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Lori Beth · Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:01 am Post subject: The Inspired Mind

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. --- Thomas Edison (inventor born this day in 1847.)

PROBABLY NO ONE epitomizes the spirit of perseverance more than Thomas Edison. As a young person, he spent just 3 months in school, where his teachers didn't think him very bright. At age 12, he developed progressive deafness. His first patented invention, an electric vote recorder, was a commercial failure. But Edison went on to invent the lightbulb, the phonograph, the kinetoscope (forerunner of the movie camera), the stock ticker, and many other devices.

Edison was stubbornly tenacious on the trail of a new discovery. It took him 10 years to develop a better storage battery for electric cars, in the course of which he conducted 50,000 experiments. When someone commented on the number of failures he'd had before he saw any results, Edison replied, "Why, I have gotten a lot of results. I know fifty thousand things that won't work." By the time he perfected his alkaline battery, electric cars were becoming passe`, but even so, it was one of his most successful commercial products, used in lighting railroads and mines.

"Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration," Edison said, and Ben Franklin would surely have agreed.

INDUSTRY, PERSEVERANCE, AND FRUGALITY, MAKE FORTUNE YIELD. --- Ben Franklin.
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Lori Beth · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:18 am Post subject:

As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. ---- Abraham Lincoln (16th president of the United States [1861-1865] born this day in 1809).

ONE DAY WHEN Abraham Lincoln was practicing law, an irate client came in, demanding that Lincoln sue a poverty-stricken man who owed him $2.50. Lincoln tried to talk the client out of pursuing the case, but to no avail. Finally, Lincoln agreed to take the case and charged him a fee of $10. He promptly gave half of the fee to the debtor, who paid off the debt, thereby satisfying all parties concerned, including himself.

Unfortunately, many lawsuits are equally pointless. A lawyer tells of a couple getting a divorce who argued over the ownership of a set of canisters that had come free with a purchase they'd made. It occurred to the lawyer ---- but apparently not to the combatants ---- that at the rate they were paying their attorneys, they could each have bought several very expensive sets of canisters instead of arguing about the old ones.

Before you bring a lawyer into a fight, make sure the end result is worth the expense. Revenge ---- which is often the prime motive in lawsuits ---- is never worth the price.
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Lori Beth · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:34 am Post subject:

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. --- Ben Franklin.

BEN FRANKLIN had heard a rumor that the Moravians, a religious group residing in Pennsylvania, arranged marriages for their young people, choosing the partners by lot. When he asked some members of the group if this was true, they explained the process to him. A young man who wished to marry told the elders of the church, who then spoke to the older women charged with bringing up the young women. Since the elders knew the young people and their temperaments, they were generally able to make a good match. Occasionally, however, two or three matches might seem equally suitable, in which case they drew lots.

Ben objected, saying, "If the matches are not made by the mutual choice of the parties, some of them may chance to be very unhappy."

The Moravians replied, "And so they may if you let the parties choose for themselves" ---- which, Ben had to admit, was quite true.
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Lori Beth · Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:56 am Post subject:

The Image of Lightning

THE GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE in Rochester, New York, possesses within its photography collection the first photograph of lightning. At least that's what William N. Jennings thought it was when he wrote those words on his gelatin silver print showing lightning striking the ridge of a distant hill. The spectacular photograph is thought to have been made in 1885, when Jennings was 25 years old.

Wouldn't Ben Franklin have been impressed with that fixed image of the electric discharge he studied so intently? In fact, the whole development of photography would surely have fascinated him, starting with the first photographic image, by Joseph Niepce in 1816, and the first daguerreotype, by Louis Daguerre in 1837.

A 1930 photograph in the Eastman House collection documents the ground-breaking ceremony for the new Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia. The picture was taken by William Jennings, the man who photographed lightning.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. --- ANSEL ADAMS {photographer born this day in 1902}
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Lori Beth · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:19 am Post subject:

Be True to Your Teeth,

or Your Teeth Will Be False to You

SHE LAUGHS AT everything you say. Why? Becaues she has fine teeth. Ben Franklin wrote, echoing others of his day who valued every tooth as if it were a diamond. In Ben's time, people who lost their teeth tried awkward replacements make from carved wood, wads of cloth, and even teeth pulled from corpses. A person whose teeth survived through adulthood was lucky indeed.

