You like to soak up the sun, but your tastes are down to earth. Everyone thinks you're cute. Life is a winding road, and you like to take the curves in stride. Let other people compete in the rat race - you're just here to enjoy the ride.
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 Puzzled: Israelis say Cruise and Holmes should just call their daughter Scram. (File photo) (Reuters) |  |
Suri, the name chosen by Hollywood couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes for their newborn daughter, is raising more than its share of interest in Israel.
It means "get out of here" in the local language, Hebrew.
News of the naming puzzled even those Israelis who thought they had seen it all after pop diva Madonna turned the ancient Jewish mystical tradition Kabbalah into a faith for the famous.
"I really don't know what they were thinking when they chose this name. It's a term that denotes expulsion, like 'Get out of here'," said Gideon Goldenberg, a linguistics professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
"It's pretty blunt."
Yaron London, a cultural commentator for Israel's Channel 10 television, had this rhetorical question for Suri's proud parents: "Why didn't you just go back to your ancestors' language, and call the kid 'Scram Cruise'?"
A Cruise family spokesman said last week that Suri has its origins in ancient Hebrew, as a variant on Sarah, the biblical matriarch. But that pronunciation is all but unknown in Israel.
There are exceptions.
Jerusalem journalist Surie Ackerman said her name was a formalised version of a nickname given by fellow ultra-Orthodox Jews in her native United States.
"It sounds strange to me that a non-Jewish, Scientology baby should be called Suri," Ms Ackerman said, referring to the alternative church which counts Cruise among its devotees.
"But there are plenty of strange names in the world."
And there are plenty of alternative meanings for Suri.
It's also a Nubian tribe, the word for "rose" in Persian, "sun" in Sanskrit and a term for a form of Alpaca's wool.
- Reuters
Furniture Row, a furniture company based in Denver, Colorado, is using the hood of its #78 Nextel Cup NASCAR race car this weekend to promote the National Day of Prayer coming up on Thursday, May 4.
Chairman Barney Visser and his company, Furniture Row, are the regular sponsors of the car, but decided to forgo the normal paint scheme to bring the message of prayer to millions of fans watching this weekend's NASCAR race at Talladega Speedway on national television.
Furniture Row operates 320 furniture stores in 31 states. Although the company's public relations manager said Chairman Visser prefers to shun the limelight, we thought you would like to thank him for promoting the "National Day of Prayer" on his #78 Nextel Cup NASCAR car.
Please send Furniture Row Chairman Barney Visser an email, letting him know you appreciate his company's promotion of the National Day of Prayer.
Another mother asked President Kennedy,
"Why did my son have to die in Viet Nam?"
Another mother asked President Truman,
"Why did my son have to die in Korea?
Another mother asked President F.D. Roosevelt,
"Why did my son have to die at Iwo Jima?"
Another mother asked President W. Wilson,
"Why did my son have to die on the battlefield of France?"
Yet another mother asked President Lincoln,
"Why did my son have to die at Gettysburg?"
And yet another mother asked President G. Washington,
"Why did my son have to die near Valley Forge?"
Then long, long ago, a mother asked...
"Heavenly Father, why did my Son have to die
on a cross outside of Jerusalem?"
The answers to all these are similar --
"So that others may have life and dwell in peace,
happiness and freedom."
This was emailed to me with no author
and I thought the magnitude
and the simplicity were awesome ...
IF YOU DON'T STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS,
PLEASE, FEEL FREE...
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Family Film Review: Take the Lead
Release Date: April 7, 2006
MPAA Rating: PG-13, for thematic material, language and some violence
Staring: Antonio Banderas, Alfre Woodard, Rob Brown
Genre: Drama
Recommended Age: 13+
Take the Lead, starring Antonio Banderas, is a wonderful movie that children ages 13 and up can enjoy with their parents. The film tells the story of a group of inner-city high school students who learn to ballroom dance.
Take the Lead is based upon the life of ballroom dancer Pierre Dulane. In the film Pierre (Banderas) volunteers to teach ballroom dancing to inner-city high school students in New York. He is assigned to watch the students in detention, who at first are reluctant to participate telling him that ballroom dancing is for "rich white folks." Eventually, after Pierre demonstrates the tango for them with the top student at his studio, they take an interest. When Dulane tells his students about the all city dance competition coming up the kids decide to enter. The kids combine ballroom dancing with hip hop music to create their own new and interesting style. As the film progresses, Pierre becomes a mentor to many of his students, helping them through hard times.
