People can rob us of our joy. Paul was facing his problems with people at Rome (Phil. 1:15-18) as well as with people in Philippi, and it was the latter who concerned him the most. When Epaphroditus brought a generous gift from the church in Philippi, and good news of the church's concern for Paul, he also brought the bad news of a possible division in the church family. Apparently there was a double threat to the unity of the church; false teachers coming in from without (Phil. 3:1-3) and disagreeing members within (Phil. 4:1-3). What Euodia ("fragrance") and Syntyche ("fortunate") were debating about, Paul does not state.
Paul knew what some church workers today do not know, that there is a difference between unity and uniformity. True spiritual unity comes from within; it is a matter of the heart. Uniformity is the result of pressure from without. This is why Paul opens this section appealing to the highest possible spiritual motives (Phil. 2:1-4). Since the believers at Philippi are "in Christ," this ought to encourage them to work toward unity and love, not division and rivalry. In a gracious way, Paul is saying to the church, "Your disagreements reveal that there is a spiritual problem in your fellowship. It isn't going to be solved by rules or threats; it's going to be solved when your hearts are right with Christ and with each other." Paul wanted them to see that the basic cause was selfishness, and the cause of selfishness is pride. There can be no joy in the life of the Christian who puts himself above others.
The secret of joy in spite of circumstances is the single mind. The secret of joy in spite of people is the submissive mind. The key verse is: "Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better [more important] than themselves" (Phil. 2:3). In Philippians 1, it is "Christ first" and in Philippians 2 it is "others next" Paul the soul winner in Philippians 1 becomes Paul the servant in Philippians 2.
It is important that we understand what the Bible means by "humility." The humble person is not one who thinks meanly of himself; he simply does not think of himself at all! (I think Andrew Murray said that.) Humility is that grace that, when you know you have it, you have lost it. The truly humble person knows himself and accepts himself (Rom. 12:3). He yields himself to Christ to be a servant, to use what he is and has for the glory of God and the good of others. "Others" is the key idea in this chapter (Phil. 2:3-4); the believer's eyes are turned away from himself and focused on the needs of others.
The "submissive mind" does not mean that the believer is at the beck and call of everybody else or that he is a "religious doormat" for everybody to use! Some people try to purchase friends and maintain church unity by "giving in" to everybody else's whims and wishes. This is not what Paul is suggesting at all. The Scripture puts it perfectly: "ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake" (2 Cor. 4:5). If we have the single mind of Philippians 1, then we will have no problem with the submissive mind of Philippians 2.
Paul gives us four examples of the submissive mind: Jesus Christ (Phil. 2:1-11), Paul himself (Phil. 2:12-18), Timothy (Phil. 2:19-24), and Epaphroditus (Phil. 2:25-30). Of course, the great Example is Jesus, and Paul begins with Him. Jesus Christ illustrates the four characteristics of the person with the submissive mind.
The "mind" of Christ means the "attitude" Christ exhibited. "Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus" (Phil. 2:5, niv). After all, outlook determines outcome. If the outlook is selfish, the actions will be devisive and destructive. James says the same thing (see James 4:1-10).
These verses in Philippians take us to eternity past. "Form of God" has nothing to do with shape or size. God is Spirit (John 4:24), and as such is not to be thought of in human terms. When the Bible refers to "the eyes of the Lord" or "the hand of the Lord," it is not claiming that God has a human shape. Rather, it is using human terms to describe divine attributes (the characteristics of God) and activities. The word "form" means "the outward expression of the inward nature." This means that in eternity past, Jesus Christ was God. In fact, Paul states that He was "equal with God." Other verses such as John 1:1-4; Colossians 1:15; and Hebrews 1:1-3 also state that Jesus Christ is God.
A reporter was interviewing a successful job counselor who had placed hundreds of workers in their vocations quite happily. When asked the secret of his success, the man replied: "If you want to find out what a worker is really like, don't give him responsibilities—give him privileges. Most people can handle responsibilities if you pay them enough, but it takes a real leader to handle privileges. A leader will use his privileges to help others and build the organization; a lesser man will use privileges to promote himself." Jesus used His heavenly privileges for the sake of others—for our sake.
It would be worthwhile to contrast Christ's attitude with that of Lucifer (Isa. 14:12-15) and Adam (Gen. 3:1-7). Many Bible students believe that the fall of Lucifer is a description of the fall of Satan. He once was the highest of the angelic beings, close to the throne of God (Ezek. 28:11-19), but he desired to be on the throne of God! Lucifer said, "I will!" but Jesus said, "Thy will." Lucifer was not satisfied to be a creature; he wanted to be the Creator! Jesus was the Creator, yet He willingly became man. Christ's humility is a rebuke to Satan's pride.
Lucifer was not satisfied to be a rebel himself; he invaded Eden and tempted man to be a rebel. Adam had all that he needed; he was actually the "king" of God's creation ("let them have dominion," Gen. 1:26). But Satan said, "Ye shall be as God!" Man deliberately grasped after something that was beyond his reach, and as a result plunged the whole human race into sin and death. Adam and Eve thought only of themselves; Jesus Christ thought of others.
We expect unsaved people to be selfish and grasping, but we do not expect this of Christians, who have experienced the love of Christ and the fellowship of the Spirit (Phil. 2:1-2). More than twenty times in the New Testament, God instructs us how to live with "one another." We are to prefer one another (Rom. 12:10), edify one another (1 Thes. 5:11), and bear each other's burdens (Gal. 6:2). We should not judge one another (Rom. 14:13) but rather admonish one another (Rom. 15:14). Others is the key word in the vocabulary of the Christian who exercises the submissive mind.
Thinking of "others" in an abstract sense only is insufficient; we must get down to the nitty-gritty of true service. A famous philosopher wrote glowing words about educating children but abandoned his own. It was easy for him to love children in the abstract, but when it came down to practice, that was something else. Jesus thought of others and became a servant! Paul traces the steps in the humiliation of Christ: (1) He emptied Himself, laying aside the independent use of His own attributes as God; (2) He permanently became a human, in a sinless physical body; (3) He used that body to be a servant; (4) He took that body to the cross and willingly died.
What grace! From heaven to earth, from glory to shame, from Master to servant, from life to death, "even the death of the cross!" In the Old Testament Age, Christ had visited earth on occasion for some special ministry (Gen. 18 is a case in point), but these visits were temporary. When Christ was born at Bethlehem, He entered into a permanent union with humanity from which there could be no escape. He willingly humbled Himself that He might lift us up! Note that Paul uses the word "form" again in Philippians 2:7, "the outward expression of the inward nature." Jesus did not pretend to be a servant; He was not an actor playing a role. He actually was a servant! This was the true expression of His innermost nature. He was the God-Man, Deity and humanity united in one, and He came as a servant.
Have you noticed as you read the four Gospels that it is Jesus who serves others, not others who serve Jesus? He is at the beck and call of all kinds of people—fishermen, harlots, tax collectors, the sick, the sorrowing. "Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many" (Matt. 20:28). In the Upper Room, when His disciples apparently refused to minister, Jesus arose, laid aside His outer garments, put on the long linen towel, and washed their feet! (John 13) He took the place of a menial slave! This was the submissive mind in action—and no wonder Jesus experienced such joy!
During the American Civil War, Gen. George B. McClellan was put in charge of the great Army of the Potomac, mainly because public opinion was on his side. He fancied himself to be a great military leader and enjoyed hearing the people call him "a young Napoleon." However, his performance was less than sensational. President Lincoln commissioned him General-in-Chief, hoping this would get some action; but still he procrastinated. One evening, Lincoln and two of his staff members went to visit McClellan, only to learn that he was at a wedding. The three men sat down to wait, and an hour later the general arrived home. Without paying any attention to the President, McClellan went upstairs and did not return. Half an hour later, Lincoln sent the servant to tell McClellan that the men were waiting. The servant came back to report McClellan had gone to bed!
His associates angry, Lincoln merely got up and led the way home. "This is no time to be making points of etiquette and personal dignity," the President explained. "I would hold McClellan's horse if he will only bring us success." This attitude of humility was what helped to make Lincoln a great man and a great President. He was not thinking of himself; he was thinking of serving others. Service is the second mark of the submissive mind.
Many people are willing to serve others if it does not cost them anything. But if there is a price to pay, they suddenly lose interest. Jesus "became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross" (Phil. 2:8). His was not the death of a martyr but the death of a Saviour. He willingly laid down His life for the sins of the world.
The person with the submissive mind does not avoid sacrifice. He lives for the glory of God and the good of others; and if paying a price will honor Christ and help others, he is willing to do it. This was Paul's attitude (Phil. 2:17), Timothy's (Phil. 2:20), and also Epaphroditus' (Phil. 2:30). Sacrifice and service go together if service is to be true Christian ministry.
In his book Dedication and Leadership, Douglas Hyde explains how the Communists succeed in their program. A member of the Communist Party himself for twenty years, Hyde understands their philosophy. He points out that the Communists never ask a man to do a "mean, little job." They always ask him boldly to undertake something that will cost him. They make big demands, and they get a ready response. Mr. Hyde calls "the willingness to sacrifice" one of the most important factors in the success of the Communist program. Even the youths in the movement are expected to study, serve, give, and obey, and this is what attracts and holds them.
He sat down, and the new youth pastor smiled to himself. He had privately challenged the teens to do something that would cost them—and they enthusiastically responded to the challenge. He knew that sacrifice is necessary if there is going to be true growth and ministry.
The test of the submissive mind is not just how much we are willing to take in terms of suffering, but how much we are willing to give in terms of sacrifice. One pastor complained that his men were changing the words of the hymn from "Take my life and let it be" to "Take my wife and let me be!" They were willing for others to make the sacrifices, but they were unwilling to sacrifice for others.
It is one of the paradoxes of the Christian life that the more we give, the more we receive; the more we sacrifice, the more God blesses. This is why the submissive mind leads to joy; it makes us more like Christ. This means sharing His joy as we also share in His sufferings. Of course, when love is the motive (Phil. 2:1), sacrifice is never measured or mentioned. The person who constantly talks about his sacrifices does not have the submissive mind.
Is it costing you anything to be a Christian?
This, of course, is the great goal of all that we do—to glorify God. Paul warns us against "vainglory" in Philippians 2:3. The kind of rivalry that pits Christian against Christian and ministry against ministry is not spiritual, nor is it satisfying. It is vain, empty. Jesus humbled Himself for others, and God highly exalted Him; and the result of this exaltation is glory to God.
Our Lord's exaltation began with His resurrection. When men buried the body of Jesus, that was the last thing any human hands did to Him. From that point on, it was God who worked. Men had done their worst to the Saviour, but God exalted Him and honored Him. Men gave Him names of ridicule and slander, but the Father gave Him a glorious name! Just as in His humiliation He was given the name "Jesus" (Matt. 1:21), so in His exaltation He was given the name "Lord" (Phil. 2:11; see Acts 2:32-36). He arose from the dead and then returned in victory to heaven, ascending to the Father's throne.
His exaltation included sovereign authority over all creatures in heaven, on earth, and under the earth. All will bow to Him (see Isa. 45:23). It is likely that "under the earth" refers to the lost, since God's family is either in heaven or on earth (Eph. 3:14-15). One day all will bow before Him and confess that He is Lord. Of course, it is possible for people to bow and confess today, and receive His gift of salvation (Rom. 10:9-10). To bow before Him now means salvation; to bow before Him at the judgment means condemnation.
The whole purpose of Christ's humiliation and exaltation is the glory of God (Phil. 2:11). As Jesus faced the cross, the glory of the Father was uppermost in His mind, "Father, the hour is come; glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee" (John 17:1). In fact, He has given this glory to us (John 17:22), and one day we shall share it with Him in heaven (John 17:24; see Rom. 8:28-30). The work of salvation is much greater and grander than simply the salvation of a lost soul, as wonderful as that is. Our salvation has as its ultimate purpose the glory of God (Eph. 1:6, 12, 14).
The person with the submissive mind, as he lives for others, must expect sacrifice and service; but in the end, it is going to lead to glory. "Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time" (1 Peter 5:6). Joseph suffered and served for thirteen years; but then God exalted him and made him the second ruler of Egypt. David was anointed king when he was but a youth. He experienced years of hardship and suffering, but at the right time, God exalted him as king of Israel.
The joy of the submissive mind comes not only from helping others, and sharing in the fellowship of Christ's sufferings (Phil. 3:10), but primarily from the knowledge that we are glorifying God. We are letting our light shine through our good works, and this glorifies the Father in heaven (Matt. 5:16). We may not see the glory today, but we shall see it when Jesus comes and rewards His faithful servants.
Source: Adapted from the Bible Exposition Commentary (BE Series) – New Testament, Volume 2.
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PM's tribute as body of Jarrow-born soldier Capt Dean Sprouting, who died in Iraq, returns to UK
Prime Minister Theresa May has paid tribute to a Jarrow-born soldier killed on active service in Iraq.
Capt Sprouting's coffin is carried from the plane
A Hercules transport aircraft carrying the Union Flag-draped coffin of Capt Dean Sprouting touched down at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire today.
Speaking in Parliament yesterday, Mrs May said: "I know that the whole House will join me in paying tribute to Captain Dean Sprouting, who died in a road traffic accident in Iraq on 31 January. His death was not the result of enemy activity.
Capt Sprouting's coffin is carried from the Hercules
"I know that members in all parts of the House will want to join me in offering condolences to his family and friends at this difficult time."
Captain Sprouting died in a road accident at Al Asad Air Base on January 31.
Captain Sprouting, of the Adjutant General's Corps at the air base, was serving with Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland.
The father of two, of Denny, Stirlingshire, joined the army in 1989 and had served in places including Northern Yugoslavia, Cyprus and Kosovo, Sudan, Angola and Germany.
The coffin is saluted as it returns to the UK
Paying tribute at the time of Capt Sprouting's death, Commanding officer Lt Col Rob Hedderwick said: "It hard to do justice to a man such as Dean Sprouting with simple words.
"In no time at all he had become an indispensable part of the battalion, not only for his professional expertise but also for his compassionate manner and camaraderie.
"His intelligence and sharp wit was apparent from the outset; there was an ever-present twinkle in his eye and he would gladly admit that his youth had been full of adventure.
"Dean was simply one of those people whose infectious humour and enthusiasm drew others to him. His professional knowledge was second to none and his sage advice already something I had come to rely on.
Capt Sprouting's coffin is carried across the apron of RAF Brize Norton
"His loss is keenly felt by us all and our thoughts and prayers are with his wife and children whom I know he cherished more than anything else in this world.
"I am hugely proud and thankful to have known him. He was a very good man."
Minister for the Armed Forces Mark Lancaster said: "Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this very difficult time.
"An investigation is under way to establish the detail but it is not a result of enemy activity."
Capt Sprouting's coffin, draped in the Union Flag
Pallbearers carry Capt Sprouting's coffin to the waiting hearse
Capt Sprouting's coffin is lifted into the hearse

