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Based on the Shelley Smith novel The Ballad of the Running Man, and Directed and produced by Carol Reed (Climbing High 1939) it has a screenplay written by John Mortimer who is probable best known for creating barrister Horace Rumpole who in turn is a character you will remember from the TV series Rumpole of the Bailey. Shot in the Ardmore Studios in County Wicklow in Ireland and on location in a beautiful looking Spain before the advent of package tours. The Running Man (1963) stars Laurence Harvey (The Good Die Young 1954) as Rex Black, a role that really suited the actor, the attractive American actress Lee Rimick played Blacks wife Stella and Alan Bates appears as the insurance agent Stephan Maddux. A grand line up with all three helping to make the story more believable than it really deserved.
Although critics at the time of its release thought the film poorly conceived and some even went as far as saying it was muddled and indulgent, on reflection it know seems a breath of fresh air. It may seem a wee bit contrived but still gives us plenty to enjoy, in fact I found it a polished and exciting production that unfortunately is not available on DVD or Blu-ray at present.


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While the Pokémon GO craze has slowed down, it is far from over.
From the first days of the Pokémon GO excitement, I have been watching businesses to see if they would continue to participate and benefit from this game's growth. As of today, September 30, 2016, Pokémon GO sits at the number three position for top grossing apps on both iOS (App Annie) and Android (Google Play ranking). So, it is still pretty popular.
The thing about Pokémon GO is it represents an opportunity to engage with gamers of all types, people of all types. This game pulled in the typical gamer persona, but also people who were a more traditional consumer. The energy around this game gives you a chance to study how augmented reality technology could work as a marketing tool in other areas of business. The impact of Pokémon GO, despite a slowdown and lower ranking in the app stores, is still being measured and felt. Game maker Niantic Labs is still fixing bugs and tweaking the game and its future is still bright.
Forbes contributor David Thier writes Revenue Ran Away: 'Pokémon GO's Lost Billions and explains what might happen with the game, as it gets better, and implications for augmented reality (AR).
"… I foresee something similar happening with Pokémon GO. This game is only going to get better, and Pokémon GO has a long life — and a hell of a lot of revenue — left in it. Those that stick around will get gradual improvements, and people who come back up for new waves of Pokémon will find themselves with a better, more addictive experience than they had before. We already have a buddy system, we'll hopefully get nearby tracking back soon and someday we might even get multiplayer battles or, who knows? Maybe a single-player progression. We could, ideally, end up with a Pokémon GO that has an actual endgame — something to do with all those Pokémon you catch. Some more fleshed out monetization wouldn't hurt, either." –David Thier
Part of what this viral sensation demonstrated is that merchants are way savvier, and move much faster, than in years past. Because so many of us are now operating on mobile devices, in general, merchants and marketing types were able to figure out grassroots ways to create fun and catchy (forgive the pun) campaigns. Basic web and social searches reveal that plenty of merchants are actively advertising or posting news about their business serving as a PokéStop or Gym.
As in life, the more you engage, the more you experience, so it is with business and the latest technology. Sure, there are risks you could over-invest in trends like Pokémon GO, but building a relationship with real people, your customers, is never a bad thing. And while some might claim that video games separate us from reality and from one another, there are plenty of examples of how people were interacting with one another in positive ways around the game experience.
Retailers jumped into the game in a big way and the team at Revel Systems, makers of an iPad Point of Sale (POS) system, collected data from their retail customers to give me some insights into what local businesses are experiencing with Pokémon GO. Quick aside: You have likely seen this elegant POS system in cafes or retail locations where a standard iPad is facing the clerk and a smaller iPad Mini is facing the customer so that you can see the transaction details. The data comes from August, but conversations with merchants shows that there is still plenty of interest and opportunity.
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Also in August, Slant Marketing produced a terrific post and helpful infographic about what Pokémon GO could mean for your business. Their research revealed that players in the game are like nomads, often wandering into a store or shop for the first time while using the app (over half 51% surveyed said this). 86% report visiting a restaurant, 47% visited a café, 38% went into a grocery store, and many of these were local businesses, not national chains. That alone presents an opportunity for many of the world's businesses.
Because I have been asked for marketing advice around this game, and I am far from an expert, my favorite posts and tools from research that offer solid how-to advice for building marketing campaigns or outreach efforts that attract Pokémon GO fans are listed here, but in a nutshell: Be authentic and build real-life relationships. Pokémon GO still has a lot of life left in it.


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The Wolfman Enduro Gas Tank Bag is truly the most unique dirt bike related soft storage device we have ever seen! This is really a neat bag, especially for dual sport riders looking for more storage on their dirt bikes. The Enduro Gas Tank Bag is universal in that it fits many different model dirt bikes and carries anything from a trailside lunch to tools to extra riding gear. We even use our Enduro Gas Tank Bag to carry camera equipment for taking photographs out on the trail.
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Camden, New Jersey is about a 100 miles away from any borough in New York City, yet it can feel worlds apart when you're talking about their hip-hop scenes. With legends including Joe Budden, Redman, and Queen Latifah hailing from the Garden State, Mir Fontane is in the forefront of the new, young movement putting the "Southside of Jersey" on their back. Camden, Mir's 2017 album, is what he describes as a love-hate relationship with his hometown, as well as his troubles of getting over an ex-girlfriend.
"When you love someone, you still want to care for that person," Mir Fontane says. "But being that you're doing better in your life now, there's always going to be that area of 'Damn, I kind of want to flex on you 'cause you didn't even believe that I could be who I am right now.' But at the end of the day, I want to share this with you because I feel like you played a major part of making me who I am in the first place."
