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Joshua Tree National Park encompasses approximately 800,000 acres of desert land just 40 miles east of the California-Nevada border. The land has been inhabited by humans for an estimated 5,000 years, filling it with a rich history as well as numerous archeological sites and historical structures. The park attracts thousands of visitors each week, many of whom opt to rent villas, ranch homes, and apartments nearby. The rental properties offer visitors the option of an extended stay at Joshua Tree without overextending their pocketbooks.
Famous for its biodiversity, Joshua Tree is home to more than 800 different plant species. Book your holiday rental between the months of March and June to view the impressive wildflowers in full bloom. A rental cabin will put you and your family right in the heart of the wilderness. Many of the local species close up during the cool nights and reopen with the sunshine in the morning, so don't be fooled by the barren appearance at twilight. Choose a holiday rental with a nice porch or expansive windows from which you can enjoy the view.
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The first is the Lost Horse Mine, a historical mine located inside the National Park. You can explore the mine itself or stroll along the 6.5 mile loop surrounding the site, where you can see other mines as well as Malpais Hill. The second must-see attraction is Carey's Castle, a series of abandoned caverns that were once inhabited by squatters who worked in the nearby mines.
With so much to do at the National Park, you won't want to make Joshua Tree a quick trip. Plan ahead and contact several holiday rentals to find a timeframe, budget, and location that best suits you. Cabins are available for those who prefer the rustic feel of nature, while private villas and apartments are decked out for guests looking for a bit more luxury. Securing a rental home in advance will save you money and allow you to relax and enjoy your holiday.
Save money during your holiday to Joshua Tree by stocking up on groceries and cooking meals in the comfort of your own kitchen. This is an amenity that only a holiday rental can offer. Need a change of pace? Stopover at Crossroads Café & Tavern. A locally owned business, serves American food and is lauded for its casual atmosphere and fresh fare. Crossroads is a great place for grabbing breakfast before a hike, or to refuel on your way out of the park. In a rush? Grab a few sandwiches to go from a popular local deli called Ricochet. Here you can find a healthy reprieve from typical dining, and meals are inexpensive!


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Peach & almond muffins
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal245
- fat10g
- saturates3g
- carbs34g
- sugars17g
- fibre1g
- protein7g
- salt0.34g
- 3 large eggs
The ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition, packed with protein and a…
- 100g golden caster sugar, plus a little extra for sprinkling
- few drops of almond extract
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Sweet almonds have a subtle fragrance that lends itself well to baking and also works well with…
- 25g butter, melted
Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk or cream into fat and…
- 100g self-raising flour
- 25g ground almonds
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Sweet almonds have a subtle fragrance that lends itself well to baking and also works well with…
- 2 small peaches
Sweet, juicy and fragrant, peaches are one of the most beautiful fruit around. Around the size…
- 2 tsp peach conserve or apricot jam
- 1 tbsp flaked almonds
- half-fat crème fraîche, to serve
Preheat oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7. In a large bowl, use a hand whisk to mix the eggs, sugar and almond extract together for a minute until foamy. Pour in the melted butter and continue to beat until combined. Gently fold in the flour, ground almonds and a pinch of salt.
Halve, stone and slice the peaches. Divide muffin mixture between 6 holes of a non-stick muffin tin. Top each with a blob of conserve or jam and arrange a few slices of peach on top. Scatter over the almonds and a little extra sugar, then bake for 20-25 mins until puffed up and golden. Serve warm with a spoonful of half-fat crème fraîche, or leave to cool. Best eaten the day they're made or frozen whilst still slightly warm for up to 1 month.
Recipe Tip
Get fruityTry apricots, nectarines or plums instead of peaches.

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In the beginning was a desire to unite beautiful wisdom from around the world and share it with as many people as possible so that we might return the human heart to the core of human creation. A desire to create projects that all people could participate in and benefit from, projects that unite nations, races, genders, generations and cultures, projects that are simply about BIG LOVE; that is planetary scale, universal, unstoppable love.
Children are the conduit for such an intention and our beginning project is firstly for them and ultimately for all of us. It begins with the creation of a circle, formed by those that share the vision and it builds and spirals out to reach and include all that we can.
A Thousand Grandparents & Bed Time Stories is a project that started as a small idea where children (young and old) can connect and hear tales of wonder, mystery and enlightenment from voices from all around the world.
A thousand wisdom keepers providing inspiring stories to soothe them, fill them with wonder, awe and sense of mystery. A place to go to where Big Love rules the day, a place where their hearts and minds can be blown wide open to the magic of life.
The fortunate amongst us will be blessed with the most precious memories of childhood, sitting by a fire with our grandparents and family members, listening to and being delighted by their stories, never wanting them to end and asking to hear more and more before bedtime.
It is surprising to realise just how many have missed the richness of this experience, and that this is not simply related to material poverty so much as a shift in values and a deepening poverty consciousness that leaves no time or energy to invest in the sharing of self with others.
This realisation gave rise to the question "What gift we would we give to children who are orphaned or who have very little access to emotional and spiritual nurturing through whatever circumstances, whether orphaned through physical loss or culturally?â€
The answer : A Thousand Grandparents, all different, some intense, some playful and all with different experience and wisdom to share. A Thousand Grandparents sharing the gift of presence, truth and intimacy of spirit for the world's children.
The project is set to provide a platform where people of every nation, culture, gender, age, belief system and walk of life are joining together to serve one beautiful cause; Wisdom and Love Without Borders.
The first 50 stories have been recorded and the next 100 are scheduled for recording in the next few months. Once the fist 250 stories are recorded the project will be ready to roll out to the public, with a plan to provide approximately 20 new stories a month in the first year and then building that number as we reach across nations, and the project and foundation become established.
To meet some of the storytellers Please Continue HERE …..
The goals for Phase 1 of the project are :
- Provide inspiration for the human spirit through fun.
- Develop and encourage a sense of universal wonder.
- Encourage a love of the natural world and magical connection to it.
- Break down barriers between different communities by showing and sharing wisdom from all cultures.
- Encourage bonds and understanding between the generations.
- Promote and celebrate the magic of elders.
- Provide a safe and trusted place to seek wisdom for those who do not currently have such blessings.
- Open up a sense of abundance consciousness.
- Deliver wisdoms for self realisation.
- Bring joy!
For more information on the vision for the project and the future phases and benefits that the project aims to brings Please Continue Reading HERE ….
If this vision resonates with you please Join us and help us build this Circle of Big Love and Delight Making.


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I'd never propose that book burning is OK. But what if we're talking ebooks?
Made of wood to prove some sort of point that we totally get, but because we understand it so well, we'd feel embarrassed explaining, the Amazon Kindling is the only wooden, wireless reading device on eBay today. Sure, a paper book might hold more pages, but paper makes for a short-lived campfire...though secondhand Danielle Steel paperbacks are probably in better supply these days than actual trees. [eBay and Evil Mad Scientist and cockeyed via Treehugger]


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By Erica Messner
The University of Rochester's Mount Hope Family Center has been awarded a $1.6 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to provide treatment for children from civilian and military families who have been exposed to trauma, including domestic violence. Led by Sheree Toth, the center's executive director and associate professor of psychology, the project also will help institutions locally and nationally provide effective interventions for families struggling with violence and other types of distress.
