Sharpie pens are permanent markers. That means that the ink will not come off with water. If something will dissolve in water it is called soluable. If something will NOT dissolve in water it is called hydrophobic. Permanent marker ink is hydrophobic. Here is a demonstration of solubility.
Stretch part of the white t-shirt over the top of the plastic cup and secure it with the rubber band - it will look like a little drum. Choose one of the colors of Sharpie pen and make dots in the center of the t-shirt circle. Choose another color and make more dots. Repeat. The circle of color should be about the size of a quarter. Now slowly squeeze about 20 drops of rubbing alcohol into the center of the circle of dots. Drip the rubbing alcohol really slowly. What do you see happening to the ink? Let the ink dry for about 5 minutes and then you can move the cup to a different part of the shirt. When you are done making colorful circles put the shirt in the dryer for about 15 mintues to set the colors.
The permanent ink of Sharpie pens is hydrophobic. It will not dissolve in water. The permanent ink WILL dissolve in rubbing alcohol though. That is why the colors "run" to make the pretty pattern.
Try this method of tie dying with different kinds of markers and pens. Test whether the ink in the pens is soluable or hydrophobic. HINT: the word "washable" would be a clue to help you guess the answer to that question. Then try using the rubbing alcohol. Can you find an ink that will not dissolve in water OR rubbing alcohol?
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HomeGOVERNANCEA total of 22 proposals of Rs.2200 Cr. appraised and recommended under Nirbhaya Fund
A total of 22 proposals of Rs.2200 Cr. appraised and recommended under Nirbhaya Fund
News Crust Friday, August 11, 2017
Government of India has set up a dedicated fund called Nirbhaya Fund for implementation of initiatives aimed at enhancing the safety and security of women in the country.
As per the guidelines of Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Women and Child Development is the nodal authority for appraisal of the schemes/proposals received under Nirbhaya Fund. Also, Ministry of Finance has set up an Empowered Committee under the Chairmanship of Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development for appraising and approving various schemes/project proposals proposed to be funded from the Nirbhaya Fund. The concerned Ministries take up the sanction and implementation of the schemes/proposals so appraised as they do for their other schemes/projects.
Nirbhaya Fund was set up with a corpus of Rs. 1000 Cr. during 2013-14. Further, an amount of Rs 1000 Cr. was provided in 2014-15 and for the financial years 2016-17 and 2017-18, an amount of Rs. 550 cr. (each financial year) was provided under the Nirbhaya Fund. The corpus transferred to the Public Account for the Nirbhaya fund upto 2017-18 is Rs. 3100 Cr.
Under the Nirbhaya fund, 22 proposals on women's safety and security from Central Ministries and State Governments amounting to Rs.2209.19 Crores have been appraised and recommended by the Empowered Committee as on 21.07.2017. The proposals of different Government Ministries/Organization, appraised and recommended so far by the Empowered Committee are at different stages of implementation.
Ministry of Women and Child Development is implementing three schemes under Nirbhaya Fund, namely, One Stop Centre (OSC), Women Helpline(WHL) and Mahila Police Volunteer. One Stop Centres have been set up to facilitate access to an integrated range of services including medical, legal, and psychological support to women affected by violence to be funded through Nirbhaya Fund. The One Stop Centres will be integrated with 181 and other existing helplines. So far, 151 One Stop Centres have become operational. The Scheme of Universalisation of Women Helpline is intended to provide 24 hours immediate and emergency response to women affected by violence through referral and information about women related government schemes programs across the country through a single uniform number. The MWCD in collaboration with MHA has envisaged engagement of Mahila Police Volunteers in State/UTs who will act as a link between Police and Community and facilitate women in distress.
The Empowered Committee of Officers, under the chairmanship of Secretary, WCD, which is an inter-ministerial committee appraises and recommends various proposals/projects proposed by different Ministries/Departments/States. The concerned Ministries then take up the sanction and implementation of the schemes/proposals so appraised as they do for their other schemes/projects. This Committee regularly reviews the implementation of the projects and try to ensure judicious utilization of funds from time to time with the concerned Ministries. Furthermore, the Ministries and State Governments have been requested on 10thApril, 2017 and reminded on 1st August, 2017 to send innovative proposals that can enhance the security and safety of women.
*This information was given by Minister of State for Women & Child Development, Smt Krishna Raj in reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

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THE CHURCH IN ACCELERATION 1 THESSALONIANS 1: 1 -10 1 Paul, Silas and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace and peace to you. 2 We always thank God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers. 3 We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labour prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
4 For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you, 5 because our gospel came to you not simply with words, but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction. You know how we lived among you for your sake. 6 You became imitators of us and of the Lord; in spite of severe suffering, you welcomed the message with the joy given by the Holy Spirit. 7 And so you became a model to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia.
8 The Lord's message rang out from you not only in Macedonia and Achaia — your faith in God has become known everywhere. Therefore we do not need to say anything about it, 9 for they themselves report what kind of reception you gave us. They tell how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead — Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.
ACCELERATION – • Increase in the rate or speed of something. • is the act of increasing speed • Acceleration comes from the Latin word accelerationem, which means "a hastening. " • When you hasten, you hurry, so acceleration is a speeding-up. • Maybe you are walking to an appointment and realize you will be late. You pick up your pace — that's acceleration.
THESSALONICA: THE CITY AND THE CHURCH • Thessalonica was a busy seaport city at the head of the Thermaic Gulf. • It was an important communication and trade center, located at the junction of the great Egnatian Way and the road leading north to the Danube. • It was the largest city in Macedonia and was also the capital of its province.
• The background of the Thessalonian church is found in Ac 17: 1– 9. • Since Paul began his ministry there in the Jewish synagogue, it is reasonable to assume that the new church included some Jews. • However, 1: 9– 10; Ac 17: 4 seem to indicate that the church was largely Gentile in membership.
PROVISION FOR AN ACCELERATED CHURCH v. 1 Paul, Silas and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace and peace to you. • 2 PROVISSIONS 1. GRACE - Heb. (CHESED) • This word speaks of deliverance from enemies, affliction, or adversity. • It also denotes enablement, daily guidance, forgiveness, and preservation.
• GRACE – HOW DO THEOLOGIANS DEFINE IT? • Grace means God's love in action towards men who merited the opposite of love. • Grace means God moving heaven and earth to save sinners who could not lift a finger to save themselves. • Grace means God sending His only Son to descend into hell on the cross so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and received into heaven.
• "This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. • There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus" (Romans 3: 22 -24). "In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace" (Ephesians 1: 7).
2. PEACE • In English, the word "peace" conjures up a passive picture, one showing an absence of civil disturbance or hostilities, or a personality free from internal and external strife • Heb. "SHALOM" 1. wholeness of life or body (i. e. , health) 2. right relationship or harmony between two parties or people, often established by a covenant (see "covenant of peace" in Num 25: 12 -13 ; Isa 54: 10 ; Ezek 34: 25 -26 ) and, when related to Yahweh, the covenant was renewed or maintained with a "peace offering" 3. prosperity, success, or fulfillment (see Lev 26: 3 -9) 4. victory over one's enemies or absence of war.
• Shalom was used in both greetings and farewells. • It was meant to act as a blessing on the one to whom it was spoken: • "May your life be filled with health, prosperity, and victory. " • As an adjective, it expressed completeness and safety.
DESCRIPTION OF AN ACCELERATED CHURCH 1. THE CAUSE OF THANKSGIVING – V. 2 • 1 Th. 1: 2 We always thank God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers.
DESCRIPTION OF AN ACCELERATED CHURCH 2. WORTH MENTIONING CHURCH IN PRAYER – V. 2 • 1 Th. 1: 2 We always thank God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers.
DESCRIPTION OF AN ACCELERATED CHURCH 3. A CHURCH W/ FAITH THAT PRODUCES WORK – v. 3 A • 1 Th. 1: 3 We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Paul contrasts faith to works: • Ephesians 2: 8– 9, For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith…not by works, so that no one can boast. " • Faith produces works" is Paul's slogan when it comes how justified Christians live. • Immediately after arguing that we are justified through faith not work, Paul writes: For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do" (2: 10).
