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Friday, 12 March 2010 15:22 | and posted in Relationships
At the beginning of 2010 we invited the boys to anonomously submit questions to us that they would like our female members to answer and we invited the girls to anonomously submit questions that they wanted our male members to answer. Today we unveiled these questions in our Boys Only! and Girls Only! discussion groups.
Thursday, 11 March 2010 14:23 | and posted in Features
1. 1.4 billion people live on less than 83p a day ($1.25). This means 20% of the global population live in "extreme poverty".
2. 3.14 billion people live on less than £1.67 a day ($2.50). This is equal to 50% of the global population.
3. 5.15 billion people, 80% of the global population, live on less than £6.67 ($10) a day. This means if you your annual income is more than £2,435.44 you are in the world's richest 20%.*
Monday, 08 March 2010 11:00 | and posted in Relationships
When you "fall in love" everything changes. Your carefully ordered world is turned upside down and you'll suddenly find yourself acting in ways you've never done before!
Such is the falling in love experience that you'll suddenly find yourself fluent in the majority of the five love languages. Unexpectedly you'll be buying roses or chocolates, offering to carry bags, hugging, kissing and holding hands as often as you can, giving your date as much undivided attention as humanly possible and compliments will simply flow out of your mouth with ease.
Friday, 05 March 2010 02:00 | and posted in Relationships
As a child or teenager you rely on your parents to supply the majority of your emotional need of love. However, depending on which love language they speak you may or not be receiving the love you need from them.
For example, if your dad speaks compliments and your mum hugs while you speak gifts, then unless your parents recognise this you may start to think your parent's don't love you very much because they hardly ever give you gifts.
Wednesday, 03 March 2010 15:07 | and posted in Relationships
The fifth and final love language is that of compliments. Here love is received as you notice and affirm a person and their achievements. It's as if your carefully chosen compliments literally pour in love through a person's ears!! This is the verbal love language and for a compliment lover to receive love they need you to say it.
Monday, 01 March 2010 14:06 | and posted in Relationships
The power of hugs to communicate love is well documented. From research into the social affects on unhugged babies in orphanages to every romantic movie ever made. You may have also noticed that in times of tragedy or crisis our human instinct is to hug.
People whose primary love language is hugs need a constant supply of hugs in order to feel loved. To hug lovers a hug not only touches them physically, it also touches who they are inside. To withhold hugs or other forms of physical touch is to communicate rejection rather then love. It's like the physical distance between you and a hug lover is equal to the emotional distance between you.
Thursday, 25 February 2010 17:41 | and posted in News
Three weeks before Hannah died of an overdose she wrote a moving letter to Heroin detailing how it had ruined her life and her determination to kick her addiction to it once and for all.
Hannah had tried ecstacy on her 14th birthday and by the time she was 15 was addicted to heroin. Twice Hannah had moved away from her home in Llanelli, Wales, to London to stay with an Aunt in order to kick the habit. Both times she succeeded only to fall in with her old drug-using friendship group when she returned to Llanelli. In October 2009, at 17 years old, just weeks before her 18th birthday, Hannah died of an overdose.
Tuesday, 23 February 2010 15:23 | and posted in Movie Reviews
I've recently seen the all new, break through movie Avatar and I loved it! I highly recommend it, with its thrilling storyline and unique characters the movie has got you sitting on the edge of your seat! I really want to go and see it again and I would definately buy a DVD of it though the experince won't be the same as the big screen. It is a bit long but the greatness of the movie overcomes the time.
Jake Sully is the twin-brother of a scientist and therefore has the same DNA print as him. As a result of his brother's death, Jake chooses to go to Pandora to help a huge Corporation to conquer and mine this world by learning the native's ways.
Friday, 12 February 2010 11:08 | and posted in News
Avatar has now become the highest grossing movie of all time and the first movie in history to break the $2 billion mark at the box office.
This is incredible for a number of reasons. Firstly, it is only the 5th film to ever take more than a $1 billion dollars worldwide. Secondly, it has earned more than the third and fourth highest grossing movies combined (LOTR: Return of the King and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest in case you're wondering). And thirdly it took a mere 47 days to beat Titanic's 252 days $1.84 billion cinematic worldwide gross!!
Wednesday, 27 January 2010 11:51 | and posted in Events
You are invited to come and be a Trainee Leader on an SU team in 2010! Basecamps in 2010 are part of COmMISSION, SU Scotland’s short-term mission programme. If you are in S5 or S6, or over 16 and have left school or are in College, this is your chance to take up the challenge of Jesus’ “great commission”:
“Go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you” (Matthew 28: 19-20).
Have you seen the video footage of five year old Kiki being rescued by Haiti firemen after being trapped in an underground chasm for a week? I saw it the other night on the news and the joy Kiki expressed was incredible. He threw his arms and legs out straight much like a crowd-surfer and the smile on his face was contagious.
To love someone well means to give of yourself to them: your time and focus, your energy, your physical presence and touch, your words of affirmation. All five love languages require us to give, yet for some people receiving a physical gift speaks loudest. For Gift lovers receiving a gift is a visible symbol of your love for them that you just can't beat.
When I'm on holiday abroad I feel like an ignorant Brit.* I only speak English and I assume/hope that everyone I meet knows it too or at least knows enough for me to get by. But we all know that not everyone does speak English and that there will come a time in life when you’ll end up doing the cringe-worthy thing of talking very loudly and slowly to a French-speaking waiter while miming a drinking motion with your pinkie sticking out: “A - cup - of - tea - siv - voo – play.” I shudder to even think about it!!!!
You can be easily forgiven for thinking that claims about Avatar changing the face of cinema are merely media-hype, but wow, wow, wow is this not an overstatement. Avatar truly is the herald of a new era of cinema! An era where three dimensional movies will become the norm and where, comically, everyone in cinemas will be wearing really uncool black glasses!!
Of all the movies that you would remotely anticpate breaking The Dark Knight's opening day take at the Cinema, the Twilight sequel, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, would not have been one of them. Amazingly, however, New Moon did exactly that, raking in an estimated $72.7 million in the US alone breaking The Dark Knight's previous record by over $5 million. New Moon now holds the records for the largest Opening day take, the largest single day take, the fastest movie to $100 million plus the largest grossing midnight opening ever ($26.3 million compared to The Dark Knight's $18.5 million) and the third largest weekend opening.