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Monday, March 13, 2006
March 2006
Wednesday 1- went over to Andrew's and worked on computers/network.
Thursday 2- Joel came by and I did an update on his website and also renewed his domain name for another year.
Friday 3- must have done something but I cannot remember ;-)
Saturday 4- Buffalo folk call and ask if I want to watch them stucco the house; I never seen it except last Friday (that's what I did Friday!) when I went over to Roger T's neighbor's house and watched them do it-Andrew calls and is back from LV with computer parts and I go and help him. Loaded Win 2000 Pro on a system when I was there.
Sunday 5- worked on my computer and surfed the web for an article I am going to write on Web2.0.
Monday 6- went to town for supplies (finally after a whole month) I just rather stay up here in Copper Mountain Mesa and hide out in my tech cave-went and visited John M. to see how he is doing cleaning up all that dog hairs left behind by his last tenant.
Tuesday 07- nice day but a little windy- jogged and rode bike- working on a daily reading list of what books I need to read- restrung my Martin guitar- tore down my scooter and started cleaning it for repair- enrolled in two online classes: Web programming basics with JavaScript, Server 101, and Small business networking toolkit
Wednesday 08- went over to Andrew's and did an install of Win2000 on 3 machines.
Thursday 09- Joel came by with some pizza and we worked on his new website I'm building for him; did the graphics and a little html.
Friday 10- went and visited with the buffalo folks for a while.
Saturday 11- cold and windy so I stayed home all day and worked on some websites and caught up on some reading.
Sunday 12- real cold and windy; snowed in Joshua Tree and Yucca, but not here- went by buffalo folks but they weren't there so I talked with Ronny who is watching the place for them- later that day I went with Linda D. and shot some photos of the snow on the mountains and got some mighty nice pics of abandoned cabins around sunset and we were really cold!
Monday 13- real nice day compared to yesterday- went over to John M's and helped him move a desk and setup his computer for him- went for a nice 2-mile walk.
Tuesday 14- Semi dropped by and lent me a "Rami Dass" DVD- Haus came by to jaw awhile- washed clothes- Linda S. called and I went over there to p/u new flyers for her missing dog and fixed her car bumper that some idiot smashed into- Lee drove up and showed me his new Jeep- Joel brought over a lot of cat food he don't need no more and I worked on his website and got a new domain name for him- wrote column and sent it into newspaper.
Wednesday 15- went over to Andrew's to mess around with computers but he wasn't home- dropped by the Buffalo folks for a visit, they gave me an address sign that lights up and is powered by solar- Andrew came by with new Jeep which he bought from Lee (now I know where he went)- loaded up Win2000 Pro on old laptop.
Thursday 16- did my online classes that took about 3 hrs- Joel came by with some Chili-Mac.
Friday 17- Buffalo folks asked me to give Jason a ride home and had a tour of Jason's home which he had build by himself, I am very impressed!
Saturday 18- went on a photo shoot with Linda D. and walked around Borland Pass with dog. She is trying to help me learn about the camera settings and how the dang thing works- had lunch at Stoney's; hamburger steaks with mashed potatoes and gravy- Buffalo folks call and have chili fries for me, will eat them over the next 2 days- Mike L. calls from Hermosa Beach and we talk for an hour or so.
Sunday 19- finally rained! – Finished Book "A Guide to the Stars" by Patrick Moore. Mike L. calls again from Hermosa Beach and we talk for an hour or so
Monday 20- did my online classes and completed chapter 2 in all 3 of them, took mist of the day to do this-
Tuesday 21- spent the better part of the day doing my federal taxes- Stoney came by with cake and ice cream after bingo- wrote my column and sent it in.
Wednesday 22- went over to Andrew's and did the computer thing.
Thursday 23- Joel brought by some Monkey bread, good stuff!
Friday 24- worked on my website and scooter- real nice day and did a bunch of exercises; ran, walked, and biked.
Saturday 25- recorded a couple of my songs onto the computer; they need a lot of work- called my friend Billie who lives in Redondo and she told me she is sick and is worried.
Sunday 26- worked on scooter determined to git it running, spent 4 hrs on it and it started and ran really great, then I rode it about a quarter of a mile when it got a flat tire- decided to do my online courses and recorded "little Boat" on the computer so that the day wouldn't be a waste.
Monday 27- John M. called and asked me if I would come over and help him dismantle an old aluminum car port and said I could take it if I wanted it, I did and spent about 4 hrs there, he even threw in an old tire repair machine- that evening Linda D. call to ask if I would help her setup her satellite TV and that she had some food for me to take home- Great stuff!
Tuesday 28- wrote a really great April Fools column and sent it into the newspaper.
Wednesday 29- finished online class "Small Business Network"- Linda D. had some leftovers from her work that me and Semi could to take home, so much I'll be eating it for days- John M. called and is having problem playing from his CD on his computer (no sound) I knew what it was and took over a cable that plugs into the CD from the sound card.
Thursday 30- Linda S. and I went out and put up some more posters of her lost dog and then she gave me lunch- my friend Kula called me on her cell phone while on her way back from Los Vegas to her home in Palos Verdes, we talked for about an hour- Joel came by at 7:30 and we worked on his website till 8:45
Friday31- just cleaned around the house, did some reading and online course- Joel came by with updated graphic and sent an email later with revised text for his website.
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I've been praying for something, a family blessing, for almost two years now. Although I get discouraged at times, my hope props me up. I know God will not fail me, but answer my prayer in His right time, which is the perfect time. In Jesus, I have hope, knowing that nothing is impossible to Him. I know for sure, too, that He loves my family even more than I do and He also desires to give us that blessing. If today you are weighed down by trouble, listen to what the apostle Paul says in his letter to the Romans. Anchor your hope upon our Lord Jesus. If He doesn't immediately grants your request, justhold on to that hope and have patience. Keep on praying and you will receive what you have hoped for in God's time.
The Lord bless you today.
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Asialink Finance Corporation
A group of enterprising executives belonging to various industries saw the opportunity to venture in the booming consumer financing business. Combining their strengths, Robert B. Jordan handled credit; Ruben Y. Lugtu Jr. labored on the financials while the late Wilfredo T. Anastacio took care of the human resources and operations. With the good demand and sound credit, the company, which they formed, Asialink Finance Corporation was off to a good start. Established in June of 1997, Asialink Finance Corporation is now the leading and fastest growing finance company in the Philippines.
The company was initially engaged in the booming business of Appliance Group Financing (AGP), however, due to the Asian Financial Crisis which badly affected companies in the market, Robert B. Jordan, now the CEO, redirected the company to focus on the promising business of giving short-term loans to business men, doctors and professionals in the year 2000. Today, Asialink Finance Corporation offers a wide range of short-term loan products that cater to the financial needs of businesses and individuals, such as Doctor's Loan, Appliance Loan, Educational Loan, Allottee Loan, Salary Loan, Beneficiary Loan, Motorcycle Loan, Truck Loan, Car Loan, Real Estate Loan and Medical Assistance Loan.
