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Swedish design studio Tomorrow Machine experiments with unusual materials to create revolutionary food packaging concepts. Pursuing the modernist principle of form follows function, Tomorrow Machine unites visual appeal with highly innovative and operational technologies to create both aesthetic and pragmatic design.
Their project This Too Shall Pass addresses the increasing issue of environmental pollution and recycling. Using biodegradable materials, studio has created food packaging that shares the symbiotic life span with the food housed inside. Vividly colored and minimalist in shape, these concept containers for oils, dry foods and liquids disintegrate when the contents they store are used.
"Is it reasonable that it takes several years for a milk carton to decompose naturally, when the milk goes sour after a week? "This Too Shall Pass" is a series of food packaging were the packaging has the same short life-span as the foods they contain. The package and its content is working in symbiosis."
Besides their environmentally friendly attempts, Tomorrow Machine creates interactive product packaging to shape the innovations of tomorrow. Collaborating with Swedish research company Innventia, designers created self-opening and self-expanding packages based on the use of the 100% biodegradable material they developed together. According to Tomorrow Machine, "this is the new generation of sustainable package design, using materials that are both smart and environmentally friendly". (via Packaging | Uqam)


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This is my completely unscientific, totally opinionated and baseless analysis of what your Halloween candy says about you.
You bought your first supply of candy as soon as it was in the store.
You think buying school supplies and Halloween candy at the same time is efficient. You are a planner. You also buy birthday cards in January for the whole year.
You have hidden it in a safe place so you wouldn't eat it until Halloween.
Unfortunately you cannot find it so you have to buy more.
You bought candy in early October and hid it in a safe place and ate it yourself. You are also a planner. You are the classic passive aggressive eater. Since you displayed self control waiting until October you deserve a treat, right?
Unfortunately you have to buy more.
You bought candy weeks ago and hid it in a safe place but your family found it. You shop with your children. You are easily distracted. Um…wait…what?
Unfortunately you have to buy more.
You buy candy you don't like.
There you go, playing tricks on yourself again. You buy candy you don't like with the thought that you won't be tempted to eat it. You also watch the Food Network's hit show Chopped or Sweet Genius so you know how to melt anything down and create a delicious confection.
Unfortunately, you have to buy more.
You buy candy you like.
Duh? You're brilliant. You know life's too short to not have a treat. Eat now…worry later.
Unfortunately, you have to buy more.
You buy six bags of candy for an annual parade of 12 Trick or Treaters.
You are a hoarder. You have 12 packages of Mac and Cheese years beyond the expiration date. You go to the wholesale market and buy giant sized nacho cheese jars and you don't even like it. BOGO sales make your heart go a-pitter-patter.
Unfortunately, you will buy more.
You buy 10 times the amount of Halloween candy you will give away just a few days early.
You are an overachiever. You buy candy with the intention of giving the remainder away at work. You have a candy bowl on your desk so that people don't have to only come and see you when they have a problem. You like to feed people. You are like a bartender of candy because people tell you all about their relationship with food, why they are only going to have one (cutting back, you know…but these are fun sized so can I take one to eat walking back to my office?), and the feeling they have while biting into a York Peppermint Pattie.
Unfortunately, I just described myself, and I always buy more!
Have a yummy Halloween. I hope it's Boooooteafull!


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Word on the street these days is downsizing, maybe you have even thought of downsizing or have downsized into a smaller living arrangement recently. So why is downsizing such a trend lately when the cultural norm in North America is to live largely?
In recent years because of economic collapse and with minimum wages at an all time low and the cost of living being higher than it's ever been, people are really considering alternative options. Of course, there is always affordable housing in cities and towns that low-income families can live in, but sometimes these homes are in poor neighborhoods and aren't the most ideal living situations. Plus, most of them have waiting lists a miles long. For people who need affordable housing, downsizing can be a great option. Even people who make enough money to pay for their high mortgages are downsizing to live in smaller homes or condos, so they can travel or partake in more of their favorite pastimes. Other people just realize they don't need or want to space or stuff they have accumulated over the years and see that they could be content in a smaller living space.
It doesn't really matter what age you are; small house living can be a great way to downsize and simplify your life. Tiny houses on wheels are a wonderful way to downsize and create a home of your own that shows off your style and personality.
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Tiny houses on wheels also cost quite a bit less than a conventional home built on a foundation. The tiny house is built on a heavy duty trailer so it can be moved around as needed. There are some people who live in tiny houses on wheels that they can pull behind their truck and live life on the road. Don't like the cold harsh winters of the north? Head south with your tiny house on wheels for some sunshine. Land a job in another area? No problem, just find some land to rent out and live in your tiny oasis. The options are endless when it comes to small house living, especially in a tiny house on wheels.
As you can probably imagine, the first thing anyone needs to do before they can live small is to reduce the clutter in their lives. A great place to start is in the bedroom closet with your clothing. A great rule of thumb is to take inventory of your clothes by the last time you wore them out in public. If you haven't worn something in the last year, then you probably won't wear it anytime soon. Therefore you most likely won't miss it if it gets donated to charity. If there are special pieces in your wardrobe, limit these to about 5 or 6 articles. Another great downsizing tip is to let go of some of your books. If you have already read it, pass it on for someone else to read. Again, if there are collector's items, keep it to a minimum.
Living in a tiny house on wheels means less kitchen space too, so narrowing down your dishes, pots, and pans to the ones you use most often will save you space and time cleaning dishes. If you think about it, you probably only use one or two pots and pans most of the time. Think about the items you tend to use on a daily basis, weekly and monthly basis, the more regularly you use something, the more likely it will end up staying. Small house living doesn't have to be limiting, it's actually very freeing to own less stuff.


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Now coming to the first seven verses of the second chapter, Paul is in the midst of his argument against the false teachers and he's arguing of course for the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ and the sufficiency of Christ without any other needed additions.
But here he is also discussing something of his own vie of the ministry. And so we find from Chapter 1 verse 24 through the beginning of Chapter 2 a real inside look at how Paul viewed his own ministry. We studied the last time we were in Colossians Chapter 1 somethingof his attitude toward the responsibility
that he had in verses 24 to 29 and as we look at Chapter 2 and see the opening statements in it we're going to get an idea of the goals of Paul's ministry, not so much the attitude toward his own responsibility but the result that he was after.
By way of introduction let me say this. People might argue, and they have over the primary requisite for an effective minister of Jesus Christ, They might debate about what if there was one quality that a minister would have what would it be? What would the one thing be that would make the shepherd the true shepherd of the sheep, the pastor the true pastor of the flock? Some people might say the most important ingredient would be intelligence, so we can understand the Bible. Others mightsay knowledge. He should already know the Word of God. Some might say education. He should have a lot of input, he should have a lot of experience, others might say. Some might say any combination of those foregoing. And others would say no, the most important ingredient for the pastor or the leader or the minister or any Christian servant would be leadership ability. Or others might say boldness, or holiness, or purity, or preaching power or sympathy or whatever or whatever or whatever, and multiple combinations of all of these. And I grant you that all of those have a part; that's why I thought of all of them. Because they all fit in somewhere.
But behind it all, I think the most basic, the most effective, the most necessary ingredient in the life of any minister is the love of the Church. The love of the Church. Because that becomes the catalyst that motivates him in every other dimension. The love of the Church. In Ephesians, Chapter 5 and verse 25, it says: "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church, and gave Himself for it." It was Christ's love for the Church that prompted Him to give Himself for it. And that's why I say all of those other ingredients that come into play when a man gives himself for the Church are predicated on the fact that he loves the Church. In Acts Chapter 20, and there are many verseswe could look at in this particular passage, it says in verse 28 (Paul, speaking to the Ephesian pastors or elders: "Take heed, therefore, to yourselves and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to feed the Church of God which He hath purchases with His own blood." Paul is saying that, remember, you have an obligation to feed the Church. What Church? The Church that He purchased with His own blood. If He loved it that much, if He loved it that much that He would give His blood for it, then the undershepherd can do no less than love it with his entire being.
