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Myron J. Taylor When I began to think seriously about the celebration of the Lord's Supper in worship, I came to realize what an opportunity it was to say something theologically and spiritually significant each week. I began to write a communion meditation to be printed in the order of service each Sunday. Many have said they found these short pieces helpful. Other ministers have asked to use them in their worship. Several hundred of these meditations are available. ~ Dr. Myron J. Taylor Also Available: A Service For The Celebration of The Lord's Supper A Service For The Celebration of The Lord's Supper For Children Communion and Christian Character An article on the ethical dimension of The Supper and a series of Communion Meditations on "The Fruit of The Spirit" in Galatians 5:22-26. This is an attempt to encourage people to grow ethically as a result of their worship. The Communion Meditation You have examined yourself. You have Confessed your sins. Now is the time to express your intention to lead a new life. Be specific about it. Have you been unkind and uncharitable? Henceforth, with God's help, you will be kind and charitable. Have you been lazy? Henceforth, God helping, you will be diligent. Have you been self-indulgent? Henceforth, by God's grace, you will be self-controlled and self-denying. You alone can see the old self you are casting off and the new self you are taking on. If you honestly feel you do not want this new life strongly enough, pray this prayer: "O Lord, help me want to be the person you want me to be." The Communion Meditation The Lord's Table is a place of proclamation. Here we proclaim that Jesus is our Lord and that it is he who feeds us spiritually and upon whom we depend in our hunger. Here the benefits of Christ's death are made real to us. Here we proclaim to the world our unity in Christ. Our unity is declared by our common need, our common prayer, and our common food. This is a unity not of our own creation but of God's—he makes us one. Here we proclaim in our thanksgiving. "Eucharist" means thanksgiving. The first communion was a thanksgiving to God and so is our feast today. Join us in our proclamation. The Communion Meditation The spirit in which we come to the Lord's table is of paramount importance. Paul wrote "Examine yourself and only then eat of the bread and drink of the cup" (I Corinthians 11:28).Unless we come in the right spirit Christ cannot help us. A right spirit at the Lord's Supper is one of thinking about Jesus in his suffering and death, a spirit of humility, forgiveness, and mercy, a spirit of confession, contrition, and concern. Jesus taught us to pray, "Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us." Attitude is important. The Communion Meditation Teaching and an appreciation of the sacraments go hand in hand. Often it is held that sacramental worship is better for simple people than worship in which preaching predominates. It is claimed that the sacraments picture the truth more vividly and dramatically re-enact it so that all can easily grasp it. This is very much a half-truth. The sacrament of the Lord's Supper only becomes effective when it has been preceded by the fullest and most complete instruction. A teaching ministry and a sacramental ministry must go hand in hand. If you would have the Lord's Supper mean more to you learn more of the basic nature of Christianity. Worship often means so little because we understand so little. The Communion Meditation Where is the sacrifice in the Lord's Supper? Not in the elements of bread and wine, but in the identification of ourselves with Christ. It is not a sacrifice of what is material. It is a sacrifice of the spirit. To forgive the person who has wronged us, to love our enemy, to conquer pride, to overcome lust, to deny the sins that so easily get to us–these things mean sacrifice, and unless we make such sacrifice, the cross of Jesus has not brought us into reconciliation with God. The Communion Meditation We sometimes wish that we were able to see the Lord Jesus in the days of his flesh, to walk with him through the fields, and to hear him teach. Yet it is possible for Jesus to be with his people in a very real sense. While in the flesh he was "the prisoner of an hour and place". Only when he was no longer present as a man among men and women could his presence be manifested to all people in every place through the power of the Holy Spirit. That was the reason Jesus said that it was "expedient" for him to go away (John 16:7). Now, as we open our hearts to him, he will come and live in us. "Listen! I am standing at the door knocking; if you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to you, and eat with you, and you with me." The Communion Meditation Do you have real faith as you come to the Lord's table? It is easy to answer that question glibly–and wrongly. You believe in God, you profess the body of essential Christian beliefs, and so, you may conclude, you have faith. But ask yourself this, do I live by simple and wholehearted trust in God, or do I put that trust by which I live in my own self, or in luck, or in money, or in other people? God bids us to put our whole trust in him. The Lord's Supper is an act of simple trust. We come, obedient to the Word, To feast on heavenly food; Our meat the body of the Lord, Our drink his precious blood. The Communion Meditation Dr. Leslie D. Weatherhead describes for us a communion service in his old church in Madras, India. He pictures at communion "a converted Buddhist and his family, a converted Brahmin, a young fellow who was born a Mohammedan, a leper, a half-caste, a prosperous English businessman, a Davidian student, a Syrian Christian, the colonel of the regiment in which I served in the war, an Indian lawyer, a professor at the university." This is a picture of the Church universal, united across all barriers of our fractured humanity, kneeling at the feet of Jesus. What other real hope is there for unity? The Communion Meditation The Lord's Supper is effective–it does something. This is strange language to most of us. We understand how we do something, take the bread and break it and the cup and drink it, but we may not see how God does anything. We do not come to the table to learn something with our minds: we come to meet God. God and people meet here and something happens. Here we touch eternity. Here God gives love, forgiveness, acceptance and we receive. He acts, and we adore. In prayer we go to God. In the Lord's Supper he comes to us. We are not learning something, or remembering something, but doing something–we are meeting God. The Communion Meditation It is the Lord himself who presides at the table. He solemnly says to us, "This is my body. This cup is the New Covenant in my blood." Remember that these are his own words, and these words mean nothing, unless they mean that through the bread and wine which we receive, his real Presence is given to the believing soul. As we receive that Presence we find that he is able to do for us all that his disciples found he could do for them. He brings forgiveness to us, and he renews us; he teaches us what his will is that we should do, and he makes us strong to do it; he heals the wounds and comforts the sorrows of our life: he brings us back to our Father, and gives us our place again in our Father's house. The Communion Meditation It was the Lord's last wish that the Supper be kept "In remembrance of me", and the Church has always held it sacred. In the simple, yet unfathomably profound, action of the Lord's Supper, faith has been nourished down the centuries, and hope kindled, and love sustained. So the Church, at Christ's command, takes the bread, and breaks it, and sees Calvary before its eyes; takes the wine, and pours it out, and remembers the blood of the cross by which the world is saved. The Church, in the keeping of the Supper, has always found, not only a memorial but a presence. God comes to us and makes himself real to our faith. "Here, O my Lord, I see Thee face to face." The Communion Meditation Dr. James Cleland of Duke University was deeply impressed as a boy by his mother's love for the Communion Service. For over sixty years she seldom missed a celebration. He sought her interpretation of the Lord's Supper one day and writes: "She looked at me frankly and said, seriously and determinedly, 'Our Lord asked his friends not to forget him, I am one of his friends. I do not forget him.' " We gather today about the Lord's Table as friends of Jesus. The Communion Meditation The sacrament of the Lord's Supper ought to be a demonstration of the unity of the Church–and, God forgive us!