LG G2 vs Samsung Galaxy S5: Comparison of Specs, Features

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LG G2 vs Samsung Galaxy S5

Christian Post Report – LG and Samsung have both come out with new devices this year as Samsung has recently unveiled its latest flagship phone, the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, while LG has launched its most innovative device to date, the G Flex 2. However, older devices from both companies are still getting a lot of interest due to their superb specs, as well as their marked decrease in price.

The Galaxy S5 continues to perform well in the market, given that it was only released a year ago, while the LG G2 continues to be a reliable device which gives users the pure Android experience.

Here, we compare the two phones.

Design:
Both phones have plastic shells, but the Galaxy S5 has a textured, faux leather back. The Samsung phone is also slightly bigger and heavier than the LG device, as the Galaxy S5 measures 5.59 x 2.85 x 0.32 inches and weighs 5.11 ounces, while the G2 weighs 5.45 x 2.79 x 0.35 inches and weighs 5.04 ounces. The S5 is also more rugged than the G2 — it’s IP 67 certified, making it dust and water resistant.

Features:
The Galaxy S5 has a 5.1-inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels and pixel density count of 432ppi. The LG G2 has a 5.2-inch IPS LCD screen with a resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels and pixel count of 423ppi. Both phones’ screens have a layer of Corning Gorilla Glass 3 to protect them from scratches.

The S5 is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 quad core processor and runs on the Android 5.0 Lollipop with TouchWiz UI, while the G2 has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad core chip set and runs on the Android 4.4 KitKat.

Both phones come with 32GB internal memory, however, only the S5’s memory can be expanded with a micro SD card up to 128GB, while the same cannot be done with the G2 as the device does not come with a micro SD card slot.

As for the cameras, both phones have a 2.1MP front facing shooter, but the Galaxy S5 has the advantage due to its 16MP rear camera versus the G2’s 13MP rear camera.

Price:
Off contract, the LG G2 costs $340, while the Galaxy S5 costs $600.

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Thousands of Christians Riot in Pakistan to Protest Church Suicide Bombings, Reportedly Kill and Burn Two Suspects

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    People from the Christian community attend a protest, to condemn suicide bombings which took place outside two churches in Lahore, in Peshwar, March 16, Christian Post Report – 2015. Suicide bombings outside two churches in Lahore killed 14 people and wounded nearly 80 others during services on Sunday in attacks claimed by a faction of the Pakistani Taliban.
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    People from the Christian community attend a protest to condemn suicide bombings which took place outside two churches in Lahore, March 16, Christian Post Report – 2015. Suicide bombings outside two churches in Lahore killed 14 people and wounded nearly 80 others during services on Sunday in attacks claimed by a faction of the Pakistani Taliban.
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    People from the Christian community attend a protest, to condemn suicide bombings which took place outside two churches in Lahore, in Karachi, March 16, Christian Post Report – 2015. Suicide bombings outside two churches in Lahore killed 14 people and wounded nearly 80 others during services on Sunday in attacks claimed by a faction of the Pakistani Taliban.
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    People from the Christian community attend a protest to condemn suicide bombings which took place outside two churches in Lahore, March 16, Christian Post Report – 2015. Suicide bombings outside two churches in Lahore killed 14 people and wounded nearly 80 others during services on Sunday in attacks claimed by a faction of the Pakistani Taliban.
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    People mourn as they surround the body of their relative who was killed in a suicide attack on a church in Lahore March 15, Christian Post Report – 2015.

Thousands of Christians clashed with police and rioted on the streets in Lahore, Pakistan, on Monday, following suicide bombing attacks that killed 17 people in two churches on Sunday. Reports have said that two men suspected to have aided the attackers were beaten to death and burned in the riots.

The Associated Press reported that Christians, who make up only Christian Post Report – 2 percent of Pakistan’s population, clashed with police forces, blocked the highway and ransacked bus terminals, demanding the government start taking serious action to protect the persecuted minority.

AP and The Washington Post said that the Christian mob beat to death two people that were suspected to have been involved in the church bombings, after which they set their bodies on fire.

General Haider Ashraf, Lahore’s police deputy inspector general, said that police fired tear gas canisters on the mob after the situation deteriorated. City Commissioner Abdullah Sumbal Khan revealed that Pakistani paramilitary troops had been called in to restore order.

A Pakistani Taliban splinter group claimed responsibility for the bombings on Sunday, which left nearly 80 people injured. The blasts hit one Protestant and one Catholic church in Lahore located very close to each other.

