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At the beginning of the year, Sarai of Colette Patterns posted her sewing goals for the year. I really love how she writes about sewing and style (for instance, most recently about simplicity and style signatures) and it's had me thinking a lot about my own personal style. I've always been a jeans, tshirt and pony tail kind of girl, without a lot of patience for fashion. But as I learn to sew more, the prospect of making clothes that really reflect my own personality is exciting.
So I've been thinking about the beloved staples of my wardrobe: the pants I wore so long that the corduroy rubbed off, the pleated skirt that makes me feel voluptuous (an adjective that rarely applies to my straight figure), the button-down shirt that fits perfectly and is somehow, miraculously, never wrinkly. As I plan my sewing projects, I want to think carefully and realistically about the kinds of clothes that make me feel good. Because that's what it's all about. I'm also going to be more purposeful in gathering clothing inspiration on a pinterest board. So far I'm seeing a lot of mustard, navy, and simple lines. So predictable! But that's what I love.
So here are some of my clothes-sewing goals for the year:
- Experiment with fabric. No more quilting cottons! I think I have enough stacked up to make a lifetime of quilts. It's time to tackle lightweight fabrics, silks, knits, wool, twill, etc. I also tend to buy small quantities of fabric, often less than a yard. I need to be more purposeful in finding garment-worthy fabrics that I love and then buying enough for a specific project.
- Focus on wardrobe staples. And that includes pants. Pants! I will make pants this year! I also want to make a dirndl-style dress and a pencil skirt.
- Use the patterns I already own. Sometimes I feel like my hobby is not sewing, it's buying sewing supplies--including patterns. I've accumulated quite a library of vintage and new patterns, most of which I've never opened.
- Think about fit. Every time. I'm usually in such a rush to finish a project that I don't bother making a muslin and I don't think through the simple adjustments that would make the pattern fit my figure better.
- Refashion existing garments. My closet is overflowing with clothes I don't wear. Some of it needs to go to Goodwill, but a lot of it could be reborn with a few adjustments.


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Spertus Institute offers dynamic learning opportunities, rooted in Jewish wisdom and culture and open to all. These opportunities are designed to enable personal growth, train future leaders, and engage individuals in exploration of Jewish life.
Photo by William Zbaren
Spertus Institute's faceted glass façade offers a window into world of Jewish learning and culture.
Spertus Institute's one-of-a-kind, ten-story faceted window wall that provides spectacular views of the Chicago skyline, Grant Park, Millennium Park, and Lake Michigan. (Here architecture students from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee view the window wall's construction.)
Photo by Nicholas Sagan
The window wall is built from 726 individual pieces of glass in 556 different shapes. The average window size is consistent with the standard size of the windows in the buildings up and down Michigan Avenue.
The geometry of the Spertus Institute façade is unique because the surface is constantly tilting in three dimensions, resulting in individual units of glass that are parallelograms rather than rectangles.
The lightness of the wall's construction and its minimal use of materials offer efficiency and sustainability.
Sustainable design features and energy efficient operations were incorporated from the building's inception, and in 2008 the building was awarded a Silver LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Photo by Steve Lindsey
Like the bays of its 19th- and 20th-century neighbors, the facets of Spertus Institute's façade allow light to extend into the narrow building, while expanding the views enjoyed from inside.
The award-winning Spertus Institute building — designed by Chicago-based Krueck + Sexton Architects — opened in 2007. It has been the recipient of a number of prestigious awards including the Chicago Design Excellence Award from the American Institute of Architecture (AIA) and the Patron of the Year Award from the Chicago Architecture Foundation.
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Like the surrounding buildings, many constructed in the period of tremendous architectural innovation that followed the Chicago fire, the Spertus Institute building is forward-looking in its design and use of materials.
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Friday, June 20, 2008
We're All Entitled, Part 2
By Richard Firsten
Retired ESOL Teacher, Teacher-Trainer, Columnist, Author
I think titles are fascinating. I've already shown this in Part 1 ("We're All Entitled") in which I discussed Mr., Mrs., Miss, Master, and Ms. But we've got lots more titles in English, titles that reflect our cultures and our linguistic histories, things well worth talking about. Some titles are used wherever English is the primary language; some are used exclusively in the UK. And some of the same ones are used differently, depending on the English-speaking country they're used in.
For starters, there are some titles that are normally used "correctly" if a name goes along with them. Remember, I'm talking about titles, not job descriptions. Here's a sampling of these
titles, normally used with a name:
- Mr.
- Mrs.
- Ms.
- Master (old fashioned, for a boy)
- King
- Queen
- Prince
- Princess
- Lord
- Lady
- Sir (British English; a knighted man)
- Dame (British English; a knighted woman)
- President
- Vice President
- Attorney General
- Ambassador
- Doctor (a dentist or Ph.D., not an M.D.)
- Uncle
- Aunt
And we have two British titles that are used differently from all the others:
- first name, Duke of Duchy/Dukedom (e.g., Prince Andrew, Duke of York)
- first name, Duchess of Duchy/Dukedom (e.g., Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall)
There are some interesting things I'd like to say about Mr. before we move on. If used alone, it's considered an unrefined or low-class way to address a man: "Hey, Mr! You can't park there." I remember years ago, it was quite common to hear Mr. used with a man's first name if he happened to be a hairdresser. In fact, it was basically a stereotype.
A current phenomenon I've noticed, at least in my part of the US, is to hear Mr. used with a first name, possibly because the speaker is ignorant of how the man's last name is pronounced and too lazy or embarrassed to ask, or it may be cross-cultural interference. It actually bothers me when somebody calls me Mr. Richard, and I often correct the person and say my name's Mr. Firsten, not "Mr. Richard." That may not bother others, but it bothers me.
In a similar vein, I don't particularly like when a perfect stranger, like a salesperson, decides on his/her own to call me by my first name. Maybe the culture is changing more quickly than I am, but I still adhere to the rule that, when appropriate to do so, I should ask people if I can call them by their first names rather than assume I can. I think salespeople do that as a way of sounding chummy, making you think you're among friends. Well, it doesn't work on me.
Then, of course, there's the opposite situation in which a colleague will continue to call me "Mr. Firsten" even after we've worked in the same place for years. I think that's typical of the public school system. I finally get to a point where I say, "Please call me Richard." I mean, you can carry formality just so far, don't you think?
Moving right along, we also have titles that can be used with or without a name, including:
- Miss
- Madam
- Judge
- Doctor (an M.D.)
- Nurse
- Officer (policeman or woman)
- Father (Roman Catholic priest)
- Mother (Mother Superior, head of a convent)
- Grandfather (very formal)
- Grandmother (very formal)
- Grandpa
- Grandma
- Sister (nun; also a nurse in the UK and Australia)
- Brother (monk)
- Cousin (without a name, considered archaic; with a name, considered old fashioned / doesn't universally work for uncle and aunt, but among some ethnic groups, Uncle and Auntie are used without a name)
- Reverend
- Pastor
- Preacher
- Rabbi
- Imam
- Governor
- Mayor
- military titles such as General, Admiral, Sergeant
- Captain (airline pilot)
- Professor
- Maestro
- Ma (rarely used with a surname, but does occur among people in Appalachia and the Ozarks in the US; used without a name in many areas as a very informal way of addressing one's mother)
- Pa (rarely used with a surname, but does occur among people in Appalachia and the Ozarks; used without a name in Appalachia, the Ozarks, and some other areas as a very informal way of addressing one's father)
And finally, there are titles that are normally used without a name, among which we find:
- Your Majesty; His/Her Majesty; Their Majesties*
- Your (Royal) Highness; His/Her (Royal) Highness; Their (Royal) Highnesses*
- (Your) Excellency; His/Her Excellency; Their Excellencies* (Roman Catholic archbishops and bishops; foreign ambassadors; heads of state in some countries)
- Your Eminence; His Eminence; Their Eminences* (Roman Catholic cardinals)
- Your Holiness / His Holiness (the Pope or Dalai Lama)
- Your Grace; His/Her Grace; Their Graces* (for a duke and duchess; the archbishop of Canterbury; sometimes a Roman Catholic archbishop)
- Your Lordship / His Lordship; Their Lordships*
- Your Ladyship / Her Ladyship; Their Ladyships*
*When addressing this person or these people directly, we say Your ___, but when talking about this person or these people, we say His/Her/Their ___.
