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How bad apologies kill healthy relationships
I was recently reminded of the terrific cost of a failed apology—a SORRYNOTSORRY “ in the current Internet parlance. This story is a good illustration of the high stakes of an apology gone wrong—and how to get it right.
Suzanne, a Texan in her thirt...
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Halloween Horror Nights
Universal Studios Hollywood
Universal City, California
Friday, September 21, 2012
I recorded a song, it's a cover by a band called the new frontiers.
Nothing spectacular: mp3twit.com/dh1
"Forgive me Father
[Welsh Policeman:] Mobile One Two to Central.
For I have sinned
[Welsh Policeman:] We have a multiple on the A465
between Cwmbran and Cylgoch.
Father it was either me or him.
Father can we turn back the clock?
[Welsh Policeman:] Ambulance, over.
I never meant to drop the concrete block.
[Welsh Policeman:] Roger central, over and ou".
Me or Him....Roger waters
There’s plenty of junk e-mail–spam, they call it. But sometimes you get a gem in some of the creative stuff that friends forward to you. I got a child’s version of the Lord’s Prayer that both amused and even enlightened me; especially when this little boy got to the part where many Christians pray, “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” Except this boy heard it this way: “Forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets.”
And what a picture–asking God to forgive us for all the trash we’ve committed against Him and receiving that forgiveness because of what Jesus did on the cross. But what about those who’ve put trash in your basket?
We’re much more conscious of their sins than our own sins, aren’t we? But God’s command is clear: “Forgive as the Lord forgave you” (Colossians 3:13 ). In one sentence, God literally wipes out every excuse I might have for holding onto that sin against me. They don’t deserve to be forgiven. Well, neither did I. If you only knew what they did. Well, if you only know what I’ve done to break Jesus’ heart, but He forgave me.
So the decisive question is this: what right do I the forgiven have to refuse to forgive? To forgive is to release everything they’ve put in my trash basket to God; to choose to treat them not as they treated me but as Jesus treated me. Yeah, that’s the prayer, “Forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our basket.”
© Ronald P. Hutchcraft
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...for I have sinned.
Eidur's "Mixing the Vibe" - June 2008 is out now and available for download on iTunes, featuring:
1) I Love House (Acapella) - Robert M
2) Ghost (Original Mix) - Sebastien Leger, Chris Lake
3) Counting Down the Days (Axwell Remix) - Sunfreakz Feat. Andrea Britton
4) Go That Deep feat. Shara Nelson (Redankaâ Vocal Mix)- Nufrequency
5) Contact (Original Mix) - Glenn Morrison
6) Toca's Miracle (Inpetto Remix) - Fragma
7) Let's Take Drugs (Cedric Gervais Remix) - George Morel
8) Yes We Can (Original Mix) - House Music United
9) I Love House (Vocal Mix) - Robert M
10) Faxing Berlin (Chris Lake Edit) - Deadmau5
11) No Promises feat. Bonnie Bailey (Thomas Gold Mix) - Hott 22
"Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do."
-Luke 23: 34
Camera: Nikon D90
Lens: Nikkor 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G AF-S DX VR ED
F-stop: f/8
Exposure time: 1/250 sec.
ISO speed: ISO-400
Focal length: 98mm
35mm eq. focal length: 147mm
Lighting: No flash. I actually meant to use flash, but the batteries were low.
Handling: Handheld with VR on
Priority: Manual. Because the batteries on my flash were low, I deliberately overexposed to lighten the shadows on the crucifix.
Photoediting, Photoshop Elements 5: Replaced background color with black. Adjusted brightness and contrast levels. Attempted to clean up some areas with blurring.
Photoediting, Photoscape v3.3: Vignetting filters applied after Photoshop Elements 5 photoediting
Other notes: This set was somewhat unusual for me. First, I don't usually visit cemeteries for photography. Second, I rarely photograph dark or depressing material. Third, I avoid creating images that look significantly photoshopped. However, it was a good experience for me to work outside my comfort zone, and I thought it would be nice to try to photograph something relevant to the Easter season.
Last Seven words 2011
Luke 23:34 Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing."
Can not forgive their attitude.
I sent them a letter.
Dear Members of the Open Newspaper Committee,
I have learned that Mainichi Newspaper has been distributing unreliable gossip articles mostly including sexual non-true "Japanese customs" through the world wide web for more than 7 years.
I have seen some of the articles and it is way beyond awful, which makes the people around the world misunderstand Japan and the Japanese and it is insulting.
I do feel a lot of anger towards these acts and I do not think the current measures taken by Mainichi is enough to only suspend the reporter for 3 months , and some tiny salary cut (0.83% of annual salary) for the General Manager and Managing Director.
The term "Manage" is to manage the whole web site and it was obvious that it was very wrongly managed.
I have learned that Mainichi has put some "meta keywords" or "tags" for the readers to let find the waiwai site easily, to my shock, the keywords included words like "hentai", "geisha", "sex", and more, which Mainichi have deleted already, and to my knowledge have not disclosed to the public the fact that these keywords were written in Mainichi web site and Mainichi have deleted this secretly.
Mainichi even tagged the word "hentai" to the articles related to the Emperors family, when the Constitutions say the Emperor is the symbol for Japan, I assume Mainichi is insulting the whole country, Japan.
