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The Wandering Samaritan:
Director: Ohad Ufaz
Producer: Itay Ken-Tor
Documentary | 58 min | Israel 2005
Gadi Tzdaka has always felt trapped by the "ghetto walls" of the Samaritan neighborhood, with its strict form of education and stringent religious laws.
His father Hillel wanted his first born son to adopt devout religious faith as he had, but Gadi longed for freedom.
Gadi's ancestors, the ancient Samaritans, split off from Judaism 3,000 years ago.
They celebrate their holidays with pilgrimages to the ancient altar on Mt. Gerizim.
Today, only 600 Samaritans remain. They live in two neighborhoods: one in the Palestinian city of Nablus and the other in the Israeli city of Holon.
All those who left the neighborhood up to the present also ended up leaving the sect. At age 33, Gadi wants to live his own life - to be free to love, work, create, and raise his children in a more modern way.
Filled with misgivings and indecision, he leaves the Samaritan neighborhood, despite the protest of members of his sect and his father`s anger.
The Wandering Samaritan is about a man confronting his own past and identity. It documents the life of Gadi and the Tzdaka family on a personal level and explores the Samaritan tradition and the Samaritan way of life.
The film portrays Gadi as a person straddling the fence between Israel and Palestine and between east and west. He is torn between his desire to preserve tradition and his hopes for progress and freedom -- between his respect for his father and his desire to fulfill his own dreams
DOP: Itay Ken-Tor
Editing: Ori Ben-DovKobi Netanel
Co-produced with: Nik Media, Netherland
Micha Shagrir,
Annette Betsalel
Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival
Medimed Documentary Market, Spain 2005
Selected for Leipzig Documentary Market 2005
Religion Today Film Festival in Trento, Italy 2005
Torun Film Festival, Poland 2005


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Maine Coon cats are definitely giants among the domestic cat breeds, but this does not stop quite a number of these big kitties from gaining internet fame due to their sheer size.
In Melbourne, Australia, a cat named Omar is steadily growing his online followers after being touted as the unofficial record holder as the world's longest cat! At 120 cm (3ft 11 in) long, he is the same length as the current record holder, Barivel, another Maine Coon who lives in Pavia, Italy, and as verified on May 22, 2018.
Omar could still break that record if he grows even just a centimeter longer, but he's currently too busy with his online followers to focus on earning that world record! LOL. For now, Omar is enjoying his life in Melbourne with his owner Stephy Hirst who got him back in 2013.
Then, Omar was still a small kitty. But as he grew bigger at impressive rates, Stephy began to document his life and posting on his own Instagram account, omar_mainecoon. He's got nearly 150k followers now. Impressive, even for a famous cat.
It is Omar's huge size that made him a popular figure on Instagram. A lot of people are wondering what he loves to eat – and Stephy surprised everyone after sharing the cat's favorite food. For breakfast, Omar eats regular cat food like all other cats. But for dinner, he actually eats kangaroo meat. That's the perfect advantage of living in Australia.
According to Stephy, Omar is a picky eater and doesn't like any other meat – he just wants kangaroo meat. So, they often have to buy human-grade kangaroo meat for Omar when they go shopping. He loves it.
It's quite a challenge to also feed this huge cat but for Stephy, that does not really matter. She loves Omar and would continue to spend a lot of money for him. She also takes him regularly to the vet to ensure he is healthy, but as you might have already guessed, he won 't fit inside a regular cat crate. So, Stephy puts him in a dog crate. He's that big!
In case you're still wondering just how tall is Omar, here's a photo of him trying to reach for food from the kitchen counter. Wow.

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We recently took the then-unannounced Ryzen 9 3900 on a record-breaking overclocking spin with liquid nitrogen, but now we have the elusive chip here in our labs for standard performance testing.
AMD's 12-core 24-thread Ryzen 9 3900 takes the goodness of the impressive Ryzen 9 3900X and shrinks it down from a 105W TDP envelope to 65W. AMD accomplished this feat by trimming the base and boost frequencies, thus squeezing the lion's share of performance from AMD's current flagship Ryzen 9 3900X into desktop PCs with smaller form factors that focus on power efficiency.
With AMD's inaugural Ryzen lineup, the X-branded models served as the faster and more expensive models in the product stack, while less expensive "non-X" models featured the same physical design as the X-branded models but had lower performance at stock settings. That trade-off came with a hefty discount, and enthusiasts soon learned that overclocking unleashed nearly the same performance from non-X chips as the X models. That was a win in the value department, and non-X models quickly became the go-to chip for enthusiasts on a budget.
