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Lisa & Greg's Missouri & Illinois Trip
St Louis to Nauvoo & back
July 2001

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Note that the numbers in ( ) are GPS coordinates, thanks to my friend Joe Free's generosity

On Thursday, July 26th I dropped Jay Omerza off at Lambert field (St Louis airport) after completing a business trip with him and picked up Lisa from her TWA flight at Gate C27 at noon.  Lisa's never had the opportunity to be in this area and neither of us have been to Nauvoo, so we decided to put the daily challenges of raising children on the back burner, try to not think about the cost, and take the opportunity to spend some quality time together....  It was worth it.

I kept the little gold Mitsubishi Gallant rental car from the business trip.  We drove to Wendy's and ate, then headed downtown, stopping at huge Calvary Cemetery which is between I70 and the river on Martin Luther King Blvd.  We saw many beautiful crypts, one of which had exposed coffins inside , much to Lisa's surprise.  Many of the monuments were very extravagant .  We saw the tall cross (left side of image ) erected at the Joseph Desloge family grave site which I found by accident (38.696300 -90.238826).  Joseph Desloge was a World War 1 hero and influential St. Louis philanthropist who built the Vouzier mansion (then image, 2001 image) for his family, which was recently purchased by Boeing as a training facility. Mr. Desloge passed away in 1971.  On business trips over the last few years to this facility I was able to visit Vouzier and, intrigued by it's beauty and history, I located and conversed via email and phone with Joseph Desloge Jr., who grew up in Vouzier.  He was kind enough to send me a copy of a book on his life's experiences titled "Passport to Manhood" (click here if the original link is gone).  Given Joseph's interest in the Cowboy West, Grandad Darvil McBride sent him a copy of his account of his Sheriff father's death in the line of duty titled "The Evaders" or "Wilderness Shootout".   In my favorite section of "Passport to Manhood" Joseph entertainingly describes his youth in Vouzier as a self-described "Enfant Terrible" (click here if the original link is gone).  Our visit to serene and beautiful Calvary Cemetery was made more fulfilling in knowing a small part of the history of this great family.

After leaving the cemetery we continued on Interstate 70 down to the Arch .  Where we parked on the street near the old capitol building.  We stood near the base of the Southern Arch anchor (38.623888 -90.184675) and watched (and smelled) a dredge at work on the Mississippi just East of the Arch. We toured the underground historical exhibit and Lisa walked through the gift shop. On the way back to the car I took a picture of Lisa with the arch in the background . She said she felt silly standing out in the open all by herself but I didn't... I had a camera to hold.

We then drove to Forest Park and walked through the Art Museum (38.639933 -90.294319) and saw paintings from the 1600's - we were only there about 30 minutes before they closed at 5pm and kicked us out.  We saw the Forest Park Pavilion  built for the 1904 World's Fair.  My great great grandmother Josephine (Cluff) Smith served as a missionary for the LDS church at the Fair when she was 44, and I assume she had been in this Pavilion.  She was a wonderful person who had raised 2 children (one, Neddie, was my great grandmother) and endured a divorce.  Soon after her return from the mission field to her home in Thatcher, Arizona she married Andrew Kimball, who's wife Olive died while Josephine was on her mission.  One of the 7 living (originally 11) Kimball children she raised was Spencer, who was 12 at the time.  Spencer would grow up to become the Prophet and 12th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  Josephine (Cluff) Kimball passed away in 1922 at the age of 62.  President Spencer Kimball, beloved by literally millions, passed away in 1985 at the age of 90.

After leaving Forest Park we drove to Ladue and Lisa got to ogle all the beautiful mansions we found there.  Lisa picked out a couple of mansions that I could buy for her if I was ever in the mood.

We then drove to the St. Louis Temple, which is actually in the suburb of Creve Coeur on the North side of I64 just West of I270. I forgot to take a picture there, but found this nice picture  at a website of all the Church's temples.  As expected the temple is beautiful.  We had planned on doing a session but couldn't once we decided to take the time to travel to Nauvoo. We'll look forward to our next visit to this temple.

After our brief stop at the temple we headed to our hotel near the airport called the Homestead Suites (room 337). (The Embassy Suites next door is 38.741569 -90.39889).  They're studio suites that were simple, clean, new and reasonably priced.  Surprisingly for this nice a hotel, there was a drunk making noise in the hall at about 12:30 that night which caused Lisa to jump almost completely out of bed from a sound sleep asking if the kids were all right.  You can take the Mom away from the kids but you can't take the kids out of the Mom.

The next morning we checked out and started for Nauvoo East on 70 and then North on 61.  We saw a sign for a Ferry across the Mississippi at Canton, MO so decided to try it .  We found that the ferry was next to a dam and Lock  (40.143208 -91.515562) (aerial photo) (click here if original link was gone) where we watched a coal barge 600' long negotiate the lock .
The ferry ride was enjoyable, with Lisa braving the crossing from inside the car  .  Once on the Illinois side we enjoyed driving smaller farm roads  as we made our way to Nauvoo.  Lisa wanted to check a crop she couldn't readily identify which we think now was soybean.  There was an unimaginable quantity of corn and soybean in the fields we drove past over those two days.  The countryside was green wherever you looked, sometimes flat as a pancake and other times rolling hills that sometimes exposed their limestone bases.  Wherever land hadn't been cleared for farming it was choked with beautiful dense stands of trees and brush.  As we neared Nauvoo the road ran right along the side of the Mississippi river . Lisa mentioned several times that she was ready to leave the desert and move there as she'd never imagined anyplace could be so green and beautiful.

In Nauvoo we ate at Grandpa John's Cafe at the far right window (from the outside), bought some fudge across the street and a small figurine of the Nauvoo Temple for Lisa from the LDS bookstore next door.  We saw Joseph Smith's home and store, along with the other restored period homes in the area.  We took a picture of the temple up on the bluff  from near Joseph's home. Construction on the new Nauvoo Temple (40.550834 -91.384662) is well under way    It will be beautiful when complete.  (Here's an image taken in 2002 of the completed temple  , and an aerial image is here).  While walking through the LDS visitors center we were surprised to see Uncle Mac McBride sitting in a chair.  Uncle Mac and Aunt Linda are from Corona, California. He was a Stake President and Orthodontist and now he's retired from both. He and Aunt Linda are on a mission in Chicago, but had chartered a bus and brought 50 folks the 4 hours from Chicago to see the play being put on that night, which we couldn't stay for since it started so late and we still needed to get to Carthage and then to our hotel an hour away.  Aunt Linda had gone for a walk so we missed her in our picture with Uncle Mac  but did get to meet Uncle Mac's friend from Chicago, who was a great guy .

