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Here's Your Chance To Climb Mt. Santo Tomas And See The Beautiful Sceneries Around It
The Kabuyao Tour Guides and Porters Association (KTGPA) has organized a trek up Mt. Santo Tomas dubbed Celebrating Love With Nature. Set for February 28 and March 1, the trek will give participants the chance to experience mountain climbing as well as enjoy the scenic views from atop Mt. Santo Tomas. These include views of the South China Sea, Mt. Pulag, Baguio City, parts of La Union, and Mt. Ugo in Itogon. Also in the itinerary of the trek is a campfire and cultural presentation in the evening of February 28.
Registration fee for the trek is Php1,000. This is inclusive of snacks, meals, certificate, T-shirt, transportation, tour guide fees and miscellaneous fees like environmental and camping fees. If you want to join the event, you can register at any of the following registration venues:
1. Tuba municipal and barangay tourism council offices
2. Benguet provincial tourism office
3. Department of Tourism Cordillera office
Assembly area will be at the Tuba municipal grounds. Participants should be there by 1 P.M.
The KTGPA has organized the trek in partnership with the municipal government of Tuba, the provincial government of Benguet, and the Department of Tourism Cordillera. For more information, you may contact Daisy Gabaen, the KTGPA president at 09107846498.
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I received this text from a friend yesterday. "Good afternoon, Father. I'm presently preparing kids for first communion. But I have a SpEd kid (special education) in the group who can't follow what's happening. P'ano 'yan, Father?" Now, this is a very kind person and a dear friend. Out of the goodness of his heart, he volunteers to catechize children in his parish. Nevertheless, I also know very well that my friend can be quite the rigorist as a Catholic. So I texted back: "What do you think Jesus would do in such a case, my friend?" He replied a few minutes later: "I don't think she should be deprived of the experience, Father. But how do I prepare her (to receive Jesus)?" Now, if I know my friend, he was again working off of a mental check-list that most probably said: "The candidate for communion must show relative capacity to believe in one, triune God, in Jesus Lord and Savior, in transubstantiation by the Holy Spirit, in the Real Presence of Christ in bread and wine, in eternal life, in the sacrament of reconciliation which must always precede holy communion, etc." Well, yesterday, God threw him a nice curve ball: a "SpEd girl", who in my book, is an 8-year-old angel on earth, hands down.
My friend made me realize yet again that you and I—all of us—we can often be more desperate for the "things of God", than for the "God of things". We can often be more desperate for what we think are the rules of the Church of God, than for the God of the Church himself; more anxious over the liturgy of God, than for the God in the liturgy. And I wonder, if it's very far away that we look for the blessings of God more than the God of blessings himself, for the graces of God than for the Grace himself, for the signs of God more than the God of signss.
But you know what, my dear sisters and brothers, if I know him, the Lord doesn't take it against us that our desire for his gifts often get in the way of our desiring the Lord himself. But I bet, he wishes just the same, that we're able to finally make the crossing from gifts to Giver of gifts. I remember watching my very young nephews one Christmas Eve. After Noche Buena, they run for their presents under the tree. They grab one, tear away the giftwrap like there's no tomorrow, demolish the box, and out comes the toy. Then they go for another present, then another, and another. Pretty soon, the kids are surrounded with toys, they're wrapped in them, in fact. Then I remember, kuya suddenly yells, "Hey, where's our hug?" And only then do the kids tear themselves away from the "blessings" in order to go back to the "bless-ers". But then they're back to their toys soon enough. We can only hope that as our kids mature, they're able to make that crossing from gifts to giver of gifts. But like God, we don't take it against them while they're still stuck on the other side of the bridge.
To yearn for God himself, what's that like? Maybe it's like yearning for someone very dear who's far away or who's passed on? Maybe it's like saying, "If only dad were with me now, or mom, or my spouse. They don't have to give me anything, even less, do anything. Just to have them here again, just their presence so I can hug them again, hold their hand, tell them how much I miss them…." Maybe that's what yearning for God himself is like. Or maybe, it's like the yearning of the dying, who have stopped praying for God's miracle—not that they've lost hope in God, but that they're now totally dependent on God himself, more than his miracles—so that whatever God wants, wherever God wants to take them, bahala na. Basta nandyan Siya. Basta nandyan Siya.
Now, I don't know why, but I notice that desperation for God himself, beyond his miracles—it often entails the experience of a desert, of desertedness, of deep thirst that no waterfall of worldly wealth can slake. Do we dare desire God himself beyond his miracles? And if we do, are we ready to cross that desert and become desperate for the Bread of Life himself?


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by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Jun 21, 2022 | Hall of Fame News | 0 comments
Even as a kid picking his team for football games in the park while growing up in Oakland, CA, Roy Shivers had an eye for talent.
"I knew who I wanted on my side," said Shivers. "I knew who was in my neighbourhood. I know who was good.
"I knew who I was going to pick first. I've always had that ability."
In a career than spanned over 32 years, Shivers left his mark on the CFL as an assistant coach, a scout, a director of player personnel and the league's first Black general manager. His contributions have earned Shivers his induction into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame as part of the 2022 builders' class.
Shivers said being named to the hall is vindication.
"I thought I was pretty good at what I did," said the 80-year-old who was born in Hally, AR, but moved with his family to Oakland as a child. "It's nice to have recognition after a while."
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Roy Shivers served as the Roughriders' GM from YEAR TO YEAR (Riderville.com)
Shivers recruited an impressive list of star players to the CFL, including receivers David Williams and Allen Pitts, linebacker Alondra Johnson, defensive backs Eddie Davis and Darnell Clash, running back Kelvin Anderson and quarterback Jeff Garcia.
"I got into coaching and I enjoyed it, but not as much as I did going on the road, recruiting," said Shivers. "I love to watch players. I always said there is nothing like the naked eye.
"I knew a lot of guys that had played when I was coaching. Friends of mine would call and tell me about players. I had friends in the business that were coaching, working in personnel departments. They would give me leads on guys."
After attending high school in Oakland, Shivers spent four years in the army before attending Utah State, where he was a star running back. He was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals of the NFL where he played seven years.
After retiring as a player, Shivers tried teaching.
"I taught for a year and that didn't work out because of too much drama," he said.
He began coaching at Merritt Junior College in Oakland, then the University of Nevada, University of Hawaii and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
His first job in Canada was with the BC Lions in 1983, where he coached special teams and had to make the transition to three-down football.
"I'm standing there watching the game and (head coach) Don Matthews is screaming punt team, punt team," said Shivers. "I said man, it's only third down."
The move from player to coach wasn't always easy.
"I had a hard time adjusting to the coaching part because if I told you something, you should be able to do it," said Shivers. "If I told a guy to do this, and he couldn't do it, it was like, what is wrong with him?"
Shivers was named BC's director of player personnel in 1986. He joined the Calgary Stampeders in 1990 as the team's U.S. scout and became the team's assistant general manager in 1991.
Calgary lost the 1991 Grey Cup to Toronto but beat Winnipeg in 1992 to win the title.
"The only regret I have is we should have won about six of them in Calgary," said Shivers.
In 1995, the expansion Birmingham Barracudas hired Shivers as the CFL's first Black general manager. The team folded after one season and Shivers returned to Calgary in 1996 as an assistant general manager.
In 1999 Shivers was hired as the Saskatchewan Roughriders' general manager. He joined a team that went 3-15 the previous year and was badly in debt.
"It was good times," said Shivers. "It was a tough situation. The team was so down and out. When I took the job everybody thought I was crazy; nobody else wanted it."
In 2000, Shivers hired former CFL quarterback Danny Barrett as his head coach, a move criticized by some.
"When I got Danny to be the head coach they left out the key word," he said. "They said, 'You were going to hire a Black coach.' I said, 'Yes, a qualified Black coach.'
"He had a great mind for offensive football."
Shivers spent seven years with the Riders before being fired midway through the 2006 season with the team struggling with a 4-5 record. The Riders had a 52-64-1 record with him as GM and made the playoffs four times.
With Eric Tillman as general manager and Kent Austin head coach, the Riders would win the 2007 Grey Cup.
"We were so close in Regina," said Shivers. "I knew it was going to happen. As soon as we got run out of there somebody was going to come in with the talent we had and win the Grey Cup. That's what happened."
Overall, Shivers enjoyed his experience in Saskatchewan.
"I met some nice people," he said. "There's always some (jerks) in the bunch and I can give as good as I can take.
"I've got some good friends in Regina, people who really helped me out what I was there."
Shivers returned to the Lions from 2008 to 2015 as part of the team's player personnel department.
In his long career, what makes Shivers most proud is helping to make the league more accepting of Black coaches and management.
"I would like to think I did something to change it around," he said.
"My father told me when I was a small kid growing up in the Sates, if you get your foot in the door, you bring somebody with you. That's what I tried to do."


