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BA Convention is the only Business Analysis event outside of North America, that is not only titled as IIBA Official Conference, but it has also got support from Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & IT, Government of India.
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BSSC NASSCOM & IIBA came on board at BA Convention 2016 and signed an MoU, to transform the BA eco-system in India. This MoU will work to help the business analysis community to move up the value chain. Another objective of this MoU is to bridge the corporate-academia gap.
This effort will allow India to produce the right Business Analysis talent that's based on NASSCOM's academic policies and industry standards defined by IIBA®.
|Bridging the gap- First every live web transmission of BA Convention
Academia-industry collaboration has always been a topic of discussion on both sides. BA Convention 2016 initiated an effort to bridge this gap and live web transmitted 2016 edition of BA Convention to around 100 B schools across India. We are very proud to share that close to 20000 aspiring business analysts and around 500 faculty members attended this live web-session..
|We Promised – We Delivered (Research on Business Analysis):
It was at 2015 edition, an IIBA-FORRESTER combined research was announced on business analysis. We are very proud to share that few months after the event, FORRESTER initiated this research and concluded it before BA Convention 2016. The research titled "Digital Business Analyst Supporting Business Transformation Agenda" was published.
One such research was conducted last year by IIBA®, Cognizant, Offshore Insights and BA Convention and interviewed around 100 Universities / B-Schools along with NASSCOM, NSDC, AIMA, UGC and AICTE.
|Bringing Practicality – First Ever Business Analysis Lab Launch:
When we spoke of delivering the practical knowledge on BA education, we actually meant it. BA Convention along with IIBA® worked with Sparx Systems India to launch First-Ever Business Analysis Lab at Christ University Insitute of Management (CUIM) and further discussions are going on with other universities to set up more such labs for quality BA education and practical experience. The main objective of the Lab is to:
|Please keep watching this space for further announcement in this regard!


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To receive funds and property, to invest and reinvest the same, and to disburse and distribute the same as voluntary, gratuitous, and charitable gifts and contributions to, or for, the benefit of: (1) Jefferson and Hardin County Peace Officers, (2) Jefferson and Hardin County Firefighters, and (3) dependent widows or widowers and/or children of Deceased Jefferson and Hardin County Peace Officers or Jefferson or Hardin County Firefighters.
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|Sierra Lamar
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"We're hoping she's alive and that's the most important thing right now," the girl's mother, Marlene Lamar, told KTVU. Sierra Lamar is approximately 5-feet, 2 inches tall, with brown hair, last seen carrying a pink and black handbag.
Her sister, Danielle Lamar, said she doesn't think her sister ran away. "She's always in contact with family and friends. She wouldn't leave everyone out of the loop," Danielle Lamar said.
Anyone with information on the teenager's whereabouts is being urged to call the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department at (408) 299-2311. Alternatively, you can send the police and anonymous tip through SilentSender.com.
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Antonio Conte: Chelsea confident boss will sign new contract
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Chelsea are confident manager Antonio Conte will sign a new contract this summer.
The Italian, 47, still has two seasons left on the three-year deal he signed when he joined the club last summer.
The Stamford Bridge outfit are keen to reward Conte for an outstanding debut campaign in which he won the Premier League and reached the FA Cup final.
Despite rumours that he was thinking of a return to Italy, Conte said last month that he wanted to stay in London.
Chelsea are still to make a signing this summer.
Everton striker Romelu Lukaku has been linked with a return to the club he left for £28m in 2014, while Leicester forward Riyad Mahrez and Juventus right-back Dani Alves - who is also a target for Manchester City - have been identified as possible targets.
On 9 June, striker Diego Costa said Conte had sent him a text message to say he no longer wanted the Spain striker at the club.


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|Celebrating with the Birthday Girl
Buenas Noches Amigos! Tonight I am writing from Starbucks while enjoy a chai tea - and yes it tastes the same as in the U.S. It is really nice to walk into some of the chain restaurants here simply because it looks just the same as in the States. They have McDonalds, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Starbucks, and I'm sure others I haven't run into yet. I never was much of a fast food fan, but I must say I've been eating more of it lately and I think it is because I like the familiarity more than the food. I guess I need to hurry up and join a gym if I keep this up!
Not a whole lot has changed since my last update, work is still going well. The biggest update is that I moved. The move was super easy being as I only own about 2 suitcases worth of items. I did have to make a big trip to Plaza Vea (like walmart) here and buy a lot of household items which is nice. The new place is great; I walked to work this morning with a huge smile on my face! It is located right next to a beautiful park and very close to a fancy shopping district. This could be bad news..... walking next to these high end shops I already feel my credit card burning a hole in my pocket.
|My co-workers
This weekend I got to head out to a birthday party on Friday night. One of the girls I work with was celebrating her 25th birthday and hosted a big party at her house. All of my coworkers were there along with a lot of other people. Julio came with me, and we had a really good time! One thing I can say about people in Peru is they really know how to host a party. They serve food all night long, always make sure your glass is full, play great music, and everyone is very friendly. After the party, Julio and I went out and met up with one of his friends. This made for a rather comical evening. Julio's friend had a rather good time telling me all of Julio's secrets and what he maybe says about me when I am not around. I think Julio was a little embarrassed, but all in all it was pretty funny - and good insight for me! As I sometimes accuse Julio of never wanting me to meet his friends from school. I guess now I know why.
Saturday was very relaxed and Sunday was just a busy day of moving. I think I was a little too stressed, which made Julio stressed, which made for not the best moving day in the world. But, it was a good thing I don't have much stuff. Now I am all settled in for now; although I already have a list of new things I need to buy for the house!
It is hard for me to relate to many of the Peruvian "young adults" here, because their lifestyle is much different. It is very common for people to live under their parents roof until they are in their late 20s or married. Kids generally don't have a lot of responsibilities as the mother cares very diligently for her family. She cooks all the meals, wakes her kids up for school/work, cleans up after them, and most households hire a maid because it is so cheap to have one. It is also very common for the family to pay for all of the kids education. I hate to spoiled, because that really isn't the right word. Life is not as easy here as in the States, that is for sure. However, I guess young adults don't have the same responsibilities here as we do in the U.S. I feel like as soon as I was out of the house I had to take care of everything on my own. I had school, work, bills, had to clean and cook for myself, came home to a dorm or empty house, etc.... I may have been a little too independent and tried to hard to do everything on my own, but still, in generally I'm not sure that young adults here can really understand the independence that we crave in the U.S. Even Julio, although I think he craves to have the independence, can not always relate to what I am talking about. It isn't fair for me to compare young adults here to young adults in the States though, because here, without a degree, you don't really have the opportunity to make enough money to live on your own. There are a lot of little things I notice about Julio and some of my friends here that tell me they would not know what to do if they had to live on their own. It just isn't part of the culture here.
Anyway, my chai tea is about gone so I think I may retire for the evening. This Starbucks was recently robbed by gunpoint and all the laptops were stolen from the patrons. It is funny how that makes me feel extra safe. There are now two cops standing outside the door with guns. I wouldn't say this city is dangerous by any means, I actually feel very safe here. However, like in any big city robberies do happen. However, it is pretty rare a robber would came back to the same place again a week later - so I think I am safe!
I leave for Cuzco on Friday - and get to be a tourist - finally!! Words can't describe my excitement, but I will share the whole experience when I return next week. Hopefully I will have some pretty sweet pictures as well. Take Care Everyone!


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Sunday, August 14, 2005
Allison Nelson begins University career at McMurry
A reception, above, at Tinney Chapel honored Allison Nelson for a stellar career at Winnsboro High School, where she graduated in May as the Salutatorian.