We left Nauvoo and headed to Carthage (40.415407 -91.139069), where we saw the grounds , with the visitors center on the right, a statue of Joseph and Hyrum Smith in the center square, and the Jail just beyond. We visited the upstairs room where Joseph, his brother Hyrum, Wilford Woodruff, and John Talyor were being held when the mob stormed in, killing Hyrum instantly with a shot through the door which Hyrum was attempting to hold shut. Upon entering the room they shot John Taylor several times, one bullet lodging in his pocket watch, saving his life. Wilford Woodruff somehow escaped unharmed, as promised earlier by Joseph.  Joseph was shot twice in the room, and upon attempting to escape through the window on the left , he was shot from both inside the room and outside, falling to his death where Lisa is standing  .  The date was June 27, 1844 and Joseph was 38 years old.  We took the tour which was excellent and moving. I was impressed that, rather than focusing on these deaths, the tour and exhibits on the grounds focused on Joseph's testimony of his visit from the Father and the Son as a young boy and the subsequent restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  To stand in the final room in which the prophet through which the gospel was restored stood was a great experience.

The Carthage Jail Visitor's center closed as we completed our tour.  We'd had a long and enjoyable day.  As a result I had a Sundae at the DQ in Carthage and Lisa had two tylenol for her headache, then we headed for our hotel in Quincy, Illinois.

Quincy is a beautiful town along the Mississippi.  We arrived and sat for a while on a park bench (39.933865 -91.416157) (aerial photo) (click here if original link was gone) overlooking the river between two bridges crossing to the Missouri side.  The sun was setting, the sky was overcast and it was about 82 degrees.  There was nowhere else I'd rather be than sitting with Lisa on that bench.  It was a perfect ending to a perfect day.

We stayed at the Holiday Inn on 3rd Street (39.930297 -91.411426), where I'd made reservations via the internet from St. Louis the night before.  It's a great value for the price, which was about $65 total.  We'd go there again for sure.  Lisa said she'd been away from Arizona food too long (a whole day and a half) so we ate dinner that night at a El Rancherito Restaurant at 201 N 36th St. in a strip mall.  It was really good - probably because it's run by real mexicans.  We left there about 10:00pm and were off to bed with a goal to make Saturday a late start and non-rush return to St. Louis to catch the plane at 8:30pm.  Saturday morning we finally got out of the room about 10 and stopped at a farmer's market in the town square where we bought some home made apricot preserves and blackberry jelly.  Also tried some crabapples and ate a peach, which was really good.  Quincy has some beautiful historic homes.  Lisa's favorite was at 1401 Maine St. (39.931886 -91.393192) . It was decorated with flowers, including flowers hanging from the corners of the roof and atop the chimney.

We opted to take the backroads that hugged the winding Mississippi for our route to return to St. Louis, and we were glad we did.  It was a beautiful drive through several small towns and miles of green farmland and rolling hills.

We stopped in Hannibal, MO , ate a good lunch at Mark Twain's dinette, bought the kids gifts at Becky Thatcher's house and two shops next door, drove up the hill to Rockhurst Mansion and stopped at Lover's Leap (39.704151 -91.347182) on our way out of town (where the picture of Hannibal was taken from).  We skipped Mark Twain's cave since it was 52 degrees inside and we didn't have coats.  Lisa liked the historic (tourist trap) part of town and it's quaint shops. We spotted a tug boat pulling another off a sand bar just outside of town .

We stopped at Locks along the Mississippi at Quincy (39.704151 -91.347182), Clarksville, MO (39.373790 -90.905966), and Winfield, MO (39.005311 -90.689784).  This part of the trip was arguably the most beautiful as we drove down State Route 79 from Hannibal along the river to Interstate 70 near St. Louis.  It was a two lane, winding road through small towns separated by hilly, dense forests and wide open farmlands with corn 6 feet tall and soybean fields.  We followed the farm roads along the Mississippi all the way back to St. Louis, where we ate dinner at Jack in the Box and made it to our Gate 45 minutes before the plane took off at 8:30pm.  It was a wonderful trip that we felt fortunate to take and would like to repeat.


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TWO VIEWS •ÊDo high-rises raise city or bring it down?

Your article 'Fight about height' (Jan. 20) quoted a number of developers and politicians as well as former New Yorkers who argue that only high-rise buildings can provide desirable density and an ideal urban environment.

Is it possible that the millions of Parisians, Romans, Londoners, Viennese and others who live in cities with rigid height limitations are delusional? Does anyone who has traveled in the world really believe that the ideal urban life is in New York from the 30th story of a high-rise?

Let us face reality. The issue is not density. All of the above cities achieve excellent density with buildings under 10 stories and thrive without all the inhuman characteristics of American urbanism.

As most European cities demonstrate, architects understood that human beings interact horizontally Ñ on the sidewalk; at a plaza; and in any space, indoors or out that allows face-to-face eye contact, body language and visible, as well as vocal, exchange. Because there are hundreds of people above and below in a high-rise, that does not mean there is human interaction. It certainly doesn't take place in an elevator, where most people avoid even looking at fellow passengers, let alone having any meaningful exchange of ideas.

One of the most astute 20th century architects and urban designers, Constantine Doxiadis, writes: 'The most successful cities of the past were those where people and buildings were in a certain balance with nature. But high-rise buildings work against nature, or, in modern terms, against the environment.

'High-rise buildings work against man himself, because they isolate him from others, and this isolation is an important factor in the rising crime rate. É High-rise buildings work against society because they prevent the units of social importance Ñ the family É the neighborhood, etc. Ñ from functioning as naturally and as normally as before.'

As for developers who argue that high-rises are the only way to make a profit and attract enough residents to support businesses Ñ they should visit the venerable cities in the world that offer centuries of proof to the contrary.

High-rise buildings are enormously expensive to construct, to operate and to maintain, all of which contribute to inflated housing prices. The community is left to contend with overloaded infrastructure, ground-level wind shear that creates a squall for pedestrians and perpetual shadow that shrouds surrounding buildings. This is no way to build a civilized city.

The sole reason for a residential building to be taller than eight to 10 stories is the megalomania of architects and the greed of developers. Regrettably, some of my colleagues are especially at fault.

Architect and urban critic Bernard Rudofsky said it all in 1969: 'Unlike physicians, today's architects are not concerned with the general welfare; they are untroubled by scruples about strangling the cities and the misery that this entails. Architects never felt the urge to establish ethical precepts for the performance of their profession, as did the medical fraternity. No equivalent of the Hippocratic oath exists for them.

'Criticism within the profession Ñ the only conceivable way to spread a sense of responsibility among its members Ñ is tabooed by their own codified standards of practice. To bolster their ego, architects hold their own beauty contests, award each other prizes, decorate each other with gold medals, and make light of the damning fact that they do not amount to any moral force in this country.'

Howard Glazer has been an architect since 1959. He was educated at the Institute of Design in Chicago. He lives in Southwest Portland and has served on his neighborhood association board for many years.

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Note to readers: This is an abridged version of the Lake Oswego blotter. For the full log, including arrests, please see the print edition of your local newspaper.

7/13/11 12 noon. A woman who has been stalked recently reported that a burglar entered her house some time over the past two days.

7/18/11 12:08 p.m. A drunken driver drove into a ditch on Kilkenny Road. He was cited and released for DUII, reckless driving, refusing a breath test and having an open container.

7/12/11 1:49 p.m. A check appears to have been stolen out of a mailbox on Pioneer Court.

7/14/11 10:47 a.m. Money and sunglasses were stolen from a Honda Civic parked on Upper Cherry Lane.

