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Come Over And Help Us Series
Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Oct 9, 2016 (message contributor)
Summary: Paul received a vision of a man from Macedonia imploring him to "Come over and help us." He and his team immediately went, changing the course of history. What the church needs today is a fresh call to spread the Gospel.
Come Over and Help Us
Acts Series
Chuck Sligh
October 9, 2016
TEXT: Acts 16:9-10 – "And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. 10 And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them."
"Praying Hyde," a missionary in India, prayed, "Father, give me these souls, or I die." Hyde had an insatiable desire to reach people for the kingdom of God.
Once we find Christ in salvation, too many of us lose our zeal to share Christ with others. We get comfortable hanging around with the brethren instead of looking for ways to share Christ to those without Him.
Church family, we must always have a vision of the harvest fields. We need to regularly rekindle in our hearts a burden for those who are not in God's family; who have not experienced God's grace; who do not have eternal life and "life more abundantly"; who have not tasted of forgiveness and acceptance from God. We must say, like Praying Hyde, "Father, give us souls, or we die."
Now, when you look at the life of Paul, you see a man who, like Praying Hyde, was consumed with shining the light of the Gospel in this dark world. We see it over and over again in the book of Acts, and it is in clear focus in today's text.
I would like for us to look at four things in our text that I hope will stir our hearts about those who need the saving story of the Savior.
I. FIRST, IN OUR TEXT, WE SEE THE VISION – Acts 16:9a – "And a vision appeared to Paul in the night…"
Paul had a supernatural vision of a man beckoning, "Come over into Macedonia and help us." We don't need a vision today in the sense of a supernatural experience like Paul had here. But we do need a vision in the sense of having a mission, a goal, a direction for our church and for our lives.
Proverbs 29:18 says "Where there is no vision, the people perish…"
God's people move when they get a vision—but they languish in flowery beds of ease when they don't have a vision—when they don't clearly see God's mission and their part in it.
Why is this church here? Why are we here as a people of God? Why are you here individually? What is your mission? Why did God leave you here on this earth?
If we as a church and as individuals believers cannot answer those questions, then we lack vision and are destined to wander aimlessly in this life.
Here's what God wants you to do on this earth, and here's the mission of this church: In Matthew 28:19-20 Jesus commanded, "Go ye therefore, and teach [lit. "make disciples of"] all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." – God has called you and me, and this church collectively, to share the Gospel of Christ and send the Gospel of Christ to every corner of the earth, so that people can come to faith in Christ and then are baptized and discipled and brought to spiritual maturity so that they too can carry on the mission of the church.
God help each of us, and our church as a whole, to have a vision to go forth and accomplish the mission of the church—to win, baptize and teach.
II. SECOND, OUR TEXT TELLS US OF A PLEADING VOICE – Acts 16:9b – "…There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us."
Notice that it was the voice of a man. Why a man, a person, a human being? Why wasn't it the voice of an angel or the voice of God Himself?
I believe it was a man in Paul's vision because God wants to impress upon us that our focus ought to be on PEOPLE.…
• Not primarily on the pursuit of fun and entertainment. – Someone once said, "Only one life, twill soon be past. Only what's done for Christ will last."
• Not primarily on making and accumulating money. – Why pour all your investments only in things that will not last?
• Not primarily on material things either.
Illus. – I've shared many times the story of Missionary James Rodehorst who dropped by my office when I pastored in Wiesbaden. When I entered, I asked, "What's up, Brother?"
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Since the discovery of the platelet activating factor (PAF) , a number of investigations have been devoted to developing it for the medical applications. Along with them, increasing interest has centered on the anti-PAF active agent (PAF antagonist) , and so their research is currently the most challenging problem in pharmacology. As part of our continuing program in search of biologically active sulfur and nitrogen containing heterocycles, we made the synthetic study on the following subjects : (1) Reactivity and relative stereoselectivity (cis/trans) in the construction of thiazolidin-4-ones through the cyclo-condensation reaction ; (2) Relative stereoselectivity in the allylation reaction of the 5-position of the thiazolidin-4-one ; (3) Syntheses of four optically active isomers of the two representative compounds to clarify the stereostructure-activity relationship ; (4) Regioselective epimerization of the 5-position of the thiazolidin-4-ones promoted by bases ; (5) Highly stereoselective synthesis of the anti-platelet activating factor, 4-thiazolidinones using silyl derivatives of 2-mercaptoalkanoic acids ; and (6) Syntheses of perhydro-1,3,4-thiadiazin-5-ones and 3- (arylamino) thiazolidin-4-ones by the regioselective cyclo-condensation of 2-sulfanylalkanoic acids or their silyl esters with methyl and phenyl hydrazones.These results prompted us to extend general synthetic studies "effectively utilizing the activation of the silicon-heteroatom bond ; (1) Mild, effective and selective method for the silylation of alcohols using silazanes promoted by catalytic tetrabutylammonium fluoride ; (2) Mild and practical method for the silylation of alcohols using hydrosilanes and disilanes promoted by TBAF catalyst ; and (3) Direct and electrophilic preparation of alpha-thiocyanatoketones and aldehydes using thiocyanatotrimethylsilane and sulfuryl chloride.
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- Spring Revival, Robert Johnson of Benton Harbor, evangelist and speaker; 7 p.m. today and Friday, Believers Church of God in Christ, 2049 Prairie Ave., South Bend.
- Parish Mission, the Rev. Angelus M. Shaughnessy of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, speaker; Masses, 4:30 p.m. May 2, 8:30 and 11 a.m. May 3, and 9 a.m. May 4-6; evening presentations, 7 p.m. May 3-5; reception following Mass, 7 p.m. May 6; St. Mary of the Annunciation Catholic Church, 411 W. Vistula St., Bristol. For information, call (574) 848-4305. He will hear confessions at 3 p.m. and before and after each Mass on May 2 and May 4-5, and after evening presentations May 3-5. For information, call (574) 848-4305.
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- Â?God Renews the Right Spirit,Â? annual Deaconess Ministry Day program, Janice Haygood of Pilgrim Baptist Church, speaker; 4 p.m. May 3, Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church, 116 N. Birdsell St., South Bend.
- 2009 Run for the Sun, a 100-mile sponsored ride to raise funds for the Christian Motorcyclists Association to Â?spread the light of JesusÂ?; 11 a.m. May 2, Eagles Lodge No. 435, 61601 Ironwood Road, South Bend. Registration will be from 9 to 10:45 a.m. May 2. Cost is $15 per single or $20 per couple. Ride leaves rain or shine. For information or to sponsor a rider, call (269) 684-2548. Coffee and doughnuts before the ride and lunch provided after the ride.
