How To Write A Hit Song published by Tingting9

Here is an article describing 'The Components of How To Write A Hit Song' published on Triond by Tingting9

http://writinghood.com/writing/the-components-of-how-to-write-a-hit-song/

The Resurrection Of Jesus

The Easter story does not end when Jesus steps out of the tomb alive and transformed .

To the contrary, it is actually the very beginning of the story of the new life of His disciples then

and ours now. It is what happened on this morning that allows us to be sure of

the Easter message. "He lives!"

A quote from the article 'The Resurrection Of Jesus" written by my wife, Joyce, and published on Associated Content under my pen name  'John Mario.' Associated Content became a part of the Yahoo Contributor Network.

The Resurrection Of Jesus

http://voices.yahoo.com/the-resurrection-jesus-5858848.html?cat=34

Isaiah: Prophet Of The Coming Christ

Who was Isaiah? Good question. The answer to this question is not really all that simple. He was one of the latter prophets and it has been said that he was one of the greatest. His name, Isaiah, actually means "the Lord saves." He made the words "the Holy One of Israel" an undeniable part of our religious history by using this phrase twelve times in his writings.

All of the Gospels except Mark refer to Isaiah's writing. His writings are also mentioned in Paul's letter to the Romans.

Much unrest in Israel took place in Isaiah's times. God spoke through Isaiah's writings to a rowdy and rebellious people who had often forgotten the rules God gave them. His writings are pretty much summed up in two parts:

1) In the Book of Judgement, the Lord God speaks in reproach of the people's disobedience to God's law and the ramifications for disobedience.

2) In the Book of Comfort (or Consolation) the Lord God tells the people their reward if they do obey His Law

Although the Book of Judgments is full of angry proclamations revealing Gods displeasure with the people of Israel, God's anger is tempered with prophecies of a coming Messiah. In fact, both the Book of Judgments and the Book of Comfort are peppered with prophecies of the coming Christ to save his people.

Isaiah lived long before Jesus was born. He started his ministry as a Prophet around 740 BC (Before Christ.) The God of Jacob and Isaac was preparing his announcement of his Son, Jesus our Lord, who Isaiah refers to as "the Holy One of Israel" in a way recognizable to us today.

The very first prophecy of Christ is in Isaiah 7:14 of the NIV Bible. God tells Isaiah that he will grant a "sign" to the people of Israel. This sign prefigures the birth of Christ through the "Virgin" Mary.

In Isaiah 11:1-10 of the NIV Bible, there are further clues to our Lord Jesus's heritage and lineage. Through the line of Jesse and the House of King David who was Jesse's son.

In Isaiah 11:1-9 of the NIV Bible, the coming Messiah is described as "the Spirit of the Lord will rest upon Him." (Isaiah 11:2) The Spirits of Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Power, Knowledge and fear of the Lord. "He will not judge by what He sees with His eyes, or decide what He hears with His ears but with righteousness He will judge the needy, with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the earth." (Isaiah 11: 3-4)

In Isaiah 11:6-9 of the NIV Bible, It states that there will be change to the old order of things. The natural enemies; the wolf and the lamb, the leopard and the goat, the calf and the lion, the cow and the bear; will live together in peace.

In Isaiah 42:1-9 (of the NIV Bible) in the Book of Consolation, we read the description of "the Holy One of Israel to come." He references the sign mentioned in Isaiah 7:14 with the phrase "Here is my servant whom I uphold. My chosen One in whom I delight." referring again to our Lord, Jesus. In Mathew 3:17 of the NIV Bible, The Holy Spirit of God the Father makes this statement (almost verbatim) during the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan River, "This is my Son whom I love. With Him I am well pleased."

In Isaiah 52:13-14 of the NIV Bible, there is a description of the Christ: "See, my Servant will act wisely. He will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted. Just as there were many who were appalled at Him, His appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man and His form marred beyond human likeness." This quote hints at the crucifixion and torment of our Lord Jesus during the passion.

In Isaiah 53: 2-5 of the NIV Bible, "He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him. Nothing in His appearance that we should desire Him. He was despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and familiar with suffering. Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, Yet we considered Him stricken by God, smitten by Him and afflicted, But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities, The punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His wounds, we are healed."

In Isaiah 53: 12 of the NIV Bible we read, "For He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors."

The book of Isaiah gives us a true picture of Christ some seven hundred years before His coming. It is a prophecy of a loving issue of a benevolent God even in light of a rebellious stiff necked people.

Alien Insects From Outer Space

The full moon lit up the dirt road and reflected in the small stream running alongside the road.  The stars shined brightly in the sky.  A small bubble floated down from outer space.  It was not detected by radar or any human.  It landed in the stream. It was completely transparent and clear. The moonlight did not reflect off of it and it was invisible to the human eye.

The bubble became visible for a second.  It was one foot wide. Something was moving around inside it.

A mile away on the same dirt road, a short, young man named Joseph was walking home.  He was dressed in a white tee shirt, tan shorts and white sneakers.  He had an iPod clipped to his belt. He was wearing headphones and enjoying the song 'Never Say Never.'   He bobbed his head to the beat of the song.

