...LET US RUN THIS RACE Chapter 12:1-2 We are people that love our share of sports, either as players or spectators. You name it football, baseball, volleyball, basketball, soccer yes even track. All of these events require some running, I have people tell me that only time they ran was to train for another sport, running wasn’t something they enjoyed doing. When I was in school, track was my favorite sport, after a few track meets the season was over, a short season. When I got out of service in the early seventies we had what you call a running boom, people begin running for exercise trying to stay fit or get fit, an activity everyone could do, young and old. The movie business got involved, if you ever seen the movie “Forrest Gump” you know what I mean. We have 5K run, 10K run – ½ marathon, marathon and even ultra marathon 50 miles or more, but tonight I would like to talk about another run - The race of faith. In the beginning of the chapter the writer is telling us we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses. I would think of these as spectators, ones that have already ran this race, had finished the course. These are the old saints that the writer wrote about in previous chapters of Hebrews such as Abraham, Moses, Rahab, Gideon, Samson, David, and we might be able to add others that we believe ran this race of faith. Ones we have come in contact with in our lives that we think of as being faithful but now is no longer with us, ones that bear witness of...
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...in and out, in and out, in and out. I see the finish line, and my best friend does, too. We grab each other’s hands, our skin pink and slick from heat and sweat, and hold each other tightly. Our heads turn towards each other to grin as we break into a sprint, elbows pumping and legs leaping. We are close, so close. The sun is beating on our backs with hammers, and the wind has abandoned us, but the two of us are together, one runner, as we cross the finish line at the same time. We run through a tent of raised hands, clasped together to embrace, as the two of us finished the race. She collapses on the ground, face the same color as pepto-bismol, and I walk over to the food tent, eager for pizza and grapes, my legs creaking noisely the whole way. When I finally sit down, my feet shout in joy, then start sobbing when I slip my sneakers off, too lazy to undo the tight knot I made early that morning. I had never known the bliss...
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...Marketing Joy in the Physical and Digital Mediums Charlotte M. Banks Ashford University Marketing Joy in the Physical and Digital Mediums Mullins & Walker (2010) explained that marketing is a social process involving the activities that facilitate exchanges of goods and services among individuals and organizations. Marketing is a critical player in the success or failure of any business. Many organizations have discovered marketing strategies to reach their customers both physically and virtually. This paper will discuss the marketing implications for reaching specified segments for using both physical and digital mediums that allow customers to move from one medium to the other with ease. In addition, examples will be given for the medium that is shown the most preference as well as businesses that have been able to maximize the usage of both physical places and digital spaces. The world is looking for convenience and if marketing strategists are going to survive, they must be able to identify the best product or service and the best physical and/or digital location that will be magnets for the ideal market segment. There are many suggestions as to how an organization should introduce a product or service to various market segments. Market segments are relatively homogeneous subdivisions of a market that are likely to be attracted to particular products or services. Demographics (age, gender, race), socio-economic (income, occupations), geography...
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...Failing to Success It was tryout day. My heart was beating fast and sweat was running down my face as I approached the starting line. Wait. Stay still. Take a big breath. “Get set…RUN!” My adrenaline rush rose as I began to sprint. The sun was thrashing down my back as my feet pierced the burning, concrete track. With every stride I took, my lungs clasped for air. Everything felt the way it should as I was running at the same pace as everyone else. Half a mile through, I began to notice that most of the girls were about fifty meters ahead of me. They all had passed me. My short legs moved as fast as they could on the last two hundred meters left of the 5k but I just couldn’t catch up. As I came closer to my final steps, my legs were so worn out, that they began to wobble like a bridge in an earthquake. I reached the finish line and collapsed to the ground. This was my first year of high school and it was already not going well for me. I had failed to make the cross-country varsity team, which consisted of the top seven girls from a total of fifteen that had tried out. Mr. Nelson, the head cross-country coach, had decided to choose seven girls from those who hadn’t made varsity to run for junior varsity. Since there were eight girls, one would have to leave the team, so he eliminated me for having the slowest time. We all had viciously tried our hardest to earn a spot on the team by running against our teammates, but I just wasn’t good enough. I considered cross-country...
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...journey as a long-distance runner. Walking into her first practice, she didn’t even know what cross country had in store for her, or even how good she would be. Encouraged by her friends to join the team, Rachel was about to meet the true runner that she was. “My grade school coach had us all line up in a straight line across the 10-yard-line and told us that we were to run as fast as our legs could take us to the other side of the field. Let me told you, I was incredibly nervous.” The very first run of Rachel Strons’s career was a race to see who was the fastest on the team, and she believed that she was not going to be that person. Runners ranging from fifth to eighth grade took their positions as the coach began to shout, “Ready. Set.” Before he could shout “go”, Rachel’s heart began to pound in her chest and her legs froze where she stood. She lost all hope of leaving the 10-yard-line....