- Mr./Madam Prime Minister
- Mr./Madam President
- Mr./Madam Vice President
- Mr./Madam Attorney General
- Mr. Speaker (in the US Congress)
- (Mr./Madam) Ambassador
- Waiter/Waitress (quickly going out of fashion)
- Driver (taxi, bus, limousine)
- Steward (on a ship)
- Your Honor (judge); His/Her Honor; Their Honors
- Mother (very formal way of addressing this parent)
- Mom [AmE] / Mum [BrE] (informal); Mommy [AmE] / Mummy [BrE] (usually what little children say)
- Father (very formal way of addressing this parent)
- Dad/Papa/Pop (informal); Daddy (usually what little children say; sometimes daughters of any age)
- Pops (irreverent way for a younger person to address an older man)
- Son (parent addressing a male child)
- Daughter (parent addressing a female child, considered archaic)
- Sister (for a sibling, considered archaic)
- Brother (for a sibling, considered archaic)
- My Son (Catholic priest addressing male parishioner, considered archaic in some places) Notice that My Daughter was never used for female parishioners.
- My Child (Catholic priest addressing male or female parishioner)
You might not think that there could be so much to look at when it comes to titles, right? Well, I hope you've had fun looking over these lists. I know I have in compiling them! If anything's surprised you, if I've left something out, or if you've got comments on this topic, I'd really enjoy hearing from you, Mr. Reader / Ms. Reader / Madam Reader – whoever!
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Love to deal with multiple technologies in complex environments? Want to create the solutions you envision for the largest organizations in the world? Ready to advise the modern software engineering practice on pioneer projects?
We invite you to materialize your aspirations in a company where opportunities abound for building an amazing future, where discovering the value and potential of a new technology, Data Virtualization, will be the beauty of your daily routine.
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SEATTLE, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- "The One and Only Ivan," written by Katherine Applegate, is the 2013 Newbery Medal winner, the American Library Association announced Monday in Seattle.
Three Newbery Honor Books also were named. They are "Splendors and Glooms" by Laura Amy Schlitz; "Bomb: The Race to Build -- and Steal -- the World's Most Dangerous Weapon" by Steve Sheinkin; and "Three Times Lucky" by Sheila Turnage.
The 2013 Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children went to "This is Not My Hat," illustrated and written by Jon Klassen.
Five Caldecott Honor Books also were named. They are "Creepy Carrots!" illustrated by Peter Brown and written by Aaron Reynolds; "Extra Yarn" illustrated by Jon Klassen and written by Mac Barnett; "Green" illustrated and written by Laura Vaccaro Seeger; "One Cool Friend" illustrated by David Small and written by Toni Buzzeo; and "Sleep Like a Tiger" illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski and written by Mary Logue.
The Coretta Scott King [Author] Book Award recognizing an African-American author and illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults was presented to "Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America" written by Andrea Davis Pinkney and illustrated by Brian Pinkney.
Two King Author Honor Books were selected. They are "Each Kindness" by Jacqueline Woodson and illustrated by E.B. Lewis; and "No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller" by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie.
The Coretta Scott King [Illustrator] Book Award went to "I, Too, Am America," illustrated by Bryan Collier and written by Langston Hughes.
Three King Illustrator Honor Books were selected. They were "H.O.R.S.E." illustrated and written by Christopher Myers; "Ellen's Broom" illustrated by Daniel Minter and written by Kelly Starling Lyons; and "I Have a Dream: Martin Luther King Jr." illustrated by Kadir Nelson and written by Martin Luther King Jr.
The Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults was presented to "In Darkness" written by Nick Lake.
Four Printz Honor Books also were named. They were "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz; "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein; "Dodger" by Terry Pratchett; and "The White Bicycle" by Beverley Brenna.


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In this book the author explores the unique ability of photography to build connections with other artistic forms: sculpture, painting, collage, installation, performance. Photography being two-dimensional can give the illusion of volume, represent the real space or object as illusory universe, resemble documentation of an installation or of the results of a performance, look like a combination of fragments put and glued together, or it can be an abstract image which accentuates the surface of the support as this was made by the modernist painters. The illusion of depth specific to the medium allows to play with the representation or reality.
The book is based on photos taken in the urban space. They refer to constructed, staged imagery, although they all depict found and non-manipulated reality.
The book is based on photos taken in the urban space. They refer to constructed, staged imagery, although they all depict found and non-manipulated reality.
The book form is crucial for this project. It is a spatial, three-dimensional object which can be manipulated in a variety of ways. It contains flat images printed on paper that obtain volume when unfolded. The sequence creates visual connection between the photos. The book is "endless": the end is the beginning. It can become a sculpture when unfolded and placed on a table.
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By Chris Wright
Hot on the heels of Kendal Town's naff 'fake beards' sponsorship comes this from Suffolk-based Sunday league side Playford FC, who have found themselves in the unenviable position of being without a sponsor going into the 2012/13 season.
In a bid to force the issue, Playford decided to besmirch the eyes of the world by filming themselves playing in their underwear – a feat they intend to repeat until a new sponsor comes forward and puts us all out of our misery.
Club captain Richard Jones (the man who came up with the idea) told the BBC: "We wanted to do something that would make us stand out to potential sponsors. We're hoping the video might help. It was good fun to make, although slightly odd."
No arguments there…
It would appear that Playford's war of semi-nude attrition is doing the trick, with over 7,000 views of their Youtube viral clocked and a light smattering of coverage in several of their local newspapers – though, as yet, we are sad to announce that they remain sponsorless and in their shreddies.
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Steven Frank, on the recently released screenshots of Office 2010:
Part of the reason my reaction was so negative was that, in my mind, I was trying to walk through a phone conversation with a hypothetical family member who was struggling with that window. It's not hard to imagine: "OK, now click on the delete button. It's in the upper left of the window. It says Delete, but it's not the big black X, it's the smaller red X to the left and below that. No, not the red circle with the slash through it, that's a different kind of delete. You want the X. No not the big X. You don't see it? Are you on the ribbon tab that says Message, or the other tab that looks sort of like four interlocking rectangles? The ribbon is the main part of the window at the top. OK, why don't I just drive over there."
As he says in his first post on the topic, "This is impenetrable. It's UI salad."


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February 28, 1895: Engineering News article. The Sewerage System of Los Angeles, Cal. by Burr Bassell. "The City of Los Angeles is built upon both sides of a torrential stream, called the Los Angeles River, at a point 20 miles from its mouth. The corporate limits of the city may be described as a square, more than five miles on a side, containing 18,597 acres….
The present river channel is dependent upon artificial means for the confinement of its waters. Its bed is 30 ft. higher at the point where it leaves the south charter boundary, than at the southwest corner of the city. This change of channel is probably due to the influence of a tributary, called the Arroyo Seco, which empties its storm-waters laden with sand, gravel and boulders from the mountains on the north into the very center of the city….
The census of 1880 gave a population of 11,183, that of 1890, 50,395. A conservative estimate for 1894 is 70,000.
The first comprehensive plan for sewering the city was prepared in 1887 by Mr. Fred Eaton, M. Am. Soc. C. E., at the time city surveyor. It was designed on the separate system, with an outfall sewer to the sea, via the Centinela Rancho. His estimated cost of the internal system was $533,846, and for an outfall sewer to the ocean by the Centinela route, 11.5 miles in length, $466,154, making a total of $1,000,000.
Mr. Rudolph Hering, M. Am. Soc. C. E., reported favorably on Mr. Eaton's plans, and stated that the problem of designing a good sewerage system for the city presented no serious difficulties.
Reference: Bassell, Burr, 1895. "The Sewerage System of Los Angeles, Cal." Engineering News. 33:9(February 28, 1895): 139.
Commentary: This article is remarkable in so many ways. Los Angeles was only 25 square miles and the population was only 70,000! Obviously, the city has grown a bit since the article was written. Incidentally, the article goes on at length to describe other sewering options. The plot plan below represented the preferred option. As near as I can tell, the outfall for this sewer is right about where the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is now located.
Mr. Fred Eaton went on to play an infamous role in Los Angeles water wars. In 1905, Eaton was a central character in the purchase of the Owens Valley lands that formed the basis for the Los Angeles water supply imported from the Eastern Sierras. Eaton's actions were conducted under the inappropriate cloak of respectability of the U.S. Reclamation Service which has caused hard feelings in the region for the past 100+ years. Rudolph Hering played a role in this project. He has been portrayed many times in this blog including two days ago when we celebrated the anniversary of his birth.


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A 19-year-old Polk County man has been arrested as part of an investigation into poaching in southeast Hillsborough County, and now he faces county and state charges.
