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The position of a submerged object towed at great depth from a ship is determined, with respect to the ship, from measured values of the travel time of acoustic pulses between the ship and the object. These pulses are emitted at different locations of the ship and received at a point of the object. The values of the travel times of the pulses are measured and digitized on the object and transmitted by cable to the ship where they are processed, in combination with values representing the distances between the emission locations, to determine the coordinates of the object with respect to a system of axes associated with the ship.
1. An acoustic telemetry method for determining the position of an object submerged at great depth with respect to a ship towing the object at the end of a cable, the method comprising:
(a) transmitting acoustic pulses, each from one of at least three different emission locations of the ship, in a manner such that the displacement of the ship during the transmission time is substantially negligible and in a manner such that after propagation of the pulses to the object, said acoustic pulses can be discriminated from one another;
(b) receiving the emitted pulses at a reception location on the submerged object;
(c) measuring on the submerged object the respective propagation times of the emitted pulses from time of transmission to time of reception;
(d) digitizing the measured values to provide data in digitized form;
(e) transmitting the digitized data to the ship, through said cable; and
(f) combining, on board the ship, the different measured values forming said transmitted digitized data, the values of the distances between the emission locations and the values of the time intervals between the transmitted pulses, and determining therefrom in a predetermined manner the coordinates of the submerged object with respect to the ship.
2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the acoustic pulses emitted from the different locations have the same frequency and are emitted successively, so as to be successively received at said reception location.
3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the acoustic pulses emitted from the different locations have different frequencies one from the other.
4. A method according to claim 1, further comprising measuring the depth in water of the object, digitizing such measurement information and transmitting it to the ship along with the other transmitted digitized data.
5. A method according to claim 4 wherein said measuring of the depth is conducted with a manometric capsule adapted for generating a digitized signal representative of the depth in the water of the object.
6. A method according to claim 1 further comprising measuring the phase shift in the transmitted pulses during propagation and transmitting the measured phase shift information in digitized form to the ship through the cable.
7. A method according to claim 1 further comprising measuring the pitch and roll of the ship while conducting the method and correcting for the combined different measured values by a factor representative of the measured pitch and roll.
8. A method according to claim 4 wherein the pulses are transmitted from three locations defining a system of axes O, x, y and z with respect to the ship wherein the position of the object is defined as a point M located at coordinates X, Y and Z wherein coordinate X is located along a longitudinal axis x of the ship, coordinate Y is located along an axis y parallel to the transverse axis of the ship and coordinate Z is located along a downwardly extending vertical axis relative to the ship from the surface, said coordinate Z being determined by said measuring of the depth of the object, with the coordinates X and Y being determined by the following relationships;
X=R/d'rx Cos O,
Y=R/d ry Cos O,
wherein R is the distance from intersection O of axes x, y and z at the ship, d is the distance between two of the transmitting locations along axis y crossing through intersection O, d' is the distance along axis x to the third transmitting location to intersection O, and O is the angle between the line projection of the distance R and the line projection of the relative position of the object along the x and y axes;
R, rx, ry and Cos O being determined by the relationships;
rx =c(Tx -TE),
ry =c(Ty -kTx),
Cos O=a-Z2 /R2,
wherein c is the velocity of the acoustic waves through water, k is a number equal to the ratio between time intervals (t2 -t1) and (t3 -t1), with t1 equal to time of transmission of the first pulse, t2 is equal to the time of transmission of second pulse from transmission of first pulse and t3 is equal to the time of transmission of third pulses from transmission of first pulse; and
wherein TE is the time interval between the leading edges of the first and third pulse, T is the time interval between the leading edge of the second pulse and the instant at which the amplitude of the received first pulse passes through a predetermined threshold value, Tx is the interval between the instants at which the amplitudes of the received first and third pulses reach the threshold value, and Ty is the interval between the instants at which the amplitudes of the received first and second pulses reach the threshold value.
9. An apparatus for determining the position of a submerged object with respect to a ship towing the object at the end of a cable, said apparatus comprising emission means for emitting acoustic pulses from at least three different locations of the ship, pulse generating means located on the ship for generating a sequence of pulses of the same duration and of the same frequency with a time interval therebetween, means for transmitting said pulses to the respective emission means for emission therefrom, receiving means on the submerged object for receiving the emitted acoustic pulses, computation means on board of the ship for computing coordinates of the object with respect to the ship, clock means located in the submerged object for generating a signal defining a time scale for controlling the pulse generating means, timing means and phase-shift measuring means with said object for measuring the propagation time of the different emitted acoustic pulses of the sequence in relation to the period of the signal generated by the clock means, depth measuring means with said object for measuring the depth in the water of the object, the depth means incorporating digitization means operative for digitizing the measuring values by making use of the signal generated by the clock, and trasmission means for transmitting the measured values in digitized form from the submerged object to the computation means on board the ship for computing the position of the object.
10. An apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the transmission means comprises a multiplexer arranged for sequentially connecting to the cable the timing means, the phase-shift measuring means and the depth measuring means, and a demultiplexer connected to the cable at the other end, on the one hand, and to the computation and the pulse generating means on the other hand.