Those feelings are widespread on Camden. To listen to these songs, with stories of navigating through the streets ("Still in the Hood," "This Life") and proving his self-worth after getting dumped ("WYD," "Real Niggaz"), is to plunge into the emotional ride of a 23-year-old coming up in Camden. The project is built as a listening experience from top to bottom, calling on producers like Jahlil Beats, Kev Rodgers, Kenif Muse, and Maaly Raw to create a dark, engrossing representation of his life. Above all else, Mir Fontane knows his position as an unsung hero is important, which is why he has promised to use his platform to tell stories from his community who may not have a voice. "I tell stories, not only my stories, because my story isn't the only story that I feel the world needs to hear," he says. "There's dozens of stories – hundreds even in Camden alone that need to be told."
Influenced by great narrators like The Notorious B.I.G., 2Pac, Big L, Nas, 50 Cent, and many more, Mir Fontane, a moniker derived from the Godfather's Johnny Fontane character, wants to be known for his cinematic approach to hip-hop. Before viral songs "Frank Ocean" and "Down By the River," Fontane used drawing as his artistic expression, putting as much detail as possible into his pictures. When he attended Creative Arts Morgan Village Academy as a freshman, he majored in visual arts, and started to take music seriously going into his junior year. He made an effort to record songs at professional studios, dropping lo-fi mixtapes that were mostly freestyles over popular instrumentals. Switching from drawing to writing rhymes stimulated his creativity, but he ultimately decided to fully focus as an artist.
One of his earliest mixtapes was Don't Sleep that contained the blueprint of his storytelling raps. The narratives got much richer on He's So Crazy, the mixtape that was heavily inspired by Martin and weaved in skits from the show and his perspective of South Jersey. He would slow down his pace, opting to strategically drop "banger after banger": "Steph Curry," "Wanni Wag," and "Space Jam" all have over 100k plays on SoundCloud. The positive reception eventually led to his biggest song to date ("Down By the River") that topped the Spotify U.S. Top 200 chart at No. 6 upon its release. The song appeared on August's Who's Watching the Kids, a project that was similar in theme to Camden's thoughtful balance. His second biggest single, "Frank Ocean," features him singing a strained hook about fans claiming to be day ones but still play J. Cole, Drake, and Frank Ocean over his music. The fan-favorite song was featured in Spotify's Most Necessary playlist for several months.
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Warner Bros., Games' worst kept secret has been the HD (although they were already in high definition) remasters of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City for the Xbox One and PS4. That secret has finally been let out of the bag.
Originally leaked by various retailers, as reported by OnlySP, Batman: Return to Arkham had been a long rumored collection coming to Sony and Microsoft's home consoles. The game has now officially been announced for both the PS4 and Xbox One with a gritty two minute trailer that you can check out below.
I find it absolutely hilarious that the comments have been turned off on that video, almost as if Warner Bros., fears reprisal from a gaming community that doesn't forgive or forget.
It's a bold move from the company to continue to treat the PC gaming market as some sort of redheaded stepchild. As noted in the video above, Batman: Return to Arkham – which features both Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City and all of the previously released DLC for both games – it will only be arriving on the PS4 and Xbox One, likely digitally but most definitely physically. What it won't be appearing on is PC.
This appears to be part of Warner Bros' latest initiative to cut the PC market out of their endeavors, which started with them throwing up their hands and giving up on their piss-poor port of Batman: Arkham Knight, and then following through with the completely absent release of Mortal Kombat XL on PC, along with forfeiting PC gamers a balance patch and the second season DLC of the original Mortal Kombat X. It's a real middle-finger move by the publisher, likely as some sort of payback for them being crappy at putting out games. I don't know why they're making PC gamers suffer for their incompetence, though.
Anyway, rumor has it that Batman: Return to Arkham will be arriving June 10th, as noted by Inverse. That was the date that the retailers haphazardly leaked out like pee in the diaper of whining baby.
Additionally, the port of the two games arriving on the PS4 and Xbox One is being handled by Virtuos Games, best known for the mobile port of Mortal Kombat X and Injustice: Gods Among Us. They've been working as a port house for Warner Bros., Interactive Entertainment for quite some time, so we'll see how well they handle moving Xbox 360 and PS3 titles to the Xbox One and PS4.
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Retirement Home Food, General Food With The Elderly
I'd like to dedicate a portion of my blog to everything I've learned and am learning from being in the sandwich generation and retirement homes and all of it. Being in the sandwich generation means you are sandwiched between taking care of elderly parents while raising little kids of your own.
This part is based on my experience touring many retirement homes and trying their food and helping my parents with their groceries, diets, etc.
1. Sense of taste changes when you age. My parents went to the same restaurants and ate the same food for a long time so I didn't notice until they moved into a retirement home. At first they both hated it, but it did not take a long time for one of them to get used to the quality of the food and the variety. My parents used to live where they could walk to any kind of cuisine in great restaurants. There's not going to be any Indian food, Greek food or any of that in most retirement homes in the US. It's going to be "American". After some time I did notice that my once food snob parents were raving about the food at their place. It looks like Campbell's condensed soup and they are acting like Wolfgang Puck came and personally cooked them dinner. So it's just another weird thing to try to wrap your head around that you may not agree on food.
2. I made my parents a very nice list of all the things that are on the way from my house to their retirement home when they moved. They could care less and I'm sure it got lost while they moved. DO though get at least 1 good pizza/pasta delivery menu for them. They will feel like avoiding the dining room from time to time and everybody likes that kind of food right? Ask at the front desk of the retirement home if they have any suggestions.
3. Your parents will become like your children and will not eat a banana even if they have leg cramps if they don't want to eat a banana. You won't either someday.
4. Food is a close personal and often messed up area in our lives. It may reveal things about your parents' general condition so pay attention to it. My parents spent about $100 on candy every week for a long time. They gave some of it away so it wasn't necessarily about how they were eating too much candy, but $100 a week on candy. They would get into heated arguments about ice cream. Shopping for ice cream and listening to ice cream drama took hours of my life week after week for a good long time. My parents also had already long lost their ability to manage food i.e. how long does stuff last in the fridge. If your parents have a lot of space and a full kitchen then you need to force a conversation about how the grocery shopping will get done and what their budget is,etc. And expect that you will do most of the work including cleaning out their fridge. If your parents can still drive and figure out how to get to the grocery store and back then you'll have an easier time that way. I was often at Jewel with a little one in diapers or potty training, 1 person with dementia and 1 person with dementia, low vision and lots of anger. This was awful, stressful and very difficult to navigate. Have their groceries delivered and have your own delivered as well. Take everything off your plate that you can. And if they're not at this stage yet just tuck that nugget of information away in your brain for later.