Asialink Finance Corporation is continually expanding. It now has 93 branches (51 north, 25 south and GD 17) established throughout the archipelago. It is steadfastly improving the quality of its services to the people. It has an important role in alleviating the rampant unemployment, which threatens the Philippine economy, employing more than 500 personnel in its offices and thousands of independent loan consultants. It offers seminars to interested business-minded individuals who are willing to offer an important service to the community.
With its outstanding products and services, competent workforce and growing market niche, Asialink Finance Corporation is poised to become, in 10 to 15 years, the top finance company in the Philippines and a significant player in Southeast Asia.
Position: Product Specialist
Management Level: mid level officer
Function: Marketing and Account Management
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Solicits, reviews, develops and manages the company's loan portfolio as well as promotes/cross-sells loan products and services to prospective and existing customers to help attain the company's objective in terms of growth, profitability, client satisfaction and other objectives set by management.
- Bachelor's Degree in any business related course/sales/marketing/financing with good scholastic records or any course as long as the applicant has pleasing personality
- Good listener and learning skills for training under the company
- Demonstrates strategic thinking ability and negotiation skills
- Strong communication and leadership skills
- Can influence and collaborate with others to deliver results and meet client expectations
- New Graduates are encouraged to apply or graduates with experience, related or not in the financing field
Asialink Finance Corporation
212 AIC Gold Tower, F.Ortigas Jr. Rd.,
Ortigas Center, Pasig City 1600 Philippines
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General Hospital Bristol BS1, originally uploaded by brizzle born and bred.
On a recent Sunday in Broward County, emergency-room wait times were 5 minutes at Aventura Hospital, 20 minutes at Plantation General Hospital, 12 minutes at Westside Regional Medical Center in Plantation, 10 minutes at University Hospital in Tamarac and 20 minutes at Northwest Medical Center in Margate.
The live wait times, answers to emergency health questions, GPS-enabled driving directions to the ERs, quality rankings for the facilities and more could be gleaned from home, I-95, the beach or anywhere else an emergency befell. At least if you owned an iPhone and had downloaded an app called iTriage.
HCA hospitals in Florida have contracted with iTriage as part of a marketing strategy to tout short wait times and attract the most desirable patients. Customers have to give their name and insurance provider to get the free iPhone app, which has specifics for every healthcare facility in a user's location, along with extras such as wait times for hospitals that pay for a premium listing.
"The return on investment is dramatic--it pays for itself with the revenue of one or two patients a year," says Dr. Peter Hudson, an ER physician who last year founded a company called Healthagen to develop iTriage.
Statistics showthatby 2011, consumers will be buying more smart phones than computers. Apps, the latest success story from Apple, bring detailed, often live and interactive information to customers' iPhones. Customers often pay nothing or 99 cents but sometimes $4.99 or more to download them from Apple's online App Store. As of September, 50 million iPhone and iPod Touch owners worldwide had downloaded more than 2 billion apps.
iTriage is in the top 10% of those downloaded, says Hudson. But the question for businesses considering an app is whether it's worth the cost--and if so, how to stand out among the 100,000 or so already out there. Simple apps can cost roughly $5,000 to create, says Matt Chapman, owner of Orlando-based Origin Technologies. Chapman developed a Florida poisonous snake app for fun. Its success led him to develop a Florida Bar exam-prep application for client Celebration Bar Exam Review. Company owner Jackson Mumey, like HCA hospital executives, sees the informational app as a draw for new clients who may not find him via traditional marketing.
Apps with slick video and graphics can range closer to $10,000 or $20,000 to develop. But that's less than television advertising, with a far greater personal touch, says Brent Pope, principal at mobile-technology firm Contagion in Jacksonville. "There are people out there right now raising their hands and volunteering to put your information, put your brand in their pocket," he says. "Asking whether it's worth it is like asking whether advertising is worth it or whether you should have a website."
Pope points to Volkswagen's recent decision to pitch its latest GTI through an iPhone app rather than TV. VW's marketers say the campaign is about making advertising individualized. But it's also going to save money. The company's 2006 GTI ad blitz cost $60 million, while the iPhone app campaign will cost an estimated $500,000, according to AdAge.
Pope says if a business has an obvious app but doesn't create it, someone else will soon jump on it. Pope's first app kept track of ride wait times at Disney. He's had to remove it from the App Store, not because of Disney, but another large corporation, Weight Watchers, which is suing over his app's name: Wait Watchers.
At Florida State University, business professor David Pamdice says companies "need to start imagining the possibilities" of mobile marketing. Sometimes, he says, the possibilities are not what you first imagine. Last year, Paradice began working with student programmers to develop an iPhone app for the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin resort. They envisioned guests carrying live hotel information in their pockets and purses: On the way to Orlando, they could check out their room, download directions or make a dinner reservation at one of the resort's restaurants.
All that's happening; but the unexpected benefit was in-house: It's been a boon to the resort's sales and marketing staff, which can play videos of amenities during even the briefest business meetings. "It's very powerful for them to open their iPhone or iTouch and show the videos of the facilities on the spot," says Paradice.
Still, Paradice acknowledges that developing an app is easier said than done in this economy. At FSU, every one of the students in his technical Management and Information Sciences track last year landed good jobs despite the economic downturn--largely as a result of their hands-on development experience.
This year, FSU has axed the program due to budget cuts.
Tech Facts
According to data collected by Osterman Research, U.S. companies are increasingly embracing the iPhone. While Research In Motion's BlackBerry continues to be the preferred smartphone in corporate settings, more firms are beginning to move toward supporting the iPhone--44% of companies surveyed said they supported the iPhone in 2009, up from 20% in 2008. Support for the BlackBerry dropped to 75% from 82% and for Windows Mobile to 64% from 66%.
Florida iPhone Apps
There are more than 100 iPhone apps devoted to the Sunshine State. The most popular include those for resorts, college football teams, fishing regulations, creature identification, live satellite weather radar and news. You can also find various versions of Florida statutes, Florida criminal code and regional coupon and deal alerts, many by national companies that compile such data in all 50 states.
Here's a look at some of the top Florida-specific apps:
Gator Gridiron
* The Miami Herald's Gators Football 2009 app ($1.99) is one of many devoted to the UF football team, but this one has garnered some of the best reviews for its interactivity and sports writer Joseph Goodman's insights.
* Singing Bridge's Florida Football GameDayApp ($2.99) may be the next best thing to being at The Swamp on game day. The app answers all the questions a fan would have on game day and provides information before, during and after the game, such as game time, betting line, stadium seating chart, box office telephone number and the day's weather. It also features the players' Twitter accounts and has live feeds during the game so you can follow along play by play.
The app was developed by a group of friends in Delaware--two have tech know-how, the others are sports fans who understand the power of the fan base.
"We kept asking ourselves why aren't these sports apps coming out?" says partner Jimmy Mahan, 33.
The group's first app was Kentucky Basketball GameDayApp. Florida Football followed as a no-brainer. "Kentucky is to basketball what Florida is to football," says Mahan. He says Singing Bridge is working on apps for other UF teams and plans to design additional apps for FSU and Miami teams.