Research has shown that military families face unique challenges. Children may experience traumatic stress from the loss or deployment of their parents, while couples may face increased risks for intimate partner violence. Among soldiers returning from combat, self-reported rates of violence between spouses is greater than 50 percent, considerably higher than the national average among civilians, said Toth. Veterans also experience high rates of posttraumatic stress and depression, conditions that are known to put families at risk for abuse, she explained.
"But if you look on a national level, the focus of psychological services for reserves and former military personnel is not on children and spouses," said Toth. "There is a well-documented gap in support for those children and families who struggle with violence in the home."
That's where Promoting Emotional Adjustment in Children Exposed to Violence (PEACE) will make a difference. The program aims to treat 90 Rochester-area children and their parents per year, reaching a total of 720 participants over the projected four years of the grant. Project PEACE is the center's first program directly targeting military families. Participants will include the families of soldiers on active duty, in the National Guard and in the reserves, as well as veterans. Children who have experienced trauma also will be recruited through the Department of Human Services.
The center will provide three types of customized support for families tailored to the age of the children, the needs of the family, and the types of trauma involved. "All of the services are evidence-based, meaning that extensive research has confirmed the effectiveness of the treatments," said Toth. The services are free, and offered at convenient locations for families to encourage participation.
For children up to six years of age, the center focuses on Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), a highly effective therapy that seeks to strengthen the emotional connection between children and parents. "If a parent has a history of trauma, perhaps they've been maltreated as a child, they may not have the skills necessary to parent in a more positive way," explained Toth. "ChildParent Psychotherapy helps such parents recognize how their past can affect their current caregiving and teaches more effective and nurturing ways of relating to their child."
A second program for children ages three to 17 is Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT). "This one-on-one treatment assists the child, in a sense, develop a narrative about the trauma they've been exposed to, and then helps them develop more effective ways of thinking and coping in their daily lives," said Toth.
A third approach aimed at youths age five to 17 works with the family as a whole. Called Alternatives for FamiliesA Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (AF-CBT), the program helps families understand how thoughts and experiences affect behavior and provides guidance for modifying destructive habits. "The program is typically directed towards families where physical violence has occurred," said Toth.
Project PEACE also focuses on making such treatments more widely available to both military and civilian families. In Rochester, more than 50 percent of children live in poverty and the city has the highest rate of violent crime in New York State. A Community Advisory Board will work to improve treatment and services for children who have been exposed to violence. Board membership will draw from a variety of organizations involved in child health, services, and advocacy including the Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership at the University of Rochester, Alternatives for Battered Women, Center for Youth, Children's Institute, Department of Human Services, Mercy Community Services, Monroe County Family Court, Office of Mental Health Promotion, Rise Up Rochester, St. John Fisher College School of Nursing, University of Rochester's REACH clinic and Warner School of Education, U.S. Marine Corps, and the Veterans Outreach Center. The board also may include family members from the program.
"We'll distribute flyers and have emissaries throughout the community to get the word out," said Toth. "The board will make connections and provide feedback on the services. Dr. Kate Cerulli, director of the Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership, also will hold focus groups with families that might benefit from services in both military and non-military populations to get a sense of what they think they need."
Mt. Hope Family Center works in partnership with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network to share its treatment methods with training centers and service providers across the country.


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The 'It' Color of the Year for 2013
Pantone unveil its color of the year for 2013. On Lunch Break, Pantone's Leatrice Eiseman explains the choice and WSJ's Christine Binkley looks at what it will mean for people's wardrobes, homes and lifestyle this year and next.
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My man Jon Weisman interviews Cos over at Variety:
"There has always been a mystery, to me, about ad-libbing, that was answered maybe 20 years ago," he says. "Jonathan Winters is the only man that I know who would walk out and hell's a poppin'. The only one. I think that the rest of us mortals – 12% on a fantastic night – ad lib. So everything that I do when I'm working comes from the thought of something to writing, whether I'm walking with no pencil, no paper — just walking and thinking and setting the thing in story form. That's the way I work, in story form, so that I could have a funny idea or an idea that says, look there's got to be something funny about all this, right?
"I'll take you all the way back to the time I was playing Greenwich Village — and by the way I don't care what anybody says, my place was the Gaslight, not the Bitter End. It was the Gaslight. I'm in Manhattan, I'm living there, I've gone from $60 a week to $125, and I've made my mother very unhappy because I left Temple University, I've made my father very unhappy because my father wanted me to play my senior year and maybe go into pro ball.
"I live over the Gaslight in the storage room, and I bathe in the bathroom. I play basketball at Waverly Place, I finish, and I come back and shower. I think, there's got to be something funny about riding up the subway train, because when I'm riding it, things happen. I know there's something, but I can't in storytelling put it together. I write and I talk about what I see on the subway. It doesn't feel funny, and so the audience also told me that. But I'm still working in a storytelling mode. The trick comes in as I'm talking to someone about New York City, Manhattan, Broadway, off-Broadway. The night clubs (with their) three-drink minimum. Manhattan is very, very expensive.
"The idea comes. I now have the setup for what I've been saying about people on the subway train. … This city is very, very expensive. Don't forget, this is 1963. But New York is also very benevolent. What the city has set up, on the subway trains you pay — and I don't remember what the price was – and you are entertained because New York City has put a nut in every car. And I would imitate the different acts.
"So that's what it needed, was what most comedy writers called a set-up, so people would see clearly. In my writing, I will also keep my senses open. Even with what you saw, I was still thinking. I was still working. I was still searching … If I'm John Coltrane and the song is 'Bye Bye Blackbird,' and time, the seconds, everything is ticking, and there's movement as I speak, it's the beginning, middle and end — but there's also a opening, listening to one's self, that never gives up on a piece. You can't tell time by what I do. When you don't see (the flexibility) any more, that means I don't know anything else about this piece."


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JOHN MacARTHUR: Hello there, this is John MacArthur, Bible teacher on Grace To You. It's my joy to welcome you to this very special Friday edition. As you can already tell, we're breaking from our usual format and you're in for a bit of a different experience today.
For the past couple of weeks on Grace To You, as you know if you've been listening, you've been hearing me teach a brand-new series of lessons that I call "Hard to Believe." Well that's also the title of my newest book, Hard To Believe. The thrust of the series and the new book, just this, that many of today's churches have abandoned the gospel message that Jesus Himself taught, a hard-to-believe message that included self-denial and some very difficult demands. Instead, they've offered up an easy man-centered, non-confrontational gospel that focuses on meeting people's felt needs in their desire for self-fulfillment. In other words, I've been saying many in today's church are being offered a different gospel then the one found in Scripture and with dire and even damning results.
