Google held a conference call yesterday to brief investors, journalists and analysts on its financials in the last quarter. Focusing on it's non-core businesses like YouTube, display advertising and mobile, Google pulled in an incredible $7.29bn Q3 revenue, $1.4bn increase from the previous year.
Many wouldn't expect it, but Google's Android mobile operating system is helping Google bring in $1 billion revenue a year, helped largely by the fact that the OS will constitute 17.7% of the global mobile device market by the end of 2010 (according to Gartner) coming in second only to Nokia and its Symbian OS but ahead of Apple's iOS.
Schmidt has previously said that Android would eventually be a $10 billion business for Google and whilst the company is still a little way off from that projection, the OS is finding its way onto an increasing number smartphone devices and now tablets, even finding its way onto netbooks and laptops.
As mobile use continues to grow and the market booms, Google will undoubtedly have its plans set out to capitalise on the increase take-up of its OS. Not bad for a company that releases a "free" operating system.


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I spent the night alone in one of the most haunted pubs in Wales and it was absolutely terrifying
The Skirrid Mountain Inn is home to at least five very active spirits so it's not for the faint-hearted
Liam Garrahan
The Skirrid Mountain Inn is notorious for hauntings and given its bloody history it's easy to understand why.
Dating back 900-years to the Norman era, the inn has seen countless brutal deaths.
It was home to a court room presided by an evil judge who would send everyone who came before him to be hung. That's more than 180 criminals.
The Skirrid Mountain Inn
Legend has it that Owain Glyndŵr used it as a base for the Welsh Revolt against Henry IV of England, where he would rally the troops before raiding nearby settlements. Many wounded soldiers would return there after battle, some succumbing to their wounds.
Geoff, the landlord at the Skirrid Inn
And then you have the brutal medieval kings who spent nights there, the prisoners who died in their cells, and the staff who never left.
What a great place to spend a night on your own when the thought of turning the light off in your own home is enough to get your pulse racing.
I dodged zombies in a Valleys mine and it was absolutely terrifying
Alone in history
The inn dates back to the 12th century
Darkness had barely loomed over the Brecon Becons when I arrived at the inn, and it was already playing tricks on me.
Having been welcomed by Geoff the landlord I took my belongings up to my room, but it was on the stairs where I got my first fright of the night.
A life-sized model of a ghoul caught me off guard and I knew from that moment on that I'd made the right decision not to wear any white.
The ghoul lurking on the staircase isn't particularly photogenic
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Heading back downstairs you don't get the impression of a pub filled with haunts. The roaring Tudor fireplace burns strong, locals clink glasses and the food is delicious.
The pub has a beautiful Tudor fireplace and rustic interior
But this beautiful inn takes on a whole new atmosphere when the lights turn off and the patrons leave.
Nirvana famously sang 'with the lights off it's less dangerous', but I beg to differ.
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Room 2, the most paranormally active room in the inn, was my base for the night
I'd been strategically placed in Room 2, the room with the most paranormal activity, at the mercy of the ghost of 35-year-old worker Fanny Price.
Fanny died of consumption in the 18th Century and she obviously loved the inn so much that she decided to never leave.
I switched the lights off and tried to make contact with her, informing her that I was from WalesOnline, despite knowing full well that she would have no idea what that was.
My mind was running wild. I couldn't decide that if the knocks I was hearing were Fanny communicating, the old building creaking or my imagination getting the better of me.
We went ghost hunting in one of Wales's most haunted pubs and this is what happened
Room 3 may be the smallest room but it's seen a lot of spooky activity
I moved swiftly on to Room 3.
Stumbling down the creaky stairs into the room, my chest instantly tightened and my breathing got heavier.
Was this the hangman getting the taunting me, or was I just falling into the inn's history and creating problems for myself?
Probably the latter, but the room itself gave me the heeby-jeebies.
Room 1 formed part of the courtroom where over 180 convicted felons were sent to an early grave
The history of Room 1 is especially interesting. The bathroom used to be a prison cell and visitors have had a variety of paranormal experiences in the room, ranging from cold snaps to alleged attempted murders.
There's no doubting that the room itself has an eerie feel to it. As strange as it is to say, the door opens especially easily compared to the others, almost as if you're being welcomed into the room.
And the bathroom was the holding cell were they would await their fate
The bathroom is set over two levels, with stairs down to the bath, toilet and sink, but I couldn't bring myself to venture any further.
Almost instantly I was overcome with chills, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up and the room went ice cold.
As the coldness intensified and a breeze started to blow I didn't care if it was all in my head or if the history of the Skirrid was toying with me, I got out of there as quickly as possible.
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The landing where criminals could take up to 15 minutes to strangle to death from the banister
Some visitors to the inn struggle to climb the stairs as they head towards their room, claiming that they find it difficult to breathe.
They say that the landing is the territory of the Hanging Judge, Judge Jeffreys, who still stalks the corridors hunting for a victim to send the gallows. That could explain it.
A noose hangs ominously from the ceiling
Despite the gruesome tales of convicted criminals hanging from the stairwell, this where I felt most at ease with my surroundings. Maybe they weren't so bad after all.
I called out to the judge and told him that I was not afraid of him, laying the bait, but he didn't bite and he stayed in the shadows.
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The prison cell
The prison cell, now a store cupboard, is where alleged criminals would await judgement
Directly off of the landing is the prison cell which now keeps the boiler and other bits and bobs captive.
The hum of the equipment made it hard to hear any potential signs of the supernatural, but it did feel as if I was being watched, or maybe even snuck up on.
Another quick exit was on the cards.
With the lights on the restaurant is charming...
This is where the rowdy soldiers would return bloodied from battle to drink, dance and die, and when you're alone at night it's not difficult to imagine the majority of them surrounding you, drinking long into the night.
But the once ferocious atmosphere disappears as darkness sets, with the empty room taking a charming, yet spooky, turn.
The warmth of the burnt-out Tudor fireplace still lingers, but it is not enough to distract from the chills that slowly engulf you, and the almost crippling sensation that you're being watched.
But the pub takes on a whole new atmosphere at night with hundreds of eyes watching you from the darkness
Many lonely, ghostly figures have been spotted in this room over the years, as well as the sound of lute music, soldiers' footsteps and even the smell of lavender as Fanny comes to join the party, her dress heard rustling on the floor.
The gents toilets, which were creepy enough in daylight, felt off limits. I couldn't approach the door without the inn giving me a forboding warning not to enter with the feeling of a hundred pairs of eyes on me. I decided it was best left alone.
As the chills set in I was given what could have been a goodnight message from the past as I heard footsteps quickly getting closer and closer.
Naturally, being the intrepid and fearless ghosthunter that I am, I ran back to the safety of the light in the landing.
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Is that an orb on the landing?
It's easy to see why this place is known as the most haunted building in Wales.
History grabs at you as you walk the corridors, it breathes down your neck as you sit on the toilet, it chases after you as you drink in the pub.
But how much of this is psychological? How much did I let the Skirrid control me and lure me to new places only to scare me straight out again?
The ghoul used to speak as people walked past. Thank god it was broken for my visit.
I took overnight residency with an open mind. Naturally, I'm a skeptic, but I have learned to trust my senses over tales of yesteryear, and, whether I imagined it or not, it was obvious that I wasn't as alone as I first thought.
As I put my head down to sleep, with the light on, I add, who knows who was dancing around me during the night.
Whether you're a believer or not, the beautiful Skirrid Mountain Inn will test you and whisper stories of its ghoulish past.
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Q: Get city suggestions from the city, that user entered android Can I get city suggestions from google maps after user entered the name so user can choose the correct one?

A: You can use the autocomplete feature from Google Place API.
You can visit this documentation about Adding Place Autocomplete to your Android App.
Or you can read this tutorial about using Place Autocomplete in EditText field.

