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Sunday, April 15, 2012
Louisiana Finds
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You bought some the cutest finds ever! I adore you little "Bo Peeps". Sounds like you have been very busy sewing.
Happy B'day to David!
Oh my goodness those little girlies are so cute! Happy birthday to your lovely hubby!ReplyDelete
Love all your vintage treasures!! That is so funny, because I am watching Mork and Mindy right now!! Can't wait to see your secret sewing projects!! Happy Birthday to David!!;) xo HeatherReplyDelete
Those little gals are too darling for words! I love all of your treasures and boy do I want to go hunting with you. You just find the best stuff. Happy Birthday to your hubby!!! Nanu-nanu!ReplyDelete
Happy to see you're still finding some great treasures! It's so fun, isn't it?!!! Take Care! :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 16, 2012 at 3:05 AM
lovely finds Donna and happy birthday to hubby.xxReplyDelete
How much pampering my dear friend! And the dish with pink roses, I really enjoyed it.ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday to your hubby!!!
Be blessed one week.
All your new finds will look so cute in your home. Found a "when pigs fly" last week that I just loved. Only problem it was new, like old much better.ReplyDelete
Sounds like you really had a great time in Louisiana.ReplyDelete
Well I just sit here oohing and aahing and then I hit Bo Peep and it melted my heart. Aren't these pin ups the sweetest things...I can't imagine why they stopped making them. Just so sweet. Glad you scored some thrifty treasures...they are the best kind...Happy Birthday David...smiles...ReneeReplyDelete
Donna, you just found the greatest treasures! My favorite are the little girl figurines. Way to go with the multi tasking! I need some of that talent! Happy Birthday, David.ReplyDelete
What amazing finds. I just never find anything like that I have to go to ebay.ReplyDelete
I love the little girls!
Susie at Puddle Jumper Creations
Happy Birthday, David! Love your treasures, Donna! Those little Bo Peep figurines are precious!ReplyDelete
Happy birthday David! What fab finds, love little bo peep-she is so cute!ReplyDelete
I adore the Fire King cup! SO cute!!ReplyDelete
You find the cutest things Donna. Loved Mork and Mindy...does that give away my age??ReplyDelete
Oh my dear friend, this time the work is not mine, but a lady of eighty years. She is the grandmother of my sister-in-law.ReplyDelete
I loved your visit!
Come back always.
such lovely finds, donna!! i gasped when i saw the swanee pig, my mom has a several of them, and remember them fondly growing up!! she had several cookie jars and then some salt and pepper shakers. :)ReplyDelete
Oh what fun! To discover all your sweet treasures and bring them home to admire. :o)ReplyDelete
I am sorry about your having to remove stitches. I know that can be a stinker! :o)
love ya, Trish
Wow, quite the loot, lady! Your Boo Peeps are just darling:)ReplyDelete
Nice finds. I have a porcelain pink and white Bo Peep that was given to me when I was a baby. She's an antique now. lol.ReplyDelete
So you like piggies and lavendar. ;o)
Have a great day!


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Anyone with a smartphone. "Share Anything" will have to be approachable and have mass appeal because more and more people are moving to smart devices as they become more affordable and robust.
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Hi you guys!
Today Surgabukuku is officially 2 years old! Woo to the hoo! I wanna thank all my friends, followers, and readers for your support for my blog. I could never make it to 2 years without you all.
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I have read all your comments in the 2nd Blogoversary Giveaway post. I am flattered that most of you love my header and the Borges quote. I love it too! In fact, the Borges quote was where I got inspiration to name my blog "Surgabukuku". As for the header image, no I didn't make it myself, I took it from Vladstudio. The owner of Vladstudio provided wallpapers for free, and his works are awesome!
And some of you complained about the font color in my blog. I'm so sorry to say that the font color is brought automatically by the theme and if I change it manually the links would not show in blue (like this). If I want to darken the font color I would have to change the theme, and honestly I have fallen in love with the current theme I'm using now. But I'm grateful for your concerns. It shows that you want to read my posts. I hope you would still be a faithful visitor to my blog! Hehehe.
I also would like to announce that I will be hosting a national Harry Potter reading event next year. (See the event's button on the right sidebar) National means that the event is open for Indonesian participants. Wait for the Master Post to be published in this blog on November 27th, 2012.
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The Caterpillar Explained
The Caterpillar Performed
Stresses the ligaments along the back of the spine
Compresses the stomach organs, which helps strengthen the organs of digestion
Stimulates the kidneys
Since the heart is below the spine, the heart is massaged
Helps to cure impotency and leads to sex control
Can aggravate sciatica. If you have sciatica, elevate the hips by sitting on a cushion, until the knees are below the hips, or avoid this pose entirely. Beware of hips rotating backward while seated; we want them to rotate forward.
If you have any lower back disorders which do not allow flexion of the spine, then do not allow the spine to round: keep the back as straight as you can
If the hamstrings are very tight, the knees should be bent and supported by a bolster, allowing the spine to round.
Getting Into the Pose:
Sit on a cushion with both legs straight out in front of you. Fold forward over the legs, allowing your back to round.
Alternatives & Options:
If your hamstrings are really tight, you won't be able to fold forward enough to allow gravity to draw you down. Bend your knees and place a bolster underneath; allow the back to round fully. If that doesn't work, sit up on more cushions.
If neck feels strained by the weight of the head, support your head in your hands, resting your elbows on the legs or a bolster.
You can rest your chest on a bolster to help relax into the pose.
You can do this pose with the legs up a wall (very nice for people who stand all day).
If knees feel strained, activate the quadriceps (but not all the time!) or keep a small bend in the knees, perhaps with a blanket underneath.
Experiment with hand positions. Rest your elbows on your thighs or the floor, or loosely hold the toes with your hands. No need to pull: gravity will do the work.
If you're very flexible, it might be more challenging if you part your legs just enough that your chest fits between the legs.
Coming Out of the Pose:
Use your hands to push the floor away and slowly roll up. Remember, slowly means "not fast." This is a test! If you pop right up quickly, you are a yangster. Be a yinster and slowly come up
Once you are up, lean back on your hands to release the hips and then shake out the legs.
Counter poses:
Sitting up or a gentle sitting back bend
Lying on the stomach is a gentle back bend, as is doing a spinal lift flow on the back, or flow into Tabletop (aka Hammock)
A seated twist
Meridians & Organs Affected:
The Urinary Bladder.
Joints Affected:
The spine.
Recommended Hold Times:
Three to five minutes or more.
Similar Yang Asanas:
Paschimottanasana, but here we are not trying to lengthen the spine or stretch the back muscles. Don't try to bring the head to the feet but, rather, round the spine so the head comes to the knees.
Other Notes:
Paul Grilley claims this pose is excellent for balancing Chi flow, and preparing the body for meditation;
Keep muscles relaxed especially in the legs;
· Make sure the tops of the hips are tilted forward. If the hips are rotating backward, sit on higher cushions and bend the knees more. Fold forward enough that gravity is doing the work, not your muscles. If you are not folding forward, you won't be able to relax completely. Let gravity have you! Surrendering is yin.
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Collaborating to save the most endangered wolves in the world.For the first time in history, members from two Species Survival Plans are joining together to work on behalf of two critically endangered species - the Mexican gray wolf and red wolf. Held in in Chico Springs, Montana, this meeting is brings together representatives from dozens of facilities participating in the SSPs, Fish and Wildlife Agencies from both U.S. and Mexico, state wildlife agencies, endangered species reproductive specialists, and many other organization representatives to tackle the myriad of issues associated with recovering the the most endangered wolves in the world. Items on the meeting agenda include:
- Report on the status of Mexican wolf recovery in both Mexico and the U.S.