Tinney Chapel's Allison Nelson off to McMurry University
"We are expecting to hear great things about you," said Rev. Duncan Graham, Pastor of Tinney Chapel UMC. He was speaking to Allison Nelson, soon to graduate as Salutatorian from the Winnsboro High School Class of 2005, and already accepted as a scholarship student this fall at McMurray University, a Methodist school in Abilene, Texas. The occasion was a reception honoring Allison on May 22.
Allison will, of course, also play basketball at McMurry.
Pastor Graham presented her with a Life Application Study Bible, NIV Translation, engraved with Allison's name, Tinney Chapel UMC, and the year '05 on it: "So you won't forget the year you graduated," quipped the Pastor. "There's also a card with some graduating cash for you. Let's pray:
"Oh, gracious Lord, we lift up Allison to you, Lord. We love her. We are proud of her, Lord. We just want You to bless her abundantly, Lord. Lord, just give her knowledge and wisdom. Help her to assimilate all the good things that she will learn. And, Lord, use her. Use her while she is there to touch other lives, to bless other people, and, Oh Lord, to accomplish great things. Give her strength, Lord, give her all that she needs to do well on the basketball court, in her studies, in her relationships that she will have, Lord, in Jesus' Name.
"And there will be some cake and refreshments in her honor over at the fellowship hall between service and Sunday School. So take time to have some cake and punch, and celebrate with her."
Allison in full graduation garb, above, enters McMurry University, a United Methodist institution, with an impressive collection of scholarships.
Allison enters McMurry University after earning $37,500 in scholarships, including a Presidential Scholarship, worth $6,500 a year, from McMurry, a Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship, worth $1,500 a year, a Chadick Family Scholarship worth $3,000, a "Power My World" Scholarship, worth $1,000, from Wood County Electric Cooperative, Inc., a Raider Pride Booster Club Scholarship worth $1,000 and a Thurma Rhoades Girls Athletic Scholarship worth $500.
Allison delivers the salutatorian address, above, signifying her distinction as the number-two academic graduate of Winnsboro High School in 2005.
Below are some of the accomplishments that helped Allison become an honor student, outstanding athlete and scholarship winner.
Academic honors and date received:
Salutatorian, May 2005
Distinguished Graduate, May 2005
National Honor Roll, 2004/2005
Who's Who Among American High School Students, 2004-2005
National Beta Club, inducted Oct. 2002
Nominee, National Society of High School Scholars, Apr. 2004
Nominee, Scholar, National Young Leaders Conference. Mar. 2004
Top WHS Geometry Student, May 2002
Top WHS Eng. 1 PreAp Student, May 2002
Top WHS Spanish III Student, May 2002
WHS All As Honor Roll, May, 2002, 2003, 2004
As dual-enrollment student at Tyler Junior College:
Phi Theta Kappa, inducted Mar. 2004
National Dean's List, June 2004
GPA for 24 hours: 3.75; completing 27 hours by May 2005 graduation
Other school related honors and activities:
Lady Raiders Basketball, Forward, 2001-2005
4-year varsity starter and 1st Team All-District, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
Regional Finalist, Feb. 2003; State Finalist, Mar. 2004; State Semi-Finalist, Mar. 2005
All Tournament Team, Leonard Holiday Tournament, Dec. 2004
Cross Country, varsity runner, Aug. -Oct., 2002 and 2003
Yearbook Staff, 3 years, 2002-2005
Business Manager, 2003-2004, Section Editor, 2005
Best Advertising Campaign, National Publications Workshop (1,000+ students), July 2003
Net Ole Regional Spanish Competition, Apr. 2002:
1st place, Power Point Presentation
3rd place, Prepared Speech
Homecoming Decorations, named class winner 4 years, 2001-2004
Sophomore Class Secretary, 2002-2003
Junior/Senior Prom Decorating Committee, Mar.-Apr. 2004
Junior Usher, May 2004
Senior Class Selection: Most Unforgettable, Dec. 2004
Member, Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA), 2002-2003
WHS Perfect Attendance, 2001-2004
Allison, above, also participated in an impressive array of community, civic and church activities during her four-year career at Winnsboro High School.
Civic, Community, Church activities and achievements:
Member Tinney Chapel United Methodist Church and Tinney Chapel Youth , Aug. 2001-present
Stars of Hope, active in 2-month campaign painting 100s of yard signs and collecting $1,000s in donations in support of youth with cancer, summer 2002. Program was catalyst for many spin-off fundraisers.
Northeast Texas Child Advocacy Center, collected and delivered donations for teddy bear drives in 2002 and 2003 and basic needs drives in 2004 and 2005.
Beta Club's Stars for David program, fundraising for cancer patient, Nov.-Dec. 2002
Toys for Tots volunteer, worked with Winnsboro Police to distribute donated toys, Dec. 2002
Quitman Public Library, reorganized Children's Center, Jan. 2003
Beta Club's Juice Drive for non-profit childcare organization, Feb. 2003
Whispering Pines Care Center, wallpapered nursing home's dining room, Apr. 2003
Winter Coat Drive, initiated and led drive at my church to collect coats for needy in Tyler, 2003
Coached 8th grade girls basketball team, fall 2004 league
Sixty & Single Valentines Dinner, prepared and served dinner to elderly, Feb. 2005
Allison's research and essay on Ambrose Tinney, above, founder of Tinneytown and Tinney Chapel UMC, helped her win this year's Chadick Family Scholarship. The essay is reproduced below with the kind permission of the Chadick Family.
William Ambrose Tinney: Founder of Tinneytown
By Allison Nelson
William Ambrose Tinney moved his family from Alabama to Wood County, Texas in 1886 and by the time he died 38 years later in 1924 he had left a legacy known as Tinneytown. This burgeoning salt-of-the-earth agrarian community just four miles south of Winnsboro was known for its God-fearing people who had compassion for their neighbors and believed in a strong work ethic.
The East Texas settler, the son of John Calhoun Tinney(1829-1870) and Mary Emmaline Bynum (1831-1873), came from a family of strong convictions. The elder Tinney did not believe in holding slaves and thought that Alabama could work out her differences and stay in the Union. Ambrose was ten years old when the Civil War started. Those like his father, who did not want to join the Confederate Army and hid out in caves, were considered by many to be traitors and their lives were at risk. John Calhoun Tinney finally gave up his neutrality and joined the Union Army in 1863.
Ambrose Tinney's first wife Mary Belinda Bellomy also came from a family of strong beliefs. Mary's parents drowned in a river flood when she was only four and she was raised by her grandfather, William Bellomy, who had come to the Alabama territory as a circuit riding Methodist minister. Ambrose and Mary had known each other since they were little. They married when she was 16 and he was 21. He was known to read the Bible to his family every night and she sang her babies the same Christian hymns that her grandfather had sung to her. While living in Alabama they had six children, Andy Glass "Doc", Hollis Whitebee "Oll", Rhody Jane (who died at an early age), Mary Frances "Sis", Charles Lewis "Tink", and David Robinson "Gould".
Relatives on both side of the family were already living in East Texas and wrote back to Ambrose and Mary, encouraging them to join them. Mary had inherited several parcels of land from two grandfathers and a great-grandfather and she and Ambrose sold her land and used the money to start anew in Texas. In 1886 they came by train from Huntsville, Alabama to Grand Saline, Texas. Ambrose looked for a place for them. He found good land with water for farming south of Winnsboro in northern Wood County. They eagerly built a new home where another baby, W.A. Jr. "Bill" was born. Then they rented their small house and moved near relatives in the Shady Grove community, where three more children were born: Susan Elizabeth "Lid" or "Lizzie", John Calhoun "Connie", and Lona Isabell "Lonie". With nine kids they needed a bigger house. Using the last of Mary's inheritance money, "they bought more land, built a larger house and settled themselves in the area four miles south of Winnsboro that would eventually become known as Tinneytown" (McClaren 15). Between 1895 and 1898 three more children were born, Leona Evelyn "Eve-er" or "Eva", Ed Skeen "Fine", and George Griffin "Buck".