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When you're involved in a truck accident, there are many different headaches that you end up having to deal with; one of the biggest headaches is communicating with the insurance company. The accident was not your fault and you did everything you were supposed to by reporting the incident to the insurance company...so why are they making things so hard for you?
One thing the insurance company's claims adjuster may be bothering you for right now is a recorded statement. He may have told you that it is simply for their records and it will never be used for anything, but if you decide to file a claim against the insurance company in court or you don't feel their settlement is fair, you'd be surprised at how quickly that recorded statement suddenly surfaces. For some innocent truck accident victims, that recorded statement can be a nail in their coffin and prevent them from receiving the compensation that they deserve.
Even if no part of the truck accident was your fault, insurance adjusters have an interesting way of getting you to say things that aren't necessarily true. They may ask a tricky question in a way that is hard to understand, causing you to provide incorrect information. Or they may try to act like they're just having a friendly conversation with you in an attempt to get you to let your guard down a bit and say things you don't mean. It's a devious way of doing business, but this is the reality many truck accident victims face.
The insurance company may be trying to scare you by telling you that you must give a recorded statement. This is simply not true. If you are being pressured to give a recorded statement, tell them you are going to speak with your truck accident attorney first and then you will get back to them.
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Boston Baby! | Trace B.
I never thought I would run a marathon, let alone Boston. It seems like an immediate goal for most marathoners and I too had that in mind after hearing so much about it. Boston. Boston. Boston. Blah blah blah. Happy to say I qualified December '09, but unfortunately it was just a few weeks after registration closed (I had no idea before I even finished the race that it was sold out). At the time I was disappointed because Boston 2011 seemed light-years away. Well as most of us adults know, time doesn't slack – it speeds by, almost too fast, and I found myself already looking into hotel accommodations (booked!) and flights (still need to do) before registration even opened. I had read somewhere that Boston was expected to sell out well before NY (11/07/10) so not wanting to wait another whole year, I set a few alarms, Google calendar reminders and even someone else's alarm to make sure I was up at 0600 on the 18th to register.
Scurrying to my computer, I immediately felt the lag of the website and upon filling out required fields on the registration page and hitting submit, I was taken back to the registration page again. I repeated this process over ten times before stomping my (healthy) foot on the floor and heading out the door to work. At work I had the same issue until finally I tried with Safari and got in – Phew!
Talk about a low blow, I already imagined how much I wold hate Heartbreak Hill and I could now understand the frustration of many other runners who qualified for 2011 but couldn't get in because the race sold out in less than 8 hours – really, really sad. I immediately called Marathon Tours and was informed that the webmaster had sent out the email too soon and it was supposed to say, "If you were unable to register…" THANK YOU running Gods, I will just pretend I never got that that email – I am still in (I hope).
What really excites me more than anything is that I will be able to see my cousin Amy who lives with her family in Millbury. We are nearly the same age and only met once when we were five years old (we didn't get along very well that ONE time) and have a lot of things in common, one of them happens to be running. She is excited to have me in town and we can finally catch up on life and each other. This is the exact reason I will be in Boston regardless if I race or not.
This is what I looked like the last time I saw my cousin.
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Well actualy Trace…the last time we saw eachother was when we were like 12 or so. I have a few pics of us together at Beckys house. I will have to show you or download them….Thank you so much for the kind words, it really means alot. I can't wait to catch up also, we have so much in common. You are a marathon running SUPERSTAR!!! You are going to do great 🙂 Can't wait!!!


1997-11-07 Assigned to ERICSSON INC. reassignment ERICSSON INC. ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: BANKLER, BRIAN, BARATT, MANON A., MOON, BILLY G., WOOLDRIDGE, TAMMY A.
A messaging application is provided for use in a user communications device having a processor controlling a display and a user input device, and a communications terminal for transmitting and receiving a plurality of different types of electronic messages. The messaging application includes a mail provider program operated by the processor. The mail provider program includes a mail provider module for automatically controlling the transmittal and/or receipt of electronic messages by a user accessing the display and the user input device, a mail source module operatively associated with the mail provider module for receiving of electronic messages including a plurality of mail source protocols each associated with a different mail service provider, and a mail sink module operatively associated with the mail provider module for transmitting of electronic messages including a plurality of mail sink protocols each associated with a different mail service provider. The mail source module selecting one of the mail source protocols for controlling the receipt of incoming electronic mail messages to the mail provider module based on the mail service provider from which the electronic message is received. The mail sink module selecting one of the mail sink protocols for controlling the transmission of the outgoing electronic message from the mail provider module based on select criteria.
In today's business world, communications via electronic mail resources, such as E-mail, fax mail, voice mail, etc., are becoming increasingly popular. As a result, various communications companies have seen a growing market in this industry and have set up systems for the transmission of electronic mail items. Such companies will hereinafter be referred to as "mail service providers".
Generally, a user opens up an account with the mail service provider(s) of his/her choice. The user then receives software from the mail service provider which the user must load on his/her computer in order for the computer to interface, i.e., receive and transmit electronic mail items, with the mail server utilized by the mail service provider. The user also receives an address or "mailbox" within the mail service provider's network at which electronic mail items addressed to the user are received and stored.
A messaging application is provided for use in a user communications device having a processor controlling a display and a user input device, and a communications terminal for transmitting and receiving a plurality of different types of electronic messages. The messaging application includes a mail provider program operated by the processor. A mail provider module automatically controls the transmittal and/or receipt of electronic messages by a user accessing the display and user input device. A mail source module is operatively associated with the mail provider module for receiving of electronic messages including a plurality of mail source protocols each associated with a different mail service provider. A mail sink module is operatively associated with the mail provider module for transmitting of electronic messages including a plurality of mail sink protocols each associated with a different mail service provider. The mail source module selects one of the mail source protocols for controlling the receipt of incoming electronic mail messages to the mail provider module based on which of the mail service providers from which the electronic message is received. The mail sink module selects one of the mail sink protocols for controlling the transmission of the outgoing electronic message from the mail provider module based on select criteria.
It is a further object of the present invention to automatically provide the user communications device with the "best" mail service provider for transmitting an electronic mail resource message.
Referring to FIG. 2, the messaging application 22 is illustrated in greater detail. Particularly, the user communication device 10, referred to as a "mail client", includes a user interface 25 and is operated by a user 36. The user 36 has a mailbox 50 for storing electronic mail.
The user 36, via the user input device 16 and display 14, generates a mail parcel at the user communications device 10 and enters a command to "send mail", which transmits the mail parcel to a mail provider queue 38. The user communications device 10 also notifies the send observer 40 that a mail parcel is being sent. Upon such notification, the send observer 40 creates and adds a mail event to a scheduler 42, the send observer 40 essentially being the watchdog to make sure all outgoing mail parcels are transmitted.
When the mail parcel reaches the beginning of the queue, the mail provider module 32 passes the outgoing mail parcel to the mail sink module 28. The mail sink module 28 includes a plurality of sink protocols (protocol-1-protocol-n), with each sink protocol relating to a different mail server or mail service provider. Such sink protocols may include, but are not limited to, SMS and SMTP protocols.
Second, a user may allow the mail provider program 24 to automatically choose an appropriate mail service provider. The mail provider program 24 negotiates with the various mail service providers with which the user has an account, and chooses the "best" one for transmitting the mail parcel. In deciding which mail service provider is "best" at that particular time, the mail provider program 24 looks at various select criteria such as, but not limited to, the type of mail parcel being sent, the availability of each mail service provider, the traffic on the mail service provider's network at that particular time, and the cost of sending the mail parcel.
The third option is to have the mail provider program 24 look at the same select criteria as mentioned above, but prior to transmitting the outgoing mail parcel, allowing the user to view the various options via the display 14 and authorize the transmission. Since most business people have at least two mail service provider accounts, the mail provider program 24 of the present invention is particularly useful as it will analyze each mail service provider and determine the "best" one available to transmit the outgoing mail parcel.
