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Are You Fitter Than A Fifth Grader?
– Are we fitter than a fifth grader?
– Let's talk about that. ♪ (theme music) ♪ – Good Mythical Morning!
– Back when we were in elementary school, every year there was a set of physical
challenges instituted by the President of the United States called
The President's Challenge. – I remember it well.
– It still happens to this day, I understand. It's just a bunch of
different athletic exercises to compare – you to the rest of society,
– Right, yeah. – basically to promote fitness.
– Yeah. It's really not a great thing – when you think about it,
– But for me, it promoted anxiety. 'cause it makes you think how you compare
to other students out there in America. – Yeah.
– But, the way it works is you go to the website. You can look at a chart, and
it's like, here's the ages and here's the different exercises. If you're an
11-year-old boy, you're supposed to be – able to do this many pull-ups.
– Right. – For any exercise, it tells you.
– If you're average, this much, but then if you wanna be in the 85th percentile,
you gotta get this many pull-ups or this – many sit-ups or run this fast.
– So here's what we're gonna do. We are looking at the 85th percentile
chart, so these are some athletic kids. We're going to find out that, now that
we're adults and we're not really in shape, are we fitter than
an athletic fifth grader? And just to clarify, there's a number of
different events, but we just chose our favorites in order to
compete against here. – Right.
– So I guess I'm as ready as I'm – ever gonna be.
– Let's do it. ♪ (patriotic music) ♪
(Link) Are you fitter than a fifth grader? As you can see, we are
dressed to impress the President. All right, let's get started with
the first event, the Sit and Reach. – ♪ (patriotic music) ♪
– (Link) Round One: Sit and Reach The Sit and Reach: a test of
flexibility, not intelligence. (Link) We have the Sit and Reach box from
a local middle school. This thing is aged. – It is.
– But it's still gonna do the trick. It's gonna give us an accurate
measurement of our Sit-and-Reaching? (Rhett) We've given you some motivation
here. I got some Benjamins here. And there's no way I'm gonna reach
that cash, but if I do, I get to keep it? – Well, it's already ours.
– Oh. (laughs) – (Rhett) All right, Link.
– Something might snap. – (Link exhales loudly)
– (Rhett) 37. – Wow! I almost got the Benjamin!
– (claps) My turn! Okay, I wanna say just for the record,
that my back doctor has told me not to do – this stretch. I am forbidden to do it.
– Your back doctor told you not to do – the Sit and Reach?
– He said, "Do not do any reaches where you bend forward." But for the sake
of internetainment, I'm gonna do it. (Link) Okay. Make this count and hold it
for at least two. Push it, Rhett, push it! (Link) Now put 'er down.
Ooh, that's 38 and a quarter! (triumphant roar) Aaaaagh! Yeeeah, doctor! Okay, let's consult the Presidential
Chart. For Sit and Reach, it starts with an athletic 6-year-old can
reach to 31 centimeters. – (Rhett) Mmhmm.
– (Link) Since I got 37 centimeters, that puts me at the equivalent
of an athletic 15-year-old. (Rhett) And I, at 38 and a half, am the
equivalent of an athletic 16-year-old. – (teenager voice) Hey, Link.
– (teenager voice) Hey, Rhett. – Who're you taking to prom?
– I don't know, I don't have my – license yet. I'm hoping she can take me.
– (laughs) That's right. I'll take you. – I can drive.
– Uh, I'd rather go with Selena. (laughs) – ♪ (patriotic music) ♪
– (Rhett) Round Two: Curl-Ups. All right, the President calls these
curl-ups but everybody else in the world – calls these Sit-Ups.
– So I gotta hold my hands like this and I – have to touch my thighs with my elbows.
– So we gotta do as many curl-ups as we can in 60 seconds. Are you ready?
Begin curl-up in three, two, one, go! – (whistle blows)
– One, two, three– go all the way down! Four, five, six– feel the burn! Seven,
eight, nine– your face looks weird– (Link) ten, eleven, twelve–
why're you making that face? (Link) Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen– (sped-up noises) – (groans) Aagh, aagh!
– (Stevie) …forty-three, forty-four… – (groans) Aaaaagh!
– (laughs) You give out! You gave out! What happened? You
didn't make it sixty seconds! – (groans) Geeah! Aagh!
– (whistle blows) – (Eddie) That's time.
– Two more. (laughs) That's time.
How many? I lost count. – (yells) Forty-seven!
– Forty-seven. That's a prime number;
that's why I did it. – Switch it up.
– Okay, Link. Are you ready? – I'm ready.
– Three, two, one, go! – (whistle blows)
– (Link breathes audibly) – Why're you breathing like that?
– Pilates. I wish I had a camera I could take–
oh, I do, I have one on my head. (laughs) – (Eddie) Fifteen.
– I'm givin' myself a wedgie. (sped up noises) – (Link groans)
– You look very constipated. (Rhett)Veryconstipated.
Please don't slip one out. – (laughs)
– (Eddie) Ten seconds. – (groans) Eugh, rrrgh!
– Oh, keep– keep those arms on there! – (groans) Aagh, aagh! Ahhhhh!
– (Eddie) Three, two, one. – (whistle blows)
– (claps) – (Stevie) Forty-seven.
– Forty-seven! Tiesies! – Oh! I can't, I can't sit up anymore.
– (laughs) – Okay, Link, I'm consulting the chart and–
– Hold on. First of all, you made me laugh, – that's like–
– Strategy. – It was cheating.
– It's like strategy. I was like this slow build,
and then I tied you. It doesn't matter. Even if you got 48 or
49, both of us are still 11-year-old boys. – Really?
– 11-year-old boys. So to be– a 17-year-old boy has
to get 55 to be in the 85th percentile. Actually, you peak at 15.
15's a good year. – ♪ (patriotic music) ♪
– (Link) Round Three: Pull-Ups. Now we come to pull-ups, the bane
of my Presidential Challenge existence. Definitely the most
dreaded event of all of 'em. Okay, so there's no time limit, but there
are some rules. You cannot bend your knees and you can't kick yourself up. However,
we're gonna have to violate the bend the – knee rule, because as you can see…
– The bar's too low. (Rhett) Yes. I think you
can do five, Link. (Rhett) One! Two! Three! – Rah!
– Four! Look at this! – Rrgh!
– Five! Oh my goodness! – Whoooa, six! Whoa, Link! Link!
– (groans) Aaagh! – Seven! Oh my goodness!
– (groans) Aaaah. Ah, no, please! – That's the best I can do!
– Well, I'm impressed, Link. Okay. So, the last time
I did this, I got one. – And when is the last time you did this?
– In middle school. – (laughs) Okay.
– And I don't think I can do any more. – Well, hold on. You gotta hang.
– I can't. I'm touchin' the ground! – I'm enjoying this.
– Are you ready? Yeah. Three, two, one, go. Oh, there's
one! See, you surprised yourself. Boom. Keep going. Two! Look at you! Look
at you. Don't pop a blood vessel. Okay! – (groans)
– Three! Three! One more, one more! One more, come on! For
