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John E. Powers
|President of the Massachusetts Senate
|In office
|Preceded by
|Newland H. Holmes
|Succeeded by
|Maurice A. Donahue
|Minority Leader of the Massachusetts Senate
|In office
|Preceded by
|Chester A. Dolan, Jr.
|Succeeded by
|Fred I. Lamson
|Member of the Massachusetts Senate from the 4th Suffolk District
|In office
|Preceded by
|Leo J. Sullivan
|Succeeded by
|Joe Moakley
|Personal details
|November 10, 1910
Boston, Massachusetts
|July 31, 1998 (aged 87)
Hyannis, Massachusetts
|Political party
John E. Powers (November 10, 1910 – July 31, 1998) was an American politician who served as President of the Massachusetts Senate from 1959 to 1964.
Powers, a former clam digger, messenger, and machine operator, served as a State Senator from Boston from 1940 to 1964 and Supreme Judicial Court of Suffolk County from 1964 to 1988.[1] He was twice a candidate for Mayor of Boston. He lost to incumbent John B. Hynes in the 1955 mayoral election.[2][3] Following Hynes' retirement, Powers became the front-runner for the mayorship, however he lost to Boston City Council member John F. Collins in the 1959 mayoral election,[4] despite having the most votes in the preliminary election amongst five candidates.[5]
Powers is remembered on the Boston Irish Heritage Trail.[6]
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When we train young men how to preach, one of the things we work on is the introduction to the sermon because it's important to get people's attention. And there are a lot of ways to do that and we get a little bit creative from time to time as to how we develop an introduction. There are a lot of ways to do it but the goal of an introduction is to grab the attention of the people and get them interested in what you're about to say. You can do that a lot of ways. You can do that by surprising them a little bit. You can do that with a high interest story. You can do that by focusing on a very applicable, practical truth that everybody wants to know about. You can do that by focusing on a problem that needs a solution and you're about to give them the solution. There are a lot of ways you can capture interest. But there are some portions of Scripture that don't need that. The very text itself has so much interest that it becomes compelling when simply read. And that is very often the case in narrative portions of Scripture. By narrative, I mean those portions of Scripture that tell a story, whether it's a true story or whether it's a parable. There is enough interest generated in the story itself that it becomes its own compelling motivation to listen. This is one of those. If this is not the most interesting incident in the life of our Lord, it is certainly one of the most interesting incidents in His entire life. It is so compelling and so riveting and so strange and so bizarre and so fascinating that merely reading it will set your mind in the right place to learn all about it. So let's do that. Chapter 5 of Mark...chapter 5 of Mark, I'm going to read you the text which unfolds this amazing and bizarre incident. "They came to the other side of the sea, that is Jesus and the disciples and Apostles, traveling by little boats, they came to the other side of the sea into the country of the Gerasenes. When He got out of the boat, immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met Him. And he has his dwelling among the tombs and no one was able to bind him anymore even with a chain; because he had often been bound with shackles and chains and the chains had been torn apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces, and no one was strong enough to subdue him. Constantly, night and day, he was screaming among the tombs and in the mountains and gashing himself with stones. "Seeing Jesus from a distance, he ran up and bowed down before Him and shouting with a loud voice, he said, 'What business do we have with each other, Jesus Son of the Most High God? I implore You by God, do not torment me.' For He had been saying to him, 'Come out of the man, you unclean spirit.' And He was asking him, 'What is your name?' And he said to Him, 'My name is legion for we are many.' And he began to implore Him earnestly not to send them out of the country. "Now there was a large herd of swine feeding nearby on the mountain. The demons implored him, saying, 'Send us into the swine so that we may enter them.' Jesus gave them permission and coming out, the unclean spirits entered the swine and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea about two thousand of them and they were drown in the sea. "Their herdsmen ran away and reported it in the city and in the country and the people came to see what it was that had happened. They came to Jesus and observed the man who had been demon possessed sitting down, clothed and in his right mind, the very man who had had the legion and they became frightened. Those who had seen it described to them how it had happened to the demon-possessed man and all about the swine. And they began to implore Him to leave their region. As He was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon possessed was imploring Him that he might accompany Him and He didn't let him but He said to him, 'Go home to your people and report to them what great things the Lord has done for you and how He had mercy on you.' And he went away and began to proclaim in Decapolis what great things Jesus had done for him and everyone was amazed." The final amazement would relate to the fact that why would anybody do any good to such a horrendous monster as this. Well, one of the most, as I said, riveting accounts in all of Scripture, nothing like this display of power over demons is recorded in Scripture since God Himself threw Satan and all the evil rebelling angels out of heaven. That was a massive upheaval. That was a sweeping act by God in which He vacated heaven of Satan and a third of the angels. Thousands, of thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand innumerable angels were thrown out of heaven in one moment by the power of God. There has been no display like that until this. And there won't be another display like this until the time of the Tribulation comes to an end, Christ sets up His Kingdom and binds Satan and all the demons for a period of a thousand years, and throws them into the Lake of Fire. This kind of power over the kingdom of darkness is only possible when God is wielding it...whether it's in the casting out of heaven, or the casting in to the Lake of Fire, or here casting thousands of demons out of one man, this is the power of God on display. This is the most extreme encounter with the powers of supernatural wickedness anywhere in Scripture. There are no such accounts in the Old Testament. And in the New Testament, this is far and away the most extreme and the most extensive. Our Lord throughout His ministry vanquished demons, He did it regularly, He did it repeatedly, He did it often. But there was no such display as this one. This, to indicate that He is, in fact, the Messiah, that He is the Savior, that He is the Son of God, that He is God in human flesh who wields absolute limitless power over the forces of hell...Satan and all his realm. Now this is part of Mark's proof. If you go back to his purpose, chapter 1 verse 1, the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Mark is writing the history of Jesus to prove He is the Son of God. John sums up that objective for all four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, when at the end of the fourth gospel, the gospel of John written last of all the four, he says, "These things are written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God and that believing, you might have life in His name." So the purpose of this is evangelistic. But in order to get you to believe in Christ, you must know who He is, and here is more powerful evidence that He is in fact God the Son. He is deity. If He is the true Messiah, if He is the Lord of heaven come down, He must be able to conquer Satan or He cannot bring the everlasting Kingdom. He must have power over the natural world because the promise of the prophets is that He, the Messiah, is going to come and restore the earth and lion will lie down with lamb and the desert will blossom like a rose, etc., etc. There will be a restored, rejuvenated, restructured earth that will approximate the Garden of Eden. Does He have the power to do that over nature? We just saw in the last incident how He controlled the wind and the waves. Yes, He has the power to do that. The Kingdom to come and the assembly of saints in heaven are those whose lives have been transformed by His power. Does He have the power to transform people's lives? He has demonstrated that again and again and again. He can overcome everything, the curse...He can overcome the curse in terms of nature, He can overcome the curse in terms of illness and disease, He can raise the dead, He has all the power required to establish an everlasting Kingdom. And as part of that, He has demonstrated the power over Satan and all his hosts. And here in a way that has no parallel. His divine power vanquishes by a command thousands of demons. Remember now, it was said, first of all, of the Messiah in Genesis 3:15 that He would crush the serpent's head. So whoever this Messiah is, has to wield mighty power over Satan and his hosts. And here it is on exhibit again. Remind yourself of 1 John 3:8...1 John 3:8 says, "The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil." That's the New Testament fulfillment statement of Genesis 3:15. That would be the seed of the woman who will come and crush the serpent's head, says the Old Testament, Genesis 3:15. The New Testament says, "The Son of Man has come for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil." Destroy, luo, to undo, to remove, to annihilate, to obliterate the works, erga, action, effect, impact. That's why in John 