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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the repository?

It is like a library for linguistic data and tools.

  • Search for data and tools and easily download them.
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What submissions do we accept?

We accept any linguistic and/or NLP data and tools: corpora, treebanks, lexica, but also trained language models, parsers, taggers, MT systems, linguistic web services, etc. We do not strictly require you to upload the data itself, although it is always better to do it. Still, you can make a metadata-only record, if required. We also support online license-signing for immediate availability of restricted resources.

When uploading language resources, please try to use one of the recommended formats mentioned in LRT Standards.

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  • If you don't have an academic account that works with us, let us know. We will make you a local account.

I see an error logging in

Please let us know through our Help Desk, if you have any trouble logging in.

Occasionally (usually when you are the first one logging in using your home institution) you might see an error stating "The authentication was successful; however, your identity provider did provide neither your email, eppn nor targeted id." This means your home institution did not send us enough data about you to operate our service; the institution is doing so to protect your personal data. We only require an email and we are following Data Protection Code of Conduct, which helps us convince the institution we won't abuse data about you.

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Why should I submit my data into your repository?

  • It is free and safe.
  • We respect your license. We encourage Free Data and believe it benefits not only users, but also the data providers. However we accept also more closed data and we can make users sign a license before downloading your data, if that is what you need.
  • The data is visible, giving you maximal credit for your work (google, VLO, DataCite, OLAC, Data Citation Index, arXive).
  • The data is easy to cite. We provide ready-to-use one-click citations in BibTex, RIS, and other popular reference formats. All the citations include permanent links created from persistent identifiers (we use handles for PIDs). These PIDs are future-proof.
  • For some data, like text corpora or treebanks, we can provide additional services, like full-text or even tree-query search.

Why should I submit my tools?

  • See "Why should I submit my data into your repository?". Everything applies to software tools too.
  • You can just link your version control system (svn, git), if it is publicly accessible. You can also link your project page, or demo site.

What is the PID (handle) good for?

It is a special permanent URL. It provides a permanent link that will resolve correctly even if in some distant future the data is moved. Thus it should be used as URL in citations.

What is the actual depositing/archiving procedure?

During the submission of digital language resources to the repository, the data undergo a curation process in order to ensure quality and consistency. We assist you in meeting necessary requirements for sustainable resource archiving. Data have to be provided with metadata in standard formats accepted/adopted in the respective communities, persistent identifiers (PIDs) have to be assigned, IPR issues have to be resolved and clear statements with regard to licensing and possible use of the resources are to be made. The depositor is also required to electronically sign a deposition agreement acknowledging the (s)he is the holder of rights to the data and that (s)he has the right to grant the rights contained in this licence. Once the data is indeed deposited in the repository it is assigned a PID for stable reference.

What if I want/need to update the archived data?

Every change to the resources and metadata should be stored as a new version with a new PID. However if the changes are minimal (e.g., typos or clear mistakes) then contact our Help Desk with the submission PID and the changes which should be made. It is up to the reviewer to decide whether these changes should result in a new version or not.

What if I want to withdraw the resources in the future? Can I delete the data?

Yes, in this case contact our Help Desk with the submission PID and the reason. However, we need to keep a reference that the data was in our repository (because a persistent identifier was issued), so the administrative metadata will be retained indicating that the data itself were removed.

We have started our own repository, can we somehow move records submitted to the LRT collection?

We can create a tombstone page for the moved record and we can add a notice to that page saying the resource is now at a new location. The submission is effectively hidden from search, browse and harvesting (oai-pmh), but the PID still resolves. Thus instead of the actual data, we show a link to the item in your repository. Please contact the Help Desk for more details.

I don't want / cannot make the data publicly available or make them available after a specific date. Would you still archive them for me?

In accordance with the advocacy of the research infrastructures and the general development with respect to Open Access, we strongly encourage the data producers to be as open as possible. However, in other circumstances we will archive your data even if they will not be publicly available. Please, contact our Help Desk prior to completing the submission.

How to cite a submissions?

See our policies.

How safe is my data, if I store it with you?

Quite safe, probably much more than in your computer. Our storage plan:

  • All the data in the repository have an on-site backup copy.
  • There is another off-site copy, so even complete destruction of our building does not destroy your data.
  • We check all the copies regularly and should any of them become corrupted we delete it and make a new one.
  • We keep at least three copies, one of them off-site, at all times

What license should I pick for my data/tool?

We encourage using a free license. A representative selection of free licenses as well as CC licenses (more appropriate for data) is available directly during submission. There is a great OPEN License Selector which can guide you through the selection of appropriate license.
If for some reason you need a different license, Contact Us.

Where can I find more information about supported licenses?

The list of licenses currently supported is here. However, do not hesitate to Contact Us in case you need your specific license. The licenses can be accompanied by various requirements; eg. limiting to logged in users, filling additional details (purpose) etc.

Why do we strongly prefer real authors to institutions?

It is not about contact, it is about citations, credit and trust. That is why we have separate metadata fields for authors and for contact person. Contact to a helpdesk is perfect, not acknowledging the authors of a scholarly work is not. We support the direct citation of data ( That is why we also give them PIDs, create formatted citations, etc. That is the reason we really want proper authors, so that they get citations and other scientists know whose work they rely on.

How do I get the most of my searches?

In contrast to other search engines this one uses OR as a default operator; see examples below that clarify this. If you are not satisfied with the results of your searches, you might wish to go beyond plain text searches. You may search only in certain fields, use negation, add score (emphasis) to some parts of the query and match more. The search engine is SOLR so use it's syntax if you know it or check it in the documentation.

PDT wordnet vs PDT AND wordnet
The default operator is OR; ie. the first example searches for PDT OR WordNet in all text fields.
dc.title:P?T && -dc.title:WordNet
Returns all items having P?T in title - ? stands for any character (eg. PDT) - and not having WordNet in the title
dc.title:"Czech WordNet"
Use double quotes (") for exact matches and multiword expressions
author:(Bojar && -Tamchyna) && (dc.language.iso:(ces AND eng) OR language:(czech AND english))
Search for items by one author and not the other; interesting are only items about both czech and english languages.

New versions/updating submitted data

As you may have read elsewhere in the repository help, we do not allow changes in the data after a submission was published. You need to create a new one by creating a new version.


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Alumni Profiles: Sirant Family

Mike and Gail Sirant have three sons that attended LCS for most of their schooling.  During their time at Linden, the family left for two years to live in Europe while Mike, who is the longtime men’s hockey coach at the University of Manitoba, had the opportunity to coach in Denmark.

While all three boys had great experiences at the international school they attended in Europe, they were happy when they returned to Canada and LCS.
When they returned, Luke was in Grade 10, Brett was in Grade 8 and Alex was in Grade 6.
It was like they’d never left, says Brett.

“We just seemed to pick up right where we left off. After living in Europe, we came back with a different perspective. We felt fortunate to be able to live in Canada, and to be able to go to LCS.”

In short, the boys had come home.

“There was a real sense of continuity and steadiness,” says Luke. “That familiarity with teachers and students made our return very comfortable”. For Luke, the teachers stood out in two ways.  “They not only challenged us academically, but the amount of care they showed for students was incredible.”

Brett says his experience was much the same.
“The teachers held us accountable. They wanted us to develop not only academically, but as people and followers of Christ. They were role models and really helped us grow.”

Alex says the strong community feel at LCS made a huge impression on him.
“There was a real sense of community,” he says. “The teachers were more like mentors – you could talk to them about anything. With the students, everyone was friendly, so you got to know each other well.  You were able to share in your struggles, and your walk with Christ.”
Gail, who is an Early Years Physical Education teacher at Linden,  says LCS’ Christ-centred education makes a huge difference in the development of students.
“Teachers have the power to pray with kids – it makes a big difference.”
That’s true, adds Alex.  “Everyone is comfortable and tight – you’re not afraid to share. Students can get the help they need. An atmosphere like that really helps you thrive.”

Today, all three boys have graduated and are in different phases of their lives.
Luke, 27, who earned his Kinesiology degree at the U of M, is now completing his Masters with a focus on concussion research at the University of Regina.  He is also working with undergraduate students as a lab instructor. His plans are to start medical school this Fall.
Brett, 24, is an Engineering graduate currently working as a consultant for the government of Nunavut, while Alex, 23, is in recreation management, looking to develop a career in sports management.

All three –  based on the foundation that was laid at LCS – are trusting God to guide them in their careers and life, content in the knowledge that He has a plan for them.

They’re also using what they learned at LCS in their different work settings, doing their best to shine for Christ.

“I hope that people can see Christ in me,” says Brett. “I’m on a bit of an unexpected adventure and am using my teachers’ influences in how I interact with others.”

Luke says he’s doing the same.
“I’m modeling the teaching style I use with my students from the teachers at LCS – their kindness, and emphasis on developing a strong work ethic. LCS was really a foundation to build from.”