the President! Keep, keep going! – Aagh, I can't do it!
– Aw. – I was givin' you–
– Oh! I'm gettin' lightheaded, I'm gettin' lightheaded. Tornado
drill. Oh, me. Tornado drill. I got three! That's an
all-time Rhett record! And I surprised myself with
seven. But good for you! You got seven, that's unbelievable.
You should be in the Olympics. Let's see what the chart says about this.
You got three, which makes you the equivalent of an athletic
6-and-a-half-year-old. You show me a 6-and-a-half-year-old
that can do three pull-ups. I got seven, which puts me at
the athletic 12-year-old level. Oh, you should feel
real good about yourself. – (teenager voice) Hey, I'm twelve!
– (kid voice) Can I hang out with you? No, but I'll let you borrow a cassette
tape when I'm done with it, and you can figure out how to be cool. – ♪ (patriotic music) ♪
– (Rhett) Round Four: Shuttle Run. And now we come to the presidential test
of agility and change of direction: – the Shuttle Run.
– Okay, typically back in the day you would run and have to pick up an eraser,
then run back and pick up another eraser – and run back.
– Chalkboard. But we are gonna give ourselves
some incentive and use chocolate eclairs. Let's place these. Okay, Rhett, you're going first. Now's a
good a time as any to tell you that the winner of this challenge between the two
of us gets a tour of the Presidential RV, – which is behind this chain-link fence.
– I've always wanted to get in that thing! – (laughs) Ready, set, go!
– (whistle blows) – (Rhett groans) Ohhh!
– (Link) Get that eclair! Bring it back! You got one more eclair to get!
Don't eat it, just bring it back! And he's about to cross
that finish line… now! – (whistle blows)
– Ten seconds and eighteen… parts of a second. (speaking with mouth full) All right,
Link, 10.18 is the time to beat if you wanna beat me, and you can have an eclair.
Are you ready? Three, two, one, go! – (whistle blows)
– (Link) Rrr! (Rhett) Good form, good form.
Whup! Okay, that… that was awkward. – (Rhett) This is good! Aaaaaaand–
– (Link) Gah! – (whistle blows)
– (shouts) 10.12, Link! (Link yells) What?! You beat me by six
one-hundredths of a second! Congratulations, Link, you beat me
by six one-hundredths of a second. If you can climb that fence you can
get your tour of the Presidential RV. (Rhett) And a pattern is forming. We
are the equivalent of an 11-year-old boy. All right, celebration! – ♪ (patriotic music) ♪
– (Link) Round Five: One-Mile Run. And now we come to the test
of any fifth-grader: the mile run. I hate the mile run! Especially when
it's done in a square this big. Well, one of our legs is going to get
tired 'cause we're in such a tight circle, but that's why we're switching directions
in the middle. We thought of everything. This is our track. When's the last time
you ran a mile? How long has it been? Ah, nineteen years. Timer ready? – (Stevie) On your marks, get set, go!
– (whistle blows) – (both laugh)
– (Link) Why're you going– – (Rhett) Hey, pace!
– (Link) That's kinda slow. (Rhett) You gotta pace yourself, man! – (Rhett) It's been a while!
– (Link) I'm draftin'! (Rhett laughs) I don't think
there's any draft happenin'. – (Link laughs)
– (Rhett) I'll let you know if there is. – (Link) I'm sure we look pathetic.
– (Rhett) This is how old men run, Link! (sped up noises) – Lap?
– (crew member) Halfway. – (Link) Halfway, let's turn around.
– (both audibly breathing) (sped up noises) (Rhett) You gotta look good
comin' around the end. – (Rhett grunts)
– (Eddie) Heyyy! – (Link) I gotta keep goin'.
– (Rhett) Yeah. – (Link) How many more?
– (Rhett claps) – (Stevie) Five more.
– (Rhett) Come on, Link! (claps) (Rhett) You can do it, brother!
I've already done it! I've been there! (Rhett) I've been to the top of the
mountain! I've been to the back of the parking lot! And I survived to tell the
story! It could be a rather long story 'cause it seems like it's gonna
take you a while to finish! (sped up noises) – (Stevie) Time!
– Personal best! All right. Link, you're running a little
behind today, but I think the turn– – Yeah. Obviously.
– impacts this at least fifty percent, – so I'm gonna give me a 6:20…
– (out of breath) Wha? And I'm gonna give you a 7:45.
So that puts me at a 15-year-old boy… – (Link) Congratulations.
– (Rhett) And that puts you at about 11-year-old again. You're
still an 11-year-old. – ♪ (patriotic music) ♪
– (in unison) Sorry, Mr. President. Ah. That run was demoralizing, just like
every other run I've ever done in my life. – Am I doing something wrong?
– Well… – My posture was right!
– I think it was that the circle – was a little tight.
– (laughs) But I will say this: We have done the
math, and Link, congratulations. – We are both fitter than a fifth grader.
– Yaaaaaaay! We're sixth graders, right? We're sixth graders. We averaged out all
the numbers and I have the age equivalent of an 11.8-year-old. But Link, you did it,
buddy. You're a 12.3-year-old. We were very close, but the pull-ups really sent
you over the top. You win the Presidential Challenge!
You win the trophy! – ♪ (dramatic music) ♪
– I feel the love of the President. And what's that? Your phone–
your phone is ringing! – Is it? It is.
– That's weird! – Hello?
– (man's voice) Hello? This is Barack. – Hello, Mr. President.
– (man's voice) How're you? – (laughs) I'm good, how're you?
– (man's voice) I'm sorry, who'd you say – you were?
– I'm Link. I just won your challenge. (man's voice) Yeah, I hear you had a
question for me! We wanted to call up – and answer it personally.
– Yeah, uh… yeah! Um… (laughs nervously) How have you
done on your challenge? – (man's voice) What do you mean?
– I mean, haven't you done – your own challenge?
– (man's voice) Why don't you come by on Sunday? I mean it this time. Okay…? – (man's voice) Bye.
– (Rhett and crew laugh) – Bye.
– That's the President! – You talked to the President!
– I feel like I'm in trouble! It's like I've been called
into the President's office! – What's gonna happen on Sunday?
– I know! I'll let you know on Monday! (both laugh) – Thanks for liking and commenting.
– (in unison) You know what time it is. – My name is Esme.
– I'm Marty. We live in Meriden, New Hampshire. (in unison) And it's time to
spin the Wheel of Mythicality! Remember to submit your winning face,
hashtag #GMMWinFace wherever hashtags are accepted on the
internet. We will find it. And click through to Good Mythical More
where we share our P.E. gym class experiences from high school.
It's gonna get a little… storytellish! – (Link and crew laugh)
– Rhett is married to a tuna fish. – Hey man.
– Hey! – Have I told you about my woman?
– (laughs) Ah, no! Tell it– – My wife. I'm married to her.
– Really? Congratulations! – You got married?
– To a tuna fish. (laughs) A living tuna fish? Or is
it, like, dead? Is it prepared? – She's in a can.
– Oooh. [Captioned by Caitrin:
GMM Captioning Team]