7/15/11 2:55 p.m. A thief tried to steal a vehicle on Parkview Drive but only succeeded in damaging the ignition system.

7/18/11 8:38 a.m. A box of clothing was stolen from a Chevy Tahoe parked on Hill Way.

7/11/11 7:15 p.m. Seven juveniles were warned about criminal trespass after they jumped a fence around a boat dock on Maple Circle.

7/11/11 7:19 p.m. In a case of gas station rage, a man in a black Range Rover cussed out a woman after her vehicle blocked his at a service station on Boones Ferry Road.

7/11/11 9:55 p.m. Skateboard-ing firebugs built fires on Bella Terra and Ridge Point Drive and were jumping over them.

7/12/11 8:37 a.m. Some neighbors on Westview Circle got into a dispute over driveway easement issues. One neighbor has torn up and painted the other neighbor's driveway and claimed his rights to the easement.

7/12/11 8:40 a.m. The word 'butt' was written in red paint on a retaining wall on Tolkien Lane, causing an estimated $200 in damage.

7/12/11 9:31 a.m. Tires were slashed on a vehicle parked on Arrowwood Avenue.

7/12/11 12:41 p.m. Rumors and lies are being spread about a woman by a neighbor.

7/12/11 5:02 p.m. A dog was threatened with rocks by a man who claimed the dog was doing unwarranted urinating on Pioneer Court.

7/12/11 7:37 p.m. A father returned home to find that his son has been throwing wild parties in his absence. Four youth were cited for being minors in possession.

7/12/11 8:07 p.m. A weirdo was wandering around, peering through trees and looking into people's property on Eighth Street.

7/13/11 11:23 a.m. A man threatened a woman with death if she tampered with his meter on Lake Bay Court.

7/13/11 9:30 p.m. A clerk at a grocery store seemed to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs or was having medical problems.

7/14/11 8:36 a.m. A driver and a pedestrian got into a shouting match after the driver nearly hit the pedestrian in a crosswalk on Reese Road and Boones Ferry.

7/14/11 10:38 a.m. While a 20-year-old daughter was home alone, a man from a yard crew watched her through a window for 15 minutes.

7/14/11 12:39 p.m. A restaurant complained about a woman who keeps coming in and taking her personal paperwork. An investigation discovered that the woman has a history of misplacing things.

7/14/11 1:51 p.m. A possibly drunken man was belligerent to construction workers on Jefferson Parkway.

7/14/11 4:35 p.m. Ephraim E. Lockhart, 18, registered as a sex offender.

7/14/11 4:56 p.m. Southwood Park has a constant problem with juveniles coming in with backpacks. After they depart, residents are finding beer cans left behind.

7/14/11 6:10 p.m. A small dog is at large and taking potty breaks along View Lake Court.

7/14/11 7:26 p.m. A female driver refused to stop talking and texting while she was driving down Boones Ferry.

7/15/11 2:37 a.m. A naked male was spotted in traffic north of Monroe Parkway.

7/15/11 3:23 a.m. An unfriendly dog on Carman Drive refuses to stop barking.

7/15/11 6:56 a.m. A window was broken at the back gym at Forest Hills Elementary School. Officials estimated the damage at $400.

7/15/11 9:04 a.m. Ryan Christopher Ellis, 29, registered as a sex offender.

7/15/11 12:20 p.m. One child is threatening to kill another child.

7/15/11 2:01 p.m. The dolphin statue at Oswego Point Drive is again proving a popular jumping-off spot for kids ages 13 and 14. Unfortunately, this is considered neither safe nor legal.

7/15/11 9:17 p.m. A bunch of kids on Foothills Road were smoking marijuana, jumping into the river and throwing fireworks at boats. Aside from that, their conduct was exemplary.

7/15/11 9:28 p.m. A sleepover turned wild and loud when some youngsters started screaming and yelling as they bounced on a trampoline.

7/15/11 10:59 p.m. A Jeep was subjected to an egging as it drove down Country Club Road.

7/15/11 11:09 p.m. Just as a drunken woman was about to drive away from a location on North State Street, a person jumped in and told her not to drive.

7/16/11 12:54 a.m. A girlfriend locked herself into a bathroom and threatened to cut herself.

7/16/11 2:15 a.m. Four or five young adults, both men and women, were wrestling loudly on a dock on Oswego Lake below Third Street. They were given a noise warning and told to move along.

7/16/11 4:17 p.m. Two phony solicitors were caught selling phony Meineke offers on Wembley Park Road.

7/16/11 5:39 p.m. Five young males, aged 12-13, set off some fireworks on Hallinan Street and Hemlock Street, then skateboarded away in the direction of Hallinan Elementary School.

7/16/11 7:07 p.m. A father and son accidentally broke a window while playing basketball on a school playground.

7/17/11 2:06 a.m. A man's sleep was ruined by a neighbor stomping around and yelling in a loud voice at a location on McVey Avenue.

7/17/11 7:36 a.m. Police broke up a physical/verbal fight between a husband and wife. They are having marital problems.

7/17/11 8:22 a.m. A custody battle is turning bitter as a husband will not let his wife have custody of their 2-year-old son.

7/17/11 10:12 a.m. A house on Fernwood Drive was the target of eggs and tomatoes overnight, and a screen door was broken.

7/18/11 12:38 a.m. Two or three kids were caught setting off Pop-its in the main entrance of Lake Grove Elementary School.

7/18/11 1:30 a.m. A too-loud party was interrupted by police who cited three 17 year olds for minor in possession (alcohol). Another youth was cited for MIP (alcohol and tobacco) and curfew violation.

7/18/11 12:48 p.m. Festering of mosquitoes is feared by neighbors about the pond of an abandoned home.

7/18/11 5:18 p.m. An ex-wife is concerned that her depressed ex-husband might try to harm himself while he is house sitting.

7/18/11 5:35 p.m. Six chickens were killed by a large bulldog on Ash Street. Bloody paw prints were found on the front porch of the residence.

7/18/11 6:17 p.m. A man is being called obscenities by an unknown phone caller.

7/18/11 11:41 p.m. A juvenile ran a red light while skateboarding down the middle of the street on North Shore Road.

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Launch Event: Lady Khadija

Speaking and performing professionally since 1999, Lady Khadija is an arts activist, poet, and youth advocate, able to connect with individuals from all walks of life. She performed her moving Sufi Muslim spoken word and song at the Portraits in Faith launch event.

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Friday, November 23, 2012 0 Engineers

Video: Vessels - The Sky Was Pink

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Ghost - A Tale Of Life In VI Parts

Band: Ghost
Album: A Tale Of Life In VI Parts
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012

01. A Tale Of Life Part 1
02. A Tale Of Life Part 2
03. A Tale Of Life Part 3
04. A Tale Of Life Part 4
05. A Tale Of Life Part 5
06. A Tale Of Life Part 6

They say the best music is created in times of hardship. Hardship can be many different things in many different ways but everyone experiences hardship in one way or another over the course of a lifetime.

We all know music has the ability to influence the way people feel and for musicians it can be a way for them to deal with situations in life. Countless artists have produced music reflective of what’s happening around them, inside them, it’s the expression that’s important.

