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Friday, July 03, 2015
The Rising Mission Movement in China
The Rising Missions Movement in China (the World's New Number 1 Economy) and How to Support It (By David Ro)
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Examining Engagement in the Asian Buddhist World (A Lausanne Global Analysis).
In this issue there are two broad themes: mission in East Asia and new approaches to research and planning for mission (timely in view of the Lausanne Researchers' International Network meeting taking place later this month, 23-28 May, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia). Specifically we feature China's rising missions movement; we continue our series of articles on engagement with other faiths by examining Asian Buddhism; and we consider the benefits both of strategic foresight in ministry and of building national church databases for mission. (Read More)
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Thursday, March 12, 2015
Every student - A meaningful website for people in your age!
Check it out http://www.everystudent.com/
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Monday, March 09, 2015
Chinese New Year, Chinese Immigrants and more...
Chinese throughout the world have just completed their celebration of their New Year. Many neighborhood homes are visited to show friendship. PRAY that the seed/Word sown by many churches, groups and individuals will germinate into many conversions who will demonstrate their faith by baptism and identification with a local church.
Chinese Immigrants
There are many homogeneous groups of people who move from their homeland to another country normally to find work. They are known as the "Chinese Immigrants." Taiwan is no exception. There are many Indonesians, Vietnamese, Thais and Filipinos who have come to work in Taiwan's factories, construction sites, building projects, hospitals and in homes. Ron and Shelby, SEND missionaries in Chiayi, have a special burden for these people groups. They give these requests related to the Diaspora:
1] During Chinese New Year forty-five Thai workers accepted Christ at a TECC supported Thai Bible camp attended by 230 workers. Prayer is needed for follow-up and training these converts. Especially SEND is looking for workers to assist this ministry. Also during Chinese New Year Rita Chen who is ministering the Vietnamese in Taichung in her church plant experienced the LORDs power in conversions of Vietnamese.
2] There are two or three Filipino fellowships/church-denominations with more than 300 churches /fellowships spread throughout most of the larger cities of Taiwan and also in country side. Over two hundred are baptized every year. The Logos World Mission was born in Taiwan and has since planted churches in ten countries overseas. Our partner mission [SEND International] assist Logos World Mission in their outreach. Pray that God will keep His hand of blessing on this people group.
3] There are almost a quarter of a million foreign brides married to Taiwanese. The government has some programs to help them integrate into society. We try to help them with various needs especially in their need for legal advice. Often their children have special educational and adjustment needs, because they can not assist their own children in learning the Chinese writing and themselves have not gone through it. In Chiayi we endeavor to help with their social needs and hopefully have opportunity to share the Gospel with them. This ministry needs special prayer for wisdom and effectiveness.
4] Our burden is for a deeper involvement of the Taiwanese churches in the mission of foreigners employed in our country. Praise God there is a vision to reach fellow Chinese all around the world. Pray the vision for more cross-cultural ministries among Chinese churches is growing and allowed to expand.
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Monday, January 05, 2015
Prayer vor the Project "Vision 119"
"Since the creation of the world His [God's] invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. . [They] exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man.." Romans 1:20, 23
Family Cary and Verna Perdue are reporting: We have just come through the Christmas season with its many opportunities for outreach with the Gospel. Please read some of the updates below concerning these outreaches and ask the Lord to germinate the seed that was sown and to blossom it into the fruit of salvation for may precious Taiwanese.
There is also an attached page that gives specific pointed requests that reflect deep needs.
One pens, "Our Christmas Sunday service on December 21 was held under a clear sky and went smoothly. God heard the prayers of many people. Through God's great grace 196 people participated that day and we hope that all who came received God's blessing. This year was the fifth time that the church has used the auditorium of the LiuJya Junior High School to put on the Christmas Sunday worship service. Each time the school has generously let the church use this facility without charge. This time Principal Tsai also came to show his interest."
And still another writes, "Because Christmas Day is not a public holiday in Taiwan, our church chose to do our celebrating on the weekend before Christmas. Friday evening was a good success. We used a portable sound system and with 17 people we had fun as well as a great opportunity to sing about Jesus in the community. It was really exciting that five of our group were children with whom we are working and some of the parents joined us for refreshments after."
A SEND missionary laboring in DaLin exclaims, "Praise the Lord for about 150 people attending our Christmas program at Ping Lin Elementary School Dec. 21. Pray the Lord to bless Mr. Hu, the school principal, and the many supportive teachers and staff who have welcomed us to the community.
Teacher Huang performed with his violin, and says, 'I feel peace when I come to church.' Pray for Mr. Huang and the many that came under the influence of the Gospel. They need the long term peace which only Christ can give."
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014
2014 Prayer-Card
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Monday, July 21, 2014
SUMMER CAMP 2014 JULY 7-11 DAXI CUO VILLAGE, CHIAYI CITY (by SEND Missionary Ron and Shelby Adhikari)
Many of you were praying for this, here is a first report of what the LORD did in Daxi Cuo during this summer Camp time. Enjoy the account written by SEND Missionary Ron and Shelby Adhikari
Theme: Happy Summer Colorful Camp
Team from Bread of Life Church, Torrance, CA, USA (9 Members)
The LA Team visited Dalin on Saturday 12 for the Medical and Dental lectures
Initially we had 61 names with some attending part time. Due to other school and family programs 42 kids showed up the first day. On closing day, we had 35 kids and 14 Parents.
The LA Team's second visit made it much easier to plan accommodations and local transportation and since all of them were of Chinese origins, food and language was not a problem. They had an excellent schedule and they brought all the equipment and materials as well as prizes and candies for distribution. The program included home visits.
The 5 Classes or groups were held at the Community Hall and simultaneously at the Center which had air conditioning.
Bible stories and the gospel were presented every day. Singing gospel choruses and scripture memorization was a daily exercise. Games and crafts were enjoyed by all. Lunch and snacks were provided. Dental check was given to all the kids and they learnt basic hygiene. The bigger kids were given English classes.
The main expenditure for the Camp was borne by the LA Team, which came to NT$15000.
No one became sick because of the heat. But it was an exhausting schedule because of the high temperatures (33-35C). One kid got hurt while riding the bicycle. The Team Leader lost his wallet in the taxi but was found later.
After the hectic camp program, we were able to follow up (10) families by giving food provided by other Churches and Christians.
