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Beer is food isn't it? How about we have a few chips there just to be fair. Join us to taste test some refreshing local craft beers and see what the judges think. This year we have a new brewery strutting their stuff along side some superb brews from other locals.
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
Gadget Girl
The amazingly talented Michele Boyer is our hostess this week! She has come up with a fabulous sketch for us to play along with.
I'd like to introduce you to Gadget Girl...I love her! Admit it...you probably have at least one techy device on you when you leave the house right?? Be it cell phones, ipods, ereaders, tablets or laptops, we are definitely living in a gadget-loving society! Gadget Girl is not only technologically savy, but she is totally rockin' that incredible super hero getup. The papers are Basic Grey "Little Black Dress". Both her ottoman and her body suit were paper-pieced. I added a flourish created with an MFT die and some rhinestone accents. The sentiment comes with Gadget Girl.
Gadget Girl was stamped on Neenah with Memento Ink and coloured with Copic markers.
Skin: E000, E00, E11, R02 Hair: E50, E31, E33, E37, E59 Shading on paper-pieced areas: E40, E43, E47, E59, BV29
Make sure to hop on over to the KKS Blog to see what the other Krafty Girls have created for this week's sketch challenge. If you play along and use a KKS on your project, you could be the lucky winner of the stamp seen on Michele's gorgeous card!
BLOG CANDY: Make sure to visit each Krafty Girl sharing a sneak peek today and leave them comments on their personal blogs because Kimmie will be drawing TWO lucky winners who will each win three of Annie's new Super Hero stamps...good luck!
Thanks for stopping by! Oh, and don't forget to join us tomorrow for the Kraftin' Kimmie release day blog hop. :)
20 comments:
- Brigitte said...
WOW, she looks fantastic!!! I love the paper piecing and obviously your colouring, lol!!! Her hair looks absolutely gorgeous!!! hugs, Brigitte
- February 18, 2012 at 7:05 AM
- Dotty Jo said...
This is great Melanie, love your colouring and shading - amazing! Jo x
- February 18, 2012 at 7:22 AM
- Tracey said...
A stunning card as always Melanie!! Beautiful!!
- February 18, 2012 at 8:38 AM
- Nathalie said...
I love the way that you used the paper on her outfit and as the background too. Just amazing. I never would have thought of doing something like that. Such a gorgeous card!
- February 18, 2012 at 8:44 AM
- Shari said...
Meanie, I missed you on yesterday's hop but oh so glad you are here today! I LOE YOUR CARD! The colours are so amazing and I love how you paperpieced the image! Wonderful job!
- February 18, 2012 at 8:51 AM
- Cindi F said...
Stunning! I am always in awe of how you color hair lol. Love the papers and the paper piecing on her and your coloring is amazing.
- February 18, 2012 at 9:55 AM
- wendy said...
vavavoom! whow what a card!
- February 18, 2012 at 10:00 AM
- Heidi Brawley said...
WOWZERS!!! THis card is Amazing!!!
love it ALL!!!
hugs, Heidi
- February 18, 2012 at 12:33 PM
- Debora said...
Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel! I can't get over the superness of this Funtastic card! Could it be anymore purrrfect?!
Totally awesome card!!! I love the paper pieceing! I love how she's colored! My favorite image of all the new releases...She's rock'n in her black mask,gloves,boots! Love all the leopard!!
- February 18, 2012 at 12:44 PM
- Marilyn said...
Gorgeous card and love all the drama you added!! Great paper piecing on this beauty!
- February 18, 2012 at 12:56 PM
- Wilfreda said...
This is so cute. I love it!
- February 18, 2012 at 1:52 PM
- Anita said...
Meow! ;) This is beyond fabulous. Love the animal print and the way you colored the hair!
- February 18, 2012 at 7:08 PM
- Jenn Joncas said...
Look at that little sexy Momma!!! Beautiful card Melanie!! I'm not usually a fan of leopard print but this totally works!!! Her hair looks absolutely gorgeous!!!
- February 18, 2012 at 8:05 PM
- Kim Swenson said...
How cute is she in the leopard print. Beautiful design.
- February 18, 2012 at 9:13 PM
- Kris said...
LOVE THIS CARD! The DP is fabulous and everything coordinates beautifully. Great job.
- February 18, 2012 at 9:30 PM
Wow, your coloring just blows me away it is so incredible!!! Love the use of the papers on this card as well.
- February 18, 2012 at 10:16 PM
- JessicaK said...
Woo woo! Saw this one on Facebook and had to stop on by. LOVE the paper piecing on her 'cat' suit. So cool.
- February 18, 2012 at 10:25 PM
- Tanya said...
Oh such a fun and sassy card! Just love your card! Loving this image!!!
- February 18, 2012 at 10:47 PM
- A said...
As always, a beautifully colored card! And I love the paper you chose to go with this image!
- February 18, 2012 at 10:48 PM
- SARA said...
wow :) BEAUTIFUL CARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRAVA!!!!! CIAO!!!!!!
- February 19, 2012 at 5:10 AM


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Now I know what you're thinking, of all places why am I in Minneapolis? My colleagues and I had to travel to Minneapolis for work for a couple of days and since we had to eat, we thought we would
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Now, in a previous post, I discussed the waltz, The Blue Danube, and the fact that the real Danube River is not blue, it is green.
Today, for the first time, I got to see the Black Sea. And I have news for you (though I suspect you can guess what it will be.) That's right, it's not black!
|Look! It's blue! (Unlike the Danube)
Now I suppose someone is going to inform me that the Red Sea isn't red. Nor is the Pacific Ocean particularly pacifistic. And then I will probably learn that for my information the Dead Sea is only mostly dead. And there's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead.
In all fairness, the Black Sea may not have been named as such for its color. Perhaps it got its name for its macabre sense of humor. Or for giving off UV radiation.
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I looked it up, and many scholars believe that the name the Black Sea is a more modern metaphor for the original name given it by the Greek sailors who found it. They called it the Inhospitable Sea because it was large, hard to navigate, and had unfriendly native communities living around it.
So I guess we shouldn't have expected it to be black. And good news, I didn't expect it to be black. This was not a surprise.
There was another first for Alrica and me today. We got to try Turkish coffee. Turkish coffee is really strong, intense coffee. You know what it tastes like? Coffee, strong and intense. I don't like coffee, even regular weak American coffee. So I was no more surprised that I didn't like Turkish coffee than I had been that the Black Sea wasn't black.
But I was willing to try it, knowing I was very unlikely to find it palatable, because we are traveling the world to learn about people in other cultures. That includes their special foods and drinks. I don't like tea, but I drank tea in the United Kingdom. I don't like mint (or, as I mentioned, tea) but I ended up drinking Moroccan mint tea several times in Marrakech and Fez. If you spend a month in Morocco and no one offers you mint tea, you're not doing it right.
So even when I fully expect to dislike something, I am trying to try. Because, first, I could be surprised. Maybe I'll like it. Second, I don't want to be rude. This is an important part of the culture. And third, if you set off to experience the world, you better darn well experience it.
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May 05, 2018
Tillie Lewis loved the Spanish style of Monterey that we find in the Old Adobes such as this one owned by Don Florencio Serrano at 412 Pacific Street in Monterey (1845) where I'll be sharing historical California tales for the American Association of University Women May 5th. The photo above is a smidgen of me near Tillie's Palm Springs nearly 2 acre compound in Palm Springs built in 1931. Tillie's mansions were all over 7,000 sq. ft. slightly larger than CASA SERRANO here in Monterey, Ca. Don
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Even John Steinbeck commiserated about "Starving writers and overlooked artists." It is an issue in the Bohemian world of creativity & passion vs. having a "REAL" job. I write and my husband "MAHLER" paints. While we're not starving or overlooked, being looked over more often is always a good thing. Our home is a profusion of paragraphs on reams of paper and the PC downstairs and light filtering into the great room/atelier upstairs wall to wall & floor to ceiling art. From bright and shiny
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It's the day after the funeral. It wasn't my dearly beloved. It was a friend's teenage daughter. Car accident. Horrible. The family could not properly say their goodbyes because the minister decided to make this moment, HIS INFOMERCIAL, for his Church of HELLfire, Brimstone, and Da-a-a-a-a-a-m-nation to any sinners present who hadn't been to church in a while. He missed that eloquent opportunity to sell his ideas in 3 minutes, or less, then graciously turn the podium over to those who could


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On breezy evenings I open my front and balcony doors so the wind can flurry through.