As an artist Ghost has released 3 albums, multiple EP’s, singles, mix CD’s and remixed the likes of Benny Tones, Nicole Willis, Jehst, The Heavy, Coldcut, Bonobo, Verb T. His music has featured in films, he’s had remixes on PS3 games (The Heavy), he’s DJ’d and toured all over Europe and the UK, played Glastonbury, Hip Hop Kemp and DJ supported the likes of Public Enemy. He regularly gives away music as a thank you to the army of fans who have brought up more than 10,000 copies of his releases over the last 7 years.

If you’ve listened to the music or seen any of the hundreds of reviews for those albums you’ll know Ghost has the ability to draw the listener into his multi layered beats and engage them on a deeper level than most. 2nd album ‘Freedom of Thought’ was critically acclaimed and took him out of his straight Hip Hop listenership into a wider audience without sacrificing his trademark melodic beats.

So December 2011, Ghost, now a proud father of 2 boys (one 2 years old and the other 5 months old) heard the news that his love and partner had a rare form of cancer. Although treatable, ahead lies 6 months of treatment and hopefully a happy outcome.

‘A Tale of Life in VI Parts’ was started when it became clear something might be wrong and tracks the emotional journey of contemplating life whilst waiting for results. Taking inspiration from composer Philip Glass, Ghost takes you to deep and dark places but maintains a strength of character throughout its 22 minutes. Heavily orchestrated strings, pianos and drums are the backdrop to the EP giving it a genuine cinematic feel.

‘A Tale of Life in VI Parts’ was made for the listener to enjoy from start to finish without pause, so we highly recommend you find a spot of quiet time in your schedule and turn off your mobile volume, switch the TV off, maybe even grab the headphones and enjoy.

This is a name your price release, the emphasis being to raise awareness about cancer and the importance of seeing your doctor if you’re worried about a lump anywhere, do not think it will go away it won’t.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012 0 Engineers

Video: Richard Knox & Frederic D. Oberland - Sleeping Land (Part I)

Sunday, November 18, 2012 0 Engineers

Single: Bossk - Pick Up Artist

Band: Bossk
Album: Pick Up Artist (Single)
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012

01. Pick Up Artist

Bossk return after a long time with their new single "Pick Up Artist". They will release their debut album in 2013.

Official Site

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Album: These Hands - Endlessly

Band: These Hands
Album: Endlessly
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012

01. Within
02. From Behind Closed Eyes
03. Remember Me
04. Soaring Sky
05. Drown The Sun
06. Tides (Loss)
07. Presence
08. Endlessly

These Hands have slowly crafted their own blend of post-rock, nineties indie rock, and post-hardcore over a number of years. After a recent name change, many lineup changes in it's early life, tumultuous events at random intervals, and anchor dropping inertia at alot of times in between, These Hands have finally released their long awaited full length "Endlessly" in May this year.

Thursday, November 15, 2012 0 Engineers

Album: Ilydaen - Digressions

Band: Ilydaen
Album: Digressions
Label: Dunk!Records, Wolves And Vibrancy Records
Year: 2012

01. Rewind
02. Grinding Calls
03. Timeline
04. Tormented Stones
05. Lifeline
06. Flavors

Ilydæn [ilidɛn] was first formed in Liège, Belgium in 2008. They quickly split up and came back in November 2009 with a different musical direction, yet the line-up stayed the same.
Their first EP, Exordium, was released in 2010. Digression (parekbasis in Greek, egressio, digressio and excursion in Latin) is their first full ablum release.

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EP: Sonance - Like Ghosts

Band: Sonance
Album: Like Ghosts EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012

01. Side A
02. Side B

Sonance is a band with doom, drone and sludge influences, formed in May 2011 in Bristol, UK.

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Wednesday, November 14, 2012 0 Engineers

Video: Magnetoscop. - L'Armée Du Cancrelat

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News: Isis Offer Free Download Of Temporal Bonus Tracks After Packaging Error

After a mistake in the CD packaging, Isis offered a free download link for the Temporal bonus track in their Facebook page accompanied by this note:

"Hello. To those who purchased "Temporal." There was a mixup with the CD packaging and the sticker placed on the front. The CD was stickered with the LP sticker claiming there was a 'download card with bonus tracks', the download card was mistakenly not included inside the CD package. So, here it is for your downloadable pleasure. Sorry for the mass confusion and inconvenience. We truly appreciate your support and understanding! - ISIS"

Band: Isis
Album: Temporal (Bonus Tracks)
Label: Ipecac
Year: 2012

01. From Sinking (Demo)
02. Syndic Calls (Demo)
03. In Fiction (Demo)
04. 20 Minutes 40 Years (Demo)
05. Hall Of The Dead (Demo)

You can buy the full release at Insound or Amazon (2xCD+DVD,3xLP+DVD).

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EP: Morgue Of Saints & From Oceans To Autumn - Skies Give Way... (Split)

Band: Morgue Of Saints & From Oceans To Autumn
Album: Skies Give Way... (Split) EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012

Morgue Of Saints
01. Sleep I
02. Sleep II
From Oceans To Autumn
03. When Given Wings
04. Skies Give Way

Morgue of Saints is a solo project founded by Elliot C, based in Montreal, Canada, founded with the goal of releasing experimental and doom metal created and crafted solely by himself.

From Oceans To Autumn is an atmospheric metal band from Charlotte, NC that was founded in 2006.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012 0 Engineers

Video: Amenra - Nowena I 9.10 (with Scott Kelly)

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Album: The Silence Of A Whisper - The Past, The Future, The End

Band: The Silence Of A Whisper
Album: The Past, The Future, The End
Label: Self Released
Year: 2011

01. The Endless Cycle Of Death
02. Close Your Eyes And Forget
03. Emotions And Soundscapes
04. Happy And Sad Times
05. I´m Not Perfect, Are You?
06. Believe
07. Memories
08. A Strange Dream
09. Flashback

The Silence Of A Whisper is the musical project of Jerome Engström, a multi-instrumentalist, producer and artist from Gothenburg, Sweden. All programming and composition of The Silence Of A Whisper are performed by Jerome, with exception of the occasional guest musician or vocalist.

Monday, November 12, 2012 0 Engineers

News: So Hideous, My Love Kickstarter Campaign

The dream of every artist is to realize his or her loftiest ambition free from any hindrance that might disrupt the creative process. On our first 2 EPs, So Hideous has attempted to push our individual and collective musical boundaries by broadening the scope of instrumentation and raising the bar on the quality of production. While these EPs dabbled in violent chamber music, the ultimate goal has always been to compose the loudest and most emotionally draining symphony ever recorded. On our upcoming release, we are excited to build on our existing sound with the addition of lavish string arrangements, a small choir and a brass section. We truly feel as if we have only scratched the surface of our full potential as a collective. With this record we are striving to expand our musical palette to incorporate more dissonant and consonant melodies whilst having each piece tie the album together as a cohesive unit. This has always been an ambitious project, but its members are humble enough to know when to ask for help with its completion. With this Kickstarter campaign, we are trying to generate enough funding to bring the best possible experience we are capable of to our listeners...and to make our passion a reality.
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Sunday, November 11, 2012 0 Engineers

EP: The Beauty The World Makes Us Hope For - A

Band: The Beauty The World Makes Us Hope For
Album: A EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012

01. With These Foreign Feet Which Surprise Us, Let's Leap Into The Sea
02. From These Pains Wings Are Spurting And Then Vanishing In The Midst Of A Dance
03. Matter Piles Up, Knowledge Is Passed On, Curiosity Leads To Many Feats

The Beauty The World Makes Us Hope For (TBTWMUHF) consists by four musicians who are willing to share the composition of music expressing emotions, instinct and sincerity.

