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Video game pioneer Will Wright, the creator of "SimCity" and "Spore," will lead "Why Games are (Good) for Learning," a discussion on how digital games encourage learning, on Wednesday, February 17, 6 - 7 p.m. at the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University, 566 LaGuardia Place, NYC. For more information, call 212.998.3342.
Video game pioneer Will Wright, the creator of "SimCity" and "Spore," will lead "Why Games are (Good) for Learning," a discussion on how digital games encourage learning, on Wednesday, February 17, 6 - 7 p.m. at the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University, 566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South). [Subway Lines: A, B, C, D, E, F, V (West 4th Street); R, W (8th Street); 6 (Astor Place)]
The event, presented by the Games for Learning Institute (G4LI), is free and open to the public, but a ticket is required for entry and seating is limited. To obtain tickets, email email@example.com (limit: 2 per person). Any remaining tickets will be available at noon on February 17 at Skirball Center Box Office (566 LaGuardia Place). For more information, call 212.998.3342. The event is co-sponsored by the NYU Game Center, Games for Change, and Microsoft Research.
Reporters wishing to attend the session must RSVP to James Devitt, NYU's Office of Public Affairs, at 212.998.6808 or email@example.com.
Wright, awarded the PC Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005, has been called one of the most important people in gaming, technology, and entertainment by publications such as Entertainment Weekly, Time, PC Gamer, Discover, and GameSpy. In 2009, he left publisher Electronic Arts to form his own think tank for the future of games, toys, and entertainment-the Stupid Fun Club.
The G4LI is a joint research endeavor of Microsoft Research and a consortium of universities. The partners include: Columbia University, the City University of New York (CUNY), Dartmouth College, Parsons, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, the Rochester Institute of Technology, Teachers College, and Pontifical Catholic University of Chile as well as NYU. The Institute's aim is to identify which qualities of computer games engage students and develop relevant, personalized teaching strategies that can be applied to the learning process.
About Games for Learning Institute:
The multi-institutional Games for Learning Institute studies the educational use of digital games, and investigates their socio-cultural, cognitive, and emotional impact. It develops design patterns for effective educational games that industry partners can draw on to assure high quality when designing their own games for learning. Its current focus is on games that teach science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to middle-school students.
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The NYU Game Center is housed in the Skirball Center for New Media at the Tisch School of the Arts and is an all NYU collaboration of the Tisch School, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, and Polytechnic Institute of NYU. The Center is supported by generous grants from an anonymous donor, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Sharon Chang and the TTSL Charitable Foundation.
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Games for Change (G4C) is a non-profit which seeks to harness the extraordinary power of video games to address the most pressing issues of our day, including poverty, education, human rights, global conflict and climate change. G4C acts as a voice for the transformative power of games, bringing together organizations and individuals from the nonprofit sector, government, journalism, academia, industry and the arts, to grow the sector and provide a platform for the exchange of ideas and resources. Through this work, Games for Change promotes new kinds of games that engage contemporary social issues in meaningful ways to foster a more just, equitable and tolerant society.
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The Skirball Centeris the premier venue for the presentation of cultural and performing arts events for NYU and lower Manhattan. The programs of the Skirball Center reflect NYU's mission as an international center of scholarship, defined by excellence and innovation and shaped by an intellectually rich and diverse environment. Since 2003, the 860-seat Center has provided a unique venue for enhancing a sense of community while continuing the Greenwich Village traditions of creativity and artistic discovery with a broad range of compelling performance events at affordable ticket prices. Led by Executive Producer Jay Oliva (President Emeritus, NYU) and Director Michael Harrington, a natural and vital aspect of the Center's mission is to build young adult audiences for the future of live performance.


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This is a slow braised pork belly dish can fill the whole room with delicious aromas. When paired with warm, fluffy rice and freshly cooked greens, it feels like a warm hug on a cold winter's night. However, it does come with a massive amount of calories so it's not a dish I can have too often. I try to trick myself into thinking I'm having less calories by stripping some of the really fatty bits off before I eat it.
Serves 6 (approx. 893 calories per serve)
Prep time 20 mins
Cook time 2 hours
1kg pork belly, cut into 2cm squares
1 1/2 tbsp sugar
3 tbsp light soy sauce
3 tbsp dark soy sauce
2cm piece of ginger, sliced
3 star anise
Tip: Use a slow cooker if you want to 'set and forget'.
Preheat the oven to 150C.
In an oven proof dish, mix the pork belly with the sugar and 1 tbsp of light soy sauce until fully mixed through. Turn the heat on and sautee until the sauce has caramelised.
Stir through the ginger, star anise, the remainder of the soy sauce and enough water to cover the pork belly up to half way.
Pop the lid on and place in the oven for 2 hours, checking halfway through in case it dries out.
Serve with warm rice and steamed greens.
More Pork Recipes
- Sweet Chilli Pork Meatball Tacos
- Herbal Pork Noodle Soup
- Chinese Sticky Rice Parcel
- Pad Krapow Moo
- Asian Crispy Pork Belly

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Marylebone Square is a stunning new development located in the heart of Marylebone Village. This spacious and stunning 2 Bed + Study with a balcony offers circa 1463 Sq Ft in the first New Build development in Marylebone in the last ten years. Marylebone Square has been designed by Simon Bowden Architecture and with interiors by LIV Interiors. The centrepiece of the building is an open courtyard with an expansive glass roof, filling the area with daylight, while open sides bring in fresh air. In keeping with its naturalistic quality, the courtyard is filled with plants and a water feature, instilling a sense of Feng Shui and wellbeing. Access to the apartments is by individual bridges and walkways, making it an open yet intimate entrance space. Floor to ceiling windows and glass sliding doors invite an influx of natural light. Marylebone Square provides easy access to Paddington, Marylebone and Baker Street Stations, or Bond Street Underground where the Elizabeth Line will connect you to Heathrow Airport or Paris via the Eurostar. For entertainment, hail a cab to the Royal Opera House and London's West End, or take a stroll to Selfridges. For weekend walks and relaxing summer evenings, Marylebone Square is equidistant between two of London's Royal Parks, Regents Park and Hyde Park. Marylebone Square has an estimated completion of Q4 2021 and complies with a 10 year build warranty by NHBC. All measurements are approximate and photographs provided for guidance only.
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Certificate program courses are offered year round on campus and online. The open access application process follows EFSC's general admissions steps. High school students also can work with their H.S. guidance counselor to explore enrolling in the Educational Assisting CCC courses through dual enrollment, especially students in the Brevard Public Schools teaching academies at Bayside High School and Space Coast Jr./Sr. High School. High school students who move on to EFSC also can earn college credit for education courses completed through a Brevard County public high school.
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Above: University Cafe (2011) 24 x 19 cm from a series of drawings of Glasgow cafes.
Scottish illustrator Christine Berrie is a born and bred Glaswegian, living in the town of Bishopbriggs near Glasgow. The daughter of a draftsman for ICI Petrol Chemicals Division she was fascinated with her father's drawings of pressure vessels and storage tanks during her youth. This fascination has led her towards a love of diagrammatic drawing, using graphite pencils. Berrie's drawings combine industrial and nostalgic themes especially in her local shopfront work. Through her exploration of the everyday objects and habitats that surround her, she manages to find the extraordinary in the often very ordinary.
- Berrie studied Bachelor of Art (Visual Communication) at Glasgow School of Art; and
- Master of Art (Illustration) from the Royal College of Art, London
- Worked in London for 7 years after completing her MA and then returned to Glasgow in 2009 working as a freelance illustrator.
- Uses mostly uses graphite and colour pencil as well as collage work combining found imagery and photos with blocks of colours and textures.
Berrie likes to draw shop fronts often displaying a range of small objects. She enjoys typography and old signage and has many featured in her scrapbooks. She sometimes works at location but also works from photos and will expand on the image when back in her studio.
Below: Fire extinguishers (2005) graphite and colour pencil 59 x 40 cm from a series drawings for an exhibition at Pentagram.
Header image: Shop Fronts (2010) graphite and colour pencil 28.5cm x 30 cm. The London Magazine for Little Shop Awards.
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I woke up on the morning of my fortieth birthday feeling bad for myself. The precise emotions are hardly worth recounting, and furthermore I suspect anyone else reading this on the wrong side of forty probably knows what I'm referring to without saying a word. Suffice it to say that there was nothing particularly notable about the way I succumbed to middle age: the band shirts were more and more faded with each wash; the grooves wore a bit deeper and the needle a bit duller as the record turned round and round and round. Gradually, then suddenly, indeed.
But what was remarkable about this particular birthday was its context – with the world collapsing outside our door, sequestered here in our home. My son is five, which means I spent more time than I'd like trying explain the difference between the ordinary and the extraordinary. He understands that people give him toys on his birthday, for instance, and he likes toys. Unsurprisingly, then, he would like for us to schedule more birthdays for him. But of course the reason for the toys on your birthday is a function of scarcity: like the boy who cried wolf, the child with biweekly birthday celebrations would soon find that no one was RSVPing to his invitations any more.
