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Rule Over the Mountains

Daily Encouragement: “No mountain is too tall or difficult too overcome. The mountain in your life must be overcome and conquered before it can be removed and cast into the sea.

Climb the mountain, set your foot upon it and claim it for the Kingdom. Nothing shall stand against you as long as I am on your side.

Raise your head, you are royalty and you rule over the mountains. I have given you authority over them even as you step forward to conquer them.

My word is sure and steadfast. I am with you. I have given you the mountains!”

Joshua 14:6-12

Jeremiah, Man on Fire!!!

Shelter from the Fire

This week has been a special and yet interesting week for the Gibson family! Last Friday, we had the joy of Jeremiah’s younger brother, Aaron, returning home from Army training. Jeremiah and I have not seen him since before we left on our around the world faith journey over a year ago. So it is great getting to catch up with him and hang out during his 1 week stay here in Texas before he heads to his new station in Washington D.C. We have been able to have times of encouragement with him on Saturday at our small group as well as Sunday morning at breakfast with some friends.

Sunday afternoon we had a Gibson family get-together at Jeremiah’s older brother, Garrett’s house. It has been a long time since all of the Gibson kids were in the same room together, seeing as the majority of us are running all over the world following the global call of God on our lives. This time, we were missing Tiffany and Bryson who are in England, but were able to Skype Tiffany for some time and talk to her so that was a blessing. There is no telling when the whole family will be back together again. Aaron will be able to come back home over Christmas for a few days, however, Tiffany and Bryson will probably be spending the holidays in England.

Garrett, Aaron, and Jeremiah

Garrett, Aaron, and Jeremiah

On Monday, I babysat our nephew, Noah, for his mother, Damaris, who was taking the newest addition to the family, little Joseph, to the doctor. I received a call from Damaris in the morning before her appointment saying that it would be delayed because they had a fire at their house. It appears that a nursing pillow in their room had fallen onto a nightlight and went unnoticed until she heard Joseph, who was sleeping on their bed, coughing on the baby monitor; after which she smelled smoke. She ran into the room and grabbed Joseph and left the house, calling the Fire Department. The fire was very controlled and remained in one corner of their room where the firefighters were able to put it out. They lost a few of Joseph’s things but God definitely was watching out for them and divinely protected them, keeping them safe.

The Nursing Pillow

God knew what would happen so He had Noah come stay with us for the day and if Joseph had not coughed, Damaris might not have known for longer. God even orchestrated the weather to be cold and very windy outside so that they could leave the windows open for it to air out their house. Nothing goes unnoticed with the Lord. He sees all things, knows what will happen and also acts on our behalf. Isaiah 64:4 says, “For from of old no one has heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides You, Who works and shows Himself active on behalf of him who [earnestly] waits for Him.”

Firefighters and Baby Joseph

God is forever faithful and protects His children, sheltering them under the shadow of His wings. May this be an encouragement to you that if God is for you, who shall be against you? (Romans 8:31)

Katie, Pure Fire of Yahweh!!!

Walking in Greater Works

Recently at a worship and prayer night, God gave me a word of encouragement for another guy there, and with the same word He rebuked me. The word was “it is time to walk in the Greater Works.” Referring to John 14:12, we should be walking in works greater than Jesus if we truly believe in Him!!! In our lives, we have a baseline of good works that we are a part of. We go to church, pray, read the Bible, worship… These are good works, but they are centered around us. The Greater Works that Jesus wants us to be a part of, are about other people. Healing is for others, prophecies, freedom, raising from the dead… are not really for us. Good works are for us, Greater Works are for others and for God!!!

If we truly believe in Him, we will seek Jesus out and seek to be like Him and walk in the same way He did!!! If we are seeking Him out and these greater works, then we will begin to step into them. As we step into these works over and over, we will begin to walk in the Greater Works with Jesus! When we are consistently walking in this way, it becomes our lifestyle just as it was Jesus’ lifestyle to walk in sync with the Father because He knew Him perfectly.

Holy Spirit kind of rebuked me and asked me why I had stopped praying for others, speaking words of life, and commanding healing. Yeah, I am good at doing these things in safe settings, but even as we went and did an outreach a few weeks ago, I was shaking because I did not want to. I know that is dumb after all the things we have been a part of over the last year. However, if we really believe in Jesus and what He said, we must begin to walk in the Greater Works and not just the good ones. We can only walk in the Greater Works as we come to know Him more for who He really is!!!

To be like Him

To be like Him

My challenge for you this week is to seek the Lord in a way that causes you to move into one or more Greater Works!!! Pray for someone to be healed, speak the words of Life and Truth, step out of good works into Greater Works in the power of the name of Jesus!!!

Jeremiah, Man on Fire!!!

The Call to Commitment

We have now been In India for two weeks, and I have yet to write a blog.  Returning to this beautiful place that I love to do ministry so much has not been different than any of the other previous countries.  Yes, there is more poverty, and this is a third-world country.  Yes, it is illegal to preach Christianity here.  Yes, the conditions are different, but the Spirit of the Gospel is the same and compels us to minister in the same ways, if not more, as we did in all the previous countries.  Counting our ministry in New York City, this is our seventh country to be ministering for the Lord in, and we just hit six months of traveling.  I do not think that anything has been like I expected, but the changes have been even more dramatic for my wife.  This is the main reason that I encouraged her to write the first few blogs.  India is the only third-world country she has ever been to, and the first time she has been in Asia.  The experiences to her are much more new and shocking than they are for me.  All of this being the case, she has written some amazing blogs from a first timer’s perspective.  I pray that you are able to experience this culture that is so different from ours in her unique perspective.

Last weekend, we were told that we would be traveling with Pastor Binny to preach to some youth in a neighboring state.  True to Indian culture, we met up with the pastor about two hours after we originally and planned.  Everything we had been told was not entirely accurate, which is very common here.  After staying the night at his mother’s house, we traveled through some very jungle-ish regions (where we saw many monkeys and were told elephants were often seen) to a small village in Andhra Pradesh where a church was holding Fasting-Prayer.  In India, it is very common, usually weekly, that churches will hold a 24-hour or all-day time where everyone in the church gathers to fast, pray, sing, and be taught.  Most of the people will spend all night and/or day here and then have a community meal afterwards.

Prayer and Fasting Church

With the plans being changed, I was not sure if I would be able to share the message that I knew that God had given me.  First, I shared about God’s ministry that had brought us here, and Katie shared the word that God had been speaking to her for India.  After this, Pastor Binny preached a word on faith.  I thought this was the end of the teaching, but about an hour before the fasting prayer was to finish Pastor Binny invited me to share a message, if I had one.  I was glad to be given the chance to share the Word I knew that God had given me to share.

Prayer Fasting Church

Here is the first part of the message that I spoke to the church, but is just as important to you wherever you are:

God began to speak to me about what made the prophet Daniel able to say at the end of his life that “…the people who know their God will be strong and carry out great exploits” (Daniel 11:32).  At this time, Daniel had experienced the greatness of God in so many ways.  He had escaped death many times, slept with lions, watched his friends last through the fire, survived many changes in rulers, and even governing kingdoms.

Holy Spirit revealed to me that the key to why Daniel was able to continue through all these things and make such a bold statement at the end of his life was found in Daniel 1:8 “Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself…”  Here, the scripture is talking about how Daniel chose at a young age not to eat food offered to idols; however, this revealed his desire was not to be disobedient to the Lord in any way.  This commitment led to Daniel and his friends being tested and later honored.  Both Daniel and his friends would be tested over and over again whether they would keep this commitment or value their own lives, status, power… more.  In spite of everything, they made this commitment and stuck to it.  Because of this, their strengths and great exploits are recorded and still bring encouragement to us today.

Meditating on this, God showed me four things that are keys to complete commitment to the Lord.

