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The Zarosh Project is under way out in the cuts of Carmel, Ca. Zarosh is currently building on his Dad's land and Dekline will be updating you on The Zarosh project as it develops.
Check out this footage of Jason Adams on getcreepy.com
Today is the last day with everyone. Yeah sorry the trip is winding down. Thanks to everyone that tuned in during the trip, Thanks Rodent, The Mag, & the rest of the family that made this trip happen. Until next time, Click the thumbnail for more pics.
1 Only a one hour left until most of the guys had to fly home
2 Zarosh gets a quick 5.0
3 Gareth caught one too
4 Jason says goodbye
5 Brad, Kayla, Rodent and Matt watch the van while we hit the Welfare banks for a minute
6 On the way out of DC we drove the the Washington Monument
7 Rodent during the six hour drive back to NC
8 1:00am parking garage session
9 Greensboro, NC is a ghost town at 1:00am
10 Melcher is the last man standing on the tour
11 This is the only form of life in downtown Greensboro, NC
Again the rain held us back. Not too much skating took place, but we had some good art appreciation to fill the void. Click the thumbnail for more pics.
1 Today we walked around the city since it was still raining
2 Then we headed over to The National Gallery of Art
3 Rodent and Jason check out a Warhol piece
4 Gareth
5 Creepy Gareth
6 We popped into L&N for a minute
7 Then we all headed over to Comet for some pizza, beer & ping pong
8 Heated ping pong sessions were going down at Comet
9 Ping Pong art in the shiter
10 More Ping Pong art
11 Tour highlights by Gareth Stehr
Off to a good start today and then the heavens opened up. I mean not just showers either. Click the thumbnail for more pics.
1 Started the day off in Downtown Richmond, Va
2 Olly was all over this manual pad
3 Melcher peep'n out the spot
4 Olly preparing for the drive to DC
5 Rodent's switch craze
6 Met up with Richmond ripper Josh Swyers for a second
7 Rodent's broken finger
8 The only thing we can do for Rodent's finger
9 Just getting into DC
10 The Capital
11 We found a quarter pipe
12 Zarosh
13 Drove by the Gold Rail
14 The Red Rail was the only dry spot in the city
15 Gareth found a new jacket at the spot
16 Gareth warms up
17 The double & triple was dry except for the run up.
18 Rain is not the biggest motivator
Check out Nick McLouth's Mag Minute...making hard tricks look easy. Nice Nick!
Today we were finishing things up in NC and headed up towards Richmond. Found a sick back yard pool, Zarosh was hyped and had a great day. Click the thumbnail for more photos.
1 First spot was "The Wave"
2 Melcher passes on the wave and reads a novel
3 Rodent broke his finger today
4 Zarosh rolling in
5 Man down
6 Jason lurking in Downtown Durham
7 Olly Todd feeling the southern eats
8 Zarosh is still hyped on his free camera
9 Everyday we are asked what band are we in? Gareth tells everyone we are in a band called "The Secrets"
10 "The Secrets" South East Tour schedule
11Cook Out is a must
12 Cook Out Everyday…twice a day
13 On the way to Virginia we went to a backyard pool
14 The Good Life
15 Zarosh smiths the deep end
16 Gareth caves the stairs
17 Zarosh backtail over the stairs
18 Best backyard pool in NC
19 Pool Party
20 Carolina mud
21 Gareth's bug bites are eating him alive
After a few souther bug bites we headed out for some breakfast and an all day spot search.
I took the guys out for some real country cooking
2 Turns out Zarosh likes pepper in his OJ
3 That's right Pepper
4 Zarosh trips out on all the random shit in the restaurant
5 Zarosh asks if he could buy this old camera
6 Zarosh and his new camera
7 Met the guys at Endless Grind Skateshop
8 Rodent was having his breakfast in the NC Legends chair
9 Johnny Randolph managing the store
10 Jason Adams pops in with some Starbucks
11 Melch was ready for the first spot
12 First spot of the day was the Full Pipes
13 Ripping
14 Gareth was the first casualty
15 It started raining so Rodent took advantage of the free time
16 As soon as it dried up we were back out
17 Gap to loading dock spot behind Endless Grind Skateshop
18 Rained out again so we headed over to Jackpot
19 Cheers
20 Raleigh, NC over and out
Today the crew woke up with the heavens crying their eyes out….Damn!…After checking the weather report it seemed to be some what scattered showers so the hunt bean for dry spots. Got it! Sure enough dry spots were found. Click the thumbnail for more pics.
1 It's raining out
2 One hour later….it's still raining out
3 Zarosh has unique taste
4 Patrick Melcher
5 Bricks dry fast. This is our first stop of the day
6 Second spot
7 The third spot is a secret spot that is way out in the cuts
8 Matt Swinski looks through the trash at the secret spot
9 Score
10 Melcher was creeping around
11 We had to wait until 8:00pm until we hiked to the spot
12 2:00am handrail mission
13 2:30am,Mission complete
14 3:00am Burgers
15 4:00am Slappies
16 4:14am the cops showed up
17 4:20am the cop sparked up and decided to let us keep skating
18 4:30am Rodent decides to start filming a line
19 5:00am Rodent has the eye of the tiger
An amazing day for everyone! We're Board demo was a huge success! The crowd was going crazy and super stoked on the Crew. Thanks for the support guys! Click the thumbnail for more pics.
1 Melcher peeps out a spot on the way to the demo
2 Zarosh decided to trim it up a bit
3 Warm up session on the way to the demo
4 Gareth and Matt found this
5 Gareth warming up
6 Melcher and Gareth
7 Gareth sets up a new ride at We're Board
8 Jason Adams Foot plant
9 Jason Adams Invert
10 Olly Todd Wallride
11 Patrick Melcher BS Lip
12 Patrick Melcher Hurricane
13 Jason Adams and Patrick Melcher
14 Pat Rakestraw came out to watch the demo
15 Gareth and the crew signing at We're Board
16 Who knows what Olly is signing (Not Dekline), but the ink alone is Money!
17 Gareth on the Green Sables to....EBAY $$$$
18 Jason Adams Sig to, Double $$$
19 Gareth Signing the Gold Scratch...$$$
20 Zarosh tagged it
21 Thanks for the support!
22 After the demo we headed back out
23 Gareth and Melcher got directions to the Twinkie ledge
24 "The Twinkie"
25 We found some giant bank to wall and called it a night
Sorry guys fir the late post. Anyways, Spots, Spots, Spots….A Fun day for the Crew & a dope sesh at an old factory Rodent found. Click the Thumbnail for more pics.
1 Melcher sleeping
2 Rodent uploading
3 Rodent and I grabbed some burgers
4 Zarosch warmed up in front of Biscuitville
5 First spot of the day
6 Secret spot
7 Rodent and Jason Adams
8 Matt B is still in good spirits
9 Gareth Stehr spotted this hubba
10 Melcher hits the banks at Duke University
11Gareth eyes up the Big 3 at Duke
12 It's getting late
13 Right across the street was our last spot and it was a go
14 Over and out
Dekline goes live at We're Board Skate Park. The demo starts @ 6pm. Check it!!
Matt Ball had a unfortunate day of skating the day before landing weird aggravating a previous injury. Other than that the Demo @ New Generation was RAD! Thanks guys it was a lot of fun. Click the thumbnail for more pics.
1 Early morning Emergency Room visit
2 Matt Ball was over the wait
3 So we drove across the street to CVS and bought some crutches
4 Dyet showed up early for once
5 We packed up the van and headed north to Greenville, SC
6 Couple hours later and we were sitting in a Greenville, SC hotel room getting ready for the demo at New Gen Skatepark
7 Patrick Melcher transfers into the bowl
8 Jason Adams lean air
9 Gareth Stehr Heelflip 50-50
10 Adam Dyet Kickflip Melon
11 Dyet got broke at the end of the demo
12 Ball was feeling the park but couldn't skate
13 Jason is still going strong
14 Olly Todd is ok
15 Signing after the demo at New Gen
16 Dyet and the crew
17 Kids
18 Chicks
19 "Hey Zarosh sign my shoe"
20 Matt Ball
21 Autographs
22 Jason Adams Signature over the banister
The pics are up from Commune Wednesday. Peep them here!! The night was a huge success and everyone had a great time. Thanks to everyone involved; the gals at Commune Wednesdays, Atoms, Sassy Boys and Bar Pink Elephant.
Shredded all day. Couple of dudes are getting tatts back in town and I'll pick them up in a bit. We are breaking out of here in the morning and headed three hours north to the demo in Greenville. See you There...
