. And so, with the announcement tonight that she has asked the Auditor-General to investigate the scandals within the Immigration Service, I'm not sure whether to view her with grudging admiration or disdain. Anyway, here's the Herald story:
Part of me wants to say "Well done Helen" for acting quickly on this. She only arrived back in the country over the weekend, and she has certainly acted decisively. The Auditor-General will have wide powers, and will set his own terms of reference. It is sure to be a comprehensive enquiry.
But here's where my attennae start to twitch. Once an inquiry is underway, the matter will effectively disappear from the public domain. Opposition members will be limited in what questions they can ask, and Ministers, and indeed the Prime Minister, will have a ready-made excuse for obfuscation - "I can't comment on that. All will be revealed when the Auditor-General completes his inquiry." - so there is little political capital for the opposition parties to use. And as the cheese ad says, "Good things take time" - I'm sure that it will be a stretch for the A-G to conduct and complete an inquiry then report back to government prior to the election.
Helen Clark is the consummate politician. She admits to being "blindsided" by this rapidly spreading cancer. However in a quote in the Herald article, she seems to be trying to innoculate her Immigration Ministers, both current and former from fallout when she says:
""We feel we have been constantly blindsided by events and developments," she said.
"It's fair to say that the confidence of the Cabinet has been somewhat shattered. There are things that obviously never came to our attention.""
I don't buy that. So on the basis of probability, I believe that Clark's decision today to call in the Auditor-General is more about political expediency that it is about good governance. And I'm probably not alone when I recall the Ingram inquiry into the actions of one Taito Philip Field.
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I think AG Brady will be a more relentless and thorough investigator than Ingram. I also understand he will be able to question under oath which should enable him to get to `the guts' of things.
I agree pdm. Brady is the guy to get to the bottom of this. My point in the thread though - is this a genuine move by Clark to get to the truth, or is she cynically shutting down debate until after the election (as she did with TPF), and by so doing, protecting the arses of Ministers Cunliffe and Cosgrove? Sadly, I think it's the latter - that's Clark's modus operandi.
Sounds to me that the truth is so rancid that Clark has no choice but to let Brady loose on this one.
I think Cunliffe is the guy with his head on the block. Unless it was `common knowledge' through out the cabinet before Cosgrove took over he may just get away with saying he took action as soon as he realised how serious things were.
Cunliffe doesn't have that escape route.
David "Boy Wonder" Cunliffe has a few challenges ahead of him. There's a date with the Hign Court in Napier where his decision to sack the HBDHB is being challenged (August 27 from memory), a trip to the witness box in the TPF trial, where he will face cross-examination from TPF's counsel, and now this. The noises that Clark was making last night are that all the Immigration stuff was news to Cabinet, but I'm not so sure - whatever happened to the "no surprises" policy?
"It's fair to say that the confidence of the Cabinet has been somewhat shattered. There are things that obviously never came to our attention.""
I don't buy that.
You know what? Under what used to be NZ's constitution, it doesn't matter whether you buy it or not. Ministerial responsibility is personal: but it is not about the fault of the minister. It is about their honour, dignity, and simple humanity. When your ministry screws up, you resign. You do not complain you weren't briefed; you do not blame civil servants, or HR contractors.
you resign your ministry and seat, and traditionally retire from public life and employment,
serving out your time working unpaid for a charity
David "Boy Wonder" Cunliffe has a few challenges ahead of him
They all do - and the serious corruption inquiries haven't even started yet. Noone in cabinet or the Labour party executive will ever be in government again.
Interesting perspective Anon - you're right about the concept of ministerial responsibility. The current administration has strayed some considerable distance from the accepted standard.
Adam has posted a brief update, number 16, in his quest to try and make sense of this mess
see
Inventory2 is grateful to Adam - his blog is a veritable treasure trove for anyone wanting to know more about this scandal. | http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/2008/05/auditor-general-to-probe-immigration.html | 2013-05-18T10:12:37 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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After work, I rode the subway with Sarah Paulson and Felicity Huffman. This was right after I ran into Rachel Zoe, her child, and her gay (Joey) on the street.
Is this real life?
David Warren directing one of my best friends, Sarah Paulson, and me in a scene. She plays Lynette’s sister. | http://keitmi.tumblr.com/tagged/Sarah-Paulson | 2013-05-18T10:21:22 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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i have a wonderful therapist. she has helped me reduce the frequency and severity of my panic attacks. all crazy phobias that were paralyzing me are gone. completely. most important to me, i sleep like a baby. i was struggling so horribly with insomnia and anxious nightly obsessing that when the sun would start to go down my heart would start pounding in anticipation of the horrible hours to come. no longer. now i look forward to cozying grant and drifting off peacefully to sleep every night.
another huge change has to do with putting myself out there. meaning, physically out of my house as well as being available for relationships. i was so consumed for awhile with the fear that i backed off from every friend, rarely left my house, didn't answer emails that weren't absolutely necessary, didn't make eye contact with anyone at church, and forget the phone- no answering, ever.
i find myself craving to get back into the land of the living. to me, it is a huge sign of wellness. it had become painful to come home from a social function and over analyze what i had done wrong. now, i am making plans with people. i am dropping in on old friends. i am commenting on blogs. i am introducing myself at church. i trust myself, and care less about my idiosyncrasies.
i have always been very interested and touched by comments made here on my blog- with no ability to make a connection to the person. a change i am making is now trying to be more present in the comment section and thank you and try to get to know you and answer questions. chat with me! i really think i have the ability to let people in again.
yesterday i blogged about one of the things we are working on now- compulsive behaviors to calm anxiety (cleaning, not allowing clutter). ms. therapist says we'll have it licked in a (large) handful of sessions. i believe her. she hasn't lied to me yet. | http://kellymccaleb.typepad.com/my_happy_little_life/mental-health/ | 2013-05-18T11:01:31 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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A BOOK IN PROGRESS [PART 9]: MARTIN LUTHER’S ACCIDENTAL REVOLUTION
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Luther was the Petrarch of the Reformation, its Pico and its Erasmus too, its founding father, its voice and its soul. The Reformation, that great schism in sixteenth century Western Christendom out of which Protestantism emerged, was as historically transformative as the Renaissance. It is usually seen as the great leap forward, not just in Christianity but also in modernity. ‘Why can’t Islam have its own Reformation?’, is a common question asked by those who wish to suggest how backward is Islam compared to Christianity. The Reformation was, however, a deeply contradictory movement, or set of movements. It was as reactionary as it was revolutionary, as constraining as it was liberating. Luther’s view of human nature and of human freedom was as earth to the fire of Pico and Erasmus. And yet the Reformation he launched helped create a society in which Renaissance values could bear fruit.
Luther was born in1483 in Eisleben in the Holy Roman Empire, in what is today eastern Germany. His father, a miner and smelter, had hoped better for his children and provided them with an education. Martin had been training for the law when, according to his own account, he was, on a summer’s day in 1505, caught in a horrific thunderstorm. Afraid that he was going to die, he screamed out a vow, ‘Save me, St. Anna, and I shall become a monk’. St. Anna was the mother of the Virgin Mary and the patron saint of miners. He survived the storm and kept his vow. Within two weeks Luther had entered the Augustinian Monastery at Erfurt.
Luther’s thunderstorm story is in keeping with the Christian tradition of theatrical conversions to a life of faith such as that of Paul and of Augustine. As with Paul and Augustine, the drama of a sudden religious transformation provided a means of making sense of a longstanding personal trauma, a personal trauma that came also to have historical resonance because the psychological agony of the individual came also to mirror a deep-rooted social distress. In the monastic life Luther discovered the stability and assurance that seemed lacking outside. Salvation, he came to believe, was not something that humans could strive for, but was simply a gift of God. The most important Christian truth was, for Luther, the doctrine of justification – God’s act of declaring a sinner righteous – by faith alone through God’s grace. Traditional Christian teaching held that the righteous acts of believers are performed in cooperation with God. Luther insisted that righteousness came not from within at all but entirely from God. ‘Faith alone’, he wrote, ‘makes someone just and fulfills the law’.
The story that almost everyone knows about Martin Luther is of his nailing of the famous Ninety-Five Theses to the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg. This was a public challenge to the Pope, and to the Church, from which there could be no going back, the moment at which the division of Western Christendom became inevitable, and the Reformation was launched. At the heart of the Theses was a stinging criticism of the practice of granting indulgences, remission of temporal punishment for sins granted after the sinner had performed good work which increasingly included a payment to the Church. It was through such payment that the Church financed many of its great building projects in the Renaissance. In 1516, the Pope dispatched to Germany a Dominican friar, Johann Tetzel, to sell indulgences to raise money to help rebuild St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Luther was outraged. He wrote to his bishop, Albert of Mainz, protesting at what he saw as the purchase of salvation. Enclosed with his letter was a document entitled Disputation of Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences, which we now know as The Ninety-Five Theses. ‘Why does the pope, whose wealth today is greater than the wealth of the richest Crassus, build the basilica of St. Peter with the money of poor believers rather than with his own money?’, he asked in one of the theses.
In 1520, Pope Leo X issued a rebuttal entitled Exsurge Domine that demanded that Luther retract 41 errors. Luther refused and in 1521 he was excommunicated. Luther publicly burnt the bull of excommunication in Wittenberg, cheered on by a large crowd of townsfolk to whom he had become a hero. In April of that year, Luther was ordered to appear before the Diet of Worms, a general assembly of the estates of the Holy Roman Empire, in the Rhineland town of Worms, over which Emperor Charles V presided. Again Luther refused to recant. The Diet declared Luther an outlaw, banning his literature, requiring his arrest and making it a crime for anyone to give him food or shelter. The verdict was unpopular with German princes, many of whom sympathized with Luther. Frederick, the Elector of Saxony, arranged for Luther to be given safety in Wartburg Catsle, where he began his great German translation of the Bible.
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‘I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience.’ So declared Luther at the Diet of Worms. This was a challenge not just to the Pope and to the Holy Roman Emperor, but also to Aristotle and Aquinas. Aquinas had seen reason as a spark illuminating the path to God. Not so, insisted Luther. Reason may be used to question human activities and institutions, but not to light up the divine. Humans could learn about God, Luther maintained, only through revelation.
This idea of two realities, the reality of God, given by revelation and the reality of the empirical world, given by direct experience, had already been expounded by William Ockham, a British Franciscan friar born shortly after Aquinas’ death. For Ockham, all human knowledge came through our senses. Reason could be applied only to such sensory knowledge, that is to the understanding of concrete particulars. Ockham was a nominalist. Nothing, he insisted, existed except as individual entities; universals were human creations that subsisted only as mental concepts and possessed no reality outside of human language and mind. The human mind possessed no divine light, as Aquinas had taught, by which the intellect could move beyond the senses to make sense of universals. Anything beyond the senses, such as the existence of God, could be revealed only by faith. This was true not just of God’s existence but of His laws too. The moral rules by which God wished us to live could not be understood by reason. They, too, had to be taken on faith.
Luther linked Ockham’s argument about the two realities, and the need to accept moral codes on faith, to a view of human nature darker even than Augustine’s. Humans were degenerate to the last fibre of being. Neither desire nor reason could be trusted to lead humans to moral safety, for both had been corrupted in the Fall. Were they not, Luther thundered, then Jesus would have died without cause:
If we believe that Christ redeemed men by his blood, we are forced to confess that all of man in lost; otherwise we make Christ either wholly superfluous or else the redeemer of the least valuable part of man only; which is blasphemy and sacrilege.
The only true moral rules are divine injunctions, such as the Ten Commandments. These had to be accepted on faith and unquestioningly followed. They could be justified on the basis neither of reason nor of desire. Any attempt to do so would lead to moral disintegration. It was an argument similar to that of the Islamic Traditionalists in their struggle with the Rationalists. There could be no rational accounting of God’s word. Human reason was too weak to comprehend God’s plan. But Luther being a Christian added a Christian twist to the argument. Human reason cannot understand God’s commands because it has become enslaved by sin. We can only follow God’s law by acting against reason. Nor could following God’s moral rules ever satisfy our desires, for our desires, too, have been corrupted with the rest of human nature. There always exists, therefore, an antagonism between what humans want and what God commands humans to do. Strict adherence to God’s law is, nevertheless, insufficient to ensure salvation. Luther is clear that nothing humans do can ensure salvation. Salvation is not a state to be achieved; it is a state to be received through God’s grace. God’s law allows human communities to survive by limiting moral chaos and the consequences of sinfulness. It does not make humans moral. It simply constrains their capacity for immorality. All humans can do is close their eyes, shut out reason and desire, accept God’s word on faith and hope for the best in the next world.
Do the gods love the good because it is good, Socrates had wondered in Plato’s Euthyphro, or is it good because it loved by the gods? Unless the gods love something for no good reason, then they must love something as pious because it inherently possesses value. But if it inherently possesses value, then it does so independently of the gods. Luther’s answer, like that of Muslim Tradionalists, was unambiguous. There was no rhyme or reason to God’s law. Humans had to accept God’s idea of the good simply because God tells us it is good not because they could justify it through reason or through any external measure. Morality was indeed arbitrary. That was the whole point of it.
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The Reformation was an intensely conservative religious reaction against the spirit of reason that Aquinas had introduced into Christianity, a reaction that found its voice in the terrifying, transcendent God of the Old Testament, the God that had thundered at Moses ‘Draw not nigh hither’. Aquinas believed that all humans participated in God’s nature and that all possessed a certain God-given autonomy of will. The reformers insisted on the absolute sovereignty of God over His creation and saw the human race as a ‘teeming horde of infamies’, as Calvin put it, whose innate sinfulness degraded any autonomy except for the autonomy to be wicked.
And yet, despite the Reformation’s mordantly reactionary soul, its rebellion against the Catholic Church was also the source of a radically libertarian revolution, the harbinger of a liberal modernity. The paradox of the Reformation is that a movement that deprecated autonomy and will, insisted on the unlimited sovereignty of God and sought solace in unquestioning faith also helped create a world that came to celebrate individualism, foster agency, and take secularism to be the social norm.
Luther insisted on the ‘priesthood of all believers’. Religious authority was torn away from any external institution and rested solely in the individual believer, each interpreting the Bible according to his own private conscience, each fostering his own personal relationship to God. For all his dismissal of free will, Luther’s rebellion was an assertion of individual conscience against the monolithic authority of the institutional Church. The Reformation, as historian Richard Tarnas has observed, ‘marked the standing forth of the individual in two senses – alone outside the Church and alone directly before God.’
It was, of course, not just Luther who could hear the inner voice. The individual, and his conscience, was looming large throughout sixteenth and seventeenth century culture, fostered by the Renaissance celebration of the dignity of Man. The entanglement of the Reformation and the Renaissance limited the Augustinian bleakness of the Lutheran vision. Protestantism flourished in many forms, and many Protestants had a view of human nature less dark than Luther’s. At the same time, the social changes engendered by the Reformation eased the way for the more optimistic Renaissance vision.
The biggest social change came out of a second paradox at the heart the Reformation. A movement that sought to restore faith to the centre of life helped ironically to engineer the modern secular world. For Luther, nothing that humans did on Earth was relevant to what happened to them in the next world. Neither good works, nor moral acts nor yet penitence provided the key to salvation. Faith and grace was all that mattered. So what sort of laws should guide human conduct in this world? Since there was no point in designing rules of conduct to get humans into the next world, so such rules could simply reflect the needs of this. Hence the Reformation created the possibility of a secular space defined by laws that defended political rather than divine order.
It was an argument that clearly appealed to monarchs and princes, as well as self-confident cities such as Nuremburg and Zurich, chafing at the constraints imposed by Papal power. By the thirteenth century, the Church had achieved an unprecedented level of political authority in Western Europe. This power was institutionalised, and given theological justification, by Pope Innocent III in his decree Sicut universitatis conditor issued in 1198. ‘Just as the moon derives her light from the sun, and is inferior to the sun in terms of its size and quality’, the decree proclaimed, ‘so the power of the king derives from the authority of the pope.’ Few kings saw themselves as moons to the Pope’s sun, particularly so as the Church had long since ceased to be very sun-like. It was riddled with corruption, shot through with sleaze, and had become a machine for minting money and grasping power.
In 1492, Pope Alexander VI, a member of the Borgia family, managed to bribe his way to the Papacy, despite having several mistresses and at least seven known illegitimate children. It was only the most shocking instance of the immorality that defined the Church. Forty years earlier, Duke Amadeus VIII of Savoy had managed to get his son appointed as the bishop of Geneva. He was eight years old. If the higher clergy was lacking any sense of moral virtue, the lower clergy was often illiterate, uncouth and ignorant. Little wonder that huge resentments had built up against Papal power. The so-called ‘magisterial Protestantism’, the Protestant rebellion led by the elite, swept through much of northern and central Europe, from the Swiss cantons, and the German speaking lands of the Holy Roman Empire, to Bohemia, Poland and the Baltic states to the east and through the Netherlands to England and Scotland to the north.
As the new faith spread, it diversified and new forms of Protestantism emerged. On mainland Europe Lutheranism was joined by the Reformed Church, rooted partly in the ideas of the Zurich priest Huldrych Zwingli, and Calvinism, which grew out of John Calvin’s teaching in Geneva and soon became the dominant Protestant movement on the continent. There were smaller movements, too, such as the Huguenots in France and the followers of Jan Hus in Bohemia. In England, a highly distinctive form of Protestantism, Anglicanism, evolved that spoke to local political and social needs and that maintained many of the traditions and practices of the Catholic Church. England’s imperial expansion over the next few centuries would eventually make this highly local version of Protestantism one of the most influential.
Magisterial Protestantism wrenched power away from the Pope to carve out a space for secular rule. It did not, however, abandon the idea of God as the ultimate source of political authority. Rather, God was now called upon to authorise the rule not of his religious but of his secular representatives on earth. Monarchs claimed absolute sovereignty by virtue of the ‘divine right of kings’ to rule. It was righteous, Aquinas had suggested, to depose an unjust king. Not so, argued the new Protestant monarchs who insisted that they were not subject to the will of the people, or of any other Estate of the realm; only God could judge the king. Attempts to unseat the king or to restrict his powers ran contrary to the will of God and hence were sacrilegious. The doctrine of the divine right of kings had older roots in theology, but it was through the Reformation that it acquired new resonance. English kings, such as James I and most notoriously Charles I, invoked it to dismiss attempts by both nobles and commoners to gain more power. Catholic kings, too, such as Louis XIV of France, rested their authority upon the doctrine.
There was another paradox too. Luther had insisted that actions in this world had no bearing on one’s reception in the next; hence the possibility of creating a secular space. In practice, however, the spread of Luther’s message led not to the greater separation of church and state but to their greater fusion. As kings and princes cleaved to the Reformation as a means of gaining power, so the institutions of faith and the institutions by which they enforced their rule became barely distinguishable. In England, for instance, Anglicanism became the ‘Established’ church, and the sovereign the ‘defender of the faith’, but only of the faith as defined by Anglicanism. A similar process could seen in many of the new Protestant states. A movement that began by asserting the right of every individual to interpret the Bible as they wished soon realized that this would lead to religious and social anarchy. Each of the various strand of the new faith established its own institutions to enforce its particular doctrines and rituals and to eliminate heresy, often on the pain of death. And a movement that had begun by challenging the corruption of the Catholic Church through its acquisition of secular power, and had insisted on the distinction between divine law and worldly law, soon fused church and state as a means of defending the power of both, the church sheltering in the bosom of princely power, the state gaining legitimacy through the warrant of God.
Magisterial Protestantism was not the only form of Reformation challenge to the existing order. There were more revolutionary versions of the Protestant rebellion, too. Inspired by ideas of individual conscience and secularism, many sought to challenge the power not just of Popes but of monarchs too. Perhaps the most important of these were the Anabaptists, so called because a literal reading of the Bible led them to insist that no divine warrant existed for the practice of infant baptism and that all adults had to be re-baptised.
The differences with magisterial Protestantism were far greater than such seemingly trivial doctrinal distinctions. The Anabaptists saw the social order as corrupt as Luther had seen human nature. Most Christians viewed the conversion of the Roman emperor Constantine as a watershed in the history of the church; it was the moment Christianity had come in from the margins and had became a social force. The Anabaptists also saw Constantine’s conversion as a watershed but for very different reasons. It was the instant that Christianity had compromised its integrity through an accommodation with imperial power. To cleanse themselves of that compromise, Christians would have to disengage themselves from the social order. Anabaptists refused to swear oaths to a secular authority, opposed the death penalty, decried wars, and condemned private property as unchristian.
The Anabaptists built up a strong following in German-speaking lands and in the Low Countries, even taking control of the town of Munster in 1534. Similar movements flourished in other countries. In England, for instance, there were the Levellers and the Diggers. The Levellers were a political movement during the English Civil Wars that emphasized popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law and religious tolerance. They held to a notion of ‘natural rights’ that they believed were expressed in God’s law and considered liberty to be the innate property of every individual. Their demands were expressed in a series of manifestos called An Agreement of the People, published between 1647 and 1649, that were at the heart of the famous Putney Debates.
The Diggers were a group of agrarian communists led by Gerrard Winstanley who took his cue from the Book of Acts: ‘All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need.’ ‘In the beginning of time God made the earth’, Winstanley argued in his pamphlet The New Law of Righteousness. ‘Not one word was spoken at the beginning that one branch of mankind should rule over another, but selfish imaginations did set up one man to teach and rule over another.’
The emergence of such movements was deeply unsettling to the Protestant elite. Luther was as conservative in his politics as he was in his faith. He supported the ruthless suppression of the revolutionary movements. In 1524 the Peasants’ War broke out, a popular revolt in German speaking lands against oppressive taxes and land laws. Some 300,000 peasants took part, demanding the end to serfdom, the abolition of cattle tithes and death taxes, and the right to use ‘common fields, forests and waters’. The uprising was brutally put down by the ruling classes, some 100,000 peasants losing the lives in the slaughter.
The peasants had used the Bible to support their grievances, and in turn, to justify their rebellion. Poorer clergy, led by Thomas Muntzer, supported the peasants’ demands and encouraged their revolt. But the leaders of the magisterial Reformation, Luther and Calvin in particular, took up arms against the peasants. In 1525 Luther published his essay Against the Murdering Thieving Hordes of Peasants, berating the rebels for the use of violence but defending the right of princes to use force to suppress the revolt because the peasants had ‘become faithless, perjured, disobedient, rebellious, murderers, robbers, and blasphemers, whom even a heathen ruler has the right and authority to punish’. ‘Anyone who is killed fighting on the side of the rulers’, Luther insisted, ‘may be a true martyr in the eyes of God’.
In time, Protestant ideas of ‘justification by faith’, of individual conscience and the ‘priesthood of believers’, and of the separation of secular work and divine salvation, all helped feed the radical democratic spirit. But fusion of the reactionary soul and the revolutionary spirit that drove the Luther’s rebellion ensured that modern liberal democratic societies developed as much in spite of the Reformation as because of it.
No mention here of ‘Von den Juden und Ihren Lügen’ – _any_ discussion of Martin Luther that doesn’t discuss that is, as far as I am concerned, partial.
Of course it is partial. This is just a 3000-word extract from a chapter in a book that is exploring not Martin Luther’s life but the history of moral thought. Inevitably there will be many aspects of Luther’s life and beliefs that I am forced to ignore – including, in this case, his nasty and ferocious anti-semitism. This does not mean that Luther’s anti-semitism is not important – just not to the specific point I’m trying to make at this juncture in the book. Von den Juden und ihren Lügen does, incidentally, get a mention later in the book, in the discussion on German, and more widely European, anti-semitism.
It’s good you mentioned “agrarian communists” (with a small ‘c’) as harking back to Acts. That’s been the basic concept underlying many utopian communities. It’s a very hard pill to swallow, though. Communal sharing works on the spiritual level, but secular society has created legal barriers. The only loopholes are by creating various forms of Trust and incorporating them.
There is indeed a long history of religious (not just Christian) Utopianism that has played an important part in the development of more secular forms of Utopianism. As for property rights, there is nothing secular about them. They change as economic and social relations change. The needs of capitalism, not of secularism, define contemporary property rights.
Much of your story is one-sided. I take it you are not a Christian?
Christianity is a Greek religion. Much of what formed Christianity was a process of enculturation of Hellenism. My teacher was a liturgical expert fluent in some 12 languages and a reader of ancient manuscripts. Did his research at the Vatican Library; a priest of the Norbetine Order. His erudition and conclusions match Prof. Jerry Dell Ehrlich and his book, “Plato’s Gift to Christianity, The Gentile Preparation for and the Making of the Christian Faith”. Much of what is in Christianity, the immortality of the soul, the Trinity, the duality of Christ, are Greek teachings. The battle within the soul is a Greek teaching. Heaven and Hell is a Greek teaching. It was purposely that way.
The Protestant reformers did not have a clear history of Christianity. Yes, it was a revolt against Aquinas and the infusion of Greek philosophy but that Greek philosophy itself formed Christianity at its beginning.
Second, you need to consider the influence of Lorenzo Valla and his Disputation which had a huge influence on Luther. Furthermore, you need to consider the influence and teachings of the Kabbala upon many during this period. The Kabbalah taught the importance of Primitivism. How primitivism is the guide to Truth and right. Luther was taught by Christian Hebraists.
Protestantism was in a sense a Judaizing of the Faith. This “sola scriptura” thing is not a European mental construct but a Semitic one. I refer you to Newman, Louis I. (1925) Jewish Influence on Christian Reform Movements, Columbia University Press, New York. Questia Media America, Inc.. You can access the book online at Questia.
The Jews had a tremendous influence on these supposedly ‘reform’ movements. Christianity is not a ‘Jewish’ religion, but a European one. There are different thought patterns associated with this.