DESCRIPTION OF AN ACCELERATED CHURCH 5. A CHURCH THAT ENDURES BECAUSE OF HOPE – V. 3 C • 1 Th. 1: 3 We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labour prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. • The Greek word for "endurance" is hupomonē, which derives from the two words for "remain" and "under. " • When trouble comes, Christians can remain under it without being crushed by it because of their hope. • Hebrews 12: 2 says "For the joy set before him, he endured the cross, scorning its shame. " • Christians must follow his example. • Christ is our example and hope. FAITH WORKS. LOVE LABORS. HOPE ENDURES.
DESCRIPTION OF AN ACCELERATED CHURCH 6. LOVED, CHOSEN/SAVED BY GOD CHURCH – V. 4 • 1 Th. 1: 4 For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you, • 1 Th. 1: 5 because our gospel came to you not simply with words, but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction. You know how we lived among you for your sake.
DESCRIPTION OF AN ACCELERATED CHURCH 7. A GOSPEL CENTERED CHURCH – V. 5 • 4 For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you, • 5 because our gospel came to you not simply with words, but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction. You know how we lived among you for your sake. • 6 b in spite of severe suffering, you welcomed the message with the joy given by the Holy Spirit. • 7 And so you became a model to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia. • 8 The Lord's message rang out from you not only in Macedonia and Achaia — your faith in God has become known everywhere.
b) THE GOSPEL IS NOT JUST MERE WORDS BUT WITH POWER, W/ H. S. & CONVICTION– V. 5 B • Ro. 15: 18 I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done — • Ro. 15: 19 by the power of signs and miracles, through the power of the Spirit.
• But to truly comprehend how good this news is, we must first understand the bad news. • As a result of the fall of man in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3: 6), every part of man—his mind, will, emotions and flesh—have been corrupted by sin. • Because of man's sinful nature, he does not and cannot seek God. • He has no desire to come to God and, in fact, his mind is hostile toward God (Romans 8: 7).
• God has declared that man's sin dooms him to an eternity in hell, separated from God. • It is in hell that man pays the penalty of sin against a holy and righteous God. • This would be bad news indeed if there were no remedy.
• But in the gospel, God, in His mercy, has provided that remedy, a substitute for us— Jesus Christ—who came to pay the penalty for our sin by His sacrifice on the cross. • This is the essence of the gospel which Paul preached to the Corinthians.
• In 1 Corinthians 15: 2 -4, he explains the three elements of the gospel—the death, burial and resurrection of Christ on our behalf. • Our old nature died with Christ on the cross and was buried with Him. • Then we were resurrected with Him to a new life (Romans 6: 4 -8). • Paul tells us to "hold firmly" to this true gospel, the only one which saves.
• Believing in any other gospel is to believe in vain. • In Romans 1: 16 -17, Paul also declares that the true gospel is the "power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes" • It means that salvation is not achieved by man's efforts, but by the grace of God through the gift of faith (Ephesians 2: 8 -9).
d)THEY LIVED THE GOSPEL – BECAME A MODEL TO ALL BELIEVERS – V. 7 • "What does it mean that our lives should be a testimony for Jesus? " • The "testimony for Jesus" in view here would be a lifestyle and words that openly acknowledge our personal experience of following Jesus Christ.
• A testimony must be public because its purpose is to tell others what has taken place. • In the Christian experience, our regeneration should be a testament (evidence) to other people that Jesus is alive and is changing lives. • We testify by our words and actions. If our lives are a testimony for Jesus Christ, then they should be reflections of Christ as we "follow in his steps" (1 Peter 2: 21).
REASONS WHY WE SHARE THE GOSPEL 3. Because the laborers are few • Mt. 9: 37 -38 Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. " 4. Because of the great commission • Mk. 16: 15 -16 He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
REASONS WHY WE SHARE THE GOSPEL 5. Because of the unfulfilled prophesies concerning Jesus' return • Mt. 24: 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
REASONS WHY WE SHARE THE GOSPEL 6. Because God will hold us accountable • Ez. 3: 17 -19 "Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. When I say to a wicked man, 'You will surely die, ' and you do not warn him or speak out to dissuade him from his evil ways in order to save his life, that wicked man will die for his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood. But if you do warn the wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his evil ways, he will die for his sin; but you will have saved yourself. • Ez. 33: 6 -8 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and takes the life of one of them, that man will be taken away because of his sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for his blood. ' "Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. When I say to the wicked, 'O wicked man, you will surely die, ' and you do not speak out to dissuade him from his ways, that wicked man will die for his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood.
REASONS WHY WE SHARE THE GOSPEL 7. Because of what we have experience – • Mt. 10: 8 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.
THERE ARE FOUR DIFFERENT TYPES OF "FOLLOWING" MENTIONED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT: 1. Pursue: • The first type of "follow" is the Greek word "dioko" which means "to pursue, to seek after eagerly" • This is used primarily for following after, in the chasing sense or pursuing after virtue and good things. • We are not to pursue after a man, but rather we are to pursue after godly traits.
3. Follow From Behind • The third type of "follow" comes from the Greek word "opiso" which means "to the back". • This can also mean, "to join one's party". • "Opiso" is commonly translated as "walk after", "come after" or "go after" someone or something. • This word fits the concept we have today of following someone in the corporate, political or military realm • It appears that this type of "following" is only appropriate when it is Jesus we are "following"!
• Jesus was not asking for his disciples to just get behind him or the cause that he stood for as if to join his political party. • He was desiring them to accompany him, to walk with him or to go in the same way as he was going. • we shouldn't just get behind him like dutiful little subjects. We should walk with him and accompany him!
WHAT IT MEANS TO FOLLOW CHRIST?
1. TO FOLLOW CHRIST MEANS THAT WE IMITATE THE EXAMPLE OF CHRIST. • Everything that Jesus did and said, that's what Paul wanted to do and say. • The church benefitted from his godly example: • Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ - 1 Corinthians 11: 1 • What would Jesus do, that's what we want to do.
3. TO FOLLOW CHRIST MEANS THAT CHRIST IS OUR FOCUS, OUR GOAL, AND OUR CHIEF DESIRE. • Christ is the center point of our mind, heart, body and soul. • Everything that we do, we do for Christ's glory. • As we run the "race marked out for us, " we lay aside the entangling sin and worldly distractions, "fixing our eyes on Jesus" Hebrews 12: 1 -2 • He is our life.
4. TO FOLLOW CHRIST MEANS THAT WE ARE WILLING TO GIVE UP ANYTHING THAT PREVENTS US FROM HAVING CHRIST. • Whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him" Philippians 3: 7 -9 " • We cling to the promise of our Lord in Mark 10: 29 -30 that our sacrifices for Jesus' sake will be repaid a hundredfold. • "I tell you the truth, " Jesus replied, "no-one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age and in the age to come, eternal life.
FOLLOWING JESUS • TO FOLLOW JESUS IS A MATTER OF DECISION – • "If any man will. . . "
FOLLOWING JESUS • TO FOLLOW JESUS IS A MATTER OF DIRECTION – • ". . . come after me. . . "
FOLLOWING JESUS • TO FOLLOW JESUS IS A MATTER OF DENIAL – • ". . . let him deny himself. . . "
FOLLOWING JESUS • TO FOLLOW JESUS IS A MATTER OF DEVOTION – • ". . . and follow me. "
THE BLESSINGS OF FOLLOWING THE LORD Mark 10: 17 -30 • 26 The disciples were even more amazed, and said to each other, "Who then can be saved? " • 27 Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God. " • 28 Peter said to him, "We have left everything to follow you!" • 29 "I tell you the truth, " Jesus replied, "no-one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel • 30 will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields — and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life.
THE BLESSINGS OF FOLLOWING THE LORD Mark 10: 17 -30 1. FOLLOWING THE LORD MAY CAUSE YOU TO LEAVE WHAT'S COMFORTABLE. • 22 At this the man's face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth. • 28 Peter said to him, "We have left everything to follow you!" • Following Jesus may mean leaving: Your Home: • Following Jesus may mean leaving: Your Family • Your response to His call may mean distancing yourself from those who have no passion for the Lord. • It can also mean that for a time you won't be able to live near family members who share your love for Jesus but who also affirm His will as to a location is what matters most! • Following Jesus may mean leaving: Your occupation.
