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Supposedly there is an iPhone 5S in the works that will run about $350 and is made of plastic.  One has to wonder if this is the answer to the “champagne taste vs. beer budget” dilemma for so many consumers.  Analysts are encouraging big tech firms to consider marketing more to the low-end Smartphone market in order to push sales and generate profits.  They contend that the upper-end market is already overcrowded.

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One of the major criticisms of Apple’s iPad has been that it’s a consumption device, and not a creation device. In terms of audio, that’s all about to change. The biggest challenge has been finding a way to get your audio (whether from a microphone, a guitar, a keyboard or MIDI device) into the iPad. In Spring of this year, Alesis will debut its StudioDock, which will give voiceover talent lots of input options. A quick look at the back of the StudioDock tells most of the story:

There are two combo XLR-1/4″ ins, with switchable phantom power, making it “plug & play” for high-end condenser mics. Input channel gain controls, and balanced 1/4″ outputs.

A quick look at the left side of the dock reveals traditional and USB MIDI compatibility.

On the right, you’ll find a 1/4″ headphone jack with separate volume control for monitoring your recording.

Best of all, the StudioDock works with virtually every audio and MIDI app in the App Store.

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

LWF General Secretary Appeals for Dialogue for Just Peace in Holy Land

LWI News online: http://www.lutheranworld.org/News/Welcome.EN.html

Israel's 60th Anniversary Should Be an Opportunity for Reorientation and Renewal
LWF General Secretary Appeals for Dialogue for Just Peace in Holy Land

GENEVA, 16 May 2008 (LWI) - As the State of Israel marked the 60th anniversary of its founding this week, the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) affirmed the Lutheran communion's responsibility and challenge to continue working "to remove any vestiges of antisemitic attitudes toward our Jewish sisters and brothers, through processes in which we encounter each other as human beings with a shared faith heritage."

In a 15 May letter to Israeli President Shimon Peres on the anniversary's occasion, LWF General Secretary Rev. Dr Ishmael Noko said the LWF joined "in celebrating the survival and flourishing of the Jewish people after their centuries of exile and the genocidal catastrophe of the Second World War." He underscored the LWF's recognition of the burden of responsibility borne by Lutheran churches for antisemitic and discriminatory attitudes toward Jewish people.

Anniversaries are also a time for reflection, reorientation and renewal, noted Noko in his letter to Peres, in which he expressed concern for the relationship between Israel and Palestine. He pointed out that the week also marks the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian people's Nakba - when they were dispossessed of their homes and land, and became refugees.

The LWF general secretary noted the relationship between Israel and Palestine had been marked by deepening divisions, exclusion, hatred and brutal violence, which "can never secure a sustainable peace for either community."

Peace, noted Noko, could only be achieved through a dialogue that does not exclude any one, and expressed appreciation for efforts to break down the barriers of "non-dialogue" in the Middle East situation such as those initiated by former US President and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jimmy Carter. He said the official refusal to talk to Palestinian party Hamas and Hamas' refusal to recognize the State of Israel both lead to the "the same dead-end." In the absence of dialogue and encounter, enemy images and the desire to obliterate the 'other' only increased. "The 'other' will always be present, and peace will either be achieved with them or not at all," he cautioned.

The LWF general secretary also underscored the responsibility of the international community to accompany, support and encourage Israelis and Palestinians in the search for a just peace in the Holy Land "as it did in the birth of the State of Israel." He appealed to the global religious communities that hold the Holy Land holy to "be catalysts for peace, acting not in support of one community against the other but in support of the establishment of a just peace."

Saying peace could not be postponed for the sake of all Israelis and Palestinians, Noko urged concerted efforts from both sides and global support "to ensure that no more anniversaries of this date will pass without a just peace in the Holy Land."

The LWF is present in the Holy Land through its member church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, and the East Jerusalem-based LWF Department for World Service regional program.

(The LWF is a global communion of Christian churches in the Lutheran tradition. Founded in 1947 in Lund, Sweden, the LWF currently has 140 member churches in 78 countries all over the world, with a total membership of over 68.3 million. The LWF acts on behalf of its member churches in areas of common interest such as ecumenical and interfaith relations, theology, humanitarian assistance, human rights, communication, and the various aspects of mission and development work. Its secretariat is located in Geneva, Switzerland. http://www.lutheranworld.org/)

[Lutheran World Information (LWI) is the LWF's information service. Unless specifically noted, material presented does not represent positions or opinions of the LWF or of its various units. Where the dateline of an article contains the notation (LWI), the material may be freely reproduced with acknowledgment.]

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Monday, February 25, 2013

That constant surprise of discovering the special and sublime in what we see as the ordinary; the rich and refined in the presumed base and bland; the elegant in what we assume to be the rough and coarse; the refined in the supposedly crude; care in things apparently neglected; thoughtfulness in perceived carelessness:

To see a world in a grain of sand,

And a heaven in a wild flower,

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,

And eternity in an hour.

(William Blake’s the first verse of Auguries of Innocence)

- this is always endearing, always engaging, enriching; always confirming. It is the ‘yea,’ the ’yes’ of life, true sustenance for the spirit. The experience creates an example that one can embrace as an ambition - an ideal that begs the question.

If this corroborating delight and delicacy can be presented and experienced in such a simple and unpretentious manner, then why is our world so devoid of this transformative ideal? Why is the ordinary left to be so less than ordinary, alone, singular and struggling, striving to be nothing at all but a conglomerate of whims promoting the mundane and ME: my vision and hopes, my interests and interpretations - my experience as my expression - no matter how perverted or singular these might be, all irrespective of the other, one’s neighbour: see  Why is the world happy with this status quo? Why is it accepted as being adequate without any protest or alarm? Has the competition of commerce changed us? We remain attracted to and seek out things that startle, distract and entertain without ever raising any questions. How does such a remarkable fineness of quality and quality of fineness get embodied in such blandly brash and everyday boldness: in such apparent crude familiarity; in what is brushed aside as a familiar crudity - the ordinary? How can our ‘run of the mill’ world become the vehicle for presence?

This is an important question for today. Our era knows how to exhibit, how to display, how to scream, how to attract attention: to parade, to perform, to be pretentiously ostentatious, all as a guise for what is described as ‘creativity’ - unique design; bespoke: just for ‘ME’ to exhibit skill, genius in the theatre of self-expression where ‘I’ need to be noticed: where ‘I’ can be what ‘I’ want others to see me as - ‘ME’ alone and special; standing out: on exhibition - a star. It is an association with its screaming demand to ‘look at me,’ that belittles the modesty and wonder of the glimmering glow in the infinite dark of the universe. The exclamatory declaration is just too easy to achieve. The stance has now become embodied in the cliché that categorises art as self-expression. In architecture, this hackneyed understanding becomes iconic in the work of Gehry and Hadid, and is seen frequently displayed in structures different and distorted just as an indulgence to be noticed. Dubai comes to mind: the tallest; the most outrageous; the most expensive: square; round; diagonal; stepping; twisted. Extremes catch attention and become possible in a world that can do anything, just because anything is possible. What is difficult is to embalm beauty in the ordinary, the everyday; in the unseen, the undeclared; in things modest, gentle and mild, where meaning can endure, enrich and endear subtly, without pride; without prejudice - effortlessly, almost, but never, carelessly: always with a certain nonchalance and humility.

