Happy Easter
March 27, 2010
I simply adore the spring and fall seasons and thankfully spring is upon us once again.
The life of Jesus always reminds me of the butterfly. I grew up in the mountains of West Virginia and closely watched the life cycle of insects, plants and animals in which the most facanating being that of the butterfly.
I'll explain the life cycle of the butterfly in just a moment but first I want you to consider the ways in which I compare the life of Jesus to a butterfly.
The butterfly's life cycle happens in four stages and the holy trinity exist in three persons.
1. Jesus came out of the earth seemingly from know where in his virgin birth as predicted in Isaiah 7:14 during the 8th century BC. -
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2. Jesus transfigured his image on the mountain with Moses and Elijah. See; Matthew 17, Mark 9
3. Psalms 22:6 refers to Jesus as worm, "But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people." This signified his blood stained death on the cross. See; towla, a type of worm below.
4. Last but not least, it's the resurrected Jesus from the tomb. Jesus saith unto her, "Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master. Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God." - John 16,17
Like the butterfly, resurrected, the new body of Jesus poetically flies into heaven.
What great news! A heavenly family was born, "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. - Isaiah 9:6
This is how I like to remember Easter every time I see a beautiful butterfly.
Jesus is also refered to as a tender plant by the Old Testament in Ezekiel 17:22-24 and Isiah 53:2. And last but not least Jesus is also called THE BRANCH of the LORD. See; Zech 3:8; 6:12
Happy Easter!
The Life Cycle of a Butterfly -
Did you know that the butterfly goes through four stages in its life cycle? It completely changes from an egg to a larva (caterpillar), to a chrysalis (cocoon), to an adult (butterfly), This is called metamorphosis - a complete or marked change in the form of an animal as it develops into an adult, e.g. the change from tadpole to frog or from caterpillar to butterfly.
A butterfly starts its life cycle (first stage) as a small egg deposited on a leaf of a host plant. The host plant is what the tiny larva will eat as it grows into a fat caterpillar. The caterpillar (larva) is the second stage in the butterfly life cycle. A caterpillar may grow for two to four weeks. It accumulates enough fat to go through metamorphosis. Then the caterpillar goes through a miraculous and amazing transformation (third stage called chrysalis). During this time, the insect (butterfly) is in a cocoon. It stops feeding and undergoes internal changes. The fourth and final stage is when the chrysalis transforms into an amazing fluttering adult that we call a butterfly.
1. Who is Jesus? - bit.ly/whoisjesus | 2. The Towla Worm - bit.ly/towla | 3. Colors of The Temple Veil - bit.ly/templeveil
Note: Prophecies Jesus Fulfilled
Title: Easter Explained in Living Color (tags)
Subtitle: A Short Message of Hope
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Saturday, March 27, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
The HoBo
The HoBo
March 18, 2010
I once told Clairice Brumfield, my 9th. grade english teacher at Harts High School, that I wanted to become a hobo. She had asked the class that question and when it was my turn to answer I simply stated, 'when I grow up I want to be a hobo.' She got really frustrated with me but only to a point. My father signed her paychecks!
Defination of a HoBo
Buzz Potter of the National Hobo Association, responding to Billy's desire for a possible life as a hobo: "The word hobo describes a person who is curious about all things in in life, is self confident in his or her ability to lead a meaningful life, is fascinated with traveling and seeing new places and most of all shows respect for people. Hoboes believe in themselves and their future."
It looks as though I've achieved my objective.
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March 18, 2010
I once told Clairice Brumfield, my 9th. grade english teacher at Harts High School, that I wanted to become a hobo. She had asked the class that question and when it was my turn to answer I simply stated, 'when I grow up I want to be a hobo.' She got really frustrated with me but only to a point. My father signed her paychecks!
Defination of a HoBo
Buzz Potter of the National Hobo Association, responding to Billy's desire for a possible life as a hobo: "The word hobo describes a person who is curious about all things in in life, is self confident in his or her ability to lead a meaningful life, is fascinated with traveling and seeing new places and most of all shows respect for people. Hoboes believe in themselves and their future."
It looks as though I've achieved my objective.
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
US Army: Survival FM 21-76
SURVIVAL MANUEL FM 21-76
March 17, 2010
CHAPTER 2 - PSYCHOLOGY OF SURVIVAL page 8
It takes much more than the knowledge and skills to build shelters, get food, make fires, and travel without the aid of standard navigational devices to live successfully through a survival situation. Some people with little or no survival training have managed to survive life-threatening circumstances. Some people with survival training have not used their skills and died. A key ingredient in any survival situation is the mental attitude of the individual(s) involved. Having survival skills is important; having the will to survive is essential. Without a desk to survive, acquired skills serve little purpose and invaluable knowledge goes to waste.
