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Cats in Paris and New York
The idea for writing a book of cat stories, seeing Paris through George's curious, feline eyes, started in Amsterdam. On vacation there, we saw cats everywhere.
(Above: Cats at the Conservatory Waters in Central Park)
A second story exterior ledge seemed built to give indoor cats safe access to fresh air. Walking to dinner, we saw cats running free in the neighborhoods. The sightings reminded us of our cats, George and Billy, back in New York.
From there, the connection germinated.
Why not write a book about our cats traveling with us? Then, why not write it with George telling the story, offering his feline take on travel.
Because it seemed easier to sell a book about Paris than lesser known Amsterdam, I migrated the location. By the time we returned to New York, I had my idea. It was time to start writing.
Writing the Story from a Cat's Eye View
Accustomed to writing longer novels, I confess that I imagined that writing cat stories would be easier. Whimsical is easier than intricate and intense, isn't it?
Well, as any good humor write can tell you, no, it isn't.
My concept for Travels with George: Paris was to make it all about surprising discoveries. Frustrated with being left behind with cat sitters when we went on trips, George hides in our luggage and springs the biggest shock in all our lives when we unpack after flying a red eye to France.
That idea came easy because George, when he spotted us packing, always employed a tactic of parking himself in our suitcase, doing what he could to make it difficult to leave.
Getting Billy to Paris was easy too. He shadowed George all the time. Into the luggage he went behind his mentor.
From there, it was more work than I expected. My decision to write in the first person, that is, as if George were telling the story himself, meant channeling my favorite cat.
Some cats are silly, playful, attentive or affectionate. George was all of that, plus intelligent in a way that often reminded us we had a third adult in our house.
So, I had to think like a smart, innocent cat and be cautious not to slip too much of me into his thoughts. The idea of imagining a convincingly observant cat, visiting Paris, was challenge enough.
I had to convince readers that the "I" in my story was really a cat.
It was hard. But fun, too.
Pictures Bring the Cat Stories to Life
As you can see from Cats in a Bateaux on the Seine (above), pictures really can tell a story that words can never convey as well. This is the first boat ride for George and Billy. If you recall that strange feeling of uncertainty, floating for the first time, try sensing in a cats mind.
Then, drift toward central Paris, the Eiffel Tower behind you, while pedestrians shout "Chat! Chat!" from bridges above.
To really make the book great, I talked my wife, a photographer and cat artist, to dream up over a dozen illustrations to match my story about our cats, George and Billy, touring Paris.
When you consider that our cats have never been in Paris or even on leashes, you get some idea of how crazy that was. But she pulled it off and some of the pictures, like Chat Noir and Cats in a Paris Window, went on to be successful cat art outside the book.
Selling a Book is Harder than Writing One
I'd had my disillusion with publishers row, with men in suits making critical decisions about books written by men and women in jeans, but I thought Travels with George was conventional enough to get their interest.
Although I got a nice, personal letter from an editor in San Francisco, I could not get another, even an agent to take a look. It was time to fly solo again.
There are advantages in doing it yourself in publishing, and I kicked myself for not taking my own advice to begin with. Who loves your book more than you do, after all?
So, instead of waiting two years to see our book fit into an overcrowded publisher's list and being ignored like the small fish in big pond I was, I designed everything, assisted by my artistic wife, of course, and had George out in the wild in two short months.
Travels with George: Paris sold well, right away. Cat lovers bought it for themselves and as a gift for friends. We were right in calculating that Paris was a draw, but we learned a lot from the strategy that made it our bestseller.
Hard to accept for a writer, but people like pictures more than they do words.
Putting our book on display in my wife's holiday markets, we watched shopper after shopper flip through to see the pictures. To top it off, her illustrations, sold separately, were popular too.
Rare was the event when anyone read a bit of the story first, although it did happen, mostly as a second thought, trying to make sure my writing didn't screw up the visuals.
Encouraged, I wrote and my wife created artwork for Travels with George: New York in time for the following Christmas. The economy was struggling, so why not let them stick around for a "staycation" at home?
We've done better with each of these books of cat stories than any of my novels. We haven't realized our dream of selling enough to make our dream of financing trips to Europe for "research," but we expect to keep trying.
If you had a choice, where would like to see our intrepid cats go for a visit?
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Jolokia Ghost Peppers (All Spice Cafe Product Review)
When John from All Spice Cafe offered to send us some products to sample, I was definitely game. We eat really spice food, so the chile sauces, salsas and other products from this wonderful company seemed right up our alley. Honestly, I think I was a bit arrogant in thinking that nobody made food spicy enough for the likes of my father-in-law, who makes habanero sauce by the liter and finishes it faster than you can imagine.
I got my reality check pretty quickly. The bhut jolokia ghost pepper sauce is one of the spiciest condiments I've ever had. Sure, there are some products that are just made with pure capsaicin, but I think that's cheating. This on the other hand packs flavor as well. But the show stealer was definitely the jolokia candied popcorn. It starts off slow, and then just overwhelms you. I gave some to my father-in-law, and he literally started screaming (sorry for outing you Daddy!). It became a running joke in our house to give a couple of pieces to anyone we knew liked spicy food. After mixing a handful in with some regular buttered popcorn, it was much more tolerable. All Spice Cafe also makes a much milder chile candied popcorn if the jolokia is too scary.
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Building Reflections
I took a picture similar to this with my iPhone some time ago, but when I was in the same area on a particularly beautiful day, I pulled out my nice camera and shot some really spectacular reflections of the McKay Tower reflected in the building across the street. A Grand Rapids attorney I know says it was built circa the 30s by Frank McKay, a former mayor and political boss who, after building it, passed an ordinance limiting downtown buildings to less than ten floors, so it would be the tallest. It remained the tallest until the Amway Tower went up in the 90s.Read More


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What Shall We Do with the Boo-Hoo Baby? by Cressida Cowell
What do the animals do when the baby won't stop crying? Find out in this little book.
First 100 Words by Roger Priddy
The title says it all.
No No Yes Yes by Lidia Petricelli
Learning right from wrong is fun with this book.
Counting Kisses by Karen Katz
A great way to learn to count!
Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Pumpkin Cookies
I made about 5 dozen pumpkin sugar cookies this weekend. I did a controlled test. Half were made with a Martha dough recipe that had to be chilled and the other half were made from a box mix that didn't require chilling. I iced and decorated them the same.
In a blind taste test by Matty, the box mix won. I'll take the easy way out next time... although there is nothing easy about the decorating step.
2 comments:
- The Howell's said...
Robert is starving now...
- October 28, 2009 at 11:40 PM
- Molly said...
I can say that those cookies are AWESOME. Bjarne ate a ton of them and I had a few myself!!! Emma liked the mini-pumpkins!!!
We are looking forward to having more!
- October 29, 2009 at 12:40 PM
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ONE Fighting Championship, Asia's leading mixed martial arts promotion, announced yesterday a further fillip to their April 5 fight card in Singapore, with Dutch-Surinamese knockout specialist Melvin "No Mercy"
Manhoef (27-9-1) to square off against US fighter Brock Larson (36-7-0). The ONE FC: Kings & Champions event will be screened live across the region on Star Sports as well as on local channel MyTV in Cambodia.