5. The food at these places is pretty much the same. If you can afford a really fancy schmancy place you should expect the food to be a little bit better but most of the time you're not going to find another place where the food is so much better. I asked a salesperson once if she had ever eaten the food at the place that she was raving about and she look shocked and upset and said no!
6. Going out to eat? Buckle your seatbelts! The music is going to be too loud, they are going to have trouble walking in there, booths are sometimes very awkward, they may need an escort to the bathroom, it's going to be too cold and you'll sit under a fan and a vent (even if you don't) and they may not be able to read the menu or concentrate on it or make any decisions. The whole thing will take forever.
7. The social situation in the dining rooms is sometimes ok, sometimes boring, sometimes contentious and dramatic and sometimes sad. Definitely ask if they are free to sit wherever they want. Big thing to avoid? When my parents were in the middle of moving and I mean like movers are bringing stuff in and it is still chaos and they are exhausted and emotionally spent, a salesperson came in and grilled I mean absolutely grilled my parents about who they would sit with at dinner that night and could they make plans to get together with this couple...I interrupted and said this isn't a good time let's do this another day please. The salesperson, probably still reeling from that one time I asked if she ever tried the food, left and I think she came back later when I was gone. Interrupt on your parents behalf especially during this time. They don't have the strength to deal with this.


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ML-6 - Reward for Service
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Jesus said, "Come unto me all ye who labor and are heavy laden and I'll
give you rest, take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I am meek and
lowly of heart and you'll find rest for your souls," Matthew 11:28-30.
We welcome you to our study of reward for service. What reward
does the Christian receive for his service to Almighty God?
Follow along as we let the Bible give us the answer to this great
subject. Being a Christian requires diligent work, service, and effort on my
part and yours. Jesus said in John 9:4, "I must work the works of Him who
sent us while it is day for night comes when no man works."
Being a Christian is a life of work and a life of service. I've got to
strive every day to walk worthy of the Lord, Colossians 1:10. I've got to
make sure that my labor of love and my service for the Lord is really what
God wants it to be, 1 Thessalonians 1:3. We must strive to make sure that
we're working diligently in the kingdom of God. Listen to the words of
James 1:25 as James speaks about our work and our service in the cause
of God. The Scripture records, "But he who looks into the perfect law of
liberty and continues in it and is not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the
work this one will be blessed in what he does." Our work indeed is essential
in the kingdom of God. The service that we provide to the Lord and His
church is of such great importance.
I want us to realize today that work, that effort, that labor, and that toil
has a great blessing to be received. There is a reward for our service to
Almighty God. As we emphasize, Jesus said, "Come unto me all you who
labor and are heavy laden I will give you rest this," is the promise. God
promises His children eternal life, 1 John 2:25. And you know as I think
about this rest, this reward that we're going to receive, the Hebrew writer
said in Hebrews 4:9, "There remains therefore a rest for the people of
God." He's able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through
Him, Hebrews 7:25. And our Lord spoke of that beautiful reward and rest
and elaborated in such beautiful terms when He said, "I go to prepare a
place for you if I go to prepare a place for you I will come again and receive
you to myself that where I that you may be also." That beautiful place called
heaven where there are multitudes of dwellings for the people of God.
There is more than a room for all of God's people that's a place we want to
go. It's a place we long for too and a long for look forward to as Christians.
As we think about reward for service, along the same lines each Christian
must realize there is not going to be a reward without some kind of service
and where there is faithful service, you can have an assurance of a grand
If I'm not willing to work in the kingdom of God and I'm not faithful to
the Lord that reward cannot be found. If the Lord finds me working on that
day and faithful, what a wonderful day that'll be. 2 Corinthians 5:10 clearly
teaches us that our works will be presented to the Lord on that judgment
day. And the beautiful words of Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:58 remind us each
of the need to be busy, "Be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the
work of the Lord knowing that your labor is not in vain."
Do you remember John's encouragement to suffering Christians?
The Bible says, "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. 'Yes' says the
spirit 'that they may rest from their labors and their works do follow them.'"
Let's think today about that reward for our service and how it all relates so
beautifully together.
Let's begin by asking: What service, when we say service, what
service must be offered unto the Lord? What work or what service is a part
of the Christian life? And friend naturally our service to God is that we must
be willing to sacrifice self and give of our time and our effort and our ability
to the kingdom of Christ. Paul said in Romans 12:2 that we're to be
'transformed by the renewing of our mind that we may prove what is that
good and acceptable and perfect will of God.' That transformation that
living our life acceptably to God is all a part of what Christianity is about.
Think about 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, "Our body is a temple of the Holy Spirit
whom we have from God, We're not our own therefore," listen now, "We're
to glorify God in our body and our spirit which are His." My body and my
spirit, they belong to God anyway. I need to do my best to serve Him
acceptably. Notice these words of Jesus in Luke 9:23. Jesus said, "If any
man desires to come after me let him deny himself, take up his cross daily,
and follow me." What does it really mean to be a Christian? Daily denial of
self and a willingness to take up that cross and follow Christ every day. "Be
faithful unto death," Jesus would say in Revelation 2:10. And friend this is
not done out of forced nature, this is not done because God is forcing us to
we do this willingly, because we love God and what He's done for our
salvation. The writer Paul said in 2 Corinthians 5:14-15, "The love of Christ
compels us." Why? Because we judge thus, "if one died for all, all died and
He died for all that they who live no longer live for themselves but live for
Him who died for them and rose again."
