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David Tennant & Broadchurch Nominated At Tonight's Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib-3REDtFKNLl-HpFA0Ne4E35-6O6PvullK45lPdM_WAZ29FvmkAgTZ7dV_KmwN_iJZjsUl6A5kHUkKyrzcadlUYf0gJPV4oi574yd4cOOg6gOqMt-b7ePh8Q3Y-6vLjPS7JjUam6CJRU/s1600/bbca1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib-3REDtFKNLl-HpFA0Ne4E35-6O6PvullK45lPdM_WAZ29FvmkAgTZ7dV_KmwN_iJZjsUl6A5kHUkKyrzcadlUYf0gJPV4oi574yd4cOOg6gOqMt-b7ePh8Q3Y-6vLjPS7JjUam6CJRU/s640/bbca1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="yiv5041878172MsoNormal" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377770216140_1924" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="yiv5041878172MsoNormal" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377770216140_1924" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="yiv5041878172MsoNormal" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377770216140_1924" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377770216140_1923"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2013 will take place tonight at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel and David Tennant and his co stars from Broadchurch are up for awards.</span></span></div><div class="yiv5041878172MsoNormal" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377770216140_1924" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="yiv5041878172MsoNormal" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377770216140_1924" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They have been nominated in the following categories:</span></div><div class="yiv5041878172MsoNormal" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377770216140_1924" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="yiv5041878172MsoNormal" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377770216140_1924" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><b>The TV Dagger</b></span></span><br /><ul style="line-height: 19px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0.5em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;"><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Luther</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Top of the Lake</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Broadchurch</span></b></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Fall</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bletchley Circle</span></li></ul><div style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="yiv5041878172MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Best Actor Dagger</span></b></div><ul style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0.5em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;"><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Damien Lewis for <i>Homeland</i></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Tennant for <i>Broadchurch</i></span></b></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Idris Elba for <i>Luther</i></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jason Isaacs for <i>Case Histories</i></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paddy Considine for <i>The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: The Murder in Angel Lane</i></span></li></ul><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="yiv5041878172MsoNormal" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377770216140_1925" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Best Actress Dagger</span></b></div><ul style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0.5em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;"><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sofie Grabol for <i>The Killing 3</i></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Olivia Colman for <i>Broadchurch</i></span></b></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Claire Danes for <i>Homeland</i></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gillian Anderson for <i>The Fall</i></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lesley Sharp for <i>Scott & Bailey</i></span></li></ul><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="yiv5041878172MsoNormal" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377770216140_1879" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Best Supporting Actress Dagger</span></b></div><ul style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0.5em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;"><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pauline Quirke for <i>Broadchurch</i></span></b></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Amelia Bullmore for <i>Scott & Bailey</i></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Holly Hunter for <i>Top of the Lake</i><i></i></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jodie Whittaker for <i>Broadchurch</i></span></b></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ruth Wilson for <i>Luther</i></span></li></ul><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="yiv5041878172MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Best Supporting Actor Dagger</span></b></div><ul style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0.5em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;"><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paul McGann for <i>A Mother's Son</i> </span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mandy Patinkin for <i>Homeland</i></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Andrew Buchan for <i>Broadchurch</i></span></b></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Warren Brown for <i>Luther</i></span></li><li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="yiv5041878172MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Roger Allam for <i>Endeavour</i></span></div></li></ul></div></div></div></div></div><div class="yiv5041878172MsoNormal" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377770216140_1924" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="yiv5041878172MsoNormal" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377770216140_1924" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="yiv5041878172MsoNormal" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377770216140_1924" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The awards will be televised on ITV3 on the 29<sup>th</sup> October at 9pm. </span></div><div class="yiv5041878172MsoNormal" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377770216140_1924" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="yiv5041878172MsoNormal" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377770216140_1924" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><div class="yiv5041878172MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Broadchurch, led by David Tennant and Olivia Colman explores what happens to a small community when it suddenly becomes the focus of a major event and is subjected to the full glare of the media spotlight.<br />Bloodied and dirty, Danny Latimer has been found dead on an idyllic beach, surrounded by rocks and a jutting cliff-face from where he may havefallen. Whilst his death remains unresolved, the picturesque coastal town of Broadchurch is at the heart of a major police investigation and a national media frenzy.The sadness of losing a child consumes Danny’s family, Beth and Mark Latimer (Jodie Whittaker and Andrew Buchan), their daughter 15 year old Chloe and Beth’s mum, Liz as they attempt to cope with their grief. Understandably they struggle to cope with the unwarranted attention heaped upon them. Devastated by their loss, they struggle to relate to their friends, neighbours, the church, the press, and the police.<br /><br />David Tennant takes the role of DI Alec Hardy; an out-of-town, newly promoted police detective who takes the job local girl DS Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman) believes should have been hers.  Ellie has to find reserves of patience and toughness to negotiate a professional relationship with the difficult and unyielding Hardy. Yet as the drama progresses, Hardy’s own secrets are laid bare.  Ellie is also emotionally involved with this case. Ellie’s son Tom was the dead boy’s best friend and she’s known Danny all his young life. How could she not be drawn in? But Hardy’s clinical methods force Ellie to see the community she grew up in through a different prism. One by one the community of Broadchurch are drawn into the police enquiry. Local hoteliers and business people are implicated as the effects of a death in the community begins to impact on their hard-earned livelihoods. But can the town survive such a seismic shock during its economically crucial summer months? As the case drags on, the whole town will come under pressure: personal, economic, professional and emotional.</span></div><div class="yiv5041878172MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="yiv5041878172MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b><a href="http://www.david-tennant.com/2009/id189.html" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can find out more about Broadchurch on our website here.</span></a></b></div></div><div class="yiv5041878172MsoNormal" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377770216140_1924" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>

