My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms - will it return to my body when they scatter?
~inspirational text messages by Kotomichi

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Without philosophy, history seems to me to be deaf and dumb.
~saying on History by Ferdinand Baur, Symbolik und Mythologic

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving evidence of the fact.
~inspirational text messages by George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such, 1879

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you
~inspirational text messages by John Wooden

In dreams begins responsibility
~text messages by William Butler Yeats

A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad.
~sayings about text messages by John Andrew Holmes

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
~sayings about text messages by Robert Cecil

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.
~quotes about Patriotism by George Meredith, Beauchamp's Career

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
~inspirational text messages by Ambrose Bierce

The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess.
~saying on Living by Chris Cobbs

But no sign of lemonite, and much the same with Lemonite Hosting, a company which 2 days ago has suspended all our accounts with them. Fortunately, the majority of these accounts were empty, having been previously moved off of Node 8. However, it is estimated that as many as 50 webmasters could have been locked out of their data by this move. Good thing for Pvcsnathan's tutorial on backing up your files.

We were never notified of the suspension or the reason behind it, and received no response to our message to their support center. At this time, accounts are being moved to Node 14. Node 14 is managed by the company 'My Kind of Host', which so far has lived up to their "commitment to ... customer satisfaction [which] is unparalleled in the industry". They have been very helpful in answering our support messages and we were set up with them in record time.

We are looking forward to a stable future with MKOH "in one of the best connected data centers in the world".

More excitingness coming soon, but first, we need to know what you want to read more about. Vote away. Yes, you can vote for more than one choice. Also, I just picked a few genres of things we reviewed recently. Feel free to put other down and comment with another genre.

This message was preached by Pastor Tony Bazen on June 4th.

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This message was preached by Pastor Tony Bazen on June 10th.

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By the time I got to Anges, Sanctus Real was playing Beautiful Day ..."You're in the mud In the maze of her imagination. It's a beautiful day. Don't let it get away. It's a beautiful day..." I couldn't help but smile. I knew it was gonna be one of those mornings. Continuing to work on my collage I soon hear, "Be still and know I'm here (We are not alone)." I focus on what I am doing again in the collage and then I hear, "Is that you? Is this me... It's sometimes hard to believe that I am not alone. Its not just you. And not just me. We all need to believe that We are not alone."

The way the universe works is amazing, isn't it, love the timing! As I work I hear some lyrics in the next song, "I’m here to testify That it’s been an amazing ride with You. And I have never walked alone..."I look at the lyrics and make the connection to what I see on the desktop, so I take a screen shot. Soon I hear, "The love I have for you is so alive You just call My name..."

Sometimes it can be very distracting..."One time One world Two times One love Three times Rewind... Wondering what the dilly with the silly I see? When I made each of these in the image of me. Everyday is a chance for a new stance. Like every song is the beginning of a new dance..." I  bet you have to wonder, what is going on.

I hear another song as I put another cartoon into the collage..."I’m gonna show you love in every language. I’m gonna speak words that need no form..."  I AM streaming, now! I realize I need to use some of what I see separately because of the synchronicity.

"I want to tell you that I love you. I hope that you can hear me. I hope that you can feel me."
"...You took the time to speak into my mind and my hear words of life."

The message in "In the End", is, in addition to "don't take life for granted"- No matter what the outcome is, the journey itself is more important. What we've learned in life proves to be invaluable, and thus of far more worth than material gain, "perfection", or anything else. This also means that mistakes are what makes life worth living. The Ends doesn't justify the Means, and the Means doesn't justify the Ends, because both are irrelevant. The Journey itself is all that really matters in the long run. That's the message, in fewer words, they [Linkin Park] were trying to convey.

That's also a lifestyle which has defined my whole life, although I didn't *know* it till recently. I think in many ways, I was living life the *right* way long before I knew what was right, as if I was being guided by God, spirits- use your imagination...(!) I've learned (to word things a bit differently) that what's really important is not *what* we decide, the decisions we make, or the outcome of these decisions- be it good or bad. These things are trivial in comparison to the importance of knowing why we ourselves made those decisions. That is, motivation is what is most important.

