Ecclesiastes 12:10

 I first noticed it on a trip, my phone had been plugged in the car but it was almost dead when I arrived. Weird. I figured the car charger was on the fritz. Then one night it didn’t charge. I began to see that something was wrong with my phone, my relatively new phone that I paid a lot of good money for. So I called the company.   You know how that went. I tried to talk to a person that wasn’t a native English speaker while they said my name over and over and they were going to be helpful. I just wanted my phone fixed. They said they would send me a new charger.   I wasn’t happy. I'd tried several different chargers on the phone and it had the same problem. Why weren’t they helping me! So after some voice raising, they agreed to send me a new phone.   I still wasn’t happy. Now it was going to be a week without my phone! So I tried to plug it in one more time.   You know what happened next. It charged perfectly. I tried again. It worked again....

  What the biggest man-made structure?   You might be thinking Great Pyramids, the Great Wall of China, or the proposed Mubarak al-Kabir Tower, in Kuwait. However, those are all wrong…. maybe.   It’s hard to answer that question. What do we mean by biggest? Tallest? Widest? Takes up the most area?  Even the term man-made structure can be problematic.  What if we really weren’t planning on making it, yet we did anyhow does that count?   If that is the case, then the answer might just be Fresh Kills, a garbage dump on Staten Island, New York.  Opened in 1948, the Fresh Kills landfill site (named after the Dutch word kil, meaning “small river”) soon became one of the largest structure in human history, trumping (at least by volume) the Great Wall of China.  The site is 4.6 square miles in area and, when operational, twenty barges, each carrying 650 tons of rubbish, were shipped in every day. At its peak, the dump was already more ...

    What would you cause more pressure, a shot to win or a shot to not lose? A great example of this is when soccer players take penalty kicks to settle a tie.  The odds of making a penalty kick are at 85%, for professional soccer players. So there is a high expectation that the kick should be made.       Imagine taking the last penalty shot for a professional team.  Which situation would you prefer? 1- Your team is down by one, and you have to make it to tie; if you miss, your team will lose. 2- Your team is tied, and you do not have to make it, but if you do make it, you will win.      According to the researc h of Geir Jordet and Ester Hartman , when missing the kick will cause the kicker’s team to lose, professional kickers make on those shots only 62% of the time. But when making the goal will result in a win, they find the net 92% of the time.  It is the same kick, the same twelve yards ever...