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Queen Shiyiwe Mantfombi Dlamini-Zulu Dies
The nation is in shock
By | Apr 30, 2021, 02:40 PM
This morning, South Africans has woken up to the shocking news about the passing of Mantfombi Dlamini, Princess of eSwatini, Queen of the Zulu. This comes just after a month since the passing of her husband and the Great Zulu King, Zwelithini. According to reports, the Queen passed away on Thursday evening.
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Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi issued a statement confirming this.
"It is with the deepest shock and distress that the Royal Family announces the unexpected passing Her Majesty Queen Shiyiwe Mantfombi Dlamini-Zulu, the regent of the Zulu Nation," he continued. "This has taken us by surprise and left us utterly bereft. It is true that the Lord alone knows the days that he has allotted to each one of us. On behalf of the Royal Family I wish to assure the nation that while we are all rightly grief-stricken, there will be no leadership vacuum in the Zulu Nation."
Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi also revealed that announcements of Her Majesty's funeral arrangement will be shared soon.
"Further announcements on her majesty's funeral and the necessary arrangements will be made in due course. May her majesty, our regent, rest in peace."
#RIPQueenMantfombi pic.twitter.com/9xt45L7v0e
— Liezl van der Merwe (@Liezl_vdMerwe) April 29, 2021
The Queen became interim leader of the Zulu Kingdom under 'Queen Regent' on March 24, 20201. This came after the passing of her husband King Zwelithini Goodwill on March 12, 2021, until the next King was appointed. The Queen was hospitalized on April 27, 2021, until her passing on the 29th of April 2021.
Messages of condolences and respect to the Queen have flooded social media. Here's what some of our Zalebs had to say about her majesty.
DJ Sbu
"Sad news to wake up to. Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi has announced the passing of the Regent of the Zulu Nation.
Her Majesty Queen Shiyiwe Mantfombi Dlamini-Zulu has passed away. Lala ngoxolo Mama
I would like to send my deepest condolences to the Royal family, friends, colleagues, loved ones and the entire Zulu Nation. Nxese. Dudu bakithi 🙏🏿
RIPQueenMantfombi"
Prof Thuli Madonsela
"HeartbreakingBroken heart I can't imagine the depth of sorrow in the royal family. Heartfelt condolences to all loved ones and the Zulu nation. May Queen Mantfombi's regal soul rest in eternal peace"
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"Topical, intriguing, and suspenseful—all apt descriptions for Michael Angley's Child Finder. His debut novel in the mystery trilogy about the perennial horror of child abductions could almost be included in the science fiction genre as well, since he deftly draws both the reader and protagonist into the world of the paranormal.
The story escalates with each chapter, spawning memorable characters, some I wanted to scream at, others who brought a tear to my eye. We find Major O'Donnell and his wife and children forced to encounter violent thugs, who may or may not be government agents.
The child-victims are real; Angley's descriptions of them right on the money. Angley spins a tale that is not only believable, but causes the reader to wonder if this "paranormal world" really does exist.
"Child Finder by Mike Angley is exactly the kind of book I love to read. Though Child Finder definitely falls into the thriller category with all the necessary criteria: plenty of action, government plots including the CIA, FBI, and the military, travel to foreign soil, several chases, and an admirable hero, there is much, much more.
Child Finder's hero, an Air Force Special Agent, is a religious man, a man who loves his wife and family, and he has a gift, a gift that gives this exciting tale an unusual dimension.
"Author Mike Angley's first novel is a clever re-telling of a classic good versus evil saga with a twist. Pat O'Donnell is a warm, loving family man—a devout Irish Catholic and Federal Agent who packs a gun and a grin. His patience is short and his ability to suffer fools is almost nil. His relationship with his family, his church, the military and his country is passionate. He radiates goodness.
However, the story works on many levels. The plot is carefully thought-out and the characters are three-dimensional and familiar. From the dependable and loyal parish priest to the warm, supportive African American psychologist, Angley surrounds his protagonist with a homey glow. His red-haired wife is as fiery and beautiful as Maureen O'Hara, while his children are well-scrubbed, well-behaved, and well-beloved. There is enough derring-do to satisfy Mission Impossible aficionados while exciting Medium fans and NCIS lubbers at the same time. Child Finder is one of the few general audience thrillers that would also appeal to religious readers and young adults. The lessons are subtle, but the moral choices are clear.


Say That Again? Bless Who?
Unity In Times of Disagreement Today we are going to finish our study, "Bless Who?" Let's read our Scripture together. Turn with me to Romans 12:14-21 and let's begin. 14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.


I firmly believed in the classic dispensational view, a rapture, a seven year tribulation and Millennial reign of Christ. It was fact to me without question and a hill I would die upon—until someone challenged me on it.
Are you captivated by End Times Theories?
The main point of Biblical, Exegetical Eschatology is to tell us not to be discouraged, but remain faithful and vigilant. We are to live our lives as if Christ were coming tomorrow, or preparing and planning as if He were coming a thousand years from now. We are not to be preoccupied with the details and trivialities. That is why Jesus did not give them to us. Rather, our faith development and steadfastness are far more impacting and real for ourselves and others around us!
If Eschatology is confusing to you, be assured that there is no need to adopt or adhere to any particular viewpoint. In addition, none of us should be captivated to any one point.
Is there an Application for Revelation and Biblical Eschatology?
Revelation, as most evangelicals understand it, is about the last days and the judgment of evil, and, for the most part it is. "However," (a BIG "however," and a "however" most of us do not like to hear and will rarely study or teach on); Revelation is also about how we are called to lead faithful lives and manage HIS CHURCH!
How does Apocalyptic Literature Work?
Understanding Revelation and all of the various theories and perspectives is not that important. These are "debatable points" that I lay out side by side in the Bible Studies series in Revelation. This way, the research is done all you have to do is read His Word and examine the meanings and see the theories. I did this and found none of the theories are good. All that is important is Who Christ is in you and your trust in Him to work it all out!
Thank you so much for great ministry. Indeed it is agreat help for me. As i teach the subject of eschatology at Hope Bible College in Myanmar.
I want to request you is kindly send me your notes/ article concerning eschatology. Especially Mt 13 kingdom parable and Rev 2-3 7 churches comparison chart.
I do not have a comparison chart, but you can easly make one…. be blessed!
intresting pattern in terms of celestial and earthly events. Doe's anyone think similarly if so please respond?
discouragingly Herculean as it might be is to translate the text yourself and seek out as many viewpoints concerning the written texts as possible. I mean re-translate even to the Paleo-hebrew trust nothing if you can help it. There are also the Septuagint and the Samaritan Pentatuch beware of only the Masoretic text.


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1) You are seriously one of the most amazing people I have ever met! I wish I had your outlook on life!
2) I finished watching all of the Buffy series in about a month. AmAzInGlY fun!
Good luck with your resolutions, I think you have inspired me to make some this year! Keep up the bloggin' cause it's cool!


The name is Radka, but I'm known as Rhea Ayase on the interwebz.
I was familiar with Linux for a long time, and actively started using it somewhere around 2008. My first desktop distribution was Mandriva 2008, later it was Arch Linux and during university I switched to BackTrack, because I studied security and felt like I might as well play around a little bit out of the standard sandbox… As far as servers go my first server experience was with CentOS, then I went through ClearOS briefly, and ended up using unRAID on my home-server. It was an interesting project to set up all the things. After university I went more casual and after I sold my notebook I was left with only my Windows PC and the unRAID server for many years, however recently I went from unRAID to Fedora Server. By the way, Nextcloud is awesome!
I really, really like Bunnehs.
I usually spend the rainy days working on something, whether it's Botwinder's code, or just helping out in some open source or gaming community, I enjoy it.
Wish I could still claim that I'm a gamer, but sadly I don't have anywhere near as much time as I used to. This is mostly due to my activities around Botwinder and all the communities and projects that I contribute to - I wasn't this active in the past. We can still find a little bit of time to play a game or two with my boyfriend though!
This is my Kirei. That's what I call my Katana, it means beautiful in Japanese.
I used to go out to exercise a little bit of iaido, somewhere in the meadows, edge of a forest… It's Japanese martial art of drawing the sword. The goal is to be ready at all times, for example Samurai is always ready to draw the sword from any position, sitting or standing. For me it was a specific kind of relax outside.
You can follow my mountain biking adventures on my youtube channel, and you can also follow me on twitter for some of the tech stuff as well.


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Reading: Twitter: A Powerful Learning Tool
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Twitter: A Powerful Learning Tool
Sukla Das Published Apr 17, 2013
Social media in education frequently gets an awful rap for being a driving power behind people falling out of touch, neglecting in-person relationships, and reducing productivity for people around the world. Naysayers blame it for shorter spans of
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concentration and explosion of bad grammar, and the most violent of those naysayers consider that social media in education has led to privacy - being a thing of the past.
