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How To Motivate Your Body By 15 Minutes Morning Exercises

Let us face it, at one point or the other we all want to look fabulous and be fit. However, we are never able to do anything about it because the idea of signing up for gym is tiresome and 45 minutes of working out always seems a tad too long.

A flat belly and a well-shaped bum are never easy to get but with the right morning exercises, you can be able to achieve your dream body. Here are a few easy exercises you can include in your workout routine to achieve your desired results.

1.      Warming Up

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Before beginning any heavy workout exercises it is important to warm up your body to avoid shocking your muscles. Warm up exercises are meant to help you ease into the intense workout routine. Stand with your legs far apart and stretch until you touch your toes sideways. You can also squat slowly until you get down and come back up again slowly and stretch out completely to engage your whole body. Two minutes will be enough for the warm up routine.

2.      Planks

This exercise may seem easy when you look at someone else doing it but it needs a lot of concentration to be able to do it properly. To do a good plank, lie flat on your stomach on your mat then place your arms on the ground at 90 degrees to raise your upper body up. Do the same with your feet and ensure you are supporting yourself using your toes.

Keep your back straight and suck in your stomach. Planks concentrate on your belly and core thus helping to reduce the fat and eventually gain a flat and abs if done intensely. Hold this position for 60 seconds daily or more for better results.

3.      Jumping rope

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Not only is jumping rope easy but it can be done anywhere anytime and you decide how intense you want it to be in terms of speed and the number of times you jump. Jumping rope is beneficial in helping you burn 10-16 calories per minute when done moderately and consistently. Imagine how much calories you would burn if you jump rope for three minutes.

4.      Crunches

Crunches are very useful in building abdomen muscles that are strong. When crunches are done on a regular basis they can help you gain balance. Simply lie flat on your back with your knees bent and the feet kept on the ground. Keep your hands crossed on your chest and inhale as you lift your upper torso off the ground and exhale when going back down.

A minute or two would suffice for this exercise. Be keen not to lift you whole torso because that will change from a crunch to a sit up. Repeat this up to ten times and increase the number as you get used to it.

5.      Squats

Many people cringe at the thought of squats because of the pain that they come with forgetting that they keep our butt, hips and thigh muscles well toned and build the leg muscles.

Stand upright with your feet slightly wider than your hips and toes pointed outwards. Contract your abs and descend as though you are sitting on a chair behind you then come back up to your initial position. Repeat up to twenty or repeat for two minutes and increase gradually.

6.      Mountain climber

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Mountain climbers target your glute and leg muscles, core muscles, shoulders and your chest. Mountain climbers can be included in your warm up session before you start weightlifting or go for a run. Simply get into a push-up position and pull your leg inward and upwards towards your belly. Do this in one swift move and move your leg back then alternate legs. Two minutes would be enough for this exercise.

7.      Push ups

To strengthen your triceps and biceps and gain muscle in the chest area you need include two minutes of pushups. Pushups also help you to gain a good posture and avoid lower back injuries and they are definitely good for cardio.

Get into a plank position but slightly higher. Support yourself using your palms instead of the arms. Lower yourself steadily until you almost touch the ground then come back. Ensure that you do not arch your back while doing pushups.

Remember it is important to cool down just as you warmed up. The same exercises you do while warming up can be done when you cool down. Take a minute to cool down before you conclude your 15 Minute Morning Exercise.

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Saturday, May 29, 2010

Hobbit model Saturday

This is some pretty impressive scale modeling.
My name is Maddie Chambers and this all began when I was a young child and read the Hobbit for the first time. I believe I was about 10 and I was instantly hooked. My Nanan lent me her copy of the Lord of the Rings about 1 year later and I remember thinking that the trilogy leaped into a far more complex world and one that I completely lost myself in. I have read Lord of the Rings about 20+ times now and each time it holds as much magic as the first time.

Friday, May 28, 2010

Poets in government

This formal and clever poet must find some such sense of the comic necessary, as he changes places each morning with that formal and intelligent commissioner of Social Security—since, as you’ve probably already guessed, they are one and the same person. Michael J. Astrue is the best poet ever to hold a truly major appointed position in the American government. And A.M. Juster is the best senior civil servant of whom American poetry can boast.

The question, of course, is why this double life of a public persona? Why has this former head of a major biotech firm, a lawyer, and a public servant chosen to share the same shadow as this very private poet with the sensitivity of a W.H. Auden mixed with the scathing wit of a Jonathan Swift? An even more fascinating question is why Astrue has for so long insisted on keeping these two identities separate. Years ago, when the poet X.J. Kennedy asked him why he insisted on using a pseudonym, Astrue told him that the main reason was that he didn’t want to be known as a novelty act—which, in truth, is more a dodge than an answer.
"Regard the Scuttlebutt as True"

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Ancient Roman coins with sex scenes:
They were used in ancient Rome to request and pay for different “services” in brothels and from prostitutes on the street. Since there were a lot of foreigners coming to the city that did not speak the language and most of the prostitutes were slaves captured from other places the coins made the transactions easy and efficient. One side of these coins showed what the buyer wanted and the other showed the amount of money to be paid for the act.

not a real disease

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

A Conference Expansion Post

Everyone is treating the current round of conference expansion as if it's a given that the Big 10 will act, the SEC will respond, and the ACC/Big 12/Big East will scramble to recover.

That's probably true. But I think that it's time to strike for the little conferences. This is particularly true for the ACC, which risks losing some members should the SEC get hungry. The ACC model as it stands clearly isn't working -- their hilariously half-filled conference championship football games and dearth of legitimate national title contenders being the best examples. In football, the ACC is broken.

Basketball-wise, though, it's working pretty well. So the ACC should act with three things in mind:

1. Strengthen or at least don't further dilute your football brand.

2. Improve your conference's basketball prestige.

3. Prepare for the inevitable incursions of the SEC (and, possibly, the Big 10).

With that in mind, the ACC should consider expansion early, while it can get the drop on folks. I doubt the ACC will, because expansion was a mistake last time, and they got a bad reputation from it. But, as I said above, the conference obviously needs fixing. Further, who cares what people think?

