May The Peace of the Lord be with You and Yours!
Good Morning KKIM Family! I hope you have checked out the new web site at www.deweysdailycup.com
If you have not dropped me an email in awhile, please do!!! Let me know how you are!
The AOL Spell checker is not working today.so please bare with me. But you know what?I still make spelling mistakes even when the spell checker is working!!!!!! They don’t call me Dr. Spello for nothing!!!!!
Listen………Listen…..God is speaking to you……..
Thought For the Day: Full obedience assures Christ’s abiding presence.
And the one who sent me is with me——-he has not deserted me. For I always do those things that are pleasing to Him. John 8:29
I have a wonderful “The Discovery Study Bible” by Zondervan. If you would like this study Bible just email me right now……first one get’s it!!!! BY THE WAY I WILL MAIL THIS TO THE MOON IF I HAVE TOO SO YOU FOLKS OUT OF STATE COME ON DOWN!!!!
Also the first to email me and ask me for two tickets to the movie, “The Perfect Game” a great baseball movie wins!
Today my soon to be 93 year old Uncle Joe is going to the Twins Yankees game! he is in a wheel chair, but nothing will stop him from going t this game. I took him last year to the dome to see the Twins when I was visiting. He is so cute, he told me last night, “Mary Ann (his Daughter) beought over her binoculars
and Eldon (His friend) are going to take turns using them because we are going to be sitting in the nose bleed seats!” He is so pumped going to the game! 8 residents of this assisted living center in Apple Valley, Minnesota are going to the game today, please keep them in your prayers……Uncle Joe has been like a Dad to me since mine passed away years ago. The Twins lost to the Yanks in extra innings last night.
I talked to Rebbecca Schuman yesterday, her sister Judy passed away on Friday. Please keep the family in your prayers.
Please keep the people of Georgia in your prayers……..One farmer asked a CNN Reporter, “Where is America?, we helped them in Iraq”……..this said as Russian planes bombed the area………
KIIM’s Frank Haley has the latest this morning……..
(TBILISI, Georgia) — Georgian officials charged Wednesday that Russian tanks had rolled into a strategic city and seized a military base inside Georgia in violation of a freshly brokered truce intended to end a conflict that had bloodied and battered the U.S. ally and uprooted tens of thousands of people. The accusation came less than 12 hours after Georgia’s president said he accepted a cease-fire plan brokered by France. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that Russia was halting military action because Georgia had paid enough for its attack on South Ossetia, a separatist region along the Russian border with close ties to Moscow. Still, Medvedev ordered the Russian defense minister at a televised Kremlin meeting to destroy any resistance or aggressive actions. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili had gambled on a surprise attack late Thursday to regain control over his country’s pro-Russian breakaway province of South Ossetia. Instead, Georgia suffered a punishing beating from Russian tanks and aircraft that has left the country with even less control over territory than it had before. -0-
I want to thank Mike Kronforst and everyone at Brown College in Minneapolis for slecting me to Brown’s “Wall of Fame” PRAISE GOD! My Mom and Dad would be so proud, maybe in heaven they know……back in 1978 I took off in my little Dodge Dart for Brown and made it through with honors. I headed up the cleaning crew at the school, that is how I puit myself through school. My folks did not have the money. For 1 year it cost nearly $7,000!!! What I learned at Brown I carry with me today…….AWESOME TEACHERS! PRAISE GOD!!!
This cup is over flowing I have so much I have had to start the Weeekdn Cup already!!! Praise God!!!
Nick Hutchins is the new President of the Arc of New Mexico’s Board. Nick is from Las Cruces and is a strong man of God. I look forward to working with Nick. By the way he is the same Nick who sends us wonderful readings like this………please drink this slowly………let it sink in………read it twice………
“The Good Ole Days.”
