Silent Monks, Alaska School Kids, Hallelujah Chorus

I found both of these videos funny and moving at the same time!

I'm also including another video of Alaska school kids doing a similar video as a communications project, preceded by the comments of the teacher:Hallelujah Chorus -Kuinerrarmiut Elitnaurviat 5th Grade - Quinhagak, Alaska
Wow!! Thank you for all for the wonderful comments. The village of Quinhagak is glowing because of them. The amount of views is mind blowing!! Considering this video was intended for an audience of about 200. As many of you have thought, the kids worked very hard on this project. They put in 10 hours of work shooting all the scenes (on a weekend nonetheless!!) I am very proud of them!
Thank you also for pointing out the apostrophes! I now have a very teachable moment once we start school again. One they will never forget!! I'm just glad I spelled "Hallelujah" correct. 
Thank you on behalf of Quinhagak, Alaska!! Merry Christmas!!

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MORE ABOUT BLOGGING VS FACEBOOKING

I'm very glad I went to blogspot for several reasons: I can use larger print, add pictures, etc., blogspot will sponsor the blog, but the biggest benefit is the google search brings in viewers that Facebook and Twitter don't reach.
I've been using Facebook as a rough draft for the blogger. It seems easier to get started writing on Facebook, because, like right now, my friends (I started this conversation with Facebook friend Melinda Bartley Alleyne  who also writes a blog, healing joshua on blogspot) will inspire me to write on a subject.
To handle all the pasting and copying, I set up with tabs, not windows, which makes it a lot easier to switch back and forth between Facebook and blogspot. To store the notes until I'm ready I use a notepad. I find the Chrome browser is the easiest, fastest, and safest browser to work with on this. I tried both Mozilla and Explorer.
You'd be amazed to find out how much constant prayer can help you with geek stuff. The Holy Spirit is The Great Professor, so willing and able to lead us into all Truth. Of course, He still expects us to do our part. Of all the aspects of learning, language takes the most work and is the least fun. Fortunately, bloggers are already skilled journalists, and keeping a personal log of steps to take will only be a small step for you, and will greatly speed up your geekification. God also started working with me on this area when I humbled myself (a difficult step for me) and gave Him credit for everything I learned. The Word says He leads us into ALL  TRUTH,  and last time I looked, all meant ALL!

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Hazing, swirleys, and guys from Gary

Recently a young man died because of "hazing", an initiation procedure of varying degrees of meanness done to the new guy, or in college, the freshman. That caused me to think of an incident from my youth.

I was a young man from a very tough neighborhood in Gary, Indiana. I learned about the hazing process when I attended Olivet Nazarene College, now called Olivet Nazarene University. Olivet is a christian liberal arts college located in Bourbonnais, Illinois, USA. 
At Olivet College, the initiation was called a swirly. The head of the freshman was stuck in a toilet, and the toilet was flushed, creating a swirling effect; hence the name. When confronted with a threaghtening group, many freshmen went willingly. Some were forced.

Guys from Gary were normally not initiated. Our tough city background normally frightened the hazers away. But this year one group decided to take on what they thought was the toughest one (I have no idea how they made that judgement!) to be sure every freshman was hazed.
In a brave attempt, 10 guys tried to give me a swirly. They stormed my room and threw a blanket over me to keep me from hitting them. The blanket didn't stop my hands from finding one of the 63 nerve points I had learned of in judo classes, specifically the Achilles heel, and pinching them sharply.
2 or 3 athletic young men screaming and jumping back in pain was a wonderful deterrent for the rest of the group. I was not initiated.
There were 6 freshmen that were NOT initiated. Five of them, including myself, were from Gary, Indiana. The 6th one claimed to be from Gary.

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Pray for our President

Dear brothers in Christ: I tearfully say believers have failed politically because we don't heed God's Word, therefore He doesn't listen to our words or prayers. The Apostle Paul admonished us to pray (the opposite of cursing) for those who rule over us, pray for their success as statesmen and as guardians, and for the protection of them and their families.
If our President is our political enemy who curses us under his breath, we are to bless him, as Jesus told us to, commend him honestly when he does a task well, and be slow to anger, slow to criticize. We do this to honor God's Word's, and not to gain political advantage.
Do not fear that his success as a statesman will lead to his success politically, for God decides who will be lifted up or brought down. Both Nixon and Carter were great statesmen, probably because of the prayers of believers, and failed spectacularly politically. 
God choosing who to lift up is the reason we should listen to God and NOT MEN when we go to the poll booth. Next time you vote, ask God who His man is.
Paul's Words:I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