There is a psychology to survival. The soldier in a survival environment faces many
stresses that ultimately impact on his mind. These stresses can produce thoughts and
emotions that, if poorly understood, can transform a confident, well-trained soldier into an indecisive, ineffective individual with questionable ability to survive. Thus, every soldier must be aware of and be able to recognize those stresses commonly associated with survival. Additionally, it is imperative that soldiers be aware of their reactions to the wide variety of stresses associated with survival. This chapter will identify and explain the nature of stress, the stresses of survival, and those internal reactions soldiers will naturally experience when faced with the stresses of a real-world survival situation. The knowledge you, the soldier, gain from this chapter and other chapters in this manual, will prepare you to come through the toughest times alive.
Source;
bit.ly/survival2010
March 17, 2010
CHAPTER 2 - PSYCHOLOGY OF SURVIVAL page 8
It takes much more than the knowledge and skills to build shelters, get food, make fires, and travel without the aid of standard navigational devices to live successfully through a survival situation. Some people with little or no survival training have managed to survive life-threatening circumstances. Some people with survival training have not used their skills and died. A key ingredient in any survival situation is the mental attitude of the individual(s) involved. Having survival skills is important; having the will to survive is essential. Without a desk to survive, acquired skills serve little purpose and invaluable knowledge goes to waste.
There is a psychology to survival. The soldier in a survival environment faces many
stresses that ultimately impact on his mind. These stresses can produce thoughts and
emotions that, if poorly understood, can transform a confident, well-trained soldier into an indecisive, ineffective individual with questionable ability to survive. Thus, every soldier must be aware of and be able to recognize those stresses commonly associated with survival. Additionally, it is imperative that soldiers be aware of their reactions to the wide variety of stresses associated with survival. This chapter will identify and explain the nature of stress, the stresses of survival, and those internal reactions soldiers will naturally experience when faced with the stresses of a real-world survival situation. The knowledge you, the soldier, gain from this chapter and other chapters in this manual, will prepare you to come through the toughest times alive.
Source;
bit.ly/survival2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Saint Patrick's Day
Saint Patrick's Day
March 17, 2010
According to his Confession, Saint Patrick was told by God in a dream to flee from captivity to the coast, where he would board a ship and return to Britain. Upon returning, he quickly joined the Church in Auxerre in Gaul and studied to be a priest.
In 432, he again says that he was called back to Ireland, though as a bishop, to save the Irish, and indeed he was successful at this, focusing on converting royalty and aristocracy as well as the poor. Irish folklore tells that one of his teaching methods included using the shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit) to the Irish people. After nearly thirty years of teaching and spreading God's word he died on 17 March, 461 AD, and was buried at Downpatrick, so tradition says.
Irish Society of Boston organized what was not only the first Saint Patrick's Day Parade in the colonies but the first recorded Saint Patrick's Day Parade in the world on 18 March 1737. The first parade in Ireland was not until the 1931 parade in Dublin.
Seattle and other cities paint the traffic stripe of their parade routes green. Chicago dyes its river green and has done so since 1962 when sewer workers used green dye to check for sewer discharges and had the idea to turn the river green for Saint Patrick's Day. Originally 100 pounds of vegetable dye was used to turn the river green for a whole week but now only forty pounds of dye is used and the colour only lasts for several hours.
Seattle Washington's Saint Patrick's Day Parade, recognized by CNN in 2009 as one of the "Five places to get your green on" in America, travels along a 1-mile route through the Emerald City's downtown financial and retail core the Saturday before Saint Patrick's Day. Seattle's Saint Patrick's Day Celebration is the largest and oldest in the Northwestern United States. In 2009, some 20,000 spectators and groups from throughout the Northwest turned out for the city's Irish shenanigans. Along with the annual "Laying 'O the Green" where Irish revellers mark the path of the next morning's procession with a mile-long green stripe, the Seattle parade marks the high-point of Seattle's Irish Week festivities.
The week-long civic celebration organized by the city's Irish Heritage Club includes the annual Society of the Friends of St. Patrick Dinner where a century-old Irish Shillelagh has been passed to the group's new president for 70 years, an Irish Soda Bread Baking Contest, a Mass for Peace that brings together Catholics and others in a Protestant church, and the annual Irish Week Festival, which takes place around Saint Patrick's Day is enormous, including step dancing, food, historical and modern exhibitions, and Irish lessons. Many celebrities of Irish descent visit Seattle during it's Saint Patrick's Day Celebration. In 2010 The Right Honourable Desmond Guinness, a direct descendant of Guinness Brewery founder Arthur Guinness, will serve as the parade's grand marshal. In 2009, The Tonight Show's Conan O'Brien made a guest appearance at the annual Mayor's Proclamation Luncheon at local Irish haunt F.X. McCrory's. And in 2008, European Union Ambassador to the U.S. and former Irish Prime Minister John Bruton served as the parade's grand marshal and marched alongside Tom Costello, the mayor of Galway, Seattle's Irish sister city.
