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Several years ago I wrote a book-length series of devotions that, at the time, I sent around to everyone in my email address book. All of the devotionals were based on my experiences as a dad to three boys (the oldest of which, at the time, was 10; he is now 15.) I never did anything with those devotionals except send them around to my friends. I had ambitions at one time to try and have them published, but never did anything about it. So I have decided to share them here at my blog. All told, there are 28 of these devotionals and I will publish them all here. I have also decided that I will be leaving them for the most part 'at the time'. That is, I won't be updating them to reflect the five years of so that have passed since their original writing. I will update some thoughts and grammar, but other than that, they are unchanged. I hope you enjoy. jerry
In many ways I am fortunate to be who I am. There are days when I think I would be better off to be someone else, but most days I am content and have no regrets whatsoever. Undoubtedly the best part about being me is that God has blessed me with three sons. What more could a man ask for? "Sons are a heritage from the Lord, children a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one's youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their enemies in the gate" (Psalm 127:3-5).
Being a dad has taught me more about faith, Christianity and God than all of my college courses combined. I earned a degree from college by completing many courses of study, but for the last 10 [now 15!] years I have been earning my degree in manhood by being dad to three boys. This is no small task, as you will read about in the upcoming pages.
So why is it that being a dad is so much fun? As I said I have three boys. Could life be any more challenging, rewarding or full of adventure? I think not. Being a dad is teaching me a great deal about how God must feel most of the time. Sometimes when I am disciplining my children I can hear God talking to me. (My sons sometimes listen to me!) God's family is magnificent and grand. It is a motley group of children from every tribe and tongue under the sun. What a joy it must be for God to be Father to so many children, but also what a burden!
I say this because God also has to deal with those parts of being a dad that are not especially wonderful. After all, we are children, and more often than not we act childish and not childlike. There is a difference you know. We play childish games with one another and treat each other poorly. We deliberately disobey. We cry when we are hurt. As a dad, I have to be ready at all times for whatever shenanigans might happen upon our path for the day. In a sense, God, as Dad, is no different.
Sometimes as God's children we break things.
Recently, my eldest son Jerry had one of his friends over to play. While the friend was here they were in the upper portion of our house [at the time we were living in the church parsonage] playing, when all of the sudden, the brainstorm came over them. They decided it would be the right thing to do to bounce on the beds.
Great Idea.
What is great is that they did not decide to bounce on Jerry's bigger, sturdier bed. No, instead they went into Jacob and Samuel's room and bounced on the smaller, older, repaired-several-times-over-the-past-five-years-beds. These beds are literally held together with a prayer and some sort of drywall screws, putty, and duct tape. They serve their purpose with great dignity when there is only one 20-35 pound baby boy sleeping snug under the covers for eight or nine hours a day. But let just one 40-50 pound child start jumping on those beds and the stress is too much for those bored out, gnarly old boards. The screws literally snap in half. Now, add another 40-50 pound child to the fun and you can see the dilemma faced by those gallant old bed frames.
All that we heard was a loud crashing sound accompanied by a sickening thud. Jacob's bed had fallen into many pieces: A headboard, foot-board, and two side rails, a mattress, a mattress board, several screws, etc., etc. The beds were designed for sleeping, not Olympic caliber athletic competitions but what did the kids care?
When I got around to repairing the bed about 3 weeks after the incident, (go-ahead laugh) I made certain that Jerry was with me so he could help with the repairs. Have you ever had to find a solid place to put a screw where the wood has been screwed into 40 or 50 times prior? To be sure, it is not easy. It's like asking a sponge to hold a nail or Swiss cheese to hold mustard.
You might have guessed that this is not the first bouncing on the bed incident. The room was in tatters and I said to Jerry, "Son, I want you to look around the room. See the bed, broken apart? See the hard work we are doing to fix the bed that was broken by your violation of my rules? Do you see how much work I had to do to fix what you broke?" He did, and acknowledged his newfound wisdom.
Bouncing on beds is fun. We have probably all done it with the exception of that portion of you who never broke any of your parents' rules. So when it comes to our faith does God ever think the same thing about us? "My child, look how much work I had to do to fix what you broke. Do you not think it would have been better if you had simply obeyed the first time around?" And the story goes on and on and God is still going around fixing all of the messes we manage to make, and cleaning up all of the milk we have managed to spill, and repairing the relationships we have managed to destroy, and chasing down all the pagans we have driven away in our zeal to keep our churches clean. "And behold, the Lord saw all the he had made and said, 'It is very good.'" Then comes chapter 3.
What is really strange about the whole story though is this: Just as I required Jerry to help me fix the broken bed, so also does God require us to help him fix the things we have broken. So he tells us that when we sin against our brother we are to go and ask for forgiveness, and when someone comes to us in repentance we are to forgive. Or when we are estranged from a sister we must go and be reconciled to them. Or when we run away from home we must return in humility to the father who does his part by waiting for, watching for, and, finally, welcoming us. Those things we break he expects us to fix.
I can tell you from first hand experience and because I am a preacher that fixing those things we break is hard. It is complicated. It is time consuming. It is humiliating. And it's all in a days walk.
"Therefore, this is what the LORD says: 'I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there my house will be rebuilt. And the measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem,' declares the LORD Almighty. "Proclaim further: This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'My towns will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.' " (Zechariah 1:16-17)
What we ruin God repairs. Jerusalem was destroyed because of sin; it was rebuilt because of love. God certainly returned to Jerusalem, but he made the people do the back breaking labor or rebuilding it stone for stone. He provided a way for it to be rebuilt they provided the labor. There is always work that must be done. God will provide the means, we provide the sweat.
Being a dad has taught me that perhaps it is better if we obey the rules the first time around. Then we will not have to do the back breaking work of God's reconstruction projects. (Understand that even the work of forgiveness is difficult. Bouncing on beds is fun; broken beds are not fun to repair. We may enjoy breaking things; we may not enjoy the work God requires when He decides to get around to fixing them. I am not convinced that our Father cares for us to take three weeks to get around to it either.
