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I am wondering if anyone out there has a website that needs a redo or major redesign? A refugee we have been in contact with for many years has lost the financial help he was receiving from some supporters in Europe. The financial hardships of the times there (and the upcoming expensive winter) mean they can no longer afford to send him money for his daily living.

Cybersalt is growing and I can help him by giving him a job, but I'm not in a place where I can pay to train him him unless there is a paying project specifically for him to work on. This can be a win-win situation for all involved because I am willing to throw in a year of webhosting, a year of site monitoring and security updates, and I promise the price I quote for the work will be below what I normally charge and all will go to him. Of course, I will be supervising and the end product will be excellent and professional. If you are interested, please email me at tim@cybersalt.com

Today's video share is about a kind of seaweed that when mixed into the feed of cattle all but eliminates the methane in cow burps.  I suspect that Grandma Cybersalt will start mixing seaweed in my food for the same reason after she watches "What Seaweed and Cow Burps Have to Do with Climate Change."
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~ Pastor Tim

An old man living alone in South Armagh, whose only son was in Long Kesh Prison, didn't have anyone to dig his garden for his potatoes.  So he wrote to his son about his predicament.

The son sent the reply, "For HEAVENS SAKE, don't dig the garden up, that's where I buried the guns!!!!!"

At 3 AM the next morning, a dozen British soldiers turned up and dug the garden for 3 hours, but didn't find any guns.

Confused, the man wrote to his son telling him what had happened, asking him what he should do now?

The son sent the reply: "NOW plant the potatoes!"

Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus ... or a really cool opotamus?

- Mitch Hedberg

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Listening to choral music is an acquired taste.

"The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves. We have had our summer evenings; now for October eves!"

– Humbert Wolfe

Found in a fortune cookie:

"You are a poor, pathetic, gullible fool who seeks advice from bakery products."

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Sunday greetings, everyone - and welcome to October!

Grandma Cybersalt and I have seasons passes for the local Imax theatre. I realize that make us sound kind of old, but it actually helps keep us looking young - no, not because the theatre is dark!

Each year we renew our memberships the theatre re-uses our pictures from the first time we purchased! As long as we keep renewing we'll be forever young. Though, I suppose there will come a day when we we are so old they accuse us of having a fake membership card! If that happens, at least we'll be able to start over at a senior's rate.

We watched a new movie at the Imax theatre the other day. The trailer for "Train Time" is today's video share.
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~ Pastor Tim 

A travel agent said to his customer, "I can get you three days and two nights in Rome for a hundred bucks."

"How come so cheap?" replied the customer.

The travel agent told her, "The days are July 11, 12 and 13. The nights are July 21 and 22."

The problem with kleptomaniacs is that they always take things literally.

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Cholesterophobia: The fear of frying.

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”

– John Steinbeck

When I was about 20 yrs. old I was asked by a Minister in our church who my favorite fictional author was. I told him I was reading the complete works of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle.

He asked if I skipped chapters and pages or read part of one story then skipped to another. When I told him I read a story from start to finish he asked me why I would read the greatest book ever written any differently.

That was 25 yrs ago. I have since read the Bible from cover to cover 4 times. It was the best advice I ever received. Thanks to Pastor Stewart I've learned more than I could possibly have imagined.

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Rev. James Snyder, God's Penman, writes . . . . 

One thing about getting older is that you begin to understand the old saying that you don’t know what you don’t know. It has been so true for me. When I think I know everything, something comes up that I never even thought about.

Sometimes The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage brings up something that I need to learn and she is a persuasive teacher.

Truth be told, I didn’t really know what my tongue was all about. It’s been in my mouth from before the time I was born. And yet recently, I discovered a new aspect of my tongue.

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Oh look, Chicken Thursday!

There is a new devotional from Rev. Suneel Barkat on the Cybersalt Site (link below). Thanks to Cybersaltine Walter M. for helping with editing this after it's translation from Urdu.