In my service to God, I want to do my best every day. The Christian
wants to do his best every day to give God first place in his life. As we think
about our service to God, another service we must offer is that we must as
Christians diligently give ourselves to the study of God's word. Job said in
Job 23:12, "I treasure the words of His mouth more than my necessary
food." More than those three square meals a day that we often think of, the
word of God is more important than that. Jesus said in Matthew 4:4, "Man
shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the
mouth of God." In Matthew 5 in the Beatitudes we hear that beautiful
statement, "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness."
In serving God and really giving myself to Him, friend I need to be a
good student of the word of God. I need to read my Bible. I need to study it,
and I need to do my best every day to live according to its teaching. This is
why Paul would say to the young evangelist Timothy and to Christians
today, "Study to show yourself approved unto God a workman who does
not need to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth." I want to search
the Scriptures, Acts 17:11, daily. I want to study to give an answer, 1 Peter
3:15. And I want to do my best to really let God's word have the answer to
the most important questions of life. In Jeremiah 37:17 an evil king asked,
"Is there any word from the Lord?" And friend, that ought to be the question
of every person who striving to serve God. And to answer that let's look to
God's word for the Bible is God's voice today. God has spoken. 2 Timothy
3:16, "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness that the
man of God may be complete thoroughly equipped for every good work."
But as we think about our service to God, let's also realize that to
serve God as He wants me to, we must faithfully follow the teachings of
Christ in the New Testament. You see, I'm not living under the Old
Testament. Now don't get me wrong, "The things that were written
aforetime," Paul would say, "were written for our learning that we through
patience and comfort of the Scriptures might find hope," Romans 15:4. The
Old Testament is inspired of God; it was written to the Jewish nation to the
Israelites. There are great lessons about life and about God and His nature
that I can learn there. But I'm not going to be judged nor my living under the
old covenant. Jesus crucified the old covenant. He put the old covenant to
death on the cross, Colossians 2:14 and Ephesians 2:14 says. In fact
Christ said in John 12:48, "He who rejects Me and does not receive My
words he has that which judges him the word that I've spoken will judge
him in the last day."
To really serve God and to really have that reward for service, I've got
to faithfully follow the teaching of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I want
you to notice this verse with me. I want you to notice Matthew 7 as Jesus
speaks about putting Him first and His teaching first. He makes this great
statement about the need to faithfully follow His words. Matthew 7:21 Jesus
says this, "Not everyone, "Jesus says, "Who says to Me 'Lord, Lord' shall
enter the kingdom of heaven but he who does the will of my Father in
heaven." It's not enough just up look up to heaven and say 'Lord, Lord' and
then do what you want. You've got to follow the teaching. I've got to follow
the teaching of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. James 1:22-25 says, "We
cannot be forgetful hearers but we've got to be doers of the word and the
work of Almighty God."
Let's faithfully do our best to faithfully follow the teachings of Christ as
we serve Him. Part of the wonderful service we offer to God is we have to
strive to be soul winners, soul winners for Jesus. You know we often sing
about that. We think about evangelism and reaching someone with the
gospel, but that's part of this great service. The Bible says in Luke 19:10
that of Christ the Son of Man have come 'to seek and to save that which is
lost.' No one emphasized the need to save the lost more than Jesus did.
Jesus gave us that great parable, Luke 15, where there's a shepherd who
has 100 sheep in his fold and there's 99 sheep who are home safely and
one has wandered away, and the shepherd goes after that one sheep,
facing danger, facing the elements, no matter what it takes to bring that one
sheep back into the fold. Friend we think about that, we think about how
diligently Jesus worked to save the lost, even going to the cross to die for
mankind. What about our service? Part of our service is we want to tell
others about that great message.
Do you remember Proverbs 11:30? "He who wins souls is wise,"
that's true. Soul winning, in the biblical aspect, we're to go into all the world
and preach the gospel unto every creature. Through my life, through my
example, by the way Christians live; we want to let them see the light of
Christ shining in us. "Let your light so shine before men that they may see
your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven," Matthew 5:16.
As Paul said in Colossians 1:28, "Him we preach warning every man
teaching every man that we may present every man perfect in Christ
Jesus." Are we really offering the kind of service that God wants us to offer
to Him?
As it relates to our country, I think we understand in the United States
of America, especially in generations before us maybe, that service was
necessary to live in a great land like this. In fact, the motto that was often
proclaimed was, 'Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you
can do for your country.' Isn't that a wonderful idea to think about the
church? You know, too many times we sit around thinking what can the
church do for me or what good is that church over there. What have they
done for me lately? That's the wrong question! We ought to be asking:
What am I doing for the Lord? What am I doing for His church? How am I
faithfully serving the cause of Christ? And friend, if we are doing that, let's
notice the reward that will be given to God's people. There are several
avenues by which we can see the wonderful reward that Christians will
receive, but let me illustrate this as well. As part of our reward, let's realize
there is a physical benefit. There is an earthly benefit to serving and
following Jesus right now. I'm not saying you're going to be rich. We're not
talking about a health and wealth gospel, where you're going to be healthy
and wealthy and everything like that's going to go just perfectly. That's not
the idea we're talking about! Jesus did say, 'I came that you may have life
and have it more abundantly.'
Right now I am living, and you're if you're a child of God, part of the
reward we receive is we're living the best life you could ever live. I've been
given all things through the Scriptures. Through the sacrifice of Jesus, we
have everything we need for life and godliness. 1 Thessalonians 5:22, "We
prove all things, we hold fast that which is good and we shun that which is
evil." Think about all the things that by following Christ I have. All the ills
that I've voided, all the sin that I've avoided, all the hurt and the
ungodliness I've avoided. Living the Christian life is the best life right now.
Jesus said, "I'm the way, the truth, and the life." Living for Christ right now
is the best way you could ever live. So that might be a small part of the
reward in the here and now, but the grander idea one of the rewards we
receive is the joy and the peace that we know we have as a child of God.
