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In Southern California, the end of August and beginning of September are often the hottest days of the year. Today the temp got up to 101 degrees f by 1:00 PM. Inside, it stayed a sultry 94. Looks like a thunderstorm is heading in and the rain is bringing the temp down a bit. As I write this, the sun should be setting in another couple hours, so there's a chance things will cool off tonight enough for me to sleep.
Today my exercise consisted of running around with a water bottle spraying the poor parrots. The finches and canaries didn't seem to mind, but my African gray Bobo was a little gray puddle on a shelf in her cage.
The cockatiels love being sprayed. They entertain me while I bring them some comfort. They like to lean way forward on the perches, heads down, and wings spread, so the water sprays them everywhere. When my hand gives up, they preen and shake and just seem more happy than any other birds that I get wet.
I worry most about my outside birds. The doves seem to be fine and do not like to be sprayed at all. The lovebirds, budgies, and cockatiels all have splash water dishes so they can get wet as needed. The button quail don't like to bath in water. They have a dish of sand to take dust baths and I just love to watch them doing it.
A few years ago, we set up extra hoses and stand misters to keep the aviary birds cooler. I wish they still worked. But the drawbacks were that the brass nozzles corrode and have to be replaced every year, and that the seed on the ground of the aviary starts to stink and get moldy.
Oh, sure, we could have removed the brass nozzles at the end of the year and stored them in an oil or something to prevent corrosion. And I could shovel out the dampened area of the aviary more often. And I could find free parrots on the internet. Oh, wait.
No, my excuse is that California is in the middle of a drought right now, and pouring extra water out daily sounds like a bad idea. A costly idea. The San Diego Zoo Safari Park can get away with it, but not a simple homeowner. Not saying there's anything bad with the Park doing that. Their birds and animals a lot more expensive and often rare than my flock. I am just keeping my fingers crossed that we all survive the rest of summer.
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In a recent story The Sun, she stated, ""I used to drink ten cups [of tea] a day with two sugars in each so I was on 20 sugars a day," she said. "Now I don't drink it and I have more energy than ever." She is also doing a bit more exercise, quit smoking, drinking, and eating better. So in the end, it's not a big surprise. She is eating better, and exercising more.
Today we also talk about Amy White who got involved by looking at labels, educating herself on what she was putting in her mouth. She realized that while the dollar menu was cheaper now, it was going to be much more expensive in the long run. In the end she lost 60 pounds. Read her full story here
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Marie's Staff Picks June 2013
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
An inventive story with great characters.
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
This is the 2013 Pulitzer Winner for fiction and is a strange, haunting and transporting work that takes place in North Korea.
Le Road Trip by Vivian Swift
The author included her sketches along with her observations in this fun book about traveling in France.
The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan
In this historical novel set in Belle Epoque Paris, three sisters try to make a living on their own.
Nine Mile Bridge by Helen Hamlin
Published in 1945, this is a biographical work of a woman's time spent living in the Allagash during the 1930s.
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
This is my favorite book of the last six months. It has great characters, a grounding story and beautiful writing.
The Good House by Ann Leary
I listened to this on audio and loved the reader's take on the main character.
The Art Forger by Barbara Shapiro
I learned a lot about forging works of art and liked the underlying mystery that involved the Isabella Stewart Gardiner Museum in Boston.


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Well two birthdays occurred this weekend. One was America's, and the other was mine! I am officially 24 years old now, and boy do I feel no different than last week.
We spent most of the 4th hanging out with family that was in town from Flagstaff and Parker (nixed the idea of going to the Rodeo). Breakfast was had, and a movie (Wanted) was watched. Due to some odd stomach issues that evening I canceled the plans we had to go to a bbq, and ended up falling asleep at 7:30, effectively missing all the fireworks. Oh well, there is always next year.
Saturday we went to see another movie (Iron Man), went home and watched some more movies (Meet the Robinsons, Team America, Vantage Point, and parts of the Punisher). A very nice day of vegging.
My birthday (Sunday) was a pretty boring day. We had breakfast with my cousin and her family who are moving to Florida. Me and D were thinking of taking the dogs out to the woods for a hike, but decided that the mud from monsoons would be more than we wanted to deal with. So we ended up hanging out at home for the rest of the day. The sushi restaurant that I like isn't open on Sundays, so we decided that fried bologna, egg and cheese sandwiches were the ticket, and promptly made some up.
All in all, not too shabby of a weekend. :)
In un-related, and fairly depressing news; a local woman, Carol Kennedy, was killed on Thursday. Pretty sad news for this community. I did computer work for Carol, she was a top-notch lady. My sister also did some artwork with Carol, and was pretty good friends with her.
She leaves behind two great daughters, who I hope are coping as best as possible.


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Mount Snow Minute #17: March Delivers
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
March is off to a promising start with 8" of snowfall earlier this week, followed by great temps and lots of sunshine! We're still having a blast in the wake of that storm as the carving has never been better and there's plenty of powder left to be found in the woods.
If you're itching to get out here and join us, you should know that Peak Passes are now on sale for the 2019-20 season. If you purchase yours today, you can use it for the remainder of this season as well! Not to mention, you'll save a good chunk of change if you buy before April 30 when prices will increase. And with 14 mountains on one pass, you'll have the opportunity to explore all different types of East Coast skiing and riding!
As we look ahead to the weekend, we have our Military Appreciation on Saturday and Sunday, which means $5 lift tickets for all active members of the military. That $5 will then get donated to the Wounded Warrior Foundation. In addition, dependents and veterans will receive 50% off lift tickets, just bring your military ID to any ticket window to redeem.
As for events, the Mount Gay Rum bar will be back on Main Street this Saturday, with live music from the Creamery Station starting at 12:30 and ending around 4:00pm. Temperatures will range mostly in the 20s with sunshine all day, so it's going to be the perfect afternoon to sit outside and enjoy the day with friends and family.
Meanwhile in Carinthia, Park Affair will be going down and that is a weekend filled with park riding, progression, and socializing with other females in the sport. Registration is full at this time.
Lastly, our Bud Light Shamrock Fest is coming up next weekend, which means $17 lift tickets for Friday, March 15. Those are only available online in advance and quantities are limited, so purchase yours today!
Well, that's all I have for you this week, I'll see you on the snow!


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22 Questions with Maiko Nishino
Maiko Nishino is the main character of Sant & Usant latest film, Maiko – Dancing Child. She is one of the leading dancer in the Norwegian National Ballet and has danced classical lead roles such as the dual role in Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker and is currently the lead in Cinderella at the Oslo Opera House.
Here is an interview we did with Maiko last week so we could all get to know her before the release of the film.
1) What is your first memory of dancing?
One thing I have a really good memory of is when I was 4-years-old, doing Japanese Geisha dancing. Having a fan, old-fashioned Japanese music, wearing my mums heels and tap dancing.