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In conjunction with HiTeach Smarter Teaching System, students holds a IRS device, which allow them to immediately respond to teacher's questions, tests, or other interactive instruction. In addition, students' responses to questions are used to make statistics, which allows teachers to pay attention to each child's learning process and status. It's the best auxiliary tool for in-class teaching.
Brand-new visual design IRS becomes more stylish and user-friendly
In 2019, the new version of IRS, coupled with the LCD panel display. Students can see their answers more clearly when using it. IRS has also added the function of multiple-choice answers to make it more convenient and useful.
Research has indicated that the use of IRS can increase a class's average score by 5-10 points, which changes the traditional one-way teaching method. It allows teachers to see every child's thinking, breaks the traditional learning pattern of teachers' teaching and students' listening, improves the interaction and concentration between teachers and students, and enhances the classroom atmosphere.
Real-time assessment: preview before class, practice in class, review after class, student self-assessment or mutual assessment: students can also give scores according to a work, speech, performance, and immediately get the total score statistical results
•Pop quiz •Buzz-in
•Pick-out •Written questions and answers
•Anonymous quiz •Ballot statistics
IRS can help teachers in teaching without disadvantage, the exclusive use of RF wireless transmission technology, with a dedicated receiver, students and teachers can communicate within 20 meters, 360 degrees wireless transmission signal.
IRS provides a visual bar chart or pie chart showing each option, as well as the ability to turn over each student's answers, all student statistics for each option, and so on. In the process of teaching interaction, teachers can immediately present statistical charts, leaderboards, course records, learning analysis reports and other information.
IRS can be used not only in schools, but also in corporate training, meeting IRS is also the best helper to help vote, calculate attendance and respond when conducting corporate training and meeting.
With the ezStation Lecture Capture System, the IRS can mark the key points/difficulties of the course and generate remedial videos in real time after class, which is more convenient and easy for individualized learning.