Well, as you can imagine, my series in the new book have raised some urgent questions in people's minds about the gospel and about the church's approach to evangelism. So for the next half hour I'm going to sort of be on the hot seat. Phil Johnson, the executive director here at Grace To You is in the studio with me to represent you, really, the listeners and probe some of the questions you might have as a result of this study.
Phil, welcome.
PHIL JOHNSON: Thanks, John. I do have some questions for you. I've read the book and it's a wonderful book, by the way.
JOHN: Thank you.
PHIL: And it really epitomizes your message over the years, it sums up much of what you've taught for years so it's nothing new. But this book and this series, Hard to Believe, cuts across the grain of so many segments of evangelical Christianity today that I know we have many listeners who are going to be eager to ask you some questions, some specific questions that have come up as a result of what you have been saying. So I'll get to those questions in a minute, but to launch this discussion, why don't you give us a quick summary of the book and tell listeners where the idea for Hard To Believe came from.
And why this book and why now?
JOHN: Well, you know, that question could take me a long time to answer because I'd have to go back many years. Let me just start with when I was a seminary student. You know, when we were in seminary and we were being trained to go out into ministry and there were certain sensibilities and sensitivities and issues in the world and in the Christian culture at the time that the seminary sort of felt they needed to armor us for. So we were prepared to fight certain battles, you know, the inerrancy of Scripture, the deity of Jesus Christ, eschatology, ecclesiology, church order. And so, you know, we were sort of armed to expect that there were going to be battles on certain fronts.
But I'll tell you something. One thing I never expected was that I would spend most all of my ministry life trying to protect the gospel from evangelicals.
PHIL: Wow!
JOHN: Nobody ever warned me about that. But, you know, that really, Phil, has been the definitive nature of my ministry beyond Grace Community Church where I pastored. First, I became greatly distressed at the "no lordship" gospel and I wrote a book called The Gospel According To Jesus which dealt with that issue and turned out to be a massive best seller because the issue was a lot bigger than people thought. Then there were books written against that book, so I responded with The Gospel According to the Apostles.
Then the "seeker-friendly" movement came in so I wrote a book called Ashamed of the Gospel, trying to get the church to get back to the gospel. And now I realize that the evangelical world is filled with people who sit in churches who think they understand the gospel and think they believe the gospel and maybe think they're saved, but what they have believed is a cheap substitute for the real thing.
Past the arguments of theologians, past the debates in seminaries, past the rhetoric between writers of books, we now come to the reality that sitting in churches all over this country and other parts of the world where this stuff has been exported are people who are deceived about their spiritual condition. And this book was written to speak not to the theological debate, but to speak to the guy or the gal sitting in the pew who is deceived about their spiritual condition because they've been given a cheap substitute for the gospel.
PHIL: Yeah, I noticed when I read it, there's not that sort of polemic side to it, but it's just a straightforward exposition of the texts of Scripture. Powerful stuff but you sort of draw together all the threads of what you said in Ashamed of the Gospel, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ.
JOHN: Yeah. Well it's a different style. I mean, the first chapter is titled, "Taste great, less filling." You couldn't get away with that in a theological discussion. But, I mean, the idea is to appeal to the person out there. The book is written to be read in a fast pace. It's alive. It's...I think it's actually kind of electrifying. It's a different style for me. It's trying to get to that reader who is not going to sit down and read a polemical theological argument, but the truth is put in terms that I think are going to grip the heart and the mind of people and show them what the true gospel is. And not only for the people who may be self-deceived, but for people who are responsible to proclaim the gospel who are having that whittled down and they need to sharpen their understanding of the truth.
PHIL: Well, let's explain the title a bit. When you say "Hard to believe," you're talking about the gospel, right?
JOHN: Yeah, the gospel is hard to believe. You would think today that it was easy to believe, easy to become a Christian. We talk about easy believism. Bonhoffer coined the term "cheap grace." You know, we've reduced the gospel to slick little formulas and mottos and slogans and cute little invitations and organ music and slick little motivational experienced and things to move people into some easy acceptance of the gospel.
The gospel is hard to believe. The reason it's hard to believe is because the cross is hard to believe. That's part of it and I deal with that in the book. But I think most notably what makes it hard to believe is that in order to truly believe the gospel, a person has to overthrow their whole sense of self. In other words, they have to literally come to the conviction that they are not what they think they are. In other words, it's the fact that instead of accepting yourself as you are, instead of being proud about what you are, instead of feeling that you need to fulfill yourself and you need to raise your self-esteem, the gospel really says you have to deny yourself. You have to literally kill yourself. Jesus actually said, "You have to hate yourself, everything you are." That's what makes it so hard to swallow the gospel. And that's what is, I think, very carefully being omitted from the gospel because that's such a scandalous and offensive message. I mean, after all, Jesus comes to a synagogue, and I point this out, deal with it in the book, first time He has ever preached He preaches one sermon in His hometown synagogue to His family, His friends, people He grew up with and they try to kill Him after one sermon. Talk about making people mad. And it wasn't heaven that made them mad, and it wasn't forgiveness of sin that made them mad, it was the indictment of their true wretched spiritual condition that infuriated them. And that is the part of the gospel that the natural man can't swallow. And that's what makes it so hard to believe because you've got to go there and admit that.
PHIL: So let's just be clear. You're not saying this is something new. I mean, the gospel has always been the gospel. You're not...are you saying that the message today is harder to believe than it ever has been? Or...
JOHN: No, it's not any new message. God, forbid. What I'm trying to do is go back to the original old message and let the old message inform people who are buying into the new gospel. What we have today floating out there in the market-minded, church-growth movement is a synthetic gospel. It's a fabrication of marketing guys, people who are trying to find what sells. And it's not the true gospel. I'm not offering a new gospel. What I'm doing is taking people back to the only gospel that exists, and bringing that gospel to bear against what is essentially a new gospel being offered today.
PHIL: Now you've talked about self-denial, and self-abandonment. The minute you use terms like that, there are people today who would respond by saying, "Well then you're making a gospel of works. You're denying the grace in the gospel. If I have to abandon myself and deny myself, isn't that a work I must do?"
JOHN: No, there's no work that you can do. In fact...that's just a...that's like a straw man, that's just inventing something that doesn't exist. What we're talking about when we say it's hard to believe is just saying you have to allow yourself to accept the biblical diagnosis of your life and who you are. You have to respond simply to the real, convicting work of the truth and the convicting power of the Holy Spirit. Was there any works in the publican who falls on his face, pounds his breast, won't lift up his eyes so much as to look even upward and cries beating on his chest, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner?"
PHIL: No, in fact he was admitting there was no work that he could possibly do.
JOHN: No work at all. All he's saying is, "I need mercy. I accept the diagnosis."
