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This article is a reprint of Wise Bread's contribution to OPEN Forum from American Express -- where small business owners can get advice from experts and share tips with each other.
Small business websites, as a whole, have some major room for improvement. Maybe it's because many companies don't know what to put on their site, or maybe it's because people still think of small biz websites as "digital business cards." A company's website should be a priority, not an afterthought. More and more people are using the web to research companies and products, and if your site doesn't appeal to online searchers, you might lose a sale. There are plenty of ways that small business sites can improve. Here are five of the most common mistakes that small business owners make.
1. You don't fill out your about page
The about page for most small businesses is, at best, a contact page. However, the customer might want to know more about your company if they're thinking about spending money on your products or services. Aside from all the contact info and addresses, you could also include these elements:
There are plenty of other things that a small business could add to their about page, but the idea is to show that the company is more than a site or a building. About pages are excellent places to show the human element of the company. For more ideas, check out Smashing Magazine's excellent article on effective about pages.
2. You don't actually say what your business does
It's crazy, I know. But many small business websites don't explicitly explain what services they provide. And if they actually do, it's buried on the about page, or some other secondary page. What your company does should be above the fold, and where the customer doesn't have to look for it. Web visitors are becoming increasingly fickle, spending less than a few seconds before they've decided to click away from your site.
Your company's description should also be on nearly every page, not just the homepage. A good portion of the search traffic to sites bypasses the homepage and lands on a secondary page. So it's important that all of your visitors have the opportunity to see what your company does. Also, when you're describing your company, lose the jargon. Like we mentioned earlier, you only have seconds to "hook" the visitor. If they're confused, or something doesn't make sense in your company's description, they're back to Google faster than you can say "L-L-C."
3. You don't strut your stuff
Who have you worked with? What have you done for your clients? What have they said about you? Have you won any awards? These are things that your site visitors should be seeing. They need to know that your company has experience, and you're good at what you do. Aside from showcasing your accomplishments, it's also vital to let others praise you. After all, there's no better recommendation than from a satisfied customer. Testimonials can make all the difference. Testimonials allow your business to showcase accomplishments without saying a single word. Powerful and effective.
4. You don't capitalize on social media
Sorry folks, but social media is here and it's powerful. If your business doesn't have an active Twitter account and Facebook page, then you're already behind the competition. There are plenty of success stories of companies capitalizing on Facebook pages and Twitter accounts. They aid in customer support, and they give yet another element to your site. Social media can be powerful for small businesses and ecommerce sites, and it's becoming more and more vital for companies to embrace it.
5. You aren't blogging
Unless you've got an ad budget the size of Utah and can buy Super Bowl ads, you need more online exposure. One of the best ways to acquire it is with a blog. A general rule is that the more pages your site has in Google's index, the more traffic you'll receive. Blogs are an excellent way to add more volume to your site that search engines can consume. Each page you create gives Google another reason to visit your site, and adds more keywords that potential searchers can find your site with. Aside from the SEO benefits, regular posting on a company blog means that you can showcase your expertise. Show the world that you're an expert, and they'll buy from you. They'll trust you, and they'll trust your products and services. For example, the online personal finance tool Mint drives tons of targeted traffic to their blog.
Or you could use your blog to highlight company and product news. These types of company news articles are great ways to keep people coming back to your site and excited about what you're working on. Google does this with different company blogs for most of their products. This allows Google to keep users of each of these products on top of recent changes and other product news. Small businesses are at a major disadvantage at competing with major companies when it comes to PR, time and manpower. Blogging helps even the playing field. Anyone can blog. They're easy to set up, easy to use, and can either be professionally written or informal. Remember, your small business site isn't a business card, it's a resource for your potential customers. Your company will never go wrong investing more resources into a better website.
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Are we actually seeing PlayStation 4 and Xbox 720 video games at E3 and no one's admitting it?
That's been a popular theory all week here in Los Angeles and reporters and game creators buzz about the extraordinary-looking gameplay demonstrations of Ubisoft's Watch Dogs and LucasArts' Star Wars 1313. Both games looked way too graphically impressive to believably be running on an Xbox 360 or PS3.
So what's the story here? It depends on how you interpret varios winks, smiles and statements.
"I think I know which platform that game is for," one top gaming executive said to me while we were discussing Watch Dogs. But he didn't want to blurt it out.
"That sure looked like a next-gen game to me," I later said to a Ubisoft developer, who is not on the publisher's Watch Dogs team. He smiled and kept his mouth shut.
A couple of days earlier, just minutes after Ubisoft's live gameplay demo of the Grand Theft Auto-meets-Deus Ex Watch Dogs games, Ubisoft spokespeople were stretching this way and that to not answer my simple question of which platforms that game is for. And then we found listings on Ubi's press site for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
For days, though, I've had a hard time believing that any game that looks like...
... is running on a current-gen console.
I pressed Ubi PR again yesterday, and a rep wrote this to me: "So far we have only confirmed PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. However, since Watch Dogs will not be shipping this year, we have time to build content for multiple platforms should we choose to. We'll continue to update you as details become available."
Notice that Watch Dogs didn't appear at Sony and Microsoft's press events, a strange omission for a stunning game that Ubisoft says is coming to those company's current consoles. I'm not sure about Microsoft, but I do know that Sony won't allow developers to run games off of anything but PS3 tech at their conference (another words, no PC-based demos). That might explain why we wouldn't see a demo there, but not even an announcement? Strange.
Star Wars 1313 looks even more visually stunning than Watch Dogs. For that one, LucasArts is saying only that the game demo is using a heavily-modified Unreal Engine 3 and is running on a PC.
A rep for Epic Games, the company that provides UE3 to studios like Lucas, told me that the version of the Engine that Lucas is using is close to what ran the extraordinary "Samaritan" demo that was shown a year ago at the Game Developers' Conference in San Francisco. That demo, the Epic rep reiterated to me this week, ran on a spec that requires better hardware than we've got in the 360 and PS3 (whether the Wii U could handle it remains an open question; Epic's not saying and we haven't been able to as Nintendo yet). That Samaritan demo was basically Epic's way of suggesting to console manufacturers what kind of hardware power it would be beneficial for them to have in their next consoles.
Microsoft and Sony won't talk about their new consoles yet. We know they're working on them. Microsoft's is code-named Durango; Sony's is Orbis. Companies like Ubisoft and LucasArts aren't going to announce those machines for them. But we expect these consoles in fewer than 18 months, and it sure looks like we're getting a glimpse of what games will look like on them.
We're also getting a glimpse, clearly, of how good PC games can look right now. And that is exciting, too.
There may well be an Xbox 360 and PS3 version of Watch Dogs or 1313, but they probably won't look like what we've seen this week. There will definitely be another Xbox and PlayStation. And how will the games running on them look? I think we've all seen. If not, just press play on the videos in this story.
As our Luke Plunkett said of the amazing new graphics tech unveiled by the creators of Final Fantasy this week: "The next generation of consoles may not be at this show, but their graphics certainly are."


