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Findlay couple to be featured on radio show

Jamie and Jodi Bollenbacher, of Findlay, will make their final mortgage payment live on the Dave Ramsey radio show on Tuesday. The couple will be interviewed by Ramsey and will do a “debt-free scream” as a family.
The Bollenbachers offer financial counseling through their business, Four J’s Financial Coaching. They specialize in one-on-one financial coaching, based on Ramsey’s approach.
Along with his radio show, Ramsey is the author of several personal finance books and advocates financial planning with Christian principles. His syndicated curriculum is used nationwide and more than 2 million families have completed his Financial Peace University course since it began in 1994.
When the Bollenbachers married in August 2002, they were a “typical American couple” with student loans, credit cards, car loans and a mortgage payment, Jamie Bollenbacher said. They moved to Findlay in 2004 and had their first child, Jackson, in July 2005, followed by Julia in October 2007.
Jamie started watching Ramsey on television about four years ago and became interested in his financial philosophies. At first, Jodi was skeptical, but in February 2012 she agreed to take Ramsey’s Financial Peace University course.
After taking the course, their goal was to pay off $95,000 in mortgage debt so they could start living completely debt-free. Since then Jamie has coordinated two Financial Peace University classes at St. Marks United Methodist Church. He also coordinated the class the Legacy Journey, a class with Ramsey’s curriculum that focuses on leaving a legacy, including investing and basic estate planning.
Jodi coordinated a Generation Change class. The Bible study classes, according to Ramsey’s website, are “designed to lead teens to a better understanding of God, themselves and their money.”
The couple attended Ramsey’s Financial Counselors training and Pro Coaching workshop.
The Bollenbachers started Four J’s Financial Coaching in February 2013.
Jamie Ellis, public relations coordinator for Dave Ramsey/The Lampo Group, Inc., said the “debt-free scream” is a popular feature of the show, and gives people a chance to tell their stories “and hopefully motivate others along their debt-free journey.” There is no real audition process and people can just request to be on the show, and then answer questions about the amount and type of debt before doing their “debt-free scream.”
Ramsey’s show, based in Nashville, will be broadcast at 3 p.m. on Tuesday on WFIN-AM.

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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Morning Market Report

The Dow and S&P both took a breather yesterday however the NASDAQ index was up for the eleventh straight day. The first two appear up a bit less than half a percent at the open while NASDAQ's streak will be jeopardized as that index looks to open down about a half a percent.

Earnings continue to be the main driver of the market. Ford posted better than expected earnings though their numbers are slightly inflated by debt restructuring. 3M and AT&T also beat estimates. Meanwhile, UPS' earnings were in line with estimates but the stock fell due to a sour outlook by the company for the rest of the year.

In breaking news, jobless claims rose off recent lows to 554,000 though that number is distorted by a plethora of auto plant closures.

The number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits jumped last week from a six- month low as distortions, caused by shifts in the timing of auto plant shutdowns, subsided.Applications rose by 30,000 to 554,000 in the week ended July 18, in line with forecasts, figures from the Labor Department showed today in Washington. Claims had fallen by 93,000 over the previous two weeks.

The number of people collecting unemployment insurance decreased to the lowest level in three months, also reflecting seasonal issues surrounding closures at carmakers.

“The level of initial claims is still consistent with deep job losses but smaller than we saw in the first months of this year,” Zach Pandl, an economist at Nomura Securities International Inc. in New York, said before the report.

The markets in the Far East were mostly up. The Hang Seng in China was up 2.96%, the NIKKEI in Japan was up .72%, and the Straits Time Index in Singapore was up 1.39%. Europe was much more mixed. The FTSE in London and the DAX in Germany were both down just slightly at down .08% while the Spanish index was up .81%.

Treasury bonds are slightly improved today. The ten year is trading at 3.54% trading down just a bit less than one basis point. (one percent) The yield spread between the 2 year and ten year continues to be right at 2.6%. Oil is trading slightly down today but is still above $65 a barrel where it crossed at the end of the day yesterday.

The U.S. dollar looks to open generally better. It is up .21% against the Euro, up .15% against the British Pound, and up .85% against the Yen.

Everything in this space should be taken as information only. All opinions are my own only and should NOT be taken as an endorsement or investment strategy. I am not a licensed investment advisor and nothing here should be taken as investment advice.

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I just can't get bullish about a market entirely dependent on bailouts, job cuts, and debt forgiveness for positive earnings. Yet the market is still charging forward. The DOW is now above 9000 and is up for the year. The S&P 500 is at an 8 month high. The NASDAQ is up for the *twelfth* straight session!

All this unwarranted bullishness is starting to get frustrating.

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View Full Version : Best Cheapest Scope for 30.06?

February 27, 2008, 11:46 AM
There are so many great hi-priced scopes out there and a ton of much cheaper ones. Just wondering if anyone has ever bought a scope for less than $100 and really liked it or thought it was worth the money.:confused:

February 27, 2008, 12:15 PM
Take a look at Bushnell. Some of their lower end scopes are around the $100 mark. I've actually had pretty good sucess with their Banner Dusk to Dawn series. That series picks up a huge amount of light around sun up and sun down. I've got a high powered Bushnell (6x - 18x) on my 7mm Rem Mag and it's been an out standing scope.

February 27, 2008, 12:15 PM
best scope for $100 i have seen

my buddy has one on a stevens .223 and he loves it, i cant blame him either the gun shoots great.

there may be other scopes out there around the price that are ok, this is the only one i have experience with.

February 27, 2008, 12:17 PM
also what kreyzhorse said...i have a bushnell banner dusk & dawn 6-24x40 scope on my .17 HMR. its a little over $100 and it is a good scope too.

February 27, 2008, 12:43 PM
I have had positive experiences with the Bushnell Banner and the Trophy, both around $100. I also have a BSA Target on a 204 that has worked very well; it was also around that price. I have never used one on a rifle with heavy recoil though. I have only looked at them but the Nikon prostaff scopes look good. That will probably be the next scope I buy.

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February 29, 2008, 02:55 AM
I have had Bushnell Trophy 3-9X on my Ruger 06 for 12 years now! I use it for moose hunting in and out of a boat and on winter hunts on my snow machine.

It was and I think still is $99.99 from Cabela's.


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The intrastate (within a state) transfer of an NFA firearm does not need to be handled by a Class III dealer. Both transferor and transferee (seller and buyer) must be residents of the state and state law must permit the transfer.

In this case, there is only a single transfer and a single $200 transfer tax.

You do not need a dealer to fill out or send in the forms. You do need CLEO signature. Here is the scoop.

Anyone can order any BATF forms directly from:

BATF Distribution Center

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There is no charge.

The NFA firearm transfer form is ATF Form 4. Get a couple in case you mess one set up. Tell them to include fingerprint cards. If they don't, it is the standard FBI blue form FD-258 marked APPLICANT; you need two and can get them wherever you get the prints taken.

Return original, one carbon, one 2"x2" photo, two fingerprint cards and a check or money order for the tax ($5 or $200) to the address shown on the form. Keep a copy in case the paperwork gets lost and you have to do it again. It is of no concern to BATF who wrote the check. A bank money order may be preferable, since they will wait for a check to clear before doing anything.

When you get the approval back, the buyer gets the original and should keep it in a safe place. It is proof of lawful ownership and registration of the firearm. The seller should make a copy as his proof of sale and change of registation. The buyer should make copies to carry with the firearm any time it is taken from the residence. The copy will usually satisfy any LEO as to lawful ownership of the firearm.

P.S. There is no fixed time for appoval. I have seen them return the OK in three weeks. Depends on a lot of factors.