But if you look behind the rough surface, what Twitter can sometimes present is a great tool for learning. There are 145 million twitter accounts in the USA alone, and there are 200 million tweets being published every day. Twitter (and other social media for learning) can speed up the creation and usage of information by leaps and bounds further than conventional edtech social media sources, and it can also speed up the conversations pertaining to that information. It can increase the accomplishment of any topic-based discussion to an entire world of users.
Twitter is an international community, with undoubtedly international perspectives and opinions about the topics you care about - and outside perspective is good enough. It improves your thinking through the opinions and insights of others.
To influence Twitter as learning tool and a powerful tool for education, I'd suggest these practices:
1. Create Personalized Newsfeed
Communicate and collaborate with the appropriate people and create a personalized newsfeed for yourself using Twitter. You need to communicate with your respectable authors, bloggers, educators, learners and relevant media presences, and explore their interactions with people, and also communicate with those people.
When you come across someone new, you need to check out their bio-data and their last 15-20 tweets. If you feel compelled to retweet with them or engage with their content, then you've probably found a good match. If those tweets don't mean anything to you, don't communicate with them, even if they've communicated you.
2. Use the great search power
Twitter search is a powerful tool that can help you to quickly sort through the massive amounts of content being published on Twitter at any particular time. It works like a basic search engine, but shows results for content and people who talk about that keyword searched.
You need to search for "bridge" keywords for your topics of interest. There is nothing that is super precise or niche, but nothing so common as to hide the content you want in a sea of nothingness. For example: I'm very interested in new use of technology in education. I could look simply for keywords like "edtech", "technology in education", technology in classroom" or use the powerful hashtag feature for the same, and then I'd see the content I really want.
3. Explore tweet chats
A tweet chat is a virtual conversation around a central thought, and they are rather plentiful on Twitter. Participating in or listening to a tweet chat conversation is a grand way to learn about a topic from the perspective of other individuals who are interested in similar ideas. You can also use tweet chat as an opportunity to develop relationships with other stakeholders in whatever topic you choose.
To help you to find some awesome conversations to join, you will find a wiki containing many current and future tweet chats.
Twitter may seem like a tool "only for famous people", but the ability it presents to quickly and efficiently discover new content from myriad sources all over the world is invaluable. It doesn't hurt that you are satisfied for sharing good content by creating a network of similar minded individuals who are interested in listening to what you say. If you have tried Twitter for learning in the past and gave up, I would advise you to give it another attempt. If you've never tweeted in your life, I'd recommend you to join the stage, if for no other reason than to learn through the opinions and insights of your peers.
Here are some more resources for to enhance your skills in using Twitter as a learning tool.
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This is just a little video of your third birthday, little boy.
Oh Bill. You are three.
I didn't capture much of your day. But I was right there. For the time I could be. I was there. I was holding your hand. Letting you smush cupcakes in my face. Loving you. Singing 'Happy Birthday' to you. And feeling so proud to call you mine.
Three years since you have been born.
And three years since I became your mother.
Thank you for giving me the greatest gift. Teaching me so much. And loving me so fiercely.


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Q: Program to find Shortest Symbolic Expression I was solving a physics problem using lots of replacements for some expressions to get a manageable equation. Finally I got my answer, but it looked more like a waterfall than an actual result : R = f₁(P, Q) where P=f₂(A, B, C, D) where A=f₃(a, b, c) where a=f₄(R₁, R₂, R₃, R₄, R₅) and Q=[...].
So, I decided to express everything with the initial variables and get the best simplification I can (the intermediary steps do not have any physical meaning). I discovered the SageMath software which helped me to get a good expression (it got rid of a lot of square roots and ratios) but the returned answer was in an expanded form and I wasn't able to factorize it to get the shortest expression.
My only problem is the part inside a cubic root:
a⁶ +6a⁵b +3a⁴b² -28a³b³ -9a²b⁴ +54ab⁵ -27b⁶ +12a⁴bc +48a³b²c -24a²b³c -144ab⁴c +108b⁵c -3a⁴c² -12a³bc² +54a²b²c² +132ab³c² -171b⁴c² -24a²bc³ -48ab²c³ +136b³c³ +3a²c⁴ +6abc⁴ -57b²c⁴ +12bc⁵ -c⁶

It doesn't look that bad since it's just a polynomial expression, but it's huge... My problem is that I have no clue about which software to use or how to use it to get the shortest expression of this result. All I know is that a+b-c was a common pattern so it's probable that it will be in the expression : is there a software where I can input this information ?
Thank you for your answers.

A: Well, indeed it is possible to quite simplify the expression, as it is equal to :
$$(a + 3 b - c)^3 (a - b + c)^3$$
(if I didn't make any error copying your expression).
To get this, I used mathematica and the function FullSimplify. For what I know, mathematica writes expression as trees, starting with the variables and combining them 2 by 2 with operations. It seems that FullSimplify just writes as many trees it can for the expression and chose the smallest one.
Do you have access to Mathematica ? I'm not used to Sage, but I guess it can do similar things.
Edit : I've seen that your expression appears in a cubic root, so I guess it is quite convenient that it is actually a cube (maybe it is not a coïncidence by the way).

A: Maybe this site can do it, I am not sure: http://www.wolframalpha.com/widget/widgetPopup.jsp?p=v&id=7014d9722bc42de3f621eaad1da2615e&title=Simplifying+Algebraic+Expressions+Calculator&theme=blue&i0=9x-9y^3&podSelect

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Movies Too Disturbing to Sit Through
Posted on January 31, 2010 | 39 comments
As a film critic, I have to see a lot of movies that are not necessarily pleasant to sit through. Which is fine. A lot of my favorite films—and some of the most beautiful, important films of all time—would hardly be categorized as "pleasant" viewing experiences. Films like Breaking the Waves, or Requiem for a Dream, or a number of films by David Lynch, are in my view works of art, deeply disturbing though they may be.
But sometimes it's a fine line between "just far enough to make an impact" and "that's gone too far." Whether we are talking about brutal violence, explicit sex, or just a general thematic fixation on nihilism and despair, I think there is definitely a line that can be crossed.
Sometimes the line can be clearly agreed upon. Most everyone can agree that the brutality of Schindler's List is worth watching, while that of Hostel 2 is probably excessive and needless. But more often than not, these "lines" are subjective things… rendered visible in one's conscience when that inner monologue speaks up and says, "I shouldn't be watching this."
There have been moments when this voice led me to stop watching a film mid-stream. Such was the case last week, when I was watching the DVD of The Piano Teacher by Michael Haneke, a filmmaker (Cache, The White Ribbon) who I admire for his tasteful pushing of the envelope, but who in my opinion pushed it a little too far with The Piano Teacher. I stopped watching about an hour in.
Lars von Trier is another cinematic provocateur who I greatly admire; but this summer when I went to a theater in Paris to view his new film Antichrist, I couldn't bear his sickeningly violent provocations. I walked out of the theater and tried to find a creperie on the Left Bank to get my mind on other things.
There have been other films I never finished or walked out of, for the same reasons: Films like Pasolini's Salo, or Bertolucci's The Dreamers, or Noé's Irreversible.
The obvious question is: Why would you even attempt to watch these films? I can just hear the parents and preachers now: "Why subject yourself to such debased filth?" Trust me: I have thought the same thing; wrestled with it, prayed about it.
My answers usually have to do with the fact that "the line" is so subjective, and that my experience has shown that some of my favorite, most treasured movies included some "hard to watch" content. There is truth to be found—sometimes most clearly—in the midst of, or on account of, darkness. Should we wallow in it? No. Should we seek it out? Surely not. But should we bear with it, in the task of experiencing art? I think so, to an extent.
But I'm extremely interested in what others think. What is your line? Which films have you walked out of? What should be our moral ground rules for spectatorship? I definitely think there is a time when we should refuse to be subjected to certain things on screen—but I wonder sometimes about when those times are called for.
Where To Find Christian Hipsters: 10 U.S. Cities
As an entirely unscientific but perhaps accurate summary of the geographic loci of Christian hipster, here is a list of what I suggest are the ten most important cities for Christian hipsterdom. These may not be the cities with the most or the highest concentrations of Christian hipsters; They are simply the most important—for a number of reasons.
10) Orlando: This seems like an unlikely spot for a high hipster population, and indeed it is. But Orlando is the home of Relevant magazine, which immediately puts it on the Christian hipster map. It is also home of the ridiculously unhip Holy Land Experience, and hip churches with names like H20, Status and Summit.