On the Road
* A business-marketing effort devoted to State Road 30A, a 20-mile stretch of beach between Destin and Panama City that includes Seaside, Grayton Beach and Rosemary Beach. The free app--called 30A--lists live events along with restaurants and bars. A recently updated version has videos, photos and Facebook integration.
Weather Watch
* Created by Seattle-based developer Steve Parker with data from the National Weather Service, Florida Radars (99 cents) gives animated real-time weather radar for all of Florida. The app recently passed 10,000 downloads. Tap icons to pull up a specific region of the state. Shake your iPhone to make the current region your default region. Parker also has a new hurricane-tracker app called--what else?--"Hurricane."
Something Fishy
BrokenLure-Fishing Florida ($4.99) was created for Florida anglers by Largo software developer Virgil Siegle. The app includes a saltwater fish-identification guide, the latest Florida fishing regulations and the current Florida record for the fish in question.
BrokenLure also comes with another app developed by Siegle, a fish-weight calculator called FishyScale. (It can be bought on its own for 99 cents). Measure the length and girth of your catch in inches, choose the fish's shape from a selection wheel, and the app generates the approximate weight of your fish.
Users generally like BrokenLure but say it needs some fish recipes. (No word on how to hold the iPhone with a fish flopping around in the boat.)
Siegle has other apps, including Easy Oil, which calculates oil-to-fuel mix ratios, and a boating-safety app called Float Plan, which creates and stores details about your vessel, crew and trip itinerary and allows you to easily e-mail it all from your iPhone.
Visiting Mickey
* Tishman Hotel's Watt Disney World Swan and Dolphin app (free), developed last year by a team of FSU business school students, is popular enough that nearly 600 users have rated it at Apple's App Store (average rating: 3.5 stars out of 5). The app includes property maps, restaurant guides, activities, videos and more.
Killer Snakes
* Orlando app developer Matt Chapman wrote Florida Poisonous Snakes (99 cents) as his first app because of a personal interest in snakes. It has detailed photos and information for the six poisonous snakes that are native to Florida: Three rattlesnakes, the cottonmouth, the coral snake and the copperhead.
In Charge
Hercules Networks, a Miami company, has developed an Automated Charging Machine, or ACM, that allows mobile device users to charge their cell phones, PDAs, digital cameras or mp3 players in 10 minutes or less.
The machines play a 10-minute video loop of CBS programming--five minutes of entertainment news and five minutes of advertising. Advertisers include GM, AT&T, Cadillac, Bank of America and Papa John's pizza.
ACMs are located at Florida Atlantic University and Nova University, and the company is working with the Seminole Hard Rock and Miccosukee casinos to set up machines at casino locations. Paul King, the company's 25-year-old CEO, says ACM raised a second round of capital last fall and expects to be profitable by midyear.
ACM charges users $2 at its university machines and plans to charge $5 at the casino sites. "Consumers," he says "need to be mobilely empowered."
--Stacie Kress Booker
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Barnett, Cynthia. "iFlorida: from football to fish to hospitals, there are plenty of Florida-specific applications for the iPhone. Should your company be considering one?" Florida Trend Feb. 2010: 86+. Florida Database. Web. 12 Mar. 2010.
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If you have six-figure ambitions, you could do worse than pay attention to a new study identifying the features the CVs of the UK's top-end earners share in common.
Jobsite Adzuna analysed the 10,000 CVs of people who earn six-figure salaries and found the majority of them have at least 19 years in of experience, with 13 years in management positions.
It also helps if you're a man: just 14 per cent of the top earners were women, the findings suggested.
Meanwhile the majority of those in the so-called £100k club were working in the IT and finance sectors, although consultancy, engineering and sales were also listed.
The "education" section doesn't necessarily need to be filled out: 23 per cent of those earning six figure salaries don't have a degree, the study suggested. However, those who don't have degrees spend longer working their way up: the majority have spent 22 years in employment, compared to 18 years for those with a university education.
Read more: The 10 worst CV crimes, ranked in order of gravity
Tech takes over
While the finance sector continues to provide plenty of six-figure salaries, it may not be enough if you have corner office ambitions.
Today a separate study by recruiter Robert Half found the number of FTSE 100 chief executives with finance backgrounds has fallen from 55 per cent last year to 43 per cent.
According to the findings, the gaps are being filled by people with backgrounds in technology: in 2014 only three bosses had previously worked in the sector; today this has risen to 11.
Read more: Your CV is probably missing this killer piece of information
The £100k CV
1. Two decades should do it
Top earners have spent 19 years working up to their salaries, 13 of which have been spent in management roles.
2. Education: none
Almost a quarter of people on six-figure salaries don't have a degree - but prepare to work for longer if you pass on university.
3. IT and finance lead the way
Some 19 per cent of top earners have backgrounds in IT, while another 19 per cent have worked in finance. Around 12 per cent worked in consultancy, while five per cent have backgrounds in engineering and other five per cent worked in sales.
4. You don't need to make it to the corner office to earn top dollar
The top five job titles of those on six figures are managing director, director, operations director, finance director and chief executive.


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The past three weeks have been quite a whirlwind. Fall decided to show up here in the Northwest and it has been magical. I started my new job a few weeks back and I am adjusting to the 9-5, commuting, cubicle life. I am so grateful that I found a job but I have to remember what I really want. It is too easy to find a job with good pay and bearable work and forgot all that you have dreamt for your life. Good thing I walk past multiple books stores on my way to work and that I choose to sit (when I actually get a seat...) on the side of the bus that will give me a view of the UW library so I can keep on dreaming :). God has been showing me to wait. To stop. To just be in this season and don't immediately jump into the next thing. Oh the balance of dreaming and staying present...
Snippets of fall in Seattle
Oh and I chopped my hair off... I haven't had hair this short since I was 8 years old. As Coco Chanel says (and I TOTALLY agree) "A women who cuts her hair is about to change her life." and it has!
Spruced up the house last weekend and did a deep clean. It felt so good.
We finally built our desk! We had ordered the hair pin legs over a month ago, we were just too lazy to go to Home Depot and buy a piece of wood. This project was REALLY easy, so if you ever need to build anything, go with hair pin legs. I will admit they aren't the sturdiest, we are eventually going to add more support but for now this will do.
Weekends are for piles of waffles in the morning are they not?
A week ago we headed to Sodo to buy Mikey some new work boots, I made us take a little detour to Pioneer Square. I haven't been to this part of town in years, which is ridiculous because it is so amazing. But don't go here at night... alone.... ever...
We stopped in the London Plane for croissants and flowers. This place is everything I want in one spot. Mike commented that I love things that have multiple purposes and flavors. Like why have just apple pie when you could have apple, blackberry pie with a gruyere cheese crust? So the London Plane isn't just a place to get brunch, but also pastries and home goods and flowers. Not to mention the Little London Plane down the street for classes and parties.
I was very inspired to say the least. Perhaps I will open a pie shop/library/flower shop/coffee shop. Because just one would be too boring.
We stopped in Drygoods design across the street and I was in love again. I don't know how to sew so perhaps I should take a class here.