ONE FC CEO Victor Cui stated in a press release: "I'm beyond excited to see two of the most thrilling middleweights in the world square off at the state-of-the art Singapore Indoor Stadium.
"Melvin Manhoef vs Brock Larson has all the ingredients for a possible Fight of the Night, with one of the world's most-feared strikers squaring off against a grappler who has submitted 24 opponents in his career. I know fans cannot wait to watch these warriors collide on April 5."
Manhoef is a legendary hard-hitter, having finished 25 MMA opponents with his thunderous punches. The 36-year-old's reputation inside the cage has steadily grown over the years with defeats of some of the world's best fighters.
Larson, meanwhile, is the latest top North American fighter to sign with ONE FC and one of the most experienced in the middleweight division.
He holds notable wins over John Alessio, Carlo Prater and Mike Pyle. Having worked his way to the top of the North American welterweight division, 35-year-old Larson is now stepping up a weight-class as he seeks to make a name for himself on the largest stage in Asian MMA. He is currently on a three-fight win streak and will look to make it four when he locks horns with Manhoef on April 5.


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In This Issue
- Trump Meets with Pai
- Amazon Lightning Rod
- End Near for Cloud?
- Report from the CEO
- Infrastructure's Face
- CS Startups to Watch
- Expert Shortage Opp
- ML & Human-Centric
- Cyber Defenses Faith
- Managing DC Security
- CL Misunderstandings
- Experts at RSA Advice
- Focus on the "T" in IoT
- Cloud-to-Client Direct
- AWS Glitch Disruptive
- Oscars Flub Evocative
- Coming DCIA Events
Trump Meets with FCC's Pai
Excerpted from Broadcasting & Cable Report by John Eggerton
President Donald Trump met with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Monday afternoon in the Oval Office, according to the White House.
The meeting was confirmed afterwards by an FCC spokesperson.
"Chairman Pai had a warm meeting with President Trump this afternoon, in which they reconnected for the first time since Chairman Pai was elevated to head the FCC," said the spokesman.
"No proceedings pending at the FCC were discussed."
It will be a busy week outside of the FCC for the Chairman, who in addition to heading to the White House will be on Capitol Hill Wednesday along with the other Commissioners for a Senate Commerce Committee oversight hearing.
The President, as a candidate, talked about blocking the AT&T-Time Warner deal, but the FCC's role in that deal will likely be limited to advising the Justice Department since the companies say the deal won't have to be submitted for a public interest review with the FCC.
Pai has been actively targeting some of former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's signature regulatory moves… Read More
Amazon Typo a Lightning Rod
Excerpted from MIT Technology Review Report by Jamie Condliffe
If you're going to put all your data in the cloud, you want it to be a well-built cloud.
This week, Amazon – the world's largest provider of such infrastructure – showed that construction skills are still lacking.
On Tuesday, large parts of the Internet simply stopped working.
Slack wouldn't let people communicate with colleagues, Trello wouldn't let you manage a project, and, sadly, the MIT Technology Review website wouldn't let you read about emerging technology. There were also complaints about smart-home hardware failing to work properly.
The reason: Amazon's S3 cloud storage system failed.
Amazon is the world's largest cloud computing provider, so many services that rely upon it were also unable to function properly.
And this wasn't just a blip: the problem took at least four hours to fix.
It's hard to accurately quantify the true cost of such an outage… Read More
End Is Near for Cloud Computing?
Excerpted from TechTarget Report by Joel Shore
Cloud computing is a long way from being fully mature, but its obsolescence may already be upon us.
Is the cloud's future really up in the air?
As Peter Levine, a partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, puts it, "Everything that's popular in technology always gets replaced by something else," be it Microsoft Windows, minicomputers exemplified by Digital Equipment Corp., specialized workstations typified by Sun Microsystems, or, yes, even cloud computing.
As Levine explains it, cloud computing, which he views as the centralization of IT workloads into a small number of super-mega-huge datacenters, is an unsustainable, unworkable, slow-to-respond method.
The need for instantaneous information makes the network latency associated with a device-to-datacenter model and the corresponding datacenter-to-device return trip simply too long and therefore unacceptable.
Computing, Levine suggests, will move to a peer mesh of edge devices, migrating away from the centralized cloud model.
Consider smart cars. They need to continually exchange information with each other about immediate, hyperlocal traffic conditions… Read More
Report from DCIA CEO Marty Lafferty
The DCIA is encouraged by the updated draft of the Trump administration cybersecurity executive order now being reviewed by industry leaders, and we are hopeful that the order will be issued shortly.
The order is expected to hold federal managers accountable for vulnerabilities in their technology systems and require adoption of the series of cybersecurity best practices developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Other portions of the order will likely focus on ensuring cyber protections for critical infrastructure.
The federal government's long-standing investment in aging, legacy information technology poses significant challenges, however, against nation-state backed sophisticated cyberattacks.
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) acknowledged that re-engineering $80 billion of legacy systems to provide state-of-the-art cybersecurity is going to be very difficult.
But we believe that holding agency heads accountable will help expose the real issues in doing so more quickly and spur the procurement of needed new technologies to secure their systems.
Members of the commission established under former President Obama to examine the federal government's cybersecurity efforts have also reiterated their call for more cooperation between the public and private sector and more leadership in the White House to spearhead efforts on cybersecurity.
That group's report laid out sixteen recommendations to streamline and strengthen the federal government's cybersecurity efforts in December.
The commission also recommended the appointment of an Assistant to the President for Cybersecurity, who would report through the National Security Adviser and coordinate efforts on digital security across agencies, as well as an "all-of-government deterrence" against cyberattacks by coordinating work across agencies and departments.
We encourage the issuance of this important executive order. Share wisely, and take care.
Changing Face of Infrastructure Cybersecurity
Excerpted from NextGov Report by Jake Olcott
On January 31st, President Donald Trump met with cybersecurity experts at the White House to discuss his plans to strengthen the government's ability to safeguard its computer networks.
Though an expected executive order outlining Trump's approach has not been signed yet, among the details Trump shared with reporters was that he would require all federal agencies to update their information technology systems and, working with utilities and other private industries, shore up protection of the electrical grid and other critical infrastructure.
In focusing attention on the security of critical infrastructure, Trump is correctly reacting to a growing number of attacks in recent years on energy, water and transportation systems.
From a ransomware attack against San Francisco's municipal transportation authority to charges that seven men with links to the Iranian government hacked into a small dam in New York, malicious attackers are increasingly expanding beyond traditional targets such as banks, retailers, and government agencies and going after essential infrastructure.
If it aims to take a holistic and leading-edge view of the nation's cybersecurity posture, the administration would be wise… Read More
Cybersecurity Startups to Watch in 2017
Excerpted from Dark Reading Report by Ericka Chickowski
In spite of a slowdown in the overall funding activity from venture capital firms in 2016, the cybersecurity market continued to raise money at full steam.
Last year saw the market break records in terms of funding deals, with Q3 tallying up to be the most active quarter for deals in cybersecurity in the last five years, according to CBInsights.