9) Denver/Boulder/Colorado Springs: Let's just call this the greater Denver / Rocky Mountain region. It's teeming with Christian hipsters. Colorado Springs is sort of the epicenter for evangelical ridiculousness, which means there are a lot of post-fundamentalist / post-Focus on the Family hipsters running around. Denver is home to Denver Seminary and Colorado Christian University, as well as hipster churches like Scum of the Earth Church and Pathways. Boulder—"Berkley East"—is a whole other story.
8) Minneapolis/St. Paul: The Twin Cities, like Chicago, are sufficiently Midwestern and yet urbane enough to be highly attractive to Christian hipsters. It's also the home of John Piper's church, Bethlehem Baptist, Doug Pagitt's Solomon's Porch, Greg Boyd's Woodland Hills Church and several other hipster churches with names like Spirit Garage and Bluer. It's also a Christian college-heavy town, with Bethel University, North Central University, and Northwestern College all within the Twin Cities metro area.
7) Seattle: This uber hip birthplace of Starbucks and grunge is also a bastion of Christian hip. The presence of Mark Driscoll's Mars Hill church is a huge factor, but there is also Seattle Pacific and Northwest Universities, Image journal, the headquarters of World Vision, Tooth and Nail Records, and a whole lot of design and tech companies. And there are other hip churches there too, such as Church of the Apostles or Mosaic Community Church—which at one point met at a bar in Capitol Hill, Seattle's hipster/gay neighborhood.
6) Los Angeles: Southern California as a region is, and always has been, a hotbed of Christian hip. From Santa Barbara all the way down the coast to San Diego, the greater L.A. area (particularly beach cities, L.A. metro, and Orange County) is full of Christian hipsters. There are countless Christian colleges, industries (film, music, media) that naturally attract Christian hipsters, and oodles of hipster churches, including Mosaic, Rock Harbor, Bel Air Presbyterian, Sandals, Reality, and countless others.
5) Grand Rapids: Grand Rapids is the home of Calvin College, so it automatically makes the list. But it's also a center of Christian book publishing, and the home of some really hip churches—none moreso than Mars Hill Bible Church, pastored by Rob "Evangelical Steve Jobs" Bell.
4) Kansas City: I might be biased, because I'm from Kansas City, but having traveled all over I can honestly say that, against all odds, Kansas City is one of the most influential cities for Christian hip in America. It's the place where the International House of Prayer (24/7 prayer) originated, where bands like Waterdeep got their start playing at hip Christian coffeehouses like the New Earth. It's the home of hipster churches like Jacob's Well, Beggars Table, Vox Dei, Redeemer Fellowship, and The Gathering. And some of the most high-end and fashionable clothing stores in the city (The Standard Style Boutique, Habitat) are owned and operated by Christian hipsters.
3) Washington D.C.: This city has a remarkably large number of young, just-out-of-college inhabitants. They go there to make a difference in the world, interning in government and nonprofit jobs for little or no money. Christian hipsters—highly idealistic, activist-leaning people that they are—migrate to D.C. in large numbers. Hip churches are not hard to come by in D.C. either, including such congregations as Capitol Hill Baptist, Falls Church, Covenant Life Church (pastored by Joshua "I kissed dating goodbye" Harris), and National Community Church, which features a totally hip coffeehouse, Ebenezers.
2) New York: As it is for any other hipster, New York is the dream destination for many Christian hipsters. Whether they go there to be actors, artists, designers, or factory workers, hipsters love living in New York. Currently, it's the city where many Christian hipster icons (such as Sufjan Stevens, Welcome Wagon, and Jay Bakker) reside. It's also the site of dozens of very hip, urbane, trend-setting churches like Redeemer Presbyterian, All Angels Episcopal, and Journey, as well as ministries such as the International Arts Movement.
1) Chicago: There are oodles of Christian colleges in the Chicago area–Wheaton, North Park, Moody, Trinity, Olivet Nazarene, and more. But beyond all that, Chicago is just a super hip place to live. Hipsters of all kinds—Christians included—flock there. It's the home of Pitchfork magazine, for goodness sake. It also has a hip heritage: the Jesus People USA are located in Uptown; the iconic 1968 DNC riots took place in Grant Park; Wilco is from there… It's also in the Midwest—a convenient urban enclave in the middle of the Bible Belt. For many Christian hipsters, Chicago is the best option for thousands of miles.
Honorable Mention: Portland, San Diego, St. Louis, Dallas, Las Vegas.
The Nominees Should Be…
Today was the deadline for the 5,777 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to turn in their completed nominations ballots for the 2010 awards. The resulting nominations will be announced February 2 and the ceremony will be March 7.
I'm sure I'll be mostly disappointed when the nominations are actually announced (and Avatar gets 9 nominations), so I'll take this opportunity to put forth the nominations I'd like to see, if I could have my way:
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Michael Haneke, The White Ribbon
Jane Campion, Bright Star
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Lorna's Silence
Viggo Mortenson, The Road
Morgan Freeman, Invictus
Joaquin Phoenix, Two Lovers
Colin Firth, A Single Man
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
Tilda Swinton, Julia
Abbie Cornish, Bright Star
Helen Mirren, The Last Station
Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Arta Dobroshi, Lorna's Silence
James McAvoy, The Last Station
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
Paul Schneider, Bright Star
Gwenyth Paltrow, Two Lovers
Melanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds
Rachel Weisz, The Brothers Bloom
Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
Julianne Moore, A Single Man
Best Foreign Film
Still Walking (Japan)
Letters to Father Jacob (Finland)
The White Ribbon (Germany)
The Headless Woman (Argentina)
Gomorra (Italy)
Food as Worship
I don't really have a theological defense of food, or even any Bible verses to backup my claim that eating food can be an act of worship. All I know is that when I'm taking my first bite of chicory rubbed filet mignon in bordelaise sauce, it feels like I'm tasting a bit of heaven.
People say that all the time. "The pie is heavenly…" "This chocolate soufflé is divine." But even as it might seem irreverent to bring such "divine" language down to the quotidian level of cuisine, I think it can sometimes be appropriate. Food is frequently a means of experiencing the pleasure of God. At least it is for me.
It's interesting to me that certain things in this world serve very utilitarian, life-sustaining purposes, and yet also give us so much pleasure. Things like clouds, oceans, sex, and all manner of food and drink. God easily could have created food that was tasteless and nothing more than nutrition. He didn't really have to give us tastebuds, and he certainly didn't have to make strawberries taste so sweet. And don't even get me started on butter, sage, potatoes, pine nuts and Spanish cheeses.
I experienced probably the most spiritual meal of my life a few weeks ago when I attended a 10-course dinner prepared by my friend and coworker Jessica Kemp. She does things with food that I've never seen done before, and this meal—in which each course was creatively inspired by one of Jessica's favorite songs of the year—was unsurpassed in the pantheon of great meals I've ever had.
Click here to read the full run-down of the ten courses through which myself and the other 7 guests were allowed to taste little bits of glory. But here are a few of the highlights that nearly brought me to tears they were so good (photos by Laurel Dailey):
Strawberry rose milkshake with rose laced cream; kobe beef, mimolette with quince mustard and vanilla aioli in steamed bun
Quail breast and leg confit, poached kumquats and "yellow lime" confit, mornay sauce, tempura basil and sage
Asagio cup with apple gelée and cave aged gruyere, blue cheese ice cream with maderia poached fig and wildflower sage honey, Brioche macaron with Cypress Grove Humboldt Fog goat cheese
How could you not experience God through food like that?
Some of my other favorite recent meals have also been courtesy of Chef Kemp. At a 5-course beer pairing dinner, I enjoyed such blessings as a homemade Kangaroo, pear and rosemary sausage, cheddar cider-beer soup, and a spicy frog leg in orange tempura with banana cream dipping sauce. At a Home Alone-inspired Christmas party (where each dessert course was inspired by something in the movie), I nearly passed out with glee when presented with the "Mimosa Mac N' Cheese" dish (bread pudding macaroni with orange and champagne cream and hicory candy bread crumbs). Who knew such things could exist and that they would be among the tastiest delights imaginable?
All this to say: I am soooo grateful that food has taste, and that God made me with tastebuds, and that he made people like my friend Mrs. Kemp, who knows how to make food a transcendent thing. It's proof that this world is not all bad, and that goodness can prevail even in the smallest things (like basil). I will never take food for granted as mere nutrition and sustenance… But I will always be thankful that God made it so much more than that.