Singapore is hot and humid all the time and I like to freshen up my tiny apartment with wafts and drafts whenever I can. My English neighbours from across the hall are like-minded and on occasion wee Liam wanders in and we sit and chat.
Liam is nearly five years old and he loves Postman Pat and chocolate ice cream and his little brother Daniel.
I was sitting on my sofa this evening feeling self absorbed and pithy.
Watching the news has been horrifying the past few days.
More horrifying that it normally is.
The conflict in Syria seems never ending and the plight of the enormous wave of refugees being forced from their homes and fleeing for their lives is heart breaking.
Liam walked into my apartment dressed in his Fireman Sam pajamas and he asked me straight out why I was looking so sad.
We don't muck around with small talk and idle chitchat.
I told Liam that the news about what was going in the world was distressing me. In a moment of tenderness and benevolence and kindness – and in a flash of innocence that only a five year old possesses - Liam gave me an almighty hug.
It was as welcome as it was unexpected.
My television was on at the time and images of refugees desperately trying to board trains in Hungary was on and then the most despairing of sights came on the screen.
The little 3-year-old dead Syrian boy floating face down in the shallows of a Turkish beach.
It was a haunting thing to see.
It is an indelible image that has rapidly become symbolic of the horror of the conflict that has been raging in Syria since 2011.
I saw Liam looking at the TV and I immediately grabbed the remote and turned the television off.
Liam then asked me if that was the little boy who drowned in Greece with his Mummy and his brother and I told him that it was. He informed me that he had seen the picture before at home and his own Mum had explained that a lot of families were trying to escape a country called Syria where bad people were making wars.
I told him this was true.
Liam told me that he thought that the bad people should stop fighting and he thought that they might if they saw pictures of little boys drowned and then everyone could go home.
I told him that I wished that this were true.
I told him that I thought that some people thought that war might sometimes seem be a necessary evil but I thought that no matter how necessary people think it may be - it is always an evil.
I told Liam that I did not think that anyone would learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
At Liam's suggestion we made a cubby by putting a couple of blankets over two chairs and we sat in it on the ground and I put on one of Liam's videos that he keeps over here for his visits.
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We drank chocolate milk and Liam explained to me again who all the characters were.
He taught me the Postman Pat song.
His dad Warwick poked his head in early on in the piece and Liam told his Dad that I was feeling very sad because of seeing the people having to leave their homes because of the war. He then asked him if it would be all right if I came over for a sleepover.
It was one of those moments that I could contain neither the tears nor the laughter and I tried in vain to blink away the wetness that clouded my eyes.
Life is full of ups and downs and peaks and troughs and moments of tenderness that take my breath away. There are climactic times when clarity and peace and joy strike like a thunderbolt and one sits above the clouds. This was such a moment and it was an apogee of sorts.
The empathy and virtuosity of little children astounds me at times.
It really does.
I told Warwick that much as I would like to come over for a sleepover I had to get up early the next morning so I would have to take a rain check this time.
Liam's dad nodded his understanding and he told me to send Liam home when he became a nuisance.
Liam is never a nuisance.
When Postman Pat finished Liam wanted to talk more about the refugees and I pondered how much I should explain such horror to a five-year-old boy.
He asked me what the war was about and it was a very good question. I told him it was just bad people doing mad things but I think few people do actually know what this conflict is all about.
It started as a civil war nearly five years ago with a large group of civilians holding protests demanding President Assad's resignation. The armed forces came down hard on the protesters and shot many.
Which triggered more protests.
The violence has escalated ever since and more than 220,000 Syrians have been killed. More than 4 million Syrians have fled their homeland and the UN estimates that nearly 8 million are displaced internally.
The population of the country is – or was – only 22 million people.
Neighboring countries of Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey have been inundated with refugees for the past 4 years and it is only in recent weeks that a tipping point has been reached as more and more terrified Syrians have fled their homes.
The war has become more than a civil war too.
It has become a sectarian battle that pitches the country's Sunni Kurd majority against Assad's Shia Alawite sect.
Muslims are killing Muslims.
The Russians and Iranians have been providing aid to the Assad government with weaponry and Arab states like Qatar and Turkey and Saudi Arabia are helping the Sunnis. As too are France and the US and the United Kingdom.
The United Nations have as usual proved completely impotent.
To add to the terror and to complicate things further the terrible extremist group the self-named Jihadists – the Islamic State - are raging a war within a war and have taken over large swathes of the country and reign in terror.
It is hard to see how this nightmare will all end.
I didn't explain any of this to Liam of course. I just told him that the people he had seen on television were very frightened because of the war that was going on in their country but they were very brave to leave their homes. I told him that leaving was not an option – it was a necessity - and it was dangerous as well.
I told him that it was why little children had died trying to escape on boats.
Even though he didn't ask, I reassured Liam that we were quite safe here in Singapore but the whole world needed to help these people and wars just had to stop.
He told me that he agreed.
We put another Postman Pat video on but after awhile Liam fell asleep. I picked him up and carried him home and I put him into his own bed. He was clutching his little plastic dinosaur effigy tightly in his little fist – the green one.
He told me once that it was his favourite thing.
He roused as I lay him down and as I bent over to tuck him in and I planted a goodnight kiss on his forehead - he handed me his dinosaur and he told me that I could keep it.
He told me not to be sad anymore and that he was my friend.
The little figurine is standing up on the table next to me now as I write this. A wave of sorrow is flooding through me again as I think of all the little Syrian children who must be so frightened right now.
Wars are so dreadful.
I wonder how can we keep having wars on terrorism when war is an act of terrorism itself. I know that the situation in Syria is complex and emotive and fanatics are difficult to stop but the world needs to assist the hundreds of thousands of people displaced.
They are human beings.
There are little kids.
They need to be provided with assistance with dignity and respect.
There simply can't be any more little children drowning at sea.
No more little children dying in war.
No more dying at all.
All I can do is hope that perhaps my children's children can live in a better world and I might one day be asked, "Hey grandpa, what was a war?"
I will return the dinosaur to Liam tomorrow.
I can't get the bloody Postman Pat song out of my head.
He has a black and white cat you know.
It is driving me mad.


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The main reason for going to France at this crazy time of year is be at the Angouleme Festival International de la Bande Dessinee, from January 27-30. I have my four day pass, I have accommodation, I have the train ticket booked from Paris. This year, it's Hong Kong in the spotlight, along with much more. The exhibition design hits a high standard and I am really keen to see this year's work for myself.
The Copyright Agency Limited provided me with an airfare to travel to France and see this festival. I was thrilled to receive this funding because it supports research into graphic novels and I look forward to sharing what I learn when I return. In youth literature there is much talk of young people and their interest in comics and graphic novels, which may be true. But in Australia we produce so little of our own material. Artists like Shaun Tan don't come along every day - so how can Australia's book industry nurture the graphic novel culture? I am hoping that Angouleme might provide a few hints. After all, a festival in the middle of winter, hundreds of kilometres from Paris, where accommodation is at a premium, but still attracts nearly 250,000 people, must be doing something for readers.


