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The speech I am giving in Bastrop, Texas on Labor Day.
Let's all Pledge Allegiance to our Flag.
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation, under God, for Liberty and Justice for all.
I have been asked here today to speak to you about Liberty. I could stand here and give you a feel good speech about how much I love my Liberty, my country and my freedom, and while it would all be true, its not the reality of today. Today our reality is not reveling in the liberties promised to us in the Constitution, but yet being violently forced into the direction of fascism and tyranny.
Liberty to me is not just a statue that stands in the harbor in New York
Liberty to me is not just a cracked bell that is housed in Pennsylvania.
Liberty to me is not just a word in the pledge we just said.
In that pledge I stated "with liberty and justice for all". I mean those words. I want to stand beside all of you and fight for our liberties, to fight for our justice because we all deserve it as Americans.
I want to fight for our liberty to decide who provides my family and my own medical care. I want to be the one who decides how much my life is worth, because as far as I am concerned there is no price that you can put on my life, on my husbands life, or on my parents and grandparents lives.
I want to fight for our liberty to decide who, what, and how our children are taught in our schools. Our children should be taught about what this country was founded upon, about the great leaders of the past, instead of being pawns in a political scheme to lead this country to socialism.
I want to fight for our liberty to speak freely. We should have the ability to speak our minds about this administration because they are accountable to us. We have elected them to represent us. It is NOT the color of our Presidents skin that matters to me, yet how he runs this country and ONLY how he runs this country that matters. Our voices should not be stifled by them, but welcomed. They have called us un-American but what they have forgotten is that the right to speak out against them is not only a right that American was built upon, but it was so important to our founding fathers that they made it the first right.
I want to fight for our liberty to worship freely. When we said that pledge we admitted that this country is under God's supervision. If you do not believe in God, I feel sorry you do not know His love, but your right to not know him is protected by our Constitution. In the same Constitution our right to worship without fear of persecution is protected as well. We are not extremists for being Christians, however we know the extreme love and protection of our Lord and Savior. No one will ever tell me I cannot worship Him, and I will pray for those who try to do so.
I want to fight for our liberty to have those who control my money be accountable to me. I will not stand for this administration skirting around that accountability by appointing a plethora of Czars to are accountable not to us. These Czars should be scrutinized by us for their actions in the past just as our elected officials are. We do not do this viciously, we do this because anyone who controls any part of our country should be. It is our money and our right to know who is spending it, what they are spending it on, their qualifications to do so, and how it will be spent. Today is labor day, where we remember we labored for our money and it is our right to know how the government, the federal reserve, and the new czars are spending it. The founding fathers knew if one branch of government got too much power it would be easily corruptible, and we are seeing that fear come true before our eyes.
I want to fight for the liberty to listen to those who I consider patriots of our time on our radio, television and internet. Repressing the voices of people like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity on our radios and television is not promoting diversity but yet the exact opposite. Those men speak without fear, and I consider them as models for how we all should be speaking, loudly clearly and against the tyranny destroying our country.
I want to fight for the liberty to celebrate the men and women of our United States Armed Forces for what they are. Heroes. I sacrifice my happiness everyday to give all of you the protection of my husband. He is gone from me more than he is home, and while it saddens me to have him be away, it provides me great pride to know you may all sleep soundly at night knowing he is out there making that possible. He is my personal hero and he should be considered one by the government and country he serves. He protects us all from terrorists, foreign and domestic, Never should he be called one. Never.
I want to fight for our liberty to bear arms. I have the right to defend my family. My father has never joined any organization besides that of his church yet this year he became a proud member of the NRA. I am not fighting for the right to use a gun for an un necessary violent act, but against those who seek to harm me or my family in such vicious attacks. Guns to not kill people by themselves, yet protect us from someone whose intent is to kill us.
Twenty years ago we would have found it ridiculous that any of these liberties would be in jeopardy. But they are. I have pledged to allegiance to you and to this country to fight for liberty and justice for all. I intend to keep that pledge. I want to ask you all to stand beside me as I speak and fight for these liberties. They are the foundation that this country was built upon, and while several are seeking to destroy that they will find that before they reach that foundation they will find me. Standing firmly without fear.
We the people, those of you with me here today are not un-American angry mobs. We are just the opposite. We are American as it gets. So I have one question for you all today. Will you accept the challenge of standing beside me and protecting Liberty and Justice for all?
(expecting cheers…LOL)
That's what I thought. God Bless America, and God bless you.


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Synopsis Example: "Ransom" (Thriller)
Here's another example of a fiction summary, which can be used as a guide for writing your novel synopsis. (See all my synopsis examples here.) This time it's Ransom (1996).
One thing to notice here is that, in the movie itself, the five kidnappers all have their own personalities. But here I had to cut all that and just focus on the leader. Tom is the main character here, and we need to see his journey over the three acts.
TOM MULLEN is a rich businessman who made his fortune creating a successful airline company from scratch. While he and his family are in Central Park, his son, SEAN, is kidnapped. Tom and his wife KATE's worst nightmares are confirmed when a kidnapper contacts them and demands a $2 million ransom. The Mullens call the FBI for help.
After being kidnapped, Sean is held in a basement. There are not one but five kidnappers, all working together—led by violent police detective JIMMY SHAKER, who resents rich men like Tom who can buy their way out of trouble and are oblivious to the hardships of those around them. Shaker tells his conspirators that the boy will be killed once the ransom is given. Shaker anonymously calls Tom and arranges a dropoff. Tom follows all directions and hands the $2 million to one of Shaker's henchmen. When Tom demands his son in return, the henchman is confused. The henchman flees, but police swarm the area. Gunshots are traded, and the henchman is killed.
News of the shooting/ransom appears all over the NYC media, adding to Tom's problems. Shaker sets up another drop, but Tom surprises everyone by appearing on live TV and saying he will pay no ransom. Instead, he offers the $2 million as a bounty on the kidnapper's head. He says if Sean is released, he will press no charges. The bold move is met by disapproval by the media, the FBI, and most especially Kate, who screams at her husband to take back the bounty and pay the ransom. Tom explains that he would pay any amount of money if he really thought Sean would truly be returned, but he believes the kidnappers have no intention of giving Sean back; therefore, a bounty is his best option. Kate is unconvinced.
