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Scientists have come so near to finding a cure for HIV that it seems soon the deadly disease will be a thing of the past. Furthermore, the cure to AIDS will be at an affordable rate. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome was a disease that indicated a death sentence in the past. But now that may change.
Researchers in Denmark are making headway towards a cure for HIV. The human immunodeficiency virus has spread havoc through the mid 80s and 90s and a cure was not in sight. What began as a disease exclusive to homosexuals soon spread to heterosexuals as well. As a venereal disease AIDS was the worst since it was incurable, according to the Telegraph. The immune system was destroyed as a result of this tragic syndrome. The possibility of a cure is on the horizon alright. New tactics are being looked into by scientists. They include removing the virus from the reservoirs of the cells it preys upon and destroying it once it comes to the surface.
In the lab this strategy works. It has yet to be tested in the real world. The Danish Research Council gave away 12 million Danish kroner to the concerned scientists. This is a journey that may rid the world of this scourge. The next step is to try the experiments on human beings instead of animals. That is the giant leap that will determine whether the cure works in the domain of human experience. Coaxing the already compromised immune systems of the individuals to respond by killing HIV samples would be a miracle if it were to actually happen. But it seems this wish of mankind is not in the realm of fantasy anymore. Rather it will hopefully be a reality soon.
A batch of 15 volunteers will partake in the experiment. Even if one of them is cured it would be a sign of immense progress. It could spell the death of AIDS as we know it at present. Meanwhile, for now at least the usual prophylactic measures to conquer AIDS are being touted. This includes avoidance of multiple partners (promiscuity) and extra precaution regarding the usage of infected hypodermic needles. Even today with the costly treatment a person may live a normal life with few annoying symptoms provided he takes the medicine. But with an AIDS cure in sight, the fears can be laid to rest once and for all.
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Friday, April 12, 2013
Button Spinner Toy
We have made these fun little button spinners many times at our house and the boys enjoy them. They can be a little frustrating for little ones that have a hard time getting the rhythm down to get the buttons to spin, so I would recommend making these with your bigger kids.
When my husband was a teacher, he used to make them with his fifth grade class and even some of the students in there had a hard time getting their buttons to spin at first, but eventually they all got it and had a lot of fun with them.
This is a good basic video on how to make and spin the button spinners.
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Over the years, toy-making company Hasbro Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS) found its success through duplicating popular cartoon characters and is rewarded with overload demand for their "Frozen" dolls along with extravagant action figures from movies like "Star Wars". Hasbro's FurReal Friends Starlily was also featured on Fortune's must own toys ranking at 3rd.
Despite reported to have a better-than-expected quarterly profit and revenue, the company's earnings took a slid down the graph. The tactic which Hasbro excels at (toys targeting boys) accounts for 40% of Hasbro's total revenue. However, that has dropped 4% in sale in the second quarter from around 24% to 32% in the prior three quarters.
The company reported $0.41 in earnings per share on 878.9 million in revenue. According to Thomson Reuters, it is estimated at $0.39 in earnings per share on revenue of $858.97M. Also in the same period of last year, the company posted an earnings per share of $0.33 and revenue of $797.66 million.
The No.2 U.S. toymaker's share fell as short as much as 7.21% in the midmorning trade on Monday. Few indications for the drop of earnings may be viewed on the sales on the toys based on the movie, "Jurassic World", which plummeted dramatically with persistent poor reviews on the film.
Due to Britain's sudden exit from the European Union, it caused some near-term uncertainty though Hasbro has yet to be affected by the vote. Chief Executive Brian Goldner said on the conference call, "We have positive momentum in both the UK and Europe heading into the second half of the year."
Hasbro expects to see a brighter light when they start to ship toys based on "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" in the current quarter ahead of the December release of the next film in the franchise.


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I've been hearing this question a lot lately, and when I do, it reminds me how much I don't know. Here are some questions this question brings to mind.
Where I can get answers to this stuff1? That's not a rhetorical question! I'm really interested in hearing about other resources!
Alex Gaynor set up a GitHub repo that attempts to answer this entire question. It answers some of the questions, and has answers to some questions it didn't even occur to me to ask, but it's missing answers to the vast majority of these questions.
For high-level answers, here's Tali Garsiel and Paul Irish on how a browser works and Jessica McKellar how the Internet Works. For how a simple OS does things, Xv6 has good explanations. For how Linux works, Gustavo Duarte has a series of explanations hereFor TTYs, this article by Linus Akesson is a nice supplement to Duarte's blog.
One level down from that, James Marshall has a concise explanation of HTTP 1.0 and 1.1, and SANS has an old but readable guide on SSL and TLS. This isn't exactly smooth prose, but this spec for URLs explains in great detail what a URL is.
Going down another level, MS TechNet has an explanation of TCP, which also includes a short explanation of UDP.
One more level down, Kyle Cassidy has a quick primer on Ethernet, Iljitsch van Beijnum has a lengthier explanation with more history, and Matthew J Castelli has an explanation of LAN switches. And then we have DOCSIS and cable modems. This gives a quick sketch of how long haul fiber is set up, but there must be a better explanation out there somewhere. And here's a quick sketch of modern CPUs. For an answer to the keyboard specific questions, Simon Inns explains keypress decoding and why you can't press an arbitrary combination of keys on a keyboard.
Down one more level, this explains how wires work, Richard A. Steenbergen explains fiber, and Pierret explains transistors.
P.S. As an interview question, this is pretty much the antithesis of the tptacek strategy. From what I've seen, my guess is that tptacek-style interviews are much better filters than open ended questions like this.
Thanks to Marek Majkowski, Allison Kaptur, Mindy Preston, Julia Evans, Marie Clemessy, and Gordon P. Hemsley for providing answers and links to resources with answers! Also, thanks to Julia Evans and Sumana Harihareswara for convincing me to turn these questions into a blog post.


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These last couple of weeks have been a bit of a wild ride out in the world. I wonder what is going on, but at the same time there is a part of me that knows. Knows, but hasn't surfaced enough yet for me to remember it more clearly.
Even as a child, this part of me knew that adult me would experience all manner of natural disasters and earth changes. Chaos that was unimaginable to little girl me, but that life would prepare for adult me to be able to handle.
And so here I sit, watching it become more visible in the physical world. Things I have been dreaming about and receiving visions of my whole life.
I've never heard the word 'unprecedented' used so often for such a wide variety of things in such a short amount of time in all my life, as I have in the last week. Hurricanes, wildfires, solar flares, radiation, earthquakes, volcanoes, etc. One tripping along the heals of the other.
Everyone has their own idea of what they think is happening. Climate change (whether man-made or otherwise), weather modification, pole-shift, ice age, Nibiru, the coming of Christ, cosmic rays, etc.
Some respond by prepping, preparing. Others by trying to keep things going business as usual. Others are praying, repenting, rationalizing, intellectualizing, denying, blaming. Trying to cope as best as they know how for something of this magnitude. Trying to regain some sense of control over their lives.
I do not feel fear about what is happening or coming. This is something bigger than me, than us. We do not have control over it. It feels like that is something that we've forgotten over recent times, that we aren't in control over everything. We need this. We need to be reminded that there is something greater than ourselves.
These things were always going to happen. To see it as punishment or as something to be controlled, is to miss the greater wisdom of what is about to unfold.


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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
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Members of Platoon Three received some emergency vehicle operator training today within a simulator owned and operated by the Enfield Fire Department. All four platoons will have an opportunity to participate in the training.
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There's something about being at the ocean. Stress seems to get swept away on the sea breeze, and time moves at a slower pace allowing us to savor that novel we've been meaning to read. Suddenly 'sitting' seems like an activity rather than a luxury and nothing seems quite as important as it did before.
We're not all fortunate enough to enjoy waterfront property, but even if we're landlocked there are ways to capture that carefree 'beach style' in our garden.
I'm not suggesting having a truck load of sand dumped at your home to create buggy-worthy dunes, nor adding a proliferation of nautical themed accessories – fishing lure styled mail boxes or geranium filled row boats in the flower beds. (If you like that stuff, go for it! Not my style though).
