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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Winter Shorts 3: PyWeek #16 in April, Rainbow Rooms, Valyria Tear on OS X

PyWeek #16 in April

PyWeek logo

PyWeek is a game jam that obviously goes on for one week and requires the use of Python. It takes place online and there are overall winners in team and solo categories, as well as awards. The dates of the 16th PyWeek challenge are 00:00 UTC April 14, 2013 to 00:00 UTC April 21, 2013. Registration opens on 15. March 2013.

There is a message board for the community and there are interesting methods to publish Python games as HTML/JavaScript using pyjs, as demonstrated by the PyWeek #15 entry Kaos.

License Requirements: At least Shared Source required. Free software licenses recommended.

PyWeek #15 Entry: Rainbow Rooms

Rainbow Rooms is a physical-nonsense-maze puzzle game based on libtcod.

Various fonts are being used, some of which might be problematic license-wise for including in for example Debian's official repositories but it should be possible to replace them in less than two hours including research and documentation.

Code License: GPLv2
Content License: Unclear

Valyria Tear: "Final Release of Half-Episode I"

New Valyria Tear GUI screens

Valyria Tear Half-Episode I has been released, which I suppose we can take as 50% of Episode I's acts being complete.

The release brings new graphical interfaces and development is ongoing.

An OS X version can now also be grabbed from the OSX thread.

Code License: GPLv2
Content License: Various (DFSG approved)

Monday, February 25, 2013

Asylum: Free-as-in-Freedom Horror Adventure, Successfully Crowd-Funded

This is a guest post by Hythlodaeus on an interesting FLOSS game engine project, being developed by a professional games company.

I guess I should take a few paragraphs on this article to explain my stance on crowd-funded game projects. I've always been turned off by most Kickstarter game projects for a very simple reason: after personally inquiring a plethora of developers on their stance for Open-Source and Free Software, I was generally met with negative replies, half-baked excuses, bitter retorts or complete silence.

Now, although I recognize it is every developer's right to pick the license and the conditions for the usage of their own work, it strikes me as a very odd attitude for people engaging into crowd funding projects to be so unwilling to provide any other warranties to their prospective backers and future customers other than “we will make this happen if you give us enough money”. From this point, let's make something clear: pledging on a crowd-funded game project isn't exactly the same thing as buying a video game. From the backers' part it's an investment and a risk. It's about depositing your faith on other peoples' words, in hopes they will eventually deliver what they promised. When you buy a game, be it good or bad, you at least know that you're dealing with a finished product. When you pledge on a crowd-funded project, completion is only a possibility regardless of the campaign's success.

So, in my personal opinion, I've always thought crowd-funded game projects should strive to provide the level of trust they request from their backers. In this case,  that means allowing people to have access to the game's source code under a permissive / Free Software license, preferably starting right at the end of the campaign. Why? Simply because that allows for a tighter control of what's going on in the development backstage, and will allow every contributor to provide better feedback on the work being done. Raw engine code also gives backers something that can eventually be picked up and used for other personal purposes, if the project happens to fail for some reason.

With that said, let's talk a little about this project, which is, after all, what lead me to write this post. Asylum is the brainchild of Agustin Cordes, the Argentinian developer behind Scratches, a horror game that managed to get some degree of attention way back in 2006. The project aims to create a Lovecraftian-inspired horror point-and-click adventure game that will focus on an intense and immersive atmosphere, followed closely by engaging storytelling. From the trailer and screenshots provided so far, it seems like a rather professional endeavour, but for me the most pleasant surprise, was that the developer's in-house engine, Dagon, will be Free and Open-Source. On top of that, Cordes himself actually took the time to explain why he believes the engine should be free, and how such a decision aims not only to help preserve Asylum for future generations, but also to empower other indie developers by providing an open platform anyone will be free to use.

Since there is no information available about specific licensing on the project page, I actually went on to ask the developer about which specific license was being used for the Dagon engine:
Me: Hello. I have one question regarding Dagon. You already stated it's going to be free and open source, but exactly under which software license are you going to release it?
Agustin Cordes: Hi! We're currently using CDDL but I'm expecting to re-license with the more popular MPL 2.0 very soon. Cheers!
Me: Fair enough. Do I have your permission to quote this conversation in a news blog about Free Software gaming?
Agustin Cordes: Absolutely! :)
“MPL” referring of course to the Mozilla Public License, which despite not being a strong copyleft license, it is both Free Software and GPL compatible. So perhaps Dagon can motivate a new generation of graphic adventure lovers to innovate upon the work started by Asylum. We can only hope future Kickstarter projects and indie developers adopt a similar perspective on Open-Source development.

With little less than a few days to go (I'm ashamed to say I only heard about this project very recently), Asylum is already fully funded, but if you still wish to contribute to this genuinely FLOSS project, or simply purchase the game for a special price, you still have a chance. Extra funding goals have already been set, and some additional rewards may also seem worthy to you.

The source for Asylum's engine, Dagon, can already be found here, currently licensed under CDDL (Thanks to Evropi for pointing this out).

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Winter Shorts 2: Physica, SkyRiot, OpenMW

Physica screenshots

Physica is a very simple casual platformer game where the goal is to drive a square through game levels from its starting position to his goal, avoiding hazards and without falling down.

SkyRiot screens

SkyRiot is available for free for Android on Google Play and was released under open source and free content licenses on SourceForge.net [forum post].
SkyRiot is a 2D flying shooting platform action game for Android devices. Fly a hoverboard and use an assortment of weaponry as you, an anarchist, single-handedly wage war against a totalitarian regime. Full 360-degree aiming along with total freedom of movement will keep you glued to your device for many hours as you blast your way across over 10 game maps.

OpenMW 0.21.0 has been released. Changelog:
  • Various dialogue, trading, and disposition fixes and improvements
  • Torch flickering improved to better match vanilla Morrowind
  • Fix for attribute fluctuation when infected with Ash Woe Blight
  • Adjusted activation range to better match vanilla Morrowind
  • Fixes for the Journal UI
  • Fixed crash caused by Golden Saint models
  • Fix for beast races being able to wear shoes
  • Fix for background music not playing
  • Fix for meshes without certain node names not being loaded
  • Fix for incorrect terrain shape on inital cell load
  • Fix for MWGui::InventoryWindow creating a duplicate player actor at the origin
  • Added video playback
  • Added support for escape sequences in message box and dialogue text
  • Added AI related script functions, note that AI is not functional yet
  • Implemented fallbacks for necessary ini values in the importer, unused in OpenMW as of yet
  • Implemented execution of scripts of objects in containers/inventories in active cells
  • Cell loading performance improvements
  • Removed broken GMST contamination fixing mechanism

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Winter Shorts 1: Word War Vi Laser Edition, Space Nerds in Space

SNiS Engineering screen
Stephen Cameron, one of my personal heroes of game development (Be The Wumpus), made Word War Vi support color laser projectors using the openlase library [blog post].