4 Keys to Commitment –

  1. Consecrate yourself to the Lord.  All of us start in a state of unholiness and dishonor because of sin.  However, through the blood of Jesus, we can be forgiven and are brought to a state of righteousness.  We must then chose to walk in a holy way or return to our former fleshly ways of living and thinking.  (When we are cleansed, we become “…vessels of honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work” 2 Timothy 2:21).
  2. Love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength (Mark 12:30).  This does not come naturally, but is a continual progression throughout our entire lives learning to love Him with everything we are, everything within us, and everything we have.  This is in direct opposition to our flesh that wants to please and love only itself.
  3. Stir up the giftings that are within you (2 Timothy 1:6-7).  Timothy is reminded to stir up the giftings within himself.  He is not told to pray for God to stir them up, but to stir them up himself.  He is encouraged to act and use the gifts that he has so that they may grow and be pruned into greater and more powerful ones.  This is evident by how the next verse talks about not fearing, but walking in power, love, and all wisdom.
  4. Be completely obedient in all that you do (Luke 17:5-10).  Here, the apostles ask the Lord to increase their faith.  Jesus responds to them by telling them a story about being obedient servants.  No matter what the size of faith you have, you are able to do great things!!!  However, it is obedience to the Lord that not only causes His power to work through you, but causes you to be given more faith and the ability to do even greater things.

As Followers of Christ, we are called to be committed, changed, and active in each one of these areas, or we will not be fully effective for His Kingdom.  I encourage you to examine your commitment to the Lord.

Are you walking as a fully committed Follower of Christ?

Are you succeeding in each of these four areas?

Are you strong and carrying out great exploits for Him?

Ask Holy Spirit to reveal a few specific ways you can work on one of these areas this week!!!

Pray that the Lord will strengthen you in every area and that you would never settle for less than the very greatest of exploits that God has planned for your life.  I bless you with knowing God, being completely committed to Him, becoming strong and carrying out great exploits for His glory!!!

Jeremiah, Man on Fire!!!

We Can Do Nothing Against the Truth

The Lord gave us the privilege of sharing a nice Christmas meal, centerpiece of bacon-wrapped turkey, with a great family of the faith. We were welcomed in and had such great fun and fellowship with them. This was our first Christmas away from our physical family, but we were elated to spend it with such great spiritual family. As we were talking, Robin was talking about Fenwick’s window. (Here in Newcastle, this store spends copious amounts of money to decorate their window, and people stand for hours to see it. It is big part of the Christmas season here). He commented that in a previous year, one of the displays had been a Nativity. Apparently, a child looking at the window asked what this had to do with Christmas. For us, this was an unthinkable tragedy. The real meaning, the Truth about Christmas, had been taken out of the season. The way the world celebrates Christmas, we might as well rename this season Mas-presents or some such nonsense. In reading this week, I came across these verses from the final chapter of Corinthians.

2 Corinthians 13:8-10 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. And this also we pray, that you may be made complete. Therefore I [Paul] write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the authority which the Lord has given me for edification and not for destruction.

As Followers of Christ, we must live by these verses. We must be careful not to ever do anything against the Truth, but for it. The world has launched a concentrated attack on Truth and are trying to replace it with personal relativism (whatever is right for you). It seems that it is the mission of some to exhaust themselves in service of the Truth so that many more might be made strong in it. No one can ever be whole or complete without the Truth, which is Jesus. We stand and battle for the Truth with all that we have in us, but at the same time, we cannot use or authority or knowledge to destroy or bring destruction. We must always bring the Truth in a way that encourages. Everyone knows that if you bring the Truth and beat someone over the head without, it does not help them. It can be likened to an ambulance driving up to someone who has been injured backing up and running over them. It is there to help them, but can cause a lot of damage to them if it is not properly handled. We must do all that we can to stand for the Truth and speak it in Love!!!

Do not forget to apply this to yourself as we also seek to. Ask Holy Spirit to reveal any area in your life that you may not be fully standing in the Truth. Seek to stand wherever He reveals. Also, ask Him to reveal how you can stand and speak the Truth in love and encouragement and not cause harm to those who need it the most.

We continue to love and pray for the Family of God as a whole and pray that you are blessed and encouraged by everything that we are a part of. If these blogs have been an encouragement to you, think about following them and sharing them with friends so that others may be encouraged and experience the Truth in a new way.

Blessings of Jesus, the True Reason for the Season!!!
Jeremiah, Man on Fire!!!

My Weakness Becomes His Strength

I know that it has been a while since I have written, but I praise the Lord that we continue to get great ministry opportunities to be a part of and press into all that God has for us on this trip. A few days ago, we got to fellowship with one of the friends I made in Harpenden last year at Circuit Riders, the leader of the Youth With a Mission (YWAM) Discipleship Training Schools (DTS) and his wife. As we talked and later prayed together, I got the opportunity to share a recent testimony that encouraged and spoke to him, and I pray that it encourages you as well!!!

Two weeks ago, I got the privilege to speak at the church of one of my friends here in Newcastle. I had met him last summer during the Circuit Rider outreach here. This was right before he became the pastor at Gateway Church and was at St. Luke’s where we were based out of. On one of our many days to go out and do evangelism, Sam joined me and we went around looking for where God was moving and trying to talk to people. We tried many times to start some sort of conversation with people but were seemingly blocked at every turn. Finally, we did get to talk to two gentlemen for a while even though they were obviously just wanting someone to talk to and did not really care about what we were saying. Apparently, Sam went out later with Jedidah and Heidi who have a gift of evangelism and talked to many people.

Sam shared with me, while we were eating lunch with him and his wife this year after I had preached, that he was rather encouraged when he went out with me. I found this very odd since it seemed hard and laborious and is definitely not my gifting. However, it seems that God was able to speak to him through this weakness and encourage him. He saw how even though this was not my gift, I was still being obedient. This led him to be obedient and lead many street evangelism teams with his church even though this is not his gifting either.

For me, this was an amazing testimony because all last year during Circuit Riders, I never got the privilege of leading anyone to The Lord. However just like Jesus said to Paul “my strength is made perfect in weakness” (2 Cor 12:9) He spoke this to me as well. Even though this was an area where I was obviously weak, I had a desire to be obedient and grow. Even though it seemed like I was failing and every outward indication was that there was no fruit from my efforts, God used it. God used my weakness to encourage a man who was about to become a pastor to lead his church on continuous evangelistic outreaches. In a way, God used my weakness and obedience in a manner that allows me to take part in every salvation that comes out of Sam’s church. God is awesome, and if Sam had not told me this, I would never have had any idea that God had used my weak obedience in such a mighty way.

My encouragement to you is to be obedient in every area. Even in the places that you feel weak, unqualified, like you have failed, or are just no good, be obedient!!! He is able to do “exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask for, hope for, or even imagine” even with our weaknesses!!! He is able to turn every one of your weaknesses into strengths and every one of your supposed defeats into great victories if you are completely obedient and submitted to Him!!! Ask Holy Spirit right now where you can be completely obedient and submitted to Him and move into that place no matter if you feel weak or strong in that area. He will make His name great so do everything to please Him completely!!!

Jeremiah, Man on Fire!!!

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Report in to Funding for Low Survival Cancers Submitted to Parliament

The GI Cancer Institute welcomes the report from the Senate Select Committee investigating research funding for cancers with low survival rates, which was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday 28th November by Senator Catryna Bilyk.

We were pleased to contribute to this Inquiry on behalf of GI Cancer patients through our submission and appearance at the Sydney Hearing. Representing the GI Cancer Institute were Jan Mumford – CAP Chair, Dan Kent – Board Member & prior CAP Chair, Prof. John Simes – Board Member & Group Coordinator, James Armstrong & Julie Marker – CAP Members, and Russell Conley, CEO. For a copy of our full submission CLICK HERE.

