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Beninese conceptual artist Meschac Gaba explores themes of globalization, consumerism, and the Western museum through acts of artistic appropriation. Gaba first emerged on the international art scene with his 12-part project The Museum of Contemporary African Art (1997–2002), which concluded at Documenta XI. His nomadic museum comprised 12 rooms—including the Wedding Room, Library, Game Room, and the Salon—that were exhibited separately in several countries. The "museum" set forth a sort of living biography of the artist (Gaba was actually married in the Wedding Room in 2000), as well as positing a biting critique of the power of Western cultural conventions. In more recent work, Gaba has created objects and sculptures from braided hair extensions that are popular with African-Americans and the diaspora. The extensions, which originated in West Africa, form models of the World Financial Center, the Guggenheim—rendered all in black—and other buildings, and vehicles from the United States and Benin.
Beninese, b. 1961, Cotonou, Benin, based in Rotterdam, Netherlands
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"Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons."Ruth Ann SchabackerCertainly plenty of chocolate bars... And chocolate gateaux!! Chocolate bundts...
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"Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons."Ruth Ann SchabackerCertainly plenty of chocolate bars... And chocolate gateaux!! Chocolate bundts...
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That chocolate gateaux is the famous "Anna Torte", named after Anna Demel. It's a perfect marriage of the finest nougat with Demel's own chocolate.ReplyDelete
Will you believe that I am right now working on a post, un invitation au voyage,
with a link-stop here.
It will have to be an overnight stop,
what with all those delicious places
you are taking us!
See you! :-)
Ahhh--I love the little petits fours. Lovely watercolor, Carol!ReplyDelete
I was so surprised to find Demel's here,ReplyDelete
I forgot to mention that your painting is exquisite! And I see you did order the Schlag on the side. *smile* Here in Vienna the hand-whip the cream, I suppose they keep doing it the old-fashioned way even in New York City (once upon a time they bought electric mixers to do the work, only to find out that only by hand can they achieve just the right consistency).
I am really excited that you have got your very own Demel's only subway stops away! :-)
Just 8 minutes away in fact!ReplyDelete
I'll be back...really a fun place to go
Looking good. Pink Petits Fours for me please! Oh wait, I am having heart healthy oatmeal, san schlag... But I can dream. Love the paintings. Good going.ReplyDelete
A petit four (plural: petits fours) is a small cake generally eaten at the end of a meal or served as part of a large buffet. The name is from the French petit four, meaning "small oven".ReplyDelete
Modern petits fours usually consist of a geometrically cut piece of sponge cake, topped with fondant and are approximately 25 millimetres square and about 40 millimetres high. The fondant which tops the cake is often pastel in color, and commonly decorated with piped icing flowers or other embellishments. The term petit four may also, however, refer to any of a variety of small confections, especially in France.
Thank you Wikipedia!
Mouthwatering! What does up the whazoo... mean?ReplyDelete
Wow.. if that place were only 8 minutes away I would be in BIG trouble. or I would be BIG. lolReplyDelete
It not only looks lucious but the place looks very inviting too. Thanks for making me want to go tear the kitchen apart for some chocolate now. :)
Yum... it would be lovely to have a delicious treat, cafe creme and a chat surrounded by the FAB smells that must be within the shop!ReplyDelete
That incredibly folded chocolate cake under the chocolate bar!!! Fantastic imagination! And the candied violet box - toss the flowers!ReplyDelete
The cat tongues are fantastic.ReplyDelete
I feel like having a generous helping of that chocolate gateaux now.:)ReplyDelete
Carol, I reached here from Merisi's and what a lovely blog of goodies do you have here!
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WOW so many amazing desserts and your drawings are LOVELY!ReplyDelete
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'Cards & Prints You'll Love...'
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lovely paintings - you have a good hand matching a good eye !ReplyDelete
I'm lucky enough to live near Demel Salzburg, and when in Vienna... but there are other 'Kaffeehaus' there I love.
The rule is that the waiter only comes once and won't come again if you do not call him, you can sit there for ages and read, write or converse as if at home !
The pink petit four has to be a square sponge cake + alcool (Punschkrapferl);
the Sacher Torte, a chocolate cake, is ... from Franz Sacher, who worked at Demel's before he created his own place, Sacher's. He took his recepy with him.
The only 'real' Sacher therefore, is... at Sacher's, the one from Demel is slightly different (jam layers for instance).
Anna Torte is a multi-layered cake filled with nougat cream, and a wavy chocolate topping - now, this has been created by Demel's alright for the daughter of the founder...
Torte = cake,
a small petit four would be in translation a twice (small) small oven,
mit (Schlag) = with (whipped cream),
Bon (not 'bonne') appetit!


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The midfielder was joining in penning a new deal by defenders Kieran Gibbs and Carl Jenkinson and fellow midfielders Jack Wilshere and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. With their futures now sorted, the Wales international hopes that the five of them can contribute to a successful spell in the club's history.
"I'm really pleased to get my contract sorted out," he told the team's official website. "It was an easy decision. I had a few years left on my contract but extended it again, which is pleasing.
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"Jack always competes, always wants the ball and his determination is second to none. Gibbo is always up and down the flank and gets into some great positions. He scored against Swansea and also has a couple of assists this season, so that's been good for him.
"Carl is a solid right-back with a great engine who can get up and down his flank as well to support his winger and get crosses in. Chambo is exciting, he can beat a player and can also finish as well.
"Obviously we are going to get better and more experienced, so hopefully we can achieve something with this group of players."
The Gunners will be looking to bounce back from a 2-0 loss at home to Manchester City in the Premier League at the weekend when they host Swansea City in an FA Cup third-round replay on Wednesday.