The story behind Fine's real name reflects Ambrose's sense of humor. Mr. Ed Skeen, the owner of the general store on Main Street in Winnsboro where the Tinneys shopped for groceries enjoyed joking with his customers who were expecting babies. He was always suggesting that they name a child after him. Since Ambrose and Mary had already named so many of their children after relatives, they decided to just oblige Mr. Skeen and named their seventh son Ed Skeen.
Including a still born birth and Rhody, their baby girl that died in Alabama, Mary had had 14 pregnancies in 25 years. The strain of having and caring for such a large family played havoc with her health. Her struggle with kidney disease ended with her death in May 1899. Her young baby "Buck" was only eight months old. Needing immediate help with such a big family Ambrose asked Mary Precise, an older woman the family had known for years, to come and live with them. They called her Aunt Mary Precise.
Before Mary's death, she and Ambrose had begun to talk with neighbors about a church for their new community. They had always invited traveling preachers to hold services in their home and both wanted "a community where hard-working, God-loving people could come together for work, fellowship, and worship" (McClaren 16). Ambrose proceeded with the dream they shared. On February 22, 1900, he deeded an acre of land a short distance from the Tinney home place for a church building which was built by the Tinney men, Will Bellomy and son Charlie, Ford Newton and son Jim, and a few others. In Arvinell Newton McClaren's book Going to the Chapel, she describes the original structure: "The tall, unpainted one-room structure had a wooden floor and a high ceiling. The simple sanctuary had two large support posts in the center. Coal-oil lamps hung from wires to provide light and a big black wood-burning stove in the center front gave heat" (McClaren 16-17). Ambrose's great granddaughter Julie Tinney reported that "in the church's early years, members tied their horses to trees during worship" (Tinney 4). As was customary in churches at that time, the men sat in the pews on the left, the women sat in the pews to the right, and couples that were sparking sat in the center section.
Since the church had been built for the people of the community, none of the builders wanted it named after themselves; so they chose the name Blackwell after the first traveling preacher to preach there and Chapel after Holland's Chapel in Alabama. They affiliated Blackwell's Chapel with the Methodist Episcopal Church North. It kept this name from 1900 until 1928. The congregation affiliated with the First Methodist Church in Winnsboro in 1928, and from 1928 until 1955 it was known as Tinney's Chapel. A 1954 tornado damaged the church to such an extent that a new one was built in 1955. Since then it has been known as Tinney Chapel. The church commemorated its centennial in 2000. McClaren noted that at that time there were 663 descendants of W.A. Tinney, not all living in Wood County. As another century began, another Tinney, grandson Donald Eugene Tinney, and his wife Corrine donated another acre of land to Tinney Chapel on which a family life center was built and consecrated on January 9, 2005.
In addition to his leadership role in founding Tinney Chapel, Ambrose also served the community in other ways. He was commissioned as Road Overseer of Road Precinct 56 in Wood County's Precinct 4. His job called for mustering the manpower needed to fill in mud holes on the dirt road between Winnsboro and Hawkins and remove tree limbs that fell on the road. An official notebook Ambrose used, his Road Overseers Commission, listed the names of those who were "designated and required to work said roads in said precinct." Tally marks beside each name showed how many times they had been called upon. The Commission also noted that he had the authority to summons "all other hands in said Road Precinct between the ages of 21 and 45." Ambrose reportedly made frequent trips to the county seat in Quitman 15 miles away to meet with the commissioners court.
McClaren notes, "On his trips to the county seat, Ambrose, who was not forty-eight years old, also found time to court twenty-six-year-old spinster Lizzie Gamble in Alba" (McClaren 20). He married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Caroline Gamble in 1900 and brought her home as his new wife, assuring Aunt Mary Precise that she was a part of the family and must stay on with them. Between 1902 and 1913 Ambrose and Lizzie had seven children: Julia Lillian, Fannie Mae, Madie Ethel, Frank Love "Tom", Laura Ruth, Hallie Maude "Bush", and Dolly Fay. Unfortunately, baby Ethel only lived for one month and Ruth died shortly before her seventeenth birthday.
Above all, Ambrose Tinney was a man of the soil. Known to be a highly successful farmer, he grew cotton, corn, sorghum and oats. His son, the late Frank Love "Tom" Tinney believes, "The original home place might have been as much as 600 acres originally" (Boyd interview). Not all of it was cultivated as it included quite a bit of timber. They raised horses and mules. "Everybody plowed with one or two. We did have a plow that was made for three horses," Tom Tinney remembered. "It was a pretty big turning plow." They also had hogs and goats, milking cows, a garden, and 20 acres of fruit trees. "Everybody had a job. Just whatever you were big enough to do," said Tom Tinney.
Five miles away from the Tinney home was the Vernon school. It was a two-room, two-teacher country school in Wood County sitting on property owned by Wid Gearner. Although documents could not be found, Mrs. McClaren believes from her research that the original country school was built around the 1880's, probably before 1890. Ambrose would load up the school-aged children in a wagon to take them to school in the morning, but in the afternoon they were to walk home on their own. He was busy working in the fields and expected their help before dark. But when they purposely got sidetracked on the way home, he became extremely frustrated. In order for his children to get a good education and still make it home in time to work in the afternoons, Ambrose came up with the solution of rebuilding the Vernon school about a mile from their house. Again he donated land to the community. This time he deeded three acres for the school, working out the details with the school board. He secured the help of his son-in-law Jim Newton to tear down the Vernon school and rebuild it on the Tinney land. The school bell rang at its new location in the fall of 1911.
Joe Dan Boyd, the son of Ambrose and Lizzie's youngest child Dolly, remembers his years at the Vernon school. He described it as a rural school "which housed eight grades in two Spartan rooms of a whitewashed schoolhouse topped by a majestic tower for the clear-ringing school bell" (Boyd). It had a large outdoor playground. "The children entered up the wooden steps at the center front of the building and through large double doors that led them into the cloakroom, where they hung their coats" (McClaren 43-44). The teacher's desk in each of the two large classrooms was raised from the rest of the room. Behind it was a blackboard. "The students' desks were made of iron with the wooden seatback of one desk attached to the front of the next student's wooden box-like desk. A sloping desktop had a groove for pencils at the far edge of the desk and a hole near the right back corner of the desk for inkbottles" (McClaren 44).
The last few of the Tinney grandchildren along with children from a few other families were still in school by 1942, but the enrollment had dwindled drastically. Many of the former students were now in uniform, fighting the enemy during World War II. In the spring of 1946, the Vernon school closed its doors. " I was going to that school when it closed," Boyd recalls. "There were less than 20 students in all eight grades, not enough to justify its continuing." The children of the community had to attend Winnsboro's public schools five miles away the following year. The schoolhouse sat empty for a few years, but about 1949 Arvin Newton dismantled the school and used the lumber to build two houses, one of which became the home of Mrs. Irene Ray, the Vernon school teacher.
Ambrose Tinney was a strict disciplinarian. "Anytime Papa cleared his throat, that was the end of the fuss or racket. He didn't have to say a word," Tom Tinney recalled (Boyd interview) He was said to keep a tight rein on his children. "Us kids didn't get to go to town very much, except for clothes or shoes," said Tom Tinney. They continued to live and work at home until they married. Their social life centered almost exclusively around family, church, and school. Not surprisingly the young couples stayed in the community to begin their own families. "Seems like a lot of them got married at about the same time," Tom Tinney said. About six of them married in one year and Ambrose gave them all a horse and a cow. All the property surrounding the intersection of what is now FM 312 and Wood CR 4620 in every direction was owned by Tinney descendants so it was only natural that the rural community became known as Tinneytown. This common nickname was used extensively from the 1920s through the 1950s. Although never incorporated, Tinneytown was considered a geographic entity. It was known to be the home of God-fearing people with a strong work ethic---the salt of the earth.