About 10:30 a.m. Friday, deputies Dean Cary and Roy Johnson found a pickup in a wooded area near Bethlehem and Albritton roads, and the vehicle matched the description of one used by poachers, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said.
No one was in the truck, but deputies determined it had been driven recently and contained hunting equipment and the remnants of what could have been recently killed animals, the sheriff's office said.
The deputies called for assistance from air and K-9 units. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers were requested and responded to the scene.
Deputies then found and arrested Dalton W. Gant, 19, of 25 Orange St., Mulberry, on a charge of armed trespassing on private property.
FWC officers cited Gant for taking and possessing game out of season and attempting to take game out of season.
Several weapons were confiscated, as well as the carcass of a skinned dear, the sheriff's office said.


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The Central Connecticut softball team swept Saint Francis (PA) on Monday afternoon. The Blue Devils (27-19, 9-9 NEC) took game one by a score of 6-2 before winning game two 7-5. Freshman Laura Messina earned her 20th victory of the season in game one.
Game One
Freshman Laura Messina notched her 20th win of the season with the game one victory. She allowed two runs, one earned, on seven hits, while striking out seven and walking none.
Messina allowed a run in the top of the first inning and another in the fifth, but blanked the Red Flash the rest of the game.
The Blue Devils scored four runs on four hits in the third inning. Senior Sarah Vlahos led off the inning with a double to centerfield, which was misplayed allowing her to advance to thid. Senior Macy Stefanski walked and junior Stephanie Chotkevys singled to score Vlahos for Central's first run.
After two quick outs, the Blue Devils scored again when sophomore Tessa Brown walked and junior Nicole Springer was hit by a pitch to force in a run. Freshman Kat Malcolm capped the inning with a two-run single to center that put Central ahead 4-2.
Springer hit a solo home run in the fifth inning and Stefanski singled home a run later in the frame to extend her team's lead to 6-2.
Springer and Malcolm each drove in two runs. Freshman Alyssa McCoart and Vlahos both had two hits in the game.
With the victory Messina improves to 20-11 in the circle this year.
Game Two
The Blue Devils got on the board with a pair of runs in the first inning. Both runs came on a home run by Springer. The long blast to center was the tenth home run of the season for Springer, which ties a CCSU single-season record.
With one out in the third inning, Brown doubled to left and Springer walked. Junior Sarah Emery, who had pinch run for Springer, and Brown both came around to score on a double by McCoart. After advancing to third on a passed ball, McCoart scored on a single by Vlahos, which put the Blue Devils ahead 5-2.
The Blue Devils added a sixth run on a solo home run by sophomore Arielle Bruno leading off the fourth inning.
In the fifth, Vlahos hit a lead off single and then came around to score on a base hit by freshman Ashley Black.
Junior Jordan Tingley earned the victory in game two. She pitched seven innings and allowed five runs, but only two were earned. Tingley scattered nine hits and walked two, while striking out three.
Tingley is now 4-3 on the season with the victory.
As a team, Central pounded out 15 hits in the game. Vlahos led the way with three hits, but Bruno, Black, Brown, Springer and McCoart all had two-hit games.
Vlahos went five-for-seven at the plate and also drew a walk on the day.
Springer hit her ninth and tenth home runs of the season and also drove in four runs to bring her RBI total to 41.
The Blue Devils return to action on Wednesday at Holy Cross.


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On video lecture resources
Spurred on by An American Physics Student in England (who writes much more eloquently on the subject than I will) and Asymptotia's follow up I've been spending a couple of hours each evening back at the guest house winding down with videos of theory seminars from various graduate summer programs - With a Chinese budget, going out on the town is not on the cards, though I've spent a few pleasant evenings in local cafes. Anyway, I thought I'd talk about these video lectures in general and try and add to the original voice and push to make this more widespread.
Learning theoretical physics is hard - it takes time and effort in equally large helpings. There's so much of it that it's easy to be distracted by a million questions and one could spend years following leads from one confusing point to another. It's clearly very complicated though with practice and time the confusion clears and the mass of formulae converge into a meaningful whole. Sometimes books and people explain things in such different ways that it's hard to see that they're talking about the same thing. Often this can be beneficial however because you build a more structured picture of the given subject - physics for cubists perhaps.
Before I say anything about sitting back and watching videos I should stress that the only way you will learn to use the tools of quantum field theory, string theory, advanced areas of mathematics and the like or indeed far simpler topics in maths and physics is not just to read the hundreds of books on the subjects but to do it.
Many people claim that they don't give advice. This is all very humble but those with experience have been through the system and seen what pitfalls lie in wait. I am keen to hear advice from anyone who has been there and done it, however subjective it may be.
Though I'm not that far from being a graduate myself I think that my memories are fresh enough to provide my tuppence worth on the subject.
I think that the following is one of the most important points to stress to first year graduate students: Now is perhaps the only time that you will have the luxury to be able to sit down and go through all the problems in a book. Do it! Do every problem you can get your hands on. Don't just look at the problems and think if you can do them (though of course thinking about problems abstractly is a useful skill) but write out the indices, dot your alphas and make sure your factors of two are right. This will be obvious to most I'm sure but it's so easy to fall into lazy habits of simply reading books in a comfy chair with a cup of coffee. My opinion is that daydreaming is also an integral part of consolidating understanding in these subjects but in general it won't solve the nitty gritty of calculations.
In my first year I tried to take this approach of going through problems but probably not in a very organised way. I had pieces of paper flying all over the place and ideally I should have ended up with neat notebooks full of the correct solutions which I could easily look back on if I need to do a similar problem in the future.
After this, when you start doing research you (or at least I) won't have time to devote to spending several months going through a book. Currently I do spend a lot of time reading papers and books on various subjects but this is often piecemeal and is on top of pursuing research problems. I usually have to devote evenings and weekends to the former and it's frequently interrupted by the latter.
So, do it, speak to people who've been there and find out what books they found useful and go from beginning to end. If it's an appropriate book you will learn how to solve real research problems for yourself. If you don't do the problems and work through the examples then you will probably be able to sit through a seminar on the subject and know what's going on but you wouldn't have been able to get there yourself.
OK, that said lectures are vital because they give the interaction between student and expert. It means you can follow the thought patterns of someone in the trade and you can ask the questions you can't pose to a book, this is pretty obvious. On top of this if the lecturer is good they will take you at an appropriate pace through a subject. As all good books on learning techniques will stress, stimulating different areas of the brain during learning is a good way to memorize things and so using both the auditory as well as visual inputs will surely be beneficial. I wonder if because our brains have evolved since the advent of language if we're better at learning through speech than through the relatively recent addition of the written word.
Still useful but without the benefit of interaction is to watch the lectures on video which is what I've been doing for a couple of hours each evening. I probably haven't learnt how to solve any of my research problems from them but they've taught me new ways to see things and given me motivation to go and look stuff up in books. Institutes are slowly but surely videoing lectures and making them available to the public. I would urge all institutes to do this. It's a waste not to. There are some wonderful lecturers out there and for something that costs so little, so many people could benefit. This is a treasure trove of resources waiting to be utilised.
As an addition I would hope that at some time there can be a real central repository rather than hundreds of sites dotted round the place with small catalogues of lectures. Spires has a search function for videos but they're not all there. Perhaps it would be possible to include a comment or voting section. I'm sure there are hundreds of courses around the world on QFT but if through time people gravitate towards a particular set of lecturers that's even better for newcomers who don't want to search through all the others.
The lectures I've been watching have mostly been of a relatively basic level but I've learnt things from each one and spent a long time following up leads on the web and in the Yukawa Institute library. If nothing else it's a great chance to sit back at leisure and contrast what makes a good and bad lecturer (though almost all of them have been great) and get a few tips.
Most of the lectures from the ASTI summer school are excellent, ranging from true pop-science level to some reasonably technical first year graduate material. Don't be put off by the fact that occasionally the audio and visual get out of synch, this simply adds to the different ways your brain is having to function and makes the learning experience richer ;-). Lectures from Tony Zee on beginner's QFT, Clifford Johnson on strings and branes, Jeff Murugan on solitons (great but the synch is testing), James Gates on supersymmetry, Don Marolf on black holes and Robert de Mello Koch on the fundamentals of group theory are particularly recommended, though there are many that I still haven't seen. (See below for some hints on downloading these).
The lectures from the PITP school aren't quite so clear but there's still a great range of courses (mostly four lectures each) from the basics of string theory by Richard Szabo and the AdS/CFT correspondence by Mark Van Raamsdonk to slightly more technical lectures by Leonard Susskind on de Sitter space (really not very clear visuals at all).