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So What If Ghana Did Ban Social Media on Election Day?
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A maelstrom greeted the announcement by Ghana's police chief in May 2016 that social media would be banned temporarily during general elections on voting day in November for security reasons. This came on the back of earlier rumors of an impending tax on VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) calls. In a country where freedom of speech has become a given, such moves are unprecedented. Compared to parts of East and North Africa, Internet censorship, at least as official policy, is unheard of in West Africa as a whole—even in countries of dubious political repute. Subsequent to denunciations by the UN and Ghanaian media and civil society, the government recently claimed that its intentions are being misconstrued. Whether this is true or a stealthy retraction over intense blowback, it is worth speculating on the implications of such a ban.
By way of context, Ghana's has been a relatively tranquil recent democratic voyage compared to several of its neighbors. This is not because the factors of instability in those countries do not exist here—they abound. A key factor to Ghana's stability has been its arguably quiescent populace. But the latter is increasingly politically alert and activist—which is why the proposed ban and the timing of its announcement are so intriguing. Those responsible must have anticipated the fallout. Yet they went ahead. But is the censure justified?
Politically, the ban has been denounced as a human rights violation and a lazy way out of confronting the challenges cited as its raison d'être. On the technical front, there is the whole question of whether an outright ban is feasible and what purpose an only partial ban would serve. But perhaps the most telling consideration in all this is that if the ban proceeds, it will set a dangerous precedent. As blogger Malaka Grant argues, a government that gets away with banning social media (access) once is likely to do it again, maybe for less stringent reasons. The human rights records of those countries with partial-to-total Internet censorship are admittedly dismal.
The import of all this for Ghana's democracy lies in the answers to several questions: What process led to the decision to ban social media? What conversations have happened since it was announced? How transparent and inclusive have both been? Is banning social media the only way to avert chaos in a charged political environment? What are the odds that the government will effect its plans come November? As NPQ recently reported, banning access to the Internet on Election Day will also affect access to health, banking, and other societal benefits and necessities.
So far, there are few coherent answers. But if the experiences of countries that have walked this path are anything to go by, Ghanaians and all investors in Ghana's democracy should be concerned about the mere idea of the proposed ban because of what it represents and potentially portends: dark days ahead for freedom of speech.—Titilope Ajayi
Titilope is an independent editor, writer, and civil society and gender and security scholar. She is currently a PhD student of international affairs at the University of Ghana, Legon, and also a 2017/8 Social Science Research Council Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Doctoral Fellow. For more, follow her on Twitter: @MataLope
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The only Ecuadorian novelist and poet ever nominated for the Nobel Prize, Nelson Estupiñán Bass (1912 -2002) was also one of the leading voices of the Afro-Latin literary movement, being of African heritage and born into the Afro-Ecuadorian coastal city of Esmeraldas. Trained in accounting, while working in that field, he developed his writing career by publishing a series of literary journals in his community.
Supporting the cause of socialism, his work was frequently highly critical of Ecuador's often conservative political establishment, and spent much time in Marxist states such as the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and East Germany. However, this also resulted in a loss of employment in Esmeraldas, and forced a move to Quito, where he survived on the sales of literary work.
In 1950, at the age of 38, Bass gained international renown with the publication of his novel, When the Guayacans Were in Bloom, which related the how Afro-Ecuadorians were exploited by both conservative and liberal factions during Ecuador's 1895 Liberal Revolution. The book has since been translated into English, French, and Russian.
The novel puts across Bass' theme of the value of honoring a distinct Afro-Ecuadorian identity in the face of the racism of Ecuador's post-colonial culture, while also advocating for a multi-racial political unity. Other Bass novels available in English include The Other Son of God, Pastranas' Last River, and Curfew.
Bass was married to Luz Argentina Chiriboga, an equally prominent figure in Afro-Latin letters, and also renowned as a feminist icon. In 2002, while visiting the United States at the invitation of Penn State University, Bass succumbed to a sudden pneumonia. At his funeral in Esmeraldas, hundreds of locals lined the streets to pay their respects.
When the Guayacans Were in Bloom, (live link, translated by Henry J. Richards, chapters one and two).
Literary Criticism (live links)
Antonio Preciado and the Afro Presence in Ecuadorian Literature, by Rebecca Gail Howes, PhD, East Carolina University.
Nelson Estupiñán Bass and the Historico-political Novel: From Theory to Praxis, by Henry J. Richards (via Jstor, account required).
Race, class and national identity in black Ecuador: Afro-Ecuadorians and the struggle for human rights, by David Dixon, PhD, Clark Atlanta University.
Preface to The Other Son of God, by Edward J. Mullen (via Questia).
Eulogy for Nelson Estupiñán Bass (live link)
Remembering Nelson Estupinan Bass (1912-2002) by Henry J. Richards, from the Afro-Hispanic Review, (via Questia).
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*When the Guayacans Were in Bloom
*Pastranas' Last River
*The Other Son of God (Kindle edition)


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"I did not hear one way my opponent would raise revenue for the state," Marx said at one point.
Formica, a two-term Republican incumbent from East Lyme, sparred with Marx, of New London, during the debate at the Charter Oak Credit Union headquarters in Waterford.
Formica said the bipartisan budget crafted during his time as co-chairman of the Appropriations Committee addressed a problem inherited from Democrats. He called it the result of one-party rule in Hartford that led to two of the largest tax increases in state history.
Both candidates are looking to represent the 20th District, which includes Bozrah, East Lyme, New London, Old Lyme, Salem, Waterford and portions of Montville and Old Saybrook.
The debate was attended by at least 200 people and sponsored by The Day and the Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut, with help from the League of Women Voters of Southeastern Connecticut.
Formica said tolls "were not the answer," and a Republicans plan would instead divert millions of dollars from discretionary bond funds to a special transportation account.
Marx said electronic tolls, used in surrounding states, would provide an immediate boost to funding for the state coffers. She also argued that recreational marijuana would not only be a source of revenue but of jobs.
"Let's not be the last state to do it," Marx said.
Formica was more cautious on the marijuana topic and said it needed more study, adding it was a "dangerous and slippery slope," to legalize marijuana strictly for revenue.
"We don't need a study," Marx replied, and referred to the fact other states have already passed marijuana laws.
"We can call them up and ask them how it's going," she said.
It was a mostly cordial debate, though the two argued over facts, which prompted Formica at one point to accuse Marx of being "a wealth of misinformation," when it came to figures on tourism dollars. Formica is co-chair of the legislature's tourism caucus.
The two were asked about Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Stefanowski's plan to phase out the income tax.
Marx said Stefanowski's plan came from "la la land" because it eliminated 50 percent of the state's budget.
"That will never work. If you're going to cut the income tax, then I'd like to know how you're going to raise the revenue," Marx said.
Marx also called for an increase to the minimum wage to $15 and said it would be the first way she would address the income inequality in the state.
Formica said he is not against fair wages but the wage need to be somehow tied to something such as the consumer price index.
"It takes it out of the political realm and into a measurable category," he said.
But Formica said many small businesses would find it a hardship to pay the $15 figure, especially on top of the benefits offered by many.
At one point Marx served as the president of the local nurse's union. She is mother of four children.
She said she was always active in politics but not as a candidate for office. In about 2010, noting how many homebound patients didn't vote and had difficulty getting absentee ballots, she said she started helping get people out to vote no matter their party affiliation.
She later campaigned for current New London Mayor Michael Passero and in 2015 won a seat on the New London City Council. She failed in her City Council re-election bid in 2017.
Formica, 65, is running for his third term in office. He is the founder, owner and operator of Flanders Fish Market and Restaurant for 34 years. He served as first selectman in East Lyme from 2007 to 2015.
A widower, Formica is the father of four children.
Formica argues that a spending cap and borrowing cap and other elements of the state budget have helped to stabilize the budget process.
"We need to find stability first and then try and turn the shop around with efficiencies and new policies moving forward," Formica said in an interview prior to the debate.