Last I point to my article “Christ, Reason (Logos) and Greek philosophy”
which might explain the ‘reason’ for reason in Christianity and its connection to the Natural Law and its necessity for Christianity.
Far from denying the rootedness of Christianity in either Judaism or Greek philosophy, that rootedness is at the heart of my argument. See, for instance, the previous book extract on Augustine, or my post on ‘Rethinking the idea of “Christian Europe”’, a version of which, by the way, has just been published in the latest issue of New Humanist, and which I will post in Pandaemonium soon. It was not Plato upon whom the early Christian theologians drew, but Plato as filtered through the Neoplatonism of Plotinus, as I point out in my extract on Augustine:
What the early Christian Fathers sought in Plato was a sense of the transcendent. What they rejected was too great a reliance on reason; hence their hostility to Plato’s, and indeed Plotinus’, insistence that this transcendental reality could be grasped by reason, rather than by faith. And that was also why they rejected Aristotle. Not till Thomas Aquinas was Aristotle reintegrated into Christian thought, and reason seen as a route to the divine. It is primarily through Aquinas, too, that Christian notions of ‘natural law’ were developed.
The issue is not about whether Christianity drew upon Greek philosophy or whether it accepted the importance of reason. Clearly it did both. The issue, rather, is the debate that has existed within Christianity almost since its inception about the relationship between reason and faith, determinism and free will, Law and Grace. The first centuries of Christianity saw a decisive victory for those who wished to restrain reason with faith, and possessed a desolate, guilt-ridden view of human nature, a victory expressed in Augustine’s triumph over Pelagius. Aquinas helped shift the balance back. Luther rejected Aquinas’ understanding and restored an Augustinian view of reason and human nature.
As for the influence of Judaism. Luther, as you must know was viciously anti-Semitic. Jews, he wrote in On the Jews and their Lies (mentioned by Sean Matthews earlier in this thread), are ‘a base, whoring people, that is, no people of God, and their boast of lineage, circumcision, and law must be accounted as filth.’ He called for synagogues to be burnt down, prayer books to be destroyed, property to be confiscated and rabbis exiled.
I notice, incidentally, that you link to one of your articles on Henry Makow’s site. Makow, for those who don’t know, is a nasty, bizarre conspiracy monger who thinks that ‘The world is in the malignant grip of a satanic cult’ organized by the Illuminati, Jews, bankers and God knows who else, the aim of which is ‘to destroy Western Civilization and to erect a new world order ruled by them.’ Is this your view too? Even if it’s not, it’s hardly a recommendation for your argument that you should choose to publish your essay on such a site.
It seems to me the Reformation is one of those movements with unexpected consequences. Luther’s anti-rationalism led somehow to modernity. It should be worth mentioning that, as far as ethics go, the Reformation also unexpectedly contributed to a work ethic. That, as Max Weber famously claimed, is a central tenet of modernity. The Calvinist-Lutheran idea of predestination is, apparently, fatalistic. But, ironically, instead of making people pursue unrestrained pleasure (if I am going to be fried anyway, why not drink and eat now?), led people to work harder and accumulate wealth, as they looked for evidence that they were among the saved. | http://kenanmalik.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/a-book-in-progress-part-9-martin-luthers-accidental-revolution/ | 2013-05-18T11:03:05 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Here’s an academic shocker: Researchers found that many Russian doctoral students purchase their dissertations
Here are the facts.
According to research reported by HBR …
169 companies offer custom-written doctoral dissertations for sale in Russia at prices ranging from the equivalent of $900 to $25,000
By one estimate, some 10,000 dissertations are written for pay each year in Russia, nearly one-third of the dissertations defended there.
Advanced degrees are popular among Russian politicians.
More than half of the members of the State Duma, Russia’s main legislative body, hold doctoral degrees.
Wonder how many of the 10,000 are bought by current and future politicos , and how much they paid?
I’m betting that they copped the $900 versions.
Note: the researchers didn’t say whether they wrote their research report … or bought it.
Hmmm.
January 19, 2013 at 4:35 am |
The German Defence Minister (hereditary Baron and multi-millionaire Karl-Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylvester Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg) got caught doing the same in 2011 – except that he did not pay anybody, but outsourced most of the work to the parliamentary research service. I recall that one of the first tasks we received from Prof. Angel was to calculate which had more value — an MBA or Dr. I think that is now clear! | http://kenhoma.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/pssst-wanna-buy-a-dissertation/ | 2013-05-18T10:52:22 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
I've read the following as some of the negative opinion about door-to-door evangelism, not necessarily in this order. First, you don't have to do it. Nowhere does Scripture say you have to do it. Second, it doesn't work, so it's a waste of time. Third, there are much better ways to see better results. Fourth, when we stopped doing it, we had a lot more success. That ties in with number three, I know. Fifth, the people who do it are generally one-to-three-pray-with-me, easy prayerism types, that have a weak view of salvation. Sixth, the people who are involved with it don't want to develop relationships with the lost, like Jesus did with sinners. Seventh, just shoving the gospel down people's throats isn't going to work. You can't pull your Bible out like a big hammer and expect people to listen to you. Eighth, door-to-door preaching will close the doors of your church to people. People won't want to come to visit the church because you've turned them off to the church through the preaching. Ninth, the people who do go door-to-door think that you can measure people's Christian life or spirituality by how many doors that they knock on. It lacks in grace in this way and is a faulty view of sanctification. Tenth, unsaved people just don't like it. Eleventh, people in general, not just the unsaved, don't like having cold turkey calls on their doors. It's a turn off. Again, that is related to number ten. Twelve, a lot of Christians can't do door-to-door; it's too hard. So there we go---there's twelve of them. You can tell me if you've heard others. I wanted you to know, however, that I really already knew all of these, heard them all before, and maybe even others that I'm not thinking of right now. I know I'm still stupid, but I at least know these.
So, if you want your church to get bigger and especially if you want to be a mega-church, you've got to dump door-to-door. I want you to explore with me how giving up or stopping door-to-door evangelism will grow or build your church.
First, if you don't go door-to-door, your people will like your church more and stay. This is what people call 'keeping the back door of your church closed.' When people find out that you think the Bible requires Christians to be a part of preaching the gospel to every creature, they will find another church that doesn't say that, and go there.
Second, if your church is a church that goes door-to-door, people out there will figure that out, because they'll see you going. And they'll know then to stay away, because you may as well admit it---you're crazy. People into Jesus enough to go cold turkey to someone's door to talk about it are so fanatical that they will scare the normal person off. Keep going door-to-door and people will mark you down as the place not to attend.
Third, you will ruin the strategy of inviting people to church by preaching. You don't want to give them an unpopular message all at once, but to dispense it a little at a time to make it palatable to the hearer. You first want them to get excited about qualities of your church that aren't offensive to them. Once they find things they like, then they'll accept some of the things they don't like as part of the whole package.
Fourth, your church people will be disaffected toward church ministry by door-to-door. Your workers will dwindle down to near nothing if they feel like they have to do something so difficult. And without those volunteers, your church can't grow. To keep up the interest for working in your church, you've got to minimize the value of door-to-door and make it seem as more of an unappealing alternative for the few hysterical. Even better, replace it with forms of evangelism that make common sense.
Fifth, if you are doing door-to-door, you are taking away from the methods that actually work in adding numbers to your church. If you want your church to get bigger, you use techniques that target certain demographics with church programs and incentives. Any manpower or time that you take away from those programs, the smaller your church will stay.
I recently read the following that represents exactly what I'm talking about above:
When I first came to this church 12 years ago, we had a door to door program. It consisted of me and one man going out on Saturday mornings and another man going out by himself on Saturday afternoon. We did this faithfully for 2 years with zero results. I begged the Lord to give wisdom. I was willing to do that my whole ministry if that is what he wanted. But I also sensed something had to change. . . . We have not done door to door in 10 years and have way more Gospel contacts than we ever did. My people are starting to get it. I really believe this is the best way to give out the Gospel. Find a hobby you like, and witness to the lost who do it.
People laud this kind of comment in evangelicalism and fundamentalism, as if it really is novel kind of thinking. It isn't. People stop evangelizing everyone because they suffer persecution. They stop because preaching is an offense. It isn't popular. It's foolishness to the lost. They stop because the fear of man brings a snare. They stop because they fear him who can destroy body more than they fear Him Who can destroy both body and soul in Hell forever.
A good question is: what did Jesus do? He preached everywhere to everyone. There was no strategy except preach to everyone everywhere. He preached to everyone everywhere in Galilee, Judea, Samaria, Perea, Caesaria Philippi, and Tyre and Sidon. If you are truly gospel-centered, you will too. You will sow, water, and God will give the increase. God gives the increase. The one who sows and the one who waters are nothing. They are irrelevant. The new methods and strategies bring new relevance to the one who sows and waters. They think of ideas that Jesus never thought of. And meanwhile, what Jesus actually told us to do, preach the gospel to everyone, goes undone. We disobey the Father's will because instead of being sanctified by the truth, we are sanctified by our own opinions and feelings. Jesus came to do the Father's will. We have come to conform the Bible to our own will.
Another acceptable new measure is the idea that you "pray for wisdom," and then God tells you something that adds to what He already said. He told you to preach, but because "you weren't seeing results," you prayed for God to give you wisdom. And how did you get that wisdom? Where did you get your new revelation? From man. It didn't come from God. God isn't going to give you something that will contradict what He already told you to do.
The churches in the Bible that became classified as churches that preached to everyone became more unpopular with the world. So will yours. Don't go door-to-door if you think it's about making your church bigger. It's about obeying the Bible and, therefore, honoring God.
20 comments:
Kent,
you threw something out, but didn't answer it adequately.
1. why is a door to door inherently biblical? it is a technique, not a biblical imperative. you stated it is about obeying the Bible, but offered no support.
2. why would it be elevated above sharing the gospel in your workplace and/or hobby atmosphere? will i not be more effective if i repeatedly spend time with someone sharing the gospel rather than one off conversations with strangers?
in the end, it's a method, a tool and a technique. It's not sancrosanct. I won't even say it's outdated b/c a company like Edward Jones still uses it effectively for client cultivation. But it's not some hallowed evangelistic thread through the halls of scripture. it's a piece of culture. if you want to do it that way, embrace it. but don't criticize those who evangelize differently.
micah
Jehovah's Witnesses proselytizing is false witness.*
I would like to ask about your approach when you go door to door. The commission is to preach, not invite people to church. How do you go about doing this in your door to door ministry? This subject is one I have thought about alot lately, and I am lokking for some help. Thank you.
Luke
Luke,
We go to a door and tell the people why we are there and essentially ask them if we can present the gospel to them. If they say yes, we do, and if they say other things, like no, or maybe later, or I'm busy now, we adjust to that and sometimes come back. I often get to preach at a door. Most of the time if I go out for 1 to 2 hours, I get to preach at least a good portion of the gospel at least once. I have written about this here and somewhere else and I'll try to link to that to explain it further.
Look at this.
Thank you for your response.
Luke
Hi Micah,
Thomas Ross did a series on this here:
The formatting has a lot to be desired, but he lays out a terrific defense for house-to-house evangelism. I've preached every Gospel except the second half of Luke, which I'm in now, and Jesus went everywhere preaching to everyone.
I don't see it as a method. The method is preaching. Door-to-door is obeying the Bible to preach it to everyone. Sure, we preach to people at work, neighbors, the health club, school, relatives, etc., and I've talked about that here too. We're salt and light, so wherever we are, we're supposed to be preaching, not just in the time frame that we're covering the territory.
Thanks.
Danny,
I don't get where you might think that we're defending Watchtower Society (JWs). We're not. The Bible invented house-to-house, not them
Micah,
One more thing. I was going to write this and got going fast and forgot. You mentioned the strategy that some sales guy uses to get clients, because it works. That's a major point here---we're not thinking about whether it works. We're just making sure that we get to everybody. This is NOT like a sales strategy or technique. (see 1 Cor 1:18-2:5).
I read some of the posts at SI. Statements about looking and praying for opportunities . . . What more opportunity do you need than the command of the Lord to "preach the gospel to every creature"?
I have heard, "we need to get them in here to give them the Gospel." Huh? If you want to give someone the Gospel then go do it! There are about 7 billion people OUTside of your church building. Go for it.
Jesus gave the Great Commission before His ascension. Acts reveals how the Apostles and early churches understood it. They went everywhere preaching the Gospel, baptizing the ones that believed it, and teaching them " all things."
More ideas or info is not the problem. The issue is simply whether or not to obey.
Bobby,
I so agree.
Some say, "But they don't want to hear it OUT there." If they don't want to hear it, then they aren't ready enough to be saved. A lot of what Jesus said was about that too. It's impossible to find out who wants it and who doesn't want it, if we don't offer it to everyone. I really can't make people like the gospel and it isn't even my job. I find some people willing to listen and many not humble enough to do so.
This last paragraph was just streaming off of what you wrote, Bobby.
Hi, Kent.
Do you believe in giving out Gospel tracts / leaflets? Do you believe that is a form of preaching the Gospel, or not?
If so, do you believe distributing Gospel tracts / leaflets to every home fulfils the commandment to preach to all, or not?
If someone has a sign on their door that says "No callers, no canvassers," etc, do you knock on their door anyway?
Just wondering.
By the way, the captcha text for commenting has gotten really, really hard to read. Maybe my eyes are getting weak, but I actually had to reload a couple times to get captcha text I could read.
Dear Micah,
My study, "The Biblical Mandate for House to House Evangelism" is at in the Ecclesiology section.
Dear Pastor Brandenburg,
While obedience to house-to-house will not necessarily make a church bigger, I don't believe I'm willing to say it will make a church smaller. In Acts the churches didn't do promotion and marketing techniques, but went house to house and did street preaching and other Biblical methods, and the gospel spread all over the place. Churches DO grow through following Biblical evangelistic methods. Do they ALWAYS grow when they do so? No, but they frequently do grow when they do so.
Thomas,
There is some tongue-in-cheek going on here, obviously. But which method will result in the larger church? That's the question. Sure, a church will get bigger from door-to-door, but not as large as if the church majors on the other non-scriptural and unscriptural methods. However, that "growth" and those numbers are not biblical either, so the church will be affected by the means they got big. I thought this might be obvious to most who read this.
Everyone should know that our church went from zero to what it is through door-to-door. So that is growth.
Jon,
We "try" to preach to everyone, but where we are restricted from doing so, we work around it as much as possible and "tracting," I believe, is the same thing. The U.S. is moving this direction too, because people in gated communities become untouchable by door-to-door. We attempt to get the gospel to everyone, which sounds like it is what you are doing. That is the point. Thanks.
Certainly some people give up door to door because it brings on persecution and scorn. I'm not against it, I still do it...recently wrote a blog post about it, but door to door is not a command. Acts 20:20 is not an imperative. If anything it advocates home Bible studies. Paul is addressing the elders and members of the Ephesian church when he says this..he was teaching these people publically and house to house.
Preaching the gospel to everybody, however is a mandate. Our church went to the park yesterday and gave out over 200 hotdogs to people and in the process, we gave out 100 gospel videos, hundreds of tracts and it was a thrill to see our people having gospel conversations with dozens of people over a hotdog through out the day. I got one insulting comment from someone that day, but most people were thankful and listened to the gospel. Jesus did something like that too.
By all means, go door to door. And also try William Dudding's method, too. I see nothing wrong with sharing the gospel with those that I meet at work, and on the train, and at the lunch counter...... I'm just concerned that folks might read this and think that you are against anything but door to door. These are simply ways to reach the lost, and I don't see any of them as bad.
William,
I'm glad your people preached the gospel.
Anonymous,
I'm not sure what you're talking about.
Thanks, Kent. I thought we were probably on the same page on this, but wanted to clarify. We want to spread the Gospel to as many as the Lord enables us to do, trusting him to give the increase.
Wilson
Door to door is not about making a church big or small, its about preaching the word of God to those who have not believed so that they may believe and be saved. It is good for you to note that if people run away from you because you are telling them to do the right thing ,you have no case to answer | http://kentbrandenburg.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-giving-up-or-stopping-door-to-door.html?showComment=1329784057349 | 2013-05-18T10:12:05 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Gloucester go top
30 Nov 2008
Gl.”
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9 Comments
30 Nov 2008, 07:46 am
drake
30 Nov 2008, 07:47 am
dragons
30 Nov 2008, 07:47 am
nog drake en meer dragons
30 Nov 2008, 07:47 am
last dragon
30 Nov 2008, 07:48 am
no more dragons
30 Nov 2008, 07:48 am
bye bye dragons
30 Nov 2008, 10:21 am
I may just have to get down to “The Shed” in the next few weeks to catch some Heineken Cup action.
Go the “Cherry and Whites! !!
30 Nov 2008, 13:11 pm
Grant,
The only we are going to get excited about this is if you name the Southern Hemisphere players that played.
30 Nov 2008, 18:06 pm
#8 do we have to church?
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School rankings (19 August)
19 Aug 2009
Grey
12 Comments
19 Aug 2009, 11:10 am
Grey College is something else…
19 Aug 2009, 11:19 am
Howcome Affies doesn’t play in the Beeld trophy for Macro schools, whatever that means?
Or did they fall out before the finals?
19 Aug 2009, 11:25 am
Grey College make these rankings look as stupid as Woods make the ATP rankings.
19 Aug 2009, 12:55 pm
GREY vs PRG in Stellenbosch 3.15 pm (nice weather forecasted)
Always a showcase for super school rugby !!!
Heard 8 Grey boys not playing this weekend due to SA Schools commitment.
College !!!
19 Aug 2009, 13:50 pm
Rondebosch – Bishops is a large game!
Come on Bishops.
20 Aug 2009, 08:57 am
Wynberg has their best side in ages. Good on them. Bishops have lost the plot faster than the Days of Our Lives. Need to quiten the Bosch up. I’m willing to bet that you can count the amount of times Grey has lost in the last 10 years, on both sets of fingers.
20 Aug 2009, 13:09 pm
#6 BishopsOD: Ya Wynberg are a very good side, but in one of the few times we played to our potential we thrashed them 34-8 on the Piley. Other than that there’s some pretty average rugby for the boys.
Bosch played well in the first game but we were shocking, and as an OD I pretty embarrased, but I reckon the boys can pull it through on Sat, if they’re very up for it.
20 Aug 2009, 21:56 pm
Not so sure about these rankings. Bishops v Bosch on the weekend and I would say lower ranked Bosch should take that results. There is good interview with Bishops captain Sam Lane on He seems a great chap.
21 Aug 2009, 13:14 pm
The rankings should start at 5 after Grey. It is wrong for a school like paarl boys to be one place behind Grey as Grey destroyed them. There is no match for Grey College in South Africa.
21 Aug 2009, 13:19 pm
#2 Tacitus: Affies decided a number of years back that they won’t play in any trophy tournaments anymore.
24 Aug 2009, 18:08 pm
#9 Tsudanie: 9-3 says it all! You most probably also think Grey’s second team is the second best school team in the country!
26 Aug 2009, 10:00 am
Paarl Boys’ are currently in top form and would wipe the floor with Grey if they played this week.
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Watson teams up with HSM
17 May 2011
Highbury Safika Media has confirmed their entry into the sports management market and the signing of Springbok and Eastern Province Kings loose-forward Luke Watson as their first rugby client.
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Watson arrives in Port Elizabeth at the weekend and will represent the Kings in the guise of the South African Kings in June’s IRB-sanctioned Emerging Nations tournament to be hosted by Romania. The Kings replace the Emerging Springboks as South Africa’s tournament representative.
37 Comments
17 May 2011, 12:00 pm
Luke, a Dragon homeward bound.
17 May 2011, 12:01 pm
NOW THIS, is interesting…
17 May 2011, 12:02 pm
@PissAnt(PissAnt)-2:
My thoughts exactly… Will be watching the outcome very closely.
17 May 2011, 12:07 pm
Not exactly the scoop of the year,,,,,
17 May 2011, 12:08 pm
BOOOM! goes the credibility of HSM, keo.co.za and SA Rugby as objective sports media channels.
As his publicists, we can expect worse punting than we saw when Jake White Winning Ways was on board.
Oh well, it should provide a platform for lively…er… debate.
17 May 2011, 12:12 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-5:
17 May 2011, 12:13 pm
@Stormersboy(stormersboy)-4:
hahahhahaha.
what did I tell you.
I smell a book
I wonder how Jason Smith feels about this?
17 May 2011, 12:13 pm
Good on Luke for these fools wanting to align themelves with his particular brand of bulldust…
It aint nothing to do with his Rugger ability though…
I think I may need to go Puke…
17 May 2011, 12:15 pm
Lol.
How the wheel turns…
17 May 2011, 12:15 pm
@Stormersboy(stormersboy)-6: Seriously, if you thought keo and the elves were far up the Watsonass before, you’re in for a treat now. They’ll need a proctologist to help them file their daily reports.
17 May 2011, 12:19 pm
@gunther(gunther)-7: Yip. You called it.
@>^..^< katman(katman)-10: I “luke” forward to the theatre
17 May 2011, 12:24 pm
I see Luke has two Threads today already!
Wow.
Sonny Bill fever has been replace by Luke fervour within hours of SWB vacating the Republic.
17 May 2011, 12:26 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-10:
Alimentary dear Watson
17 May 2011, 12:27 pm
@cane(cane)-12: You’re witnessing the power of the mighty keo/hsm juggernaut. Sunni Bin will have to sign up too or face getting lost in obscurity.
17 May 2011, 12:28 pm
Looks like Keo has to write the agency exam. Good luck with that.
Funny how the same company that ripped Luke to shreds a year or 2 ago are bragging about representing him now.. lol..
17 May 2011, 12:31 pm
I don’t thinks Jason Smith would be to worried with a guy like Rynhardt Elstadt on his books.. Bigger,stronger and faster
17 May 2011, 12:35 pm
all this means is that there will be an increase of articles and front covers of Puke in future SARugby Magazines, i wonder if they do subscription refunds, i might want to get my money back.
17 May 2011, 12:46 pm
@DQG 7(DQG 7)-15: @DQG 7(DQG 7)-16:
Quite correct, there is a big difference between being a player’s agent (negotiating contracts) and his management company which looks after the player’s portfolio.
Unless Keo or anyone in HSM has written the SA Rugby exam and registered with SA Rugby they will not be able to negotiate contracts with unions or teams on his behalf.
For all we know, Smith has outsourced the ‘player portfolio management’ to HSM but still acts as his agent.
17 May 2011, 12:50 pm
@PissAnt(PissAnt)-18:
Interestingly I don’t see luke on their site.
17 May 2011, 12:55 pm
does this mean Luke can stage his own media conferences?
17 May 2011, 12:56 pm
I can’t believe keo actually used the word service delivery to describle athlete representation.
all HSM clients will receive
1 RDP house
350 free litres of water / month
300 free units of electricity / month.
food vouchers for shoprite to the value of R500 (not to be used for booze)
free education for any and all legitimate or illegitimate children.
where do I sign?
17 May 2011, 12:59 pm
This is no surprise really, Luke Watson has a public image problem in South Africa and HSM will go some way to remedy this, or at least attempt to do so.
17 May 2011, 13:08 pm
To me this seems like a huge conflict of interest. How would HSM be able to write objectively about Luke (or the Watson’s for that matter). Critisicm would not only upset their client but could also reduce his market value.
17 May 2011, 13:20 pm
@Horing(Horing)-23: just go back a few months and you will see all the positive articles regarding the watson family and their en-devours, it was a build up to this i reckon. only once they end up in court like JW will they say another bad word about them.
17 May 2011, 13:21 pm
Very interesting.
17 May 2011, 14:00 pm
Say goodbye to any credible criticisms of LW on any HSM media products from now on.
17 May 2011, 14:42 pm
christus, the propaganda’s going to go thru the roof now.
17 May 2011, 14:53 pm
@cab(cab)-27: It already has. Four glowing articles and counting (including an SA Rugby front cover). This is like Mugabe’s state-owned press, and then some.
17 May 2011, 14:55 pm
now this is didn’t expect…hhmmm?
17 May 2011, 14:59 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-28:
yeah, i tell u what these okes must be sitting back hosing themselves with such unashamed blatancy.
Ps your proto chirp at 10 deserves special mention, most amusing, my nandos hoender went flying when i read it.
17 May 2011, 15:39 pm
Isn’t Keo owned by HSM? So already 3 threads on “KING” Luke?
So media company owns his a s s and so guess what we’ll get? Only articles that up his product value. Expect him to be cover of SA Rugby in coming issues…..
17 May 2011, 17:10 pm
surely this is a conflict of interest.
just watch….one kak game and they will be wanting to make him a bok.
17 May 2011, 17:50 pm
This blog now has a VESTED financial interest in promoting Fluke as well as the E Cape franchise. HSM is their official propaganda arm.
18 May 2011, 00:33 am
This site will now no longer be objective on Twatson or any other player it “promotes”.
Poor show.
Expect the propaganda to go into overdrive.
3 threads on Watson the King [of puke and bile] today already.
I wouldn’t pay money for SA Rugby magazine either…
18 May 2011, 04:44 am
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-34:
This site will now no longer be objective… And we will notice this change how?
What I am looking forward to is to see how they manage their pro weepee propoganda with their ‘newly’ acquired Kings propoganda!
18 May 2011, 10:49 am
I take it we won’t read anything about Busasa (or whatever they’re called) hear on KEO…
18 May 2011, 10:49 am
@Beertjie(Beertjie)-36: hear=here
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When it's a well-crafted piece of political communication designed to save an award-winning community library.