Praise God for all those who were able to attend. Friends (Pastors) from two local Churches visited during the Camp and prayed for us. We made new friends and renew old members.
Thank you for your partnership and prayers.
Ron and Shelby Adhikari
DXC, Chiayi City
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Sunday, June 01, 2014
A Global Mission History From Jesus to Post-Reformation (26-1689 A.D.) (in Chinese)
作 者 /發 行 / 郝安倫, Alain R. Haudenschild
協助出版/活石文化事業有限公司,台北市光復南路 505 號11 樓之4Prof. Dr. Stephen Chiang writes about this book:
|The four church traditions aiming for one goal
The book compares the LORDs Great Commission with its original intent on the background of its development in all major cultures and traditional church rites, including Taiwan in its early mission history from a new global angle. The more than 700 footnotes, 60 maps, 30 historical tablets, 19 photographs and two graphics quickly familiarizes the reader with key events and used mission ministry methods. With its multilingual bibliography the author attracts learners to study Christian cultures with their impact for mission - and church ministries. In a time in the Chinese Christian world where we shift to cross-cultural mission ministries this book integrates key biblical teaching in the missiological developments of Christian denominations in their cultures of ministry from a new perspective. Apart from the interesting research material, the author provides historical and missiological insights in a timely fashion to encourage leaders for background research in the World of Chinese missiology. I warmly recommend it to everyone who intends to prepare for any type of missions in the Chinese and none-Chinese world.
中國社會科學院,哲學研究所,東方文化研究中心,台灣文化研究部門Prof. Dr. Stephen W. Chiang 江萬里,博士/教授SR.PhD.
About the Author:
As a Swiss Rev. Dr. Alain Haudenschild (DMin) and his family spent many years in church-planting and special ministries in Taiwan with SEND International. – When he joined the Global Mission Centre of Chinese Christian Evangelistic Association in 2002 in Taipei as part of his responsibility to promote cross-cultural missions he was busy with mission research, the translating of mission information, e-publishing and the writing and teaching of mission courses. On his heart are the unreached people groups in Taiwan. Reportedly many know him from his blog- or book publications about the Taiwan Expatriate Caring Committee's (TECC) church- planting efforts among the grossly neglected Thai-, Vietnamese-, Indonesian- and Filipino- migrants in Taiwan. He earned his M.A. degree at Akademie für Weltmission, at Korntal, Germany(2003), where his first thesis about the Hakka in Taiwan, another unreached people group, was rewarded with the George W. Peters Promotional Price. His M.Div thesis (TTS, Taipei, 2011) was regarding biblically contextualized church-planting in a non-Christian environment. For orders:
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Saturday, May 17, 2014
Make Your Choice
Sometimes it is hard to really face the reality. A friend of us is just running an exhibition about "faces". Her eight faces speak a language in itself. Every face is different and has a different "message"
The same applies when we "face" challenges of a special type: You have to see the facts and their message to you.
No matter what you think, feel or tell yourself, you always have a choice in life. In the case of a day where you want to crawl back under the doona, you absolutely have a choice to make.
The same applies when we "face" challenges of a special type: You have to see the facts and their message to you.
No matter what you think, feel or tell yourself, you always have a choice in life. In the case of a day where you want to crawl back under the doona, you absolutely have a choice to make.
Will you allow external circumstances such as deadlines, a difficult boss a huge workload or a challenging relationship to dictate how you live your life on a daily basis? Or will you stand up, take responsibility for how you feel and do something to change the situation? The people who have most so-called "success" in life (and I say that because success is a very subjective term) are almost 100% likely to fall into the second category.
For a Christian there is another dimension in life which goes far beyond the sole visibility of physical facts: Christians stand before the Almighty with their life they are aware that their "success" lies in Christ and what he did out of love for us. They "face" the fact that there is sin in their lifes and the holy Creator must punish sin.
Unforgiven sin results in aggression, intolerance and cements the absence of peace. - For followers of Christ know the real "success" if this word could ever be used in that connection is their faith in Christ, which is enough to have God's forgiveness to be applied to their lives too. This often requires an almost heroic decision. Many so called "heroes" never did this decision and therefore lack true heroism. - They were told to show everything they can, but were unwilling to give God, who has given them such strength, the glory for it.
There is a need to taking responsibility for yourself, your actions and therefore your outcomes, but the outcome is not the sole guarantee that you all did it right, there is also much grace from above int that, yet with a thankful heart to the LORD you get yourself back on track and firing on all cylinders.
Cultivating the feeling of being a victim and blaming everyone and everything else around you for what is going to change something, it is rather the sure way toward disaster as word history shows. If something isn't working for you, seek help; advice; assurance; whatever you need to assist you in moving the situation forward. Only YOU can take the responsibility to know when a situation needs to change, and go about making those changes. -
Sometimes life's success can be determined by the answer to the question: to whom give I face? This however lies rooted in a deep decision whether I am willing to accept the call of the Creator to be his special child and to face the reality and the life he has prepared in an unique way for me/for you.As we prepare for a time in Europe - the creative Elijah's Hut ministry through which the "Giving Face" Exhibition was made possible in Taipei will have a short break. Pray that its pictures, when sold, continue to underline this message in the places where they will be put with the question: to whom do I give "face" with my life?
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Monday, March 24, 2014
Dr. Ulf Eckmans Decision even in Taiwan can not be understood
When the news broke about Dr. Ulf Eckmans conversion to Catholic faith many in Taiwan did not understand his decision. His coming to Taiwan stirred up a lot of questions. More about it under: Conversion of Sweden's Most Influential Pastor Causes 'Pain and Disillusion'
While discussions and inquiring notes filled the facebooks and Christian magazines it became apparent what moved Eckman: the lacking knowledge about the theology of this large group in the Latin Rite Church tradition. - In Taiwan the Christian media had a hard time to explain his conversion from positive perspective. Unfortunately, the missing historic background of the growth of Christianity had its toll. Although he led his church in Sweden during its growth to the size of 3,200 members he apparently never spent enough time to study the Roman Catholics Church teaching background. - The more he found out about the outside commonalities in a friendship with Catholics between Protestant Faith and Catholic Faith the more he got interested. He looked for a way to somehow "harmonize" both theologies, yet failed. - He should have been given some help on this road. It is a pity, that he saw no other way to find answers to his questions but to leave his church. - He himself felt he was theologically "ill equipped" to face the questions of Roman Catholics (There are many non Roman Catholic churches too, which are not part of this discussion). How to know what is right? How can one know without studying for years what is different? -
How to advise? While really exploring the details always needs time, the following website of Richard Bennet, a former Catholic priest, could make it easier for the start to see "behind the curtain" and especially punish the idea of organized "fragmentalization" of Christ's body by the Protestant church camp, with its several denominations as contrary to Reformed Theology. http://www.bereanbeacon.org/en/
The website of course shares his views, as a contribution from a former insider they show how old characteristic Roman Catholic Convictions and beliefs are applied in the RCC's in the modern day context. Bennet has a list of interesting topics published on the web to just serve this type of need.http://www.bereanbeacon.org/articles/
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014
The Crisis in Ukraine is driving people to Christ: Requesting urgent Prayer
SEND has teams in four major areas of Ukraine and is developing church planting teams to work among some of Ukraine's unreached people groups. The missionaries work with Ukrainians to assist young churches and plant new ones as well as train church leaders and Ukrainian missionaries through Bible colleges and theological seminaries.