11. An apparatus according to claim 9 wherein the computation means has associated therewith a verticality central station and a gyrocompass.
12. An apparatus according to claim 9 wherein the emission means comprise one transducer disposed in the longitudinal plane of the ship and two transducers disposed in a transverse plane relative to the ship, the intersection of said planes defining a system of axes, associated with the ship, with respect to which the position of the object is determined.
13. An apparatus according to claim 12 wherein the transducers are disposed at locations of the ship remote from one another.
This invention relates to an acoustic telemetering device for determining the relative position of a submerged object with respect to a vehicle.
More particularly, the invention concerns an acoustic telemetering device for determining the position of a submerged towed object with respect to a towing ship. This towed object is, for example, a profiled body or "fish" connected through a cable to a ship and containing oceanographic apparatuses. It performs sub-surface evolutions at a certain distance from the bottom and contains, for example, an echo-sounder, a Doppler sonar or lateral sonar adapted to determine its trajectory with respect to the bottom of the water layer or to produce echograms of the bottom suface or of the underlying layers. Such a fish is described, for example, in the French Pat. No. 2 412 853.
When the ship moves over deep bottoms, the cable through which it is connected to the fish may reach very great lengths (several kilometers). Due to the drag of the towing cable, to the variations of the towing speed and to the currents, the position of the fish may vary substantially, thus making it difficult to know accurately its location.
A first known prior art method consists of laying on the water bottom an assembly of beacons located at known positions and to determine, with respect to the latter, both the position of the towing ship and that of the submerged fish. This method requires, in the case of a large evolution zone of the ship, the immersion of a great number of locating beacons and their frequent displacement, thus making its application difficult.
A second known method, which can be used independently of the extent of the navigation zones, consists of determining, by acoustic means, the relative position of the fish with respect to the ship, the position of the latter being determined by making use of locating systems at sea of another known type such as radio positioning systems.
A known device for carrying out this second method comprises acoustic wave sensors secured under the ship, near each other and an acoustic pulse emitter, placed on the fish. An acoustic telemering system is adapted to measure the propagation time of acoustic pulses transmitted from the emitter and respectively received by the sensors. The initial instant used as a reference for measuring the time intervals is that at which an emission order is transmitted, through the cable connecting the ship to the fish, for actuating the pulses emitter placed therein.
Another known device making use of the same method also comprises acoustic wave sensors secured under the ship in the vicinity of one another, an acoustic pulse emitter rigidly secured to the fish and also as a telemetering system measuring the time intervals for the acoustic pulses propagation between the emitter and the sensors. It differs from the preceding one in that the emission order is transmitted to the emitter located in the fish by means of an acoustic signal which propagates through water from the ship.
The known method, consisting of transmitting an acoustic signal from the fish and receiving it on the ship, suffers from disadvantages. The signal, very substantially weakened during its propagation from the object, is received in a high noise zone (noise of machines, wind, waves, noises generated by the surface navigation, etc . . . ) and the signal-to-noise ratio is low, being thus prejudicial to the accuracy of the effected telemetering measurements.
Besides, the acoustic wave sensors are generally secured under the hull of the ship at the immediate vicinity of one another, thus having a further unfavorable effect on the accuracy of the effected measurements.
By the method according to the invention, it is possible to determine the relative position of an object submerged at great depth with respect to a ship towing this object at the end of a cable, by measuring the propagation time of acoustic pulses between n different locations of emission on the ship and a receiving location on the submerged object. It comprises:
emitting a sequence of n acoustic pulses, each of which is emitted from one of the emission locations of the ship, the sequence emission period being so short that the displacement of the ship during said period is negligible,
successively receiving at said reception location the emitted pulse sequence,
measuring on the submerged object the respective propagation times of the emitted pulses of the sequence,
digitizing the measured values,
transmitting by cable the digitized data, and
combining, on the ship, the different transmitted measurement values by making use of the distances between the locations of emission and of the time intervals between the pulses of each sequence.
According to a first embodiment, the acoustic pulses emitted from the different locations have the same frequency and are sequentially emitted. According to a second embodiment, the acoustic pulses emitted from the different locations have distinct frequencies and are simultaneously emitted.
The method according to the invention offers, as compared to prior art methods, the advantage that the transmitted acoustic waves are received far from the surface in quiet waters. The submerged object is generally well profiled and the noise inherent to its hydrodynamic drag is very low as compared to the noises of various origins associated with the surface navigation. The signal-to-noise ratio obtained by the method according to the invention is consequently far better. This results in an increased accuracy obtained when measuring the propagation times of the acoustic signals or of their relative phases since, as well known in the art, the errors in these measurements are in inverse proportion of the square root of the signal-to-noise power ratio.
The method according to the invention also offers the advantage that the propagation times are measured on the submerged object and are digitized before being transmitted through the cable to the ship. The encoded signals representing the digitized mesurement values and transmitted by cable may be easily reconstituted, even if they were deformed by a long propagation or are subjected to random phase variations as a result of non-homogeneous characteristics of the transmission cable and accordingly the accuracy of the distance measurements effected on the submerged object can be preserved.
