lessons from a retired machinist
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i 've holded several conversations tardily about the `` your best life afterward '' conception and i experience obliged to farther instance what i 'm attempting to state. nohow Am i excusing destitution, nor americium i proposing that comfortableness is ungodly and adversity matches sanctity. and i 'm not stating that Christ prophesied a `` impoverishment Gospel, '' or that he obligates us to populate lives of physical want.


my contention isthat if our focus/passion/goal is to hold a better life here olympic games, so we hold lost the point of thegospel.i pursue him/his will ( not me/my will ) and he will see that i hold '' life, and have it to the full


possibly it Holds because i 'm getting older, but this truth is going suchly clearer tome. i make n't cognise how i lost it for auf wiedersehen.


there is a gentleman in my family who recently retired. he attended work on the local caterpillar franchise as a rattlingly immature man, and passed more xl ages working on monolithic tractors. i utilise to bulge in to his work from time-to-time and encounter him up to his cubituses in transmittal fluid. a quiet, jollyman, he ne'er quetched about his line, but it shortly went obvious to me that he looked frontwards to the weekend ( short-run ) and retirement ( long-run ). goodly, he recently `` drew the stopper '' and appears to be basking life without duty ( he lost his wife a couple of eld back ).


this past Sunday, he got to church early ( as he ever makes... he covets the back row ) and i halted past to agitate mitts and visit for a minute. when i enquire how he was, he answered, `` could n't be better... this is the runner-up spot i could maybe be '' conceiving of his recent retirement, i told `` i reckon your figure one would be a fishin ' hole '' as he is a man not given to hyperbole, i was taken back when he replied, `` no, the only spot i 'd instead be thanhere is in nirvana. ''


i recallled how i employed to inside judge this man for what iperceived as a deficiency of aspiration. `` alternatively of stomaching this business untilretirement, '' i would enquire, '' why makes n't he make something else? brand something of himself? '' last Dominicus morn, first, i saw how right he is you said it incorrect i americium. if it Holds a better occupation we 're dwelling for, or greater success or even retirement, so we are, as Paul told, `` to be pitied more than all men


this lowly machinist holds gotten my instructor. he understands `` land '' as Saviour delimited it. he gets it. he may inhabit anotherthirty ages. or forty. but he encompasses the thought that disregardless how great it gets ( or wretched, for that thing ), he will ne'er savour his best life while he is pulling breath on this world.


your best life is afterward.


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Infant in a bag and other highlights of Babies Roentgen USA
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The creation 's population is increasing at an alarming rate, if my circle of friends is any indicant. We hold hit the age where it Holds now or ne'er for infant devising, and more people so I anticipated are doing good usage of their ovaries. The most unfortunate side outcome of this unprecedented explosion of births is that I am coerced to pass valuable clip within the hollow, soulless trap of Babies Roentgen America.


This shop is tremendous; it resembles nada to a higher degree a disconsolate, pastel slopped warehouse. Open pipes and beams overarch the clients in useful glorification, and black, nondescript music exhausts what small strength the shopping parents may hold left. My first visit endured to a lesser degree five transactions. I ran in panic, experiencing as if some monster from a David Lynch film holds aspirate my core. Subsequent visits hold endured longer as my strength and despair for gifts turned stronger. I incline to cast aimlessly up and down the aisle, peering at points named `` water tablets '' and `` weewee cups '' in spell-bound disgust. I hold no thought what to get or what a infant demands and the shop itself offers no hints. Even when there is a register to follow, the aisle and class enumeration is so confusing that I usually finish up purchasing the first thing I 'm able to understand the usage of. I 'm fond of the babe bag. Babe get in bag. Add up to me.


The one thing I make like about the infant shop is how soft everythingis. Why make n't they do grownup jerseys or pillows out of this stuff? I would even place upwards with the graphic of a camelopard and bear squeezing to hold a cover equally cuddly as what infants get regularly. I pass half my clip experiencing around the shop like a newly unsighted soul.


