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Who we are
In early 2009 David and Trish Capener and their children moved back to Belfast. Beginning with a small group of people asking this question, 'What would it look like to be an expression of the church in our nation?'
What began in a living room continued to grow and gather in homes, restaurants, music venues and theatres across the city. Many more have joined with us and as the community grows the vision continues to be the same - to live out the story of Jesus in Belfast and seek to love and serve our city.
Having been given the use of a city centre venue in 2012 Redeemer Central gathers together in the heart of Belfast City at our Sunday Gatherings and during the week in City:Groups - local expressions of Redeemer in various locations across the city.
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14 Wednesday Jan 2015
Posted Bill Cobb, Characters, Friends, homeless man, John Hayes, street photography, Washington DCin
14 Wednesday Jan 2015
Posted Bill Cobb, Characters, Friends, homeless man, John Hayes, street photography, Washington DCin
03 Wednesday Sep 2014
Posted Colorado Springs, John Hayes, Life, Travelin
Many of you probably know that for summer fun I have staked my claim in Livingston, Montana.
Recently I set off to find an Autumn location – and serendipitously stumbled into Colorado Springs after wandering in circles for only 2 weeks.
I even got a part-time job, how cool is that!
Two hours of pushin' broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a man of means, by no means
King of the road
I'm not a 'man for all seasons' yet 'cuz I don't know where to hunker down for Winter or burst forth in Spring.
Suggestions Welcome!
20 Wednesday Aug 2014
Posted baseball, John Hayes, Little League, Little League World Seriesin
My father was a star athlete in multiple sports.
He even went on to play semi-pro baseball.
It is not difficult to guess what kind of presents I got before I could even walk: ball, bat, glove.
After dinner we would push back our chairs, tie a cloth napkin into a knot and play catch across the table. I never missed.
I mention this because I just caught a glimpse on TV of kids in this year's Little League World Series. It's a big deal, apparently, and it rekindled in me a memory from 60 years ago.
In 1954 I was an All-Star on the only Little League team from Lakeland, Florida that ever went to the World Series. I read online that today the kids are 11- and 12-years old, although I was only 10 at the time.
Boog Powell, later famous as an MVP first-baseman with the World Series (1966, 1970) Baltimore Orioles, and as a guzzling beer-drinker in the "more taste, less filling" Miller Lite commercials, was our pitcher. He was the biggest little leaguer anyone ever saw back then. Sometimes, when not playing third base, I was behind the plate as a catcher, and when Boog wound up and threw a fast ball into my mitt it would literally pick me up and knock me backwards.
Back then, the Little League tournaments were single-elimination. When you lost, you were out.
The Lakeland Orange All-Stars won eight straight games in the district, sectional and regional tournaments, outscoring their opponents, 38-9, to earn their trip to Williamsport.
After winning the district tournament in Dade City, Lakeland defeated Orlando and Fort Walton Beach in the sectional tournament in Lakeland.
That earned them a train trip to Greenville, N.C., for the South Regional tournament.
"I remember seeing the Tennessee team and they were just huge," he [Charles Taylor, catcher & Boog Powell's half-brother] said. "But they got knocked off before we played. And I remember thinking, `Whew. We don't have to play Tennessee. Did you see those giants?' "
With Tennessee out of the way, Lakeland defeated Middleburg, Ky., 8-3, Mooresville, N.C., 2-0, and Columbia, S.C., 6-0, to earn its trip to Williamsport.
Lakeland Ledger, August 24, 2004
Actually, to set the record straight, I was on the roster but didn't make the trip to Williamsport to play in the World Series. My mother wouldn't let me go. She said she had already planned a family vacation at the beach.
It would never have occurred to my mother that playing in a World Series might be important enough to one of her sons to rearrange a summer vacation.
I wish my dad could have had a say-so in this matter, but he suffocated in an iron lung 4 years earlier, when I was six.
I was a Little League All-Star the next year, too, when I was eleven.
In a playoff game in Plant City, ninth inning, we were behind 1-0 and I was the tying run on first base. (I had blasted two of our team's total of three hits.) Ill-advisedly, I tried to score from first base on a looper to right field. I was thrown out by the proverbial mile.
I had another year of Little League eligibility, but I quit. A coach from the Pony League, the advanced age group of 13-15 year olds, told me (age 12) he would lie about my age and sneak me onto their team if I would play for them.
But by then I had developed an interest in golf and tennis.
Oh! – have I told you how I was almost famous… in golf? and tennis?
02 Monday Dec 2013
Posted Animals, Dogs, John Hayes, oopsjohn, Photography, Schutzhund Pup, Tzuri vom Kirsysin
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22 Friday Nov 2013
Posted John Hayes, Photography, planesin
As a flight instructor he was once up with a student when part of the propeller fell off.
He took over the controls, found an orange grove, and managed to bounce "softly" from tree to tree.
Both walked away from the crash.
He signed and dated a piece of the wrecked plane.
With such genetics I should have followed in his wings, right?
Actually, I toyed with the idea. Even tried (in 1967) to join the Air Force (mostly to stay out of the Army) but they said because I wore glasses I would never sit in the front seat of a fighter jet.
Then there was the other problem: the Dream. I kept seeing myself on my maiden voyage and the view was always upside down, like this…
Then again…
What if I pulled out of a dive at the last minute to the applause of thousands and didn't end up in a body bag after all?
Still time, do you think, for me to take flying lessons?
02 Sunday Jun 2013
Posted Animals, Badgers, Foxes, John Hayes, National Parks, Nature, oopsjohn, Photography, Yellowstone National Parkin
Foxy Mom knew exactly what she had to do. Her kit were far too playful and dependent, and they needed quick to grow up.
So she went out and snatched up a hapless ground squirrel.
When she returned to the den she dangled the limp squirrel like a toy in front of her children.
Only one of the siblings, however, was mature enough to escalate the game into a persistent tug-o-war.
Foxy Mom was delighted and let her brave & adventuresome son chase her around as if this was more than just a game.
Like a good mother she eventually let her son "win" and carry his prize back to the den.
SPOILER ALERT: read no further unless you can stomach other than a happy ending.
The badger mentioned in a previous post https://oopsjohn.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/foxy-lady/) returned with a vengeance.
Foxy Mom and the Bad-to-the Bone badger engaged in a vicious skirmish, pictures of which I don't have but which from others have surfaced online. The badger managed to enter the fox den and remained there for several hours, until it got dark and photographers and observers were no longer able to see what was happening, and went home.
Foxy Mom and occasionally even Foxy Dad were seen the next morning camped outside the den, keeping watch, staring inside, apparently waiting for the culprit to emerge.
Momma Fox had also sometime during the night dug another den some 30 yards away. Whether or not the two kit were safely tucked deep down inside their new bunker or not is unknown.
Two days later, however, no badger, still no kit. Foxy Lady sits forlornly outside her second den and no kit have been seen for days.
The Law of Nature in its larger Wisdom has apparently claimed these two playful youngin's.
31 Friday May 2013
Posted Animals, Elk, John Hayes, National Parks, Nature, Photography, Yellowstone National Parkin
28 Tuesday May 2013
Posted Animals, Foxes, John Hayes, National Parks, Nature, oopsjohn, Photography, Yellowstone National Parkin
What with her winter coat in tatters and the strain of having recently given birth, she struggles (not altogether unsuccessfully) to retain her regal appearance.
Her two kit are delightfully rambunctious with a penchant for teasing and harassing each other.
Foxy Lady is a no-nonsense kind of Mom but she tolerates them, for the most part, as they climb and jump all over her.
But patience, even for the biblical Job, has its limits. A good mother has to be constantly alert, and pay attention to the possibility of hurtful things well beyond the limited experience of her playful youngin's.
I watched her stress level skyrocket as she ran back and forth for several minutes with nose high, jumping up on logs and boulders to scan the surroundings.
Something was not quite right, and she sensed it.
Sure enough, a badger suddenly scampered past the den and her unsuspecting kit. Fortunately, it was single-mindedly on its way somewhere else.
And sometimes, like with this badger incident when her nerves are frazzled, the kids simply get too much underfoot and snap at her once too often.
Foxy Lady probably wouldn't want me to post this picture but here she is losing her cool. I mean, like, Junior was "only" chewing harmlessly on her back leg.