I've been reading a book on the..some of the men who did the King James translation and one of them that fascinates me, this is back in 1603 to 1611, is a man named Lancelot Andrews. This is a Christian man who was given charge of a group of twelve people who did a whole section of the translation of the King James. And it was said of him by all his contemporaries that he had this amazing personal discipline. He spent five hours every day..the first five hours after waking, before dawn, the first five hours in prayer and all five hours in prayers of penitence, all five hours rehearsing his utter unworthiness before God. And he did this as a habit of life, not at the day he was converted to Christ. And what he was simply...this is so far from anything we could imagine today, was bringing himself before God in the realization that here he was with the responsibility to translate the Word of the living God in what would be the Authorized Version, the only acceptable official version for all the people who spoke English and understanding the utter inability of his own natural talents, insights, wisdom and nature, just desperately confessing to God and then pleading for God to fill in with the necessary grace to be able to achieve this task. We're not talking about a works situation, we're talking about abandoning oneself totally to the reality that you bring nothing to bear and are desperately dependent upon God.
PHIL: One of the most popular movements in the church today is this movement called, "Seeker Sensitivity," seeker sensitive church growth approach where the idea is to make the unbeliever feel as comfortable as possible in church. That just seems like the very opposite of what you're talking about here.
JOHN: It is the very opposite of what I'm talking about. The only way that a person can be saved is to feel miserable, to feel terrible, to feel angry at the diagnosis. As I said, I go back to that so often in Luke 4, Jesus preached one sermon, indicted the people and they tried to kill Him. Eventually they did kill Him, the whole country rose up and killed Him. All the religious leaders killed Him. They didn't kill Him because He promised them heaven and they didn't want heaven. They didn't kill Him because He promised them joy and peace and happiness. They didn't kill Him because He, you know, told them that they were going to be better priests and better Pharisees and Sadducees and they'd have a happier life and a better marriage and their kids would get along better. They killed Him because He told them they were wretched sinners who could do nothing to redeem themselves and they needed to fall on their faces and cry out to God for mercy. And the other side of that, Luke 18 passage, is the Pharisee who is in there and what is his prayer? "Lord, I thank You that I'm not like other men, I fast and I tithe, and I do all this and I keep the Law." And Jesus said, the other man went home justified, not that man. And that's what infuriates the sinner is the diagnosis. The sooner you get to the diagnosis, the better. And schmoozing people based upon their felt needs misses the point. Jesus never preached a sermon on anybody's personal disappointments. Never preached a sermon on anybody's personal disillusionment, on anybody's personal addictions, or personal abuse. He never called for people in a bad marriage to come to Him so He could fix their life. He never called for people who were struggling with their career. He never did that. Paul never did that. No apostle ever did that. You won't find a model for that on the pages in the New Testament.
What He did do was very clear when He said, "I haven't come to call the righteous, I've come to call sinners to repentance." And so the message of the gospel is you're a sinner and it all boils down to that one great verse which much of the book is based on, Luke 9:23, "If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself." All your self-assessment, the way you view yourself, all your dreams, ambitions, desires, hopes, lusts, longings, you deny them all. In other words, the Greek language there is really powerful. The verb "deny" is to refuse to associate with. And what the sinner has to say is, "I refuse to associate any longer with the person that I am." I mean, that is just powerful. And that's what the gospel demands and calls for. You deny yourself, you take up your cross which means you put your life on the line even if it means death, and you follow Christ. Which is to say, "I'm not in charge anymore, this is the end of me. This isn't going to make me all I want to be, this is the end of me and I will follow Christ wherever He leads. He is now the sovereign of my life."
You know, this is nothing more than the cost of discipleship. This is a call for people to understand that the cost of discipleship is really the cost of salvation.
PHIL: Now let's be clear. You're talking about the message here that we preach to unbelievers. You wouldn't argue that we should...that we should do things to make unbelievers uncomfortable in church? For example, we have padded pews and air-conditioning in our church, it's the message you're talking about.
JOHN: Well that's as much for the preacher as it is for the sinners.
PHIL: You're talking about tampering with the message. Is it possible, do you think, to have this sort of seeker-sensitive mentality and not tamper with the message? Is it possible to preach faithfully the gospel and be driven by a concern about what makes unbelievers comfortable?
JOHN: Well, I think you can make them comfortable physically. I think you can make them comfortable kind of emotionally. I mean, in other words, you can speak the truth in love. And I mean, you need to do that. I just don't think if you're going to preach the true gospel you can make them comfortable spiritually. I think it's very dis-quieting, troubling, disturbing.
I did a funeral recently for a dear friend who died suddenly and he was involved in the Hollywood industry and the church was...well, I think you were there. The church was packed with all these Hollywood people.
PHIL: Right.
JOHN: And I got some interesting feedback. Some people were infuriated. One memo that came to me said, "Who in the world does this guy think he is to stand up in public and speak the way he spoke?"
Now the church was air-conditioned. It's a beautiful place. We had glorious music, you remember.
PHIL: Right.
JOHN: The seats are comfortable. The PA system works fine. All the better, right? All the better because you've got no excuse not to listen to the message.
PHIL: That's right.
JOHN: So we're not advocating misery. I'm not saying we should have, you know, right angled wooden benches, you know, and everybody in there sweating and make it as miserable as possible and have an off-key soprano sing. What we're talking about here is we cannot allow ourselves to make the sinner comfortable spiritually.
PHIL: And what you're saying is that this obsession with the unchurch person's comfort has affected the message.
JOHN: No question.
PHIL: With modern evangelicals proclaim.
JOHN: Exactly right. You know, everybody's...you go to a pastors' conference today and it's about the parking and it's about the latte machines and it's about the seats and it's about the music and the style and make sure they can really...they can really jive with the style, you know, that it's a style they're comfortable with. And we've got them all schmoozed. And once you start becoming preoccupied with that, you have to stop at some point and you've got to stop with all that stuff...short of the message. But that just doesn't seem to happen. That move to make the sinner comfortable eventually embraces the message. In fact, many of these churches are having people in the congregation develop the sermons and so the pastor becomes something like an actor who gets up and based upon a committee-made sermon gives the sermon that the people themselves have invented.
PHIL: Wow, I can't imagine you doing that.
JOHN: No. Well, you know what? You have to ask this question. Who's called here? I would venture to say, and this may be a bold statement to make, that there are many people in churches like that who are neither called to preach, nor gifted to preach. They're...you know, they're like, I don't know, personalities, and they can...they can give out with some glibness the sort of message that the culture and the congregation has put together for them and they can adjust it and tweak it. But that's very different than a man of God who goes into the Word of God and by the power of the Spirit of God operating through the Word and his own heart comes out with a message from God.
I mean, that's...what is that? I don't know..there isn't even a biblical definition for that. So you...the New Testament pattern is that a man called by God, gifted by God, prepared by God who studies the Word of God deeply comes out and speaks in behalf of God, not in behalf of a committee of people in the congregation who have tweaked this deal so that it appeals to the people they rub elbows with.
PHIL: Yeah. Well, you're listening to Grace To You with Bible teacher, John MacArthur. I'm Phil Johnson, executive director of Grace To You. And I'm in the studio talking with John today about some questions that have been raised by his new book and our recent series entitled, Hard To Believe.
John, I've read the book and the point you're making is not really an obscure one in Scripture, is it? Even as you mentioned, when Jesus preached, people hated what He said. Even the Apostle Paul said that the gospel is a stumbling block, it's an offense.