See for yourself...I love this! Not only did it achieve the goal of refunding the library, but it did so with a very small amount of money but a very powerful and creative idea. Well played, Troy Library folks. Well played indeed. | http://kerfuffle.typepad.com/kerfuffle/2012/09/when-is-a-book-burning-party-not-a-book-burning-party.html | 2013-05-18T11:02:22 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Are You Ready To Buy a Bathing Suit?
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So . . . is anyone actually planning to TRY to get into better shape before the summer?
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Originally 12:34 pm.
Originally published on Fri March 8, 2013 10:59 am.. 1:50 pm. | http://kgou.org/?page=84&news-management=&action=view_news&news_id=2256&a=1 | 2013-05-18T10:53:24 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Optimize 2.0 Review
Reviewed
by: Jack Reikel, November 2008
Published
by: PC Pitstop
Requires: An Internet connection, Microsoft Windows XP or Vista, 10MB of available hard disk space
MSRP: US$29.99 (1 year subscription)
PC Pitstop Optimize 2.0 is designed to remove useless data files and cached web browser files to free up disk space, adjust Internet settings in the Windows registry file for better performance, remove invalid registry keys, and adjust several other registry settings which affect overall system and Internet connection performance. We reviewed Optimize 2.0 on a variety of Windows XP Home, XP Professional, Vista Basic, Vista Business and Vista Ultimate systems over a period of several months in order to determine short term system and connection optimization effectiveness, and to determine if Optimize (over the longer term) was using any tricks that might cause system instabilities over time.
Have you looked at the software shelves at your local computer store (or for that matter places like Best Buy)? Not much there. With the exception of specialized, high-end digital imaging software, operating systems and Microsoft Office, the traditional retail software business is terrible and has been that way for quite a while. It's not getting any better. So software vendors, including PC Pitstop, have begun to compete online. The transition began in 2001 and hasn't abated. One of the ways to sustain a connection with the customer whom you finally convince to purchase your product is to design your software to operate through a web browser that connects to you.
The catch . . . is that your PC has to be burdened with a significant amount of junk files, cached files and dead registry settings in order for Optimize 2.0 to effect a noticeable improvement in system and Internet connection performance. The reality for Optimize 2.0 is that there are likely currently tens of millions of PCs which are heavily burdened with semi-corrupt registries, enormous browser caches, thousands of browser cookies, hundreds of zero-byte and useless temporary files and who-knows-what-else dragging their Pentium 4, DualCore, Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad systems to a crawl. I have frequently sat down to diagnose and solve problems on friends' PCs only to find that the biggest problem of all is the high load that Windows is trying to sort out. Insane, multi-gigabyte browser cache size settings frequently force a browser to sort through an enormous number of items merely to execute simple tasks. Programs installed then uninstalled often leave behind registry settings which don't point to anything but still burden the operating system with dead-ends that suck up processing cycles. A poorly written program installer or uninstaller can load a registry with junk quite easily. It's one of the ongoing problems with Windows that the longer you use it without performing regular system maintenance (Registry maintenance in particular), the slower it gets. The situation is largely attributable to the fact that Windows does not automatically or fully track program installations and therefore has no way of telling if a poorly written uninstaller has made a mess and consequently also has no way of cleaning up. Optimize 2.0 is designed to root around and remove all sorts of burdensome junk.
Optimize 2.0 analyzes four main areas. The Windows Recycle Bin is emptied, which reduces the number of files the operating system has to track and maintain. The Internet Explorer web browser creates lots of cached temporary files that are not needed after you finished surfing, so Optimize 2.0 roots out all of that junk and deletes it including backup caches not normally deleted when you do a clean up using the tools provided in Internet Explorer itself. Windows and installed programs create various Temporary Files that are not needed after the program is closed or Windows is shut down, and which are unfortunately left to clutter your hard drive because either the operating system or an installed program doesn't properly clean up after itself. Optimize 2.0 locates and removes all such files. The Windows Registry is a large database of information about every single hardware and software component in your system. Optimize 2.0 scans the registry looking for entries which are no longer associated with anything (because of unistallations, hardware changes and so on). As well, Optimize compares your current Internet connection data control settings in the registry in order to to determine if any changes are appropriate.
After each and every system scan, Optimize displays list of files and settings which you can then select for deletion or optimization or, if you prefer, just ignore. This important step in the clean up and optimization process is really what sets Optimize apart from some of its heavy-duty, professional system maintenance brethren. While there may be a number of more powerful system clean up utilities on the market, they are also much more expensive and require much more technical knowledge to effectively use. Optimize doesn't get as deeply into your registry as some other, dedicated registry utilities, but it also doesn't present you with any difficult decisions about what to eliminate, change or keep.
After scanning your system, Optimize gives you the option to review the files that it found and to select which files should be deleted or simply accept the recommendations. We found a few products, including Microsoft Visio 2000 & 2003 and Microsoft Project 2000 & 2003 (widely distributed versions in use right now), which store their serial numbers in non-standard locations within the registry. Optimize deleted what it thought were dead registry entries, but the result was a few programs that wouldn't run in anything but demo mode unless we re-entered the serial numbers (after which all was fine).
The Optimize 2.0 hard disk cleanup routine permanently removes files and can't be undone without the use of a specialized file undelete utility. On the other hand, just about every other clean up and optimization action can be undone. Note that Optimize performs a backup of the Windows Registry before making any changes, which means that if something gets messed up, you can restore the previous registry.
Cons: The software won't tell you to do so, but make sure you reboot after the each of the first few optimization runs. Fail to do so and you'll wonder why your system is running slowly. Rebooting allows Windows to re-address the Registry and function with the new values set by Optimize. Normally maintained office network PCs with typically limited browser cache sizes and other usage restrictions won't benefit at all from Optimize 2.0. The utility choked badly on a Windows XP Pro Dell Vostro 1410 laptop (a May 2008 build), ending up actually slowing the thing down about 15%. We're still trying to figure out what went wrong, but evidence seems to point to some sort of incompatibility with System Suite 2008 which was running during the Optimize 2.0 installation. Based on two instances of faulty installations which occured on the Vostro and on a Core 2 Quad Windows Vista Ultimate machine running Symantec Internet Security Suite 2008, we strongly advise everyone to shut down all antivirus, antispam and firewall software when installing Optimize 2.0 (just don't forget to turn it all on again). The utility permanently deletes the contents of your Recycle Bin, so make sure you review its contents ahead of time and pull out anything you still need. Microsoft Internet Explorer users are well-served, but Optimize 2.0 seems to ignore Firefox and Opera. As with any sort of browser maintenance, make sure you have a secure record of any web site user names and passwords that were being automatically input by Internet Explorer, because when Optimize 2.0 gets through with them they'll be deleted along with the site cookies in which they were temporarily contained. Optimize 2.0 seems to be designed primarily to use Internet Explorer as its access browser and we found a number of instabilities in systems which defaulted to any release of Firefox 2 or 3 or Opera 8 or 9.
Pros: It works quite well on an enormous variety of Windows XP and Vista computers. Optimize 2.0 will definitely clean up and speed up typically polluted home and small office/SOHO desktop and laptop PCs. As a matter of fact, we were hard pressed to find a such a system which didn't benefit significantly from an Optimize run. That's a testament to either smart thinking at PC Pitstop or the pathetic state of PC maintenance in general. Call it a combination of the two as far as we're concerned. The Optimize 2.0 user interface is easy to use and is obviously designed to communicate with non-technical (or at least less technical) users. The interface provides lots of text guidance and explanations as you use the software. Because a lot of the Optimize functionality depends on PC Pitstop's remote product servers, the program installation is small and quick. If you're sloppy or inconsistent about PC maintenance or simply procrastinate endlessly about doing PC maintenance, Optimize 2.0 is an effective utility which eases the pain of regular PC housekeeping. Recommended. | http://kickstartnews.com/reviews/utilities/optimize_2_review.html | 2013-05-18T10:52:33 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Here are the Christmas ornaments I made for my friend, Heather, for a Christmas Ornament Swap I participated in via my group "Crafty Friends." I didn't really do anything too Christmasy, but I think this suits Heather's style. She really loves woodland themed things. Heather is a super talented gal who crochets like no other! You can see her work at her Etsy shop, Snoodle Studio. I'll definitely be posting pics of the goodies I receive from Heather! I'm sure they'll be super awesome and I can't wait to get them!
6 comments:
kiddo~those are awesome! I wish i could swap more!
These are some of the most adorable ornaments ever!! I would love to have some shrooms on my Christmas tree. ;-)
wow! these are really sweet! They would look fab on any tree!!
I'm having a giveaway at,
if you'd like to enter!
Love Missy
xxx
Those are to cute! Very creative.
so cute! I need to make some ornaments soon! Nothing in the way of crafting in a long time has made me start chomping at the bit to get my hands on glue!
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Kidz Cabaret at bergenPAC in EnglewoodPosted: May 6th, 2012 | Author: James | Filed under: Preschool Activities | No Comments »
Kidz Cabaret at bergenPAC in Englewood – Sonic Boom The Remix! Sonic Boom The Remix! will be performing at bergenPAC in Englewood, New Jersey on Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 1:00 and 3:00 pm.
Sonic Boom takes young people on an exciting journey through the world of music and technology. Instruments such as the keyboard, guitar, bass, drum machine, didgeridoo, Indian Flute and turntables, will be mixed with professional computer hardware and software to show the audience how computers have revolutionized the way we experience and create music.
To purchase tickets or for more information, call 201-227-1030. | http://kidsactivitiestoday.com/kidz-cabaret-at-bergenpac-in-englewood/ | 2013-05-18T10:30:58 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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National Geographic Kids Awesome Animals
Awesome Animals is a fun book. It has lots and lots of posters and fun games to do.
When I was doing the games, some were hard, so every once in a while I’d have to look in the back of the book to find some of the answers. And I love how it has all of the animals pretty much. There’s these little animals mad libs which I really like too.
Other kinds of games are finding games…like finding different kinds of things that are hidden in a picture. There’s also the game where you have to find the differences in two pictures, which are ALMOST the same.
My favorite part of the book is the animals on the posters. The posters all fold out from the book and each has different information about each of the animals. There are 10 posters in all, including dolphins, pandas, jaguars, elephants, koala bears, sea turtles, frogs, lions and penguins. I just really love them.
I would recommend this book to maybe 5-10 years old. I loved and I just think you would too. Adios!
The Big Book of Fun
BOOK NAME: The Big Book of Fun
AUTHOR: National Geographic
This is a good book because you can take it anywhere if you don’t have anything to do like on an airplane, or if you’re going to the beach during summer vacation.
There are lots of games and activities that you have to figure out. My favorites are mazes. The games have different themes like oceans and jungles. Another one of the games takes animals heads and swirls them around and you have to guess what it is. There’s another activity where there are pictures of animals in different places, but they’re in the wrong place, so you have to find where they belong.
There are also look and find pages, and Funny Fill Ins, which are just like Mad Libs. I like those because they’re funny.
This book is good for maybe ages 4-8; Kindergarten through 2nd grade. I needed my dad to help me read some of the harder instructions. It’s a lot of fun.
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Leapfrog Tag Reader Storybook - Cars 2: Project Undercover
Race around the globe with Mater and Lightning McQueen and learn about world cultures along the way!
Recommended Ages - 4 to 7 years old
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ISSUE 51 • 15 MAY 2008
1. Editorial
2.
Introduction (by Gwyn)
3. Didgeridoo
4. Body painting
5. Stick echidna
6. Dot art painting
7. Featured subscriber blog
1. Editorial
I'm very excited to announce that this issue of Kids Craft Weekly is brought to you by Gwyn whose blog
My Kid's Art
I have long been a fan of. It is the first in a series of newsletters inspired by the arts and crafts of different cultural groups. Gwyn has put together a great selection of crafts that are especially suited to little crafters aged four and under.
Before I hand the glue and paint over to Gwyn I'd like to quickly remind you that there are still two days left to win the book of your choice from
my favourites list
. All you have to do is. Introduction (by Gwyn)
I have always thought that learning about the art and craft of other peoples is a wonderful way to encourage cross cultural understanding in children.
As Australians it is obviously important for my children to understand the culture of Indigenous Australians, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. To this end we had an Indigenous Australian themed week recently – we themed our books, music, art and craft, and food.
I understand that there is a lot of international interest in
Indigenous Australian art
– particularly dot art painting – so here are some ideas for sharing with your children.
3. Didgeridoo
The
didgeridoo
is a wooden wind instrument played by Indigenous Australians during ceremonies called Corroborees. Didgeridoos are over a metre long and meant to be made from a tree branch hollowed out by termites. If you can’t find one of those, you can still make a great didgeridoo for kids using a cardboard roll!
You will need
• cardboard roll
• coloured electrical or other sticky tape
• circular dot stickers
Directions
1. Decorate your cardboard roll with your choice of electrical tape and sticker dots.
2. Once decorated, try playing your didgeridoo by blowing into it with loose, vibrating lips and occasionally making animal sounds whilst doing so!
4. Body painting
Indigenous Australians hold Corroborees to communicate spiritual stories, traditions and tribal law. When preparing for a Corroboree, participants paint their bodies with ochres to assist with the storytelling. Corroborees involve a lot of music, singing and dancing – you can have a lot of fun if you hold your own!
You will need
• face or other non toxic body paint
Directions
1. Decorate your body with handprints and stripes in earth coloured paints if you can find them (we couldn’t).
2. Corroboree stories are often about Australian animals (insert link) so once you are decorated you could try dancing like one.
5. Stick echidna
The
echidna
is a unique animal from our part of the world – it is a monotreme which is a mammal that lays eggs. Echidna’s are covered in hundreds of spiky spines, have a beak, a sticky tongue for catching ants, their babies are called puggles, and they feature in the art and stories of Indigenous Australians.
This project was inspired by a reading of
Kootear the Echidna
.
You will need
• brownish playdoh (mix a few colours together like the kids do or add a touch of black food colouring to orange playdoh) or clay
• long thin rock
• lots of sticks about pencil length (or paddlepop sticks)
Directions
1. Roll the playdoh/clay into a large ball and squidge it down onto the rock nose.
2. Stick lots of sticks into it to cover the body in spikes.
6. Dot art painting
Indigenous Australian artists are most famous for
dot art painting
. Traditionally these paintings were earthy in colour, used an aerial perspective as if looking down onto something, and were laden with symbols made from different combinations of lines, dots and circles. Before you start you might want to
find out about the meanings of some original symbols
, otherwise make up your own symbols for your family, animals, and places you go.
If you're inspired by the dot painting, check out
My First Dreamtime Colouring Book
– great for young kids.
You will need
• canvas, cardboard or paper to paint on
• ochre/earthy coloured paints
• kitchen sponges
• elastic bands
• toilet roll
• something to paint dots with – a small circular art sponge, an ear bud, the blunt end of a pencil etc
Directions
1. Create some horseshoe and spiral sponges by rolling the sponges up and securing them with elastic bands, or wrapping them around a toilet roll and securing them the same way.
2. Let your children paint first with a couple of darker colours and the larger sponge symbols.
3. Then either let the painting dry and come back later, or provide your children with some lighter earthy coloured paints and some different size implements to paint dots with.
Ed's note:
We also tried some dot painting to celebrate
National Sorry Day
. We had a lot of success painting with cotton buds.
The kids really enjoyed it and it was a great way to talk to them about Indigineous Australians, white settlement and the importance of saying sorry.
If you enjoyed this issue of Kids Craft Weekly make sure you go and check out Gwyn's wonderful blog –
My Kid's Art
.
7. Featured subscriber blog
Arts Rocket
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Managing kids can be a challenge. Some days keeping the peace while keeping your cool seems impossible. But whether you're reacting to an occasional temper flare-up or a pattern of outbursts, managing your own anger when things get heated will make it easier to teach kids to do the same.
To help tame a temper, try to be your child's ally — you're both rooting for your child to triumph over the temper that keeps — appropriate ways to handle anger and frustration.
Let's say you hear your kids fighting over a toy in the other room. You have ignored it, hoping that they would work it out themselves. But the arguing turns into screaming and soon you hear doors slamming, the thump of hitting, and crying. You decide to get involved before someone gets really hurt.
By the time you arrive at the scene of the fight, you may be at the end of your own rope. After all, the sound of screaming is upsetting, and you may be frustrated that your kids aren't sharing or trying to get along. (And you know that this toy they're fighting over is going to be lost, broken, or ignored before long anyway!)
So what's the best way for you to react? With your own self-control intact. Teaching by example is your most powerful tool. Speak calmly, clearly, and firmly — not with anger, blame, harsh criticisms, threats, or putdowns.
Of course, that's easier said than done. But remember that you're trying to teach your will need to learn and practice them, with your help.
If it's uncharacteristic for your child to have a tantrum, on the rare occasion that it happens all you may need to do is clearly but calmly review the rules. "I know you're upset, but no yelling and no name-calling, please" may be all your child needs to gain composure. Follow up by clearly, calmly, and patiently giving an instruction like "tell me what you're upset about" or "please apologize to your brother for calling him that name." In this way, you're guiding your child back to acceptable behavior and encouraging self-control. midst of an outburst, find out what's wrong. If necessary, use a time-out to get your child to settle down or calmly issue a reminder about house rules and expectations — "There's no yelling or throwing stuff; please stop that right now and cool your jets." Remind your child to talk to you without whining, sulking, or yelling. Once your child calms down, ask what got him or her so upset. You might say, "Use your words to tell me what's wrong and what you're mad about." This helps your child put emotions into words and figure out what, if anything, needs to be done to solve the problem. However, don't push too hard for your child to talk right then. He or she may need some time to reflect before being ready to talk.
Listen and respond. Once your child puts the feelings into words, it's up to you to listen and say that you understand. If your child is struggling for words, offer some help: "so that made you angry," "you must have felt frustrated," or "that must have hurt your feelings." Offer to help find an answer if there's a problem to be solved, a conflict to be mended, or without using threats, accusations, or putdowns. Your child will get the message if you make clear, simple statements about what's off limits and explain what you want him or her to do. You might say: "There's no yelling in this house. Use your words to tell me what's upsetting you.", but you can suggest some good ways for a child to vent. Doing a bunch of jumping jacks, dancing around the bedroom, or going outside and doing cartwheels are all good choices. Or your child can choose to write about or draw a picture of what is so upsetting.
Learn to shift. This one is tough for kids — and adults, too. Explain that part of calming down is moving from a really angry mood to a more in-control mood. Instead of thinking of the person or situation that caused the anger, a lot of physical activity. Active play can really help kids who have big tempers. Encourage outside play and sports your child likes. Karate, wrestling, and running can be especially good for kids who are trying to get their tempers under control. But any activity that gets the heart pumping can help burn off energy and stress.
Encourage kids to take control. Compare a temper to a puppy that hasn't yet learned to behave and that's running around all over the place getting into things. Puppies might not mean to be bad — but they need to be trained so that they can learn that there's no eating shoes, no jumping on people or certain furniture, etc. The point is that your child's temper — like a puppy — needs to be trained to learn when it's OK to play, how to use all that extra energy, and how to follow rules.
Recognize successes. Many times these go unnoticed so be sure to comment on how well your child handled a difficult situation when you see positive behaviors.
Try to be flexible. Parenting can be a tiring experience, but try not to be too rigid. Hearing a constant chorus of "no" can be disheartening for kids. Sometimes, of course, "no" is absolutely the only answer — "no, you can't ride your bike without your helmet!" But other times, you might let the kids win one. For instance, if your child wants to keep the wiffle ball game going a little longer, maybe give it 15 more minutes. how to do it.
Most kids can learn to get better at handling anger and frustration. But if your child frequently gets into fights and arguments with friends, siblings, and adults, additional help might be needed. Talk with the other adults in your child's life — teachers, school counselors, and coaches might be able to help, and your child's doctor can recommend a counselor or psychologist.
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SMP : Negeri 1 Palembang
Subject : English
Class/smst : VII/1
Competence standard : 2 and 4
To understand the meaning of oral short simple functional text to interact in the environment
To express the meaning of simple oral short simple functional text for doing interaction with nearest environment.
Basic competence : 2.1, 2.2, 4.1 and 4.2
To respond the meaning of oral short simple transactional and interpersonal text accurately, fluently, and available for doing interaction with the nearest environment.
To respond the meaning of idea which is in oral text, simple short functional accurately, fluently, and available for doing interaction with the nearest environment.
Give expression the meaning of oral short simple transactional and interpersonal text accurately, fluently, and available for doing interaction with the nearest environment.
To respond the meaning of idea which is in oral text, simple short functional accurately, fluently, and available for doing interaction with the nearest environment.
Indicators : 1. To respond the meaning of the text in the form of verbal shopping list of functional objects.
2. Expressing the list of items needed
Type of text : Functional
Aspect : listening/speaking
Time allocation : 3x40 minutes (1 session)
1. Learning objectives:
a. Students are able to mention the list of shopping list.
b. Students are able to use shopping dialogue in their daily life.
2. Learning Material
Shopping List
What will you say if you need sport equipment in the sport store?
If you want to make a birthday party, what will you buy?
You will need a shopping list like: chips, cookies, candy, cake, balloon, ribbon, etc
3. Learning methods/technique: Game, Demonstration, Role Play, and Discussion.
4. Steps of activities
Opening activities
To ask and answer various things related to the students condition
e.g.: are you all?
Who is missing today?
What’s wrong with…?
At the last meeting we have studied…
Review the last meeting and check the homework
a. Main activities
1. Teacher asks the student about shopping.
2. Teacher gives games to motivate students to learn about shopping
3. Students discuss what is shopping list based on the power point
4. Student Listen and watch the dialogue about shopping
5. Students act the dialogue in front of the class
6. Teacher gives a question about shopping list
7. Students do the task based on the flash card that they choose
8. Students perform the role play about shopping.
b. Closing activities.
1. Ask the students’ difficulties during the teaching and learning process.
2. Ask the students to draw the conclusion of the material they have just studied.
3. Ask the students to make short text about shopping list as homework.
5. Learning Resources
a. Let’s talk (text book) for VII grade by: Pakaraya Pustaka, Jakarta.
b. Power point.
c. Youtube
6. Assessment
a. Responding the instruction command orally and action.
b. Form: oral and written test.
c. Instrument: make a dialogue and answer the question
Shopping List
A. List the things you want to buy for lunch tomorrow at school. Tell your friends about it!
B. Suppose next week is your birthday. Your Parents arrange a small party for you. Help your mother write shopping list of the things you need!
C. You are in the Music store and you want to buy some CD from your favorite singer. Make a dialogue between you and shop-assistant!
Assessment Guide
Reading
Section A: correct answer gets 10 score.
Responding to the text
Speaking
. The maximum score:
Fluency = 20
Pronunciation = 20
Acuracy = 20
Content = 20
Expression = 20
= 100
Palembang, November 2010
Approved by
Guidance Teacher Teacher
Maya Erniwati Manalu Nur Annisa Mei Rizki
NIP NIM 06071001004
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As Kyoto Protocol Ends, An Uncertain Climate Future.
Even under the best of circumstances, the Kyoto protocol would have made a barely measurable dent in the amount of greenhouse gases flowing into the Earth's atmosphere.
First, the United States decided not to ratify the treaty, so our emissions aren't covered by the pact. Then China leapfrogged the U.S. to become the world's biggest emitter of carbon dioxide. But China is treated like a developing country under the Kyoto treaty, which means it has no obligations. Even so, Europe and a few other nations have been soldiering on.
But Jennifer Morgan, director of the Climate and Energy Program at the World Resources Institute says the treaty's day of reckoning now looms.
"The Kyoto Protocol's first commitment period, its first set of targets, ends next year. So the big question is, 'What happens next?'" she says. "Do the Kyoto countries, like Europe, move forward and put their new targets into a legally-binding treaty?"
The prospects are slim: Canada, Japan and Russia say they are not interested in pledging new reductions under the treaty. The United States and China prefer an alternate approach, which came out of the climate talks two years ago in Copenhagen. They have pledged to take action individually, but not under a binding treaty. However, those commitments aren't enough to prevent a 2-degree increase in global temperature, the internationally agreed upon goal.
"We have very little space left in our atmosphere to be continuing to pollute before we cross certain thresholds where impacts will be inevitable," she says. "So no matter what you're looking at, the current commitments are really quite inadequate."
The Future Of The Kyoto Protocol
The European Union has been the Kyoto Protocol's biggest champion, but it has ambivalent feelings about it now. Michael Grubb, a professor of climate change and energy policy at the University of Cambridge, says on the plus side, Europe likes the treaty because it has spelled out international rules, such as standards for counting carbon emissions. Europe uses those rules to limit its own emissions.
"Europe does not want to kind of jump into a void where there aren't any really agreed rules that bind on anything," Grubb says. "It's very reluctant to kill off the only actual legal framework that we've got."
On the downside, Europe is disappointed that the rest of the world did not follow its example. And Grubb says the economic crisis there has diminished the continent's appetite for more aggressive action.
"So there's a feeling that Europe is in a bit of a holding position on climate change, I'd say."
The real fight over the Kyoto treaty comes from nations in the developing world. They see the pact as a critical symbol of commitment by the rich nations to clean up a problem they largely created. South Africa's foreign minister, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, is presiding over the climate talks in Durban. And she says it's vital to these talks to either rekindle the Kyoto treaty, or to make progress on a successor.
"If this question is not resolved, the outcome on other matters in the negotiations will become difficult. A solution must be found," Nkoana-Mashabane says.
Her choice of words is quite diplomatic here: In fact, some nations have been threatening to pull the plug on the whole process if the Kyoto treaty is not reinvigorated. And they can do that, since the United Nations operates by consensus.
Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, says that move would affect everything that's on the table at Durban, which is much more than commitments to limit emissions.