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C++ Outlook Add-in: Form Region is not working after Outlook 2013 upgrade from Outlook 2010
Couple of days earlier, I worked with a developer who created a C++ Form Region add-in for Outlook 2010 and it worked for them years without any problem. Recently one of their customers upgraded from Outlook 2010 to Outlook 2013. After that started noticing that the Outlook failed to load the add-in. During the analysis, we confirmed that there is no update in code base or we failed to see any issues with their Form region add-in and the worst part is the issue can be repro only at this specific environment. Enabling checkpoints at their code helped us to point out that whenever the add-in is trying to load Form Region interfaces it's not pointing to Office 2013 interfaces, strangely it points to older Office 2010's interfaces; By putting debugging pointers, we saw that their add-in tries to do and fails internally by telling..."This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID '{
00063001-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}' failed due to the following error: Library unregistered. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8002801D (TYPE_E_LIBNOTREGISTERED))."
SysInternal's Procmon also pointed the same. We found that their add-in is failing to load the entry, which points to older Outlook 2010. On checking registry editor at the machine, we saw few older registry entries left over of earlier Outlook versions somehow – that was odd. In this scenario, fresh install of the Office suite or repairing the Outlook is the recommended way to move ahead to avoid these type of installation related issues.
Note: Later we heard that they done the backup of this entry, deleted it and now the Outlook form-region addin loads the correct TypeLib and their add-in is working 'fine' for them.


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July 2019 News
Summer is here, lets get out and enjoy it! We have lots of great things planned at SCR in the month of July - we would love to have you join us! Read the newest edition of "Seniors in Touch" to learn more about what's planned (you can also find information about the Senior Farmer's Market Coupon Program in the July newsletter): July 2019 Newsletter


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Losing Everything, Except Hope
Organized by: Thomas Asante
A tragic accident and the arrival of Ebola caused Samuel to lose many things - but not his hope for the future By the time Samuel* was 15 he had already lost his father to war, his mother and grandmother to Ebola, and his leg to a tragic accident. He was an orphan who was cast aside by his community and locked away by his remaining family. Samuel had nothing and no one cared. Samuel's accident was small, something that could happen to anyone. One day while he was walking to a farm he slipped and fell. He thought nothing of it. Until three days later when his foot was so swollen he could not walk, and eventually his skin burst from the pressure. He traveled from his home in Sierra Leone to a doctor in Guinea to seek treatment. The journey was long and painful and the doctor he saw told Samuel the injury was the cause of witchcraft. He returned to his village no better off and confronted by a terrifying incident – Ebola had made its way to Samuel's home. "One week after I returned my grandmother died. Three weeks after that my mother died too. Many people in my village were dying all around me. Another woman who used to care for me also died. Children too. I was so afraid." One month later Save the Children came to Samuel's town and made sure he was brought to a hospital to receive proper care for his foot injury. There he met Dr. Juan, the senior health advisor for Save the Children, who gave Samuel the news that his foot was too bad by this point and had to be amputated. However, Samuel was not afraid. "I wasn't afraid. I had been in so much pain for such a long time and I knew that after the operation I would get better," Samuel said. "Immediately after the operation I felt better. I remember thinking that when I get better I will still be able to have a good future. Be someone important in society." After the operation Samuel went to live with his aunt in a home Save the Children found for them. He was given all the amenities he needed for his new life – including a wheelchair and crutches so he could get around his new community and eventually so he could go back to school. The community rallied around Samuel and supported him and his aunt while they settled into their new life together. Samuel's doctor also made sure he had the support he needed to continue getting stronger. "Dr. Juan was the one who taught me exercises to become fit and strong again. So I can walk again – start my life again. He has been so good to me. The community have been very supportive too. They help get me around." Although Samuel has experienced so much loss at such a young age, he is so excited that he still has a future ahead of him. He has now been able to return to school and has made many new friends. He has dreams of being a successful banker. "I would tell [Save the Children] 'thank you!' because they have done good for me in my life."
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Alair is a neighborhood gift shop in Seattle that specializes in unique and small batch gifts, with an emphasis on locally made products and companies that give back. Opened in December of 2016, Alair means "happy or cheerful", and we offer a variety of gifts with a sense of humor, but always kind.
We are proud to be a part of the West Seattle community and honored to provide you with a fun shopping experience.
3270 California Ave SW - Seattle - WA - 98116
206-659-7152 (Texting Only!)
Hours of Operation
Tuesday - Sunday 11-5
Meet Shandon Graybeal
Shandon is an avid reader, ferocious dog lover, and prides herself on perfectly placed cuss words. She opened Alair because nothing felt as good as finding the completely perfect and quirky gift for someone, and she thinks that handwritten letters and cards are the only way to go. She believes fiercely in community over competition and building up those around you. Her favorite thing about owning a gift shop is being able to know the neighbors and supporting fellow small businesses. She worked for years for breweries and Seattle is her 10th city since college in Ohio. She lives in West Seattle- just a couple of blocks from Alair- with her three huge fucking dogs.