Another project that our forum users were allowed to follow in this thread is Space Nerds in Space:

So this game (when it becomes a game) is very much inspired by Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator
See: artemis.eochu.com The idea is you have a game which is played much as the actors in the Star Trek TV series played their roles on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. There are a number of "stations": Navigation, Weapons, Science, Communications, etc. and each player assumes that role. Each station has it's own laptop or other computer which communicates via network to a central server which simulates the game universe. So it's kind of a cooperative multiplayer network game... No reason not to have multiple teams in multiple starships inhabiting the same server/universe either cooperating or doing battle.
Mine is different than Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator in that it is:
Probably uglier (lol).
Probably more scalable (yay vector graphics.)
Not even close to finished.

It will probably be a while until I'm in a room with enough Linux users to test play this game but when the time comes, I shall be prepared!

Friday, February 22, 2013

Cube2 engine keeps on expanding!

While the recent new release of Cube2: Sauerbraten didn't bring any really big changes, the network of friendly forks keeps expanding. But before I go into more details, here is a new feature trailer of Cube2: Sauerbraten:

The maybe most prominent and fully FOSS fork RedEclipse is still working on the promised new 1.4 release, with them doing some silly and some cool enhancement projects in the meantime... so yeah:

Red Eclipse in Valve Time tm
Octaforge still has a few day to go in order to avoid missing their estimated release "this month", but when browsing OpenGameArt.org, I came across an interesting fork of the Sandbox Game Maker fork, called Lamiae with the RPG game Kelgar:

Kelgar Gameplay 0.8 - Indie DB

According to their github page, content seems to be libre (CC-by or CC-by-SA) but information is a bit scarce. Even less information is available for this other fork, called SabiCube, but you can download and test their alpha.

Oh and a bit older, but also interesting: the emscripten powered HTML5 port of Cube2, called Banana Bread, has also really picked up since the main emscripten developer was hired by the Mozilla foundation. Here you can see it running a multi-player game (very recent new feature), and with the upcoming (also Mozilla powered) asm.js Javascript speed-up, it will probably run at near native speeds in the not too far future.

Ok... I hope that is all... if you know of other interesting Cube2 powered projects, please comment below!

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

SuperTuxKart Development News

First, after 12 years of development, SuperTuxKart is a candidate for the March project of the month at Sourceforge. This is a huge honor and a significant boost for the project, so please vote for us here.

Second, last month we were featured in Microsoft's IllumiRoom demo alongside Red Eclipse (another FOSS game) and Halo. For those who are interested, you can find the video in the last post. It's the second time STK has been featured in an unexpected place. The game has previously appeared in an episode of the show Friday Night Lights. The episode was critical of drug use and videogames, so downloads for the game probably didn't go up. I am not entirely sure why they chose a kart racer game over, let's say, postal 3, but licensing issues are likely to have played a prominent role in their decision. STK's permissive licenses mean, companies don't need to contact us before using it in media.
Development news
To try these new features out by compiling the latest source code from sourceforge page. Links are located at the bottom of the page.

The Bubble gum powerup currently can be dropped by a player to create a track obstacle. While not finalized, there is an idea to make it more useful by including a second phase to this particular powerup. The first phase occurs when the player activates the gum, it expands into a pink force-field which protects the player from enemy attacks for 15 seconds. If the player is hit by a weapon while the force-field is up, the shield is destroyed, and bubble gum shrapnel will hit any players within a certain proximity blinding them for a couple seconds. It will also leave a smear on the ground which if hit, will cause a moderate decrease in the players speed.

The second phase happens if the fifteen seconds pass without the shield being destroyed. It shrinks back down and the player can then drop it on the ground like in the current version of the game.
The new icon

New bubblegum icon

Bubblegum icon 2

Planetarium 2

Planetarium 1

This is a level Samuncle is currently working on.

Konqi's new kart:

Here's what will likely be the final version of Konqi's new kart. It now includes pedals and a steering wheel. It's looking good.

New Peripheral Support: Wiimote

Funto is working on adding wiimote support via the open source library “wiiuse” https://github.com/rpavlik/wiiuse. After 3 years it's finally coming together. Wiimotes now work on Linux and Windows (if you compile from the latest svn). It is not working on OS X yet, but Auria is buying a wiimote to try to get it working on her Mac. There are also some issues with tuning and steering that need to be worked out and we have not integrated support for motionplus, because only the external version was working. So wiimotes with motionplus built in will not work (older models will). We may add the motionplus functionality in later and we always appreciate help.

Game Tutorial:

Auria is developing a gameplay tutorials covering the core gameplay elements for new players. The tutorial takes place on a modified version of the track “Hacienda” and the player takes a single lap around the track. During the lap the game pauses periodically to explains things like how to control the kart, obtaining and using weapons and powerups, how to use nitro boosters and the skidding feature.

New WIP Game Mode: Soccer

Soccer mode is one of our developer funto's, pet projects. It's a multiplayer game mode where two teams fight to push an oversized soccer ball into the opposing team's goal. There is a test level derived from the Stadium arena. Currently, obstacles have been removed, but map makers could always re-add them. It's WIP, and the scoring system is not currently implemented and the system for making team's is still a WIP.

Other enhancements:

- Sparking particles now emit from the kart's wheel's while drifting. It's a welcomed addition. You can also compare Konqi's old kart (below) to the new one (above).

- Characters can now wear customizable hats. We'd love to see what people can make

You can test all these features out today by downloading and compiling the latest trunk of the SVN, located at: http://supertuxkart.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/supertuxkart/main/

How to compile from from source:
This is a guest post by Antoine Stroll.

Monday, February 11, 2013

To unknown horizons to forge worlds...

I totally missed the rather big update of Unknown Horizons at the end of last month. The changes/updates are summarized by them as following:
  • Completely new tileset
  • New buildings: alvearies, barracks, blender, cocoa field, doctor, herbary, lookout, pastry shop, spice field, vineyard, vintner
  • Many new graphics for existing buildings
  • AI can now handle war and diplomacy
  • Vast performance improvements
  • New music track: Battle
  • Tons of bug fixes
  • Updated translations
  • Much, much more
Yesterday there was also a new 0.7.0 release of the 3D Worldforge client Ember:
Worldforge 3D client Ember 0.7.0
Graphics are starting to look rather nice, right?

