View allAll Photos Tagged article
International Monetary Fund Mission Chief Nigel Chalk speaks at a joint press conference on the conclusion of the 2016 US Article IV consultation June 22, 2016 at the IMF Headquarters In Washington, DC. IMF Staff Photo/Stephen Jaffe
From a November 3 2012 Calgary Herald article:
The crosses are back on Memorial Drive. There are thousands of them, each white marker a stark reminder of the many southern Alberta soldiers to die in combat.
At sunrise each morning from Nov. 1 to Remembrance Day, a flag is raised at the field of crosses — just west of the Centre Street Bridge — in a solemn ceremony to honour the families who lost sons and daughters to war.
This year’s event is particularly sombre for Murray McCann, a private citizen and Calgary businessman who funds the project.
He’s mourning the loss of George Bittman, a navy veteran and former head of the Poppy Fund who died last December in a boating accident off Florida’s east coast.
Bittman was the public face of the field of crosses project, and a tireless advocate of veterans and their families.
“It’s hard to do it this year without George,” McCann said of his longtime friend. “He was just a wonderful man and we sure do miss him.”
Since 2009, the number of crosses has grown from about 800 to almost 3,000. Each cross is inscribed with the name, rank, regiment and date of death of men and women from across southern Alberta.
It’s an enormous project that requires the work of countless volunteers who help pound stakes into the ground and assist with any needed repairs to the crosses.
This year, Bittman’s daughter, Laura Vanderkruk, is proud to be part of the organizing committee on behalf of her late father.
“Dad was an orphan and the first real family he found was in the navy. The military has always been very important to him,” she said.
“So when Murray McCann, his friend, asked him to put these crosses up, it was a natural fit.”
Among the fallen soldiers to be honoured at a sunrise service is Michelle Lang, the Calgary Herald journalist killed in December 2009 while reporting on Canadian troops in Afghanistan.
On the morning of Nov. 6, a flower spray with her name on it will be placed at the base of the flagpole during the ceremony.
Calgary Herald Editor-in-Chief Lorne Motley said next week’s service at the field of poppies will be a fitting tribute to Lang, the only Canadian journalist to die during the military’s eight years in the country.
The idea to erect a field of crosses in Calgary came to McCann a few years ago while driving through the U.S. town of Menlo, Ga., on Memorial Day.
He spotted a small group of U.S. veterans hammering crosses into the ground and decided to do something on a larger scale to encourage people to pause and remember the dead.
“The number of people to give their lives in that little town got me thinking of how many people we must have lost in southern Alberta,” said McCann.
“I’ve never had to go to war, and until that time I thought very little about it. This was an awakening for me. It made me aware that freedom isn’t free.”
The project will be funded in perpetuity through the McCann Family Foundation.
Members of the public are welcome to attend the ceremonies or visit the site at any time until it is removed after Remembrance Day. Public parking is available at the west end of the park.
Flags are raised each day precisely at sunrise and lowered again at sunset.
Read more: www.calgaryherald.com/Sunrise+ceremonies+honour+Albertans...
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde (R) and Director Alejandro Werner (L) hold a joint press conference on the conclusion of the 2016 US Article IV consultation June 22, 2016 at the IMF Headquarters In Washington, DC. IMF Staff Photo/Stephen Jaffe
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde (R) and Mission Chief Nigel Chalk (L) hold a joint press conference on the conclusion of the 2015 US Article IV consultation June 4, 2015 at the IMF Headquarters In Washington, DC. IMF Staff Photo/Stephen Jaffe
I just read this article:
Boy Scout stabbed at N.H. camp
By Associated Press
Friday, August 18, 2006 - Updated: 02:26 PM EST
DUBLIN, N.H. - A 14-year-old Boy Scout is recovering after being stabbed in the chest by another 14-year-old at a scout camp early Friday, police said.
The victim was flown to a Boston hospital with a knife protruding from his chest. Police say doctors successfully removed the knife at Boston Medical Center and the boy is expected to be released in the next day or two.
