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Release Date:  March 19, 2010
Rating:  PG (for some rude humor and language)
Genre: Comedy, Adaptation
Run Time: 120 min.
Director:  Thor Freudenthal

Actors:  Zachary Gordon, Robert Capron, Rachel Harris, Steve Zahn, Devon Bostick, Grayson Russell, Chloe Moretz

Raise your hand if you were a wimpy kid.

I was, and although a little time at the gym in recent years hasn’t changed much, I feel a lot better about my wimpiness after a good workout.

Diary of Wimpy Kid, based on the books by Jeff Kinney and directed by Thor Freudenthal (Hotel for Dogs), brought back memories of the most awkward time in my life, and in any man’s life: The beginning of middle school. The longtime friends you’ve established over the years start to grow up, look different and gravitate to new social circles. You either do the sameâ??or get left behind.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid is aimed at all those who got left behind. It’s fitfully funny, and at times is surprisingly fresh in its take on adolescence. But the film slips into standard comedy fare a bit too often, keeping it from being the breakout comedy it threatens to be early in its running time.

Greg Heffley (Zachary Gordon) has plans to make an impression on his new classmates. His older brother (Devon Bostick) does his best to advise him on how to steer clear of any trouble in his middle-school environment: Don’t talk to anyone, keep your head down and, most of all, don’t be seen hanging out with your best friendâ??the chubby Rowley (Robert Capron). He’ll only hold you back.

Greg has his own plans for getting noticed, but from the beginning of class on his first days, those plans backfire repeatedly. No one will sit with him in the cafeteriaâ??no one except the likes of the geeky Fregley (Grayson Russell) and other nerds.

Greg remains prepubescent: Girls are still nuisances rather than potential dates. He’s so wrapped up in his plot to free himself of his dorky friends that he doesn’t respond to Angie (Chloe Moretz)â??a beauty whose bookwormish tendencies isolate her from most of her classmates. She refuses to engage in the gamesmanship and social competition that Greg is so eager to navigate.

The set-up is a good one, thanks to a script by veteran TV writers Jackie and Jeff Filgo that contrasts Greg’s  self-conscious awareness of his statureâ??he’s smaller than 95 percent of the kids at his schoolâ??with a cocksure attitude that needs a serious adjustment. He believes everyone who surrounds him is a moron, and that he deserves something better. It’s only fitting when Rowley, on whom Greg looks with disdain and whom he abuses in his own efforts to shake free from “loser” status, becomes the most popular kid in their class.

For every one of the film’s creative momentsâ??a school newspaper headline reads “CHEERLEADER GAINS POUND” and Greg’s downfall in social position is illustrated in the manner of the book on which the film is basedâ??there’s a pedestrian element that offsets it. Urban legends about a tract of forest called “devil worshipper woods” and a curse (“the cheese touch”) involving a piece of moldy cheese on the blacktop are predictable, and a rival female classmate is annoying to viewers as she is to Greg.

Of course, urban legends and annoying classmates are part of the middle-school experience. They just happen to come across as tedious in Diary of a Wimpy Kid, which brings a freshness to other elements of its story that might have been much more routine in their execution (the recent film, How to Eat Fried Worms, while generally inoffensive, is an example of undistinguished adaptation of a popular kids’ book).

Greg’s father is slightly kooky, while his mother offers the film’s key lesson: Our choices make us who we are. Greg must decide who his true friends are. It’s not a deep story, but Diary of a Wimpy Kid goes down pretty easily. It has its share of laughsâ??even for adultsâ??and reminds us that the pain of those early years subsides in time. Especially if we make the right choices.

