ANOTHER FASCINATING DVD

Came into possession of a dvd of a pie social held at Trinity United Church in Madoc on November 15, 2009. It included a duet by Harold and Karen Bailey, Leah Lebeau playing her fiddle and Ron Moffat doing backup on the piano  

HAVE YOU MET THE MUFFIN MAN? AN INSPIRING MEMOIR OF AN ENTREPRENERIAL JOURNEY

                

AKRON, OH (JULY 27, 2021)—What started as a bid on an abandoned building in Akron, Ohio, to what became a multi-million-dollar empire, Steve Marks co-founder of Main Street Gourmet shares his story of entrepreneurship in his memoir The Muffin Man Chronicles.

Marks’ journey started as a gourmet muffin shop that grew from a single retail location to a major wholesale operation. As a result, Marks also launched the world-class Akron Marathon, an event known across the globe.

Marks’ journey of baking muffins, to pitching McDonalds (and succeeding!), to meeting a president of the United States, is all a part of his amazing journey on owning and starting several businesses. Even congressman and astronaut John Glenn said his muffins were out of this world!

“Launching a business in my hometown was my first priority. I had no idea the journey it would become, and the different opportunities that helped me grow not only as an entrepreneur, but as an individual from that $5,000 auction bid back in 1985! It is my goal with sharing my story that I can help to inspire and guide others who have the entrepreneurial spark so they can go after their goals and achieve them,” said Marks.

For those who are interested in entrepreneurship, love a good “Shark Tank” tale, or are looking for a little insight of the blood, sweat, and yes, sometimes muffin batter, that goes into running a business, The Muffin Man Chronicles is a book you must pick up!.

AH: As a lover of reading as well as baked goods, I'll definitely have to pick up a copy of this book.

DX LOG 7/22

89.3 CJLF-FM-1 Peterborough with news.

89.5 CIUT-FM Toronto with music way too upbeat for that time of the morning.

91.9 CKLY-FM Lindsay with news.

96.5 WCMF Rochester with caller Bill embarrassing himself on morning show.

99.5 WDCX Buffalo with Charles Stanley.

100.5 Fresh Radio Peterborough with hot adult contemporary music.

101.3 WRMM-FM Rochester with morning show.

104.3 Fresh Radio Kingston with hot adult contemporary music. 

WHY TRUE CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE UNAFRAID

When people fear those who are unafraid. Being unafraid is about the knowlege that brings your body, soul and spirit together in truth which is the truth of God which is far greater than the fear of any of mankind's. Seek the truth in Jesus' name and you will find it. Amen.

Doug 

YESTERDAY, TODAY AND THE END

Do you believe in God the Creator?

Do you believe the Creator of all things good and evil who had locked evil away till man opened its gate.

Eve was deceived in the Garden of Eden beccause her man let his guard down to let the wrath of the whore and the beast into the world that God had provided for him. The beginning of the end had begun. The reign of the horrors of Hell has been following ever since.

When God sent His son Jesus with His message of the truth the fear of Hell tried to kill Him but that was Good's plan all along in order to achieve the salvation that only His truth is in the meaning of His purpose.

God has all authority. Romans 13 1

The delusion of evil.

The government is to do away with evil, not become it. To be ministers of God is their true purpose. Obey God rather then man. When a government raises ungodliness over godliness we must turn away.

Is what we are being told about the COVID vaccine of the image of God (Jesus Christ?)

Learn to know which god your overlords are following.

When we follow leaders of ungodly ways we are being led to a place of the god of despair and darkness.

God is with us. Denying His truth does not remove it from your life. Putting on the mask of sin does not hide you from your Creator's judgment.

Rejecting God's truth gives Satan powers over your choices. God's allowance of freewill and hoice brings you to your judgment of choices made.

Deuteronomy 31 Heroes are the people who do the right thing no matter what the consequences.

The fear of God is the beginning of the understanding of the consequences of sin.

The people (scientists) telling you to get the shot are the same people (scientists?) that are telling you that men can get pregnant.

Psalm 91

Doug

MINI DX LOG 7/15

Live 88.5 Ottawa with alternative rock music.

89.3 CJLF-FM-1 Peterborough with "Focus on the Family."

92.5 WBEE Rochester with country music.

95.1 WAEO Rochester with talk about Richard Sherman.

99.5 WDCX Buffalo with Alistaire Begg.

Move 105.7 Niagara with ID. 

FALLING ANGELS

There are four ways in which the film, based on Barbara Gowdy's novel of the same name, improved on the book.

Firstly, the scene where the father comes home with the new car, promises to build a new rec room and tells the story of how he and the mother met. The book had mentions, but not scenes, of times when life was remotely happy in that household. Showing us in the book as opposed to telling us would have been better for Gowdy to do.

Secondly, Sandy's response to Lou, "I could never kill a baby." This helps further cement Sandy as the one most likely to break the cycle.

Incidentally, in having an abortion in the book Lou did the same thing as the girls' mother did to their brother.

Third, making Tom American. Gowdy gives us no real indications of his Englishness. He doesn't use Britishisms, he isn't especially fond of English cultural touchstones, he doesn't talk about British politics or social issues, and their isn't even much from his parents, who we hardly see anyway, that the family is English. They go to a British pub every Wednesday, but so what. I picture Tom as being from an upper middle class family from the mid-Atlantic states.