Troopers were interviewing witnesses to find out if the stabbing was intentional or accidental.
No names have been released, but police say the scout was stabbed around 7:15 a.m. at Camp Wanocksett in Dublin. The camp is run by the Nashua Valley Council of Boy Scouts in Lancaster.
Camp programs are continuing.
Ian is up there (no, he isn't 14). We pick him up tomorrow morning.
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde holds a joint press conference on the conclusion of the 2016 US Article IV consultation June 22, 2016 at the IMF Headquarters In Washington, DC. IMF Staff Photo/Stephen Jaffe
ADAM and EVE, Kirsten Fredericks & Sarah Howell
Article published 6th Oct 10
What:
ADAM and EVE, Kirsten Fredericks & Sarah Howell
Where:
Blank_space, 374 Crown St, Surry Hills
When:
Opens Sat Oct 9, 3pm. Runs until Oct 15
How much:
Free
Description:
Long before the power couples we know and love to have a good LOL at - David and Victoria Beckham, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Anna Nicole-Smith (RIP) and J. Howard Marshall - there was Adam and Eve: the OG power couple. Kirsten Fredericks and Sarah Howell present their joint exhibition, Adam and Eve, this Saturday at Blank_space, inviting viewers into their very own Garden of Eden with a tongue in cheek, perverse representation of the playfulness of sex, kitschy animalia and no doubt that bloody apple that started it all. I can taste the scandal already. Oh, and despite the adage that sex sells, this exhibition is free to all who give in to temptation. - EL
Newspaper article about the unveiling of this Honour Board at Christ Church, Petrie Terrace in 1916:
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/20103833?searchTerm=%2...
Percival Charles Edward Shaw (fourth name from top in third row)
Regimental number - 11363
Place of birth - Roma Queensland
Religion - Church of England
Occupation - Clerk
Address - Dawson and Woombye Streets, Eagle Junction, Brisbane, Queensland
Marital status - Single
Age at embarkation - 19
Next of kin - Mother, Mrs A Shaw, Dawson and Woombye Streets, Eagle Junction, Brisbane, Queensland
Previous military service - 24th AASC
Enlistment date - 17 January 1916
Rank on enlistment - Corporal
Unit name - Depot Unit Of Supply 14
AWM Embarkation Roll number - 25/109/1
Embarkation details - Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A64 Demosthenes on 18 May 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll - Sergeant
Unit from Nominal Roll - 14th Depot Unit of Supply
Fate - Returned to Australia 1 July 1919
Pasting from Wikipedia’s “Fine Wind, Clear Morning” article:
Fine Wind, Clear Morning (Japanese: 凱風快晴 Gaifū kaisei), also known as South Wind, Clear Sky or Red Fuji, is wood block print by Japanese artist Hokusai (1760–1849), part of his Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series. It dates from about 1830–32, the Edo period, and is currently held by museums worldwide, including the British Museum in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Description
In early autumn when, as the title specifies, the wind is southerly and the sky is clear, the rising sun can turn Mount Fuji red. Hokusai captures this moment with compositional abstraction but meteorological specificity, especially when compared to the rest of the series. The three shades of deepening blue of the sky mirror the three hues of the mountain. The lingering remnants of snow at the peak of the mountain and dark shadows encompassing the forest at its base place it very precisely in time. Mt. Fuji's solidly symmetrical shape on the right half of the image is balanced by the delicate clouds to the left, for a striking composition.
Historical information
This print and Hokusai's other masterpiece from hisThirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, are perhaps the most widely recognized pieces of Japanese art in the world. Both are superb examples of the Japanese art of Ukiyo-e, "pictures of the floating world". Although Ukiyo-e can depict anything from contemporary city life to classical literature, and Hokusai's notebooks show that his own interests spanned an equally wide range, it was landscapes like this that earned him his fame. The saturated colors and stylized forms in such prints helped inspire the Impressionist and Post-impressionist movements decades later.
