Our 39 The Second Time Group – St. Lawrence Market and Pacific shopping Center Outing

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Our 39 The Second Time Group – St. Lawrence Market and Pacific shopping Center Outing

A picture is a worth a thousand words… so here goes today… my life is filled with visuals. Words first and then some great shots!

Yesterday our “39 The Second Time Group” headed to Toronto for a day away from life in Peterborough. It is always a great day of fellowship and fun when we get together. The target destination of the day was St. Lawrence Market which dates back to the earliest days of Toronto – serving the community as the City Hall to the Farmer’s Market; and concert hall to a public meeting place.

It now has a collection of hundreds of vendors from almost every country in the world offering unusual and unique things that people in Toronto may need.

It is somewhat different from the days of yore… now offering everything from Camel Roasts or Kangaroo Steaks to Knishes and Bagels that are simply to die for! There is every kind of olive that one can possibly imagine and peppers from every place on earth – beside fish and sea food of all kinds.

It is a total life experience and perhaps should be the number one tourist spot in Toronto. But this is really just ordinary stuff for ordinary people in Toronto that come by the thousands to buy the best stuff imaginable!

My mouth is watering now… and we did sample a huge amount all before we ate at a Malaysian Restaurant with our friend Michelle Yee…

Complications…
Taking this day away was planned in advance of a potential conflict for our family. Our Granddaughter Emma Grace Lindsay was playing in her Football Team’s last game. They were so good that they were to play the best team of the league… and it happened YESTERDAY – while we traveled to Toronto! Sheesh!

What a problem! We were having so much fun with our friends… yet missing the fun of home watching football.

Through the magic of a Cell Phone Grandma Alida Lincoln called every 15 minutes for a score update.

And GUESS WHAT???? Emma’s team the Senior Steelers – won the Kinsmen Minor Football League’s Trophy. THEY WON 8 to 0 !!!!!!!!

This photo tells you the whole story! Way to go Emma!

BUT - There is something about fellowship… about adults getting together to share their life experience and to laugh long, live well and love life together! And when it happens you just can’t miss it!

That is what happens with our 39 The Second Time Group – EVERYTIME WE MEET… which is roughly each month.

In church we see the back of each other’s heads. We might shake hands once in a morning. But for the most part church is like the rest of our lives – busy and no time to talk of interact. And in the rest of our lives we are caught between looking after our Parents or our Grand Kids… oh boy the “Sandwich Generation”. There is not a lot of time to have fun.

And if you haven’t guessed it yet… church is not a place to have too much fun. You are not really allowed to bust out laughing from your basic belly… when your friend tells you what their grand kids said last week… because it just wouldn’t be proper.

39 The Second Time is a group of adults that need fellowship above and beyond the norm. It is “shore leave” for weary sailors on a family’s life of sea battles. It is R&R for weary workers that have found life heavy this past month.

Who are the 39 The Second Time folk? They are teenagers that have bodies that ranger some where around the age that most Grandparents are for the most part… but yet there are also younger folk in this group as well… that love being with these happy, early senior folk.

39 The Second Time folk don’t fit to well in slower moving older folk that can’t try something new… won’t eat Camel Meat or Kangaroo Steaks… Malaysian Food… or Chinese deep fried Octopus.

The 39 The Second Time group enjoy their friendships with old friends but will welcome new friends in a heart beat. New friends are their joy!

Sorry… I get excited about these friends of mine that we spend time with once a month. It is just too much fun… and such a blessing!

Enough words… here are some Pics for you. I offer them so that maybe next time you might consider coming along too. If the words above pricked an interest in you somewhere… we would love to have you come along too! Email me… we will make sure that you can come along!

~ Murray Lincoln ~
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I did win a Million! Hokey Mokey!

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I did win a Million! Hokey Mokey!

I did win a Million! Hokey Mokey! It came through yesterday – the first indication that I will be seeing Millions more come my way. (please refer back to yesterday’s posting!

Now I have your interest I am sure! Gotcha!