"If you think about it, it's actually counterproductive for developing countries to not move forward on adaptation, on reducing deforestation, on climate finance, because those are all things in their own self-interest. But the level of emotion and anger could be so big that they wouldn't think in those kind of terms and they would sort of block everything."
Technical structures set up by the Kyoto Protocol would live on even if nations didn't adopt new commitments under the treaty. But by now, the pact governs less than 20 percent of global emissions. So even if nations keep the treaty on life support in Durban, it has already lost its practical role as the foundation for a more ambitious climate agreement.
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Norway's Mass Murderer Declared Insane, May Not Go To Prison
Anders Behring Breivik had been delusional for a long time and was insane on July 22 when he killed 77 people during two horrific attacks in Norway, two psychiatrists reported today. He should be put in a psychiatric ward, not a prison, they conclude.
In a 243-page report for the court handling the case against Breivik, the psychiatrists describe a "paranoid schizophrenic" governed by delusions, Norway's TV-2 reports.
The news channel adds that the psychiatrists say the 32-year-old Breivik told them: "He committed the murders — or executions, as he calls them — for the love of his people. He characterizes himself as the most perfect knight after World War II, and that his organization — 'Knights Templar' — will take over power in Europe, and he suggests itself also as a future ruler of Norway."
The psychiatrists' report is to be reviewed by another panel of experts and is not binding on the court — though it will carry great weight. Norway's national broadcaster NRK says that if Breivik is put in a psychiatric facility instead of a prison, "it is in no way a lesser form of atonement." Security at such facilities "will be so good that it is not possible to escape," prison and forensic psychiatry specialist Kjersti Narud tells NRK.
The July attacks began with a bomb explosion in Oslo and were followed by a shooting rampage at a camp for young people on an island outside the city.
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Barack Obama & the Family Budget: A Complete Disconnect
Last week our President held a press conference regarding the ongoing negotiations to raise the debt ceiling. The presser highlighted a few things about President Obama that really concern me. The first thing I realized was how truly inarticulate he is when off the teleprompter. Perhaps my political leanings have biased me when it comes to Obama, but I never really thought he was that great of a speaker to begin with. He never really exuded passion or sincerity to me. During his historic campaign, I felt people were so enamored with the color of his skin that they ascribed to him all manner of other imaginary skills in order to make him more palatable as the “historical candidate”. I never really got it. I remember the first time I ever saw footage of Malcolm X speaking. Not to get all Chris Matthews-y, but it gave me tingles. Although I fundamentally disagreed with his religious values and angry approach to Black empowerment, it suddenly became clear to me how so many people so willingly and gladly followed him. His delivery was passionate, articulate, sincere and persuasive. I find Barack Obama to be nothing of the sort. He is a speech reader. Off of the teleprompter he is monotone, flat and halting. I find it excruciating to watch him hem and haw his way through a press conference. The second thing that struck me was how truly out of touch this President is with the lives of average American citizens. As he used various analogies of how family households manage their budgets to explain the current budget issues of government, I suddenly realized that this man has no idea what it is like to live in middle America today. None. One particular statement floored me: “ We have to do it the same way a family would do it. A family, if they get over-extended…they don’t just stop paying their bills…they say, how do we start cutting our monthly costs? We keep on making payments, but we start cutting out the things that aren’t necessary…. we don’t stop sending our kids to college; we don’t stop fixing the boiler or the roof that’s leaking.” When was the last time this President had to worry about sending his kids to college or fixing up the house? It couldn’t have been any time recently, because if it was he would know that is exactly what happens when you become financially overextended. You most certainly do stop sending your kids to college and fixing things around the house. And that is the problem. We are suffering, Mr. President! We are making tough choices we don’t want to have to make and we expect you in government to do the same. When my husband and I began our family, we worked at setting aside money for our educating our children. However, those funds have been raided just to keep us afloat. Forget about saving for college. We are more worried about feeding and clothing them now. Hopefully, when their college days arrive, they will be able to work and support their own tuition costs. Our provision of a college education for our children is a dream we’ve let go for now. We’ve had to. We need gas in the car and food in the fridge. We have stopped fixing the things in our home that need to be fixed. I’ve needed a plumber for months to stop some leaks that we can’t fix ourselves. The leaks are enough to drive our water bill up slightly and I hear the dollars signs racking up with every drip. And yet, I can’t afford a one-time lump payment to a professional to fix the problem, so we let it be and choose to give that money to the water company month to month. We need a new major household appliance and the window screens my three-year old pushed out months ago still need to be replaced. But none of that will happen because we are completely tapped dry. That’s what happens when you are overextended. You start cutting out even the necessities. That is why this recession is hurting so badly. It’s not that people are being forced to give up their toys, it’s that they are being forced to give up their most basic comforts, and their dreams. Our President has been in government so long that he believes during hard times like these, families simply tighten the belt and restructure. However, we families do a lot more than just tighten that belt. There is no “magical” new revenue stream we can tap into to increase our bank accounts and help pay down our debts. We are not the government. There is no one to take money from. We make our own money, and that supply is limited. When the debt accumulates but our salaries stay the same, we start looking at cutting the necessities as well as the perks. The President was right in the respect that we need to start asking the government to handle its budget problems the same way an average family would handle theirs. However he is completely clueless about how real families handle their budget and income problems. And that scares me. And hurts me. If our own President is so removed from the suffering as to make such an idiot statement, it does not bode well the future fiscal situation of this country. When your own President shows zero knowledge of the day-to-day living situation of average citizens, what hope is there of an outcome that will benefit and help those same people? There is no way to solve this crisis without pain. We are far, far beyond any type of slow and steady solutions. Cuts will have to be made, cuts that hurt people and their loved ones. There is no way around that. My family has had to go without some pretty important things that mean a lot to us. Its time for our government to do the same.
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How much do you need to fix your plumbing problem? I’ll send the check.
Uh, are you being serious Steven?
Here is the deal, under President Obama’s administration, he has raised spending a staggering 20% almost entirely on entitlements and now some how states that it would be cruel and heartless to cut the budget 20% That is the kind of disconnect that drives us hard working folks up the wall. Keep telling it like it is Kira
I listened to the press conference and felt the same! Thank you for so eloquently describing exactly what many of us are experiencing in our homes and how vastly it differs from what the President believes it to be. I am sharing your article on facebook. Thank you!
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David Mcalmont-soulful ‘GLARE’
Monday, March 22nd, 2010
When the opportunity arose for Kirk Originals to catch up with David Mcalmont we jumped at the chance. We wanted to get to know the man behind the voice.
“…that voice- sweet, but never sickly, and purer than Himalayan melt-water. Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield and Philip Bailey spring to mind: David Mcalmont is really that good.”
(The Daily Telegraph).
David talks to us about style, soul and what it means to be slightly different.
Lets start at the beginning. When did you discover you could sing?
DM: I would say that it was at church in the West Indies. I sang a song called El Shaddai, originally recorded by Amy Grant and I became known for my version of that song.
After discovering your love and talent for music were there any artists that inspired you to write and perform?
DM: I lived in Guyana from most of the 80s and there was lot of great American Soul music doing the rounds. I loved the atmosphere of Earth Wind & Fire, the playfulness of Michael Jackson and the Spirituality of Stevie Wonder.
Your early involvement with music was with a band called the Thieves. The Thieves fused elements of soul and funk with post-punk and textural arrangements. Would you say that was an accurate description?
DM: I call that music my artistically adventurous phase. That music was compared to The Associates and the Cocteaus and I was encouraged by Saul Freeman to be melodically eccentric.
After going solo and a stint supporting Morrissey you were approached by ex-Suede guitarist Bernard Butler. The sound of Mcalmont and Butler was born! This must have been very exciting and a pinnacle point in your career?
DM:I was delighted. I love what Bernard did as a guitarist and his ability as a songwriter and producer was a welcome surprise. Great collaborator.
You have worked with some great artists over the last decade such as Gabrielle, Sharleen Spiteri and Duffy. How was that?
DM: I enjoyed being trusted by Bernard and the Boilerhouse Boys to create unique backing vocal textures for these artists.
Most recently you have collaborated with classical composer Michael Nyman to produce the album “The Glare’. The album received critical acclaim from the press. Can you tell us more about this?
DM: A very, very happy point in my creative career; I love Michael’s music. I think it’s really rock and roll and I can’t keep still when I’m at his gigs. I’m thrilled that we discovered a common ground and developed a spirited collaboration.
You have a very unique style do you feel that your music influences your style?
DM: I allow myself to impersonate other singers, especially female, but I don’t sound like them but their phrasing influences my singing and keeps me unique. I think that Luther Vandross took a similar approach by emulating Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick and Diana Ross.
Eyewear it seems, has been an important part of your look. Would you agree? Was it the passion Kirk Originals has that you liked when you discovered Kirk Originals?
DM: I have always loved glasses and always wanted to wear them but it has been difficult to find eyewear that rises to the occasion of my sartorial flamboyance. Kirk Originals walk it.
We have to ask you! If you were shipwrecked on a dessert Island what 3 items would you take?
DM: A crate of sparkling water, a supply of lip-balm and Kirk Originals with transitions lenses.
So what does the future hold for David Mcalmont?
DM: More music adventure and “Kirkies” as I now call them.
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Friday, September 16, 2011
Fr always wonder if it boils down to girls-kissing-girls-we-don't-like-it-go-away, though it does say "I hate being a secret sex fiend" on the back of the book, so that may have freaked them out. BUT, if THEY'D READ THE BOOK, they'd get it. Or maybe it's not the content. Maybe they forgot.
I've been pondering prejudice and discrimination for another project (applying those critical thinking skeelz), and there is really no logical reason for prejudice to exist. Humans are just afraid of silly stuff.
Maybe the librarian is afraid people will start shouting things on the library patio, like Morgan shouts, or girls will hold a kiss-in. Those moves could be a big mistake--the library is across the parking lot from the police station, and someone could come out and give you a ticket. Though I do like the idea of getting a ticket related to a book. That's badass.:
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It is after midnight and I lay her in yet another new bed in another new place. Strangers-turned-friends have opened their home up to us, the wanderers, during this quick trip throughout the United States.It is after midnight and I lay her in yet another new bed in another new place. Strangers-turned-friends have opened their home up to us, the wanderers, during this quick trip throughout the United States.
As I lay her head on what seems the twentieth different pillow in three weeks it occurs to me that once again she will wake up in a place that is not where she fell asleep. And as soon as I realize this I realize something else: she will wake up happy as long as I do not get out of bed first. I know this to be true after over 2 years of mothering this precious soul. If she can wake up and see my face their next to hers on the pillow, she will not mind the new place.
I am overwhelmed at that kind of trust.
I want that kind of trust.
The last three weeks have been a whirlwind that my publishing team calls “promoting the book.” For me it has been a sanctifying and stretching time of testifying over and over and over again His faithfulness in our lives. A time of noticing the little surprises that He puts in front of me every single day.
I am the Israelites, forgetting so quickly. Just so not wanting to be in this foreign place away from my children, not wanting to be looked at or praised or criticized, I am tempted to grumble, even to worry, even to forget. But I can’t because in front of thousands, it is my turn to testify. And in testifying, I remember. I remember the miracles and I remember all the long way that He has carried us. And as I remember, He continues to surprise and carry still. I share our story. And each time, with each word, I know it a little deeper: God IS who He says He is.
Trustworthy.
And slowly but surely I am learning to trust my Father in the way that my three year old trusts me. Learning to just allow Him to carry me, take me where He wants me and know that I will still wake up in His arms, and in His arms it is safe. Even when I wake up in unfamiliar territory.
In an effort to really sink in deep into His safe and loving arms, I am unplugging. The last three weeks have been a time of being “on”, sharing our story with many and praying and believing that they will be encouraged and God will receive all the glory. And so now it is time to be quiet. Time to listen instead of speaking. Time to trust fully in Him instead of worrying about silly comments on silly articles. Time to turn “off” – both my mind and my computer.
I will be back in Uganda with my girls on Wednesday and we will spend this month enjoying each other, enjoying our Father, and trusting Him to do whatever He wishes with this book and this testimony. He has done big things and we have wonderful stories and I cannot wait to share them with you in November.
He is behind and before. We trust Him. To Him be the glory.
119 comments:
Enjoy your reunion with your family! I just received your book in the mail today and am already captivated by your account of how the Lord has worked in and through your life in Uganda. Thank you for helping to open our eyes to the needs of souls all around us.
We were reading your book and praying for you when you posted this. Wish we could have met while you were in the States but know you are anxious to get back home to your girls. We are in the process of adopting two little girls but wow...you sure have us praying about adoption from Uganda down the road. We are reading your book to our kids during our family devotion time each evening after dinner. What a testimony you are. Blessings and grace to you and your girls!
The Pruiksma Family
Fayetteville, GA
Thank you...may God continue to bless, encourage, and love you so you can continue to share it with others..He is using you in ways you will never see or now while on earth..you have given me motivation when I get tired and exhausted from my travels..thank you for allowing Him to use you..praying for you always and hope to get back soon..my heart is still at the karamajong village. Through His love..xoxo
Thank you, Katie. It's so amazing how our God works. He has been teaching me to trust Him through this trial... and I'm having a hard time with that. To read your post was so encouraging!
Just so you know, you are making a huge impact... God used you to call a comfortable girl in the States to step out in faith and surrender her life. This girl received her calling to be a medical missionary through your story. This girl loves you though she's never met you and prays for you, your girls, and your ministry. I would love to meet you, just to say thank you, someday... Until then, we will both trust our Savior, who is so much bigger than our circumstances! Even if we don't understand where we are in this season, waking up in the arms of Jesus is enough.
this is beautiful...my mom sent me your book in the mail last week. All the way to Dartmouth where I go to college. I used to be great friends with Connor Broadbent so I have hung out with Brad a couple of times. You have to know that you are a total inspiration to me, and I pray for you and your children often.
Katie,
We miss you and can't wait to have you back in Uganda. You are missed at church and I know your precious girls have missed you lots. I hope you are able to bring back some copies of your book with you. I would love to purchase a copy:) See you soon. Praying for safe travels and for health.
Blessings,
Dana Bogan
Katie, thank you for coming...I watched your inspiring story online and have since read some of your blogs and been very encouraged in my faith..how can I say thank you? I appreciate all you say. thank you for sharing your Hope.
i appreciate knowing you are real and you love Jesus. Thank you.
Good Morning ~
I just recently came to know about your organization and I wish so much to have known about it last December when I took my daughter, age 11 and our foster daughter, age 17 to Uganda. We spent time in a village in Kyenjojo. At an orphanage on Bussi Island. In Kadama, and two orphanages in Kampala. We spent a couple hours in Jinja but didn't know anyone there.
I wanted them to be introduced to children their own age in another part of the world. I challenged them to continue to serve Christ by seeking ways to help others who have no resources to fall back on. The youngest wants to return as a doctor so she can help in orphanages and the oldest is planning on getting into nursing school soon and wants to do many more missions trips.
As I pray for our orphans there I will now be including you and your family. I understand how hard life is there and I admire you greatly! The Ugandans were a very loving people and we will never forget them. When we make it back again I will try to look you up. God Bless You!
As my little boy loves to say, "Group Hug!!!"
Katie, I've had your book on pre-order for months and last week it arrived on my doorstep here in the UK. I read it in a day or so (no mean feat for a mom of three small kids!) and I just wanted you to know it is changing my life, daily. I'm looking at my situation with completely new eyes and feeling called to offer all my resources to Him in a way I've never done before. Let's hope your wonderful obedience infects everyone who reads the book. May He continue to hold you all in the palm of His hand.
God bless you and your family, Katie. Thank you for loving Him like you do and testifying for Him like you do!
Katie, you are amazing because God is amazing! Thanks for knowing and sharing who God really is! You are a testimony of true faith to everyone who meets or hears your story. I read your book and am sharing it at work. I enjoyed meeting you at Catalyst and will pray for your journey back home.
Katie - you are wonderful...God is wonderful In and Thru you! So enjoyed hearing you at Lipscomb last week. May God be praised and glorified thru everyone that reads your book, and may lives be changed. On earth as it is in heaven. Love you and your godly, wonderful parents, Karen Barnes Snyder
Hello Katie,
I read your book in a day and as soon as I was finished, gave it to another new-Christian friend of mine. To God be ALL the glory, honor and praise. I am praying for you, your children, your family and friends and Amazima daily. I pray God's Blessings and Abundance and Safety upon your life. May you always remember, as you have stated in this blog, He is that was, that is, and is to come. I love you deeply, from one member of the body of Christ to another. Know that 23 yr. old Diane, from Connecticut will always be uplifting you in prayer. May God direct you and may you be in the center of His will in all things. This, I am learning too-to trust, obey and stand in awe of His might work.
In love and in Him,
Diane
I'm praying for you, Katie. The limelight can be such a difficult place to be. Asking God to give you strength as you climb out of your comfort zone to bring him glory.
Safe travels to you all, Katie. It was SO wonderful to get to see your sweet face and hear your sweet stories of our Father's love! (We were so blessed to be at Brook Hills Sun. night)
My kiddos especially were affected by your testimonies...how incredible for them to hear firsthand from "Katie in Uganda"....the one they pray for everyday! May His seed take root in many hearts and His Kingdom grow for His glory!!!!
We won't stop praying...
Katie, I pray that God will give you a time of rest and replenishing. I know that you have missed the girls and that they have missed you. Thank you for walking with God and sharing His love.... I have your book and am enjoying getting to know your family and your mission a little better!
Rest. Rest in Him, Katie. Enjoy your daughters.
We'll be here ready to hear you when you come back.
Hugs and Prayers
AmberK
So thankful He IS who He says He IS.
love, love, love your heart, Katie. There is a quiet respect for you growing. Don't be afraid to sit and be silent so you can listen - you know that silent has the same letters as listen!!
Thank you for allowing God you use you. We have recently moved to Mobile, AL to be youth pastors here I bought your book last week, and there are already two girls who have each purchased one... God is moving quickly and is definitely capturing the hearts of those who read your book. (One of those girls has a heart for adoption; I'm loving her spirit) Thank you again, and we're praying for safe travels as you return home to your girls. -Allyson
Amen.
to Him be the glory
Looking forward to the time you can share all that God is doing and has done during the past few weeks! But in the meantime, praying for rest and rejuvenation and a sweet sweet reunion with your girls!
Just found your blog through another blogger who heard you at Brookhills in AL. So glad to find and follow your blog and the journey you are on. I just ordered your book and am very anxious to read it. God bless you and your precious family!
To Him be the glory. Always.
Love your book, Katie. Love your heart. Thankful Jesus continues to mold it into His image, as He does mine.
So glad you will be with all your girls soon! Prayers for safe travels.
Thank You... being still hard... waiting is hard.... but I am learning to take comfort in knowing that God is the one I am waiting on, and what He gives is exactly what I need
-Frazier
I found your post today . . . visiting from sixinthesticks. . .here is fresh air. . .real life. . .unfettered. . .will be back. . .you are in my prayers, dear one.
You did a beautiful job sharing your testimony, your life, and the book. The public can be difficult...even amongst believers. You were faithful, exactly what God intended. The rest is up to Him...He will water and bring the increase. Rest in His peace.
I "found" you a few weeks ago and I have never had a human inspire me as you. My connection to Him has strengthened from reading your journey. I finally feel a purpose inside myself as well as my mothering role swelling to great depths. The last few days my soul has been quenching for personal guidance and I find your blog entry today so very necessary. I thank you for this. For reminding me that sometimes the road is scary, untouched, but ultimately we are able to trust in Him completely. Thank you dear. From a fellow mother.
beautiful, katie. Thank you for this. Praying for a safe flight and a happy reunion. xoxo
Amen, Katie! Soak deep into the Father's love and have a lovely reunion with your girls. Hang on to who Christ says you are and let all naysayer comments fall on deaf ears. You could not be more in the center of the Father's will.I shall be praying for truth to reign in your families minds. Blessings,Kim
Praying for what God has in store!
Sorry to have missed you in the US Katie, safe journey back! God bless you and your fellow workers, the reward is in Heaven, definitely not here :)
Katie, I know you are turning off and that I understand. I just want to let you know someone in Shelbyville, TN is praying for you, lifting up your hands when you are week, standing for you when you can't, and rejoicing with you when you rejoice. I'm a 37 year old mother of 2 and one on the way from Korea. But even at my age you have taught me to SEE with spiritual eyes daily and not to take one moment for granted. Thank you Katie!
Wishing you the best! Your testimony is an inspiration to all beleivers! It was a combination of your blog and the book by Francis Chan, Crazy Love, that got us started on the adoption journey:) Love your faith! Keep on doing what you're doing and don't listen to tne nay sayers. May God bless all your ministries.
J
Katie, I am continually encouraged by your life and your testimony. I will pray for a joyous return home for you and that God be glorified in all of your efforts to share His love. I know He is... I heard you speak, and it was wonderful. Your humble demeanor in such a spotlight is beautiful. Praying for you and your children.
Katie, I hope that your book is able to bring many blessings for your ministry.
Katie, I have followed your blog for almost 2 years and I check it at least once a week, hungry for an update about your life and beautiful family.
I am so thrilled that you have written a book and can't wait to read it. Your faith is unshakable at times and as a mother of three and a woman twice your age, I pray for that faith daily.
God is using you as an inspiration to all of us and maybe even a kick in the pants to those who lose sight of how blessed we are in our lives.
Thanks for all you do and hugs to all your children.
Blessings to you and your family as you travel back to your home! I am almost finished with your book and it is incredible! Thank you so much for obeying God and following Him to the dark places and bringing His light to everyone you touch! I am beyond inspired by your life and I hope God has something similar for me in the near future.
Love and blessings to you!
Sharon
I ordered your book this week and it is currently on its way to my house.
I hope your trip to the US has been a good one, and that you have been able to enjoy it.
Thank you for sharing your story.
You have a gift, the gift of pure love, given without reservation. The gift that is returned to you by your children. As I look into the tiny black and white faces I hold and kiss, I too see exceptance and love from complete strangers. God is good and He showed that same love to us sinners through His Son. Bless you sweet child!!
I just want to say thank you for saying Yes to the Father, for your story has helped in the process of renewing my faith, but more than that, to focus on looking through the eyes of those in need. I have proudly donated to sponsor a child in your educational program at Amazima, and look forward to hearing about the wonderful opportunities this will open up for him or her.
Take care and God Bless,
Greg Pyne
Orlando, FL
Katie, I came to Catalyst to hear you speak because your story is so precious and inspiring and God-breathed. I could say so much, but let me sum it up by saying, Thanks for being a vessel that God uses to spread His redemptive story. You are a blessing!
God bless you, Katie... and He has! You have done the things that many of us wish we could do but have not...either because of inability or fear. Though financially I am unable to help, you and your children will always be in my prayers! Thank you for putting faith into action!
I have been following your blog for about a year, my friend Amy Block told me about you. She adores your heart. I bought the book last week and have began sitting with my 10 year old son and 7 year old daughter reading it to them nightly. They are in awe of you..they are in awe of Jesus. My daughter says she will move to Uganda as well and serve with you. I told her she should do what the Lord places on her heart :) Thank you o much for all you do to inspire me and others to step out in faith and live uncomfortably.
~Brandy Windham
Amen. Rest and enjoy your family. Well done good and faithful servant.
Dear Katie,
My name is Kaylee Smith and I'm a ten year old girl who wants to be a missionary in Rwanda. I finished your book today and loved it. You describe God's word so good and understandable and easier to grasp for a 10 year old like me. When I visited Rwanda I saw the need and need to help. You are inspiring me as I see what you blog about. Keep it up!
God Loves You more than you can imagine,
Kaylee
To say that Katie is an inspiration to our world, is a enormous understatement. God be with her and protect her. She is truly a testament that God lives.
Katie, I saw you @ Brookhills and really enjoyed hearing how the Holy Spirit is moving through you. We have served in Uganda and LOVE it there and may retire there one day. We are also adopting from Ghana. Thank you again for listening and having curage to continue to step out of the boat. Our blog is if you have time to read it.
Enjoy that unplug time. Your sacrifice is yielding fruit. God IS using your testimony to draw others closer to Him and urging them on, myself included, to live more radically for Him and for His least of these.
My husband and I are moving our family to Africa to live and love. Your story is helping me prepare for some of the issues we will face and helping to remind me that just as God can give courage to an inexperienced 18 year old, He can give courage to each of us, even a middle-aged mama.
Praying for you all!
Elysa Mac
I have followed your blog for some time and my husband brought home your book from Catalyst. It is wonderful and awesome to hear your story and your heart. Thank you for your obedience to Jesus. Thank you for sharing your testimony, for saying it and writing it over and over, even though it's exhausting... I believe He is and has and will continue to receive the glory. Blessings to you as you return to your family.
You are such a example to me, Gods story in your life and the life of your girls is truly amazing, cant wait to get the book!
God Bless you,Katie.
I just heard your testimony through the Dave Ramsey Podcast.I'm absolutely blown away by what I just heard. What you've accomplished by God's grace and His power working in your life is absolutely incredible.Wow ! Just amazing !
You asked for prayers first,well that is the least I could do.And I'm certain God will enable me to support your calling throughout my life as I'm able.
IHS.
Ontario,Canada.
Heard you on Dave Ramsey today! I spoke with my 18 yr old daughter about you. I am hoping she will read your book. Prayers with you, thank you for your testimony!
Michael - Newark, Ohio
Katie,
I am in awe of your story and what God has done through you. I almost can't contain what He has accomplished through one willing person. I have felt for a long time that God wants me to do a missions trip, especially to help children and women in need. I want to be used by Him and you are my most inspiring example of what He can do! I bought your book and read it in a couple of days...it speaks to me of sacrifice, of giving up our rights to a loving and faithful God, of trusting Him in the direst of places. I have longed for a pure and unselfish approach to Christianity because so much of what we hear and read concerning the Chritian walk is about what we can get from God as opposed to how can we bless Him for what He has ALREADY done for us!! Thank you for this. Thank you for your example and your faithfulness.