Dekline Day 5
1 Everyone wanted to start the day off back in Five Points
2 Zarosh shredding the curb outside of Stratosphere Skateshop
3 Zarosh frontboard
4 Olly chums it up with a local
5 Olly got into a heated debate
6 The bar across from Stratosphere is a magnet
7 Skate Graffiti inside the bar
8 Headed out to peep some spots
9 Zarosh spotted this one
10 Jason warming up at Foundation
11 Melcher rigged something up
12 Rodent throws out a backsmith
13 Dune Front Lip
14 Zarosh ollie
15 Dune taking a breather
16 OG ATL ripper Fred Reeves was at the spot
17 We bumped into Graham Bickerstaff too
18 Gareth on the way to the next spot
19 Zarosh cools down in the shade
20 Olly fighting the heat
21 Dune's got one more day on the trip
22 Jason
23 Gareth just heard about a party with a mini ramp
24 Oh Fuck
25 Dan-O
26 This dude just ate shit
27 Melcher's stash gets a lot of attention (Check a Moment with Melch)
28 Where's Gareth?
The Dekline team will be skating it up @ New Generation tonight! The demo starts @ 6pm. Check out the flyer for more details.
A few sprinkles?…..Not holdin' us back. Have fun and Enjoy the Ride.
1 We started the day off in Five Points at Stratosphere Skateshop
2 People like this started to show up so we decided to break out
4 Hotlanta
5 The other side of Hotlanta
6 Graffiti is different down here
7 Rodent is backing this piece
8 Zarosh warming up
9 Caveman 50-50
10 Matt B tested it out
11 Brad with his daily dose
12 Rodent aint scared to rock a purple kit
13 Over it
14 Had some sushi with Gareth
15 Heading back to Little Five Points
16 Matt B warms up
17 Southern Hospitality
18 Not sure what really happened at this point
See you guys tomorrow.
The guys are off to a great start hammerin' shit and kickin' it with the Locals. "Girls gone Dekline" Might be some good Footage....anyways peep the Pics. Looks like Gareth is eyeing up a Banger.
1: Zarosch warms up inside the grocery store.
2: Fuled by Coconuts
3: Gareth went for the spicy meat pie
4: Melcher warms up with a front board
5: Jason and Matt
6: Zarosch up and over
7: Dyet hanging with the locals
8: Gareth warming up for the next spot
9: Oh Shit Dune popped in
10: This dude was outside our hotel.
11 Oh Fuck
12 It's on
13 Dyet got hyped
14 I heard some say "what if Freddie Kruger and Lizard King had a kid"
15 Red Bull girls came to our hotel
16 But they had to go
17 These two claim they will be back later.
18 Gareth tailslides minutes after the Red Bull party ended
19 Olly recovering from the Hotlanta sun.
20 Dune fresh off his flight from LA
21 Gareth wanted to check one last spot "1854 Rail", Also the year Dave Rudabaugh, outlaw and gunfighter was born. Check out more 1854 stupid facts here.
22 Good way to end the night
23: Not a good way to end the night
1: Sinclair arrived a day late on the tour so here was the scene when I arrived at
the hotel. Rockin' Jam Sesh...
2: We met up with Matt Swinsky and checked out his ATL spot book. Organized as F@$*
3: Turns out the bump to rail is skate proofed.....
4: Pretty much the worst skate proof attempt I've ever seen. Wrench + 10 minutes + pry bar = Skate Sesh!
6. Gareth warms up with a Backside 180.
7. Then he tail tapped that shit.
8. Rolled to one more spot.
9. 2:52am......called it a night.
That's right the Dekline guys are on the road. They are going to be spending the next 2 weeks cruzin' from Hotlanta to DC with The Skateboard Mag's very own photographer Rodent. Team riders Patrick Melcher, Matt Ball, Olly Todd, Zarosh, Chris Pastras, Jason Adams, Adam Dyet, & Gareth Stehr, 2 filmers (Matt Swinski & Bradley Rosado) & Mike Sinclair new to the Dekline program helping out with the Team & Marketing are all cramming into one Van to get the job done. Have fun Guys!. Thanks for the iPhone photos Rodent….More tomarrow…..


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Propane grills are used for outdoor cooking and barbequing. Many of these units have automatic electric ignition units. Some of the ignition units break, leaving the homeowner to light the grill with a match or extended lighter. Flash fires occur when there is a buildup of propane gas and the grill is lit by an unsuspecting person. This flame is very intense, lasting only a few seconds and can result in a burn to the face, upper chest and arms. If the propane has been on for a period of time, it may even saturate the lower portion of the grill where the tank is stored. The force of the propane build up can blow open the doors on the front of the grill allowing the fire to burn the legs. There are a few principles that should be followed so that you do not have a propane flash fire that occurs when there is a buildup of propane in the barbeque.
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Regardless of age and skin type (whether or not the skin burns easily), the
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After sinking my teeth into writing workshops at the Perth Writers' Festival, I have come to realise that there are some fantastic methods for encouraging ideas and story/character development. The thing is, though, you kinda pick up these methods up as you do battle with words. It is great to have these methods on hand, but some methods, like the aforementioned Snowflake Method, really do distract from putting one word after the next. You see, whilst the Snowflake Method may be great for getting to know your characters and your plot (really, really, really) well and "growing a plot naturally", it seems specifically designed to bore you to death. To put it simply, you have to finish a project, which means writing and not sitting around contemplating your navel.
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If you've ever traveled around Europe, then you're familiar with Ryanair. The Irish low cost airline has a fleet of 300 Boeing 737-800s, and gets thousands of people from European point A to European point B every day.
Although Ryanair isn't known for luxury — the seats don't recline, there's no in-flight magazine (unless you want to buy one), and the flight attendants are constantly hawking everything from smokeless cigarettes to "Girls of Ryanair" calendars — its planes do have cushioned seats and seatbelts.
But if Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary has his way, the last ten rows of his planes will be available to budget minded customers who don't mind standing during the flight as long as they get a cheaper ticket. His standing room only scheme doesn't jive with European safety regulations, but O'Leary has made it pretty clear that he thinks the regulations, and the people who make them, are idiotic.
O'Leary, a CEO known for speaking his profanity laced mind, posits that if one of his planes crashes, everyone will die anyway, so what's the point of wearing a seatbelt? He claims that because today's aircraft landings are almost always smooth, standing passenger safety is as simple as holding onto a grab handle. Any idiot can figure that out, and if they can't, well, O'Leary has no patience for morons. That's why his company charges passengers who forget to print their boarding passes at home $76 — because they're stupid.
But the bottom line is the bottom line. O'Leary's position is that flying is a mode of transportation, nothing more, and that it should be as bare bones and cost as little as possible. Here's what he told The Telegraph:
The problem with aviation is that for 50 years it's been populated by people who think it's this wondrous sexual experience; that it's like James Bond and wonderful and we'll all be flying first class when really it's just a bleeding bus with wings.
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But as the old saying goes, you get what you pay for. The Ryanair passenger experience begins with the company's obfuscatory website. As you navigate a number of confusing boxes, the site tries again and again to sell you things — text notifications, priority boarding, an assigned seat, luggage that they guarantee will be accepted by their staff (*unless they decide it's not acceptable), and, of course, accidental death and dismemberment insurance (in case that standing room only grab handle doesn't work.
When you arrive at the airport, the checkin clerks are often surly, and have an eagle eye out for anything they can charge extra for. We already covered the boarding pass mistake fee, but if you're bag is more than 15 kg (which, when you're traveling, isn't a lot), you have to pay an extra $64. Then it's off to the waiting area, where you will stand in a long line as soon as the gate opens, waiting for the flight crew to herd everyone onto the plane.
Inside the plane, the line disolves into a complete clusterfuck as people climb over one another to get at the blue vinyl-padded, yellow plastic-backed seats which, of course, don't recline and aren't assigned in any particular order. The overhead luggage bins are painted a light yellow that makes the plastic look like it's been left in the sun for a few years, and the flight crew wear these blue and yellow uniforms that make them look like a cross between hot dog stand employees and orderlies at a Florida mental hospital whose federal funding has been cut. They sell you food, magazines, calendars, water, and everything else you can think of.
O'Leary also wants to charge customers to use the onboard lavatories, and I wouldn't be surprised if pressurized breathing air cost extra pretty soon, too. I never got a chance to ask, but when the flight attendant — a very stern-looking young Irish woman who scolded me for taking pictures — passed by with the "Ryanair Girls Gone Wild" calendar, or whatever it was, I wondered if you could pay to have sex with flight attendants, too. Hell, for most of the flight, they're standing around doing nothing. Might as well put 'em to work for the company during their idle moments.