That influx of money is driving innovation in a number of areas.
Particularly notable market segments targeted by these firms include security for data centers and public cloud infrastructure, security orchestration, and incident response tools, and third-party risk assessment tools.
The following 20 firms are primarily early-to-middle-stage startups, with a few more mature start-ups that have courted growth equity to change course or expand into a particularly hot new market segment.
We believe these firms are worth watching due to several factors.
On the funding front, they either managed to snag $25+ million in funding in 2016, or garnered a notable funding round in the last 3 months… Read More
Trump Can Address Cybersecurity Expert Shortage
Excerpted from The Hill Report by Algirde Pipikaite
Rudy Giuliani will face many challenges in his new role as cybersecurity advisor to President Trump.
Hopefully, Giuliani will prioritize the introduction of policies that tackle the ever-growing shortage of cybersecurity workers.
According to the ISC 2015 Global Information Security Workforce Study, more than 1.5 million cybersecurity professionals will be needed globally by 2020.
An estimated 500,000 to 1 million cybersecurity jobs remain unfilled in the US.
Companies are having trouble finding the right professional possessing practical cybersecurity defense skills.
The problem is not a lack of talent, but, in part, an education system that withholds cybersecurity training until college.
College education is not for everyone.
Many millennials that are savvy in information technology (IT) are looking for education models that replace enrolling in four-year academic institutions that results in loads of student debt… Read More
Machine Learning & Human-Centric Society
Excerpted from Embedded Design Blog by Anthony Wong
Imagine being surrounded by technologies, and hardly being aware of them.
For instance, a person walks into a room and without doing anything, the entire atmosphere is fine-tuned to his or her current mood or expectations.
Measurements are taken, personal data is sensed and recorded, and the room adjusts to integrate with the person's countenance.
All this occurs without turning a switch or adjusting an appliance-simply walk into the room.
We're beginning to move in this direction, with recent advances in medical technology, with personal fitness devices, and with smart home systems.
Behind the scenes, as the individual enters the room, the unseen technology helps advance the person's security, health, comfort, and even creativity by providing a seamless set of adjustments and changes to everything from room temperature to computer access to food preparation… Read More
Executives Have More Faith in Cyber Defenses than Staff
Excerpted from NextGov Report by Joseph Marks
Government and private-sector executives are much more bullish on their companies' cybersecurity than operators on the front lines, according to a report released today.
Executives are far more likely than operators – the IT and cyber staff – to believe their companies' cybersecurity strategies have been fully implemented, according to the report from Intel Security and the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank.
Operators are also five times more likely to believe their organizations lack incentives for cybersecurity professionals to improve their organizations to counter emerging threats, the report found.
"Almost half of operators reported no incentives existing in their organization," the report said.
"It is possible that incentives, even when they exist, may not actually be known by employees, especially if they are lower down in the organization's structure."
There's also a gap between how executives and operators assess the damage of a cyber breach, the report found… Read More
Managing Security in Distributed Computing
Excerpted from Ericm News Report by Erkuden Rios, Massimiliano Rak, and Samuel Afolaranmi
Multi-cloud Secure Applications (MUSA) is an EU H2020 funded research project which is aimed at ensuring security in multi-cloud environments.
The main goal of MUSA is to support the lifecycle of applications with strict security requirements over heterogeneous cloud resources.
MUSA will result in a security framework that includes security-by-design mechanisms as well as runtime security monitoring and enforcement to mitigate security incidents.
Multi-cloud applications rely on the adoption of cloud services of different capability types (i.e., infrastructure, platform or software as a service) from different cloud service providers (CSPs).
Multi-cloud follows the concept of distributed computing in which the components are dispersed but communicate in an integrated manner to achieve the desired goal.
This model offers the opportunity to select the best CSPs that satisfy both application and component level requirements… Read More
Cybersecurity Language Misunderstandings
Excerpted from Dark Reading Report by Blake Moore
Have you ever traveled to a place where you didn't speak the local language and attempted to ask for help?
Language is the key to communication and a critical component in effective public-private information sharing in the cyber domain.
Unfortunately – although some international organizations have attempted to document them – there are no common definitions for cyber terms globally across government, business, and academia.
When you throw in industry buzzwords and marketing jargon around cybersecurity, it can become nearly impossible for organizations to speak quickly and efficiently with each other about security.
To fully engage in cross-industry dialogue within the context of cybersecurity, we must speak the same language.
We can't outmaneuver threats without it.
There are at least 16 different definitions of the term "cyber-attack" globally, all of which span a fairly large spectrum.
Most of them, at least mention something about denying, disrupting, destroying, or degrading information systems… Read More
Experts at RSA Give Cybersecurity Advice
Excerpted from ITWorld Report by Michael Kan
Come to the RSA show, and you'll find plenty of cybersecurity technology.
The top vendors from across the industry are here, showing products for fighting ransomware, preventing data breaches and more.
But even the best security software is useless if users and businesses aren't taking the right steps to protect themselves. So we asked experts at the show for their best cybersecurity tips.
Joe Stewart, Director of Malware Research at Dell SecureWorks
He advises everyone to set up two-factor authentication to protect their internet accounts, especially email. It can be particularly useful when stopping hackers who are trying to steal login passwords from users, whether through malware or email phishing schemes.
Even if the hacker manages to loot your passwords, two-factor authentication ensures you're still protected from all but the most sophisticated attacks: access to your account will require another form of authentication, such as your fingerprint… Read More
Staying Agile by Focusing on the "T" in IoT
Excerpted from Inside Big Data Report by Timothy Butler
Unlike traditional internet of things (IoT) solutions, edge computing looks to bring the power of the data closer to the asset itself so that decision making is quicker and data is nearer the hands of the right folks who can take the right actions.
In practice, it's called, "Decision making at the point of read."
In 2017, we will begin to see more of a focus on the benefits of edge computing – and to be more specific – solutions that will address industrial applications, which are the logical, more affordable option for small and medium sized corporations.
This new approach is a deviation from traditional IoT solutions, which uses the cloud to collect streaming telemetry data and send it back to a centralized system for analysis.
These traditional IoT platforms are expensive, can be plagued by complexity, and returns on the investment remain largely unproven. For these reasons focusing on more agile, less expensive, and easier to scale edge solutions will likely gain in popularity and utility.
In order for this new approach to be successful, enterprises must begin to focus on the "T" within IoT as opposed to the "I"… Read More
Cloud-to-Client Direct: Serverless Computing
Excerpted from ZDNet Report by Joe McKendrick
'Hybrid cloud isn't going to be a mix of AWS and Google, or AWS and on-premise. It will be a mix of AWS and client machines.'
One of the buzzwords to emerge over the past year is that of "serverless" computing or architecture, which, as the term suggests, involves the provisioning of key information technology resources to users without the fuss and muss of acquiring and activating additional hardware, which not only means servers, but disk space as well.
Let the cloud vendors worry about the messy details of protocols, security, resource provisioning, processor speeds, and memory allocation, and focus on the applications business users need to run their organizations.
Serverless is, for all intents and purposes, another name for Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).
