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oOo lucky boy Tank nice birthday feast!!!!
Kibbles stirred in yogurt and a big cookie on top. What do you think? Does he look excited?
In Loving Memory of Tank
11/3/2009 - 8/4/2017
oOo lucky boy Tank nice birthday feast!!!!
I suffer from "M.B.S." (Multiple Bulldog Syndrome)
because one bulldog is NEVER enough!!
Yum! And yup, he looks mega happy!!! nom nom nom! :happybirthday: Tankaroo!
"I am normally not a praying man, but if you really are up there, please save me Superman!'' - Homer J. Simpson
Happy Birthday Tank! That looks delicious!
I LOVE his face.... so darn cute! Happy birthday handsome boy
Or, food is a winner too
There is a part of your heart not alive until a bulldog has entered your life.
Nitschke (2004-2011) and Banks (2005-2014) -- My angels
Thank you for all the love, fun and teachings


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We recently returned from a one-week vacation in Norway. Like last summer, we decided to explore the country we live in, and decided upon a stay in the town of Rjukan, followed by a visit to the Blues Festival in Notodden, where Robert Plant and his band The Sensational Space Shifters were playing. On the way to Notodden, we stopped in Heddal to see the beautiful stave church (stavkirke) that has become a major tourist attraction.
Rjukan is a small town located in the Tinn municipality in Telemark county. It is mainly famous for its Vemork hydroelectric power plant, built by Norsk Hydro under the leadership of Sam Eyde who was the founder and first CEO of Norsk Hydro from 1905 until 1917. Vemork opened in 1911. Sam Eyde decided to build Vemork in Rjukan because the Rjukan waterfall (Rjukanfossen), a 104-metre waterfall, facilitated the generation of large quantities of electricity (info from Wikipedia). Vemork was mainly involved in fertilizer produciton, but also produced heavy water (deuterium oxide, D2O). During WWII, this interested the Germans who were occupying Norway at the time (the Nazis invaded Norway in April 1940), since Germany was on a mission to produce an atomic bomb, and heavy water is useful as a coolant and moderator in a nuclear power reactor. Vemork was the target of heavy water sabotage operations by the Norwegian resistance during WWII; this exciting piece of history was recently the subject of a very well-made Norwegian TV series, Kampen om Tungtvannet (The Saboteurs in English) that was shown on Norwegian television this past January. It has since been sold to many other countries, and I recommend it highly if you get a chance to see it. You can read more about it here on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3280150/?ref_=nv_sr_1
The Vemork power plant is now the site of the Norwegian Industrial Workers' Museum and a museum documenting the history of Vemork and Rjukan during WWII and the well-documented sabotage operations (see Wikipedia for more information about Rjukan, Vemork and WWII history).
Besides Vemork, Rjukan is famous for having placed large reflecting mirrors on the surrounding mountainside in order to illuminate the town square with reflected sunlight (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/06/rjukan-sun-norway-town-mirrors). This was actually an old idea (from the early 1900s) resurrected and realized in 2013; the reason for it was that between September and March, Rjukan does not get sunlight since the surrounding mountains block it, and this was a way of providing light for Rjukan's inhabitants. The Krossobanen (an aerial tramway) was built in 1928 with the same idea in mind, to be able to give Rjukan's inhabitants a view of the sun during the long winter months.
In July 2015, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee approved the inscription of the Rjukan-Notodden Industrial Heritage Site on its World Heritage List, something the town of Rjukan is understandably quite proud of. You can read more about the background for the decision here: http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1316/
Sam Eyde's strong influence on Rjukan is apparent to this day. You cannot help but notice that it is an extremely well-planned and -designed town, with lovely homes (all with different architectural styles), parks, and official buildings. A statue of Eyde stands prominently in the town square, which was undergoing extensive renovations when we were there in late July. We did a lot of walking around the town and got to know it quite well; it is very charming and lovely during the summer months. I can imagine though that it is less charming during the winter months.
We also climbed the Gaustatoppen mountain (1883 metres/6178 feet high) that overlooks the town of Rjukan; the summit offers incredible views of about one-sixth of Norway on days with excellent visibility. Unfortunately, the day we decided to climb it was a foggy and overcast day; it started out as a gray day and evolved into a foggy one after a few hours. When we reached the summit, you could really only see a few feet in front of you. But the climb itself was worth it; it is advertised as family-friendly, but in reality is for adults in reasonably good shape. Most young children (I'd say under 10-years old), no matter how sporty, will not enjoy this climb very much, as it is quite strenuous. We met a family with young children on our way up; they ended up turning back. You can read more about it here: http://www.visitrjukan.com/en/best-travel-tips/opplevelser-paa-rjukan-til-inforboks/gaustatoppen-summer We did not walk down the mountain, but rather opted to take the Gaustabanen back down; this is a cable railway built inside the Gaustatoppen mountain that was built by NATO during the Cold War era. For more information, check out this link: http://en.hardangervidda.com/Top-5/The-Top-5-Attractions2/Gaustatoppen-and-Gaustabanen-cable-car
We also took an afternoon boat ride on the railroad ferry MS Storegut, which operates as a tourist attraction these days between Tinnoset and Mæl on Lake Tinnsjø. It was in operation as a railway ferry from 1956 until 1991; while we were onboard, the last captain of the ferry gave us a short talk about his experiences as captain of the MS Storegut and about how he was sorry to see it taken out of service. It was a beautiful boat trip, as you will see from the photos in my next post. We were lucky to have good weather that day in order to really appreciate the surrounding landscapes.
Once we left Rjukan, we drove on the mountain road Fv651 and passed through Tuddal, where we stopped to have coffee, and then on to Heddal where we ate elk burgers for lunch and visited the stave church there. Eventually we merged onto route E134 that took us to Notodden and the Blues Festival (http://bluesfest.no/). We rounded out a great week with a terrific concert by Robert Plant and his band; there were also some other really good bands that we enjoyed listening to. We ended up camping at the festival site for one night; the weather was sunny and warm during the day, and only a bit chilly during the evening. The following day we headed for home, after a great week away. I would like to return to Gaustatoppen at some point to climb it on a day with better visibility, as well as to hike/bike over the Hardangervidda plateau.