12:31 he said, "The ruler of this world is cast out." John 16:11, "The ruler of this world is judged." Romans 16:20, "Satan is under your feet. He is a subjected power." So our Lord is displaying His ability to fulfill His purpose of bringing to naught, obliterating the works of the devil. He has total power over them and He will be able to do what He says He will do in the end when it tells us in Matthew 25:41 that He prepared the Lake of Fire for the devil and his angels. He has the power to place them there. Scripture makes it clear and, believe me, the demons know it...the demons know it. This then is a validation of His messiahship. Our Lord's own words make that clear in Luke chapter 11, unmistakably so in verse 20. "If I cast out demons by the finger of God, or by the power of God, then the Kingdom of God has come upon you." If I cast out demons with a word, with the power of God, then you know the Kingdom of God has arrived. When a strong man fully armed guards his own house, his possessions are undisturbed. But when someone stronger than he attacks him, overpowers him, takes away all this armor on which he has relied and distributes his plunder, that's Christ. Satan is the strong man who is doing fine until Christ appears, devastates him, plunders his house. And when that happens, you know the Kingdom of God has arrived. Now with that as a background, we understand why this is an important incident because there's nothing of the vastness and the volume of this action against Satan recorded in any other place in the New Testament. But as we unfold the story, running down through the twenty verses, we'll do it today and next Sunday, there are three displays of power that I want you to see here. There's not just one, there are three displays of power. The first one I want you to see is the devastating, destructive power of demons...the devastating, destructive power of demons. We've already seen Jesus display His power in the previous paragraph at the end of chapter 4 verses 35 to 41, power wind, power over water, power to subdue the natural world, the natural elements. And here He shows His power to subdue the supernatural world, the supernatural elements. The experience the disciples had in the storm on the water frightened them and this experience that we just read about is also a very frightening experience. The disciples, you remember, were frightened of the storm and then they were frightened of the power of Jesus. And we see the same thing here. The people are frightened by this maniac and then they are even more frightened by the presence of Jesus. So those are parallel elements. You remember how Jesus got to this shore. They left the northwest shore by Capernaum. Got in their little boats, started across the sea intending to sail to the eastern shore, more unpopulated area...probably the disciples and Apostles thought He was wanting some rest and maybe they were glad to get some rest from the massive, crushing, crowds. They got in their little boats, started out, a storm came up, He stilled the storm, they were thrown off course by the storm, eventually got back on course, sailed the rest of the night on a placid lake and ended up in the dawn on the eastern shore at precisely the place they had intended to go, about six miles around the curve from the city of Capernaum. When they arrived, the first thing we see is the devastating, destructive power of demons. Let's pick up the story. "They came to the other side of the sea into the country of the Gerasenes." Just a comment about that. Luke adds, "Which is opposite Galilee." It is on the opposite side from the Galilee which runs down the western side of the Sea of Galilee. Luke and Mark say it is the country of the Gerasenes. Matthew says it's the country of the Gadarenes. That's not difficult to understand, it is both...it is both. Gerasenes because there was a little town right there called Gerasa, or sometimes pronounced Gergasa, but it is the town, the small, small town of Gerasa that they came near. As I said, it's about six miles around the curve of the lake, right there on the shore. So it is the land of the Gerasenes. However, a little further south and inland is a bigger and more important town and maybe the county seat called Gadarea. So while it was the village of Gerasa, it was the region that associated itself with Gadarea. So it was the land of the Gerasenes, if you look at the village, and the Gadarenes if you look at the larger town that sort of gave its name to the region. In any case, here's the key, it was Gentile country. It was Gentile country. And here He is in this Gentile area with His disciples and Apostles, all of whom have gotten out of the little boats that had come across the sea and they're expecting a little bit of rest. They're away from the Jews. It's pretty...it's pretty open country there, pretty rural. This would be a time for them to get a little rest. Only that's not what was planned and the Lord knew it. Verse 2 says, "When He got out of the boat, immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met Him." This is not the local Chamber of Commerce representative. This is not the Welcome Wagon. This is your worst nightmare. This is a man from the tombs who comes racing down the slope to the edge of the lake to meet them. He is defined as having an unclean spirit. It's probably just barely dawn. They have just tied up their boats. Maybe a little dock was available there and immediately at the water's edge a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met them. Matthew 8:28 says, "He has a companion." There are actually two men in this same condition. But as the story goes on, that second man is left behind and all the focus of both Matthew, Mark and Luke, who all record this story, is on the one man. But there were two that came racing down. Now it says he came from the tombs. That would be a little unusual. Jews wouldn't go near a tomb for fear of being contaminated by a dead body. But this is a Gentile area. This is obviously a Gentile man. What's he doing in the tombs? Well, he lives there. Verse 3, "He had his dwelling among the tombs." He's a tomb dweller. In ancient times this would be the common haunt of a deranged, insane, demon-possessed person. Burial chambers in that time and that place as in many places in the world in ancient times were carved out of the hillside. You can see them in various places in the world even today, and you can see them right there where the town of Gerasa is, there's a modern village called Kursi and that village is located near some of the hillsides and some of the cliffs where you can still see these open tombs where they put dead bodies. Here is a man who is more comfortable with the dead than he is with the living. And by the way, the dead are more comfortable with him than the living would be as well. So it's a mutually agreed upon condition. He is defined as having an unclean spirit. That's simply a term for a demon that's more descriptive. A fallen angel called a demon clearly refers to demons because the man is designated as a demon-possessed man, down in verse 18. So this unclean spirit is synonymous with a demon, a fallen angel. They are spirit beings and they occupy the bodies of human beings. They are unclean, all of them are unclean..all of them. So unclean spirit is simply a term that applies to all fallen angels and all demons. When we went through the gospel of Luke, we went through this story in Luke chapter 8 and I digressed, as I want to do, and gave you a very expanded insight into the whole world of demons. I'm not going to do that again, you can find that information there available for you in the Luke series. Then verse 3, "He had his dwelling among the tombs, indicates to us that he wasn't just visiting a tomb to see a dead friend or placing flowers outside a tomb or meditating about the loss of a past relative. He would be classified as a man who lived in the tombs as a madman. He is a maniac. He is deranged, he is irrational, he's dangerous. He is a sub-human, anti-social, sociopathic and intensely evil. He's a monster. He's a monster. Luke adds, just to make matters worse, that he hadn't put on any clothes for a long time, which leads us to conclude he was not only exposed to the elements of hot and cold and there was hot sun and very cold nights, especially in the winter time which would be this time, but that he was perverted. Nakedness for him was related to his sexual perversion. He is as wicked as wicked gets. He is a man that fits into a category that we're somewhat familiar with when we're exposed to sociopathic people who have deviant sexual attitudes who are dangerous to themselves and dangerous to people all around them. This is that kind of man who although far worse, fits into the ilk of a Charles Manson or some other kind of mass murderer of some freakish nature. Which, by the way, I'm convinced is if properly diagnosed the result of demon possession and cannot be explained because when he was a little kid his mother locked him in the closet with no lunch. Nakedness, by the way, is a perversion. And that's why Luke adds it. It is a perversion. You remember that when Adam and Eve sinned, the first thing they did was...what?...make something to cover themselves. And then God helped by replacing their temporary covering with a permanent covering made out of hide. The New Testament commands us not only to be clothed, but to be clothed modestly, does it not? Modestly. Nakedness is a sign of great evil. It is a sign of perversion, sexual perversion. In fact, in Levitical Law, uncovering a person's nakedness was a euphemism for sexual sin. In Revelation 3:18 it says, "The shame of your nakedness." The more naked a person becomes, the more shameful it is. You start with a modest dress and you keep moving toward further and further shame. Well this is a very, very bizarre, wretched human being. He's also characterized by supernatural strength, verse 