GI Cancers have some of the lowest 5-year survival rates and across all 10 GI cancers the 5-yaer survival rates still sits below 50% (and as low as 7.7% for Pancreatic Cancer). As the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2017 Report “Cancer in Australia” showed:

  • Three of the eight cancers with the highest mortality rates (>70%) are cancers of the GI tract viz:

Pancreas                     Liver                     Oesophagus

  • Whilst Six of the twelve cancers with the lowest 5 year survival rates (<30%) are also cancers of the GI tract viz:

Pancreas                    Liver                     Oesophagus

Stomach                    Gallbladder and Extra‐Hepatic Bile Ducts                  Other Digestive organs

This recent Senate report included 25 Recommendations, which were unanimously endorsed by the Select Committee. The full Senate Report can be read HERE.

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Recommendation 13

The committee recommends that the Australian government ensures ongoing funding for genomic research in to low survival rate cancers.

Recommendation 14

The committee recommends that the Australian government implements any recommendation from the Medical Services Advisory Committee to list genetic tests for low survival rate cancer patients on the Medicare Benefits Schedule so that these tests are routinely available to these patients and reimbursed.

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The committee recommends that the federal, state and territory governments develop and implement a comprehensive Australia-wide strategy to increase 5-year survival rates for low survival rate cancers to above 50 per cent by 2027:

  • taking into account the recommendations in this report;
  • consulting with researchers, clinicians, patients and patient groups;
  • considering the roles of research, early diagnosis and access to medicines; and
  • assessing the applicability of international approaches, such as the Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act of 2012 (US), to the Australian context.

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The committee recommends that annual progress reports on the development and implementation of an Australian strategy to improve survival rates for low survival rate cancers are provided to the Council of Australian Governments Health Council and made publicly available.


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GDI agreement to purchase Vicksburg jack-up rig

GDI agreement to purchase Vicksburg jack-up rig

DOHA, QATAR - Gulf Drilling International Ltd (Q.S.C.) announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement for the purchase of a standard jack-up drilling unit, the Vicksburg. The closing of the sale is expected to occur in early 2014. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions.

GDI will mobilize the Rig to Qatar via dry tow vessel. The Rig will undergo refurbishment and upgrade in a shipyard before starting drilling operations in the 2nd quarter of 2014. GDI holds an LOI from a major Oil Company operating in Qatar.

About Gulf Drilling International Ltd (Q.S.C)

Established in May 2004 as the first offshore and onshore drilling service provider in Qatar, Gulf Drilling International Ltd. (GDI) specializes in the provision of contract land and offshore drilling and associated services to oil and gas exploration and production companies.

GDI is a growth-oriented company. In less than 9 years, GDI has accumulated twelve rigs, consisting of 6 offshore jack-up rigs, 1 offshore accommodation jack-up barge and 6 Land rigs and a Lift Boat that GDI is presently operating on behalf of its owner. In addition, two brand new hi-spec premium offshore jack-up rigs the ‘B-341’ and DUKHAN are to be put into operation.

GDI took delivery of the ‘B-341’ in September from the Keppel Fels shipyard in Singapore. This is the second of three high specification offshore drilling rigs ordered by GDI over the past two years. The first one “Al Jassra” is already working in Qatar and the third rig ‘Dukhan’, is expected to arrive in Qatar in the fourth quarter of 2014.

GDI is in the process of acquiring two new Lift Boats to feed these new services into the Qatari upstream market. We are in a strong position after the initial success with accommodation services and a Lift Boat to expand on the strength of the relationships built and performance delivered

GDI has thus far operated exclusively in Qatar and currently holds nearly 50% of the offshore rig market and 100% of the onshore rig market.


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Chef Movie teaches social media giving 2 stories in 1

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Chef Movie teaches social media giving 2 stories in 1

I was watching “Chef Movie” because I like underdog movies and Jon Favreau

But there are two stories in this movie and one is the something I try to get clients to do to become successful; take pictures, short videos and selfies. This movie hits it right on as it shows the son just doing little things here and there and BAM! they are successful in ways they could not have imagined and can’t be done conventionally unless you pay a lot of money for it.

Just like Generation Like , this movie “Chef” is required viewing for all that want to master social media but can’t grasp how easy it can be to do and get business from.

By not thinking too hard and just doing. It’s how our clients are more successful than others that spend their time trying to work on the geek stuff than the things only they can do that really gets them business. Less time trying to understand code , analytics and what some “guru” says on active rain and more time on the client side of their business.

Watch this movie and its soooooo clear on how easy it is and like a paradigm shift you will start your day with the heaviness of trying to do this off your back. No more over analyzing or planning to plan for the plan of doing it.

The movie will lighten your spirit with its first story but will educate you in its second. And just like social media it fuses with the first story and enhances both.

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  1. Roger Burr February 10, 2015 at 12:27 pm - Reply

    Hmm, well I’ll have to check this movie out then. I know a fair share about social marketing and such, but I can always learn some more, and I hear Chef was a really great movie. In fact I already had it on my to watch list on Netflix.

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Registering Vessels

Ocean vessels that facilitate in the transportation of international freight shipping must be registered with a home nation in order to do so. The best analogy for this type of registration would be by comparing vessels to individual people who are citizens of a nation. Citizens must obtain a passport from their nation of origin in order to travel abroad. Likewise, ships must obtain a certificate in order to engage in freight shipping across international waters. This is usually a required document for the vessels. Most freight shippers are not well aware of this document, but your freight forwarder is well aware of it.

There is no uniform certificate of registry for every single nation. Each nation can have their own laws regarding registries and the required documentation. Generally, the certificate of registry is typed and not hand-written. Most of the certificates of registry include the name of the owner, the nationality of the ship and the date of registration, as well as other important details. The certificates of registry are not free. The ocean container carriers have to pay a fee in order to get the certificate. There is also a replacement fee if the certificate gets lost.

There are also two distinct kinds of registries. One is a national registry, which is available only to ships that are from that nation. An open registry is available for ships that are from other countries. Shippers should understand the importance of the certificate of registry and the role the document plays in registering ships for trade around the World.


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The Generation The World

January 19, 2014

The Generation/The World

The ones that are in their early twenties right now, they still have a chance, only if they would listen to the wise. Trying new things are not always needed, us adults once tried the same stuff, and we are now trying to explain to you youngsters that it’s not worth it. The same crap that they are trying we been there done that, look what we went through to get where we are, some of us still trying to get where we want. Still some of us are trying to make our dreams come true because our choices slowed us down. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so think about that. If you are taking a picture of yourself with a blurt in your hand, smoke coming from your mouth. You live in a state where it is illegal to have, yet you post in on the internet for the world to see. Now what does that picture say about you? What does that picture say to your future? If the company you hope to work for one day, or went for an interview for was to look at your Facebook, Instagram etc… What would that show them, why would they want to hire you by the way you promote yourself online. And yes some company’s do check that these days, you have to be mindful of this. You go for a job that you have to have a drug test done, and wonder why you didn’t get that call back. And what you do, get down on yourself, want to party, want to say F’ it and roll up some more. You keep limiting your choices by your actions. It’s very sad that these youngsters want to learn the hard way, and think they know everything, got it all figured out. They want to say well you do it, not understanding that this is my life, I can do what I want because I’ve paid my dues. I’ve been to hell and back I can live my life the way I want. Was just trying to help you from having to take that ride through hell, before you realize you were going the wrong way.
It’s great to have fun and live & love life, it’s some things you should keep to yourself, everybody doesn’t have to know. Isn’t it enough that God sees and knows. We have kids that aren’t ready for this world, ones who are doing too much too fast and ones who aren’t doing anything or enough. Parents don’t raise children anymore, they have them, become friends with them, order them around, and abuse them. Teach them all the wrong things in life, and sad truth is because that’s all they know themselves. Kids don’t have the wise elder grandparents to sit down with and just listen to their stories and learn. We don’t have enough praying grandmothers left, or enough nurturing mothers. People don’t know how to slow down and find time, they’re too busy working, too busy spending the money they worked for, too busy needing time to themselves, too busy trying to help others before they help the ones in their own home. Too busy concerned about the ways of the world, instead of concerned about their own family, flesh & blood. Too busy trying to show and tell people about the false prophets and false religions. I’m so sick and tired of hearing about it, I can’t say that enough, you too busy trying to prove who is wrong. How about just talk about who is right… GOD why give the devil the attention that he wants. Forget about him, he will be there always but I want God so strong in my heart that the devil can not get in, I won’t allow him into my thoughts, into my soul or spirit he is not welcome. I don’t care what those “famous” people are doing, I don’t see them as I walk my streets, they don’t pay my bills, they don’t wake me up in the morning, they don’t get me through my day, are through my storms. My God does. Stop speaking all that craziness into existence. Why you worried about them, what have they done for you? Remember no matter if it’s good or bad if you talking about them or anyone you find a problem with, you still doing them a favor because you still have their name in your mouth, in your thoughts. GIVE GOD THE GLORY, THE POWER. I PRAISE HIM, IN JESUS NAME AMEN.
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Google is Fastest

