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Lunch, last Monday, was the famous porchetta sandwich from the PennyPackers food truck. We highly recommend that all our friends and followers in the area join us in making Mondays "Pennypackers Porchetta Day." It can be the Back Bay version of Prince Spaghetti Day with better food.
Last Monday Penny split off on our dog walk to drop a package at the Post Office on Clarendon Street. Her secondary assignment was to pick up lunch along the way home. Imagine her joy as she neared the corner of Clarendon and Boylston (map) and spotted the word "Porchetta" in large letters on the back of a food truck.
The truck was Pennypackers and that sandwich is their specialty.
There it was on the menu, the porchetta sandwich with rhubarb mostarda. After a hurried walk home to have lunch ASAP, we were both savoring the deeply seasoned pork, stuffing, and the lift of the mostarda. (As you may have noticed from past posts, Penny is a big rhubarb fan and was thrilled to see it used in this classic Italian condiment.)
It wasn't until we studied the rest of the menu in the quick photos taken while waiting for the porchetta, that we both wished we had ordered a second or third item to have that night for supper.
Pennypackers posts their daily status and menu on Twitter and Facebook. Like or follow them for updates on where they are and what they are serving.
PennyPackers Food Truck on Facebook
Spring Menu
Here's a sampling of what they will be serving this spring:
- Pea Shoot Salad: arugula, peas, radish, spring onion, mint + shallot vinaigrette, shaved pecorino
- Bean Salad: white beans, haricot verts, snap peas, hazelnut vinaigrette, arugula + herbs, mixed seeds
- Crushed Fried Potatoes: jalapeno, gorgonzola, extra virgin olive oil
- Mixed Seasonal Pickles
- Grilled Asparagus (side): smoked Russian dressing, chives
- Grilled Asparagus Sandwich: gruyere, pickled red onion, smoked Russian dressing, herb salad
- Vegetarian Pan Bagnat: fava beans, chickpeas, haricot verts, artichoke, red onion, radish, olive, herbs, hard boiled egg
- Fried Chicken Sandwich: shaved smoked ham, rhubarb jalapeno relish, bibb lettuce
- Porchetta Sandwich: daily accompaniment
- Grassfed Beef Ribeye Sandwich: sauteed mushrooms, ramp butter, preserved citrus gremolata
- Daily Sausage Special
Update: (05.16.16) We picked up these items for lunch! (Click on photos for larger images) Left to Right: Crushed Fried Potatoes, Fried Chicken Sandwich, and Ribeye Sandwich. They were all hits – especially the potatoes!
Here's what the porchetta looks like before it becomes a delectable sandwich. (from the Pennypackers facebook page.)
Brick & Mortar Pennypackers
Like a few of the other great food truck families, Pennypackers has opened a brick and mortar restaurant. If the food truck schedule doesn't work for you, visit them at 514C Medford Street, Somerville, MA. (map) Right now that location is open Thursdays through Sundays. The hours are posted here.
Please get out and support our local food trucks. You'll have a better meal than you would from a national chain and you'll be helping a small business grow just the way we see Pennypackers growing.
What's on your Food Lover's shopping list?
Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
Photos: ©2016 Penny Cherubino with porchetta roll from Pennypackers facebook page.


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The film above is a short CNN report where Richard Quest looks at how cycling works in Copenhagen, and the new challenges the city faces as a result – cycle congestion. There are plenty of lessons in the film for UK cities in light of new research about cycling in the UK. Basically Brits are not going to take to their bikes in large numbers while they fear the consequences of doing so, and – as Peter Walker argues in a blog entry – this needs kilometres of segregated cycle lanes.
Why then does London Cycling not have this as one of its demands to candidates for Mayor of London at the 2012 elections? One of its 4 options on its 2012 election page – Continental-style high streets – is too wishy-washy in its wording.
The solution for cycling in London is simple but costly – segregate cyclists from traffic wherever possible and people will take to their bikes. Now which candidate(s) will advocate that I wonder?

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The Autonomous Robotic Vehicle Project (ARVP) was founded in 1996 as a means for students at the University of Alberta to develop, apply and promote technologies related to the field of robotics. Members of the ARVP are interdisciplinary and come from various backgrounds and faculties such as the Faculty of Engineering, Computing Science, and the Faculty of Business. These students gain the necessary skills and technical understanding of the different processes involved in the design, construction and testing of autonomous vehicles in order prepare them for a possible career in the field of robotic systems.
From 1996 to 2006, ARVP was involved exclusively with ground-based autonomous vehicles and had many great successes. Since then, the focus shifted to underwater-based autonomous vehicles. This year, ARVP accepted the challenge put forth by the 2019 International RoboSub Competition, hosted by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR). It will be held on July 29 – August 4, 2019 at the SSC Pacific TRANSDEC. San Diego, CA.
This year, the team will be entering the competition with a new and improved AURI!


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Shortly after the birth of his son and the release of his latest single dubbed Smooth Criminal featuring Ebisco, Arab Son Keeda Xpensiv returns with the visuals to his widely accepted single titled WALETA. The video which was shot in Nigeria is a gift from the South South finest Entertainer as he marks his birthday yesterday 6th of April.
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Transport giant FirstGroup has awarded a range of IT contracts to Atos Origin and Computacenter, for IT support, IT user service desk, email management and datacentres and hosting at its UK operations.
FirstGroup, the UK's largest bus and train operator, let contracts worth £36.2 million in total. The largest is a £11.8 million, five-year contract for datacentre and hosting, which has been won by Atos Origin.
Under the terms of this contract, Atos will host and support a number of FirstGroup's IT systems – a mix of Wintel, Linux and Unix environments. The supplier will also host the related LAN and SAN infrastructure, with both physical and virtualised infrastructure expected to be provided.
The systems will include back office applications, engineering systems and front office ticketing systems. FirstGroup said that some of the IT systems will require disaster recovery to a second active data centre.
In addition, Atos Origin will provide managed email and collaborative services for up to 20,000 mailboxes as part of a five-year, £2.1 million contract. This will include email, instant messaging, calendar and mobile messaging services.
Meanwhile, under a five-year, £8.2 million IT support contract, Computacenter will provide IT support and technical delivery of FirstGroup's distributed infrastructure. This will include management support of the company's 10,000 end user devices, servers and LAN infrastructure across 630 sites in the UK.
Computacenter will also supply an ITIL-based IT service desk to handle all first line calls from FirstGroup's end users, and the required infrastructure to handle the company's IT service requests, as part of a five-year £5.9 million contract. The service desk will support service requests for back office systems, personal productivity systems and rail and bus-specific operational systems.
In an additional contract, FirstGroup awarded a £8.2 million, 44-month contract to Global Crossing Telecommunications for the supply, operation and support of its Wide Area Network in the UK.
The network will be required to support all types of data, including voice. While the network will initially cover all the company's sites, the Global Crossing may have to expand its services to Europe and North America, as required.
Earlier this year, FirstGroup signed a multi-million pound application development, installation and support contract with Atos Origin.


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Fish & Seafood
Pan Seared Sea Scallops
with Lemon Beurre Blanc
18 large dry pack sea scallops (10-20 to a pound is a great size for a dinner)
1/2 cup flour
Olive oil for frying
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Pat the scallops dry with paper towels. Toss the scallops with the flour and shake off excess. Heat a medium sized sauté pan over high heat. Add enough olive oil to lightly coat the bottom of the pan then begin to add the scallops. Season each with salt and pepper. Cook about 2-3 minutes per side, browning well. Remove from the pan, place 3 on each plate and drizzle with the Beurre Blanc and the chopped fresh herbs.
Lemon Beurre Blanc
1-2 small shallots, finely minced
8 oz chilled unsalted butter cut into small pieces
1/2 cup Viogner
1/2 cup white wine vinegar
2 Tbsp heavy cream
Juice of 1 lemon
Zest of 1 lemon
Sea salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
2 Tbsp chopped fresh herbs, such as basil, parsley, chives and chervil to garnish the dish
Place the shallots, Viogner, and vinegar in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium high heat, reduce the liquid to about 2 Tbs of liquid and then add the cream. Simmer the liquid until thickened about 2-3 minutes. Remove from the heat and begin to whisk the pieces of butter into the liquid. Add half of the lemon juice, lemon zest, salt and pepper to taste. Taste to see if more lemon juice is needed. The sauce can be held for up to 2 hours if you place the pan in another pan with warm water in it over very low heat. Do not boil.