Tense relationship moments ensue.
A little begging for affection from stern Mamma never hurts.
Mamma weakens and all's right with the world again.
02 Thursday May 2013
Posted Birds, John Hayes, Lake Morton, Nature, oopsjohn, Photography, Swansin
A swan with a secret is a thing of beauty.
If you wait patiently until she stretches you might just catch a glimpse of why she is so radiant.
The five eggs in this clutch each weigh @340 grams and will take 34-45 days to incubate.
Imagine her shock when her first born turned out to be not at all like herself! Then she remembered the story of "The Ugly Duckling," and smiled.
But if First Born was not yet handsome at least he was inquisitive. Right away he demanded to know where he came from, and spent many long cygnet-hours staring at his beginnings trying to piece together the age-old puzzle.
Then, once he sort of understood the "chick 'n egg" thing, he had a chat with his mom about that long neck of hers that reached so far up into the sky.
Suddenly, barely 24 hours old, First Born had a yolk-slimy little sister to contend with!
Like any good older brother, he decided to teach 'Lil Sis a thing or two from his vast experience. "This is a twig," he showed her. "One day you will need these to build a nest. See if you can pick it up."
But 'Lil Sis couldn't coordinate that clumsy beak of hers and only managed to poke herself in the eye.
Nevertheless, First Born was still optimistic and decided to share with her everything he had learned about eggs and how baby cygnets come to be.
But alas, his sister was not much interested and obviously did not possess the requisite talent for existential conundrums. First Born gave her a good 'tongue-lashing' and made sure his mom was nearby so she would understand how smart he was compared to his obtuse little sister!
First Born realized that another sibling was due any moment now and he hoped it would be a smart little brother that he could bully and educate rather than another dumb sister who was no fun at all. So he sat down to wait…
Oh, no – another girl! With the same passive features and vacant stare!
First Born always carried himself with dignity. He stuck his little neck up as far as it would go and watched everything his mom did so one day he could grow up to be tall and competent, just like her.
In quick succession two more siblings climbed out of their shells.
But First Born didn't have a chance to find out if these two were brothers or sisters because a mean lady came and snatched up the entire clutch and whisked them off to foster care.
The parents were bereft.
Fair and accurate reporting is usually dull and boring. It is far more interesting to craft narratives with villains and rough edges.
But I would be remiss not to point out that Samantha and the Parks & Recreation Dept. are trying to do the right thing. Last year not a single swan hatchling survived on Lake Morton.
This year, therefore, they are taking the cygnets into protective custody in the hope that they can be nurtured to maturity and re-released back into the wild in due time.
26 Friday Apr 2013
Posted Birds, egrets, John Hayes, Nature, oopsjohn, Photographyin
Wading birds, I always assumed, stood quietly on long legs and waited patiently for tasty snacks to wander within range of their sharp beaks.
But recently I observed an interesting "grab 'n go" technique by a hungry-looking snowy egret intent on snatching a 'happy meal' from a shallow pond.
He would launch himself from shore and glide low over the water.
Then, somewhat puzzlingly, he would drag his feet lightly across the surface.
What's that all about, I wondered? Surely he can't grab fish with his feet!
At times he almost seemed to be "walking on water."
Suddenly I understood. At the last moment he would dig in and use his feet like rudders to maneuver his body and brake his momentum!
Brilliant strategy for the hunter, bad news for the hunted.😦
NOTE: I have since learned that this is actually a tried & true technique that goes by the name of "dip-fishing."


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Q&A With Kristin Davis
You're a patron of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya. How did you get involved?
"I was visiting Kenya with friends in 2009, and one day, while we were on a safari, we came across an orphaned, injured baby elephant. Rescuers from the trust were notified, and so I saw firsthand the devoted work that these people do -- to save and rehabilitate these beautiful creatures -- and it deeply affected me. Honestly, I have days where I dream about them and can't sleep thinking about it … but I am glad I know what's going on so that I can try to help."
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What's the one thing you'd like people to know about the elephants or that might surprise people?
"That because of poachers killing them for their ivory tusks, these beloved creatures are at risk of becoming extinct. Yes, extinct. I'm not sure people realize that they are truly at risk, and of how bad the situation has become in many parts of Africa. Elephants have no natural predator, except for humans -- so if they do become extinct we will have no one to blame but ourselves. The black market ivory ring has gotten so bad. An elephant is butchered every 15 minutes, which leaves many baby elephants left alone to die."
You're also a global ambassador for Oxfam. Do you ever feel torn between an animal cause and also such an important human one?
"Actually, the work is all very related, I think. Combating extreme poverty is at the root of Oxfam, and if poverty didn't exist, much of the poaching could dwindle. After all, many of the poachers -- the ones who are out there hunting the elephants -- are poor people with limited choices but to engage in this practice. We need to protect everyone who is at risk, and who can't feed their families so that they are safer and happier."
Has your work abroad slowed down since adopting your daughter, Gemma, more than 2 years ago?
"Only somewhat; I still go back at least once a year -- I was in Kenya last May. I haven't brought her with me just yet. But soon, she'll be right alongside me."
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Okay, so this seems like a fairly straight forward issue but I feel that I've read every article on socket programming I can find and have not found a satisfactory answer. Let me first describe the system I am programming. I apologize, but I have to be very vague for NDA purposes, but it'll be enough to get my question across.
I'm writing a central multi threaded C server with a thread pool. There are two types of clients, type A and type B. There are thousands of each. Type A are workers which do things for Type B. Type A is constantly updating information about itself to the server (say, every 15 seconds). Type B only talks to the server when it needs something done, at which point the server picks out an A client and assigns it the job. This goes on roughly 24/7, and is very time sensitive.
I've decided to go with a persistent TCP model - this means as soon as B asks for work to be done, the server can immediately send the info over to A, without waiting for the A in question to connect to the server. Furthermore, if every A is talking to the server every 15 seconds, it would be a lot of overhead to keep establishing connections.
If the A chosen by the server is unavailable, it needs to select a new A as soon as possible because B is very impatient.
My question is, how do I tell if the connection has dropped? I'm not talking about a socket being closed, but just no longer connected. For example, B1 wants work done, server selects A1 and sends it the request. However, someone decides to snip the Ethernet cable. I can't afford to have the server happily sending data along to A1 until the connection times out minutes later. Can I ping the client before trying to send it messages or something? Will that introduce way too much latency? What can be done?


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Discussion on whether to prohibit poultry in city continues
New Albany aldermen continued discussion, but delayed action on, whether to prohibit poultry inside the city limits at their regular July meeting Tuesday.
Ward One Alderman Jeff Olson had brought up the question at the June board meeting because residents had expressed anger over roosters crowing and chickens running loose in their yards, causing a nuisance and sometimes property damage.
Mayor Tim Kent noted at the time, "We have received lots of complaints," and said the number of fowls in the city is apparently increasing.
The current ordinance prohibits keeping or raising "any fowl, livestock or other animals excepting dogs, cats, birds and other household pets within 300 feet of the residence of any other person who shall complain, in writing, to the mayor and board of aldermen regarding the same." As the mayor noted, some neighbors are reluctant to put a complaint in writing.
The only type of animal expressly prohibited is swine.
Olson said at the June meeting he was seeking the thoughts of other aldermen on the issue and, although there was no public hearing as such, the matter was opened up for citizens' comments Tuesday.
A sample revised ordinance drawn up by city attorney Regan Russell would move chickens into the same category as swine, prohibiting them completely. The only other courses of action mentioned in discussion were to leave the ordinance as is, or to permit poultry only in agriculturally-zoned parts of the city.
In comments Tuesday, Northside resident Jean Bufkin argued that keeping poultry was in tune with efforts to promote community gardens, farmers' markets and other efforts at sustainability, a quality sought by those promoting recycling efforts as well. She said that cities such as Tupelo and Atlanta, rather than prohibiting poultry in town, encourage it. "Prohibiting poultry would give New Albany a black eye," she said.
Lauren'Paige Tate said the problem with neighbors' objections was learning how to be respectful of them. "I have chickens," she said, and added she tries to be respectful. "Some cities limit the number of hens and roosters," she continued. "We've been moving forward with composting and sustainability," she added in agreement with Bufkin. She also argued that chickens are a benefit to low-income families, teaching them responsibility and allowing them to have their own eggs. "If you ban them completely, you are not supporting sustainability," she said.