More Shaker phone calls come, and threats are exchanged. Despite the pleading of Kate and the FBI, Tom publicly ups the bounty to $4 million. Shaker calls and fires a gunshot, making the Mullens believe Sean is dead. Tom collapses from despair. Meanwhile, Shaker's cohorts all want to abandon the plan, kill the boy, and leave town. Realizing his plan has unraveled, Shaker kills his remaining co-conspirators, under the guise that he, a policeman, came upon an apartment where the tenants opened fire. Sean is found and rescued, and Shaker is hailed as a hero cop by the media.
Soon after, Shaker arrives at Tom's apartment to collect his $4 million reward. As Tom is writing the check, he notices his son in the next room urinate in fear (as the boy recognizes Shaker's voice). Shaker knows the jig is up and threatens to kill everyone in the house, but Tom convinces him to go to the bank so the money can be wired. En route, Tom tips off police to the situation. Cops converge on Tom and Shaker outside the bank. Shaker panics and opens fire. A running shootout ensues, and Shaker is killed when both Tom and the police return fire on Shaker at the same time.
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The problem with the best things we possess
Is that they are so sure to rot and die.
Although we may not want to say goodbye,
It is a fact to which we acquiesce.
The good times that we use to decompress
Have limits with which we must just comply.
They are so limited in scope and time
Before they disappear like all the rest.
That is a fact which I just cannot grip.
T'is sad to know that I must move along.
So what happens once I have gone away?
These last few years have been a lovely trip,
And turning back will take all of my brawn,
As a heart breaks and says to me; "Please stay."


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If God is Good
Why would an all-good and all-powerful God create a world full of evil and suffering? Many critics infer God's non-existence from this age-old question. In this book, Randy Alcorn gives a fresh, realistic, and thoroughly biblical response to the reality...
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Why would an all-good and all-powerful God create a world full of evil and suffering? Many critics infer God's non-existence from this age-old question. In this book, Randy Alcorn gives a fresh, realistic, and thoroughly biblical response to the reality of pain and fear.
Every one of us will experience suffering. Many of us are experiencing it now. As we have seen in recent years, evil is real in our world, present and close to each one of us.
In such difficult times, suffering and evil beg questions about God--Why would an all-good and all-powerful God create a world full of evil and suffering? And then, how can there be a God if suffering and evil exist?
These are ancient questions, but also modern ones as well. Atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and even former believers like Bart Ehrman answer the question simply: The existence of suffering and evil proves there is no God.
In this captivating new book, best-selling author Randy Alcorn challenges the logic of disbelief, and brings a fresh, realistic, and thoroughly biblical insight to the issues these important questions raise.
Alcorn offers insights from his conversations with men and women whose lives have been torn apart by suffering, and yet whose faith in God burns brighter than ever. He reveals the big picture of who God is and what God is doing in the world&-now and forever. And he equips you to share your faith more clearly and genuinely in this world of pain and fear.
"As he did in his best-selling book, Heaven, Randy Alcorn delves deep into a profound subject, and through compelling stories, provocative questions and answers, and keen biblical understanding, he brings assurance and hope to all."
-Publishers Weekly
- Catalogue Code 389152
- Product Code 9781601425799
- Pages 528
- Department General Books
- Category Christian Living
- Sub-Category General
- Publisher Multnomah Publishers
- Publication Date Jun 2014
- Sales Rank 82473
- Dimensions 228 x 152 x 27mm
- Weight 0.606kg
Randy Alcorn
Randy is the author of Heaven which has sold over 4 million copies as well as the novel Courageous.Eternity with Kingstone Media is his first graphic novel.
Why Is the Problem of Evil
and Suffering So Important?
The problem of evil and suffering moves from the philosophical to the personal in a moment of time.
During my research I read all sorts of books–philosophical, theological, practical, and personal. It's one thing to talk about evil and suffering philosophically; it's another to live with it. Philosophy professor Peter van Inwagen wrote,
Angels may weep because the world is filled with suffering. A human being weeps because his daughter, she and not another, has died of leukemia this very night, or because her village, the only world she knows, is burning and the mutilated bodies of her husband and her son lie at her feet.1
Three weeks after his thirty-three-year-old son, Christopher, died in a car crash, pastor and evangelist Greg Laurie addressed a crowd of twenty-nine thousand at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California. "I've talked about Heaven my whole life," Laurie said, "and I've given many messages on life after death. I've counseled many people who have lost a loved one, and I thought I knew a little bit about it. But I have to say that when it happens to you, it's a whole new world." The day his son died, he told the crowd, was "the hardest day of my life."2
When I spoke with Greg ten months later, his faith was strong, but his profound sense of loss remained. Pain is always local. It has a face and a name. And sometimes, for now, it doesn't go away.
The American response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, demonstrated that large-scale evil and suffering usually remain distant from us.
In Sudan, millions, including children, have been murdered, raped, and enslaved. The 2004 Asian tsunami killed more than 280,000 people. Malaria causes more than two million fatalities annually, the majority of them African children. Around the world, some 26,500 children die every day; eighteen every minute.
The loss of American lives in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, numbered 2,973–horrible indeed, yet a small fraction of the terror and loss of life faced daily around the world. The death toll in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, for example, amounted to more than two World Trade Center disasters every day for one hundred days straight. Americans discovered in one day what much of the world already knew–violent death comes quickly, hits hard, and can be unspeakably dreadful.
If we open our eyes, we'll see the problem of evil and suffering even when it doesn't touch us directly.
A friend of ours spoke at a Christian gathering. On her way back to her car, someone raped her. She became pregnant and gave birth to her first child. Because racial differences would have made it clear her husband hadn't fathered the baby, the couple placed the infant for adoption. Since then, they've been unable to conceive another child. Her lifelong dream of raising children remains unfulfilled.
I once had to tell a wife, son, and daughter that their husband and father had died on a hunting trip. I still remember the anguished face of the little girl, then hearing her wail, "Not Daddy, no, not Daddy!"
Years ago I had to tell my mother that her only brother had been murdered with a meat cleaver.
A Christian woman tipped over on her riding lawn mower and fell into a pond. The machine landed on top of her, pinning her to the bottom and drowning her. Such a bizarre death prompted some to ask, "Why, God?" and "Why like this?"
After his wife died, in great pain C. S. Lewis realized, "If I had really cared, as I thought I did, about the sorrows of the world, I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came."3
Our own suffering is often our wake-up call. But even if you aren't now facing it, look around and you'll see many who are.
Why Talk About the Problem?
More people point to the problem of evil and suffering as their reason for not believing in God than any other–it is not merely a problem, it is the problem.