- Report on the status of red wolf recovery
- Report on both the Mexican wolf and red wolf SSP and the status of the global captive studbook populations
- Report on reproductive research in 2015 and needs for 2016
- Criteria for selection of breeding pairs
- Select pairs for breeding in 2016-2017
- Gamete banking plan and criteria for selection of candidates
- Select candidates for release


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Vinyl records as drawing apparatus? That's the idea behind Robert Howsare's new artwork.
Records certainly have their uses, the obvious one as a music format. Some people have even melted them and used them as bowls but to draw things? That's crazy talk. But not so, as Robert Howsare demonstrates in his video, Drawing Apparatus. Robert is a "printerdisciplinary artist who utilizes nontraditional matrices and processes to explore the anomalies that occur within systems". In this context, that means he used two vinyl records going round a pair of turntables to find any inconsistencies. As you watch through the video, you may see what those "anomalies" are, as the drawings don't take the regular circular shape you'd expect from a couple of decks. Quite a fascinating watch if you're into that sort of thing (and we are).
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We find some consensus in MABRA about testing: we generally want some kind of testing. We also agree on who should be tested: elites, not novices. The upward sloping line in the graph below shows this consensus.
The wisdom of MABRA crowds
I was surprised we did not more strongly favor Masters testing, since most amateurs busted in recent years--Kenny Williams, Pete Cannell, Roger Hernandez, Chuck Coyle, Nicholas Brandt-Sorensen, Joshua Webster, Neal Schubel, to name a few--are Masters racers. As Joe Papp recently stated, "Based on my experience [selling PEDs to American cyclists], in the U.S. the majority of athletes seeking doping products on the black market are amateurs, and believe it or not, they're masters athletes."
So it's a bit of a mystery to me why we are more concerned with elites than masters.
We want more testing of our upper categories and we don't want testing of our lower categories. We can't have this. Or, more precisely, we can choose to give money to a testing protocol that does not distinguish category. We get the whole package, with no control over it.
Are we willing to accept what we don't want--testing of new racers--in exchange for what we want--testing of elites?
This is the choice we face.
Those in favor of testing are willing to accept the possibility of testing of the lower categories, and the risks it poses to recruitment and retainment of new racers. Let's face it, building our sport at the local level is hard enough as it is. To the dangers of 8-cornered crits, the cost of equipment, and the unforgiving nature of bike racing (YOU GOT DROPPED!), add the joy of peeing in a cup in front of a random dude and the possibility of a false positive. And for those who smoke pot, the inability to indulge.
Those against testing want to preserve as much simplicity as possible in the lower categories, at the cost of not knowing if your opponents are juicing, and of probably losing to substance-enhanced dopers every now and then. It's happened to me, and I don't like the feeling.
As I see it, we have two populations--Novices and Elites--with different preferences. If we decide to promote more local testing, we should at least acknowledge the existence of both positions.


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Football ready for spring practice
University of Arkansas Pre-Spring Press Conference (March 23, 2009)Head Coach Bobby Petrino
"We get to start practice tomorrow, which is a good thing. We are looking forward to it. I do think we had a good offseason. I think our strength and conditioning staff did an excellent job. Our players worked extremely hard and we made big gains. Guys that needed gain weight did a good job and guys that needed to lose weight did an ok job and will continue to have to work at that. We did get much stronger and showed the types of gains we had hoped to see a year ago. I felt a year ago was more about survival in the offseason and just getting through the day. This year was completely different. Our attitude was to attack the day. Our players really did a nice job of that. We finished up with a very good week of testing and a lot of excitement and energy. A lot of guys had their personal bests, which was good for us. Now we get to move on to football. We will continue to work hard in the weight room throughout spring football and continue to make gains there, but we do get to go out and practice so we are all excited about that. It is going to be a lot about teaching and a lot about getting better at your position. Working on the details and fundamentals of your position and then about refining and getting better in our schemes offensively and defensively. Special teams will be a little bit different since some of that will be new. They will be a step behind as far as understanding what we want to do, but I'm looking forward to our installation there also. I expect us to take huge strides. We came in a year ago and everyday was a new day. There wasn't any carryover. It was a lot about trying to memorize things and get lined up and really figure out what it was we were trying to do. I expect now to see a lot of improvement and see 11 guys working together, understanding the scheme and understanding the other side of the ball. When you do that you can play fast. It is going to be a physical spring. I do believe you get better by hitting and running full speed to the ball. They map out how many days you get to tackle and how many you get to scrimmage so it is no more than anyone else and we'll go as many reps as we can. You do have to be cautious a little with some of our depth. We don't have enough offensive linemen so we have to stay healthy there throughout spring, but I expect that we will.
Guys that will miss spring ball. Michael Smith will be out. We are kind of holding him. He's doing a great job on his rehab and is way ahead of schedule. He's anxious to get back in there. Maybe the last week of spring he'll do some individual work and some technique work, but he won't be in any competition drills. Lucas Miller will be out. He's doing very well and is ahead of schedule. Marques Wade will be limited. He is working hard at it, but there will be some things that he gets to do and some things that he doesn't. Elton Ford will be limited. He's doing great and I'm very impressed with his ability to come back from that injury and not show any effects at all. He's doing everything in the weight room. He just won't be able to have any contact in spring ball. He'll be out there and have a helmet on and will do as much as he can as long as there is no contact in the drill. It is a necessity and hopefully he'll be back full go when we start drills in the fall.
On spring semester enrollees:Knile Davis is a young man I'm looking forward to seeing carry the football and pass protect. I know he can catch the ball. He did a great job catching the ball in high school. It is unbelievable what he did in the weight room. He tested off the charts with his speed and strength. He excited you. He's very young and came in here in January and has a bright future in front of him. Andru Stewart did a nice job in the offseason. He'll start out at corner and has the ability to play nickel and then if we need some work at safety with him we would do that. Really we're looking at spring basically with him at corner and nickel for us. Broderick Green did a nice job in the weight room. He had a good 40 time and I'm looking forward to seeing him run the ball and do the things he needs to do in the passing game. I don't anticipate we'll know anything on his status until after spring.
On special teamsWe can really get a lot done this spring. A year ago, we didn't do as much special teams wise because we knew we'd have a lot of young guys playing. Because we were so young we feel like when you look at the depth on special teams it would take a special freshman to come in and beat guys out on special teams. We will spend more time working on it and I think it will really pay off.
On the secondaryFirst you start out at corner with three guys competing with Isaac Madison, Jerell Norton and Greg Gatson had a nice offseason. He's very fast and very strong for his size. He's right there with the other two guys and will take just as many reps as the other two will. On the other side, you've got Ramon Broadway and Andru Stewart and the two of those guys will battle it out there. (Evan) Bettis will get in there and compete to after playing a lot on special teams for us last year.
On the quarterbacksThey will all get reps with the one group. Probably Ryan (Mallett) and Tyler (Wilson) a little more and Jim (Youngblood) will have to earn them a little bit more. Jim has really made a concentration on knowing the offense. He's done a nice job of getting bigger and faster in the weight room. I'm looking forward to seeing how he does when he is out there on the field. He's a little different style guy, which will be great for us. He has the ability to run the ball, which is more difficult to defend. It helps our defense to see that look in spring practice."
On the defenseThe first thing we need to do is tackle better. We have to get to the ball. 11 guys have to get to the ball and run full speed. We have to make sure we don't have as many assignment errors. The good thing is when you watch all our video from last year almost all those guys in the video are back. I really feel like we'll be much better in our knowledge of what we are asking them to do and their knowledge of being able to play faster. We have to play the principles of good defense better. We have a lot to learn and a long way to go.
On John L. SmithI'm excited about it. He's already helped us on the staff with his experience and enthusiasm. He's already made great relationships with the players. When I worked for him I was always intrigued by his ability to evaluate players and their positions in what they do best and where you should place them. I'll continue to rely on him for that.