THE BLESSINGS OF FOLLOWING THE LORD MARK 10: 17 -30 2. FOLLOWING THE LORD ALWAYS INVOLVES HIS CARE AND HIS BLESSINGS! • 29 "I tell you the truth, " Jesus replied, "no-one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel • 30 will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields — and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life. • Jesus is assuring Peter and all believers that when a life is invested in the Lord, that life then becomes his concern and with concern comes His provision! • The blessings of God on believers here in this life are an encouragement to continue trusting him in spite of the difficulties.
THE BLESSINGS OF FOLLOWING THE LORD MARK 10: 17 -30 • It is true that the world hates us; • Jesus warned that this would be the case. • But though the world hates us and wishes us harm, it is evident that God loves us and wishes us good. • Every day we see further evidence of God's favor. • So we will trust him to do us the further good of seeing us through these temptations and bringing us safe to heaven. "
THE BLESSINGS OF FOLLOWING THE LORD MARK 10: 17 -30 3. FOLLOWING THE LORD WILL ULTIMATELY LEAD TO HEAVEN. • Eternal life! Life that never ends! Abundant life! • Titus 3: 7 so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs, having the hope of eternal life • 1 John 2: 25 And this is what he promised us — even eternal life • 1 John 5: 11 And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
IMITATORS OF GOD Ephesians 5: 1 -2 Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
IMITATORS OF GOD Ephesians 5: 1 -2 I. TO IMITATE GOD, ONE MUST EVIDENCE A GOD-LIKE CHARACTERISTICS IN THEIR DAILY LIFE a. Universally generous: "…for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust. " Matthew 5: 45 • kay siya nagapasubang sa iyang Adlaw sa ibabaw sa mga dautan ug sa ibabaw sa mga maayo, ug nagpadalag ulan ngadto sa mga matarung ug sa mga dili matarung.
IMITATORS OF GOD Ephesians 5: 1 -2 I. TO IMITATE GOD, ONE MUST EVIDENCE A GOD-LIKE CHARACTERISTICS IN THEIR DAILY LIFE b. Universally compassionate: "The Lord is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. " II Peter 3: 9 • hinonoa siya mapailubon kaninyo, nga wala magtinguha nga adunay mahanaw kondili nga ang tanan managpakakab-ot unta sa paghinulsol.
IMITATORS OF GOD Ephesians 5: 1 -2 I. TO IMITATE GOD, ONE MUST EVIDENCE GOD-LIKE CHARACTERISTICS IN THEIR DAILY LIFE c. Forgiving: "For Thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and abundant in mercy unto all those who call upon Thee. " Ps. 86: 5 • Kay ikaw, Oh Ginoo, maayo man, ug andam sa pagpasaylo, Ug madagayaon sa mahigugmaong-kalolot alang niadtong tanan nga nanagsapit kanimo.
IMITATORS OF GOD Ephesians 5: 1 -2 I. TO IMITATE GOD, ONE MUST EVIDENCE GOD-LIKE CHARACTERISTICS IN THEIR DAILY LIFE d. Rewarding when deserving: "But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly. " Mat. 6: 3 -4 • 3 Apan ikaw, sa magahatag kag limos, ayaw pahibaloa ang kamot mong wala sa gibuhat sa kamot mong too, 4 aron matago ang imong limos; ug ang imong Amahan nga nagatan-aw sa tago magabalus kanimo.
IMITATORS OF GOD Ephesians 5: 1 -2 II. IN IMITATING GOD, WE BECOME EXAMPLES TO OTHER BELIEVERS: I Tim. 4: 12 "…be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity. " d. In spirit: "And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spoke. " Acts 6: 10 e. In faith: "We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other. " II Thess. 1: 3 f. In purity: "Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart. " I Peter 1: 22.
FOLLOWING JESUS 1. TO FOLLOW JESUS IS A MATTER OF DECISION • "If any man will. . . "
FOLLOWING JESUS 2. TO FOLLOW JESUS IS A MATTER OF DIRECTION • ". . . come after me. . . "
FOLLOWING JESUS 3. TO FOLLOW JESUS IS A MATTER OF DENIAL • ". . . let him deny himself. . . "
FOLLOWING JESUS 5. TO FOLLOW JESUS IS A MATTER OF DEVOTION • ". . . and follow me. "
WHAT EVERY BELIEVER SHOULD KNOW IN REGARD TO GOD 1. EVERY BELIEVER OF GOD SHOULD KNOW THAT GOD DESIRES US TO GIVE OURSELVES TOTALLY TO HIM • Rom. 12: 1 - Busa, mga igsoon, tungod sa dakong kaluoy nga gipakita sa Dios kanato, hangyoon ko kamo sa pagtugyan sa inyong kaugalingon ngadto sa Dios ingon nga buhing halad, balaan ug makapahimuot kaniya. Mao kini ang matuod nga pagsimba nga angay ninyong ihalad.
WHAT EVERY BELIEVER SHOULD KNOW IN REGARD TO GOD 2. EVERY SHOULD KNOW THAT GOD HAS GIVEN US A NEW SPIRIT THAT IS BENT TOWARD GOD & AWAY FROM SIN WHICH DESIRES TO PLEASE HIM Ezek. 36: 26 -27 26 Hatagan ko kamog bag-ong kasing ug bag-ong espiritu ug kuhaon ko ang inyong kasing nga gahi sama sa bato ug ilisan ko kinig kasing nga masinugtanon. 27 Ihatag ko kaninyo ang akong espiritu ug himoon ko kamong masinugtanon sa akong mga gimbut-an ug mga lagda.
WHAT EVERY BELIEVER SHOULD KNOW IN REGARD TO GOD 3. EVERY BELIEVER SHOULD KNOW THAT GOD DESIRES US TO LIVE A LIFE OF OBEDIENCE TO HIS WORD • John 14: 15 kon nahigugma kamo kanako, tumana ninyo ang akong mga sugo • Acts 13: 22 sa dihang gipapahawa siya sa trono, si David gihimo sa Dios nga ilang hari. Kini ang giingon sa Dios mahitungod kaniya, 'Nakita ko nga si David nga anak ni Jesse usa ka tawo nga nakapahimuot kanako ug mobuhat sa tanan nga isugo ko kaniya.
THE PRIORITIES OF JESUS' FOLLOWERS Matthew 4: 1 -11 • When Jesus was tempted He showed to us what should be our priorities • He did not yield to temptation, but kept His priorities straight.
THE PRIORITIES OF JESUS' FOLLOWERS Matthew 4: 1 -11 1. THE PRIORITY OF THE WORD – v. 3 -4 • BECAUSE HE IS OUR GOD – LET US ALLOW HIM TO TEACH US HIS DECREES! üPsalms 119: 12 - Praise be to you, O LORD; teach me your decrees • BECAUSE HE HAS FORGIVEN US –– LET US ALLOW HIM TO TEACH US HIS DECREES! üPsalms 119: 26 -I recounted my ways and you answered me; teach me your decrees. • BECAUSE WE WANT TO OBEY HIM – – LET US ALLOW HIM TO TEACH US HIS DECREES! üPsalms 119: 33 -34 -Teach me, O LORD, to follow your decrees; then I will keep them to the end. üPs. 119: 34 Give me understanding, and I will keep your law and obey it with all my heart.
üWe are to walk in newness of life. • Romans 6: 4 Tungod niini, sa pagbunyag kanato gilubong kita uban kaniya ug miambit sa iyang kamatayon aron ingon nga si Cristo gibanhaw sa mahimayaong gahom sa Amahan, kita usab angay nga magkinabuhi sa bag-ong kinabuhi. üWe are to walk in the Spirit. • Galatians 5: 16 Kini ang akong isulti kaninyo: paharia ang Espiritu sa inyong kinabuhi ug ayaw tumani ang mga tinguha sa lawasnong kaibog. üWe are to walk in love. • Ephesians 5: 2 Magkinabuhi kamo diha sa gugma sama nga gihigugma kita ni Cristo ug gitugyan ang iyang kinabuhi alang kanato sama sa mahumot nga halad-sinunog nga makapahimuot sa Dios.
THE PRIORITIES OF JESUS' FOLLOWERS Matthew 4: 1 -11 3. THE PRIORITY OF WORSHIP – v. 9 -10 • It is more important to worship God than to worship anything else.
DESCRIPTION OF AN ACCELERATED CHURCH 9. A MODEL CHURCH – V. 7 • 1 Th. 1: 7 And so you became a model to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia.