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Sheel's had Ruger American's for $349.
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baddarryl - Boy would i love to take you up on that offer, Im always up for a challange. We play tic tac toe with 9MM cases at 100 yards for fun
Too bad NC is a long drive from Minn! Sure I have some Swedish relatives up there though. M41 Sniper rifle anyone? Lol! Seriously my Xl7 did a 5/8 group with Core Lokt's the only time I ever checked it. Maybe better out there, but for what i paid it is certainly good enough for me and I most others I should think.
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Too bad NC is a long drive from Minn

Yes it is. That is some fine shooting for sure. I should someday try a box of store ammo in it. I have 4 Savages now and none of them have ever seen a store bought round yet. I just consider a die purchase part of buying a rifle or pistol.
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I think I will be there soon. Commercial ammo is getting insanely priced. Seriously I sometimes reconsider (just a little) due to the bad rap that late model Marlins get on the net, but every time I handle mine I realize that is just noise. I also have a 981T .22 that is bulls eye accurate on a squirrels noggin!
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I'm reasonably fond of my Mossberg 100 ATR (.308). The barrel crown has proven a nice feature...the fluting is cosmetic. The action has gotten pretty smooth...the best feature is the trigger (accuracy is excellent also)...the worst feature is the polymer stock. It's probably the worst plastic stock this side of the stevens or Remington 770 (nowhere near the Rem700 SPS). The blueing is actually pretty sturdy as it's spent plenty of time in the mud & rain and no issues

I'm currently debating whether to buy a Boyd laminate after-market stock or whether to trade it in for a Rem700 SPS, or Ruger M77HMR (wood). But for it's price vs's been a nice buy. Others in the sub-$400 that peaked my interest were Marlin XL-7 and Howa 1500.
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I have a Mossberg, also. Mine's 7mm-08. Shoots pretty well--improving as I put more rounds through it. Definitely a utility gun with an ordinary stock, as previously mentioned. I don't feel as though I wasted my money.
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You can get a remington 700 for way less than $800 right now. Heck you can get into the Rem 700 line for less than half that.
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I was recently looking for a "budget" deer rifle for this deer season. Local hardware store had a variety of budget deer rifles in stock included Remington 770, Savage Axis, and Ruger American. Of those I liked the Ruger American the most. My choice though was a used Savage 110 in 270win they had for $275 with a Tasco scope. I had it out to the range this week, and I have to say it's a decent gun. So my recommendation would be a used 110 or the Ruger American.
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Holidays with Canon.

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From my Facebook and Instagram, many of you already know that the past week I’ve spent at home with my family, studying, writing my exams, and trying to enjoy the Christmas atmosphere. Here and there, I’ve been trying to capture some moments I can look at when I’m far from my family, and feel warm and loved again. It still fascinates that a little “black box” can give us picturized memories. We usually don’t realize how much photos have changed and are still changing our lives. I’m a very nostalgic person, and when a strong melancholy takes over, I tend to look at small things like souvenirs or postcards that I got from my beloved ones, and photos. A lot of photos. In my phone you’d find photos of old photos, photos I’d never publish, photos with my sister, family, friends. Photos mean so much to me it’s seriously not funny. I can cry, laugh, feel anxious, exuberant, inspired, happy, loved, and all of those I get from pictures that represent my past and present, to which I don’t have access at the moment.

This is exactly why I have been so eager about taking photos at home. That couldn’t have been done without the smallest DSRL in the world, Canon 100 D. This cute little camera is so comfortable and so perfect for family use, you seriously don’t want to touch your big 5D anymore. Really happy I have it before holidays, so that I can enjoy what taking photos, without carrying a few kilos of photo technology, feels like.
Hope you enjoy your Sunday!
Doina x

  • nice pics 🙂 look so cozy

  • I would love to have one too 😀

    xx Mira

  • so cute!

  • Laura

    Ce poze dragute!!

  • Thia Padilla

    Great pictures…We can see how happy you are these days with your family.. =D

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OVERNIGHT TECH: Changes announced to cybersecurity bill

THE LEAD: Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) said Tuesday they will offer several amendments to the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) to address the concerns of privacy groups.

The goal of CISPA is to help companies beef up their defenses against hackers who steal business secrets and customers' financial information, and wreak havoc on computer systems. The bill would tear down legal barriers that discourage companies from sharing information about cyber threats.

But civil-liberties groups warned the measure would encourage companies to hand over private information to government spy agencies.

One amendment would tighten limitations on how the government can use the information it collects. The government would only be able to use the information to protect against a cyberattack, investigate cyber crime, protect national security, protect against theft or bodily harm or to protect minors from child pornography.

The changes would also narrow the definition of "cyber threat information" and would bar the federal government from retaining or using information beyond the explicit purposes of the bill. Another amendment would restrict the scope of the liability protections for companies that turn over data to the government.

The changes address many of the core concerns of privacy groups, but notably would not prevent spy agencies, such as the National Security Agency (NSA) or the CIA, from accessing the information. The privacy groups argue that a domestic agency, such as the Homeland Security Department, would be a more appropriate body to handle the personal information.

The Center for Democracy and Technology applauded the changes but said it still has concerns:

"In sum, good progress has been made. The Committee listened to our concerns and has made important privacy improvements and we applaud the Committee for doing so. However, the bill falls short because of the remaining concerns — the flow of internet data directly to the NSA and the use of information for purposes unrelated to cybersecurity. We support amendments to address these concerns. Recognizing the importance of the cybersecurity issue, in deference to the good faith efforts made by Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Ruppersberger, and on the understanding that amendments will be considered by the House to address our concerns, we will not oppose the process moving forward in the House. We will focus on the amendments and subsequently on the Senate."

Officials from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union, which have also been campaigning against the bill, said they would need to take a close look at the amendments before they could comment.

No deal on FCC nominees yet: Sen. Chuck GrassleyChuck GrassleyMnuchin, Price meet with GOP senators Business groups express support for Branstad nomination 10 no-brainer ways to cut healthcare costs without hurting quality MORE (R-Iowa) received another batch of documents from the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, but he has no immediate plans to lift his hold on the president's two FCC nominees.

Grassley is demanding that the FCC turn over documents related to its review of wireless start-up LightSquared.

A Grassley spokeswoman said:

“After learning from reporters today that Sen. Rockefeller had described the FCC’s production of more documents, Sen. Grassley’s staff contacted the House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans who requested documents. When the House committee confirmed receipt of a second batch of documents from the FCC, Sen. Grassley’s staff retrieved the documents on disc. It’s unclear whether the documents contain internal, previously unreleased materials related to the FCC’s decision-making on LightSquared. Sen. Grassley’s staff is reviewing the documents now. His staff has been told the latest batch consists of approximately 5,900 FCC documents. So far, of the first 1,174 pages reviewed, 1,171 pages are news clips that are publicly available. In the prior batch of FCC documents received from the House Energy and Commerce Committee, many of the newly ‘unredacted’ documents consisted of phone numbers and other technical details unrelated to agency decision-making.

“Sen. Grassley has asked consistently, beginning with and since his initial request of April 27, 2011, for internal documents that would shed light into why the FCC appeared to give expedited initial approval to LightSquared’s wireless project. Sen. Grassley has not ‘moved the ball’ on the nature of the documents he’s been seeking. He simply wants access to FCC documents so he can determine whether the FCC is performing due diligence before approving major projects involving public resources and affecting consumers. By repeatedly denying Sen. Grassley’s request to view FCC documents, the FCC has prolonged this inquiry into its one-year duration and raised questions about its commitment to transparency and congressional oversight.”

Sen. Jay RockefellerJay RockefellerLobbying world Overnight Tech: Senators place holds on FCC commissioner Overnight Tech: Senate panel to vote on Dem FCC commissioner MORE (D-W.Va.) said consumers pay too much for TV.

Rep. Adam SchiffAdam SchiffMcCarthy’s ghost smiles as Dems point the finger at Russia Budowsky: Did Putin elect Trump? Trump: Intel agencies blaming Russia for DNC hack was politically driven MORE (D-Calif.) plans to offer an amendment to CISPA.

IAC Chairman Barry Diller called for a rewrite of telecommunications law.

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Happy Flag Day! VOTE!

Just a gentle reminder to GET OUT THERE AND VOTE, PEOPLE! While we would rather eat a bag of something unsavory rather than think about our national election and the awful backbiting and bickering involved, we strongly encourage you to turn in a vote for our local elections– especially the At-Large councilmember seat. Here at […]

09 Jan 2013

Dear President Obama: Can We Talk About Your License Plate?

Whether or not you believe that DC should be granted statehood, I think that there is a case for raising awareness that the more than half-a-million residents of the Nation’s Capital pay more federal taxes every year per person, yet they lack voting representation in Congress. Heck, we don’t even get a final say on […]

14 Apr 2011

6 Questions with John Klenert

I know this feature is usually called “5 Questions” but I couldn’t choose one to cut out. On Monday evening, John Klenert was arrested with 40 others (including Mayor Vincent Gray and Ward 6 councilmember Tommy Wells) for protesting on Constitution Avenue in response to the Congressional Budget Compromise. John is a long time activist […]

12 Apr 2011

Reader Poll: Do you want DC statehood?

As you may or may not have heard, our councilmember, Mayor and several others were arrested yesterday for civil disobedience during a protest over a federal spending plan.  The issue: the Federal Government can basically override any decision DC makes about how to spend its own money.  We could argue over abortion and school vouchers, […]

12 Apr 2011

Civil Disobedience on the Hill

The act of sitting down is so commonplace, it is relatively meaningless. But here is some footage (courtesy of TBD.com) that, if you are a District resident and have felt frustrated by the federal intrusion in our District life, will make you rethink the meaning of sitting down while standing up for us all: Giving […]

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Monday, May 18, 2009

Restoring Order

It's time to get back into our Restoring Order series! This week I'm going to be very busy and traveling to see a friend - but here is what I'm hoping to accomplish:

* Clean out Tupperware cabinet
* Clean out my purse!
* Show you my Mom's idea for littles shoes!
* Get ready for our trip and try to leave our house somewhat orderly!