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I received the following highly impersonal email from Apple today:
MobileMe Update
We have already made many improvements to MobileMe, but we still have many more to make. To recognize our users' patience, we are giving every MobileMe subscriber as of today a free 60 day extension. This is in addition to the one month extension most subscribers have already received. We are working very hard to make MobileMe a great service we can all be proud of. We know that MobileMe's launch has not been our finest hour, and we truly appreciate your patience as we turn this around. Read this article for more details.
The MobileMe Team
The article linked above reads in part...
MobileMe: Supplemental 60-day extension eligibility and details
Why is Apple granting a 60-day subscription extension?
The transition from .Mac to MobileMe was rockier than we had hoped. While we are making a lot of improvements, the MobileMe service is still not up to our standards. We are extending subscriptions 60-days free of charge to express appreciation for our members' patience as we continue to improve the service.
So. I'm of two minds on this one.
Glass half full view: It's nice to see Apple doing the right thing, given what a horrible experience MobileMe has been.
Glass half empty view: This is like getting sick at a restaurant, complaining, and then getting a gift certificate for the very meal that made you sick.
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While judges found room for deductions for which it seems nobody else can, McKayla Maroney's vault early in today's women's team gymnastics final was still strong enough to set an unstoppable pace that resulted in the United States taking gold. (It wasn't a surprise she nailed the vault, though, if you've been paying attention.) Take a look at this version and see if you can find what the judges did—we sure can't. [NBC]
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Photographer Steve Starr passed away Nov. 12, the day before his "Face of the News" exhibit celebrating the 45th anniversary of his studio, was scheduled to open. One month later, his friends carried out his vision.
More than 300 people attended a celebration of Starr's life Dec. 12 at the John B. Murphy Memorial Auditorium, where hundreds of Starr's photos were on display. The presentation featured photos of media standouts, including broadcasters, columnists, reporters and publishers from around the world.
The evening also featured pianist/orchestra leader Stanley Paul, who played songs from the Great American Songbook as a video showed classic movie stars in Starr's collection of art deco frames. And ZZAZZ Productions produced a fashion show, which included models wearing designer Mark Roscoe's "newspaper couture" collection that featured gowns created entirely out of paper.
Renowned photographer Victor Skrebneski, who took Starr's final portrait, unveiled the photo during the evening. It will be included in a portrait montage of Starr that will be on display at Hilligoss Galleries.
Ald. Bob Fioretti presented a proclamation to Starr's family from the Chicago City Council honoring his contributions to the city.
Live entertainment included a production number by Spider Saloff and The Headliners; music by crooner Steve Biossat; a cello/piano duet by iAN&Ani; and a tango performance by Liz Sung and Jorge Niedas. Illustrator Rosemary Fanti was on hand to capture the scene. Models dressed as Clark Kent greeted the crowd, and radio personality Amy Jacobson — dressed as Brenda Starr — conducted interviews with guests.
The evening, co-chaired by Margaret O'Connor and Leonard Mogul, was a fitting tribute to Starr. He will be missed.
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Immune Thrombocytopenia
Immune thrombocytopenia (THROM-bo-si-toe-PE-ne-ah), or ITP, is a bleeding disorder. In ITP, the blood doesn't clot as it should. This is due to a low number of blood cell fragments called platelets (PLATE-lets) or thrombocytes (THROM-bo-sites).
Platelets are made in your bone marrow along with other kinds of blood cells. They stick together (clot) to seal small cuts or breaks on blood vessel walls and stop bleeding.
Without enough platelets, bleeding can occur inside the body (internal bleeding) or underneath or from the skin (external bleeding).
People who have ITP often have purple bruises called purpura (PURR-purr-ah). These bruises appear on the skin or mucous membranes (for example, in the mouth). Bleeding from small blood vessels under the skin causes purpura.
People who have ITP also may have bleeding that causes tiny red or purple dots on the skin. These pinpoint-sized dots are called petechiae (peh-TEE-kee-ay). Petechiae may look like a rash.
Petechiae and Purpura
People who have ITP also may have nosebleeds, bleeding from the gums during dental work, or other bleeding that's hard to stop. Women who have ITP may have menstrual bleeding that's heavier than normal.
A lot of bleeding can cause hematomas (he-mah-TO-mas). A hematoma is a collection of clotted or partially clotted blood under the skin. It looks or feels like a lump.
Bleeding in the brain as a result of ITP is very rare, but can be life threatening if it occurs.
In most cases, an autoimmune response is thought to cause ITP. Normally, your immune system helps your body fight off infections and diseases. But if you have ITP, your immune system attacks and destroys its own platelets. The reason why this happens isn't known.
ITP can't be passed from one person to another.
Types of Immune Thrombocytopenia
The two types of ITP are acute (temporary or short-term) and chronic (long-lasting).
Acute ITP generally lasts less than 6 months. It mainly occurs in children—both boys and girls—and is the most common type of ITP. Acute ITP often occurs after a viral infection.
Chronic ITP lasts 6 months or longer and mostly affects adults. However, some teenagers and children do get this type of ITP. Chronic ITP affects women two to three times more often than men.
Treatment depends on the severity of bleeding and the platelet count. In mild cases, treatment may not be needed.
For most children and adults, ITP isn't a serious or life-threatening condition.
Acute ITP in children often goes away on its own within a few weeks or months and doesn't return. In 80 percent of children who have ITP, the platelet count returns to normal within 6 to 12 months. Treatment may not be needed.
For a small number of children, ITP doesn't go away on its own and may require further medical or surgical treatment.
Chronic ITP varies from person to person and can last for many years. Even people who have severe forms of chronic ITP can live for decades. Most people who have chronic ITP can stop treatment at some point and maintain a safe platelet count.
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Black-backed woodpeckers and severe fire
A charred forest is an eerie place, even years after a wildfire. I discovered this last summer while backpacking through Northern California's Lassen Volcanic National Park. Dead trunks creaked as they swayed in the wind, their branches clacking against each other like bones. We moved quickly, as if walking past an avalanche-prone slope.
Had we stopped longer to listen, we might have heard evidence that not everyone thinks dead forests are so creepy. The black-backed woodpecker seeks out burned coniferous forests in northern North America, following wood-boring beetles that flock to the buffet of defenseless trees. The birds, who blend in perfectly with blackened bark, dine on the bugs for about a decade, then leave for a newly-burned area as beetle populations decline. But fire suppression, salvage logging and thinning have made the woodpecker's habitat increasingly rare, and now the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering whether to list two distinct populations of the bird as threatened or endangered.
Last May, four conservation groups petitioned USFWS to consider a possible listing. They argued that decades of federal fire policy had left black-backed woodpeckers in bad shape: fewer than 1,000 pairs in Oregon and California, and only 400 pairs in the Black Hills (a third population in the Northern Rockies is doing better).
In early April, USFWS acknowledged that "the petition…presents substantial information that listing the two populations…may be warranted." The public can comment until June 10, 2013, and then the agency will issue a decision in another year or so (maybe longer, due to budget cutbacks).