Jesus loved the Church and gave Himself for it. He didn't love the institution, particularly. He didn't love the organization, particularly. It wasn't the structure. He loved the people that are the Church. And He was willing and able to die for them. And I hasten to add that the apostle Paul was not far behind. His death was not substitutionary, Paul's. It was not efficacious, it was not atoning, it was not divine. But Paul loved the Church, and again it wasn't the institution that He loved, it wasn't the denomination that he loved, it wasn't the organization that he loved, it was the people that he loved and gave his life for them. There are so many Scriptures that speak of this, that I don't even want to begin to get into all of them. But the apostle Paul's love for the Church becomes manifest again and again and again and again. I'm thinking of II Cor. 3:2 for one where he says, you are our epistle written in our hearts." You are inscribed in our hearts. We care about you. As we shall see later, and I just mention at this time in II Cor. 6:11, he says: "Oh, you Corinthians, our speech to you is candid, our heart is wide open." We love you. In II Cor. chapter 12, that very, very melancholy statement in verse 15: "I will very gladly spend and be spent for you though the more abundantly I love you the less I be loved." I'll die for you, he says, even though the more I love you the less you love me.
Paul loved the Church. He loved the Church so much that in the pursuit of it and the maturity he gave his life. He suffered pain all the way along the way until finally he was executed. We've seen again and in the epistles Philippians, Colossians primarily, the love of the apostle for his Church. In Philippians 1:7 he says: "Because I have you in my heart, I have you in my heart." In Colossians Chapter 1 we saw earlier in verse 24 that he literally rejoiced in suffering for the sake of the Church of which he was made a minister. Paul loved the Church. And you would have to say I think that his entire life was a love affair with the Church. The people. The believing community.
And the reason he loved the Church so much is because he loved the Lord so much. And if you love the Lord, you love whom the Lord loves. I John 5: "Whoever loves Him will love him who is begotten of him." You see? That's why John says it's impossible to say you love God and don't love the brothers. Because whoever loves Him will love who is begotten of Him. It was never really Paul'sChurch, it was Christ's Church. And he loved Christ so much that he loved what Christ loved, and he would give his life for what Christ gave his life for. And it was that motivation that made him purify his life, that made him preach with power, that made him act with sympathy, that made him apply his mind to the, things of God, that made him bold. It was all of that that was a byproduct of a deepdown love for the Church.
And I'll say to you this, Christian, you will never serve God on the behalf of God's people with any kind of motivation other than an outright and total love for the Church. It's necessary. He poured out His life loving the Church. In II Cor, 11 1 would just have you look with me at verse 23 and I will remind you of a passage you probably have read many times. II Cor. 11:23 he says: "Are they ministers of Christ?" It's a little sarcastic there. He's talking about his critics, really. Are they ministers of Christ? "I speak as a fool, of course." There's sarcasm there. "I am more, In labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prison more frequently, in death often "and he goes on to say five times he received 59 stripes, three times he was beaten with rods (and they take a whole lot of whippy kinds of rods and they would tie them with string and they would beat the person with them), suffered shipwreck, a night and a day, journeys and perils of waters and robbers of his own countrymen and gentiles in the city, in wilderness and the sea from false brethren, and he goes on weariness, painfulness, so forth, thirsty, naked, fasting, and on and on. Then in verse 28 he says this: "Beside, beside all of those things that are without outside things the main anxiety of my life is that which comes upon me daily the care of all the churches. It isn't the outside stuff that bothers me nearly as much as the inside anxiety, the daily pressure.
Well you say, what was the pressure? The pressure that comes automatically on a man of God who loves the Church. Because he lives and dies with every success and failure in the life of the people he loves. The minister will spend most of his life brokenhearted. And he will spend it brokenhearted because there will be that many people in the Church who will break his heart and he will try to balance that off with being joyous over the people who are doing the thing God wants them to do. Demus broke the heart of Paul, because he forsook him. The Judaisers came in infiltrating the Galatian churches, and made Paul so furious he poured out Galatians, which is just a flow of wrath against false doctrine and those who would destroy the Church. If you read Ephesians you can sense his tears. As you read Acts 20 you can see his tears. As you read the Book of I Corinthians as we have on our studies on the Lord's Day in the morning, we can hear and feel his heart as it beats and it pours out the truth of God to counteract the sin of man. In I Corinthians we studied, you remember, Chapter 4 (and I'll just have you look at verse 11. He says this: ""Unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted (literally punched in the mouth) and have no place to live and we labor working with our own hands. Being reviled we bless, being persecuted we endure it. Being defamed we entreat, we are made as the filth of the world and the garbage, the refuse of all things to this day. That's what we go through, that's what we endure. You say, why do you keep it up, Paul? Verse 14: "I write not these things to shame you but as my (what?) beloved sons." The reason I do it is because you're beloved to me, that's why. You see, that's the difference between the professional and the passionate, that's the difference between the one who cranks it out and fulfills it on a professional level and the one for whom it is a heart passion.
Paul couldn't minister without emotion, because he loved the Church so much. Because Jesus loved it and anything Jesus loved, and anything Jesus would die for he would die for. Acts 20, verse 1 (just a little phrase here that I think is beautiful.Acts 20 verse 1: "And after the uproar was ceased (and this is the Ephesian uproar when they threw away their idols) after the uproar was ceased Paul called to him the disciples and (what?) embraced them." The word embraced
is literally "kissed". The word appears in the New Testament a lot of times that means kiss, to kiss fervently or affectionately. It is used of the prodigal, when he came home and his father kissed him. It's used in Luke, Chapter 7 of the woman who continually kissed Jesus' feet, and it's used as the early church. There was a tremendous sense of affection, and it was all bound up in Paul's love for Christ. Now this is the thing that I believe more than anything else the man of God must have. This is the thing above anything else in my own life that I would pray that God would give to me. The kind of love for the Church that would make me sacrifice my life for the sake of the Church. And this is the thing that made Paul different. This is the thing that made him head and shoulders above any man that ever lived apart from Jesus Christ since the New Testament era. Never a man like this man, because of the tremendous quality of his love for the Church. And added to that the marvelous gifts the Spirit of God gave him.
Now in his love for the Church, as he comes to chapter 2, looking at the Colossian assembly. And he's including with it the other two cities in that area, Hyeropolis and Laodicea, all three of them being sister cities located in the Lykus Valley, and he sees that Church and those other two sister Churches being attacked by false doctrine, false teacher. And as we've seen already in our study there were a lot of different aspects to this false teaching; they were getting it from legalizers, they were getting it from philosophizers, they were getting it from ascetics, people who wanted to go off and live in a monastery all alone. They were getting all kinds of heresy from everywhere. And he has such a tremendous love for them that even though he has never met them and even though he did not found that Church when Epaphrus who did found it and who was their pastor came to Rome as he was a prisoner for a period of three years and told him about it, it created in his heart such anguish that he sat down and wrote the letter to the Colossians. And he says in verse 1 of chapter 2: "I would that you knew what great conflict I have for you in Laodicea." And some manuscripts add and also them at Hyeropolis. And for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, I wish you knew, he says, how much I ache for you.
And so he writes in the initial part of chapter 2, he pours out his love, and you know what it winds up being? It winds up being the expression of the deepest desires that he had for the Church. He pours out his heart, and listen to what he says. "I have this great conflict (verse 2) that their hearts might be comforted, that being knit together in love and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, namely Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge and this I say lest any man should beguile you with enticing words for though I am absent in the flesh yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ. As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him, having been rooted and being built up in Him and being established in the faith as you have been taught, abounding with thanksgiving." Abounding with thanksgiving.
Now what it comes down to, folks, in those simple verses is five things that Paul desires for the Church, that come pouring out of his love for people he's never even seen, for a people he's never even met, but that didn't matter. Because you see, now mark this, his love for the Church was not predicated on the peoplein it, it was predicated on the Christ who died for it. You see? It was not a discriminating love, it was not a lovethat was isolated to the ones he liked in terms of personality or even the ones he knew, but he could love the Church, the whole Church, equally because he loved Christ. And so he pours out his love, and as it comes gushing out you can pick out of the outpouring of his love five things that he desires for the Church. And they come like a checklist for you and me, and I went through these five things and just checked my own life against them and checked Grace Community Church against them, because they're vitally important,
Now let's back up to verse 1 and get a running start. "I would that you knew what great conflict I have for you." The word conflict picks up a word that he used in the previous verse,the word striving in verse 29, it is the word the verb agonidzo from which we get agonizing. It's a word that was especially related to athletic endeavor where somebody was agonizing and striving and striving to win, He says, you don't know the anguish and the pain that I endure for you. And the word "agone" may be only has its ultimate understanding to an athlete. No one but an athlete who's been in the throws of the ultimate kind of competition where victory is everything will understand what it means to pursue a goal experiencing pain that is beyond belief to attain what it is you're after. And I've experienced it sometimes. I can remember playing in a football game for 60 minutes with a separated shoulder so much desiring to win that I wouldn't acknowledge it to anybody. And just biting the bullet, as they say, enduring the pain. It's that kind of thing that Paul says I experience agony. He wasn't alone.