If one of my followers sins against you, go and point out what was wrong. But do it in private, just between the two of you. If that person listens, you have won back a follower. But if that one refuses to listen, take along one or two others. The Scriptures teach that every complaint must be proven true by two or more witnesses. If the follower refuses to listen to them, report the matter to the church. Anyone who refuses to listen to the church must be treated like an unbeliever or a tax collector. I promise you that God in heaven will allow whatever you allow on earth, but he will not allow anything you don't allow. I promise that when any two of you on earth agree about something you are praying for, my Father in heaven will do it for you. Whenever two or three of you come together in my name, I am there with you.
Peter came up to the Lord and asked, "How many times should I forgive someone who does something wrong to me? Is seven times enough?" Jesus answered: Not just seven times, but seventy-seven times!
This story will show you what the kingdom of heaven is like: One day a king decided to call in his officials and ask them to give an account of what they owed him. As he was doing this, one official was brought in who owed him fifty million silver coins. But he didn't have any money to pay what he owed. The king ordered him to be sold, along with his wife and children and all he owned, in order to pay the debt. The official got down on his knees and began begging, "Have pity on me, and I will pay you every cent I owe!" The king felt sorry for him and let him go free. He even told the official that he did not have to pay back the money.
As the official was leaving, he happened to meet another official, who owed him a hundred silver coins. So he grabbed the man by the throat. He started choking him and said, "Pay me what you owe!" The man got down on his knees and began begging, "Have pity on me, and I will pay you back." But the first official refused to have pity. Instead, he went and had the other official put in jail until he could pay what he owed.
When some other officials found out what had happened, they felt sorry for the man who had been put in jail. Then they told the king what had happened. The king called the first official back in and said, "You're an evil man! When you begged for mercy, I said you did not have to pay back a cent. Don't you think you should show pity to someone else, as I did to you?" The king was so angry that he ordered the official to be tortured until he could pay back everything he owed.
That is how my Father in heaven will treat you, if you don't forgive each of my followers with all your heart. (Mat 18:15-35 Contemporary English Version)
Soli Deo Gloria!


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Probably already mentioned but windscreen wipers...
- They squeak or screech even slightly
- They don't remove every drop of water or leave streaks (will pull over immediately to correct this)
- They are on more than they need to be (eg: set to constant when it's just spitting. This only annoys me when I'm a passenger as I don't ever do it. It even annoys me when other cars that driving past do it lol)
- When people forget to turn them off after it stops raining (are you paying attention to your surroundings if you don't notice two black sticks swinging in front of your face?)
- Small wipers that don't wipe enough of the window
Yeah, windscreen wipers...
I don't know if they still do it, but I used to have a Nissan that, when you switched off the wipers, it would give one more wipe, I'm told it was common across the marque. That annoyed me far more than is sensible. I mean, I turn off the wipers because I have judged that there is no more wiping required, and it gives one more wipe as if it knows better than me. Apart from that I was quite happy with the car, but since then Nissans have been on my wouldn't-buy list.


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Refinements inside and out improve the Carrera to a new level – but some of that classic 911 feel is gone
Initial Thoughts
One of Porsche's more recent ad campaigns described the 911 as an everyday sports car. Not in that it's a mundane sort of experience, but that it has the flexibility to be used every day.
My test of this 2012 911 Carrera – with a seven-speed manual – proved that the iconic Porsche two-door can handle everything this urban dad can throw at it. What was even more surprising is it's remarkable highway fuel consumption that was better than most midsized sedans I've tested.
Forget the old, just-the-basics feel of 911s of old, though. For 2012, interior refinements take the experience of driving a 911 to a new level.
In Porsche-speak, the 911 'Carrera' is the base model, if you can call it that. Mechanically, that means it's got the 350 horsepower, 3.4-litre flat-six sitting right over the rear axle. What's noticeable behind the wheel is the way this engine makes torque. Not only is it light on that output – at 287 lb-ft – but it makes peak torque at a very high 5,600 rpm.
In the city, this means abundant grunt isn't always readily available to you. You'll find that revving the engine is required to keep up with the cut and thrust of traffic.
When you have the opportunity to play with the Carrera away from the city and at those high revs though, it's a delightful package. The wider front track and longer wheelbase make this the most stable 911 ever. Sadly, the lovable nose bob of 911s of old is absent. The suspension still gives a firm but controlled ride. There's perhaps not another set of conventional brakes that are better – they're powerful and exceptionally precise in feel and modulation.
Since it only weighs 1,380 kilograms (3,036 pounds) the 911 Carrera is light on its feet. The Porsche has lost some steering feel with the change to electric power assist, but it remains perfectly direct and weighted to suit the character of the car.
This test machine came equipped with the new seven-speed manual transmission. Since I heard about this gearbox, I've been dying to give it a try. (I'm so old that I remember the introduction of six-speed manuals.) It works just like you'd expect with each gear perfectly spaced from one another. One trick is that you can't access seventh gear unless you're already driving in fifth or sixth – despite the fact that third will take you up to comfortable highway speeds.
Your other transmission choice is the superb $4,660 PDK dual-clutch seven-speed box. Electronics make it shift faster for much quicker acceleration and gear selection is better controlled for improved fuel consumption. Personally, I prefer the PDK for the technology (no human can shift this quick) and that it's easier to live with in day-to-day traffic.
Let's cut to the chase here – the real reason this car has the seven-speeds is to meet European fuel consumption and CO2 standards, and not for the amusement of enthusiasts. Seventh is the fuel miser gear, dropping the engine's revs. While we're on the subject, fuel consumption is amazing – this noted lead foot managed sub-8.0 L/100 km highway averages. On the other hand, I never got close to the 11.0 L/100 km city rating.
The's not much to complain about inside the cabin. The steering wheel and seat adjustments (although the test car's seats were an odd mix of power and manual adjustments) have such a wide range of adjustability that the Carrera's cockpit can suit virtually everyone from a jockey to a basketball player.
It's a personal choice, and thankfully Porsche offers more than one seat, but I prefer the base 911 seats to the $920 Sport Seats with which this test car was equipped.