The capturing of the spirit in things ordinary and everyday - see - is so much harder, so much more difficult than any eye-catching advertising and self-promotion. Until we are able to understand this circumstance and manage it with a relaxed and concentrated skill, then we will be less, relying only on the hyped buzz of the new model, the latest phone, the new smart car, the super-clever gadget, all in the latest of style, for our interest to be stimulated and our hopes raised; until the next wave arises which will be tomorrow. We thrive on the expectation that tomorrow will always be substantially better when, in the quiet of the night, we know it rarely will be; that it will merely prove to be superficial: the same thing faster; prettier; smaller; restyled. Our world is full of such distractions, things different for the sake of difference; for entertainment; for indulgent enjoyment; to distract from the boredom of the everyday and the quiet challenge of things personally meaningful that can know contentment: see

Imagine a world that holds meaning in the raw, substance in the bland - everywhere, everyday without exaggeration or boasting. It is not nostalgia or whimsy that allows one to pine for older and other tines where things ordinary were embodied with meaning, although our era likes to see it in this disparaging, ‘outdated’ manner. Aldo van Eyck spoke of how the Dogon basket embodied the universe - reminded one of it - with its symbolic square base and round top: to see the whole world in a basket; to hold infinity in your hand, everyday: see his writings in Team 10 Primer. How is it that we no longer know anything about how the most simple forming is able to reference the most esoteric of notions; of how one can be constantly reminded of things subtle and substantial? It may seem romantically optimistic to recall such eras with an apparent enthusiastic idealism and to envisage similar futures. Is one being blindly selective, ignoring the truly crude and rude; the real hardships and awkward social situations that came with such times, only seeing these other worlds through rose coloured glasses; with the luxury of today’s context? Is this pining as much a distraction itself as our ‘progressive’ entertainment - its tourism, movies, DVDs, videos, games where make-believe promotes and supports dreams of a better tomorrow that never will or can be?

No: not until one experiences the soft in the hard; elegance in the crude, the basic and bland will this be understood, such is the attractiveness of today’s gadgets and their persuasive promotions. Sigfried Gideon, in his classic Space, Time and Architecture, published a plan drawing of an early Egyptian mud brick building. The image was so simple, so mundane, but so profound, it could only astonish. It was ordinary, so ordinary, in the same manner as the kirk at Whalsay was, yet, like this kirk, it was special: it held power and mystery in its mundanity.

Whalsay is one of Shetland’s islands located a thirty-five minute ferry trip from Flugarth on Laxo Voe, that narrows off Dury Voe on the northeast of Mainland. The ferry links to Symbister, Whalsay’s only village, remote with two shops, a school, a hall, some historic places and just a few other facilities. Private homes, both new and old are clustered in the small town and are scattered, gathered and battered on exposed, treeless hills across the island in random bunches that have names and wonderful water views. The main road starts at the harbour and leads east through Symbister to the golf course and beyond, to the airstrip at Shaw. That's it. There are a few detours, and loop and branch roads that lead to small settlements and private places. One such route takes the visitor around the local charity shop, up and down a hill to a land bridge, an isthmus that joins a small, isolated and bare mass of land on the north of Whalsay. It has a distinctive presence on the map, sitting, mushroom-like, midway along the northern edge of this island. The road terminates at a graveyard - a walled enclosure. It is a beautiful wall, a dyke or dry-stone wall that unusually uses a mix of very large and very small stones in a regular and distinguished pattern.

There is a church. It is no cathedral, just an ordinary, dour, dark stone box with a gable. The stonework of the graveyard wall has a more interesting pattern than that of the church. The building looks awkwardly high, simplistically ungainly, with a few rectangular, symmetrical openings placed as a child might illustrate a house. This church was hardly worth a second look. Was it too high; too blank, too barren? Just what was wrong here? Was it simply a lack of imagination? Maybe it was the harshness of this remote place that limited the effort? Strange, Muness Castle and the Mousa Broch both have island locations that did not limit their expressions or distort their integrity: see and

It was with some reluctance that the graveyard was entered. The intrigue of a stroll through an old graveyard was the only thing that encouraged any engagement - the touch of people, memories, names, and stories past: their notations, cryptic lives, spelled out as a diagram of history, sketched and etched on stone inside stone walls, the surrounding dykes that define this burial place on an exposed knob beside inlets and the open sea - Houb to the east, North Voe of Brough to the west, and Linga Sound to the north. This was Kirk Ness on the north edge of Whalsay accessed from the road that loops through Brough and Creadyknowe. The place held a quality that one gives to those religious outposts like Iona where the hardships of cold winds, icy gales, and barren rocks exposed the monastic spirit to persistent danger and tested its endurance. The success of the outcome - mere survival - was paralleled with the intensity of one’s love of the Lord.

It was a bitterly cold, windy and icy day. This location also presented the ascetic challenge for the visitor’s stamina, the individual seeking - well just looking through the ancient lichen on the weathered and worn stone and at the brilliantly brash, gold lettering incised into newly polished, alien black stone. Unlike the old, local stones with letters that have been blasted into shadows, shallow grooves hazed into illegibility describing a longing, belonging, just being there, subtle and content, there is a certain uneasiness in the new. The recent stones hold a raw and awkward nagging discontent with having to be placed on this display, in this place. They seem to declare the outcome of a transaction with the monumental mason rather than record any love through subtle and caring expression, even though placed there with love. “I'll have the black scroll with the gold; large: or the granite oval, or the Teddy bear, with no colour infill; etc.” Sad - sigh. Why are we unable to go beyond this and do better? Why are we unable to capture meaning, things subtle in the ordinary, things special in the apparently careless? Did the old stones that hold character today look so pretentious when they were new? Is lichen the moderating factor? Time? All things fade and diminish, even brashness.

I look at the church. Yes, it is crude; large; simple; crass. Just look at that entry - out of scale and childishly, simplistically axial. Look at the bell tower: gosh, so small and insignificant, added as a cliché might be, roughly, ill-considered, awkwardly - with no style or thought for other possibilities. The eye wanders to the east. What is that box doing butting and jutting. Is it just a bad connection; a rude addition, or just uninspired and careless? It looks like half a house jammed into the side of the church with a crushing connection that is both vulgar and uncouth. Why? Just look at that stair: large, ponderous, out of scale, just as the door and the bell tower, but here too big. One wanders on: names; best wishes; a loved dog; nostalgia; sentimental gushes; more slick sheen and polish contrasting with the battered and old with its engaging moss, algae, fungus and lichen, all discoloured and romantically broken: just ruins, neglected and worn down. There is a Gothic feeling lingering here in the older portions of this place - an attractive feeling of mystery and age: of time itself.

But what draws the eye back? There s something here. Is it the massing? There is something satisfying. Could it be the sculptural forming; the juxtaposition of the volumes that holds the eye? What engages here? One strolls around to consider this inkling. The stair becomes subtle. It has a Corbusian, a Mediterrean, quality. The junction is indeed attractive. The diagram of use - the kirk’s functions - is exposed; the programme: the manse and the church. Like Garnier’s Paris Opera House, this little place seems to have been shaped precisely by its functions with each mass identifying a purpose, declaring it. Sullivan’s form and function? Unbelievably this seems to be so. Why does this massing - this building - now appeal? Something has gelled. There is rigour here - weighty substance: an intelligence and understanding that hold meaning in the mean and hard, that true protestant, Presbyterian rawness - that democratic community of care that abhors waste and exuberant expression. This is the Whalsay kirk: the Whalsay Parish Church, Shetland, at the fringe of the North Sea.

