A new wrinkle on an old scripture. The oft quoted scripture in Moses 1:39 "For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man." sounds a lot like service. I don't remember who it was for sure, but I think it was Marion G. Romney, Counselor in the First Presidency, who said something like "Service isn't something we endure in this life so that we can have Celestial Life in the eternities, it is what Celestial Life is".
Service is what God does, it is his work and his glory. What little we do here is only practice for Celestial Life, and the attitude we have towards service here is an indication of how far along the path towards that goal we have come. Small wonder then that Christ told his disciples "But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant." (New Testament | Matthew 23:11)
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Sometimes old isn't so bad
There are some advantages to being old. This from a Reuters news story.
My hypothesis is that the oldsters have been exposed to a virus that is close enough to confer some cross immunity that younger people haven't seen yet.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The new H1N1 flu virus appears to be fairly widespread in the United States and seems to be hitting mostly younger people, with very few cases reported in people over 50, U.S. health officials said on Sunday.
"We think very few of the cases we have confirmed are in people over 50, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Dr Anne Schuchat told reporters in a telephone briefing."My hypothesis is that the oldsters have been exposed to a virus that is close enough to confer some cross immunity that younger people haven't seen yet.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Big Brother at work?
OK, I'm old but I consider myself moderately "technosavvy" for my generation. I am blown away by the technology that is available today. I have a friend who works for the Census Bureau. Next year is a census year, by the way. Right now they are sending people out to canvass the entire US house by house to record GPS coordinates for each address. They go to the front door of the house or apartment and record the coordinates on a GPS device then at the end of each day they upload the data from their hand-held computers to the Census office. These data are coordinated with all the people who live at that address. Scary to think what that data could be used for.
I also recently found a free website where anyone can upload address data in excel format and it will give you your data back with columns of GPS coordinates added. It then plots the data on a google-earth map that can be viewed in map mode, satellite mode, or hybrid mode complete with color coding for whatever groups you want to divide it into. The map can also be posted to a web page and the data can be downloaded in several different formats for use in other programs.
From their website "Street level geocoding is available in United States, Canada, and the following European Countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom (UK), Luxembourg, Netherlands, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Wales, and Italy. Country, State, and City level geocoding is available for Europe, Asia, Central and South America. We expect Yahoo! will continue to expand coverage of their street level data to the rest of the world soon, keep checking back! The name of the coordinate system used is WGS84, this is the decimal degrees version of the coordinate system commonly used in GPS devices. "
They have a paragraph on the technology used for those who are more technosavvy than I am.
I also recently found a free website where anyone can upload address data in excel format and it will give you your data back with columns of GPS coordinates added. It then plots the data on a google-earth map that can be viewed in map mode, satellite mode, or hybrid mode complete with color coding for whatever groups you want to divide it into. The map can also be posted to a web page and the data can be downloaded in several different formats for use in other programs.
From their website "Street level geocoding is available in United States, Canada, and the following European Countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom (UK), Luxembourg, Netherlands, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Wales, and Italy. Country, State, and City level geocoding is available for Europe, Asia, Central and South America. We expect Yahoo! will continue to expand coverage of their street level data to the rest of the world soon, keep checking back! The name of the coordinate system used is WGS84, this is the decimal degrees version of the coordinate system commonly used in GPS devices. "
They have a paragraph on the technology used for those who are more technosavvy than I am.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
History of the Bringhurst Family with Notes on the Clarkson, De Peyster, and Boude Families By Josiah Granville Leach
A clip about 'Wm. Augustus Bringhurst from the book.
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and a picture from the book
Another version, perhaps easier to read from the American Library
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and a picture from the book
Another version, perhaps easier to read from the American Library
History of the Bringhurst Family with Notes on the Clarkson, De Peyster, and Boude Families By Josiah Granville Leach
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