Sightlines are excellent in every direction, and with the car's relatively small exterior dimensions, it's a breeze to park. Parking sensors are optional, though largely unnecessary.
Overall, the quality of materials and fit and finish are a step above the previous generation of this Porsche, and there is a level of refinement throughout the car that's never been present in 911s.
Usability is really where the Carrera shines as an everyday sports car. My time with the car included a couple of 80-kilometre commutes, as well as one drive where I filled the (front) trunk with luggage, and the cabin with wife, child and more luggage. With the Carrera, you get to have your cake and eat it, too.
The dash and console now resemble the interiors of the Cayenne SUV and Panamera sedan with their myriad buttons. At first sitting, you can be overwhelmed by the number of buttons. Thankfully, the test car lacked a sunroof and it's associated buttons. That being said, buying a, ahem, low-end model like this means a lot of blank buttons which looks cheap in such a pricey car.
The new LED display in the gauge cluster adds some needed functionality, with its redundant navigation, audio and car systems displays. With its location behind the wheel, it means less time for the driver's eyes to spend looking away from the road.
As with each successive generation of 911, the engine has become further hidden and with the 991 generation, there is now nothing that resembles an engine component visible under the rear wing module (I think you're obliged to call it something else since you can't call it an engine cover…). Don't worry, though, you can still add oil in the unlikely event the Carrera's levels drops between services.
From a pure price-to-performance ratio, the 911 Carrera is a hard bargain. The base price is $93,700 and as tested, this test car rang the MSRP bell at $107,545, including destination charge and air conditioning tax. That's quite a pretty penny to ask for a 350-horsepower sports car.
While other cars like the Chevrolet Corvette Z06 or Nissan GT-R give you more performance bang for your buck, they don't give you the same usability and Teutonic precision that the 911 does.
The Carrera makes a strong argument for the everyday sports car and there's nothing on sale that's as well rounded as this peculiar little sports car from Stuttgart.
Originally published by Sympatico Autos on August 26, 2012.


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KCR deceived all sections in Telangana: TPCC chief - Etv
TPCC President Uttam Kumar Reddy came down heavily on Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao for deceiving all sections in the state. The TPCC chief said that people will teach a befitting lesson to IT Minister K Taraka Rama Rao, who is speaking at his own liberty. Speaking at Gandhi Bhavan in Hyderabad, Uttam Kumar demanded that the TRS should allocate Rajya Sabha seat to members of the martyrs' families of Telangana Movement. The Congress will field its candidate otherwise, he warned. Congress leaders Revanth Reddy and Shabbir Ali were also present.


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Just 16 years after DOMA's passage, striking it down can be seen as conservative
A three-judge panel of the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston has ruled that the federal Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional….
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BOSTON — A battle over a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman appears headed for the Supreme Court after an appeals court ruled Thursday that denying benefits to married gay
DOMA affects a thousand or more generic cross-references to marriage in myriad federal laws. In most cases, the changes operate to the disadvantage of same-sex married couples in the half dozen or so states that permit
Carney explained the Obama administration's belief that DOMA is unconstitutional and noted it is no longer defending the law in court, but deferred further questions to the Justice Department. "That's the position the president has held for some time


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MOSCOW, April 14. /TASS/. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu is promptly briefing Russia's President Vladimir Putin on the situation in Syria in the wake of a US missile strike, Rossiya-24 TV Channel reported on Saturday, referring to the ministry.
"Russian Defense Minister Army General Sergei Shoigu is providing updated information on Syria to Russia's President Vladimir Putin," the TV Channel quoted the ministry's statement as saying.
The missile strike against Syria's military and civilian infrastructures was carried out by US planes and naval ships in cooperation with British and French air forces between 03:42 and 05:10 Moscow time on Saturday.
The United States, Britain and France said the strikes were in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria's Douma.
According to Russia's Defense Ministry, the US, France and Britain launched over 100 air-to-surface cruise missiles (compared to 59 missiles launched against Syria's Shayrat airfield last year), most of which were shot down by the Syrian air defenses.
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The Iliad and the Odyssey: Why Homer?
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June 21st 2011
The Iliad and the Odyssey: Why Homer?
The heart of a classical education is the cumulative study of Latin and the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome. In the Western tradition, education has always been synonymous with classical education. It began with the Greeks and Romans, was preserved and expanded by Christians during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and continued unabated until well into the twentieth century. Why study the Greeks and Romans? They are all dead, their civilization is dead and gone, they were pagans, and they weren't even Christians. What do they have to say to us? Just as Latin is not dead, it is also true that Greece and Rome are not dead. They are immortal in their architecture, art, law, government, languages, mythology, literature, and philosophy. The cultures of Greece and Rome live around and through us every day. People who study Latin soon see that Latin is everywhere and that they have been speaking and reading Latin all of their lives. Likewise, people who study Greece and Rome soon see that those cultures are everywhere, and they have been living as Greeks and Romans all of their lives. The story of Greek and Roman literature begins with the story of Troy. Students should read the Iliad and the Odyssey as a part of their curriculum. At first, the warrior culture of these early Greeks seems very alien. They were not sensitive and sentimental like us. They were not politically correct at all. Achilles was certainly not a nice Christian gentleman like The Pope. We don't know many real facts about the Trojan War, and all those silly gods fighting and taking sides. Why don't we read something useful, like a book on the Civil War? But the Iliad, I discovered, is a book about the Civil War. It is a book about all wars, about the people and characters that you find in every war: the wise, the foolish, the clever, the noble, the base, the ambitious, the women, the old, and the young. It is about their pettiness, their heroism, their adventures, their sacrifices, and their sufferings. The Iliad is mostly about people, not war, and it gives us unforgettable and universal character types. There is no passage in all of literature more moving than when Priam comes to beg for the body of Hector and kisses the bloody hands of Achilles, who has slaughtered so many of his sons. The two enemies, one old and one young, sit down and weep together over what they both have lost. Hector is the real hero of the Iliad, and he dies at the hands of Achilles, who desecrates his body and drags it around the walls of Troy, Venus then restores his body to perfection before it is returned to Priam. And the Iliad ends, "Thus was the funeral of Hector, tamer of horses." The Iliad is a strange poem when you think about it. It is not at all what we expect from a story about a great war hero. Hector, in fact, is just the opposite of the John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, make-my-day kind of hero that we so admire. I'm sure the Greeks were just like us and would have much preferred a poem that showed that they were number one, that they were right, and deserved to win over the effeminate Trojans. But that is not what Homer gave them—or us. Hector, in some sense, prefigures Christ, for he was not at all the Greek ideal of a hero, godlike in beauty and strength. Rather, he was a hero that was defiled and humiliated. The Iliad and Odyssey are the beginnings of Western literature. The story of that war and its aftermath continues in the Aeneid. Written by the great Roman poet Virgil, and modeled on the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Aeneid tells the story of Aeneas, who was destined to escape from the burning city of Troy and found a new city, Rome. And the destiny of Rome, Virgil tells us, was to civilize and rule the world. Rome brought an unprecedented two hundred years of peace and prosperity to the ancient world, preparing the way for the coming of Christ and the spread of the...
