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A boy and a Girl growing up in Post war time in Switzerland. Times are relatively hard, the grown ups having a hard time with the sudden change from War to peace. The two Kids are growing up in two different communities within 10 kilometers, without knowing each other but meets a couple of times by coincident. They finally fall in love in their teens, nothing can keep them apart anymore. The agitated mother of the girl tries to part the two and sends her daughter away in secret. The boy finds out where she is, follows her and eventually kidnaps her, to live with her in the big city. Finally the army calls for his duty, the times are getting hard for the two, but they find a way to convince the boy's parents that they should get married. The girl's younger sister finds out about the marriage and threatens to destroy them. Finally the two move away, and start to have a great future. Then one day, the young man gets an offer for a job in Canada, his dream country from his earlier time in life. Grabbing the chance by the horn they accept the offer, but once they are in Canada, the offer is not what was promised. In the process they loose all they had saved up, and went thru a few years of hardship. A great autobiography about love, intrigues, hardship, and even murder.

It's one man's story from childhood to his mid-fifties and counting. He never went looking for adventures or answers to life but because of timing, coincidences, synchronicities, (call it what you will) that started early and have never ended, he has been blessed with a lifetime of stories and then some. He spent his first twenty years in small town Iowa before the U.S. Army decided that they had a need for him. It was February of 1968 and it proved to be a bad time to be entering the military. After a year in Vietnam he came home intact but a changed young man. He packed up a van and headed west with everything he owned. (Except for the baseball cards that his parents had already thrown away. Damn!) After joining Vietnam Veterans Against the War (John Kerry was their president) he went to D.C. and threw his medals away on the Capitol steps with a thousand or so other vets who realized that as a country, we could make mistakes and this time we had. He was thrown in jail in Denver with 78 other vets for simply trying to march, as an organization, in the Veteran's Day Parade. It was a tough time for people to stand up to their government but he felt it was important and so did many people. Those actions changed the direction of our country. "Maybe something like this" the author suggests, "is needed again today". After some bad relationships, he hit the road for 2 1/2 years without an address to call his own. He spent two fairy tale winters in Mexico and Guatemala where he explored caves, found untouched ceynotes, met many characters as well as great friends, and all the while, he compiled stories. It was then that he began journaling and has never stopped nearly 30 years later and neither have the stories. He had the most vivid dream of his life, which magically, eventually led him to his lovely bride. They have now shared the past quarter of a century together including kids, and grandkids. It's all there along with the lessons and confessions.

I'm Praying, and I Won't Get Up: Establishing and Solidifying Your Relationship with God Through Prayer has three main emphases: praying in every situation, interpreting God's answers to our prayers, and strengthening our relationship with God through prayer. As we go through life's trials and tribulations, it's imperative to pray. The more we pray, the more God will answer. The more God answers, the stronger our relationship with God becomes. God will show God's faithfulness to us in our victories and in our mistakes, thus, strengthening our relationship, even to a point at which we can demand answers from God. This book illustrates the intimacy and power of a strong relationship with God and the depth of God's gracious love, as God literally answers prayer. It will exemplify how to grow your relationship with God and will inspire your spirit.

Pastor and Deacons explores the biblical qualifications for individuals serving in these two offices. It also discusses their roles and the relationship between these two important church leadership positions.

Le Chateau Montebello circa 1930, during its June opening. (Photo courtesy Muir Publishing.) It is a joy for me to see the 3rd edition of this book launched upon such an auspicious occasion as the 25th anniversary of the American/Canadian Log Builders Association International (www.logassociation.org) and at such an historic site or Mecca for log builders like the Chateau Montebello. It was my privilege to have met Victor Nymark, the master builder of this project during the Depression. I met him at the 1977 historic log structures conference held in Banff. A quarter of a century ago, a somewhat coincidental or serendipitous meeting took place in the wilderness at the log home of B. Allan and Mary Mackie. It was at this momentous meeting that the group of six gave birth to the CLBA. The founding group of six consisted of B. Allan Mackie, Mary Mackie, Vic Janzen, Ed Campbell, Art Long, and Bernie LeGault. The early years were probably the most fun, the characters most colorful, and the methods most primitive. The builders were a small fraternity (with some sorority elements) of bearded refugees from other trades and professions. We all wore knives at our belts, even in polite company. When asked by civilians why we did so, our reply was inevitably, "To sharpen the indedible (spelling error deliberate) pencils for our scribers." I used horses to parbuckle logs onto buildings in the earlier years of my career, and later a 1954 Ford pick-up truck. The high tech development of the old truck with an A-frame and wrecker winch came to early builders much later. Older association members will remember dreaming about cranes and cherry pickers. As a previous president of the association, I hosted two annual meetings. For me, the last was most memorable and in marked contrast to the one I attended at the Harrison Hotel in BC-even in more marked contrast to the year 2000 Montebello site of today. For the conference of 1980, we met in the neighborhood of my present cattle ranch in Columbia Valley-the rain-drenched cedar forests of southwestern British Columbia. We rented the local community center. My wife Claudia and her mother cooked for the crowd. The delegates were fed Mennonite borscht from huge vats. Six large chickens were used as the stock. Most delegates"crashed" (an old Hippy word) in my barn, woodshed, or in the living room and kitchen. Some camped in the yard. I mention this scenario because it is in such dramatic contrast to where we have arrived at today as both a profession and as a professional association. It is my hope that my fellow association members will be able to use this book as a training device for their apprentices. I also have a heart for "once-in-a- lifetime builders". I hope my book will be of particular use to them. I am both impressed and proud of the excellence in craftsmanship that our current generation of builders is capable of performing. Those of us who pioneered this revival can only look in amazement at their superior work. Log Home Guide Information Center, Inc. Book Store www.lhgic.com ____________________