The conservation groups behind the petition (John Muir Project of the Earth Island Institute, Biodiversity Conservation Alliance, Blue Mountains Diversity Project and the Center for Biological Diversity) hope that listing the woodpecker will change fire management practices in Western forests, just like the spotted owl did for logging practices in the Northwest.
"We hope as a result of this, the Forest Service will in fact not only pay more attention to species like this, but do a proactive job of educating people that when fire happens, it is not a bad thing, wildlife rely upon it," Chad Hansen, a staff ecologist at the John Muir Project, told The Associated Press. "These notions of catastrophic wildfire are really just politics and ignorance, and reflect outdated thinking."
For Dick Hutto, a University of Montana biologist who studies black-backed woodpeckers and fire ecology, the ultimate goal of an ESA listing isn't to protect the bird, but the environment it lives in.
"It's not about the species," he says. "If it were about the species, we could put them in a zoo. It's about the system."
Last summer, I interviewed Hutto for a story on an ongoing debate among fire ecologists over whether large, severe fires in some forest types occurred historically or are a new phenomenon. Hutto has spent years studying black-backed woodpeckers, determining that they live only in forests burned by severe fires. "The data are so strong it's not even funny," he told me. "You show me a black-backed outside of a burn, and I'll give you $10,000."
He concluded that severe fires must be a natural part of certain forest ecosystems, not just the result of bad forest management, grazing and climate change, as many other fire ecologists (and government forest plans) argue. How else could a bird evolve to live only in the aftermath of such fires?
Seen in this context, the decline of the black-backed woodpecker is a sign that we need to allow more severe fire on the landscape. "Birds are talking and I like to listen," he says, "and the black-backed woodpecker is telling us something about a system we need to be thinking about."
Not everyone agrees with Hutto, Hansen, and other fire ecologists who stand up for severe wildfire, and at times the debate can get pretty nasty, with researchers attacking each other's credibility. I'm betting that if the USFWS decides to list the woodpecker, it's not just federal fire policy that will be in the spotlight, but once again, the question of whether big, severe fires are natural in some forests.
Emily Guerin is the assistant online editor at High Country News.
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Laughing all the way to the bank
Plans to exclude some offsetting projects from the EU's Emissions Trading System, due to be formally approved this month, have been watered down following lobbying by big business. Corporate Europe Observatory has obtained documents which show that BusinessEurope, the International Emissions Trading Association (representing carbon traders), the chemical lobby group CEFIC and some big companies such as Enel, lobbied DG Enterprise to sabotage DG Clima's proposals. The business groups found an ally in DG Enterprise. The ban will prohibit industrial gas offsets, which currently account for more than half of the available credits and are bought by European polluters as an alternative to cutting pollution at home. Read the full article here:


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An oratorio (in Italian pronounced as /oraˈtɔːrjo/) is a large musical composition for orchestra, choir, and soloists.[1] Like most operas, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an instrumental ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias. However, opera is musical theatre, while oratorio is strictly a concert piece – though oratorios are sometimes staged as operas, and operas are sometimes presented in concert form. In an oratorio, the choir often plays a central role, and there is generally little or no interaction between the characters, and no props or elaborate costumes. A particularly important difference is in the typical subject matter of the text. Opera tends to deal with history and mythology, including age-old devices of romance, deception, and murder, whereas the plot of an oratorio often deals with sacred topics, making it appropriate for performance in the church. Protestant composers took their stories from the Bible, while Catholic composers looked to the lives of saints, as well as to Biblical topics. Oratorios became extremely popular in early 17th-century Italy partly because of the success of opera and the Catholic Church's prohibition of spectacles during Lent. Oratorios became the main choice of music during that period for opera audiences.
The word oratorio comes from the Latin verb orare, to pray. Hence oratory. The musical composition was "named from the kind of musical services held in the church of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in Rome (Congregazione dell'Oratorio) in the latter half of the 16th cent."[2]
Although medieval plays such as the Ludus Danielis and Renaissance dialogue motets such as those of the Oltremontani had characteristics of an oratorio, the first oratorio is usually seen as Emilio de Cavalieri's Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo. Monteverdi composed Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda which can be considered as the first secular oratorio.
The origins of the oratorio can be found in sacred dialogues in Italy. These were settings of Biblical, Latin texts and musically were quite similar to motets. There was a strong narrative, dramatic emphasis and there were conversational exchanges between characters in the work. Giovanni Francesco Anerio's Teatro harmonico spirituale (1619) is a set of 14 dialogues, the longest of which is 20 minutes long and covers the conversion of St. Paul and is for four soloists: Historicus (narrator), tenor; St. Paul, tenor; Voice from Heaven, bass; and Ananias, tenor. There is also a four-part chorus to represent any crowds in the drama. The music is often contrapuntal and madrigal-like.Philip Neri's Congregazione dell'Oratorio featured the singing of spiritual laude. These became more and more popular and were eventually performed in specially built oratories (prayer halls) by professional musicians. Again, these were chiefly based on dramatic and narrative elements.Sacred opera provided another impetus for dialogues, and they greatly expanded in length (although never really beyond 60 minutes long). Cavalieri's Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo is an example of one of these works, but technically it is not an oratorio because it features acting and dancing. It does, however contain music in the monodic style.The first oratorio to be called by that name is Pietro della Valle's Oratorio della Purificazione, but due to its brevity (only 12 minutes long) and the fact that its other name was "dialogue", we can see that there was much ambiguity in these names.
During the second half of the 17th century, there were trends toward the secularization of the religious oratorio. Evidence of this lies in its regular performance outside church halls in courts and public theaters. Whether religious or secular, the theme of an oratorio is meant to be weighty. It could include such topics as Creation, the life of Jesus, or the career of a classical hero or Biblical prophet. Other changes eventually took place as well, possibly because most composers of oratorios were also popular composers of operas. They began to publish the librettos of their oratorios as they did for their operas. Strong emphasis was soon placed on arias while the use of the choir diminished. Female singers became regularly employed, and replaced the male narrator with the use of recitatives.
By the mid-17th century, two types had developed:
The most significant composers of oratorio latino were in Italy Giacomo Carissimi, whose Jephte is regarded as the first masterpiece of the genre (like most other Latin oratorios of the period, it is in one section only), and in France Carissimi's pupil Marc-Antoine Charpentier (34 works).
Lasting about 30–60 minutes, oratori volgari were performed in two sections, separated by a sermon; their music resembles that of contemporary operas and chamber cantatas.
In the late baroque period oratorios increasingly became "sacred opera". In Rome and Naples Alessandro Scarlatti was the most noted composer. In Vienna the court poet Metastasio produced annually a series of oratorios for the court which were set by Caldara, Hasse and others. Metastasio's best known oratorio libretto La passione di Gesù Cristo was set by at least 35 composers from 1730–90. In Germany the middle baroque oratorios moved from the early-baroque Historia style Christmas and Resurrection settings of Heinrich Schütz, to the Passions of J. S. Bach, oratorio-passions such as Der Tod Jesu set by Telemann and Carl Heinrich Graun. After Telemann came the galante oratorio style of C. P. E. Bach.