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Beatrix Potter Quotes and Sayings
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. Beatrix Potter | Refcard PDF ↑
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'. Beatrix Potter | Refcard PDF ↑
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Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again. Beatrix Potter | Refcard PDF ↑
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Perseverance in Prayer
A sermon on Ephesians 6:18-24 by Coty Pinckney, Community Bible Church, Williamstown, MA, 2/22/98
Do you spend time praying? Why? What is the purpose of prayer? Do you pray in order to change the mind of an unchangeable God, a God who is outside time? Or do you pray like Aladdin to the genie in the bottle, thinking that God will grant you 3 wishes? Or did you try that, and the wishes didn't come true, so now you pray out of obedience but you don't understand why?
Does prayer work? Is anything accomplished through prayer, is anything changed by you or me getting on our knees and talking to God? If God is really outside time, if he is the Eternal One who created time, if he is sovereign over all creation, then why pray?
I believe every Christian struggles with some of these questions at times. Each one of us has deeply desired something -- the salvation of a loved one, victory over persistent sin, the healing of a sick person, revival in our country, the end of the reign of an oppressive dictator -- we've deeply desired something, prayed earnestly for it, and seen . . . nothing. This is a common experience of Christians, and I am certain that some here this morning are feeling: "I've tried and tried to pray; I've tried to be like that persistent widow knocking on the door of the unjust judge -- and I don't see results. Why keep trying?"
We've now reached the end of the book of Ephesians. Paul ends this most glorious book -- this book which has been called the most sublime expression of Christian teaching -- with a call to prayer. And in these few verses, in the context of the entire book, he answers some of these questions. Please turn in your Bibles with me to Ephesians 6; we will begin reading with the 10th verse and read through the end of the book:
10 ¶ Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual [forces] of wickedness in the heavenly [places.] 13 Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. 14 Stand firm therefore, HAVING GIRDED YOUR LOINS WITH TRUTH, and HAVING PUT ON THE BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, 15 and having shod YOUR FEET WITH THE PREPARATION OF THE GOSPEL OF PEACE; 16 in addition to all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil [one.] 17 And take THE HELMET OF SALVATION, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
18 With all types of prayer and petition pray in every season in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints, 19 and [pray] on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in [proclaiming] it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. 21 But that you also may know about my circumstances, how I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will make everything known to you. 22 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, so that you may know about us, and that he may comfort your hearts. 23 Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible [love].
In these verses Paul gives us at least 7 lessons for effective prayer, for prayer that works. This morning I can't give you an exposition of all seven: Join us in Sunday School and next week when we will talk more about these lessons and then have a "lab time," a time when we will put these lessons into practice. In this sermon, I will mention all seven, and focus our time more on a subset of these. Then, we'll return to the question: Does prayer work? Before that, let us assume that the answer to the question is "Yes," and pray to our Lord.
Our Lord and Savior, you know that Satan loves to assail us with doubts about the efficacy of prayer. You know that your enemy tries to deceive us, to make us think that prayer is a waste of time. Thank you for these words of Paul, these words which you inspired, exhorting us to be devoted to prayer. Open our ears this morning, and my mouth, and may you fill us with your Spirit so that we might have insight into this most important teaching. In Jesus name, Amen.
Seven Lessons for Effective Prayer
First, Effective prayer follows putting on the armor of God. In verse 10 Paul tells us to be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. He then instructs us to put on the full armor of God, and tells us about that armor in verses 11-17. Remember, putting on the armor consists of turning our thoughts to God and the truths of our position before Him: He has given us His truth, which is completely trustworthy; we are the righteousness of Christ, and thus can never be condemned; God has granted us his peace, peace between us and God, peace between man and man. Then we are to take up the shield of faith, our confidence in what we cannot see, so that we are not fooled by appearances. And we are to take up the helmet of the hope of salvation, knowing that we are predestined to be glorified in the presence of Christ. And finally we are to take up the sword of the Spirit, the word of God, as God makes particular parts of his word come alive for us just when we need them.
Putting on the armor of God allows us to see the world as it really is. The world around us is full of deceit and lies. Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 5:7 to walk by faith not by sight, not by appearances. True reality is invisible to us; putting on the armor allows us to see things as they really are. If we don't first put on the armor, we will pray out of misconceptions concerning the nature of reality, who we are, and who God is.
Furthermore, if we jump into prayer without first turning our thoughts to these truths, we are not protected against Satan's attacks. Our initial turning to God in prayer causes an alarm to sound in Satan's headquarters -- he will do anything possible to keep us from praying. So as soon as we turn to God, Satan frequently attacks in any way possible. We are most in need of the armor when we begin to pray. So effective prayer requires first putting on the armor
Second, Effective prayer includes all types of prayer. Paul says we are to pray "with ALL prayer" in verse 18. The Greek word used can mean "all" or "all types," and I believe it means the latter here. There are many ways to pray, many types of prayer. Our prayer should not be the same or even of the same form each day. In this verse, Paul brings out two types, translated here as "prayer and petition." The first concerns honoring God, bowing in reverence before him, worshiping him. The second consists of our requests, both for ourselves and for others.
Our prayer life can be enriched by consciously using different types. It is easy for us to go to God with a grocery list of wrongs we want righted, sicknesses we want healed, and gifts we desire. Now, God tells us to present our requests, our petitions to him. But we must concentrate on broadening our prayers, so that we come to know God better, so that our hearts desire what God's heart desires. One method I have found profitable is praying the Scriptures: taking a passage of Scripture and praying it aloud. In some cases, this can be using only the words of Scripture, in other cases making them pertain to myself or another individual. The whole book of Ephesians is rich ground to be used as prayer; stay for Sunday School and have an opportunity to pray through parts of this book. Another method of prayer is to focus on one attribute or characteristic of God, thanking Him for manifesting himself in this way, thinking about how he has shown himself throughout history in this way. So I encourage you: pray with all types of prayer.
Third, Effective prayer is offered in every season, at all times. Paul here uses the same word for "all." The emphasis in this phrase is not that we should pray continually -- that comes later! -- but that prayer is appropriate at ALL TYPES of times or seasons. We need to pray in the good times, and the bad times; in times of tragedy, and times of rejoicing; in times of accomplishment, and times of failure; at times when we feel close to God, and at times when we feel God has let us down, when we can't even sense His presence. We need to pray at all types of times.
So effective prayer follows putting on the armor, effective prayer includes all types of prayer, effective prayer is offered in every season of our lives, and, fourthly:
Effective prayer is prayer in the Spirit.
There are a variety of interpretations offered to the phrase "pray in the Spirit." Note that the construction in Greek is the same as in verse 10, where Paul writes "Be strong IN THE LORD and IN THE STRENGTH of His might." In verse 10 Paul is not suggesting that there are different ways to be strong; rather, he is explaining the only way we can truly be strong, the only way we can fight successfully our spiritual battles. Also, recall John chapter 4 where Jesus is speaking to the woman at the well. As Jesus begins to get personal, she tries to divert the discussion to more impersonal religion: Which mountain is the appropriate one for worship, Gerazim or Jerusalem? As part of his reply, Jesus states,
God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth. (John 4:24)
Again, this is the same word, the same construction as in Ephesians 6:18. Here, too, Jesus is saying the only true worship is done in spirit and truth.
Just so, in Ephesians 6:18 Paul is not suggesting that there are two types of effective prayer, prayer in the spirit and prayer not in the spirit. Rather, he stresses that we cannot pray effectively in our own power; vain repetitions, many words are not necessarily effective prayer; lots of emotion does not make for effective prayer; the absence of emotion does not lead to effective prayer, loud calling out does not lead to effective prayer; elegant writing does not lead to effective prayer. Instead, effective prayer results from an active dependence on the Spirit within us, as we acknowledge that we don't know how to pray, as we open ourselves to His leading and His prompting.
Verse 18 continues:
with all types of prayer and petition, pray at all seasons in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints.
So fifth, Effective prayer is the result of being watchful and alert.
The word used here literally means "sleepless," or "not drowsy." Have any of you fallen asleep in prayer? I have, and I'm sure many of you have too. In fact, some of you are sleeping right now while I speak!