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D-Day Commemoration to Include Pinellas Student Choir
By Bobbie O'Brien • Jun 6, 2014
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A 1944 newspaper announcing the D-Day Invasion to U.S. citizens.
East Lake High Choir Director Robert Knabel points out the blue star flag representing his son's service in the military.
Choir Director Robert Knabel waits for all 31 members of the choir to arrive for rehearsal as they prepare for their four D-Day concerts in France.
Rehearsal inside the East Lake High performance classroom.
Robert Knabel with the help of a student put out the music for the choir rehearsal.
Final details and information for the trip are posted on the classroom white-board.
Robert Knabel directing members of the East Lake High Choir as they ready for their trip to France and D-Day concerts.
A shirt the 31 members of the East Lake High School Choir will wear on their trip.
The bulletin board in Robert Knabel's performance classroom readies students for the sites they will experience in France during their D-Day concerts.
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Choir director Robert Knabel will make his second trip to France commemorating D-Day. On the 50th anniversary, he took an adult choir there to help commemorate the historic WWII battle.
There will be many tributes and memorial services over the next week to mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day. Among those marking the historic battle will be 31 young voices from Pinellas County.
Their East Lake High School choir was invited to travel to France to sing as part of the commemoration. The choir leaves this Sunday, June 8, 2014, and will perform several concerts next week in France.
Inside the choir classroom is a bulletin board covered with photos of France. There's also a newspaper that dates back to June 1944 with the headline: INVASION – in bold red letters.
Choir director Robert Knabel has spent the last 15 months preparing his choir for the trip.
"One concert is going to be a 20 minute sacred concert on the steps of the Notre Dame Cathedral and that's an honor," Knabel said.
But he said the most special concert will be performed next week at the cemetery of U.S. troops that overlooks Omaha Beach.
"The kids are going to have some time and they're going to be allowed to walk down the bluff to the actual beach where those soldiers died," Knabel said.
Knabel enlisted the help of Advanced Placement history teacher Alan Kay to give students a better understanding of the significance of D-Day.
"There are two reasons we're doing this. The first is to make that connection between this generation and the generation we're losing so quickly and to have the kids understand what sacrifice is about," Kay said. "And the second part is just because D-Day itself is such an amazing story."
Kay also has a personal reason for his involvement. His daughter Jamie is a member of the choir that practiced three times a week for a year and raised $164,000 to pay for their trip.
"I think the most successful fundraiser was when we sold Yankee candles," Jamie Kay said. Her grandfather served in the Army but was not involved in the war.
But two of the choir members had family members in the historic battle.
"I had a few of my relatives in the D-Day invasion. Thankfully, all of them survived," Stephanie Hamilton said.
One of her great uncles was a pilot delivering paratroopers over Normandy when his plane was shot down, crash-landed and he broke his back. He was taken prisoner and remained a prisoner until the end of the war. Hamilton's other great uncle was a captain in the infantry and among the first troops to land on Utah Beach.
The full rendition of "A Tribute to Friendship," arranged by choir director Robert Knabel and performed by the East Lake High School Choir. Knabel created the song that blends the national anthems of the United States and France into one musical work to mark the 50th anniversary of D-Day.
The choir will perform sacred music, some patriotic songs and a special piece of music arranged by. Knabel. It's an arrangement of the U.S. and French national anthems called A Tribute to Friendship.
And while Knabel didn't have a relative on the beaches for D-Day, his son just graduated from college and ROTC and is now serving. So above the D-Day newspaper in his classroom, hangs a blue star flag indicating he has family is serving.
WWII Veterans
East Lake High School Choir
Florida Matters: The 70th Anniversary of D-Day
By Lottie Watts & Carson Cooper • Jun 3, 2014
Mark Schreiner / WUSF 89.7 News
This Friday will mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the historic military landing at Normandy during World War II.
This week on Florida Matters, we'll take a look at D-Day through the eyes of a C-47 pilot who was there. First Lt. Gerald "Bud" Berry was among those who flew paratroopers behind enemy lines in the hours before the beach invasion.
A Freedom Ride for Wounded Warriors
By Bobbie O'Brien • May 16, 2014
There's nothing quite like the freedom of the road and the adventure of discovering what's around the next turn. That independence is what inspired two Air Force Academy buddies to plan a cross-country motorcycle ride next month.
Lakeland 'Honors' Those Who Serve with Art
By Bobbie O'Brien • May 9, 2014
The area's newest tribute to military service members, veterans and first responders will be unveiled in Lakeland this evening. It's a sculpture of steel and glass. Designed by a high school student and crafted by a local artisan.
The non-profit group, Platform Art, is leading the collaboration behind the sculpture, the first of three pieces that will become part of Lakeland's Veterans Memorial Park over the next three years.