Philippians 4:4 Paul would say, "Rejoice in the Lord always and again
I say rejoice." We don't want you to take this the wrong way, but please
understand, if a person is a child of God, part of the reward of being a
Christian is the joy and the peace and the happiness that one has in Christ.
Luke 2:15 when Jesus came into the world the Angels proclaimed, 'Peace
on earth and goodwill toward men.' Jesus gives us the ability to rejoice and
be happy in the situations we face. "Is anyone happy?" writer James would
say, "Let him sing psalms." James 5:13 as Paul and Silas are in prison in
Philippi, in a deep, dark, dank prison where you think they might throw in
the towel and give up the Bible says, no they were praying; they were
singing hymns to God. The prisoners were listening to them. The Bible
teaches us, "Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us
looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy set
before Him endured the cross despising the shame and has sat down at
the right hand of God."
You know, even in the first century in the midst of suffering, trials, and
persecution the Bible says after they were beaten, Acts 5:41-42, they
counted it a joy to suffer for the name of Jesus. Daily in the temple and
from house to house, they ceased not preaching and teaching Jesus as the
Christ. This is why James said, "We can rejoice in our trials knowing that
the trials we face have a far greater working ahead of them." I have that
hope of heaven. I have the best life right now, and I have joy and peace
beyond measure.
But friend let's realize this as well, part of our reward for service
means that even in death, I can have victory and triumph. Death is not
going to win over the child of God. The Bible says in Revelation 14:13,
"Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. 'Yes,' says the spirit, 'that they
may rest from their labors their works do follow them.'"
What life can take death and look at it as a blessing and a good
thing? Only the life that offers reward for service, the Christian life. This is
why the writer would say in Psalm 116:15, "Precious in the sight of the Lord
is the death of His Saints." How does heaven view when one of God's
children leaves this life? Precious! John 5:28-29 Jesus so beautifully
proclaimed, "All who are in the graves will one day come forth. Those who
have done good, that's reward for service. Those who've done good to the
resurrection of life." "One day we will meet Him in the air," 1 Thessalonians
4:13. One day we can hear those words, "Well done good and faithful
As we think about really the epitome of that joy that we have for
serving God that reward for service let's realize that is seen so graphically
in the images that we find in Scripture of heaven. Do you believe in
heaven? Do you believe there is a place called heaven? Jesus said, "The
righteous will go away into eternal life." Are you looking forward to eternal
life? That place Jesus described in Revelation 21:3-4, "No more sorrow, no
more death, and no more pain, all the former things have passed away."
Sin, darkness, Satan, ungodliness doesn't exist in that beautiful place
called heaven. God's there! "Our Father who art in heaven," Matthew 6:9,
Jesus is there. "I go to prepare a place for you," John 14:1. "Saints of old
are around the throne of God worshiping God there," Revelation 4 and 5.
Friend, that's where Christians long and desire to go to that beautiful place
called heaven. We sing that beautiful song, "How Beautiful Heaven Must
Be." Aren't you looking forward to living in that place called heaven?
If so then friend, we want to emphasize this final principle. How do I
make sure and how do you make sure that we don't lose our reward for
Let's first realize I can, if I'm not careful, I can lose that reward. I want
you to notice a passage in Galatians 5:4 as Paul speaks to certain
Christians who are starting again to trust in the old law. The apostle Paul
says in Galatians 5:4 these words, "You have become estranged from
Christ. You who attempt to be justified by law. You have fallen from grace."
Part of making sure that I don't lose my reward means, I recognize it's
possible to lose it. Some who were Christians had been cut off from Christ.
They fell from grace. This is why Paul would say, "Take heed stand lest you
fall," 1 Corinthians 10:12. I've got to fight the fight every day. I've got to
make sure that I don't let Satan into my life. I've got to make sure that I
don't let sin overtake me; because I realize I can lose my salvation, lose my
reward, if I'm not careful.
Secondly, don't get the retirement mentality. You know, you work a
job for a certain amount of time and you say, 'Well we might want to let the
young people come in and do this. We been working in this long enough;
it's time to let somebody else take over and do this.' I realize that as one
ages, he may not be able to do as much as he can. But listen carefully, in
the Lord's church there is no retirement system. You don't reach 65, 70, 75,
or 80 and say, 'I've done enough. I'm going to let somebody else do it for a
while. I think I'll sit back and take it easy now.' It's not the way it works!
We remain faithful. How long? "Until death," Revelation 2:10. That's
what Jesus emphasized. This is why we've got to keep working, keep
fighting, keep doing what we can for the Lord. Again when age comes, you
can do as much, that doesn't mean you can't do something for the cause of
Christ. As I strive to stay faithful to the Lord part of what keeps us
motivated is we've got to remember, what we're doing for God is not vain.
"Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. 'Yes,' says the spirit, 'that they
may rest from their labors and their works do follow them.'"
The service we provide to God and to the church, it's not vain. In fact,
it's the most wonderful thing you could ever imagine. We have that hope of
eternal joy. Job asked a question in Job 14:14, "If a man dies," Job said,
"will he live again?" You know the answer is really not given to that in
clarity, until Jesus comes on the scene. Jesus said, "I am the resurrection
and the life, he who believes in Me though he may die," Jesus said, "he'll
live again." Man dies; he will live again but only can he live again in Christ.
Eternal life is only offered in the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
We ask you are you giving God the true service He deserves? Are
you making sure in this life, am I making sure in this life that I'm really
working? That I'm staying busy? That I'm putting God first? That I'm giving
God first place in my mind and in my life? If I'm not, I need to make
corrections to that. For Jesus made that wonderful promise that all could
come and find rest in Him, but only in Him.
Are you in Christ? Have you obeyed the gospel of Christ? Galatians
3:27 says, "As many of us as were baptized into Christ have clothed
ourselves with Christ."
Take hold of that great promise Jesus made! Come to Him to find
rest. And make sure in this life that each one of us is giving God the true
service He deserves every day of our life.
May God help each of us to do just that.