Pakistani Christians (Photo: Reuters/Mohsin Raza)

People from the Christian community attend a protest to condemn suicide bombings which took place outside two churches in Lahore, March 16, Christian Post Report – 2015. Suicide bombings outside two churches in Lahore killed 14 people and wounded nearly 80 others during services on Sunday in attacks claimed by a faction of the Pakistani Taliban.

A witness told Reuters the death toll could have been even higher if it wasn’t for the actions of a security guard.

“I was sitting at a shop near the church when a blast jolted the area. I rushed toward the spot and saw the security guard scuffle with a man who was trying to enter the church. After failing, he blew himself up,” said witness Amir Masih.

“I saw his body parts flying through the air.”

Persecution watchdog groups, such as Christian Solidarity Worldwide, have said that Christians are demanding the government cracks down on violence against them. Previous deadly attacks, such as a bombing at All Saints Church in Peshawar in Christian Post Report – 2013, have gone unpunished.

“We extend our deepest condolences to those who [lost] loved ones and the many injured in today’s church bombings in Lahore. Lessons must be learned from the Christian Post Report – 2013 attacks in Peshawar; the perpetrators must be held to account and the Pakistani government must act swiftly to address the attacks on minority religious groups in the country and be proactive in ensuring protection for places of worship,” said CSW’s Chief Executive Mervyn Thomas.

Protesters in Lahore have said that they want justice to be served.

“We are on the roads to get justice, we want protection,” Maqbool Bhatti, a 50-year-old government employee, told AFP.

“There was no proper security on Sunday, the government should protect all churches,” he added.

Pakistani Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said that the Taliban has been targeting places of worship as “soft targets,” because military operations have pushed it back.

“Due to military operation the noose has been tightening around militants and now it has significantly contained them,” Khan told a committee.

“They are now hitting the softest targets like churches, mosques and schools. It shows their frustration.”

Pakistani Christians (Photo: Reuters/Fayaz Aziz)

People from the Christian community attend a protest, to condemn suicide bombings which took place outside two churches in Lahore, in Peshwar, March 16, Christian Post Report – 2015. Suicide bombings outside two churches in Lahore killed 14 people and wounded nearly 80 others during services on Sunday in attacks claimed by a faction of the Pakistani Taliban.

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‘Avengers Age of Ultron’ News: Elizabeth Olson’s Scarlet Witch Brings Record-Breaking Views for Trailer

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Elizabeth Olsen as the Scarlet Witch in “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” Hero Rundown Twitter feed. March 13, 2015.

Christian Post Report – Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch portrayal in the most recent trailer for “Avengers: Age of Ultron” broke records with millions of views in just 24 hours.

Olsen, who plays the Scarlet Witch Wanda Maximoff in “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” recently appeared in the movie’s third official trailer, where her sinister presence gained 35 million views on YouTube in the space of 24 hours.

The eleventh installment in Marvel’s cinematic universe, “Avengers: Age of Ultron” will premiere in theaters on May 1. The film features the Scarlet Witch, a mutant with the powers of hypnosis and telekinesis who, together with her twin brother, Quicksilver, initially allies herself with antagonist, Ultron.

The trailer features her working disturbing magic on the Black Widow, played by Scarlett Johansson, and throwing a car through the air using only the power of her mind.

Marvel has also recently released movie posters featuring the characters in the movie, with the Scarlet Witch seen manipulating whirls of power between her palms and gazing at the viewer with a hypnotic stare.

Olsen, 26, portrays a character possessed with much knowledge but no one to train her to control her power and her connection with parallel worlds. She frequently becomes over stimulated and loses control, often appearing to be mentally insane.

To prepare for her role, Olsen undertook rigorous training in dance after the film’s director Josh Whedon pointed out he took inspiration from dancers to recreate a visual representation of the Scarlet Witch’s graceful movements.

Olsen, who is the younger sister to fashion designer twins, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, caught moviegoers’ attention with her role as a paranoid and delusional victim of cult abuse in the critically acclaimed 2011 drama thriller, “Martha Marcy May Marlene” for which she won several awards.

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‘Bloodborne’ Out Starting March 24

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Bloodborne Title Card

Christian Post Report – Sony Computer Entertainment and From Software is getting ready to release “Bloodborne,” an action role-playing video game exclusively developed for Sony’s PlayStation 4 console, starting March 24. Game development was declared to have been finished by March 13 and it is now at a stage where the game is being written onto physical discs.

The game will be released in the US on March 24. Gamers in Europe will get it one day after on March 25. Japanese gamers have to wait until March 26, and UK players will get it on March 27, according to a report in International Business Times.