I've been enjoying my commute to work. It is a little on the long side, but I love walking through downtown. I am glad my commute has built in cardio; I'm walking 3 miles a day people! It helps with the whole desk job thing.
The Olympic Sculpture Park is 3 blocks away from my work, it is quite the inspiring place to eat my lunch.
I will try and update more frequently once I am in more of a rhythm with my work schedule!


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Making predictions about how the world could be in the future is an almost universally enjoyed activity, but except all the fantastic and optimists projects that we can imagine, like new virtual video games where we can materialize our mind or other insane projects, the world started to take seriously this idea, but after a lot of researches, people discovered that they mustn't be that optimistic, so in this article, I will present 4 things that can happen and help humanity or end it in 2030.
1- In the near future, scientists imagine that electric cars will reach the levels of adoption that environmentalists are hoping for. Some lawmakers are starting to step in to engineer this shift.
2- Doctors and scientist are working hard to find a way to eradicate almost all diseases in the world, like the malaria and other diseases.
Now, we will pass to what will end the humanity:
1- Many people are afraid from this technological advance, they think, that one day, an artificial intelligence will take the total control of herself and therefore control the humanity through a computer system.
2- There are several theories saying that a nuclear world war is about to be launched, which will eradicate the humans and almost all life on earth, and it will the third world war and probably the last because there would be no more human to do it for a fourth time.
And you what do you think about this, I'm so curious to know it, so do not hesitate to send me your opinion by mail.


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Saturday, March 13, 2010
My Editor Says
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I got the next round of notes back last night from my editor.
I ended pacing around the apartment like a wild beast spitting nails.
This is not going smooth. She's changed the why one character talks. That changes their entire personality. If you change their personality, you change their story arch.
I'm not too sure how to deal with this as this is my first time with an editor. I was told by another author that she went through the same thing and feels her work is better for it. Which, I suppose is great for her, and I did love her book, but this is my novel. Characters I have spent the last year pouring my soul into. The idea that someone feels those characters could be "more this" or "less that" is having the same effect on me as being slapped on the head with a 2 by 4. Painful and causing confusion.
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I think its amazing that you're even writing a novel. This is something I've always wanted to do, but tend to run out of steam halfway through. Sorry you're editor is giving you trouble. Maybe you could meet in the middle?
- AnonymousMarch 15, 2010 at 10:15 AM
Geeesh. You have an editor? How fantastic is that? Vera.ReplyDelete
Good luck working out the kinks....it's sometimes hard to adjust, but when you're going for the gold it's totally worth it!
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The drink above is Sparkling Limeade & Gin with sliced limes and juicy strawberries.
It was REALLY good.
and finished! I especially like the back, which was a surprise, since it's not pictured in the pattern book anywhere. Can't wait to wear this one, but it'll have to wait till Fall.
In other news, my vintage button addiction is in full swing. I have over 6 lbs of buttons in transit to me from spots around the country. Not exactly sure what I'll DO with over 6 lbs of buttons, but they're coming.... and they're so pretty.
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I loved Davids post about becoming an entrepreneur. I remember vividly the exact moment in time when I made that decision. I'd been notified that I'd been made redundant from my job at Microsoft. I really loved the job and couldn't envisage working anywhere else. The realisation hit me hard.
For a couple of days, I wandered round in a daze, fielding phone calls from friends and colleagues, all asking the same thing. 'What are you going to do next?'
I had no idea. And then I had the epiphany.
Well actually I didn't have the epiphany at all. I wasn't thinking about my own future. My mind was in a daze, full of nothing. i was marking time until something came up. But my great friend Jon Honeyball, gave me the germ of an idea over a glass of wine one evening.
'Why don't you go and work for yourself' he said. You really 'get' social media from an enterprise point of view…. And you still know what you're talking about technically… And you do ever so much for Women in IT… Go and do it!
That was it. He went through all of my objections, worries and fears about going it alone. Since I left school, I've always been employed by large companies. I'd never for one moment considered running my own business. And there it was in front of me..
The seed had been planted in my head. And it didn't take very long at all to grow into a structured idea, plan and mission. And here I am
So I totally identify with the concepts in this video. It all rang very true with me. Have a listen. it's under 4 minutes long:
I particularly liked the quote in the video about passion. Gaetan is right on the button here. If you're not passionate about what you do – especially in IT where things are changing rapidly then that won't be enough. You'll struggle out there on your own. You need a good social network of customers, colleagues and friends – and you need to keep the relationship fresh.
The single thing that I pick up whenever i talk to entrepreneurs in the IT field is the total passion and enthusiasm that they show for their jobs. Far more than anything I've ever seen in the workplace, where policies, procedures, process and politics can often stifle the agility of a business
So if you've had the epiphany and believe you have what it takes to start out on your own – all you need to do is take the first step. That's the hardest one. And you'll find that there's a huge difference between an entrepreneur and an employee – and if you take the risk – then the benefits are really good indeed. And I have Jon to thank for that…


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Let's see, what is the main source of transportation for Egypt? You guessed it, the Nile! Most Egyptians in ancient Egypt lived along the Nile because it served as, transportation, irrigation, and the main source of water. Think about what's in the water, what goes in the water, and what is around the water, (try not to throw up in your mouth), that they DRANK!
Trade with Nubia, their neighboring country, was so important that they built a canal to make it a quicker journey! Jee- I wish I had a canal going to my neighbors house! Also, when it came to making boats, they were very skilled. They would build the boats out of bundles of reeds tied together, and, I know, this sounds fake, but they floated really well! Out of plants! That shows you the genius in them.
When the Egyptians were trading along the Nile, they needed a way to measure the value of their products, so they used... How many debens do you got?


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I actually did this vector a long time ago but I thought I would share it.
It isn't being used anywhere yet but I've been getting some great ideas..
I was sorta reminded of the fox vector when I was watching Home Movies with their use of shadows. I thought it was simple and clever.
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
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Cleveland Heights arrested two homeless people for passing bad checks according to the Plain Dealer. It seems that a group of criminals recruited homeless people to go to Wal-Mart to pass bad checks. People are always praying on this fragile population, and trolling the front of the shelters to basically enslave people for bad purposes. From the exploitative temporary labor agents who put people to work in the most difficult jobs and pay less than minimum wage, or the drug boys who employ homeless people as runners, or the men who patrol the women's shelters looking for women to become prostitutes. I saw the owner of Minute Men temp. services over at the bank the other day driving a Cadillac Escalade SUV with those spinning wheel rims, and was disgusted that he was making a nice living off the backs of mostly African American homeless people. Who says that slavery ended in America? Did you ever wonder why all the Minute Men staff enter in the Carnegie entrance and homeless people are fenced off and forced to enter the Cedar Road side? Reminds me of the slave entrance to the Master's house in the 1820's Deep South.
The other interesting story comes from Lorain County and the bloggers at Word of Mouth. Henery Hawk and his friends went out in the cold to a group of homeless people to provide a little help. Lorain County is a rough place for homeless people with the human services absolutely overwhelmed, very little advocacy activities, and a total disregard for the problem by elected officials. They really need help out there. NEOCH would love to try to put in place a strong network of advocates in Lorain County, but the providers are so overwhelmed that they can barely keep their head above the water. So, we salute Henery, Buck, Larry, and Brian (not me) for their efforts on such a cold day.