Paul here returns to a military image. Consider this: A war is going on, and you are on guard duty. What is your responsibility? If you stay awake for the first 30 minutes of your stint, but then get drowsy, and allow your head to droop, you are not a very effective sentry! No. Don't sleep! Don't allow yourself to doze! Don't neglect to keep your eyes peeled! You don't know when or where the enemy will attack, and the army is depending on you to be its eyes and ears.
Note that we are to stay on the alert "for all the saints." We are guarding others.
We can imagine now that we are not just individual enlisted men battling in the front lines, but a Brigadier General, in charge of a brigade of troops. We are on the alert; when we hear of an enemy attack, we shift resources to assist the beleaguered point of the line; when we notice a thin point in our defense, we send reinforcements to shore up its strength. If we know that one unit is weary from battle, we relieve them, and give them rest. A good general is always watchful, always alert, always looking to send extra help to those units that need relief.
This is the responsibility of ALL of us, as the author of the book of Hebrews makes clear. Hebrews 3:12-13 is one of my favorite passages in this regard. Here is my paraphrase:
ALL of you see to it, brothers, that not one of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But all of you encourage each one of you daily, so that not one of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.
We have a JOINT RESPONSBILITY for every member of the body of Christ. As Paul has made clear earlier in Ephesians, we are the body, we need each other, and each of us needs to do his part if the body is to prosper fully. And doing our part includes watching, and then PRAYING.
Sixth, Effective prayer is perseverant. Paul says, "be on the alert with all perseverance."
As we mentioned earlier, a watchman is not very effective if he watches for 30 minutes and then dozes off. A watchman must be devoted to his task, being alert, staying awake, until he is relieved by another. Furthermore, the general sending aid to beleaguered troops must continue the process until defenses are strong; if he sends insufficient aid, both the original troops and the reinforcements will be overrun. Just so, we must persevere in prayer.
There are at least two words translated "perseverance" in the New Testament, and these two words have quite different connotations. The first and most common word means to hold up under pressure. There is a heavy weight bearing down on you, and you must hold up under it. This is the word used, for example, in Hebrews 12:1:
Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
There is a difficult task ahead of us, and we must endure, we must continue through the difficulty.
That is not the word used for being perseverant in prayer. This word, instead, means to serve constantly. It is used, for example, in Acts 10, where Luke tells us that the Roman centurion Cornelius had soldiers who "persevered" with him -- they waited on him constantly, were devoted to him, were anticipating his needs and trying to meet those needs even before he asked.
This word is very frequently used in conjunction with prayer in the New Testament. Indeed, in Romans 12:12 both words for perseverance are used:
rejoicing in hope, persevering in tribulation, devoted to prayer,
We are to hold up under the pressures of tribulation, but we are to be devoted to, to persevere in prayer. Both words connote continuing over a long period of time -- the difference is that prayer is seen not as a burden that must be endured but as a form of service.
So the idea of being perseverant in prayer goes along with being alert: we are watching, we are aware of what is going on, and then we DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. We watch -- and then act. Prayer is the action that results from watching.
Finally, Effective prayer is in accord with God's promises and gifts.
Look now at Paul's request to the Ephesians in verses 19 and 20:
and pray on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in proclaiming it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
Paul is in prison. But what does he ask for? Not to be released from prison; not to be made more comfortable. Now, he does later say that he is sending Tychicus to them so that they may know all about him, and I'm sure that Tychicus related the difficulties facing Paul. But those are not Paul's primary concern, not his primary prayer request. When you ask someone to pray for you, what do you ask for? Paul asks that he might fulfill his commission, that he might use his spiritual gifts effectively. Such prayer will always be answered positively! But furthermore, note that Paul didn't rest on the fact that God had commissioned him, or that God had gifted him. He sought out prayer, because God chooses to work through our prayers.
This brings us back to the question, Does prayer work? We have seen that effective prayer follows putting on the armor of God, it is of all types, for all seasons, it should be in the Spirit, it is alert and watchful, it perseveres, and it is in accord with God's promises. But does prayer work?
Prayer is our active dependence on God, our turning to Him, acknowledging that we need him, reminding ourselves of the truths of his word that appearances around us seem to belie. When we pray we are reminded of who God is, of what He has done, of what He will do, of what He has promised. We are reminded that God is faithful. We can know that God will fulfill His promises in our lives and the lives of others
We frequently hear the expression: "Prayer doesn't change God; prayer changes us." Prayer DOES change us; that is one important reason for prayer. We only need to look at the Psalms to see this. In so many Psalms, the author begins in a terrible state of mind: discouraged, depressed, overwhelmed by his circumstances. But during the course of prayer, the circumstances do not change but the Psalmist's attitude changes. By reminding ourselves of who God is, and his past actions, prayer changes us -- for the better.
But the danger in using this expression is that we may think that the only outcome of prayer is the change within. While prayer does not change an unchanging God, prayer changes the world around us. God has ordained that he will work through our prayers.
How does God work through prayer? While we can never fully understand this, fundamentally it is no different than the way God works through any of our actions. God works through prayer in exactly the same way that he works through preaching, or witnessing, or our exercising our spiritual gifts. On our own, under our own power, we can accomplish nothing of eternal significance. But God chooses to work through us, so that when we step out under His power, He accomplished great things.
Remember when God told Ezekiel to preach to a valley of dead bones? What happened? The bones joined together, began dancing around, and flesh grew on the bones, and the people responded to the preaching! Now, did Ezekiel's preaching cause those bones to come together? Think about that. The answer is Yes: God chose to work through the obedience of His prophet to cause the bones to come together. Ezekiel could not go to any graveyard and begin speaking and see bones come together; but when speaking in obedience to God's command, Ezekiel's preaching led to the response of people who were dead.
In just the same way, God CHOOSES to use us as his instruments in accomplishing his purposes. He chooses to allow us to participate in the exercise of his power, through our prayers.
So does prayer change God? NO! Is there such a thing as effective prayer? YES! So I encourage you: PRAY. Pray through the Scriptures, pray in praise to God, thanking him, recalling his great deeds as recorded in the Bible and in church history -- and as you pray you will be changed. Pray for us, your elders, and we will be empowered and changed. Pray for your children, your friends, think of yourself as the general who has access to reinforcements to send to whoever needs them. Be on the alert! Know who needs help, and do what is most effective: Pray.
This sermon was preached at Community Bible Church in Williamstown, MA on 2/22/98.
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Lately there has been some drama in the raw food lifestyle community on Youtube. This should not come as a surprise. There is something about the medium combined with human nature that seems to have led to this outcome in other Youtube communities, not just in raw food. I don't think it's necessary to be judgmental, but would like to comment about the different ways people might respond to this.
There have been some commendable efforts by a few within the
global raw food community to speak out against the drama, and others have remained silent. It seems
that many of the raw foodists on Youtube have answered not by addressing
the negativity directly, but by instead posting positive, uplifting
videos. They have chosen to express themselves according to their own
principles, which I find admirable.
Different raw foodists have different philosophies about the best way to be raw, and I think that's good. Each of us needs to find our own personal best way to be, and when different people put their own lifestyle and opinion on Youtube, it gives the rest of us some ideas to consider. I do not think it's appropriate to put anyone down for their lifestyle choices. Instead, I feel it is appropriate to make our own lifestyle choices while engaging in thoughtful and respectful two way discussion about these choices. A two way discussion involves listening as well as talking.
At this time I am not personally a follower of any one raw food school of thought, but I do incorporate ideas from different people into something that works for me and my family. For example, since I am only moderately active on my most active days, I find that I feel best if I eat a lot more green leafy vegetables than fruit. With the right balance of fruit and greens, I feel alert, energetic and satiated. With too much fruit and not enough greens, my teeth become sensitive and I start having unhealthy cravings. If I eat too many nuts and seeds, I start feeling heavy and put on weight. The best diet for me at this time seems to be mostly vegetables with a smaller amount of fruit, a much smaller amount of nuts, and foods like dates and cacao only occasionally. At this time about 20% or less of my diet is cooked, with a very small amount of occasional foods that are not considered a part of the diet. As the weather here gets hotter, we'll probably start eating closer to 100% raw. Of course, any changes in lifestyle would lead to a need for changes in diet. My opinion is based solely on how my body responds, nothing more, nothing less. It is especially not based on some sort of ideology or paranoia.