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- Annual Community Prayer Breakfast of the United Religious Community, 7:30 a.m. May 7, Hilton Garden Inn, 53995 Indiana 933, South Bend. Cost is $25 for individual seats or $180 for a table of eight. To register by May 1, call (574) 282-2397
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How fascinated we all are by these half human, half fish creatures they call as mermaids, and how immensely wonderful it would be if we could turn ourselves and our loved ones into mermaids. With the amazing Photoshop tricks that are taught here, you can actually do that in a snap. And the fun just doesn't just end there. There's so much more you can do with the help of a number of such interesting and immensely helpful Photoshop tutorials.
Here's how you can change a woman into a mermaid in 20 easy steps:
Step 1
Take an image of a woman reclining on a chair and open in Photoshop. Please respect copyright laws.
Step 2
Select Pen Tool to create a path around her.
Step 3
Convert the path into a selection by pressing (Ctrl+Enter) and copy (Ctrl+J) the Layer 1. Go to Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal.
Step 4
Take an image of a fish with and open in Photoshop. Select Pen Tool to create a path around it. Convert the path into a selection by pressing (Ctrl+Enter). Copy (Ctrl+C) the selection.
Step 5
Paste (Ctrl+V) the selected image on the woman's image. Go to Edit > Transform > Warp.
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Use Eraser Tool to erase the extra portion.
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Go to Image > Adjustment > Hue / Saturation and set the values of Hue and Saturation as shown in the screenshot. Copy (Ctrl+J) the scales and go to Image > Adjustment > Hue / Saturation and set the values of Hue = 180 and Saturation = 80 to give the scales a bluish tinge.
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Copy (Ctrl+J) the scales and drag the copied layer onto the woman's upper body. Go to Edit > Transform > Warp as shown in the screenshot.
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Thursday, July 27, 2006
Oh Bliss!
This story says that Kiefer Sutherland, whom I adore as Jack Bauer, is guest voicing on the Simpsons this coming season. He'll play an Army Colonel. As Homer would say, "Woo hoo!"
For those who can't bear waiting, the article also lists other luminaries scheduled to guest voice.
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Organizational Structure of Apple, Inc.
Sylvestor Taylor
Organizational Structure Paper
The organizational structure of the company can determine how successful the business is run. Organizational structure refers to the inner workings of the company such as decisions being made. This can be determined either by hierarchy or departmentalization. Apple is a company that has a successful organizational structure determined by Steve Jobs who passed in October of 2011. Apple's organizational structure is a combination of both vertical and horizontal. Apple's infrastructure has been molded and molded again to fit the needs of the huge multi-billion dollar company.
Apple began as a small business in 1976 with Steve Jobs and his partner Steve Wozniak by building computers in the garage of Job's home. After successfully selling the Apple I, Jobs knew that he wanted to create a huge corporation. Through the years job perfected his ideas of how the company should be ran as leading CEO. Jobs was a part of every decision ever being made up until his passing. The type of organization structure that Jobs has created within Apple is the vertical structure with characteristics of a horizontal structure. The vertical structure consists of hierarchy with decisions being made from the top. "He's a corporate dictator who makes every critical decision -- and oodles of seemingly noncritical calls too, from the design of the shuttle buses that ferry employees to and from San Francisco to what food will be served in the cafeteria" (Lashinsky, 2011). No decision being made is without the CEO's approval and input.
Apple has a very consistent way of doing things which has made them very successful. Before Steve Jobs passed they had a system. The system required that all upper level management positions were required to go through Steve Jobs for approval of any and all decisions. The top management positions include; COO, CFO, legal, design, hardware, iOS software, operations, retail, software engineering, product marketing, and global communications. Each of these high management positions is in charge of different departments where the employees of these departments report back to them. The different departments broken down yet again include but not limited to; global communications from different parts of the world with each different country having their own department reporting back to the global communications manager, iPhone and Ipad marketing and internet services reporting back to the product marketing manager, and other different departments that report back to various other department managers (Clark, 2009).
According to Management: Leading & collaborating in a competitive world by Bateman and Snell, Apple's internal structure clearly depicts key fundamentals of an organizational structure with differentiation, integration, specialization, and division of labor being the key ingredients in the way Apple's organizational structure is run (Bateman, Snell, 2011). Although these are the key ingredients to any organizational structure with the way all decisions being made come from the top and each different manager reporting back to Jobs' hierarchy is clearly in place here. Apple's organizational structure is centralized. A centralized organization is "An organization in which high-level executives make most decisions and pass them down to lower levels for implementation" (Bateman and Snell, 2011, p.285). Steve Jobs and even now with the newly appointed CEO Tim Cooke make all the decisions are a part of every aspect of Apple from the creative process to customer service.
Apple's organization structure is that very similar to other companies. Two such companies that have similar structures would be Microsoft and Dell. Microsoft's organizational structure is broken down like that of Apple's with a board of directors, than senior management which is broken down into different functions with each having its own...
References: Bateman, T. S., & Snell, S. A. (2011). Management: Leading & collaborating in a competitive world (9th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Irwin.
Clark, D. (2009). Apple incorporated. (Master 's thesis, Appalachian State University) Retrieved from http://www.appstate.edu/~eb74040/Documents/Research/ApplePaper.pdf
Lashinsky, A. (2011, August 25). How apple works: Inside the world 's biggest startup. Retrieved from http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/08/25/how-apple-works-inside-the-worlds-biggest-startup/
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Patagonia Lakes & Glaciers
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- Visit enchanting Bariloche & the Lakes Region of Argentina.
- Explore Los Glaciares National Park and trek on The Perito Moreno Glacier.
- Discover the End of the World: Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego.
2 to 3 passengers: $3,479 per person double occupancy 4 to 6 passengers: $2,980 per person double occupancy
Single Supplement: $800
- International flights.
- Flights in Argentina (Buenos Aires/Bariloche/El Calafate/Ushuaia/Buenos Aires). Cost will be about $1,000 in economy.
- Drinks during meals. Other meals and services not mentioned in itinerary.
- Personal expenses.
Day 1: Buenos AiresBuenos Aires, Argentina
Welcome at the airport and transfer to your hotel. In the afternoon you will enjoy a private tour visiting four distinct neighborhoods and plazas of Buenos Aires (Plaza de Mayo, Parque Lezama and La Boca, Plaza San Martin and Recoleta) to learn about the city and its people, commonly called "porteños". Lodging for two nights in Buenos Aires.