Mike says the decision to enroll Luke, Brett and Alex at LCS was one of the best decisions he and Gail have made.
“We’re very proud of our sons. They’re good employees and students, positive contributors to society, and will be good husbands and fathers. We’re grateful for LCS’ Christ-centred foundation. It reinforced the values they were taught at home and has been instrumental in helping them achieve success in their chosen careers, and to be humble, honest, and caring people.

Alumni Profiles: Blake Mackay

Though he’s ten years removed from attending Linden Christian School, that hasn’t diminished the impact the school had on Blake MacKay’s life. MacKay says he’s happy his parents – who initially enrolled his brother in public school – ultimately chose LCS.

“My brother was at another school, but after seeing the positive effect that LCS had on my education, decided to have both of us attend LCS,” he recalls. “Even though there was a cost associated with sending us to LCS, both my parents and grandparents agreed the cost was well worth it.”

MacKay says the Christ-centered education he received from Kindergarten to Grade 12 played a central role in molding him into the person he is today. “The values that Christ modeled are rooted into the curriculum and everything you do at LCS. Christ’s values are everywhere – in classes; in the activities you do.”

A prime example of how those Christian values were woven into the curriculum was math class, says MacKay. “Our teachers actually talked about tithing – how we were to test God, and that it was a tool for advancing the Kingdom. It was cool how the topic was integrated into class. Not only that, but God was brought into every aspect of school.”

At the same time, the environment at LCS – calm, stable, nurturing yet challenging – was empowering. “I felt safe and comfortable,” says MacKay, who attended LCS from Kindergarten to Grade 12. “Staff turnover was low, so we got to know our teachers. Classes were also smaller, which helped with our studies. And because we were able to follow along with the same group of students from year to year, a lot of us became good friends.”

Then there were the teachers, who modeled Christ in how they treated each student. “Our teachers took a profound interest in our spiritual, personal and academic growth – it was something you could sense, even at a young age,” he says. “They encouraged us to push
further and supported us through the process. It helps your gifts come to the surface.”

In MacKay’s case, his teachers were gifted at identifying his gifts – gifts that were pinpointed by the time he was in junior high (Grades 7 and 8). “They said I had some real strengths in science and encouraged me to develop those strengths. It turned out that they were right.”

After graduating from LCS in 2009, MacKay enrolled at the University of Winnipeg to study science and biochemistry. Four years later, he gained entrance into the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Medicine after graduating at the top of his class with two gold medals – and an entrance scholarship. MacKay then graduated from the Faculty of Medicine after another four years of studies. He has just completed his residency at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine in North Bay, Ontario, where he lives with his wife Jenny, who also happens to be a doctor.

At age 28, the former triathlete is poised to use his medical skills for the betterment of the Kingdom. “I’m in family medicine right now, but my focus is likely going to be on sport, family and emergency medicine,” he says. “I also have an interest in serving First Nations and remote communities. I was just up in Sioux Lookout, and the work was empowering and rewarding.”

Not one to shy away from a challenge, Blake is presently preparing to go with Jenny to Cape Town, South Africa. “We’re going there to get some firsthand experience in high-volume trauma and resuscitation,” he says. “We hope to bring these skills back to the emergency centres of Northern Ontario, where patients are typically far away from tertiary care.” Although there’s plenty of adventure in the offing, MacKay says he isn’t stressed in the least. After all, God is in control.

“We’re just going to submit to God and see where He takes us,” says Blake. “As I learned at LCS, God is rooted in everything you do. He has our best interests at heart, so I’m not stressed or worried – I’m excited.” As he looks at all the possibilities in front of him, MacKay says his goals are simple. He aspires to set up a practice in a rural setting, help First Nation communities, start a Christian medical community (wherever he and Jenny put down roots), start a home church and – of course – start a family.

With all those challenges ahead, MacKay says he’s thankful for the solid, Christ-centred foundation that was laid at LCS. “I owe a lot of thanks to my teachers, the staff at LCS and God,” he says. At LCS, I learned how to behave in a Christ-like manner on a daily basis, and
developed a love for people, things that are benefitting me now in medicine. I can’t thank them enough.”

Alumni Profiles: Brent Murray

Brent Murray’s path to attending Linden Christian School was different than most. As fate would have it, his grandparents suggested that the 2010 Linden grad – Murray was born with clubbed feet – go to LCS to benefit from a more accepting environment. “My grandparents thought it would be a good idea for me to go there so I wouldn’t get bullied for being different,” recalls Murray. “That’s how I got involved at LCS. It was a relief not to be singled out. I decided to keep going because I enjoyed going to school there.”

The fact that he enjoyed attending LCS was also something of a minor miracle, as Murray wasn’t a Christian. In fact, he didn’t become a Christian until the summer before Grade 12. Murray says the acceptance and love that he received from the teachers, staff and students at LCS played a major role in his eventual decision to follow Jesus. “I had so much support from my teachers. Even though they knew I wasn’t a believer, they still loved and supported
me, and my friends helped me too. No one forced the gospel down my throat, and I really appreciated that.”

Eventually, it dawned on him where all that love and support came from: Jesus. “I went on a walk in Assiniboine Park,” recalls Murray. “During the walk, I prayed, and decided to go all in to follow Jesus. What I didn’t know was that my friends were praying for me on that day at that time. It was such a cool experience. I told my friends about it, and they were overjoyed. Again, the key was that they didn’t force their faith on me – they just loved me for who I was.”

The nurturing environment at LCS also played key role in his development as he progressed in school. Murray eventually got involved in jazz and played with Linden’s jazz band as a bass trombonist. He credits music for helping him cope with adversity during his middle school years. “My mom had to go into hospital with Crohn’s Disease, and the doctors said there was a chance she wouldn’t live through the operation. But because I was able to play music, I was able to vent my emotions through it. Still, it was hard.”

So hard, in fact, that Murray was struggling mightily in his studies – so much so that he was
in danger of falling behind. “I wasn’t doing well in school at all,” he says. “Because we were struggling financially, I got a paper route and mowed lawns to help out. It was the support of my teachers and friends that got me through. One day, I snapped at a teacher, and she took me out into the hall and asked what was wrong. “

Her concern floored young Murray. “Instead of being mad, she asked me if I was safe. Right
then and there, I knew that my teachers were on my side.”

All that love and support was pivotal in young Murray’s development. Instead of becoming angry and bitter about life, he mirrored that attitude in loving and supporting others, particularly troubled youths. “I began working full-time at Camp Arnes and their
wilderness getaway for troubled kids,” he says. “That continued, and I also got involved with an organization called Adventurous Leadership and their youth outdoor project. I’m now working as a wilderness guide for Wilderland Adventure Company taking clients – usually
youth – out on wilderness trips.

At the same time, Murray, 27, has been studying geography at the University of Winnipeg, where he’s excelled in his studies and is now working on his thesis. Brent headed off to Australia on May 29 to gain extra material for his thesis. “I actually received three academic grants for the trip to Australia. I’m really looking forward to it,” he says. “As a remote sensing analyst, I’ll be looking at satellite images of a rain forest to track its health and will also be using the data for studies on climate change and cultural ecosystems of Indigenous people in the area.”

As for his future, Murray says his plans are fluid. “I’ll come back home at the beginning of September and will have to do another semester at the U of W,” he notes. “I’ll graduate in January 2020, and through all that will still have the opportunity to work with Wilderland Adventure Company.”

In the meantime, Murray will continue to live out the life-changing faith the he found at LCS.
“I want to model what I saw at LCS. I don’t shove my faith down people’s throats, I just work at being consistent with my actions and loving people regardless of whether they’re a Christian or not. I’ll walk them through things in a loving way, pray for them and plant seeds. It’s their choice to become a Christian. All I can do is be attractive to them with my actions.”

As has been the case for the last 10 years, he’s content to let God lead the way. “Life is a God-led adventure,” he says. “I can see God’s work in every area of my life, particularly when I was younger. I’m just trusting Him moving forward. I don’t know exactly what I’ll be doing, but I’m trusting it will work out due to His will.”

Alumni Profiles: Michael Streuber

In the fall of 2018, LCS Class of 2004 grad Michael Streuber came back to register his five-year-old son for kindergarten. In the span of 14 years, life had come full circle. “It was surreal coming back,” says Streuber, 33, who currently serves as Senior Director of Operations at Youth for Christ Winnipeg. “I felt like I was in school again.”

Unlike his son, Streuber started at Linden in Grade 3. His parents were dissatisfied with the school where he was originally enrolled and made the decision to move him and his sisters to Linden, hoping there would be a marked improvement in the atmosphere and overall quality of education.

There was.

“You felt like you were part of a big family,” he says. “I have a lot of positive memories.” Foremost among those memories is how stable the atmosphere was at LCS. “The first thing I remember is the consistency. I basically went to school with many of the same kids from elementary into high school. For the ten years I went there, I knew most of the same students for the whole time. I still connect with some of the people I went to school with over those years.”