Some might find them interesting, but I'm not going to link to any videos about the drama. I would prefer to remain focused on videos about raw food.
my sincere hope that newcomers to the raw food lifestyle don't see only
the people in the minority who want to bait their fellow raw foodists
and as a result become turned off to the lifestyle on the whole. The raw food lifestyle doesn't have to include drama, it's not necessary to be paranoid, put others down or join a cult. In my view, it's about eating a fresh, plant based diet in it's most natural and most nutritious form, and living in a way that is optimal for the individual. Nothing more, nothing less.
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Raw Drama
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
Raw Hammish Sammiches
Knowing that my family and I are still in transition, and with the memory of the St. Patrick's Day cravings fresh in my mind, I was determined to do something to prepare for the Easter holiday. Ham was a traditional Easter dish when I was a child. Of course we always made ham sandwiches out of the leftover ham.
To help us keep our diet cleaner this season, I decided to make a sprouted raw whole-grain bread, a raw macadamia nut cheddar, and young Thai coconut in a marinade reminiscent of a sweet, smoky, glistening ham.
We will definitely be making this again.
It might seem complicated, but it's not. To make the cheese, soak the nuts overnight, rinse them and grind them up with some bell pepper juice and probiotics. Let it culture for 48 hours, stir in some nutritional yeast and turmeric, and let it sit another 24-48 hours. Shape it and chill it. I haven't obtained permission to share the recipe but you can get it from the Raw Nut Cheese ebook from the Russell James collection.
The bread is also much easier than it looks. The hardest part is the waiting. Soak the buckwheat overnight, rinse it and sprout it. Grind the sprouted buckwheat in the food processor with a bunch of other ingredients until it is the texture of really thick pancake batter, (or really thin cookie dough.) Spread it on paraflexx sheets and dehydrate. Easy peasy. This particular recipe was in a free ebook offered by Russell James for signing up for his free online newsletter.
Hemp mayonnaise is quick and easy to make. Add fresh parsley and celery for flavor and color. I don't even use a recipe anymore. I just put either some lemon juice or apple cider vinegar in the high speed blender, add some type of sweetener, toss in herbs and seasonings, add a cup or so of hulled hemp seeds, and blend until it's thick enough. Then taste and adjust.
A tip of the hat to Areeya at the Go Raw Cafe. The idea for the coconut marinade came from one of her raw prep classes.
To make the hamish, open some young Thai coconuts, drink the water, remove the flesh and marinate it for 48 hours. The longer you allow it to marinate, the deeper the color. If the ingredients listed below are not raw enough, make whatever necessary substitutions you desire. Dehydrate for up to 3 hours and make a sandwich.
Here's the recipe for the ham-ish marinade. This will season the flesh of 4 - 6 young Thai coconuts:
1/2 cup organic nama shoyu
1/2 cup maple syrup
2 tsp powdered beet root
1 tsp ground clove
1 tsp mace
1 tsp spmoked paprika
1 tsp onion powder
1/2 tsp ground mustard
1/2 tsp majorum
1/2 tsp thyme
Note on the ingredients: The maple syrup is not raw. It's possible to simply blend dates into the marinade for a healthier sweetener. The shoyu is not technically raw but is a common raw food flavoring. It does contain wheat so is not optimal for those on a gluten free diet. It might be possible to use something like unpasteurized chickpea miso instead of tamari or shoyu. The beet powder came from Mountain Rose Herbs, but a similar result can be obtained from beet juice or pureed beets.
This sandwich does not perfectly mimic the taste and mouth feel of a Standard American Diet (SAD) ham and cheese sandwich, but it comes close and it is delicious in its own right. It definitely helped stave off cravings and it's healthier than the SAD alternative. With the mac nut cheese, hemp mayo and coconut "meat," it's rather high in healthy fats and I found a half a sandwich to be plenty for me. It's good for an occasional treat.
Imagine a completely raw Ezekiel-style bread with alfalfa sprouts, tomato and avocado. Mmmmm. Time to go make more bread!
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When a substitute for wheat flour must be used and the supply of eggs is not large, the family need not be deprived of excellent CAKE, for potato sponge CAKE can be made. This resembles angel food to a certain extent, as it is white in color and tender in texture. It is a splendid CAKE to serve with rich frozen desserts.
- 5 egg whites
- 1-1/2 c. sugar
- 1/2 c. water
- 2/3 c. potato flour
- 1/3 c. wheat flour
- 1/2 tsp. cream of tartar
- 1 tsp. lemon extract
Beat the egg whites until stiff. Cook the sugar and water until the sirup threads. Add this sirup to the egg whites and beat well. Sift the potato flour, wheat flour, and cream of tartar three times, and then fold into the mixture. Add the flavoring, turn into a pan, and bake for about 40 minutes.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4
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After leaving Superstition Rec. behind and spending a couple of months in his studio finishing
numerous tracks going into new directions Oliver Lieb started his new label Maschine.
The first single Circus Maximus was released July 2005.
The label is representing his ongoing challenge to find new ways and sounds to bring music
to new fresh-sounding borders.
Here are all Maschine releases with individual players from my Bandcamp page.
Click here for the Maschine Facebook page
Click here to go to the Maschine page on Beatport


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Thursday, June 27, 2013
A proposal story
26 comments:
- Jackie said...
I am single and have never been proposed to. HOWEVER- I would have swiftly punched him if I were you...maybe a few times. Not fair. haha.
- June 27, 2013 at 6:16 AM
- Tami said...
Omg I would have for real punched him in the face. Seriously! You totally got me though. I had a little bit of a freak out for you.
- June 27, 2013 at 6:39 AM
- Jenni@FlyingOnARainbow said...
That's SO mean! We had a few jokey proposals, we got "jelly engaged" a few times with rings out of packets of Haribo. Maybe that's why, when he did do it for real, the first words out of my mouth were "are you joking?"!!
- June 27, 2013 at 6:53 AM
Oh goodness that's hateful...I would have been livid!
- June 27, 2013 at 7:14 AM
- Lindsey B said...
Oh my gosh....I would punch him so hard!
- June 27, 2013 at 7:41 AM
- Lisette H said...
I am almost crying because I'm upset. That's horrible! I would have punched him! Lol.
- June 27, 2013 at 8:18 AM
- RitaMarie said...
Dude! I'd be mad pissed. Mad pissed. Don't f with my emotions!
- June 27, 2013 at 8:39 AM
- j whitney nic said...
You got punk'd but not funny at all!
He better do it big the real time!
- June 27, 2013 at 8:40 AM
- Alex[andra] said...
Oh man, I totally thought you were for real at first! I'd be so pissed!
I told Andrew that I've always wanted to be proposed to in front of a waterfall (I have no idea why). So, now every time we're in front of a waterfall, he gets down on one knee and "proposes." I definitely wont believe him when the time comes. Which I'm sure wont be for a WHILE!
- June 27, 2013 at 8:47 AM
- Rachel said...
I would have punched him in the face! haha I mean I'm sure that's just his sense of humor, but COME ON DUDE!
- June 27, 2013 at 8:51 AM
- Cotton and Boots said...
I was sitting on the edge of my seat the entire time I read your "proposal"! Typical men thinking they're funny - not. BAH!
- June 27, 2013 at 8:54 AM
- Kayla0687 said...
I could teach you some mad throat chopping skills... works for me every time... and he so would have be throat chopped at that very moment. :)
- June 27, 2013 at 9:02 AM
- Kaeley Mull said...
Oh my gosh...I was all excited, and then - bam! This is pretty funny, though.