Upcoming Criterion Releases You Should Buy
The next few months contain a stellar lineup of fantastic films getting the Criterion Collection treatment on DVD/Blu-ray. Here are 3 that I'm especially excited about:
Hunger (dir. Steve McQueen, 2008): Before he played the suave British agent for Operation Kino in Inglourious Basterds, Irish actor Michael Fassbender turned in an unflinching performance as IRA member Bobby Sands in Hunger, one of my favorite films of 2008. Release date: February 16, 2010.
Summer Hours (dir. Olivier Assayas, 2009): My #2 film of 2009, this French film is a gorgeous, haunting meditation on art, objects, and the ways in which they interact with human lives lived in time. It's not a flashy film and neither too-subtle nor too didactic, but it's full of ideas and will make you think. Release date: April 20, 2010.
Ride With the Devil (dir. Ang Lee, 1999): This is my favorite Ang Lee film, and I'm delighted to see it being released by Criterion (a 13-minutes-added director's cut no less!) In my opinion this stirring Civil War-set film features the best performances of Jeffrey Wright and Tobey Maguire, not to mention a surprisingly adept performance by Jewel. It's also near and dear to my heart because it was shot in and around my hometown of Kansas City. Release date: April 27, 2010.
Why Do We Care What Pat Robertson Says?
One of the most devastating and tragic earthquakes of my lifetime hit the already downtrodden nation of Haiti on Tuesday. It hurts my heart to think about the horror of such a calamity, which destroyed the capital city and killed tens of thousands of people.
But in the wake of this tragedy of unimaginable scope, everyone seems to be talking about something else… Pat Robertson.
Quips about Robertson and his ridiculous comments have been lighting up Twitter and Facebook. He's been a top trending topic for the last 2 days. And everyone seems to be getting quite a kick out of joining in the Robertson slam-fest. Of the many tweets I've seen, here's just a sampling:
"Pat Robertson is kinda like that senile old uncle at your family reunion. He said what? Oh, that's just crazy Uncle Pat. Pay no attention."
"Why do so many people in Haiti have to die while Pat Robertson lives?"
"Pat Robertson, bringing shame to the name of Christ for 50 years."
"I wonder what Pat Robertson blames for the NBC late night debacle."
"Pat talks about the Devil like he's had business meetings with him… or the two play racket ball…"
"Just in case you needed more proof that Pat Robertson doesn't speak for Christians, here you go…"
"Behold Pat Robertson, the unintended consequence of the first amendment."
Everyone is buzzing about Pat Robertson this and that, but how many of us have actually given money to a relief organization or said a prayer for Haiti? Why do we care so much about what this old dude is saying about pacts with the devil? More importantly, why are we still talking about it?
Christians especially seem to have rushed swiftly to the "denounce Pat!" party. He doesn't speak for us! Not all Christians are like that! He's giving our faith a black eye! Can't he just retire and disappear from the public eye?
I didn't really want to read any more about Pat Robertson today, but so many people were sending this link around to Donald Miller's blog post, I decided to click on it. Donald Miller's post eloquently repurposes Robertson's gaffe and turns it into a discussion about how being "overtly religious" is dangerous, and that faith in Christ should be intimate, quiet, and personal rather than public and loud. It should be about love and compassion rather than judgment and proclamations. How nice.
Miller's post was retweeted more than 1100 times and garnered hundreds of comments, most of which expressed a sort of collective sigh of relief from Christians desperate for a moment of better PR. Many commented something to the effect of "Thank you for defending the true nature of our loving God and Savior!"
What saddens me about all of this is that Christians felt so desperate for a "defense" of their faith. Are we really that feeble in our religion (or, excuse me, our "Christ following") that we need to even comment on dear old Pat? Is it that much of a threat? I don't think so.
We need to stop worrying so much about having a favorable image. The success of God's work in the world is not dependent on how people in 2010 perceive Christians, or how people like Pat Robertson contort the Gospel in disturbing and wrongheaded ways. If we believe God is sovereign we need to have confidence that he can overcome all the loudmouth bigots who go around saying idiotic things in the name of Christ (not that we shouldn't chastise and discipline those loudmouth bigots among us).
We need to quit worrying about how the worst among us are ruining our reputation and instead focus on living Christ-like lives in accordance to scripture and God's will. We need to worry about our own transformation first and foremost. Are we new creations?
We should love others and ease the suffering in the world—DONATE TO HELP HAITI—not because it will be better for our PR, but because the Bible tells us to and because the Spirit inside us spurs us to outward action. We should exude charity and patience and peace in our dealings with others not because it will win us admirers but because it is the Christian thing to do.
We need to be humble, yes, but not tepid. We should have confidence in the God we serve, the gospel we believe, and the church that we are. Christianity isn't going to die, and no amount of public relations nightmares will break the body of Christ that has and will continue to move in the world. As the church of the resurrected Christ, our destiny is eternal and our hope never-ending.
Let's stop talking about Pat Robertson and start living strongly in the light of our calling—which is to spread the message of hope, resurrection and renewal that is the Gospel of Christ.
Tagged Donald Miller, Haiti, Pat Robertson
My Predictions for 2020
In Relevant magazine this month, there is a fascinating 14 page article ("Bringing 2020 Into Focus") in which experts weigh in on what to expect in the coming decade, in areas like the environment, social justice, politics, culture, faith and science. As the "expert" in the cultural arena, I was commissioned to forecast the trends and changes I think will be most significant in the next 10 years. To read the whole spread, click here. But below I've excerpted a few sentences from the 4 trends I highlight.
One With the News:
Ten years ago we didn't have YouTube and blogs were barely in their infancy. "Have it your way" was just a Burger King slogan. But now, "have it your way" is manifest destiny. It's an inalienable right–a mantra that permeates everyone's digital media existence–and by 2020, it will conquer more than just music libraries. It will define the fourth estate.
All signs point to a 2020 in which the news is no longer uniform, no longer top-down and no longer the same for any two people. The news will no longer be an externality, but a personal thing—for individuals, by individuals, about individuals.
It won't just be about the ability to personalize the news people consume (through RSS feeds, Digg and personalized homepages), it will become more about people placing themselves in the thick of generating the news and being the news. CNN's "iReporter" is the current industry standard for this "citizen journalism," and sites like Newsvine–which attempt to involve average consumers in the generation of news–are perhaps a good indicator of what is to come. (…)
The New Cultural Power Brokers:
Whether it's the 17-year-old film critic blogger who talks up the unknown indie films or a music webzine like Pitchfork that rises to atmospheric importance because of a track record of reliably good taste, these everyday tastemakers will rule the roost of cultural capital in 2020. They will be the arbiters of worth-my-attention commodities for the niche audiences they twitter to. They will pan for gold in the muddy waters of DIY culture-making and elevate only that which deserves it. They will carry the carrots toward which the deep pocket conglomerates race to monetize, and though merely "intermediaries," they will be the most indispensable link in the chain. (…)
There Will Be No Place Like Home:
Home is making a comeback; "local" is the new "global." And in 2020, people wonder why, back in the day, they were ever so antsy to leave.
Rising gas prices and struggling airlines will lead to continued escalation in transportation costs and the desire to "get out" will simply be crowded out by the realities of affordability. The "main street" local economy will thrive again and shipping costs will make homegrown business more viable. (…)
Tagged 2020, future, journalism, Relevant Magazine, technology
Hipster Church Tour: Resurrection Presbyterian
Church Name: Resurrection Presbyterian
Head Pastor: Vito Aiuto
Summary: Resurrection Presbyterian is a noteworthy hipster church for a number of reasons. Launched in 2004 as a plant of the Redeemer planting network, Resurrection is situated smack dab in the heart of worldwide hipster culture: Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Not only that, but the church is pastored by Vito Aiuto, a full-blooded Christian hipster who is a reverend by day and indie musician by night. He and his wife Monique moonlight as The Welcome Wagon and released their Sufjan Stevens-produced debut album on Asthmatic Kitty in late 2008. The church itself bears many of the typical marks of a vibrant hipster Christian community: liturgy, pews, communion out of a common cup (with real port!), and a strongly infused mission-mindedness that includes local social justice work, HIV/AIDS ministry in Africa, and a leadership development/church-planting initiative known as the Brooklyn Church Project. I attended Resurrection on a steamy, stormy May evening in 2009.
Building: The church meets at St. Paul's Lutheran church in Williamsburg. St. Paul's meets in the morning, and Resurrection Presbyterian meets in the evenings. It's a beautiful old building, with stained glass, organ, and dark wood pews. It's a creaky, humid structure that fits well with the liturgy, read prayers and quirky renditions of ancient hymns that make up a typical Resurrection service.
Congregation: There were about 100 people in worship on the Sunday I attended (granted, it was Memorial Day weekend), and the crowd seemed to be mostly twentysomething singles and a few young families, with a smattering of older folks here and there. Naturally, there were a LOT of hipsters in attendance, with tattoos, scruffy beards and skinny jeans galore.