Works Cited
Boyd, Joe Dan. "Raised Tinney." Copyright 2003.
Boyd, Joe Dan. "Recollections of Frank Love "Tom" Tinney. Interview copyright 1965.
McClaren, Arvinell Newton. Going to the Chapel. Copyright 2003.
Tinney, Julie. "Tinney Chapel History." Unpublished college history report. August 16, 1984.
<> I would like to give a special thanks to Joe Dan Boyd who provided me with many materials including copies of the deeds of land donated by Ambrose Tinney for Tinney Chapel and the Vernon School, numerous Tinney family photos, and pages from a book Ambrose Tinney used as road overseer. I am particularly indebted to Arvinell McClaren. Her book was my primary reference source for this essay and she kindly shared with me additional information she had learned since it was published. She also shared photos from her book as well as the genealogy chart of the descendants of William Ambrose which is found in my addendums.
Sunday, August 07, 2005
Wrestling With God At Tinney Chapel
Holy Communion was served this morning.
Pastor: Rev. Duncan Graham
Greeter: Roger Schneider.
Sound: Bob Deitering.
Ushers: Gerry Privette & Roger Schneider.
Song leader: Angela Wylie.
Piano: Pat Hollingsworth.
Great Is Thy Faithfulness, Take Time To Be Holy, Sanctuary, Amazing Grace.
Special Music by Tinney Chapel's quintessential choir, directed by Pat Hollingsworth, featuring solo by David Stanton:
The Cross Of Love With You are My King & Lamb of God.
Singing in the choir today: Ronny Ellison, David Wylie, Derrell Hollingsworth, David Stanton, Linda Hallman, Josie Garrett, Christi Noble, Stacey Stanley, Molly Stanton, Alice Deitering, Angela Wylie, Bobbie Hollingsworth, Emmaline Hallman, Wanda Hardin.
Call to Worship & Opening Prayer
Morning Prayer & Lord's Prayer:
Offertory Prayer
Gloria Patri
Apostles Creed
Tinney Chapel Pastor, Rev. Duncan Graham, began today by asking the children: "Are you a sinker or a floater?" They didn't know, so he passed on a hint: "What happens when you get in water: Do you sink or float?" Then, more generally: "How many of you out there are sinkers? Floaters? OK, we have some of both! But that's kind of a loaded question. Suppose I had Charles Brewer's Number Three washtub out here, full of water: If I put a spoon in that water, would it sink or float? Sink? That's right." Just then, an unidentified voice asked: Plastic, wood or metal spoon? At this, the Pastor changed tactics, and asked the children what would happen if he put a lead fishing weight in there: Would it sink or float? "What is lead?" asked one of the children, which evolved into a discussion of fishing techniques, old and new, before the Pastor started his message for the children.
"I want to tell you a story, " said Pastor Graham. "One time, Jesus had been teaching the multitudes, and when He finished, he went out by Himself into the mountains to pray, sending the Disciples ahead of Him in a boat to cross the Sea of Galilee. While they were going, in the middle of the night, He came walking toward them on water. He was a floater! They got scared when they saw Him, thinking they were seeing a ghost. But, Jesus said, Be not afraid, it 's me!
"Peter cried out, Lord, if it's You, then command me to come to You on the water, and He said: Come," added Pastor Graham. "And, so Peter got out of the boat, stood on the water, and was going toward Him. Suddenly, Peter got to looking around, and saw how high the waves were, how rough the waves were. The wind was kind of high, and it was blowing, blustery, and so Peter looked at all this, and suddenly realized: My word, what am I doing here? This is something: I'm going to be a sinker. About that time, sure enough, Peter started sinking. Jesus grabbed Peter by the hand, pulled him up, back on top of the water again, and asked Peter: Why did you doubt?
"Now, the point is that there are times in life when we all try to float, and times in life when we find ourselves sinking," explained Pastor Graham. "And, we realized that we have to have help, and that it will only work as long as we keep our eyes fixed on Jesus. If we take our eyes off Jesus, that's when we start sinking. What I want you to realize at this point in your life is that, if you keep your eyes on Jesus, thinks are going to be well, even amidst stormy times when the waves are trying to overcome you or the sea is trying to swallow you up. That's the time to keep your eyes on Jesus.
"Let's pray. Gracious, heavenly Father, we thank you for these young lives," began Pastor Graham. "We ask, Lord, that You bless them abundantly and always be with them. But, help them, Lord, to always remember to keep their focus on You above all else. In Jesus' Name. Amen."
Tinney Chapel UMC Pastor, Rev. Duncan Graham, chose as his sermon title, "Wrestling With God," which was based on Genesis32:22-32
"Jacob wrestled, according to the understanding of many, with God, virtually all night long," began Pastor Graham. "I've thought about this quite a bit over the years, and have wondered many times if this was really God that Jacob was wrestling with. First, what does it man to wrestle? Was he literally in bodily contact and struggle, trying to put the hammerlock, or something like that, on God? What, exactly, does it all mean? Are we talking about something that happened in the physical sense? Or the spiritual sense? You look at all these things, and you begin to wonder just exactly what went on there that night. What happened between Jacob and God, the Almighty God?
"If you think about God as being omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, then you wonder: How could this be that (1) Jacob would wrestle with Him, literally, and (2) how would it be that God could not immediately overcome him in an instant? Obviously, we know that if God is all-powerful, He could do whatever He wanted to, in a moment's time. He could vaporize Jacob, for that matter, with just a thought. So, what was going on here? What's happening?
"Obviously, if God is all-powerful and present everywhere at all times, for Him literally to have been in that one place at that one time, He would have had to have taken on the form of a man or an angel, to wrestle with Jacob, and be there with him, while He is also present in all the other places in all of His vast Creation,' suggested the Pastor. "So, again, the questions that arise in the mind when we consider these things! Well, Jacob, according to what we read here really continued all night long with this wrestling match. And just would not quit and would not give up, until, finally, we read in the Scriptrue, where The Man says to him: Let me go because it's daybreak. This has gone on all night long!
"But, Jacob says to Him: No, I won't let You go until You bless me," adds the Pastor. "And, so, The Man says: What's your name? This is significant because, here again, if this is God—present in this being---then we know that God knows his name already. So, He is asking the question for a purpose. The question He asks is what is your name? Jacob says that his name is Jacob. Then He says: Your name will no longer be Jacob, but now it will be Israel. Now, the name, Israel, literally means: Struggles or strives with God!
"So, it becomes significant not only in the fact that Jacob himself has been striving with God, but that Israel as a nation will continue to strive with God from that point on, I suppose, until the return of the Messiah, " added Pastor Graham. "Because, in many ways, I think they still strive with God, even today if you look carefully at that nation and what goes on with them. It's a continual striving.
"But, what we find here is that this name has changed, in that he has striven with God and has overcome," added the Pastor. "Or, has won the goal, or the blessing or the place that he was seeking after, all along. If you remember the story of Jacob, you realize that Jacob, from his childhood on, has desired that blessing and that covenant with God that normally would have gone to what we consider the firstborn. That is to say: It passed from Abraham down to Isaac, who was the firstborn of his wife, not his maid servant, Hagar, but his wife, Sara. It passed from Isaac down to Jacob, who was the second born. But he had the desire for that blessing, that covenant, that relationship that, evidently, Esau didn't have. Esau means hairy, and hairy Esau seemed to take that covenant and that family heritage very lightly, in that he was willing to give up his birthright for a bowl of porridge, on the one hand.