3. It tells us that no one was able to bind him anymore. Which means they had been trying to do it. In the ancient world, al you did with a maniac like this was restrain him. That's not too far into the distant past. I remember it wasn't too many years ago before mind-numbing drugs had come into play that people were put in straitjackets and put in padded cells so that all they could do is bang around and not even do harm to themselves cause they were bouncing off mattress-like walls. That's the way it was through all human history. Before the advent of mind-numbing drugs, or perhaps in the last century, brain fries which turned people into zombies, this is what they did. They restrained them and they restrained them because they were dangerous. They were so anti-social as to be dangerous, to be deadly. This guy would fit into the category of a sociopathic mass murderer if he got away with doing what he wanted to do. Who knows who he had harmed. Who knows who he had killed. He was frightening, he was dangerous, he was a horrible menace. He is a threat to the sensibilities and social morality of the people. They tried to chain him. They must have slammed him down, knocked him out with a blow to the head, tried to chain him. It didn't do any good. He would break the chains. In fact, Luke says he would break the chains and be driven by the demons into the wilderness. Just a total out-of-control maniac with amazing strength. He's aggressive. He's wickedly aggressive, frighteningly so. And Luke's comment that he would break the chains and the demons would drive him into the wilderness, the demons are torturing this man, they're torturing all the people that come in contact with him but they're torturing him, too. He is both the means of torture and the victim of torture and torment. Verse 5 sadly says, "Constantly, constantly, night and day he was screaming among the tombs and in the mountains and gashing himself with stones." So he's just peripatetic. He is sleepless. He is restless. He is wandering out...in and out of the tombs, in and out of the mountains, driven into the wilderness, the desert by the demons, tormented. This is a living hell. This is a taste of hell, completely subsumed to demonic power and presence. Nothing good, nothing left, no escape, no rest, no sleep, this is hell. And looking for relief, he grabs stones and unsuccessfully attempting his own life, hacks away at his flesh with stones meant to cut. The man makes a modern, perverted monsters like Charles Manson look like Boy Scouts. He is so subdued that his own personality is never even seen. He's more at home with the dead than the living and he's a threat to the living, serious threat. In fact, he's such a threat that Matthew 8:28 says, "No one would pass that way because he was so...and the word is...violent..violent." Just file this in your mind, will you? If you took a survey of the local community and asked them which neighbor would you most like to see move away? It would be him, you would think, wouldn't you? I mean, if you had the choice between having him move away and Jesus leave, who would you choose? We'll see later who they chose. He's raging, violent, deadly, supernaturally strong, deviant, perverted. There's nobody like this guy in Scripture, nobody. Cause Satan doesn't usually operate this way. He disguises himself as...what?...angel of light. He likes to go to church in a gray suit, likes to sit in a pew, likes to stand behind a pulpit, likes to teach in a seminary. That's what he likes to do. He disguises himself as an angel of light. The closer he can get to Christianity, the closer he can get to the truth and deviate people from it and lead people astray, the happier he is. He runs a clandestine operation. Only occasionally do you see this kind of thing. And we see it from time to time in our world, don't we? These deviated, perverted people that we call monsters that do things that are beyond comprehension for normal people. Satan usually doesn't operate that way. He wants to hide in the pews among the respectably religious people. Well, this man sits up in his perch on the hill in one of the tombs and he sees these little boats tying up and realizes he's got some new victims, some people who aren't from the neighborhood. They don't know you're not supposed to go there. You're not supposed to be in that place. He sees them tying up on the shore and coming off the boats and walking along the beach and I'm sure they were close to Jesus since He was the leader and there was no agenda. So he probably started his usual approach, with his buddy flying down the hill screaming with this demonic shriek, ready to attack and maim and kill. And then, all of a sudden, when he gets to where he can see who is there, verse 6 says, "Seeing Jesus from a distance..." Whoa! He just saw somebody he had known for thousands of years. You say, "Well how did he know it was Jesus? A demon is a spirit, how did he know it was Jesus? How did he recognize Jesus?" The word is out among the demons. There is a demon-network. What do you think Jesus has been doing for the last couple of years? Confronting the kingdom of darkness, casting out demons...the word was out. The word was out, it probably...probably went on the spiritual network really fast that Jesus had left Capernaum and was going somewhere. And since they're not omniscient, they wouldn't know until He showed up. Whatever the mechanism of recognition, he saw Jesus. Luke adds that when he saw Jesus, he shrieked, screamed in horror. And that was the standard operating response. When Jesus showed up in a synagogue and there were demons in the congregation, sitting in the pews, if you will, in the respectable people, when Jesus was there you remember the demons screamed, blew their cover because their fear overwhelmed their ability to hide. And then he did an amazing thing. It says, "He bowed down before Him." Whoa! He is now subdued, not by chains, but by sheer terror. The man collapses. He doesn't know what's going on. But the demon dropped him to his knees. The man has no interest in worshiping Jesus but the demon does...the demons do. When it says, "The man saw Jesus and ran up to Him and bowed down before Him," he's in a hurry to get to Jesus not to do Him harm, but to bow. It's the word proskuneo in the Greek, it means to worship, to demonstrate submission, to show respect to one greater than yourself. No one could make him bow. No one could restrain him, no one could control him. No one could make him submit, but the presence of the Lord Jesus cuts him to his knees. The man goes down because the demons go down. And the man goes down under their power. The demon force in that man are subdued...is subdued by the presence of their sovereign king, their sovereign Lord, their sovereign judge. The demons recognize Jesus as the Son of God, Lord over all principalities, all powers, all rulers of this present world, all rulers of the darkness. They know that He is the sovereign, has the authority to control them, sentence them, execute them, eternally incarcerate them in the Lake of Fire and that's the plan and that's coming. By the way, as a footnote, demon theology is orthodox. Demon theology is orthodox. Though they develop liberal theology, they espouse error heresy, they themselves are orthodox. They know what is true about God and Christ and the Holy Spirit and salvation. They're orthodox and they hate what they know to be true. Verse 7a says, "And shouting, or screaming with a loud voice..." This is the typical response, that demons go into some kind of paroxysm with terror and they scream through the vocal chords of the person in whom they have taken their residence. More demonic shrieking, using the man's voice and the demon representative who speaks on behalf of the mob of demons in the man says...it's so important..."What business do we have with each other, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?" I said they were orthodox, didn't I? They know exactly who Jesus is. And by the way, in the first part of Mark until you get to the middle of Mark's gospel, they're the only beings who recognize who Jesus is. They're the only ones who say, "You are the Son of the Most High God, You are the Son of God." The first...the first time a human being says that is at the end of the book but half way through at least the disciples confess that He is the Christ. But it's not until a Gentile Centurion confesses it at the end that you hear it from any human being. But they know who He is. And they...this is their standard, I guess their standard response because it's exactly what the demon back in chapter 1 said in Capernaum in the synagogue. When Jesus started teaching in the synagogue, verse 23 says, "There's a man in the synagogue with an unclean spirit and he screamed." And this is what the spirit said through that man's vocal chords, "What business do we have with each other, Jesus of Nazareth, have You come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God." Same thing, what business do we have together? Why are You here? And here it's the same thing. What do they mean by that? What business do we have with each other, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? Two things to point out. First half of it, what business do we have? Second half, Son of the Most High God. What do they mean by "What business do we have with each other?" Do they know that there's a plan to send them to the Lake of Fire? Absolutely. Do they know that Jesus will be their judge? Absolutely. Do they know He has the power to bind them and send them everlastingly into hell? Yes. Do they know that if He wants He can send them into the pit, a place of demonic incarceration already occupied by demons who sinned back in Genesis 6 and were sent there and perhaps other demons had been sent there through history? Do they know that can happen? Yes. Do they know there is a final judgment to be rendered on demons? Do they know they