With the Ryzen 9 3900X, AMD dashed the hopes of enthusiasts and didn't release a non-X version. It turns out there is a non-X model, but it is headed to OEM and system integrator (SI) builds, meaning you'll have to buy the chip in pre-built systems.
However, the Ryzen 9 3900 also gives us a taste of what to expect from AMD's new Eco-Mode feature, which allows you to downshift AMD processors into lower TDP envelopes with a single click in the BIOS or Ryzen Master software.
Ryzen 9 3900 Specifications and Availability
|Header Cell - Column 0
|Cores / Threads
|Base Frequency
|Boost Frequency
|Total Cache
|PCIe 4.0 Lanes (Processor / Chipset)
|AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
|12 / 24
|3.8 GHz
|4.6 GHz
|24 / 16
|AMD Ryzen 9 3900
|12 / 24
|3.1 GHz
|4.3 GHz
|24 / 16
|AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 3900
|12 / 24
|3.1 GHz
|4.3 GHz
|24 / 16
|Ryzen 7 3700X
|8 / 6
|3.6 GHz
|4.4 GHz
|24 / 16
|Ryzen 5 3600
|6 / 12
|3.6 GHz
|4.2 GHz
|24 / 16
|Ryzen 5 3500X
|6 / 6
|3.6 GHz
|4.1 GHz
|24 / 16
AMD designed the Ryzen 9 3900 to offer most of the 12-core, 24-threaded horsepower of the impressive Ryzen 9 3900X, but within a much lower 65W TDP range than its 105W sibling.
The 3900's reduced power consumption manifests as a lower 3.1 GHz base clock than the 3900X's 3.8 GHz base frequency. AMD also pared back the boost clock from 4.6 GHz to 4.3 GHz.
AMD tunes its "X" models to the very edge of the frequency/voltage curve to extract the utmost performance from TSMC's 7nm node, some of which we see with the chips' relatively lackluster overclockability. The Ryzen 3000 series processors aren't known for their overclocking headroom, but that's because AMD pushes the 7nm process near its limits for its retail silicon.
The company has even employed an innovative new binning technique paired with smart engineering to extract the last few percentage points of performance from each core. However, that tuning is designed to satisfy the enthusiast market's need for speed, and there is a diminishing point of power efficiency returns as AMD climbs the voltage/frequency curve. It's a simple concept: High-performance chips exchange higher power consumption, and thus thermal output, for higher performance. Dialing back the frequency reduces peak performance, but can offer much better power efficiency while retaining most of the performance.
Aside from those alterations, the Ryzen 9 3900 is physically identical to the 3900X, meaning it features the threaded grunt of the company's Zen 2 architecture and the fruits of the 7nm process, like lower power consumption and higher performance. It also has the same 64MB of L3 cache, access to 24 lanes of PCIe 4.0, supports overclocking, and comes with and all of the other high-level features of the Ryzen 9 3900X. AMD also recently announced the PRO variant of the 3900, which sports the same specifications but includes a few optimizations for the professional market.
During its Ryzen 9 3950X launch, AMD revealed that it is also rolling out a new Eco-Mode feature that allows you to cram an incredible amount of horsepower into a small form factor build, like a Plexbox or DIY NAS. This feature downshifts the processor from its rated TDP to the next lower 'grade,' meaning you can drop a 105W processor to 65W, or a 65W processor to 45W. AMD will make this feature available for all Ryzen processors via a motherboard firmware update, after which you can make the adjustments in either the BIOS or Ryzen Master software. The easy-to-use feature should prove very handy for SFF enthusiasts, though making a few manual adjustments to the power thresholds would provide many of the same benefits.
AMD has only provided comparative data for Eco Mode on the 3950X, but these general trends should apply to all Ryzen models. AMD claims the 65W mode on the 3950X offers 77% of the chip's full performance in a multi-threaded CineBench workload, but at a 44% power savings that results in a 7C reduction in temperatures.
In effect, this feature gives you the option to create a Ryzen 9 3900 out of your 3900X, affording the same advantages of reduced power consumption and thermal output while retaining the majority of its performance. It also opens the door to pairing the chip with less expensive motherboards without robust power circuitry. You just don't get the cost savings of buying a non-X model.