"Think about regulating them and keeping them in our own yard, not in a cage, but not banning them altogether," Tate said. "We have to be respectful of our neighbors."
Most seemed to agree that roosters are the biggest problem but no one made a suggestion relating to them only.
After more discussion, Alderman Olson offered an amended version of the proposed motion to not prohibit poultry, but only to restrict them to agriculturally-zoned areas.
The aldermen, who had just accepted and eaten locally-produced devilled eggs handed out by Bufkin, remained silent and Olson's motion failed.
That does not mean the issue is dead, however. Attorney Russell told those present that Olson's proposal still can be voted on at the Aug. 5 board meeting if he brings it up and aldermen indicated they will vote on it then.
And if the ordinance ultimately does remain unchanged, all it takes to have poultry removed is a written complaint from a neighbor living within 300 feet.
The penalty for failing to get rid of the poultry is not substantial but does escalate. There is a fine of $5 for the first offense, $25 for a second offense and $50 for a third (and subsequent) offense with each day the poultry remains being considered a separate offense.
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I found this article while researching our possible move to Indiana. After reading it I'm not so sure about New Albany, because I want to be able to continue to raise chickens on my property.
Proper neighborhood chicken etiquette starts by not having roosters, they are not needed for egg production anyway.
Proper neighborhood chicken etiquette also requires a chicken coop designed to house hens correctly (well ventilated, easy to clean, and dry) and neatly built from quality materials (not found scraps) and of size correct for the number of hens to be housed (4 sq. ft. Per hen). The coop should connect directly via a hen size door to a chicken yard or run that affords 10 sq. ft. of ground access per bird minimum. Both the coop and run should be accessible to humans for cleaning, feeding, and care.
Hens given plenty of space, kept clean, and supplied with plenty of food and fresh water will be happy, healthy, lay wonderful eggs, and not annoy the neighbors.
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Persecution takes many forms – from oppression and discrimination to denial of constitutional and internationally acknowledged freedoms.
Christians in the Middle East and North Africa region have long been discriminated against, marginalized, detained, imprisoned, tortured and even killed for their faith in Jesus Christ. Those most at risk are converts from Islam. Often theirs is a silent suffering - cut off from family and Christian fellowship and vulnerable to abuse by State security forces and extremist groups.
At MEC we believe that as Christians we are called to stand with those who are persecuted. Persecution is essentially unjust. Therefore, the Christian concerned for God's justice will either face persecution him/herself, or be faced with having to respond to the injustice visited on someone else. Dealing with injustice is part of the calling of the Christian life. By their very relationship with God and the world, Christians will be faced with injustice.
Lord David Alton, UK Dr. Ehab al-Kharrat, Egypt
Brother Andrew, The Netherlands Rev. Bob Lopez, Philippines
Dr. Donald Argue, USA Murray Louw, South Africa
Dr. Kenneth Bailey, USA Dr. Don McCurry, USA
Daniel Bianchi, Argentina Dr. Paul Marshall, USA
Robyn Claydon, Australia Rev. Youssef Ourahmane, Algeria
Julia Doxat-Purser, UK Rev. Ihsan Özbek, Turkey
Dr. Joseph D'Souza, India Rev. Ariovaldo Ramos, Brazil
Rt. Rev. Derek Eaton, New Zealand Peter Tarantal, South Africa
Dr. Bertil Ekström, Sweden Rev. Eberhard Troeger, Germany
Annelie Enochson, Sweden Mats Tunehag, Sweden
Rev. Afeef Halasah, Jordan Dr. Dudley Woodberry, USA
Rev. Edward Hovsepian, Iran
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Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, sentenced to death for apostasy and later acquitted in 2012, has now been charged with "acting against national security".
On 24th July Yousef Nadarkhani was summoned to the 13th Branch of the Revolutionary Court in Rasht. He was formerly charged with "acting against national security" – a common charge brought against church leaders in Iran – and accused of Zionist activities and evangelism.
Yousef has been given until 31st July to raise 100 million Toman (US$33,000) bail or face arrest.
Yousef, of the self-styled "Church of Iran", was first imprisoned in 2006 on charges of evangelising Muslims and apostasy from Islam. He was released two weeks later without being formally charged.
In 2009 Yousef questioned the Iranian government's policy of enforcing study of the Qur'an in schools, claiming that it was against the freedom to practise religion enshrined in the Iranian constitution. He was then arrested on 12th October 2009 on charges related to his protest. The charges were later changed to apostasy and evangelism and in September 2010 Yousef accordingly received a death sentence.
During his time in prison Yousef was put under pressure to convert back to Islam and a written verdict upholding the death sentence was issued dated 12th June 2011 with a provision for annulment of the sentence should he recant his Christian faith.
Following international outrage at the death sentence, a retrial on 8th September 2012 resulted in an acquittal for the charge of apostasy but upheld the charge of evangelism and a sentence of three years' imprisonment, which Yousef had already completed by then.
On 13th May 2016 Yousef and his wife Tina were arrested along with Mohammadreza Omidi, Yasser Mossayebzadeh and Saheb Fadaie. Yousef and Tina were released soon after but Yasser, Saheb and Mohammedreza were detained for varying periods over the next two weeks and released after posting bail of 100 million Toman (US$33,000) each.
Those close to Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani request prayer that:
a. the oppressive actions against Yousef will stop and the new charges of "acting against national security" will be dropped
b. God will give His peace to Yousef and his family, and that they will not be anxious
c. there will be no further action taken against Yasser, Saheb and Mohammedreza
d. all officials involved will love mercy, act justly, learn about Jesus and choose to follow Him
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Posted on 25th July
Christian prisoner Maryam Naghash Zargaran has been denied unconditional release by an Iranian court at the request of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS).
Maryam, who was granted medical furlough for a range of health issues in June 2016, returned to Evin Prison, Tehran on 27th June to continue serving a four-year prison sentence on charges of "acting against national security".
Maryam had previously been arrested in January 2013 in connection with her work on an orphanage with the Christian ex-prisoner Saeed Abedini.
On 5th July 2016 Maryam started a hunger strike to demand her "immediate and unconditional release" in view of the inadequate treatment of her health issues. Prison officials examined Maryam on 20th July and provided a medical report confirming the seriousness of her condition.
It is reported that Maryam's request was considered and denied by an Iranian court and the reason given for rejecting her demand was that MOIS did not want her to be freed.
Twenty days into her hunger strike Maryam's health continues to deteriorate, to the concern of her family and friends. Prison medical staff say that her blood pressure is very low, she has pains and numbness in her feet – possibly early signs of Multiple Sclerosis - and that she is suffering psychologically as a consequence of her imprisonment.
Those close to Maryam request our prayers that:
a. Maryam will know God's encouragement, healing, strengthening and wisdom during these difficult days
b. the Lord will comfort Maryam's family
c. those responsible for blocking Maryam's request for unconditional release will have a change of heart, and that Maryam will be released from prison soon
d. God will move the Iranian authorities and officials to love mercy and act justly
Open sources: Mohabat News, Human Rights Activists News Agency
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Posted on 18th July
It is reported that there were two cases of church buildings being targeted on the night of 15th July during the attempted military coup in Turkey.
In Trabzon on the Black Sea coast a group of about ten people attacked the Catholic church of Santa Maria. They used paving stones to break the church windows and an attempt was made to break into the church building using hammers. Muslim neighbours intervened, drove the perpetrators away and contacted the priest.
Santa Maria Church is the place where Catholic priest Fr Andrea Santoro was murdered on 5th February 2006.
In Malatya unidentified people tried to break the windows of Malatya Protestant Church and succeeded in breaking the glass panels in the door. The pastor Tim Stone believes it was just someone with a grudge against the church taking advantage of the general unrest.
Malatya is the place where three Christian workers were brutally murdered on 18th April 2007.
Religious leaders, including the Director of Religious Affairs Mehmet Görmez, Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew, the Chief Rabbi Rav Izak Haleva, the acting Armenian Patriarch Aram Ateşyan, Assyrian Orthodox Metropolitan Yusuf Çetin and Assyrian Catholic acting Patriarch Yusuf Sağ, issued a joint declaration condemning the coup and the bloodshed it involved and calling for love, peace and justice to reign in Turkey.