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HARMS, CLAUS (1778–1855), German divine, was born at Fahrstedt in Schleswig-Holstein on the 25th of May 1778, and in his youth worked in his father's mill. At the university of Kiel he repudiated the prevailing rationalism and under the influence of Schleiermacher became a fervent Evangelical preacher, first at Lunden (1806), and then at Kiel (1816). His trenchant style made him very popular, and he did great service for his cause especially in 1817, when, on the 300th anniversary of the Reformation, he published side by side with Luther's theses, ninety-five of his own, attacking reason as "the pope of our time" who "dismisses Christ from the altar and throws God's word from the pulpit." He also had some fame as a hymn-writer, and besides volumes of sermons published a good book on Pastoraltheologie (1830). He resigned his pastorate on account of blindness in 1849, and died on the 1st of February 1855.
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Hi again, i just came back from my vacation, feeling very refresh (hopefully). I noticed there are a lot of thunderstorm every evening at my place and it suddenly occur to me that I don't know anything about lightning safety. So I look it up. Better to know this before we are fried, right?
1) It is recommended to wet your clothes with the rain. This is simply because it is always better to have the current go over you than through you
2) Lightning can strike before rain. So take precaution before it rains.
3) Never use an umbrella or your handphone during lightning. There was even one case I read in the newspaper that one Malaysian had to be admitted to hospital for using handphone and got struck by lightning
4) Do not take shelter under a tree, instead try the inside of a building. Much safer.
5) There is this "Lightning Defensive Position" we can try. Squat down with your feet together and close your ears with your hands. Do not lie down or touch any metal or anyone beside you. Just remember, the lightning always try to find the tallest object around. So if you are on a field alone. the position will not do much 🙂
6) Stay in your shelter for about 15 minutes after the rain stopped. This is because lightning can strike up to 15km away from the thundercloud even after the rain had stopped.
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Talking about lightning, I always imagine that if one can survive after being struck by lightning, he or she will have superpowers. heheh I for one is obsessed with the idea of superpower. So any tv series with such theme immediately falls in my favorite list. We may not be able to fly or stop time. But I think we are still using so little of our potential. Just compare ourselves with world athletes around the world. Anyway…. GOOD TO BE BACK!!!! 🙂
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Monthly Archives: October 2017
Doncaster Electronic Foundation's Fifth Halloween Masquerade released!
Only just managed to get it all out there on halloween though, nearly didn't make it through one thing or another…
In case you're not aware, each year we challenge artists to create a cover song that is of a band not their usual style. The results are always unpredictable and always delightful.
Huge thanks to all the artists involved here, donating their time and effort for no reward other than the artistic.
In alphabetical order:
Brutalist Architecture in the Sun
Damsel in the Dollhouse
The Golden Age Of Nothing
Icicle Boy
Images @ Random (Simon Appleby)
Izzie Voodoo and the People
Jan Doyle Band
MA74 (MA 74 soundcloud)
Nature of Wires
Negative Response
Pas de la Dame Sauvage
This Human Condition
The Webb
Voi Vang
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DEF Radio 23rd October 2017 – Golfrapp Silver Eye Special
Goldrapp – Anymore
Voi Vang – Cards
Findley Webster & Shotty 4HF – Shock
Vieon – Proteus
The Department – Let It Go
Goldfrapp – Systemagic
Cristabel Christo – Kill Me
Black Nail Cabaret – CO
Damsel in the Dollhouse – Loki
Punkdisco – Bleach Scented Skin
Brutalist Architecture in the Sun – A13 Dual Carriagewave
Dicepeople – Synthetic
Goldfrapp – Become the One
PARK FIRES – Dead Beat City
Grimes – California
Poppy – Interwebs
Promenade Cinéma – Words of a Stranger (Rework)
Devoix – Closer
BOO – Battery Operated Orchestra – Live Rail ( Jan Doyle Band remix)
Train To Spain – Believe in Love
NINA – My Mistake
Hemmingway – Frontiers
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Major Writings - Nichiren Daishounin
The Difficulty of Sustaining Faith
About the difficulty of sustaining faith in this sutra: According to Nissho, you said to him, "I have
been practicing this sutra correctly since last year, when you told me that those who embrace this sutra will enjoy peace
and security in this life and good circumstances in the next. But instead I have been deluged by hardships." Is this true,
or did he give me a false report? In either case, I will take advantage of this opportunity to resolve any doubts you may
A passage from the Lotus Sutra reads, "...difficult to believe and difficult to understand." Many hear
about and accept this sutra, but few continue their faith in the face of great obstacles. To accept is easy; to continue is
difficult. But Buddhahood lies in continuing faith. Those who embrace this sutra should be prepared to meet difficulties.
It is certain, however, that they will "quickly obtain the supreme enlightenment." To "sustain faith" means to cherish Nam-myoho-renge-kyo,
the teaching by which all Buddhas throughout past, present and future attain enlightenment. The sutra reads, "We will uphold
what the Buddha has entrusted to us." The Great Teacher T'ien-t'ai stated, "One accepts out of the power of faith and continues
because of the power of prayer." Another part of the sutra reads, "It is difficult to sustain faith in this sutra. One who
embraces it even for a short time will delight me and all other Buddhas."
A fire burns higher when logs are added, and a strong wind makes the gura swell. The boughs of the long-lived
pine tree become bent and twisted as it grows older. The votary of the Lotus Sutra is like the fire and the gura, while his
persecutions are like the logs and wind. The votary of the Lotus Sutra is the Buddha of eternal life; no wonder his practice
is hindered, just as the pine tree's branches are bent or broken. From now on, you should always remember the words, "It is
difficult to sustain faith in this sutra."
With my deep respect,
The sixth day of the third month in the twelfth year of Bun'ei (1275)
A Comparison of
the Lotus Sutra and Other Sutras
A Ship to Cross
the Sea of Suffering
Earthly Desires
Are Enlightenment
Clear Sake Gosho
Letter to Niike
Letter to Domyo
Letter to Akimoto
Letter from Sado
Reply to Nichigon-ama
Roots of Good Fortune
Reply to Jibu-bo
No Safety in the
Threefold World - Nichiren Daishounin
Letter to Horen
- Nichiren Daishounin
King Rinda - Nichiren
Jozo and Jogen -
Nichiren Daishounin
Bodhisattva Hachiman
- Nichiren Daishounin
On Prayer - Nichiren
The Opening of the
Eyes Part I
The Opening of the
Eyes Part II
Conversation between
a Sage and an Unenlightened Man
Conversation between
a Sage and an Unenlightened Man Part II
Establishment of
the Legitimate Teaching for the Protection of the Country
How Those Initially
Aspiring to the Way Can Attain Buddhahood Through the Lotus Sutra
The Learned Doctor
The Entity of the
Mystic Law
The Pure and Far-reaching
Reply to Takahashi
The Teaching, Capacity,
Time, and Country
The Doctrine of
Attaining Buddhahood in One's Present Form
Encouragement to
a Sick Person
The Essence of the
Yakuo Chapter
The Daimoku of the
Lotus Sutra
The Supreme Leader
of the World
The Treasure of
a Filial Child
The Supremacy of
the Law
Reply to Nii-ama
The Workings of
Bonten and Taishaku
The Story of Ohashi
no Taro
The Teaching in
Accordance with the Buddha's Own Mind
The Treatment of
Illness and the Points of Difference between Mahayana and Hinayana and Provisional
Repaying Debts of
On Practicing the
Buddha's Teachings
On the Urabon
Letter to the Priests
of Seicho-ji
Letter to Nichimyo
Letter to Shomitsu-bo
Questions and Answers
on Embracing the Lotus Sutra
Reply to Sairen-bo
Rationale for Submitting
the Rissho Ankoku Ron
Persecution by Sword
and Staff
Rebuking Slander
of the Law and Eradicating Sins
Recitation of the
Hoben and Juryo Chapters
Reply to Lord Hakiri
Reply to Yasaburo
Letter to Ichinosawa
Letter to Myomitsu
Reply to Hoshina
Goro Taro
Wu-lung and I-lung
White Horses and
White Swans
The Sutra of True
The Kalpa of Decrease
The Farther the
Source, the Longer the Stream
The Third Doctrine
The One-eyed Turtle
and the Floating Sandalwood Log
Letter to Nakaoki
General Stone Tiger
The Heritage of
the Ultimate Law of Life
Lessening the Karmic
Letter to the Brothers
Hell is the Land
of Tranquil Delight
On Prolonging Life
On the Buddha's
On the Buddha's
On the Treasure
Propagation by the
The Embankments
of Faith
The Dragon Gate
Strategy of the
Lotus Sutra
Reply to Kyo-o
The Person and the
The One Essential
The Gift of Rice
The Real Aspect
of the Gohonzon
Letter of Petition
from Yorimoto
Introduction and
Preface to the Ongi Kuden: Namu Myoho Renge Kyo [Devotion to the Lotus Sutra]
Muryogi Sutra [Sutra
of Innumerable Meanings]
Chapter 3: Simile
and Parable [Hiyu]
Chapter 4: Faith
and Understanding [Shinge]
Chapter 6: Prediction
Chapter 7: Phantom
City [Kejoyu]
Chapter 8: Prophecy
of Enlightenment for Five Hundred Disciples [Gohyaku Deshi Juki]