There is also another Saint Patrick's Day Parade,that also takes place in Washington's eastern side of the state in Spokane.
My grandfather Garrett McKinley (in honor of the 25th. president) Price was born of Irish descent in 1896 and currently celebrating with both Saint Patrick and Saint Peter.
Source;
bit.ly/saintpatrick2010
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March 17, 2010
According to his Confession, Saint Patrick was told by God in a dream to flee from captivity to the coast, where he would board a ship and return to Britain. Upon returning, he quickly joined the Church in Auxerre in Gaul and studied to be a priest.
In 432, he again says that he was called back to Ireland, though as a bishop, to save the Irish, and indeed he was successful at this, focusing on converting royalty and aristocracy as well as the poor. Irish folklore tells that one of his teaching methods included using the shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit) to the Irish people. After nearly thirty years of teaching and spreading God's word he died on 17 March, 461 AD, and was buried at Downpatrick, so tradition says.
Irish Society of Boston organized what was not only the first Saint Patrick's Day Parade in the colonies but the first recorded Saint Patrick's Day Parade in the world on 18 March 1737. The first parade in Ireland was not until the 1931 parade in Dublin.
Seattle and other cities paint the traffic stripe of their parade routes green. Chicago dyes its river green and has done so since 1962 when sewer workers used green dye to check for sewer discharges and had the idea to turn the river green for Saint Patrick's Day. Originally 100 pounds of vegetable dye was used to turn the river green for a whole week but now only forty pounds of dye is used and the colour only lasts for several hours.
Seattle Washington's Saint Patrick's Day Parade, recognized by CNN in 2009 as one of the "Five places to get your green on" in America, travels along a 1-mile route through the Emerald City's downtown financial and retail core the Saturday before Saint Patrick's Day. Seattle's Saint Patrick's Day Celebration is the largest and oldest in the Northwestern United States. In 2009, some 20,000 spectators and groups from throughout the Northwest turned out for the city's Irish shenanigans. Along with the annual "Laying 'O the Green" where Irish revellers mark the path of the next morning's procession with a mile-long green stripe, the Seattle parade marks the high-point of Seattle's Irish Week festivities.
The week-long civic celebration organized by the city's Irish Heritage Club includes the annual Society of the Friends of St. Patrick Dinner where a century-old Irish Shillelagh has been passed to the group's new president for 70 years, an Irish Soda Bread Baking Contest, a Mass for Peace that brings together Catholics and others in a Protestant church, and the annual Irish Week Festival, which takes place around Saint Patrick's Day is enormous, including step dancing, food, historical and modern exhibitions, and Irish lessons. Many celebrities of Irish descent visit Seattle during it's Saint Patrick's Day Celebration. In 2010 The Right Honourable Desmond Guinness, a direct descendant of Guinness Brewery founder Arthur Guinness, will serve as the parade's grand marshal. In 2009, The Tonight Show's Conan O'Brien made a guest appearance at the annual Mayor's Proclamation Luncheon at local Irish haunt F.X. McCrory's. And in 2008, European Union Ambassador to the U.S. and former Irish Prime Minister John Bruton served as the parade's grand marshal and marched alongside Tom Costello, the mayor of Galway, Seattle's Irish sister city.
There is also another Saint Patrick's Day Parade,that also takes place in Washington's eastern side of the state in Spokane.
My grandfather Garrett McKinley (in honor of the 25th. president) Price was born of Irish descent in 1896 and currently celebrating with both Saint Patrick and Saint Peter.
Source;
bit.ly/saintpatrick2010
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
Capitalism by Michael Moore
TRAILER: Michael Moore's 'Capitalism: A Love Story' - On DVD March 9th
August 20, 2009 | 911,754 views
DVD PREORDER NOW: http://www.capitalismalovestory.com
"It's a crime story. But it's also a war story about class warfare. And a vampire movie, with the upper 1 percent feeding off the rest of us. And, of course, it's also a love story. Only it's about an abusive relationship.
"It's not about an individual, like Roger Smith, or a corporation, or even an issue, like health care. This is the big enchilada. This is about the thing that dominates all our lives — the economy. I made this movie as if it was going to be the last movie I was allowed to make.