The Association Of Turkish Protestant Churches (TeK) also issued a press statement condemning the coup, asking for wisdom and understanding for the country's leaders, and praying for peace.
Please thank the Lord for the apparent restored calm and security in Turkey and pray:
a. for the protection of the small Christian community in Turkey, and that those extremists intent on harm and causing damage will be stopped, as they were in Trabzon
b. that state officials will be diligent in protecting Christians and church property, and will seek to apprehend perpetrators and bring them to justice
c. that overall security will be maintained in Turkey, and that state officials will respond wisely and appropriately to the crisis
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Posted on 18th July
Relatives and friends request prayer for three Azeri Christians and an Iranian Christian who were arrested on 24th June and remain in detention in Tehran.
On Friday 24th June security agents raided an engagement party in Tehran attended by Eldar Gurbanov, Yusif Farhadov and Bahram Nasibov from "Word of Life" Church in Baku, Azerbaijan. Initially about ten people were arrested, but most were soon released. However Eldar, Yusif, Bahram and an Iranian Christian were taken away and remain in detention. Their whereabouts are unknown.
Since their arrest the Azeri detainees have been able to contact their families once or twice. They are being kept in solitary confinement, and consular officials from the Azerbaijan Embassy in Tehran have not been allowed to see them.
Eldar believes that they were set up and caught in a trap. As yet no charges have been brought against the detainees.
Their families and friends are obviously very concerned about the situation.
In more positive news, friends of Amin Khaki are delighted that he has been released from Ahvaz Prison.
Amin Khaki, along with Hossein Barounzadeh, Mohammad Bahrami and Rahman Bahmani, was among eight people arrested forcibly at a picnic in Shush on 5th March 2014. They each received a sentence of one year in prison for spreading Christianity in Iran.
Following a re-trial held on 1st February 2016, the sentences were upheld but the defendants were not immediately summoned to prison. Last month (June) all four Christians presented themselves at Ahvaz Prison to serve the remainder of their sentences. However, last week Amin was released, and he does not need to serve a previous suspended sentence of one year in addition to the most recent sentence.
Hossein Barounzadeh, Mohammad Bahrami and Rahman Bahmani still have four months left of their sentences to serve.
Please pray that:
a. the three Azeris and the Iranian Christian will be released soon, and that God will bring peace and comfort to them and their families
b. no charges will be brought against the four men, and that officials from the Azerbaijan Embassy will be allowed to see them
c. Amin Khaki will adjust well to his freedom, and that no new charges will be brought against him
d. Hossein, Mohammad and Rahman will also be released, or know God's peace as they serve the remainder of their sentences
e. all officials involved will love mercy, act justly, learn about Jesus and choose to follow Him
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Posted on 18th July
Ebrahim Firouzi, a Christian prisoner in Rajai Shahr Prison in Iran, has suffered physical abuse at the hands of prison guards when he was forced to attend an appeal hearing.
On 21st August 2013 Ebrahim was arrested with two friends during a raid by plain-clothed security officers. He had also been detained in 2011 and earlier in 2013 because of his Christian activities. The other two believers were released on bail after several months. On 2nd October 2014 Ebrahim was relocated from Evin Prison in Tehran to Rajai Shahr Prison near Karaj. He was due for release on 13th January 2015 but was kept in detention, re-tried on 5th March 2015 and charged with "acting against national security, gathering and collusion". At the end of April 2015 Ebrahim was sentenced to five years in prison. He is in a ward with potentially dangerous criminals and last year went on hunger strike to protest against these conditions.
On 13th July Ebrahim was summoned to attend an appeal hearing, but he refused to go as he was under the impression that it was sufficient for his lawyer to attend the hearing. Because of his refusal he was beaten by prison guards and forcibly taken to court. One of the presiding judges was absent however, and the appeal has been postponed until November.
Ebrahim's mother appealed for Ebrahim's release in a video published by the Human Rights Activists News Agency.
In March Ebrahim was able to release a call to prayer, noting God's promises to those who remain faithful to him and asking for prayer for himself to stand strong in the face of persecution. He said:
"Jesus is our example; the Saviour who came among us to be crucified and save us. We sometimes have to sacrifice our freedom to live in God's love, so I can't think only about myself when there are so many believers suffering persecution."
Please continue to pray for Ebrahim, asking that:
a. God will keep Ebrahim in His love and strengthen and encourage him despite the abuse and lack of freedom
b. he will be in good health and aware of God's abounding love to him in Jesus
c. he will be released soon
d. the prison officials will love mercy, act justly, learn about Jesus and choose to follow Him
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ABINGDON United stalwart John Blackmore was rewarded for his contribution to football with a special honour, writes Mark Edwards.
The 63-year-old was handed a Meritorious Award by the Berks & Bucks FA for his services to grassroots football.
Blackmore, who has been involved with the club for 27 years, continues to make steady progress from a serious accident in December when he fell off a ladder and broke his back.
The grandfather-of-five had an operation to pin his back and had to wear a back brace for a number of months.
"I am much better than I was," he said.
"The operation to mend the spine went well and although I have metal rods in my back, it doesn't stop me doing things.
"It hinders me sometimes, but doesn't stop me."
Blackmore was delighted to win the award.
"I've been there 27 years now, starting as player-manager, then manager, and now I am the secretary and groundsman," he said.
"I was honoured to get the award, of course.
"You do these things for years and years and to get recognition is nice."
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- Gender: Girl
- #70433 All Time
Pronunciation of Shatesha
How popular is the name "Shatesha" in the U.S.?
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Want to know about the populiarty of Shatesha? From 1880 to 2014, the Social Security Administration has recorded 11 babies born with the name Shatesha in the United States. The name was first given to 5 or more babies in the year 1981 when it was given to 5 new born babies. The highest recorded use of the name "Shatesha" was in 1991 with a total of 6 babies.
What does the name "Shatesha" mean?
S is for sweetheart, you really are!
H is for humble, a saintly quality.
A is for acquaintance, the many friends you know.
T is for thoughtful, the caring you.
E is for enjoy, your life can be fun!
S is for scholar, the brilliant in you.
H is for heavenly, your spirit is strong.
A is for abundant, your cheer knows no bounds.
Your name in reverse order is "Ahsetahs". A random rearrangement of the letters in your name (anagram) will give "Stehasah". How do you pronounce that?
Now try the names of everyone you know including friends, cousins, neighbors, classmates, co-workers or your pets. Even your favorite anime, TV or movie characters! See what their names mean. Remember, this is purely just for fun.
Past life for Shatesha born Mar 24, 1929
I do not know how you feel about it, but you were a male in your last earthly incarnation. You were born somewhere around the territory of Southern India approximately on 1000. Your profession was builder of roads, bridges, and docks.
You were a person with huge energy, good in planning and supervising. If you were just a garbage-man, you were chief garbage-man. You are bound to learn to understand other people and to meet all life difficulties with joyful heart. You should help others, bringing them spirit of joy.
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Here's something for you to ponder on...
The Theory Behind The Name Game - Finding a good baby name is one of the dilemmas that plague parents who live in a modern setting. Parents do have the right to be conscious about the name.


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you can't add 2+2, and are throwing out fantasy percentages like a parrot.Hey neat. Most Americans blame the GOP for the government shutdown.
Forty-six percent of respondents would blame congressional Republicans, 36 percent would blame Obama and 13 percent would blame both. Sixty-nine percent said that the GOP is acting like "spoiled children" in the budget fight, while 58 percent think that of congressional Democrats and 49 percent think that of President Barack Obama. Six in 10 respondents reject the GOP's approach and think it is more important to avoid a shutdown than to make major changes to the Affordable Care Act.
The Democrats in the Senate closed the government down because they refused obamacare as their healthcare.
The Democrats in office insist the taxpayer subsidize their super cadillac programs currently in place, or they will shut down the government in strike.
In 2014 remember every single politician that voted NO on last nights bill. Print off a copy now prior to them censoring the info.
Affordable care act= biggest lie ever told, and the American people know it.
your percentages are more worthless than day old used toilet paper.


