บริการรับเป็นเช่นโรงแรมแต่ราคาถูกกว่าโรงแรม. คุณสามารถอยู่ในสถานที่หนึ่งสำหรับสั้นและยาวอยู่. พวกเขาให้บริการเช่นทำความสะอาดบ้านการเรือนและแม้ more. นี่รายการของผลประโยชน์ที่จะบริการให้พาร์ทเมนต์.

1. ครัวเอง: kitchens จะเพียบพร้อม. คุณไม่ต้องกังวลที่คุณจะใช้เวลาอาหารเช้าอาหารกลางวันอาหารเย็นหรือ. อาหารแพงกว่าไม่มีคุณจะยังให้ความสำคัญแตกต่างในโรงแรม.

2. สถานที่เอกชน: คุณส่วนตัวของคุณสถานที่. คุณชอบที่จะอยู่ในบ้านของคุณเอง.

3. ห้อง: พาร์ทเมนต์ต่างจากปกติคุณต้องซื้อเฟอร์นิเจอร์ของคุณเพื่อใช้ชีวิตประจำวันของคุณ. ในห้องบริการคุณไม่ต้องกังวลเกี่ยวกับเฟอร์นิเจอร์และอุปกรณ์ของคุณ.

4. ยืดหยุ่น: คุณสามารถจ่ายค่าของคุณในเวลาเช่นเดียวกับโรงแรม.

ห้องบริการเป็นทางเลือกที่ดีที่สุดถ้าคุณต้องการอยู่สามเดือนหรือ more. คุณจะพบความพึงพอใจเกี่ยวกับที่พักของคุณโดยไม่ sacrificing ของคุณภาพ. พวกเขานำสิ่งอำนวยความสะดวกเพิ่มเติมที่โรงแรมไม่เคยมี. ที่นี่คุณจะพบกับพื้นที่อยู่กว้างขวางห้องน้ำของห้องครัวของคุณและสิ่งอำนวยความสะดวกอื่นๆที่คุณจะรู้สึกเหมือนอยู่ในบ้านของคุณเอง. คุณยังสามารถเพลิดเพลินกับสระว่ายน้ำ gymnassium และชมรมสุขภาพ. สิ่งที่ดีที่สุดก็คือค่าใช้จ่ายน้อยที่สุดเมื่อเทียบกับโรงแรมอื่นๆเสนอ.

มองหาบริการรับไม่ยากในปัจจุบัน. คุณค้นหาเพียงแค่ใน google และคุณจะพบกับการจองออนไลน์ที่พัก. คุณจะพบกับห้องในลิสบอน, ลอนดอนและ Wimbledon.

Welcome Colossae Sherwood Families and Guests, 

We hope you are enjoying this day from the Lord, while continuing to pray and meditate on His word from 1 Peter 3 and Genesis 2.

We look forward to our fellowship this week.  As for dinner,  the DeCico family, Eric and Ashley, are serving Vegetarian Chili.  

If you are able to provide a side, please sign up for one of the following (enough to serve 20 people)

1. Shredded Cheese
2. Sour Cream
3. Corn Bread
4. Tortilla Chips with Gauc.
5. Dessert (2)
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We look forward to our fellowship this week, God Bless You all,

 Edward, Tammy, Natalie, Joshua, Johnathan, Hezekiah Harris

See NY Times Morgenstern Article on Goldman/AIG COnflict

See GRAPHICAL TIMELINE OF GOLDMAN\’S STRATEGIC \”DEFAULTS\”

Understandably this is a lot to take in so I invite you to pick up a copy of the New York Times, or go to the links above and study this article. First, I have excerpted what I think is important. second you have the whole article.

“Negotiating with Goldman to void the A.I.G. insurance was especially difficult, Federal Reserve Board documents show, because the firm did not own the underlying bonds. As a result, Goldman had little incentive to compromise.”THE MAIN POINT TO KEEP IN MIND, AS IT IS EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE ARTICLE, IS THAT THE INVESTMENT BANKS did not own THE mortgage bonds, THE OBLIGATIONS FROM HOMEOWNERS, THE NOTES SIGNED BY HOMEOWNERS OR THE MORTGAGE DEEDS OR DEEDS OF TRUST. THEY OWNED NOTHING BUT THEY WERE “TRADING” ANYWAY, SCREWING BOTH THE INVESTORS WHO ACTUALLY ADVANCED THE FUNDS FOR THIS SCHEME AND THE HOOMEOWNER WHO ADVANCED THE COLALTERAL OF THEIR HOMES.

This is important because it was the investment banks that initiated the securitization chains. The scheme started with them and was launched with the use of investor money unwittingly advanced into a pool of capital that would be used mostly to fund fees, profits, insurance proceeds, insurance premiums all for the benefit and paid to the investment banks and not the investors.

These were Fees and Relationships that were never disclosed to the homeowner despite very clear laws (Truth in Lending, Deceptive Lending) requiring full Transparency and Disclosure. It is quite clear that undisclosed fees, profits, kickbacks etc. are due back to the homeowner who signed the “loan” papers. I believe there are competing or complimentary claims from both the investors and the borowers against all that bailout and insurance money.

DEFAULT WAS UNNECESSARY: “if mortgage bonds were downgraded, if they were deemed to have lost value, or if A.I.G.’s own credit rating was downgraded. If all of those things happened, A.I.G. would have to make even larger payments.”The principal points you should come away with doubles down on prior comments (including yesterday’s post) about the manipulation or world finance and thus world politics. Until the financial oligopoly is broken apart like it was 100 years ago, we will continue to see nothing but worsening conditions in housing and the economy in general.

The actions of Goldman Sachs clearly show their intent and knowledge that they could cause a collapse and a government bailout. They did it because they could and they are still doing it.