are to be bound for a period of time when the earth is renewed and restored in the great and glorious Kingdom of Messiah and then sent to the Lake of Fire? They know all of that. They know that. They have been around since the creation, they know that. They know that. They understand that. So why do they ask the question, "What business do we have with each other?" What they don't understand is the timing. Why are You coming after us? You don't find in the whole Old Testament any other prophets doing this. You don't find any of the priests doing this. Nobody confronts the demonic enterprise in the Old Testament, nobody. Is it around? Of course. Nobody does this. This doesn't happen until Jesus comes. But they are concerned that the timing is off. Nobody's ever done this to us before. Their eschatology is so good they know that the judgment of demons is related not to Jesus' first coming, but His Second Coming. And so they're saying, "What's going on here? What's happening here? What business do we have with You?" In fact, in Matthew 8:29 the demon's spokesman for the group says this, "Have You come to torment us before the time?" Have You come to torment us before the time? It's not time yet. That's connected to Your Second Coming, not Your First Coming. They knew He was coming the first time. Listen, they interpreted Isaiah 53 perfectly. They understood that He would be the Lamb that would offer His life as a sacrifice. They understood that. They understood Psalm 16 that He would die and rise again, that God would never allow Him to see corruption but show Him the path of life. It didn't connect. Why now? So I say, they're orthodox even in their eschatology. They knew that it wasn't the time. This was the time of Messiah's death and Messiah's resurrection. This is not the time of His reign and His Kingdom and their judgment. What's going on? So they correctly identify the timing of their final judgment and they secondly correctly identify Jesus as Son of the Most High God. That is just such a complete statement. The Most High God, a glorious title for God in the Old Testament that usually goes like this, "The Most High God, c-o-m-m-a, possessor of heaven and earth." The Most High God is El Elyon, God Sovereign. The Most High means sovereign, above all others, higher than all others. You see it in Genesis, Numbers, Isaiah, Daniel, references to the Most High God, possessor of heaven and earth. And this demon's recognition is that You are the Son of the Most High God. That is to say You bear His same essence. In Luke chapter 1, the angel Gabriel comes to tell Mary she's going to have a child. Verse 32, "He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. Verse 35, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, the power of the Most High will overshadow you and for that reason this holy child shall be called the Son of God." He knows who Jesus is. He even understands the plan and the timing of the plan. He's been having free reign along with all of his fellow demons in this one life and out of that one life, wreaking havoc in the region, doing bodily harm and damage and probably even killing people. What is Jesus doing there now? By the way, in the third chapter of Mark and the eleventh verse, it says, "Whenever the unclean spirit saw Him, they would fall down before Him and shout, "You are the Son of God." That was not an act of repentance. Demons can't repent. They are unclean and will be forever. That was a recognition of the reality of who He is. Now back to the story in chapter 5. Here is this bizarre monstrous, sociopath in a heap at the feet of Jesus, subdued. At the same time, screaming in fear. And at the end of verse 7 he says, "I implore you by God, do not torment me." You haven't minded tormenting that poor soul. Don't torment me, basanismos, it's to torture, the worst possible kind of experience to be tortured. Why did he say, "Don't torture me?" Because Luke 8:31 says that he asked Jesus not to command him to go into the abussos, don't send me to the pit. Don't incarcerate me in the pit, the abyss, the place of bound demons. Abussos really means the bottomless pit, the pit with no bottom. It's used four times in the book of Revelation. Don't send me to that place. Don't send me, if you will, to the place of incarceration, the sort of vestibule to the Lake of Fire. That's where the Lord went the demons that sinned in Genesis 6, that's what it says in 2 Peter 2:4 and Jude 6 and 7, that the angels that kept not their first estate were bound and they're bound in that place of incarceration until they will be finally sent in to the Lake of Fire. And I believe there have been other demons added to that place through the years because those demons from Genesis 6 were bound in everlasting chains, they're never going to get out of there. But in the book of Revelation it tells us that there will be during the time of Tribulation demons released from that place. So there are some who have been put in there that will be released to add to the force of demon power during the time of Tribulation. But this group of demons through their spokesman begged Jesus not to send them into the abussos, into the pit. They're very happy where they are, wreaking havoc in a Gentile area. And I might add to you..for your information, this kind of massive demon possession fits the Gentile environment full of idols, full of false religions, full of exposure to the kingdom of darkness at its widest point. So, that's his plea because Jesus was saying, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit." Please don't send us to the pit. Now I'm going to stop there and just say this. Here you see the devastating, destructive power of demons, Satan's power. Don't kid yourself about Satan. It's not always this blatant. It's not always this overt. But we have enough people that show up in society like this to understand that behavior, don't we? How else can you explain a Charles Manson? How else can you explain a Dauhmer, how else can you explain somebody that kills relentlessly and eats the victims? How do you explain that? That is..that is not psychological deviation, that is demonic possession. We get enough of it to understand it's there. We even use the word monsters, maniacs. We run out of adjectives to describe people like that whose lives have been literally taken over by demons. As I said, that's the exception, not the rule. They usually like to show up in religious situations and hide behind clergymen and teachers and devoted religious leaders. But their power is fierce, deadly, destructive and even damning power. So the opening scene is the scene of the power of demons. We'll call it "The Devastating Destructive Power of Demons." But in verse 8 we make a transition to another kind of power, the delivering power of deity..the delivering power of deity. And this...this spokesman demon and these demons who are in mass in this man, they know the power that the Son of God wields and they know it's a greater power than theirs. As the Scripture says, "Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world." And they know that Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. They know that He came to crush Satan's head, to judge Satan and his whole domain. They know that. And so, as Jesus begins to command them, all they can do is plead with Him not to send them to the pit because they know His power is so great that He can send them any place He desires. All they can do is beg for a kind of mercy. You might think that He would send them to the pit because that would get rid of them. Now wouldn't the world be a better place if there were a few thousand demons not here? But He doesn't because they're really not the devil's demons, their His demons and like all demons and like Satan himself, Satan is God's devil, they function within the purposes and the parameters of God's design for divine purposes. We'll see that unfold when we look at the delivering power of deity next time. All right, let's have a word of prayer together. Thank You, Lord, for a wonderful time of worship this morning. How our hearts were lifted in the beauty of music and what a contrast to be plunged into an encounter with this man. What a stark contrast to the sweetness of Christian fellowship, to the joy of life in the Spirit, living in the power and the presence of the blessed Holy Spirit where there is peace and joy and love and sanity and calm, compared to this. What a contrast in two worlds. And what a contrast between the frenetic man and the majestic Jesus, between all the ugliness and horror and violence and terror and the perfect calm in commanding presence in the Son of God. We thank You, Lord, that we've all been delivered from the power of Satan. We have been delivered into the power of Christ and we live not by our own strength but by His power. We can say with Paul, "I live, yet not I but Christ lives in me." We thank You for what He has brought to us of peace and joy and love and sanity and sweet fellowship and blessed worship which this dear man in the story was allowed to experience by Your grace. Thank You for that grace that reaches down to any sinner, no matter how wretched that sinner might be. Only Christ would desire to save such a horrendous person. That has to be an almost unparalleled expression of the grace of salvation, that while he was a sinner, he was loved and transformed. We thank You, Lord, for this transformation that has occurred in our lives, that has set us free. May we rejoice in Your mighty work and give You all the praise in Christ's name.
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W.Va. gas line explodes, burns homes and roads
Tue., Dec. 11, 2012
SISSONVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — Four homes went up in flames and collapsed in charred heaps Tuesday after a natural gas line exploded in an inferno that raged for at least an hour, melting guardrails and pavement on a swath of Interstate 77.