A Barna poll asked, "If you could ask God only one question and you knew he would give you an answer, what would you ask?" The most common response was, "Why is there pain and suffering in the world?"4
John Stott says,
The fact of suffering undoubtedly constitutes the single greatest challenge to the Christian faith, and has been in every generation. Its distribution and degree appear to be entirely random and therefore unfair. Sensitive spirits ask if it can possibly be reconciled with God's justice and love.5
Richard Swinburne, writing in the Oxford Companion to Philosophy, says the problem of evil is "the most powerful objection to traditional theism." 6
Ronald Nash writes, "Objections to theism come and go.… But every philosopher I know believes that the most serious challenge to theism was, is, and will continue to be the problem of evil."7
You will not get far in a conversation with someone who rejects the Christian faith before the problem of evil is raised. Pulled out like the ultimate trump card, it's supposed to silence believers and prove that the all-good and all-powerful God of the Bible doesn't exist.
The problem of evil is atheism's cornerstone.
German playwright Georg Büchner (1813—37) called the problem of evil "the rock of atheism." Atheists point to the problem of evil as proof that the God of the Bible doesn't exist. Every day the ancient argument gets raised in college philosophy classes, coffee shops, dinner discussions, e-mail exchanges, blogs, talk
shows, and best-selling books.
Atheists write page after page about evil and suffering. The problem of evil never strays far from their view; it intrudes upon chapters with vastly different subjects. It's one of the central reasons Sam Harris writes, "Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious."
8 Harris then scolds Christians, saying about intelligent people (such as himself ), "We stand dumbstruck by you–by your denial of tangible reality, by the suffering you create in service to your religious myths, and by your attachment to an imaginary God."9 (At least we know what he's thinking!)
Many suppose that scientific evidence is the cornerstone of atheism. But the famous one-time champion of atheism, Britain's Anthony Flew, renounced his atheism due to the complexity of the universe and his belief in the overwhelming evidence for intelligent design. After examining Richard Dawkins's reasoning in The God Delusion–that the origin of life can be attributed to a "lucky chance"– Flew said, "If that's the best argument you have, then the game is over." However, although he abandoned his atheism, Flew did not convert to the Christian faith, but to deism. Why? Flew could not get past the problem of evil. He believes that God must have created the universe, then abandoned it.
A faith that leaves us unprepared for suffering is a false faith that
deserves to be lost.
A lot of bad theology inevitably surfaces when we face suffering. John Piper writes, "Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won't survive the days ahead."10
Auschwitz survivor Viktor Frankl wrote, "Just as the small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it, likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicaments and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them."11 When people lose their faith because of suffering, it's usually a weak or nominal faith
that doesn't account for or prepare them for evil and suffering. I believe that any faith not based on the truth needs to be lost. The sooner, the better.
Believing God exists is not the same as trusting the God who exists. A nominal Christian often discovers in suffering that his faith has been in his church, denomination, or family tradition, but not Christ. As he faces evil and suffering, he may lose his faith. But that's actually a good thing. I have sympathy for people who lose their faith, but any faith lost in suffering wasn't a faith worth keeping. (Genuine faith will be tested; false faith will be lost.)
If you base your faith on lack of affliction, your faith lives on the brink of extinction and will fall apart because of a frightening diagnosis or a shattering phone call. Token faith will not survive suffering, nor should it.
Suffering and evil exert a force that either pushes us away from God or pulls us toward him. I know a man who lost his faith after facing terrible evil, suffering, and injustice. My heart breaks for him, and I pray that my family and I will never suffer what he did. But if personal suffering gives sufficient evidence that God doesn't exist, then surely I shouldn't wait until I suffer to conclude he's a myth. If my suffering would one day justify denying God, then I should deny him now in light of other people's suffering.
The devastation of tragedy feels just as real for people whose faith endures suffering.But because they know that others have suffered and learned to trust God anyway, they can apply that trust to God as they face their own disasters. Because they do not place their hope for health and abundance and secure relationships in this life, but in an eternal life to come, their hope remains firm regardless of what happens.
Losing your faith may be God's gift to you. Only when you jettison ungrounded and untrue faith can you replace it with valid faith in the true God–faith that can pass, and even find strength in, the most formidable of life's tests.
In her moving book The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion writes about the sudden, unexpected death of her husband. As I read, my heart broke not only for what happened to her, but for the first six words of the book's concluding sentence: "No eye is on the sparrow."12
Didion apparently means that so far as she can tell, there is no God, or at least, no God who cares and watches over us. She's most likely a normal hurting person who needs men and women around her who can see God in the midst of their suffering, so they might help her see him in hers.
Suffering will come; we owe it to God, ourselves, and those around us
to prepare for it.
Live long enough and you will suffer. In this life, the only way to avoid suffering is to die.
Bethany Hamilton grew up surfing on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. At age five she chose to follow Jesus. When she was thirteen, a fourteen-foot tiger shark attacked her, severing one of her arms. Bethany returned to surfing one month later. A year later, despite her disability, she won her first national title.
Bethany says, "It was Jesus Christ who gave me peace when I got attacked by the shark.… And it was what God had taught me growing up that helped me overcome my fears…to get back into the water to keep surfing."
She continues, "My mom and I were praying before the shark attack that God would use me. Well, to me, 1 Timothy 1:12 kind of tells me that God considered me faithful enough to appoint me to his service. I just want to say that no matter who you are, God can use you even if you think you're not the kind of person that can be used. You might think: why would God use me? That's what I thought.… I was like thirteen and there God goes using me!"13
Bethany and her parents had given careful thought to the God they served and his sovereign purposes. Obviously not every tragedy leads to winning a national title, but Bethany began where all of us can, by trusting God; in her case, with a support system of people having an eternal perspective. Hence, she was prepared to face suffering when it came, and to emerge stronger.
Unfortunately, most evangelical churches–whether traditional, liturgical, or emergent–have failed to teach people to think biblically about the realities of evil and suffering. A pastor's daughter told me, "I was never taught the Christian life was going to be difficult. I've discovered it is, and I wasn't ready."
A young woman battling cancer wrote me, "I was surprised that when it happened, it was hard and it hurt and I was sad and I couldn't find anything good or redeeming about my losses. I never expected that a Christian who had access to God could feel so empty and alone."
Our failure to teach a biblical theology of suffering leaves Christians unprepared for harsh realities. It also leaves our children vulnerable to history, philosophy, and global studies classes that raise the problems of evil and suffering while denying the Christian worldview. Since the question will be raised, shouldn't Christian parents and churches raise it first and take people to Scripture to see what God says about it?