While testing a piece of code for my squid plugin, I ended up changing permissions of /tmp/ directory to 0755. A few minutes later (after making changes to the code), I tried committing it to and got this error

[project@bordeaux youtube_cache]$ git push --all ssh://
Enter passphrase for key '/home2/Studies/project/.ssh/id_rsa':
ssh_control_listener bind(): Permission denied
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
error: failed to push to 'ssh://'
[project@bordeaux youtube_cache]$

Well, I couldn’t understand the error and jumped to #fedora-admin. I pasted the error on pastebin. Almost a minute laster, while trying to conquer the error, I Googled the exact error and I was damn surprised to see the paste as first result. What an indexing speed Google has??? See the screen shot for proof :)

Google is Fastest

In #fedora-admin ricky confirmed that nothing was wrong on server side and it should be a local problem with my machine or proxy server at my insti border. A few minutes later, I reliazed the /tmp/ permission thing and changing permissions back to 0777 fixed everything :)

12 thoughts on “Google is Fastest

  1. Isnt there any chance that google was going around looking for changes , when you actually created that page ?

  2. The default ‘Your Name’ which comes before posting a comment is ‘Anonymouse’. While your opinion about people who write anonymous comments are wholeheartedly respected and even agreed with, I also feel that this way you’re kinda assuming a person to fall in the above category.

    I doubt if Jeevan Vidhya would approve of such assumptions. Such assumptions don’t make for harmony in society.

  3. And neither does the word verification at the end of the comment posting process, where you again seem to be assuming that someone in the society intends to cause harm to your happiness by spamming your blog with non-constructive comments.

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How Did It Happen?

I know I am saved, but I don’t know how it happened. I am hoping you can help me understand. Paul tells us we were included in Christ when we heard the word of truth the Gospel of our salvation, and having believed, we were sealed with the Holy Spirit, the guarantee of our inheritance. I believe and have accepted this. However, in 1 Cor. 2:14 Paul also said “The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned” and in 1 Cor. 12:3 “… and no one can say ‘Jesus is Lord’ except in the Holy Spirit.” Do we first need to seek the truth about Jesus? Does the Holy Spirit then come to us, work on us, and enable us to truly believe in Jesus? Is it only when we finally accept the whole truth that we are sealed with the Holy Spirit?

Ephesians 1:13-14 gives us the order. First, we heard the Gospel and believed it. Then the Lord sent the Holy Spirit as a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance. Paul confirmed this in 1 Cor. 2:12 when he said we’ve been given the Spirit of God to help us understand the things that God has freely given us. In other words He gave us eternal life and then sent His Spirit to help us understand what he had given us.

When you were first saved you didn’t understand everything that meant, but you were still saved. Now that you are saved the Holy Spirit is helping you understand all that you’ve been given and as you do you experience a deeper level of belief.

In 1 Cor. 2:14 Paul was describing the difficulty of discussing religion with an unbeliever. Without the Holy Spirit he can’t understand it and thinks it’s foolishness. In 1 Cor. 12:3 he said that only a believer can truthfully say, “Jesus is Lord” because only a believer wants Jesus to be Lord.


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Rep. Gene Green Fights for Biodiesel

May 10, 2010
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Houston, TX – Rep. Gene Green (TX-29) urged the Chairman of the Committee on Ways & Means, Rep. Sander Levin (MI-12), to include the extension of the biodiesel and renewable diesel excise tax credits in the final tax extenders package.
In a bipartisan letter sent May 5, 2010, Rep. Green asked for the credit, an offset of excise tax liability paid by retail sellers of gasoline and diesel fuel and included in both the House and Senate versions of the bill, to ensure that biodiesel prices remain competitive with conventional diesel. The letter was co-signed by Rep. Al Green (TX-09), Rep. Charlie Gonzalez (TX-20), Rep. Ciro Rodriguez (TX-23), Rep. Henry Cuellar (TX-28), Rep. Chet Edwards (TX-17), Rep. Silvestre Reyes (TX-16), Rep. Solomon Ortiz (TX-27), and Rep. Joe Barton (TX-06).
“This tax credit will not only save jobs in our district, but across the country,” Rep. Green said. “In our area alone, Green Hunter, Organic Fuels, and Green Earth Fuels of Houston have been forced to close.”
According to the National Biodiesel Board, the nation will lose 23,000 jobs in addition to the 29,000 jobs lost in 2009 if the tax credit is not extended. As a critical component of the nation’s green economy, the biodiesel industry supports over 50,000 jobs with Texas being the number one biodiesel producing state in the nation with a production capacity estimated at 726 million gallons a year.
“With tax revenue of $866 million and $4.2 billion added to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product in 2008, we literally can’t afford to let the industry suffer more than it already has,” Rep. Green continued. “This growing green industry reduces our dependence on foreign oil and helps to reduce carbon emissions.”
The extension of the excise tax credits has received bipartisan support in the House and Senate and is supported by the National Biodiesel Board and the Biodiesel Coalition of Texas.


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Christ as the first-fruits and first-born from the death of death: Reflecting Further Upon Sin and Its ‘Sensuous Origin’

As I continue to get into researching ‘sin’ I am doing so through reading, in part, stuff from Dutch theologian, Herman Bavinck. I am reading a section he has from his Dogmatics, Vol.3, called The Origin of Sin; how fitting. I wanted to share a section from him which he entitles The Enigma of Sin’s […]

To Be ‘In Christ’ and the Bigger Picture of Salvation

In Christ, this little phrase is ubiquitous throughout the writings of St. Paul. If you are a Bible reader this phrase, ‘in Christ,’ will be very familiar to you, and maybe also very encouraging to you, if not somewhat mysterious sounding. Indeed, there is mystery to it (think of John Calvin’s unio mystica), but not […]

Knowing God by God in Christ in Incarnation and Resurrection

Thomas Torrance has made the point that the Incarnation of God is a novum, that there in fact is no genuine analogy from creation from whence we can conceive of such a mysterious thing as God become man. As such, if we are going to think scientifically about God, and in particular, about God become […]

Reading Scripture In the Life of the Trinity, In Theosis

I must admit, ever since encountering Patristic theology and their hermeneutics in seminary (back in 2002) for the first time, my compass for hermeneutical theory began to take a tailspin. And then a little later, as I continued to dig, and engage with Thomas Torrance, Karl Barth, John Webster, Matthew Levering, and even some Puritans, […]

Karl Barth and N.T. Wright Side by Side on Philippians 2:5-11 and the ‘Emptying’

Here is the pericope under consideration by both Karl Barth and N.T. Wright, respectively: 5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the […]

Really, Nash? Ronald Nash’s Attempt to Critique Torrance, Barth and the Whole Crew: My Brief Response

It is always nice when an Evangelical (Reformed) philosopher of religion takes note of Christian Dogmaticians outside of their normal sphere of comfortability, but sometimes this is a dangerous path to travel. Such is the path that Ronald Nash has chosen to trek. I was sent some copies of pages (Pdf file) from Ronald Nash’s […]

Too Much Jesus? Your Method of Biblical Interpretation

I would like to expose you all to Thomas Torrance’s take on Irenaeus’ understanding on what could be called a Christocentric Hermeneutic. As you read Torrance’s account of Irenaeus, understand that you are reading Torrance too. Here is Torrance on Irenaeus: It is, then, to the Incarnation that Irenaeus turns for the clue to the […]

No Knowledge of God Outside of Christ: A Christian Faith Understanding

I thought this quote from Paul Molnar on Thomas Torrance’s Trinitarian Theology of Creation would be timely: Torrance’s view of God the Creator was strictly determined by his Trinitarian theology so that, in order to understand his explication of the doctrine of creation, it is important to realize that his thinking remains structured by Athanasius’ […]

How To Think Theologically and Historically, or Christianly, as an Evangelist

Analytic theology would have us bound by analytics, and even foundationalism. The general populace at large has been infected by this disease of “faith seeking proof of the self.” This bait is always present for the theologian and biblical exegete; that is the bait of establishing the self as the canon of all that is […]

Is the Trinity negotiable for Evangelical Christians and the Gospel?