"It's a comedy." — Michael Moore
Check back for updates at http://www.michaelmoore.com
bit.ly/moore2010
August 20, 2009 | 911,754 views
DVD PREORDER NOW: http://www.capitalismalovestory.com
"It's a crime story. But it's also a war story about class warfare. And a vampire movie, with the upper 1 percent feeding off the rest of us. And, of course, it's also a love story. Only it's about an abusive relationship.
"It's not about an individual, like Roger Smith, or a corporation, or even an issue, like health care. This is the big enchilada. This is about the thing that dominates all our lives — the economy. I made this movie as if it was going to be the last movie I was allowed to make.
"It's a comedy." — Michael Moore
Check back for updates at http://www.michaelmoore.com
bit.ly/moore2010
Yeager, An Autobiography
Book Review
5 Stars
"Ever since Tom Wolfe's book was published, the question I'm asked most often and which always annoys me is whether I think I've got 'the right stuff.' I know that golden trout have the right stuff, and I've seen a few gals here and there that I'd bet had it in spades, but those words seem meaningless when used to describe a pilot's attributes.
I don't deny that I was damned good. If there is such a thing as 'the best,' I was at least one of the title contenders. I've had a full life and enjoyed just about every damned minute of it because that's how I lived."
- General Chuck Yeager, Yeager An Autobiography
Space travel pioneer and Lincoln county hero signing my book titled, Yeager An Autobiography, General Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos - bit.ly/yeager1985
5 Stars
"Ever since Tom Wolfe's book was published, the question I'm asked most often and which always annoys me is whether I think I've got 'the right stuff.' I know that golden trout have the right stuff, and I've seen a few gals here and there that I'd bet had it in spades, but those words seem meaningless when used to describe a pilot's attributes.
I don't deny that I was damned good. If there is such a thing as 'the best,' I was at least one of the title contenders. I've had a full life and enjoyed just about every damned minute of it because that's how I lived."
- General Chuck Yeager, Yeager An Autobiography
Space travel pioneer and Lincoln county hero signing my book titled, Yeager An Autobiography, General Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos - bit.ly/yeager1985
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Aaron Theron Adkins b. Aug. 15, 1845
'Little Aaron' Theron Adkins b. Aug. 15, 1845
Old fiddle playing photo. (circa 1885)
Click on the link in order to view the photo!
Old fiddle playing photo. (circa 1885)
Click on the link in order to view the photo!
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Twitter Newsletter 2010 - Edition #1
Biz Stone (@Biz) to me
March 6, 2010
Hi there,
In the early days of Twitter, I used to send out short updates just to keep everyone in the loop since so much was happening. It's been a while, but you signed up for short, monthly updates from Twitter so we thought it was time to start sharing more information. We've had quite a year. If you haven't visited in a while, we'd like to invite you to come have a look at http://twitter.com -- we've been busy!
Growing Up
In the course of a year, registered Twitter accounts have grown more than 1,500% and our team has grown 500%. Recently, we hired our 140th employee! His name is Aaron and he's an engineer focused on building internal tools to help promote productivity, communication, and support within our company. We celebrated with a little dance party.
Features of Note
Some features of note that we released over the course of a year include the ability to create lists, quickly spread information with a retweet button, and an easier way to activate your mobile phone to work with Twitter over SMS. We also built a new mobile web site that looks and works much better on smart phones.
Feeling Inspired
By working together during critical times when others needed help, sharing important information that otherwise might not make the news, and inventing new and interesting ways to use Twitter, you've shown us that Twitter is more than a triumph of technology -- it is a triumph of humanity. Projects like Fledgling and Hope140 were inspired by you.
Chirp!
While there may only be 140 full-time employees working at the Twitter offices, there are thousands of dedicated platform developers who have now created more than 70,000 registered Twitter applications creating variety and utility for all of us. We'll be gathering this spring at Chirp, our first ever official Twitter developer conference.
Thanks,
Biz Stone, Co-founder (@Biz)
Twitter, Inc.
March 6, 2010
Hi there,
In the early days of Twitter, I used to send out short updates just to keep everyone in the loop since so much was happening. It's been a while, but you signed up for short, monthly updates from Twitter so we thought it was time to start sharing more information. We've had quite a year. If you haven't visited in a while, we'd like to invite you to come have a look at http://twitter.com -- we've been busy!
Growing Up
In the course of a year, registered Twitter accounts have grown more than 1,500% and our team has grown 500%. Recently, we hired our 140th employee! His name is Aaron and he's an engineer focused on building internal tools to help promote productivity, communication, and support within our company. We celebrated with a little dance party.