How about you? What are you working on this week? Don't forget to come back Friday and link your post!

Mom said...

The shoe idea must still be working!?! :) Love you, Mom

Michelle said...

Hello! Your May Day cans were so cute! I love pansies, too.

As far as restoring order, I need to finally get the winter clothes packed away. This is our first year doing this in years, because we lived in Florida, where our "winter clothes" consisted of a couple of sweaters each, and all of it fit in one Rubbermaid container in the bottom of our linen closet. Now that we're back in Connecticut, that is no longer the case, and I'm quite overwhelmed! I think the first order of business is to get some more Rubbermaid containers. As of today, most of the winter clothing is in baskets on my bedroom floor. Ugh, I can't wait to get this chore taken care of!

Besides that, I am back to planning my weekly menu. I took a hiatus from doing it, and sure enough, we started eating some convenience foods and relying on takeout more often than we'd like to. I have my menu plan done for this week, and I'm committed to continuing to do this. It worked so well when I was in the habit of doing it.

Have a great week!

Anna said...

Glad to see the series back!

This week I'm going to try to clear off everyone's dressers. I'm also organizing some things for our move in 6 weeks.

Rebecca said...

Yippee for restoring order! I am hoping to sort through and organize piles of paper that are located at various areas of our home. :)

Donna said...

This week I'm going to work on getting all of my magazine and newspaper articles that I've clipped over the years cleaned out and organized into binders that I'll actually use. I'm also working on re-organizing and cleaning out the basement. This has been an ongoing project and my goal is to have that pretty much done by next month!

Jenny said...

As I prepare to move my family to our new home in a week. I have been thinking about "Restoring Order" quickly once moved. I look forward to sharing my plan soon.

I am also pairing back and being more realistic about time spent on the computer and other things.

Sarah said...

This week I'm trying out a new housecleaning routine, based on the book, "Home Comforts." I love not having a schedule, but it's not working for keeping my house very clean :) So no real projects for me, just trying to get a little bit better disciplined!


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Friday, September 04, 2015

Texas, where they don't just spout anti-gay rhetoric, they amplify it.

Courtesy of Raw Story:

Earlier this week, video posted on social media captured part of a sermon about homosexuality at The Door Christian Fellowship Church’s nightly tent revival at Leroy Elmore Park.

“I still believe that God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve,” the pastor says in the video. “I don’t care who told you it’s okay, God says it’s an abomination.”

“A fag is still a fag, and a dike is still a dike!” he shouts. “If it walks like a duck and if it quacks like a duck, it’s a cotton-picking duck!”

“And I can’t stand men saying, ‘I need to get in touch with my feminist side!’ Have you looked in the mirror, brother? Don’t get me going!”

Well gee, he seems nice.

When questioned by the folks at local Texas affiliate KCBD Pastor Anthony Saavedra stood by his hateful rhetoric:

"We preach on sin in general in the eyes of God," Saavedra said. "Sin is sin. Homosexuality is the part that is being mentioned, which the bible does say is an abomination…and we do believe it is a sin."

Despite complaints the pastor claimed that he would continue shouting his anti-gay invective's into his  microphone for the remainder of the week.

Perhaps an LGBT group could put up a tent directly across from Pastor Homophobe and start yelling into a microphone at the top of their lungs that archaeologists can find NO evidence of the Exodus mentioned in the Bible, that Egyptians had NO Jewish slaves, and that Jesus could NOT have been the Messiah because he was not a direct descendant from King David.

Just a thought.

  1. Balzafiar6:52 AM

    Ah, dear old Lubbock, home of a church on every corner. Been there too many times. It hasn't been until the last two decades that one could buy alcohol other than beer without driving forty miles (each way) to another town.

    Don't be totally turned off by Lubbock though, the M4M section of Craigslist is quite busy in that area. That pastor may be one of them. It happens; just sayin...

  2. Anonymous7:25 AM

    Can you even imagine Jesus talking like that; saying those hateful things? If there were a Jesus, of course.

  3. Anonymous7:30 AM

    I'm convinced it was the gays that knocked Bristol up.

  4. Anonymous7:37 AM

    Since all is gushy about our upcoming president rump, this does not surprise me for some strange R reasoning. He even signed the 'PLEDGE" and that is the beginning of the circus 2016.

  5. Anonymous8:09 AM

    I was recently wondering why I no longer go to church.oh yeah, now I remember.

  6. Anonymous8:19 AM

    Bet you anything that at night this POS funnels money out of the collection basket and parades around in lingerie before initiating BDSM sex with his neighbor's goat. You know people this awful are always festering with the sickest secrets, and by "sickest" I mean funniest.

  7. Anonymous8:19 AM

    OT... Sarah is trying to insert herself into the rename of Denali in her latest fb post. She refers to herself as 'Denali', which just happened to be her SS code name.

    WTF !

    1. Anonymous9:01 AM

      Who's Trig's mother, Lady Denial?

  8. Anonymous9:28 AM

    New look for Brissy.

  9. A Superfan In Atlanta9:51 AM

    ...OR just follow him around for a couple of weeks to see what company he's keeping. Those typically with the loudest voices against an action are usually the main ones actively participating in it.

  10. a. j. billings10:15 AM

    Also, please note that this racist idiot used the phrase, "cotton pickin"

    Preacher boy, who used to pick your grand pappy's cotton in the good old days when blacks knew their place, women were barefoot in the kitchen without the vote, and white men ruled the world?

  11. If you believe the hatred and venom they spew as the word of
    Jesus Christ and his demented dad, God, then you just have to hate all Christians.

  12. Anonymous5:15 PM

    OT This just in.... President Obama to visit Lubbock Texas and rename it back to it's original Native American name......

    Buttocks Texas.

    Someone gag the preacher, he's polluting the air and adding to global warming with his hate speech while thumping the Bible.

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Audi A5 Stunt Kites

The Audi A5 was recently showcased in “Kite”, a TV ad in which two sports cars steer a stunt kite in a desert area near Swakopmund, Namibia. Music is provided by Swiss group Yello (Dieter Meier and Boris Blank). The 30 second and 40 second TV advertisements end with the tagline, “Driving Redesigned”.

Audi Kite TV Ad

“This is not a trick, all the images are real,” says Jagoda Becic, Head of Advertising at Audi. “Authenticity,” she says, “was the essential requirement. If it hadn’t been possible to navigate the kite by car in reality, then we wouldn’t have implemented the idea.” For Gerhard Kiefer, who manages all Audi promotional films, it was also clear from the beginning that: “Honesty is a point of honour. We couldn’t have produced well-known adverts such as the ski jump or the ‘wakeboarder’ if our vehicle technology had not been equal to the task. This also holds true for the stunt kite scenes.”

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Audi and Berlin advertising agency Heimat came up with the idea of the Kite stunt in autumn 2006. Initial tests were carried out with two Audi models towing a stunt kite on an airfield in Manching, Bavaria. “That’s when we realized that we could not just start driving and expect the kite to fly straight away,” says Kiefer.

The production team needed to consider and test speed, wind conditions, the size and material of the stunt kite, the length and thickness of the control ropes, and find a professional navigator.

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Stunt kite pilot was 20-year-old Marcel Mehler from Velbert (North Rhine-Westphalia), multiple German champion and European vice-champion in kiting. Marcel and his parents Ilona and Thomas Mehler, almost everything revolves around flying stunt kites. The Mehlers not only provided valuable information on handling the sensitive piece of sports equipment but later also drove the A5 models during shooting in Namibia.

The team familiarized themselves with local climate conditions by practicing for three days on an airfield in Namibia prior to the shoot. They discovered that what had worked well in Germany did not work at all in the African desert. “No matter what we did, the kite crashed immediately – but we didn’t know why,” stated Kiefer. Nerves were building because the day of the shoot was drawing closer and closer. The mystery was solved on the evening before filming began. “It was the final attempt before darkness fell,” he recalls.

Audi Kite TV Ad

Wind conditions in the desert were completely different to what they had been during testing in Germany. The wind was very strong and blew from all possible directions, which made it difficult to control the kite. In the end, the problem was resolved by using a stronger tow rope and a heightened speed. The stunt kite stabilised at 70 kilometres per hour. Armed with this knowledge, shooting was no longer a problem.