Most of us don't give focused thought to evil and suffering until we experience them. This forces us to formulate perspective on the fly, at a time when our thinking is muddled and we're exhausted and consumed by pressing issues. Readers who have "been there" will attest that it's far better to think through suffering in advance.
Sometimes sufferers reach out for answers to those woefully unprepared. A physician's assistant friend of ours wrote,
When I was admitted to the hospital in sepsis with a 50/50 chance of survival, I asked the chaplain how we could believe that God is love, when this felt like the antithesis of love. I said I wouldn't inflict this much suffering
on someone I hated, let alone someone I loved. She told me she would "look it up," then left my room and never came back. I posed the same question to the social worker who came to visit me a few days later. She
told me that God's like a giant and we're like little ants, and sometimes He accidentally steps on our ant hills and some of us get hurt. She said our suffering is random and God's probably not even aware of it.
Pastor James Montgomery Boice had a clearer perspective. In May 2000, he stood before his Philadelphia church and explained that he'd been diagnosed with liver cancer:
Should you pray for a miracle? Well, you're free to do that, of course. My general impression is that the God who is able to do miracles–and He certainly can–is also able to keep you from getting the problem in the
first place. So although miracles do happen, they're rare by definition.…Above all, I would say pray for the glory of God. If you think of God glorifying Himself in history and you say, where in all of history has God most glorified Himself? He did it at the cross of Jesus Christ, and it wasn't by delivering Jesus from the cross, though He could have.…God is in charge. When things like this come into our lives, they are not accidental. It's not as if God somehow forgot what was going on, and something bad slipped by.… God is not only the one who is in charge; God is also good. Everything He does is good.… If God does something in your life, would you change it? If you'd change it, you'd make it worse. It wouldn't be as good.14
Eight weeks later, having taught his people first how to live and then how to die, Pastor Boice departed this world to "be with Christ, which is better by far" (Philippians 1:23).
On the other side of death, the Bible promises that all who know him will fall into the open arms of a holy, loving, and gracious God–the greatest miracle, the answer to the problem of evil and suffering. He promises us an eternal kingdom on the New Earth, where he says of those who come to trust him in this present world of evil and suffering, "They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain" (Revelation 21:3—4).


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hot stone massage (not currently available)
Smooth, rounded basalt stones are gently heated in water and then coated in oil and used as an extension of the therapist's hands. The heat within the stones works deep into your muscles and induces deep relaxation. This treatment can be a great combination of deep tissue work and/or a wonderfully warming and relaxing treatment. Just let us know what you'd prefer! More information about hot stone massage can be found below or just give us a call or email us to have a chat about what treatment would be most suitable for you.
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more information about hot stone massage
A hot stone massage combines the benefits of what is known as 'thermotherapy' (the use of heat for therapeutic effect), with massage strokes. We think that there may be a misconception that hot stone massage is just a relaxing treatment, but it can actually be a very effective therapeutic treatment too. It is generally accepted that one massage stroke using a heated stone is equivalent to 5-10 strokes of the therapist's hand and so it isn't hard to see that a full body massage using hot stones can result in an intensely relaxing and therapeutic experience.
who is it suitable for?
This treatment is suitable for those experiencing physical discomfort as a result of poor posture, over-work, injury or stress as well as those looking for a relaxing and warming treatment. There may be cases when massage isn't suitable and more information on this can be found here but if you aren't sure whether it is suitable for you, please don't hesitate to contact us.
how does it work?
We use rounded, basalt stones that are heated in water and then coated in oil for your treatment. The heat from the stones warms up your skin allowing it to absorb the moisturising oils which coat the stones, whilst also warming up the muscles so that our therapist can work into the deeper muscle layers. This helps improve local circulation and blood flow to your soft tissues which in turn helps to feed the muscles with oxygen and nutrients and removes toxins and waste products that may have built up.
what to expect
The stones are warmed up in water in a heater designed specifically for this purpose. Your therapist will bring the heater with her and will need some hot water from you to warm the stones up. It would be a great help if you could have a kettle boiling while we carry out your consultation so that we can get the stones heated as soon as possible to make the most of your treatment time.
The stones will then be used in a variety of ways – larger stones will be placed on your body to target specific areas and smaller stones will be used by your therapist to massage your body. The smallest stones will be popped between your toes to keep your feet warm during your treatment. Your therapist will take extra time at the beginning of the massage to ensure that contact with the stones is comfortable for you so that you can relax into the treatment. We always check the temperature of the stones before using them and any larger stones that are placed on your body will be put on top of sheets or towels so that they won't come into direct contact with your skin, so you don't need to feel concerned about having a hot object placed on your body.
a bit of history
Hot stone massage may seem like a new type of therapy but actually evidence of stone massage dates back over 3000 years. It is thought that the treatment originates in ancient India and China and has more recently been associated with the North American Indians who used such methods in healing rituals and to ease discomfort and pain.
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I opened the garage to back my car out on Saturday morning and silently cursed at the car blocking part of my driveway, making a difficult task [backing out onto a busy street, something I never thought about when I rented this house while renovating mine] so much harder. I eased out a foot or two and saw what had just happened in front of my house. A bicyclist was down on the pavement, alive but not moving, flat on his back. The man who hit him had pulled over [halfway into my driveway] and was standing there, undone by his utter misery and helplessness. The paramedics were just pulling up, and then the ambulance and the tow truck and the rest.
It is a busy street, a five-lane road up the Pacific on which cyclists pedal fast and cars drive faster. If you're pulling over, you pull into the bike lane, and if you judge it just a little bit wrong – the speed of the cyclists or the cars behind you – this is what happens.
I was on my way to get a manicure. Lucky me. But I was feeling lonely and overwhelmed, facing a weekend of work, a weekend with my children away at school, my children whom I love more than life, whom I depended on for so many years to give me life. I am so proud of them. I am blessed. I am silly and lonely and feeling sorry for myself.
I got out of the car, and I saw the poor cyclist and the poor man. And there but for the grace of God go I.
Lucky me. Silly sad me. Stupid me. Living in a rental house by the ocean, about to move back to my beautiful home. Life staring me in the face, news of this or that person I know sick or struggling stoking my fears. Grace staring me in the face, blessing me.
I am reading, devouring, Anne Lamott's newest book; it's about the first year of her grandson's life. She is one of my favorite writers because of the beauty of her prose and, even more, her unwashed honesty. She has found God and faith and a church she loves. Lucky her. But she is still wracked with anxiety and has trouble letting go; some days she is devoured by her flaws and fights sadness and the rest. She has loved her son so, held on to him so, and now that he is a father, she must let go even more.