CAUTIONS:

* Language/Profanity:  “Oh, God”; “turd bird.”
* Smoking/Drinking/Drugs:  None.
* Sex/Nudity:  Nothing sexual; shot of man in bathing suit sunbathing; shot of boy sitting on a plastic toilet, doing his business; a boy accidentally urinates on his brother.
* Violence/Crime:  Sibling teasing and torment; threats that someone will “literally kill” someone else; kid is sprayed by a host; a game involving a football and Big Wheel leads to a broken arm; boy picks his nose, extends his finger and chases after another boy; a fight breaks out during a student play.
* Religion:  Town myth dubs a wooded area “devil worshipper woods”

11 predictions that “the end” will come during the 2010s (not including 2012)

Christians have predicted several events that many believe are related: the second coming of Jesus, the war of Armageddon, the arrival on earth of the Antichrist, the Tribulation, the Rapture, some horrendous natural disaster, etc. Jewish, Islamic, psychic, occult and other predictions have been offered as well.

We have listed over 7 dozen predictions that the end of the world would happen before now. They all have one factor in common: none ever came true. There is every likelihood that most (perhaps all) of these future predictions will not materialize either.

We have been criticized by some of our readers for whipping up hysteria about the end of the world. Our intent is the exact opposite: we want to dampen the level of panic. We hope that by listing many dozens of past predictions — all of which have failed — that people will realize that some very important individuals have been totally wrong when they predicted the end of the world. End of the world predictions have been common throughout Christianity and other religions for almost 2000 years. It is probable that none of the following predictions of the date of the end of the world will come true. We will be very surprised if one of them did.

Disclaimer:

No guarantees are offered that the prophets listed below actually made these predictions. We have described their alleged predictions as they were reported on the Web, in newspapers, books, etc. We do not have the resources to track down original source material.

>2010+ In early 2005, Roderick C. Meredith, leader of the Living Church of God wrote in his church’s magazine Tomorrow’s World that the end of the world is near. He said that events prophesied in the Bible are “beginning to occur with increasing frequency….We are not talking about decades in the future. We are talking about Bible prophesies that will intensify within the next five to 15 years of your life.” This prophecy, or a local sermon based on it, may have been partly responsible for triggering a mass murder in Brookfield WI on 2005-MAR-12. Church member Terry Ratzmann, who was experiencing serious depression and facing unemployment, shot 11 people, killing 7, and then killed himself at a church service.

>2011-MAY-21 Harold Camping, President of Family Radio, predicts that “we can know from the Bible alone that the date of the rapture of believers will take place on” 2011-MAY-2011.

>2011-SEP-29: Harold Camping, president of Family Radio is reported as predicting that the end of the world will occur sometime during the eight day Feast of Trumpets in 2011. This is an eight day festival each fall in the 5th day of Ethanim, the seventh month. He has completed a book “Time Has an End: A biblical History of the World 11,013 BC â?? 2011 AD,” Vantage Press, (2005). Read reviews or order this book safely from Amazon.com online book store. Alternately, you could wait until after 2011-SEP when the book will probably be a lot cheaper.

>Sometime in 2011: Ric Steiner sent us an Email suggesting that the date of the end is embedded in Luke 21:11 — not in the text, but in the chapter and verse designation. “21” refers to the 21st century; “11” refers to the 11th year. The problem with this prophecy is that the chapter designations in the Bible were only created in the 13th century ; the verses in the Christian Scriptures (a.k.a. New Testament) were only assigned in the 16th century CE.

>2011-OCT-21: Along with his prediction that the rapture will occurr on 2011-MAY-21, Harold Camping also predicted that “God will destroy the world on 2011-OCT-21. This appears to be a slight readjustment from his earlier prediction of 2011-SEP-29. For some reason, God has given humanity a stay of execution for 23 days. The We Can Know website says that “… these dates are 100% accurate and beyond dispute.