Music: The music reflects the style of The Welcome Wagon: pared down, acoustic, vintage, thoroughly hipster but totally reverent. On the day I attended, there appeared to be only two musicians in the worship ensemble—a woman who sang and man who alternated playing guitar, piano, and a number of other instruments. The worship songs were entirely old hymns, including "Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise," and "Fairest Lord Jesus." There were also a number of purely instrumental songs—a tenor sax prelude, a jazzy ragtime-sounding piano solo during offertory and communion, etc. The music was quiet and worshipful and fit the building well. It was about the farthest thing you could get from your typical megachurch rock band or praise team.
Arts: Many artists and aesthetically-minded people attend the church, and the fact that the pastor is an acclaimed indie rock artist indicates that this is a congregation quite naturally and organically "artsy."
Technology: Almost nill. There are no overhead projectors of any kind, and the music has no bells and whistles whatsoever. It's a slap in the face to technophile churches everywhere.
Neighborhood: Williamsburg: the epicenter of hip. Though increasingly gentrified, the neighborhood still has its rough edges, ethnic diversity and pockets of poverty, which makes it even more appealing to hipsters. This area of Brooklyn—bordered by Greenpoint, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bushwick—is packed with trendy bars, concert venues, vegan restaurants, record stores, vintage clothiers and used bookstores, especially along Bedford Avenue. The arts and indie music community in this area of New York is particularly strong, with new Pitchfork-heralded bands emerging seemingly weekly from the lofts and dingy flats of the Brooklyn scene.
Preaching: Vito Aiuto speaks mosts Sundays, though on the day I attended he was absent and associate pastor Chris Hildebrand spoke on the topic of Christ's ascension (the last part of the "He is Risen Indeed! Stories of Resurrection Life" series). Hildebrand's sermon, which incorporated quotes from N.T. Wright and references to Google Maps, focused on Christ's kingly authority and the implications of the ascension on our lives—that Jesus calls us to both humility and hope. In subsequent weeks I also listened to sermons online that Vito preached on a Farmer's market-inspired sermon series about the fruits of the spirit: "Organic, Local and Beautiful: Bearing the Fruits of God's Spirit." It was a fascinating series of sermons because it seemed entirely appropriate and directed toward the hipster Christian audience, and yet thoroughly Biblical as well.
Quote from pulpit: "We don't want to be the man. We want to be as far away from that as possible. We know what we don't want to be. But the question is: what do you want to give your life to? What will this church look like? We have a pretty good idea about what church we don't want to belong to, but what kind of church are we going to be?" (5/31/09)
Quote from website: "A look at our liturgy—the pattern of our worship together—shows that worship begins with God's gracious movement towards us: God calls us to worship; he tells us of the forgiveness of our sins; he speaks his word of comfort, rebuke, and encouragement; he feeds us at Holy Communion."
Tagged hipster christianity, Hipster church, Sufjan Stevens, The Welcome Wagon
The White Ribbon (which last week I named the best film of 2009) is unlike any film I saw this year, and a film that any lover of cinema should make an effort to see and think about deeply.
Directed by Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke (Cache, Funny Games), The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band) is a German-language film that is at once the most luxurious visual feast of the year and the most psychologically challenging. Set in a small agrarian German village in 1913 (in the last days of peace before WWI), where strange deaths and disturbing incidents begin to unnerve the villagers, Ribbon explores the psyche of feudal-era Germany on the brink of the chain of events that would lead them to become the most infamous example of fascism in world history. In talking about the film, Haneke has said this:
"Why do people follow an ideology? German fascism is the best-known example of ideological delusion. The grownups of 1933 and 1945 were children in the years prior to World War 1. What made them susceptible to following political Pied Pipers? My film doesn't attempt to explain German fascism. It explores the psychological preconditions of its adherents. What in people's upbringing makes them willing to surrender their responsibilities? What in their upbringing makes them hate?"
The beauty of The White Ribbon is that even while it tackles a huge question (the origins of fascism), it does so with the sort of hyper-subtlety and open-endedness that requires the viewer to do most of the interpretive work. We can easily recognize that Haneke is indeed making a statement about things like discipline, violence, Christianity, fear and hate, but we are left to our own psychological devices to put all the pieces together.
And indeed it is a puzzle. From the painstakingly slow fade from black that opens the film, through the 144 minutes of fragmentary, multiple-storyline episodic exposition that ends with another painstakingly slow fade to black, it is clear that Haneke is uninterested in proving us with clear or easy answers. On the contrary, he wants the audience to think. The noticeable quietness of the film (as with all of Haneke's films, there is no soundtrack or nondiegetic music) is but one clue that Ribbon intends to invite the audience to process and create the meaning themselves.
Haneke, a former film critic who studied philosophy and psychology in Vienna, is a cerebral filmmaker interested in the cerebral processes of cinema—that is, how the mind of the spectator makes sense of what they see on screen. Haneke is doubtless familiar with the tradition in early classical film theory concerning spectatorship, in which psychologists/theorists like Hugo Münsterberg and Rudolf Arnheim argued for various interpretations of the spectator's psychological relationship to the movies. In his 1932 text, Film as Art, for example, Arnheim (a student of Gestalt psychology) argues that the spectator's mind is the only way "reality" can be drawn out of cinema (which is inherently unrealistic). In Arnheim's view, film does not and cannot have a direct correlation to reality; rather, it provides a partial illusion that the spectator's mind can then process and understand as if it were some sort of reproduction of reality.
This may seem obvious and fundamental—and indeed, the reality of our gaze and its voluntary and involuntary interpretive power is something we rarely think of in the process of seeing—but it's nonetheless a curious power of the cinema of which Haneke is interested in forcing us to reckon. How do we see when we watch a film? What power do we have to construct the meaning of an image? Is our understanding of a film determined by the manipulative powers of the filmmakers to "control" the direction and attention of our gaze?
"When you make a film you're manipulating the spectator," said Haneke in a recent Newsweek interview. "If you place your camera here instead of there, you're going to give a very different impression, so filmmaking always involves manipulation. The question is rather, to what end do you manipulate the spectator? I've often said that manipulation is a form of rape. The only acceptable form of rape is when you rape the spectator into autonomy, make the spectator aware of their role as a receptor, as a victim, so that they become autonomous or independent."
At various points in The White Ribbon, Haneke spotlights the ways in which we, as the audience, are manipulated by cinema. There are certain cuts where we expect to see something and think we see something (in one case, something quite disturbing) that turns out to be something else. We question why our minds "went there." In one scene there is a casket in which we think, but are not quite sure, we know who is inside. But we have to wonder about our assumptions, especially (at least in my case) because our assumptions are frequently proved false. Is the film really manipulating me that much? Or is my mind playing tricks on me? Why do I assume certain things?
Almost everything in The White Ribbon requires us to make psychological jumps. We have to connect the dots. None of the scenes of violence and treachery are actually shown on screen (as with, if you pay attention, Funny Games). We have to think about who does what, and why. When we see a little girl with scissors in her hand, and then a shot of a bird in a birdcage, we have to assume that she means harm to the bird. When we later see a shot of a dead bird, we connect the dots. But in Ribbon, that's about as easy as it gets. On top of figuring out "who did what?" plot details, we also wonder about the meaning of everything. What, for example, does the symbol of the white ribbon (tied to children to "help them avoid sin") mean? What is Haneke actually trying to say about the origins of fascism?
"I try to take the spectator seriously," said Haneke in the Newsweek interview. "Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is. My approach is rather to deal with the question, to raise the question in a way that confronts the audience with it and forces the audience to find their own responses. As a dramatist, your requirement is to do that with as much urgency as possible so the viewer feels compelled to think about the issues."
Haneke, who elsewhere has described his films as "polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator," is interested in making films full of ideas, but only as conjured up by the minds of the spectators whose thoughtfulness he solicits. The White Ribbon is a great example of a film in which we, the audience, are not force-fed anything but instead invited into the process of telling the story. No two people will have the same experience of this film, and it will mean different things to different people.
For me, The White Ribbon was as beautiful and brilliant a film as I'd seen all year—a Hawthorne-esque, literary examination of community, nation, and human nature. It's a haunting, ambiguous film about the cycles of fear, paranoia, retribution and resentment at the family and local level, and how it all interacts with history both near and far.
Tagged best of 2009, Foreign Film, Michael Haneke


- This service is provided locally for use by northern BC Amateurs only.
- Subsequent messages will go to the same station unless you enter a new call sign as above. The call sign followed by a -2 is the default APRS message recipient.