Referring now to FIGS. 2 and 4, the receipt of electronic mail resources by the mail provider program 24 is as follows. The user communications device 10 may be conventionally programmed to periodically poll the mail servers of the mail service providers with which the user 36 has an account for new mail. Accordingly, the mail source module 26 polls the mail server of each mail service provider with which the user 36 has an account for new mail. If new mail destined to the user 36 has been received at the mail server, the mail source module 26 retrieves the new mail from the mail server. The mail source module 26 includes a plurality of mail source protocols (protocol-1-protocol-n), with each source protocol relating to a different mail server or mail service provider. Such source protocols may include, but are not limited to FAX, ITAP, POP3, SMS and SMTP protocols.
The notification observer 46 provides a notice via a notification interface 48 to the user 36 that new mail has been received by the user communications device 10. The user 36, upon receiving such notification, enters a command to "retrieve mail". The mail provider module 32, upon receiving this command, stores the mail in the mailbox 50 to be accessible by the user 36.
Further, with the mail provider program 24, a user does not have to think about which mail service provider to use when transmitting mail. The mail provider program 24 negotiates with each mail service provider with which the user has an account and is capable of automatically choosing the "best" mail service provider to use at that particular time for transmitting the outgoing mail parcel. The mail provider program 24 applies the appropriate sink protocol to the outgoing mail parcel, allowing the user communications device 10 to interface with the mail server to which the mail parcel is transmitted.
As shown in FIG. 5, the mail sink module 28 may include a mail sink protocol handler 52 operatively associated with a mail sink 54. The mail sink protocol handler 52 includes the plurality of mail sink protocols (protocol-1-protocol-n), each corresponding to a different mail service provider. The particular protocol for any mail service provider is designated by that provider. Based on the type of mail parcel being transmitted, the mail sink protocol handler 52 negotiates with the various mail service providers with which the user has an account. The mail sink protocol handler 52 chooses an appropriate mail service provider considering the same criteria as previously indicated, and applies the selected sink protocol to the outgoing mail. The outgoing mail is sent to the mail sink 54 which transmits the outgoing mail to the selected mail service provider network.
As shown in FIG. 6, the mail source module 26 may include a mail source protocol handler 56 operatively associated with a mail source 58. Retrieved mail is received by the mail source protocol handler 56 which includes the plurality of mail source protocols (protocol-1-protocol-n), each corresponding to a different mail service provider. Depending on the type of mail received and the mail service provider from which it was received, the mail source protocol handler 56 applies the appropriate source protocol and sends the mail parcel to the mail source 58. The mail source 58 transmits the incoming mail parcel to the mail provider module 32 where it can be accessed and viewed by the user 36 of the user communications device 10.
A user can transmit his/her electronic business card, hereinafter simply referred to as "business card", as E-mail to various desired companies and/or individuals. The transmission of a business card follows the same steps as illustrated in the process flow diagram of FIG. 3. In creating the mail parcel, i.e., the business card, a user first creates the business card including all of the desired information. The business card is then saved as a mail attachment and sent as an E-mail message with an attachment to the various desired locations.
For example, say the business card 62 includes an encryption agent, or "public key", the business card 62 being previously automatically added to the user's business card file 60, along with the other information contained in the business card 62. The public encryption key includes information about which type of cipher, or encryption algorithm, that should be used. Accordingly, when the business card 62 is accessed to transmit mail to the business card holder, the mail filter module 30 recognizes from the business card 62 that the business card holder wishes the mail to be encrypted and applies the appropriate encryption algorithm prior to sending the mail parcel to the mail sink module 28 for transmission thereof.
The business card holder or end recipient presumably has a decryption key, or "private key", for decrypting the received mail parcel. While the public and private keys are mathematically related, the private decryption key cannot be derived from the public encryption key. The encryption key is specific to the business card holder and cannot be changed by the user 36 of the user communications device 10.
Further, the present invention permits a business card holder whose business card 62 is stored in the business card file 60 of the user communications device 10 to update his/her business card 62. The business card holder transmits an updated business card 62 a, via E-mail, to the user communications device 10. The updated business card 62 a is stored in the business card file 60 and becomes the new business card 62 a for that particular business card holder. Updating a business card is particularly useful when a business card holder knows that he/she will be at a different address than that indicated on the original business card 62, and wishes mail to be sent to the different address. The business card holder simply transmits an updated business card 62 a with a new address to the user communications device 10. Accordingly, all mail sent to the business card holder, via the updated business card 62 a, would be automatically forwarded to the updated address.
While the invention has been described with particular reference to the drawings, it should be understood that various modifications could be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
a mail sink module operatively associated with the mail provider module for transmitting outgoing electronic mail, the mail sink module including a plurality of mail sink protocols each associated with a different mail service provider, the mail sink module automatically (a) selecting one of the mail sink protocols based on select criteria associated with the different mail service providers, (b) applying the selected mail sink protocol to the outgoing electronic mail, and (c) transmitting the outgoing electronic mail to a predetermined address.
2. The messaging application of claim 1, wherein said mail sink module transmits the outgoing electronic mail to the predetermined address via the communications terminal and transmits a notification signal to a user that the outgoing electronic mail has been transmitted.
3. The messaging application of claim 1, wherein said mail source module transmits the incoming electronic mail to the processor via the mail provider module and transmits a notification signal to a user that the incoming electronic mail has been received.
a mail filter module operatively associated with the mail provider module including a plurality of distinct mail filters, the mail filter module (a) determining which, if any, of the plurality of distinct mail filters should be applied to the electronic mail, and (b) applying the determined mail filter, if any, to the electronic mail.
the determined mail filter comprises a business card agent previously stored in the mail filter module upon receipt of the business card including the business card agent by the user communications device.
6. The messaging application of claim 4, wherein the plurality of distinct mail filters are selected from the group consisting of encryption, decryption and auto-forwarding.
a mail source protocol handler operatively associated with the mail source for receiving incoming electronic mail, the mail source protocol handler including the plurality of mail source protocols each associated with a different mail service provider, the mail source protocol handler selecting one of the mail source protocols based on the mail service provider from which the electronic mail is received.
a mail sink operatively associated with the mail sink protocol handler receiving the outgoing electronic mail with the selected mail sink protocol and transmitting the outgoing electronic mail to the predetermined address.
9. The messaging application of claim 1, wherein the select criteria are selected from the group consisting of (a) type of the outgoing electronic mail, (b) availability of each of the different mail service providers, (c) traffic on each of the different mail service providers, and (d) cost of transmitting the outgoing electronic mail on each of the different mail service providers.
10. The messaging application of claim 9, wherein the type of the outgoing electronic mail is selected from the group consisting of E-mail, fax mail and voice mail.
automatically storing the processed electronic mail message at a location in the user communications device accessible to a user thereof.
13. The method of claim 12, wherein the applied mail filter comprises a business card agent previously stored in the user communications device upon receipt of a business card including the business card agent by the user communications device.
the appropriate mail filter comprises a business card agent associated with the business card.
storing the business card at an appropriate address in the user communications device accessible by a user thereof.
19. The method of claim 15, wherein the select criteria are selected from the group consisting of (a) type of the outgoing electronic mail message, (b) availability of each of the different mail service providers, (c) traffic on each of the different mail service providers, and (d) cost of transmitting the outgoing electronic mail message on each of the different mail service providers.
20. The method of claim 19, wherein the type of the outgoing electronic mail message is selected from the group consisting of E-mail, fax mail and voice mail.
ES98946909T ES2336729T3 (en) 1997-09-29 1998-09-09 Messaging application having a plurality of interface capabilities.
HK01104785A HK1034389A1 (en) 1997-09-29 2001-07-10 Messaging application having a plurality of interfacing capabilities.
