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    How to remove the grease from cabinets.

     

    The wood is a material easy to care, if you keep it away from water and grease. The grease stains from wood furniture shouldn’t frighten you when you discover them. With a little patience, you can restore the shine and brilliance of your furniture. It is very important to use solutions that will not destroy the wood.

     

    Grease stains can be removed from the wood surfaces with professional solutions for this type of dirt. Before using these solutions you need to be sure that they will not destroy the wood.  To do that try these solutions on a less visible area of the cabinet.

     

    1. If the stain is fresh , put an ice cube over it. Thus, the grease will solidify and you will be able to remove it from the wood surface with a spatula. Careful not to scratch the furniture.

     

    2. Prepare a solution made of 2 black tea bags that keep them for 20 minutes in hot water. Wipe the grease stains with a clean cloth soaked in that tea. After you clean the place thoroughly, wipe the wood with a common cleaning solution for wood surfaces.

     

    3. Grease stains on wood surfaces can be removed with turpentine, sodium phosphate or brake fluid. All these solutions are on the market, but you should ensure that you will not destroy the furniture. Test them before use.

     

    4. Grease stains can be removed from cabinets with salt. Apply on the stained area a sufficient amount of salt that completely cover the stain of fat. Leave the salt act until all the fat is absorbed. Repeat until stain fat was absorbed in salt. Then wipe wood  surface with your normal cleaning solution.

     

    5. Another suitable solution for grease stains removal on wood surfaces is obtained from dish soap and boiled water. Mix well this solution, until it forms a foam consistency. With a clean cloth, wipe the grease stain only with foam detergent. After the stain has been removed, wipe the place with warm water- without detergent. Thoroughly dry the wood surface and wipe it with your normal cleaning solution.

     

    http://perfecthousewife.net/how-to-remove-the-grease-from-cabinets 


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  • Beware about the false preachers!


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    Which is about the adventures of writer and artist Tove Jansson’s career, including the creation of the world-renowned Moomin characters.

     

    Most of the major Moomins, from left to right: the Snork maiden, Moomintroll, Moominpappa (in hammock with top hat), Moominmamma, Little My and Snufkin. Photo: Moomin Characters Ltd

     

    Seven decades after the first Moomin book appeared, Tove Jansson’s Moomintrolls are more than just popular – they’re classics.

     

    “We are aiming to establish the Moomins alongside Donald Duck and Asterix,” said the managing director of Moomin Characters Ltd in 1995. The Moomins experienced a boom in the early 1990s, when a Japanese animated cartoon series caused a surge in popularity for the Finnish troll figure in a large part of the world.

     

    The family firm of Moomin creator Tove Jansson began to intensify its marketing, for example by selling, in Japan, a lunchbox with chopsticks decorated with Moomin figures. The Japanese love the Moomins – the first Moomin TV series was produced in Japan in 1972, and a million Moomin books have been sold there.

     

    The characters become classics

     

    The current creative director and chairman of the board, Tove’s niece Sophia Jansson, describes the Moomins as having attained classic status, rather than using the term “boom.” “Three generations have already grown up with the Moomins,” she says, “and something happens at that point – the characters become classics.”

    Tove Jansson and the Moomin story.

    An artist from a family of artists: Tove Jansson painting at home in 1956. Photo: Reino Loppinen/Lehtikuva.

     

    Moomintroll received his first taste of international success in 1954, when London’s Evening News began publishing a Moomin comic strip drawn by Tove Jansson and later her brother Lars. At the height of its success, the syndicated series was read in 40 different countries. Moomin World, built on a small island in southwestern Finland, attracts thousands of children each summer.

     

    All this began with Tove Jansson’s illustrated Moomin books, originally written in Swedish, one of Finland’s official languages. A total of 13 books appeared between 1945 and 1977; they’ve been translated into 43 languages. The Moomins are at their most original in the books. They encounter catastrophes and adventures and return happily to the idyllic Moomin Valley, whose inhabitants are characterised by sensitivity and tolerance, as well as mischievousness in some cases.

     

    As the series progresses, they enter a more severe climate, try to adapt to uncertainty and ponder the problems of friendship, solitude and freedom.

     

    How the Moomins came to life.

     

    Jansson’s parents were artists whose bohemian life in their Helsinki studio and summers spent on a small island in the Gulf of Finland form the background to the Moomin books. The Moomin figure appeared for the first time in public as Tove Jansson’s emblem in an anti-Hitler cartoon which she published in the late 1930s, but it had been born earlier at the Janssons’ summer cottage – as a drawing on the outhouse wall, in fact.

    Tove Jansson and the Moomin story.

    Tove Jansson in a summer incarnation, as photographed by her brother Per Olov.Photo: P.O. Jansson/Moomin Chars.

