Francis Collins, Renaissance Man

Not only was Francis Collins the director for the Human Genome Project, made many landmark discoveries of disease genetics, author of The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, and now has been nominated by Pres. Obama (and now confirmed) to be the new director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)... but apparently he also can rock.

At the University of Miami School of Medicine graduation, the speaker there was Francis Collins, who is the Director of the National Genome Human Research Institute at the National Institute Health. All of us graduating students thought he would just be another boring talking head. Man, were we ever pleasantly surprised. Not only was the talk interesting, but the crowning point was when he took out a guitar and played a hilarious version of "My Way" entitled "Their Way". Sorry for the shoddy audio and shaky hands, it was the best I could do. Anyone who graduated from anything can really relate to this video.

new week-

Hello all,
Are you learning and growing? What is God leading you and speaking about? Hope you can come and share this with us- Wed July 29- Matt 15. Please let me know if you will be coming for supper!

Shall we make it 2 in a row? Looking forward to seeing you this week. We jump into Matt 14. Also, something light for supper. Haven't yet decided.

time off now lets meet

Who's here? Lets plan on meeting. I think Shivelys and Martha were the only ones on Wed so this week lets go back to Matt 13?
Also we'll plan a little bit of salad and BLTs.

Update and New Address

Hi everyone,

We are almost settled here in Charleston. All the unpacking is finished and we have learned our way around pretty quickly. We met some of our neighbors last week when we had a little incident (got locked out in the middle of a rain storm and we needed some shelter) and we will be meeting my fellow residents tonight at little get-together. Peter has adjusted quickly to working from home. I think it has been more difficult for him since I have been around the apartment being a distraction. But I will be off to work soon. I took my board exam today and if I passed I will be a licensed pharmacist next week!!

Will and Christy-I hope the wedding and honeymoon were a blast! I saw a few pictures online and you both looked great!

We will miss you all, but I'll try to give you little updates during the next year. Our new address is 900 King Street Apt 38B, Charleston, SC 29403.

-Ramonna

Meeting postponed

As you saw in my email, Bill and Liz are traveling to LA to attend the funeral of Bill's Aunt. Keep them in prayer as they travel. Lots going on at Hillsong with VBS this week. I travel to Colorado on Friday. We'll pick up next week.

great time on Wed

Wow, what a great time on Wed saying good by to Peter and Ramonna. We loaded the truck last night and they are on their way. God Speed, friends!

Interesting Article

Here's an interesting article on something happening in CA:

http://www.10news.com/news/19585458/detail.html

Googly Eyes Watching You

We talked about this Wednesday night: Google Maps has continued to refine their map-making skills... and get even MORE up close and personal. I'm not sure how many people are aware of this.

For example, recently in The Daily Tarheel, there was was an article about a new experiment (perhaps ill-conceived) in pedestrian crossings on the edge of UNC campus near the physics building. There's a neat-o 360-degree image of the intersection in question, which you can navigate right on the page. But that technology isn't confined to intersections like this.

Suppose we take the apartment complex where I used to live a few years ago:

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(This isn't a photo pasted from Google Maps; it's a live embedding of the map on the blog page.) You can click the '+'/'-' buttons to zoom in and out, and you can click-and-drag or use the directional arrows to move the view. Click the 'X' to make the address box go away.

However, did you know that you can also now do this?

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The directional arrows or click-and-drag now allow you to look up and around as if you are standing on the street. If you mouse-over the image so that the white arrows appear, clicking on the white arrows takes you in increments up and down the street.

Or, if you type "Open Eye Cafe, Carrboro, NC" into Google Maps, you will get this:

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and if you then click on the "street view":

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wed night

Several things are of note:
Who will lead chap 10?
Discuss Christy's bridal shower 16 May sat morning 11am - ladies only- men can make comments but we know there will be nothing of substance for them to add.
Also 3 June going away for Peter and Ramonna. What would Peter and Ramonna like as the theme? I'm thinking covered dish but you guys decide. I'd like to invite other friends from Hillsong and family members.

No Time to Pray? A Technological Solution!

From Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird column:

The Web site InformationAgePrayer.com offers, for people too busy to speak to God themselves, a daily service of invocations (using voice-synthesizing software) for Catholics, Protestants, Jews, or Muslims. Starting each day "reciting" the Lord's Prayer (or the Islamic Fajr) is $3.95 a month. Hail Marys are 70 cents a day for 10. A Complete Rosary Package is $49.95 a month. Each prayer is voiced individually, according to a March report on LiveScience.com, with the subscriber's name on the screen, and for Muslim prayers, the computer's speakers point toward Mecca.

wed night

Just a reminder- no dinner at the Partins. A great rib feast is being prepared in the Kitchens of Hillsong- I'll be there. We start our Bible study at 7ish at our house as usual.

next week

Good to be back in CH and with you. This coming week, Matt 9 with Christy leading the way. Let me know if you have supper suggestions. Wed night 3 JUNE will say good bye to Peter and Ramonna. So mark you calenders.

This week in the Kingdom

Hello all,
Chapter 8 this week- If you have some suggestions about supper, let me know. I'll return to the homeland on Tuesday night.

Happy Easter

Scary German Bunny Man
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WED NIGHT

Have fun- pray for Will and Christy- still suffering with sinus infection- spread to Will.

This week

What a great time last week. Peter has chap 7 and Martha will come up with something good to eat. Love you all. phil

this week

Hello All,
Chap 6- more teaching on the Kingdom of God from the Master Himself. How do you understand the difference between metaphor and simile and literal? How do you understand the a device of writing (literature) versus and command to obey?
Liz will facilitate our discussion- we'll have some grub!

The Gospel of Matthew chapter 5. See you soon.

This Week

Remember- the film Amazing Grace will be our content- look over the discussion questions. Also, we will have pizza. phil