Although the film teaches the value of team work and perseverance through hard times, there is also some questionable content that parents should be made aware of. Foul language is used regularly, especially the word "ass." The "f" and "s" words also occur, though are very rare. There is also one instance where a derogatory term referencing female anatomy is used to call one of the characters a coward. The sexual content is kept to a minimum although the dancing, both hip hop and ballroom, is sometimes provocative, and it is implied that the mother of one of the students is a prostitute. There is a scene near the end of the film in which one of Pierre's students is threatened with a gun and beat up. There are also mentions of alcohol and drug dealing. Overall parents should seriously debate whether their children are mature enough to handle a movie that addresses these issues, although the positive messages do out weigh the negative content. Take the Lead is a wonderful and entertaining film that children 13 and up will enjoy.
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April 13, 2006 AFA joins with Coral Ridge Ministries to offer The Da Vinci Delusion The Da Vinci Code is an attack on the very foundation of the Christian faith and it threatens to lead millions to believe that Jesus Chris was a fraud. I have just finished watching The Da Vinci Delusion, produced by my good friend, Dr. D. James Kennedy, and Coral Ridge Ministries. It is absolutely great! It is a DVD which Christians need to watch. On May 19, a blockbuster movie - The Da Vinci Code - will open in theaters. The book has sold nearly 40,000,000 copies. The book and movie make several false claims: While the book and movie claim to be based on fact, they clearly are not. Tragically many people, even Christians, will go away believing the book and movie are factual. AFA has teamed with Coral Ridge Ministries to offer The Da Vinci Delusion, a DVD which is, indeed, based on fact and which points out the errors of the "facts" presented in the The Da Vinci Code. Coral Ridge has produced an excellent DVD. The 60-minute video should be viewed by every Christian and shown in every church. It is filled with facts that are factual. The production is topnotch. The all-star lineup of participants serve as fact checkers, pointing out the errors called "facts". Those who watch this DVD will be prepared to intelligently discuss the book and movie with those who have been convinced that The Da Vinci Code is based on fact.
Sincerely,
Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman P.S. Please forward this e-mail message to your family and friends! |
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A businessman on his deathbed called his friend and said, "Bill, I want you to promise me that when I die, you will have my remains cremated."
"And what," his friend asked, "do you want me to do with your ashes?"
The businessman said, "Just put them in an envelope and mail them to the Internal Revenue Service. Write on the envelope, 'Now, you have everything.'"
Received from Frank.
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A cheerful heart is good medicine... (Prov 17:22a)By Rev. Louis P. Sheldon
April 12, 2006 - Last week, the DVD version of C. S. Lewis’s “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe,” was released for sale in stores throughout the U.S. The story, if you haven’t read the book or seen the movie, is about a magical wardrobe, four precocious British children in World War II, and a kingdom called Narnia, a land in perpetual winter.
The major theme of the film is the conflict between an evil White Witch and Aslan, the Lion. Aslan dies and is resurrected from the dead to lead the children to battle against the witch and her evil demonic forces. Good overcomes evil in the end and Narnia’s perpetual winter is broken. The ice melts, flowers bloom, and Narnia becomes a spring time paradise.
In a letter written to a friend in 1958, C.S. Lewis explained Aslan in this way: “What might Christ become like, if there really were a world like Narnia and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?”
C.S. Lewis had been an ardent atheist and a strict rationalist until he began encountering a network of Christians at Oxford University where he taught medieval and renaissance literature. After his conversion to Christ, he observed: “A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere [in reading the Bible].”
After hours upon hours discussing the reality of God and of Jesus Christ with his Christian friends, (including J.R.R. Tolkien) Lewis eventually came to the inevitable conclusion that there was a God, Jesus Christ was real, and that He had risen from the grave—just as it says in the Bible.
Once Lewis became a Christian, his writings in defense of Christianity and of the Gospel changed the lives of millions throughout the world. Lewis had the amazing ability to clearly and rationally explain why Jesus Christ is truly the Son of God and why it is reasonable to embrace him as Savior.
Writing in Mere Christianity, Lewis presented...
So it has been a while since I presented a new large scale model/sculpture. Could it be that Eric has burned out on LEGO building?
Not exactly.
The projects are just getting larger...
In April of 2000 while on a business trip I received a near-frantic email from someone with an unusual request. It seems that she represented a fellow with a company in Seattle (no, NOT Microsoft). Turns out that last September this guy was hired, and in his contract of employment it stipulated that he wanted a desk made out of LEGO.
The hiring company evidently really wanted...