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Patel, A. et al.: "A technique for multi-network access to multimedia messages" Computer Communications, vol. 20, No. 5, Jul. 5, 1997, pp. 324-337.


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004 – Lucky Online, Connecting When You're Not Even Looking
Episode 4 • 31st December 2022 • Who Am I Really? • Damon L. Davis
Growing up in Leah's home everyone was comfortable with adoption. Her adopted mom is an adoptee, and her two siblings are adoptees, though they are biologically related to one another. The kids were made to feel special because her parents chose them. But no matter how much love an adoptee receives, sometimes knowing that their origins are with another set of parents can fuel undeniable desires to try to learn more about themself. In Leah's story, she was at a moment in her life when she wasn't actively searching when her c0-worker's luck online changed everything in an instant.
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Leah: 00:01 So my search kind of stopped there for some time. It really stopped for probably 10 years or so before I was even really looking again, I kind of decided at that point, look what I have in my fantasy is all I need. I don't necessarily want the truth. That truth may not be what I want to hear.
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Damon: 00:35 This is "Who Am I Really" a podcast about adoptees that have located and connected with their biological family members. Hey, it's Damon and on today's show I'm joined by Leah. Now we've all been online and found ourselves going down what seems like a rabbit hole content that's automatically fed to us. But what if that rabbit hole led you straight to your family of origin? In Leah's case, after years of searching on and off for her relatives, it turned out that she just needed a little bit of luck online. I'm so glad that Andrea was able to connect us.
Damon: 01:19 So tell me a little bit about your family growing up, your family structure and you know, as an adoptee where you fell in your family and how it was in your community.
Leah: 01:31 Yeah. Well I was adopted at six months of age. I was the first child they adopted, so I was the oldest. Let's see, they adopted me in October of 1974, didn't know much information about any of the birth details or birth family, but they adopted me then. And then eventually I think I was about five, my brother and my sister who were natural siblings. So I was the oldest of three of us.
Damon: 01:57 So you're the oldest of three total adoptees, but the other two are biological siblings to each other?
Leah: 02:03 That is correct. Yup.
Damon: 02:04 Gotcha. And how did everybody get along? How was adoption perceived or talked about in your family? How did they make you feel comfortable with it?
Leah: 02:12 Yeah, it was actually always, I mean, I don't remember a time not knowing I was adopted. My adopted mother was also adopted as a baby and so she was really open about it. She always had told us from day one, but she made it like a really special thing. Like it was a special gift to be an adopted kid because my parents got to pick me and so like they chose me out of and it made it, you know, it made it seem like a special thing. So it was never something that I felt like I was, you know, rejected or abandoned. I always was always presented as, it was just amazing gift that they got to choose who and they chose me and that made me special somehow. It was a great way to kind of fall in through that because mom was just great about it. She was real open. She was talking about all that. She was talking about her own experience and she would talk about wanting to know her history. So she was pretty understanding of all of the feelings that we would have as we kind of grew up.
Damon: 03:08 What was her experience with her own adoption and wanting to know her own history? Had she launched her own search to try to locate her biological relatives or her family of origin.
Leah: 03:17 I don't think she searched herself. I tell the story of her birth father showing up one day randomly and knocking on her door and they talked. They didn't really ever develop any kind of relationship. Um, and I don't know that they ever even had contact after that. I think she was told that her family was a heavy Italian family and that it was in their culture that the first born, they didn't want a girl. They would want a boy. And so she had been given up because of that is, is my understanding of what she hold us. Um, so she didn't have as much feeling in wanting to reconnect with that family.
Damon: 03:52 Oh, that's really interesting. But you did. So tell me a little bit about growing up. When you first started to really feel like you were interested in locating somebody in your family of origin. What did it feel like and what were some of the triggers for that?
Leah: 04:06 Well, I think that probably came in my teens where I started really questioning, wanting to know where I came from, what was my family of origin like was I like them, was I like the family that raised me. How does all of that kind of work? You know, the whole nature versus nurture argument. I was questioning what parts of me were because I was raised where I was raised and what parts of me were for me, like the me that my genetics has provided. So I was, I started getting really curious. I also, I have very olive skin and different features that people would classify as ethnic, but we're asking him aside, biracial, and we're asking all these questions about, um, what my heritage was and I didn't know those answers and I really was curious. I wanted to know like where, where do I come from?
Leah: 04:53 Where do I sit? And all that. So it was, it was mostly just a curiosity and it kind of developed as I was just trying to figure out who was at that time in your life and your teens and early twenties where you're just trying to kind of figure out where in this world you fit and where did I come from, how am I this, you know? So it was really just curiosity more than anything and wanting, I really wanted to know about my heritage. I wanted to understand what that was. That was, that was my intrigue I guess.
Damon: 05:20 Yeah, that makes sense. If you feel like you possibly don't necessarily look exactly like your adopted family, I could definitely see how that could be. One of the triggers in my own story, I was very fortunate that my mother is somewhat light-skinned, African-American in my adopted family. My dad is somewhat dark skinned and I'm right in the middle, so I kind of look like I'm the product of them, so I didn't necessarily have that visual trigger like some other adoptees do who are cross culturally adopted. So you're in your teenage years, you're reaching young adulthood. I would imagine at some point you just said, let me see what I can find out. How did you go about that?
Leah: 05:57 I definitely in my early twenties kind of started looking as much as I could. By law in Ohio, the records up to a certain date were sealed and you were unable to access any information at all. So I really had very little to go on. Um, I had a piece of paper that my adopted mom had taken notes down when she got them, they were basically like scribbles of information, um, hard to read, not even complete sentences, just kind of scribbled pieces of information that, you know, my mom was a, a young mom and my grandfather was a principal of some school and a pastor and just little bits and pieces, but nothing, nothing that was real concrete. So I started searching. I actually, I was a teacher at a preschool and my, one of my coworker's daughter had found her. And so she was telling me how she had connected with her daughter.
Leah: 06:48 And so I started trying to figure out, well, how can I get these pieces of information and where do I go? Started searching, uh, called, I think it was the Clark County children's home, which is where I had been adopted out of, you know, they told me basically, look, your stuff is sealed. We can't give you any information. I tried to get even just some identifying information. They were like, we don't have anything. We can't give you anything. So basically that's where my search stopped. I did consider several times looking at possibly hiring a detective or someone to kind of do the research and see what they can find. But I never did that. And quite frankly, I think it was probably a little scared of what I might find. I had been brought up that adoption was okay and that, um, it was, I was special because I was adopted and so I had this, you know, kind of background of that.
Leah: 07:32 And I had these fantasy idea of what my birth parents looked like and who they were. And I was afraid I would get disappointed if I found out for sure who, who they were. And maybe they, I guess in my fantasy it was like, well, my mom, you know, the young mom, she was scared. She did what she thought was the right thing for me. It was unselfish thing to get me out, blah, blah, blah. But what if that wasn't true? What if I found out that my mom really didn't want me and she really didn't want me to find her? And so my search kind of stopped there for some time. It really stopped for probably 10 years or so before I was even really looking again. I kind of decided at that point, look, you know what I have in my fantasy is all I need. I don't, I don't necessarily want the truth. That truth may not be what I want to hear.
Damon: 08:16 Yeah. After 10 years of thinking about it, you really have probably comforted yourself into realizing you have a great life and there might not be any reason to rock the boat. So then what happened after 10 years?
Leah: 08:28 I was coming upon my 40th birthday. And I think that's a time in people's lives where we start again hitting that who am I again, period in our life where we're trying to really explore, you know, where we came from, why we're here, where we're going. And it was November of 2013 and I ordered a DNA test from family finder's website, which was one of those ancestry websites. And I was mostly just to find out against an ethnic background. I also was curious about some medical things. My son, who was 8 at the time was having some medical problems and we were trying to get some answers on what was going on with him. So there were a couple of reasons where I started going, you know, Hmm, I really truly want to know something, whatever I can find. And I knew I couldn't access my records. So I thought, well, I'll try the DNA route. Never took the test. I got it in the mail. It went in...