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Many of us operate in high gear much of the day, putting out small (and large) fires, juggling schedules, dealing with traffic, and generally trying to keep our lives and that of our families in order. Even when our days and nights aren't streaming at a high pitch, levels of the stress hormone cortisol can remain elevated because we often fail to effectively manage stress and return to a state of tranquility.
Several health dangers exist in the presence of high cortisol. One is that it triggers food cravings, which can send us dashing to the freezer for the ice cream or the cupboard for a box of cookies. That same cortisol can also prompt an enzyme in fat cells to transform cortisone into more cortisol. The fat cells in the abdomen have more cortisol receptors than do regular fat cells, which means high cortisol can translate into more belly fat, which in turn raises the risk of diabetes and heart disease.
Certain foods can help restore calm in your life. I'm not talking about comfort foods, which we turn to when we need emotional numbing and that provide only a temporary, even fleeting sense of peace. In fact, we often feel guilty or angry with ourselves after downing a pint of ice cream or an entire bag of chips.
What I'm talking about are foods that have an ability to calm you because of their nutritional content (e.g., folate, which is a super stress reducer) or the steady energy they provide. They are balancing foods that can assist in relieving stress and restoring internal equilibrium. Include these foods as much as possible in your diet and find some creative ways to enjoy them even more.
Asparagus. These noble stalks are rich in folate. A study of 2608 adults found that people who ate the most foods high in folate had a lower risk of depression than those who consumed the least amount.
Avocados. Not only do avocados have more folate than any other fruit, they also contain healthy fats and potent antioxidants such as glutathione, lutein, beta-carotene, and vitamin E, which fight cell-damaging free radicals. Alas, they are also a bit high in calories, but even a few thin slices in a salad (leafy greens-more calming foods!) or in a sandwich are all you need!
Berries. Berries are a super source of vitamin C, which has a long history as a stress reducer. For example, in a double-blind, placebo-controlled study, 500 mg of vitamin C was found to reduce anxiety in high school students. Another study found that vitamin C was effective in reducing anxiety in people with type 2 diabetes.
Chamomile tea. This herbal tea is a tried, true, and tested way to help achieve a sense of calm. Two studies from the University of Pennsylvania study help illustrate this benefit. In the original 2009 study, 57 adults with anxiety or anxiety and depression were given either chamomile extract or placebo for 8 weeks, and there was a clear anti-anxiety benefit seen in those who took the chamomile. In a 2012 follow-up study, researchers determined that chamomile also provided an antidepressant benefit along with reducing anxiety.
You can enjoy chamomile tea by pouring 8 ounces of boiling water over 2 to 3 heaping tablespoons of dried chamomile (or buy chamomile in tea bags) and steep for 10 minutes. Chamomile tea is also great served over ice.
Dark chocolate. You may heave a sigh of relief when you came to this food. It turns out that dark chocolate is more than a comfort food; it can boost serotonin levels as well as reduce blood pressure and provide a significant amount of antioxidants in the form of flavonols and polyphenols. Moderation is the key when it comes to chocolate, however, so be sure to indulge in small amounts infrequently.
Fermented foods. A healthy gut can mean a healthier and calmer brain. That's because there's a direct connection (brain-gut axis) between these two regions of the body. Therefore, fermented foods that contain reliable sources of beneficial bacteria (probiotics) can have a direct impact on brain chemistry via your vagus nerve. In fact, a new (September 2016) review from Canada noted "apparent psychological benefits from probiotic supplementation." Be sure to choose foods with verifiable amounts of probiotics or even better, make your own fermented veggies, kefir, sauerkraut, and yogurt.
Read more on eating leafy vegetables to promote good digestion
Leafy greens. Kale, spinach, Swiss chard, mustard greens, and others leafy greens are excellent sources of folate and magnesium, another calming nutrient. If you make a salad with leafy greens, asparagus, and a few slices of avocado, you'll have a super stress-reducing entree on your hands!
Oatmeal. You might say oatmeal reduces stress in two ways. One, it's inexpensive and easy to make, so you don't spend a lot of prep time. Two, it prompts your brain to make the calming neurotransmitter called serotonin. Enjoy a bowl of oatmeal with a handful of berries and you'll have double the soothing power.
Seeds. Chia, sunflower, flax, hemp, sesame-seeds provide lots of magnesium, which is a precursor for serotonin. Research also shows that a magnesium deficiency is associated with anxiety, depression, and panic attacks. For example, a study in Nutrition Neuroscience found that taking magnesium was associated with lower depression symptoms. Another study among 5,708 adults showed a relationship between magnesium intake and depression. Toss some seeds into your leafy greens salad, stir them into your oatmeal, blend them in your smoothie, and enjoy them as a snack!
Amsterdam JD et al. Chamomile (Matricaria recutita) may provide antidepressant activity in anxious, depressed humans: an exploratory study. Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine 2012 Sep-Oct; 18(5): 44-49
Amsterdam JD et al. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of oral Matricaria recutita (chamomile) extract therapy for generalized anxiety disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology 2009 Aug; 29(4): 378-82
De Oliveira IJ et al. Effects of oral vitamin C supplementation on anxiety in students: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences 2015 Jan; 18(1): 11-18
Derom ML et al. Magnesium and depression: a systematic review. Nutritional Neuroscience 2013 Sep; 16(5): 191-206
Engler MB et al. Flavonoid-rich dark chocolate improves endothelial function and increases plasma epicatechin concentrations in healthy adults. Journal of the American College of Nutrition 2004 Jun; 23(3): 197-204
Mazloom Z et al. Efficacy of supplementary vitamins C and E on anxiety, depression and stress in type 2 diabetic patients: a randomized, single-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences 2013 Nov 15; 16(22): 1597-600
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A Photo Quiz
Things have been too serious here lately, so it's time for something more fun.
On a recent trip with my students to southern Israel, we took the chance to act out some biblical stories.
The challenge is for you to identify the biblical characters in the photograph below.
I'll give you two hints:
1. We were at Beersheba and though all of the action didn't occur here, some did (and the rest not far away).
2. Characters from several separate stories are posed together here, but the stories are told in a two consecutive chapters of the Bible.
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Welcome to The Islands of the Bahamas!
Whether you are considering the Bahamas for your next vacation, planning a visit or are already here — we want to make sure that your stay in the beautiful islands of the Bahamas is as magical, memorable and amazing as possible. Let's get started!
Destination Management Services Like No Other...
How can we help?
Great Bahamas Events and Programs would like to be your DMC (Destination Management Company) of choice here in the Bahamas. We know that the activities and events a person or group engages in when visiting a destination has a great impact on the opinions formed about that destination. Poor execution or service can ruin a vacation or trip. We are proud of the Bahamas and all it has to offer and want to ensure that our clients experience it the 'right way'. We leave nothing to chance and infuse everything with creativity and novelty. Trust us to make your visit to the Bahamas an amazing, unforgettable experience.
Our services include Transportation, Meet & Greet, Activities and Tours, Event Décor and entertainment. We service Nassau, Paradise Island and the 'Family Islands'. Our staff are professional, friendly and well informed on our destination and local culture. Allow us to provide everything from your hotel to your VIP Protocol Departures.
What makes us different?
- True, personalized service means your experience will be second to none
- Groups are assigned a dedicated team to care for all of their needs
- We offer competitive pricing with premium service
- We are 100% Bahamian owned
- On the 'Preferred Vendors List' at Atlantis
- We maintain a fully stocked warehouse of event supplies
- Over 30 years in the local tourism industry
- Highly personalized, unique tours and standard tour bookings
We specialize in...
Imagine stepping out of the newly constructed Nassau Airport and being met by staff that are professionally dressed, friendly and well informed on your destination and local culture. A cold drink and cool towel are presented to you on a tray. Your vehicle has been inspected, it's clean and well maintained. The driver is prepared and ready to transfer you to your hotel or destination of choice. Upon arrival our staff meet you and escort you to your check in. A bit beyond what you were expecting? Clean. On time, every time. Friendly and professional. Our goal is to always exceed our clients' expectations.
We can provide a range of sedans, SUVs, mini buses and coaches that can accommodate up to 32 passengers to care for all of your transportation needs while in the Bahamas.
Our décor services range from setting up intimate parties on the beach for 2, to events that encompass ballrooms and pool decks for 1500+. Elegant? Fun? Themed? Simple or extravagant? Whatever your wish or vision, we can create it at a very reasonable rate and with value-added professionalism and creativity.
Here are a few examples…
Cultural: Junkanoo events complete with an authentic Junkanoo Rush Out, Limbo Dancer, Fire Dancer and colourful linens and centerpieces display the culture of the Bahamas in an interactive atmosphere. Guests are always encouraged to join in the fun!
Novel: Our out of the box themes include private intimate picnics with floating champagne bars, white gloved waiters and flowing cabanas. If you can imagine it, we'll make it a reality.
Premium: Private yachts for barefoot elegance combine a little of the lifestyle of the rich and famous with an amazing culinary experience. We top it off with personalized wine and champagne paired with a menu to enhance the meal and bring out the personality of our clients.
Unique Events & Tours
We believe in spoiling our clients. While we offer all of the fantastic tours that are available in the Bahamas, we like to personalize them to take them 'over the top'. An example would be a Day at Rose Island: we take the regular tour and beef it up by adding in a theme like James Bond Day, A Pirate Adventure, Gilligan's Island or Over the Top Beach Bar-b-que with barefoot elegance!
Here are two examples:
Bond: Imagine taking a private yacht to a private island with 'Bond' on board. A speedboat makes an approach to capture Bond. A helicopter appears and chases the boat away. Bond serves his signature martini. Everyone is shaken not stirred!
Pirate Adventure: Actors dressed as pirates capture several of the guests. The remaining guests separate into teams and create the best way to rescue their friends. The day turns into a team building exercise, with treasure hunts and rescues. Swashbuckling fun for all!
Sound like fun? It will be!