[Update from SEND Ukraine: d 3/10/14] – Please continue to pray for peace in Ukraine, especially concerning the situation in Crimea. The Crimean parliament voted on Thursday to join Russia and announced a public referendum next Sunday (March 16) to allow the people to decide whether or not to seek Russian annexation or simply increase the region's autonomous status as part of Ukraine. This is a critical week in the country's history.
All of our workers are back in Ukraine, with the exception of those who serve in the south (and those who were already out of the country for other reasons). Our people are experiencing no local threats, and ministry continues. However, they are remaining at a high alert level, given the situation in Crimea and tensions in some eastern cities (where we have no workers).
Additional Information:
The 1990's saw tremendous growth in the churches of Ukraine through mass evangelistic events. Today's Ukraine needs missionaries prepared to share the gospel and disciple new believers through personal relationships. Major ministries include theological education, church planting, Bible studies, camping, children's ministry, women's ministry and teaching English (TESOL)The
radio program "Faith, Hope, and Love" draws listeners from Ukraine, Russia, and
other countries in the former Soviet Union.
Ukraine is a powder keg ready to explode. Russia is keeping a tight grip
on Crimea, and pro-Russia protests are spreading throughout Ukraine's eastern
and southern cities. But
there's good news: the crisis in Ukraine is driving people to Christ.
this difficult time, my radio program [is] going on, non stop. And people are
very, very hungry, especially now," says Slavik Radchuk. "People [are] still
coming to Christ like never before, [in] all churches."
Crimea, we have reports that former Muslims are coming to our
churches and saying, 'Can we pray together to God?'" says Radchuk. They don't
want to die without hope, he adds. "This is a very difficult time for us, and
all people stay together now and pray to God for peace." Over the weekend,
thousands of people gathered at a church in Crimea and
prayed through Monday morning. " Missionaries said attendance was 1806 in one
church, but over 2,000 people came and stayed," Radchuk shares. "All night they
prayed because it was a very difficult time in Crimea." ).
Slavic Radchuk: Burning for the LORD: In the few days where he
was in Taiwan in 2013 he wanted to start a Ukrainian Church.
In Taiwan we pray for our brethren in Ukraine. Also pray for the Chinese in Ukraine. Nothing has ever happened that did not pass God's throne first. May this become a time where Gods glory prevails and the evil has to withdraw. SEND Ukraine reports "All of our workers are back in Ukraine, with the exception of those who serve in the south (and those who were already out of the country for other reasons). Our people are experiencing no local threats, and ministry continues.
|Slavic Radchuk: Burning for the LORD: In the few days where he
was in Taiwan in 2013 he wanted to start a Ukrainian Church.
In Taiwan we pray for our brethren in Ukraine. Also pray for the Chinese in Ukraine. Nothing has ever happened that did not pass God's throne first. May this become a time where Gods glory prevails and the evil has to withdraw. SEND Ukraine reports "All of our workers are back in Ukraine, with the exception of those who serve in the south (and those who were already out of the country for other reasons). Our people are experiencing no local threats, and ministry continues.
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Thursday, February 20, 2014
Only in Taiwan-Do you believe it? - Check it out!
Only in Taiwan - Really? - Check it out!
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Friday, February 14, 2014
Feb. 14 Valentines Day - How did he become the day for LOVE?
There is a historical mystery surrounding Valentine's Day, also known the Feast of Saint Valentine, which causes people every year to wonder about the origins of the holiday which is celebrated on February 14 each year. It is observed in most countries all over the world, and remains a working day in most countries.[1]
Was There a Real Valentine?
The historical origin of Valentine's Day is surrounded by mystery, but one legend behind this celebrated holiday is centered around Valentinus, a Christian Saint, who was imprisoned for not giving up his Christian faith. The saint lived in the 4rd century in Italy. Three hundred years after the death of Jesus Christ, the Roman emperors still demanded that everyone believe in the Roman gods. Valentine was well known for his habit to give
flowers from his own garden. Especially as a priest he married couples
according to Christian tradition, which by that time was a crime against the
Roman Emperor. [2] The Emperor
insisted that unmarried men were better soldiers than those who were married, he
also strictly forbade marriage for younger men. Valentine disagreed with this statute, defied Claudius, the emperor and performed weddings for young soldiers who
were forbidden to marry, whenever they looked for him. Yet, this did not go unnoticed. After a while Valentine, a Christian priest, was thrown in prison for his teachings. He was also
accused for the crime of preaching to Christians. During the Roman Empire, this act was
considered treason, and when Emperor Claudius discovered this actions, Valentine had no hope to escape the death penalty. However, when on February
14, Valentine was beheaded, not only because he was a Christian, he also had to leave the world of the living because he had performed a miracle that seemed impossible to perform for an "evil" person, thus even further weakening the Emperors authority. He apparently cured the jailer's daughter from her blindness. On the
morning of his execution, Saint Valentine sent his last card to his jailer's
daughter, with the scrawled words "forever in life and death, your
Valentine." Another legend tells us that this same Valentine,
well-loved by all, received notes to his jail cell from children and friends
who missed him.
Against the Emperors will who forbade young soldiers to marry, Valentine
loved to marry couples and gave them flowers from his own garden.
Archaeologists have unearthed a Roman catacomb; an ancient church dedicated to Saint Valentine. During 496 AD, Pope Gelasius I. in honor of his martyrdom declared February 14 from now on to be the "Valentine's Day" .