The device for carrying out the invention comprises means for emitting acoustic waves at several different locations of the vehicle, means, located on the ship, for generating pulses of the same duration and of the same frequency at time intervals, these pulses being respectively transmitted to the emission means, means for receiving the pulses on the submerged object, and means for computing the coordinates of the object with respect to the vehicle. It further comprises a clock member, placed in the submerged object, for generating a signal defining a time scale, adapted to control the pulse generating means, time measuring means and a phase shift measuring assembly, associated with said object, for measuring the propagation time of the different pulses of each sequence, in periods of the signal generated by the clock member, and means, associated with said object, for measuring the depth in water of the latter, said means, as well as the time measuring means and the phase shift measuring assembly, comprising, as an integral part, digitizing means adapted to digitize the measured values by making use of the signal generated by the clock member, and a system for transmitting the measured values from the submerged object to the computation means on the ship.
Other characteristics and advantages of the method according to the invention and of the device for carrying out the same will be made apparent from the following description given with reference to the accompanying drawings wherein:
FIG. 1 shows a submerged object connected to a surface vehicle through a cable;
FIG. 2 diagrammatically shows a location of the emission means under the vehicle and the system of axes (O, x, y, z) whereby the position of the object with respect to the vehicle can be determined;
FIG. 3 shows a projection on plane Oxy of the emission locations and of the position of the submerged object;
FIG. 4 shows chronograms of the different acoustic pulses emitted and received according to a first embodiment of the method;
FIG. 5 shows chronograms of the same pulses according to a second embodiment of the method; and
FIG. 6 diagrammatically shows a device for carrying out the first embodiment of the method.
The system according to the invention is adapted, for example, to determine the position of a profiled body or "fish" 1 (FIG. 1) with respect to a vehicle such as a ship 2 to which it is connected through a multi-functional cable 3, comprising towing cables and electrical conductors, whereby data are transmitted between oceanographic and electronic apparatuses of any type contained in the fish and data processing apparatuses placed on the towing ship 2. A deflector 23 of known type is secured to the lower end of cable 3 in order to maintain the fish 1 immersed at great depth.
Transducers 4, 5 and 6 (FIG. 2) for emitting acoustic waves are secured to the hull of the ship 2 at locations which are at the greatest possible distance from one another and preferably incorporated into profiled bodies so as to reduce the flow turbulences. These bodies (not shown) are secured to the hull of the ship and the transducers included therein are controlled, for example, by means of connecting electrical conductors passing through the hulls.
Two of the transducers (4, 5) are placed along an axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the ship at two positions A and B symmetrical with respect to said axis. The third transducer 6 is placed at a point C on the longitudinal axis. The lateral spacing between the two transducers 4 and 5 and the distance between point C and the transverse axis joining A and B are chosen to be as large as possible within limits compatible with the ship size. M designates the location of the fish 1 at which is secured a transducer receiver 7, Ox, Oy, Oz are three axes respectively oriented in the directions of the longitudinal axis of the ship, of the transverse axis passing through points A and B and of a vertical line, the common origin of these axes being the middle of segment AB, X, Y and Z are the coordinates of point M in this system of axes and R is the distance OM. The angle between the projection OM' of OM on the plane xOy and the axis y is designated by θ, the angle between the same projection and OM is designated by α.
The projection of segment AB (FIG. 3) on direction OM' is designated by rx and the projection of segment OC on the same direction is designated by ry. Finally d and d' respectively designate distances AB and OC.
It can be easily established that the coordinates X and Y of point M, with respect to the system of axes O, x, y and z associated with the ship, can be obtained by the following relationships: ##EQU1##
In order to determine the depth Z in water of the fish 1, a pressure measuring device (not shown) is incorporated therein.
The values of R, rx, ry which, in combination with the values of Z given by the pressure measuring device and with the values of d and d' determined at the construction, make it possible to calculate the coordinates of the fish with respect to the ship, are obtained by telemetering measurements.
According to a first embodiment of the method, each acoustic wave emission-reception cycle comprises (FIG. 4) the emission at point A at instant t1 of a pulse E1 of duration Δt and of a specific frequency f, then the emission at point C of a second identical pulse E2 at instant t2, after t1, and, finally, the emission at point B of a third pulse, also identical, E3, at instant t3, after t2. These three pulses propagate towards the submerged fish and are successively received by the transducer-receiver 7 located at point M, at instants t'1, t'3, t'2 depending on the respective propagation times of the signals. Generally, t'2 is subsequent to t'3 as a result of the selected spacing d'. As the transmitted pulses are deformed during propagation, the received acoustic signals R1, R3, R2 are amplified and re-shaped, so as to make possible an accurate determination of their respective arrival instants t'1, t'3, t'2. This re-shaping step comprises for example a comparison of the amplitude of the signals with a determined threshold value.