The first take could finally begin in the desert at Swakopmund and the long, painstaking preparations now paid off. “It worked on first attempt. The two Audi A5 models got the stunt kite in the air and pulled it behind them for two kilometres, travelling at a speed of 70 kilometres per hour. Had it not been for the director shouting “cut”, the kite would have flown further. No-one has managed this before,” reported Kiefer from the shoot location. Not a single stunt kite crashed during the three days of filming in Namibia.

The Thor’s Hammer kite, which has a wingspan of four metres, was manufactured by Olaf Frank, “Der Spielmann”. It was attached to a specially constructed tubular support using two 100-metre ropes. The support was then attached to the two Ice Silver, metallic Audi A5 coupés.

Audi Kite TV Ad

The spectacular images created during this “driving and flying” exercise were captured by three 35-millimetre cameras, a special camera crane and a helicopter. 440 minutes of film footage was created in all. The crew consisting of 80 people filmed for up to 16 hours a day at temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius. No wonder that the 400 bottles of water and 60 litres of juice consumed per day were just as gratefully received as the 80 bottles of SPF 100 sun cream that were emptied during filming.

“Kite” has been broadcast on free TV since 25 May and can be seen online on the Audi TV brand channel at

Audi Kite TV Ad

The Audi Kite films were developed at Heimat, Berlin by chief creative director/art director Jürgen Vossen, chief creative director/copywriter Guido Heffels, creative director/art director Tim Schneider, creative director/copywriter Till Eckel, manging director/strategic planner Andreas Mengele, managing director/account manager Matthias von Bechtolsheim, graphics designer Andreas Grill, account managers Sebastian Marx and Marcus Bank.

Filming was directed by Daniel Barber via Tempomedia Filmproduktion GmbH and Knucklehead, London, with director of photography John Lynch, executive producer Vera Portz, producer Nadja Bontscheff, co-producer Lindsay Turnham (Knucklehead),

Local service production was provided by Dianne Bramhill at Cape Direct, Capetown and Fantom Films, Namibia.

Post-production and 3D animation were done at Glassworks, London

via Audi World

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Volume IV, No. 1, Fall 1976

Story and Drawings by Jeff Jaynes

Photography by Doug Sharp

Carving wood in relief is only one kind of wood carving. Since it is not as difficult as figure carving, anyone can learn to do it. C. B. Thomas said you do more of it with your mind than your hands. With a piece of wood, a few chisels and a mallet you can use your imagination to make a flat board come to life.

This photo shows the many types of tools that are used.

In any kind of wood carving use a hard wood. Hard woods like oak will not split and chip easily as soft woods like pine.

The size of the block depends on the carving you want to do. Dr. Thomas used a three inch thick block of wood for his rose carving. It is getting harder all the time to find a good block of wood, You might find one at the lumber yard, or ask someone who works or cuts wood to save you some.

The wood needs no special treatment before beginning to carve.

The basic wood carving tool is the chisel. Though there are many kinds of chisels, in relief, carving there are three basic ones.
1.The gouge--This chisel is used to dig into the wood. Its U shaped blade allows it to make a deeper cut.
2.The vaining--This V shaped chisel is used to make little narrow grooves like the veins in the leaves of the rose carving.
3.The sque--This chisel has a flat blade to make shallow or thin level cuts.

Care of Chisels--No one can carve satisfactorily without good sharp cutting edges on the chisels. Using a chisel with a chip in it will pull and cause an uneven cut. Therefore, be sure to keep them sharpened. To sharpen a chisel:
1.Grind off the old edge on a grindstone until the chip is gone.
2.Next, sharpen the edge on a whet stone using the same motion you would use to sharpen a knife.
3.Then sharpen the edge on an oil stone using the same motion as above. Put a few drops of oil on the stone to keep metal flakes from staying on it.
4.The last step puts the razor edge on the chisel. This is called stropping. A strop is a long narrow board that has a strip of leather on it. To strop use a back and forth movement like a barber uses on his razors.

Showing the three basic tools used in wood carving: 1. gouge, 2. vaining, 3. sque.

Side view of the strop. Note the thick strip of leather on the handle.

Top view of the strop.

Showing the way to transfer the pattern to the wood with carbon paper.

This photo shows how to use the whet stone to sharpen the chisels.

Using the strop to put the razor edge on the chisels.

The mallet--
The next tool is the mallet. This tool is used to tap the chisel to make smooth clean cuts through the hard wood. The wide head of the mallet protects the chisel handles.

Corner Piece--
The corner piece is two boards mitered together at picture frame angle. Hooked to the table with C clamps it is used as a brace to keep the piece of wood you are carving on from slipping.

Work area--
The carver needs a lot of room and a flat surface of comfortable height. It can be anything from a table to a desk.

After you have all the tools, wood and work area, the next step is to pick an easy pattern, then transfer it to the block of wood. If you are artistic, you might want to draw directly onto the wood, or you can use carbon paper to trace off the design you like.
1.Place the paper, carbon side down, next to the wood.
2.Place your pattern on top of this.
3.Trace around the pattern. This will transfer it to the wood.

It is important now to shade in places on the pattern to show which parts to cut deeper to give the carving greater depth.

If the design is not the size you want, you can use scaling to make it larger or smaller.
1.Mark the paper off into an even number of squares. (I marked mine off in one inch squares.)
2.Then you mark your paper off with the same number of squares but scale the squares bigger to make the pattern bigger, or smaller to make it smaller.
3.Now draw what you see in each square onto the piece of wood.

This is the way to use the oil stone to sharpen a chisel.

There are three kinds of flat plaque carving--chip, relief and incised.

Chip carving--
In chip carving the pattern is based on the square and triangle. The design is embedded in the wood, deeper than the original surface. The special wood carving knife, shaped at an angle is used in chip carving. To use the knife, place the point where you want the cut to be deeper, and then rock the knife back and forth to make the cut the length you want.

Relief carving--
In relief carving the wood surrounding the pattern is cut away until the figure stands high. The sque and gouge are used to get this effect. Place the gouge on the line of the pattern and cut away from it. The gouge is also used to round the edges of the figures as is the sque.

Incised carving--
The figure is cut below the surface of the wood in incised carving, but instead of cutting away from the figure as in relief carving, cut everything deep into the surface of the figure.

There are many ways to finish the carvings. Some like a smooth polished effect. Others like a rough finish. Dr. Thomas likes to sand his projects and finish them with linseed oil, hand rubbed until they shine brightly.

Here scaling was used to make the patterns larger or smaller.

This is the drawing of the pattern Dr. Thomas used for his chip carving.

This shows the two types of handles: A. for hand use B. used with the mallet.

The finished product after scaling was used.

Putting the sque to use on a leaf

Showing wood carving knife used in chip carving.

Example of both incised and relief carving used to give a three dimensional look.

The correct way to use the mallet.

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City Council starts benefits service review

A joint revenues and benefits service between neighbouring North Kesteven and City of Lincoln councils starts on June 1, triggering a year-long review of the service.

Staff contracts will be transferred into the shared service. The move, according to City of Lincoln Council, should save both councils money.

It’s not clear at this stage how much the councils will save, or if any savings will be made through job cuts.

Councillor Ric Metcalfe, Leader of the City of Lincoln Council, which is now the host authority, said: “This is an exciting time for the two councils as we look forward to an improved revenues and benefits service for customers in Lincoln and North Kesteven.

“These are services that affect some of the most vulnerable people in our communities, so it’s important that we work hard to get it right.

“Over the next twelve months we will be looking at making the new shared service more efficient and introduce a new computer system that will underpin the work of the Shared Service Unit for years to come.

Although the service is now shared between the two councils, the City Council says it will remain “business as usual” for customers for the time being.

Leader of North Kesteven District Council, Councillor Marion Brighton, said: “Making efficiency savings is essential, and we feel very strongly that this will achieve the savings required of us, while bringing a much better service for local residents.”

The link between the two councils is already in place at InfoLinks at the NK Centre, Moor Lane in North Hykeham. Benefits claims can now be assessed at this office, rather than sending the documents to Sleaford for assessment as before.

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GetGlue gives its iPhone app more TV show content and promoted posts, plans remote control features

GetGlue gives its iPhone app more TV show content and promoted posts, plans remote control features

‘Social TV’ has been a buzzword for a couple of years, but none of the startups pushing the idea have yet made the impact that humble old multi-purpose Twitter has in the field of helping people gather online for real-time discussion around television broadcasts.

Now one of the best known names in social TV, GetGlue is launching a new version of its iPhone app that moves beyond simply sharing what you’re watching and into the realms of a full-on television guide. There’s also an important monetizaton drive in the form of promoted content entries.