Welcome to part 3 of our regular blog series, breaking down the key news events from the past month. Here we outline the key stories from trade news publications and academic journals that have caught our eye. This month we focus on two sectors, pharmaceuticals and biofuel, to look at how IR sensors can be used to protect trust, frustrate counterfeiters, minimise pollution and prevent engine damage.
In our September blog on food contamination, we highlighted the effect that complex food chains can have on the ability to reliably claim a food is halal. In this we raised the 2008 contamination of lamb burgers with pork products and their sale to schools in the UK city of Leicester, which has a large muslim population. But an academic paper on spectroscopy from earlier this month has really got us thinking. It's not just food where people need to trust that the ingredients meet with their faith. Arguably more vital is the ability to reassure someone that they don't have to choose between their faith and their health – with pharmaceutical products often containing pig derivatives due to their low cost and wide availability.
To find an alternative, the researchers reviewed the development of molecular spectroscopy techniques using ultraviolet-visible, infrared, Raman, and nuclear magnetic resonance.
In particular near, mid and FT-IR techniques were used to analyse a range of common pig-based additives – from lard to porcine gelatine, say the researchers. See results of the analysis comparing lard and coconut oil below.
Sticking with pharmaceuticals, researchers at the University of Rome La Sapienza, in Italy, have published their review on chemometric methods for spectroscopy-based pharmaceutical analysis.
The paper primarily looks at the ability to use IR and other techniques to identify counterfeit medicines. These may be deliberately and fraudulently mis-labelled: giving a low-cost generic medicine branded packaging, or be counterfeit products made in breach of patent, or with the wrong ingredients, without active ingredients, with insufficient active ingredients, or with fake packaging.
Not all biofuels are created equally – the land they demand, the water they use, the food production they displace, and the pollution their production causes can (in some cases – and not just for palm oil) be worse for the environment than fossil fuels – see graph below.
At the same time, the financial incentives to lie about the source of a fuel are high. In a recent blog we highlighted some of these issues and the role IR plays in ensuring the source is what is promised.
A new report led by researchers at the Alta Scuola Politecnica, published in the journal Advances in Water Resources, has extended this to create a new analysis of current world biofuel production – creating a water-food-energy nexus.
The paper examines eight fuel crops for bioethanol (maize, rice, rye, sorghum, sugar beet, wheat) and biodiesel (oil palm, soy) and breaks it down to examine which countries are well suited to growing each individual crop based on each criteria.
For us, one of the most interesting findings in the analysis was for maize. As the report points out, maize is one of the most produced commodities in the world and it is widely used as a feedstock for biofuel production.
The move to second, and eventually third-generation biofuels that require less land or (in the case of third-generation fuels) can be grown in industrial processes is also taken into account by the researchers' nexus. And once again, the need to test will be critical as the more shady parts of the supply chain seek to falsify the origin of the biofuels, with IR spectroscopy proven to be an accurate, low-cost, portable method.
According to a new report by Research & Markets, the automotive biofuel market is set to grow at a significant rate, almost doubling in size in just 5 years.
This mirrors two reports from the start of the month, this time by eMarkets (looking at the growth of algae-based biofuel to 2022) and the investment firm Fish 2.0, which predicts the market for algae will have a CAGR over the same time period of 5.2%, valuing the market at 45 billion.
The report makes sense, with Exxon-Mobil forecasting 10,000 barrels of algae biofuels a day by 2025.
The growth will be fueled (pun intended) by increasing fossil fuel prices and the growing concern about air pollution, which has led to stringent government regulations to keep a check on vehicular emissions. However, lack of awareness about the advantages of biofuels in automobiles and rising consumer concerns that biofuels damage vehicle engines are the factors restraining the market growth.
These potential limitations highlight that consumers are already aware of the variance in biofuels and the importance of getting it right. Infrared sensors offer an affordable, scalable way to ensure the right fuel is being used to minimise pollution and protect the vehicle, and fuel companies will need to have this marketing in place soon to ensure consumers trust the fuel they're being served.
The Research and Markets analysis summary can be seen / bought here. The Fish 2.0 report one page here, and the eMarkets report here.


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Home » Actors/Actresses » Drama » Lots of familiar faces in Paul McGuigan's long-awaited 'Victor Frankenstein'
Lots of familiar faces in Paul McGuigan's long-awaited 'Victor Frankenstein'
This definitely isn't your father's Frankenstein. Neither is this Mel Brooks' nor Danny Boyle's Frankenstein. For some, this won't be Mary Shelley's Frankenstein either. Told from Igor's perspective, Paul McGuigan's Victor Frankenstein begins with the troubled young assistant's dark origins through his life-saving friendship with the young medical student Victor Von Frankenstein, played by James McAvoy, and the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man who created the legend we know today. "As much as the monster is his creation, Igor is his creation as well," explains McAvoy.
Daniel Radcliffe, who stars as Igor, also narrates the gothic classic, telling of how he was living in a time of innovation and progress. This was a time where scientists pushed the limits of what was possible. Victor Frankenstein takes us out of familiar Victorian London and into the dark, gothic world inhabited by Victor Von Frankenstein where he is experimenting with the 'unthinkable.'
In addition to McAvoy and Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe, Victor Frankenstein boasts a very recognizable cast that, fortunately, all happen to be brilliant. Andrew Scott (Moriarty) is reunited with fellow Sherlock actors Louise Brealey (Molly Hooper) and Mark Gatiss (Mycroft Holmes), Downton Abbey's Lady Sybil, Jessica Brown Findlay, stars as Lorelei, and Ashes to Ashes' Daniel Mays, who can also be seen in the forthcoming Dad's Army reboot, as Barnaby in this new twist on the retelling of Mary Shelley's 19th century masterpiece.
Victor Frankenstein is set for release in both UK and U.S. cinemas in late Fall 2015.
In: Actors/Actresses,Drama
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National Theatre At Home: 'Frankenstein' with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller premieres TODAY!
Dad's Army gets big screen treatment with a killer cast
It's a wrap at Abbey Road for the final live orchestral recording of 'Downton Abbey'
Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) heading to America for TNT pilot, 'Good Behavior'


Before we get to my part of the blog train…I just wanted to remind you that everything in my store is on sale for $2 to celebrate the coming new year!
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2011 by christiedawn.
New Years Sale & a Freebie!!
It's almost time to ring in a new year!! And with that comes a sale!
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on December 29, 2011 by christiedawn.
Here's what I have in the bin today!
Need to scrap your pictures in a hurry…then pick up the All That Glitters Snow Quick Pages!
Do you want a personalized Calendar for the new year? Then pick up Scrappin Sereniy's 8.5×11 Quick Page Calendar Set….or if you want it in a smaller verson pick up the 5×7 Quick Page Calendar Set! These calendars will be retiring at the end of January!
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on December 26, 2011 by christiedawn.
Christmas Sale & A Freebie!
I know it's Friday..which makes it Fantastic Friday this month! But since Christmas Falls this weekend….I'm expanding Fantastic Friday into a weekend long Christmas Sale!!
Click the flier to go shopping!!
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on December 23, 2011 by christiedawn.
It's $2 Tuesday!! I had a hard time trying to decide what to put in the bin….So I put two of my Christmas Kits in the bin…but I also put all things "Christmas" in my store on sale for $2 too for today only!
Twas The Night Before by Scrappin Serenity is based off that classic Christmas book, The Night Before Christmas. This kit if is filled with all things that happen the night before Christmas; from hanging the stockings on the fireplace, to setting out cookies and milk for Santa, and getting the sleepy kids into bed!
Do You have too many pictures to scrap and not enough time to scrap those Christmas pictures? Then pick up Scrappin Serenity's Twas The Night Before Quick Page Set.
Are you looking for the ultimate Christmas kit? Then look no further. Christmas Love by Scrappin Serenity has from Stockings to Snowflakes to Santa and his Elf! It's the perfect kit to make your Christmas cards with, gift tags with, and scrap those special Holiday moments!
Need to Scrap your Christmas pictures in a hurry?! Grab Scrappin Serenity's Christmas Love Quick Page Set!
Your Quick Page Freebie today was made using a template by MDK Scraps! Her Templates are SO cute!
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on December 19, 2011 by christiedawn.


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De finale van de Europacup I van het seizoen 1988/89 werd gehouden op 24 mei 1989 in Camp Nou in Barcelona. Het Roemeense Steaua Boekarest nam het op tegen het Italiaanse AC Milan. De Milanezen wonnen overtuigend met 4-0. De Nederlanders Marco van Basten en Ruud Gullit scoorden elk twee keer. Ook Frank Rijkaard speelde de volledige wedstrijd bij Milan.

Wedstrijd

1989
Europacupvoetbal 1988/89
Voetbalwedstrijd in Catalonië
Sportevenement in Barcelona
AC Milan
Steaua Boekarest
Europacup I 1989


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Q: exporting pdf from QtextEdit pyside2 .the print button works but the pdf its not saved in my computer it is blank import sys
import platform
from PySide2 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets
from PySide2.QtCore import (QCoreApplication, QPropertyAnimation, QDate, QDateTime, QMetaObject, QPoint, QRect, QSize,QTime, QUrl, QEvent)
from PySide2.QtGui import (QBrush, QColor, QConicalGradient, QCursor, QFont, QFontDatabase, QIcon, QKeySequence, QLinearGradient, QPainter, QPixmap, QRadialGradient)
from PySide2.QtWidgets import *
from PySide2.QtCore import QFileInfo
from PySide2.QtPrintSupport import QPrinter

from ui_interface import Ui_MainWindow

class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self):
        QMainWindow.__init__(self)
        self.ui = Ui_MainWindow()
        self.ui.setupUi(self)
        self.ui.start_btn.clicked.connect(lambda: self.ui.textEdit.setText("Hello World"))
        self.ui.printbutton.clicked.connect(lambda: self.SavetoPDF())
        self.show()

    def SavetoPDF(self):
        filename = QFileDialog.getSaveFileName(self, 'Save to PDF', None, 'PDF files(.pdf);; All Files')
        if filename != "":
            if QFileInfo(filename).suffix() == "": filename += '.pdf'
            printer = QPrinter(QPrinter.HighResolution)
            printer.setOutputFormat(QPrinter.PdfFormat)
            printer.setOutputFileName(filename)
            print(self.ui.textEdit.document())

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)`
    window = MainWindow()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

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This is where I will be spending every waking minute over the next couple of days - working on birthday gifts. I ran out of time for a dress, so a skirt will do. The birthday sweater requires 32 matching buttons which I could not find locally so I had to order them online from Canada. I am on pins and needles waiting for them to arrive. I might be cutting it too close this year!!
I meant to share this in my last KCCO post but totally forgot in the moment. Sparkle Stories just put out an audio book all about knitting! This is an hour-long "Martin & Sylvia" story divided into three parts! The story includes lots of wool craft projects, including knitting, working with wool, spinning yarn and fingerknitting - and centers on a class brother and sister take with a magical woman named Miss Melinda. If your family loves to knit together, or if you're wanting to inspire your children to learn knitting and wool crafts, you'll really enjoy these stories! There are even tutorials and patterns available so your children can create right along with Martin and Sylvia! C and I might even use one of the tutorials to make a birthday gift.
A free knitting story is also available. It's called The Fingerknit Necklace and you can find it here.