For centuries, people had cleaned their teeth with "chew sticks" (twigs with rough ends that could get into crevices) and rubbed them with all manner of substances, from honey to nutshells to dead mice. In Ben's youth, a rough linen cloth was the most common tooth cleaner. George Washington added chalk to his rag, as recommended by his dentist. Some toothpastes were so corrosive that they sanded off the enamel, dooming the teeth.

The invention of the toothbrush is credited to an Englishman, William Addis, who was languishing in prison in 1780. With nothing but time on his hands, he bored holes into a meat bone and glued tufts of natural bristles into them to create his toothbrush. Unfortunately, his invention did nothing to help George Washington, whose ill-fitting dentures (so much for the chalk) caused him much pain.
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Lori Beth · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:54 am Post subject:

Printing Partners....

AFTER BEN FRANKLIN retired from active printing in 1748, he formed silent partnerships with several other printers. A typical arrangement was for Ben to provide a press and type, pay one-third of the business expenses, and receive one-third of the profits. Ben's far-flung chain included a dozen printers in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Rhode Island, Connecticut, North Carolina, Georgia, Antigua, and Jamaica.

More than 200 years later, in 1970, the first Kinko's opened with one copy machine in Isla Vista, adjacent to the University of California at Santa Barbara. ("Kinko" is founder Paul Orfalea's nickname, given to him for his curly reddish hair.) Within 2 years, a second store opened, and by 1979 the copy and document-printing chain had 80 stores in 28 states. By 1985, customers were able to make colour copies on recycled paper at any hour of the day or night. Today there's more than 1,100 Kinko's worldwide, offering fax, e-mail, videoconferencing, and computer rental services in addtion to photocopying. Kinko's does not franchise, but instead partners with owners who share the bottom-line profits. Sound familiar?
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Lori Beth · Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:01 am Post subject:

The Unredeemed Captives

DURING A SURPRISE ATTACK on Deerfield, Massachusetts, on February 29, 1704, French soldiers and Mohawk warriors captured more than 100 settlers. After an 8-week forced march to Montreal, some of the survivors of the attack were ransomed by English authorities in Boston and returned to their families. Others stayed in Canada with their Native American captors.

Mercy Carter (age 11) and Eunice Williams (age 7), whose mothers had died during the march, were two of those who stayed. Despite repeated attempts by their fathers to "redeem" them, they remained in Canada, eventually marrying Native American men and raising families there. They never returned to New England.

In a 1753 letter, Ben Franklin noted the difficulty of repatriation when "white persons of either sex have been taken prisoners young by the Indians and lived a while among them." One reaon for this, Ben speculated, was that "they become disgusted with our manner of life, and the care and pains that are necessary to support it."
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Lori Beth · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 5:18 am Post subject:

The Printer's Devil

BEN FRANKLIN'S apprenticeship to his brother James, a printer, may have given him a solid training in the craft, but it came at a price. At the age of 12, Ben became a printer's devil, spending long, unpaid hours in the shop learning (and later performing) the tasks of a printer: hand-setting type, engraving metal blocks, mixing ink, printing, collating, folding, and binding. Unhappy with the tedious work and tired of the beatings his older brother administered, Ben cut his 9-year term short by running away to Philadelphia at age 17 to begin his own successful printing career.

The apprentice tradition, which dates to the guilds of the Middle Ages, was soon to change anyway as the rise of the factory system transformed the workplace. No longer was the extended family, complete with apprentices like Ben, the primary unit of production. Factory workers found strength in numbers, and working conditons were gradually improved. Paid apprenticeships in the skilled trades were augmented by trade and technical schools.

Ben Franklin eventually reconciled with his brother. After James died, Ben raised his nephew Jimmy and in 1740 apprenticed him---with a gentler hand---to the printer's trade.

KEEPING PRINTED (AND PRINTING) MATTER

> Organize recipes clipped from magazines and newspapers into photo binders that contain clear plastic self-adhesive pages. Just peel back the plastic and smooth the recipe in place.

