10 week Bible Reading Plan for you to read to your young children. Includes Scripture, activities and snacks for each day!
If you have younger kids, this is the Summer Bible Reading Plan for you! It has suggested Bible reading, activities and snacks for a ten week plan. It is intended to help you get your child into the Bible every day – and to have fun in the process!
If you have older kids or teens, you can find their plan here.
Also, check out BOLD: A 10 Week Study for Families and Churches for a Bible Curriculum based off this reading plan! The Bible plan includes opening skits and activities, Biblically sound Bible lessons, Bold Believer Biographies, and additional activities to reinforce the lessons. It is easily adaptable for all age groups and group sizes.
I hope this plan helps you and your child grow closer to Jesus (and to each other) this summer!
___ Day One: Read John 3:16-17. Ask: Do you like gifts? What is the best gift that you have ever gotten? Do you know that we get you gifts because we love you? God also gave you a gift because He loves you! Do you know what that gift is? It is JESUS!
Activity: Make a fun cross/heart craft with your child. Cut up a toilet paper tube into several pieces. Then put paint on a paper plate. Help your child dip the toilet paper tube ends into the paint and then "stamp" it on a piece of paper. If he squeezes the toilet paper tube correctly, it should make a heart shape (you might have to help with this). Have him do this several times to fill up a piece of paper. When the paint dries, cut the paper out into the shape of a cross and then glue the cut out cross onto a piece of construction paper, giving you a nice "heart/cross" craft.
Snack: Use graham crackers, cream cheese and cut up strawberries and blueberries to help your child make a cross. Cover the graham cracker with cream cheese. Then help your child place the blueberries and strawberries to form a cross on the graham cracker. Talk about the gift of Jesus as you make the snack.
___ Day Two: Read Romans 5:8. Yesterday we talked about how God's gift to us was Jesus. Jesus came and died for us . . . even though we have done many, many bad things. He loves us and wants to forgive us of all the bad stuff we have done and clean us from our sin! That is a BOLD LOVE!
Activity: Take your child outside today and play in the mud! Talk with your child about how fun it can be to play in mud, but it sure gets us messy! How can he possibly get clean? Discuss. Then take your child inside and help him clean up . . . perhaps with a fun bubble bath! Talk with your child about how, when we sin, it makes us real messy, too! The sin is yucky and dirty, and only one thing can clean it up! What is it that can clean us up when we sin? JESUS!
Snack: Cut a piece of bread into the shape of a heart. Then help your child spread a jelly of his choice over the top of the bread. When we let Jesus into our hearts, He covers over our sins and makes us YUMMY again . . . just like this jelly made the bread yummy!
___ Day Three: Read John 15:12-14. We need to LOVE others, just like Jesus LOVES us! Sing Jesus loves me with your child . . . then help your child pray for his friends and for ways that he can show them love.
Activity: Help your child make a chain of people. Then help him write ways that he can be a good friend on each of the people. You may also choose to have him decorate the people to represent his friends!
Snack: Make friendship bread! Help your child mix up the ingredients to make his own bread, and then help your child give away some starters to his friends.
___ Day Four: Read Matthew 5:43-45. Are we only supposed to love our friends? NO! We are supposed to love everyone . . . even those people who are mean to us! That's hard, isn't it? Is there anyone who is mean to you? Let's pray for that person right now!
Activity: Help your child make a card for someone that he has a hard time loving. Send this card anonymously. If he doesn't feel that he can send it, have him keep it some place special and use it as a reminder to pray for this person every day. If there is no one that your child has a hard time loving, help him make a card for someone else.
Snack: Make homemade lemonade with your child . . . but don't add the sugar. Take a little sip. What do you think? This is kind of sour, isn't it? It doesn't really taste as good as lemonaid should. Do you know why? It is missing a very important ingredient! Take out the sugar and mix the sugar in. Now try it. It's better, isn't it? You know, when we don't love everyone, we don't taste very good either. We need to add love to our life and that will make us much . . . sweeter !!!
___ Day Five: Read Luke 10:25-37. (Note: This is a long section of Scripture for little children, but it has a great message! If your child can't sit through the whole reading, read a little and then tell him the rest of the story.) Ask your child "Who should we show love to?" We should show love to EVERYONE! How can we do that?
Activity: Give your child several plain bandaids. Have him use the bandaids to help him remember ways that he can show love. Help him draw or write ways to show love to others – one way on each bandaid. Then have him stick all the bandaids together in the shape of a heart.
Snack: This is one time where it is okay to play with your food!! Use gummy bears or E.L. Fudge Cookies to help your child retell the parable of the Good Samaritan.
___ Day One: Read Mark 5:25-34. Say: The woman in these verses was very sick and none of the doctors could help her. She went to the only person who could help her – Jesus! What did Jesus do for her? She had FAITH that Jesus could help her, and He did!
Activity: The woman in today's passage reached out and touched Jesus and then she was healed. Play a game with your child where he has to reach out and touch something, too. Hang a paper up on the wall with the name of Jesus on it (or a picture of Jesus). Then set up a short obstacle course. Your child has to run through the obstacle course and reach out and "touch Jesus". Say: Sometimes it might feel like there are a lot of obstacles in our way . . . things that make it hard for us to have faith and trust Jesus. But we need to run through those obstacles and reach out to Jesus, anyway, just like the woman in today's lesson!
Snack: Use food to help your child retell today's passage. Choose whatever food you have on hand (potato sticks, carrot sticks, pretzels, goldfish crackers . . . anything could work) and have your child arrange the food to make a crowd of people, Jesus, and the woman. Have your child push the "woman" through the crowd to get to "Jesus". Then have fun eating the snack together!
___ Day Two: Read Matthew 8:5-8, 13. Say: Wow! This Centurion had a lot of faith, didn't he? He knew that Jesus could heal his servant by just saying the word. We need to have that same BOLD faith!
Activity: Make a Centurion helmet with your child. Let your child use this helmet to pretend to be the Centurion in today's lesson!
Snack: The Centurion's servant was paralyzed, that means he couldn't move! Let's see how you would do if you couldn't move! Place a snack in front of your child, but he can only move his head to eat it! (A banana might be fun . . . how can he eat the banana if he can't peel it?) After he has struggled for awhile, talk about how happy the servant must have been when, suddenly, he could move again! Let your child eat the snack in the normal way!
___ Day Three: Read Mark 10:46-47, 51-52. Put a blindfold on you child and lead him through your house. How does it feel when you can't see? How do you think the man in today's passage felt when he couldn't see anything? He showed BOLD faith and asked Jesus to make him well . . . and Jesus did!
Activity: Jesus healed the blind man so he could see. How well can YOU see? Play a game of "I spy" with your child. Take turns "spying" different things in the room. Each time someone guesses correctly, talk about how great it is that Jesus healed the blind man so he could see!
Snack: Help your child make "eyes" out of banana slices and chocolate chips or raisins.
___ Day Four: Read Matthew 17:20. Show your child a packet of seeds. Take some of them out and look at them. Look at how small these seeds are . . . yet when you plant them, they will grow into something big! (If you have any of the seeds full grown, show that to your child, too). All we need is a LITTLE bit of faith, and God can take that and make BIG things happen!
Activity: Plant a seed with your child (sunflower seeds are really fun for this illustration). Take time to water it and care for it every day. Talk with your child about how this little seed is growing. In the same way, our faith will grow, too!
Snack: Eat an apple with your child . . . but first, cut it in half and examine the seeds. Talk about how the seeds are little, but they made a yummy apple. Our faith might be little, but God can use it to make something good, too!
___ Day Five: Hebrews 11:1, 6-7. Who had faith in these verses? How did he show that he had faith?
Activity: Help your child make his own ark! Use cardboard boxes, blankets (like a blanket fort – only you will be making a blanket ark), or anything else you have on hand. Then have your child bring his stuffed animals in to the boat. Talk about how Noah showed that he had faith when he made this boat!
___ Day One: Read 2 Kings 5:1-5. 9-14. Do you know what leprosy is? It is a sickness that hurts the skin! Poor Naaman was in pretty bad shape – but someone spoke up and helped him. Someone was bold! Who was that? (the servant girl). She was a really bold servant, wasn't she?
Snack: Eat some dots (or other candies that remind you of leprosy). Talk about serving others while you eat.
___ Day Two: Read Luke 1:30-33. Who was God's servant in these verses? Mary was! Mary did exactly what God told her to do! Are you God's servant, too?
Activity: Make an angel craft!
Snack: Make a snack to represent the birth of Jesus. Use mini-hot dogs, croissants, and potato sticks to represent baby Jesus. Unwrap a croissant and place a hot dog inside of it. Wrap it back around to represent swaddling clothes and then cook the whole thing for as long as the directions on the croissant package say to cook the croissants. Serve over potato sticks (the hay).
___ Day Three: Read John 13:5. Get out a bucket of water and a washcloth and have fun washing your child's feet today! Talk about how Jesus served His disciples by washing their feet as you are washing your child's feet.
Activity: Have fun with feet today! Have a tickle-the-feet contest to see who can last the longest without laughing or moving their feet! Paint with your feet and then have fun cleaning them off! Talk about what it meant to wash someone's feet and how that was a bold act of service.
___ Day Four: Read Mark 10:43-45. The one who is great is the one who serves others! What does it mean to be a servant? How can you serve others today?
Snack: Serve your child a snack! Pretend you are a servant and treat your child to a delicious snack and excellent service! Let him be the servant, too, if he wants!
___ Day Five: Read Philippians 2:5-11. Jesus was the best servant! If Jesus served others, shouldn't we?
Activity: Jesus became a baby! Look at baby pictures with your child. Look at pictures of your child as a baby, and then some of you as a baby if you have any. Talk about all the things babies can and can't do. It must have been very humbling for the KING of the Universe to become a baby and totally depend on others for everything!
Snack: Eat some baby food . . . or eat some pudding, but feed it to each other just like you would feed a baby!
___ Day One: Read Malachi 3:8-10. We should always give to God!
Activity: Make a bank together that you will use to collect money during the week. On the weekend, take that money in to church and put it in the offering!
Snack: Make special "giving cookies" today. Make circle-shaped sugar cookies and then help your child decorate them to look like money. Every time you eat one, challenge your child to be BOLD in his giving!
___ Day Two: Read Mark 12:41-44 The woman in today's story was very BOLD in her giving because she didn't have very much – yet she gave it anyway! What do you have that you can give God? Young children love pretend play, and this Bible story is great for that! Gather some of your child's stuffed animals or other toys and act out this story with him!
Activity: Help your child draw pictures of what he can give to God.
Snack: Eat some chocolate coins to remind you of the gift that this widow gave.
___ Day Three: Read 2 Samuel 24:24-25. What did David say in these verses? David wanted to make sure that his gifts to God cost him something! He was BOLD in his giving!
Activity: Help your child go through some of his things and choose some to give away to others who could us them.
Snack: David purchased the threshing floor . . . a threshing floor is where the grain is harvested. Help your child make homemade bread to remind you both of David's sacrifice. Then GIVE some away!!
___ Day Four: Read 2 Corinthians 9:6-7. God loves a ________________________. (Cheerful Giver). What does it mean to be a cheerful giver? Are you always a cheerful giver? What do you think a CHEERFUL giver looks like? Have your child smile really big!
Snack: Create your own snack to remind you of giving . . . and be cheerful while you are making it!!
___ Day Five: Read Acts 20:35. This is a hard verse for young children, because young children often want lots of things for themselves! Help your child memorize the last part of this verse: "It is more blessed to give than to receive". Give your child a bunch of coins and have your child give you one coin each time he says a word of the verse. Continue until all the coins are gone and the verse is memorized. Let him keep one coin, but have him give the rest away!
Activity:Teach your child how to write the word GIVE. Then go outside with sidewalk chalk and write the word "GIVE" in large letters. Have your child draw pictures of things that he can give others all around the word. You can add your own pictures, too!
Snack: Make pancakes together. (Add blueberries or chocolate chips if you want). Let the pancakes remind you of the coins that were given away in this week's lessons – and how we should be BOLD in our giving, too!
___ Day One: Read Daniel 1:8-16. What was the bold stand that Daniel and his friends took in this chapter? They did the right thing – even when no one else did. That is BOLD!
Activity: Paint with vegetables today to remind you of the bold stand that Daniel and his friends made.
Here is a preschool lesson to go along with this passage.