§
Pasting from Wikipedia’s “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” article:
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景 Fugaku Sanjūrokkei?) is a series of landscape prints the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai (1760–1849). The series depicts Mount Fuji from different locations and in various seasons and weather conditions. The original thirty-six prints were so popular that Hokusai expanded the series by ten.
History
Mount Fuji is a popular subject for Japanese art due to its cultural and religious significance. This belief can be traced to The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, where a goddess deposits the elixir of life on the peak. As Henry Smith explains, "Thus from an early time, Mt. Fuji was seen as the source of the secret of immortality, a tradition that was at the heart of Hokusai's own obsession with the mountain."
The most famous single image from the series is widely known in English as The Great Wave off Kanagawa (神奈川沖浪裏 Kanagawa-oki nami-ura?), although a more literal translation might be, "Off Kanagawa, the back (or underside) of a wave." It depicts three boats being threatened by a large wave while Mount Fuji rises in the background. While generally assumed to be a tsunami, the wave was probably intended to simply be a large ocean wave.
Each of the images was made through a process whereby an image drawn on paper was used to guide the cutting of a wood block. This block was then covered with ink and applied to paper to create the image (see Woodblock printing in Japan for further details). The complexity of Hokusai's images includes the wide range of colors he used, which required the use of a series of blocks for each of the colors used in the images.
A collection of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji prints contained in the wellness spa of the Costa Concordia was lost during the collision of the ship on January 13, 2012.
All forty-six prints (the original thirty-six plus the ten additions) were featured in the exhibition "Hokusai: 36 Views of Mount Fuji" at the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian's museums of Asian art, in the spring of 2012.
While Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji is the most famous ukiyo-e series to focus on Mount Fuji, there are several other series with the same subject, including Hiroshige's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji and Hokusai's own later series One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji.
This engine section structural test article for NASA's Space Launch System is being prepared to be shipped on the barge Pegasus from #NASAMichoud to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Once it arrives at #NASAMarshall it will undergo structural testing.
The engine section will house four RS-25 engines and power the core stage of #NASASLS, the world's most powerful rocket.
1980 article discussing the outrageous salaries among athletes and entertainers. Seems rather quaint now.
Author Chandana De Silva - Divaina Paper Article about the "IT User's Abbreviations Reference Book" is the latest book that I have release to the Sri Lankan market. Incorporated with more than 10'000 IT terms.
It Helps You to Understand, Information & Communication Technology Articles, Magazines, Books & Other Computer Related Writings.
Chandana De Silva
IT Consultant, Lecturer and Author.
( Author of ICT Supplementary Textbook for Grade 10 and 11 )
Web ::: www.chandana.comoj.com
E-Mail ::: chandana.cds@gmail.com
Mobile ::: 07 22 17 31 41
Good Read article for Mollie Makes craft magazine (issue 57)
Wear your heart on your sleeve A hand-stitched green heart can help us all protect us our beautiful world and secure a safer future for the next generation of crafters.
Words by Sarah Corbett.
Our world is amazing. It blooms with remarkable people, with art that can make us laugh, cry and even change our world view, with technology that can connect us to our loved ones on the other side of the world… and have you noticed there is a little thing many of us love called Pinterest that can nourish us with beauty and new ideas (as well as distract us for hours!)? The growth in social enterprises and cooperatives are showing us that business can benefit people and the planet, not just profit. I could go on. But then there is the elephant in the room: climate change. When I worked for Christian Aid, I met people in Kenya affected directly by global warming. I’m sure we have all listened to the warnings. It can feel overwhelming: too complicated, too many problems to overcome. But now there is an opportunity for us craft-lovers to be eco-warriors rather than weary worriers. At the end of this year global leaders will meet in Paris for the UN climate talks to sign new agreements on climate change and sustainable development, agreements that will determine what kind of future we are shaping for our children. We need our leaders to show vision and ambition to create a better future and that’s why I’m writing this ‘Good Read’ in this issue.