If I were in charge of the ACC, we'd go for sixteen teams divided into two north-south divisions.

The Southern would include FSU, Miami, Clemson, Georgia Tech, and the four North Carolina schools. This would be the stronger division in both football and (especially) basketball.

The Northern Division would include current members Virginia Tech, Virginia, Maryland, and Boston College. Four additional teams would be added. I would make an offer to Penn State first, agreeing to pretty much whatever they want, but they wouldn't move. Instead, I'd have to raid the Big East for Pittsburgh, Louisville, West Virginia, and UConn.

The South is tougher either way. But I think it's a big improvement over the current conference in football, for a couple of reasons. First, while the South is a lot stronger, the North is deeper -- there's nobody that is a pit of football despair like Duke. Second, the conference championship game is almost certainly going to include one of the Florida teams, Clemson, or Georgia Tech, which should improve ratings and attendance.

As far as basketball goes, who cares how even the divisions are?

Vexillological World Cup: Knockout Stage

Don't remember what the flags look like? Fuck you!

Uruguay 2 - 1 Greece

England 3 - 3 Serbia
(England win 5 - 4 on penalties)

Denmark 2 - 0 New Zealand

Portugal 0 - 1 Switzerland

Argentina 2 - 1 France

Germany 3 - 2 Algeria

Slovakia 4 - 1 Holland

Honduras 1 - 0 North Korea

So, our quarterfinals look (if you could remember what they look like!) like this:

Pretty stupid!

I can't stop watching the slow motion part

Sunday, May 23, 2010

ISIS week

Slightly less old shit:

Friday, May 21, 2010

ISIS week

ISIS have broken up. Thus, videos.

Two related zombie games

Zombie Baseball and the far superior Zombie Cricket.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

The humble banana almost seems like a miracle of nature. Colourful, nutritious, and much cherished by children, monkeys and clowns, it has a favoured position in the planet’s fruitbowls. The banana is vitally important in many regions of the tropics, where different parts of the plant are used for clothing, paper and tableware, and where the fruit itself is an essential dietary staple. People across the globe appreciate the soft, nourishing flesh, the snack-sized portions, and the easy-peel covering that conveniently changes colour to indicate ripeness. Individual fruit—or fingers—sit comfortably in the human hand, readily detached from their close-packed companions. Indeed, the banana appears almost purpose-designed for efficient human consumption and distribution. It is difficult to conceive of a more fortuitous fruit.

The banana, however, is a freakish and fragile genetic mutant; one that has survived through the centuries due to the sustained application of selective breeding by diligent humans. Indeed, the “miraculous” banana is far from being a no-strings-attached gift from nature. Its cheerful appearance hides a fatal flaw— one that threatens its proud place in the grocery basket. The banana’s problem can be summed up in a single word: sex.
The Unfortunate Sex Life of the Banana

2012 Olympics

Have you seen the new Olympic mascots for the 2012 London games?

Ye gods. You can't really tell from that picture, but the one on the right (I think he's the one for the special Olympics) is wearing a crotchless leotard. The other one has the famous "Lisa Simpson giving a blowjob" logo on the front.

You can tell in the even stupider costumes, though.

Goodness that is terrifying. I am fairly certain that blue one fought Godzilla in a special child-rape episode. This is shaping up to be the least aesthetic event ever in that orgy of nationalism, corruption, and waste.

The worst part is that the two symbols of England are the lion and the bulldog, two of the most awesome animals out there. It's even worse than when the Olympics were in Atlanta* and the mascot wasn't a failing inner-city school system.

*I still have an Izzy key chain, though I don't use it.

Vexillological World Cup: Knockout Stage

The bracket (imagine there's a bracket):

Uruguay (Gp A Winner)
Greece (Gp B Runner-Up)

England (Gp C Winner)
Serbia (Gp D Runner-Up)

Denmark(Gp E Winner)
New Zealand (Gp F Runner-Up)

Portugal (Gp G Winner)
Switzerland (Gp H Runner-Up)

Argentina (Gp B Winner)
France (Gp A Runner-Up)

Germany (Gp D Winner)
Algeria (Gp C Runner-Up)

Slovakia (Gp F Winner)
Holland (Gp E Runner-Up)

Honduras (Gp H Winner)
North Korea (Gp G Runner-Up)

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Don't step on the grass, Sam

Vexillological World Cup: Group H

Chile: God bless Texas.

Spain: Would be better without the seal.

Honduras: This is a good group.

Switzerland: Make it square, man.

Runner-Up: Switzerland

Winner: Honduras

StarCraft 2 strategy

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

First person Super Mario Bros.

Vexillological World Cup: Group G

Ivory Coast: Like Ireland but Africanier.

Portugal: In actual soccer terms, this is a very tough group. In flag terms, no.

North Korea:
Looks like something GI Joe would fly.

Brazil: Gross colors, complicated image. It is vurry recognizable though. Progresso is a soup.

Runner-Up: North Korea

Winner: Portugal

Monday, May 17, 2010

Vexillological World Cup: Group F

Paraguay: I think its obverse and reverse sides are slightly different. Neither is very good.

Italy: Doesn't do much other than make me hungry.

New Zealand: Slightly worse than Australia but good enough for this group.

Slovakia: We don't just hang ANY flag on our wall.

Runner-Up: New Zealand

Winner: Slovakia

I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, Night Man

Night man!

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Vexillological World Cup: Group E

Denmark: Oldest flag ever. Or something. The nordic cross would be sorely missed if it weren't for this ole girl.

Japan: And that's a period. Gross.

Cameroon: Sigh. Africa.

The Netherlands: Turn France sidways? I'm in!