TE is used to designate the time interval (t1, t3) between the leading edges FE1 and FE3 of pulses E1 and E3, T designates the time interval (t2, t'1) between the leading edge FE2 of pulse E2 and the instant at which the amplitude of the received pulse R1 passes through the threshold value, Tx designates the interval (t'1, t'3) between the instants at which the amplitudes of the pulses R1 and R3 reach the threshold value and finally Ty designates the interval (t'1, t'2) between the instants at which the amplitudes of pulses R1 and R2 also reach the required threshold value.
It is easily established that, by measuring the time intervals T, Tx, Ty and the depth Z and by making use of the predetermined value TE, the different required parameters R, rx, ry and Cos α can be calculated from the following relationships: ##EQU2## wherein c designates the velocity through water of the acoustic waves and k a number equal to the ratio between the time intervals (t2 -t1) and (t3 -t1). The values of R, rx, ry, Cos α being determined, the coordinates X and Y of point M can then be calculated by application of the relationships (1).
The time intervals (t2 -t1), (t3 -t1) are selected so that, independently of the position of point M under effective operating conditions, the pulses R1, R3 and R2 are received consecutively, so that it is possible to unambiguously associate the received pulses with the corresponding emitted pulses, irrespective of the position of the submerged fish behind the ship.
According to a second embodiment of the method (FIG. 5), the pulses E1, E2 and E3 are simultaneously transmitted but their respective frequencies f1, f2, f3 are different from one another, so as to make possible the unambiguous identification of their successive instants of arrival t'1, t'3, t'2 at point M of the object. The relationships whereby R, rx, ry and Cos α can be determined are identical to those of group (2) but, in the present case, the time intervals TE and t2 -t1 are reduced to zero.
From the relationships (1) and (2) and irrespective of the embodiment which is used, it can be seen that, by placing the emission points A, B, C at locations of the ship hull the most remote from one another, the values d and d' and the differences in the propagation times Tx, Ty for a determined value TE, are increased and accordingly, the relative errors in the measuring values of rx, ry and coordinates X, Y are reduced.
When referring to FIG. 6, it can be seen that the device for carrying out the method of the invention, comprises an assembly N1 located in the fish and an assembly N2 placed on the ship. These two assemblies are interconnected through electric conductors 8 included in the connecting cable 3 (FIG. 1).
The assembly N1 comprises a receiving assembly 9 adapted to amplify and put in shape the acoustic pulses received from the transducer 7 (FIG. 2), so as to determine the successive instants t'1, t'3, t'2 (FIGS. 4 and 5) at which the respective amplitudes of these pulses reach for example a determined threshold value. It also comprises a timing element 10, a phase shift measuring assembly 11 of known type, a measuring device 14 comprising a manometric capsule, adapted to generate a digitized signal representing the depth in water of the fish, a clock member 12 which generates a periodic signal defining a time scale, and a multiplexer 13. The output of the receiving assembly 9 is connected to the input of the timing element 10 and to the input of the phase shift measuring assembly 11. The outputs of element 10, of the assembly 11 and of the pressure measuring device 14 are respectively connected to the inputs of multiplexer 13. The output of the clock member 12 is connected to the input of the timing element 10, of the phase-shift measuring assembly 11 and of the pressure measuring device 14. The outputs of multiplexer 13 are connected to electric conductors 8.
The assembly N2 comprises a demultiplexer 15 whose inputs are connected to the other end of the electric conductors 8. An output of demultiplexer 15 is connected to a first input of a computer 16. A second input thereof is connected to a verticality central station 17 adapted to generate correction signals taking into account the pitch and roll effects. A third input of the computer 16 is connected to a gyro-compass 18 adapted to generate correction signals taking into account the heading variations of the ship. A second output of demultiplexer 15 is connected to the input of a synchronization element 19 adapted to generate control pulses of frequency f and duration Δt at instants t1, t2, t3 (FIG. 4). The frequency f is chosen equal to a sub-multiple of the frequency of the signal generated by the clock member (12) for example. The control pulses are respectively transmitted to the inputs of three amplifiers 20, 22, 21, whose outputs are respectively connected to three emitting transducers 4, 6, 5. Each of them, associated with an amplifier, forms an emission assembly.
The measurements of time and/or phase-shift effected by the assembly N1 are transmitted to the assembly N2 in digital form, thereby avoiding any degradation of the information irrespective of the length of the cable connecting the ship to the fish. The bits forming the digital words are transmitted to conductors 8 at a rate determined by the clock member 12. The signal generated by the latter is accordingly used for synchronizing the whole device.
The device operates in the following manner:
A reference pulse, formed, for example, of a leading edge of the signal emitted by the clock member 12, is transmitted at instant t1 to the assembly N2 at the surface through the conductors 8 and, simultaneously, is used for initiating the timing element 10 which begins to count the successive clock pulses. The reference pulse is received by the synchronization element 19 which generates a first pulse signal E1 of frequency f and duration Δt, which is transmitted to amplifier 20, then a second signal E2 and a third signal E3, respectively transmitted to amplifiers 22 and 21 at instants t2 and t3, the time interval TE between the first and the third generated signals being a multiple of the clock signal period. The amplified pulse signals are successively applied to transducers 4, 6 and 5and transmitted through water.