Ryzen 9 3900 Boost Testing
Ryzen 3000 debuted to some criticism due to the chips' inability to hit the rated boost clock speeds, but AMD said it identified the issue and issued AGESA code updates that motherboard vendors injected into their firmwares, largely rectifying the issue.
We recorded the frequencies of each core during a series of benchmarks (LAME, POV-RAY, Cinebench, PCMark 10, Geekbench, and VRMark) to expose the 3900's peak frequencies and thermal output. The per-core frequency recordings create almost unintelligible charts, so we only plotted the maximum and minimum frequencies recorded during each 1-second measurement interval. These measurements could come from any one core, but it makes the charts easier to digest. We've also plotted chip temperature on the right axis (the dark red line). We used the Corsair H115i AIO cooler for these tests.
The Ryzen 9 3900 officially has a 4.3 GHz boost clock, but we recorded frequent peaks of 4.35 GHz at stock settings. The chip operates between ~35C and ~65C, with most of its time spent around 45C. Meanwhile, the Ryzen 9 3900X hits 4.65 GHz frequently, but also has a temperature range that extends from ~35C to ~80C, highlighting the huge power and thermal savings of stepping down to a lower TDP range with the Ryzen 9 3900.
We designed that series of tests to measure performance in lightly- and multi-threaded tests, but comparisons with extended x265 HandBrake encoding are indicative of a heavier multi-core AVX load. The Ryzen 9 3900 peaked at 69C and spent the majority of its time during the benchmark at ~60C, while the Ryzen 9 3900X peaked at 87C and hovered around 80C. That isn't a bad trade-off for the 8.75% reduction in performance we measured during the benchmark.
Ryzen 9 3900 Power Consumption
It's important to remember that TDP isn't a one-to-one measure of power consumption. In the simplest terms, this rating quantifies the required performance of the CPU cooler based upon the chips' thermal dissipation – not power consumption. That means we won't see the Ryzen 9 3900 operate at 65W of power consumption.
Here we can see the stock 3900 match the 65W 3700X's power consumption in nearly all of our stress and application tests. That's notable because we're looking at a power budget for an eight-core processor against a 12-core, but you'll notice in our scatter charts that the 3900 is significantly faster than the 3700X during the application benchmarks. It's also either as fast, or faster, than Intel's 95W Core i9-9900K in some workloads, but with lower power consumption. That equates to solid power efficiency metrics.
The chip did exhibit some odd behavior when we flipped into the auto-overclocked PBO mode. The overclocked 3900 consumes the same amount of power that it does at stock during our synthetic AVX and non-AVA AIDA64 stress tests, but we see the expected increase in overclocked power consumption when we switch over to actual workloads. That could be an oddity with AMD's power control algorithms, but it certainly is interesting.
Synthetic stress tests aside, after uncorking the power limits via overclocking, the 3900's increased power consumption during the application benchmarks largely equates to the consumption of the overclocked 3900X (except for the multi-threaded AVX y-cruncher workload). As expected, that results in the tuned 3900 delivering roughly the same performance as the 3900X in all of the tests. Oddly, it even offers the same performance in y-cruncher as the 3900X, but consumes 12W less. This could simply boil down to silicon quality.
Overall, these results bode well. The stock Ryzen 9 3900 gives you significantly more performance-per-watt than the eight-core 3700X in these tests, but you gain some thermal headroom compared to the standard Ryzen 9 3900X. That means the chip can slip into smaller form factor PCs with smaller coolers.
That's promising for switching a Ryzen 9 3900X into Eco Mode. Let's see what the results look like throughout the rest of our suite of benchmarks.
1: Cramming 12 Cores & 24 Threads into a 65W TDP
3: AMD Ryzen 9 3900 Application Testing
4: Conclusion
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Raymond E. Shirley
(Obituary ~ 06/08/11)
Raymond E. Shirley, 89, Nevada, passed away on Monday, June 6, 2011, at Research Medical Center, Kansas City, Mo., following a brief illness. He was born Dec. 14, 1921, in Dederick, Mo., to John T. Shirley and Anna M. Henderson Shirley. He married Betty L. Roggensees on March 26, 1949, in Nevada, and she survives of the home...
James "Jimmy" Johnson
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James "Jimmy" Johnson, 53, of Grain Valley, Mo., passed away May 29, 2011. Jimmy was born July 14, 1957, in Clinton, Mo. He was employed by Hallmark Cards, where he had worked for 34 years. Jimmy was someone who loved to laugh and enjoyed making others laugh as well. He loved working in his yard, playing pranks on his family and friends and spending time with his chihuahua, Snuggles. Most of all he loved his family...