Last but not least,the recently open-sourced AgentKeeper got a dedicated sub-forum on our messageboards and is looking for contributors:

So, if you want to help out with this brand new jMonkey powered dungeon tycoon game, check out this nice list of video tutorials.

Saturday, February 09, 2013

Various follow-ups

First off as a rather fast follow up on the last post:
Otherwise, as previously mentioned, Garage Games has now also released their 2D game framework under the MIT license:

Their 3D game engine also saw some nice updates lately, however sadly their crowd funding push to port Torque3D to Linux fell (not totally unsurprisingly) short of their 30,000$ mark (with about 10,000$ pledged).

Monday, February 04, 2013

Quick FPS updates

I will keep it short today: Unvanquished Alpha12 released:
New rim-lighting options on alien scum
New releases of Red Eclipse and Alien Arena still pending, but really close (tm), not much news from War§ow either except that they are looking for a .deb package manager.

Xonotic's development seems to have slowed down a bit, but here is a nice road map of what is to come, and some current fragging fun can be seen here.

Oh and the developers of the Octaforge engine estimated that the first release might be this month :)

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If You Are Ill

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A reader commented on yesterday’s post, “Afraid of Meds,”

My fear, I think, would be not so much the dependence—but what would happen if I did need that medicine and it suddenly became unavailable, like I couldn’t get my prescription because of a natural disaster or something like that.  …Would going off of those meds cold turkey put me at a real disadvantage?

In my late 20’s I had similar fears, only for me it was related to my eye-glasses.  Because I didn’t tolerate contact lenses, I especially had vivid fears of getting into the driver’s seat of my car without my eye-glasses anywhere to be found.  Living on loans at the time, I took out extra money and got LASIK eye surgery.  Oh the joy when I woke up one morning and could see clearly, high-definition, no glasses to grope around for, freedom!

Unfortunately in neuropsychiatry, we don’t have the privilege yet of offering many curative options like LASIK surgery for emotional illnesses.  I don’t believe it’s too far off in the future.  It wouldn’t be wild to say our children may have those options some day.  For example, embryonic stem cells may offer a cure for disorders such as depression and schizophrenia.  However, until a cure becomes as available as Prozac or even LASIK eye surgery, the reader quoted above has a reasonable fear.  Medication becoming unavailable is a disadvantage.

Now I’m not great at twisting reasoning powers, so I’ll say this as best I can.  That’s like not getting eye-glasses because we are afraid of loosing them.

So to this reader quoted above and to you I ask,

Question:  What do you think?  Treatment or no treatment?  Please tell me your story.

Self Care Tip #53 – If you are ill, get as better as you can.  Be a friend to yourself.

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Dear Reader:

My dear friend, Laurie Seidler, asked me to proofread her letter to a man we both passionately admire, because it’s not everyday that you write to the governor.

The Honorable Gavin Newsom Governor of California
1303 10th Street, Suite 1173 Sacramento, CA 95814

Dear Governor Newsom,

Are you getting enough sleep? You look drawn.

That is not a criticism, Governor. Far from it. I’m a fan. I think you’re doing a wonderful job ceaselessly working to protect the 39 million Californians in your care. You have my utmost respect and admiration. I worry about you because I care. It’s as simple as that. I love you, Gavin Newsom.

To clarify, when I say that ‘I love you’ I mean it in a purely platonic/maternal way. Although, let’s face it, you are the whole package: kind, caring, easy on the eyes, and soothingly science-y. If I’m honest—and I want to be honest with you, Gavin—put me in a room with you, Justin Trudeau and Anthony Fauci and I would spin in a circle like a short-circuited Roomba. (If you could keep that last bit to yourself I’d appreciate it. The Fauci posters already have my husband a little on edge.)

Seriously though, Gavin, I worry about you. You’re greying. (It suits you, but still.) You’re pale (like a sexy vampire.) And your voice is so… so husky. Are you gargling with salt water? Have you tried Throat Coat tea? Tell me if you need some honey because I will leap into my minivan and drive straight to Sacramento. I will. I have honey, and it’s all for you.

Say the word and, according to Google, I’ll be there in one hour and fifty minutes—half of what it would have taken pre-Covid-19!—plus two to five days for the test results to come in, because I want us to be able to merge our bubbles without shame, or guilt, or 14 days of isolation. Not that I’m likely to have even a cold because I’ve been sheltering in place like it’s an Olympic event. I’ve been very, very good, Gavin. I always wear a mask in public because, to quote you: “Together we can slow the spread.”

Once our bubbles have merged we won’t have to wear masks or keep six- to ten-feet apart. We’ll be free to be ourselves. But we can take any precautions you like because I want you to feel safe, Gav. I want you to be safe. I want you to guide us through this inferno and emerge Phoenix-like to mesmerize us with your informative and factually correct press conferences for years to come.

So, drink some tea, my Governor, and get some sleep. Sweet dreams, my prince.
Respectfully yours,

I think my friend speaks for so many Californians… including me!

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Another Revamp for ABS-CBN’s NCA Programs

If there is one department that ABS-CBN needs to improve, it’s the News and Current Affairs department.

Starting this week, the NCA afternoon block, formerly known as ‘Pinoy True Stories’, will have a new look. Four new programs will make their debut on the newly-revamped block, with only ‘Tapatan ni Tunying’ retained from the previous group.

The new programs are:

Mission Possible

Hosted by Julius Babao, ‘Mission Possible’ will showcase inspiring stories from struggling individuals, no matter the circumstances. At the end of the program, a surprise gift will await the featured person.

‘Mission Possible’ airs every Monday.

3 in 1

Hosted by Karen Davila, K Brosas and Atty. Claire Castro, ‘3 in 1’ will discuss a wide variety of topics, from news to general interest stories. The talk show will be seen live every week.

‘3 in 1’ airs every Tuesday.

RealiTV: Mga Bidyong Nakakabilib

Hosted by Atom Araullo, ‘RealiTV: Mga Bidyong Nakakabilib’ will feature death-defying home videos from various parts of the world. Warning: this program is not for the faint of heart.

‘RealiTV: Mga Bidyong Nakakabilib’ airs every Wednesday.

Sports U

Hosted by Dyan Castillejo, ‘Sports U’ will profile the lives of Filipino athletes from various sports. The program will be a spinoff to the long-running ‘Sports Unlimited’.

‘Sports U’ airs every Thursday.