By the way, inspired by Word of Mouth, Wendell Robinson has decided to try to do something for others everyday and write about it. Here is his new blog. Sounds like a great idea for the rest of us to follow.
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Thursday, January 25, 2007
A Day in the Life
Started out the morning with a very sad case of a woman calling, because she cannot find her husband who has become homeless. They had a fire at their house, and her husband stopped taking his medication. Without his medicine he started down a path of paranoia and his severe mental illness came out. He lashed out at his wife. The husband told his family that his wife was abusing him. He left the house and she has not seen him. She was so worried and was crying looking for help.
The issue is that the shelters will not reveal if a person is at the shelter no matter who is calling or showing up. Unless the individual has a court order or has a release of information--patient/client relationship, the shelters will not give information away about any of their residents. We sent her a Street Card, and told her to hang up flyers or notes at the various shelters. We do not have a good system in Cuyahoga County for family reunification. NEOCH is trying to put together a people finder component of our website that would allow case workers and homeless people to see if there are people looking for them. This will take awhile to develop, but it is heartbreaking hearing these stories every day.
A better part of yesterday, was the Homeless Congress. We had over 32 homeless people from 9 different shelters in the community together to talk about issues. This is difficult to get a very angry population who are for the most part ignored by society to be on the same page. The membership constantly changes, and we have to do some trust building at every meeting. But they have some great suggestions and are beginning to work together. They are starting to realize that together they can make changes while separate they will forever live in shelters.
Then I got back to the office and found out that one of our former vendors was probated and on the loose. She had also gone off her medicine and had started self medicating with illegal drugs. The last time I saw her she was so different. She was a nice older woman who would remind you of Carol Burnett's character in the Mama's Family skits or that quiet older aunt who blends into the wallpaper if you saw her at a coffeeshop. After only a month or two away from her medicine, she looked nothing like her former self even her walk was different. She was angry and not taking care of her appearances or her hygiene. It was an amazing transformation, and now we have to decide on our responsibilities if she did show up at our office to her and to others.
Any non-profit has to spend a large amount of time on the mundane and the bureaucracy especially with government organizations. I have been going round and round with the State of Ohio over $400 that they claim they owe us to close out a grant. We do not agree, but spend so much staff time over such a small amount of money. Then we have the to deal with the best in 1984 style language ever thought up by agreeing to check the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control Specially Designated Nationals List or as it is commonly known the terrorism watch list for those helping to finance terrorists in order to receive any state funding. This is a 261 page document in alphabetical order that is not searchable of known terrorists and their aliases. How does any organization search this list to compare it to their own donors or their clients is beyond me? We have to sign a form that says we do not knowingly give or receive money from any of these people. Freddy Garcia is on the list, Teresa Gomez is on the list, and Oscar Hernandez also finds himself on the list. Then we also have to check the State Department list that was last updated in 2004.
If this is the best way we have of protecting against terrorists then we are all in deep trouble. With aliases, I am willing to bet that half of the players in Major League Baseball share a name with the people on the Treasury Department's Terrorism list. How is any agency supposed to search a 261 page pdf document of terrorists? Those that want to do harm to us must be laughing themselves to sleep every night that they have inflicted such fear in this country that non-profits are asked to comb through an alphabetical list of thousands of names of bad people to make sure the money we receive is "pure."
Posts by Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless staff and Board.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Homeless Count Nearly Impossible
Last week, the National Alliance to End Homelessness issued a report on the number of homeless people in the United States that received a great deal of media attention. First of all, the number is a dramatic under count. The media was not very accurate with the reporting of these numbers. Please check out the original report that does a good job of clarifying the statistics. The 744,000 number of homeless people in the United States is a one day figure. It is a HUD mandate for every community to count the number of homeless people in January. The National Alliance report was praised on the Department of Housing and Urban Development website. We all need to be very skeptical of any report praised by HUD--an agency which believes that it is a good idea to demand every community in the United States focus resources on single, disabled homeless people who have long periods of homelessness even if there is no one in that town that fits that description.
All the people living in abandoned properties are not counted. Cities like Cleveland (with almost 10,000 abandoned units) and Detroit, and Pittsburgh have a huge barrier to an accurate count. The last count from Cleveland barely got to the number of shelter beds in the County. As an aside virtually every shelter bed in the County is full every night of the year. The private shelters like City Mission and St. Herman's and the hundreds of others in the country do not report either. Figuring out the best times to count is also nearly impossible. How would you like if the Census showed up at 5 a.m and burst in your bedroom to count the number of residents in your house? Speaking of the Census, they have a hard time counting people who live in housing with wide spread reports of undercounts in most cities. And yet HUD thinks that they can do better at counting people than an agency constituted only to count people? HUD has the other obstacle of trying to count a migratory population that does not have a fixed place to live.
As you can tell, NEOCH does not participate in the counting of homeless people. I can see nothing useful in the exercise. I firmly believe that it is a means to cut all of our funding. I believe that HUD will eventually say that there so few homeless people counted that we do not deserve all the funding that we are getting or one city is doing a bad job of counting and that city will be punished with fewer dollars. I also have an issue that in the richest country in the history of the world we send a team out to go to where homeless people live and just count them. Even by giving out some token gift seems somehow inappropriate. Finally, in the end, no matter how rigid the standards there will always be an undercount.
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Saturday, January 13, 2007
Family Shelter Sanctioned by County
In the first unanimous vote of the Office of Homeless Advisory in a very, very long time, East Side Catholic was sanctioned for continued administrative problems. NEOCH has tried to get into the shelter to talk to the residents, but we have not been successful. We have also written about the problems in the shelter for four years in the Grapevine. The County Review Team recommended this sanction after two and half years of working with the group. The proposal that passed the OHS advisory was:
1. The current East Side Catholic budget (2005 Federal Dollars) would receive extra scrutiny by the County.
2. If HUD grants money from their 2006 application, the shelter will not be allowed to accept the funds unless they go under the umbrella of another organization. So, an outside entity would have to manage their budget and administration or the County would not release the 2006 federal funding.
3. East Side Catholic would not be allowed to apply for funds in 2007 through the Federal Continuum of Care funding.
This all takes place when East Side Catholic was just awarded Ohio Emergency Shelter dollars. Those funds seem impossible for a group to not receive once they are granted funding. I have seen programs that no longer even serve homeless people still receive an Emergency Shelter grant from the State of Ohio. We certainly hope the new Governor will look at this policy.
We absolutely support this move by the County and feel that it is long overdue. The letter that the County sent should have been more severe with demand language not "recommend-type" language. Ruth Gillett who runs OHS is just too nice, except when it comes to NEOCH. The County is clear in trying to preserve the shelter and not lose the shelter beds. They also made sure that the funding is not lost from the Federal government. The outstanding issue is how this will impact East Side Catholic's other programs especially CMHA's Miracle Village and their recovery programs. How will these other programs survive with the agency under County sanction?