From the Perimeter institute is another fantastic resource though unfortunately I've not found a way to download them (only viewable as far as I can tell in Internet Explorer). The summer school on strings, gravity and cosmology has extensive introductory lectures.
Serkan Cabi has a long list of pages with videos online and I've spent a long time searching through for the most appropriate. Many of them are streaming but if you want to download them there are programs out there that allow you to do this. In particular I've been using a program called Hidownload which is free for something like two months. For the ASTI lectures the link seemed to break easily and I found a program called DAP which allows resumption of downloads meant that I could go away and over a long time the lectures would end up in one piece on my computer.
Anyway, I hope that's of use. In particular if anyone has the knowhow, energy or power to get a real central repository or search engine which enables comments I think it would be very beneficial. Bottom line - don't waste lectures. Make them as freely available as possible.


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new office light
Over the dreary weekend I made this light for the office. I love it, it's simple and white but has this great organic shape. Oh, it was sooo easy too. That's probably the best part. I just bought a keyless mount and had Jeremiah install that. Then you just screw in as many splitter as you want, add light bulbs and done! We're putting one identical to this in the living room too. They let off so much light and I think over time I may add to them, though the 10 splitters I used seems to be just the right size so maybe I won't.
I also thrifted the wall mounted candle holders and the bright red oil lamp, all for under $5. I'd love to find more of these lamps, maybe start a collection. There is a slot on the bottom of the handle for hanging and the lamp part pivots, kind of cool huh?
I'll try to take more pictures of the living room light when it's all done. My thought was that since the office light and living room lights are in a very straight line from one another, having identical fixtures could be cool. I hope.
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That light is amazing! Everything in your home is incredible though, so no surprise there :)ReplyDelete
wow! impressive! i love it Jenn.. your house,room,living room all looks great Jenn:)oh.. and Israels room is just amazing!so detailed and beautiful with all the vintage toys.ReplyDelete
You are a genius.ReplyDelete
P.S. My word verification was FistRam. I kid you not.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one playing with lightbulb splitters this weekend! Who knew such a simple solution could create something so appealing. Reading your post makes me want to keep working on the possibilities...ReplyDelete
love it, SO perfect for an office!! also the finds are awesome!..that red is amazing.ReplyDelete
Love it...you're just so creative!ReplyDelete
Wow, amazing! looks very nice.ReplyDelete
I made one too over the weekend, but I'm thinking of painting the splittersReplyDelete
Great job.ReplyDelete
I'm partial to that little red lantern thing
i made the same light last year, and i have two of them in a direct line too..ReplyDelete
i guess i should send you a picture!
love your blog!
How cool!!! :D and how easy it looks to made as well... I already see it in my bedroom ;)ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing it!
genius, genius, genius...you seriously rock lady!ReplyDelete
love the new light...thinking a little spacey?? dayleReplyDelete
You have such an amazing talent for making unbelievably cool looking stuff! I am in awe!ReplyDelete
What an amazing idea!!!!!!!!! I may do this in my office. You give me such great ideas! LOVE IT :DReplyDelete
ps - I just did my own Ikea run the other day! I came out with all this stuff! Felt great. Now I gotta go back to get a chair.
Oh I love the lamp!! Great idea!ReplyDelete
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WASHINGTON -- The government sets a high bar for "affordable" when it comes to health insurance.
Proposed Affordable Care Act (ACA) rules, published Wednesday by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Department of Health and Human Services, said the government will look at the cost of coverage for an individual -- not a family -- plan when deciding if an employer's plan is affordable.
That is an important distinction since it will govern who will be eligible for subsidies to help pay for insurance, and it sets ground rules for penalties for going without insurance.
The health law will offer federal subsidies to purchase health coverage through an insurance exchange if an individual's share of their employer-sponsored insurance is not affordable. "Not affordable" is defined in the law as more than 9.5% of the worker's household income.
However, the IRS said this week the 9.5% calculation should be based on the cost of individual insurance -- even if the employee was trying to purchase coverage for their whole family.
Someone isn't eligible for federal assistance if their employer's individual plan is deemed "affordable" even if a family plan costs far above 9.5% of a family's income.
The so called "family glitch" has been bemoaned by patient and child advocates. They said it will limit access to health coverage, which was not the law's original intent.
Medical groups including the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Children's Hospital Association have written President Obama asking him to fix this glitch in the law. They were hoping this could have been fixed in the proposed rules.
They argue individual plans are significantly less expensive, which makes it less likely to top the 9.5% threshold.
The average annual premiums for single coverage in 2012 are $5,615 and for family coverage $15,745, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Kathleen Stoll, director of health policy at the liberal health policy group Families USA, said this would block some families from receiving a premium tax credit under the ACA.
Starting next year, most Americans will be required to have health insurance, while low- and middle-income people can get tax credits to help pay their premiums, unless they have affordable coverage from an employer.
"We are disappointed," Stoll told MedPage Today in a telephone interview. "But this was clearly a situation where the regulations went as far as they could, and we're going to need a legislative fix."
Action must be taken to provide assistance for some low- and middle-income families "so they can move from the ranks of the uninsured to the insured," Stoll said.
The proposed rules published by the IRS and HHS explain the eligibility rules for receiving an exemption to the ACA's individual health coverage mandate and the process to receive federal assistance.
HHS also said this week individuals who make less than 100% of the federal poverty level and live in states that don't expand their Medicaid programs won't be subject to penalties. The ACA sought to expand Medicaid to cover everyone up to 138% of the federal poverty level, but after June's Supreme Court decision, states aren't forced to expand at all.
Subsidies through the health insurance exchanges are only available for those making between 100% and 400% of poverty, leaving those not covered by Medicaid now and making less than 100% of poverty in the lurch.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates less than 2% of Americans will owe a penalty under the ACA.
Comments on the IRS rule are due May 2 while a public hearing slated for May 29. Comments on the HHS rule are due March 18.


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In the evolution of man instinct came to play a vital role since Nature fine-tuned his physiology to address the question: flee or fight? The adrenalin rush of your body in sensing danger is of different make up than when you need to think seriously what is the best course for your future. In the latter case time is on your side and you may weigh pros and cons to arrive at a conclusion. This is what thinking means. You brain is not merely reptelian brain but has also complex rewiring to help you in the process. Speech, visual and other faculties are controlled from locations that can be mapped and studied. Thus nature has provided certain initial back-up to which your life among men and animals add ancillary support. The thinking machine Head has its adjunct the Heart with which your feelings reinforce your life experience. Basic emotions fear and pleasure have myriad shades of meaning to make your life significant. This is what makes man different from animals.
Such a man also has rational and irrational side to which I only need to point the wakeful state and the dream state. If you go by the latter irrational side alone you are a menace to the society and you might require supervision and medicine to keep you from harm. The point is the head should remain in its place and consequently the heart must hold its own. The relationship of State and religion is like this.
In order to understand how poorly religion and state can hold together we only need to look at the Church of Rome.
In the Early Church the bishops elected for the office were considered as shepherds of the flock. Following the stricture of Jesus to Simon Peter they were to cater to the spiritual needs of the early converts who were mostly marginalized in society or were actively hounded out by Rome as a threat to the empire. As seized of their charge the early bishops did not dabble in temporal matters. The serious threat to the religion actually came from the time Constantine made Christianity as the state religion. He made it not out of any genuine conviction but as a matter of state policy. Such explosive mixture could only delay but not prevent the march of events. The empire was doomed to collapse and it did happen. With it the primary aim of the Church was seriously compromised.
After the fall of Rome during the "Middle Ages", the papacy was influenced by the temporal rulers of and surrounding the Italian Peninsula; these periods are known as the Ostrogothic Papacy, Byzantine Papacy, and Frankish Papacy. Over time, the papacy consolidated its territorial claims to a portion of the peninsula known as the Papal States. Thereafter, the role of neighboring sovereigns was replaced by powerful Roman families of which I may merely mention the Tusculan Papacy.
From 1048 to 1257, the papacy experienced increasing conflict with the leaders and churches of the Holy Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire. The latter culminated in the East-West Schism, dividing the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church. While Popes were politicking the Church underwent through serious spiritual crisis among believers that came in the form of the Black Death. With such a calamity for the suffering flock the Church failed to address their spiritual confusion. They believed it was the divine chastisement and came from God. ( The Black Death wiped out nearly two thirds of Europe and the Pope sat out through this terrible times in Avignion,France. No wonder the survivors came out with a new idea of making their present life count. The Carpe Diem effect. This led to Reformation and the Enlightenment in course of time. Initiative in trade and commerce had passed from Italy to Germany, England and Holland.)