His next memory involves the genuine concern his teachers showed for him on a day-in, day-out basis. “The care they showed was a significant thing for me,” says Streuber, who was active in music from Grade 6 through to his graduation. “I wasn’t always perfect, yet they still loved me. And that love and care was genuine. I wasn’t just a student they had to put up with. That came through in how they treated me.”

While the consistency and care resonated with him during his time at LCS, something else made a big impression on him: the school’s Christ-centred approach to delivering education. “Being in chapel, doing worship and praying with people was a very positive experience. At the time, I may not have realized it, but it laid a foundation in me.”

That foundation proved to be of critical importance after Streuber graduated. As is often the case with many high school graduates, he struggled to find his place in the world. After attending Providence College for one year, he enrolled at the University of Manitoba, where he earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree. Still searching for his place in life, Streuber took a job at a trucking firm. All the while, he was wondering how he was having an eternal effect on people. Then, his sister called. “She saw a job posting she thought I’d like at Youth for Christ. It turned out to be in a missionary role, which wasn’t exactly what I expected. Still, I spent some time discerning what the Lord was calling me to do and decided to join the mission of Youth for Christ. I stepped out in faith and said yes.”

Eight years later, he’s still with YFC Winnipeg and playing a central role in the organization’s operations. “You know, if I didn’t have that core foundation from LCS, I might have pulled away from Christ – there are a lot of distractions in the world,” he says. “But I had my faith and knew what was important in life.”

Today, that unwavering faith is helping him deal with the daily challenges of youth ministry. “You won’t last long in this type of ministry without it. With youth ministry, the enemy is always trying to derail things and there are always challenges. But I keep my eyes on Christ and stay locked in on my faith. The more you exercise it, the more trust and strength you find.”

Thanks in large part to Linden Christian School, the father of three (and husband of Kimberly) has found his place in life. “It all goes back to the foundational work that was done over the time I attended LCS,” says Streuber. “I wouldn’t change a thing. Now, my son is going to Linden, and so will my other kids. I have total trust and peace because I know the teachers and staff will treat my kids with the same consistency and care I received.”

Alumni Profiles: Chantelle Byrnes

Chantelle Byrnes vividly recalls her first day attending Linden Christian School back in the late nineties.

“As you might imagine, I had that type of nervousness you get when you start anything new,” she says, noting that she had been home schooled up to Grade 4. “There I was, starting Grade 5 in a new school, and a girl named Laura Jane came bounding up to me and asked me to be her friend.”

Having a friend right away not only put Chantelle at ease – Byrnes has remained friends with Laura Jane to this day, incidentally – but also proved to be a positive precursor of what was to come at LCS. “I didn’t really know what to expect,” she says. “I hadn’t been in a classroom environment, so I just hoped that I’d fit in. It really helped that my classmates and teachers were very friendly. The welcoming environment definitely had a calming effect on me.”

That calming environment proved to be balm to the soul for a young person searching for acceptance and guidance. Byrnes says her teachers went beyond the normal call of duty to create a fostering, friendly environment. “I had Mrs. Haberman for half of Grade 5 and all of Grade 6,” says Byrnes. “She was amazing and really connected well with her students. Again,
she had such a friendly, calming effect on us.”

She adds that the loving, supportive environment promoted at Linden really helped her flourish as a student and person. “There’s a calmness and peace that comes from being in such an environment. It really built me up as a young person and gave me more confidence.”

Byrnes says she knows exactly where that calm feeling of assurance came from, both in good and challenging times. “Looking back, no one’s life is perfect. But at LCS, God was at the center of everything, so no matter what was happening in your life, you could pray and find God. That’s where the calmness comes from. With God at the center, I knew my parents, church community and my teachers were with me. That knowledge really builds into your spiritual formation.”

Above all, the connections that teachers intentionally developed with students were priceless. “Mrs. Haberman actually invited us all (students in her class) to her wedding ceremony – something we all loved. A lot of my teachers also made the effort to make connections outside the classroom.”

That sense of connection is what makes Linden so special and is what brings alumni back, says Byrnes. “That piece of connection to the LCS community is what led me and my husband Jeremy to want to enroll our children here,” says Linden’s current high school resource teacher. “My daughter is now attending Kindergarten at LCS.”

Byrnes says her confidence in Linden is derived from the knowledge that everyone at the school genuinely cares about her child. “I have a lot of confidence in what my daughter is going to receive because I know the quality of the people I work with. I know that everyone cares deeply, has high standards, and that they will hold her to those high standards.”

Not surprisingly, Chantelle’s daughter is loving everything about attending Kindergarten at LCS. “Her teachers have really made a point of developing a relationship with her. It’s clear that she feels valued and affirmed.”

That intentional commitment to fostering relationships, building up children – and using the living word of God in every aspect of school life – is what makes Linden Christian School stand out,”concludes Byrnes, 33, who graduated from LCS in 2004, “As parents, we feel that we’re partnering with people and an organization that we trust. All of us are grounded in the Bible, which connects the whole school as a community. I want truth spoken into my daughter’s life from a Christian perspective and for her to be built up in a supportive, loving environment. I know that will happen at Linden because of my experience.”

Events and Information

The Class of 2010 is still considering a reunion in the Spring of 2021.  Stay tuned – more information will be communicated in the new year. Our Development and Alumni Manager Mrs. Kristen Kroeker can be reached at 204.989.6741.

Class of 2019 Welcome Back Reception and Yearbook Event, September 16, 2019

Over 60 students from the 91 graduates of the Class of 2019 came back to LCS to pick up their yearbooks and composite photos while enjoying a time of fellowship and reflection.

Meet Linden’s Development and Alumni Manager

What is your background and history with LCS?

I have been working at the school for the past five years, supporting Administration in a variety of ways. I have also been heavily involved in organizing the fundraising banquets during this time. I have a business degree with majors in Finance and Marketing, so I am really looking forward to applying these skills in my new role.

I have been a part of the LCS community for over twenty years – as a parent and a volunteer and a staff member. I know and love this community. All three of our children attended Linden from K-12. Over the years, my husband (Brent) and I have reflected on this decision. We believe it is one of the best decisions we have made in our life together. It brought us into this community – we have made many friends here and so have our children—and it provided an exceptional education for our children with a biblical worldview woven into all subject areas.

Now, I am able to continue to be a part of this wonderful Christian community as a staff member. I am excited about my new role and the potential to be more intentional about developing alumni community and enhancing our development plans.

What are your plans and priorities as you manage development and alumni relations?

I will be looking for ways to enhance our approach to development and build on what we have been doing historically. Raising funds is a necessary reality for an independent school. We receive a government grant for less than half of our operating costs; we have tuition to cover the remainder. We receive no government funding for our capital costs, new initiatives or to cover our Bursary Program.

With respect to our alumni, we really want to be more intentional about developing a strong alumni community. It connects to our mission, vision and core values. We see many of our students grow up, we see them graduate as eighteen year olds (over half of the Class of 2019 went to LCS from K-12). But we also want to know where they are at ten years, twenty years, thirty years from graduation. We want to see how they are serving God, where they are in leadership and to celebrate them and their accomplishments.

Why is connecting with alumni so important?

This is a big question and there are multiple reasons. Our alumni can inspire our current student body. We want to hear from them! They may be in a position to support our current students – perhaps sharing career planning advice or by supporting our Bursary Program which offers life-changing bursaries to students and families. Our alumni have expertise and experience they can share with us. They may be able to support our school in other ways as well.

For example, at our annual banquet we often have alumni speakers sharing what they are doing and what an LCS education meant to them. Connecting with our alumni is also directly related to our Mission and Vision. Most of our grads have committed relationships with Christ when they graduate and many know what they want to do. They are at an exciting time of life; graduation comes with more independence and the opportunity for growth. It can also be a time of uncertainty and change.

We want to continue to be a support to these students – both to celebrate with them and to care for them. Linden provides an excellent, Christ centred education in a caring environment that focuses on the development of the whole person. When grads are asked what they love about LCS, over and over we hear three themes – they valued a Christian education, the community they found here and they felt that staff and teachers REALLY cared. That caring does not stop when they graduate.

Any final words?

I look forward to talking to many people – staff, current students and families, as well as alumni and their families. I want to hear their ideas for building community in our school and beyond our school. I want our grads, and by extension, their families, to feel a part of a connected community that lasts all of their lives.

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ALCS Day Three, 2014

Update: It’s officially postponed till tomorrow at the same time. Game Four will be on Wednesday at 4:00PM ET and Game Five, if necessary, will be on Thursday at 4:00PM ET.

Orioles at Royals, 2:00PM HST/5:00PM PT, TV: TBS

Rain is threatening to postpone the game. The Kansas City Star says

According to the National Weather Service, there’s a 100 percent chance of rain in the Kansas City area Monday afternoon, with winds gusting to 26 mph and rainfall amounts reaching 1 inch. After the 7:07 p.m. scheduled first pitch, a 90 percent chance of rain is forecast with continued gusts and up to a half-inch of precipitation possible.