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This time of year, we begin seeing and hearing information about the National Day of Prayer. Many people ask if Living Word is participating in the event. The answer is "yes," but in a creative way that is unique to us. First, a little history.
The National Day of Prayer was formed by a joint resolution of Congress and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman on April 17, 1952 and every president since has signed a proclamation to keep it going. In 1988, President Reagan established the first Thursday of May as the official recurring date that recognizes how prayer brings people together. This year, when the theme of UNITY was announced, I couldn't help but wonder: Why just one day, and why only America? What if we expanded the length of time to multiple days and enlarged the reach to the world God loves so much? What if we created a prayer experience that would allow time for more people to come and pray?
As I began sharing this idea with other leaders and key ministry partners it made sense. And so, it is with great joy that the Prayer Ministry at Living Word invites you to join us for A Time for Prayer. This self-guided experience will provide the opportunity to slow down and consider: A Heart Like His. Our theme surrounds the emphasis of unity and maturity in the Body of Christ, found in Ephesians 4:1-6, and is designed to provide a quiet space for you to talk with God as you pause at stations to thoughtfully consider:
- What does unity look like from God's perspective?
- How do I help cultivate unity and promote peace?
- What does Jesus pray for?
- How do I develop A Heart Like His?
Starting Monday, April 30, and continuing through Thursday, May 3, the prayer experience begins in Assembly Room 400 and travels through the prayer room to the lobby. We suggest bringing a Bible, or Bible app, and journal with you and allowing 30 to 45 minutes to complete the stations. Discover details on times, parking, etc.
We realize that our busy lives seldom provide time for focused prayer, but want to encourage you to let this week be different and cordially invite you to take time (make time) to get to Living Word for this brand new prayer experience.
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- Suffering as a Gift – Guest Blog by Connie Milchling - March 11, 2019


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"And He said to them, 'O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?' Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures." (Luke 24:25-27)Of all the things we can aspire to learn, know, and understand, the knowledge of Jesus is the greatest and most beneficial of all. The central point of all of history is the appearing of Jesus along with His ministry, death, and resurrection. All of history past leads up to, and look forward to, this point and all of history beyond looks back at to His coming and the immutable changes that he brought to the history of mankind. With the coming of Jesus everything changed; man would never be the same and the world and its history would forever be changed. Nothing has effected human history more than the life of Jesus.
The scriptures present a history of God's redemptive work among mankind and, as such, its central set piece is Jesus. Just as all of history either looks forward or backwards to Jesus, so the scripture both prophesies of His coming, records His time here among us, and looks back to who He was, what He said, and what He did. Jesus is the central theme and aim of all the scriptures. To know the scriptures and yet fail to know Jesus is to know nothing and to be completely ignorant of the fundamental teachings and import of the scriptures themselves. This is why Jesus rebuked those who searched the scriptures for their own ends but refused the knowledge of Jesus. "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life." (John 5:39-40)
There are many people today who claim to know what Jesus would do or what Christianity is all about but who have never actually meet and come to know the real Jesus, the Jesus of history. There are those who oppose capital punishment, preserving the traditional definition of marriage, deporting illegal aliens, and prosecuting wars oversees because the believe it is not what Jesus would do, yet how do they know this? How can they know what Jesus would do and approve of if they have never come to actually know Him? Some people seem to have a fairy-tail view of Jesus who's motto is "hakuna matata" and who's favorite song is "que sera sera". They feign an understanding of Jesus but have never meet Him in the historical accounts of His life and teachings, and this ignorance extends even into the church. How many believers would say "God would never do that" yet who have never actually read and learned what God actually did and said?
In truth, as believers, we have the work of the Holy Spirit within us to teach us the things pertaining to Christ. Jesus said that, in part, the ministry of the Holy Spirit is to reveal Jesus to us. "I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you." (John 16:12-15) John further testified that, as believers filled with the Holy Spirit, we no longer need someone to teach us about God. "As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him." (1 John 2:27) Yet this was also the same John who felt it necessary to write his memoirs and letters to the churches so that they might know what he saw, heard, and experienced as he lived and walked with Jesus. "What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of Life... what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ. These things we write, so that our joy may be made complete." (1 John 1:1-4)
No matter how deep our spiritual knowledge of Jesus might be it will never replace the necessity of us knowing the Jesus of the scriptures and from reading the first hand accounts of those who lived with Him and heard His message. Our spiritual knowledge of Jesus is incomplete if we lack the historical context of God's salvation as presented and recorded in the scriptures. We need to understand the scriptures that we might properly understand Jesus, His words, and His deeds in a proper context in the larger redemptive work of God. Only with this greater knowledge of the truth will we come to know and understand the answer to the question, "what would Jesus do?" Jerome said, "I interpret as I should, following the command of Christ: Search the Scriptures, and Seek and you shall find. Christ will not say to me what he said to the Jews: You erred, not knowing the Scriptures and not knowing the power of God. For if, as Paul says, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God, and if the man who does not know Scripture does not know the power and wisdom of God, then ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ." (Jerome, Prologue to his Commentary on Isaiah) It is time for us to move from ignorance to a full knowledge of Christ.
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If you want to avoid pests and diseases, produce superior pasture, animals and crops with minimal chemical sprays, then read on.
To get disease, there must be three factors present. They are a susceptible host, a viable inoculum and suitable conditions. It does not matter what crop or type of pasture we are talking about; the rules are the same. Break the rules and diseases and pests will follow. Collective wisdom will tell us all plants of one species are susceptible to their specific diseases and pests; some more so than others, but susceptible all the same. I do not accept that diseases or pests are compulsory. When man makes poor fertiliser choices, regularly pugs paddocks, uses toxic chemical weed sprays and other poor management practices, the chances of getting diseases and pests increase as plants are stressed. Rust, PSA, facial eczema and other fungal ills, grass grubs, clover root weevils or any other diseases are the result of poor and imbalanced nutrition. In nature, no one plant, animal, insect, bacterium, fungus or disease can dominate, as everything is in balance. If one undesirable customer rears its ugly head, the forces of nature deal to it. The damage is minimal and temporary.
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Most researchers will tell us the causal organism of a disease is the fungus or bacterium (the viable inoculum). But being the causal organism does not make it the cause. It is merely a symptom. The cause is a mineral deficiency, or deficiencies. It is far better to prevent diseases than to catch them.
I don't believe we are on the right track by treating symptoms. If we were, the number of diseases would diminish. However, the list of diseases is added to year after year, while the list of chemicals available to treat the diseases also expands at an alarming rate. There are almost 30,000 registered chemicals. Are they really working? Something is definitely wrong with this system.
Attacking bacteria or viruses with a chemical spray may win you time, but not the war. To do that, we must look at the soil. The soil is the plants stomach. The ultimate aim must be to balance the nutrients in the soil. Once that is achieved, the plant or crops immune system will be able to cope with almost anything that attacks it.
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Sodium needs to be 0.5-2.0% of base saturation. In some cases, sodium is higher than potassium, causing dehydration problems in summer.
Minimum sulphur levels in the soil are 20 ppm. 50 ppm is even better, but 100-150ppm is excellent. Similar amounts of sulphur and phosphorus is required but seldom applied. Sulphur leaches easily on free draining soils; the ideal soil for most crops. Spraying glyphosate and other chemicals decreases organic matter increasing sulphur losses.
Iron has to be a minimum of 200 ppm. It can be a lot higher and often is. Some parts of NZ lack iron, but it may be in the subsoil. Check your iron status. In some circumstances it can take huge amounts to correct, if deficient. A major limitation to plant growth in most agricultural soils is an inadequate supply of plant nutrients, regardless of the supply in the soil. Iron crystals have a large surface area and are highly charged. As a result, nutrients such as phosphate, sulphate and trace elements are tightly bound to the crystals and unavailable to plants. If anaerobic micro-sites are able to develop, the crystals break down, releasing the nutrients for plant uptake. Ferrous iron is released into the soil. Other nutrients including calcium, magnesium, potassium and ammonium, are held on the surface of clay and organic matter. The release of ferrous iron displaces these nutrients into the soil solution where they are available for uptake by plants.
Manganese must not be higher than iron. Make sure it is at least 5 ppm less. The minimum is 40 ppm, but 125-250ppm provided iron is higher, is excellent. An inverse iron-manganese ratio limits root growth, followed by the consequences of that. Silicon is abundant in the soil, but not necessarily available. Available silicon in plants can thwart penetration by fungal hyphae and can cause dehydration and death of insects.
Boron is a calcium synergist. Minimum soil level is 0.8 ppm; 1.5-2.0 ppm is better. Boron allows the chloroplast to dump 60% of the sugar into the roots. From there, 50% of that sugar is exuded to the soil to feed the microbes. In return, the microbes make minerals available to the plants.
Copper needs to be a minimum of 2 ppm in the soil, but 5 are better and 10-15 are excellent.
Copper and sulphur influence flavour. Collectively, calcium, silicon, manganese, potassium, copper and boron are involved in plant strength. To stop pastures and crops getting pests and diseases they need to be in the correct proportions.
Zinc should be in the 7-20 ppm range, but zinc is linked to phosphorus and must be correct for the level of phosphorus in the soil. I.e. at phosphorus levels of 240 kg/ha, zinc needs to be 12 ppm; at 365 ppm phosphorus, zinc needs to be 20 ppm.
Molybdenum needs to be 1-2 ppm and cobalt 1-2 ppm. Selenium hardly ever gets a mention. Add selenium (10%) at 1 kg/ha of product as selenium confers insect resistance. It is the cheapest trace element you can buy.
pH is the result of your soil's chemical composition. It will be the result of your fertiliser programme; it should never be the cause of your fertiliser programme. If you follow the rules above, your pH will fall into the region of a healthy 6.4. However, having a pH of 6.4 without having a balanced soil is meaningless.
The above guidelines not only confer pest and disease resistance, through an enhanced defence system for plants and an ehanced immune system for animals, but also results in superior yields of any crops, year after year. If you want to follow up on this, please contact the author.
Superior yields of pasture are in the range of 20,000 kg/ha and higher. The rewards are substantial. Specific numbers have been mentioned; ppm, %, or kg/ha. These figures are relevant only to Perry Agricultural Laboratory and Kinsey Agricultural Services and cannot and must not be applied to or from any other source or soil test. They are not interchangeable with another test. I.e. I have noted an NZ lab's molybdenum figure of 5 ppm, but 1.6 ppm from Kinsey Agricultural Services in USA. The calcium figure from NZ was 38%, but over 78% from KAS. It doesn't matter what the figures are. What matters is how to interpret them, how to overcome deficiencies and how to avoid or reduce excesses through applying the correct amount and type of fertiliser. Every credable lab will have its own rules. It's not a guessing game.