> Look for old magazines with interesting artwork or covers at yard sales, flea markets, and giveaway boxes at your library. These can be an inexpensive source of framable art for the home or office.

> Keep a rubber stamp collection in a printer's type tray mounted on the wall.
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granny · Joined: 23 Nov 2011 Posts: 631 Location: The Bee Room

I think this lady has an "inspired mind"... she's been active on the 'net for awhile, even your sis knows about her.

http://www.momof9splace.com/
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Lori Beth · Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:52 am Post subject:

The Long Arm or, Gizmos That Retrieve Things from the Oddest Places

RETURNING FROM EUROPE after the Revolution to live with his daughter and her family, Ben Franklin found his quarters cramped, so he built an addtion in 1786. One room was his library, with shelves from floor to ceiling. Finding it difficult to retrieve books from the highest shelves, Ben invented a mechanical claw attached to a long wooden arm.

Since then, other grasping devices for out-of-reach objects have been invented, including an 1867 "fruit gatherer," an 1891 pruning tool with interchangeable cutting devices, Peter Christman's 1903 "store goods lifter" with a sliding metallic clamp, and Lawrence and Walter Metzler's electric bulb changer in 1924. The last had a bulb gripper that could be twisted by an attached cable, thus unscrewing the lightbulb.

On a smaller scale and designed to retrieve objects such as bladder stones inside the human body, inventor Frederick Wappler's 1936 endoscopic forceps used a tiny spring to open and close the pincers attached to the end of a flexible tube. Ben Franklin, plagued by a stone at the time of his book-retrieving invention, would have appreciated this miniature grasper.

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

> Keep clothing sizes, blood types, Social Security numbers, and other vital statistics in the back of your address book for quick access.

> Keep an emergency information card near the busiest phone. List the numbers for the family doctor and dentist, ambulance, poison control center, police, and fire department, and make sure everyone in the family knows it's there.

> Attach a strip of self-adhesive Velcro next to your calendar or telephone, wrap its complementary strip around around a pen or pencil, and keep the two together to eliminate hunting when you need to write down important items.
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Lori Beth · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 4:14 am Post subject:

Revolutions in Typesetting

STARTING WITH Johannes Gutenberg's movable type in the 15th century, typesetting has gone through several transformations. As a typesetter, Ben Franklin used Gutenberg's painstaking process of setting each metal character by hand. Then in 1884, Ottmar Mergenthaler of Baltimore developed a machine that could cast a whole line of metal type on command. Mergenthaler's machine created a sensation in 1893 at the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, and within 20 years 100,000 Linotype machines were in use across the country.

Although Linotype machines continued to be used into the 1980's, their days were numbered. Phototypesetters (introduced in 1945) and later, computers radically changed the industry. Most newspapers and magazines quickly switched over to computers and laser printers. With personal desktop publishing, anyone can be a typesetter and never get ink under his fingernails.

POINTERS FOR THE DESKBOUND

> To cut down on eyestrain, avoid computer marathons, the wrong glasses, or not using your glasses, and make sure you have adequate light.

> Have you done your carpel tunnel exercises today? Close and open your fist a dozen times with each hand. Put your hands over your head and rotate them from the wrists, first clockwise, then the other way. Gently stretch your fingers back toward your wrist.

> Use a silverware organizer in your desk drawer to hold pens and pencils, stamps, paper clips, and other small items.

> Save your old toothbrushes and use them to scour computer keyboards.

> Keep a small spiral-bound notebook and a pen or pencil next to the phone at all times. Get in the habit of writing names and phone numbers in it so you can easily find the information later.
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Lori Beth · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:57 am Post subject:

A Hero's Welcome

THE HERO'S WELCOME accorded Ben Franklin upon his return form France in 1785 after having helped secure the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolution was probably the first of its kind in the United States. When Ben's party docked at Market Street wharf in Philadelphia, he later wrote, "we were received by a crowd of people with huzzas, and accompanied with acclamations quite to my door." Newspapers called him the "father of American independence."