There are vendor tools and environments suited for such a purpose, including Amazon Web Services Lambda, IBM BlueMix OpenWhisk, and Microsoft Azure Functions, Buzzwording aside, full-throttle adoption of serverless platforms may even stir rethinking of optimal hybrid cloud architectures, and what it means for IT teams to serve as brokers of needed business services.
That's the experience of Gojko Adzic, a highly regarded thought leader in the IT space and partner at Neuri Consulting… Read More
Amazon's Cloud Glitch Disrupts
Excerpted from Seattle Times Report by Angel Gonzalez
Amazon says it fixed a problem that triggered a lengthy outage on its cloud storage service, causing widespread frustration among popular online services Tuesday.
The disruption, which stemmed from an East Coast location, hampered the operations of a wide array of Amazon clients, from media companies to makers of corporate communications software.
Reactions to the outage spread rapidly on Twitter, with memes depicting scenes of chaos from "The Office" and houses on fire.
The problem – and the ensuing outcry – show how important the cloud has become to the smooth functioning of the internet economy, as enterprises migrate their data and computing processes from their own premises to data centers operated by Amazon and other cloud giants.
But it also shows how far-reaching glitches at these data centers – touted as highly reliable – can be.
In Amazon's case the cloud service may have been so robust that it lulled users into an exaggerated sense of security… Read More
Oscars Flub Evokes Recent Cloud-Computing Snafus
Excerpted from TechTarget Report by Joel Shore
Now that La La Land Moonlight has won the Academy Award for best picture, this is as good a time as any to look back at some screw-ups in the world of cloud computing.
May we all learn from our mistakes.
The Force is not with you: Take a trip back to May 9, 2016, less than a year ago.
It was on that day the Silicon Valley NA14 instance of Salesforce.com went offline, a condition colloquially known as Total Inability To Support Usual Performance (I'm not going anywhere near the acronym).
Customers lost several hours of data and the outage dragged on for nearly 24 hours.
CEO Mark Benioff took to his Twitter account to ask for forgiveness. Shortly after, Salesforce moved some of its workloads to Amazon Web Services.
AWS giveth, AWS taketh away: Though transferring workloads to AWS helped Salesforce recover lost customer confidence (though not lost data), the opposite was true for Netflix… Read More
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"In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home."—Len WeinFrom beginning writers to highly-educated professionals, some people write inordinately long sentences, as in lose-my-interest-length. I worked for an organization that thought good writing was, "How many thoughts and ideas can I compress into one sentence?"
As trash-compactor writers, their jam-packed manuscripts often contained polysyllabic words and long, complex sentences. Three or four complete sentences and concepts packed into one sentence was not unusual—it was the norm. I recall one 63-word opening hook.
Untangling a difficult-to-read manuscript exhausts both the reader and editor. 'Readability' does not mean trying to impress others with a massive brain dump in one sentence or paragraph. Readability, the writing quality of your sentences, makes it easy (or difficult) to read and understand.
How do you write easy-to-digest, understandable sentences on the first reading? The bottom line? Use simpler diction. Write short sentences. Like American writer, Janet Flanner said, "I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it."
Tips to Nag, Gnaw, Pat, and Flatter Your Sentences
Write readable sentences.
- Reader's Digest length sentences: 5-7 words.
- The easiest sentence to read? 8 words.
- 1-20 words: easy to read.
- 21-25 words: easy to understand.
- 26-29: difficult to follow.
- 30+ words: confusing.
- A string of short sentences often sound childish, choppy, tedious, and difficult to understand.
- Use short, punchy sentence as a hook to stress one strong idea.
- Maximize and emphasize crucial points and critical information.
- Save for important statements.
- A string of long sentences often sounds boring or unclear.
- Long sentences annoy readers.
- Break a sentence of more than 20 words into two sentences.
- Longer sentences can complicate the story in places where simplicity is more effective.
- Long sentences incorporate information and coordinate ideas.
- Vary sentence length and structure to create strong rhythm.
- Vary sentence structure openings. Too many similar beginnings make reading tedious.
- Write sentences in a logical or chronological progression of thought.
- Begin each sentence with a different word. Don't start two or more sentences with the same word.
- Keep an eye out for missing periods, weird commas, closing quotes, and opening quotes.
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I had jury duty last month. Everyone had the same response to it: "Okay, here's how you get out of jury duty." And they would script out all these things I should say that would draw looks of horror from anyone who had ears. But hey – no jury duty, right?
Nobody wants jury duty, in the same way nobody wants to spend the day at the DMV. Even the jury duty letter arriving in the mail feels like a visit from your broke cousin whose car keeps dying and who needs money for brake pads.
What we don't tend to think about, staring at the white envelope with dismay, is that there will be actual humans affected by this. I ignore that fact the same way I ignore the accident that's led to the traffic jam I'm sitting in. I'm thinking – unsurprisingly – about me. About how my life will be disrupted. I'm looking at that jury duty envelope and all I'm feeling is annoyance.
So last month I get up early. I go to the courthouse. I wait in a big room with tons of other folks. I'm selected to be interviewed. And I'm not gonna lie, I started thinking about all the things I could say to get out of it quick. Because what matters here is my schedule.
I'm called in, and there are three lawyers in a small room.
The basics of the case were straightforward: A car accident. Somebody was at fault, somebody sustained injuries. The lawyers asked me a lot of questions on my philosophies and biases. I was beginning to think they were going select me.
Then they asked me my opinion on….. chiropractors.
I told them, honestly, that my recent experience wasn't great.
Boom. I was out.
And after all that? I felt a little rejected. And just a tiny, momentary twinge of disappointment.
I was trying to figure out why I felt that twinge as I left the courthouse. Because I did not want to spend the three or four days listening to a case. On the drive home, in an honest moment, I realized that twinge came because I was looking forward to that position of power. I was looking forward, in some odd way, to being The Judge.
And with a little more self-reflection, it occurred to me that I was comfortable being The Judge in that case because I felt a certain superiority. Like I would never have found myself in that situation. Like I was qualified to pass that judgement, because I, Conor, was a good person.
That's why I wanted to write all this down.
Because I fall into that trap all the time. Every day I put myself in a position to comfortably judge others and their life choices. It's just so easy.
And so very, very flawed. Because I am consistently using a terribly flawed barometer for judging others: Myself.
It is a human condition (known as illusory superiority, or the Lake Wobegon Effect) that pretty much everyone thinks they are above average in everything, from driving to intelligence to memory to job performance to whether they are good people. Which is ridiculous, right? I laugh aloud at the idea that everyone thinks this! Hahahaha!
But I'm also looking at that list of things above and completely believing that I actually am better than average at all those things, so I'm all like "Check! Check! Check!" with absolutely no sense of irony.
I believe I am inherently wise. I believe that jury would have been lucky to have me on it.
And yet….
Before I found my faith, it used to drive me nuts when Christians would say "We're all sinners! None of us are good!" because it felt like self-flagellation and everything I hated about religion. And frankly I felt like I was at least pretty good, right?
Years later I began to understand what Christians meant by that expression. And one of the things (among others) that it means is that as I am declaring myself to be a good person, I am also tending to overlook the ways in which I'm failing to love and care for people every single day.