NEOCH is going to host a family homeless conference in March to talk about these issues with religious organizations to discuss these and other issues facing women with children in our community.
Posts by Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless staff and Board.
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
New Era for Building and Housing?
To mark the one year anniversary of his appointment to the post as Director of the City of Cleveland Department of Building and Housing, Ed Rybka attended the Cuyahoga Affordable Housing Alliance meeting. CAHA is a place that public agencies (HUD, City, CMHA and County) meet with advocates, landlords, and social service providers to report on potential threats to affordable housing in our community. This meeting is the first Monday of every month (unless there is a holiday) at the local HUD office. This week, Ed Rybka joined us to report on his term at Building and Housing. As most are aware, there was a scathing report issued about the department. Rybka was very honest and straight forward about the problems and the fact that there are no additional resources to fix the problems within the Department.
He said that there is a great deal of institutional bureaucracy that needs changed. The biggest was the old way the Department responded to problems: complaints. Everyone in Cleveland knew that by calling your Council member or the Mayor's action line you got results. This allowed major eyesores that were not a problem to neighbors to go without oversight for years. This has changed in the last year. Now, all the departments focus on a certain neighborhood together and then move on together. Every neighborhood gets a visit every 30 days. The department has prioritized the worst abandoned properties (220) and is working on that list. They still respond to health and safety reports on an emergency basis, but not a complaint over a falling downspout to the Mayor's office.
Rybka said that they now have a database of 2,000 abandoned properties, but he suspects that there could be as many as 10,000. He also has set up a partnership with the County Senior and Adult Services to get help for seniors who cannot manage their house. His inspectors rarely come across homeless squatters--go out at night and that will change. He wants to start demolishing more buildings that are hazards. Right now they do 175 to 220 a year. He still has a lot of work, but he is trying to work through some of the issues in the report on department inefficiencies.
Brian Davis
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Saturday, January 06, 2007
Condo Hell
Moratorium on Condos Until All Housed
While searching for articles on homelessness via Google News, I stumbled upon this beauty from the Washington Post:
"Million Dollar Condos to Be Built Above Church Serving Homeless."
I congratulate the fact that building luxury condos is an attempt to create a mixed neighborhood. Instead of being secluded in the suburbs, they are built amidst poverty with no intent to keep their residents' eyes hidden from the realities of an urban area. It sounds like a good attempt at creating a melting pot neighborhood.
But this isn't Sesame Street. I highly doubt that owners of $400k 1 bedroom condos have chosen their location so they can mingle with the homeless folks sleeping at their curb. In fact, I doubt any homeless people would be allowed within 100 ft of their million-dollar developments. The problem is this: there is a place for luxury condos and we need to realize that. But that place isn't everywhere. What developers have failed to realize is that WE DON'T NEED SO MANY LUXURY CONDOS, whether it be in DC or here in Cleveland. We're poor. We have loads of people without homes. What we need is safe, decent, affordable housing. We need more public and subsidized housing. We need more mixed-income housing units. We need more housing priced below $100k that is decent (no-frills). We need safe homes for families--who make up the fastest growing population of people that are homeless.
The Homeless Congress, a politically active group of homeless people representing different shelters, has it all figured out-- we could create jobs and housing by having people renovate old, abandoned buildings into affordable homes.
Condos will not make a neighborhood. Look at both Tremont and Ohio City. Sure they've been yuppie-fied, which some people see as a good thing. But it's a strange mix of the wealthy "urban hipsters" and the original poor residents who are continuously being pushed out. Enough pushing. We need to solve the problem.
In the Washington Post article, a managing broker for a real estate firm had this to say, "You don't need the soup kitchen to make it a tough sell. It's a tough sell because it's a condo, and if there's anything we need less of now, it's condos. It's like overkill."
How about building homes that our city's residents can actually have access to?
Sarah V.
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Emperor or President??
I firmly believe that George Washington would roll over in his grave if he saw the spectacle of the Gerald Ford State Funeral. Those founding Presidents were so concerned that they did not want the appearance of anything regal or any sign of royalty associated with their presidency. Washington stepped down after two terms to show that in a functioning democracy there could be a smooth transition of government. He founded the Executive Branch of government on the principle of being first among equals with humility and without all the ceremony of England. He resigned his miliary credentials so as not to appear to be a dictator, and scolded his modest staff over the appearance of any sigsn of an imperial leadership. We have gone very far away from those humble beginnings.
I can understand a state funeral for a President killed in office, but Ford was not even elected. He was appointed to the position in the grand tradition of assuming the throne of a Monarchy. He pardoned a criminal before Nixon was even charged. I do not understand why Ford or any President deserves all this ceremony. Why shut down the government when the first among equals dies? The President is so distant from the rest of us that they have become royalty without the crown. We would all benefit greatly if humility was brought back to government. Can a humble person who would reject a state funeral ever be elected President of the United States again?
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West Brom are trying to end Roberto Di Matteo's cash stand-off with Chelsea to bring him back to Albion.
Di Matteo still picks up a staggering £130,000-a-week on gardening leave from Chelsea.
He has already banked around £7million and has another £3.4m to collect before next summer when his contract expires.
Di Matteo has been in no rush to return to management after being axed by Blues despite winning the Champions League.
MirrorSport understands he has snubbed the chance to speak to Stoke, Sunderland and Crystal Palace over their vacancies this year.
He also declined an extremely lucrative offer from the Middle East.
The Italian originally told pals he had no intention of returning to work until next summer when Chelsea are due to stop paying him.
But Baggies chairman Jeremy Peace is now trying to talk Roberto Di Matteo into a dramatic return.
They hope they can tempt Di Matteo back to The Hawthorns to replace Steve Clarke who was given a P45 after defeat at Cardiff.
And they are seeking a compromise with Chelsea coughing up a lump sum and Albion paying the difference.
Di Matteo, 43, who bossed the Baggies from June 2009- February 2011, still has a house in nearby Leamington Spa.
He was an instant Hawthorns hit winning promotion to the Premier League in his first season in charge after joining from MK Dons.
But he was axed and replaced by Roy Hodgson following a run of eight League defeats in 10 matches.
Peace pulled the trigger following poor form and concerns at Di Matteo's laid-back management style.
Now Di Matteo will have to forgive Peace for originally sacking him and then their own subsequent compensation wrangle.
But the main stumbling block is thrashing out an acceptable future salary package after Chelsea sacked Di Matteo in November 2012 but failed to agree a pay-off.


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A Night Of Drinking Ends Badly For 'Spike', Read The First 5 Pages Of 'Devil You Know' Now!
After a long hiatus between series for "SPIKE", the frosty-haired bloodsucker is back with his own monthly mini-series in "THE DEVIL YOU KNOW". The title will begin tomorrow, but if you make the jump you can get all the details on the series from IDW Publishing as well as a chance to read the first 5 pages of the issue. Read on for the skinny.