Take your cue from Nature itself. It doesn't need dressing up. It simply is.
I love those beaches where you approach along a sandy trail, turn the final corner and suddenly come across an expansive view to take your breath away. Recreate that path with crushed rock – decomposed granite is a favorite, or a simple wooden boardwalk. If your pathway leads through a heavily planted area a simple mulch make look right. Create a sense of anticipation and be sure to sweep the path around a curve or a large shrub.
Plant palette
Think what grows naturally in those windswept locations with fast draining soil – that will give you some ideas as to what will look 'right'. Grasses are an easy choice and the Mexican feather grass (Stipa tenuissima) is the perfect height and form to give that beach feel at just 18" tall and wide. It thrives in full sun and doesn't need rich soil. It also self-seeds freely which helps to avoid looking overly 'designed'. For something taller the stiffly upright 'Karl Foerster' feather reed grass (Calamagrostis acutiflora) is sturdy enough to withstand strong winds yet still moves nicely in the breeze, whispering like the marram grass on the dunes.
To add flowers into this mix consider the low growing forms of pinks (Dianthus) e.g. 'Firewitch', thrift (Armeria sp.) and fleabane (Erigeron sp.). These look perfect in a beachscape. Taller perennials could include Russian sage (Perovskia atriplicifolia) or catmint (Nepeta sp.). Sculptural forms of pine can also look wonderful and are native to many coastal regions.
If your garden is shadier don't despair. Many beaches are reached after first walking through a shaded forest, especially here in the Pacific Northwest. Native flowering shrubs such as wild roses and oceanspray (Holodiscus discolor) lend height and sedges (Carex sp.) can substitute for the sun loving grasses.
If your soil seems unsuitable you can always use containers to create your beach garden. Use wide, low planters in neutral colors to keep the focus on the plants. Adding extra perlite to the mix and/or using a potting medium which is low in organic content will enable you to grow those plants which prefer fast draining, low fertility soils.
Boulders, rocks and pebbles
A few well-placed boulders can really help set the scene, especially if plants are nestled up to them. Arrange river rocks and small stones around the boulders in such a fashion as to suggest erosion, with the smallest pebbles spilling over onto the patio to achieve a more natural look.
So you've walked a short trail past boulders and plants – don't let the destination be an anti-climax! An open vista is of course ideal but not always possible, so focus on keeping the destination simple. Remember that Nature is our inspiration and the beach is not a kaleidoscope of brightly colored flowers. Keep the sitting area uncluttered with minimal planting consisting of just one or two species. Add seating – weathered Adirondack chairs look perfect or simple canvas deck chairs. Perhaps you have room for a fire pit to toast marshmallows as the stars come out?
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North Little Rock Mayor Pat Hays is a can-do executive with laudable achievements.
But no one should envy his disdain for the law. It's one thing to prevaricate and cut corners to provide public land for private parking at the baseball park, as Hays has done. But it's another to flout the Constitution and statute to divert school tax money to build a hotel parking deck.
Developers want to build a hotel at Broadway and Maple. They want the city to build the parking deck. No problem, says Mayor Hays. He'll put the hotel property in a tax increment finance district. That freezes the value of the land for tax purposes at its undeveloped rate. The taxes from the increased value of the property when the hotel is built can be diverted by law to pay off parking deck bonds issued in the name of the TIF district.
This is a straight-up application of the TIF process, in which tax money is used to provide infrastructure for a project that wouldn't be built but for a public investment.
But that's not where it ends. Hays is working on a scheme to capture the post-improvement level taxes on two other unrelated and geographically unconnected TIF districts to help finance the parking deck. The districts for the Argenta Place development on Main Street, a block from the hotel site, and The Enclave apartments, nearly six blocks away, were created in 2006. But no TIF project was ever put in motion in either place. Improvements were made without need of public contributions. The property will go on the tax books in 2009 at its higher value.
But Hays is hungry to divert increased taxes (virtually all of which benefit schools) from the two completed projects. The Enclave apartments are particularly critical. Valued for TIF purposes at $2.7 million, the project is for sale for $38 million. It's probably worth about $30 million. The $27 million swing in valuation would produce a hefty $90,000 a year in taxes to pay off parking deck bonds.
I don't think the law allows this. The state statute says redevelopment districts must be contiguous. Hays wants to combine revenue flow from three disconnected districts. He also is hurrying to approve this scheme before the end of the year, when the higher property values take effect and would be lost for TIF purposes.
Hays has a big constitutional problem. The TIF amendment says clearly that redevelopment districts may only be used for projects WITHIN the district. The legislature has tried to legislate around this, but the Supreme Court generally disproves legislative rewrites of the Constitution.
Forget the legalities. TIF bonds are supposed to be floated to spur redevelopment of blighted areas. Hays wants to take school tax money already set to flow from redeveloped, non-blighted areas. This perverts the spirit of the law. It's nothing more than a flimflam to produce money the mayor can't produce by straightforward means, such as a parking improvement district financed by all beneficiaries' property taxes. He prefers to steal kids' school lunch money.
That kind of leadership we don't need on either side of the Arkansas River. Nor is the example a good one for the TIF grifters lurking throughout Arkansas.


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Apparently, Spring used to be naturally the baby birth peak time of the year. You know, once the harvest is done, there was time for leisure ;)
Here in Brussels, like in old good past, it is a time of new babies around! Btw, they say that Brussles maternity hospitals were overfull in April.
To keep up, I made a couple of toys for a couple of boys, in the spirit of scrap patchwork that I like so much.
A cube for Myron
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wesleytodd.com - A javascript application developer
I am practically obsessed with optimizing my workflow, I get super geeky about it. If it takes more than one command to do something it makes me itch, itch to write a program to do it for me next time. Enter Yeoman, an opinionated web workflow based on the Node.js tools Yo, Grunt and Bower. These tools take care of project scaffolding, task automation and asset management. They turn complicated tasks into single line commands...and it's awesome!
One of the things that was sorely lacking in the Yeoman community was a full featured integration for WordPress, so I started to write one. Primarily, YeoPress is a generator which installs WordPress, sets up your
wp-config.php file, and can install a custom theme. With one command, and the answers to a few prompts, you can have WordPress installed and configured. So how does it work?
To get started we need to have a few things installed, starting with Node. Go on over to the Node website and download the installer for your system, there are installers for OSx, Windows and a few Linux distros, so get installing. Node is the only thing that is required, but there are a few other things that I like to use, so here are some links so you can get them setup: Git & Sass. With all our complicated installs done, we can move on to installing Yo and YeoPress:
$ npm install -g yo generator-wordpress
With the new versions of Yo we no longer have to install Bower and Grunt individually. This is because they are listed as peer dependencies and will get installed along side Yo as global modules. Also, new versions of Yo allow for generators to be installed globally as well, so the generator will be available in any directory you wish to setup WordPress. Remember when I said how I love tasks that only take one command? Awesome!
Everything in in place for us to get started with WordPress, so cd to your install directory and run the generator:
$ cd /path/to/wp
$ yo wordpress
After the nice ASCII art logo (don't ask how long I spent making that....), you get a series of prompts like this:
What URL will WordPress be installed at (example.com)
Would you like to initalize a Git repository? (Y)
Would you like to install WordPress as a submodule? (N)
Questions with answers in parenthesis after do not require an answer, and will use the value in the parenthesis by default. Once you have answered all of your questions, you get to confirm your answers, then YeoPress will run all the steps to get WP running. There are a few paths you can take through these questions depending on which answers you give so I will step through some of the key questions and explain what they mean:
This question is pretty self-explanatory, choose
Y and a Git repo will be initialized for you. This will also open up the option of installing WP as a Git submodule, and commit at a few points during the installation.