At my son's age, you celebrate birthdays for the presents. At my age, you celebrate for the company (and perhaps the Facebook notes). I approached this birthday with a heavy heart, knowing that I couldn't be with friends and family, and further knowing that there wouldn't really be an opportunity to rewind time to have this moment back. Mine is such a trivial example of the kind of loss that this crisis has occasioned. Without the social, there isn't a society; without communing, there is no community. This erasure will have long-term collateral damage: already in these last two months, I've missed three funerals, a wedding, graduations, birthdays…too much to count, and in one house alone. Given all this, the best that I could do, under the circumstances, would be to grin and get through it.
But something remarkable happened to me on my fortieth birthday. My extraordinary siblings and my lovely wife conspired to produce the most amazing and heartfelt gift that I could ever ask for: a mix tape (as my younger self would have called it), forty songs each contributed by ghosts of Christmases past and present that they had recruited to their plot. It felt as if I could share a real, authentic moment with friends who I haven't seen in years, who I could never gather in a room together.
And it felt, too, like I had been wrong all these years about what was important about music. I've lived these last forty years in my own head – and in my own headphones, where the songs only meant something on the inside. I'd convinced myself that there was a perfect song for any moment, like cards in a deck waiting to be played, with the trick in figuring out the timing. The esoterica of who played what with who and when, the mistaking of trivia for consequence – I had missed the point entirely.
Here were forty songs before me. Forty songs that different people who I've known at very different times and at very different stations of my life thought of when asked of a song that came to mind when they thought of me. As each introduced their song, music quickly gave way to memory, to the shared moments that these songs had soundtracked.
In that moment I felt a profound sense of gratitude, and of connectedness. To realize that you've shared a moment in someone else's life is a wonderful thing, all the more so if you have a song to mark it by. So here I am now: forty, quarantined, and with a whole new appreciation for what the music of my life means to me. My family and my friends gave me the most wonderful gift I could have received for my birthday this year, and I'd like to repay the favor by writing some liner notes. Let the music play.


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Played On: November 2nd (55 minutes)
Platform: Inform 7 (Glulx)
After endless months of indoor recess, an eager student's plan to try out his brand new sneakers is thwarted by one missing assignment.
I don't know how Recess At Last went wrong. The in-game credits give thanks to several IF community regulars, yet anecdotal evidence suggests that either none of those people were given a chance to actually test the game, or the author didn't have an opportunity to make sufficient changes based on their findings.
But let's back up. It's a very simple story. Recess At Last is aimed at players in the protagonist's age group. A fourth grader wants to try out his brand new shoes during recess after many days of indoor confinement due to bad weather. The teacher expects his homework, though, and the young protagonist can't find it. He must locate the missing page or redo it, before the recess period ends.
I've noticed a recent rise in the demand for IF targeted to (or at least suitable for) children -- or else it's simply something that has finally appeared on my radar because my own kids might become interested in IF when they're older. This is the kind of game that might make a good choice or recommendation... if it wasn't such a beating to play through.
The author seems well-intentioned, and he put obvious effort into Recess At Last. Despite these efforts, the game is riddled with design and implementation problems.
Before I launch into those things, though, the story itself deserves some discussion. Successful children's literature (and the same is true of movies) will have aspects that may appeal to adults as well. In my experience, these stories tend to be fantastical in nature. Even "slice of life" stories (for children) tend to have exaggerated premises or unreal aspects. For instance, one of my three-year-old daughter's favorite books, Pinkalicious, features a little girl who turns pink after eating too many pink cupcakes. (She's also a big fan of Dr. Seuss books.) If these elements are missing, the story could still be something exciting or foreign in nature: stories about life in another country, for instance, or stories that feature things the young reader (or in my daughter's case, the listener) may never have the opportunity to experience. It's a perfect time to spark their imaginations.
The story in Recess At Last is a double whammy. I can't imagine it being of interest to most adults. Those days are far behind us, and a homework simulator doesn't rekindle that youthful spirit. For reasons unknown to me, it has been easier to fill the text-rendered shoes of a vampire, or a detective, or a spaceman, or even an animal than to step into the role of a fourth-grader who has to turn in his homework so he can go out to recess. Nothing is remotely fun about that. The kicker is that I'm not sure this would be fun for fourth-graders either, hence the double whammy.
Let's move on to its implementation.
The more complicated the actions required of the player, the more robust and comprehensive the command grammar should be. One of the easiest ways for any work of IF to fail is by requiring non-standard actions and then recognizing only a very small range of possible ways the player might express those actions. Many hours of development can be sunk into working out all these possibilities (and adding more as a result of beta-testing), but it's important to do so or the game will suffer.
As a generic example, imagine a game where a puzzle involves tying a string to a heavy medallion and then hanging it from a hook to trigger some sort of trap door. If the game only allows the player to TIE the medallion to the string, then HANG the string on the hook, it's going to be a serious sticking point for players. That's traditionally called "guess the verb", and it's among the biggest reasons IF isn't taken seriously by many who have tried it in the past. Suppose the player first wants to ATTACH the string to the hook, and then LOOP the string through the medallion. If your game triggers on the action of hanging an already-weighted string to the hook -- and especially if your grammar definitions are lacking -- you've just given the player a legitimate reason to complain.
These problems plague Recess At Last. In one example, the game doesn't know how to parse an intended target from the "write" verb. I'm guessing this was a little tricky to code, but even so, it's not what the player is likely to expect. Paper was on my desk, which is where I would expect it to be before attempting to write on it. Yet:
>write on paper
>get paper
>write on the paper
Even more guess-the-verby was this:
>x buzzer
>press button
>push buzzer
>try buzzer
Incidentally, >buzz in also works, but >buzz buzzer doesn't.
The game's design and implementation problems aren't limited simply to actions that aren't nearly as smooth as they need to be. A piece of paper is described as blank, even after you've written on it. After telling the teacher I didn't need another copy of the worksheet, she told me to ask again if I changed my mind, yet I wasn't allowed to bother her again for it after that. I didn't realize I needed to mention the library to the teacher to get permission to leave the room, probably because I've forgotten that such things are mandatory in the fourth grade (thereby sticking me there in the classroom until I checked the hints). It wasn't clear that the protagonist's brother wasn't in gym class; until I played a second time using the walkthrough and took an action where it's mentioned that the brother is sick at home, I couldn't understand why I couldn't refer to or see him in the gym. Attempting to open the letter from mom gives a misleading response, and this sort of sabotaged my understanding of what the envelope was for. >search binder says the binder is empty, even though it's not. Sam continues to look for his worksheet, even after he finds it (in fact, he doesn't even express interest in it after I borrow it and attempt to give it back).
The game sometimes even refuses to honor actions it understands:
>x unfinished worksheet
The problems seem to continue ad nauseam, but the most frustrating of all is some sort of engine error that happens every single turn after playing for a short while:
*** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once.
I have no idea what activities are going on, because from where I sat, nothing much was happening. I tried updating WinGlulxe, but no joy. Even starting over didn't do the trick, as the problem simply started in a different place. Yet this didn't appear to interfere with gameplay, other than the unfortunate side effect of separating my input on a different line than the > (prompt symbol).
After a time, I relied heavily on the built-in hints. After completing the game one way, I checked the walkthrough and was pleased to find that both of the possible objectives for turning in the completed worksheet were valid solutions.
So no, I don't know how Recess At Last went wrong. The writing seems error-free and appropriate for the target audience, and the puzzles (although made more difficult by implementation problems) are interesting enough to give the game merit outside its bland plot. The game even has a nice title graphic. In most other ways, though, it falls flat. The author could have imagined a story far more interesting than this. More testing (especially by people more familiar with the workings of interactive fiction) would certainly have helped make this story smoother and more playable than it is. It probably still wouldn't appeal to an older audience, but it might be something kids could enjoy more.
I have scored Recess At Last one point for the writing, one point for the puzzles, and the base "free" point. Anything more -- especially since I feel more guilty than usual at the amount of criticism I've heaped onto this game -- would be dishonest. That's a score and vote of "3." Although that's not an encouraging score, I do hope that the author stays interested and motivated enough to play and write more interactive fiction.


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2 Chronicles Chapter 16
2 Chronicles 16:1 "In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, to the intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah."
"Six and thirtieth year": Since Baasha (ca. 909 – 886 B.C.), died in the 26th year of Asa's reign (compare 1 Kings 15:33), this could not mean that they were at war 10 years later. However, if the time reference was to the 35th year since the kingdom was divided, then the year is ca. 896 B.C. in the 14th year of Baasha's reign and the 16th of Asa's reign. This manner of reckoning was generally followed in the book of the record of the kings of Judah and Israel, the public annals of that time, from which the inspired writer drew his account (compare verse 11). This could be a cause for the defections of people from Israel to Judah as described in (2 Chron. 15:9; compare 1 Kings 15:16-17).