“Oh that I were as in months past.” — Job 29:2
Numbers of Christians can view the past with pleasure, but regard thepresent with dissatisfaction; they look back upon the days which theyhave passed in communing with the Lord as being the sweetest and thebest they have ever known, but as to the present, it is clad in a sablegarb of gloom and dreariness. Once they lived near to Jesus, but nowthey feel that they have wandered from him, and they say, “O that Iwere as in months past!” They complain that they have lost theirevidences, or that they have not present peace of mind, or that theyhave no enjoyment in the means of grace, or that conscience is not sotender, or that they have not so much zeal for God’s glory. The causesof this mournful state of things are manifold. It may arise through acomparative neglect of prayer, for a neglected closet is the beginningof all spiritual decline. Or it may be the result of idolatry. Theheart has been occupied with something else, more than with God; theaffections have been set on the things of earth, instead of the thingsof heaven. A jealous God will not be content with a divided heart; hemust be loved first and best. He will withdraw the sunshine of hispresence from a cold, wandering heart. Or the cause may be found inself-confidence and self-righteousness. Pride is busy in the heart, andself is exalted instead of lying low at the foot of the cross.Christian, if you are not now as you “were in months past,” do not restsatisfied with wishing for a return of former happiness, but go at onceto seek your Master, and tell him your sad state. Ask his grace andstrength to help you to walk more closely with him; humble yourselfbefore him, and he will lift you up, and give you yet again to enjoythe light of his countenance. Do not sit down to sigh and lament; whilethe beloved Physician lives there is hope, nay there is a certainty ofrecovery for the worst cases.
Thanks Nick!
He who restrains his words has knowledge,
And he who has a cool spirit is a man of understading.
Even a fool, when he keeps silent is considered wise;
When he closes his lips, he is considered prudent.
Proverbs 17: 27-28
More from Rev. David Lightner’s articile in the Windom newspaper……..he is refering to Ephesians 3:16-21
LEARN YOUR PROFOUND SIGNIFIGANCE TO GOD……..
Know without a doubt that God loves you. I know you can’t completely know all of God’s love—–it says in verse 19 that it “surpasses knowledge.” But keep your focus on the great fact that you are significant to God. When you talk to yourself, remind yourself that really does love YOU. Know God would love you even if you were the only person on earth to love.
Here is an AWESOME writing from Tom Brokaw………..
Tom Brokaw
The Disillusioned Generation
As a child of the inflated innocence of the Fifties I was raised to believe in the George Washington “I cannot tell a lie” cherry tree fable, Honest Abe, faithful Ike and devoted-to-Jackie JFK.
By the time I was in my twenties I was experiencing the presidency of LBJ and then Nixon.
One was sending men off to what he insisted was a just war while privately confessing to his friends it was not winnable. The other was the picture of public piety while privately he was a profane bigot and paranoid liar. I finished the century with Bill Clinton and I was a long way from the sanitized history of my youth.
I have come to know the temptations and hubris of great power, the subjectivity of the virtue of honesty. I have also come to the conclusion that honesty and morality are not inconsistent with great leadership.
Most of all, I want leaders who when they fail to meet those tests are honest enough to acknowledge their errant ways.
The American people have so much invested in the presidency and they see the complexity of the office with great clarity, but they also have basic standards and the presidents who fail to meet them or acknowledge them do so at their peril.
Tom Brokaw was anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. He is author of “The Greatest Generation.
Here is a write up on the family that was struck by murder in China. They are from Minnesota. Please keep the family in your prayers and all those in China. Let us also pray for the people of Georgia.
family to family, grieving U.S. players lift up ‘Wiz’
By JIM SOUHAN, Star Tribune
August 9, 2008
BEIJING – You worry so much as a parent, worry about everything from terrorism to tetanus, and if your kid plays sports, you fret even more.
You worry about coaches and playing time, grips and their grip, and one day, if you’re lucky, you see them do something they couldn’t do the day before, and the hours and expenses suddenly seem like they could fit in one of those take-a-penny bowls.
You drive ’em all over the state, and if they have talent, you fly all over the country, and if they’re Olympic material there is no place you wouldn’t lead or follow.
The Bachmans had such a kid. An Olympian. Think of that — one of those little kids at the local youth clinic in Lakeville became an Olympian.
Elisabeth (Wiz) Bachman left her home state to play volleyball for UCLA, then made the national team and played for the United States in the 2004 Olympics, and parents Todd and Barbara followed her the way some people follow “Lost.”