As mentioned above, this is only available if you chose to use Git. But what it does is ask you where you would like to install WP, and it will run the commands:
$ git submodule add git://github.com/WordPress/WordPress.git <YOUR WP INSTALL DIR>
$ cd <YOUR WP INSTALL DIR
$ git checkout <WP VERSION TAG>
Now you will have a copy of WordPress that is connected to the official WP Github repo for controlled updates. Answering
Y to this question will also change a few configuration values inside your
wp-config.php to enable a custom directory structure.
If you answered
N to either of the previous questions, you will get this question. This allows you to install WP in a custom directory structure, just like what is done if you answer
Y to both of the above questions. Basically, this allows you to choose the WP install directory, and a custom
wp-content directory. This can be nice as a simple way to disguise the fact that it is a WordPress site, or just to help keep the content separate from WP core. If you answer yes, the default directories are
wordpress and
content, either of which can be changed to fit your needs.
YeoPress can snag a theme from either a Github repo or a tarball. If you answer yes to this question you will be prompted to some information about where to download the theme from. If you choose
git, you are asked to provide the Github username, repo name and branch name. This will grab a copy and install it in the directory you specified as the "Destination directory". For a
tar install, you just need to give it the url of the tarball and it will do the same thing.
And that is it, now WordPress should be installed and working!! Navigate your browser to the url you gave to the prompt, and you should get the "Famous 5-minute Install". Congratulations on your new WordPress site!!
My goal with YeoPress is to help make it even more quick and simple to get a WP site up and running with the modern workflow tools available through Node. Hopefully I will be following this up with a few more posts on how YeoPress enabled themes can be used with Bower and Grunt, so stay tuned!
P.S. Anyone who is interested in helping out by getting more features into YeoPress, shoot me an email, I am working on a version 1.0 that will re-structure things and would love to get peoples help and opinions.
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1/3 cup coconut oil (or butter)
1/2 cup cocoa powder
6 eggs
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup sifted coconut flour
1 cup nuts chopped (optional)
In a saucepan at low heat, melt butter and blend in cocoa powder.
Remove from heat and let cool.
In a bowl, beat together eggs, sugar, salt and vanilla.
Stir in cocoa mixture.
Add well sifted coconut flour and whisk the batter well until there are no lumps.
Fold in the nuts.
Pour batter into a greased 8-inch or 9-inch square baking pan.
Bake at 350 degrees F for 30-35 minutes.
Since this brownie is so healthy, make sure you don't leave off icing it with chocolate icing!
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Climate change: Aboriginal leaders tell Trudeau they want seat at the table
VANCOUVER — Indigenous leaders told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the premiers Wednesday that they want a role in developing climate change policy.
"It's like we're standing at the doorway," said Clement Chartier of the Metis National Council. "What happens next, we'll get to see. It's always good words, this government right now is offering us an opportunity to sit at the table. We'll see in the action what happens next.
Chartier was among three national aboriginal leaders invited to meet with Trudeau and the premiers in advance of their scheduled meeting Thursday on climate change.
Perry Bellegarde of the Assembly of First Nations and Natan Obed of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami agreed that indigenous people need to have a hand in designing Canada's response to the issue.
"Nothing about us, without us," said Bellegarde.
"We echoed our asks to the prime minister and the premiers, that whatever strategies being developed going forward, that we need to be at the table. We have responsibilities to protect the land and water."
Obed said the leaders were assured they'd be part of the policy process.
"Our perceptions, our positions and our realities will be a integral part of the way Canada moves forward," he said. "The provinces and territories fully expect and appreciate that nuance as well."
Trudeau promised First Nations would be heard.
"We will work collaboratively with First Nations, Inuit and Metis across the country," he said in a news release.
Bellegarde said Trudeau should call a first ministers meeting on aboriginal rights.
Although the three national leaders all referred to the meeting as a good start, not all those present as members of provincial delegations agreed.
"(There was) no discussions of tangible agreements, no discussions of commitments, no discussions about coming back and when," said Allan Adam of Alberta's Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation.
Not everything is possible in a two-hour meeting, said Bellegarde.
But Adam's comment underlined a challenge for indigenous people. While many are deeply suspicious about development on their lands, others welcome carefully managed resource projects.
Two territorial premiers — Peter Taptuna of Nunavut and Yukon's Darrell Pasloski — are cautious about any kind of a national carbon tax. Both men represent substantial aboriginal populations and Taptuna himself is Inuit.
The prime minister was defending himself even before the talks began over the decision not to include the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, which represents non-status aboriginals, and the Native Women's Association of Canada.
"The federal government saw fit to invite me to go to Paris for the UN meeting on climate change," said the Dwight Dorey, chief of the congress.
"If I was good enough to go there why would I not be at this one? It just doesn't make sense."
Dawn Lavell-Harvard of the Native Women's Association called it an issue of respect.
"Choosing to exclude the Native Women's Association of Canada from the first ministers meeting was unfair, and speaks volumes to the ongoing lack of respect for indigenous women's and girls' voices in Canada," she said.
Trudeau said there will be plenty of chances for those groups to make their opinions known at future conferences.
"I have had over the past months many meetings both with the national aboriginal organizations together but also individually with leaders and communities and the activists from the indigenous community to talk about the issues facing them," he told reporters.


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OSWEGO — SUNY Oswego is preparing in the event that H1N1 flu, also known as swine flu, becomes widespread or severe enough to disrupt college operations.
On Monday, Patricia Egan of Oswego County's Emergency Management Office led key college administrators in a tabletop exercise. Vice presidents and representatives of the President's Office, Walker Health Center, Human Resources, Environmental Health and Safety, University Police and Public Affairs took part.
Considerations included addressing the possibility of a surge of cases on campus, immunization protocols, stockpiling supplies, communications and alerts, off-site instruction, cross-training, continuity of operations and suspension of classes, tuition reimbursement, case reporting procedures and coordinating with SUNY System Administration and the state and county health departments.
Monday's exercise is one of a series of drills that have been held or are scheduled to take place on the campus to prepare for unexpected emergency events.
Earlier this month, five campus representatives took part in a SUNY symposium, "Facing a Public Health Challenge: H1N1," in Syracuse to learn from other universities that have been challenged by the disease, including Carnegie Mellon, where cases spiked in August, and Cornell, where a 20-year-old student with underlying health issues died earlier this month. Representatives from the Centers for Disease Control, the American College Health Association, and the state Department of Health shared information regarding HINl.
SUNY Oswego has implemented flu-prevention measures widely on campus, beginning last spring and continuing this semester. As at colleges around the nation, Oswego has seen a number of students this semester with influenza-like illness presumed to be H1N1, and a few employees have reported that their personal physicians have diagnosed them with H1N1. All are recovered or recovering from this generally mild illness.


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Hassani Campbell, 5 years old, went missing on Aug 10, 2009 from a "crowded shoe store parking lot", off College Ave , on Harwood St, in Oakland, California. Hasanni has cerebral palsy and wears braces on his legs.
Psychic Rita Estelle Vision:
Some details have been omitted due to the on going investigation of this case.
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In the beginning
(For Poets United where Susan prompts us to write about "The Song of a Single Word".)
To be a verb could be moving! Especially when we need so little to make a huge difference.ReplyDelete
yeah, a verb and a 'Be' verb...song of existence...beautiful Myrna..ha today i also used the word OM, though in a slightly different perspective :)ReplyDelete
This is amazing Myrna :D touched me deep to the core.