A hero's welcome was also given to astronaut John Glenn in 1962 when hundreds of thousands lined the streets of New York City to honor the first American in space. Other Americans given ticker tape parades through New York City's "Canyon of Heroes" include Charles Lindbergh in 1927 (for the first solo flight across the Atlantic), Amelia Earhart in 1932 (the first woman to duplicate Lindbergh's feat and in less time), and General Douglas MacArthur in 1951, when an estimated seven million people filled Broadway.
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Lori Beth · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:54 am Post subject:

When I say… “I am a Christian”... I don’t speak of this with pride.
I’m confessing that I stumble and need Christ to be my guide.

When I say… “I am a Christian”... I’m not trying to be strong.
I’m professing that I’m weak and need His strength to carry on.

When I say… “I am a Christian”... I’m not bragging of success.
I’m admitting I have failed and need God to clean my mess.

When I say… “I am a Christian”... I’m not claiming to be perfect.
My flaws are far too visible, but God believes I am worth it.

When I say… “I am a Christian”... I’m not shouting “I’m clean livin’."
I’m whispering “I was lost, now I’m found and forgiven.”

When I say… “I am a Christian”... I still feel the sting of pain.
I have my share of heartaches, so I call upon His name.

When I say… “I am a Christian”... I’m not holier than thou,
I’m just a simple sinner who received God’s good grace, now.

Whatever God see's in You is what matter's. Whatever God knows about You is what counts. And God said I made You and I (GOD) know the plans I have for Your life You may have mess up a time or two in Your Past. But
Today I (GOD) has declared You are still My Son and Daughter and You are blessed beyond what You can see.

-fbcopied.
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Lori Beth · Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 9:44 am Post subject:

Rocking Chair Fan

In his last years in Philadelphia, surrounded by grandchildren, Ben Franklin could take his ease after years of travel and public service. Although his material wants were never extravagant, he did have one of his large armchairs fitted with curved runners to make a comfortable rocking chair for his hours of reading. To cool himself and keep the flies away, he rigged up an overhead fan that was activated by the rocker's motion.

Although more than 250 rocking chair patents have been issued in the United States, only a few imitate Ben's fan rocker. Four of these designs appeared between 1915 and 1920 ---- the era of the gigantic ocean liner. One offered a small fan clamped to the arm of the rocker; a series of hand-operated gears turned the fan's blades. Another had a fan permanently mounted on the rocking chair arm and was spring-activated by a lever running under one of the rockers. The two others used standing fans bolted to the floor (or deck) directly behind the rocking chair. As in Ben's design, the fan was activated by the motion of the chair.

... Saturday morning posting this while playing background cd-music 'Spirit Flutes' .... has picturesque tee-pee scene on it's cover ....

~ Discover the legendary tranquility of the Native flute with the peaceful melodies of Mohawk artist David R. Maracle.
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Lori Beth · Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 9:22 am Post subject:

He died for ALL (1 Tim. 2:6).
He died for ALL MEN (Rom. 5:18; 1 Tim. 4:10).
He died for US ALL, for ALL OF US (Isa. 53:6).
He died for the UNGODLY (Rom. 5:6).
He died for CHRIST-DENIERS (2 Peter 2:1).
He died for SINNERS (Rom. 5:8 ).
He died for EVERY MAN (Heb. 2:9).
He died for MANY (Matthew 20:28 ).
He died for the WORLD (John 6:33,51; John 1:29 and John 3:16).
He died for the WHOLE WORLD (1 John 2:2).
He died for the WHOLE NATION of Israel (John 11:50-51).
He died for the CHURCH (Eph. 5:25).
He died for His SHEEP (John 10:11).
He died for ME (Gal. 2:20).
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Lori Beth · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 5:57 am Post subject:

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Lori Beth · Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 5:45 am Post subject:

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Lori Beth · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 3:36 pm Post subject:

Searching for Buried Treasure

"FOLLY AND MADNESS," muttered the Busy-Body (one of Ben Franklin's may pseudonyms) in 1729 to describe the "fruitless search after imaginary hidden treasure" by Philadelphians who hunted with exotic devices like the "Mercurial Wand and Magnet." Ben's spoof of treasure hunters might have been less harsh if he had known about metal detectors.