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Its late...i guess......
Mar 16, 2006 10:39PM PST
Tired, just finished homework , a typed mystery you had to make out ya not easy, got back late from being out, DONT DO DRUGS! There bad for you......i forgot, lol... So came home not in my right mind but good enough to watch the sabres game and enjoy there 8TH!! straight victory!! Wanted to write about ff12 i guess. Pretty much how im PISSED that it gets realsed now in japan yet we have to wait till OCOTBER to play it, i know they have to switch it to englsih and do the voice overs but kh2 didnt take that long, barely a month, yet 12 takes 7 MONTHES!!!! That is WHACK!!!
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Although the Snapdragon 820 SoC was officially confirmed to exist some months ago, the chipset was fully unveiled only yesterday during an event held in New York.
The Snapdragon 820 will be available on the consumer market sometime in the first part of 2016. As for which OEMs will have the opportunity to use it first, the matter is not (or not entirely) in Qualcomm hands so the chipmaker wasn't able to shed any light on the subject.
But with the wraps off the new model, we can now take a closer look at what it has in store for us, aside from a handful of Kryo 64-bit cores and an insanely fast LTE modem.
More details below.
Snapdragon 820 – Main Features
First things first, the Snapdragon 820 is being built on a 14nm FinFET process and is equipped with a new 64-bit processor based on custom Kryo cores, able to output 2x the performance of the Snapdragon 810, while remaining twice as efficient.
In the graphics department, the SoC houses an Adreno 530 GPU, which delivers a 40% increase in graphics performance, power usage, and compute capabilities compared to the Adreno 430.
Speaking of efficiency and battery life, the new Qualcomm 14-bit Spectra ISP (Image Signal Processor) works along with the Hexagon 680 DSP (Digital Signal Processor) in order to deliver both high performance and low power requirements when using the camera. It also supports sensors with up to 28 megapixels.
The last, but not the least impressive highlight, is the inclusion of an X12 LTE modem. It offers three times faster peak upload speeds compared to X10 LTE chips, and download speeds of up to 33% higher.
Once again, Qualcomm along with several smartphone manufacturers are expected to push the Snapdragon 820 to the consumer market beginning with 2016. An early report from September revealed that – at that time – there were 30 smartphones powered by the Snapdragon 820 in the works for an eventual release. Among the OEMs who took an interest in the chipset so far reside ZTE, Xiaomi, HTC, Sony, LG, and, of course, Samsung, whose Galaxy S7 might very well become the world's first Snapdragon 820-powered flagship.


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Bérénice Bejo's role in the Oscar-winning film The Artist propelled her to international stardom. Peppy Miller, her captivating character in the black-and-white silent movie, finds fame with the advent of the talkies – and in her new film, The Past, Bejo demonstrates that she's good at speaking parts too: the role won her the Best Actress award at last year's Cannes festival.
The success of The Artist was a family affair for Bejo, who has two children with the film's director, Michel Hazanavicius. Yet the 37-year-old admits that awards acclaim sometimes has its downsides.
"It was a long road to the Oscars. At the beginning of the awards season, losing out all the time [for Best Actress awards], I was getting a bit frustrated. Seeing my husband, Michel, Jean [Dujardin] and Thomas [Langmann, producer] going up and collecting awards was hard; but after a while, I got used to it. It's a good way of keeping your ego on the ground."
But perhaps she won the biggest prize of all. Doing the rounds on the awards circuit at the same time was the sensational Iranian drama A Separation, directed by Asghar Farhadi, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. "I remember meeting Asghar. It was at the Oscars and we all congratulated each other. It was such a good vibe; I remember thinking, 'Wow this guy is amazing – but I'm never going to work with him, because he works in Iran and I'm French."
Bejo was actually born in Buenos Aires. She is the daughter of the Argentinian film-maker Miguel Bejo, and her mother, Silvia, is a lawyer. However, they left Argentina when she was just three years old, fleeing the country's Dirty War to relocate in Paris. Her career started on French television. In 2000, she made a successful transition to the big screen, and was nominated for the Most Promising Actress César after appearing in a film titled Most Promising Young Actress.
Before Bejo could even get excited by the news that Farhadi was going to shoot his latest domestic drama, The Past, in French and in Paris – a huge surprise given that he doesn't speak the language and a translator had to be used to relay his assignations to the actors – the announcement was made that Marion Cotillard had won the lead role. However, when a scheduling conflict caused Cotillard to withdraw (she inexplicably decided to star in James Gray's The Immigrant instead), Bejo was given a chance to fulfill another dream.
"I was going to go on holiday with my kids – and then my agent called and told me that in two hours I was going to meet Farhadi," recalls Bejo. "I told him, no – I'm going with my kids on a plane at 8. To which my agent replied that he's going to be wherever you are – and meet you for an hour."
There then proceeded to be, to my ears at least, a bizarre-sounding audition, in which her skills as a silent actress came in useful. "We met, he did my make-up and hair and I didn't do anything," she recounts. "I let him do everything. He took some pictures and then I went on holiday. He called me after five weeks. I will say something about Asghar – you can't convince him to give you a role in a film; you have to wait for him to see something in your face."
She was still worried that her ethnicity might have been a problem. "To begin with, Asghar didn't want to shoot me because of my Argentinian background; but then he decided that she could be a Spanish girl. It was the moment that I knew the character was mine; no one else could play her."
It's easy to see why Bejo was ecstatic about getting the part. As with A Separation, this is a family drama, dealing with relationship breakdowns and secrets in which every scene seems to add a new layer of tension. It starts with Marie picking up her Iranian husband and father of her two girls from an airport, so that he can finally sign their divorce papers. They have been separated for years. They keep dropping bombs on each other, with Marie adamant that the divorce gets finalised so that she can marry her lover. Farhadi's foray into France sees him come up with a trio of characters in the best traditions of the French New Wave – a woman caught between two men.
Bejo's next film, The Search, sees her reunite with her husband, who she has often compared to her own father in interviews, citing the beard and the common themes of their films. "It's a war movie set in 2000, when the Russians invaded Chechnya," she says excitedly. "It's about a woman working there and trying to report on the situation. She meets a boy who is traumatised by the war – and the film details the relationship between the two characters."
Co-starring Annette Bening, it's loosely based on Fred Zinnemann's Oscar-winning 1948 film, set in post-Second World War Berlin. The film, expected to launch at Cannes, has been veiled in much secrecy since it began shooting last August. The crisis in Ukraine has only added to the already high level of interest.
It is her third collaboration with Hazanavicius. They first worked together in 2006 on the spy movie parody Oss 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies. They fell in love, although the romance only started after the cameras had stopped rolling. "I met him as a director first and so I admired him as a director first. It's all about pleasure with him; he's not a director who tries to hurt you to get something."
She'll also be seen in the heist film The Last Diamond, in which Yvan Attal plays an ex-con fresh out of jail who is encouraged to do one last job. It comes out in France at the end of April.
Her future projects include Eternity, the first French-language feature from the Venice Golden Lion winner Tran Anh Hung. It's based on Alice Ferney's novel L'Élégance des Veuves and follows three generations of women and their children born into a Catholic bourgeois family – and co-stars Melanie Laurent and Audrey Tautou. She has also just signed up to star in an Italian film, After the Storm, based on the novel Belle Famille by Arthur Dreyfus. Bejo plays a mother who hides the body of her five-year-old son after he dies. When the police launch a massive investigation, she finds herself in the middle of a media circus.
If the character is anything like Bejo, she'll have no trouble handling the press.
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This isn't about censorship, it's about limited bandwidth. And while we all would like to have an infinite amount, this is the real world.
I mean that in the relative sense that they are limiting what you can and can't access. Hope that clarifies.
Well that and ?I just wonder what is next to be banned because of bandwidth drain. We already hit torrents and gaming...maybe stocks and trade...
I am unsure of the exact circumstances of Comcast's decision making, but on the face of it these things are true:
The government had no mandate to interfere with Comcast's management of its network;
Limiting Bittorrent traffic speeds to provide a reasonable amount of service to the majority of their subscribers is well within Comcast's rights, and perhaps even moral obligations, during high-traffic periods.