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Omni Enters into Definitive Agreement for Business Combination Transaction With Ready Set Gold Corp.
Thursday, August 13, 2020 1:00 PM
Company Update,Mergers and Acquisitions
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / August 13, 2020 / Omni Commerce Corp. ("Omni" or the "Company") announces that, further to its news release date July 15, 2020, it has into a definitive business combination agreement dated effective August 12, 2020 (the "Agreement") with Ready Set Gold Corp. ("Ready Set"), and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, 1258952 B.C. Ltd. ("NewCo"), formed for the purpose of completing a three-cornered amalgamation which will result in Ready Set becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (the "Transaction").
About Ready Set Gold Corp.
Ready Set is a private issuer existing under the laws of the Province of British Columbia. The capital structure of Ready Set currently consists of 5,100,000 common shares (each, a "RS Share"). Ready Set currently owns a 100% undivided interest in and to two separate claim blocks totaling 4,453 hectares located 7 km east of Barrick's Hemlo Mine near Marathon, ON known as the Hemlo Eastern Flanks Project (the "Hemlo Project") and holds an option (the "Option") to acquire a 100% undivided interest in and to 71 mineral claim cells comprising the Emmons Peak Project located 50 km south of Dryden, Ontario (the "Emmons Peak Project"). Both the Helmo Project and Emmons Peak Project are prospective gold properties.
In order to exercise the Option, Ready Set must (collectively, the "Options Payments"), pursuant to the terms of its option agreement (the "Option Agreement") with Gravel Ridge Resources Ltd. ("Gravel Ridge"), make aggregate cash payments of $75,000 and issue an aggregate of 400,000 RS Shares to Gravel Ridge in accordance with the following schedule:
RS Shares
Five days from execution of Option Agreement
(Paid)
First Anniversary of Option Agreement
Second Anniversary of Option Agreement
Third Anniversary of Option Agreement
Upon completion of the Option Payments, Ready Set will be deemed to have exercised the Option and will have earned an undivided 100% interest in and to the Emmons Peak Project, subject to a 1.5% net smelter return royalty to be granted to Gravel Ridge, which Ready Set will have the right to buy-back 0.5% of at any time for $500,000.
The Agreement provides that Omni will acquire all of the issued and outstanding securities of Ready Set by way of a "three-cornered" amalgamation whereby NewCo and Ready Set will amalgamate pursuant to the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia) to form a new amalgamated entity, which will continue under the name "Ready Set Gold Ontario Ltd." ("AmalCo"), and AmalCo will be a wholly-owned subsidiary of Omni. Following the closing of the Transaction (the "Closing"), the combined company resulting from the Transaction (hereinafter referred to as the "Resulting Issuer") will be renamed "Ready Set Gold Corp." and the business of the Resulting Issuer will be the business of Ready Set.
The Transaction is subject to completion of certain conditions precedent, including without limitation: (i) satisfactory due diligence, (ii) the completion of the Consolidation (as defined below), (iii) the completion by Ready Set of a concurrent financing (the "Concurrent Financing") for gross minimum proceeds of at least $1,500,000, (iv) Omni changing its name to "Ready Set Gold Corp.", (v) the Appointments (as defined below), (vi) receipt of all requisite approvals, and (vii) other conditions customary for transactions of this nature. Finder's fees or commissions may be payable in connection with the Transaction or the Concurrent Financing.
Share Consolidation
Prior to Closing, under the terms of the Agreement, Omni has agreed to consolidate its total issued and outstanding common shares (each, an "Omni Share") on the basis of five pre-consolidation Omni Shares for one post-consolidation Omni Share (the "Consolidation"). After the completion of the Consolidation, it is anticipated that the capital structure of Omni will consist of 16,789,912 Omni Shares.
Concurrent Financing
In connection with the Transaction, it is anticipated that Ready Set will complete the Concurrent Financing consisting of the issuance of a minimum of 2,500,000 subscription receipts at $0.60 each or flow-through subscription receipts at $0.75 each. On closing of the Transaction, each Ready Set subscription receipt will automatically convert and be exchanged for one post-Consolidation Omni Share and one warrant, and each Ready Set flow-through subscription receipt will automatically convert and be exchanged for one post-Consolidation flow-through Omni Share and one warrant. Each warrant will be exercisable for 24 months from closing of the Transaction at an exercise price of $1.00 per post-Consolidation Omni Share.
The aggregate proceeds of the Concurrent Financing will be used by the Resulting Issuer to incur exploration expenditures on the Resulting Issuer's mineral properties and for general working capital purposes. In this regard, such applicable "flow-through" expenditures will constitute "Canadian Exploration Expenses" (as defined in the Income Tax Act (Canada)) which will be renounced to purchasers for the taxation year ending December 31, 2020.
Transaction Consideration
Upon Closing: (i) each subscription receipt will automatically convert and be exchanged for one post-Consolidation Omni Share and one warrant, and each Ready Set flow-through subscription receipt will automatically convert and be exchanged for one post-Consolidation flow-through Omni Share and one warrant; and (ii) Omni will acquire all of the issued and outstanding securities of Ready Set by way of a "three-cornered" amalgamation whereby NewCo and Ready Set will amalgamate pursuant to the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia) to form AmalCo (the "Amalgamation"). In consideration for the completion of the Amalgamation, each holder of RS Shares will be entitled to receive one Omni Share, on a post-Consolidation basis, at a deemed price of $0.60 per Omni Share for each RS Share held, representing aggregate consideration to the Ready Set shareholders of approximately $3,060,000 for their RS Shares.
Directors and Officers of the Resulting Issuer
Immediately prior to the closing of the Transaction, it is expected that each of Morgan Good, Leighton Bocking and Damien Good will resign as directors of Ready Set (collectively, the "Resignations"). Concurrent to the Resignations, each of Christian Scovenna and Jason Jessup will, respectively, be appointed (collectively, the "Appointments") as Chief Executive Officer and director and as President and director of Omni (thereafter referred to as the "Resulting Issuer") and it is expected that John Veltheer will remain as director and Alex McAulay will remain as Chief Financial Officer of the Resulting Issuer.
Christian Scovenna, Chief Executive Officer & Director
Mr. Scovenna is a highly-experienced C-Suite Executive with over twelve years of capital market experience. In his most recent engagement with Mojave Jane Brands Inc. (formerly, High Hampton Holdings Corp.) (CSE: JANE), he was instrumental in building the company as one of the original founders and was a key member of the management team as interim CEO and Senior VP Corporate Finance while also serving on the board as a director. As Managing Director at a boutique firm, Mr. Scovenna led six portfolio companies within the group where he focused on raising capital and business development. He also spent four years with Frontier Merchant Capital Group as Director & Senior VP of Operations and served as Managing Partner with Lions Edge Capital. Over the years, Mr. Scovenna has been successful in completing numerous M&A activities and capital raises. He currently serves as Director & Sr. VP of Corporate Development for Pasofino Gold Limited (formerly Enforcer Gold Corp.) (TSXV: VEIN) and Tevano Payment Systems as VP of Corporate Development.
Jason Jessup, President & Director
Mr. Jessup has 23 years of experience in the mining industry, the majority committed to mining operations management, corporate development and project evaluation. He is a founder and President of Mine Management Partners. Mr. Jessup was formerly with FNX Mining, Sandstorm Gold, Bridgeport Ventures, and INCO.
Alex McAulay, Chief Financial Officer
Mr. McAulay CPA, CA is an entrepreneur and experienced public-company CFO and director. Mr. McAulay's company, ACM Management Inc., is focused on providing fractional CFO services and regulatory guidance to public companies in Canada and the US. Mr. McAulay has served as the CFO of several listed companies and has assisted many issuers in navigating the public markets.