We are now supposed to be lulled by the crisis in the Euro, which is chasing people in the U.S. dollar. Just browse the internet and you will bind blogs like www.baselinescenario.com and hundreds of others that will tell you and show you that this continues to be a banker’s dream scenario. Everytime there is a crisis or a boom the bankers make money on the movement of huge sums of capital. And now, they are controlling the crises and the booms. what could be better?

While the flood of money into the dollar is good for those who worry about inflation, it also guarantees that the housing market will, in real dollars, be down another 10-15% over the next year.

EXCERPTS:

Well before the federal government bailed out A.I.G. in September 2008, Goldman’s demands for billions of dollars from the insurer helped put it in a precarious financial position by bleeding much-needed cash. That ultimately provoked the government to step in.

The S.E.C. wants to know whether any of the demands improperly distressed the mortgage market, according to people briefed on the matter who requested anonymity because the inquiry was intended to be confidential.

$11 billion in taxpayer money that went to Société Générale, a French bank that traded with A.I.G., was subsequently transferred to Goldman under a deal the two banks had struck.

Testy Conflict With Goldman Helped Push A.I.G. to Edge

Billions of dollars were at stake when 21 executives of Goldman Sachs and the American International Group convened a conference call on Jan. 28, 2008, to try to resolve a rancorous dispute that had been escalating for months.

A.I.G. had long insured complex mortgage securities owned by Goldman and other firms against possible defaults. With the housing crisis deepening, A.I.G., once the world’s biggest insurer, had already paid Goldman $2 billion to cover losses the bank said it might suffer.

A.I.G. executives wanted some of its money back, insisting that Goldman — like a homeowner overestimating the damages in a storm to get a bigger insurance payment — had inflated the potential losses. Goldman countered that it was owed even more, while also resisting consulting with third parties to help estimate a value for the securities.

After more than an hour of debate, the two sides on the call signed off with nothing settled, according to internal A.I.G. documents and an audio recording reviewed by The New York Times.

Behind-the-scenes disputes over huge sums are common in banking, but the standoff between A.I.G. and Goldman would become one of the most momentous in Wall Street history. Well before the federal government bailed out A.I.G. in September 2008, Goldman’s demands for billions of dollars from the insurer helped put it in a precarious financial position by bleeding much-needed cash. That ultimately provoked the government to step in.

With taxpayer assistance to A.I.G. currently totaling $180 billion, regulatory and Congressional scrutiny of Goldman’s role in the insurer’s downfall is increasing. The Securities and Exchange Commission is examining the payment demands that a number of firms — most prominently Goldman — made during 2007 and 2008 as the mortgage market imploded.

The S.E.C. wants to know whether any of the demands improperly distressed the mortgage market, according to people briefed on the matter who requested anonymity because the inquiry was intended to be confidential.

In just the year before the A.I.G. bailout, Goldman collected more than $7 billion from A.I.G. And Goldman received billions more after the rescue. Though other banks also benefited, Goldman received more taxpayer money, $12.9 billion, than any other firm.

In addition, according to two people with knowledge of the positions, a portion of the $11 billion in taxpayer money that went to Société Générale, a French bank that traded with A.I.G., was subsequently transferred to Goldman under a deal the two banks had struck.

Goldman stood to gain from the housing market’s implosion because in late 2006, the firm had begun to make huge trades that would pay off if the mortgage market soured. The further mortgage securities’ prices fell, the greater were Goldman’s profits.

In its dispute with A.I.G., Goldman invariably argued that the securities in dispute were worth less than A.I.G. estimated — and in many cases, less than the prices at which other dealers valued the securities.

The pricing dispute, and Goldman’s bets that the housing market would decline, has left some questioning whether Goldman had other reasons for lowballing the value of the securities that A.I.G. had insured, said Bill Brown, a law professor at Duke University who is a former employee of both Goldman and A.I.G.

The dispute between the two companies, he said, “was the tip of the iceberg of this whole crisis.”

“It’s not just who was right and who was wrong,” Mr. Brown said. “I also want to know their motivations. There could have been an incentive for Goldman to say, ‘A.I.G., you owe me more money.’ ”

Goldman is proud of its reputation for aggressively protecting itself and its shareholders from losses as it did in the dispute with A.I.G.

In March 2009, David A. Viniar, Goldman’s chief financial officer, discussed his firm’s dispute with A.I.G. in a conference call with reporters. “We believed that the value of these positions was lower than they believed,” he said.

Asked by a reporter whether his bank’s persistent payment demands had contributed to A.I.G.’s woes, Mr. Viniar said that Goldman had done nothing wrong and that the firm was merely seeking to enforce its insurance policy with A.I.G. “I don’t think there is any guilt whatsoever,” he concluded.

Lucas van Praag, a Goldman spokesman, reiterated that position. “We requested the collateral we were entitled to under the terms of our agreements,” he said in a written statement, “and the idea that A.I.G. collapsed because of our marks is ridiculous.”

Still, documents show there were unusual aspects to the deals with Goldman. The bank resisted, for example, letting third parties value the securities as its contracts with A.I.G. required. And Goldman based some payment demands on lower-rated bonds that A.I.G.’s insurance did not even cover.

A November 2008 analysis by BlackRock, a leading asset management firm, noted that Goldman’s valuations of the securities that A.I.G. insured were “consistently lower than third-party prices.”

To be sure, many now agree that A.I.G. was reckless during the mortgage mania. The firm, once the world’s largest insurer, had written far more insurance than it could have possibly paid if a national mortgage debacle occurred — as, in fact, it did.

Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the relationship between Goldman and A.I.G. was that without the insurer to provide credit insurance, the investment bank could not have generated some of its enormous profits betting against the mortgage market. And when that market went south, A.I.G. became its biggest casualty — and Goldman became one of the biggest beneficiaries.