Epaphrus, look at chapter 4 verse 12. Epaphrus, who was their pastor who came and reported to Paul, he had the same thing. Verse 12: "Epaphrus, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, greets you always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God, for I bear him witness that he has a great zeal for you." Here's the same spirit, the same attitude, another man with an aching heart for the spiritual life of a people of God. And as I said, Paul's emotion is not simple personal love, it isn't just that he's concerned about some people he likes a lot, he has this agony over people that he's never even met, because he loves the Church, the Church anywhere. God help us to have that kind of thing instead of bickering, instead of being proud, instead of rejoicing in the failure of other believers. We ought to have the same agony in our own hearts and souls over those believers who do not fare as well as God would have them.
I wish you could understand it, he says. I wish that you could understand what I feel for you. He longed that they would grow and mature as any of the congregations he himself had ministered to. And I think this idea of being able to love the Church that you don't know really sets a pattern for all those who minister. It in no way diminished his passion for the people near him, but it was right that he lovethem equally. And so out of this love comes the deepest desires for the Church, and let's look at them.
Number one, the first thing. The first thing that he wants for the Church is that it be strong in heart. Strong in heart. Verse 2: "that their hearts might be strengthened." That their hearts might be strengthened. Even though you have not seen my face in the flesh, I have a great agony for you. I don't want you to fall into false doctrine. I don't want you to get sucked into error. I want you to be strong in heart, and I want to talk about this for a minutes. You see the word heart. That their hearts might be strengthened.
Now when we talk about the heart, what do we mean? We have to make that clear, because in the English language the heart is the seat of what? Emotion. "My heart cries for you," we say, "I love you with all my heart." The heart is the symbol of emotion, To the Hebrew it was not the symbol of emotion. Did you get that? In the English language heart represents emotion, To the Hebrew, it did not. Now the Hebrews referred to two organs of the body, and I want to talk about these two. The two organs that they referred to many, many times in the Scripture are the bowels and the heart. Don't panic. There are many references in the Bible to the term bowels. They have been fairly well erased in the later translations, but the pure translation of the Hebrew indicates that that is the word. Now it is used in the Bible to speak of the womb, of the stomach, of the intestines and of several other abdominal organs, so it becomes a general term for the gut, if you will. When a Hebrew says my bowels such and such, he means I feel it in the gut. That's what he's saying. Now watch this. The Hebrews did not know anything of speculative thinking, and they did not know anything of interpreting things in abstraction, everything to them was a concrete, experiential physical reality.
Turn with me and I'll show you. Turn with me to Psalm 22:14. And here is a description of Jesus on the Cross, and this is a prophetic picture of Him on the Cross, but I want you to notice how the psalmist expresses what Jesus feels. He's dying on the Cross, "I am poured out like water, all my bones are out of joint (a perfect picture of crucifixion, listen now) my heart is like wax, it is melted in the midst of my bowels." And here he means my whole abdominal area is in upheaval, I feel it in the gut, is what He is saying. I feel it and my stomach is in knots. A very experiential concept, not abstract at all. A Hebrew would never say, "I sense a certain anxiety." (Laughter) You see, anxiety is an abstraction, you've got to say what you mean by that, but He doesn't say that, He doesn't speak in abstractions; He speaks in experiences, "I feel it in the stomach."
I'll show you another one. This is very interesting. Song of Solomon. Chapter 5, and I know you're all racing there. Song of Solomon, chapter 5 verse 4. Now this is very interesting. Just to give you an idea of how the Hebrew expressed his feelings. Now you've got to have the picture. The bride is waiting for the bridegroom. It is time to consummate the marriage. This is a great hour. Now listen, The Hebrew says in verse 4: "My beloved put his hand to the latch of the door and my bowels are moved for him." Now you say, wait a minute, (Laughter). That's in the Bible? That's in the Bible. You say, what does that mean, John? That means that the bowels include that whole area including the arousal of sexual desire in the human body. All of that area, even feeling in the genital area, was expressed by the Hebrews in that terminology. You see, they didn't say, "And I began to sense great overwhelming passion." That's an abstraction. The Hebrew defined it in its lowest level of experiential feeling. Now we'll hurry to Lamentations 2, because we do not want to malinger at that particular point (laughter). Lamentations Chapter 2 verse 11, (You know, the Bible isn't nearly as uptight about some things that people are uptight about, I want you to know that.) (Laughter)
Lamentations Chapter 2 verse 11. Now Jeremiah he was a patriot. I mean he was a real patriot, Jeremiah. But he wasn't a blind patriot. He loved his country when his country loved God. In Lamentations 2:11 he says my country's falling apart, in essence. He's seeing the death of his country. That's why Lamentations is called Lamentations; it's the weeping of Jeremiah over the death of his country. He says, "My eyes do fill with tears (and here it comes). My bowels are troubled," I feel it in the gut again. The pain in my stomach is I'm in knots. Now you've experienced that. He is having psychosomatic responses in his body to anxiety in his mind, but the Hebrew expresses it in terms of the psychosomatic symptom, not in terms of the abstraction.
So emotions biblically in the Old Testament particularly are not experienced as abstractions, but at the lowest level of experience. And so now watch this, in the cases of thebowels being used in the Scripture they have reference to emotional responses. So that to the Hebrew mind the heart is not the seat of emotion. What is? The stomach. The bowels. Further, look at I John chapter 3, and I'm going to pull this all together and show you something interesting in a minute. This is interesting too, but something summarily interesting. I John 3:17. And I never understood this. I can remember when I was a little kid Id hear my dad preach and this was before they retranslated this and I'd always hear that. I didn't know what he was talking about,, And some of you may be in that same boat, but it says in I John 3:17 "Whosoever hath this world's good and sees his brother hath need and shuts up his bowels from him, how dwells the love of God in him?" Boy, that is strange. That is strange. What is he saying?
He is simply expressing what in the Hebrew mind is an obvious thing. He is saying look, when you see somebody have a need that ought to cause a gut feeling in you, it ought to stir you up and tighten up your stomach and make you feel some real anxiety.
Now notice, in every one of those passages that I showed to you the bowels are always responding. They responded to pain in the first one I told you about, they respond to sex in Song of Solomon, they responded to disaster in the caseof Jeremiah, and they respond to human need in the case of I John 3. So that that in the Hebrew mind the bowel is always that which responds. It is emotion. They felt it inside. Now you say, what did they respond to? In the Hebrew mind it always responded to the second organ that they discussed the heart. The heart. Now listen. You say, well what is the heart symbolic of? Revelation 2:23 and I'll show you something very interesting. Revelation 2:23, and we could look at you know stacks and stacks of Bible verses related to the heart, to show this, but I'll just give you a couple and you can study it on your own. But I want to show you the point.
Revelation 2:23, the middle of the verse: "I am He (the Lord's talking) who searches the minds and hearts." Now what you have here is judgment, because he's just talked about the fact that he's going to cast this particular sinful situation into great tribulation if they don't repent and kill the children with death and etc. etc. And He says, I will search the minds and the heart. What is the heart? Listen to me. First of all, we see from that passage the heart is the place of responsibility. It's the place of responsibility. The heart is that which is wicked, in Jeremiah 17. The heart of man is what? Deceitful above all things and what? Desperately wicked. It is the seat of responsibility. It is that which God is going to judge and He will try men's what? Hearts. It is that which is righteous or wicked. When God redeems Israel He will take away their stony heart and give them a new what? Heart. It is the seat of responsibility; it is that which is judged. I'll take you a step further. It can't be emotion, then. It can't be emotion. What is it?