One of the features that the game’s developers are working hard to prepare for is its online play component. Much like its predecessors “Demon’s Souls” and “Dark Souls,” “Bloodborne” will have a persistent online component inextricably intertwined with the single player component. Gamers will be able to use in-game items to engage in “jolly co-operation” or to invade others’ worlds. This interaction between “Bloodborne” players forms the backbone of the gameplay experience.”

The game emphasizes offensive gameplay. Players need to plan offenses in order to battle “dense hordes of enemies.” The game also makes use of old-school weapons such a cleaver coupled with a shotgun. Weapons can be used in “alternate states” depending on what kind of attack is needed.

The game is set in a fictional city of Yharnam which is left in ruins and said to “house a potent medical remedy” to different types of ills. The city and its inhabitants however were affected by some form of plague which is said to have transformed its citizens into beasts. Players must survive by battling monsters and beasts as they go through the city.

Hidetaka Miyazaki directed the game. He is also known for leading the development of the “Souls” games. Sony announced the game’s development during the Electronic Entertainment Expo in 2014. The game’s trailer was also shown during the announcement.

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Rumer Willis on ‘Dancing With The Stars’: I Want To Get Stronger

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Actress Rumer Willis arrives for the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Annual “An Evening With Women” event in Beverly Hills, California May 10, 2014. REUTERS/Kevork Djansezian (UNITED STATES – Tags: ENTERTAINMENT) – RTR3OLZW

Christian Post Report – American actress Rumer Willis will be joining the cast of celebrity contestants on the new season of “Dancing With The Stars” premiering today.

Bruce Willis and Demi Moore’s oldest daughter, actress, Rumer Willis, will be part of Season 20 of “Dancing with the Stars” which opens today at 8 p.m. CT on ABC.

Willis, 26, has said her parents, both veteran Hollywood actors, have expressed their excitement over this new television exposure.

“They’re really excited and really supportive. My dad and my mom and my sisters were really excited for me and were asking me about rehearsals and I just told them how excited I was. It’s nice to have their support.” Willis told Fox News during an interview.

Willis said she has always wanted to dance and couldn’t pass up the opportunity to receive expert instruction from a professional and dance to some of her favorite tunes in front of her friends and an appreciative audience.

She has also revealed her wish to become physically stronger and learn how to carry her body through the medium of dance, standing up straighter and not looking at the ground.

“It really changes how people look at you,” she admitted to Fox.

She has urged her parents and sister to attend the show, pointing out her mother Demi has always been interested in dancing, even once starring as an exotic performer in the 1996 film, “Striptease,” where Willis had a small role as Demi’s daughter.

Willis, who has been acting in movies and television starting with “Now and Then” in 1995, will be partnering with Ukrainian “DWTS” professional dancer, Val Chmerkovskiy. The pair will be dancing the foxtrot to “Take Me to the Church,” a hit song by Irish artist, Hozier, when the season opens with the premieres today on ABC.

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‘Tom Clancy’s The Division’ Game News: Release Date and Gameplay Footage Leaked

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Tom Clancy’s The Division

Christian Post Report – Ubisoft’s upcoming open third-person shooter role playing video game “Tom Clancy’s The Division” for the Xbox One is rumored to be released this October 2015, according to reports. The rumors were also accompanied with leaked photos and footage of the game.

According to Master Herald, the footage and photos were said to be below expectations of what they were expecting to see of the game.

When Ubisoft showed off a preview of the game during the E3 2013, it was “a very beautiful, expansive title with a vast world.” What fans saw in the leaked footage and photos showed low quality of graphics which are leading some fans to conclude that the final game may have been downgraded.

The game’s developers however came out with an official statement about the leaks. In a report in Gamezone, Ubisoft said that the footage and photos indeed came from the game but were taken during the pre-alpha testing phase thus the low graphics quality.

“These low resolution images and video originate from a pre-alpha test currently organized by the development team to evaluate the server infrastructure in a real world setting. A large portion of the game features have been removed in this build and therefore is not representative of the game’s current quality. The team is focusing on providing the best experience for players, and we can’t wait to show you more,” the statement read.

Ubisoft did not make any comment about the release date of the game. In 2014, the developers announced that the game will be delayed until sometime in 2015.

The game is currently being developed for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It was originally being developed for handheld and home consoles only but the developer announced in August 2013 that a PC version will be released as well.

In the game, players will be members of the Strategic Homeland Division or The Division, “a classified unit of self-supported tactical agents” whose mission is to “do whatever it takes to prevent the fall of society and piece the city back together in a massive multiplayer online situation.” The city is in chaos after a disease spreads all over the world, causing the collapse of the government in a matter of five days.