"Ramah": This frontier town was on the high road about 6 miles north of Jerusalem. Because of the topography and fortification of that city, this would effectively block all traffic into Jerusalem from the north (compare 1 Kings 15:16-22).
Baasha was unhappy about the number of his people relocating to Judah, so he built the fortified city "Ramah", about five miles north of Jerusalem. A fortified city was used to help protect a border. It usually included a large, thick wall and several towers.
Asa was a good king, who did right in the sight of the LORD. Jerusalem was in the hands of Judah, but the immediate surrounding territory such as this Ramah, belonged to Benjamin. It appears from this, that Ramah had been taken away from Benjamin by Israel. Baasha was the grandson of Jeroboam, and was just as evil as he had been. His intent in building up Ramah, was to stop traffic in or out of Judah.
Verses 2-6: Asa sinfully resorted to trusting in a pagan king, Ben-hadad, for protection against the king of Israel in contrast to:
(1) Abijah (2 Chron. 13:2-20); and
(2) Even earlier to his own battle against Egypt (2 Chron. 14:9:15), when they both trusted wholly in the Lord (see note on 1 Kings 15:18).
2 Chronicles 16:2 "Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent to Ben-hadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,"
Ironically, Asa repeated the sin of Rehoboam and used "silver and gold out of the treasuries" of the temple to ensure protection by the "king of Syria".
2 Chronicles 16:3 "[There is] a league between me and thee, as [there was] between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me."
"My father … thy father": A previously unmentioned treaty between Abijah (ca. 913 – 911 B.C.), and Tabrimmon (ca. 912 – 890 B.C.).
There was not the amount of gold and silver that there had been in the temple before. The temple had been robbed of much of its treasure in the last war. There seemed to be some however, and Asa sent this to make peace with Ben-hadad at Damascus in Syria. A league that must be bought with silver and gold is not permanent. The loyalty of Syria seemed to be with the highest bidder, whoever that might be.
2 Chronicles 16:4 "And Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali."
"Ijon … cities": Along with the other cities mentioned, these were located north and east of the Sea of Galilee.
2 Chronicles 16:5 "And it came to pass, when Baasha heard [it], that he left off building of Ramah, and let his work cease."
These unexpected hostilities of his Syrian ally interrupted Baasha's fortifications at Ramah, and his death, happening soon after, prevented his resuming them.
"And it came to pass": "When Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah (1 Kings 15:21).
"And let his work cease": Baasha (like Jeroboam; 1 Kings 14:17), fixed his seat of government at Tirzah in the center of the Northern Kingdom in order to be able to watch Syria as well as Judah. The Chronicler takes no interest in the home of Baasha.
This attack on the other cities of Israel was to get Baasha out of Ramah, so that Asa could take it back. Ben-hadad made an agreement with Asa and helped Asa get his land back. Baasha had to go home and protect his own cities from destruction. He had no time to try to take Asa's cities.
2 Chronicles 16:6 "Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was building; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah."
Geba located 2 miles east of Ramah, and … Mizpah; located two miles north northwest of Ramah.
It appears that Baasha had left in such a hurry, he left his building materials behind. Asa built Ramah up, and then built Geba and Mizpah as fortresses to ward off another attack from Judah's enemies.
Verses 7-12: Apparently, Asa forgot the lessons he had learned earlier in his reign (14:9-13; 15:2). Since he did not heed the warning of the prophet but became angry instead, it is not so surprising that he didn't rely on the Lord when he was sick.
2 Chronicles 16:7 "And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand."
"Hanani": God used this prophet to rebuke Asa:
(1) For his wicked appropriation of temple treasures devoted to God to purchase power; and
(2) For his faithless dependence on a pagan king instead of the Lord, in contrast to before when opposed by Egypt (2 Chron. 14:9-15).
"The host of the king of Syria escaped": Asa forfeited by this sin the opportunity of gaining victory not only over Israel, but also Aram, or Syria. This could have been a greater victory than over the Ethiopians, which would have deprived Syria of any future successful attacks on Judah. Though God had delivered them when they were outnumbered (13:3; 14:9), the king showed his own spiritual decline both in lack of trust and in his treatment of the prophet of God who spoke truth (verse 10).
Because "Asa" hired an Aramean king to relieve the pressures put on his northern frontier by the Israelite king Baasha (verses 1-6), he is rebuked by God's prophet. For his breach of trust Asa is faced with judgment (verse 9). The episode marked a turning point in Asa's spiritual decline, during which he persecuted the godly "Hanani". Asa was to die in shame (verses 12-15).
God did not want His people looking for help from the heathen kings. He was their help. Hanani, the seer was the father of Jehu. God had intended to give the Syrians into the hands of Judah. Now Asa had stopped that by making an alliance.
2 Chronicles 16:8 "Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand."
They were no less than 1,000,000 men, and three hundred chariots (2 Chron. 14:9). The Lubim were the Libyans, a people near Egypt, that dwelt in Africa. According to an Arabic writer, they were the Nubians:
"Yet, because thou didst rely on the Lord, he delivered them into thine hand": And with equal ease could and would have delivered the Syrian army unto him, had he as then trusted in the Lord.
God was reminding Asa that it was not important how large the army was that came against Judah. God had been with them before, when they had been greatly outnumbered, and would have been with them again. They needed to cry out to God, not to the Syrians. God was their very present help. They did not need earthly help.
2 Chronicles 16:9 "For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of [them] whose heart [is] perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars."
"Behalf of them … heart … perfect toward him" (see note on 15:2).
"Thou shalt have wars": Divine judgement on the king's faithfulness.
God was disappointed and angry with the decision they had made without consulting Him. If their hearts had been right with God, He would have protected them from all of their foes. They were placing their faith in the arm of man, instead of in their LORD. He would allow the wars to come upon them, to teach them where their true source of help was.
Verses 10-12: During Asa's last 6 years, he uncharacteristically exhibited the ungodly behavior of:
(1) Anger at truth (verse 10);
(2) Oppression of God's prophet and people (verse 10); and
(3) Seeking man not God (verse 12).
2 Chronicles 16:10 "Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for [he was] in a rage with him because of this [thing]. And Asa oppressed [some] of the people the same time."
For this faithful reproof of him, which was another instance of his sin and folly.
"And put him in a prison house": In a very strait place, in which he could not turn himself, what we call "little ease". Some say it was the stocks, others a wooden framework he put him into.
"For he was in a rage with him because of this thing": His passion rose very high, and to which he gave way, and was his infirmity. Thus, instead of turning to God in repentance, he disdained the admonition of the prophet, and punished him. As the wicked do when they are told of their faults.
"And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time": By fines and imprisonments, such as perhaps expressed their disapprobation of his league with the king of Syria, and of his ill usage of the prophet.
Asa did not want to believe what the seer had said. He classified him as a false prophet, and threw him in prison. The people who Asa oppressed had probably agreed with the seer. Their oppression was for not siding with their king.
2 Chronicles 16:11 "And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel."
"The book of the kings of Judah and Israel": The mention in that verse of his "might" or "prowess," and of "the cities that he built," confirms the account in (2 Chron. 14), concerning his defensive measures and the invasion of Zerah.
1 Kings 15:23 "The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet".
We did read a great deal about Asa (in the book of Kings, chapter 15), in the Bible. This is possibly speaking of some additional record books.
2 Chronicles 16:12 "And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease [was] exceeding [great]: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians."
"Thirty and ninth year": Ca. 872 B.C. He died because of what may have been severe gangrene.
This is a help to all of us who have an illness in our body. God wants to be consulted about every aspect of our lives. This indicates, had Asa prayed to God, he would have been healed. We see in this that Asa depended more in the flesh of mankind, than he did in the One who was Creator of that flesh. God created us, so He is perfectly capable of helping His creation in their troubles.
2 Chronicles 16:13 "And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign."
"One and fortieth year" (ca. 870 B.C.; see 1 Kings 15:10).
Asa made some mistakes, as we all do, but over-all he was thought of as a good king. He did restore worship in Judah, and he did destroy the idols. His weakness lay in the fact that he trusted strong earthly leaders.
2 Chronicles 16:14 "And they buried him in his own sepulchers, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and divers kinds [of spices] prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him."
"Great burning": Due to the longevity of his reign and his notable accomplishments, Asa was honored by the people in their memorial of his death. Cremation was rarely used by the Hebrews (compare 21:19; 1 Sam. 31:13; Amos 6:10). Later, Jehoram was not honored by fire (21:19), because of his shameful reign.