The four programs will replace ‘Bistado’, ‘My Puhunan’, ‘Mutya ng Masa’ and ‘Red Alert’. It is the third such revamp on the NCA block since it moved to the afternoon slot nearly three years earlier.

This latest turnover clearly shows the lack of consistency within ABS-CBN’s News and Current Affairs department. While news programs such as ‘TV Patrol’ made the said department one of the most credible, it is their public affairs programs that still need some work, both in terms of storytelling and longevity.

For the ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs, establishing these attributes begin with these four new programs and ‘Tapatan ni Tunying’. If GMA proved that with their award-winning public affairs programs, so can ABS-CBN, and it all starts now.

The ABS-CBN NCA block airs weekdays after ‘Fated to Love You’ on Kapamilya Gold, available only on select areas nationwide.

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Trenderas Pilot Special Tomorrow

Starring (from L-R) Katrina Velarde, Lara Maigue and Isabelle de Leon, ‘Trenderas’ will make its debut on TV5 tomorrow night. (Photo credit: Trenderas Official Facebook Page)

It’s a thumbs-up for TV5’s ‘Trenderas’.

A story about three trinket vendors aspiring to become singing superstars, ‘Trenderas’ will have its pilot episode aired tomorrow night. The one-hour special will focus on the three vendors’ humble beginnings as they embark on a quest towards fame and stardom.

It can be recalled that teasers for ‘Trenderas’ began to air as early as July. But for some unexplained reason, TV5 pulled out the teasers due to the lack of any programming space at the time, thus shelving the project for the time being.

Then ‘It Takes Gutz to Be a Gutierrez’ ended its first season in August, and new teasers for ‘Trenderas’ began to air on the Kapatid network. This time, TV5 made sure that ‘Trenderas’ will finally have the go-signal it deserves.

The upcoming musical comedy drama series will star Isabelle de Leon (as Isabelle), Katrina Velarde (as Diva), and Lara Maigue (as Lara). Joining the trio in their rags-to-riches journey are Dingdong Avanzado (as Julio), Ara Mina (as Diane), Tina Paner (as Veronica), Carl Guevarra (as EJ), and Edward Mendez (as Benjo).

‘Trenderas’ will not be complete without the three villains who will try to thwart the dreams of Isabelle, Diva and Lara. The ‘Tres Malditas’, as they are called, will star K Brosas (as Katy), Cacai Bautista (as Miley), and Kitkat (as Lady). Completing the cast are veteran talents Francine Prieto (as Viveka) and Rez Cortez (as Mother Pearl).

Also joining the series is a special guest star that needs no introduction. The one and only ‘Superstar’ Nora Aunor (as Celestina Cruz) will play the role of a famous singer-turned-mentor and guiding light to Isabelle, Diva and Lara.

Overall, ‘Trenderas’ is a series that is worth watching. With a mix of song and dance numbers, confrontations between the ‘Tres Malditas’ and the ‘Trenderas’ girls, and some comedic, romantic and dramatic scenes in between, ‘Trenderas’ will definitely capture the sensibilities of both music lovers and viewers alike.

‘Trenderas’ premieres tomorrow night after ‘Tropa Mo Ko Nice Di Ba’ on TV5.

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On TV5, Quiet is the Name of the Game

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A new game show is on its way to TV5. But this is not any ordinary game show.

Enter ‘Quiet Please! Bawal ang Maingay’, TV5’s latest venture into the game show genre. Hosted by Richard Gomez, the upcoming program is set to premiere this Sunday.

‘Quiet Please! Bawal ang Maingay’ is part of TV5’s ‘Signal No. 5: Umuulan ng Saya’ campaign that started in July. The new program will replace the recently concluded ‘JasMine’ that starred Jasmine Curtis-Smith.

The concept of the game show is simple. Contestants must accomplish a series of tasks in a short amount of time without setting off the giant noise meter, which rings an alarm if it reaches a certain noise level. Eventually, the goal of the program is to perform each task without any noise in order to win the jackpot prize.

‘Quiet Please! Bawal ang Maingay’ is produced by Freemantle Media, the same group that brought the Philippine franchise of ‘Killer Karaoke’ to TV5. It will also be the first program in the ‘Quiet Please!’ franchise.

Joining Richard Gomez will be K Brosas, who will provide a lively and humorous take on the game show.

Sunday’s first episode will feature a celebrity cast of contestants. Joining Goma and K on the maiden episode are Derek Ramsey, Alice Dixson and Wendell Ramos of ‘Team Sexy’, and Anjo Yllana, Joey Marquez and Snooky Serna as ‘Team BFF’.

‘Quiet Please! Bawal ang Maingay’ airs every Sunday on TV5, right after ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’ and before ‘Wow Mali Lakas ng Tama’.


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Hosting a private event? Let us come to you! Our projects are ideal for corporate groups, wedding or bachelorette parties, baby showers, birthday parties or community programs. Weather dependent, we can operate inside or outside.

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J.J. Watt catches his third touchdown pass of the year in blowout win

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Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt has three receptions this season, and each one has been for a touchdown. Watt is turning into one of the biggest goal line threats in the league, and quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick threw his sixth TD pass of the game Sunday to Watt to cap a dominant win over the Titans.

Only DeAndre Hopkins and Arian Foster have caught more touchdown passes for the Texans than Watt. Watt has scored five total touchdowns this season, which puts him in elite company as a defensive player.

Watt also recorded two sacks and recovered a fumble. All in a day’s work.

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Gorgui Dieng joked about Devin Booker chasing after him in the tunnel

The Phoenix Suns were on the wrong end of another lopsided loss on Tuesday, which included Devin Booker getting ejected for a third-quarter altercation with the Timberwolves’ Gorgui Dieng.

To make matters worse, Booker had to be restrained by his waistband as he tried to chase after the Wolves forward in the tunnel. It was an odd scene and not exactly the image the Suns want from their star player — basically getting a wedgie to keep him from a fight.

Dieng, who was also ejected, joked about the post-ejection altercation. He said that he wanted to have a jersey exchange with Booker in the tunnel.

Dieng said:

“I wanted to just exchange jerseys with him. Swap jerseys with him. That’s all I needed. I just wanted to swap jerseys with him, but nothing else … No, I didn’t see him. I didn’t see him. I didn’t get a chance to exchange jerseys with him.”

That probably would have gone over just fine.

The Wolves and Suns don’t play each other again this season, so we will have to wait for that “jersey exchange” to happen.

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Copywriting Secrets Book by Jim Edwards – Is It Worth It?

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Uber successful copywriter and affiliate marketer, Jim Edwards has just released his new book, Copywriting Secrets.