___ Day Two: Read Daniel 3:13-18, 24-26. This is a great passage about taking a bold stand! You might want to read it to your child from a Bible storybook or show a video of the story today, too.
Activity: Act out this story together! Use stuffed animals or miniature figures (or whatever your child has on hand) and have fun retelling the story with the toys – together!
Snack: Make a fire and roast marshmallows. Think about how this story could have ended if God had not stepped in! We don't know what will happen to us when we stand for what is right, but we need to still STAND!
___ Day Three: Read Acts 7:54-60. Stephen took a BOLD stand! He was BOLD for Jesus, and he ended up being killed because of it! We need to always be BOLD for Jesus, no matter what!
Activity: Decorate rocks and make a rock garden to remind you to always stand for Jesus!
Snack: Eat rock candy! (or other hard candy) Talk about how it is important to always be STRONG like a rock when we are standing for Christ!
___ Day Four: Read 1 Samuel 17:20-23, 41-49. Who took a BOLD STAND in these verses? David was just a young boy, but he knew he could do anything with God!
Activity: Goliath was 9 feet tall. Measure out 9 feet on a sidewalk and mark it with sidewalk chalk. Have your child lie down beside it to give him an idea of how he would compare to Goliath. Use sidewalk chalk to draw a figure shaped like Goliath and then a figure shaped like your child. Have him carefully toss stones (or beanbags) into the head of the Goliath figure. Talk about how God can help you take a bold stand!
Snack: Give your child some crackers and have him try to stack them as tall as he can to make a "giant". Then let your child eat the crackers one at a time, telling you one way he can take a bold stand for each cracker he eats.
___ Day Five: Read 1 Peter 5:8-9. Who is ultimately trying to destroy you? Satan is trying to get you to fall away from your faith. He is prowling around like a roaring lion. Pretend to be roaring lions. See how loud you can roar! Isn't it great to know that God is with you and can help you take a BOLD stand against the devil?
Activity: Play hide and seek with your child. When you find him, remind him that satan is SEEKING for people to tear down, too. When satan comes after us by tempting us with things we shouldn't do, we need to RUN! Run around the house chasing your child . . . have fun!
Snack: Use an english muffin, peanut butter or cream cheese and other tiny foods to help you make a lion face. Then eat that lion . . . remembering that some day Satan will be defeated, too!
___ Day One: Read James 5:17-18. How was Elijah bold in his prayer? Elijah prayed that it wouldn't rain, and God answered his prayer! Wow! That was a BOLD prayer!
Activity: Get out a spray bottle and fill it with water. Then have fun praying "rain" prayers. Squirt your child with water, and every time you squirt him with water, he needs to pray for something or someone else. When you are finished, have an all out water fight!
___ Day Two: Read 2 Kings 19:1. Do you know what King Hezekiah did as soon as trouble came his way? He prayed! We should PRAY whenever trouble comes our way, too!
Activity: Trace your child's hand on a piece of paper. Have him draw or write one thing he wants to pray for in each finger of the hand. Then pray together.
Snack: Make (or eat) pretzels! Pretzels were originally made to remind us of praying hands!
___ Day Three: Read Daniel 6:6-10, 16-18, 22. How did Daniel show BOLDNESS in his life? Daniel prayed NO MATTER WHAT! Act this story out with your child, too. You can get paper plates and make lion masks out of the paper plates. Then you can let your child be the lions, while you are Daniel. Switch places and you be the lions. After you finish acting it out, talk about how Daniel was bold in prayer.
Activity: Help your child make his own lions' den. Use blankets to make a blanket fort. Go inside and talk about how Daniel might have felt in the lions' den. Then pray together.
Snack: Eat a snack inside of your new blanket fort lions' den!
___ Day Four: Read Luke 11:9-13. These verses tell us to ask God and to seek after Him! Take turns knocking on the door and opening it for each other. Talk about how, just like we answered the door for each other, God will answer us when we pray!
Activity: Draw a picture of a door. Then have your child write things he wants to pray for on that door. Hang this picture to one of the doors in your house, and every time you open that door, pray for what is on that list!
Snack: Eat goldfish! (re-read verse 11 to see how this snack fits in).
___ Day Five: Read Romans 8:26-27 Do you ever wonder how to pray? These verses tell us that the Holy Spirit will help us pray! Since He will help us, we know we can be BOLD!
Activity: Take your child on a walk today – a prayer walk. Stop at places and pray for things as you walk!
Snack: Help your child make a prayer chain – a necklace out of cereal or other fun snacks that you can put on a string. Let each food item stand for something to pray for. Let your child wear the necklace to remind him to pray for each of those things. Let him eat the necklace when he wants.
___ Day One: Read Luke 12:8-9. We need to be BOLD and tell people about Jesus!
Activity: Take turns standing up and saying, "I Love Jesus"! Let your child set up all his stuffed animals and then have him stand up and say that in front of them.
Snack: Use strawberries to make the shape of a mouth on a piece of paper. Then, have your child say one thing he knows about Jesus before eating each strawberry.
___ Day Two: Read Acts 26:19-23. Paul was on trial for being a Christian and he kept speaking about Jesus. He wasn't afraid of what would happen to him . . .he was BOLD. We need to be BOLD, too!
Activity: Help your child make his own "jail" out of boxes or other items around the house. You might also choose to have him make a jail out of building blocks or other toys. Talk about how some people go to jail for what they say about Jesus – but they are still BOLD and talk about Him! We need to be the same way!
Snack: Use food to make a judge's gavel. You can use whatever food you want – bananas and marshmallows, pretzels, hot dogs . . . be creative!
___ Day Three: Read 2 Samuel 12:1-7 Nathan was BOLD in his speech to David. He had to say something, even though David didn't want to hear it. We need to say things that are right, no matter what!
Activity: Watch "King George and the Ducky" by Veggie Tales. Sing along with Nathan's speech!! You can also make a lamb craft.
Snack: Use cauliflower and grapes to make a little lamb snack!
___ Day Four: Read Jeremiah 1:4-7. God had a plan for Jeremiah's life from before he was born! God has a plan for YOUR life, too!
Activity: If you have an ultrasound picture of your child, look at it with him. Talk about how God knew him even when he was in his mommy's tummy . . . and God has a plan for his life! Talk about how God wants your child to say BOLD things for Him.
Snack: Make a mouth snack! Use apple slices and tiny marshmallows, or anything else you choose! Use this snack as a reminder to always speak God's Words wherever He wants you to go!
___ Day Five: Read Ephesians 4:29. We need to be careful what words come out of our mouths! Make sure we are only saying GOOD words!
Activity: Is your speech SWEET or SOUR? Have fun with sweet and sour foods today. Get a variety of sweet and sour foods and let your child sample them. Talk about which ones he liked and which ones he didn't like. How is our speech like sweet food?
Snack: Eat some salt and vinegar potato chips!! Use them to remind you that your speech should be sweet, seasoned with salt, and not bitter!
___ Day One: Read Genesis 22:1-3, 9-12. Who was asked to make a bold sacrifice in these verses?
Activity: Use sticks and stones (or whatever is available) to help your child make his own "altar". Have him draw pictures of things that God might want him to give up for Him. Place those things on the altar.
Snack: Use pretzel sticks and marshmallows to make your own snack altar.
___ Day Two: Read Luke 23:33-38. These verses tell us about the greatest sacrifice ever. Jesus sacrificed Himself for us so that we could be saved!
Activity: Help your child collect sticks and then glue them together to make a cross. While you are working, remind him of the sacrifice that Jesus made for us.
Snack: Let's not forget that Jesus didn't stay dead! He rose from the dead and conquered sin and death once and for all! Use chocolate donuts and chocolate sandwich cookies to make a snack representing the empty tomb. Cut the donut in half and place the cookie in front of it (that is the stone in front of the tomb). Celebrate the resurrection of Jesus today!
___ Day Three: Read Romans 12:1.We should give God US! Make an altar out of sticks or find something to use as an offering plate (you could even draw one on a piece of paper) and have your child step onto it. Have your child say, "Lord, here I am! I am all yours!" Talk about what that means.
Snack: Make another altar snack! This time, use graham crackers and frosting.
___ Day Four: Read Luke 9:23-25. God should be more important than anything else in your life! Use the cross that you made out of sticks the other day and have your child carry it around the house. Talk about how we need to be willing to do what God wants us to do every single day!
Activity: Help your child trace his hands several times on different colored papers. Help him cut them out and then glue them together in the shape of a cross. Talk about the verses you read today as you are making this craft.
Snack: Make a cross using licorice sticks, frosting and graham crackers. Frost the graham cracker first, then put the licorice on it in the shape of a cross. If you want, add colored candies to decorate it.
___ Day Five: Read Hebrews 13:15-17. God likes it when we praise Him! How can we praise Him?
Activity: Help your child make a fun instrument to use to praise God. Put a little rice (or beans) inside a cup and then use duct tape to tape that cup to another cup with the rice inside. Decorate the outside of the cups. Use these new shakers to sing songs of praise to God!
Snack: Make a guitar out of food! Cut bread into the shape of the guitar and use slices of carrots and sliced grapes for the strings.
Here's a fun song to sing together to offer a sacrifice of praise!
___ Day One: Read Jeremiah 20:1-2. How did Jeremiah live a bold life? Jeremiah was hurt because he was BOLD for God, but He still kept right on being BOLD for God!
Activity: A prophet went around and told people God's words. Help your child make a scroll today. Give him paper and have him draw or write something that points to God. Then help him roll it up and put a rubber band around it. Have him carry that scroll around the house, telling people God's words!
Snack: Make your own jail out of pretzels and marshmallows (or any other food you want).
___ Day Two: Read Esther 4:16. Do you know the story of Esther? She lived a very bold life! Her boldness saved the entire nation of Israel! Watch a video or read the story of Esther from a Bible storybook.
Activity: Esther was a beautiful queen. Make your own crown today! As you are making the crown, talk about how Esther was BOLD and did the right thing no matter what.
___ Day Three: Read Nehemiah 6:1-9. Here is another person who lived a bold life. Nehemiah was bold and did what he had to do, even when others were trying to get him to stop!
Activity: Help your child build a wall! Use whatever you have to make a wall like Nehemiah did. Let the wall you build remind you both that you can do anything through Christ!
Snack: Build a wall out of different types of melon!
___ Day Four: Read Proverbs 28:1. How do the righteous live according to this verse? How can you be as bold as a lion?
Activity: Help your child dress up like a lion and run through the house being BOLD!
Snack: Use cheese crackers, grapes, and bananas to make a lion. Help your child arrange the cheese crackers to form a mane, and then use the grapes and bananas to make the eyes, nose and mouth.
___ Day Five: Read Joshua 1:7-9. Joshua was told to be STRONG and COURAGEOUS! Help your child remember those words by making muscles when he says "Strong" and making a fist when he says "Courageous". Repeat them over and over again, using the motions and seeing how loud and quickly he can do it.
Activity: Here is a fun experiment that can remind you of how God can make you BOLD! Take a bar of Ivory soap. Unwrap it and put it on a microwavable safe plate. Then put it in the microwave. Turn the microwave on high and watch what happens to the soap. Remind your child that this is what happens to us when we put our trust in Christ – He takes what little boldness we have and makes it BIGGER for Him! He helps us be BOLD!
Snack: Sometimes when we think of being strong, we think of muscles! Of course, we don't need muscles to be strong and bold for Christ . . . but this could make a fun snack! Get giant marshmallows and pretend that they are muscles! Say one way that you can be BOLD for Christ for each marshmallow you eat.
___ Day One: Read Joshua 2:1-7. Rahab was BOLD in these verses. She hid the spies – even though she could have gotten in trouble!
Activity: This chapter involves spies! Help your child make his own spy costume and sneak around the house. Play a game of hide and seek with the spy costume!
Snack: Hide a snack around the house and have your child try to find it. Talk about how it took BOLDNESS for Rahab to hide the spies.
___ Day Two: Read Genesis 6:11-22. Noah took BOLD actions when he built the ark! Watch a video or read this story from a Bible storybook.
Activity: Pretend your couch is Noah's ark. Gather up your child's stuffed animals and get them safely on the couch. Then the two of you should get on the couch, too. Pretend it is raining and you are stuck on the couch. Talk about Noah's ark.
Snack: Eat animal crackers one more time!
Activity: Try writing your name left handed. (If you are left handed, try writing your name right handed.) Remember, Ehud was left-handed!
Snack: Ehud blew a trumpet to let people know that deliverance had come! Eat bugles today!
___ Day Four: Read 1 Kings 3-4. Obadiah did some pretty BOLD stuff! He hid 100 prophets to keep them safe from the evil king!
Activity: Hiding 100 prophets would not have been easy! Ask your child if he thinks he could hide 100 prophets. How about not 100 prophets, but all your stuffed animals (or other type of toy he has). Challenge your child to hide those toys and then see how long it takes you to find them. Switch places and hide the toys from your child. Talk about how BOLD Obadiah must have been to hide the prophets.
Snack: Eat bread and water – the food that Obadiah fed the prophets.
___ Day Five: Read Judges 7:19-23. Gideon did some pretty BOLD actions in these verses! How did he trick the Midianites and save his people?
Snack: Make cupcakes or some other fun food to celebrate the completion of this Bible reading plan!