As I said in Pride, "we exist to find meaning", and that meaning is in our motivation- because without motivation, which is in turn ultimately driven by pride, "we are nothing". That is, we cannot learn from our mistakes unless we know why we made them, and we cannot help others with their problems unless both of us know why the problems exist. I have written a few posts that were inspired by the troubles of a certain co-worker, but I did not until recently consider that I could not help them until I knew the source of their problems. Well, I was looking for the source, but in all the wrong areas. I was thinking circumstantial, when I should have been looking life. Once I considered that they had perhaps not learned from their mistakes because they did not know what the mistakes were- it became clear: they were immature. I will detail this in a future post, probably named "Immature", but don't expect it too much :P

I have spent so much time these past couple years trying to get to know myself- an unrelenting obsession. Although I was doing it for myself, I had no idea how much that the problems in the world, and lack of success of people can be directly attributed to people not knowing themselves. most people assume they do, and/or allow other people to take that responsibility, when those very people don't know themselves either. In other words, it's the Blind leading the Blind- a one-way ticket to hell-on-earth, to hyperbolize.

I've always considered myself the "unconventional" type, but really, what is convention? If convention is merely a signature characteristic, then I just have more unique conventions than most. One of these conventions is doing or saying things that I know are radical, unusual, controversial or just-plain-stupid. The reason why is not because I want to look like an asshole, dunce, or know-it-all, but so that I can find out why things are the way they are- what the motivation behind traditions, "common-sense", "do-not's", etc. is. I want to know, even if it means getting hurt (actually, I'm jaded to pain by now). Just the other day, I pedaled my bike to full-speed, then slammed on both breaks simultaneously, in from of a parked vehicle. I knew it was dangerous, but I wanted to find out exactly why. I knew I would fall, but that wasn't important. It was a very exhilarating experience- the bike did a full 180* flip- and luckily I didn't get a scratch. The bike was fine too, although the light was completely busted.

Every once in a while I come across an opportunity which a voice inside tells me is fate. When that happens- it's quite magical, because it's almost like I have power over the future. The first instinct was to go along with fate, but after thinking about it a while, I realized that fate does not exist to decide life for us, over even to give us the decision. Fate exists so that we do not take life for granted. Fate exists, so that we can recognize why we made the choice- that's the gift God has given us. The only thing we can't control is destiny- for all of us it's the same- pretty simple: we die.

So not every time I see fate reveal itself, I thank God (though I don't know who or what "God", or even if he "is") for the opportunity given me, to not just make the choice, but understand why I made it.

The determination of the objectives of communication taking into account resources such as money, time and human resource is the basic foundation of strategic communication. From the various elements in the strategic communication framework the constituent’s response is the most important as it gives a basis on which the strategy can be prepared for effective future communication with that constituent. Most companies don’t follow a long term strategy; instead they follow a short term strategy which is harmful for them. So when their strategies fail, they need expert communicator which is the last thing to do because it increases the cost. Reputation of the company is based on the constituent’s perceptions, so analyzing the organization’s constituents is the most important thing for devising an effective communication strategy.

EXAMPLES/EXPERIENCES: Taking reference from the Tylenol crisis faced by Johnson & Johnson, the company faced it boldly and could rely on its credo to help the company set clear priorities and deal with the constituencies. Its highly personalized and caring response to the consumers won the credibility back for the company and helped it to overcome the crisis.

LINKS: http://www.comnetwork.org/verizon_resourcecenter/communications_intro.htm

http://www.benton.org/publibrary/toolkits/stratcommtool.html

Dear customer,

In order to maintain the efficiency and allow the business to increase, it will become necessary for certain delivery days for milk to be dropped.

In the next few weeks, Wednesday's milk will be delivered on Tuesdays. This will involve extra milk being delivered on Tuesdays.

Also, to allow me to visit my son in Cornwall, every 4th Saturday will be delivered on Friday, on these occasions Wednesday's milk will be as normal. Newspaper customers will still receive papers as normal.

There will be a trial of this next week, with no milk deliveries on Tuesday next week, and extra milk will be delivered on Monday.

Thank you again for your custom

What do you make of it?

Some people passed to the world beyond in their sleep, some are lying critically ill at the hospital and their homes while some are about to be interred at the cementry, why would you not thank and praise Allah through remebrance?

I read in an hadith that the remembrance of Allah can not be quantify in anyway as Allah alone knows its weight and reward. Please let me share this forwarded message I got from a friend with you all.