Yesterday at the side of the muddy Football Field behind the Holy Cross High School I watched my Grandson’s Football Team beat the Holy Cross Team. The Adam Scott Lions completed their season with another win! WAHOO! AMAZING! AM I PROUD OR WHAT!

Clifford Lindsay did very well all season. He played his heart out! And Grandpa is PROUD!~!!!!~!!!

(This the Adam Scott Junior Lions Football club - Clifford is sitting beside the 2 - in the middle - near the Trophy!!!!)

Now I know, I know… that there are other players out there as well. I am delighted that they all played well… but you see… every time the Team’s Defense came on to the field Number 22 would be there… and if he wasn’t I would be looking on the sideline for him. I would also at that moment be looking for a stretcher that may have carried him off to the hospital. That is because the only reason under heaven that Clifford wouldn’t be trying every minute was that he had something inside broken. His heart would not let him sit on the bench!

Oh Yes! Oh Yes! Oh Yes! Oh Yes!

Sorry Clifford if I make too much noise on the sideline. I am not the only one – because your Grandma makes even more noise!

Congratulations LIONS! We are proud of you!

And about the Million that I won… When Clifford becomes a star NFL League player… grandpa will be there to cash in with Autographs and Signings and who knows what all…..

~ Murray Lincoln ~
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Me and My $11,255,272 Lottery Winning

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Me and My $11,255,272 Lottery Winning

Wow… what a good news story!

I’m not sure I could do what this couple have done though. They won $11 Million dollars then spent two weeks giving it all away. Every penny is now gone!

What an amazing thing to do. They had two pages of names of groups that they wanted to help. Then they divided the money up and away it went.

Allen Large is 75 years old and his wife Violet is 78. They are retired and live comfortably in their old house with just the right amount of money to live on.

The unique thing is that they are happy. What a quality to possess. They want nothing and need nothing. They are just happy the way that they are. They are amazing.

Now the test. Could I do the same? Who would I give the money to when I win it? My kids would get some… yet not too much… as it tends to make them lazy! My favourite places that I am involved with would likely get a piece of my winnings as well. Hmmm…?

Now I know that I wouldn’t by a little red or black sports car. We can get into them but not out of them any more. The knees aren’t working the way that they used to.

I don’t think I would travel much. I don’t like bugs, jet lag and loud mouth tourists that much. I don’t want to be one either. Sand in my bathing suit is not attractive to me either.
I would pay off some folk’s debt. Maybe even help the church with its debt too.

Wow – Allen and Violet have challenged my thinking in a very “Large” way!

I think I will buy a lottery ticket today. I need to test out my reactions and how I will respond when the ticket comes through. Let’s call it a “spiritual experiment”. I know I can do well! I really, really can…

What would you do if you win?

~ Murray Lincoln ~
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Source:
The Story of the Larges and the Gift they gave
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1210191.html

Facebook and Relationships

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Facebook and Relationships

“Can you believe it? My wife has Removed me and Blocked me on Facebook? I can’t believe it! She is my wife!” the shocked husband exclaimed to me in a near tears state.

What do you say to a man that is beside himself with worry? How do you counsel a man that is likely facing a reality that his wife is running away on him with one of her friends on Facebook. Talk about insecurity! Talk about anguish of the soul!

More and more I am hearing about difficulties experienced in family life where one of the couple has entered into other arrangements with another person through the use of their computer. Online dating companies are not new… but the use of a Social Network like Facebook has a new trend from what I have witnessed.

“What do you see Murray?” one person asked.

I see open flirting and then eventually a new relationship that is built.

I have seen a few of these develop into full blown affairs with the spouse looking on. Really? Yep! And in one situation the new couple that are getting it off are both “christian” – the kind of “christian” that would never do something like that. In fact one part of that particular “affair” regularly writes about “Christianity”!! (Nope I didn’t make a mistake with the lower case “c” and the upper case “C”.)

In the good old days people in church usually snuck off to a motel room with another congregant, hiding their affair until Sister Biddy announced it one day.

Now adultery is more fun… almost an “Amusement Park” kind of fun… where the husband can look on while the wife rides in her new fling!