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HomeAutoNewsSONY HAS RELEASED A REAL ELECTRIC CAR
The Vision-S concept, which was led by Sony
11.01.2020 Rubric: AutoNews	Author: Bob
The Vision-S concept, which was led by Sony, involved several other prominent companies and concerns from various near-automotive areas – for example, Nvidia, Bosch, ZF and Continental, and the platform for the electric car was created with the participation of experts from Magna Steyr.
At the same time, the technical characteristics of the electric car its creators did not particularly spread. It is only known that it is equipped with a two-engine power plant (engines develop 270 HP) and is able to accelerate to 100 km / h in 4.8 seconds. But on-Board equipment in Sony told in detail.
The concept was equipped, for example, with an Autonomous control system, which is based on information supplied by a complex of 33 sensors.
In front of the driver of the electric car, a set of monitors is deployed, which includes two side screens that replace the exterior mirrors, each of the rear passengers has a display, and a special acoustic system with a 3D effect is responsible for the" voice-over " of the cabin. For the sake of the latter, the speakers were even built into each of the four seats.
At the same time, Sony has already denied the concept to continue the biography. As project Manager Izumi Kawanishi told the Japanese edition of Impress Watch, the Vision-S project was, first, a test of the company's pen in an unusual genre, second, a demonstration of Sony's abilities in relation to the automotive industry, and third, the company's contribution to the inevitable evolution of the concept of "personal mobility".
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A recent delivery of an All-weather canopy cowling cover for the YAK52. The cover has the additional bonus of a removable cowling section. This YAK was a beautiful example and we really like the paint scheme.