One has to get a glimpse through the windows in order to see more, to understand more. Unfortunately the door is locked. There is something un-Christian about this that reminds one of the repeated disappointments of being barred from, excluded from entering, mosques, even when one is sensitive to this expression of faith. Still, even by peeping into the lower windows on the north, there is more and more to discover in this simple, impressive place. The surprise is the interior plan that can be pieced together through the reflective haze of old glass. The seating is sideways. There is no nave; no aisles; no core axial progression. The front door is a side entrance, but still the main entrance. The gesture of entry places man in a location of humility. There is no grand vision of God here, just a place for worship that is connected directly with the manse, the minister’s residence - his home and the congregation’s, side by side, but juxtaposed at a functional and symbolic right angle - that of the cross.

The link with the manse is the axis from vestry to pulpit. There is a gallery too. All the seating on both levels forms a ‘U’ around the pulpit that is positioned on the centre of the side southern wall in a double-height volume. There is an intimacy here, personal warmth. Everything is gleaming beige brown, a strange bland but rich fawn, full gloss enamel. There are a few bits of stained timber but not much. The interior reminds one of the Lunna kirk interior: economical. This smart black and white exterior on the Mainland nearby, has the same sideways planning; the same central pulpit; the same gloss beige on everything with just a little stained timber. It is probably the closest kirk of any age to Whalsay: see

What a surprise! What an idea! The democratic vision of the old church is revealed so dramatically; so intelligently. The congregation is around and above the minister who is in his raised, central octagonal box in between, at half height. There is a human quality here that one sees more explicitly at the Lunna kirk where excluded lepers were included, given access to the service through holes in the exterior southern wall. At Lunna, access to the upper level was via an external rear stair. Did this both differentiate and combine other users too? What happened here, at Whalsay? There were interior stairs to the upper gallery, but apparently no location to include lepers.

Flowers in the window reveals revealed a care and homeliness here, consistent with the intent of the planning. The revelation was that it was so light inside; that this solid mass could be so open, bright and transparent, even on this freezing, dull and windy day. One could see through, across this space into distant landscape. How could it be so vibrantly glassy when so massive and blandly solid; droll? A stroll to the south exposed the skill of the thought and intent in the making of this place. What were first seen as four large crude, mindless rectangles that a child might use to illustrate a house unimaginatively, could now be seen in their true functional contexts. The central two windows were tall and high, located either side of the pulpit. They illuminated the double height space. The other two smaller and lower openings were located further along on each side of the pulpit wall and illuminated the congregation below the gallery. All the glazing was divided into small squares, but the whole opened up the interior to the bright sky of the south. One was going to say sunny sky, but Shetland is rarely sunny; but it can often be brilliant, especially so when the bare sun does blaze in a blue sky on those very few special days when Shetland must surely be the best place in the world.

Then the organization of the southern wall is noticed. The downpipes are part of the whole patterning, with them being placed just where they were needed, in the very best Arts and Crafts fashion. The whole was more than satisfying, both as an elevational pattern and as a functional light box made for worship without any distortion or exaggeration. The church held the wonder of light for all to enjoy: the light of the world.

The kirk was indeed a surprise on surprise with its expression in so simple and ordinary a manner, unmannered, using half a typical croft house butted up against the classic form of a large house, a tall Shetland bőd - the house of man and God, each carefully articulated and identified, differentiated not with a cross but a bell, similar to Corbusier’s convent at La Tourette. Even the roof forming maintained this division, both beautifully and sculpturally. The unusual shaping of the hip roof was used to terminate the manse and provide the valley link with the simple gable roof of the church. The whole development also had some of the massing qualities of the Dominican convent, where each part had its own form and separate identity within the whole. The division here was stark - there was a clean break in the roof and in the reading of access. While the church entrance was dominant in its western façade ‘side’ entrance, the private access to the manse was via a stair hidden behind a wall, offering no welcome or encouragement to even a member of the congregation, let alone a stranger who might stumble onto it.

This ensemble was impressive. The more one studied it, the more remarkable it became. The more one walked around it, the more one came to appreciate its location in the graveyard with its unique isthmus context. Here there was a division not only between the living and the dead, but also between the sacred and the profane. This piece of sacred ground was itself distinguished from the nearby housing that overlooked this site. It was indeed special. In its simplicity, it held some of the qualities of Shaker architecture. In its care for people and principle, it did likewise. In its subtle display of wonder, it held the authority of a Shaker piece of furniture where every force had its form: see Thomas Merton, Seeking Paradise, The Spirit of the Shakers, Orbis Books, New York, 2003 and

This Whalsay church is an example of how ordinary things can be so meaningful. It shows us how affected and shallow some modern works can be: distortion for the sake of display - of ME and MY ideas. As in most quality art, traditional art, the wonder is subtly expressed without any knowledge of who was involved. The person, the maker, is irrelevant. As the Shakers noted: once a workman started to express some pride in his work he would be removed onto other tasks. Humility was a requirement. Maybe that is what is lacking today - honesty and humility? The kirk at Whalsay stands there to remind us of the potential that we know little about any more, and, unfortunately, care so little about too.

One should consider the Whaslay Parish Church, lest we forget.

NOTE: 30 October 2014
It is interesting to discover that St. Malachy's Church in Belfast has the same sideways orientation as the Whalsay Kirk: see -

9 MARCH 2017
Location: Kirk-Ness Whalsay
Built: Remodelled in 1867. The Kirk is on the site of an earlier church (1733)

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Minister: Rev Irene Charlton
Contact: Rev Irene
Tel: 01806566767
The following is a translation, from the Latin, of a historical document relating to the 'Vicarage of Nesting and Quhilsay' (Whalsay) dated A.D.1567
"Adam, by the Divine mercy, bishop of Orkney and Zetland, to the Archdean of our church of Zetland, or any other vicar of the same, wheresoever constituted within our diocese of Zetland, within divine benediction: Whereas the vicarage of Nesting and Quhilsay in Zetland, situated within our church of Zetland, now vacant by the death or deceased of sometime Sir George Strang, last vicar and possessor of the same, belonging to our presentation in full right, we have provided and conferred, as by the tenor of these presents we do confer, to a discreet man, Alexander Kyncaid, conjunctly and severally, procurator, and in name of Alexander Spittell, son of Alexander Spittell of Blairlogy, absent as present, by placing our ring on the finger of the said Alexander Kyncaid, fully committing the cure, government, and administration of the same to the said Alexander: To you, therefore, and each of you, we give in charge, straightly enjoining you in virtue of holy obedience, and under the penalties prescribed by the laws, that ye forthwith induct and invest the said Alexander Spittell, or for him his lawful procurator, into the real, actual, and corporal possession of the said vicarage of Nesting and Quhilsay respectively now vacant, according to the custom; firmly restraining gainsayers or rebels if, haply, there be any such, by the ordinary authority. In faith and testimony of which, all and sundry the premises, we have commanded and caused these our present letters of collation, or this present public instrument, written by a notary public, to be confirmed by the hanging to of our seal: Given under our subscription manual, at Edinburgh, the 20th day of May, in the year of the Lord A Thousand Five Hundred Sixty- Seven, and of our inauguration the ninth year"
Bishop of Orkney and Zetland
Ref: Goudie, Gilbert 'Antiquities of Shetland' page 147. Publisher: William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1904

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Thursday, July 2, 2015

Play Rocket League hours or days earlier

Rocket League, an arena-based, futuristic vehicle sports game is launching for free on PlayStation Plus next week, on July 7! Although released in the same day, New Zealanders would play it several hours or even over one day earlier due to the different time zones. A NewZealand VPN server allows you download and play the game the same time as New Zealanders do.