Runner-Up: Holland

Winner: Denmark

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Or that would have been that, except word of the catch reached the ears of Colonel George Montagu, who lived in patrician seclusion on his estate some ten miles down the road. Montagu, veteran of the American Revolution (and at the time the world’s leading expert on the taxonomy of British sponges), was a corresponding member of several societies for natural history, and he set out to recover what was left of the carcass, which had been briefly exhibited at the county fair before being boiled down for oil—the bones unceremoniously dumped back in the river. A little diligent muckraking revealed the skeleton of what Montagu eventually decided was a little whale not previously seen on the English coast, so he wrote up a detailed anatomy and preserved its toothy skull.

Though Montagu stepped on a rusty nail a few months later and promptly died of tetanus, his final dissection outlived him: published posthumously, his account represents the first recognized scientific description of the bottlenose dolphin, a creature Americans generally think of as “Flipper,” but which those in the know call Tursiops truncatus. The skull of the Dart River Beast remains to this day in a drawer in London’s Natural History Museum—the eternal type specimen for the species as a whole. If, therefore, you wish to grasp the essential nature of the bottlenose, you should, technically speaking, start here, pulling item number GERM.353a, and looking down that bony beak into a pair of empty orbits. Alas, poor Yorick!

Actually, though, knowing the bottlenose is a good deal harder than that. Neither Colonel Montagu nor those rough-handed boatmen could have had any idea that the creature they dispatched to scientific apotheosis in 1814 would go on to lead such a queer and dramatic life in the collective imagination of modernity. Tursiops truncatus—a slate-gray, slick-skinned net thief, which coastal fishermen of the late nineteenth-century Atlantic sometimes called the “herring hog” in disgust—would, by the 1970s, leap in the vanguard of the Age of Aquarius, enjoying an improbable secular canonization as the superintelligent, ultrapeaceful, erotically uninhibited totem of the counterculture. And to this day, for many, the bottlenose—mainstay of aquatic ecotourism, beloved water-park performer, smiling incarnation of soulful holism—represents a cetacean version of our better selves. If, as Thoreau wrote a few years after the slaying of the Dart River dolphin, “animals . . . are all beasts of burden, in a sense, made to carry a portion of our thoughts,” then there are few creatures that have done more hauling for Homo sapiens in the twentieth century than Tursiops truncatus.
A Mind in the Water

Vexillological World Cup: Group D

Germany: Das Heillage!

Australia: I don't mind the various flags with the Union Jack in the canton. This is a tough group though.

Serbia: Deceptively busy little seal there.

Ghana: We get it, you're black people.

Runner-Up: Serbia

Winner: Germany

Friday, May 14, 2010

Theme for the weekend

Yo yo trick scam

Oh man I love this guy.

Vexillological World Cup: Group C

Algeria: Surprisingly effective.

Slovenia: 3E likes the slavic flags that follow this general template. We think this might be the weakest of the three in the tournament.

USA: Busy. We need fewer states.

England: Classy.

Runner-Up: This was a tough call, but since we're sure at least one of the other Slavic flags will make it through, we're going with Algeria.

Winner: England

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Vexillological World Cup: Group B

Argentina: You again! I can't say no to a pretty face.

Nigeria: Not as garish as most Sub-Saharan flags. Simple but uninspiring. It will soon become painfully apparent that 3E much prefers horizontal stripes to vertical ones.

Greece: Recognizable but not really for any positive reason. The blue should be darker. Might just end up being the second tallest building in this Wichita of a group.

South Korea: White background with stuff smattered about it. Usually not a success story.

Runner-Up: Greece.

Winner: Argentina.

Facebook and privacy

In three handy links.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

An obnoxious little game

Everybody Edits, which is just like the internet: some people build stuff, some people ruin stuff, some people draw swastikas.

Vexillological World Cup: Group A

I usually hate the sun but this one has won me over.

Simple is good, but the colors lack creativity. Still, better than...

Busy little birdsealthing in the middle. Would be better without it, but the colors would still look so... Mexican. <\subtle racism>

South Africa:
There's a fine line (get it?) between fimbriation and infibulation. Then again, there's really not.

Winner: Nothing here really stands out and it doesn't look good for the knockout rounds to come, but we're going with Uruguay.

Tri Epsilon Spring Meeting Report

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Monday, May 10, 2010

Nature is weird

Zoologger is a blog about weird and unusual animals. This is my favorite one I have looked at so far:
In a grassy field on the edge of a patch of woodland, some ants are escorting a pink caterpillar to their home. Once it has been guided into the depths of their nest, the caterpillar begins feeding the ants with sweet fluids.

It may sound like a touching story of interspecies love, but it ain't. Over the following year, the caterpillar will eat its way through hundreds of ants, eggs and larvae. So voracious is the intruding caterpillar, there is a good chance that the ant colony will be wiped out.

This deceitful ant-muncher is the caterpillar of the large blue butterfly – in adult form, a strikingly beautiful creature with iridescent, spotted wings. But in order to reach adulthood, the caterpillars must infiltrate the ants' homes, and they have an arsenal of less than beautiful tricks for that purpose.
That led me to this video:

The irregular Pete Fiutak on conference expansion:
Sooner than later, I foresee a day when the little guys are squeezed out completely and moved to another division. Eastern Michigan just can’t compete with Michigan when it comes to attendance, funding, and in every other way a you want to compare football programs. The big boys are going to realize the money to be made by creating an uber-division of elite teams and conferences, and the Big Ten is getting the ball rolling now. After all the dust settles from expansion and realignment, here’s my best guess (with the new schools in each league in bold) for how the college football world will look ten years from now …
SEC – Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisville, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, South Carolina, South Florida, Southern Miss, Tennessee, UCF, Vanderbilt
Nope. There is no conceivable way that the SEC expands to include those four teams. If the SEC does expand, Louisville is a distinct possibility, and South Florida is probably not impossible, but UCF and Southern Miss add absolutely nothing to the conference. They actively harm it. Clemson, Texas, Hawaii, Sorbonne, and Mars University are all as or more likely. (His estimates for the new Pac-10 teams (Boise State, Colorado, Fresno State, Nevada, San Diego State, UNLV) are equally far-fetched).

Saturday, May 08, 2010

Super Mario Crossover Saturday

Oh man, Super Mario Crossover is a. awesome and b. sounds like a Nintendo basketball game. That guy's name was Bill R.? Whatever, he is far and away the best.