JOHN: Well, I mean, you know, let's be honest, Phil, we sat down when the book was finished and what did we say? We said, "It's too long." Remember that discussion? And we took five chapters out. Five chapters that deal with the same issue from different texts. It's all over the place.
I read yesterday a little article about a Christian man in a Muslim country. He...just recently. He proclaimed his faith, he's the father of five children. Some local people in his town took him out and slaughtered him. It changed nothing in his family. The little church in that Muslim town knelt together to celebrate his home going and reaffirmed their own faithfulness to the gospel.
PHIL: Wow.
JOHN: This is nothing new. This is Christian history. More Christians are dying today for the gospel than at any other period of time in history, by the tens of thousands, many in Muslim countries and other countries where there is severe execution.
PHIL: That's amazing. We're so isolated from that in our American evangelicalism.
JOHN: Well the whole American...you know, this whole deal only works in America. You can't sell this seeker-friend deal in another country in the world, you can't sell a Third World country. I'll tell you something else, you can't sell it below the tracks. You can't sell it in impoverished areas of America. It's a...it's a yuppie message and it's...what I say..it's a designer kind of gospel that strips the real truth out. So this isn't nothing new, it's all over Scripture, it's everywhere in Scripture. As I said, we took chapters out just to make the book more brief so people wouldn't get bogged down. But it's just the history of the church, the gospel that's always come with a great price. The price is the end of my life and sometimes that's physical.
I mean, I've ministered in Russia for years and years and years and I remember one American evangelical group went over there and they...they met with some leaders and they went around and visited. And they met with the churches and they said, "Ah, we decided we're not going to work with the churches..."
PHIL: Really....
JOHN: "Cause it's filled with little old ladies and we don't think we can reach this culture with little old ladies."
And I said to this guy, I said, "Do you know why the church is full of little old ladies? Because the little old men were exiled to Siberia or executed. You better learn something from those little old ladies about what it means to be a Christian."
Well they tried an enterprise, you remember that, all over Russia and it was a massive failure. They tried to sort of import over there the kind of things they do over here. So...I just think that suffering for the gospel is part of it. We just happen to live in a country where we're not called upon to pay the kind of price that many Christians around the world are.
PHIL: No, and in fact it seems to me that in many venues of some of these mega churches, the softened approach to preaching the gospel with all the hard bits eliminated has drawn huge crowds. It's widely successful in many contexts. Do you ever...are you ever concerned that by preaching the gospel as you've outlined it in this book that you actually may be driving people away?
JOHN: You know, my responsibility is not to draw a crowd. If I want to draw a crowd, I'd have dancing ladies and pink elephants and give away money. I mean, it's easy to draw a crowd. Or go to a football game, there's a crowd there. It's not about a crowd. I mean...what would you say about Jesus? You know, at the end of His Galilean ministry when He had risen from the dead and went to Galilee to meet them, there were 500. Five hundred and I'll tell you what, He did some pretty convincing things, right? My goodness, He banished disease from Israel. He did miracle after miracle, day after day after day after day He proved who He was. His preaching was unlike the teaching of anybody else ever. I mean, going to a meeting where Jesus was the speaker would be beyond description, right?
PHIL: Right.
JOHN: I mean, you see lame people walk and blind people see and deaf people hear and dead people out of the grave, and, you know, when you get hungry He creates food. And then when He wants to go somewhere else, He walks on water. I mean, you talk about drawing a crowd and He did...but at the end of the day and when it came time for the heads to be counted, after the resurrection there were 500. And in Jerusalem after one year and then after the Galilean ministry, came back and many more months in Judea, there were 120 gathered in the upper room. ..120. And when the whole church launches after the ministry of Jesus, the first day that the church was really filled with the Holy Spirit and it took its sort of original shape, 3,000 people believed. One meeting, 3,000 believed and then it starts to multiply rapidly. And it has always struck me how interesting it is that the apostles saw the church grow faster than Jesus did. So you don't ever want to compare somebody's numbers with somebody else's. It's really about faithfulness to the truth. The apostles also, as you well know, alienated their communities, even though God was in His purpose building the church and they almost all were martyred for their faithfulness to the gospel message.
PHIL: Let me ask you the opposite question. Why would anyone respond to a message that's so hard? How do you explain the multitudes over the centuries who have responded to the true gospel?
JOHN: Because the Holy Spirit of God is convicting their hearts. They are spiritually dead. What are you going to do for somebody who is dead? You know, you might as well go into a mortuary, go into the room with all the dead bodies and tell everybody to get up as to go into a room full of sinners and by your own wisdom and cleverness try to raise the spiritually dead. The spiritually dead are only going to have life if God gives it to them. The spiritually blind are only going to have sight if God gives it to them. The spiritually ignorant, the natural man who understand not the things of God are only going to come to the understanding of the truth if God in His grace grants it to him. And God has clearly laid out in Scripture that He alone gives life to the dead, that He alone gives sight to the blind, that He alone gives knowledge to the ignorant.
And He does that by means of the preaching of Scripture truth. So my responsibility is not to figure out clever ways to raise dead people, clever ways to make blind people see or ignorant people to understand. My responsibility is to proclaim clearly the truth of God which then becomes the means by which the Spirit of God does His work.
PHIL: It is really the foundation of what you're saying, isn't it?
JOHN: Oh, that's the foundation of the whole Christian gospel. That's the whole story of redemption. I mean, it's all of God and not of us. It is God who determined to reconcile sinners. It is God who devises the plan, who writes the names down before the foundation of the world in the Lamb's Book of Life. It is God who determines that He's going to send His Son into the world to be a sacrifice for sin. It is God who comes to Mary and creates the seed in Mary. It is God who brings about the virgin birth. It is God who pre-determines the cross. It is God who raises Jesus from the dead. It is God who sends the Holy Spirit. It is God who gives the life. And all He asks us to do is go out there and present the message, the true message.
PHIL: And, in fact, don't you think that what underlies this notion that we need to make the gospel as approachable and comfortable for people as possible, what underlies that is the misconception a lot of people that somehow it's my duty as the evangelist of the preacher or the Christian to win people to Christ by making Him more acceptable to them, or more popular to the crowds, or whatever?
JOHN: Yeah, again you're inventing Christ. I was on Larry King that night and I was with Father Manning, a priest, and he kept saying, "My Jesus isn't like that, and my Jesus isn't like that."
I said, "Look, you don't have a Jesus. There is Jesus period, not yours and mine or anybody else's." I think I said, "You can't make a designer Jesus," either on the air or off the air. You can't...you don't invent Jesus. He is who He is. So we're not trying to make a Jesus that's acceptable.
I really...you know, Phil, I believe that the motivation for this is so warped. We forget this, that the gospel is not about life in this world. That's got to be made clear. People are really getting confused not only by the Jesus we present, not only by the sort of pulling out the hard parts of it, but we seem to be presenting a gospel that focuses only on life in this world...fix my marriage, you know, fix my family, you know, I don't like the way I look, help me hit more home runs, or straighten out my slice, bump my career a few notches, I want to feel better about myself, I want to feel better about the future, I want to get all of the little issues in my life fixed. That isn't what the gospel promises. There isn't any of that in the gospel.