In other words, I focus on the moments in my life in which I am good. I ignore the lowlight reel of times when I've ignored the pain of others and acted out of self-interest.
You could respond with "We can't be perfect!" and "We're only human!"
And I would say that's sort of the point.
I give myself a pass for my human failings all the time. But I never say "I'm generally a pretty self-centered awful person but since I'm human, well, sometimes I get it right!" No – my default is that I am a good person. Which means that I am, without a second thought, constantly passing judgement on others for their human failings.
Which is why jury duty, annoying task that it is, is also sacred. We have to judge, not by our flawed standard but by The Law, an objective measure. And in our hearts we know even we, the judge for the few days in that jury box, often don't live up to that law.
But maybe sitting in that box could remind me, just for a few days, that I am not the measurement. That I can't be, and that I don't have to be. And thank God for that.
Also, you wanna hear how my chiropractor was pretty weird?
The Top Five Ways My Chiropractor Was Pretty Weird
1. The Spine Hanging on the Door.
In the examination room, I couldn't hang up my suit jacket because there was a human spine hanging there. Which meant that either he was so disorganized that he didn't know where else to put this fake human spine or that it was an actual human spine from the previous patient that he just gave up on trying to fix and he just sent them home without a spine.
2. The Receptionist Looked Surprised to See a Patient Walk In.
"You're here to see the doctor?" she asked, confused. As if I was the UPS guy dropping off a package. What else would I be there for? She had to check around her desk for the appointment book. Could've left then, should've left then. Didn't leave then.
3. His Medical Instruments.
One of the things this doctor used on me was a clicker thing. It felt like cold steel, like somebody clicking the back of a ball-point pen on me. I looked it up – it was called an Activator. He used it every time and every time it did nothing and I think that's because I came in there with a pinched nerve in my neck and couldn't even lift my arm to even dress myself and I was in all-around-general-extreme-pain and this is what he's using on me? Get that thing out of my life, Clicky McGee.
4. His Conversation Style.
He was slightly nervous, this doctor, and he would give me a long explanation of something about my back that didn't really make too much sense, then he'd say "Alright?" except for some reason it was like somebody had turned up the volume in his mouth before he said "alright" and so it would be a shouted "ALRIGHT?" And I would have a question, so it would go like this: "I actually have a ques-" "YES?" "I was just wondering about whether this means that-" "YES??" "Is it better if I'm trying to-" "OKAY LET ME EXPLAIN AGAIN…" It was like trying to talk to a crazy talking duck.
5. The Whole Eighties Theme.
One day you may find yourself at a chiropractor in the East Village area and you'll know that you walked into the office of the chiropractor I'm talking about. Everything is 80's in there. The music is 80's. The chairs are all that old chrome and black leather. The posters are early 80's. It was like I had tumbled through a tear in the space-time continuum. Maybe nothing has changed in chiropractor world since 1982, but if it has, I'm not sure this guy knows about it.
Nothing against chiropractors, you understand. Love them. But this guy. Whoa. Be on the lookout, friends. That is all.


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No. 25 USC Dominates Delaware State 83-54
Dec. 17, 2007
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Dwight Lewis scored 18 points, Davon Jefferson added 17 and No. 25 Southern California overwhelmed Delaware State in an 83-54 victory Monday night.
O.J. Mayo added 12 points for the Trojans, who shot 68 percent from the field, 67 percent from 3-point range and 60 percent from the free throw line.
Roy Bright scored 22 points for Delaware State (3-6), which lost for the sixth time in seven games. The Hornets' losing margin was less than their 39-point defeat at Arizona State nearly two weeks ago. They will get one more chance against a Pac-10 team when they play at California on Thursday.
Bright was Delaware State's only player in double figures, bettering his 18.1-point average. The Hornets shot 38 percent from the field.
USC (7-3) played for the first time in nearly two weeks. The Trojans were coming off consecutive losses to No. 3 Kansas and No. 2 Memphis, both by four points, that dropped them out of the Top 25.
On the same day they returned to the rankings, the Trojans dominated the Hornets in every way.
USC raced to a 31-13 lead, its largest of the first half, while playing strong defense. The Hornets recovered slightly and outscored USC 11-8, with Bright getting five points, to end the half trailing 39-24.
The Trojans were even better in the final 20 minutes.
They outscored the Hornets 33-12 to open the half, including two 12-0 spurts. Jefferson dominated the early part of the run with eight points, then Angelo Johnson came in and made three 3-pointers before Mayo closed it out with a basket. Johnson finished with 11 points.


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Today's weather;
It's a bit cloudy over Koh Samui but dry at the moment this morning, the sun is trying to get through but to not much avail at the moment and there may actually be a shower or two this morning. Current temp at 8am is 29C
Back here at Panagsama beach near Moalboal in the Philippines we started the day once more with an early morning dive, hence we're an hour later than usual with the daily weather update. It's partially clouded here with a current temp at 9am local time of 30.7C and the current PADI IDC is still in ful swing.
A big and fat sitting man at Wat Plai Laem or Wat Suwannaram
Yesterday saw a fantastic day around Koh Samui with plenty of sunshine, a really relaxed and enjoyable day. Max temp reached 33C
Just before sunset at Panagsama beach in Moalboal in the Philippines
The forecast is still looking good, fairly cloudy until Friday morning, with more sunshine and partially blue skies coming up from there onwards. Get the sun lotion out and enjoy your time on the beach or around the island.
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On Jan. 30, BAE Systems President and CEO Linda Hudson will join NVTC for a Titans breakfast. Hudson, who is often called the "First Lady of Defense," has been in the headlines lately due to her upcoming retirement, which is set for Feb. 1 (two days after she keynotes Titans).
Here are some excellent recent articles featuring Hudson:
So join us on Jan. 30 to hear Hudson share insights from her years of leadership in the defense industry! She'll also discuss the importance of strengthening the nation's science, technology, engineering and math labor pool in order to preserve national and economic security. This could be Hudson's last public keynote before her retirement, so it's a must-see event.
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The New Abortion ProvidersJul 20, 2010
Who knew abortion was such a pleasant experience? From the July 12 New York Times, a feature on "The New Abortion Providers" glows as if these people are modern versions of Florence Nightingale:
After Roe, the shadow of the greedy, butchering "abortionist" continued to hover, and many doctors didn't want to stand in it. As mainstream medicine backed away, feminist activists stepped in. They set up stand-alone clinics to care for women in their moments of crisis. In many ways, the clinics were a rebel-sister success story. Instead of a sterile and expensive hospital operating room, patients could go to a low-cost clinic with pastel walls and sympathetic staff members. At a Planned Parenthood I visited recently in Rochester, while women were having abortions, they could look at photos of a Caribbean beach, taped above them on the ceiling.
I guess when an organization constantly gets exposed (see latest video from LiveAction.org) for unethical behavior and horrible conditions, it needs a little puffery from the liberal media. There is an interesting sentence in the article, though:
The American Medical Association did not maintain standards of care for the procedure.