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Bel-Ray sponsored racer Ken Roczen of RCH Soaring Eagle/Jimmy Johns/Suzuki Factory Racing team finished as the 450MX class runner up at the July 23 AMA Pro Motocross Championship in Washougal, Washington.
Roczen kicked moto one off with a great start. Looking to secure his 14th moto win of the 2016 season, Roczen maintained his 10 second lead and secured another victory in the first moto. Despite finishing as the runner up for moto two, Roczen was able to maintain his 55 point lead over his closest competitor, before heading into a break before the 10th round of the season.
"I'm pretty happy," said Roczen. "Washougal hasn't been one of my favorite tracks. I had a great first moto but that was the driest I've ever seen the track. Obviously, the sun and the shadows played a role later in the day so that was a little sketchy, too. I grabbed two good starts so overall I'm happy with the day. We're going into a couple weeks break so I think that will be handy for everyone. It's all good."
Bel-Ray's family of sponsored riders achieved the following results at the ninth round of the 2016 AMA Pro Motocross Championship:
- Ken Roczen – (1-2) 2nd overall in the 450MX Class at Washougal National
- Christophe Pourcel – (37-6) 13th overall in the 450MX Washougal National
- Zach Osborne – (5-33) 13th overall in the 250MX Class at Washougal National
- Martin Davalos – (12-32) 16th overall in the 250MX Class at Washougal National
- Kevin Rookstool – (20-38) 24th overall in the 450MX Class at Washougal National
- Ronnie Stewart – (38-25) 33rd overall in the 450MX Class at Washougal National
- Gared Steinke – (22-39) 34th overall in the 250MX Class at Washougal National
The next round of the AMA Pro Motocross season will take place on August 13 in New Berlin, NY at Unadilla National.


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Orange County firefighters on Sunday battled a three-alarm blaze at a recycling center in Anaheim.
The call was originally reported as a possible dumpster fire, but firefighters found a dangerous situation involving recyclable materials — such as plastics and cardboard — in an open yard in an industrial neighborhood in the 1100 block of North Anaheim Boulevard.
Also on fire were vehicles belonging to the business and a utility pole, said Maria Sabol, a spokeswoman for Anaheim Fire & Rescue.
About 75 firefighters were involved in the effort. A firefighter and a police officer were treated for smoke inhalation.
About 26 homes were without power because of the incident.
The blaze took about 90 minutes to control, but firefighters were continuing to monitor the situation out of concern that recycling materials could reignite.
Monrovia brush fire 85% contained; all evacuation orders lifted
Al Michaels' U-turn led to arrest on DUI allegations, police say
Some vow to make CicLAvia a tradition


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Last year I started documenting my RV travels with digital scrapbooking using the Project Life App using the Kraft kit that comes free with the app. I created a layout for each of the places I traveled. Since I waited until the end of the year to get the pages together, it was a lot of work. I like how the book turned out but wanted to do something different this year. So this year, I'm using the Project 52 Edition kit.
Also, instead of creating a layout for each place I visit, I decided to create a layout for each week that I'm on the road. Project Life has the perfect kit for this, Project 52 Edition. This kit has title cards for each week in both portrait and landscape orientations. I especially like the journal cards that lists each day of the week. I plan on using those to keep track of my location since I often move from one RV park to another RV park in a week.
I really like the color scheme in the Project 52 kit better than the Kraft kit. It has brighter colors and more colors to choose from. I think it makes my pages look more put together. And the graphics are cute too!
My plan is to create the weekly layout on Sunday. That way I can keep up-to-date and not have to play catch up at the end of the year.
I've put together the front and last pages using the cards from the kit. I really like how it turned out. What do you think?
Are you creating a weekly spread for your digital scrapbooks? Are you using Project Life? What kits are you using?