The headline new feature of the app is a reworked feed that combines updates from friends and shows. In addition to showing friends’ viewing activity, there are video clips, photos and recaps from users’ favorite shows. Meanwhile, a new guide shows upcoming (US) TV shows that you’re likely to be interested in, live sports scores, movie theater listings and more. There are now also new individual show pages, with clips, images, and recaps, and the ability to see which of your Facebook friends also like the same shows as you without leaving GetGlue.

In order to monetize the app, promoted entries allow advertisers to post a message, photo, or video, visible to a target audience defined by their taste in television. This feature was first introduced during last Sunday’s Super Bowl, where Pepsi promoted a video in the lead up to the Pepsi-sponsored halftime show. Fans received a sticker in GetGlue for checking in. The startup says that during halftime, over 15% of all tweets about Pepsi came from its app, while it was also the second-biggest source of tweets about Pepsi, beaten only by Twitter’s official iPhone app.

For those who enjoy the gamified side of GetGlue, the startup is now expanding its offer to send out physical versions of stickers earned in the app. Users can now choose which stickers they receive and these will now be available outside of the US for the first time. As a kind of referral program, users who persuade their friends to join GetGlue will be able to unlock past stickers for delivery and get free shipping.

The question remains as to whether any players in the social TV app space can usurp Twitter as the go-to place for social TV. Through moves like its partnership with Nielsen and its acquisition of Bluefin, Twitter is attempting to assert itself as the ‘official’ source of social TV data in the US.

GetGlue CEO, Alex Iskold tells me “While it certainly has the scale, (Twitter is) not exclusively focused on TV, but GetGlue is. We are seeing wonderful engagement week over week from passionate TV fans who come to engage around their favorite shows.” Iskold says that the company’s three product themes for 2013 are more content on the second screen, integration of online video and originals from Hulu, Netflix, and the like, and building in native DVR and remote control capabilities.

DVR and remote control capabilities are important, strategically. Whoever builds the most compelling ‘social remote control’ app will probably have the best chance of hanging on to users in the long run. This is a tactic also being employed by rival app Zeebox.

The updated GetGlue iPhone app is a free download and available now.

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The Rocky Horror Dating Game: Translesbians Encounter Queer Hate

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Radical egalitarianism is a sort of philosophical insanity, premised as it is on the idea that everything is equal, even things that are fundamentally different. When you begin with an obvious falsehood as the premise of your argument, the conclusion will necessarily be madness.

Ten days ago, I brought you up-to-date about an emerging controversy on the extremist fringe. Radical feminists who wish to exclude trannies from their events are accused of “transphobia”:

RadFem 2013 was a conference in London, which resulted in a gigantic controversy because radical feminists insisted on excluding the “transgendered” from their female-only event, and one of the featured speakers, Australian lesbian feminist Professor Sheila Jeffreys, was about to publish a new book, Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism, that was deeply offensive to the “T” people represented in the LGBT acronym.
How crazy did that conflict become? At one point in April, the venue tried to cancel the event after discovering that “certain language was used and some statements were made about transgender people that would go against our equalities and diversity policy.” Another RadFem conference organizer, Cathy Brennan of Baltimore, was meanwhile all over Twitter announcing “transwomen are men” and comparing them to MRAs (men’s rights advocates).

 Brennan’s outspoken hostility to “transwomen” — including those she calls “Pretendbians” — takes it to a whole new level of crazy:

Basically, Cathy Brennan is the Fred Phelps of radical lesbian feminists. Brennan’s message seems to be, “Feminism is for man-hating socialist homosexual perverts and we don’t want to associate with a bunch of surgically mutilated psychotic freaks.”

Gosh, it’s kind of hard to choose sides here, isn’t it?

One radical feminist (who evidently rejects capitalization as misogynistic oppression) offers this diatribe against “transwomen”:

whereas transwomen’s “problems” would not be solved if feminism succeeded — that means transwomens problems are male problems, and do not implicate male power or womens oppression by men, which are the kinds of problems feminists are interested in solving.  post-patriarchy, transwomen would definitely not be let into female-only space, for example.  and insofar as transwomen depend on global female oppression to define and maintain their identities, and depend on subjugated females on which to model their feminine behaviors, and insofar as born-women not coddling transwomen is a “problem” for transwomen, transwomens problems will actually be made worse when and if patriarchy falls, because they would not be able to express their gender properly, the entire concept — or the parts of which are dependent on female oppression — having been abolished.  and because NO ONE would put up with their shit.

In the vocabulary of “gender studies” intellectuals, the prefix “cis-” has been popularized as the antonym of “trans-,” so that someone who is born female and identifies as such as is a “ciswoman.” That explanation is necessary to understanding — insofar as the rantings of a deranged lunatic can be understood by sane people — the romantic complaints of translesbian Julia Serano:

About two years ago, my ex and I split up after being together for nearly a decade. She was a cis queer woman who was supportive when I transitioned a few years into our relationship, and we were monogamous during the lion’s share of our time together. This meant that for the first time in a decade, I would be re-entering the dating scene. This could be somewhat disconcerting for any person, but there were a few compounding factors that made it especially . . . well, let’s say “interesting” . . . for me. First, this would be the first time that I would be dating people as a woman. Furthermore, while I had dated queer women before my transition, this would be my first time formally dating within the queer women’s community. On top of that, around this same time, after years of identifying as a lesbian, I came out as bisexual, so I also planned on dating men.

To clarify: Julia Serano was born a man. His/her ex-girlfriend is a lesbian “who was supportive when I transitioned,” but now they’re split and so the bisexual post-transition shemale is looking for love “within the queer women’s community.”

And you thought your love life was complicated, eh?

One trans woman friend told me about how she recently met a cis dyke, and they were really hitting it off, until she realized that this person was misreading her for a person on the trans masculine spectrum. When my friend told the cis dyke that she was in fact a trans woman, the cis dyke seemed to immediately lose interest.

Oops. Don’t you hate it when that happens?

On numerous occasions I have looked over the “w4w” [i.e., women for women] section of Craigslist, but it inevitably leaves me traumatized. There is so much trans hate speech on that site, and the very few ads that mention being open to trans are specifically looking for trans men or tranny bois, not trans women.

Isn’t that wonderful? After you get a sex-change operation, you’re allowed to describe romantic rejection as “hate speech”!

 I also find it ironic that cis dykes — many of whom pride themselves on their progressive politics and subversive sexualities — tend to be far more conservative and conforming to our culture’s yuck-dating-a-trans-woman-is-gross mindset than their cis male counterparts, at least here in the San Francisco Bay Area. I am also embarrassed as a queer for the fact that so many straight cis men have worked through, or are beginning to work through, their own issues regarding trans women, whereas most cis queer women refuse to even consider the possibility that they even have an issue.

In other words, if you are a lesbian who doesn’t date trannies, you have “issues” you need to “work through.”

Sexual attraction is a complex phenomenon, and of course there is lots of individual variation. I certainly do not expect every cis queer woman to swoon over me. And if it were only a small percentage of cis dykes who were not interested in trans women at all, I would write it off as simply a matter of personal preference. But this not a minor problem—it is systemic; it is a predominant sentiment in queer women’s communities. And when the overwhelming majority of cis dykes date and fuck cis women, but are not open to, or are even turned off by, the idea of dating or fucking trans women, how is that not transphobic? And to those cis women who claim a dyke identity, yet consider trans men, but not trans women, to be a part of your dating pool, let me ask you this: How are you not a hypocrite?
I did not write this piece to vent about my dating life. I go out on plenty of dates, and I’m having lots of super-fucking-awesome sex, just not with cis women at the moment. My purpose in writing this piece is to highlight how cis dykes’ unwillingness to consider trans women as legitimate partners translates directly into a lack of community for queer-identified trans women.

Stop the presses! Queer-identified trans women are suffering from “a lack of community”! And if you don’t agree that this is the most important issue in the world, you’re obviously a hater.

The good news? Even radical lesbian feminists can be haters now.

“All is proceeding as I have foreseen.”

  • chicagorefugee

    No, the trans-woman (born male) didn’t appeal to the cis dyke (born female) once the dyke realized the trans-woman was, in fact, born male.

    When you realize that >80% of trans don’t have – and don’t plan on having – bottom surgery, it all makes sense. Dykes don’t like dicks – not even when they’re called ‘lady sticks’ or ‘trans clits.’

  • TC_LeatherPenguin

    You disparage my cousin Riff Raff? The brilliant one? PREPARE TO DIE

  • SineWaveII

    ROFL Ok ok let me get a grip and comment on this situation.. ROFL no never mind I can’t even begin to take this situation seriously. ROFLMAO

  • SineWaveII

    Liquor in the front …poker in the rear.