It appears that he prepared a room where he could be buried in his bed. It was very much like the mausoleums of our day. He was not in a coffin, but in his bed in a sealed room. The "burning" was possibly the spices and perfumes to cover the odor of the decaying body.
2 Chronicles Chapter 16 Questions
- Who came against Judah to build Ramah?
- __________ was the grandson of Jeroboam.
- What did Asa take out of the temple, to give to the king of Syria?
- Why was he to give him the things of the temple?
- Who had there been a league between before, that caused Asa to want this league?
- Who was king of Syria?
- Where was he staying?
- What did Ben-hadad do on the behalf of Asa?
- What did Baasha immediately do?
- What did Asa do with the building materials, that Baasha left in Ramah?
- What were Geba and Mizpah?
- What was the name of the seer that came to Asa?
- What message did he bring Asa from God?
- Hanani was the father of _______.
- What victory did God remind Asa of?
- Who is God constantly watching to help?
- What punishment would come to Asa for this mistake?
- What did Asa do with the seer?
- Why did he do the same thing to some of the people?
- Where are more of the acts of Asa written?
- What disease did Asa have in his 39th year as king?
- Who did he seek for help?
- When did Asa die?
- What was he buried in?
- What was the "burning" spoken of in verse 14?
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Feel like you're jammed in traffic all the time? You're going here and there. There's no time to rest, no time to enjoy this life you're living?
You're busy doing good. Maybe you're taking care of the kids or grandkids, and there's soccer practice, homework, dance lessons, dinner, lunches to pack, science project, and in between you're getting groceries, cleaning the house, doing laundry and helping the neighbor with her sick mom.
You're visiting the sick, delivering meals to shut-ins, and teaching a Bible study.
You're busy doing good at work. You are tied to your phone and your computer. There's the social media for work and for yourself. You need to write that report, and the meetings take the day away. When you get home, you cook dinner, help the kids with homework, bathe them, put them to bed, snuggle with your husband, put him to bed, then you settle in to get the work done for the next day at the office.
The "To Do" list is 10 sheets long and growing.
All good stuff. But you feel like you're going in circles … climbing in circles on stairs that will never end. You are working hard to be the person Jesus wants you to be, but you feel like you're failing. You're holding fast, but slipping • • •
Just thinking about it makes me want to give up, lie down, and take a NAP!
You can rest in Jesus today! • •
Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. Hebrews 4:1
This whirlwind schedule you're keeping can become calm today. You can rest in the finished work of Jesus. As sons and daughters of the living God, as sons and daughters of the Ruler of the Universe, as members of the household of Jesus, we can rest.
The Puritan commentator John Owen described five features of this rest for the believer. (Bullets are mine.)
- Rest means peace with God.
- Peace that passes all understanding. Philippians 4:7
- Rest means freedom from a servile, bondage-like spirit in the worship and service of God.
- Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom. 2 Corinthians 3:17
- Rest means deliverance from the burden of Mosaic observance.
- Who can keep the Mosaic Law? No one. Romans 3:10
- Rest means the freedom of worship according to the gospel.
- We are free to dance before the Lord like David. 2 Samuel 6:14
- Rest means the rest that God Himself enjoys.
- Imagine, we can rest like God! Hebrews 4:1
The author of Hebrews writes of the rest of salvation in chapters 3 through 4:8. As a believer, you can rest in the finished works of Jesus and cease to strive to work to be "good enough" to get into heaven. You can't. No one can. The Bible tells us that there is no one righteous, that we are all sinners and have missed the mark. The price: death and separation from God forever. But there is one man who is perfect. One man who paid the price for the world's sin. One man who took our sins upon Himself and died. The Son of Man. God became Man and dwelt among us. Jesus. We can rest in His works, His death on the cross, His payment for our sins.
Salvation rest. Peace with God. Freedom in worship and service. Deliverance from the burden of the Mosaic observance.
So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. Hebrews 4:9-10
God rested after His work of creation was completed, and Jesus proclaimed that His work of redemption (paying the price for your sin and my sin) was done when He said "It is finished" on the cross. The rest that God enjoys can be ours as God sanctifies us.
… Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the LORD, sanctify you. Exodus 31:13
Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. Hebrews 4:11
We have to work at entering the perfect rest. The door is open, but the enemy, Satan, doesn't want us to step through the door.
Satan put giants in the vision of the Israelites, and they didn't believe they could step into the promised land. BUT God said that He had given it to them. They refused to enter into God's rest for them. They did not believe God after all the works God had done for them—the plagues, the parting of waters, the manna from heaven, and more.
God's people. No faith that God would keep them safe. No peace and tranquility. No promised land.
Do you feel like that today? Be assured, that the Israelites had to possess the land; they had to possess God's promised rest, but they could only do it with God. Milk, honey, and abundant produce awaited them. But they had to enter the land.
That's the same for us, today.
Are you trying to earn your way to heaven?
- Outstanding achievements?
- Good over bad?
Have you accepted Jesus as your Savior? Have you believed Him for your eternal life? If so, do you think that we can believe Him for rest … PERFECT REST? His fullness of blessings in this life? Do we believe Him to enter that open door?
There is a rest that refreshes, a patient expectation and a tranquility for your soul. It's available today.
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Matthew 11:28-30
So how do you enter that rest?
- Lay aside your burdens.
- Come to Jesus.
- Take His yoke upon you.
- Learn from Him. He is gentle and humble.
- Put on His yoke. It's easy and sure-fitting. The yokes of oxen had to fit the oxen perfectly, or the yokes might rub their hide and create sores. Then, they could not work. Jesus has created a sure-fitting yoke for us.
- Take on His burden. It's light. The burden Jesus has for us is light, and we can carry it.
- Walk with Jesus. Jesus will walk by our sides, take us by the right hand and lead us.
Hebrews 4 tells us that we must believe His promises — all His promises. The Promised Land was right there for the Israelites. The spies brought back reports of abundance and a great land, but 10 of the spies were afraid to possess the land—they did not believe God when He said that He had given the land to them. Do you believe God's promises?
How do you know what God has promised in the Scriptures? You study His Word
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. Hebrews 4:12
The Scriptures tell us that God brings His followers fruitfulness, healing, peace, delight, strength, joy, power, faith, endurance, hope, love, and so on?
Do you have all those things? If not, why not? If so, are you possessing them boldly?
Rest in Jesus. Enter His rest today.
Enter God's rest by submitting to His guidance. Step into the Promised Land by ceasing from your works and allowing God to work through you. James tells us that without works, faith is dead. He writes that through our good works—works that God prepared for you to accomplish from before the foundation of the world—we will demonstrate that we are His daughter or son.
Have you entered God's rest by laying down your works and taking up His works? If not, you can do it today.
Rest in Jesus today.
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:16
Jesus paid for your sins and my sins, and He is our High Priest, talking to the Father on our behalf. You and I are invited to come boldly and confidently into God's throne room — not meekly, but boldly, as a little girl or boy would come into Daddy's office, climb up on his lap and tell him about the day. Ask him to kiss a scraped knee. Hug him and tell him she loves him.
Why are we to come into the throne room of grace? To receive mercy and grace to help us in our times of need.
- To get mercy—that's forgiveness—that's not getting what I deserve—death and separation from God forever-–hell.
- To find grace—sometimes described as God's Riches At Christ's Expense—receiving what I don't deserve—eternal life with Jesus
Do you long to come boldly to Abba Father's throne of grace?
Do you long for the fullness that He alone offers?
Do you long for faith to enter into His Rest? You can have it. You can have it today. Come
My prayer
Abba, Father, we come confidently, boldly, before Your throne of grace to rest in Your mercy and grace. You are our rest. You are our comfort. You are our peace. You are our freedom. You are our Sabbath Rest. We want to possess the promises that You have for us. Help us to step through the door and into the works that You have prepared for us from before the foundation of the world. Jesus, we believe; we know that as we learn from You, we will find Your yoke to be easy and sure-fitting. We will find that Your burden is just enough, for You are walking with us. Thank You for Your rest. In Jesus' name, Amen.


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I spent a fair amount of time on the phone with Leslie Brooks Suzukamo, Telecom, Technology and Energy Reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press earlier this week. Our topic of discussion? Whether the new Apple iPhone is going to be a good business phone or not. He quoted various industry sources and so-called pundits who predicted that it wouldn't and that it's designed exclusively for consumers. But he — and they — are so terribly wrong…
The fundamental error in everyone's analysis is the vision that there's a black and white world, a clear and clean dichotomy between "personal" and "business". That just isn't so. Go into any corporate setting and you'll find salespeople downloading internal corporate podcasts onto their company-purchased Apple iPod players for review on the drive to their next sales call, for example.