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This is the Team Orion Vortex R10 Stock US SPEC Brushless ESC. The "blinky" stock classes are booming world wide and racers have been asking for a stock version of the very successful Vortex R10 Pro speed controller. Team Orion's answer? The Vortex R10 Stock.
Now you can squeeze the extra power out of your stock racing motors, while keeping total control with the awesome throttle and brake feeling of their US National winning ESC software.
In-Depth Features:
- Zero Timing Software: This R10 Stock ESC has been factory programmed with the 0° timing software. This software is optimized to give the best possible performance when using 0° timing.
- Dual Sensor Port: Another great feature of the R10 racing ESC is the dual sensor port. The two sensor ports have two purposes, firstly they allow you to better manage the sensor wire positioning and secondly the port which remains free can be used to connect the ESC to the DSB-R digital program box without having to remove the sensor wire each time.
- Great Throttle & Brake Control: Not only a modern ESC needs to deliver maximum power, but also maximum control. This was the key for the victories at the US Nationals and World Championships this year. With the hardware and software version used in this speed controller we achieved both: ultra smooth control at high RPM and with outstanding acceleration.
- CAD Designed Aluminum Case: With today's high-end brushless motors and batteries, efficiency and cooling are very important. Our engineers chose aluminum over plastic for the ESC top case because it dissipates heat much more efficiently. The bottom case is still in plastic to prevent glitching and other nuisances. The top case also features mounting holes for the cooling fan.
- Super Push Brake Technology: Braking is as important as accelerating. With our international racing team we fine-tuned the software in order to give maximum brake force at best controllability. We managed to make great improvements over competitors products - and we call our system Push Brake Technology.
- Low Resistant Components: High grade components have been chosen to lower the inner resistance for best efficiency. Thanks to those high quality electronic components the Vortex R10 is robust and reliable.
- World Champion Software!
- 4 Times US National Champion Software
- Norwegian National Champion Software
- ROAR Approved
- CAD Designed Aluminum Case
- Dual Sensor Port
- High grade Low Resistance components
- State of the Art software
- Highly customizable settings
- LED and Audio Tone for Status Control
- Optional Program Box and Computer Software
- Simple Initial Setup
- Works with Sensor and Sensorless Motors
- Seamless sensor/sensorless switch in case of sensor failure
- Forward and Reverse Function Mode
- Crawler Function Mode
- Great Throttle/Brake Feeling and Control
- Super Push Brake Technology
- Heavy Duty 12G Silicone Wires
- Low Battery Voltage Cut-Off System
Type: Sensor/sensorless
Resistance: 0.0003 ohm
Function: forward/brake, forward/brake reverse, forward/reverse
Application: Zero timing (blinky mode) stock racing
Motor type: Stock motors
Battery type: 5-9 cells NiMH - NiCd, 2-3S LiPo/LiFe
BEC: 5.75V@3A, Linear Mode
Size: 41.5x30.5x20.2mm w/o fan
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One of the main reasons for battery drain on any Windows Mobile Phone is to being connected to internet using 3G. How you wish if you had control over your phone's connection and save your phone's battery life. Well, BandSwitch offers you to take control of your connections.
Bandswitch offers:
- Enable and disable connections. Disabling connections makes impossible to use them so you know they wont generate traffic data.
Stablish and close connections.
- Set a time frame where connections won't be allowed (ie, when you are sleeping) saving money and battery.
- Turn off/on Bluetooth and Wifi with or without time limit. When the limit expires, it is set to off state.
- Switch between 2G/3G/auto modes.
- There are discounts for companies. With enterprise license, it isn't necessary to enter the code manually. It makes easier automatic deployments with other enterprises tools.
Bandswitch has been updated to support Toshiba TG01. Until now HTC phones supported Bandswitch.


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First in the new Shadowspan series from the New York Times bestselling "master of speculative fiction" (Library Journal).
Eons ago, Homo Lupens ruled the earth. Possessing extraordinary powers, they were the source of all of the myths and legends of the uncanny. And though their numbers have been greatly reduced, they exist still- though not as purebreds.
Adrian Breze is one such being. Wealthy and reclusive, he is more Shadowspawn than human. But he rebelled against his own kind, choosing to live as an ordinary man. Now, to save humanity, he must battle the dark forces of the world-including those in his own blood…
I listened to A Taint of Blood on audio book as background noise while working. I also almost stopped because some of the the accents were difficult for me to get used to. They seriously grated on my nerves in the very beginning. But of course the more I listened I eventually got used to it and it wasn't so bad.
Adrian is a shadowspawn, hellspawn? demonspawn? The word they used already escapes me hah! But anyways think vampire but he's one that fights his nature – he doesn't want to drink blood and when he has to it gets it from a cold icky donated blood bag from The Red Cross. He figures he donates to the institution and he's a man in need of some volunteer blood from time to time. Someone has a guilty conscience much?
So he and his girlfriend Ellen just split and right about that time Adrian's evil twin sister comes to town and abducts her. Very unfortunate for us audio listeners her name is Adrienne. You know I might even have this backwards since I listened instead of reading it – so my spelling could be wrong here are their names. It doesn't matter really because in the audio it sounds almost freaking exactly the same when pronounced…kind of bugged me to no end. If I would have read it instead of listening I bet it wouldn't have bothered me so much.
As we move along Adrian gets pulled back into an organization he had retired from that are out to kill off the evil menace (they don't really do such a great job of it) – and he's off to rescue his kidnapped lady from said evil twin.
A few mild concerns: There was a touch bit of overload on info for me in A Taint of Blood but I think if I would have read it instead of listened to it I would have enjoyed it more. Some of the scenarios seems a wee bit convenient but what is fantasy if not convenient?
The telepathic talking portion with the long pauses between each word in the narration almost ended things for me entirely and I was a touch close to not continuing with the audio. Can you tell yet that I'm a sensitive freaking listener?
All things considered, it looks like it could be a good series so I'm going to continue. Though I'm going to skip book 2 and go straight to book 3 as part of a personal experiment. As I honestly didn't listen with undivided attention to A Taint of Blood and it was only given 1/3 of my attention while I went through my normal workday, my review might not be entirely fair. The third book I'm going to actually read in print so we'll see how it holds up to my – trying books later in a series as a 'standalone' experiment.
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Here is my latest map.
Name: The Maze.
The violet wool marks one of many paths from one base to the other.
Waterbug wrote:-sniper-, you pointed out a couple of things that need to be changed in "The Maze" on the github page but you did not specify if I had to do it or not.
As for the "Cave Wars" map, don't worry about that one for the time being. I think I may want to completely redo that map.
Waterbug wrote:Changed ctf_map:wool_wool_wool_violet to ctf_map:wool_violet. Also added ctf_map:stone around the map.
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The image above is a powerful one. This black power salute is embedded in our history. In 1968 Olympics athletes Tommie Smith (gold) and John Carlos (bronze) made history during the Olympic games in Mexico City. With the world watching the sprinters stood on the medal podium and raised their black-gloved fists in the air in silent protest for human rights and for black Americans to stand in solidarity.
It's that powerful image that was the inspiration for Puma's capsule collection honoring Tommie Smith and Black History Month. What I didn't realize is that gold medalist Tommie Smith removed his suede Pumas right before he stepped onto the podium shoeless in black socks, to represent poverty and slavery. After that subtle statement, he then raised his fist. With that unmistakable gesture, Tommie Smith altered the course of history and dedicated his life to change. Emblazoned with Tommie Smith's silhouette, with fist raised, the Black History Month Pack honors a legacy on the track and off. I must applaud Puma for honoring this hero.
Check out Puma's Black History Month Collection here:
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For more about the 1968 Olympic Black Power Salute:
http://time.com/3880999/black-power-salute-tommie-smith-and-john-carlos-at- the-1968-olympics/


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After falling in love with the shades in this palette, I decided to ask for it for Christmas. I don't use drugstore palettes that often, but I always love to try them out and see if they're any good for such an affordable price. This palette includes twelve eyeshadows; six shimmers and six mattes.
I'm disappointed that the shades don't have individual names, does anyone else like to know the shades by names? Haha. All of the shades are very soft and powdery which can sometimes cause a little bit of fallout - make sure you're wearing your best eye primer! The majority of shades are more pigmented than others. The only two shades that aren't very pigmented are the second and fourth on the bottom row.
|These swatches are in the order of the palette. Top row - top picture. Bottom row - bottom picture.
Hardly any of the shades are true to the colour they look in the palette. A good example is the electric blue colour in the palette, on the top row. When I swatched this, it was more of a dark grey, brownish colour with blue sparkles in it. This shade was a huge disappointment as I was so excited to wear this and I was expecting more of it. Whereas, the first and last shades on the top row are extremely true to colour.
Overall, this palette is touch and go. I'd personally only use a few of the shades out of the twelve.
Is it worth buying? For £9.99, yes as I'd still use the shades. If you're thinking to yourself that you wouldn't use them then don't purchase it.