What is happening to ‘Evangelical’ Christianity? Brian LePort just posted this: Is Rejection of the doctrine of the Trinity a Rejection of the Gospel? Brian is simply continuing a dialogue that Marc Cortez started on his blog, and then others responded to Marc by way of posts at their blogs (you can get all the […]


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Poor Mrs. Jarvis will be sweating it out in these final hours before Christmas. I can imagine the questions tumbling through her head that will keep her awake.

Do elves get angry?

If so, how angry?

Are elves snitches?

How protective of his elves is Santa Claus?

Does Santa hold grudges?

Could an otherwise well behaved, nice teacher wind up on the naughty list because of a single day’s unfortunate interactions with an elf?

If you read the letters to Santa that the News-Topic published in Thursday’s paper, you may have noticed a thread through a number of the letters that came from children in a Gamewell Elementary School classroom. Apparently there was a mishap with an Elf on the Shelf who was helping the teacher, Mrs. Jarvis, watch over the children. The details weren’t clear, but it seems that Mrs. Jarvis went to get a map, and the elf was knocked to the floor — the first of at least two elf-involved incidents that day.

Some of the children seemed concerned that Santa would blame Mrs. Jarvis and eke out some form of punishment — perhaps no presents, or even coal in her stocking.

One girl wrote (and this is the actual pre-school spelling), “Mrs Jarvis atditl nock the elf on the shelf ples dot be mad at her She wus geted a big map owt but the elf wus on the map She is so so so sorry it wus a crasy day but we mae it work the elf she sorry.”

One even took collective responsibility for the whole class to protect Mrs. Jarvis: “I am so sorry that weve been droping your elf.”

But some of the children, while seeming to ask Santa for understanding, didn’t seem to have their heart in it, plunging straight from saying it was an accident into what was really on their minds.

“Mrs. Jarvis is Sorry for nocking your elf down and I want a iphone8 for Christmas and can I pretty please have it. I think I can have it. Here is how I’ve been good I’ve helped people I’ve sometimes been good and at home I’ve helped my sister and feed the cats,” one boy wrote.

Another wrote, “Mrs. Jarvis did not mean to make the elf fall of the shelf. She said she is really sorry and this is what I want a PS4 for chrismas I help my brother clean the house.”

But one girl seemed to relish playing informant. She didn’t even ask Santa for anything, she just dished on the elf’s mistreatment: “It was Mrs. Jarvis who kept on droping our elf on the shelf. Before lunch Mrs. Jarvis hung our elf with a wooden cloths pin. When we was at lunch me and Jaylyn had a prediction that the elf would be getting ready crawl out the door or already be out of the room.”

Another girl added the detail that Mrs. Jarvis tried at one point to use two clothes pins to hold the elf “so he would not go away and Leave a note.”

Elf, held against his will, pinned so he can’t escape. Elf-napping!

If, in fact, elves get mad and Santa holds grudges, whether that happens in this case probably hangs on such details of the elf’s treatment. It would not be because Mrs. Jarvis “axidintly droped the Elf” in the first place, it would be because she double-pinned him, or (as a couple of others wrote) after the first drop she pinned him up by his hat alone, the hat being insufficiently attached to his head to bear his weight, so that during lunch break the elf tumbled again to the floor.

The indignity.

Do elves feel pride? Humiliation?

Mrs. Jarvis, as she lies in bed tonight listening for sleigh bells and reindeer hooves on the roof, surely will wonder.

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I regret to inform all my friends in news, and family so inclined, that whatever soul I had left is gone. Starting Jan. 1 I will be the publisher of the Lenoir News-Topic.

At a company announcement, an editor friend said, “I can’t believe you didn’t tell me.”

I said, “I’m kind of corporate now.”

“You sold out!”

“It’s not the first time.”

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Sitting under a tiki-decorated patio umbrella in the early evening heat Wednesday at downtown Lenoir’s Hogwaller Stage, my wife and I chatted with a 50-something Caldwell County native as we waited for the sun to drop behind the county office building and a band to begin playing.

This is the third summer that you can find outdoor music with your dinner and drinks one or more evenings a week at Hogwaller, which is on Church Street directly behind 1841 Café, but our friend said he wasn’t even aware there was a stage there until just a couple of weeks ago.

He had a friend he had asked to meet him there. While we were talking to him, she texted him a question: Where is Hogwaller?

She had never heard of it either, though the name “hogwaller” in relation to that spot downtown long predates either of them.

In fact, this man — born and raised here, never lived anywhere else, and active in the community — had never even heard of 1841 until that first trip. He didn’t know that right across Main Street from it was another restaurant, the Side Street Pour House, with 40 beer taps and full bar.

We didn’t talk about it, but I would wager that if he didn’t know about all that, he didn’t know that a couple of blocks west is Loe’s Brewing, serving craft beer with gourmet burgers, pasta and sometimes a few other things, or just a little farther west Joan’s Sourdough Bread (fresh bread plus lunch), or Essie and Olive (known for popsicles but also serving lunch), or the Corner Creamery (ice cream!), or J&A General Store, or the soon-to-open Fercott Fermentables (home brewing supplies, beer and wine). I could go on.

I’ll assume he knows of the downtown antique stores, as well as Piccolo’s Pizza, which has been downtown since he was a young man.

This is something I keep encountering.

A few years ago a woman who grew up in Happy Valley and lived here all her life said she had no idea what was in downtown Lenoir or even what the streets were — she had never been.

When Lenoir had its first-ever beer garden at a street festival a couple of years ago, a woman who lives in Lenoir was irritated to find out about it only after the fact.

Last year a man who moved to Gamewell a number of years ago from another state said he didn’t even know how to get to downtown Lenoir — even though he had been to the U.S. Post Office there many times. He just went straight to the Post Office and then straight back out again. After I told him to just go another block or so farther west than he had before, suddenly he discovered Piccolo’s, his new favorite pizza place.

“Love the layout,” he wrote to me, “feel like I’m on a set for the TV show American Pickers!”

Similarly, the Caldwell County Economic Development Commission’s program “Hired Education,” in which a set of 30 local teachers get a three-day immersion in the local economy, consistently prompts expressions of surprise among its participants: They toured companies they never heard of before, or saw machines they never dreamed existed in buildings they pass every day, and involving jobs they had no idea anyone in Caldwell County held.

A man walked into the lobby of the News-Topic a couple of weeks ago and asked if there’s a shoe-repair place in town. Yes, about three blocks from our office.

Need I point out that all of these places and businesses have been in the newspaper within the past few years?

No one is more acutely aware of how much smaller newspaper staffs are than they used to be, and how much less they are able to cover than they once could, than a newspaper editor is. But there still is a lot of local knowledge missed by people who don’t regularly read the paper, whether on paper or on our website. It doesn’t cross their personal experience or their Facebook feed. It’s information that won’t seek you out. You have to look for it, without knowing for sure what you’re looking for. That’s one thing the newspaper is still good for, and it’s not a small thing.