The Church was split by politics rather than any theological disagreement that quickly escalated from a church problem to a diplomatic crisis that divided Europe. Secular leaders had to choose which claimant they would recognize that showed the lie that the authority of the Pope came straight from St. Peter. The schism was ended by the Council of Constance (1414–1418).
Islam also suffers from the same tragedy. Petro-Islam is out and out buying converts who fit neither here nor there. Their head is a counting machine while their heart is far from obedience to their God.
P.S: The tragedy of putting the cart before the horse , mistaking the heart for the head led to the decline of the Church and Italy never survived the Black Death. In a manner of speaking the medieval mindset still plagues them. Unification of Italy was hampered by Papacy and the present economic crisis owe partly to it. We see conjugation principle at work here.


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The Worst That Could Happen
This story appears in the July 2002 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
Oklahoma City. Columbine. September 11. Every once in a while, we are reminded life is unpredictable. And if you're responsible for employees and customers, you've come to the conclusion that it's never a bad idea to imagine the unimaginable.
Two authors did just that in what was considered a humor book
before September 11. Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht's
Worst Case Scenario Handbook advises
readers on everything from delivering a baby in a cab to dodging
bullets. One day, Piven and Borgenicht might get around to writing
such a handbook for entrepreneurs. As unlikely as it is that your
business will be in the line of terrorist fire, your company might
be in the path of a tornado. No matter how remote or ridiculous the
odds seem to you, it's time to start thinking about a
contingency plan. Here are a few situations to consider.
You're Kidnapped on a Business Trip in a Developing Country
You won't likely have to worry about this if your business hardly takes you to Atlantic City, let alone across the Atlantic. But should you ever wind up negotiating in, say, Columbia, here are some rules to remember, courtesy of David W. Johnson, vice president and director of operations at Washington, DC-based Investigative Group International (IGI). The company specializes in searching for the answers to complex mysteries-such as tracing embezzled funds to an offshore tax haven. Johnson has also been an FBI agent, heading SWAT teams and the Hostage Rescue Team, a 60-member counter-terrorist operation.
Rule #2: If you believe you're being followed, go to the nearest police station, or try to disappear into a crowd.
Rule #3: If you are kidnapped, stay calm. "Keep your ego in check," advises Johnson. "Stay humble, and don't debate the issues with your kidnappers."
Rule #4: Look for an escape route.
Rule #5: "Take care of your needs-eat what you can, and mentally prepare yourself for a long stay."
But what if it's not you but your employee who has been kidnapped? If you even slightly suspect that's the case, immediately contact the country's American embassy, says Johnson-even if the bad guys have been in touch with you and advised you otherwise. You certainly can't solve the problem on your own, and kidnappers will know you'll call the authorities, anyway.
Most companies targeted by terrorists have big marquee names, so if your company isn't quite there yet, the odds are even better this will never happen, says Johnson.
Still, if your company has been a presence in a neighborhood for a while, that could spell trouble. IGI chairman Terry Lenzner, a former private investigator who worked on, among other things, the Atlanta child killings of the early 1980s and the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, recalls a particularly dangerous situation: "We did a post-analysis of some American workers in Pakistan in the late 1990s who were picked up [for] work every day in the same car by the same driver.
"One morning, a motorcycle came up and stopped the car. A van came up behind it, and members of a radical group, protesting the conviction of a Pakistani who shot CIA personnel, machine-gunned all five workers to death. They didn't have a chance. But one lesson learned is: Don't do the same thing over and over."
Prevention Is the
Best Medicine:
"Plan ahead," suggests Johnson, "from the time you land at the airport to the moment you leave. But that doesn't mean you need to be paranoid the whole time."
Natural Disaster! Lawsuit!
Your Company Is Decimated by a Natural Disaster
Whether your office building is buried under a landslide or hit by a hurricane, there are three immediate steps you should take, says Dave Bowe at Crisis Management Worldwide in Wilmington, North Carolina.
2. Any injuries? Call 911. Then call your employees' families and, if you can, your customers'. Take a deep breath.
3. Now start assessing your building.
Prevention is the Best Medicine:
You can't stop a tornado, but you can create a contingency plan and ensure you have insurance.
Your Company Is the Target of a Large Lawsuit
>Maybe you've heard of the lawsuit that Kellogg's is fighting. Seems a Pennsylvania woman left a Pop-Tart in her toaster last summer before driving her kids to school. When she returned 10 to 20 minutes later, smoke was pouring from her house, and firefighters were on the scene. The woman is now seeking $100,000 from Kellogg's for damages to her house, and is also suing Black & Decker, the makers of the toaster.
If you're hit by an out-of-left-field lawsuit, consider some free advice from Patricia Eyres, attorney and president of Litigation Management & Training Services Inc. and author of The Legal Handbook for Trainers, Speakers & Consultants :
2. "Speak with one voice from your organization," warns Eyres. "There is nothing the media-and the plaintiffs' attorneys-love more than inconsistent messages from different people within an organization."
3. When it comes to employee lawsuits, "be very careful to comply with all laws governing discrimination and harassment," says Eyres. "'Don't discriminate, do investigate and don't retaliate' is the best advice for any entrepreneur."
Think you'll never be on the receiving end of a lawsuit? Don't be so sure. "Regrettably, lawsuits are a byproduct of doing business," says Eyres. "Control it like a business, and select the best business outcome to meet your needs. This means reacting rationally rather than emotionally-not easy for entrepreneurs who have built their own businesses from the ground up. Don't make litigation personal."
Prevention is the Best Medicine:
- "Establish personnel policies and enforce them consistently," says Eyres.
- "When creating business records of any type, including formal letters, contracts, memos or informal e-mail," explains Eyres, "keep in mind, those documents may one day provide the basis for reconstructing the events that may be the subject of a dispute."
Gunman! Scandal!
A Gunman Charges Into Your Office Building
First, if you hear the sound of gunfire in another room, don't run toward it, urge Carol and Duane Frederickson, co-presidents of Frederickson Consulting Inc., a workplace-violence consulting firm in Minneapolis. It may seem harsh or cowardly to suggest fleeing, but the damage has probably been done, and now you need to think about saving your own life. If you're unlucky enough to meet up with the gunman, be agreeable. "Don't try to rationalize with him," suggests Carol. "Remember, if [he] is waving around a gun, he's probably irrational."
If you're trying to avoid being seen, "stay as low as you can, and if you can, get under your desk and pull the chair in," says Duane. "Lives have been saved that way."
Prevention is the Best Medicine:
- Create a violence policy. If your employee manual has a policy outlining your definition of violence, long before a problem has gone out of control you can utter the words "You're fired"-without fear of a lawsuit-if an employee is committing what your manual states is a violent act, say Carol and Duane.
- Confront the volatile employee now, not later. Would you let a stick of dynamite burn?
Your Company Is Rocked by a Salacious Scandal
Think of Gary Thompson as a lifeguard, pulling entrepreneurs from the whirlpool wave that is known as the media machine. Thompson is executive vice president of the San Francisco branch of Waltham, Massachusetts-based Schwartz Communications. Though he specializes in helping small businesses, he also assisted Jack-in-the-Box after its infamous food-poisoning problems in the mid-1990s, watched colleagues try valiantly to restore Exxon's image after its Alaskan oil spill, and was in charge of maintaining corporate composure after a high-tech client's CEO was kidnapped several years ago.
Any worst-case scenario could bring bad publicity, which is why Thompson urges you to ignore your lawyer, who will advise you to say nothing, and follow his formula:
1. Acknowledge the problem. Saying there "might" be a problem will only make you sound wishy-washy.
2. Sympathize with those who are affected. And be specific. You feel bad for your employees, your shareholders, your customers or all of the above.
3. State what the company is doing. But "until you have something solid to report, it's not necessary to disclose to the press everything that's going on," says Thompson. "Just acknowledge you're working on the problem."
4. Assure the public on an ongoing basis. But only up to a point. "Studies show that after two months, reminding people starts to overstate the issue," says Thompson. "The American public tends to be very forgiving if you acknowledge swiftly there is an issue, and most customers will sympathize with the company trying to get to the bottom [of the problem]" and do the right thing.