If there is a game tonight, the Royals will take a 2-0 lead and the chance to win the series at home into it. The Orioles are up against a wall, needing to win four of the next five.

Tonight’s pitchers: the right-handed Jeremy Guthrie for the Royals and the lefty Wei-Yin Chen for the Os. Chen is 1-0 with a 2.84 ERA in two career starts at Kauffman Stadium. Guthrie played for Baltimore from 2007-2011, so he knows some of the Orioles’ players quite well.


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Lion Guardians help the neighbours

After our busy time filming with the BBC, which I will write more about soon, the Lion Guardians are full of activity yet again. They are passing on their expertise to some lion scouts from another ranch called Kuku. These lion scouts have come over to learn how to do the kind of work that we do, so they can help conserve carnivores on their ranch.

This morning Lion Guardians Koikai and Mokoi showed them how to read and write GPS coordinates, so that when they find a lion, a kill or anything of interest they can mark the location. In the afternoon they showed them how to track lions. I hope this will make an impact on the Maasailand lion population and the community in general. It will also be really useful for us, so that when any of our collared lions move beyond the borders of our ranch the Kuku scouts can help us to track them.

Koikai is one of the most experienced and sharpest of the Lion Guardians. That is why we had to pick him to train the lion scouts from Kuku. Mokoi is the oldest Guardian and with his expertise in handling issues with young people I decided to ask him to come too and help Koikai with the training.

  • Scoot says:

    Is there going to be a branch of Lion Guardians in Kuku
    or are they going to work independantly of you?

  • Hi Scoot, thanks for your comment. The scouts on Kuku are not part of the Lion Guardians but we will all be working towards the same goals. We are however expanding the Lion Guardians to another neighbouring ranch called Olgulului, where there is currently a big problem with carnivore killing, so we are very excited about that!

  • sauwah says:

    great news! and the Olgulului ranch’s lions and other wild predators do need your help along with the livestock owners. so i have heard too many lives of lions are lost in that big ranch. help is needed fast. i hope time is not running out on the lions there.

    i did notice the beautiful bracelet. can they be posted to be sold in order to raise fund for your work and training?

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Bugzilla+SXIP, pending release

Gervase Markham gerv at mozilla.org
Sat Nov 27 17:55:16 UTC 2004

Andy Smith wrote:
>     Great efforts were made (per request of the development community) during
> the writing of these modules to modify as little of the Bugzilla code as
> possible,

Indeed - thanks very much for making that effort.

> and to that extent it is possible to use the authentication without
> changing anything except for defparams.pl,

Hmm. Presumably the SXIP auth modules are picked up automatically, but
you need some configuration variables for them as well?

LDAP has the same problem. I wonder: can we make auth modules queryable
to find out what config they need, and then present it?

> however, for the most complete
> integration one will have to make modifications to a few templates, and,
> unfortunately, one of the cgi scripts.
>     With any luck, these modifications will become less and less necessary
> as Bugzilla develops the ability to handle more and more external resources.

Have you filed bugs on the changes necessary here?

If you want to contribute the code to the main Bugzilla tree, you'd need
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Date:   Thu, 3 Sep 2020 19:13:12 +0200
From:   Adam Rudziński <>
To:     Florian Fainelli <>,
        Andrew Lunn <>
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 2/2] net: phy: bcm7xxx: request and manage GPHY

W dniu 2020-09-03 o 17:21, Florian Fainelli pisze:
> On 9/2/2020 11:00 PM, Adam Rudziński wrote:
>> W dniu 2020-09-03 o 04:13, Florian Fainelli pisze:
>>> On 9/2/2020 3:20 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>>>> +    priv->clk = devm_clk_get_optional(&phydev->, "sw_gphy");
>>>>> +    if (IS_ERR(priv->clk))
>>>>> +        return PTR_ERR(priv->clk);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +    /* To get there, the mdiobus registration logic already
>>>>> enabled our
>>>>> +     * clock otherwise we would not have probed this device since
>>>>> we would
>>>>> +     * not be able to read its ID. To avoid artificially bumping
>>>>> up the
>>>>> +     * clock reference count, only do the clock enable from a
>>>>> phy_remove ->
>>>>> +     * phy_probe path (driver unbind, then rebind).
>>>>> +     */
>>>>> +    if (!__clk_is_enabled(priv->clk))
>>>>> +        ret = clk_prepare_enable(priv->clk);
>>>> This i don't get. The clock subsystem does reference counting. So what
>>>> i would expect to happen is that during scanning of the bus, phylib
>>>> enables the clock and keeps it enabled until after probe. To keep
>>>> things balanced, phylib would disable the clock after probe.
>>> That would be fine, although it assumes that the individual PHY
>>> drivers have obtained the clocks and called clk_prepare_enable(),
>>> which is a fair assumption I suppose.
>>>> If the driver wants the clock enabled all the time, it can enable it
>>>> in the probe method. The common clock framework will then have two
>>>> reference counts for the clock, so that when the probe exists, and
>>>> phylib disables the clock, the CCF keeps the clock ticking. The PHY
>>>> driver can then disable the clock in .remove.
>>> But then the lowest count you will have is 1, which will lead to the
>>> clock being left on despite having unbound the PHY driver from the
>>> device (->remove was called). This does not allow saving any power
>>> unfortunately.
>>>> There are some PHYs which will enumerate with the clock disabled. They
>>>> only need it ticking for packet transfer. Such PHY drivers can enable
>>>> the clock only when needed in order to save some power when the
>>>> interface is administratively down.
>>> Then the best approach would be for the OF scanning code to enable
>>> all clocks reference by the Ethernet PHY node (like it does in the
>>> proposed patch), since there is no knowledge of which clock is
>>> necessary and all must be assumed to be critical for MDIO bus
>>> scanning. Right before drv->probe() we drop all resources reference
>>> counts, and from there on ->probe() is assumed to manage the
>>> necessary clocks.
>>> It looks like another solution may be to use the assigned-clocks
>>> property which will take care of assigning clock references to
>>> devices and having those applied as soon as the clock provider is
>>> available.
>> Hi Guys,
>> I've just realized that a PHY may also have a reset signal connected.
>> The reset signal may be controlled by the dedicated peripheral or by
>> GPIO.
> There is already support for such a thing within
> drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c though it assumes we could bind the PHY
> device to its driver already.
>> In general terms, there might be a set of control signals needed to
>> enable the PHY. It seems that the clock and the reset would be the
>> typical useful options.
>> Going further with my imagination of how evil the hardware design
>> could be, in general the signals for the PHY may have some relations
>> to other control signals.
>> I think that from the software point of view this comes down to
>> assumption that the PHY is to be controlled "driver only knows how".
> That is all well and good as long as we can actually bind the PHY
> device which its driver, and right now this means that we either have:
> - a compatible string in Device Tree which is of the form
> ethernet-phy-id%4x.%4x (see of_get_phy_id) which means that we *know*
> already which PHY we have and we avoid doing reads of MII_PHYSID1 and
> MII_PHYSID2. This is a Linux implementation detail that should not
> have to be known to systems designer IMHO
> - a successful read of MII_PHYSID1 and MII_PHYSID2 (or an equivalent
> for the clause 45 PHYs) that allows us to know what PHY device we
> have, which is something that needs to happen eventually.
> The problem is when there are essential resources such as clocks,
> regulators, reset signals that must be enabled, respectively
> de-asserted in order for a successful MDIO read of MII_PHYSID1 and
> MII_PHYSID2 to succeed.
> There is no driver involvement at that stage because we have no
> phy_device to bind it to *yet*. Depending on what we read from
> MII_PHYSID1/PHY_ID2 we will either successfully bind to the Generic
> PHY driver (assuming we did not read all Fs) or not and we will return
> -ENODEV and then it is game over.
> This is the chicken and egg problem that this patch series is
> addressing, for clocks, because we can retrieve clock devices with
> just a device_node reference.

I have an impression that here the effort goes in the wrong direction.
If I understand correctly, the goal is to have the kernel find out what
will the driver need to use the phy. But, the kernel anyway calls a
probe function of the driver, doesn't it? To me it looks as if you were
trying to do something that the driver will/would/might do later, and
possibly "undo" it in the meantime. In this regard, this becomes kind of
a workaround, not solution of the problem. Also, having taken a glance
at your previous messages, I can tell that this is all becoming even
more complex.

I think that the effort should be to allow any node in the device tree
to take care about its child nodes by itself, and just "report" to the
kernel, or "install" in the kernel whatever is necessary, but without
any initiative of the kernel. Let the drivers be as complicated as
necessary, not the kernel.

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Setting – Donner Summit 1865-1869. A harsh mountain environment near Lake Tahoe where railroad construction crews work 24/7 blasting tunnels through granite outcroppings and laying track. Winter storms drop between eighteen to twenty feet of snow. Avalanches claim lives; bodies, not recovered till spring thaw, are found with tools still clutched in hands.