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Washington: India has become the first south Asian country to be added to the Strategic Trade Authorization-1 (STA-1) list after the US issued a federal notification to this effect, paving the way for high-technology product sales to New Delhi, particularly in civil space and defence sectors.
India is now the only nuclear-armed country in the world to get such a status. This exception for New Delhi is intended to send a very strong political message to China and the world. The federal notification, issued on Friday, gains significance as the Trump administration made an exception for India, which is yet to become a member of the NSG.
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Gangnam Style provides a perfect opportunity for the Spring Carnival – but will it be used effectively?
If you haven't been swept up in the Gangnam Style craze, you are obviously living under a rock. To acquaint yourself, watch the following video, which has been viewed more than 340 million times worldwide:
Hopefully, you get the gist. Korean rapper Psy's hit may be unintelligible to us for the most part (apart from "hey, sexy lady" and "baby baby", as well as the "oppa Gangnam Style" chorus), but it is not the words which have made this the king of all internet phenomena. Instead, it is the hilarious horse-riding dance which has captivated audiences.
And boy, has it captured public imagination! Not only has it been viewed more than 340 million times and counting on Youtube, but it has hit number 1 in 11 countries, including Australia and the United Kingdom.
For people my age, we'll be telling our kids about those random dances everyone did – the Macarena, the Nutbush and Gangnam Style. Would it be Gangnam Style or the Gangnam Style? A matter of semantics, really.
Anyway, what does Gangnam Style have to do with horse racing?
Well, if you haven't made the link yet, Psy's comical dance resembles a person on horseback. I call it comical, because I laugh every time I see it. Some will find it very serious, but either way, it is a lot of fun.
So why has this not been used as a spring carnival marketing tool so far? It seems the timing is fortuitous.
Surely Gangnam Style, if used effectively, would be a more relevant tool for the Spring Racing Carnival than it would be for, say, Big Brother (which has used the dance for promotion this week).
What I'd love to see is a large group of dancers – around 150 or so (maybe 151 for the number of Melbourne Cups?) – breaking out into the Gangnam Style dance in Federation Square in Melbourne.
I'd take it one step further, though.
Imagine, before a race like the Cox Plate or the Melbourne Cup, if you had dancers in the silks of horses that have previously won the race. Or, better yet, have them in the silks that will be worn in the feature race! Imagine them all doing the Gangnam Style dance. Now, wouldn't that be a great image for racing?
But, that's not all. Imagine everyone on course joining in! Seriously, could there be a better image for racing? I doubt it.
Every year, as the pre-race entertainment is announced, it is posited as "a tribute to the jockeys" or "a tribute to the champions" or something along those lines. I remember, before the 2007 Melbourne Cup, Christopher Cross performed "Ride Like The Wind" for the jockeys. I love the song, but surely Gangnam Style provides a stronger link than Ride Like The Wind?
Of course, the traditionalists would be up in arms, decrying the infiltration of pop culture into racing. But it is a move that is long overdue, something that is happening slowly.
Certain raceclubs are ahead of the game. In particular, the Melbourne Racing Club is making headway towards trying to expand their feature days, as demonstrated by the booking of Adam Lambert to close out Caulfield Guineas Day. Googling Adam Lambert Caulfield Guineas will bring up a number of posts from young kids attending their first raceday in order to see their idol.
By embracing pop culture, racing keeps itself relevant.
Don't get me wrong, I am a firm advocate of keeping the horses at the centre of attention. They are the stars of the show, providing an endless array of storylines to keep us racing fans entertained.
But racing needs to look beyond its own community and towards attracting those potential racing fans.
There is a very good opportunity lurking within the next month with Gangnam Style. Let's hope it is used to its full potential.
Knowing racing administrators, though, we are probably looking at 2045 before it is used in any means as a racing promotion. Let's hope they are not that ancient.
NOTE: The Australian Financial Review is reporting Max Markson is in negotiations to get Psy back to Australia for the Melbourne Cup. Let's hope it happens! As long as there are back up dancers in the silks of the runners…


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The world-famous Blue Mosque is one of Istanbul's premier sights. Sultan Ahmet's imperial mosque is still a working mosque with fascinating tile work- 21,043 of them to be precise – in every shade of blue. Blue Mosque in Istanbul is an essential part of Istanbul Highlights tour that lets us cover mosque architecture and basics of Islam in a very relevant setting.
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Topkapı Palace was the home and seat of the government of the Ottomans for nearly 400 years. It's the heart of the great Ottoman Empire, ruled by the monarch who lived in Topkapı's hundreds of rooms with a vast family and servants.
We do include the outer terraced gardens, (again, no other tour does this part) where flowerbeds blaze with tulips of many colors, and we climb the high terrace to admire the view over the Golden Horn.