Simon Newcomb, who had been experimenting with electrically charged wire coils, and Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, collaborated on the first metal detector in 1881 in hopes of finding the assassin's bullet lodged in President James Garfield. Their attempt failed (and Garfield died of blood poisoning), but Henri-Georges Doll's 1957 "coil assembly for geophysical prospecting" led to Oliver Akers's 1985 patent for a portable metal detector swung from the waist. In 1996, Joe E. Jones of South Dakota used a metal detector to find a bit of treasure that might have turned Ben's head: 43 silver coins, including a number of Franklin half-dollars.
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Lori Beth · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 5:34 pm Post subject:

I've entitled today's post: Be ♥ Ready because I think we often forget that that's a calling we have -- as believers, as mothers, as family to: be ready! The Lord has given us different mandates to be ready... to make ourselves ready.

Readiness will bring gladness and rejoicing! "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready." --Revelation 19.7
And though, we may not know when that day will come, we do know that it will come. We are commanded: "Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not." --Luke 12.40

We have opportunity, while it is called today, to seek the Lord, to know Him and make Him known. We have opportunity to study, to learn, to yield, to obey, to repent and do what He's designed and called us to do. And as we "work out our salvation" we will be growing in grace from glory to glory.

Do you have hope? Do you have joy? Do you have a ready answer?

Maybe you've thought long about this and do have hope and joy and a ready answer -- praise the Lord if you do. But maybe you're not sure of the hope in you... maybe you've not entertained this question literally or in your mind. Today would be a good day to sit down and write out the hope that's in you. Maybe your walk with the Lord is young... maybe you've not experienced questions of others or haven't ever articulated your faith. I'd say it's very important to collect your thoughts, to write out your testimony, to make sure your faith, as it were.

In 1Peter 3.15 we read: "But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:"

Many think it's hard to witness or articulate to others who Jesus is or what Jesus has done... but it's really very simple... it's as simple as giving an account of where you were and where you are today and where you'll spend eternity. If we run out of things to share, the simplest thing to remember is to tell about Jesus. Learn to love to tell the story of what Jesus has done for you, His love and His atoning sacrifice. Some accounts are as simple as: whereas I was born blind, now I see.

A plane had engine trouble and crashed near our home over the weekend and while the pilot did sustain some injuries, they did not prevent him from communicating as he was being pulled from the wreckage.

He was so lucky, many were saying as they surveyed the damage. Many asked if we feared having our home in such a location and on and on the questions and statements flowed. At the time, and surely at the end of the day, all I could continually consider was the matter of being ready... ready to do whatever the Lord calls us to do and ready to meet Him face to Face. Surely, early that morning, that pilot did not think: Hmmm, today I'm going to have a brush with death. And we certainly didn't think, Hmmmm, this morning, we're going to watch a plane go down.

But every day, things come up, things happen that should be reminders to us to be ready... to be ready to enter our eternal home, be ready to serve another, be ready to give a witness of what the Lord has done for us. For even a portion of what the Lord has done for us could not be told.

Hebrews 9.27 "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment."

Be ready... be ready to run, be ready to answer, be ready to give, be ready to serve... be ready to proclaim. You never know what a day may bring... and were you to know that today would be your last, would you be ready to meet the Lord?

- copied ♥
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Lori Beth · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 10:30 am Post subject:

Tithes, seeds of faith, and offerings galore,
I’ve given them all and then given more.
I’ve stood on promises written in the Word,
I’ve stood fast through all that’s occurred.
I’m not quitting now I’m not giving up,
I’m waiting for God to overflow my cup.
Times may be uncomfortable money tight,
but my God will make it all turn out right.
If I hold on tight not giving up or caving in,
God will reward my unshakable faith in Him.
This faith is a another gift given from my Father to me,
because self-righteousness is a human tendency.
I cannot boast nor claim credit for the fact that I believe,
for when accepting salvation faith is gift we receive.
Miniscule when first given to us and increased as we grow,
until we can’t help but declare “We know what we know”!
So there may not be evidence of monetary worth to see,
but I can state boldly “My God Will Never Forsake Me!"
I stand here gallantly awaiting Jesus’ triumphant call,
I stand here decisively giving my all!
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