This is something we come up against every year during the General Assembly in our work to get abortion centers regulated just as every other medical facility must be. This past session, the pro-abortion lobby finally came up with standards it says its abortion centers follow, based on recommendations from its own association of abortionists. New, indeed.
There's much to take from the long article but here's the gist, as from this paragraph:
This abortion-rights campaign, led by physicians themselves, is trying to recast doctors, changing them from a weak link of abortion to a strong one. Its leaders have built residency programs and fellowships at university hospitals, with the hope that, eventually, more and more doctors will use their training to bring abortion into their practices. The bold idea at the heart of this effort is to integrate abortion so that it's a seamless part of health care for women — embraced rather than shunned. (Emphasis added.)
So much for "safe, legal and rare." The abortion movement is nothing short of a full-frontal effort to encourage abortions at all cost. Rather, than, as NARAL and Planned Parenthood proclaim, that they are for choice and aim to provide options and overall women's health care, their intentions are to create the acceptance of, and markets for, the killing of the innocent unborn for their own profit and other nefarious reasons.


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A few users have sent us tips that they saw RIM accidentally reveal a slightly revamped BlackBerry App World. The possible slip-up comes from RIM's blog post about their latest PlayBook offering to Android developers.
You can see in the open panels in the image above, App World is to the far right. It looks like the main screen will get a small face-lift. Whatever the case may be, PlayBook OS 2.0 is right around the corner and we're increasingly excited for its release.
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Thursday, May 28, 2009; 3:07 PM
With the revamped search engine it announced this morning?dubbed Bing?Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is introducing new ways to sort and manipulate search results in hopes of finally challenging Google (NSDQ: GOOG). Bing offers real improvements over its Mountain View rival in offering a cleaner interface and in instantly categorizing many results by relevant topics. It also provides a simple way to preview results without having to load a new page. (More on Bing's features below and on the strategy behind it here).
But after a week of using Bing and Google against each other, I can report that Bing has a major shortcoming: No matter how useful those features were, the quality of the results in my searches?when I looked beyond likely common queries like "UPS" or airport codes?was never better than those offered by Google. For the most part, the results on the two search engines were basically the same. But sometimes, the Bing results were actually inferior.
I noticed two general problems: Bing didn't seem to surface recent web pages as quickly as Google did. (For instance, while searching for the address of an apartment, I found that day's Craigslist posting at the top of the Google search results but it was nowhere on the Bing page. I had the same experience while looking for a current article in a local weekly paper.) Also, Bing did not appear to be pulling its results from as wide an assortment of sites as Google. (For instance, I couldn't find a photo of myself on Bing, while there were two in Google's image results).
Microsoft likely doesn't expect to get Google searchers to switch to Bing as their primary search engine right away. Instead, the company has touted data showing that people are used to using multiple search engines. And Bing's new features certainly give users reasons to try out another option.
But if I'm going to use one search engine more than another (i.e. make it the default in my browser), I want to be confident that I'm not missing out on results that I might find via another search engine. And after my week-long trial, I don't have that confidence with Bing.
As promised, here are some of Bing's new features that I liked:
?Previews of results: Hover to the right of results and a box shows up featuring a preview of the text on that page, offering a way to gauge whether that's the result you want without having to navigate to a new page.
?Categories: Search for some queries?like a car brand or a famous person?and results are immediately broken down into relevant categories?like reviews or biographies.
?Best matches: Some Google queries (such as "5 + 5") return only the one, obvious result. Bing, though, takes this much further. Many common search queries?such as "UPS"?return only the one "best match," along with specific information that a searcher who entered that query might be looking for, such as in the case of "UPS" a customer service number as well as blank field to enter a tracking number.
?A clean interface: There's a useful left-hand column, which includes a listing of recent queries a searcher has looked for as well as "related searches" for many results.
?Smarts: Search for "weather" and Bing will give you the weather wherever you are. Similarly, enter two airport codes (or two cities along with the words "tickets") and the search engine will return the price of the cheapest airfare between them.
I was also reminded of existing features in Microsoft's search engine that I had forgotten about (or did not know existed). For instance, image results can be sorted by very specific criteria (like "just faces" or "just head and shoulders"). And you don't have to click to get to the next page with images. Instead, the thumbnails continue to load as one scrolls down the page. And with local search, typing in the name of a restaurant returns a capsule that provides a quick snapshot of reviews culled from Yelp and Citysearch.
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I'll Have Another Out at the Belmont Stakes
Those planning to watch the Belmont Stakes tomorrow in hopes of seeing the first Triple Crown winner since 1978 are about to be disappointed.
USA Today reports that I'll Have Another, the horse what won both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness has been pulled from tomorrow's race.
His trainer Dan O'Neill appeared on the Dan Patrick Show and said the horse has the beginning signs of tendonitis in its front leg, and they don't want to risk worsening the injury.
Speculation is that the horse will not race again.
The horse was the favorite to win at tomorrow's race, which suddenly seems much less exciting.
However, if you still plan to watch it, I'd recommend taking a trip over to Monmouth Park to watch it from their Patio Teletheater.
Buy yourself a floppy hat (because when else can you get away with that?), place a few bets, and enjoy the race at the Shore's Greatest Stretch.
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Kendrick Jack joined us on July 4th! Shannon was calling him boo while he was in the womb, and sure enough he scared us on the 4th. We didn't know until later, but Shannon had a placental abruption and was rushed away for an emergency c-section. Later we were told that if we got there 10 minutes later, they may not have been able to save the baby. Thank god everything worked the way it did after her water broke.
Kendrick is doing very well. He was born 32 weeks 3 day, and weighed 3 pounds 10 ounces, almost 1 pound heavier than Donovan. This Wednesday will be 3 weeks in the hospital, and it's looking like he could come home next week! Welcome Kendrick, to Smidgen's journey.


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Description: Leona is Bishop Jacob Weaver's daughter and a dedicated teacher in a one-room Amish schoolhouse. After her father's tragic accident, Leona's faith wavers. How could God allow something like this to happen to one of His servants? Outlander Jimmy Scott comes to Pennsylvania in search of his real family. When he is hired to paint an Amish schoolhouse, Jimmy and Leona find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other. Can anything good come from the love between an Amish woman and an English man? What secrets will be revealed and what miracles await God's people in Lancaster County? The Bishop's Daughter is book 3 in the Daughters of Lancaster County series. Other books in the series include The Storekeeper's Daughter: Book 1 and The Quilter's Daughter: Book 2.
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Morning Light – May 20th, 2016
Today: [Psalms Eighteen] You are the Seed of David. In this chapter David describes the victory and dominion that God has given him. All of David's enemies are destroyed. David is enthroned and every detractor and all opposition have been put down in his life. This will be your experience sooner or later as you walk with Christ. David understood it wasn't his might or power but the hand of God that delivered him. He also understood that this protection and blessing was not just his to enjoy but was the inheritance of his seed which THROUGH CHRIST includes you and I.