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Victor Yack's waterfront condo appraised at $1.75 million when he took out a reverse mortgage in 2007, the peak of the market in his west Newport Beach ZIP code.
Then the market crashed and the median price fell about 40 percent within two years in 92663, where he lives.
Now Yack, 87, feels the need to move to an assisted living facility and put up for sale the two-bedroom, two-bathroom condo he's called home nearly a half century.
He's asking $1.695 million. That's within 3 percent, or $55,000, of the appraised value back at the peak of the housing bubble. Yack, a retired florist and real estate agent, says it's not surprising to see his price near peak levels.
"Of course. It's prime property," he said of his building, which has views of Newport Harbor's West Lido and Rhine channels. "This is called the Gold Coast. Anything on the water has got to be good."
Things are getting better for property owners, and not just on the Gold Coast.
Seven years after the housing market collapsed, Orange County home prices are at or nearing the peak in some areas, according to local agents and to a Register analysis of numbers from CoreLogic DataQuick.
The county's 2014 median price, at $585,000, is 7.9 percent below its pre-recession peak, closer than any other Southern California county to that improbable summit.
The Register compared each local ZIP code's 2014 median home price to its pre-recession peak, using quarterly numbers from DataQuick. The median is the price at the midpoint of all sales. (CLICK HERE TO SEE CHART SHOWING EACH ZIP CODE'S RANKING)
The result: Prices were above peak levels in three ZIP codes – two in Irvine and Yack's west Newport ZIP. A fourth that includes Laguna Beach is 1.1 percent below its pre-recession peak.
Six other ZIP codes were within 10 percent of their price peaks, including ZIPs in Irvine, Newport Beach, Santa Ana, Yorba Linda and Huntington Beach.
Rising prices benefited most homeowners, even those who are yet to get back to peak levels. For example, CoreLogic figures show that 111,500 "underwater" homeowners in the county regained equity in the past five years.
Leading the pack
Not everyone believes the county will be back to peak prices anytime soon or even thinks that getting there is a good thing.
Agents also noted that statistical glitches in the data can distort what's really happening.
For example, the two Irvine ZIP codes at peak levels – 92602 and 92618 –should be disregarded since they include some of Orange County's most active homebuilding tracts, such as Portola Springs, Stonegate East, Orchard Hills and Orange County's Great Park Neighborhoods.
Since new homes command higher prices, the increase in medians in those two ZIP codes are due mainly to construction rather than increasing values. But many agree Newport Beach and Laguna Beach are leading the pack.
"It's kind of a mix," said Laguna Beach agent Bob Chapman, a broker associate with Teles Properties. "Some houses in some neighborhoods may have returned to the peak."
Chapman said homes are selling for bubble-era prices if they're within walking distance of the beach, have spectacular views, are new or newly remodeled.
Steve High, president of Villa Real Estate of Newport Beach, said homes selling for $3 million and under "met and slightly exceeded high points of 2007 in Newport Beach." But prices still are well below peaks in the ultra-luxury market of $5 million and up, he said.
A Newport Coast home illustrates the "up-down-up" market best, High said. The 5,500-square-foot home sold for $4.5 million in May 2007, then sold for $3 million in January 2010 after a bank foreclosed on it. In January, it sold for $4.55 million.
"We've really seen some leaps and gains," High said. "I've never seen a market correct itself as much as this one did."
Keller Williams agent Jeff Stokes said Newport Beach homes are selling at pre-recession levels in Newport Heights, Dover Shores and Corona del Mar. Inland, he saw one sale near the peak in the North Tustin community of Lemon Heights.
"The prime areas definitely are up there," Stokes said.
East Yorba Linda and west Brea ZIP codes also are faring well, driven by high demand and low inventory, said Mike Cocos, general manager of ERA North Orange County.
DataQuick figures show Yorba Linda's high-end 92887 ZIP code is within 8.8 percent of its price peak; Brea's 92821 is within 10.9 percent.
"Anything decent sells very quickly," Cocos said. "Definitely (prices) are going up."
Fewer foreclosures
The recovery has been anything but painless.
Just over 42,600 Orange County property owners lost their homes to foreclosure during the past seven years, DataQuick figures show. At least 30,500 more were forced to sell "short" of what they owed to avoid foreclosure, according to the California Regional Multiple Listing Service.
But those foreclosures and short sales dwindled to 7 percent of the market in 2014, down from almost half in 2010. That drop is boosting overall prices.
"It's taken this long to come back, and it's really because they don't have the short sales and foreclosures," said Nancy Casebier, an agent with Coast Sotheby's International Realty in Laguna Beach.
Some agents think the bubble peaks are a long way off, due in part to some lingering weakness and to the lack of mortgage mayhem that created those peaks.
Steve Thomas of ReportsOnHousing.com noted that demand and the number of homes for sale still lag longtime averages.
"I'm not rooting for it to get back to the peak," Thomas said. "That was an artificial peak. It was based on junk mortgages."
Thomas lives in Ladera Ranch, an area CNN Money once dubbed "Zombieland" because of high loan default and foreclosure rates.
DataQuick figures show Ladera Ranch's 2014 median home price was 42.7 percent below its peak of nearly $1.1 million – third worst among 83 Orange County ZIP codes.
"It was the area that was hit the hardest. You had all kinds of people coming in and flipping houses and living the life of equity lines of credit," Thomas said. "Prices went down to where they should have been."
Coldwell Banker agent Mac Mackenzie wonders what will happen to home prices once mortgage rates reach 5 percent for 30-year, fixed-rate loans – a "normal rate," he said. Rates have averaged below 4 percent for the past four months.
"If the interest rates are the lowest than any living person has ever seen and we still have inventory to sell, then where is the market really at?" Mackenzie asked.
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Now this is my kind of #rebootme …good coffee and great design. Let's remind ourselves that there can more to coffee than the local drive through.
Noc Coffee Co., Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
Bonanza Roastery Cafe, Berlin, Germany
Misto, Prague, Czech Republic
This was just a glimpse of the Wallpaper* article here.
Why do we like coffee?
Coffee makes us feel so good because it is able to tap into virtually every reward system our brain has evolved. Hidden within that hot black silken elixir is a chemical that has taken over your brain by mimicking the actions of cocaine and marijuana.
When you first started drinking coffee, the arousal was all you wanted and also all that you got. Still, being more attentive and vigilant was all you needed to get through the day. As you continued drinking coffee your liver compensated for the additional chemicals in your diet by becoming more efficient at metabolizing the caffeine. Your brain also made some adjustments. Ultimately, you needed more and more coffee each day to achieve the same level of arousal and vigilance. While all of this was occurring, something else far more mysterious was happening inside your brain; caffeine had begun stimulating your brain's endogenous marijuana neurotransmitter system. These biochemical adjustments introduced an entirely new level of pleasure to your morning cup of java.
Gary L. Wenk Ph.D.
Coffee as an antidepressant
Did you know that some people unknowingly self-mediate depression with caffeine? This is because caffeine can stimulate the central nervous system by elevating serotonin and dopamine and in so doing, act as an antidepressant.
The Archives of Internal Medicine also has research that links caffeine with lower suicide rates.
So what's the connection between coffee and design?
Well I thought the "artistic temperament" may give a clue in it's definition!
A personality profile well described in writers, artists and composers which, in the extreme case, borders on mental illness. Artists may suffer major depression, bipolar moods disorder or cyclothymia (the latter two of which are thought to be 10–20 times more common among artists), and may commit suicide (18 times more common in those with artistic temperaments). Episodes of hypomania may form the "substrate" for creative bursts.
That could explain my connection!