Day 2: Buenos AiresBuenos Aires, Argentina
Day at leisure to enjoy the city on your own. (B)
Day 3: Buenos Aires/ BarilocheBariloche, Patagonia, Argentina
Breakfast. Transfer to the airport to take your flight to Bariloche. In the afternoon, your guide will take you on the "Circuito Chico" excursion that starts on Bustillo Avenue and continues along the shores of Nahuel Huapi lake, Huemul Island and Playa Bonita, until arriving at Llao Llao village, where you will visit the chapel and the traditional Llao Llao Hotel. Later you will go to Cerro Campanario and you'll have the chance of taking the cable car to marvel at the spectacular views from atop the hill (optional) (Excursion lasts about 3 hours). Lodging for three nights in Bariloche. (B)
Day 4: BarilocheBariloche, Patagonia, Argentina
Today you will enjoy a boat excursion on the Nahuel Huapi to Victoria Island and Arrayanes Forest. The excursion starts at Pañuelo Port, 25 km away from the city, opposite Llao Llao Hotel (transfer included). After sailing for 40 minutes on the Nahuel Huapi Lake, you will land at Anchorena Port, located in the centre of the Victoria island. You will have an amazing view of Anchorena Bay. You'll have time to walk to the panoramic point located at Monte Bella Vista and be able to see the whole area of Llao Llao and Pañuelo. Other options are a stroll to Gross Port or a visit to rupestrian pictures and Playa del Toro. After sailing for some minutes, you will reach the Arrayanes Forest located at the Quetrihue Peninsula. Walking along a 600m path, you will observe a beautiful forest of magnificent arrayan trees, considered to be unique in the world for its characteristics. Return in the evening to Bariloche. Lodging. (B)
Day 5: Bariloche – Villa La AngosturaBariloche, Patagonia, Argentina
Today you will enjoy a full day panoramic excursion to the Enchanted Valley, with its curious formations, Lake Traful and the little village of Traful. You'll drive back bordering the Nahuel Huapi Lake and you will visit Villa La Angostura before returning to Bariloche. (B)
Day 6: Bariloche/ Los Glaciares National Park. El CalafateEl Calafate, Patagonia, Argentina
Transfer to the airport to take your flight to El Calafate (private transfer). Reception at the airport and transfer to your hotel: El Galpon del Glaciar (Estancia Alice). Later, you will enjoy a visit of the ranch, sheep shearing demonstration, and dinner and folk show. Lodging for two nights at Hotel El Galpon del Glaciar or hotel in town of similar category. (B, D)
Day 7: Los Glaciares National ParkLos Glaciares National Park, Patagonia, Argentina
After breakfast you will depart to visit Los Glaciares National Park. This park of 600.000 hectares (2,300 square miles) has thirteen glaciers that flow into the Argentino and Viedma lakes. Perito Moreno Glacier, is one of the few glaciers in the world that is still progressing. It is only 500 ft above sea level, which makes it very accessible, allowing one to stand in front of a mountain of ice that measures 60 m (180 ft) by 5 km (2.5 miles). The constant fall of huge towers of ice from its walls and into the lake is an unforgettable spectacle.
Trekking Expedition: You will board a boat to cross Argentino Lake. You will land on an isolated beach and hike on the glacier (no additional equipment, or previous experience required). Picnic lunch at the park. In the evening, return to your hotel in El Calafate. Dinner at the hotel. (B,L,D)
Day 8: Calafate / UshuaiaUshuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
Breakfast. Transfer to the airport to take your flight to Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego. Arrival and transfer to your hotel. Lodging at Hotel Tolkeyen, Hotel Los Ñires or similar. (B)
Day 9: Ushuaia- Tierra Del FuegoTierra del Fuego National Park, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
Today you will go west for a hiking excursion to Tierra del Fuego National Park. You will likely see the Magellanic woodpeckers, the largest in South America, Austral parakeets, black-chested buzzard eagles and Andean Condors. Lunch in the park. Lodging in Ushuaia. (B,L)
Day 10: Ushuaia / Buenos AiresUshuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
Arrival in Ushuaia. Private transfer to the airport to take your flight to Buenos Aires. Arrival and transfer to your hotel. In the evening you will enjoy a tango show and dinner at Esquina Homero Manzi. (B,D)
Day 11: Buenos AiresBuenos Aires, Argentina
Morning at leisure. In the evening, transfer to the airport to take your flight back to Buenos Aires. Arrival and transfer to Ezeiza International Airport to take your flight back to USA or your country of residence. (B)
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Motivated Seller. Bring offers. This attractive cape cod style two story house is located in the fast growing NW area of St Johns County. The 1st floor presents a master ensuite with sitting area in front of the bay window, hallway 1/2bath, over-sized combo family-room warmed by a cozy fireplace and beamed ceilings. The kitchen has wood flooring, stainless combo microwave/oven,electric cooktop & vented hood, eat in kitchen space & separate laundry room. Your three car garage has full floored attic space for ample storage. The 2nd fl has three spacious bedrooms with one shared bath.The neighborhood homes are all on 3 acre lots. Approximately 4 miles to shopping, A-rated schools, 30 minutes to the beach, and 10 min to St. Johns River,30 Min to downtown Jacksonville or historic St. Augustine.
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Outrè's Liquid Nitrogen Gelato and Prawn Mac N' Cheese
I've been living in BF Homes my whole life, and the amount of restaurants with interesting gimmicks popping up like wild mushrooms in Aguirre Ave. never ceases to amaze me.
One such place is Outrè (ooh-tray, not out-tray) Manila, located at 169 A. Aguirre Ave. BF Homes, right across Tous Les Jours. The word "outrè" is French for "unconventional" or "bizarre," and as the name suggests, what makes them different and strangely appealing is that they use liquid nitrogen to make their gelato. You basically pour the liquid nitrogen (slowly, to maintain a smooth consistency) onto a mixer with milk and whatever flavor and stir consistently until you get the desired thickness. All the smoke that comes out of that mixer looks so cool.
My friends and I ordered an ice cream each, while I added the Prawn Mac N' Cheese just to satisfy my curiosity.
Their crafted liquid nitrogen gelato comes in premium (Php150.00) and regular (Php130.00) flavors, which change every month. I was expecting something like Amici's gelato (before it became CaraMia) or Wendy's Frosty – thick, rich, and creamy – but I didn't get that. If you do not consider the fact that it was made with liquid nitrogen, the ice cream isn't that special.
The Prawn Mac N' Cheese (Php255.00) was meh, for lack of a better word. Too expensive for a small dish with not enough cheese (I like 'em really cheesy) and a few pieces of shrimp. Macaroni was cooked al dente, tho.
Unfortunately, Outre did not live up to its buzz and it's sad because the place looks really nice (those liquid nitrogen tanks at the corner of the room that spout smoke that crawls on the floors are so f*cking cool) and the people are friendly. But yeah, I'd rather just get myself a Frosty.