WRITTEN BY: Bill Williams
ILLUSTRATIONS BY: Chris Cross
COVERS BY: Franco Urru
"While out and about (drinking, naturally) Spike gets in trouble over a girl (of course) and finds himself in the middle of a conspiracy that involves Hellmouths, blood factories, and demons. Just another day in Los Angeles, really. But when devil Eddie Hope gets involved, they might just kill each other before getting to the bad guys."
"SPIKE: THE DEVIL YOU KNOW" Issue #1 Drops Tomorrow From IDW Publishing! (MSRP-$3.99)


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The Checkup: November 1, 2009 - November 7, 2009
Is That Right? Cranberry Raisinets rich with antioxidants?
Those new Cranberry Raisinets sure sound as though they'd be good for you. Nestle's press release announcing the new product's launch this summer called the chocolate-covered cranberries a "better-for-you indulgence rich with natural fruit antioxidants." "Cranberries," the press release continues, are "the most popular of the superfruits" and "combine exceptional...
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More fodder for the fat-but-healthy debate
One of the most divisive and emotional debates regarding obesity is whether being fat automatically equals being unhealthy. While many experts point to mounds of evidence linking excess weight to such life-shortening conditions as cancer, Type 2 diabetes and heart disease, others argue that those conditions aren't necessarily caused by...
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Cat catches swine flu
Does the swine flu pandemic pose a threat to your pet? Yes, according to a report out today from the American Veterinary Medical Association. A cat in Iowa has tested positive for the H1N1 virus, state officials confirmed this morning, "marking the first time a cat has been diagnosed with...
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Sneezes spread paranoia
During these days of swine flu fears, common sneezes and coughs are spreading more than just colds and the flu. They're spreading paranoia, according to new research. University of Michigan psychologist Spike Lee and colleagues decided to test whether people's fears of sneezes and coughs spilled over into other areas....
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Milk from nuts, beans or udders -- which does your body best?
If you opt for soy milk or almond milk instead of cow's milk, are you getting comparable nutrition value to what moo juice delivers? This week's "Eat, Drink and Be Healthy" column looks at the ongoing controversy surrounding cows' milk: Is the white stuff an essential, nutrition-packed building block of...
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Teen girls and risky sex
It's tempting to assume that teenage girls who have unprotected sex at an early age do so because they're hot to trot, in a hurry and ill-informed. But new research suggests things are much more complicated than that. Reporting in the November issue of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh researchers found...
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Oil on Canvas
18" x 14"
Had a lot of fun with this quick portrait. Boots jumped onto the canvas so fast that it felt like it was finished in one sitting. It wasn't finished in one sitting, but I certainly knew it would be a good one.
Bob Dylan, No way home soundtrack
Judging your painting in reverse shows all the truth......I write my observations.


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It's been a long time (2 weeks or so! Yikes!) Sorry about that! Not that anyone is actually here anymore!!
Let me sum up...
1. Crazy vehicle issues, including bringing my beloved 'burban home to die. She's old and she has a lot of miles on her. She's in hospice care now. Our mechanic says he doesn't believe she'll make it through another inspection. :( I don't want a car payment yet!!!
2. Retreat planning! I love it and I cannot wait!!
3. Wedding planning! Were getting there. I also cannot wait!!
4. Shower planning! Oy!
5. Grandchildren! They are both so danged cute!
6. The day job - Oy! We're down two and it's chaos!!
7. Children - Some are doing good. Some are not. It's tough being a parent sometimes....
8. Sleep - or lack of it.
9. That Man and the stuff he does!
10. Managing the writing, most of the time, through the chaos! Balance doesn't always happen, but when it does, it's beautiful!
That is all...


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Sun Ra and His Arkestra, 'In The Orbit of Ra' – Art direction and design
A huge honour to have been brought on board to create the artwork for this Marshall Allen-curated compilation of music from Sun Ra and his Arkestra. Released on Strut in collaboration with Art Yard records, In the Orbit of Ra will be available on double LP (with CD version of album included), double CD & digital from September 22nd, 2014. Package layout by Studio Auto.
More info on the Strut site here.
Thanks to Quinton, Art Yard and the Arkestra for making this such a joy to work on.
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I was reading the post this morning, and wanted to put my thoughts on paper about God and his son Jesus Christ. I hope y'all don't mind my sharing. If anyone has anything to add please do so. I pray we all can come to a better understanding! Excuse any bad punctuation. I was just writing as I was thinking.
God had a plan or idea=father
Idea into existence human Jesus=son
Prophecy fulfilled which proves God is true. Man cannot save himself, and needed to be shown the way to true life. This is the role that Jesus was created for as a servant.
God is thought idea mind
Jesus is word body
Spirit is breath
Man has a body
" Spirit
". Breath of life. (We aren't God)
What if there is another reality-spiritual realm-man cannot see this but he can think about it, which we are told to to think about spiritual things and not things of this world. God is spirit and man cannot see spirit as we are still in the human realm and in a body. God has reached thru this barrier many times in the past as the scriptures attest. He chose this last age to reach thru by a mediator who has been given all authority, because he, Jesus, is the image of God. He would be what God would look like if he had a body.
Perhaps the conflict comes from the nature of Jesus. If we think about when our parents conceive us as children. Who puts the spirit inside that baby? That would be God. He also sparks this breath of life. The miraculous birth of Jesus is not a sexual act, but an act of creation. This is the miracle! Mary was a vessel, but God sparked the birth, a fully human baby, using Mary's seed as a genetic relative of Abraham. Who grows and experiences the same human frailties that we do, yet remains sinless. How can you know what someone suffers, unless you walk in their shoes? This is a lesson to us on empathy. How can we complain about our life when there is always someone else who has suffered worse. We show the kingdom inside of us when we can serve and have empathy with others who are less fortunate.
Jesus is fully human, and he has a spirit. We must always keep in mind that he came as a servant to mankind, and was crucified, but the spirit never dies. Just as when we die, our flesh goes to dust, but our spirit returns to God in the spiritual realm. Perhaps this realm in actuality is side by side with ours. Kind of like a parallel universe? Jesus came to show us as the mediator between man and God. He is now in a spiritual form, we can't see, but we know He is real, and He cares for his flock of lost spirits. Our commission is to grow the kingdom, and search out those who believe, and God will give the increase of knowledge when those souls are ready to receive it! This is the faith hope and charity we should be teaching to others!
I also wanted to add that in the physical realm things work by certain laws, but perhaps in the spiritual realm those laws are not the same and in this realm, earth, we can only imagine how things operate in the spiritual, due to the limitations of our bodies.
Very interesting! This forced me to look at a few passages
Acts 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein,
.....seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth,
.....dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
Acts 17:25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands,
.....as though he needed any thing,
.....seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
That seems to eleminate HOUSES or anything we do with our hands AS WORSHIP. Worship recognizes that God is the SOURCE and that is done IN THE SPIRIT or Mind.
Acts 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men
.....for to dwell on all the FACE of the earth,
.....and hath determined the times before appointed,
.....and the bounds of their habitation;
Acts 17:27 That they should seek the Lord,
..... if haply they might feel after him, and find him,
.....though he be not far from every one of us:
Acts 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being;
.....as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Acts 17:29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God,
.....we ought not to think that the Godhead
.....is LIKE unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
The trinity is an IMAGE of three persons always pictured as about the size as Jesus. That is a pretty low view of God Who INHABITS eternity and fills all things.