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King Arthur and His Knights
Unabridged Audiobook
Written By: Howard Pyle
Narrated By: David Thorn
Publisher: Alcazar AudioWorks
Date: January 2006
Duration: 11 hours 32 minutes
Howard Pyle (who also wrote The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood) weaves the tales of chivalrous Knights, the magic sword of Excalibur, the Magician Merlin the Wise, and the legendary Arthur, later to become King of Britain. Pyle describes bouts of jousting, and knightly jealousies played out in grand style. Even in our present day, these stories last and challenge us to be our best, truthful, brave, and always wanting to right wrongs to those who cannot speak up for themselves.
Table of Contents:
Book One: The Book of King Arthur
Part I: The Winning of Kinghood
Chapter 01: How Sir Kay did Combat in a Great Tournament at London Town and of How He Break His Sword. Likewise, How Arthur Found a New Sword For Him
Chapter 02: How Arthur Twice Performed the Miracle of the Sword Before Sir Ector and of How His Birthright Was Discovered Unto Him
Chapter 03: How Several Kings and High Dukes Assayed to Draw the Sword Out of the Anvil and How They Failed. Likewise How Arthur Made the Assay and Succeeded Therein
Part II: The Winning of a Sword
Chapter 01: How There Came a Certain Wounded Knight Unto the Court of King Arthur, How a Young Knight of the King's Court Sought To Avenge Him and Failed and How the King Thereupon Took That Assay Upon Himself
Chapter 02: How King Arthur Fought With the Sable Knight and How He Was Sorely Wounded. Likewise How Merlin Brought Him Safe Away From the Field of Batttle
Chapter 03: How King Arthur Found a Noble Sword In a Very Wonderful Manner. And How He Again Fought With It and Won That Battle
Part III: The Winning of a Queen
Chapter 01: How King Arthur Went to Tintagalon with Four of His Court, and How He Disguised Himself for a Certain Purpose
Chapter 02: How King Ryence Came to Cameliard and How King Arthur Fought With the Duke of North Umber
Chapter 03: How King Arthur Encountered Four Knights and of What Befell Thereby
Chapter 04: How the Four Knights Served the Lady Guinevere
Chapter 05: How King Arthur Overcame the Enemies of King Leodegrance, and How His Royalty Was Proclaimed
Chapter 06: How King Arthur Was Wedded in Royal State and How the Round Table Was Established
Book Two: The Book of Three Worthies
Part I - The Story of Merlin
Chapter 01: How Queen Morgana le Fay Meditated Evil Against King Arthur and How She Sent a Damsel Beguile the Enchanter, Merlin
Chapter 02: How Merlin Journeyed With Vivien Unto the Valley of Foyousness and How He Builded for Her a Castle at That Place. Also, How Her Taught Her the Wisdom of Magic and of How She Compassed His Downfall Thereby
Chapter 03: How Queen Morgana le Fay Returned to Camelot and to the Court With Intent to Do Ill Will to King Arthur, Also How King Arthur and Others Went a-Hunting and of What Befell Thereby
Chapter 04: What Befell Sir Accalon, and How King Arthur Fought an Affair-at-Arms With Swords, and How He Came Nigh to Losing His Life Thereby
Part II: The Story of Sir Pellias
Chapter 01: How Queen Guinevere Went a-Maying and of How Sir Pellias Took Upon Him a Quest in Her Behalf
Chapter 02: How Sir Pellias Overcame a Red Knight, Hight Sir Adresack, and of How He Liberated XXII Captives From That Knight
Chapter 03: How Sir Pellias Did Battle With Sir Engamore, Otherwise the Knight of the Green Sleeves, and of What Befell the Lady Ettard
Chapter 04: How Queen Guinevere Quarrelled With Sir Gawaine, and How Sir Gawaine Left the Court of King Arthur For a While
Chapter 05: How Sir Gawaine Met Sir Pellias and How He Promised to Aid Him With the Lady Ettard
Chapter 06: How the Lady of the Lake Took Back Her Necklace From Sir Pellias
Part III: The Story of Sir Gawaine
Chapter 01: How a White Hart Appeared Before King Arthur, and How Sir Gawaine and Gaheris, His Brother, Went in Pursuit Thereof, and of What Befell Them in That Quest
Chapter 02: How King Arthur Became Lost in the Forest, and How He Fell Into a Very Singular Adventure in a Castle Unto Which He Came
Chapter 03: How King Arthur Overcame the Knight-Enchanter, and How Sir Gawaine Manifested the High Nobility of His Knighthood
Howard Pyle was born on March 5, 1853 in Wilmington, Delaware. From the time he was a very small boy he loved pictures, especially the pictures in storybooks. Among his favorites were Grimm's German Fairy Tales and Arabian Nights. At the age of twenty-one, Pyle began to contribute illustrations and fables to St. Nicholas magazine and later went on to write and illustrate books for children. His first was The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood in 1883. Many more books followed, including Pepper and Salt; or, Seasoning for Young Folk, Otto of the Silver Hand, Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates, and The Story of King Arthur and His Knights. He also taught illustration at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia and later set up his own art school in Wilmington. He died on November 9, 1911, in Florence, Italy.-Amazon.com
Reviews for Alcazar AudioWorks' production of King Arthur and His Knights
If one is ready to take the plunge into intricate and antiquated language and to attend to the genealogy of each character and the minute details of each episode, then one will come away highly satisfied and steeped in knowledge of Arthur's early years. David Thorn is a masterful narrator. As his accent transports us to the British Isles, his pacing and conversational tone provide an intimate link to the characters. Thorn's characterizations are distinctive. He creates an ethereal Merlin, mystical Ladies from the Lake, an unassuming yet regal Arthur, a scheming Morgan le Fay, and a gracious Sir Pellias. From the moment Arthur is entrusted to Merlin until the quest for the white hart, the stories are riveting. A.R. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine [Published: APR/ MAY 07]
The Story of King Arthur and his Knights, an unabridged book-on-CD set (ah, how that word ""unabridged"" reassures and satisfies the avid bibliophile), didn't get a hearing at our house for the longest time. Every time I suggested putting it on, while washing dishes or folding laundry or during quiet times for drawing or sculpting with clay or other busy-hand endeavors--every time I said, ""Let's listen to King Arthur,"" our youngest would groan and protest bitterly. Since such a listening time is supposed to be pleasurable and not torture, I'd put something else on.
At last I had wit enough to ask, ""Why?"" We had read aloud other books by Howard Pyle with great success, among them Men of Iron, The Adventures of Robin Hood, and a book of original fairy tales. I thought perhaps our youngest had stumbled across the two volumes we have of King Arthur stories by Pyle, and fallen in the reading. The language is elegant, but definitely old-fashioned.
The answer surprised me: The biggest strike against Pyle's King Arthur was the fact that it wasn't Gerald Morris' The Squire's Tale (please see related review). A little sneakiness seemed in order, to avoid bitter protests and stubborn, though passive, resistance to listening.
The next time we had to go somewhere in the car as a family, I put on the first CD, and before anyone quite realized it, we were listening. Youngest groaned, but was told by Dad to settle down. By the time we reached our destination, everyone was caught up in the story of the Sword in the Stone, and the bitter protests were rather in the other direction (as in, ""You can't turn it off now!"")
David Thorn does his usual marvelous job of bringing the story to life. He has a rich, melodious voice, well-suited to Pyle's flowing narrative. The author's old-fashioned language (what youngest refers to as ""all those thees and thous""), almost an insurmountable barrier to a struggling reader, becomes accessible through Mr. Thorn's expressive interpretation.
And so we have an exciting story, well-told, with thrilling adventures infused with subtle flashes of humor and irony. There are about eleven and a half hours here, and we've enjoyed every moment. I need to mention a couple of nice features: Pleasant music serves to introduce and conclude each chapter, and the chapters are introduced by a pleasant feminine voice, not credited on the CD case, which breaks up the narrative nicely and helps to hold the attention. Each CD comes divided into three-minute tracks, making it easy to find your place again if interrupted.
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights has become the preferred listening around our house, lately. Considering all the well-loved options we have on our bookshelf, that is high praise indeed.
Reviewed By: Jean Hall - EHO Eclectic Homeschool Online
An Entertaining Account of Arthur's Early Days
For a complete adult telling of the stories of King Arthur, listen to Malory or T. H. White, because Pyle's The Story of King Arthur and His Knights is only the first of his books about Arthur, recounting Arthur's birth and youth and winning of Excalibur and Guinevere, and then Merlin's fate and the stories of Sir Pellias and Sir Gawaine. Moreover, Pyle moralizes after the episodes, telling us, for example, that although we may not literally become knights with swords, we may wield truth (Excalibur) and faith (its scabbard).
Pyle assumes a vivid and muscular "medieval" style, as when Arthur jousts a knight "out of his saddle like a windmill-whirling in the air and smiting the earth so that the ground shuddered beneath him." Or as when Arthur delivers some justice: "At this, the face of that knight fell all pale, like to ashes, and he emitted a sound similar to the sound made by a hare when the hound lays hold upon it. Then King Arthur catched him very violently by the arm, and he catched the locket and brake it away from about the knight's neck, and upon that the knight shrieked very loud, and fell down upon his knees and besought mercy of the King, and there was great uproar in that place."
And the Story of King Arthur has plenty of exciting and humorous moments and scenes of sublime wonder and beauty. And knights, wizards, faeries, dastards, damsels, hermits, quests, enchantments, disguises, combats, loves, hates, oaths, betrayals, humiliations, machinations, and glorifications. Despite Pyle's exaltation of Arthur and company, they are often humanly proud, foolish, seducible, and violent. And Thorn reads all with energy and accuracy.
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Learn how to create calculator in PHP and javascript.This tutorial is made up of addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, percentage and the square root.
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Grandparent Types
I wonder how many types of grandparents are out there? What category do you fit into? I figured I'd take a few minutes today and write about some of the different types of grandparents, my husband and I are. I really think we're run the full gamut of grandparent types. We are "parents" again […]Read More..