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Roseann Favata, 40, of Albrightsville, died Oct. 16 in her home. She was married to Joseph C. Favata Sr. for 19 years last November.
She was a secretary for Nikko Securities, New York City until 1986.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she was a daughter of Virginia (Pangan) Davino of Albrightsville, and the late Nicholas Davino.
She was a member of St. Peter the Fisherman Catholic Church, Lake Harmony, where she was instrumental in organizing the mother-child play group.


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Thursday, July 10
Out and About
Between getting stuff done around the house and hanging with the big boys three days this week Jumpin J and I have been really busy. Tonight is J's second swim class, I'll try to get a picture if I can. And then we're off to New Hampshire to Mt. Washington, Story Land, and points in between. Yes, you guessed it, the MathWorks annual outing is this weekend. J's dad is going to work from Grandma Laurie's house tomorrow morning and then we'll leave for Story Land! I'll be sure to bring the camera! See you all on Sunday!
Posted by Jumpin J's Mom at 2:40 PM
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- Lilypad Mom said...
I can't wait to hear about the weekend!
- July 14, 2008 at 9:15 PM
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Script characteristics
Over the years, numerous decipherments have been proposed, but none has been accepted by the scientific community at large. The following factors are usually regarded as the biggest obstacles for a successful decipherment:
The substrate language has not been identified, nor the language family to which it belongs.
The average length of the inscriptions is less than five signs, the longest being one of only 27 signs.
No bilingual texts have been found. Attempts at decipherment
The Russian scholar Yuri V. Knorozov (or Knorosov), who has edited a multi-volumed corpus of the inscriptions, surmises that the symbols represent a logosyllabic script, with an underlying Dravidian language as the most likely linguistic substrate.
Dravidian hypothesis
If the signs are purely ideographical, they may contain no information about the language spoken by their creators: they would qualify either as a purely logographic script, or as a system of symbols not qualifying as a script in the true sense (pictograms).
Steve Farmer, Richard Sproat, and Michael Witzel
Script vs. ideographical symbols
The topic is popular among amateur researchers, and there have been various (mutually exclusive) decipherment claims. None of these suggestions has found academic recognition to date.
List of decipherment claims:
Clyde Ahmad Winters (Dravidian, 1981[1])
R. Mathivanan (Tamil, 1991, 1995 Decipherment claims
Onshore explorations near Bet Dwarka in Gujarat revealed the presence of late Indus seals depicting a 3-headed animal, earthen vessel inscribed in a late Harappan script, and a large quantity of pottery similar to Lustrous Red Ware bowl and Red Ware dishes, dish-on-stand, perforated jar and incurved bowls which are datable to the 16th century BC in Dwarka, Rangpur and Prabhas. The thermoluminescence date for the pottery in Bet Dwaraka is 1528 BC. This evidence suggests that a late Harappan script was used until around 1500 BC. have revealed Indus symbols being used as late as 1100 BC.
Bryant, Edwin (2000), The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : The Indo-Aryan Migration Debate Oxford University Press.
Farmer, Steve et al. (2004) The Collapse of the Indus-Script Thesis: The Myth of a Literate Harappan Civilization, EJVS, vol. 11 (2004), issue 2 (Dec) [5] (PDF).
Knorozov, Yuri V. (ed.) (1965) Predvaritel'noe soobshchenie ob issledovanii protoindiyskikh textov. Moscow.
Mahadevan, Iravatham, Murukan In the Indus Script (1999)
Mahadevan, Iravatham, Aryan or Dravidian or Neither? A Study of Recent Attempts to Decipher the Indus Script (1995-2000) EJVS (ISSN 1084-7561) vol. 8 (2002) issue 1 (March 8).[6]
Parpola, Asko (2005) Study of the Indus Script. 50th ICES Tokyo Session.
Possehl, Gregory L. (1996), Indus Age: The Writing System, University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN 081223345X.
Rjabchikov, Sergei V. (2006a). A New Key to the Proto-Indian Writing System. AnthroGlobe Journal, 2006.
Rjabchikov, Sergei V. (2006b). Protoindiyskoe pis'mo i ego rasshifrovka. Krasnodar.
Subramanian, T. S. (2006) "Significance of Mayiladuthurai find" in The Hindu, May 01, 2006.
Wells, B. "An Introduction to Indus Writing" Independence, MO: Early Sites Research Society 1999.
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Welcome Back!
This time I'm highlighting the last of the penguin photos. Sorry there are so many (11), but there weren't really enough for 2 posts... These guys are so comical to watch...some of them were pretty active by the time we were done shooting them!
I think next time I'll show some other birds we found along the African Savanna or maybe the polar bears!
Well, I can't believe it is Friday already! The week went by so fast...We had fun at my Sister's house for Halloween. We gave out treats at her house as we never get any out here in the boonies!
Brooke is coming home this weekend (tomorrow on the train)! She has her school graduation ceremony. Kind of a silly time to have it, but oh well, what can you do? So we will be going to that tomorrow and then I'll visit my Uncle on Sunday.
Have a great weekend!


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like this property?Call: 03339 396449
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This first floor two bedroom apartment is set on one level it is fully furnished in a modern style and comprises of the following:
An entrance hall, a bathroom, a living room with kitchenette that opens onto a terrace from which there are breathtaking panoramic lake views. A double bedroom with balcony that also affords excellent lake views, a second bedroom with two single beds, a bathroom with shower cubicle and bath.
The apartment also has a private garage at the basement level which is accessible by covered staircase. The swimming pool is equipped with a shower and changing rooms.