Gee Lee – Chinese immigrant working as a camp cook for the Central Pacific Railroad. Lee embraces family obligations, toiling to send money home to improve impoverished living conditions. Dreams of returning to his lovely wife and young children keep Lee motivated.

Wèi An – Lee’s wife and mother of his two children, a daughter, and a son. Plagued by her controlling mother-in-law, Liu spends most of her time outside, working in the rice fields. Violated by a district official, she is now confined to the house.

Gee Yang – Lee’s older brother. Yang is charming and fun-loving; gambling and opiates have a magnetic appeal. He enjoys being away from his mother’s influence and is pulling away from Lee, who keeps reminding him of his responsibilities. He’s moved from working with tunnel gangs to constructing wooden show sheds at Norden.

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Gee Pei (Pay) – Matriarch of the Gee family, mother of Yang and Lee. After losing her oldest son in the Opium War, Pei sold her daughter-in-law and granddaughter to finance a California sojourn for her younger two sons.

Foshan – Lee’s Donner Summit kitchen assistant. He is named for his birth town in China. An orphan, Foshan plans to seek employment in San Francisco once his railroad job concludes. Foshan is wildly in love with his bossy-man.

Jaingshui – A reanimated corpse that hops. A Jaingshui is created when a Chinese person dies away from home and is not buried with his ancestors. Like the western vampire, the Jaingshui searches for life-energy (qi) to consume.

Nian – Chinese lion monster whose name means ‘year.’ Nian grows a unicorn-like horn and collects feathers in her shaggy mane. The monster hibernates in the sea or under mountains for eleven out of twelve months. The weather worsens when Nian wakes to hunt, during February’s new moon. On the menu; infants and children, crops, farm animals, early death, and betrayal.


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How to Set Health and Fitness Goals for Weight Loss

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Do you know the difference between a useful goal and a useless one? Today I want to talk about how to set useful goals for weight loss. That way you aren’t wasting that valuable time between feeding hungry kids and keeping the toddler alive. (All 5 minutes of it are precious!)

How to Set Health and Fitness Goals for Weight Loss

Useful Goals vs. Useless Goals

A useful goal is one that actually helps you create steps to reach your goal. A useless goal is a vague description of what we want our lives to be like.

A lot of us have “goals” for weightloss. We say things like:

  • “I want to be thin…”
  • “I want to eat healthy…”
  • “I want to lose weight…”

These sound great in theory, but they leave a lot of room for interpretation. Which leaves a lot of room for excuses, and justifications. They also don’t give a clear roadmap of what you need to do.

S.M.A.R.T. Goals

S.M.A.R.T. Goals

Useful goals follow the acronym S.M.A.R.T.

  • Specific – What exactly do you want to achieve?
  • Measurable – How can you measure your progress towards your goal?
  • Attainable – Is this goal something that you can realistically achieve?
  • Relevant – Is this goal relevant to what you want in your life?
  • Timely – Set a deadline for when your goal should be accomplished.
So by using the S.M.A.R.T. acronym, we could take our goal of ” I want to lose weight so I can be thin,” to I want to lose 45 lbs in 6 months so I can weigh 140lbs.”

Now that we know a little bit more about what a useful goal looks like, let’s break it down a little further.

How to Set Goals for Weight Loss

Start with defining your end goal

The very first thing you want to do is imagine where you want to be when you are done. Think about that end goal that you are trying to get to.

Don’t worry about being stuck with whatever goal you choose. As you start working towards it, your priorities will change and you can always reassess. Right now it’s just important to set up the framework so you can get going as soon as possible.

To help better explain these concepts, I will stick with the same goal of “I want to lose 45 lbs in 6 months,” for my example.

Decide your time frame for your goal

So in the example we are using, we picked 6 months. If the goal you picked is bigger, you might choose 9 months, a year, 18 months. All of those options are ok.

You just want to make sure your timeframe is realistic. For weight loss especially, I think it’s better to err on the side of more time than you might need.

Losing weight has a lot of ups and downs. Your body might lose weight rapidly in the beginning, stall out for a while, lose some more weight, gain a few pounds back, etc. You want a time frame that encourages you to keep going, while not pressuring you to get crazy results every single day.

Plus most experts agree that losing 1-2 lbs a week is a healthy goal. So if our weight loss goal is 45 lbs, 6 months is a very realistic time frame to get it done. And hey, if you achieve your goal earlier, all the better!

Goal Setting Worksheet

Break your goal down into bite-size pieces

Now, this next step in how to set goals for weight loss is the moneymaker! This is the one that I find makes all the difference for most people. (It’s like that feeling you have when you finally meet the mom friend who totally gets you.) We are going to take that long term goal and break it down into small bite-size pieces.

So first we will take our goal of 45 lbs in 6 months and break that down into monthly goals. Our monthly goal would be 7.5 lbs a month. We take our monthly goal and break it down into weekly goals. Our weekly goal would be 1.9 lbs.

We went from the idea of losing 45 lbs, which might seem a bit intimidating or overwhelming to simply losing 1.9 lbs a week. Now I don’t know about you, but losing 1.9 lbs a week feels a whole lot more doable.

It still fully aligns with our long term goal, but it gives us something more manageable to focus on during our day-to-day.

Click HERE to download your own copy of How to Turn Your Goals into Actions Worksheet to help you break down your long-term goal into bite-size pieces.

Identify all of the daily and weekly steps you can take to reach your goal

Here is where we get into the nitty-gritty of setting our goals. Once we know what our goal is, we need to write down all of the actions we need to take to achieve it. A goal without actions to back it up is like a car without gas. It doesn’t work.

So if our goal is to lose 45 lbs, we need to write down all of the things we could do each day or week that will help us reach them. Some examples might be:

These are just some of the things that I have done to lose weight and that I do now to help maintain my weight. Your list might look a little different. Just write down all of the things that you can think of that will help you lose weight.

Goal Setting Workbook

Break your goals down even smaller

Now that you have written down all of the things you can do to lose weight, break those down into even smaller actions. For example, you could take drinking 64 oz of water and break it down into:

  • drink 1 cup of water as soon as I wake up
  • drink 1 cup of water before I drink juice or soda
  • drink 1 cup of water before bed
  • drink 1 cup of water after I exercise
  • drink 1 cup of water before each meal

The whole point of this exercise is to create super small achievable steps we can build on as we create these new habits that support our goal. If you are currently barely drinking water, then trying to start drinking 64 oz of water a day is definitely a stretch.

You might try for a day or two, struggle, and find yourself sipping on Starbucks and soda by the end of the week instead of your water. We are going to talk about how to use these super small tasks next.

Monthly & Weekly Fitness Planner

Add in 1-4 new habits a week

Now that you have broken down all of your daily/weekly actions into super small tasks, pick 1-4 tasks a week to start adding in. Pick only 1-4 new habits to try for the week. And pick the ones you know you will be able to follow through on.

I’m talking like 80-90% confidence you will do it. So if that’s just drinking 1 cup of water first thing in the morning, then that’s perfect!

Maybe you are feeling good and you want to drink 1 cup of water in the morning, go for a walk 3 days a week, and try to go to bed at 10 pm instead of 11 pm. Those seem like small steps, but if that’s what you can commit to, then that is exactly the place to start.

If you downloaded the How to Turn Your Goals into Actions Worksheet, you can fill in your weekly and daily actions on this as well.

Why can’t I start everything at once??

I know it can be tempting to go all out and overhaul your whole life. It sounds great because you think you will just achieve all of your results that much faster right?

Well… wrong! Because it doesn’t work. It’s not sustainable. It’s motivating for like a day or two maybe and then it gets difficult and a little miserable and your brain is screaming for some relief.

Motivation is one of the biggest struggles that people have when trying to lose weight. People think motivation just comes and goes and that something is missing when you don’t feel motivated.

The reality is motivation is built off of small wins and successes. First, you have to practice committing to the mini-goals you set for yourself. Then you take that positive momentum from following through on those tasks to help you work towards the next ones.

It starts with drinking one glass of water. Then you work on 2 glasses, then 3 glasses, and next thing you know you are drinking all 64 oz a day and it doesn’t take a herculean effort to do it.

Master one mini-goal before you try to add another one

The next step in how to set goals for weight loss is knowing when to add in more habits. You want to focus on mastering your current mini-goal before you move on to a new one.

I know sometimes it can be frustrating if you are feeling like you aren’t moving as fast as you want to. And maybe you feel like you aren’t doing enough to achieve your goal.

Try to keep in mind though, that adding in more tasks when you are still struggling to master one isn’t going to make anything easier. In fact, it will have the opposite effect.

It’s like when children are learning to read. First, they are introduced to the alphabet. Once they have mastered that they move on to letter sounds, then phrases, then short sentences, and so on and so forth. It would make no sense to try to teach a child how to read phrases and short sentences if they still haven’t mastered the alphabet.