Robert "Bob" N. Lafferty
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Robert "Bob" N. Lafferty, 60, Adrian, Mo., formerly of Nevada, passed away on Tuesday, June 7, 2011, at Adrian Manor in Adrian, Mo. He was born Nov. 12, 1950, in Nevada, to George Lafferty Sr. and Evelyn Lafferty. Bob graduated from Nevada High School in 1968. ...
E. Nadyne Haines Bond
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E. Nadyne Haines Bond, 88, Nevada, passed away Tuesday, June 7, 2011, at Christian Health Care in Nevada. Family information and funeral arrangements will be announced later by Ferry Funeral Home, Nevada. View obituary and send condolences on line at www.ferryfuneralhome.com...
City officials concerned about disaster issues
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Although there were reports of all sorts on the Nevada City Council agenda Tuesday night, it was clear that one thing dominated the thoughts of council members and staff -- the safety of Nevada's people, in general and in terms of preparation, in the realization that a massive disaster such as the May 22 tornado that leveled a broad expanse through the city of Joplin happened -- and could happen again...
Radiology overhaul detailed by NRMC
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Notified that its general radiology room will need to be phased out by the end of this year, Nevada Regional Medical Center has begun upgrading the radiology department with the purchase of an $829,000 magnetic resonance imaging unit. NRMC Diagnostic Imaging Director Todd Fine said Tuesday that Siemens Inc. ...
Two arrested in theft from newspaper machines case
(Local News ~ 06/08/11)
Nevada police investigations into recent theft reports have led to the arrest of two Nevada men, and the detention of two juveniles in unrelated cases. On June 7, The Nevada Police Department announced that it had concluded an investigation into illegal activity, which resulted in the arrest of Michael Huegel Jr., 22, of Nevada, and Jacob D. Wehmeyer, 17, of Nevada...
Nixon opens recovery center in Joplin
(Local News ~ 06/08/11)
JOPLIN, Mo. -- Joplin residents affected by the devastating tornado have a new one-stop shop for state resources and recovery assistance, Gov. Jay Nixon announced Tuesday. The State of Missouri Resource, Recovery and Rebuilding Center opened Tuesday afternoon at 705 Illinois Ave., Building A, Suite 12. ...
- Fairground Estates hosts cookout for residents June 6 (Local News ~ 06/08/11)
Three selected for 2011 Missouri All-State Show Choir
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Nevada High School show choir members Elizabeth Quitno, Mallorie Ast, and Taylor Norcross have been selected to be in the 2011 Missouri All State Show Choir. This choir of 46 has been selected from an audition process of students from the state of Missouri. ...
Bushwhacker Days begins today
(Local News ~ 06/08/11)
Managing Bushwhacker Days traffic takes a lot of preparation and effort and Nevada police have a detailed plan for the celebration today through Saturday. The event opens tonight with opening ceremonies on the south side of the Square and on the Courthouse lawn, and other events, including the royalty coronation, Bushwhacker cookout, Elaine's Ice Cream Social, and the Vernon County People for Pets Dog Show, all slated for 6:30, and a Songfest of Celebration at 7 o'clock. ...
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WKU Library Launches WIRE: A Cutting-edge Platform Integrating IR with CRIS
WKU Library is pleased to announce a launch of Wenzhou-Kean Intellectual Research Environment (WIRE): http://wire.wku.edu.cn with DSpace-CRIS, a cutting-edge technological platform integrating traditional institutional repository with current research information system (CRIS). WKU is the first higher education institution in mainland China adopts the model of IR + CRIS.
WIRE aims to collect, preserve, and provide online access to the research output of WKU to the world, and through this, maximize the research visibility, usage, and impact of WKU researchers' works. In addition, WIRE is also an online platform that brings together a whole range of institutional research activities, including research projects, grants, people, and organizations into one place. Researcher profiles are created to showcase the publications, research interests, activities and academic achievement of WKU researchers.


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The Turbovac TPS Compact XL tray packing machine is built to a high standard using the latest technology.