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Q: Angles of triangle $\triangle XYZ$ do not depend on the position of point $P$ (proof needed)
Let $ABCD$ be a fixed convex quadrilateral and $P$ be an arbitrary point. Let $S,T,U,V,K,L$ be the projections of $P$ on $AB,CD,AD,BC,AC,BD$ respectively. Let $X,Y,Z$ be the midpoints of $ST,UV,KL$. Is it true that the angles of triangle $\triangle XYZ$ do not depend on the position of $P$?

I drew a figure on my computer and it seems that the angles of triangle $\triangle XYZ$ do not change with the position of point P:

(my original research)

A: Here is the proof using Mathematica and simple analytical geometry. In theory, you can do all this by hand, there is nothing special in it. But in real life, you need a computer.
Math involved in the proof is elementary and I did not have to use trigonometry until the very last step.
WLOG, we can assume that $A(0,0)$, $B(0, 1)$, $C(x_C,y_C)$, $D(x_D,y_D)$, $P(x_P,y_P)$:
a = {0, 0}; b = {0, 1}; c = {xc, yc}; d = {xd, yd}; p = {xp, yp};

We need just two functions. The first one calculates dot product of two vectors:
dotProduct[a_, b_] := Sum[a[[i]] b[[i]], {i, 1, Length[a]}];

The second one is used to find the coordinates of projection of point P to line AB:
projection[a_, b_, p_] := Module[
   {c, xc, yc, s, k},
   c = {xc, yc};
   s = Solve[{c - a == k (b - a),
      dotProduct[b - a, c - p] == 0}, {xc, yc, k}];
    Return[c /. s[[1]]];
   ];

That's all that we need. The rest is simple and completely straightforward. We are going to "read" the picture and calculate coordinates of all the points.
First, let's calculate coordinates of points $S,T,U,V,K,L:$
s = projection[a, b, p];
t = projection[c, d, p];
u = projection[a, d, p];
v = projection[b, c, p];
k = projection[a, c, p];
l = projection[b, d, p];

Coordinates of points $X,Y,Z$ are:
x = (s + t)/2;
y = (u + v)/2;
z = (k + l)/2;

We need two vectors: $\vec{XY},\vec{XZ}$:
xy = y - x;
xz = z - x;

And, finally, we are ready to calculate the angle $YXZ$ from the formula:
$\cos^2\angle YXZ=\frac{(\vec{XY} \cdot \vec{XZ})^2}{(\vec{XY} \cdot \vec{XY})(\vec{XZ} \cdot \vec{XZ})}$
...or in Mathematica:
cosXsquared = Together[dotProduct[xy, xz]^2/(dotProd[xy, xy] dotProduct[xz, xz])]

And the final result is:
$$\cos^2\angle YXZ=\\\frac{\left({x_C}^2 {x_D}^2+{x_C}^2 {y_D}^2-{x_C}^2 {y_D}+{x_C} {x_D}+{x_D}^2 {y_C}^2-{x_D}^2 {y_C}+{y_C}^2 {y_D}^2-{y_C}^2 {y_D}-{y_C} {y_D}^2+{y_C} {y_D}\right)^2}{\left({x_C}^2+{y_C}^2\right) \left({x_C}^2+{y_C}^2-2 {y_C}+1\right) \left({x_D}^2+{y_D}^2\right) \left({x_D}^2+{y_D}^2-2 {y_D}+1\right)}$$
Depsite the fact that $x_P,y_P$ can be easily observed in all intermediate results, the coordinates of point $P$ have magically disappeared from the final one.
In the same way you can prove that the other two angles of triangle $\triangle XYZ$ are independent from the location of point $P$.

A: Hint: One way to solution is with a use of a following lemma:
Lemma: Let the points $M,N,T$ be fixed. Let $P$ be on a fixed (red) line $\ell$ and let $X$ and $Y$ be an ortogonal projections of $P$ on line $MT$ and $TN$. Then the map $X\longmapsto Y$ is a spiral similarity with a center at point $F$ which is an intersection point of circle $PXY$ with $\ell$.

Proof: Since $\angle PFT = \angle PYT =90^{\circ}$ we see that $F$ is a fixed point.
Now since $$\angle YXF = \angle YTF =\angle NTF = {\rm fixed \;\; angle}$$
and $$\angle YFX = \angle YTX =\angle NTM = {\rm fixed \;\; angle}$$
the triangle $XYF$ has the same angles for all $P$ so the map $X\longmapsto Y$ is a spiral similarity with rotational angle $\angle MTN$ and center at $F$.
Lemma 2: Say $Z$ is a midpoint of $XY$ from the previous lemma. Then the map $X\longmapsto Z $ is also a spiral similarity (different one) with the same center.

Idea how to finish: Clearly we have a spiral similarity $S_1$ which takes $X\mapsto Y$ and a spiral similarity $S_2$ which takes $Y\mapsto Z$.
So we have $$X\stackrel{S_1}{\longmapsto}Y \stackrel{S_2}{\longmapsto}Z$$
Now take another $X',Y',Z'$:
$$X'\stackrel{S_1}{\longmapsto}Y' \stackrel{S_2}{\longmapsto}Z'$$
I would like to show that there is a spiral similarity which takes $X$ to $X'$, $Y$ to $Y'$ and $Z$ to $Z'$ and this would prove the statement.
Clearly there is a spiral similarity that takes $X$ to $X'$ and $Y$ to $Y'$ induced by $S_1$, but I don't know how to show that it takes also $Z$ to $Z'$.
Actualy, this last claim is not quite true. I know that if $S_1$ and $S_2$ have the same center then we are done, and this is the thing I'm trying to figure out.