How I would love to come and help and volunteer at Amazima! I pray for God's blessing on your continued work and thank you for sharing your story in this most compelling book.
A sister in Christ,
Tani
Katie, you have have been such an encouragement to me. I just recently started following your blog a couple of months ago. I have already found so much truth in your actions and your words. Thank you for be obedient. I pray for the clarity, boldness, and obedience that you have been given.
Thanks so much for sharing this, Katie! Our Jesus is so trustworthy and it never ceases to amaze me how he chooses to remind of us that. Sometimes He uses the smallest of His precious children to show us the greatest of truths.
Right now I'm learning a lot about just allowing Him to carry me, to take me where He wants me and simply knowing that when I wake up each day He's still there to carry me and give me strength for whatever plans He holds for me for each day.
God has put a huge burden on my heart for children, and especially the children of this world. My heart is overseas with my precious children in Peru, but for right now God's placed me in an awesome school, Moody Bible Institute, to prepare me for whatever He has for me in the future. Your transparency and boldness has been such a huge encouragement to me. Thanks for sharing your heart, and your story. May our Jesus bless you in this time of unplugging. I'll be praying for you and your beautiful girls.
Thank you, Katie. Thank you, Lord.
Praying for you and your family as you unplug. Be still and wait upon the Lord. Keep your heart and mind focused on Him alone. Also, enjoy your girls. Love and be loved. Thank you for being vulnerable to so many during your book trip . . . you did indeed humbly testify to the Lord's love, power, and goodness. Thank you for being an obedient vessel through which the Lord can work . . . and, yes, may our Father receive all the glory. And may more of us hearing and reading your story not just continue in our daily lives merely stirred and not changed. May we be faithful to hear and follow the Lord where He has us or wants to take us, being obedient to love the next person He brings into our path. The Lord is calling His children to truly live out His love (through your story as well as Renee Bach's work in Uganda, David Platt's Radical book, Francis Chan's Crazy Love book, and countless others). The Lord is using all of these examples to raise up and encourage believers who will abandon themselves to follow Him and not the culture. Exciting! The Lord is so good! What a day it will be when we all get to Heaven . . . and may we each take as many as possible with us. Amen! :)
I am so sorry I missed you when you were in the Seattle Area:(
God Bless you and your children!
Good for you Katie for knowing when it's time to unplug and then doing so!
Katie, I totally agree with you. I have been a missionary in Haiti for 9 years and God has been so faithful and so amazing. It is embarrassing to receive the compliments and the words like "hero" and "angel" and "sacrificial" even though I know they are said with good intentions. The truth is we are the blessed ones that live among heroes, angels, and people who truly know sacrifice! Enjoy your sweet girls back home!
Beautiful, Katie. God and your English instructors from high school built within you a way with words that touches souls and leaves us knowing He is here and He has a plan. Keep running the race, Dear One. We cheer you on!
FOUND YOUR BLOG A FEW DAYS AGO.
WISH YOU WERE MY MOMMY.
KIND REGARDS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST.
MARK 9:36-37:KJV.
I just finished reading your book. Thank you for taking the time to tell your story. It will inspire many to do more. I will definitely recommend it to others.
May the Lord bless you and keep you; may the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious unto you; may the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. Numbers 6:24-26
Thank you. Have a wonderful time with your family over the next month. :)
Hello Katie,
Can't find the words to express how touched I’ve been and continue to be in reading your writing, your blog. Oh Goodness (and it is), you feel like a kindred spiritual friend. .. .. while I don't think my body wants to make a trip to Uganda, I must tell you that a few days ago I fantasized coming to your many children and taking fun photos, painting, singing and writing with them (them with me). I wear these hats in my life daily.
What I'm sharing is that I can empathize with these precious children and feel connected with them already. Words never quite do it, but I wanted you to know that I appreciate that you're here now doing what you doing and letting others know so they can 'see' you and support you.
Most Warmly a big hug God Bless us All,
Paul, Arizona
(aka. Paul Michael, a non-denominational wedding minister for the last 18 years).
Your blog and book have encouraged me with missions and writing. You have made it clear that God has done all these amazing things, and you are just a willing servant. Your attitude is inspiring. Thank you for letting God use you. Thank you for being so vulnerable with strangers. Thank you for sharing your fears and hard lessons learned so that we can see God glorified through all of it.
I love your heart, I see God in it. I am praying for you and you encourage me! This is what it is to live a christ centered life!
Praying for safe travels so that your precious family can once again reunite. I have already finished reading your book and loved every minute of it.What an amazing voice for Jesus you are. God's grace and love just pours out of you.
I heard you speak at Brook Hills. You are SUCH an inspiration and have given me a want to serve God overseas. Thank you for being one of few that follow wherever He leads you.
Received this book yesterday in the mail from a dear, dear friend. Intentions of reading a chapter this morning soon turned into putting all other plans aside as each turned page beckoned me to the next. Hours later as I finished the last chapter I am praising God for your sharing His story thru your life. I Cor. 13:13 as paraphrased in the Message "...we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly..." Press on Katie Davis, beautiful daughters, family and friends of Uganda.
Hi Katie, it is good to hear from you again. Knowing that you are well. Can't wait to read more. Take care of yourself and your girls and enjoy them today. Hugs and prayers
MaryBeth
I just finished reading your book. I purchased it on Friday night. I finished it by Monday. I could not put it down. Your book has really ministered to me. My daughter is part African with family from Sierra Leon. I have always felt a tug to do something in Africa. I am hoping that I will have the opportunity one day. I am now going to read excerpts from your book every day just to encourage me. When I am in my darkest hour, I will remember the encouraging words that were in your book. I have never read anything like this before. Thank you so much! -Mary
Katie,
I finished your book yesterday
( and there is a story about how it even came about that I "bumped" into your book as I had never heard of you before). I paused more times than I can count to dry my eyes. I read half the book in one sitting and finally had to walk away as I felt like I had consumed an over the top Thanksgiving meal. I truly needed time to digest what I had read.
May God continue to be with you and guide your footsteps. We are weak but He is strong...
As a side note, is there a way to send you a private message?
April Fortenberry
Hi Katie,
My name is Brianna. I have read your book and all of your blog posts from where your book left off. I have been inspired to do things very similar to things as you are since I was about three. I hope to go to Africa soon because that is what I have felt God calling me to do. I graduate high school this coming June and I can not wait to see what He has in store for me at that point. I thank you so much for telling your story. I love your girls just through reading about them and I wish all of you the best! I have been and will continue to pray for you, and maybe at some point in our lifes, our paths could cross. Thank you again!
I stumbled on you story by accident last week, thinking it was going to be about something else. I was sitting in my driveway, reading your story on my phone, and I found myself in tears. I am nearly 20 years your senior, and I am in awe of the meanIng you have already found in your life. I subscribed to your blog right away because I found your words so inspiring. Your children are so blessed to have found an angel to be their mother, and you are equally blessed, I'm sure, to have these little lights in your life. God bless you in everything you are doing, please don't let anyone detract from your work with foolish comments, and please allow Him to continue to shine through your writing.
I found your blog via Ginny's Yarn Along...I admire your faith in God and hope to read your book soon!
Katie,
I agree that it is amazing... the level of trust that children have in their parents! What a wonderful connection you make to our need to trust our Heavenly father despite the circumstances! My family and I will continue to lift you, your family, and Amazima up in prayer. My 5th grade class knows more about Uganda because of the impact your book has had on me.
God bless you,
Angie
We heard some of your story at Brookhills and bought the book so we can hear the rest...Thank you for traveling, sharing and giving to so many on your journey. We are love you and are praying for you Amazima, you and your girls. Have fun celebrating at home with them!!
Praying for safe travel home...thank you for sharing your incredible and inspiring journey of faith with us...
Katie,
Stinks that we missed you while you were here!
Unplugging is so necessary and so hard. I'm proud of you my sweet friend.
((Loves))
Hi Katie,
Thank you for trusting the Father in such a pure and beautiful way and being an example to me. My husband just leaned over and asked me what I was reading and why I was crying and I tried to explain who you are and how you follow Jesus so blindly and that it makes me cry everytime I read your words. Thank you for sometimes being the only Bible that I read. Love and light, April Cunningham
Katie, my eyes overflow with tears each time I read your blog...and I have been completely 'undone' as I read through your book. You have been added to my daily prayer list. I pray, also, that I will stop 'praying' that God will send 'someone' to feed, love, comfort, clothe and give shelter to those 'I' see in need - that I will stop to help one, then one more, then one more. I love to read God's Word. I heard His voice on the pages of your book. God is GOOD, and everything He gives us is for good whether we 'get it' or not. You are precious.
May God continue to richly bless you with His favor,
Tina Marie
Thank you, Katie. Your post just gave me strength. God spoke to me through it. I understand what you say when you say you don't want to be "looked at, praised, criticized"... I am struggling so much with that right now. My testimony is not my own. It is His. I know my journey with Him is just beginning, and I am almost fearful of where He will take me, even though I know He will never put me somewhere I can't handle. With Him I can handle anything. Thank you for what you are doing and for allowing Him to use your life. He has used your life and your love to give me strength to follow where He is taking me.
Your heart is beautiful.
To Him be the glory.
Agape <><
Rejoicing with you in that you should be home now. Praying for you. Encouraged by you.
We wanted to meet you on your tour so badly, but we are in the middle of following God's leading for our family in a cross country move. We pray for you every day and you have inspired my 17 year old daughter to sign up for her first overseas mission trip. Your heart of love, grace, and trust is (every word I can think of is too small) - but, you inspire me. Many blessings to you and your precious girls.
Your blog ROCKED me! God bless you and keep you! I am encouraged!
Katie,
It's strange that this may be the first time I'm writing to you since I feel like I know you a little from reading your writing this past year. And perhaps because you are my sister in Christ and I have been praying for you and your precious girls since I first found you. So much of what you write resonates with me. It has blessed me again and again. The first time a friend showed me your blog I stayed up until 4 am reading and crying. The truth is Katie, my heroes growing up were missionaries. I thought someday I WOULD be doing something like what you're doing. The thing I struggle with now is that I married at 21 and have four children from 7 down to 6 months. My family is the richest blessing from God but I still feel this longing to obey Gods call on my life more literally. I am "uncomfortable" in my own comfort and have felt that disconnect for a long time. I long for the opportunity to serve God on the mission field but realize that my decisions at this point are not just my own. I have a husband and four littles that are much of my ministry. I guess I just wanted to write to thank you for telling your story which always points to Jesus our First Love. I hope and pray that someday I will be able to come to Uganda, meet you and perhaps join in your effort to love the least of these. With much gratitude,
Linda
Praise God for your sweet, transparent soul. I am going to take this unplugging rest with you...Father restore us all and bring us closer to Him each day!
oops, something else I forgot to mention to you when I wrote to you last night. I started reading your book last night and my seven year old little boy wanted me to read it to him. We both didn't want to put it down. After we read he said, "mommy, I feel a stirring in my heart like this is what I always wanted to do." I totally understand how he feels. Now to understand how to live this more fully. Much love to you and your family.
Katie,
You have such a heart for Jesus, and people. God bless you and your beautiful family :)
My husband heard you at Catalyst in Atlanta, Katie. He brought home your contagious spirit and your story...I cannot put it down. You are now a part of our journey, whatever God has planned for that to be from here. Thank you for your obedience to Him. As our first daughter prepares to graduate from high school this spring, your life is the example before us...a faithful surrender to His beautiful plan.
I love your new post. I'm so excited to read your book. I was thrilled to chat with you briefly on Hugh's show in Riverside, CA. I just wish I'd had more time with you because you are such a treasure from heaven. I truly believe your crown will be so abundantly full. And you make me want to be more like Jesus... so just know that you are reaching out and all around the world, just by being you... just by loving Jesus every day. Hugs--dianne :)
Amen. Learning to trust too, as God leads me to uncharted territory. Uncomfortable. Unfamiliar.
Faith like a child. Thanks for sharing - this post, and your life.
Blessings as you recharge with your family.
Katie,
I have been blessed by your book. I have adopted an african daughter from within the US. I plan to spread the news of your organization and all you are doing, so hopefully this will allow you to care for more people/ children.
May God bless you and your family! Thank you for going where God called you to go.
I am humbled.
Gayle
Katie, Thank you again for inspiring our family to get outside of ourselves and live for God..."every breath" for Jesus. As we sit and wait for our two beautiful Ethiopian babies to come home, we pray for you and Amazima. I am hosting a giveaway of "Kisses from Katie" this week on my blog.
Katie
I feel the Lord is speaking to me through your book. I think He is leading me to sell / quit everything and move to Ethiopia. If, indeed, it is His agenda, He will have to change the heart of my wife. She is not feeling it yet. We have 5 kids (one we adopted from Ethiopia two years ago). I just returned home to Memphis a month ago and my heart is still there with the cildren and people. I praise God for your capacity to Love and feel He is giving me a greater capacity as well. He is totally amazing and I thank you for being willing to share it with random people like me. Shalom. Blessings to you and those precious ones.
You are truly amazing and a blessing! May God continue to bless your journey
I have been a silent blog reader and when I saw you had a book out I was so excited. Your writing in the blogs has always touched my heart and now the thought of a book! I ordered the book and picked it up yesterday. I finished it today. Written so beautiful just like you. God has gifted you writing that reaches and touches the heart. I thank the Lord for you and we will continue to keep your family in our prayers. Our family will be helping a child!The book will now go to my husband to read, I hope it touches his heart like it did mine. Your are beautiful in His eyes!
Stacey
Colorado
God bless you! I will keep you in my prayers.
I can't wait to hear more from you!
I haven't read this post until today, but I needed to to read it today...not any other day...to be reminded that telling our story over and over again reminds me of His goodness.
Just finished reading your book. Wow! It has challenged me, encouraged me, and created a great longing in me to do more. I am a 60 year old mother of 7 adopted children. Three are still at home (15, 14, and 11). When I turned 50 I prayed for a baby, at 51 we got our 3 month old baby daughter and her 4 siblings. After 4 years of court, on May 24, 2006, we finally adopted 4 of the children, and on May 26, 2006, just two days later, our precious baby, Ashley, now 4 died of cancer. My faith was nearly destoyed, but through it may faith grew. Your book was so what I needed to move forward to do some things in Ashley's honor. I am praying for your ministry and believe God is going to grow to grow it beyond anything you can imagine. Blessings. Evelyn Scheiman
Katie, your book has touched my soul. I devoured it! Though a believer all my life, over the past few months I am finally beginning to understand 'I surrender all', and what it means to live in Him and through Him. So many stories I have loved over the years of Christian heroes, like you, left me wondering... What's wrong with me? What did they have that I don't? I want my life to be used by God like that, but how? Your personal testimony of God's provision and guidance as you trust in Him and daily surrender to His Spirit tells the untold secret!!! It's ALL God, not us! He changes our hearts and our desires to become like His! Thank you, not just for the blazing sacrifice/joyful blessing of your life, but also for telling your story in your words. I needed to hear it straight from the heroes mouth. :)
Praying for you and your family! Yes, to Him be all the glory. Eph 3:20-21
Katie
I heard you on the Dave Ramsey show a few days ago and that same day a friend of mine told me she had ordered me your book.I had only read a few pages when I read,
"The children would run to me with gifts of stones or dirt and I saw myself filthy and broken, offering my life to the God of the universe and begging Him to make it into something beautiful."
Those words broke in to my heart at that moment and I began to sob.I wasn't crying softly ! I was laid across my bed sobbing with my heart breaking because of God's wonderous love for me.
I now have a passion I have not felt in years to reach out and help others. I want to show Christ' love and I will start by supporting your ministry.
Thank you for being obedient. Thank you for showing others that that's all He is asking us to do.
I'll be praying for you and all the precious ones in Uganda.
Katie, today is October 29- I was reading the end of your book and read that a year ago today, you were forced to give up your precious Jane to her mother. My heart ached for you. I will pray for you today as I know how anniversaries are hard days. We had custody of my niece for 4 months as her mother was dealing with her personal issues. DSS decided to give her back and it was so hard. I knew she would have better care and a Christian environment with us. However, 18 months later I can see God is working in the mother's life and and although it was extremely painful, my prayer is that one day we will see a miracle in that situation. I pray that for you too...God loves Jane, her mother, and you .You are a special person with incredible faith- a gift. God bless you!
Thank you for sharing your time with those in the USA, Katie! As a mother I know how hard it is to leave your babies behind and travel without them. My husband heard you speak at Catalyst in Atlanta and was so inspired by your story. He bought your book, he read it, and has passed it on for me to read! I'm in the middle of your story and I am so humbled by your faith and obedience to Jesus. May your story move many more people to take steps of obedience wherever their mission fields may be. Thank you.
I just received your book for my birthday on 10/21 and read it in three days!! Today is the 29th, and I was reading about how 10/29/10 was so terrible for you and the girls. My prayers are with you this day, one year later exactly, my sister in the Lord. I prayer that the Lord of all comfort will surround and uphold you this day and that you are once again reminded of the faithfulness of our sweet Jesus! Sandy
you leak jesus
you leak jesus
A friend preordered your book for me since we both are adoptive moms. Your story has touched me deeply and I thank you sharing it and mostly for being an example of being faithful to God's call. I run a non profit organization and would love to have our students be part of projects to bless others through your organization. Prayers for you and your precious girls!
Katie,
I just finished reading your book. God was glorified! We are starting the adoption process in Uganda. Lord willing maybe we can meet when He deems the right time for us to come to Uganda. Thank you for what you do.
To Him be the glory,
Chelsey
Katie, just finished reading your incredibly inspiring book. I've followed your blog for quite some time and couldn't wait to read your book. The wisdom and spiritual maturity from your young heart is incredible. Thank you for sharing your testimony, His story in your life. Maybe He continue to bless and guide.
Jocelyn in Missouri
I am on the 12th chapter of your book and wow, God is using you in Mighty ways for His Kingdom's sake and in my life. I am so thankful for what you do and that you put it out there for others to read, hear, and see. I'm growing and I'm thankful. I am praying for you and your family and ministry team. God bless you all so much!
Came across your story this morning, and it hit me like a bucket of cold water had been dumped on me unexpectedly. I'm inspired, convicted, and wow'd by the intensity that Christ is shining through your story.
Know that prayers are being lifted up for you from California.
I have been reading your blog for several years...(it seems like?!) and I love your story. Because God writes stories so much more beautiful than we could orchestrate. I lost a baby last year and I am adopting from Ethiopia this year, and I just had a baby biologically...I also know firsthand that pain is not something to be taken lightly. It is often just a journey to know the Lord and his promises more intimately...
My husband and I pray we will be called to work and minister overseas. We are just entering into a ministry position at our church, but hoping that in the next couple of years we will be working overseas...maybe even in Ethiopia.
Praying for your daughters as I am in the word today...and praying for the people of Maese... | http://kissesfromkatie.blogspot.com/2011/10/it-is-after-midnight-and-i-lay-her-in.html?showComment=1318938769846 | 2013-05-18T10:31:04 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Halloween is almost here, so it’s time to break out a Kitchen Mischief Klassic — Pumpkin Dip!
I have to admit, I did not develop this recipe. The good foodies over at Southern Living get credit for that. But of course I mischieffed it up a little bit. You know I am INCAPABLE of following a recipe to the letter.
Here’s what you need and how to do it.
Pumpkin Dip
• 1 box of cream cheese, softened
• 1 ½ to 2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 (15-ounce) canned pumpkin
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• ½ tsp ground clove
• the tiniest dash of fine salt
• 1 pie pumpkin (optional)
• serve with ginger snaps
The most important thing is to start with super-soft cream cheese. Mix it together with your powdered sugar, get it nice and smooth, then add your pumpkin.
NOTE: If you try to blend cold cream cheese and canned pumpkin together, the cream cheese will pebble up, yielding you a dip that resembles orange cottage cheese [sound of Josh dry heaving into trash can]. Avoid this mischief at all costs!
Finish it by seasoning to taste. I like mine nice and spicy, and not too sweet. You can also add honey, maple syrup or agave nectar — just watch your consistency. You don’t want sweet pumpkin soup.
Now, you can always just serve this in a bowl and be done with it. But why do that when you can serve it in a super-cute hollowed-out pie pumpkin? Not only is this adorable, but it makes it clear to your guests that they are not eating hummus.
If you’d like to taste this cute deliciousness in person, stop by Boo Gurl X this weekend! It’s our final Boo, and it’s going to be a blast!
Happy Halloween — get into some mischief, why don’t cha?
Boo Gurl X Info:
Home of Lane Snider: 5721 10th Avenue South, Birmingham (Crestwood); 8-until!
Join us as we celebrate 10 years of Boo Gurl. Boo Gurl X promises to be the best of the BOO. So, put on your creativity smock and come up with a great costume. Funny, Scary, Sexy, Dirty, Political, topical… you choose, but make it good. Hosted by Ray Hydrick, Matthew Warren, Lane Snider, Josh Miller, David Brothers and Vicky Carstens and Jamie Hodge.
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Posts tagged newspaper
Posts tagged newspaper
A really fun article about ACES written by the Charger Account… my old high school newspaper… which Aces is based on… SYNCHRONICITY, IT’S ALL COMING TOGETHER!
New pages of webcomic Aces, new banter, new fun, new yay! More fun at
Meet William Randolph Hearst, the newest addition to the cast of characters of “Aces,” a webcomic about a high school newspaper that I write and my sister Emma illustrates. One of our main characters, spunky high school girl hero Rosie, in Play-it-Again-Sam-homaging-spirit, has an imaginary friendship with journalism legend (and huge history-crush of mine) Edward R. Murrow. We thought it would be fun to give her arch nemesis William Randolph Chilton V (In the comic, just referred to as “Fifth”) an imaginary friendship with a newspaper legend of his own. And who better a friend for an arch-nemesis that “You furnish the pictures, I’ll furnish the war” Citizen-Kane-inspiring Hearst?
Hope you enjoy our take on Hearst as much as Emma and I enjoyed writing/illustrating him. And click through to get to the other 98 pages of our webcomic—- we’re a really fun way to spend time f***ing around on the internet, scout’s honor.
I NEED THESE TO BE MY NAILS.
Translation from page: cut squares of newsprint larger than nails. apply a base coat of polish. when nails are completely dry, soak them in alcohol, then press newsprint on nail and slowly pull off. top coat to seal.
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A World Gone Mad: The History of Spy vs. Spy
At the end of World War II mankind stared breathlessly into oblivion. Scientists had split the atom, and the Atomic Age had begun. In a matter of months warfare had transformed from year-long conflicts between infantry, to weapons that could vaporize a civilization instantly.
The world was paralyzed with fear. Any provocation could lead to global decimation with a press of “the button.” Science had finally taken the hassle out of combat.
Tanks now sat rusting as spies took to the front lines to wage a secret battle of information pilfering. The Cold War had begun, and intelligence was the ammo.
American school children drilled constantly, taking shelter beneath their nuclear blast-resistant desks, as their mothers and fathers were swept away to Eastern Europe in the national spy draft.
From the ashes of Japan the world had been reborn. Surveillance, counter-surveillance, and counter-counter-surveillance were now the norm. False identities concealed false real identities as everyone observed and reported on everyone else, sometimes even themselves.
By the Spring of 1947 eighty-five percent of the world’s population was employed as a covert operative. The remaining fifteen-percent worked as mall Santa Clauses.
The postal service was choked with coded messages disguised as song lyrics, grocery lists, and suicide notes. Spy agencies couldn’t process the information fast enough. The time spent coding, transmitting, and decoding messages was costing the United States a fortune, and they were desperate for a solution.
The answer sprung from a think tank that was having a going out of business sale, “Show the spy documents to everyone” was their solution. It was insane, but they were running out of time, and the think tank didn’t offer refunds.
At the insistence of the IRS, Mad Magazine volunteered to help; and Spy Vs. Spy was born. Twice a month, a classified report was printed in its pages, hidden in plain sight.
The American public looked at Spy Vs. Spy and laughed, not realizing that the brutal acts depicted in each comic was a literal reporting of what was happening overseas. Agency directors would host meetings, each member reading Mad Magazine and gasping at the shootings, stabbings and other grisly deaths in the comic.
The creator, Antonio Prohias himself became entangled in the world of cloak and dagger. For years he transcribed the violent reports into a comic strip and subsequently became a master of the craft. He quickly began planting false reports in the strip, creating increasingly bizarre, and impractical situations.
The spy community were surprised at first to see depictions of such ridiculous mayhem. But as issues kept appearing on newsstands with the same type of comic violence, they accepted the scenarios to be real. Soon, it was no longer ludicrous to attack someone with a cream pie, or rig their alarm clock to fire a gun. Spies spent hours, sometimes days, setting up esoteric Rube Goldberg scenarios to capture, or just embarrass an enemy.
As time wore on, the spy world began to collapse. Spies took to wearing colors indicating their allegiance as they did in Spy vs. Spy, thereby breaking cover. They offered each other poisoned martinis, followed each other into concealed bear traps, and stumbled into spike pits.
What had once been dashing, sexy, occupation had devolved into a comic parody of itself. Spies were dying from accidentally ingesting sticks of dynamite, being hit in the face by boxing gloves attached to springs, or turning a doorknob attached to a light socket.
The world had changed again, but this time not with a bomb, but with the stroke of a cartoonist’s pen. The spies, now identifiable, were all arrested, and life returned to normal. Parents returned home and began the laborious task of raising their now feral children. The nuclear threat gone, the world could breathe a well deserved sigh of relief.
