Tournament Day 1

Sake set. White clay with pearl and touchstone glazes. I used some streaks of mahogany and coral underglaze under the pearl on the bottom of the vessel and cups. The pattern on the saucer is touchstone put on and scratched off. It flashed orange.
The blue pot is white clay thrown as a bowl, textured and manipulated. I put texture in and then also put small strips of clay on top to get extra pattern. Glaze is patches of black and white brushed on then and then brushed over with slate. Interior is black.
Vaibhav Bedi, 26, is seeking £26,000 from parent company Unilever for the "depression and psychological damage" caused by the lack of any Lynx effect.
Bedi says in his court petition: "The company cheated me because in its advertisements, it says women will be attracted to you if you use Axe.
"I used it for seven years but no girl came to me."
Wah untung dulu it worked for me. :p

Read it all here.
Full article by Monica Kinney, The Philadelphia Inquirer: http://ow.ly/h9S1
This concerns an obscure law dating to Elizabethan England that apparently is now being enforced widely in Pennsylvania (USA). The law can force adult children to pay their parents' health-care costs.
If Mom and Pop can't pay, you pay. If they have the money but refuse to pay, you the child must pay. If you don't, watch your credit rating sink under the weight of a legal judgment that will haunt you for life.
It happened to Don Grant. It can happen to you.
The Havertown man is nearly 50 and struggling to pay his mortgage and $100,000 in student loans incurred by his daughter, a recent Albright College grad.
Last year, Grant was sued because his mother, Diana Fichera, did not pay an $8,000 bill at a Delaware County nursing home, where she rehabilitated...
Our church had an all-church meeting and one of the pastor's was talking about small groups and the new format they wanted. He said that the old format made time commitments too long and that with the new format, you wouldn't have to sign up "until Jesus comes back."
It was meant as a joke, and I laughed along with anyone else, but this thought came to me as he smile left my face: No one really thinks about the fact that Jesus could come back any day. Now, I don't know anything about the book of Revelations, or about the end times, and I don't think Jesus will ome back today or tomorrow, or anytime in the next few months or years, but the fact of the matter is, He could. He could ride in right now and take us all away in clouds. Everything we do today to prepare for the future could be futile and useless.
The questions that comes out of this are: "What am I doing today that can come with me into eternity?" Or, in other words, what can I do that will have eternal value, since Jesus could be here tomorrow. How can I prepare today for Jesus' return tomorrow? Or...well, you get the idea. I know the generic answer to this question, but am I doing it? Am I living like I know Jesus could be here tomorrow?
For me, the answer is more often than not, not as much as I could. Instead of worrying about school and college, am I thinking about my peers and if they are going to be in paradise with me, no matter who they are? Am I thinking about people who have less than me, or thinking about what jeans I'm going to buy with the money I earned? Am I thinking about which friends I want to hang out with, or about where I could be donating my time for the good of others? Am I more than thinking about? Am I acting on what I'm thinking? These are tough questions for me, and I would fall on the not prepared for Jesus side of every single one of them right now. I need to change, we all need to change.
The apostles and early disciples were under the impression that Jesus would be returning at any time. They thought that they may be alive when He returned. And they lived like it. They fought less and loved more. They fed the hungry and saved the lost in huge numbers. They performed miracles for the sick. They didn't sit in churches and call themselves Christians, while still walking in a life of sin. They were the active, living body of Christ and they were effective!
I wonder if one of the keys to saving the Christian church is reminding them of the possibility that Jesus could be here any day. There is obviously immorality and sin in the body of Christ today, and I wonder if it would at least be reduced by that reminder. Would denominations sue churches that split away fro them for their property if they thought Jesus would walk in tomorrow? I don't think so! They would be humiliated when Jesus asks what they spent their money on! Do you think they would ordain openly gay bishops? No! Jesus would criticize them for who they put in charge of His flock! I think everything would be different if the Christians lived with this awareness, instead of being blinded to it.