A: Following is an algebraic proof of the statement. To make the algebra manageable. We will choose a coordinate system where $A$ is the origin and identify the euclidean plane with the complex plane.
Let $p, z_1,z_2,z_3, u_1, v_1, w_1, w_2, w_3$ be the complex numbers corresponds to $P,
B,C,D,S,T,X,Z,Y$ respectively.
Any line $\ell \subset \mathbb{C}$ can be represented by a pair of complex number, a point $q \in \ell$ and a $t$ for its direction. Points on $\ell$ has the form $q + \lambda t$ for some real $\lambda$. In order for this point to be the projection of $p$ on $\ell$, we need
$$\Re( ( q + \lambda t - p )\bar{t}) = 0\quad\implies\quad\lambda = \frac{\Re((p - q)\bar{t})}{t\bar{t}}
$$
The projection of $p$ on line $\ell$, let call it $\pi_\ell(p)$, will be given by the formula
$$\pi_{\ell}(p) = q + \frac{(p-q)\bar{t} + (\bar{p}-\bar{q})t}{2\bar{t}} = \frac{q+p}{2} +\frac12(\bar{p} - \bar{q})\frac{t}{\bar{t}}\tag{*1a}$$
In the special case that $q = 0$, this reduces to
$$\pi_{\ell}(p) = \frac{p}{2} + \frac12\bar{p}\frac{t}{\bar{t}}\tag{*1b}$$
Apply $(*1b)$ and $(*1a)$ to $S$ and $T$, we get
$$u_1 = \frac{p}{2} + \frac12\bar{p}\frac{z_1}{\bar{z}_1}
\quad\text{ and }\quad
  v_1 = \frac{p + z_2}{2} + \frac12(\bar{p} - \bar{z}_2)\frac{z_2 - z_3}{\bar{z}_2 - \bar{z}_3}
$$
Combine them and simplify, we get
$$
w_1 = \frac{u_1+v_1}{2} =
\frac{p}{2} + \frac14\bar{p}
\underbrace{\left(\frac{z_1}{\bar{z}_1} + \frac{z_2-z_3}{\bar{z}_2 - \bar{z}_3}\right)}_{A_1}
+
\frac14
\underbrace{\left(\frac{z_3\bar{z}_2 - z_2\bar{z}_3}{\bar{z}_2 - \bar{z}_3}\right)}_{B_1}$$
Let's call the two coefficients in parentheses as $A_1$ and $B_1$. By similar argument,
we can derive corresponding formula for $w_2$ and $w_3$. In general, we have
$$w_i =
\frac{p}{2} + \frac14\bar{p} A_i + \frac14 B_i
\quad\text{ where }\quad
\begin{cases}
\displaystyle\;A_i = \frac{z_i}{\bar{z}_i} + \frac{z_j-z_k}{\bar{z}_j - \bar{z}_k}\\
\displaystyle\;B_i = \frac{z_k\bar{z}_j - z_j\bar{z}_k}{\bar{z}_j-\bar{z}_k}
\end{cases}
$$
for $(i,j,k)$ running over cyclic permutations of $(1,2,3)$.
Given any two triangle $M$, $N$ with vertices $m_1,m_2,m_3$ and $n_1,n_2,n_3$. They are similar (with matching angles) if they have the same cross-ratio
$$\frac{m_3-m_1}{m_2-m_1} = \frac{n_3-n_1}{n_2 - n_1}$$
In order for the angles of triangle $XYZ$ to be independent of $P$, we need the cross ratio
$$\frac{w_3 - w_1}{w_2-w_1}
= \frac{(A_3 - A_1)\bar{p} + (B_3 - B_1)}{(A_2-A_1)\bar{p} + (B_2-B_1)}$$
to be independent of $p$. This is equivalent to
$$\frac{A_3-A_1}{A_2-A_1} = \frac{B_3-B_1}{B_2-B_1}
\iff \left|\begin{matrix}A_3 - A_1 & B_3 - B_1 \\ A_2 - A_1 & B_2 - B_1\end{matrix}\right| = 0$$
At the end, it comes down whether following complicated determinant evaluates to zero
$$
\left|\large\begin{matrix}
1 & \frac{z_1}{\bar{z}_1} + \frac{z_2-z_3}{\bar{z}_2 - \bar{z}_3}
  & \frac{z_3\bar{z}_2 - z_2\bar{z}_3}{\bar{z}_2 - \bar{z}_3}\\
1 & \frac{z_2}{\bar{z}_2} + \frac{z_3-z_1}{\bar{z}_3 - \bar{z}_1}
  & \frac{z_1\bar{z}_3 - z_3\bar{z}_1}{\bar{z}_3 - \bar{z}_1} \\
1 & \frac{z_3}{\bar{z}_3} + \frac{z_1-z_2}{\bar{z}_1 - \bar{z}_2}
  & \frac{z_2\bar{z}_1 - z_1\bar{z}_2}{\bar{z}_1 - \bar{z}_2} \\
\end{matrix}\right|
\stackrel{?}{=} 0
$$
If one multiply
first row by $\bar{z}_1(\bar{z}_2 - \bar{z}_3)$,
second row by $\bar{z}_2(\bar{z}_3 - \bar{z}_1)$
third row by $\bar{z}_3(\bar{z}_1 - \bar{z}_2)$
and sum them together, one obtain an zero row!
This means above determinant vanishes and the cross-ratio $\frac{w_3 - w_1}{w_2-w_1}$ is independent of $p$.
This verify the angles in $\triangle XYZ$ doesn't depend on location of $P$.
With help of an CAS, one also obtain
$$\frac{w_3-w_1}{w_2-w_1} = \frac{A_3-A_1}{A_2-A_1} = \frac{B_3-B_1}{B_2-B1}
= \frac{(\bar{z}_3 - \bar{z}_1)\bar{z}_2}{(\bar{z}_2-\bar{z}_1)\bar{z}_3}$$
The last expression is complex conjugate of a cross-ratio of the 4 numbers $(0,z_1,z_2,z_3)$. With this, we can deduce the angles of $\triangle XYZ$
from the angles among the sides/diagonals of quadrilateral $ABCD$.
As an example, in the configuration below, we have
$$\angle ZXY (\approx 13.97^\circ) = \angle CAD (\approx 46.14^\circ) - \angle CBD (\approx 32.17^\circ)$$

Please note that when quadrilateral $ABCD$ is cyclic, $\angle CAD = \angle CBD$. In such cases, triangle $XYZ$ degenerate into a line segment (as first pointed out by @g.kov in comment).
I hope this can inspire someone to discover a more geometric proof of this (in particular, above relations among the angles).

A: Radically changing the naming conventions, let $\square OABC$ be the quadrilateral, with $P$ arbitrary.

Define
$$d^\prime\, := |OA| \qquad e^\prime\, := |OB| \qquad f^\prime\, := |OC|$$
$$d^{\prime\prime} := |BC| \qquad e^{\prime\prime} := |CA| \qquad f^{\prime\prime} := |AB|$$
Let $D^\prime$ and $D^{\prime\prime}$ be the projections of $P$ onto the respective (extensions of the) segments of length $d^{\prime}$ and $d^{\prime\prime}$; let $D$ be the midpoint of $\overline{D^\prime D^{\prime\prime}}$. Likewise for $E^\prime$, $E^{\prime\prime}$, $E$ and $F^{\prime}$, $F^{\prime\prime}$, $F$. Thus, $\triangle DEF$ is our triangle of interest. Finally, define
$$d := |EF| \qquad e := |FD| \qquad f := |DE|$$
I claim the following:

Claim.
$$d:e:f \;=\; d^\prime d^{\prime\prime}:e^\prime e^{\prime\prime} : f^\prime f^{\prime\prime} \tag{$\star$}$$

Since the right-hand-side of $(\star)$ is independent of $P$, the shape of $\triangle DEF$ is also independent of $P$. $\square$
Aside. Recall @g.kov's observation that, when $\square OABC$ is cyclic, $\triangle DEF$ degenerates to a line segment. This fact is equivalent to Ptolemy's Theorem:
$$\square OABC \;\text{is cyclic} \;\iff\; d^\prime d^{\prime\prime}+f^\prime f^{\prime\prime}=e^\prime e^{\prime\prime} \qquad\left(\;\iff d+f=e\;\right)$$

Proof of Claim. Well ... I after much trying, I haven't (yet) found an approach that makes the final result "obvious". Since @OldBoy's setup is not too dissimilar from mine, I won't bother TeX-ing up my work; rather, I invite the reader to use @OldBoy's solution, but to compute simply the (squared) side-lengths (instead of the cosines) via dotProd[x-y, x-y], dotProd[y-z, y-z], and dotProd[z-x, z-x] and observe that they satisfy the (squared) equivalent of proportion $(\star)$.
I do have an argument to show that $(\star)$ is the key proportion in this scenario. (Perhaps awareness of this will inspire more-straightforward demonstrations of the target property.)

Sub-Claim. If (!!!) the shape of $\triangle DEF$ is independent of $P$, then $(\star)$ holds.

Proof of Sub-Claim. We need only consider the special case of $P=O$:

Since $D^\prime$, $E^\prime$, $F^\prime$ all coincide at $O$, we see that $\triangle DEF$ is a dilation of $\triangle D^{\prime\prime}E^{\prime\prime}F^{\prime\prime}$, with center $O$ and scale factor $1/2$. Thus, if we can show that the larger triangle exhibits the proportion in $(\star)$, we'll be done.
Consider $\overline{E^{\prime\prime}F^{\prime\prime}}$. From its position in $\triangle AE^{\prime\prime}F^{\prime\prime}$, we can compute its length via the Law of Cosines:
$$|E^{\prime\prime}F^{\prime\prime}|^2 = |AE^{\prime\prime}|^2 + |AF^{\prime\prime}|^2-2|AE^{\prime\prime}||AF^{\prime\prime}|\cos \angle BAC \tag{1}$$
But, from right triangles $\triangle OAE^{\prime\prime}$ and $\triangle OAF^{\prime\prime}$, we also have
$$|AE^{\prime\prime}| = d^\prime \cos\angle OAC \qquad |AF^{\prime\prime}| = d^\prime \cos\angle OAB \tag{2}$$
Consequently, since $\angle BAC = \angle OAB - \angle OAC$, $(1)$ simplifies to
$$|E^{\prime\prime}F^{\prime\prime}| = d^\prime \sin\angle BAC = \frac{d^\prime d^{\prime\prime}}{2r} \tag{3}$$
where the last equality, introducing the circumradius $r$ of $\triangle ABC$, follows from the Law of Sines. Likewise, we have
$$|F^{\prime\prime}D^{\prime\prime}| = \frac{e^\prime e^{\prime\prime}}{2r} \qquad |D^{\prime\prime}E^{\prime\prime}| = \frac{f^\prime f^{\prime\prime}}{2r} \tag{4}$$
from which $(\star)$ follows. $\square$
Aside. The relation $\angle BAC = \angle OAB - \angle OAC$ that drives the simplification in $(2)$ relies on the flatness of the figure. That is, $(\star)$ does not hold if we interpret $OABC$ as a tetrahedron.