–it is in fact the center of disunity. Some parts (denominations, sects) will not allow other parts of the church to participate in the Celebration of the Lord's Supper. In some churches you are not allowed to partake of the Supper unless they approve of you. It is sad! The only cure for this sad state is to remember and never forget that this table is the Lord's table, and not the table of any denomination or sect. At the table we are all guests of the Lord Jesus Christ, not the guests of any part of the Church. No church has the right to bar any person who belongs to Christ from the table. This is not a private party. It is, or it ought to be, a gathering of the guests of Jesus Christ. All Christians are a part of the body of Christ. Pray for the unity of the Church. The Communion Meditation Belief of any kind is enormously strengthened when we find that we do not stand alone. What we gain as individuals from our membership in the Church as a society is the realization of our common allegiance to Jesus Christ as Lord and head of the Church. This allegiance unites all kinds and conditions of people, rich and poor, ignorant and learned, all nations and colors, into one fellowship in Christ. This is beautifully expressed in the Lord's Supper. In the midst of our many differences we confess our oneness in Christ as we break the bread and drink the cup. From this experience we should arise feeling brotherly. The Communion Meditation As we examine ourselves at the time of communion we honestly face up to our sins and failures. Having faced our sins, we offer them to God in penitent confession. We believe in the forgiveness of sins. But God can forgive us only as we are forgivable. We make ourselves forgivable by acknowledging, confessing, detesting, and resolving to part company with our sins. As you do this be absolutely simple and direct–offer your sins to God and ask him to take them away from you. One Christmas night Jerome wanted to give a special present to Jesus. First he offered Christ his monumental works on the Scriptures, then his labors for the conversion of souls, then his own virtues. Christ is said to have answered him by saying, "It is your sins I wish for. Give them to me that I may pardon them." Christ asks the same of you. The Communion Meditation We must not think of the Lord's Supper in terms of magic. Sacramental symbolism can easily become literalistic magic. There was a time when great anxiety was shown that not a crumb of the bread or a drop of the wine should be lost. All of this finally culminated in the belief that a miracle actually changed the bread into Christ's body and the wine into his blood. Such magical ideas still persist in the minds of some. The power of a sacrament is allied to the faith which the participant brings to it. There is a sense in which we get from the supper in proportion as the faith we bring to it. "According to your faith, so be it unto you." The Lord's Supper is not so much a begetter of faith as it is a nourisher of faith. Be sure you have faith and not a belief in magic. The Communion Meditation The Lord's Supper is the central act of Christian worship. Wherever the church takes root, there its life is quickened, nourished, and manifested in the Celebration of the Lord's Supper. It is central in worship because it gathers up, expresses and makes effective the whole meaning of the spiritual life. It proclaims the Christian Gospel: in it God comes to us with his forgiveness and his strength. One by one as we partake, we respond to him with gratitude and awe. As one person has said, "It is the richest, the most appealing, the most mysterious, the tenderest of all. It gathers into its fathomless depths the unsearchable riches of Christ." So may it be to you today. The Communion Meditation When Jesus said, "Do this," he was extending to each of us an invitation to meet him in this meal, and he was laying an obligation upon us. If the responsibility of coming to the table is a serious one, and self-examination is necessary as preparation, what about the responsibility of staying away, and leaving undone something he definitely told us to do? We all know how sacred we hold the dying request made to us by one we love. Each Lord's Day we have the responsibility of keeping our appointment at the Lord's table. The Communion Meditation Around the world Christians meet on the Lord's Day to celebrate the Eucharist, the Communion, the Lord's Supper. Every hour around the clock somewhere around the world Christians are celebrating the beautiful supper left to the Church by Jesus himself. We come to the table from the North and South, the East and the West. It is a great privilege to share this meal. While there is no cost to us, the cross is there to remind us of the great cost to the host. It is the Lord's table, and all the people of God are invited to come and feast. It is the table of unity. God intends all our hearts to be one in Christ. It is sad that we have made it the table that divides. Keep the supper today and pray for the unity of the Church. The Communion Meditation We have been thinking of the Lord's Supper as the memorial of Jesus which he himself instituted. But the elements are not merely an object-lesson whose purpose is to call to our remembrance what happened at Calvary. We eat the broken bread and drink the out-poured wine believing that what God did in Jesus Christ for the sin of the world he does for our sin today. He forgives it, and reconciles us to himself through the sacrifice of Jesus. The chief significance of the Lord's Supper does not lie in what we do in it, but in the manner in which it shows forth what God has done for us in Jesus Christ. The Communion Meditation Words can express friendship and love, but a handclasp or an embrace communicates and expresses, and therefore makes real, that friendship or that love far more deeply. Thus in all communities and all human relations there are material as well as verbal symbols; physical acts and objects, ceremonies and sacraments, that communicate, express and make real the common life. Material symbols are apt to seem to us either superstitious or sill. They can be sacramental–through the material the spiritual comes. When they are inwardly received with repentance and trust, the judgment and love of God are immediately present, unqualifiedly real, and effectively active. Instead of implying the unreality or absence of that to which it refers, a symbol communicates the reality it symbolizes. Through the sacraments of baptism and Lord's Supper our Lord is really present in his Church. The Communion Meditation Shortly after suffering a stroke the notable theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr, said he would rather receive the gospel of God's eternal love through the Eucharist than hear some theologian or preacher theorize about it. There is said he, a directness and a reality in the sacramental symbols of the Word that our own spoken words do not have. The sacraments are, so to speak, the enacted gospel, when these symbols are received in faith—when the judgment and love of Christ are received through them in real inner repentance and trust—Christ is really present to us, and present in the most direct and real manner possible. He is the Word of God's judgment on our sins and of God's mercy and love that will accept us. In the Eucharist Christ is made very real to us. The Communion Meditation Sacrament comes from the Latin sacramentum which means a pledge or sacred oath. It was the military oath of allegiance which a soldier took when he joined the Roman army. In a dramatic moment the soldier