As she finds such joy in her grandson, she struggles not to hold on too tight, not to impose her will and try to solve every problem and make them go to the ER when she fears he has croup. She struggles to let go and rails at herself. She touches my soul. We flawed humans, who want to spare our children the pain that is life and can't, must let them go and face our own pain and loss and sadness and the rest.
I read my book while the young man paints my nails pink. Lucky me, with my good job and my nice house and my wonderful children. Lucky me, who does not look around hoping more customers will come in, turning the other cheek, as I see Kenny doing, at the ones who treat these hardworking men and women like objects. Lucky me, with two beautiful children in college, making their way. [Kinehora, we say in Yiddish; keep the evil eye away.] Lucky me, selfish me, wallowing in my fortune.
Lamott is in India. She is surrounded by poverty and beggars she must shoo away because they don't get to keep the money anyway [it goes to a pimp] and because if she gives to one [a mistake made once], she starts a riot. India is a land of beauty and of life, where mothers cremate their children and children their mothers, all younger than me, than mine, where bodies float down the Ganges and families live on the street. Lucky me, with my house and my supermarket and my car and my clean linens and good doctors.
Why do I cry as I read?
By the time I get home, with my perfect pink nails, the cyclist is gone, and the man is gone, and the car and the fire department are gone. Another car is there, parked a few inches back. I don't even try for the garage. I watch the cyclists, I drive slowly, I am thankful when I park.
All of the signs of the tragedy of an hour ago are gone. But I try to hold them in my heart and follow the road they point out for me. To grace.
– Susan Estrich's columns appear regularly in The Oklahoma Observer
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Russia's Gazprom and Total signed an agreement Friday that will give the French company a major role in developing the huge Shtokman gas field.
Contrary to expectations, Total president Christothe de Margerie said the deal will allow Total to book some of the reserves of the field, which is under the Barents Sea and estimated to contain as much as 3.7 trillion cubic meters of gas.
The agreement signed Friday gives Total a 25% stake in an operating company that would be created to plan, finance and build the first stage of the project. A separate company, 100 percent owned by Gazprom, holds the actual license to the field.
Gazprom, which is state-controlled, has said that foreigners would be hired only as contractors for Shtokman, meaning they would have no direct exposure to revenues or ability to book a part of the field's reserves as they would if they had an equity stake.
But on Friday, de Margerie said Total will be able to book 25% of the reserves.
"It's a technicality but, yes, we can book reserves," he told reporters after the signing. "In as far as we are taking risks, and when you take risks you can book reserves."
In announcing the deal Thursday, Miller said one or several foreign partners could get a further 24 percent stake in the operating company. In addition to Total, OAO Gazprom has been in talks with Norway's Statoil and Norsk Hydro, and U.S.-based ConocoPhillips .
Miller said pipeline deliveries from the field would begin in 2013 and that the project would produce its first liquefied natural gas in 2014. The first phase envisages annual production of 23.7 billion cubic meters of gas per year, he said, but it was not immediately clear how production would be split between pipeline gas and LNG.


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Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS)
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Jülich Supercomputing Centre
The tutorial took place from January 23 - 27, 2006 at Research Centre Jülich.
Its aim was to give a thorough introduction to parallel programming in the sciences. After an overview of parallel computing, algorithms, and programming, the main part of the course focused on how to write parallel programs using the standard Message Passing Interface (MPI). The third part of the tutorial introduced shared memory programming with OpenMP.
Lectures alternated with extended hands-on exercises. The exercises provided an excellent opportunity to deepen the insight into the various parallel programming techniques. Attendees received copies of the lectures and additional reference material on MPI and OpenMP. There was also the possibility for discussions with scientists from different fields of computational science, including parallel numerical computing, quantum chemistry, and molecular dynamics.
The tutorial was held and organized by Boris Orth, Bernd Mohr, Marc André Hermanns, and Rüdiger Esser, Research Centre Jülich. NIC, Germany.
The tutorial was part of the tutorial series of CECAM (Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire), of which the Research Centre Jülich is a member. The participants were supported by the Marie Curie MolSimu Program.
The 23 participants came from 10 different countries. Many of them presented posters of their work.
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John Taft – the 'the Beauty in the Bath' murder (1999)
"In November 1999, John Taft, the managing director of a glass company, was convicted of murdering Cynthia Bolshaw in her Heswall home – 16 years after she was found dead in her bath at her bungalow in Buffs Lane. She had been strangled and the murder investigation sparked a inquiry that would circle the world. Taft was given a life sentence at Liverpool Crown Court in November, 1999, after advances in DNA evidence encouraged detectives to reinvestigate the case. But he has always maintained his innocence – even though it emerged at his trial that he had sex with Mrs Bolshaw at her home on the night she was killed."
~ Wirral Globe, 4/11/2009
"THE NOTORIOUS Beauty in the Bath murder case could be re-opened after a bundle of evidence presumed destroyed dramatically re-surfaced. The file of forensic evidence could prove the innocence of the man who has served a decade behind bars for the killing.
Mr Kirwan [Taft's solicitor] told the ECHO: "Within an hour of getting this case and considering some of the early points raised by Taft and the family, I thought it was a serious miscarriage of justice. It's a bad case."
Mr Kirwan, of Kirwans Solicitors, hopes the file will contain evidence pin-pointing the exact time of Mrs Bolshaw's death which he says was unclear at the trial. He also hopes to establish why police apparently ignored a finger print found on Mrs Bolshaw's bedroom window."