DESCRIPTION OF AN ACCELERATED CHURCH 10. A HOSPITABLE CHURCH – v. 9 a • v. 8 b, 9 a …Therefore we do not need to say anything about it, for they themselves report what kind of reception you gave us.
DESCRIPTION OF AN ACCELERATED CHURCH 12. A WAITING CHURCH – V. 10 • 1 Th. 1: 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead — Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.


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THROWBACK THURSDAYS: An Exclusive Interview with Taking Back Sunday
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We're throwing it back to our exclusive interview with Taking Back Sunday because apparently the emo revival is a real thing! Brand New just announced a new tour with pop punkers The Front Bottoms and Modern Baseball, Asbury Park, NJ's House of Independents is throwing an emo night tomorrow night at The Jersey Shore, and My Chemical Romance is celebrating the 10th anniversary of The Black Parade.
Taking Back Sunday singer Adam Lazarra responded to a different emo night formerly called "Taking Back Tuesday" which took place in Los Angeles saying "I don't want to become a parody of something I take real seriously." But I don't think they're becoming a parody. Honestly, Taking Back Sunday, along with all of the other "emo" or "punk" bands, played a huge part in a lot of people's childhoods, so it'd be fair to say their music makes us feel a little nostalgic. That's fair, right?
When we watch this Baeble session, our hearts are so warm. The chemistry between long-time friends Lazarra and singer/guitarist John Nolan is undeniable. We sat down with the band when the original line-up was back and they were touring around the country on the Tell All Your Friends 10th Anniversary tour, a highlight of their career. Stick around until the end of the interview, because their outro is hilarious.
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At Earth Camp we follow the "3R-Concept" both for the environment and also for team building!
Reduce: the amount of resources used and the amount of waste produced. Reduce your stress and conflict among team members by connecting with nature.
Reuse: things so that they have a longer life. Avoid wastage and a throw-away culture. Reuse your body and mind in a whole new way as you learn about the power of play.
Re-purpose: Use items creatively for a different purpose. Rediscover your sense of purpose as you step out of your comfort zone and embrace adventure.
In 2009 Nomad Adventure started the project to build a house out of mud. It was an experiment in alternative construction approaches. All materials, which are used at the mud house are recycled and re-purposed materials. This project was used as a team building exercise. Companies and schools helped us to build this project. All of this supports the companies in their working attitude and increases their ability to work together.
As the Winner of the President's Award from the Perak Tourism Association, our concept is Back-To-Basics.
Think small is well connected to our Back- To- Basic concept. In the tree houses and dormitories the furniture is very basic. At Earth Camp, clients will not find air conditioning in the facilities. Clients will have a fan in every tree house and ceiling fans in all dormitories. At Earth Camp there are not a lot of plug points for electronics. Only 2 in every tree house. These are all arrangements to save the air and the nature. Back- To- Basic is a very important educational experience for our groups and recreational clients.
Moreover, it is important to think small. Therefore, we only offer small accommodation. However, the tree houses can accommodate up to 30 people and the dormitories up to 100 people. The beds are divided in 12 units of tree houses and 5 units of dormitories. Think small, means also use as less materials as possible. Large accommodation use a lot more energy to heat and cool down than smaller ones. Energy is the number 1 air pollution in our world.
The tree houses and dormitories at Earth Camp are small. Although they are small, they are very cozy and beautiful. The bathrooms for our clients, who stay in the tree houses are showers and toilets in one room. The bathrooms of the dormitories are divided in small showers and small toilets. Thus, we safe energy and use less materials. In designing these tanks are also easy to keep clean and maintain. They have no corners where dirt and grime can collect, therefore, they are very easy to wash down. Thus we use less water, cleaning products and energy to maintain these special shacks than a conventional bathroom.


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2014 Iditarod » Checkpoints » Kaltag
Kaltag
Population 234 -- This town signals a brief respite from the driving winds as the trail from here leads overland through Kaltag Portage to the coast of Norton Sound where the winds take on new meaning. Kaltag is the home of Virginia Kalland, widow of Edgar Kalland who was one of the original mushers who helped carry life saving diphtheria serum along this trail in 1925. She also owns one of Kaltag's three stores. Note: The location for mushers check-in is at Rich Burnham's house, but the official checkpoint and gathering spot is the community hall about a block away.
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Nicolas Petit 29 3/8 06:56:00 14 3/8 07:14:00 14 0h 18m 4h 5m 3/8 02:51:00 11.51
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Jeff King 17 3/8 08:23:00 14 3/8 08:32:00 12 0h 9m 3h 38m 3/8 04:45:00 12.94
Mitch Seavey 6 3/8 09:11:00 13 3/8 09:18:00 13 0h 7m 4h 1m 3/8 05:10:00 11.70
Kelly Maixner 13 3/8 09:15:00 12 3/8 09:25:00 11 0h 10m 4h 20m 3/8 04:55:00 10.85
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Aaron Burmeister 23 3/8 05:26:00 11 3/8 10:40:00 10 5h 14m 4h 26m 3/8 01:00:00 10.60
Robert Sorlie 22 3/8 07:19:00 15 3/8 11:32:00 14 4h 13m 4h 23m 3/8 02:56:00 10.72
Hans Gatt 58 3/8 11:43:00 16 3/8 11:59:00 15 0h 16m 3h 53m 3/8 07:50:00 12.10
Ray Redington Jr 51 3/8 12:28:00 12 3/8 12:34:00 11 0h 6m 3h 33m 3/8 08:55:00 13.24
Dallas Seavey 14 3/8 04:56:00 11 3/8 12:56:00 10 8h 0m 4h 19m 3/8 00:37:00 10.89
Joar Leifseth Ulsom 47 3/8 09:32:00 14 3/8 14:32:00 14 5h 0m 4h 0m 3/8 05:32:00 11.75
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Michelle Phillips 15 3/8 16:41:00 13 3/8 16:55:00 13 0h 14m 4h 10m 3/8 12:31:00 11.28
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Wade Marrs 67 3/8 14:10:00 11 3/8 20:00:00 10 5h 50m 4h 8m 3/8 10:02:00 11.37
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Anna Berington 52 3/9 17:07:00 10 3/9 23:17:00 9 6h 10m 4h 30m 3/9 12:37:00 10.44
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Christian Turner 21 3/9 22:37:00 13 3/10 02:50:00 12 4h 13m 4h 25m 3/9 18:12:00 10.64
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"There is an attempt by many to take out the spiritual part"
I once asked Rabbi Steinsaltz:
In my conversations with many Reform, Conservative and Orthodox rabbis over the years, it is clear that many of them have an aversion to spirituality, even sometimes claiming that Judaism is not spiritual! What in the world is going on when rabbis represent spirituality as some fringe element in Judaism?
Rabbi Steinsaltz responded:
What is the problem? It is really a double or triple problem.
One of the big problems is historical. Most of the people you have encountered are relics. They really live in the past when anything about spirituality was some kind of a taboo.
In a strange way we are still living 19th century Judaism. And 19th century Judaism was in an age that was completely rationalistic. It was a whole rationalistic world in which the highest spiritual move was perhaps some kind of charitable feeling to others, and you didn't even overdo that.
So because of this historical burden, some people are, in a certain way, afraid of anything that has to do with spirituality.
In our times there is a growing and a widespread fake Jewish Spirituality that is perhaps as dangerous as anything that can happen.
You have things that seem to be spiritual but are somewhere between confidence games and magic tricks.
All of these things are making people, and some honest people, turn away from the experience of anything to do with spirituality.
That is the reason why when a seeker or searcher somehow finds his way to a Jewish prayer place, he or she usually finds it dry, boring, and unappealing, especially if the seeker has any kind of a spiritual tendency– which in some way most people do have.
Now, the fact is that there is a very old and very rich Jewish spirituality, as ancient as anything else.
I am speaking about very clear-cut and very public forms that appeared not just in the last century, but have been a part of Jewish life for as long as we know about Jewish life.
It is not a matter of esoteric corners of Judaism.
There is an attempt by so many people to take out the spiritual part and to leave the sometimes-practical message and sometimes no message whatsoever in order to make it fit within some preconceived notion of what Judaism is.