Five other homes had extensive external damage, and several people were treated for smoke inhalation, but authorities said there were no fatalities and all residents had been accounted for.
"We've been very fortunate," said Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, who toured the damage then briefed the media. "They were just lucky enough not to be home."
Most were at work. One man had just left to go hunting, he said.
State Police spokesman Sgt. Michael Baylous said a slight risk of a secondary explosion remained, so people who had initially been told to stay inside nearby homes were later urged to evacuate.
The explosion occurred between Sissonville and Pocatalico just before 1 p.m. in a 20-inch transmission line owned by NiSource Inc., parent of Columbia Gas. The gas flow was shut off, but State Police 1st Sgt. James Lee said there was still pressure on the transmission line.
Kent Carper, president of the Kanawha County Commission, said flames had been shooting 50 to 75 feet into the air before the fire was extinguished.
"It sounded like a Boeing 757. Just a roar," he said. "It was huge. You just couldn't hear anything. It was like a space flight."
Trevor Goins lives about a half-mile from the explosion and was watching television in his apartment when he saw a ripple in his coffee cup and the floor shook.
"I thought possibly (it was) a plane crash," said Goins, who immediately went outside with several neighbors. "It was so loud it sounded like a turbine engine. You almost had to put your hands over your ears."
He got in his car and drove closer, seeing fire that stretched as high as the hilltops.
"The flames were so high, they were so massive," he said. "I could only imagine what had happened."
Carper said the flames spanned about a quarter of a mile and ran through a culvert under the interstate.
"It actually cooked the interstate," he said. "It looks like a tar pit."
Tomblin said a roughly 800-foot section both directions was baked by the heat.
"It turned the asphalt to cinder," he said, after walking across it. "Your feet were hot. It was like walking on a volcano."
Transportation Secretary Paul Mattox said contractors are already working on repairs, and the state hopes to have the highway reopened by Wednesday night. Crews were expected to work through the night to remove the asphalt and grind the roadway down to the original concrete before repaving.
"We're going to do everything we can to get it back," Mattox said.
Guardrails melted, utility poles burned, an ordinarily reflective green interstate sign was burned down to white metal and the blast blew a huge hole in the road, throwing dirt, rocks and debris across the interstate.
"Even the hillside was on fire," Tomblin said. "There are some homes in close proximity that are still smoking."
Tom Miller, training officer at the Sissonville Volunteer Fire Department, marveled at the destruction.
"Four lanes are gone," he said, adding that it was remarkable that no motorists were injured. "We were very lucky — no rush-hour traffic."
Federal and state investigators are now trying to determine the cause.
"It's one of those rare events that happen," the governor said, "and at this time we do not have those answers," he said
NiSource spokesman Mike Banas said the company was still gathering facts.
"Our first priority is the safety of our employees and the community," he said, adding that no impacts on customers are anticipated.
U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, who chairs the Senate Commerce Committee and has made pipeline safety a priority, vowed to get answers.
The West Virginia Democrat said the National Transportation Safety Board is launching a team "imminently" to investigate, he said, as is the U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
Smith reported from Morgantown.
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Harley Ironhead Sportsters
The Ironhead Engine... The Last Real Harley?
As you may have guessed, this motorcycle website is dedicated to the all-time loudest and meanest V twin Harley Davidson engine: the Ironhead.
The Ironhead Sportster engine was introduced in 1957 with the X Model Harley Davidson Sportster motorbike and lasted almost 30 years (THIRTY years !!!) until in 1986 this beautiful powerpack was replaced by the Harley Evolution or Evo engine.
Sportster History (don't worry, we'll keep it short...)
Before Sportsters: The Harley Model K
The history of the Sportster starts with its predecessor, the Model K.
The first Model K was introduced by the Harley Davidson Motor Company in 1952 in response to the invasion of the American motorcycle market by lighter and faster British bikes like BSA, Norton and Triumph. The 1952 Model K featured a conservative 45 cubic inches (750cc) side-valve V-twin engine of pre-war design.
In the 1954 Model KH the K's engine had been upgraded to 54 cubic inches (883cc). The following year, Harley introduced the high performance Model KHK which featured a speed kit: roller-bearing bottom end, hot cams and polished ports.
1957: The Harley Sportster XL Series
In 1957 Harley Davidson introduced the XL Series "Sportster" motorcycle which looked very similar to the Model K Series except that the 54 cubic inches (883cc) side-valve V-twin engine with its aluminium heads and cylinders was replaced by the 54 cubic inches (883cc) overhead valve (OHV) engine which featured iron heads and cylinders. Otherwise, the 1957 Sportster XL had the same basic frame, engine case, right foot shift, right side drive chain, telescopic front fork, rear suspension and brake drums as the 1956 Model K.
In 1958 Harley introduced the Sportster XLCH. Many sources say the "CH" stands for "Competition Hot" while others say the H stands for "High pressure". In any case, the XLCH is a stripped-down lighter and faster version of the XL, with a staggered dual exhaust and peanut gas tank.
The Sportster XLH was the heavier touring version of the Sportster XLCH.
1972: Frame Modifications and 1000cc
In 1972 the Sportster Ironhead 55 cubic inch (883cc) overhead-valve engine was beefed up to 61 cubic inch or 1000cc.
Harley Davidson modified the Sportster frame whereby the cast steel connection node at the top rear of the frame (i.e. underneath the saddle) was replaced by a U shaped stamped and welded connection made of steel strip. While officially this frame design change took place in the year 1972, worldwide delivery of Sportsters with the old frame lasted until well into 1973.
The stamped and welded U shaped connection underneath the saddle of the Sporty was not a big success. A few months after its introduction, the stamped and welded U shaped connection appeared to be not strong enough to withstand the dynamic and cyclic vertical loading introduced during riding by the rear shocks and heavy rear fender.
This forced the Motor Company to recall all newly delivered Sportsters back to the dealers who were provided with steel reinforcement strips that had to be welded in place diagonally to strengthen the support points of the rear shock absorber and rear fender strut.
1974: Right Foot Shift Moves to the Left
When the Sportster Ironhead engine was introduced in 1957, she inherited the whole lower end - including right foot shift - from her direct predecessor Harley Davidson Flathead KH, KHK and XR motorcycle models. These Flatheads had their roots deep into flat track racing, that's why they had the right foot shift.
In the early 1970's, the US DOT mandated left side shift for all new motorcycles, probably for reasons of safety. In 1974 the Motor Company switched from right to left, although you shouldn't be surprised to see a 1974 Sportster with right foot shift. That's probably a 1973 model delivered and registered in 1974.
From 1974 until 1977 Harley Davidson applied a rather crude solution to switch the shifting from the right to left by simply running a secondary shaft underneath the frame, which was connected to an extremely long shift lever as shown on the photograph. Only in the year 1977 Harley redesigned the transmission box to allow the gear shift shaft to exit to the left.
Chris from DownUnder:
"The last year of the right hand shift was 1974. 1975 and 1976 was the years where the linkage was used, and 1977 was the 1st year of the through the crankcase left hand shift.
I recall more than one writer in the mainstream press during the mid 70's predicting that the left hand shift requirement would spell doom for the traditional Sporty, ha!!! 1977 was also the last year of the single front disc.
I remember as a young twenty something lusting after a 1974 Sportster brand new on the Dealers floor, especially the lean kickstart model with that supercool but impossibly uncomfortable seat.
The 1977 was possibly a better built model as Harley struggled to rectify the catastrophic quality control of the 1971 to 1973 years, and also didn't have the problem of the unsplined gearshift lever shaft.
More that one person used to curse at their early 70's Sportsters when the gearshift lever would slowly work its way around the gearshift shaft, eventually developing stress cracks from overtightening ..."