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Q: How to speed up processing/writing of one complex dataset I have one function which goes throw large amount of data (billions rows) and returns tuple

Dataset[ (Seq[Data1], Seq[Data2], Seq[Data3]) ]

This result dataset contains even larger number of rows (compare to input)
val result: Dataset[ (Seq[Data1], Seq[Data2], Seq[Data3]) ] = process(file, spark)

Seq[Data1] = billions rows
Seq[Data2] = millions rows
Seq[Data3] = millions rows (less than Data2)

Now I need to write these 3 sequences into separate avro files.
How to do it in effective way?
Currently I use flatmap function to separate these Seqs :
result.flatMap( row => row._1).write.mode(SaveMode.Append).avro(path1) //Data1
 result.flatMap( row => row._2).write.mode(SaveMode.Append).avro(path2) //Data2
 result.flatMap( row => row._3).write.mode(SaveMode.Append).avro(path3) //Data3

From processing times I see that all 3 calls of flatMap and writing avro file took same time.
So it looks like process function has been called 3times (per each flatmap)
How to call process function only once and then only filter results?
Is it possible to use caching?   (dataset contains billions of rows)

result.cache()

What do you recommend to do?
Note: I use Spark version 2.2, scala 2.11.8

A: You can try cache the result,and if there exists enough memory the result will cached,otherwise the caching will fail and the result will be recomputation.


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Love, Bornean Style
Just over a year ago on the 14th of February 2013, a handsome orangutan named Edwan was released into Batikap Forest. Learn more about the BOS Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Release Program
Edwan first came to Nyaru Menteng at the end of August 2007 when he was already about four and a half years old. Back then he was described by the Nyaru Menteng staff as an active, somewhat aggressive male with short, bushy hair and very dark skin. Although 9 years old, he wasn't that big when he was released-- only a little over 65 pounds. Just after his cage was opened in the forests of Batikap he was one of those orangutans who climbed into the trees immediately, but he didn't travel far that day.
Handsome Edwan - © BOSF / Ike
In the days that followed the release Edwan travelled a little way up stream of the river that runs in front of the camp and continued to behave aggressively towards anyone who tried to observe him. This sort of behavior occurred all throughout February. During March he wasn't directly observed. His signal was picked up from Bukit Simon, close to where Edwan was seen last, but no one managed to actually find him. At the beginning of June however, Edwan was spotted upstream along another river, a few kilometers from where he was seen before. He appeared to be a changed orangutan, for he wasn't bothered by the presence of the humans and was not aggressive at all. His only reaction was to kiss-squeak when his observers tried to take pictures of him, but who wouldn't kiss-squeak in a situation like that! Edwan was as energetic as before, however, and kept moving around, swinging through the trees and eating a lot of fruit.
The rest of the month no one saw Edwan. He didn't make his next appearance until the beginning of July. The team wondered-- Was this going to be a monthly visit that Edwan would be granting us? Nothing had changed since his visit in June. He was still ignoring the people observing him and still eating a lot, which is very good. The monitoring team left him alone and Edwan decided not to show himself anymore. Since the job of the post-release monitoring team is to regularly observe all of the reintroduced orangutans, almost two months later at the end of August 2013, the team observed Edwan again a little further downstream from the place where he was last seen. This time he was very busy building a lot of nests. To practice maybe? Who knows...
A few days later, in September, the team stumbled upon Edwan by accident when observing Ebol, a female released on the 4th of August 2012. She's about the same age as Edwan, but came to Nyaru Menteng when she was just two years old-- together with her mother (Mama Ebol). Many people at BOS describe her as "Wah, cantik sekali!", meaning "Wow! She's very beautiful!"-- in an orangutan kind of way of course. {;(|}
Beautiful Ebol - © BOSF / Ike
Ebol has long hair and a very bright face with protruding lips and a round nose. They would call a woman with the same characteristics cantik as well. Obviously Edwan was thinking the same thing, for he kept following Ebol around and if she was lagging behind he was looking back, making sure that she stayed with him. They were seen together a couple of more times that month, until the beginning of October, when Edwan was seen alone. He was acting a bit grumpy; kiss-squeaking towards his observers like he'd done before. No surprise.... Who wouldn't be a little annoyed after losing a beautiful female like Ebol!
Edwan and Ebol found each other again a few weeks later, on the 20th of October. They were peacefully eating together and following each other around, but in the weeks that followed Edwan was seen only a couple of times-- by himself and being grumpy again.
As with every good soap-opera Edwan turned up on the 19th of November. This time he was close to Emen! Did he get tired of the pretty Ebol? We of course don't know, because in the three months that followed the team couldn't pick up Edwan's signal-- nor Ebol's. Then, in the beginning of February of this year, the team got lucky and recorded Ebol's signal on one of the hills around Batikap.
In the days that followed, the team tried looking for Ebol without any success, but on the 25th of February they suddenly picked up a close signal in a very swamp-like piece of forest near the crosspoint of the two earlier described rivers. The team left the transect and stumbled through mud, all the while tripping over roots. Finally they found Ebol in a tree, eating some unbelievably sour orange-like fruits with five pits in the middle. She seemed to like them, though, and was happily dropping the left-overs around us, where they fell like tiny bombs on the ground. In the same tree another orangutan was sitting calmly-- and of course it was Edwan... He had again found his pretty lady!
Text by: Anna van der Kaaden, Batikap Volunteer Photos by: Ike Naya Silana
View more on the BOS Foundation release blog
Learn more about the BOS Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Release Program
The continued success of the BOS Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Release Program depends on support from donors like YOU! Please make a donation today!