Location: JJACC Bldg., 169 Aguirre Ave., BF Homes, Parañaque
Contact Number: (02) 8322990
Store Hours: 1 PM to 10 PM (Mon-Thurs, Sun), 1 PM to 11 PM (Fri-Sat)
Cuisine: Australian (sangers and liquid nitrogen gelato)
Price Range: Php350~
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Gold Note Bellagio Conquest Black King
The Bellagio Conquest Black King is the limited edition, ultimate evolution of the best turntable ever designed by Gold Note featuring some great innovations adding the unique technical details of the Bellagio Conquest introduced during the end of 2013. The Bellagio Conquest Black King is available in a total black look having the following key features:
High Mass structure
The Bellagio Conquest Black King features 120 Kilos super high mass structure. The upper part of the structure is leveled on a triple multiple plinth handles integrates three adjustable engraved aluminium semi rigid spring covers allow a super fine user friendly fine-tuning. The main structure is also leveled on adjustable acrylic feet enable a perfect rocker arm axis set up.
Thirteen Different Curved Plinths
The Conquest is the only turntable that features thirteen all different each other curved plinths enabling maximum stiffness and indeformability and allowing the best resonance feedback control. Plinths are interfaced with different thickness titanium spacers joined each other with specially curved machined solid block aluminium and extra large feet.
The Longest Platter Spindle on Ceramic high precision 4,7mm reinforced ball bearing
The Bellagio Conquest Black King features a 270 mm long spindle, the longest platter ever made for a turntable. The spindle is made of the hardest carbon steel C40 alloy hardened with a boiling oil process, rectified and polished to guarantee the best smoothest rotation. The bearing is made of bronze polished to get a 1/100-millimeter matching tolerance with the long spindle. The amazing length of the turntable spindle guarantees the smoothest platter rotation available and force distribution control along the spindle axis to enhance unsurpassed audio performance.
Two Tone-Arms for Exclusive Flexibility
The Bellagio Conquest Black King exclusively features two tone-arms installed on a shaped high mass structure with 20mm dedicated 6082 aluminium alloy engraved arm board able to handle both 12" and 9" long arms.
The Only Turntable With Power Control and Hourglass Shaped Motor Pulley
The Conquest is the only turntable that features a power control generator based on PWM technology – Pulse Width Modulation. The PWM power drive generates the power AC-DC-AC enabling the best coupling of the two AC semi-wave for a perfect coupling literally annulling any motor resistance or vibration and allowing the highest motor torque at the same time. The Bellagio Conquest Black King features a massive three transformers power supply to control the best the energy to achieve the highest audio performance. The Black King also features a new anti-resonating dampened hourglass shaped motor pulley to stop transmission belt vibration. The new pulley is precisely machined and polished to achieve perfect smoothest walls guaranteeing a great low rotational noise and durability of the belt.
High-End Turntable With Remote Control
The Conquest is the only high-end audio turntable featuring a remote control. The remote allows the control of all the main functions: ON/OFF, speed change, speed control and power control.
A Power Control System for Your Music
The Conquest is the only turntable that features a unique "power control system" allowing to control the torque of the motor to finely adjust the turntable "musical character". Powering the motor with a lower torque is indicated to play, for instance, ancient or chamber string music where details strongly matter, while the maximum torque is indicated for rock or symphonic music enabling more dynamic. The power control system is conveniently performed by the remote control to let the listener adjust the way to play the turntable directly from his listening point.
Main features: high mass 120kg turntable made of massive floorstanding structure with 270mm long platter spindle and fully adjustable high torque AC motor.
Wow & Flutter: 0,02%
Rumble: -85dB
Speed: 33-1/3 and 45 rpm +/-0,1%
Speed changing: electronic fully remotable with fine pitch control
Transmission: 70 shores elasticity rectified black polyvinyl belt & anti resonating hourglass pulley
Motor: 12V High Torque synchronous triple external power supply
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A friend of mine recently took me out to coffee and asked me some homeschool questions. The one I had the hardest time with was "What does your day look like?" Hmmm what does one day look like? Our days are so different, each one takes on it's own life. We run with things as they come up and leap from topic to topic to project as the kids come up with things they want to do. We do have some structure as its needed to help the house run smoothly and the little girls really thrive knowing what to do when.
So as all days are different here is a general guide of what we do in a day
These things happen everyday, mostly in this order:
Animal Chores
Morning Chores
Chapter Book reading (We are currently reading Swiss Family Robinson)
Afternoon Chores
More Book Reading (sometimes)
Kitchen Clean-Up and 15 minute tidy
Bedtime for the Littles
Bedtime for the Bigs
Family Devotional (time varies between AM or PM depending on when Dad is home that day)
What happens every week:
Karate, Cub Scouts (with Pink Troop), 4H Meetings (2x month), Church,
What do we do in-between? That depends. Here are some things each kid is working on this year:
Madeline ~ At her request she has a full on curriculum this year. She is using Calvert and she loves it. She does what she feels like and usually works till lunch time. Some days it's several lessons in a few subjects and other days its one lesson of each subject. Maddy is also working on her 4H poultry project, a Coop Tender Poultry book through the ABA/APA, 4H Veterinary Science and, 4H photography curriculum. She also has a Horse curriculum. She spends a lot of time reading, playing with her siblings, going on hikes with Dad, she loves to cook, bake, and do crafts. She loves painting and drawing. She rides her bike and swims. Everyday she works with her 4H animals. She grooms them, clips their nails, cleans their coops, etc. Weekly she attends Karate, 4H, Church, and has sleepovers whenever she can with friends. A new addition is a mother/daughter Bible Study that both her and I are working through together.
Michael ~ will usually do some writing, some reading, some math and then he is off to play. He is also working through the 4H Entomology (insects) Curriculum as well as working on his 4H rabbit project this year. His reading work involves some phonics and reading out loud. He initiated the interest in learning to read this year and I couldn't have been happier. He went from tears to I am going to read a chapter book in really the span of a few days. He loves to build things and is working through the different activities in his Cub Scout book. He spends time each day with his rabbits. He loves to help in the garden and has his own garden box that he tends too. He likes to go on walks whenever he can around the neighborhood. He plays a lot with Marah and likes to swim or ride bikes. Weekly he attends Karate, Cub Scouts, 4H, and Church. He is my audio visual kid so he loves playing computer games (StarCraft is a favorite) and LEGO.com He also loves animals so watches documentaries through Netflix a lot.
Marah ~ She is technically in kindergarten this year. I feel about kindergarten pretty much how I feel about preschool. Let them hang out with you all day and they will learn everything plus some. She wants to do everything her big siblings do. So she has a handwriting book, a nature book, etc. We read lots of books, do lots of baking, and tons of crafts. She is outside as much as possible, living and learning. She works with her 4H rabbits and chickens. She is doing both projects this year. She also has her own garden box. She spends time playing games with Naomi, loves to swim and ride her bike.