Lots of love,
i dont know that it cares what we think of the quality of our voice - judgement like that is far too human. but i am sure that it listensReplyDelete
i love that everyone of us sings their own song - and each song is important and heard by someone for whom the world wouldn't be the same if you didn't dare to sing - so - sing on... smilesReplyDelete
Oh the Cosmos hears and wants your voice to join in the Universal chorus....more voices mean more love, kindness, peace and compassion in the world.ReplyDelete
Big smiles. I suspect your tiny voice (all of our tiny voices) are essential for perfect harmony.ReplyDelete
I love "I'm trying to translate the word that I am." Me too, kiddo.ReplyDelete
You just sang beautifully here! Can't sing, like heck! Loved this.ReplyDelete
This is so good... In the beginning was I a word... am going to be thinking of that for a long time! Wonderful!ReplyDelete
This is so good!! In the beginning was I a word.. am going to be thinking about that for a long time. Wonderful.ReplyDelete
OOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM is a universal sound that can lead to the creation of a word, I usually say it 3 times for clarity.ReplyDelete
Beautiful piece, Myrna :) Whether the Cosmos recognizes it, the presence is at least evidence that it is there.ReplyDelete
"OM" holds the whole universe. In our Hindu culture every mantra of gods starts with "Om".ReplyDelete
Beautifully done, Myrna.....Om is not a word but rather an intonation, which, like music, transcends the barriers of age, race, culture and even species.ReplyDelete
Being a verb is good as you are doing something!ReplyDelete
Very well said – and thought.ReplyDelete
So you are a doing word.I fancy myself as more of an adverb:)ReplyDelete
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Wonderful poem, Myrna. Yes, we often feel insignificant in the vastness of the cosmos and the infinitude of eternity, however, that single verb we can utter can travel far and be amplified into a roar that does just what verbs are meant to: DO!ReplyDelete


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SCOTLAND'S two biggest airports have recorded their busiest ever March, figures show.
Edinburgh Airport saw 927,200 people pass through its doors last month, while Glasgow recorded more than 660,000.
However, Aberdeen Airport saw a decrease of 14.1% on the same period last year with almost 245,000 passengers.
Gordon Dewar, Edinburgh Airport's chief executive, said: "These record-breaking passenger figures from March underline Edinburgh Airport's growing international ambitions and are very welcome indeed.
"We have seen a massive increase of 37.6% in the number of international passengers and this highlights the ever-increasing draw of Edinburgh as a destination.
"This growth not only creates new jobs but offers greater international links for this city and for all of Scotland."
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Glasgow Airport also created history after it exceeded 8.9 million passengers during a rolling 12-month period for the first time ever.
Amanda McMillan, managing director of Glasgow Airport said: "Our performance during the first quarter of 2016 has ensured we've made what is our busiest ever start to a year.
"The fact we have achieved this in our 50th anniversary year makes it all the more pleasing."
At Aberdeen, domestic traffic was down 19.1% with international traffic showing a slight dip of 1.7%.
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22 December 2011
Drivers say AA yellow is safest car colour
More than a third of AA members believe lighter colour cars are the safest. Yellow tops the car colour safety poll followed by white and red, an AA/Populus survey reveals.
Visibility or sending a message is what divides large sections of the 15,860 AA members who took part in the survey.
The traditionally 'safest' colour yellow (15%), along with white (13%) and silver (7%), support the visibility argument. But red (12%) stands out as a key choice, perhaps because it symbolises danger and is associated with fire engines, or perhaps because it serves as a psychological warning to others.
Lighter colours are the 'safest' choice of males yet, among females, red (13%) outscores even yellow (12% - compared to 17% among males).
Although yellow dominates as the safest choice of colour for a car across the age-range, red runs it close among younger drivers and even sits level with yellow at 12% among AA members aged 35 to 44 years. From there on, among older drivers, yellow (up to18%) shows greater prominence with white-coloured cars (up to 16%) also winning greater safety approval than red (up to 13%).
Drivers were asked:
Which colour of car do you consider to be the safest?
Regions where red is considered as safe as yellow include Yorkshire and Humberside (14% red v 14% yellow) and the North West (13% red v 13% yellow).
In bad light some car colours are easier to spot than others hence the importance of using your lights when visibility is poor
Edmund King, AA president
"We were not surprised that yellow comes out top as it is the colour selected by the AA to make our patrol vehicles more visible. There is also research on conspicuity of vehicle colours which backs this up.
Before the 1980s, yellow was perceived as the 'safe' colour for utility vehicles, and this may strongly influence the choice of older generations. However, the lighter-colour versus red divide is intriguing," says Edmund King, AA president.
"In bad light some car colours are easier to spot than others hence the importance of using your lights when visibility is poor. We certainly believe that yellow AA patrol vans are easier to spot on the hard-shoulder but we accept that not everyone wants to drive a yellow car."
Which colour of car do you consider to be the safest – light-coloured (yellow, white or silver) v red?
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It is also important to take a look at some of the specifications of the Sony Blu-ray 3D player. These will include such things like the Dolby TrueHD and dts-HD Master Audio decoding, DVD up scaling up to 1080p with precision cinema HD up scaling and the BD Remote. Apart from all these there are other features like the Wireless LAN ready (USB wireless LAN adapter sold separately), photo/music/video playback via USB and DLNA (with firmware update), and entertainment database browser with gracenote technology and full HD 1080p. Still other features of this device will be the BRAVIA internet video and BD-LIVE, BRAVIA Monolithic design and the Region A/Profile BD-Live (2.0).
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With a view to encourage young performing artists, the Culture Wing organizes regular cultural programmes in all branches of performing arts, like dance, drama, music, etc. Workshops and seminars are organized in these disciplines. The cultural programmes are announced in the Monthly Newsletter.
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45-5-511. Provisions generally applicable to sexual crimes. (1) When criminality depends on the victim being less than 16 years old, it is a defense for the offender to prove that the offender reasonably believed the child to be above that age. The belief may not be considered reasonable if the child is less than 14 years old.
(2) Evidence concerning the sexual conduct of the victim is inadmissible in prosecutions under this part except evidence of the victim's past sexual conduct with the offender or evidence of specific instances of the victim's sexual activity to show the origin of semen, pregnancy, or disease that is at issue in the prosecution.
(3) If the defendant proposes for any purpose to offer evidence described in subsection (2), the trial judge shall order a hearing out of the presence of the jury to determine whether the proposed evidence is admissible under subsection (2).
(4) Evidence of failure to make a timely complaint or immediate outcry does not raise any presumption as to the credibility of the victim.
(5) Resistance by the victim is not required to show lack of consent. Force, fear, or threat is sufficient alone to show lack of consent.
History: En. 94-5-506 by Sec. 1, Ch. 513, L. 1973; amd. Sec. 17, Ch. 359, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 94-5-506; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 407, L. 1979; MCA 1981, 45-5-506; redes. 45-5-511 by Code Commissioner, 1983; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 172, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 425, L. 1987; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 687, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 1658, Ch. 56, L. 2009.


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I am amazed with women who are already in their mid 40's but still look like twenties. I knew a lot of old age women that look ten (10) years younger than their real age and really you will never get any hint because they have a flawless and wrinkle free face, of course not unless you have the courage to ask them about their age. I wonder what kind of beauty preparations and routine they have for them to achieve their youthful looking and glowing skin.
But I think I should not be surprise about it anymore at this modern age almost nothing is impossible. If you have extra money to spend for beautification you can easily achieve the stunning look most of the commercial models have, right?
But one thing that I don't understand is the fact that most of the Filipina women spent thousands of pesos for their glutathione and methathione just to have a whiter complexion skin, hello we are here in the Philippines aren't you proud of your kayumanggi (brown) and kastanyo (morena) skin tone? Aren't you aware that most of the American women spent time & dollars to undergo an artificial tanning procedure, just to achieve the morena look that we naturally have.
FYI, the darker skin tone you have the higher amounts of melanin, and it also mean more protection you have against the harmful effects of ultraviolet rays of the sun. Aren't you glad that we are so blessed by a higher amount of melanin? Just to make myself clear, I'm not against to any whitening skin products or any whitening skin procedure that are readily available in the market. I am just sharing my opinion about this matter.
As a woman, I strongly believe there is nothing wrong if women undergo a natural beautification.This was done before by the lovely and beautiful woman in the Old Testament. I am referring to Esther, in her case before the king set the royal crown upon her head and became a queen she had completed twelve months beauty treatment apportioned with six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with perfumes and preparations for beautifying women. Long before they already knew the value of taking good care of skin using natural beauty products.