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...place where my sisters and I shared happiness, tears, and even secrets. I miss going to the park in front of our house, we will always see a grown man sitting on a bench. Whenever we went to the park we would played as much until night came. Most of my memories were created in that house and neighborhood. Whenever I need to calm down my minds travels back to the house I lived as a child. The house with the small garden, our garden was located in the back of our house a garden that was composed with red roses their ordor was fresh as can feel the sweatness of the rose, the sweatness it gave me anxiety to want to try it also we had violets their color was a beauty and for some reason they are very delicate because of us they never lasted long enough because whenever we played cooking the petals were part of our food, my backyard was our play field, the moment we got home from school there was no other place to be rather than our garden in our backyard there was the lavadero in...
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..., YOU LL K NO W A T T HE F I N I S H L I N E A SP A R T A N G UI D E T O T H E SPO R T O F O B ST A C L E R A C I N G JOE DESENA AND ANDY WEINBERG B 1 , YOU LL K NO W A T T HE F I N I S H L I N E A SP A R T A N G UI D E T O T H E SPO R T O F O B ST A C L E R A C I N G JOE DESENA AND ANDY WEINBERG Spartan Race, Inc. www.spartanrace.com Pittsfield, VT USA Copyright © 2012 by Joe De Sena and Andy Weinberg All rights reserved, Including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Spartan Race and “You’ll Know at the Finish Line” are registered trademarks of Spartan Race, Inc. Designed by Steven Mosier New York, NY Published by Spartan Press ISBN-13: 978-0615675183 ISBN-10: 0615675182 FOR SP A R T A NS A N D F U T U R E S P A R T A NS E V ER YW H ER E. WE GIVE SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS— ESPECIALLY OUR WIVES COURTNEY AND SLOAN, AND OUR CHILDREN JACK, JADE, CHARLIE, GRACE, AND CATHERINE— WHO SUPPORT AND INSPIRE OUR ADVENTURES AND MAKE THE SPARTAN LIFE REAL. 4 T A B LE O F C O N T EN T S 5 FOREWORD PREFACE WELCOME TO OBSTACLE RACING, THE ULTIMATE HUMAN SPORT THE SPARTAN BRAND OF OBSTACLE RACING JOIN THE OBSTACLE RACING COMMUNITY CHAPTER 1. MYTHS AND LEGENDS PRIMAL ELEMENTS: WATER AND LAND, MUD AND FIRE PRECURSOR EVENTS OBSTACLE AND CHALLENGE EVENTS: SKILL, ADVENTURE, AND MUD OBSTACLE RACING AS A FORMALIZED SPORT THE FOUNDING FEW FORGING A NEW SPARTAN LEGACY SPARTAN RACE LORE: IN THE BEGINNING … SPARTAN WARRIOR: JASON...
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...27th Feb 2006 Working your way through the traffic, Solving mazes like a maverick You come to work every day, Sometimes at nights you also stay. All along you battle it out, Sometimes you type, sometimes you shout, But a battle it is for everyday, Promising, to never go away. Welcome to the first edition of OYE! It has been a long cherished dream of OASIS members to have a platform where members can express, share and enjoy their literary skills. OYE! is the first step towards realizing that dream. Bringing out this magazine has been a long, eventful and a very fulfilling journey for the entire team of OYE!. It was not an easy ride. Hurdles were encountered and conquered with hard work and dedication of the OYE! Editorial Team Members, without neglecting their professional responsibilities. The OYE! Team would like to thank all the people who have contributed in realizing this magazine. Special thanks to the authors of all the articles that were submitted. We hope you will continue to patronize OYE! .Credits are due to many people for their special effort… • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Dr: Mruthyunjaya Kori for reviewing and approving our magazine. Seema Vijay Singh and the HR Team for helping us with all the HR as well as legal issues. Kannan K and all the OASIS committee members for their help and support Ganesh.D for naming the magazine as OYE!, leading this effort and maintaining the focus of the team. Siddharth Das for naming and introducing dUZZO , the official mascot...
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...The Kite Runner: Reader’s Notes Cindy Kang Theme | Literary Device | Character Development | Chapter | Quote | Insight | | Imagery/flashback | | 1 | “I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years… One day last summer, my friend Rahim Khan called from Pakistan. He asked me to come see him. Standing in the kitchen with the receiver to my ear, I knew it wasn’t juts Rahim Khan on the line. It was my past of unatoned sins.” (p. 1) | The introduction paragraph gives the reader an insight of the narrator’s haunting past. The narrator uses descriptive words (crumbing mud wall) and is evidently a gifted story teller. The structure of his writing easily grasps the attention of the audience. The tone of the story seems to be frightening and melancholy due to the author’s diction, syntax, and level of formality. The first page mostly consists of flashbacks more so by recalling them rather than reliving them. If flashbacks continue to recur, the past may symbolize an important theme throughout the story. | | Personification | | 1 | “Because the past claws its way out.”...