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Here we consider the broad sweep of the New Testament teaching concerning our daily work. We do so under two headings and find that the teaching focuses around the Lord Jesus Christ.
For work to be legitimate it must fulfil two criteria. A). The job itself must not entail violating God's law, e.g. that of a thief Ephesians 4.28. B). The context of the job must not violate God's law, e.g., a locksmith (legitimate) who makes keys for thieves (illegitimate) etc. The Lord Jesus was the 'son' of a carpenter Matthew 13.55, and up until the age of about 30 years old worked at that trade himself, Mark 6.3. This teaches us three important lessons.
- Legitimate labour, of whatever form, is never to be despisedJesus not only worked as a carpenter / builder in Nazareth he was prepared to do the work of a slave, washing the disciples feet, John 13.1-17. If God incarnate engaged in the lowest menial tasks he has stamped heavenly dignity upon such work.
- It is possible to maintain the closest communion with God in the toil of everyday workJesus did ordinary daily work with its humdrum routines and difficult customers. He faced all the same difficulties and temptations that we do, Hebrews 4.15. And yet within the carpenter's shop he grew in favour with God and man, Luke 2.52. His spiritual growth as a human being did not take place during years of solitude and desert contemplation. It took place in the midst of daily work. It is a mistake to use the demands of our work as an excuse for failure to grow spiritually.
- By his life we see that work is the normal God-ordained means of meeting our needsIf anyone had the right to be exempt from work, if the world ever owed anyone a living, it was Jesus the world's creator, Colossians 1.16. But he wanted to set us an example, so he worked. He who multiplied the loaves and fishes for the crowds never seems to have done that to provide for himself or his family. He went to work.
Thus we find the apostle Paul is stern with those who refuse to work, 2 Thessalonians 3.6-10.
THE ATTITUDES AND MOTIVATION WHICH ARE TO GOVERN OUR WORK There are a number of New Testament passages which address the subject of daily work, Colossians 3.22-4.1; 1 Thessalonians 4.11, 12; 1 Peter 2.18-25 etc. We will sketch the main considerations which should govern the Christian's attitude to work from Ephesians 6.5-9.
- The Yoke of ChristIn v5 Paul speaks of 'earthly masters' and so implies that we have a heavenly master for all our daily work. He makes this explicit in v9. When you became a Christian you voluntarily took upon yourself Christ's 'yoke' taking him as your master, Matthew 11.28-30. He is your master at work. This means there is no sacred/secular divide. Secular work is full-time service for Christ.
- The Love of ChristYour heavenly master is Christ who has died for you and who loves you, Ephesians 5.25. If he has given himself like that for us then we feel motivated to do our best even with the worst jobs once we see them as done for Jesus. Unlike the world the Christian has reason to be enthusiastic about even the lowest jobs. Our motive is not first of all money, it is serving Christ, v5-7.
- The Eye of ChristBecause of our sinful nature there is a temptation to do only the minimum amount of work required. But the Christian can be saved from this as he/she realises the we live forever in Christ's presence v6.
- The Throne of ChristWe are working for Christ in that all legitimate work which the Christian does is pleasing to Christ and will be rewarded by him at judgement day, v8. This is true whatever our status. Especially we will be rewarded for the times when we have suffered unjustly because we are conscious of God and his ways, 1 Peter 2.18-20.
We conclude there can be no right relationship to work without a right relationship to Jesus and there is no right relationship to Jesus if it does not issue in a right attitude to work.
This series on 'The Bible and Our Daily Work' is taken from a sermon series given by Dr. John Benton at Chertsey Street Baptist Church in 2012.
Part 1 in the series is 'Work and Creation'
Part 2 in the series is 'Work and the Fall'
Part 3 in the series is 'Male and Female in the context of Work'
Part 4 in the series is 'Work and Rest'
A related post '7 Tips on handling stress in the work place' can be found here.


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About MAEAP
The Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance Program (MAEAP) is a proactive program that helps farms of all sizes and commodities voluntarily prevent or minimize agricultural pollution risks.
This comprehensive, voluntary, free, program is designed to reduce farmers' environmental risks through a three-phase process:
1) Education (Phase 1 events)
2) Farm-specific risk assessment
3) On-farm verification that ensures the farmer has implemented environmentally sound practices.
MAEAP benefits Michigan by:
- Protecting natural resources using environmentally sound practices.
- Having emergency plans ready to deal with the unexpected.
- Using proven scientific standards to protect our air, water and soil.
- Maximizing natural fertilizer use and reducing use of fertilizers made from fossil fuels.
- Making good neighbors.
- Protect the Great Lakes.
- Ensuring safe storage of fuel, fertilizer and chemicals.
- Balance efficient production and sound environmental practices.
- Taking care of the land while making a living from the land.
The first step for farms to become MAEAP verified is by completing the necessary risk assessments with the Chippewa/Luce/Mackinac Conservation District MAEAP Technician. Contact our office if you are interested in MAEAP Verification. Visit www.MAEAP.org for more information.


