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I am just back from Amelia and I still have the taste of olio nuovo in my mouth: green, spicy with bitter almonds and fresh cut grass. The harvest progresses and there are lots of healthy olives this year. Francesco, Anna and Vincenzo are hard at work in the frantoio in Amelia. It was great to join in the action and spend some time at my favourite place in the world–the olive mill.
More photos and videos from my trip coming soon.
We met Francesco down at Johnny's one night after dinner. Jazz music was blaring and handsome Amerino men were wandering in and out checking out the Saturday night scene (I have always reveled at the fact that Amelia is a town with loads of good-looking men with few women in sight—I have a few theories on this but no scientific explanation). With the strong perfume of grappa wafting in the air, we began to talk about music.
Francesco mentioned that he had spent the rainy afternoon practicing a piece by Bach on his accordion. He had mentioned in passing that he played in a group but I was curious to know more about my musical olive miller. I asked Francesco how he started playing the accordion, an instrument with a strong tradition in Umbria.
When Francesco was a small child his father took him to a concert of folk music where a popular accordionist was playing. He recalls looking up towards the improvised stage and seeing this musician, larger than life, playing beautiful music there above him. He was enchanted and there was no turning back from there. Francesco told his father of his desire to learn to play this magical instrument; his father listened and proceeded to go out and invest in a concert accordion. Francesco recalls that he was so small that he could barely hold the beautiful instrument and it was not only many years later that he learned how to play it to its full capacity. He told us how the accordion was not considered a conservatory instrument and that he studied with local teachers and pursued a formal musical education despite the accordions folk status.
An accomplished musician, Francesco is part of a group that plays throughout Umbria. Particularly in the summer, Francesco's group plays at the numerous village festivals, where the young and old come out to ballroom dance in the local squares on makeshift dance floors until the wee hours. As Francesco talks about music his eyes light up and it is clear to me that olive oil not his only passion.
"I don't want to have lamb! I don't agree with the massacre of all these innocent lambs just for Easter," Mario exclaimed. I could not believe what I was hearing! Mario and I have eaten lamb cooked over the coals many times and we had always reclined afterwards with satisfied mumbles licking greasy fingers. My mouth had been watering for months over the possibility of thinly sliced chops with that hint of smoky flavour accompanied by a bold Umbrian red wine (where I live in Piedmont there is no real tradition of cooking over the coals of the hearth, although there is lots of bold red wine).
I was going to have my way or else. After a long lecture on the anthropological symbolism of the sacrificial lamb, I began to work the gastronomic side of the argument for lamb at Easter with a full exposition of possible recipes and accompaniments. It was a hard sell, but the goloso in Mario got the best of him. Eventually my partner in crime gave in: he went out on Saturday afternoon and came home with some beautiful lamb chops from a local butcher.
For me, certain holidays just have to have certain flavours and Easter is all about the lamb. Mario has lit the fire and my stomach is beginning to rumble. I walked into the kitchen and Mario had begun to prepare the artichokes that he was going to fry in last year's olive oil right over the hot coals of the fire. I reached for a cork screw and took care of decanting the wine…
I arrived on Wednesday evening with the warm spring sun setting behind the green hills and casting a golden light on the hill town of Amelia. People were lighting their fireplaces in preparation for the evening meal and to fend off the chilly night air. The smell of wood smoke wrapped around me, taking me back to the years that I spent here. I felt like I was coming home.
Unfortunately the good weather did not hold; the weather at Easter is notoriously unpredictable and unsettled in Italy and this year the holiday is earlier than usual. This is a particularly bad year–it has only stopped raining for a few brief moments in the last few days. Although this has not made for the most pleasant holiday, it is good for local agriculture. Umbria had a very dry year and a lot of rain is needed to fill up the very meager aquifers. As I look out at the rain, I try to think of the positive effects of all of this water on the olive trees.
All I can do for now is take my place by the camino, stay warm and enjoy Mario's wonderful cooking alle braccia (all finished with a lovely drizzle of olive oil).
I guess I have been hibernating a bit lately; these last few days have felt like winter here in Piedmont. Yes, this is my excuse for neglecting this blog. However, I tried to cheer myself up by thinking of spring. I am going down to Amelia for Easter and I will have more updates on Francesco and his olive groves. I am still hoping to take the ONAOO olive oil tasting course in May, but I may need to rob a bank first. I still haven't understood why the course is so expensive. I guess most courses that give you a professional qualification tend to come with a hefty price tag.
We still have some tasty 2007 olive oil as well as fresh 2008 Amelia oil. Check out our web site to place an order. We ship to the States.
The new year is off to a good start with our new Amelia oil nearing Vancouver.
The beginning of the year is also a time for new projects and I certainly have a few! I have not given up on my idea of becoming an olive oil sommelier and I hope to register for my course soon (I am still deciding which one). I also hope that the new year will take me to Spain in search of small-scale producers growing quality olive oil. We are also hoping to share our delicious oil with more cooks and food lovers throughout Canada and the United States, not just Vancouver.
Keep watching this blog for updates as well as more recipes that will help you showcase the lovely taste of extra virgin olive oil. I will also be adding a section on the town of Amelia for those of you who would like to visit the town and enjoy the beauty and hospitality of southern Umbria.
A presto.
As I looked out at Francesco's olive grove, I couldn't believe it was November. The grass was scorched yellow and the surrounding hills were a thirsty brown. It looked more like late August. In fact, it hasn't rained hardly at all this year in Amelia. This has had a terrible impact on nature: there are songbirds singing now that usually only come out in spring! Funghi…. don't even say that word around these parts: mushrooms, a classic element in autumnal Umbrian cuisine, have been scarce. The Amerini are getting worried.
So, what does this mean for the olive trees and the local olive oil production? Although the oil is good quality, it means there is less. Without rain, the olives did not get very big and they are exceptionally ripe. This gives the oil a slightly different taste from last year. Some of the fresh grass taste of green frantoio olives is lost and the buttery leccino comes to the fore. As I have told our customers time and again, olive oil is an agricultural product and its taste varies from year to year depending on the weather and growing conditions. If it doesn't, you probably aren't eating very good oil.
Although there are few olives this year, what olives that come to the mill are putting out a high percentage of oil (since there is little water in them). This offers some good news for the people whose livelihoods depend on this crop.
As I visited people picking olives on the rolling hills around Amelia and chatted with farmers anxiously waiting in the frantoio, the economic fragility of agriculture hit home for me. It is important that we recognise the risks that olive oil producers face each year as they hope for a healthy and abundant crop of olives.
I am just back from Amelia and it was great to participate in the olive harvest and taste the new oil. The hot weather this summer and lack of rain has been hard on the olive. This year there is not much fruit on the trees and what there is is very ripe. The good news is that what oil is being produced is quite good. There is still a grassy finish and the tingle that new oil should have. Some of last year's fruit is lacking but this oil is still well balanced and has a nice bitter almond finish that really characterizes the Colli Amerini area. I think this comes from that touch of Moraiolo and Rajo that balances the grassieness of the Frantoio and the buttery tones of Leccino cultivars.
It was great to have a chance to spend some time with Francesco and his parents. We started to make plans for the future–next year we want to sell a rajo monocultivar. I will keep you posted on this. We also talked about organic farming and the ups and downs of dop certifications.