Longstanding Ties

For decades, A.I.G. and Goldman had a deep and mutually beneficial relationship, and at one point in the 1990s, they even considered merging. At around the same time, in 1998, A.I.G. entered a lucrative new business: insuring the least risky portions of corporate loans or other assets that were bundled into securities.

A.I.G.’s financial products unit, led by Joseph J. Cassano, was behind the expansion. To reduce its own risks in the transactions, the company structured deals so that it would not have to make early payments to clients when securities began to sour. That changed around 2003, however, when A.I.G. began insuring portions of subprime mortgage deals. A lawyer for Mr. Cassano said his client would not comment for this article. A.I.G. also declined to comment.

Alan Frost, a managing director in Mr. Cassano’s unit, negotiated scores of mortgage deals around Wall Street that included a complicated sequence of events for when an insurance payment on a distressed asset came due.

The terms, described by several A.I.G. trading partners, stated that A.I.G. would post payments under two or three circumstances: if mortgage bonds were downgraded, if they were deemed to have lost value, or if A.I.G.’s own credit rating was downgraded. If all of those things happened, A.I.G. would have to make even larger payments.

Mr. Frost referred questions to his lawyer, who declined to comment.

Traders loved Mr. Frost’s deals because they would pay out quickly if anything went wrong. Mr. Frost cut many of his deals with two Goldman traders, Jonathan Egol and Ram Sundaram, who had negative views of the housing market. They had made A.I.G. a central part of some of their trading strategies.

Mr. Egol structured a group of deals — known as Abacus — so that Goldman could benefit from a housing collapse. Many of them were actually packages of A.I.G. insurance written against mortgage bonds, indicating that Mr. Egol and Goldman believed that A.I.G. would have to make large payments if the housing market ran aground. About $5.5 billion of Mr. Egol’s deals still sat on A.I.G.’s books when the insurer was bailed out.

“Al probably did not know it, but he was working with the bears of Goldman,” a former Goldman salesman, who requested anonymity so he would not jeopardize his business relationships, said of Mr. Frost. “He was signing A.I.G. up to insure trades made by people with really very negative views” of the housing market.

Mr. Sundaram’s trades represented another large part of Goldman’s business with A.I.G. According to five former Goldman employees, Mr. Sundaram used financing from other banks like Société Générale and Calyon to purchase less risky mortgage securities from competitors like Merrill Lynch and then insure the assets with A.I.G. — helping fatten the mortgage pipeline that would prove so harmful to Wall Street, investors and taxpayers. In October 2008, just after A.I.G. collapsed, Goldman made Mr. Sundaram a partner.

Through Société Générale, Goldman was also able to buy more insurance on mortgage securities from A.I.G., according to a former A.I.G. executive with direct knowledge of the deals. A spokesman for Société Générale declined to comment.

It is unclear how much Goldman bought through the French bank, but A.I.G. documents show that Goldman was involved in pricing half of Société Générale’s $18.6 billion in trades with A.I.G. and that the insurer’s executives believed that Goldman pressed Société Générale to also demand payments.

Goldman’s Tough Terms

In addition to insuring Mr. Sundaram’s and Mr. Egol’s trades with A.I.G., Goldman also negotiated aggressively with A.I.G. — often requiring the insurer to make payments when the value of mortgage bonds fell by just 4 percent. Most other banks dealing with A.I.G. did not receive payments until losses exceeded 8 percent, the insurer’s records show.

Several former Goldman partners said it was not surprising that Goldman sought such tough terms, given the firm’s longstanding focus on risk management.

By July 2007, when Goldman demanded its first payment from A.I.G. — $1.8 billion — the investment bank had already taken trading positions that would pay out if the mortgage market weakened, according to seven former Goldman employees.

Still, Goldman’s initial call surprised A.I.G. officials, according to three A.I.G. employees with direct knowledge of the situation. The insurer put up $450 million on Aug. 10, 2007, to appease Goldman, but A.I.G. remained resistant in the following months and, according to internal messages, was convinced that Goldman was also pushing other trading partners to ask A.I.G. for payments.

On Nov. 1, 2007, for example, an e-mail message from Mr. Cassano, the head of A.I.G. Financial Products, to Elias Habayeb, an A.I.G. accounting executive, said that a payment demand from Société Générale had been “spurred by GS calling them.”

Mr. Habayeb, who testified before Congress last month that the payment demands were a major contributor to A.I.G.’s downfall, declined to be interviewed and referred questions to A.I.G. The insurer also declined to comment for this article. Mr. van Praag, the Goldman spokesman, said Goldman did not push other firms to demand payments from A.I.G.

Later that month, Mr. Cassano noted in another e-mail message that Goldman’s demands for payment were becoming problematic. “The overhang of the margin call from the perceived righteous Goldman Sachs has impacted everyone’s judgment,” he wrote to five employees in his division.

By the end of November 2007, Goldman was holding $2 billion in cash from A.I.G. when the insurer notified Goldman that it was disputing the firm’s calculations and seeking a return of $1.56 billion. Goldman refused, the documents show.

In many of these deals, Goldman was trading for other parties and taking a fee. As the mortgage market declined, Goldman paid some of these parties while waiting for A.I.G. to meet its demands, the Goldman spokesman said. But one reason those parties were owed money on the deals was that Goldman had marked down the securities.

Adding to the pressure on A.I.G., Mr. Viniar, Goldman’s chief financial officer, advised the insurer in the fall of 2007 that because the two companies shared the same auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers, A.I.G. should accept Goldman’s valuations, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions. Goldman declined to comment on this exchange.

Pricewaterhouse had supported A.I.G.’s approach to valuing the securities throughout 2007, documents show. But at the end of 2007, the auditor began demanding that A.I.G. provide greater disclosure on the risks in the credit insurance it had written. Pricewaterhouse was expressing concern about the dispute.