The crux of the iPhone isn't for business argument is that out of the door it won't have the ability to synchronize with Microsoft's pervasive Outlook email and scheduling application. Instead, Apple has been clear that it's pushing developers to create web-based solutions that will work with its Safari 3 browser rather than individual applications. Smart. Based on my own experience with my Blackberry Pearl 8100, you really don't want to have individual apps that are buggy, slow, tend to freeze up or fail in odd and inexplicable ways. Building around well-defined Web interfaces is much smarter.
And, a bonus: if Safari has specific capabilities that let these apps be smarter, how darn convenient that it's also now available as a browser for both Mac OS X and Windows XP/Windows Vista. Hmmm… maybe that's why Apple released Safari for Windows in the first place?
The Sync with Outlook argument is misguided anyway because there are already very large organizations that have widely deployed a Web-based version of Microsoft Outlook that includes all its functionality, neatly within the confines of a Web browser. One organization that gave me access to this system? The University of Phoenix Online. If they can get Outlook for a Web browser, don't you think that the million new iPhone users might just be a sufficiently interesting market that Microsoft maybe will open up this feature, perhaps on a monthly subscription basis?
Another argument against the iPhone as a business phone is that it's not a very secure handheld operating system. Yet in many ways there's no better choice than a phone built upon Mac OS X technology. With its roots deep in the Unix world and popular adoption, it's widespread enough to be aggressively tested and probed, yet hasn't yet succumbed to the myriad of gaping security holes that characterize a modern Windows system. Proprietary operating systems, by contrast, are rarely tested as pervasively and end up being less secure than they may initially appear.
One more factor in the iPhone's favor: even business people want to be known by the coolness of their gizmos and gadgets and it's quite remarkable to me how many times I go to a business meeting just to watch everyone toss their cellphone on the table, a sort of 21st century version of "leave your guns at the door, boys" from the mythic old west. The winner? The person with the coolest phone or the nicest case.
Don't believe me? Ever looked at how much money is spent in the United States alone for custom ringtones?
Finally, though, as long as the iPhone delivers decent battery life and a great user experience, I am confident that business people and regular old consumers alike will all be interested in the new device with its combination of iPod, cellphone and digital camera capabilities. Plus its from Apple, and that instantly makes it cool to a large swath of the population, myself included. 🙂
What do you think? Are you interested in getting an Apple iPhone as a business tool, to help you with your corporate, consulting, or entrepreneurial job? Are you anticipating any challenges matching its featureset with your own needs and requirements?
Me? I won't be lining up for one, but you bet I'm eager to get my hands on one and will be transferring my business phone number from my Blackberry Pearl (sorry RIM) to my shiny new iPhone. I expect it'll be darn cool…


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Creolialoc offers a full-service bareboat rental.
Willing to venture offshore or try big game fishing?
Creolialoc's boat has eight rod holders and all necessary equipment for fishing enthusiasts, but it is also an ideal boat for boat trips and diving trips.
Creolialoc: boat rental in Reunion Island
Berthed at the marina of Saint-Gilles les Bains, the Créolia, a Beneteau Antares 6 seat boat, awaits you for boat outings at sea, fishing trips with friends, diving outings and tours of the island.
The Créolia can be rented by the hour, half-day or full day, and without skipper. Ideal for relaxing, fun and intimate moments with friends and family. To rent the boat Créolia without skipper, you obviously need to hold a motor boat license.
It is not uncommon to enjoy the presence of joyful dolphins or, in season (Austral winter) of humpback whales who come to calve in the warm waters of Reunion Island.
Rent a boat for a fishing trip
Reunion Island is well-known for its abundant fish of all kinds.
If you rent the Créolia for a fishing trip, you may have the chance to end up at the end of your rod with a blue marlin, yellowfin tuna, skipjack tunas or dolphinfish…
Boat characteristics, consumption and insurance
Equipped with a Volvo diesel 75 horsepower engine, the Créolia consumes about five liters of diesel per hour of operation with an average speed of 7 knots.
• The boat has a comprehensive insurance
• It has a bimini sun awning
• On board you will find:
o A livewell pump
o A bilge pump
o A cooler
o Halogen spotlights
o Outrigger poles
o Fighting stance dial
o 8 rod holders
• Safety: Category 4
Fishing equipment available
• 4 special big fish rods (2 Shimano Beastmaster 30/50 lbs | 2 Shimano Beastmaster 80/130 lbs)
• 4 Everol fishing reels 6.0 and 9.0
• Lures for inshore fishing
• A box of 20 standard fishing lures
• Inshore dragnet
And also:
• IGFA fishing line
• 4 boat hooks
• A VHF radio
• A sounder
• Harnesses
• A survival pack
Boat rental for a half day during the WE
160 € (excluding fuel)
Boat rental for the day during the WE
300 € (excluding fuel)
Boat rental for a half day during the week
140 € (excluding fuel)
Boat rental for the day during the week
280 € (excluding fuel)
Hourly rental
50 € (excluding fuel)
Fuel costs are at the customer's expense.
Please see the engine's consumption above
Créolia Location de Bateau
3, rue des pêches cavales
Lotissement Carosse
97434 Saint-Gilles les Bains


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The toppers are actually nice, but over the aqua and gray...they just looked gross. I'm going to keep searching for a good combo, but this definitely isn't it.
The toppers are actually nice, but over the aqua and gray...they just looked gross. I'm going to keep searching for a good combo, but this definitely isn't it.
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I don't think it's that much of a fail! You could stamp over it if anything :)ReplyDeleteReplies
I should have stamped on it instead... I think adding the glittery tops is what ruined it for me.Delete
Hmm, I'm thinking the problem might be trying to use the toppers over the aqua and gray together - gives off a bit of a dirty/muddy look. Like when you mix paint colors too much and end up with brown. Its not horrible by any stretch tho.ReplyDeleteReplies
I completely agree. But I figured that "honesty in blogging" is important, lest people think my nails are always flawless.Delete
I like the aqua, gray, and gold sparkle!ReplyDeleteReplies
Yeah, that one is almost ok.Delete
Maybe the other topper was too much, but I really like the other elements!ReplyDeleteReplies
Yeah, I need to learn when to leave well enough alone!Delete
Stamp over it! It will probably look awesome that way!ReplyDeleteReplies
I need to get some jumbo plates...Delete
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SAF-MBR (Staged Anaerobic Fluidized bed-Membrane Bioreactor). SAF-MBR uses anaerobic microbes to help purify water instead of their aerobic cousins that currently require a remarkable 3% of the nation's electricity demand to treat water. Some benefits of the process are: biosolids are reduced by 30% or more, thus reducing energy, truck traffic, and GHG emissions; a smaller treatment train footprint offers more efficient use of facilities, resulting in operations and maintenance benefits.
In partnership with Stanford University, SVCW applied for a grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC), received the highest ranking of all applicants, and was awarded the $2 million maximum grant amount.
In addition to SVCW's cash contribution of up to $500,000, other cash contributions from Stanford, as well as in-kind technology/equipment and engineering contributions from SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions, Trojan Technologies, Santa Clara Valley Water District, and LG NanoH2O were received.
Cash and in-kind contributions total about $3.2 million, leveraging SVCW's cash contribution to better than a 6:1 ratio. This SAF-MBR demonstration project (the largest of its kind in the world) will be built at the SVCW plant as a "closed-cycle," utilizing primary effluent and influent which will then go back into the regular treatment process.
Once proven at this scale, operational and maintenance knowledge gained from this demonstration project will be used to understand the feasibility of further process scaling to meet the needs of SVCW and open the door to this new technology for other water treatment facilities throughout the world.
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Just like students are tested at the end of each grade. Jesus is testing believers at the end of the age. We can pass our tests now…or later. The reward is exemption from the Great Final Exam—-the seven-year tribulation period that is about to come upon the whole earth. Discover four tests every believer faces in life. The good news is… we can pass with the help of the Holy Spirit.
"For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." (Romans 6:23)
How true. But, does God want to leave us far short of His glory? No. We are to be transformed by the renewing of our mind (Romans 12:12). God promises to take us from glory to glory—not from failure to dismal failure. This means we should not be content to remain in sin as Christians.
The Holy Spirit of Christ who dwells inside us hates sin. His role is to purge sin from the lives of believers in Christ. When we receive Christ by faith we are forgiven of our sins and the Holy Spirit is sent to deliver us from future sinning. This is a process called sanctification. Watch the video presentation to learn more or continue reading the video notes below.
2 Corinthians 3:16-18, New King James Version – 16 Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Sanctification is the Lord's process of transforming us into the image of Jesus Christ. That means we will be acting and thinking more and more like Jesus, and less and less of our old sinful, selfish self. In other words, the Holy Spirit is going to help every believer become absolutely stunning–if you want Him to). The Holy Spirit will never force us to do anything.
Do you want to be beautiful? Then step in front of the mirror and let the Holy Spirit begin the makeover.