Joseph no longer cared what people said about him.  As far as he was concerned, society reeked.  He often said 'The hell with people.'  All they did was make fun of him. They never believed a word he said.

Even the police ignored him.  Once he reported a bear and he remembered  the police officer said something about his being dilusional.  Dilusional? If that bear injured someone, they'd find out just how dilusional Joseph was. Some people would give Joseph a wierd look and stay away from him. Communication with others was rare and often undesirable.

Joseph ran his hands through his unkempt hair.  So what if it was uncombed? Why should he comb it?  Would it make a difference in how people treated him? No way!  Let people stare at him. Maybe he should make people think he was dangerous. Maybe then they'd stop making fun of him.

Something streaked across the road. He barely saw it. He thought it must have been moving a hundred miles an hour. It was tiny like an insect.  He noted that it made a wierd whooshing sound as it went by.

He heard the wooshing sound once again and felt a sharp pain in his left ankle.  He stopped and sat down in the road to examing his ankle. There was a little blood around a small puncture wound.  It was sore. He got up and limped down the road.  He heard another whooshing sound and felt a sharp pain in his arm.

"Ouch!" Joseph yelled.  Then he noticed a puncture wound in his lower arm.  The whooshing sound became louder. He began running.   There were so many streaking insects, he could hardly see the road. He felt a sharp pain in his forehead and fell to the ground.  Blood streamed down his forehead. He got up and ran up the path to his front door.  He searched his pocket for the keys.  His headphones were lopsided. He felt another sharp pain in his ear lobe.

He was swearing as he opened the front door. He slammed the door shut and sank to the floor with his back against the door.  He still heard the distant whooshing sound.

"What the hell was that?" Joseph asked himself, "No insect could fly that fast.  What should I do?  If I go to the emergency room, they'll think I deliberately stabbed myself or something and strap me to one of those beds. But I didn't stab myself! How could I convince them? What could I say?  I have to catch one of those things and bring it with me. That's the only way. But how?"

The wooshing sound was getting louder. Joseph realized that it was only a matter of time before those 'insects' realized they could break the windows.  He had to do something and he had to do it quick.
Joseph went to the closet and took out a pull-over fall jacket with a hood.  He changed into a pair of blue jeans. He put on a pair of hiking boots and tucked the pants into the boots. Then he took out his old hockey face mask and put it on.  He also put on a pair of leather work gloves.

"They attacked at night.  I wonder if light affects them." Joseph thought about turning on all the lights in his house.  But he didn't.  Instead he seached for a weapon.  "Those things fly so fast that most weapons would be useless."

The only weapon he could think of that might be effective was  a blow torch. But that might set the house on fire.  The wooshing sound was loud now. The insects were crashing into his windows.  Joseph ran down the cellar and opened a metal cabinet.  He grabbed an old rag and rapped it around an old broom stick.  Then he poured some turpentine in the rag and ignited it.  He came back up stairs. The insects had not cracked the windows.

He needed help and he could not wait.  He took out his mobile phone. He was able to dial but there was so much static he could not hear the voice at the other end.  Then he tried the landline phone but there was no dial tone.

Sooner or later the insects would find their way in.  Joseph felt he had no choice.  He had to get help and fire was the only alternative. He went to the front door, poured some kerosene at the base of the door and torched it.  Then he backed away and watched the flames shoot up.  The room quickly become filled with smoke.  He laid down on the linoleum floor and waited.

The wooshing sound was drowned out by the sound of crackling burning wood.  He heard the sirens in the distance. He was not able to see the windows.

The fire was put out quickly. Joseph admitted he started the fire and told the police why he started it. The police did not believe his story.  They thought he was crazy wearing those clothes in the warm weather. They placed him under arrest for arson.  They suspected he would have attempted insurance fraud.  He argued them to no avail.  Then they all heard the wooshing sound. One officer was stung on the arm.  The other officers ducked as an insect streaked across the room.

Now they believed him. In spite of the danger Joseph was facing, he was happy. They knew he wasn't dilusional.  They would no longer ignore his phone calls.

The next morning the fire inspector reported finding partially melted insects near the burnt our portion of Joseph's apartment.  Partially melted?  Joseph learned that those so-called 'insects' were not insects at all. They were tiny robots.

The bubble, laying in the stream, once again became visible. All the tiny robots were gathered around the bubble. They entered the bubble in a single line. And as they entered, they became invisible.  The robots had completed their tasks. They would return to their planet and turn in their reports about this strange planet. Their report would be that the third planet from the sun can and does support life.

Writing Introductions That Increase Views of Articles and Blogs

Here is an article that focuses on creating an introduction that will captivate viewers.  This article talks about key phrases, key words, teasers, sentences, length of introduction, quotations, SEO, etc. Although the article is focused on introductions to articles published on Yahoo, the same techniques can be applied to an introduction to a blog.

The title of the article is 'Essentials For Writing Stronger Introductions.'  It was written and published by a free lance writer Sabah Karimi.

http://contributor.yahoo.com/blogpost/115/guest_post_essentials_for_writing_stronger.html

Pennsylvania Sued For Axing Low Income Health Plan

Issues like this one will become more prevalent in the near future.   States cutting health coverage for our poor will become a common trend.