David Tennant & Broadchurch Nominated At Tonight's Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards

The Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards 2013 will take place tonight at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel and David Tennant and his co stars from ...

Microsoft invites you to join their Microsoft PIL Trainer professional development programme

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="85" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAFpY_Qd0olsb2rpr8W4Q9PdjUa_8GXQWsFeqsuO_0GpbRZBSsubut51mpj8HekkxnglaM_rNSfkOPyNIFPoW-DU56qU2NtGeinSZY5d-yzjKkTgFVPI0ntZ7EmDv_exD1sEyhqZB6MXc/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Microsoft in Education Professional Development Team.have been hard at work and finally Microsoft in Education’s Professional Development programme is in full swing. The encourage you to register at <a href="http://www.piltrainer.com/">www.piltrainer.com</a> and join the community.  The monthly newsletter from PIL Trainer highlights many issues and opportunities:  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Developing students to be effective 21st century learners</span></strong><br />If we are to safeguard our futures then we have an obligation to ensure that we are preparing our students appropriately to thrive in the global community. Students must learn the skills, knowledge, expertise and attributes which they will need to be effective in the 21st century. As trainers how do you support teachers to transform their practice within the current educational climate?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><br /></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">How can Microsoft Technology help you as trainers to support teachers to create 21st century learners?</span></strong>Join our vibrant community discussion on the Partners in Learning Network <a href="http://goo.gl/CfF0fR">here</a> (you’ll need to sign in first!)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><br /></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Learn about the 5 Best Strategies Every 21st Century Learner Needs to Succeed</span></strong><br />Join this month’s Virtual University on October 23rd. After the Virtual University join our ‘live’ discussion on the Partners in Learning Network. <a href="http://swrt.worktankseattle.com/series/34/seriessignup.aspx">Register now</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><br /></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Free tools for Trainers</span></strong><br />Check out this month’s featured resource on www.piltrainer.com. Learning Suite is a collection of free programs and applications that can be used for project work. The programs and applications are mapped according to 21st Century skills and match the stages of project work. It is a fantastic ‘Digital Toolkit’.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><br /></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">How to win a trip to the 2014 Global Forum?</span></strong><br />Remember to utilize the “invite others” feature found in your Partners in Learning profile. Peer coaches who register over 25 educators and trainers who register over 100 before December 31, 2013 will be entered into a draw for one of two trips!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><br /></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Share your ideas and experiences</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Create your own ‘1 minute wonder’ about what is the single most important 21st century competency or skill that a trainer must have? View their 1 minute wonder below (A '1 Minute Wonder' is a snapshot of an idea or a way of sharing your opinion or good practice as part of Microsoft's Train the Trainer Program. Each month we will have a different theme and you can submit your own '1 minute wonders' to our playlist.)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/tH1rP6M3VjE?list=PLIt7E5Sp9YKbA9rEL0Bpu9OXR3SEP7zq_" width="420"></iframe></span><br /><br /></div>