The Georgian era saw a German-born monarch and German-born composer define the English oratorio. George Frideric Handel, most famous today for his Messiah (1741), also wrote other oratorios based on themes from Greek and Roman mythology and Biblical topics. He is also credited with writing the first English language oratorio, Esther. Handel's imitators included the Italian Lidarti who was employed by the Amsterdam Jewish community to compose a Hebrew version of Esther.
Britain continued to look to Germany for its composers of oratorio. The Birmingham Festival commissioned various oratorios including Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah in 1846, later performed in German as Elias. German composer Georg Vierling is noted for modernizing the secular oratorio form.[3]
John Stainer's The Crucifixion (1887) became the stereotypical battlehorse of massed amateur choral societies. Edward Elgar tried to revive the genre around the turn of century with the composition of The Light of Life (Lux Christi), The Dream of Gerontius, The Apostles and The Kingdom.
Oratorio returned haltingly to public attention with Igor Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex in Paris (1927), William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast in Leeds (1931), Paul Hindemith's Das Unaufhörliche in Berlin (1931), Arthur Honegger's Le Roi David and Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher in Basel (1938), and Franz Schmidt's The Book with Seven Seals (Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln) in Vienna (1938). Michael Tippett's oratorio A Child of Our Time (first performance, 1944) engages with events surrounding the Second World War. Postwar oratorios include Dmitri Shostakovich's Song of the Forests (1949), Sergei Prokofiev's On Guard for Peace (1950), Vadim Salmanov's Twelve (1957), Alfred Schnittke's Nagasaki (1958), Bohuslav Martinů's The Epic of Gilgamesh (1958), Krzysztof Penderecki's St. Luke Passion (1966), Hans Werner Henze's Das Floß der Medusa (1968), René Clemencic's Kabbala (1992), and Osvaldo Golijov's La Pasión según San Marcos (2000). Mauricio Kagel composed Sankt-Bach-Passion, an oratorio about Bach's life, for the tercentenary of his birth in 1985.
Oratorios by popular musicians include Léo Ferré's La Chanson du mal-aimé (1954 and 1972), based on Guillaume Apollinaire's poem of the same name, Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio (1991) and Mikis Theodorakis's Canto General and Axion Esti based on poems of Pablo Neruda and Odusseas Elytis.
When Dudley Buck composed his oratorio The Light of Asia in 1886, it became the first in the history of the genre to be based on the life of Buddha.[4] Several late 20th and early 21st-century oratorios have since been based on Buddha's life or have incorporated Buddhist texts. These include Somei Satoh's 1987 Stabat Mater,[5] Dinesh Subasinghe's 2010 Karuna Nadee, and Jonathan Harvey's 2011 Weltethos.[6] The 21st century also saw a continuation of Christianity-based oratorios with John Adams's El Niño and The Gospel According to the Other Mary. Other religions represented include Ilaiyaraaja's Thiruvasakam (based on the texts of Hindu hymns to Shiva). Secular oratorios composed in the 21st century include Nathan Currier's Gaian Variations (based on the Gaia hypothesis), Richard Einhorn's The Origin (based on the writings of Charles Darwin), Jonathan Mills' Sandakan Threnody (based on the Sandakan Death Marches), and Neil Hannon's To Our Fathers in Distress. The oratorio Laudato si', composed in 2016 by Peter Reulein on a libretto by Helmut Schlegel, includes the full Latin text of the Magnificat, expanded by writings of Clare of Assisi, Francis of Assisi and Pope Francis.[7] [8] Bruder Martin was composed by Thomas Gabriel, setting a text by Eugen Eckert about scenes from the life of Martin Luther, for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017.[9]


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This "robot's eye view" shows how some common household objects appear through the vision system being used in the Perception Challenge. The objects are fuzzy because the cameras have limited resolution. However, the images do provide information on depth (distance of every point on an object). The checkered patterns help to define and verify objects in space. Credit: Courtesy Willow Garage
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is
teaming up with Willow Garage, a Silicon Valley robotics research and design
firm, to launch an international "perception challenge" to drive improvements
in sensing and perception technologies for next-generation robots.
"Perception is the key bottleneck to robotics. This
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says Willow Garage senior scientist Gary Bradski.
The competition will debut at the IEEE International
Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2011. It will join three other
competitions: updated versions of two other robotics competitions previously
developed by NIST—the Virtual Manufacturing Challenge and the Micro-Robot
Challenge—and the Modular and Reconfigurable Robot Challenge, a collaborative
effort by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the
Univ. of Pennsylvania.
The new competition will measure the performance of current
algorithms that process and act on data gathered with cameras and other types
of sensing devices, explains NIST computer scientist Tsai Hong. "There are
hundreds—maybe even thousands—of algorithms that already have been devised to
help robots identify objects and determine their location and orientation," she
says. "But we have no means for comparing and evaluating these perceptual tools
and determining whether an existing algorithm will be useful for new types of
Willow Garage is putting up cash awards for excellent
performers. The prize money grows exponentially with performance reflecting the
increasing difficulty of each new increment in capability. The top prize is up
to $7,000, awarded for successful completion of all tasks within the allotted
All contestants will receive a common set of about 35
objects for training and tweaking their algorithms. During the competition,
teams will be evaluated on how well their solutions identify and determine the
positions of these 35 objects plus an additional set of 15 objects for
validation. NIST also will inform contestants of the metrics and methods they
are developing for the competition.
Robust perception is a core enabling technology for
next-generation robotics being pursued for a variety of applications. Many of
these applications will require operating in unstructured and cluttered
environments. For anticipated uses ranging from advanced manufacturing to
in-home assistance for the elderly, to search-and-rescue operations at disaster
sites, robots must be able to identify objects reliably and determine their
position accurately.
The practical goals of this and future perception challenges
are to determine what solutions already exist for particular robot-performed
jobs, and to push the entire field to develop more dynamic and more powerful
perception systems critical for next-generation robotics. NIST has designed a
variety of competitions intended to focus research and stimulate innovation in
technology areas critical to improving the capabilities of robots.*
Techniques and metrics demonstrated in these competitions
provide foundations for new standards and test methods for measuring perception
system performance. As is true for the other competitions, the perception
challenge will grow in difficulty with each passing year.
Willow Garage of Menlo Park, Calif., will provide a common
system for testing competitors' perception algorithms. Visual information and
other environmental data will be gathered and communicated by off-the-shelf
sensing technologies, and will be evaluated on Willow Garage's Personal Robot 2
(PR2) platform.
The deadline for entering is April 15, 2011, and final
submissions are due May 1, 2011.
For more information on the perception challenge and
instructions for entering, go to: http:/opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/SolutionsInPerceptionChallenge.


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Every year on May 5, the Netherlands celebrates its liberation during the Second World War and this year, Canadians are joining from home by sharing photos of tulips online.