pledged his allegiance to his commanding officer and promised to uphold the regimental standards, never flee from the field of battle, and fight to the death if necessary. When a Christian is baptized that person takes a solemn pledge of allegiance to Jesus as Lord. When that person comes in worship to the Lord's Supper it is a pledge of absolute loyalty to Jesus Christ. Every time we break the bread and drink the cup we say again, "Jesus is Lord." Be sure that for you it is reality–not ritual. The Communion Meditation At the Lord's table we demonstrate that we are one. "Anyone who east and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself" (I Cor. 11:29). Many feel that the words "the Lord's" before body in another translation are not a part of the original text. The correct phrasing is "without discerning the body". The person condemned is the one who does not discern that Christian's are the Lord's body, and must be in unity before they dare approach the sacrament. The Corinthian Christians were plagued with divisions and factions which moved Paul to write about the Lord's Supper in the first place. Paul's point is that to dare to partake of the sacrament while there are factions and cliques and divisions within the church is shameful and sinful. This faces us with the terrifying fact that it may be that so long as the church is so divided at the table of her Lord every celebration of the supper is a crime against our Lord. The sad state of the church is that it is divided at the very place which proclaims its unity. Pray for the unity of the Church. The Communion Meditation Historically it is interesting that John Calvin desired the celebration of the Lord's Supper to take place every Sunday. His reason is worth noting—"Seeing the great consolation that the faithful receive from it and the fruit which proceeds from it in every way, both from the promises which are there presented to our faith (for we are truly made partakers of the body and blood of Jesus, of his death, of his life, of his Spirit and of all his riches), and from the exhortations therein made to us, to recognize and magnify in our praise to God's wonderful gift of favour towards us, and finally to live in a Christian manner, being joined together in real peace and brotherly unity as members of a single body". Calvin calls attention to three graces which are given in the Supper: (1) participation in the body and blood of Christ; (2) praise to God, which is the primary sense of the word "Eucharist"; (3) and the fellowship of believers with each other. The Communion Meditation The history of the Lord's Supper reveals a number of changes–a series of movements–which are revealing. There is a movement from the house to the Church. The Lord's Supper began as a family meal, a meal of friends in a private house. That was a big change. There is a big difference in the celebration of the Supper in a Christian home in the First Century and in a cathedral in the Twentieth Century. There is a movement from being a real meal to becoming solely a symbolic meal. It originated in a meal for hungry people. The Lord's Supper was originally a family meal in a household of friends. There is a movement from bare simplicity to elaborate splendor. We still try to emphasize the simplicity of it. All these movements need to be remembered and perhaps, studied as we seek to understand the celebration of the Supper. We want to keep something of the warmth and personal interaction (fellowship) and simplicity of those early days, but we need to be reminded that does not mean carelessness, slovenliness, or downright crudity. Never forget you are meeting the Master. The Communion Meditation In our celebration of the Lord's Supper one of our Elders, serving at the table in the place of Christ, says, "All Christians are welcome at this table". Two theological statements underscore the significance of such an expression. Llucas Vischer writes: "The unity of the Church becomes visible in the common confession of the apostolic faith and in the celebration of the Eucharist" (Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry).That statement fits well with this most powerful and meaningful word: "Through baptism and faith, Christians are brought into the life of the Church universal as well as into the visible community of the local church" (Ibid). Sacraments help us realize that we are a part of the one Church of God in this place and in all places. As you partake of the elements today try to think of what it means to be a member of that one great Church—the people of God—in this place and in all places around the world. This kind of thinking must prevail if the Church is ever to come to think of itself as one. As we keep the Supper we feel our oneness with all Christians in all other places in the world. The Communion Meditation More and more Christians around the world in the various expressions of the Church–the people of God–are coming to realize that the weekly celebration of the Eucharist is in keeping with its significance in the Scriptures and is desirable for the development of the spiritual commitment necessary for Christian life today. As the Church seeks to find again a visible expression of its unity, the sacraments are given an opportunity to allow their true significance as Christ's gifts to the church shine out ever more clearly. Lukas Vischer writes: "One of the most important statements in this entire document (Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry) perhaps is the recommendation that the Eucharist should be celebrated regularly, at least every Sunday" (p.8). The new "Service for the Lord's Day" for the Presbyterian Church reads: "From New Testament times the celebration of the Lord's Supper on each Lord's Day has been the norm of Christian worship" (p. 20). Keeping the Supper each week does not make it become common and routine, but like looking on a picture of one whom we love makes them grow dearer and dearer. The Communion Meditation At the center of Christian worship is the celebration of the Lord's Supper. It helps to focus our attention of Jesus rather than on the sermon of our favorite preacher. The sermon is important–deserves to be the best it can be–but must always be seen as an act of worship offered to our Lord and preparing the way to meet him in the action of keeping the Supper. More and more Christians are coming to see the spiritual benefits of such worship. The Presbyterian Book of Worship says: "Holy communion was given by Christ himself. Before church governments were devised, before creeds were formalized, even before the first word of the New Testament was written, the Lord's Supper was firmly fixed at the heart of Christian faith and life. From the church's inception, Lord's Day and Lord's Supper were joined. Worship on each Lord's Day was a service of Word (preaching) and sacrament" (The Service for the Lord's Day, p. 20), The celebration of the Supper centers our minds and hearts where they should be–on Jesus Christ–expecially on the meaning of his life, death and resurrection. Keep the Supper sincerely and be drawn ever closer to Jesus Christ. The Communion Meditation When it was evening, Jesus sat at a table with the twelve disciples, and as they were eating, he said, "Truly I say to you, one of you will betray me" and they were very sorrowful, and began to say to him one after another, "Lord, is it I?" (Matt. 26:20-22). The saddest words in the Bible are not "and they crucified him", but these, "One of you shall betray me." The cruelest nails ever driven were not those driven into his hands and feet, but these his friends drove into his heart. It still goes on among his most trusted followers. The upper room question is still appropriate for us to ask in these quiet moments of introspection. "Lord, is it I?" The Communion Meditation "Do this in remembrance of me", said Jesus. What does it mean to "remember" Jesus in the Lord's Supper? The Greek word for "remember" (anamnesis) suggests not something past or absent as in a memorial, but rather a "calling to mind", a "re-calling". The Lord's Supper is the making present of the true Lamb of God who is Jesus