The Bachmans, Lakeville20residents, followed her to Beijing, even though she didn’t make the 2008 Olympic team. Wiz married Hugh McCutcheon, now coaching the U.S. men’s team, and that was reason enough for Todd, the president and CEO of Bachman’s Inc., the famed Twin Cities plant and flower store, to watch volleyball in yet another country.
The Bachmans were planning to see Wiz’s old team, the U.S. women’s squad, play Japan on Saturday night in Beijing. Wiz even e-mailed her old teammates, wishing them luck and saying she’d see them at the arena.
This left time for sightseeing, so the Bachmans visited a tourist site called the Drum Tower, and a man with a knife, for no apparent reason, killed Todd and grievously injured Barbara. Then the man jumped to his death.
Elisabeth reportedly was uninjured.
The volleyball went on.
Former Gophers star Nicole Branagh, playing her first Olympic match, teamed with Elaine Youngs to beat the Netherlands in the beach competition. Nobody told her what had happened to her friend Wiz, so Branagh had no excuse not to play with fire and nerve, and she did, dominating at the net.
After the final point she flexed her sandy, sweaty arms and pointed to her parents, Tom and Diane, in the stands. They, and their friends, were wearing blue shirts that read: “I (heart) NB.”
Minutes later, Branagh heard the news and was seen sobbing. She played on=2 0the national team with Wiz. She was too distraught to talk.
Even before Branagh took to the sand, the women’s indoor volleyball players were shaken from their pregame naps and given the news. They wept and prayed, then took the court and beat Japan.
They celebrated the victory with tears in their eyes, even as the crowd chanted “U-S-A!”
“There are some things you think would never happen,” said Heather Bown of the U.S. team. “Today was one of those things. We got an e-mail from Wiz this morning saying she was looking forward to coming to the match. She said she’d be here.”
U.S. player Stacy Sykora, in an interview after her team’s victory, began choking up immediately when asked about the Bachmans. She was Elisabeth’s roommate during the 2004 Olympics.
“Wiz is someone we hold close to us,” Sykora said. “This game was completely dedicated to Wiz Bachman and her family …
“You have to understand what Wiz Bachman means to USA volleyball. She is like the nicest person in the world. She is in our family. So her family is like our family, because they traveled with us and she fought in the 2004 Olympics with us, and she was my roommate.”
Of Todd Bachman, Sykora said: “He was a great man. There aren’t one or two memories, there are a million. I could go on for days. Unbelievable family.”
A long time ago the Bachmans handed their daughter a volleyball, and dreamed.
Who knew where this might lead?
Jim Souhan can be heard Sundays from 10 a.m.-noon on AM-1500 KSTP. • jsouhan@startribune.com.
On Monday we talked about cars being filled with air…..now this………..
Article published Aug 10, 2008Researchers work to turn car’s exhaust into powerBy MARGARET HARDING Associated Press Writer WARREN, Mich. (AP) — The stinky, steaming air that escapes from a car’s tailpipe could be an answer to using less gas.Researchers are competing to meet a challenge from the U.S. Department of Energy: improve fuel economy 10 percent by converting wasted exhaust heat into energy that can help power the vehicle.General Motors Corp. is close to reaching the goal, as is a BMW AG supplier working with Ohio State University. Their research into thermoelectrics — the science of using temperature differences to create electricity — couldn’t come at a better time as high gas prices accelerate efforts to make vehicles as efficient as possible.GM researcher Jihui Yang said a metal-plated device that surrounds an exhaust pipe could increase fuel economy in a Chevrolet Suburban by about 5 percent, a 1-mile-per-gallon improvement that would be even greater in a smaller vehicle.Reaching the goal of a 10 percent improvement would save more than 100 million gallons of fuel per year in GM vehicles in the U.S. alone.”The take-home message here is: It’s a big deal,” Yang said.The DOE, which is partially funding the auto industry research, helped develop a thermoelectric generator for a heavy duty diesel truck an d tested it for the equivalent of 550,000 miles about 12 years ago.John Fairbanks, the department’s thermoelectrics technology development manager, said the success of that generator justified the competitive search in 2004 for a device that could augment or replace a vehicle’s alternator. Three teams were selected to participate in the program, with GM and thermoelectrics manufacturer BSST separately working on cars and a team from Michigan State University focusing on heavy-duty