The transducer 7 successively receives the pulses propagated from the ship to the fish and the receiving assembly 9 amplifies them and puts them in shape. The leading edges of the reshaped pulses R1, R3, R2 defining the successive instants t'1, t'3, t'2, are transmitted to the timing element 10 which determines the number of clock signal periods accumulated between the initial instant t1 and said instants with an error allowance at most equal to one period of the clock signal, and transforms these numbers to digital words.
In order to increase the accuracy of the measurements, the signals R1, R3, R2 successively received by the receiving assembly are also applied to the phase shift measuring assembly 11. The latter measures phase shifts lower than one time unit between the received signals and the signal generated by the clock member 12 and digitize them.
The multiplexer 13 sequentially connects the timing element 10, the phase shift measuring assembly 11 and the pressure measuring device 14 to conductors 8 of the cable. The data sequentially received by the assembly N2 are demultiplexed by the element 15 and then transmitted to the computer 16 which calculates the time intervals T, Tx, Ty (FIG. 4), then the paramters R, rx, ry Cos α, in accordance with the group of relationships (2) and, finally, the coordinates X, Y in accordance with the group of relationships (1). The computer 16 is adapted to include in its calculations the data supplied by the verticality central station 17 and the gyro-compass 18.
The type of multiplexer 13 is selected in accordance with the number of oceanographic apparatuses contained in the fish in addition to the elements of the telemetering device assembly N1, which must transmit to the ship the informations collected therein.
It would not be outside the scope of the invention to replace the connecting conductors 8 by any other data transmission means.
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They aren't that smart if they think machines could ever be sentient. Machines are deterministic. They do what you tell them to.
And what happens if we tell them to behave randomly? A particle filter, for instance, uses randomness to generate a set of states for evaluation. Sensor fusion takes large numbers of highly error prone sensor readings and merges them into state estimates. Both methods introduce uncertainty into state estimation and, therefore, present non-deterministic foundations for reasoning. Even if the reasoning processes are strictly deterministic, you can still get non-deterministic behavior, and that's without even introducing any explicit behavioral randomness.
But, let's be honest: No one has ever provided a definition (that I've ever seen) for sentience which precludes deterministic response. Are you proposing irrationality as a fundamental identifier of intelligence? I'm not sure I'd call it a feature, but maybe it's an inevitable consequence.
Anyone with enough insight and humility knows there's still an extremely large piece of the puzzle missing in our understanding of life. And you need to understand how something works before you can create it.
I don't think there is an extremely large piece. I think there are hundreds of thousands of little pieces. Also, we create things all the time without understanding them. I mean most people don't have any idea how mitosis works and yet we don't have much problem reproducing. Anyway, the point is that I don't think we need a full understanding of human intelligence to create some kind of intelligent agent.

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2. Obtain the Maclaurin's series for e[sup]x[/sup].
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5. If x = cos t, y = sin t and
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Friday, July 3, 2015
happy 4th!
The 4th of July brings so many happy memories to my heart. It's one of those holidays that I feel the need to celebrate no matter what country I'm in. My American friends, as you begin your festive gatherings tomorrow, we'll have already enjoyed our barbecue and fireworks show. That's right. Fireworks are a must. You can read more about why my American roots go deep at times over at Petit Elefant. I hope you all have wonderful Independence Day celebrations!
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015
appreciate the differences
Differences are everywhere. It's what makes us beautiful and unique. It's also what can be difficult. Join me over at Tommy Nelson as I share three ways we can teach our kids to appreciate the differences in all of God's creation!
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Thursday, June 25, 2015
scary close {giveaway}
I just finished reading Donald Miller's newest book, Scary Close. He takes a very up close and personal look at relationships and intimacy. He's raw and real about his own life, his own mistakes and learnings that have led him to believe true intimacy is scary. Why? Because it takes a vulnerability to be the true you and let yourself really connect with others. It takes "dropping the act" to be known. That can be scary, but like the tagline on scaryclose.com says, "When you're good at relationships, you're good at life." Relationships are worth it.
I found Scary Close to be an enjoyable read packed with punches that caused me to stop and ponder. There's some incredible truths with a depth that can easily be missed if you don't pause and process. There were two main parts of the book that I found challenging as I examine my own life. The first was the chapter on the five kinds of manipulators. Ouch. He was spot on with describing them. It was when he mentioned that we're guilty of all of them at some point and that we need to work to keep them in check, that I realized I needed to be in tune to my words and actions. Manipulation destroys relationships, and I don't want to be the cause of destruction at any time.
The other thing that impacted me was when Don talked about his friend, Bob, and how, in the height of Don's relational difficulties, Bob told him that he was good at relationships. That's not how Don felt, but Bob was speaking to the potential, and you know what it made Don do? Rise up, and be good at relationships. I want to be someone that speaks to the potential in others.
After reading this book, I feel challenged to let myself be "scary close" to others. True intimacy is a blessing that should never be taken for granted. Even though it's vulnerable, it's worth it.