Christ. We are remembering someone who was crucified, dead, buried, and who rose again. We are remembering One who is gloriously alive. We remember Jesus not as a dead fact stranded on the shores of the oblivious years, but risen from the dead and gloriously alive and active in his Church. The Communion Meditation Today we emphasize the simplest and yet the deepest meaning of the Lord's Supper–"Christ died for me." When we break the bread, and when we pour out the wine, we do not sacrifice Jesus anew in the sense of repeating what happened at Calvary. Rather we hold up the symbols that give expression to that one perfect sacrifice, and we pray the Father who gave his Son on our behalf to accept us. But God can accept us only as we truly consecrate ourselves to him. For the purpose of that consecration we meet at this table today. The Communion Meditation The Lord's Supper is the central act of Christian worship. Olive Wyou has written, "From the upper room there stretches an unbroken chain of light–like a chain of fires burning in the darkness–down the centuries to our own day." Yet this act of worship is sadly misunderstood. I would briefly mention three aspects of its meaning: First, the historical or memorial aspect, we remember here what was said and done by Jesus that last night in the upper room; this feast commemorates the mighty acts of God's grace in the cross and resurrection. Second, there is the timeless or eternal aspect. Here we are lifted out of time and have communion with the very life of God. This feast brings to us the very presence of God. Here we have fellowship with God. Around this table God becomes real. Thirdly, by this act of worship we proclaim silently but nevertheless effectively that our faith is in Jesus Christ; there we re-dedicate, re-consecrate, re-commit ourselves to the faith we took upon ourselves when we were baptized. This is holy ground. Let all mortal lips be sealed and every mind attuned to God. The Communion Meditation Understanding human nature as none other has ever done, our Lord not only appointed a special time when his disciples should "remember him" in thought and meditation; he gave them something to "do". Know what the observance of the Passover had meant to the Jewish people for generation after generation, he instituted a new feast. In this act Jesus enlisted all those subtle influences that cause the heart-strings to vibrate when men and women unite together in doing some solemn action. Each time the disciples observed this feast they could not but hear his voice speaking to them, feel his spiritual Presence, and be reminded of the meaning of the bread and wine which they had received from him on that last night in the upper room. So may we hear his voice and know his Presence as we meet about the table. The Communion Meditation To go to Church is to go to heaven. Our worship is meant to be the nearest thing to heaven that we can experience in this world. Time is transcended—past and future are brought into the present. What God has prepared for us in the future, is, in a sense present, not in its fullness, but as a foretaste. There is a sense that as we keep the Supper we are present at the great Marriage Feast of the Lamb. Worship, and especially the keeping of the Lord's Supper, is meant to help us make real in the present what heaven will be in the future. As we worship we are present in the upper room, on Golgotha, in the Garden of Resurrection, and, at the Golden altar before the heavenly throne. To worship is to go to heaven. The Communion Meditation (First Sunday in the New Year) On every page of the New Testament there meets you a wonderful sense of energy, exhilaration, an amazing consciousness of power. The writers never attribute it to anything within themselves–no strutting complacency, no blustering bragging "We are able". What you do find over and over again is "He is able". That is a marvelous thought as we begin a New Year. A thousand difficulties may lie across the path: God is able to bring us through. God is "able to help those who are being tested" (Heb. 2:18); "Able for all time to save" (Heb. 7:25); "Able to keep you from falling" (Jude 24); "Able to guard until that day what I have entrusted to him" (2 Tim. 1:12); "Able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine" (Eph. 3:20). Go into the New Year with courage and faith, trusting God to be able to lead you through. The old hymn says, "I am weak but thou art strong". God is able. The Communion Meditation Our experience at the celebration of the Lord's Supper is meant to be a corporate experience–a real communion. It is not private devotions time. My dear friend of many years, Robert E. Reeves, died of cancer recently. In a short piece in Christian Standard, which may well have been the last public piece he wrote, he said: "Last Sunday morning when I got up, I intended to go to church. I didn't feel well enough to attend…I went back to bed. After an hour or so of resting I got up put on a video of the worship service at Plainfield (Indiana) Christian Church. I worshiped with them and when they took communion, I communed with them having the elements at home. It was a meaningful experience. I was home alone, but the Lord's Supper was a corporate experience." That is spiritually uplifting and theologically instructive. Separation in distance does not necessarily destroy corporate experience. Home is where the heart is. You may be at home, but when your heart is with us around the Lord's table that is a real communion. The Communion Meditation I love the communion service and have always loved it. To me it is the richest experience in worship that the church has to offer. I can find God in nature or beside the sea or under the great arch of the sky, but nothing can take the place of being a part of that adoring company which gathers around the table of the Lord. I love the quietness, and its distinctive beauty. The greatest music and the greatest art are dedicated to this table. I love the spiritual dignity and the reverence of the atmosphere which surrounds the celebration to the Christian who believes in Christ as the Son of God and who accepts the cross as the means of one's personal salvation, the communion service is meaningful beyond all words to describe it. No spiritually sensitive person can partake of the symbols of the death of Jesus without feeling that in some mysterious way one has, in that moment, met with God. The Communion Meditation Here in the celebration of the Supper is a symbolic act that brings home to us, as no mere words can do, the great affirmations of the Christian faith. Goethe once said, "The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted." Here is the highest point of our worship which offers the forgiveness of sin, healing for sorrow, strength for the day, and peace within even in the most adverse circumstances. For all who "draw near with faith" there is the realization of a divine presence and a power whereby the heart is cleansed, renewed, and comforted. At this table is the opportunity for self-commitment. "We offer and present to you, O Lord, our selves, our souls and our bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice to you." The Communion Meditation The Lord's Supper brings us face to face with the death of Jesus Christ. All through the New Testament there runs one mighty thought: Christ died to bring us into fellowship with God. He did for us what we could never have done for ourselves. The fact of Jesus' death is never complete until we make our personal response to it. We make that response in three ways: First, by faith, which is obedient trust, with a sense of our sin upon us we put ourselves in the hands of the crucified and living Christ for now and forever–we give our lives to Christ; Second, in the Lord's Supper when, still by faith, we appropriate (receive) the spiritual benefits of Christ's death symbolized in the broken bread and the outpoured wine; and third, by sacrificial living, remembering what Christ has done for us, we give ourselves for others in service and selfless love as Christ gave himself for us. Participate in the Supper and accept