Melva Gifford

When I was in school I took three years of Spanish and one year of German. I only know about five words of each now. I have always admired people who can speak more than one language. I have been very pleased to learn that there are phone aps and web sites that will now translate English into another language or visa-versa.

Since my next writing project: Hostage Heart will included Spanish, I will find this info useful. And one of the virtues is that the translation will provide proper grammar syntax and male/female prefixes and affixes. I do not know how these translators handle area dialects, but maybe that will not be important if it’s just written text.

I thought I’d provide a list of some that I found, for your reading pleasure.

http://translate.google.com/
http://www.freetranslation.com/
http://translate.reference.com/
http://www.translation.langenberg.com/
http://translation2.paralink.com/
http://www.bing.com/translator
http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html

Apps:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/travel/languagetranslator.html
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/translate-text-mylanguage/id306752957?mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.translate&hl=en
http://www.jibbigo.com/website/
http://speechtrans.com/
http://www.suntimes.com/business/4773863-420/language-translation-apps-for-smartphones-make-traveling-lighter.html

if you have used any of these and want to share with others the pros and cons of it, please feel free to share your feelings in the comment section of this blog. Thanks

I’m taking a different slant on teaching techniques by showing how humor might be used to teach serious topics. I hope this lesson will be of use to youth ministries, family devotionals, Family counselors, and family home evening.

Joke: Men…
One night a wife found her husband standing over their baby’s crib.
Silently she watched him. As he stood looking down at the sleeping infant, she saw on his face a mixture of emotions: disbelief, doubt, delight,
amazement, enchantment, skepticism.

Touched by this unusual display and the deep emotions it aroused, with eyes glistening she slipped her arm around her husband. “A penny for your thoughts,” she said.

“It’s amazing!” he replied. “I just can’t see how anybody can make a crib like that for only $46.50.”

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We are all unique individuals and sometimes we may spend too much trying to get others to act and feel the same way we do. I have found that when I associate with people with a wide range of experiences I can learn much from them.

This lesson is geared to encourage us to enjoy the differences between us which included sometimes even gender differences. Present the joke and then spend time with the family and class discussion the differences between different people in our family. If someone is a by the numbers type of person, then that skill might be useful in accomplished a detailed list of instructions on a project.

A person who taps heavily into relationships can be useful in that when that person involves others in one of their projects they might motivate their friends to participate because both share a common passion.

Someone who is very easy going can sometimes remind a very stressed person to relax a little.

At work I am starting to take notes on a course that teaches what needs to be kept in mind when building a web site. I’m starting it but remember the following suggestions.

1. People go to web sites to look up specific info.
2. Arrange you web site to provide the essential info and then provide links to provide additional details.
3. One of the advantages of a web site is it can provide current and archived info.
4. Avoid cluttering up your site with a bunch of stuff.
5. Customers will leave a site that is hard to move around in and may not come back.

That’s all I can recall at the moment.

I have always spelled this word wrong. I can’t even think of a phrase to help me remember the “OI” of the word. So I will try a visual image. Singers open their mouths wide to project the words they’re singing. To be a good singer I need to open my mouth so the O for wide mouth and I for I doing this to sing.

We’ll see if this helps me remember how to spell this word.

Do you have a better way to remember? Memorization has never been a strength of mine so I often rely upon other resources.

If you haven’t noticed yet. Many of my blogs are self serving. I have to do research on something to fulfill a need in the household and lubricating a treadmill is one of those needs. (now to just use it)

The over all concept is to get 240 lubricant spray and to spray it under the walking tracks at the top side of the tread mill. Just spray the section where the rubber hits the ramp. My treadmill is so old that I have to spray it frequently to keep it lubricated. It would probably be remedied if I buy a more expensive lubricant.

web sites that gave me more info on this topic.

http://www.ehow.com/how_4788226_properly-lubricate-treadmill.html
http://www.horizonfitness.com/uploadedFiles/Customer_Support/Horizon_Fitness/FAQs/Treadmill/Lube_tread.pdf

http://www.treadmilldoctor.com/FAQ#FAQ_2

There are many ways to teach a Christian principal to the family. And one fun way is to present a serious topic through a joke. I hope today’s lesson can be of use to youth ministries, family devotionals, family counselors, and family home evening’s.

Joke: Tom, Dick and Harry went to a party. After the party they returned to the hotel. The hotel was 600 stories high.

Unfortunately for them, the elevator was not working. They made a plan for the first 200 stories, Tom will crack jokes.

The second 200 stories Dick will tell a happy story and lastly Harry will tell a sad story. They then started up the steps

After 2 hours it was Harry’s turn. He turned to the other two and said “Ok guys, here’s my sad story. I forgot the keys downstairs.

When a family member of friend does something that annoys us, it is easy to get mad. Sometimes we might feel a little more sympathetic toward them if we find ourselves doing the same thing that annoys us to them. There’s a lot of say in walking in another’s shoes. I remember hearing stories where a husband might think that a wife at home raising the kids might be an easy job. Yet when they get in a situation of taking care of the kids for a day or weekend their appreciation of their partner’s labor increases considerably.

The situation can be reversed when a husband need to go out of town and the wife comes to appreciate all the things he did to the family that were not realized until he is absent.

Another way that we might better appreciate the challenges of another person is to learn more about them. One’s background can make a large impact on how someone responds to a given situation. There might also be conditions that lead up to a problem that an outside observer may not be aware of. Thinking of possible contributions to another’s troubling behavior might help us better understand their actions. This might help us feel more forgiveness.

We may have all at one time forgot our keys, locked ourselves out of the car, forgot or lost our homework or some other thing. Have the family members come up with a pretend scenario of someone and then come up with imaginary events that might lead up to that person acting as they did. This might help us increase our sympathy and compassion.

What ideas do you have to teach the principal of forgiveness or do you have a joke that would contribute to teaching important values?

I never watched this show while it was on TV but love seeing sections on YouTube. A brave guy. I find the information on this T show interesting and informative. Might be useful someday in my fantasy writing.

For your reading pleasure.

– heart shaped foot print might indicate dear
– Pliable branches can create a shell for a shelter.
– cover the shell with about a foot of leaves and it can insulate your homemade tent against the cold
– dear droppings from dear that graze on grass and berries etc. is edible.
– long stick can let you measure the depth of a pond as you cross it and protect you for animals under the surface.
– alligators likes shallow muddy water.
– A canteen tied a cord and thrown and caught in a branch helped him pull himself out of mud. If cord cuts out circulation in hand wrap the cord around a stick and use the stick to pull oyou out of mud.
– found worms by finding where badgers had been digging and see that as a food source.
– worms is 80% protein not taste but give you substance.
– when its going to rain sound increases around as moisture content increase around ground level.
– Cat tails good for fire starter or to put padding in jacket for heat.
– Stem of cat tail make good for use as an arrow.
– roots of cattails can be eaten.
– Line bark of a tree with mud. Then use goose-foot leaves to keep mud away from fish put in fish morel leaves and mud. Then put bark over fire cover with kindling so that fish cooks on both sides.

If you’re the outdoorsy kind of person, what ideas do you have?

A liar will often tell a lie cloaked in or as part of a famiLIAR truth.

What ways do you use to remember the spelling of this word? Feel free to share.