But Ryanair makes money because it's a necessary evil. At the end of the day, it's better to pay $80 for a really crappy three hour flight than pay $300 for a really nice one with napkins and cocktails and politeness and all that stuff you don't really need. O'Leary puts it best:
You want to spend that money on a nice hotel, apartment or restaurant. You don't want to piss it all away at the airport or on the airline.
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Lesotho-born and raised, Nancy Messieh, The Next Web's Middle East Editor, is an Egyptian writer and photographer based in Cairo, Egypt. Fol Lesotho-born and raised, Nancy Messieh, The Next Web's Middle East Editor, is an Egyptian writer and photographer based in Cairo, Egypt. Follow her on Twitter, her site or Google+ or get in touch at [email protected]
We recently told you about the Tweetback initiative, where a group of Egyptian activists and professionals, have teamed together to raise both money and awareness using Twitter.
The initiative, spearheaded by blogger and activist Mahmoud Salem, managed to bring in over $200,000 in just one week. Salem told The Next Web, "We managed to reach seventy percent of what we need to do in phase one."
Local and multinational companies including Coca Cola, Mobinil and Azza Fahmy Jewelry donated a total of $150,000 collectively, while anonymous donors accounted for about $70,500 of the total.
What did the donors get in return? A group of influential tweeps from the Egyptian online scene all gathered during a one-day event where the donations were announced, and the information was disseminated on Twitter.
Tweetback participants also shared information about Ezbeit Khairallah, the impoverished community of over 650,00, which will be benefiting from the donations.
"In phase two, we hope we'll exceed the remaining thirty percent, where we'll be crowd-sourcing the donations," Salem continued. An IVR line and an SMS campaign have been set up allowing Tweetback to continue to accept donations, starting with as little as under a dollar.
We spoke to a few of the tweeps involved asking them why they decided to participate, and what they thought of the initiative and this is what they had to say.
Al Jazeera journalist Ayman Mohyieldin: I think it's a great initiative to incorporate social media, which was a huge factor in bringing so many people together for the revolution, and has been a great source of information, so it just seems like a logical continuation by that very same process to take it to helping communities and using social media to really do grassroots work by drawing on the strength of the very same people who helped get out so much of the information to the outside world.
Award-winning Egyptian journalist Ethar El-Katatney: I think it's a brilliant initiative. Why haven't we thought of this before? We use social media so much, we have so much reach. It doesn't cost anything, it benefits everyone and it's very easy to do. There's no hassle for me. It's such a positive way for me to contribute with minimal effort. It just requires you to tweet, which I do all the time anyway, so I might as well tweet it in a constructive way.
Nile FM Radio DJ, Safi: We're getting our hands digitally dirty. It's important to go out there and really get your hands dirty, but this is a great way to raise awareness. You can get 20 tweeps in a room and they can make a difference by just clicking buttons. We can't forget that welfare is important, because if people are well off, there's no room for bickering based on ideological differences.
Doctor and YouTube celebrity Bassem Youssef: People of this class have always been accused of being unaware of what is happening around them in the country. This is a way to tell them, we're here, we're aware, and we just need to know where to direct our energy.
Daily News Journalist Sarah El Sirgany: Everyone has been talking about generating money out of Twitter or out of the online world. Some have done it successfully. The idea here is to do it in Egypt but not to generate money for profit, but rather for development. A lot of companies are working on their social media presence, so why not use an initiative like this and the human resources, so to speak, of the social media – tweeps and people on Facebook. It doesn't cost anyone anything. The projects that are being planned are developing projects, not charity projects. They're working on infrastructure and workshops. That sort of thing in the long-term is sustainable rather than giving them a set amount of money.
Twitter is not the only form of technology that has been used to improve the living conditions of Ezbeit Khairallah residents. The NGO involved in the initiative, Peace and Plenty, used Google Earth to scale the community and the Egyptian government now relies on the data that the non-profit has generated.
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The other day, Steve Jobs stood up and announced iCloud, which replaces the PC as the hub in the iOS device ecosystem, demoting it to just another device. You no longer need to have a PC to activate or synchronize an iPhone or an iPad. This is right, and proper, and in some ways long overdue.
Meanwhile, Nintendo announced Wii U, which connects to your TV like virtually every home game console before it, but also has touchscreens embedded in the controllers. You can move a game from the TV to a controller in mid-flow, for example if someone wants to watch TV. It's not a stretch to think that someone might be able to watch a streamed TV show on a controller while someone plays a game on the television.
A few days earlier, Microsoft previewed Windows 8's new interface:
"It's going to run on laptops, it's going to run on desktops, it's going to run on PCs with mouse and keyboard," says Microsoft's Jensen Harris after demonstrating the Windows 8 interface in the company video below. "It's going to run on everything."
We're moving towards a very different paradigm for personal computing. In this connected future, more than ever before, the device is a conduit. You can consume the content or applications that you want, when you want, where you want, on the device you want; content, data and applications are all untethered to any particular object.
This doesn't have to be any less secure, any less powerful or any less customizable than what you're already doing. Most consumers will get their computing through Apple and Microsoft, as they already do (Google have ChromeOS, but unless there are major, secret features primed for release, it suddenly looks small-scale compared to the alternatives). Linux users will continue to run Linux – on their PC, on their phone and on their personal open source clouds.
Importantly, virtually all of the cloud platforms on the market have some kind of web technology component (you're going to be able to build Windows 8 apps in HTML and JavaScript, for example); it's pretty clear where all of this is going.
I'm writing and posting this blog post on a six hour flight. The Internet is increasingly everywhere; by moving to the cloud, we're allowing for lower up-front device costs backed up by ongoing subscriptions. The platform providers are going to do very well out of this. Whereas in the current paradigm they capture value by locking users into application compatibility bubbles (Windows apps won't run on Mac OS X, etc), in the cloud-based future, the lock-in comes from who runs the cloud servers. When Bill Gates started out, his vision was of a computer on every desk running Microsoft software; if he was starting out today, his vision might be a connected device in every pocket running on the Microsoft cloud.
Although this is a step forward in my opinion, there are dangers. Think about how "cloud services" as we've known them to date (web tools like Facebook) have monetized; they had to get bigger data centers, Click here for more information. As we put more and more sensitive information into the cloud, the challenge will be to maintain ownership over our information, maintain privacy over our activity, and to ensure that no one company gets to control this brave new world.


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This week's training theme:
If you want to get better at something, do it a lot.
Oh, my god. This training business is hard.
I ran nine times this week, covering just under 86 miles. The schedule wasn't that different than two weeks ago, but I feel as if I've been run over by a truck today.
The highlights this week included a slightly longer tempo run, with a block of three miles at 7:24 – 7:30 and, a mile later in the run, another block of two miles at (surprise!) 7:18. Dang. This training business may be hard, but it seems to actually work. The next day I did a 15 miler at 8:39 avg pace (!), a 12 miler on Friday at about the same pace and…drum roll, please…this morning I did just under 20 miles, last nine "around" marathon pace (more on that in a moment).
So, yeah, I'm dog tired. But I am also very happy with the way things are going. And excited about the Manhattan Half Marathon next Sunday in Central Park, which I'm using as a replacement to the training schedule's tempo run. My dream time for this race is 1:40. It would be a real kick to take 10 minutes off my last half marathon time. But I'm not exactly going to be rested, so I'll be happy with anything under 1:44.
About this morning's run — I feel good about it because it went well despite being very windy for pretty much the whole way. Steady wind of 12-15 MPH with gusts of 25 MPH or so, although it was constantly shifting direction. During a few of the more sheltered stretches, it wasn't too bad. But along the exposed parts of the route (pretty much all along the Bronx River Parkway) it was unrelenting. Going out this morning, I decided to have a positive attitude and just do my best.
So that's what I did. I was aiming for a pace of between 7:40 – 8:00. I made it on some miles, not on others. What's funny is you can tell the bits in which I was battling the wind, because the pace slows way down and the heart rate shoots way up. Some of the faster miles were probably due to a tailwind (although I'd love to believe that they were due to my supremely competent legs). But the time averages out to around 8:00 per mile, so I'm happy with what I was able to do.
Here are my splits after mile 11 of the run: 8:06, 7:49, 7:49, 8:09, 8:03, 7:52, 8:12, 7:42, 7:50
Today's run was also notable in that I tried out an alternate fueling source: Gatorade Endurance (which seems to be de rigueur on most marathon courses these days). I planted two small bottles of the "lemon" (cough cough) flavor along the course and kept a third in the car at the midway point. I have to say, the stuff tastes like window cleaner (or at least how I imagine window cleaner might taste). I am cursed with a delicate stomach but, aside from a twinge after downing 8 oz. at once, I didn't have any problems with it. (Plus my teeth are so shiny now!) Nonetheless, I think I'm leaning toward the Hammer Gels for fueling. They're a pain in the ass to carry, but they definitely provided a more noticeable "lift" on a couple of recent runs. And they don't taste like industrial-strength cleaning products.