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People who ask me where I grew up sometimes then ask, after hearing my long answer, whether I’m an Army brat.

Those people may not be aware of where military bases are, or maybe they can’t think of any other reason for someone to have such a nomadic history.

I was born in Columbus, Ohio; when I was 2 my family moved to Blacksburg, Virginia; when I was 5 we moved to Greensboro, North Carolina; when I was 9, after my parents divorced, we moved to Durham; when I was 11 we moved to Phoenix, Arizona. For college I moved back to North Carolina. After college my jobs took me to Lenoir, then to Wilmington, to Florida, back to North Carolina in North Wilkesboro, to Winston-Salem, to Virginia and back to Lenoir again.

I’m not rudderless, but my rudder shudders.

So the past four a half years here in Lenoir, the same place where my first job was, from mid-1987 to early 1988, has been a bit of a revelation to me. For the first time in my life, I am learning what it’s like to have a personally experienced sense of history in a single place. It’s much different than the sense that comes from just visiting a place where I used to live. When I visit, I don’t feel a part of that place, I feel apart from it, like I stepped into the frame of someone else’s photo.

So on Thursday after work, as the News-Topic newsroom staff lined up in downtown Lenoir for a group photo on the next-to-last day at work for one of our reporters – Briana Adhikusuma, who is getting married in two weeks and moving to southeastern Virginia – I felt pangs of memory. I looked back at a similar photo from nearly 30 years earlier, and I found myself thinking about the lives of not just the people in the photo but people here in Caldwell County who grew up here and every day are confronted with reminders of their past, what has changed and how they fit into it.

In the 1987 photo, seven members of the News-Topic’s newsroom staff stand atop a stone wall in downtown Blowing Rock in front of what used to be Tijuana Fats, where we sometimes went on Fridays after work. I’m on the far right, the most junior reporter on the staff, just a few months out of college. Second from the far left is the editor, Lee Barnes. I have long hair, combed to the side but hanging down over my forehead. It’s a black-and-white photo – our press couldn’t print color, so the staff photographer shot only black-and-white film – but if it were in color my beard would be rust-colored. I’m skinny.

In the 2017 color photo, we stand near the square in downtown Lenoir. I’m on the far left, now the editor of the same newspaper where I started. Everyone else in the photo is at least 25 years younger than I am. My hair isn’t as long (I need a haircut), it’s graying, and it’s swept back from my forehead. My beard is gray.

Looking at the two photos together, I feel the presence of the many dozens of people who have passed through this newsroom during the intervening 30 years, though I never met most of them.

I think about where the people in the 1987 photo have gone – Lee to Florida; the sports editor to far western North Carolina; the city reporter to the Charlotte area; the city editor to South Carolina; the lifestyle editor to New York; the photographer, who took that photo but wasn’t in it, also to New York. The education reporter died a few years ago. Most have changed careers.

I think about where the people in the 2017 photo might be in a few years. One just left and drives off Saturday with her fiancé, and I already miss her.

Reflecting on it too long, as I write this column about it, I feel a creeping sense of mortality that blends with the permanence of this place, like standing waist-deep in the ocean as the rushing current pulls at you. It takes effort to hold your place, and though where you are is the same as when you got there, everything about it is moving, swirling, shifting, even the grains of sand under your heels.

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What was it about May 9, 1917, that made Zenith Wilson tuck the day’s copy of The Lenoir Topic away in a box and keep it for the rest of his life?

There are too many A1 headlines to list, but the ones at the top of the page:

Mr. Cilley Volunteers

The Tunnel Method of Keeping Sweet Potatoes

Give the Children Some Patches of Their Own This Year

STRONG EVIDENCE / Is the Statement of This Lenoir Woman (this was on an ad for kidney pills)

Notice of Sale

Perusing the local items, presumably written by editor W.M. Moore, because none carry a byline but are written in a personal style, again nothing much stands out. Perhaps this one, which has some history:

“Mr. Frank Osborn, of Mortimer, visited our home the other night. He made the trip in a very short time as it was the first automobile that ever visited this section.”

But it’s not circled, and it’s on an inside page. If that’s all he wanted, he could have just cut it out, or saved just the page.

Other local news is more pedestrian:

“The bond issue for road improvement in Caldwell lost yesterday by a small majority. Watauga is reported to have voted for good roads by a majority of about 400. All the counties adjoining Caldwell have either already built good roads or have arranged for their construction at an early date. This leaves our good county temporarily alone in the mud.”

Under the all-capital-letters headline “FREE TYPHOID VACCINATION”:

“A matter of very great importance to the people of Caldwell was passed upon Monday by our board of county commissioners when they decided to wage a campaign this summer against typhoid, offering free vaccination to everyone for thirty days. The date of the campaign will be announced later. In the meantime, every one is asked to co-operate heartily with the authorities in their efforts to prevent the ravages of this terrible disease which costs many lives and much sickness every year.”

Maybe it was page 6, which was entirely wire service stories about preparations for World War I, including the new military draft. One of the stories described “the first war army organized under the selective draft bill,” more than 528,000 men.

Another dealt with Congress’ war preparations, including the U.S. House passing “an omnibus emergency war bill carrying nearly $3,000,000,000” that doubled the pay for enlisted men from $15 a month to $30.

Or maybe it was nothing at all, just a personal aversion to throwing anything away. There’s evidence for the latter – Mr. Wilson folded the paper over to one-sixth its full, open size and tucked it inside an old wooden box containing many other kinds of papers. Over time more and more accumulated – an 1854 property deed, receipts for over 30 years of subscriptions to the Lenoir Topic (one year’s subscription in 1904 cost $1), a century-old sheriff’s office burglary report, the user’s manual for a circa-1920 water pump, an 1898 copy of North Carolina road rules, a 1918 car registration, and the minutes from 1888 to 1950 of the Caldwell Baptist Association, to name a few.

That box of accumulation was but one small part of a lifetime of accumulation, and all of it came up for sale last May. That’s when Gary Wieland came across it at an estate sale.

Wieland, who moved to Lenoir in late 2015 after retiring from a job in Texas, bought the old wooden box almost on a lark. It was $50.

The box turned out to be a field desk from the Civil War era. Wieland has since sold it.

He has also sold other items. Now he’s going through what’s left and giving them away to people who might appreciate them, such as the burglary report, which he took to the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office, and the May 9, 1917, newspaper, still fairly supple and not nearly as yellow as you would expect, which has been in my drawer the past two weeks but soon will make its way to the Caldwell Heritage Museum. So too may the plastic bag of Lenoir Topic receipts, the oldest of which is dated April 16, 1904, for a subscription sold to Monroe Wilson by George Kincaid of the Topic.

Wieland said it has been entertaining to look through all the old papers that were in that box. But Wieland lacks Mr. Wilson’s instinct to hold on to things.

“I figured all they’re doing is sitting in a drawer now,” he said.

He bought them, he read them, and then he felt he had an obligation to share them.

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One thing that hasn’t changed about newspapers is errors.

On page 1 of the yellowed, disintegrating copy of the Lenoir Topic, one of the weekly predecessors of the News-Topic, donated by Frank Coffey and recently posted by Bill Tate on the “Lenoir and Caldwell County History” Facebook page, the paper’s publication date appears as Wednesday, Sept. 6, 1905, but on page 2 it says Wednesday, Aug. 30, 1905.

That makes me feel better about the much more recent times the News-Topic has carried the wrong day, date or both.

Nothing on the 1905 front page was about anything in Caldwell County, except for all of the local ads – and there were quite a few. One was a long, text ad for Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, a pill that supposedly protected you against germs:

“It increases the vital power, cleanses the system of clogging impurities, enriches the blood, puts the stomach and organs of digestion and nutrition in working condition, so that the germ finds no weak or tainted spot in which to break. … Only one or two a day will regulate and cleanse and invigorate a bad Stomach, torpid Liver, or sluggish Bowels.”