On Malcolm SheppardHe did a nice job. He worked extremely hard and he's always going to. You never have to worry about him. He packs a lunch every day and goes to work. The thing we've been working on with him is getting him the weight and the strength to be a full time inside guy. That's what he's best at. He provides energy for everybody. If you are a player on this team and asking how you should work every day you should look at Malcolm.
On the leadership qualities of the quarterbacksThey have been very willing leaders and have worked hard. Now is the time to show it on the field. The first thing I really believe leadership is that number one you have to do your job real well. Number two you have to follow and do what the coaches ask you to do and then you can become a real good leader. This spring they have to do a great job of playing their position and show everyone on the field they can play. Number two they have to be coachable and execute the offense the way the coaches show them.
Download: 2009 Spring Guide.pdf


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Monday, 26 March 2012
the protestant reformation
The Roman Church had made merchandise of the grace of God. The tables of the money-changers (Matthew 21:12) were set up beside her altars, and the air resounded with the shouts of buyers and sellers. Under the plea of raising funds for the erection of St. Peter's Church at Rome, indulgences for sin were publicly offered for sale by the authority of the pope. By the price of crime a temple was to be built up for God's worship—the cornerstone laid with the wages of iniquity! But the very means adopted for Rome's aggrandizement provoked the deadliest blow to her power and greatness. It was this that aroused the most determined and successful of the enemies of popery, and led to the battle which shook the papal throne and jostled the triple crown upon the pontiff's head.
The official appointed to conduct the sale of indulgences in Germany—Tetzel by name—had been convicted of the basest offenses against society and against the law of God; but having escaped the punishment due for his crimes, he was employed to further the mercenary and unscrupulous projects of the pope. With great effrontery he repeated the most glaring falsehoods and related marvelous tales to deceive an ignorant, credulous, and superstitious people. Had they possessed the word of God they would not have been thus deceived. It was to keep them under the control of the papacy, in order to swell the power and wealth of her ambitious leaders, that the Bible had been withheld from them. (See John C. L. Gieseler, A Compendium of Ecclesiastical History, per. 4, sec. 1, par. 5.)
As Tetzel entered a town, a messenger went before him, announcing: "The grace of God and of the holy father is at your gates."—D'Aubigne, b. 3, ch. 1. And the people welcomed the blasphemous pretender as if he were God Himself come down from heaven to them. The infamous traffic was set up in the church, and Tetzel, ascending the pulpit, extolled the indulgences as the most precious gift of God. He declared that by virtue of his certificates of pardon all the sins which the purchaser should afterward desire to commit would be forgiven him, and that "not even repentance is necessary."—Ibid., b. 3, ch. 1. More than this, he assured his hearers that the indulgences had power to save not only the living but the dead; that the very moment the money should clink against the bottom of his chest, the soul in whose behalf it had been paid would escape from purgatory and make its way to heaven. (See K. R. Hagenbach, History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 96.)
When Simon Magus offered to purchase of the apostles the power to work miracles, Peter answered him: "Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money." Acts 8:20. But Tetzel's offer was grasped by eager thousands. Gold and silver flowed into his treasury. A salvation that could be bought with money was more easily obtained than that which requires repentance, faith, and diligent effort to resist and overcome sin.
The doctrine of indulgences had been opposed by men of learning and piety in the Roman Church, and there were many who had no faith in pretensions so contrary to both reason and revelation. No prelate dared lift his voice against this iniquitous traffic; but the minds of men were becoming disturbed and uneasy, and many eagerly inquired if God would not work through some instrumentality for the purification of His church.
Luther, though still a papist of the straitest sort, was filled with horror at the blasphemous assumptions of the indulgence mongers. Many of his own congregation had purchased certificates of pardon, and they soon began to come to their pastor, confessing their various sins, and expecting absolution, not because they were penitent and wished to reform, but on the ground of the indulgence. Luther refused them absolution, and warned them that unless they should repent and reform their lives, they must perish in their sins. In great perplexity they repaired to Tetzel with the complaint that their confessor had refused his certificates; and some boldly demanded that their money be returned to them. The friar was filled with rage. He uttered the most terrible curses, caused fires to be lighted in the public squares, and declared that he "had received an order from the pope to burn all heretics who presumed to oppose his most holy indulgences."—D'Aubigne, b. 3, ch. 4.
Luther now entered boldly upon his work as a champion of the truth. His voice was heard from the pulpit in earnest, solemn warning. He set before the people the offensive character of sin, and taught them that it is impossible for man, by his own works, to lessen its guilt or evade its punishment. Nothing but repentance toward God and faith in Christ can save the sinner. The grace of Christ cannot be purchased; it is a free gift. He counseled the people not to buy indulgences, but to look in faith to a crucified Redeemer. He related his own painful experience in vainly seeking by humiliation and penance to secure salvation, and assured his hearers that it was by looking away from himself and believing in Christ that he found peace and joy.
As Tetzel continued his traffic and his impious pretensions, Luther determined upon a more effectual protest against these crying abuses. An occasion soon offered. The castle church of Wittenberg possessed many relics, which on certain holy days were exhibited to the people, and full remission of sins was granted to all who then visited the church and made confession. Accordingly on these days the people in great numbers resorted thither. One of the most important of these occasions, the festival of All Saints, was approaching. On the preceding day, Luther, joining the crowds that were already making their way to the church, posted on its door a paper containing ninety-five propositions against the doctrine of indulgences. He declared his willingness to defend these theses next day at the university, against all who should see fit to attack them.
His propositions attracted universal attention. They were read and reread, and repeated in every direction. Great excitement was created in the university and in the whole city. By these theses it was shown that the power to grant the pardon of sin, and to remit its penalty, had never been committed to the pope or to any other man. The whole scheme was a farce,—an artifice to extort money by playing upon the superstitions of the people,—a device of Satan to destroy the souls of all who should trust to its lying pretensions. It was also clearly shown that the gospel of Christ is the most valuable treasure of the church, and that the grace of God, therein revealed, is freely bestowed upon all who seek it by repentance and faith.
Luther's theses challenged discussion; but no one dared accept the challenge. The questions which he proposed had in a few days spread through all Germany, and in a few weeks they had sounded throughout Christendom. Many devoted Romanists, who had seen and lamented the terrible iniquity prevailing in the church, but had not known how to arrest its progress, read the propositions with great joy, recognizing in them the voice of God. They felt that the Lord had graciously set His hand to arrest the rapidly swelling tide of corruption that was issuing from the see of Rome. Princes and magistrates secretly rejoiced that a check was to be put upon the arrogant power which denied the right of appeal from its decisions.
But the sin-loving and superstitious multitudes were terrified as the sophistries that had soothed their fears were swept away. Crafty ecclesiastics, interrupted in their work of sanctioning crime, and seeing their gains endangered, were enraged, and rallied to uphold their pretensions. The Reformer had bitter accusers to meet. Some charged him with acting hastily and from impulse. Others accused him of presumption, declaring that he was not directed of God, but was acting from pride and forwardness. "Who does not know," he responded, "that a man rarely puts forth any new idea without having some appearance of pride, and without being accused of exciting quarrels? . . . Why were Christ and all the martyrs put to death? Because they seemed to be proud contemners of the wisdom of the time, and because they advanced novelties without having first humbly taken counsel of the oracles of the ancient opinions."
Again he declared: "Whatever I do will be done, not by the prudence of men, but by the counsel of God. If the work be of God, who shall stop it? if it be not, who can forward it? Not my will, nor theirs, nor ours; but Thy will, O holy Father, which art in heaven."—Ibid., b. 3, ch. 6.