But the question is up to what extent are you willing to take and pay just to become physically desirable? Wait, I am asking about your outside appearance. Yes, the one that is not eternal. The one that will vanish away, deteriorate and will be buried 6-feet below the ground after death (can you imagine that?). Let us always be reminded about this, "charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, but a woman who fears the Lord she shall be praised"(Proverbs 31:30).
Before we become busy spending time and money in enhancing our physical appearance, we must first become busy to be beautiful and desirable in our Creator's eyes. Don't you think it is more vital for a women like you and I? Let's go back to the story of Queen Esther and see how she became a desirable woman in and out, (if you haven't read her story please open your bible and look for the book of Esther in the Old Testament) when Esther found out from her maids and eunuchs that there was a decree to destroy all the Jews plotted by Hamman, really she became distressed.
But take note of this, Queen Esther was not just an ordinary woman of vanity. She completely knew that God can do something about the situation they had. Before she went to the king and plead for her people, she asked the Jews to fast and pray for her for three days because no one was to go before the king without being called. Esther's intention was pure that she never forgets to acknowledge God in everything. When she told the king of the wickedness of Haman, the king had him destroyed instead of Esther and her people. This woman was totally of great value, with great identity in God. Amazing right?
Like Esther, we women should know how to take care of our skin. Like for me, since I am not getting any younger (now you know) I also have my own way of taking care of my skin, and take note I am faithful with these products. I used loofah over pumice stone during bath to exfoliate, clean and detoxify my skin and I used it with my favorite brand of soap Olay Body Age Defying Moisturizing Bar Soap. I habitually used Avon Skin so Soft Age defying+ renewing Body Moisture after bath and before going to bed. For my skin vitamin, I take one capsule of Myra-300 E a day. Having a balance diet and exercise every Saturday with my friends completed my own way of taking care of my body not just my skin.


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A scary story came out of California recently about an elderly woman who died even though a trained nurse was standing right next to her. Our Atlanta elder abuse lawyers know that Georgia's seniors, as well as seniors across the country, are rightly concerned about this story.
The California tragedy occurred earlier this month. 87-year-old Lorraine Bayless collapsed in the dining room of her independent living facility, Glenwood Gardens, in Bakersfield, California. A nurse, an employee of Glenwood, got on the 911 phone call. The 911 operator pleaded with the nurse, named Colleen, to give Ms. Bayless CPR. Colleen told the dispatcher that company policy forbade her from performing CPR. The policy required her to wait with the hurt or sick person, but not provide any medical care. Repeatedly the dispatcher pleaded with her, and asked her to find someone else to help Ms. Bayless. The 911 call sounds horrifyingly cruel, with Colleen stating, "Not at this time" in answer to the question of whether there was anyone around willing to help Ms. Bayless. At another point the dispatcher said that the lady will die, and Colleen responded "Yeah." Emergency personnel arrived seven minutes after the 911 call, but it was already too late for Ms. Bayless. The avoidable tragedy is heartbreaking, and it is understandable why Georgia seniors might be worried.
A Georgia news story on the incident points out that Georgia's Good Samaritan law would protect people trying to help in an emergency situation from liability. This law applies as long the helper is not getting paid. But even without the Good Samaritan law, many retirement and nursing home staff were also shocked and upset by the incident in California. Greg Rowe, Director of Dougherty County EMS, said, "I've never gone anywhere that I can remember where they were just sitting, waiting on us to get there." And Dr. Graham Nichol, a professor of medicine at the University of Washington, noted that CPR more than doubles the chances of survival, also noting, "If liability was a concern, I would suspect there is a greater liability if someone dies."
The company, Brookdale Senior Living Inc., that owns Glenwood, where Ms. Bayless died in California, issued a statement saying, "This incident resulted from a complete misunderstanding of our practice with regards to emergency medical care for our residents." They are now reviewing their policies and an internal review of Ms. Bayless's situation. It is too late for Ms. Bayless and those she left behind, though. And we hope that nothing like this happens at any Georgia nursing or independent senior living home.
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Peace stories
Project Amani: A grassroots initiative for peace in Kenya
Project Amani (PA) is a peace, healing and reconciliation initiative conceived and forwarded by the Kenyans for Change youth department (Youths 4 Kenya) for the people of Kenya. It is a proactive cause that will mobilize the ordinary wananchi (citizens) to be part and parcel of national healing and transformation.
While Kenyans for Change is a legally registered charitable trust in Kenya, Project Amani has been extended as a cause to belong to all Kenyans. There is no demand or requirement that one must be a member of Kenyans for Change (as an organization) so as to support or participate in PA. Yet it is our firm belief that all patriotic Kenyans at heart are people who desire to see progressive change. No matter which groups or organizations we may individually belong to - we all desire the same thing - a great Kenya. As such at heart we are all Kenyans for change.
Without peace - nothing that we achieve as individuals or groups can be considered sustainable development. If Kenya adopts a pattern of death and destruction every election cycle – then investing in our nation will be vanity. We must have PEACE for PROSPERITY.
By having youth at the vanguard of this cause, PA will help restore this generation's tattered image. For youth have recently been know to be all too readily angered, violent and even criminal in their protests. This was not only evident during the post election violence period but even when there are disagreements with education institution administration - youth have burnt, damaged and looted property. Indeed, for a generation that is meant to be the leaders of today - the youthful generation has proven itself ill prepared to receive the baton of national leadership.
As the generation that was most instrumental in the pre and post election violence of 2007 - it is only fitting that the youthful generation take the lead in changing their minds and way. PA is an opportunity for the youthful generation to come of age - to model maturity and readiness. Let us not forget that statistics show that at least 70% of Kenyans are under the age of 40.
Yet even with a youth focus, PA is a cause to empower Kenyans. ALL generations, communities, genders, businesses and society at large will benefit from peace and healing of our nation.
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Building Bridges (Kenya)
Launched on 12th April 2010, Building Bridges recognizes and rewards peacemakers and peace projects across Kenya as a way of strengthening the peace building capacity of Kenyan citizens. It aims to encourage all Kenyans to engage in peace building and peacemaking, including organizing peace gatherings, community discussions, creative and sporting activities, or even holding festivities and doing pro bono work to ensure peace. Building Bridges offers a platform to all Kenyans to connect in their efforts for peace and to inspire each other.
To become part of the peace movement, peace initiatives can be uploaded to an interactive platform on the Building Bridges website. A strong cross-media focus is meant to ensure most inclusiveness and reach out to as many Kenyans as possible, overcoming obstacles of space, literacy and technical access. The platform aims to foster collaboration and interactivity on peace initiatives across Kenya, support and connect those doing great work, and create a sustainable culture of peace throughout the country.
Building Bridges wants to encourage and stimulate those initiatives which contribute to preventing or overcoming conflict within or between communities e.g. villages, neighbourhoods, faith groups, families, businesses. Those conflicts could be related to land issues, ethnicity, and corruption, among others.
Building Bridges started off as a competition with the long term aim to develop into a Kenyan peace movement which encourages people to take own peaceful action and connect with each other. Instead of remaining a once-off opportunity, the overarching goal is to transform the Building Bridges initiative into a long-term self-sustaining peace movement in which everyone, no matter from what background or region, can play an important part on the road to peace in Kenya. With more than 600 ongoing peace projects initiated since its inception, the platform will continue with all the projects connecting and encouraging more peace initiatives in the country.
For more information, please visit: http://www.buildingbridges.co.ke
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Juba, Southern Sudan - The topic of today's class on the blackboard reads: "Subtraction" and the students diligently scribble down numbers and symbols in their exercise books. Most are much older than you would expect a class of pupils learning simple mathematical equations to be. But they are not exactly regular students – they are ex-combatants who have voluntarily handed in their weapons.
For their transition from soldier to civilian, DDR participants are provided with training that can help them to earn a living outside the military. The German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), an Implementing Partner of the UNDP Reintegration Programme, offers ex-combatants several career options for DDR participants to choose from.