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Lamirande will not run again for Register of Deeds
by Jeff Woodburn
LANCASTER – Coos County Register of Deeds Carol Lamirande has announced that she will not run for re-election next year.
"I enjoy working here. I love the people," she said, but "it's time for me to retire and travel and do a few other things."
Lamirande has served in the position for the past 14 years. Prior to that, she was a State Senator from 1993-94 and was a banker for many years. She said her husband retired five years ago and they wanted to be able to spend time doing other things.
Lamirande is proud of the work that has been completed during her tenure, specifically upgrading the booking system and improving the volume and quality of records that are available on-line. The Deeds office records and manages important real estate related records, including deeds, mortgages, and subdivision plans.
She said she has no intentions to run for anything again.
"My running days are over," she added.
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LastWords
Campaign Dispatches: St. Paul and Beyond
Day 1: A Ship in the Harbor
Who says we can't afford another big election about small things? Isn't it the little things that matter most? Like Bristol Palin's teen pregnancy, and her mother's big gun? Like John McCain's age and Barack Obama's secret Muslim heart? After all, the big things—war, environmental catastrophe, the energy crisis, economic ruin—are too immense to contemplate. So let us turn deftly away, as George W. Bush taught us with 9/11, and the Iraq War, and Hurricane Katrina, and Global Warming. Play some golf, dance a jig, cut some brush in Crawford. What we don't think about can't hurt us. Leave it to someone else. One day at a time.
Trivialize women's rights. Make a cute little button-nosed joke out of the Vice Presidency. Turn the tables on those oh-so-serious Dems, with their sober assessments and dire predictions, and all that downer talk about mutual responsibility. Please. What ever happened to the happy-go-lucky, irresponsible Negro, anyway? Those were the days, remember?
When Blacks and women knew their place and were happy to be there? When the U.S. was the sole super-power and could conduct foreign policy from the air, no matter what Moscow or Beijing or anyone else thought about it? When economic policy consisted of deregulation and privatization and spending the government into bankruptcy? When energy policy consisted of removing all barriers for the oil companies? God created ANWR for us, didn't he, so we could drill there?
The Democrats' hand-wringing only encourages the worst tendencies of a Nation of Whiners. It's Morning in America, my friends. Don't worry, be happy. Let Sarah and Todd and Bristol and Levi and Cindy and John show you the way, Back to the Future.
Photography: Jon Winet and Allen Spore. The Electoral College, www.america-the-globe.net/tec
The Calm of the Storm
So far the meeting in St. Paul is the Unconvention, and that may be the best thing that possibly could have happened for the Republicans. Bush & Cheney couldn't make it? Fantastic! The Republican delegates are, after all, the only people left in the world who still think the current Administration is competent (71% of them approve of Bush's performance). Much better to have Cindy McCain and Laura Bush (decked out in gold and white, respectively) show up only as fundraisers for hurricane relief efforts, although that line about how it's time to "take off our Republican hats and put on our American hats" begs the question: are the two mutually exclusive?
The reason for the postponement of the convention was succinctly stated by David Brooks: "They couldn't afford that split-screen image" of party-hearty Republican celebrations juxtaposed with homeless hurricane survivors recalling Bush/Cheney's criminal neglect during Katrina. It just wouldn't look right. Some lobbyists couldn't help themselves tonight, and threw lavish meet-and-greet-and-bribe parties anyway, but they at least tried to lock out the press.
To fully capitalize on their good luck, the Republican ticket should disappear for the next 68 days, perhaps to Wasilla, or South Ossetia.
-Filed Monday, Sept. 1, 2008, first day of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.
Day 2: The Other Side & Their Friends in the Media
When the Bush/Cheney regime seized power eight years ago, I would not have predicted that they would prove to be so adept at the deployment and control of images to shape public opinion. In fact, they turned out to be better at it than any previous American administration.
Watching the first (delayed) night of the Republican National Convention on TV tonight, I was struck by how different the image rhetoric in St. Paul is from what I saw first-hand in Denver last week. The images projected behind speakers tonight were more subtle and yet more iconic than anything I saw in Denver. Joe Lieberman stood before a clear blue sky broken only by a flag waving from a single pole. The film narrated by Gary Sinise was less mawkish and more moving than any of the Democrats' films. Only George W. Bush's visual broadcast from the Oval Office was substandard, and that may very well have been by design. For McCain to win, he must distance himself from the Bush/Cheney image.
The verbal rhetoric of each party is less distinguished and less distinguishable. Like John Kerry, Fred Thompson gave a great speech, much better than anything he did on his own behalf as a candidate. Did he have access to better speechwriters tonight, or does he just perform better in a supporting role? "John McCain knows about hope. [When he was a POW] that was all he knew." "This is the kind of character that civilizations from the beginning of our history have sought in their leaders." "Character you can believe in." "Not because of a teleprompter's speech designed to appeal to America's critics abroad." "The Democrats present a history-making nominee for President; history-making in that he's the most liberal, most inexperienced nominee ever to run for President."
The overall message was clearer in St. Paul because it was less complicated. Fred Thompson painted a compelling portrait of the candidate and threw out partisan red meat, and then Joe Lieberman appealed to disaffected conservative Democrats and Independents by saying partisanship isn't enough. It is strange to see both campaigns running against their respective parties. Both McCain and Obama realize that they cannot win with only traditional party loyalties, that they must extend their reach. And they're both reaching toward the same undecided voters, from opposite ends of the spectrum.
-Filed on Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008, after the second night of the Republican Convention in St. Paul.
Day 3: How to Field Dress a Donkey
So a hockey mom carrying her special-needs child walks into a bar, and says to everyone in and outside the joke, "What are you laughing at, asshole? Here's what I think of your European Ideas."
Hillary Clinton must be wondering what she did to deserve this. John McCain has, with one deft stroke, made a mockery of her campaign and everything she stands for. You want a woman tough enough to be Commander-in-Chief? Sarah Palin is so tough she doesn't need to wear pantsuits to wear the pants. She can stand by her man and stand up to the terrorists, while her lily-livered opponent is standing around "worried that someone won't read them their rights." And as she marches into history, Palin has picked up the fallen banner of Hillary to use as her own petard.
Unlike Hillary and Joe Biden, she's "not a member of the permanent political establishment". . . yet. She's just been a small-town mayor, which is "sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities," and a big-state governor. Voters like governors, especially of big states. She sees this as a race between "a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single law or even a reform" and the "only man in this campaign who has ever really fought for you." The sound of Styrofoam Greek columns falling was deafening.
Even Palin's youngest daughter is so innately media-savvy that she turned Paul Wolfowitz's telling rough gesture of licking his hand to smooth out his hair (in Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11) into an endearing image, using hers to straighten out her baby brother Trig's. Bristol and Levi looked independent, unrepentant, and fierce, like they could eat the whole Washington Press Corps for breakfast, even without the help of brother Track, who's on his way to Iraq.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden suddenly have a tremendous problem on their hands. Sarah Barracuda is the new fresh face of revenge and resentment politics, and if enough white evangelical blue-collar and middle-class voters buy it again, things are going to get very ugly. It will no longer be about ideas, European or otherwise. Making sense, telling the truth, and being right just won't cut it anymore. John McCain has, at least for now, turned the tables, back to a Karl Rovian image—and symbol-storm, in a skirt.
-Filed on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008, after the third night of the Republican Convention in St. Paul.
Day 4: September 11, 2008: This Is a Test
Lipstick on pigs. Comprehensive sex education for four-year-olds. Sarah's secrets vs. Joe's loose cannon. John's temper vs. Barack's celebrity.
The high scream of Distraction Culture wrapping itself tighter and tighter around the still turning point of the body politic is deafening now. We can no longer hear ourselves, let alone others, think. D.C. never sleeps, never takes a breath, never blinks. Its imperative is speed, and it is relentless in its pursuit of . . . fuel. If it ever slows down, as it did on this day seven years ago, its moving parts become visible, and people begin to wake up and look around, beyond the Machine.
That was a dangerous time, and a time of great opportunity, politically. Unfortunately, the Democrats were caught flat-footed, having already walked away from a stand-off in Florida and ceded the field to reactionaries, who turned out to be terrifyingly unprepared to govern, but remarkably well-prepared in Machine maintenance and fuel issues. They advised us to "Get back to work, and your work is consumption." Consumption and distraction.
The standard excuse for Americans letting happen what they have over the past seven years is that they were scared, and when people are scared you can get them to do almost anything you want, and get away with it. Distraction becomes an obsession, and politicians who interrupt it risk serious, even violent abreactions.
In this Tortoise & Hare race, the old man who can't send an email and the past mayor of a sleepy Alaskan town are running on the Speed & Distraction ticket, while the skinny fast forward who suddenly became a global star and the fast-talking senator are running on the Slow Down & Think ticket.
As the clock ticks down, this election looks more and more like a final test of American democracy. If American voters pass the test, nothing will be solved, but the slow work of reconstruction can at least begin. If we fail, time may have finally run out on this noble experiment.
-Filed on Friday, Sept. 12, 2008, after Sarah Palin with Charles Gibson, Barack Obama with David Letterman, and the ceremonies at Ground Zero.
Mississippi Mud (The 1st Debate)
No one got hurt in this first debate, and under the circumstances, I think that's bad for Obama. John McCain limped into this thing after two days of wildly erratic behavior, suspending his campaign and announcing that he wouldn't show up in Mississippi for the debate, because he had to rush to Washington to solve the financial crisis. After demanding a meeting at the White House with President Bush, Secretary Paulson, Chairman Bernanke, and the Congressional leadership, McCain was ambushed by House Republicans, who decided to oppose Bush's bailout. After that, McCain reportedly sat off to the side mumbling while Obama asked tough questions of the Treasury secretary and others. When Obama announced that he was going to appear at Old Miss with or without him, McCain decided he could spare the hour and a half to be there, too, after all.
The debate proceeded as if none of this had happened. Jim Lehrer orchestrated an elegant, measured discussion of the issues, with each candidate politely remaining within his time limits. There were no outbursts, gaffes, or zingers, to speak of. The problem with this, for Obama, is that it made McCain look like a perfectly reasonable, august statesman and executive, rather than the reckless, arrogant grandstander he'd been just hours before. McCain looked great tonight, much better than he ever looks when giving a speech. Obama always looks good, so there's no relative gain.
Even though Obama will always prevail over McCain in any public, refereed debate on the issues, McCain still managed to get his broad, old-fashioned strokes in, painting Obama as a tax-and-spend liberal who will raise business taxes and drive jobs overseas, as a cut-and-runner who will lose the war in Iraq and dishonor the deaths of over 4,000 service men and women, and as an inexperienced, naïve upstart who won't be able to stand up to America's enemies. Obama is impatient with such broad strokes and doesn't reciprocate, preferring to draw more precise and subtler connections to make more specific points.
The only real advantage to Obama last night arose from body language and speech tone. From the beginning of the evening, Obama often looked at and spoke directly to McCain, while McCain spoke only to Lehrer, ignoring Obama and refusing to look at him. The effect of this was cumulative and significant. As the debate wore on, McCain seemed more evasive and equivocal, refusing to face his opponent head-on. He always referred to his opponent as "Senator Obama," while Obama called him "John," and came right at him. On a number of occasions, McCain's tone veered into the sarcastic and even contemptuous, and attentive viewers glimpsed two very different approaches to public speech and political discourse.
-Filed on Friday, Sept. 26, 2008, after the first Presidential debate at the University of Mississippi's Oxford campus.
Overhead Projector (The 2nd Debate)
Acting partly out of desperation and partly out of hubris, John McCain chose to walk into a fair, refereed fight tonight in Nashville and try to go head-to-head on the issues with Barack Obama. This was a reckless, arrogant, possibly fatal mistake.
Granted, this was supposed to be McCain's format. He's done hundreds, maybe thousands of these "town meeting" style appearances, and he feels comfortable in this setting. But from the opening coin toss, Obama had the edge in this one, speaking clearly and convincingly about his new policies and about McCain's failed ones: "He believes in deregulation in every circumstance. That's what we've been going through for the last eight years. It hasn't worked and we need fundamental change." McCain revealed his one new proposal (to stabilize home values by buying up bad home loans) in his first minute, and his timing was shot from then on. His jokes fell flat and he couldn't connect with the questioners in the audience, Tom Brokaw, or Barack Obama. To conceal his reluctance to face his opponent and look him in the eye, McCain retreated to his stool after each speech and pretended to write furiously in a notebook, or wandered the stage as if looking for a way out. When Obama wasn't speaking, he sat confidently, looking directly at McCain. Obama was more aggressive here than in the first debate, but he never hit McCain when he was down. And McCain was down a lot.
This debate made it clear that John McCain and the Republicans are in the same position that John Kerry and the Democrats were in 2004. By accepting the basic terms of Obama's original message of change, all McCain has to offer now, at best, is a watered-down version of what his opponent is proposing. If voters can get the real thing with Obama, why should they choose a less vigorous form of it with McCain?
Outside the debate, McCain and Palin have gone negative with a vengeance, recycling the old Reverend Wright and Bill Ayres guilt-by-association smears against Obama. This race- and radical-baiting is an attempt to resuscitate the old Vietnam War era animosities, to energize the base. The trouble for the Republicans is that the people who are going to put Obama over the top if they come out in force next month weren't even born in 1968. The time has run out on this tactic, and it is rapidly running out on John McCain.
Filed on Tuesday, October 7, 2008, after the second presidential debate, in Nashville.
Autism on the Rise (The 3rd Debate)
John McCain has the worst timing of any politician in recent memory. Eight years ago, he was the most popular political figure in America. Shot down by the Bush/Rove team's dirty tricks in 2000, he was later forced, Stockholm Syndrome-style, to embrace them. Now, after eight years of a Republican administration that will be remembered as among the worst in American history, McCain and his ideas are irrevocably yoked to that catastrophic cart. His statement Wednesday night that "I am not President Bush," echoed Nixon's "I am not a crook," in its bitterness and irony.
Rather than moving toward the center to convince independent and undecided voters (who used to be part of his natural constituency) to vote for him, McCain instead swerved to the right, choosing a polarizing vice-presidential candidate that can only help him on the lunatic fringe, and mounting a negative campaign that attempts to revive the cultural battles of the 1960s at a time when a collapsing economy has voters focused only on the immediate present and future, not the past.
To rely exclusively on the old Republican rhetoric of cutting taxes and shrinking government at this point, when government is the only protection against collapsing markets, indicates a dangerous misreading of political realities. McCain is fighting the wrong war at the wrong time. More and more, he exhibits an abnormal subjectivity, marching to his own maverick drummer as it leads him and his supporters over a cliff.
Watching McCain in the final debate, I was reminded of Bob Dole in 1996, another highly skilled and successful senator who was drastically out of step with the changing times, and made bitter by the knowledge that he'd repeatedly missed his presidential moment. When John McCain looks at Barack Obama, he sees the future, and it galls him. You can see it in his eyes. Bob Schieffer was trying to help McCain by setting him up for his litany of attacks against Obama, but all it did was display the older man's desperation and impotence. McCain looked better than he has in months in the first forty minutes of the debate, but if this had been a prize fight, Schieffer would have stepped in and thrown up his hands to protect McCain an hour into it.
Filed on Thursday, October 16, 2008, after the third and final presidential debate.
I Put This Floor in This House
The political campaign ad for television is certainly one of the most degraded forms of public communication we have. It was base to begin with, built on a tissue of half-truths, innuendoes, and outright lies, and designed to appeal to our worst tendencies: fear, greed, insecurity, and selfishness. Most of the ads aired by both sides in this presidential campaign have been negative hits on one's opponent.
Until last night, when, six days before the election and flush with more donated money than any candidate in history has had at his disposal, Barack Obama bought thirty minutes on prime-time TV, right before what turned out to be the final game of the World Series, to make a final pitch to American voters.
It begins with an image of American beauty and bounty: a field of Kansas wheat blowing in the wind. Then a traveling shot of the prairie as the voice-over begins, "With each passing month, our country's faced increasingly difficult times . . ." The candidate then appears, already at home in a less austere version of the Oval Office, and sits on the edge of his desk to speak to us. He'll tell us the stories of four working families and their struggles, and what an Obama presidency will do to help them. "Everybody here has got a story."
The structure of the ad is consistent and sound. Each family's story is followed by Obama's policy proposals to address their issues. These are the problems, and these are the solutions. There are moments of great subtlety and effect, as when Larry Stewart, retired after working thirty years on the railroad, sits in his house in Sardinia, Ohio, and says "I put this floor in this house." When he retired ten years ago, he lost his health insurance and had to take a job at Wal-Mart at age 72, as an "associate salesman." "In other words," he says, "I just sell stuff, that's all." That is, I don't make things anymore, like I built this house. I just sell stuff, cheap, that other people now make elsewhere in the world, to other Americans like me who can't afford to buy stuff we make ourselves anymore. And we are told that this is now our work, to consume, to buy and sell stuff we don't make to each other. This is what we've been reduced to, far away from "an economy that honors the dignity of work."
Each family story, from Kansas City, Missouri, Sardinia, Ohio, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Louisville, Kentucky, tells a part of the catastrophe we've been led into: forty-seven million people without health insurance, $10 billion a month in Iraq, and an economy built on easy money, debt, and consumption.
John McCain and Sarah Palin are never mentioned in this ad. George W. Bush is never mentioned. It's not about them. It's not even about Barack Obama. It's about us. The entire ad, from amber waves of grain to God bless America, is about the idea of us, and what would happen if we decided to take back our country.
One of the marks of a world-class practitioner is that he can take a degraded form and breathe new life into it. Political analysts will be talking about this ad for a very long time, because it transcends the form.
But it doesn't transcend reality. All of these stories of people who are hurting now are haunted by the realization that more pain is on the way. The current financial crisis will certainly lead to terrible economic effects over the first term of the Obama presidency. The real pain hasn't even started yet. It's going to be bad, and it's going to be worst for poor and working-class families. To get through it at all, people are going to have to come together to enter a "new era of responsibility," and abandon the politics of resentment and fear that have reigned over the last eight years.
"In six days, we can choose hope over fear and unity over division. . . . In six days we can come together as one nation and one people, and once more choose our better history. That's what's at stake."
Filed on Thursday, October 30 , 2008.
David Levi Strauss
DAVID LEVI STRAUSS is the author of Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow (Aperture, 2014), From Head to Hand: Art and the Manual (Oxford University Press, 2010), Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics, with an introduction by John Berger (Aperture 2003, and in a new edition, 2012), and Between Dog & Wolf: Essays on Art and Politics (Autonomedia 1999, and a new edition, 2010). He is Chair of the graduate program in Art Writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and he is on the faculty of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.
Some Thoughts on a Constellation of Things Seen and Felt
By Adrienne Edwards
NOV 2020 | Critics Page
This summer's persistent melee of images and videos circulating in news reports and on social media of the extrajudicial, gratuitously violent deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and the collective uprisings they incited under the mantra Black Lives Matter drew me out of the intensity of that present moment and into a descent imbricated and wedded by the beholding of the inextricable combinatory assembly that is embodied Blackness, acts of barbarity, and a yearning for intimacy.
Things on Walls
By Darla Migan
MAY 2020 | ArtSeen
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The open world game concept is one that is pretty popular these days, and we've seen it used to great effect on games like Grand Theft Auto V and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild just to name a few. Now several years ago, EA's Visceral Games was said to be developing an open world Star Wars game, but following the shut down of the studio, many wondered about its status.
Last year a job listing had suggested that the game could still be in the works, but now according to a report from Kotaku, that game will never see the light of day. This is because according to three people familiar with the ongoings at the company, apparently EA has decided to shut the project down.
The game was initially developed by Visceral Games as a linear action-adventure game, with EA Vancouver said to be lending a helping hand. However when Visecral shut down back in 2017, EA's Vancouver studio took over the project which led to the previous report that said that the game could still be alive and well, where the studio was said to have rebooted the game and turned it into an open world game and kept some of its assets.
It is unclear as to why EA has decided to cancel the project as the company has yet to officially respond to the reports, but if you were looking forward to it, perhaps don't hold your breath.
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Not at all antiquated: the Austrian Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (VAO) introduces its new website to the public at the book fair "Buch Wien 12" from 22nd to 25th November, 2012. The new website www.antiquare.at was developed in collaboration with the Hauptverband des österreichischen Buchhandels as well as with the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and is supposed to be an innovative platform for business, culture and book sciences in and out of Austria – a (virtual) space for networking, interaction and interdisciplinary exchange.
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The Austrian Antiquarian Booksellers have set up a new website and present themselves with several highlights at the book fair in Vienna.
Not at all antiquated: the Austrian Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (VAO) introduces its new website to the public at the book fair "Buch Wien 12" from 22nd to 25th November, 2012. The new website www.antiquare.at was developed in collaboration with the Hauptverband des österreichischen Buchhandels as well as with the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and is supposed to be an innovative platform for business, culture and book sciences in and out of Austria – a (virtual) space for networking, interaction and interdisciplinary exchange.
New website, new platform
The new internet presence not only communicates news from the association, of international auctions and events, but also publishes articles and other contributions on literature, book sciences, contemporary history, arts and culture. "It is of incredible importance for our branch to break new, creative ground", says Dieter Tausch, President of the Austrian Association of Antiquarian Booksellers, referring to the necessity of a positive and timely approach to new media.
Apart from articles on a wide range of topics, two search engines help visitors of the new website to search for any specific book offered by Austrian antiquarian booksellers as well as to search for antiquarian book-selling companies in Austria. The individual presentations of each company inform about the booksellers' activities, specialities and offers. Requests and orders can be made via e-mail in direct contact with each company.
Austrian Association of Antiquarian Booksellers on Facebook and Twitter
At the same time the Austrian Association of Antiquarian Booksellers launches their new presences on Facebook and Twitter. Dieter Tausch's mostly German-speaking "tweets" are playful and amusing takes on books, reading, literature, and related topics (https://twitter.com/AntiquareAt).
Bibliophile treasures at Buch Wien 12
Not only in the world wide web, but also on the Viennese book fair Austria's antiquarian booksellers appear with a strong presence. For the first time, 26 antiquarian booksellers organize an exhibition and information stand and present a well-assorted selection of bibliophile treasures; the companies Norbert Donhofer and Meindl & Sulzmann are represented with own stands.
Among the objects to be seen and to be discovered there are:
• The rare German first edition (1908) of Bram Stoker's Dracula (Antiquariat Meindl & Sulzmann)
• An early edition of the popular Italy travelling guide by F. Scoto (1650) with its famous copper engravings (Antiquariat Andreas Moser)
• The magnificent baroque opus of Viennese veduta by Salomon Kleiner (Antiquariat Michael Steinbach)
• The first editions of the two revolutionary scientific articles on the discovery of the DNA structure by Nobel laureates James D. Watson and Francis H. Crick (Antiquariat Matthäus Truppe)
• An extremely rare original photograph of Sigmund Freud with his handwritten dedication to the son of the important French psychoanalyst and Freud's close friend Princess Marie Bonaparte (INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg.)
• A christmas children's book by Franz Cizek, the grand doyen of Wiener Kinetismus and art educator at the Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule (Antiquariat Weinek)
• Crébillon's "Der Sophia" in a refined leather binding of the Wiener Werkstätte, designed by Koloman Moser (Antiquariat Johann A. Schantl)
• A Thomas Bernhard presentation copy, dedicated to the grocer ("Gemischtwarenhändlerin") from his book "Holzfällen", thanking her for lending him money (Antiquariat "erlesenes")
Detailled descriptions of all objects and pictures can be found on www.antiquare.at. Dr. Hansjörg Krug (Antiquariat und Kunsthandlung Christian M. Nebehay), Hugo Wetscherek (Inlibris Gilhofer Nfg.) and Mag. Joy Antoni (Antiquariat "erlesenes") will be available at stand no. 229 at the Buch Wien for questions and interviews.
Messe Wien, Halle D (U2 station Krieau)
Thursday - Friday: 9 am to 6 pm, Saturday: 10 am to 6 pm, Sunday: 10 am to 5 pm
More information on the official websites www.antiquare.at and www.buchwien.at.