There are two types of people in Babies Roentgen U.S.A.: people with infants and people who are about to hold babes. It Holds easy to place which is which by their tum size and figure of babes they are ballyraging. Their attitude is likewise a large indicant. People about to hold babes are still nice, normal mans. People with babes are creatures who would run you downward with a cart full of napkins and weewee tablets instead than go an in out of your mode. There are course elisions to this regulation. None of my friends hold ever run over my pes with a saunterer and smiled at my hurting. Nonetheless, I 'm watching them nighly and am readied to execute an dispossession at a moments find.


I presume there are other people like me, friends of the fertile, lurking around the shop, concealling from the tercets and the chilling soccer-moms-to-be. Possibly we can get together and do a garrison out of the napkins or giggle at the chest pump shows.


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Ar Fauna Advocates Gift Michael Vick a Walk?
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The ink was barely dry on Michael Vick 's trade with the Philadelphia Eagles and creature advocator were naming for his remotion from the squad. But emotions within the creature rights community scope from full-scale disgust to a charitable sentiment that sounds very much like forgiveness. Those in the latter encampment reason that creatures in agriculture endure much worse than the creatures in Vick 's dogfighting operation in rural VA, where laws took 66 injured dogs and disintered the bodies of eight more. Vick functioned 18 months of a 23-month sentence in federal prison for his offense.


`` What Vick maked is, obviously, mindless and criminal, '' pens thespian and creature exponent Alec Baldwin on the Huffington Post
`` But I believe Vick, as a affluent and talented athletic whiz who does his line call at the unfastened before crowds of amped-up and highly opinionated fans, endures an unjust disadvantage as compared to, state, the caputs of a meatpacking works or the managers of a medical science lab where brutes are enduring the fell conceivable ill-usages behind walls and doors that withdraw them from our sight and, so, minds. '' Baldwin attends to indite that `` Vick merits another opportunity. One opportunity. But like all of us who eat meat, drink milk, attend rodeos, circuses, zoos and horse races and yet bump it easier to pass Vick the measure for all of the other, more systemic ill-usages in our society may chance ourselves involving another opportunity one day. Only like Michael Vick. ''


Peter Vocalist concurs. The writer of Beast Freeing
stated The Philadelphia Inquirer

that what Vick maked was deplorable. `` But many people make or participate in things seing faunas that are unspeakable. To some extent, I conceive people may hold raced to judgement because he maked something unspeakable to dogs. '' Squealers, states Vocaliser, are even as sensitive and intelligent as dogs, but we make n't give much believed to how bacon is maked. `` What I 'm stating is that the people who are really speedy to get on Michael Vick peradventure could pass some clip conceiving about how they participate in the cruelty to brutes simply by walking into the supermarket, pass some clip believing about what passed thereto fauna before it was turned into meat. ''


Possibly the largest peace offering holds come from the Humane Society of the United States. `` Michael Vick acknowledges that what he maked to dogs was roughshod and wild, but now that he holds functioned his clip, he desires to be component of the solution instead than component of the job, '' states Wayne Pacelle
, president and CEO ofHSUS. '' He holds pledged to do a long-run committedness to participate in our community-based outreach programmes to manoeuver inner-city younker forth from dogfighting. At events with Michael in Atlanta and Chicago, we 've seen him present a powerful message against creature cruelty. ''


`` The footballer is free and holds the right merely like any ex-convict therein nation to locomote back to work, '' composes Michael DuDell of Ecorazzi, which account on celebrity-related creature tidings. `` Whether you believe him or not, Vick holds exhibited public compunction for his offense and holds even concured to work with the HSUS candidacy against dogfighting. What better pedagog than a Reformed evildoer? '' DuDell states there Holds no inquiry that what Vick maked was incorrect. `` But what would too be horrifying is presenting the macrocosm that those who stand upward for the welfare of brutes make not stand upwardly for the welfare of their fellow man. ''


Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Getty Images

Picture by Jonathan Ernst/Getty Images



But other activists
are n't sold on the new Vick. According to PETA 's Shawna Flavell
, `` Until Michael Vick undergoes the strict psychiatrical trials now available to find his ability to see self-reproach, there Holds no manner to launch whether he will reoffend. '' Her workfellow Dan Shannon was even more emphasized, write about the PETA blog site
: `` PETA and 1000000 of nice football fans around the existence are disappointed that the Philadelphia Eagles hold took to subscribe a man who hanged dogs from trees, electrocuted them with lead, maintained them underwater until they overwhelmed in his swimming pool, and even threw his ain household dogs into the contending cavity to be ruptured to smidgens while he laughed. What kinda message makes this send to immature fans who care about beasts and make n't desire to see them be harmed? ''


Football partisans are as dissever. Though some Eagles fans hold no job with Vick, others are campaigning to hold him expelled from the squad. One even established a Internet site, SackVick.net
, to aim the Eagles ' corporate supporters, which include Budweiser beer, Canon duplicators, Gatorade, MasterCard, NovaCare Rehabilitation, Staples and U.S. Airways. Proprietors of Hot Dog Collars, an on-line company that sells NFL-themed product for dogs, denoted that they 've halted selling Eagles-themed pet merchandises. The site now features anti-Vick images and a page
to accept contributions for the PA Society for the Bar of Cruelty to Animals ( PSPCA ). Meanwhile, a former Eagles fan recently publicized their commutation ticket on Craigslist for $ 2, 000, along with the note: `` If the Eagles are attending sell out, so so am I. ''


BusinessWeek author Mark Hyman
believes that in the end, Vick 's dogfighting offences wo n't interest fans if the Eagles ' new participant aids the squad. What Hyman neglects to observe is that by landing in Philadelphia, Vick bumps himself in one of the most animal-friendly countries in the commonwealth. The Humane Conference of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Fauna Welfare Society and the PSPCA are simply a couple of of the groupings active in the metropolis, and they 're not likely to allow Vick bury that there are plentitude of people watching.


People like vocalizer Pink. Posting on Chirrup, the brute exponent and Philadelphia indigen composed: `` thigh-slapper. Michael vick in MY hometown, Philly. of all the spots. I trust the fans rupture him to pieces like his dear dogs. ''


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Slumber is over-valued
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clematis1 /me nictitation at you blearily. OMG. I am jaded. `` Not to place any pressure on you, Ahuva '', states J, `` but make you believe you could maybe landscape this total island tonight in clip for tomorrow 's meeting? '' Right. No pressure. Sigh. This is not a motorcoach - this is a steam roller. LOL. Although, I 'm not sure Wherefore I should arise to THIS challenge. I produced not one but Iv scrummage vocals. And a scrumfire around which we could sing. And NO ONE sang the scrumsongs. No one sat in the chairs around the fire. :( The vocals were n't even pass out. Breathlessness. I was suppressed. My work so completely thankless. :(


clematis2 Okay. One landscaped island coming upwardly. But. I postulate scripted benches. And I really require a treillage. I rattlingly require some more textures overly, because I make n't hold what I Desire. Thanks to Honor, I now see defects in textures that I utilized to encounter satisfactory. I intend - workses are sayed to hold STEMS. Not the textures I 've been given. No stems. Those infants hold leaves coming right out the underside. Big Suspiration. I ca n't make much about the textures overnight, but I Tin name the horse to the delivery for other things. *grin*


clematis3 /me directs an tortured shout to Dale!!! Help!!! Scripting!!!! *grin* It Holds rattlingly not just. Presenting Dale a book that takes work is like exhibiting a moth a light. BLAM! Connectedness! *grin* Dale came sitting inward on the whitecap. Written shocks for the benches. We were soooooo cagy. The book chooses a airs indiscriminately, so that we will not hold all the embodiments lined upwards in synchronized leg-crossing. :) Dale maked me a treillage, overly! It Holds a gorgeous perfect treillage. As you can see, my clematis looks alrightly up-close, but it Holds not really working from a distance. I 've mouth with Honor, hold some thoughts on what to tweak. Suchly to larn. :) What Holds really astonishing is that I conceive it took longer for Dale to work how to get into this macrocosm than it took to construct the pillow, script it, and construct the treillage. *grin* Dale, Swayer of Scripts!