[Psa 18:1-50 KJV] 1 [[To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day [that] the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,]] I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. 2 The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, [and] my high tower. 3 I will call upon the LORD, [who is worthy] to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. 4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. 5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. 6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, [even] into his ears. 7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. 8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. 9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness [was] under his feet. 10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. 11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him [were] dark waters [and] thick clouds of the skies. 12 At the brightness [that was] before him his thick clouds passed, hail [stones] and coals of fire. 13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail [stones] and coals of fire. 14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them. 15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
There will come a point in your life that that as David – the Lord will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies. What you do next is a reflection of your character and your relationship with Christ. One of the most trying times you will ever experience will be in the aftermath of a great victory in your life? What will you do? Will you as David give glory to God or will you as Saul draw praise to yourself? Will you set yourself to seeking God all the more or as Saul build a kingdom to serve only yourself? There are two kinds of pressure and temptation – one experienced in failure and the other experienced in success.
David gives all the praise and the glory for his victories to the Lord his God. He has armies and fortresses and armament but his confidence is in none of these. David's secret weapon was his relationship with the Lord. He understood that he could have put forth all the effort and purpose and struggle and come up empty. Your success involved hard work, determination, creativity and effort but you could expend yourself in these and still be a failure. If you have success it comes from who God is in your life. Success without a relationship with God is an empty triumph. Jesus spoke of this in Matt. 16:26:
[Mat 16:26 KJV] 26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
In verse 3 David says that when he calls upon the Lord so shall he be saved and delivered. Again a reference to his prayer life. Prayer changes things. When we get to heaven we will look back and be astonished how far below our blessing and privilege we lived due to a lack of prayer. David understands this and incorporates prayer into his emergency response. He doesn't reach first for any human instrumentality but for prayer.
Verse 13 describes what happens when David prays and when we pray. The Lord thunders from heaven and (v. 14) sends out His arrows. The angels in Revelation describe your prayers taken as coals and laid on the altar before God as an incense for Him to enjoy. Then they hurl these live coals into the earth and there are thunderings, lightnings, and earthquakes in answer to your prayer.
16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. 17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me. 18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay. 19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me. 20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. 21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. 22 For all his judgments [were] before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me. 23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity. 24 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. 25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright; 26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward. 27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks. 28 For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness. 29 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
What is God's response when you are in jeopardy? He will send from above and draw you out of many waters. Even when you are outnumbered (v. 17) He will deliver you from those who hate you. From this verse you can predict what happens next in your life. Do you have people who hate you? Are you facing overwhelming problems without enough resources to answer the need? God's response is to deliver you, to prevent the calamity and be your stay and your rock in time of trouble. This is who He is and what He does and when you call upon Him this will be your testimony and experience at the end of the matter.
God will bring you forth into a large place (v. 19) and reward you as David says in (v. 20) according to your righteousness. For David – his righteousness was based on adherence to Moses' law. For us our righteousness is not in the law but in the Lord Jesus Christ. God bestows upon you the reward and blessing that Jesus earned in your behalf. He is your righteousness and the standard by which your entitlement to God's grace and blessing and benefit in your life is measured. Therefore even when you have failed and fallen short you can still expect an answer to prayer when you run to Him.
David also understood something about the reciprocity effect in God's mercy (v. 25). David often showed mercy to his enemies. Why would he do this – because very seldom did his enemies requite him for his kindness. When you show mercy it will be very rare that those who hate you will recognize it and be thankful or humble about it. In fact when you show mercy to an enemy they will many times perceive it as weakness and redouble their attacks on you when possible. The point of showing mercy is not about how people respond but how God responds. He shows mercy to those who show mercy to others. Your treatment of others – particularly your detractors and those who trouble you – is a metric of the scope of God's mercy you yourself will personally experience.
In all things be merciful – but do it on God's terms and not man's. We are to walk in love but not according to the demands or dictates of others. Many times people will accuse you and point the finger claiming you are not walking in love. They want to plow you under and pillage your life and take everything you have to give and leave nothing and if you don't they wag their finger and say "I thought you were a Christian…" You can't love a devil. You don't love people on their terms because they will always ask and demand of you what you have no permission from God to give. Listen the Lord and do what He says and don't expect thanks or reciprocity. God will repay you and God alone when you show mercy to the undeserving and the unkind and those who harbor enmity in their hearts toward you.
30 [As for] God, his way [is] perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he [is] a buckler to all those that trust in him. 31 For who [is] God save the LORD? or who [is] a rock save our God? 32 [It is] God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect. 33 He maketh my feet like hinds' [feet], and setteth me upon my high places. 34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. 35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great. 36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip. 37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed. 38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet. 39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me. 40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me. 41 They cried, but [there was] none to save [them: even] unto the LORD, but he answered them not. 42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets. 43 Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; [and] thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people [whom] I have not known shall serve me. 44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me. 45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places. 46 The LORD liveth; and blessed [be] my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted. 47 [It is] God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me. 48 He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man. 49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name. 50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.
In v. 30 when David says God's way is perfect we know that from a New Testament perspective that His way is Jesus. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. He is a buckler and shield to ALL those that put their trust in Him. Do you trust Him? This is who He will be to you without deviation or variation. Theologians and religious mentalities teach that God will protect and bless some but not others because He is sovereignty and (the suggest) can violate His own word if He chooses to for some arbitrary purpose. This is contradictory to the words of David. If you trust Him and your life reflects trust in Him you will be saved, preserved, blessed and provided for. That may not be your experience but you have to decide: where does the authority in your life lay? In experience? Or in what the word of God says?
In verse 33 David says that God puts his feet on the high places. This is said in the context of battle, war and conquest. The high places are not natural things but seats of authority and principality. Adam and Eve were given authority and rule in the garden of Eden and told to subdue and conquer the earth. Satan took that authority when they sinned and Satan became the small god of this world. What was lost in the fall is restored in Christ.
It amazes me the reaction many Christians have to this. They don't see themselves as the inheritors of Edenic authority in the earth. They don't want the responsibility. They have a visceral reaction to the suggestion that they have authority as a believer. They would rather have a Santa Claus god who comes down the chimney of their life and rescues them while they dream of sugar plums and such. God is a God of authority and wants you to participate in your own rescue by the anointing of authority He has placed in your life.
God is a god that teaches your hands to war (v. 34). He is your shield and your salvation (v. 35). He enlarges your step (v. 36) so that your feet will not slip. In other words you are not living your life on the razor's edge of the supposed will of God – He is actually enlarging your steps everywhere you go and will even make your mistakes to prosper. He girds you with strength for the battle (v 39) and gives you the necks of your enemies. When someone becomes your enemy – when they consider themselves in opposition to you – then you become god in their live. What happens next in their life will be determined by the parameters of your prayer life. If you have never experienced this then you haven't ever prayed appropriately for your enemies.
God takes responsibility for avenging wrongs done to you (v. 47). God is your avenger and it is up to God to subdue your enemies. You do not have to subdue people. You do not have to make people bow to your will. When you leave things to God and war in your prayer life and walk in mercy you will see the deliverance of heaven visited upon your life in an unprecedented way. This is the deliverance that God gives to those He considers (kings) and those that are of David's seed which includes you and I (v. 50).
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hi kk,
the picture looks fab- just so you know the stones are still in my boot and will be thrown out by the weekend unless claimed!!
actually, i think i have grown rather fond of them now and they will look nice in my back garden near the flowers- thanks!