Friday, May 07, 2010

Friday music game

BallDroppings. Very musical.

Friday music

Thursday, May 06, 2010

aw yeah. postin'

Autoantonyms are words that have two opposing meanings, so that they are effectively their own antonym. My favorites include:

• to secure in place
• to dash away suddenly

cleave (verb)
• to adhere; stick together
• to cut apart; divide

rent (verb)
• to lend; lease out
• to borrow; hire

screen (verb)
• to view; show
• to conceal; shield

Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Monday, May 03, 2010

Every Calvin and Hobbes

Starting here. I am not sure if anyone who is interested in this (after all, it's been out of print for 15 years) will need it, as there are a number of great collections, but the searchability is nice.

Folk Metal Monday

Saturday, May 01, 2010

Mad Farmers

Give your approval to all you cannot
understand. Praise ignorance, for what man
has not encountered he has not destroyed.
This is a Philippine Tarsier
Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
From "Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front"

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Sunday, March 2, 2008

Like I Needed More

The bad news of the weekend was that Jamie couldn't fly out to spend the weekend with me as planned. She wasn't feeling well and had to cancel her trip. The good news of the weekend was that I went ahead with our planned trip to western Massachusetts anyways.

Shortly after getting off the highway, I made a wrong turn and encountered this ominous road sign. Luckily it didn't set the tone for my solo weekend. I turned right around and found my way to Webs. Oh, how I love Webs. They have the greatest deals and the hugest selection. Hours tick by unnoticed when I am in that place. With the aid of the awesome shopping list function of Ravelry, I was a well prepared and focused shopper. Almost everything I bought was for a specific pattern or was for a specific purpose.

After a short yarn sensory overload recovery period at the hotel, I headed out to downtown Northampton for some shop browsing, wine purchasing and dinner eating. I finished up the night drinking wine, eating an amazing slice of raspberry chocolate cheesecake and knitting in my hotel room (king size bed with down pillows!).

The next morning, I woke up to about 8 inches of new snowfall. I checked out of the hotel and after burning mega calories trying to unearth my car, I headed out to breakfast. I had scoped out the breakfast menu at the Haymarket Cafe when I bought my dessert the night before, so I knew I was in for a treat.

It amazes me how the price of things adjusts when you get outside of the Boston area. This delicious french toast breakfast with a fresh-pressed apple juice was just over $8!

  1. I love Haymarket! If you are there at lunch or dinner, I highly, highly recommend the Baked Tofu. I'm getting hungry just thinking about it. Glad you had a good weekend!

  2. That anonymous comment is from me... Silly computers...

  3. too bad jamie couldn't join you. that would've been great! but glad you got out and enjoyed the weekend anyway. i, too, love haymarket. and northampton! yeah for western MA.

    love ya,

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søndag 3. februar 2013

Dt Kenny K`s Krafty Krew # 129 Hearts & Flowers

Wish you all a wonderful Sunday morning and welcome to

Hearts & Flowers

 Digi Stamp: Kenny K - Lil`Angel and Devil - colored with Distress Ink Reinkers.
Paper: Panduro. Punch: Martha Stewart. Dies: Spellbinders.
Flowers: Melissa Frances. Text Stamp: Whiff of Joy.
Sparkle and Liquid Pearls from Ranger.

This weeks first sponsor is Kenny K's Downloads
The prize from Kenny is the winner's choice of 5 digi's.

And our second sponsor this week is

The prize from Laura is a stamp to the value of $10.00.

Allsorts Challenge Blog: Lets get cute
Crafty Calendar Challenge: Love and marriage
My Sheri Crafts: Valentines
My Time To Craft: Love is in the air
Pumkin Spice: Heart
Sweet Stampin Challenge: Love is all around
2 Sisters Challenge Blog: Color Challenge
Brown Sugar Challenge: hearts
Digi Heaven: Love or Valentines
Simply Create Too: Valentines or hearts
Card Makin Mamas: Love

Outside it`s so much snow that it has not been in years, but I'm going skiing today and
  enjoy all the snow :-)
A lot of snowy hugs from

19 kommentarer:

Jeanette sa...

Rålekkert kort, Karin. Herlig fargelegging - og for et søtt par :) Ha en fin søndag videre i snøen. Klem Jeanette :)

McCrafty's Cards sa...

Gorgeous card Karin, I like the fun image and the colours, Thanks for joining in with us at Digi Haven, Good Luck.
Kevin xx

Marge sa...

What a FUN image -- thanks so much for sharing your card with us @ My Sheri Crafts challenge!

Qie sa...

Great card. Thanks for joining us at brown sugar. Good luck.

Marjorie sa...

Oh Karin!! This is just magical!!.. love this card.. that image is just soooo cute!... Your blog is really lovely and you have made some amazing cards... Lots of inspiration:0)...

Wendy Fraser sa...

What a fab fun card, super image and I love the flowers. Thanks for joining us at Digi Haven and hope to see you back again soon xx

Sarah sa...

Hi Karin, oh fabulous image and great colouring.

Thanks for joining in with us this week at Sweet Stampin.

Shell Shearer Swinscoe sa...

Great card, fab layout & image!

Thank you for sharing with us at My Time To Craft this week, good luck!
Hugs Shell xx

Lezlye Lauterbach sa...

Beautiful Card! Thanks for playing with us at SHop Pumpkin SPice!

Gail sa...

Awesome coloring. Great layout, cute diecuts, beautiful flowers! Thanks for participating in the Sweet Stampin' Challenge and hope to see you again next month! --Gail

Wedgie sa...

Fab image Karin!

Thank you for sharing at Sweet Stampin this week, Wedgie xxx

flowerdisco sa...

oh my darling, your coloring is awesome and i love that image too. thanks for joining us in the pumpkin spice challenge so we had the opportunity of seeing it.
take care!

Missy sa...

Super card, great image!! Thanks for joining us at Shop Pumpkin Spice this week!!

Samantha sa...