Naomi ~ Is only four. Legally in the state we are in we don't have to register with our districts until age 8. Naomi just plays, she does what 4 years old's do best. She gets muddy, she pretends, she dumps, and pours, and paints, and blows bubbles. She mimics her siblings, and copies her mom. She mixes and bakes, and colors, and does playdough. She digs in the garden and saves worms. She feeds the chickens and collects eggs. She excels at 4 year old.
So that is it. That is what we do. We don't have a school year, we do this year round. The kids work through curriculum when they want to and they take a break when they want to. We take breaks when the house needs a clean up day or some one's attitude needs some work. We do group projects and blow up volcano's, we go on field trips, and we read together a lot. The library is one of our most used resources. So Welcome to our homeschool ~ where we live life together and learn while we do it.


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I'm not sure if it is the teacher in me, mom of young kids in me or the kid at heart in me….but I love the freshness "Back to School" brings. Freshly sharpened pencils and crisp folders are telltale signs of that school bell about to ring. New school duds are another signpost of the coveted first day. Ever since my first "1st Day of School," my mom did and still continues to buy a special first day outfit for me. I'm glad it has been a tradition I'll never be too old for. I can get by with it, simply because I still will encounter a "1st Day of School" as a teacher now and for years to come.
With all of this "new and fresh" talk, you mind find yourself questioning my motive, as a typical "old junk" fanatic. I'm excited to share a peek into my own home with my annual "Back to School" decorating, showcased in our dining room. A few autumn staples, such as Indian corn and pumpkins made their debut, along with the vintage school decor. You'll also notice photos nestled into the vintage motif. These snapshots showcase our family's own first "1st Day of School" photos, often prompting great suppertime conversation. My husband's scared little face, with his yarn-adorned bus tag gets me every time. I still cannot look at Ethan's first day photo without welling up.
It is my hope this post inspires you to relive your first day of school memories or begin new traditions of your own. Even if the roller skates on the table seem a bit too daring to try, I still would encourage you to dig out your first day photos from the years gone by (for a chuckle, at least).
In the words of Billy Madison:
I've Got My Lunch Packed Up,
My Boots Tied Tight,
I Hope I Don't Get In A Fight
Back To School
What "Back to School" traditions or decorating do you do? Comment below.


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Karl Gützlaff
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Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff, anglicized as Charles Gutzlaff, (8 July 1803–9 August 1851) was a German missionary to the Far East, notable as one of the first Protestant missionaries in Bangkok, Thailand and for his books about China. He was one of the first Protestant missionaries in China to dress like a Chinese. His Chinese name was ??? (pinyin: Gu? Shílà) or ??? (pinyin: Gu? Shìlì) - Gutzlaff Street in Hong Kong was named after him.
Born at Pyritz, Pomerania, he was apprenticed to a saddler in Stettin, but was able to secure admission to Padagogium in Halle, and associated himself with the Janike Institute in Berlin.
The Netherlands Missionary Society sent him to Java in 1826, where he learned Chinese. Gutzlaff left the society in 1828, and went first to Singapore, then to Bangkok with Jacob Tomlin of the London Missionary Society, where he worked on a translation of the Bible into Thai. He made a brief trip to Singapore in December 1829, where he married a single English missionary Maria Newell. The two returned to Bangkok in February 1830 where they worked on a dictionary of Cambodian and Lao, but she and their baby daughter died in August (or February?) 1831, before it was completed.
Soon after Gutzlaff went to Macao, and then to Hong Kong, where he worked on a Chinese translation of the Bible, published a Chinese-language magazine, Eastern Western Monthly Magazine, and wrote Chinese-language books on practical subjects. In 1834 he published Journal of Three Voyages along the Coast of China in 1831, 1832 and 1833. Along the way he handed out tracts which had been prepared by another pioneer missionary to China, Robert Morrison.
In 1840, a group of four people (Walter Henry Medhurst, Charles Gutzlaff, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, and John Robert Morrison) cooperated to translate the Bible into Chinese. The translation of the Hebrew part was done mostly by Gutzlaff , with the exception that the Pentateuch and the book of Joshua were done by the group collectively. This translation, completed in 1847, is very famous due to its adoption by the revolutionary peasant leader Hong Xiuquan of the Taipingtianguo movement (Taiping Rebellion) as some of the reputed early doctrines of the organization. This Bible translation was a version (in High Wen-li, Traditional Chinese: ???) marvellously correct and faithful to the original.
Gutzlaff assisted in negotiations during the Opium War of 1840-42. In response to the Chinese government's unwillingness to allow foreigners into the interior, he founded a school for "native missionaries" in 1844 and trained nearly fifty Chinese during its first four years. Unfortunately, Gutzlaff's ideas outran his administrative ability. He wound up being victimized by his own native missionaries. They reported back to him glowing accounts of conversions and New Testaments sold. While some of Gutzlaff's native missionaries were genuine converts, others were opium addicts who never traveled to the places they claimed. Eager for easy money, they simply made up conversion reports and took the New Testaments which Gutzlaff provided and sold them back to the printer who resold them to Gutzlaff.
Shattered by the exposure of this fraud, Gutzlaff died in Hong Kong in 1851. However, the Chinese Evangelization Society which he formed lived on to send out Hudson Taylor who founded the successful China Inland Mission. Taylor called Gutzlaff the grandfather of the China Inland Mission.
- Journal of Three Voyages along the Coast of China in 1831, 1832 and 1833, with notices of Siam, Corea, and the Loo-Choo Islands (Desert Island Books, Westcliff-on-Sea, 2002)
- A Sketch of Chinese History, Ancient and Modern (London, 1834, German version in 1847)
- China Opened (1838)
- Life of Tao Kwang (1851)
- Herman Schlyter, Der China-Missionar Karl Gützlaff und seine Heimatbasis: Studien über das Interesse des Abendlandes an der Mission des China-Pioniers Karl Gützlaff und über seinen Einsatz als Missionserwecker (Lund: LiberLäromedel/Gleerup, 1976) ISBN 9140043738
- Winfried Scharlau (ed.), "Gützlaffs Bericht über drei Reisen in den Seeprovinzen Chinas 1831-1833" (Hamburg: Abera Verlag, 1997) ISBN 3934376134
- Thoralf Klein/Reinhard Zöllner (eds.), "Karl Gützlaff (1803-1851) und das Christentum in Ostasien: Ein Missionar zwischen den Kulturen" (Nettetal: Institut Monumenta Serica, Sankt Augustin/Steyler Verlag, 2005) ISBN 3805005202
- Waley, Arthur, The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes (1958)


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Saturday, February 16, 2008
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There have been many requests from members of my family who are not currently visiting us in Japan for me to get my butt in gear and post about all the fabulous fun we are having while my mom is visiting us. We are just having too much fun for me to sit down and write about it. But mom is leaving tomorrow so if you could just hold on for a few more days, I will write and write and write until you are sick of hearing about it.