"Then, of course, Jacob and his mother also saw to it that he also got the blessing of his father, kind of undercutting Esau on that particular score, there, but Esau didn't seem to care as much about these things, initially, as did Jacob," explained Pastor Graham. "Therefore, Jacob was constantly striving to be sure that he got these things. Now, that represents, in some sense, a relationship with the Almighty God that was important for all of these promises to take place. And, so Jacob, through all of this, received these things, while Esau did not.
"Now, as Jacob leaves Beersheba, and the land of his family at that time and goes back to his mother's relatives, namely Laban, and all of that group, back up north toward Haran, he goes again and strives with his Uncle Laban over many years in order to gain, first of all, marriage to his beloved Rachel, and to acquire herds and flocks," added Pastor Graham. "Also, Leah was thrown in there, along with their maid servants, etc., and so, through them all, Jacob had 12 sons that became, of course, the 12 Tribes of Israel.
"With all that as a background, we see Jacob constantly striving with men throughout that period of time, beginning with Esau, beginning with fooling his father, and continuing with Laban," added the Pastor. "And, all that striving went forth, that Jacob involved himself in, until he acquired what he had desired so much. Then, on his way back, he stops again at the place where you will recall he had that dream where he saw God at the top of the ladder and the angels going up and down.
"He had placed a pillar there, and anointed it with oil and called it Bethel, meaning the House of God," emphasized Pastor Graham. "And he does the same thing when he comes back. He stops at the same place, sets up another rock, anoints it, and again calls it Bethel, or the House of God. So, through all of this, we see Jacob struggling with God and man, and overcoming.
"Now, the issue for all of this today is for you and I that we need, always, to keep in mind: We need to struggle with God," added the Pastor. "We need to struggle with God in order to gain the blessing. It's not that God wants to withhold it from us. But, I believe what we really see here is that God is testing to see how persistent that a person will be in order to gain his blessing. God will never give His blessing to the person, or persons, who are not willing to struggle and strive for those blessings.
"Once you have struggled and striven, for all you are worth, all those blessings become all the more precious," said Pastor Graham. "All the more desirous. But, until you do, until you do that striving, you will never receive the great blessings. You see, Jacob gave himself totally to the task of struggling and striving. He knew that, tomorrow, he would face his brother Esau, and had probably heard by this time that his brother, Esau, was coming with 400 men that belonged to him. And, Jacob might have thought, probably did, that they were coming to wipe him out, pay him back for taking his blessing and his birthright. Actually, Esau was coming out to welcome him! Jacob didn't know that!
"But, he knew this: He knew that he needed that blessing of God in order to see it through these difficult times and struggles," added Pastor Graham. "So, he would give himself to it. I am reminded so much of the time that Jesus told about the unfortunate widow, and you can read that story in Luke 18 beginning in verse 1, and the interesting thing is that, Jesus began that narrative of the unfortunate widow by saying that He was teaching men that that they ought always to pray and never give up!
"Always pray and never give up," emphasized the Pastor. "You know, so often, we are accustomed, maybe, to running to the altar, or quickly uttering a prayer at home, or something of that nature, that might last a minute or two, and we're gone! We tend to think that God will say yes or no, and we are very often quite willing to accept no. I am going to suggest to you today that we ought never to necessarily be willing to accept no. If it's not something that's an abomination to God, then we ought never to accept no.
"We ought to strive with God in prayer," declared Pastor Graham. 'We ought to wrestle with God in prayer until we get the answer that we are seeking for. If you look at the history of the church in the world, you will find, time and time and time again, that the great moves of God only came after much travail in prayer. And that ought to tell us a great deal about what God desires, and requires, of us if we are going to experience the greatest blessings of God in our lives or in the lives of others around us that we see needs in, in the world.
"I've so often heard people, although not as much now as many years ago, indicate that, well, I'm just suffering for God: If God wants me to suffer, then I'll just suffer. As though God is putting all kinds of illness and sickness upon us just in order to see us suffer! That God seems to be a God Who takes great pleasure in watching people suffer. And yet, the Word tells us that Jesus took stripes on His back for the healing of our disease and our sickness. Why in the world would He take those things on His own back if He wanted us to suffer?
"Or, we see Jesus saying the thief comes but for to steal and kill and destroy, but I have come that you might have Life, and have it more abundantly," emphasized the Pastor. "If He wants us to have Life, and have it more abundantly, then shouldn't we be willing to travail in prayer to overcome all the obstacles of the enemies and the things that so easily beset us? In order to enjoy that wonderful abundance of Life that tells us He came for us.
"I believe that Jacob's story is told to us for the purpose of showing us that we need to wrestle with God ourselves," concluded Pastor Graham. "Each of us, individually, and all of us together, need to wrestle with God in order to see that His great works come to pass on our behalf! Jacob becomes a nation, in a sense. The nation of Israel. Jacob has many, many blessings bestowed upon him. And, when you consider even the miracle that one of his sons would go down to Egypt to be prepared for the time of famine in order to keep Jacob and his family alive and well-cared for, you have to realize that God has a way and a means and a plan for taking care of those who have travailed with Him.
"We, dearly beloved, have been called through Jesus Christ to travail with God," he added. "It won't come easily. It will require the very greatest and deepest that we have within us. But, we can be overcomers in the Name of Jesus Christ. Just as Jacob was!
"Let's pray: Oh, gracious, hevenly Father, today I pray that You will fill us with a great desire, a great desire to be overcoming people. The great desire for the blessings of God that only He can give. The great desire to experience a life that reflects the Glory of God in this world. Teach us, Lord, to strive and struggle effectively, persistently in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen."
WISE ONES, Frankie Brewer: Meeting Human Needs.
LADIES BYKOTA CLASS, Peggy Boyd: The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren.
TINNEY CHAPEL MEN, Bill Knoop: Faith for Earth's Final Hour, by Hal Lindsey.
OVERCOMERS, Jenna Nelson: The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren.
YOUTH, Ronny Ellison: Life Lessons from 1 & 2 Peter, by Max Lucado.
CHILDREN, Linda Hallman: Elijah & Elisha.
REMNANT, Joe Dan Boyd: Spiritual Disciplines, Characteristic # 3 of Becoming A Healthy Church by Stephen A. Macchia. The Remnant Righteousness handout is below:
Life Lessons # 276 from studying Characteristic # 3 of Healthy Churches, "Spiritual Disciplines," via Stephen A. Macchia's Becoming A Healthy Church.
1. We expect & use resources to encourage & equip all ages to develop and maintain personal rhythms of daily spiritual disciplines.
2. Our relationship with God always impacts directly on our relationships with others.
3. We support one another in relationship by always being available in confidence, and by interacting only in positive, uplifting ways.
4. We understand the value of walking with Christ, and expect to be taught to nurture a personal & reflective devotional life.
5. We expect accountability via small groups.
6. We seek godliness via faithful living, prayer, study of Scripture, display of the Fruit of the Spirit and doing everything in love.
7. We seek to live lives of obedience, imitation and discipleship.
8. We participate only in choices that attend to our souls & enhance companionship with God.
9. We remember that we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
10.We nurture ourselves both as doers of the Word and as being in Christ.
11.We tune our ears, find the time, & learn to listen for God's Voice in order to respond to God's Love & Word in silence & solitude.
12.In quiet submission, we seek to learn from Christ how He wants us to live our lives.
13.We seek immersion in meditation, contemplation, reflection and journaling.
14.We seek lives of balance and moderation.
15.We seek the Heart of God & Mind of Christ.
16.Via prayer, study & reflection, we boldly seek improved communication with God.
Study Parental Discipline via Proverbs 10-31. This includes the following Proverbs, listed below in the order we will discuss them:
Proverbs 22:6; 29:15; 20:30; 22:15; 19:18; 29:17; 13:24; 23:13-14.