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The size and location make this apartment the perfect property for those are looking for a second home on the lake close to amenities, as well as for those who are looking for an investment property with rental opportunity for the long summer season (April to October), which could be managed by Gemma Immobiliare .
Ossuccio centre and the lake are within 5 minutes walking distance. Lenno with all its amenities is less than 1 km away.
Ossuccio dates from pre-Roman times evidenced by a "sarizzo votive altar" of the second century A.C. belonging to the population of "Asuciates" that gave its name to the village. In the area there was a revival of churches, such as the Roman church of St. James located in Spurano and that of St. Mary Magdalene in the village of Ospadelatto.
On the slopes of the mountain that overlook the town there is the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Salvation. Furthermore there is a St. Benedict Monastery with a beautiful cloister. Also of importance is the church of St. Euphemia, which along with 5 other churches, all located on the Island of Comacina.
Isola Comacina located in the middle of the lake that has an Island Castle and a restaurant (Locanda dell'Isola) that has been frequented by many VIP and who have made the owner "Cotoletta" famous through association. The Island has been inhabited since ancient times, it was the centre of many early medieval wars: it was the last refuge of Berencar the 11th century and, in 1169, the Island was the centre of a struggle between Como and Milan, which destroyed it. According to the legend the inhabitants, in part, migrated to Varenna. Most of them went to the New Island, where the St. Euphemia church as rebuilt with the same patron of the one destroyed on the old Island. Isola Comacina can be reached by boat service and takes 5 minutes
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CBP, an agency within Homeland Security, said officers had been discouraged from searching the cloud but this week's new policy lays out the limits.
DHS cellphone border searches jumped 50 percent in 2017 →
"CBP's procedures are based on international law and are focused on protecting vulnerable and persecuted persons," the agency said. "CBP officers do not determine or evaluate the validity of the fear expressed. As an agency, CBP adheres to law and policy on processing asylum claims and does not tolerate abuse of these policies."
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Glad to be back with an unlocked bootloader 🙂
So it's time to start from scratch to compile CM and Recovery from source.
This is a beta version with few small bugs but usable, and functional.
Glad to be back with an unlocked bootloader 🙂
So it's time to start from scratch to compile CM and Recovery from source.
This is a beta version with few small bugs but usable, and functional.
This ROM is both a stock B550 as from Huawei and a custom ROM. So let's just say that this could be a way to update your phone without using Huawei recovery, or install a nice and personalized ROM.
How is it possible? Let's introduce the AROMA installer. With this little software that run over the recovery you won't need to do a lot of passage to customize your ROM inside a chinese recovery.
You can read this post only if you already did what was written here.
So… Now start the easy part 😉
Hi to everyone!!! Today I have just finished a script for making ROM development easier… I was trying using Android Kitchen from XDA-Developer and I was disappointed when there were the chance to unpack the UPDATE.APP of u8220 and not of our phone… So after few little changes now we have a good script 😉
So far we can unpack
system.img perfectly and it is mountable too. For the other partitions it looks like we have some work to do. Cache, Cust and Userdata don't mount, boot.img has some bytes at the beginning that I'm not sure what they are…
I completely fixed the fileHash but I probably won't be able to fix the CRC check…
I need to give credit to SoreX for doing this job. This time I'm merely copying and just fixing some little errors.
(1) Reboot System now
(2) Install ZIP from SD card
(3) Install ZIP from sideload
(4) Wipe data / factory reset
(5) Wipe Cache
(6) Backup and restore
(7) Flash Memory / format
(8) Advanced Settings
(9) Turn off the phone
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I did also a little analysis of the reserved partition of B107 kernel just to let you try to hack it in some way… If someone is an expert in this kind of stuff, please contact me.
Continue reading
In this post I would like to show you the content of the internal SDCARD. It is surprisingly difficult to understand why Huawei use such a high number of partitions. Some of them are still a mystery and probably nobody can tell us what's inside them.


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Friday, December 11, 2009
Naughty or Nice?
People can look at that and think a lot of different things. In literature, the act could be made sympathetic ages before any psychological theories were out there (Look at Jean Valjean in Les Miserables and both his motivation and the significant consequences). So I want you to think about this.
He was hungry.
He was starving.
His family was starving.
He saw some children on the street who were starving.
He saw it as a challenge and wanted to see if he could.
He wanted to show off to his friends.
He was impulsive.
He hated the bread vendor and wanted to cause him problems.
He's in love with the girl selling and wanted her attention.
From WHOM?
The window of a hungry family.
From the donation truck for hungry families.
From a wealthy widow baking loaves.
From a wealthy widow baking loaves for the orphans.
From a wealthy widow after providing her with some much wanted company.
From a street vendor.
From a small shop.
From a national chain.
WHEN and HOW?
At the end of the day when it is mostly stale anyway, he nicks a last loaf unlikely to sell.
When it is first set out for sale, hot fresh and irresistible and it makes his tummy rumble.
When there are dozens of people gathered and it is most daring.
When the vendor turns his back, he nabs it and runs.
There are people who believe it's wrong no matter what—that right and wrong is a matter of black and white (I almost gave them a political affiliation, but stopped myself—wasn't that good?) But most of us think there are circumstances by which stealing is a reasonable offense. Most of us would attribute different shades of right and wrong, based on the circumstances and motivations of the bread thief.
In Our Writing
I have a long fan fiction up for the 2009 finals at HPANA and was rereading some of it (editing a little) and caught some of the comments recently—I managed a writing coup. The story was about the 'Marauders' (Harry's father and his best friends, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettygrew) and I wrote their pranks and antics in such a way that the Marauder LOVERS (a large, loyal group of people who adores this bunch—other than Peter, anyway) thought they were funny and fabulous, and the Marauder HATERS (often Snape sympathetics, though I fall into a third group who thought they were ALL boys behaving badly) thought they were horrible, awful people.