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Saints Row IV Sells More Than One Million in First Week
Koch Media have announced that Saints Row IV is a smashing commercial success selling more than one million copies in the first week!.
Also, they revealed that in the first days of availability, the PC version of Saints Row IV more than tripled its first week's sale numbers over the prior release from THQ, Saints Row: The Third.
The latest Saints Row title is leading the charts in almost all major European countries in the first week of its sale. Klemens Kundratitz, CEO of parent company Koch Media stated:
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Working with the power of belief
The topic of "what do you believe?" is especially important to delve into when you are in recovery from illness and concerned with your ongoing physical and emotional wellbeing or wanting to shift through any stuck areas of your life; so I am sharing a post that I published on Spinning the Light this morning. I particulalrly want to recommend the two oh-so powerful books referred to – The Sponteanous Healing of Belief by Gregg Braden and Dr Joe Dispenza's "Becoming Supernatural", both of which I would consider essential reading on any healing journey.
This weekend, I finished the book I mentioned in a couple of my recent posts, Gregg Braden's "The Spontaneous Healing of Belief". It was, as I had already hinted, an extraordinarily powerful book; both familiar in its content and yet directing me towards all the ways I hadn't yet learned to apply this deep, innate knowledge about the power of belief in our lives and so, in that sense, a real game changer that I can feel rippling out into my daily experiences, in tangible ways. I have instigated, and experienced, some incredible changes in the last couple of weeks whilst reading that book!
Relatively short and extremely accessible, with a few exercises to focus the way you learn to apply what is being shared, this book is now one that I vehemently recommend to everyone I know (at least three have taken me up on the suggestion). To you I say just read it and realise your own unclaimed power to take part in your own life like never before; which is to make all the other stuff that is "happening to you" quite irrelevant since that is not truly where it is at, nor is anything being "done to you". No, really. Belief is everything, as Braden amply demonstrates with his most astonishing anecdotes…and with his science.
This last point was both important and timely for me, having realised many times over, lately, that to be convinced of anything, I seem to need it to appeal equally to my most logical, analytical intellect and my most esoteric side, simultaneously and in balance. What Braden shares does that very thing, offering both science and miracles in equal proportion, often crossing over….and it's in that very crossing place that we tend to make our most powerful breakthroughs. In an era when the melding of the left and right hemispheres holds all the potential of our next biggest leap, this is so relevant and important. Our very grasp of this dichotomy is the magical ingredient since "both ways of seeing the world are absolutely correct" (Greg Braden in his introduction to Dr Joe Dispnza's "Being Supernatural"). You could say, this is our "new" quantum base-line and we will grow in proportion to how prepared we are to accept its refusal to fit to our old paradigm that physical, measurable and predictable was all that "mattered". A sizeable crack has formed in the ceiling of that old mentality and we are now ready for this mastery of beliefs like never before; it being like the golden key to the door of our evolution.
Braden's book is where I want to direct you; rather than paraphrase and pick it apart but rest assured, you will be left feeling its reverberations across every layer of your life both during and (a long time) after you read it. This is no passing place of a book on a Goodreads marathon…it is fundamental to each and every one of us that we "crack" this stuff to move ourselves on now. So unless you have your beliefs all neatly lined up and accounted for, nothing in there the inherited viewpoint of someone who influenced you as a child or an unchecked expectation of the culture you are part of, I suggest you get the book and dive in; it won't take you that long to read but it packs a benevolent punch. It will demonstrate to you the "real" tangible effects of belief. Put simply, ""Belief is expressed in the heart, where our experiences are translated into the electrical and magnetic waves that interact with the physical world"…and not just within or around our individual body but with measurable repercussions in the world at large. This realisation is the very basis for quantum science. Even heart scientists admitted to Braden that the estimated limit of eight feet of influence from the "field" of a human heart was merely due to the limit of their equipment to measure any further; though HeartMath Institute and others have gone some way to demonstrate the effects of heart-coherence on the outcome of actual circumstances at a distance. This is, surely, the "new" science that knocks everything else into a cocked hat!
With such regularity and ease, these weeks, my dreams have brought up to the daylight many stories of where such beliefs came from in my childhood: belief that even the closest, familial love was, ultimately, conditional and withdrawable at short notice; that the outside world (just outside my house) was a "scary" and aggressive place; that material lack was the state of norm against which tide I would spend a lifetime swimming; that obscure and vague "symptoms" ignored would lead directly to the most devastating disease; that authority figures such as doctors lacked knowledge, humanity or genuine interest in people; that I had to be good, quiet and passive to retain my "safe" place in life; that bullies could be children and, equally, adults though the behaviours were very much the same on whatever scale they occurred; that I needed to concede many personal preferences to hold onto those people to whom I had attached myself; that adulthood meant surrendering all that gave me innate joy and that those things were childish, self-indulgent and without currency in the "real" world.
These and many more have surfaced lately, not for me to pick over or to re-live the small dramas that brought them to my childish attention but so I could let them gently unwind, all on their own…fully…revealing their many layers and, thus, loose their energetic charge, gently surrendering them up as the packages of non-helpful belief that they once were to me. Yes, in realising the memory-thought is there as I arise from sleep or some other reverie, and then fearlessly allowing it to have its say, these nuggets have done all of their own work and me the passive observer. In now seeing where and how they became embedded in my body, even more deeply and un-emotively than all the other times they had "come up" for scrutiny, I have been able to realise that this new phase of maturity asks only that I put those beliefs away, like the broken toys of childhood, ready to create my own beliefs born of vastly more mature "thinking". Perhaps (I suspect…) reading Braden's book these weeks, not least at bedtime, has helped in the process and yet I suspect…no, I know…that many of us are going through this same clearing process right now for I am hearing versions of it left and right. We are collectively maturing our beliefs and it can feel bumpy and regressive (like "our past" has come along and stood directly in our way when we were least wanting to think about it…especially if we have previously done "work" to put it all to bed). Yet its not like all those other times we addressed it because now we possess the ability, like never before, to effortlessly see behind the curtain of how those stories became cogs and levers of behaviours that have kept us running along similar train tracks for a very long time…now ready to make the leap onto a completely different track.
How did we ever embed the biggest of those defunct beliefs, though they undermined our very wellbeing, day after day? The big one that came up for me to reconsider was: when did I truly cease to believe I was safe? I realised, that happened later, in adulthood, though childhood threw up many hints. By then, there had been many traumas, "very bad" things that had "happened to me" but I truly lost my belief in safety when my mother was diagnosed with cancer.
The bottom of the world fell out that day; all the worse because I hadn't seen it coming. I wanted, with every most vehement cell of my body, for it not to be true, to not have her "taken away" and for life to "see reason" or own that there had been "a terrible mistake" but I was shown there was no negotiating this time. Within 8 months, I had lost my rock, my most stalwart ally, my one intimate companion through all life's thick and thin…she was gone and the world echoed its empty sound at me each morning as the awful realisation greeted me anew, like a shock announcement on endless repeat…and I lost all faith in the benevolence of life. I was barely an adult at the time.
That belief in non-safety rippled out and quickly distributed itself into all the cavernous spaces of my energy field, making its way into every most-fundamental belief that played a subconscious part in the most minute operations of the unseen yet crucial parts of my biology. From every outward human drama that then played out to the way my cells planned ahead for the long-term state of my body, longevity and a belief in an ability to thrive, of nature being on my side, was removed from the equation to be replaced by a non-stop state of "flight or flight". Then, of course, life began to deliver me more and more reasons for that belief, with ever-more consistency…because that's how belief works to create the very bricks and furniture of our "outside" lives.