2) Was it always ballet?
For me it was the music. I just danced around and made up everything at that time. Then classical music really interested me and of course ballet was the biggest style within classical music and it became the dream for me.
3) What is it that you love most about ballet?
I love that I am able to use my body as an instrument and tell how I feel or a story through simply dancing and not saying anything.
4) What motivated you most during those difficult years?
The fact that was able to do just ballet all day long. That was above and beyond any dream to me. The whole experience was all also very exotic for me. Being in Europe with the European students, a new city, culture, and that was something I didn't want to give up.
5) Do you have any pre-performance rituals?
One thing I have to do is eat the biggest lunch you can imagine. THE BIGGEST! I also like to have an hour or so power-nap. I love doing my hair, my make-up. I also always stare at myself in the mirror in the dressing room and 'become' the character I'm portraying. I see Maiko phase out and become the character.
And lastly, at side stage just before I go on I hit my legs. Like 'Hello! Wake up!' just in case I've forgotten my legs!
6) What gives you the most inspiration?
The ability to really push my limits and test how far I can go both physically and mentally, I love that. I feel like everyday I am pushing myself and becoming better and that really inspires me.
7) What was the last film you watched?
The Theory Of Everything, which showed the life of Steven Hawking. I cried a lot! It made me realised how fortunate I am to be healthy. To be able to do what I do day in day out.
8) What was your initial reaction when Åse (director) approached you about the film?
'Oh No! No no no no!' No one is following me around everywhere, please no! That was the first thing. But then I got to know Åse a lot, and actually in the end I didn't even notice where she was. She became part of me.
9) Favourite place on earth?
I have to say probably, with my family but being selfish, and just thinking about myself, it's has to be the stage.
10) If you hadn't chosen this career, what would you be?
Hair and Makeup Artist. It's something that I've always wanted to do since I was little. I enjoyed ding my sister's hair and make-up and my own but I think doing it for others, it's so fascinating.
11) What's your favourite activity outside of work?
Cooking, and eating.
12) If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Anything my mum cooks, traditional Japanese food.
13) All time favourite film?
It's really a really funny one actually, and my husband doesn't appreciate it. I think it was being in London alone and having to connect with the other girls. What we used to watch was Dirty Dancing. I can't say it's my 'ultimate favourite film' but for me it is the film I remember the most. Being able to connect without being able to speak to each other much. And that movie and that style, the love, the dancing the music. I have a warm feeling when I think about that film.
14) Strangest place you have performed?
In the canteen of a bank in Arnedal, Norway. Even worse, I changed in the canteens fridge, with food around me.
15) Most amazing place you have performed?
Opening night of the Oslo Opera House was quite special. I got to dance to very special ballets. That feeling that Oslo finally had its own opera house that was this beautiful was very overwhelming. .
16) Biggest challenge you've faced in your career so far?
Coming back after the birth and training for Swan Lake. It was challenging both emotionally and physically.
17) Highlight of your career so far?
First time my parents came to see me perform. Which was Swan lake in 2005. They hadn't seen me dance since I left Japan and my dance teacher from Japan was also there. So it was kind of a moment for me to repay them for everything they had done for me over the years.
18) Odette or Odile?
I'm quite a lot like Odette but I have a crazy side. So if Odette is white and Odile is black, I'm in the middle but a bit more fun and eccentric so I would be like an orange.
19) One thing people will be surprised to know about you?
I'm a terrible singer. And I'm a very sensitive person. The smallest thing can make me cry and Nicolai (husband) never understands how it's possible for me to cry so easily!
20) What's at the top of your bucket list?
To travel. I've seen so little of the world and I want to travel, see and meet people from all over the world and get to know their cultures. That's my dream, I just want to see the world.
21) Take away from the film?
Some people have this stereotype of ballet dancers and I just want to people to watch the film and feel close to me as a human being. I tried to show as much of myself and be open to share even the most painful times i experienced in the four years and I hope that they get moved by the film and the story.
22) Word you live by?
I believe in positive energy. The more you give the more you get back So always give more than 100% in everything you do, even the little things. But also live in the moment and enjoy it!


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First time we've had a Ladderax drop-leaf dining table.
Some time in the late 1960's Staples Ladderax introduced a small but well thought out dining table. They don't come up for sale very often as very few were bought back in the day. The table is designed to sit between standard width units when not in use and was obviously for those in smaller homes.
Possibly not the smartest dining table you will see but it was extremely well thought out as even though it's really quite small it was designed to take 4 or even 6 seats. An original Ladderax catalogue describes it as " The table top is hardwood veneered teak and the special steel frame is recessed to avoid obstructing seated persons ". We've seen one person online claiming it would even seat 8 but we can't see how this is possible!
We have a 1974 catalogue with price-list and the table was then priced at £45.80 including VAT at the then low rate of only 10%. An online inflation calculator puts that at around £540 in today's money, so not a cheap piece in its day.
The matching dining or desk chairs also don't come up for sale that often. They had a tan leather hide slung usually, but black was also available. We have 1 chair and that is the only one we've had the chance to buy, but like the tables they do turn up from time to time on Ebay and in auctions. Neither the tables nor the chairs are labelled so it may be that some will come for sale without the seller knowing they're Ladderax.
The tables and chairs were available in black, white, bronze or even grey enameled steel. However they're virtually always seen in black. It will be possible to have the bases re-done professionally.
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Germany arrived back home to an army of baying reporters and photographers on Thursday after they were sent packing from the World Cup by South Korea.
The holders became the third successive champions to be eliminated at the group stage after a shambolic performance in Russia culminated in a 2-0 defeat in Kazan.
And as they landed at Frankfurt International Airport, coach Joachim Low and captain Manuel Neuer were left to face the music as the Germans came to terms with their worst World Cup performance in 80 years.
National newspaper Bild declared the campaign as 'the biggest disgrace in German World Cup history'.
Jerome Boateng wrote on Instagram: 'Such a disaster. World Cup 2018 was not what we expected.
'I'm still angry and disappointed and at the same time I feel sorry for all our fans who supported us in the stadiums.
'Four years ago we were on top of the world – now we're on the bottom. These are the days in the life of a football player nobody envies you for. But that's life.
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Forming an agency/trust relationship with Canada means no contract is needed
Many actions trigger an agency and/or trust relationship. The incomplete list below all establish your type of income as Canada's public money instead of being your private property:
The courts stating you cannot contract out of income tax is true. That is because you do not contract into it in the first place! After all, if it were contractual, then the government has to give you full disclosure – such as how the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in 1936 that the federal government has no jurisdiction over "ordinary employment contracts."[8]
Ironically, the courts stating income tax is not contractual corroborates Apu's Theory. Therefore, Associate Chief Justice Rooke has either forgotten his first year of law school, or else is deliberately not telling you the full story. Either option is equally disturbing and is yet another sign of institutional fraud. In conclusion, it seems Meads is not the authoritative reference that Canada portrays it to be.