Editor’s note: Antonio Prohias is currently serving eight hundred life sentences for tricking a spy to look into a mail drop and then spraying him with a seltzer bottle.
The sentencing is so harsh because of the International Spycraft Treaty of 1967 which requires a minimum incarceration period of 500 years if a seltzer bottle is used to humiliate a covert government agent.
Interested in Jonas Polsky? Chat, flirt, and more, at twitter.com/JonasPolsky | http://kittysneezes.com/2011/03/14/a-world-gone-mad-the-history-of-spy-vs-spy-801/ | 2013-05-18T10:53:10 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Live at Lunch Concert Series - Creme Tangerine
Live at Lunch Concert Series - Creme Tangerine
September 6th, 2012 through 1:30pm
Location
The Bellevue Downtown Association invites you to downtown’s summer concert series, every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, from Noon to 1:30pm, July 10 through September 13, at outdoor plazas throughout downtown. All shows are free to the public.
Two more chances for you to catch some of the area’s most popular artists and visit the AM 880 KIXI booth at the following concerts:
Beatles cover band Crème Tangerine on September 6th at Bellevue Galleria
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David's House and Family
1Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him.
David Defeats the Philistines will you deliver them into my hand? And the LORD said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into your hand.
11So they came up to Baal-perazim; and David defeated them there. Then David said, God has broken in upon my enemies by my hand like the breaking forth of waters: therefore they called the name of that place Baal opposite the balsam trees.
15And it shall be, when you shall hear a sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, that then you shall go out to battle: for God has gone forth before you to smite the army of the Philistines.
16David therefore did as God commanded him: and they struck the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.
17And the fame of David went out into all lands; and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations. | http://kj2000.scripturetext.com/1_chronicles/14.htm | 2013-05-18T10:11:52 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Forest Tent Caterpillars Are Back, But It Will Get Worse
I've seen pictures of these pests that my friends post on Facebook and the DNR confirms that Forest Tent Caterpillars, or 'Army Worms' are making themselves known again this year. But, according to a story from the Minneapolis-Star Tribune , this is just a setup for what is expected to be a major outbreak in a few years. They set a record in 2002-03, clearing 7.5 million acres of hardwood trees of their leaves in central and northern Minnesota. | http://kkcb.com/tags/army-worms/ | 2013-05-18T10:31:38 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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I don’t know how or why, but the Gentoo wiki is having a bad day.
I only wanted the safe CFLAG settings for my Pentium III. I should really just memorize them, but I’m too lazy. And the Gentoo wiki is always there for me. It’ll never be down. …
Edit: They’re …
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
Just so I don’t have to memorize them.
Edit: Ah, (maybe) this was the reason.
Both gentoo-wiki and gentoo-portage are third party sites. Them being down is unrelated to that story at the register which concerns the official packages.gentoo.org service.
I see. Thanks for clarifying that. | http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/08/16/the-gentoo-wiki-is-not-bulletproof/?like=1&_wpnonce=4955ae37a8 | 2013-05-18T10:31:59 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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I’ve been stacking up test systems these days, in anticipation of the Mebius finishing with its “stress test” of the CF card. It’s still running, believe it or not, with no errors or problems to report.
Half of these don’t have a snowball’s chance in Helechawa of actually running at 150Mhz on 32Mb, but I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
On top of that, I don’t expect the remaining half to know what to do with that Trident video card, the one that is trapped at VESA1.2, and needs a particular sort of coaxing to actually work.
Most of these are installed via Qemu, but a couple I actually booted into a live environment, then installed to USB disk and copied to a file with
dd. In any case, this is the short stack, if I can call it that. In no particular order …
- Feather Linux, which is a little outdated but should be possible.
- Linux Mint Fluxbox, which is an extreme long shot, but I’m willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.
- TurboPup, which is another possibility, and was a bit of a trick to install. That and TeenPup seemed like options; TeenPup wouldn’t install though because of package errors.
- Ubuntu 10.04, as a text-only system. This is mostly to see if it will start at all, and I have my doubts.
- Ubuntu 6.06.1, as a comparison to the above.
- TinyFlux 1.0, which is also dated, but intended for i586 machines and might do the trick.
- Slackware 3.3. I don’t know why. It just sounds crazy.
A couple of others sounded like good ideas, but aren’t as appealing because of size issues.
- Vector Linux, which sounded like a good idea but wants about 6Gb to install and that makes it unappealing.
- grml, which is “text-oriented,” if I can say that, but also wants a rather large space. I’ll try a smaller version, maybe.
- Lubuntu 10.10 alpha. But Ubuntu 10.10, if I remember right, is i686-only so it won’t matter if it works at such low specifications.
Of course, it will be a few days before I can try to mess with any of these. The Mebius is at 68 percent completion and it will need a bit more time before it’s done. I am patient.
Hey k i have been messing round with different puppys on my Toshiba satellite 2535cds is seems to prefer tuxxx’s 214 retro
From what I heard, the minimal installer refuses to start on 64 MB, so no.
I can get the netinst for Debian 5 to start on 64 MB though, but I have a fear of the partitioner.
There’s INX () if you want to try out a text based version of Ubuntu, but it’s not the latest version. I keep seeing a lot of recommendations for Tiny Core Linux, but I haven’t tried it myself because it says some hardware not completely supported. I keep wondering how FreeBSD stacks up against the various versions of Linux on lower resource systems. I’d love to see some statistics and comparisons. I found video playback faster on FreeBSD, but I was comparing programs that run using X Windows. Maybe a framebuffer solution for playing videos would be faster on Linux and FreeBSD doesn’t appear to have good support for the framebuffer. I’ve also been experimenting with FreeBSD’s Linux emulation layer. You can take programs built for a Linux machine such as Debian and if you copy all supporting libraries over some of them will run on FreeBSD as well. Might make a good solution for sharing compiled software across different machines.
Look forward to hearing the results of your investigations. I’m currently debating on whether to try another Linux distribution on my own laptop or leave FreeBSD on it. Will be interested to see what operating systems/distributions still work in 32 MB RAM.
Thanks for the notes, LM. I’ve tried INX and liked it a lot; I actually stole their installer script a couple of years ago to use with my own rotten little live CD.
I do like Tiny Core, but last time I checked it was a bit difficult to get online with something like a PCMCIA wireless card. I’ll check again though.
I really want to get into the BSDs, but the issue I face is time, really. I’ll have to look into the emulation layer though; that could solve some problems for me.
Thanks!
@LM, there are newer versions of INX in the ‘devel’ section. The last time I looked the latest was an Alpha version of Lucid. | http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/the-short-stack/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=d22f799ecb | 2013-05-18T10:40:57 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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When we hear the word “noise,” we think annoyance and distraction. And that makes perfect sense. Noise is essentially interference, something that disrupts our experience with everything from radios and televisions to images on digital cameras. But our ears have a unique relationship with colorful noise.
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Thick description is a research method enabling us to discern meanings within the contexts in which social actions take place. It originated as a tool for ethnographers engaged in participant observation and was later adopted by a wider range of qualitative researchers, including some sociologists and political scientists. In his famous 1973 essay titled “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture,” the anthropologist Clifford Geertz explained the contrast between “thick” and “thin” description. Drawing from the Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle's reflections on thinking as entailing an account of the settings, circumstances, and intentions that give actions their meanings, he showed how important it is to go beyond mere facts and appearances when it comes to interpreting behavior. The most well-known illustration provided is that of the contraction of one eyelid, which may be taken as either an involuntary twitch or as a wink (imparting a particular message, related to ... | http://knowledge.sagepub.com/view/intlpoliticalscience/n603.xml | 2013-05-18T10:33:17 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Remembering Gerard Cace — A True East Texas Legend
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When my family went to Johnny Cace’s, it was definitely for a special occasion! Whether it was a special birthday, a wedding anniversary, family reunion or maybe my dad made a little extra money that week — we were gonna splurge!
There was just this magical feeling you got when you walked into Johnny Cace’s, you just knew you were in a fancy place because our mother dressed us four kids in our Sunday best.
The waiter would start us all out with the festive relish tray filled with pickled okra, green tomatoes, sweet pickles and olives. Then came the cheese spread for the toasted crouton bread. Hello!
So much fresh seafood, it was always hard to choose for my dad, but not for me. My favorite was the “shrimp in shorts” and “stuffed shrimp with crab!” Yummy.
Us kids would love to sneak into the bar and watch the guy behind the bar shucking oysters. We knew it was hard work, but these guys would go so fast they made it look like it was nothing!
It was at Johnny Cace’s where my parents met my husband, Doug. My parents knew our relationship was getting serious, so it was time they got to know Doug better. My parents knew Doug was divorced, so my dad started grilling him with questions about his past relationship. It got a bit tense. I gave my mother a look across the table and she didn’t know what to do either.
My Dad looked at Doug and said, “So, we don’t get divorces in this family, so you need make sure that you can live with her forever!”
At the time my Dad asked that question, Doug was enjoying the tasty cheese spread on the toasted crouton from the relish tray the waiter had placed on our table, and he almost choked! He finally managed to get out a “Yes sir, I understand.” WOW, talk about embarrassing.
When Johnny Cace passed away 10 years ago, his son, Gerard, stepped in to carry on his father’s legacy. Some say Gerard Cace did more than carry on his father’s legacy as a Creole restaurateur and civic promoter — he built on it. Cace, took over daily operations of the 62-year-old Longview restaurant in 1980 along with his wife, Cathy, though his father remained visibly active.
This past Wednesday, 59-year-old Gerard Cace suffered a fatal heart attack. Friends said Cace and his daughter, Chelsea, were returning from a father-daughter fishing trip in the Cace family’s native Mississippi Delta area of southern Louisiana when he suddenly died during a lunch stop.
John Ray, a friend of the family says that he didn’t know another person who cared about Longview any more than Gerard Cace. Here’s what he told the Longview News-Journal about Gerard:
“Gerard was intent on customers being completely satisfied. And he took that legacy his father left him and carried on with no hesitation. He was a proud father; he was a proud businessman. But he was so proud of being a citizen of Longview, Texas.”
Gerard and Cathy Cace were both officers in the Texas Restaurant Association. The association inducted Gerard into its Hall of Honor in June 2011.
Gregg County Judge Bill Stoudt says this about the family and Gerard Cace:
“He comes from a strong family tradition of giving back to the community over decades. He carried forward the family legacy in taking over the restaurant after his dad passed away. He kept the family tradition of giving back to the community in so many ways. It’s a great family and a big loss for the community.”
The Cace restaurant also is known for the habit employees, particularly the wait staff, have of staying for decades in what is usually a high-turnover profession. Now that speaks volumes!
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Camping Recipes
Easy No Bake Milky Way Bar Treats
Ingredients
- 3 king size Milky Way bars
- 2 stick butter
- 3 1/2 c Rice Crispies cereal
- 1 bag chocolate chips
Preparation
Chop Milky Way bars and 1 stick of butter up and melt in a pot over medium-low heat, stirring constantly until melted completely (2 to 3 minutes). Remove from heat. Stir in Rice Crispies cereal. Blend well. Press into greased or Pam-coated 9x13" pan.
Wipe out pan with paper towel. Melt the second stick of butter and bag of chocolate chips over medium-low heat (2 minutes or so), stirring constantly. Pour over bars and spread evenly. Let sit awhile or, if you have one, put it in the refrigerator for a bit until fudge topping is set a bit. Slice into 16 bars. | http://koa.com/camping-recipe/easy-no-bake-milky-way-bar-treats/ | 2013-05-18T10:32:00 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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My friend Molly knows a thing or two about cooking. Point to a pile of green-tinged rough-hewn grains with a tilt of the head and furrow of the brow? It’s freekeh, she’ll say, and then recommend a great book about it. Need to borrow a cookbook? She probably has an extra copy of the one you want. And she’ll deliver it to your door when she’s passing through your neighborhood. Curious about the origin of that cake you’ve been making for years that seems to have come out of thin air? She’ll know.
So when she suggests you buy a six-quart pot even though you already have twenty-three pots and pans for the stove top alone (eleven pots, twelve pans; I counted), your ears perk up.
It all began when I made wheat berries last Monday. I asked for advice on how to cook the grains so that they wouldn’t split. Within minutes of my hitting publish, Molly responded:
Two words: Pressure cooker. Sure, you’ll still have to soak them for a good long while, but cooking them will take a total of 20 minutes. And, they’ll look like wheat berries when all is said and done. Twenty. Minutes. Same goes for farro and barley.
The next morning’s email, from Molly, when I mentioned a pressure cooker:
Pressure cooker is clutch…I have a Fagor one…It is, hands down, my favorite kitchen tool. What I can say is that you should get a stove top one, and not one that plugs in.
There was also a lot more chit-chat in between the pressure cooker dialogue, but I’m sparing you that.
A few days later, we met up for a Boston Globe food and wine event. During the Q&A portion of the afternoon, I asked the Globe’s food editor, Sheryl Julian, how I could cook wheat berries (and farro and barley) without splitting. The first words out of her mouth?
Pressure cooker. I have four.
Molly and the Globe food editor? A few hours later, I was in a store. I bought a pot-bellied Fagor.
And then I made soup. In a regular pot. Moments later, another comment from Molly:
This soup in a pressure cooker? Six minutes.
My response:
I bought the pressure cooker! I may be indebted to you for life.
Then, I announced on Facebook (where all important life announcements should be made):
“Molly – I’m ready to change my life…I break out the pressure cooker tomorrow!
To which, Molly’s friend Sara responded:
“Oh no. She GOT TO YOU!”
Yes, Molly got to me. It seems she also got to Sara. (Addendum 11/21/2012: It turns out Sara does not have a pressure cooker. Molly, your work is not done yet.)
Today was the big day. I opened my pressure cooker. I marveled at the fact that it’s called a cooker, sounding much more powerful than a mere pot. I read the instruction manual (which I still haven’t done for my camera). I familiarized myself with the parts.
My goal was apple sauce. Had Molly ever made it in the cooker?
Yup. It takes about three minutes once the pot begins to pressurize. Place all ingredients in the pot — your apples and spices — add enough water and pressurize. Like I said, it should take about three minutes.
A quick check of the manual:
Apples, sliced or in pieces: 2-3 minutes
I was ready. I peeled and I chopped apples. I filled the cooker. I twisted the lid and flipped the lock and turned the valve. I set the whole thing on a burner, turned up the heat, and watched. There was steam and gurgling and more steam, but the yellow indicator never popped up. The cooker never pressurized. Ten minutes. Twenty minutes. No pop. I released the steam and unlocked the top, peering into a pile of mushy apples. I starting from scratch. Re-twist and re-lock top, re-twist indicator, heat back on. Ten more minutes. No pop.
I again released and unlocked and peered. Thirty minutes in, the apples were nearly sauce. I pretended my cooker was a mere pot and finished off the apples.
During this entire time, I was emailing Molly as if she were the Butterball Thanksgiving hotline. As the story unfolded and the sauce was finished, she wrote:
Don’t worry, Molly I won’t.
Tomorrow I’m trying again. But for now, here’s how to make applesauce on your stove top in a mere pot.
Applesauce
I first tried homemade applesauce at Jess‘s and Eli’s annual Hanukkah party. I’ve provided the ingredients for classic applesauce and cranberry applesauce, using Jess’s cranberry applesauce recipe as a guide. I made both of these versions today. The classic in the cooker took half an hour over medium-high heat; the cranberry in a Dutch oven took 45 minutes over medium-low heat.
Applesauce is good cold, but great warmed up a bit.
For classic applesauce:
Makes about 3 1/2 cups
- 4 lbs apples (approximately 8 medium) – I used a mix of Fuji, Gala, Braeburn, and Granny Smith
- 2 T sugar
- 1/2 lemon for juice (2 T)
- 1 C water
For cranberry applesauce:
Makes about 4 1/2 cups
- 4 lbs apples (approximately 8 medium) – I used a mix of Fuji, Gala, Braeburn, and Granny Smith
- 2 C fresh or frozen cranberries
- 1/4 C sugar
- 1/2 lemon for juice (2 T)
- 1 C water
Chop. Peel and chop the apples into approximately 1-inch pieces.
Simmer. Add all the ingredients to a large heavy pot (I used a Dutch oven). Cover and turn the heat to medium-low. Simmer for approximately 35-45 minutes, stirring every once in a while, until the fruit is very tender and starts to break down into sauce.
Mash. With a slotted spoon or potato masher, break down the larger pieces of apple into small chunks. You can also puree or press through a sieve for a smoother sauce.
What a sweet post. Thanks for the tremendous shout-out. It’s true, I do love my pressure cooker dearly. I had forgotten that we’d met on the night of the freekah. And yup, I totally pushed the pressure cooker then, too. I swear, Fagor doesn’t pay me, it’s just really made such a difference in our kitchen. You’ll have to join me and Sara for one of our cooking and baking afternoons. Cheers!
I guess I know what is on my chanakah list…. Pressure cooker
Molly sounds like a special friend. Will you be my friend too?
Thank you for sharing your pressure cooking story. I would so like to do some canning, but the idea of using a pressure cooker scares me….a lot! Your applesauce looks scrumptious! Need to google Fagor now.
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Molly – Thank YOU for the pressure cooker suggestion! More recipes coming up…And I’d love to cook with you and Sara. Let’s set it up.
Meira – Next time you come up here, we can get together with Molly. You’ll love her.
SandraM – Oh, the applesauce was great. My dad loved it. As for the pressure cooker, I think it’ll take a little bit of time to get used to, but I’m ready for it to change my life. As for canning – check out the next post where I link to some really good instructions. | http://koshercamembert.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/she-got-to-me/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=3fdfac1636 | 2013-05-18T10:42:02 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The Jewish calendar is filled with celebrations, each has its unique foods and traditions. What better way to celebrate than with columnist, blogger, cook author Jayne Cohen‘s Jewish Holiday Cooking? Ms. Cohen covers the spectrum of Jewish cooking around the world. Her dishes – though often traditional – include many a delightful surprise, an update in taste.
The recipes are peppered with quotes from the vast world of Jewish writing ranging from the Talmud to Nathan Englander, from Chaim Grade to Sholem Aleichem, from the Zohar to Shmuel Hanagid and more. It is obvious this is not just a cookbook, it is a paean to Judaism, its timeless spiritual and cultural values, with the recipes representing a way to celebrate it all.
As I browse through the pages, it is obvious the author loves many genres of books, her quotes, her references, her intros to the individual recipes, her writing in general becomes “unputdownable.” As you leaf through, as you read through, not only do you see yourself as the very locals she’s traveled but you can smell and taste as well. Written in the best tradition of M.F.K Fischer, Joseph Wechsberg, Hillaire du Berrier and Ruth Reichl, Ms. Cohen leaves you begging for more…
With Chanuka coming up in less than a month, what could be better than an interesting latke recipe to whet one’s appetite?
Garlic-Rosemary Potato Latkes
Pareve
Yield: About 4 servings
These exceptionally fragrant potato pancakes require no topping or sauce as adornment. They are perfect as is, ready to accompany any roasted or grilled chicken or meat.
Ingredients:
- About 1 1/2 pounds Yukon gold or 3 large russet (baking) potatoes, peeled
- 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped garlic
- 1 tablespoon fresh rosemary leaves
- 1 large egg, beaten
- 1 tablespoon matzoh meal or unbleached all-purpose flour
- About 3/4 teaspoon salt
- About 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- Olive oil, for frying
- Sea salt (optional)
Directions
- Shred the potatoes, using the shredding disk in a food processor. (Don’t wash out the food processor–you’ll be using it again right away.) Transfer the potatoes to a colander or strainer and use your hands or a wooden spoon to press out as much moisture as possible.
- Remove the shredding disk from the processor and replace with the steel blade. Return about one third of the shredded potatoes to the food processor. Add the garlic and rosemary and process, using the pulse motion, until roughly pureed. Transfer the mixture to a large bowl. Add the remaining potatoes, the egg, matzoh meal or flour, salt and pepper to taste, and the baking powder to the bowl. Mix until thoroughly combined. Let stand for 10 minutes to mingle the flavors.
- In a 10- to 12-inch heavy skillet (cast-iron is ideal), heat about 1/4 inch of oil over high heat until hot but not smoking. Drop 1/4 cup of the potato lat, sprinkled with a little coarse salt, if you’d like. Or if necessary, keep the latkes warm in a 200 degree F oven (arrange them in a single layer on a rack placed over an oven-proof platter or baking sheet) and serve when they are all ready to be brought to the table.
From Jewish Holiday Cooking: A Food Lover’s Treasury of Classics and Improvisations
by Jayne Cohen (print edition: Wiley 2008; e-book: 2012).
Visit jewishholidaycooking.com
Enjoy, gentle reader, enjoy! And… don’t forget to tune in this coming Wednesday at 10:00pm (Eastern Time) when we will be talking with Jayne Cohen; we’ll be waiting!
CS
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Top 10 Kitchen Quirky ….. (Passover Sweet Potato Apple Fennel Onion Crumble Kugel)
Admittedly this year…
my passover prep is minimal.
It’s one of the perks of going away to family…
especially when my sister is a good cook – & has my mother’s disease..
NO ONE IS ALLOWED IS THE KITCHEN with her when she cooks!
kinda makes me laugh…but I have learned to just back seat cook from the kitchen stool as I watch her slave away
I do feel sorta badly that my sister is working so hard…so yesterday Tunie B & me went shopping for a present
in Mamila Mall we came across this Kitchen store called SOHO that had the coolest QUIRKIEST kitchen gadgets that
I just have to share with all of you!
Many of them made me laugh outright – some even had me knocking my forehead thinking
“why the heck didn’t I think of that!”
COOL & QUIRKY KITCHEN MUST HAVES:
#1 Carrot Sharpener
Now who doesn’t want a carrot sharpener that can not only peel your carrot, but also can give you a pencil sharp deafly point? But seriously if this things works imagine all the cool things you can do with beautifully curled carrot slices! Garnish salads, makes curly carrot crispy fries, carrot rollantinis…I could really get creative. Also, FINALLY I have a sharpener for those giant pencils I always won at my school carnivals
#2 Dish Washing Gloves with Attitude: Or create your own “Soap” Drama.
Now who really thinks that doing the dishes can be fun? Well with these dish washing gloves not only do you keep your hands from getting chapped can also star and narrate your own dish soap opera theater! Who knew all the Drama there could be when fork snubbed spoon for fish knife!
#3 CoolAMARI Ice Cubes: Apparently these ice cubes are 8 times the FUN than regular boring square ones! How can you NOT want these for your next pitcher of homemade sweet ice tea?
#4 The Table Saw: Now I don’t know about you, but the last time I tried cutting through my 7 layer cake with my dinky cake knife and having a hard time cutting through all the gooey layers, I was totally wishing I had a table saw to do the job! Well I have to wish no more! I just don’t get the whole cross-cut the lettuce thing…But then again when I bought my ginzu knife from the late night tv commercial, I never realized how much I would use it to cut all those soda cans with!
#5 CORKERS: Cry no more! All those bottles of wine that we are going to be opening this Passover, will come to double use! At least their corks will. Now you and your kids can create corkers – cork animals that will be fun for the whole family & give you a terrific keepsake of your LONG seder meal this 2013! Imagine all the fun you can have with these babies during the Seder- reenacting some of the 10 Plauges! Move over Chia Pets – there is a NEW animal in town!
#6 The PLUNGE Cork: Now that you are making all the cork animals – you are going to need a way to close up your extra wine. How about this bottle closer? certainly very appropriate considering that plungers and Matzah go hand in hand for most people during passover! (just pointing out the obvious people! – please don’t write me hate letters)
#7 The Ring Peeler: Yes I know this is another carrot peeler gadget – but my sister could so use this on all those Potatoes she is planing on peeling this year!
#8 The Sardine Paperclip: (no oil added) I can’t begin to count the number of times I was in the middle of making a terrific new dish when I had to just stop cold because I did NOT have a paperclip to finish my cooking task. Thank you to who, ever invented these sardine paperclips – because now I can have an “office” supply blend in to my kitchen beautifully, instead of being a junk drawer eyesore!
#9 The Geppetto Pencil Sharpener: it is true I am always using pencils in my kitchen to mark up recipes etc.. My one issue – why is it named Geppetto? that sure looks like Pinnochio to me.
#10 Chefs’s Stand -The iPad Cooking Holder: OK I must admit – this is THE gift I ended up buying my sister (I also bought one for myself!) My poor iPad has been abused and for Pesach I had to really scour the crevices for all the dried up bits of dough, batter, & other food particles I left behind while cooking with it (I am serious!) I truly believe the best gift is one that you would give and appreciate if it was given to you – so my darling sister….ENJOY! maybe now she will actually get a chance to use her iPad for something other than letting her kids play angry birds!)
Now for a Really Quirky Recipe - I made this up because I just wanted something different that was NOT your typical potato or zucchini kugel!
Passover Sweet Potato Apple Fennel Onion Crumble Kugel
yields 2 small loaf pans
tip: This is my version of a sweet potato kugel that is meant to be served on a platter & sliced into loaf sizes on the table. The key to making this kugel is to make sure to pack your ingredients very tightly and compact into your baking pan. Make sure to use a disposable aluminum pan, for easy removal of loaf.
Ingredients:
3 large onions, diced small
3 Tbsp. 0live oil
5-6 large sweet potatoes
2 cups diced apples (3 large apples)
1 head fennel, diced
3 tbsp. potato starch
4 eggs
1 tsp. cinnamon
salt & pepper to taste
For the crumble:
1.5 cups of crushed candied nuts (I used pecans)
1/2 stick of margarine, room temperature
1/2 cup of ground almonds
3 tbsp. Matzah Meal or Potato starch
Directions:
Pre-heat your oven to 350 F.