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BELGIUM: Watch The Final Parts Of Broadchurch Tonight

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<div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfVIJzmkb9L0-kqx3JANwhYK_MCaU5U8SK5sWeTfZmVoLUQ3gxkFjJfGXnXqTm7mGQrXkNL9VQe-cs7Kuzwqn-YQ4lfprt1cNYpvVBkOZ7j05ocaH4MdxQM9VW0mgsNoJ3G7r4k0VdsyQv/s1600/E702.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfVIJzmkb9L0-kqx3JANwhYK_MCaU5U8SK5sWeTfZmVoLUQ3gxkFjJfGXnXqTm7mGQrXkNL9VQe-cs7Kuzwqn-YQ4lfprt1cNYpvVBkOZ7j05ocaH4MdxQM9VW0mgsNoJ3G7r4k0VdsyQv/s1600/E702.jpg" /></a></div><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Viewers in Belgium can watch the final two episodes of <i>Broadchurch</i> tonight. The series stars David Tennant,Olivia Colman and Arthur Darvill and follows the investigation into the murder of a child in a small town. The two episodes will air on Dutch language channel Vitaya from 20.10 tonight</span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Broadchurch</span></b></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Episode 7 <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vitaya - 20.10</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Na de recente gebeurtenissen bijt Ellie zich meer dan ooit vast in het vinden van Danny's moordenaar. Wat heeft er zich precies afgespeeld bij de hut op de klif? Hadden ze de dader bijna te pakken? Of is er meer aan de hand? Vast staat dat er steeds meer vragen de kop op steken en steeds meer geheimen verborgen worden gehouden. Beth en Mark nemen ondertussen een belangrijke stap om de draad van hun leven terug op te pikken.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Episode 8<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vitaya - 21.05</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">De laatste puzzelstukjes in het onderzoek naar de moord op Danny Latimer vallen geleidelijk in elkaar. Na weken van stilzwijgen, speculaties en verhoren vindt Hardy die ene aanwijzing die hem naar de moordenaar leidt. Eén ding staat vast: de waarheid ontketent een ware schokgolf in het kustdorpje...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Broadchurch</span></b></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Episode 7 <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vitaya - 20.10</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After recent events Ellie is more determined than ever to find Danny's killer. What exactly happened at the hut on the cliff? Did they almost catch the suspect? Or is there more to it? It’s certain that there are more questions arising and that there are more hidden secrets to be uncovered. Beth and Mark meanwhile take an important step towards getting their lives back on track </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Episode 8<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vitaya - 21.05</span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The last pieces of the puzzle in the investigation into the murder of Danny Latimer fall gradually into place. After weeks of silence, speculation and questioning, Hardy finds the one clue that leads him to the murderer. One thing is certain: the truth unleashes a veritable shockwave in the coastal town…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

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Viewers in Belgium can watch the final two episodes of Broadchurch tonight. The series stars David Tennant,Olivia Colman and Arthur Darvill...

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<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimPw8fhMWUzKU4EMyqhohZMXUpomfDRkRyCIuimnYIjKDncr0BzwfAWYtmJYwBEyhufHpp1YYMZ8xgbkcwjumaxZLrQmTclVMpF-Z1SGwWXEs89UAdQQ-iZAQzpL0w02tBbCKmpNmWWNs/s640/stealdragonsword.jpg" /></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"></span></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">An abridged version of the new David Tennant audiobook <i>How To Steal A Dragon's Sword </i>is released on download today.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">The story is the latest installment in the adventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, the hope and heir to the Hairy Hooligan tribe in the series of Viking adventures created by Cressida Cowell.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">How To Steal A Dragon's Sword</b></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bad times have come to the Archipelago. Ever since the woods of Berserk burned down, it is almost as if the world is cursed. Dragons are starting to revolt against their Masters. The waters have risen, flooding fields and washing whole villages away. But worse still, the wicked witch Excellinor has returned. Can Hiccup find the King's Things and win the sword-fighting contest to stop<st1:city w:st="on">Alvin</st1:city> the Treacherous from becoming King of the Wilderwest?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Steal-Dragons-Sword/dp/B00FTV4Z38/ref=sr_1_16?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381823543&sr=1-16&keywords=david+tennant" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Order your download here</span></b></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The full unabridged reading will be released on CD on 22nd April 2014: <a href="http://astore.amazon.co.uk/dtennant-21/detail/1478954019" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #009eb8; display: inline; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;"><span style="color: blue;">pre-order here</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://astore.amazon.co.uk/dtennant-21?_encoding=UTF8&node=44" style="color: #009eb8; display: inline; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Visit our website for the full series of books as read by David</span></span></a></div>

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Hollywood Should Bring Back the Western!