Let's look at Revelation 18:7. And here he's talking about Babylon the Great, the destruction of the final world system in the tribulation. "How much she bath glorified herself (Rev. 18:7) glorified herself and lived luxuriously. So much torment and sorrow give her (listen), for she saith in her heart, 'I sit a queen, and am no widow', and she'll see no sorrow." Now notice something. To say in her heart is a metaphor for doing what? Thinking. She said in her heart, what does that mean? She thought in her mind. What then does the heart picture? Not the emotions, but the mind. The intellect and the mind is made up o f two things the intellect and the will. That's the heart in Biblical terminology. In ancient times you don't find them referring to the brain. Listen to this one "...the fool hath said in his brain." No. The fool hath said in his what? "Heart." Why? Because the heart was the seat of thought, it was the seat of thinking. And so that the heart represents the mind that sets the pace and the bowels represent the responding emotion.
You say, well how did they get to this discovery? Well, it's easy to know how they got to the bowels being connected with emotion because when they got emotional they began to have what we have today upset stomachs, colitis, and all those symptoms that we get, right? All right here. But how did they get the heart out of the brain? Well, someone surmised that because when the brain is really functioning the heart is really working, and they could feel it throbbing and pulsing. But that's the way they did it. Real serious thinking says a Hebrew can be felt in the beat of the heart. For the heart thinks and the bowels respond with emotion. That's the way you are.
Now remember this. In the mind of the Hebrew and in the Revelation of God emotions never initiate, they always respond. The heart thinks and the emotions respond. That is the divine pattern. You know when somebody comes to me and says, I can't control my emotions. Oh, your bowels are running wild, is that it? Hebrew terminology, you've got a real problem, I can't: control my emotions. You know why? Because your emotions will only be controlled by your mind. Because emotion is a responder. You see, the key to controlling your emotions is filling your mind with divine truth. That's the key to controlling your emotions. You see, the emotions respond to what the mind perceives as true.
Did you get that? Your emotions will respond to what your mind perceives is true. Even if it isn't true! Try it. Have you ever been lying in bed and all of a sudden you woke up with a jolt when you landed after falling off that 40story building? (Laughter). You weren't falling, but your mind perceived it and your emotions responded to it. You know what that teaches me about emotions? Don't ever trust 'em. Don't trust 'em. Because you can make your emotions do anything if you can just make your mind think it perceives that. And the only way to control your emotions is to make sure that your mind is filled with divine truth. Emotions are like bad little children, they'll run amuck if you don't control them. And you say, how do you control them? You control them indirectly by feeding the mind.
Let me take you to II Cor. 6. 11 Cor. 6:11 back to that passage I mentioned earlier to you. And here's what he says, II Cor. 6:11, "Oh, ye Corinthians, our speech to you is candid, our heart is wide open." Now listen: Corinthians, listen to me. My speech to you is straightforward, candid, pulling no punches, and my heart or my mind is wide open. Listen, I've got all kind of truth to tell you. It's in my brain and my brain's open; it's in my mouth and my speech is wide open and straightforward. Now watch this. But, on our part there is no constraint. But there is constraining in your affections. You know what the literal Greek is there? You are tightened in
your bowels. That's the literal translation, I would certainly like to impart truth from my mind to your mind, but you are all tightened up emotionally. You are straightened emotionally.
Listen to this. The Corinthians had put an emotional attitude against Paul in the way and they couldn't receive the truth. People who have emotions in the way. Just think about the person who comes to church and has something against me. They can't learn, can they? Because they put their emotions in front of the truth. The emotions have stopped being a responder and the emotions are running the show. Here the Corinthians were putting emotions first, they wouldn't accept Paul, they were emotionally upset at him, so they were all tightened, uptight and they couldn't perceive truth. They had it all backwards. When people start putting emotions first then they really get into problems.
One classic illustration of that today is the Charismatic Movement, Pentecostalism. You know what they attempt to do? They attempt to start the emotions without the mind. And they
get you there and you've got enough halleluiahs going and enough and runnin' around andwavin' goin', you can bypass the mind and you can really get the emotions flying. The only problem is that the emotions are responding to something they perceive that isn't the truth. Because there hasn't even been the introduction to the truth. What they attempt to do is shortcircuit the truth, and let the emotions run wild, and that's the opposite of the Biblical pattern.
You see, emotions should always respond to the truth. The key then to behavior and the key to the control of emotion is the heart. The heart as seen as the mind. We need to plant the truth in the mind, and it will control the emotional responses. I don't know about you, but when they were singing tonight, when the kids were singing tonight, I got emotional. Did you get emotional? You know what I got emotional about? The truth, Every time they sang something that was the truth, oooh... terrific.(Laughter) Just got emotional about it. You get kind of sweaty, you know, and you get kind of those spiritual goose bumps and your emotions are reacting to the truth. That's the way it ought to be. And that's why Proverbs 4:23 says, and this is good: "Guard your heart." What does it mean? Guard your mind, your brain, with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.
You see? You want to control life, guard your mind, and don't let anybody shortcircuit it. That's 4:23. And Proverbs 22:5 further, says, "...thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse, but he that doth guard his soul shall be far from them." The same basic terminology the guarding of the mind, the Hebrew. You find it in Proverbs 23:19: "Hear thou, my son, and be wise and guide your heart in the way." Guide your heart guard it and guide it, that it might hear and perceive the truth and that your emotion might respond to the truth. A beautiful passage, Deut. 4:9, I can't resist reading it to you. "Take heed to yourself, keep your soul diligently lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen and lest they depart from your (listen) heart." I'll read it again, listen to this. "Take heed to yourself, Guard your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which you have seen and they depart from out of your heart." Don't forget the truth. Guard your heart. In Psalm 139, a beautiful portion of Scripture in verses 23 and 24: "Search me, 0 God, and know my (what?) heart. Try me, and know my thoughts." You see, the heart equated with thinking. "And see if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting." Guard the heart. Guide the heart. Ask God to protect the heart that's your brain, your mind. A good man, said Jesus in Matt, 12:35, "Out of the good treasure of the (what?) heart, brings forth good things. All the goodness will come out of the mind. The mind must guide the pattern of behavior.
One other passage, Matt., 15:19. "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, theft, false witness, blasphemy. Jesus said in Matt, 12: "All the good things come out of the thinking process." Jesus said in Matt. 15: "All the bad things come out of the thinking processes." So the Bible says, "God, guard my thinking processes."
Now let's go back to Colossians, and watch what this means to you now, "I wish you knew how great a conflict I have for you and forthem at Laodicea, and for as many ashave not seen My face in the flesh that their (what?) hearts might be strengthened." What do hearts mean? Minds. Paul says number one thing I want out of you is to be strong in heart. What does the word comfort mean? You say its comfort in my Bible... sure, "paracoletto". "Paracoletto". A very beautiful word, a word used repeatedly in the New Testament and a word that always contains the idea of strengthening. In Ephesians 6:22 it says, "...that He might strengthen your hearts." In II Thess. 2, "Strengthen your hearts." The word "paracoletto" includes in it the idea of comfort. It includes in it the idea of courage. It includes in it the idea of being strengthened. And it always carries all those aspects, In fact, we can look backwards into etymology and we can find the use of this word to mean specificically strengthened. One such incident is used by a Greek historian.: He says, there was a Greek regiment that had lost heart and lost courage and was totally dejected and they were just you know, going to give up, and the general sent in a new leader and he gave a great speech and he encouraged them so much that they were strengthened, and they went out and they became heroic. It means to strengthen. It means to provide a strong courageous inner man. An intellect, and a will that will act heroically for God. A strong heart means a firm mind. A mind that has courage. A mind that has conviction. A mind that believes. A mind that has principle.