Ironically, the courts stating income tax is not contractual corroborates Apu's Theory
[…] for infrastructure, such as roads. But this contradicts MMT. So, either Canada doesn't tell them how income tax really works, or someone is lying to […]
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I've been thinking about merge issues for a while and going through IndexWriter to see if I could convince myself I understood it. There are areas I'm interested in exploring tweaking the merge policy. For example, it might be nice to have an optimize-like operation that could look at the number of deleted documents in a segment (or sequence of segments) and perform merges to remove deleted docs but without reducing the index to a single a file. Tweaks like this via IndexWriter are, well, not easy. Perhaps not even possible, given what's final and what's not. So I've been experimenting with factoring the merge policy out of IndexWriter and making it pluggable. In such a world, IndexWriter would still do all the merges, but it would delegate the decision on what segments to merge to a merge policy: interface MergePolicy { static class MergeSpecification { SegmentInfos segmentInfos; int first; int last; boolean useCompoundFile; } void merge( SegmentInfos segmentInfos ) throws CorruptIndexException, IOException; void optimize( SegmentInfos segmentInfos ) throws CorruptIndexException, IOException; } The merge policy gets created with an IndexWriter and then called via merge or optimize with the relevant segmentInfos. It in turn calls back to the IndexWriter for each primitive merge operation: int merge( MergePolicy.MergeSpecification m ) throws CorruptIndexException, IOException; When I started playing with this, I wasn't sure how well it would work but it's seems to have come out pretty very well. A lot more feasible, I think, than actually trying to derive from IndexWriter to change only the policy. My initial impetus for this was to be able to tweak how the large, old segments were handled. But all the concurrent merge stuff from a few weeks ago gave me a bunch more to think about. One of the things discussed there was having a single background thread vs. multiple threads. Given the logarithmic nature of the current merge policy, it seems to me that an obvious candidate threaded policy is to have a merge thread at each logarithmic level (with a sanity bound for small levels). That way when you kickoff a merge of big segments, which will take a while, you can still be merging smaller segments in parallel. The obvious candidate concurrency limit would be to not allow two merges at the same level concurrently. It wouldn't solve all problems, but I think it would tend to spread out the effects of cascading merges. And it so nicely fits in with the logarithmic merge policy. There are all sorts of issues to consider with something like that, but what's interested me in this last week, is that I think factoring the merge policy actually makes it pretty easy to play with these ideas. The classic merge policy, i.e., LogarithmicMergePolicy, simply decides what merges to pursue and calls IndexWriter#merge to make them happen. A ThreadedLogarithmicMergePolicy, derived from the LMP, can keep track of the necessary merges and their levels, creating/using threads when a merge is needed on a level where there's no conflict. In that new thread, it calls back to IndexWriter#merge while the calling thread returns normally. Obviously this means IndexWriter#merge isn't synchronized and, at least in this case, should only be called via the merge policy. The only thing IndexWriter#merge really needs is the SegmentInfos subsequence that it is merging. It shouldn't need any other state. When it's done, it'll need to update the SegmentInfos object and that operation needs to be synchronized, but that's only during the update. The merges by definition do not overlap (and thus maintain document order). Making concurrency like that possible in IndexWriter would take a little tweaking but I don't think we're talking much code or any of significant performance impact. The default merge policy would be what it is now (factored) and only when using a threaded merge policy would any of the threading stuff come to play. Decided via by IndexWriter#setMergePolicy. All the threading stuff is speculation at this point: I've got a factored (unpolished) version of trunk working with a factored merge policy but haven't tried to implement threading yet. Trying to simplify the putative merge policy interface does have some minor impact on the existing merge policy: at this point, one test gives different results, a result of the fact that the merge policy as I've been thinking of it, doesn't have different calls for combining multiple indexes vs. merging a single index with segments of inconsistent size. Rather than assume that segment sequence is consistent except when told otherwise, it always checks. But that's a whole 'nother discussion ... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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This cake has the same chocolate sponge base as cranberry coconut cream mousse cake, but has much lighter fruit mousse made from canned peaches and coconut cream. Using relatively sweet fruits, compared to a very sour cranberries, allows to use less sweeteners in the recipe and to avoid the overload of the cake with either natural unrefined sugars or honey. The appearance of variety of pure canned fruits in natural juices or fruit pulps without any added sugar, other additives or preservatives, makes cake and dessert preparation very easy in any season. I used canned peaches in natural juices or with addition of mango pulp, and both worked well in this recipe, with peaches in mango pulp providing more intense flavour to peach and coconut cream mousse.
For the jam layer I used Aldi Cherry Jam, which is sugar free preserve. To thicken it up I used chia seeds, but for an easier and simpler version of the cake, you can apply peaches mousse directly to a chocolate sponge. The sponge is moist enough to make an overall delicious cake with just 2 layers. You can use any crushed nuts for cake decoration. Candied orange peel can be used as well, shown below in peaches mousse cake made with dairy cream.
The process of cake preparation is the same as for chocolate cranberry mousse cake, detailed instructions and step by step photos can be found here. This cake is also one in a series of recipes with pure glucose powder (dextrose) as a sweetener. I have found that in some recipes dry and powdered sweetener makes all the difference to the practicality of cake preparation and is an excellent alternative to regular sugar which I can't use for recipes in this blog.
chocolate sponge layer
- 100g pure apple puree, I used SPC
- 1 large egg (50-54g without shell)
- 50g pure glucose powder
- 60g almond meal
- 20g organic pure cocoa powder
- 3g baking soda
- coconut oil to grease the pan
jam layer
- half of the jar Aldi cherry jam, no sugar added
- 10g white chia seeds
peaches coconut cream mousse layer
- 200g sliced peaches from the can (used no added sugar canned peaches)
- 100g liquid from the canned peaches
- another 100g liquid made from peaches liquid and liquid part of coconut cream (approximately 50g from peaches and 50g from coconut cream, but variations to 1 to 1 ratio can be acceptable)
- 200g hard part of coconut cream
- 40g pure glucose powder (if canned peaches are tart, it might be necessary to use 50g of glucose to balance it)
- 4-5 gold grade gelatin leaves (5 if their weight is marked as 2g, 4 if their weight is 2.2g)
For chocolate sponge preparation go here.