We are changeMAKERS
I founded the Craftivist Collective five years ago to create resources to help me and other people do effective and gentle activism using craft as the tool. I was - and am - inspired by life-changing activists such as the suffragettes, who gained votes for women, and Nelson Mandela, who ended apartheid: people who showed that campaigning works. Over the years of honing my craft in strategic activism through needlework I’ve noticed that we crafters can have real impact. Politicians and businesses take note when we stand up for what we believe: our craftivism gifts for influential people can encourage them to be the change they wish to see in the world. The time and thought that goes into our craftivism pieces shows genuine commitment and questioning. The media want to cover our attractive campaigning, people nervous of activism join our stitch-ins, and passers-by are intrigued by our craftivism. The Climate Coalition, the UK’s largest group of people dedicated to action on climate change, launched their “For The Love Of Climate” campaign this year. They have 11million supporters through a network of over 100 organisations from environmental and development charities to unions, faith, community and women’s groups. We thought craftivists and craft lovers would be a good addition and Clare Fussell, Campaigns Manager at The Climate Coalition, agrees: “Unless world leaders know that people from across the world with different passions, hobbies and backgrounds all care, they won't have the mandate to take strong action on climate change. Wae all need to be climate changeMAKERS.”
So... for the love of our world
Let’s re-imagine how we can live and help world leaders recreate our world. Join us. To make and wear your green handmade heart on your sleeve is a small, positive, beautiful and therefore influential and powerful act for at least three reasons: It’s personal. Craftivism is a thoughtful approach to activism: it’s about slowing down, using the comfort of craft to really grapple with world issues and think critically about how we can help solve them, from changing our habits and consumer choices to adding our voice to campaigners before the Paris UN climate talks. Craft can be a catalyst for open, honest and friendly discussion. By stitching what you love on your heart banner (bluebells, bumblebees or even beautiful buttons!) you are showing people that you are genuinely concerned about our world, not ignoring the problem. Craftivists unite. Make your hearts as attractive and intriguing as possible, wear them every day, share them online with us. Let’s create an aspirational vision of our world to excite, empower and encourage others to pick up their craft tools and join us. Seeing your heart on your sleeve alongside so many others is inspiring and should entice them to join.
So pick up your fabric scissors, and start shaping the future of our world into a more sustainable, beautiful place for all. Craft alone or with friends, family, or even set up a public stitch-in and bring the discussion to passersby and at other events.
Join Craftivist Collective & Mollie Makes at our workshops at Crafty Fox Markets. Tag us @craftivists in your social media so we can share too and join #fortheloveof conversation. More info on the Climate Coalition: fortheloveof.org.uk More info on the project: www.craftivist-collective.com/fortheloveof
My buddy over at SoupUp Magazine (http://soupupmagazine.com) is doing a story on an old dirt track racer from Waco, Texas who competed in the 1960's. This newspaper article is of him and in the background of the picture is a VW bus in the background. He was kind enough to pass this along! Look close!
An article in The Lemington Courier
And the full set of photographs is at www.flickr.com/photos/jakeyjb/albums/72157606398437551
As for the appeal; so far, I've been able to track many of the 'kids'.
January 2020
In November 1974 I was sent to photograph Bath Place Community Venture in Leamington Spa for an article in the weekly student newspaper The Warwick Boar which reported;
"After much hard work by everyone concerned, Bath Place Community Venture is now in its seventh month and is flourishing. It aims to provide a creative environment and a focal point for people in Leamington.”
I turned up, completely unannounced, and with no background information walked into the adventure playground and just started taking photographs. This was the 1970s; the kids were more than flattered to have their photograph taken.
Lackawanna, NY - 2006
This 110 year old building is slated for demolition. The city of Lackawanna is fighting preservationists. Lackawanna mayor calls it an eyesore.
@ArtVoice- Steel Standing - artvoice.com/issues/v11n21/week_in_review/steel_standing
@TheBuffaloNews- Demolition of Bethlehem building is delayed www.buffalonews.com/city/communities/lackawanna/article87...