The insurer disclosed in year-end regulatory filings that its auditor had found a “material weakness” in financial reporting related to valuations of the insurance, a troubling sign for investors.

A spokesman for Pricewaterhouse said the company would not comment on client matters.

Insiders at A.I.G. bridled at Goldman’s insistence that they accept the investment bank’s valuations. “Would we call bond issuers and ask them what the valuation of their bonds was and take that?” asked Robert Lewis, A.I.G.’s chief risk officer, in a message in January 2008. “What am I missing here, so I don’t waste everybody’s time?”

When A.I.G. asked Goldman to submit the dispute to a panel of independent firms, Goldman resisted, internal e-mail messages show. In a March 7, 2008, phone call, Mr. Cassano discussed surveying other dealers to gauge prices with Michael Sherwood, Goldman’s vice chairman. At that time, Goldman calculated that A.I.G. owed it $4.6 billion, on top of the $2 billion already paid. A.I.G. contended it only owed an additional $1.2 billion.

Mr. Sherwood said he did not want to ask other firms to value the securities because “it would be ‘embarrassing’ if we brought the market into our disagreement,” according to an e-mail message from Mr. Cassano that described the call.

The Goldman spokesman disputed this account, saying instead that Goldman was willing to consult third parties but could not agree with A.I.G. on the methodology.

Trouble Grows at A.I.G.

By the spring of 2008, A.I.G.’s dispute with Goldman was just one of its many woes. Mr. Cassano was pushed out in March and the company’s defenses against the growing demand for payments faltered. By the end of August 2008, A.I.G. had posted $19.7 billion in cash to its trading partners, including Goldman, according to financial filings.

Over that summer, A.I.G. had tried, unsuccessfully, to cancel its insurance contracts with the trading partners. But Goldman, according to interviews with former A.I.G. executives, would allow that only if it also got to keep the $7 billion it had already received from A.I.G. Goldman wanted to keep the initial insurance payouts and the securities in order to profit from any future rebound.

In addition to offering to cancel its own contracts, Goldman offered to buy all of the insurance A.I.G. had written for several other banks at severely distressed prices, according to three people briefed on the discussions.

Negotiating with Goldman to void the A.I.G. insurance was especially difficult, Federal Reserve Board documents show, because the firm did not own the underlying bonds. As a result, Goldman had little incentive to compromise.

On Aug. 18, 2008, Goldman’s equity research department published an in-depth report on A.I.G. The analysts advised the firm’s clients to avoid the stock because of a “downward spiral which is likely to ensue as more actual cash losses emanate” from the insurer’s financial products unit.

On the matter of whether A.I.G. could unwind its troublesome insurance on mortgage securities at a discount, the Goldman report noted that if a trading partner “is not in a position of weakness, why would it accept anything less than the full amount of protection for which it had paid?”

A.I.G. shares fell 6 percent the day the report was published. Three weeks later, the United States government agreed to pour billions of dollars in taxpayer money into the insurer to keep it from collapsing.

The government would soon settle the yearlong dispute between Goldman and A.I.G., with Goldman receiving full value for its bets. The federal bailout locked in the paper losses of those deals for A.I.G. The prices on many of those securities have since rebounded.

Waiter? Could I have some more wine, please? ––––No, I’m sure she’ll be here. Well, I think she will be. I’m a little early still. I came an hour before we scheduled, so she wouldn’t have to wait. ––––Thank you, that’s plenty.

Hi, are you Jennifer? Hi, I’m Bobby. ––––No, it’s fine. I was only waiting a few minutes. And, really, I’m sorry you came. I mean, I’m not sorry you’re here, just sorry that you’re wasting your time on me. I’m not very good at this.

God, this is a terrible way to make introductions.

I just have a terrible record going with girls. In eighth grade I took my friend Carla to a movie. It was some stupid romantic comedy—I can’t even remember the title—but halfway through I decided to take her hand. My palms were sweating so much that the puddle beneath my seat rivaled a medium-sized lake. Wiping my hand on my jeans, I whispered to myself what my brother reminded me before I left the house, “She already said yes to the date. You know she likes you. She doesn’t hate you.” But even with my mantra, the muscles in my arm strained to move even the slightest bit toward her, and the air in the theater held a kind of heat that pressed at my lungs. Somehow, despite all that I had to struggle against, I finally slipped my fingers under hers.

I have to say it was not at all as gratifying as I had expected. After all my effort, her hand felt like… a hand. But then she turned to look at me, she leaned in, and my friend Carla said, “You’re not very good at dates, are you?”

––––I’m so sorry, I’ve been jabbering on like this, and you’ve barely looked at the menu. ––––Are you sure you know what you want? ––––Okay.

––––And I’ll have the linguini in pink sauce. ––––Thank you.

So I have to apologize again, I’m sure you didn’t want to hear all about my first date in eighth grade. What are you studying? ––––No, that’s really cool, though. I’m majoring in art, in painting. ––––Nothing very good. I have a few paintings in a gallery, but they never sell. Last year I tried to make a picture book for my kid-sister, Sage. She told me her one friend always makes her go first because “First is the worst.” And Sage went on to explain to me that Second is the best and that Third gets a flowered dress, but sometimes Third gets a treasure chest. Most of all, Sage wanted a treasure chest, even more than she wanted to be the best. So for her sixth birthday I was going to write and illustrate a picture book where she finds a magic treasure chest. And they would go on adventures looking for treasure. But when I finished the book, it was terrible. Sage looked like a dilapidated clown in half the pictures.

I just wanted to make her happy on her birthday. She has the cutest smile; her eyes almost close, and her grin is so unabashed. I couldn’t bear to see her disappointment when she saw how I had failed, so I gave her a stuffed monkey, instead. Sage carries him everywhere. “Bobo,” she calls him; that’s what she called me when she was little.