Study Questions for: "Motivational Lesson 6"
1. According to Matthew 11:28-30, what will Jesus give us?
2. What does John 9:4 tell us to do while it is day?
3. What does James 1:25 say about a person who is a doer of the Lord's
4. According to 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, what is our body?
5. What does Luke 9:23 tell us to do if we desire Jesus?
6. How long should we be faithful according to Revelation 2:10?
7. In Job 23:12, what does he treasure more than food?
8. Matthew 4:4 says that we shall live by what?
9. What question did the king ask in Jeremiah 37:17?
10. According to 2 Timothy 3:16, where does scripture come from?


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Faith trumps hate: Muslim and Jewish youth participate in interfaith groups to combat discriminatory rhetoric
By Danielle Spitz
Joann Abdeladl has learned to stomach extra security checks at the airport and negligent service in grocery stores when wearing her hijab. Growing up in Greenville, South Carolina, the 17-year-old said it's part of her life as a Muslim woman living in the South. But it wasn't until three Muslim students were fatally shot as a result of a hate crime in Chapel Hill, N.C. in February 2015 that Abdeladl recognized the issue was bigger than herself.
"I realized that if there wasn't something done about this lack of understanding and lack of education about religions, then it could lead to more than people's personal problems," Abdeladl said. "It could lead to violence and maybe death."
Hate crimes against Muslims, like the North Carolina shooting, rose by 67 percent in 2015, the same year Donald Trump announced his campaign for presidency, according to a Southern Poverty Law Center report. In a Human Rights Campaign Foundation survey of more than 500,000 people ages 13-18, 70 percent of respondents reported witnessing bullying, hate messages or harassment during or since the 2016 election.
Roger Stone, former political adviser to Trump, said the president is opposed to hate crimes that target all Americans, even if he tweets more on attacks against Christians.
"Should we therefore not denounce Islamic terrorism and the hundreds of thousands of, or if not millions, of people that are murdering Christians?" Stone said. "To be politically correct and pretend this isn't happening, I think that's a greater danger."
Some millennials are taking action and working to prevent discrimination and hate crimes.
An analysis conducted by the the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement found that 76 percent of millennial Clinton supporters and 58 percent of millennial Trump supporters studied were willing to volunteer for a community organization on a regular basis after the election.
In July 2015, one month after Donald Trump officially announced his presidential campaign, Abdeladl founded Youth Interfaith Greenville, an organization to promote inter-religious dialogue among high school and college students.
By focusing on youth relations, Abdeladl said she hopes to foster a future generation already prepared to work together rather than be divided over faith-based differences.
Aida Mackic was also inspired to become involved in youth-based interfaith work after experiencing an anti-Muslim hate crime.
After an arson attack occurred at Daarus Salaam Mosque in Tampa, Florida, last February, Mackic said the Muslim community was met with immediate support from other local groups of different faiths, including rabbis and their congregations.
"We didn't have anything else, so we stood together," Mackick said. "It wasn't only Muslims empowering Muslims, but a whole community coming together."
Mackick serves as the civil rights coordinator for the Council on American-Islamic Relations Florida and is now taking on the role of interfaith and youth program coordinator.
Mackick said the combination of the mosque fire and the Muslim ban prompted her involvement in interfaith work. She decided in order to combat the negativity in the current political climate, she would need to engage the younger population in unifying actions.
Mackick is in the early stages of spearheading a program that will include open dialogues about the values of Islam with Jewish youth.
"Isolating any person is really dangerous," Mackick said. "The youth is our future and this work can unify our community."
Abdeladl said most kids are willing to learn about other cultures in a respectful way, and almost all of the negative reactions her group receives comes from adults who don't believe teens are qualified enough to discuss religion or don't understand the purpose of interfaith work.
"Lots of parents have concerns that we're trying to convert their children to a different faith," Abdeladl said. "But our group is about educating, not conversion or persuasion."
Leanna Rabinovitch, a Jewish teen who works alongside Abdeladl, said her dad didn't understand the concept of acceptance of other faiths, emphasizing why it's important to engage youth in interfaith work. She said she takes it upon herself to learn about other religions because that's not what she was taught at home.
"When you're in high school or college, that's when you're defining your life and figuring out who you want to be as a person," Rabinovitch said. "Bringing in the youth aspect to interfaith work is essential because it sets the tone for what the rest of your life will be like."
Despite some resistance within her community, Abdeladl said she noticed a spike in interest in her youth group after Trump's election and the passing of the travel ban as teens became more curious about what the president describes as radical Islamic terrorism.
"Because of the political climate, more people are wondering if what they're seeing in the media is legitimate," Abdeladl said. "Whereas before they may not have had reasons to pursue questions about Muslims in their free time, now they're more curious."
Jewish studies professor at Northwestern University Barry Wimpfheimer said the Muslim ban caused a significant surge in American Jews' empathic feelings toward the Muslim population, which have recently been difficult to achieve because of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
But because the ban is reminiscent of Jewish experiences of denied citizenship, most recently the Holocaust, he believes positive Jewish-Muslim interfaith relations seem more likely to occur.
"When Jews see someone putting up a stop sign and saying 'no immigrants allowed' there's a tremendous feeling of empathy because it's very easy to see oneself in that position," Wimpfheimer said. "The Trump election galvanized social action across the board and had forced groups that maybe aren't so politically active to be very adamant about Jewish values and embracing people who are different."
Shachar Cohen-Hodos grew up in a predominantly Jewish community in Los Angeles and said she didn't notice her implicit bias toward people of different faiths until joining the high school leadership council, Muslims and Jews Inspiring Change.
The group, which is part of NewGround: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change, allowed Cohen-Hodos to interact with Muslim teens and find common ground.
"I had all of this stuff ingrained into my brain about what the world told me: that Muslims and Jews shouldn't be friends and the conflict in the Middle-East was just a barrier to all relationships," Cohen-Hodos said. "I was really surprised that there were these other Muslim teens who weren't religious and liked video games and music festivals."