Prevention is the Best Medicine:
There may be little you can do to prepare yourself for scandals, but creating a company values system and instilling it in the employee mind-set will help, says Thompson, who recalls the time when an insurance company CEO who came to him after employees refused to give an elderly woman her money because of some minor glitch in her paperwork. The CEO wanted the woman to be compensated-and so did the employees. But the staff believed they had to strictly follow company policy. Says Thompson, "Your employees need to understand [your company's] values give them a certain latitude with dealing with the public."
Insure & Create a Contigency Plan
Insure and Reassure
You probably don't need convincing. Everybody knows insurance is important, but do you have the right coverage? Don't do business without these:
- Business interruption insurance: If your warehouse is insured, great, but if you're out of products for three months because of a fire, and insurance isn't paying your employees, then-well, do you really want to pay everybody out of your retirement fund?
- Key employee insurance: You can get this for yourself, or for staff members who are important to running your business. If that employee dies-or if you die-the money will be there while a replacement is recruited and trained.
"Sure," the cynic might think, "and then after the disaster, the insurer will drop me." Maybe, but as one insurance expert told us: "Quite frankly, if we dropped everybody who had a loss, we would not have customers."
Do You Have a Contingency Plan?
Dave Bowe and Randy Uzzell at Crisis Management Worldwide specialize in contingency planning, a concept with which every entrepreneur should be intimately familiar. Some things you should do as part of planning for the worst:
- Take a walk around your building. Determine where you're vulnerable, says Uzzell. "Ask yourself what's logical to prepare for," he adds. "Obviously, you're not going to spend much time preparing for the 100-year flood...unless it's been 99 years since the last 100-year flood."
- Think about various potential scenarios. Try to conceive how you would handle them, and look for your weaknesses. Then devise plans of attack for each.
- Develop a crisis communication team. Bowe advises that a core of your corps needs to know how to talk to the media. Take as many preventive measures as possible. That includes everything from backing up data on a computer and storing the information off-site to finding the right insurance to optimize your company's protection.
During the course of researching this article, a torrential downpour rocked Cincinnati. Geoff Williams' home office was flooded. He did have insurance. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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You can join us for our live stream each Sunday at around 11:00 AM via our church Facebook page (click here).
Not on Facebook? Our archive of video sermons* is available on the MarchtoZion Youtube channel (click here).
*New sermons added each Sunday evening
Schedule of Services
Sunday Worship Services
- Sundays, 10:30-12:00
- Lunch following service, 2nd and 4th Sundays
Wednesday Night Services
- Wednesday nights after the 2nd and 4th Sundays at 6:45 in the fellowship hall; a Q&A session generally follows the message.
- Wednesday night services cease in November and resume in the early Spring each year.
Business Meeting/Conference
- Following service on 3rd Sundays
Annual Meeting
- Weekend of 4th Sunday in May, Friday – Sunday
- We generally invite a special guest speaker(s) for this event
Communion/The Lord's Supper
- 4th Sunday in May following lunch
- 4th Sunday in September following lunch
Flint River Association of Primitive Baptists
- Association, 1st weekend in October
- Union Meeting, rotates on various weekend in April
- Meeting rotates each year between churches of the Association
- A variety of ministers attend this meeting
What to Expect?
"I am interesting in coming to visit Flint River Church. What should I expect?"
Thank you!
First, let me thank you for considering a visit to our Church. You should expect one of the warmest greetings you have ever received. We are a relatively small body of believers (50 to 60) who are close in Christian fellowship. I promise, if you come early or stay a few minutes late, you will receive a hearty welcome from our congregation.
Our Worship
Concerning the worship, it is our goal to "stick with the scriptures." We prefer to continue worship as it existed in the first century Church. Each Sunday worship service consists of 30 minutes of acapella congregational singing (worship), public prayer by selected brothers in our congregation, and the centerpiece of each service is preaching from God's Word. In fact, we devote nearly an entire hour to the preaching of the cross (from the King James Bible).
Family Integrated
Do you have a family? We are delighted to tell you that our services are family integrated. That means your children are welcome to sit with you during worship, as was the practice during Jesus' personal ministry (Mark 10:13-14). We are accustomed to (and rather thankful to have) the sound of children during public worship.
Our Message
Finally, I invite you to consider our message, the message of salvation by Sovereign Grace through Christ Jesus our Lord. We believe that Christ came to save a chosen people, elected by the Father from before the creation of the universe (Eph. 1:4, John 17:1-3). This work was finished by Jesus on the cross, therefore salvation was secured for an innumerable number of people from every nation and even every family or kindred (Rev. 5:9; 7:9). We believe our reception of the gospel message and any good works are FRUITS of this salvation (Gal. 5:22), as we are sinners in and of ourselves.
Visit these pages to listen: Audio Sermons | Radio Broadcasts
Does this pique your curiosity? If so, we would love for you to prayerfully consider a visit to Flint River Primitive Baptist Church. How about this Sunday morning at 10:30? Get directions HERE!
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Online Resources
Choose from the options below for free online resources from Flint River Primitive Baptist church.
Weekly Radio Broadcasts: Words of Grace is the radio ministry of Elder Ben Winslett, pastor of Flint River Church. Recent programs are available for download on iTunes of our website. For a station directory, click here. Drop us an email, and let us know you listen!
Audio Hymnsinging: This is an archive of acapella hymns from Flint River Church.
Audio Sermons: Online listing of selected audio sermons from the pulpit of Flint River Church.
Video Sermons: Messages are livestreamed each Sunday morning via our church Facebook page and then uploaded to the MarchtoZion Youtube channel.
Pastor's Blog: Our pastor occasionally posts thoughts from his studies through the scriptures online in the blog at Marchtozion.com.
For written and audio resources to aid in your discipleship, visit Marchtozion.com.
Find Us
Flint River Church is located at 641 Moontown Road, Brownsboro, Alabama.
From Huntsville: Take Highway 72 east for approximately 5 miles and take a left onto Ryland Pike (near mile marker 104). Go approximately 2 miles and turn right onto Moontown road, just past Wears Chapel Baptist church. Flint River church is on the left just past a softball field.
From Decatur: Take Highway 20 east until it turns into I-565. Go approximately 15 miles on I-565 and it will turn into Highway 72. Follow the directions for Huntsville.
From Scottsboro: Take Highway 72 west and continue through Gurley to Moontown road (just past the Flint River bridge); turn right on Moontown road. Go approximately 1 mile and the church will be on the right.
From Birmingham: Take I-65 north. Get off at the I-565 exit and go east. Follow the directions given above for Decatur.
From Nashville: Take I-65 south. Get off at the Ardmore exit (exit# 1). Go left which will take you into Ardmore. The road will turn into Highway 53. Go approximately 25 miles until Highway 53 intersects with I-565. Take I-565 east until it turns into Highway 72. Follow the directions given above for Huntsville.
From Atlanta: Take I-75 north to Chattanooga. In Chattanooga, take I-24 west for approximately 20 miles. Take Highway 72 west to Scottsboro. Follow the directions given above for Scottsboro.
Our Church History
Taken from the 200th Anniversary History Booklet published in 2008...
The Origin of Alabama's Oldest Baptist Church
It is quite difficult in our day of fast food, high speed internet, cell phones, ipods, and satellites to imagine the culture and day to day lives of the men and women living in what was then known as Mississippi Territory, just 200 years ago...No electricity, no telephones, no air conditioners, no automobiles or airplanes. Life was hard, unforgiving, and often times brutal. As one local historian notes "Madison County was just emerging from the wilderness." Alabama was not yet a state. America had not yet known a Civil war. The president of our great nation was Thomas Jefferson. The Revolutionary war was won only 25 years prior.
It was in this era and culture that a small band of twelve believers gathered on October 2, 1808 in the home of Brother James Deaton in Killingsworth Cove, for the purpose of constituting a local Baptist Church in which to worship their Savior. This Church, the Flint River Baptist Church of Christ, would be the first Baptist church not only in Madison County, but also in what would later become the State of Alabama. Their first pastor was Elder John Nicholson, reportedly from the Boiling Fork Baptist Church in Franklin County, Tennessee. Nicholson would serve Flint River Church as Pastor until around 1830. Six years after her constitution date, Flint River Church joined the Flint River Association of Baptists, the association to which she belongs today.
Reminiscent of the first century church meeting from house to house (Acts 2:46, 1 Corinthians 16:19), Flint River Church met in the homes of her members until the Spring of 1809, at which time a building was constructed on the East bank of the Flint River, near the community of Maysville. An official deed to the land was not acquired until 1819, at which time the church purchased the land from Mr. William Derrick for the sum of $12. Copies of the deed are still available at the Madison County Courthouse.