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I see the interest in home automation, lights, switches and other devices in the home you can control remotely or via voice.
Does this open up more places for malware, ransomware, and plain old bugs to take control of your home just like they do with Power Grids and Elections?
At the moment I use a key in a door and flick my switches on/off and turn the cooker on/off and my fridge keeps things cold. I'm not so sure i see a benefit of home automation.
I am sure there are benefits, of the convenience kind, so you don't have to burn that Calorie getting up to turn a light on/off or burn two Calories moving to kitchen to turn the oven on. But there are also downsides, more things to accidentally or deliberately wrong.
Scenarios - are these possible?
I think the plain old bugs will be a big enough issue without the hackers part, therefore being unreliable, inconsistent, and inconvenient.
Couldn't agree with you more, but I'm still interested.
It's great that technology is making more and more things possible but it begs the question, how lazy are we getting? When you can't get up to turn off the lights or close the blinds? As it is, we (myself included), are walking around with our heads buried in our phones. We are becoming too dependent on technology and electronics that we don't have the need or want to think for ourselves anymore. As much as I love technology and owning it, I think the thought of automation freaks me out. @nigelhealy has some valid points about "malware, ransomware, and plain old bugs" as well as hackers. I don't know if I feel comfortable enough to run my whole life from my electronic devices without fear of having my privacy invaded. I don't plan on automating my home anytime soon.
I have a huge interest in technology things, every technological innovation has a good side and a bad side. We have to accept the risks.
This at the moment is quite plausible but at the same time unlikely as well.
Unless a quite skilled hacker has some grudge against you specifically, I do not see these scenarios playing out. What are the chances that a hacker will target your house's smoke alarm AND your specific car from unlocking. If the hacker is targeting the masses, im also quite certain that there will be some people who will be home when they receive the threat, therefore allowing the authorities to know about this immediately.
Now, it is hard enough as it is to get a lot of people on new technology these days, so I humbly doubt that the whole neighborhood will have many, if not, the same automated technology pieces installed in their house. In our current world where the people who have smart appliances are the minorities, is there really a business for the hackers to exploit?
There is also the issue of there being too many products that are "smart." While it is a problem in current technology because users are either windows or mac, with windows users being prone to being hacked because they are the masses and people dont do security update or are plain gullible to phishing schemes, reputable companies like Google and Amazon who are making these products are rarely hacked on their end due to strong security measures.
However, we are still miles away from the real automation that everyone dreams of, so I think we can rest assured for now.
I have a massive interest in these things. But it is only an interest. I don't own any home automation devices (other than "normal" house security).
My main issue with them is the platform is very young. Changing quickly, and no standard for security of this new network. For example:It would be all too easy to see if someone was actually in a house by hacking the "lights" network and turning them off from outside. Then waiting to see how quickly they come back on. As such, makes a burglars job much easier, and less risky.
I don't know what the possibilities of this happening with a voice assistant is, but if you control everything with your phone they'd need to get to your phone in order to controll everything.
Oh, voice control... You know those adverts of Amazon's that advertise how great Alexa is by giving you a demonstration? If you have an Echo in the room when the advert comes on, it does what the advert asks... Same if a radio present gives it an instruction when you have a radio on (that isn't being played through Echo).
How annoying is that?!
ROFL!!! Hilarious. I don't think Burger King appreciates that.
I am not yet a fan of the automation. I do not have anything automated in my house as yet
well more and more money is being dropped into research regarding defense against these attacks. One day their might even be cyber police that will get cyber warrants to hack into a persons computer and then physically arrest them. Also a self defense software could be developed, where when an unknown attack is detected is hacks the person forwarding all of their information to the Police.
I really see no point in hacking a toaster and changing is code to cause it to overheat, that seems too time consuming. Why not just hack credit cards transferring money into bitcoin and sending it overseas to other countries where Police have no authority? Why not use their money to buy hundreds of Powercore+ 20100 so you can roll around in Anker batteries knowing you have Unlimited power?
The example of hacking a toaster, true if it we're done as you said, a hack for a specific toaster has little to gain, but what if you emailed the maker of the toaster saying you'd hack them all to force the maker to pay a substantial sum? So "pay me $1M or your brand value will plummet due to hundreds or thousands of household fires".
For those of us that are fine with the threats Nigel mentioned, here is what Eufy is planning on releasing by the end of the year. What are you most excited for?
agreed. if you're buying these things it means you probably know the risk.
I see ransomware attacks holding our food hostage in our future
Lol Not the beer!
If I could provide an opinion from the flip side...I'm a forgetful person, always wondering if I left a light on when I leave the house. Hacking aside, home automation is definitely an OCDer's heaven as all my lights are automatically turned off and the alarm is enabled when I leave the house.
Sounds like an Alzheimer's accelerator.
"I don't need to concentrate if I locked the door, or turned a light off, I can let my brain cells die and use this app".


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Photography has always been mesmerizing for me as I find it amazing that with a single frame you can be transported into a scene. Maybe it's a memory of your own or the emotion carried out from the people in the photo or maybe it's that dramatic landscape that really draws you into the image and all of that is created with the single click of a shutter. I have dabbled in all types of photography but always come back to landscape/cityscape and finding over the years it's early blue hour/sunrise that I really enjoy.
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The busiest place in town just now is the British Museum where, despite a timed-entry arrangement, the just-opened "Mysteries of Ancient China" exhibition is so crowded that the viewer can almost imagine what it was like to have inhabited one of the tombs that provided the objects on show here. The show is being puffed as "the Chinese Tutankhamen," and you can see the point. Jessica Rawson, now warden of Merton College and formerly keeper of oriental antiquities at the BM, says...


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Conceptually I started thinking about what is interesting to me about "architecture, cityscape and the urban environment" (which are things I thought about a lot during my "Metacities" project last year) and more so than the physical forms of the architecture of the city, it is always the experience - what it means to be in those spaces, the way the individual exists and interacts within and shapes the city/environment, that presents interest to me. The choice people make to live in certain cities or just a city in general, the choices they make in collectively shaping the city socially and physically, what is it that draws us to certain places, that we think we can get in one place and possibly not somewhere else?
I thought about living in London, the bipolarity of modern architecture and a new culture growing symbiotically out of a city far older than colonized North America, the experience of constant, everyday reminders of newness and novelty and change dichotomized alongside the permanence of fixed history and tradition. The opportunities available there included access to some of the "best" museums and galleries in the world, venues that house not only important historical work but present the newest big shows and exhibitions, it's a stop for every touring musician and band, it felt like a place of exposure, where artists, musicians and designers can potentially receive very real attention and establish themselves - cities are referred to as "centers" of art and culture, the separate but connected locales of a world stage, nodal points where these things are cultivated.