Istanbul Highlights tour doesn't include the Harem. If you'd like to see, the Harem, please consider booking Grand Tour of Istanbul or Topkapı Palace/Harem Tour.
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Here's the lowdown: Re-thinking how you perforate is a fast way to deliver immediate productivity and completions efficiency wins.
The Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin needs many different perforating approaches
The Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) provides a broad range of plays covering tight gas, shale and heavy oil. Each of these plays requires their own unique way to optimize the production of the hydrocarbons and this had led to all kinds of innovation over the years. Conventional oil includes light crude oil and heavy crude oil, each of which needs different development strategies. As the WCSB conventional plays mature, recent development has focused more on natural gas and oil sands.
In each of these cases, the oil and gas production comes with its own set of challenges. Hard formations can make drilling slow, whilst reduced permeabilities require stimulations such as hydraulic fracturing to achieve commercial production. Heavy oil development in very soft formation rock causes further challenges. Wellbore stability and sand management are significant issues and the highly viscous nature of the oil can make the flow regimes challenging.
What follows, is a look at three different perforating scenarios in the WCSB and at some of the new approaches which are helping deliver better production.
1. Shale
3 real benefits from perforating with TriStim
Increased well performance and lower operating cost by delivering better well conductivity.
Greatly enhanced tunnel geometry (bigger)
Reduction in perforation damage (cleaner)
Increased penetration (deeper)Find out more
Perforating challenges in WCSB shale formations
The Canadian shales of the WCSB are often much harder than other areas which makes them much more difficult to fracture. Additionally, some of the plays, such as the Montney and Duvernay shales, are close enough to the Canadian Rockies to be affected by stress regimes that are rarely seen in other worldwide locations and this only adds to the fracturing challenges.
In summary, the characteristics of WCSB shale plays are;
- Harder rocks
- Microscopic pore spaces
- Low pore connectivity
- Stress regimes
The specific challenges for perforating in these hard formation plays include;
- Issues around penetration
- Issues around fracture initiation
- Issues around proppant delivery
New perforating approaches that provide proven benefits
Recent experiences in the area have shown that delivering a better perforation can positively impact on production and completions efficiency.
More specifically, if treatment pressures can be reduced and pump rates improved whilst delivering higher proppant concentrations, then treatments will take less time, less horsepower and can be more productive. Couple this with the added benefit of reducing breakdown pressures and you can see significant benefits across the board.
Tier 1, together with Delphian Ballistics, have successfully deployed TriStim in a number of wells in the WCSB so as to deliver some significant increases in production beyond the typical production curves for wells in the area. Some specific benefits have included;
- Lower Breakdown Pressures, in some areas, reductions were as much as 25MPa
- Increased injectivity rates at lower pressures
- More proppant placed in zone
- Improvements in proppant concentration pumped
Increased productivity
You can see our case study from Devon Energy deployments where some of these results are explained in a bit more detail.
The future of perforating in shale plays?
Recently, there have been some exciting experiments conducted with pumping massive amounts of sand to increase productivity: the so-called "era of the monster frack".
Chesapeake Energy set a record with the amount of sand it used in what it called "Prop-A-Geddon" after it pumped 25,000 tons of sand down a natural gas well to deliver a cumulative production of 70%. In Western Canada, Crew Energy completed two upper Montney wells using double the normal sand loading to deliver similarly attractive results.
It may be that delivering the bigger, deeper and cleaner perforations that TriStim is capable of will enable such monster fracs to become even more effective.
2. Heavy Oil
Cold production of heavy oil has seen many different techniques attempted all of which focused on trying to exclude sand from the production stream. However the advent of PCP's (Progressive Cavity Pumps) saw a change in production philosophy that saw the fluids being produced with sand particles deliberately left in, the result was an increased well deliverability and prolonged production life.
Perforating challenges Cold Heavy Oil Production
Traditional perforating challenges don't exist because the creation of tunnel in soft target is much easier to achieve. But, is the tunnel structurally stable enough to promote long-term flow?
Also, the time taken to get to peak production can be an issue. Using the CHOPS methodology, the peak production is not reached for weeks or months.
New approaches that provide sand production benefits
In the application of CHOPS, can the perforation tunnel be optimized to yield better performance from the well?
The objective is to promote long-term flow by creating a cavitation effect in the tunnel by systematically failing the rock around the perforation which increases flow.
The unique geometry of the TriStim tunnel not only opens up a significant area for increased inflow but in the perforating regime incorporated in CHOPS, the TriStim tunnel is likely to respond much better to the cavitation creation desired by this perforating method.
Delivering cavitation faster
A fortuitous by-product of the TriStim process is that, in certain applications or configurations, the tunnel can be purposefully delivered in a more unstable form than the conventional tunnel.
For example, it has been recognized that the TriStim tunnel stability when deployed in horizontal wells with softer rocks, is less than its traditional counterparts. But where this is a limitation for some sand control applications, it's exactly what's needed for CHOPS applications.
Because of this different tunnel geometry, we anticipate that the desired cavitation might take place over shorter time. This would help to deliver peak production over much shorter timescales. Shortening operator's ROI period in this way could deliver huge efficiency savings.
Another possible benefit is that because TriStim starts with a bigger tunnel, maybe this benefit is maintained throughout the life of the well? This could mean we also end with a bigger tunnel which, in turn, might prolong the life of the well?
Improved tunnel geometry
Read more about how TriStim is capable of delivering a different kind of tunnel geometry that has deeper penetration, increased tunnel volume whilst also being cleaner with greatly reduced perforating skin here. This bigger, deeper and cleaner geometry provides all kinds of benefits for conventional perforation.
3. Injection & Disposal Wells
The challenges of perforating for injection can initially be seen as the same for production. Perforations need to exceed the drilling damage zone, minimize the amount of perforation tunnel plugging and the amount of crushed zone. In production, the presence of a crushed zone is generally accepted to create a 20% reduction in productivity (more detail on this in our Perforator's Guide to Formation Damage).