jam layer
- blend jam into a smooth texture
- in a small sauce pan heat cherry jam
- add chia seeds, stir them in
- allow the mixture to cool down completely, it will thicken
peaches and coconut cream mousse
- to separate the hard and the liquid part of the coconut cream, refrigerate the can for several hours, use high fat content coconut cream
- measure the liquid part of coconut cream, you will need to know how much (if any you might use when whipping coconut cream)
- drain peach slices
- blend 200g of these slices into smooth puree
- soak gelatin leaves in cold water
- squeeze water excess from gelatin leaves
- place gelatin into 100 ml of liquid from canned peaches
- heat it gently to make sure that all gelatin is dissolved
- whip the hard part of coconut cream with glucose powder, if the mixture is too thick, add some liquid part of coconut cream, make sure you register how much of this liquid did you use
- mix peach puree with the rest of coconut liquid and peaches liquid
- add peaches liquid with gelatin, the resulting temperature of the mix has to be room temperature
- finally mix whipped coconut cream with peach-coconut-gelatin thick liquid and pour this liquid into prepared acetate cake ring on top of chocolate sponge
- tap the cake very gently to make the surface of the mousse level
- sprinkle with crushed nuts
- let the cake set in the fridge, best overnight


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Since Tim's new Alcohol Pearls are just in, here's my initial (very quick) video that demos creating a swatch and experiment/test record book made from… Yupo. Yes, we now have Disc Bound Journals that feature Yupo pages in addition to the watercolor versions!
Let's just say these Pearls are an exciting addition to the Alcohol Ink line and declare that a massive understatement!
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Guifranco_011 posted a topic in BiologyHello guys, Im a biology student and i´ve always been convicted that I wanted to work with animal, and when I entered university I became fascinated with this kind of underrated class of animals. I started to work at the uni's herpetology lab and I'm very glad on making that decision. It was all roses and flowers, then I had to start thinking about the infamous completion of course work. My advisor told me he would help me on whatever I wanted to write about, on fieldwork, sampling and everything. At first I liked the freedom he gave me, but when i came to think of it, I'd have prefered that he had chosen for me. I really dont know wich way should I go. I live in a country with the huggest anurans biodiversity in the world,Brazil ( meu Brasa) making my decision even harder. To summer up,I have no idea what i want to study, anfiibian, reptiles, reprodution, communities. So, Has anyone here been through it? Advices, ideas, and if you are facing the same problem, please, show yourself (first topic btw..)


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Almost every aspect of business, popular culture and even our personal lives is greatly influenced by technology. Next time you hop on a bus, airplane or pubic transit system, just take a look around and you'll see that nearly everyone has a personal technology device of some sort (e.g., cell phone, laptop, ipad, notepad, etc.) Technology has also become the prime facilitator of disseminating information, sharing products and keeping track of current events and news. We have become so dependent on technology, it's hard to imagine life without it. As technology wends its way into every facet of society, the job market for the skilled computer and IT professionals who understand it is ever expanding.
Employment Outlook and Earning Potential
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) predicts that job growth for computer scientists and database administrators will exceed 37% over the next decade and the industry will add 200,000 new positions. That's a phenomenal rate of growth given that the average growth for all occupations in the United States over the same period is estimated at just 14%. As such, it comes as no surprise that tech jobs dominate the list of "100 Best Jobs of 2013″ recently published by U.S. News & World Report.
Some of the top tech jobs (as well as some of the top paying) filled by computer scientists, include:
- Computer Systems Analyst
Computer Systems Analysts design and develop computer systems and are intimately familiar with computer networks, software and hardware. The media salary for computer systems analysts is about $79,000 a year.
- Database Administrator
Database Administrators install, configure, update, monitor and maintain databases for organizations of all types and sizes. They also design and develop strategies for improving database capacity and performance. On average database administrators make around $76,000–some more, some less.
- Software Developer
Software Developers create/write the code that instructs computers how to perform certain routines or tasks. They design, install, test and maintain software systems. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates this sector will add 143,800 jobs by 2020. The average media salary for software developers is $89,280.
- Computer Programmer
These tech-savvy computer specialists write, rewrite, maintain, test, retest and debug software and programs the support computer functions. Like software developers they are responsible for telling computers how to perform tasks and procedures. Currently, the median annual salary for computer programs is $72,630, however, skilled programs can make in excess of $115,000 a year.
- IT Manager
These are the go-to computer specialists that usually head up the IT departments for corporations and organizations. They make sure a company's network is always up and operating smoothly. Experienced IT Managers, with advanced degrees, on average make $118,010 a year.
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There isn't any other degree that can prepare you for a career in technology like a degree in computer science. Student's looking to launch a career in computer science have several degree options available to them: associate's, bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. While an associate's degree will help prepare students for entry-level positions, the minimum requirement for most positions is a bachelor's degree–and the best positions are reserved for advanced degree holders. In fact, an M.S. or Ph.D. in computer science is the degree of choice among most tech employers.
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Crisis or continuity? Hoarding and Deposition in Iron Age and Roman Britain, and Beyond
This conference was held in the BP Lecture Theatre in the British Museum in London on Friday 11th March and Saturday 12th March 2016, and was one of the final outputs of our Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded 'Hoarding in Iron Age and Roman Britain' project. It proved a very popular event, with at least 192 people in attendance on the Friday, and 148 on Saturday. Those attending the event included numismatists and academics from across Britain and Europe, professional and amateur archaeologists, and interested members of the public. The conference was split into two halves, with Friday's session entitled Hoarding and Deposition in Britain and Europe, and Saturday focusing on the Third Century AD in Britain and Europe.
Hoarding and deposition in Roman Britain
The first session on Friday morning was introduced with a short opening address by Roger Bland (University of Leicester/British Museum), and chaired by Jeremy Taylor from the University of Leicester. First up was Eleanor Ghey, a key researcher on the Hoarding in Iron Age and Britain project at the British Museum. Eleanor outlined the data concerning coin hoards recorded in Britain and the rationale behind the project, and presented some of the preliminary numismatic and statistical analyses of the c. 3400 recorded hoards. The role of metal detecting on the dramatically increased numbers of hoards being found since the 1970s was clear, as was the impact of the Treasure Act and the Portable Antiquities Scheme. Eleanor also outlined the variety of associated materials and artefacts found with some hoards, and noted the interesting phenomenon of the 'stacking' or 'nesting' of different vessels in some hoards, which often implied a certain formality to their deposition.
Eleanor was followed by her colleague Richard Hobbs from the British Museum, whose work on the Mildenhall hoard gave insights into the role of silver plate in the late Roman economy. He discussed the part silver plate and precious metals played in the social and cultural lives of their owners, and how the geographical and chronological distribution of gold and silver provides insights into wealth imbalances across the late Roman Empire. There were images of wonderful objects which left people hungry for more.