In addition to their training for a new career the ex-combatants are also given educational assistance in the form of help with both numeracy and literacy, others may obtain computer training or taught the English language. For some of the ex-combatants it is for the first time in their lives that they found themselves on the school bench.
Paul Pita Moga, one of the ex-combatants, never learnt how to read or write when he was a child. "I come from a place where we keep cows; I didn't know anything except fighting".
Paul is doing well with his mathematics course, but admits that he is probably too old to pick up a new language completely, especially as it is so different from his native one, but he is still giving the English course a try. Paul finds he is not the only one struggling.
"I memorise what I've been taught until I actually get a grasp of the subject. Once I got 20 points for my homework in the English language, but I kept studying at home over and over again and finally I got 100 points, but so many people did not make it. As for me, I enjoy school" says Paul.
He registered with GTZ in June this year and has regularly attended training ever since. As his final Reintegration option in Central Equatoria he has chosen the small business training. For every two weeks that he attends his training he receives a payment of 100 SDG. From this 100 SDG, he gives 40 SDG to his wife and he puts the remaining 60 SDG into his own small business. Within one month he earned an extra 300 SDG just through selling fruits and vegetables. The success of his humble endeavour encouraged him to seek further opportunities to expand his business and he approached the local authorities in Juba who eventually allocated him space at the Juba market.
As a part of an encouragement campaign for each classroom, Paul, who had previously been elected the leader of his training course, shared his story with his fellow classmates; this meant more than ten ex-combatants in his class are now following his example.
Paul pinpoints one of the challenges of the DDR programme, namely distance. Some of the ex-combatants are from Mangala and Terakeka have for different reasons have chosen to receive their reintegration package in Juba which means travelling to the training centre daily or looking for a place to stay in Juba. Paul, being a resident of Mangala, decided to settle in Juba because there are more business opportunities than in Mangala. He managed to find himself a small hut to stay in around the Gabat area, which is close to the training centre.
Paul had to learn everything from scratch, other ex combatants, with the help of the DDR Reintegration programme, found their core skills are being used by the training centre.
During the registration with GTZ, Morris Nyerji Ruben, also an ex-combatant, did the obligatory tests and it turned out that he has excellent numeric and literacy skills. And that was somewhat explainable as before becoming an SPLA fighter Morris was a school teacher.
Morris completed his A-levels in Sudan at the local secondary school in April 1978. He remained at his school as a teacher and carried on with his teaching career for the next five years. After obtaining his teaching certificate he was promoted to the position of a headmaster. But in 1987 the reality of the country collapsing into war his life changed course with Morris joining as a fighter. He was an active combatant for three years until his commanders realised that Morris was a teacher and employed him to run their educational programme. Still as a teacher he travelled to Uganda in 1996 and ended up working for Oxfam. Morris returned to Sudan in 2003 to continue his career in education. In 2005 the demobilisation started and Morris was screened for DDR programme.
"I came here as a member of the ex-combatants' community".
After seeing his enrolment test results and discovering that he was a certified teacher, Morris was employed by GTZ to teach the adult numeracy and literacy classes in Juba. This allows him to have his own income and also allows GTZ to use Morris' skills in peer-to-peer teaching, providing other ex-combatants with trainers from their own communities. Aside from teaching numeracy and literacy, he is also benefiting from the computer training for himself.
"I would like to address all other ex-combatants who have not become part of DDR programme; I want to ask them to kindly request to join this programme".
"If they stay at home without knowing about the DDR programme or don't want to follow any Reintegration courses, then there is a chance that in the future they may be forgotten by the government without being given any support. Then he or she maybe not feel at ease at home in his home community – seeing their former colleagues earning money and they themselves being prevented from having the same opportunity".
The transition from times of war in the military back to the reality of a civilian life can be confusing and anxious times for the thousands of DDR participants like Paul and Morris, with serious challenges still to come. But by empowering these ex-combatants with a new set of civilian skills the transition will be easier and less frustrating for their future careers.By Katerina Nezhelskaya


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Greetings everyone. It's good to be back after so long a period of time. It seems hard to imagine that almost seven years has passed since the Spirit of the Lord (Isa. 61:1), that Spirit of Truth that sets us free (Jn 15:26, Jn 16:13), opened the prison doors of the cage (our carnal mind) and released many of us captives from the bondage of religion. In Biblical terminology, the LORD brought us forth out of Babylon the great and destroyed by the fire of His Spirit all those religious doctrines and precepts of men that so dominated our lives.
As a result of what happened, I now know that Revelation is an experience, a spiritual happening, and not a learned doctrine or something you can acquire knowledge of through scholarly study. Furthermore, there is no way you can give your revelation or your experience to someone else. Though you can tell others what happened and describe what you've gone through, those experiences belong solely to you. So then, receiving the spirit of truth, which is the brightness of His coming, becomes a personal matter to each and every individual… in his or her own order.
Let's go to the first two verses of Revelation 18.
Rev 18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
This is the process of revelation, of enlightenment. An angel is a message, a thought, originating from heaven, the place where God, where the true Light dwells, the inner sanctuary of your heart. When that message comes down from heaven and enters into your mind (the earth), voila, the whole place lights up with the glory of His truth.
Rev 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Babylon the great is fallen indeed… that stronghold of ignorance and traditions of men, that bird-brain cranial cage that harbors foul spirits that stink to high heaven, along with all kinds of unclean, judgmental, and hateful thoughts against others, even against those who merely disagree with our oh-so-religious knowledge of what is good and evil.
But you know what? There is a profound and marvelous wonder to all of this, and it's all good news. Really it is. Quite frankly I prefer good news over bad news, even though it is bad news that sells. How about you? Hey, if I want bad news all I have to do is turn on the TV or radio, and it really doesn't matter if it's the right channel or the left channel, if you know what I mean.
Or I could go to church and receive the bad news of what a sinner I am… and listen to the preacher sell the really, really bad news of how I could be forever Gitmoed by a merciful and loving God; tortured, hot water-boarded in a fiery hell for all of eternity if I don't get my act together and start towing the religious line, you know… keep the law, put on a smiley face, keep going to church, tithe, and do this but don't do that, etc.
Am I bashing churches or judging churchgoers? God forbid. For one thing, I no longer believe in coincidences, and to me that means that we all, every single one of us, is right where we are supposed to be in our journey, in our walk through the valley of the shadow of death.
But though we all walk, we are not all at the same place along the path. Some of us are babes just starting out. Some are still captive in Egypt. Some of us are at Passover and though we may have come out of Egypt we might still be wandering in the church wilderness, that dry barren desert replete with biting serpents.
Others have come a little farther and are perhaps at Pentecost and have received the Spirit of Truth. The point is that even as our individual earthly ages are different, so are our individual spiritual days and times different. And it is God who changes our times and seasons according to His will, to every man in his own order.
Dan 2:21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
He alone reveals the mysteries of the kingdom to us and He knows what is in the dark corners of our hearts and minds.
Dan 2:22 He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.
The good news is that God promises to every one of us that eventually we will all complete the journey He has prepared for us. Though in Adam we all die, we shall all be made alive in Christ. It is just that it's "every man in his own order (1 Cor. 15:23)", in His time, our Father's time, not ours.
To that end, God is not slack in His promises. It is we who are slack in our understanding to know that "to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven (Ecc. 3:1)". But as Christ says in Acts 1:7, "It is not for you (or me) to know the times or the seasons… which the Father hath put in his own power".
But this you can know. There will come a time when your old heaven (heart) and your old earth (mind) shall pass away. But of that day and hour knows no man… but the Father (Mat. 13:31-32).
So there you go. That's certainly good news, isn't it? And think about it. If that's the case, and it is, then it's all good, even that which our carnal minds, you know, that tree of the knowledge of good and evil we're so eager to eat from, judge as evil.
But here's something I've noticed a great deal of lately. Many people I meet in business, along with a number of my friends and relatives, are quick to express the fears and anxieties they harbor because of all the uncertainties and things they see happening in the world around them, including but not limited to the volatile economic and political landscapes here at home. When these subjects come up, some of them truly become livid and start cursing bankers and especially politicians because they judge them to be their evil adversaries. But worse than that, they then go and wish evil upon them. So much for love your enemies.