God, I’m doing it again. ––––No, you should be talking. It’s not fair. I get like this after a few glasses of wine. Or when I’m nervous. Or both. I used to drive Lisa crazy with my talking. Knowing that just made me more nervous so I would talk even more.

––––Lisa was the closest thing I had to a girlfriend. ––––I guess about a year ago. Wow, has it been that long?

About this time last year, I went to one of Lisa’s concerts. ––––Flute. And after the concert, she came out in this beautiful white dress with lace on the bottom part, swishing around her calves. And she had on white heels that made it look like she was floating. So because of the shoes and the lace, when you watched her legs, it seemed like she was pedaling a cloud. She looked so beautiful I was nervous to go up to her. But after a few minutes of watching her hug friends, I wiped my hands on my slacks and walked over to her.

As soon as I reached Lisa, her ex-boyfriend, Will appeared. We both had brought flowers for Lisa, but how could mine compare to his? His bouquet looked like it had been arranged by Persephone herself, and mine, mine looked like I paid ten bucks for Mercury to do it. Understandably, Lisa seemed a lot happier to see Will than to see me.
Still, I gave her the bouquet. “I’m sorry the flowers aren’t nicer,” I apologized.

“Bobby, you know I don’t like lilacs. How could you forget?” Lisa reminded me. “I tell you every time we pass the bush in your yard.”

“I’m sorry. I don’t know what I was thinking.”

“Will got it right.”

He had. His bouquet was bursting with tiger lilies and daffodils. Their burning oranges and yellows were bold against the shy purple of mine.

“Will, could you give us a minute? I need to tell Bobby something.”

Will went to greet some of his teammates, and Lisa told me for the past month she had been seeing a lot of Will. I don’t blame her; it was my fault. Lisa was always so honest with me, pointing out things I needed to improve, but I was never able to fix my problems. The night of her concert she explained to me very clearly how I had caused it. I can’t really remember the exact reason right now, and I’m sure, even if I did, I wouldn’t be as eloquent as she was, but my anxious-talking must have had something to do with it. That drove her crazy.

And I’m probably driving you crazy. I’m sorry. ––––No, it’s not okay. I want you to tell me something about yourself, anything at all.

––––Jazz and tap? Greg told me you danced, but not what styles. Do you have any shows coming up? ––––Maybe I could come see you. ––––I would like that very much.

I want you to know, I may be sorry to have taken you from what I’m sure were more important things, but I’m not sorry you’re here. You’re very beautiful and so sweet for listening to me all this time. ––––Thank you.

You know, when Greg told me he had set us up, I was nervous and knew it would never work out. He told me how funny you are and about your dancing. And all I could think about was how I could never compare. I haven’t eaten since breakfast, and I had to take three showers today because I was sweating so much. But right now, I’m not nervous at all; my hands are dry enough to light a match. I guess all this talking is just from the wine.

And, if it’s all right with you, I’d like to hold your hand, even if it only feels like a hand. I want to hold your hand and drown in your eyes as I listen to you speak—because you will be the only one allowed to talk for the rest of the evening. I want to see this person who keeps me from being nervous.

So, Jennifer, tell me everything. Start at the beginning.

Welcome Colossae Sherwood Families and Guests, 

Men, women, married, and single, please continue to meditate and live out our message this weekend from 1 Peter 3, let’s continue to encourage one another and unite in Christ Jesus, as we look forward to our fellowship this Wednesday.

As for dinner,  Jason and Stephanie plan to prepare Stir Fry for dinner and Napkins, Paper Plates, Plastic Utensils, Cups, Drinks will be provided.

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3. Dessert (2)
4. Drinks

We look forward to our fellowship this week, God Bless You all,

 Edward, Tammy, Natalie, Joshua, Johnathan, Hezekiah Harris

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The deer are fleeing. Ever graceful, they lend unnecessary jumps to their sudden clamor, tense haunches and delicately arching backs. You stand there like an idiot with one foot still raised. Your defiant hisses sound nothing like the low mechanical swears we heard a few minutes before. One deer turns back, offended by your attempt at language, and you flinch, unsure if he’s about to charge. I point to the soft fur that still clings to his antlers. “You never know with the adolescent ones,” I whisper. The sudden fear in your eyes, the quick expansion of pupils and repulsion of lids—it’s cute. But now the little one comes back. Spotted and naïve, she makes each step specifically. Even with her limited knowledge of the world, she is confident we can all graze peacefully here tonight.

In a moment the male is sniffing the clover, and you lie down next to me. Your arms wrapped around me, “Babe,” you coo, “it’ll be safe to sleep tonight.”

When he hisses again from across the field, you sit up as straight as the trees around us. And I’m laughing because you’re a fool, but, really, because alone with only the fireflies and my mother’s squash plants to judge, I would hiss back, as well.

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In the morning, your face is covered with dew, but it’s warm and dry beneath the soft, downy sea of blankets. My hand is resting against your stomach. The skin is smooth, like the blankets, but vastly different because the fabric doesn’t tighten and relax with each breath, doesn’t sport a patch of hair welcoming my fingers to meander between your bellybutton and the waistband of your underwear.

An owl is keeping me awake, humming off-key.

There is a swatch of white in a tree like a landing signal for proverbial vultures; a lost kite, a garbage bag—no, it is one of our sheets, perhaps blown up by a rogue gust of wind. With sleep a broken promise, I detach myself from you and the sea of blankets, and walk across the field. My feet are wet with strands of grass coiling through my toes by the time I reach the tree, place my hands on adjacent branches, and lift myself up.

The bark is rough.

Each increase in altitude gives me a better view of you, a square of white against the green, green grass. The way your body is sprawled, like the fossilized skeletons you’re so fond of, beckons me with an invisible finger. Every movement of that pointer makes me happier and happier. Any fears I had about pushing you away with my feelings are gone. I want to shout it from the treetops. But I don’t because, after all, you’re sleeping down there.