Though Luther had been moved by the Spirit of God to begin his work, he was not to carry it forward without severe conflicts. The reproaches of his enemies, their misrepresentation of his purposes, and their unjust and malicious reflections upon his character and motives, came in upon him like an overwhelming flood; and they were not without effect. He had felt confident that the leaders of the people, both in the church and in the schools, would gladly unite with him in efforts for reform. Words of encouragement from those in high position had inspired him with joy and hope. Already in anticipation he had seen a brighter day dawning for the church. But encouragement had changed to reproach and condemnation. Many dignitaries, of both church and state, were convicted of the truthfulness of his theses; but they soon saw that the acceptance of these truths would involve great changes. To enlighten and reform the people would be virtually to undermine the authority of Rome, to stop thousands of streams now flowing into her treasury, and thus greatly to curtail the extravagance and luxury of the papal leaders. Furthermore, to teach the people to think and act as responsible beings, looking to Christ alone for salvation, would overthrow the pontiff's throne and eventually destroy their own authority. For this reason they refused the knowledge tendered them of God and arrayed themselves against Christ and the truth by their opposition to the man whom He had sent to enlighten them.
Luther trembled as he looked upon himself—one man opposed to the mightiest powers of earth. He sometimes doubted whether he had indeed been led of God to set himself against the authority of the church. "Who was I," he writes, "to oppose the majesty of the pope, before whom ... the kings of the earth and the whole world trembled? ... No one can know what my heart suffered during these first two years, and into what despondency, I may say into what despair, I was sunk."—Ibid., b. 3, ch. 6. But he was not left to become utterly disheartened. When human support failed, he looked to God alone and learned that he could lean in perfect safety upon that all-powerful arm.
To a friend of the Reformation Luther wrote: "We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His word. There is no other interpreter of the word of God than the Author of this word, as He Himself has said, 'They shall be all taught of God.' Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has had experience."—Ibid., b. 3, ch. 7. Here is a lesson of vital importance to those who feel that God has called them to present to others the solemn truths for this time. These truths will stir the enmity of Satan and of men who love the fables that he has devised. In the conflict with the powers of evil there is need of something more than strength of intellect and human wisdom.
When enemies appealed to custom and tradition, or to the assertions and authority of the pope, Luther met them with the Bible and the Bible only. Here were arguments which they could not answer; therefore the slaves of formalism and superstition clamored for his blood, as the Jews had clamored for the blood of Christ. "He is a heretic," cried the Roman zealots. "It is high treason against the church to allow so horrible a heretic to live one hour longer. Let the scaffold be instantly erected for him!"—Ibid., b. 3, ch. 9. But Luther did not fall a prey to their fury. God had a work for him to do, and angels of heaven were sent to protect him. Many, however, who had received from Luther the precious light were made the objects of Satan's wrath and for the truth's sake fearlessly suffered torture and death.
Luther's teachings attracted the attention of thoughtful minds throughout all Germany. From his sermons and writings issued beams of light which awakened and illuminated thousands. A living faith was taking the place of the dead formalism in which the church had so long been held. The people were daily losing confidence in the superstitions of Romanism. The barriers of prejudice were giving way. The word of God, by which Luther tested every doctrine and every claim, was like a two-edged sword, cutting its way to the hearts of the people. Everywhere there was awakening a desire for spiritual progress. Everywhere was such a hungering and thirsting after righteousness as had not been known for ages. The eyes of the people, so long directed to human rites and earthly mediators, were now turning in penitence and faith to Christ and Him crucified.
This widespread interest aroused still further the fears of the papal authorities. Luther received a summons to appear at Rome to answer to the charge of heresy. The command filled his friends with terror. They knew full well the danger that threatened him in that corrupt city, already drunk with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. They protested against his going to Rome and requested that he receive his examination in Germany.
This arrangement was finally effected, and the pope's legate was appointed to hear the case. In the instructions communicated by the pontiff to this official, it was stated that Luther had already been declared a heretic. The legate was therefore charged "to prosecute and constrain without any delay." If he should remain steadfast, and the legate should fail to gain possession of his person, he was empowered "to proscribe him in every part of Germany; to banish, curse, and excommunicate all those who are attached to him."—Ibid., b. 4, ch. 2. And, further, the pope directed his legate, in order entirely to root out the pestilent heresy, to excommunicate all, of whatever dignity in church or state, except the emperor, who should neglect to seize Luther and his adherents, and deliver them up to the vengeance of Rome.
Here is displayed the true spirit of popery. Not a trace of Christian principle, or even of common justice, is to be seen in the whole document. Luther was at a great distance from Rome; he had had no opportunity to explain or defend his position; yet before his case had been investigated, he was summarily pronounced a heretic, and in the same day, exhorted, accused, judged, and condemned; and all this by the self-styled holy father, the only supreme, infallible authority in church or state!
At this time, when Luther so much needed the sympathy and counsel of a true friend, God's providence sent Melanchthon to Wittenberg. Young in years, modest and diffident in his manners, Melanchthon's sound judgment, extensive knowledge, and winning eloquence, combined with the purity and uprightness of his character, won universal admiration and esteem. The brilliancy of his talents was not more marked than his gentleness of disposition. He soon became an earnest disciple of the gospel, and Luther's most trusted friend and valued supporter; his gentleness, caution, and exactness serving as a complement to Luther's courage and energy. Their union in the work added strength to the Reformation and was a source of great encouragement to Luther.
Augsburg had been fixed upon as the place of trial, and the Reformer set out on foot to perform the journey thither. Serious fears were entertained in his behalf. Threats had been made openly that he would be seized and murdered on the way, and his friends begged him not to venture. They even entreated him to leave Wittenberg for a time and find safety with those who would gladly protect him. But he would not leave the position where God had placed him. He must continue faithfully to maintain the truth, notwithstanding the storms that were beating upon him. His language was: "I am like Jeremiah, a man of strife and contention; but the more their threats increase, the more my joy is multiplied. . . . They have already destroyed my honor and my reputation. One single thing remains; it is my wretched body: let them take it; they will thus shorten my life by a few hours. But as for my soul, they cannot take that. He who desires to proclaim the word of Christ to the world, must expect death at every moment."—Ibid., b. 4, ch. 4.
The tidings of Luther's arrival at Augsburg gave great satisfaction to the papal legate. The troublesome heretic who was exciting the attention of the whole world seemed now in the power of Rome, and the legate determined that he should not escape. The Reformer had failed to provide himself with a safe-conduct. His friends urged him not to appear before the legate without one, and they themselves undertook to procure it from the emperor. The legate intended to force Luther, if possible, to retract, or, failing in this, to cause him to be conveyed to Rome, to share the fate of Huss and Jerome. Therefore through his agents he endeavored to induce Luther to appear without a safe-conduct, trusting himself to his mercy. This the Reformer firmly declined to do. Not until he had received the document pledging him the emperor's protection, did he appear in the presence of the papal ambassador.
As a matter of policy, the Romanists had decided to attempt to win Luther by an appearance of gentleness. The legate, in his interviews with him, professed great friendliness; but he demanded that Luther submit implicitly to the authority of the church, and yield every point without argument or question. He had not rightly estimated the character of the man with whom he had to deal. Luther, in reply, expressed his regard for the church, his desire for the truth, his readiness to answer all objections to what he had taught, and to submit his doctrines to the decision of certain leading universities. But at the same time he protested against the cardinal's course in requiring him to retract without having proved him in error.
The only response was: "Retract, retract!" The Reformer showed that his position was sustained by the Scriptures and firmly declared that he could not renounce the truth. The legate, unable to reply to Luther's arguments, overwhelmed him with a storm of reproaches, gibes, and flattery, interspersed with quotations from tradition and the sayings of the Fathers, granting the Reformer no opportunity to speak. Seeing that the conference, thus continued, would be utterly futile, Luther finally obtained a reluctant permission to present his answer in writing.