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Sci Adv. 2017 Jun 28;3(6):e1700685. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1700685. eCollection 2017 Jun.
Nanotwinned metal MEMS films with unprecedented strength and stability.
Sim GD1, Krogstad JA2, Reddy KM1, Xie KY1, Valentino GM1, Weihs TP3, Hemker KJ1,3.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Silicon-based microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors have become ubiquitous in consumer-based products, but realization of an interconnected network of MEMS devices that allows components to be remotely monitored and controlled, a concept often described as the "Internet of Things," will require a suite of MEMS materials and properties that are not currently available. We report on the synthesis of metallic nickel-molybdenum-tungsten films with direct current sputter deposition, which results in fully dense crystallographically textured films that are filled with nanotwins. These films exhibit linear elastic mechanical behavior and tensile strengths exceeding 3 GPa, which is unprecedented for materials that are compatible with wafer-level device fabrication processes. The ultrahigh strength is attributed to a combination of solid solution strengthening and the presence of dense nanotwins. These films also have excellent thermal and mechanical stability, high density, and electrical properties that are attractive for next-generation metal MEMS applications.
Ni alloy; metal MEMS; nanotwins; thermal and mechanical stability; ultra high strength
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Plane-view TEM images of the as-deposited film.
(A) Bright-field plane-view TEM image. (B) TEM-based orientation map collected using precession-assisted crystal orientation mapping.
Nanotwinned metal MEMS films with unprecedented strength and stability
Sci Adv. 2017 Jun;3(6):e1700685.
Cross-sectional microstructure of the as-deposited film.
(A) Cross-sectional channeling contrast image showing the columnar microstructure of the deposited film. (B) Bright-field cross-sectional TEM micrograph. (C) Corresponding selected-area electron diffraction pattern indexed for matrix and twin orientations. (D) High-resolution TEM (HRTEM) image taken along the [011] zone axis and revealing high-density planar defects. (E) HRTEM image showing stacking faults and nanotwin lamellae on {111} planes. (F) Magnified view focusing on a few planar defects with better clarity (red, matrix; yellow, stacking fault; blue, twin).
Tensile stress-strain curves of three Ni-Mo-W thin films from the current study compared with previously reported nanocrystalline Ni (), nanocrystalline Ni-W alloy (), nanotwinned Cu (), and polysilicon thin films ().
The linear elastic response and ultrahigh strength are highly desirable for MEMS applications.
Excellent thermal and mechanical stability of the Ni83.6Mo14W2.4 films.
(A) Cumulative area fraction of the in-plane grain size of the Ni83.6Mo14W2.4 films annealed at various temperatures. (B) Cross-sectional TEM image of the film annealed for 1 hour at 600°C. FIB channeling contrast (C) and cross-sectional TEM image of a film that was loaded up to 3.1 GPa (D). No obvious changes in the columnar microstructure or twin size/spacing were observed.
Valentino GM[Author]