Two thumbs up, Don Miller. Thanks for your vulnerability as you revealed the deep parts of your heart and let us in on your learnings. Go read it, guys. Seriously.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015
curry and babies
Joshua was conceived 14 years ago next month in a little bamboo hut in a refugee camp in Northern Thailand. TMI? Sorry, guys. That's probably way too much information for a Wednesday. However, if you want to read all about the adventure and the food that turned my stomach for NINE years, then head on over to Petit Elefant. There's even a curry recipe over there!
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Monday, June 22, 2015
outdoor pallet coffee table {diy}
Some of you got wind of my pallet project(s) on Instagram. It's slow going, but I've had the table done for a couple of weeks now, and I think it's high time I showed you! It's super simple, y'all, and as you've probably gotten used to, I have no photos of the process. I really tried. I even brought my camera out, but I get so carried away that I forget to pause and shoot.
This, however, is the most simplest of things to make. Really, it is. I've never made furniture except the occasional IKEA piece. I do believe if I can do it, anyone can.
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- 2 pallets - any size, it just depends how big you want your table to be
- hammer or crowbar
- drill & screws
- 4 wheels
- primer & paint OR varnish to seal the wood
- paint brushes
1. Using a crowbar or hammer, start by taking all the top pieces of wood planks off of the piece that is going to serve as the top piece to your table. You can leave the two ends. You will also need to take off about every other plank from your second pallet. This step is totally optional, but I didn't want such huge gaps in between my planks of wood. This is, by far, the hardest, most time consuming step.
2. After you get your wood planks off, arrange them on the top piece, trying to make it as flush as possible. Mine still had a little gap after I added about four planks of wood.
3. After you get the planks arranged, drill them into the pallet. You've already made your top piece!
4. On the bottom side of your second piece, screw a wheel into each corner. This is also optional, but I wanted wheels to make it easier to move around and sweep the verandah.
5. After your wheels are screwed in, flip that second piece over and put the first piece on top of it. My pallets were so heavy that there was no need to screw the pieces together. Voilà! Your table is finished!
6. Finish your table by sealing the wood. I chose to prime mine with wood primer and then paint it white, because that's what I had on hand.
I'm making plans to start making the outdoor couch and chairs, so stay tuned for more amateur furniture making coming up soon!
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Friday, June 19, 2015
gymnastics competition
Last Friday Emma Grace had her Level 1 gymnastics competition. I've always loved watching the Winter Olympic gymnastics competitions on TV. While this was on a much smaller scale, the mats were all a buzz with activity...floor exercise, uneven bars, parallel bars, vault...it was great!
My kids were started a new school this year. It was hard. They, fortunately, made friends quickly, but the homework load and the adjustment was almost too much for Emma Grace. The first two months she begged me twice a week to let her quit gymnastics. I told her no, that we weren't going to make any decisions like that for at least six months. She was adjusting, and I recognized that, but it was agonizing. Physically making your child go to something because you know it's probably the best for them is not an easy task.
I'm glad I didn't relent, though, because she's in an entirely different place now. She loves going to practice. She did so well at competition that she came home with a gold medal! I'm so proud of her for sticking it out when it was hard. I hope she's learned an important lesson about perseverance!
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015
a word on load shedding
If you don't know what load shedding is, I'll tell ya. South Africa doesn't have enough power to run the country, so we have frequent power outages to compensate. It's easy to get frustrated with not having electricity, but I was recently challenged to see the upside of no power. Join me over at Petit Elefant as I share the positive side of load shedding.
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Monday, June 15, 2015
colour party
Several weeks ago, I thought, "Wouldn't it be great to have a colour party where we celebrate creativity, diversity, and the many different cultures that make up Ten Thousand Homes?" From there, we started planning a party full of colour with creative outlets galore.
When I showed up to the party, casually late as always, I saw a sea of white. Instructions were followed to a tee. "Come as a blank canvas." Between the all-white and the coloured kool-aid that our US friends brought over, well, let's just say that I'm glad no one who didn't know us showed up. {Kooky...}
The biggest prep for this party was making the colour powder. It wasn't hard. I just only had so many trays for drying the stuff. I followed this recipe. Super easy! Oh, and it actually did wash out of clothes rather easy. Our other stations included...
- A Twister game station with a prize punch board for the winners.
- A painting station with a very cool art piece to paint on created by one of our staff.
- A writing station with a real typewriter. People always seem to find those old typewriters super fun.
- A photo booth station with those cheap, plastic tablecloths as the backdrop.
- A music station complete with a keyboard, drum, and guitar.
- A colouring station with good, old fashioned colouring books.
- A luminary station for creating some outdoor ambiance.
Of course, there was dancing, games that involved silliness and shaving cream, glow sticks to adorn ourselves, and FOOD! Our friends from the US prepared a fantastic feast of kebabs, both fruit, veggie, and meat, rice, and banana pudding!
We kept decor simple and colourful. Balloons, streamers, buntings, cupcake paper garlands, and polka dot garlands.
So fun. So easy. Lots of laughs. Lots of smiles. That's what it's all about!