The judge's ruling is perfectly fine. If people dislike the law, then the law should be changed. But I don't like the idea of government entities doing whatever they want, without a mandate, even if it is perceived as a good in the short term. The FCC was out of bounds when they required Comcast to stop shaping BT traffic and that they got slapped down was a good thing for anyone who likes old fashioned things like the
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I'm pretty set on upgrading to the premium version, esp for the extra sliders, but I'm trying to test extensively in the free version first. My main issues so far are with webfonts.
Google webfonts seem to be working on MOST of the desktop version of my page, but not at all on the mobile version. Specifically, I have web fonts (Cedarville cursive) set for the main navigation menu and the site tagline. That font is also, for some reason, affecting my secondary navigation as well, even though its not set to that font.
I also want to use the same web font on the mobile menu as the main menu. I've tried everything, and the setting is set to use the font I want (again, Cedarville Cursive) but on all mobile devices I try, its defaulting to a standard font. Any idea why this is happening?


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EDDMapS Distribution - This map is incomplete and is based only on current site and county level reports made by experts, herbaria, and literature. For more information, visit www.eddmaps.org
|Kingdom: Plantae
|Phylum: Magnoliophyta
|Class: Liliopsida
|Subclass: Alismatidae
|Order: Alismatales
|Family: Alismataceae
|Genus: Sagittaria
|Subject: Sagittaria montevidensis Cham. & Schlecht.
Other Common Names:
giant arrowhead, California arrowhead


text: Well known industry leader and former owner of Johnson & Johnson Realty, Dianne Johnson, has joined Ward Wight Sotheby's International Realty in Spring Lake. With over 41 years of experience in Spring Lake and Sea Girt real estate, Dianne combines her extensive industry knowledge and experience with a commitment to helping her clients achieve their real estate goals. Dianne says that her favorite thing about the real estate business is helping buyers find their dream home. "I have never felt that I ever "sold" anyone a house", she says. "I help people find what they are looking for - no matter how long it takes and when they find it they buy it." Dianne started selling real estate in Spring Lake in 1968 and was associated at that time with The Longstreet Agency. In 1977 she and her husband Robin started Johnson & Johnson Realty and grew their company to 5 offices and over 120 sales associates. The Johnson's sold the company in 2000. When I decided to return to the business that I love I selected Sotheby's International Realty because of the company's superior advertising and marketing tools, fabulous broker Dick Wight and manager Keith Kernan. The Spring Lake office is in perfect position to enjoy the market share position that their excellence in sales associate selection, staff and overall brand philosophy deserves. Dianne resides in Spring Lake with her husband Robin. They have a son, Chuck and 3 grandchildren. Her hobbies include golf and piano.


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Thai blasts raised fears of Iran-sponsored terrorism. Three explosions in Bangkok wounded four bystanders and blew off the legs of a bomber Thai police said was Iranian. The blasts follow alleged plots in India and Georgia on Monday and in Azerbaijan and Thailand last month that Israel blamed on Iran or Hezbollah. In Iran, protesters held scattered demonstrations amid a heavy security lockdown.
The EU is moving to ban blacklisted Iranian entities from using a Belgian-based financial clearing system.
Congressional negotiators reached a tentative deal on continuing the payroll-tax cut and extended jobless benefits and avoiding a steep cut in Medicare doctors' fees.
The White House and Pentagon are considering proposals that would slash the U.S. nuclear-warheads stockpile, potentially as low as 300.
The U.S. and allies are intensifying surveillance of Syria's chemical and biological depots. Activists reported continued heavy shelling of Homs.
Pakistan will let NATO ship perishable food to its troops in Afghanistan, a sign of thawing tensions following last year's deadly U.S. airstrikes.
Police in Bahrain's capital displayed a massive security presence on the anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising against the Sunni rulers.
Xi Jinping met with Obama for the first time. The president pressed China's expected next leader on issues including trade and human rights.
The Obama administration will propose a $5 billion competition aimed at overhauling how teachers are trained, paid and granted tenure.
Romney attacked the auto-industry bailout as he escalated his campaign in Michigan amid signs Santorum could win an upset victory.
Casino mogul Adelson could give a $10 million or more to a group backing Gingrich before Super Tuesday.
Senators pushed a computer-security bill that would require private firms operating critical infrastructure to meet certain requirements.
Serbs in Kosovo voted on whether to recognize state authority despite pleas by Serbia, which fears the vote will hurt its efforts to join the EU.
San Francisco sued the federal pipeline-safety agency over its response to a deadly 2010 accident near the city.
A former Penn State official asked a judge to throw out charges that he lied to a grand jury investigating Sandusky.
Nuclear regulators downgraded a Michigan power plant due to safety violations.
A bill to privatize prisons in South Florida failed to pass the state Senate.


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I have written a program that downloads a file from a remote ftp site and saves it to the local c drive then uploads that file to a separate server. The problem now is that when the file gets downloaded, there is no data inside the text file it creates on the local C and I can't figure out why that is. Here is the code I'm using
// Download File
public void download(string remoteFile, string localFile)
// Create an FTP Request
ftpRequest = (FtpWebRequest)FtpWebRequest.Create(downhost + "/" + remoteFile);
// Log in to the FTP Server with the User Name and Password Provided
ftpRequest.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(downuser, downpass);
// When in doubt, use these options
ftpRequest.UseBinary = true;
ftpRequest.UsePassive = true;
ftpRequest.KeepAlive = true;
/* Set HTTP Proxy to Null to avoid The Requested FTP Command Is Not Supported When Using HTTP Proxy error */
ftpRequest.Proxy = null;
// Specify the Type of FTP Request
ftpRequest.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.DownloadFile;
// Establish Return Communication with the FTP Server
ftpResponse = (FtpWebResponse)ftpRequest.GetResponse();
// Get the FTP Server's Response Stream
ftpStream = ftpResponse.GetResponseStream();
// Open a File Stream to Write the Downloaded File
FileStream localFileStream = new FileStream(localFile, FileMode.Create);
// Buffer for the Downloaded Data
byte[] byteBuffer = new byte[bufferSize];
int bytesRead = ftpStream.Read(byteBuffer, 0, bufferSize);
// Download the File by Writing the Buffered Data Until the Transfer is Complete
while (bytesRead > 0)
localFileStream.Write(byteBuffer, 0, bytesRead);
bytesRead = ftpStream.Read(byteBuffer, 0, bufferSize);
catch (Exception ex) { Console.WriteLine(ex.ToString()); }
// Resource Cleanup
ftpRequest = null;
catch (Exception ex) { Console.WriteLine(ex.ToString()); }
I used the code found at http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/443588/Simple-Csharp-FTP-Class as the basis to build my program off of and I've done Google searches on how other people have written their ftp download scripts but can't figure out any reason why the data isn't being written.
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I cleaned out my office the Monday after session adjourned.
My son and one of his friends drove over and carried it all out.
Now, after leaving them stacked up for months, I'm figuring out what to keep and what to toss from the things I brought home. I remember Princess Diana, after her divorce, selling all her old clothes. That was a smart move.
I'm going through a decidedly low-brow version of that this week. I'm tossing out clothes, shoes, books, files and all manner of things I don't plan to ever use again.
In the process, I'm also deep-cleaning my house. My asthma has reared its ugly head after a couple years' grace. I usually shampoo the carpets and clean behind and under all the places I don't ordinarily clean behind and under a couple of times a year.
But I haven't done it since before session started last year. Too busy. Too distracted.
Now, the asthma has brought it home that the carpets are holding dirt and the places back behind where I never clean are dusty, too. So, I'm going to take this place apart and put it back together again.
In the process, I will toss the detritus of my "official" life. The Representative Suits and all the stuff that goes with them are going to Goodwill. I've also got to figure out where I want to hang paintings and similar things that I brought home, as well as what shelves will hold which whatnots.
Some of these things are deeply meaningful to me, and I want them where I can cherish them as my life goes forward.
At the same time, I'm considering what software I need as a writer vs what software I needed as a legislator. The difference is the difference between a Honda Fit and an 18 wheeler. I used Microsoft Publisher to create my campaign literature, Microsoft Access and then later Filemaker Pro to run my databases, Excel to track financial records, and Word to communicate with my office.