The point isn’t necessarily to race to finish line as fast as possible. The point is to do the work to achieve your goal in a method that is sustainable. You want a nice slow and steady build of momentum that you can maintain for the rest of your life.

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Keep leveling up  your mini-goals until you reach your final long term goal

Once you get the hang of mastering a mini-goal and adding in new ones, you will see your motivation and success start to keep building and building. What once was difficult starts to get a little easier and easier. Then you will naturally want to start challenging yourself to do a little more.

Once you master drinking 64 oz of water a day, you might start feeling confident enough to try a new workout or maybe give meal planning a try.

Eventually, you will start tackling some of the harder challenges on your list of weight loss steps. Each new task and habit that you develop will help further you towards your eventual end goal.

Final thoughts on how to set goals for weight loss

Along the way, your goals may change and you realize you need to reevaluate. Then you just start back at the top. What’s wonderful though, is you will get to take the momentum and motivation from your original goal with you towards the new one.

You will have already learned how to follow through and commit to the steps you have outlined for yourself. Knowing how to set goals for weight loss is a skill that you can transfer to all areas of your life.

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…the infusion of small amounts of truth into a batch of lies told over and over again until the lies themselves become truth. Propaganda is a weapon of war that should never be underestimated. If the evilest of dictators and the defenders of freedom both effectively use the twisted words of manufactured truth with some degree of success, then it would be wise to assume the Father of Lies has perfected its deployment.

I am worried about the church in North America.

I do not consider myself a historian but from what I gather those who call themselves Christians have often sought the comfort of a government that supports their beliefs.

The separation of church and state is a desirable concept when the beliefs of the state and the actions birthed from the blurring of government and faith don’t match the religious leanings we have. On the other hand when the government supports our way of life, our beliefs, this division is no longer desirable.

For the most part, Christians in Canada and the USA have enjoyed the comfort of sympathetic governments, legislation and funding. Because of this we have become soft and our reliance on God has been replaced by the pro-church structures enacted by the government of the day.

To weaken an army all you need to do is convince them they are safe.

Make no mistake, we are in a war, a world war. It is not a war of flesh and blood but it is against the rulers of this dark world and the spiritual forces of the heavenly realms (borrowed from Paul Ephesians 6:12). Satan and his evil army have used the relative religious calm of North American culture to convince us through his propaganda that we are safe, that we are protected, that nothing can defeat us as long as we ensure the government continues the policies of a good Christian country.

Propaganda, the infusion of small amounts of truth into a batch of lies.

We have been told over and over again that the stance of the government is intertwined with our faith and pro-Christian politics are the foundation of greatness – these lies themselves become truth. It is easier to live in a country that has a government, laws, programs and funding in place to support Christian values and morals; easier is not Godlier. This is the small amount of truth infused into a batch of lies.

While we fight for lawmakers that will enforce our beliefs and fund our programs the lost are forgotten and our faith weakened. Godly lifestyles end up relying on legislation and our Christian endeavours on government funding and income tax incentives. Have you ever thought about what would happen if the government stopped legislation of morality, stopped funding church programs and repealed incentives for giving?

Satan’s propaganda has made our faith vulnerable to political change and our discernment blind to ungodly behaviour.

We can’t go on expecting those who pander to the organized Christian vote to continue to be elected. At one time it paid to put out a platform that promised to enshrine everything Christian into law. You could almost guarantee a strong turnout of Christian supporters as long as you made promises that fit their agenda. It didn’t matter about your rumored affairs or perverse language, your disrespect for others or ungodly lack of love, you were a supporter of the Christian agenda so you got their vote.

Canada and the USA have changed.

Gone are the days when most people identified as Christian and shared common morality.

Gone are the days when the government reflected this.

Gone are the days when the church was the government’s chosen institution to help with financial assistance.

Now what do we do? North American Christianity is no longer supported by the government, we are no longer safe.

The propaganda spread by the Evil One has created groups of belongers not believers.

Once Christianity no longer has the blessing of those in power we are forced to face the fact that our faith in God has been weak because our faith in the government has been strong.  We no longer belong to the favoured faction meaning we will need to believe in God to supply our needs. The truth is we were never safe. Instead, we bought into the lies that we were in a country of Christians, at least the majority were. With that lie becoming our truth we relied on our government for special funding and incentives to give money so that we could operate as well as legislation so that we would know right and wrong.

New this year, Canada limits summer job grants to those who agree with the government’s stand on abortion and sexual orientation.

Churches are up in arms; left scrambling for funding. Many will have to go to the congregation for donations to keep their programs going.

Our Prime Minister has been called the Anti-Christ and church leaders have predicted his fate once God takes action.

With Satan’s propaganda about being a Christian country now exposed…

…Satan is still winning the propaganda war.

We are still wrapped up in the desire to return to the illusion of what we thought we once were.

We are still overwhelmed by the loss of the support from the thing we put our faith in, the government.

We are still forgetting the people who we are called to reach with the gospel message just like we once did when we considered our country to be Christian.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. Matthew 5:43-45 (NIV)

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  1. Excellent post, David. This warfare is much bigger than just the government and the church. The church is so divided on social issues today that we have become ineffective in our society. The only real solace we have is that Jesus said the gates of hell will not prevail against His church. I believe a revival will come – mot likely in a very nontraditional way. Our hope is only in Him!

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      1. Insightful and well expressed. I fear that revival will come only on the heels of a purging persecution of some form.

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  2. Your point on weakening the army. Most hymnals have omitted Onward Christian Soldiers due to the prevailing idea that we shouldn’t wage war. I think most of those in that camp have already surrendered to the Devil without even knowing. Thanks for the post.

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  3. I concur with every thing you have said here, Dave, and can only say I am sorry that the same has happened up your way as down here. We have taken some men to be our savior rather that the One who actually is…and now sit back and wait for him(small H) to make things right for us. Bad move there for sure.

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I Am Adam

For those who are getting a little worried about what appears to be a continuous identity crisis, please remain calm. I understand that some of my posts could lead people to believe that I suffer from some sort of multiple personality disorder after all I have said that I am Mary, Thomas, Samuel and Peter. Do not be alarmed, I am Dave, I always have been Dave and I always will be Dave. That being said, I am Adam.

God’s creation was perfect until sin entered the world.

I must admit that based on my 52 year old body, I am not the “pre sin entering the world” Adam. Actually, based on the processed food, sugar based, fatty fast food diet that North Americans including myself indulge in and the sedentary TV/computer lifestyle we live, I must assume I was never physically like the pre or post sin entering the world Adam. Still, I am Adam.

I have planted a garden.

 I have never had God plant a garden for me nor have I been forced out of that garden and told, “By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return…” Genesis 3:19 (NIV) but I have got a little dirt under my fingernails trying to grow food in my backyard. Still, I am Adam.

I have a beautiful wife and helpmate.

My wife has offered me various fruit from both trees and plants and although this fruit has never got me in trouble with God, it has got me in trouble with my weight. Okay I need to be honest, not all of the fruit I eat… let me correct that, very little of the fruit I eat is without additional flavour enhancers. This is a nice way of saying pie crust, shortcake, sugar, ice cream and many more complementary ingredients are why I eat fruit. I am sure that these additional flavour enhancers, these complementary ingredients that I consider the only way to eat fruit, were not part of the temptation that Adam faced when offered a piece of the forbidden fruit by Eve. Still, I am Adam.

I have blamed others for temptations I have given into.

I hate to admit it but I have blamed my wife for my bad behaviours. It isn’t that she is always free of blame but rather that I am ultimately responsible for my reactions. I am in control of myself and whether my wife has done something to provoke me that she should not have done or I am having a bad day and anything she does provokes me, I need to show restraint, self-control and not allow myself to respond in a regrettable way.

If a friend offers me an opportunity to do something attractive but wrong and I join them, notice I used friend not my wife because she would never lead me down this path, I can blame them all I want but it does not remove my guilt. I am responsible for me no matter how much I am tempted by someone else. And yet I have been known to blame the other person. I am Adam.

“…she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.” Genesis 3:12b (NIV)

I have blamed God for being involved in the temptations I have given into.

I’m not sure I have been as blatant in my blaming as I have been with others but still I have suggested that God played a role in my failings. “You put me here God, what do you expect me to do?” “You allowed me to experience this problem, how did you expect me to respond?” “You know the future so you knew this was going to happen, why didn’t you take me on a different course?”

I understand that God desires me to live a life that is holy, that He is not out to trip me up. I know that He is perfect and wants nothing to do with evil. I understand that His desire for me made evident by His willingness to sacrifice His son is to have relationship not separation. Still, I am Adam.

The man [Adam] said, “The woman you [God] put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”  Genesis 3:12 (NIV)

I am Adam, I blame God and others for my current situation when I should take responsibility for my actions regardless of what is going on.