Fabulous card, gorgeous colouring and shading, Thanks for sharing with us at Allsorts challenge this week, hugs Samantha x

craftyeyes sa...

sweet card thanks for sharing with us at 2sisters this week good luck with the challenge Tracy x

Cheryl sa...

Very cute! You colored this fun image beautifully.

Thank you for joining our challenge at Pumpkin Spice .

P.G. Lamb sa...

Your card just made me smile. Your use of distress reinkers to color the image is amazing! Love this card! Thanks for joining us at My Sheri Crafts.

Beverley sa...

Gorgeous card. I love the image. Thanks for joining in our "Love & Marriage" challenge at Crafty Calendar this month.
Bev x

Sara sa...

too cute, thanks for playing along with CMM!


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Tropical Cyclone Dahlia (2018)
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Character Approved's Architecture Expert: Chad Smith

characterapproved.jpgIf it seems like the posting frequency has gone down a tad the last few months, that's because it has!  I am also writing for USA Network's Character Approved Blog, which assembles experts in various cultural fields to talk about what we think is positively impacting the cultural landscape.  I am the architecture expert.  I mean, who else would they pick?  Joke.  I was honored to be asked.

Visit often.  I'll twitter a link when the articles I've written go live there.

Play With The City

All, playing one big game.  What if this was your relationship to everyone in the city?

Concrete Mushrooms: Transforming Paranoia

concrete-mushrooms-final-1034.jpgAlbania in the 20th Century produced 750,000 concrete bunkers, to defend the tiny country against the onslaught of the invasive Capitalist villains of the West. But ha ha we never invaded!  Leaving behind a bunker for almost everyone everywhere in this tiny country.  Who doesn't want one of those?  Except no one knows what to do with them, and no one really owns them, and they're everywhere.

Fortunately the concrete mushrooms are solid concrete and steel, making them so durable that it is not feasible to demolish them.  Or alter them except to build them out.  It is this territory that two Albanian graduate students at Politecnico di Milano are exploring in their blog and developing documentary Concrete Mushrooms.  The potential of this project comes to life in the trailer for the documentary, which includes several Albanians talking about how they have reused one of the mushrooms littering the landscape.  We'll be keeping tabs on this one.

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The City In Film: Ghostbusters

GB001 - Columbia by nycscout.jpgScouting NY does a very welcome and in-depth analysis of New York City, then and now, as seen through the classic lens of Ghostbusters.

One of the pleasures of this film is that it is shot in locations I am familiar with: Columbia University, the Upper West Side, and Tribeca.  Having seen their past captured as the sets of a 1980's film makes being in them in the present that much more thrilling.  Scouting NY's two-part dissection is a bit more precise though.

I would like to take this opportunity to request NYC then-and-now analyses of the following films: The Wiz, Klute, and The Warriors.

Video Life Of Small Urban Spaces

One of my favorite, formative books, The Social Life Of Small Urban Spaces, was of course a transcription of many written, photographic, and filmed records of how people actually use public space.  So you imagine my excitement when I saw that some of the video is now on youtube.

24 Hour Guggenheim

Last night at 6pm, the Guggenheim began its 24-Hour Program on the Concept of Time. Presenters included architects, artists, philosophers, writers, anthropologists, etc. Like any academic conference, lucidity and brevity comingled with pointless meandering. I suppose temporal musings may demand the non-specific thought processes that I saw last night and this morning. Below are highlights from the conference--at least the way I remembered and experienced the moments.

Continue reading and more pictures by roving New York City correspondent Saharat Surattanont.

Finding New York City For Film

Speaking of documenting New York City, a new weblog called Scouting NY documents the travels of a film location scout. He is dedicated to the art of actually looking at New York City, while everyone else rushes on the sidewalk to get on with their business. His business is looking, and by what is on his site so far, he appears to have some great observations.

Via Curbed!

007 Data Center

No this is not a movie set. It probably will be, though. Or perhaps it was designed after seeing You Only Live Twice? At any rate this data center 30m under Stockholm, designed by Albert France-Lanord Architects, is futuristic as seen from the classic Bond era. It's also an interesting problem for an architect: given an existing enclosure, one that really can only be changed by dynamite, what would you do? Well, design a kick-butt movie set, that's what.

Exploded by Arch Daily.

Star Trek Gets Architecture

Architecture enthusiasts who saw Quantum of Solace this weekend, or those (like us!) who watched the HD trailer to the next Star Trek movie frame-by-frame, saw the unmistakable criss-cross trusses of Fay Jones's iconic 1980 Thorncrown Chapel in one second of the planet Vulcan. What that that big podium or what Spock is doing in front of it, we have no idea. We love the inclusion of spectacular buildings in splodey science fiction. It gives a palpable material reality to the stories, both because we know these spaces in real life, and they have the grain and character of well-designed buildings. A computer generated set by a professional computer modeler just does not create the same effect.

Perhaps we should start designing our buildings with more of this cinematic flavor in mind? How it appears on film, yes. But also deep consideration of what kind of production values you are looking for. What kind of film would this building work well in? Buildings are always turned into sets long after they are built. Is it possible to develop a specific architecture that is ready for films of a specific type during the Schematic Design Phase?

Freeze frame from io9.

Star Wars: A New Heap

Our favorite Death Star artist John Powers has posted a fascinating essay about Star Wars, Minimalism, and Modernism called Star Wars: A New Heap over at triplecanopy. This goes beyond his wonderful visual associations (like the original Star Wars text crawl and Robert Smithson's Heap of Language from 1966) and does research into the origins of the aesthetics of Star Wars, placing them squarely in the contemporary art of the late 1960s, including hard connections like the creative team from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Oddessy, who were in turn tightly connected to Minimalist and Modern Art.

Tropolism Films: Bodega Down Bronx

Today is a screening of the new film Bodega Down Bronx. From the Center for Urban Pedagogy's announcement: "This past year, students from New Settlement's Bronx Helpers and CUP teaching artist Jonathan Bogarin investigated bodegas in the Bronx. The group interviewed bodegueros, visited their suppliers, and met with congressional representatives, health professionals, and alternative Bronx food establishments. They made a documentary to pass along what they learned." Watch the trailer here.