Fourth, the scene where the mother runs away and is found by Lou outside a church. This being a typically cynical work of Canadian literature, "Falling Angels" the book has no real points where the girls run into anyone who could help them, whereas if Lou had accepted the congregants' offers of help their situation might have had a chance to improve.

However, the movie left out a lot of things from the book which would have been helpful if included.

First, the filmmakers should have included the chapter from 1959 featuring Christmas, Mom's hangover flu and the boy with the metal plate in his head. It makes far more sense the girls would have found out about their dead brother from their bratty cousin spilling the beans and that Norma, Lou and Sandy's parents would have learned that the girls found out than the way it happens in the film. Little Jimmy really isn't even the point of the story anyway: the girls' abusive childhoods and how they end up reacting to them is.

The flu and Lou's encounter with the crazy boy would have helped to show the viewer how terrible these sisters' lives were even from childhood. The movie mainly shows them as teenagers.

The chapter about them running away would have been helpful in the film. That was the one time they tried to escape and the one time they ran into someone whom they told about their living situation.

The full chapter about the fallout shelter should have been in there, including a montage of Norma and her father building the thing. In the film, the full horror is only hinted at, albeit the whole chapter doesn't make sense in the first place. How could the neighbours not have noticed the car was still in the driveway and how could they not have noticed the trailer Dad was taking the family to Disneyland in wasn't there?

The character of Sherry should have been in the movie. In the film, Lou was kind of one-dimensional. A bit more of Lou's abuse of Norma would have been helpful in the viewers' forming a picture of Lou as well.

Likewise scenes of Lou babysitting the six month old would have achieved this purpose of rounding her out.

The part where Sherry steals Tom, Lou gets pregnant and subsequently has an abortion should have been included.

It probably would have been helpful to include the part where Norma comes on to Stella and Stella subsequently ends their friendship.

I don't know whether I like the end of the film or the end of the book better.

THE VACCINATION GOON SQUAD

When the vaccination goon squad

Shows up at your door

You'll know by the masks on their faces

Just what they have in store.

It's to lie to and deceive you

Into complying with Earth's whore

The one on the back of the beast

The beast of their evil chore.

To blind you and muzzle you,

 To remove any truth from your core,

When Satan comes knocking

His presence you should ignore.

With God's good grace and guidance

And Christ at your fore,

And standing on the rock of Christ

With Him as your floor.

Doug

BY FAITH NOT SIGHT

2 Corinthians 5 7

For we live by believing, not seeing.

Reading God's Word is done through the heart.

If you open the door for the devil then he will walk into your life. When you open the door to Jesus then the devil will flee. When you begin to seek the truth of Jesus Christ, your vision becomes broader and brighter and you begin to look forward, not back.

When you seek the ways of this world, your darkness becomes blindness and leads to death.

John 6 6

{People hate God's truth because of their evil ways that God warns them about the consequences of.

Self-righteousness caused God to separate us into the different cultures of the present time. Genesis 11 Revelation 8 The world has never learned from its past encounters with unrighteousness and ungodliness as our differences make us fear and hate each other as so many do not see our truth and our meaning.

Jesus is about the complete turning away from evil ways of the world by the meaning of His Father's truth in Him.  

God does His will through us; the devil has us do his will for him. 

The unimaginable truth is not the world we live in: it is the world we die into when the time of our life here is done. 

There is no true religion on earth, only a true following that is Jesus Christ. The only way is the truth in God's way that is the logic and common sense that is power of truth and answers in the wisdom and knowlege of God who can not lie or be wrong.

Doug

DX LOG 7/8

Live 88.5 Ottawa with Audioslave, ID and into Beaches.

89.3 CJLF-FM-1 Peterborough with Toby Mack.

89.5 CIUT-FM Toronto with rap music.

Hot 89.9 Ottawa morning show with talk about male hosts lack of ability to barbecue and how his wife has to do it for him.

91.7 CKLY-FM Lindsay with Bon jovi.

99.1 CHRI Ottawa morning show with suggestion about what to do on a rainy day, namely have a Christian movie marathon (gag me with a spoon.)

Boom 99.7 Ottawa with Better Than Ezra.

101.9 CFRC Kingston with "Democracy Now." 

DX LOG 7/5

        Can't believe how many old friends showed up this morning.

88.3 WAER with "Morning Edition" supported by Little Passports.

89.5 CIUT Toronto with "Morning Ride."

89.9 WRVO Oswego with "Morning Edition."

90.5 WBER Rochester Ernie with "The Shift." Played Icehouse.

91.1 WSEN Syracuse with classical music.

91.9 CKLY Lindsay morning show sponsored by Homestead Oxygen and Medical Supplies.

92.5 WBEE Rochester with country.

93.1 WNTQ Syracuse with summer ID.

93.3 WFCL Rochester R&B song from the seventies, ID and into Greenday.

94.7 WYYY Syracuse with commercials and weather forecast.

95.1 WAEO Rochester with "Rover's Morning Glory."

95x with "The Morning Mess."

97.3 WFRY Watertown with "The Morning Splash."

99.5 WDCX Buffalo with Michael Yusef.

100.5 WVOR Rochester with Elvis Duran.

101.1 Ottawa simulcasting News 1310.

101.3 WRMM Rochester with music.

101.7 unid. station playing CCM.

101.9 WJIV with Tony Evans.

Big Dog 103.5 playing country.

 105.3 Family Life Radio station with news and Kevin Williams forecast.

106.5 WKRH or WKRL Syracuse or Fairhaven playing rock.

107.9 WWHT Syracuse playing top forty.