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Investor Stan Druckenmiller will join President Mitch Daniels in an hour long discussion and audience Q&A.
Named one of the world's greatest investors by MoneyWeek in October 2016, Stan Druckenmiller founded Duquesne Capital Management in 1981, which managed more than $12 billion in assets and posted an average annual return of 30 percent without any money-losing year until its closing in 2010. He was also a lead portfolio manager for George Soros' Quantum Fund from 1988-2000, managing $22 billion in assets.
A graduate of Bowdoin College, Druckenmiller is a renowned philanthropist, named the Most Charitable Man in America in 2009 after donating more than $700 million to charitable causes.


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Episode 33
Tacoma Film Festival
September 17th, 2018
44 mins 29 secs
About this Episode
On this episode, the guys sit down with Wade Neal and David Dinnell from the Tacoma Grand Cinema. Wade and David stoped by to talk about the Tacoma Film Festival that's going on Thursday October 4th – 11th, starting at the Grand Cinema. The film festival was established in 2006 and presents a lively week of films, workshops, events, and discussions. Tacoma Film Festival programming is a unique blend of audience and industry programming that empowers all who attend to connect with creators.
2:11 – The show kicks off with talk of Weird Elephant and the upcoming Tacoma Film Festival. David talks about how many films they'll be showing, how the event will kick off, and how many years the Grand Cinema has been doing this event. Wade discusses brining David on board this year, David discusses taking on the new position, and where people can find more information about the festival online. David talks about the kick-off independent film made by two Seattle based directors and the actors in the film.
14:44 – Talk goes to gold that came through Tacoma from Alaska during the gold rush and Steven Dunkelberger's Tacoma Drunk Tours. Wade talks about the documentary film about John McEnroe that will be playing at the festival and the guys talk about tennis drinking games. David talks about the film he's most excited about and Justin discusses the importance of having film festivals where people can show movies made outside of 'big studio' movies. Talk then goes to the parties that will be going on during the festival and the band, The Sonics, from Tacoma.
29:23 – The guys talk about the type of people that typically attend the festival, the revamp of downtown Tacoma, and the different workshops at the festival that are open and free to the public. The guys give props to the bar Eleven Eleven and the great food they offer there. Conversation then goes to virtual reality being offered for the third year at the festival and what spot in Tacoma that part of the festival will be held.
40:13 – The show comes to and end with Justin talking about getting motion sickness and him and Brogan getting married. David and Wade finish up with talking about showing the 16mm film in the castle room at the Tacoma Pythian Temple on Wednesday, October 10th, at 7pm.
Thanks David and Wade for stopping by and filling the guys in on what to expect at the upcoming Tacoma Film Festival!
Episode Links
- Tacoma Film Festival — TFF gathers the best in new, independent films, because never-before-seen storytelling and perspectives deserve to be shared and celebrated.
- Tacoma Film Festival - On Facebook


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Blogs = Mushrooms! Yes blogs are popping out like mushrooms these days. Many companies own blogs but they have the least idea what to do about it. If you happen to be among those who already own a blog or at least planning to get one then well you need to make sure your blog stands out in the crowd, otherwise it'll be just another blog in the World Wide Web. The best way to let your blog be SEEN is by optimizing it.
Difference between Blog and Website:
There is a difference between optimizing a blog and a website. Following the traditional method, optimizing a website is more about getting links by all means where as a blog focuses more on grabbing attention from people and giving them something to talk about. The enhanced features of blog are what make it better or informative than static sites. The enhanced features include:
- RSS feed makes it easier to notify and keep the readers updated about the latest posts.
- Readers can comment of posts. The comments on each posts acts as a unique content giving it better page rank.
- Social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us and digg lets the readers bookmark and rate your article by voting whether they like it or not. The more like its you get the better traffic there will be.
Why Optimize?
Optimizing your website is so much work, you must be wondering why optimize your blog. Well here are the reasons why optimizing a blog could be a better idea:
- By optimizing your blog you can increase the search engine rankings both regular as well as blog or RSS.
- The other reason to optimize your blog is to get more traffic from social bookmarking sites and social search.
Optimizing your Blog:
- Domain name, blog hosting and URL structure:
The first thing you need to check on is the domain name of your blog. There are many services like TypePad and Blogger available that provide hosting for your blog as their subdomain. This applies on websites as well. It is not a good idea to create your site or your blog under these free services. The disadvantages include: limited features and prohibition on placing ads. So it'll be wise to start off with your own domain name provided by reliable hosting. It is also important that the URL structure of your blog doesn't contain numbers and extraneous characters. Try to use sensible words that are short and easy to remember.
- Page Title and Heading:
You can use different page title for different post. Try to use the searchable keywords on the page title and relevant to your post. The headline of the post could be different from that of the page title but make sure they make sense. It is better not to stuff your page title and heading with keywords. Sensible, relevant page title and heading will works best for everyone.
- Keyword Selection:
You can make use of the free keyword research tools like wordtracker and google adwords keyword suggestion tool to find the popular key phrases. You can include these keywords on your post few times. Make sure the content is readable by humans and sounds natural. This theory applies on website optimization as well.
Blogs being a bit different from websites, you need to know what is in vogue. You can always keep yourself updated with the help of Technorati, Google News which provides you list of sites that can give you tons of information on the related topic. You can also make use of stumbleupon and bookmark the ones that interest you the most.
- Categories:
You can make use of the keywords while creating categories for your posts. Make sure the default category title is general and is relevant to all the post on your blog. If possible choose multiple categories for one post with regards to its relevancy.
- Comments and Trackbacks:
It is important that you provide a comment form at the bottom of each posts. These comments as mentioned early can help in great deal to get more traffic.
Advertising your blog:
Social bookmarking sites are the best place to advertise about your blog. You can also submit your blog on various RSS and blog directories. While reading blogs of others, you can always leave your valuable comment along with your blog address giving other users to link to you. Blogging could be a lot of fun if done in a proper manner. Happy Blogging!!


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"You must look perfectly happy and relaxed in your clothes which must appear part of you rather than a wardrobe you have donned."- Hardy Amies, ABC to Men's Fashion
Take inspiration from modern-day style icons and embrace timeless style.
"For anybody to look good they need a sense of comfort and proportion."- David Coggins, Man and Manners
Emulate the great British icon's style with our selection of colourful and patterned socks from London Sock Company and Banvard & James. David Gandy epitomises the modern gentleman with his classic sartorial style, using smaller details, such as socks, to showcase his own personality.
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Getting out of password hell
One constant pain point for all users, regardless of your technical expertise, is managing the passwords for the vast number of sites you can accumulate over the years. With a family, suddenly this can grow exponentially with every addition of a family member. Throw in the guidelines for password strength of memorised passwords, as recommended by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), things can get messy real quick. A great summary can be found here.
This post provides some guidelines you can use for you and your family.
Use an Password Manager application to manage your passwords
There are various password manager applications available (some free) that will help you manage your password. Some examples are Keeper and LastPass. An evaluation and comparison of Password Managers is outside the scope of this post but you should be able to find other sites you can refer to.
If you are an Apple user (iPhone, iPad, Mac OS X) you can refer to my post Managing your passwords for Apple users for free. As far as I am aware there is not native way of storing password easily on Windows (without installing any third party apps). Happy to be corrected, just comment in the page below.
Use unique passwords for each of your sites.
Use a different password for each of your accounts, re-using passwords is risky. If someone figures out your password for one account, it's possible they could get access to your personal information, or other online services like shopping or banking. This also reduces the chances of identity theft and ransom attacks by hackers.
There are some sites available that will generate a password for you, just ensure they are reputable. One such site is Norton by Symantec's Password Generator.
Use your browser to remember your passwords
With the services now being provided by major browser vendors its possible to simple login to the service via your browser as explained below and prevents the need continuously reference your passwords. Or worse, fall into bad habits such as using the same password for multiple sites.
I highly recommend you create unique login's for each of your users which will ensure only the person who is authorised to the site has access. It's also important to secure your own user login with an appropriate password that no one else knows.
Google Chrome browser
Google has Smart Lock which you can access as part of creating a Google Account. This allows you to sync passwords across multiple devices. You can also manage save passwords from the web by visiting https://passwords.google.com/
Apple Safari browser
Apple has iCloud Keychain as part of their iCloud account. More information can be found here https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203783.
Teach your children about the importance of Password Management
I've posted previously on how you can use Apples Notes to secure information. Since then I've been teaching my older children how they can mange their own passwords. The age you would want to do this depends on your child so you will need to make a judgement call.