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...around 3% every decade. All parts of the skeleton are not just as influenced. The closures of long bones (like the humerus), vertebrae, and the jaws lose more than what's coming to them which brings about delicate appendages, a lessening in tallness, and the loss of teeth. In this manner, a huge rate of ladies and a littler extent of men experience the ill effects of osteoporosis, a condition portrayed by lessened bone mass sufficiently sufficient to trade off ordinary functioning.a decrease in sex hormones, and maturing itself, both help the loss of bone thickness. In men, testosterone generation decays step by step, so bone misfortune is straight and moderate. In ladies, a quick period of bone misfortune happens amid the initial 5 to 10 years after menopause because of the prompt and emotional decline in estrogen. Notwithstanding this quick bone misfortune amid ahead of schedule menopause, ladies gather less skeletal mass than men amid their developing years - especially amid adolescence. This results in littler, narrower, more delicate bones with more slender cortices. In maturity, consequently, the outcomes of bone misfortune are more prominent among ladies than among men, and the rate of bone breaks is two-to-triple higher. As the body ages, there is by and large a decrease in the size and force of all muscle tissues. Specifically, skeletal muscle strands get to be littler in distance across. The general impact of this is decreased bulky quality and continuance and a propensity...
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...4 Cinematography We are affected and defined by light. Light is the most important tool we have to work with, not only as cinematographers, but as people. —Laszlo Kovacs Courtesy Everett Collection Section 4.1 The “Look” of a Scene CHAPTER 4 Chapter Objectives After reading this chapter, students should: • Have a working knowledge of the cinematographer’s job • Understand the difference between cinematography and mise en scène and recognize the importance of each • Understand the importance of color and lighting and how they affect the tone and feel of a film • Be familiar with different methods of photographing a film, and with terms such as panning, tilting, tracking shots, deep focus, and aspect ratios • Understand how different focal length lenses affect the look of a shot • Recognize what special effects can do for a movie—and what they can’t do 4.1 The “Look” of a Scene W hen we are first introduced to Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather, played by Marlon Brando, the Mafia boss is sitting in the study of his home. Along with his consigliore, or adviser, Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall), Corleone is listening to a line of people requesting favors on the day of his daughter’s wedding. Corleone is immensely powerful, as we learn by the scope of the favors he is asked to grant, which in one case includes the desire of a singer to be cast in a film to revive his musical career, and Corleone’s ability to grant them. However, it is not just what...
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...does not allow any aspect of performance enhancing drugs. There are several arguments both in favor and against the use of performance enhancing drugs which will be presented and discussed in this paper. While addressing this ethical issue, we need to define the term ethics. Ethics can be defined as the socially accepted norms and values. These norms and values are varied from society to society and are based on culture and tradition. Ethics also could be defined as the unsaid, un-written and understood laws that prevail in a society. Ethics also cover what is right and what is wrong in society and teaches individuals to act in the right manner and remain committed towards it. Taking performance enhancing drugs has a long history in sport. In 1904, a marathon runner nearly died from a mixture of brandy and strychnine, a poisonous substance that in small quantities acts as a stimulant. Amphetamines replaced strychnine as the stimulant of choice among athletes in the 1930s. In the 1950s,...
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...Beset a Life of Holiness and How They May Be Met and Conquered 13. Other Perils 14. "Highest" Criticism 15. Days of Heaven on Earth AUTHOR'S PREFACE Most men hesitate to speak of their own spiritual experiences. They are deterred by the fear of making "self" too prominent, or are ashamed to confess how much practical unbelief and half-hearted allegiance to their Lord exist in their lives. The writer of this book knows his own unworthiness; but he humbly believes that he also knows something of the worthiness of an All-sufficient Savior. The manner in which this knowledge came -- through an apparently trivial incident -- is itself remarkable. The immediate result was a joy which no bridling could restrain. But whenever this Victorious Life was spoken of, requests were made for "something in print." After much pressure from many directions, and with much hesitation on the part of the writer, he ventured to put down his reflections. These appeared in the columns of THE LIFE OF FAITH, through the kindness of the Editor. They are here republished with practically no alterations. These chapters show the pathway by which one seeking soul found its way from "life" to "life more abundant." They endeavor to reveal the helps and the hindrances which a seeker after the Victorious...
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...Praise for Jesus Is _____. “Judah Smith is a unique gift to my generation. In Jesus Is _____ , he will motivate you to let go of your preconceived, limited view of Jesus so you can embrace who He really is in our lives—more real and relevant than we have ever imagined.” —S te v en F u rtick , le a d pa Stor , e le vation c h u rch a n d author oF th e Ne w Yor k T im es beStSeller G r e aTer “Perhaps the most daunting and humbling task we have as Christians is to finish the sentence ‘Jesus is . . . .’ As many of us saved by His grace are aware, He is King. He is Lord. He is salvation. But to many in our world, He is most prominently . . . misunderstood. There is not another human being on earth whom I know personally, who could tackle a book subject like this as well as Judah Smith. To Judah, Jesus is everything. And from that platform he writes this book. I eagerly await its impact in my city, New York City, and beyond . . . it’s overdue.” —c a r l l entz , le a d pa Stor , h illSong c h u rch , n e w Yor k c it Y “Every once in a while a book is written that does not only contain a powerful message but the author is a living embodiment of the message thus making the book all the more life changing! The book you are holding in your hands is one of those. As you read through this book you will discover that Jesus is not at all like you thought and so much more than you imagined.” —c h r iStin e c a in e , Fou n der oF th e a21 c a mpa ign 00-01_Jesus Is.indd...
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