Today's video share is the trailer for an upcoming Netflix documentary. "Island of the Sea Wolves" is about the island I live on! You will find the video on the page that opens with the link below.
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~ Pastor Tim

 Occasionally, airline attendants make an effort to make the "in-flight safety lecture," and their other announcements, a bit more entertaining.

Here are some real examples that have been heard or reported:

"Your seat cushions can be used for flotation, and in the event of an emergency water landing, please take them with our compliments."

"We do feature a smoking section on this flight; if you must smoke, please contact a member of the flight crew and they will escort you to the wing of the airplane."

"Smoking in the lavatories is prohibited. Any person caught smoking in the lavatories will be asked to leave the plane immediately."

Pilot - "Folks, we have reached our cruising altitude now, so I am going to switch the seat belt sign off. Feel free to move about as you wish, but please stay inside the plane till we land... it's a bit cold outside, and if you walk on the wings it affects the flight pattern."

And, after landing: "Thank you for flying Delta Business Express. We hope you enjoyed giving us the business as much as we enjoyed taking you for a ride."

As we waited just off the runway for another airliner to cross in front of us, some of the passengers were beginning to retrieve luggage from the overhead bins. The head attendant announced on the intercom, "This aircraft is equipped with a video surveillance system that monitors the cabin during taxiing. Any passengers not remaining in their seats until the aircraft comes to a full and complete stop at the gate will be strip-searched as they leave the aircraft."

Once on a Southwest flight, the pilot said, "We've reached our cruising altitude now, and I'm turning off the seat belt sign. I'm switching to autopilot, too, so I can come back there and visit with all of you for the rest of the flight."

As the plane landed and was coming to a stop at Washington National, a lone voice comes over the loudspeaker: "Whoa, big fella...WHOA..!"

"Should the cabin lose pressure, oxygen masks will drop from the overhead area. Please place the bag over your own mouth and nose before assisting children or adults acting like children."

"As you exit the plane, please make sure to gather all of your belongings. Anything left behind will be distributed evenly among the flight attendants. Please do not leave children or spouses."

"Last one off the plane must clean it."

And from the pilot during his welcome message: "We are pleased to have some of the best flight attendants in the industry...Unfortunately, none of them are on this flight...!"

Heard on Southwest Airlines just after a very hard landing in Salt Lake City: The flight attendant came on the intercom and said, "That was quite a bump and I know what ya'll are thinking. I'm here to tell you it wasn't the airline's fault, it wasn't the pilot's fault, it wasn't the flight attendants' fault.....it was the asphalt!"

Overheard on an American Airlines flight into Amarillo, Texas, on a particularly windy and bumpy day. During the final approach the Captain was really having to fight it. After an extremely hard landing, the Flight Attendant came on the PA and announced, "Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Amarillo. Please remain in your seats with your seatbelts fastened while the Captain taxis what's left of our airplane to the gate!"

Another flight Attendant's comment on a less than perfect landing: "We ask you to please remain seated as Captain Kangaroo bounces us to the terminal."

After a particularly rough landing during thunderstorms in Memphis, a flight attendant on a Northwest flight announced: "Please take care when opening the overhead compartments because, after a landing like that I'm sure that everything has shifted."

From a Southwest Airlines employee.... "Welcome aboard Southwest Flight XXX to YYY. To operate your seatbelt, insert the metal tab into the buckle, and pull tight. It works just like every other seatbelt, and if you don't know how to operate one, you probably shouldn't be out in public unsupervised."

"In the event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, oxygen masks will drop from the ceiling. Stop screaming, grab the mask, and pull it over your face. If you have a small child travelling with you, secure your mask before assisting with theirs. If you are travelling with two small children, decide now which one you love more. Weather at our destination is 50 degrees with some broken clouds, but they'll try to have them fixed before we arrive. Thank you, and remember, nobody loves you, or your money, more than Southwest Airlines."