Once again, the couch is mine today. The pattern lately is that I come home after these Sunday runs, take a bath, eat something very large, have a beer and promptly pass out for at least 45 minutes. After that, I'm still in a semi-zombie state, but at least I can muster the energy to make dinner and engage in light conversation.
A look back at the week:
- Monday: 6 miles recovery pace (AM), 4 miles recovery pace (PM)
- Tuesday: 11 mile tempo run with five miles at very speedy pace
- Wednesday, 15.1 miles, long run (steady) pace
- Thursday, 6.2 miles recovery pace (AM), 3.8 miles recover pace (PM)
- Friday, 12.4 miles, long run (steady) pace
- Saturday, 7.6 miles recovery pace*
- Sunday, 19.8 miles, long run with 9 miles at or below marathon pace
Total mileage: 85.9 miles
Paces this week:
- Tempo: 7:19 – 7:24
- Long: 7:38 – 9:35
- Recovery: 9:15 – 10:00
This week's quote:
"The woods are lovely dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep."
— Robert Frost
Coming up in training week eight: My doubles double, bringing me to four two-a-days of recovery runs. One 15 miler and one 22 miler (longest one yet) during the week. Then the half marathon on Sunday. Also, for some culture, we head up to White Plains (I'm tempted to run there, since we run more often than drive to White Plains lately) for a one-night-only showing of Spirit of the Marathon on Thursday evening. Review to come.
* This was supposed to have been an "easy" run with strideouts. But I ran way too fast on Friday and paid the price the next day.


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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Great Changes
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"Change is coming, and those who deny it are deceived. Those who resist it will be taken forcefully by it, and will not be ready. Those who yield to Me and My leading will be hidden in Me … Ready and prepared, they will not be devastated by events soon to happen."ReplyDelete
-- Glynda, that is exactly what I feel this increased time of prayer and intercession is all about that many of us have been going through (even whilst others feel everything will get better and this is all fixable). It's hard & exhausting even to continue pressing through to God yet I was reminded yesterday that we have NO idea what is happening behind the scenes (right now), with how God is moving for us and through others, let alone the world's ways. We could wake up tomorrow and everything be totally different — whether in our personal life or in the world at large.
This word's truth resonates strongly in me. Thank you for delivering it faithfully. I am now praying for you often.
VJM - Thank you for your comment. I agree, we could all wake up tomorrow and our world be forever changed. That may happen one day soon, and we all need to draw as close to Him as possible, and be ready however He tells us to prepare, whether that is by praying without ceasing, saturating ourselves in His word, or whatever other ways He tells us. God bless you, VJM - thank you for your prayers. I appreciate them more than you know. ~ GlyndaReplyDelete
Glenda, Thank you for your message about being "hidden" in God as it is of great comfort. I can hear the love in His voice when He says, "Yield to my gentle leading" as He will prepare us beforehand for what is coming. His firmness and anger are also apparent. I pray that He will find me faithful! Also, this is the first time that I have read or heard a prophetic word that said, "The man of perdition shall soon appear." I get the sense that we will witness a lot more of the end-time Biblical events, before the catching away, than I originally thought. I ask God to bless you and protect you, in Jesus' name. Amen.ReplyDelete
April, I was pretty shocked when the Lord said that about the man of perdition. I asked the Lord if that was what He said and He said 'Yes,' - I wanted to be sure. I have never studied end times scriptures, only read them, and I wasn't positive I knew who the man of perdition was and looked it up later to see. We are definitely living in the end of the end times. I think the enemy has convinced many we are not, to keep them playing out in the world, but we clearly are. God bless you, April, I also pray daily to be found faithful when He comes. ~ GlyndaReplyDelete
Hi Glynda,I have to share with you somethings that God has been doing in my life that goes along with what some of your word was about.The Lord bringing changes in our walk with him to prepare us for what is ahead.The begining of this year in a very gentle way,the Lord lead me to give up 9 boxes of DVD'S,[we never have had tv,we watched "Christian stuff"I asked the Lord to give me a scripture to confirm what I thought He was telling me,and He reminded me of the scipture about being SOBER MINDED,because the enemy roams about like a roaring lion,seeking hoever he may devour.I sensed that He desired for me to seek more what is above,not what is below,on the earth.I have plugged in to some of your teachings,which have been life changing for me.One was about what do we worship.And we will talk the most about what it is that we worship.Like I said in my last post,I am not into the Christmas "spirit" this year,which is a big change for me as well.The desire to set my mind on the Lord,be in the word,share the gospel message,and be in MUCH prayer,is so strong in me.I give the glory to the Lord,it is He that has done the work in my heart.And He uses the end days watchmen,and messengers to warn and prepare people to get ready,and be right with God.There was this dream that I had.I was standing in my front yard,it was early in the morning.The sky was dark,I sensed that it wasn't because of a storm,I thought to myself,that there mst be a volcano going off somewhere.The next part of the dream I was inside my house,I looked out in the back yard,and I saw a row of pitch black funnel clouds coming across the feild,they were picking up the dirt off the ground.The funnel clouds were coming towords my house.I did not feel fearful,I sensed that If I layed down on the floor,and on my stomach,that I would be Ok.That was the end of the dream.Stuff is coming are way,but The Lord will take care of us,Praise His name!!Blessings on you!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 18, 2011 at 7:39 PM
My husband has been given a song from the Lord, titled Change. Since I keep seeing it in the prophecy soo much I thought I might leave the link to the music video we made, its on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ5iq9a2OA8ReplyDelete
God Bless.
The word you gave contained deceived. I see so many people who are blinded by the wisdom of this world. They cannot see what is coming nor do they beleive change is about to take place. I beleive one of the decptions is that people who do beleive that we are about to experiece Life altering change are being marginalized by those whose eyes are focused on this world. God is opening spiritual eyes of those who are willing to be molded and shaped by the furnace of affliction. Most people will not care for this kind of change in their lives, but I beleive God wants us to embrace the difficult places in our lives and let them have the perfect effect that He has designed them to be. It is tempting to be angry or bitter due to the circumstances of life, but I beleive it is His will to use adversity to change who we are, humbling us and making us more and more dependant on Him. Learning to trust Him for everything and give up our self sufficientcy.
The Lord specifically told me that the end would happen in my lifetime. He also took me through my "tribulation" ahead of time so I could help lead others through it. I don't think any of us are going to get through this unscathed.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 19, 2011 at 2:30 PM
I believe that some of the changes are coming through our government.ReplyDelete
Of course, with the unpredictable weather that much of the U. S. has seen with the tornadoes, hurricanes, droughts and blizzards in the last year, change has truly come to those who have lost their homes and incomes due to storm damage or crop failure.
Of course, anyone who has fallen victim to our economic crisis and has lost their job, their retirement pensions or are still unemployed also understand the magnitude of change that economic disaster can bring. Many of these people also experienced bankruptcy and home foreclosure.
However, I believe there is other change going on in our government. For example, look at the following legislation that is on the table. It's called H. R. 1505. You can also read about this legislation on Thomas.gov. Here is an article, including a map from Pew Research:
Why would the Federal Government REALLY want to dismiss our current EPA laws and standards in order to take over 100 miles inland from our borders, surrounding the entire United States? Folks, something is amiss.
Change is coming from many different directions, but we don't need to dismiss what is going on in our government. It doesn't matter whether or not they are Republican or Democrat, they serve the same master. It's not about "We the People" anymore.
Luke 12:39-40 And this know, that if the Goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.ReplyDelete
Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
Mathew 24:42-44 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
But know this, that if the Goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh
We all can say the Lord will come here with in the next few years or days, or he will come at this appointed time or what ever our minds wants to think.. Yes we will know the seasons but we won't know the time because he comes in an hour we think not..
So you can think all you want, it won't do you a bit of good, Just be ready when he does come and don't base your faith upon dreams but on his word only..
Satan is very krafty, and he doesn't want us to be looking for our Lord at any time, but he only wants us to think, but Jesus said" I come in an hour that you think not..
So be ready folks and give your all to him, that's how your ready
Surrender your will to him so his will will live in you
Okay I just had a dream night before last that relates to this topic:ReplyDelete
My child and I were in a house when suddenly two very tall, very large muscle bound men like beings wearing suits way too small and having severe under bites and dead cold eyes, pounded on the front door, broke it down and started coming after us. I grabbed my child and ran across the house and out the back door. They chased us screaming foul blasphemous things. They were right behind me, screaming so loud I couldn't think and I realized I was having trouble remembering any scripture. I ran out the back door around the house and back in, at which point they grabbed us and threw us in a chair. I pushed my child behind me still scrambling in my mind for scripture, but they were in my face screaming so loud. Finally I lowered my head and silently cried to Jesus for help. A peace filled me so fast and so fully I became instantly calm. I slowly raised my head and looked straight at these abominations that were spitting drool at me as they screamed, and I smiled. This caused them to pause. Then I spoke saying...Your time is up...He is almost here. Then I woke up.