~ Liverpool Echo, 4/11/2009
For the full story, please check out the full case report at MOJUK: Justice for John Taft – The Beauty in the Bath case
- EXCLUSIVE: Dramatic new twist to Wirral's Beauty in the Bath murder: http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/4717814.Dramatic_new_twist_to_Wirral_s_Beauty_in_the_Bath_murder/
- Beauty in the bath murderer gets life: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/nov/25/paulkelso
- R. v John Taft, November 1999 Appeal court judgement: http://www.homepage-link.to/Justice/Taft/index.htm
- Wirral Beauty in the Bath murder case could be re-opened: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/wirral-beauty-bath-murder-case-3438041
- Why I'm convinced my husband is innocent of the Beauty in the Bath murder: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1227647/Why-Im-convinced-husband-innocent-Beauty-Bath-murder.html
- After 16 years, DNA traps double-glazing salesman who murdered `beauty in bath': http://www.independent.co.uk/news/after-16-years-dna-traps-double-glazing-salesman-who-murdered-beauty-in-bath-1128493.html
- 'Victim's underwear stolen before murder': http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/525568.stm


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MSM is Lying: Conservatives Are the Mainstream
During his sabbatical, a university professor wishes to come to Florida to interview me for a study he is doing on black Tea Partiers. He said he wants to find out why "you think the way you think." Why do I get the feeling this guy believes that black conservatives are a strange phenomenon, almost unique as discovering a Bigfoot? This professor is flying all the way to Florida to actually meet me, an extremely rare species -- a Blackus Conservativus. As believers in traditional values such as faith in God, family, and country, conservatives are viciously attacked by the mainstream media, which function as enforcers, punishing all who dare challenge the left's socialist/progressive agenda. The MSM portrays conservatives as nutcase extremists; take Col. Allen West, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, and Ted Cruz to name a few. Liberals decry as "kooky" those of us who believe that the institution of marriage should continue to remain the union of one man and one...(Read Full Article)


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I like what he calls the MSM:
As a first step, we would do well to boycott toxic mainstream media (MSM) messaging, which favours lies, injustice, and war.
Source: The West's Establishment Lies and Crimes Are Leading Us to The Unthinkable | Global Research – Centre for Research on Globalization
Corporate media messaging about the war on Syria is corrupt to an unprecedented level, despite years of sustainable evidence that contradicts the lies.
The "West", including U.S.–led NATO, the Persian Gulf Monarchies, and Israel, are waging a proxy war against Syria. ISIS or Daesh is the designated enemy, but it has long been (publicly) acknowledged that the real enemy is President Assad of Syria, not ISIS. All of the invading, un-islamic mercenary terrorists are the West's "strategic assets," including ISIS. Engineered islamophobia is all part of the Western psy- op to…
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The Miami Heat can expect to have a slightly different obstacle in their path Tuesday night when they seek to complete an early season hat trick over the visiting Atlanta Hawks.
The Heat beat the Hawks twice in a three-day, home-and-home series in October, prevailing 112-97 at home on a night when Atlanta star Trae Young suffered a sprained right ankle, then 106-97 two days later in Atlanta when Young had to take the night off.
The Heat figure to see a fully healthy Young this time around, with the second-year scoring machine having gone for 39 and 30 points in his last two outings.
Young is averaging 34.4 points over his last eight games.
The Hawks lost the first five of those eight, but have since won two of three, including 122-107 at Charlotte on Sunday in the opener of a three-game trip.
Young admitted over the weekend that's it's no consolation winning individual scoring duels when his team suffers a defeat.
"I hate that feeling when I play good individually, numbers-wise, but we don't win," he insisted. "Because you can't enjoy it, especially if you're a competitor like me."
Young lasted just 11 minutes, scoring five points, before suffering his ankle injury when the Hawks lost the opener of their earlier double-header against the Heat. He then had to watch Miami rookies Tyler Herro (29) and Kendrick Nunn (17) combine for 46 points in the run-away win.
Two nights later, it was much of the same -- except that Young was a fulltime observer. Nunn had 28 points and Herro 17 to complete the sweep.
The early attention-grabbers were the start of something big for the two rookies, one (Herro) a high-profile collegian at Kentucky who was a first-round pick, the other (Nunn) a relative unknown at Oakland University who went undrafted.
Among rookies, Nunn began the week third in scoring at 15.3 points per game, one spot ahead of Herro (14.5). Nunn also ranked second in assists (3.4), while Herro was tied for eighth in rebounds (4.0).
It's probably a stretch -- short of a sooner-than-expected comeback by Zion Williamson -- for anybody other than Ja Morant to believe they can win Rookie of the Year honors this season given the start that the Memphis standout has experienced, but Nunn surely hasn't given up the fight.
"I definitely feel like I'm the Rookie of the Year," he boasted recently to reporters. "It's early, but the way I've been performing, definitely, I'm in the running for that."
Nunn also is in the running for the unofficial title as Greatest Undrafted Rookie in NBA History.
It's been 10 seasons since any undrafted rookie averaged 15 or more points in his first season (Reggie Williams finished at 15.2 in 2010), and 70 since one averaged more than Nunn's current 15.3 (Frankie Brian, 17.8 in 1949-50).
Miami's three-headed rookie monster includes Chris Silva, who ranks first in rebounds (84) and blocks (14), and third in total points (82) among the NBA's current two-way players.
Silva totaled eight points and seven rebounds in the two earlier wins over the Hawks.
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Aden has been a kangaroo many, many times. It was the first costume idea she picked for herself when she wasn't quite three. (I made several suggestions, but when she realized she could use the pouch of a kangaroo costume for Trick-or-Treating, that was it.)
The main thing I learned from that first kangaroo costume was that in subsequent costumes not to include feet. I didn't expect my kids to wear their costumes over multiple years (and for any and every occasion), but they do, and room for added leg growth has proven necessary.
So as much as Aden liked being a snowy owl last year, and a zebra the year before, she really liked her kangaroo costume from the year before that and decided to wear it again. It just needed a few alterations.
The before and after pictures pretty well sum it up. I added several inches of fabric to the ends of the legs and arms. I also put some fresh stuffing in the tail and lowered it about a foot.
The girl grew a lot in the past couple of years!
Anyway, I got off easy with her costume this time around. Which is good, because Mona's costume has been a bit of a challenge. (More on that soon.)
Aden's been asking if it's really appropriate to keep Trick-or-Treating at her age. I told her there are a few different parts of that to consider:
The first is that you are never too old for a costume. This is proven best by her uncles who not only continue to wear elaborate Halloween costumes every year, but find other opportunities to wear costumes as well. Exhibit A: Uncle Barrett at her school last spring to give insect lectures to all my kids' classes. (He was a huge hit, even among kids who only saw him in the halls.) I promised Aden I will make her costumes when she's 30 if she still wants me to.
|Barrett and me outside Fernwood
|Barrett lecturing in the adolescent classroom
Second, in my experience, nobody resents Trick-or-Treaters of any size or age if they are in a good costume, which Aden always is.
And third, she has a built-in excuse to Trick-or-Treat because she has a little brother to take around. He's only eight, so there are years left where nobody would question his coming to the door, and someone has to take him.
I know a lot of people who get strangely fussy about Trick-or-Treat. Some of it is based on their own sense of tradition: They didn't Trick-or-Treat past a certain age or past a certain time so they expect everyone else to abide by the same arbitrary rules. Some of it is frankly racist, or classist, when people get upset by kids from different neighborhoods coming to collect candy in ours. Personally, I'm always a little put off by people collecting candy for babies, because I think that's weird.