Rocket League is the successor to Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars! This racing/footie hybrid is the sequel to one PSN's all-time greats, the awkwardly titled Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars.
Prepare yourselves for free games in PlayStation! Soccer meets driving once again in the fast paced competitive car football game. Take matters into your own hands in this visceral vehicle sports game. There are rocket-powered cars, stealthy goblins, science cats, and even a little dab of arthouse wonder for good measure.
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Genre: Sports
Publisher: Psyonix
Developer: Psyonix
Now let's guide how to get the game among the top earliest:
1. Get a free New Zealand VPN server
FlyVPN provides free NewZealand server. This is the link of their free trial accounts: The New Zealand server is under account 'vpnu'. If you are new to VPN, read on their VPN tutorials.
2. Download
After connecting to a New Zealand server, start game download process and let it download somewhere between 10 to 20 MB while VPN Connection is on!
If the download speed is slow, you don't need to keep VPN on during the download process. Close VPN Connection, let your local network continues to download. It's for fast download speed.
Connect to the VPN servers again at the end of downloading, making Steaming believe you are in New Zealand.
3. Play early
Connect to New Zealand server.
Start the game and let it go all way into main menu when VPN connection is on.
Then close the game and VPN connection, but do not close the game site.

Enjoy the game now!

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Five Friday Finds - November 4

Here are this week's Five Finds; as always, feel free to share with others.

Have a great weekend!

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Online game where the user helps the gorillas identify parts of speech.

Online game where user has decimal values at the top and bottom of the dart board.  Must select values to pop the balloons located in between with darts.  Requires Shockwave.

Demonstrations that students or teachers can perform in a science classroom; easy to put together and require 3-5 minutes to perform.  Organized by grade level and curriculum strands (Canadian, but many are similar to US).

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"Discover Anne Frank's hiding place" online, including a 3D representation of the house.

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Saturday, June 9, 2012

Graylyn Honored By State Association

Graylyn Conference Center was honored recently for its efforts to promote and provide employment opportunities to students with developmental disabilities.

The Council for Exceptional Children North Carolina Division on Career Development and Transition is responsible for the statewide award. It recognized Graylyn's longstanding commitment to working with exceptional children through the Community-Based Vocational Training Program of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools. Management at Graylyn has committed resources, staff and time to train students and allow them to explore careers in the food and banquet industries.

“The staff and management at Graylyn have always treated our students with respect,” said Sandra Courtner,  a job coach in the Occupational Course of Study Program for the W-S/FC Schools, in a press release. “They give them the extra time to learn the skills required to perform their job duties. The supervisors show tremendous patience when training the students and take extra time if needed to help them do their best.”

The program places a new crew of students at Graylyn each semester, with the center holding a minimum of three positions for Occupational Course of Study students. The students are paid and receive credit toward a high school diploma. Students work in a variety of roles, including set-up, groundskeeping, laundry, housekeeping, buffet attendants and kitchen assistants.

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Seven former students have received job offers for permanent positions, and two former students are currently employed at the conference center.

Courtner said Graylyn gives students more than just an opportunity to experience life in the working world: “The entire staff welcomes the students and treats them as co-workers and equals, providing natural support as they learn technical skills and become more employable," she said.

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Hallway? Usually, you would put that kind of paneling in a study or den. They paneled the whole hallway, but none of the rooms. Then someone, probably a later owner, decided to paint the paneled walls, rather than remove them and have nice smooth plaster walls to paint on. They must have wanted just that little extra touch of class, so they used high-gloss paint. They didn't use just any high-gloss paint, either. They used high-gloss pale ORANGE paint.
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January 14, 2006

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It was friday.

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And I won a trip to Vegas at Lauren’s company’s new year party.

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  1. thats suh-weet. seriously, go you.

    Comment by Kelcium — January 15, 2006 @ 12:24 pm

  2. What is a starving college student like you gonna do in Vegas? (I don’t really want to know)

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  3. When are you going? I’d love to see you guys sometime!!

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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

He Cares...

Have you ever had a situation that you saw to be so big and so impossible that you thought there was no hope? Have you ever had something weigh so heavily on your mind that you couldn’t think about anything but your issue? Have you ever been weary, troubled and you go to church and there the preacher is preaching about a similar situation or you turn on the television, answer the phone, or look out the window and there someone is going through the same exact thing you are going through? Let me take it a step further, have you ever prayed for guidance and just opened the bible to any page and landed upon a scripture that applied to your situation? I have.

Before I received Jesus as my personal savior, I thought these things to just be coincidence. I understood that God hears all and sees all but I didn’t think that He was concerned about me. I knew that God was all powerful and that there was nothing too hard for Him but I thought that God had more important things to be concerned with beside me and my little problems. I realized that it wasn’t until circumstances proved I needed God that I called upon Him. And even then my pride wouldn’t allow me to call on Him when I needed Him the most. I feared that He wouldn’t want to hear what I had to say considering I hadn’t bothered to talk to Him until I needed something. But on the contrary, God was right there with open arms waiting for me the whole time. God was right there watching me search high and low for answers and He never imposed Himself on me. Yet, I’m sure it saddened His heart to watch me turn every which way but to Him. I thank God that He is not like man and wasn’t vengeful. He waited for me as long as it took and then accepted me just as I was. (Imagine if we had the same patience with others.) Jesus wants us to understand that there is no one else who can make everything alright. I realized that it was the will of God for me to try doing things “my way” so that I could understand that He is The Way.

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (John 14:6 NIV)

I am coming to understand that God not only wants me to trust Him with the “big” situations in life but the smaller things too. There is nothing “too small” for God. We often limit the power and purpose of God by delegating to God what we need Him to do (the big things) and electing to handle the lesser things ourselves. We have to learn to seek God in everything no matter how small it may seem.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. (Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV)

Many times I find myself trying to figure out which way to go, what to do or what to say but I’m learning more and more everyday that that’s not my job. My job is to trust Him blindly. My job is not to make sense of the situation but to give up all of my own rationale and understanding because faith doesn’t always make sense. I can beg and plead to God, throw temper tantrums, give Him back every scripture in the bible, and pray to the top of my lungs but none of that moves God. Faith moves God. That’s why the Word tells us to walk by faith and not by sight. When we pray, Jesus told us to ask and BELIEVE. If we could see what God was doing and know the outcome we wouldn’t have to trust Him. The scripture says that God will make our paths straight. That means that as long as we seek him, and trust Him we can’t go wrong. Isn’t that good news?

I never conceived in my mind that God would pursue me. I used to think of God as some Great Superior Being that was so far away and preoccupied. But all thanks be to God that I now know God has not forgotten me. He is concerned about me. Not only is God concerned about me but He knows all about me and my problems and they matter to Him.

Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows. (Matthew 10:29-31)

He is concerned about all of us. With God, there is no such thing as coincidence or happenstance. Those signs that I thought were coincidences were actually confirmations and convictions. God used certain series of events to get my attention so that He could save, heal, deliver and set me free. God allowed me to go through certain things so that my life could be a testimony to others to make me an effective wittness.

Dear Lord,
I thank you for your love, your grace, your mercy and kindness. I thank you for waiting for us . I thank you for all those you sent to wittness to us and all the things you used to get our attention. We repent for anything we said, done, thought or felt that was displeasing to you and ask us to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Secondly, we repent for being so preoccupied with the cares of this world and limiting your power in our lives. We acknowledge you as Lord of Lords and King of Kings and simply come to thank you for all that you are, all that your're doing and all that you're going to do in Jesus' name. Amen

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Stacye said...

What a Rhema word for this time. God knows all and He knows when we will turn to Him. I love Him so much for being the gentleman that He is because He will never force Himself on anyone. The word says that without Faith it is IMPOSSIBLE to please Him. So many lack faith and is the KEY! We most learn to give it ALL to Him. Great Post! Missed you!

Love Ya,

B His Girl said...

Trust Him blindly....Girl that's good. You were speaking it today. Faith moves God. I believe everything He has spoken into my life. Thanks for this powerful word. God is working powerfully through you. Powerful. Full of the Spirit. Keep sharing. B

luvmy4sons said...

Good stuff here today. I don't think we grasp totally how much God lvos us. My post tomorrow talks about how it pleases Him when we need Him. I never thought of it that way till I was pleased to be needed by my son. A lot of what you were saying in your post today made me think again on that! He is PLEASED to help us and bestow gifts on us and PLEASED when we come to Him. Hugs to you today!

From the Heart said...

Great to have you back. I've missed your posts. There's a song "PRAYER IS THE KEY TO HEAVEN BUT FAITH UNLOCKS THE DOOR. Words are so easily spoken. Prayer without faith is like a boat without an oar. Have faith when you speak to the Master, that's all He'll ask you for. Prayer is the key to Heaven, but faith Unlocks the door! Have you every prayed for something big and personal? How long did you have to wait or did the answer come at all. Words are mere expressions of thought and nothing more. Believing, believing, my friend is what really counts and faith unlocks the door." by Samuel C. Scott and Rober R.Sands.

Powerful word you spoke and powerful words in the song.

A Free Spirit Butterfly said...

Thank you Heavenly Father for having patience with me and for being the only one to pull me out of my deepest darkest moments. I once was blind but now I see....

Oh how I love you, in Jesus name AMEN!

Hey Ms. Shanita, thank you for bringing back memories of pain so that I can remember all that he is capable of even when my life seems to be going so great!

SLC said...

Good Word as always.
I remember someone not wanting to bother God with a prayer about a little pain they had. A minister reassured him that God healing that minor ache would not bankrupt God. There would be plenty more healing power left for everyone else. Allowing God to do what HE so graciously wantes to do will help me conserve my spiritual energy for the things he's called ME to do.

Thanks again for the blessing.
Missed you.

Joyfulsister said...

Hi Sis,
(((Hugz))) It was so good to see you today!!. What an awesome post, and testimony my friend, I could sense power in every word from a heart that has experienced the Lord that has been filled with his spirit. Thank you for sharing on your with me on my blog. I can see you and I sitting together and just sharing our similar journeys. I saw myself in what you shared and I know many of the other ladies as well. You bless me so!!!

Luv Ya Lorie

Spring Fricks said...

Woo-hoo, she's back, she posted and it was beautiful. Funny, I was learning this very thing this week.

I have missed you so much!!!

Thank You for reminding us that he does care.

GOD Bless~~~

Sharon said...

The signs that you thought were coincidences that were actually confirmations and convictions I have experienced the same. God has used events to get my attention so that I would learn to recognize. And yes you are so right God has allowed me to go through certain things so that my life could be a testimony to others.
This is a awesome post and a reminder I needed to hear so bad.
Thank you my friend
Have a great day, glad you are back have missed you very much.
Hugggss & Blessings

lulu said...

amen! i have had moments where God spoke to me through a book, a song, the bible, a preacher, i feeeeel you shanita so much!

Debra said...

Beautiful post-I needed it!
Love, Debra

prashant said...

We most learn to give it ALL to Him. Great Post! Missed you!
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Understanding the Iranian Perspective in Nuclear Negotiations--Huffington Post by William O. Beeman

It it's amazing that in the current nuclear negotiations taking place in Geneva  between the P5+1 nations and Iran no one in the public media is making the slightest attempt to present the Iranian perspective. That perspective is crystal clear and the US public needs to understand it to keep from going off the rails in paroxysms of irrelevant blather.

Briefly stated in Iran's position everything is based on the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to which Iran is a signatory and from which Iran derives its "inalienable right" to peaceful nuclear development.
There are 189 signatories to the Treaty (not including Israel, India, Pakistan or North Korea). The United States and its five allies do not have the power or the authority to deprive Iran of its rights under the treaty, including the right to enrich uranium and build nuclear reactors, a principle accepted for years by the Europeans and only recently called into question ONLY for Iran.

The U.S. and its allies have observed that some non-nuclear weapons states use nuclear technology but don't enrich uranium, and therefore Iran shouldn't claim that as a treaty right. First, that is not how the treaty reads. Besides this, however, the fact that some nuclear nations don't enrich uranium is utterly irrelevant. These nations could start tomorrow and no one would question them. Additionally, there are a number of NPT signatory states that do enrich uranium, such as Japan and Brazil, whose right to do so is unquestioned. Japan has even announced that it will construct nuclear weapons in the future if it has the need.

Some claim that Iran has violated the treaty by not allowing inspections of its facilities. Inspections under the NPT only pertain to sites with fissile material or which will contain fissile material in 180 days. The P5+1 nations negotiating with Iran have demanded unlimited additional inspections of non-fissile material sites without specifying them. Two are, however, widely mentioned: the incomplete Arak heavy-water nuclear electricity plant, which contains no fissile material and the Parchin military base, already inspected some years ago and found to have no fissile material.

UN Security Council resolutions on Iran have been cited as an "obligation" incumbent on Iran to cease its enrichment of uranium. However, these resolutions, starting with the first one,UNSC 1696 , although using the word "demand" in calling on Iran to suspend uranium enrichment, make it clear that this suspension is placed in the context of an earlier International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors resolution that sees such suspension as "necessary" as a confidence building measure. In the language of the resolution:
Outstanding questions can best be resolved and confidence built in the exclusively peaceful nature of Iran's program by Iran responding positively to the calls for confidence building measures which the Board has made on Iran (IAEA 2006)
It has now been seven years since these resolutions were approved. In the intervening years there has been no evidence whatever of an Iranian nuclear weapons program. Two publicly released US National Intelligence Estimates in 2007 and 2011 declared that Iran did not have an active nuclear weapons program. Every IAEA Report since 2003 declares that Iran has not diverted nuclear material for military purposes. Here is the relevant passage from the August 28, 2013 report.
Notwithstanding that certain of the activities being undertaken by Iran at some of the facilities are contrary to the relevant resolutions of the Board of Governors and the Security Council, as indicated below, the Agency continues to verify the non-diversion of declared material at these facilities and LOFs [locations outside facilies]. (IAEA 2013a, p. 3, section C.8.)
U.S. officials and media commentators have continually claimed that Iran is not cooperating with the IAEA. However on November 11, the Iranian government and the IAEA reached clear accords on Iran providing additional inspection and information regarding its program. Here is the language of the accord showing that Iran has agreed to:
1. Providing mutually agreed relevant information and managed access to the Gchine mine in Bandar Abbas
2. Providing mutually agreed relevant information and managed access to the Heavy Water Production Plant
3. Providing information on all new research reactors
4. Providing information with regard to the identification of 16 sites designated for the construction of nuclear power plants
5. Clarification of the announcement made by Iran regarding additional enrichment facilities
6. Further clarification of the announcement made by Iran with respect to laser enrichment technology (IAEA 2013b)
Iran's actions clearly do not constitute non-cooperation. The November 11 IAEA accord also includes provisions that have been discussed by the P5+1 negotiators, and have been indicated in press reports to still be controversial. Clearly these have been resolved to the satisfaction of the IAEA at present.