Not sure what it all means and maybe you all can fill me in but I believe we are closer than we think to our Lord's return.
scisme"" That dream is between you and the Lord and if you truly believe it was from him, then ask him to give you the interpretation to that dream, because if some one else gives it to you then you will never know if it is the right one or not..ReplyDelete
But when he does give you the interpretation it won't come form your mind, but it will rise up from with in your heart.. because the devil works trough our minds and causes us to think instead of listening to the Holy Spirit..
John 7:37-38 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
To many Christians reason with in their minds instead of letting the Holy Spirit spring forth from with in them.. The Lord is in our inner being and that is where his temple is, and not our minds..
Yes we can go here and there for our truth, but is it really truth at all.. The Lord comes out from our inner being and if we as Christians are always reasoning in our minds concerning the scriptures then we are capping off the over flow of the Holy Ghost.. Let him spring up from with in us, and he will guide our steps..
We as Christians need to become the temple of the Holy Ghost and let him rise up from with in us instead of using our minds, that is where the flesh man dwells..
Come and taste and see that the Lord is good and feast upon that Heavenly Manna sent from above
The second part of my post was not directed towards you scisme but was for every believer listeningReplyDelete
man of perdition interesting use of words
as i was exploring to try and make sure i knew what i was seeing as the word from God
i looked up son of perdition and came upon this site::
which has opened my eyes to see as clear as can be as to what is about to take place
please check it out it will make so much sense to many questions that hang in the open.
I had a dream that goes along with much being said. I was in "the big house"(basically all branches of gov in one location)and it was a crisis situation and many were busy working away on reports and documents and the like and as I watched it appeared much of the work and findings of the reports were just 'make work" as much of the findings were already known to those in the back rooms(were they made decisions). occasionally some new info would come up and that would be taken to the back offices but most of the work was being taken away to other rooms and filed, still everyone was busy and also seemed to know most of their work was-already known. as I went from room to room the hallways and rooms became stuffed with-stuff, all the things we sought after, expensive stuff and tech and toys all crammed in a hurry into these rooms, it had become-in the way, a burden, something to trip over, basically useless to help any. some of it was broken in the move because they had needed to move it in a hurry. I climbed over it to continue and broke some of it myself and looked to see if anyone was mad or cared-nope. I looked at the stuff I broke, it had gold inlays and glass and expensive, but nobody cared so I moved on. I had the impression the crisis had escalated and people outside were looking at the big house for fixes and answers, then I woke up. when I awoke it came to me, why do we look to the big house for answers. repentance is needed but even some believers look to the big house for the answers when others give the call to repentance and prayer and drawing close to the Lord and sharing the gospel truth and praying for our leaders, their in need of the Lord same as any. seems the fields are ripe and many are looking for answers, I'm hoping many-seeing worldly things cannot save, will hear. already seeing it.ReplyDelete
We can also rejoice! a time of drawing closer and stronger and when we see these things, looking up, our redemption draws nigh
Ever since I was a child (the first I can remember occured when I was in first grade) I would dream of the Tribulation, Christian persecution, martyrdom, chaos, imprisonment, judgement, and even the antichrist himself. Another person I'm very close to has also dreamed these things since childhood.ReplyDelete
For a long time now we have discussed what these dreams could possibly mean. The churches we have been a part of were not exactly the type of churches that would have encouraged looking too deeply into dreams, especially of this nature. However we've always wondered if we were having them because God was preparing us for the days ahead.
It wasn't until almost a couple years ago on Youtube that I discovered other people across the world were having these same kind of dreams. In one sense it was good to know we weren't alone. Though in the other it served to confirm the message within them.
Glynda I have to say that although I've felt that the appearance of the man of perdition on the world stage is close, it still surprised me when I read this here. In a way it seems surreal to be preparing to live out the same days I've dreamed of and discussed for so long.
Brandy - I agree, it feels surreal to me too!ReplyDelete


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(CNN) - Keith Olbermann, MSNBC's primetime firebrand host, has been suspended indefinitely for violating the ethics policies of his employer earlier this year when he donated to three Democrats seeking federal office, MSNBC announced Friday.
"I became aware of Keith's political contributions late last night. Mindful of NBC News policy and standards, I have suspended him indefinitely without pay," MSNBC President Phil Griffin said in a statement.
First reported by Politico and confirmed by Federal Election Commission filings, the primetime television host gave $2,400 – the maximum individual amount allowed – to each of the campaigns of Kentucky Senate candidate Jack Conway, and Arizona Reps. Raul Grijalva and Gabrielle Giffords. (View PDF's of FEC filings for Conway, Grijalva, and Giffords)
Conway lost his bid to Republican Rand Paul while Grijalva eked out a win over Tea Party-backed candidate Ruth McClung for a fifth term. Grijalva found himself in an increasingly competitive race after he announced his support of a boycott of Arizona businesses in response to the state's controversial new immigration law and often appeared on Olbermann's show where he found a sympathetic audience. CNN, meanwhile, has yet to declare a winner in Giffords' race, but the Democrat currently holds about a 3,000-vote lead with all precincts reporting.
The contributions may have violated an NBC policy that requires employers of the news organization to obtain permission ahead of any political donations or activities that could be deemed as a conflict of interest. CNN institutes a similar policy.
In a statement to Politico before the suspension was announced, Olbermann defended the contributions:
"One week ago, on the night of Thursday October 28 2010, after a discussion with a friend about the state of politics in Arizona, I donated $2,400 each to the re-election campaigns of Democratic Representatives Raul Grijalva and Gabrielle Giffords," he said in the statement. "I also donated the same amount to the campaign of Democratic Senatorial candidate Jack Conway in Kentucky."
Olbermann, as well as MSNBC executives, was a vocal critic of the $1 million donation by Fox News' parent News Corp. to the Republican Governor's Association earlier this year, saying at the time, "We now have another million reasons Fox News is the Republican news channel."
In a subsequent show, Olbermann also pressed House Majority Whip James Clyburn if there was a "legislative response" to a networks that "starts to shill for partisan causes."
A News Corp. spokesman defended the donation when it was first reported in August.
"News Corporation believes in the power of free markets, and the RGA's pro-business agenda supports our priorities at this most critical time for our economy," the spokesman said.
- CNN's Alexander Mooney and David DeSola contributed to this report
WOW. This is the most hypocrite that I see on television. It's constantly make a lot of lies about the Republicans and the everybody that has opinions on the center-right, that is why MSNBC has more letters than viewers. They constantly talk about FOX, but at least FOX has some people the represent the left or center left, but they not has one that represent the right or center-right. HYPOCRITE............................
Does anyone really think they will hold Olberperson responsible for his actions? Others at MSNBC probably did the same. It's ok for Liberals to violate rules because their cause is for having people dependent on the government so they can keep their votes. He is a primary example of what is being referred to as the "ELITES" who know what is best for everyone. They would be afraid to fire him for fear of the reaction on the left. This is worse than the supposed crime Juan Williams committed.
He has been obvious, in his one-sided programs for Democrats, on the show. While I recognize that Fox has done the same for the GOP, that doesn't make either one right, in their behaviors.
There should NOT be politically biased programming, masquerading as news.
No surprise!...Every "Host" on MSNBC is guilty of dishonest, unethical, and biased "reporting". Contributions are a foregone conclusion.
most talking media talk the talk and dont do the talk, they are hypocrite. I dont just watch or read the news much. they are not trusted.
If he was a financial, health care or manufacturing corporation he could have donated anonymously.
Yes, FOX is the channel of the right, and MSNBC, New York Times, NBC, Washington Post, Times, Newsweek, CBS, ABC etc all are the channel of the Democrats what is the point here. What a bunch of hypocrites. CNN I have to said that is moving more to the center, and I think that is why they are more relevant.
Yea, go after the little man CNN. CNN/Fox News!
'...Fox News is the Republican news channel.' Oh really?
I'd put it more like: Fox News is the republican propaganda and disinformation arm; let's at least call a spade a spade!
what violation, did nbc want to buy them instead, with recent supreme court ruling
As an employee of General Electric, I can't begin to tell you how happy I am to see MSNBC get sold off to Comcast. I am however shocked that NBC even had an ethics policy.
Is there a concern that someone might come to believe that Olbermann or MSNBC is biased? Heaven forbid.