That was just one of many ads throughout the paper for “cures” of various kinds — Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Pills, Mozley’s Lemon Elixir (another for “torpid liver”), Dyspepsia by Crab Orchard Water, Cascarets Candy Cathartic (for your bowels, “They work while you sleep”), Sloan’s Liniment and Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, which pitched itself exclusively to women starting with the headline, “STOP, WOMAN!” by promising confidential advice by mail for health issues that women would not feel comfortable confiding to male doctors.

Page 2 carried in the top left corner, under the incorrect date, two important items of information: The subscription cost, $1 a year, and the Topic’s telephone number, 7.

Page 2 also carried a mix of news, from the newly brokered peace treaty between Russia and Japan to the General Assembly passing a measure for a referendum in Lenoir on issuing $50,000 in bonds for streets, sidewalks, sewer lines or an electrical plant.

Page 3 started with the heading “OF LOCAL INTEREST” and listed people who had been somewhere or were on their way:

“Mrs. Harper Beall has returned from a visit to Chester S.C.

“R.A. Ramseur has been on a trip to Mitchell.

“Carroll Rapp went to Guilford College Monday.

“Mr. J. Gorden Ballew returned to Baltimore last Friday.”

Farther down, under the headline “Sweet Girl Freshmen and Sophomores,” was a short paragraph:

“It was a sad pity that the Topic reporter belongs to the wrong ‘sect’ (to quote Samantha) Tuesday, for a whole carload of sweetness came up billed for Davenport College. It sho’ was a pretty sight to behold all those nice girls at once. The conductor did look so happy.”

Under that was the news of “the terrible damage done by a mad dog” rampaging from Lenoir to Patterson, which was finally shot and killed under the Crisp, Cilly & Co. store in Patterson.

With that news was a message issued by Lenoir Mayor Edgar Allan Poe saying that, because no one knew how many other dogs the rabid dog may have bitten, “Notice is hereby given that all dogs found on the streets of Lenoir unmuzzled for the next thirty days will be shot.”

Ads on this page included one for a 12-room house in Granite Falls for sale for $1,000. “We stake our reputation on the assertion that you cannot duplicate this for $1,500.00,” it said.

Page 4 brought more details on the Russia-Japan peace, including a separate wire story on world leaders crediting Teddy Roosevelt with brokering the peace, and a mix of state, national and international wire items, then some “filler” (the news term for short things used to fill inconvenient space), including some one-liners that also appeared as filler on at least one other page in the same issue, such as, “A woman’s idea of heaven is five parts wavy hair and five parts a good figure,” and, “A useful thing about automobiles is all the new cuss words you learn when they won’t work.”

The news largely petered out by page 5, where there was a long piece of fiction, “Luke Hammond, the Miser,” by Prof. William Henry Peck, and other apparently syndicated specialty feature items. One, “With the Funny Fellows,” relayed short, presumably fictitious anecdotes supplied by papers around the country:

“I was surprised,” said the Rev. Mr. Goodman, sternly, “to see you playing golf last Sabbath. I should think you’d do better –”

“Oh!” replied Hardcase, “I usually do. I was in wretched form last Sunday.” – Philadelphia Press.

Page 6 was what we would call today the religion page, with lots of inspirational messages and lines (“You have no right to elect His work if you reject His word”). Curiously, it also was the home to the highest number of “cure” ads.

Page 7 was the business page, aside from a wide column down the left side made up of pseudo-scientific pronouncements, including the headline “Mars Inhabited,” with a short description of what scientists know of Mars “By Camille Flammarion, the Famous Astronomer,” which described a wondrously pleasant climate on Mars and concluded, “We know the globe of Mars perfectly; in fact, far better than the earth.”

Bill said there were a total of only seven pages to be posted. I have yet to figure out how that can be so, since every piece of paper I’ve ever seen from any era has both a front and a back, making two pages. Perhaps that’s one thing about newspapers that has changed.

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When I first heard that the local Republican Party was moving into the vacant space beside Lenoir City Hall that most recently was the Azteca Burrito restaurant, I had a thought.

Perhaps, I thought, the party is one-upping the Democrats, who lately have been having a number of functions at Howard Brewing. When Azteca Burrito was open, its owners built a bar, so that space not only has a bar to match Howard Brewing, it also has a kitchen!

“The Democrats have beer, but so do we, AND we have freshly grilled burgers,” the Republicans could say.

The Democrats then would have to raise the ante and find a way to provide food too, and probably more variety if they wanted to lure people their way.

Of course, I know the idea is too good to be true.

The result would be another bidding war between the parties, except the kind they have now tends to benefit lobbyists and interest groups, while the average person feels forgotten and left behind, as any supporter of Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders will tell you.

But how much better would it be if, instead of pandering by promising trade wars or free college or other trinkets costing trillions, what the parties provided was an ever-expanding list of options on an actual menu?

“Don’t go to McDonald’s, now GOP stands for ‘Get your Order Personalized,’ and we won’t make you use a kiosk either!”

The Republican menu might lean toward the bold, the barbecue, the Tex-Mex and brisket and steak.

The Democratic menu might have more ethnic specialties, more unusual spices and ingredients, plus vegetarian options.

Or maybe I’m exposing my preconceptions.

What they would cook would be less important than the fact that everyone would have no doubt at all what the effect of their political preference was. It wouldn’t be an idea or policy, it would be on a plate, right there in front of them.

“Make America Great Again”? Make America’s steaks, man. We’ll decide whether they’re great, and if they’re not we’ll go across the street and see if the other guys do better “Fighting For Us” against indigestion.

I’d work in the slogans of the Libertarian and Green Party candidates too if I could find them.

I think this is the ideal recipe, so to speak, for political reform.

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Two sisters just blogging about their passion: halal food!

Pizzano Pizza & Chicken

Tired of regular pizza? We sure were. So when we tried Pizzano’s Spicy Chicken Supreme pizza couple of years ago at a friend’s house, we instantly fell in love with it.

Pizzano is a (cozy) halal takeout pizza and chicken eatery that offers a variety of pizzas, wings, and other items. It is located on Dundas Street East, Mississauga between Cawthra and Tomken.

Spicy Chicken Supreme

Our family loves their Spicy Chicken Supreme pizza. The base sauce is delicious Alfredo topped with spicy chicken, green peppers, hot peppers, onions and jalapeño peppers. The crust is fairly soft and chewy (as opposed to brittle and hard, which is fairly common). Big time yum!

Their prices are fairly reasonable. The medium and large (other sizes available as well) go for $8.99 and $11.99 respectively. They also deliver!

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Author: HFE

The experiences and adventures of two sisters who happen to be 'halal food enthusiasts'.

7 thoughts on “Pizzano Pizza & Chicken

  1. Omg, I LOVE their pizzas! I too always have it at my friend’s house lol! Love the idea of alfredo sauce on pizza 🙂

  2. We always order or go here for Pizza! Their pizzas are so good, chicken wings too.

  3. went there after reading this review and was not pleased, I was told a different price for my order over the phone and charged another price when picking up my order.. to make things worse.. my spicy chicken pizza was missing… chicken !! .. we also order 10 wings.. and received 9 wings and 1 drumstick.. which was not the case in any of the wings we have tried .. anywhere !.. theres always an equal mix..we trekked from about 40 mins up north to check this place out.. not a great first impression

  4. seriously?

    Once we ordered from them, we found ants walking over the counter an right over the pizza on sale in the hot counter. when I pointed out the ants to the clerk, he was explaining that ants are normal to be around!!! Will never come back again!

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bell hooks and Loving a Feminist

I love a lot of things about my man. He’s funny, he’s honest, he works hard, he reads. His intellect and his artist’s eye will blow you out of the water. He’s well-traveled. You get the idea—I think my boyfriend’s amazing. I’m sure a million other girls would say the same about their significant others.