  • SineWaveII

    All I know is that I’m a lesbian trapped in a man’s body and apparently if a lesbian doesn’t want to do me, I can accuse her of being an intolerant hater.

  • SineWaveII

    Yes but did anyone ever stick a finger in that dyke?

  • SineWaveII

    Amen brother. We need to form a special interest group and demand recognition and some tax money.

  • Nan

    No because I could understand that sentence. Try again and make it impossible to make heads or tails of, only then can you accuse a disinterested lesbian of being an intolerant hater.

  • SineWaveII

    {slaps forehead} oh, of course what was I thinking?

  • Nan

    When I was in college, where the river flows north, often causing spring flooding, a classmate looked very tired one morning. Someone asked why she looked so wretched and she said she’d been on dike patrol the night before. The dumb blonde asked if there was a lesbian problem in the neighborhood. True story.

  • Nan

  • Nan

    Remind me again, what’s wrong with heteropterodactyls?

  • jakee308

    I’ve always said I’m a lesbian trapped in a man’s body.

    That hasn’t worked yet but I’m still hoping.

  • Evi L. Bloggerlady

    That is the road to perdition!

  • Adjoran

    Remember not to discard the other half of the fifth. It comes in handy to wash down the first.

  • Adjoran

    Another instance indicating a gap in my education.

    Okay, as I understand it, “transsexual” can mean either “changed physically with hormones and surgery” OR “thinks about it a lot/self-identifies as other sex/wants to be/dresses like,” which is also called “transgender” but how the heck do I know what it means now?

    Does “Julia Serrano” have male equipment, female equipment, or none at all? Does it matter? Is the argument that “cis” (how said you need a prefix to denote you still are as born) lesbians don’t want to mess with artificially constructed lady parts, even if colorfully vajazzled? I can get it. Frankly, the prospect would be distasteful to me as well. It doesn’t mean I hate such people. It just means the prospect of having sex with them isn’t remotely attractive to me.

    Come to think of it, that’s true of most of the people I love in this world: sex isn’t a consideration, at all. And that would be the case even if I weren’t a one-woman man. So why assume someone “hates” you or wants to oppress you just because they don’t want to have sex with you? It seems the problems for Julia go well beyond the physical equipment anyway.

  • Wombat_socho

    This is what you read her blog to find out. 😉

  • Wombat_socho

    Shades of Bert Blyleven’s explanation for how he developed the strong finger grip that enabled him to throw a deadly curveball: when he was growing up in the Netherlands, he was always sticking his fingers in dikes.

  • rmnixondeceased

    Don’t hold your breath, greyish blue is not an attractive color …

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  • tlk244182

    Thank you very much.

  • missred

    Lordy, my head exploding trying to keep up with who was who and what was what!

  • ajpwriter

    Because otherwise Lena Dunham might have to find something else to complain about.

  • K-Bob

    Celebrate Diversity: Be like me!

  • The Mad Jewess

    This makes me wanna puke

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  • cmdr358

    Wait, I’ve got it!

    THIS (keeping track of this women, trans-women, male-not-man stuff) is where that PhD in Women’s Studies must come in handy.

  • cmdr358

    Wait, I’ve got it!

    THIS (keeping track of this women, trans-women, male-not-man stuff) is where that PhD in Women’s Studies must come in handy.

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Saturday, December 8, 2012

The story behind the Christian Poet’s Guide to Writing Poetry

When I began instructing students of Joan Unger’s Personalized Study Program in the early 1980’s, we had no poetry home study course, but then, no one else did either. Joan and I decided to add one to the correspondence courses (yeah, by snail mail) she had written on fiction and nonfiction. So I wrote the PSP course in Poetry, which we also called the “V” (for “verse”) units.

Joan did the formatting and everything else – not only for PSP studies, but also for the Christian Writers Fellowship (CWFI) she had founded and directed. After she retired, I headed CWFI for a few years until turning it over to Sandy Brooks and the fiction and nonfiction courses to Marlene Bagnull with my blessings – and relief!

By then I had all sorts of writing projects but kept working, one on one, with poetry students until I needed help. Thanks to a former PSP student, very successful writer, and poet-peer Mona Hodgson, I got caught up and continued to tweak and use the PSP poetry home study course for years with poetry students.

With the advent of the Internet, however, online help became instantly available for poetry lovers and students with fewer and fewer interested in poetry courses by mail. I tweaked the course to aim toward a more secular audience and found a traditional publisher for the book version Poetry: Taking Its Course.

By the time I ran out of copies, e-books had made books readily accessible to people all over the world, so self-publishing on Kindle seemed like the way to go. First, however, I returned the text to its original emphasis on a Christian poet’s perspective then changed the name to the Christian Poet’s Guide to Writing Poetry.

You can find the new e-book on Amazon, but in case you don’t get a hand-held Kindle for Christmas, you’ll be glad to know you don’t have to have one. Just download the free Kindle viewer onto your computer, and you can order this and other e-books online.

As a poet who still prefers pencil and paper, I’m happy to say the e-book formatting process on Kindle was simple enough that, Lord willing, I’ll upload an easy-reader poetry dictionary soon. Meanwhile, if you find any errors on the Christian Poet’s Guide to Writing Poetry, please let me know. And, if you get anything helpful out of the book, let other people know in your review. Thanks and blessings.

(c) 2012, Mary Harwell Sayler

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I don't have as much time to blog tonight as I'd like. Instead, I'm working on a couple of things that aren't on my top ten favorite things list - designing PCR primers and grading lab papers. I did steal a few minutes here and there to look at some of the news stories relating to the Dover lawsuit, which opened today.

Some good articles:
There are three articles that are especially worth a look:
There's a truly outstanding article in the Washington Post, that provides a nice, simple explanation of evolution. There's a couple of places where I think that they might have simplified a bit too much, but as a whole this article is the best treatment of the issue that I have seen in the media in years. (hat tip: Pharyngula)
The New York Times also has some decent coverage, http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,1579199,00.html.

The WaPo piece, in addition to the good coverage on evolution, has an amusing little quote from the Discovery Institute's John West:
Asked to provide examples of non-obvious, testable predictions made by the theory of Intelligent Design, John West, an associate director of the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based ID think tank, offered one: In 1998, he said, an ID theorist, reckoning that an intelligent designer would not fill animals' genomes with DNA that had no use, predicted that much of the "junk" DNA in animals' genomes -- long seen as the detritus of evolutionary processes -- will someday be found to have a function.

(In fact, some "junk" DNA has indeed been found to be functional in recent years, though more than 90 percent of human DNA still appears to be the flotsam of biological history.) In any case, West said, it is up to Darwinists to prove ID wrong.

A few things worth noting here:

The Intelligent Design "prediction" is interesting for a couple of reasons. To begin with, one must wonder as to exactly how they develop their expectations for this designer. They expect the designer to be intelligent enough not to leave lots of junk in the genome. Yet they are entirely unconcerned by any number of features in humans alone that smack of incompetent engineering. Why, for example, do our eyes have blind spots? Who put together the specs for my lower back? Flatfeet don't seem too intelligent to me, either. Of course, all of that pales next to the decision that was made to, as the old engineering joke puts it, run the sewer piping right through the middle of a recreational area. It's funny. Anything intelligent about the way that organisms are put together is, they feel, good evidence for an Intelligent Designer. Anything unintelligent about the way that organisms are put together, on the other hand, is just proof that we can't know the Ineffable Plan of the Designer. Who isn't necessarily God. Really.

Another interesting thing that I noted is that, somehow or another, the Discovery Institute doesn't seem to have focused anything in the way of research funding or energy into trying to find the purpose for the junk DNA. One really must wonder why. They are the main source of ID funding, and they think that they have a testable hypothesis out there. So why were they lobbying school boards instead of testing that hypothesis?

Finally, it is not up to us to prove them wrong. That's not how it works. If you think that you have come up with a good hypothesis, you need to go out and test it. You don't get to say, "This is how things are, and I'm right about that unless you prove me wrong." That sort of thing might work on a kindergarten playground. It doesn't work in science.
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LandQwest closes 22-acre deal in Fort Myers

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LandQwest commercial has closed a deal for 22 acres of land in Fort Myers, the brokerage announced Friday. The buyer was TJ’s Ranch and Apiary, a limited liability company, which paid just $62,000 for the parcel, which is located at 17725 Silver Panther Lane in Fort Myers. Michael O’Mara of LandQwest represented the buyer and the seller in the transaction. — Alexander Britell


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Since signing for Manchester United, Robin van Persie hasn’t been able to stop talking about how happy he is at the club.