What the gospel is talking about is the life to come. Talking about eternal life. So when we approach the sinner, first of all here's where the major comfort comes. How can I really make a sinner comfortable? I want to do that, right? I want to win him over. How am I going to do that?
I'm going to do that by saying this to him. You're going to die and I'm going to tell you how you can enjoy eternal bliss. I have the best news you have ever heard. I'm going to tell you about heaven, about an unspeakable joy, about eternal life with all its magnificent promises. I'm going to give you the best news there is.
I think that's the comfortable message of the gospel. That's how you draw the sinner's attention. I'm not talking about something temporary, folks, I'm talking about forever. You're going to spend forever somewhere...here's hell, here's heaven and I'm here to tell you, you can spend your eternity in unspeakable, unimaginable, inconceivable happiness, bliss, and joy. Now that's the comfortable message of the gospel.
But the uncomfortable reality is that you will only be able to do that if you understand that there's only one way to get there, and that's to admit you're a sinner. I do think in presenting the gospel, we're not just trying to make people feel terrible, we're trying to offer them something that will make them feel eternally wonderful but the path to getting there is to understand the diagnosis of your condition.
PHIL: So it's good news but the irony is it's hard to believe.
JOHN: And let's be loving about that presentation of heaven and let's be hopeful. Like when I...that's what I did at the funeral. I said, "He's in heaven and you can be there. And here's what it's like..." And the guy is furious, not because he hated heaven, but because he hated the diagnosis. So, you know, we need to make the...I think again, the church has not only stopped talking about sin, it stopped talking about eternal life. Everything is about fix me here. The gospel doesn't promise to fix you here. You may have a bad marriage till you die, you may have bad kids till you die. You may have cancer and die before you thought you'd die. You may lose all your money in the stock market. Your house might burn down. Jesus doesn't promise to fix that. Contrary to what you hear from health, wealth and prosperity teachers, the only people who seem to get wealthy off that are the people who take your money. The gospel does not promise that. But it does promise eternal life.
PHIL: Well, I wish we could go on, John. We're almost out of time but I do have one last question for you. Your book, Hard To Believe is available now and people are reading it and soaking in a message that most of them haven't even heard before. So what would you hope the response would be to this book? What is the one change you need...you believe needs to be made today in terms of our understanding and communication of the gospel message?
JOHN: Great, can I have two things that I want to have come out of that?
JOHN: One, I want people who think they're saved and they're not to hear the truth. I mean, I can't think of anything more horrible than to be under that deception and delusion. Secondly, I want pastors and evangelists to get it right because we are accountable to God. Stop being so many teachers, the Bible says, for theirs is a greater condemnation. We can be condemned by God for a lot of things as preachers and teachers. We could be disqualified, as Paul says, for a lot of things. The worst would be because we messed up the message.
So, I want this book to get into the hands of the guy in the pew who doesn't really understand the gospel. I want it to get in the hands of the people in the pulpit who are bound before God to proclaim the truth. And everybody else in between so we all understand what the gospel is so we can do what the Lord has mandated us to do and that is to spread the true gospel around the world. Forget the technique, forget the style, forget the mode, forget the music, forget all the peripheral stuff. We have to get the gospel right and it is not that complicated. It's, you know, the Old Testament says a wayfaring man, though he be a fool, need not error. Jesus said, "Unless you become as a little child, you can't enter the Kingdom." This is not complex, it's crystal clear but it's...it's just not the message we're hearing today.
Hey, thank you, Phil. That was great. You're just a great guy to talk with on these issues because you're so astute as a Bible teacher and preacher yourself. And I'm thankful for our partnership in ministry together. You mean so much to me.
Well, pick up Hard To Believe, folks. That's all I can say. And you can get it at your Christian bookstore everywhere. You can even get this book, Hard To Believe, at local warehouse club, they're carrying it as well. If you can't find it there, call or order from Grace To You.
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It's been an interesting couple of weeks. A whirlwind of challenges swooping into my usually happy, upbeat daily existence. At work, a disgruntled client and a whiplashed team. At home, childcare logistical conundrums, preparations for a change of routine with school graduations and the start of camp. Nothing insurmountable, but enough to cause some self-doubt, angst, hand-wringing and yes, tears.
It's very easy to get sucked into your own personal dramas. Especially if your energy is drained, your confidence is in a funk and there's no clear path between each of the small obstacles cluttering your mind. Not to mention the crushing feeling when you put them all together – especially during the night when they conspire at the very edge of REM and blur reality with nightmares.
Truth is, my issues are wrinkles in the usual carefree life that I am incredibly lucky enough to enjoy.
But each of us has drama. These past two weeks I've heard of, shared, and listened to the dramas afflicting family, friends and colleagues. Sickness, divorce, heartbreak, death. On the flip-side of the doom and gloom, there have also been new babies on the brink of arrival, romances rekindled, achievements and breakthroughs.
A veritable slice of life.
I've been reminded that, to move through your own personal funk, you have to look outward. Perspective and empathy go hand-in-hand, each bolstering the other – a veritable renewable energy source. First, being able to express your woes to an active, empathetic listener helps you grieve, crystallize, process and ultimately, rationalize. Second, being the listener, providing an ear and a shoulder, as well as counsel if warranted, provides the source of focus, a mirror for perspective, new strength.
I'm not really sure where I am going with this, except to say that I've been on both sides of the fence and it's actually very healthy. If all I do is bitch and moan about my issues, then quite frankly, I wouldn't want to spend much time with me. But if, by being an empathetic listener, I can help – as well as find perspective to my own problems – then together we move forward.


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The other day I was at Publix and I got to try one of their Apron Simple Meals and I was pleasantly surprised at how tasty it was. It was a panko crusted chicken with spiced carrots and rice. I had just stopped in to pick up something quick and was actually on my way to meet a friend, so I didn't think anything more about it until it was approaching dinner time that night. Stumped for a good meal idea, I remembered that chicken and went back up to Publix to get the recipe, and the ingredients. The only not so good part of the meal was the boil in the bag rice on the side, I knew I could do better. Inspired by the hummus coasted chicken (more on that later) I decided to do a Mediterranean flavored tabouleh using up some of my end of summer produce - cucumbers, tomatoes, etc. This is what I came up with.
1 5.25oz box tabouleh (I used Near East Taboule)
1 c boiling water
3 tbs olive oil
2 tbs fresh-squeezed lemon juice
1 c diced heirloom tomatoes
1 c diced cucumber
1/3 c crumbled feta
1/3 c sliced kalamata olives
1/3 c chopped parsley
1 tbs chopped fresh oregano
1 tbs chopped fresh mint
slat & pepper to taste
Put tabouleh in a large bowl, stir in boiling water, then cover and let stand 30 minutes. Meanwhile chop/slice/measure the rest of the ingredients.