John Veltheer, Director
Dr. Veltheer is a lifetime entrepreneur and has been involved at the board of director level of numerous start-up companies. A generalist with highly effective management skills that focus on leading by example, clear communication and delegation, Dr. Veltheer is singularly focused on building and protecting stakeholder value in the public company arena. Currently, and in addition to being CEO of OMNI, Dr. Veltheer is the Chief Financial Officer and a director of Sixth Wave Innovations Inc. (CSE: SIXW). Dr. Veltheer holds a BSc (Hans) from Queen's University, a PhD from the University of British Columbia, and he completed his academic career with a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley.
Update on Northshore Gold Property Transaction
Further to the Company's news releases dated June 1, 2020, June 15, 2020 and June 24, 2020, Omni is pleased to announce that it continues to work towards acquiring an aggregate 100% interest in and to the Northshore Gold Property, located within the Hemlo-Schreiber greenstone belt in the world-famous Hemlo Gold Camp, south of the former producing Winston Lake copper-zinc-gold-silver deposit.
For more information regarding the acquisition of the Northshore Property from both CBLT Inc. and Balmoral Resources Ltd., a 100% subsidiary of Wallbridge Mining Company Limited (TSX: WM), see the Company's June 1, 2020, June 15, 2020 and June 24, 2020 news releases filed under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
Omni is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia and is a reporting issuer in British Columbia and Alberta.
OMNI COMMERCE CORP.
Per: "John Veltheer"
John Veltheer, CEO
John Veltheer
Website: www.omnireset.com
Forward-Looking Statements:
This news release contains forward-looking statements and forward-looking information (collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of applicable Canadian legislation. All statements in this news release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements and include statements regarding beliefs, plans, expectations and orientations regarding the future including, without limitation, the closing of the Transaction (and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the Consolidation and the Concurrent Financing), the anticipated use of proceeds from the Concurrent Financing by the Resulting Issuer, and the Appointments are forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes that such statements are reasonable and reflect expectations of future developments and other factors which management believes to be reasonable and relevant, the Company can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as: "believes", "expects", "anticipates", "intends", "estimates", "plans", "may", "should", "would", "will", "potential", "scheduled" or variations of such words and phrases and similar expressions, which, by their nature, refer to future events or results that may, could, would, might or will occur or be taken or achieved. In making the forward-looking statements in this news release, the Company has applied several material assumptions, including without limitation, that it and Ready Set will obtain the required approvals for the Consolidation and the Transaction, as applicable, Ready Set will be able to close the Concurrent Financing, market fundamentals will support the viability of gold mineral exploration, the availability of the financing required for the Company to carry out its planned future activities, and its ability to retain and attract qualified personnel.
Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking information. Such risks and other factors include the inability of the Company to close the Transaction (including as a result of the inability of the Company and Ready Set to obtain the required approvals) and complete the Consolidation, the inability of Ready Set to complete the Concurrent Financing, the Company's ability to execute its proposed business plans and carry out planned future activities. The novel coronavirus and COVID-19 pose new risks that are currently indescribable and immeasurable. Other factors may also adversely affect the future results or performance of the Company, including general economic, market or business conditions, future prices of cannabis, changes in the financial markets and in the demand for cannabis, changes in laws, regulations and policies affecting the mining industry, risks related to the Transaction and the Company's investment and operation in the mineral exploration sector in Northern Ontario, as well as the risks and uncertainties which are more fully described in the Company's annual and quarterly management's discussion and analysis and in other filings made by the Company with Canadian securities regulatory authorities under the Company's profile at www.sedar.com. Readers are cautioned that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance or events and, accordingly, are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements due to the inherent uncertainty of such statements.
These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this news release and, unless required by applicable law, the Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those projected in these forward-looking statements.
SOURCE: Omni Commerce Corp.


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Kevin Young's recent play has earned him praise from Kansas head coach Bill Self.
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The Kansas Jayhawks improved to 7-1 on Saturday after dismantling the Colorado Buffaloes 90-54 -- and Kevin Young was once again a big part of Kansas' success.
Young shot 8 for 9 for 16 points and grabbed eight rebounds in just 20 minutes of playing time. Needless to say, Kansas head coach Bill Self had some high praise for Young.
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Kevin (Young) is the best we have. Kevin can disrupt things just by doing stuff on his own; full-court pressure, I thought he did a great job of that tonight, too."
Young has had his two highest scoring outputs in his last two games, scoring 10 points during Kansas' 84-78 win over Oregon State, before adding 16 points against Colorado.
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What's a Hands-On Linux Demo?
In September 1999, LUGOD held its first public demonstration of Linux at the Davis Farmer's Market. We've since held demos at other venues, such as the Davis Food Co-Op, and the Borders bookstore in Davis.
What We Do At A Demo:
We call our event a "hands-on Linux demo" because it's precisely that! We set up one more or computers running the Linux operating system and a nice desktop environment, and let people try it out for themselves. We show off popular Open Source applications, such as "The GIMP" (digital artists and photographers want to check it out), "OpenOffice.org", and "Firefox." We show games and K-12 educational programs. For people who use UNIX and want to try Linux, we show various low-level tools that are available.
Volunteers answer questions about Linux, Open Source, LUGOD, and computers in general.
We also take the opportunity to advertise LUGOD. We'll have handouts describing the club and our events, flyers for upcoming meetings and installfest workshops, and even plug our neighbor LUGs in Sacramento and Roseville.
Along with information and flyers, we try to have CD-ROMs with software (Linux install discs, live-CDs, Open Source software for Windows, etc.), and sometimes books, magazines, or other 'swag' and goodies. We give these items out for free! (If your company or organization wants to provide give-aways for our demos or other events, contact pr@lugod.org). We often burn these ourselves.
Who Comes To A Demo?
Some people learn about our demo events from notices in the local newspaper or online, and make a specific effort to come to the event. Sometimes they are people who participate in LUGOD but simply cannot make our regular meetings (or think they're too technical... although that's silly!)
For the most part, though, people from the general public who just happen to be wandering by, notice our exhibit and drop by to see what it is. Visitors range from complete computer-'newbies' to Linux and UNIX gurus who are surprised to learn about LUGOD. (Which is also silly, after so many years!)
Why Do We Demo?
The reason for holding demos is three-fold:
First, we aim to educate the public that there are good alternatives to Microsoft. We want to show people what Linux and Open Source are, and how well they work.
Secondly, it serves as a very good way to advertise the LUG to people who already run Linux but may not know that there is a user group in the area.
Thirdly, some people think LUGOD is "just a UCD organization." We're not! We're our own 501(c)7 non-profit, and our goal is to be a resource to the entire populace of Davis and the surrounding region.
When Are Demos?
In the past, we tried to hold demos once a month, typically on a Saturday. These days, we do demos on their own far less often, however we still participate in other events, such as Whole Earth Festival, Software Freedom Day, and a LUG booth at LinuxWorld Expo.
Where Are Demos?
We hold Demos at different locations. Our favorite venue was the Demo Kitchen at the Davis Food Co-Op, though at the moment no such thing exists (the Co-Op is under construction). Generally, they've been at one of the following locations:
Davis Farmer's Market
Central Park, 4th and C Streets, Davis
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(Our old FM demo How-To)
(Aerial photo highlighting our typical setup location at the park)
Past: Borders Books & Music of Davis
500 1st Street, Davis
Our Demo Computer
In June 2000, VA Linux Systems donated a PC to LUGOD for our demos and InstallFests.
In January 2004, we received a mini-ITX system for a very reduced price from Dave Margolis, which replaced the old VA system.