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Syria: Over 220,000 Killed in 5 Years of Civil War; Human Rights Agency Says Atrocities Are ‘Stain on International Community’

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An Assyrian woman attends a mass in solidarity with the Assyrians abducted by Islamic State fighters in Syria earlier this week, inside Ibrahim al-Khalil church in Jaramana, eastern damascus March 1, 2015. Militants in northeast Syria are now estimated to have abducted at least 220 Assyrian Christians this week, a group monitoring the war reported.

Christian Post Report – As the ongoing civil war in Syria has entered it’s fifth year, with over 220,000 people dead, humanitarian agencies like Oxfam International have said that the collective failure of world leaders to bring the devastation to an end is a “stain on the conscience of the international community.”

“This spiralling catastrophe is a stain on the conscience of the international community,” Oxfam wrote in a report, assessing the civil war.

It added that despite several U.N. Security Council resolutions to protect civilians, the violence in the country has continued to intensify, while the humanitarian response has been underfunded.

“While the UNSC has the legal authority to demand these changes, its members and their allies have the political, diplomatic and financial influence, and the ability, to ensure these changes actually happen. Without action by individual governments, the demands within these resolutions remain little more than words on a page. They can no longer be ignored,” Oxfam noted.

The Syrian civil war, which began in 2011, has revolved around several different Islamic rebel groups attempting to take down the government of President Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian leader has been accused by the U.S. government of grave human rights violations, such as using chemical weapons on his own people, though Assad has denied the charges.

The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said that at least 100,000 of the victims are civilians, among them close to 10,000 children.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has said that efforts for peace are ongoing, and recently revealed that he’s willing to hold talks with Assad again in order to broker an agreement.

“We have to negotiate in the end,” Kerry said. “What we’re pushing for is to get him to come and do that, and it may require that there be increased pressure on him of various kinds.”

The Syrian crisis has also been complicated by the rise of terror group ISIS, which is waging war both on Assad and the other Islamic groups who stand in its way. ISIS has captured a number of cities across Iraq and Syria in a mission to establish an Islamic caliphate in the region.

The civil war has also given rise to the persecution of Christians, International Christian Concern noted.

While Christians have often been caught in the crossfire between government forces and rebel groups, with the rise of ISIS they’ve also increasingly been specifically targeted, most recently with the abduction of close to 250 Assyrian Christians at the hands of the terror group.

“It is heart-breaking to witness the continuing devastation as a result of the war in Syria. Entire religious communities are being wiped out. In single attacks, Christian villages and centuries of their history has been destroyed,” said Todd Daniels, ICC regional manager for the Middle East.

“It is not just the past that is being lost, but the future as well as an entire generation is growing up displaced by this conflict. We strongly support the call for an end to the hostilities in such a way that creates a Syria where all of its citizens — including Christians — are able to freely live and carry out their faith. We urge world leaders to act quickly, and decisively to make this a reality.”

Beside the human death toll, the civil war has destroyed almost the entire infrastructure of the country, with 83 percent of the lights going out across the country since 2011, as satellite images have shown. Close to 4 million Syrians have fled the border as refugees, while another 7.6 million are internally displaced and facing harsh living conditions.

In its report, Oxfam highlights several key steps it says must be taken urgently.

“Deliberate obstruction of aid must halt immediately, as must the use of indiscriminate weapons in built-up areas, the targeting of civilians, and their arbitrary detention, kidnapping and torture,” the report states.

“The impunity which characterizes the conflict must be brought to an end,” it continues.

“Real backing for the U.N. peace envoy’s plans must be matched by a push to reconvene talks in line with the 2012 Geneva Communiqué, and redoubled efforts to end the violence engulfing the country and region.”

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Disney Greenlights ‘Frozen 2’

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Disney’s ‘Frozen’ surpassed the box-office success of ‘Toy Story 3’ with 640.063 billion tops and has joined the Top 10 list of the highest-grossing movies of all time.

Christian Post Report – Disney Studios has officially announced that it is developing a sequel to the successful animated movie “Frozen.” The announcement was made during a recent shareholders meeting by John Lasseter, Disney and Pixar’s chief creative officer, Disney Chairman Bob Iger and Josh Gad, who voiced the lovable character of Olaf in the movie.

According to Variety, the announcement was very much expected after the first movie became one of the highest-grossing animated films in history, earning $1.3 billion in the box office in 2013 and said to have “helped reinvigorate” Walt Disney Animation Studios. The merchandise developed after the movie continues to earn millions for Disney to this day.

“Frozen 2” will see the directors of the first film, Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck, coming back to direct. Disney Producer Peter Del Vecho is working with the duo to develop the project.