The screening is at 5:30 at CUNY Law School Auditorium, 65-21 Main Street, Flushing, Queens, NY.

Tropolism TV: Ultimate Skyscraper

The National Geographic Channel is featuring One Bryant Park on its Man Made series. The episode airs Thursday, November 6, at 9PM ET/PT. It's a great mini-documentary on the building, and gives some great insights into how large-scale sustainable building is happening these days. What's particularly great is how articulate and passionate Richard Cook is about this way of building.

Tropolism Film Series: Summer 2007

[Editors note: For our inaugural Film Series, Summer 2007, we invited architect/cinephile Saharat Surattanont. Our only terms: the films must be interesting to architects, but have a common theme that is atypical of architectural film series. Enjoy.]

We often overlook the mundane in film.

Architecture film series tend to follow two basic trends: A monumental urban vision that reinforces “larger than life” characters or an “over stimulated” reality that symbolizes a confused and schizophrenic existence.

This film series examines non-contiguous spaces--inhabited by “dysfunctional” characters. Our protagonists never rise above their surroundings nor are they fully dwarfed by them. A more integrated and symbiotic relation develops between them and their world.

No grand conclusions can be drawn from these films. Mostly, time just passes. In the end, we’ve seen a fractured reality--reframed by those that are often ignored, dismissed or marginalized. All we can finally say is that we’ve shared their world and are reminded to acknowledge the spaces (and people) that are too often overlooked.

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Tropolism Films: Subdivided

Director Dean Terry emailed us recently to announce his new film, Subdivided, exploring how suburban design resists the formation of communities. We haven't seen the film yet (premier is January 3 on Dallas PBS television station KERA, 8pm), but the premise is intriguing to us. The only mark against is the featuring of not one but three New Urbanists as featured interviews in the film. Weren't there any regular urban planners and designers available? Whatever the case we look forward to seeing the film.

On Smithson's Hotel Palenque

Greg Allen posts a gorgeous piece about Robert Smithson's lecture/slideshow/fictional narrative Hotel Palenque. He includes a link to a filmed recording of the 1972 event at the University of Utah, and impressions of what it is to see this piece through the lens of a filmmaker.

Tropolism Films: A Scanner Darkly and The Lake House

Filmed space typically serves as a backdrop to a character driven narrative. Yet every now and then it becomes a pivotal element that lures us into its grasps---sometimes in the most unlikely of scenarios--and if Keanu is our guide, sit back, drink the Kool-Aid, and slice the Velveeta.

(Some times, we just have to yield and submit. As much as I hate to admit it: there’s just something about a Keanu Reeves movie. His two recent films, A Scanner Darkly and The Lake House proudly exhibit his mastery of an incessant naiveté and bewilderment.)

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John Powers: Sci-Fi Wahabi

When we were wee students in graduate school, we found a prepoderance of fellow students who should have been at Sci-Arc who did nothing but designs that triggered our deepest childhood fantasy of landscapes like the surface of the Death Star in Episode IV: A New Hope. They were unable to describe their work as a pure exercise in facile form-making; instead tortuous and unsatisfying descriptions ensued. Tortuous and unsatisfying jury comments were a result. (Of course, this was Tschumi's Columbia University, the jury comments didn't regularly border on the profound anyway). But a part of me always hoped they would just leave architecture and create their planetscapes anyway, and we would all play and live with them anyway.

The artist John Powers is not a former fellow student, but he could have been. Our favorite scapes are Sci-Fi Wahabi #1, pictured above, and the delusional Sol Le Witt-like Voluntaries #23a. They ignite our imagination the way toys did long ago, and architectural models did not-so-long-ago. Our invitation is for him to create something larger and perhaps walkable. Something we can be inside, and explore with our bodies.

Via Future Feeder, of course.

Tropolism Films: Sketches of Frank Gehry

Los Angeles Correspondant John Southern reports on the LA premiere of "Sketches of Frank Gehry".

There comes a time in an architect’s career when self-preservation (in an archival sense) begins to seep into the sub-conscious like water under a dam. Building great works of architecture can only provide one with the fleeting feelings of monumentality in as long as they are left standing. Film, however, is easily reproducible and thus may well exist for eternity. All you need to complete the equation is a friend with a movie camera and a penchant for probing questions and its “Lights! Camera! Action!”.

The last phrase invariably came to mind on Monday evening when I attended the LA Premiere of “Sketches of Frank Gehry” directed by his good friend, Sydney Pollack. The film was shown at an event entitled “Reel Talk” hosted by Vanity Fair and Tiffany’s at the Directors Guild Of America building- a piece of architecture so banal that it almost does injustice to the artists it seeks to unite.

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Tropolism Films: The Gamble House

Some buildings acquire so much affection, they show up in films again and again. Here a lovely bungalow for a mad scientist; there a lovely bungalow floating in, er, outer space.

We are equally enamored of sites like, which is currently tracking the appearance of the Gamble House in films, such as Back To The Future and Zathura. That's the power of love.

Reasons To Love BLDGBLOG, #1

There are so many reasons to love BLDGBLOG. The omnivorous appetite. The appetite for the surreal. The appetite for the mineral. However, this entry, regarding A View To A Kill and its architectural fantasy, has made us true, die-hard fans. We have a thing for reading into things televised, you know.

Tropolism TV: Battlestar Galactica

Continuing our theme of airplane disaster fantasy, we now turn to the space version: the new reimaginedBattlestar Galactica on the sci-fi channel. Like Lost, the show takes place almost entirely in a place free of architecture. Lost is on an island (filmed in hawaii) or on the interior of an airplane, or a few flashbacks to before-the-plane-crashed-time. Galactica takes place almost entirely in the interior of ships, or their exterior, with an occasional planetside jaunt (eerily like Vancouver).

The show has many innovations, but my primary concern is how the show's environments tells its story. Check them out after the jump...