There is a desire tied to the idealized City that promises the individual the forefront of progress, witness at the event horizon of novelty and change where more new options are available, and I remembered William Gibson describing cities as "vast, multilayered engines of choice":
"I walked through my hometown, imagining it a city. What I was imagining, I now see, was an increase not in size but in number of choices. Cities afforded more choices than small towns, and constantly, by increasing the number and randomization of potential human and cultural contacts. Cities were vast, multilayered engines of choice, peopled primarily with strangers. You never know whom you might meet in the city. In a small town, you're less likely to encounter people or things or situations you haven't encountered previously.
As a boy, I took myself away to cities as quickly as I could and have lived in them ever since. When I travel now, I travel mainly to cities, and I travel to return to those I know, taking a deepening pleasure in the serial experience. The idea of visiting a fascinating city only once saddens me, and I seldom have a city I've come to know without wondering if I'll see it again. But in our ageographical existence, I am never entirely not in London, entirely not in Tokyo.
The Internet, which I think of as a sort of meta-city, has made it possible for people who don't live in cities to master areas of expertise that previously required residence in a city, but I think it's still a faith in concentrated choice that drives migration to cities." -William Gibson
The "ageographical", virtual existence established by technology like the Internet is something I have grown up with, it is taken for granted that from anywhere with wifi I have a form of access to data representing happenings in all other places. Gibson dreamed of the vast array of opportunity offered by existence in a city (as people still do) but there is now a form of equalization facilitated by the information age through the mass dissemination of "culture" or spectacle and geographical location is no longer the prime determinant of what we are exposed to (albeit exposure on a 2D screen is something completely different from "lived experience" but I won't get into that). The migration to cities is not obviated by the connective digital landscape but supplemented; services like Google Maps and social networking and mobile devices overlay a user-controlled experience onto the cityscape, we're probably all familiar with finding out about things and where to go in the real city online - "word of mouth" is still fundamental but the "mouth" is more and more a virtual one.
Google "Project Glass" augmented reality head-mounted display
With this project I want to imagine what could have been or what could still eventually be, a sort of homage to the halted dream of the new urban landscape, which is a modular virtual one we can influence at will and control at the true rate of novelty. The creation or visualization of "spaces", whether they are architectural or city-like or not is a constant in human creative ideation and is a fundamental meditative healing act in many traditions - I see a lot of similar psychological inclinations linking projection of virtual worlds and Mahayana purelands. As the pursuit of experience of spaces which offer us what we want continues into this kind of territory, it becomes less about the physical structure and materiality of the city's presence and more about the effects we wish to evoke, functionality will take a back seat to the activation of numinous symbols and the human psyche will become the true foundation upon which the post-urban environment is built.


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Length: 76 minutes
Date: 2013
Genre: Expository
Language: Portuguese / English subtitles
Grade level: 9-12, COLLEGE, ADULT
Seven Brazilian teenagers film their housemaids, exposing issues of class, race, and gender in their families, and in their country.
Housemaids are an integral part of the household in Brazil, and participate in the day-to-day life of the family. The employment of housemaids is almost obligatory among the middle and upper classes of the country. The vast majority of these housemaids are black women, who face high levels of inequality based on their gender, race and social class. Their role in the household raises important questions about public and private space, endurance and choice, and labor and family life.
For HOUSEMAIDS, director Gabriel Mascaro asked seven adolescents to film their family's housemaids for one week, and hand the footage over to him. Their images uncover the complex relationship that exists between housemaids and their employers, a relationship that confuses intimacy and power in the workplace and provides us with an insight into the echoes of a colonial past that linger in contemporary Brazil.
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'No other film has ever managed to portray as deeply what is ingrained in the Brazilian unconsciousness.' -Luiz Carlos Merten, Estadao
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'Highlights the historical weight that underpins each casual gesture, each behavioral standard we so distractedly repeat as we go about our quotidian choreography.' -Fabio Andrade, Cinetica Magazine
** Best Film, 2012 Panorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema
** Special Mention, 2012 Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival
** 2012 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
** 2013 Buenos Aires International Film Festival (BAFICI)
** 2012 IndieLisboa (Portugal)
** 2012 EDOC Documentary Film Festival (Ecuador)
** 2012 FIDOCS Documentary Festival (Chile)
** 2012 Distrital Mexico
** 2012 Tempo Documentary Festival (Sweden)
** 2012 Brasilia Film Festival
Main credits
Mascaro, Gabriel (Director)
Serrano, Eduardo (Film editor)
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Editor, Eduardo Serrano; photography, Claudomiro Carvalho Neto, ... [et al].
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Well, Halloween has come early at Addicted To Pretty! For us Halloween is spread over 4 days, which is very exciting.
We love doing Halloween makeup as its something very different from our usual routine in the studio, its a time to get the face paints out, get the blood out and get creative!
We didn't just do Halloween makeup this weekend - we had everything from Zombies, Michael Jackson in Thriller and very glamorous makeup for an Awards show!
Here are a few photo's of our work this weekend.... looking forward to Thursday, Friday & Saturday! Muuahahaha......


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At lunch time, under the autumn sun, all participants, beaters and hunters, had the opportunity to share experience regarding the morning drives. Members from all delegations had either the occasion to observe game or to shoot. The afternoon drive was even more animated. At the end of the day, the 13 animals shot during the day were gathered for the "tableau" and the blow of the horns closed the hunting day.


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Thursday, June 16, 2016
Slowing Down and Yielding to the Beautiful
I noticed the daylilies were in bloom this morning. While googling "daylilies" because it is highlighted as misspelled in this post, I realized that they are edible. That means that all three of these yellow flowers in my gardens are edible. Kinda cool.
The Elizabeth Gilbert quote I included in the graphic I just found, and I love it! It seemed to fit perfectly with my thoughts, as I yielded to absorb the beauty of the blooming yellows I found.
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Chalk House Blessing
When I read about the Epiphany Chalk House Blessing on the Liturgy blog, I wanted to do it with our own home. The only problems were that we only have a sliver of trim above our front door. (The top of the door is basically next to the ceiling.) The other problem was that we do not have any brick on our house like is shown in the picture on the Liturgy blog post. So, the question was, "Where would I put it?"
Then, I remembered the framed chalkboard I had, and I realized there was no reason why I could not hang it outside. Click on the Epiphany Chalk House Blessing link above to find out more about this meaningful practice.
(I know that it is past Epiphany, but I decided that did not really matter. Next year, I will be ready.)
God's Blessings to your Hearts and Homes this New Year!
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Creative Prayer Journal - Our Loved Ones in Heaven, Pray for Us
Putzing and praying around the house this morning, I felt the urge to sit down and create this. I have not done very much with my prayer/art journal, but having a visual of what I ways pondering and praying was very helpful to me.