"In so doing," said he, writing to a friend, "the oppressed find double gain; first, what is written may be submitted to the judgment of others; and second, one has a better chance of working on the fears, if not on the conscience, of an arrogant and babbling despot, who would otherwise overpower by his imperious language."—Martyn, The Life and Times of Luther, pages 271, 272.
At the next interview, Luther presented a clear, concise, and forcible exposition of his views, fully supported by many quotations from Scripture. This paper, after reading aloud, he handed to the cardinal, who, however, cast it contemptuously aside, declaring it to be a mass of idle words and irrelevant quotations. Luther, fully aroused, now met the haughty prelate on his own ground—the traditions and teachings of the church—and utterly overthrew his assumptions.
When the prelate saw that Luther's reasoning was unanswerable, he lost all self-control, and in a rage cried out: "Retract! or I will send you to Rome, there to appear before the judges commissioned to take cognizance of your cause. I will excommunicate you and all your partisans, and all who shall at any time countenance you, and will cast them out of the church." And he finally declared, in a haughty and angry tone: "Retract, or return no more."—D'Aubigne, London ed., b. 4, ch. 8.
The Reformer promptly withdrew with his friends, thus declaring plainly that no retraction was to be expected from him. This was not what the cardinal had purposed. He had flattered himself that by violence he could awe Luther to submission. Now, left alone with his supporters, he looked from one to another in utter chagrin at the unexpected failure of his schemes.
Luther's efforts on this occasion were not without good results. The large assembly present had opportunity to compare the two men, and to judge for themselves of the spirit manifested by them, as well as of the strength and truthfulness of their positions. How marked the contrast! The Reformer, simple, humble, firm, stood up in the strength of God, having truth on his side; the pope's representative, self-important, overbearing, haughty, and unreasonable, was without a single argument from the Scriptures, yet vehemently crying: "Retract, or be sent to Rome for punishment."
Notwithstanding Luther had secured a safe-conduct, the Romanists were plotting to seize and imprison him. His friends urged that as it was useless for him to prolong his stay, he should return to Wittenberg without delay, and that the utmost caution should be observed in order to conceal his intentions. He accordingly left Augsburg before day-break, on horseback, accompanied only by a guide furnished him by the magistrate. With many forebodings he secretly made his way through the dark and silent streets of the city. Enemies, vigilant and cruel, were plotting his destruction. Would he escape the snares prepared for him? Those were moments of anxiety and earnest prayer. He reached a small gate in the wall of the city. It was opened for him, and with his guide he passed through without hindrance. Once safely outside, the fugitives hastened their flight, and before the legate learned of Luther's departure, he was beyond the reach of his persecutors. Satan and his emissaries were defeated. The man whom they had thought in their power was gone, escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowler.
At the news of Luther's escape the legate was overwhelmed with surprise and anger. He had expected to receive great honor for his wisdom and firmness in dealing with this disturber of the church; but his hope was disappointed. He gave expression to his wrath in a letter to Frederick, the elector of Saxony, bitterly denouncing Luther and demanding that Frederick send the Reformer to Rome or banish him from Saxony.
In defense, Luther urged that the legate or the pope show him his errors from the Scriptures, and pledged himself in the most solemn manner to renounce his doctrines if they could be shown to contradict the word of God. And he expressed his gratitude to God that he had been counted worthy to suffer in so holy a cause.
The elector had, as yet, little knowledge of the reformed doctrines, but he was deeply impressed by the candor, force, and clearness of Luther's words; and until the Reformer should be proved to be in error, Frederick resolved to stand as his protector. In reply to the legate's demand he wrote: "Since Dr. Martin has appeared before you at Augsburg, you should be satisfied. We did not expect that you would endeavor to make him retract without having convinced him of his errors. None of the learned men in our principality have informed me that Martin's doctrine is impious, anti-christian, or heretical.' The prince refused, moreover, to send Luther to Rome, or to expel him from his states."— D'Aubigne, b. 4, ch. 10.
The elector saw that there was a general breaking down of the moral restraints of society. A great work of reform was needed. The complicated and expensive arrangements to restrain and punish crime would be unnecessary if men but acknowledged and obeyed the requirements of God and the dictates of an enlightened conscience. He saw that Luther was laboring to secure this object, and he secretly rejoiced that a better influence was making itself felt in the church.
He saw also that as a professor in the university Luther was eminently successful. Only a year had passed since the Reformer posted his theses on the castle church, yet there was already a great falling off in the number of pilgrims that visited the church at the festival of All Saints. Rome had been deprived of worshipers and offerings, but their place was filled by another class, who now came to Wittenberg, not pilgrims to adore her relics, but students to fill her halls of learning. The writings of Luther had kindled everywhere a new interest in the Holy Scriptures, and not only from all parts of Germany, but from other lands, students flocked to the university. Young men, coming in sight of Wittenberg for the first time, "raised their hands to heaven, and praised God for having caused the light of truth to shine forth from this city, as from Zion in times of old, and whence it spread even to the most distant countries."—Ibid., b. 4, ch. 10.
Luther was as yet but partially converted from the errors of Romanism. But as he compared the Holy Oracles with the papal decrees and constitutions, he was filled with wonder. "I am reading," he wrote, "the decrees of the pontiffs, and . . . I do not know whether the pope is antichrist himself, or his apostle, so greatly is Christ misrepresented and crucified in them."—Ibid., b. 5, ch. 1. Yet at this time Luther was still a supporter of the Roman Church, and had no thought that he would ever separate from her communion.
The Reformer's writings and his doctrine were extending to every nation in Christendom. The work spread to Switzerland and Holland. Copies of his writings found their way to France and Spain. In England his teachings were received as the word of life. To Belgium and Italy also the truth had extended. Thousands were awakening from their deathlike stupor to the joy and hope of a life of faith.
Rome became more and more exasperated by the attacks of Luther, and it was declared by some of his fanatical opponents, even by doctors in Catholic universities, that he who should kill the rebellious monk would be without sin. One day a stranger, with a pistol hidden under his cloak, approached the Reformer and inquired why he went thus alone. "I am in God's hands," answered Luther. "He is my strength and my shield. What can man do unto me?"—Ibid., b. 6, ch. 2. Upon hearing these words, the stranger turned pale and fled away as from the presence of the angels of heaven.
Rome was bent upon the destruction of Luther; but God was his defense. His doctrines were heard everywhere—"in cottages and convents, . . . in the castles of the nobles, in the universities, and in the palaces of kings;" and noble men were rising on every hand to sustain his efforts.—Ibid., b. 6, ch. 2.
It was about this time that Luther, reading the works of Huss, found that the great truth of justification by faith, which he himself was seeking to uphold and teach, had been held by the Bohemian Reformer. "We have all," said Luther, "Paul, Augustine, and myself, been Hussites without knowing it!" "God will surely visit it upon the world," he continued, "that the truth was preached to it a century ago, and burned!"—Wylie, b. 6. ch. 1
In an appeal to the emperor and nobility of Germany in behalf of the reformation of Christianity, Luther wrote concerning the pope: "It is a horrible thing to behold the man who styles himself Christ's vicegerent, displaying a magnificence that no emperor can equal. Is this being like the poor Jesus, or the humble Peter? He is, say they, the lord of the world! But Christ, whose vicar he boasts of being, has said, 'My kingdom is not of this world.' Can the dominions of a vicar extend beyond those of his superior?"— D'Aubigne, b. 6, ch. 3.
He wrote thus of the universities: "I am much afraid that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not unceasingly occupied with the word of God must become corrupt."— Ibid., b. 6, ch. 3.