Before WRITING this complex group and their antics, I had thought some writers were too forgiving and wrote it all as light fun, and some were too merciless and wrote them as awful. I tried to draw from both my psychology and from some boys I knew when I was a teen, and I think I managed to nail that gray area. How people felt about the Marauders I wrote depended largely on the feelings about 'boys will be boys'. [this group might think the thief above was in his rights if he stole in a very daring manner to see if he could get away with it, though not from starving children—something like that]
So I am trying to use such shades of gray in my more recent books, but it isn't easy. I tend to cut people in dire straights (hungry or backed into a corner) a break but not be very sympathetic to flashy antics for fun. I need to remember though, that some of those mischief makers are sympathetic to part of my readers, and there is nothing better than stirring up a bit of controversy!
And because I can't bear to disappoint you (though baring is another matter entirely)… a little seasonal naughtiness…
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- M.J. Nicholls said...
Cause and effect is crucial for creating a well-rounded character, mefeels. We can still love the unpleasant ones if we understand their motivations, methinks.
I'm working on making my protag more sympathetic towards her melodramatic mother. Defining actions and motivations is crucial, mebelieves.
- December 11, 2009 at 9:11 AM
- Watery Tart said...
Mark--totally with you--I actually LOVE that task... making a terrible-seeming person suddenly understandable by revealing a piece of history or some such thing. Most of us get through life 'trying our best' so it isn't so hard.
- December 11, 2009 at 9:14 AM
- Kevin Morgan said...
There are many many people who see it as completely wrong whatever the circumstance, and not viewing it in shades of grey is in my opinion quite silly.
One thing that's often overlooked when casting our judgements as readers is the victim of the theft in certain situations. I.E. The man feeding his hungry family, or similar.
In the stories I read you see side-stories that may not forward the plot but enhance it by showing how cruel the world is, or the alternative perspective, blurring the line between evil and good.
I think more writing needs to explore that. It makes for an interesting read when you become sympathetic to the plight of that starving man and thus condone his actions, only to realize that his actions caused worse plights for others.
I've seen some stories do this on a minor scale, but only a few have pushed this to the point of making me become enamored with what one might typically assume an evil character, or making the typically good characters leave a foul taste in my mouth.
- December 11, 2009 at 11:06 AM
- Galen Kindley--Author said...
Making well rounded and shades-of-grey characters is not an easy task. Even if you know what the shades of grey are, working them into the story without dragging out the plot is a challenge.
Best, Galen.
Imagineering Fiction Blog
- December 11, 2009 at 12:50 PM
- Jan Morrison said...
ah, yes. The difference between melodramas and nuanced fiction in the gradation of motive and chance.
- December 11, 2009 at 12:58 PM
- Kevin Morgan said...
Fair point, Galen. Which is why, unfortunately, S.Erikson and GRR.Martin have ruined a handful of authors for me.
There seems to be a rising trend in popular fiction to blur the lines of ethos, leaving everyone as a shade of gray and the judgment of the character at the discretion of the reader, as opposed to the typical fare in which the author decides what is good and evil and diametrically opposes them.
It also seems that novels that do this are hailed for their craftsmanship. So it seems the distinction between an author that can visualize and work it into the story without dragging the plot and one who can't has a close correlation (IMO) to the skill of the author.
Of course, I may be a less than typical reader who prefers epic stories blended with realistic and nuanced characters.
@Jan: Yes. :-)
- December 11, 2009 at 1:28 PM
- Watery Tart said...
Kevin, I LOVE stories with interwoven subplots like that--in fact I like them for character growth--a character who does something with a 'justification we can understand' and then the consequences to someone else are much graver than he's forseen, thereby causing the character to reevaluate... Also very nice in tragic circumstances tales... it's a zero sum gain--if you eat, someone starves... who should get to play god?
Galen-absolutely--VERY difficult. I aspire to it anyway! (I've recently pulled off a brainwashing, so I am feeling up to it)
Jan-I can still enjoy a melodrama, so long as it recognizes itself for what it is, but yes... not much patience for the perfectly good versus perfectly bad.
Kevin, did you just growl at me? *snort* sorry... will have to check out those authors! (and yes, you're atypical)
- December 11, 2009 at 1:44 PM
- Elizabeth Spann Craig said...
Love murder mysteries where I end up wanting the murderer(s) to go free. ("Murder on the Orient Express" was a well-known example.)
Mystery Writing is Murder
- December 11, 2009 at 4:33 PM
- Marjorie said...
I think it was very good of you not to give the black and whiters a political affiliation, because you would be wrong Tarty-Tart. Completely wrong, in my case at least. I enjoy stories that involve various shades of gray. Take Dumbledore for example. Was everything he did exactly the right thing to do? Perhaps not, but he believed he was doing the right thing at the time. I end up loving Dumbledore even more for his flaws than for Dumbledore when he was a brilliant Christ-like figure to Harry. What I mean to say is the more human a character the better the writer and the story.
- December 12, 2009 at 2:52 PM
- Watery Tart said...
Elizabeth-GREAT point! Making the murderer sympathetic is totally tricky, I'm sure--I mean other than the self-defense cases... but now I want to read that! (I haven't)
Marjorie-I stopped because it would have been too sweeping, I know... it is the 'three strikes' set I think I really refer too--hard on crime, minimum sentence standards REGARDLESS of the story behind it... THAT group. And I am totally with you on DD--love him all the more for his flaws, but I sensed them even early--a man THAT into love isn't alone without having made some grave errors...