But you know what? I give it to them anyway. Because I bought the candy to give away. What difference does it make? I suppose if I were tired I could give all ten bags of it to the first kid and turn in for the night. Who cares? So if anyone gives Aden a hard time for Trick-or-Treating because she's 13, well, then they are being ridiculous and that's on them.
I don't think anyone will mind her coming to their door this Halloween, though. Because how could anyone not love a kangaroo?


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WDM Lex Advisory, the legal services arm of WDM International, is delighted to announce that as of the 1st of September 2015, WDM Lex Advisory, has become the exclusive Malta representative office of Cathay Associates.
Cathay Associates ("柯杰全球法律联盟" in Chinese) is a global legal service network encompassing 20 high-profile boutique law firms with over 500 lawyers worldwide from 18 major cities across Europe and Asia including Barcelona, Beijing, Belgrade, Bratislava, Bucharest, Budapest, Chisinau, Kuala Lumpur, Madrid, Malta, Paris, Podgorica, Prague, Pristina, Shanghai, Sofia, Tirana, Vienna, Warsaw and Zagreb.
The network is going to function like a global virtual law firm, where each law firm remains legally and financially independent, but will work in parallel to ensure that clients receive a uniform quality of technical legal advice, intimate local knowledge in all represented jurisdictions, and access to the right contacts to service the needs that you and your company require to grow and thrive.
Cathay Associates focuses on corporate and M&A, financing and investment, and private client, tax and immigration services. All 20 members will provide legal services to Cathay Associates' clients under the brand 柯杰 Cathay Associates to cater to the increasing legal needs coming out of China's ongoing 'One Belt One Road' initiative – an endeavor to rebuild the historical notion of the Silk Road in the context of blossoming outgoing Chinese investment.
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Brain Abnormality Linked to Psychiatric Disorders
New research on mice shows that the loss of a protein called MeCP2 in a specific group of inhibitory neurons in the brain produces almost all features associated with Rett syndrome.
Babies (mostly girls) born with Rett syndrome may seem normal at first, but mental and motor development slows down or stops between three months and three years of age. This may include loss of speech, learning difficulties and balance and walking problems. Some symptoms mimic those of autism.
Inhibitory (gamma-amino-butyric-acid [GABA]-ergic) neurons account for only 15 to 20 percent of the total number of neurons in the brain. However, losing MeCP2 reduces the number of enzymes required to produce the neurotransmitter GABA and in turn creates a 30 to 40 percent reduction in levels of this neurotransmitter, which greatly alters neuron communication.
Previous research has shown that expression of these enzymes is also lower in some patients with autism, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, said Dr. Hsiao-Tuan Chao, an M.D./Ph.D. postdoctoral fellow.
"This tells us a lot about what is going on in the brains of people with Rett syndrome, autism or even schizophrenia," said Chao.
Chao made the discovery by developing a mouse model that allowed scientists to remove MeCP2 from only the GABAergic neurons.
"This study taught us that an alteration in the signal from GABAergic neurons is sufficient to produce features of autism and other neuropsychiatric disorders," said Dr. Huda Zoghbi, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital.
Chao, a Ph.D student in Zoghbi's laboratory, added, "We did this study thinking that perhaps all we would see was a few symptoms of Rett syndrome."
"Strikingly, we saw that removing MeCP2 solely from GABAergic neurons reproduced almost all the features of Rett syndrome, including cognitive deficits, breathing difficulties, compulsive behavior, and repetitive stereotyped movements. The study tells us that MeCP2 is a key protein for the function of these neurons."
After the scientists realized that the key factor was the GABAergic neurons, they wanted to know how the missing MeCP2 affected the function of these neurons. It was then that Chao figured out that losing MeCP2 caused the GABAergic neurons to release less GABA.
"A child is born healthy. She starts to grow and then begins to lose developmental milestones. Communication between neurons is impaired, in part due to reduced signals from GABAergic neurons."
This study is published in the current issue of the journal Nature.
Source: Baylor College of Medicine
Pedersen, T. (2018). Brain Abnormality Linked to Psychiatric Disorders. Psych Central. Retrieved on December 3, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/news/2010/11/14/brain-abnormality-linked-to-psychiatric-disorders/20786.html
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Associated Press
Monday morning at about 2:30 a medivac plane crashed as it was on approach to land at the North Slope Borough village of Atqasuk.
North Slope Borough Police Department Chief Leon Boyea says the Beechcraft King Air 200 was flying to Atqasuk on a medevac mission when it when down about seven miles from the village.
The airplane was operated by North Slope Borough Search and Rescue.
Borough spokesman David Harding says the plane had a crew of three, two of whom received treatment at the Barrow hospital and were then released.
North Slope officials say icing is the suspected cause.
Federal Aviation officials will begin their investigation into the crash today.
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Feb 17, 2011
Hung over. Big time.
Stupidly got drunk with the missus on a school night. D'oh.
Frog tastes like (wait for it.....) chicken. It really does. The texture is closer to fish though. It was in a kind of chinese blackbean sauce and the legs looked like chicken wings. The body was a bit disturbing though. You flip it over and you can see the entire spine running through it. And I'm sure I got a shoulder blade stuck inbetween my teeth.
The chicken FEET I won't be trying again. I had a toe and moved on to something else.
why does every thing seem to tastes like chicken when trying to describe its taste?
That would freak me out, Not sure i could do it. lol
What was wrong with the feet? I can't seem them being that nice to eat or texture.
you ever had insects? I'm tempted but not sure i could bring my self to eating them.
Welly, heres hoping for a quiet day for you then.
I've been taking secret stuff apart and taking pictures. lol
Shhh dont tell any one. lol
This will be me later on.
no dribbleing in to the keyboard. They dont like it.
lmfao, nice Welly.
Yeeees they will pay for my insurance
hows the hang over welly?
Just had a voice conference meeting thingy, which basicly said "If you dont take the TUPE option this will be taken as your Resignation effect immediately " or something like that.
Looks like I have to take TUPE. lol
Killing me. I mean that. I hate working with a hang over. So far so good though - it's been a quiet one so far. Couple of managed print service issues, but no biggie.
I have mainly been looking into the fixes for the Yellow Light Of Death that my PS3 has suffered from yesterday.
Time to break out the heat gun and reflow the mainboard by the looks of things... That would be tonight's job then.
Just 30mins left for me!!! Then off to the dentist
Sort of jealous and not all at the same time....