This appeal was rapidly circulated throughout Germany and exerted a powerful influence upon the people. The whole nation was stirred, and multitudes were roused to rally around the standard of reform. Luther's opponents, burning with a desire for revenge, urged the pope to take decisive measures against him. It was decreed that his doctrines should be immediately condemned. Sixty days were granted the Reformer and his adherents, after which, if they did not recant, they were all to be excommunicated.
That was a terrible crisis for the Reformation. For centuries Rome's sentence of excommunication had struck terror to powerful monarchs; it had filled mighty empires with woe and desolation. Those upon whom its condemnation fell were universally regarded with dread and horror; they were cut off from intercourse with their fellows and treated as outlaws, to be hunted to extermination. Luther was not blind to the tempest about to burst upon him; but he stood firm, trusting in Christ to be his support and shield. With a martyr's faith and courage he wrote: "What is about to happen I know not, nor do I care to know. . . . Let the blow light where it may, I am without fear. Not so much as a leaf falls, without the will of our Father. How much rather will He care for us! It is a light thing to die for the Word, since the Word which was made flesh hath Himself died. If we die with Him, we shall live with Him; and passing through that which He has passed through before us, we shall be where He is and dwell with Him forever."—Ibid., 3d London ed., Walther, 1840, b. 6, ch. 9.
When the papal bull reached Luther, he said: "I despise and attack it, as impious, false. . . . It is Christ Himself who is condemned therein. . . . I rejoice in having to bear such ills for the best of causes. Already I feel greater liberty in my heart; for at last I know that the pope is antichrist, and that his throne is that of Satan himself."—D'Aubigne, b. 6, ch. 9.
Yet the mandate of Rome was not without effect. Prison, torture, and sword were weapons potent to enforce obedience. The weak and superstitious trembled before the decree of the pope; and while there was general sympathy for Luther, many felt that life was too dear to be risked in the cause of reform. Everything seemed to indicate that the Reformer's work was about to close.
But Luther was fearless still. Rome had hurled her anathemas against him, and the world looked on, nothing doubting that he would perish or be forced to yield. But with terrible power he flung back upon herself the sentence of condemnation and publicly declared his determination to abandon her forever. In the presence of a crowd of students, doctors, and citizens of all ranks Luther burned the pope's bull, with the canon laws, the decretals, and certain writings sustaining the papal power. "My enemies have been able, by burning my books," he said, "to injure the cause of truth in the minds of the common people, and destroy their souls; for this reason I consumed their books in return. A serious struggle has just begun. Hitherto I have been only playing with the pope. I began this work in God's name; it will be ended without me, and by His might." —Ibid., b. 6, ch. 10.
To the reproaches of his enemies who taunted him with the weakness of his cause, Luther answered: "Who knows if God has not chosen and called me, and if they ought not to fear that, by despising me, they despise God Himself? Moses was alone at the departure from Egypt; Elijah was alone in the reign of King Ahab; Isaiah alone in Jerusalem; Ezekiel alone in Babylon. . . . God never selected as a prophet either the high priest or any other great personage; but ordinarily He chose low and despised men, once even the shepherd Amos. In every age, the saints have had to reprove the great, kings, princes, priests, and wise men, at the peril of their lives. . . . I do not say that I am a prophet; but I say that they ought to fear precisely because I am alone and that they are many. I am sure of this, that the word of God is with me, and that it is not with them."—Ibid., b. 6, ch. 10.
Yet it was not without a terrible struggle with himself that Luther decided upon a final separation from the church. It was about this time that he wrote: "I feel more and more every day how difficult it is to lay aside the scruples which one has imbibed in childhood. Oh, how much pain it has caused me, though I had the Scriptures on my side, to justify it to myself that I should dare to make a stand alone against the pope, and hold him forth as antichrist! What have the tribulations of my heart not been! How many times have I not asked myself with bitterness that question which was so frequent on the lips of the papists: 'Art thou alone wise? Can everyone else be mistaken? How will it be, if, after all, it is thyself who art wrong, and who art involving in thy error so many souls, who will then be eternally damned?' 'Twas so I fought with myself and with Satan, till Christ, by His own infallible word, fortified my heart against these doubts."—Martyn, pages 372, 373.
The pope had threatened Luther with excommunication if he did not recant, and the threat was now fulfilled. A new bull appeared, declaring the Reformer's final separation from the Roman Church, denouncing him as accursed of Heaven, and including in the same condemnation all who should receive his doctrines. The great contest had been fully entered upon.
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By Emmanuel Okogba
The Delta State wing of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has stated that despite an Appeal Court ruling which confirmed Sheriff as national chairman, it will never work with him.
Speaking at the weekend during the Delta South Senatorial district's meeting of the party hosted by immediate past governor of the state, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, the chairman of the party in the state Mr. Kingsley Esiso, said: "The Appeal Court decided that Sheriff is chairman but in the PDP family we recognize Markafi as our chairman. The Delta PDP only recognizes only one Sheriff, that is the one representing Okpe in the Delta State house of assembly."
Esiso went further to state that the PDP will take advantage of the poor performance of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and win the presidential election in 2019.
The meeting also had in attendance Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and several legislators from the national and state assemblies.
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University policies, operating procedures and guidance reinforce the importance of correctly charging the expenses to sponsored agreement(s) when the cost is initially incurred. Units should integrate the following business practices within the below policies, procedures and guidance to minimize cost transfers.
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By Linda Coffman
Don't make the mistake of thinking of cruise travel only in terms of popular Caribbean beaches or Alaska glaciers. Today's worldwide itineraries offer much more intriguing destinations. With mid-cruise voyages to distant landlocked spots as well as uncommon ports of call closer to home, here are some top choices for the most unique cruising itineraries of 2012.
From Arabia to India
First, head to the other side of the world, where midway through an 18-day cruise aboard Seabourn Legend from Singapore to Dubai, you can hop off in Mumbai for three nights and visit the Taj Mahal at sunset and again at sunrise before moving on to other sites in Agra, the second capital of the Mughal Empire during the 16th and 17th centuries, and finally Delhi for a flight back to the ship.
Details: Departing February 28, 2012, this Seabourn Legend cruise has oceanview suites starting from $5,599 per person.
Cruise China, Korea, and Japan
Passage on the Crystal Cruises' 18-day World Cruise segment from Hong Kong to Osaka aboard Crystal Serenity not only features overnight stays in Shanghai, Seoul/Incheon, South Korea, and Japan, but also spends an unusual two nights in Xingang, where you disembark the ship and travel to Beijing to visit to the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, and the Great Wall before returning to port.
Details: Learn more about this Crystal Serenity cruise; trip starts on March 13, 2012. At this writing, deluxe staterooms are available at the special "2-for-1 Fare Per Person" rate of $14,665.
Southeast Asia by Land and Sea
A 9-night cruise from Bangkok, Thailand to Singapore on Silversea Cruises' Silver Shadow boasts a 2-night mid-voyage land adventure to Angkor Wat and Phnom Penh where the highlight is the temple city of Angkor, a World Heritage Site rated among the world's premier architectural and cultural attractions.
Details: This trip begins on November 5, 2012 aboard the Silver Shadow. Vista suites start at $5,999 per person.
Black Sea Beauty
You don't have to leave the comfort of your ship on a unique 7-night Silversea Cruises' Silver Spirit Black Sea cruise. Ideal if you have limited time, yet yearn for off-the-beaten-path, the round-trip sailing from Istanbul, Turkey calls on Ukrainian ports Sevastopol, Odessa, and the more well-known Yalta, as well as Constanţa, Romania and Nessebur, Bulgaria.
Details: The Silver Spirit week-long Black Sea cruise departs on June 18, 2012. With free air available, the silver savings per person fare is $5,899 for a veranda suite.