"May Allah's Love Stay In Our Hearts"

1 Minute for Allah

Step 1: Say with your heart and tongue:

*SUBHANA'LLAH

*ALHAMDULI'LLAH

*LA I LAHA ILLA'LLAH

*ALLAHU AKBAR

*ASTAGHFIRU'LLAH

*LA ILAH ILLA'LLAH, MUHAMMADUN RASULU'LLAH

*ALLAHUMMA SALLY WA SALLEM WABAREK ALA SAYYEDINA MUHAMMAD

*WA AALIHE WA SAHBIH AJMA'EEN

Step 2: Contemplate in their meaning, sentence by sentence and word by word

Step 3: Forward this to your family, friends and other people

Result 1:
Within hours you have caused a multitude of people to remember, praise and
glorify The Almighty ALLAH

Result 2:
Within hours you have caused a multitude of people to Salute, pray for and
glorify the Prophet (P.B.U.H.)

Result 3:
Within hours at least seven people would have prayed for you with Angels
saying AMEEN, INSHA'A'LLAH

NOW.......... Sit back and watch the power of ALLAH work in your life for
doing the thing that you know HE loves.

^-,._.,-^-,._.,-^-,._.,-^-,._.,-^-,._.,-^-,._.,-^-,............._...,-^-,.
_.,-^-,._.,-^-,._.,

NOW.......... Sit back and watch the power of ALLAH work in your life for doing the thing that you know HE loves. May Allah guide us all, Amen.

Hollywood: A Cryptic Message

Mostly he uses the internal voice. The Holy Spirit communes with your spirit within you and as long as you stay close to God and your own spirit is soft toward him, you will hear him speak to you in this way. The more that you ask for and listen for his voice, the more you will learn to recognize when he is speaking to you in your thoughts. There will be times in everyone's life when there are so many distractions around that you can't centre in on his still, small voice. That's why it is important to take time to get alone and quiet with God.

God also sometimes uses other people who are sensitive to his leading to speak to you. The important thing is to rely on God, not on your own understanding. God is happy to lead us and guide us into what is is best for us.

Remember that God wants to speak to us, to help us live better, more fulfilled and happy lives. For more information, please visit www.lusciousplace.com and subscribe to the Luscious Place E-Newsletter. 

Wendy

www.lusciousplace.com.

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Though it's a movie I found to be a little heavy-handed with its message, I thought well-done, anyway. As we've come to expect from Pixar, this film's message is handled with greater panache and insight than most studios use over twelve films, a quality which more than makes up for WALL-E's overwrought focus on having a message.

This film's themes are environmentalism and slothful consumerism --- I don't give anything away to say that one is shown as good and the other is shown as bad --- and, even so, the film doesn't quite flesh with any single political ideology. Not that it matters --- nothing could ever stop political ideologues from bickering.

Due to the nature of their bickering, spoilers ahead. I paraphrase in blockquotes.

One called it a movie that Al Gore would like, because of its environmentalism, making a cheap shot that forgets that global warming is never mentioned in this movie; another countered that WALL-E was quintessentially conservative, because it criticized the marriage of business and government, missing the entire point of the movie.

Ideologue the Third reported that his 5-year-old child was whining to leave within the first 15 minutes, proving that the nut doesn't fall far from the tree; another observed that this Disney film was hypocritical for preaching against consumerism, even though, by contract, Disney has exactly zero creative control over a Pixar film.

It'd be worth noting that all of the quoted ridiculous observations come from conservative critics if left-wing pundits weren't regularly guilty of equal or worse sins.

WALL-E is one of the most elegant arguments for stewardship of our planet in ages --- it doesn't argue that pollution hurts the Earth, rather that pollution intrinsically hurts humanity --- and the film serves as one of the best-executed arguments against pursuing easy convenience at any cost.

Each of those arguments apparently clash with simple, narrow-minded conservatism. It may not clash with simple, narrow-minded liberal, if only because they'll inevitably focus on the simple, surface-level message against pollution, skipping entirely the attacks on the perils of our culture of entitlement.

Simple, narrow-minded ideologues from either side could ever make heads or tails of this movie. Their loss.

I will take a break from blogging. Time to enjoy my vacation and also re-evaluate certain things about my life.

Apparently, the internet connection on Signal Mountain Youth Camp is the devil.

Camp is great, with Jeremy and I having 18 boys in our cabin.  Watching to see what God does in their lives this week!

until, then.  be well.  be loved.