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Analysis of efficiency in sugarcane production: the case of men and women headed households in SONY sugar out -grower zone, Rongo and Trans-Mara districts, Kenya
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Thankful for Ann Voskamp's 1,000 Gifts
I'm currently reading Ann Voskamp's "1,000 Gifts" with a neighborhood group of girlfriends, a bookclub of sorts. At first, I wasn't crazy about the book. Mainly because of her writing style, which is quite poetic, yet dense and hard to follow. I usually love flowery prose, but for some reason, it took me awhile to get used to her writing and I kept having to go back and re-read paragraphs and ask "what is she really saying here?" But after a couple of chapters (and re-reading them a couple of times!), I began to follow her. And I find that what she is saying is life-changing. I misunderstood by her title, at first, that it was yet another book about how we should just be more thankful about things. People say that all the time. Gosh, we have so much to be thankful for, so many other people are suffering and have so much less. But that doesn't really help me in the moment. Especially if I am experiencing "suffering" of sorts, even if it may not be traumatic, like what many people around the world may be experiencing. But that doesn't make my trial any less real to me and those in my life. What I love about this book is that Ann is not saying "just suck it up and be thankful." Not at all. She is saying it is a practice, a hard discipline, a learned gift, to give thanks in ALL circumstances. It does not come natural. It is not easy. But when practiced regularly, it can transform our thought life. I've only touched the surface of this practice, but it is changing me. Gratitude, she says, is lifting our eyes up to God and not ourselves. I am challenged by how often my day is all about me, even with two little ones at home to take care of. It is still about me and my priorities and my expectations of the day. How rarely do I thank God for the little things in the day? For a sweet smile from my two year old. For a giggle from his little sister when he makes funny faces at her. For a brisk morning run around the neighborhood, pushing the double stroller, before it gets too hot. For a fun two year old birthday party and train ride with Marshall's buddies today. All of it is sweet. All are things to be thankful for. Yet what I find myself doing is allowing my thought life to go to the negative. To things that haven't happened, to worries that I can't control, to expectations that haven't been met, or a conversation I'm mulling over that may have just been a misunderstanding. My goal, then, is to work on training my mind, to "think on things above" and "things that are lovely, of good report, noble..." so that even my thought life is giving praise to God throughout the day. If you haven't read it, I recommend giving Ann Voskamp's book a try. Once you get past the poetic and flowery prose, I pray that you will find rich treasures of truth based on God's word about being thankful. For as 1 Thessalonians 5 says, "Rejoice always, be thankful in all circumstances, pray continually, for this is God's will for us in Christ Jesus."
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Lessons of Revelation: Oddly Practical
As my spring study on the book of Revelation comes to a close next week, I am a bit sad. It was a study I begun with hesitation, not really looking forward to studying such a heavy book of prophecy, specifically, prophecy about the end times. It just isn't one of those books that seems practical to my life in the here and now. But amazingly, I have actually gleaned much practical truth for my life today and how I live it right now by studying the book of Revelation. Revelation has painted a picture for me of what is to come: a perfect kingdom, a new heaven and a new earth, streets of gold, walls of rainbow-colored gems, a river of life that bears fruit year-round, and the very presence of our Lord who gives off so much radiance, there is no need for the sun or moon to illuminate the land. What a magnificent place this will be! A place where we will fully be able to use our gifts, our talents, our unique abilities that God has given us and use them in a way that is glorifying to God. There will be no more sin, no more tears, no more pain or suffering. Just joyful and satisfying worship of our Lord and Savior. Imagine! I'd heard all that before, but after studying it week after week, verse by verse, I began to be filled with HOPE. Hope of what is to come. Hope that this isn't all there is. Hope that we are in a temporary place, not our eternal home. Hope that one day, all our tears will be wiped away. What this means to me on a practical level is: why let the little things bother me so much? I can't quite say that about the big things yet. I mean, who could say to someone who had just lost a loved one, just think of what's waiting for us, don't be sad. It's not quite that easy. But for the little things...I can do this. Instead of getting frustrated about the messes my kids make, the fights over toys, the tantrums, the long lines at the grocery store, the solicitor that always rings the doorbell just as my kids have gone down for their nap, the traffic I'm stuck in with two screaming kids in the backseat...instead of working myself up over these little annoyances of life, I can remind myself that "this isn't all there is!" This is temporary! This isn't my home! This land is under a curse, but one day, we will live in a land where that curse has been lifted. So why work myself up over nothing? Aren't all these little annoyances just to refine my faith, my patience, and my character anyways? Preparing me to be more like Jesus each and every day. I can't say that I have this down...but each time I feel that irritation rising in my gut, I try to remind myself of my true home, a beautiful kingdom, waiting for me. And for a moment, it lifts my eyes up to Jesus and what He intends for us.