You say, but how do you do that, John? How do you get a strong mind? And Paul is really saying, I don't want you people to fall prey to the false teaching of the errorists, I don't want you to fall to these people who are teaching you lies. I want you to be strong in your mind. I want you to hold the truth. You say, but how do you get strong like that? I'll show you. Ephesians 3:16 tells you in one verse. How do you get that mind, that inner part of me strong? Verse 16: "He prays to the Father that He would grant you according to the riches of His glory to be strengthened with power by His (what?) Spirit." Who is the strengthener of the heart? Who is it? It's the Holy Spirit. And we need it. We live in a world with a weak heart. People don't have conviction, people don't believe in things, people don't know the truth, people don't learn the truth, they don't pursue the truth, they don't mine the truth.. And he says, "I want you to be strong in it, I want you to be courageous, I want you to be comforted, encouraged and strengthened by it, all of that's in the word "paracoletto". And the Holy Spirit is the one who can do it.
You say, how does it happen, John? I believe as you yield to the power of the Spirit of God, as you walk in the Spirit, he strengthens the inner man. I think that's what he's saying here. You give the Spirit of God control of your life on a daytoday, momentbymoment basis and the Spirit of God will feed that inner man. The Spirit of God, by the revelation of God, will feed your mind and strengthen your mind. As we yield momentbymoment to the presence of the Spirit of God, we're strengthened. Paul is a perfect illustration of that. In Acts 9 he tells us that he was converted and immediately one of the things that began to happen after he was converted was that he began to be strengthened. Acts 9:19 says, "He was strengthened." Acts 9:22, "...but Saul increased the more in strength." He became stronger, and stronger. It wasn't that he was lifting weights and it wasn't that he was eating a lot of food, it was that he was being equipped by the Spirit of God and he became so strong in his heart, he became so solid in his confidence, he became so unflinching in his ministry, that in chapter 20 verse 22 he said, "I go bound to the Spirit to Jerusalem. I don't know what's going to happen, but I hear that bonds and afflictions await me; but none of these things (what?) move me." Strong. Strong in his heart. He had convictions about God. He had convictions about God's will for his life. He had convictions about the acts of obedience that God was askingof him, and he was strong enough to carry them out. He was strong. Tremendous courage, did Paul have.
In II Cor. 4:9 he says, "We're persecuted but not forsaken; we're cast down but not destroyed, always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus that the life also of Jesus might be manifested in our body." He says, in verse 8, "...we're troubled on every side, yet not distressed; perplexed, but notin despair." He says we go through a lot, but we never flinch. Why, Paul? Because we're strong. How did you get strong? By walking in the Spirit and the Spirit pouring divine strength after all.
Now listen to me. If the word "paracoletto" means to strengthen, it is the very same word that is used in John 14, 15, and 16 as the name of the Holy Spirit. Do you remember the Holy Spirit being called "Paracletas", the paraclete? That's the identical word. You could just as well translate those verses this way. John 14:16, this would be accurate according to themeaning of the word. John 14:16, Jesus says, "And I will pray the Father and He shall give you another strengthener." Verse 26: "...but the strengthener, who is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things." John 15:26: "...but when the Strengthener is come...", John 16:7 "...if I go not away, the Strengthener will not come. It's the same word. If you're going to be strong in heart, then you're going to be strengthened by the Strengthener, and that's the Holy Spirit, and I'll tell you what makes a weak Christian, and that's a Christian who walks all the time in the flesh. Right? Listen. Every step you take walking in the Spirit is a step like spiritual weightlifting. Just that much stronger in your mind, in your convictions, in the things you know and believe about God.
Now I want to go a step further. Although the Holy Spirit is the Strengthener, He uses human instruments. He uses people like me to strengthen you. People like you to strengthen each other. Listen to Acts 18:23: "...and after he had spent some time there (that's Paul) he departed and went over the country of Galatia and Frigea, now listen, strengthening all the disciples. What was he doing? What was Paul doing? What did he do to them? He went in there and he poured into their minds divine truth, and that strengthened them. God uses human instruments empowered by His Spirit to strengthen. Did you ever read 1 Tim. 6:2 this way: Paul says to Timothy at the end of the verse, "...these things teach and strengthen." Same verb. You know what strengthens, people? Teaching. "These things teach and strengthen." It is the Word of God in the hands of the Spirit of God, whether it is directly as he ministers to you or through a teacher that strengthens you.
We studied Jude recently. This is good. "Beloved, when I gave all diligence (Jude 3) to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful of me to write unto you and strengthen you that you should earnestly fight for the faith once delivered to the saints." He says, I had to write you to strengthen you. What do you mean? I had to impart to your brain knowledge to make you strong. Listen. People don't get strong by exercising their emotions. Do you understand that? You must understand what it says; I want you to have strong hearts, it doesn't mean I want you to have over exercised emotions. What it means is that I want you to have the input of the Spirit of God and the truth of God in your mind. And so it will come from the Holy Spirit who is the Strengthener, and it will come from other instruments, such as Paul, such as Jude, such as me, such as anybody. And you know something, it will come from you, because if you're strong you'll be able to pass that truth on.
Let me show you that in 1 Cor. Chapter 1. Listen to this, this is really exciting. Every time you see the word "comfort" or "consolation", it can be translated "strengthened". II Cor. 1:4 or 3 "Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, the God of all strength, who strengthens us in all our tribulation that we may be able to (what?) strengthen them who are in any trouble by the strength with which we ourselves are strengthened, For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us so our strength also abounds by Christ, and whether we be afflicted it is for your strength." In other words, what we endure we pass on to you as strength. The end of the verse: "Whether we be strengthened, it is for your strength." See, he's saying look, what we go through, what trials we endure, we pass on to you in strength. Strong hearts. Paul says, I pray for you Colossians. I pray you be strong in heart.
What do you mean, Paul? I don't mean that you have overexercised emotions. What I mean is that you take your heart, which is the mind, the source of intellect and will and strengthen it, so that it knows the truth and has the will to act on the truth. And then the emotions will flow along. You ever have one of those little toys with a flywheel on it? You know what a flywheel, a big heavy wheel? And you give it a little push, and it goes zooooom... right across the floor? On the first day. The second day it doesn't do anything because your kid broke it. Now listen. Emotions are like that flywheel. Truth is like your hand- Truth gives it the initial impetus and drives it, then the emotions will take over and carry it. But you can't do it the other way around. You can't just sit there and say, little machine, go. (Laughter) Go. Your emotions are a responder. They are the appreciator of your soul. And when the truth of God is poured into your mind and you understand it and you act on it, it spins the flywheel of emotion and it will carry you out.
Paul's prayer for you, and his prayer for me, and his prayer for all of us is that we have strong hearts. Because if we have strong hearts we're not going to be sucked into false doctrine, are we? We're not going to be sucked into emotionalism, and we're not going to be sucked into disobedience because a strong heart has a will to obey. And I'll tell you something, when you have a strong heart, man, the results are so exciting. I'll close with this, Ephesians 3:1721 gives you the results. When you have a strong heart, when you are strengthened with might by the Spirit, here's what happens in verse17, verse 16 says: "...strengthened by the Spirit." When that happens and your heart is strong, "Christ will dwell in your heart by faith and that is He will settle down and be at home in you. He will be rooted and grounded in love. you will find a new dimension of understanding (verse 18), You will begin to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge, you will be filled with all the fullness of God, you will be able to do exceedingly abundantly above all you can ask or think according to the power that works in you, and unto Him will be glory in the Church." You see the results, from strong hearts? Paul says, I love you people; I care about you. And what I want to see in your life first of all is that you be strong in heart.
PRAYER: Father, thank you for our fellowship tonight, for the things we've shared and learned as we've just begun this exciting study of these truths. We do not desire that this should be the end of our pursuit of these truths, but that it just be the beginning. We thank you, our Lord, that you have provided for us the food to feed the mind, that you have provided for us the flywheel of the emotions to respond and carry us out, excited, thrilled, happy, blessed, to fulfill your will in response to truth. Help us to control the emotions by filling the mind with your truth, and activating the will to respond to it. We thank you for Paul and his love of the Church. Give us the same. In Jesus name, Amen.
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Game On! Sports Schedule for February 6, 2013
The Miami Heat look like they could be on their way to a repeat title, while the Houston Rockets are clinging to hopes they can make the playoffs. The two squads square off tonight when the Rockets invade South Beach.
Earlier this season, the Heat edged the Rockets by three in Houston, so the Rockets will be looking for revenge and a big win as they try to gain some momentum before the All-Star break.