@AP- Crumbling NY steel co. building set for demolition
online.wsj.com/article/APaa7c1e3fa4114bfa8559936dca275458...
@WGRZ- Council Ignores Protestors Trying to Save Bethlehem Steel Building
www.wgrz.com/news/article/169025/37/Preservationists-Get-...
en.godfootsteps.org/testimonies/the-never-quenching-life-...
Christian Testimonies | The Life Force That Can Never Be Extinguished
I am an ordinary person who lived a run-of-the-mill life. Like many who yearn for the light, I tried lots of ways to search for the true meaning of human existence, so that my life could have more meaning. In the end, all my efforts were in vain. But after I was fortunate enough to accept Almighty God’s work of the last days, miraculous changes occurred in my life. It brought more color to my life, and I came to understand that only God is the true Provider of people’s spirits and lives, and only God’s words contain the true meaning of human life. I was glad that I had finally found the right path in life. However, whilst performing my duty one day, I was illegally arrested and brutally tortured by the CCP government. Thereafter, I underwent a life experience that will forever be etched into my life’s journey …
One day in December 2011 at around 7 a.m., another church leader and I were carrying out inventory on church assets when more than ten police officers suddenly burst through the door. One of these evil police rushed up to us and shouted, “Don’t move!” Seeing what was happening, my head reeled. In my mind I thought, “This is bad—the church is going to lose a lot of assets.” Next, the evil police searched us like bandits carrying out a robbery. They also ransacked each room, turning them upside down in short order. In the end, they found some property belonging to the church, three bank cards, deposit receipts, computers, mobile phones, and so on. They confiscated all of them, then took me, the other church leader and two others to the police station.
…
During the ten days and nights in the hotel, they kept the handcuffs on me, making me squat on the ground holding my legs. Looking back on the time I spent under arrest, I spent nineteen days and nights in the police station and the hotel, and it was the protection of God’s love that had allowed me to nap a little. Besides that tiny nap, the evil police hadn’t let me sleep at all in all that time; I had only to shut my eyes for a moment and they’d do anything it took to keep me awake—whacking the table, fiercely kicking me, screaming at me, ordering me to run about, and so on. Each time I’d be startled, my heart would hammer in my chest, and my nerves would be shot. What with being kept awake in this way and the evil police’s frequent torture as well, my strength ended up severely depleted, my whole body was swollen and uncomfortable, and I started seeing everything in double vision. I’d know there were people in front of me talking, but the sound of their voices would seem as if it were coming from somewhere far away. What’s more, my reactions were becoming very slow. For me to have somehow made it through this was all thanks to God’s great power! As God said: “He causes man to be reborn, and enables him to tenaciously live out his every role. Thanks to His power and His inextinguishable life force, man has lived for generation after generation, throughout which the power of God’s life has been the mainstay of man’s existence, and for which God has paid a price that no ordinary man has ever paid. God’s life force can prevail over any power; moreover, it exceeds any power. His life is eternal, His power extraordinary, and His life force is not easily overwhelmed by any created being or enemy force” (“Only Christ of the Last Days Can Give Man the Way of Eternal Life” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). In my heart, I gave sincere thanks and praise to God: “O God! You rule all things, Your deeds are inestimable, only You are almighty, You are the inextinguishable life force, and You are the wellspring of the living water for my life. In this special environment, I have beheld Your unique power and authority.” In the end, the evil police got no answers to their questions from me, and they sent me to the detention house.