The frantoio was in tip-top shape with fresh olives flowing in. Francesco's new Alfa Laval equipment is working beautifully and produces great results. This centrifuge really keeps the heat low and the oil remains really rich, in contrast to some watery burnt oil I saw and tasted at another frantoio in the area (I will not name it here).
I had a chance to pick olives with friends and visit a number of mills. I will be writing more about my visit to Amelia in the next week. This trip was hugely stimulating and reminded me of my passion for Amelia and olive oil. All I can say is that it was great to go back to the town I love.
I was starting to get very sidetracked by wine in Piedmont but I am going to clear my palate and get ready to taste some olive oil. Tomorrow I am finally going down to Amelia to get my hands on some olives. Stay tuned for lots of photos and news from Amelia next week. I will also be posting my tasting notes for the 2008 Amelia Oil.
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Jacob Koestler
Two Views of the Same Cave, West Virginia
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Raised in Johnstown, PA and based in Cleveland, OH, Jacob Koestler has meandered this cross-section of the rust belt and Appalachia as a photographer, filmmaker, educator, publisher, and musician. This photograph belongs to a series called Interrupter which exemplifies Koestler's deeply personal connection to the mountains and industrial-ruins that comprise his home's landscape. These images of impacted landscapes and decaying structures are further affected by "unplanned contributions", interruptions from photographic chemicals and light leaks. Koestler's willingness to allow these analog remnants, a mark of his own photographic presence, into his process speaks to his knowledge of the underlying history that determines what a place looks like.
Jacob Koeslter is an MFA from the Photography and Integrated Media program at Ohio University, and currently lives and works in Cleveland, OH, where he is a lecturer in the Photography and Video Department at The Cleveland Institute of Art.
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[2], ad 2). Therefore it would seem that the degrees of prophecy are distinguished not according to imaginary, but only according to intellectual, vision.
Objection 2: Further, seemingly for one prophet there is one degree of prophecy. Now one prophet receives revelation through various imaginary visions. Therefore a difference of imaginary visions does not entail a difference of prophecy.
Objection 3: Further, according to a gloss [*Cassiodorus, super Prolog. Hieron. in Psalt.], prophecy consists of words, deeds, dreams, and visions. Therefore the degrees of prophecy should not be distinguished according to imaginary vision, to which vision and dreams pertain, rather than according to words and deeds.
On the contrary, The medium differentiates the degrees of knowledge: thus science based on direct [*"Propter quid"] proofs is more excellent than science based on indirect [*"Quia"] premises or than opinion, because it comes through a more excellent medium. Now imaginary vision is a kind of medium in prophetic knowledge. Therefore the degrees of prophecy should be distinguished according to imaginary vision.
I answer that, As stated above ([3684]Q[173], A[2]), the prophecy wherein, by the intelligible light, a supernatural truth is revealed through an imaginary vision, holds the mean between the prophecy wherein a supernatural truth is revealed without imaginary vision, and that wherein through the intelligible light and without an imaginary vision, man is directed to know or do things pertaining to human conduct. Now knowledge is more proper to prophecy than is action; wherefore the lowest degree of prophecy is when a man, by an inward instinct, is moved to perform some outward action. Thus it is related of Samson (Judges 15:14) that "the Spirit of the Lord came strongly upon him, and as the flax [*'Lina.' St. Thomas apparently read 'ligna' ('wood')] is wont to be consumed at the approach of fire, so the bands with which he was bound were broken and loosed." The second degree of prophecy is when a man is enlightened by an inward light so as to know certain things, which, however, do not go beyond the bounds of natural knowledge: thus it is related of Solomon (3 Kings 4:32,33) that "he spoke . . . parables . . . and he treated about trees from the cedar that is in Libanus unto the hyssop that cometh out of the wall, and he discoursed of beasts and of fowls, and of creeping things and of fishes": and all of this came from divine inspiration, for it was stated previously (3 Kings 4:29): "God gave to Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much."
Nevertheless these two degrees are beneath prophecy properly so called, because they do not attain to supernatural truth. The prophecy wherein supernatural truth is manifested through imaginary vision is differentiated first according to the difference between dreams which occur during sleep, and vision which occurs while one is awake. The latter belongs to a higher degree of prophecy, since the prophetic light that draws the soul away to supernatural things while it is awake and occupied with sensible things would seem to be stronger than that which finds a man's soul asleep and withdrawn from objects of sense. Secondly the degrees of this prophecy are differentiated according to the expressiveness of the imaginary signs whereby the intelligible truth is conveyed. And since words are the most expressive signs of intelligible truth, it would seem to be a higher degree of prophecy when the prophet, whether awake or asleep, hears words expressive of an intelligible truth, than when he sees things significative of truth, for instance "the seven full ears of corn" signified "seven years of plenty" (Gn.41:22, 26). In such like signs prophecy would seem to be the more excellent, according as the signs are more expressive, for instance when Jeremias saw the burning of the city under the figure of a boiling cauldron (Jer.1:13). Thirdly, it is evidently a still higher degree of prophecy when a prophet not only sees signs of words or deeds, but also, either awake or asleep, sees someone speaking or showing something to him, since this proves the prophet's mind to have approached nearer to the cause of the revelation. Fourthly, the height of a degree of prophecy may be measured according to the appearance of the person seen: for it is a higher degree of prophecy, if he who speaks or shows something to the waking or sleeping prophet be seen by him under the form of an angel, than if he be seen by him under the form of man: and higher still is it, if he be seen by the prophet whether asleep or awake, under the appearance of God, according to Is.6:1, "I saw the Lord sitting."
But above all these degrees there is a third kind of prophecy, wherein an intelligible and supernatural truth is shown without any imaginary vision. However, this goes beyond the bounds of prophecy properly so called, as stated above (A[2], ad 3); and consequently the degrees of prophecy are properly distinguished according to imaginary vision.
Reply to Objection 1: We are unable to know how to distinguish the intellectual light, except by means of imaginary or sensible signs. Hence the difference in the intellectual light is gathered from the difference in the things presented to the imagination.
Reply to Objection 2: As stated above ([3685]Q[171], A[2]), prophecy is by way, not of an abiding habit, but of a transitory passion; wherefore there is nothing inconsistent if one and the same prophet, at different times, receive various degrees of prophetic revelation.
Reply to Objection 3: The words and deeds mentioned there do not pertain to the prophetic revelation, but to the announcement, which is made according to the disposition of those to whom that which is revealed to the prophet is announced; and this is done sometimes by words, sometimes by deeds. Now this announcement, and the working of miracles, are something consequent upon prophecy, as stated above ([3686]Q[171], A[1]).


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Zee Purvaiya will cater to Bihar and Jharkhand markets while Zee Kalinga will be in Odisha. Both the channels will have a mix of regional news and entertainment content
BestMediaInfo Bureau | Delhi | December 18, 2013
Zee Media will soon launch two new regional channels – Zee Purvaiya for Bihar and Jharkhand, and Zee Kalinga for Odisha. Both the channels will be launched simultaneously, and they will be on the TEN concept of 'terrestrial entertainment network' airing a mix of entertainment and news.
Zee Media recently turned Zee Rajasthan into the TEN concept and is planning to turn Zee MP, Chhattisgarh and UP channels into the TEN concept.
