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U.S. gymnast Gabrielle Douglas comforts a crying second-placed Russia’s gymnast Victoria Komova after she won the artistic gymnastics women’s individual all-around final. Make it a pair of golds for Douglas, who added another gold to the one she won with the U.S. team two nights ago.
aw!!! this seems like the sweet thing Gabby Douglas, whose personality i’ve construed in my head, would do! :P
(via nationalpost)
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“Anything Goes” performance at the 2011 Tony Awards, featuring Sutton Foster
Something about the synchronicity and large magnitude of dance breaks in classical Broadway musicals is just so amazing. Triple threat! :P
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Gabby Douglas (U.S. Olympic gymnast)
is so adorable! I love how during the floor qualifiers she would rush to hug and congratulate a teammate who had just finished a routine. She seems like someone I’d want on my team :P
Also, watching Jordyn Wieber cry was tragically heartbreaking. It’s mind-boggling at how professional and composed they appear. A title like “world champion” seems so much to carry, especially for precocious minds. It hasn’t hit me until now how young these athletes are, charged with the task of carrying forth a nation’s hope and pride…crazy. It’s strange because your body has to be young enough to handle this level of physical stress but your attitude has to be mature enough to handle this kind of mental pressure. How do they do it?
Also, for the first time, I’m finally understanding concepts like policies for qualifying for all-around in gymnastics or regulations for number of kicks after a turn in swimming. A whole new lens…
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(Source: awanderbeast, via austenconfessions)
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Revelation 21
21 Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
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We anticipate getting some use out of that bottom-left one when we get to the debates.
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This is where being an underage vegetarian becomes an inconvenience.
Albert, while discussing options to accompany pasta salad
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The Further Adventures of Book Girl: Write here, write now.
Below is an entry from the blog of Alice Ozma, 23-year old author of The Reading Promise.
Recently, Ozma served as a judge for a student writing competition and posits why the students don’t seem to mention (in their submissions) mobile phones, iPads, or any of those fascinating devices that seem to dominate their world. I’m recalling how YA novelists from 10 years ago made a point to pen relevant characters using AOL Instant Messenger, hahaha, “That’s so 2002.”
The girl I’m tutoring (A, aged 14) and I looked up Ozma’s blog after A read Ozma’s memoir. I asked A’s opinion, wondering if she was ever annoyed or offended by these type of musings. I admit that it does get tiresome, hearing all those complaints about the downfalls of “this generation…” all the while thinking, “Girl, you’re like 4 years older than I am!” However, this post pleads for a positive outlook, asking if we don’t aware them enough credit.
Ozma ponders whether content is the focus—is texting something to me equivalent to telling me face to face?—which would make mentioning that you used a phone pointless.
I’m thinking that these communication tools have been reduced to merely that. Tools. They’re no longer the revolutionary gadgets that he-who-remembers-life-without-the-Internet is still attempting to figure out. They’re merely an ordinary part of life, requiring no novel adaptation over a lifespan and therefore no mention.
In other words, the process has led us to no longer announce, “I’m gonna take my Model-T out to the general store,” or even “I’m gonna drive to the market,” but probably just, “I’m stopping by the store. Need anything?” It’s an assumption of daily life.
However, that’s not to say we don’t adapt our brains on a mechanistic basis. My research adviser studies computer-mediated communication—yeah, there’s an entire academic field devoted to this—and it’s really fascinating to see how differently people behave on and offline, sometimes assuming completely different personalities and identities.
I’d like to see in a hundred years or so how “revolutionary” all this technological change actually is. Is it challenging our ultimate views the same way The Big Bang Theory or Darwinian Natural Selection Theory did? Or is it just giving us a new way to organize and share information?
Are kids more present than we give them credit for?
This weekend, I had the pleasure of being a judge for the Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards. Writing was my category, as you might have guessed. Though the art is insanely cool and amazing.
Yeah, a high schooler made that. The writing…
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Sufjan Stevens-Come Thou Font of Every Blessing
Wish I could take the vocals and overlay it on a different instrumental track.