I hope the three affected residents win the law suit against the state of Pennsylvania and the adultBasic insurance is restored. And I hope all politicians involved in this shameful act of depriving over 40,000 poor people of health insurance are voted out of public office.  For details, click on the link at the bottom of this blog.

Governor Tom Corbett is a member of the Republican Party. The Republican politicians advocate the unthinkable act of cutting off our poor from health care.

If Romney is able to implement his plan to turn Medicare coverage over to the states,  there will be many drastic cuts in Medicare leaving our poor in a lurch.  Many families will have to give up a significant part of their income so that their elderly can be cared for at home instead of in a nursing home. The cost of such care will be prohibitive and will eat up the family's savings and home. 

Instead of placing the blame where it belongs (reducing government funds while increasing spending), the Republicans choose to lay the complete burden of the debt on our poor.

Republicans claim it is the responsibility of charity organizations and religious organizations to care for our poor when they know full well that these organizations do not have the resources to provide health care for our poor.  

Yes, they are our poor. Our nation is a nation of all people, by all people and for all people. That includes our poor.  It's sad that the Republicans are not for all the people.

http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/Legal/News/2011/03_-_March/Pennsylvania_sued_for_axing_low-income_health_plan/

Confessions of a Nintendo Hand Held Video Game Player

I originally published on Yahoo Contributor Network under my pen name John Mario. The article was authored by my wife Joyce and is re-published here with her explicit permission.

I have owned a Nintendo hand held gaming console since the first Game Boy was introduced to the USA market sometime in the late 80s. It had a small black and grey screen with no backlight and could only be played under a good table light or really bright over head lights. It played games that were on 2 x3 inch cartridges and there were lots of them to play. I loved it.

My next upgrade was to trade in my black and grey screened Game Boy for the much improved Game Boy Color and the Colors were grand; but still no back light. The same restrictions existed on game play under a light or play in under bright over head lights. Lots of new games and backward compatibility to the old black and grey screen games made me love this one even more.

When the Game Boy Advance came out with new smaller game cartridges and still had backward compatibility to the Older Game Boy color games and the even older grey screen Game Boy games, I had to have one! I was nearly in heaven. Almost! It had no back light but it nearly did everything else. . They sold over the screen lights for all of the older Game Boys but they gave only a slight advantage since they glared on the screen and could very well give you a headache.

Not too long after the GBA came out rumors of a new Hand held console leaked out; a hand held with a back light and it would be a flip open and closed game system making it look a bit like a computer with the screen that stood up and the control pad in your hand: The Game Boy SP. I ran out and got my new GAMEBOY SP, hot off the shelf the day after it came out. It came with color, a back light and loads of games. It had back ward compatibility so all my old games worked and the backlight that made it possible to play even in a dimly lit car seat or anywhere else. OH JOY! I actually thought I had hit hand held gamming Nirvana. I played this system for literally years and loved every heart pounding, backlit game I could find. I thought it could not get better. I was of course wrong. When the Nintendo DS came out, I was at first flabbergasted! Could it actually be better than my beloved SP? It did still have some measure of backward compatibility because it could still play the GBA smaller cartridges (but not the still older larger GB or GBC cartridges.) I was a bit let down but then again I could always keep my beloved SP for those.

The DS was a wonder! It had backward compatibility and the great new DS games that came on little SD size chips. WOW! The new DS chips had even better graphics then the old GBA carts and were even easier to store. The back light was now on a larger better colored double gamming screen. Would there be no end to technical advancements? The double screen made hand held gaming something totally different than before. Was this the best there would ever be? No not quite!

Next came the DS lite a smaller console with an even larger screen. Would wonders never cease? NOPE!!!!!

Let me tell you when the DSI came out, I was floored. It had a camera. It could go online. It could do so much more than the DS lite. But I resisted because even the DS Lite still had backward compatibility to the older Game Boy advance cartridges. The DSI was a disappointment to me. I could not use my older cartridge games, only DS chips. Even though DSI screen was larger, I held out!

Finally Nintendo must have known I was holding out and added one I could not pass up. Even if it could not play my older games, the DSI XL now had absolutely 'huge' screens, two cameras and easy access to WIFI. That convinced me. I rebought a used SP for my older games. I put my 149.99 on the counter and purchased a DSI XL from my local game shop. I immediately started downloading games off the internet. I now own only one DS chip game: Animal Crossing Wild World. I eventually sold my newly acquired used SP and all my cartridge games. Can you believe that? Now I only download my games.

Yes after all that Nintendo cartridge madness I sold my beloved SP and all its games and nary shed a tear. How could that be? I had owned my newly acquired SP for less than 2 weeks after I got my XL. 'Why?' you ask. I wanted more download games from the DSI Shop online. Also, downloading games makes each game less than half the cost of chip games. A bargain I could not resist.

I am now hooked on downloads and playing my DSI XL online. Oh well, times change, but I still play Nintendo hand held games. And even at age 60 I am a video game fan. Guess I always will be!

Written and published by my wife Joyce Gentile.