Originally from Annecy, the group formed in 2009 and consists of two guitarists, Peter V. and Anthony H., tempting an invitation to travel and personal interpretation - and a drummer, Lauriane S., whose intention is to advance the time . In 2011 the change in the back of the drum kit with Cedric and the arrival of bassist Quentin reinforces the spirit of the group.

TBTWMUHF is also the desire to remember all the simple things we forget on the edge of our lives and touched by the beauty of a moment and carried away by the sweetness of melody.

The first EP "A", released in 2012, is inspired by real events and escapes by your imagination. It tells stories whose meaning are not told but the direction is given.

Saturday, November 10, 2012 0 Engineers

EP : Jordaan - An_Drone_Myda

Band: Jordaan
Album: An_Drone_Myda EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012

01. North Pole
02. Mountain
03. Happiness In Numbers
04. Towers Of Hanoi
05. Gliese

Jordaan is an instrumental post-rock band from Torino, Italy.

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Friday, November 09, 2012 0 Engineers

EP: Hesus Attor - Señorai

Band: Hesus Attor
Album: Señorai EP
Label: Geenger Records
Year: 2011

01. Pardonian Clouds
02. Señorai
03. Psyclick
04. Vox Of Archibald

In the harbour town of Rijeka, Croatia a small group of lovers of fast food and the local cuisine has given birth to a surrealistic monster which they have named Hesus Attor. They have equipped it with what they have read in comic books and seen in horror movies, but above all with a classic set of instruments every metal, rock, punk, hardcore or crossover band must have. The outcome is spectacular: a mixture of parody, schizophrenia and the absurd.

Between 2003 and 2005 Hesus Attor experimented with many musical genres, in the beginning as an instrumental trio. They self-released the results of their experiments calling their label Izdali Smo Metal (We Betrayed Metal). After Monade i dia peti (2003) and Vamonos Todos (2005) the group of gourmands consisting of Juan Pablo Pe De Rigad, Senor JosÈ and Digitus were joined by singer El Cathedralico who gave the monster a voice. In the summer of 2006 they released Green Feathers and Canaries, a mini-album which made the listener realize that the guys were being serious. This was even more audible on stage. Squeezing genre after subgenre, jumping from the developed to the undeveloped, from smoky ethno to sweaty heavy metal they rose from anonymity and made the earth shake in Kvarner, their home region, and elsewhere.

The shockwaves were perceived by Mr. Moonlee (Moonlee Records) who could not help himself but widen his colourful clan by those who have betrayed metal .

Hesus Attor do not hide their influences, their metal and hard core origins, but they often look back on them through a magnifying glass of irony and satire. Nothing is sacred to them. They devour and digest everything, only to spit it out again. By disregarding tradition, using deconstruction and a dadaistic concept, Hesus Attor and their mathematically precise anti-mixture of musical genres have placed themselves outside of every framework. Listening to their music causes avant-garde claustrophobia. They are as untameable as Mr. Bungle once was and Mike Patton still is. They do not fear the comparison with the Japanese demons Boredoms and Ruins; in fact they seem to be cross-bred with them. Just like John Zorn was in Naked City s good years.

The time has come for a new step, a new album. It was cooked and fried in Rijeka s catacombs for over a year just to be ready in time for mass consumption in September 2008. Moonlee Records proudly presents Sonic Gastronomy Volume 1.

Listening to the album you will realize that not only your digestive system is being tested, but also your patience and your ability to concentrate. Take the record into your hands. A blow below the belt and an unbelievable cultural electroshock await you.

In case anybody was wondering why all these allusions to food: The guys like to eat. Hence all their lyrics are about   food.

Señorai is their latest release.

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Album: Nils Frahm - Screws

Band: Nils Frahm
Album: Screws
Label: Erased Tapes
Year: 2012

01. You
02. Do
03. Re
04. Mi
05. Fa
06. Sol
07. La
08. Si
09. Me

Nils Frahm, born on September 20th, 1982, had an early introduction to music. During his childhood he was taught to play piano by Nahum Brodski – a student of the last scholar of Tschaikowski. It was through this that Nils began to immerse himself in the styles of the classical pianists before him as well as contemporary composers.

Today Nils Frahm works as an accomplished composer and producer from his Berlin-based Durton Studio, where he has worked and collaborated with many contemporaries such as Peter Broderick, Ólafur Arnalds, Anne Müller, Deaf Center, Efterklang and Dustin O’Halloran amongst other fellow musicians. His unconventional approach to an age-old instrument, played contemplatively and intimately, has won him many fans around the world. For a musician this early in his career, Frahm displays an incredibly developed sense of control and restraint in his work, catching the ear of many fans including Thom Yorke, who featured one of Nils’ songs in Radiohead’s HQ office chart. As the recognition continues to grow for his previous solo piano works 'Wintermusik' (2009) and ‘The Bells’ (2009), October 2011 saw the release of his most acclaimed album to date: 'Felt'.

Having recorded his last album live in a large, reverberant church, Nils Frahm now invites you to put on your headphones and dive into a world of microscopic and delicate sounds – so intimate that you could be sitting beside him. Recorded late at night in the reflective solitude and silence of his studio in Berlin, Frahm uncovers a new sound and source of inspiration within these peaceful moments: 'Originally I wanted to do my neighbours a favour by damping the sound of my piano. If I want to play piano during the quiet of the night, the only respectful way is by layering thick felt in front of the strings and using very gentle fingers. It was then that I discovered that my piano sounds beautiful with the damper.’

Captivated by this sonic exposition, he placed the microphones so deep inside the piano that they were almost touching the strings. This brought a host of external sounds to the recordings which most producers would try their hardest to hide: ‘I hear myself breathing and panting, the scraping sound of the piano's action and the creaking of my wooden floorboards – all equally as loud as the music. The music becomes a contingency, a chance, an accident within all this rustling. My heart opens and I wonder what exactly it is that makes me feel so happy.’

'Felt' creates its own personal microcosm, offering a refuge of tender and honest beauty.

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EP: Sleep Maps - The Stars Against Men

Band: Sleep Maps
Album: The Stars Against Men EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012

01. The Stars
02. Men
03. The Stars Against Men
04. The Stars Against Stars
05. Men Against Men
06. Post Stars
07. Post Men
08. Riot In The Void
09. An Era In The Blink Of An Eye Part 1
10. An Era In The Blink Of An Eye Part 2

Remix EP for the first song off Sleep Maps' debut record, 'Fiction Makes the Future'.
These remixes and all included content were produced through manipulation of the multi-track recordings for Sleep Maps "Men Against the Stars". No additional instrumentation or audio data was used in generation of these remixes.