into your life the meaning of the cross of Christ. The Communion Meditation The Daily Bruin for January 31, 2000, carried the report of a lecture delivered at UCLA by Karen Umemoto, professor of Urban Planning at the University of Hawaii on the subject of "Hate Crimes…in Los Angeles". From 1994 to 1997 hate crimes have increased in our city. The average age of that crime suspects is between 11 and 23 years of age. Hate crimes are those involving bias, prejudice o r hatred based on a victims race. The lectures said, "I think there has to be a policy solution combined with a community solution". Law can only go so far, and then, some change in the human heart has to take place. That is where the Church and the Lord's Supper comes in. How can we even touch the elements of the Supper and hate. Since we live in a culture that too often teaches us to hate, we need very badly the influence of the Church that teaches us to love. Every Christian who takes the wafer and drinks the wine ought to remember that that act commits us to go out and seek to express love in all our relationships that week. "Those who say, 'I love God', and hate their brothers and sisters, are liars" (I John 4;20). The Lord's table is the place where we pledge to love. The Communion Meditation The celebration of the Lord's Supper is increasingly a witness to the unity of the whole church. As a Christian Church we have believed that the purpose of coming together on the Lord's Day is to celebrate the Lord's Supper. More and more churches are coming to see the spiritual value of keeping the Lord's Supper each Sunday. Read carefully these words from The Service for the Lord's Day (Presbyterian): "From New Testament times the celebration of the Lord's Supper on each Lord's Day has been the norm of Christian worship.…Holy communion was given us by Christ himself. Before church governments were devised, before creeds were formalized, even before the first word of the New Testament was written, the Lord's Supper was firmly fixed at the heart of Christian Faith and life. From the Church's inception, Lord's Day and Lord's Supper were joined. Worship on each Lord's Day was a service of Word and Sacrament" (pg. 20). This practice we have held in trust for the whole church looking forward to that time when God's people will again be one in a more meaningful sense than at present. The Communion Meditation Recently I read a review of a series of books by children of Christian missionaries. From India, China, Pakistan, Vietnam, Nigeria, and the Congo came stories of what it was like to be a MK (Missionary Kid). On occasion, some MKs used a phrase that seems to have originated with Pearl Buck, herself a MK, to describe their own, sometimes tenuous sense of belonging: "Partly at home everywhere, but not fully at home anywhere." That phrase brought to me again the celebration of the Lord's Supper. Paul says, "You proclaim the Lord's death until he comes" (I Cor. 11:26). In Luke Jesus says, "I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes" (Luke 22:;18). At the consummation of history there will be the great marriage feast of the Lamb. It will be in the City of God, in the Father's house. We will meet our dead there, where we will look upon each other's faces, and clasp each other's hands, and sit together in the glades, happiest feast we have ever known. Then those who have never really been fully at home anywhere will know that they have come home at last. |


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The HTTP-Proxy can support the CONNECT method to allow ssl. Using it you can connect to port 443 anywhere. The question is whether your proxy allows other ports. 25 is usually blocked because of spammers. Try it: I think telnet proxy port CONNECT imap.gmail.com:993 If it is rejected, bad luck. Otherwise download socat and point your client to 127.0.0.1:993 and let socat forward that local port towards gmail using the PROXY function. socat can do what you need. I can give a command line if you need it. |
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I did the same thing but the reviews were horrible. I wonder if spraying the deterrent on the luggage would help. I WISH there was something to do to lessen the chances
It's a new product that HD just started carrying (again, call your local HD to verify that they carry it in-store). It would be in the garden section of your local store, with all the other insecticides. I think the person who invented them was on that show shark tank?? It has lures in it that attract them into the trap. I just read on amazon too the reviews, and HD reviews. They have varied reviews. Some say they are useless, others say "Worked great!" I have yet to have a customer tell me personally whether it worked or not. If you'd rather get a product that you KNOW works, buy a spray bottle of bed-bug killer (also at HD) and spray the sh** out of your bags before you bring them in your home.
BTW don't be surprised when you look up bed-bug treatments at the HD website and see you can purchase live ladybugs!!
I read on these boards a while back that as soon as you get your room key, you should enter the DARK room with a maxi pad and take the sticky side and press it under the mattress, pillows, etc. See if anything sticks. Apparently, once you turn the lights on, the bugs will hide and you most likely won't find anything...so pack a pad in your carry-on!!!
I saw the buggybeds traps online and considered buying them. I was under the impression that they weren't to trap the bugs to eliminate them, as much as they were to capture a few so you knew you had a potential infestation and to call an exterminator. In all my research, and I've done a lot as I've mentioned, the best thing you can do is inspect the room upon check in and if you see any issues, alert management and request another room. If you are unlucky enough to actually have stayed in the room, Disney has precautions in place to prevent the bugs from further infesting the hotel and your home. Once you get home, do not bring you luggage in the house. All clothing goes directly from the suitcase to the washer and everything is laundered on the highest heat setting. I even called an exterminator to make sure there wasn't anything else we should be doing to prevent them and he suggested vacuuming out our car, since we had it with us. Do your research beforehand and your due diligence when you arrive and you should be able to have a magical trip, even if it requires a move to a new room should you find something right away.
If you google herbs to repel or deter bedbugs a whole bunch of stuff comes up including making sachet's out of muslin and certain herbs to place in your suitcases.....I will check the room-more concerned about the plane etc
The best thing you can do is leave your luggage in a very hot location for several hours works great if you are coning home to a hot climate to leave them in the car. The best way to eradicate bed-bugs in a home it to super heat the home for several hours. Also you can put all your things into the dryer as soon as you get home. Be careful about electronics they are a very, if not the most common way bed-bugs are carried place to place.
Headed to BWV in a couple of weeks, of course as I type I feel itchy now! One thing that gives me comfort is that if there is a hotel or resort that will have the best procedures to handle, reduce and eliminate problem I beleive it will be Disney. Definitely serves as a reminder to check before unpacking.
Absolutely nothing. They can also be picked up in the luggage cargo area on the plane, a rental car....etc. Yuck! Posted from DISboards.com App for Android
I was at BWV the same time as the OP and didn't have any issues, if that helps with the "itchy" feeling. I'm sure Disney stays on top of these things and once they are aware of a problem, they take care of it ASAP. Any hotel worth staying in would do that. Just give the room that once over before you start unpacking and you should be OK.
I keep a flashlight in my handbag when I travel for my bedbug inspecting. First thing I do is put luggage in the bathroom and start inspecting mattresses etc.