Traveling to Tel Aviv, I sought out a pharmacy to obtain for my son, Olivier, some melatonin, a natural supplement that helps with jet lag and is widely available without a prescription in the United States. I discovered that, though it has no adverse side effects, melatonin requires a prescription in Israel that must come from an Israeli doctor; the pharmacist would not provide it to a physician like me from abroad.
This level of concern for our own health stands in stark contrast to the devastating health effects I observed during a June 7-8 visit to Gaza where residents have been living under severe Israeli economic sanctions for the past 11 years.
It is only with extreme difficulty that residents can enter or leave Gaza, and only with the permission of the Israeli government. The Erez Crossing is a looming building that once processed thousands of people traveling every day to work in Israel. But when my son and I arrived just before 9 a.m. on a Thursday, for an hour-long trip through Israeli customs, the terminal was virtually deserted.
Later, some Israeli friends told us that Palestinians had been replaced with other day laborers — Filipina women staffing hospitals and nursing homes; Romanian and Chinese workers staffing numerous construction sites; and Thai farmworkers being brought in to pick crops. Meanwhile, unemployment in Gaza is more than 40 percent, with 80 percent of the population receiving some kind of international economic assistance.
The Gaza side of the Erez Crossing was very bleak, with high concrete walls topped by barbed wire. We were bussed from the crossing to a security checkpoint with uniformed men from the Palestinian Authority. There we met our host, Nahed Wehaidi, the Gaza director of American Near East Refugee Aid — a relief organization founded after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War to provide aid for refugees in the Middle East. His negotiations allowed us through a third checkpoint, maintained just a few yards away by Hamas, the political party that is the de facto government of Gaza.
The purpose of our visit was to tour four hospitals and clinics, accompanied by a group of seven public health doctors and aid workers from American Near East Refugee Aid.
The first visit was Al Ahli Arab Hospital — the only Christian hospital in Gaza — first built in 1882 and operated for 30 years until 1982 by the Southern Baptist Convention in the U.S. The hospital and its clinics are currently sponsored by the Anglican Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem.
The head of Ahli Arab, Suhaila Tarazi, who is from South Carolina, along with Jehad al Hesi, chief of pediatrics, spent an hour telling us about the malnutrition and related illnesses that they had been treating. The halls were packed with mothers and children. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East estimates that the number of daily medical consultations at their own 22 facilities across Gaza is 113 patients per doctor per day.
Every provider we met seemed overwhelmed. Their distress is in part a result of a January decision by the Trump administration to withhold $65 million of a $125 million contribution to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. According to Tarazi, Ahli Arab recently had to drop the number of patient beds from 80 to 50 because of a lack of resources.
We visited an outpatient clinic in Gaza City — sponsored by the Middle East Council of Churches — that focuses on prenatal care, family planning and early childhood development. It was packed with women in dark-colored abayat and veils. Issa Tarazi, the executive director, took us to meet a group of girls who were in a program to help diminish the psychosocial impact of post-traumatic stress related to the conflicts. Thirty smiling teenagers insisted on performing a dance for us, to very loud music, proudly showing off their preparation.
The children of Gaza, Tarazi told us, are still suffering the consequences of the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict that, according to UNICEF, killed more than 500 children and injured almost 3,400 — nearly a third with permanent disability. More than 1,500 children were orphaned. Tarazi said things got worse during two months of weekly protests that began in March against the Israeli blockade, with at least 125 people killed and thousands more injured. The Israeli Defense Forces have publicly stated that they are shooting to wound rather than to kill. A June 9 story in the Los Angeles Times documented the wave of lower extremity amputations of young people as a result of gunshot wounds to the legs that had overwhelmed medical facilities — which lack the kind of vascular surgery capability to which gunshot victims have access in most trauma centers in the United States.
At the Ard El Insan Clinic, the chief of pediatrics, Adnan al Wahaidi, said he had evaluated two children just that morning with rickets, a form of malnutrition almost never seen today in the U.S. He introduced me to one of the children — Jamal, a 2-year-old boy with the worst bowed legs of vitamin D deficiency that I had ever seen. Jamal waddled around one of the exam rooms, kicking a ball to the best of his ability, which al Wahaidi artfully returned.
One of the doctors told me they had seen many children with bullet wounds to their lower extremities — with treatment limited to cleansing the wounds, sterile bandages, antibiotics and only ibuprofen and Tylenol for pain relief. One couldn't help but notice bullet holes on the walls of the clinic, which doctors described as being "on the front lines" during the Israeli Defense Forces' invasions of December 2008 and July 2014.
At Al Quds Hospital, a major trauma unit run by the Palestine Red Crescent Society, we were ushered into the palatial office of hospital chief Khalil Abou Foul, a trauma surgeon trained in Libya. A delegation of their doctors sat with us while he explained what the hospital was up against.
He took us into the operating areas and we all donned surgical boots for a visit to the cardiac catheterization laboratory. The doctors were very proud of all their equipment and the chief of interventional cardiology came out of a procedure to shake hands and tell us about their clinical capabilities — for people with insurance. He said they sometimes had to plan a month in advance for certain procedures in order to procure the necessary supplies; he had recently missed an international meeting because he could not get an exit pass in time.
Our last stop was to 1,600-year-old Orthodox St. Porphyrius Church, named for a fourth century bishop who demolished pagan temples and introduced Christianity. The caretaker of the church showed us a baptismal font made of white stone that dated to the construction of the church around the year 402, in which generations of his own family had been baptized. But the number of Christians has been falling as the level of distress in Gaza has been rising, he said.
Gaza City was itself a prosperous port in the spice trade, dating long before the time of Jesus. Now, with no functioning stoplights, hundreds of horse and donkey-drawn carriages driven by children, and only four to six hours of electricity available every day, there was a sense of disorder and economic desperation everywhere we went.
The most striking thing to me was the lack of hostility toward Israel in our conversations with the doctors, nurses, and the staff of that ancient church. Contemplating our visit, reconciliation seemed not only possible but essential.
For now, my inability to obtain melatonin from an Israeli pharmacy pales in comparison with all the reasons that Palestinian parents in Gaza have for losing sleep at night.
The secretary-general of the Russian bishops' conference urged Catholics to remember the 1918 murder of Czar Nicholas II and his family with "penance and reflection," while suggesting Catholics could participate in future commemorations.
"The killing of this family was one of the first steps on a path of mass murder, forced labor, religious persecution and genocide which led on through the Stalinist period," said Msgr. Igor Kovalevsky, secretary-general.
The priest spoke after 100,000 people — led by Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill — attended a pilgrimage and religious observances in Yekaterinburg.
In a 19 July Catholic News Service interview, Msgr. Kovalevsky said the country's million-strong Catholic Church had not been involved in past commemorations of the czar and his family, nor in their canonization by the Orthodox Church.
However, he added that Nicholas II's murdered entourage had included at least one Catholic, the Latvian-born footman Alexei Yegorovich Trupp, and said he believed members of Yekaterinburg's Catholic parish had taken part in the 12-17 July events.
"We should remember Nicholas II had voluntarily given up his throne the previous year, so it's more historically accurate to mourn the killing of a family than the death of a czar," Msgr. Kovalevsky said.
Nicholas II, who abdicated in February 1917, was shot by Bolshevik captors in a basement while under house arrest at Yekaterinburg in the early hours of 17 July 1918. The empress and five children also were killed.
The victims, finished off with bayonets, were burned and doused with acid before being dumped in a pit at Ganina Yama, 14 miles from the city, where their presumed remains were exhumed in 1991.
All seven were later reinterred in St. Petersburg's Sts. Peter and Paul Orthodox Cathedral and canonized as martyrs by the Russian Orthodox Church in August 2000.
An Orthodox church was dedicated in 2004 on the site of the Ipatiev House, where the killings took place.
On Sunday 22 July, Jews around the world quietly observe Tish'ah B'Av ("the ninth of Av"), Av being the fifth month of the Hebrew Calendar, corresponding to July/August. Tish'ah B'Av is a day of fasting and mourning for Jews. It commemorates primarily the destruction of the temples in Jerusalem. But, as we'll see, the events being remembered can have meaning and significance to the wider world, as well— particularly in places CNEWA serves.
According to the biblical text (2 Kings 25:8 ff.), "in the fifth month on the seventh day of the month (587 BC)…Nebuzaradan, commander of the guard, an officer of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem. He burned down the Temple of Yahweh, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem." It was an unparalleled disaster for the Israelites, bringing the end of the almost 500-year dynasty of David, the end of his city Jerusalem, and the destruction of the Temple which Solomon built.
In Numbers 13:25-14:38 we find the story of the spies sent to reconnoiter Canaan by Moses. Upon their return, all but two spies give a very negative—and false—report on the possibilities of entering the Promised Land. On hearing the negative report, the people revolted against Moses and God and were punished. According to an ancient Jewish commentary on the biblical text, the Israelites wailed and complained against God for no reason. It was—according to the tradition—on the 9th of Av. God the punished them by making that a day on which they would really have something to mourn.
· July 70 AD: the Romans entered and destroyed Jerusalem and, with it, the Second Temple, built in the time of Ezra and greatly expanded by Herod the Great (d. 4 BC).
· 4 August 135 AD: the Romans at Betar killed almost half a million people who had been part of the rebellion of Bar Kochba.
· 2 August 1941: the Nazi party approved "The Final Solution," which brought about the extermination of six million Jews in Europe.
On the 9th of Av the biblical book of Lamentations is read in the synagogue. Jews fast for 25 hours, sit on the ground or low stools and avoid any type of entertainment. Although many non-Jews might not be as aware of the observance of Tish?ah B'Av as they are of Yom Kippur or Rosh Hashanah, it is nonetheless an observance with profound meaning for the Jewish people.
But perhaps the destruction of the Temple of Solomon in 587 BC and the Second Temple in 70 AD can have meaning for all people of faiths.
Without taking away from the poignancy of the Jewish tragedies observed on Tish?ah B'Av, we are reminded of the violence against sacred places around the world—and more importantly the persons who hold them sacred: the Buddhist statues in Bamyan, in Afghanistan; the bombing of churches in the Middle East; the destruction of Yazidi sacred sites and on and on.
The lands in which CNEWA works are no strangers to violence against places of worship and the worshippers who hold them sacred. Tish?ah B'Av, a sacred and solemn day to Jews, can serve as a reminder to all people of faiths. As long as one group of believers is the object of oppression and violence, no believer can be secure—and none can afford to be indifferent.
People form a human chain in India's Jharkhand state on 15 July to protest what they say is state-sponsored harassment of Christians.