Wednesday, November 07, 2012 0 Engineers

Album: Dresda - Diluvio

Band: Dresda
Album: Diluvio
Label: Marsiglia Records, Asiluum Net Label, Dissenso Records
Year: 2012

01. Piccoli Ricordi
02. Le Strade All'Alba
03. Che Tu Sia Per Me Il Coltello
04. Fili Spezzati
05. Diluvio

 Dresda is an instrumental band from Genova, Italy, born in ’05. Their name comes from the novel “slaughterhouse-five” by Kurt Vonnegut. They released their first record called" Pequod" on 20 December 2008, under Marsiglia Records, after releasing their EP “We are the superfunkers!” in Febraury 2007.

They  are influenced by the post-rock movement, and most of all we are involved in soundtrack music, as we try to represent and to emphasize with our songs some never-shooted cinematic sequences.

In the last years Dresda made lots of gigs, some songs have been published in some compilations and radio broadcasts. After "Pequod" was released in December 08, the band received many positive reviews from the dedicated press.

In September ’09, the netlabel Asiluum published "Pequod" with a new artwork.

In December ’09, they took part to the Italian edition of the Canadian documentary “RIP! A remix manifesto“, published by Feltrinelli Real Cinema and distributed on DVD nationally.

On January 2010 after using their music into the short movie “La lingua del disordine“, directors Marco Longo and Giorgio Montolivo shooted our first official video “La Stanza e l’Orologio”.

During year 2010 the band worked on motion picture soundtracks: the Italian independent movie “The Krolevsky Case“, and the short movie “La lingua del disordine”.

Dresda's newest release is “Diluvio”, that will was out in October 2012 on CD and digitally on Marsiglia Records, Asiluum Net Label, Dissenso Records.

Dresda are: Marco D’Oro, Daniel Campagne, Ivan Teso, Marco Cavaleri, Antonio Rodo

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News: Arktika

Dear friends, we have some bad news: due to different problems and new directions in life, we will soon have to close this chapter called Arktika. This band meant and still means a lot to us, but certain circumstances make it impossible for us to continue as we want to. Do not mistake us: we are still best friends and still love making music. Until the final curtain drops in 2013, you will definitely hear from us again – promised! So this is not our last message. And every end may be the beginning of something new… Love – Arktika
Monday, November 05, 2012 0 Engineers

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Friday, November 02, 2012 0 Engineers

EP: Chronos - Appalachia

Band: Chronos
Album: Appalachia EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2012

01. Appalachia
02. The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills

A post-metal band from Kent in the UK. Formed in 2010, Chronos have self released a 4-track demo digitally and released debut EP The Grips of Winter via Dog Knights Productions. They also released a split 10” with The Mire, which was released on Dog Knights Productions in Autumn 2011.

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Sunday, January 31, 2010

The Feast of the Presentation or Candlemas - Feb 2

The Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple, or Candlemas, is this week, February 2nd.

It is one of the twelve Great Feasts of the Eastern Orthodox church and a Principal Feast day in the Anglican church.

The feast is a remembrance of the event recorded in Luke 2:22-40 when, after having completed the required ritual cleansing and seclusion from public worship, Mary and Joseph brought Jesus to the Temple to make their offerings.

The tradition of calling the day "Candlemas" comes from a practice of blessing candles to be used in the church for the year.  A further tradition of bringing candles to be used in the home for blessing developed, and I think is a lovely custom.  It is a very ancient feast - with evidence of its celebration back to the 300s.

Interestingly, Candlemas in the UK shares a custom with Groundhog Day in the US (and is the basis for our Groundhog Day tradition):

If Candlemas Day be fair and bright,
Winter shall have another flight.

But if it be dark with clouds and rain,
Winter is gone not to come again.
- Old English verse

Foods and Meals

:-:  Traditional foods:  In France, crepes are eaten after 8pm (and if the cook can flip them while holding a coin in the other hand, the family is assured prosperity in the coming year).  Don't want to make them?  Check your grocery story, they might carry them at the bakery or frozen section.   Tamales are another traditional food in Mexico.  (Maybe because they look somewhat like candles?)  Perhaps tortilla wrap sandwiches might be fun, too.

:-: Of course, it would be lovely to eat by candlelight.

:-:  Try your hand and fancy napkin folding (to look like candles)!

Crafts and Activities

:-:  Consider making beeswax candles, or or these candles or crayon candles,  to be used in the home or on the family altar.  Or purchase some fresh candles for the coming year (to be used on special days, or at the family altar or during family prayer time.)

:-:  Let each family member carry a candle (lit if your children are old enough) on a procession through the house.

:-: This idea for making rolled coins into a candle craft is cute and easy.  A fun way to let the kids give money to a charity or in the offering plate.

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Amy said...

Great to hear you were celebrating too! I finally linked to your post last night. I hope to post pictures today--depends on who naps and for how long :-)


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Vitamins are like an insurance policy; we anticipate the utmost benefits/standards. As a professional athlete who eats healthy and trains hard, I am also aware that I need a multivitamin supplement to ensure I am energized, and feeling well throughout my daily workouts. When I first heard about Enduropacks I was in frantic search for a good multivitamin that would leave me feeling more energized and ward off winter sickness. I had tried numerous other brands that left me feeling tired and some that even upset my stomach. I also wanted a multivitamin with “normal” percentages of daily recommended intakes. As soon as I tried the Enduropack liquid multivitamin I knew it was for me. I only need 1 tablespoon in the morning before training and it tastes excellent.  The ease and absorption of a liquid maximizes all vitamins and minerals. It also contains a brown rice protein stabilizing agent for maximum bioavailability. I feel energized all day long, and have not missed any winter training due to sickness. And now as oppose to taking 4-8 pills in a day, I simply take 1 tablespoon of liquid (and an Iron pill) and my daily needs are met.
The next item in the pack was a Concentrated Electrolyte Spray. It is simple to use, just add 5 sprays into my water bottle and I was set. During the early winter months when metabolic efficiency is important it is great to get your electrolytes separate from your training nutrition. I was able to get in all of the electrolytes I needed without adding the normal 200-400 calories of beverages I would normally use. This allowed me to keep my blood sugar stable and improve my metabolic efficiency during the base phase of my training. When the intensity picks up in my training I will add the sprays to my carbohydrate solution drink (PowerBar).
The next item in the Endropack is an Essential Amino Recovery Patch.  Clinical studies show that essential amino acids help replenish muscles, increase lung function and boost immune system performance.  The best part of this was all I had to do was apply a patch on dry clean skin for 4-8hours after training. When I forget to apply one, I really notice, that’s how well they work.
Lastly is a glutamine tablet to take before going to sleep. High levels of training and racing will deplete the glutamine levels in your skeletal muscles increasing fatigue and the chance of injury. I found that this supplement really reduces my soreness the following day. This supplement works. Most major recovery drinks will provide glutamine in the drinks but I found an extra bonus of taking it at night before bed.
So to test these supplements I started using the 1 month supply when first building up my training in the offseason. I started taking them right after being hospitalized for Salmonella blood poisoning in October, when I was weak and out of shape.  I started the pack, then ran a 10k Turkey Trot and 2 crit races in the same weekend. I was not speedy but I noticed that I recovered very quickly and was able to get right back into training.  I then started increasing my milage both in the pool and bike and remained energized and recovered throughout. I truly believe that the  quality of the composition and the timing/mode of ingestion of all the athlete specific nutrients in the Enduropack maximize the absorption and benefit to all athletes. Because of this I feel energized, recovered and ready to train everyday.
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Thursday, August 19, 2010

PowerPoint Presentation On Apoptosis

PPT On Apoptosis

Apoptosis Presentation Transcript:
Apoptosis means “programed cell death”. It’s role in cell population control during growth and development suggests that there are inherent cellular mechanisms that lead the cell to destruction. It is a form of cell death which is different from any other form of cell death-necrosis.