There are hosts of other irrelevant issues that have crept into press reports about Iran and these negotiations, such as concern about the Iranian government threatening to destroy Israel (a total lie -- it never happened) , supporting Hezbollah and Hamas, also claims with little contemporary merit. Iran's human rights record is definitely of great concern, as is its support for the Assad regime in Syria. But these again are irrelevant to the nuclear negotiations. The essence of these claims seem to be that Iran has behaved badly in other areas, and so doesn't deserve to enjoy its treaty rights.

This is not how treaty law operates, however. Many nations, including the United States have behaved badly in international relations in areas that have nothing to do with their rights and obligations under a host of treaties. To compare one with the other is a comparison of apples and oranges.

For the United States, France or the other P5+1 nations to expect Iran to abrogate its rights under pressure is both unrealistic and unreasonable. Iran will only relinquish those rights if it can be persuaded that it is receiving significant benefits for paying such a high price in terms of its sovereignty and honor. Certainly additional pressure in the form of increased sanctions against Iran will not be persuasive.

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

W. TAYLOR OUGHTON, paintings
ROBERT OUGHTON, pen and inks
ROB EVANS, paintings
LUCAS EVANS, graphite drawings and photographs

april 26 – june 15, 2013
opening reception;  april 28 1-3 p.m.
reg hrs. fridays 1-5 and saturdays 10-4 and fourth fridays 5-9

This exhibit honors the bond between fathers and sons.  These father/son bonds are particularly important when the relationship encompasses the son learning his life’s work at his father’s side.  This is the case with W. Taylor Oughton, a renowned bucks county artist, and his son Robert Oughton of Hellam township and Rob Evans, well-known York county painter and his son, Lucas, who is about to enter his formal college arts education.
The connection becomes even more interesting when it is noted that both W. Taylor Oughton and Rob Evans have paintings in the collection of the Michener museum in Doylestown, Bucks County, PA.


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Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Unsolved Spying Mysteries

We are all used to hearing some whoppers told by President Bush whenever he stands up to talk. I for one look forward to them. There is one Presidential lie in particular which weighed on my mind, however, as I heard it being told. It was the story, told repeatedly in recent weeks, about how the CIA failed to monitor or catch two of the 9/11 hijackers who were living in San Diego before the attacks. Bush says they could have been caught if the NSA had been allowed to wiretap them. This claim is untrue on a number of levels(a Bush specialty,) as 1) no existing law would have prevented the NSA from wiretapping the plotters with a court order as FISA requires, and 2) the CIA already knew of their existence yet failed to disclose it to the FBI. What is really suspicious about this story though is the unanswered question of why the Bush administration first began to circumvent the FISA court in the weeks after 9/11. I don't believe that it's because the President didn't understand the law (though he now pretends not to) or out of sheer willfulness just decided to ignore it. Rather, the only plausible explanation is that the President started asking for warrants which the FISA court rejected. This would be truly extraordinary since the court exists for the simple purpose of oversight and has hardly ever interfered with any request for a warrant which a President has requested. There would have to be a truly exceptional reason for the court to refuse such a request, especially in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. What could that reason be? The only possible explanation is that the President was requesting the power to spy on purely domestic individuals and organizations who were unrelated to any terrorist threat or national enemy. That means, most likely, peace groups, activists, and political opponents. Knowing what I know about the Bush administration, i.e. that it has no scruples and makes no difference between political opponents and enemies of the state, and given the tantalizingly unanswered questions about this case, I would be willing to bet that this is close to the truth.

The Twilight of Legal Abortion

The swearing-in of Samuel Alito as the newest Supreme Court justice was a somber day for abortion-rights advocates, some of whom spoke very eloquently about what is likely the end of the era of legal abortion. Here was Catholics for a Free Choice President Frances Kissling, as reported in Salon:

"In a way," she mused, "Roe was a socially transformative decision made in a country that was not socially transformed. In terms of social values, in terms of attitudes towards women, it was a profound anomaly. And it's not surviving. Whether it gets overturned or continues on the road to restriction, the concept of women as moral agents in relation to their own bodies is being rejected year by year by year.

"It was so far ahead of its time," she continued. "It was a visionary decision. The failure, the sad part of it, was that we weren't ready for it. The sad, sad, sad thing is society is less ready for it than it was 30 years ago, but that's not the fault of Roe." Roe, and the larger philosophy behind it -- that women are capable of moral agency -- Kissling said, "was never really realized. But maybe what one can say is that in history, 100 years from now, or 200 years from now, when Roe is looked at, it will be looked at as one of the most-forward-thinking, principled decisions for women. Whether it survives or not, it existed. And it will be looked at as an important moment."

Those are serious, heartfelt words which bear careful thinking about. Kissling is probably right that Roe really did raise the cultural consciousness of "a woman's body" in a way which had never been done before, and gave women unprecedented power (executive, veto-power) over their own bodies even when that autonomy collided with that of other, even less visible bodies. However, that wasn't entirely a good thing. The pornography boom of the 1970's also heightened the awareness of women's bodies, and demeaned them for the sake of the same principle of autonomy. As I have written before, I don't believe that criminalization is a just or reasonable solution to the problem of abortion, especially when it is coupled, as it surely will be, with an insanely contradictory push to limit access to birth control. It is the anti-birth control fanatics who are the real danger, and they are also the ones who will be emboldened by future anti-abortion rulings.

So Kissling is right that something is changing, and something is being lost. An important era in history really is coming to a close. An experiment in women's rights is being concluded. It's hard to say if Roe was ahead of its time or if it was fatally flawed. Perhaps no one should be given as much power over their own bodies as Roe attempted to give pregnant women. Nevertheless there is little doubt in my mind that the confirmation of Samuel Alito is a bad thing for women, and that the consequences will be dire.

Perhaps what is really being lost with the passing of Roe is the possibility of a just and lasting solution to the abortion problem, one which would have balanced the right of women to determine the course of their own pregnancy with the objective reality of the fetus as a developing person. That solution was taking shape during the Clinton years, with the goal of making abortion "safe, legal, and rare." Like Roe, it's quickly becoming a thing of the past.