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Saturday, May 30, 2015
sorry i'm not sorry {giveaway}
This book, Sorry I'm Not Sorry, is the third in a series of books about bullying by Nancy Rue. One out of four students is bullied at school, and 85% of those situations never receive intervention. I love that the author has tackled this very important problem facing our children by writing a series of books told from three different perspectives. So Not Okay is told from the perspective of the bystander. You Can't Sit With Us is told from the perspective of the victim, and this last book in the trilogy, Sorry I'm Not Sorry is told from the perspective of the bully.
Kylie Steppe is the popular girl at school. Her pack of girls follows her lead in ruling the school and bullying the underdogs. However, her world she's created starts to crash in around her when she gets expelled from school for bullying and has to participate in mandatory counseling and volunteer at a camp for underprivileged kids.
Even though Kylie fights it every step of the way, deep rooted securities start surfacing as the inner thoughts she's trying to stuff keep presenting themselves. Kylie gets a wake up call when she reads her own hateful words in an email she's sent and when she becomes the victim of bullying on social media.
It's a must read along with the other two books in this series. I think everyone would identify with at least one character, the victim, the bystander, or the bully. Check out the flipbook for a sampling of this book!
I have one copy of Sorry I'm Not Sorry up for giveaway courtesy of Thomas Nelson. Giveaway is open to U.S. addresses only and ends Saturday, June 6th at 11:59 PM CST. Enter through Rafflecopter below!
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Disclosure: I received a free copy of Sorry I'm Not Sorry from Tommy Nelson in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015
trusting god
Trusting God is not always easy, and sometimes it's hard to remember, in the midst of difficult moments, to include our kids in the process. I'll never forget when we invited our kids into trusting God for a vehicle. The prayers got kind of crazy, but it was such a privilege to include them in it. I know we all came out richer having walked through it together. Read all about our experience of trusting God for big things as a family over at Tommy Nelson!


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A/N: Hello dear fanfic readers! I'm re-doing this story but most of it is staying the same. I apologize for the many mistakes I will and do make. I also can't promise regular updates but I'll try my best. Please read and review, PLEASE! Any feedback is appreciated. Also if any of you guys can think of a better title please give me some names or advice. I'll make sure to recognize you guys. Thank you for reading (and perhaps reviewing). The first Chapter is Beast Boy's POV. The next chapter will be the rest of the scene in Raven's POV. I hope you enjoy the story!
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A smile here, a joke there, and a great deal of pretend idiocy. This was Beast Boy's mask. Beast Boy knew that wearing one was wrong but everyone had one. Robin literally hid behind a mask all the time, Starfire's naïve knowledge about Earth's ways hide her knowledge about the brutal worlds beyond Earth, Cyborg also hides behind jokes and laughs (that probably explains their close friendship- although, Cyborg is more expressive about his pain), and Raven hides behind her excuse of "can't control my powers if I feel". He saw through all of their masks. He sees their pain and tries to make it better but the only time he does that successfully is when he makes a fool of himself. Which wasn't bad, it was so easy to do and it created a perfect mask. But it had become him and it was -a version of Beast Boy that he liked now and then but hated most of the time. So did most people (or they were extremely annoyed with it). But nonetheless people believed the mask and that's all that mattered. Although, his mask has a lot of cracks- his primal side showed his darker side . Speaking of that side of him was coming out more. It was also bringing a lot of past memories that caused the cracks in his mask to be noticeable. Terra was a another crack that was monumentally big to his mask, Trigon and Malchior stealing his Raven, and Brain's attempt to destroy the Titans were pushing the cracks.
Beast Boy had also been changing into his primal side involuntary but he knew it didn't do anything harmful, yet. There was also the fact that he was falling- no, he is in love with Raven, but his mask couldn't have that. With the mask they're polar opposites. Plus she didn't like the mask; she might not even like the real Beast Boy/Garfield if he's still there. He needed this trip to fix and separate his mask. It was becoming suffocating and was mixing with the real him (if there is a real him anymore).The cool, vast starry night was soothing for Beast Boy. It almost reminded him of the good times with his parents. The Titans are his family but he was a human child with his parents, now he's just a half-human/animal thing that tries (and fails) to make others happy but ignores his own pain. The pain of the past and some present pains. Sometimes he wished he could forget the pain or have the courage to tell someone his pain.
"It's not like you to be out here alone, especially on our first vacation trip," Raven said in her normal monotone voice. Although, Beast Boy could hear a hint of concern and surprise in her voice. God, thank you for giving me a purple and blue angel! Beast Boy thought as he saw her.
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"Are you sure that's all?" Raven asked. She looked at him with concern. That's when he remembered that Raven was an empath. She probably felt his pain. That's why she came outside. He knew that he could barely stand it; it must be suffocating for her. So he put his mask on shielding and hiding his pain.
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I needed a bright cap to be visible when I swim in the lake near my house. I loved the attitude face! Makes swim training a bit more fun. The cap fits very well, is soft not stiff and stays on my head. The cost was reasonable and it was delivered within a week. I am pleased with my purchase.