The 7th annual Northern Emergency Support Services Training conference was held at the Civic Center (conference center) in Prince George over the weekend with about 230 delegates attending.Our emergency radio communication trailer was on display along with several other mobile resources from Prince George to Terrace. Dale, Diana, Graig, and Darrel helped with this project. Visitors to our trailer were from as far away as Calgary and Sooke.
Congratulations to the nine people who got their Basic Amateur Radio Operator's Certificate today! (They all passed with honors) We look forward to having you in our club and circle of friends. The course was taught by VE7AV and VE7EAP in the Prince George Search And Rescue class room. A big thank you to our emergency response partners, PGSAR for the use of their facilities!
The following changes will take effect immediately.
- Our meetings have been switched back to the THIRD WEDNESDAY of each month.
- Absolutely no money is to be spent without prior approval of the executive. Any exceptions will be recorded as a donation to the club.
- A course will be held in the next few weeks. See the EVENTS page for details.
- This web site will again be maintained until the new one is ready to go live.
We provided radio communication for a joint evacuation exercise with several Search And Rescue groups. Classroom training was provided to the SAR members in the morning followed by the exercise in the afternoon to practice their newly learned skills. The exercise was held in the Hart area of Prince George with some residents participating as actors. 9 radio operators participated including 3 from Fort Saint John and one from Smithers. We took the opportunity to familiarize the new people with the trailer and they did the radio work, status board updates and trailer set-up and tear-down. Visitors included staff from 2 regional districts and several SAR people who had not seen the trailer in operation.
A new Canada-wide emergency alerting system will be activated on April 6th. You do not need to register for it. Here is the FAQ for it.
Good news! We have received a donation from the Prince George Cougars Society from from the proceeds of their recent record-breaking 50/50 draw. Our gratitude goes to Prince George Search And Rescue Society for sharing their portion with their two partner agencies - CASARA and PGARC. Thank you PGSAR!
Dale Laluk VE7PGB, has accepted the job of radio station manager for the north-east PREOC. He will be making sure that the equipment is kept "operational ready" and will be working with Larry to staff the station when required.
On 2017-08-12, the Amateur Radio repeater which covered the area around the Nasko and Kluskus communities west of Quesnel was destroyed by wild fire. The Baezaeko Road fire burned over the top of the Fishpot Mountain (AKA Fishpot Lookout) destroying the Amateur Radio and other sites. There is no cell service in the area and we had used this repeater when working with Search And Rescue to locate a missing person.
Restoring this site is a joint project between the Quesnel Amateurs and Prince George Amateur Radio Club. PGARC already owns the Milburn site near Quesnel and will also own the Fishpot site. When land leases and external money sources are involved, sites must be owned by a society. This and the small Amateur population in some areas explain why PGARC owns sites in several smaller communities in the region. Funding has been secured and the restoration project is well under way with the building purchased and equipment either here or ordered.
A crew installing pilings beside a Telus building in Hudson's Hope snagged buried fiber and took down all comms. There was no phone, no cell, no internet. The contractors were not aware of the damage and left for the day. The Hudson's Hope hams linked their repeater to Fort Saint John and were in touch with VE7PRG who phoned Telus about the outage. Apparently, BC Ambulance had a sat phone, and BC Hydro had a microwave link out from the generating stations. It is believed that these agencies also contacted Telus. Who made the first trouble report is not known but the Hams they were available as a back up means of reaching the outside world.
Mike passed away from cancer this evening. He was a good friend, member of our club executive, and one of our repeater maintenance technicians. Mike worked for the Ministry of Transportation (highways) since 1995. His funeral will on Tuesday Aug 8 at 3:00 PM at Assman's Funeral Chapel on Queensway. He will be missed!
Our members have spent over 80 hours of volunteer time this month working for EMBC related to the wild fires. Most of that time has been spent in the PREOC but it also includes one trip to Williams Lake during the evacuation, organizing volunteers to be on standby, and some specialized training.
A new public emergency warning system is coming to a cell phone near you by April 2018.
FEMA in Washington State is using a commercial call sign on 60M Amateur frequencies to talk to Amateurs for emergency training. This is allowed in the US but NOT in Canada.
Therefore you must instruct all EMBC Amateur Radio station operators to immediately cease making future contacts with US Government FEMA stations, unless the FEMA station is using an Amateur Radio Callsign (such as KF0EMA, thus, "operating in the Amateur Service"). This applies to voice or pactor amateur radio transmissions.
A group of us did some work and site clean up at Carney Hill. Bad news: The HF antenna has been stolen, presumably for the copper. The site battery needs to be replaced. The ends are bulging from positive plate growth and large differences in cell voltages.
We are now listed in the "Affiliations" page of the BCWARN web site with a link to our web site.
The radio and computer equipment upgrades for all the PREOCs is progressing well. The equipment has either arrived or is in transit and will be shipped to the PREOCs soon. A replacement rotator for the NE PREOC (Prince George) is being ordered. The rotator trouble at the NW PREOC (Terrace) is being investigated.
Two members, Graig & Ken, spent the day at EMBC in meetings with other emergency response participants and local governments.
We need volunteers to help with traffic control for the parade.
Web site updated including a new contact form using captcha added to the executive page.
AGM. All executive were re-elected for their second term. There is a 2-term limit.
The annual Christmas party was held at the Carmel restaurant with 27 in attendance. A draw was held for several Kenwood branded gifts donated by BK 2-Way Radio.
ARRL E-Letter: Popular TV Show HamRadioNow Adds "EmComm Extra"
PGARC members spent two days assisting Quesnel and Prince George search and rescue and the RCMP with the search for two missing hunters. Our emergency communication trailer was deployed in the back country behind Dunkley Lumber on the first day then we were dispatched to Barkerville on the second day.
A link to our Facebook page has been added to the top bar. It will open in a new tab or window depending on your browser options.
A new repeater was installed today on the peak of Morfee Mountain near Mackenzie. Bill, Lois, Jim, Graig and Warren T. installed the new equipment in the T&S Communications site. While Graig & Warren did the antenna work in the wind and clouds, the others reassembled and reconnected the VHF repeater, UHF link, APRS and power equipment in the building. Our repeater and APRS are multi-coupled into the existing VHF antenna system. The grid power is backed up by both battery and a diesel generator. A special thanks goes to T&S Communications and to Warren for letting us use their site and assisting with the installation.
This year we took the club trailer to Huble Homestead for our annual Field Day exercise. Huble Homestead is a pioneer homestead located on the bank of the Fraser River that has been restored for the enjoyment of both tourists and locals. It is located at the end of Mitchell Road off highway 97 about a 20 to 30 minute drive north of Prince George. This is an off-grid site so there is no power line noise to interfere with HF radio operation. As always, we did some training, tested all our equipment, and had a great social time. The radio operator who traveled the farthest to join us was Dave, VE7SST from Fort Saint John.
Graig met with Mike Knoff (visiting EMBC staff) at the PREOC to discuss radio technical issues and reimbursement rates. We then visited our emergency radio communication trailer which he hadn't seen it before. EMBC is assembling a list of assets to be ready to help with the Fort Mac fires if the Alberta government asks for help. Our trailer is on that list.
This week and next, a few members are working on the trailer daily doing upgrades to the trailer and equipment and some routine maintenance.
We spent the day in a gravel pit east of Prince George training with four Search And Rescue groups. Several members with little or no experience came out to "get their feet wet" and others came to help with the training and to get more practice. It was a very busy day. One member from Fort Saint John, a 5-hour trip each way, came to visit his son and train with us. We also provided radio training for a member of Mackenzie SAR. Our new telephone system between us and SAR worked extremely well. The PBX software is running on a Raspberry Pi-2 computer in our trailer.
PGARC also has a quad team trained to work with SAR and one member brought his machine and practiced with the SAR quad team. We used both the SAR commercial frequency (simplex) and our repeater network. We (PGARC & PGSAR) found a few gremlins that have been fixed.
The PREOC was in use so we moved our meeting across the road to the picnic tables in the school yard. Mid April and we had an outdoor meeting in shirt sleeves!
This exercise was primarily for the west coast but others were invited to participate to test the operational readiness of our equipment. Several of our members worked on the antenna for the remote controlled HF radio but during the exercise, HF propagation did not cooperate with us. The PREOC radio station was activated and Larry conducted a 2-meter net. The Smithers EOC was among the 15 checkins on 2-meters.
2016-04-04 Fire Restrictions in April!
- Beetle kill – larger % on the ground and drier than normal with low snow pack and dry "spring" to date.
The new PBX telephone system in our trailer is now fully operational. It provides a direct line between our trailer and the SAR command vehicle. If we have either internet or cell coverage, we can also make telephone or fax calls to or from our trailer. Several other upgrades have also been completed.