Friday, January 13, 2006

Hold Your Breath, The Big One's Coming

Anyone who doesn't feel a chill down the spine hearing about the NSA spying case doesn't have a pulse. The more details that come out, the more I feel like we're reaching the "Revenge of the Sith" part of the epic, the part where all the pieces fall into place and everyone realizes what's been happening all along but it's too late to do anything about it. Am I in a paranoid mood today? It's hard not to be. The takeover of this country may really be about to happen. For anyone who thinks that's impossible, let me float a few thoughts your way. First of all, I was never fully convinced that the Bush administration would have actually abided by the results of the 2004 election if it had gone John Kerry's way. When you work this hard to consolidate power, break this many laws, cover up this many secrets - in short, when you go this far down the road of authoritarian rule, you don't just hand over power at the results of one little election. We never got to see the Constitutional crisis which could have erupted in 2000 had the vote-counting in Florida gone Al Gore's way, and the same goes for 2004. Two close misses in five years might mean time's up. So my question is, will there be a Presidential election in 2008? I am deadly serious when I say that I have no idea.

Secondly, it is very important to remember that the central principle being debated in the NSA case is not civil liberties versus national security. An accurate news item summing up the debate would read like this: "Sharp debate has issued from Washington lately on the question of whether the President has the right to break the law in matters relating to war and terrorism. President Bush's critics in Congress have argued that the President must abide by laws which govern his conduct of the war on terror. The President, in contrast, has argued that the laws do not apply to him in his capacity as Commander-in-Chief." So I ask you again whether I am being paranoid in wondering whether we are really approaching a watershed moment in American history. I know that past Presidents have often sought extraordinary powers, and usually been denied them. I know that Presidents have tried very hard to change laws that they don't like, sometimes unethically. I know about how Lincoln suspended habeus corpus during the Civil War, how FDR packed the Supreme Court, and of course about Nixon and Watergate. But I don't ever remember a President arguing before that the laws simply do not apply to him, which is the same as saying that the Executive branch is not compelled to respect any decision or any action of Congress.

So there's an unprecedented fissure opening up between Congress and the Presidency, which will almost certainly provoke a major crisis. But that's not even the bottom of where this is heading. There's also an Executive war against the press which is about to boil over. A White House decision to take on the New York Times over its decision to publish the NSA story could light that powder keg. Will we see the government suspend freedom of the press in the name of national security?

All of this points to the fundamental social and political change which the Bush administration is seeking, ever so methodically, to bring about: the President's actions are to be deemed as always legal and always secret, and to report them or criticize them is to be deemed as always illegal. This is what the White House is basically arguing in its case against the New York Times and in its determination to find and punish those who leaked information about the NSA spying program to the press. National security depends on the President being able to act in secret above the law, and therefore it is a crime against national security to reveal any of these secrets. We are just beginning to see the outline of that argument as it appears.

Of course, this leads to the final war being waged by the administration which is the one against the American people. If Congress fails in its attempt to impeach the President or to compel the Executive branch to comply with elections in 2008 or to prevent the Executive from suspending freedom of the press, then we can expect to see an all out assault against the Bill of Rights, i.e. the freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, etc. Life in America will change in ways that are for the moment impossible to predict. I'll offer one prediction though, if this worst case scenario really does come true. Sometime after 2008, the government will outlaw the Democratic Party, and rename it al-Qaeda.


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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Reality TV For Everyone

I can honestly state that I don't watch reality TV. I know there are many closet reality watches which enjoy these programs in secret but, I don't see the allure of them. I've seen 'The Amazing Race' a few times and it was somewhat entertaining but, that's about it. I've never seen 'Big Brother'. Not one time. Not even one minute. I believe this is the show that started it all. I simply have no interest in this type of . . . entertainment. Entertainment?

Well, I guess many do watch reality TV or they wouldn't keep producing them. And produce them they do. Since the creation of this crap there has been a massive invasion of more and more reality for our idiot boxes. They have reality shows for just about everything and everyone. What, you haven't had enough yet? You need a show which appeals directly to you? There is a new one coming your way. Maybe this program will keep you glued to your television.

I've got a great and creative idea for a new show. How about a show on kidney transplants? No, not a documentary of the surgery but, something more riveting. Stay with me now. Picture this - a terminally ill woman will select one of three patients to receive her kidneys! That should work for ya.

She will make her choice based on the contestants' history, profile and conversation with their family and friends.

Viewers will also be able to send in their advice by text message during the 80-minute show. Yup, 80 minutes. We all know a 60 minute program just wouldn't be enough!

Ah, damn! Someone beat me to it! Wouldn't you know. I guess I'm not they only creative guy around. It turns out that Dutch television is way ahead of me. Wait, wait! There seems to be a lot of controversy surrounding this program over there. Perhaps, I still could sell this idea to Hollywood. Surely, we here in America can see the need for this stuff. Hell, we don't have enough good entertainment on our televisions yet. We need more reality and this could help fill the void. I know I'm onto something here.

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Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Being Kind to Myself

My last post was all about why we are kind to strangers.  Thank you for all your wonderful responses!
This one, as you will see, is all about being kind to ourselves.  Oddly, it’s something we often find more difficult to do.
Early on Monday morning I had an email from Australia, telling me that my brother Steve is back in hospital.  Probably nothing too serious, some tests to check things out. More news later......  Hmmmmm.
I set off to work as usual, had a couple of meetings, then tried to concentrate on writing a research report.  By lunchtime I realised I just couldn’t get my head round it, and was making all sorts of silly mistakes. So I went out for a stroll to clear my head.
On the way I passed two colleagues.  I must have looked a bit shaky because they both stopped and asked me if I was OK.  A few years back I would have said ‘Yes thanks, I’m fine’ and carried on.  But I’ve realised that’s not a great way to proceed, so I said ‘No, not really’ and told them why.  I got warm words and a hug. Which was nice.
Instead of walking round the campus, I found myself heading for Costas Coffee. I bought a large hot chocolate with marshmallows and cream, and a lemon drizzle muffin.  Back in my office I thought I would drink the chocolate and save the muffin for later.  But I didn’t, I scoffed the lot - and felt much, much better.
Cycling home in the rain (surprisingly enjoyable when you’ve got the right gear on) I detoured up the hill from Netherfield Road to St George’s Church. It’s a tough climb for me, and I’m always puffing and panting – but this time I managed to get to the top without stopping. And then, the pure pleasure of freewheeling down Everton Brow.

Then it was off to my Tai Chi class in our local community centre.  As always it was a lovely session, five minutes of meditation followed by half an hour of  balancing, calming movement.

So, without really planning it, I found I’d created my own new well-being recipe for the day.  Human comfort, comfort food and drink, a bit of a physical challenge and then some deep relaxation.

Different things work for different people, but the basic message is the same. We need – and deserve – to look after ourselves, as well as looking after other people.  Kindness goes in all directions.
How would you have been kind to yourself, if you’d received that sort of worrying news?

P.S. I’m pleased to say that Steve is OK.  It turns out it was a minor hiccup rather than a major setback.


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Monday, May 2, 2011

Training log - Week ending 5/01/11

This week was 36 miles of “real running” and 48 “miles” pool running (per my conversion below) plus 2800m of swimming -- training log is here.

Essentially, this week was a mixed bag. I had a decent workout on Tuesday, but my race on Sunday was not great (race report).