Cell death by injury -Mechanical damage -Exposure to toxic chemicals Cell death by suicide -Internal signals -External signals

3. Conted…..
Apoptosis or programmed cell death, is carefully coordinated collapse of cell, protein degradation , DNA fragmentation followed by rapid engulfment of corpses by neighbouring cells. (Tommi, 2002) Essential part of life for every multicellular organism from worms to humans. (Faddy et al.,1992) Apoptosis plays a major role from embryonic development to senescence.

4. History of cell death / apoptosis
research 1800s Numerous observation of cell death 1908 Mechnikov wins Nobel prize (phagocytosis) 1930-40 Studies of metamorphosis 1948-49 Cell death in chick limb & exploration of NGF 1955 Beginning of studies of lysomes 1964-66 Necrosis & PCD described 1971 Term apoptosis coined 1977 Cell death genes in C. elegans 1980-82 DNA ladder observed & ced-3 identified 1989-91 Apoptosis genes identified, including bcl-2, fas/apo1 & p53, ced-3 sequenced (Richerd, 2001)

5. Why should a cell commit suicide?
Apoptosis is needed for proper development Examples: The resorption of the tadpole tail The formation of the fingers and toes of the fetus The sloughing off of the inner lining of the uterus The formation of the proper connections between neurons in the brain Apoptosis is needed to destroy cells Examples: Cells infected with viruses Cells of the immune system Cells with DNA damage Cancer cells

6. What makes a cell decide to commit suicide?
Withdrawal of positive signals examples : growth factors for neurons Interleukin-2 (IL-2) Receipt of negative signals examples : increased levels of oxidants within the cell damage to DNA by oxidants death activators : Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-) Lymphotoxin (TNF-β) Fas ligand (FasL)

7. Necrosis vs. Apoptosis
Cellular swelling Membranes are broken ATP is depleted Cell lyses, eliciting an inflammatory reaction DNA fragmentation is random, or smeared In vivo, whole areas of the tissue are affected Cellular condensation Membranes remain intact Requires ATP Cell is phagocytosed, no tissue reaction Ladder-like DNA fragmentation In vivo, individual cells appear affected

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Saturday, June 6, 2009

How to Think Like a Leader?

Achieving high-level success requires the support and the cooperation of others. And gaining this support and cooperation of others requires leadership ability.

Four leadership rules or principles that can cause others to do things for us in the executive suite, in business, in social clubs, in the home, anywhere we find people:

1. Trade minds with the people you want to influence. Is a magic way to get others – friends, associates, customers, and employees – to act the way you want them to act. To get others to do what you want them to do, you must see things through their eyes. When you trade minds, the secret of how to influence other people effectively shows up (ex. one political candidate for a national office apparently fully as qualified as his opponent lost by a tremendous margin for one single reason. He used a vocabulary that only a small percentage of voters could understand.) Keep this question in mind: “What would I think of this if I exchanged places with the other persons?” Thinking of the interests of the people we want to influence is an excellent thought rule in every situation.

Put the trading minds principle to work for you:

  1. Consider the other person’s situation. Put yourself in his shoes so to speak. Remember, his interests, income, intelligence, and background may differ considerably from yours.
  2. Now ask yourself. “If I were in his situation, how would I react to this?”
  3. Then take the action that would move you if you were the other persons

2. Think: What is the human way to handle this? People use different approaches to leadership situations. One approach is to assume the position of a dictator. – Makes all decision without consulting those affected. He refuses to hear his subordinates’ side of a question because down deep perhaps, he’s afraid the subordinate might be right and this would cause him to lose face. Dictators don’t last long. Employee may fake loyalty for a while but unrest soon develops. Second leadership technique is the cold, mechanical. The fellow using this approach handles everything exactly according to the book. He doesn’t recognize hat every rule or policy or plan is only a guide for the usual cases. This would-be leader treats human beings as machines. Third person who rise to tremendous leadership height use a “Being Human.” You are a human being, I respect you, I’m here to help you in every way I can. “Whoever is under a man’s power is under his protection, too.” Anybody can hire a man. But the test of leadership is how one handles the dismissal.

Two ways to use the be-human approach to make you a better leader:

First. Each time you face a difficult matter involving people, ask yourself, ”What is the human way to handle this?”. Avoid sarcasm, avoid being cynical, avoid taking people down a peg or two. Avoid putting others in their place. Ask “what is the human way to deal with people?” It always pays-sometimes sooner, sometime later. But it always pays

Second. To let your action show you put people first. Show interest in your subordinates off the job accomplishments, treat everyone with dignity. Remind yourself that the primary purpose in life is to enjoy it. As a general rule, the more interest you show in a person, the more he will produce for you, and this what carries you forward to greater success. Practice praising people. Rub people the right way.

3. Think Progress, Believe in Progress, Push for Progress. Promotion in all fields go to individual who believe in-and push for progress. Develop a forward look.

Two special things you can do to develop your progressive outlook.

  1. Think improvement in everything you do.
  2. Think high standards in everything you do.

Believe in-and push for progress, and you’ll be a leader. Remember this: When you take over the leadership of a group, the persons in that group immediately begin to adjust themselves to the standard you set. This is most noticeable during the first few weeks. Their big concern is to clue you in, zero you in, find out what you expect of them. They watch every move you make. They think, How does he want it done? What does it take to please him? What will he say if I do this or that? Once they know, they act accordingly. Check the example you set. Use this ever-accurate as a guide: “What kind of world would this world be, if everyone in it were just like me? In similar fashion, ask yourself, What kind of club, community, school, church would it be if everyone in it acted like you. Think, talk, act, live the way you want your subordinates to think, talk, act, live - and they will. Over a period of time, subordinates tend to become carbon copies of their chief. The simplest way to get high-level performance is to be sure the master copy is worth duplicating.

Am I a Progress thinker? Checklist:

A. Do I think progressively toward my work?

  1. Do I appraise my work with the “how can we do it better?” attitude?
  2. Do I praise my company, the people in it, and the products it sells at every possible opportunity?
  3. Are my personal standards with reference to the quantity and quality of my output higher now than three or six months ago?
  4. Am I setting an excellent example for my subordinates, associates and others I work with?