I have read that the rape crime against Japanese women has been increasing since 2001 when waiwai started their vulgar articles.
The following is another article based on Mainichi's report.
This might cause war between Japan and Ecuador, Belarus or Kenya, it certainly would not please the people in these countries and it is a threat to the peace of this globe.
”
mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/archive/news/2003/07/200307...
Outbound travel has been hit hard this year by such factors as the war on Iraq and the SARS outbreak, but plenty of Japanese have headed overseas on underground tours involving sex, slavery and savagery, according to Tokusatsu Shinsengumi.
For Japanese men sick of plying professionals, there are always the rape brokers of Vietnam - touts who'll apparently drag a woman off the streets so a Japanese man can violate her.
In Ecuador, Japanese can, according to the men's weekly, hunt for children in a different manner as they are armed with a rifle and permitted to track down a youth let loose in the jungle. About 10 Japanese have so far taken part in the tours, with only three getting a shot off at their target and no fatalities reported.
Japanese are tapping into the underground in European countries, too. Belarus attracts a monthly gathering of people from all over the world for its sickening slave auctions.
"Customers are looking for something different these days, right? Eastern Europeans or South Americans just aren't good enough any more. So, I decided to get myself some black women. A coordinator I know told me about the slave auctions in Africa and asked if I was interested in taking part. The coordinator's job is to bring foreign women to Japan. He said he was going to the auction again. I thought it looked interesting, so decided to tag along with him," the operator of an Osaka bordello tells Tokusatsu Shinsengumi. "It was held in Kenya. They brought out over a dozen young men and women and lined 'em all up in front of us like they were products. I asked who they were and was told they were all people badly in debt. Just looking at what was going on, I couldn't possibly buy anybody. I came home empty handed, but I've heard of sex businesses in Japan that use slaves. If they ever got picked up, there'd be an almighty uproar.""
I strongly suggest that Mainichi will have statement to "review and correct" these articles and not just deleting them but display and distribute such correction for more than the period that these crazy articles have been in place, more than 7 years.
I will blog this around the world until Mainichi would respond in a serious and sincere way to the public in English and Japanese language, not to me.
The fact that Mainichi has mislead the world, instead of spreading the truth which is a special role for journalists, is a huge mistake and Mainichi will have to "reborn" and take these back from the world in every possible way that they can.
I do have another concern that the Members of the committee is consisted of pro-Mainichi people, but my hope is that the Members would seek for the truth and act like a real journalist, for the only way that Mainichi would survive.
Not hide what was wrong but disclose, review and correct.
Lastly let me add that the Japanese Mainichi site includes far the most sexual articles among the Japanese newspapers, Asahi, Yomiuri, Nikkei and Mainichi, and this Japanese site including these sexual articles are easily "linked" from the "Mainichi Elementary School Newspaper"site.
Again please do not "delete and hide" but "review, apologize and correct" the situation there as well.
Thank you for paying attention to my sincere e-mail letter.
Best regards,
Reader of Mainichi Newspaper
The same statue took from another view:it seems to say "what the hell i've done to deserve this! :)
stessa statua ma con diversa prospettiva.A me ha dato l'impressione di qualcuno che esclamava qualcosa del tipo "ma cosa ho fatto di male!"
All'interno della basilica di San Paolo fuori le mura - Roma
Inside the basilica of S. Paolo - Rome
♫♪♫ Unforgivable sinner ♫♪♫
Forgive me putting it on again, I'd messed the settings up somehow so noone could comment; I hope it's ok now. Thanks very much for letting me know and the favourites too; I'll catch up with my messages soon : )
I was thrilled to find 2 fox cubs on the first evening on holiday in Devon. As far as England goes it was a really remote valley, I could have been the first person they'd ever seen ! There were three cubs but I didn't see any adults, judging by the constant gunshots from neighbouring farms I can imagine what happened to them. The cubs were big and healthy but their future is far from bright, the guy who owns the farm said to me he'd rather I'd have shot them with a gun than a camera. They'll be lucky to live long enough to breed themselves, such is the brutal reality of fox life in our countryside.......
I did have a relaxing time though apart from that, I saw a hobby chasing swallows high above the valley, a dream come true ! I'm trying to catch up with everyone in the next few days : )
PS I hope it works now !
Forgive me - yet another picture of our puppy. I had a few others this week, but tonight this is the image that called out to me. We spent the evening at our local 24 hour pet hospital getting Finn tested for Parvo because he has been quite sick this weekend. He tested negative for Parvo (yay!) so now we are going to rule out some other less scary options. Having babies of any sort is so wonderful and stressful at the same time!
‘Strength is not a force with which to exert power over others, but a force to stop others exerting power over you.’
Forgive them Father for they do not know what they do Walking through an antique store I saw these cameras, and my photographic heart went out to them. They looked so lonley, in such great condition. It felt as if I was at the dog pound looking at a caged dogs begging to be set lose in someone's backyard to play. These camera's was begging to take pictures.
Thank you Paola.
A very smooth session with a very passionate woman. Great times. Shes a good girl and a great friend.
I couldn't help but fiddle around with Photoshop after discovering the technique of TTV (Through the Viewfinder). At least I posted them as a single mosaic and not each one separately ;-)