Oh Keith, Keith Keith. I'm sure that if Glen Beck did this, you would have run it for a year. Just like a true Progressive – they want to dictate and judge me how I live my life but how they live their's is not subject to the same rules.
but Karl Rove can fund the entire Republican campaign with secret money!? as if we have campaign ethics in America!
Yeah, Keith, Fox News is the Republican news channel. And what exactly is YOUR channel? Could you and Maddow possibly be any more left wing?
Ah, it doesn't matter - MSNBC's ratings are in the toilet, anyway.


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The night before the CicLAvia that took place in April 2011, I had heard that Lance Armstrong was coming to town specifically to participate. As such, I tweeted a reminder at him and was positively fanboy-floored when he immediately tweeted a confirmation back my way.
But then again, given what we know now about his long-running penchant for dishonesty, since I didn't physically SEE him anywhere on the course the next day I can't be 100 percent certain he wasn't lying out of his spandex-clad ass.
One thing is for certain: this brief exchange went from being my most favorite tweet ever to my least.
It wasn't the first time I rode/sat/stood in awe of
my hero Mr. Doodyhead McLiarface (and there was also this previous encounter during the 2009 Amgen Tour of California). But it is the last:


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It's clear that Microsoft will bring something to Mobile World Congress. This is inevitable, and necessary. But yesterday's report that it'll be Windows Mobile 6.6 has been met with another saying it'll be Windows Mobile 7. So which is it?
The conservative choice would seem to be Windows Mobile 6.6, especially given the nagging reports that Windows Mobile 7, which we basically know to exist in some form, has been delayed—in release, if not unveiling—until late this year. But here's the thing: until yesterday, nobody had even heard of Windows Mobile 6.6. We've only just been introduced to the final version of Windows Mobile 6.5.3, which appears to be the ultimate expression of the wrongheaded 6.5.x ethos, and any interim releases, even assuming a late 2010 release for WinMo 7, would have a hard time finding handset support.
Now that Bloomberg is chiming in to say that WinMo 7 will be unveiled at Mobile World Congress, I think it's fair to bet on seeing for the first time in February. As for 6.6? I'm not convinced that it even exists, or that Microsoft is oblivious enough to press forward toward such an obvious, self-imposed dead end.
On another note, this has been some uncharacteristically tight leak control from Microsoft—we know practically nothing about Windows Mobile 7 right now, which is as refreshing as it is frustrating. [Bloomberg via Silicon Alley Insider]


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In the previous articles we have spoken about the world clinching to material wealth like velcrostrips hoping to have all luck in the world.
The materialistic desires have conquered the world. Those who know were they come from and Who they should honour do know they should not give their love to material things.
15 Do not love either the world or the things in the world.+ If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;+ 16 because everything in the world—the desire of the flesh+ and the desire of the eyes+ and the showy display of one's means of life*—does not originate with the Father, but originates with the world. (1 John 2:15, 16)
In the articles we also could see how many love to be moulded by this system of things. (Romans 12:2) The worldly desires have run high in our society, but at other times people also fell for those distractions and attractions.
The love of money or the desire to amass riches and possess material things can corrupt the heart, leading a Christian to do things that go against God's will. A few have become dishonest at work, have cheated others, or have even stolen money or objects that do not belong to them.
Lots of people do have many things of which they want to boast of is this. Lots of people also do think man is full of wisdom and that they have 'most' wisdom'. They do not want to look into their conscience which might bear witness. They are full of fleshly wisdom.
Material pursuits may bring on anxiety. For example, some complicate their lives by living beyond their means. Others have been enticed by get-rich-quick schemes and risky financial investments. For others, secular education as a means to attain financial success becomes a snare. The Bible warns: "Those who are determined to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and many senseless and hurtful desires, which plunge men into destruction and ruin."
9 However, those who are determined to be rich fall into temptation+ and a snare and many senseless and hurtful desires,+ which plunge men into destruction and ruin.+ 10 For the love+ of money is a root+ of all sorts of injurious things,*+ and by reaching out for this love some have been led astray from the faith and have stabbed themselves all over with many pains.+ (1 Timothy 6:9, 10).
Essential to not being drawn into a materialistic way of life is cultivating the ability to distinguish between right and wrong when making decisions. This ability is developed by regularly partaking of 'solid spiritual food belonging to mature people' and by 'having our perceptive powers trained through use.' (Hebrews 5:13, 14) Making sure "of the more important things" when setting priorities will also safeguard us from making wrong choices.
9 And this is what I continue praying, that YOUR love may abound+ yet more and more with accurate knowledge*+ and full discernment;*+ 10 that YOU may make sure of the more important things,+ so that YOU may be flawless+ and not be stumbling+ others up to the day of Christ, 11 and may be filled with righteous fruit,+ which is through Jesus Christ, to God's glory and praise.+ (Philippians 1:9,10,11).
A materialistic life-style can blind us, leaving little or no time for spiritual pursuits.
How can we examine ourselves and avoid being ensnared by such a life-style?
We need to consider prayerfully how and to what extent we can simplify our life. King Solomon of ancient Israel said:
"Sweet is the sleep of the one serving, regardless of whether it is little or much that he eats; but the plenty belonging to the rich one is not permitting him to sleep." (Ecclesiastes 5:12)
Does taking care of unnecessary material possessions consume a lot of our time and energy? The more we own, the more we have to maintain, insure, and protect.
Could it be to our advantage to simplify our life by freeing ourselves of certain belongings?
We think life can much be easier when not loving the material things and not focusing on the world and its worldly life.
On the other hand, by cultivating a healthy fear of displeasing Jehovah, loving justice, and being determined to hold a good conscience, we show that we love "purity of heart." That love moves us to continue to "conduct ourselves honestly in all things." (Hebrews 13:18)
18 Carry on prayer+ for us, for we trust we have an honest conscience, as we wish to conduct ourselves honestly in all things.+ 19 But I exhort YOU more especially to do this, that I may be restored to YOU the sooner.+ (Hebrews 13:18
When we act uprightly, honesty can result in a fine witness.
Emilio, an Italian Witness who works as a driver for a public transport company, found a wallet containing 470 euros ($680, U.S.). To the surprise of his colleagues, he handed the wallet to his supervisor, who later gave the wallet to the person who had lost it. Some of Emilio's colleagues were so impressed by his conduct that they became interested in the Bible and started to study. As a result, seven people from two families have accepted the truth. Yes, behaving honestly from a pure heart really can move others to praise God.—Titus 2:10.
Materialism may not seem to be an issue of loyalty, but it is. Do we trust in Jehovah's promise to provide what we really need?
33 "Keep on, then, seeking* first the kingdom and his righteousness,+ and all these [other] things will be added to YOU.+ 34 So, never be anxious about the next day,+ for the next day will have its own anxieties. Sufficient for each day is its own badness. (Matthew 6:33-34)
5 Let [YOUR] manner of life be free of the love of money,+ while YOU are content+ with the present things.+ For he has said: "I will by no means leave you nor by any means forsake you."+ (Hebrews 13:5)
Rather than striving to obtain at any cost some of the "better" things in life that are presently beyond our reach, can we do without them? (Read Philippians 4:11-13.) Are we tempted to forgo theocratic privileges in order to get what we want now? Does loyal service to Jehovah have first place in our life? Our answers will largely depend on whether we are wholehearted in our service to God or not.
"It is a means of great gain,"
wrote the apostle Paul,
"this godly devotion along with self-sufficiency. For we have brought nothing into the world, and neither can we carry anything out. So, having sustenance and covering, we shall be content with these things."—1 Timothy 6:6-8.
In a revelation to the apostle John toward the close of the first century, the glorified Jesus Christ delivered a message to the congregation located in Laodicea, Asia Minor. It was a warning message against materialism. Though materially rich, Laodicean Christians were bankrupt spiritually. Instead of continuing to walk by faith, they allowed material possessions to blind their spiritual vision. (Revelation 3:14-18) Materialism has a similar effect today. It weakens our faith and causes us to stop 'running with endurance the race' for life. (Hebrews 12:1) If we are not careful, the "pleasures of this life" can smother spiritual activities to the point that they are "completely choked."
14 As for that which fell among the thorns, these are the ones that have heard, but, by being carried away by anxieties and riches and pleasures+ of this life, they are completely choked and bring nothing to perfection.+ (Luke 8:14).
Time ran out for the world of Noah's day, and it will run out for the present system of things. The apostle Peter assures us:
"Jehovah's day will come as a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a hissing noise, but the elements being intensely hot will be dissolved, and earth and the works in it will be discovered."