Anyways, I was upward til 1: 30 americium, caught a trifle slumber, got upwards at 6am and commenced in again. Please mention that I hold ducks. *grin* You all may snigger at my ducks, but they haved specific, favorable acknowledgment. Anyways, I believe the island passed muster.


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Bikennale 3: `` History of Loss ''
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Finally there will be Biennale instalments at many of the Canada Line stations. First upwards, though, is `` History of Loss '' at the Rex Edward Station:


History of Loss 2


History of Loss 1 This piece is by Indian artist SudarshanShetty.The artspeak description: `` Although invigorated by VW Beetle childhood plaything automobiles, the mention here is innumerous, iconic burning engine vehicles entombed and dated as artefacts, reflecting the consciousness and mundaneness of immature modern-day Indian artists. ''


I 'm equally large a fan of myriad, iconic artefacts as the following hombre, but the component I care the best is that it Holds following to a rapid-transit station that holds all the appeal of a grave.


King Ed station


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And while we 're here, can anyone explicate what this crossing is about? Why the stippled lines?


Crosswalk


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Interacting with SeleniumRC directly
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In my previous post , I spoke about founding Se RC from the bidding line. I Holded refered voyaging to http: //localhost: 4444/ after commencing the Se Waiter but withdrew it since it was n't straightly pertinent to a getting started station. Here Holds the withdrawn content:


You can establish selenium-server in `` synergistic '' manner and enter biddings directly from the dictation interface.


C:\selenium-remote-control-1.0.1\selenium-server-1.0.1>java -jar selenium-server.jar -interactive
11:54:06.143 INFO - Java: Sun Microsystems Inc. 1.5.0_13-b05
11:54:06.145 INFO - OS: Windows Vista 6.0 x86
11:54:06.161 INFO - v1.0.1 [2696], with Core v@VERSION@ [@REVISION@]
11:54:06.300 INFO - Version Jetty/5.1.x
11:54:06.302 INFO - Started HttpContext[/,/]
11:54:06.306 INFO - Started HttpContext[/selenium-server,/selenium-server]
11:54:06.308 INFO - Started HttpContext[/selenium-server/driver,/selenium-server/driver]
11:54:06.338 INFO - Started SocketListener on 0.0.0.0:4444
11:54:06.340 INFO - Started org.mortbay.jetty.Server@863399
Entering interactive mode... type Selenium commands here (e.g: cmd=open&1=http://www.yahoo.com)

The formatting for the inquiry twine is the same as for a HTML table in Selenese:


  • What comes after `` cmd= '' is the first column.

  • What comes after `` & 1= '' is the 2nd column.

  • What comes after `` & 2= '' is the tertiary column ( sometimes optional ).


All normal bids including `` unfastened '', `` type '', `` chink '', `` verifyTextPresent '',etc. are supported, also as special biddings such getNewBrowserSession and shutDownSeleniumServer.