>2011-NOV-11: We received an Email from “A.H.” who believes that the end of the world will happen on 11/11/11. His reasoning is that “…this is the only date until the next millennium that has the same number “1” in the date.” Actually, it is the only date until 3011 which is made up of the repetition of pairs of the same digit. We are skeptical. Recall that the Gregorian Calendar is based on the year 1 having being arbitrarily chosen. It occurred four to seven years after Jesus birthday, when nothing much of world impact was happening. With an arbitrary beginning, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to assume that the end of the world would happen at some magical combination of numbers in the Gregorian date, like the first day of the year 2000, or 11.11.11.
>2011-NOV-22: We received an Email from “F” who expects the end of the world on this date. She/he said:

“what the angel told me was the following: ‘Child is at home in 2011 will be the end, for 3 days close in doors and windows? don’t let anyone enter or leave the house, an old order is reborn and with it the pain and suffering.’ Then the angel showed me the bodies of people crowded the cities were burning and the streets deserted grass grew high, we throw people also saw blood in the mouth, as if a virus is up. What I saw in Europe was perhaps France, or in Flanders.”

2012-2019: Damon_051572, who describes himself as “the physical and spiritual Jew,”  distributed an Email widely on 2006-AUG-19. It it titled: “Message from God: Some events of the end of the world.” He of the events that he predicts will happen sometime before 2019 are:

• 2012-2019: Damon_051572, who describes himself as “the physical and spiritual Jew,”  distributed an Email widely on 2006-AUG-19. It it titled: “Message from God: Some events of the end of the world.” He of the events that he predicts will happen sometime before 2019 are:
• 144,000 Jewish virgins convert many to Christianity.
• People will be required to receive a mark on their hand or forehead. Any that accept the mark “will be cast into the lake of fire forever to experience unimaginable suffering forever.“
• Satan and his angels attack God’s kingdom.
• Nuclear war begins…..

2014:

• According to Sun magazine for 1999-DEC-21, Pope Leo IX (1513-1522) wrote on 1514: “I will not see the end of the world, nor will you my brethren, for its time is long in the future, 500 years hence.“
• Isaiah Robertson predicts that Jesus’ second coming will happen in Niagara Falls. He said: “Niagara Falls is a holy place, like Jerusalem. The sound of the water going over the falls is the voice of God.” He expects that the water at the base of the falls will turn into a “lake of fire.” He said that a cross in his home came “straight from God. Itâ??s not manâ??s work. This cross is telling you that the coming of the Lord is at hand. If you walk away from this cross and donâ??t accept Christ, then youâ??re lost forever.“

2016:

• An article in Weekly World News describes a find by a Professor Lloyd Cunningdale of Salt Lake City who was excavating with his students at the site of the famous Donner party disaster of 1847. The latter were a group of settlers bound for California who became trapped by snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Cunningdale and students have found a time capsule left by the settlers which contains many predictions for the future. They predict that nations will abandon traditional methods of conflict and resort to the use of biological warfare. In 2016, one such disease will spread and kill all of the humans on the planet.

2017:

• The “Sword of God Brotherhood” believes that Armageddon will occur in 2017. The Prophet Gabriel has told them this. Only their own members will survive to repopulate the world. All of the others (including you and me) will “perish in hellfire.“

>Daniel’s Timeline bases their calculation on the concept of Jubilee years which occur every 50 years. The most recent three Jubilees were:

• 1867 when the Jews were emancipated in Austria and Hungary.
• 1917 when the Ottomon rule ended and the Balfour Declaration was created.
• 1967 when the Six Day War occurred.

They predict that the next and final Jubilee year will be 2017 “the time of the restitution of all things.”

The X-family thought it besst if we threw in some new something something for you.

Its Sho Baraka’s new video(Snippet) called Oh wel from His Debut album Lions and Liars.

Catch up with him www.reachrecords.com

Cheers and take care people.PEACE!

Kambua Manundu was born in the beautiful city of Nairobi, in Kenya. Her musical gift was evident from a tender age,and it has grown into a strong passion over the years. She completed a Performance Program at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. And is went on to do a Bachelor of Arts Student at Ambrose University in Calgary, AB. Kambua is a voice major, studied classical music

Kisima nominated afro-fusion songstress Kambua really is a uniquely blessed artist. Itâ??s not so much because sheâ??s studied classical music in some of the most prestigious institutions around the world, or because sheâ??s released two quality full-length albums, with a DVD release in the works, or even the fact that her music has been nominated and won different awards. Her story is special because of the adversities sheâ??s faced to get to where she is right now.