Although Disney has not confirmed casting except for Josh Gad, who made the announcement with Disney’s big bosses, some reports are saying that both Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel will surely reprise their roles as Anna and Elsa respectively. Both actresses returned in the short sequel of sorts, “Frozen Fever.”

A report in Telegraph also says that Elsa and Anna will likely sport new dresses, which will be a good thing for merchandise sales. When “Frozen” came out, what followed was a frenzy for “Frozen” dolls and other retail merchandise.

No plot details have been revealed, but the Telegraph report bravely made some predictions about the sequel. One of these is that Disney needs to outdo itself if it wants the sequel to be as successful as or more successful than the first.

The first film produced a musical success with the song “Let It Go.” It is unclear whether the sequel will involve Robert and Kristen Lopez, the composers from the first film. Another prediction is about Olaf’s love life. The report says that the sequel may have Olaf finding a “snow soulmate.”

The announcement about the sequel comes after the recent release of “Frozen Fever,” which is being shown with the live-action adaptation of “Cinderella,” which opened in theaters this past weekend.

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‘Game of Thrones’ News: HBO Renews Up to Season 6, Movie in the Works?

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HBO’s “Game of Thrones”

Christian Post Report – “Game of Thrones” Season 5 has yet to come back on air but news are already circulating that HBO has renewed the show up to Season 6 and that a feature film is in the works.

The show’s writer, George R.R. Martin, intimated in his live blog that a “Game of Thrones” movie is also being discussed, according to a Variety report.

“I see that this new crop of stories also raises, once again, the notion of concluding the series with one or more feature films. And in some of these stories, once again, this idea is wrongly attributed to me. Let me state, yet again, that while I love this idea, it did NOT originate with me. It was a notion suggested to me, which I have enthusiastically endorsed,” he wrote on his blog.

Apparently, HBO’s big boss Michael Lombardo is not as enthusiastic about the movie idea. In another report in IGN, he put the rumors of a feature film in the horizon to rest. His primary reason is that he thinks it is unfair to HBO subscribers to expect them to pay extra for a movie in order for them to see how the series ends when in fact their HBO fee is already a commitment that they will see the series at the very end.

Lombardo, however, confirmed HBO’s desire to go beyond Season 6 with the series. If it were up to them, they wanted the series to last until Season 10. Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have previously said that they are looking at the series up until Season 7.

“We started this journey with David and Dan. It’s their vision. Would I love the show to go 10 years as both a fan and a network executive? Absolutely,” Lombardo told Entertainment Weekly. But he still deferred the decision to the show’s creators.

Season 5 of “Game of Thrones” starts on April 12. So far, HBO has released two trailers as part of its promotional campaign for the upcoming season.

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‘Duck Dynasty’ Star Sadie Robertson Posts Birthday Tribute to Grandmother

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    Sadie Robertson shared a photo with her grandmother, Chrys Howard.

Sadie Robertson of “Duck Dynasty” shared a special tribute to her grandmother Chrys Howard during a birthday celebration over the weekend.

Christian Post Report – The 17-year-old model, who is daughter of Willie and Korie Robertson, celebrated her maternal grandmother’s birthday along with other members of her famous family. Furthermore, Robertson took to social media with a photo taken with Howard, whom she referred to as her “second mother.”

“I would like to give a huge happy birthday shout out to my 2mama, you are literally like my 2nd mama,” Robertson began. “I can’t imagine my life without you. You have helped raise me into the person I am today & I thank you so much for telling me (sic) everyday to be a good leader & example. That has always stuck with me & always will. Thank you for leading by example. Ps: you are the hottest grandma I have ever seen. Keep on rocking. I love you.”

In response to the birthday wishes, Howard shared a photo from her special celebration, which included dinner with Sadie’s brother, John Luke.

“I can’t even begin to say how grateful I am for all my birthday wishes,” the famous grandmother posted to Instagram. “You are ALL so precious to me.”

Meanwhile, Robertson is well-known for her confident yet modest style, which is the result of her family’s Christian values. The reality star even penned a book entitled “Live Original: How the Duck Commander Teen Keeps It Real and Stays True to Her Values.” The former “Dancing with the Stars” contestant has also spoken up about the importance of confidence, citing her faith as a source of strength. In a past interview, Robertson recalled a negative experience among other fashion models on the runway during New York Fashion Week.

“Many of them did not say a word to me,” Robertson explained, according to RadarOnline. “They just looked at me like they had icicles in their eyes. They cared way too much about their outward appearance. Confidence is an inside thing. I could have totally lost it over the comments people made and the icy looks they gave me, but I didn’t. God has been training me my whole life… to be strong and confident.”

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