Flint River Church was founded upon historic Biblical Principles which have been forgotten by many wearing the name Baptist today. At the time of her constitution most Baptist churches including Flint River Church, were Predestinarian concerning the doctrine of salvation and very simple in church practice. Baptists believed in fundamental Bible teachings such as election, predestination, redemption, regeneration, etc. Our brethren of that day rejoiced to know that their eternal destiny rested in the hands of the Sovereign Ruler of the universe, and was not contingent upon their own decisions or merit. One who visited a Baptist church of this era would observe a very simple worship service. The congregation would lift its voice in praise and worship of Almighty God. Men would bow their humble heads in awe, begging God for His mercy and thanking Him for His many favors bountifully showered down from His storehouse of Grace. Gospel ministers would stand and proclaim the Gospel to the Lord's people without gimmick or entertainment. The only Bible read was the King James Version – there was no confusion over multiple versions with contradicting language.
Whereas today we may experience the worries of a high paced society, the hindrances of that day were quite different. For example, on the day of the regularly scheduled business conference of April 1833, the minutes of Flint River Church record that there was "no meeting owing the river being up and rainy." For May of the same year the minutes record "The River is impassible, meeting disappointed." The very same situation occurred in January of 1834 when the meeting was cancelled due to "high water and rainy weather." There were also times during the civil war and during smallpox and flu epidemics in which services were cancelled. When is the last time we were hindered from anything due to an impassible river, a war on domestic soil, or a plague? I dare say never! Oh, how God has blessed us with such a hedge of protection!
While life was indeed hard, the Baptist faith was strong and sound! One might ask: Where could I find such religion today? The only place of which I know is in a Primitive Baptist Church. As our brethren of old have said, Come and see!
Our Beliefs
Articles of Faith, adopted 1808
- We believe in only one true and living God, the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost.
- We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the Word of God, and the only rule of faith and practice.
- We believe in the doctrine of election and that God chose His people in Christ before the foundation of the world.
- We believe in the doctrine of original sin.
- We believe in man's impotency to recover himself from the fallen state he is in by nature by his own free will and ability.
- We believe that sinners are justified in the sight of God only by the imputed righteousness of Christ.
- We believe that God's elect shall be called, converted, regenerated, and sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
- We believe that the saints shall be preserved in grace and never fall finally away.
- We believe that baptism, the Lord's supper, and washing of the saints' feet are ordinances of Jesus Christ, and that true believers are the only subjects of these ordinances, and the true mode of baptism is immersion.
- We believe in the resurrection of the dead and in a general judgment.
- We believe that the punishment of the wicked and the joys of the righteous will be eternal.
- We believe that no minister has a right to administration of the ordinances, only such as are regularly baptized, called, and come under the imposition of hands by a presbytery.
- We believe that none but regularly baptized members have a right to commune at the Lord's Table
Our Pastor
Benjamin C. Winslett moved from Birmingham, Alabama to Huntsville to serve us as pastor during the fall of 2006. Since January of 2008, he has directed a regional radio ministry, Words of Grace, which broadcasts locally each Sunday at 8:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. on 1140 AM and 101.3 FM. He also launched and edits a Primitive Baptist ministry website, www.marchtozion.com, which was founded in 2003.
Ben and his wife Rachel are blessed with five children, Ethan, Lydia, Elijah, Annabelle, and Micah.
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Be Involved! The following is a list of the various areas of ministry at Flint River Church.
Ministry of the Gospel/Worship -
Click here for a schedule of worship opportunities.
On The Radio -
Words of Grace, airs locally Sundays at 8:30 on 1140AM WBXR. Webcast and other station info: Click Here
Food Pantry -
Our Church maintains a small pantry of nonperishable food items on site as a way of assisting those in need in our community (James 1:27). This supply is donated by those who attend our church.
Sermons on Compact Disk -
We are happy to provide audio copies of our services. If you missed a service and want to know what you missed, or you live in the area and are curious about what we believe, please make your request at our contact page (top menu).
Livestreaming and Video -
Our messages are livestreamed each Sunday morning at around 11:00 AM via our church Facebook page, and uploaded to Youtube each week.
Our Pastor's Personal Ministry Site -
Marchtozion.com was launched in 2003 by our pastor, Elder Ben Winslett. MTZ contains a wealth of information about Primitive Baptists including Historic Documents, an extensive Article Library, an Audio Sermon archive, a user-built Church Directory, and more. Curious about Primitive Baptists? Give marchtozion.com a visit!
Outreach -
The membership of Flint River Church have attempted, as the Lord has provided opportunities, to assist with overseas evangelistic outreaches in Kenya and Tanzania Africa. Being involved in this work is simple: funds are collected here (primarily by Vestavia PBC in Birmingham) and utilized with wisdom in Africa for church buildings, sowing machines, water purification, etc. To give or find out more, visit this website.


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NASA / JPL-Caltech / Michael Benson / Kinetikon Pictures
See some of our solar system's greatest sights, as captured in "Planetfall: New Solar System Visions," a large-format book by Michael Benson.
Spacecraft engineers may not think of themselves as artists, but in the right hands, the fruit of their labors can be as artistic and as revolutionary as Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical sketches — as evidenced by the stunning views on display in Michael Benson's "Planetfall: New Solar System Visions."
"It's an amazing thing that in the last 50 years, we have expanded the realm that's accessible to us either directly or indirectly as a species," Benson told me. "As a result, we have a new chapter in image-making and photography. In a way, this brings science and art together, as it was in the Renaissance."
"Planetfall" presents more than 120 images of solar system bodies ranging from our own home world to the sun and moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and asteroids and comets — all in a whopping 12-by-15-inch (30-by-38-centimeter) page format. Some of the photos stretch out over double-folds, triple-folds, even quadruple-folds (which translate into roughly 5-foot-wide panoramas).
To create the photos, Benson went back to the raw data from NASA and European Space Agency missions. "It's a point of pride to build most of these images from the ground up," Benson said.
Benson, a writer/filmmaker/photographer, has done this before. His earlier books, "Beyond" (2003) and "Far Out" (2009), presented imagery from planetary probes and deep-space views, respectively. At first, Benson thought he'd just update the "Beyond" book for a new edition. "But then I thought it would be fun to change the format of the pages, and simply look at 21st-century planetary photography — because we really have had a renaissance of these missions in the past decade," he said.
Making planetfall
For the book's title, Benson used a word that capitalizes on the concept of an explorer making landfall. "Planetfall" is defined as the moment when visual contact is made with a celestial body. Following through on that theme, the book is structured as a series of movie-like journeys — beginning with an establishing shot, then moving in for glorious close-ups.
The section on Mars starts out with a long-range view of the Red Planet from ESA's Rosetta probe during its flyby on the way to a comet encounter. "It's one of the very rare pictures where you see a planet with the Milky Way behind it," Benson said. The point of view zooms in to reveal the terrain as seen from orbit, including a marvelous shot of ground fog lying at the bottom of a Martian canyon, as seen by ESA's Mars Express probe (page 100). Then there's that stunning series of panoramas from NASA's Mars rovers, ending with a blue-tinged sunset as seen by the Opportunity rover.
With only a few exceptions, Benson tries to come as close as he can to the view that human eyes would see, which sometimes requires some tricky image processing. For example, a picture of Saturn's geyser-spewing moon, Enceladus, is based on image data from the Cassini orbiter in infrared, green and ultraviolet wavelengths. Benson said he tweaked the data to come up with a red-green-blue combination (page 187).
"I think I got away with it pretty well," he said. "It makes a very worthy color image. ... To my knowledge, it's the first time that a global portrait of Enceladus has been released where you see the geysers in color."
In addition to the book, which is published by Abrams, Michael Benson is working on a "Planetfall" photo exhibition that will be on view at New York's Hasted Kraeutler Gallery starting in December, and at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington next year.
How scientists see art
So how does Benson's work sit with planetary scientists? "Obviously everybody's worried about the funding [for future planetary missions]. Anything that can get the word out about these missions is good by them," Benson said.
He's also heartened by an endorsement from Paul Geissler, a planetary scientist at the U.S Geological Survey who has collaborated with Benson in the past. "He has an artist's eye, so he sees things differently than a scientist would," Geissler told The Wall Street Journal last year. "I honestly think that he has done as much to support and further solar-system exploration as many scientists who are working in the field."
Benson said he has just as much respect for the scientists who make his artistry possible.