I found some bedbugs at a hotel on a business trip once, and since then I've been paranoid like no one's business (seriously, on that trip I wouldn't even sleep under the covers on the bed, even though my new room checked out just fine). In addition to checking the bed when you get there, don't forget to check drawers and curtains! Sometimes they hide there as well. Something else I do now: Before every trip, I buy those 2+ gallon Ziploc or Glad plastic bags. Any clothing not hung in the closet gets stored in those. When I need something, I take it out of the bag, and I keep additional bags on-hand for dirty clothes. I also put other items in the bags. It may not help if my suitcase gets one, but at least it helps lessen the chances of picking them up on clothing. Oh, and ALWAYS keep your suitcase on a luggage rack or in the bathroom during your trip. If you're feeling super creeped out, you can also buy those GIANT plastic bags that technically for storage, but a suitcase will fit in them... (yes, I've done this) When we get home, if it's hot enough I usually let our suitcase sit in the hot car for a day because that will help kill them. If it's super cold when you get home, you can also sit the suitcase in the cold car for 24-48 hours. Then everything goes straight from the suitcase to the washing machine, and on hot. If you're worried about dyes running, buy those Shout Color Catcher things. They work great. It's really, really gross, but the best way to prevent bedbugs is to just do your homework. There are a lot of resources online to help identify them, know what signs to look for, etc. At the first hotel (and thankfully only hotel) I found the bedbug signs, I called the front desk. Understandably, she was wary and asked if I was SURE that I was looking at a bed bug shell (which was right next to a blood trail). I told her, "If it's not a bed bug shell, then it's a really nasty booger." She moved me with no questions after that.
And if you fly (or at some point, your luggage is not in your possession), you might want to check your own luggage before you unpack since they might be coming in on your luggage.
Unfortunately I have experience with bed bugs...The most common place is on the matresses...make sure you check out the matresses and under the matress...look for the shells or any dark brown/red markings...bed bugs are not fun and a pain to get rid of if they come home with you...I am very parinoid about checking since we had an issue with them about 2 years ago...bring a small flashlight to see easier. When it is light, most likely they won't be out, but you should be able to tell still if they are around...
I'm curious to know how the resort handled it once reported - were you moved to another room? what about your luggage, was it treated in some way to prevent spreading it to another room? or do they fumigate the room while you're still there?
Thank you OP for the reminder. My not so D ex Husband used to call me "Mr Hughes" when we would check into a room because of my antics checking mattresses and headboards, LOL! Not that I'm a neat freak but things of this nature really freak me out. Although I hate to think of what we subject ourselves to when we travel by airlines...
Anyplace, absolutely anyplace, can have bedbugs. If there are people there, there can be bedbugs. And yes, they are in the baggage areas of the plane...even in the overhead bins. Here's the reason for so many more bedbugs than ever before. We are prohibited from using the chemicals that will easily kill them. Those chemicals have been banned in this country. So, we have to make do with what is allowed. And bug specialists have some stuff they can use, but it isn't nearly as strong as what used to be available!!! My dd has run into bedbugs twice at camp. The first time was the worst...they were found in the room next to hers. Everyone was told to pack up their stuff and take out a pair of pj's. The counselors took the pj's and and washed them in very hot water and then dried them. The kids were moved out of their rooms and relocated. They were given their pj's for the night. In the morning, their stuff was returned to them, all washed and dried....and this was clothing as well as bedding, pillows, stuffed animals!!!! The wooden bunk beds were burned in a huge bonfire!!! Now, they use only metal beds. So, when you check into a hotel/resort room, do due diligence and check out the mattress seams before unpacking. Check along the baseboards and behind the headboard (or below it). If you see nothing, you should be okay.
We were moved to a new, inspected room. They brought in a bug sniffing dog to confirm no bugs were in our new room. Apparently Disney employs three of these dogs, which should tell you the magnitude of the issue right there. All of our fabric items were inventoried and taken to be heat treated and dry cleaned. This included clothing (including the clothes we had on), our bags, stuffed animals, our stroller, etc. They did explain how they would be treating the room where the bed bugs were found, but to be honest, I was overwhelmed and more concerned with my stuff and getting into a new room than the room we were leaving.
This is great to hear that they took it so seriously, and took care of treating your belongings for you. I'm sure you were stressed out & what a way to start your trip, but you've got a great attitude about it. I'm leaving for WDW tomorrow & now know exactly what to look for!


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I believe that moderators on here lock way too many threads. I think sometimes they lock threads just because they can. Let's be honest here. Moderators on here feel almighty and powerful since they think they can do whatever they want. Please. This is a place for discussions. Let the threads continue unless they are absolutely obscene, spam, or something of that sort.
I really just want some democracy here. We should be able to discuss topics without worrying that the threads would be locked. What's wrong with bringing back old threads so people can discuss more about them? You have to understand that it isn't wrong to do that.
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In recent years, workplace conflict has become increasingly manifest in individual employment disputes as collective labour regulation has been eroded. Accordingly attention has been focused on finding ways to facilitate the early resolution of such disputes. Policy-makers have placed a particular emphasis on workplace mediation. However, the broader impact of mediation on conventional grievance and disciplinary processes and on the workplace relations that underpin them has been largely ignored. This paper reports on research into the introduction of an in-house mediation scheme within a primary care trust (PCT). It explores the implications of the scheme for: workplace relations within the organisation; the dynamics of conflict management; and trade union influence. It argues that the introduction of mediation provided a conduit through which positive workplace relations were rebuilt which in turn facilitated informal processes of dispute resolution. Furthermore, it allowed trade unions within the organisation to extend their influence into areas traditionally dominated by managerial prerogative.
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Uncontrolled Keywords (separate with ;): | mediation; dispute resolution; conflict; discipline; grievance; trade unions |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HF Commerce |
Schools: | Lancashire Business School |
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How to Look Handsome (Boys)
Three Parts:Attitude And PersonalityFashion And StyleGrooming
Everybody knows that being called "cute" is way better than being called "ugly." Better than being cute, though, is being called "handsome." But how do you go about being handsome? Here are some simple, common methods to get there. Read on!
Part 1 of 3: Attitude And Personality
1Be confident. Nothing—not bone structure, not a haircut, not even sensible shoes—will do more for how you are perceived than exuding a sense of self-confidence. Cultivate it, work to achieve it, and follow the steps in this section to build it. Just be aware that it can't be faked—it has to come from the inside.Ad
2Stand-up straight. Hunching over can not only cause back problems but makes you look as if you have no self-confidence. Sit-up straight too, for the same reasons.
4Look people in the eye. It's only polite when talking to someone to look them in the eye. Don't stare—look at different parts of their face occasionally, but beyond that, maintaining good eye contact will show confidence and self-assuredness on your end.Ad
Part 2 of 3: Fashion And Style
1Establish a sense of style. Your clothes and how you wear them say a lot about you, and will have an effect on how people perceive you. Wearing unflattering or extremely poorly-sized clothing says you don't care about how you present yourself.