Post-race, my coach made it extremely clear in a series of emails that I am shooting myself in the foot by doing way too much work and failing to taper, and that I will never experience a solid breakthrough and run the times I am capable of running until I start allowing myself to recover.

Based on this, I wrote up a proposed schedule that significantly cuts back on my pool-running and swimming. He grudgingly admitted that the proposed schedule doesn't make him want to tear his hair out, so I guess that's a start :). Now I just need to follow it to the letter.

Separately, I met with my GI doctor on Friday morning to discuss my stomach difficulties. He actually has an interesting theory that my stomach issues (and possibly my breathing problems) are related to my Reynauds -- basically, when I get an attack, it's not just the blood vessels in my hands that vaso-constrict, but also sometimes the vessels circulating blood elsewhere, including to my GI system.

It's just a theory, but this has been seen before, and so he strongly recommended that I consult a vascular specialist.  I'm coming up with a short list of specialists who are covered by my insurance, and then he'll look them over and recommend whom I should see. That's the more positive news; the other news is that he also needs to rule out Crohns disease, so I have the most unpleasant of exams scheduled to rule that one out (and he also wanted me to schedule it as soon as possible -- no putting off this one, *sigh*).

Monday: In the morning, "12 miles" – 2 hours easy pool-running. Foam-rolling+stretching+injury prevention exercise in the evening.

Tuesday: In the morning, 10 miles on the track, including a track workout of 4x1200m with half-distance recovery -- splits of 4:42, 4:39, 4:37, 4:39. I felt pretty good here -- focused on relaxing into the correct effort and not straining or trying to race the workout. We had our choice of 4 or 5 repeats, but I opted for 4 as I was getting pretty overheated by the end (unseasonably warm and humid) and I had Broad Street on Sunday. Breathing is getting easier. Followed up with 1200m of easy swimming (all breathing drills with pull buoy) and "1 mile" of easy pool-running (10 minutes -- just wanted to get the recovery benefits for my legs post-track). In the evening, upper body strength-training plus "4 miles" of easy pool-running (40 minutes)

Wednesday: In the morning, 10 easy miles outside on a flat route (8:36 pace), followed by "7 miles" (70 minutes) of easy pool-running. Foam rolling plus yoga at night.

Thursday: In the morning, "11 miles" of easy pool-running (1:50) followed by strength-training. 1600m of easy swimming (all breathing drills with pull buoy) at night.

Friday: In the morning, 4.5 easy miles outside (8:18 pace) plus drills and strides, followed by "9 miles" (90 minutes) easy pool-running. Foam-rolling plus injury prevention work and stretching in the evening.

Saturday: In the morning, "4 miles" of very easy pool-running as a shakeout. Foam-rolling+stretching in the afternoon.  And got to finally meet Flo that night!

Sunday: 1 mile easy jog warm-up and then a 10 mile race in 69:27 (6:57 pace, race report).

  1. You do always seem to do an awful lot. Listen to your coach--that's why you hired him, right? Still, a great race and report--I wish I could run anywhere near that fast. But don't ever move to Florida--temps started at 70 degrees and climbing at my 5K this past weekend--race report here:

    Happy training and running!

    lalala aka Tina :)

  2. I can only imagine what an "extremely clear" email from the coach looks like. :) but I think it's great that you are listening and adjusting - many people continue to be stubborn about their training (I've been in this group a few times...). i read your race report and i really feel for you on the heat - it's so tough to make the most of a racing season when the weather persists in being uncooperative. what's coming up on your training schedule?


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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Andrea & Derek {Twenty Valley Jordan Engagement Photographer}

Andrea found me online when searching for Costa Rican wedding photographers. Oddly enough, we live only two towns away from each other. We photographed their engagement session on Friday and these two were so full of spunk and energy!

We wish them the best away for their beautiful destination wedding.

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Youth High School Mission Trip to Honduras
July 10, 2017. All day
Organizer: Steve Weber

Who?                   High School students currently in grades 9-12

When?                 July 10-17, 2017

Where?           Tegucigalpa, Honduras

What will we be doing?

We will be partnering with Point of Impact Ministries. POI seeks to take the Gospel to the nations by loving the “least of these” and meeting physical needs through children's programs and the local church. POI consists of two churches across the city that strive to meet the physical and spiritual needs of it’s people. We will be helping teach children’s programs, building homes for families in the community, feeding residents at the dump and rehab shelters, and playing with children in a special needs orphanage.          To find out more, go to www.poihn.org.

How much?        $1,200  * We will have 3 different fundraisers to help raise money for this trip.

Sign up for our Parenting Workshop on Sat, Oct 28, 9am-noon HERE
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Ricard carafe and glass by Mathieu Lehanneur

Thursday, 27 June 2013

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has designed a new Ricard carafe and glass for use in bars, clubs and restaurants. The design of the glass means a perfect measure can be poured within the stem, which is attached to a flared opening that contains ice cubes so that they don't fall into the liquid beneath.


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Friday, November 14, 2008

Cheater, Cheater Pumpkin Eater

So I cheated to make these cookies, they are not exactly from scratch... however I am not claiming these are healthy for you. Hmm, maybe the vegetable aka pumpkin cancels the cake mix. They are tasty and ridiculiously easy!

2 spice cake mixes
1 large can of pumpkin (29oz-ish)
a bag of chocolate chips
mix together,
Convection -bake 325F - 12min
Regular - bake 350F regular probably 15-18 mins.

Joanna said...

those look very tasty... I will have to try them too!

Lahni said...

Sounds good!

Natalie said...

These look awesome. Hey, have you ever tried mixing cake mix & diet coke? I've never tried it, but you're supposed to be able to substitute the eggs, oil, and water with a can of diet coke to make cake lower calorie. I'm sort of curious about it.


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Sunday, May 20, 2012

This is the second installment of my phone.    I had the damn thing plugged in to charge for 18 hours.   It did not get any higher than 70% and in the 30 minutes it took me to drive to the Verizon Store it was now down to  60%.

The salesman was very nice,  we can change the battery.   GREAT, but, no wait.   You can not change the battery, it is built in to the damned phone.   He ordered another replacement, which will take another 5 days.   I was not going to spend that again to get the second replacement.

I just think I will have to keep my phone plugged in perpetually till the next replacement gets here.  Where is their quality control that they would not check this?    One thing I know for sure is that I will not get another smart phone that can not utilize a replaceable battery.

This is turning into a saga, and I am tired of it.

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  1. So, the smart phone you have isn't so smart. I am to old fashioned. Won't even try one. I have a hard enough time using my cell phone that you buy minutes for. Thanks for the tip. I have used Pepcid before but hubby went to get it and decided I needed the last bottle of gaviscon. Hope it works.


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Monday, September 30, 2013

Welcome back?'s been a while.
We left Texas bound for the North Shore of Massachusetts in June of 2012, when our new daughter was 2 1/2 months old. Since then it's been...hectic.

I love it here, but not quite in the distict locale we have landed. We are in a small town filled with snobby people. I want to move to Beverly. That's all I will say about that, for now.
(When neighbors report your garbage to the recycle police? It's time to move on...)

Anyhow, here I am, mom to 2, in a place I never could have imagined geographically or metaphysically. I lived in RI for 38 years. I do miss my home. But. I'd be very happy in a grittier community on the North Shore.

I'm putting this stupid blog back online. I have a lot to say. Hope you are ready.