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Tears of a woman … or of a man
How long has it been since you've had a good cry? Can you remember when you last shed tears?
I am not a big crier in the usual sense of the world. I have to be very, very angry or very, very happy to shed many tears, and especially so in public, or even in front of my family members. Having been accused by some unknowing folks as being cold or reserved, I rather think that's not true. I think, instead, that I have simply experienced many different life emotions, seen things in ministry that I have come to accept, and have now lived long enough to know that there are good things and bad things, helpful and hurtful things, joy and sorrow and peace — if you seek it for your life. Let me add here that I believe it is perfectly permissible to cry openly if the need strikes you.
I have a dear, dear fried that cries at the drop of a hat, and I love her for her emotion and deep concern for others. It sometimes takes me a minute or two to see if she is crying "happy" or "sad" tears because she often cries both.
A long-time friend of mine, Dr. Ron English, sent me a writing this week about the tears of a woman. He said he thought I would enjoy it and I did. I later did a little research and found this topic to be both in writing and in a video and slideshow presentation. The gist of the writing was that women's tears are a special invocation to God. A little boy asks his mom why she is crying. She answers that he wouldn't understand. He then asks his father why women cry and the father says, "Because they are women," which really didn't answer his question, either.
The story went on to say when the boy grew up and had relationships of his own, the same question nagged at his heart and mind. One day, in an earnest prayer, he asked God why the women he loved cried so. As the story goes, God answered his question by saying that women must be strong for the men they love and He has created them to be sensitive to the needs of the husband and children He will give to them, and that they must rely on their strength to stand by the side of the man and to uphold the children all of their lives. The last line stuck with me, and it said that you can see a woman's heart through her tears, and that if you watch long enough and diligently enough, you can see her entire life pass by.
I am not so certain about this, and I know men who cry just as easily. So, in all honesty, I believe I would re-write the thoughts to say either a man or woman may cry because of the strength needed to sustain relationships and to care for those they love. In fact, my former boss, Dr. John R. Rice, taught that there was a time in his life when he asked God to stop letting him cry because he thought it confused his hearers and made it so that he could not deliver his message clearly. He added quickly that he, after a few months of not crying when he preached, begged God to give him tears again. He said only when God was speaking to his heart did he know that his message was alive and right for the audience where he was speaking.
Experts tell us we cry when we are either happy or sad. Crying is a natural response to certain feelings, probably more often to sadness or hurt, but tears can also be happy ones. Some people cry when they see things of great beauty, like a new grandchild, or where they are given good news. "When people cry, they are letting go of their guard, their defenses," said Stephen Sideroff, Ph.D. at the Moonview Treatment Center in Santa Monica, Calif. "They are tapping into a place deep inside themselves."
"It can also be a survival mechanism," said Jodi DeLuca, Ph.D., at Tampa General Hospital in Florida. "When you cry," she said, "it's a signal you need to address something." Among other things, it might mean you are frustrated, overwhelmed or even just trying to get someone's attention." Other experts state that crying has a biochemical purpose. It is believed to release stress hormones or toxins from the body, and it might have a purely social function as well. It often wins support from those who watch you cry. It can also be manipulative — simply a way to get what you want.
"For various reasons, a lot of people push down their tears. They suppress them," Sideroff says. "One of the consequences is we sort of deaden ourselves to suppress bad news or not even notice we have these feelings inside. The way this may look to the outside world is that we are depressed."
Let's give ourselves permission to have a good cry if needed. We might just be surprised at how it makes us feel. In 2 King 20:5, the king is told that God said, "I have heard thy prayer and I have seen thy tears." And God promises in Isaiah 25:8, "He will swallow up death in victory, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces."Our sympathy this week is extended to several of our readers who have lost family members and dear friends. Please remember that God sees your tears and knows your hearts.
Brenda Cannon Henley is an award-winning journalist and writer living on the Southeast Texas Gulf Coast. Having enjoyed more than four decades in ministry, Brenda shares her columns with our readers and works with churches and faith-based programs nationwide. She can be reached at (409) 781-8788 or at brendacannonhenley [at] yahoo [dot] com.