1979: The Sportster Frame Modified Once More
So, around 1979 another change to the Sporty frame design took place whereby the stamped and welded connection underneath the saddle was replaced by an inverted triangle constructed from steel tubing, like seen on many British and Japanese bikes. In 1982 this triangular frame design was revised to improve the construction of the rear shock support point.
1986: End of the Ironhead - The Last Real Harley?
In 1986, Harley Davidson replaced the 1000cc Ironhead engine with the 1100cc Sportster Evolution or Evo engine. Because the smoother running Evo engine was developed with considerable help from outside the Motor Company, many people maintain that the Ironhead engine was the last real Harley engine...


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Shanan and I will be playing Perry tomorrow...!!!
Anyone up for a round on Thursday and maybe swing by Lawrence or topeka
If anyone is going to go I recommend reading loomis' post very carefully it is spot on.
Course would play more like a ball golf course (don't kill me!) in that there were more par 4s, 5s, etc.. that would require you to hit spots, to be able to have a second, third shot, etc... Strategy is going to be very important out there.


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== Testing (KDE 4.3+) ==
== Testing (KDE 4.3+) ==
If you have KDE 4.3 or later, you can
If you have KDE 4.3 or later, you can test your plasmoid without installing it by entering the <tt>hello-javascript</tt> directory and running <tt>plasmoidviewer</tt>. Alternatively, call
<code bash>
<code bash>
plasmoidviewer /path/to/hello-javascript
plasmoidviewer /path/to/hello-javascript
you the the the plasmoid .
== Installing ==
== Installing ==
Revision as of 17:46, 27 November 2009
In this tutorial we'll cover creating a very simple plasmoid in JavaScript, otherwise known as QtScript or ECMAScript, to provide a Plasma widget.
Some terminology: widget refers to what the user will see on their desktop, and plasmoid refers to the package you will create by following this tutorial. The distinction is not very strong, since a plasmoid always shows a widget, and the terms can be used interchangably to a certain extent. Just remember that "widget" is what the user will see.
Project Structure
The first step for any software project is to set up your project's directory on disk. For this tutorial we are going to create a very simple "hello-javascript" plasmoid. Create a directory on somewhere called hello-javascript which in turn contains a contents directory which then contains a code directory. This command below will do all this.
mkdir -p hello-javascript/contents/code
The only required part of the structure, in fact, is the contents directory - almost everything will go in this directory. But separating your code into a different directory from application data is a good habit to have.
In the hello-javascript directory create a file called metadata.desktop and open it in your text editor. Copy the following code into metadata.desktop.
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Hello JavaScript
Comment=An example JavaScript widget
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Author=<Your name here>
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Email=<Your email here>
This metadata.desktop file list important information needed by Plasma to load the widget, and also information about what the widget is and who created it.
Name gives the name of widget as seen by the user when they go to the Add Widget dialog on the desktop. There can be additional name entries for different languages. For example, you could add a Dutch translation by inserting the line Name[nl]=Hallo JavaScript.
Comment gives a more detailed description of the widget. This is also displayed in the Add Widget dialog, and can be translated in the same way as Name.
Icon gives the name of the icon to associate with this plasmoid. The icon is shown in the Add Widget dialog. It must be the name of an icon that is either distributed with KDE (such as chronometer) or provided by your plasmoid.
The Type, X-KDE-ServiceTypes, X-Plasma-API and X-Plasma-MainScript fields are required for Plasma to find your plasmoid and know what to do with it. Note that X-Plasma-MainScript is a path relative the contents directory.
X-Plasma-DefaultSize specifies the default size for widget, as width,height. While the units aren't technically pixels, they have the same value as pixels providing you don't do anything like zoom in or out on your desktop.
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Category gives a category for the widget. This is used in the Add Widgets dialog to group and filter widgets. The value must be one of the category names listed at Projects/Plasma/PIG.
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name is the internal name of the plasmoid (you can think of this as the name of the plasmoid, as opposed to the name of the widget which is given by Name). This is the name you will use as an argument to plasmoidviewer or plasmapkg when you need to provide a plasmoid name rather than a path. It doesn't have to be the same name as the directory containing metadata.desktop.
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Author, X-KDE-PluginInfo-Email, X-KDE-PluginInfo-Version, X-KDE-PluginInfo-Website and X-KDE-PluginInfo-License are informational, and are displayed in the About dialog for the plasmoid (which can be viewed by clicking the information icon next to the corresponding widget in the Add Widgets dialog of plasma).
X-KDE-PluginInfo-EnabledByDefault and X-KDE-PluginInfo-Depends rarely need to be changed from the values given here.
Main script
The name of the main script file is given by X-Plasma-MainScript in metadata.desktop, and is relative to the contents directory. In our case, we will need to create the file hello-javascript/contents/code/main.js. Put the following code in it:
layout = new LinearLayout(plasmoid);
label = new Label();
label.text = 'Hello JavaScript!';
plasmoid is a global variable that represents your widget. It has some useful methods that we'll come to in later tutorials.
First, we create a layout, because plasmoids don't have a layout by default. This just makes sure that the label is the correct size and in the correct place. Passing plasmoid to the LinearLayout attaches the layout to the widget.
Next we add a label to the layout, and finally we set the label text.
Testing (KDE 4.3+)
If you have KDE 4.3 or later, you can test your plasmoid without installing it by entering the hello-javascript directory and running plasmoidviewer. Alternatively, call
plasmoidviewer /path/to/hello-javascript
This is very convenient for development as you can edit the Plasmoid and test the changes immediately without re-installing the plasmoid over and over again.
You can install the plasmoid by running the following command from within the hello-javascript directory:
plasmapkg -i .
The final argument to plasmapkg is the path to the directory containing metadata.desktop and the contents directory.
You can now add your widget to the desktop using the Add Widgets dialog, or view it by running
plasmoidviewer hello-javascript
If you want to share your plasmoid, you'll have to package it. Run the following from within the hello-javascript directory:
zip -r ../hello-javascript.zip . &&
mv ../hello-javascript.zip ../hello-javascript.plasmoid
You now have a plasmoid package you can share with the world. To install it, either use the "Install new widgets" functionality in the Add Widgets dialog, or go to the directory containing hello-javascript.plasmoid and run
plasmapkg -i hello-javascript.plasmoid
To uninstall the plasmoid, use plasmapkg again with its -r option:
plasmapkg -r hello-javascript
Note that while the argument to plasmapkg -i is a file or directory, you need to pass the plasmoid name (given by X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name in metadata.desktop) to plasmapkg -r.


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Iceland Supervisor Apprenticeship VAC-39024
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We are looking for someone that is keen to learn, develop & apply the technical & behavioural skills required in order to successfully complete the apprenticeship programme and provide an excellent service and store standards at all times through the in store team.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with leadership and retail experience to build a career with one of Britain's fastest-growing, and most innovative retailers whilst working towards their Retail Team Leader Level 3 Apprenticeship.
This is a 12 month apprenticeship and at the end of the programme you will move into an Iceland Supervisor position.
Salary – £17,000
Day to day duties:
• Actively promote bestselling lines and key products and ensures stock is available across all ranges
• Accurately implement cycle and phase changes to drive customer offer in store
• Drive all additional customer focussed services and home delivery offering in store
• Maintain availability levels across all departments prioritising off sales and low levels
• Manage the Sight of Inventory system to maintain accurate stock levels in store
• Maintains accurate forecasting levels for products to drive sales
• Regularly observe colleague interaction to provide individual feedback
• Provide, and train others to deliver, a great experience to our customers
• Take all necessary action to provide a fast and efficient service all day in store, on line and home delivery
• Accurately complete date alerter to ensure all product on sale is legal
• Ensure correct fill levels and temperatures in store
• Right at Night operation is fully implemented to ensure full and clean offer for the customer
• Accurately use scheduler to ensure service levels are provided within budget
• Adhere to, and correctly implement, shopfloor and home delivery processes, policies and procedures
• Drive an accurate till operation by colleagues in store to reduce risk and loss
• Adhere to, and correctly implement shopfloor and stock processes, policies and procedures
• Conduct relevant investigations into stock loss to minimise future loss
• High standards of stockroom / coldroom / chiller housekeeping to drive efficiencies
Location: Bristol
Position Type: Apprenticeship
Sector: Retail
Working Week : Shift work
Weekly Wage : £327.00
Application Deadline: 29-05-2019
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11 Questions To Ask Before You Start A Business
Are you a leader contemplating starting a new business? Or, has a budding entrepreneur turned to you because of your leadership skills to ask for your help?