After a short tea break, Tom Brindle from the Roman Rural Settlement Project followed. That project, based at the University of Reading, has been examining all the recorded evidence for excavated Romano-British settlements in England and Wales. Just 5% of their recorded sites had produced both coin and non-coin hoards, with by far the largest number coming from small farmsteads, in addition to villas, roadside settlements, Romano-British 'villages', and vici. Nearly all of the Iron Age coins from excavated sites recorded by the Reading project were from shrines, and 10% of all coin hoards appeared to coincide broadly with major changes in the form or layout of settlement. It was exciting to see how another 'big data' project is adding incredible detail to knowledge of Roman Britain.
Philippa Walton from the University of Oxford spoke next, and she is part of the Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire Project. On this occasion, however, Philippa was speaking more specifically about the finds from Piercebridge, Co. Durham, where over 1300 coins, brooches, keys, mirror handles and other late Iron Age and Roman objects were recovered from an area of the riverbed of the River Tees. Human and animal bone and pottery was also associated with this series of deposits, which seem to have resulted from ritualised practices near the Roman crossing over the river. Once more, the numbers and variety of objects Philippa showed were astonishing.
Wider perspectives on hoarding and deposition
After lunch in the afternoon session chaired by Colin Haselgrove from the University of Leicester, Duncan Garrow from the University of Reading then presented a wonderful potted history of hoarding in Britain from the Mesolithic through to the Iron Age, in order to place our hoarding project and other similar research in a longer-term context. He stressed the dynamics of the objects and practices associated with hoarding, in addition to the 'accretion of memory' and the variety of processes that brought such objects together. Duncan also considered the different ways in which hoard deposits have been analysed and interpreted by archaeologists over the years, and he gave much food for thought about how well different approaches have worked in the past, and how they could be developed in the future
Adrian Chadwick and Rachel Wilkinson from the University of Leicester presented their research as part of the Hoarding in Iron Age and Roman Britain project. Adrian Chadwick showed some of the analyses of the landscape settings and contextual associations of the recorded Iron Age and Roman coin hoards, which have revealed interesting national and regional trends. He also outlined the results of new survey work carried out at hoard find spots by the project. Rachel Wilkinson presented some preliminary results of her PhD research into Iron Age metalwork hoards, including artefacts such as socketed axes, spears, cauldrons, and currency bars. Once again, the significance of particular places and materials to people in the past seems to be crucial to understanding why some hoards were deposited in certain areas.
After more tea, Nico Roymans from Universiteit Amsterdam examined the large late Roman gold hoards found along the northern frontier of the Roman Empire, at least some of which may have been intended as gifts and payments to Germanic leaders and communities. He was interested in the flows of gold into this area from the wider Empire, and what this meant economically and politically for peoples on both sides of the frontier.
Helle Horsnæs from the National Museum of Denmark presented some amazing examples of how detailed recording of metal detectorist finds in Denmark has transformed archaeological knowledge of particular areas, where before only place-name elements hinted at sites of interest. She also struck a note of caution in interpreting spatial data, however, with an example of where coins had been re-deposited in layers of soil that had been used to level up lower-lying, boggy areas of ground around a series of timber halls. Once again, there was much food for thought, some of which was then explored during a discussion session involving all of the day's speakers.
After a short break at the end of the afternoon, just long enough to sample the hospitality of some of the local hostelries around the British Museum, Philip de Jersey (University of Oxford/Guernsey Museums) took to the podium for his enthralling lecture on the Le Câtillon II or Grouville Hoard, the world's largest hoard of c. 70, 000 – 80, 000 Iron Age coins, in addition to gold torcs and other objects, found on Jersey in 2012. This simply astounding find alternately stunned and excited the audience. Interestingly, de Jersey revealed that it had been found close to another hoard discovered in 1957, which had consisted of over 3000 coins, silver chains and brooches. The coins from the Le Câtillon II Hoard contain many rare or previously unknown types, and it was unlikely to have been buried before 40 BC, though there may have been a gap of 15-20 years between the minting of the coins, and their final deposition. The coins and other objects may have represented part of the tribal wealth of the Coriosolitae in the Britanny area, though it also contained coins from other parts of Gaul and Britain; yet the exact reasons for the deposition of this material remain unclear.
The Third Century
Day 2 of the conference was entitled The Third Century AD in Britain and Europe – Crisis or Continuity? The first session on Saturday morning was chaired by David Mattingly of the University of Leicester, and the first speaker as Adam Rogers, another researcher on the Hoarding in Iron Age and Roman Britain project. Adam explored explore whether or not the third century in Britain could indeed be described as a period of crisis, and how coin hoards might fit into analysis and interpretation. He has critically re-examined the archaeological evidence for burning and destruction supposedly revealed in third-century deposits from some Roman forts, and has found this evidence to be overstated or even misinterpreted in many instances. Burning may have often been acts of deliberate destruction by Roman troops prior to temporary abandonment, to cleanse areas of parasites and pests, or even as rites of regeneration. The 'Saxon shore forts' are always regarded as a planned system of coastal defences in response to incursions by pirates and barbarian raiders, yet their construction dates are significantly varied from one another. The hoards buried around fort and settlement boundaries might have reflected concerns with liminality and unease at the presence of metalwork, rather than evidence for periods of threat. Adam also questioned how much the politics and conflict associated with the British usurpers actually impacted upon the lives of the majority of people in Roman Britain, and suggested that we cannot simplistically use the presence of hoards of coins struck on behalf of certain individuals as direct proxies of their movements around Britain.
Alex Smith from the University of Reading is another researcher on the Roman Rural Settlement Project, and he presented some of the results of their investigations of broad patterns of settlement form and distribution across Roman Britain over time. There was possible re-organisation in the Midlands in the later first and early second centuries AD. Some areas saw a decline in settlement numbers by the later second century AD. The mid-second century may thus have been the so-called 'Golden Period' of Roman Britain, not the third or fourth centuries as claimed by some other researchers. Only in northern Kent and the Cotswolds were there large concentrations of villas in the late third and early fourth century, by which time some areas such as southern Kent seem to have lost villa settlements altogether. Alex proposed that the 'core' of Roman Britain appears to have been the central zone extending from the Wash to the north-east to the Severn in the south-west, particularly during the later centuries of Roman rule. This settlement evidence accords well with the data on coin and metalwork distribution undertaken by Philippa Walton as part of her doctoral research.
Following tea, Sam Moorhead from the British Museum, who is a Co-Investigator on the Hoarding Project, outlined what limited historical and archaeological evidence there is for the usurpers Carausius and Allectus, but also how their actions might have impacted upon the distribution of coins and coin hoards in Britain. He offered the intriguing suggestion that, in the case of hoards such as the Frome Hoard, these might have been stipes, or votive offerings made by entire communities.