When 30 minutes has passed, first add the olive oil and lemon juice. Then stir in the tomatoes and cucumbers. Lastly gently fold in the feta, olives and herbs. If you mix the feta too much it can make the salad look milky.
This salad is best enjoyed at room temperature, but it is also tasty straight from the refrigerator and is even better the next day. Enjoy!


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Former Zip Zeke Marshall finding his way in the D-League.
Returning to Northeast Ohio felt good for Zeke Marshall.
"It's familiar," the 7-footer said before Monday's NBA Development League game at Memorial Civic Center. "And there's not a lot of familiarity right now for me being a professional."
The former University of Akron big man comes off the bench for the Maine Red Claws, who lost to the Canton Charge 99-94 at Memorial Civic Center.
Marshall scored nine points on 3-of-4 shooting from the field Monday. He also made 3 of 4 foul shots and added three rebounds, one assist and one blocked shot in 20 minutes before fouling out.
Marshall is finding his way as a rookie in the topsy-turvy D-League. It's a league with raw talent, low salaries and a lot of personal agendas. The ultimate goal is the NBA.
"It's different," the 23-year-old Marshall said. "It's a lot more professional I guess you'd call it. I'm here to develop, but it's also a business."
Shortly after going undrafted by NBA teams, Marshall spent a couple of weeks with a professional team in Poland. He spent more than a month with a team in Taiwan later in the summer.
The D-League was next. He was acquired by the Reno Big Horns and later traded to the Red Claws on Dec. 10.
Entering Monday, Marshall was averaging 4.3 points and 4.8 rebounds in 16 games for Maine. He was shooting 43.8 percent from the field and 61.4 percent from the foul line. His production and minutes have grown recently. He registered a double-double with career highs of 12 points and 11 rebounds at Los Angeles on Jan. 13.
Maine head coach Mike Taylor called Marshall a "work-in-progress" on the offensive end. There was progress Monday.
Marshall made an 11-foot bank shot. He threw down a massive jam off a pick-and-roll. He hit a nice 12-foot turnaround jumper later.
But it's on the other end where last season's Mid-American Conference Defensive Player of the Year has always thrived.
Marshall rejected a dunk attempt by high-flying Charge forward Olek Czyz. He was a presence at the rim with his length, battling the likes of 280-pound Arinze Onuaku and former Cavalier Kevin Jones.
"We're really pleased with what Zeke's bringing to the team and I'm very impressed with the way he understands the game," Taylor said. "(Head coach) Keith Dambrot and the Akron staff deserve a lot of credit."
Dambrot and Zips players such as Quincy Diggs, Nick Harney and Jake Kretzer were in attendance Monday along with family and friends to cheer Marshall.
"I'm starting to get it," Marshall said of life as a professional, "but I still have a long way to go."
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Our night begins with a pre-game party at Reflection Bay beach, or Westin beach, or our floating park in the village in which we supply you with neon glow supplies to light up the lake as we paddle to our destination. Near the beach or dock, we have food and drink options from third-party vendors along with beach games. Be sure to come early to enjoy the beach or floating park and meet your fellow paddlers.
Our paddle will begin when the sky is dark. Once we hit the water, it will take approximately 30-45 minutes to reach our destination where we will meet a floating dock with our own live DJ, LED lights, and flame blowers to light up the sky! We will paddle around at this destination to enjoy the music and views for 45 minutes before returning to Reflection Bay, Westin, or the village dock. Once the paddle has finished, we don't stop the party! Stick around for an after party either on the beach, Westin Hotel or at the Montelago Village where drinks will be available for purchase.
Locations do vary between Westin Hotel LLV, Reflection Bay Golf Course, and the Lake Las Vegas Village. When you register make sure you attach your phone number to receive a text the day of the event of which location we will be departing from.
LLVWS Cancellation, Reschedule, Late, Weather Policy
*Cancellation and rescheduling policy: Anything inside 48 hours of reservation time there is a no refund, no change/reschedule policy. Anything outside of 48 hours can be refunded at a 40% surcharge.
Example: If you make a reservation on September 1 for Sept 10 and the amount of order is $100 and you want to cancel Sept 3 & receive a refund you will receive $60 back.
If you would like to reschedule before Sept 8th there is no charge. On Sept 9/10 there is a no change, no refund policy in place. (Traffic, accident, the passing of a family/friend, sickness, etc). If you can not find the location, this IS NOT an exception to be late. If you have a deposit on file with us and you are marked as a no-show or you show up late your card on file will still be charged in full.
All rescheduling requests MUST BE MADE BY EMAIL to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Weather cancellation: If the weather turns for the worse we will reschedule you to the next available time slot that suits your schedule. NO REFUNDS are given due to poor weather, wind, rain, thunderstorms, or lake closures. At check out, you will be asked to agree that you understand that policy. We will always reschedule if there is a weather cancellation. The only circumstance where we will not reschedule you is if you are marked as a no-show to your appointment. If you arrive 15 minutes or more late to your appointment you are marked as a no-show and rescheduling will not be an option for you.
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Destiny wrote:There is a Z value Klaus.. Its static but its there and placed exactly at centre point.. The size of your images governs the distance from the face to the centre point, which is the static Z value. The Z value never moves... The X, moves left to right and the Y from Zenith to Nadir, both of which are pivoted from the absolute Z value.. There is no - or + on the Z but its there by virtual of the fact that its a virtual 3D environment. You cannot edit the Z value so it does not appear in your code since it has to remain where it is or the rotation of the sphere will become unstable. The zoom value is by virtue derived from the size of your sphere and the image quality to stop at a specified zoom distance which is linked to the size of your image quality.
You enter a 3D environment to capture your images. You use your 2D images, a human term for X Y media, and stitch them to create a 3D cube, with images that have the illusion that they are convex to create the full illusion of being inside a 3D space which is in fact the inside of a cube made to appear as if you are inside a sphere, which is worked out by the software and the images if captured using a fisheye lens, to create the illusion of being inside a 3D space. So, when others say its a 3D Virtual Tour, they are right.. and if others call it a 360 Virtual Tour, they too are right.
Destiny wrote:It might not be actually 3D as we know it to be, but its still a 3D illusion of a 3D environment . .
AlexandreJ wrote:Semantics of 360° or 3D. Complicated in any case.
. . .
I think the real key is 'fixed point of view' or not fixed point of view ( 3D over true 3D )
Artisan S. wrote:Now you ask a interresting question.....were is the Z-axis in a Sphere......
Artisan S. wrote:But that also has nothing to do with the fact that a VR Sphere is a sphere and a sphere is a 3D object.
klausesser wrote:Hi!
Sometimes clients talk of "3D-animation" when it comes to interactive 360x180° panoramas.
That´s kind of a problem - because it´s no "3D animation" at all.
Artisan S. wrote:BTW, I have no bias towards Klaus, all be it that I'm sometimes are not to fond of his repeating argument debating technique.....he could brush up on that a bit.....
Artisan S. wrote:....but I do differ if Klaus thinks withholding the term 3D for VR Spheres will be the solution since that is not the big difference......
