![]() ![]() We learn about about the history of the holiday and its age-old traditions. The evening starts out with an informative presentation given by one of CLI’s teachers. CLI’s students and teachers, as well as Chinese students from our university partner, Guangxi Normal University, share a wonderful, fun-packed evening of games, food and music. On the rooftop under the full moonĮach 中秋节 (Zhōngqiū jié), the Chinese Language Institute (CLI) hosts a Mid-Autumn Festival party on the rooftop of the CLI Center, overlooking the beautiful scenery of Guilin. As such, each year CLI organizes a variety of activities for our community. 中秋节 (Zhōngqiū jié) is a time for friends and family to gather and celebrate the coming harvest season. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a time to gather with family and friends and give thanks for a bountiful harvest. It is with this sadness that Chinese people look at the moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival remembering all their loved ones that they are separated from throughout the year. She has been on the moon ever since and will be there until the end of time. The brave warrior smote down his enemy swiftly, but was too late to grab hold of his lover as she slowly levitated to the moon. Seeing no other choice, his lover drank the potion herself and began to float away up to the heavens. It was not until, in a stroke of pure evil did the warrior's arch nemesis attempt to steal the elixir and drink it for himself.Īs the warrior was not at home, his lover was left to protect the elixir from this wretched evil. He chose to stay on earth with his lover but he still graciously accepting the elixir as a token of gratitude. A beautiful ending indeed, but this brave warrior’s heart belonged to one of the fairest women in all the land, Chang'e. With this bow he was able to shoot eight of the nines suns out of the sky, saving the world and all its people.Īs a reward, the king gave the brave warrior a special elixir that, after drinking, would send him to the heavens for all of eternity. He was summoned by the emperor and was given a magical bow. Our planet-too hot and too dry-was simply not conducive to human life.įortunately for the human race, a brave warrior named Houyi who was extremely skilled with a bow and arrow came into being. ![]() An abbreviated version of the story used to explain the origins of this important holiday goes as follows:Ī very long time ago, nine blazing suns shone bright in the earth's sky. Unsurprisingly, the Mid-Autumn Festival is no different. Storytelling is an essential part of Chinese culture and many traditional holidays have stories and fables associated with them. Members of the CLI family celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival together. ![]()
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With that being said there are a few piece of advice I give to somebody in your position.įor your first couple of session try to run something that is designed for first time referees. From what I seen the campaigns that go 100% "by the book" are a definite minority. Second in my experience the vast majority of role players kit bash their campaigns. We all do.įirst congrats to refereeing your first game. The more you understand what rules have been tried and what the intent behind rules are, the better positioned you are to make house rules and on-the-fly rulings.Īccept now that you’re going to make mistakes. Why should the fantasy world be any different?) The real world is messy and full of seeming contradictions. (Retcons are often less necessary than you might think. If, in retrospect, a rule change didn’t turn out well, change it again. If a rule needs to be changed or clarified after play begins, talk to the players and figure out how to make up for a change that invalidates their past choices or future plans. Players will make decisions and plans based on the rules. While the group ought to give the DM the benefit of the doubt when it comes to such things, the DM ought to also consider the input of the players.Īs much as possible, make sure players know about rule changes up-front. Never be afraid to overrule a rule at the table when the results don’t make sense.ĭiscuss rule omissions, changes, and overruling with the rest of the group. It is a good idea to give a rule a try before changing or discarding it. (You might still change it, but it will then be because you want a different rule, not because you misunderstood the rule.) Seek out people who like the rule and ask them why. Try to figure out why it made sense to those people. At least some of the playtesters thought it made sense. At least some of their co-workers thought it made sense. Remember that somebody thought it made sense. If a rule doesn’t seem to make sense, take a step back. When the “in game” justification and the “game design” reason seem less connected, it is often an attempt to keep the rules simple enough for tabletop play. ![]() Unfortunately, many games only give you the “in game” justification and leave you to puzzle out the “game design” reason yourself. The “in game” justification for a rule may be different from the “game design” reason. What really matters is the results of rules, not the names they use. In about 35 years of playing role-playing games, I have seldom witnessed anyone play 100% by-the-book.ĭon’t take the names of things too seriously. ![]() ![]() When money is available, things happen fast and the Gospel moves quick. We are living in a world where money facilitates things. Jesus Christ came to pay the price so that we can be saved to save others and the only way others can be saved is if we spread the Gospel by every means possible. As a Christian who have received salvation and the blessings that it brings, you have a responsibility to spread the Gospel using your resources like these women did. Their attitude was an exceptional one and God wants us to emulate this and be kingdom financiers. So all they could think of was to ensure that the Gospel spreads in the land through their giving. They had a sense of responsibility, they knew that this Gospel that they had benefited from, can also benefit others too. In other words, from the little they had, they thought it wise to give for the furtherance of the Gospel. They had benefited from the gospel and had received their healing, so in appreciation, they began to give towards the preaching of the gospel and they did this, not out of their abundance but out of whatever they had. When you take a look at our opening scripture, the bible tells us about certain women who distinguished themselves with the way they gave towards the work of the kingdom. Among them was Mary Magdalene (from whom seven demons had been thrown out), Joanna (the wife of Herod’s servant Chuza) Susanna and many others who provided for them out of their resources…”- Luke 8:1-3 (NKJV) The Twelve were with him, along with some women who had been healed of evil spirits and sicknesses. “.Soon afterwards, Jesus traveled through the cities