Here's a look at the entire schedule of today's games. All times Eastern:
Boston at Toronto 7 p.m.
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Golden State at Oklahoma City 8 p.m.
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San Antonio at Minnesota 9 p.m. (ESPN)
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New Center at New Mexico Tech Focuses on Student Learning, March 8, 2006
by Valerie Kimble
SOCORRO, N.M., March 8, 2006 – Improving the quality of the student learning experience is the primary goal of New Mexico Tech's new Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL).
The fledgling center was launched last summer by a team of Tech faculty and administrators, following a conference they had attended at St. Olaf's College in Northfield, Minn.
The conference was sponsored by The Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching and Learning, whose professional affiliates have led several workshops at New Mexico Tech.
"Initially our mission was to work out strategies on assessment of student learning," said Dr. Scott Zeman, associate professor of history at Tech. "But what we were really interested in doing, and the whole point of assessment, is to improve the educational experience for our students."
The team left Minnesota last June with a blueprint for a center committed to helping support and encourage innovative teaching and learning. Those plans, with moral and financial support from Dr. Daniel H. López, university president; and with the endorsement of Dr. Peter F. Gerity, Vice President for Academic Affairs, resulted in the CITL.
"The creation of the CITL reflects the professional dedication and commitment of our faculty and staff to enhancing the quality of the learning experience at New Mexico Tech," said Gerity.
"We are very pleased with progress made by the team, which has already experienced success in its first year, and we look forward to its continuation and expansion in coming years," he said.
The center has a fully integrated website (www.nmt.edu/~citl). Zeman is one of the five founding members, the primary CITL contact, and also serves as the university's Faculty Development Leader.
Dr. Carole Yee, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Students; Dr. Dal Symes, Director of the Skeen Library; and faculty members Dr. Tom Engler (Petroleum Engineering) and Dr. Tom Kieft (Biology) are CITL's other co-founders.
The group meets for weekly brown bag lunches in the Skeen Library, "and anyone can join us," Zeman said.
"The most innovative part, to me, of the NMT CITL, is that the center will work with any faculty who wish to work with them, thereby focusing the workshops, discussions, and other opportunities to the specific needs of our faculty," said Yee. "Also," she continued, "those faculty can learn to embed assessment of student learning in their course designs."
CITL, through Zeman, at last month's meeting of the New Mexico Tech Faculty Senate announced the winner of its first-ever Innovative Teaching Grant. From the nine proposals submitted by individual faculty, the center chose a proposal for a new astrobiology course to be taught this fall (please see related story).
Faculty members Dr. Michelle Creech-Eakman, Physics; Dr. Penelope Boston, Earth and Environmental Science; and Kieft from Biology will team-teach the multi-disciplinary class. The $4,000 grant will provide funds for supplies and guest lecturers.
CITL also offers a departmental grant, but received no applications this year.
Last fall, the center sponsored talks by recipients of the 2005 Outstanding Teacher and Outstanding Researcher awards: Dr. Clinton Richardson, Civil and Environmental Engineering; and Dr. William McIntosh, Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, respectively.
Dr. Robert Cormack, professor of psychology, the 2004 Distinguished Teacher Award recipient, gave a presentation on March 1. The CITL will host Dr. Jill Buckley with the Petroleum Recovery Research Center, the 2004 Distinguished Researcher Award recipient, at 4 p.m. on April 5 in Workman 101.
A CITL-sponsored workshop in February on designing courses to help students learn offered practical ways to engage students, said Zeman.
It was led by Dr. Karl Smith, professor of engineering at the University of Minnesota, and hand-picked by The Collaboration to give the workshop to Tech's science and engineering faculty.
And it was well received, said Zeman.
"We learned practical ways to engage students as active learners, how to keep students accountable," said Zeman. "Students must be actively engaged in a real way for learning to take place.
"We were encouraged to take tools from the workshop and tailor them to our own needs, our own vision and goals of a particular course," he said. "There is no single model that works for everyone."
Among the ideas discussed were students working in groups or in pairs, journals, in-class discussions – anything, Zeman said, to break the traditional educational model of the professor pouring knowledge into a student's head.
"We want to move away from the concept of the professor as lecturer and the students as passive recipients," he said. "But how can we do that? That's the challenge."
Future plans for the CITL include office space and a small library. "The theme is to start small and find ways to grow," he said. "We want the center to be a resource for faculty who choose to take advantage of it."
A teaching academy on campus is another goal of Zeman and company. "Faculty could become members based on set criteria, such as attending a certain number of teaching workshops," he said.
The concept is based on a model developed at New Mexico State University, Zeman added. "They've given us some good ideas," he said.
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Each year, about 10 to 15 percent of adults seek treatment for lower back pain -- and few are satisfied with the results. In a new study, researchers in Seattle and Portland found that massage therapy relieved chronic back pain more effectively than the usual care offered by physicians.
The controlled clinical trial compared two types of massage -- general relaxation or structural massage targeting constricted muscles and tissues -- and found no significant difference in their effects. But both relieved pain and increased function better than usual care, which typically consists of self-care advice and prescriptions for pain medicine.
"For people who have persistent back pain, massage is a reasonable treatment option," said co-author Daniel Cherkin, a senior investigator at Group Health Research Institute in Seattle.
The findings add to the evidence base for ways to avoid invasive treatments for back pain, which have questionable effectiveness and appear to be overused. Elderly Oregonians, for instance, are about 55 percent more likely to undergo back surgery than the national average -- a sign of potentially excessive use of surgery for back pain.
Surgery is effective for treating back pain caused by herniated spinal disks or compressed spinal nerves. But such specific defects are only evident in about 5 percent of patients who seek medical attention for back pain.
"I generally tell people surgery is only helpful if you are having both back and leg pain," said Dr. Richard Deyo, a professor of evidence-based medicine at Oregon Health & Science University and study co-author. Even with herniated disks, Deyo said it's good to wait at least 6 weeks before considering surgery because pain often subsides on its own.
In the massage study, researchers enlisted more than 400 women and men from the membership of the Group Health Cooperative health system in Seattle. All of them had moderate to severe back pain lasting three months or longer. Researchers excluded people who had herniated disks or compressed spinal nerves causing leg pain. Researchers randomly assigned volunteers to receive usual care or weekly massage sessions for ten weeks.
After 10 weeks, volunteers in both massage groups fared significantly better than the usual care patients in measures of disability, symptom bothersomeness, need for pain medication, sick days, and satisfaction with care. More than 36 percent of the massage patients said their back pain was much better or gone, compared with just 4 percent of usual care patients.
After a year, however, a large fraction of people still reported significant back troubles regardless of which treatment they received. About half were taking pain medication for back symptoms, and about 5 percent said back problems forced them to miss work or school in the past month. The advantages of massage that lasted the full year were increased activity, satisfaction with care, and overall rating of improvement. The study, funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, appears in the July 5 Annals of Internal Medicine.
The benefits of massage are roughly comparable to those found for exercise as a treatment for chronic back pain. "If people exercise they will have less back pain or be less bothered by it, but getting them to exercise is not that easy," Cherkin said. "Maybe the ideal for some people would be massage to get out of the chronic pain cycle and transition into a self-care program like yoga, or tai chi, or exercise."
Cost may be one of the biggest limits of massage therapy. The treatments received by the average participant in the clinical trial would have cost about $540, and health insurance often will not pay for message therapy.
-- Joe Rojas-Burke
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Basic Female?
Basic Female?
Nope... made with the basic Genesis figure , a group of free morphs called DieTrying's 182 morphs, and some scale changes...
The basic recipe...
Basic Female - Die Trying and RKane_1's Recipe
DieTrying's Morphs
Backbone Undefine -.20
Belly -.25
Belly Thick -.25
Chest Small X .50
Chest Small Z .50
Convex Front -.25
Hip Line Up .50
Hip Wide .1
Hollow Back .50
Neck Scale X .25
Neck Scale Z .50
Pelvis Define .50
Ribcage Undefined -.25
Shoulder Small .25
Wasp Waist .50
Breast Big .25
Breast Flat -.75
Breast Move Inside -.50
Breast Natural .50
Arms Petite .25
Calf Full -.25
Foot Petite .50
Hands Petite .50
Thigh Full .50
Chubby -.10
Pear .10
Glute Scale X .75
Glute Scale y .25
Glute Scale Z .75
Scale Changes
X Scale 95%
Z Scale 95%
-Left Collar-
X Scale 90%
-Right Collar-
X Scale 90%
X Scale 90%
Z Scale 90%
here are some comparisons...