Bishop Valentine?
Another Valentine was an Italian bishop who lived at about the same time, AD 200. He was imprisoned because he secretly married couples, contrary to the laws of the Roman emperor. Some legends say he was burned at the stake.[3]
Saint Valentine would cut out heart shapes from a sheet of parchment and give them to soldiers, and the persecuted Christians, to remind them of their vows and God's love. It is believed that Saint Valentine wore an amethyst ring with an image of Cupid engraved in it. This was recognized as a symbol associated with love, and usually worn by bishops. The soldiers would recognize his ring and ask Saint Valentine to perform marriage ceremonies for them.
During his imprisonment, he befriended his captor's daughter, and they struck up a friendship. The visits by the woman were brief, and they did not have much time to talk to one another. He would, during his free time, write loving messages on small cards and hand these over to her when she visited.
Saint Valentine's Day is a ceremonial feast day on the calendar of saints who were martyrs in the Anglican Communion and in the Lutheran Church. Other Christian denominations also celebrate this day during July. Throughout the world, February 14 is celebrated and specially marked as a date for love and is often symbolized by the color red. Red roses, red hearts, and loving messages on cards are traditionally exchanged between friends and lovers.
Feast of Lupercalia
The ancient Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia, a spring festival, on the 15th of February, held in honor of a goddess. Young men randomly chose the name of a young girl to escort to the festivities. With the introduction of Christianity, the holiday moved to the 14th of February. The Christians had come to celebrate February 14 as the saint day that celebrated the several early Christian martyrs named Valentine.
During 1840, Ester A. Howland began selling the first mass-produced valentine cards in America. Howland is known as the "mother of Valentine." Decorative creations using lace, ribbons and colorful pictures were produced as the tradition was birthed. Today the Greeting Card Association estimates that over a billion Valentine's Day cards are sent each year. This makes Valentine's Day the second largest card-selling holiday of the year.
February is historically a month celebrated by romance and love and the mystery surrounding the saints and St. Valentine's Day remains a tradition continued each year.
Choosing a Sweetheart on Valentine's Day in the Angelsaxon World
The custom of choosing a sweetheart on this date spread through Europe in the Middle Ages, and then to the early American colonies. Throughout the ages, people also believed that birds picked their mates on February 14!
Especially among British and US- American friends this tradition is strong. In United Kingdom it is customary on that to send out anonymous love-letters. In U.S. teenies secretly send each-other greetings-cards with love messages. Whoever gets most messages counts as the most "wanted" - a questionable game indeed, but maybe on the way to more maturity still much fun as the old saying goes : It is all about the one prince or princess who loves you!
The Valentines Day on Continental Europe
"Does he-she loves me or does he/she not" , this is oneof the games often played for fun on this day, often with a flower in one hand and with the other ripping out one of its leaves, whenever the question changes... The Valentines Days is an occasion to share to somebody its own feelings about him or her.
Continental Europeans only from 1950 on began celebrate this day Couples and lovers are encourged to enjoy each other by sharing flowers, very much like Valentine did himself to express joy about their love. Some fine tasting chocolate or another small presents are also o.k. For some it is a day of much fun, for gardeners a day of much business, yet still it is not everybodies prefered day to show feelings, as many are convinced love is too special to form certain traditions for it.
Whatever you think about it now, it is a day where you under the shadow of a "tradition" you may express some of your deepest feelings to somebody you think should know about it now and to do a first step! Or maybe it is just another great day where you would like to tell your adored partner once more: "I love you"
About all because love is so special even King Solomon when he was surprised by love searched for human words to express it: "You are altogether beautiful, my darling, And there is no blemish in you. (Songs of Solomon 4:7)
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IT WAS a tough life in Roman Britain and it seems that hard-pressed natives killed some of their newborn children to reduce the strain on family resources. But the first detailed genetic study of infant remains from the period suggests that perhaps the victims weren't just baby girls.
Simon Mays from the English Heritage Centre for Archaeology in Portsmouth and Marina Faerman from Hebrew University in Jerusalem studied 31 infant skeletons found at two English sites where they believed Britons practised infanticide. They wanted to test the old assumption that it was mostly baby girls who were killed.
Previous researchers believed infanticide took place because they found an abnormally large number of children from graves in Roman Britain who died about 40 weeks after conceptionthe average age of a newborn child. And archaeologists also found a disproportionate number of adult male skeletons throughout ancient British sites.
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The Insanity of War.
Just a a doodle in black biro. I used to do doodles like this in my school exercise books all those years ago – I got bored easily!
All I wanted to do when I was a kid was to go to art college. I can't really draw that well anymore and to be fair, always found it difficult/hard work (even at art college!), but I like/liked doing it so what the hell? I'm gonna do some more doodles I reckon...
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'Two-room home, fitted with the latest low-pollution, energyefficient kitchen and constructed from environmentally friendly building materials. Two minutes from the station, would suit homeless person.' The house in question can be viewed this week at the Ideal Home Exhibition in London, and it costs only £100.
The techniques used to build it, developed by the Intermediate Technology Development Group, make use of materials that are locally available in developing countries and are aimed at the one-fifth of the world's population who have no roof over their heads.
Somewhat at odds with the more up-market home improvements displayed around it, the ITDG house could be built for the price of just 5 square metres of the latest carpet tiles.
The main structure of the house is made from stabilised soil blocks. Earth is an excellent building material, but earth bricks are easily broken down by wind and rain. The stabilised blocks ...
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Oh boo hoo, now you're just making me homesick for the ship and all of you PB . What great pictures! I can't wait to see more to live through it again
Oh boo hoo, now you're just making me homesick for the ship and all of you PB . What great pictures! I can't wait to see more to live through it again
This trip report gets an A+ for super coolness. I do have to admit that in your other thread when you said that Villains Fan had an encounter with a barracuda I was expecting more of a landshark that O'nut was going to take care of in order to defend her honor. Can't wait to see more.
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I love cruises, Disney and fun people. Check, check, check. Sounds like a perfect vacation.
I so badly wanted to do a repo cruise. But 15 days off from work is just not going to happen. I have enough trouble trying to use up my vacation with 2-3 days blocks, fitting in two weeks just in not in the cards.
Great TR, sort of eases the pain of not going - sort of.