Tropolism TV: Lost

One of our favorite televised spaces is the interior of an airplane. The camera transforms the insipid interior of a first-class cabin into something magnificent.

The other thing we like to watch, as a welcome respite to a day spent drafting or battling contractors, is verdant paradises in High-Definition television.

In short, we love watching either the ideal machined interior, or pretty green tropical leaves.

The television show Lost, which begins its new season tonight, is a delight because it delivers both experiences. In fact, its narrative depends on the back-and-forth between weird super-paradise and airplane interior. And, it is transmitted in HDTV.

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Tropolism TV: The Ultimate Fighter

When the SpikeTV first aired The Ultimate Fighter in the spring, our first thought was what an awful house. The show had two primary sets. Home base, where all the fighters lived, was an ugly (yes, Tropolism means all beauty is relative, no need to remind me), sprawling, cheaply designed, and poorly built house, complete with pink stucco and awful leather sofas. Lucky for our readers that the research department was unable to find any pictures of this house online. The second location was the training gym, used also for the fight challenges.

What was amazing about this show is that the sets weren't a tawdry backdrop to a tawdry set of complaining actor-wanna-bees. It was a boring backdrop to a set of people who want to Ultimate Fight for a living. They inhabit the locations as a single thing: as a two-part facility for training. House is for sleeping and eating, gym is for punching and kicking. No set design required. In this sense, the show is more of a documentary than more familiar reality TV shows: it's just about fighting, and is shot on locations that only utilize what the fighters need to fight.

The space of the fight, the Octagon, is what spawned this feature, which is why I've devoted the inaugural column to it. A measurable portion of most people's time is spent watching television. Tropolism means realizing that watching TV is a way of adding to your mental catalog of spaces, many of which you will never enter. Like the Octagon. Click the link below to bring it on!


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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Julian Schnabel in " Polaroids "

Julian Schnabel ( b. 1951) became famous in the 1980s as a vigorously gestural Neo-Expressionist painter. The Hague Museum od Photography is the first museum in the world to present eighty large-format Polaroid photographs that reveal a completely different side of the artist. Between 2002 and 2006, Schnabel photographed his immediate surroundings using a rare, hand-made Polaroid camera dating from the 1970s. The extraordinary thing about this camera is its format: it is the size of a refrigerator and produces instant photos measuring approximately 20 x 24 inches. For years, Schnabel took it with him, recording his family and friends, his work on show in his studios in Montaulk, NY or in his extravagant Manhattan home, the Palazzo Chupi.
The most impressive pictures are the probing self-portraits and the images of family and friends, including Mickey Rourke, Christopher Walken and Lou Reed, who allowed themselves to be snapped at intimate moments. Many of the photographs are in black-and-white or sepia, creating a nostalgic, almost romantic atmosphere, recalling the films he has directed, including Basquiat and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

" Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it ...."

Julian Schnabel, Untitled (Stella), 2007

Self-portrait, 2008
Olmo, 2008
Mickey Rourke, 2008
Takashi Murakami, 2008
Crazy People, 2008
Cy and Olmo, 2004
Montauk Studio, 2004
Palazzo Chupi, 6th floor, NY

All images, courtesy of The Hague Museum of Photography
Julian Schnabel " Polaroids " is currently on view until March 27, 2011

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Fresh Horses provides tragically realistic performance of young adulthood

“Something has to happen to get your attention”

Fresh Horses is a tale of love and deceit (TRU Actors Workshop)

The TRU Actors Workshop opened their 2017/18 season with the thought provoking production Fresh Horses. The play was written by Larry Ketron and directed by TRU Faculty member Wesley Eccleston. Jeff Daniels starred as the lead character Larkin, a young man struggling with plans for the future and a relationship riddled with rumors and deceit.

Fresh Horses took place during the Spring of 1986 in an abandoned maintenance railroad station adopted as a hangout spot for young lovers and friends. The show focused on a group of individuals in their early 20s trying to find their place in society and the struggles that follow.
The production’s actors gave an eerily realistic performance of the challenges young people face. While Fresh Horses is set in 1986, the sentiment is relatable to today’s students.

Larkin, a young man in the midst of time off from university, was caught up in a whirlwind romance with a married woman who may or may not be 16 years old. The mysterious Jewel, a country bumpkin with little to her name, seduced Larkin and enlisted him to help her obtain an annulment from her naval husband.

The relationship between Larkin and Jewel had its fair share of protest. Larkin’s best friend Tipton, played by Aaron Foster, provided that source of conflict. Tipton and Sproles, a fifth year senior who has yet to graduate high school, informed Larkin of Jewel’s unsavoury past and less than innocent hidden life. While the rumors spread around the small town ultimately turned out to be true, Larkin held out on his love for Jewel as more than simply lust.

Fresh Horses also explored the clash of “class” in southern American countryside. Larkin and Jewel portray the

Sproles (right) opens Larkin’s (left) eyes to the true meaning of fresh horses (TRU Actors Workshop)

lower class with their education levels and lack of material possessions. The characters of Ellen (Santaya Stander), Chirsty (Emily Whalen) and Bobo (Katie Jones) demonstrate the opposite end of the spectrum with a more luxurious lifestyle and, in Ellen’s case, the advantages of her father’s well-earned fortune. There was a sense of otherness in the interactions of these characters, giving it a very realistic feel.

Daniels gave a convincing performance of a young man at the beginning of his identity crisis. His goals were shaken and his relationships were left hanging by a string. Fresh Horses left the audience humbled. This was definitely a show to demand attention and create emotion.


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Awesome Drifting Compilation! With Original Sound | Video Digest

One of the most epic drifting videos you will see. Cars drifting, cars burning out, cars sliding, cars driving fast, it’s a great watch for all you car lovers out there!

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John Belt: Manifest the Brightness of Who He Is

Editor’s Note: In the beginning of the year 2013, we are to be ready to what God wants us to do for Him and what He has prepared for us. This is reprint article – Prophetic Words for 2013 by John Belt in his website’s, which is also published in, that I would like to share in this blog.