- The particular style is not as much a factor as how you wear it. You can wear whatever style is comfortable for you, whether it be trendy, alternative, casual or sporty, as long as it's appropriate to who you are. For example, if you're 30, and dress like you're 15, you'll look like you're trying to recapture your youth, not like you're a trendy 15-year-old. The same is true for any style—if it doesn't accurately reflect who you are, it will be seen as either clueless or fake. Neither impression will suggest "handsome" to anybody.
2Keep an eye out for men you consider well dressed. When you're at a mall or walking down the street, take note of guys who appear to be fashionable. What things do you first notice?
- Women often look at shoes—a detail many guys gloss over. Because so many guys gloss over that part, taking the time to select, wear, and maintain a nice pair of shoes is a great way to boost how you're perceived.
3Hire a personal shopper. If you have absolutely no fashion sense and have the money, hiring a personal shopper can be a good initial step. They will help you identify your style, select clothes for you and then show you where to obtain these clothes on your own in the future.
- If you don't have the money, have a stylish friend or relative go shopping with you for the day.
- Listen to them, but be aware that they may have their own style sense that's not quite your style sense. If most of the choices they're suggesting don't appeal to you, don't feel like you have to go with their suggestions. Thank them for their time, and try another personal shopper more attuned to your sense of style.
4Adopt signature pieces. Having a signature item of clothing can help you stand out and draw attention to your style. Take Steve Jobs, for example. His signature look was a black turtleneck, blue jeans, and New Balance running shoes.
- Jewelry, such as a trademark ring, necklace, or watch can be effective, and useful too.
- Tinted shades. You should only wear these outdoors, but a good pair of aviators or tinted shades draws attention to your face.
- Cologne. Avoid run-of-the-mill cologne and get a scent that no one else has. This can be a great conversation starter. Don't wear too much, though, or the conversation it starts will be behind your back, and it won't be complimentary.
5Take voice lessons. We all know how to talk, but being able to speak clearly and enunciate well will enhance how you are perceived.Ad
Part 3 of 3: Grooming
1Keep hands and fingernails clean and neat. Wash your hands regularly. Your fingernails should be free of dirt and trimmed evenly. Do not bite your fingernails, or chew on your cuticles—you'll look nervous and neurotic.
2Take time to comb and style your hair. With extremely rare (and often accidental) exception, walking out of the house with bed head never looks good. Wash and brush your hair on a regular basis. If you have the time and inclination, consider using a paste or gel to style your hair, but follow the "less is more" rule with styling products, and don't use too much.
3Care for your skin. Many people, perhaps unfairly, associate bad skin with bad hygiene. Wash your face thoroughly, especially after any physical activity. Avoid razor burn if at all possible. If you're prone to acne or other skin conditions, see a dermatologist to help you get your skin in shape.
4Take showers. Do this every day—it's an invigorating way to start the day, and looking clean and smelling good doesn't hurt in the perception department, either!
5Eat healthy. Eating healthy will help with many things such as keeping a good weight, avoiding cavities, having a good complexion, and being energetic.
6Sleep well. Getting eight hours or more of sleep every night will do wonders for your complexion, energy and overall appearance.
7Exercise regularly. Looking handsome goes beyond your style. Exercising regularly not only helps with your appearance, confidence, and energy, but releases endorphins that make you feel good, and therefore more appealing to others.Ad
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! A. Agarwala et al.: Interactive Digital Photomontage. In PDF. See also here.
! ALE 0.8.8.1 (David Hilvert). ALE is a freeware image-processing program used for tasks such as image mosaicking, super-resolution, deblurring, noise reduction, etc.
! Peter Bargh, YouTube: Focus Stacking - a macro photography technique. The use of free Combine ZM software or Helicon Focus software.
R.S. Barclay et al. (2013): New methods reveal oldest known fossil epiphyllous moss: Bryiidites utahensis gen. et sp. nov.(Bryidae). In PDF, American Journal of Botany, 100: 2450-2457.
! A. Bercovici et al. (2009): Improving depth of field resolution for palynological photomicrography. PDF file, Palaeontologia Electronica, Vol. 12.
V. Blagoderov et al. (2012): No specimen left behind: industrial scale digitization of natural history collections. In PDF, Zookeys, 2012, (209): 133-146.
Bradley, A.P., Wildermoth, M. and Mills, P. (2005): Virtual Microscopy with Extended Depth of Field. Abstract, Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA'05), Cairns, Australia.
Matt Brett, Digital Photography School, Canada: An Introduction to Focus Stacking.
Cambridge in Colour: This is an online learning environment where photographers can come to improve their skills. Focus Stacking.
Canon Digital Photography Forums: Which Focus Stacking Software?
Cyclopedia.net: Focus stacking. Search results (in German).
Dennis Goulet Photography: Focus Stacking - Part 3, What Works, What Doesn´t.
! dmoz open directory project: Arts > Photography > Techniques and Styles.
H. Failmezger et al. (2013): Semi-automated 3D Leaf Reconstruction and Analysis of Trichome Patterning from Light Microscopic Images. In PDF, see also here.
flickr: Macro Viewers / Discussion: Focus stacking Tutorial. Using the freeware programme combinez5 and links to other tutorials. See also here.
FocOz: FocOz Software. This program is comparing different frames, selecting image elements of high definition from them all and rejects whatever is blurred.
Daniel Glasner et al.: Super-Resolution From a Single Image.
P. Gould (2012): Focus Stacking: How to Simultaneously Focus on Several Photographs Using Adobe Photoshop CS4. Abstract, Identification Canada.
Stefan Gross, Traumflieger: Photoshop-Workshops, Mehr Schärfentiefe mit Photoshop. The Photoshop procedure, a tutorial (in German).
Alan Hadley, U.K.:
CombineZ Movie CZM).
The purpose of this free program is to increase depth of focus by combining pictures, but
each picture should be in focus at a different depth into the scene. The program is especially
useful to microscope users (e.g. palynomorphs) and macro photographers. Excellent!
CZM is the latest version, it can process movies, take pictures, and has more macro
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It works with older versions of windows, but is not maintained anymore. See also:
Yahoo Group combinez,
Forum discussions (Digital Grin), or
Wikipedia, CombineZM.
Tutorials are here
(flickr), and
(Brian Valentine).
John Hart, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado: IMAGE STACKS AND AUTOMONTAGE RESULTS Using the software AutoMontage (Synoptics Ltd.).
J.T. Haug et al. (2011): Autofluorescence imaging, an excellent tool for comparative morphology. In PDF, Journal of Microscopy.
Helicon Soft Ltd.,
Helicon Focus.