Hidden Caribbean Isles
Closer to home is Bequia, one of our favorite unspoiled Caribbean islands where the dive sites are noted as some of the region's finest and the big cruise ships steer clear. Small ship cruises anchor in the harbor and tenders you ashore where you'll seldom encounter other visitors. From the pier it's a short walk to lively bars and restaurants and a lovely uncrowded beach. To get there, hop aboard Star Clippers' Royal Clipper or Windstar's Wind Spirit, both sailing 7-night cruises round trip from Bridgetown, Barbados, or Silversea Cruises' Silver Cloud, sailing 9 nights from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Bridgetown.
Details: The Grenadine Islands Royal Clipper sails on multiple dates through early March, with per person rates starting at $1,975; Wind Spirit departs on 9 high season dates throughout 2012, from $1,499 per person; Silver Cloud has just one date, March 12, 2012, from $3,999 for a vista suite.
Fodors.com contributor Linda Coffman has been dishing out cruise-travel advice for nearly two decades and is the author of Fodor's Complete Guide to Caribbean Cruises, as well as a contributor of cruising content to other Fodor's guidebooks. You can find her at CruiseDiva.com and the Cruise Diva blog.
Photo Credit: Pride/Spirit/Legend in Hong Kong Harbor courtesy Seabourn


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In search of photos for this class to make the homework instructions, I realized that I never posted them on my blog!! I'm not sure how I missed that... This class is full for this Saturday (April 8), but I still want to share it all with you anyway.
The class entails six A7 (5 x 7) cards and a large gift bag to coordinate with the cards.
This is my favorite of all the cards, and of course uses a lot of fussy cut pieces and a lot of layers.
This one has some Spellbinders die cuts and gold Liquid Pearls on it.
One of my favorite things to do with cut-a-parts that have frames, is to cut out the image and frame as separate pieces, and then pop up the frame giving more dimension to the card.
This one has a lot of layers as well, but what I really like about this card is the image of the woman on the sofa. She reminds me so much of my youngest sister when she danced ballet for many years. The smaller two framed images represent my other sister, and myself.
This one was fairly easy, and fun to put together.
And, here is the gift bag with coordinating card. I love to use wide ribbon for feminine images and paper, and it works well with these two items.
Here is the bag, alone.
Thank you for joining me in a look at the cards and bag for this class. Happy creating!


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CANNES, FRANCE — "I used TO know Frank Capra," Clint Eastwood says, watching the ocean in a quiet corner of the legendary Eden Roc in what he calls "beautiful downtown Antibes" and thinking about the past.
Eastwood met the great Hollywood director back in 1973 when he was shooting "High Plains Drifter" and Capra was in his mid-70s. "He seemed like such a vital guy, his brain cooking on all eight cylinders. You could tell the same story about Billy Wilder, you could go on and on. That could have been such a productive time for them. People have their peak at different times in life." A smile creases his face. "I'm either in mine or about ready to come to the wall."
Far from hitting the wall, Eastwood is in the midst of a work spurt that surprises even him. His new film, to be called either "Changeling" or "The Exchange" when it premieres in the U.S. this fall, is his fourth since he was last in Cannes five years ago with "Mystic River." He has one more, "Gran Torino," that he will star in and direct starting in July and yet another in advanced planning stages. Not bad for someone who will be 78 at the end of May.


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We can then find this vitalized root in many of our words such as and for example - pure, purge, purgatory, pyre, pyrotechnic, uraeus, empyrean, Uranus, uranium, radiation, auger, urban, Arcturus, Arthur, Abraham, Uriah (flame of the Lord) and pyramid, etc. The latter which we know denotes fire at 10 to the power of 'n'. 'Empyrean' in our modern tongue means "the highest reaches of Heaven believed by the ancients to be the realm of pure fire or light. The abode of God and the angels; paradise; the sky".
Etymology suggests it roots from that which means 'original', to 'increase rapidly' and of course "the flame of the Lord". The Uraeus was worn by the Pharonic classes and depicted as the energized Cobra (fire) of the Mind, which is not far off the "third-eye" of the Buddhists. Those of the 'uraeus' were obviously not blind however such symbols are purely for ritual and identification. A verse in the Chaldean Oracles says that "all things are the product of one primordial fire, every way resplendent" - the name 'Ab-ra-m" where ab denotes 'father' thus is seen as 'Father Ra' and where 'Ram' is the 'fire' entombed in water, matter. There is consistency in the etymological roots suggested.
Buddhism is not an emotionalized philosophy or religion, it is a way of using your mind to find the intelligence of your heart, supra-intelligence or true intellect, where intellect is driven by intuition, and intuition is directed by intellect. Buddhists do not believe in God but keep an open mind. Finding this, and living in integrity and certainty, brings us to a higher state of thinking and acting. Buddhism was already ancient around 1000BCE and meditation (the way of the Buddhists) appears to have been the normal state for those sages that have left us evidence of their presense in forms such as the pyramids and ancient poetic texts, architecture, hieroglyphs, and other esoteric type artifacts, etc.
Now, considering what happens when one is able to stop the over working Sympathic mode (which can be referred to as the exoteric mode) and fully radiate in the light and glory of the Parasympathetic mode of the body's Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) which we can term the 'esoteric' mode we start to understand a little more about Buddhism and the art of meditation (and the act of 'purification), that this ancient practice of mental development and behavioral integrity has been alluded to in terms of its extraordinary merits.
There are very few people today that can enter a full meditational trance despite the rhetoric to the contrary. We of the dominant (left hemisphere associated) Sympathetic mode just can't shut it off so easily and thus sleep is typically induced (which in fits and starts does shut it down sometimes) prior to reaching the required state of mind in conscious sentient mode that is required to observe and validate the processing of "subconscious" mind at work.
The state that is reached through meditation is essentially the observation state of creation - or that of observing the "present moment", that moment that is independent of the past and the future, both of which are indelicately tied together in steel bonds. This equates somewhat to the distance between cause and effect and the 'distance' here being a verbe.
Obviously the Great Pyramid was built by those of the what we today call the "subconscious" mind and of the Parasympathetic as the dominant ANS functioning and of the practicing Pharonic classes so as to enhance these powers over gradual integration through the initiatory rites of the Adepts of the Inner Core of the Egyptian Mystery Schools. Obviously these masters where far more capable of thinking than merely in the singular constrained context, as we are, of today as is evidenced in the ancient hieroglyphs and texts left to us . Therefore we must accept that the pyramid must also symbolize many other important roots to knowledge as well as serving other functions.
Evidence suggests that the initiates and the practitioners went through various training rituals and initiations that enhanced their conscious powers by a holistic balance of both the subconscious mind (the prevailing state of mind at the time but which was beginning to swing to the conscious state) and the conscious mind and engendering and nurturing a much higher state of consciousness by the conscious (exoteric) acknowledgment of the subconscious (the state of mind then) esoteric knowledge in and out flows derived by this meditational practices. Wisdom - Sophia - Sagacity.
All this while being protected and shielded by the precision design, composition, shape, orientation and construction of the pyramid from external cosmic rays and environmental influences - there are two narrow passages that at the time when the pyramid structure was in use, would to have pointed to two different star groups for particular times. This was obviously intentional and functional. The Pyramid (translation: fire to the power of 10 to the nth.) other than these "vents" was totally sealed (hermetic) with its entrance well off the ground and probably sealed from the outside during the time of use.
The Cheops or Khufu or Great Pyramid of Giza has astounding sound acoustic capabilities and the internal temperatures are naturally maintained at a very fine constant. It is obvious that this Pyramid was a natural "uraeus" or "third eye" - esoteric - mental magnification technology for the human mind (one that was already honed through meditation , ritual and practice to supranatural power potential) - a type of telescope for the mind of "Man". We also know that these adepts regularly used natural herbes as drugs to enhance their mental functioning so it does not take a great leap of faith to believe that the pyramids were used for mind enhancing purposes; this being a major concern of the pharonic class.