Simon Esmonde-Cleary from the University of Birmingham examined to what extent the coin hoards of the third century in Britain, particularly the great radiate hoards of the AD 260s onwards, were part of a wider phenomenon in the western Roman provinces. Once simplistic and discredited explanations for barbarian incursions into Germany and Gaul are discarded, other possible causes have to be sought. Were bags of small-denomination coins used as collections with assigned values, and is this why they were stored or deposited in such groups? He raised the thorny issue of whether some hoards at least were multi-temporal assemblages, and whether some hoards, including the Frome Hoard, even if effectively demonetised, were nonetheless deposited under the protection of the gods. Thus, even some hoards deposited as a result of 'ritualised' practices might originally have been intended for recovery at a later date.
After lunch, Sam Moorhead from the British Museum was chairing, and he introduced Fleur Kemmers from the University of Frankfurt. She outlined the evidence from the Lower Rhine region, where despite a strong Iron Age tradition of weapon and coin deposits in rivers and upland areas, this seems to have declined during the early Roman period, with a relative absence of third century hoards. Once explained rather simplistically in terms of the uprooting of populations and the abandonment of areas due to barbarian incursions and Roman attempts to create a sterile frontier zone, the archaeological evidence does not fit this former model. Instead, her research suggests many such areas were not abandoned at all, and that explanations for such marked changes in hoarding and deposition must be sought in social and cultural changes in practice at quite localised levels.
Kevin Butcher from the University of Warwick then tackled the changes to the weight and fineness of precious metal coins, and to what extent these influenced hoarding patterns across the Roman Empire prior to and during the third century. For example, despite changes in the silver content of coins during Nero's reign, this did not apparently lead to a marked difference in hoarding patterns, although the actual composition of coins in these hoards does seems to have altered. Kevin suggested that these were questions that also needed to be asked for third century hoards in different regions, including Britain.
The final speaker of the day was David Wigg-Wolf from the German Archaeological Institute, who wanted to consider what the implications would have been of a monetary system that consisted almost solely of small denomination coinage. What exactly were some of the large third century coin hoards worth, and in some instances did this reflect a need for quantity of coinage when quality had declined? Is it legitimate to compare such changes and their possible consequences in the Roman world to the inflation that took place in countries such as Germany during the years of the Weimar Republic, or Zimbabwe under the Mugabe dictatorship? Like other speakers at the conference, he too criticised past traditional explanations that saw barbarian incursions as causing hoarding in north-west Europe during AD 250-300 – the so-called 'arrows on maps' approach to hoarding – though such simplistic interpretations are apparently still current in parts of Europe.
There then followed another short but productive question and answer and discussion session, chaired by Roger Bland, before he drew proceedings to a close. All in all, the conference stimulated much critical debate, and clearly show ideas concerning the deposition of coin and other hoards are changing after years of comparative stagnation, and reliance on simplistic monocausal explanations. It is hoped that the many ideas presented at the conference will be a part of wider transformations in understandings of and approaches to Iron Age and Roman coins and coin hoarding across Britain and Europe, and will go some way to bridging the historic gulf that once existed between numismatic and archaeological interpretations.


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Self-regulators, mount up!
Not sure if you've noticed, but there's been a crazy amount of heightened emotions flooding our mental space over the past few weeks. Some may say that it's been going on for the past year and others will argue that it's been going on since the beginning of time.
It's not about being right or wrong here. That's missing the point.
What it�is about is finding coping mechanisms to rise above the ebb and flow of it all instead of being sucked down by a ruthless emotional undertow.
Yes, it's that serious.
We are taking in a massive amount of information every single day and by not choosing to regulate what we allow into our thought stream, we are as good as gone – mentally, emotionally and physically.
We feel frustrated and irritable. Overwhelmed and anxious. Depressed and numb. All the while not realizing how or why we got here. We normalize these feelings until something tragic happens to wake us up and snap us out of it.
No more, man. Done with that.
Paying attention to how we react is numero uno when it comes to destressing and communicating from a place of a grounded reality. Are you agreeing just to agree? Saying yes just to avoid confrontation? People pleasing is very different from true kindness. I'm not suggesting that we all stop being polite and start getting real. There's already enough of that out there.
I'm talking about sloooowing it down so that we can find out how to be polite in a real�genuine way. Something I need to remind myself every single day. Not a superficial on the brink of a nervous breakdown polite. That just makes people confused with whether to hug or hide from you.
There is such a thing as setting boundaries and preserving your self-respect. True politeness will sometimes disappoint people but it also gains respect from those who matter most. It keeps you true to yourself so that you can give yourself to people in a way that you approve of.
Self-regulation allows for this to happen on the reg. It strengthens our will power, decreases our need for immediate gratification, lessens regret, enhances fulfillment, and slows down our knee-jerk reaction to well, pretty much everything. We learn it young and sometimes need to remind ourselves why it's just as important as learning our ABC's.
The problem lies in this damn FOMO. The trendy hashtag buzz of the Fear Of Missing Out was the It Girl for way too long. It's worn off slightly but the feeling is still leaving us jonesing for a fix. And since a quick fix is always at our finger tips, it's even harder to resist. That's why we need to build up the practice of self-regulation.
After all, how can we self-regulate if we're too busy wondering what we're missing out on instead of paying attention to what we're partaking in? We can't.
Can we focus our mind enough to set clear boundaries and goals for ourselves? Is there still time to slow down our record reaction time and take back what's rightfully ours? Absofreakinlutely! It takes nerve and determination. You have it in you to face challenges that most people fear. You do.
Where do we start? With the grand master of course: your phone.
3 ways to help you check in so you don't check out when it matters most:
1. Turn off your notifications. Instead of breaks from social media, what if we lived in a world where we allowed our breaks to include social media. What does this look like? The majority of your day would be spent off of social media. You set clear times for when you check your feeds and for how long. Set a 15-minute timer. Pay attention to where you are and how you are reacting to people, situations, yourself.�Don't allow autopilot to drive your brain. You're better than that.
2. Turn your phone on airplane mode. Working on a project? Brainstorming session with co-workers? Writing a blog? These are times when the only tech that is needed for the job is the only tech that is needed to be on. Hi Flow, it's been awhile.
With brainstorming sessions, brace yourself, a zero tech rule (yes, as in, no tech allowed in the room) needs to be enforced to allow for person to person energy flow and creative ideas to flourish. Thank you to Bob Kulhan's book, "Getting to 'Yes And': The Art of Business Improv" for that reminder. Don't knock it 'til you try it.
3. Turn off your phone. If you're a rebellious soul this one is�the bomb diggity. Obviously, you would not do this if/when you are expecting an important call. For those other 23 hours in the day, there is that thing called voice mail, oh and, patience. There may be a feeling that you're missing an appendage for a little while. It's okay. It's all going to be okay. Break through it and you'll find that you are ready to set clear boundaries for yourself and others on how often you use your phone.
Ease into these three steps and you'll soon find that numbness will fade and clarity will surface. You'll feel "back" and more in control of how you respond to people and situations.