18 people including VE7EAP (Prince George) and VE7EPT (Smithers) attended a meeting at the RDFFG office in Prince George. Also in attendance were 6 SAR groups and the regional districts of Fraser Fort George (RDFFG) (Prince George), Bulkley Nechako (RDBN) (Burns Lake) and Cariboo (CRD) (Williams lake). The topic of the day was evacuation planning and coordinating the efforts of the RDs where events such as wild fires cross regional district boundaries. Items of concern included the public's understanding of what shelter in place, evacuation alert and evacuation order actually mean. Many people don't respond appropriately if they can't see the threat with their own eyes.
The first wild fire of the year has already occurred and the lack of snow pack may mean a very dry summer. Historically, a "running wild fire" might cover 20km in a couple days. Now in some places, that distance is being covered in just hours thanks to the fallen beetle killed pine trees.
There is a new procedure to get your password. The old password will no longer work. The members section has seen a major rework. Some of the old links have been moved to the front page and new content has been added. It is a work in progress so you may see more changes in the next few months.
We participated in the SET (Simulated Emergency Test) from the Prince George PREOC. EMBC's new remote controlled HF radio was used for the first time and showed a considerable improvement in the receive noise level compared to the PREOC location. The radio is located in one of our repeater sites with the control head in the PREOC. The radio and its control head communicate over the Intranet using "RemotRig" interface units at each end.
The McBride repeater and I-gate are back in operation. Valemount still has a problem that will have to wait until we can drive to the site. The Burns Lake repeater interference problem continues to haunt us.
Two of our members assisted PGSAR with radio operation and procedures training. We prepared a handout that was distributed to the attendees. As requested by SAR, we included an overview of our emergency radio communication trailer and what we do for SAR. Several SAR members indicated their desire to get their Amateur Radio Operators Certificate and were referred to www.hamstudy.com.
It is essential that we keep track of our volunteer hours - including equipment installations and maintenance as well as public service. Time spent on EMBC tasks is tracked using the task forms. A new time sheet has been posted to the documents page of our web site. It is available in 3 formats: Adobe Acrobat (pdf), Open Document format (ods), and Microsoft Office (xls).
One PGARC member and one PGSAR member joined the other students from the City of Prince George and several other emergency response agencies on a 2-day EOC Essentials course in Prince George.
Avalanche: Our repeater network and APRS network were used during the recovery of an avalanche victim who was snowmobiling in the Torpy area. This 7-hour job was done by one member working from the city. One of the PGSAR members on site is also a PGARC member.
Three members responded with our trailer for the search for a suicide victim in the Nechako River and part of the Fraser river within Prince George city limits. Nothing was found in the open water. For more information see the CKPG-TV web site.
A meeting between representatives of PGARC and the Regional District of Fraser Fort George was held at the RDFFG office. Topics included formalizing our working relationship with them, interoperability, EOCs, communication requirements etc.
Our pot luck Christmas party was enjoyed by 19 people. The food was fantastic and everyone reported having a great time. A special thanks to our hosts VE7CKZ and his wife!
We were called out along with PG SAR when a reporter for the Prince George Citizen got lost at Lost Lake which is in the Beaverly area a few kilometers west of Prince George. He wrote a front page article about his experience in the paper.
Our repeater network was used to report climbers stuck on the face of a cliff and to direct the rescue teams to the site by helicopter.
We spent 3-days helping with a search for a missing man south west of Prince George. In addition to providing radio communications, our members formed 2 search teams to help search the roads and trails with quads and trucks.
We helped Nechako Valley Search and Rescue (NVSAR) near Fort Fraser with a search for a suicide victim who jumped into the river from a bridge. Fixed and rotary wing aircraft and jet boats were used. Story on bcsara web site.
There will be 5k to 7k visitors in town for the duration of the winter games. If some of them decide to explore the mountains, our services may be required to help find them.
Our annual general meeting was held at the EMBC office. It was well attended and the directors for 2015 were elected. A reminder that membership in our club is by calendar year and may be paid from the link on our home page.
Twenty six people attended our annual Christmas dinner. This year we enjoyed a prime rib dinner in a private room at the Carmel Restaurant. At dessert time, Charlene (VA7AOK) arrived with a birthday cake for her father, Graig (VE7EAP). It was quickly devoured.
This was a large search involving about 100 volunteers. We provided radio communications for Prince George Search and Rescue. The search was for a missing woman near Willow River, east of Prince George.
Over the last few weeks, crews from CFIS-FM and PGARC installed a 72' Trylon tower and broadcast antenna at our Carney Hill radio site. Like us, CFIS is a non-profit society that is run by volunteers. They will soon begin broadcasting from Carney Hill with a new, higher power transmitter. We will be moving some of our antennas from the wood poles to the new tower as we upgrade the site.
There is a reason that Carney Hill is still standing in the middle of the valley. The soil is mixture of clay and small rocks that even mother nature couldn't move. It took 8 man-days with picks and shovels for the CFIS crew to dig the first 20 feet across the road! In that distance, they found 5 un-documented conduits and pipes running down the road. One feeds power to our building, one is a 12" overflow from the water reservoir, and three are broken and abandoned. We added two more conduits from our building to the tower, crossing the road at 90° to the others.
A crew used their quads to go to George Mountain and install a new and unique repeater system.
To minimize power consumption, we installed a single repeater to operate on two different frequencies. Using APRS messaging capabilities, this repeater can be switched between our frequency (default mode) and a narrow band commercial frequency for PGSAR.
This required some custom electronic design and manufacturing and custom programming of an Arduino single board computer. VE7LUS was the chief engineer on this project.
Another successful search for 2 missing people, this one at Coal Mine Road, east of Prince George. Due to SAR equipment failures, we supplied the SAR vehicle with power from our trailer.
We're on standby again. This time for the China Nose forest fire near Houston, BC. It is threatening the fibre optic communication cable.
Geoff Bawden, VE4BAW, is the president of Radio Amateurs of Canada. Geoff visited Prince George today. He and two club members spent an hour at EMBC talking with the regional manager. They then went for a tour of our clubs' emergency communication trailer so Geoff could see our emergency communication (EmCom) equipment and capabilities.
This search was the first time that we used our new aircraft radio (VHF-AM) to coordinate the air and ground searches. The CASARA (aka PEP-Air) (air search volunteers) managers indicated that they may call on our assistance to provide communication for their searches too. The rules state that the search aircraft must report to their control center at least every half hour. In mountainous terrain that time limit can pose significant restrictions on their searches. Adding us to their team could greatly improve their efficiency on some searches. CASARA is a national volunteer organization.
There are several out of control wild fires in the region. We have a small crew on stand by in case we are needed to provide radio communications in support of community evacuations. Our assistance is not needed at this time but we are attending conference calls and meetings to keep current on the situation.
This work party started shortly after 6 am with planned visits to Boer and Verdun Mountains, a round trip of 600 Km's The work party participants were VA7RC, VE7AV, VE7LUS and VE7XYL.
Our club's Boer Mountain site has been experiencing degraded repeater operation on 34/94 for a number of years. This trip was scheduled in conjunction with Industry Canada inspector Brad Gagon's scheduled visit through the Burns Lake area. The goal was to identify the source of the interference we are experiencing. Boer Mountain is a heavily congested broadcast station site with huge towers from all of the telephone companies. It would take a good aerial photo to show what is operating there.
The interference was determined to be there all the time when we were there. After some intensive investigation of some broadcast transmitters and a broadband wireless digital operation we determined that the likely problem is externally generated intermodulation. This is not an uncommon problem at sites with the spectral density that exists at Boer Mtn.
We determined that the best plan of attack would be to move our repeater frequencies as high as possible. After a quick check of the band plan and checks with the spectrum analyzer it was determined that TX 147.360 and RX 147.960 would be a good choice for Boer Mtn. The repeater was shutdown and the duplexer was removed and taken back to Prince George for retuning.
The road to the top is very rough but well used. The view spectacular. We could see a smoke plume from a large forest fire in Tweedsmuir provincial park, probably a hundred KM's southwest. The next stop was the Francois Lake Ferry to get to the other side of the valley. The lake is 110 KM's long and up to 244 meters deep. The elevation of the lake is 715 meters ASL.
We were on our way to Verdun from Boer Mtn in late afternoon. Some of our members took the club's emergency communication trailer to the area last summer on a search and rescue job but this was the first time across Francois Lake for Diana and Frank. They too were impressed with the surrounding area. The roads to the bottom of the mountain were excellent but the road up is really only suitable for four wheel drive and high axle clearance vehicles.
The trip to the Verdun site was to restore the APRS system which had been down for several months. The repeater was working well although we found that the time of day clock was out about 30 minutes so we had VE7MK back in Prince George remotely reset it.