While the initiates prepared and developed at the internal top (Kings' Room) of the pyramid, the Masters studied the Universe from the subterrainian depths below and it is from exactly here... as it is written for us to read in this day, that it is the eternal darkness from whence the light is created. Out of the dark springs forth the light and out of the mound emerges life (life here reads: consciousness and awareness or light).
And, all this while the human body, this animated super molecule comprising trillions of cells, their plasmalemma, their Double Layers (DL), their entity and its sympathetic and parasympathetic functional conditioning apparatus ... all protected from environmental (external) influences.
In other words, the Masters were in the full potential (for that time, earthly environment and state of consciousness) through a harmonious and enhanced balanced meditational state engaging their combined intellectual and intelligence neural resources through the integrated containment of their Sympathetic and Parasympathetic functionalities of their Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) independent of outside influence. In other words they were totally in control and somewhere near the Godhead.
These were the "perennial ones" or those herbes of nature reaching fruition through cosmic energy from the harvest of men. Ordinary men, not of maturity and readiness will not need to undergo the training as they will be unable to see; they will be blind. But here is hope again for mankind that the masters are returning and the secrets of the heavens will once again be melded into the civilization building of men and this time it will be projected outward toward the starts. The key is the conscious validation of the subconscious opening and the technology to enhance this capability is to shield the organism from external forces all in an environment of humility and integrity.


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This morning I painted a three-tiered cake on a pedastal with flowers and greenery for a "Sweet Treats" challenge. I host the weekly challenge over on Chic Chics Yahoo Group ... if you're a painter, you might wanna check it out!
Anyway, I didn't like the way the roses looked, so I kept dabbing the paintbrush and eventually it took on a whole new impressionist look.
I had to stop painting when I spilled my dirty paint water all over the counter. Luckily, my canvas wasn't next to the spill at the time!
I still need to tweak a couple of areas, but for now my painting looks like this:
By the way, when I asked my four-year-old what she thought of it, she said, "that's a pretty flower pot, mommy." So there ya go. And here I thought it was a cake...
Later in the day I painted another piece! I hardly ever get two paintings done in one day! This one is a pedestal bowl full of roses and chocolates.
Once again, my four-year-old looked at it and said, "that looks like a giant bowl of ice cream, mom." You decide....


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(Edwin O'Hara, loading the 4 inch gun on the SS Stephen Hopkins. By W.M. Wilson, on display at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.)
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Aleta McCormick acquired a total of eight horses over a ten year period to use as research subjects to forge out a unique method of rehabilitation. Then, to use this knowledge to build the young athlete into a structurally sound "machine" to prevent many of the injuries that plague our horses in competition. After all, these athletes are giving their lives to fulfill our dreams.
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Two basic dogmas08-04-2017 - Posted by Andre Piet
In het Nederlands Dagblad (march 25th 2017), a Dutch reformed daily newspaper, a column appeared from reverend Arjan Plaisier, former secretary of the PKN (a Dutch reformed denomination), entitled 'long live the dogma'. Plaisier describes how much dogma's are distrusted nowadays. Aversion against dogma's is everywhere. And then he continues:
Perhaps it is useful to point out that in principle the church has two basic dogmas. Of God it is said that He is Father, Son and Spirit and that He is the Trinity. And of Jesus that He is truly God and truly man. A church and a faith without (these) dogmas is possible of course, but it is no Christian church and also no Christian faith…..
What Plaisier raises here is rather fundamental. Two basic dogmas. The christian church and the faith stand or fall with them, according to him. And what are these dogmas? First the dogma of the trinity and connected to it that Jesus is "truly God and truly man".
For whom only the Scriptures are normative, this choice of words is staggering. Because the word trinity, or something like it, cannot be found in the Scriptures anywhere. This is not an opinion but a verifiable fact. And with the conventional definition of the trinity it isn't any better: one being, three persons. There is no text in the Scriptures which says anything close to this. The distinction which is made between 'being' and 'person' is not part of the Biblical vocabulary. By the way, who is capable of explaining the difference between the two? But do you realise what this means? It means that dogma number one is not rooted in the New Testament but in formulations of church councils of the fourth century of church history!
With this basic dogma, the church has distanced itself from the frequent recurring confessing declaration of the Hebrew Bible. A confession which forms the heart of Judaism until today. The famous Jewish writer Pinchas Lapide once wrote:
One could call the oneness of God the only 'dogma' of Israel.
– In "the Lord your God is one" (page 15) –
The New Testament is fully in line with 'the sjema' ("Hear Israel, YAHWEH our God , YAHWEH is ONE"). As the scribe confirmed, after he asked Jesus which is the first of all commandments:
And the scribe said to Him, In truth, Teacher, You say ideally that He is One, and there is no other more than He.
– Mark 12:32 –
Exactly like Jesus later says in his prayer to God:
Now it is eonian life that they may know You, the only true God, and Him who you do commission.
– John 17:3 –
Or how about Paul who declares emphatically…..
….Nevertheless for us there is one God, the Father, out of Whom all is and we for Him…
– 1 Cor. 8:6 –
"One God" writes Paul, "The Father". And not: Father, Son and Spirit. Or listen to the same apostle in Ephesians 4 in which he names the sevenfold unity which binds us as believers:
…one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, Who is over all and through all and in all.
– Ephesians 4:5,6 –
The dogma of the trinity is not only unknown in the Scriptures, it is diametrically opposed to it. The dogma of the trinity is illogical, contradictory, complex and incomprehensible. The confession of the Scriptures however ("óne God, the Father") is logical and simple. Dozens of times we read in the Scriptures about "God, the Father". Dozens of times we read about "the Son of God". But where do we read about 'God, the Son'? Nowhere indeed!
And then the other dogma? Is the Son of God "truly God"? Or like Paul says…
Who is the Image of the invisible God, Firstborn of every creature.
– Col 1:15 –
Here Paul speaks of "The God". The One. This invisible God has an Image or Icon. Somebody who represents Him (Mat. 22: 20,21). Because He who has seen the Son has seen the Father (John 14:9). Imagery. Because:
God, no one has ever seen. The only begotten Son Who is in the bosom of the Father, He unfolds Him.
– John 1:18 –
If you want to speak sensibly about God and his Son, you are exclusively dependent on the words of the Scriptures. Thóse are "healthy words". And then we say together with Paul:
For there is one God, and one Mediator of God and mankind, a Man, Christ Jesus
– 1 Tim 2:5 –
It is perhaps painful for many to determine that there is no place in the church for whoever doesn't conform to "words of human wisdom". That, in her eyes, it is even impossible to be a believer. But this also does create distinction. Because it sharpens the ancient contrast: óne God (the Father) or several gods (Father, Son and Spirit). "The Son óf God" or 'God the Son'? God's word or man's word?


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BritBox is a new subscription service for multiple platforms, including Roku, android, iphones, Chromecast, and many more. It's a collaboration between British broadcasters ITV and the BBC making a a wealth of British programming available in the U.S.
And this programming includes not just current PBS-type miniseries, but a huge catalog of programs going back decades. It includes ALL episodes of classic series from comedies like Porridge, Blackadder, and The Office to historical dramas like Sharpe's Rifles, Cranford, and Upstairs Downstairs to mysteries like Cracker, Morse, and A Touch of Frost.
It also includes ALL classic Doctor Who episodes, from the few still existing William Hartnell programs through all of the following incarnations of the helpful Time Lord, all of them beautifully remastered.
I do have to say that although the content is simply fabulous, the interface leaves a lot to be desired; navigation is difficult and finding the episodes you want cumbersome. However that's better than the reverse.
Here's a link to the website: BritBox