"It has been three months of launch of Zee Marudhara in Rajasthan on the TEN concept with a mix of localised general entertainment and news. The response so far is satisfactory in terms of viewership," said Alok Agrawal, CEO, Zee Media Corporation. "It competes with both news and entertainment channels in that market. While news is all local, beginning next month the channel will have original general entertainment produced in Rajasthan for the people of Rajasthan. It is important to mention that the concept of our entertainment shows will be very refreshing and different from typical shows on national GECs."
On reason behind regional focus, Agrawal said, "There is a growing viewership in the regional space and national news viewership is on a decline. Extensive research in each of the regions shows that viewers increasingly want more and more of both news and non-news content which appeals to them locally and reflects their culture, their news, their issues. Media is becoming more and more interactive these days and it's not possible for many to participate on national channels. This is where the role of regional channels comes into play to engage with viewers."
Regional channels help advertisers focus on a certain market. Advertisers have been mainly relying on newspapers for regional advertising so far which constitutes a significant chunk of the total ad pie. By providing them an option of geo-targeting and localised profiling of their consumers, regional channels bring to them immense opportunity to reach their target group.
Explaining the dynamics of regional advertising, Agrawal said, "The rates are always higher in language differentiated markets. For example, a Bengali news channel with good performance attracts 40-50 per cent of ad rates on national channels. It is rare that a national channel has strong hold across the regions of country. With a strong bouquet of national and regional news channels, Zee Media helps advertisers reach the maximum part of the country."


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It's much harder to talk about a bubble in education than it was one in housing. In housing, there was a clear metric: prices, in absolute terms and as a ratio of just about everything, were soaring. And there was a clear debate: are these increases justified by some real economic shift or are they a bubble associated with new mortgage products and loose credit. In higher education, the questions are much more difficult.I agree, but I would put it even more strongly: it is simply not possible that the high cost of higher education in the US is a bubble the way that the housing market was a bubble, because it is not really possible to have "bubbles" for things that are not assets -- at least not the way we traditionaly understand the meaning of the term "bubble".
A speculative bubble, such as we saw with housing during the mid 2000s or with the US stock market in the late 1990s, is usually defined as a situation in which the price for something becomes detached from its underlying true value because people suppose that they will be able to resell the item for an even higher price at a later time. With real estate, for example, people paid more than houses were worth in 2003-06 (and often more than they could afford) because they assumed that they would be able to resell the house in the future for an even higher price than they paid for it. Once you think you will be able to resell something in the future at a higher price, then you become willing to pay more than its underlying value would actually recommend.
But with services such as education, there's no way to store the purchased item and resell it later. So drawing an analogy between price increases for services and price increases for assets doesn't really work.
Instead, if we want to understand why competition doesn't seem to work to bring down the price of education, we need to think in terms of market failures, just as market failures explain why competition doesn't work to bring down healthcare costs in the US. The types of market failures that may exist in the market for higher education are likely to be different from those that permeate the market for health care, but they still exist. And understanding exactly what they are will be the key to understanding the high cost of higher education.


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As we kick off our Spotlight Series focusing on the women of the 3D printing world, publishing interviews starting early next week, we have been in contact with several dozen impressive individuals already who come from a wide range of backgrounds. We're talking to C-level executives, founders of multinational endeavors, innovators and inventors, YouTubers and designers, artists and engineers from around the world who are working with additive manufacturing technology from the desktop to full-scale industrial systems. The women active in this industry are present, and increasingly vocal.
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Teens know dangers of driving and cellphone use, yet do it anyway, research shows
What happens when "Tom Hanks," "Tom Cruise" and "Kesha" sit around a table? When the talkers are actually teens using researcher-requested pseudonyms they chose to anonymously discuss their driving habits, the results are surprising, maybe even more so than if the real celebrities got together.
Specifically, the 16- to 18-year-olds were examining distracted driving, one of seven such conversations that took place with 30 teens. "We like to think about it as driver inattention," said Catherine McDonald, assistant professor in the University of Pennsylvania's School of Nursing and in the Perelman School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics. "We think about inattention relative to their hands on the wheel, eyes on the road and mind on the task of driving."
McDonald, who led the study and is also part of the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, along with Marilyn (Lynn) Sommers, the Lillian S. Brunner Professor of Medical-Surgical Nursing at Penn Nursing, conducted the focus groups during summer 2014 and then analyzed what they learned. They published their findings in the journal Traffic Injury Prevention and in October, presented them at the annual Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine conference.
Their ultimate goal, what they're working on now, is to develop an intervention to keep teens safe on the roadways. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, car crashes kill more teens each year than anything else.
Before McDonald and Sommers could generate a solution, they first had to understand the teenagers' perspective. "Teens think about what they do behind the wheel in very different ways than we think about teens behind the wheel," Sommers said. "To hear what they had to say was absolutely enlightening."
Two central points emerged: Cell-phone use and passengers. Though the former can be an issue for anyone behind the wheel, the latter was particularly poignant to this group, all of whom had been driving for a year or less.
Across the board, the teens said they understood the dangers of texting while driving, but they still engaged in the behaviors. Some teens said they didn't do it—until the researchers dug a little deeper and found out what that really meant.
"The definition of 'texting while driving' is not the same for everyone," McDonald said. "For example, in their responses the teens would indicate that they didn't text and drive, but then later would say something like, 'At a red light, I'll check my phone.'" The interviewees made a distinction the interviewers hadn't.
The data also helped them understand how teens differentiated between texting and social media use; checking Twitter, for example, wasn't texting while driving. Neither was taking a passenger's picture. Sommers called it a classification system, a continuum of sorts, whereby some actions are too dangerous to ever happen but others, though generally considered unsafe, fall into a grey area.
Context mattered, too, McDonald said. "Whoever was involved on the other side of that communication was relevant to whether they texted or talked [or did neither]," she said. For instance, a significant other or parent yielded often and urgent response, but a random friend did not. A question connected to the reason for driving, for example, from a person the driver was meeting, more frequently got a reply than did an unrelated query.
When it came to questions about passengers as distractors, McDonald said many teens balked at the very idea, until they discussed it among themselves. "We know that peer passengers greatly increase the risk for fatal crashes among teen drivers," she said.
"Relative risk climbs with number," said Sommers. "If you go from one passenger to two, you can just see the risk [increase]. There's good science there. That's clear."
The challenge now is to generate solutions that incorporate ideas from the group that needs help. In other words, working with teens to increase the chance they'll actually change how they act. Decades of research shows that issuing directives—do this, don't do that—rarely works. Instead, "partner with them to get to the same end point, to keep people safe, to improve their health," Sommers said, within parameters that fit their lives.
More information: Catherine C. McDonald et al. Teen Drivers' Perceptions of Inattention and Cell Phone Use While Driving, Traffic Injury Prevention (2015). DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2015.1062886


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Sunday School Kindness Applies Seven Days A Week
One day, when I am little, my mom misplaces her keys to the house. This is pretty bad because she doesn't realize this until we get there, and the taxi has already left. This is the age before cellphones, so we can't call a locksmith, nor my dad, who is currently on the other side of the city with our only car.
There is no public transport nor open shops nearby, and since it's getting dark, my mom is scared. It's just her and her daughter on the streets at night.