The first thing you ask to make is commence a browser session. You can either typewrite in the dictation window ( when in synergistic style ):


cmd=getNewBrowserSession&1=*chrome&2=http://one-shore.com
12:14:20.698 INFO - ---> Requesting http://localhost:4444/selenium-server/driver?cmd=getNewBrowserSession&1=*chrome&2=ht
tp://one-shore.com
12:14:20.706 INFO - Command request: getNewBrowserSession[*chrome, http://one-shore.com] on session null
12:14:20.708 INFO - creating new remote session
12:14:20.710 INFO - Allocated session e4c0bda97077462aa916c61111a7f806 for http://one-shore.com, launching...
12:14:20.842 INFO - Preparing Firefox profile...
12:14:24.647 INFO - Launching Firefox...

or you can enter the URL in a browser:


http://localhost:4444/selenium-server/driver/?cmd=getNewBrowserSession&1=*chrome&2=http://one-shore.com


You 'll observe that when you ran the bid getNewBrowserSession, it opened two new browser windows.


The first windows is a comptroller window. You can interact with this very much like you would with the bidding line. The 2nd window is a white window, that will finally be the window where your bids get executed.


The first window is the `` chrome '' driver. It is the commanding interface for Se RC. ( Chrome cites to the base version of Firefox, which holds promoted privileges ( and so can avoid cross-site scripting restrictions. The equivalent for Explorer is `` iehta ''. )


selenium_rc_chrome


There are three frames. The first is the control frame, the s demonstrates a dictation history, and the tertiary is white. Contingent on your constellation, the biddings are executed in either the tertiary frame, or in the 2d window ( which is the default for newer versions of Se RC. )


A sessionID is returned, and will be asked to be passed as an statement to interact with selenium-server from the URL. The cli is bound to the sessionID automatically.


cmd=open&1=/contact
12:36:18.783 INFO - ---> Requesting http://localhost:4444/selenium-server/driver?cmd=open&1=/contact&sessionId=bb5439b87
fec422282d2ec42a2611171
12:36:18.803 INFO - Command request: open[/contact, ] on session bb5439b87fec422282d2ec42a2611171
12:36:19.379 INFO - Got result: OK on session bb5439b87fec422282d2ec42a2611171
12:37:30.973 INFO - Command request: open[/about, ] on session bb5439b87fec422282d2ec42a2611171
12:37:31.192 INFO - Got result: OK on session bb5439b87fec422282d2ec42a2611171
12:39:25.267 INFO - Got result: ERROR: Command timed out on session 79eaade6ab7249a1ac05ac71eab60e33

or enter the undermentioned URL into any browser window.


http://localhost:4444/selenium-server/driver?cmd=open&1=/contact&sessionId=bb5439b87fec422282d2ec42a2611171


Observe that you need to pass the sessionID too. This is the only difference.



This is the fashion your Se driver interacts with the Se waiter at a low degree. But you can bury all about that, because the Apis abstract all that and you can enter bids in Java ( or Ruby or PHP,etc. ) that are similar to the familiar HTML biddings.


E.g., the above session could be executed with the undermentioned Java commands


Selenium selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*chrome", "http://one-shore.com/");
selenium.open("/contact")

Some bids, notwithstanding, are not supported directly, or are an total of multiple biddings, such as verifyText
which in Java would look more like


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Intelligent Quote of the Day
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theology When it comes to divinity, we should keep strongly to our perspectives and even support them, but at the same clip maintain those positions in humbleness. God 's truth is inerrable, but our savvy of it is not. Yes, some perspectives are based on ignorance, emotion and/or sloppy scholarship. But we should n't broadbrush all opposing deem arising this mode.


... I see one of the greatest jobs in Christianity not as being different standpoints, but the fact that people make n't understand differing stands you bet such decisions are maked. We can better understand and support our ain places when we really understand our oppositions.


The controversial ( yes, the sometimes hot-tempered ) `` Realist '' a regular notice on Grade Tabladillo 's Redeemer Loves Family message board giving his modern day rendering of `` in requisites, integrity; in non-essentials autonomy and all told things charity '' when it comes to canvassing and understanding Christian divinity. May he take his ain advice when it is justified.


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Mash-up artist Party Ben conveys us `` Devovs. Soulja Boy '':




`` House of Queen '' and `` Galvanize the Imperium '':




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