Raised by an evangelist mother, religion was intertwined into their lives. Being a musical family where Kamba and Swahili hymns were part of their world, Kambua never thought that her singing hobby would one day be her way of conversation with the world. It is at Lukenya High School that she thought seriously about God and decided to serve Him through this gift.

Inadvertently, adversity struck their breadwinning father, as an illness he battled eventually led to blindness. This was a huge social and emotional challenge on Kambua and the family. Financially, it meant that since he was unable to work, Kambua could not go to college. Though life was thick and darkness seemed like their constant companion, they continued hanging on, hoping life would be better.

A member of Eneza, a Parklands Baptist Church music group then, she would sing her soul out, knowing all too well that once back home, the tune would change. Food became a scarce commodity and they would sometimes miss a meal. Fortune however smiled on her when, together with others, she travelled to the US for three months courtesy of, Passport Incorporated, a youth organisation that sent her off to work in youth camps. Upon her return, life had changed for the better, and the heavy cloud of gloom was slowly but surely passing on.

Good news. Her fatherâ??s vision slowly began to return, and he eventually got back to work. Soon after, she began to pursue a Business Degree at the African Nazarene University. Yet even there, music was still running in her veins, impatiently seeking expression. Her musical hunger became  insatiable, and she decided to find a good school. After failing to secure a first-class local option, she ended up in Canadaâ??s Ambrose University, where she pursued Classical Music.
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Before leaving for Canada though, she had recorded Nishikilie, her debut album. Produced by Jonah Uzele and Desmond Bosire, itâ??s title track became the big single off it. Amani, yet another cut off the same record, also soared, and went on to win the Sing A Song Of Peace competition at a local radio station. Amani was a co-write of Mbuvi and Jogg Câ??s Kaberere. Of it she says;

â??Nishikilie is a very personal for like Psalms 23; itâ??s a prayer for deliverance, an assurance of hope and a proclamation of loveâ?.

In mid 2007, Kambua attended the very prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA, where she completed a performance program.

Kambua, who has also worked as an actress and, through Ogopa DJs, has been involved in various commercials, released her sophomore album, Nyumbani, in 2008, now available on iTunes. Working with the same producers, as well as Rhyme X hitman Gittx, and this time with a guest slot from Kisima winner Mbuvi, she brought in a refreshing smorgasbord of genres. These include Urban, Afro-fusion, Kwaito, and even Waltz. Her face lights up like a Christmas tree when she refers to the album:

â??Nyumbani is the fulfilment of a journey. A journey long in coming but evidently worthwhile. I am home now, niko nyumbani, not just in Africa, but in Jesus. He is my dwelling place. Kwa Yesu, huko ndiko nyumbaniâ?.

Kambua, who cites the mediaâ??s reluctance to feature upcoming artists on their playlists as a huge challenge, is now planning of a 9-video DVD/VCD release, featuring songs from her previous albums albums.

Home is where i long to be. A place my heart yearns for. Where my Lord and savior is, that is where i desire to be, where there are no sorrows or worries, troubles or fears….where there is an abudance of Love, joy and peace…. Where Jesus is, that is where home really is, “Kwa Yesu, Huko ndiko Nyumbani”

You may have heard something from Milliyon already and just didn’t know it.  He was featured on Canton Jones’ song 24’s from off of Kingdom Business. Well, he’s now on the CAJO International roster and will be droppin’ his own album very soon.  We  think it’s a self-titled project.