Afterwards, reflect upon these things:
1. We are to start a child in the right direction.
2. If done correctly, the child will adhere to that training when old.
3. The word translated "child" comes from a Hebrew word that can refer to the whole age range of children from infancy to young adulthood.
4. The King James Version says, "Train a child in the way he should go." The New Revised Standard Version says, "Train children in the right way." Which do you prefer?
5. However, the Hebrew construction can also be interpreted to mean, "Train a child according to the way he goes." What do you think of that?


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In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are up-ended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces.
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Country: USA
Language: English | Spanish
Release Date: 3 March 2017 (USA)
Filming Locations: Just outside Northern Meadows community, Rio Rancho, New Mexico
Runtime: 137 min
Starring: Boyd Holbrook, Dafne Keen, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Stephen Merchant
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: March 3, 2017


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The timezone in Bevoykollen is Europe/Oslo
Morning Sunrise at 09:10 and Evening Sunset at 15:14. It's Dark
Rough GPS position Latitude. 59.5261°, Longitude. 10.6219°
Morning Sunrise at 09:10 and Evening Sunset at 15:14. It's Dark
Rough GPS position Latitude. 59.5261°, Longitude. 10.6219°
Weather near Bevøykollen Last report from Rygge, 20.1km awaylight snow Temperature: 1°C / 34°F
Wind: 6.9km/h East/Northeast
Cloud: Solid Overcast at 1500ft
Satellite map of Bevøykollen and it's surroudings...
Geographic features & Photographs around Bevøykollen in Norway (general), Norway
farm a tract of land with associated buildings devoted to agriculture.
- Holvik (3.1km)
- Pjåken (3.8km)
- Nordre Brevik (4km)
- Rødstøa (4.1km)
- Kolås (4.1km)
- Øra (4.2km)
- Bjerkebukten (4.4km)
- Vikene (4.4km)
- Granly (4.4km)
- Kjære (4.6km)
- Store Brevik (4.7km)
- Smellingen (4.8km)
- Ingersløkka (5.1km)
- Sørlia (5.2km)
- Skjelavika (5.6km)
- Bjørnstad (6.5km)
- Brånan (6.6km)
- Skallerød (7km)
- Hermannsbråten (7.2km)
reef(s) a surface-navigation hazard composed of consolidated material.
- Bevøykollen (0km)
- Asbjørngrunnen (0.6km)
- Storholmgrunnen (1.3km)
- Lindholmgrunnen (1.9km)
- Bilekrakken (2.7km)
- Vealøsgrunnen (4.5km)
- Emmerstadbåen (7.2km)
- Langgrunnen (7.3km)
populated place a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work.
island a tract of land, smaller than a continent, surrounded by water at high water.
- Bevøya (2.1km)
- Bile (2.3km)
- Tofteholmen (4km)
- Gjøva (4.1km)
- Vealøs (4.6km)
- Ramvikholmen (5.4km)
Accommodation around Bevøykollen
Quality Resort & Spa Son Hollandveien, Vestby
Moss Hotel Dronningensgate 21, Moss
Mitt Hotell Radhusgt 3, Moss
cove(s) a small coastal indentation, smaller than a bay.
- Kjøvangbukta (2.8km)
- Vittingbukta (2.9km)
- Nesbukta (3.8km)
- Emmerstadbukta (7km)
point a tapering piece of land projecting into a body of water, less prominent than a cape.
- Sonstangen (3km)
- Bølnes (4.3km)
- Brenntangen (6.1km)
hill a rounded elevation of limited extent rising above the surrounding land with local relief of less than 300m.
- Plassåsen (4.8km)
- Husebykollen (7.1km)
farms tracts of land with associated buildings devoted to agriculture.
rock a conspicuous, isolated rocky mass.
- Sagenebåen (5.4km)
- Kopperskjeret (6.3km)
ridge(s) a long narrow elevation with steep sides, and a more or less continuous crest.
- Sonsåsen (2.8km)
peninsula an elongate area of land projecting into a body of water and nearly surrounded by water.
- Østnestangen (6.7km)
fjord a long, narrow, steep-walled, deep-water arm of the sea at high latitudes, usually along mountainous coasts.
- Mossesundet (5.1km)
cape a land area, more prominent than a point, projecting into the sea and marking a notable change in coastal direction.
- Munken (3.3km)
islands tracts of land, smaller than a continent, surrounded by water at high water.
- Saueholmane (3.4km)
factory one or more buildings where goods are manufactured, processed or fabricated.
- Sagene (5.2km)
bay a coastal indentation between two capes or headlands, larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf.
- Sonsbukta (3.6km)
stream a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land.
- Hølenelva (4.8km)
Wikipedia entries close to Bevøykollen
- Son, Norway city o city
- Filtvet city o city
- Jeløya isle isle
- Moss city i city
- Holmsbu city o city
- Kallum city o city
- Vansjø lake
- Drøbak city i city
- Horten (Norwegen) city i city
- Oscarsborg fortress landmark
- Borre Golfbane sport
- Svelvik city i city
- Rygge Air Station airport airport
- Skoppum city o city
- Oslofjord waterbody waterbody
- Gullhaug city o city
Airports close to BevøykollenOslo fornebu(FBU), Oslo, Norway (43.9km)
Torp(TRF), Torp, Norway (46km)
Skien geiteryggen(SKE), Skien, Norway (75.9km)
Oslo gardermoen(OSL), Oslo, Norway (84.3km)
Stafsberg(HMR), Hamar, Norway (155.5km)
Airfields or small strips close to BevøykollenRygge, Rygge, Norway (20.1km)
Kjeller, Kjeller, Norway (58.2km)
Notodden, Notodden, Norway (85.3km)
Arvika, Arvika, Sweden (122.9km)
Torsby, Torsby, Sweden (160.2km)


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Prep Time: 25 Minutes
Cook Time: 55 Minutes
Ready In: 1 Hour 20 Minutes
Servings: 4
"This is a yummy curry that will go very nicely with some rice and a little chutney. If you have another vegetable dish to go with it, so much the better! "
1 onion, chopped
1 tomato, chopped
1 tablespoon garam masala
1 teaspoon chilli powder
1 teaspoon poppy seeds
1 teaspoon turmeric
3 cloves garlic, chopped
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon fennel seeds
500 grams boneless mutton, cut into small pieces
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 cup water
4 green peppers, cut lengthwise and seeded
¼ teaspoon olive oil
3 tablespoons tamarind paste
¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro
1. Blend onion, tomato, garam masala, chilli powder, poppy seeds, turmeric, garlic, ginger and fennel seeds and make into paste. Marinade the mutton with the paste and keep in refrigerator for at least 3 hours.
2. Heat oil in frying pan, add the chicken and fry for about 10 minutes. Add water, bring to the boil and simmer for 40 minutes.
3. Lightly fry the green chillies separately in the balance oil and add to the chicken curry together with the tamarind paste. Mix well and cook for a further 2 minutes. Add the cilantro on top before serving.
Indian Mutton Curry
Prep Time: 25 Minutes
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Round 300 species of Octopuses are recognized. They catch their prey abruptly, utilizing camouflage, jet propulsion and the positive grip that comes with having eight arms. There was a lot of speak of foul play or the person being washed off the rocks and pulled out to sea by currents, however no one suspected in any respect that the offender might be an enormous octopus.
The main pure predators of octopuses are sharks , seals , whales and eels. This Octopus is known as a sea giant and have large bulbous heads and generally are reddish or brown colour. Octopuses usually fall on their prey, wrap it in their arms and pull the animal in the direction of its mouth the place a fearsome sturdy peak, awaits them.