- June 27, 2013 at 9:27 AM
- Lisa @ Two Martinis said...
Ohhhhhh that is not OK. Not OK at all!
- June 27, 2013 at 9:29 AM
- thefussybritches said...
Ahhh...I would have cried. I'm pretty sure my husband would think that this is hilarious. It is sort of funny, but it will be a lot funnier after he proposes. He better now that he pulled this on you!! Really it would have been brilliant if he gave you a real ring right after!
- June 27, 2013 at 9:43 AM
- Jessica @ City Sequins said...
OH MY I would have absolutely killed him! So mean!!!
- June 27, 2013 at 10:31 AM
- Catalyn H said...
AWWWWW!!! Totally crying in Panera right now. Congrats!! What a cute story :)
- June 27, 2013 at 10:58 AM
- Jay T said...
And also completely hilarious but still, SO MEAN. (I hope he's at least letting you keep the class ring)
- June 27, 2013 at 12:53 PM
- brooke lyn said...
bahaha classic! although from the sound of it, sounds just like 'you two' it also reminds me of the office, when jim keeps faking pam out. like he gets down on one knee and then ties his shoe instead. butttt more importantly CONGRATS
- June 27, 2013 at 4:23 PM
- Morgan said...
When I first read this I was all "Oh no she didn't, I can't believe I had to find out on her blog" but then I was like "Oh no he didn't, how mean! Sounds just like Jerett!" haha I'm sorry he tricked you, but I can't wait for him to FINALLY ask you either!
- June 27, 2013 at 5:15 PM
- B Dav said...
That is so mean!
I would've been slightly devastated. And I would've made that a particularly forceful punch.
- June 27, 2013 at 5:50 PM
- Meighan said...
SERIOUSLY?!?!?! man.
- June 27, 2013 at 8:08 PM
- Brittany said...
Awww pretty sure I would have freaked out on my bf if he did that!
- June 27, 2013 at 8:36 PM
- Carly @ The Pinot Project said...
Men think they are hilarious. They are not!!!!
- June 27, 2013 at 8:50 PM
- Mary said...
hahaha wow! OK this is funny, but that's one of those things that are funny later and definitely not at the time! I would have smacked him!
PS whose ring is that in your photo?
- June 27, 2013 at 10:41 PM
- Janine Eccleston said...
I would not be very happy at all. I'm surprised you're talking to him!
- July 10, 2013 at 9:08 PM


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With all the hoopla that surrounds the NBA draft, I figured there was enough being said, and what the hell does an old jock like me know about these young players anyway? I managed to see a few during the NCAA Tournament, but the vast majority are question marks to me. But I have been poking around on the Internet lately and listening to some of the sports pundits, and I'm getting an itch to weigh in. So, finally, I couldn't resist.
Here are a few predications and comments:
1. Jimmer Fredette will be a strong player in the NBA. I like his quick moves to get into the paint and lateral
quickness once in there. Pay attention, I didn't say speed. Fredette has a quick release, great eye, and
shoots from downtown. I don't think he'll back down from anybody on defense.
2. Chris Singleton will make the team that drafts him happy.
3. Kyrie Irving will NOT make the team who drafts him happy.
4. Neither will the team who drafts Brandon Knight be happy. Plays too straight up and down for me. What
do I mean? Body is not loose. And he has no left hand.
5. The team who lands Nicola Vucevic is going to be jumping up and down with joy. Warriors, please,
consider him! V is a legit 7 footer with a huge wing span. He likes to mix it up, and he has a soft touch.
Perhaps Beidrens can be salvaged. It's not that I think the Warriors should give up on the young man, but
why not be on the safe side in case Andres finds his skills are more suited to a less physically demanding
6. The Timberwolves will regret it if they don't select Derrick Williams. He's the only player in the draft this
year who is going to make an impact from the start. At the end of the season he'll be averaging 20 points
a game and be select Rookie of the Year.
Speaking of the Timberwolves. If they select Williams, and IF Ricky Rubio becomes the point guard he's supposed to be, I predict the Wolves to be a playoff team next year. Beasley needs to be traded. He's talented but has a low basketball IQ. Martell Webster is solid and Westley Johnson will be a fine shooting guard or small forward. Of course the Wolves need a center, (who doesn't) but in the meantime Milicic and Pavovic can fill up the paint and knock a few people down. Love can play the post if the team decides to play small. And they have some decent folks on the bench at all positions.
I read where Dwanye Casey got the job at Toronto. I googgled his resume. Lot's of successful assistant coaching jobs with successful teams and successful coaches. 50/50 with the Timberwolves as a head coach, before they fired him. Successful in coaching internationally in Japan. I wonder why the Warriors didn't interview him?
Any other predication about the draft:
1. Enes Kanter. Now that he says he's the best in the draft, he better walk his talk. I predict baby steps.
Maybe down the line.
2. Nolan Smith and Shelvin Mack might surprise teams as second round choices.
3. Kawhi Leonard never impressed me.
4. Klay Thompson could turn into one hell of a small forward.
Here's a poem for the University of California Bears baseball team doing the Bay Area proud in Omaha at the college World Series. I loved to play the game when I was young before I got hooked on hoop.
How to Play Night Baseball by Jonathan Holden
A pasture is best, freshly
mown so that by the time a grounder's
plowed through all that chewed, spit-out
grass to reach you, the ball
will be bruised with green kisses. Start
in the evening. Come
with a bad sunburn and smelling of chlorine,
water still crackling in your ears.
Play until the ball is khaki -
a movable piece of the twilight -
the girls' bare arms in the bleachers are pale,
and heat lightning jumps in the west. Play
until you can only see pop-ups,
and routine grounders get lost in
the sweet grass for extra bases.
What my musings are all about...
Blogging might well be the 21st century's form of journaling. As a writing teacher, I have always advised my students to keep a daily journal as a way of organizing their thoughts for future writing projects, a discipline I have unfortunately never consistently practiced myself. By blogging, I might finally be able to follow my own good advice.
The difference between journaling and blogging is that the blogger opens his or her writing to the public, something journal- writers are usually reluctant to do. I am not so reticent.
The trick for me will be to avoid cluttering the internet with more blather, something none of us need more of. If I stick to subjects I know: sports and literature, I believe I can avoid that pitfall. I can't promise that I'll not stray from time to time to comment on ancillary subjects, but I will make every attempt to be interesting and perhaps even insightful.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
I Couldn't Resist
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First light of T80Cam
2015-Mar-04 14:07 all, instrumentation, upad, t80cam
T80Cam, the scientific camera of the JAST/T80 telescope of the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (CEFCA's observatory), has taken its first image of the Javalambre night sky. This achievement is known as First Light, as this is the first time that light coming from an astronomical object is registered by the T80Cam detector.
T80Cam integrated at the JAST/T80
2015-Jan-27 16:57 all, telescopes, instrumentation, jast-t80, t80cam
J-PLUS filters accepted at CEFCA
2014-Dec-11 13:15 all, instrumentation, t80cam
J-PLUS filters have been received and accepted at CEFCA headquarters (Teruel). The filters have been manufactured by SCHOTT (Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland). These have been specifically developed for the J-PLUS survey and have required more than two years of research and development effort both from SCHOTT and CEFCA.
Manufacturing of cryogenic components for the JAST/T80 camera begins
2011-Dec-22 10:05 all, instrumentation, t80cam
Tender Launched for the JAST/T80 telescope's camera (T80Im)
2011-May-26 17:08 all, instrumentation, t80cam


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About the Talk
November 21, 2013 9:00 AM
Colombo, Sri LankaColombo, Sri Lanka
Abstract: So you have heard of "Code Smells". Did you hear of "Agile Smells"? Yes or No; then this session is for you (us).
In this session, Karthik intends to talk about the very many things that go wrong in companies that attempt to be or become Agile.
But fault-finding is the easiest thing. Can Karthik provide concrete solutions? Yo!, he intends to share the solutions as well for most if not all the problems.
