(Clearwisdom.net) The Sfinks Festival (International Music Festival) was held during the last weekend of July. At this year’s festival, Falun Gong practitioners introduced Falun Gong to the festival visitors. Practitioners demonstrate the Falun Gong exercises behind informational display boards Festivalgoers stopped to read the information boards and watch the exercise demonstrationThis year, the festival was held in a large open area. There were dances, games, food and a small market.

Though I made a few comments introducing these young ladies, it is their voices that spoke strongly and movingly about their experiences on this year’s mission trip.   Be sure to scroll down and read all of their words. The Time of Singing Has Come Song of Songs 2:8-13  James 1:17-27  We do not often hear readings from the Song of Songs in Sunday worship. It is a beautiful and odd part of the Hebrew Bible. It is made up of about 25 poems and fragments of poems, all of them graceful and sensuous, and many of them openly erotic.

Here are my Top 10 links from around the Internet at 10am. I welcome your additions in the comments below or please send your suggestions for Thursday’s Top 10 at 10 to bernard.hickey@interest.co.nz My apologies to those who sent in suggestions in the last couple of days. I’m on the road and am having a few problems accessing email. We’ll get them in tomorrow. We don’t do Kung Fu. 1.  Fran O’Sullivan says in her NZHerald column that it’s time for the government to seize the initiative on tax reform and stop mucking around waiting for the results of the Australian tax review.

What’s up with all the fine print? Most of the advertisements you find in sales inserts in the newspaper there’s fine print.  You see them in the magazines and even when you’re watching TV, here comes the commercial with, yes, again the fine print. Maybe like myself you see a big sale going on at a particular store and you see what you have been looking for on sale and they are promising even a big bonus but then, yes, again there is the fine print and when you check out the fine print the bonus was only on a few listed items and not the one you wanted to purchase.  It’s all just a gimmick to get you and me to the sale.

Patience is: 1 – The quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like. 2 – An ability or willingness to suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay: to have patience with a slow learner. 3 – Quiet, steady perseverance; even-tempered care; diligence: to work with patience. When it comes to patience, can’t we all use a little more of it? I find I have patience with some people and situations, but not all.

By Tom Maneval Just for clarity of definitions, the term Loan Modification means changing or modifying the terms of an existing loan. It is not a refinance so to speak which, is an entirely new loan usually done to get cash out of the equity in a house or to take advantage of a better interest rate that presents itself. The net effect is similar to a refinance but without the new loan part. Loan modification deals with the current loan where the home owner and lender hash out modified terms to make it mutually workable and beneficial.

FABULOUS day at Edgefield! Many thanks to my Senior Super Model, Deisy, and her boyfriend, Hugo, for their patience and forbearance as myself and two other photographer friends, Daron and Julian, walked them all over McMenamin’s Edgefield property and exercised our off-camera flash techniques! Here’s a few photos from the day: me talking (I’m ALWAYS talking, sheesh!) to Julian about different poses for couples and one of my favorite couples’ pose – followed by yet another stunning portrait of the gorgeous Deisy – then there’s Daron setting up his version of the shot.

Some asswipe has bombed my blog with indecipherable foreign-language spam. I will not tolerate this invasion, and I am making the rounds to all of the posts hit and wiping his idiotic self off of my map. In the meantime, I have instituted word verification, and there will not be a posting. Sorry about that, but I refuse to let this drip from a diseased baboon’s dick leave any more comments nor get away with thinking those he did leave will do whatever insidious crap they were designed to do.I have also made it so that any comments left on posts older than 7 days will need my moderation.