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Would You Recognize A Stradivarius?
Secrets of Stradivarius Explained
By Brandon Keim 
July 03, 2008 | 11:05:10 AMCategories: Materials Science, Music, Mystery
Scientists may finally have discovered the secret of Stradivarius violins.
In a study published yesterday in Public Library of Science ONE, Dutch researchers ran five of the peerless instruments, made in the early 18th century by Italian craftsman Antonio Stradivari and synonymous with harmonic perfection, through a CT scanner.
The resulting three-dimensional X-rays revealed that wood used in Stradivari’s violins possessed an exceptionally uniform density, with little variation in growth rings added by trees each season.
Summertime growth typically outpaces wintertime growth, producing broad rings of relatively permeable wood that alternate with narrow, dense winter bands. That differential affects the wood’s harmonic qualities.
Fortunately for Stradivari, he lived during the Little Ice Age: trees grew little more in summer than in winter. Hence the uniformly dense wood, hence three centuries of experts baffled by the resonance of Stradivarius violins, which have been variously attributed to varnishes, boiling and submersion in ponds.
A question, Wired Science readers: uniformly dense wood made Stradivari’s violins sound better. Are there musical instruments that would benefit from the highly variable grains likely produced in the wildy oscillating growing seasons of our changing climate?
A Comparison of Wood Density between Classical Cremonese and Modern Violins [PLoS ONE]
Image: Courtesy of PLoS ONE, comparative back-plate wood density, with Stradivari’s violins in the bottom row and modern violins on top; video of violin maestro Joshua Bell playing a Stradivarius in a Washington, DC subway station. I previously posted on this read it here
North Dakota Millionaires To Fund Prayer Movment
Oil is making millionaires in North Dakota
By JAMES MacPHERSON, Associated Press WriterMon Jun 30, 5:00 AM ET
Oscar Stohler was raised in a sod house in western North Dakota and ranched there for nearly seven decades. He never gave much thought to what lay below the grass that fattened his cattle.
When oilmen wanted to drill there last year, Stohler, 83, doubted oil would be found two miles underground on his property. He even joked about it.
“I told them if they hit oil, I was going to buy a Cadillac convertible and put those big horns on the front and wear a 10-gallon hat,” Stohler recalled.
He still drives his old pickup and wears a mesh farm cap — but it’s by choice.
In less than a year, Stohler and his wife, Lorene, 82, have become millionaires from the production of one well on their land near Dunn Center, a mile or so from the sod home where Oscar grew up. A second well has begun producing on their property and another is being drilled — all aimed at the Bakken shale formation, a rich deposit that the U.S. Geological Survey calls the largest continuous oil accumulation it has ever assessed.
Bill Johnson on Todd Bentley
The Heresey Hunters, the skeptics, and the cynics have all been abuzz commenting and opinionating on Todd Bentley and the Lakeland revival. Bill Johnson gave an excellent response to an email he received recently.
It’s a big challenge to us all not to be so quick to sit in judgement of others….
“How in God’s name can you endorse Todd Bentley?” (email sent to Bill Johnson)
“Have you spent time with Todd?
Do you know him?
Have you watched him with his wife?
Have you seen how he treats his kids?
Have you spent any time with his staff?
Have you been to his ministry?
Has he been to yours?
Have you laid hands on him and prayed?
Has he laid hands on you and prayed?
Have you grieved over tragedy together?
Have you celebrated victory together?
Has he sought your counsel and has he travelled great distance just to meet with you privately for advice?
Have you ever recieved his counsel?
Have you ever been in the room when God shows up on him, used him in stunning miracles?
Have you seen him operate in word of knowledge and the prophetic?
Have you met with his council of elders?
Have you personally benefited from his gift?
Has he benefited from your gift and ministry?
Has he ever honoured you for who you are in God?
Has he partnered with you as a friend?
Have you sacrificed for his welfare, for that of his family?
Have you sought God with him?
Have you ever worshipped the Lord with him?
I didn’t think so…..
I have, and I will continue to support those I have walked with in life and ministry
He is my friend
More importantly God calls him friend
and if you and I were ever friends at that level and people hated you, turned against you, started web pages to tear down your ministry, criticised you to your friends,
wrote against you in christian magazines, criticised you on the radio, wrote emails to other conference speakers and authors…
I’d still be your friend
By the way, criticism in the form of a question, is not a question.
But to respond to your statement “how in God’s name can you endorse Todd Bently?”
Its easy, I do it in God’s name.”
Food for thought
To listen to the whole podcast visit Bethel Church and the podcast is called the Loyalty of Bethel
To Answer Jennifer’s Question
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International House Prayer Northwest:We plan to launch consistent weekly gatherings this fall. during the summer we will be gathering on a monthly basis for teaching and prayer in preparation of the launch. Target Dates may 16-17,june 20-21,july 18-19,august 15-16 If you would like to be kept to date on various events surrounding the International House of Prayer Northwest please email us at: info@internationalhouseofprayernorthwest.org
Todd Bentley Officially Commissioned
Leaders Commission Todd Bentley at ‘Lakeland Outpouring’
The special service was billed by leaders as one of the greatest moments in revival history
[06.24.08] Canadian revivalist Todd Bentley, leader of the “Lakeland Outpouring,” was commissioned as an evangelist last night in a special ceremony in Lakeland, Fla., that was broadcast into millions of homes by God TV.
California pastors Ché Ahn and Bill Johnson, along with Canadian pastor John Arnott, laid hands on the 32-year-old Bentley while Peter Wagner, leader of the International Coalition of Apostles, read a statement about the need for apostolic alignment. Other prominent leaders from the apostolic and prophetic movements stood on the platform to show their support for Bentley and to endorse the revival, which began in early April and is now in its 83rd day of continuous meetings. Read it all here
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Who We Are
Marie Wiens has been a sales and marketing executive in the business world since 1980. She won the Women of Enterprise national entrepreneurial award in 1990 for her success in building her small business into a national food manufacturing company. Marie was a successful restaurateur in
Seattle, and served as a development officer and consultant with Medical Teams International and Youth With A Mission.
Gary Wiens holds the Master of Divinity degree and has been involved in pastoral ministry since 1976. He was a leader in the Association of Vineyard Churches from 1984 through 1991, and from 1999 to 2007 was in leadership with Mike Bickle at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City. Gary traveled the world as an ambassador for IHOP-KC, teaching on the topics of intimacy with God and the end times. He is the author of two books, Bridal Intercession and Come To Papa.
Gary and Marie have written two books together – Reaching Your Power Potential and The Curse: Exposing the Roots of the Gender War.
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