It actually becomes a little more complex in injection wells though, as the crushed zone not only limits the permeability driven flow regime, the fact that the sand grains are crushed and compacted results in pore throat sizes which can be significantly less than the undamaged reservoir rock. Even with good injection fluid management at surface, the potential for having particulates in the fluid can still be quite high and the risk of systematically plugging the pore throats in the crushed zone are subsequently higher than for virgin rock.
The TriStim tunnel geometry not only includes the removal of intertunnel rock matrix which increases the surface area open to injection but most importantly it removes the crushed zone. Ability to maintain injection rates at initial levels will be easier to achieve, This can reduce well reentries and workovers that might be typically required. It could also allow faster injection at lower surface pressures, reduce the time required to thermally frac a reservoir or extend the effects of that thermal fracking.
Reducing perforation skin damage
You can read more about how TriStim minimises perforation skin damage which results in better flow of hydrocarbons from the reservoir into the well here.
Flow efficiency improvements
Also, read more here about how SPE paper 174194 ('Understanding Perforation Geometry Influence on Flow Performance Using CFD') shows that convergent perforations can deliver improvements to flow efficiency by up to 25% and skin reduction of up to 85%.
The future of perforating in the WCSB
As a technology with one eye on the future, we have been watching with much enthusiasm the developments made by MGX and their foray into the wells business in Western Canada to produce petrolithium.
MGX hold patents to separate out the valuable minerals and salts from the brine water. One of the most valuable of these is lithium carbonate, an essential component of the batteries needed by the electric car sector.
Is the next step to look at perforating for improved Brine Production?
Find out more!
Tier 1 Energy are your local experts with the direct experience needed to help you realize the range of improvements described here.
Tier 1 Energy are your local WCSB experts
Find out more about how to deliver increased production using TriStimContact Tier 1
As a first step, you can register for a free online training course which goes into more technical detail on some of these ideas. There's no harm in you brushing up your technical knowledge by learning more about these latest developments!
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Generally speaking, leasing any given piece of equipment is more expensive than buying it outright. Despite this cost difference, there are many good reasons to lease. ... Unlike a purchase loan, an operating lease agreement may require little or no down payment, conserving cash.Jun 24, 2019
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How much does a copier cost?
Office Copier Sample Costs
$13,000 average cost for new copier printing up to 55 ppm. $35,100 cost for heavy volume copiers requiring large work-loads. Copier leases can cost between $195 to $920 a month. Used office copiers cost an average of $5,800.
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How do printer leases work?
With Printer Leasing there is a contract between a finance company and the customer, giving the customer use of the equipment on payments of rentals over a period. When you lease equipment you make a series of regular (usually tri-monthly) payments, instead of a large capital outlay.Search for: How do printer leases work?
COPIER LEASE RACINE WIThere are numerous good reasons to take into consideration a copier lease when it comes to renting or buying. Here are a couple of reasons that a lease might be appropriate for your organisation.
If your company is tiny, you probably do not have the resources to maintain maintenance team helpful for any kind of problems that might arise with office devices. With a lease arrangement, you usually contend the very least partial protection on troubleshooting and general upkeep. The lease may specify a particular number of solution calls per month or for the duration of the lease. In any case, it maximizes your staff to focus on organisation and also not fret about fixing a problem with the copier.
Second, substitute parts are not always affordable when it pertains to photocopy machine. A good copier lease normally has consists of a listing of parts that can be installed and also changed at on the house. Other parts may be referenced in the copier lease as exchangeable for a fee that is well below market standard. As a benefit, you do not need to spend time locating and also comparing costs on substitute components. The copier lease warranties you will certainly have substitute parts that function and also are expense reliable. You may additionally find that several copier leases include arrangements to supply you with a working copier while your system is down for fixing.
Upgrades are easier with a lease. Equally as with numerous sort of workplace devices, photo copiers end up being a lot more sophisticated with each passing year. In addition, your organisation may grow, which would certainly result in a need for a copier that can take care of larger tasks. Lots of vendors are more than delighted to take your copier lease and roll it right into a new lease for an up to day model. When and as you need, this saves you the problem of disposing of the older copier and also enables you to upgrade.
For numerous services, both big as well as little, rents just make sense. Between the built-in upkeep, the capability to upgrade when needed, as well as the little problem included should a part require to be changed, a lease is a terrific option.


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DILLON, Colo. — A pairing of dams in Colorado has yielded a beer.
The catalyst in this alchemy of brewing is an exhibition of paintings by Vincent Van Gogh now on display at the Denver Art Museum, which is often referred to by its acronym, DAM.
In Summit County, the Dam Brewery — so named because of its location near the base of the Dillon Dam — issued a T-shirt featuring one of the artist's self-portraits and a tag line that said: "I'd Give My Left Ear for a Dam Beer."
"Why not craft a commemorative beer?" asked those in the mix.
Brewmaster Cory Forester told the Summit Daily News that he studied Van Gogh and that he might have imbibed while travelling through and painting the French countryside. That French farmhouse-style ale is known as "bier de garde."
Forester explained to the newspaper that getting the yeast just right was a challenge. Unlike the highly sterilized environments in which most contemporary beers are brewed, the farmers who brewed bier de garde exposed the barrels to the open air, to catch stray yeast.
The brewmaster also added a touch more carbonation, to draw out the individual flavors and make them more easily distinguishable.
Dam Brewery invited nominations for a name, and got 240. The winner, by an election landslide: "Dam Gogh."
You too can teach old dogs new tricks
GEORGETOWN, Colo. — Who is the oldest person ever to learn how to ski? That question comes to mind in reading about the 75th anniversary of the Loveland ski area, which is located on the east side of the Continental Divide above and around the Eisenhower tunnel complex.
For about two thirds of the time, Freddie and Rose Tronnier have worked at the ski area. Now in his 51st season at Loveland, he supervises the ski school. She's in her 48th season and also works at the ski school.
Rose Tronnier tells the Summit Daily News that seven years ago she taught an 86-year-old bus driver from Baltimore how to ski.
"He said that before he died he wanted to learn how to ski," she told the Daily News. "His entire family pitched in for his private lesson, and he stayed on the beginners' hill. Tears were rolling down his face, he was so happy to learn."