Canadian soldiers played a key role in the liberation of the Dutch people who suffered hunger and hardship under German occupiers during the war. On May 5, 1945 – 75 years ago – German troops surrendered in the Netherlands. Three days later, Germany gave its unconditional surrender signalling an official end to the Second World War. Canada also provided a safe haven for the Dutch royal family as more than 7,600 Canadians gave their lives to liberate the Netherlands.
Close to 175,000 Canadians took part in the campaign to liberate the Netherlands, which began in the fall of 1944 and ended in the spring of 1945.
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My grandfather, Douglas Mitchell was part of the Canadian forces that liberated the Netherlands. Here is a picture of him in uniform with the #Liberation75 tulips that we planted last fall. #BloomingLib75 #Netherlands75 #CanadaRemembers #LestWeForget pic.twitter.com/J1Aqtt25vg pic.twitter.com/YU79QBOYd3
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Do you or your child have a heart defect that requires a procedure called extracardiac conduit–total cavopulmonary connection (EC-TCPC)? This study is evaluating the effectiveness of a new type of graft called a tissue-engineered vascular graft for EC-TPC. Participants of this study will have this procedure and several follow-up assessments with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to test the performance of the graft. This study takes place in Columbus, Ohio.
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Are you 65 years old or older, and do you have severe primary mitral regurgitation? This condition — also called degenerative mitral regurgitation — happens when there is a problem with the mitral valve itself or its supporting tissue, leading to a leaky valve. This study is comparing the safety and effectiveness of two different ways of repairing the mitral valve: transcatheter edge-to-edge repair and surgical repair. To participate in this study, your healthcare provider must determine that you are a candidate for both mitral valve transcatheter edge-to-edge repair and surgical repair. This study takes place in multiple locations across the United States and Canada.
Older Adult
Do you have cardiomyopathy that has led to moderate or severe mitral regurgitation? This study is exploring the best surgical technique to repair mitral regurgitation by comparing two procedures called undersizing mitral annuloplasty (UMA) and papillary muscle approximation (PMA). A UMA is a common procedure that involves implanting a prosthetic ring onto the mitral valve to stop the valve from leaking. A PMA is a newer technique in which a suture draws together the two muscles that connect the mitral valve to the heart muscle prior to performing UMA. To participate in this study, you must be 18 years old or older and have never had a mitral valve repair procedure. This study takes place in Atlanta, Georgia.
Adult, Older Adult
New York
Do you have overweight? Circadian rhythm disorders can cause overweight and obesity. This study is examining how not getting enough sleep causes these complications. To participate in this study, you must be between the ages of 20 and 40 and have overweight but not obesity. This study is located in New York, New York.
Adult, Older Adult
Accepting Healthy Volunteers
Are you a healthy adult who regularly sleeps for 6.5 or fewer hours? This study is examining whether getting enough sleep can lower your risk of high blood pressure. To participate in this study, you must be between 18 and 65 years old, regularly sleep for 6.5 or fewer hours, and be able to adjust your sleep schedule for the study. This study is located in Rochester, Minnesota.
Adult, Older Adult
Accepting Healthy Volunteers
Do you or a loved one have pneumonia? This study will test whether combining two medicines to reduce inflammation of the airway and to keep it open may help prevent respiratory failure in people who have pneumonia. To participate in this study, you must be at least 18 years old and have severe pneumonia with low blood oxygen levels.
Adult, Older Adult


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With September designated as the 9th annual National Emergency Preparedness Month, New Jersey Department of Health Commissioner Mary E. O'Dowd recommends that New Jersey residents review their emergency plans and prepare in the event of a public health emergency.
"As always, the best time to prepare for an emergency is before it happens. New Jersey residents should take the time to review their own emergency plans and update their emergency kits. By taking some simple steps, families can decrease the risk of illness and death in the event of a public health emergency."
Colonel Rick Fuentes, NJ State Police Superintendent and Director of the NJ Office of Emergency Management, noted that everyone has a role in preparedness for health emergencies. "Talk to your family about how you will communicate with each during emergencies, and where you will reunite if separated. Start to collect the basic items for your family disaster supply kit, and have non-prescription medicines and health supplies on hand. Always make sure to take prescription medicines with you if you are evacuated, and consider health-related issues of family members in your disaster plan. And visit the New Jersey Office of Emergency Management website for detailed information regarding preparedness for all types of emergencies," Colonel Fuentes said.
Everyone should make the following preparations to protect their family, their business and their community in advance of an emergency:
- Have an emergency kit
- Make an emergency plan
- Stay informed
- Get involved
Have an emergency kit: Everyone should be prepared to have enough supplies for at least three days. Emergency kits should include the basics for survival including non-perishable food, water, medicine (both over-the-counter and prescription, if possible), flashlight, transistor radio, batteries, phone chargers, baby supplies and other special medical needs.
For an extensive list of how to put a family emergency kit together, visit http://nj.gov/health/er/documents/kit.pdf.
Make an emergency plan: Families should have an emergency plan that includes all family members and friends in case family members are separated when an emergency occurs. Plans should spell out how to contact each other, where everyone will meet and what to do in various situations.
An emergency plan should also include a comprehensive contact list that includes school and health care information as well as family information. Make sure this list is updated often as cell phone numbers may change.


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State Superintendent of Public Instruction Issues Statement on Family Separation Crisis
Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson released a statement today on the Trump administration's policy of separating families seeking asylum from human rights abuses, violence, and crime.
"I am saddened and angered by the treatment of families and young children at our southern border," said Torlakson. "Families who come to the United States seeking economic security, new opportunities, and physical safety face great adversity and danger on their journeys. They should be greeted with understanding and compassion. Instead, immigration officials have separated families with little hope of reunification, prosecuted asylum-seekers, and detained prospective immigrants indefinitely."
"This is cruel, inhumane, and unacceptable, and has the potential to cause irreparable harm to the children victimized by these actions. Children could face long-lasting anxiety, depression, and other forms of mental illness that could harm their performance at school and cause problems throughout their lives."
"I am proud to join 17 other states and the District of Columbia in a lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging its practice of refusing entry for asylum seekers at our southern borders and the cruel and unlawful policy of forcibly separating families."
"We must treat those who come to our nation seeking refuge in a compassionate way, one that reflects the values upon which this nation was built. We are a nation of immigrants that has welcomed people from all over the world. This diversity is our strength."
"In contrast to current federal policies, California schools stand ready to welcome and serve these students and their families just as we welcome all students regardless of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, or immigration status."


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The big news this week -- for me, at least -- was the release of my new book, Me, Myself and Why: Searching for the Science of Self, which traces various scientific strands that weave together to make us the people that we are. Over at Psychology Today, Gayll Nalls posted a transcript of our chat during the FQXI conference in Vieques, Puerto Rico, earlier this month (which explains my beachy, make-up-free, tousled hair appearance). You can read a shorter interview over at Oprah.com. The Time Lord did his promotional part, the Atlantic excerpted part of the chapter on virtual/online identity, and I also wrote a piece for Slate: "Ten Things I Learned About Me (and Maybe You, Too) While Writing About the Self."
