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Sligo Young Adult eWeekend
May 10, 2008
www.sligoyoungadults.org
Happy May
We welcome you to Young Adults Sabbath School this week. We hope that you will join us at 9:30 am for The Way Café to enjoy a great time of food and fellowship.
May Theme: Witnessing to Others
The theme for this month will be Witnessing to Others. We will be discussing various topics that deal with how we can be a witness.
May 10
The topic for this Sabbath is “The Importance of Witnessing” and it will be presented by Herbert Eisele.
Announcements/Socials
This Sabbath will be our Young Adult Potluck. Please check the website for the location. We look forward to seeing you after the 11:00 am Service for food and fellowship.
The next FNO, will be May 23, 2008. Please check the website for the location.
Our upcoming social event for this month will be canoeing. This will take place on May 17. There will be more information coming up on the web.
INews
What if a computer could make you a picture-perfect glass of milk, let you feel the tension as it pulled an ant’s leg from another room, and chat you up with the charisma of Oprah Winfrey? No one machine can do all three — yet.
But some sophisticated new projects are showing just how far we’ve come toward creating an “I can’t believe it’s not real” virtual world.Last month, Brookhaven National Laboratory computer scientist Michael McGuigan told New Scientist magazine he believed a “Matrix”-style virtual world, in which one cannot always distinguish between what’s real and what’s not, could be up and running in just a few years. His optimism derived in part from the impressive ramp-up in processing speed he obtained with the lab’s BlueGene/L supercomputer while running a conventional ray-tracing software program that mimics the effect of natural light.
The result? An eye-fooling virtual beam.
Henrik Wann Jensen, an associate professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California at San Diego, is among those leading the charge toward more powerful algorithms that yield, say, a convincing fog-shrouded lighthouse or a frosty glass of 2 percent milk. Best of all, the convergence of speed and power means those virtual stand-ins don’t necessarily require a room-sized supercomputer to produce them.
“Now is a pretty exciting time in graphics,” Jensen says. “We’ve reached a level now where we can make very realistic images: five to 10 hours to make images more or less perfect, where people say, ‘Wow, that’s a photograph!’ ” Maintaining the same illusion for real-time animation isn’t as far along, largely due to its enormous appetite for computing power. But that limitation is quickly falling by the wayside, Jensen says, with the aid of muscular new graphics processors like Intel’s Larrabee chip and Nvidia’s CUDA technology.
Note from Leader
This is Kris Boyd, your leader for this week. I would like to invite each and everyone of you to come out to all of the fun and exciting things that we have planned this month. Since the topic for this month is witnessing to others, what better way is there to witness to somebody by inviting them to come out to Sabbath school as well as our other activities and socials.
I would like to challenge you all to invite a friend, or co-worker to Sabbath school this week as well as the potluck. Witnessing to somebody does not have to be a complicated and or intimidating thing. It does not always mean going out on the streets on a hot July afternoon in a suit and tie sweating like Niagara Falls hitting random people with a fancy array of Bible texts and doctrines that explains why their actions are wrong and why they should Follow Christ or face certain death( please excuse my exaggeration).
Rather, Witnessing to somebody can be as simple and friendly as inviting them to go on a canoeing trip with the young adult group. Bringing somebody in an environment where there are a lot of positive, and friendly Christian people having fun together is the most affective way to witness to somebody. Often times, it is best to let our actions do the talking.
Have a good quality week!
Kris Boyd |