The tray packing machine is especially designed for packing food products with modified atmosphere. The tray packing machine works using a drawer type mechanism, where you place the trays into the mould in the drawer and the product into the tray, you then push the drawer in and press the start button the machine begins to work. The tray packing machine has the ability to fill the sealed tray with a gas to pro-long shelf life. (each product has a special combination of gases which pro-longs the shelf life)
The tray packing machine runs off a single phase supply and each different tray you wish to use will need its own special mould to hold the trays. Swapping over the moulds in the tray packing machine is easy to do without tools and does not take long at all.
If you wish to pack red meat into trays using the tray packing machine then you will require the 'oxygen pump' option. This is a special vacuum pump manufactured by Busch to be safely used along side oxygen gas. The tray packing machine can be disconnected from the gas supply and filled with air should you not need to use gas in your trays.
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Henri Willis Bendel, a milliner by trade, was the first retailer to bring the designs of Coco Chanel over to the United States from Paris. The company he founded maintained this tradition of introducing influential socialites to what's new and next in fashion by launching designers including Alyce Hamm, Anna Sui, Stephen Burrows, Rick Owens and Diane von Furstenberg. Bendel's also fosters the work of upcoming designers through its semi-annual "Open-See" events, at which vendors can present merchandise to corporate buyers on a "first come, first seen" basis, with the chance that their pieces will be selected for a trunk show or even for sale in the Fifth Avenue store.
The brand is well known for its brown-and-white striped shopping bags, its signature hatboxes, and an extensive matching line of cosmetics bags.
In April 2009, when it was decided that apparel would no longer be carried (instead shifting focus on fashion accessories, cosmetics, and gift items) the company announced six smaller shops would open across the country. These first locations after the New York Flagship were at Somerset Collection, NorthPark Center, The Mall at Short Hills, King of Prussia Mall, Beverly Center, and South Coast Plaza.
Since these initial six expansion locations the brand has grown to 29 locations total, with most major markets having a location, with the notable exceptions of San Francisco and Boston. Locations include Columbus, Ohio, Miami, San Diego, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Minneapolis. The brand also has multiple locations throughout Metropolitan Chicago, Las Vegas, and suburban Washington, D.C..
- Atlanta
- Chicago area
- Houston
- Costa Mesa
- Los Angeles
- Las Vegas
- Miami
- Bloomington
- San Diego
- Tampa
- Cherry Hill
- Orlando
- Tysons Galleria
- Westfield Topanga
- Westfield Valley Fair
- The Mall at Short Hills
- Southland Mall Hayward
- International Plaza and Bay Street
- Westfield Old Orchard
- The Mall at Millenia
- Fashion show
- Oakbrook Center
- King of Prussia Mall
- Fashion Valley
- Dadeland Mall
- Beverly Center
- Mall of America
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On Instagram this morning, I read a post from the Desiring God organization in which the author said, "Take steps to remove or keep yourself from whatever is keeping you from the Bible." I immediately double-tapped the screen to register my approval of this post: But I saw the irony immediately and commented, "But then I wouldn't be reading this post right now!" Because the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is reach for my phone and browse social media—as a way of easing into the morning before getting out of bed. I'm pretty sure most of us do this.
Before long, a half hour slips by, and I'm still clicking and tapping away on my smartphone—a half hour that might otherwise be devoted to—you know—reading or meditating on or memorizing God's Word.
By all means, take distractions away, Lord, but not the distractions of Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook! I like them too much!
Anyway, while I was on social media I also read about how difficult the year 2019 was for some people—and how eager they are to turn the page, to reset the calendar, on a new year.
What do you make of that kind of tweet? Don't get me wrong. I understand what it's like to have a difficult year… And objectively speaking, 2019 was hardly a stroll through the park! But on what basis would I complain? I mean, seriously… Inasmuch as 2019 was difficult, it was, like, 99 and 44/100 percent my own fault. These difficulties were self-inflicted. Because it wasn't the circumstances that made 2019 a challenge for me, it was my response to those circumstances.
And that will surely be true for 2020 as well.
Also, inasmuch as God did not spare me from suffering the consequences of my self-inflicted problems in 2019, how can I not be grateful. Because I learned from these experiences!
Listen, we all know the apostle Paul's words in Philippians 4:4: "Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!" And the way I've interpreted this verse for the vast majority of my life is like this: In spite of what we're going through, no matter how bad things are right now, we always have reasons to rejoice—we can console ourselves with the conviction that "this world is not our home," like so many gospel songs of a certain vintage say; we'll "fly away to a land on God's celestial shore." At least we'll have a better life on the other side of eternity.