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^ I purposely didn't use any of my vacation time for almost a year and a half so I could take the two weeks off. And Ken gets more vacation time than I do. Plus , he's on salary and has a normal boss who doesn't try to gyp him out of his earned vacation time!
I have no idea why the only pictures Ken has of Day 3 are our towel animal. It was so nice to leave our staterooms in the morning and come back to beds that were made and bathrooms that were tidied up and had clean towels hanging in them and then to come back at night to beds that were turned down and had animals and chocolate on them!
Day 4 we woke up , looked out the window and saw Aruba:
Just kidding of course. The island was on the other side of the ship.
We were set to go on our first official excursion.....sailing and snorkeling.
We had a short walk to the catamarans. This is what they looked like:
It was fun to pass by the ship on our way to the snorkeling sights:
The captain of the catamaran was really nice and made the trip a lot of fun. The kids loved him too because he cranked them up on tons of Shirley Temples in all different colors.
The Aruba coastline was very colorful and pretty:
I thought for sure the water would be nice and warm, but it was actually kind of cold. I was glad we had skins with us. There were tons of cool fish to see and we also the ruins of a German ship that was sunk.
Back on the deck it was nice and warm. It was fun laying on the net and sunbathing during the wild ride back to the ship:
(sorry, no picture of us in our bikinis because I promised Skywaygirl I wouldn't post them)
But here's sexy Joe:
(never mind, I want to stay on his good side too) : )
But here's gorgeous Joanne:
When we got back to the ship, we said we were just going to grab a quick bite to eat. But then we saw what was for lunch at the buffet and ended up all pigging out. After that , it was time for some shopping!
Katrina was with us at first, but the moment she saw a casino, she decided to go gamble. So Ken and I and Joanne went on an adventure.
The strip near the ship had lots of colorful but touristy type things to buy
I did break down and buy a bongo drum for my girls:
Then we came to lots of really nice shops that had beautiful things to buy that were way out of our budgets. But it was fun to look and dream:
I liked the way the streets and sidewalks looked
This yellow path led to a fancy lingerie store
We skipped that shop , but later on we went to a Calvin Klein store that sold nothing but underwear. I was having fun touching all the underwear on the butts of the mannequins in the windows. I think Ken just wanted to hide! LOL
We bought an overly priced bottle of Patron in a drugstore (by mistake, we didn't realize how much they had marked it up due to importing it from the US) as well as some cards and magnets and other little trinkets for our kids. Then we stopped for drinks and appetizers at this crazy place:
That was the only bar I've ever been to that had escargot as one of the appetizers. We didn't try it , but we did have their their calamari and it was great!
On the way back to the ship , we passed by this cute pink bus:
That was a very fun day all in all!
I hope someone has pictures from the tropical themed dinner we had that night at Parrot Cay on the ship.
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Wow, the love machine huh??
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^ Yep! But notice how there's no one inside it? How sad!
Awesome! You should have highjacked the love machine and drove around the island. LOL
I am so jealous! You guys totally deserved a trip like this! I am loving the report so far! Keep it up.
wow 15 days?
Amazing. The photos of Castaway Cay reminded me of my cruise on our honeymoon (non-Disney). I wished the boats actually stayed in port longer for activities like - rather then just one day.
How is getting on/off the boat in port? Long lines at all?
Thx for the photos - most excellent report so far!
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Digital Portfolios – is Blogging a good option?
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A couple of things happened last term. My school finally took the plunge and allowed the Grade 6 students to replace their file books with digital portfolios as a means to collate their work to share with their parents at home and during parent/teacher interviews. The other thing was that a small group of teachers dipped their toe into class blogging. By the end of the term, we ended up with two problems – How do we create the best Digital Portfolio and Do we want to really blog?
Let me explain.
During my 'Techie Brekkies" before school, I introduced blogging to a group of interested teachers. They had lots of questions and not all were answered but we ended the couple of sessions with setting up blogs, but apart from one grade level who used their blog for Camp updates and reflection, not much happened after the meetings. Then I introduced Edmodo and it seemed to be a more useful and easier to set up option. Edmodo now has full adoption across all Grade 5/6s as a collaboration/work sharing/assessment and class organisation tool. It was seen as more relevant than having a class blog at this stage in the development of the teachers involved. ( Note: the whole "Techie Brekkie" thing went into hiatus during report writing season and so there was no follow up to blogging session. We'll pick it up again next term).
In terms of the Digital portfolios, there was a push for them last year in the 5/6 area but because they were just an add on to the school wide file book/work sample policy, they were not fully embraced by teacher or student. In 2012, however, change came about and the Grade 6 students moved from paper based file book to digital portfolio. They adopted Powerpoint as the platform ( not my personal choice nor my decision to make) and then last term decided they would export them over to Sliderocket so that they could be accessed via the internet at home. It was soon apparent, though, that this was a fail as a workflow as the export experience didn't upload attached files or links. This was compounded by SlideRocket's sudden policy change which locked the children out of accounts ( hence my recent posts about Web 2.0 for the Under 13s).
When this happened, I started thinking of alternatives. The teachers initially decided to stick with PowerPoint but start a new portfolio ( the originals quickly became bloated, growing to unmanageable sizes that took forever to load over wireless networks – need to invest in video compression software!) I started thinking of blogging. From reading about blogging over the last year, however, from the likes of Kathleen Morris, Linda Yollis and Langwitches Blog ( who seem to respected in the field of class blogging) and reflecting myself earlier in the year in this post (and here as well), my quandary is that I may be blurring the lines between blogging and digital portfolios. Am I rushing the students and teachers into blogging by attaching the importance of the official digital portfolio to it without going through the process of preparing them for blogging as outlined by the aforementioned "experts"?
Nevertheless, today, I am pushing ahead with a "Pros and Cons" list to help me decide what the best choice might be from my point of view. Obviously, I would like feedback from you, my readers, on what you think is the best option. It's a work in progress and would like to hear suggestions from you for both the pros and cons.
- "Anywhere, any time access" to their work for composing, editing, publishing and sharing with their parents. One of my problems with the whole twice a year file book access is that parents aren't kept informed on the progress or quality of their children's work. With the blog as portfolio option, the child's work is more transparent and because the parents can see the work during all stages of the year, children may be more motivated to work at the standard Mum and Dad expects of them.