On the way to the detention house, two policemen said to me, “You’ve done really well. You guys might be in the detention house, but you’re good people. There are all sorts there: drug dealers, murderers, prostitutes—you’ll see when you arrive.” “Since you know we’re good people, why do you arrest us? Doesn’t the government talk of freedom of religion?” I asked. “That’s the Communist Party lying to you. The Party gives us our livelihood, so we have to do what it says. We don’t hate you or have anything against you. We just arrested you because you believe in God,” one of the policemen said. Hearing this, I thought back over everything I’d experienced. I couldn’t help but recall the words of God: “Religious freedom? The legitimate rights and interests of citizens? They are all tricks for covering up sin!” (“Work and Entry (8)” in The Word Appears in the Flesh). God’s words cut right to the heart of the matter, allowing me to truly see the true face of the CCP government and how it tries to gain kudos it does not deserve: On the surface, it flies the flag of religious freedom, but in secret it arrests, oppresses, and cruelly hurts those who believe in God up and down the country, in the vain hope of banning God’s work, and it even shamelessly plunders the church’s money, all of which lays bare its demonic substance that hates God and hates the truth.
Whilst in the detention house, there were times when I was weak and in pain. But God’s words kept inspiring me, giving me strength and faith, allowing me to understand that, although Satan had stripped me of the freedom of the flesh, my suffering had edified me, and had taught me to rely on God during the torture of these evil demons, allowed me to understand the true meaning of many truths and to see the preciousness of the truth, and it had increased my resolve and motivation to pursue the truth. I became willing to keep obeying God, and to experience all that God had arranged for me. As a result, when working in the detention house, I sang hymns and quietly thought of God’s love. I felt that my heart had come closer to God, and I no longer found the days so painful and distressing.
During this time, the evil police interrogated me many more times. I thanked God for guiding me in overcoming their torture time and time again. Afterward the evil police withdrew all the money from my three bank cards. Helplessly watching the church’s money being taken by the evil police broke my heart. My heart was filled with hate for this greedy, evil gang of demons, and I yearned for the kingdom of Christ to arrive soon. In the end, despite not having any proof, they sentenced me to a year and three months of reeducation through labor for “disrupting the public order.”
Through being brutally persecuted by the CCP government, I have truly tasted God’s love and salvation for me, I have come to appreciate God’s almightiness and sovereignty and His miraculous deeds, and I have beheld the authority and power of God’s words. Moreover, I have come to truly despise Satan. During that time of persecution, God’s words accompanied me through the distressing days and nights, they allowed me to see through Satan’s cunning schemes and they provided timely protection. God’s words made me strong and courageous, allowing me to overcome that savage torture time and time again. God’s words gave me strength and faith, and they gave me the courage to fight with Satan to the very end…. Thanks be to God! Almighty God is the truth, the way, and the life! I shall forever follow Almighty God to the very end!
Recommended: More Why Does God Put Us Through Trials - Learn God's will and find the path to gain salvation and enter the heavenly kingdom.
Image Source: The Church of Almighty God
Terms of Use: en.godfootsteps.org/disclaimer.html
This article was published in What's Up Muskoka in March, 2009.
Download the PDF to see and read the original article.
----------------------
Improv no laughing matter for BMLSS students
By Andrew Hoshkiw
In the high stakes world of improvisational
theatre, students at Bracebridge and
Muskoka Lakes Secondary School are
worth gold.
Calling themselves the Electric Impulse
Improv Team, the extracurricular school
group won first place at a recent competition,
despite being the wild card team at
the event.
The team of Grade 12 students took top
spot at the Canadian Improv Games
regional tournament in Sudbury on Saturday,
Feb. 14.
"This was the first time in 15 years the
team won the gold medal and will now go
on to the national competition in
Ottawa," says drama teacher and coach
Robin Clipsham. They will now advance
to the national competition, to be held in
April, where the team will face 19 teams
from around the country.
"There are the best and brightest teams
from all across Canada and we're one of
them," says Clipsham. "That's the best
part."
Improv is a form of theatre where
actors, working as a team, perform a scene
with set structures and themes, with little
or no preparation. It can take many forms
and is often comedic in nature.
"Improv involves the head, the heart,
the body and the spirit," says Clipsham.
"It really takes somebody who's in touch
with all those qualities to bring it off and
these kids really show it to me every day.
They're amazing, wonderful people."
There are many important and useful
skills and qualities to be gained by learning
improv, says Clipsham.
"Teamwork, number one; that's what
we're looking for in this world of work.