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal">Hola Cowboys and Cowgirls! You know what we need more of? Westerns! Hell yeah! Hollywood needs to start making good westerns again. I think Westerns is what’s missing from the movies the studios put out each summer. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp-9Q9kg_9XxWqgLY5zPZfQwFF5dgjv62jhT0XoT7-8fmnVBE9ZUhwFSjS5xwfiFdNCLXFvuzz-IgvQPawgQ56S1allP10Si0pZ8IiXaVS6ZwT_97xNBM577ByHOQW7xHjHdps_DqCNcml/s1600/john_wayne_american.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp-9Q9kg_9XxWqgLY5zPZfQwFF5dgjv62jhT0XoT7-8fmnVBE9ZUhwFSjS5xwfiFdNCLXFvuzz-IgvQPawgQ56S1allP10Si0pZ8IiXaVS6ZwT_97xNBM577ByHOQW7xHjHdps_DqCNcml/s1600/john_wayne_american.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Yeah, I know they still make some every once in a while. Maybe one or two a year, but that’s not enough and the ones they make aren’t that good. When was the last great Western? Silverado back in 1985? Really? It’s been that long? Yeah, Unforgiven was made in ’92, but I didn’t really like it that much.  I haven’t seen Django Unchained, but that’s not what I would really call a Western. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Oh yeah, they did remake True Grit in 2010. I almost forgot about that. It was definitely better than the John Wayne version from back in the day. The Coen Brothers proved that really good westerns can still be made today. Jeff Bridges was better than John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn, Matt Damon was WAYYYYYY better than Mac Davis as Le Bouf and Hailee Steinfeld was considerably better than Kim Darby as Mattie Ross. In fact, Kim Darby annoyed the shit outta me in the original. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">I was watching Big Jake the other night when I started thinking about the need for more Westerns. Big Jake is my all-time favorite John Wayne movie. I never cared for his war movies, but his Westerns were cool. In fact, let’s rank them … <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">1. Big Jake<br />2. Rio Bravo<br />3. The Shootist <br />4. Chism<br />5. El Dorado<br />6. McClintock<br />7. Hondo <br />8. Rooster Cogburn <br />9. The Undefeated<br />10. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Of course, as good as those John Wayne movies were, lots of other actors made great and even better Westerns. Jimmy Stewart, Clint Eastwood, Gary Cooper, Bert Lancaster, Glen Ford, Alan Ladd and the list goes on and on and on. In fact, let’s list the 10 Best Westerns of all Time, shall we? <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">1. Big Jake<br />2. True Grit (2010) <br />3. The Magnificent Seven<br />4. The Outlaw Josey Wales<br />5. Silverado<br />6. High Noon <br />7. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid<br />8. Rio Bravo<br />9. The Shootist<br />10. Brokeback Mountain<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Anyway, the reason they don’t make Westerns anymore is because they can’t blow shit up and cowboys aren’t super heroes and all that crap. All the big studios want to do is fancy special effects and CGI. They don’t tell stories anymore.  Stories about a cowboy out on the range, rounding up the doggies, working hard from dawn to dusk and fighting for truth, justice and the American way! <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">You can’t use fancy automatic weapons in Westerns either. No Glock .40’s with eleven shot clips or Bushmaster AR-15’s or any of that stuff. Cowboys carried six-shooters and had to be fast and accurate. These guys today just open fire willy-nilly, blasting away hoping to hit someone. That doesn’t take any skill! <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2I2zfzYdJ8raqN8TsT214NVHIhcKjaSZFuczRAeNHhBUwJdpNYzhCem2qS-lzbvqiT5vrNTxtRBWaMyDuB2ZjxPAitgEsHFFUJXaqFEraY8R8PRdRHdvQF44mm85m1fudXhpqNFn9WyMy/s1600/Raquel+Welch+Hot+Cowgirl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2I2zfzYdJ8raqN8TsT214NVHIhcKjaSZFuczRAeNHhBUwJdpNYzhCem2qS-lzbvqiT5vrNTxtRBWaMyDuB2ZjxPAitgEsHFFUJXaqFEraY8R8PRdRHdvQF44mm85m1fudXhpqNFn9WyMy/s1600/Raquel+Welch+Hot+Cowgirl.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">HBO made Deadwood with Timothy Olyphant and that was a good show. Olyphant is tall and lean and makes for a good cowboy. Also, I guess you could make the case that Justified which also stars a cowboy hat wearing Olyphant as a US Marshall is a kind of a modern western. I love that show. So obviously Hollywood is still capable of making a good western, they just don’t. And that’s sad. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Jayman3768@gmail.com">Jayman3768@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/jayman68" target="_blank">Facebook</a><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jayman_iws" target="_blank">@Jayman_IWS</a><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div>