trucks.Fairbanks said thermoelectric generators should be on the verge of production in about three years.”It’s probably the biggest impact in the shortest time that I can think of,” he said.The technology is similar to what NASA uses to power deep space probes, a perk being it doesn’t seem to be susceptible to wear. Probes have used a thermoelectric setup for about 30 years.Thermoelectric devices can work in two ways — using electricity to provide heating or cooling, or using temperature differences to create electricity.The second method is Yang’s focus, and for good reason.In an internal combustion engine, only about a quarter of the total energy from gasoline is used to actually turn the wheels, while 40 percent is lost in exhaust heat and 30 percent is lost through cooling the engine. That means about 70 percent of the available energy is wasted, according to GM.”If I can use some of that heat energy and convert it to electricity, you can improve the ove rall efficiency,” Yang said.A Suburban produces 15 kilowatts of exhaust heat energy during city driving, which is enough to power three or four air conditioners simultaneously.But it’s not possible to harness all the exhaust heat a vehicle produces, so when the Suburban is cruising between 50 and 60 mph, the generator can produce about 800 watts of power, Yang said. That electricity could go to accessories such as a GPS device, DVD player, radio and possibly the vehicle’s water pumps.Yang’s prototype device is to be tested in a Suburban next year. A similar prototype created by Ohio State scientists and BSST should be tested in a BMW in 2009.The thermoelectric generator works when one side of its metallic material is heated, and excited electrons move to the cold side. The movement creates a current, which electrodes collect and convert to electricity.While it’s not clear how much the device would add to the price of a vehicle, the whole point of the research is to make it cost-effective, Yang said.”There are several other steps that are required to commercialize the material, but we’re cautiously optimistic that these steps can be carried out successfully,” said Lon Bell, president of BSST, a subsidiary of Northville-based thermoelectrics supplier Amerigon Inc.BSST also is working with Ford Motor Co. to develop climate control systems based on thermoelectrics.Ford wants a system that would target a person’s extremities when it’s cold or the=2 0back of the neck in summer heat, rather than blow out a lot of air to change the temperature of the entire vehicle.”We think we can make people feel cooler more quickly, feel comfortable more quickly, and that will translate into less power in the central AC system,” said Clay Maranville, a Ford senior research scientist.Honda Motor Co. also has supported university research into thermoelectrics, but a spokesman said the automaker doesn’t have its own research program.
If handshake is history, what takes its place?
By Joan MorrisContra Costa Times
Article Launched: 07/09/2008 12:01:00 AM CDT
Please bow your heads in recognition of the passing of the ancient and venerable handshake.
In frail health for years and often seen only at formal occasions or when thanking bank managers for loans, the old grip-and-grin guru finally succumbed earlier this year when the president of the United States was photographed doing a chest bump and a possible future president exchanged a dap with his wife.
It was the final blow to a tradition that has been on the wane since the advent of the leisure suit. But while expected, it nevertheless came about in such a surprising way that we’re still reeling and considering what will step into the breach.
Let’s take a look at the possibilities.
THE DAP
Origins: The “dap,” aka the fist bump, seems to have been born in the muddy battlefields of the Vietnam War. The original version includes lots of other movements, but time has distilled the dap to a vertical or horizontal fist bump.
What it means: Patti Wood, an Atlanta body language expert and author of “Success Signals,” says the dap conveys a sense of determination and power. After reviewing images of Democratic presidential candidate Barak Obama exchanging a dap with his wife after learning he had enough delegates to claim the nomination, Wood thought their dap conveyed a sense of being ready to conquer and unified in their quest.
Raise your hand as if making a traditional handshake, but curl your fingers into a fist. Keeping the arm parallel
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to the floor, little finger down, thumb on top, extend your fist from about chest level and gently tap the other person’s fist. For a horizontal dap, simply rotate your fist 90 degrees so the curled fingers are facing the ground. Repeat the bump.