“I go into work every day whistling,” he said. “From the first day, they have made me feel welcome, the boys made me feel right at home. I feel better and fitter. In the last week, I played Wednesday and Saturday. In those games I played with ease.”

We’re top of the league, he gets on well with his new team mates, he plays for the best manager in the world, but Van Persie has singled out coach Rene Meulensteen for praise.

“The way he trains is exceptional,” he added. “He is truly one of the best coaches in the world. I have had a lot of good trainers, but it’s the way he prepares our team for games. Every match is different, so every training session in the build-up to games is unique. We know exactly what to expect and he wins points for us through his training. We’ve won a lot of games by the odd goal and they are point winners, which we train for. For instance, against Chelsea I scored after a low cross from Antonio Valencia on the right. It might seem a fluke but the whole week before the game was spent working on that move. Another example is my goal against Wigan, when I cut the ball inside and shot with my right foot. Again this situation, we trained on. Training is really good. It’s a very pleasant environment to work in.”


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Pic of the day – one for the guestroom

I saw this pic on pinterest the other day and just had to share as to me it seems the perfect way to make up your guestroom at home. Imagine entering a room after a long hard flight to somewhere. I reckon this would definitely make you smile!

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25 Ways You Know You're the Mother of a Teen

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teensCongratulations, Mom! You've actually made it all the way to the teen years without (technically) losing your mind. Except there's a good chance you'll lose it in the very near future, because this gig is NOT for the faint of heart. Seriously, did you put your parents through the same torture?? Because if you did, you better buy your mom something better for Mother's Day than that pair of slippers you found on sale. Speaking of which, all you really want this Mother's Day is 24 hours without someone rolling their eyes at you. Am I right? Here are 25 more ways you know you're the mom of a teen.

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February 27th 2010

Four fast health tips

Tired. Sluggish. Hungry. Packing on a few pounds. The winter blaws creep up on us and we tend to feel, well, just not up to par. But with a few tweaks of our diet, daily habits and fitness routine, we can go from sloth to super in a matter of days.

Strength train first

Make strength work part of your fitness regime before any cardiovascular work. Because it takes the body time to warm up, you’re better off opting for a short warm up, doing weights, then having an ignited body ready to run, swim or bike. Plus, you’ll put more effort into the weight lifting – and in the long run, that’s what is optimal for weight management and optimal health.

Go nuts

More and more research is showing that nuts and nut butters are great for weight loss. The combination of protein, fibre and fat keeps you full, helping you eat less overall. And because the unsaturated fat in peanuts and nuts burn faster than other fats, its great for calorie burning, too.

Load up on lettuce

We’re not talking just a salad here and there. We mean go for the good stuff. Arugula and watercress are chock-full of cancer-fighting agents. Spinach is rich in lutein, which fights cancer and blindness. Darker leaves like romaine and red leaf are a good source of beta-carotene, and kale, collards, and chard are great sources of iron and vitamin K.

Realize you can run

Try the Couch to 5km. You won’t be disappointed.

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Indian start-up launches “Shout”, world’s first locality based social app

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shoutWant to shout out loud about something ? Want to be heard ? Well, this may just be the right app, with the right blend of real time social-networking, and real-time socialising.

Finally, the social networking void in India’s start-up ecosystem, may well be filled by a brand new concept, a brand new app, Shout. Yes that means the same as the verb shout and the app does exactly what the verb means, it shouts.

Shout, which claims to be world’s first locality based social networking app, is based on the concept of shouting. You post a “shout” on the app, and anyone within 1 km. of your range, with the same app, will get to know what you are shouting about. It is as simple as that ! All you need, is an internet connection (which you already have !).

Ask for help, say a Hi, find company for a weekend trek, spread the word of a traffic jam, shout out your feeling or simply interact with another Shouter, near by you. Let your hostel herd hoot , the gossip gang go-berserk, your colleagues at work shout it out and friends at play sledge.

The interface is neat, and like most new apps of today, is based on Flat UI. This being said, it is not complicated. It’s a simple, minimalistic user interface, and that is what we think will draw user’s attention towards this app.

The app boasts of several new and innovative features. One of them is called “alter ego“. This feature gives you an option to form an alternative profile of yourself. Now, when you shout, you can either shout as the real you, or as your alter ego. Anonymity is the principle, behind which this feature has been introduced.

There’s one feature which caught our eye the most, and that is “echo”. The default distance of your shout’s reach is 1 km. But if you wish to increase that range, all you have to do is click Echo and, Bamm ! your shout has reached to even more people.

There’s another feature called “Shut-Up” and yes, it is your actual, Shut Up ! This is what the developers say about this feature “This might sound a bit harsh but don’t we use this in our real day to day life. Shut up is to empower people to differentiate a shout from a noise. It is a revolutionary social experiment, never before someone has tried anything of this sort”. Whether this feature is revolutionary or not, only time we tell, but we definitely find it interesting.

So, what’s the story behind this app’s development, we asked the developers, and they say “During one of our chai (Hindi for Tea) sessions we felt that there is a void in the way we interact with people around us. During our childhood we used to play gully cricket, sit on the walls, drink chai and roam in the neighbourhood with people from our area. In my place we call ourselves the ‘Area Boys’. But right now we don’t even know anyone in the area“.

They further add, “Very soon we identified that none of the current apps give us the power to share things with people around us, and probably this realization lead us to the idea of Shout, World’s first Locality based Social app with an option for anonymity called the alter ego“.

The app is currently available only for Android, and will soon be coming up for iOS. It can be downloaded like any other app from Google Play store. You can download it by clicking here.

In the end, this is definitely a fresh concept, a fresh app, and something, which Indian start-ups have never really given to the social networking world. With our decreasing personal interaction with each other, due to various social networks, this app will definitely bring back that lost element in our lives.

So, as of now, Go, Shout !

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Federer becoming a Dad

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Roger Federer is becoming a father. Federer himself announced the good news on his website rogerfederer.com today. Arriving in Indian Wells he said:”I have good news that I want to share with you guys: Mirka and I will become parents this summer. Mirka is pregnant and over happy. This is a dream that comes true for us. We love children and we really look forward to becoming parents ourselves. Mirka is doing great and everything is going the way it is supposed to.”

Roger Federer and Miroslava Vavrinec have been together for more then 8 years now. They got to know each other at the Olympic Games 2000 in Sydney. Vavrinec put an end to her career (best ranking no. 76) and ever since is touring around the world with Federer.

Now hearing those great news, a wedding seems to be very likely to take place in the next few months. But not a lot of players, being a father stayed on the tour. Pete Sampras retired after becoming a father, McEnroe and Lendl stayed on the tour but didn’t win any major tournaments anymore. Becker and Agassi are the exceptions to the rule: They both won another Grand slam tournament after becoming a father. And both of them got married right before the birth of their child.

In the current top 100 ATP players we have only a bunch of fathers, and Lleyton Hewitt is the perfect example that it is not easy being a father and a tennis player at the same time, and that it is difficult to reach your old level again. But let’s just congratulate Federer and Vavrinec and wish them all the best and see what the future holds for us.

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Leisure Time and Time Sinks

Leisure time, "downtime", or relaxation time is a funny thing. Lately I feel like I've been greedily grabbing as much as I can. Because of this, I've realised that there's an upper limit to how much I can relax.

Some things I choose to do in my leisure time seem to suck up a lot of time. Reading blogs, writing for my blogs, playing XBox, mucking around on the computer, and Facebook are my major "time sinks". They're OK in moderation, but if I'm not careful they can expand to fill my available time.

Why would I want to say at the end of the year that I've clocked up 12,000 hours on the XBox, or 1,200 YouTube videos watched, or 120 "What superhero/dictator/celebrity/green vegetable are you" apps on my Facebook profile...what would I have to show for it?

So, starting today, I'm taking a 3 month break from blogging, reading blogs, and I'm lowering my Facebook time too. No more pouring time into the time sink; I'm going to stop being so greedy with my leisure time. I'd like to get back into my other interests - playing guitar, reading books, getting fit - and maybe learn something new, improve our home, and feel like I earn leisure time.

Watch this space - I'll be back!

Movie Review: The Dark Knight

Warning: There's no spoilers in this review, so my wife (who hasn't seen the film yet) can read it if she wants :-)

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I was joking with my friend Matt last night as we sat watching ads in the cinema before The Dark Knight started, that I could not be a film reviewer. The reason? I get too involved in the movie. And this held true as, after the film had ended, I felt two powerful emotions: satisfaction at seeing a great movie, and tension (I realised I had been clenching my fists for the last 30 minutes or so of the film).

Overall, the feel of the film is dark and menacing (it's not a film for kids), there are sinister and intense scenes, and although there's not much (if any) gory violence there is implied violence. So, with that in mind, here's my review...