If you want to learn how to make a lot more money, get results quickly and have more free time then Jim’s new book is for you.

If you’re in the ClickFunnels™ community in any way then no doubt, you have already heard of Jim as he is closely associated with the company.

But more on Jim a bit later…

If you’re reading this then you’re probably already very interested in the topic of copywriting and you want to know more about it or maybe you’re just not making enough sales in your business and have realised that your sales copy is letting you down.

Being able to write great copy can literally make you a fortune…

Unfortunately, most of us just aren’t that great at writing copy. It’s actually something of a fine art and can take years to master.

The alternative is to be held ransom for thousands of dollars to a professional copywriter to get the job done for you.

A few years ago Jim released a product called Funnel Scripts to help solve this problem.

If you’ve not heard of Funnel Scripts before, it is basically a software tool that will write all your sales copy for you based on the most successful sales copy in history. I’ve been using it myself for a while now and it’s very easy to use.

If you want to know more then you can read my review of Funnel Scripts here.

However, as good as this software is, you may not be looking to make the one-time investment of $697 to buy Funnel Scripts. If that’s the case then his new Copywriting Secrets book may be just what you’re looking for.

Since this book has just been released (5th October 2019) and I’m still waiting for my copy to arrive, I can’t give a review of what’s actually inside the pages yet, but I will do once I have read it.

So, here, I’ll give you an insight into Jim’s new Copywriting book from what I know so far and also let you know how you can get your hands on a copy for free as I did. Please keep reading…

Copywriting Secrets – What’s It About?

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As the title suggests, this book promises to reveal the secrets that only the master copywriters know.

If you’ve been in the internet marketing game for more than a few weeks then you already know that being able to write good sales copy that actually converts is one of the most important skills in your business.

Being able to do this well can literally mean the difference between scaling your business up to hundreds of thousands of dollars…

Or fall flat on your face and generating little to no sales….

This is the reason why professional copywriters charge so much for their services.

Since most of us can’t afford to pay a professional copywriter, we’re left to our own devices to try to figure it out for ourselves and learn how to do it.

Fortunately, there are copywriters like Jim who are very generous with their knowledge. If you’re in the ClickFunnels™ community then you’ve probably already seen some of the really helpful content he puts out for free on YouTube for us from time to time.

This Jim guy is starting to sound pretty great, right?

You don’t have to take my word for it though, you can enrol in one of his webinars and learn some of his ninja secrets for free here.

Back to the book…

Copywriting Secrets Key Points

By now, you’ve probably already gathered that this book has been written to teach the average Joe and Josephine the copywriting ninja tactics that can bring in more leads and sales for your business.

In a nutshell, the book teaches you how to:

  • Get more leads in your business
  • Make more sales
  • Get more people to subscribe to your social media channels
  • Build a larger fanbase

Sounds great, right? I’ve already ordered my copy and am eagerly waiting to find out what’s inside. You can get your copy here.

Who’s This Jim Edwards Guy?

As I mentioned earlier, Jim Edwards is a very successful online marketer. He has been in the industry for decades and has had tremendous success with affiliate marketing, selling his own products, and even creating software that is used by hundreds of entrepreneurs all over the world.

One of Jim’s most successful products is his copywriting software, Funnel Scripts, which he created with Russell Brunson.

Funnel Scripts has loads of features that can help you with all kinds of copywriting. If you want to test out the headline script then you can learn more about the Funnel Scripts free trial in this article.

Jim is also the creator of other successful software products including Easy Sales Copy Wizard, 3 Hour Kindle Book Wizard, Instant Sales Video Secrets Wizard, Podcast Interview Wizard, and Expert Interview Wizard.

Since Jim is closely associated with Russell Brunson and the company, ClickFunnels™, he readily offers his products, services, and free training to the ClickFunnels™ community. However, anyone on the outside can also get in on the action.

If you want to get free copywriting training from Jim then you can sign up for his free copywriting webinar here.

Copywriting Secrets up-sells

Currently, Jim is giving away copies of Copywriting Secrets for free (just pay to ship), but I don’t know how long this offer will be on. It’s rumored that the book won’t be free forever so I recommend grabbing a copy now before the price goes up.

When you get your free copy of Copywriting Secrets you’ll also then be offered a few upsells, which, of course, you do not have to buy, but if you fancy any of them, knock yourself out, they are actually pretty good!

Here’s what the Copywriting Secrets book funnel looks like:

  • Copywriting Secrets Book – free, but you pay for shipping $7.95 in the US or $14.95 international
  • CWS Audio Book – $27
  • Sales Story Secrets – $97
  • Funnel Scripts – $697

Do I Need The Copywriting Secrets AudioBook?

The audiobook of Copywriting Secrets is also available as an up-sell when you buy the hard copybook.

Of course, an audio version of a book is a very common and enticing upsell, however, you may be wondering if you need it.

It totally depends on our time, your reading speed, and also if you enjoy reading or not.

If you think that you’d like to get the book but probably won’t actually get round to reading it if you’re being realistic then it’s a no-brainer to get the audiobook upgrade.

Personally, I love the audiobook upgrades. Even though it may cost a few dollars more, it literally saves me hours of time. I like to listen to them while I’m cooking, in the shower or when I’m driving.

If you think about how long it will take you to read the book and then think about how much your time is worth per hour, then for most people it will probably make sense to buy the audiobook upgrade.

How To Get The Copywriting Secrets AudioBook

If you are interested to get the Copywriting Secrets AudioBook then it is currently only available as an upsell to the hard copy book.

So, to get your hands on the Audio version as a digital download, go here now to apply for the free book. Once you have ordered your copy you will then be offered the chance to get the AudioBook.

Copywriting Secrets AudioBook Price

The AudioBook of Copywriting Secrets is only $27, which is an absolute bargain when you think how much time it will save you reading the book several times.

Copywriting is a hard skill to master so it’s very helpful to listen to Jim in audio format rather than needing to constantly thumb through your hard copy.

I Already Have Copywriting Secrets, How Can I Get The AudioBook?

If you already have the Copywriting Secrets book but now you want to get the AudioBook then, unfortunately, the only way to get the audio version is to buy the hard copy book again.

Fortunately, the book is still free at the moment, which means you’ll only need to pay for the shipping. You’ll then be offered the AudioBook on the next page.

If you already have a hard copy of the bool then you can give the second copy to a friend as a gift!

How To Get Copywriting Secrets For Free

At the moment Jim is giving away the book for free if you just cover the shipping cost. While other similar books that have been launched on the free + shipping model have remained free, Jim is hinting that this free offer is only for a limited time.