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package org.jrebirth.af.core.resource.font;

import static org.fest.assertions.Assertions.assertThat;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;

import javafx.scene.text.Font;
import javafx.scene.text.FontPosture;
import javafx.scene.text.FontWeight;

import org.jrebirth.af.api.resource.font.FontItem;
import org.jrebirth.af.core.resource.ResourceBuilders;

import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.AfterClass;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.junit.Test;

/**
 * The class ColorTest.
 *
 * @author Sébastien Bordes
 */
public class FontTest {

    @BeforeClass
    public static void setUpBeforeClass() throws Exception {

    }

    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
        System.out.println("2 << 1 = " + (1 << 1));
        System.out.println("2 << 2 = " + (1 << 2));
        System.out.println("2 << 3 = " + (1 << 3));
        System.out.println("2 << 4 = " + (1 << 4));
        System.out.println("2 << 5 = " + (1 << 5));
        System.out.println("2 << 6 = " + (1 << 6));
    }

    @Test
    public void realFont() {

        checkRealFont(TestFonts.TEST_REAL_FONT_1);
        checkRealFont(TestFonts.TEST_REAL_FONT_2);
    }

    private void checkRealFont(final FontItem fontItem) {
        final Font font = fontItem.get();
        final AbstractBaseFont rf = (AbstractBaseFont) ResourceBuilders.FONT_BUILDER.getParam(fontItem);

        assertNotNull(font);
        assertEquals(font.getName(), rf.name().name());
        assertEquals(font.getSize(), rf.size(), 0.0);
    }

    @Test
    public void familyFont() {

        checkFamilyFont(TestFonts.TEST_FAMILY_FONT_1);
        checkFamilyFont(TestFonts.TEST_FAMILY_FONT_2);
        checkFamilyFont(TestFonts.TEST_FAMILY_FONT_3);
        checkFamilyFont(TestFonts.TEST_FAMILY_FONT_4);
    }

    private void checkFamilyFont(final FontItem fontItem) {
        final Font font = fontItem.get();
        final FamilyFont ff = (FamilyFont) ResourceBuilders.FONT_BUILDER.getParam(fontItem);

        Assert.assertNotNull(font);

        final String[] names = font.getName().split(" ");
        int i = 0;
        assertThat(names[i++]).isEqualToIgnoringCase(ff.family());

        if (FontWeight.NORMAL != ff.weight()) {
            assertThat(names[i++]).isEqualToIgnoringCase(ff.weight().name());
        }

        if (FontPosture.REGULAR != ff.posture()) {
            assertThat(names[i++]).isEqualToIgnoringCase(ff.posture().name());
        }
        assertEquals(font.getSize(), ff.size(), 0.0);
    }

    @After
    public void tearDown() throws Exception {
    }

    @AfterClass
    public static void tearDownAfterClass() throws Exception {
    }

}

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This is a combination of White Widow and Super Skunk which gives this short plant a huge yield. The female plants produce fat pungent buds.
White skunk is a cannabis variety which is good for a stoned feeling rather than a high feeling.
This marihuana tastes nice and sweet. White Skunk was formerly known as Bud bunny.
Ordered a few times and never had a problem yet. The range of seeds is fantastic along with great prices. What I found really nice was they always give out free seeds and not just standard ones, they give out feminized seeds. Packaging is nice a discreet as well which is a bonus. I will always order from Herbie.


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Q: UserControls - Programmatically setting output caching duration? I want duration to be configurable from Web.config file, so user can alter the output caching after deployment.
For achieving such purpose I need equivalent C# codebehind snippet of following ASP.NET markup?
<%@ OutputCache Duration="120" VaryByParam="CategoryName" %>

A: There is a way of programmatically setting cache duration for pages, though I'm not sure if this works for partial caching of user controls:
Response.Cache.SetExpires(DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(60));
Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.Public);
Response.Cache.VaryByParams["Category"] = true;
Response.Cache.SetNoServerCaching();

See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323290
You can also add a PartialCaching() attribute to a user control to define caching:
[PartialCaching(120)]
public partial class CachedControl : System.Web.UI.UserControl
{
    // Class Code
}

Though I'm not sure how this could be manipulated programmatically, but it might give you some ideas.

A: You can set output caching using the Response.Cache property.
In this case:
Response.Cache.SetExpires(DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(120));
Response.Cache.VaryByParams["Category"] = true;

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y18he7cw%28VS.71%29.aspx

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A notice about those extra CVS Caremark cards!
We just called CVS Caremark and they were basically clueless!
To date, we have received at least 16 identical prescription cards.
Jorge Moran has also received as many, and I am sure that all enrollees have received them, as well!
Can you just imagine how many extra cards have been mailed?
It's got to be in the thousands, or maybe even the tens of thousands!


Today, Niantic announce that a brand-new feature is coming soon to Pokémon GO.
The new feature is GO Snapshot – an easy way to take a photo of any Pokémon you have in your Pokémon Storage. You can find the feature when looking at a specific Pokémon or accessing the camera in your Bag of items.
You can take as many photos as you like during your session. Once you're finished, all photos are saved to your device automatically.
This should lead to an even more abundance of fun AR Pokémon photos. What do you think? Will you use this new feature?


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Colt SCAMP
Machine pistol
Henry A. Into
2.25 pounds (1.02 kg) (Empty)[1]
3.24 pounds (1.47 kg) (Loaded)[1]
11.41 inches (29.0 cm)[1]
9.12 inches (23.2 cm)[1]
.22 Scamp (5.56×29mm)[1]
Effective firing range
147.6 feet (45.0 m)[1]
Maximum firing range
5,659.4 feet (1,725.0 m)[1]
Feed system
27-round magazine[1]
The Colt SCAMP (Small CAliber Machine Pistol) was conceived in 1969 as a replacement to the aging Colt M1911A1 pistol.[2]
The resulting weapon, embodied in a single SCAMP prototype built in 1971, was designed to give an individual operator a huge increase in firepower, with only a slight bump in weight and bulk. Both the pistol, and the unique ammunition developed for the pistol, were shopped unsuccessfully around to the military through 1974. Though people who tested the SCAMP were impressed, no official interest developed. An article in Small Arms Review magazine reports the prototype remains in the Colt archival vault.[2]
Colt design engineer Henry A. Into recalled that they wanted a selective-fire weapon as the basis of their replacement for the M1911A1. Colt designers looked at smallest submachine guns of the day (including the Czech Škorpion vz. 61, and Uzi) and tinkered with making full-auto versions of high-magazine-capacity pistols (such as the Browning Hi-Power). They eventually settled on an in-house design, Into recalled, which was a gas-operated, locked-breech weapon with select-fire capability, including three-shot burst.[2] The SCAMP's magazine had a similar capacity to a submachine gun, of 27 rounds.
SCAMP was designed to be controllable and accurate to fire. As such, it featured grips patterned after those found on target pistols, a bore set low over the hand to lower the center of gravity, and a burst-fire mode to allow multiple shots without the problem of prolonged recoil.[2] There was also a recoil compensator built into the muzzle.
The requirement for accuracy led to the design of an original cartridge for the SCAMP. The .223-caliber rifle round was first suggested, but was found to be too hot for a handgun. The 9mm Parabellum round was also rejected for having a relatively heavy recoil, Into said in an interview. Into also rejected the .22 Winchester Magnum, 5-mm. Remington, and .22 Hornet.[2]
The design team eventually settled on the .221 Remington Fireball as the basis of their new cartridge, leading to the design of a .224-caliber centerfire cartridge known as the .22 SCAMP. This round was somewhat shorter and narrower than the Fireball.[2]
Despite positive reviews by the few military personnel who got to test the SCAMP, the ultimate response was the military was not looking to replace the M1911A1 pistol at the time.[2] Another source states the Army rejected the SCAMP in 1971 because it was already working on a parallel development, the 'Personal Defense Weapon'.[3] The Colt .45 ACP would not be replaced until 1985.
The SCAMP's cartridge was later rimmed so it could be used in revolvers, intended as a weapon for security forces. This also didn't sell.[2]
^ a b c d e f g h i Kitsune. "Colt Scamp (Small Caliber Machine Pistol)". Archived from the original on March 14, 2017. Retrieved September 1, 2013.
^ a b c d e f g h Truby, J.David (May 2004). "Building a Better Man Trap: The Colt SCAMP". Small Arms Review. 7 (8): 26–28.
^ Watters, Daniel E. "The 5.56 X 45mm: 1970-1973". thegunzone.com. Archived from the original on 2012-09-25. Retrieved September 2013. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
List of individual weapons of the U.S. Armed Forces (Sidearms)
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colt_SCAMP&oldid=905132482"
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Often industrial construction companies reconfigure their crew timesheets on a daily basis. Workers perform jobs and travel to locations that do not follow the original plan resulting in daily crew timesheets alterations, complete with different cost codes and personnel. At times it is simpler to manually enter personnel into the crew timesheet and assign the cost codes for the day.
Some may argue that companies who align personnel with the cost codes and locations according to the plan minimize costs and save time. However, at the end of the day a company cannot control whether jobs are completed as originally intended. Companies cannot rule whether workers will need to be reassigned and moved to different locations before or later than intended.
If this is the case, what solutions can solve this problem and how can we make this process easier?
Digital Time Capture provides crew based timesheets with pre-defined data, streamlining foreman or supervisor completion. With our remote data access, save time and frustration by accessing information from anywhere including the office, remote offices, home, or client sites. Entering straight from the field eliminates duplicate data entry into numerous systems. Provide remote project access to managers, foremen and superintendents providing complete access to critical information needed to manage jobs remotely in one central location. Track cost and productivity, and ongoing project activities. To learn more about DTC software, Request a one-on-one demonstration with a DTC Representative.