- A bigger audience for greater purpose and motivation. Opening up their work to a wider audience puts the responsibility of quality back on to the students. It should also motivate them to publish quality work as well since it is being viewed by others.
- Feedback and collaboration. Through moderated comments, parents, friends and the wider world audience can provide feedback, encouragement, praise and advice. With access controls, individuals can be invited to collaborate on posts under the supervision of the teacher to ensure collaboration goes smoothly. Shared posts can be linked to each others' blogs so that the work can be shown to both students' parents and audiences.
- Controlled environment and ease of communication between teacher and student. With student blogs linked to a teacher blog, teachers and students can control the level of privacy and access to their work. Students can save their work as unpublished drafts and teachers can review their work before they go further. Students and teachers together can make decisions about which posts go public and which remain private. This gives a student control over what he/she wants to publish to a wider audience while still being able to show their parents all their work.
- Wide range of publishing options available through uploading, hyperlinks and embedding published work from other web tools. One of the time wasting tasks I have seen through the PowerPoint Digital Portfolio option is organising file storage, folder structures, hyperlinking to files, linking to work published with software not available at home and the resulting broken links when all of these tasks are completed effectively. An online version with links controlled by the blogging platform and a central storage area coupled with the ease of linking and embedding to work that exists on the internet, not in random folders spread across the school network is a more user friendly option. Having the online option may also encourage students to try out more web tools for composing and publishing their work. It may move them away from just typing words out in Microsoft Word and onto Prezis, comic strips, slideshows and audio presentations that can easily be embedded in their portfolio blog.
- Purposeful blogging. I've checked out a lot of student blogs in my research for setting up blogging at school. While there are some outstanding examples from very talented student writers, there are also a lot of blogs out there that don't meet the standards and guidelines outlined by the blogging experts above. Like a lot of technology, many teachers never progress their students past the experimental stage and we are left reading unedited "my Favourite……" posts by the truckload. Using the blog as a digital portfolio gives a consistent purpose to what is being posted and students won't spend time wondering what to write next.
- Part of whole school program, not an added extra. A digital portfolio blog would include work from all areas of the curriculum and would encourage publishing of work in the Arts, Sport, Mathematics and other subjects besides Literacy which can dominate a blog as the "writing subject". Hopefully, this would encourage the use of technology for reflecting upon and showcasing learning in the non text based subjects.
- Consistent, purposeful reflection across all curriculum areas. By using the blog as a digital portfolio, students will have an accessible place to store their reflections on learning side by side with the actual work they are reflecting upon.
- Easy to use publishing and organisational platform. Thoughtful tags to identify each post, organised in Portfolio categories ( subject areas ), pasting the embed code or link from work done on another web tool – and we're done. A simple to organise workflow that allows easy access to all files with a simple click on a link.
- Home/School Link. On top of the connection between school and home available to the parents through the blog option, the maintenance of the blog becomes purposeful homework in all curriculum areas.
- Teacher Accountability/future direction. Access to student work is soon to become part of our Educational landscape in my system. I can already access individual files of my own children's work, albeit work that is uploaded and commented on by their teachers in their own time. Having the blog as a digital portfolio easily accessible by parents places some onus on teachers to be consistent and up to date with their assessment and feedback, which helps with teachers planning for children's learning and improvement.
- Rushed process without preparing for the responsibility of online publishing. This is not a problem with blogging itself. Rather it's more a problem with moving straight into using it as a Digital Portfolio platform without having already having experience in blogging. When we adopted Edmodo, there were plenty of teething problems with getting the students to use it appropriately ( that is now ironed out). Morris, Yollis and Langwitches all emphasise the need to for a gradual release of responsibility and training in posting and commenting. Having said that, as a Digital portfolio, the work that is published on the blog will be controlled in some way.
- Maintaining feedback. There is a danger that teachers will find it too difficult to maintain the same level of feedback and commenting over the duration of the year, considering the public nature of the blogging platform.
- Negative feedback. How students react to possible feedback of a critical nature is something to consider. Does the digital portfolio component of the blog remain separate from other posts through privacy settings?
- Separation of Teacher/Student/Parent Comments during the composing process and once published. How do we manage the situation of comments from teachers at the composing/editing stage being misunderstood by parents? Does the student want their classmates' comments being seen by parents or vice versa? Should the teacher comments be privately viewed?
- Making a blog "all work and no play". When you look at successful blogs, they're about building relationships with audiences, being free to publish posts of your own choice, having fun with the layout, plug ins etc. By making it the Digital Portfolio, you run the risk of sucking the joy and freedom out of blogging and making it all about school work.
- Access/Connection issues. 90 students simultaneously trying to blog at school can play havoc with the wifi. We run the risk of making the students' work inaccessible during high traffic periods. Not all students have easy and regular access to the internet at home.
- Quality control/Teacher accountability. Keeping track of 30 student blogs is no easy task. If students have publishing rights, unchecked work might slip through to public viewing and cause concern for teacher responsibility. Teachers who aren't confident with technology may find the blogging platform difficult to manage.
- The linear blogging structure. While tags and categories can make linking to individual post simple, the scrolling, back dated, linear structure of a blog is not always the best way of presenting a large body of work.
I personally think my pros outweigh my cons, although their are some definite issues to address. But I'm a prolific blogger and a confident user of web tools. That doesn't make it the best choice for everyone. I know there are alternatives but I haven't experimented with them as much as blogging. As I said earlier, I would really like some feedback from others who have used Digital Portfolios with their students. Do you use blogs or something completely different? What have been your issues and challenges? Please leave a comment and join the conversation. I'd really appreciate it.
19 Responses to "Digital Portfolios – is Blogging a good option?"
Adrienne Says:
July 10th, 2012 at 11:55 PM
By making it the Digital Portfolio, you run the risk of sucking the joy and freedom out of blogging and making it all about school work.
If I could make a comment about this thought….? I would approach it as a self-expression element of the blog rather than 'the teacher made me do it'. In most tasks that we have to do in our lives there will be elements that we naturally enjoy and those elements that are somewhat more onerous, adding a collection of evidence of learning should only be PART of the whole presentation. The beauty of blogs is that they don't have to be all work and no play. They can be any way you imagine, design and create, they are are also developmental and dynamic.