One of the things about this man that I will always remember is his reaction to this conversation between Melissa Harris-Perry and bell hooks (who I was delighted to see address the fact that the lowercasing of her name backfired). I live on the internet and am constantly reading articles all over the place, seeing funny images and comics, commenting on statuses and blogposts…and so I’m constantly sending my boyfriend links. Anything that makes me think of him, that I think he’d laugh at or otherwise appreciate, that I need him to share in my rage about, I send it to him. My guess is that he only sees about 20% of what I send because he does not live on the internet— but what he does see, we usually talk about. I’ll never forget the morning I woke up, looked at my phone, and saw a text from my man— who, six months before, had no familiarity whatsoever with feminism— that said:

“I love bell hooks.”

Could there be anything more beautiful?

Don’t get me wrong. It’s not like we (or anyone) have been able to completely escape the patriarchy. We had a lengthy argument one very early morning about the state of my armpit hair. We debated once, for days, women changing or not changing their names after marriage (and we come back to the topic often). Just recently, he told me that sometimes you have to let a man be a man and a woman be a woman. Outraged, I asked what on earth he meant by that, especially when he already knows darn well what kind of woman I am.

“I think,” he said, “my manliness would be when I say I’m done talking about something. And your womanliness would be when you just keep right on talking about it anyway.”

Which of course, I did.

There have also been times when racism goes completely over my head because I’ve never had to deal with it. We’ve both said, wittingly and unwittingly, sexist and racist things. The difference, I think, between now and before we were together is that we address those things, acknowledge them and learn from them, which sometimes is all you can really do.

By human standards, I’m a little new to the relationship game. I’ve been with my boyfriend about a year, and before that I’d been pretty darn single for almost four years. So I’m maybe not the MOST experienced or seasoned person to give romantic advice. I imagine, however, that when you’re with somebody and plan to do it for a long time, you find a lot of good in everything they are in do. Even in their annoying habits, even when they say the complete WRONG thing or don’t shut up when they need to, hopefully you even find a little good there (or at the very least, some amusement). I’m coming to appreciate most aspects of who my man is, and I hope that feeling is mutual.

It’s not hard to appreciate that he loves bell hooks, though, and there’s a Beyoncé/bell hooks post forthcoming.


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Talking Back

Rebelling could be me standing outside the White House and throwing raw eggs onto the windows. It could also be me rotting in a prison cell because I murdered someone, innocent or not. Or it could be me talking back to a teacher because I disagree with him. So let me tell you a story […]

Christmas in the HaHaHaHa Family

My family consists of four girls: Hanny, Habin, Hajin, and Haju. Because of our names, we are often referred to as the HaHaHaHa Family. The interpretation, of course, is up to whoever hears it, but it usually means a family full of laughter: a family full of happiness. When I was in 3rd grade, I […]


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Photography Portfolios For University of Central Lancashire Photography Students

February 28, 2017

student portfolio books for UCLAN photography students

In the last week, H&Co have had the pleasure of producing portfolios for four UCLAN photography students (University of Central Lancashire). All the presentation books had to be in by the 3rd of December 2014 for their first assesment, so hopefully the portfolios lived up to the photography.

All were A4 chicago screw post portfolios and all but one used our polyproylene sheet protectors, which we still think for the money, offers brilliant clarity and quality.

We also made our first typo in personalisation (see if you can spot it!)

We have a guide for student portfolios which can be found here. Also, if you would like to see more examples of portfolios, click to our gallery page here

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Ok, let’s not lie to ourselves, we’ve all been late on a Father’s Day gift or maybe a Sibling’s birthday at least once or twice. But not to fear! Despite the fact that Father’s Day is June 15th (mere days away!) you can still salvage this holiday with two simple steps.

1. Order a gift that will get there late, but make sure the gift is really cool so you create the illusion that it was “worth the wait” even though you could have just ordered it earlier and actually gotten it there on time. But SHHH! that’s our little secret.

Here are 4 gifts that qualify for the above operation:

This iPad stand is cool and modern, in fact its maker Eric Farrell is super inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright! Plus, it’s handmade so it looks super expensive but is actually pretty reasonable for being a custom piece. Lastly, it holds Dad’s tech toys. Dads always love that.

custom stamp

If Dad loves to read and you are on a budget this is the perfect late gift to hit him with. This stamp has his name on it in a beautiful well-designed way. Custom design takes a long, long time (or so he will think)! You can even add his address so the book can be returned in the event he loses it.

P.S. You should probably get Dad some Ink Pads to go with his stamp! Office Max has some very reasonably priced ones!

The other way to show Dad you care even if it’s late is by getting him something expensive, like this gorgeously handcrafted leather watch that was modeled after Nathan Drake’s from the Uncharted series and was featured in Time out New York’s fashion issue in sept 2011. NBD.

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And if none of those work for you, appeal to the heart. This engraved photo frame is perfect because you can add the names of the family, customize it with the location you took the trip or even add a phrase like “I Love You Dad.” You put thought into this! No Dad can be upset his gift is late when you’ve immortalized family memories!

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You might not be able to get that awesome gift there on time but a card usually only takes a few days, so get your act together and at least get a card there on time!

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Keep International Adoption an Option (part 2)

The orphanage (a former jail) the children are currently living in.

I want to draw your attention to 16 little ones who are growing up languishing in a Vietnamese orphanage, even though they have families desperate to bring them home.

I’ve blogged before about the cost of stopping international adoptions in light of concerns about corruption.  No one wants to turn a blind eye to corruption.  As adoption parents and adoption professionals, we have to be a vocal and active part in helping to protect vulnerable individuals involved in the adoption process.  And yet, removing international adoption as an option for children who have no other opportunity to grow up in a family does nothing to solve problems–it simply shifts the burden onto the shoulders of the most vulnerable individuals involved–

the children.

Gabriel Loc--referred to his family at 5 months of age, now 3 1/2 years old.

Sure, if international adoptions are stopped, we’ve stopped potential problems with corruption.  But, we’ve also denied these babies and children one of the most basic human rights, the right to grow up in a family.  Even the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child  allows that if a child does not have a family (birth or adoptive) in their country of origin, then international adoption is an acceptable alternative to growing up without a family.

All of this sounds theoretical, but we cannot lose sight of the real impact, the burden of which is borne by the children who wait and continue to wait…  and wait… and wait… in conditions no individual could ever, with a clear conscience, condemn a child to.

This photo is of 3 1/2 year old Thomas and was taken in May of 2011. The children are losing weight.

      •  inadequate nutrition (approximately 1 cup of rice per day; very little protein or vegetables)
      • no medical or dental care (1 child died in 2008; all of the children have extensive tooth decay)
      • frequent skin disorders (scabies, heat boils, ringworm)
      • oppressive heat and humidity (heat indices regularly above 100 & no air-conditioning)
      • cramped living conditions (15’ x 20’ concrete room with 11 children in a room)
      • sleeping and eating on unsanitary and filthy floors
      • little stimulation, toys, play time, or education
      • inadequate supervision (often 1 caregiver per room and left long periods of time unsupervised

Source–“Bring Home the Bac Lieu 16” Facebook Page

For three years the families who were adopting them at the time of the

Nate during a visit with his mommy.

shut down have done their best to “parent” from afar.  They’ve made many visits bringing supplies like food, milk, clothing–things that we tend to take for granted.   In January, officials barred further visits, making the children’s situation even more precarious.  Even so, these folks are still “parenting” by advocating for these children.

You can help.  Here’s how:

Sign an online petition.

Email AskCI@state.gov and request action on behalf of these 16 children and the families waiting for them.

Little Claire Yen running to greet her daddy on a visit he made last August. Please help make this a permanent reality for all 16 of these precious little ones.

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  1. Remember…. « Heart of the Matter Seminars | adoption education Says:

    […] I’d like to ask you to remember and say a prayer for a group of children known as the “Bac Lieu 16″  They are not the only children needing our thoughts, prayers and especially ACTIONS., but looking […]

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    […] do I ask you to think about what you’ve done since June 24th?  Because that is the last time I posted about the “Bac Lieu 16″ and every single one of these children are still […]

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