As we usher in a new year and bid farewell to 2017, I'd like to invite you to join me in celebrating every victory, big and small.
Bisnow Power Woman in LA Robin Hughes discusses affordable housing solutions and resources.
Seniors at Terra Bella enjoyed an afternoon of community building and civic engagement activities thanks to a special visit from Mayor Jose Mendoza.
Abode Communities received 2,800 rental applications for the lease-up of Camino del Mar & Vista del Mar, 176 new affordable family homes in the heart of Wilmington.
Abode Communities|Architecture has partnered with La Maestra Community Health Centers to provide conceptual design for La Maestra Community Living, a transformational 1.7-acre mixed-use campus situated in a culturally-rich neighborhood of San Diego.
This fall, Abode Communities hosted its inaugural Building Hope Breakfast in support of the organization's signature onsite resident (social) services program, Beyond Homes.
Abode Communities is pleased to announce that Selma Community Housing is the winner of a Multi-Housing News (MHN) Excellence Award in Gold in the category of Best Development & Design: Affordable.
"This is how it's done!" remarked Los Angeles City Planning Commissioner Renee Dake Wilson during the planning meeting for La Veranda, which has achieved unanimous approval from the Planning Commission.
Robin Hughes joined a prominent panel of housing experts to discuss how to meet California's housing needs at Los Angeles Business Council's Mayoral Housing, Transportation & Jobs Summit.
Urbanize LA: Rolland Curtis Gardens is Officially Under Construction!
Demolition has begun making way for Rolland Curtis Gardens, a mixed-use development bringing affordable homes + health services to South LA.
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Steven Tyler Back In Rehab After First Relapse In Over A Decade! Read Aerosmith's Statement About Canceled Dates!
Oh no! How heartbreaking!
Steven Tyler has entered rehab after a drug relapse. The legendary Aerosmith singer has been open about his struggles with addiction, which go back several decades. But it's been so long since his last relapse we never expected him to go through it again.
However, an unfortunate series of events once again led him astray. The band released a statement on Tuesday explaining:
"As many of you know, our beloved brother Steven has worked on his sobriety for many years. After foot surgery to prepare for the stage and the necessity of pain management during the process, he has recently relapsed and voluntarily entered a treatment program to concentrate on his health and recovery."
Oof. Those prescription painkillers get even non-users hooked so easily.
Related: Bam Margera Breaks Wrist Skateboarding Just Days After Finishing Rehab!
The stage they're talking about was for their upcoming tour and Las Vegas residency at the Dolby Live at Park MGM. Sadly as Steven "focuses on his well-being" all upcoming dates, in Madrid, Paris, London, and Sin City, have been canceled. Aerosmith's statement continued:
"We are truly sorry to inform our fans and friends that we must cancel our first set of Las Vegas Residency dates this June and July while he focuses on his well-being. We will continue our 2022 dates starting in September, and we'll let you know any further updates as soon as we can. We are devastated that we have inconvenienced so many of you, especially our most loyal fans who often travel great distances to experience our shows. Thank you for your understanding and for your support for Steven during this time."
Steven first got sober way back in 1988 after the band held an intervention for him. He recounted to Haute Living back in 2019:
"There was a moment in '88 where management and the band pulled an intervention on me. They thought, 'Get the lead singer sober, and all our problems would be over.' So I got sober and, you know, it took me many years to get over the anger of them sending me to rehab while they went on vacation… But today, because of that moment… I am grateful and owe a thanks to them for my sobriety."
The Crazy singer has still had his struggles over the years. He last sought treatment way back in 2009 for prescription drug abuse. It sounds from this statement that this is a similar situation.
Here's wishing Steven a speedy road back to health and sobriety!
[Image via Patricia Schlein/MEGA/WENN.]