B. Do I think progressively toward my family?

1. Is my family happier today than it was three or six months ago?

2. Am I following a plan to improve my family’s standard of living?

3. Does my family have an ample variety of stimulating activities outside the home?

4. Do I set an example of a progressive, a supporter of progress for my children?

C. Do I think progressively toward myself?

  1. Can I honestly say I am a more valuable person today than three or six months ago?
  2. Am I following an organized self-improvement program to increase my value to others?
  3. Do I have a forward - looking goals for at least five years in the future?
  4. Am I a booster in every organization or group to which I belong?

D. Do I think progressively toward my community?

  1. Have I done anything in the past six months that I honestly feel has improved my community?
  2. Do I boost worthwhile community projects rather than object, criticize or complain?
  3. Have I ever taken the lead in bringing about some worthwhile improvement in my community?
  4. Do I speak well of my neighbors and fellow citizens?

4. Take time out to confer with yourself and tap your supreme thinking power.

Don’t be a Mr. I-can’t-stand-to-be-alone. Successful leaders tap their superpower through being alone. (When Mr. I-can’t-stand-to-be-alone is forced by circumstances to be physically alone, he resorts to television, newspaper, radio, tel., anything that will take over his thinking process for him.) As part of professional development program: Closet ourselves for one hour each day, shut themselves/ourselves off from all distractions and think constructively about anything that come to mind.

Two kind of thinking we can use:

  1. Directed thinking. Review the major problem facing you. In solitude/isolation your mind will study the problem objectively and lead you to the right answer.
  2. Undirected thinking. Just let your mind select what it wishes to think about. It’s very helpful in doing self-evaluation. It helps you get down to the very basic matters like “How can I do better?” What should be my next move? In moment like these your subconscious mind taps your memory bank which in turn feeds your conscious mind. Remember, the main job of the leader is thinking. And the best preparation for leadership is thinking. Spend sometime in managed solitude everyday and think yourself to success.

How to use the Thinking Big in life’s most crucial situations:

There is magic in thinking big but it so easy to forget. When you hit some rough spots, there is danger that your thinking will shrink in size. And when it does, you lose. Brief guides for staying big when you’re tempted to use the small approach:

A. When Little People Try to Drive Your Down, Think Big.

To be sure, there are some people who want you to lose, to experience misfortune, to be reprimanded. But these people can’t hurt you if you’ll remember three things:

  1. You win when you refused to fight petty/unimportant people. Fighting little people reduces you to their size. Stay big.
  2. Expect to be sniped/shorten at. It’s proof you’re growing.
  3. Remind yourself that snipers are psychologically sick. Be big. Feel sorry for them. Think big enough to be immune to the attacks of petty people.

B. When That “I-Haven’t-Got-What-It-Takes” Feeling Creeps Up on You, Think Big. Remember: If you think you are weak, you are. If you think you’re inadequate, you are. If you think you’re second class, you are. Whip/trash that natural tendency to sell yourself short with these tools:

  1. Look important. It helps you think important. How you look on the outside has a lot to do with how you fill on the inside.
  2. Concentrate on your assets, Build a sell-yourself-to-yourself commercial and use it. Learn to supercharge yourself. Know your positive self.
  3. Put other people in proper perspective. The other person is just another human being, so why be afraid of him? Think big enough to see how good you really are!

C. When an Argument or Quarrel Seems Inevitable/foreseeable. Think Big. Successfully resist the temptation to argue and quarrel by:

  1. Asking yourself, “Honestly now, is this thing really important enough to argue about?”
  2. Reminding yourself, you never gain anything from an argument but you always lose something.
  3. Think big enough to see that quarrels, arguments, feuds, and fusses will never help you get where you want to go.

D. When You Feel Defeated, Think Big. It is not possible to achieve large success without hardships and setbacks/disappointment/loss/misfortune/defeat. But it is possible to live the rest of your life without defeat. Big thinkers react to setbacks this way:

  1. Regard the setback as a lesson. Learn from it, research it, use it to propel/drive/push you forward, Salvage/recover/save/retrieve something from every setback.
  2. Blend persistence/determination/perseverance with experimentation. Back off and start afresh with a new approach.
  3. Think big enough to see that defeat is a state/condition of mind nothing more.

E. When Romance Starts to Slip, Think Big. Negative, petty, “She’s (He)-unfair-to-me-so-I’ll-get-even” type of thinking slaughters romance, destroys the affection that can be yours. Do this when things aren’t going right in the love department:

  1. Concentrate on the biggest qualities in the person you want to love you. Put little things where they belong. – in second place.
  2. Do something special for your mate and do it often.
  3. Think big enough to find the secret to marital joys.

F. When You Feel Your Progress on the Job is Slowing Down. Think Big. No matter what you do and regardless of your occupation, higher status, higher pay comes from one thing: Increasing the quality and quantity of your output. Do this:

Think, “I can do better”, the best is not unattainable. There is room for doing everything better. Nothing in this world is being done as well as it could be. And when you think, “I can do better” ways to do better will appear, thinking, “I can do better” switches on your creative power. Think big enough to see that if you put service first, money takes care of itself.

In the words of Publilius Syrus:

“A wise man will be master of his mind, A fool will be its slave.”

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Friday, September 11, 2009

How Important Do You Think You Are?

I suppose no one likes being belittled. I don't like being told how dumb I am nor how ugly nor how short nor any of the things I really might be but don't want to be told. I have no control over most of the things I don't want to be told. It still hurts.

None of this really counts when considering our importance in God's Kingdom. Jesus said that the more important are those who are the servants of all others. I can be very important regardless of my intelligence, looks, height or anything else I entered this world with. I can really be somebody.

The problem comes when I think I am somebody when I want the praise of people over the praise of God. The more I want someone else to praise me, the lower I get in the Kingdom of God. I grow greater in God's Kingdom the less I seek the praise of the world.

My natural tendency is to want the praise of this world. It is tangible. It is something I see today. However, I may not know my greatness in God's Kingdom while on this earth. I may never even realize it.

It is very hard to be content with something promised but not received.  I suppose that has to do with maturity. I have heard that being mature is having money in your pocket and not spending it. I suppose this maturity is realizing that the more I serve, the more I am building my stature in God's eyes. I know that is true but, honestly, I would rather receive a check.

I wonder what it is like for people who are naturally gifted to receive the praise of the world. I wonder what it is like to be a great actor or athlete. They have to work against others' desire to serve them and make them important on this earth if they want to be great in God's Kingdom. I am sure that there are those who do. I just think it must be extremely difficult for them.

Years ago I heard of people practicing "random acts of kindness." I laughed. There is no such thing. Significant kindness is a conscious thought. It may be that you have been raised to be kind. It may be that you are naturally kind. However, it is a conscious thought when you do serve someone who may never thank you. It is a conscious thought when it costs you something and you are never repaid. I think this is what Jesus meant when He said the one who is the servant of all is the greatest in God's Kingdom. No repayment is needed nor should be expected.

I will make a conscious effort to serve others today. I will do so without the expectation of being repaid or even receiving thanks. I will do so without the desire to be noticed and praised. I will do so because I know that Jesus is watching.

That's enough; isn't it?

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