It's pretty awesome. Go see for yourself.
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False Start
July disappeared for me in Nicaragua. When I look back at the happenings of July in the life of my family, I'm in awe of the uniqueness of time: moments that stand still like the permanency of a polaroid picture and others that seemed to vanish quickly like deleting a non-keeper photo on your cell phone. Radio DJ's are playing the anointed "Song of the Summer" one last time – this summer's anointed champion? Justin Beiber and Daddy Yankee's "Despacito." Yep, it has been a full summer. You've had a full summer too. People are coming and going and struggling and striving and starting new things and ending others. But August is here and you can sense the exhale of the-livin-is-easy-summertime and the inhale of a new season – most notably in society as the beginning of a new school year. Even if you're not a student or a teacher, our culture is geared around the school season enough that it is a collective experience. We're collecting school supplies for our Partner in Education next door and in two weeks, we'll have a special blessing in worship for students and educators. Band kids are learning their new marches and football players are pulling in the heat of two-a-days. Students will soon be taking that big gulp on day one of another year, a new grade, a new teacher. Regardless of how closely Day One will affect your schedule or routine, you're a part of the seasonal shift. You feel it in some way. Are you ready for that shift? Every seasonal shift in a community comes with a whole new set of feelings, issues and possibilities. We're going to do our best as a church family to help us make the shift to this new season in the life of our community. That's why we begin this August sermon series today we're calling, "Ready, Set, Go!"
We start today with 'Ready.' I'm guessing once a day or so, you're faced with the question from someone about something coming up in your life, "Are you ready?" When we ask you that question, we want to know if you're prepared. Are you jazzed up about what's coming? Are you nervous or anxious? How are you feeling about what's to come? Have you done the work ahead of time. Is your to-do list completed? Did you make arrangements for the dogs? Did you pick up enough bug spray? Did you get the marriage license? Is the car seat properly installed, fireman inspected and approved to carry that precious cargo home from the hospital for the very first time? I find that when I ask others the predictable, "Are you ready?" question, more often than not I get the "Not at all" predictable response. Not always, but much of the time. In some ways, I think this is what we've come to think is the most culturally acceptable response. It generally implies that we're so busy, so important, that we just haven't had the time to get fully ready for whatever that next thing is. I get lost in this sometimes. I think, "You know, I need to complete that first. When that is done, I'll consider that and when that is finished I'll get my head wrapped around that other thing." Mike Yaconelli once said, "There are a whole lot of people who are so freakin' busy—they've so cluttered up their lives—they're at their wits' end. And if they'd only just stop for a minute, they could hear the God of the universe whisper to them, "I love you." Ouch. That gets me.
Maybe you know how that feels. I'm also sure it depends on what that next thing is. Sometimes, you're so excited about something that you just jump right in before you even know fully what you're jumping in to. Other things you dread so much that you resist facing what is coming to the extent that your attitude is in the dumps before you even get started. We might call these false starts. And there is certainly more than one way to experience a false start to a new season of life. The Apostle Paul offers a way to be ready for the set and go that will follow. We dive into part of his word to the Colossian church that speaks to the gift of preparedness.
The city of Colossae is noted by some commentators to be "the most unimportant town to which Paul ever wrote." "That's sort of offensive," I thought. I grew up in a small, unassuming town, so to speak but would never call it unimportant. It was home. It was a town made up of friends and families who were, and remain, a necessary part of the human story. I told you earlier that July disappeared for me in Nicaragua. I spent a week there as part of a partnership our church has with the community of Chacraseca, Nicaragua. Over the course of two weeks, twenty-seven of us from HACC made that pilgrimage. Chacraseca is materially impoverished by any standard but the souls of those people, our friends there, are as rich as any I've ever met. Look past the name of the town on the sign to the eyes of Diana and Melanie … and countless others… and tell me that community is unimportant. The hope of Christ, alive in the world, is here, and there, and in my little hometown and in Colossae.
Paul writes this letter to that church from a jail cell. He wants to encourage their grounded-ness in the beautiful mystery of Christ and to be alert to how his presence is to shape their lives. "The substance of our message," Paul writes, "is simple. We preach Christ. No more. No less." Paul knows the outside pressures we face – and sometimes the inside pressures of religion too – "Do this. Don't do that. Spend your time excluding those people. Focus on rules and enforcing them." Paul says, "Un uh. Those all lead to false starts. Start with Jesus. Just Jesus. Know him. Work to understand him. Dwell in his character. Be his grace in the world not his Middle School Principal's spanking paddle." My goodness. I never got the paddle myself from Mr. Cerva when I was in middle school but I remember walking by his office one time when a kid got the paddle. Whew! Times have changed… a bit… in some ways. Don't be a paddler. Be grace. That's not easy but that's the call.
Night one of our team's PartnerTrip to Nicaragua, we were stranded in Dallas as our flight was cancelled. The airline put us up for the night in a nearby hotel and we rolled with the punches. Here's our team that first night on the hotel elevator. This is when we were all still wearing clean clothes! All of us fit! And we were going down so even if we surpassed the weight limit, gravity would have helped us get down to the lobby. Dr. Bob Flint is pictured in the front. The joke early in the trip was that if you wanted to get on the screen during a sermon, you needed to be in a prominent spot in the photo — you made it, Bob!
Now… Bob is a renowned and master dentist, truly elite in his field. On our first work day in Chacraseca, Bob worked at the medical clinic along with the local dentist who came into the village on occasion to serve the community. There was a good line of folks in need of dental support – lots of extractions. As you can imagine, sterilization and access to the tools Bob is used to were an altogether different story at the clinic; challenging for sure. But I loved Bob's approach to it. He could have called the dentist out for sub-par standards; chastising the practice. He could have refused to help and made a statement by walking out. But no. Bob rolled up his sleeves and used his gifts to make a difference to those who were hurting and in need. This is what Paul is saying: "Just Christ. Nothing more. Nothing less." When Jesus was approached by the hurting on the Sabbath, he could have chastised them saying, "Hey – you know the rules – no work, no help on the Sabbath." Instead, Jesus picked up some dirt with his hand, spit in it, and rubbed it on the eyes of the blind… on the wounds of the world. Not exactly the most sterile procedure but he served where he was, when he was there, with the gifts he had to give.
How could such an approach change your interaction with those in your life? When your gut is to say, "No," in a state of judgment or to quip back with "Well, the Bible says…" trying to enforce your doctrine or "If you get your life together, then…". How would things change if your response, first in your heart and then from your mouth and actions was the response that promoted nothing less than the love of Jesus. Nothing less. Save yourself some false starts by making sure you're Christ-ready before responding to others in your life. And how do we ready ourselves to live out this grace in the world? How do you prepare for whatever season is just ahead of us? You draw on Paul's words from the fourth chapter of Colossians.
"Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving." "Pray diligently," and my favorite part of this, "keep alert in it with thanksgiving." It's not about the right words or a certain length of time. It's about consistency and intentionality. It's about mindfulness. One of my friends is a middle school Principal in Indianapolis (apparently, there is a middle school principal theme this morning). Her school teachers have been trained in the Mindful Schools program and will implement mindfulness in their classrooms this school year. Mindfulness is about creating a pause in your day, slowing your thoughts down and paying attention to yourself and to the world around you. This has been a spiritual practice of our faith for years; to be intentional about clearing the clutter of your mind and spirit. And we are losing this discipline rapidly in today's non-stop sensory world. Communion with God in the silence of the heart is a God-given capacity like a child's capacity for self-forgetful abandon and joy. It's about centering ourselves, clearing the mechanism so that our focus is clear. My buddy recently gave me a book called "Into the Silent Land"[1] which is a guide to the Christian practice of contemplation by Martin Laird. Laird says, "God is our homeland. And the homing instinct of the human being is homed on God." "Go to your home." Like you say to your golf ball just before putting, "Go to your home." Make time for this. Create intentional space for silence because our lives are so noisy. And in that silence, listen. The mental health coordinator at my friend's school believes that practicing mindfulness will help students make better choices and help them communicate better with their teachers and peers. She said, "It helps increase self-discipline and self-regulation. It improves confidence, it helps with interpersonal skills, it improves emotional response and it increases the ability to understand others." Could you benefit from some of those outcomes as well? Practice mindfulness or as Paul puts it, "Stay alert in your prayers…" and exist in that state with gratitude.
Start with Christ. Start with gratitude. Can you see how these starting points can carry us further than the starting points we may be most prone to employ? We may be inclined to start from a place of fear or judgment or selfishness. That won't make us 'ready' for the next season. It will only drag us down or yank our attitude into a dark place. To ready ourselves, start with Christ. Nothing more. Nothing less. And start there in a spirit of gratitude. Paul is very clear about this. He's also clear in how he asks the church to pray for him. He's in prison, remember, but he doesn't ask for prayers to be released. He doesn't ask for a successful outcome to his coming trial. He doesn't ask for a little break or even peace at the last, though those things are okay to request in prayer of course. But Paul's laser focused. He asks the church at Colossae to pray only that God may give him strength and opportunity to do the work which God has called him to do. I'm not putting Paul on a pedestal here. Paul also prayed for a thorn in his side to be removed three times. Could have been a tough wrestling-a-rose-bush incident or, more likely, a metaphor for some other struggle he had in his life. We all pray for those things and such is okay. But keeping alert in our prayers, practicing mindfulness, hones in on the one thing, our purpose in God, asking for it to be illuminated in ongoing ways in our lives. From this clarity, this state of readiness, we operate forward. Paul says this will ready us to make the most of every opportunity. It will create a graciousness in our speech with others and therefore begin to bring the best out of them as well. Ground yourself in this spirit and you'll give everything else in your life a greater chance to flourish. It doesn't remove pain or heartache or struggle but it gives us a new lens through which to view them. It's what we might call starting in the 10 and 2 zone.
In the movie, "Hitch"[2], Will Smith's character (Hitch) is teaching Kevin James' character (Albert) how to dance. Albert starts right in saying dancing is something he doesn't need help with and he goes through all of his moves: "Start the fire," as he rubs his hands together with some Lil' John playing in the background. "Make the pizza" as he tosses pretend pizza dough into the air. He follows with "Q-tip" and "Throw it away" as you can begin to imagine what those moves look like. Hitch stops him saying, "Don't ever do that again. Ever." And he teaches him to start simply, with his elbows at 10 and 2. "This is where you live. This is home." Now, I'm a big fan of the dance-like-no-one-is-watching approach to dancing. King David danced that way. But in this context, I think it's an approach to readiness, like spiritually stretching first. Nothing but Christ. Nothing more, nothing less. Anything else is a false start.
I mentioned briefly about the false start to our team's trip to Nicaragua. HACC's first team that travelled the week before us had similar travel woes on the way there. But something happens along the way in these sorts of experiences and I look forward to our teams being able to share about the transformation they experienced in the coming weeks. But I'll share this for now. Each day we served and laughed and cried and conversed and celebrated and worked alongside of the people of Chacraseca, things got clearer. Yes, cultural differences are complex and spiritual responses to what you experience deserve space to process and discern what it means for your life back home with your family or your neighbors or your political differing friends.
But, aside from all of those important things, Christ – nothing more and nothing less – becomes the centering focus of the moment. Day one's concern about what you packed, what you'll wear, your attempts not to sweat in sweltering conditions without the luxuries of home disappear bit by bit. I love these people. I lived with them. We shared bathrooms with toilets that didn't always work and critters that shared our living space. I loved the new friends we made in Nicaragua and Day One's sense of "This is their home?" turns into the comfort of sitting on their dirt floor, laughing with them and hugging like we were family. Christ. Nothing more. Nothing less. Sometimes, it takes going far from home to remember where home is. God. is. our. homeland.
We got on the plane in Managua on August 1st to fly to Dallas. It was a plane that happened to have a personal television for every single passenger which had its ironies thinking of what we had just experienced with one another – the minimal means of existence which had become more than enough to sustain joy and hope and heart. Nonetheless, I thumbed through the movie selections and picked another Will Smith movie: "Collateral Beauty."[3] I'd never seen it. It was wrapped up in the trials of Time, Love, and Death; the three becoming personified in a way that overlaid my experience in Nicaragua in such a powerful and profound way. By the end of the movie, the lump in my throat was large enough to be named and the tears pooling in my eyes might as well have fallen like the rain we felt on the Nicaraguan beach one evening. A woman sitting angled in the middle seat just a row ahead of me was watching a different movie entirely though the movies clearly climaxed at the same time. I perceived her to be from Nicaragua but I don't know for sure that she was. But at the same time as "Mr. Lumpy" crept up in my own throat, she began dabbing her own eyes. Though the stories were different, we were the same in that moment. Collateral Beauty. Amidst the pain and struggle and uncertainty of life, there is beauty to be seen, to be felt, to be lived. It's a mentality. It's a Spirit thing. Are you ready for the next season ahead – whatever that may be for you? Look for the collateral beauty. Practice mindfulness. Stay alert in your prayers. See the world through a lens of gratitude. And start with Jesus. Nothing more. Nothing less.
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[1] Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation. Martin Laird. Oxford University Press. 2006.
[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386588/


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So excited CSC now sells pants in my 28" and tall in 32" I believe – of course they sold out of my size by the time I got there but fingers crossed for more. Nobody cuts pants like CSC does. My heart forever belongs to Carolyn Strauss Collections and I think it was a huge sad mistake for HSN to let them go.
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