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Amazing how none of these small bones could be analyzed by the top Forensic Anthropologists in North America.
When APTN aired it's investigative report, Unmarked Graves, a huge microscope swung it's lenses onto the stage Kevin Annett had been standing on for nearly 20 years. Coupled with mine and Greg Renouf's articles on Kevin's claims of unmarked graves and the excavation of human bones at Brantford, the show brought to the people a tangible set of questions that deserved answers.
The questions themselves were straightforward: Were the bones human and did they belong to children who attended Brantford? Logical, given how Kevin had prepped his followers and supporters stating that 50,000 children were murdered and buried in over 28 mass graves located at Residential Schools across Canada. These were allegations that were not to be taken lightly and the weight of that evidence unearthed there should have been treated as if the Ark of the Covenant itself had been discovered. But screw ups ensued and ultimately Kevin's desire to infiltrate social movements like Occupy Toronto led to the Smithsonian debacle.
Sensing humiliation and defeat over a fudged investigation, Kevin had to up the ante. Until we (Greg and I) had exposed Kevin's conduct at Occupy, he was able to spin whatever fable he needed and no one noticed and no one frankly cared. The public had been told that archaeologists were at the scene and had analyzed the bones and that should have been enough… except that the APTN episode had raised questions about what had happened to them and how they had been analyzed. The question was, where were the bones and who was looking at them.
To our surprise, Kevin claimed they had been sent to the Smithsonian for analysis (again with the hope that no one would dare challenge or look into this newest lie). This was a claim that Marcia Lane somewhat verified…. saying something like: "Kev, didn't I give you the name of a guy there, or something???" No one, however, would ever give a name of anyone who they spoke to at the Smithsonian and even mocked the Institute alleging it's incompetence and bias, calling it a government owned institution.
In questioning all of these inconsistencies, we were told that to ask these questions was to take away from the real work that needed to be done. I was accused of siding with the enemy and of being an 'agent' and on Santos Bonacci's radio show was lightly threatened by both Santos and Kevin that if anything should accidentally happen to myself or to Greg that it would be our own fault.
Still, the issue of the bones has been one I have struggled to let go of. I too have felt deep pain over the thought of children murdered and their bodies covered over not out of respect but to hide the crime. I have made it my duty to question Kevin's claims out of the desire to also see justice done. I want those children who were disappeared to be returned home and for their families to be made whole again if at all possible. And it is for this reason that I have hounded Kevin on the issue of the bones.
Prior to Christmas, I made several requests of Kevin to produce the e-mails from Dr. Ortner (the anthropologist at Smithsonian who Kevin named on Bonacci's show). Poor Dr. Ortner, who unwittingly (and worse, post-humously) has been dragged into Kevin's madness. Dr. Ortner, who indeed did work for Dr. Owsley at Smithsonian Institution, who sadly passed away in April of 2012. His achievements in life were so much more substantial than the alleged involvement in solving the Brantford bones issue.
Never-the-less, Dr. Ortner's name had been thrown into the ring and his ability to refute or confirm Kevin's claims might have remained in question….. until today!
InfiniLor (the YouTube handle owned by Kevin's wife Lori) who posts video's of the 'testimony' and evidence for their Kangaroo court recently answered my question of providing the e-mails from Dr. Ortner, the man who Kevin claims he sent the bones to.
Here's what she said:
Kevin's wife Lori admits that they never spoke with Dr. Ortner and no proof has been offered otherwise
"We were NEVER in contact with Dr. Ortner"
How then does Kevin Annett know how Dr. Ortner died? Why can't he remember if he had email conversations or phone conversations about the bones? And why did he not use Dr. Ortner's name when he first claimed to have sent the bones to Smithsonian Institution to the Chief Forensic Pathologist (a Dr. Doug Owsley and NOT Dr. Ortner, who was deceased when Kevin made his claims).
How can Annett claim Dr. Ortner died of a heart-attack when that has never been disclosed publicly anywhere?
Why did Annett not pic the TOP GUY at Smithsonian…the curator and head of Forensics for North America to send the bones to? Because Kevin Annett had to make up the Smithsonian lie as he went along, and picked the one person in the department who was recently deceased.
Because DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES!
BUT TRUTH WILL OUT!
December 30, 2012 June 16, 2015 HeatherBones, Con Artistry, Disinfo Agents, Indian Residential Schools, ITCCS, ITCCS.org, Kevin Annett, Native IssuesDr. Don Ortner, Dr. Doug Owsley, Kevin Annett, Smithsonian Bones, Smithsonian Institution
10 thoughts on "The curious case of Dr. Ortner"
gregmartin@yahoo.com
You should investigate Greg Renouf. He is not genunie or witty is dangerous:
Banned from both Occupy Vancouver and Occupy Toronto, Greg Renouf has been bullying and harassing women organisers in occupy spaces. He has displayed, on many occasions, deeply racist and misogynist behaviour. His behaviour falls into easily recognisable patterns and we believe that he poses a real threat to community safety.
This Man is Dangerous. Renouf at Occupy Vancouver.
This blog will document Greg Renouf's racist and misogynist harassment and intimidation which has occurred over the last several months. However, we will try to conceal the identity of his targets where ever possible, and will not re-publish any of the nastier things that he has said and/or posted to the internet–things like explicitly sexualised derogatory comments about women who he has been harassing.
http://thismanisdangerous.wordpress.com/2012/03/12/this-man-is-dangerous-greg-renouf/
It's no secret that Occupy has been co-opted by socialist/anarchist self interests… the tactics of hurling slurs like "racist, and homophobe" is sooooo old that people are quite bored of it. If you have such evidence publish it… otherwise all you're accomplishing is ….well….Nothing! BTW, I don't consider a site that supports convicted G20 Black Bloc felon Alex Hundert as a reputable source… perhaps those who live in black pots should not call the kettle black….Just sayin'.
http://www.genuinewitty.com/2013/01/01/a-video-of-todays-idlenomore-rally-in-torontos-dundas-square/
gregmartin
Greg Renouf is not a reputable source he is a freak. R U Greg's boyfriend? Greg Renouf imposes his views on people. When we don't agree with him he attacks us, stalks us, lies about us, threatens us. You want to stop Kevin Annett but you worship Greg Renouf as a hero when he stalks and threatens women, makes unwanted comments towards females! Start a blog with Greg Renouf must be stopped.
http://thismanisdangerous.wordpress.com/greg-renouf-this-man-is-dangerous/marshalls-committee-notes-from-february-22-2012-meeting-occupytoronto/
Why are you here Greg Martin? Don't you have your own blog to run? I am a woman and Greg has neither stalked nor threatened me, nor made unwanted comments towards females. Do you have evidence of this slander or are things just slow this time of year for Occupy Anarchists? If you can't comment on the article and subject matter of this blog, I will block your comments without notice.
gregisacreep
Is Greg still crying like a bitch on his blog about being allegedly assaulted?
My Assault By Occupy Toronto's Black Bloc (And the Toronto police's slow response.
I don't believe him. My phone was acting strange, so I sat down on the wall beside the children's playground and tried to get it working.
RU sure Greg didn't injure himself while sitting on the wall? He could have fallen off of it.
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The curious case of Dr. Ortner resurfaces today as I discover that I have been named as a potential murderer by Kevin Annett who states in a terrible show dated May 3rd, 2015. I say terrible because to listen to poor Lori being dragged into recounting just what happened at Brantford was painful and cringe-worthy. Kevin made a very deliberate attempt to insinuate that I somehow had something to do with the pre-eminent scientists death, while casually making reference to me as 'some woman' and my blog, "StopKevinAnnett.com". Listen at 30:00 minutes here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvT-pEJFG6Y
"after that happened, I contacted a guy called Dr. Don Ortner, he's a senior forensic pathologist, or was, before he died, um, at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, and his specialty was, uh, analyzing, uh, um…from bone remains, cause of death. So he'd be exactly what we need because a lot of these kids were exposed to tuberculosis and died and that shows up in bone remains. Now I sent off that bone that Greg Olson had looked at to Don Ortner. I got two emails from him and I talked to him on the phone once, uh the first one was: "Uh, I haven't really looked at the bone, it looks like an animal to me." Second communication he said, "Well I've looked at it longer and frankly it could be either. It's too small to tell I'd have to come and look at more of these." And I said, "would you do that?", and he said "sure, I'd be willing to come up". Now that was in late January 2012, and he died of a heart attack in April. You can read into that whatever you like, uh, but what I found interesting was the usual smear, StopKevinAnnett.com and these other sites that just kinda smear us…About a couple of weeks before Don Ortner died, this woman, uh, whose always going on about what a horrible man I am, said, "And all that stuff he's claiming about Dr. Don Ortner, he's never going to testify about any of this stuff"….AND THEN HE'S DEAD. Now, you know I just found that interesting, it's almost as if she knew the guy was going to die because, well my personal theory is that these are government funded smear sites. And I think SOMETHING HAPPENED TO DON ORTNER, but that's just my personal opinion, I don't have any proof about that."
Well of course this is just ridiculous, because unless I had a time machine and could go back to when Kevin (allegedly) made contact with Dr. Ortner…in fact to when Kevin conducted the dig….I suppose I could have boarded a plane to Washington, made an appointment to see Dr. Ortner and slip him the old Spy vs. Spy heart-attack cocktail in his coffee. That must be what happened to make Kevin draw such a well-educated conclusion such as this. Everyone who disagrees with him MUST be an agent (and a paid one at that). Strange that for a guy who boasts that he never has to pay income tax, he sure is jealous over the money those state paid agents make.
In any case I decided to bring the matter to Kevin's attention, seeing as he has taken to making shit up as he goes along again, and of course people like Andy Peacher who run this radio program feel he is in fine form. But I bet if I asked Lori how playing happy homemaker to the biggest joke in Truther History is going….I think the truth might finally be revealed. You see, because a woman knows another womans' tone of voice and when you hear Lori answer the questions (at about 4 minutes into the show) being asked by her hubby Kevin, any woman in the world would know the sound that hatred makes. Of course, like most men, Kevin would miss the subtle cues of seething rage in her voice, her disgust and impatience with him. It was painfully obvious there was somewhere she would have rather have been than on that show that day….anything would be better than jumping through Kevin's hoops like a little circus dog.
And, so, I sent my correspondence to her as well, hoping that there is a tipping point there somewhere where she will get fed up with his bullshit, come clean with all his lies and finally put an end to his long-con.
Of course Kevin refused to answer any of my questions, or respond to any of the points I made. I really didn't expect any kind of intelligent answer and I wasn't disappointed.
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Yipes!!! I just listened to the radio program. In the past I haven't wanted to devote that much time to listen to Kevin sling his hash (with my apologies to perfectly good hash). It boggles my mind that he is still going over and over again with the same old repeating of the story. Heather, I totally got your comment about Lori's voice, although she did sound a little more with it at the end…maybe because she realized the torture was nearly over. This sort of reminded me about that reality show Kate plus 8, where she took her two oldest girls on a morning to show and they refused to say anything at all on camera–awkward. God bless Lori for staying with Kevin through all of this – but I wish she would stop helping him in any way.
p.s. I'm glad you're back Heather
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Title: Tao of Charlie Munger
Binding: hardback
Author: David Clark
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Words of wisdom from Charlie Munger—Warren Buffett's longtime business partner and the visionary Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway—collected and interpreted with an eye towards investing by David Clark, coauthor of the bestselling Buffettology series.
Born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1924 Charlie Munger studied mathematics at the University of Michigan, trained as a meteorologist at Cal Tech Pasadena while in the Army, and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School without ever earning an undergraduate degree. Today, Munger is one of America's most successful investors, the Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, and Warren Buffett's business partner for almost forty years. Buffett says "Berkshire has been built to Charlie's blueprint. My role has been that of general contractor." Munger is an intelligent, opinionated business man whose ideas can teach professional and amateur investors how to be successful in finance and life.
Like The Tao of Warren Buffett and The Tao of Te Ching, The Tao of Charlie Munger is a compendium of pithy quotes including, "Knowing what you don't know is more useful than being brilliant" and "In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time—none, zero." This collection, culled from interviews, speeches, and questions and answers at the Berkshire Hathaway and Wesco annual meetings, offers insights into Munger's amazing financial success and life philosophies. Described by Business Insider as "sharp in his wit and investing wisdom," Charlie Munger's investment tips, business philosophy, and rules for living are as unique as his life story; intelligent as he clearly is; and as successful as he has been.
For over twenty years, David Clark has been considered the world's leading authority on the subject of Warren Buffett's investment methods. His international bestselling investment books, co-authored with Mary Buffett—Buffettology, The Buffettology Workbook, The New Buffettology, The Tao of Warren Buffett, Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements, The Management Secrets of Warren Buffett, Warren Buffett and The Art of Stock Arbitrage, and The Warren Buffett Stock Portfolio—have been translated into more than twenty foreign languages and are considered "investment classics" the world over. He holds a B.S. degree in finance and a law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He is presently writing Berkshire Hathaway: Fortress of Capital, a corporate biography. When not consumed with matters of finance, he is engaged in the second great passion of his life, which is trial law and maintains an active national practice.