Political News on Pearl Harbor Day

News today: Rod Blagojevich, former Illinois State Governor, was sentenced to 14 years for corruption charges. He's the 2nd governor in a row to go to prison, and the 4th in 4 decades. It's ironic that in Illinois the nadir of morality has been Richard Daley.
Daley's saving graces are not his high ethical standards. Chicago city politics operate on a more savage plane than typical politics, hence the joke about Chicago's voting slogan: Vote Early. Vote Often. But Richard has a passionate love for his city. He broke all sorts of Federal Laws when he bulldozed MIGs airfield at midnight, because he rightly perceived that a downtown airport was an opportunity for terrorists. If Rod Blagojevich had that same love, he might have had a different fate.
Speaking of politics, today, December 7, Pearl Harbor Day is reminder that God has a guiding hand in the affairs of men. Because of pride, a blindness had settled on the hearts of American leadership leading up to the attack. But the same blindness had also settled on Japanese military leadership. Only Yamamoto, a most brilliant Japanese military mind, opposed going to war with the US. He was ordered to come up with the best plan anyway, and the attack on Pearl Harbor was the result. His words during the attack: I'm afraid ...we have awakened a sleeping giant.
God's hand was also upon MacArthur, who ruled the defeated Japanese so justly that he became their hero, and our deep friendship with Japan became possible.
I am including, with his permission, my Facebook friend John Whitelock's comments on my Facebook post, who accurately observes: the Japanese deified their emperor --- willing to literally sacrifice and die for his "glory" in the reknowned "Kamikaze" attacks thru-out the war... MacArthur was a committed Christian who Knew the significance of Japan's defeat... It cost him his career eventually, but his FIRST act and appeal in behalf of the defeated nation --- was to call upon America's churches to fill the spiritual vacuum in the Japanese heart... "... we have dethroned and defeated not just a man or a nation, but the god of this nation... what the Japanese NEED more than anything in this hour is prayer, missionaries, and Bibles ! They NEED to see the compassionate heart of the living Christ !"

Speeding up old computers

How to speed up an old computer:
Go into your control panel. Next go into improve performance. Do three things.
1Adjust appearance. Find & click the setting that says adjust the appearance for best performance.
2. Open & start disk clean up. I do this twice a day.
3. In advance tools, go to disk defragger and start. I do this twice a day.
I don't store pictures permanently on my computer. I store my pictures on 3 cloud devices, Picasa Web, Facebook, and Twitpic, and then delete them from the computer. However, if you don't do disk clean up, they're still there in the trash can file, so I do both.

To keep your cookies from overwhelming your old computer, just restart your computer. I do this whenever it starts to slow down or lock up. If it locks up, don't wait, just hold down the off-on button for 10 seconds or till it shuts off, then restart.I run 10, 20, even 30 tabs on a computer that is 6 years old. 

Another trick is to close unused high traffic tabs like Facebook if I'm done. 

Still another trick is to pin a tab (right click). It freezes the refresher. 

One more trick. With your browser you switch to text only. I did this for a really old computer, and it sped things up immensely, but no pictures.



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Map of Australia

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I downloaded the picture and copied and pasted the dialog 

from a site on Facebook called Awesome Quotes.

These were posted on an Australian Tourism Website and the answers are the actual responses by the website officials, hehehehe

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Q: Does it ever get windy in Australia ? I have never seen it rain on TV, how do the plants grow? ( UK ).

A: We import all plants fully grown and then just sit around watching them die.
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Q: Will I be able to see kangaroos in the street? ( USA )

A:Depends how much you've been drinking.
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Q:I want to walk from Perth to Sydney - can I follow the railroad tracks? ( Sweden )

A: Sure, it's only three thousand miles, take lots of water.
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Q: Are there any ATMs (cash machines) in Australia? Can you send me a list of them in Brisbane, Cairns, Townsville and Hervey Bay ? ( UK )

A: What did your last slave die of?
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Q:Can you give me some information about hippo racing in Australia ? ( USA )

A: A-Fri-ca is the big triangle shaped continent south of Europe.
Aus-tra-lia is that big island in the middle of the Pacific which does not
... Oh forget it. Sure, the hippo racing is every Tuesday night in Kings Cross. Come naked.
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Q:Which direction is North in Australia ? (USA )

A: Face south and then turn 180 degrees. Contact us when you get here and we'll send the rest of the directions.
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Q: Can I bring cutlery into Australia ? ( UK )
A:Why? Just use your fingers like we do...
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Q:Can you send me the Vienna Boys' Choir schedule? ( USA )

A: Aus-tri-a is that quaint little country bordering Ger-man-y, which is
Oh forget it. Sure, the Vienna Boys Choir plays every Tuesday night in Kings Cross, straight after the hippo races. Come naked.
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Q: Can I wear high heels in Australia ? ( UK )
A: You are a British politician, right?
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Q:Are there supermarkets in Sydney and is milk available all year round? ( Germany )

A: No, we are a peaceful civilization of vegan hunter/gatherers.
Milk is illegal.
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Q:Please send a list of all doctors in Australia who can dispense rattlesnake serum. ( USA )

A: Rattlesnakes live in A-meri-ca which is where YOU come from.
All Australian snakes are perfectly harmless, can be safely handled and make good pets.
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Q:I have a question about a famous animal in Australia, but I forget its name. It's a kind of bear and lives in trees. ( USA )

A: It's called a Drop Bear. They are so called because they drop out of Gum trees and eat the brains of anyone walking underneath them.
You can scare them off by spraying yourself with human urine before you go out walking.
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Q:I have developed a new product that is the fountain of youth. Can you tell me where I can sell it in Australia ? ( USA )

A: Anywhere significant numbers of Americans gather.
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Q:Do you celebrate Christmas in Australia ? ( France )

A: Only at Christmas.
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Q: Will I be able to speak English most places I go? ( USA )

 — with Mark Tyminski.

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Compelling Music, West Texas Photography

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Wyman Meinzer's West Texas from Wyman Meinzer on Vimeo.
Mary sent me this presentation through the email. Stunning photography and compelling music. Enjoy.

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Rick Perry Does Top Ten

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You have to admire David Letterman's good natured ability to tease someone, and then to convince a top Presidential candidate to come to the show to do the Top 10 himself!

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