I can't think of a reason why I will need any of that going forward. I have, just by my daily usage, pretty well switched over to Mars Edit for blogging, Scrivener for book writing, Numbers for spreadsheeting, a free-form document filer for the research on my books called DevonThink Office Pro (Oh, how I love typing that phrase: "my books.) and a combination of Nisus Writer Pro, Mellel and Pages for word processing. My new database is a bitsy little thing called Tap Forms, which I use to keep such things as the serial numbers of my software, and smallish personal mailing lists.
If I had to cull it down to the things I really need for work, I could get by with Scrivener, Mars Edit, Pages, Numbers, DevonThink, Tap Forms and iPhoto. All of these (with the exception of DevonThink) are lightweight and inexpensive.
My only heavy duty software is Aperture and a suite of digital darkroom software from Topaz. But that's not work. It's hobby.
As for hardware, I have a desktop and a laptop and I use both. I plan to keep both. No way could the laptop handle the things the desktop does, and no way could I put the desktop in my purse and go.
I'm changing my life around the edges because I've changed it at the work core of it. It's a bit discombobulating, going through such a fundamental change in my life. But it's also exciting and liberating.
It took me a while to figure out what this lightness and happiness I was feeling actually was. Along with the files and the heavy-duty software, I was tossing away responsibility for tens of thousands of people. I grieved that a bit. I worry about my constituents, about who is going to take care of them.
But I have to let go of taking care of them and move on.
Aside from that, which is a little bit like sending your 5-year-old off to his first day of school, I feel incredibly light and unencumbered. I am awash with choices and the possibilities of new beginnings.
But it's more than that. It took a while to figure it out, and then one day, it hit me what I was feeling.
I feel free.
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Remember the lies?
Gay marriage would not lead to polygamy, they said. But before gay marriage is even fully out of the gate, the court movement to legalize polygamy is afoot.
Gay marriage will never lead to ministers being forced to perform gay marriage wedding services, they told us. Well, so much for that one, too.
David and Evelyn Knapp, ordained ministers of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, have been told by Coeur d'Alene's city officials that, due to their refusal to perform a gay wedding, they may face up to 180 days in jail and $1,000 in fines for each day they do not perform gay wedding services.
A lawsuit filed on the minister's behalf by the Alliance Defending Freedom, says in part:
If the Knapps refuse to perform one same-sex ceremony for one week, they risk going to jail for over three years and being fined $7,000. If the Knapps refuse to perform one same-sex ceremony for 30 days, they risk going to jail for over 14 years and being fined $30,000. If the Knapps refuse to perform one same-sex ceremony for a year, they risk going to jail for 180 years and being fined $365,000.
The city is taking the legal position that the couple's wedding chapel, which is called the Hitching Post Lakeside Chapel, is a "place of accommodation" that would is subject to the city's anti-discrimination ordinance.
That's kind of rich since the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel is a denomination going with over 8,000,000 members worldwide. There are 1,875 Foursquare Gospel churches here in the United States alone.
The legal basis for this contention seems to hang on the thread that the Hitching Post Chapel is incorporated as a "religious corporation limited to performing one-man-one-woman marriages as defined by the Holy Bible." According to Fox News Radio, the Hitching Post Chapel is a for-profit corporation.
I do not know if Idaho law has a discreet entity called a "religious corporation" in its statutes, or, if it does, what that means. I do know that the City of Coeur d'Alene called these two ministers. Again, according to Fox News Radio, the city attorney claims that even ordained ministers whose church teachings do not allow gay marriage will be required to perform gay marriages.
I think it's telling that two days after the Ninth Circuit issued an order allowing same-sex marriages, in Idaho, Pastors David and Evelyn Knapp received a phone call from the city advising them they had to perform gay marriages.
David and Evelyn Knapp are ministers who were ordained by a legitimate denomination.
According to the Gay Christian Movement Watch, here is the International Church of the Four Square Gospel's teaching on the matter:
The Biblical record shows that sexual union was established exclusively within the context of male-female relationship and formalized in the ordinance of marriage. In the New Testament, the oneness of male and female in marriage pictures the relationship between Christ and His Church. . . . The Scriptures identify the practice of homosexuality as a sin that, if persisted in, brings grave consequences in this life and excludes one from the Kingdom of God.
The facade of lies in support of gay marriage is falling down, and it's doing it quickly.
From The Daily Signal:
For years, those in favor of same-sex marriage have argued that all Americans should be free to live as they choose. And yet in countless cases, the government has coerced those who simply wish to be free to live in accordance with their belief that marriage is the union of a man and a woman.
Ministers face a 180-day jail term and $1,000 fine for each day they decline to celebrate the same-sex wedding.
Just this weekend, a case has arisen in Idaho, where city officials have told ordained ministers they have to celebrate same-sex weddings or face fines and jail time.
The Idaho case involves Donald and Evelyn Knapp, both ordained ministers, who run Hitching Post Wedding Chapel. Officials from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, told the couple that because the city has a non-discrimination statute that includes sexual orientation and gender identity, and because the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Idaho's constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman, the couple would have to officiate at same-sex weddings in their own chapel.
The non-discrimination statute applies to all "public accommodations," and the city views the chapel as a public accommodation.
On Friday, a same-sex couple asked to be married by the Knapps, and the Knapps politely declined. The Knapps now face a 180-day jail term and $1,000 fine for each day they decline to celebrate the same-sex wedding.
A week of honoring their faith and declining to perform the ceremony could cost the couple three and a half years in jail and $7,000 in fines.
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The Knapps have been married to each other for 47 years and are both ordained ministers of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. They are "evangelical Christians who hold to historic Christian beliefs" that "God created two distinct genders in His image" and "that God ordained marriage to be between one man and one woman."
But as a result of the courts redefining marriage and a city ordinance that creates special privileges based on sexual orientation and gender identity, the Knapps are facing government coercion.
I was bugged all day long yesterday by one of my own posts. The post in question in this one. It was the post in which I compared the recent Synod on the Family with the United States Congress.
I tried twice last night to write another post, essentially taking back some of the sharp-edged harshness of that one, but I couldn't get there.
Here's what I finally came around to.
I was wrong (and this is what was bugging me) to paint all the bishops who participated in the Synod with one brush. In truth and in fact only a smattering of the participants managed to set things on their ear with their reinterpretations of the Gospels along popular lines. The Synod participants as a group backed away from this and issued a final report that stood in accordance with 2,000 years of Christian teaching on the family.
The reason I couldn't write a major I-was-wrong about that post as a whole is that I don't honestly think I was wrong. I believe the Synod was a failure, and the reason it was a failure was the polarization among the bishops themselves. Faithful Catholics read that final report with a massive "thanks be to God" that it didn't do harm. Unfortunately, it also didn't do much good.
The things I said in the post are my honest assessment of a few of our bishops. The major positive accomplishment of the Synod is not the final report. It is that it may have shone the light of reality on some of these woefully out-of-touch men. Since the whole of Church governance is built on the bishops, that is, if it's true, a significant and healthy thing. It is also why ducking our heads and pretending that they aren't, in fact, out of touch and trying to lead us down the broad way, is a form of disloyalty to the Church.
Powerful people need the truth more than most for the simple reason that they so seldom hear it.
I may be wrong, and if it turns out that I am, I will not hesitate to say so. But for now that's what I think and I can't unthink it just because the people in question are bishops of my Church.
We need to thank the bishops who stood against all the nonsensical ideas and backed away from the theological cliff. Hopefully next year we will see developments that actually support and aid the family as well as develop pastoral practices to heal the reality of those who are living the lies of our broader culture.
First, Boko Haram.
Then, earthquakes in Oklahoma, Russia in the Ukraine, and then ISIS, followed by an Ebola chaser.
What's next?
It seems that what may be next is spiders the size of chihuahuas. These adorable critters, are known by the nifty little name, the South American Goliath Birdeater. The Goliath Birdeater has a leg span of almost a foot, weighs in a half a pound, spits barbs into assailant's eyes and has two-inch fangs capable of puncturing a mouse's skull.
All in all, the South American Goliath Birdeater sounds like a good candidate for the role of horror movie villain and small child's nightmare. In fact, it's good entertainment all around so long as it stays in the Guyana jungle where it was recently spotted by entomologist Piotr Nastrecki.