The standard of beauty is the character of Jesus Christ. Jesus is not interested in our flesh. He is interested in our character. The character of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is shown in…
Galatians 5:22-23, Good News Translation – 22 But the Spirit produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 humility, and self-control. There is no law against such things as these.
When we become Christians these nine attributes are the qualities being developed in us by the Holy Spirit. God doesn't rely on our opinion or the opinions of others to determine our character. (Because we all think we are good people, right?). The Lord tests us. This is totally fair. Even Jesus was tested (He aced his tests by the way–Read Matthew 4:1-11)
Jeremiah 17:9-10 New King James Version (NKJV) – 9 "The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it? 10 I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give every man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his doings.
Don't worry. The Lord will prepare us to pass our tests. First, comes the assessment. The Lord will allow a situation to come into our lives that shows us where we are. Unfortunately, the assessment usually reveals a "complete failure" in some aspect of our life (we all have an area in which we are utterly helpless and desperately wicked).
Funny thing is, before the pre-test, we think we are awesome. Have you ever taken a test and thought you did well, only to get the results back and discover that you failed? I know I have. But the good news is, when we see ourselves accurately—we learn…
- We don't know everything we thought we knew
- We can't do everything we thought we could and
- We don't behave as well as we thought we did
S-o-o-o, we realize, Romans 6:23 applies to us too. (Yes, all people have all sinned and fallen short of God's glory, even you! And even me too!) If you have come this far in your thinking, congratulations you have already developed one of the most important characteristics of Jesus Christ…HUMILITY.
Without humility, no further development can occur. Why? Only the humble will admit they need help and ask for it. Now that we have acknowledged our sin, we can simply ask the Holy Spirit to help us and He will. The process of overcoming sin is continually acknowledging (not denying or justifying) our sins and asking the Lord to give us grace (power) to stop.
James 4:5-7 English Standard Version (ESV) – 5 Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, "He yearns jealously over the Spirit that he has made to dwell in us"? 6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
One of the ways, the Lord gives us power is through His Word. Simply reading or listening to the Word of God gives us the strength the resist sin. The Word of God forms a hedge of protection in our minds against sinful thoughts. When we stop imagining and planning wicked things, we stop doing them.
How does Jesus test our character? Here are just a few ways…
Jesus tests our faith. Do we lose faith if things don't go our way or happen as soon as we want? What type of attitude do we have while we are waiting on God to respond to our prayers of faith?
James 1:2-5, New King James Version – 2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
Jesus tests our loyalty. What is our attitude if we experience suffering or difficult times? Do we get angry at God? Do we deny Jesus just to make life comfortable?
1 Peter 4:12-16, New King James Version – 12 Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you; 13 but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ's sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. 14 If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as a busybody in other people's matters. 16 Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this matter.
Jesus tests our commitment—are we truly committed to Him or the world? The Lord uses "divine delays" to see what is in our hearts. Do we go back to a sinful lifestyle because we think the Lord is delaying His coming? Do we treat people poorly when no one is watching? Do we do only the bare minimum when it comes to the Lord?
Luke 21:34-36, New King James Version – 34 "But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. 35 For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man."
Jesus tests our love. Imagine a good friend gave you a very expensive birthday gift and you know they really sacrificed in order to purchase it for you. Then, when it's his birthday, you don't even bother to send a card. (This is your consistent response to him.) Does this mean you don't love your friend? Not necessarily. But, it is an indication you don't value the relationship enough to make an effort.
Jesus loves us passionately and He gave His all for us—even His life. Jesus wants our hearts on fire for Him too—not "lukewarm, nonchalant, lazy, I can take Him or leave Him" kind of hearts.
Revelation 3:15-19, New King James Version – 15 "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. 16 So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. 17 Because you say, 'I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing'—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked— 18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.
We can pass our tests now…or later. The reward is exemption from the Great Final Exam—the seven-year tribulation period that is about to come upon the whole earth.
Revelation 3:10-11, New King James Version – 10 Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. 11 Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown.
Shhh…Testing is in progress. Don't be surprised if The Teacher is quiet. Let's not get upset if the other students are not responding to all of our questions. Remember, we are all taking our "finals". It's time to focus on our relationship with Jesus Christ and obey the Holy Spirit.
Hebrews 11:5-6, New King James Version – 5 By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, "and was not found, because God had taken him"; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.


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Q (Ben Whishaw) wears a Dries van Noten cardigan in the movie SkyFall (2012).The cardigan has a...
Light brown cardigan with pockets
James Bond (George Lazenby) wears a light brown cardigan with two front pockets and five brown leather buttons in the movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).
Bond, posing as Sir Hilary Bray, wears the sand color cardigan at Blofeld's research facility at Piz Gloria, Switzerland. He wears it with a white dress shirt with tattersall pattern, brown trousers, brown leather wing-tip derby shoes and his Rolex Chronograph 6283.
The brand of the cardigan is unknown.
A very similar cardigan was recently released as part of the Kingsman collection, a clothing line especially designed for and seen in the Kingsman: The Secret Service film. Read more about this exclusive collection here. This film about a British secret agent and the costume designer Arianne Phillips was inspired by James Bond (among others), so maybe she got the idea for this cardigan from the cardigan seen in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
James Bond (Daniel Craig) can also be seen wearing a black shawl collar cardigan with pockets and white dress shirt from Tom Ford in Italy (when he visits Mathis) in Quantum of Solace (2008) and another black cardigan with white Sunspel shirt in Casino Royale (2006) on the yacht in Venice.
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Charles Barkley injected some sense into the Jason Collins conversation in an interview on The Dan Patrick Show today.
Patrick asked Barkley if he's had a gay teammate:
"Of course I did. Everybody did. Everybody played with a gay teammate, Dan. And it' s no big deal. First of all, I think it's an insult to gay people to think that they're trying to pick up on their teammates. But everybody has played with a gay teammate."
And if it was discussed that there was a gay person on the team:
"It's obviously discussed, privately, because the problem is, Dan, unless somebody tell you they're gay, you can't say a thing about them being gay. You know, until somebody has the courage, and I think it takes great courage to come out, it's kind of an unspoken word to be honest with you."
Patrick asked if Barkley had a teammate who discussed his sexuality with him:
"I had several teammates, I probably had three or four guys I played with in my 16 years. But like I say, think about Jason Collins, he played on six teams, so six teams played with a gay guy. And so, everybody has played with a gay guy, you just didn't know he was a gay guy. Cause until a gay guy comes out, it's none of your business."
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Adorján PatakiGuest of the Opera
Born in 1981 in Târnăveni, Romania, tenor Adorján Pataki studied music at the Theological High School until 1999, then he studied singing at "Gherorghe Dima" Music Academy in Cluj with Marius Vlad. He furthered his training with Carmelo Corrado Caruso in Milan and Viorica Cortez in Paris. He has been prizewinner of several international competitions such as International "Traian Grozăvescu" Singing Contest Lugoj, Romania – Special prize of the Romanian Musical Performing Society (2006), International "Ionel Perlea" Lied Contest Slobozia, Romania – Special prize for the best chamber music interpretation (2009), and the International Operetta Singing Competition of Franz Lehár in Komárno, Slovakia – Special Prize and Duna Television Prize (2010). Since October 2005 he has been soloist of the Hungarian Opera in Cluj-Napoca. He has guest appeared at the Romanian National Opera Timişoara, the Romanian National Opera Cluj-Napoca, the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest, and cooperated with many orchestras in Romania as well as with the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also performed in the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hungary, Spain and Norway, and is regular guest at the "Bartók +" Opera Festival in Miskolc, Hungary.
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Understanding the Public Sector in Egyptian Cinema: A State Venture
Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 35, No. 3
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Public and government attitudes to the role of the public sector in Egyptian cinema
In 1957 the public sector in Egyptian cinema was established, followed shortly by the emergence of public-sector film production in 1960, only to end eleven years later, in 1971. Assailed with negativity since its demise, if not earlier, this state adventure in film production was dismissed as a complete failure, financially, administratively and, most importantly, artistically. Although some scholars have sporadically commented on the role played by this sector, it has not been the object of serious academic research aimed at providing a balanced, nuanced general assessment of its overall impact.
This issue of Cairo Papers hopes to address this gap in the literature on Egyptian cinema. After discussion of the role played by the public sector in trying to alleviate the financial crisis that threatened the film industry, this study investigates whether there was a real change in the general perception of the cinema, and the government's attitude toward it, following the June 1967 Arab–Israeli war.


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This summer, we chose London for our family summer holiday because, family reunion and least stress.
Turned out Africa was having its fashion week at the FreeMasons Hall in Covent Garden, at the same time I was in the city.
I had my camera. I captured Londoners in their best "motherland" essence.
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Anyone want to own a bookstore chain? Barnes & Noble (B&N) might be willing to make you a sweet deal on its 633 retail stores. The ailing bookseller said Wednesday that it's taking one last look at viable alternatives to keep the wolf from the door, including a possible sale of the company.