After applying the principles of visual science to military reconnaissance and intelligence for many years, the author has prepared a tutorial integrating the many fundamental mechanisms underlying the visual capability found in the animal kingdom. He shows that multicolor vision has been found in the animal kingdom from the beginning (for at least 500 million years) and that vision is generally tetrachromatic. He shows that human vision follows this general plan, although its spectral performance is partially blocked by the absorption inherent in the lens of the eye. As a result, the human can be considered a blocked tetrachromat; in the vernacular but unscientifi cally, a trichromat. He provides an extensive series of circuit diagrams, from those defi ning the electrical performance of individual neurons, synapses and Nodes of Ranvier to complete diagrams integrating all of the major visual circuits of the eyes and the brain. The fundamental mechanisms and physiology associated with the photoreceptor cell of the eye are developed in detail, including the precise chemical composition of the four chromophores of vision. The concept of an ion-pump is defi ned in terms of the underlying electrostenolytic process for the fi rst time. It is shown that glutamic acid (glutamate) is the primary energy source powering the neural systems of all animals. The key elements of the midbrain involved in reading are described for the fi rst time. The book closes with a variety of fi gures describing the spatial and chromatic performance of the human visual system. Additional fi gures, an extensive glossary, an expanded tabulation of the parameters of the human eye, and more than 1000 references are available at the associated website, www.4colorvision.com.

My Two Shepherds in the Snow, will inspire you to love your pets more. It is a fun to read story, with original photographs and illustrations, about Happy, who is impatient, who half-listens to Johnny, then so gets into trouble. Blackie, who listens, has compassion and understanding, tries to stop Happy from getting into trouble.This book is also filled with many activities that will give the reader many hours of enjoyment. It includes two board games, an album, that one can include pictures of friends, family, pet, home, school, or other pictures that you would like to save and share with others, again and again, now and in the future.

After a long day at work Catalina Borden received the proverbial pink slip ending a 20-year career of cooking in a care facility for seniors. Driving home down the highway, tears and an 18-wheeler quite literally sent her off the road and out of this world. Jack Morris, the driver of the18-wheeler, had just come to the end of a long haul when a little grey car swerved into his path. He knew he saw a car, but was confused about its disappearance, and after spending a sleepless night wondering, he returned to the highway to search for answers. His search led him to another world built by the survivors of a myth and into the arms of his soul mate. Together, Cat and Jack, along with the help of a very special forest, would find love, family and friends and the courage to build a new world.

From war and revolution in southern China to new beginnings in Singapore, this is a moving story of a Baptist missionary couple from Oklahoma who dedicated their lives to sharing their deep faith with the people of South China. In spite of terrible sacrifice, tragedy, and hardship, they never wavered in their dedication and gained the love of many Chinese people. Louise Hill begins with her childhood and that of her husband, Eugene, in Oklahoma during the 1920s. They first met as students at Oklahoma Baptist University and quickly became soul mates in their quest for services as missionaries abroad. Married in 1934, their mission began in 1935 aboard the ocean liner "President Cleveland" heading for southern China. In Canton, they joined a well-established Baptist Mission, which included a church, seminary, school, and hospital. After a year of training in a difficult language "the like of which I never saw," they settled in to become teachers and ministers. With the Japanese invasion of 1938, they endured the constant danger of bombing, gunfire, and soldiers posted outside their front door. How they helped feed and care for refugees in dire circumstances is an amazing story of perserverance. The Hills survived and returned to the United States in 1940, only to suffer greater tragedy, the devastating loss of their son, "Little Gene." After World War II, they returned to war-ravaged Canton with their second son, John, and continued their ministry, rebuilt the shattered facilities, and helped restore the lives of their Chinese friends and neighbors. The turmoil of the Communist Revolution soon cast a pall over their efforts, eventually forcing them to leave. Unable to return to China, but not wanting to give up their work among the Chinese they had come to love and admire, they were next sent to Singapore and surrounding Malaya (now Malaysia) to face new challenges. Unlike China, there was only a very small community of Chinese Christians. In the midst of an ongoing communist insurgency, they established new churches and schools. In 1955, after several bouts of severe illness brought on by the stress of missionary work, Eugene was offered an executive position with the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board in Richmond, Virginia. Eugene and Louise worked for many years among the Chinese immigrants in Richmond and other Virginia communities. In 1980 their work helped establish the first Chinese Baptist Church in Richmond. At 91, Louise Hill still attends church today.