Learn on to be taught eight fascinating details (that is one for every arm) about the giant Pacific octopus that may depart you keen for more. The largest giant Pacific octopus ever recorded reached up to 30 feet (9 meters) throughout and weighed 600 kilos (272 kilograms).
Many younger, larval octopuses are misplaced to predators. When threatened by predators, most octopuses launch a thick cloud of black ink, composed primarily of melanin (the identical pigment that offers human beings our skin and hair color). The sperm could travel by way of her arms to fertilize the eggs internally.
For the 1954 movie model of the novel, Disney created a two-ton mannequin squid, requiring sixteen males to operate the distant controls and 50 extra to maneuver the wires attached to tentacles. There are over 200 species of octopuses and all of them live in oceans around the globe, normally near the coral reefs.
But their our bodies have advanced in such a approach that they have to mate in the most intimate means doable: the male has to insert his sperm directly into the female's body using one of his arms. Octopuses are unusual in that their arms are radially symmetrical, yet they've bilateral brains.
He sent a digital camera-geared up, robotic submersible referred to as an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle to seek for giant squid. 8. Large Pacific Octopus are cannibals. Octopuses weren't all the time squishy creatures. The "reach" approach additionally retains the male's different seven arms free, so he can defend himself if want be, says Ross.
The Octopuses may be found in a number of places together with: Nice Barrier Reef , Mediterranean Find out more about these places and what else lives there. The general size of these Octopus actually is determined by the placement the place they stay and what they feed on there.
Giant squid dwell up to their identify: the largest giant squid ever recorded by scientists was almost 43 toes (thirteen meters) long, and will have weighed almost a ton. Scientists long thought that animals were unlikely to evolve intelligence unless they have been social (like us), so the octopus's intelligent, lonely life is something of a thriller.
In accordance with the Worldwide Union for Conservation of Nature's Crimson List of Threatened Species, most octopus species should not endangered. Many stories had been written about large octopuses lurking in the depths and attacking unwary sailors and plunging their ships with only the power of their legs.
Experiments have proven that octopuses are colour-blind, making these feats that rather more mystifying. Within the latter state of affairs, the female keeps the arm until she lays her eggs, at which period she takes the arm out and spreads the sperm over her eggs to fertilize them.
They stay to be about four years outdated, with each men and women dying quickly after breeding. 7 To avoid these dead zones, octopuses should transfer to shallower waters which can be hotter in temperature and fewer oxygen-rich, trapping the organism between two low oxygen zones.
This model of mating tends to be extra well-liked in species with shorter arms, says Huffard. Male argonaut octopuses are smaller than the females, and the male's hectocotylus merely stays intact inside the feminine's mantle "until the feminine is ready to use the sperm for fertilization", Mather says.
The eight arms come collectively on the octopus at the skirt, and the mouth sits in the heart of the skirt. On Mokil Atoll, in the Caroline Islands, Bentzen (1949) observed octopi dwelling in sand burrows, and close by, the nesting and hatching grounds of the inexperienced sea turtle (Che lonia mydas ).What would an enormous octopus eat?


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The ups and downs of singing legend Billie Holiday's life and her struggle to cope with poverty, violence, racism, alcoholism, drug abuse and childhood prostitution are brought under the spotlight in a new musical.
Rain Pryor is the Angel of Harlem in the show, which lands at Liverpool's Royal Court on Sunday, through to Tuesday.
She's the daughter of legendary black comedian Richard Pryor and a huge star in her own right in her native America.
Rain said: "I can't wait to perform in this play and become Billie Holiday.
"I've loved her music since I was a child and admire how strong she was, putting up with so much throughout her life."
"I am really looking to bringing it to Liverpool in particular as I've never been and I'm a huge fan of the Beatles!"
Louis Emerick, best known for his role as Mick Johnson in Brookside, is starring alongside her as both renowned jazz singer Paul Robeson and Billie's husband Louis McKay.
He said: "It is a big challenge because you almost have to work twice as hard to convince the audience that you are both characters.
"But these particular characters are such polar opposites, it makes them all the more fun."
The role is a particular thrill for him after being exposed to Billie Holiday's music at an early age.
"My dad was a big fan of that era and Billie Holiday was often played in our house," said Louis. 'He would have loved to see me in this.
"I am a Billie Holiday admirer. She was a really tough woman and put up with a lot in her life."
Though Louis is probably most famous for his role as Mick Johnson in Brookside – a character he played for 13 years – Louis has still been very busy in the years since he left, particularly in theatre.
The first theatre I did after I left Brookside was A Little Pinch of Chilli, which was a one man show. It made me want to continue doing plays,' he says.
"I love performing to live audiences, I get a real buzz out it. No two performances are ever the same and I really feed off the instant reactions that you get from the audience.
"I do get nerves before I go on stage but I think it's healthy to get an adrenalin rush in situations like that.
"Of course, it would be great if theatre was as well paid as television!"
The play follows Billie's journey from her upbringing in Baltimore to her worldwide success and acclaim as a jazz singer. A live jazz orchestra accompanies the musical which features classics such as God Bless the Child, Fine and Mellow, Lover Man and the politically ground-breaking Strange Fruit.


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Obelisk, Roman, AD 88/89. Granite, 351.5 cm high. Collection: Benevento, Museo del Sannio, inv. 1916
A brief history of Egyptian obelisks and their adoption in the Roman Empire on the occasion of a new conservation project.
By Sarah E. Cole / 08.08.2017
Curatorial Assistant, Antiquities Department, J. Paul Getty Museum
PhD Candidate in Ancient History, Yale University
The obelisk is an iconic symbol of ancient Egypt, second only perhaps to the pyramid. Unlike pyramids, however, Egyptian obelisks have been transported all over the world and set up in cities such as Rome, Paris, London, and New York. Now there is one in Los Angeles.
As part of the Getty's upcoming exhibition Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World (March 27–September 9, 2018), which will examine the artistic and cultural interactions between Egypt, Greece, and Rome, we are partnering with the Museo del Sannio in Benevento, Italy, to conserve a granite obelisk in its collection. We will document the conservation process here on the Iris—it's an exciting project for us both because this is the first time Getty conservators have worked on an obelisk, and because it will be the first time we'll offer our visitors the chance to see one. For this initial post, I'll share a bit of background info on the history of obelisks, an Egyptian invention that was coveted by other cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, and I'll introduce the Museo del Sannio obelisk.
Obelisks 101
An obelisk is a monumental, four-sided tapering pillar of stone topped by a pyramidion (miniature pyramid). The ancient Egyptian word for obelisk was tekhen, but we know obelisks by their Greek name, obeliskos (a humorous name meaning "little skewer"). The pyramidion (or benbenet in ancient Egyptian) could be covered in metal to reflect the sun. In fact, the monuments' significance was tied to the cult of the Egyptian sun god Re. Amazingly, each obelisk was a monolith: carved from a single piece of stone. If the stone cracked as it was being worked in the quarry, it was abandoned.
[LEFT]: Pylon and Obelisk, Luxhor, 1870, Frank M. Good. Albumen print, 16.5 cm x 21 cm. The Getty Research Institute, Ken and Jenny Jacobson Orientalist Photography Collection, 2008.R.3
[RIGHT]: Karnak, les Colosses de […], 1870s, Emile Béchard. Albumen print, 26.9 x 21.2 cm. The Getty Research Institute, Ken and Jenny Jacobson Orientalist Photography Collection, 2008.R.3
Today we may picture obelisks as lone monuments, but they usually stood as pairs before the pylon gates that marked temple entrances. Hieroglyphic inscriptions on the four sides of the stone would name the reigning pharaoh and include a dedication to the god of the temple. Obelisks are almost as old as Egypt's pharaonic history itself, with the earliest examples constructed during the Old Kingdom (c. 2686–2125 BC). Pharaohs continued erecting obelisks for over two millennia, until the arrival of the Romans in Egypt in the first century BC.