WOW! i had an idea you would be hard work, but never imagined how difficult it would be!


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Martial Music at Fort Ticonderoga
History of the Fort Ticonderoga Fife and Drum Corps
Fort Ticonderoga formed its first Fife and Drum Corps in 1926 on the eve of the 150th anniversary celebrations of American Independence. The Corps performed at Fort Ticonderoga each summer until the beginning of World War II. When the World's Fair came to New York City in 1939, the Fife and Drum Corps was featured, performing on May 10, "Fort Ticonderoga Day," celebrating the 164th anniversary of the capture of the fort by Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold, and the Green Mountain Boys.
In 1973, in preparation for the bicentennial, Fort Ticonderoga revived the Fife and Drum Corps to perform daily during the summer season. The Fife and Drum Corps has performed every year since and has been featured performers at many major public events including the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympic Games, the christening of the US Navy Guided Missile Cruiser USS Ticonderoga CG-47, and several Evacuation Day parades in Boston, Massachusetts.
Recordings & Publications
The fifes and drums of Fort Ticonderoga have recorded and released four collections of 18th and early 19th century music:
The Fifes and Drums of Fort Ticonderoga (1975; vinyl LP- no longer available)
The Fort Ticonderoga Corps of Drums - "Echoes within the Walls" (1992; cassette tape- no longer available)
The Fort Ticonderoga Corps of Drums - "On Hallowed Ground" (1999; compact disc)
The Fifes and Drums of Fort Ticonderoga - "The Heights of Carillon" (2008; compact disc)
Recordings on compact discs are currently available through Fort Ticonderoga's Museum Store.


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Team GB Chef de Mission gets new perspective at Sochi Games
Mike Hay has seen the Olympic Winter Games from several different perspectives, including as an athlete when curling was a demonstration sport, but never with the wide-angle view he is getting in his new role as Chef de Mission for Team GB.
From the Team GB office in Sochi, Hay serves as the lead advocate for British Olympians and the chief liaison between the British Olympic Association and all the other key Games organisations, including the International Olympic Committee, the International Federations and the Organising Committee. The position requires attention to detail, diplomacy and a high degree of energy.
He said the spectrum of issues that a chef de mission deals with is "wide and varied", but the primary mission is to help Olympic athletes achieve their dreams.
"You're responsible for seeing that all the athletes have all the resources available to them to perform at their personal best," he said, during a brief break at Team GB headquarters.
Hay has served British athletes in a variety of capacities over the years. He coached the women's curling team that won a gold medal at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games, and oversaw the Team GB preparation camps for Vancouver 2010 and London 2012. He joined the British Olympic Association as a winter sports specialist in 2007.
Before his career in sports administration, Hay won gold medals in curling at five European Championships, and silver medals at two World Championships. He competed in curling as a demonstration sport at the 1988 Calgary Games, before it was added to the Olympic programme at the 1998 Nagano Games.
In Sochi, Hay supports 56 athletes as well as their coaches and other Olympic officials from Great Britain. About 60 per cent are housed in the two Olympic Villages for the mountain venues; the rest are in the Olympic Village for indoor events near the shore of the Black Sea.
Hay, a veteran of five previous Games, praised the work of the Sochi organisers.
"We've found it absolutely amazing. They haven't let us down," he said "The venues are absolutely fantastic, first class. The transport is working well. You probably get the impression that I'm pretty pleased."
He is also pleased with the performance of Team GB. Although Great Britain is not known as a winter sports powerhouse, British competitors are on track to win more medals in Sochi than at any previous Olympic Winter Games since the inaugural Games in 1924. Team GB medallists include Lizzy Yarnold, who won gold in skeleton; Jenny Jones, who captured bronze in snowboard slopestyle; and the women's curling team, which also won a bronze medal. The men's curling team ensured at least a silver medal by earning a place in the finals.
"When you have a delegation of 56 athletes and support staff, you're dealing with good days and bad days," Hay said. "We have done what we hoped to do in terms of our expectations, and maybe we can exceed that in the next couple of days."


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"It takes a long time to get right," she said as their prayer meeting concluded. She spoke of her past, of alcoholism and abuse. She spoke today from a place of strength, but the hard realities of the past still brought tears to her eyes as she shared.
And she's right. It DOES take a long time to get right. Growing up evangelical, I learned that the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). As a child at my church and young in my faith, I understood sin to be bad things I did and death to be essentially death and hell.
Now as an adult, I see sin and it's respective wages more broadly. Sin still is the bad things I do, but also the wrong thoughts I entertain, the brokenness I hold into within myself, the broken systems I (we) adhere to, and the fallenness of the world around us.
With such a broad scope, it does take a long time to get right. I think of friends who strive to walk rightly now, but carry in their bodies the physical ailments of years of drugs usage. I think of restored citizens, coming out of prison systems and having paid for their crimes, but not sure how to actually use an e-mail; missing that technology during their incarceration. I think of brothers and sisters in faith paying child support for children that are now adults.
There are lots of wages for walking foolishly.
And yet how honorable is it to see men and women strive to do what's right! One of the deepest joys of the South Street family is seeing people walk rightly, seeing them become their fullest selves in Christ!
One such person is our Youth Director Bob Irwin. Bob is the first in his family to graduate high school. He has helped lead our After School and Summer Camp programs for over 5 years. He is quick to volunteer his time and in simple yet consistent ways seeks out God's good in his life.
In Bob's time at South Street he has ran his first 5k, fasted from pop/soda, and recently posted this on facebook:
Running for me has been an incredible journey. It has been a journey that many of you have been on with me. And like most journeys it has felt like a roller coaster ride. With ups and downs, twist and turns, and maybe even a loopy loop or two thrown in there. God first started me on this ride by simply going on a hike last summer with a friend at the gorge here in Akron. A place that until then i have never been to before. I lived most my adult life here in Akron but never been there before then. To make a long story short, when i first started running i hated it and hated life! Then i kind of started to enjoy it! My back still hurts but i kind of liked it. I ran a couple 5ks and a 4 mile and a 10k. And i have a 8k this saturday that i am going to attempt with a big goal of a half marathon in September. I am right mow climbing out of the valley the low point with running i haven't done it at all since may 31st. Granted thats not forever ago but i lose stuff very fast with this. My point in sharing this was to tell you all about the intimacy with God that i have found by running and pushing myself past what i think i can do. Now to be honest am i going to immediately put down the burger and pick up a tofu burger? HECKS NAW!!! But i have to remember whats is the goal? Is it really to drop some LBS? Or is it to be as close to God as possible? If i do shed a few thats great! But i have to remember God is the most important relationships ever! And so if but doing something as crazy as running or whatever gets you as intimate with God thats what we have to do no matter how foolish we may look or anything. And as with me and running there will be good times and bad times times we feel we can fly and times we feel we are going to drown! Just remember whatever we do do it for God glory!
For me walking humbly is meeting men like Bob, and the woman who shared of her brokenness where they are at, celebrating God's love in their lives, and then watching the transformation over time as the wages of sin are exchanged for the gift of life, today and forever.