She decides to go with her raised-Catholic instincts and carries me to a church. There's no one there but the Sunday school teacher, who's just finished tidying up, and her husband, who's come to help her. My mom explains our situation to them and, as it turns out, they live a mere block away from us! They invite us to their house to use their phone, call my dad, and wait there until he arrives.
Everything turns out all right. I only vaguely remember this incident, but my mom still gets choked up thinking about the couple who helped her when she was a scared young mom in need of help.
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I have lived for three centuries, and I am still surprised when I forget what has transpired.
This morning, as I worked down in my library, I went to one of my older journals in the hope of jogging my memory regarding a bit of trouble in 1913. When I took the journal for August out, I realized I had removed the wrong volume, and when I prepared to return it to the shelf, this photograph fell out.
At one time, Cross had enjoyed a brief and tempestuous relationship with a steel plant. Great trainloads of ore were brought in, and the plant employed a fair number of people from outlying towns. Unfortunately, the ore served as an attraction for some of our more dangerous residents.
Dwarves and mountain trolls crept out of their refuges in Gods' Hollow and descended upon the plant. I and the Cross Militia were called out, and we fought for seven days. Fires ravaged the building, and a number of workers were slain and devoured by the creatures from the Hollow.
We tore down walls to get at the trolls and dug deep to ferret out the dwarves. I used my Colts and a Winchester; a silver-coated boar spear and weapons too dark to mention. I waded in the blood of the dead and used the flesh of the same to lure the trolls from their hiding places.
When we finished, the plant was destroyed, and at least thirty men had lost their lives. It was passed off as an industrial accident and the owners of the company paid the families of the dead a small restitution.
I remember now, burning the dead and killing the wounded from the Hollow.
It had been a long and terrible week.
And it is one I wished I could now forget.
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Coping in Crisis
It is an honor and privilege to be part of another ministry that helps women in crisis called Pampering & Hope. It is wonderful resource for women who are experiencing diseases and other major struggles. For their website www.pamperingandhope.org I wrote the following:
What is a crisis? It means different things to different people. I crisis for me won't be a crisis for you and vice versa. The way we view life and the way we conceptualize the situations in our life in large part is related to the struggles, successes, failures and events of our past. Therefore, how we deal with a crisis today might reflect how our parents coped with crisis, the values we were taught, or the lessons of life learned. There are many factors and variables that will affect how you cope with the struggles your are facing.
A silly example we can all relate to is, running late to work and low and behold the gas gage is on empty. The first thoughts are "Can I make it? Where is the next gas station? How much time do I have?" Others might think, "Oh no, my husband will kill me if I have to call him again to come put gas in my car." Or others might add, Oh No, I just spent my last $5.00 to feed my kids last night. Lord help me make it to work." Much of these thought process will be based on past experiences, life lessons, examples of parents etc.
The most beautiful thing to me as a counselor is when I get to help someone deal with the present struggle in a new and different way. In a way that honors God. In a way that gives Him glory, In a way that solidifies their faith and comittment to Him and in ways that lead them deeper in their relationship with God.
Over the course of the next several weeks and months, while I am still highlighting resources I will be sharing ideas, suggestions, and tools to use to help you deal with your crisis. Using an example of Job in the Bible, let me first point out that Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong. God says Job "Held fast his integrity". (Job 2:2) What a beautiful and wonderful thing to be said of a person. As the story unfolds further we will see and learn many other things. But, let me first say that holding fast one's integrity is no the absence of emotion, pain, struggle, hurt. Job did not deny his circumstance. Earlier in chapter one, Job arose tore his robe, shaved his head and fell to the ground and worshipped. I am certain that Job did not jump, dance and leap with thanksgiving that he had just suffered so much loss. He didn't pretend everything was "fine". He didn't ignore his loss, minimize it, justify it or even exaggerate it. He acknowledged it all the while he still worshipped God. This is evidenced in shaving his head, tearing his robe. (Cultural/visible signs used to show mourning). Job did not hide his pain. In fact, later in the story you will see that his friends did not even recognize him because he looked so pitiful.
There are so many unhealthy, maladaptive ways of coping with emotional and physical pain. We will talk and highlight those. But the first therapeutic tool I would like to suggest is to write your story and then share your story.
Acknowledge and share your pain, while worshiping God at the same time!
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Friday, October 10, 2014
It'll be Okay!
I feel like I'm channeling this card; however, when something works it works.
The supplies are simple...two sponge daubers and the four colors in dye ink. I started with the Honey first and worked it from the bottom edge toward the center. Using the same sponge dauber, I topped the Honey with Goldrush. Then, using a different sponge dauber, I repeated the process with Crystal Blue and Pacifica starting from the top edge and working toward the center. To make my black tree and sentiment stand out more, I used pigment ink. The land was hand drawn using a black marker. The stars were dotted on with a white gel pen.
So simple and quick!
When I first got the Keep Your Chin Up stamp set (tree and sentiment), I was pretty sure I wouldn't be using the "It'll be OKAY" sentiment...and then my friend's son crashed his car. It was bad. And yet, miraculously, he not only survived the crash but the ensuing fire that engulfed the car. They have a long road to recovery ahead of them, but it looks like he will have no permanent injuries.
It'll be OKAY, indeed!
Until next time,
7 comments:
Beautiful! I, too, wondered about the sentiment. I won't write it off just yet *wink*ReplyDelete
GORGEOUS!!! My sponging never turns out like this...lolReplyDelete
I love this card! The colors are perfect and the sentiment is great for the situation! So happy to hear he escaped. Prayers for an easier and quicker recovery than they might be anticipating!ReplyDelete
There are actually no words to describe how beautiful this scenery card is. I love the attention to detail with the stars in the sky, but not too over powering. Absolutely gorgeous and beyond!ReplyDelete
Absolutely beautiful card!! So glad to hear that there were no serious injuries in the car accident!!!ReplyDelete
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When Meditation Doesn't Flow
I have never liked living where there is only one way in and one way out. And since "the way out is the way in" we might like to have more than one road to travel. I have gone through extended periods when meditating was of no interest, no matter how good I know it is for me. The good news is that there are other ways to go within to suit different times of our lives and different personalities. Perhaps these four will inspire you to find one that works for you.
Dowsing with a pendulum can take us inside to awareness of what we are thinking. I teach this so that people can learn how their thoughts create energy. Being aware of what we think connects us to what we do and gives us new options on how we act. Dowsing is about connecting with our Higher Self or Higher Power vibrationally, bringing us new creative options we might never have considered before. It invites us to flexibility and creativity.
Journaling also connects us inside, as do art, rituals, and creativity. Writing is a way of telling a safe "someone" (yourself) how you feel. All the things that you "know" no one really wants to hear. Especially, now with so much emphasis on positive thinking it can be difficult to express anger, frustration, sadness or loss without someone saying, "look on the bright side." We may feel judged and bury those feelings which may hold important information about who or what we want in our life, or to name a problem which needs solving. Fingerpainting, coloring, or playing with clay can all help restore our connection with our inner selves.
Walking respectfully in nature connects us to everything, when we treat each tree, flower, rock like a friend with its own consciousness. Asking permission before touching a tree or plant, and waiting for an inner response creates a deeper relationship with ourselves and All That Is. Or we can talk with a loving friend who accepts our fears and anxieties, and who we listen to as well. All help us move to freedom.