Mummy Wrapping with Text and Vignette with Obelisks, Egyptian, 3rd-1st century BC. Linen. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 83.AI.47.1.1
Obelisks in Ancient Rome
In 31 BC, the Roman general Octavian (later known as emperor Augustus) defeated his rival Marc Antony and the Ptolemaic queen Cleopatra VII in a naval battle that led to the pair's suicide. Egypt was then annexed as a province of the nascent Roman Empire. The Romans, fascinated with the exotic art and religion of Egypt, took a large number of Egyptian sculptures, including obelisks, to Rome to decorate public spaces and private villas. Egyptian art dotted the Roman landscape. Emperors often displayed the obelisks on new pedestals bearing their own names in Latin, thus appropriating the monuments for themselves.
Roman artists also liked to represent obelisks as a decorative device, often to evoke an Egyptian setting. The transportation of actual obelisks to Rome and their depictions in Roman art were part of the process of claiming them—and, by extension, claiming Egypt—as a Roman possession.
Cameo Flask with Egyptianizing Scene, Roman. 25 BC–AD 25, Glass, 3 in. high. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 85.AF.84. Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program
A delicate Roman cameo glass flask at the Getty Villa shows a scene of Egyptian cultic ritual that includes an obelisk with an imitation hieroglyphic inscription, next to which stands a man in pharaonic costume approaching an altar.
Ivory Token, obverse (left) and reverse (right), early 1st century AD, Roman. Ivory, 1 1/8 in. diam. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 79.AI.169, Gift of Marshall and Ruth Goldberg
On an ivory gaming token in the Villa, a large obelisk stands before an Egyptian temple. A Greek inscription on the back of the disc names Nikopolis, a district of Alexandria, Egypt. We might even know which specific obelisk is represented here, because Augustus is known to have brought an obelisk from its original location in Heliopolis (near modern Cairo) to Nikopolis. It was then taken to Rome by the emperor Caligula around AD 37 and now stands in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. (There will be more on the story of this particular obelisk in my next post.)
Engraved Gem, 2nd–4th century AD, Roman. Bloodstone, 5/8 × 1/2 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 84.AN.1.76. Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program
An obelisk also appears on one of the Getty's many engraved gems, standing before an Egyptian figure who wears a kilt and an oversized lotus headdress and raises his hands in a gesture of worship. The gem served as a magical amulet, thought to provide protection to the owner (See more on magical gems here). The inscription in Greek letters reads IAW ("Yahweh").
The Romans had such an appetite for obelisks that they not only took them from Egypt, but also carved new ones. They used Egyptian granite, including the especially popular pinkish stone from the quarries at Aswan in the far south. It is unclear whether the obelisks were shipped to Rome in a partially carved state—to be finished by a Roman sculptor—or fully carved and inscribed in Egypt and then exported to Rome. Some Roman obelisks were left uninscribed, while others have legible hieroglyphic inscriptions that could be either copies of existing Egyptian texts or new compositions. They were typically made on a smaller scale than Egyptian obelisks, the largest surviving example of which is over 32 meters tall (brought to Rome from Egypt, it can be found near the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran). One of the tallest Roman obelisks (16.5 meters) was placed atop Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers in Rome's Piazza Navona in 1651.
The Fountain of Four Rivers, Piazza Navona, Rome, 1650, Louis Rouhier, printmaker. Etching and engraving, 49.3 x 37.2 cm. The Getty Research Institute, Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt print collection of views of Rome, P850003. Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program
Like the Museo del Sannio obelisk, the obelisk on Bernini's fountain was carved during the reign of emperor Domitian (AD 81–96), a member of the Flavian dynasty, a family known for its fondness for the Egyptian gods Isis and Serapis.
The Benevento Obelisks
Benevento is a city northeast of Naples in southern Italy. During Domitian's reign, a sanctuary of Isis was built there. Isis had become popular throughout the Roman Empire and her temples were often decorated with Egyptian objects or Roman sculpture made in the Egyptian style. In AD 88/89, a man named Lutilius Rupus commissioned two granite obelisks for the Benevento temple. One currently stands in the Piazza Papiniano in Benevento, while the other is in the collection of the Museo del Sannio.
The Museo del Sannio obelisk shown under raking light. Compare this to the image at the top of the post, seen under overhead artificial light. When viewed under raking light, the obelisk's inscription pops. The obelisk would originally have stood outdoors and been viewed under natural sunlight. Collection: Benevento, Museo del Sannio
Each of the two obelisks bears a hieroglyphic inscription written in the Middle Egyptian language. The inscriptions name Lutilius Rupus and provide a dedication to Isis, the "Lady of Benevento," in honor of Domitian. Domitian's titles appear in cartouches (rings that encircled a pharaoh's official names).
The cartouches of Domitian on the Museo del Sannio obelisk. The cartouche on the left is a phonetic rendering of the word autokrator (emperor). The cartouche on the right is the hieroglyphic version of Domitian's name. Collection: Benevento, Museo del Sannio
We don't know whether the obelisks were carved in Egypt or Italy, though the well-composed text could be the work of an Egyptian scribe. The pink hue of the granite suggests that it came from Aswan. These monuments are a fascinating case study in Egyptian-style sculpture created specifically for a Roman setting at the request of a Roman patron.
Next Steps in Conservation
Conservator Erik Risser and graduate intern William Shelley prepare to create a temporary, removable interface between the underside of the obelisk and the separately carved base in order to stabilize them prior to treatment. Collection: Benevento, Museo del Sannio
The Museo del Sannio obelisk is broken into two sections and is missing its upper portion and pyramidion (all told, about 170 centimeters of its original height are lost). Its internal pinning system and external treatment with plaster-covered masonry (the orange sections you see in the photographs) need to be updated. Over the coming months, Getty Museum conservator Erik Risser will address its structural stability and consider what aesthetic work is appropriate to bring the monument closer to its original grandeur, using its twin in the Piazza Papiniano and my own research on the two obelisks' ancient and modern histories as guides. We will also be studying the hieroglyphic inscription closely as we work together with Egyptologist Luigi Prada from the University of Oxford, who is preparing an updated translation for the catalogue of the exhibition.
The first step in this process was, of course, transporting the obelisk to Los Angeles and setting it up in the Villa's conservation labs. Later this year I'll be back to explore how engineers have solved the problem of moving these monoliths, from antiquity to the present day.


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July 10th
Today is our first complete day in El Salvador! I even woke up to spanish music this morning. We enjoyed a wonderful breakfast then burned it all off in the gym. After a dip in the pool, we ventured out into the city! Estaba bien bonito! We went to the mercados de Artesanias and bought a bunch of souvenirs and goodies. After shopping, we ate at a local restaurant. Era muy delicioso! I could definitely get used to eating spanish food :) Upon arriving back at the hotel, we met some fellow conference goers from the Dominican Republic. Now we are playing Pass the Pig, hanging out, and enjoying the view. We will be going out to dinner with some of the people from the conference later tonight!


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We were pleased to have been asked to provide the Wedding Film for the We Fell In Love (Scotland's Wedding Blog) Fairytale Wedding competition, and even more pleased when we found out that Lois & Matthew had won! (They got a seriously mahoosive amount of votes!)
They just stood out for us as the most deserving and most genuine couple going in the competition, and Yvonne & I were so excited to film their truly fairytale day!
You can read all about the build up to the wedding over at the WFIL Blog, but for now here's a chance to see their wedding trailer
Their full film is going to be a proper cracker, and I can't wait to share that with you in the next couple of months.
Lois & Matthew, thank you for being such a lovely couple, it's been great getting to know you and we're delighted to have been part of your awesome day!
Steve & Yvonne