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Andrew J. White Papers
Andrew J. White (b. ca. 1836) was from Campbell County, Georgia and served as a private in the "Campbell Sharpshooters," Co. C, 30th Georgia Infantry. At the time of the Federal Census of 1860, White and his wife, Margaret (b. ca. 1840), resided on their Campbell County farm with their two small children, Zeppora (b. ca. 1856) and Lucius (b. ca. 1857). His military records indicate White became a prisoner of war during the Vicksburg campaign and was paroled on July 13, 1863. White deserted sometime before early September 1864 and took the oath of loyalty at Lousiville on September 28, 1864, with the condition that he stay north of the Ohio River for the duration of the war. Campbell County ceased to exist in 1931 when it became part of Fulton County.
David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University
8012 White1 May 14, 1861 John Frost Andrew J. White Atlanta, Fulton County, GA Campbell County, GA
8013 White2 June 30, 1861 William E. Butner Thomas Butner, Marchina Butner Winchester, VA Cobb County, GA
8014 White3 January 4, 1862 Andrew J. White Margaret White Savannah, Chatham County, GA Campbell County, GA
8015 White4 January 4, 1862 Andrew J. White Joseph White Savannah, Chatham County, GA Campbell County, GA
8017 White6 January 13, 1862 Andrew J. White Margaret White Wilmington, New Hanover County, NC Campbell County, GA
8019 White8 January 28, 1862 Andrew J. White Joseph White Wilmington, New Hanover County, NC Campbell County, GA
8020 White9 June 13, 1862 Andrew J. White Margaret White Beaulieu, Chatham County, GA Campbell County, GA
8021 White10 June 15, 1862 Andrew J. White Margaret White Beaulieu, Chatham County, GA Campbell County, GA
11993 White12 August 20, 1862 Merrell M. Humphries Andrew J. White Rapidan, VA
8024 White13 August 30, 1862 Andrew J. White Margaret White Savannah, Chatham County, GA Campbell County, GA
8025 White14 September 1, 1862 Andrew J. White Margaret White Savannah, Chatham County, GA Campbell County, GA
8026 White15 September 2, 1862 Margaret White Andrew J. White Campbell County, GA Savannah, Chatham County, GA
8027 White16 September 2, 1862 Andrew J. White Joseph White Savannah, Chatham County, GA Campbell County, GA
8029 White18 September 6, 1862 Wade White Andrew J. White Campbell County, GA Savannah, Chatham County, GA
8030 White19 September 11, 1862 Andrew J. White Margaret White Savannah, Chatham County, GA Campbell County, GA
8032 White21 September 16, 1862 William W. Bomer Margaret White Cedar Grove, Walker County, GA Campbell County, GA


The Hyères Festival promotes young designers in the fields of fashion, photography and fashion accessories. Each year, as part of the villa Noailles, the festival is organized around three competitions, exhibitions and round tables. The competitions bring together ten stylists (since 1986), ten photographers (since 1997) and ten accessory designers (since 2017), selected by professional juries.
The creations of the selected candidates are presented as fashion shows, collective exhibitions for the photography contest and the accessories competition.