This is a shareware program that creates a completely focused image from several partially
focused images by combining the focused areas. You can download and use the program for evaluation purposes for 30 days.
Helicon Focus is designed for macrophotography, microphotography (fluid inclusions!) and hyperfocal landscape photography
to cope with the shallow depth-of-field problem.
See also Video Tutorials.
! John Hollenberg, Digital Outback Photo: Workflow Technique 072. Review of Helicon Focus and CombineZ5 software. Excellent!
! Neal Immega,
Houston Gem and Mineral Society:
how2doit Articles. Go to:
Extended Focus in Macro Photography
(PDF file).
A CombineZ5 tutorial. See also
Infognition: What is super-resolution?
! Johan J. Ingles-Le Nobel, United Kingdom: Extreme Macro Photography. See especially: Macro Stacking.
O. Jaurich (?): Mikroskopie und mikroskopische Bildverarbeitung, Nachbearbeitung der aufgenommenen Bilder. About CombineZ5 (in German).
Laurie Knight Photography: Index of Articles. These articles contain notes on focus stacking. See also: Other Focus Stacking Resources.
Biomedical Imaging Group, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland: Extended Depth of Field. Extended depth of field is an image-processing method e.g. to obtain in focus microscopic images of 3D objects. Free and easy-to-use focus stacking software.
Rik Littlefield, Richland, WA:
An Introduction to
Extended Depth of Field Digital Photography
(from News of the Lepidopterists' Society, Summer 2005) and
Extended Depth of Field Photography of Insects.
The software used here was CombineZ5. See also:
Extended Depth-Of-Field Using
Panorama Tools.
! Jay Longson et al. (2010): Adapting Traditional Macro and Micro Photography for Scientific Gigapixel Imaging. PDF file, Fine International Conference on Gigapixel Imaging for Science.
Max Lyons,
TawbaWare is home to software, photographs, and writings. Go to:
TuFuse Pro.
Graphical Exposure and Focus Blending Software.
Media Cybernetics Inc.: Image-Pro Plus. The Extended Depth of Field function in Image-Pro Plus provides you with the ability to display a stack of images as a composite, building in effect a three dimensional image.
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland (program developed by an employee of the Federal Government in the course of his official duties): ImageJ. ImageJ is a public domain Java image processing program. It runs, either as an online applet or as a downloadable application, on any computer with a Java 1.4 or later virtual machine. It can display, edit, analyze, process, save and print 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit images (including TIFF, GIF, JPEG, BMP, DICOM, FITS and "raw"). ImageJ supports "stacks" and standard image processing functions such as contrast manipulation, sharpening, smoothing, edge detection and median filtering. It can calculate area and pixel value statistics of user-defined selections, measure distances and angles and it can create density histograms and line profile plots.
! Optronics: Rincon. An image measurement and processing software. Rincon can combine a stack of images captured at different levels of focus and combine them into a single in-focus image.
Pentaxforums.com: Macro photo stacking software comparison.
PhotoAcute, Austin, Texas, USA: Superresolution FAQ.
! PICOLAY (from PICture OverLAY, by Heribert Cypionka, Institut für Chemie und Biologie des Meeres, Universität Oldenburg, Germany). This is a freeware program for Windows computers designed for the extraction of improved images from digital picture series. Excellent!
! J. Piper (2010), go to PDF page 190: Software-Based Stacking Techniques to Enhance Depth of Field and Dynamic Range in Digital Photomicrography (PDF file). In: T.D. Hewitson, I.A. Darby (eds.), Histology Protocols, Methods in Molecular Biology 611.
Reindeer Graphics, Asheville, NC: Optipix software.
Ruedi Rottermann et al. (2010): How Sharp Images Are Formed - Depth of Field in Microscopy. About the Multifocus module of the Leica Application Suite (LAS).
Saphicon: AllFocus. The AllFocus software aligns images in the Z-stack by shifting and scaling them and creates a composite image by choosing pixels from the best-focused plane.
H.A. Schmid, Pilze Forum: Coolpix-Lupenmakro/CombineZ5 (Anleitung). About CombineZ5 (in German).
! Stefan Schorn, Mineralienatlas, Germany: Digitale Mehrebenen-Fotografie (DMF) / Digitale Fokuserweiterung. A tutorial, including a list of further focus stacking software programs (in German). See also: CombineZ5 / CombineZM.
SCM Altivid, Berlin: Mikroskopkamera (in German). A low-cost camera with extended depth of field.
! Synoptics Ltd., Frederick, MD: AUTO-MONTAGE FOR PERFECTLY FOCUSED 3D IMAGES, and Free downloadable demonstration software. Auto-Montage enables the processing of a series of images producing a high quality focused image. Lots of examples are listed here.
! Brian Valentine: Wonderful Photos: How to Increase your Depth of Field by Focus Stacking. A tutorial on using the freeware CombineZM (by Alan Hadley, U.K.).
Berthold Weber, Weiden:
Digitale Mehrebenenfotografie.
In German.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Focus stacking.
Category:Photographic techniques.
photo software.
Kurt Wirz, Switzerland:
A gallery of beautiful focus stacking images. See especially:
Making of
Zerene Stacker (by Zerene Systems, LLC.,
Rik Littlefield).
This is
is a "focus stacking" program designed specifically for challenging
macro subjects and discerning photographers.
The new programme Zerene Stacker is available for a free trial period.
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The holiday season can bring good cheer to many people, but could have a stressful impact on the environment, and can be partly negated by buying eco-friendly gifts for loved ones, using recycled gift wrap, or simply not buying anything at all.
Americans throw away about 25 percent more trash between Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve – an additional 5 million tons of garbage – according to the University of Vermont's Recycling & Solid Waste Program.
"I think buying nothing for Christmas is an excellent idea," said SF State business major Vanessa Aguilera. "I'm actually 'adopting' an abused animal in my cousin's name. They will send her a picture of the animal, a life story and monthly updates. But donating to charity in someone's name is also a wonderful thing to do."
Another way to reduce this 25 percent increase of trash is to bring your own bags while shopping, said Robert Lilienfeld of Use Less Stuf. Also, while shopping, consolidate your gifts into one bag instead of receiving a new bag at each store.
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"Vouchers for community service done in someone's name, tasks around the house, or even just acknowledging a mutual agreement to buy nothing" are all environmentally friendly gift ideas for this holiday season, said SF State environmental studies major Jim Eagan.
According to a recent poll conducted by the Center for a New American Dream, 82 percent of Americans would rather receive a photo album of times shared than a store-bought gift.
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