Hollywood Should Bring Back the Western!

Hola Cowboys and Cowgirls! You know what we need more of? Westerns! Hell yeah! Hollywood needs to start making good westerns again. I think ...

Watch This Video - Humorously Makes the Point Why You Can't Trust Steven's Friends to Set His Salary

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As we await installment 2 of Stuart Watson's expose discussing Furtick's friends who help set his salary, I want to post this video from almost two years ago.<br /><br />This video shows how much Steven and his buddies love and adore each other. How on earth can these guys who absolutely slobber over each other be the ones who hold each other accountable financially or otherwise?<br /><br />In the video notice how Craig Groeschel plugs Steven's book. They tell their respective congregations just how lucky they are to have their Man of God as their pastor.<br /><br />And if you can make it all the way to the end, you'll see Steven tell the story of how thrilled he was when his friend Craig Groeschel flew on a plane to surprise Steven and be the one to introduce him before he spoke.  <br /><br />Watch this video. It is funny.<br /><br />But very creepy.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="301" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/30585079?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="400"></iframe></div>

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Waste Not, Want Not (Musical Tribute)

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The following chart shows the amount spent on sewage and waste disposal construction as a percentage of wages and salaries.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1qet4Nw8ZgGROdFCQkAoDBgeH3KLthNW88uUKjFvZP9sg6sTZ2Jz2XunzcxBWDGTWTB7aO_cHzj5lp5ps_NxBnMZgn-KHdumB2Mssm9siGyMBCMzZMpwqERohhYozVmyPM8KsjQVllzk/s1600/Waste+Not,+Want+Not.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1qet4Nw8ZgGROdFCQkAoDBgeH3KLthNW88uUKjFvZP9sg6sTZ2Jz2XunzcxBWDGTWTB7aO_cHzj5lp5ps_NxBnMZgn-KHdumB2Mssm9siGyMBCMzZMpwqERohhYozVmyPM8KsjQVllzk/s320/Waste+Not,+Want+Not.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/qRvrj-x1lSo" width="420"></iframe><br /><br /><a href="http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Waste+not,+want+not">Waste not, want not</a><br /><br /><div style="color: #666666;"><i>If you do not waste anything, you will always have enough.</i></div><br />I must admit that some posts are done mostly for the puns.<br /><br /><b>Source Data:</b><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=nFQ">St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart</a>

Waste Not, Want Not (Musical Tribute)

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The Science Of Doctor Who Presented By Professor Brian Cox