And in same breadth seeks to know what others has to offer from their experience.
Piquing your interest? Are you wanting to get a taste of some of the Agile smells? Below are some of them:
- Belated Stand-ups
- Non-participative stand-ups
- War-zone Retrospectives
- Unfruitful Sprint planning meeting
- Zero-Test development
- Inverted Test Pyramid development
- Gate-keeper QAs
- Hierarchical Roles
- Velocity Driven Development
The purpose of the talk is for the audience to
- reflect on their every-day Agile experience back in their offices,
- help them laugh out their mistakes ,
- carry lesson from the talk in light-hearted, brain-friendly way, and
- finally apply the lessons learnt back in their workplaces


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Tsui Hark and Ching Siu-Tung's Swordsman III—the East Is Red is a kinetic kung fu fantasy that provides the cover image for Yau's book.
Action films, such as those of John Woo, move according to Hong Kong's accelerated social pace.
John Woo's action films have international cult status, which raises issues about audience response.
In the French film, Irma Vep, Maggie Cheung is a blank screen reflecting fantasies about Asian women, Hong Kong film, and problems with Western cinema.
As Jackie Chan's screen personae circulate throughout the world, his fans admire the "real-life" figure, especially as stuntman and director. His acting pays tribute to classic performances, such as those of Bruce Lee, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd.
As Chan moves into big-production Hollywood features, the shifts in his career raise questions about artists' independence and identity in this era of globalism.
Director Tsui Hark is a Vietnam-born Chinese who explores different notions of "Chineseness" in his films.
Best known for his A Better Tomorrow and Wong Fei-hung action series, Tsui Hark studied at SMU in Texas, worked with Third World Newsreel on the documentary From Spikes to Spindles, and returned to Hong Kong in the late 70s to work in television.
Tsui Hark's Once Upon a Time in China plays on orientalist myths and icons.
Made in Hong Kong by Fruit Chan is a stylish low-budget feature about urban youth gangs.
Stanley Kwan (left) is one of Hong Kong's innovative "Second Wave" directors and became the first major director there to come out as gay in his Yang + Ying: Gender in Chinese Cinema (1996).
of capital:
In the 1990s, Hollywood saw an inflow of Hong Kong film stars such as Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-Fat, and Michelle Yeoh; filmmakers including John Woo, Tsui Hark, Stanley Tong, Ronnie Yu, and Kirk Wong; and martial arts choreographers including Yeun Woo-Ping and Corey Yeun. In the international art-house film scene, the reputation of Hong Kong filmmakers makes viewers familiar with names like Wong Kar-Wai, Stanley Kwan, Ann Hui and Fruit Chan. At the same time Hong Kong itself is undergoing an unprecedented process of decolonization and forming a perhaps more unified national identity. However, the very term "national identity" is contested since Hong Kong is being legally and culturally absorbed into the PRC while many of its people have strong lingering feelings that Hong Kong is and should continue to be a very separate society, distinct linguistically, culturally and—for many—politically from the mainland.
Thus Hong Kong cinema becomes an interesting way to examine the disjunctures that Hong Kong represents culturally and politically, especially in light of the end of British colonial rule. Film in general is a crucial industry for revealing the mechanisms of contemporary transnational production and global circulation of commodities. The transnational film industry offers a speculative ground for global capital investment, and it reveals patterns of international commodification, including international capital's various contending factors or levels of functioning within national and local communities. In this light, film scholars ask these kinds of questions: Is Hong Kong cinema becoming more national or transnational? How do the film talents in this industry and the works that derive from it react to challenges of (post) colonialism and nationalism? In very diverse ways and to differing degrees, political concerns underpin and inform essays in At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World.
The cover image of this anthology "Asia the Invincible" comes from Tsui Hark and Ching Siu-Tung's Swordsman III—the East is Red; together with the volume's title, the image suggests an analogous embodiment of Hong Kong cinema as the "Hollywood of the East" that "registers the industry's pursuit of the global market, a pursuit that mirrors Hollywood's, whose 'authentic' productions consolidate its screen hegemony"(8). Thus Hong Kong cinema seems to be playing "Hollywood" in the age of global capitalism, only on a smaller scale. "Borderless" in the title represents the authors' attempt to suggest a theoretical paradigm that would eliminate any confining intellectual essentialism. The book's critical goal is to allow a more flexible cultural identity of Hong Kong to be articulated and imagined than could be done using a more traditional "national cinema" approach. Yau proposes a notion of "borderless" to express the flexibility of Hong Kong cinema in this era of global capitalism without imposing a critic's totalizing perspective on the area's diverse and alternative modernities. The book exposes globlism's imposition of power differentials. Complexly the articles suggest both a de-territorialization and a re-territorializing of borders that lie in "the shadow of capital,"[1] of places shaped by specters of nation-states and earlier regional economies.
In thirteen equally fascinating contributions, this volume addresses contemporary issues in Hong Kong cinema. The authors take innovative steps to confront new issues on every front, developing new zones of research and new vocabularies to analyze transnational cultural communication. Offering an historical overview, in Part One, "Hong Kong's New Wave Cinema," Law Kar traces the rise of the Hong Kong New Wave in the late 1970s; this movement includes directors such as Tsui Hark, Ann Hui, Alex Cheung, Peter Yung, Yim Ho, Patrick Tam, Allen Fong. Looking at the movement historically, Law Kar outlines the background of the social activism in the 1960s and the rise of television in the 1970s that laid the ground for the Hong Kong New Wave Cinema.
Describing intellectual history, Hector Rodriguez examines the development of the Hong Kong New Wave as a cultural field, which he sees functioning as an institutional, ethical and aesthetic system during the 1960s and 1970s. He also emphasizes the importance of the film movement itself in that it constituted a community and developed a cosmopolitan outlook among filmmakers and critics that also became an important way for the movement to define itself. Through their historical examination of the rise of the Hong Kong New Wave cinema, both Law Kar and Hector Rodriguez also attempt to rediscover an historical and cultural identity for Hong Kong. The essays reaffirm two mutual concerns: Hong Kong has a local identity that is in transformation and also facilitates a cosmopolitan stance. These concerns pave ways for discussions of the cinema's success as discussed in the following two sections of the anthology. Part One offers a comprehensive historical account of and research on Hong Kong's New Wave as a "golden age." The directors of that movement are united their understanding of film form, their being influenced by world cinema , and their commitment to articulating specific concerns related to Hong Kong's local identity.
Politically, two very different and often contradictory identificatory strategies circulate in Hong Kong, and perhaps also in China itself, to define the uniqueness of Hong Kong's culture and identity. On the one hand, many intellectuals and politicians insist that southern Cantonese Hong Kong has little to do with "official" Mandarin mainland culture because the former colony's local culture cannot be adequately translated. On the other hand, Hong Kong's colonial legacy makes it an "international" city that keeps it culturally distinct from what many consider to be a more provincial mainland society. So ironically Hong Kong is regarded both as too "local" and too "global" to be assimilated into the PRC. For this reason, the study of contemporary Hong Kong cinema has a larger usefulness for scholars. It may contribute to understanding how modernist/cosmopolitan identity discourses, with identity rooted in colonialism, have been and are currently constructed. In particular, scholars studying this group of films and mediamakers must take into consideration of local and transnational political and socio-economic forces operating in Hong Kong. Most of the essays in this volume deal with transnational identity formations and the cultural implications of film production in an age of global capitalism. Using an economic analysis, critics also need to trace the flow of capital through the Hong Kong film industry and analyze relations between investment and film distribution to further explore this case study of the transnational capital.
In Part Two, in his essay "In Action: Entertainment, Aesthetics, and Reinventions," David Bordwell gives an inclusive strategy for formalist analysis. Looking closely at the style and shot-by-shot mechanics of Hong Kong action cinema, Bordwell compares the action sequences of Hong Kong action movies to Hollywood's, suggesting specific ways Hong Kong artists have perfected their craft in pursuit of emotional effect. In particular, Bordwell shows how Hong Kong filmmakers have mixed elements of Chinese cultural heritage with cinematic editing techniques reaching back to Eisenstein that strengthen the emotional undertones of action by playing with speed of motion.