Thanks to that Atlantic excerpt, I heard about a wonderful project related to this notion of what our "stuff" says about our selves: "Significant Details is a series of interviews with women in science. ... All interviews start from a specific object, a 'significant detail' from the women's scientific life. They can be scientific objects or something completely different that is related to science only by the women's experience."
Of course, no sooner had the book been published, when the Time Lord and I took off for two and a half weeks in Southeast Asia -- just in time for the lunar new year (welcome to the Year of the Horse) -- with spotty Internet access. So there will be no Physics Week in Review the next couple of weeks. Sorry! Jen-Luc Piquant will be back on the job with her usual roundups come February 22. In the meantime, here's a whole bunch of stuff to fill the time this weekend.
We'll be missing the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, but look for lots of terrific blog posts on related science, starting with this one: Engineering The Ideal Olympian: Superfast Fitted Ski Suit. Related: Impossible Figure Skating Moves from the Movies.
Black Holes, Quantum Information and Fuzzballs: String theorist Micha Berkooz on Hawking's new paper. In 1976, Stephen Hawking opened a can of worms. Now he's trying to put them back. Related: A Brief History of Mind-Bending Ideas About Black Holes. Also, Matt Strassler insists (correctly, of course) that news of black holes' death has been exaggerated.
Physicists can't find natural magnetic monopole so they make their own, in a Bose-Einstein sort of way.
Physics Buzz eats some crow and now agrees: 1+2+3+4+ . . . does not equal -1/12.
Experiments with elastic rods hanging under their own weight explain the shape of curly hair.
Schrodinger's Rats and the Search for Ultimate Reality: an excerpt from Trespassing on Einstein's Law, by the amazing Amanda Gefter.
Might the Infinity of the Universe Have a Tangible Effect on Daily Life?
How is the Universe bigger than its age? 13.8 billion years old, yet we see for 46 billion light-years. Here's how.
Even the most boring collisions at the LHC tell us something about the universe - this time about cosmic rays.
How Radioactive (In Units of Bananas) is the Room You're Sitting in Right Now?
Bouncing Beethoven Off the Moon: "'Earth – Moon – Earth,' by Scottish artist Katie Paterson. Paterson translated Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata into Morse code and bounced it off the moon via Earth-Moon-Earth (EME) transmission. The artist explained: 'The moon reflects only part of the information back – some is absorbed in its shadows, 'lost' in its craters … Returning to earth fragmented by the moon's surface, it has been re-translated into a new score, the gaps and absences becoming intervals and rests. In the exhibition space the new 'moon–altered' score plays on a self-playing grand piano.'" There is an audio clip here.
Has Anyone Ever Flipped Heads 76 Times in a Row? The mathematics of the coin toss.
Perfecting the Art of Sensible Nonsense: A new cryptographic scheme obfuscates computer programs by transforming them into something akin to a jigsaw puzzle in which random elements make each individual piece look meaningless.
To Eliminate Feedback, Engineers Invented the Acoustic Equivalent of One-Way Glass.
How to Save Your Scroll: Mathematical formula shows best way to prevent ancient scrolls from deforming.
Physics philosopher and musician Steve Weinstein On Wormholes, Punk Rock and his New Album, Last Free Man.
Most Destructive Space Battle Rocks Virtual Universe. The equivalent of hundreds of thousands of dollars was lost in the EVE Online universe as thousands of gamers were thrown into the "The Bloodbath of B-R5RB."
NOISE, A Short Film That Explores White and Black Noise Through Motion Capture.
A silk coat for nanodiamonds makes sleek new imaging and drug delivery tool.
How A New Science of Cities is Emerging From Mobile Phone Data Analysis. Now you can see a city 'breath'.
A dark-energy detector under development at Fermilab uses new technique to generate images of astronomical objects.
28 years to the day after the Challenger Shuttle tragedy, Phil Plait explains why we *must* continue exploring space. Related: Discovery News reviews Challenger: An American Tragedy. Also: After the explosion, Richard Feynman famously set out to find what went wrong.
The forces on an object in flight come from the distribution of pressure on the surface.
The NSA can collect user information from Angry Birds.
A turkey's wattle inspires a biosensor's design.
How to Pack a Telescope for a Trip to Space.
Where Did Time Come From, and Why Does It Seem to Flow? The new issue of Nautilus is all about Time. A few highlights: Developing the DeLorean: Literature and Science, working together to travel through time. The Metaphysical Baggage of Physics, in which physicist Lee Smolin argues that time is more fundamental than physical laws. Finally, there is The Quantum Mechanics of Fate - How time travel might explain some of science's biggest puzzles. And so much more!
Check out the latest trailer for the much-anticipated reboot of Cosmos, featuring Neil de Grasse Tyson:
Meet Borophene, a Two-Dimensional Nanomaterial that Could Rival Graphene.
Alice in Quantumland: A Charming Illustrated Allegory of Quantum Mechanics by CERN Physicist Robert Gilmore (and one of my personal favorite popular physics books of all time).
Galileo's Moon Drawings, the First Realistic Depictions of the Moon in History (1609-1610).
Your Space Babies Would Die of Fungus! what the negative effects of fruit flies born into space could mean for humans.
Detailed measurements of Earth's gravitational field, including variations in time, from the GOCE satellite.
Lawsuit by "self-described scientist" Alleges NASA Is Failing To Investigate Alien Life. Those slackers.
George Johnson's "eloquent hate letter to the tumbleweed": How Tumbleweeds Spread Radiation From Old Nuclear Sites.
A mathematical look at frog choruses: a further attempt to understand croaking. SCIENCE!
Back to Light: Artist Caleb Charland Uses Fruit Batteries to Illuminate Long-Exposure Photographs. "The artist uses nails inside fruit connected with copper wire to create functional batteries. Harnessed to a small lightbulb, the current is sufficient enough to provide illumination for long exposure photographs. Effectively, the organic batteries create enough voltage to light their own portrait."
An early camel-driven solo internet from 10th century... if you define "internet" as transporting device for data.
3-D Printed Crime Scenes Are Coming to a Courtroom Near You.
The shortest science paper ever published had no words and was utterly brilliant. Plus other amusing abstracts, including one on those infamous faster-than-light neutrinos a couple of years ago. "A group from the H.W. Wills Physics Laboratory in Bristol and the Indian Institute of Technology wondered, "'Can apparent superluminal neutrino speeds be explained as a quantum weak measurement?' Their abstract succinctly and bluntly answered that question: 'Probably not.'"
Essen's clock: making every second count.
The Physics of Angry Birds Telepods - hint: converging lenses are involved.
Our Quantum Reality problem. What really happens in Schrodinger's box?
"To step into Galileo's villa is to step into a place of intense personal tragedy and great scientific achievement."
William Shakespeare, the 'king of infinite space': Was the Bard a science-fiction writer 200 years before Mary Shelley?