Here are 11 questions you or that entrepreneur should ask before starting a business.
- Is there a true need for my product/service?
- What is the competitive environment and how will my product/service be unique, different or better?
- Will my location (or accessibility online) be convenient and easy to get to for my customers?
- Do I have adequate funding to support my business, particularly during the ramp-up period that could be a year or more?
- Do I have the stamina to start a new business and work hard even if it means months of extended work hours and perhaps even seven days a week?
- Will my family and social life withstand my commitment to my new business?
- Will the name of my business be easy to spell, suitable for print on online, and memorable?
- Am I a risk taker?
- Am I humble enough to ask for help, especially if I am not an expert in marketing or accounting?
- Do I hire well? Do I have the skills, ability and resources to hire people who will share my same vision, work ethic and commitment to the business?
- Do I have an exit plan? Do I know how to handle exiting from the business should it fail or, ideally, should it become so successful I'll be able to sell it?
Writing the plan, which could take two to six weeks of working on it nearly every day, will force you to think of all aspects of your business and will require you to address tough questions you will likely not ask without the discipline of writing a plan.
Perhaps most critical in your plan will be the sections on:
- Competition
- Marketing
- Financial Projections


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Don't throw out those over-ripe watermelon slices! Watermelon popsicles are a cinch to make – and they're almost FREE if you consider that you make them from watermelon you would have thrown out otherwise.
Just throw chunks of the too-ripe watermelon in a blender, seeds and all. Also add a little lime juice and some lime zest, as much as you dare! I used the juice and zest of one lime for a blender full of watermelon – about 3 cups of chunks. Then turn your blender on full blast and wait for the popsicle magic to happen.
Strain the mixture through a kitchen strainer and add your sweetener of choice as desired. Freeze in popsicle molds or small paper cups. Then, bask in your glorious frugal-ness and sit on your porch steps and slurp away!
Food Bloggers have been going nuts for the last few months with popsicles. Here's just a sampling, with some amazing flavor combos:
Raspberry Yogurt Popsicles, Orangette
Lemon Buttermilk Popsicles, Pinch my Salt
Mango Popsicles, My Columbia Recipes
Peaches and Cream Popsicles, My Baking Addiction
Strawberry Lime Yogurt Popsicles, Gimme Some Oven
Fudge Popsicles, Comfy Belly
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New wine, called Flood, launched by trio of Boulder wine experts
The floods that devastated Colorado last year inspired three wine professionals in Boulder to create a new wine called Flood, a tribute to the community spirit that manifested between neighbors and strangers working to rebuild their towns and lives. They'll launch the new wine on Wednesday, Oct. 15, with a wine tasting and silent auction at the Boulder Wine Merchant as a fundraiser for Jamestown, which faces a long rebuilding challenge.
"We're all cyclists, and we've all been in Jamestown many times," said Matthew Cain, founder of Derailleur Wines, a wine importer and consultancy that works with exclusive wineries in California, France, Spain and Italy. "It was heavily impacted, and still continues to be affected."
The cyclists, all with long careers in the wine business, decided to combine their different skills to create Flood.
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I have a bunch of cards to share with you today, so hopefully you make it to the end! First up, is my card for sketch 101 at the CPS blog this week. Our first sponsor of the week is Sweet N Sassy stamps, and I got this set called "Warm Up". Pretty darling! Lots of Making Memories on this one, including the paper, trim and button. Very much used up some stash on this one...been sitting on this product for awhile! We still have lots of celebrating going on at the CPS blog, and more giveaways this week...so be sure to come on over and play! Up next is a card I got done based on sketch #37 at the Friday Sketchers blog. I pulled out this bear stamp and really wanted to use it...so this is what I came up with. Isn't he adorable?!
This next card is based on sketch #36 at the "Sketch Saturday" blog. It is more of a loose interpretation of the sketch...but I like how it turned out. Especially the clock stamp, and how it didn't stamp perfectly. I was actually going for that look...so I am glad it worked! Hee hee- I have definitely never claimed to be the best stamper in the world!
This card just uses up some Little Yellow Bicycle "Love Letters" scraps that I have been hanging on to. That black flourishes in that chipboard circle are all flocked...I just love it in real life!I found another sketch blog that posts a sketch every single DAY! I used a couple from this week, and this card is based on sketch #151. Lots of cute We R Memory Keepers paper on this one...love it!
This card just uses up some of the scraps from the card above. Not my favorite card ever...but it is okay. I do like the flocked lace...I will have to use that again on a card that I like better! :)
Now this card reaches DEEP into my stash of product. I have been trying to use of scraps, but have also realized that I am sitting on a lot of great product as well. I have had this Making Memories product since I won HOF in 2007....holy long time batman! But, I still like it a lot...so it really doesn't matter how old it is to me!Last but not least is a card I made based on one more of those sketch a day posts. This card is based on sketch #150.
Well, that is everything to share today! Time to go have some hotwings and diet sunkist, some chips and dip a little later...and curl up in a blanket to watch the Superbowl. I don't really care about NFL football...but I am so rooting for the Cardinals. I grew up in Arizona, and that team hasn't had any success in a long time.
Go Cardinals!
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wow- awesome stuffReplyDelete
I love ALL of these!!!! I think the butterfly/clock one is my fav :) Fabulous job!!!!ReplyDelete
More fabulous eye candy! Love them all!ReplyDelete
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LOVE them all!! My favorites are the Little Yellow Bicycle, and the BG! So cute :)ReplyDelete
I just {heart} your blog...it is always soooo chock full of goodness!!! Happy Sunday!ReplyDelete
Go CARDS!! (I'm in AZ)....Love your cute cards, you totally inspire me! :)ReplyDelete
wow, what a fantastic collection of beautiful cards. Hugs rachxxReplyDelete
Wow Lea, so many beautiful creations. Did you make these all in one sitting? Truly inspiring. Thanks for your lovely comment on my blog. Just to let you know that Rosabella & Ladybug is not a stamp, just one of my drawings. However, if there is enough interest I may go 'digi-stamp/download with my Rosabella Fairy range. Any comments gratefully received.ReplyDelete
Sandra xx
- AnonymousFebruary 2, 2009 at 4:33 AM
what a stunning gallery - I love them ALLReplyDelete
so VERY clever xx
All you cards are wonderful Lea, I love the beautiful papers and embellies you hav used. Debbie xReplyDelete
Oh wow! I love ALL of these so much. This is my first time on your blog but I will definately be visiting you all the time!! Thanks for dropping by mine xReplyDelete
Wow your cards are gorgeous! And I only wish I got as much done as you do in one day, lolReplyDelete
Awesome cards!ReplyDelete
Thank you for using a sketch off of the ~Card Sketch A Day~ blog!