In my next read, Dr Joe Dispenza's incredible book "Being Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon", he recounts a persuasive anecdote of a woman turned right-around by his processes who, before meeting him, had witnessed her lifestyle and health cascade from perfectly fine and pretty rosy to where she was experiencing an array of quite terrifying symptoms, paralysis and cancer, multiple autoimmunities, hopeless depression, poverty, abuse and more. This "happened" as a result of such an emotional bottom suddenly falling out of her world when her husband killed himself without warning, leaving her "no longer safe" in her belief system, thus minutely influencing every single aspect of her existence, from the cellular level up. "She had finally physically manifested the pain and suffering she'd emotionally experienced in her mind" and this is because "When the fight-or-flight nervous system is switched on and stays on because of chronic stress, the body utilises all its energy reserves to deal with the constant threat it perceives from the outer environment. Therefore, the body has no energy left in its inner environment for growth and repair, compromising the immune system" ("Becoming Supernatural" – Dr Joe Dispanza). It also floods the cells with the chemicals of fear which, unsurprisingly, are quite different to the chemicals of love. In his books and renowned workshops, Dispenza presents incredibly powerful methods for turning such a dire situation around and this is where my next immersion project lies…
So what happens when we change our beliefs and can we really do it or see the reason why to make the attempt? Can we grasp with newly liberated minds how what we think of as "reality" is nothing but the projected theatrical backdrop of those most built-in and grasped-onto beliefs we have carried around all our lives? Can we see how a similar set of beliefs led to the circumstances of those we have used as the "reason" for our own; how my mother's beliefs (without judgement) carved out her life and death just as those of all the other people who influenced my childhood so profoundly had their own set of inherited viewpoints, many of which got passed down generation on generation…and would continue to do so unless we, the ones inheriting them, become conscious enough to see them there, allowing them to gently unravel and loose their charge in the light of day, thus halting the long-running process in its tracks. For this is what we do when we bring the machinations of the subconscious mind, which accounts for up to 90 per cent of our thinking processes, into the daylight to be audited and re-selected from choice…or not, when they no longer serve who we truly, and most consciously, are. Bringing consciousness into the equation is what makes all the difference.
For instance, Braden recounts a fascinating story of a family where all the males for a couple of generations had suddenly died in their 35th year until one of them, through consciously changing the fear-driven expectation, as he approached his own 35th, was able to halt this tragic momentum and write a new ending. There is no end to what we can do with belief…as both books referred to here will demonstrate in the most compelling of ways. We can actually signal new responses from our genes (in the way of epigenetics) "ahead of the environment" when we immerse ourselves in positive sets of emotions ahead of the circumstances that we want to manifest by believing in them, and setting our minds to feel what those circumstances will feel like when they happen up-ahead. This is when we become true creator beings, manifesting what we choose to experience, from within the so-called limited experience of being a physical human being. We can start doing this the very day we choose how to react to literally everything that life puts on the menu…our way…not the pre-conditioned way that used to dictate to us before.
I can clearly recall when I first began to delve into "spiritual" ideas, belief was sometimes mentioned as though it was almost a dirty word, a trapping of the ego to be transcended beyond. What I have since come to realise is that having belief is a fundamental aspect of the human state, at least at this stage in our evolution, so when we try to push belief out like it is no longer welcome, the void that this leaves will only fill up with something else; typically some newer defunct belief (such as that beliefs themselves are "bad"). My best experiences have been to take ownership of beliefs, making them conscious and taking part in choosing them, guided by the highest frequencies I am as yet able to embody.
Another "trickster" area of working with belief is that claiming your own can seem to run you against the grain of others in your family, social circle or work place so, in those early stages, my advice is to do the inner work for yourself but don't necessarily expect to discuss your new perspectives with others; in fact, it can be demoralising to do so. There's no need to put your fragile new state to such critical scrutiny by those who white-knuckle grip to the way they have "always" seen things, if they are not ready, or have no incentive, to change. Quote Braden" Belief is our acceptance of what we have witnessed, experienced, or know for ourselves", so we need no audience, validation or round of applause. As ever, doing the process for ourselves is quite enough and requires no drum roll or distribution of what we believe into the more visible aspects of our life except that, as we upgrade our beliefs, the positive effects will inevitably become more visible as our manifest life…and that is quite enough to transmit the message to a receptive audience, without having to say a single word; we literally strobe the frequency of our own higher-belief system to others as a frequency, not a manifesto.
There is one other key of all keys, however: "We must believe in belief for it to have power in our lives" (Greg Braden – The Spontaneous Healing of Belief").
This "big one" was my missing link; grasping this, at last, is where I have got to now…and believe me, the switch-up of gears is quite tangible! As soon as we clear what isn't truly ours from the old slab of beliefs that was, as it were, written in stone for us even before we were born in so many cases, we find we have the most startlingly white blank slate on which we are quite free to describe the next trajectory of our lives. Even as we start to gain momentum in this process, we can detect the whiff of freedom on the air and it is quite intoxicating which, in itself, helps to fuel new beliefs, and build higher joy quotients, about what we are truly capable of; just like falling head-over-heels in love with life, because the mechanism is much the same. "As soon as we change our thoughts from fear based to love based, the whole of the body is literally flooded with "a cascade of emotional and psychological processes that reflect your new reality" (Greg Braden introduction to "Becoming Supernatural"). This is powerful new biology because it is participatory biology; "you'll change your biology from a past-present reality to a future-present reality" (Dr Joe Dispenza – "Becoming Supernatural") and then its positive effects spiral out into the world at large.
In my case, I had reached a point where my nose felt pressed up against the wall; I knew I had to rewrite my beliefs or suffer consequences that my most switched on "logical" intellect, and even my strongest intuition or "gut feeling", both knew were almost inevitable unless I made a dramatic change. Yet if this sounds like my project is survival driven, I can assure you it is not so in the sense of "fight or flight" any more but, rather, of reaching a crossroads and consciously choosing to "go towards" joy and health, towards vitality, life and LOVE itself, as my birthright realised. In realising these are already mine and all that remains is to claim them off the shelf where they got filed a very long time ago, though they still clearly bear my name and only wait for me to reach out for them, I know I get to change the direction of the story for me, the individual and, as a contributing part, for the whole of the collective…as we all do.
The Spontaneous Healing of Belief – Gregg Braden
Becoming Supernatural – Dr Joe Dispenza
(Also recommended) The Biology of Belief – Dr Bruce Lipton
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Graveside services and burial, for Marcia Metz, 81, of Wabash, Indiana, who died Tuesday, July 31, 2018 were 10:00 am Saturday, August 4, 2018 at Friends Cemetery, with Brad Wright officiating. Pallbearers were Dave Metz, Ron Metz, Greg Metz, Alex Todd, Ross Phillipy, Corey Phillipy, Steven Metz, and Bill Licari. Arrangements by Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service, Wabash.


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The Los Angeles police have arrested 5 suspects involved in abduction of Lady Gaga's dogs. Gaga's two French bull dogs, Koji and Gustav, were stolen on 24 February, when their dog walker took three of her French dogs for a walk. The dog walker, identified as Ryan Fischer, who was shot by thieves, and two of the dogs were stolen.
Today, the LA County District Attorney George Gascón released the names of the 5 suspects, who have been charged for their alleged roles in the shooting of Gaga's dog walker. James Jackson (18), Jaylin White (19), and Lafayette Whaley (27) were involved with the robbery and shooting. The three have been arrested on suspicion of robbery and attempted murder.
They were accompanied by Harold White (40), and Jennifer McBride (50), who were allegedly "determined to be accessories after the initial crime". McBride was the one who brought the dogs to the police. Both of them are being held on suspicion of accessory after the fact to attempted murder.
As per the LAPD press release, "McBride responded to the reward email to return the dogs. She ultimately brought the dogs to LAPD Olympic Station. Detectives were able to establish McBride had a relationship with the father of one of the suspects, Harold White… Detectives do not believe the suspects were targeting the victim because of the dogs' owner." However it also states, "evidence suggests the suspects knew the great value of the breed of dogs and was the motivation for the robbery."
However, the detectives believe that the thieves did not attack Fischer because Gaga was the owner of the dogs. According to the reports, Fischer was walking Gaga's three French bulldogs, when he was approached by two of the suspects. They demanded him to turn over the dogs and after a struggle, one of the suspects fired at him and they fled with two of the dogs. The third dog ran away but was later found.
Besides, Lady Gaga had put a reward worth $500,000 for her dogs to be returned. As per the police, McBride returned the dogs for the amount, claiming to have found the dogs, and brought them to the police station.
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Welcome home flowers and cake.
Before I left St. Louis, the doc told me my lymphocytes were high or low–whatever is not good. So I am getting a new antibiotic. If I get thrush again, I might scream.
The itchy rash I was whining about now covers about 90% of my body. I've got rx hydrocortisone, Benadryl, Gold Bond itch relief lotion. Still miserable.
But I'm miserable at home with Dan. And Boomer & Izzy are super snuggly.