I’m sure, you, like me, have been wondering if this is just a scarify tactic to get people to take action and grab the book now and that it may still be free in months or years to come. While that may turn out to be the case, I would recommend just grabbing it now just in case Jim does start charging for it further down the line.

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This is my body

Last Sunday, I passed the sacrament for the first time in many years.

Like Joseph of Arimathea, who carried Jesus’ body from the cross, I carried his body and blood to people in the congregation. I watched as each person took the sacrament. I was filled with a sense of the love our Heavenly Parents have for each individual. I saw each person connect—in her or his own way—with that love.

It was a wonderful privilege to assist in the process, even in a small way. I am so happy this opportunity to bless others’ lives is available to men of all ethnic backgrounds. I look forward to the day when it will be available to our sisters as well.

One comment on “This is my body

  1. Allison
    October 20, 2013

    Good for you! What a beautiful service to get to participate in. I can still remember how spiritually filled I felt the first time I got to take the Sacrament after a couple of years of not being able to. So awesome!

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The 12 games of Christmas #7: Secret of Mana

The Secret of Mana intro is pretty much just a metaphor for my experience with Secret of Mana. Darkness (in the form of a waning interest in video games) swept the land (my life), until I drew the Mana sword (Secret of Mana) from its resting pace and restored the power of Mana (enthusiasm for the medium). I’m not sure how the Luck Dragon figures in, though. Or the stupid little sprite.

I rented Secret of Mana with a friend from high school the first day I was back home from my first semester at college — a semester spent without access to a video game system. Secret of Mana was our way of catching up after several months of going our own separate ways, a chance to hang out and bond for a while. We didn’t do a particularly great job with the game, I’m afraid. We made it to the witch’s castle and repeatedly died to her stupid bouncing tiger thing. Eventually, we shrugged and watched a movie or something.

I still had a day left on the rental, though, so when I got home I decided to give it another shot — this time solo. It turned out much better that way, not so much because we weren’t good at cooperative play but rather because playing solo I had the patience to grind up some levels and spells.

Secret of Mana is a weird game. It offers three-player cooperative multiplayer, but it also demands players spend a lot of time toiling to buff up their spell experience. Grinding is pretty antithetical to multiplayer in a game like this. Secret of Mana isn’t comfortable in its own skin.

But it’s a great game nevertheless. Glitchy as all get-out, but it’s a sloppiness borne of ebullience. You can tell the creators were really flinging themselves at the game, trying to take the action RPG into weird and wonderful new directions. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t. But it was always interesting.

How many other RPGs feature Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer tasking you with rescuing Santa Claus from a curse? Followed by a journey through a zombie-infested forgotten subway system? All in the same game where a flying battle fortress blows up an obvious stand-in for Yggdrasil? Sometimes magical books will fly around and attack you, and sometimes their pages will just open to show off porn. This game is just plain ol’ wacky at times. There are even enemies in the forest that almost certainly are meant to be sly references to Sonic the Hedgehog.

But the things it does! The story only goes in a single direction, but you can get through the opening hours in a remarkably wide variety of ways. How you end up following the primary plot thread is up to you, and depending on how you approach the first few sequences of the story you can encounter some maddeningly challenging optional fights. It’s a self-repairing story, not quite on the same level as Chrono Cross‘ determination to get Kid into your party, but in the same spirit.

And the settings can be as wonderful as they are weird, such as the surreal desert dotted by fallen stars — stars which prove to be about three feet in span. Secret of Mana plays by its own rules, and it’s so out-there that its failings don’t sting so badly.

I ended up renewing my rental for a week until I finished the game, loving every minute of it. I thought about calling my friend as I reached the final area to see if he wanted to take another shot at me, but then I realized that would be pretty weird. So was the game, of course. But sometimes, you just gotta savor weirdness solo.

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  1. I loved this game. Played through it many times. Some issues I always had with it:
    1.The game stops when you go into the menus. This sucks for multiplayer. I wish they let you scroll through the menu with the L and R buttons while the game was moving, but the ring menus might have upped the sprite count too high. Maybe just limit the L/R menu to spells and healing items.
    2. I hated it when player one would hit an enemy, and player 2 would hit them right after, the hit would not register. You had to wait 2 or 3 whole seconds for the hit animation to complete.
    3. Finally, charging the weapons took way (way) too long to be useful. I appreciated the fancy animations for charge attacks though.

    Secret of Mana and Final Fantasy Tactics are 2 great games that Square never made true sequels too, despite having some glaring flaws that could easily be patched up a second time through. I don’t even need the graphics to be any better. Square, just give us some true 3DS sequels already!

  2. Yeah, when you take a step back and look at it, SoM really is a very weird game. It’s so great though, glitches and all.

    And for sequels, I always felt both SD3 and, yes, Legend, even with all its (gorgeous) problems did a decent job of following up the spirit of the game. The weirdly wonderful world, diverging and reconverging plotlines, amazing music and art that still ends up kind of cuddly even when taking detours into angsty plot bits and epic showdowns. I wonder if we’ll ever see another like that.

    • I didn’t think much of it at first because of the brawler style combat, but in the long run I ended up loving Legend of Mana a lot more than Secret because of all the charm and weirdness and quest scenarios and special moves and various mechanics you can partake in.

      It’s a pity the series went down the crapper post-Legend.

  3. As a fan of Final Fantasy Adventure, I got SoM when it first came out. However, I found waiting a second between basic attacks to do any real damage incredibly awkward. I also recruited the sprite first and the caves aren’t really balanced for that. I actually tried to return it, but got another copy instead. Trying again, the flow of the combat gelled for me and I recruited the girl first and it became one of my favorite games of all times.

    Many years later, I replayed the game with a friend. The key was grinding spell and weapon levels between visits, so we could just play through it when we got together. He played the boy while I managed both spell-casters and we would communicate to avoid interrupting each other’s attacks.

  4. Wow – I hadn’t even realized there was no definite order to the beginning, when you get your partners. I do recall starting a re-play, and thinking that I didn’t recognize a sequence where I met one of them, but I figured that was just my memory.

    I wish they had done a GBA re-release.

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I'm prioritizing improvement of the Alchemy and Enchanting skills because they can enhance practically everything else, including each other. I'm focusing on creating potions with a Paralyze effect for use in my travels. The Paralyze effect comes from either: Briar Heart, Canis Root, Gleamblossom (DG), Human Flesh, Imp Stool, Netch Jelly (DB), or Swamp Fungal Pod.