SInging opens our hearts and breathing, while giving us a chance to express our inner joy. The music is within us and can flow through us like a river if we will get out of the way. While this takes practice in letting go of expectations and fear of what we will sound like, the benefits are tremendous for our health and spiritual development. No special equipment is needed and anywhere you feel safe is a great location. Start by humming, then open up your mouth and let your voice follow your breath. Love and accept the sounds as they are, as the right ones for you at that time. This is a great practice in unconditional love of self.
At the bottom of it all is learning how to simply "be." Three key terms are the essence of the language of being and flow—"let go, allow, unfold." Passive though they may sound in our culture, these are the key words in the quest for flow. As our vibrations rise, as we move from within more often, we have a catalyst-effect on others by being present where we are.
Try sitting down for a few minutes. Forget all the "should's." Don't get up until you want to. Wait until something rises up from within that you want to do. Then do that. Let the action arise from your being. This reunites me, and dissolves fragmentation and disharmony. See if it works for you!


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Web accessibility. WCAG 2.0. Level A… Everyone seems to be talking about accessibility. There are a lot of differently abled users that need to be considered. This includes visitors to your site with visual disabilities (blindness, low vision or colour-blindness), those that are hard of hearing or deaf, and those with motor impairments (such as paralysis or arthritis). But what exactly should be done to make your website friendlier for those with disabilities?
Here are 6 things you should be incorporating in every digital project that you do:
Make sure the site is accessible with just a keyboard
Try your own site without your mouse. Can you reach all of the navigation and key elements using just a keyboard? This is important for visitors that may be blind, that have motor disabilities, such as tremors, and anyone that can't use a mouse.
Use a strong contrast between your text and background
Think about all the times the bright sun has made it almost impossible to see something on your screen or having to squint to read some tiny font. It's important to remember that as the font decreases, the contrast needs to increase. The contrast ratio should be at least 4.5:1 (large scale text should have a contrast ratio of at least 3:1). For more information, check out section 1.4.3 of the legislation.
Make sure to provide captions for videos
This helps benefit those that are hearing impaired as well as anyone without sound on their system.
Help your users when they've made a mistake
Offering a generic error message ("Please fill in the fields highlighted in red") may seem like the easiest solution but it doesn't help someone using a screen reader or someone who can't distinguish red very well. Try to be more descriptive with your error messages, such as writing out what fields still need to be filled out
Provide text alternatives ("alt text") for images or multimedia
Screen readers need alt text to give users some context of the images, otherwise the screen reader might just skip the image or just read the file name. Hearing "image of author" is much more useful than just hearing "image_123.jpg".
Test on a screen reader
Make sure to run your site through a screen reader and see what the experience is. The JAWS reader makes up about 50% of usage and there are many other options including Window-Eyes, VoiceOver, NVDA and System Access (Source: WebAIM). Consider testing your site for accessibility using a mobile device too – 72% of those surveyed by WebAIM reported using a screen reader on their mobile device (Source: WebAIM).
It's all about balance
Please don't turn your site into text-only to make it seem accessible. This would be a poor customer experience for almost everybody. Alternatively, don't just rely on images. Making your entire page one large image isn't great for accessibility or SEO. Use images and graphics where they are needed to provide some visual interest, draw attention where needed and help make your site eye-catching. There's a balance between text and imagery that will help provide the ideal customer experience for everyone.
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ESEFA Training Course for Students held at Strathmore University in March 2015
An Enterprise Systems Education for Africa (ESEFA) short course, titled "ES Fundamentals with SAP", was held in Nairobi, at Strathmore University from 2nd February to 13th February 2015 for 8 students, from the Faculty of Information Technology. The course facilitators were Felix Mogesa and Elizabeth Wamicha.
The participants were very interested to start building foundational ERP skills on SAP and in preparation for opportunities that would be open to them as they advance their expertise. This was the first ESEFA Train-the-Student program to be conducted at Strathmore University. The ESEFA program has started being introduced as part of undergraduate curriculum. The university is committed to exceed the target of 100 trained students before
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The American Chemical Society is profiling the work of scientists at Stanford who are developing "electronic skin," a material that's both flexible and stretchy while sensing pressure and transmitting electric signals. It may end up being used for prosthetic hands to give amputees the sense of touch.
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There are three motor ports and four sensor ports as well as a USB port on a typical Mindstorms master brick. Downloadable programs are available for using either a USB cable or Bluetooth connection. NXTG is the default scheme for use when programming the micro controller, though there are also programming environments available for the RobotC and Java options.


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The salaries of Philadelphia City Council members are among the highest in the nation. At about $130,000 a year, 17 council members are bringing in more than $2 million a year in salaries combined.
For some members of council though, this well-paying full-time job isn't their only source of income.
Four members of City Council have jobs at for-profit companies, while several others have secondary sources of income ranging from owning properties in the city to pulling in a pension while they're not actually retired. District councilman Bobby Henon made more than $70,000 last year in his second job with IBEW Local 98. Councilman Brian O'Neill has long worked as an attorney with Fox Rothschild. Freshman councilman Allan Domb is a powerhouse businessman running a real estate business and working with restauranteurs — though he's donating his entire City Council salary to the school district.
These details and more are spelled out in recently-filed financial disclosure forms required to be completed by city employees. It's perfectly legal for council members to hold other positions while they're serving, and one of the people who used this most in the past was former Councilman and now-Mayor Jim Kenney. On top of his job as an at-large councilman, he also worked as a consultant at an architecture firm and served on the board of Independence Blue Cross. He's left Council, of course, and pulls in a much higher salary as the city's chief executive… but he's still pulling in thousands in pension payments.
Most political watchers say there's nothing inherently wrong with local politicians holding other positions, so long as it doesn't become a conflict of interest. That's the whole point of them disclosing these outside gigs. The council members who have had other jobs for years are often asked about how they avoid a conflict, and they'll say every time that they recuse themselves from a vote that would even look like a conflict of interest.
So in the interest of transparency, we went through the financial disclosure forms of every city council member and the mayor to see which of these elected officials had secondary sources of income. We're also including the freshman council members whose sources of income in 2015 were their jobs at the time.
Also in those disclosure forms, which can be publicly searched here, are debts owed and the full disclosure of gifts like tickets to sporting events or upscale dinners. Here's what we found:
Mayor Jim Kenney
Including his City Council salary, Jim Kenney brought in nearly $350,000 last year. On top of his job as an at-large councilman, he worked as a consultant at Vitetta Architects and Engineers, served on the Amerihealth/ Independence Blue Cross board, was an adjunct professor at Penn and brought in hefty pensions from both the city and the state.
We know how much Kenney made last year thanks to the mayoral financial disclosure being more detailed than what's required by City Council. In this form, Kenney was required to disclose how much he made at each of his other gigs in 2015. Here's what it showed he made:
- Vitetta Architects and Engineers: $69,004.52
- Amerihealth/ IBC: $43,200.00
- University of Pennsylvania: $1,312.50
- City Council: $10,833.01
- City of Philadelphia retirement: $83,607.51
- State retirement: $9,327.12
It's important to note that when Kenney was elected mayor, he gave up those side jobs he held before. Spokeswoman Lauren Hitt said he quit work as an adjunct at Penn in February 2015 (hence the relatively small salary from the university last year) and his jobs at Independence Blue Cross and Vitetta ended in December before he took office. The City Council salary listed above is because he quit his job on Council at the end of January 2015 to run for mayor.