No one can tell us apart, not even our parents sometimes. We don't usually use that to our advantage, but it comes in handy when my brother needs help breaking up with his boyfriends—which happens more than I'd care to admit. I know it's enabling him, but I can't say no to Anders. I will do anything for my twin. The breakups always go the same; they're swift and simple. Until Reed. He's everything I've fantasised about but never allowed myself to have. When I give in to temptation and begin to freak out, it's not because he's a guy. It's because he thinks I'm my brother, and I can't bring myself to tell him the truth.
I just love Ms Finley and her MM romances! I was so excited to hear that we had another book coming from this fabulous author so close after the release of her last book! I could not wait to read it. I just love a good MM romance. I thought this book was good. I thought the characters were cute and I am hoping that Anders might have his love story coming next! Maybe with a certain lawyer!
So, Law usually breaks off things with his brother's boyfriends, seeing as no one can tell them apart. There are reasons behind this, and they come to light as you read the story. I felt like Law could have told Reed several times about what was happening but he chose not to. Reed is a teacher, and new to town. He gets set up on a blind date with Anders. Or is it Anders? hmm.. you will have to read to find out what happens.
I enjoyed reading this story. I enjoy reading all of Ms Finley's stories. I was pulled in by the blurb and the cover, because the cover is pretty hot. I like the premise of the story and the way the words flowed. I thought the characters were great together even through the slight deception. I can't wait to see what else comes from this series!


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VR arcades are playing a leading role in the consumer market
Amir Bozorgzadeh@whiteboxamir	 July 5, 2018 4:15 PM
Koliseum Soccer VR
Image Credit: Kynoa
The "VR hype cycle" used to explain the relatively slow rate of adoption for VR refers mostly to the consumer market, and in large part the household-targeted segment, which I believe has suffered the most thanks to the false narratives that I outlined last month. Most of the chips have been bet on high-fidelity immersive content and when it comes to premium experiences, your home just does not serve as the best or most natural setting to clutter up with the necessary equipment and accessories.
The more fitting place is a location-based spaces, like a VR arcade. That's why location-based VR experiences are currently trending in popularity worldwide while household consumer adoption is not. According to Greenlight Insights, global location-based VR entertainment will in fact double to $1.2 billion this year and grow to over $8 billion by 2022.
VR arcades are the first of the form to pop up, blooming particularly early in Asia thanks to the region's popular backdrop of internet cafe culture, which serves as the ideal foundation. Western diets have understandably taken more time adjusting to the return of an arcade model that the market thought had otherwise gone extinct some decades ago. Not only are they quite alive, the pace of adoption is picking up.
VR arcades are no fad
"There are now over 100 VR arcades in the United States and they usually follow the same format. There are even more outside the United States, with the latest estimate that there are 4000 worldwide." says CEO Ryan Burningham of Virtualities, a VR arcade based in Salt Lake City and one of the very first to take root in the US.
When you hear about the prohibitive nature of VR-ready equipment and accessories, the most cited factor to blame for poor consumer adoption is cost. That's why, they say, traction is lagging behind forecasts and why location-based experiences are benefiting as a sort of steward model.
Maybe cost and the alternative of renting versus buying does play some appreciable role at the moment, but I think the point is exaggerated. The underlying reason why mainstream audiences don't yet take VR seriously enough to dish out the dollars is actually due to a particularly poor product-market fit for premium content.
The real factors at work for why location-based VR is popular is because they offer the dedicated space for room-scale experiences and the increasing array of custom-designed hardware that allows our physicality to truly feel immersed.
Physically integrated experience
In many cases, this will mean letting our bodies step outside of the usual anthropomorphic lens and, for instance, fly around as an eagle with wings above the skylines of New York City, as I was able to last month at the World VR Forum in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.
Zurich-based SOMNIACS' full body "Birdly" simulator required that I lay horizontal with my arms and hands strapped into mechanical wings that position, pivot, rotate and, yes, flap authentically like an eagle. My deep-seated fear of heights was triggered immediately but after a few sessions the phobia had abated. I couldn't imagine a more apt approach to immersing my physicality into the experience than by having exactly this tailored hardware paired to the ride as a mandatory condition.
Above: Birdly VR flight simulator
Image Credit: SOMNIACS
Anything less wouldn't allow me to feel the quality of "presence" and to suggest that this hardware will be made available in your home is just not practical. At least not for some years. And why? Because the sheer number of experiences that will be created in the years to come will entail a proportional supply of custom-designed and personalized hardware that will be tailored specifically to the subtle and nuanced qualities of both the specific experience and the individual.
Other great examples that I experienced first-hand at the World VR Forum included Paris-based GoodGuys and Swiss-based Kynoa. GoodGuys threw me into a series of "6DOF VR modules" custom-designed for various extreme sports motion rides like Pro Race VR, Little Valley, Ski Ride, and Slide Drift. They partnered with E6Lab to develop the pods with servomotors at 6 angles and synced the hardware to an animation algorithm that syncs pitch-perfect to the real time CG and live content shot in 8K video at 60 FPS, which is the current highest video resolution.
Above: Pro Race VR by GoodGuys at World VR Forum
The team at Kynoa, for their part, took my nostalgic tabletop game of foosball and turned it into nothing short of a cinematic experience. Coined "Koliseum Soccer VR", the game is particularly unique as far as mixed reality content goes, and is perfectly suited for showcasing how elevated social games become with an upgrade to 3D. The equipment (see cover image) looks ordinary enough at first sight, except that the top is enclosed like a blackbox, so you need to put on the HMDs in order jump into the virtual stadium, welcomed with roaring applause.
Intersection with esports
Interestingly, Kynoa plans in the near future on extending the competitive gameplay to creating leagues, online matches and tournaments, and so we see again the inevitable intersection between the mixed reality industry and that of esports. In the case of Virtualities, the journey to esports came about just as naturally. In observing their repeat customers, they catered to their demand by building their own league, called the "Virtualities Athletic League", which has already held dozens of tournaments.
"We realized our core customers who always wanted to come back were playing the same type of games over and over again – stuff like Space Pirate Trainer, multiplayer zombies, etc. In location based VR right we estimate that big expensive free roam type experiences were getting about 1 percent return rates." Burningham told me. "By contrast, these competitive VR esports players were coming back at around rates of 20 to 30 percent. That's where we realized we needed to get serious about the league. We had been holding VR esports tournaments for almost two years now."
And that was just the beginning. In parallel, Virtualities started cooking up their own esports VR title, codenamed Citadel, the alpha version of which is built on Unreal Engine and developed as a sci-fi 5v5 team combat game that they plan to eventually license out to VR arcades across the country and worldwide.
Then in May, they announced the launch of a 4,000 square feet Salt Lake City location dedicated to VR esports, where players can compete for prizes and glory, not sitting around like in traditional esports, but by breaking up a sweat in the more athletic variety that emerges only with the advent of mixed reality.
Above: Virtualities' VR esports title, Citadel
The theme of needing large-scale space isn't going to go away in the foreseeable future for premium VR experiences. It will not only become increasingly essential as VR esports takes off, but for the world of art, cinematic VR, and in the free-roaming journeys that are being developed for "immersive theaters", as productions that allow you to literally step into the story.
Storytelling to storyliving
Creators of theatrical immersive productions, like The VOID, offer a full-bodied experience that allows you to actually walk the hero's journey, free-roaming as you follow the narrative along with a group of friends, family, or strangers that have joined you for the ride. Immersive theaters are proving hugely successful with Ryan Andal, President and cofounder at Secret Location, reporting at the VRLA in May that they get up to 40 percent occupancy rates versus the traditional film industry's steady 11 percent.
It's no storytelling, but "storyliving", which strikes at the heart of what mixed reality is all about in the first place.
It certainly holds true for the experience I had last month when I was part of a group of six attending Somnai, a mesmerizing London-based production that does not simply hinge on VR gear but mixes and incorporates mixed reality along with a variety of other theatrical devices in order to create a hypnotic melange that facilitates a surreal narrative; guiding each participant step-by-step through a lucid dream that continually teeters on the edge of the unconscious. You can only truly understand the full potential of this category of mixed reality by trying it.
Above: Ready to dream in VR?
Image Credit: Somnai
What is clear is that high fidelity VR content will increasingly and in large part necessitate six degrees of freedom to move, interact, and feel through the surroundings, and that will by default require ample stretches of space that are entirely devoted to it. While many categories of lighter VR and AR content will no doubt be suited for household consumption, you can expect that the flagship experiences will most certainly not be for what my spidey senses predict will be no less than a decade from now. So we better get used to location-based VR as a leading staple for the industry.
Amir Bozorgzadeh is cofounder and CEO at Virtuleap, the host of the Global WebXR Hackathon and the startup powering up the Gaze-At-Ratio (GAR) XR metric.