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July 2015: Dr. Otto is featured in the latest version of the UF BME magazine Crosslink!
Dr. Kevin Otto joined the department as an associate professor under the Neuroscience and the Brain initiative. His research is in the area of systems neural engineering. Specific laboratory research interests include neuroprostheses, brain-machine interfaces, neural applications of BioMEMS, and assessing and optimizing neural implant lifetime and biocompatibility. Dr. Otto received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Arizona State University, Tempe. He was a research assistant in the ASU Bioengineering Department, where his work was in the areas of neural engineering and sensory neuroprostheses. As a research fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, his work focused on brain-machine interface systems and implantable devices. Dr. Otto was a post-doctoral fellow in the Central Systems Laboratory in the Kresge Hearing Research Institute in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where his work focused on cochlear implants. Before joining UF he was associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University.


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In light of a global pandemic, the importance of the internet and technologies to allow us to social distance have become paramount.
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D/B Helps Companies Build Online Presence
In light of a global pandemic, the importance of the internet and technologies to allow us to social distance have become paramount. More than ever before, companies have seen the undeniable value of a robust online presence — it represents the virtual front door for an organization.
The higher online traffic has driven many companies to reconsider their current sites and start planning new options and ways for their customers to access services.
For Davidson Belluso, 2020 has been a year of many ongoing web projects, both brand new and a refresh of existing sites.
"Websites can be the lifeblood of a company," says Mike Barcia, Director of Digital Strategy. "We are working with many clients to help streamline their efforts and help their customers find the products and services they need. Our design team takes a significant amount of pride in finding usability, content architecture, and navigation solutions. A great design is really critical for a site."
Clinical Endpoints started serving a critical need during the pandemic, offering Covid-19 testing to the community. Further, the new public-facing venture of a long-established medical imaging company needed a way for clients to reach their services. The site highlights the availability of testing, in addition to the company's core mission of clinical trials. The full site can be found at clinicalendpoints.com.
For Heidi's Village, the goal was not a refresh but a chance to build the identity of a new community nonprofit. Heidi's Village provides state of the art behavioral rehabilitation for animals, bridges the gap between animal welfare resources, and advances best practices for animals and volunteers in a shelter/veterinary environment.
The new site brings a spotlight to its unique mission and provides a clear, functional way for people to donate and support their work. The site, at heidisvillage.org, was launched in the late spring ahead of their physical facility opening.
For Lifewell Behavioral Wellness, the challenge was to provide a facelift and added functionality to an existing site. The goal was to clearly define the nonprofit integrated healthcare agency's mission and objectives and spotlight its treatment, services, and support for low-income individuals diagnosed with serious mental illness (SMI), general mental health issues, and substance abuse disorders. The site can be found at lifewell.us.
The Arizona School Board Association serves the state through training, leadership, executive searches and other essential services to public school governing boards. Their website needed a full overhaul to better innumerate their many services and benefits. The new site and design, found at azsba.org, showcase the organization and make it more accessible to those needing its services.
"All of these projects were based on telling the story of the organization," says Barcia. "We focused on sharing the information needed and organizing it well. Each of these companies was pleased with the way their vital information was presented."
Additional projects include USCB America and upcoming efforts for Gila River Casino and The Arizona Pet Project.
New Leadership and Vision Lead to Rebranding of AZ529 Program
In the fall of 2020, the Office of the State Treasurer for Arizona assumed oversight of the state's AZ529 program, a move adopted by the Arizona House and Senate and signed into law by Governor Doug Ducey this past June.
Davidson Belluso Recognized for Versatility, Capabilities
Business Publications Rank Agency in Multiple Categories in 2020
Accessibility Plays Important Role in Creative Design