Purdue 2015 signee Dominique McBryde was honored as the IBCA Player of the Week, after Bedford North Lawrence (now 7-0) defeated two top teams.
BNL played the top team in 3A, Princeton, which features former Purdue target Jackie Young. Although Young is averaging 33 point per game by herself, BNL held the entire Princeton team to just 29 points, winning 60-29. McBryde was a vision of perfection in the game, hitting 10-of-10 from the floor, 2-of-2 from the perimeter and 3-of-3 from the free throw line. She also added six rebounds, three assists, one steal, and two blocks. The BNL extended zones tended to puzzle Princeton early, and Young burned quite a bit of the clock on each possession trying to probe for a seam to the basketball. It wasn't until BNL went to man-to-man that Young managed a couple baskets in the first half. McBryde guarded Young in man, and was surprisingly quick-footed, able to keep in defensive position in front of her. Other than a gamble on a steal and a grab flying out to contest a shot, McBryde's defense was nearly perfect too.
BNL next faced Ohio's Kettering Fairmont, making it a couple years in a row scheduling an early season game against a top Ohio program. McBryde took over in the fourth quarter and score all 13 of BNL's points, ending up with 23 in the 55-53 win. She hit all her clutch free throws late in the game, and had a beautiful two-handed stuff block on the Fairmont post player that was criminally whistled for a foul. She added five rebounds, three assists and four steals.
Through seven games, McBryde is averaging 19.1 points and 5.4 rebounds. She is shooting 43-of-82 (.524) from the field. 8-of-18 (.444) from the perimeter, and 40-of-52 (.769) from the free throw line.
Next big game coming up is this Saturday against Gary West, featuring Purdue sophomore target Dana Evans. Then keep in mind the January 2-3 Bedford North Lawrence Tournament, where McBryde will face longtime friend and fellow Purdue recruit Abby Abel as BNL plays Carmel. Carmel almost clawed their way back last weekend against 4A No. 2 Lawrence North.


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USA - "Lighting should be fun, especially when you have the chance to keep up with outrageous intensity." So says Ryan Pervola who has lit acts like GWAR in addition to his work as the L2 for Ring of Honor Wrestling.
So, when Pervola got the chance to fill in for a friend to light metal quartet Tetrarch, he jumped at the chance. Fresh off the release of their Unstable album, the Los Angeles based quartet was part of the 29-date Baptize tour, supporting headliners Atreyu. Their regular LD, Killian 'Redbeard' Holt had to complete another tour before he could join them and asked Pervola filled in for 11 shows.
"I was happy to light Tetrarch," says Pervola. "They really give you a chance to stretch your wings as a LD. You get to turn up the intensity, which makes everything more fun. Their blend of '90s nu-metal mixed with modern metal core and insanely melodic and catchy hooks make for some incredible music."
Things got better for Pervola, when the tour stopped at the Roxian, a historic 1,400-capacity vaudeville theatre turned into a live music hall outside Pittsburgh. There, in the cavernous venue, he was reunited two familiar friends: Chauvet Professional's Maverick MK2 Wash and Rogue R3 Wash, which were part of the house rig.
"I've used the Maverick and Rogue on many other gigs in the past," he says. "I personally love both, since they're super reliable and when used together have great colour mixing and temperature consistency between them. When you get to a new venue and find fixtures like them waiting, it's always very nice surprise."
The fixtures were flown on three rows of truss. Using them at high levels of intensity, Pervola saturated the stage in bold colours, while also directing fast moving crossing patterns of light in every conceivable direction.
"Tetrarch loves to keep everything simple, but aggressive, which suits my style," he adds. "With most songs, I used just two colours each and had lots of strobes and chases. Throughout the show, I changed things up, using the Mavericks to create very aggressive shapes full of jagged, yet symmetrical, positions that accented the band's aggressive and heavy sound. It really helped sell the looks of the set.
"I also used the Mavericks to create specials for Diamond (lead guitarist Diamond Rowe) when she ripped into one of her solos," continues Pervola. "This was the first time I ever used a wash fixture to work in effect as a beam, but the Mavericks had the zoom and intensity to make this happen."
Although colour dominated many of the show's look, Pervola changed things up for the last song of the setlist, Oddity. For that tune, he called up a variety of whites, added some heavy strobing and pulses, then silhouetted the band during the heavy breakdowns. "That look was absolutely killer, my favourite," he says. "It stole the show. The crowd would go crazy during that song."
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The state's method of calculating the high school dropout rate is bogus. But the bigger problem is that no one knows how to get kids to stay in school.
Paul Burka
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WHEN MY DAUGHTER FINISHED HER FRESHMAN year at Johnston High School, in Austin, where she was a student in a liberal-arts magnet program, I paid a visit to the college adviser to find out her class ranking. "She's thirty-seventh in a class of 750," he told me. "That's good," I said. "Top five percent. Good enough to get into the University of Texas."
"Not really," the adviser said. "We know from experience that only 250 freshmen, at most, will graduate. So think of her as thirty-seventh out of 250. That's not in the top ten percent."
That was bad news—both for my daughter and for the state of education in Texas. I did some quick calculations. There were around 100 freshmen in the magnet program. Presumably, almost all of them would graduate. This meant that of the remaining 650 or so students in her class—those who lived within Johnston's regular boundaries, almost all of them Hispanic or black—fewer than 150 would graduate with their peers. If his prediction was accurate, the dropout rate at Johnston would be 67 percent. In fact, the rate was even worse: Only 223 of the original 750 graduated.
Think of all the schools with demographics similar to Johnston's in Texas—in every city and along the border—and imagine what the statewide dropout rate must be. Would you believe one percent? I don't believe it either. Yet, when the Texas Education Agency (TEA) calculated the state's official dropout rate for 20002001, the year my daughter graduated, that's what it came up with. This number is bogus and everybody—except perhaps the TEA—knows it.
My daughter is a senior in college now, and I had all but forgotten this incident until I read "I Hate School!"—Mommy X's account, beginning on page 138, of the changes that have buffeted public education in the time that my generation went from being students to being parents of students. Social change, as Mommy X observes, is overwhelming the public schools, and the statistic that best explains what is happening is the dropout rate—the real one, that is. Not the TEA's.
What is the real dropout rate? Every calculation but the TEA's—which requires schools to determine the reason why students left school and allows many exceptions for classifying dropouts as non-dropouts—produces a much higher rate. Perhaps the simplest way is to figure out, as I did for Johnston, how many students enter the ninth grade and exit the twelfth grade as graduates. A San Antonio research group says that the statewide class of 2001 lost 40 percent of its members between the ninth and twelfth grades. Another method is to figure the percentage of Texans of recent high school age (1824) who do not have a high school diploma. The U.S. Census Bureau says it's 29.3 percent. Meanwhile, the state continues to embrace an absurd system that tries to define away the problem.
How does the TEA come up with its fictitious number in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary? As I found out when I was a member of the Campus Advisory Council (CAC) at Johnston, TEA is more concerned with counting than with kids. During one meeting, we learned that the school had decided to hire a dropout prevention specialist. This sounded like a necessary, if belated, step: By using poor grades and erratic attendance as benchmarks, the specialist could identify which students were most likely to become dropouts and try to keep them in school. Or at least that's what I assumed the dropout specialist would do—until he came to a CAC meeting to describe his work.
He brandished a sheaf of pages of names of students who the school district said had been enrolled at Johnston but were no longer attending. His goal was to find out where those students were. If he could ascertain that they were attending another school in Texas or that they had moved out of state or that they were in jail or deceased or were pursuing a General Educational Development (GED) certificate, the TEA would not count the departed student toward Johnston's dropout rate. So the specialist spent all day on the telephone, trying to track down students who had left Johnston, never to return, instead of trying to retain students who were still in school but on the verge of dropping out.
This seems to make no sense, but in fact it makes perfect sense if you understand the accountability system by which Texas schools and school districts are rated. A dropout rate of more than 5.5 percent brings with it a rating of "unacceptable." The easiest way to reduce the dropout rate is to locate the "leavers," as the TEA calls them, and assign a benign cause for their departure (such as getting a GED). The incentive, then, is for school officials to game the system by writing in causes for departure that don't count toward the dropout rate. The Austin Independent School District paid a $5,000 fine in 1999 for falsifying dropout rates after a criminal-fraud investigation found that there was pressure from higher-ups to report reasons for leaving that did not trigger classification as a dropout.