While Kenney was a councilman, he caught plenty of heat for his work with Vitetta. Former Mayor John Street brought up Kenney's work with Vitetta and Independence Blue Cross when they were sparring over ethics legislation and how to use the city's allotted box seats at sports arenas. His job with Vitetta has come up several times since he took the consulting position in 2002 saying he couldn't support his family on the then-council salary of $82,000 a year. The firm didn't pursue city work after hiring Kenney, though it was responsible for City Hall restoration, for which it won the bid for prior to Kenney's hiring.
You also might notice the mayor has a significant pension. He spent 23 years on council, earning him $7,577.72 a month in pension payments, the Inquirer reported last year. He also has a state pension from the time he spent as an aide to former state Sen. Vince Fumo.
District council members
Bobby Henon
Represents: District 6 – Parts of Port Richmond, Tacony, Frankford, Mayfair, Holmesburg and Northeast Philly
Party: Democrat
Other source of income in 2015: In addition to a property he owns that brings in some cash, Henon — the majority leader — has been on the payroll at IBEW Local 98, one of the most powerful unions in the state, since he was elected to council in 2011. A former electrician from Northeast Philadelphia, Henon became the political director of the union and spent time lobbying for legislation that would have impacted its membership before he was elected.
In 2015, Henon made $71,711 from the union which listed his position only as "office" in its filings with the Department of Labor. His office didn't respond to questions about what exactly the work with IBEW entails and he's not listed as a top staffer on the union's website. He has however received a boatload of political support from IBEW Local 98, which is arguably the most politically active union in the state and is run by John Dougherty, the connected union boss and head of the building trades labor groups.
In Henon's post with IBEW, he reports directly to Dougherty and has praised the union leader as a pivotal person in his career. Without Dougherty, "I wouldn't be where I'm at," he told The Inquirer.
Brian O'Neill
Represents: District 10 – Parts of Northeast Philly
Party: Republican
Other source of income in 2015: O'Neill has long been an employee at Fox Rothschild, a large law firm here in Philly. The longtime Republican who represents parts of Northeast Philadelphia was, in 2004, seen as the target of ethics legislation proposed by Street that would have made it difficult for O'Neill to continue working for the firm. Ethics legislation backed by Street and sponsored by then-Councilman and would-be Mayor Michael Nutter had the potential to make it harder for City Council members to hold outside jobs. Some speculated O'Neill was the target of this because of votes he had cast against what Street wanted earlier that year.
O'Neill is still working as counsel at Fox Rothschild and his work there is some of the most controversial in terms of side jobs council members have, largely because the city has frequently awarded contracts to the firm. O'Neill has said he abstains from any vote with even of the appearance of a conflict of interest.
Cherelle Parker
Represents: District 9 – Parts of North and Northwest Philly
Party: Democrat
Other source of income in 2015: Parker is a freshman City Council member elected last year to represent District 9. She is a former state representative, so her source of income last year was her state salary. State representatives make about $85,000 a year (so you'll note she got a nice pay bump in switching to local politics). Clearly, she's no longer receiving this salary.
Mark Squilla
Represents: District 1 – Parts of South Philly east of Broad Street, Pennsport, Old City, Society Hill, Northern Liberties, Fishtown, Kensington and Port Richmond
Party: Democrat
Other source of income in 2015: The only secondary source of income listed on Squilla's financial disclosure form is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. His chief of staff Anne Kelly King said this is his state pension that he receives. The city councilman who was elected in 2011 worked in the state Office of the Auditor General for 25 years prior.
At-large council members
Allan Domb
Represents: Entire city
Party: Democrat
Other source of income in 2015: Allan Domb's accountant is very, very busy. Most city council members' financial disclosure forms were a page, maybe two. Domb's was more than a dozen and he listed every source of income he had last year, down to the unit numbers of the condos he owns. His sources of income included dozens of properties, condominiums, restaurants and firms including Allan Domb Real Estate, AD Mortgage Corporation, Schlesinger's, Parc Rittenhouse, Pier Five Marina, West Bank Hospitality, Stephen Starr, Starr restaurant organization, Barclay restaurant group, SBI restaurant partners, 1801 Chestnut Associates, the list goes on… and on… and on.
Known as the "Condo King," Domb was a well-known figure in the city's real estate and restaurant circles who then spent millions of dollars bankrolling his run to serve as an at-large City Council member. He has vowed to make decisions on Council that are based on what's best for the city, not his business interests. He's also donating his entire $130,000 Council salary to the School District of Philadelphia.
Derek Green
Represents: Entire city
Party: Democrat
Other source of income in 2015: Freshman City Councilman Derek Green, a former aide to longtime Councilwoman Marian Tasco, listed two sources of income on his financial disclosure from last year in addition to his city salary. He made some cash last year through investments and also serving as counsel at Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell and Hippel, a law firm with locations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. A spokeswoman for his office said he's still "Of Counsel" at Obermayer, a designation usually given to an attorney who has a relationship with a lawfirm but isn't an associate or a partner. His bio on Obermayer's website says his practice areas include litigation and government relations.
Helen Gym
Represents: Entire city
Party: Democrat
Other source of income in 2015: Gym is a freshman city councilwoman who was elected last year on a platform largely focused on education and children. Prior to being elected to serve on City Council, she was known in the community as a fierce advocate for public education. Last year, she made $9,600 serving as the interim executive director of Asian Americans United, a non-profit. That position ended Jan. 31 last year and she's not currently employed with the group.
Gym also was paid by the University of Pennsylvania for leading a single class at the school, according to her spokesman. She no longer holds a position at Penn either.
David Oh
Represents: Entire city
Party: Republican
Other source of income in 2015: A lawyer by trade, City Councilman David Oh listed that he was on the payroll last year at Zarwin Baum Devito Kaplan Schaer & Toddy, a lawfirm headquartered in Philadelphia with offices in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He's listed as an immigration lawyer at the firm, but Oh said he's no longer associated with Zarwin Baum and isn't receiving income from them. He said his relationship with the firm ended at the beginning of 2015. Oh, who was elected to City Council in 2011, led his own firm for the better part of two decades that had merged with Zarwin Baum.
He now has an active license practicing law after there was some controversy that his law license had been suspended because he failed to pay a $200 renewal fee. However, he says he's not practicing law or working for any entity besides the city.
Blondell Reynolds Brown
Represents: Entire city
Party: Democrat
Other source of income in 2015: The only other source of income for Reynolds Brown, an at-large city councilwoman first elected last year to serve her fifth term on council, is a rental property she owns located on North 33rd Street in West Philadelphia. It's not clear how much money Reynolds Brown made last year from owning the property.
Al Taubenberger
Represents: Entire city
Party: Republican
Other source of income in 2015: Taubenberger was elected to City Council last year and in 2015 earned incomes from the Philadelphia Parking Authority and the Greater Northeast Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. He served as the executive director at the Chamber, but is no longer on the payroll there, according to a spokesman. In 2014, he made about $67,000 a year at the Chamber, according to its federal tax forms. Taubenberger was receiving a stipend at the PPA for serving on its board, and while he is still a member of the board at the PPA, he's doing it on a pro bono basis, the spokesman said.


