![]() I learned this Bible story as a child, and it was always taught with the woman, the widow, being lifted up as an example of generosity and giving our all to God. The second part of our lesson for today might be familiar to you. In our gospel lesson today, we encounter Jesus seeing and speaking about the actions of a widow, and so we should perk up, knowing already that widows are a particular focus of compassionate attention by God in the scriptures, and a marginalized group who God directs God’s people to consider with particular attention and responsibility. When we read the gospels, we see Jesus live out a ministry that focuses on being in relationship with the most vulnerable people too. Perhaps today we would not think of the widow, the orphan, the poor, and the stranger in these same “categories,” but those most at risk in our society today are not so different, are they? We’re responsible for and to the most vulnerable. The most vulnerable belong to God in a special way, and so it follows that if we seek to love like God loves, the most vulnerable are meant to be special to us, too. God’s love and God’s commandments call for special care for those most at risk in the community. In the Hebrew Bible, these people are sometimes called the quartet of the vulnerable - the poor, the orphaned, the stranger or foreigner, and the widow. In the witness of the scriptures, we see that God’s way of loving gives special attention to those who are the most vulnerable. That probably sounds like an enormous task - and it is! It’s our whole life’s work! We’re responsible for one another because we belong to one another - not as in ownership of each other, but in relationship with one another, bound together by God’s love for us. We become responsible for everyone for whom God is responsible. If we strive to love like God, we love who God loves and try to make them the recipient of our care and attention just as God has done. It means that if someone belongs to God, they belong to us too. It means being part of a community that strives to love like and love who God loves. I think, actually, it’s what it means to be part of the living communion of saints, what we might call the body of Christ. That sense of belonging - that when I become a part of this community, these stories, your stories, your people, belong to me too - that’s not just a mindset I think the community of faith holds when we’re thinking about remembered saints who have died. I learn their stories, and they become mine too, a part of me too, even though I never met them. I’m a clergyperson in the United Methodist Church, and over the years that I’ve served in different communities, I’ve often felt that - I arrive to a new place of ministry, bringing my own memories of loved ones with me, and I arrive to meet, through my congregations, a new set of saints. As I share in this community, I share in your stories. I don’t have to have known your people, your saints for them to become mine, as I become part of this community. That’s what’s so sacred to me, though, about celebrations of All Saints or Dia de los Muertos. But I don’t know many of you well yet, and I don’t yet know the stories and people of this congregation - the saints that have shaped this community of faith. I worshiped online with you, and was thrilled to be able to start attending in person this fall. I’m new to Christ Church - I started worshipping here because Mark invited me when I started back at Drew for the PhD program last fall. ![]() You are the result of the love of thousands.” We think about the love of thousands that shapes us in this place, in this season. A favorite quote of mine comes from Native American poet Linda Hogan, “Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. These celebrations call us to think of the saints of the whole Church - not just in this congregation, but all those who have shaped us. But these celebrations are broader, too, than remembering our own personal saints, the ones who we knew in person. These celebrations are about, in part, remembering people who have died, people who have been a part of our lives, and part of who we are, both individually, and as a congregation. Last week in worship, we thought about All Saints Day and Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead.
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![]() When this or other legitimate services are used, the phone number is one of the following:įor additional details on how to avoid falling victim to tech support scams leveraging the name and reputation of AVG, check out the advisory published on the company’s website. The firm provides support under the AVG TechBuddy brand. The emails sent out by the company don’t come with security updates attached to them.įinally, AVG will not call you out of the blue offering to fix your computer. If it’s not, you’re most likely dealing with scammers.Īlso, remember that the IT security firm will never ask you to hand over credit card information to validate your products. So how can you identify scams? If a website is purporting to offer official support for AVG, make sure it’s listed on the AVG Trusted Partners page. 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If youre interested in prolonging the lives of your workplaces computers, reducing your carbon footprint, or cutting back on electricity bills, consider rebooting your office computers nightly and encouraging employees to do the same. Set permissions for their user accounts on the AVG folders. Tech support scams are not uncommon these days. ![]() Salah satunya adalah untuk melihatnya sebagai sebuah permainan yang serius, dan dengan demikian Anda akan merasa menjadi seorang peniru tahu malu dari seri Grand Theft Auto. Ada dua cara untuk melihat Gangstar Rio : City of Saints. For the first time in a sandbox game, explore the hot, beautiful, & violent city of Rio de Janeiro - Explore 5 neighborhoods from the favelas to the business district, beaches and colonial city - Countless thrilling missions: Protect people, assassinate politicians, infiltrate a gang and win races - Utilize a wide range of weapons and vehicles including boats, helicopters, tanks & even a jetpack - Multiple improvements with sharper graphics plus a new and more dynamic cover system - An immersive story of revenge. Sedikit Review, sebenarnya game ini punya basic permainan yang hampir sama dengan game pendahulunya