     

    Over her career Jansson related several versions of this story. One of them emerged in a 1984 interview in Finland-Swedish newspaper Ny Tid, republished in English in 2008 with the original Moomin comic strip Moomintroll and the End of the World (Tigertext):

     

    She and her brother, Per Olov, used to write their thoughts on the outhouse wall, “trying to be profound,” Jansson said. One day Per Olov wrote a quotation from a philosopher (in one version of the story it was Kant, in another it was Schopenhauer and in another the philosopher remains unnamed). Tove wanted to contradict him but the quote “was so impossible to argue with that my only chance was to draw the ugliest figure I could.” That’s how Moomintroll was created.

     

    He was later joined by other characters: Moominmamma, Moominpappa, the philosophical and musical nomad Snufkin, the comically selfish yet timid Sniff, the irresistable Snork maiden, the tiny mischief-maker Little My, and the terrible Groke, who turns the ground around her to ice as she walks.

     

    There are others, as well, with equally intriguing names (for full explanations we refer you to the Moomin books): Hemulens, Fillyjonks, Hattifatteners, Too-Ticky, Misabel, Whomper, the Joxter, the Muddler, the Muskrat, the Mymble and the mystery-shrouded Dweller under the Sink.

     

    “I have not wished to philosophise or educate anyone, but have amused principally myself with my stories,” said Tove Jansson, who also gained prominence as a painter and a prose writer.

     

    http://finland.fi/arts-culture/tove-jansson-and-the-moomin-story/ 


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  • Joel Osteen: false preacher!


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    Is our modern Saturday the Sabbath? A History of Calendar Change.

     

    How can we be sure that the Saturday of our modern week is the original Sabbath of the Scriptures?

     

    It is commonly believed that many calendar changes have taken place since the time of Yeshua. This is not true. There has been only one change. This change, from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian Calendar, had no effect whatsoever upon the order of the days of the week. Julius Caesar instituted the Julian Calendar in 46 BC. The month of July was named in honor of Julius. When Augustus Caesar succeeded Julius, he also wanted a
    month named after himself, so he gave the month following July (originally Sextilis) the name of August. Since August only had 30 days, and Augustus considered himself as important as Julius, whose month of July had 31 days, Augustus took one day from February and added it to August. The changes made by Augustus did not affect the order of the days of the week.

     

    The Julian Calendar remained unchanged for 1600 years. It made provision for a year of 365.25 mean solar days. But the year actually consists of 365.242195 days. Because of this slight discrepancy, as the centuries passed, the seasons began to shift. By 1582 AD this discrepancy had grown to ten days. In that year Pope Gregory XIII established a new calendar which corrected the discrepancy, and is known as the Gregorian Calendar.

     

    Pope Gregory XIII omitted ten days following October 4, 1582. What would have been October 5 became October 15.

     

    Spain, Portugal, and Italy abopted the new Gregorian Calendar at once.  France waited until December, and it adopted the change by calling the 10th of December the 20th of December. The Catholic states of Germany adopted the calendar in 1583. The Protestant states of Germany did not adopt the new calendar until 1700. About the same time, Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark adopted the new calendar. England adopted the calendar in 1752.

    Is our modern Saturday the Sabbath?

    The Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed. vol. 4, p. 988, tells us:

     

    The week is a period of seven days, having no reference whatever to the celestial motions--a circumstance to which it owes its unalterable uniformity... It has been employed from time immemorial in almost all eastern countries.

     

    The Hebrew people spoke of the days of the week by number rather than by name. The only day that had a name was the seventh day which was called Shabat, the Sabbath, or the rest day. The day prior to the Sabbath was designated the preparation day. On this day, preparations were made for the family so that the Sabbath might truly be a day of rest for the entire family. All the days were numbered and spoken of in reference to the Sabbath. The first day was "first toward the Sabbath." The second day was "second toward the Sabbath, and so on. This was also the practice among the Syrians, Arabians, etc.  In at least 108 different languages the name for the seventh day, corresponding to our "Saturday", is a word meaning "rest day."

     

    Can we be sure that the Sabbath has never been lost since Creation?  G-d sanctified the seventh day at Creation (Gen. 2:1-3). Even if the weekly Sabbath had been lost through the years, it was certainly re-established when G-d instructed the Israelites to not gather manna on Sabbath (Ex. 16:4). G-d later announced to the Israelites at Mount Sinai that keeping His Sabbath holy was part of His Ten Commandment law (Ex. 20:8-11). Since Mount Sinai the Jews have faithfully kept G-d's Sabbath, despite captivity, persecution, and dispersion, right down to our current day. Orthodox Jews, the Catholic church, Protestants, historians, and astronomers all agree with each other that there is no evidence that time has ever been lost. The same Sabbath that Yeshua and the apostles worshipped on (Luke 4:16,31; Acts 13:14-16,42,44) is the same seventh day Sabbath that Sabbath-keeping Christians worship on today… (By S. Berkowitz).

     

    http://www.remnantofgod.org/7thdayneverchanged.htm


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