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A4 print black and white photograph of a net mending workshop illustrating Bible verse Philippians 1:6, works in progress that He will bring to completion.
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Poll shows marriage survey heading for 'yes'
by Ben Graham, News.com.au
5th Oct 2017 2:41 PM
DEBATE over same-sex marriage is really heating up in an Arnhem Land community where about 50 surveys have been burned.
Furious residents of Ramingining, 560 kilometres east of Darwin, believed the survey was asking whether or not a man should be "compelled" to marry another man, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) deputy statistician Jonathan Palmer.
He said experienced ABS field officers are currently visiting around 200 remote locations to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities participate in the voluntary Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey - as most people in remote communities don't speak English a their first language.
Staff do not have interpreters with them when they visit remote regions, instead relying on audio recordings of survey explanations in about 14 Aboriginal languages.
"These visits are planned in consultation with local communities to ensure cultural sensitivities are observed," an ABS spokesman said.
"The ABS is aware of a case in a community in Arnhem Land where a misunderstanding led to some forms being destroyed. Replacement forms have been issued and the case has been resolved."
Despite difficulties, more than nine million Australians have voted in the postal survey on gay marriage so far.
That's about 57.5 per cent of the 16 million registered voters able to take part in the $122 million survey, according to ABS estimates.
Both campaigns have welcomed the figure as an promising result, with the No campaign saying the debate was "still wide open" with seven million Australians yet to have their say.
GetUp marriage equality director Sally Rugg said however the participation rate already matched and would likely exceed the turnout rate in Ireland's historic referendum to legalise same-sex marriage in 2015.
"We were initially concerned about the vote being held via the post because the extra hurdles of updating enrolment and remembering to post a letter, so it's heartening and exciting to see such huge participation in the survey," Ms Rugg said.
Whereas, Coalition for Marriage spokesman Lyle Shelton said the high turnout signalled that the Australian public understood the gravity of the debate and the consequences for the community.
"This is consistent with the overwhelming number of calls and emails from people all over Australia who are concerned about how same sex marriage will impact on schools, freedom of speech and freedom of religion," he said.
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LSU quarterback Joe Burrow named Associated Press college football player of the year
ATLANTA, GEORGIA – DECEMBER 07: Joe Burrow #9 of the LSU Tigers reacts after defeating the Georgia Bulldogs 37-10 to win the SEC Championship game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on December 07, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
NEW YORK (AP) – LSU quarterback Joe Burrow named Associated Press college football player of the year.
Burrow, who has led the top-ranked Tigers to an unbeaten season and their first College Football Playoff appearance, received 50 of 53 first-place votes from AP Top 25 poll voters and a total of 156 points.
Ohio State defensive end Chase Young was second with three first-place votes and 29 points while Buckeyes quarterback Justin Fields was third with 43 points. Burrow, Young, Fields and Oklahoma quarterback Jalen Hurts, who finished fourth with 33 points, are the finalists for the Heisman Trophy to be handed out Saturday in New York.
Burrow is the favorite for the award after passing for 4,715 yards and an Southeastern Conference record 48 touchdowns. The senior transfer from Ohio State is on pace to set a major college record, completing 77.9% of his passes.
The AP player of the year award began in 1998 and only five times has the winner not been the same as the Heisman winner; the last time that happened was in 2015, when Stanford running back Christian McCaffrey won the AP award and Alabama running back Derrick Henry was the Heisman winner.
LSU faces Hurts and No. 4 Oklahoma in the playoff semifinal Dec. 28 at the Peach Bowl. Later that night, Fields and Young and the rest of the Buckeyes will play Clemson in the other semifinal at the Fiesta Bowl.
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What exactly causes gout to occur when it does? The most common factor that increases your chance of gout and gout attacks is excess consumption of alcohol, especially beer. It used to be known as "the disease of kings" since it was mainly seen in wealthy men who drank and ate too much. Now we know it can occur in anyone and can be associated with injury or surgical procedures, hospitalizations, periods of stress, or reactions to diets high in meat and seafood, and certain drugs such as antibiotics. Gout may also occur in the presence of some tumors or cancers. There is also a relation between gout and kidney disorders, enzyme deficiencies, and lead poisoning. Gout may also accompany psoriasis and is common in patients with transplanted organs due to medications that are often needed. Susceptibility to gout is often inherited and is often associated with other common illnesses such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity. Repeat attacks of gout are common if the body's uric acid level is not kept under control.
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Sandra Stauffer
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Sandra Stauffer is a professor of music education in the School of Music at Arizona State University where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses. She is also associate dean for academic personnel for the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.
Stauffer's research interests include creating in music, children and music, place and place philosophy, narrative inquiry, and arts-based research. Her recent publications focus on children and adolescents as creators of their own music, and the potential of place-conscious thinking in music teaching and learning. Her work includes collaborations with various educators, organizations, and musicians, including work with composer Morton Subotnick on the development of his software programs for children. She is co-author and co-editor with Margaret Barrett (University of Queensland) of two books on narrative and music: "Narrative in Music Education: Troubling Certainty" (2009), and "Narrative Soundings: An Anthology of Narrative Inquiry in Music Education."
In addition to her work in musical creating, place, and narrative, Stauffer has authored articles on music listening, general music education, and music teacher preparation. She was a contributing author for the "Music Connection" textbook series, a primary author for the "Silver Burdett Making Music" series widely used in K-8 schools, and a contributing author for "interactive MUSIC," a powered Silver Burdett and Alfred. Her work also includes materials for orchestra education programs and other community music groups, as well as collaborations with other music software developers. A general music specialist, Stauffer is active as a guest lecturer in the U.S. and abroad, and as a clinician and consultant for music education events and curriculum projects.
Stauffer was the first Evelyn Smith Professor of Music (2003-2006) at ASU, and she currently serves as coordinator of graduate studies in music education. Prior to joining the ASU faculty, she was a faculty member and coordinator of the Music Education Division at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore. Sandy has taught general, choral, and instrumental music in the public schools of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Virginia. She is a graduate of West Chester University (PA) and the University of Michigan.
Stauffer CV 2016 September.docx
Ph.D. Music Education, University of Michigan
M.M. Music Education, University of Michigan
B.S. Music Education, West Chester University
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Children and music; music learning and teaching; creating in music; narrative; place and place philosophy.
Music, Learning, and Society Research Group
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Barrett, M., & Stauffer, S. L. (Eds.) (2012). Narrative soundings: An anthology of narrative inquiry in music education. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.
Barrett, M., & Stauffer, S. L. (Eds). (2009). Narrative inquiry in music education: Troubling certainty. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.
Stauffer, S. L., & Davidson, J. (Eds). (1996). Teaching examples K-4. Reston, VA: Music Educators National Conference.
Stauffer, S. L. (Ed). (1995). Toward tomorrow: New visions for general music. Reston, VA: Music Educators National Conference.
Kaplan, P., & Stauffer, S. L. (1994). Cooperative learning in music. Reston, VA: Music Educators National Conference.
Stauffer, S. L. (Publication pending). Technology, sound, and the tuning of place. In R. Mantie & A. Ruthmann, Eds., The Oxford Handbook of Technology and Music Education. New York: Oxford University Press.
Stauffer, S. L. (2014). Narrative inquiry and the uses of narrative in music education research. In C. Conway, Ed., Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research in American Music Education (pp. 163-185). New York: Oxford University Press.
Stauffer, S. L. (2014). Refection on Webster's "Creativity as Creative Thinking." In J. W. Richmond & M. Hickey, Eds., Coming About: Retrospective Review of and Reflections on the Writings of Peter Webster (pp. 15-19). [E-reader publication: www.peterwebster.com/pubs/ComingAbout.pdf]
Stauffer, S. L. (2013). Connecting narrative thinking and creative thinking in music. In C. Randles, ed., Teaching Music Through Composition in Band/Orchestra (pp. 76-83). Chicago: GIA.
Stauffer, S. L. (2013). Engaging creative thinking in music through narrative thinking frames. In C. Randles, ed., Teaching Music Through Composition in Band/Orchestra (pp. 89-105). Chicago: GIA.
Stauffer, S. L. (2013). Preparing to engage children in musical creating. In Kaschub, M. & Smith, J. (Eds.), Composing Our Future: Preparing Music Educators to Teach Composition, pp. 75-108. NY: Oxford University Press.
Stauffer, S. L. (2012). Imagining the child. In A. J. Palmer & A. de Quadros, Eds., Tanglewood II: Summoning the Future of Music Education, pp. 209-214. Chicago, IL: GIA.
Stauffer, S. L. (2012). Place, music education, and the practice and pedagogy of philosophy. In W. D. Bowman & A. L. Frega (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education, pp. 434-452. NY: Oxford University Press
Stauffer, S. L. (2010). Process, passion, people: Pedagogical notes for musician-scholar-educators. In J. Briscoe (Ed.), Vitalizing Music History Teaching, pp. 73-84. New York: Pendragon Press.
Stauffer, S. L. (2009). Notes for a moment in music education research. In M. Campbell & L. Thompson (Eds.), Research Perspectives: Thought and Practice in Music Education, pp. 151-167. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Stauffer, S. L. (2009). Placing curriculum in music education. In T. A. Regelski & J. T. Gates (Eds.), Music Education for Changing Times: Guiding Visions for Practice, pp. 175-186. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.
Stauffer, S. L. (2007). Constant and change: The political and the social in shaping curriculum: A response to "The History and Development of Elementary Music Education in Canada: A Curricular Perspective" (R. Beatty). In K. Veblen & C. Beynon (Eds. with S. Horsley, U. DeAlwiss, & A. Heywood), From sea to sea: Perspectives on music education in Canada. Ebook, retrieved at: http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/musiceducationE-books/1/
Stauffer, S. L. (2007). Points of intersection and the problems of agency and place in assessment and creativity in music. In C. C. Leung, R. L. C. Yip, & T. Imada (Eds.), Music Education Policy and Implementation: International Perspectives. Hirosaki University Press.
Cutietta, R. A., & Stauffer, S. L. (2005). Listening reconsidered. In D. J. Elliott (Ed.), Praxial music education: Reflections and dialogues (pp. 123-141). New York: Oxford University Press.
Stauffer, S. L. (2003). Identity and voice in young composers. In M. Hickey, (Ed.), Why and how to teach music composition: A new horizon for music education (pp. 91-111). Reston, VA: MENC: The National Association for Music Education.
Stauffer, S. L. (1994). Say yes to music electives, say no to elective music. In J. Hinckley (Ed.), General music in the middle school. Reston, VA: Music Educators National Conference.
Baxter, S. G. & Stauffer, S. L. (1988). Music teaching: A review of common practice. In C. Fowler (Ed.), The Crane symposium: Toward an understanding of the teaching and learning of performance skills (pp. 49-62). Potsdam, NY: Potsdam College of the State University College of New York.
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Conference Proceedings
Goodrich, A., Stauffer, S. L., & Bucura, E. (Reviewed, in revision). Multiple dimensions of peer mentoring in a university methods class. Journal of Music Teacher Education.
Stauffer, S. L. (2016). Another perspective: Re-placing music education. Music Educators Journal, 102(4), 71-76.