  1. Reblogged this on Truth in Palmyra and commented:
    Great post Dave. You are not alone in this; I think we have all behaved like Adam at different times when confronted with our sin. On the other hand, its really great to be like him and have a great helpmeet!

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  2. I agree with Speaking Bipolar and second his comment.
    And no I don’t think you have a memory lapse, just a one-of-a-kind way of showing truth. Your own names means “beloved or friend”, no need to change it 😉

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Developer interview: André Wunsch

André Wunsch is a really talented web designer from Berlin, Germany that works both  as a freelance and with agencies, to serve clients in Germany, Austria, Switzerland.

He is a web designer, but also a web developer and SEO: so he knows how to build websites that are not only pleasing to the eye – but have clean code and good usability.

André’s sites have not gone unnoticed, and even won some pretty important web design award like the 2017 Red Dot Award.

André  is one of the most proficient users of LiveCanvas from it’s early beta days; some of the sites in our showcase have it’s signature, eg https://reinhaut.de – so it felt pretty natural to go and ask him some questions about his profession and his use of our tool.

So we’re happy to introduce to our readers mr. André Wunsch! Let’s get to know him a little better.

Hi André, welcome to the LiveCanvas blog! First question….how did you get into Web design? Did you have a “click” moment where you understood this was your way – or was it a more “progressive” approach?

Hello LiveCanvas Team,
thank you very much for the opportunity to introduce me on your blog.

To the first question, I have already dealt with the topic of building websites at a young age. It took a few years until I was working as a webdesigner full-time. I worked in different jobs, but I only felt totally comfortable in the digital and creative field.

Which is the aspect you like the most of your profession? Which is the most enjoyable part for you?

I think every time it is a new challenge to build great websites. It never gets boring and you can fully live out your creativity, of course it always depends on the customer.

Which were the experiences / courses / learning moments that mostly have influenced you and helped your professional growth?

The daily challenges contribute to my growth. I offer every customer an individual and beautiful solution. We don’t want to create a “preset” website, because every customer has other ideas and expectations.

Which other page builder tools did you try using before LiveCanvas? Which of its peculiar features did you enjoy mostly  of LiveCanvas, convincing you to build some real sites with it, and giving it a go?

Before I worked with LiveCanvas, I tried various PageBuilders. There were also some good ones, but I thought they were always a bit inflexible and most PageBuilders were overloaded.

I personally like working with Bootstrap, so LiveCanvas was perfect for me!

I don’t know how many times I searched for possible tools for Bootstrap and WordPress *laughing out loud*. Thank you for creating LiveCanvas!

In LiveCanvas I think it’s great that you can work so freely and flexibly. At the previous projects there were no limits for me, what I imagined could be realized with LiveCanvas without any problems.

Another great point is that LiveCanvas is so slim and not overloaded. I love this tool!

Many people who work in the digital fields enjoy being free to work from different places and tend to travel a lot. Does this apply to you? Or are you more productive in your own “bat-cave“?

This is still a dream of mine, which I would like to fulfill someday.

Currently I only work in Berlin where I am very productive.
When I travel it’s pure recreation for me and I waste no more time with thoughts of work.

What do you like to do when you’re not working on a website?

When I’m not building websites, I grab my camera and look at the world from different perspectives.

When I need a real break, I grab my girlfriend, the backpacks and we start a backpacking tour.

Well, thank you so much for you time André,

and thanks for your kind words regarding our product – we put a lot of love into it and it’s very rewarding for us to see talented, performance-conscious webmasters who love to use it!

To know more about André, or to get in touch with him, you can visit his portfolio site at https://andrewunsch.de/


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How much do we Love a Snow Holiday!

Enjoying a piping hot cup of somethin’ as we look out the window at Nature’s Blanket of Pure White Beauty, making everything new again, as she whispers to us, “Pause. You can start Fresh. Now.”

There is infinite Comfort & Peace in the Breathtaking Beauty of Nature and her most perfect rhythms.

We didn’t have many Snow Holidays when I was a kid – almost none.


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Working with the power of belief

The topic of “what do you believe?” is especially important to delve into when you are in recovery from illness and concerned with your ongoing physical and emotional wellbeing or wanting to shift through any stuck areas of your life; so I am sharing a post that I published on Spinning the Light this morning. I particulalrly want to recommend the two oh-so powerful books referred to – The Sponteanous Healing of Belief by Gregg Braden and Dr Joe Dispenza’s “Becoming Supernatural”, both of which I would consider essential reading on any healing journey.

This weekend, I finished the book I mentioned in a couple of my recent posts, Gregg Braden’s “The Spontaneous Healing of Belief”. It was, as I had already hinted, an extraordinarily powerful book; both familiar in its content and yet directing me towards all the ways I hadn’t yet learned to apply this deep, innate knowledge about the power of belief in our lives and so, in that sense, a real game changer that I can feel rippling out into my daily experiences, in tangible ways. I have instigated, and experienced, some incredible changes in the last couple of weeks whilst reading that book!

Relatively short and extremely accessible, with a few exercises to focus the way you learn to apply what is being shared, this book is now one that I vehemently recommend to everyone I know (at least three have taken me up on the suggestion). To you I say just read it and realise your own unclaimed power to take part in your own life like never before; which is to make all the other stuff that is “happening to you” quite irrelevant since that is not truly where it is at, nor is anything being “done to you”. No, really. Belief is everything, as Braden amply demonstrates with his most astonishing anecdotes…and with his science.

This last point was both important and timely for me, having realised many times over, lately, that to be convinced of anything, I seem to need it to appeal equally to my most logical, analytical intellect and my most esoteric side, simultaneously and in balance. What Braden shares does that very thing, offering both science and miracles in equal proportion, often crossing over….and it’s in that very crossing place that we tend to make our most powerful breakthroughs. In an era when the melding of the left and right hemispheres holds all the potential of our next biggest leap, this is so relevant and important. Our very grasp of this dichotomy is the magical ingredient since “both ways of seeing the world are absolutely correct” (Greg Braden in his introduction to Dr Joe Dispnza’s “Being Supernatural”). You could say, this is our “new” quantum base-line and we will grow in proportion to how prepared we are to accept its refusal to fit to our old paradigm that physical, measurable and predictable was all that “mattered”. A sizeable crack has formed in the ceiling of that old mentality and we are now ready for this mastery of beliefs like never before; it being like the golden key to the door of our evolution.

Braden’s book is where I want to direct you; rather than paraphrase and pick it apart but rest assured, you will be left feeling its reverberations across every layer of your life both during and (a long time) after you read it. This is no passing place of a book on a Goodreads marathon…it is fundamental to each and every one of us that we “crack” this stuff to move ourselves on now. So unless you have your beliefs all neatly lined up and accounted for, nothing in there the inherited viewpoint of someone who influenced you as a child or an unchecked expectation of the culture you are part of, I suggest you get the book and dive in; it won’t take you that long to read but it packs a benevolent punch. It will demonstrate to you the “real” tangible effects of belief. Put simply, “”Belief is expressed in the heart, where our experiences are translated into the electrical and magnetic waves that interact with the physical world”…and not just within or around our individual body but with measurable repercussions in the world at large. This realisation is the very basis for quantum science. Even heart scientists admitted to Braden that the estimated limit of eight feet of influence from the “field” of a human heart was merely due to the limit of their equipment to measure any further; though HeartMath Institute and others have gone some way to demonstrate the effects of heart-coherence on the outcome of actual circumstances at a distance. This is, surely, the “new” science that knocks everything else into a cocked hat!

With such regularity and ease, these weeks, my dreams have brought up to the daylight many stories of where such beliefs came from in my childhood: belief that even the closest, familial love was, ultimately, conditional and withdrawable at short notice; that the outside world (just outside my house) was a “scary” and aggressive place; that material lack was the state of norm against which tide I would spend a lifetime swimming; that obscure and vague “symptoms” ignored would lead directly to the most devastating disease; that authority figures such as doctors lacked knowledge, humanity or genuine interest in people; that I had to be good, quiet and passive to retain my “safe” place in life; that bullies could be children and, equally, adults though the behaviours were very much the same on whatever scale they occurred; that I needed to concede many personal preferences to hold onto those people to whom I had attached myself; that adulthood meant surrendering all that gave me innate joy and that those things were childish, self-indulgent and without currency in the “real” world.