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The Winter Show - An exhibition of winter-themed artwork and artifactsName: The Winter Show - An exhibition of winter-themed artwork and artifactsDate: November 27, 2018Website: http://www.artspringwv.com/Trip Builder: View TripEvent Description:The Winter Show
Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, 11 am - 5:00 pm
Now thru March 31, 2019
Interpretations and reflections of winter from across the Highlands of West Virginia.
Along with artwork by regional artists, The Winter Show also combines artifacts from the newly formed Snow Sports Museum of West Virginia. Objects include historic snow equipment, posters and ephemera that evoke the spirit of winters past and present.
The Winter Show Featured Artists:
Tom Ashton, Carla Brenner, David Courtney, Sarah Fletcher, Michelle Golias, Don Hall, Phyliss Helmick, Jill Reinhold Jarom, Paul Lucchesi, Val Mayor, Ken McCoy, Robin McClintock, Deborah McHenry, Marj Moses, Joanne Neubert, Linda Reeves, Maggi Rhudy, Nanette Seligman, John Warner, Gerri Wilson, Kevin M. Woodcock, Meredith Young.
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Sounders Insider
MLS increases Shalrie Joseph's suspension
This just in from Major League Soccer:
The MLS Disciplinary Committee has suspended San Jose defender Victor Bernardez two games and fined him an undisclosed amount for violent conduct against FC Dallas forward Kenny Cooper, in the 66th minute of their game on May 25. Bernardez received a yellow card on the play, and the Committee unanimously determined that the act was egregious, an unequivocal red card, and endangered the safety of his opponent, who suffered a concussion as a result of the foot-to-head contact on the play. Cooper did not continue in the game.
Through the MLS Players Union, Bernardez submitted an appeal, and the Committee's decision was upheld.
The yellow card issued to Bernardez will not count against his accumulation; he currently has four. Bernardez will serve his suspension Saturday at Real Salt Lake and June 15 at Colorado Rapids.
The Disciplinary Committee also has suspended and fined Seattle Sounders FC midfielder Shalrie Joseph one additional game for violent conduct against LA Galaxy midfielder Marcelo Sarvas, in the 87th minute of their game on May 26. Joseph received a red card for the foul, and the Committee unanimously determined that the act was egregious, involving contact above the shoulders that endangered the safety of his opponent, and required further sanction. Joseph will serve a total of two games suspension: Saturday at Chivas USA and June 8 at Vancouver Whitecaps FC.
In addition, the Disciplinary Committee has fined New York Red Bulls Head Coach Mike Petke $2,000 for public criticism of the officials following his team's 2-2 draw against the Columbus Crew on May 26.


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Tunisia beefing up security in wake of Algerian gas plant attack
TUNIS, Tunisia – Tunisia is reinforcing the security around its oil and gas facilities in this North African country's southern deserts following an attack in Algeria, the state news agency reported.
Special units will protect the installations in the southern Sahara region, which is 150 miles north of Algeria's Ain Amenas gas plant, attacked two weeks ago by Al Qaeda affiliated militants, the agency quoted security officials as saying.
At least 37 hostages and 29 militants died in the four-day confrontation between the militants and the Algerian military.
Tunisia has had a number of clashes with armed men in the south, near the borders of Algeria and Libya. On Jan. 17, two caches of assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades were found in the southern city of Medenine.
Sandwiched between Algeria, and its history of militants, and Libya, where the collapse of the central government has sent weapons all over the region, Tunisia has been working on beefing up its southern security.
Tunisia has been in talks with the U.S. to cooperate on improving security on its southern border.
Four days before the attack on the gas complex, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya had signed accords on Jan. 12 to increase security cooperation along their porous desert borders that have long been crossed by smugglers and militants alike.