In the first pic, the Genesis basic female is on the right in front.
In the second, Genesis Basic Female is in the foreground on the left.DTRK-Basic_Female004.jpg214 x 605 - 8KDTRK-Basic_Female003.jpg569 x 566 - 12KPost edited by RKane_1 on
The most important part of this discovery is... You have a base to work from for a female figure and don't have to rely on the Genesis Basic Female figure to start off with.
Many of the morphs that work on the Basic Genesis female work well on this figure too.
And if you want to make a female figure, you don't have to subtract out the morph at the end as this is a morph generated with a free set of morphs and some scale changes since you aren't using the Genesis Basic Female Shape.
Please discuss.
:)Post edited by RKane_1 on
[email protected] Posts: 322
It's always great to get morphs that let us tweek the models into more realistic figures (if we so choose....)
So where does one get Die Trying's morphs???
Robert952 Posts: 134
Agree, nice to have more options. And ditto the question. (I know, not really appropriate to just say ditto... but I'm posting this so I'll get an alert to reply.)
scorpio Posts: 6,175[email protected] said:It's always great to get morphs that let us tweek the models into more realistic figures (if we so choose....)
So where does one get Die Trying's morphs???
Here -
Gone Posts: 793
They are at Sharecg.
The oringinal is by DieTrying and was made for V4. Many of the morphs are similar to what you would get with Morphs++.
Sickleyield (with permission) converted them for use with Genesis.
They make a good addition to everything else but - like all morphs - some work better than others.
Edit: Beat me by that much. Well, at least your url works. :-)Post edited by Gone on
[email protected] Posts: 322
Thanks guys! Those will really help :D
ZamuelNow Posts: 748
They're quite useful. I tend to use them mainly for the options it gives for making various ethnicities.
SpyroRue Posts: 5,020
I've been using this for a while now, and to be honest... I actually use the morphs for both genders. They really help you develop and refine the character. Very useful set indeed!
mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
Did anyone notice...unrestricted use.
Here's the important parts from the ReadMe
This conversion was made with DieTrying's permission using the Gen X program, which is for sale at DAZ. All credit belongs to the original creator.
As with the original's stated permissions on ShareCG, this is unrestricted, meaning you can use the morphs to create your own presets and character sets, and release them commercially or noncommercially.
ZamuelNow Posts: 748mjc1016 said:Did anyone notice...unrestricted use.
Yep http://www.sharecg.com/v/64726/browse/21/DAZ-Studio/Suka-for-Genesis
Also, not from me but:
My sincerest apologies for neglecting to place a link to DieTrying's and Sickleyield's wonderful morph set in the second post. i have remedied that and added it.
Again, it is .:
DieTrying's 182 V4 Morphs for Genesis
I heartily suggest downloading them and playing a bit.Post edited by RKane_1 on


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Friday, November 26, 2010
Hiring Trends in Adult Language Institutes in Korea
For the past couple years, many adult languages institutes have been slowly moving away from basic E2's in favor of F2's. Without going into detail, F2's are quick and easy hires. I've been an F2 for nearly three years and while I personally haven't had any problems, I know plenty of F2's who are having an unusually hard time getting the exact position they want. It sounds entitled, but F2's usually get the position and salary they ask for because schools don't want to deal with immigration, documents and processing times. It's a win-win.
Now, however, being an F2 isn't as rare as it once was since many are staying in Korea a little longer trying to ride out the economic downturn. The competition is high for these good gigs and the F2 isn't the golden ticket it once was.
That's old news though. The trend that I'm seeing both from recruiters and other managers of adult institutes (including mine) is that NSET's are being replaced by gyopo. Adult students tend to be a little more tolerant than mothers and that allows these institutes to save cash.
Simply put, a basic pay scale at an adult institute follows a pretty common pattern. The F2's generally make the most cash, followed by the E2's, then the gyopo and then the Korean teachers. Schools might prefer F2's to E2's for a variety of reasons, but the demands that F2's make makes it harder to keep them around. E2's, on the other hand, are cheaper but require plane fare and housing. They are both expensive.
Gyopo usually don't get much of anything, though. Many times, they must pay their own way over here and then, once here, they usually don't get any housing or allowance. Unlike E2's and F2's, gyopo are generally getting paid per class which is still better than many Korean teachers who get paid per student, but the total earnings usually fall short of their NSET counterparts.
Money aside, these trends are suggesting that the English industry is quickly warming to non-Big 7-ers and non-traditional methods of education. More and more parents are turning to video/phone English, some provinces are paving the way for Indian teachers to enter the classroom, and the Filipina nannies are increasing in number.
I don't think that this means the end is near for the NSET's, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is the beginning of a cycle for Korea and the English industry to improve itself and shake some of the loose-ends free. There's no denying the need for reform on all levels and this might be a catalyst.
Let's just call it growing pains.
6 comments:
- Chris in South Korea said...
Nice to see you're still alive and blogging :) Looking forward to more posts from you.
Seriously, though - Korea may well be on a 'we'll do fine without you' kick - but let's review what makes a gyopo a gyopo. It's that outside influence - that's apparently enough to make a Korean a foreigner.
Is that merit to tossing aside the foreign English teacher? Yes - and no. How many English words have been introduced by the Filipino or Indian that are in widespread use around the world? A few perhaps, but these are merely historic examples of the legacy of the English language - not the founders of said English language. With few reservations, British, Canadian, and American speakers make up the best source of English in the world. To go elsewhere is not unlike seeing a carbon copy instead of going to the original.
- November 30, 2010 at 2:25 AM
ummm gyopos are also NSETs in many cases
- December 30, 2010 at 9:19 AM
- The Expat said...
They might be considered NSET by some (not most), but their visa is most always an F4 making their contracts different.
- December 30, 2010 at 12:32 PM
I'm not so sure about that. As a gyopo NSET myself and knowing a host of others such as myself on F4's our contracts have actually been the same if not with a higher salary than E2's because of our negotiating leverage (for the ones that are smart enough to use it). Although a lot of F4's also prefer not to be bound contractually in a full time contract with one employer and prefer to have flexibility making it easier to make a lot more money.
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Inspired by his mentor Bill Nunn, who died two days earlier, Bills GM Doug Whaley pulled off the biggest trade of the 2014 NFL draft to select wideout Sammy Watkins. The move announced to the rest of the league, and to long-suffering fans: Buffalo is tired of losing
The words of one of the great scouts in NFL history—and one of the trailblazers for all African-American personnel people in football—echoed in the head of Buffalo general manager Doug Whaley when he made the gutsiest move during the first round of the 2014 NFL draft on Thursday night.
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Bill Nunn Jr., a 46-year scout for the Steelers, drilled that into 23-year-old scouting intern Doug Whaley in Pittsburgh in 1995. And he continued to be the biggest mentor of Whaley's career when Whaley returned to the Steelers as a pro personnel scout several years later. Whaley, like his mentor, is black. Nunn died Tuesday in Pittsburgh of complications from a stroke. He was 89.
"I would never be sitting in this draft room right now, and I never would have been in position to make this move tonight, without Bill Nunn," Whaley said from the Bills' draft room 90 minutes after pulling the first mega-deal of the 2014 draft.
The Bills, scheduled to draft ninth, traded up five spots in the first round with Cleveland at No. 4, and took the best wide receiver in the draft—Clemson's Sammy Watkins. It cost plenty. Buffalo surrendered first- and fourth-round picks in 2015. It was a colossal price to pay. The Bills haven't made the playoffs in 14 seasons. If they continue their brand of football mediocrity in 2014, and win five or six games, Whaley will have sent a top-10 pick to Cleveland for moving just five slots in this draft.
But there's much more to this gamble than what shows on the surface. Whaley felt the burden of recent Bills history. Of the massive fan frustration. Of the death this year of owner Ralph Wilson, who'd entrusted him with the GM job in 2013, and of the feeling of front-office staffers that they owe Wilson something. Of the team's being a doormat for a decade and a half—just one winning season in this century—after winning four AFC titles in the '90s.