The repeater, link and APRS system are located in the local broadcast society's building. The club antennas are about mid way up the tower. Great views all around.
We managed to catch the 7:30 pm ferry back across Francois Lake and arrived home at 10:45 pm with another 600 kilometers on the truck's odometer.
VA7RC, VE7AV, VE7EAP, VE7LEF, VE7LUS, VE7WBF traveled to our Valemount repeater site which is 320 KM east of Prince George. We left at 6 am to upgrade the repeater, antenna system, PV array and batteries and install a new APRS system and do some building repairs.
The road up hill overlooking the town of Valemount was brutal as it was being worked on by huge equipment to make the road accessible to logging trucks later this year.
On arrival, problem number one....our keys did not work the lock so we had to drill out the locking mechanism before we could get in. Problem number two; the water damage was much worse than expected, creating a wonderful climate for massive numbers of ants which were eating up the wood in this steel clad structure. The huge black ants were extremely docile. We didn't get a single bite in spite of digging in their nest! We removed everything in the building, and opened up the floor. We found lots of water saturated fiberglass insulation in the floor and lots of ants, rotten wood and the remains of it all. It didn't take to long for the order to go out for two sheets of pressure treated plywood for the floor, treated 2 x 6 wood, ant killer, and a new pre-hung steel clad door with new locks. This was an unexpected additional $600 expenditure.
It was late afternoon before the equipment installation even started. We all had thoughts of an overnight stay but the team worked extremely well and hard and we were able to get everything installed and operational at around 10 pm, just as it was starting to get dark.
On the trip back, we were pleasantly surprised by the excellent coverage the equipment upgrade gave us. The Valemount coverage to the west extends well past McBride to the eastern side of the Goat River Valley. Highway 16 East of Prince George now has an awesome 100% two meter linked coverage into the VE7RES repeater system for a distance of 350 plus Km's. Anyone traveling east or south of Valemount is asked to check the coverage and let us know what you find.
The Prince George Amateur Radio Club did it's annual field day exercise using our Emergency Communication Trailer. We set it up at Vivian Lake which is w-n-w of Prince George. Contacts were made on 80, 40, and 20 meter bands using solar power.
We also tested as much of the other equipment in the trailer as we could and provided training to some of our less experienced members. One radio operator made a 6-hour round trip from Houston, BC to join us.
A former Prince George Search And Rescue president and several campers visited with us and toured the trailer.
Seven members spent the afternoon doing maintenance on our Carney Hill site. We cut some brush away from the building, pressure washed the moss & dirt off it then we covered the previous owner's custom color scheme which gave the graffiti artists a clean canvass to work on.
Several other building maintenance jobs were also completed.
We work with Search And Rescue (SAR) to provide radio communications for them. We do not do any active searching.
Please send us any Amateur Radio related news of any thing that has taken place in central or northern British Columbia so we can add it to this page.


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UFC Betting Guide
UFC or Ultimate Fighting Championship is a relatively new combat sport that has quickly built up a large and loyal fanbase. The first time this sport was unveiled to the world was November 12th 1993 in Denver, USA. It was pitched as battles between different fighting styles that could only end "via knockout, submission or death". From these small beginnings, the UFC has grown into a multi-billion pound industry that has reached across the globe. It has been thrust even more into the limelight after the crossover fight between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather Jr in boxing.
UFC Basics
The UFC is a form of mixed martial arts (MMA) and the fighting doesn't take place in a ring, as you would see in boxing or wrestling, but inside an Octagon. The Octagon is an eight-sided octagonal padded mat enclosed by fenced walls - it measures 30 feet across. Fights are conducted over 5 rounds of 5 minutes for the main event or championship fights and 3 rounds for non-championship fights. In comparison in boxing, fights are normally over 12 rounds of 3 minutes duration. Back to UFC and during these fighting rounds, only the two fighters and the referee are allowed to be in the Octagon.
Fighting Styles
As the term mixed martial arts suggests there are many different types of fighting styles on view in the UFC.
Most fighters will not stick to just one style of fighting, instead, they will choose to combine a mixture of styles.
There are many different weight classes in UFC for men and women. At the time of writing these weight divisions are:
UFC Male Weight Divisions
Heavyweight - 265lb
Light Heavyweight - 205lb
Middleweight - 185lb
Welterweight - 170lb
Lightweight - 155lb
Featherweight - 145lb
Bantamweight - 135lb
Flyweight - 125lb
Strawweight - 115lb
UFC Female Weight Divisions
Winning A Fight
A fight can be won through a number of ways:
Submission: a fighter can win by submission if their opponent taps the mat, verbally submits or communicates in such a way that the referee stops the fight
Knockout: a fighter is knocked unconscious from a legal strike
Technical Knockout (TKO): TKO can be applied to three categories:
Referee Stoppage - The referee can stop the fight if they believe that the fighter is not fit to continue
Corner Stoppage - The fighters corner can stop the fight if they believe that the fighter is not fit to continue
Doctor Stoppage - The ringside doctor can halt the fight if they believe that the fighter is not fit to continue.
Judges Decision: Ringside judges score the fighters' performance to decide the winner. Judges awards fighters 10 points for winning a round and 9 points for losing a round. If the fight finishes without a clear winner then the points are tallied up to decide the winner of the bout.
Disqualification: A fighter breaks the rules and is disqualified
Forfeit: A forfeit can occur if the fighter refuses to fight for reasons other than injury
No Contest: If something occurs that leaves a fighter unable to continue through an accidental illegal act the fight can be declared no contest dependant on the number of rounds that have taken place.
Betting On UFC
As the following of UFC grows so does the interest in bookmakers and the markets offered. Big UFC events are now met will a range of different promotions from bookies keen to get your custom and you will find that the vast majority of bookies will offer a number of different markets on fights.
Selected markets can include:
Fight Winner
The most popular market to bet on and pretty straight forward. For this, you are betting on the winner of the fight, by any means.
For this one you are not only picking out who you think will win but also how they will win. So for example "Fighter A by Knockout". This will provide you with higher odds in comparison to the fight winner market
For this, you will be betting on the total number of rounds in the fight. So if you think it will finish early you go low and if you think it will last longer go high.
This market involves betting on a specific round for the fight to end in, for example round 3.
Round and method of victory
With this betting market, you not only have to correctly identify the round in which the fight will be won, but also the method of victory. For example, this could be round 2 and technical knockout. This is obviously a step up from just round betting or method of victory betting, this will be reflected in the odds however.
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UFC, like boxing, can be very hard to predict and big shocks do and have happened. How then can you win by gambling on UFC? In the long run the bookies will always be ahead so it is highly unlikely that you will profit from continuous betting on UFC. There is a way though that you can lock in profit from betting on UFC regardless of the outcome, this is through the technique of Matched Betting with Profit Accumulator. Read on to find out more.


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Why was the Elizabethan Language and Vocabulary different to many of the words in the modern English language that we use today? Why were words spelt differently in the Elizabethan language? Why does the language in Elizabethan manuscripts seem so difficult to interpret and translate? There are many reasons why we have problems interpreting and translating the Elizabethan language. It is little wonder that we need an Elizabethan language guide to assist with Elizabethan Language translations!
An amusing example of words now 'extinct' in the modern English language is 'gong'. The Elizabethan word 'gong' meant dung. The men whose job was to empty and dispose of the waste from the privies (toilets) were called 'Gong Farmers'.
In the Elizabethan alphabet the letters "u" and "v" were the same letter as were and "i" and "j"
The letter "u" was used only in the middle of a word, and the "v" was used at the beginning.
The above explanations provide valuable information for those wishing to try the translation of an Elizabethan document.
The Elizabethan language and vocabulary had not been formalised. New words were being invented. Elizabethan dictionaries were not available. Elizabethan words were therefore written in a variety of different formats. The name of William Shakespeare provides an excellent illustration of the confusion that this caused. The name Shakespeare was spelt in an astonishing variety of ways during Elizabethan times including Shakspere, Shakespere, Shakkespere, Shaxpere, Shakstaff, Sakspere, Shagspere, Shakeshafte and even Chacsper. Shakespeare himself always wrote "Shakspere." However, in many formal documents his name generally appears as Shakespeare. Interestingly, another derivation of the name "Shake-speare" appears on the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays.
The translation of words in the Elizabethan language and vocabulary requires a Modern English to Elizabethan English Dictionary. The following link provides access to an Elizabethan dictionary for an easy to follow Elizabethan language guide. The translation and definition of the Elizabethan words and meanings used in the Elizabethan language make the literature of the era, including the works of William Shakespeare much easier to understand. Click the following links for a guide to the Elizabethan language via an Elizabethan Dictionary.


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