But I understand exactly where they are coming from. I have to admit that little more than seven years ago I was totally obsessed with world events and zealously looked for the antichrist to literally and visibly appear on the scene and portray himself to be Jesus Christ, only to be followed by the literal and visible return of the real Jesus Christ. I even had a current events section on The King's Chapel website and daily posted a Biblical analysis of the news, at least what I believed at the time to be Biblical analysis.
I also know full well that with the same mind-set I had back then I would now be losing sleep and pulling my hair out (what's left of it), over today's events and what is happening in our nation. There's no doubt that today I would have Biblical prophecy on proverbial steroids with a defacto antichrist all but here and standing in our midst.
But thank God He caused a change of season in my life and the end of days. The old earth age (my old earth age) was upon me and my world was about to become tohu va bohu, for which I certainly take no credit whatsoever. How could I, the fact is I didn't even see it coming. It is true, no man knows that hour or day. But as a result I now view everything in a totally different light.
Oh, I still listen to the news and keep up with what is happening in the world; it's just that I don't lose sleep over it anymore. That is in large part because now I am able see the good that comes out of the things I use to judge as bad, knowing that for light to shine forth out of darkness, there must first be darkness. All things, not just some, work together for good to them that love God. Come to think of it, if you didn't have the left, how would you know the right?
So, let's take an historical example. Imagine if you lived in one of America's thirteen colonies in 1775 under the tyranny of England's King George III. You can read the sordid details of how oppressive he was in the Declaration of Independence. The question is, what do you suppose your opinion and attitude would be toward this tyrannical king? Perhaps it would be about the same as I hear said about certain leaders today, some even wishing evil upon old George.
But looking back at the results of history, would it be a stretch to say we Americans should thank God for the tyranny of His servant King George III for being the pain in the @$$, I mean, for being so instrumental in inducing the great labor pains that preceded the birth of a new nation under God, the United States of America?
I mean, how can there be victory without an opponent or an adversary? Think about it. What would George Washington's legacy be without King George? Did God not use both George's mightily to His purpose?
Here is another question. Would you have cursed Pharaoh for his oppression of Israel and for not letting God's people go? Was it the devil that hardened Pharaoh's heart, or was it God, who had a great purpose for doing do?
Exo 10:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him:
And how about the following verse where God calls the world ruling tyrant Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, His servant.
Jer 27:6 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.
You know the great thing about tyrants, if we can see, is that they give us a great visual of the man of sin, that vain narcissistic world ruler, that son of perdition who claims he is God, that wicked one (your carnal mind), who sits upon the throne of our heart. As it is written in Romans 8:7, the carnal mind is enmity against God.
The fact is, you must first see that world ruling tyrant, that abomination of desolation standing in the holy place where he ought not, sitting in temple of God (which temple you are), because until you see him there will be no renaissance in your life, no gathering back to Christ as Paul states it in 2 Thes. 2. Meanwhile, Christians go about busily looking for devil without, while the real enemy, their carnal mind, is within them, dictatorially ruling their lives.
But Lance, we are rapidly losing our freedom and liberty through tyranny. Aren't you concerned? Of course, I say. But let's talk about the profound and marvelous wonder to all of this that I spoke of earlier.
You see, there is simply no way one can be released from bondage unless he or she is first IN bondage. Sounds like a no-brainer, right? Well, such is the prerequisite for "salvation" too. One cannot be "saved" from anything unless he or she is first in a position to be saved! Nor can one can be lifted up out of a pit, raised up from the depths of hell, unless that one is first "down" in the pit. Think about it. How could Christ rise, lest he first descend? And so it is with each and every one of us. We cannot be set free, unless we aren't free! We cannot be healed unless we are first sick (Mat. 9:11, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.). And we cannot be resurrected, raised to LIFE, unless we are first DEAD! That's right! Death (to be carnally minded is death) is a prerequisite for resurrection to LIFE (to be spiritually minded is life and peace).
Perhaps that will help shed some light on the verse I alluded to earlier:
1 Co 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
Am I saying "all" were made to die so "all" could be made alive? Well, isn't that what it says? Or does it say in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall only some be made alive? The rest will be fried in hell forever and ever.
Once again, you cannot come out of darkness into the marvelous light (of truth) unless you are first IN the dark (in ignorance), even as you cannot be awakened unless you are first asleep. To that end God created the darkness so that He could command the light to shine out of it! Are you with me?
Isa 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Look at this way. There has to be darkness in your world. Darkness must first cover the face of the deep (your heart) before He can command "Let there be light"!
2 Co 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
And so if there is to be a Revelation, a Lord's Day, a Dayspring on High; if God is going to someday awaken His children at the dawning of a new day, they would necessarily have to first be asleep, wouldn't they? So… He causes a deep sleep to fall upon adam (us).
Gen 2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept:
Let consider the following verses from Isaiah chapter 29.
Isa 29:9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
The LORD uses the religious wine from the golden cup of Babylon (confusion) to produce spiritual drunkenness. Although this allegorically speaks about us individually concerning our personal inner world, we can even see with our flesh eyes that the whole world without abounds in religious confusion, yes, even the Christian "religion" abounds in such confusion.
Jer 51:7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
Madness (self pride), religious confusion, doctrines of men, are all you'll ever get from the carnal mind because it cannot comprehend the light. Why not? Because "the natural (carnal, flesh) man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness (incomprehensible) unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned (1 Co 2:14)".
By the way, speaking of drunkenness, literally, did you know that no one has ever recovered from alcoholism who wasn't first an alcoholic? Am I being overly simplistic here? The point is that no one can come out of Babylon (Rev. 18:4) unless he or she is first IN Babylon. And as a former churchoholic I give my personal testimony that this is true indeed.
Back to God's sleeping beauties in Isaiah 29.
Isa 29:10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
He did what? He poured out upon us the spirit of deep sleep? Well, the good news is that the same One who puts you to sleep and tucks you in this earth-bed and covers you up shall also awaken you.
Isa 29:11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
Most people look at this as speaking about the Bible. I did so for most of life, until the water was turned to wine. So now I see these verses speak of you and me and to you and me. You see, we are the "books", the living epistles that the Spirit of the living God writes in… yes, even while we He has poured out a deep sleep over us and closed our spiritual eyes.
2Co 3:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
We are living epistles. We are the books. It is our hearts that are hard-bound, sealed with those seven seals, and so it is we are the books that He will open and unseal… and He is the ONLY ONE who can. Christ alone can open (rent) the veil that is placed before the holy of holies, the inner sanctuary of our hearts, and reveal Himself to us. The good news is that He is opening many books this day. A Renaissance of God's people is happening now. There's a great awakening taking place today.
Isa 29:12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
There is such a lack of understanding of how God works both in us and among us. While we are in a deep sleep we ourselves have no conscience clue of the writing, and most of our church leaders are blind as well, though they think they are not.
Isa 29:13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
This is the perfect description of religion and churchianity. When asked why they go to church, most people tell me they go to worship God and to seek fellowship. I know, I did and said the same thing for most of my life. We go and sing and recite canned prayers and listen to the precepts of men, the traditional teachings of Main Stream Christianity devised by the wisdom of great scholarly men credentialed by other great scholarly men.
But the good news is to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven, and in the final analysis, when the day breaks and we are awakened, God will have done a marvelous work and performed a wonder in each of us. For when Christ reveals Himself, when the True Light shines, all the accumulated scholarly wisdom of men, all the great knowledge and light we thought we possessed, will be paled into insignificance by the brightness of the knowledge of God.
Isa 29:14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
And then shall they sing the Song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
Is that good news, or what?
The following counsel is a fitting conclusion.
1Th 5:15-18 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men. Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
Amen to that.


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10 Animal Heart Facts For Valentine's Day
We know that our emotional connection isn't why the heart is important (to put it simply it pumps blood).