I wish the people of western New York could have heard Whaley's voice from the draft room on Thursday night. It was almost beseeching. Whaley's a Pittsburgher, born and raised and schooled there, but he sounded like a factory worker from Tonawanda when discussing why he had to make this move.
"We've got to win," he said. "We've got to win now. Fourteen years of not making the playoffs. Fourteen years. The people here deserve so much more. We need to give them more. We need to give them a winning team. We need to do it for the people of this region, and we need to do it for Mr. Wilson.
"I understand how big the deal is. I'm a competitor. I like our odds. I like our chances. The information we had made the decision for us. The player made the decision. I think I made the best decision for the Buffalo Bills. I can live with that, however it turns out."
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Whaley said he and the Bills' brass made the decision Tuesday to try to move up high in the draft, even if it took next year's first-round pick to do so. He had some talks with Cleveland earlier in the week. "But they intensified once Jacksonville was on the clock. I'd say we reached the final deal with about five minutes left in their [10-minute] period. We had two players targeted, and if they were still there, we were going to try to make the deal."
Whaley wouldn't say who the other player was, but he did make one thing clear: "Sammy was the top-rated player on our board."
The Bills began to fall in love with Watkins last fall, after Whaley scouted the Clemson-North Carolina State game last September. Watkins had a good but not starry game—10 catches, 96 yards, no touchdowns. "What I saw is the way an NFL wide receiver should look," said Whaley. And the affection grew at the Clemson pro day this spring. "He made a catch with unbelievable body control—it's hard to describe exactly what he did, but the body control was just amazing. I said to one of our scouts, 'What else do we need to see?' And we left. We left before the workout was over, because we knew."
Nunn, Whaley's mentor, was instrumental in finding players from predominantly black colleges when few scouts went there in the '70s. His coups: Hall of Fame wide receiver John Stallworth from Alabama A&M in the fourth round of the 1974 draft—Nunn found 1973 college tape of Stallworth that no one else had—and L.C. Greenwood (10th round) and Donnie Shell (undrafted free agent) in other years. "I'd just listen to Bill for hours tell stories, and there was always a lesson in them," said Whaley, the sixth African-American GM in NFL history. "I soaked everything in. When I first met him I was a 23-year-old kid brand new to the business, and here I was with the first high-level African-American scout in football history. What he meant to me I can't put into words, but it was so important to him that a scout have convictions."
Whaley needed those convictions Thursday night, when he traded what could be a top-10 pick in 2015 to move five spots to get the player of his dreams. Now Watkins will be the keystone in a revamped receiving corps. Stevie Johnson might be sent packing after a mediocre 2013 season, and youngsters T.J. Graham and Robert Woods will have to make a leap and play better or teams will simply be able to put enough defensive pressure on Watkins to neutralize his impact. The biggest help, of course, will be to quarterback E.J. Manuel, who now will have a fighting chance in his second season as the Bills' quarterback of the future.
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Monday, February 27, 2012
wild hearts can't be broken.
Posted by ilene @ muchloveilly at 4:57 PM
46 comments:
Hehe, that movie came out when I was in elementary school. My sisters and I used to watch it over and over. Good choice in movies btw! ;DReplyDelete
Cute dress! I love how it's navy blue. And it looks great with red lipstick!ReplyDelete
Love that you mixed in brown and black seamlessly.ReplyDelete
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oh goodness! it's me!!! emailing you RIGHT NOW! and I LOOOOOOVED that movie...can't tell you how many times I watched that!!!ReplyDelete
so pretty!!!!ReplyDelete
i totally am in LOVE with that dress and i don't even like horses. you make it look so CUTE!ReplyDelete
Ok, so I'll admit it...that was and still is one of my very favorite movies :)ReplyDelete
LOVE LOVE LOVE the dress! I want it! loL! I'd wear anything with a horse on it ;)ReplyDelete
You look so adorable!!! Your smile is so pretty too.ReplyDelete
LOVE that movie! my sisters and I watched it all the time :) you're seriously just too cute!ReplyDelete
you're so pretty friend<3 happy monday!ReplyDelete
Gasp! I love the navy blue dress with the hint of yellow! You totally rocked this outfit.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 27, 2012 at 8:07 PM
YOUR BOOTS. Dying over them.ReplyDelete
Oooh, haven't seen that movie, but now I'm going to have to search for it. :)ReplyDelete
I love animal print patterns! The horse print is too cute <3
Adore this dress on you and how you styled it! Your shoes and accessories are lovely!
such a cute dress! i love the tiny horse print! :]ReplyDelete
Love this outfit. I have been crushing that dress for a while now- You're rocking it. And we might have a problem- first you give me oreo cravings, and now it's shamrock shake cravings. My tummy says thank you, my butt does not! haha- 1 more week until CE! :)ReplyDelete
YES! I loved that movie when I was little. I actually got it from Netflix just a few weeks ago to revisit childhood. Sadly, it was not quite the same as my memory had it.ReplyDelete
THAT WAS THE BEST MOVIE EVER!ReplyDelete
Oh, Ilene. You always manage to steal my heart. I was just thinking about how awesome that movie was. And the main guy was such a hunk.
love the dress, so cute!! you look gorg!!ReplyDelete
i would wear this entire outfit.ReplyDelete
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I love when I see people wearing things that I would wear from head to toe.
And I am a big fan of colored stockings as well. I feel weird when my bare skin is out. I think only my husband will ever see my legs minus some type of covering. ah ah but that is just an insecurity.
I adore ADORE this this outfit. How gorgeous is that dress??! As usual you put together such a fantastic outfit. xReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 28, 2012 at 4:05 AM
lovely dressReplyDelete
LOVE this outfit.ReplyDelete
and LOVE that movie!!
I used to LOVE that movie!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 28, 2012 at 5:49 AM
love that necklace!! I am starting to make chunky necklaces for my shop and I'm loving it!! big fan!ReplyDelete
What a great dress! Always been a big fan of that movie. Haven't thought about it in awhile!ReplyDelete
ok, fact: perfect name for that dress. love it paired with those shoes.ReplyDelete
ok, yes. i saw that movie after an 11-year old cally marcy MADE me watch it. of course, i did. i mean, i wanted the little sister of my huge crush to like me after all.
I love your dress! You look really pretty with your hair like this. I don't think I've ever seen that movie, but I wasn't a big Disney movie person as a kid.ReplyDelete
you always have the cutest clothes! of course i remembe that movie, it was one of my favorites for years and years! now i kind of want to watch it again :)ReplyDelete
Ha ha, YES! I used to LOVE that movie! I used to watch it over and over again when I was little. I'm sure my mom was so sick of it, she probably wanted to pitch it out the window.ReplyDelete
You are gorgeous!! Love that first photo of you, it's extra pretty! :) And this dress is so fantastic, I have a very similar dress and I SO adore it. Love the shoes too, girl! xoReplyDelete
LOVE you with a gold necklace, and this dress is so fun!ReplyDelete
I love everything about this outfit. Adorable- ChristieReplyDelete
girl!! you've made it to the TOP of fashion blogging!! your whole outfit was c/o some awesome shops!! i am soo proud of you girl!! :DReplyDelete
Love that movie...seriously, I watched it A LOT growing up! and that dress is perfect :)ReplyDelete
love this dress illy! and your boots are super cute too :-)ReplyDelete
This is SUCH a pretty dress!ReplyDelete
i loved that movie!! i was so excited to buy it for niamh-- still makes me get goosebumps:).ReplyDelete
you look adorable!
Love your dress lady!ReplyDelete
That movie was one of my absolute favorites--I watched it about a million times growing up. I remember when she cut her hair in the movie--I wanted to be just like her! Anyway, you look cute in that dress!ReplyDelete
My bestie and I first bonded in high school over our shared love of that flick! "On the boardwalk in Atlantic City..."ReplyDelete
I refuse to get rid of my VHS copy of Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken. I even made a boyfriend watch it when we were in college. Classic! Ha.ReplyDelete
SO adorable! Almost as adorable as you.ReplyDelete
Hehe, I totally remember that movie! Loved it! ;)ReplyDelete
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