These and many more have surfaced lately, not for me to pick over or to re-live the small dramas that brought them to my childish attention but so I could let them gently unwind, all on their own…fully…revealing their many layers and, thus, loose their energetic charge, gently surrendering them up as the packages of non-helpful belief that they once were to me. Yes, in realising the memory-thought is there as I arise from sleep or some other reverie, and then fearlessly allowing it to have its say, these nuggets have done all of their own work and me the passive observer. In now seeing where and how they became embedded in my body, even more deeply and un-emotively than all the other times they had “come up” for scrutiny, I have been able to realise that this new phase of maturity asks only that I put those beliefs away, like the broken toys of childhood, ready to create my own beliefs born of vastly more mature “thinking”. Perhaps (I suspect…) reading Braden’s book these weeks, not least at bedtime, has helped in the process and yet I suspect…no, I know…that many of us are going through this same clearing process right now for I am hearing versions of it left and right. We are collectively maturing our beliefs and it can feel bumpy and regressive (like “our past” has come along and stood  directly in our way when we were least wanting to think about it…especially if we have previously done “work” to put it all to bed). Yet its not like all those other times we addressed it because now we possess the ability, like never before, to effortlessly see behind the curtain of how those stories became cogs and levers of behaviours that have kept us running along similar train tracks for a very long time…now ready to make the leap onto a completely different track.

How did we ever embed the biggest of those defunct beliefs, though they undermined our very wellbeing, day after day?  The big one that came up for me to reconsider was: when did I truly cease to believe I was safe? I realised, that happened later, in adulthood, though childhood threw up many hints. By then, there had been many traumas, “very bad” things that had “happened to me” but I truly lost my belief in safety when my mother was diagnosed with cancer.

The bottom of the world fell out that day; all the worse because I hadn’t seen it coming. I wanted, with every most vehement  cell of my body, for it not to be true, to not have her “taken away” and for life to “see reason” or own that there had been “a terrible mistake” but I was shown there was no negotiating this time. Within 8 months, I had lost my rock, my most stalwart ally, my one intimate companion through all life’s thick and thin…she was gone and the world echoed its empty sound at me each morning as the awful realisation greeted me anew, like a shock announcement on endless repeat…and I lost all faith in the benevolence of life. I was barely an adult at the time.

That belief in non-safety rippled out and quickly distributed itself into all the cavernous spaces of my energy field, making its way into every most-fundamental belief that played a subconscious part in the most minute operations of the unseen yet crucial parts of my biology. From every outward human drama that then played out to the way my cells planned ahead for the long-term state of my body, longevity and a belief in an ability to thrive, of nature being on my side, was removed from the equation to be replaced by a non-stop state of “flight or flight”. Then, of course, life began to deliver me more and more reasons for that belief, with ever-more consistency…because that’s how belief works to create the very bricks and furniture of our “outside” lives.

In my next read, Dr Joe Dispenza’s incredible book “Being Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon”, he recounts a persuasive anecdote of a woman turned right-around by his processes who, before meeting him, had witnessed her lifestyle and health cascade from perfectly fine and pretty rosy to where she was experiencing an array of quite terrifying symptoms, paralysis and cancer, multiple autoimmunities, hopeless depression, poverty, abuse and more. This “happened” as a result of such an emotional bottom suddenly falling out of her world when her husband killed himself without warning, leaving her “no longer safe” in her belief system, thus minutely influencing every single aspect of her existence, from the cellular level up. “She had finally physically manifested the pain and suffering she’d emotionally experienced in her mind” and this is because “When the fight-or-flight nervous system is switched on and stays on because of chronic stress, the body utilises all its energy reserves to deal with the constant threat it perceives from the outer environment. Therefore, the body has no energy left in its inner environment for growth and repair, compromising the immune system” (“Becoming Supernatural” – Dr Joe Dispanza). It also floods the cells with the chemicals of fear which, unsurprisingly, are quite different to the chemicals of love. In his books and renowned workshops, Dispenza presents incredibly powerful methods for turning such a dire situation around and this is where my next immersion project lies…

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So what happens when we change our beliefs and can we really do it or see the reason why to make the attempt? Can we grasp with newly liberated minds how what we think of as “reality” is nothing but the projected  theatrical backdrop of those most built-in and grasped-onto beliefs we have carried around all our lives? Can we see how a similar set of beliefs led to the circumstances of those we have used as the “reason” for our own; how my mother’s beliefs (without judgement) carved out her life and death just as those of all the other people who influenced my childhood so profoundly had their own set of inherited viewpoints, many of which got passed down generation on generation…and would continue to do so unless we, the ones inheriting them, become conscious enough to see them there, allowing them to gently unravel and loose their charge in the light of day, thus halting the long-running process in its tracks. For this is what we do when we bring the machinations of the subconscious mind, which accounts for up to 90 per cent of our thinking processes, into the daylight to be audited and re-selected from choice…or not, when they no longer serve who we truly, and most consciously, are. Bringing consciousness into the equation is what makes all the difference.

For instance, Braden recounts a fascinating story of a family where all the males for a couple of generations had suddenly died in their 35th year until one of them, through consciously changing the fear-driven expectation, as he approached his own 35th, was able to halt this tragic momentum and write a new ending. There is no end to what we can do with belief…as both books referred to here will demonstrate in the most compelling of ways. We can actually signal new responses from our genes (in the way of epigenetics) “ahead of the environment” when we immerse ourselves in positive sets of emotions ahead of the circumstances that we want to manifest by believing in them, and setting our minds to feel what those circumstances will feel like when they happen up-ahead. This is when we become true creator beings, manifesting what we choose to experience, from within the so-called limited experience of being a physical human being. We can start doing this the very day we choose how to react to literally everything that life puts on the menu…our way…not the pre-conditioned way that used to dictate to us before.

I can clearly recall when I first began to delve into “spiritual” ideas, belief was sometimes mentioned as though it was almost a dirty word, a trapping of the ego to be transcended beyond. What I have since come to realise is that having belief is a fundamental aspect of the human state, at least at this stage in our evolution, so when we try to push belief out like it is no longer welcome, the void that this leaves will only fill up with something else; typically some newer defunct belief (such as that beliefs themselves are “bad”). My best experiences have been to take ownership of beliefs, making them conscious and taking part in choosing them, guided by the highest frequencies I am as yet able to embody.

Another “trickster” area of working with belief is that claiming your own can seem to run you against the grain of others in your family, social circle or work place so, in those early stages, my advice is to do the inner work for yourself but don’t necessarily expect to discuss your new perspectives with others; in fact, it can be demoralising to do so. There’s no need to put your fragile new state to such critical scrutiny by those who white-knuckle grip to the way they have “always” seen things, if they are not ready, or have no incentive, to change. Quote Braden” Belief is our acceptance of what we have witnessed, experienced, or know for ourselves”, so we need no audience, validation or round of applause. As ever, doing the process for ourselves is quite enough and requires no drum roll or distribution of what we believe into the more visible aspects of our life except that, as we upgrade our beliefs, the positive effects will inevitably become more visible as our manifest life…and that is quite enough to transmit the message to a receptive audience, without  having to say a single word; we literally strobe the frequency of our own higher-belief system to others as a frequency, not a manifesto.

There is one other key of all keys, however: “We must believe in belief for it to have power in our lives” (Greg Braden – The Spontaneous Healing of Belief”).

aditya-saxena-410663-unsplashThis “big one” was my missing link; grasping this, at last, is where I have got to now…and believe me, the switch-up of gears is quite tangible! As soon as we clear what isn’t truly ours from the old slab of beliefs that was, as it were, written in stone for us even before we were born in so many cases, we find we have the most startlingly white blank slate on which we are quite free to describe the next trajectory of our lives. Even as we start to gain momentum in this process, we can detect the whiff of freedom on the air and it is quite intoxicating which, in itself, helps to fuel new beliefs, and build higher joy quotients, about what we are truly capable of; just like falling head-over-heels in love with life, because the mechanism is much the same. “As soon as we change our thoughts from fear based to love based, the whole of the body is literally flooded with “a cascade of emotional and psychological processes that reflect your new reality” (Greg Braden introduction to “Becoming Supernatural”). This is powerful new biology because it is participatory biology; “you’ll change your biology from a past-present reality to a future-present reality” (Dr Joe Dispenza – “Becoming Supernatural”) and then its positive effects spiral out into the world at large.

In my case, I had reached a point where my nose felt pressed up against the wall; I knew I had to rewrite my beliefs or suffer consequences that my most switched on “logical” intellect, and even my strongest intuition or “gut feeling”, both knew were almost inevitable unless I made a dramatic change. Yet if this sounds like my project is survival driven, I can assure you it is not so in the sense of “fight or flight” any more but, rather, of reaching a crossroads and consciously choosing to “go towards” joy and health, towards vitality, life and LOVE itself, as my birthright realised. In realising these are already mine and all that remains is to claim them off the shelf where they got filed a very long time ago, though they still clearly bear my name and only wait for me to reach out for them, I know I get to change the direction of the story for me, the individual and, as a contributing part, for the whole of the collective…as we all do.

The Spontaneous Healing of Belief – Gregg Braden

Becoming Supernatural – Dr Joe Dispenza

(Also recommended) The Biology of Belief – Dr Bruce Lipton

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Remembering a Mentor: Sandy Diamond

Monday, February 15, 2021 There is something comforting about looking back and remembering others who were instrumental in helping us become the people we are. As we age, many of us seem to spend a bit more time looking back … Continue reading

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