Stauffer, S. L. (2015). Transitions. The Mountain Lake Reader: Conversations on the Study and Practice of Music Teaching, VI, 6-9.
Stauffer, S. L. (2011). Incomplete. Action, Theory, and Criticism in Music Education, 10 (1), 86-93. Online at: http://act.maydaygroup.org/articles/Stauffer10_1.pdf
Rickels, D. A. & Stauffer, S. L. (2010). Access, equity, and effectiveness: Challenging the music education paradigm. Proceedings of the 23rd International Research Seminar of the International Society for Music Education, Changchun, China, July 2010.
Stauffer, S. L. (2009). When children create music using technology. The Orff Echo, 42 (1), 30-33.
Stauffer, S. L. & Robbins, J. (2009). Description, interpretation, meaning: Notes on Geertz and ethnography in music education research. Research Studies in Music Education, 31(1), 82-89.
Miranda, M. L., Robbins, J., & Stauffer, S. L. (2007). Seeing and hearing music teaching and learning: Transforming classroom observations through ethnography and portraiture. Research Studies in Music Education, 28, 3-21.
Stauffer, S. L. (2007). Place, people, purpose: Persistent and productive tensions in music and teacher education. In Rideout, R. (Ed.) Policies and practices: Rethinking music teacher preparation in the 21st century [Proceedings from the Memorial Symposium Honoring the Contributions of Charles Leonhard] (pp. 77-94). Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts.
Stauffer, S. L. (2005). Toward mindful music education: A response to Bennett Reimer. Philosophy of Music Education Review 13, 135-138.
Stauffer, S. L. (2002). Connections between music and life experiences of young composers and their compositions. Journal of Research in Music Education, 50, 301-322.
Stauffer, S. L. (2002). Revisiting revision in children's composition processes. [Abstract.] Proceedings of the seventh international conference on music perception & cognition. [CD-ROM]. Sydney, Australia: University of New South Wales.
Stauffer, S. L. (2001). Composing with computers: Meg makes music. Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, 150, 1-20.
Stauffer, S. L. (2001). Pre-service and in-service teachers' perceptions of children and adolescents as composers. In Y. Minami & M. Shinzanoh, (Eds.), Proceedings of the third Asia-Pacific symposium on music education research & international symposium on Üragoeí and gender, Volume 1 (pp. 159-164). Nagoya, Japan: Aichi Arts Center.
Stauffer, S. L. (2001). Three days in Mississippi. The Mountain Lake Reader, 2, 44-45.
Humphreys, J. T., & Stauffer, S. L. (2000). An analysis of the editorial committee of the JRME, 1953-1992. Journal of Research in Music Education, 48, 65-77.
Stauffer, S. L. (1999). Learning through composing. Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, 142, 92-93. (Extended abstract.)
Stauffer, S. L. (1999). Getting started with assessment in elementary general music. Music Educators Journal, 86 (2), 25-30.
Stauffer, S. L. (1999). Reform in education: Response to Saxe and Bracey. In P. T. Tallarico (Ed.), Reform in education: The Bowling Green State University symposium on music teaching and research (pp. 33-35). Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University.
Stauffer, S. L. (1999). Sociological and cultural cues in the compositions of children and adolescents. In Barrett, M. S., McPherson, G. E., and Smith, R. (Eds.), Children and music: Developmental perspectives. (Proceedings of the Second Asia-Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research). Launceston, Tasmania: University of Tasmania.
Stauffer, S. L. (1998). Children, computers, composition: A research collaboration. The Orff Echo, 31 (1), 41-43.
Stauffer, S. L., Achilles, E., Kujawski, K, & Watt, R. (1998). Preparing the caregivers: Music in early childhood education. Early Childhood Connections, 4(2), 20-24.
Stauffer, S. L. (1994). The Reston symposium: The "vision" one year later. General Music Today, 8 (1), 20-22.
Stauffer, S. L., & Saunders, T. C. (1992). The middle school model and general music. General Music Today, 6(1), 6-10.
Charleroy, A., Frederickson, J. A. G., Jenson, A., McKenna, S., Thomas, A. (2012). Child development and arts education: A review of current research and best practice. New York, NY: The College Board, Office of Academic Initiatives. (Contributing author.) http://nccas.wikispaces.com/Child+Development+Research
Reviews and Columns
Stauffer, S. L. (2016). Report of the dissertation and public defense of the dissertation by Sari Muhonen: Songcrafting practice: A teacher inquiry into the potential to support collaborative creating and creative agency within school music education. Finnish Journal of Music Education.
Stauffer, S. L (2012). Review of Songs in Their Heads: Music and Its Meaning in Children's Lives, 2nd edition. [Patricia Shehan Campbell. Oxford University Press, 2010. (307 pages).] Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 34(1), 81-86.
Stauffer, S. L. (2007). Review of International Handbook of Research in Arts Education, L. Bresler, Ed. Research Studies in Music Education, 29, 79-81.
Stauffer, S. L. (2006). Review of Out of This World (Libana; CD SR006, Spinning Records). Kodály Envoy, 34 (4), 44.
Stauffer, S. L. (2003). Revisiting music education research: Review of The New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning, Richard Colwell & Carol Richardson (Eds.). Arts Education Policy Review, 104 (4), 35-37.
Stauffer, S. L. (1992-94). From the chair. Column appearing in General Music Today, Volumes 6 and 7.
Stauffer, S. L. (1992). The risks of stress. (Research to Practice column.) General Music Today, 5(2), 23-25.
Stauffer, S. L. (1991). Practicing practices. (Research to Practice column.) General Music Today, 5(1), 32-34.
Stauffer, S. L. (1991). Building bridges between research and the classroom. (Research to Practice column.) General Music Today, 4(3), 27-29.
Stauffer, S. L. (1988-1990). Maryland research. Maryland Music Educator, Volumes 34-36. (A two-page feature that appeared in each quarterly issue.)
Saunders, T. C. & Stauffer, S. L. (1990). Musical discrimination training in instrumental music. Maryland Music Educator, 36(3), 34-37.
Stauffer, S. L. (1989). Musical preferences. Maryland Music Educator, 36 (2), 20-23.
Stauffer, S. L. (1989). Teacher intensity. Maryland Music Educator, 36 (1), 24-25.
Stauffer, S. L. (1988). Vocal health--it's not just for singers. Maryland Music Educator, 34 (3), 26-27. Reprinted (1993) in the Maine School Music News, 57 (4), 28-29.
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Stauffer, S. L. (2005). Thinking about composition. Arizona Music News, 49 (2), 41-43.
Stauffer, S. L. (2001). Preface. In Niebur, L., Incorporating assessment and the national standards in music education into everyday teaching. New York: Mellen Press.
Stauffer, S. L. (1995). Composing a career as a university faculty member. In N. Gutierrez (Ed.), Faculty Roles at a Research Institution. Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University, Arizona Board of Regents.
Stauffer, S. L. (1992). Cooperative learning in music. Arizona Music News, 36(2), 12, 14, 21, 27.
Saunders, T. C. & Stauffer, S. L. (1989). Music education in the state of Maryland: General and choral music survey results. Maryland Music Educator, 35 (4), 25-33.
Saunders, T. C. & Stauffer, S. L. (1989). Music education in the state of Maryland: Instrumental music survey results. Maryland Music Educator, 35 (3), 18-24.
Saunders, T. C. & Stauffer, S. L. (1988). Music education in the state of Maryland: General information survey results. Maryland Music Educator, 35 (2), 27-31.
Stauffer, S. L. (1986). Confessions of an eclectic. The Tennessee Musician, 39 (2), 22-23. Reprinted (1987) in the Maine Music Educators Bulletin, 25 (3), 20-21.
Funded Grant Proposals, External
Thompson, J. (P.I.); Mantie, R.; Schmidt, M.; Stauffer, S.; Sullivan, J.; Tobias, E. (2016-2018). Addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion through music learning and teaching. National Association for Music Education, $10,000.
Gould, E. (P.I.). Living with Tenure: Gender/sexuality and race/ethnicity in Canadian post-secondary music. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, University of Toronto. 2013-2015. Stauffer, S. L, Contractor. Narrative study of Canadian faculty, with funding for ASU graduate student Isaac Bickmore. $3200.
Turchi, L. (P.I.). Teaching Foundations Project, Arizona State University, 2010-13. Stauffer, S. L., Contractor, co-leader of the Arts Consortium for grant through the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at ASU. Total TFP $900,000. Stauffer: $12,000.
Stauffer, S. L. (P.I.); Bush, J., & Schmidt, M., ASU School of Music; & Barrett, M., University of Queensland. (2007-2008). The outcomes and values of an effective K-12 music program. National Association of Music Merchants, Sounds of Learning, $64,009.
Stauffer, S. L. (P.I.) & Reber, M, Arizona Opera. (1997-1998). Opera in the schools: A collaborative education project. Arizona Arts Education Research Institute, $4,000.
Stauffer, S. L. (P.I.) & Rippentrop, D. (1995-1996). A comparison of students' creative thinking processes and music compositions produced in two different conditions. Arizona Arts Education Research Institute, $3,000 (plus $500 matching grant funds from both the Scottsdale School District and the Arizona State University College of Fine Arts).
Stauffer, S. L. (P.I.) & Hoshel K., Tempe Elementary School District. (1994-1995). The effects of assessment on the musical attitudes and abilities of elementary students. Arizona Arts Education Research Institute, $2,000.
Saunders, T. C. & Stauffer, S. L. (Co-P.Is.). (1988). The status of music education in Maryland public schools. Maryland Music Educators Association, $300.
Funded Grant Proposals, Internal
Stauffer, S. L, & Bledson, R. (2015-2016). Designing music E-textiles with young children. Herberger Institute Research Council Seed Grant, $3,500.
Tobias, E.S., Paine, G., & Stauffer, S. (2014-2015). Music and media makerspaces. Herberger Institute Research Council Seed Grant, $12,000
Stauffer, S. L. (PI). (1999-200). The influence of age, composing experience, and sociocultural background in the compositions of children and adolescents. College of Fine Arts Research Council, $4,600.
Stauffer, S. L. with Morton Subotnick, composer. (1995-1996). An investigation of children's compositions and musical thinking processes through the development of interactive CD-ROM composition programs. Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State University, $21,000.
Stauffer, S. L. with Morton Subotnick, composer. (1994-1995). An investigation of children's compositions and musical thinking processes through the development of interactive CD-ROM composition programs. Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State University, $9,710. Reports of the project appeared in:
1 - Svetlik, J. (1995). Rhapsody in ROM. ASU Research, 10 (1), 14-17.
2 - Arizona Board of Regents. (November, 1995). Reports and Discussions, Executive Summary.
3 - Britton, S. (Ed.). Subontick and Stauffer test Making Music. Create (May,
1995). Arizona State University: Institute for Studies in the Arts.
Stauffer, Sandra L*. Living with tenure: gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity in Canadian post-secondary music. UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO(4/1/2014 - 5/31/2015).
Stauffer,Sandra L*, Bush,Jeffrey E, Schmidt,Margaret Emily. Impacts of a K-12 Music Program: Outcomes and Values. NAMM Foundation(7/1/2007 - 6/30/2008).
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MUE 413 Art of Teaching Children Music
MUE 484 Internship
MUE 492 Honors Directed Study
MUE 493 Honors Thesis
MUE 499 Individualized Instruction
MUE 580 Practicum
MUE 590 Reading and Conference
MUE 591 Seminar
MUE 599 Thesis
MSI 601 Cont Topics in Music Research
MUE 792 Research
MUE 799 Dissertation
MUE 551 Listening and Creating
MUE 101 ASU School of Music Experience
MUE 494 Special Topics
MUE 594 Conference and Workshop
MUE 756 Qual Research Music Teaching
Digital Narratives
Linguistics - Narrative Analysis
Music Pedagogy
Music and Place
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In the first two years of production. Made in Korea. Quality axe. Rare to find a 20 years old and near mint. All Stock. No Changes. Slim fast straight neck with no fret wear. Comes in ORIGINAL EPIPHONE hard case. Not the case shown. Exceptional condition. Free shipping.


Amazing Life Ministries believes in God the Father, Jesus Christ the son and the Holy Spirit. We believe in the Crucifixion and that Jesus sacrificed His life in exchange for ours. We believe in the resurrection and that Jesus rose again on the third day and that He is sitting at the right hand of His Father. Be believe that Jesus died to forgive us of our sins and provide a way for our salvation and to live eternally in Heaven along side our Heavenly Father. We believe that God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not die but have everlasting life. We believe in Confession, Repentance and Restoration through His great love and power. We believe that in the Holy Spirit and He was sent to live in us and with us here on earth and be the source for our intimate and direct communication through Jesus Christ to our Father. We believe that the Holy Spirit was sent as our Guider, Healer, Source of Truth and Counselor. We believe that Jesus Christ has anointed us with the power to forgive, love, heal, defend and live out His amazing plan for our lives.