An airline pilot wrote that on this particular flight he had hammered his ship into the runway really hard. The airline had a policy which required the first officer to stand at the door while the passengers exited, smile, and give them a "Thanks for flying XYZ airline." He said that in light of his bad landing, he had a hard time looking the passengers in the eye, thinking that someone would have a smart comment. Finally everyone had gotten off except for this little old lady, walking with a cane. She said, "Sonny, mind if I ask you a question?" "Why no Ma'am," said the pilot, "what is it?" The little old lady said, "Did we land or were we shot down?"

After a real crusher of a landing in Phoenix, the Flight Attendant came on with, "Ladies and Gentlemen, please remain in your seats until Captain Crash and the Crew have brought the aircraft to a screeching halt up against the gate. And, once the tire smoke has cleared and the warning bells are silent, we'll open the door and you can pick your way through the wreckage to the terminal."

Part of a Flight Attendant's arrival announcement: "We'd like to thank you folks for flying with us today. And, the next time you get the insane urge to go blasting through the skies in a pressurized metal tube, we hope you'll think of us here at US Airways."

I heard there were a bunch of break-ins over at the parkade; that is wrong on so many levels.

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Most auto accidents are caused by a mechanical fault - the loose nut behind the steering wheel.

"In school they told me 'Practice makes perfect.' And then they told me that nobody is perfect, so then I stopped practicing."

- Steven Wright

The man was in no shape to drive, so he wisely left his car parked and walked home. As he was walking unsteadily along, he was stopped by a policeman.

"What are you doing out here at 2 A.M.?" said the officer.

"I'm going to a lecture," the man said.

"And who is going to give a lecture at this hour?" the cop asked.

"My wife," said the man.

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Rev. Suneel Barkat . . . . 

God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.

According to Dr. Billy Graham, he used to read five Psalms every day- that taught him how to get along with God. Then he read a chapter of Proverbs every day, and that taught him how to get along with his fellow man.

Martin Luther says the book of the Psalms is a little Bible that is the door of worship. When we open this door we find ourselves in the worship of the Lord.

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Sunday greetings, everyone.

I am returning to my former church today to lead a memorial service for a lady who passed away back in November 2020. I am finding that the time delay is casting a very different perspective for my feelings as I prepare to speak. I am still sad she is gone, but the absence of the shock of recent loss is putting her long begun eternal life with Jesus in a less complicated light.

One of the painful parts of losing a loved one is that we know they get over their leaving so much faster than we who are left behind. Of course we want them to be happy where they are, but that is hard to fully embrace and rest in when we are so still so overwhelmingly sad. It's a conundrum that results from Jesus wiping away their tears so much quicker than our own. For those of us left in this world, we must suffer waiting for time to diminish some of our grief.

Today's video share will remind you of the time you flew that F/A-18F Super Hornet. You don't remember that? Well, watch this 360 degree video (look around by dragging your mouse on it) and I'm sure it will all come back to you!
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~ Pastor Tim 

Bidding at a local auction was proceeding furiously when the auctioneer suddenly announced,

"A gentleman in this room has lost a wallet containing $10,000. If it is returned, he will pay a reward of $2,000."

There was a moment's silence, and then from the back of the room came the cry,

"Two thousand five hundred!"

I know they say that money talks, but all mine says is "Goodbye."

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Time to lie on the beach. Yeah, I never tell the truth anywhere.

"Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will."

- A. W. Tozer

Lenora, 95-years-old and in excellent health, confided that she was terribly worried:

"Every one of my friends has already died and gone on to heaven. I'm afraid they're all wondering where I went!"

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Rev. James Snyder, God's Penman, writes . . . . 

Contrary to the idea that the older you get, the more you forget, it has never been my experience. I have forgotten things for as long as I can remember. I even forget things that never actually happened. 

It runs in our family, though it came to me legitimately down through the generations. A nut doesn’t fall far from the tree.

As a young person, I was quite fascinated with uncle Fred. Everybody who knew him called him Sir Forgets-A-Lot. At the time, I didn’t know what they were talking about because good old uncle Fred seemed like a very nice guy.

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