Neither the symbolic heavens — wicked governments — nor the symbolic earth — mankind alienated from God — will survive the heat of God's burning anger. Indicating how we can prove ourselves ready for that day, Peter exclaims:
"Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of persons ought you to be in holy acts of conduct and deeds of godly devotion, awaiting and keeping close in mind the presence of the day of Jehovah!"—2 Peter 3:10-12.
A key to spiritual protection is contentment rather than the use of this world to the full and the enrichment of ourselves materially. (1 Corinthians 7:31; 1 Timothy 6:6-8) We as such do not have to look so much at the world of mankind or the kingdom of mankind but at the world of the Kingdom of God. When we walk by faith and not by sight, we find joy in the present spiritual paradise. As we partake of nourishing spiritual food, are we not moved to "cry out joyfully because of the good condition of the heart"? (Isaiah 65:13, 14) Moreover, we take delight in our association with those who manifest the fruitage of God's spirit.
22 On the other hand, the fruitage+ of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness,+ faith, 23 mildness, self-control.+ Against such things there is no law.+ 24 Moreover, those who belong to Christ Jesus impaled* the flesh together with its passions and desires.+ (Galatians 5:22, 23)
How vital that we find satisfaction and refreshment in what Jehovah provides in a spiritual way!
Some questions we do well to ask ourselves are:
'What place do material things occupy in my life? Am I using the material possessions I have to live a life of pleasure or to promote true worship? What brings me the greatest satisfaction? Is it Bible study and fellowship at Christian meetings, or is it weekends away from Christian responsibilities? Do I reserve many weekends for recreation instead of using such time for the field ministry and other activities in connection with pure worship?'
Our regularly attending Christian meetings and sharing in preaching the good news are included among the necessary acts and deeds of godly devotion. May we perform them with heartfelt devotion to God while we wait patiently for Jehovah's great day. Let us "do [our] utmost to be found finally by [God] spotless and unblemished and in peace."—2 Peter 3:14.
Walking by faith means that we keep busy in the Kingdom work, with full trust in Jehovah's promises.
58 Consequently, my beloved brothers, become steadfast,+ unmovable, always having plenty to do in the work of the Lord,+ knowing that YOUR labor is not in vain*+ in connection with [the] Lord. (1 Corinthians 15:58).
Preceding articles:
Material wealth, Submission and Heaven on earth
Learning that stuff is just stuff
Thought of the day: We want more, i want more, but why is that?
Mini-MAX-malism: A Bigger Approach to Less is More
The Art of Doing Less – Your Time is Finite
Why "Selfishness" Doesn't Properly Mean Being Shortsighted and Harmful to Others
Looking at a conservative review of Shop Class As Soul Craft
Additional reading:
- What is life?
- Greed more common than generosity
- Some one or something to fear #2 Attitude and Reactions
- Some one or something to fear #3 Cases, folks and outing
- Some one or something to fear #4 Families and Competition
- Struggles of life
- It continues to be a never ending, exhausting battle for survival.
- Searching for fulfillment and meaning through own efforts, facing unsatisfaction and depression
- Daily portion of heavenly food
- I Only hope we find GOD again before it is too late!
- How should we react against the world
- A call easy to understand
- Followers with deepening
- Come ye yourselves apart … and rest awhile (Mark 6:31)
- Suffering redemptive because Jesus redeemed us from sin
- Looking forward to God's faithfulness
- Count your blessings
- God should be your hope
- Always set a place in your life for the unexpected guest
- Disciple of Christ counting lives and friends dear to them
- Be a ready giver
- Contribution – Contributie, bijdrage
- Bearing fruit
- A small company of Jesus' footstep follower
- What's church for, anyway?
- Making church
- Meeting – Vergadering
- Congregate, to gather, to meet
- Gathering or meeting of believers
- An ecclesia in your neighbourhood
- Not bounded by labels but liberated in Christ
- Breathing and growing with no heir
- Breathing to teach
- Reasons to come together
- God won't ask
- Communion and day of worship
- Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #6 Prayer #4 Attitude
- Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #18 Fulfilment
Further reading:
- What Controls you?
- "Things"
- Properties
- Buy now, don't think: the urgency trap
- Shopping Addictions – Day 168
- Greed is Wrong, But What About Wealth Itself?
- A Journey Toward Your Goals
- Virtuous egoism
- In brief: Why you should admire and not covet.
- Nothing & Everything
- The Sticky Fingers of Things
- Material girl
- Simple Girl In A Material World
- Pursuit
- Finding Satisfaction
- Less is more or getting rid of the clutter in your life
- What Really Matters
- The 2 Things That Matter Most
- Romans 7:18 – The Struggle is Real
- How is life measured? — from Luke 12:15
- What Jesus ask us to give up is nothing compared to what He want to give us
- Freedom from Minimizing | Personal
- Seek First The Kingdom
- The Minimalism
- The Cares Of This World
- What can I leave behind – A packing guide for relocation
- Quality over Quantity 💖
- The Pursuit Of Happiness
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- How Utah Became A Bizarre, Blissful Epicenter For Get-Rich-Quick Schemes (talkingpointsmemo.com)
- How Australia's Big 4 Banks Can Sink the Entire Economy (wolfstreet.com)
- Why Your Financial Goal Should Be to Stop Trading Time for Money (lifehacker.com)
- ZAP / POOF: State Of Confusion Part 1 of 2 (dinarrecaps.com)
- Rich People can Enter the Kingdom of God (idkh.org)
- Creflo and the Dollar Whores (almost) get their jet! (firebreathingchristian.com)
- 1 Timothy 6:1-21 Godliness (jimerwin.com)
- Joy as Fruit (genesisone.wordpress.com)


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Great posts Rik. Wonderful initiative, Franco.
This is a link I have enjoyed immensly. The Man can speak for himself, check out his page here:
David Fankhausers article on buttermilk will be useful....
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Rik wrote:Jack came up with fitting a spring which would continue to keep the pressure on for a time depending on the length of the spring and I think he has now copyrighted it.
We were also developing the stilton recipe and David Fankhauser was going to make his American blue as he has no roquefort cheese avialable for Roquefortium.
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"Once You Give Up Your Rights, You Can Never Get Them Back. Once You Turn On That Police State, You Can Never Turn It Off."
Washington's Blog
Reprinted with permission.
Richard Clarke is one of the four White House panelists on NSA spying, and the former top counter-terror czar in the Clinton and Bush administrations.
Clarke has previously said that mass surveillance isn't needed to keep us safe. And see this.
As Tech Target reports:
Revelations about NSA monitoring activities over the last year show the potential for a police state mechanism, according to the former U.S. cybersecurity czar, but there is still time to avoid the dire consequences.
"[T]hey have created, with the growth of technologies, the potential for a police state."
"Once you give up your rights, you can never get them back. Once you turn on that police state, you can never turn it off."
Indeed, top American officials have warned for decades of a police state enabled by the NSA.
And a former top NSA official said that we've already got a police state. He told Washington's Blog:
I am glad he [Clarke] also understands the threat to democracy.
The only reason I recognized that in 2001 is because I worked the Soviet problem for close to 30 years … and what NSA was doing was exactly what the Soviet's tried to do (as well as the Stasi and the Gestapo/SS).
And see this.


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There are something like a bazillion apps in the App Store. Do you know what that means? A lot of craptacular apps that should never be put on your iPhone. But sometimes you download an app not knowing it sucks or doesn't work or is buggy or isn't what you thought. Can you get a refund from the App Store? Yes! Here's how.
Remember, this isn't an official refund policy for the App Store because the iTunes Store Terms and Conditions specifically states:
All sales and rentals of products are final.
Which means, your mileage is definitely going to vary when it comes to getting a refund on the App Store. If your cause is legitimate—like, say, you downloaded that bogus Yellow Pokemon app this weekend—it still may take weeks or even months before you get your money back. If you're just grouchy about being dumb? You probably won't ever get your money back. But at least we know there's a shot! So, how do you do it?
Save big with this Samsung sale
If you're ready to drop some cash on a TV, now's a great time to do it. You can score the 75-inch Samsung Q70A QLED 4K TV for a whopping $800 off. That knocks the price down to $1,500 from $2,300, which is 35% off. This is a lot of TV for the money, and it also happens to be one of the best 4K TVs you can buy right now, according to Gizmodo.
Open up Your Account in iTunes
Go to the iTunes Store and check your account. It's in the top right corner.
Check Your Purchase History
Once you're logged in, click 'See All>' under Purchase History
Report a Problem
Scroll down until you see the big button that says 'Report a Problem'. Click that big button.
Select the App
Find the app you want a refund for and select 'Report a Problem'
Choose the problem you're having and write a detailed reason why you think you should get a refund for the app. Remember, you're fighting an uphill claim so make sure your reasons are legitimate to give yourself the best chance.