Now a junior in the Jewish Theological Seminary at Columbia University, Cohen-Hodos is taking what she learned about interfaith relations from MAJIC to continue working in social justice and with the Jewish Student Union at her school.
"Sitting down at a table with someone is really the only way you're going to get past prejudice," Cohen-Hodos said. "You can have an idea of what you want from the world and what you see in the future, but you can't do that without other people."
Armaan Ismail, another MAJIC member, said interfaith work helped him in areas besides Islam.
"My leadership capabilities grew because I was trying to stand up for myself and my religion," the 16-year-old said. "It's about educating both the Muslims and Jews about changing their mindsets to live in equality."
He said MAJIC allowed him to express his faith in a safe environment.
"I showed the Jewish students that Muslims aren't the 'terrorists' they see on TV and we're just normal human beings that love God just like them," the 16-year-old said. "Our God is the same God as theirs."


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Experience and perspective are two things that will forever change your view of the world. Here's a silly example – when in high school, I liked to dabble with skateboarding. Was never any good, but the point is I looked at stairs differently after that. No longer were they a monotonous geometric means of access, but a brilliant and beautiful transition. That view, despite next to never actually doing anything on them, still comes to me at times. Like spontaneous recovery of a skill-set long put away. Experience and perspective have that effect on us, doesn't it?
As a former first responder, death has certainly made this transition. We don't often speak about death, except for when we hear other's stories of struggles; inevitably these calls are the apex. We don't, however, often talk about our perspective and experience in the realm of death. While I certainly believe this to be more broadly true, I'll speak for myself. No death I've been at was traumatic for me. And that's the catch, about this fickle way we are looking at the impact of the role. Death, for me, was not so often as a large metropolis. But, it still visited me often enough.
I've been on the chest of someone at death's door. Most responders have, at some point. The pinnacle between life and death is the rhythmic manual pumping of their heart by hand. I felt the bones, protective as they were designed to be, move and shake under the conscious pressure giving way to the reason someone would exert that much force on another human. People talk of flow. When I reflect on those times that I worked someone, I can say that I've experience that. Death often "happens" to others – first responders are in the career of fighting against that.
I see death through perspective and experience, its finality, its devastation, and its relief. Through the memories flooded with adrenaline, I've watch loved ones say good bye – moved from bed to stretcher. This transition is never "clean". There's something unclinical about it. Something about this necessary service to try and beat nature, often pushes against our views or hopes for how something would go. These calls were disturbing in some way or another. We're working with a population that few do – the dying- and yet, never really received any training for it. Our training wasn't in dealing with the dying it was in preventing the death to begin with. But, work a cold chest and you, certainly, are now in the business of death.
I've also seen the moment when death is declared. This is a haunting experience, more so than any of the accidents and major biological trauma I've seen suffered onto someone. I remember vividly the smells, the way the room looked, the position and placement. Shifting on and off the chest with another firefighter, I constantly remember looking at the medic's EKG with every compression, trying to ensure a sufficient enough spike. I remember one medic on the phone with the hospital the other calmly correcting and instructing and guiding us, while the wife, surrounded by first responders, paced in utter horror and desperation.
And then it stopped.
I can't explain to you the oddness in this transition. There was something wrong, morally or ethically or something else I can't explain, about getting up and leaving. And, yet, leaving is what we do. We too step into death, but only for a moment; a single, fleeting, fraction of a moment. Then we walk back into life, outside, and back into our trucks.
This reflection was sparked by a clinical conversation. The acknowledgement that despite dealing with folks who have experienced more than most do in a lifetime, that we, as therapists, may shy from talks of death. And this, due maybe to our uncomfortability of death, automatically prescribe its overwhelming and far-reaching impact on first responders we may see come sit in our chair. They may want to focus on a call that, for them in their own individual and meaningful way, has been hurting them. And, we could wrongly and incorrectly prescribe all the other deaths they have seen as problems in themselves to face.
A gentle reminder to simply meet them where they are hurt, while some calls the death will be the issue at others it will be the compounding factor, because it simply elicits emotions connected to the problem at hand. Fear will come to them, quickly, that they too may have something like PTSD. Of course, that's a risk, but not the only factor. Calmly guiding them to explore other options helps squash stigma and re-align their focus. So often I've diffused panic and confusion, by simple explaining how utterly normal their initial experiences are.
But, our fear of talking freely about the death hinders another conversation. How we want to live. How can we speak with any conviction about the life we want to live if we haven't a stitch of courage to talk about how we want to die? Life is about the opposites – we need to experience hate to love, grieve to be happy, rage to be content. Without the opposite, we live mere shells of the other. Those experiences are hints or shadows. They feel real enough, but because we don't know any other experience.
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Ok, so maybe that title doesn't make sense to you...yet. But I hope it will soon. In my decluttered fantasy everything I own is beautiful, has a place in my home and everyone who uses it puts it back for the next person to use without having to be told. I know right here you are thinking, "yup, total fantasy world lady." But, it can happen! It can be done, at least the first 2 are in my control. I am struggling with owning only things that I think are beautiful and useful to me and my family (Ok, so right now that's just me and DH, but one day...)
How do I get there?? From here? The same way you eat a mammoth. One. Bite. At. A. Time. (Did you read that story in college too? I hope so, I can't remember the name of it but it's actually an elephant in the story.)
Only my problem is not a mammoth, it is however a mammoth problem!
We moved to this house officially in June 2014. I have tried to make it a beautiful and relaxing place for us to be after work or wherever. Yet, I only feel this way in a few rooms.
Our Living room is great and I try to keep things put away and picked up in there.
So, right now(without running to clean it up) this is what it looks like. And part of my dining room.
Ok. Not too bad, but it still needs some work. For example, in the foreground you will see the closet doors and the shower curtain that belong in the bathroom. But, we are doing work in there so I'm excusing that for the moment. There are dog toys on the floor, but that is a constant battle. Shoes that I am responsible for even though I'm working on making the entry way an easier place to put things when we come inside. And the pillows and covers on the couch could be nicer looking. But, I'm not ashamed of this room. It's where company can sit and chat. I have a few papers on the tables that should be moved, but meh. I'll get to it I suppose.