"We have a fantastic chapter in the history of photography that has been brought to us, almost as a side effect of these missions," he told me. "Their primary reason for happening is scientific research, but we also have this opportunity to see what these places look like. I believe we will inevitably end up expanding as a species. It may take longer than the visionaries of the 20th century thought, but I do believe it will end up happening. This is still the opening chapter: We're seeing the end of the beginning of that move."
Update for 5 p.m. ET Oct. 19: I originally wrote that Benson coined the term "Planetfall," but commenters have rightly pointed out that the term has been around in science fiction for quite a while, meaning the interplanetary equivalent of landfall. In fact, it was picked up as the name of a computer game in the 1980s. Benson tweaks the meaning a bit, using it to define a visual discovery rather than an actual landing. I've revised this item accordingly.
More from the art of science:
- Artists capture the spirit of space
- Hubble Space Telescope goes pop
- Artist dreams up a mock Mars mission
- Making music from weather data
- Scientific art contest taken with grain of salt
- Scientific visions that take the prize
- Slideshow: The art of science
Alan Boyle is NBCNews.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's Facebook page, following @b0yle on Twitter and adding the Cosmic Log page to your Google+ presence. To keep up with Cosmic Log as well as NBCNews.com's other stories about science and space, sign up for the Tech & Science newsletter, delivered to your email in-box every weekday. You can also check out "The Case for Pluto," my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.


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AUSJ Water Heaters – 4x4 Overlanding
Aus J water heating products are manufactured in Australia, they design and manufacture these high quality 12v and 240v water heaters. These products are light weight, well insulated and compact and can be fitted to either a car, 4x4, Service/ Tradie vehicles, camper, caravan, boat, holiday batch, hut etc.
Ideal for those who operate the following: Tow-truck, stock trucks,mobile service vehicle, breakdowns, repairs etc, once the work is done, cleaning up and getting to the next job is no longer nightmare. With hot water on demand, for cleaning up, washing parts, etc is now possible. Most 24v systems will have 24v-12v step-down transformers to cater for the lower 12v utilities.
The benefits of these systems over the competitors is the heating element is positioned directly at the inlet, this reduces heat loss and time required in the heating process. The rugged design allows these products to be mounted into your vehicle using your 12v system.
Where vehicles/ boats fitted with a 12v Inverter, 240v water heaters can be used. (Ensure supply voltage of Inverter is capable to maintain constant voltage of the water heater including the other accessories).
These are designed and have been fitted into 4x4 Overlanding vehicles and subjected to the rough & harsh terrain. Getting within 40mins of your destination, turning the heater on, eventually arriving at your destination with immediate hot water on demand. Water can be either provided from a garden hose, bucket or drawn directly from a stream or river.
The products can be fitted to either mains pressure or a 12v pump depending on your requirements. All water heaters are thermostatically controlled and come with a run-dry protection (after you have initially filled the unit up for the first time). Heating element is made of Incoloy 840, the unit is insulated. Setting your preferred temperature is easy, just rotate the dial to your desired temperature.
Temperature range:
12v: 25 deg C - 70 deg C
240v: 25 deg C - 75 deg C
These light weight compact water heaters come in either 6 Litre or 10 Litre capacities, they offer them in either 12v or 240v configurations.
Two models:
1: Aqueous: There are two models available: 6 Litre and 10 Litre capacity. The Aqueous are only available as a single voltage system. The Aqueous 6L models are available in either 12v or 240v systems.
The Aqueous 10L model is only available in 240v.
2: Duoetto: Has a capacity of 10 Litres and is a dual voltage system, 12v and 240v systems.


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Problem 4.4 - computation time/variance
I am implementing the framework of problem 4.4, and am wondering how nice I should expect the results to be.
The analogue of figure 4.3(a) that I generate, apart from resolution as per the parameters given in the problem, does not look nearly as nice as the actual figure 4.3(a) -- while the figures are qualitatively the same, mine has significant "noise".
Initially my implementation took 200 experiments at each data point, as a compromise between precision and computation time, but I just let it run over night at with 5000 experiments (took a bit over three hours in the end), and still get noticeable noise, cf. attached image.
As such, I would like to know how many experiments were used to generate figure 4.3(a) in the book. Moreover, if this is not significantly higher than my 5000, do you have any guesses how I could manage to have generated incorrect noise but otherwise seemingly correct data? Finally, if your implementation of 4.3(a) involves some significant clever tricks compared to problem 4.4, or involves a very large number of experiments/very long computation time for an exercise in a book, maybe it would be nice to indicate this in the problem.
Re: Problem 4.4 - computation time/variance
Thanks for asking. The current figure is generated with 1000000 experiments per point to generate high-quality figures for printing. Usually we don't think readers/students need to run so many experiments to understand the concepts, though.
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Cameron Diaz stole the show once more at the Munich premiere for The Other Woman wearing a baroque gold mini dress.
The actress chose an intricately embellished, golden Emilio Pucci dress which showed off her legs, further enhancing the look with a pair of leg-lengthening nude pumps.
The 41-year-old took centre stage in the metallic super-short dress, which she balanced with a laidback ponytail and simple glowing makeup.
Leslie Mann looked gorgeous in a 30s-style cream satin bias-cut dress which featured a cowl neck and midi-length. She complimented the dress with minimal strappy heels, a voluminous curly hairstyle and chic red lip.
Kate Upton went for a scarlet, structured Fendi dress which she paired with her trusty pointed court heels. A bright red lip and smokey eye makeup finished off the very glamorous look.
The Other Woman stars looked happy posing on the red carpet as they continued their hectic promotional run for the movie.
The actresses have been constantly impressing on the red carpet while promoting The Other Woman, particularly at the London premiere where they went for three distinct looks.


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In yet another sign that Microsoft is serious about the cloud, the company has been identified as the buyer of a 200-acre site in Quincy, Wash., that will become home to a new data center.
The Port of Quincy announced in a statement that it was selling 60 acres that it owns to Microsoft and reselling an adjacent 142 acres owned by a private party, which was recently annexed and now falls within city limits. All told, the transaction, which is expected to close in late January, will be worth $11 million and will stand as one of Quincy's largest land deals.
Quincy is in central Washington, roughly equidistant from Seattle and Spokane, Wash. The deal, nearly a year in the making, will culminate in a data center that is expected to create 100 full-time jobs. It's not Microsoft's first data center in the area. The Redmond, Wash.-based software company "built its first server farm on 75 acres of port property in 2007," noted the statement.
Other technology companies have erected data centers in the area, including Yahoo, Dell and Intuit. "Low electrical costs have made Quincy an attractive option for many of these companies," port officials noted.
Microsoft plans to expand its cloud services slate, which includes Windows Azure. Currently, the company "delivers 200+ services to 1+ billion customers and 20+ million businesses," a Microsoft spokesperson told eWEEK in an email confirming the land deal with Quincy.
"As demand grows for our online and cloud services, Microsoft is anticipating growth in its cloud infrastructure and we are continuously exploring new potential data center locations and investing in space to bring these services to our customers," the spokesperson stated in the email.
Affordable electricity aside, the location also supports Microsoft's green IT initiatives. "Quincy is a particularly popular location for data centers," GeekWire's Blair Hanley Frank wrote. This is because "the town's power comes from a pair of hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River, at a time when companies are searching for sustainable ways to power their server farms," Frank wrote.
Microsoft has been making a big push in recent years to minimize the environmental footprint of its expanding cloud computing empire. In Virginia, Microsoft pledged to adopt Earth-friendly technologies and practices for its $348 million data center expansion in Mecklenburg County.
"These facilities showcase state-of-the-art designs developed from our latest technology and infrastructure research that continues to minimize water, energy use and building costs, while increasing computing capacity, software capabilities and server utilization," said Microsoft Data Center Services general manager Christian Belady in a statement when the company announced the Mecklenburg County project in January.
Microsoft is also investing in clean energy projects that do not directly impact its operations. The software giant has agreed to purchase all of the power generated by the soon-to-be built Keechi Wind Farm Project in Texas for 20 years, a commitment that ensures the renewable energy plant's construction.
A speedy Internet backbone also makes the site attractive for cloud service providers. "Fiber-optic Internet provider Level 3 has also spent a great deal of money beefing up the town's connection to its Internet backbone, so that companies can score high speeds from their data centers," wrote Frank.
After the land deal closes, Microsoft plans to begin construction during the spring of 2014. Microsoft expects to complete the first phase of the project by early 2015.