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy5Lstotzjz3lRNJf9-it5jNxTG640O3lDv9klNoi1SD4eY-nNRgoF4J0fKpzkoX_CSFGo9UxVnvunLIJd2MxYyUSIpn7wg9qJPvpXZHEIERJ364dt_3sVTWdAui_lIqWDdmF3W9PLyInp/s1600/608.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy5Lstotzjz3lRNJf9-it5jNxTG640O3lDv9klNoi1SD4eY-nNRgoF4J0fKpzkoX_CSFGo9UxVnvunLIJd2MxYyUSIpn7wg9qJPvpXZHEIERJ364dt_3sVTWdAui_lIqWDdmF3W9PLyInp/s1600/608.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The BBC have released programme details for a new one off special: <i>The Science Of Doctor Who</i>. The show, presented by Professor Brian Cox, will air on Thursday 14th November as part of the BBC's Doctor Who 50th Anniversary schedule</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Science Of Doctor Who</span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For one night only, Professor Brian Cox explores the universe of the world’s favourite Timelord, Doctor Who.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brian takes an audience, with the help of celebrity guests, on a journey into the wonderful universe of The Doctor, in a specially recorded programme from the lecture theatre of the Royal Institution of Great Britain.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brian reveals the science behind the spectacle and explains the physics that allows Doctor Who to travel through space and time. Fun, but filled with real science, it’s a special night for Who fans as well anyone with a thirst for understanding.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brian is in the unique position of knowing The Doctor’s universe inside out as well as the reality behind the drama. When the TARDIS travels through time and space, Brian understands the physics involved. And when it comes to life on other planets, Brian knows the real science that could prove extra-terrestrial life might just really exist in our galaxy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watch <i>The Science Of Doctor Who </i>on Thursday 14 November at 9pm on BBC Two</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pP6PZsu9MxQ/Umg76eNb1GI/AAAAAAAAKU4/y_92sU_W9qM/s1600/IMG_20131023_132539.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pP6PZsu9MxQ/Umg76eNb1GI/AAAAAAAAKU4/y_92sU_W9qM/s320/IMG_20131023_132539.jpg" width="313" /></i></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The summer has come to an end and we are approaching the holidays again fast!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>With that in mind we have all done it, and all it does is makes us feel guilty in the end after.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>I'm taking about over eating all those sweets around the holidays whether it be cookies, brownies, pies or even cake!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>I received the SLIMFESSIONS perk from klout and it came with a journal and a coupon redeemable for a free product of my choice.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>So since I'm on a smoothie kick lately I grabbed the vanilla shakes in the slim fast line at my local stop and shop because they are quick and easy, plus they are sweet and helps with those sweet tooth <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">cravings!</span></i></div>

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WXUhfcs_V5c/Umg8Jhv7tsI/AAAAAAAAKVU/EBgfp9jzdaE/s1600/13+-+1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WXUhfcs_V5c/Umg8Jhv7tsI/AAAAAAAAKVU/EBgfp9jzdaE/s320/13+-+1" width="320" /></i></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>I've been a member on klout for quite some time now and have received really cool perks to try out!</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Whatever topics your influential in such as beauty, food, pets, fitness etc. you'll get to try out products for free!</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>It's totally awesome and I love being a member!</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Recently I received a perk from them that includes false eye lashes and the tools to use to make your lashes ever so fabulous!</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