The Hype
The Dark Knight is easily the best film I've seen this year. Amazingly, it lives up to the pre-release hype:

  • a cast including an Aussie (Heath Ledger) as one of the film's demented villains, the charismatic actor Christian Bale, and charming but edgier Aaron Eckhart and Maggie Gyllenhaal, along with the under-rated Gary Oldman
  • the tragic death of Heath Ledger earlier this year (regardless of what I think of him as an actor or a person), and early reviews suggesting a post-humous Oscar for his role as the Joker
  • Batman Begins director Christopher Nolan and his brother on script duties (ala the excellent The Prestige)
  • 2 1/2 hour length - I'm getting my money's worth!
  • some of the action sequences were shot in IMAX, which underlines the fact that this movie must have had a seemingly limitless budget (actually around $150 million according to "The Numbers" website, of which it made back $155 million in opening weekend tickets in the US alone)

Even though the film clocks in at over 2 hours, it never eases up on intensity. There's barely a wasted minute; there's a lot of main characters and they are all developed well, leaving just enough screen time for Batman, who is acted to perfection by Christian Bale.

The Joker
The action sequences don't dominate the film - in fact, it's Heath Ledger's Joker which almost dominates the film, and each time he was on screen in his white make-up and sinister smile, I felt creeped out. Interestingly, he's the only character that I can think of in recent movies that does not always tell the truth on screen, and his motivations, history and thoughts are never fully explained (adding to the general creepiness). Christopher Nolan admits he was influenced by the Joker's earliest appearance in Batman lore in the 1940's in this December interview in the LA Times.

I'm sure that if Heath Ledger were still around, his Joker would be making an appearance in future Batman flicks.

The Story
The movie is set in modern times and it's not a stretch to imagine it really happening (apart from Batman's amazing gadgets!). Gotham City (parts of which were filmed in Chicago) has changed from the original Batman Begins in that Batman has been cleaning up crime, aided by a less corupt police force headed by Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and a new District Attorney, Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart).

Bruce Wayne's old flame Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is attracted to the "white knight" Harvey Dent, and Batman contemplates a day when he will no longer be needed and his future with Rachel. Into this scene comes the Joker, seemingly intent on causing chaos and threatening to kill innocents until Batman hands himself over to the police, turning Gotham City against Batman.

I've read plenty of reviews on The Dark Knight and have yet to come across a valid bad one. I highly recommend this movie!

Links: Box office data from "The Numbers" http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2008/BATM2.php, IMDb page http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/

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Are Video Games Manly?

As I talk to my adult friends, I find that less and less of them grew up in a home that had video games.

In the 1980's my family bought an Intellivision which must have been an expensive purchase back then. That introduced me to the wonder of games, which I've enjoyed on the Commodore 64, the Amiga, the PC, the PlayStation and most recently the XBox.

The Art of Manliness blog is asking "Are Video Games Manly?" (go on, vote!)

I reckon video games are "manly", although currently voting at the site is pretty evenly split. Here's why I cast my vote for "yes": I don't have a problem with video games and resist the notion that they're just for kids and teens. As with all entertainment, there's healthy use and there's obsession - you can't let something control you, whether it's movies, cartoons, comic books, sports TV, web browsing or video games.

On an interactivity scale, books would be at one end as least interactive, TV and movies in the middle, and video games (ideally) at the other end. However, in the imagination stakes, books force you to be a lot more creative to give life to the characters and setting (and everyone is free to imagine their own version) where TV, movies and video games serve up their own already fully-developed vision.

So it's important to have a mix, to realise the strengths and weaknesses of different entertainment media, and to also question what you're reading or viewing. Personally, I feel that video games are a valid part of that mix for adults - men or women - and should not be seen as merely toys or games for kids.

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Life Changes

Last week I turned 35! I reckon this is a big thing; I figure I'm about half way and seem to remember I had planned a couple of things (like a cholesterol test) for when I reached this "milestone". Must book that...

Olivia and the kids really treated me to a great week off last week and took me out for my birthday. Thanks for everyone's well-wishes via cards, e-mail and Facebook.

I don't know if it's a cultural thing or a coping mechanism, but I don't typically spend much time thinking about death. Apart from my birthday, a couple of other things have conspired to make me feel philosophical - I finished the excellent little book Tuesdays With Morrie with a tear in my eye as I read the conclusion, and just today read via Rodney about a young woman who now faces life without her husband at "News from the Great Beyond". I was filling out life insurance forms the other day and contemplating writing a "living will" too. All of which allowed me to spend a little time thinking about life changes and death.

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Guides and God

So, am I all up in arms about Girl Guides dropping their promise to love [their] God[s]?

No, I don’t think so. I suspect God can take it.

This is what the Girl Guides used to promise:

I Promise that I will do my best;
To love my God,
To serve my Queen and my Country,
To help other people
To keep the Guide Law.

Now they are going to say this:

I promise that I will do my best:
To be true to myself and develop my beliefs,
To serve the Queen and my community,
To keep the Guide Law.

This doesn’t seem to me to be particularly troubling. It looks as though Guiding wants to be modern and inclusive. I’m just a little surprised they’ve kept the Queen in there which surely must exclude republicans.

I don’t expect that Guiding will change significantly by changing that promise except to allow some girls to take part who might once have thought that it was not for them because they were not religious.

The “self” has a complex relationship with religion. And Christianity is something of a mixed bag when it comes to the self. On the one hand it is all about losing your self and being lost in God and service of others. On the other, we are told to work out our salvation in fear and trembling, which sounds a bit like a good starting place for a lot of modern therapy.

“Unto thine own self be true” is an injunction that sometimes is wrongly attributed to the Bible. It isn’t, it is a misquote in any case and comes from Polonius speaking to Laertes in Hamlet: “This above all- to thine own self be true”.

I think that God will survive the Guides’ change of wording and I hope that Guiding will flourish as a result of trying to keep up with the times.

However, you can see an enormous shift in ethical thinking taking place between those two versions of the promise. The self is paramount in modern thinking. I think that’s an inevitable thing. I also think that it is a good thing. We’ve not thought nearly enough about the self in the past. Somewhere inside though, I find myself thinking that focusing on the self is not an absolute good. Some things within the self may not be good. Presumably the injunction to serve the community in the Guide promise is an attempt to mitigate that.

If I’d been a Guide taking part in their big consultation about the promise, I’d probably have wanted something included about preventing harm. I think that’s a good direction to follow for ethical thinking and can cover the self and others.

I like the new Rainbow promise though:

I promise that I will do my best to think about my beliefs and to be kind and helpful.

You can find the inside skinny on this from a Guide leader at Some Random Bint’s blog.

  1. I like the change from `country’ to `community’ most of all.

  2. PamB says:

    I still remember my Brownie and Guide promises, but think that the Chorister’s prayer takes a lot of beating.
    Bless O Lord us thy servants who minister in thy temple. Grant that what we sing with our lips we may believe in our hearts, and what we believe in our hearts we may show forth in our lives, through etc, etc.
    Don’t know why this isn’t an essential part of the Voice for life scheme, same as the Brownie/guide equivalents are to their development process.

  3. Rosemary Hannah says:

    The only one of the above I could take (Pam’s chorister’s apart) without serious finger-crossing is the Rainbow pledge. I MIGHT want to serve my community, but it would usually be by challenging it, and that is, based on childhood experiences and why I never got to play Mary in the nativity play (despite being in every other way well qualified) that is NOT what people want from children, generally. Or adults, by and large.

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    > To be true to myself and develop my beliefs,

    This is meaningless. Beliefs, in themselves, are neither good nor bad. Nor are all beliefs equally valid or moral – people can have horrible beliefs.

  5. Rosemary Hannah says:

    Indeed Robin -and similarly, on occasion setting about me with a mace would have been being true to myself, and not a good thing to do, but THINKING about what one believes, and being kind and helpful … yes, let’s stick with the Rainbows.

  6. Robin says:

    Agreed. I like the Rainbow pledge.

  7. Rosemary Hannah says:

    Yup – promise less, deliver more. Way to go.

  8. Don’t forget these also go with the Brownie and Guide Laws (the Rainbows don’t have a separate law)

    Brownie law
    * A Brownie Guide thinks of others before herself and does a good turn every day.

    Guide law
    A Guide is honest, reliable and can be trusted.
    A Guide is helpful and uses her time and abilities wisely.
    A Guide faces challenges and learns from her experiences.
    A Guide is a good friend and a sister to all Guides.
    A Guide is polite and considerate.
    A Guide respects all living things and takes care of the world around her.

    What I like is the organization consulted with the Guides and even the Brownies when considering changes to the promises and not just those over 18.

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