At any rate, checking out this new single he threw up on YouTube called “Jus Swaggin’.”  In it you’ll see photos and some video.  You’ll even see Cajo during a music video shoot! 🙂

Learn more about Milliyon at www.myspace.com/milliyon

A Response to Sin and Suffering

Whenever traumatic earth shattering events occur the human response is always â??Where is God?â? â??Why did God let this happen?â? â??How can God love us but let us die?â? â??Why my family?â? â??If God is real why did God let this happen?â? So many valid questions run through the minds of those searching for answers. We have often separated God from suffering. We imagine that God is standing off on the side simply looking at those who are suffering. As though God is detached from our suffering.

The Israelites endured so much suffering while in Egypt. It was God who initiated the contact with them. He said, â??I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferingsâ?. God is fully aware of our suffering. He sees our suffering and desires to set us free from it. Freedom is not always being removed from the hurt and wounds. God did not create suffering however God uses suffering to deepen our relationship with Him. Where was God when the earthquake hit in Haiti? RIGHT THERE! Hearing the screams of the people. Weeping that so many people died at the hand of nature and poor building structures. Quickening saints around the world to pray. Hurting, angered, desiring to love and hold the people He created. Storing up the tears dropped.

God created a perfect world. However ; sinful man broke relationship with a perfect God removing the beauty of that perfect world. Thousands of years later we experience things like droughts, earthquakes and tsunamiâ??s. However, during this time I encourage us all to allow God to use us to help others in their suffering. Encourage the people of Haiti that there is a loving God who was and is with them. That God didnâ??t make this happen but that God was there while it was happening. That now is not the time to shrink back. (Hebrews 10:34-39). That the things lost can not compare to Christ Jesus. (Phil 3:8) That they are able to rebuild where nature has destroyed. That God is faithful to comfort the afflicted and needy. (2 Cor 1:3-4)

Let the people of Haiti know there is COMFORT in CHRIST JESUS. He is more than all that was lost! He has a response to their/our sin and suffering! We donâ??t know why what happened happened. But it did. It was not Haitiâ??s sin that caused this but the sins of humankind when we separated from God. Now is the time to master that sin by showing the love of Christ through helping our fellow citizens of this world. When they ask where is God? Let us say right here helping you over come this tragedy! Provoke change through ACTION (time, talent, treasure, prayer). May God change the hearts of those affected that they may enter the Kingdom of Heaven through this tragedy. (Matthew 5:3-11)

Content at a glance:

Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Mature Humor, Strong Language This is a sci-fi first-person shooter in which players assume the roles of mercenary treasure hunters on a mission to the fictional planet of Pandora. Players undertake missions/quests that increase characters’ skills, eliminate an assortment of mutant creatures, and drive and collide with advanced alien vehicles. Players kill hundreds of enemies (e.g., human bandits and mercenary soldiers) over the course of the game by using a wide variety of guns (shotguns, sniper rifles), explosives, and special ammo types (fire, acid and electricity, etc.). The combat is frenetic, and enemies moan or scream when they are hit. Damage from weapons also results in large spurts of blood, dismemberment, and decapitation. When a human or creature is decapitated, an effect resembling a fountain of blood will shoot from the neck for a few seconds and stop. Some weapons  cause enemies to split in half, the top being separated from the waist. During the course of the game, characters make jokes about streaking, body parts, rape, and mothers (e.g., “â?¦more busted than my momma’s girly parts”). Strong profanity (e.g., “f*cking,” “sh*t,” “p*ssy,” and “d*ckbag”) can be heard in the dialogue.

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A sci-fi / action RPG from acclaimed developer Gearbox, Borderlands combines the best in first-person action with player customization and vehicular combat for incredible layers of gameplay depth. The game features a groundbreaking content generation system allowing for near-endless variety in missions, environments, enemies, weapons, item drops and character customization. Borderlands allows for multiple players to share the same game experience simultaneously online in co-op gameplay. Players can freely join or leave each otherâ??s games at anytime, or choose to play in the full single-player mode. The game also boasts lifelike character animations, impressive real-time physics, and customizable vehicles.