and villages, preaching and proclaiming the good news of God’s kingdom. If you need financial help, you can inquire more through Christian Financial Concepts –. The Bible’s consistent message on managing money is to be wise. ![]() It is not wrong to be poor, but it is wrong to waste money on trivial things. It is not wrong to be rich, but it is wrong to love money. We are to use our money to help others, but with discernment and the guidance of God’s Spirit. We are to give back to the Lord, joyfully and sacrificially. We are to spend money, but with discretion and control. In summary, what does the Bible say about managing money? The answer can be summarized with a single word-wisdom. We are also responsible to provide for our own household, as 1 Timothy 5:8 reminds us: “If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” The moral of the story is “So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?” (v. In Luke 16:1-13, Jesus told the parable of the dishonest steward as a way of warning us against poor stewardship. We are also encouraged to be good stewards of what God has given us. Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver” (2 Corinthians 9:6-7). ![]() ![]() “Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Rather than desiring to heap riches upon ourselves, the biblical model is one of giving, not getting. First Timothy 6:6-11 also warns against the trap of desiring wealth. Such a one, according to Ecclesiastes 5:10, never has enough wealth to satisfy him and must be constantly grasping more and more. At the other end of the spectrum is the one who is obsessed with gaining money. A “sluggard” is a lazy, slothful person who would rather rest than work. The passage also warns against sleeping when we should be working at something profitable. ![]() We are told to consider the industrious ant who works to store up food for itself. Proverbs 6:6-11 offers wisdom concerning laziness and the financial ruin that inevitably results. Proverbs 28:20: “A faithful man will be richly blessed, but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished.” See also Proverbs 10:15 11:4 18:11 23:5. Over and over again, the Bible warns against the accumulation of wealth and encourages us to seek spiritual riches instead. Do not be a man who strikes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts if you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you”). See Proverbs 6:1-5 20:16 22:7, 26-27 (“The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. Concerning borrowing, the Bible generally advises against it. The Bible has a lot to say about managing finances. ![]() ![]() It could ingest the image and then hold it in that more perfect digital space, where your life need not be cluttered up by paper because paper doesn’t exist. Finally, it became widely available when Xerox released the Magnafax Telecopier in 1966, the first relatively affordable, relatively portable fax machine, and the first that could use a standard phone line.īut the difference between a fax machine (which already seemed antiquated to me in 1994, with it’s painfully slow process and high-pitched whiny modem sound) and a document scanner was that a scanner didn’t need to spit an image out the other end. Bain’s invention became the basis for the fax machine, various forms of which appeared throughout the early 20th century. He laid the collage into the scanner, closed the lid, and after a burst of green light, the collage appeared on his computer screen, now smoothed out and perfectly seamless, as if it had always existed just like that.īut, in fact, the original technology for document scanning actually existed before the telephone, derived from the “Electric Printing Telegraph” that was patented by Scottish inventor Alexander Bain in 1843. I remember he showed me a paper collage that a student had made from a dense pattern of cut up magazine images, all bristling with jagged edges. One of the art teachers had it hooked up to a Mac with an early version of Photoshop for students to play with. The first document scanner I ever saw was in my high school’s art department in 1994. They will help you get the most out of your devices and your day. And they range across several different categories but are mostly focused on productivity. These apps work on iPad, iPhone, and Mac. 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Geitner P.ENG., in Machinery Component Maintenance and Repair (Fourth Edition), 2019 Index-balancing procedureĪ procedure of repetitively balancing and indexing (by 180 degrees) one component against another leads to diminishing residual unbalance in both, until eventually one component can be indexed against the other without a significant change in residual unbalance. 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Recent thematic exhibitions have included AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion (2006) Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy (2008) The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion (2009) American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity (2010) Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations (2012) PUNK: Chaos to Couture (2013) China: Through the Looking Glass (2015) Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology (2016) Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination (2018) and Camp: Notes on Fashion (2019). Recent monographic exhibitions have included Chanel (2005), Poiret: King of Fashion (2007), Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (2011), Charles James: Beyond Fashion (2014), and Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between (2017). The Costume Institute organizes one or two special exhibitions each year. Bolton became curator in charge, and in March 2018, upon the endowment of the postion, he was named the Wendy Yu Curator in Charge. Koda, who had previously departed from the Museum, rejoined The Met in 2000 as curator in charge, hiring Andrew Bolton in 2002. Martin's tenure culminated in Rock Style, the last exhibition before his death in 1999. In 1989, Richard Martin took the helm, with the support of Harold Koda, and began a rotating cycle of thematic exhibitions including Infra-Apparel, Waist Not, The Four Seasons, and Cubism and Fashion. ![]() The legendary fashion arbiter Diana Vreeland, who served as special consultant from 1972 until her death in 1989, created a memorable suite of exhibitions, including The World of Balenciaga (1973), The Glory of Russian Costume (1976), and Vanity Fair (1977), galvanizing audiences and setting the standard for costume exhibitions globally. ![]() In 1946, with the financial support of the fashion industry, the Museum of Costume Art merged with The Metropolitan Museum of Art as The Costume Institute, and in 1959 became a curatorial department. The Costume Institute began as the Museum of Costume Art, an independent entity formed in 1937 and led by Neighborhood Playhouse founder Irene Lewisohn. ![]() |
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