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PASTORAL LETTER REGARDING THE SHOOTING AT SPARKS MIDDLE SCHOOL

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<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">      </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; text-indent: .3in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; text-indent: .3in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; text-indent: .3in;">      </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in;">            <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; tab-stops: 0in; text-indent: -90.9pt;">October 22, 2013<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; tab-stops: 0in; text-indent: -90.9pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; tab-stops: 0in; text-indent: -90.9pt;">Dear Episcopalians of the Diocese of Nevada,<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; tab-stops: 0in; text-indent: -90.9pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 0in; text-indent: -1.0in;">                                 Tragic school violence has happened again. Only this time it has happened here. We are naturally shocked and grieved. Such things should not happen. But they do. Last week in Austin, Texas a high school student shot himself to death at school.  Two months ago, a high school student shot a classmate in Winston Salem, North Carolina. In January, there was a high school shooting in California and a middle school shooting in Atlanta. One advocacy group reports that there have been 16 school shootings in the United States so far this year. It seems they are happening more and more often. When a school shooting happens at our doorstep, we ask, “What does God think of this? What is God saying to us in this moment?”<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; tab-stops: 0in; text-indent: -90.9pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">       Back when I was teaching religion to law students, I read something theologically profound in a law review article by a great legal scholar, Robert Cover. He said, “Violence is always an act of despair.” That statement has stuck in my mind for nearly 20 years. “Violence is always an act of despair.” All of the things we really want we get from loving relationships. We want respect, kindness, understanding. We want to be heard and held. Everything we truly desire is a fruit of communion. It happens in mutual, caring, appreciative relationships. It is only when we despair of ever having what we truly long for that we resort to violence to get something less, something that will never satisfy. So yes, “violence is always an act of despair.” Nothing could be more explicitly despairing than a murder-suicide.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.2in; tab-stops: 0in; text-indent: -90.9pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">         Despair is giving up on ourselves, giving up on each other, and giving up on God. Violence is despair in action. I don’t know the details of what happened at Sparks Middle School. But I know this much: it was a single act of despair by a boy, who some say had been bullied. Whatever his pain was, it overflowed his capacity to hold it, so he poured it out on others. Such acts are committed in the context of a society of people who are giving up on themselves, each other, and God. It is a hard, hard thing for a teenager to live in hope while growing up in a hopeless society.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">That is where the Church comes in. We are here to share good news with those who most need to hear it. That’s our first Mark of Mission. It is our responsibility to insure that every young person, like that tragic boy with the gun in Sparks, has heard the word of God: <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">            <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">            “I know the plans I have for you . . . . plans to prosper you<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">             and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">We have good news for the poor, both the materially poor and the spiritually poor. We have the good news that the world’s judgments about us are wrong. Our judgments about ourselves are wrong. God sees us through kinder eyes -- eyes that see something very good in us. The Bible says:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">“Rejoice . . . The Lord has taken away the judgments against you . . . . .<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">             For the Lord your God . . . will take delight in you with gladness.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">             With love, he will calm your fears<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">             He will rejoice over you with joyful songs.” Zephaniah 3<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">As if we were pony express riders, God has put hope in our saddlebags and said, “Get that hope to my people. They are dying -- and killing -- for lack of hope. Give them my hope.” Our first priority as the Church is to deliver hope to the lonely people beyond our walls who need to hear the good news words; but more than that, they need us to live those good news words. Our neighbors need us to make room in our hearts and space in our lives for them. They need us to delight in them, to calm their fears with love, to rejoice over them with songs. They need us to be Christ for them. That’s what it means to be the Body of Christ. God wants to act through us to give our neighbors hope and a future. Evangelism is not selling someone something they don’t want or need. It isn’t talking someone into holding the same opinions we do. It isn’t recruiting people to support our Church. Evangelism is giving people a little friendship and a modicum of hope before they load their guns.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">            Some of my friends will be disappointed in me, but I am not going to politicize this tragedy. The Episcopal Church clearly supports reasonable restrictions on gun purchases, the same restrictions supported by the overwhelming majority of Nevadans, and a substantial majority of the rank-and-file of the NRA nationally. As a member of Bishops Against Gun Violence, I am on board with all of that. But laws and regulations -- right, reasonable, and necessary as they may be -- will not be nearly enough to prevent gun violence. There have been school shootings where better laws would have made a difference. But, at Sparks Middle School this week, I don’t know whether the law our legislature passed last session, had it not been vetoed, would have made any difference. So I make no political point.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">            Instead I make this spiritual point: When people despair of being loved -- not just cared for, but being appreciated, respected, delighted in, and rejoiced over -- when we lose faith in our own loveliness and the capacity of others to enjoy us, then we compensate with fantasies of violence. We imagine ourselves as armed heroes, which is a short step away from armed villains. We shift our hope from the power of love to the power of violence. That, brothers and sisters,  is a spiritual issue, a moral lapse, a failure of faith, hope, and love. It is the fundamental corruption of the soul. It corrupts the soul of the individual and it corrupts the soul of the nation. The first province of the Church is to address that spiritual issue, that moral lapse, that failure of faith, hope, and love.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">            So I call on each of our congregations and on each Church member, to pray this week for the victims of the Sparks Middle School shooting – the wounded and the dead, the frightened and the bereaved. And I ask you to pray for the Church, not that we will grow in numbers and institutional vitality, but that we will set aside all trivialities, all self-will, all distractions in order to fully embrace God’s mission. Do more than pray. Think and talk and plan about what you can do to share God’s love with the folks outside our Church walls who need Christ’s love so desperately. How can we tell the story of redemption? How can we prove by our own actions that it is true? How can we be the light of which Isaiah sings in the Surge Illuminare:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">            “For behold darkness covers the land;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">                        Deep gloom enshrouds the peoples.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">            But over you the Lord will rise<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">                        And his glory will appear upon you.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">            Nations will stream to your light<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">                        And kings to the brightness of your dawning.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">            Your gates will always be open;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">                        By day or night they will never be shut. . . .<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">            Violence will no more be heard in your land.” Isaiah 60<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">“Violence will no more be heard in your land.” That’s God’s promise to us if we open the gates, if we bear his light to the violent, despairing, broken, hopeless people who are our brothers and sisters.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">                                                                                    Yours in Christ,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">                                                                                    Dan Edwards<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">                                                                                    10th Bishop of Nevada<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

PASTORAL LETTER REGARDING THE SHOOTING AT SPARKS MIDDLE SCHOOL

October 22, 2013 Dear Episcopalians of the Diocese of Nevada, Tragic school v...