Sorry if that sounds crude by your standards. But it is really happening. The wife flirts and even carries on the affair in full view of the husband and her friends watching!

That is the part that is so weird. The friends on Facebook can view what other friends are saying and commenting on yet other friend’s Facebook posting.

“Friends” are actually enabling the affair by knowing and not saying or doing something about it! You would think that good friends would speak up.

The on-looking friends are likely getting it off, having a secondary affair through their own friend’s affair. Really! Why else would they condone what is happening!?

A young man I know is selling his car in St. John’s Newfoundland… and people all over the place are commenting on the vehicle… how good it is.. why he is selling it etc. I clicked on a read it all.

Why? I need another car desperately… maybe this is the one… yet with one click I read what the other folks are saying… another click and I can find out who they are… and where they live… and if they have an open information page.. get their email address and find out more about them… even contacting them personally!!!

So… take the “christian lady” that writes “christian stuff”.. someone reads it… gets to her Facebook Page… connects via email… then before you know it she is in another city doing “ministry”. And before you know it there is a full blown affair going on… BUT… in the new world it is classier than that… it is a new relationship??!

If you caught all that – it was like changing shoes!

Most of the cultural norms that were there before have been reduced to another level with the advent of our openness. So has morality.

In Facebook, if you are not a user, you will see – or rather be able to – tell your friends what you are interested in. For an example, Hot Rods, Trains etc. Many folks that I click on to state quite openly, that they are interested in people of the opposite sex… i.e. a married man will state openly that he is interested in females!!!

It was announced yesterday that Facebook is able to rather accurately predict the potential breakups in couples by the posts that they make… and the fact that they have tracked who has broken up. This was formulated in a large study… where they recorded when the breakups took place.

Before Spring Break and Christmas was the highest times a breakup took place. And then Mondays were the predictable day of the week that it happened as well. See the Links below for more info on this new information released.

No I am not against Facebook! I find it an amazing tool to connect with Friends from all over.

But I have witnessed a brand new change in society. I have watched as the old Christian world has take on a new “christian” standard.. or maybe have dropped it entirely.

I am amazed at what I am watching and engaging….

For what it is worth... my two cents worth.

~ Murray Lincoln ~
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Source:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2372086,00.asp
http://theweek.com/article/index/203122/can-facebook-predict-your-breakup

Potash and Suspicion and a Lack of Trust

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Potash and Suspicion and a Lack of Trust

“So what’s the deal with the Potash?” my wife asked as we listened to the report on the TV again. Yes it is getting play time here in Ontario as well as Saskatchewan! We are hearing about it a lot.

From what I can determine in far away Ontario, there is a bid by an Australian Company to take control over of the Potash resources “down under” Saskatchewan. This proposal by the BHP Billiton to buy the Potash Corp in Saskatchewan is not well received by the folk in Saskatchewan. It is deemed that the Government is throwing away a precious resource that makes tons of money for the province and provides labour opportunities for many people. Sell it and you lose control… keep it and you can at least know what will happen next.

In Ontario it is doubtful that many people care. They hardly know anything about Potash. Many think they are making fires to get ash – or something stupid like that! Why should we be involved in this decision at all?

I can say I do not know all about the issues that the Saskatchewan Government is facing – or that the Conservative Government of Canada is stepping into… BUT I do know when you screw someone from Saskatchewan once – you will not do it again. The Liberal Governments of the past found that out a long time ago… and specially this last time when many of the elected positions went to the Conservatives.

What is the problem?

Well the Canadian Government in Ottawa is about to make a decision that will affect the entire Province of Saskatchewan… and it feels that nothing can be done if the Government of Canada lets the Aussies take the deal.

Try this… wow about letting the Offshore Trawlers on the east coast of Canada take over the fishing rights and control all the fish that are caught in the Maritime Provinces?

How about letting a German Company come in and take over all the forestry and the right to cut any tree in Ontario?

Or maybe the Saudi Government coming to take complete control of all the oil in Alberta – or all the Minerals in B.C.?