In another essay "The Killer: Cult Film and Transcultural (Mis)reading," Jinsoo An tackles the issues of transcultural readings of Hong Kong cinema more directly, focusing on Korean audiences' consumption of John Woo's The Killer as a form of cult cinema. An says the film occupies a fluid cultural space for Korean male viewers, reiterating "traditional masculine values and melodramatic pathos"(107) that provide reaffirmation of masculine ideals with which much of the Korean male audience feel a deep affinity and identification. An attempts to engage with what he sees as the text's problematics by offering a genealogy and critical evaluation of "cult cinema" especially in relation to Korea. In such a way, An's examination expands the notion of "borderless" by demonstrating a flexibility in interpretation and in reading viewer response across different ethnic groups. Importantly, An takes into account a variety of ideological positions for heterogeneous audiences, positions shaped by viewers' different historical, social and political backgrounds. Hong Kong cinema seems to enable a wide variety of (il)legitimate (mis)readings. This kind of creative reception is constituted by discursive constructs and theoretical paradigms such as genre (cult cinema) or ethnic and regional configurations. As An puts it, Hong Kong cinema allows "an alternative imaginary landscape to the hegemonic Hollywood model" (109).
In "Life Imitates Entertainment: Home and Dislocation," Steve Fore suggests similarities between developments in the martial arts genre since the 1970s and the social ideologies conceptualizing Hong Kong as a world city. He examines this parallel by considering the shifts and transformations of Jackie Chan's screen personae. Fore also examines Jackie Chan's films within the marital arts film genre in Hong Kong to analyze Chan's transformations from earlier movies like Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, Drunken Master, Project A to later works such as Drunken Master II, Rumble in the Bronx, Mr. Nice Guy, Who am I and Rush Hour. Looking critically at the changes in Jackie Chan's screen personae, Fore demonstrates how the "local" in Hong Kong film production has been permeated by a framework of the "transnational," as seen in the way Chan's screen personae are known throughout the world. The way the media rely on star images and the way the entertainment industry uses the media to create star images raises interesting discussions about agency, identity and subjectivity in this era of globalism, especially as related to "minor" film industries beyond Hollywood. Also dealing with the martial arts genre but from a different perspective in "Hong Kong Hysteria: Martial Arts Tales from a Mutating World," Bhaskar Sarkar describes marital arts movies of the 1990s as displaying anxiety over emerging new economic realities and political positions. The films' themes reflect the impossibility of using unruly allegories of "nation" to grasp this accelerated social/political reality. Sarkar uses the term of "hysteria" to describe the cultural logic of extensive spatial transformations and temporal dislocations for people who find their lived experiences ungraspable; for them, to a certain extent the category of "history" and the allegory of "nation" no longer apply.
Also dealing with ambiguities of Hong Kong's identity, Stephen Teo explores in "Tsui Hark: National Style and Polemic" how Tsui's films contain ambivalent and volatile mixes of identity politics and orientalist myths and icons. Teo examines the films' construction and deconstruction of orientalist myths and argues that from a technical and stylist point of view that Tsui Hark's "notion of speed overrides the consistent theme of nationalism" (147) and even overrides narrative emotional intensity. He considers Tsui Hark as an important pioneer of Hong Kong's postmodern cinema in that that Tsui's films construct a multicultural Chinese world (146). Teo suggests that the filmmaker is motivated by a sense of Chinese "otherness" as a Chinese born in Vietnam. He also examines how Tsui acknowledges different notions of "Chineseness" in his films in order to problematize identity formation since a Hong Kong "identity" might not even be a determinable category.
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|GPTC buses
This particular blog post narrated a story about how ex-staff member of the company were stiffed by the administration as part of the systematic approach Jammeh and his political partners adopted in dismembering the GPTC.
First published April 25, 2014
In tabling the Act of Parliament in November 2012 that repealed the GPTC out of existence by, the then Minister of Works, Construction and Infrastructure promised Gambians that all salaries and benefits owed to GPTC staff affected by the dissolution will be paid in full.
As a former staff member reminded us all recently, "it will be one year next month since the Minister of Works announced before the National Assembly that the former staff of the GPTC will be paid all their benefits but which has not yet materialized."
The quote was made in October of last year. One year six months have now gone without the regime of Jammeh fulfilling its promise. At the time, the Permanent Secretary at the Works Ministry, Abdoulie Camara, claimed that all the "paper work" has been completed and forwarded to "the appropriate authorities" meaning the Attorney General's Office. A local newspaper reporter, interested in the plight of the former staff members, visited the Ministry of Justice and demanded answers from the then Solicitor General, Pa Harry Jammeh, who informed the reporter that the file was indeed "on his desk and that action with be taken shortly."
Pa Harry Jammeh was soon therefore accused and charged of unrelated crimes. He was succeeded by Basiru Mahoney who claimed immediately claimed ignorance by claiming that he knew nothing about the issue and that there was no file pertaining to outstanding salaries and benefits to former staff of the GPTC. This is in spite of the claim by the Permanent Secretary of the Works Ministry that the file has been forwarded to the Justice Ministry and confirmed by the former Solicitor General.
Meanwhile, ex-staff have been undergoing agonizing periods with their families in an urban setting without employment and without benefits due them. One ex-staffer explained how he had to send his wife and kids up-country to relatives to save his family that he can no longer maintain in Greater Banjul. Some marriages have ended in divorce and children have been withdrawn from school because of a regime that was interested in dissolving a public corporation that provided a vital and reliable service to the public.
During the extra-ordinary session of the National Assembly that was convened in a haste at the direction of Jammeh, from the Speaker, through NAM members like Netty Baldeh of Tumana, Alhaji Sillah of Banjul North and Fabakary Tombong Jatta of Serrekunda East among others kept reassuring their colleagues that they found nothing controversial about the Repeal Bill, as if they were trying to convince themselves that they were doing was in the interest of the people who sent them to Parliament to protect their interest.
Prior to becoming parliamentarians, all of these characters were users of GPTC. They were, therefore, aware of the vital role it played in transporting Gambians around the country, and thus the reluctance on their part to proceed with the Bill but could not bring themselves to challenge the absolute power of the dictator.
In the words of the UDP Minority Leader, Mr. Momodou L.K.Sanneh of Kiang West, " the collapse of GPTC is man-made because before 1994, the institution was in good shape." The former opposition lawmaker also blamed staff and management of the corporation for what he described as "supporting the culture of silence" for failing to raise the alarm when "they saw the institution going towards the wrong direction."
All the assurances given to Gambians by the Jammeh regime have not been fulfilled. In the words of the then Works Minister, having closed an old chapter, it is only prudent that we must "look to the not too distant future for realizing our our dreams with regard to public transport." The said Minister continued to reassure members of the National Assembly that "government is ever conscious of its commitment to provided public transport for the socio-economic development pf this country."
They knew the sensitive nature of public transport (including the school bus service which was also a victim of the dissolution of GPTC) and the potential disruption it could cause if the vow they are creating is not filled immediately, which led the Minister to continue assuring the general public, through the National Assembly, that "plans are afoot for the revival of this mode of transport in line with the objectives of the Program for Accelerated Growth and Development."
The vacuum created by the "disbanding of the corporation" to use the word of the regime has not been filled. The public's transportation needs have not been met. The school bus service is nonexistent, and the ex-staff of GPTC have not been paid their dues. The regime and members of the National Assembly have, once again, failed in protecting the interest of Gambians in pursuit of the selfish interest of a few. Gambians deserve better.
CORRECTION: It has been brought to our attention that Pa Harry Jammeh never jumped bail. The correction have been made with our apologies to Pa Harry and to all those affected.