The Math Aficionado's Guide to High-Fives: math with animated GIFs! "The Asymptote. This representation of one of the coolest behaviors a function can have is also good for germaphobes afraid of physical contact."
Why ROYGBIV Is Arbitrary - Apparently it's all Isaac Newton's fault.
If Birds Left Trails Like Tracer Bullets, It'd Look Like This: "Dennis Hlynsky, a photographer/filmmaker and professor at Rhode Island Institute of Design, has been filming various bunches of birds — murmurations of starlings, murders of crows, and others — with a technique that shows each bird's trail, in images, from the preceding two seconds."
Fun for kids and adults: Make paper models of Platonic solids and learn why there are only five of them.
"No sooner do the scientist and poet recognize a common awe of the cosmos, they must part for different missions."
Falsification and chemistry: What's the rub?
"What if she drinks in progressively smaller sips? Will the cup slowly empty, or will some fixed quantity of liquid always remain?" The Mathematician and the Unfinished Coffee.
Watch the next big neutrino experiment come together: A video from Fermilab highlights some of the many steps needed to build the largest neutrino experiment in the United States.
With bold isometric forms created from bright neon tape, New York City artist Aakash Nihalani creates playful outdoor installations.
Snow rollers are nature's snowballs, formed when high winds roll a chunk of snow along the surface.
A New Scientific Model that Defines Alien Intelligence.
Finding Ada: The story of Joan Feynman, geomagnetics scientist.
This Astronomical Watch Shows Our Solar System Orbiting the Sun. I would so buy for the Time Lord if I had a spare $250K.
The financial future of the International Space Station.
"Calculus, Latin for pebble, a chip off the old block tumbled over/time and distance." Poetry by Mary-Sherman Willis.
Haunting X-Ray Photographs of Plants and Animals by Netherlands-based physicist and photographer Arie van't Riet.
Want to figure out how moles move? X-ray them moving through couscous!
Winner of The Quantum Shorts 2013: The Knight of Infinity.
Einstein's Girl: An Interview with Gia Mora, Singer, Actress and Writer. You can read Jen-Luc Piquant's own review of the fabulous Miz Mora here.
When it comes to calculating pi, two wrongs might make a right.
Beings Not Made for Space: swelled heads, atrophied limbs, radiation threats all take their toll on human body.
What happens if you get too close to a black hole? Ask the experts.
What works for girls in the physics classroom?
A photographic tour of LA's iconic Griffith Observatory from the folks at Physics Buzz.
Kelvin, Rutherford, and the Age of the Earth: I, The Myth.
"John R. Huizenga, a physicist who helped build the world's first atom bomb, solve dozens of atomic riddles and debunk claims that scientists in Utah had achieved nuclear fusion in a jar of water, died on Saturday in San Diego. He was 92."
Why do wet fingers turn wrinkled? The debate goes on; this time, there's a physics perspective.
Can't get enough of the free will or no free will debate? Here's Daniel Dennett being all intelligent about it.
Where can our ideas about quantum information processing take us? John Preskill contemplates an answer.
The Future of Transportation is Here With Donkey Kong Barrels.
Physicists say energy can be teleported 'without a limit of distance.'
How online gamers are solving science's biggest problems.
A Wearable Book Feeds You Its Characters' Emotions As You Read.
Measuring the Strength of a Magnet - bigger isn't necessarily stronger.
Finally check out this jaw-dropping new footage from Felix Baumgarten's record-breaking 2012 sky dive from 24.2 miles above Earth. Try not to vomit:


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All this and more is coming in this time of great sorrow. But those who know Me, those who abide in Me and My Word shall know great joy in this time in spite of the sorrows surrounding them round about. They shall stand courageous, speak My Word boldly and bring glory to My Name. They shall cause many souls to come into the Kingdom in this time.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Trouble Coming
All this and more is coming in this time of great sorrow. But those who know Me, those who abide in Me and My Word shall know great joy in this time in spite of the sorrows surrounding them round about. They shall stand courageous, speak My Word boldly and bring glory to My Name. They shall cause many souls to come into the Kingdom in this time.
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Why will God judge this nation called America?ReplyDelete
People, the judgment on this country will come from a displeased God who has witnessed His people trying to undo His prior judgment.
People, it was God Himself who created the nation state with His judgment on The Tower of Babel. But what does that old testament scripture have to do with me today cries the modern Christian?
So lets take another look at this biblical story without the modern theological veil over our eyes.
Genesis 11:
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
(what this means is the people knew they were displeasing God because they knew what they were doing could get them scattered upon the earth)
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
(Look again at verse 6 where God tells us what the problem is. God tells us the problem is "the people is one." Folks this is from God Himself for those who are listening. Why is it a problem to God that the people are one? God does not leave us in the dark. He says because when the peolple is one, nothing will be restrained from them what they imagine to do)
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
So it should be clear that when the people is one God knows man gains the ability to have nothing restrained from him which displeases God and caused Him to pass judgment and scatter the people and change their language so they not only lived together but could not all communicate with eachother.
So take the next step. It was God himself who created the nation. What is a nation? It (used to be) a people of common ancestry with a common language. Why do we know this? Because historically when you went to Europe you found Europeans with their European languages. When you went to Asia you found Asians with Asian languages. When you went to the middle east you found Arabs with Arabian languages and when you went to Africa you found Africans with an African language.
So time went by and today you'll find the modern Christian actively working to undo these nations that God created. You'll find these Christians developing what they call - the multicultural nation. Once again man is coming together as one. But todays Christian is modern and that old story of Babel doesn't apply to him cause he's modern right?
Folks history is repeating itself right before your very eyes as man comes together as one and begins to build a "modern" version of the tower of Babel in a new phenomenon called: The New World Order!
* Don't tell me there is no United Nations governing entity.
* Don't tell me there is no World Bank.
* Don't tell me there is no World Health Organization.
* Don't tell me the UN has no world army.
* And people, dont' tell me this New World Order is Christian.
So today as the modern man once again gathers the worlds people together God knows two things.
1. That man is trying to undo his prior judgment of creating the nation state.
2. That man will once again gain the ability to have nothing retrained from him that he imagines to do.
Now are you still wondering why Gods judgment is coming to multicultural America?
May God be praised. I thank Him for HIM in our lives & all of His guidance & teachings & wonderful gifts to help us & bless others. He has everything under control & we who are His & walking w/ Him are also under His control. I just read these words in David Wilkerson's book, The Vision and Beyond.ReplyDelete
Nicely said, Donna. I like David Wilkerson. I've never known him to compromise his faith or God's word.ReplyDelete
It definitely has been on my heart to pray for my family and future plan recently. I believe that the dark one is going to try to use our families and situations as leverage against our God. Do not let it happen! Pray now for not only the physical safety of what is/who is genuinely important to you, but also for the spiritual strength when such attacks do occur.ReplyDelete
God bless.