Unfortunately, all of these ingredients, in terms of merchant availability, are either uncommon, rare, or unavailable to be bought. I'd rather not save-scum merchants in the hopes that it pops up in their inventory. I noticed that at least two of the ingredients can be found in the College of Winterhold, but it takes 10 days for their to respawn.

I understand that asking for a route to collect only ingredients for Paralyze would be too narrow, so instead I ask what's a good route to collect alchemy ingredients in general, preferably free.

Update: I rephrase the question from "What's a good route to collect alchemy ingredients?" to "Which buildings have lots of ingredients?" In this way, one may blaze their own route. I presume that all apothecaries have tons of ingredients laying around. If an apothecary doesn't, that's worth noting. What's also worth noting is which apothecary has the best merchant chest.

Finding ingredients in Skyrim is easy. Just go adventure and be perceptive. Ingredients can be found almost everywhere. I usually had to stash all my ingredients in a container next to an alchemy lab whenever I visited a place I owned because they weighted so much.

Below is a description where you will find the paralyze ingredients:

  • The Swamp fungal pods and Canis root ingredients grow in the Hjaalmarch. You can pick up a lot of ingredients by circling the region every once in a while. Imp stools are found throughout the caves in skyrim. There is a large amount of imp stools in Chillwind Depths, a cave to the south of Dragon Bridge near Hjaalmarch.

  • Human flesh and briar hearts are rare ingredients. Necromancers use the flesh and briar hearts can sometimes be found in alchemy rooms throughout skyrim. You can also kill Forsworn briar-hearts but they are uncommon and tough.

  • Gleamblossom can only be found in the Darkfall passage and Forgotten Vale but it's a long trek through an army of falmers.

  • Finally to acquire netch jelly, you need to fight the netch creatures which can be found along the western and southern coast on Solstheim.

  • Well, the idea is that I grind and make a bunch of potions that will be useful to me in my travels...before I adventure. If there is no sustainable route, then it can simply be asserted. – NiteCyper Feb 4 '14 at 1:49
  • Now you have lost me. What do you mean by a sustainable route? You'll find ingredients pretty much everywhere you go in Skyrim so that almost anywhere you go should be a sustainable route. – Steinin Feb 4 '14 at 7:42
  • For example, if one is looking for a particular enchantment that has no set spawn (e.g., Muffle) and doesn't want to ply a certain exploit, they may fast travel between two merchants who's round trip travel time is 48 hours or more so that they have a sustainable route to efficiently check for an enchantment. In the same way, I'm hoping that there are more places as efficient as the College that I can travel to such that by the time that I have hit the last place and return, the College will have respawned. – NiteCyper Feb 6 '14 at 0:31
  • A comparison could be made to speed-running routes. A faster route is only worth switching to if the cost of failure multiplied by the chance of failure does not exceed this failure index value of the old route. Assuming one only has one chance (as in AGDQ or a live race against others). This failure index is not a term employed in the speed-running community, I just coined it on the spot. Hopefully, my logic is sound. – NiteCyper Feb 6 '14 at 0:35
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    Not at all. I myself just adventured, collected all the ingredients I could find and placed them in a barrel next to a alchemy table I owned. Once I felt like I had enough I used them all up to make potions, which I then sold to alchemy reagent vendors. Then I purchased their entire stock because at that point money was no longer an issue. I made more potions and sold them at the next alchemy vendor and repeated this until I had reached 100. – Steinin Feb 6 '14 at 6:55

Just to add to Steinin's great answer:

If you have the hearthfire DLC, you can also plant imp stool and swamp fungal pod in a greenhouse or the garden. This makes collecting them MUCH easier. It also respawns quite fast (I think they respawn every 3 days).

Finally, if you don't mind mods that assist in this area, I suggest the Harvest Overhaul mod. It makes more sense to have the chance to collect 2 eyes from a sabertooth and 5-10 flowers from a clump of them than a single ingredient.

Also, keep in mind, to make your alchemy go up the fastest, you'll want to make the most expensive potion so this question may be of some help.

Here are my disorganized notes:

Ingredients stops: College of Winterhold (Hall of Attainment and the Hall of Countenance), Windhelm (White Phial), Solitude (Angeline's Aromatics), Morthal (Thaumaturgist's Hut), Dawnstar (The Mortar and Pestle), Markarth (The Hag's Cure), Riften (Elgrim's Elixirs), Whiterun (Arcadia's Cauldron), Sarethi Farm (The Rift), Blue Palace (Solitude), Mistveil Keep (Riften), Palace of the Kings (Upstairs) (Windhelm)

Try court wizards rooms and places with Alchemy Tables and Arcane Enchanters in general

Unconfirmed: Frostflow Abyss (Winterhold, 516 Chaurus Eggs), Blackreach (Great Lift at Mzinchaleft, Crimson Nirnroot)

Unhelpful, or secretive (difficult to access): Fort Dawnguard (Florentius Baenius (DG)), Volkihar Keep (Feran Sadri (DG)), Dushnikh Yal (Murbul @ Burguk's Longhouse), Mor Khazgur (Sharamph @ Larak's Longhouse), Northwatch Keep (Haafingar), Jorrvaskr Living Quarters (Whiterun), Nightcaller Temple (The Pale, LMW), Talking Stone Camp (Hjaalmarch, LMW),

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A Garden in Africa

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The story of Kenya and one woman’s triumph over tragedy and adversity to create a wonderful garden that inspired visitors from all over the world.  Full of adventure, mystery, history and a host of colorful characters – movie stars, writers, royalty, white hunters – who made colonial Kenya a glamorous place.

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Growing up in Kenya was the most wonderful experience and though I live far away from it now, the memories of childhood are always with me.

How can one possibly explain to those who didn’t experience the great privilege of an African childhood just what it was like?  The beauty of the scenery that ranges from snow-capped mountains to open plains to palm-fringed coastline.  The splendour of the wild animals which in my childhood were still everywhere, though already (as older people pointed out even then) in decline.  The richly colourful life of the tribal Africans which then seemed so much simpler and in some ways richer than that of the materially-advantaged European settlers.  Above all that special, indefinable “something” that was (and for some still is) the very magic of Kenya that none who was ever touched by it ever quite lost.

That is how I feel; so how much more strongly must it have been felt by those Europeans who first ventured into the Kenya wilderness and made it their home.

Such a one is Flora, the heroine of A Garden in Africa.