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New York City – Requiem for the Rain is a unipersonal play written by Ecuador's most famous playwright, Jose Martinez Querolo is all set to make its debut in New York after the successful tour in Dominican republic. The play has been translated into over five languages and performed all over the world. Jose Ignacio Vivero's direction pulls this play out of time and makes its interpretation immediate. The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures awarded Vivero in 2019 with an artist grant, he is also a member of the Lincoln Center Director´s Lab.
This play is about the poor, drunken widower of towns laundress morns for his wife, La Jesusa. But where does the guilt of this woman's death lie? A woman who has spent her life cleaning the wealthy's dirty laundry. This drunkard is not a good man but he knows intimately the filth we all leave for someone else's tired hands. This unblinking, and often hilarious look at the hypocrisy of the elite is just as fresh and relevant today as when the play first opened in 1960. Who is to blame for the death of La Jesusa? Perhaps all of us.
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Cassey's head was spinning. She'd slowed her breathing down but still felt too lightheaded to open her eyes. What had Luke done to her?
"You okay?" Even just the richness of his voice sent waves of desire through her body.
Realizing she didn't trust her voice, she nodded and squeezed her eyes shut tighter. When she finally opened them, it was to see Luke smiling down at her.
"What?" she asked, trying to sit up. He held her in place and shook his head.
"You can't avoid it, you know."
"I have no idea what you're talking about." She tried to push him away, but he just laughed and plopped his full weight on her, pinning her to the mattress.
"Ugh! You weigh a ton." She tried to shove him off as he laughed. "Get off."
He was laughing harder now. "Not until you promise me you won't avoid it."
"Stop," she squealed as he buried his nose in her neck and started nibbling on her. By the time he pulled back and looked at her, she was laughing too hard to say anything.
"Do you promise?" he asked and before she knew what she was doing, she'd nodded in agreement.
"Perfect." He jumped off the bed and pulled her up with him. "I'm starved," he said as he started tugging her towards the kitchen.
"Luke," she squealed, "clothes first!" He just laughed even more.
After making some quick peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, they retreated back to the warmth of the bed and talked. She was avoiding having the conversation and did everything she could to distract Luke from talking about the three words he'd mentioned less than an hour ago.
"You're stalling," he said, setting his plate aside. "You're talking about everything but what needs to be said."
He was right. She couldn't deny her emotions any more. But then she found something that took his mind off the conversation completely.
"Oh," she said, taking the last bite of her sandwich. "I'd almost forgotten. I'm supposed to invite you to Spring Haven for Thanksgiving this Thursday." She smiled when she noticed his eyes go blank. "My Aunt Julie is the best cook in the county."
"Thanksgiving?" He got a funny look on his face and she wondered if she'd made a mistake asking him.
"Yes, you don't have to—"
"I'd love to." His smile grew and he reached for her. Setting her plate aside, he slid them down until they fit tight together.
"You've mentioned your aunt and father, but haven't spoken much of your mother. Mrs. Grayton?"
She sighed and was thankful the conversation had turned. "Elizabeth Grayton was the strongest woman I've ever known." She rested her head back against his shoulder and enjoyed the feeling of his fingers combing her long hair away from her face. "When I first met her, her cancer was in remission. It took several years for it to come back and for her to pass from it." She smiled slightly. "Never once in all that time did I see that woman complain or frown. She didn't shed a tear or get angry at her circumstances."
"I'm sorry," he said, lightly.
She nodded. "That woman taught us more about suffering and patience than any other could. One of the reasons the Graytons took us all in was because of Elizabeth's and Mark's own childhoods. It's the reason all of us devote as much as we can into the home that Roman has built, the reason he has continued on with our family's dream."
"Everyone sounds wonderful. Since I've already met Marcus and Cole, I can't wait to meet everyone else."
She laughed. "You'll regret those words."
Less than a week later, she was sitting around the large maple dining table, surrounded by a bunch of crazy people, and laughing harder than she had in a long time. Her brothers were a constant source of entertainment. She could hardly remember a time that the three of them had been together that they hadn't had her smiling like a loon.
Of course, Luke was right there in the middle of it all. Not only did he look like he fit in, but he sounded and acted a lot like her brothers as they joked with her Aunt Julie and her father about one thing or another.
"You really didn't do that, did you?" he asked, looking over at her. She'd lost track of their conversation minutes before when she'd been transfixed by the way Luke was smiling. He looked like he was really enjoying himself.
"What?" She felt her breathing quicken and quickly took a sip of her wine to cover the anxiety.
He leaned closer to her, his smile getting bigger. "Run from here to the middle of town, wearing nothing but a hula skirt and coconuts."
She glared at her brothers then closed her eyes, remembering. "Yes, but it wasn't my fault," she said as everyone burst into laughter. "They locked me out of the house and bet me that they would do all my chores and be my own personal slaves for a whole month if I did it." She tried not to laugh. She'd been thirteen and had just enough pride to not want to lose a bet. She smiled, remembering seeing her brothers do her every bidding. They'd been great sports about it, and since they and Marissa had followed her the entire way, they had a wonderful picture of the five of them standing in front of town hall, her brothers' arms around her shoulders as she wore the hula skirt and coconuts from her school play.
The rest of the evening went very well. She tried not to stare at Luke and kept her heart hidden from her family, as usual.
As they were sitting around the fire in the living room, watching a football game, Luke's cell phone rang. She watched him flip it out and frown down at it, and then he stood and excused himself.
She tried not to watch him pace on the front porch as he talked, most likely to someone from his family. When he came in, she could see the spark had left his eyes.
It took a few minutes before they were finally alone, and she immediately asked if everything was all right.
"Yes. I knew they'd be upset that I was spending the holiday with your family, but I didn't know how much." He took her hand and they stepped outside onto the front porch. The night breeze was cool as the wind whipped through her hair. He pulled off his jacket and put it over the light sweater she was wearing. Then he walked to the railing and leaned on it. "I like it here. I can just imagine you and your brothers growing up here. Chasing each other in the yard, running through the house." He turned and smiled at her. "Makes me a little envious."
She walked over to him and placed a hand on his knee. Looking up into his eyes. "I'm sorry they were upset."
He shrugged his shoulders and turned to look off into the dark night.
Even though fall along the Gulf Coast wasn't very cold, they still had chilly nights. Even the bugs had decreased during the small cold front they were having now. The grass was still green, and most of the trees still had leaves, but the chill in the wind guaranteed they were in for some rain later that night.
"It's not like we spend holidays together. It's been years since we've had a Thanksgiving meal together. Even then, it was nothing like that." He nodded to the large windows, where they could see her brothers yelling at the football game. They were cheering and most likely taking bets as to which team would score next.
"I'm sorry," she said, pulling his face towards hers. "I know how it feels. I wish it was different for you."
He smiled and ran his fingers through her hair. "I'm so lucky to have you. To be here with you." He leaned down and placed a soft kiss on her lips. "I know you don't want to hear it, but I love you. I love being here with your family, with you."
She smiled. "I think I'm getting used to hearing it." It was true. Since that night almost a week ago when he'd first uttered those words, he'd made a point to say them to her as often as he could. She still didn't know if there would be a day when she would easily be able to say it back to him. After all, she'd never said it to any man before.
"I'd like your permission to move in to your place. You know,
full-time."
She thought about it for a moment. He was already practically living at her place. His clothes hung in the spare bedroom closet, and several items were in her medicine cabinet.
Just then, there was a loud shout from inside the house. They both looked over to see Marcus jumping up and down. Cole still had his arm in a sling, but he was pumping his other fist in the air and the two of them fist-bumped over Roman's head.
"Looks like Roman lost the bet," she said, smiling at the scene her family made. Her aunt and father were shaking their heads as they laughed at the three of them. "It's rare that he loses," she said, turning back towards Luke.
"I like them a lot," he said.
"That's nice. I can tell they like you, too."
"Shall we head back in? I'm dying to know the score." She smiled.
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Coenocorypha és un gènere d'ocells de la família dels escolopàcids (Scolopacidae) que habita illes de la regió de Nova Zelanda.

Llista d'espècies
Segons la classificació del Congrés Ornitològic Internacional (versió 2.5, 2010) aquest gènere està format per 3 espècies vives i dues extintes:
 becada de l'illa del Nord (Coenocorypha barrierensis). Extinta.
 becada de l'illa del Sud (Coenocorypha iredalei). Extinta.
 becada de les Auckland (Coenocorypha aucklandica).
 becada de les Chatham (Coenocorypha pusilla).
 becada de les Snares (Coenocorypha huegeli).

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