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It's a (Tea) Party
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- in Stickin' it to the Man, The Man stickin' it Back
I'm heading to Boston today to visit sis #2 for a couple of days. While there, I'll be sure to keep an eye out for anti-Tea Party stickers along what was then Griffin's Wharf (now Independence Wharf at 470 Atlantic Avenue), the site of the historical Boston Tea Party. Here is what it looks like now.
One could write a thesis on the irony of this. Talk about taxation without representation. Who paid for that?
On a related note, I found a great sticker in NYC last year with a picture of Sarah Palin and the phrase "Trojan Horse," which will be scanned and posted soon. Arianna Huffington described Palin as a "Trojan Moose Concealing Four More Years of Bush (September 8, 2008).


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The University of Texas at Dallas has expanded its dining capacitiy and added more food service options to feed the increased numbers of students on campus this fall. Changes include adding a hundred seats to the dining hall for a total of 1,245 total seats now for on-campus dining, which is a 49 percent increase since fall 2010. The bulk of the seating is located in the main Dining Hall and the Comet Café and lounge area of the Student Union.
About 100 extra seats have been added to the Dining Hall's faculty/staff dining area. To further accommodate more students in the Dining Hall, dining staff have added a third soda fountain station and repositioned popular cooking stations to open up traffic flow in the food court.
"We are very excited about the growth of our University, and we will continue to evaluate and improve our services," says Carrie Chutes, manager of auxiliary services. "Students, staff and faculty are encouraged to bring suggestions to our monthly food committee meetings."
Options outside the main dining hall include the Comet Café where a redesigned checkout area with six registers, including two faster lanes for card purchases, will help speed lines.
Meanwhile, the Pub will have 20 additional seats and more staffers working during the busiest hours while down the hall, the Grab and Go area has added a Freestyle beverage machine with more than a hundred drink options, as well as sandwiches and a variety of salads.
In The Pub, 20 more seats will be added to the dining area. Two registers will be staffed during peak hours, with one dedicated to drink orders. Roped areas will direct diners through the order and pick-up process.
On The Pub's expanded menu are a variety of burgers, quesadillas, fish and chips and grilled sandwiches. Desserts also are being offered for the first time.
A food truck and a smaller food cart will take meals to outside locations. A limited-item food cart will serve hot dogs in front of the plinth. The menu for the food truck has been expanded to include fish tacos, burritos, beef brisket tacos and chicken sandwiches.
Two new food truck locations provide more options for quick meals.
At lunchtime, a truck will be parked between the Naveen Jindal School of Management and the new Arts and Technology Building on Drive A, and will accept cash and credit cards only.
A late-night location between Residence Halls North and West will be open until midnight and will accept Comet Cards along with cash and credit cards.
The University has also responded to student requests for more vegetarian options and "greener" takeout options. The Pub, for instance, will have a black bean burger, while the food truck menu will include burritos with tofu and chalupas with hummus and vegetables.
And in the Dining Hall, a "to go" program will encourage students to return food cartons for reuse.
"Students requested these changes based on survey results," says Alison Jenkins, marketing manager for Chartwells Higher Education Dining Services, which operates dining services at the school. "The dining services team at UT Dallas is pleased to provide these enhancements for all students and faculty dining on campus."


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Disfellowshipped–Blessed by God's Providence: Pt 2e
Job and Joseph
Part 2e
From Part 2d, each of Job's friends agree that his suffering is because of his own sin and that he is making things worse by not going to God in repentance. Their consolation turned into condemnation as Job rejected their reasoning and demanded a hearing with God. I know there are many who have sat before elders receiving their share of condemning consultation. The pain that follows is discouraging and depressing, similar to what Job received.
Finally, after three rounds of discussion, Jobs three friends finally fall silent. This now gives Elihu, younger and more wise and gentle in his counsel, an opportunity to speak. Elihu introduces a new viewpoint to Job's suffering. Elihu suggests that Job was not suffering because of sin, but that he was sinning because of his suffering. He recognizes how Job's attitude has become arrogant and prideful as he begins to defend his innocence and he urges Job to change his perspective.
Elihu claims that suffering is meant to correct, purify, and restore us. Job 33:17 says:
"to turn a man from wrongdoing and keep him from pride," And continues in v. 29, "God does all these things to a man–… to turn back his soul from the pit, that the light of life may shine on him." (Job 33:17, 29-30)
Elihu goes on to claim that God does not sin and is never unjust. (Job 35:10-15) He also states that those who suffer He delivers (Job 36:15) and then says in verse 26:
"How great is God- beyond our understanding!…"
All that Elihu said sets up God's reply to Job. At last, God begins to speak out of a mighty storm; He does not answer any of Job's questions. Instead God reveals Job's ignorance and lack of understanding of who God is; all-wise and all-powerful. He reveals to Job, through His creation, how no one can possibly understand His incredibly great mind and character; His high moral purposes. Through many questions, God was not seeking answers from Job, but getting him to recognize and submit to His power and sovereignty. (Job chapters 38-39)
Humbled and speechless as Job is confronted with God's great power and majesty, he responds:
"I am unworthy—how can I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth. I spoke once, but I have no answer…" (Job 40:4-5)
Finally, in the last chapter, Job repents for his attitude in questioning God's sovereignty and providence; His perfect will and justice. (Job 42:1-6) Job comes to realize that no matter what, when nothing else is left and everyone has turned against him; he still had God and GOD IS ENOUGH!
After receiving much criticism, Job is still able to pray for his friends as God rebukes them. He has Job offer sacrifices for his friends for forgiveness of their sins and restores Job.
Not only did he restore Job, but he actually gave him a double portion. Job 42:12 says "The Lord blessed the latter part of Job's life more then the first…" God didn't restore him by bringing back his children he had lost, but by blessing him with more children. His double portion is found in heaven when he will be reunited with all of his children. His earthly double portion was found in his livestock where God blessed him with twice as much as he had before.
In all of Job's story, God received the glory. In Part 2f we will discover, "Why?"


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First quarter 2014 results for the Michigan Tea Party Scorecard.The scorecard is published quarterly, and scores votes deemed to be on core tea party issues - fiscal responsibility, limited government, and private sector job creation. Most straight party line votes are excluded, as are "messy" bills with conflicting content. For more information see www.watchingmichigan.com. The scorecard is a public service of Independents for Responsible Government www.I4RG.com.
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Senate Bill 273: SB 273 - Establish psychology licensingImpose licensing and regulations on "psychological associates," with license fees, continuing education mandates, a mandate to have 6,000 hours of experience prior to being eligible for a license, and other requirements • Senate Roll Call 9 on January 30, 2014.
Senate Bill 711: SB 711 - Extend Cobo tax exemptionExtend for another two years the 2014 sunset on a law that exempts from sales tax the purchase of tools and equipment by a contractor if these are used to fix or renovate Cobo Hall in Detroit. • House Roll Call 86 on March 6, 2014. • Senate Roll Call 8 on January 29, 2014.