Godhead, contrary to the scholars among us, is not a god with three heads or "three centers of consciousness."
g2304. theios, thi´-os; from 2316; godlike (neuter as noun, divinity): — divine, godhead.
Jesus as the Son of God was Godlike and connnected to THE Divinity.
g2316 heos, theh´-os; of uncertain affinity; a deity, especially (with 3588) the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very: — x exceeding, God, god(-ly, -ward).
Like Paul, Enoch and others spoke of the seventh or tenth heaven. The thinkers can mathematically show that there are ten dimensions along with Time making eleven. If God lives IN Us and we live IN the Father-Son (John 14) then we should not think of God being INSIDE of the Man Jesus. The Spirit or "messenger" of God was represented as a dove or Rock Pigeon which carries messages. That Dove never went INSIDE of Jesus or anyone.
I would worry a lot if I thought that Jesus WAS God and that He was crucified because He was WEAK.
2Cor. 13:3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking IN me,
.....which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
2Cor. 13:4 For though he was crucified through weakness,
.....yet he liveth by the power of God.
For we also are weak IN him,
.....but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
2Cor. 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be IN THE FAITH; prove your own selves.
.....Know ye not your own selves,
.....how that Jesus Christ is IN you, except ye be reprobates?
2Cor. 13:6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
1John 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; FOR GOD IS LOVE
1John 4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us,
.....because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world,
.....that we might live through him.
1John 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us,
.....and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1John 4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
1John 4:12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another,
.....God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
God IS LOVE does not mean that LOVE is one of the god persons. So, grasping that worship IS IN THE PLACE of the Spirit devoted to THE TRUTH makes one a Child of God. That is the OPPOSITE of those who believe and want to be paid to PRODUCE a worship service for you in A HOUSE as they perform acts of worship with THEIR HANDS: pointing, raising, clapping or playing machines.


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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL: I first began noticing hooks at Farrel Works. Even before I got permission to shoot inside in 2011 I was shooting through the chain link fence trying to photograph a vine-covered hook the size of a gorilla that once spanned Farrel's sunken courtyard beside Main Street. It seemed to say everything that needed to be said about heavy industry in the valley, though it resisted becoming a photograph.
I've been noticing cranes ever since. Like silos on old farms, lingering long after the barns have blown away, cranes are often the last hint of the scale of what went on in a place after the looting is done. The large bridge cranes are frequently tucked up at each end, rusted in place. The big ones may have more than one trolley and more than one hook. And along each aisle, at every station, jib cranes mark the size and sometimes the nature of the work done there. Even in the most ruined sheds, one can still usually read, painted on the side, the load for which each crane and hook was built. From what still exists, 3 to 5 tons seems to have handled much of what had to be hefted up and down Brass Valley, even in big sheds.
Inside the abandoned basilicas of Farrel Works there are probably twenty to thirty traveling, bridge cranes. The smallest is rated at 5 tons. Many are rated at over 40 tons. This is part of one of two bridge cranes that span the main foundry aisle and travel the length of the nave, a space in which half a dozen football teams might practice simultaneously. The large hook is rated at sixty tons. The bridge is rated for carrying ninety tons of load. Whatever it lifted had to be passed through the factory to reach the siding where it could be loaded onto a railroad car. The hooks here at the south end are shy, hiding up in a shadowy corner, hard to photograph, but they are the largest I've found.
In a dark attic byway threaded through the roof trusses of two abutting sheds, in a space which happened to have its own crane, I came upon a spare hook. The space was high and narrow, and I had to point my flashlight into the shadows to be sure the massive shape wasn't the carcass of a beast, but it was another 60 ton hook, lying on its side at the base of an attic crane-way, an inert remnant in a place once well prepared and humming. These are among corridors to be visited on a magical mystery tour of Farrel Works.


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The Fruit Fly is a girl who is BFF's with a gay man. She goes to him for fashion and love advice, he goes to her for love and fashion advice. The Fruit Fly could at one point in time have a crush on the Gay friend and sometimes VV...but more than anything these two cosmic friends are friends...who drink and occasionally kiss each other and smack each other on the butt...and sometimes he admires her boobs.
As used in a sentence:
I have been Derek's fruit fly for about 16 years now. I love him, he tells me how hot I am, and he loves me and I tell him how hot he is in return.


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Psychological Disorders Debrief
- abnormal in a person's culture
- causes personal distress to the subject
- prevents functional living in society (maladaptive behavior)
- makes the person a danger to self or others
- calls into question a person's legal responsibility for actions
Anxiety Disorders:
- Phobias
- Specific phobias: disruptive and intense irrational fear caused by particular object or event
- Social Phobia: constant, irrational fear of specific or general situations that involve other people
- Panic Disorder
- Panic Attacks: episodes of intense fear and four or more symptoms such as heart palpitations, nausea, chest pain, dizziness, sweating, trembling, choking sensation, difficulty breathing, terror, intense apprehension. Attacks tend to be brief but are recurrent and unexpected
- Depersonalization: state of feeling estranged from one's body
- Derealization: state of feeling as if the world or surroundings are not real
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: sufferer is compelled to repeat acts (compulsions) and/or is flooded with uncontrollable and persistent thoughts (obsessions), which cause distress and interfere with daily functioning.
- Obsessions: Uncontrollable, intrusive, and repetitive thoughts, images, and impulses that cause anxiety
- repetitive behavior or mental act that is performed to counteract the anxiety caused by the obsession.
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Uncontrollable, chronic, and pervasive low-level anxiety and worry. Symptoms include: difficulty concentrating and sleeping, irritability, muscle tension, pounding heart, sweating, restlessness, and upset stomach.
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Intense fear in reaction to a traumatic event. Suffers can experience re-experiencing the event through intrusive memories, nightmares, or flashbacks, avoidance of reminders of the event or other unrelated people and activity, or persistently increased arousal.


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We have the date for the Waco Relay kick-off. It is March 22nd. I would like to have the quilt ready to go by then so we can start selling tickets. If you have quilt blocks at this time, please let me know how you are doing on them. Just shoot me a short e-mail.
If I can get it to Halina by Mar. 1, we might be ok to get it back by March 22. I just need to check with her.
I have shown off the Killeen quilt everywhere and they are loving it. I have sold a few tickets, but have the first big Killeen team captain meeting on Feb. 25th. So I plan on selling a TON of tickets there!
Thanks for all your help. In addition to the 3 Relays I am actually participating as team captain in, there are a couple of smaller Relays I will be attending as a survivor. So we will be busy, busy, busy until June. Then it all kind of slows down until around Sept. for the Waco Relay in October. You don't want to do a Relay in Texas in the summer, trust me!
Thank you all for your help!
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Calling all quilt blocks
Posted by Donna at 1:13 PM
Labels: The new project, Words of encouragement
1 comment:
I think I am going to get back into my quilting this week.. I have been away from it way to long
- February 21, 2010 at 12:32 PM
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