My only word of caution comes from an experience I went through with my son. He is somewhat(!!) of a perfectionist and made the unilateral decision to delete all his blogging work from the past 12 months (it no longer met his high standards of how he percieved his abilities). This year when he needed to present an application to be accepted into a G&T program I urged him to include his blog as part of his submission only to discover that it had all been deleted. Some discussion about the role of portfolio evidence and how long it should be kept for, would be on my agenda after this experience.
Jenny Luca Says:
July 11th, 2012 at 9:21 AM
We are using an edublogs platform at our school to create ePortfolios, for all the reasons you elaborate in your post. I've written about it here:
Feel free to contact me should you want to discuss things further.
Daniel Weinstein Says:
July 11th, 2012 at 10:18 AM
You spell out the pros and cons perfectly! I have incorporated website portfolios the past few years and have had much success. My one caveat: I make it an option.
All my students must end the year with a creative portfolio, but some have decided to go on-line. I encourage that, I show them examples from former students, and I tell them it's important for them to learn to use new technology.
However, I do not make e-portfolios mandatory. I probably never will.
I believe it is more important to create student-choice than it is to demand students get experience publishing on line.
Daniel Weinstein, author of http://www.creatingcreativeclasses.com
Mrs Rice Says:
July 11th, 2012 at 4:02 PM
Thanks Mark your post was VERY timely for me! I am new to all this blogging ( I am reader but not a blogger) , Edmodo etc. which opened up for me when I was given a class set of iPads and a mac book a few months back . So, after reading your blog regarding the pros and cons on digital portfolio & blogging and combining them I wondered about how Edmodo would fit into this issue. For me I want to learn a way to create a digital portfolio and move away from so much paper BUT I want a safe and manageable environment to do so….. my students are young and need to learn how to work, behave etc in this forum I think before un leashing them when they are older into WWW blogging etc. I know there are kid blogging sites and I am starting to look into those. IDEAS?
Viv Says:
July 11th, 2012 at 4:08 PM
I think embedding their creations and writing journal entries on a blog is terrific, as long as the teacher is comfortable with that. You could make just a class blog, with pages for each student.
In addition, now that powerpoint 2110 has the capacity to be saved as a wmv file, you can insert clips and audio etc etc, and the whole lot can be converted to a working video clip with no need to upload embedded media.
Hence you can then upload their converted work to a google docs/drive account and get an embed code. I don't know if google docs is banned for your students though. It is for the DEC.
I had a small group of gifted kids keeping a blog this last term, but from the point of view of a created character in a novel. So the whole thing was a creative writing exercise – involving journal entries, digicreations, imovie trailers and clips, vokis etc. The whole box and dice haha.
They really enjoyed the experience. In the end I put all their entries into a cohesive collaborative narrative and it was terrific. I posted it here a while back.
Next term I am going to set up class blogs administered by myself and the class teachers for the Stage 2 and Stage 3 classes in edublogs. The main page will be whole class stuff with examples. Each student will have their own page to put their stuff on though.
I really do think blogging is a wonderful way to showcase a student's work for their parents. They could put educreations they had made on it too. A lot of possibilities for some very creative and impressive work the students and their parents can be proud of.
AJ Says:
July 11th, 2012 at 4:09 PM
It depends on age I guess….I have been playing around with evernote for collection of evidence for portfolios. I have also created my own(professional) eportfolio in Google sites after the EpCoP MOOC last year. At that time there was much discussion about the choices of platform for portfolios. We all agreed to use an option that we were comfortable with. If kids know blogs then explore its' potential and the sky is the limit, they are certainly used for more that just journalling and reflecting.
WendyGoodman Says:
July 11th, 2012 at 11:19 PM
Excellent post and comments. I am a huge fan of blogging, but depending on the platform and the "vision", it can be overwhelming for teachers and students. What about a combination of tools? Student/teacher can capture artifacts of learning and voice via Evernote (love the ease of use and sharing capabilities of this tool), then the blog could be the metacognitive element where they select a piece to discuss publicly. This could be done on the "class" blog as a guest post. In WordPress if students are assigned the role of contributor they can do their own posts, but need to be approved by the teacher before they are "live". The use of "categories" (each student is a separate category) would help sort student posts on the class blog and make it easy for parents/students/teacher to see all of reflections done by individual students. I'm also a fan of Edmodo, and I find teachers find the Edmodo environment easier to navigate than the blogging dashboard. There are so many great tools available to share student learning it does make it a difficult decision. That being said, it is also a very exciting time!
BalancEdTech Says:
July 13th, 2012 at 4:45 AM
I have tried PowerPoint, wysiwig websites, blogs, and wikis for portfolios. The one with the lowest floor and widest walls so far has been wikis. We use Wikispaces and the kids find it a breeze on Windows and Mac computers. We're still getting used to it with iPads. Uploading files has been our problem on the iPads.
What I like best about the blogs is having students write a quick description of what they are linking/uploading and a quick (every now and then, more detailed) reflection. We do some of that with our wikis, but it feels natural to do it on the blog.
moveoverhomework Says:
July 13th, 2012 at 5:26 AM
I might be mistaken, but the problem i'm having is accessibility. So far I've looked at edublogs and evernote. Both require users to pay to use necessary features. In evernote you need to upgrade to be able to have 2 way collaborative feedback between teachers and students. In edublogs, students can't upload their prezi's, youtube videos, authorstream presentations, bit strip creations, etc unless the account is a pro account. How effective are digital portfolios if we only use the barebone features of a free account?


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I dropped in to the Tourism Authority of Thailand office in Khon Kaen to try to get whatever province brochures, information about Songkran in Khaon Kaen, and the routes they talked about on their facebook page, best you see or hear for yourself. In my opinion some of the staff had some English words, but I feel had no real English comprehension. The worlds biggest water fight Songran schedule is only available in Thai and I managed to get 11 out of 20 Isaan Provincial brochures in English.. They sure did not do much to make me feel welcome in Isaan.
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It is not TAT's job to make foreigners feel welcome. They do not want us here.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSunday, 08 April, 2012
Did you every think of the fact that Thai can be tourists also and there are about 65mil of them and they do have a lot of money to spend on holidays in Thailand?ReplyDelete
Although I think TAT is not one of the best organisations I think it is in their good right to advertise in Thai only and targeted for Thai people.
We crazy non-Thai reading & speaking westerners are only a very small target group within Thailand.
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Poems can be hard to understand sometimes, but these six questions will clear up almost any poetry mystery.