Monday, April 16, 2012
My Purpose as a Stay at Home Mom
I love those days and weeks as a stay at home mom when my children and I enjoy spending time together. They play well, they giggle and laugh at one another, they share well and are just fun and easy to be around. But I have to admit, most of my days and weeks aren't like that. Most of them are challenging and tiring, with a lot of whining, disobeying, hitting, pushing, not sharing and making messes all over the house. On those especially hard days, I ask myself: why am I doing this? That is when I have to remember my purpose. My purpose as a stay at home mom is not to enjoy a slower paced life. Nor is it to enjoy extended time with my children since I am not working. My primary purpose is to train and instruct my children in the way of the Lord. That means that everyday is chock full of training opportunities. Teaching moments. If I am selfish and lazy, I can skip those moments and use that time to do other things, like clean the house or get dressed or talk on the phone or check my email. But if I remember my primary purpose is to train and instruct them, I am willing to drop what I am doing at that moment when instruction is needed and take hold of that opportunity. To do that well, I have to be willing to let go of my personal goals for the day, my personal demands of time and how my morning or afternoon should look and my demands for a little peace and quiet. Because of those especially hard days of training and instruction, there may be very little "down time" for myself. But that's okay. Because my purpose is to train and instruct my children in the way of the Lord and that is much more important than getting time for myself to do whatever I want. This is my job and I want to do it well. But what does teaching and training my children in the way of the Lord really mean? I know the character qualities I want them to emulate. They are the character qualities of Jesus: humility, love, patience, kindness, faithfulness, peace, joy, self-control, and hope. But I also know that it is impossible to achieve those qualities without first addressing the problem of our hearts. According to God's word, our hearts are deceitful, full of sin, and choose to reject God. Since the beginning, in the Garden of Eden, we have chosen to go our own way. We think that independence from God means freedom. But sadly, it means death, destruction, emptiness and lack of joy. God won't force us to love and obey Him. If we choose to reject God, He gives us exactly what we want: separation from him. And we have ALL chosen that route. So my first goal is to show my children their rebellious hearts. That when they hit and yell and grab toys from one another, they are going their own way, against that of God. That their desires and motives are evil, at their core. Now, I'm dealing with a 2 year old and a 10 month old here, so I can't quite lay it out like that right now. But when they disobey, I can talk to them about their hearts. When they are not loving, when they are selfish, when they are angry and impatient and disrespectful. They may not fully get it, but my goal is to show them that their hearts are rebellious, just like my own. That all of us choose our own way and this way is selfish and sinful. But I don't leave them in despair. That's where the good news of the gospel comes in. That because God is holy and perfect, He cannot just accept us as we are. There must be a consequence for sin and death. He could've allowed us to just stay in our sin and go our own way and never know what it's like to be in relationship with Him. But He didn't, because He is a God of love. So He came down to earth Himself, in the form of a man, Jesus, and died on the cross to pay the penalty for our sin, to bear the consequence for our rebellious hearts, to be that once and final blood sacrifice that was necessary to make our slate clean before God. My daily aim, then, as a mom, is to show my children their need for Jesus. Their need for forgiveness. Their need for grace in order to be reconciled to God. It's not going to happen overnight. But I know that every time I lose my patience, I snap at my children, I get angry because of yet another mess on the kitchen floor, I can get down on my knees in front of them and say, "I'm sorry that Mommy got angry at you. I did not have a loving heart. Will you forgive me?" Then I can pray with them to Jesus and confess my sin and ask forgiveness of my Lord. When they are in time-out, I can do the same thing: ask them to name their sin (not the behavior, but a heart attitude like selfishness, anger, jealousy, disrespect, etc.) and ask them to pray to Jesus for forgiveness. And if necessary, ask them to go to their sibling and apologize, asking for forgiveness as well. This takes time, this takes energy, this takes effort. I will have less time to get ready, check email, talk on the phone and clean up the house. But to me, this is my primary purpose: to train and instruct my children in the way of the Lord, to teach them (and remind myself) that we are all sinners in need of God's grace.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
I would have to say that this Easter was sweeter than it's ever been. Thanks to my two year old. Unlike years past, when I let the holiday rush by because I was more focused on the logistics of travel and family plans for Easter lunch, this year, I spent less time worrying about the logistics (perhaps because we decided to stay home) and more time focusing on how to tell the Easter story to my children (mainly my two year old, since my 10 month old little girl is probably a little young). I had been polling parents the week before for ideas on how to celebrate and teach the story of Easter to their toddlers. One of the common practices shared among other Christian moms was the idea of the resurrection eggs. You take 12 plastic eggs and fill each one with a symbol that represents Jesus and the Easter story. For example, one egg has 3 nails, representing the nails in his hands and feet. Another nail has a thorn, representing the thorn in his crown. And so on. Honestly, I didn't even get that far. All I did was the egg with the nails in it. It was Good Friday when I sat down to teach him the story. It was late afternoon, after naps, which isn't always the most receptive time or "happy heart" time of the day for him. But God was gracious because that day, He was incredibly sweet and mellow and just seemed to want to spend time with mom. Ellie was still in her crib sleeping, so it was just me and Marshall, seated at our wooden kitchen table, with a few plastic eggs and a big blank sheet of paper and some crayons. I began with drawing the Easter story. I drew the cross and asked him what it was. He knew it, thanks to school and bible study mornings with his teachers. I drew Jesus on the cross. That's when I got hesitant. Would this be too gruesome for a 2 year old? Should I leave out the picture of Jesus on the cross? Should I not talk about the crucifixion. But a good friend who I respect and who works as a full-time nanny and who loves Jesus said to me, "It is never too early to talk about the cross." I believe she is right. She explained that as parents, we are building a foundation for our children right now. What foundation do I want to build? One that says that they get whatever they want? That they should be happy in life? That they can achieve their dreams? No. To me, the most important foundation for my children is that they know that we are sinners saved by grace. That God came down to us and died a gruesome death so that we can be reconciled and restored to a right relationship with him. That to me, is the foundation I want to build for my children above all else. Because everything else is secondary. So I proceeded. I drew Jesus on the cross, explaining the nails in his hands and his feet. Then I showed Marshall actually nails and a hammer. I showed him how they hammered the nails into his hands and his feet and how it was a very sad day. I talked about he cried out to his daddy, asking for help. I talked about how he was hurting and in pain but that he did it for us, for me, for you, for Marshall, for Ellie, for everyone. Because he loves us. I was amazed at how quiet Marshall was through it all. He held the nails in his hands and turned them over in his palm. Then he pointed to his feet and said, "Jesus boo boo." And I said, "that's right, Marshall. Jesus had some boo boo's that hurt very bad. He was very sad and he cried. But he did it for us. Because he