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I love my new "attitude" swim cap. It is so fun to wear everyday to swim practice and I have gotten lots of complements on it. It makes easy for people to spot me in the pool, I can just tell them I am the one with the swim cap with a face on it and they can find me easily. I use it five times a week and it is not fading and it is holding up well. It also doesn't fall of when I sprint or dive of the blocks. Overall, I am very pleased!
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It is a little harder to get on the other cap I ordered. It does not slide across wet hair very easily. I do not know if it is the same fabric as the first one I ordered, (unfortunately my other cap & swimsuit were stolen)
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I love the cuteness, but they're too tight & give me a headache. I'll just go back to my cloth ones again.
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It's fun to wear this during Water Polo practice. It stays put as much as any swim cap does these days
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very unique and very bright. i can see where my children in the crowd:)
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fits my swimmers attitude :)
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I bought this swimming cap as party favor for my son's pool party. All the kids love it.
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I love this cap. It's requires very little adjusting while I'm swimming laps, plus it gets smiles every time I wear it in the water. This is the second time I've ordered it and I'll get it again when my current ones wears out.
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Warren: Puppet auditions. Stench of failure and Febreeze is palpable.
Dr Drew: Have you ever seen a therapist before? Have you ever seen a psychiatrist, or? Warren: Aaahhh... Y'know, court mandated type stuff. Nothing serious. Dr Drew: Ok. Warren: Nothing I stuck with. Dr Drew: Do you have any medical problems? Warren: Aaahhh... I get the shakes. Dr Drew: How much alcohol do you use every day? Warren: Hmmmm.... Well.... It... I ... Dr Drew: Average? Warren: Ohh... Three, maybe four airline bottles. When you take into account my body weight.... Dr Drew: Got it. Warren: ...aaahhh, it's probably in the area of a sh*t load. Dr Drew: Pot? Warren: Oh, yeah. Sure. Dr Drew: Cocaine? Warren: Snorting. Only habitually. Dr Drew: Ok. Any abuse when you were growing up? Sexual abuse? Physical abuse? Warren: Aaahhhh.... You mean perpetrated by, or against? Dr Drew: Upon.... Upon. Right now I would caution you about telling me things that might require notification of state authorities.
Cecil: I'm not going to have sex 'til it's with someone I really love, and she loves me back. Warren: Mmmm.... So never?
Warren: Yeah! All right! This place is jumping, man! Ok, now you gotta remember everything we talked about right? All our strategies and conversations. Greg: Hmm... Warren, this outfit makes me look like a complete douche bag. Warren: Well, you do. You do look like a total douche. Greg: What?! Warren: Girls love douche bags. 'K? Makes you attractive to them. They want to know who you are. Why you are so douchey. Maybe you'll be douchey to them, maybe you won't. There's only one way to find out, and that's to bed ya. 'K?
Cecil: Just 'cause you like sci-fi doesn't mean you don't have sex. We just haven't done it yet.
Dr. Drew: So Warren, how you doing? Warren: Aah, not bad, not bad. Y'know, I've been taking stock lately. Dr. Drew: Of your life? Warren: No, of my episodes. And, aahh... Well, a lot of them kinda show me in a negative light. Which is weird, so thought maybe I could do a little something to correct that. I don't know, community service or something that's a little more positive and upbeat. Dr. Drew: I like the idea of community service. Warren: Mmm...yeah, yeah. Y'know, I was thinking, maybe I could volunteer some time at a local junior high. You know, talk to the kids about poor life choices. Dr. Drew: Well, you know something about poor life choices, Warren, but what do you know about middle school aged kids? Warren: Well actually, I happen to be qualified. I once did a movie called Ghetto School. Ghetto School Warren: I have learnt just as much from you, as you all have from me. And it has been an honor to call myself your teacher. You are all going to Harvard! Yeah! Give it up! Warren: It's good. It got two stars from Michael Medved. Dr. Drew: So, because you've done a movie, you're qualified to go in and speak to impressionable young kids; middle school aged? Warren: Pfft, c'mon, Drew. Impressionable kids?! These are juvenile delinquents straight out of hell! And I'm going to scare 'em straight. Dr. Drew: How? Warren: I find that usually terms that have some sort of like, yin yang symmetry to them. Like, "Hey kid! Don't do drugs, or drugs will do you!". Dr. Drew: I just don't believe for a second you're going to walk in there and just spout out a bunch of aphorisms. Warren: Drew. They're not all black.
Warren: Drew, got a great idea for you. Ok. You know how you were saying I should aahh, do the step program, the 12 steps? Dr. Drew: Yeah? Warren: Yeah, ok so I'm thinking not a bad idea. I looked them over, and I'll tell ya I really got a hard on for step 9. Dr. Drew: Warren, you're not ready for amends. Warren: No, no, no I am. I totally am. I'm so ready for amends. Dr. Drew: That's something you're gonna do in maybe a year from now. You're in no shape.... Warren: A year, Drew?! Come on! Dr. Drew: Warren, come on man. Your not in 'A' shape for this. You're still drinking, for Christ's sake! Warren: Look, we both know this is a long road and if I have any shot of finishing this thing I should probably start in the middle. Dr. Drew: I'm offended. Warren: Hmmm...kind of a buzz kill today.
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