For Saskatchewan folk it kind of has that complete lack of rights and control for what they are proud of and consider their own.

Who cares about pinkish, salty stuff that comes from deep below the surface in that province anyway?

I do.

In Ontario we are more suspicious than the cousins of ours in Saskatchewan. We have watched overseas companies come in and buy out a Corporation here. They send in their phoney management teams to take control. Then they siphon off the rich pension plan, close the plants and run with the money. The employees get nothing after the dudes are gone.

I talked to a young man a few months ago that lost everything to that kind of thing happening here! The company and plant is gone – so is the money.

The company was looking for more than “potash”. They are mining cash and lots of it. With a tight economy around the world everyone is affected.

Nope I don’t understand the actual detail of what is being proposed… but I understand suspicion… and doubt… and confidence… and when the next election comes along – so will the politicians.

Please read the link below… from the Calgary Herald.

~ Murray Lincoln ~
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Source:
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Takeover+approval+political+landmine/3768722/story.html 

It’s being successfully used in the operation of Milford trunnions – I need it

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It’s being successfully used in the operation of Milford trunnions – I need it

53 Days – actually maybe 52 days and 6 hours is all that I have to get my Christmas shopping done. It is November 2, 2010 and December 25 is very close now.

True to form I need to drop hints for the things that I would really like from my Santa. Knowing that my wife is my Santa and for the most part we buy together… buying something special for the house or for the two of us to enjoy together… I need to get this out there to help her make her mind up – as to what to buy me for Christmas.

Well I have found it! Believe it or not… I found what I really want this year.

Here is what I have read about this ultimate “Man Toy” that would look so good in my “Man Cave”. It is the “Retroencabulator”

It is describe here… quote… the man said…
“Here at Rockwell Automation's world head quarters, research has been proceeding to develop a line of automation products that establishes new standards for quality, technological leadership and operating excellence. With customer success as our primary focus, work has been proceeding on the crudely conceived idea of an instrument that would not only provide inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters.

Such an instrument comprised of Dodge gears and bearings, Reliance Electric motors, Allen-Bradley controls, and all monitored by Rockwell Software is Rockwell Automation's retro-encabulator.

Now basically the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it's produced by the modial interaction of magneto reluctance and capacitive duractance. The original machine had a base plate of pre-famulated amulite surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings ran a direct line with the panametric fam.

The line-up consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzul vanes so fitted to the ambaphascient lunar wain shaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus-odeltoid type placed in panendurmic semi-bulloid slots of the stator. Every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible tremmy pipe to the differential girdle spring on the up-end of the grammeters.

Moreover, whenever fluorescent square motion is required, it may also be employed in conjunction with the drawn reciprocation dingle arm, to reduce sinusoidal depleneration.

The retro-encabulator has now reached a high level of development, and it’s being successfully used in the operation of Milford trunnions. It's available soon, wherever Rockwell Automation products are being sold."
End quote.

Now who wouldn’t want of these?

I need it! I know it would help me! And it would look so good in my Man Cave.

Now the Retroencabulator is newer model of the Turboencabulator

You ask… “Where in the world did you find this? Who told you about it?”

Well like all things that are good, I discovered it on my Friend’s Facebook. There is was. So I clicked on to the Link and Bingo I had to have it. The compulsion to buy one was instant. There was no escaping at all.

You are shaking your head…? Why? You say it is not real…!? That is where you are dead wrong… I saw the video and heard the man explain it… and it IS REAL.

It is on the Internet and particularly on the YouTube – so it has to be real.

Now as I was doing my research into the Retroencabulator, I found also that a guy by the name of Julian Smith had done some amazing things with what he already owns… like his Jeep that can make music… keep the beat… WOW! See the Link Below.. over 4 Million people have viewed this!!!

I need one… and I also need a break today! Oh Boy!

~ Murray Lincoln ~
http://www.murraylincoln.com/

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator

The Retroencabulator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w
The Turboencabulator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLDgQg6bq7o&feature=related

The Jeep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFybwg4wadI&NR=1&feature=fvwp