We're looking for people who are team
players that know how to be part of a cooperative
group," she says. "We're looking
for people with good listening skills, and
they've got it up the yin-yang. We're looking
for people who are flexible who don't
always have to have their way all the time.
Discipline, commitment, loyalty to a
team; they come out to every practice,
they're there for each other, no matter
what. And it's fun, that's the biggest reason
to do it."
Clipsham attributed the team's victory
in Sudbury to their teamwork and desire
to win.
"They were behind, and then they won
the wild card round and then they took
the whole thing, so it's a real comeback
story," she says.
This marked the first time in the history
of the competition that a wildcard team
won the competition.
"They stepped it up," adds Clipsham.
"Every time they got on that stage, they
got better. They wanted it so badly that
they went after it."
For 17-year-old Justin Boyce, improv
has been a great experience.
"I started back in Grade 9 because a
friend told me it was awesome," he says.
"A lot of my friends were on the team so I
thought I'd give it a try and I instantly fell
in love with it."
The school also has a junior team, Static
Shock, which will also be attending the
national competition as spectators.
The Bible didn't dub Israel as "a land flowing with milk and honey" for nothing. Not only are the oldest known beehives in the world in what is now Israel, but bee-keepers of the time selected the best bees for the job.
Not merely a yummy treat, honey possesses healthful anti-inflammatory and antibiotic substances. Israeli researchers are at the forefront of learning how to raise the most vigorous bees and use their honey (and pollinating powers) for the good of humankind. In Israel honey and Rosh Hashanah-the Jewish New Year- are inseparable because of the tradition of eating honey-drizzled apples to herald a sweet year.
A recent Israeli study proved that a spoonful of honey can improve childhood symptoms of the common cold in a much safer way than over-the-counter medications. Coughing children were given a single dose of eucalyptus honey, citrus honey, labiatae honey or date syrup before going to sleep. Parents who gave their children honey reported significant improvement in cough frequency, severity and sleep quality.
Honey is a traditional remedy for the treatment of infected wounds. Israeli medical researchers, including Dr. Jacob Golan, head of plastic surgery at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, have investigated that piece of folk medicine scientifically.
The honey mentioned 22 times in Hebrew Scriptures, most famously to describe Israel as “a land flowing with milk and honey,” has always been assumed to refer to date honey – still a popular Israeli product – rather than honey produced by bees.
However, five years ago, Hebrew University archeologists discovered a 3,000-year-old apiary in the Iron Age ruins of Tel Rehov in the Jordan Valley. The million or more bees kept in 100 to 200 clay cylinders at this oldest known commercial apiary in the world were most likely imported from Turkey, suggesting a surprisingly sophisticated business setup for its time. Honey, it seems, was one of the very first products of the “startup nation” long before the advent of technology.
The Hebrew University’s Triwaks Bee Research Center in Rehovot collaborates with researchers from other institutions in Israel and abroad to study honeybee decision-making processes and use that information toward smart solutions for agricultural problems such as low-yielding crops. This is of great significance around the world, because crop and flower pollination by bees sustains about one-third of the human diet. In addition, they discovered a way to use bees as delivery vehicles for bio-control agents in strawberry fields, and are exploring possibilities for using “gene silencing” to improve bee health.
Bees are amazing little creatures that perform the tasks for which they were created. We enjoy the fruit of their labor, the honey which they make. Let’s remember to be thankful for this food which we enjoy and as we do remember to pray for the peace of Jerusalem(Psalm122:6).
For more on this story, visit: Jerusalem Prayer Team Articles Page.
LIKE and SHARE this story to encourage others to pray for peace in Jerusalem, and leave your own PRAYERS and COMMENTS below.
--------------------
Support the Jerusalem Prayer Team. Visit us now.
Thanks everyone who voted for my on the Rockford Fosgate contest! Heres an article about me and my love for cars in a local newspaper.
Taken by T.C. @ the Victoria advocate, read the article here :)
www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2010/feb/05/jc_audio_car_gi...