According to CBSNews, one possible buyer is Barnes & Noble's own founder and chairman, Leonard Riggio, also noting that "multiple parties" had expressed an interest in making a bid for the company.
But there's a silver lining in B&N's cloud. After its board said it's open to offers, its stock took a 20+ percent leap! The bookseller also revealed that an unidentified shareholder had precipitately built up a stake in the company.
In an attempt to block a hostile takeover, Barnes & Noble's board of directors approved a shareholders rights plan, or what is more commonly referred to as a "poison pill." Typically, taking that line of defense gives shareholders the right to buy more shares at a discount if one shareholder buys a certain percentage or more of the company's shares.
Another retail giant saga gone wrong
If Barnes & Noble were to pen their own autobiography, it would have a better chance in the "drama" section than the "management and leadership" section in their stores.
While B&N's 1986 acquisition of B. Dalton bookstore chain turned the company into a nationwide retailer and helped set it on a course to become the second-largest online bookseller in the United States, maintaining that position was expensive, and it was never able to outmaneuver Amazon or Amazon's Kindle with its own e-reader, the Nook. Eventually, the company couldn't stop the dominoes from falling and saw its revenue take a 32 percent nosedive in a six-year span.
Add to that a revolving door that puts the bookseller in the throes of looking for its fifth CEO in as many years. And, not unlike the thorny matters other Fortune 500 companies are trying to come to grips with, Barnes & Noble fired its most recent chief, Demos Parneros, as a reported result of employee claims relating to sexual harassment and bullying.
Before Parneros and the company got crossways, there seemed to be a new bit of light at the end of the tunnel. Parneros had cut the company's losses by scaling back its efforts on Nook and by simplifying operations.
But to some industry watchers, that wasn't enough.
Most of the stores "feel tired, are too large and too cluttered, and do not offer the consumer any compelling reason to visit and buy," said Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData Retail.
Whether Barnes & Noble finds a savior or not, Saunders sees the company shuttering more stores. "Barnes & Noble needs to slim down in order to survive," he said.
Don't give up on your dream of owning a bookstore quite yet
Even though the forecast for selling books, movies, and games online is rosy and set to reach a consumer penetration of nearly 50 percent, don't let Barnes & Noble's failure to slay the almighty Amazon put a damper on your dream of owning your own indie bookstore.
There are dozens of success stories of how small, local booksellers are making a go of their own bookstore dream -- out of Amazon's menacing shadow. In fact, the American Booksellers Association goes as far as using the word "thriving" and reports that indie bookseller locations rose 6 percent in 2017, taking the total number of stores close to 2,500.
Ryan Raffaelli, an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, found the comeback of the indie bookseller intriguing and decided to find what the backstory of that revival was.
Raffaelli uncovered what he calls the "3 C's" of independent bookselling's resurgence: community, curation, and convening.
Community: Independent booksellers were some of the first to champion the idea of localism; bookstore owners across the nation promoted the idea of consumers supporting their local communities by shopping at neighborhood businesses. Indie bookstores won customers back from Amazon, Borders, and other big players by stressing a strong connection to local community values.
Curation: Independent booksellers began to focus on curating inventory that allowed them to provide a more personal and specialized customer experience. Rather than only recommending bestsellers, they developed personal relationships with customers by helping them discover up-and-coming authors and unexpected titles.
Convening: Independent booksellers also started to promote their stores as intellectual centers for convening customers with like-minded interests—offering lectures, book signings, game nights, children's story times, young adult reading groups, even birthday parties. "In fact, some bookstores now host over 500 events a year that bring people together," Raffaelli says.


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Senator Collins Is Right to Oppose the Senate's Version of Trumpcare
By Judith Stein
The Senate has released the previously secret details of its healthcare legislation – and they are not good. The Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) of 2017 hurts our nation's healthcare system as a whole and our most vulnerable citizens in particular.
Sen. Susan Collins said on Monday night that she will not support the BCRA, which could ultimately decide the bill's fate. Here are five reasons why her Senate Republican colleagues should also oppose Trumpcare:
1. The House version was "mean," and the Senate version is still mean.
In May, the House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act. It was so severe that President Trump called it "mean" and said the Senate should make it more "generous" and "kind."
The Senate bill certainly cannot be called "kind." Like the House bill, it guts Medicaid, which will devastate tens of millions of families, and in particular, older Americans aged 50 – 64, disabled people, and children. The bill also ends the Affordable Care Act's guarantees of maternity and mental health care. And it will leave millions uninsured.
2. Millions of Americans rely on Medicaid.
The Senate legislation doesn't just repeal the Affordable Care Act; it completely redesigns and ruins Medicaid. And Medicaid isn't just for low income Americans. Nearly two-thirds of the program's spending supports older and disabled adults.
Imagine that you or one of your family members has Alzheimer's Disease or suffers from a sudden stroke. Nursing home costs could quickly exhaust your savings. In that scenario, Medicaid would be there to cover the rest of your costs. Currently, the program pays for nearly half of Americans' nursing home costs. This crucial piece of our country's healthcare safety net would be in jeopardy under Trumpcare.
Children are at risk too. In Maine, more than 250,000 people, including 100,000 children, rely on Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) program. These kids have no other source of health care coverage.
3. Trumpcare is a job killer.
The health care industry constitutes roughly one-sixth of the American economy. A new report from the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University and the Commonwealth Fund estimate that repealing Obamacare could cost almost three million jobs by 2021. This is because a lack of federal funding would cut gross state product by $1.5 trillion between 2019 and 2023, meaning less money to spend on hiring. In addition, consumers will be forced to spend more on their healthcare and have less disposable income to spend, which will cause losses in a multitude of industries.
Furthermore, a recent report by LeadingAge and the Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation showed that 700,000 home health aides could lose their jobs under Trumpcare. This comes at a time when millions more home care workers are estimated to be needed in the coming decade to support our growing population of aging loved ones.
4. Trumpcare hurts Medicare recipients too.
Nearly 20 percent of Medicare recipients also rely on Medicaid. In Maine, that number is even higher: around 28 percent. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, more than 60 percent of the 10 million Medicare beneficiaries who receive Medicaid need help with daily self-care activities, such as eating, bathing, or dressing, which are important for independent living. Most Medicare beneficiaries who receive Medicaid have a cognitive or mental impairment, such as dementia, which can create the need for support to live safely at home.
The BCRA legislation would wreak havoc for American families when they are most in need. It would also hurt the next generation of Medicare beneficiaries. It repeals a slight payroll tax increase for high-wage earners that will reduce the long-term solvency of Medicare by 2 – 4 years.
5. The bill hasn't received anything resembling adequate vetting.
The bill was developed by 13 white, wealthy men in secret with no text, no hearings, and no public debate. Public opinion polls show dismal support for the bill, with approval ratings between 17 and 21 percent. And yet, Speaker McConnell is rushing a floor vote before the July 4 recess. This leave precious little time for amendments and review.
Simply put, this is not a health care bill. There are real issues in today's healthcare landscape. We don't need to add major new problems for families and the economy. The BCRA benefits the few, wealthiest Americans at the expense of most Americans.
The Center for Medicare Advocacy is ready to partner with everyone who will work to make America healthier and protect our care. We look forward to working with Senator Collins and other lawmakers to develop real healthcare legislation that will accomplish just that.
Judith Stein founded the Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc. in 1986, where she is the Executive Director. From 1977 until 1986, Ms. Stein was the Co-Director of Legal Assistance to Medicare Patients (LAMP), where she managed the first Medicare advocacy program in the country. She has extensive experience in developing and administering Medicare advocacy projects and representing Medicare beneficiaries. In 2013 Ms. Stein was appointed to the National Commission on Long-Term Care by House of Representatives Leader Nancy Pelosi. She has been published and quoted about Medicare and its relation to the Affordable Care Act in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Politico.


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Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Is Winter Over Yet?
38 comments:
No, it's not over yet. Sadly... We love summer too!ReplyDelete
Shiner, you can't ask that question in Texas! You need to go where there is real winter, then maybe it would be a better question ;) We are hoping for another two months filled with cold and snow here, so you can have all the warm air you want.ReplyDelete
Good News Shiner, the stores say it's "end of season"-sale... so it can be :o)ReplyDelete
Easy Rider
You're a Texan dog through and through, aren't you, Shiner? I bet you'll have that warm sunshine soon.ReplyDelete
This is such a cute picture of you!