loves us." Then, we talked about him dying and taking him off the cross and putting him in the tomb and how that was very sad. And I left him hanging for a bit. "Do you know what happened next, Marshall?" My eyes lit up and his did the same. He seemed to understand that was not all to the story. I drew the tomb with the rock rolled away and an angel on the rock. I explained that when the women went to the tomb to anoint him with oils, he was not there. "Where was Jesus, Marshall?" I said with a smile. And this is what blew me away. He began to sing "He is risen. He is risen." It was a song he had learned in his children's bible study class. I smiled. "Exactly!" And I began to sing with him. The rest of the Easter weekend, I continued to ask him what happened to Jesus. And he would tell me: Jesus had nails in his hands and his feet and he was very sad. He died on the cross. But then, he is risen! I was blown away by how much he could repeat back to me. And maybe that's all it is at this point - repeating words back to me. But that's okay, because he is building a foundation. And that foundation is on the truth that Jesus died for you and me, a sinner's death on calvary, by his blood we are saved. Hallejujah! On Easter Sunday morning during the worship service, I felt a deeper appreciation of the cross and what Jesus did for me. Something about saying it over and over with my little boy made me appreciate it in a deeper way. It is such a simple truth, but so profound. Thank you, Jesus, for what You did on the cross for all of humanity. Thank you for taking our places and dying a death that we could never die and paying the price that we could never pay. And thank you, Lord, for using my little two year old to teach me a greater appreciation of the cross. May Easter continually live on in our hearts...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Sitting at the Head of the Table
I was reading from Luke 14 today about the story of the dinner guests at the banquet. The room was bustling with people and lots of tables. As it came time to eat, everyone took a seat, all knowing which table was reserved for the guests of honor (like at a wedding, where the family and wedding party sit, usually with a good view of the festivities). This one guest assumed he was a guest of honor and grabbed a seat at the head table. To his surprise, the host of the party came up and asked him to move tables because someone else at the party was supposed to sit there, someone more "honorable" than him. Talk about a humiliating walk of shame to the "low" table in front of all the other guests! The moral of the story was...never assume you are the guest of honor at a party. Pick a humble seat and let the host of the party make that call, elevating you to the guest of honor table, rather than humiliating yourself in front of everyone else, arrogantly assuming you are a "guest of honor." For some reason, that story spoke to me in a new way today. As a mom and a Christian, there are many circles I walk in where I can easily feel like I should be included at the guest of honor table. In Christian circles, especially, it's easy to start thinking, well, I'm involved in x number of Bible studies, I am mentoring x number of women, I host x number of outreach events...I am obviously a "super Christian." What I love about Jesus and the entire story of the Bible is that it is totally flipped upside down. The way of the cross is a humiliating one. It looks weak. Jesus, the Son of God, was mocked, flogged, slandered, beaten, tortured, laughed at, spit upon and cursed. THE SON OF GOD. Why? For US. He took a humble seat at the table, going to the cross, refusing to send down fire and brimstone upon all of mankind (which he totally could have done and have every right to do!) and DYING for us. So that WE could be elevated to the position of guest of honor. He took the HUMBLE seat, so we could take the position of honor. When in fact, He completley deserved to walk right up and sit at the guest of honor table. But He didn't. Because He knew this was the only way we could truly sit at the guest of honor table. He had to humble himself...to death on a cross. Thank you, Jesus, as I am reminded of my arrogance and my demands and my rights and my expectations...you remind me, through the cross, how you set all of that aside. You - in perfect form - demanded nothing and gave everything. For US. Thank you.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Am I Praying to Engineer Outcomes?
My hubby constantly challenges me when I have conflict with someone in my life by asking "are you trying to engineer an outcome in this situation or are you loving them where they are?" Yikes. It's hard when you see someone in your life that you think is making a poor choice for themselves (or others) to not want to tell them what they should be doing to "fix" the problem. I am convicted that I do the same in my prayer life. How often do I go to God with a list of things that I want Him to change, both in myself and in others, and give Him the ANSWER. I tell Him what He needs to do. How funny is that, when you really think about it? He is GOD, for crying out loud. I think He knows what we need better than anyone because He created us...hellooo! But that doesn't necessarily mean that I can't ask God for things to change in people's lives, especially when there is sin and hurt and grief and destruction that is evident. But what I am being challenged by lately is that I have to pray for these people and these hurtful, destructive issues to change in their lives with OPEN HANDS, with an ATTITUDE OF SURRENDER. As Easter approaches, I am reminded of Jesus' words in the Garden of Gethsemene, before he headed to the cross. "Father, please take this cup from me...yet not my will, but Your will be done." That is a model way to pray for me. I can ask God: please Lord, change this person's heart...or please Lord, rescue this person from despair or lies or greed or addiction...but simultaneously praying: yet Lord, you know best. Your timing is best. Your knowledge of this situation is best. You know what this person needs better than anyone else. Not my will, but Your will be done. In doing that, I am surrendering my desires. I'm surrending my DEMAND for someone to change. I surrendering my EXPECTATIONS for what should happen in the situation, for what God should do, for how He should fix it. In that, I am releasing that person and situation to the Lord. And there is such PEACE in that! Because I am no longer holding onto and chomping on it and stressing about it and getting frustrated thinking about. Because I have RELEASED it to the Lord. I have humbly submitted myself to His reign, His sovereignty, His control over life. It's funny how...even in prayer, God is showing me that I don't trust Him. That I still think I am in control. So I will continue to reflect on my Savior...who turned His head toward the cross and in agony, knowing what lay ahead for Him, prayed, "Not my will, but Your will be done."
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A vintage cut high-rise with a straight leg, the Lucky Pins jean was made to wear high on the waist and achieve that effortless cool girl fit. Designed in a medium blue wash denim with a slight crop, these jeans take note from retro pin-up fits and makes your bum look pretty killer too, featuring classic 5-pocket styling, a zipper fly closure, whiskering effect, and light distressing for a broken-in look.
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Ordered because they were on sale-I am In between a 26-27,I thought I ordered a 26, but it was a 25. I was like-well I just see if it fits and well...it fit perfect. I would have never ordered a 25, but I love the way it fits me. So Size Down and it will Fit great.
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jamie 5/10/18
These are a nice summer weight denim with just enough stretch in them.
I would buy these again
Devra 5/5/18
Very disappointed. These are not cropped jeans at all even longer than most and very much boot cut. Not as pictured. This was a first as I've always had great results from Lucky Brand Jeans.
Sadly Returning these
Cindy 5/2/18
Great quality, poor fit for me. Returned. Turns out my waist/hip sizes (30 waist, 38 hips) align with men's sizes better than women's which makes it really hard for me to find jeans that fit me well. Hoped this straighter looking style would work out (because that's my shape) but they are still too loose in the hips and thighs when I order the size that fits my waist.