Senate Bill 475: SB 475 - Trampoline Court RegulationsEstablish standards and regulations for trampoline courts and operators, and grant these businesses limited immunity from lawsuits if the proposed regulations are followed. • House Roll Call 23 on February 4, 2014.
Senate Bill 146: SB 146 - Targeted Enterprise Zone Tax BreakAuthorizes tax breaks for developers whose projects are in a "neighborhood enterprise zone," for a particular developer's project, while bypassing some requirements in the original law • House Roll Call 25 on February 4, 2014.
Senate Bill 608: SB 608 - Hopgood amendment Strip out $5.5 million for a "public/private partnership, Pyramid P20 education hub" project located in a former Steelcase building that appears to have become a real estate market "white elephant" • Senate Roll Call 34 on February 20, 2014.
House Bill 4487: HB 4487 - Expand DDA Debt and SpendingEmpower Downtown Development Authorities to borrow and spend the loan proceeds on "marketing initiatives," "infrastructure improvements" and more that "promote local agriculture products and farmers markets." • House Roll Call 51 on February 18, 2014.
House Bill 5108: HB 5108 - Repeal ban on ticket scalpingRepeal a state law that bans ticket "scalping" at sports and entertainment events, or selling tickets at a higher price through some service or agency. • House Roll Call 70 on February 27, 2014.
House Bill 4295: HB 4295 - Adjust school budget and fundingMake adjustments to the school aid budget for the current fiscal year to reflect lower than expected student counts, and appropriate extra money for various purposes, including a $51.7 federal "early learning challenge grant" the state applied for. • House Roll Call 169 on March 26, 2014. • Senate Roll Call 173 on March 27, 2014.
House Bill 5327: HB 5327 - Privacy for firearm ownership listsEstablish that state records and databases related to individual firearms ownership and permits are confidential and not subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. • House Roll Call 109 on March 13, 2014.
House Bill 4001: HB 4001 - Cap FOIA feesTo establish statewide standards for the costs a government body may charge to fulfill a Freedom of Information Act open records request. • House Roll Call 147 on March 20, 2014.
Senate Bill 786: SB 786 - Grant aquaculture tax breaksExempt aquaculture and hydroponics production facilities from property taxes and instead impose a new "specific" tax equal to 25 percent of the regular property tax. • Senate Roll Call 142 on March 26, 2014.
Senate Bill 396: SB 396 - Restrict construction property tax hikesProhibit an assessment hike for construction to repair damages as long as it is substantially built with the same materials and square footage. • House Roll Call 36 on February 11, 2014. • Senate Roll Call 537 on November 14, 2013.
Senate Bill 553: SB 553 - Extend renaissance zone tax breaks againAllow an eight year extension of the extensive tax breaks granted to residents and businesses in a particular "renaissance zone" located in Saginaw County. This would be in addition to a previous seven-year extension. • House Roll Call 50 on February 18, 2014. • Senate Roll Call 480 on October 31, 2013.
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10/03/2011: Afghan National Police's response to the Sept. 13-14 attack in Kabul. Several Afghan policemen died while confronting the terrorists during the attack of Sept. 13-14 in Kabul. One ANP member, Abdul Same, held a suicide bomber to his own body in order to dampen the blast, losing his life but preventing all civilian casualties in the area.
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/W6oWYoSc1XY"][vc_column_text]David: So frequently people will come up to us and say that they're very discouraged. They make a blog post, they put on a video online, and it has low views. Five, 10, 20 people. That's all they see in the views. And the question is, does that matter? So anyways we're gonna say it doesn't. It doesn't matter.
Greg: It doesn't matter.
David: Right. It doesn't matter
Greg: For several reasons. It depends on purpose. If somebody's posting something on YouTube and their belief is that they're gonna become an overnight YouTube sensation, and they're gonna topple Jablinsky Games, it's not gonna happen.
David: No 'cause Jack Black rocks.
Greg: Yeah
David: He's the best.
Greg: But if you're posting stuff to share with clients, customers, friends, family, and you're doing some of the legwork to make that sharing work, then the platform does a great job of simply being a place to house these videos.
David: And on that note you have to be careful that you understand what a view is. If somebody is doing the swipey thing on their timeline and your name shows up with some content, the fact that they could've read it, looked at it, but didn't press it, that's when the view counts. You know if you're on a video or something or YouTube. But there's still an impression. There's still a brand impression that doesn't register in the analytics.
Greg: That's right, yeah. The nature of a view is much more engaged. Requires a little more time investment. I think on YouTube it's somewhere between 15 and 30 seconds before it counts that view as a view. And then the duration is really what's important. In fact on most of these platforms the real measure is how long you keep their attention once they're watching, as opposed to just how many people have looked at it.
David: Right. I would basically challenge people that you need to be posting stuff online. And the reasoning behind that, is that you're showing up on people's busy schedules. Their eco-systems are cluttered. They got a lot of noise, a lot of stuff going on but you're reminding them that you exist. You're like, hey look it David's name came up. Oh yeah
Greg: And as we talked about in our other episode, or will talk about depending on when these get posted. They're not necessarily going to see every post you make. And sometimes the algorithm looks at keywords, it looks at content descriptions, it looks at things to match a video with a target. And so by continuing to post content, regular content updates, of different information, different topics, different keywords, different subjects, you have a better chance of showing up in somebody else's stream. Maybe you got this guy this week. Next week maybe you'll find that guy. So on any single video or single piece of posted content, I don't think that view count is really important. It's the cumulative effect.
David: For sure.
Greg: Of more than one piece.
David: And then organically over time you're gonna have another benefit because the platforms are gonna go holy look at this, Greg keeps talking about online marketing, he keeps talking about this, but in different contexts. But it's still like the old days of keyword manipulation, and so over time organically your SEO, which is I know those smoke and mirror buzz words, but your search engine optimization you're gonna rank better. They're gonna say obviously Greg likes to talk about beer and crafting some beer, and he's got some cool stuff so we're gonna show him a little bit higher when we know that those people are interested in beer.
Greg: The solution that most of the search providers are producing, is really tailored to the person watching. And so when that content hits something that they're keen on, the platforms are gonna show it. It's that simple.
David: The other cool benefit, just throwing out another one, is that over time it's like writing a book. If you write a book nobody's gonna read it, but you're an expert on the subject. So if you keep making posts talking about cat grooming, suddenly you're an expert on cat grooming and they'll never read it to figure out whether you're full of BS or not. It's just by nature of associating those words with your name, and the frequency of the posts, that establishes some trust over time.
Greg: Ah. That's how the Flat Earthers did it.
David: So there's lots of benefits in my opinion to going and posting regularly. We call that dripping out some content, making some posts. And do not get discouraged by a low view count, a low like, a low engagement. It's still achieved its purpose.
Greg: And that purpose exists for the long haul. Not for right now.
David: Absolutely.
Greg: It's good advice.
David: Take her home.
Greg: Take her home. If you like what you see here on the channel, be sure to hit the subscribe button, or the thumbs up button, or the likey button, or whatever button happens to be on the platform you're watching this content. Hit the notification bell if there is one, so that you'll be notified of upcoming shows and upcoming videos from Mtek Digital. Thanks for watching.
The following is a transcript from our video at https://youtu.be/W6oWYoSc1XY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]