Who’s doing it: Barak Obama, Howie Mandel, half of Congress
Inherent dangers: The participants need to be clear on whether they are doing a dap or a high-five, otherwise a certain awkwardness arises. You also run the risk of injury from jewelry and overenthusiastic dapping.
Coolness rating: Five of five but with a potential of great decline now that it’s becoming mainstream.
THE CHEST BUMP
Origins: Unknown, but most likely originated in professional sports. It gained in popularity in the 1990s.
What it means: Wood says the symbolism of the chest bump is one of vulnerability and elation. The chest bumpers throw their arms back. Their hands are open, revealing they have no weapons. And they expose their chests and hearts, indicating they are vulnerable, joyful and nonthreatening. For men — and most c hest bumpers are male — the move says, “I want to be close, but I’m not feminine.”
Step by step: Approach your chest-bumping partner, pull your shoulders back and extend your arms, palms open, to the side. Jump forward and bump the chest of your partner.
Who’s doing it: President Bush, most professional athletes (who prefer the modified hip bump), tipsy guys in bars.
Inherent dangers: This move has a huge potential for making you look stupid. Wood cites the Bush Bump as an example of a bump gone slightly wrong. The president, who instigated the bump during a graduation ceremony at the U.S. Air Force Academy, does not appear at ease with the move. His hands are clenched, his face in near grimace, Wood says, and his bump lacks the usual joy and exuberance. To Wood, the move indicates the president is uncomfortable opening himself up to others.
Coolness rating: Three of five and sinking fast.
THE HIGH-FIVE
Origins: The high-five developed as an extension of the handshake in the 1970s.
What it means: While the handshake can be sterile and perfunctory, the high-five symbolizes joy, elation and power. But because the palm is open, Wood says, the high-five conveys the feeling that while there is power, there is no threat.
Step by step: Raise your hand above your head and, showing your open palm, slap the hand of your partner. The louder the slap, t he better.
Who’s doing it: Who isn’t?
Inherent dangers: Novices may need to curb their enthusiasm until they develop a good high-five callous. Red palms are the beginner’s bane.
Coolness rating: It’s an oldie but a goodie and has yet to lose its coolness factor of four of five.
THE PEACE SIGN
Origins: In much of Europe, the “V” sign is an obscene gesture along the lines of flipping someone the bird in this country. It may have had its origins in the 1300s, started by archers and symbolizing the drawing of a bow. Winston Churchill first used it to signal “V” for victory, and in the 1960s, the hippies adopted it as a sign for love. It later became associated with a gesture of peace.
What it means: Beyond the message of love or peace, Wood says flashing the peace sign tells others of your own personal beliefs and asks in return, “Are you part of my tribe? Are you one of my people?”
Step by step: Hold your hand up, palm facing outward. Curl the thumb, ring and little finger inward, leaving the index and middle finger extended to form a “V” shape.
Who’s doing it: Mostly dead guys, including Winston Churchill and Richard Nixon; millions of hippies. Now that we have a war to protest again, quite a few people are flashing the V, although its popularity today pales in comparison with its use in the 1960s.
Inherent dangers: Muscle spasms and the danger of running into someone who isn’t so peaceful.
Coolness rating: One of five.
THE HALF-HUG/ BACK PAT
Origins: In the 1980s, when men started to discover their softer side, they developed the half-hug and back pat.
What it means: There’s a lot going on with this simple-yet-awkward move. Those participating in the half-hug keep their hands open, indicating they are no threat. The body contact, Wood says, implies a certain level of affection and intimacy but in a nonsexual way. The patting is a male way of showing affection through hitting. It says, “I love you, dude, but not in that way.” Women also adopt the back patting when they become uncomfortable in an embrace, Wood says.
Step by step: Approach the huggee and bring one arm around the back of your partner, touching shoulders and part of the chest but avoiding full frontal contact. Pat your partner’s back with vigor. Manly swearing optional.
Who’s doing it: Every male in the country, if no one’s paying much attention to them.
Inherent dangers: The inexperienced often panic. Are they holding the embrace too long? Is someone going to question their masculinity?
Coolness rating: Three of five.
May God be with you always, Dewey Sharon and family