But, as per the ski industry mantra, did Loveland convert this never-ever into a return visitor?
Just who is that nerdy guy in the back row?
GYPSUM, Colo. — Teachers and students are accustomed to observers sitting in the classrooms of Eagle Valley High School, so many thought nothing of it when a middle-aged couple stopped by one day in October.
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Day 24
Hello Beautiful People,
Today I wake up freezing and sit on my ottoman and meditate. I wrestle with my thoughts. I am frustrated with the way people treat each other. There seems to be a real lack of consideration for each other.
Recently I had a friend say, maybe I can invite you to this Thanksgiving party on the morning of Thanksgiving. The day goes on and I re-arrange my plans to see if I'll be invited because it sounded like fun. It's now late in the day and I end up going to a different friends house close by and not going downtown to get the vegan Thanksgiving that I was hoping for at this restaurant. I didn't go downtown to this restaurant because I was waiting to hear back from my friend because the party was downtown and I didn't want to make two trips. Anyway, the whole day goes by and I send a message, saying I didn't hear from you so I guess we aren't coming at 9pm. Honestly I was upset. Would it really have been so hard to send me a message to say it wasn't a good idea or not? A simple communication to say, please continue on with your plans without me. Maybe I could have also sent a message or called too. Either way, it still seemed kinda cold to blow someone off on a holiday without a message. Thankfully I had another friend who also extended an invite.
The theme continues, I have another friend that I was dating. He goes out of town on a retreat and comes back engaged. What? This was really weird for me because I just saw this person and I was really open and honest with him about my situation but he wasn't very open with me about his. It feels bad because I'll still bump into this person and now his new fiancee. I wouldn't have gotten involved if I knew he was going to get engaged.
I go out with someone else who clearly shows a lot of interest in me. We had a very nice connection. We hung out a few times and then he forgot something at my house. Then he proceeds to tell me he doesn't want to get involved because I have children. I'm thinking, why are you at my house then. Your energy is saying something completely different.
I went biking with another friend. I drove an hour to see him. I meet up, we hang out for a little bit, go biking and then dinner. After 3 hours he says he's done for the night. I'm kinda annoyed because I drive 2 hours to see you essentially. Why can't you clear your schedule to hang out for the evening? And, why didn't you tell me before we meet up that you wanted to end the evening so early. I might have decided not to come at all because it wouldn't have been worth the drive.
It happens again, I have an amazing time with another guy that I go out with and then I don't hear from him for a month. We have a text message here and there with me reaching out and asking how it's going with nothing but aloof responses. Then yesterday I ask him about it and he says "what the hell, I'm working on communicating better". Really? It doesn't seem like you are putting in any effort at all. If you cared then you didn't show it at all.
My frustration is that I wouldn't treat anyone in this way. What I have come to realize is that I have become a very good communicator in my relationship with my partner but with these other relationships there is a lack. I want to be treated better. I want to be considered. I want someone to be thoughtful of my feelings. Lately it just hasn't felt good. Am I doing something wrong? Why is there a theme here with a few different people? How can I avoid situations like this that don't feel so good? It just makes me feel sad, like I'm not important or respected. I know I don't have any control over these other people so what can I do differently? Ok, rant over, just saying...I'm frustrated.
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After completing the The Bluefrog POS Reservation system, I was tasked with refreshing the company website. Aside from a cleaning, fresh look and fill, content architecture was simplified. The website contains loads of information and videos about the point of sales software package and how it can help small to medium sized business. All this information is presented in responsive layouts ensuring all devices used to absorb the content are catered for.


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That's what this feature is for. It's a holdover from before smartphones were commonplace and Google Voice worked fine for calls and texts without a whiff of data being mentioned (and of course for folks like me, it still does).


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Even with trade tensions and tariffs dominating the headlines, important structural changes in the nature of globalization have gone largely unnoticed. In Globalization in transition: The future of trade and value chains, the McKinsey Global Institute analyzes the dynamics of global value chains and finds structural shifts that have been hiding in plain sight.
Although output and trade continue to increase in absolute terms, trade intensity (that is, the share of output that is traded) is declining within almost every goods-producing value chain. Flows of services and data now play a much bigger role in tying the global economy together. Not only is trade in services growing faster than trade in goods, but services are creating value far beyond what national accounts measure. Using alternative measures, we find that services already constitute more value in global trade than goods. In addition, all global value chains are becoming more knowledge-intensive. Low-skill labor is becoming less important as factor of production. Contrary to popular perception, only about 18 percent of global goods trade is now driven by labor-cost arbitrage.
Three factors explain these changes: growing demand in China and the rest of the developing world, which enables these countries to consume more of what they produce; the growth of more comprehensive domestic supply chains in those countries, which has reduced their reliance on imports of intermediate goods; and the impact of new technologies.
Globalization is in the midst of a transformation. Yet the public debate about trade is often about recapturing the past rather than looking toward the future. The mix of countries, companies, and workers that stand to gain in the next era is changing. Understanding how the landscape is shifting will help policy makers and business leaders prepare for globalization's next chapter and the opportunities and challenges it will present.
- Global value chains are undergoing five structural shifts
- One of the forces reshaping global value chains is a change in the geography of global demand
- The rise of domestic supply chains in China and other emerging economies has also decreased global trade intensity
- New technologies are changing costs across global value chains
- Given the shifts in value chains, companies need to reevaluate their strategies for operating globally
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Who, What, Why: Is it safer to cook rice in a coffee percolator to avoid arsenic?
Rice should be prepared in machines designed for making filter coffee, experts say. Why, asks Jon Kelly.
Instead of boiling rice in a pan, people are being told to prepare it in a percolator.
Researchers at Queen's University Belfast found that doing so can reduce harmful amounts of arsenic which can cause bladder and lung cancer as well as damage to the nervous system. This is particularly an issue with babies and small children, whose exposure is greater.