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Volunteering in our offices involves getting stuck in to office life – we're a very open and integrated office, so you could end up chatting with just about anyone over the kettle in the staff room. You'll meet all our staff, and get a real feel for our vibe at HQ.
Due to the nature of the tasks you'd be involved with, there's lots of training available, and you'll get a more in depth induction to make sure you have everything you need to get the very most out of volunteering. We have around 8 volunteers who come in to our office every week, and spend four hours with us working on a huge range of things. We have people supporting projects, getting resources out to people, editing our webpages, and more.
When we first started, all of our office work was done by volunteers, so having a range of people in the office is in our blood as a charity. If you want to get involved and you can commute in to Birmingham city centre for a four hour shift once a week, we'd love to hear from you! We are currently looking for volunteers to fill the below roles. If any tickle your fancy, you can apply on the application form.


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This is part two of two in a blog series on fixed assets.
In part one, we ended with the owner of a marginally profitable business facing a dilemma of an asset rich operation likely viewed as only worth its liquidation value. How can this business owner sell his business for more than the mere value of the assets?
First, let's discuss how a licensed equipment appraiser looks at the fixed assets in a business. The equipment in the business is in place and operating successfully to make a profit (though small) for the business. The appraiser correctly assumes that the equipment is being utilized for the best use and therefore will appraise the equipment for value in place for continued use, which is the highest appraisal category in his arsenal. While bankers are not interested in this appraisal category, business buyers and sellers are.
This category is also important because some buyers, classified (unflatteringly) as "bottom feeders," are always seeking out underperforming businesses to "help the owners out" by buying for the appraised liquidation value, which is a significant step down from the above mentioned value in place for continued use. Unless a business is in dire straits, an owner should quickly abort discussions with a prospective buyer the minute the buyer starts talking about appraised liquidation value of the assets.
The value in place for continued use appraisal allows the business owner to establish with confidence a floor to the selling price of his business. A banker or business advisor can recommend experienced and reputable equipment appraisers.
Now that the appraisal has established the floor to your business, let's move on to enhancing the value of the business. If the business has a positive cash flow, there is likely value to the goodwill. The easiest and most readily accepted approach is to add a small (1.5x to 3.5x) multiple of recent annualized and normalized cash flow to the equipment appraisal. Unfortunately, if cash flow is quite small even a 3.5x multiple of such limited cash flow will also be very small.
There are other approaches for enhancing the value of your business. For example, you can impress upon the buyer that even though you have not been particularly successful operating the business, you have positioned it "perfectly" for future growth and profitability, and you will be glad to continue on with the business in a consulting capacity for monthly payments and/or a small (2% - 4%) percentage of the growth of the business (called "earn-outs") due to your successful positioning efforts. Consulting and earn-outs generally have dollar ceilings and short (less than five years) sunset provisions. Business owners, stripped of operating responsibility after the sale, often embrace and are successful in both a consulting capacity and in a sales role on a commission basis.
So, if you want to sell your asset rich, underperforming business, get a value in place for continued use equipment appraisal and stick to your guns if and when bottom feeders seek you out. Then work with your business advisor to determine which (or more likely a combination of several) pricing enhancements add both dollars to your pocket and make the buyer feel that he is getting good value for these other deal components. At the end of the day, you will be able to strike a reasonable deal.
Contributed by Michael Greengard, Praxis Business Brokers.
Through the Michigan Chamber's partnership with Praxis, we can guide you through a step-by-step process of the complexities, all while maintaining complete confidentiality. To learn more about selling your business, please contact Lindsay Fulton at email@example.com or 517-371-7691.


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About Günther Raithel
Renewal is what it's all about
The foundation is named after Günther Raithel, an ex-Rosenthal manager, who re-established KAHLA/Thüringen Porzellan GmbH in 1994. In GDR times the company was called "VEB Feinkeramik" (VEB fine ceramics) and was the centre of the national porcelain industry.
Due to consistent modernisation of manufacture, product range and mar-keting, KAHLA has become one of the most successful porcelain manufacturer's in Germany, under the management of Günther Raithel's son Holger.
With designer Barbara Schmidt by his side, Raithel dusts down the traditional material porcelain and gets it fit for the new millennium. Since then, KAHLA has been awarded with more than 100 international design awards for innovative product design, intelligent and ecological concepts.


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We tend to think of diversity in very specific ways, using even more specific terms…but there's oftentimes layers and layers of nuance we're missing. Have you ever considered narcissism in hiring, for example? Cue this study:
"A job interview is one of the few social situations where narcissistic behaviors such as boasting actually create a positive impression," said Del Paulhus, Psychology Professor at the University of British Columbia and the study's lead author. "Normally, people are put off by such behavior, especially over repeated exposure." The research noted that "narcissists tended to talk about themselves, make eye contact, joke around and ask the interviewers more questions. As a result, the study found that people rated narcissists as more attractive candidates for the position."
That's not good. You need to be thinking more and more about your diversity recruiting efforts, on a variety of spectrums.
One of the most effective operational ways to do that is by diversifying your recruitment funnel. You do that through shifting methods — move away from on-campus and more to online, for example. There's a concern that online candidates aren't as "vetted" as face-to-face candidates, but that can be overcome.
Thank you for submitting your request to College Recruiter for a proposal for how we can help you hire students and recent graduates of one-, two-, and four-year colleges and universities for part-time, seasonal, internship, and entry-level opportunities.
We will likely respond within a couple of hours and definitely within one business day. Should you need assistance even faster, please call us at 952.848.2211 or email us at [email protected].
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6th December 2017
A North Kent College lecturer has headed into the depths of darkness in writing his 26th book, with a little help from former student. Neil Nixon – who runs the Foundation Degree in Professional Writing at the college – has written The Devil's Jukebox; a trawl of the 100 tunes that Satan himself might collect on his personal jukebox.
The book is a collection of incredible stories – including one that argues a Cliff Richard single would be on that jukebox – and a downloading of the same musical knowledge that allows Neil to present an alternative music show on Miskin Radio (a community radio station located in the college buildings). The cover design was achieved with some help from former Professional Writing student Kitty Turner who provided a close up shot of her own coal fire at home to blend with the cartoon Devil image on the front cover.
Neil says: "Writing this book was certainly the kind of guilty pleasure that meant completing the book never felt like work. I'm honoured that I managed to get my name on the first book on Kitty's CV. She's a talented and hard-working writer so that CV should have some more titles on it before too long!"
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to make lists
(this is a list)
to categorize accumulations
to sip a cold gin and tonic
to water the roof farm
to count my new radishes
to polish the silver
to plan a menu
to delete obsolete resumes
to update new ones
to see things as they are
to look forward
to visit with my friend
to laugh
to brush the cat
to love my Frenchman
to grill some lamb chops
to start all over
to label folders
to think of stories
to enjoy my new little black dresses
to listen to new music
to thank those who are helping me
to sink into sleep
to breathe out
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Posted by Marie at 7:35:00 PM
Labels: Domestica, Esoterica, Seasons without and within
5 comments:
- Anne BoleynMay 5, 2011 at 9:59 PM
It's a list that's a lovely poem.ReplyDelete
I agree with Anne - poetry.ReplyDelete
Beautiful. Reminds me somehow of Evie Shockley's Canvas and Mirror - that tempted me to write my own version of it over and over again - see if it does the same to you!ReplyDelete
Dit is 'n goeie lysie. En ja, as mens uitasem is als makliker ;-)ReplyDelete
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