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the argument that time travel must generate logically contradictory outcomes.
But I stress that Louis is only defending the logical possibility of time travel.
saying that time travel actually occurs, and time travelers walk among us.
It's not possible to create contradictions.
Therefore, it's not possible to travel backwards in time.
time travel needn't necessarily involve the ability to generate paradoxes.
But why are they called grandfather paradoxes?
If you remove one of your parents from existence you presumably remove yourself.
one of your parents don't exist, and you don't exist.
which seems to issue a gleaming logical contradiction.
not exist at the same time, which is surely logically impossible.
Now, as I see, Louis thinks that logical contradictions can't occur.
And my experimental launch takes place in January, 2013.
when Hitler was trying to eke out a living as an artist in Vienna.
Hitler doesn't have an army, he's not surrounded by security guards.
He's a lone private individual, and therefore, a safe target.
equipped and trained to pass myself off as a native Viennese of the period.
I get Hitler in my sights, I try to pull the trigger, and what happens?
1908 someone who doesn't, in fact, die until 1945.
one in the same person cannot die in 1908 and die in 1945.
So my successfully assassinating Hitler in 1908 would generate a grandfather paradox.
Something's either contradictory, or it isn't.
So if I get Hitler in my sights in 1908, it seems a guarantee of failure.
But that failure might take any one of a number of forms, my gun could jam.
down somebody I believe is Hitler, only to discover I've shot the wrong person.
but that's not the same as saying that they're impossible.
I go back in my machine, and somehow 1908 happens again, only this time, I'm there.
If Louis is correct, each moment happens once and once only.
with the history that I arrive in the 1908, there's a new paradox.
in the argument's very first premise.
we need the notion of something being compossible.
Here's an example, adapted from Louis.
Well, in one sense it is.
I can speak one language, at least I can master some basic syntax.
I've got a few logs at my disposal, I've got a lot of functions.
because as it happens, I've never learned Gaelic.
it's possible for me to speak Gaelic, relative to one set of facts.
facts, a bigger, a more inclusive set, it's not possible.
facts as the set of facts, which mean that it's impossible for me to speak Gaelic.
Well, relative to one set of facts, it is possible.
not possible relative to a more inclusive set of facts.
possible relative to another set of facts.
of facts may not be possible relative to another set of facts.


A major turn in the life of Prophet Muhammad came when he started to retreat monthly for few days at a cave around three miles away from the city of Mecca. After spending a few days there on his own he would return to his home and family in Mecca. He would take with him food and water as well. Food consisted of dates and crushed beans.


There is a quote that haunts me.
"Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry," Pope Francis said during his weekly audience in St. Peter's Square.
That's the one. It haunts me because I have a house full of toddlers who are, by their nature, picky and wasteful with their food. Even if they aren't picky, their appetites fluctuate wildly. If there is a person out there who can correctly guess the appetites of multiple toddlers consistently, please start a hotline. I would pay by the minute to know.
1. Eat what they don't eat after you have already eaten resulting in your overall fatness.
3. Throw away the scraps and be haunted by the quote.
I offer an alternative that we will call the Toddler Mom Diet.
Sit with your children as they eat, and it will still feel like a family meal. When they are done, dump whatever they were too picky or too full to eat onto a pile of greens and top it with a dressing of your choice. Add an appropriate amount of beets until the salad appears to be a lunch that will sustain you.
For example, my lunch today had cheddar cheese, fresh peaches, and some lunchmeat over a bed of spinach with dressing and beets. It wasn't terrible. I was almost a little sad there were no goldfish crackers or raisins on their menu today, because that would have made things more interesting.
The variety you are likely offering a toddler in their meals infuses your own diet with variety. It should also make you a little more thoughtful about what you put on your toddlers' plates. A salad topped with chicken nuggets and fruit chews would be pretty weird, but let's be honest those always get eaten first.
This should work to minimize food waste and keep you from eating only garbage, as long as you don't watch Charlotte's Web everyday (like we do) and realize that unless plated carefully, it can resemble slop. If this deters you, abandon the Toddler Mom Diet and set up a compost pit in your back yard like a non-lazy human. I am not going to set up a neglected pile of rot in my backyard because my back yard already is a neglected pile of rot. So, I will be adhering to the Toddler Mom Diet this summer, and I will let you know the results.
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In Spain detained the ship with tons of hashish and Ukrainian crew
Ship with Ukrainians detained The ship under the flag of Comoros was carrying 18 tons of hashish. Near the southern coast of Spain detained a merchant ship Lady Boss, which was carrying 18 tons of hashish. On Board were 11 Ukrainians. It is reported by the European true with reference to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo. The ship was detained August 8 near the town of Almeria, although the operation…
The opposition bloc said about the split in the party Rabinowitz and Murewa
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"Said without a visa!" Roma staged a circus on the border
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China made a quantum transmission of satellite data
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Separatists DNR did not let the OSCE mission in Novoazovsk
The OSCE mission not allowed in Novoazovsk The OSCE accused the separatists of violating the Minsk agreements.
Off the coast of Spain has detained a ship with tons of hashish and Ukrainian crew
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MAKEOVER: Makeover gave me a new lease of life
PUBLISHED: 15:22 01 February 2010 | UPDATED: 07:51 02 July 2010
Emma Harrowing
Lucy before her makeover (left) and after the Life Matters nakeover which gave her the confidence to change her career (right). PHOTOS: SIMON FINLAY AND ANTONY KELLY
Last August reader Lucy Barkway had a Life Matters makeover to make her look more professional at work. Five months on and she has a new rewarding career, the drive to strive for promotion and the confidence to experiment with her look.
Last August reader Lucy Barkway had a Life Matters makeover to make her look more professional at work. Five months on and she has a new rewarding career, the drive to strive for promotion and the confidence to experiment with her look. EMMA HARROWING catches up with her to find out how her makeover gave her a new lease of life.
If you had met 35 year old Lucy Barkway in August last year you would've met someone who longed for a new image but who didn't know how to get out of the rut of wearing the same clothes day in and day out.
"I worked as a receptionist so I needed to look professional everyday, so I relied on my trusty pair of black or grey trousers and a smart top.
"I never really gave much thought to what I wore, but then after I had my second child and I was coming to the end of my maternity leave I wanted a new look so that I could start back to work with style."
We showed Lucy how to dress her hourglass shape, emphasising her waist with a belt and taking her out of trousers and into a tailored skirt.
We also introduced colour to her look by teaming her tailored look with purple heels and a purple work bag.
"Before my makeover I never wore accessories and I was afraid of wearing colour," says Lucy. "It was great to wear a skirt for a change and I loved finding out about how you can mix and match different colours and patterns to create a professional and stylish look."
Five months on you would hardly recognise Lucy as she has heeded our advice and now embraces colour, has the confidence to experiment with her look and never leaves the house without mascara.
Says Lucy: "I used to wear the same old clothes, many of which didn't really fit me properly. After the makeover I started to buy clothes that actually suited my shape and I added splashes of colour to my outfits with accessories such as scarves. As I know that I look good I feel good and I instantly feel more confident."
This confidence has led Lucy to give up her dead end job as a receptionist and retrain for a new career in education.
Says Lucy: "Since the makeover I have gained a certificate in Early Years Practice by completing an Open University course. I now work in a primary school in Harleston as a teaching assistant.
"I now love what I do especially as I can fit work in around my children rather than having to work evenings and weekends or long days.
"The makeover really gave me the confidence to change my career."
Lucy's makeover has given her the energy and determination to try new things. In October she plans to start another Open University course to further her training in the field of Primary education. She is also looking forward to the Spring and Summer fashions coming into the shops so that she can experiment with colour and pattern to create different looks for the new season.
"I have changed in that I love trying new things with the way I look and my career and lifestyle. I am no longer afraid to challenge myself and surround myself with the same outfits and the same job.
"I often talk to friends about my makeover day as it was a turning point in my life and will always be a day that I will remember."
Would you like a Life Matters Makeover?
Do you want a new look for 2010? Perhaps you would like a complete makeover or just a new hair style or some makeup advice. Maybe you want advice on what to wear for a special occasion or you cannot find a particular item of clothing that fits you. Or maybe like Lucy you want a new look for work. Whatever your dilemma is the Life Matters team is here to help.
If you would like one of our makeovers sign up to the makeover section on the Life Matters pages online at www.eveningnews24.co.uk or email emma.harrowing@archant.co.uk explaining why you would like a makeover.