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Pope Hails Anti-Pedophilia Group
Pope Benedict XVI told priests Sunday they must protect their flock from harm and regain trust as he hailed efforts to battle pedophilia but did not mention the sex abuse scandals buffeting his papacy.
Benedict noted Sunday was Italy's national day to remember children who are victims of violence and offered praised for a group, led by an Italian priest, that pioneered efforts in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation to combat "violence, exploitation and indifference" toward children.
The pope didn't mention the word pedophilia, but the association he cited, known as Meter, has denounced cases of pedophile priests in Italy. The group was founded by the Rev. Fortunato Di Noto. Earlier this year, Di Noto lamented that some of these cases were handled "with imprudence" by the Church.
"On this occasion, I want to above all thank and encourage all those who dedicate themselves to prevention and education" against violence, Benedict said. He singled out "parents, teachers and so many priests, nuns" and other church workers who work with young people in parishes, schools and groups.
Sunday was the day the Vatican dedicates annually to efforts to encourage young men to enter the priesthood, and Benedict urged clergy to follow the example of Jesus "the God Shepherd" in carrying out their ministry.
A priest should "take care of his flock with immense tenderness and defend it from harm, and the faithful must place absolute trust" in their clergy, the pope said.
Benedict's encouragement of efforts to prevent abuse of children comes after weeks of stepped-up accusations he and other top churchmen helped perpetuate systematic cover-ups of abusive priests worldwide in the past decades.
Clergy abuse victims have been demanding he acknowledge his role in fostering what they call a culture of secrecy, including frequent shuffling of pedophile priests from parish to parish or even country to country after complaints of sexual abuse were not quickly reported to police and prosecutors.
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Oh my goodness gracious great balls of fire. This might be the cutest thing I've ever photographed.
I was invited by Reyana from Sophie Dance Atwater to document their annual recital at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles. I grew up dancing and have always had a passion for the movement arts. Combining two of my great loves – photography & dance – was a dream come true. Here you'll find some of the highlights from behind the scenes plus some shots from the actual recital. Get ready to oooh and aaah at the lovely little dancers!
ps. How could I go a full post without mentioning birthdays…they also host parties at Sophie Dance, take a look here for more info!
Bravo to all the dancers!
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After some thought, a little research and a monday morning chat with a coffee in hand, we were ready to present the idea of sending George to space.
Of course the exact details are long forgotten, but that being said, later that day we posed the question, "How would you like to send George to space?" I recall the reactions quite clearly…and they can be explained in two words, shock and wonder. And there was a pause from the group that seemed like forever. Of course there was discussion that followed that included questions, concerns and wonders.
We sent them away that day with the idea that sometime in the near future "before school was out for summer" we would be sending George to space somehow. Determining how and what would be needed was their task over the next few days. They did not need to go in depth but rather gain…
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ContrastSorb is a development-stage blood purification technology that is being optimized for the removal of IV contrast from blood in order to prevent contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN). Contrast-induced nephropathy is the acute loss of renal function within the first 48 hours following IV contrast administration. IV contrast is widely administered to patients undergoing CT scans, to enhance the images and make it easier to identify anatomic structures.
IV contrast is also administered during vascular interventional radiology procedures and angiography of blood vessels in the brain, heart, limbs, and other parts of the body to diagnose and treat atherosclerosis (narrowing of blood vessels due to cholesterol deposits), vascular injury, aneurysms, etc. For example, an estimated 10 million coronary angiograms are performed worldwide each year to diagnose and treat coronary artery disease by placing coronary stents, performing balloon angioplasty, or atherectomy (removal of plaque in arteries).
Overall, there are an estimated 80 million doses of IV contrast administered worldwide each year, split between approximately 65 million contrast-enhanced CT scans, 10 million coronary angiograms, and 5 million conventional angiograms. There are an estimated 30 million doses administered each year in the U.S. alone. The reported risk of CIN in patients undergoing contrast enhanced CT scans has been reported to be 2-13%. For coronary intervention, the risk has been estimated to be as high as 20-30% in high risk patients with pre-existing renal insufficiency, long-term diabetes, hypertension, congestive heart failure, and older age.
The use of low osmolar IV contrast, hydration of patients pre-procedure, orally administration of N-acetylcysteine, and other agents to prevent CIN have demonstrated modest benefit in some clinical studies, but in many cases, the results across studies have been equivocal and inconsistent. In high risk patients, the direct removal of IV contrast from the blood with ContrastSorb to prevent CIN represents a potentially more effective alternative. The worldwide market opportunity for ContrastSorb in this high risk group is approximately $1-2 billion.


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"Look at the stupid future!"
Harrison is back from his first-ever E3 and Brandon, Eric and Tom have oh so many questions. Which booths had the shortest lines? Who had the most comfortable-looking uniform?? What the hell is Hohokum??? Where was Randy Pitchford???? Most of these answers and more (or less) await within, plus: a bit of Transistor and some listener emails.
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A good woman keeps her heart hidden. Easy to love yet cautious in sharing a piece of her with someone who's intentions display mixed results. She's ready to love an honest man willing to prove her theories incorrect from what she's witnessed. Finding the good begins with a chance, taking a risk in hopes of happiness standing on the other side of curiosity. A good woman could produce the very magic a man could never anticipate, enriching the joy beyond his fear. It is the good in a woman that adds value to the missing piece of a man's heart, thus enabling him to become better than he's ever imagined.
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Parent & Toddler Group
The Hilden Oaks Parent & Toddler Group operates throughout the year, not just during term time.
The group meets every Friday morning at 8.30am - 10.30am in the Acorn Building at Hilden Oaks. Coffee, tea and biscuits are available for parents and carers.
It is a great opportunity to meet other families, and for your child to make new friends in a safe and stimulating environment.
The Parent & Toddler Group is open to Hilden Oaks parents and outsiders alike, and it is a great way for parents to find out more about the Nursery, Pre-Prep and Prep schools, as well as for your children to explore the Early Years setting in a relaxed environment.
Everyone is welcome, there is no need to book, and the sessions are free of charge.
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It's not easy to tell 10,000 paying customers that you're canceling their subscriptions, let alone turning off millions of dollars of recurring revenue. But that's what we had to do in order to build an enduring business.
We've gone through three different business models in order to find the one that's best for us. The thing that got us to our current one, which I suspect is the one we'll keep, is a relentless focus on the places where we provide the most value.
Whenever we needed direction we always came back to this, looking at it with more granularity as our understanding of our business deepened.
Thumbtack is a marketplace for customers to find service professionals such as plumbers and caterers who are nearby and available to do the job. When we launched the site in 2010, we charged a commission on every job that was initiated through the site. We didn't process the transactions, so we relied on the professionals to let us know when they landed a job through Thumbtack.
We knew we couldn't guarantee that we were getting paid, but at the time we weren't concerned about it. Our focus was on bringing as many people into our marketplace as possible. We charged more as a reminder to our professionals that someday they'd have to pay us.
In mid 2011 we decided that it was time to charge for our services in earnest. We ran an audit of the number of jobs completed through Thumbtack and the number that we were getting paid for. We weren't getting close to what we should.
What we realized was that in order to support a commission model we needed to provide a service at the point where the customer and the professional closed the deal. We couldn't do that unless we built an invoicing and payments offering that integrated with our pros' scheduling systems and that was compelling and simple enough to be completely self-serve. That was beyond the scope of our resources.
So we thought about where we were providing value and decided to start charging a subscription to professionals that gave them the ability to bid on jobs. This was great in the sense that it made the value proposition to the professional very clear -- it was a fixed monthly cost they could budget for. We soon got about 10,000 paying pros.
We were closer, but the limits of the new approach soon became clear. Revenue wouldn't grow monotonically when we added new customers. We could double the number of requests we received and revenue growth would ultimately taper off as subscriber penetration peaked. This meant that our fastest-growing markets were our worst performers.
Because it was free to bid for a job once you had a subscription, we also created an incentive for professionals to bid on every job regardless of fit, which ended up being bad for customers.
So we rethought it again and this time got much more granular on the point in the process where we created the most value. We concluded that was when a customer and service pro get introduced.
Now we monetize this introduction by making professionals pay a fixed amount each time they decide to reach out to a customer. Our revenue grows with each customer. Professionals love it because they only bid on the jobs they're interested in. And once they make contact with the prospect it's up to them to close the deal. That fits well with the way they are used to running their businesses.
This isn't meant to be a discussion on the merits and demerits of different business models -- that's a much longer conversation -- but instead is offered as an example of the power of focusing on where you provide the most value.


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After the latest row with his mother, an aimless, rural Pennsylvanian teen (Sean Penn) reaches out to his wayward father (Christopher Walken) for a role in his low rent criminal enterprise. As the law starts to bear down on the operation, the father's true colors show as the son, along with both his brother (Chris Penn) and girlfriend (Mary Stuart Masterson), is placed in severe jeopardy. Now, he must face the difficult choice of going to the authorities or remaining loyal to his psychotic and erratic father. James Foley's At Close Range is a well made true life thriller that boasts tremendous photography, is hurt by turgid plotting, and features acting that is all over the board. Sean Penn is strong in an early career gig, his brother Chris and Masterson add virtually nothing in pivotal roles, and Walken delivers one of those token performances where half the time he's strikingly powerful and the other half you're shaking your head in bewilderment.
I couldn't resist posting the video below, but don't watch unless you've seen the movie. Major spoilage:


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Double stainless steel rollers flake your oats, spelt, rice, rye, and wheat! *
With a Linseed finished body constructed from Beech wood, this flaker not only looks great but performs great. Includes fitted clamps for easy table mounting.
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Glamour Nudes SA is a collection of my personal Nude photography. A stroll through my unencumbered mind's eye.
I welcome you to take a walk through my collection and enjoy the emotions it creates. Some of the art work displayed here is for sale. Please feel free to enquire via the contact page should you want more details.
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