We first meet Flora as a teenage bride at the end of World War I, stepping off the boat in Mombasa in her white ankle-length cotton skirt and solar terai, ready to face a new life in a country very different from the suburban London in which she grew up.  She comes from a comfortable but socially inferior background and will soon find herself mixing with Kenya’s notorious Happy Valley crowd of decadent aristocrats – indeed, she has married one though the marriage will be short-lived and bring her heartbreak.  Flora, however, shrugs off any feelings of inferiority and devotes her essentially middle-class skills to wrenching a viable farm from the wilderness.  In doing so she has to deal with drought, insect plague, marauding wild animals and an unskilled native workforce.  Lion kill the cattle, leopard eat the chickens, her first modest attempts at gardening end in disaster.  But Flora is a natural-born horticulturist and from tragedy, disappointment and loss she creates a wonderful garden that attracts visitors from all over the world.  They include the writer Ernest Hemingway, the actor William Holden and minor members of European royalty.

Flora’s story is told against the backdrop of Kenya from the 1920s until the 1980s.  There are the early struggles between settlers and the Home government, the effects of the Great Depression, World War II and its aftermath, the Mau Mau rebellion and, finally, the political independence from Britain that will drastically change the linked fates of the European settlers  and their African subjects.     She survives a scandalous divorce, the mysterious disappearance of her former husband, the tragic death of her lover, a daring flight to wartime England. Yet Flora is indomitable and triumphs over all adversity to the end…she is an ordinary woman who lived an extraordinary life. And who, above all her other achievements, created an extraordinary garden.

A Garden in Africa is admittedly biographical – dedicated to my beloved grandmother and drawn from  family memory and other more substantial material.  But I hope it is not the less interesting to the reader because of that – any story of Africa is bound to be exciting!  There is mystery, too, at the heart of this book but it is not detective fiction and in the end the narrator – and the reader – learn that not all mysteries can be solved nor, indeed, are meant to be so.

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  1. I read this book in two long sittings over the Easter weekend!
    It brings out the atmosphere of colonial times so well, and in places reads like a compelling novel. It also provides detailed insights into how a garden is developed in a hostile environment, and if I remember rightly, even includes a recipe.
    Thankyou for this journey back in time, Jill.

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In the early days of the automobile a man’s Model-T Ford stalled in the middle of the road.  He couldn’t get it started no matter how hard he cranked nor how much he tried to advance the spark or adjust things under the hood.  Just then a chauffeured limousine pulled up behind him, and a wiry, energetic man stepped out from the back seat and offered his assistance.  After tinkering for a few moments the stranger said, “Now try it!”  Immediately the engine leaped to life.  The well-dressed individual then identified himself as Henry Ford.  “I designed and built these cars,” he said, “so I know what to do when something goes wrong.” God, as our creator knows how to “fix” us when our lives are broken by sin.

God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientific minded.  But that really proves nothing.  It simply means that the wrong instruments are being used for the job.

A Sunday School teacher saw one of her little boys drawing furiously with a set of crayons. “What are you doing, Johnny?” she asked. “I’m drawing a picture of God,” said Johnny. “But Johnny,” said the teacher, “nobody knows what God looks like.” Replied Johnny: “Well, they will by the time I’m through with THIS!”

In looking for a challenge or some direction in life, the most challenging task we can approach is the zeal to come to know God. Think how that process might begin with some questions/answers:

Name: God.
Also known as: The Almighty, Jehovah, the Father, Lord.
Occupation: Sustainer and ruler of the universe.
Address: Everywhere.
Sex: Does not apply.
Place of birth: Does not apply.
Social Security: None.
Mother’s maiden name: None.
Dependents: Everyone.
Honors received: Too numerous to list.

God doesn’t fit a mold, does he? He is, to put it mildly, unique. One of a kind. Indescribable, some would say! God is beyond cataloging, and no computer resume, no investigating committee, not even a CIA computer could give an exhaustive profile of who He is and all that He’s done.
God cannot be grasped by the mind. If he could be grasped, he would not be God. Yet we cannot give up! We can’t throw up our hands and dismiss Him as a mystery…we need Him!

Imagine a sheer, steep crag with a projecting edge at the top. Now imagine what a person would probably feel if he put his foot on the edge of this precipice and, looking down into the chasm below, saw no solid footing nor anything to hold on to.

This is what I think the soul experiences when it goes beyond its footing in material things, in its quest for that which has no dimension and which exists from all eternity. For here there is nothing it can take hold of, neither place nor time, neither measure nor anything else; our minds cannot approach it.

And thus the soul, slipping at every point from what cannot be grasped, becomes dizzy and perplexed and returns once again to what is connatural to it, content now to know merely this about God, that it is completely different from the nature of the things that the soul knows. [1]

It’s amazing in this world the way people respond to God, as they understand Him…it’s very different: some grovel before totems; others bring offerings of chickens and goats; others kneel five times daily to chant prayers; others go into trances. Some believe in God so intensely they preach in foreign lands; others deny His existence by their silence.

We need to come to see God in people around us. We need to know Him in a personal way.

I’m thinking of a little boy named Timmy. Timmy was very afraid of the lightning and the thunder. His mom and dad went into his room during a thunderstorm and said, “Now, Timmy, don’t be afraid. God is right here in the room with you.”

He said, “Okay, Mommy and Daddy, I won’t be afraid.”

But then as the mommy and daddy went into their room and started to get ready for bed, the lightning clapped, and the thunder rolled, and Timmy screamed bloody murder. Timmy’s daddy and mommy went back into the room and said, “Honey, we thought we told you, you don’t need to be afraid. God is right here in the room with you.”

Timmy said, “Mommy and Daddy, I know God is right here in the room with me, but I need someone with skin on.” [2]

[1] Gregory of Nyssa (d. about 395), “Eastern Orthodoxy,” Christian History, no. 54.

[2] Thomas Tewell, “The Tenacity of a Bulldog,” Preaching Today, Tape No. 141.

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The Invitation, directed by Karyn Kusama, is a film with a slight, but ever-present feeling of unease; one that builds as the film progresses. With characters of varying quality, and a mystery that genuinely keeps you guessing up to the end, The Invitation is certainly a film that has you one edge. Let’s uncover the mystery of this film, and see where it works and where it doesn’t. Read more

Review – Inside

Inside, developed by Playdead, is a puzzle platformer game that from the very beginning has you hooked by its odd style, and its overall concept; one which has you intrigued to keep playing, exploring and finding out just what exactly is going on in this odd world. Long after I finished this game, I was left pondering the questions and the images that it through at me. This is one of those games that in no way holds your hand, and very much leaves it up to you to uncover all of its unsettling little mysteries. Let’s side-scroll our way into this review and see just what hell this game is. Read more