- In a frying sauté your onions in olive oil on medium heat until they have turned brown and caramelized, about 15 minutes.
- While the onions are cooking, pierce the skin of your sweet potatoes all around with a fork. Place them in the microwave and nuke them for 5-8 minutes until they are soft. (you might have to do 2-3 potatoes at a time)
- When the sweet potatoes are soft, remove the skins and mask the potatoes until creamy smooth. Add 2 eggs and the 3tbsp. potato starch to the mashed potatoes, mix together well. Set aside.
- After your onions are finished cooking, set them aside on a plate. In the same frying pan sauté the apples and fennel for 5-6 minutes on medium high heat with 1 tbsp. olive oil until they are soft. Remove from heat.
- Whisk to eggs together and then add them to the apples & fennel and mix together.
- In a bowl, mix together all the ingredients for your crumble. Using your fingers as you mix, crumble everything until you get a sand like texture with the mixture.
ASSEMBLE YOUR LOAF:
- Spray your loaf pans well all over with non-stick spray.
- On the bottom of your pan, layer your crumble mixture. Make sure to pack it in very tightly and evenly.
- Next layer is the apple & fennel mixture. Spoon on top of the crumble and then press down with the back of your spoon, until they are a thick compact layer.
- Then layer the sweet potato mixture. Pack in the mashed sweet potato almost till the top of the pan leaving about 1/2 inch.
- Lastly layer the fried onions over the sweet potatoes till the top of your pan
- Bake in the oven for 25 minutes.
- Remove from oven and let cool for about 15 minutes before removing from pan.
- To remove from pan, flip over onto your serving platter and then tap the bottom with the back of a knife until the kugel loosen. Gently remove from aluminum tin and serve. This kugel loaf can be served warm, or at room temperature.
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As you can see, they have had some snow but the rains have taken it away. Luckily, it was not bone breaking slippery!
Kaija met me at the railway station and we had some mid-morning tea after my 3 hour train trip. Then she showed me the window display of the Craft Museum of Finland, as the Museum itself was closed on a Monday..
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Thank you for sharing your wonderful day with your DD. Enjoyed your pictures. It was interesting see the period dresses on the dolls. Enjoy the rest of your holidays.
While reading this post, I was distracted by the beauties of your daughter's match boxes. I can imagine you spent quite some time admiring them!
How lovely to have spent your Monday with Kaija!
I am sure you both enjoyed the time together. It shows through in your words.
Kaija's work is amazing. I've been visiting her posts.
Until tomorrow.
The dolls are amazing and so life-like. I love browsing second hand book shops. I'm sure it was difficult to leave after a very special day.
Merry Christmas Ulla and so happy you got to spend some time with your DD. Thanks for sharing your visit with us through the wonderful pictures. Many hugs, Marie
Sounds like a perfect day! I sure would have loved to see the doll exhibition too, even through a window.
That sounded like a perfect day. Thank you for sharing it with us.
How nice you could spend a day with your daughter, Ulla! I love the knit door handle, and the museum display - I wish you could have gone inside!
Cheers!
It sounds like you had a lovely day exploring a new place. What an amazing doll display. Maybe you will be able to see it on another visit.
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Mariners aren't living up to already low expectations
The Seattle Mariners reach the halfway point of their season this weekend, and find themselves in last place. As KPLU sports commentator Art Thiel explains, the Mariners had low expectations at the beginning of the season, and have yet to live up to them.
Last Place a Surprise
Art says that while no one expected the Mariners to win a World Series this year, he certainly didn't expect them to play this poorly. The Mariners have had their moments this season, but after recent series losses to teams like Oakland and San Diego (who have team payrolls of nearly $30 million dollars less than Seattle), the team sits with one of the worst records in baseball.
It's been very difficult because they've show flashes. They scored 21 runs against Texas, they had a six-pitcher no-hitter. They've done these incredible things, but it is all in spasm, without any consistency.
Roster is Biggest Fundamental Problem
Art explains that the Mariners roster issues play largely into the lack of success. Players like Ichiro, Chone Figgins, Brendan Ryan and Miguel Olivo are seasoned veterans soaking up a large part of the teams payroll, while not performing to the level that players with their salaries are expected to. On the other end of the spectrum, the team has a bunch of young players with little experience.
What this roster lacks is a hitter in his prime. Somebody who can hit .290 and get 25 home runs Somebody who the inexperienced guys can lean and rely on in times of pressure.
Solutions?
Art says that for the time being, Mariners fans are just going to have to deal with the roster the team currently has. He suggests that for most of the veterans on the team, there is no real trade market. For players the Mariners might be able to trade (like Felix Hernandez), the cons would likely outweigh the pros. Unloading players like Brendan Ryan and Chone Figgins would likely result in the Mariners still having to assume the majority of their salary while not getting a significant player in return. | http://kplu.org/post/mariners-arent-living-already-low-expectations | 2013-05-18T10:23:50 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Emmy-winning actor Jack Klugman, a versatile, raspy-voiced mainstay of U.S. television during the 1970s and early '80s through his starring roles in "The Odd Couple" and "Quincy, M.E.," died on Monday at the age. In addition to his TV success, sports writer Oscar Madison in the sitcom "The Odd Couple" - a role he also had played on Broadway - and then as a crusading coroner in the crime drama "Quincy, M U.S.." It was not until Klugman's cancer surgery, following years of heavy smoking and throat problems, that a friendship developed with Randall. Klugman had no voice and was glumly resigned to the end of his acting career, but with Randall's encouragement, he returned to the stage. They resurrected their "Odd Couple" roles in a 1993 TV movie, and Klugman paid tribute to Randall, who died in 2004, in the memoir "Tony and Me: A Story of Friendship." "Quincy, M.E.," which ran on NBC from 1976 to 1983, saw Klugman assume a heavy behind-the-scenes role. He recalled that he spent 20 hours a day working on the series, and he twice sued its producer, Universal Studios, for a share of the net profits he claimed were owed to him. LOVE OF HORSES Horses were perhaps Klugman's first love - both as a keen gambler starting in his teens and later as a breeder. One of his horses, Jaklin Klugman, finished third in the 1980 Kentucky Derby and earned millions as a stud. Born Jacob Joachim Klugman on April 27, 1922, he grew up in a tough Philadelphia neighborhood. In 1945 a loan shark was after him due to gambling losses so he fled to Pittsburgh, where he studied drama at Carnegie Tech and worked several jobs to settle his debts. Two years later in New York, Klugman appeared opposite Henry Fonda in the national stage production of "Mr. Roberts." In 1960, Klugman received a Tony nomination for his supporting role in the musical "Gypsy.". Klugman is survived by Crosby, his second wife, whom he married in 2008 after a 20-year courtship; and two sons, Adam and David, from his first marriage to late "Match Game" panelist Brett Somers. Klugman and Somers were separated for more than 30 years of their 54-year marriage, which ended with her death in 2007. | http://kpug1170.com/pages/15121742.php | 2013-05-18T10:12:40 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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The Commission of Inquiry under the Chairmanship of Justice (Retd.) Usha Mehra has requested the members of public to provide any information about the shocking incident of rape and brutal assault on a young woman in New Delhi on December 16.
“Any information, suggestions and responses may be sent through email at usha.mehracommission@nic.in or through Fax at 011-23093750 latest by January 10, 2013,” said a Home Ministry release.
All the members of the public including jurists, legal professionals, NGOs, media persons/ journalists, women groups are requested to suggest measures to improve the safety and security of women particularly in the National Capital Territory of Delhi and National Capital Region (NCR).
The commission will suggest measures to make Delhi and NCR safer for women. It will submit its report within three months, which will be tabled in Parliament along with action taken by the government.
Meanwhile, the 23-year-old Delhi gang-rape victim has significant brain injury, infection in lungs and abdomen and she is currently struggling against all odds at Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital where her condition continues to be ‘extremely critical’.
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Monday Reset
February 6, 2012
And just like that, another start to the week. Monday, done. In actuality, my week’s beginning wasn’t so bad. I ended last week at work on a really great mental high, so I’m glad I was able to carry that over into the weekend. One thing I’m glad I won’t be carrying over, is my tendency to eat more than necessary last week/weekend. Stress does strange and curious things, my friends, like make my body think it needs a Hershey Chocolate nugget (or 2) each day. Not only is this bad for the middle, milk chocolate tends to make me break out if I eat it too consistently. I’m putting a nice ol’ stop to it right here and now. But seriously, after last week’s pizza binge and this weekend’s superbowl festivities (which, I guess weren’t really SO bad), I feel like I need to clear out the system. Despite my best and probably somewhat successful efforts, I still feel like all I did these past few days has been eat eat eat eat eat. I try for the healthy – and being a vegetarian really helps with that, but sometimes you just can’t help packing it all in.
What’s interesting is that even though I enjoyed eating what I did, my mind and body cannot WAIT to get back to a healthier lifestyle. Even eating leftovers for lunch all last week, instead of fresh salads really changed how I was feeling. My appetite was out.of.control. I was starving every second of every day! So this week, my goal is to wrestle that appetite back under control, with some high fiber, high protein meals, especially at lunch time. Add in some healthy as possible dinners and some serious booty kicking at the gym this week – I think I’ll be good. So I’m going to break it down and ya’ll can keep me honest this week! So here goes:
I made my “creamy spinach” based loosely on this lovely recipe. To make a long story short, I didn’t use kale or olives and swapped out Almond milk for the soy. For my own twist, I added some slivers of fresh garlic, a generous helping of ground ginger and some grated carrots. To round out the meal with some protein (lentils) and grains (rice), I did a side of lentil/brown rice mixed together with some lightly sauted onions and currants, for a little bit of sweet. DELISH.
2. WORKOUTS
My training schedule this week will include at least THREE days of lifting. I’ve decided to increase my lifting regiment, in an effort to be more dedicated to weight training and see some results. I’ll also be doing two days of 4 mile runs and 2 days of XT, 40 minute each day and this weekend I have a 6 mile run on the books.
Here’s what I’ve decided for lifting tonight –it got to be a little tough towards the end with all of the plank/stability moves, but I definitely was sensing some form of improvement at the end. Similar to last week – I’m trying to incorporate some more core workouts by adding in the stability ball. Definitely a good way to tire out your arms!
Stability ball DB Tricep extensions – 3×12
Stability ball DB bench press – 3×12
Ball squats w/ curls combo – 3×12
Kettel Bell Figure 8s – 3×10
Stability ball leg curls-3×12
Stability ball plank leg lifts – 3×10
Plank to Pike – 3x as many as I could muster
DB shoulder press – 3×12
Reverse DB flies – 3×12
Stability ball back extension – 3×10
Other than that, my goals this week are to quit the snacking and break that nasty habit of chocolate every day. I’m also going to try as HARD AS I CAN to keep my coffee consumption to two cups a day. Usually I have about 3-4 cups on any given day, especially after an early morning workout. It’s a nasty way to dehydrate yourself and its time to switch over to water and tea (decaf!) in the afternoon. Hopefully this will get me back on track to feeling awesome in no time!
What do you guys think of my goals for the week? Do you find yourself trying to “reset” after most weekends? How do you do it – does it help to write it all out, like I do?
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Mount Saint Mary College presented its annual Christmas Vespers,
the Service of Nine Lessons and Carols with the Mount Saint Mary
College Choir and the Saint Philip's Church Choir, accompanied by
the Hudson Valley Chamber Players on Sunday, December 5.
The Mount Choir and the Saint Philip's Church Choir were
directed by Durward Entrekin, professor of music studies at the
Mount.
Father Francis Amodio, O.Carm., offered the Bidding Prayer to
begin the service. Lessons were read by Ryan O'Grady, a senior at
Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School in Hyde Park; Elaine O'Grady,
the Mount's executive director of operations and housing; Linnea
Mowat, a Mount sophomore; Laura Mowat of the Mount's Office of
Finance; Sr. Lorelle Elcock, prioress of the Dominican Sisters of
Hope; Kelly Yough, associate dean of students; James Gearity, chair
of the Mount's Division of Business; Fr. Kevin E. Mackin, OFM,
Mount president; and Abel Garraghan, chair of the Board of
Trustees.
The readings were followed by a candle lighting
ceremony.
The Service of Nine Lessons and Carols was composed by
Archbishop Benson while he was Bishop of Truro. It was later
modified for use in King's College Chapel, Cambridge, in 1918 by
its then Dean, the Very Reverend Eric Milner-White, to whom we also
owe the Bidding Prayer.
The College is grateful to Mr. Nicholas Valentine of Broadway
Tailors for his continued support, and to the Dominican Sisters of
Hope for the use of their Newburgh Center Chapel.
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Merry Christmas!!!
So this Christmas, apparently, I have no load and so I’d just like to thank the people who’ve touched my life in my blog which is one of the centerpieces of my communicative life :D Mind you, I’ll be using Tagalog in this post :D First time ever that I will use it in this blog… well, excessively more than I did the last time :D
So, to start off by thanking God for all the blessings and trials he’s given me. Without Him, I would be worth nothing and with this said, let me thank God also for my family. Muchos Gracias mi Familia!!!! I owe everything to God first and then to you guys next.
You’ve been such wonderful blessings to me. I know that we’ve all had our fair shares of fights, confrontations and sometimes even wars, but nonetheless, we’ve all proven that family is family, but more importantly, our family will always be our family and that no matter what, our love for each other will keep us closer each day.
My life would not be as it is without all the guidance and support you’ve given me from my darkest days and right into my glory days. The thought that we’ve all come from such a destructed place, and now rebuilding ourselves with stronger foundations makes me cry sometimes. I have to say that really, God is good because he’s allowed me to experience full joy with all of you now, before and forever. I promise to always be the best person I can be and I will always be there for all of you, not just because I owe it to you guys but because I want to because I love all of you :D Merry Christmas Family!!!!
Next on the list is my Auto Family where I’ve met so many great individuals. I know that our class our shop, and our family have gone through rough times in the past — from days we’d have brawls to days we’d bring alcohol to retreats and even to days when almost a half of our class would be called to the APSA (Asistant Principal for Student Affairs) just because we all wanted to bond with each other and do some unexpected things. Indeed, God has made me find a home in you guys. You know me well and I know all of you well. Hidden in our happy facade lies our secrets that we all so gladly keep and I love that about you guys, because as our saying goes “Walang laglagan” and with this said, I want to thank all of you for being forever my brothers. Our brotherhood is one thing I’ve kept in high regard all of these years… know that I will forever be grateful to all of you. Merry Christmas mga bro! :D
To my EAC family, who I dearly miss. From our first days as stingrays to our glory days as Admirals. Though I have not been as present as I needed to be, I have had much fun training with you guys as swimmers and as friends and as brothers and sisters. We’ve gone through gruesome trainings and undeniably great issues together so, allow me to thank each and every single one of you for being there with me during the rough patches between me and my dad because it was too much of a pressure for me having him coach the team I was in. I love all of you, from the bottom of my heart, I do. You all have left a distinct mark in me that not everybody has and though we’ve been disbanded as Admirals, that legacy continues in my heart :D GO ADMIRALS!!! :D
To my Barkada who look like rockers in the pictures above, I have loved that when everybody else had their own groups and cliques, that we’ve gotten our own chance of spending time with each other. It’s been such a long time that we’ve been friends and a lot of things have happened in our lives that only we’ve come to share with each other and through it all, we’ve remained as strong in this friendship as ever. Even though we haven’t gone to any major outings and trips yet, like other groups, I’m glad that I’ve actually spent so many hours of my life experiencing new things in the metro with you all and I’m hoping to experience more pero please, wag naman sa strip clubs sa red light district hahaha! :D To my best group of friends, Thank you and I hope we can all get together again soon :D Merry Christmas!
To my best friend, Lorenz!!! ayan ah! special mention ka! hahaha! You’ve never failed to make me laugh! Even more than I should sometimes, but despite of that, whenever I need someone to talk to and to confide in, you were always one of the people I’d look for kasi I know kahit di mo ko bigyan ng serious advice, that you’d still make me feel better. Thank you for the silly moments we had. Who would’ve known that we would be best friends diba? We’re total opposites but we managed to have come to terms in our friendship! Sorry for all the missed birthdays na di kita nabati. I already owe so much to you hahaha! Promise, I’ll make it up soon enough :D Promise mo din na isa ako sa mga una mong aayusin ang ngipin kapag licensed ka na ah! hahaha! I doubt I’ll get words of mercy and understanding from you when you see my teeth :D Merry Christmas Bespren! :D
To my Jzone family of whom I share most of my Facebook pictures with, I owe most of my leadership and social skills to you guys for just allowing me to grow with all of you. I cannot imagine my world right now without having all of you in my life. I have gone through struggles and pains, of which you’ve all never failed to comfort me and be with me. I cannot express how grateful I am to the Lord for giving me brothers and sisters in Christ like all of you. I have been led astray sometimes but your encouragements have helped me realize that some certainties are meant to be found in people like you guys :D Merry Christmas!!!!
To the MEGA Magazine family especially to Sir Avel, Sir Suki, Ms. Meryll, Sir Kris ,Sir Tedrick, Kuya Mycke, Guilly, Chelsea, Bjorn, Aldrich, Ate Tin, Jasmin, Phoebe, Argie and Clarence. Thank you so much! You guys believed in me when nobody else would and I say that again because I am so appreciative of all of you. It is no wonder that you guys have made it this far in the industry, because of the innovation you guys bring to the table but moreso your attitude towards people. I wish so much to call you “my” family but I would not wish to assume a place in it, although that is what I have felt from all of you. It has been like a warm embrace for me to have been welcomed by such revered and influential people like all of you. I know that all of you will continue to make waves of inspiration for everyone. Continue to shape lives and careers! Merry Christmas MEGA! :D
To the Penshoppe family, I want to thank you guys for trusting me with passes to your events and products for my giveaway. I have been so excited to see how Penshoppe does what it does and I’m so glad that in discovering how, that Ihave met such wonderful people along the process, namely, Sir Alex; Ms. Rocel; Queen B, Ms. Joyce Ramirez of Publicity Asia; Sir Albert who is partly in charge of the international sales of Penshoppe and Sir Bernie Liu :D You all have been so wonderfully humble and kind to me that it gives me hope that many large corporations in this country are also large families that bridge gap between people. You are all amazing people, as individuals and as a functioning body of a large company. I love how all of you talk and how all of you are just so kindled into each other’s lives. Again, Penshoppe, Thank you and hope to work with you guys again soon, not just on giveaways :D wait for me! I’m almost there :D Merry Christmas, Penshoppe!!!!
To the Questronix family, I am thrilled and overflowing with joy because of the fact that, God-willing, I will be working with you all :D it has been a good run for me, spending time with all of you and I still, in all my senses, cannot believe that I have found a home in Questronix. Quite, honestly, I was really nervous at first because I had never worked in an office environment before but getting to know you guys has seized my dread and has given me new hope for my future endeavors. I am glad that what I have experienced in the midst of all of you, will be experienced by many more as you guys make them feel at home as well. We have many more events to see together and I hope that when that day comes, we shall all be the best that we are because of what we all encourage each other to be. Merry Christmas, Questronix!
To my Blogger friends, new and old alike, Ana Gonzales, Frankie Torres, Paula De los Reyes, Tatie Aquino, Bjorn Bedayo, Paul Jatayna, David Guison, Jill Bantang, Firras Abboud, Karl Leuterio, Rap Erfe and Elpee Abias, thank you for being so nice and friendly. I have always held you guys at such a high pedestal that I forgot that you were humans too and it’s been so great feeling so welcomed by each and every single one of you. You guys have inspired me to do what I love best, which is writing and pursuing the arts. You guys have shown me the importance of Nike’s saying “Just Do It” and you have made me believe that everything is attainable, personally, romantically and financially. I have always believed that this community was a community full of snobs… boy, was I wrong :D I never thought, in my years of existence would I be doing what I am right now, so thank you and Merry Christmas, hope to see all of you again soon :D
To my friends and professors in Mapua and Don Bosco and those I’ve met over the past events I’ve attended and endeavors. It’s been such a wonderful ride in life because of all your quirks and attitude and just amazing feats. It’s always been my fear to enter college and to attend events but, when I met all of you, that fear just seemed to slip away somehow. You guys have been awesome from the simplest to the most extravagant ways. I will never forget you all as I embark on journeys in my life that require me to have courage because you guys have taught me how to be strong and kung pano kumapal mukha ko. I could have never been where I am without all of you! Merry Christmas sainyo!!!!
To all my dear Celebrity friends and acquaintances, I’m glad to have finally met you guys because again, as I told my blogger friends, I’ve held you guys at such a high of a pedestal that I forgot that you were humans too. was so shocked that you guys were so fun and approachable. I really wasn’t ready for conversations because I never thought that you guys would be so cool as to talk to people like me, who are just trying to penetrate into the industry, and give them a chance to be part of your lives no matter how small of a space that is. It’s been a good year for my blogging life and I’m glad I’ve got you guys to share that with as one of my dreams that have been reached. I have also, through you guys, been reminded to be always humble and kind to others because that is in essence why other people are drawn to you and not fame, not power, not fortune. It is love first :D so to the ever magnificent and elegant Bianca Gonzales, The always exuberant Tim Yap, the funny and kind Jon Avila, The lovely and “Bongels” couple Divine Lee and Victor Basa, the gracious ladies Teresa Herrera and Sarah Meier, the very dashing Mikael Daez and Super humble Markki Stroem, Thank you again and hope to see all of you again soon :D Maybe next event or next Fashion week or at a taping :D Oh and once I manage to put up and establish my own business, you’re all invited to the opening :D hahaha! Merry Christmas! :D
To my blog sponsors and soon to be sponsors, I have been privileged to work with you guys and to be a part of the list of people to entrust your names with. I cannot begin to say how thankful I am for all of you, it has always been impressed upon me that only celebrities get sponsors but, with your kindness and trust, I may not be a celebrity but I am now a certified sponsored blogger. I can now be validated a one person in the circle of people who have been blessed to be working with such great brands and names, so I must say that it’s been a great run for me doing blogging because I am assured that I have influential names backing me up. It makes me want to work harder and be better, so rest assured, I will carry the names of your brands with pride and I will promote it decently and even to the extent without cost, for the simplest reason that you’ve entrusted me great responsibilities that no one else would. Thank you again and Merry Christmas :D
To my brothers in Christ, my Beloved Dgroup of whom I am accountable to, next to God and my family. To Burgy, Tim, Patrick, Vijay, Zeke, Echo, Sam, Marco, Allaine, Jyru, James, Vincent, Jake, Lorenz, Eljohn, Noy, Janno, Yeager, Daniel, Jerwyn, Bastian, Kim, Christian, I just want to say how much I appreciate you guys! You’ve all impacted my life in more ways than one! I wouldn’t be who I am today without all of you! I owe my changed life to you all! Without you, I would still be out partying and not giving a care about anybody else but myself. Thanking you for accepting me for who I am but loving me enough to help me change for the better. I appreciate all your guidance, patience and most especially your love. It is with your continuous efforts that I continue to believe in the Lord. Without all of you, I might still be the self-absorbed suicidal atheist! You guys are one of my heroes and my strengths so Thank you so much!!!! I love you guys! :D Merry Christmas! Sana makasama ako sa Christmas overnight natin :D
How could I forget? I want to greet all of my readers a very merry Christmas! I wouldn’t also be where I am if it wasn’t for all of you! Undoubtedly, you are some of the best people I’ve met! It was nice meeting some of you online and it was nice meeting some of you personally too, especially when we go to events together :D I hope I have made you guys happy at some point in your lives. I might not be the best blogger but I sure do hope I’ve made an impact in your lives. I am always thankful to have such loyal readers. I cannot explain the contentment I feel whenever I hear you guys appreciate what I’ve written for you to read. It’s very heartwarming and sometimes, I do even cry when I read how you guys have loved my work. Please never grow tired of me as I will never get tired of all of you. You are one of my greatest source of inspiration and hope. I strive to be better because you uys are part of my reason to do so. May your Christmases bring you closer to your families! I love you all!!!! Merry Christmas :D
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For Super Bowl Ads, More Social-Media Savvy
Originally published on Fri February 1, 2013 5:17 pm
The, it father Transform No. 1 4 'release the hounds' situation — everyone reports about it."
Present company included.
Another commercial getting a lot of pregamedowns.
game attention is exactly what a brand wants. This way, maybe those millions of people watching the Super Bowl will actually be on the lookout for their ads.
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MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:
The Super Bowl is the biggest TV event of the year, and advertisers have paid up to $4 million for spots during the game, but that's not all. Many companies have been hard at work online trying to build buzz for those super spots, as NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports.
ELIZABETH BLAIR, BYLINE: The men's brand Axe even promises to turn you into an astronaut.
(SOUNDBITE OF AD)
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Join now at axeapollo.com for your chance to go to space.
BLAIR: Coca-Cola's ad is a race across the desert, and people can vote for how it should end.
(SOUNDBITE OF AD)
BLAIR: Lincoln ran a contest for the best tweets.
(SOUNDBITE OF AD)
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: We let you steer the script of the next Lincoln commercial.
BLAIR: Advertisers are counting on these pregame digital efforts to give their TV commercials, come game day, a boost. Doritos runs a contest called Crash the Super Bowl where people submit their own commercials. Out of some 3,000 entries this year, Doritos selected five finalists. Online, people can vote for their favorites, and they're pretty impressive. This one is called "Fashionista Daddy."
(SOUNDBITE OF AD)
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: Daddy, can you play princess fashion show with me?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: Sweetheart, I'd love to, but the guys, they're outside waiting for me.
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: I got Doritos.