- AnonymousFebruary 2, 2009 at 10:56 AM
Hi Lea Thanks for your visiting my blog and your comment, you make really beautiful cards, greetings from Holland, Joke.ReplyDelete
You create STUNNING cards....and your style is so young, fresh and unique....LOVE it!ReplyDelete
OOOhhhh...love all them cards. The one with the butterfly is gorgeous. Love all the birdiestamps aswell. Beautiful!ReplyDelete
wow what a fantastic bunch of cards!! All so creative and unique...a coupla favourites were the first one (I just LOVE that MM line) and the "you're so tweet" card...love the colours in this one! TFS! bxReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 2, 2009 at 12:52 PM
Love them all! I am so sad for the Cardinals, but hey they did great! Have a wonderful day you!ReplyDelete
Wow... a lot of wonderful cards!!!ReplyDelete
I love them all!!!!
Hugs Gisela
- AnonymousFebruary 2, 2009 at 3:13 PM
`WoW` What a buch of `beautiful` creations Lea...each and everyone of them is fabulous!!!ReplyDelete
Have a lovely Evening:)~X~
Wow you have been busy- and every one is fabulous! debbReplyDelete
Wow Lea, you have the most amazing creations on your blog and all of them very professionally created :) Donna xReplyDelete
Wow Lea, you have the most amazing creations on your blog and all of them very professionally created :) Donna xReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 2, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Gorgeous cards.. so sweet!ReplyDelete
Love all of them, thanks so much for sharing :)
Marlene xx
fabulous cards all ! so inspiring !ReplyDelete
Great work! I love all the different cards!ReplyDelete
Girl, you never cease to amaze me!!! Cardalicious....that would describe your blog today!!! You totally rock!! Have a great day my friend!!ReplyDelete
Awesome cards...love the WAMK paper...sooo cute!ReplyDelete
I cannot for the life of me pick a favorite...these are all so AWESOME! Great job!ReplyDelete
gorgeous cardsReplyDelete
stunning cards - the 'have a tweet card' is my fave!ReplyDelete
Totally amazing cards, love your friday sketchers card.ReplyDelete
Thanks for trying my sketch.
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One of the things I've learned over the course of 10 years of writing is that these articles seem to have a mind of their own.
I set out to write about one topic, but the natural world has other ideas. The "I Ching," a source of wisdom for dealing with life's changes, stresses the importance of greeting each moment with an unstructured attitude.
I went to the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, thinking that I would write an article about some of our incoming winter birds — ducks, sparrows, and snipe, to be precise. As I stood staring into a brushy wetland hoping that a swamp sparrow would pop out into the open, I noticed a large shadow overhead. From underneath, I could see a light belly with a dark band across the center. The wings were broad with "fingered" tips. The tail was wide and striped, but not red.
"Beware, all ye rats, rabbits, squirrels, doves, and snakes!" I thought. "A young red-tailed hawk is on the prowl."
The bird executed a lazy circle before emitting a raspy shriek and soaring away beyond the trees.
As I headed for Laurel Hill Wildlife Drive, I gave thanks that the repairs to the water control structures had been completed so that we once again have access to this special place.
I spied a small flock of blue-winged teal ahead in the water. As is common with ducks, they immediately swam away. Seemingly oblivious, an American coot snacked enthusiastically on aquatic plants.
Once again, I glimpsed a large soaring shape out of the corner of my eye. This bird was more slender than the red-tailed hawk. With wings held in a mild V, it glided low over the marsh, teetering gently from side to side. As it reversed direction, banking sharply, I glimpsed the signature white rump patch of the northern harrier.
Harriers also dine on rodents, small mammals, birds, and even the occasional duck. While red-tailed hawks opt for perch and scan, harriers relentlessly patrol marshes and open fields in search of dinner. They are creative hunters, and have been known to subdue larger prey by holding it underwater until it drowns. Seen up close, the harrier face resembles that of an owl. Harriers, like owls, rely on their hearing as well as their vision to locate potential dinner.
"No wonder the ducks and sparrows are keeping a low profile," I thought. "There are too many hawks around."
At my next stop, I looked again for sparrows. They chirped from the middle of a brushy bog, but stubbornly refused to pose for photographs. A deep, resonant hooting distracted me. One rendition of "Who's awake? Me, too" was followed by a higher-pitched response.
I am always thrilled by the call of the great horned owl. All those mice, raccoons, possums, voles, weasels, and bats that thought they'd be safe after sunset had better think again. Owls take the night shift, relying on extra-keen vision, acute hearing, and silent flight to capture their prey. Great horned owls nest in the winter. I wonder if this courting pair will once again set up housekeeping in the crook of the large oak near the Refuge entrance?
The light was waning as I headed into a wooded hammock. Glancing ahead of me, I saw a figure sitting sphinx-like at the edge of the road. It was a cat but different. As it turned and strolled across the road, I marveled at its lanky grace, pointed ears, and short tail. I did not, like my friend Peter Schreck, see the bobcat emerge from the woods carrying an unlucky rat. My pictures, taken in low light, were diagnostic but blurry.
There were no lions, no tigers, and no bears. The only "dangerous" (to humans) predator that I saw was an alligator floating silently in the water as the sun set. However, the rodents, rabbits, sparrows and ducks were surely chanting "Hawks, owls and bobcats, oh my!"
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This is Jenny Sadre-Orafai. If she looks a little blurry it's because she's jumping on a hotel bed- as a Jenny Sadre-Orafai is prone to do. Sometimes she goes on adventures. Sometimes she doesn't eat sugar skulls. Sometimes she writes poetry. For example, she has a chapbook coming out soon called Avoid Disaster, and she has already authored chaps by these titles: Weed Over Flower, What Her Hair Says About Her, & Dressing the Throat Plate. This Saturday she will be reading her poems out loud in Atlanta to you. It will be exciting.
So Jenny, instagram tells me you just went on a West Coast Adventure and also recently celebrated the Día de los Muertos. How was that? Which was more exciting?
This is true. I went to Seattle last month for a conference and had such a nice time. My first and last visit there was when I was in high school and grunge was happening. This time, though, I took a ferry, rode the Seattle Great Wheel, ate some of the best Mexican food ever, and jumped on the hotel bed (a lot). The Día de los Muertos celebration was pretty fantastic. Although I'm ¼ Mexican, I had never seen altars, a catrina, or even sugar skulls. Seeing all of those was really exciting.
I've always wondered- what do you do with the sugar skulls- do you eat them? If so- do they taste like Smartees or more like stale icing?
I think you can eat them. I only saw them on the altars, so I didn't try one. I like to think they taste like sugarcubes? You could squirrel them into your cheeks and have hot tea.
Way to verbify 'squirrel'! One of my favorite woodland creatures, for obvious reasons. Jenny, what's your power animal? (Totem so to speak) Why is it your power animal?
So, I first thought it was the unicorn. After all, this description really captures me: "Making dreams come true, virtue, beauty, weather patterns, connection with the woodland and the beings within." Boy, was I wrong. I took an extremely accurate online quiz that informed me it is the snake–"mysterious and a bit secretive. You have a quick wit and keen literate skills. Your unusual approach to life often makes you feel like you're on the outside looking in." This wasn't the worst part though. The description was coupled with ugliest blue snake I've ever laid eyes on. Of course I'm a snake in the Chinese zodiac as well. Coincidence? Never.
Oh wow. You don't seem very snake-y to me. It does lead me to the natural next question: How does it make you feel to know that Indiana Jones would be afraid of you?
I did not know this fact. Perhaps I should get around to watching those movies one day? Nevertheless, it makes me feel like I need to find him stat. I wouldn't strike Indy for anything though. I would just want to demonstrate my keen literate skills. After my demonstration, he would drop his ridiculous whip and tip his hat. I would cure him of his fear.
So, you're reading this Saturday at Joe's coffee shop with some other poets. Are you totally pumped? What makes you most excited for the reading?
I am pumped to the max. I'm most excited about being a listener Saturday. My ears can hardly wait.