Features of Note
Some features of note that we released over the course of a year include the ability to create lists, quickly spread information with a retweet button, and an easier way to activate your mobile phone to work with Twitter over SMS. We also built a new mobile web site that looks and works much better on smart phones.
Feeling Inspired
By working together during critical times when others needed help, sharing important information that otherwise might not make the news, and inventing new and interesting ways to use Twitter, you've shown us that Twitter is more than a triumph of technology -- it is a triumph of humanity. Projects like Fledgling and Hope140 were inspired by you.
Chirp!
While there may only be 140 full-time employees working at the Twitter offices, there are thousands of dedicated platform developers who have now created more than 70,000 registered Twitter applications creating variety and utility for all of us. We'll be gathering this spring at Chirp, our first ever official Twitter developer conference.
Thanks,
Biz Stone, Co-founder (@Biz)
Twitter, Inc.
Aaron Theron Adkins b. Aug. 15, 1845
Remembering Aaron T. Adkins
-- 1/2/2008 updated 3/6/2010
I spoke with my father on Christmas day and was told that he has received the Civil War grave maker for 'Little' Aaron Theron Adkins (b. 15 Aug 1845) in one of his barns.
This Confederate soldier was wounded three times at Gettysburg in the arm, leg and side. He also lived to be well into his 80's. I believe he passed away in 1929.
I have two photos of Aaron and in one of them he is around 30 years of age and playing a fiddle. This photo was scanned into a computer from a tin image relief from the Civil War era that's in the possession of 'Wild' Bill Adkins of Harts, WV. In the second photo Aaron is sitting on the storehouse porch of his son Tommy with the entire family to include his daughter Delia Ann Atkins (Adkins) with husband Robert Gilmore Atkins and their 10 year old son, Sidney Atkins b. 1896, my grandfather. (circa 1906)
The Civil War grave marker is housed in a wooden crate so he's not sure what the marker looks like but its about four feet tall and about two feet wide. This appears to be a standard issue grave marker for soldiers of the era.
We'll finally get to lay this old soldier to rest in proper fashion replacing the small rock that currently marks the grave of Aaron T. Adkins and doesn't include dates.
The grave marker will be placed once warm weather arrives in the hills of Lincoln County, West Virgina.
That date has yet to be announced. (The new grave marker is now in place!)
Please contact Sidney Atkins Jr. or Odell Dingess of Little Harts Creek, Lincoln County, West Virginia for further information.
Visit Aaron's grave at the Browning cemetery located on Manns Knob in Lincoln County, West Virginia.
If you plan to take photos on your visit I'd love to see the results of my 40 years of research it has taken in order to make this a story worth publishing.
Submitted by Philip Atkins, 9027 South K St., Tacoma, WA 98444-4336.
The Lincoln Journal
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-- 1/2/2008 updated 3/6/2010
I spoke with my father on Christmas day and was told that he has received the Civil War grave maker for 'Little' Aaron Theron Adkins (b. 15 Aug 1845) in one of his barns.
This Confederate soldier was wounded three times at Gettysburg in the arm, leg and side. He also lived to be well into his 80's. I believe he passed away in 1929.
I have two photos of Aaron and in one of them he is around 30 years of age and playing a fiddle. This photo was scanned into a computer from a tin image relief from the Civil War era that's in the possession of 'Wild' Bill Adkins of Harts, WV. In the second photo Aaron is sitting on the storehouse porch of his son Tommy with the entire family to include his daughter Delia Ann Atkins (Adkins) with husband Robert Gilmore Atkins and their 10 year old son, Sidney Atkins b. 1896, my grandfather. (circa 1906)
The Civil War grave marker is housed in a wooden crate so he's not sure what the marker looks like but its about four feet tall and about two feet wide. This appears to be a standard issue grave marker for soldiers of the era.
We'll finally get to lay this old soldier to rest in proper fashion replacing the small rock that currently marks the grave of Aaron T. Adkins and doesn't include dates.
The grave marker will be placed once warm weather arrives in the hills of Lincoln County, West Virgina.
That date has yet to be announced. (The new grave marker is now in place!)
Please contact Sidney Atkins Jr. or Odell Dingess of Little Harts Creek, Lincoln County, West Virginia for further information.
Visit Aaron's grave at the Browning cemetery located on Manns Knob in Lincoln County, West Virginia.
If you plan to take photos on your visit I'd love to see the results of my 40 years of research it has taken in order to make this a story worth publishing.
Submitted by Philip Atkins, 9027 South K St., Tacoma, WA 98444-4336.
The Lincoln Journal
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