In the meantime, we can just grin and bear it. Heaven is the consolation prize for life not working out so well right now.
That sounds awful, doesn't it?
No, it's not in spite of these bad things that we can rejoice. The Bible goes much further than that. Take, for instance, Paul's words in Ephesians 5:20. Now, this verse is in the middle of a long sentence with participial phrases. It reads literally, "giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ." But there's an implied imperative, and some translations break it up into smaller sentences. The Good News Translation, for instance, puts it like this: "In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, always give thanks for everything to God the Father."
Always give thanks… for what? For everything.
So if you're a Christian, from Paul's point of view, there's no rejoicing "in spite of." That's far too mild. There's only rejoicing because of.
And Paul is hardly a Pollyanna about suffering and evil. Listen to what he says in 2 Corinthians 1:8-9, in which he describes his suffering and imprisonment in Ephesus:
For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.
So to be clear: If any experience would put Paul's words in Ephesians 5:20 to the test, surely it was this terrible experience in Ephesus. Could Paul actually "give thanks" for being "afflicted, utterly burdened beyond his strength, despairing of life, and feeling as if he'd been given a death sentence"?
And his answer would surely be yes. Why? Because, he says, God had a purpose for letting him endure it: "to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises from the dead."
So when Paul reached the end of that particular calendar year, would he say, "Thank God this year is over"? Or would he say, "Thank you, God, for what you put me through this past year because look at how you used it for my good"?
In some Psalm 119:71-72, the psalmist writes:
It was good for me to be afflicted
so that I could learn your statutes.
Instruction from your lips is better for me
than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
Sometimes I wonder if I've ever learned anything important in life except through affliction. What about you? And it's interesting that the psalmist says that God's Word is better than "thousands of gold and silver pieces." Because when I'm afflicted, it's usually because I'm seeking my treasure in something or someone other than Jesus Christ. And then, when the Lord graciously refuses to give me this treasure I seek, I'm disappointed and filled with resentment. And I suffer. Because I didn't get whatever "gold and silver" I was seeking outside of Christ.
If you're a Christian, God's purpose in all of our affliction ultimately is to give us more of Christ. Do we want more of Christ? Is he enough for us? Or are we going to keep on looking for treasure elsewhere?
So thank you, God, for afflicting me in 2019. These afflictions were blessings in disguise—as the old Laura Story song says. And thank you for all of those blessings over the past year that were not in disguise. There were many, many more of those anyway.
Two-thousand-nineteen was a very good year.


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Monthly Archives: March 2019
After nine episodes (Jack eps I mean) I really, well, continue wondering what this is I am seeing.Continue reading
Okay, I have a question regarding that beginning of the episode:
Who wrote that fanfiction?Continue reading
The plan was, of course, to continue my OUAT rewatch and get through the show in more or less one go (meaning, without too many and too long breaks in between – life has these nasty habits).
But then my shipper antennas kinda went wild.Continue reading
And on we go… though there was not that much to say about that one.Continue reading
So obviously plans are there to not go through with them, lol. I wanted to check out my old reviews and comment on them, but alas… I was too lazy and just wrote down anew what I noticed. Maybe I'll go back to my old reviews in a combined post.Continue reading
And there it is, the season finale. Which had a rather surprising, unexpected effect on me…Continue reading
Three today! I tried to get through Season 1, but one is still missing… ah well, leave something for tomorrow ^^Continue reading
Let's continue with the episode that introduces us to a character played by an actor who has since found his way into several blockbuster movies as kind-of one of the main characters… still, I miss Jefferson.Continue reading
Just one episode today, normal TV program got in the way, lol…Continue reading
I originally had other plans for the afternoon, but I somehow got stuck with re-reading my old entries and it is so amusing. Because I read my theories and so many of them became true. I'm so proud right now, lol.
Also, since I have already written reviews for OUAT S2 and most of S3, I will only comment on these reviews during my rewatch. And maybe there'll be some new things to discover… 😉


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Ontario (CA) - Graphics card vendor XFX today announced its first two overclocked add-in cards. Called the "XXX" edition, the company offers a 8800 GTX card that comes with a 630 MHz GPU and 2.0 GHz memory. The reference design provided by Nvidia runs on a 575 MHz GPU and 1.8 MHz memory clock. There is also a 8800 GTS XXX model with a 550 MHz core and 1.8 GHz memory (standard: 500 MHz/1.6 GHz).
Pricing has not been announced.