When I pull the blanket from above, I see the writing in what is unmistakably chipmunk blood. “Fuck you. You’re next. Sweet dreams, the deer.” As I climb down, I decide not to tell you about the sheet. Leaving it torn up in the bushes, I return to your side.

Rolling over toward me, you smile. Even closed, your eyes squint up in the grin. My arms slip around your frame. Kissing you on the cheek, I whisper, “I love you,” and sleep is washing back over me, a tide in the sea of white.

Image Studios is a Student film project run by a half-handful of people who who are half heartedly giving half of our time to work on a series of films.

Actually, everyone we’ve got is awesome. I am the founder, and only real member of the company, as every one else seems to have separate ambitions.

So this organization could nearly be considered a Colab in and of itself. And, in fact, most of our projects are.

We are currently working on our first feature length title; “Sherwood”, scheduled for release next spring. After that, I have a few proposed ideas for future projects, though whether or not any of them will become a reality is beyond me.

As the director of at least Sherwood, our dramatic re-envisioning of the legendary tale of Robin of Loxly, I have looked into the work of many directors. My inspiration for the story for Sherwood came from the often misinterpreted historical account of the rules of Richard I and John in England, and Philip II in France. My visual style was greatly inspired by Ridley scott’s films, Gladiator and Kingdom of heaven, and in editing by Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan.

The movie will be filmed over the summer, edited throughout the winter, and completed by next spring. We won’t have it finished and ready for distribution until Spring 2011.

Sherwood, purveyors of feel good California rock, will be hitting the road launching a U.S. headlining tour in support of its most recent effort QU. The tour kicks off February 17 in Los Angeles at the famed Roxy Theater.

Sherwood’s brand new music video for the song “You Are” will world premiere on MySpace Music on February 12.

*Feb 21 – March 17: Hot Chelle Rae, Black Gold, Reece support
*Mar 18 – March 19: Reece supports
*Mar 20 – March 21: Seabird and Reece support
*Mar 23 – March 27: Seabird, Neon Trees, Reece support

Feb 17 Los Angeles, CA – The Roxy
Feb 21 San Diego, CA – SOMA
Feb 22 Phoenix, AZ – The Clubhouse
Feb 23 Amarillo, TX – Common
Feb 24 Austin, TX – The Mohawk
Feb 25 Houston, TX – House of Blues Houston
Feb 26 Dallas, TX – The Prophet Bar **NOTE NEW VENUE NAME
Feb 28 Oklahoma City, OK – The Conservatory
Mar 02 St Louis, MO – The Firebird
Mar 03 Nashville, TN – Exit In
Mar 04 Knoxville, TN – Square Room
Mar 05 Atlanta, GA – The Masquarade
Mar 06 Jacksonville, FL – Jack Rabbits
Mar 08 Orlando, FL – Backbooth
Mar 09 Tampa, FL – Crow Bar
Mar 11 Greenville, SC – The Handlebar
Mar 13 Elizabethtown, PA – Folklore Coffee and Co.
Mar 14 Somerville, MA – The Armory
Mar 15 Vienna, VA – Jammin Java
Mar 16 South Hackensack, NJ – School of Rock
Mar 17 New York, NY – Highline Ballroom
Mar 18 Rochester, NY – Water Street Music Hall
Mar 19 Pittsburgh, PA – Diesel
Mar 20 Akron, OH – Musica
Mar 21 Columbus, OH – Skullys
Mar 23 Grand Rapids, MI – Intersection
Mar 24 Chicago, IL – Subterranean
Mar 25 Milwaukee, WI – The Rave
Mar 26 La Crosse, WI – Warehouse
Mar 27 Minneapolis, MN – Triple Rock Social Club

Additional dates to be announced soon.

Welcome Colossae Sherwood Families and Guests, 

Please continue to meditate and live out our message this weekend from 1 Peter 3:1-7.  What a great opportunity to both the married and single women in or church body.  Men, please continue to pray and encourage our sisters this week as they meditate on God’s word.  We look forward to our fellowship this Wednesday.

Important remidner for Wednesday!  If you plan to give to the food bank, please bring your contributions (food or clothes) to community group this week.  We will deliver to Wes this week.

As for dinner,  we plan to serve a baked potato bar for dinner and we’ll provide Baked Potatoes, Napkins, Plastic Utensils, Cups, Drinks.

 If you are able to provide a side, please sign up for one of the following (enough to serve 20 people)

• Butter
• Cheese
• Sour Cream
• Bacon
• Taco Meat (Cooked)
• Dessert
• Paper Plates

We look forward to our fellowship this week, God Bless You all,

 Edward, Tammy, Natalie, Joshua, Johnathan, Hezekiah Harris

Darling, close the closet door,
turn out the light, and come to bed.
I promise the dry-cleaner does not
expect those hangers returned.
I am proud of you, be sure, but
I can see you shivering, and
it’s warm under these sheets.

Darling, do you remember?
How it felt to carry me out of
the depths of Grendel’s mere?
You kissed me with briny lips,
with grade school triumph, but
beneath your armor I could see
there were wounds to heal.

Darling, why couldn’t you tell me?
Were you too busy storming
Lot’s castle, too busy cutting
my chains, too busy to save me
from the pain of watching you ache?
Your armor is safe among my clothes. Now,
come to bed and show me where it hurts.

Darling, you’re bleeding.
There, now let me help you.
It is strange to see you
without a visor to cover
your eyes, my favorite smile.
I am proud of you, be sure, but
there is no valor in hiding your bruises.

Darling, I can face my demons now.
I promise to let you be the one
to hold my hand and apply the antiseptic,
but what I need now, more than a shield,
more than you galloping into the sunset,
is for you to take care of you, even if
that means telling me when you’re weak.