Since entomologists study bugs, or as Mr Naskrecki calls them, "land arthropods," he probably had a high old time with his find. At least he did until he got hit in the eye with a "urticating" hair ball that the spider launched at him. Urticating means hair that bristles with stinging barbs.
Mr Naskrecki said that after this hairball "hit my eyeballs" he itched and cried for several days.
Although the Goliath Birdeater's venom is not poisonous to humans, getting bit by those fangs would be "like driving a nail through your hand."
From stuff.co.nz:
The South American Goliath birdeater is the spider of many people's nightmares, but encountering one of the puppy-sized critters in a dark rain forest in Guyana was a dream come true for entomologist Piotr Naskrecki.
The largest spider in the world, the birdeater has a leg span of about 30cm, weighs up to 170g, and hardened tips and claws on its feet that make a clicking sound when it walks.
Naskrecki was looking for katydids the night he encountered a Goliath. He had turned his headlamp off to concentrate on listening when he heard the sound of an animal running in complete darkness.
"I could clearly hear its hard feet hitting the ground and dry leaves crumbling under its weight. I pressed the switch and pointed the light at the source of the sound, expecting to see a small mammal, a possum, a rat maybe," Naskrecki recounted in his blog The Smaller Majority.
"And at first this is what I thought I saw – a big, hairy animal, the size of a rodent."
But something was not right, so within a second the entomologist was lunging at the spider, "ecstatic about finally seeing one of these wonderful, almost mythical creatures in person".
"Goliath birdeaters are ridiculously huge for a land arthropod," Naskrecki said.
This video is the first person story of man who converted to Christianity from Islam. In the process, he had a powerful, personal encounter with the Risen Lord.
How was the Synod on the Family like the United States Congress? Here are four ways.
1. We switched from hoping that they would accomplish something good to praying that they didn't do any harm. By the time the Relatio came out, most faithful Catholics were just hoping and praying that the Synod managed to get through the next week and adjourn without trashing the sacraments and deep-sixing 2,000 years of Catholic teaching. We were no longer looking to the Synod for leadership, and we were certainly not expecting anything that would actually help Catholic families in they struggle to live our faith in a post-Christian world. We were just hoping that they didn't start re-writing the Scriptures to suit the ACLU and the scriptwriters in Hollywood.
2. The Synod didn't seem to be concerned with us, or with the Church. It gave the appearance of being all about the bishops' private agendas and their fights with one another. At least a few of the bishops seem to be in rock-star envy of Pope Frances. The sound of one's own voice is addicting, and several of our bishops appear to be in serious need of a sound-bite 12-step program. None of this would have mattered if they had not used their time on air to attack one another, (one of them even took off after the Pope) and to prattle on about their great desire to re-make the Church in their own image. It was a sad, sorry display of ego-driven sniping, carping tom-foolery by men who claim they speak for the humble Carpenter of Nazareth.
3. The Synod exposed a number of the bishops as men who are too insulated, too flattered, too pampered and too proud of themselves to properly do their jobs. Does anybody tell these guys they're full of it when they're full of it? Does anyone in the circle of people around them remind them that they are but dust? I've seen, up close and personal, how easily constant flattery and being treated as if you were special can destroy a person's equilibrium. I've seen it enough that I recognize its effects on a person when that person is in front of me, or, as in this case, on a news video. A number of our bishops need a year or so of sacking groceries in a t shirt and blue jeans to get their minds right.
4. The Synod talked about Religion with a capital R, but it didn't seem to care about faith and following Christ all that much. Was I the only observer who noticed how often these men talked about themselves and one another and how seldom they referenced Our Lord? Jesus was mostly absent from their comments, as was faith. They did not give me the impression that they were trying to follow Christ and Him crucified. I mean that. They were singularly lacking in humility, gentleness, common kindness and common sense.
All in all, I was relieved when these boys in red and black wrote up their final results and went home. I am not looking forward to the next go-round at all.
I don't want pious play acting from my bishops. I certainly don't expect perfection. In fact, I know that they are as incapable of perfection as any other person who walks this planet. I know and acknowledge what so many Catholics, priests and bishops collude in trying to ignore: These men are just people. I don't want perfection. I would know it was a lie if they tried to pretend it. I certainly don't want the stuffy royal distancing that would help them maintain a false facade of holy perfection.
The day is past when the Church can grow and witness to the Gospels on a diet of religious cornflakes and Queen Elizabeth waves from distant clergy.
We don't need CEOs in miters, playing to each other. We need men who are alive with the call to convert the world. The Church has lost its missionary fervor. It must regain it.
All I ask of my clergy is authenticity. I don't mean a fantasy, never-sinned perfection. I don't care if my priests and bishops fall down and skin their knees. I don't hold that against them any more than they've held my sins against me. We are all down here in the pits together in this life and we need to forgive and love one another without grinding our failures in each other's faces.
My concern about the bishops who made all the noise at the Synod isn't that some of them are rather obvious snobs and that some of them are in love with being in front of a camera. Being a show boat is probably one of the job requirements for being a bishop. If you're the sort of person who detests being the center of attention, you probably would never want to be a priest in the first place.
My concern — and it is a concern, not a condemnation — is that at least a few of them are getting dangerously close to abandoning the call of every Christian on this planet, which is to follow Christ the Lord. We are — all of us, from back-row pew sitter to prince of the Church, required to yield ourselves over to Him and His leadership.
I didn't see that in this Synod. What I saw was a lot of in-fighting and politics, a tiny bit of faith-talk when it fit the scenario and an overwhelming me-me-me. In that it was remarkably like that other all-too-human deliberative body, the United States Congress.
Synod Fathers discuss the Synod on the Family, 2014.
Cardinal Willem Jacobus, Netherlands
Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, USA
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, USA
Cardinal Caffarra, Italy
Final Report Projections
Public Catholic reader Ken alerted me to the fact that Pope Frances has added another member to the drafting committee for the final report from the First Synod on the Family.
This report will not directly affect Church teaching. It will be used for further discussion during the next year.
The new member is rather interesting, considering Cardinal Kasper's foot in mouth comment about African bishops a couple of days ago. He is Cardinal Wilfrid Napier, of South Africa.
The Holy Father also added Archbishop Denis Hart of Melbourne to the committee.
In the meantime, Cardinal Pell has given an interview to Catholic News Service in which he says,
We're not giving in to the secular agenda; we're not collapsing in a heap. We've got no intention of following those radical elements in all the Christian churches, according to the Catholic Churches in one or two countries, and going out of business.
The midterm report was 'tendentious, skewed; it didn't represent accurately the feelings of the Synod fathers. In the immediate reaction to it, when there wa an hour, an hour and half of discussion, three-quarters of those who spoke had some problems with it.
It promises to be way past interesting, reading the final report and seeing what the "Synod fathers" have done. I imagine that this "final" report will be drug around, cut apart, analyzed, applauded and attacked until we get to the "real" synod and the whole things starts over again.
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|Reviews for Lost and Found
| KatieMarrie chapter 1 . 11/5/2013
Just got done reading both stories. Very different and I like it. Would of love to see what Gabriel had instore for Dexter, mwahaha.
| Bartlebead chapter 1 . 11/16/2011
Interesting - odd, too. Thanks.
| blackraven66 chapter 1 . 9/8/2011
Love this story! I have been waiting forever to find out what happens. Update soon please!
| ohgravitysonfire chapter 1 . 9/5/2011
hehehe i think i remember reading this before you fully reposted unique. i loved it so much and feel mildly sure that it was what intrigued me to your story in the first place lol


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"Roy, Robert & Earle (Barney) Smith".
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Photo found in an antique store in Clovis, CA. I am not related to the subject of the photo.
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Earle "Barney" Smith, Roy Bryant Smith (born 1919), and Robert M. Smith (died 1971)


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I began sewing at a young age for my friends barbie dolls. I would often cut up my own clothes to source what i needed, my mother was not pleased! I would spend hours sewing by hand. so well that it was often difficult to see the stitches. I would often tailor my own clothes during that awkward tween years.
In high school my true love for sewing blossomed. I had the most amazing Home Economics teacher who kept my thirst going. I am very thankful for her and the knowledge she showered on me during those years.
Since then my taste in fabric and construction changed. I source from outside vintage and un needed items.
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