Poems always have meanings unique to the poets, but we readers take away our own meanings too. Sometimes, we just don't get it yet. That is when these six questions can help us demystify a poem.
1. Who is speaking? Bonus: What do you know about him/her?
2. What is being said?
3. How is it said?
4. Where does the poem take place? Bonus: Where was it written?
5. When does the poem take place? Bonus: When was it written?
6. Why? This question should be asked lastly, because if we bog ourselves down with the why while we are reading or just after reading, then we might create meanings that are not intended…or come away lacking understanding or enjoyment of the poem…which may cause us to judge it negatively…or abort further interest in it…causing us to be less open to other poems.
So true,poets usually write about life experiences or something they are passionate about…Also,what the poem may be about for me may not be the same meaning you took from the read,there are many unknowns…Some work is easy to relate to,but some have undertones that are only known to the writer…They have first hand knowledge of their emotions that they put to pen,always read with an open mind and listen to every word carefully…By doing so you may find that you understand more clearly the message being conveyed
I agree, it is best to have an open mind when reading.
good points here, sometimes the place and time of the poem is crucial. a poem by langston hughes for example, can be appreciated more when we know where he is coming from.


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Do names of colors — often infused with cultural significance — alter our perception of the chromatic universe?
Even before my partner Billy and I moved into our first house 10 years ago, I'd already established a few "rules" for how we would renovate the interior spaces. White walls. Gallery white and flat as chalk. Color, I decided, would be reserved for the ceiling. Set in contrast to the pristine museum-like character of white walls, the ceiling would be painted a deep, rich, warm color — landing somewhere in the saturated burnt- orange/persimmon/red-clay/Andy-Warhol-tomato-soup-can spectrum. Billy, whose favorite color is any shade of blue, kindly obliged.
Over the course of several weeks, we debated the imaginary ceiling color between shifts delaminating wallpaper from the living room walls and skim-coating the plaster. Without a single paint chip on the premises, we happily chewed our way through a Roget's Thesaurus' worth of improbable descriptors. The color had to have passion. It had to be earthy. Had to be vivid. Crisp. Brilliant. Hot. Oxidized. Juicy. Primordial.
As fun as our front-porch musings were, we also knew we were just lobbing vague concepts back and forth — having fun with some of the imagery and feelings the words evoked. By the time we were ready to buy the paint, we had settled on the terminology. The color, it turned out, was more elusive.
We are used to having an abundance of words in the English language to slice and dice nature's continuous color spectrum into nearly indiscernible variations of shades, tints and chroma. Consider the common names of dark blue — azure, navy, cerulean, denim and sapphire. Culturally, these names are loaded with associations — the sky, the sea, Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada, cowboys and precious gems. It's easy to see how these outside references enrich our conversation about color, but they can also engender biases and cause confusion.
Members of the Ndani tribe of West Papua have no such worries. A mostly isolated agrarian society living in the highlands of New Guinea, the Ndani only have two words for colors: mili for cool or dark shades such as blue, green and black, and mola for warm and light colors like red, yellow and white. Not only are the Ndani a boon for anthropological linguists, they offer a reminder of how our modern Western civilization unnecessarily confuses our appreciation of the natural phenomena (like the color of the sky or sea) by obsessive categorization and labeling. While the Ndani example is extreme, there are many other languages that have a severely limited color vocabulary — sometimes only three or four words. In these languages, red is usually the sole color to be distinguished from dark or light, followed by yellow or green if there's a fourth color word.
Even in early Western cultural history, words for color seemingly covered much more territory on the color wheel, and in the human psyche, than individual crayon names do today. Homer, for example, makes reference in his writings to a "wine-dark sea," a sky the color of bronze, and blue-haired warriors. Scholars have dismissed notions that Homer was color-blind, pointing out that for ancient Greeks, the words used for colors often included other properties, such as moistness, fluidity or freshness.
For today's English speaker, color names often trigger emotional responses that are difficult to erase once uttered. Blood red, for example, sounds more gory — and less yummy — than candy apple red. Especially when things or objects are used to help describe the color, it is virtually impossible not to see that object in your mind's eye. Lemon yellow. See what I mean?
As for the color Billy and I finally chose for the ceiling? After three failed attempts to find the right tone — not too dark, but not too much like sherbet — we had a brainstorm that took us out to the backyard. That year (and every year since) we'd planted orange profusion zinnias in a long flower bed running from the house to the back gate. Scanning the bunch, we plucked a few petals from a particularly lovely specimen, ran inside and taped it to the ceiling. It was the perfect color. We were both, appropriately, speechless.


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Covering Dome in CF blanket
I'm just about ready to start covering my dome with the ceramic blanket. Has anyone got any tips or advise about doing this? Is there a particular way I should cut the blanket, ie: should I cut big 'Vs' into it so that it doesn't all scrunch up?
Should I just lay the whole thing over the dome and then trim the edges?
Any advise would be appreciated. I want the neatest job possible so that when I render over the blanket I have a nice consistent job without lumps.
Re: Covering Dome in CF blanket
First off I would wear a dust mask to save your lungs, then I would wear one of them disposable paper overalls that can be chucked when done.
The dust gets into all your nookes and crannies and is most itchy, the disposable overalls stop this.
I cut big triangles and then lay them head to tail style, I find this gives me better coverage and very few bumps. :)
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A 37-year-old man was found dead hanging inside his home in sitio Sambag, barangay Tuyan, Naga City, yesterday at around 5 a.m.
Ernesto Pamplona, a resident of the barangay, was rushed to the hospital but was declared dead by the attending physician.
PO3 Antonio Catalina of Naga City Police said the victim and his wife did not sleep together that night since the victim came in late after attending a party.
Rosemarie, the victim?s wife, discovered Pamplona?s lifeless body.
Police is investigating if there was foul play involved./GABRIEL BONJOC
Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PEDEA) seized at least 65 packs of suspected shabu in a buy-bust operation Thursday afternoon in barangay Mactan, Lapu-Lapu City.
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The team headed by Ruenell ?Butch? Montenegro went to the area after they received reports that Aying is a big-time drug pusher.
A poseur buyer then bought three packs of suspected shabu from the suspect and made a prearranged signal to a backup team. Aying was arrested after receiving the marked money.
When Aying was frisked, another 62 packs were recovered from his possession./CHITO ARAGON
Policemen in Metro Cebu warned banks to check their surroundings for possible robbers planning to victimize their establishments.
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