Darling, can’t you see
that finding you in the church
parking lot last Pentecost hurt
more than Alonso’s fall? That
the alcohol on your breath, the silence
in your speech burned worse
than Ladon’s flames?

Darling, hold still, this might
sting. If you let me, I can help
you. If you tell me what is
wrong, I can make it right.
Tonight everything will be
mended, but only if you let me
in.

Darling, it’s nice to feel your skin
instead of cold steel. Come.
I know it hurts, but let me
hold you a little while. Let me
kiss your forehead as you fall asleep.
Put your sword back in the lake
and I will give you my grail.

Once upon a time there was a boy named Chuck. He was a fairly normal boy, beautiful, nice, and a prince. Chuck’s best friend was his pet giraffe named Wobbles. Chuck would ride Wobbles, and they would go on adventures.

One day Chuck really wanted to make coconut custard pie. He got out everything he needed to make the pie and realized he didn’t have a coconut.

“This won’t do,” said Chuck. “You just can’t make coconut custard pie without coconut!”

“Let’s go to the store,” suggested Wobbles.

So Chuck hopped onto Wobbles’s back, and they set off. As Chuck gripped Wobbles’s neck with one hand, he waved to his friends with the other. The other children said mean things about even-toed ungulates, but they were just jealous. A noble beast, Wobbles ignored their taunts and hummed as he walked down the sidewalk.

After a few minutes they arrived at the store. Chuck pushed the cart, and Wobbles pulled impulse-buy items off the shelves. As they neared the coconut aisle, the two heard shouting.

Wobbles and Chuck rushed around the corner and found the door to a gigantic freezer. The shouting was coming from inside. Chuck pulled the door as hard as he could, and it opened. A stock boy walked out.

“Are you okay?” Chuck asked.

“Yeah, thanks,” he responded, “but look out!”

Chuck and Wobbles turned around to see an arrow flying right at them. Chuck caught it in midair. A man walked out of the shadows. His bow was drawn and pointing at the prince.

“You bitches spoiled my plan,” he said. “Bitches must die!”

Wobbles stretched his neck behind the man and gave him a good wedgie. The man screamed, dropped his bow, and left the store, never to be seen again.

Chuck turned back to the stock boy. “I’m Chuck, and this is Wobbles,” Chuck said. “He’s good at giving wedgies.”

“I can tell,” the boy laughed. “My name is Daniel.”

Wobbles looked between the prince and the stock boy. “I saw a sexy female giraffe in the dairy aisle, so I’ll leave you two alone.” Then he walked off.

Chuck and Daniel had passionate sex.

Just kidding. They kissed and held hands though.

“Ever had coconut custard pie?” Chuck asked.

“No, never.”

“Today is your lucky day.”

And they lived happily ever after.

 Welcome Sherwood Families and Guests,

We hope you are each having a blessed week, while continuing to meditate on the message from this weekend.

This week Jeff and Tami ar providing a dinner (TBA).

In addition, plates, utensils, and napkins will be provided.

If you are able to prepare a side, please post to provide one of the following items for approximately 15-20 people:

1. Drinks
2. Dessert (2)
3. Salad
4. Brea (2)

We look forward to our fellowship this week, God Bless You all,

Edward, Tammy, Natalie, Joshua, Johnathan, Hezekiah Harris

 Welcome Sherwood families and guests,

We hope you are each having a blessed week and basking in the grace of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!

This week Ryan and Marissa ar providing a Taco Bar, which includes corn tortillas, regular and hard shell tacos, ground beef, vegetarian beans, and all the fixings!

In addition, plates, utensils, and napkins will be provided.

If you hare able to prepare a side, please post to provide one of the following items for approximately 20 people:

1. Drinks
2. Dessert (2)
3. Salad
4. Chips

We look forward to our fellowship this week, God Bless You all,

Edward, Tammy, Natalie, Joshua, Johnathan, Hezekiah Harris

I recently wanted to buy myself some nice new ear plugs for the large holes in my ears. I planned on going to a piercing shop my friend owns and getting them from him. Even with a potential friends discount, I was expecting to pay $30.

But all of a sudden I was struck with an idea. Why not make your own? I have in fact made much of my own body jewelry in the past, and had many of the tools necessary for it. This time, I wanted some nice wood ones. Well, by making them myself, I made them much more personal and with special significance. You see, I had some chunks of wood that I picked up in Sherwood forest that I had been saving. Yeah, that Sherwood. These were pieces that I’d harvested from downed trees, not chopped out of any living one. The thing is, these trees were hundreds of years old. So I carefully planned out the cuts I was going to make, and using succesively finer grits of sandpaper, came away with some beautiful and rare jewelry that I will appreciate so much more than store bought ones. And they were free.

So next time you want to buy something, ask yourself: “Can I make this myself?” You will be glad you did.

Happy New Year Sherwood families and guests,

This week the Harris family (compliments to Tammy) will prepare a Veggie Chili dinner.  

Please post to provide one of the following items for approximately 20 people:

1. Drinks
2. Dessert (2)
3. Salad
4. Bread (Corn Bread or Regular)

In addition, a sign up sheet will be available to volunteer in the Children’s Ministry We look forward to our fellowship this week, God Bless You all,

Edward, Tammy, Natalie, Joshua, Johnathan, Hezekiah Harris

Herbert Hoover was the 31st President of the United States of America.

Hoover was the Secretary of Commerce during the Great Flood of 1927 in Louisiana, powerfully captured by Randy Newman’s Louisiana 1927.  He was sent by President Calvin Coolidge to oversee the humanitarian effort after the flood.

He is credited with great works on behalf of the white citizens, but was also guilty of inhumane acts against the African American citizens, including rounding up thousands at gunpoint, and forcing them to work at forced labor.

He was President during the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and was in office to see the beginning of the Great Depression.

He was my 8th cousin 4 times removed through our shared ancestor Edward Winn.