I kept thinking of Nineveh and Jonah while reading this. He actually wanted Nineveh to get destroyed and parked himself in a front row seat.ReplyDelete
I have to kill the part of myself that desires this to come to pass. I think a lot of other people have to as well. Glynda when you speak these words, they are not with a cracked smile saying "i can't wait" but with humility and reverence.
Our desire should be to reach the lost and help usher in repentance. Because this IS coming.
Only a nationwide adherence to 2 Chron 7:14 can stop it.
2Ch 7:14 if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Tim 2:22 " Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart."ReplyDelete
Eph 3:16-21 " I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen."
- AnonymousApril 22, 2011 at 4:04 PM
"I desire that you would stand tall and strong for Me in this time, that your hearts would be filled with courage as you face what lies just ahead"ReplyDelete
- Let us pray!
Amen. Thank you LORD Yahshua
It's always the same old story........trouble is coming and prepare yourselves !! Next year it will AGAIN be the same story.....PREPARE YOURSELVES , TROUBLE IS COMING !!!! ( yawn )ReplyDelete
Everyone should read Miss Manners and everything will be fineReplyDelete
Glad Grandaughter didn't want to take a nap cause I probably wouldn't have read the comments on this one today if she had.ReplyDelete
Seems as if there are some who like to sit on railroad tracks and listen to very loud music. Not a wise passtime, especially with only moments left on the clock, every second is crucial.
Whenever the Lord brought judgement down on a nation he would always warn first, when that season passed he would provide a way out for his people who love him, they needed to be in communication with him and obedient to his voice. It is a still small voice that can only be heard when you are quietly listening in humble thanksgivng and worship. It takes practice developing an ear for it, sometimes you hear what you want to hear. But if it doesn't line up with his word ignore it, it isn't him. I paid some painfull dues learning that one. My skull is thicker than most. He was patient with me and always is, just like he was with Jonah. Seek him with everything you have and you will find him, just like it says in his word. He's not interested in perfection so much as he is in persistance, do not stop till you have heard it.
When things seem in upheavel and your tempted to rely on the flesh alone, pause and ask him which way should you go, he will protect your heart with a peace if you are in his will, if you have no peace than back up and start over. or turn around and go the other way till the peace returns. A very wise friend said to me once, Let peace be your umpire. I will never forget that truth.
Time is short people, Get off the tracks and turn off the racket, be advised there is a train coming just around the bend, and its under full steam and nothing is going to stop it.
Pray for each other, Are you aware that you guys are going to meet someday? Did you pray for me? I have for you and will continue to, I know I am going to need your prayers, and I mean the hardcore to the wall kind that rattle streets in heaven, To arms! to arms! I say! Are you with me? Lets do this thing. The battle is at your door, to the breach, Prepare your defence,which is to say your offence!
They who sharpen their swords whet their courage! Do it! Do not be lulled by that siren of slurpy wishfull thinkingthat its all going to continue as it has from the beginning. Face what you know to be true, no matter what anguish of spirit it may cause you take a hard look at it. When you come out the other side of a truth bath like that you will know what you need to do. Move out and draw fire Christian. Pointman out.
Beloved children of God, The Holy Spirit is speaking to you, you already know this to be true, fore as you read your breath is being held in, knowing oh so well these words, teachings your heart ebrace,you too! have heard the soft spoken words have came to your own heart, "Is it God, His Spirit you said to yourself?. Indeed, "BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD" TROUBLE IS NOT ONLY COMING BUT IS HERE. BE NOT AFRAID FOR i WILL BE WITH YOU, EVEN INTO THE ENDS OF THE WORLD. WE KNEW IT WAS COMING, THE WORD TOLD US SO,BUT WHEN WE SEE IT IN OUR,'RIGHT NOW TIME" IT MAKES US SEE WHAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT IN LIFE, YOUR FAMILY,FRIENDS,THE FAMILY ACROSS THE STREET WE DON'T KNOW, DO THEY KNOW JESUS? WE MUST PRAY FIRST & MAKE A WAY TO GIVE THE GIFT OF JESUS LOVE TO THEM,AND HIS MESSAGE OF FORGIVENESS & LIFE,WHAT DOES THE WORD SAY TOO,COUNT IT ALL JOY THE ANGLES REJOICE WHEN A NEW HEART COME TO JESUS.THE HOUR IS LATE AND MY CHILREN ARE NOT ALL SAVED. YES! BELOVED ONES PUT THE ARMOR, ON ALL OF IT, GET IT OFF THE SHELF,BLOW ANY DUST OFF, GET READY FOR BATTLE, THIS IS THE REAL THING,BELOVED ONES,NOT A WALK THROUGH, PRAYER, WE MUST KEEP IN PRAYER. gOD DOES WARN US BEFORE," WHAT WAS WILL BE, AND ,HISTORY REPEATS ITS SELF.YA KNOW BELOVED ONES WHEN RADIO TALK SHOW HOSTS & PREACHERS START SPEAKING THE SAME WORD,ITS TIME TO LOOK INTO WHATS BEING SAID. tHERE IS A PLAN OF THE DARK ONE ALRIGHT,THOSE IN HIGH PLACES WHO SEEK TO CONTROL ALL THE WORLD. REMEMBER THE STORY OF THE FROG PUT IN WARM PAN ON WATER ON THE STOVE,TURNING UP THE FLAM A LITTLE AT THE TIME UNTIL,POOR FROG FELTED ALL IS WELL, & COULD NO LONGER JUMP OUT. LOOK AT THE SCHOOL BOOKS NOW SET TO LEAVE OUT OUR GREAT LEADERS WASHINGTON,LINCON AND OTHERS THAT HELPED TO MAKE OUR NATION GREAT. WE MUST KNOW WHO IS UP TO LEAD OUR COUNTRY THIS TIME DID WE KNOW WHO THIS MAN WAS BEFORE? GOD WILL LEAD US BUT BE BETTER OPEN OUR SPITURAL EARS,HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT HAS TO SAY. gOD IN JESUS NAME,BY HIS SPIRIT WE PRAY FOR THOSE THAT HAVE READ,THOSE THAT TOOK THE TIME TO SAY 'PRAY FOR ME" YES BELOVED BROTHER IN CHRIST I KNOW YOUR BROTHERS & SISTERS IN CHRIST W-I-L-L W-I-L-L!!!! PRAY FOR YOU.AND I ASK THE SAME FOR MYSELF OF YOU READERS, WE ALL NEED TO PRAY FOR EA& YES WHAT A BLESSED TIME IT WILL BE WHEN WE ALL GET TOGATHER ON THAT DAY WE CAN SAY, "I KNOW YOU,YOU PRAYED FOR ME THAT DAY WHEN I NEEDED PRAYER SO VERY MUCH" WE CAN SHOUT THE VICTORY. "THEY OVER CAME THEM, BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB, AND THE WORD OF THEIR TESTIMONIES,& THEY LOVED THEIR LIVES THEIR LIVES NOT UNTO THE DEATH. I LOVE YOU ALL FOR YOU ARE MY FAMILY. SHERRIEK 7 i,ReplyDelete