There it is! Those things that I should be doing, but for some reason I'm not doing them yet. Those little things start to add up around us and make our houses look tired and then make US tired. Who wants to live like that? Nobody WANTS to, but a lot of people feel like they have to, when they don't. I'd love to be able to live in a tiny house. Maybe 600 sq. feet? But, I am not there in my own life yet so it's a life goal for me. Maybe one day I can release enough things to do it! I love this one because it has stairs and a place for guests. I would put a murphy bed in the back bedroom and have an extra space in there when nobody needed the bed. There are pictures that show you this on there website. But, I digress.
This is my decluttering/cleaning method. I grab an empty laundry basket and walk through the room looking for things that I don't like, need some repairs, or just don't go in that room. Then I put them in the basket. I go to the next room and do it again. I usually can only do 2 rooms and then I need a break. I put all the things in the basket that I don't like, need repairs or just don't go in that room.
Then I take all the things and look at them on the floor (usually it's the living room.) I decide if I should keep it and what it is doing for me or DH. If nothing, it goes in the donation box. If I think it's helping us or just needs repairs I might put it in the maybe pile or the pile to go to my sewing room for needed repair. Then I take what's left in the basket and run around the house putting those things away where they should have been previously but weren't. This gives me time to think about those maybe things. I like to come back to it again, usually I decide it can go away. But sometimes I make a nice spot for it and it stays. When I'm done with that I put the donation box in my truck so that the next time I'm in town I can drop it off at the thrift store.
In February I filled up the backseat of my Truck with stuff that I no longer wanted or needed. I sincerely hope that someone can find a place for it as most of it is still useful (except knickknacks, but they were ok I guess.)
I do have to mention that this is an ongoing process if you continue to bring stuff into your house. If anyone uses something they should be trained (especially myself) to put it back when they are done. It only takes a couple of seconds to maintain this, but if you put it somewhere else it might take hours to track it down. Do you really want to spend your time this way? I don't, so I keep at myself with this task of putting things in their 'home'.
I hope this process helps you. If not maybe you can find a better way to declutter your home. I usually can get 2 rooms done in about 15-20 minutes. Just do a counter space or a drawer at first. I wouldn't do more than 15minutes. It tires you out in a weird way to think about all your stuff.
Sometimes, I even take a nap on the couch if I feel like it. It's kind of my thank you to myself. Plus, you can choose what's important to you in life as well and what's not. I don't think that shopping is important, I'd rather thane stuff TO the thrift store. (Ok, DH says to put that I DO like to shop but only at craft stores. I have to admit that is true. I'm working on it! Nobody is perfect!)
I'm going to go declutter my craft room now. Bye for now readers.
What are you decluttering today? Do you have a different method that you use?


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Show 151: Herb Lab – Nick Polizzi – Sacred Science of the Amazon
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After a conversation with Nick Polizzi, author of Sacred Science – An Ancient Healing Path for the Modern World, Sue and Candace discuss how our physical place changes our herbal options. For many herbalists, the term "Be Here Now" serves as a guidepost for the type of healing they offer. Human beings are just as changed by by the area they are transported to as plants are. Recognizing and adapting to the change makes a big difference for the healer and the patient. Today, we talk about these and other issues on Real Herbalism Radio podcast.
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-based fabric manufacturer that recently announced, through the Clinton Global Initiative, a commitment to address forced and child labor in the global supply chain. Set to drop next spring, the line of footwear and bags incorporates textiles composed of up to 50 percent recycled plastic bottles, which are collected from the streets of Haiti and Honduras. The Thread network provides full- and part-time jobs for nearly 3,600 bottle collectors, entrepreneurs, and manufacturing employees in the developing world, according to Ian Rosenberger, CEO of of the certified B Corp.
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Take a peek around London Fashion Week and you will be pleasantly surprised by some of the designers behind this year's show.
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The Howling, Erin McCarthy
The Howling, Erin McCarthy
Genre: Sci-fi and fantasy, Romance
This is a really short read, novella length barely at just under 1000 kindle locations ( typical books run at 3-5K ) and I rarely enjoy short reads. If I'd known before I wouldn't have chosen it as all the reasons shorts don't work for me were here.
I read quickly, but I've a friend who reads just a few pages a night. She loves novellas as she can finish them while still remembering how they started. She'd probably like this book.
I found the story a little confusing at times, so much seemed to have already happened with Sebastian and Scarborough and the pack, and we just get a quick recap of events through memories, dreams and dialogue. There simply isn't the length in the story to let that play out. I hadn't realised at first that it was so short and spent time looking for earlier books as it felt like I'd jumped into a series and should know what had already happened.
I didn't really like any of the characters, Scarborough was just two faced and an ambitious, amoral schemer, Sebastian had what felt like weird reasons for not asking Liv to marry – why not just Talk to her? And Liv, she was a bit of a mix, so in love with Sebastian, allegedly, but when he disappears with her money she doesn't think "oh, this is out of character. I wonder if everything is OK, where he's gone, why he did this?" Nope, she just falls into Scarborough's waiting arms and is about to marry him six months later. Some Love she held!
As for that sex scene, where she thinks she's dreaming – hey, would that all dreams were that lifelike. I don't think so…..
So a book that was a fail for me, in part because its just too short to allow the story to play out properly, which is why I avoid novellas. Having got to the end I still wasn't really sure just what it was all about, the dreams/premonitions just felt too slick and weren't really treated as a plot properly IMO, Liv fell into accepting werewolves – and that she was one – with just an "OK then, werewolves are real. Cool beans" well, along those lines ;-). The big fight was soon over and all was happy…. full length it could have been a story I enjoyed, this length it was a fail.
Stars: Two, if you like shorts and novellas you may love this, I don't and didn't 😦
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