While the leadership of the militant group which attacked the gas plant came from Algeria and its arms were most likely from Libya, much of the manpower came from Tunisia.
Eleven of the 32 militants were Tunisian, highlighting a longstanding phenomenon of young Tunisians joining militant groups abroad to fight in places like Iraq, Libya and most recently, Syria.


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The Willard E. Worden Glass Plate Negative Collection SFP-22 contains 432 glass plate negatives taken by San Francisco photographer Willard E. Worden ca. 1911-1912. These negatives are 8" x 10" in size, with the exception of 30 which measure 6" x 9". Each has been assigned an individual collection number, e.g. SFP22-0101. The negatives are displayed as positive images at 72 dpi. 227 of the images depict the building of the Ingleside Terraces residential neighborhood by the Urban Realty Improvement Company. The remainder includes residences in Jordan Park, Richmond District and Visitacion Valley, various residential interiors, Sacred Heart School the Y.M.C.A. building at Golden Gate Avenue and Leavenworth, Y.M.C.A camps, and views of Berkeley and Piedmont. [Click on an image to view gallery]
Ingleside Terrace (220 images)
Jordan Park (10 images)
YMCA Building and Camps (97 images)
Berkeley/Piedmont (18 images)
Sacred Heart School (28 images)
Interior of a Victorian Residence (22 images)
Richmond District (7 images)
Visitacion Valley (30 images)
[Biographical Note] Willard Elmer Worden was born in Delaware in 1873. He served in the Spanish American War in the Philippines and moved to San Francisco in 1902 where he began his career as a photographer. His first studio was at the Cliff House. He later moved to a gallery on Stockton Street. He has received acclaim for his photographs of Chinatown, the 1906 earthquake and fire, and the Panama Pacific International Exposition. He died in Palo Alto in 1946 and was buried in the Presidio.


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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Like many employees these days, Kim Gibbons uses her own smartphone and tablet for her job at Cisco Systems. That way, no matter where she is -- including weekend soccer matches with her children -- "I'm still very much connected with everything at work," she said.
Hers is one of a number of companies that encourages this bring-your-own-device trend. But the practice is causing consternation among executives nationwide. While loath to alienate employees by being too restrictive, many fear their companies' confidential or critical business data could be accessed from poorly secured gadgets by hackers, who are attacking firms with increasing ferocity.
As a result, rules regarding the use of personal devices vary widely. Some companies permit it with tight controls that include having the ability to remotely wipe the gadgets clean of all data -- personal or otherwise -- if the machines are lost or stolen. Others bar employee-owned devices altogether or haven't figured out what to do.
"The world is going mobile," said Bob Worrall, chief information officer at Santa Clara, Calif., chipmaker Nvidia, which recently decided to let employees use their phones and tablets at work. But how to adapt to that shift while protecting company secrets, he added, "has really become a question that legal and security teams have wrestled with across the industry."
For many workers -- particularly the young -- having to use a clunky company-issued phone or laptop is unthinkable. A Cisco survey of 2,853 adults younger than 30 last year found 70 percent preferred to use a work device of their own choosing. And among those in college, 81 percent expressed that preference.
Still, recent research by McAfee and the National Cyber Security Alliance has found that nearly three out of four adults fail to protect their smartphones with security software. Moreover, people often use their phones, tablets and laptops to frequent social media or other websites that tend to attract cybercrooks. Consequently, many business executives aren't keen on the idea of letting their employees use such devices for work.
The practice was forbidden by 48 percent of the 1,500 information technology managers Cisco queried in January, although 57 percent added that some of their employees disregard the ban.
In another study this year by Check Point Software Technologies of Redwood City, Calif., 65 percent of 768 information technology professionals contacted allowed employee-owned gadgets to connect with their corporate networks. But 71 percent blamed such mobile devices -- both personal and company-provided -- for contributing to "increased security incidents," such as risky Web browsing and "corrupt applications downloaded."