I was feeling a bit overwhelmed by the needs for prayer right now. Thinking of all of those who I know are praying too, brings me comfort. Then, the idea occurred to me that there are some special people I love in heaven that I can ask to help pray came to me.
Maura, Mary, Grandpa Luthard, Grandma Ada, Grandma Sophia, and Loretta - pray for us. Amen.
Sunday, October 19, 2014
The Spiritual Discipline of Wonder
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Monday, April 28, 2014
The Next Best Thing to Being Next to the Ocean - YouTube and Google Chrome
For Christmas last year, our son and his family gave us a Google Chrome device. Basically, it is a small thing that you plug into your TV so you can watch things from your computer on the TV screen. We have used it with Netflix to watch movies, but yesterday I had the idea of putting up an ocean video from YouTube.
That may sound really corny, but it is amazing how just sitting, watching, and listening to a video can be a prayer practice. The real ocean would be much better, but when that is not possible, a video can be the next best thing.
The weather here has been cool for this time of year and rainy. The forecast this week calls for rain every day. I like rain, but I am feeling the need for a little sunshine and warmth too. Imagining being on a beach helps. Meditation and prayer also helps calm my anxiousness. There is something about the movement of the tide washing ashore that assures me of God's steady and non-ending love. No matter how I feel, and no matter what the weather is like, I can rest in the presence of my Lord and Savior.
Here are some YouTube links for videos of nature and water:
The Shore Shown Above
Watching the Ocean from Above a Rocky Shore
Tropical Beach
Woodland Stream
Woodland Waterfall
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Sunday, March 16, 2014
What Keeps Me From God?
I always consider Lent a time to reassess my relationship with God. It is a time of new beginnings for me. It is a time when, as the Benedictines say "Always, we begin again." (However, with the Benedictine Rule, that is a saying that applies to every moment of life.)
Sometimes I feel that I am asking God to forgive me for the same things over and over again. Sometimes I even decide that I am going to give up and not even ask. I am sick of myself, and I figure that God must be sick of me too.
Reading this book, The Willpower Instinct, has helped me look at my unwanted ways in a new light. By understanding how and why my brain says and responds to the statements--"I will," "I won't," and "I want"--I am better able to see how I can control my temptations.
As I mentioned in my last post, listening to an audio book has presented me with a few challenges in itself. I realize that I am most definitely a visual learner. Listening is really a challenge to me!
At first, I tried to scribble down a few messy notes while listening and walking on the treadmill. I soon realized that why I was writing something down, I was missing what was being said next. My penmanship was also lacking. (It is hard to write when you are walking.)
I know that I am missing things by choosing to listen to the book in the audio format on the treadmill, but I know that I am not only exercising my body. I am exercising the audio portion of my brain, which needs some help. After I finish the book in the audio format, I plan to read it as well.
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Thursday, March 6, 2014
A Lenten Devotion Using a Non-Religious Audio Book Focussed on Willpower?
For some, this choice for a Lenten devotional might seem very unorthodox and even sac-religious. There are no bible verses to refer to. (At least, I have not heard any yet.) There is not even any mention of God. (Accept for one mention that some might consider epithetical.) So, why would I even call it a devotion for a Christian Liturgical Season of the year--namely Lent?
When I started listening to this book, I did not consider it a Lenten devotion even thought I started it yesterday, which was Ash Wednesday. However, when I read a devotion today that I receive daily via email from the Upper Room, I began to look at the book a bit differently.
The email talked about taking on something vs. giving up something for Lent. It talked about taking on something that brings restoration and direction in preparation for Easter. This book was not on the list of suggested options in the email, nor was it even close. But, it is certainly something that I am taking on that will give my mental and physical health restoration and direction. If we believe (as I do) that our physical and mental health can definitely affect our spiritual health, the idea of using this book for a Lenten devotional might not seem so far out.
During my yearly physical (the day before Ash Wednesday this year), my doctor mentioned he was listening to in an audio version of the book My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind. I had heard the author interviewed about the book on NPR a bit ago, but I had forgotten about it. I was also interested because I had thought about getting a book on tape to motivate me to walk or get on the treadmill.
When I got home, I looked up the book My Age of Anxiety on Amazon and noticed that this other book had quite a few stars. The title of the other book was: The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It. It is written by a Stanford professor and he has also offered the contents as a class. Reading the overview, I decided it was a book I wanted to read or hear, for that matter, so I signed myself up for a free one month trial of Audible and and received my free audio copy of the book. (You get two free books, so I also downloaded My Age of Anxiety to listen to later.) It took me a bit to figure out how I could listen to the book, as it did not seem to work on my iPad. However, it does work on my iPod.
One of the first things I noticed when I started listening to the book is that I have no way to see how much is left of a chapter, which makes it a little lesson in letting go of control. The other thing that is interesting is walking on the treadmill listening to an audio book that talks things in your body that you are currently experiencing, like exercise for instance. (Note that the book is about much more than exercise.)
Another interesting thing I found is that I actually stayed on the treadmill longer than I planned because I wanted to hear the whole chapter. Hmm…I can see it will be an "interesting" journey for me this Lenten Season. I think God is going to be teaching me in a very different way.
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I just read Michael Mandel's article in business week about what caused the banking crisis and why it is difficult for people to comprehend the problem.
I have seen the broad facts and the arguments earlier. But Michael Mandel does an extremely good job of presenting them in a simple fashion as the title of the article claims. I remember reading economist and business week 4 years back when people were talking about the huge trade deficit of US. Many economists were arguing at the time that trade-deficit is not a big issue and the current situation can continue for next 15 years. The main threat that people were discussing at the time was the strength of the dollar. Certainly the problem of trade deficit has manifested in ways no one imagined at that time. And surprisingly dollar has strengthened.
A good explanation of why wall street is still under danger ( quoting from the article):
And when there wasn't enough "safe assets" to sell to willing foreigners, the intrepid investment bankers created more. Consider, for example, credit default swaps, which pay off if a bond defaults—in effect, insurance on debt. Wall Street saw this as a 'two-fer.' They would sell corporate bonds to foreign investors, and at the same time collect fees on credit default swaps on the bonds in order to reassure those apparently too-nervous investors from another part of the world.
But the joke in the end was on Wall Street. The foreign investors bought the bonds, but they also bought the protection—which much to everyone's surprise was needed. And the U.S. banks and investment banks were left with piles of 'toxic assets'—the obligation to pay off all sorts of bonds and derivatives
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Banking crisis: What is the problem?
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The album has a lighter, less funky and smoother feel than the live performance I saw, but Rocks has an essence of that sound. As it's an instrumental album, there are very few lyrics to node - Prince merely drops in to screech abit. The finest tracks are Rain and Cantaloupe Island , although there is no single weak track in this album.
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