Artisan S. wrote:the difference is the way both 3D worlds are generated....
Artisan S. wrote:That´s not the point. The point is: we are projecting 2D images on a sphere resp. cube. That doesn´t make them 3D at all.
This is unfortunately mathematically and topologically not true.....if I project on a sphere the 2D object is curved in the third dimension,
Artisan S. wrote:roll
Klaus, if you don't understand these mathematics, that it's entrirely and utterly your problem, as a photographer I do not expect you too, as I said mathematics are hard to get rid of Klaus, but of course they can be ignored.
For the non ignorers who want to KNOW what PTP and KRPANO are all about....well some excellent read, and free as well allthough I will try to order a copy of the book in which I can make dogears......have to buy the Stephane Hessel book tomorrow anyway....so lets see:
and as a last final try.....a projection on a sphere uses the two coà¶rdinates per point....a yaw and a pitch, but that is only possible since you project on a sphere with a fixed radius......otherwise you'de be projecting in mid air........now yaw, pitch and RADIUS define a polar coà¶rdinate triplet...that is Euler space Klaus (listen to the talk Alexandre Jenny gave at Microsoft he even mentions Euler space somewhere half way down the talk).....also dead science.....now this can be described as a carthesian coordinate system as well.....via a euler-carthesian transformation (simple highschool math of the boring sin/cos variety).....which will describe the point in a 3D (oops) grid of an X, Y and Z axis.....
Greets, Ed.
gkaefer wrote:Ed, however you or anyone else defines 3D - this is not the point at all, no doubts here or questions on anyones skills. An animation contains motion. Motion can be achieved by using handdrawn images or finally with modern CGI or whatever software or by filing with howver medium. In panoramas (at least for the next week before ptp2.x with livevideo is out ) you use one single source image for your tour that can be based on different projections. So your panorama contains no animation so it cant represent a 3d-animation. You can make your panorama intereactive by placing 3D objects (hotspots, rectagles, stills or animated ones containing sound, video, text, images whatever - yea even Destinys wonderful examples can be achieved using 3D objects), but your tour does not get a "3D animation" because of that. Of course you've a sphere and this is defined in 3 dimensions. again this is not the topic. Klaus believes that it can cause troubles if "3D animation" is used in conjunction with virtual (interactive) panorama tours towards a customer, in special if this customer does come from this "Maya" industry.
if I'm off topic here - sorry. This is just my understanding/interpretation of reading #1.
Artisan S. wrote:I wouldn't have a clue Klaus...I wouldn't have a clue......
Greets, Ed.
Artisan S. wrote:but that is screenshot of the editor.....
But there are shadows on other parts of the very same image . . hmm
Artisan S. wrote:BTW, Klaus I have asked Alexandre to ban me (on my IP adres) from this forum, for life....I hope he agrees and does me the favour.......
Artisan S. wrote:But there are shadows on other parts of the very same image . . hmm
Klaus do you actually read....or are you just out to get everyone that does not agree with you? Well if you are....what does that make you Klaus....think, think hard.....I finally give up talking to you oh great Klaus, since your vannity has turned you blind, deaf and (unfortunaly not numb). Now I personally am getting sick of your behaviour....your constant discrediting....I hope it amusses you....but I'm sick and tired and will no longer ammuse you.....adieu Klaus....as the French so nicelly put it.
Destiny wrote::lol::lol:
Its nice to see that you have conceded to being wrong...
It might not be actually 3D as we know it to be, but its still a 3D illusion of a 3D environment which is the same thing since its virtual reality. When I teach my students how to find the mass or volume of a 3D object, their answer is cubed to the power of 3 which is 3D... The pano sphere has a length, height and depth of a 3D virtual environment which means its 3D.... And since you can pan it in all directions its Interactive and since you can put it to auto, its also an animated 3D scene..
A 3D Virtual Reality scene does not physically exist but its still a 3D illusion. A 3D object does not physically exist either within a computer, again its an illusion created by maths xyz light, shading and colour to create the interpretation of 3D form, unless you use the stl maths code to print it to physical form.
Hope you had a nice sleep...
HansKeesom wrote:We are back in the 80's here. Who of you was already born then, just curious.
HansKeesom wrote:In a real 3D environment 2 coordinates would not be enough, you would have a third telling you the distance to the object you want to point at. As we do not need this third coordinate in a panorama, it is NOT 3D.
Q.E.D. again.
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Patrick Bradley necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 209 diseños de 87 diseñadores freelance.
This is our second contest trying to get a logo for our music school. The first time through 99 designs we thought we knew what we wanted and lead great designers astray. The logo is for Bay Area music school (http://bradleyschoolofmusic.com/) Bradley Music Studios is a place where people come for an academic music program taught by professional musicians who have serious street credibility and are cool and hip. The logo will express: 1. Classy and sophisticated 2. academic and learning 3. very hip and cool. 4. clean and simple. We offer the best education with the most popular teachers and cutting edge ideas. Instructors at BSM are professional musicians with their own careers.
Bradley School of Music (BSM) http://bradleyschoolofmusic.com/ (web site needs to be redisgned next)
Bradley School of Music
is a place where students of all ages and all skill levels come to
learn a technical and academic curriculum from professional musicians
who are among the coolest and most admired in the area. We offer the
best education with hip popular teachers and ideas - Learn from a pro -
play like a pro.
Since we are moving into teaching different instruments,
voice lessons, etc. our logo with the guitar may pigeon hole us.
Check out
a brief video from our monthly jam sessions where students perform in
an open mic format with professional musicians. Here in the video is a
young base player jamming with Orestes Vilato (former percussionist for Santana). http://tinyurl.com/266xa5
- redesign of logo featured at http://bradleyschoolofmusic.com/- Please don't use our web site as representative of our school
- the site re-design is next.
- we like logos that are classic and simple like FedEx, Coke, IBM, CBS, etc
- the logo can be completely different than the one on the site
We'll use the logo on business cards, t-shirts, letterhead, and website. If this logo contest goes well we will run a new
contest for CSS templates based on the logo we choose
- Item 1...color scheme should be classic and look good in B/W no Web 2.0 colors
- Elements in logo: not sure but BSM or Bradley School of Music seems a place to start
- logo may work with some creative way to use the text only: BSM or Bradley School of Music
- should scream: clean, action, classy, sophisticated, academic
- looks awesome on a t-shirt or the company autos - something a teen or adult would wear on a shirt and not look like a dork
- Logo can reduce well to two-color versionFORMAT:
we would like the art in a vector format for Adobe
Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator. Is it possible to get pantone colors?
We have hear that the business card people will want something to help
match the inks.
IMPORTANT: Note that the winning logos will
transfer under the EXCLUSIVE and unlimited ownership of our company and
cannot be used in complete or derivative form in any other way
(display, sale, etc). All copyrights and licenses on the logo will be
transferred from you to our company upon winning this contest.
- no web 2.0 colors
- nothing that looks like clip art - who wants to wear that on a shirt?
- nothing too intricate or detailed
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