I know exactly what you mean! As long as its a quick check up, will be in and out and sitting at home on GT5 by 5!!
And no missus until about 8.....perfect!
Now I am jealous. My PS3 went down with Yellow Light Of Death syndrome on Saturday. Annoying.
I'll be taking the old girl apart tonight and reflowing the solder on the chipsets to see if I can extract a few more months of life from the old girl.
Gutting mate, i hope you get it working again. I would certainly miss mine if it died!
Let us know how you get on Welly. I've heard of varying success with this, and fear that at some point i'll end up doing the same to mine.
100% Not safe for work and not my best work at that.
I'm getting tired and the misses kept looking over my shoulder wondering i'm downloading load of spit roasting images and images of the Chuckle Brothers.
She saw the final image, said something and went to bed. lol
Linky Not sure how long it will last before photobucket takes it down though.
That is brilliant mate! Still makes me laugh seeing it. Whoever thought of the idea was a funny funny dude.
welly the yellow light of death has happened to me 5 times, no joke! they gave me a new one everytime as after i paid for the second one they just couldnt believe it happened again. well, i went CRAZY at them on the phone. my record was two dead in a week. was good service though, they came and picked mine up and exchanged it next day. my latest one has lasted about a year now. touch wood.
well il give a break down of my weekend, not that anyone cares but hey ho.
friday was day off and did quite alot to my car.
saturday was up at 8 to head to llandegla forest in wales for some mountain biking, first trip of the year. uphill is not my thing really (i have 4 CROSS bike so its hard as f**k) but the downhill sections were well worth the pain. can easily shake off my mates who are on full sussers and im on a hardtail. was so exhausted after that.
the mrs fell out with me BIG TIME while i was in wales, had her shoutin down the phone while im on top of a mountain. soon made up though and boobie pictures soon followed.
sunday continued work on my car again, followed by some beers while watching a film called 'religulous' which i would recommend to anyone! watch it! hilarious!
today was gash slow. had a physics lecture, then went to work for a few hours to earn some pennies.
just been the gym to sculpt the guns, pow. gonna open a budweiser now.....
That does look good.
I'll add it to my watch list.
It's all good, the PS3 is now back up and running....
It's amazing what you can do with a solder reflow oven like we have at work.... So, happy days. My missus watched me do it, as I brought the gear home, and was laughing at me saying that it would never work...
Meh. It does. That shut her right up. Welly 1. Missus 0.
Cool. Nice one.
Do the PS3 suffer the same sort of fault as the Xbox then?
Pretty much the exact same problem that causes RROD. I've fixed tons of them using the same process.
Nice one, good work!
I really thought Sony would have learnt from MS on that then.
That's ace dude! Glad to hear of a real person who's fixed it. Time to sell it on eBay and buy a new slimline one before it does it again?
Couple of photos:
Agreed. Bellends. lol.
To be fair, I think they didn't really know about it until it was too late and it started happening. It was about 2 years before it became a common fault.
On a side note, that thing tied up in a rubber band in this photo is a Courtenay Sport Group N Rally Chip for a C20XE Vauxhall Redtop engine if anyone wants one? lol
Bet you was very happy when it worked! Does this issue only tend to happen with the old PS3 and not the slim? Or is the slim to new to tell yet?
It's all to do with heat is the bottom line.
The 60GB ones suffered the worst - they had the original 90NM Cell processor which ran quite hot. They are by far the worst culprit for the YLOD problem.
The 40 GB and other varients of the fat PS3 then had a processor revision, and they used a 65NM Cell processor. This ran cooler making them less prone to the problem. Mine is originally a 40GB unit, however mine stays on ALL the time. All night, every night it is playing video off my external HDD even after the TV has turned off on sleep timer.
The slim PS3 now use a 40NM version of the Cell, which is obviously cooler again. However the slim PS3 has a smaller fan, and thus less efficient cooling - so it's hard to say.
Bottom line, keep the thing in as much of a dust free environment as possible, hoover the front vents out as often as possible and you are doing as much as you can to prevent the problem.
Would something like this help?
Cooling Fan (PS3): Amazon.co.uk: PC & Video Games
I'm thinking about buying a couple off the bay - with YLOD - and fixing them, then selling them....
I would think so, yes. If the problem is heat related - which it is - then any additional cooling will be good. It's like WMI for the Playstation...
Mine only tends to be on for a few hours at a time,so hopefully it should last! Its on its own shelf on the TV stand so not closed in too much.
Shall make sure i keep dusting it(well get the missus to do it when she does her housework!)
I usually have the Tv, PS3/360 & surround sound on for a few hours at a time and the room doesnt half get hot!
Yep, get her to put the hoover nozzle thing up to the vents on the underside of the panel where the eject and on buttons are.
I had considered buying a YLOD PS3 and trying to fix it too, but was put off by reports of people not being able to. hmmmm
By the looks of it, your reflow station is very similar to a hot air gun? How long did you heat the board for?
No, that's not what I used for reflow - that's part of my IT gear for dust removal. It's not a hot air gun, but just a blower basically.
I believe you can use a heat gun, 350 degrees C is the charm.
We use one of these, a benchtop reflow oven: Benchtop Reflow Oven, Lead and Lead-Free | APS Novastar
(not that exact one)
It was downstairs when I took the photos as is heavy.
30 seconds to a minute is ample.
I was gonna say, I'd seen a hot air gun used before but wasn't too keen on that method. I think my work will probably have one too so if mine breaks I think i will try this method.
I am excited to try this and in a strange way willing my PS3 to die, haha. I think I might see if work has one and consider buying one off eBay like you mentioned and selling it.
I've decided that, based on success rate of fixing a couple.... Which I have yet to buy...... lol, I might just start doing it a lot....
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Distance: 0.8 miles RT
Elevation gain: 207 ft
Time: 1 hour
Dog friendly? No
Kid friendly? No
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The sisters lead the way.
Charlie makes sure everyone gets up the rock ok.
Once on the small ledge, head right towards the rock wall. You will likely see footprints & a cairn heading this way too.
Aim for the juniper tree.
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Hike up past the next juniper tree.
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Unfortunately, My Girl, being as sweet as she is, melts in the rain, so there are a few less pictures than normal. Also, I didn't stop too often for photos as my heart rate was right at the limit on the uphills, and on the downhills I was too busy trying not to fall in the mud. But I got a couple of photos.
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<rant> Some vandals decided, shortly after part of the course was marked the night before, to not only remove the ribbons, but to remove signs and purposely place ribbons in the wrong place.
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