Some companies are secretive about whether they allow personal gadgets or not. Oakland, Calif.-based Clorox would only say, "It's not our practice to discuss security issues publicly." Others embrace the idea, which can be a big cost savings for companies.
"It's working very well," said Steve Martino, vice president of information security at San Jose-based Cisco, where a little less than half of the company's employees use their personal devices. He said the gadgets are connected to Cisco equipment to block spam and some of them can be remotely wiped of sensitive information.
"Our primary concern is protecting Cisco's and our customers' data," Martino said. But, he said, the company also wants to make its employees "happy with the kind of device they have."
Among those pleased with the policy is Gibbons, who joined Cisco in 1999 and is marketing director for its global government solutions group. Equipped with a company-issued MacBook Pro as well as her personal iPhone and iPad, she much prefers this arrangement to her previous job, where she toted both a company phone and one she owned.
"That's very difficult when you're carrying around two phones," she said. "It just makes you less productive."
Other tech firms that let employees use their devices include Hewlett-Packard and Intel. The Santa Clara chipmaker also allows workers to put family photos or other personal data on their company-issued laptops, said Malcolm Harkins, Intel's chief information security officer. Noting that the policy gives employees more incentive to take care of their machines, he said the company suffers few lost or stolen laptops.
But A10 Networks of San Jose, whose products help speed Internet traffic, doesn't permit employee-owned devices, said spokeswoman Kelly LeBlanc. And while the practice is allowed at Santa Clara-based LumaSense, which sells thermal-imaging instruments, CEO Vivek Joshi said he needs to set rules for it because "we are very worried about security in the form of unauthorized access to company email."
Of more than 9,600 executives surveyed this year by PricewaterhouseCoopers and two trade magazines, just 43 percent had security procedures governing use of personal devices. Hashing out such rules can be complicated. Companies need to consider whether to reimburse employees for using their own devices, how to deal with lawsuits demanding access to the personal gadgets and who owns the email or other information on the devices.
Then there's the matter of how to keep from losing company data, which can be an added headache for an executive if "you are already staying up at night worrying about protecting your network," said Patrick Bedwell, a vice president at Sunnyvale, Calif., network security firm Fortinet. But given how employees feel about their beloved iPhones and other personal gadgets, he added, "you'd be hard pressed to tell people you can't bring your own devices to work."
Employees often want to use their own phones or other gadgets at work. But many employers fear such devices won't have sufficient protections, allowing hackers to steal the company's technology.
70 percent of adults under 30 -- and 81 percent of college students -- preferred to use a work device of their own choosing, according to an extensive Cisco Systems survey last year.
But in a separate Cisco survey of information technology mangers this year, nearly half -- 48 percent -- said they forbid employees from using their own gadgets on the job, though 57 percent said some of their employees ignore the ban.
SOURCE: Mercury News reporting
Copyright 2012 the San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.); distributed by MCT Information Services
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Like many employees these days, Kim Gibbons uses her own smartphone and tablet for her job at Cisco Systems. That way, no matter where she is -- including weekend soccer matches with her children -- "I'm still very much connected with everything at work," she said.


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A crash between a motorcycle and a car on the South Side killed the drivers of both vehicles Friday night.
It happened just before midnight, at the intersection of 75th and Dorchester.
Police say the motorcycle was speeding, when it slammed into the car, pushing it into a building.
The driver of the motorcycle was dead on the scene; the other driver was pronounced dead a short time later at a hospital.


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Students will develop a solid conceptual foundation for understanding core biological topics, including: biomolecules and chemistry in biology; molecular biology; foundations of genetics; principles of evolution; metabolism and physiology; functional morphology; ecology, biodiversity and conservation. Exploration of the scientific underpinnings of current issues, including why biological knowledge is essential to global citizenship. Development of critical thinking skills to integrate multiple concepts, and solve novel problems. Instructor: Curtin-Soydan
Prerequisites: SAT math: <730; ACT math: <30; NO AP Biology credit or a score of <3; Not open to students who have taken 201 or above.
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