In late 2018, member Jens-Christian Lache graciously donated us two former Macbooks converted to Linux Mint, as well as an ASUS netbook, also running Mint! These machines are currently in service during Farmer's Market and Tech Cafe events.
It's always encouraged and appreciated when volunteers bring their own hardware for demonstrations, including laptops, netbooks, Raspberry Pis, and other Linux-based devices.
Help Us Demo!
If you'd like to show off some equipment running Linux, and/or volunteer to man our booth, please contact the Demo Coordinator and/or one of our other officers.


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Christmas (and Hannukah) in the South
It's the Christmas season. Even though today is Christmas Day, the season will actually go on until about ten days after the New Year. I live in the South, after all.
One way you know that Christmas season has arrived is through the wild things that sprout from the earth. Not far from where I live, for example, a multitude of lights forming figures, messages, and other decorative forms did exactly that right after Halloween. At night, "God Bless America" twinkles next to two nutcrackers, the American flag and huge praying hands. "Remember Jesus" is not far from a massive, 20-foot angel with a watering can. I am confused by her presence, but there may be time to figure it out before the season is over.
The other way you learn that it is Christmastime occurs when you have any pleasant exchange with other human beings. I recently visited with two nice women in a tiny and overly frigid medical examination room – one, a doctor I had just met, and the other her assistant.
The doctor finished her instructions and got ready to leave. "Merry Christmas!" she said.
"Well, for me that would be "happy Hannukah," I said brightly, "but if you celebrate Christmas, merry Christmas to you!"
She smiled and left. The assistant handed me some paperwork to take to take to the checkout desk.
"Merry Christmas!" she said.
"Well, for me that would be "happy Hannukah," I repeated brightly, "but if you celebrate Christmas, merry Christmas to you!"
You can guess what occurred at the checkout desk…
I used to find all this southern Christmas excess pretty annoying. I grew up in a relatively urban setting where it was incumbent upon right-thinking individuals to wish each other "happy holidays."
So, when I first arrived here, almost thirty years ago, Christmas was a tinch challenging. Predictable questions were always being put to my adorable young son at the checkout line. Either folks wanted to know if he had been good so that Santa would bring him lots of presents or, if we were past Christmas Day, he would be asked if Santa had recognized how good a child he was and brought him lots of presents. We would be wished a merry Christmas for walking in the door, we would be wished a merry Christmas for passing along the aisles, and we would be wished a merry Christmas as we left.
Still, it's all a matter of perspective, right?
I can prove it. Or rather, a colleague of mine, an ordained rabbi and former professor of child development, will.
"I was living in Jerusalem," Rabbi Steven Silvern told me a while back, "and one Friday morning I went out shopping. After all, what does one do Friday mornings in Jerusalem? Shop for Shabbos!"
The supermarket was right across the street from a convent. While Reb Steven was shopping, one of the nuns came across the street to do her shopping. She was dressed in nun habit.
She was a large-ish woman, wearing an imposing cross hanging on a chain. My colleague demonstrated the size of the cross with his hands. It appears to have checked in at about eight by twelve inches.
He ended up near the nun at the checkout line. The cashier wrapped up all her purchases, she paid, and as she got ready to leave, the cashier turned to the nun.
"Gut Shabbos!" he said cheerfully.
Human beings, God bless us all, are creatures of reflex, not reflection. We are rather inclined to focus on our navels and to presume that all other navels look like ours.
And they do, sort of.
So, that said, I would like to say something to anyone who has read to the end of this post. Happy Hanukkah! (And Merry Christmas, too…).
This post is dedicated to my friend and colleague, Rabbi Steven Silvern, who never fails to help me laugh.
Love's Courage: In Memory of Janet Elaine Holland Ayers
Today, on Shabbat, I sang and prayed with the family of McGill Baptist Church in Concord, North Carolina. We remembered together.
We had gathered for the memorial service of Janet Elaine Holland Ayers, librarian, mother of three, grandmother of six, and wife of Pastor Steve Ayers.
Janet was stricken with early-onset Alzheimer's, and the record of her last years has been chronicled by Steve's moving testimony. In one Facebook post after another, we have read of every small and painful progression of the disease, the moments of memory lost and regained. We discovered how Janet learned to live, and we witnessed the way everyone around her lived in the grace of her love.
Steve has, with the courage of Janet's love, created a chronicle of love. Even when Janet could not remember or use his name, she remembered their love. When she still could, she would tell him how she loved "her Steve." Nearing the close of her life, if Steve told her he loved her, she would say "I know!" During the service, he told us that after one particularly happy visit, she turned to him and announced happily, "Steve, we ought to get married!" And Steve, who has had the grace to stay in all the holy places Janet inhabited throughout these years, no matter what time or what location he found himself in, agreed. "That's a great idea!" he said.
There is no one who met Janet who does not carry some lasting memory of her. Of course she was gracious to my little havurah, my small congregation. Of course she wanted to join Steve and the church in welcoming us, making us feel at home. She did that no matter what troubles we went through, how large we were, or what we could do in recompense for the welcome we were given. Of course, she was always warm and kind and welcoming. Janet was that way.
For a couple of years, we moved away from McGill Baptist Church, and though we grew by doing so, my heart broke when we did. McGill had taken us in when finding a place to meet turned out to be a challenge. McGill had refused our donation the year we had to restore our first Torah – to this day, I point out that Baptists helped put letters back on that scroll. McGill had held us, given us love and kindness and friendship, for over a decade.
When we finally returned, I had given up on all those dreams of growth so many of my then congregants had found so important. I had paid a price, and those I came back with had paid it with me. I returned with just six families; we were back where we were at our beginning.
But when I was sure we would still need someplace for us to meet, I called Steve. I asked him if there was still a place for us at McGill.
"Barbara," he told me, "we would be so glad to have you back."
"Then we are coming home," I said.
Janet overheard Steve's reaction. And then I overheard hers.
She called out quite clearly: "We love you, Barbara. We love you."
"We love you, too, Janet," I called back, crying like a child on the other end of the line.
Janet hardly knew the power of the healing she offered me that day.
Janet was a woman not to be underestimated. She possessed an intelligence and a sense of humor that was subversive and delightful.
But above all else, she knew how to love and how to receive love. "She had a love that knew no bounds," Steve said as we remembered her. To the last, he said, no matter what else she might have seemed to have lost, she knew she was loved and she knew that she was a child of God.
We say in my tradition: May her memory be for a blessing. And all who knew her know: it already is.


We had a great weekend continuing our Together series with a message on being "Together in the Word." Pastor Joe pointed us to Deuteronomy 11:18-23 to remind us of the value of keeping the Word of God ever before us as our source and our guide.
For our singing, we focused on songs that reminded us of the faithfulness and surety of God's Word and promises to us, and of what He says about us.
The team did a great job, and it was a beautiful time of singing in worship together in each of our services.
I hope you had a great weekend! Jesus is King, and He is faithful!
This weekend was our second in our Together series, and we looked at why it's important for us to be "Together in Worship." Our adult discipleship pastor, David Hinkle, called us as a congregation to move from watching to participating in worship together.
It was a great weekend. The team did a great job leading, and we sang some of our favorites in our rehearsal of what we'll be doing together for eternity: exalting the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ, with the song of those who have been redeemed!
This weekend we concluded our Awakening series with a message from 2 Timothy 1:6-12 about how the Gospel is the greatest gift for us and for others. It was a great reminder and encouragement to share the wealth of the Gospel message with everyone in our lives.
It was a great weekend together. Both Lindsay and Rachel did a great job leading, and I was thankful to only be leading one song this weekend, as I ended up with a pretty good cough. Someone commented to me that every single member of the band was singing as they played throughout the weekend, and that is a great inspiration to our congregation as they led from their respective positions. It was a beautiful thing.