Oh Shiner....I'll send you some warm South Florida sun to brighten your day!ReplyDelete
Awwww, Shiner. Sad doggie face. Come visit us in the desert.ReplyDelete
I'm sorry Shiner, but I sure as heck wish it was! Spring will be here soon though. :)ReplyDelete
LOL that's my face too thinking about winter.ReplyDelete
No Shiner, sadly it is not. We are not big fans of winter either, Love Teresa & The Dogvine Crew (Belinha, Moleque & Nina)ReplyDelete
Not long now! Turn that frown upside down :)ReplyDelete
No sadly not, Shiner! It's come here with a vengeance!!ReplyDelete
Good question, Shiner, but not quite yet!ReplyDelete
I'm with Shiner! Ready for winter to be over!ReplyDelete
shiner....wellllllllllll....if ya look at de calendar...only two months ta go......ore ewe can wait N see what de silly groundhog says in february !! ♥♥ReplyDelete
I've been asking that same question with that same look...and getting the same sad response.ReplyDelete
You can mail some of the snow you might have over to us, please. Winter with ONLY the cold but no snow has been no fun for anyone! :( *wags* - Gilligan from WagsAhoy.comReplyDelete
We are sure ready too sweet Shiner!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 14, 2015 at 8:23 PM
I sure wish it was!!!!ReplyDelete
We are not ready for it to be over yet! We have not gotten much snow here at all.ReplyDelete
Oh Shiner. We are so sorry to inform you that the answer is no. :(ReplyDelete
Paws crossed not long now. Have a tremendous Thursday.ReplyDelete
Best wishes Molly
Aah, you guys don't like winter? Maybe because you don't get snow? Our guys always loved winter.ReplyDelete
Noooo! My huskies aren't ready to give up the snow just yet! haha!ReplyDelete
ღ husky hugz ღ frum our pack at Love is being owned by a husky!
We're with you, Shiner. SO ready for the warm weather to return!ReplyDelete
Sorry Shiner, you are in TEXAS...keep the whinin' down there! Move to Michigan...THEN talk to us BOL!ReplyDelete
We feel you, Shiner. :)ReplyDelete
I'm with ya, Shiner! Mauja and Atka can't get enough of this weather though. I fell in love with the wrong breed ;)ReplyDelete
What a cutie! My girls are waiting for winter to be done, too!! Also, your blog loaded up just fine for me. It took about 2 seconds.ReplyDelete
Not yet Shiner : Mr. Meteo told us that snow is coming again on Caturday ! PurrsReplyDelete
last week it felt like Spring here...then today there was ice on the cars and roof tops.ReplyDelete
The poor plants don't know what to do...they bloom one week and freeze the next!
Noodle and crew
Well, I'd trade your winter for mine. It was -16 the other morning.ReplyDelete
Chin up, Shiner. Spring is coming.
Sure is not over around here!ReplyDelete
Shiner, we're with you. We can't wait for winter to be over!ReplyDelete
We haven't really had snow yet this year, but I know it's coming. I'm so afraid of February - I feel as if we're going to get hit baddddd.....ReplyDelete


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- From: Charles McCathieNevile <email@example.com>
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I think that going with the ISO standard as a first pass is going to be problemmatic - since it includes so many kinds of time expression you are likely to get low interoperability. W3C published a note about a particular subset of the ISO standard that may be a useful starting point. Looking at what the informal RDF calendar group [1] does might also be a good idea for working out easy interoperability in RDF formats... [1] http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/ cheers Chaals On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Al Gilman wrote: > >At 09:16 PM 2002-12-18, Wendy A Chisholm wrote: > >>8. date. TO DO. >>I have an action item from last week to do some research. > >As it happens, John Cowan and I were reminiscing about this as our cocktail >party conversation at XML2002. > >1. Standard practice that EARL should adhere to: > >- Base semantics on the ISO standard. > >- Define 'date' as a subset of dateTime, which you define first. > >2. Precedents you should check before deciding on subsets and encoding: > >XML Schema (types) > >IETF Calendaring and Scheduling - RFC3339 > >3. Personal recommendation: In your 'date' subset do not allow, or at least >discourage, the omission of a localOffset indication. Actually, for >logging purposes of observations related to the Internet, a full dateTime >should be preferred anyway. > >4. Warning: omitting localOffset is legitimate in planDateTime if a location >is given in geographic terms. This is the "when it's noon in Boston" usage >as opposed to "17:00 UTC" or "12:00 -05" usage. But I don't think that this >needs to be anything more than a remark in defining how to express past events >in EARL. > >Al > > > >>Best, >>--wendy >> >>[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-er-ig/2002Dec/0015.html >> >> >>-- >>wendy a chisholm >>world wide web consortium >>web accessibility initiative >>http://www.w3.org/WAI/ >>/-- > -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles tel: +61 409 134 136 SWAD-E http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe ------------ WAI http://www.w3.org/WAI 21 Mitchell street, FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia fax(fr): +33 4 92 38 78 22 W3C, 2004 Route des Lucioles, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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by Badis
Hi Lynne,
I want to ask you whether alternate picking can be learned through one scale or it requires to train it on most tracks possible and whether it takes only days,months,years, to catch it?
in fact I'm enjoying your guidance and I appreciate that.
Hi, Badis--
Practice alternate picking on all of your scales and on any solos that you play. How long does it take? It depends on too many factors--time spent, quality of practice, innate ability, etc--for me to answer that question. It happen when it happens. Just keep practicing.
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I'm working on a new quilt, in a new style. I think it'll wind up being a throw quilt, c. 50×60″ though it might be as big as a full sized quilt, roughly 78″x87″. A throw seems more likely, though.
The structure of the quilt is to sew together long strips into panels. These panels are about 10 3/4″ wide (five 2.5″ strips, where you're losing about 3/8″ on each strip to assembly processes). They're cut into 10 3/4″ squares, and then sewn right sides together in squares which are then cut on the diagonal to produce four smaller squares. The process is tedious to do although visually interesting, with the strips gradually forming more and more chaotic and yet ordered components that come closer and closer to resembling quilting squares. My partner things my color choices are weird. I think they're beautiful, although the final product may not, in fact, sell. We'll see.
These photos show something of the process. You can see the strips, with that little filip in the middle as they came from the jelly roll. As the strips are ironed flat and assembled into panels, the panels get cut down into squares. The square are pinned face to face, and then sewn on all four sides. Sometimes the suggestion of flags or banners emerges from the pinned patterns; more often, a kind of crazed order emerges, one in which grids, stars and chevrons are hinted at.
I enjoy this kind of pattern work, to an extent. I might have done better if I'd chosen my own fabrics rather than going with a pre-cut jelly roll (and three of them, to produce 72 squares with a fair bit of leftover funkiness). Some of the squares are reminiscent of the Ace flag (I think it's the ACE flag?), while others are more suggestive of Christmas or other holidays. When assembled, there will be a sense of woven panels, or maybe stars, or maybe chevrons. Finding enough space to lay this quilt out an plan it may prove difficult, though. I'm constantly running up against the problem of non-infinite space.
Now what? We have our squares. They've been pinned and sewn, and cut on the diagonals, and ironed. From our strips have emerged some stripy triangles or depending on how you see them, diamonds that coruscate in two different directions. Isn't that chatoyance or brilliance? Not exactly, and yet there's a similarity, a kinship, with the jewel tones of actual jewels.
And this emerges from strips, you say? Why, yes, yes it does. Long strips of cloth sewn together into panels rather like flags or banners or streamers. Then these are cut into squares, sewn to other squares, cut on the diagonal and then unfurled and ironed flat. There's a story in the work, a story of patience and deliberateness, care and attention, focus in the face of boredom. The real joy comes in the latter part of the process, as the squares emerge, and then as the larger pattern or design of the quilt can be allowed to form. Of course.
But isn't this the way of it? Solve et Coagula, dissolve and recombine, is constantly in force in the artisan's studio. We disassemble some things and reassemble others, looking for the way to assemble the parts in the way that's most pleasing and aesthetically beautiful and useful to the world.Wh


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This week we will consider Laurence King Publishing's exciting new artist series in a graphic novel format. We begin with "This is Warhol." We will continue with Jackson Pollock, Francis Bacon, Salvador Dali, and end the week with Paul Gauguin. How often have you started the week with Andy Warhol and ended the week with Paul Gauguin? Well, you lucky duck, this is your week. These are all iconoclasts and each of their work continues to reverberate. Among this group, we feel closest to Warhol, despite the fact he was personally quite distant. We think we know him. But, as this book clearly demonstrates, there is much more than meets the casual observer.
Catherine Ingram writes with great enthusiasm and confidence in her subject. She weaves a compelling narrative in such a concise manner, never wasting a word. As she's describing Warhol's childhood, she is deftly planting seeds that link us to the vision of the leading figure of Pop Art. Andy, the child, is gazing upon his neighborhood church's icons. As a Catholic, the icons are powerful figures for Warhol. As an adult, he will take that same level of emotional attachment to his depictions of Campbell's soup cans and Hollywood stars. But weren't these repeated images from pop culture simply statements about an empty and shallow society? No, Ingram makes a case for much more being said.