yaitu GTA. With countless thrilling missions to play plus new weapons and vehicles like a jetpack and tank, you'll become totally immersed in the gang life of Brazil's most notorious city. With a new face and new reason to live, you'll infiltrate your former gang and find out who needs to pay. Strike back at those who tried to kill you and left you for dead. While the writing falls flat, and the missions themselves leave a lot to be desired, there’s not a lot of competition on the platform, and for all its charmless deliver, Gangstar’s ambitions make it a well worth taking for a spin.Gangstar Rio: City Of Saints Java GameFor the first time ever in a sandbox game, you can explore the fascinating and dangerous city of Rio de Janeiro. It’s a very expensive knock-off, lavishly realized with a ton of detail, lots of voice acting, and a huge (at least by mobile standards) world to play in. Gangstar Vegas manages to be something more than a cheap knock-off. It’s good that the missions don’t overshoot the effectiveness of the controls – as is sometimes the case with the GTA ports – but they also forget to really engage or challenge. Even on the occasion that your health runs low, there’s always the option to buy more with the tap of a finger. Gangstar’s biggest failing is that it never really manages to challenge the player. There’s also a host of other vehicles, ranging from motorcycles, to boats, to helicopters and planes.Ĭompared to GTA, you’ll be spending a lot more time on foot, pummeling and shooting various brain-dead opponents, and the vehicular segments are largely reduced to homework, driving from one point to another without obstruction. Driving is pretty basic, but allows for some nice flips, jumps, and collisions thanks to the Havok physics engine. The shooting mechanics control well, with intuitive touch-based targeting, but the enemy AI is straight out of Time Crisis, awkwardly walking in and out of cover like a robot. ![]() There are on-foot shooting missions, which now incorporate a bit of Assassin’s Creed-style running and climbing. None of the game mechanics on their own are terribly impressive, but they are at least varied. You’ll be seeing a lot of the same areas over and over, but there’s plenty to do. These range from wreaking havoc to car races to general anarchic incentives like stealing cars. There’s a lengthy main quest, broken into five chapters, but there’s also a huge selection of side-quests of various types, as well as collectibles and other incentives to explore. There are even some interesting areas to explore on foot, thanks to the new ability to climb, as well as the inclusion of a lot of interior areas. Everything connects seamlessly, and there are never any loading pauses, even if there are occasional glitches and pop-in. While it’s small compared modern games in the genre, it absolutely dwarfs Gangstar Rio, and it’s bigger and more detailed than either of the Android’s GTA ports. While previous iterations in the series struggled to offer the kind of size and scope needed to foster the mayhem that drives these games, Gangstar’s Las Vegas is a sandbox worth playing in. It’s their freedom, and this is where Gangstar manages to impress. The joy of games like this, has never been their narrative depth, though. Gameloft has capably replicated the tone of the GTA games, but the caliber of the writing is several steps down. Ganstar Vegas’ story is a celebration of clumsy B-movie dialog and horrible mob movie clichés, masked behind endlessly lame attempts at humor. If that synopsis has your eyes rolling, then strap in. This time around, players take control of a new antihero, Jason, an MMA fighter from Boston who knocks out his opponent when the mob wants him to take a dive. While there have been two ports of decade-old iterations of Rockstar’s franchise since we last saw Gangstar, they more than show their age, leaving plenty of room for Gameloft to offer a more modern take. ![]() While games like N.O.V.A 3 have managed to shed some of their knock-off vestiges, Gangstar Vegas doubles down on its stolen mojo, aping almost every aspect of Grand Theft Auto. Gameloft has done a lot of growing in the last couple years, but some habits die hard. ![]() ![]() What's cool about it is the graphics are still really good, and the map is satisfactorily big. That's because you can really tell the developers put a lot of thought into every aspect of the gameplay itself, as opposed to spending 99% of their time on graphics and map size (ahem). This is easily the best open world crime game I've played in a long time (and yes, that includes both GTAs 4 and 5). Story isnt anything original, with characters that arent necessarily satisfying but its decent and well performed enough to warrant a full playthru despite nonsensical dating subplots that go nowhere. While side content is fun, it could be more intricate and varried. Not a particularly big world but its is vibrant, alive, utilized well. Fun gunplay (not much gun variety tho ) and car chases. Combat is not as fluid as Arkham Games or as deep as Yakuza or DMC but its brutal and satisfying enough, although enviro kills are underused in non story mission sections. Drugs are part of plot and characters are seen using some in a couple of instances. Constant swearing with F words galore and vulgar uses of f-k and some uses of c_ and c-t as well as sexual references ranging from oral sex to pedophilia. Brutal torture scene, including use of a drill, a disemboweled body is hung in a parking lot. Blunt trama sprays surfaces, a villian is fed to an ice chipper in slow mo with gory slushy results, massacre at a wedding with lots of blood and later a hospital shootout. Slashings, butcherings, as well as some more colorful carnage (albiet less frequent) such as people getting faces shredded on woodsaws, head crushed by engine blocks and shredded by metal fans, burn detail after burning opponents, impalement on rebar, swordfish, metal beam, etc. While infrequent compared to many games, gunfights splatter blood and brain matter everywhere. Beating leave opponents and clothes bloodied and melee weapons more. Altho its less morally deplorable and lewd tho. Its WAY more violent than 4 and prior to say the least. Holy crap i laugh at how this kid i saw at the store was bargaining with his dad on how this game has less violent than GTA.
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