I really believe that God has good things in store this year. I’m a firm believer that when we put God first in our lives, making Him our true contentment, that everything falls into place. Many things that we’ve been seeking the Lord for and wanting to see happen I believe will begin to happen this year.

Songs of Victory

1 John 5:4 For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world – our faith.

2013 is a year of victory. God is giving His people the opportunity to play a “Flying V” electric guitar. For those of you who are not familiar with the Flying V, it was an electric guitar that was designed in the 1950s. This electric was, in most cases, popularly associated with the roaring rock and roll sound. What I saw is that as we lift our voice up to God like the roar of a lion, victory would accompany our praise. When we do this, it will set new things in motion in our lives, break chains, and rock our world. We will soar, flying in victory, as we move aggressively into His Kingdom plans.

Coat of Many Colors

This year will be a new beginning of dreams being fulfilled. With every dream, every vision, and every promised land there is a challenge and call to overcome. The coat of many colors that was given to Joseph is a picture of what God gives to us to put on (see Genesis 37:3). God is a God of color, of diversity, of beauty, and of brightness. He takes us beyond the place of grey and dullness, calling us to dream beyond ourselves into a place that overflows and affects others.

Just as Joseph had the dream that God had given him, he also had to overcome many things to see those dreams come to pass. In a moment he inherited a kingdom. When the fullness of time comes for our dreams, God is faithful to see that they come to pass. Our faithfulness, commitment, and uncompromising heart is required to inherit the fullness of what God has for each of us. In order to inherit a promise, we must have a dream with the accompanying grace to overcome in the seasons of life that are packaged with these dreams.

Awakening To Throne Room Worship

Revelation 4:9-11 And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him Who is seated on the throne, Who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who is seated on the throne and worship Him Who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

“Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things, and by Your will they existed and were created.”

When Jesus died on the Cross, not only was His sacrifice for the forgiveness, deliverance, and cleansing from sin, but the veil of His flesh was rent asunder as an entryway for us to come into His courts. The Throne Room of God is the most intimate place of worship for all Believers. Just as we see the types and shadows in the Old Testament as we look at the temple, how it resembles the areas of worship and sacrifice as a picture of the heavenly, so we can now move from the outer courts into the most holy place of God’s sanctuary – not to exclude how the Spirit inhabits us in the most holy place of our hearts.

There is a divine exchange that takes place when we have a heart that desires to experience that heavenly dwelling just as Paul did. Because of our desire for the heavenly dwelling, there is an equivalent blessing in our present lives on earth as He inhabits us by the glory of His Spirit. When we speak of “Christ in us the hope of glory,” we are talking about the glory of God within us, our experiencing His Throne being set up in our hearts.

The Throne Room of God is the center point of Heaven. In the same way, the Throne Room of His Presence is set up at the most central place of our being. This year people will begin to better understand that it is mediocre at best to get stuck in a performance model of worship where intimacy with God is not central to the worship experience. Deep calls to deep. When we realize how deep that place is in us, we will ask God to fill that place with the depths of His Spirit. A deeper hunger will cause us to desire to be in His courts worshiping before His Throne.

Healing Power of the Spirit

Another thing that will happen this year is an exponential increase in power healing in the Body of Christ. Those things that have been broken will be healed in people’s lives. This applies to physical healing, but also to those who need emotional healing. One of the main attributes that I’ve always noticed when healing anointing is present is that great joy accompanies it. There is a high level of faith and joy present as we release God’s healing presence.

Part of what will help this to occur will be when we move into a place of greater dependency, true identity, and are intent in our hearts to really give God all the credit for His work. Self-exaltation, self-promotion, and all the associated things that go with this will have to be removed for those who really want to see true results. True faith is what God is looking for. This has a two-fold meaning. This means that the faith is pure in a way that is sincere. It also means that the substance of faith is in operation. This substance of faith will be such that it cuts through oppressive atmospheres to bring a substantial result in people’s physical bodies.

Acts 10:38 …how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

Just as in the Book of Acts, Jesus went about doing good and healing all who were “oppressed” by the devil. There is a reason why “the devil” is mentioned here. We have to have discernment once again to recognize the adversary we are dealing with. Oppressive atmospheres are contrary to the atmosphere of Heaven. The anointing of the Spirit is what is needed to break into the lives of people in order that they may break out of oppressive prisons that the devil has bound them in.

Moving Away From Intellectual Dependency Toward Hunger For God

Matthew 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

In this day we are living in, as it was in Jesus’ day, there has always been the choice for people to live by the food of the intellect or the food of the Spirit. Those who live by the food of the intellect feed on the natural mind, theological worship, and all the things that support that system of thinking. It is obvious that we need a good doctrinal foundation, but once we have that, we are to move into the maturity of demonstrating the Kingdom.

The Holy Spirit is the Person that makes what we know in our minds effective, active, and penetrating in our actions. Our lives are not to consist of just words but a life that demonstrates God’s power. Those who have found that the intellectual approach to seeking God has not produced any power to help others will turn to true hunger for God. Some are going to say, “Enough is enough!” They will seek God through fastings, prayers and worship, allowing themselves to be fed by the pure words of God in Scripture (by the Spirit), rather than the flattering words of seduction or the intellectual arguments of foolishness.

God is sounding a wake-up call to His Body to fully embrace a hunger pursuit of His presence and power, not for the sake of personal benefit but for the cause of displaying His glory and power throughout the earth.

It is due season for the Body of Christ to manifest the brightness of WHO HE IS.

Have a Blessed 2013!

John & Brandi Belt
Live In His Presence Ministries

Live in His Presence Ministries is the ministry of John & Brandi Belt. The heart of their message is that God’s greatest desire is to indwell His people with His Presence. They believe that man was created to be inhabited by God through His Spirit. With a sincere devotion to God through the Holy Spirit, people can live in a place of overflow in His Presence. This overflow translates into touching the lives of others through living encounters with God. When John and Brandi minister, the intimate Presence of God is manifest – being accompanied with demonstrations of God’s power to heal, revive and restore.

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