The most infamous example, reported by Dan Rather on 60 Minutes, is Sharpstown High School, in Houston. The school reported a zero dropout rate for 20012002 despite having a student population that included many children of poor immigrants—and despite losing 463 students during the school year. All of the departed students were reported to the TEA as having left for reasons that exempted them from being counted as dropouts. The revelation tarnished the reputation of former Houston superintendent Rod Paige, whose success in reducing the dropout rate had helped him become George W. Bush's Secretary of Education.
A lot has been said in recent years about the improvement in the Texas public school system, as measured by standardized tests, but the good scores may just be a manifestation of the dropout rate. Many of the lowest-achieving students leave the system; at Johnston, the CAC heard from the principal that during the previous school year, 50 percent of the ninth graders had flunked all four core courses—English, math, science, and social studies. In late June the Census Bureau reported that only 77 percent of Texans over 25 years of age have a high school diploma. It's a familiar refrain by now, but Texas ranks last among the states, well short of the national figure of 85 percent. State demographer Steve Murdock has said that educational attainment is the best predictor of income, so it comes as no surprise that dropouts earned an average of just $19,000 in 2002. Their unemployment rate has been 75 percent higher than the rate for graduates. They are more likely to end up in prison: Two thirds of the state's inmates don't have diplomas. The well-known Texas economist Ray Perryman has estimated that a 10 percent reduction in dropouts would produce 175,000 new Texas jobs and $200 billion in economic output.
This is the point in a policy story at which the author, having proved the seriousness of the problem with alarming statistics, proceeds to provide the solution. I wish I could. But the worst thing about the dropout dilemma is that nobody knows what to do about it. The politicians' approach has been to treat the dropout issue like educational performance, by holding schools and school districts accountable for reducing dropouts, as they are held accountable for teaching kids to read and to compute—skills that can be measured on standardized tests. But skills are taught in the early grades, when children are malleable; the dropout crisis occurs in high school, when, as you may have noticed, kids have minds of their own. Some dropouts leave because they want to—or have to—make money. Some leave because they get pregnant and have to raise a child. Some leave because of frustration over the current obsession with rules and discipline and zero tolerance. Some are convicted of crimes. Some leave because they fall too far behind academically.
Most of these reasons are beyond the school's capability to fix. They are the result of societal problems—poverty, teenage pregnancy, depression, alienation, parental indifference, drug use. To hold schools accountable for circumstances over which they have no control makes no sense. So why do we do it? When I asked an education consultant I know, he said that before counting dropouts became part of the accountability system, schools did nothing to stop kids from falling through the cracks; indeed, school administrators were only too willing to see them go. They regarded dropouts as problem kids who had trouble learning and trouble obeying the rules and trouble scoring well on standardized tests. Those who didn't drop out were shunted into vocational programs that were a sham: outdated equipment, menial work.
The hope was that by holding schools accountable, you could change the behavior of high schools. But, the consultant went on to say, high schools are impervious to change. Things that might work—individual attention, keeping in close contact with families of potential dropouts, and arranging partnerships with career programs in community colleges—are seldom tried. If he had his way, urban high schools would be much smaller than they are today, and there would be more alternative schools where students who don't fit into discipline-oriented high schools could learn at their own pace. But then you wouldn't have big-time football and marching band and cheerleaders and all the other extras of mega high schools.
I don't know what the ultimate solution to the dropout crisis is, but I do know where to start. The Texas Education Agency must stop concealing the extent of the problem with phony numbers. Otherwise the public pressure for change will never come.


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Potential Landing Spots for Eric Bledsoe
Shane Rhodes examines a few potential trade locations for Eric Bledsoe.
Through four games, the Phoenix Suns' season has already begun to spiral out of control. Sitting with a 1-3 record at the bottom of the Western Conference barrel, 2017 is already looking like another lost season and, while his tweet may not have caused it, Eric Bledsoe certainly hasn't helped the situation.
I Dont wanna be here
— Eric Bledsoe (@EBled2) October 22, 2017
Bledsoe has been synonymous with trade rumors over parts of the past three years and, with this tweet, his desire for a new home was seemingly announced to the world and, most importantly, the Suns. Since, Phoenix General Manager Ryan McDonough has all but confirmed Bledsoe's request, and has dismissed him from the team while they sort things out. With his foot already out the door, where are some of the better landing spots for Bledsoe?
The Indiana Pacers don't play in the largest market, nor will they be the most successful team on this list during the season or even in the next few seasons. What the Pacers do have, however, is an opportunity. The NBA is a point guard driven league, and the Pacers are one of the few teams in the Association without a future at the position. While Bledsoe, 27, may not exactly be the long-term answer either, his defensive acumen and overall upside make him a much better option than Darren Collison and any other able-bodied point guards currently available. While Bledsoe certainly won't fill the shoes vacated by Paul George, his presence will allow the Pacers to take advantage of a weak Eastern Conference and, at the very least, remain relevant throughout the regular season. Bledsoe alongside Victor Oladipo, Myles Turner, Domantas Sabonis and Thaddeus Young would make for quite the athletic core as well.
The Denver Nuggets almost seem like an obvious destination for Bledsoe. Their roster is nearly complete, with breakout candidate Gary Harris manning the two-guard position and Nikola Jokic and Paul Millsap roaming the front-court. But, like the Pacers, the Nuggets future at the point guard position is unclear. Emmanuel Mudiay is not the answer and Jamal Murray hasn't exactly impressed (albeit a small sample size). Bledsoe would instantly improve a putrid Nuggets defense that allowed over 113 points per 100 possessions last season. At the same time, he would alleviate some of the pressure felt by Jokic on the offensive end and make for a much more balanced attack.
Gregg Popovich is the best coach in the league. Dejounte Murray has impressed in the season's early goings. But Bledsoe is the ideal acquisition for the San Antonio Spurs. While they may have a bevy of options at the position (Murray, rookie Derrick White, eventually Tony Parker), none are arguably better than Bledsoe. And with Kawhi Leonard on the shelf for the foreseeable future —
the Spurs have yet to provide a timetable for his return to the court — San Antonio will need all the help they can get in order to maintain a seat near the top of the Western Conference hierarchy. While he may not improve their already elite defense, Bledsoe adds another wrinkle to Popovich's game plan that teams need to prepare for and, following his return, would alleviate some of the pressure from Leonard on the defensive end.
A Bledsoe acquisition by the Milwaukee Bucks would inadvertently address their shooting guard position, arguably the weakest spot in their starting lineup, as opposed to their point guard position. With Bledsoe in the fold, Jason Kidd would be able to slide second-year guard Malcolm Brogdon to shooting guard and Tony Snell to the bench, improving the team's starting lineup and overall depth. The athletic tandem of Bledsoe and Giannis Antetokounmpo, who is seemingly on his own Most Valuable Player destruction tour, wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to watch either. Like the Pacers, a Bledsoe acquisition would help the Bucks take advantage of a dilapidated Eastern Conference and put them in a position to compete with the Cleveland Cavaliers for the Central Divison title.
If winning is the primary objective, what better situation is there, short of the Golden State Warriors, than partnering with LeBron James? Bledsoe has been stuck in a Phoenix's losing culture for years and the change of scenery and energy, coupled with his new running mate in James, would almost certainly elevate his play to a new level. The Cavaliers have a clear need at the point guard position — Derrick Rose is already on the mend with an ankle injury and Isaiah Thomas is unlikely to return before midseason — after resorting to starting James at the position on Tuesday. An instant upgrade to their horrid defense as well, the Cavaliers need to make a move for a player like Bledsoe if they want to see the NBA Finals fourth installment of Warriors vs. Cavaliers come to fruition. The fact that the two teams had trade discussions earlier in the offseason should help the Cavaliers chances and, with Bledsoe's value dropping due to his trade request, Cleveland would likely be able to cobble together a suitable deal without giving up the Brooklyn Nets first-round pick they acquired from the Boston Celtics in the Kyrie Irving trade.
While it may not happen soon, Bledsoe is almost certain to be traded at some point this season. While the Suns may not receive a huge return, at this point a trade would be best for both parties; Phoenix can continue their rebuild while Bledsoe can be happy trying to win in a new, more satisfying environment.