Jerry Milo Johnson to President Herbert Clark Hoover

Welcome Sherwood families and guests,

We hope you all had a joyful Christmas celebration!  This week Devon and Jessica will prepare a Burrito Bar for dinner.  

Please post to provide one of the following items for approximately 20 people:

1. Shredded Cheese
2. Shredded Lettuce
3. Sour Cream / Guacamole
4. Juice (2)
5. Dessert (2)

We look forward to our fellowship this week, God Bless You all,

Edward, Tammy, Natalie, Joshua, Johnathan, Hezekiah Harris

Or, the Whale – Rusty Gold (NSFW – skinny dipping/boy bits)
WHY? – These Hands/January Twenty Something (arrowed porcupine)
Princeton – Calypso Gold (in tones of gray)
These United States – The Important Thing (oh god, the 90s)
Sherwood – Maybe This Time (bike thieves and lovers)

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!  I am hoping that you have found joy on this wonderous Christmas day, I know I have and this wonderful Griswold family Christmas turned out to be a wonderful day overall and I think everyone had a wonderful Christmas.  We got up fairly early this morning.  I’ll be honest, I didn’t sleep much last night myself at all.  I think I was more excited about Heather opening her gifts than Heather was excited about actually opening them.  We ended up both not sleeping much.  I got up for a bathroom break around six-thirty and it seemed as though most of the kids were up.  We told them to play in their rooms till eight o’clock.  At eight, we all met in the living room and the mass chaos began.  Gifts were opened all over the place and there were many gifts abound.

Heather got a set of glasses to go with her china for dinner.  She also got a receiver and two speakers for her TV downstairs and a portable DVD player among other things.  Ruth got a Nintendo DS and a few games as her main gift.  Austin got a few Star Wars toys including a Tie Interceptor and a Droid Tank.  Tara got a Webkinz and some Hello Kitty gifts as her main gifts.  I got the Star Wars:  The Clone Wars Republic Heroes game for my PS3 along with six all new Star Wars ties and a few Star Wars books.  Overall, it was a wonderful bounty for the family.  I think everyone walked away happy, even my parents and brother/sister-in-law along with the cousins.  It was a tiring morning.  After we opened all the gifts, I put together some of the kids’ toys and then took a short nap.

Heather had been working fevereshly in the kitchen and her turkey cooked a LOT faster than she expected it to.  As a matter of fact, it was done a whole two hours early. So, I helped Heather scramble to get dinner together a little earlier than expected.  We put things together quickly and had a wonderful feast of turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, corn, oysters, and cranberries.  Overall, it was a wonderful meal and I was impressed with how it all came together.  We had a wonderful dinner and not too long after dinner we ended up having a Nerf war with my brother and myself against all the kids in the house.  It was a lot of fun and the kids were quite resourceful by using our air mattress as a shield/wall to hide behind.  They also hoarded all of the darts.  Smart kids!  We got done with the Nerf battle and then had some dessert of cookies and pie.

We sat around and had fun and took short little naps here and there and watched “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” that night before all retiring and going to bed.  It was a wonderful Christmas and I am so happy that I finally have a house large enough to host it all!  It gave me a slight twitter in my heart to know that I was able to host Christmas this year.  Hope you all had a great Christmas too!

Okay, so let’s talk about Part 2 of Chapter 28 of “Star Wars – Medstar I:  Battle Surgeons, A Clone Wars Novel” by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry…..Chapter 28 (Part 2):  The Nediji said that they had a death in the family recently and Lens said that the Hutt was more useful dead than alive.  Kaird asked Lens if it was his responsibility and the spy said that of course it was.  Lens went on to explain that Filba was becoming greedy adn that he only hastened what had to be done.  Kaird said that the Black Sun trusts lens and that they don’t care how things get done as long as they are accomplished.  Then Kaird explained that the admiral claimed he had brought the Hutt doom and lens was confused as to why he would claim such a thing.  Kaird said he would find out why and told Lens that his mission is to continue.  Kaird asked Lens how the charity is progressing.  Lens said that he has charted all the bota fields.  Both those being processed and those still in the wild and that he has logged entries in the official logs that those fields are empty.  Kaird said that was excellent and that they would wait for the war to subside and then deal out the bota to the winning side.  Kaird feels that the more information they have the more the Black Sun has control over things…..

Merry Christmas!

Welcome Sherwood families and guests,

Tonight is our Christmas celebration!  The Harris family will prepare Christmas dinner.  So, just joins us and enjoy the evening. 

In addition to dinner, we will have a  “White Elephant” gift exchange, so, please make your gift ”gender” neutral.  The kids will make fun crafts and scarf’s to hand out to folks in need.  

Please post and let us know if you will be attending and if you are bringing any guests so we can plan accordingly.

Ladies…if you would like to join me around 5pm to help prepare the meal let me know!!! 

In His Grip…..Tammy Harris

Welcome Colossae Sherwood Families and Guests, 

We hope you all enjoyed the Christmas concert with “Future of Forestry”!  We will meet this week at the Hietanen’s family home for fellowship and to bless their new home.

16358 SW Myrica Court (side street right off sunset)  Sherwood, Or 97140 

*Across from Archer Glenn Elementary School -  You can either park on Sunset or at the school but not on Myrica Court.

As for dinner, the Henderson family will provide Pizza with the Harris family providing Salad and gluten-free Dessert.  Please sign up to bring one of the following items:

1. Appetizer (2)
2. French Bread
3. Dessert (2)
4. Drinks
5. Plates/Napkins
6. Plastic  Utensils/Cups

In addition, we will provide Salad and Gluten Free Dessert.

Next week Wednesday, we will meet at the Johnson’s family home to celebrate with a Christmas Party.

We look forward to our fellowship this week, God Bless You all,

Edward, Tammy, Natalie, Joshua, Johnathan, Hezekiah Harris

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