BLAIR: Two of these ads will air during the Super Bowl. Ann Mukherjee, chief marketing officer for Frito-Lay which owns Doritos, says the benefits are huge for the winning filmmakers.
ANN MUKHERJEE: Whichever one does better will be the one that will work with Michael Bay on his next "Transformers" movie. And if any one of them wins number one on the ad meter, they get a million bucks.
BLAIR: Mukherjee says the most any of these finalists spent to produce their ads was just $5,000, but Mukherjee says Frito-Lay is still spending plenty of money running and promoting the contest. And Doritos is getting plenty of coverage, partly driven by the filmmakers who are naturally eager to spread the word themselves.
MUKHERJEE: Your consumers actually become your billboards. They're the ones who become the ambassadors that really talk about the integrity and the authenticity of a brand.
BLAIR: Integrity. Authenticity. Doritos. That's hard to say in the same breath. But the contest has more than 4 million likes on Facebook.
CHRIS HEINE: Like the Pepsis of the world, the Doritos of the world, they want as much social media splash as they can get from these ads.
BLAIR: Chris Heine, a reporter for Adweek, says when brands like Doritos, Coke and Lincoln run these contests, it gives them something cool to talk about other than, say, chips.
HEINE: They release a press release, and then a lot of the trade press - it's kind of a release-the-hounds situation. Everyone reports about it.
BLAIR: Present company included. The ad agency that did those popular Darth Vader commercials is back with a new campaign for Volkswagen. Deutsch LA's Mark Hunter says the Super Bowl is a lot of pressure.
MARK HUNTER: You know, it really is the sort of one big glory moment that's left for advertising, so we do think of it as very, very important and put a lot of time and energy into making those ads.
BLAIR: This time, Deutsch LA released a teaser that strings together YouTube videos of people having meltdowns.
(SOUNDBITE OF AD)
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: I'm sorry. I'm thinking about cats again.
BLAIR: The agency tracked down those people, flew them to California and took them to a hillside where reggae star Jimmy Cliff gets them happy.
(SOUNDBITE OF AD)
JIMMY CLIFF: (Singing) Oh, come on, come on, get happy. Come on, come on, yeah.
BLAIR: But some people are angry about the Volkswagen commercial that will actually air during the Super Bowl. It has a happy white guy speaking with a Jamaican accent.
(SOUNDBITE OF AD)
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #4: Julia, turn the frown the other way around.
BLAIR: A New York Times columnist, for example, told CNN it was like blackface with voices. Then a Jamaican government official came out and said he likes it. All this pregame back and forth is exactly what a brand wants. This way, maybe those millions of people watching the Super Bowl will be on the lookout for their ad. Elizabeth Blair, NPR News.
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This picture show's each floor of the Trade Center had an elevator shaft too follow all the way straight down!! Each floor was poured with concrete.On several floors the where big fuel oil tanks that served many purposes! With a big jet on fire stuck in the top of the tower, physics dictate's what would happen. My thought's are with the family's of the victim's that lost there lives on 9/11. What really happened at the Pentagon? That's my question? Peace!
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By and for the 99%, a visionary Blueprint for a Radical Remake of America (or any country)
Third Draft-mod C, November 14, 2011
Where do the Occupy and other progressive movements go from here? The grievances and the villains have been clearly identified, the philosophy and the operational principals established and there is a sense of optimism in the air that change is possible. I respectfully ask you to roll forward your clock to a day not too far in the future when, by some set of amazing and unforeseen events, the ideal outcome has arrived. Hold this thought for a moment. So, what would this ideal world look like? Anything you can imagine, so let’s put it together! To get us started I have penned a modest Blueprint for a Radical Remake below. Why do this kind of exercise you might ask? Having a vision for the best possible outcome is essential as it gives you a point in space to aim at. And we have all experienced that when a shared, clear vision is held and actively pursued, the universe always seems to provide all of the steps to reach it.
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Being Liberal
Following is the letter of resignation sent
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- German nazi terrorism scandal continues (dearkitty1.wordpress.com)
- NRA CEO Refutes Bob Costas, Says Kasandra Perkins Needed A Gun To Defend Against Jovan Belcher (huffingtonpost.com)
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It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning, I'm Renee Montagne.
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And I'm David Greene.
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Originally published on Fri March 22, 2013 8:55 am's allegedly could be turned into a home. The listing agent describes the property as something out of an old Japanese Godzilla movie.
Originally published on Fri March 22, 2013 10.
For eight decades, Daily Variety has been a Hollywood must-read for everyone from studio heads to actors looking for a big break. But the days of assistants running out to grab the "trades" are over: This week, the Los Angeles institution published its last daily Tue March 26, 2013 12:58 pm
Tucked inside a short-term funding measure that Congress approved Thursday is a provision that critics are denouncing as a "Monsanto Protection.
This week, optimists had no trouble finding fresh evidence to suggest that the housing market is recovering.
Originally published on Thu March 21, 2013 12:42 pm
The clock is ticking on Cyprus' fiscal cliff.
The European Central Bank has given the Mediterranean country just four days to come up with its own bailout plan, or a eurozone lifeline to its struggling banks will be severed.
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Bloomberg reports:
Originally published on Thu March 21, 2013 11:44 am
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
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We're tracking a cyber attack at the top of NPR's business news..
HP will celebrate its 75th birthday next year. The company was once a technology giant. But with old products, a lack of vision and a revolving door at the top, the company has been having trouble.
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Audrey M. Holyfield, 82, Mountain Home (Conner-Hankins)
Funeral services for 82 year old Audrey M. Holyfield of Mountain Home
will be private. Audrey M. Holyfield died February 28 at her residence. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday
at Conner-Hankins Funeral Home, with the family receiving friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Audrey M. Holyfield worked as a surgical receptionist for 17 years at Baxter Regional Medical Center and was a member of St. Peter's The Fisherman Catholic Church.
She is survived locally by a daughter, Linda Maul of Mountain Home; a grandaughter, Nicole Peterson of Mountain Home and two of three great-grandchildren, Josef and Amberley Lewis, both of Mountain Home.
Memorials may be made to the Humane Society of North Central Arkansas, 2656 Highway 201 North, Mountain Home 72653.
Arrangements are by Conner-Hankins Funeral Home.
Click here to visit the Conner-Hankins Funeral Home website and sign the guest book.
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Details are still coming in from Houston, where the Chronicle's main headline at this moment is "Kindergartner's Gun Injured 3 At Houston School."
Local TV station KPRC says that "three children were injured [this morning] when a gun brought to an elementary school by a 6-year-old discharged."
My Fox in Houston writes that "police and medical responders were called to Betsy Ross Elementary School in Houston after a gun accidentally discharged, injuring three students. A six-year-old is accused of bringing the gun on campus." It adds that:
"A spokesman for the Houston Independent School District tells FOX 26 News a kindergarten student bourght the loaded weapon to school. It fell out of his backpack during the lunch period and discharged, injuring him and two of his classmates."
Reports indicate none of the injuries are serious.
Update at 3:50 p.m. ET. The Chronicle now reports that:
"The pistol fell out of a pants pocket of the 6-year-old boy, who was not identified, and fell on the floor of cafeteria of Ross Elementary School. ...
"The boy who brought the gun was wounded in the foot, another 6-year-old boy was wounded in the leg and a 5-year-old girl was wounded in the foot, Spencer said. The students were either hit by a single bullet and/or fragments, officials said." Copyright 2011 National Public Radio. To see more, visit. | http://kunc.org/post/houston-kindergartner-reportedly-brings-gun-school-three-injured | 2013-05-18T10:57:15 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Wed June 20, 2012
Regulators begin hearing on oil and gas pit rule changes
A panel of New Mexico regulators will be taking more comments about revising regulations of how energy developers dispose of drilling waste.
The Santa Fe New Mexican reports the Oil Conservation Commission is scheduled to begin a hearing Wednesday in Santa Fe on the state's current pit rule.
The rule was established four years ago to address concerns about contamination of surface water. It governs how oil and gas producers handle wastes from drilling operations in buried tanks, sumps and pits.
Oil and gas companies say the pit rule has increased their cost by requiring unnecessary design requirements and additional paperwork. Environmentalists and residents argue some of the proposed changes would weaken protection of wildlife habitats from oilfield pits. | http://kunm.org/post/regulators-begin-hearing-oil-and-gas-pit-rule-changes | 2013-05-18T10:23:50 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Near Death Experience
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are common enough that they have entered our everyday language. Phrases like “my whole life flashed before my eyes” and “go to the light” come from decades of research into these strange, seemingly supernatural experiences that some people have when they’re at the brink of death. But what exactly are NDEs? Are they hallucinations? Spiritual experiences? Proof of life after death? Or are they simply chemical changes in the brain and sensory organs in the moments prior to death?Read more »
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My Near-death Experiences
In 1st grade — I was diagnosed with a cardiac condition that led to multiple near death experiences throughout childhood. From those experiences, I developed a mystical approach to life. There were five instances of ‘death’ and resurrection through a ‘divine’ hand during childhood and two instances during my adult life. The ‘near-death’ and ‘death’ experiences were a common fact of life to me during my childhood days. As an adult, I developed a ‘ dissociation’ due to the trauma from the cardiac condition and buried memories of childhood.Read more » | http://kuriakon00.com/nde/ | 2013-05-18T10:31:15 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Who is Responsible for Talent Management?
If you have employees reporting to you, do you view the talent management of your employees as your responsibility, or HR’s responsibility? Talent management expert Dr. Curtis L. Odom would say that it is your responsibility.
In his article, Is Talent Management Really HR’s Job?, Odom argues that the leader of employees is naturally the person who should be managing their career growth, not an HR staffer who does not directly work with the employees on a daily basis.
“The truth is that for talent management to be pervasive and effective in an organization, the primary responsibility should be placed in the hands of the direct managers of employees,” says Odom. He adds that talent management needs to be seen as every leader’s responsibility and they need to be equipped with how to manage that talent.
“If you are a leader,” Odom argues, “your primary job focus should be leading people. That cannot be seen as less important than balancing the department budget. You are on the front line managing the talent of the organization.”
He discusses the 70-20-10 model of management, arguing that 70% of a leader’s time should be spent developing his or her people by giving them challenging assignments, and 20% spent on coaching and mentoring them around tasks and behaviors. “…90% of your time should be developing the current bench of talent for the future needs of the organization. That’s talent management,” says Odom. “In reality, in many organizations it’s the other way around. I know this from my own experience. At one organization, I spent 70% of my time doing administrative work, 20% coaching and mentoring people, and 10% leading them.”
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5hrs of basketball felt amazing. Practiced for 2hrs and finally found my shot. Played 3 full court basketball games and somehow won all 3. Never thought I would block a shot from behind on a fast break play. Met a beautiful girl who was phenomenal as a shooting guard. Wish I could meet more girls who have the same passion of basketball as I miss living in jersey city
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In Miami, A New Condo Boom Revives Hopes Of Housing Recovery
Originally published on Fri February 22, 2013 6.
"Ultimately there will probably be about 25 to 30 towers, probably close to 12,000 units that are all going to be announced or are in the planning stages," he says. "But basically, South Florida is in the begging of its whole new condo boom all over again."
Once again, much of downtown Miami is filled with construction equipment and workers.
At the Brickell CityCentre project, excavators, augers, dump trucks and bulldozers are at work on a nine-acre site. It's the largest construction project under way in Florida.
It's a mixed-use project that will include offices, retail space and at least two residential towers. Just blocks away, cranes are at work raising two other new residential projects.
It's a remarkable comeback for developers and the construction industry in Miami, and there's one simple explanation: "Miami never lost its international appeal," says Stephen Owens, president of Swire, the developer working on the CityCentre project.
Like most developers, Swire got some bruises when the last condo boom crashed. When the music stopped in 2008, there were 22,000 residential units for sale in Miami — an oversupply, Owens says, that many thought would last for decades.
"And here we are," he says, "there are about 1,200 units of that original 22,000 that remain unsold. That says so much about the market."
Appealing To Foreign Buyers
It's a market largely made up of foreign buyers — Latin Americans, Europeans, Russians — looking for a second home or an investment. When the market collapsed, those foreign buyers, mostly paying cash, snapped up many of the Miami condos at cut-rate prices.
With foreign buyers in mind, developers in South Florida are now using a new financing model. They're requiring customers to put down 50 percent or more of the total cost before construction begins.
It's the way residential projects have long been financed in Latin America, and with banks leery about financing new condos, it's now become the norm in Miami. That's how this condo boom in Miami differs from the last one.
"It does very much take out the speculator," Owens says. "Even if there's a speculator out there, he's not going to tie up very many units at that level."
With more money in the game, it's believed buyers will be less likely to walk away if the market turns down.
And with many well-heeled foreign buyers ready to finance new condo projects throughout South Florida, developers are once again selling luxury living.
At another new project, Marina Palms in North Miami, sales director Michael Internoscia takes customers through a just-completed sales center — complete with a model 2,100-square-foot, two-bedroom unit. He shows off imported Italian cabinetry used in the kitchen and bathroom, plus top-line appliances and a heated toilet and bidet, complete with a remote control.
"Every detail was thought of when we designed the kitchens — knowing what people would want, knowing what upscale would be, kind of what a five-star residence should look like," Internoscia says.
'Success Stories' Could Help The Boom Expand
Aiming at an even more exclusive market, some developers in South Florida are selling ultra-luxury living — projects with car elevators and private pools on each terrace priced in the tens of millions.
For now, it's a market made up almost entirely of international buyers. And for domestic buyers — used to traditional home financing — requiring a 50 to 80 percent down payment is a hard pill to swallow.
But Anthony Burns, one of the developers of Marina Palms, says he thinks it's only a matter of time before this new boom convinces banks it may be safe to dip back into Miami's condo market.
"They've been licking their wounds for a long time from the crash that happened down here in Miami," he says. "But nothing will get them back in the market faster than seeing the success stories of these first projects that are going up."
If banks come back with financing and domestic buyers get back into the market, Miami's new condo rush could expand into the rest of Florida. This boom, developers say, is more sustainable than the last one, with better financial safeguards.
But Burns says there's something else developers know: It's better to get in at the beginning of the boom than just before the bust.
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A Human-Powered Helicopter: Straight Up Difficult
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New App Allows You to Tweet From Beyond the Grave
A controversial new app set to be released in March aims to keep the Twitter statuses of the dead and buried alive, by continuously updating them long after the worms eat into their brains.
LivesOn, which promises “When your heart stops beating, you’ll keep tweeting,” is said to use artificial intelligence algorithms to analyze the Twitter feeds of the deceased and then continue to post accordingly in a style typical of their online behavior and writing style. It’s all done on computers, so you don’t have to worry about anyone suturing your cell phone to your cold, dead hands. If that’s any…comfort?
According to Dave Bedwood, one of the creators of LivesOn, the response to the app has teetered on the heavy side of negative, simply because most people are confused about how they should feel about the ethics surrounding social networking from beyond the grave. We’re still not comfortable with the idea of dying, so actually, being able to keep up with the latest tweets after we’re six feet under is almost comforting.
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While LivesOn is not the first social networking tool for the deceased, it is the first of its kind to allow automatic ghostwriting in the written voice of the dead user. Perhaps now would be a good time to start making tweets about being buried alive, just to mess with everyone on your feed.
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Roger Waters at the 12-12-12 concert with Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder doing a song from The Wall, first performed in America tonight in 1980. (Larry Bussaca/Getty Images)
Reporting Scott Vanderpool
Buddy Holly was buried in his native Lubbock Texas today in 1959, 5 days after “The Day the Music Died” plane crash that killed him outside of Clear Lake Iowa. There were limited seats on the small plane for the Winter Dance Party Tour entourage, with the rest of the performers and crew taking a bus, and Buddy Holly and the Crickets bass player Waylon Jennings had given up his seat on the plane to J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, who was complaining of a nasty cold and how uncomfortable a long bus trip would be for a man of his size. Buddy had jokingly told Waylon “I hope your ‘ol bus freezes up!”, to which Jennings replied “Well, I hope your ‘ol plane crashes.” He regretted that comment for years afterward. Over 1000 people attended the funeral, and on the same day Ritchie Valenz, also killed in the plane crash, was buried at the San Fernando Mission cemetary in California.
Here’s the reason for KZOK’s British Invasion Weekend, which starts Friday afternoon at 3pm with Stacy Ireland: It was today in 1964 that Pan Am flight 101 landed at New York’s JFK airport, bringing The Beatles to America for the first time. They were met by 5000+ screaming fans, and the first successful British Invasion since Redcoats burned the White House in the war of 1812 was underway.
The Who were at Morgan Studios in London today in 1969, laying down what would be the biggest hit from Pete Townsend’s Tommy rock opera. They have played Pinball Wizard at almost every live show they’ve played (including the Super Bowl in 2010) since first playing it live in May of that year.
Doors frontman Jim Morrison was arrested in Los Angeles today in 1969 for driving under the influence of alcohol without a license. Yes, those are separate charges, you can’t get a license for driving drunk.
Shocking Blue became the first band from Holland to have a #1 hit in the U.S. today in 1970. Venus would be their only hit, though their song Love Buzz would be covered and released as the first single from Seattle’s Nirvana.
Stephen Stills was the first major performer to record entirely on digital equipment today in 1979 at The Record Plant studio in Los Angeles. At the time Audiophiles were excited about the precision and clarity of the new format, but interestingly it’s Stills’ old Buffalo Springfield bandmate Neil Young who’s been leading a backlash against digital audio. He and Apple’s Steve Jobs were working on a new format that Neil said “would bring back the warmth of vinyl records” when Jobs died in 2011.
Pink Floyd played the first of 7 consecutive sold-out nights at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena tonight in 1980, the first of only two U.S. stops on The Wall tour (they also did 5 nights in New York). To build and then tear down The Wall during the show, Floyd hired a number of UCLA football players as stage hands, including the future leading scorer in Seattle Seahawks history, placekicker Norm Johnson.
Taking a cue from comedian Ross Shafer’s campaign to make “Louie Louie” the State song of Washington two years earlier, Georgia State Representative Billy Randall (Now a judge in Macon, not to be confused with tea-party conservative Bill Randall of North Carolina who lost his bid for re-election in 2010) introduced a measure today in 1990 to make one of the first songs by an African American to get played on white radio, and one that profoundly influenced The Beatles, Little Richard’s 1955 hit Tutti Frutti the state song. Though Little Richard Penniman was from Macon, Randall’s fellow bible-belt legislators shuddered at the thought of official recognition for a song full of “unwholesome sexual connotations”, and the Georgia State song remains the one written by a man from Florida who got his start in music here in Seattle: Ray Charles’ Georgia On My Mind.
“Lonesome” Dave Peverett, guitarist, singer, and songwriter with Savoy Brown and Foghat lost a long battle with kidney cancer at age 56 today in 2000. Encouraged by uber-producer Rick Rubin to re-form the original Foghat in 1993, he continued to write, record, and tour with them even through chemotherapy.
The widow Cobain Courtney Love arrived at a benefit concert at London’s Old Vic Theater tonight in 2003 dressed as Donald Duck, where she joined Elton John on stage in a spirited version of The Bitch is Back.
Rock and Roll Birthdays
Three Dog Night’s keyboard player Jimmy Greenspoon is 64.
Status Quo founder and bass player Alan Lancaster is 63.
Rock and Blues singer Deborah Bonham is 50. She’s the younger sister of Led Zeppelin’s drummer John, and has toured with Van Halen, Humble Pie, Donvan, Jools Holland, Foreigner, and Paul Rodgers. | http://kzok.cbslocal.com/2013/02/07/why-kzoks-british-invasion-weekend-is-in-february-seahawks-all-time-leading-scorer-builds-floyds-the-wall-this-day-in-classic-rock-video/ | 2013-05-18T10:31:01 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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See description for same book above.
June Jacobsen has been creating canvas wall portraits since the early 1980's. She won the honor of Top Portrait Photographer for four consecutive years in the Professional Photographers of Greater New York. Her images and articles on portraiture have been published worldwide and she teaches 'Classic Portraiture and Lighting in a Digital World'. Working towards the Master of Photography Degree, June earned numerous national awards for portrait and landscape images.
A fascination with polar regions has taken June to the ends of the earth, but she visits her homeland, Norway, most often. She lives and works on Long Island and travels for portrait work as well as for leisure and photography.
Fecha de publicación 17 de mayo de 2011
Dimensiones Apaisado estándar 154 páginas Papel estándar
Etiquetas drake passage, elephant seals, antarctica, penguins, icebergs | http://la.blurb.com/b/2187097-antarctica-free-ebook | 2013-05-18T10:31:25 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Streetsies 2011 Person of the Year
Your nominees are the Streetsie “People of the Year” from earlier with the runners up for each award thrown in for good measure.
Politician of the Year: Antonio Villaraigosa+
Runner Up: Mark Ridley-Thomas
Advocate of the Year: Sunyoung Yang
Advocate of the Year: Colin Bogart
Blogger of the Year: Brigham Yen
Runner Up: Ted Rogers
Government Worker of the Year: Rye Baerg
Runner Up: Planning’s Claire Bowen, LADOT’s Kang Hu
Streetsblog Contributor of the Year: Dana Gabbard
Runner Up: Mark Vallianatos
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It’s not every LACMA staffer who is involved in putting together an exhibition and who also finds his face in the show. Such is the case for Ryan Linkof, Ralph M. Parsons Curatorial Fellow in the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department, and the current exhibition The Sun and Other Stars: Katy Grannan and Charlie White. Unframed’s Stephanie Sykes walked through the exhibition with Ryan to discuss what the inclusion of his school portrait means to the exhibition.
Installation view, The Sun and Other Stars: Katy Grannan and Charlie White, © Charlie White, photo © 2012 Museum Associates/LACMA
How did you end up as part of Charlie White’s exhibited research material?
I helped Charlie and his assistant put together this piece, which is a purpose-built installation of teen ephemera, dating from the 1940s through the present day. The images are taken from teen and tween magazines and vintage advertisements that Charlie has collected over the years. Some of it he’d had for decades; some of it he got on eBay; some of it he had his assistant buy that day from Walgreen’s. His intent was to show the production and manufacture of the blonde teenager as a central part of the American mythology of youth.
As I was helping him, I was looking at a picture of Ricky Schroder from the mid-1980s and jokingly mentioned that I looked a little bit like him as a child. He laughed and said, “I can imagine,” and asked me to send him a picture. I knew I had this school portrait that was a point of shame and embarrassment for me for a long time, but which now I quite like. I used to fear that my friends would see it because it highlights all the naïve tween vulnerability that I really wanted to dispel in my later teen years. There’s something about those feathered bangs and pink and purple lettering that doesn’t exactly shout masculinity, which is something I worried about as a teenager.
I sent him the image, and he immediately said he wanted to include it. So, there I am.
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How do you feel your image sits amongst the others?
It fits well within the piece. There’s a naïve, blonde, happy quality that I’m exuding that is definitely part of the celebrity culture Charlie captures. A lot of this exhibition plays with the real versus the prosthetic. At what point does the mythology of teen life become reality, and vice versa? This picture is not contrived for public distribution, and I was very much that pink-cheeked child. The fact that I resemble so closely these other produced identities—which are carefully designed and marketed for mass consumption—speaks to the ways in which the manufactured image and the lived reality of a particular type of youth experience is often one and the same, both feeding off of one another.
It’s interesting that this image was in some ways a source of shame for you, yet here it sits in an installation examining the idealized American youth. When you were younger, did you have any concept of your pop culture appeal? Did you realize you were a part of this culture?
I was an avid consumer of all these things. I had an older sister and read all these magazines, so in some way I was absorbing this visual culture.
It’s hard to say if I was aware of my role within the system of pop culture back then. At a certain point in my life, I really wanted to be in the entertainment industry, so yes, I suppose in some way I wanted to be part of it and wanted to look like that. I mean, look how happy I seem!
Installation view, The Sun and Other Stars: Katy Grannan and Charlie White, © Charlie White, photo © 2012 Museum Associates/LACMA. Ryan’s photo is in the lower right corner.
The Sun and Other Stars: Katy Grannan and Charlie White fixates on the aspirational. I see that in your picture as well. The Yale sweatshirt reveals a desire to be more than just a pretty face, to show that there’s a brain to go with it.
I grew up in a really small rural town in Oregon with poor public schooling, so the notion that I was going to go to Yale was a big hope and dream. It’s a slightly different aspiration than what’s happening in the exhibition’s other works, which is really more of a desire to be famous or seen or known, but there’s still an element of desire that I think is similar.
Aspiration is a large fixture of Katy Grannan’s section of the exhibition, the idea of hoping against hope that the impossible can be possible. That especially comes to play in her film piece, The Believers.
Now that you’re all grown up and no longer wearing your Yale sweatshirt, whose series of portraits do you relate to more: Katy’s or Charlie’s?
I still have so much pop culture in me. I love teen movies and sugar pop music, but at the same time I have a serious academic side and really appreciate eccentricity. There is something about the uniformity of this celebrity culture that is nauseating and even dangerous, but is also part of its appeal. I think that’s Charlie’s interest—not that he’s celebrating the culture, but examining the power of the recycling of visual tropes. My heart is really with Katy’s subjects in the sense that she’s interested in individuals, and Charlie’s quite the opposite, looking for uniformity and the evacuation of individuality. Seen like this—with all of these blue eyes staring out at you—there’s something even ugly about this kind of unblemished beauty. These kids are part of a machine designed to tell people how they should and shouldn’t look.
Which is literally what Charlie White’s A Life in B Tween discusses: that life is more beautiful when it comes at you through a machine.
Yes, and through a camera, which is a part of the logic in Katy’s contribution to the exhibition. For some people, life is only fulfilling when they’re being photographed. They only exist if someone is there to document them.
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