I continue to see a lot of new faces in the congregation each weekend, many of whom are infusing a new energy into our gatherings, and it is very encouraging to see. I'm excited to see what the Lord does in and through our church family in the coming years!
We had a great weekend together as we continued our Awakening, looking at how the gospel is our celebration, and how it brings joy to the Father, to us, and to others who receive it. Joe focused in on Luke 15 and the "lost" parables of Jesus there, where He taught about the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the lost son. It was a beautiful reminder of how much the Father loves us and how He and all of Heaven celebrate it when we come back to Him!
The team did a great job leading together to serve the church, and all of the songs connected well with Joe's message–especially the new song, "My Victory," which I have been looking to introduce to our congregation for about two months. We hosted Crowder in concert last week, and it was awesome to hear the song sung altogether with many from our congregation and others around the city. The lyric was a great fit for this weekend, as Joe discussed the attitudes of the scribes and the Pharisees toward Jesus and toward the tax collectors and sinners, along with the dangers of us taking the same self-righteous attitude, which stifles joy. The first verse of "My Victory" sings, "You came for criminals, and ev'ry Pharisee/ You came for hypocrites, even one like me." It then turns to look at the amazing gift of salvation that was given to us through the victory of Christ's cross. My favorite part of the song is the bridge, which comes from John 1:29, where John the Baptist declares about Jesus: "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!"
I believe that for the Christian, something powerful happens when we speak or sing the truth of Scripture together. I believe that truth resonates within us and we cannot help but agree with it and be moved by it. That was the case for me this weekend, and for the first few services, I even had a hard time keeping my emotions reined in so I could finish singing it! It's a beautiful truth to sing together as we look to our wonderful Savior who has taken away our sin and who made us alive again when we were dead in our sin.
I hope you had a great weekend of worship, too.
This weekend, we celebrated our church's 20th anniversary. It was a special weekend as we reflected on how the Lord has moved in and through our church family here in Topeka. It's pretty wild to think that I have been around for a quarter of the life of the church, too!
For the message this weekend, Joe continued in our Awakening series with a talk about why we still need the gospel, looking at the "rodents of the gospel," that gnaw away at our peace and rest: self-condemnation, self-righteousness, and selfishness. It was a great reminder of the subtle power these things can have in our lives, and to continually go back to the gospel for the truth about who we are in Christ.
It was a beautiful weekend together as we reminded one another of the truth of the gospel: that Jesus did it all, and we were undeserving of the grace, love, and mercy He has shown us. He is so good to us!
I hope you had a great weekend, as well.
This week was the first of our new series, Awakening, where we are looking at the gospel for all of life as we receive it, live it, and give it away. In this first message, Joe shared about the declarations of the gospel–what it says about God, and what it says about us. It was a beautiful reminder of how the gospel changes our relationship with God, and brings us into fellowship with Him and with each other.
It was a great start to the series. The team did a great job, and it was a very celebratory weekend with the words we were singing, as we celebrated the gospel and how Jesus came to our rescue through His death, burial, and resurrection.
Harper Compton, my worship arts associate and right hand man, led us in worship, and he and the team did an excellent job.
As we sang, I was overwhelmed at many moments as I thought of how faithful the Lord has been. His love has never failed, and He has been with us through it all.
My prayer is that, as we face the inevitable storms of this life, we would know that the Lord is with us and is working all things together for good for us.
This weekend was our third in the Storms series, and this week Joe shared about Jesus as the Master of the storm, and how the best place for us to be is anywhere with Jesus.
For the rest of our singing together, we focused on themes of God being with us, Him being Lord of all and the name above all names, and the cross being the demonstration of God's unfailing love toward us. It felt like the songs really connected well with the themes of Joe's message from Mark 4, and everything came together well for a cohesive message and reminder for all of us to trust Jesus in all of life's trials and storms.
This was our second weekend in our Storms series (I was on vacation last weekend) and the message this weekend was about Jonah, and how storms call us back to the Lord. Joe called those who have been running away to return to the Lord, and for those of us who knew people who had run away to pray for the Lord to bring them back.
We had a huge band this weekend (11 people!!!), and it was a great time serving together. We had three leaders, two acoustics, three electrics, bass, drums, keys, violin, and banjo, and it was a beautiful thing. The team did a great job serving and leading. For our singing, we focused on how the Lord sought us out to serve us and save us in His incredible grace and kindness toward us, and how we all desperately need His continued working in our lives.
I am so grateful to the Lord for what He is doing in our church and in our team!
This was our fourth and final week going through Paul's letters to Timothy in our Keep The Faith series and this weekend, Joe's message was about how to "Keep the Faith in Preaching" out of 2 Timothy 4:1-8.
I love this song, and it was very fitting for both communion and Joe's message this weekend.
May you find peace and rest in the fact that Jesus is all that you need, and that He has completely accomplished the work of redemption for you. That is the rest that is found only in the Gospel of Jesus.
This was our third weekend going through Paul's letters to Timothy, and this weekend Pastor Joe shared from 2 Timothy 2:1-13 about Keeping the Faith in Endurance.
It was another great weekend together. There are some songs that seem to only fit really well when we're talking about trials or suffering, and many of those are written by Matt Redman. He has a keen understanding of what it looks like to worship Jesus in the midst of suffering, and those songs really connect with our people. "10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lord)" and "You Never Let Go" are just two of those, and they were both very fitting for this weekend's message.
This weekend was our second in Paul's letters to Timothy, and missions pastor Kyle Brown focused on 1 Tim. 4:6-10 in a message titled, "How to Keep the Faith in Leadership." The greatest challenge for us, Kyle said, was for us to lead ourselves. He called us to trust in Jesus and to see Him as our greatest promise and our greatest prize.
It was a great weekend together. We sang some congregational favorites, and from top to bottom of the service, it was clear that the Lord's hand was at work in the planning. The team did a great job leading, and I enjoyed playing rhythm electric for a change.
I hope you had a great weekend of worship, too!
This weekend we began our series through Paul's letters to Timothy, Keep The Faith. For his message this weekend, Pastor Joe shared about how the Gospel changes the way we interact with others–primarily leading us to love others as Christ has first loved us. It was a great reminder of both the Gospel message for us, and the Gospel impact on our daily lives and leadership.
It was a great weekend together. The team worked hard and served well, and Jesus was lifted up. I really enjoyed singing "Jesus Take All of Me"–it had been a while!
This weekend we wrapped up our series on the life of David, Rise or Fall. The message this weekend from our family pastor, Brian Tryhus, was about the legacy of David as a man after God's own heart. Despite many moments of serious failure with heavy consequences, David always responded to his sin with confession and repentance and turned back to the Lord in faith and obedience. Brian challenged us to respond in the same way to our sin so that we might all be people after God's own heart like David.
In light of the tragic events in our country and around the world over these past few weeks, that answer is simple but profound. We all need to recognize that we, because of sin, are are each part of the problem with the world. The solution is to pursue a life of humility, confession, repentance, and love–like David.
It felt like a heavy weekend as we gathered together, but one in which I felt a great deal of hope because of Jesus and His gospel. We had planned for a few weeks to emphasize how Christ had worked redemption and forgiveness for our sin through the cross, and I can see how God was at work in the planning because it felt very fitting to sing these songs together this weekend. Our team led well, and the church sang out together as we celebrated the light and hope of the gospel message, even in the face of great darkness, both within each of us and in our world.
This weekend, we celebrated and dedicated our building expansion together. We spent our time emphasizing what we come together to do in this space on a weekly basis: declare the greatness of God, thank God for His goodness, respond to the grace of God, seek guidance from God, and reach the next generation for God. It is a special weekend in the life of our church, as we have seen God do great things over the course of our short history, and we also look forward to what He will continue to do in and through us.
It was a great weekend together. The songs we sang carried the themes of God's unique worthiness of our worship, His name being above all others, His goodness to us, and His faithfulness.