However, I wanted to take this opportunity (as I stare at my newly acquired Valentines scattered with pink and red hearts) to share with you a few facts that demonstrate why the heart is amazing. Please feel free to send me other neat facts about the heart and I'll gladly post them!
Hope everyone has a wonderful Valentine's Day. (Believe me, this beats (ha!) me showing you some exposed wildlife hearts which I considered doing)
ADVISORY: The following facts make great date conversation.
- The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car.
- Frogs and lizards have three chambers whereas birds and mammals have four.
- The human heart beats roughly 35 million times a year.
- Octopuses have three hearts.
- Dogs have a larger heart to body mass ratio than all other mammals.
- Scientists have re-created the heart of a rat and it even started beating!
- Pythons grow bigger hearts at mealtimes.
- A blue whale's heart beats six times a minute (next to a human's 70 times)
- A manatee's heart rate slows down by half during a long dive.
- A giraffe depends on it's powerful heart that weighs up to 12kg so that it can fight the force of gravity up that long neck to the head.


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Here are my absolutely favourite blogs that I read on a regular basis;
My Scottish blogging babes!
Adrienne at The Sunday Girl
Lori at Glasgow Beauty Blogger
Linsay at Pandora's Basket
Ayden at Little Blog of Horrors
Ruth at Beauty Head to Toe
Claire at Bee Waits
Melissa at Pretty Little Obsessions
Paula at Pretty Pollys Blog
Roisin at Rose Keats
Rebekah at It's Kind Of Lovely
Louise at Make Up Etc. (Cruelty Free!)
Victoria at Razzle Dazzle and Rock n Roll
Fiona at The Beauty Fiend
Andrew at Andrew James Beauty Blog
Iona at Iona Blog
Lynsay at West End Girl
My loves from far away;
Rosie at A Rose Like This
Terri at Hello Terri Lowe
Sophie at Candy Cane Heart
Sophie at Cider with Sophie
Lauren at Laurenella
Lauren at Belle Du Brighton
Becky at Becky Bedbug
Becky at Mrs Bebe Blog
Amy at Amy Louise Jones
Kellie at Big Fashionista
Sera at The Agoraphobic Fashionista
Bethany at An Arched Eyebrow
Sarah at A Million Dresses
Gemma at Miss Make Up Magpie
Fee at Vintage Fee
Rachel at A Dress for Life
I highly recommend every single one of them to you!


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A virtual shooting death in an online video game led to the real-life shooting death of a Kansas man in December, according to court documents.
Tyler Barriss, 25, was charged with involuntary manslaughter earlier this month for his alleged role in a "swatting" incident that ended with Wichita Police fatally shooting 28-year-old Andrew Finch at his front door.
Barriss, who lives in Los Angeles, admitted to placing a prank call reporting a hostage situation at Finch's address, according to a police affidavit. Barriss told police he made call at the request of a gamer who was upset at a teammate for accidentally killing him in a video game. Finch was not involved in the online dispute, and his family said he did not play video games.
Barriss has not yet entered a plea. His lawyer, Brad Sylvester, declined to comment on the affidavit's details. However, he said the unique circumstances raise plenty of "unusual" questions about legal culpability.
"The way it is tried and the outcome will likely set a precedent for how future similar cases are charged," he said in an email.
The affidavit provides the most complete timeline to date of the December 28 shooting. This is what it says about how the incident unfolded:
Gamer issues call for swatting
A member of the online gaming community told CNN that the dispute stemmed from a muti-player session of "Call of Duty: WWII," a shooting game that emulates combat from a soldier's point of view. The source did not want to give his name for fear of reprisal.
Barriss was not involved in the game but investigators identified two participants. One of them, a gamer in Ohio identified by his Twitter name Baperize, was upset when a teammate in Wichita killed him, according to the affidavit.
As Baperize was "talking trash" to the Wichita gamer, identified in his affidavit by his initials SG, someone posted Baperize's name and information on Twitter.
In turn, Baperize threatened to swat SG. "Please try some s--t," SG responded and posted Finch's address, the affidavit states. It's not clear why SG selected Finch's address.
As another person claiming to be involved in the game told Wichita police, "the person gave the wrong address."
Investigators were contacted by several people who said they saw conversations between Baperize and another Twitter user, SWAuTistic. Barriss later told police the account is his.
Caller reports a hostage situation
Around 6:18 p.m., Sedgwick County dispatch notified Wichita Police of a shooting and possible hostage situation at Finch's address. Dispatchers reported that the caller said he "shot his dad in the head and that he was not breathing."
Furthermore, dispatchers told police, the caller said "he was holding his mom and brother at gunpoint" and "he wants to kill himself and light the house on fire."
Police swarm the home and shoot Finch
Wichita Police officers arrived at the house around 6:23 p.m. and surrounded the residence.
The affidavit says little about the actual shooting, except for this: "Officers observed movement in the residence and began to approach, when an adult male from the residence was shot by Wichita Police at or around 1828 hours (6:28 p.m.)."
Police shot Finch after he moved his hands to his waistline, Wichita police Deputy Chief Troy Livingston said in December.
"Our officers came here preparing for a hostage situation," he said. "Several got in position. A male came to the front door, and one of our officers discharged his weapon."
The calls keep coming in
Meanwhile, dispatch was still providing information from the caller to investigators at the scene, the affidavit says. The caller repeated he had his brother and mom in a closet in the back of the house. He was pointing a gun at them and "he is not going to put the gun away," dispatch told police.
"The calling party stated he had poured gasoline all over the house and is thinking about lighting it," the affidavit says.
At 6:46 p.m., "dispatch stated they were no longer in communication with the calling party."
The house is cleared and the victim is declared dead
Officers cleared the residence, looking for hostages and found several people inside. "None of them reported being hostages," the affidavit says. No one was found dead, either.
Finch was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead at 7:03 p.m.
His family sued the city of Wichita and the police department over his death.
"While the swatter should be held accountable, this case is about the City of Wichita and a police department with a history, pattern and practice of using excessive and lethal force against civilians," said Andrew M. Stroth, the family's attorney.
"In the sanctity of his own home, Andy Finch was shot and killed and now two small children don't have a father."
The city said it would respond to the lawsuit after it had been served. The Sedgwick County District Attorney's Office is reviewing the investigation, and the police department has promised a thorough internal review.
"The City of Wichita and WPD officials have great sympathy for those impacted by the reckless behavior exemplified by 'swatting' which created the circumstances which resulted in this death."
Twitter leads to suspect
After the shooting, investigators found references to the incident posted from multiple Twitter accounts, including Baperizer's and one belonging to Barriss under the handle @SWAuTistic.
"That kid's house I swatted is on the news," the affidavit quotes Barriss saying on Twitter. Later, he would say, "I didn't get anyone killed because I didn't discharge a weapon and being a swat member isn't my profession."
Investigators then learned that Baperizer, also known by his initials, CV, is a suspect in swatting incidents in the Cincinnati area, according to the affidavit.
As for Barriss, DMV records indicate his last known address as a homeless shelter in Los Angeles, the affidavit says. He was living there when police took him into custody on December 29 and interviewed him.
The suspect confesses, according to police
Barriss is no stranger to swatting. He told police that he has swatted about 20 homes and evacuated close to 30. He said he does it for the attention, according to the affidavit.
Barriss said "Bape" asked him to swat a guy by the name of SG and gave him the address he used to make the call. Barriss said he went to a library and made two calls to law enforcement in Kansas, one using the library Wi-Fi and another using a VPN. In his police interview, he shared the following script:
"I killed my dad because my mom and dad were arguing, killed my dad, now my mom and my little brother are in the closet now and I'm aiming a gun at them in the closet."
About an hour later, he learned that someone had died, he told police. He admitted to posting on Twitter that he was responsible.
Weeks later, in an interview from jail, Barriss said he wished none of it ever happened. "I never intended for anyone to get shot and killed," he told CNN affiliate KABC. "I just wish I could have rewound somehow and just never done it."
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