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Great, relaxed & comfy fit. Soft and light enough for summer.
I would buy these again
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This style looked like it might be exactly what I was looking for = a good straight style that comes up high enough on the waist that it won't keep slipping down. The color is nice, too. So I ordered it (they don't carry these in our store) in size 8/29 because my waist is 29-30. Well, the waist fit perfectly, but the hips and legs were enormous (my hips are 36-37" so, I guess I'm an odd shape). But I was hoping there would be some cut of Lucky jean that would fit people like me (I know I'm not the only one with this kind of shape - have seen some others comment about it). I'm not so much chunky in the waist as I am someone with a high waist - my hip bones come up higher than most women and that makes me have a minimal indent at my waistline. My shape is straight - people typically look at me and think I'm slender (I'm 5'7", 128 lbs and have been fairly athletic for years so have larger calves and shoulders than most women). Even when I was skinny as a rail (when going through chemotherapy) my waist was still 28" - it's just my body shape. Lucky makes such wonderful jeans, but every one I've ever tried on has been made only for people with the typical body measurements. I wish they had one style type that was for people with a less curvy shape. BTW - I absolutely ROCK a cigarette shape jean which was what I was hoping this would be.
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Nice denim and cut.
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The super high waist and cropped flare on this is very retro yet feels modern. The fabric feels great.
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The thread below got me researching quite a bit. Even though girls have never complained about the taste of my salty tea. Then again girls lie about that stuff when they like you. Then once they know they have you or you put a ring on they're finger and the BJ's stop. Sorry. OK, so i found this stuff called "Semenex." Its basically over priced powdered fruits, veggies and vitamins with great marketing. Its all BS. This is what they say: "Pineapple, Banana, Strawberry, Broccoli, and Celery at nine times their normal concentrations together with 3 essential spices and a select blend of vitamins and minerals"
Nine times they're normal concentrations? That would reflect in the nutritional values, but it doesn't. That's why I'm calling BS on them. And that's why we are going to make our own Thunders Place Semenex. Lets call it something else. "Disseminate Desert"? I'm not good with names so anyone have a better one post it.
So, as some of us know, the list of ingredients goes from first = highest amount contained in product to last = lowest amount. So if you click on the nutritional values link and look at the ingredients you will see that most of it is pineapple since it is first on the ingredients list.
Now, I'm going to make this really simple. Just cause I don't feel it really needs to be perfect as far as breaking down the cals/carbs/protein to get something very close to semenex's nutritional value.
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4 stalks of celery
5 strawberry's
2 multivitamins
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"Butterflies & kitty-cats"...doesn't that just sound so sweet and child-like? Hate to disappoint ya (or not) but I'm talking about the butterflies that have taken up residency in my stomach and my dear 'ole cat that is driving me a little nuts. :-s
Let's start with my best furry friend Cairo. Now Cairo and I have been a pair for over 16 years. Yep, since he was 6 weeks old. Of course I am very attached to him, so I have made certain that is in good hands while I am away. My friend Mia is housesitting for me, as she has so many times in the past. Cairo has a full stash of his favourite foods and treats, his trusty pillow is all clean, and Mia will care for him as if he was her own. So the cat should want for nothing right? I mean, he is, afterall, a cat. Well, not the case. I just had to pull out my suitcase and am suddenly struck by a severe case of "kitty cling". That's were my aloof cat decides he wants to be an ornament, permanently stuck to my shoulder. And don't forget the long, low "meeerreeeoooowww" he let out when I put the suitcase on the bed. Yes, he knows: Mommie is leaving!! I do try to reassure him that I'll be back, but really, how much does a cat understand words?? So, as of late I have the cat clinging to me at all times. I've even put off packing until tonight. Oh my little kitty cat...you'll be fine & I'll miss you too.
Now for the butterflies. On my days off (Wed & Thurs) I was so busy running errands and getting things organzied that it almost seemed surreal to me that I am going on this great trip, one that I've been planning for over a year. I was wondering if I was going to feel excited anytime soon. Well, Friday morning is when it kicked in. When I woke up realizing I only had 2 more days of work the butterflies moved in. I swear there must be 50 of 'em in there. I find myself looking up to the sky in search of a plane flying overhead. And since I am near the airport they appear on a consistent basis. The butterflies go crazy! And then there is all the well wishes from those around me. The butterflies think Paris! Even the liquor store is advertising Paris! Butterflies all over the place! So my stomach is fluttering about non-stop, but I wouldn't want it any other way. I want to feel it all!
Welcome to my Wanderings. I am traveler and wanderer, I dream of this big beautiful world. Wherever it is that I find myself, I take in what is around me. There is no set agenda for what I will write: places I have been, where I live or where I want to go. I hope you can take with you some of my dreams of the world that I intend to share.
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Because all I currently get for some of the SQL admins, is a white circle by a connected instance name. I have made the exceptions for sqlsrver.exe and sqlbrowser.exe as well as udp ports 1433 and 1434. To enable connections from another computer: On the Start menu, point toAll Programs, point toMicrosoft SQL Server 2008 R2, point toConfiguration Tools, and then clickSQL Server Configuration Manager. says: June 12, 2015 at 9:47 am Thank you for the concise tutorial. Reply ThienLong says: September 24, 2015 at 1:50 am Great instruction: work fine and detail.
I have made the exceptions for sqlsrver.exe and sqlbrowser.exe as well as udp ports 1433 and 1434. To enable connections from another computer: On the Start menu, point toAll Programs, point toMicrosoft SQL Server 2008 R2, point toConfiguration Tools, and then clickSQL Server Configuration Manager. says: June 12, 2015 at 9:47 am Thank you for the concise tutorial. Reply ThienLong says: September 24, 2015 at 1:50 am Great instruction: work fine and detail.