"Rice is by far our dominant source of inorganic arsenic," says Andy Meharg, professor of plant and soil sciences at Queen's. Half of Europeans' exposure to it comes from rice and the figures are even higher in countries like Bangladesh and China, according to a 2009 report.
Rice contains high levels of the potentially toxic element because it is grown in flood plains, meaning arsenic from the soil is absorbed into the crop. It typically contains 10 times more arsenic than other foods.
An investigation by Channel 4's Dispatches programme in 2014 found 58% of rice products in the UK exceed proposed Europe-wide limits for arsenic. However the Rice Association, which represents the British rice sector, says the rice industry carried out over 1,000 tests on rice marketed in the UK and found more than 99% of samples were below proposed EU limits.
Boiling the rice on the pan until it is dry removes no arsenic, says Meharg. Any arsenic that is washed away by the water is simply re-absorbed.
But by putting the rice in the filter section of a percolator, the water flushes through it and removes 85% of the arsenic, according to results published in the journal PLOS ONE.
You would have to choose your percolator carefully. On grounds of practicality, "a stove-top percolator would not work", Meharg admits. It would have to be a drip-brewer. The researchers found it took 20 minutes to prepare white rice in this way and 40 minutes for brown rice.
This is quite a cumbersome process, given that coffee percolating machines typically run on 10-minute cycles. Queen's is developing a rice cooker based on percolation. It could safely re-circulate the water by evaporation, Megarg says.
In the meantime, people should pay attention to how much rice they consume, says Meharg. "If you are eating rice two or three times a week, it's fine. If you are eating rice two or three times a day you should be worried."
People of South East Asian heritage, vegetarians, vegans and people who are gluten intolerant tend to consume more and thus are at greater risk, he says. The Food Standards Agency says children aged under four-and-a-half should not be given rice milk as a substitute for breast milk, formula or regular milk.
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It is here at last! Sorry for the delay. The ABG Members' Events calendar is now available to view here: http://www.ashdown-forest.co.uk/events-calendar/
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SOS Bird Race 2015
There's still time if anyone is interested in getting a team together for the annual SOS Bird Race. The Race is to get as many species of bird in one day and raise money through sponsorship, all in the name of charity of course! Teams can pick any day from 1st January to 11th January 2015. Monies raised go to the SOS.
If you are interested please contact Val Bentley on firstname.lastname@example.com or ring (more…)
Bird Group Outing to Dungeness RSPB – 6th Dec 2014
On a bright, sunny, but crisp morning, Sue, Martin, Bob, Judy, Maureen, Alan, Jeremy, Deidre and Al met at the visitor centre.
Sue, Martin and Al had already seen nuthatch, feral pigeon, goldfinch, blackbird, collared dove, starling, black headed gull, pheasant, carrion crow, redshank (in Rye), curlew (Camber golf club) and jackdaw along the way and prior to our arrival at the reserve, we had all (more…)
Tawny Owls Being Killed on Ashdown Forest Roads
It has been reported (East Grinstead Courier, 30/09/14) that at least 10 Tawny Owls have been killed on the roads around Ashdown Forest in the last 6 weeks alone. The East Sussex Wildlife Rescue & Ambulance Service (WRAS) sent out a plea to motorists to slow down at night after having to deal with and care for the Owls at the road side. It is a sad fact that a lot of our wildlife gets maimed or (more…)
Ashdown Wildlife Facebook Group
For anyone wishing to post or find sightings, pictures or general Forest-related information please visit and join our new Facebook group Ashdown Forest Wildlife (https://www.facebook.com/groups/ashdownwildlife/)
It is an open group so anyone can join and post and openly discuss the wildlife of Ashdown Forest. We ask you to please be polite, posts be relevant to Ashdown Forest and to refrain from (more…)
Eagles – Yes Eagles!
It would seem that our "Eddie the Eagle" is possibly not alone. Although he's moved away from the Forest for now there appears to be a reports that there may actually be more than one bird, with one reported in Pig Bush area of the New Forest and the other (albeit unconfirmed at this time) over in Kent near Canterbury. The plot thickens! We await to see if "our" Eagle comes back.
Eagle Watch
Both Gills Lap and Long/Airstrip have had many avid bird watchers and twitchers virtually camping out waiting for views of the Short-toed Eagle, some come every day to watch. The bird eats snakes and other reptiles so it has hung around an area where there are a fair amount of both but especially lizards. There is only a finite amount of these so food may become a problem, this is probably when the (more…)
Short-toed Eagle – Gills Lap / Wrens Valley
We were glad to see that the Short-toed Eagle returned to Ashdown Forest for another tour around. A number of the group managed to see it, others unfortunately dipped, although there's nothing to say it won't hang around or come back again! At around 13:30 it was circling and looking for a meal over Gills Lap and Wrens Valley, then slowly it drifted over Old Lodge. It's not every day the Forest gets (more…)
Trip Report – Dungeness, 31st May 2014
Bob P, Al, Martin and Sue met at the Reserve car park, to be greeted by a pair of very noisy common gulls on the roof of the Centre, behaving in a natural, if unseemly, manner. We were lucky to see a tree sparrow and a recently fledged young bird on the feeders, and while we drank our first cup of coffee, a Mediterranean gull flew over, calling. We'd seen lesser and greater black-backed gulls at Scotney (more…)
Parrot Crossbills in Old Lodge SWT Nature Reserve
Several members of the Ashdown Bird Group went in to Old Lodge to see the 9 Parrot Crossbills that have been showing well (although mobile) around the top and down towards the access road. We all had good views and Bob Pask managed to get some excellent pictures that you'll find at the bottom of this post!


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A Recommitment to Language and to Excellence
July 7, 2014
Tonight, the students were asked once more to reflect on their purpose here at MMLA and to recommit to the Language Pledge®. Dressed in their best, each of the Green Mountain College academies gathered to sign the Language Pledge® once more to renew their resolve, vowing to speak nothing but the target language until the end of the program. The trick to the Language Pledge® is that it turns even tongue-tied moments of doubt into more chances to build linguistic muscle, since students have to come up with creative alternatives to find the words they don't know.
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