Apple lists these six categories for your app-related complaints:
- I didn't receive this application
- I inadvertently purchased this application
- This application does not function as expected
- This application is not compatible with my device
- I have another purchase or download-relation question
Good luck. Also, please only refund apps that really don't work. Developers need to eat too.


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I went to see Obama last night. He had a fundraiser at H20, a yuppie disco/restaurant in Southwest DC. I was curious about how he is in person. I'm still absorbing the many impressions I got. But one thing stays in my head. This guy is a liberal. Make no mistake about that. He may, in fact, be the most effective liberal advocate I've heard in my lifetime. As a conservative, I think he could be absolutely lethal to what's left of the tradition of individualism, self-reliance, and small government that I find myself quixotically attached to. And as a simple observer, I really don't see what's stopping him from becoming the next president. The overwhelming first impression that you get – from the exhausted but vibrant stump speech, the diverse nature of the crowd, the swell of the various applause lines – is that this is the candidate for real change. He has what Reagan had in 1980 and Clinton had in 1992: the wind at his back. Sometimes, elections really do come down to a simple choice: change or more of the same? Look at the polls and forget ideology for a moment. What do Americans really want right now? Change. Who best offers them a chance to turn the page cleanly on an era most want to forget? It isn't Clinton, God help us. Edwards is so 2004. McCain is a throwback. Romney makes plastic look real. Rudy does offer something new for Republicans – the abortion-friendly, cross-dressing Jack Bauer. But no one captures the sheer, pent-up desire for a new start more effectively than Obama. From the content and structure of Obama's pitch to the base, it's also clear to me that whatever illusions I had about his small-c conservatism, he's a big government liberal with – for a liberal – the most attractive persona and best-developed arguments since JFK.
I fear he could do to conservatism what Reagan did to liberalism. And just as liberals deserved a shellacking in 1980, so do "conservatives" today. In the Bush era, they have shown their own contempt for their own tradition. Who can blame Obama for exploiting the big government arguments Bush has already conceded?
And just as Carter branded liberalism in a bad way for a generation, so Bush and his acolytes have poisoned the brand of conservatism for the foreseeable future. When you take a few steps back and look closely, you realize that Bush has managed both to betray conservatism and stigmatize it all at once. That's some achievement.
Obama's speech began and continued with domestic policy. War? What war? There was one tiny, fleeting mention of the terror threat. Yes, this is the base. Yes, the base's fixation is ending the war in Iraq. Yes, you can make an argument that withdrawal there now is a boon to the terror war. But Obama didn't make that argument. And it seems to me that the two biggest obstacles Obama will have next year are residual racism and concern that he doesn't fully grasp the seriousness of the Islamist terror threat. He's been proved right on Iraq – I'm sorry to say. And that good call – and the reasons he gave for it in 2003 – will surely undermine the case against his "inexperience". Inexperienced? he'll rightly scoff. If "experience" means backing the Iraq war, I'm glad I don't have as much of it as Clinton and McCain and Giuliani. But he must tell us how we are to stay on offense in this war if he is to win over worriers like me. To listen to a stump speech five or so years after 9/11 and wait for almost half a speech until he mentions it is disconcerting. And yet, it is also bound up, surely, with his appeal. That appeal is partly to take us past the 9/11 moment, and describe a journey forward that isn't obviously into darkness.
Two further impressions. At a couple of points in his speech, he used the phrase: "This is not who we are." I was struck by the power of those words. He was reasserting that America is much more than George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and Gitmo and Abu Ghraib and Katrina and fear and obstinacy and isolation. And so he makes an argument for change in the language of restoration. The temperamental conservatives in America hear a form of patriotism; and the ideological liberals hear a note of radicalism. It's a powerful, unifying theme. He'd be smart to deepen and broaden it.
My favorite moment was a very simple one. He referred to the anniversary of the March on Selma, how he went and how he came back and someone (I don't remember who now) said to him:
"That was a great celebration of African-American history."
To which Obama said he replied:
"No, no, no, no, no. That was not a great celebration of African-American history. That was a celebration of American history."
There's a reason for his wide appeal. The over-whelming question for me at this point in this historic campaign is a simple one: who will stop him?


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Thoracentesis is a procedure to remove fluid from the space between the lining of the outside of the lungs (pleura) and the wall of the chest.
Alternative Names
Pleural fluid aspiration; Pleural tap
How the Test is Performed
The test is done in the following way:
- You sit on a bed or on the edge of a chair or bed. Your head and arms rest on a table.
- The skin around the procedure site is cleaned. A local numbing medicine (anesthetic) is injected into the skin.
- A needle is placed through the skin and muscles of the chest wall into the space around the lungs, called the pleural space. The health care provider may use ultrasound to find the best spot to insert the needle.
- You may be asked to hold your breath or breathe out during the procedure.
- You should not cough, breathe deeply, or move during the test to avoid injury to the lung.
- Fluid is drawn out with the needle.
- The needle is removed and the area is bandaged.
- The fluid may be sent to a laboratory for testing (pleural fluid analysis).
How to Prepare for the Test
No special preparation is needed before the test. A chest x-ray or ultrasound will be done before and after the test.
How the Test will Feel
You will feel a stinging sensation when the local anesthetic is injected. You may feel pain or pressure when the needle is inserted into the pleural space.
Tell your provider if you feel short of breath or have chest pain, during or after the procedure.
Why the Test is Performed
Normally, very little fluid is in the pleural space. A buildup of too much fluid between the layers of the pleura is called a pleural effusion.
The test is performed to determine the cause of the extra fluid, or to relieve symptoms from the fluid buildup.
Normal Results
Normally the pleural cavity contains only a very small amount of fluid.
What Abnormal Results Mean
Testing the fluid will help your provider determine the cause of pleural effusion. Possible causes include:
- Cancer
- Liver failure
- Heart failure
- Low protein levels
- Kidney disease
- Trauma or post-surgery
- Asbestos-related pleural effusion
- Collagen vascular disease (class of diseases in which the body's immune system attacks its own tissues)
- Drug reactions
- Collection of blood in the pleural space (hemothorax)
- Lung cancer
- Swelling and inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis)
- Pneumonia
- Blockage of an artery in the lungs (pulmonary embolism)
- Severely underactive thyroid gland
If your provider suspects that you have an infection, a culture of the fluid may be done to test for bacteria.
Risks may include any of the following:
- Bleeding
- Infection
- Collapsed lung (pneumothorax)
- Respiratory distress
A chest x-ray or ultrasound is commonly done after the procedure to detect possible complications.
Blok BK. Thoracentesis. In: Roberts JR, Custalow CB, Thomsen TW, eds. Roberts and Hedges' Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine and Acute Care. 7th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2019:chap 9.
Chernecky CC, Berger BJ. Thoracentesis - diagnostic. In: Chernecky CC, Berger BJ, eds. Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures. 6th ed. St Louis, MO: Elsevier Saunders; 2013:1068-1070.


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I'm so excited I can't even say Hi first. This week…
I lost 5.2 pounds
Um, YEAH! That's MAJOR. That's probably the most weight I've ever lost in my life. (Slight hyperbole). But in a week? Definitely up there with the most weight I've ever lost in a week. There were some major things that contributed to this major loss, like –
1) Grief. I was a sad sap from Tuesday through Friday and had to force myself to eat. So, a lot of this is probably water weight, but my calories were greatly reduced.
2) I'm low-carbing it up. Before everyone gets their pitch forks and battering rams ready, I'm not going low-carb for life or even an extended amount of time. I just wanted to see what would happen if I cut out all "junk carbs" in my life like crackers, sugar, certain breads, etc. Evidently this made a major difference. I've been eating way more protein which is hard for me because I'm not a big meat eater, but I can feel it because I'm not nearly as snacky or hungry during the day. I'm also focusing more on "good fats" like avocado and olive oil.
So – Wow! I'm a lot closer to my Thailand Tuesday goal today than I thought I would be. Next week's weigh in will be interesting, because there is a possibility of regain since probably a fair amount of this was just drastic calorie reduction from my lack of eating. (Interesting factoid: A couple of years ago, any extreme emotion I felt – joy, sadness, grief, anger – would lead me to eat. I knew I was changing emotionally when I found those extreme emotions would take away my hunger. Such a big change for me, but one I'd rather have. A bag of chips does not soothe a complicated life, at least not for the long term.)
But – We've been feeling better and looking forward to eventually giving a great home to another cat in need, just like we did for Leo. We're not rushing it and there will certainly never be a replacement, but pets can only bring joy in our family.
How are you doing today? What's affecting your day? I hope you're having a great one.