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"Positive." That word keeps recurring in conversations with friends and colleagues of Zimbabwe Nkenya—bassist, mbira player, composer, educator, activist, visual artist and host of KUNM's "The House That Jazz Built" for 20-some years. Nkenya has touched many with his warmth, conviction and enthusiasm in his decades in Albuquerque, and you could always count on hearing a joyful noise when he performed.
On Nov. 5, 2009, that joyful noise was muted when Nkenya suffered a debilitating stroke in East St. Louis, where, ironically, he had moved to care for a family member. In addition, an aortic aneurysm has been discovered that will necessitate surgery.
Trumpeter Paul Gonzales and drummer Dave Wayne, longtime associates of Nkenya, have united to organize a benefit concert at the Outpost to help defray the overwhelming medical costs for Nkenya and his family. (A companion multimedia benefit, including an art auction, will take place at Santa Fe's High Mayhem on Feb. 13.)
"I had been talking to him a day or two before he had the stroke, and he was talking about coming back to Albuquerque and visiting his daughter, and we were going to do some playing and recording," says Gonzales. Instead, he will be playing for Nkenya's benefit.
"Zimbabwe's the whole package," says Wayne. "He's a tremendously talented, intuitive artist. He gave a lot of players from all levels a lot of opportunities. ... People gravitated toward him. There's a lot of energy there, a lot of positivism there."
Nkenya's commitment to playing the music that inspired him, as opposed to playing music that had a more mainstream appeal, meant he was "always struggling financially," says Wayne.
To help out, he and Gonzales have recruited an army of Nkenya's friends and colleagues for the benefit concert, including Peter Breslin (solo piano), the Paul Gonzales Trio (all-acoustic roots jazz), Mike 360 (spoken word), Rumble Trio (Mark Weaver, Mike Balistreri and Ben Wright) + Christian Pincock (improvised music), J.A. Deane (solo lap steel guitar), Dave Wayne and the Things That Are Heard (Zappa-influenced oddball jazz), and Rodney Bowe and Sina Soul (R&B).
Those unable to attend may contribute to Zimbabwe Nkenya—Medical Fund, Account #152311525918, US Bank, 3881 Gravois Road, St. Louis, Mo. 63116.


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Chaotic Evil
[insert evil laugh track]
Awwww. Did I accidentally-on-purpose Mordenkainen's Disjunction the precious artifact the party's been working its way toward through epic battles? And are you surprised that a Chaotic Evil character would act this way? Now what have we learned?
4E may have taken away half the alignment options, but Wizards of the Coast left us with one of our favorites: Chaotic Evil. Not always viable in a campaign situation, Chaotic Evil makes for a great one-night gaming-session all-out ego-fest. Your character has a goal in your mind and will do whatever is necessary to bring it about. Simple. Uncomplicated. Of course, when there's a party involved, then it gets more complicated. You might have to hack through the lawful good character standing in your way. This is why it's better if it's a one-night session. Cause feelings get hurt if you turn somebody's almost-epic-level paladin into steak tartare. Eeeeeevil steak tartare.
Chaotic Evil means you get to do whatever you want, as long as it gets you closer to what you really want. The best foe is an unarmed one. The best puppy is a kicked one. The best fellow party members are also Chaotic Evil, going after the same goal as you. Only you'll get to it first, cause you're smarter and more devious. And you put iocane powder in their Mountain Dew. Muhahahahaha.
"Chaotic Evil means never having to say you're sorry" in red and grey on a 100% cotton, black shirt. Black like your soul.


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Potato skins with blue cheese and spinach
I love potatoes: mashed, fried, au gratin… But most of all I like baked potatoes, either plain ones which I eat with yummy condiments, or pre-stuffed like these ones with blue cheese. I liked them, a lot. The original recipe is from Arla, but I adjusted the amounts (moooore cheese….). Enjoy!
Potato skins with blue cheese and spinach
(Serves 2)
2 large baking potatoes (about 600 gr)
150 gr fresh spinach
3 garlic cloves
1 tbsp butter
190 gr gräddädelost (Swedish creamy blue cheese, read more about it here)
200 ml crème fraiche light
Maldon sea salt
Bake the 2 potatoes in the oven until done. This will take about 1 hour in 200 degrees C.
Chop the garlic and fry it butter together with the spinach. Grate the cheese coarsely and combine with crème fraiche and the spinach.
Cut the potatoes in half and scoop out the flesh. Make sure that the skins remain intact. Mash the potato flesh and combine with the spinach mixture. Salt and pepper the mixture. Fill the skins and bake them in the upper part of the oven at 250 degrees C for about 10 minutes. Serve with a salad.


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Take your Bible and turn back to the text which I read earlier in Hebrews chapter 12. As you know, this is a great and monumental Scripture. There is much here to be considered. In the brief time that we have as we anticipate sharing in the Lord's table, I want us to focus only one one phrase, just one phrase of great import and that phrase is found in verse 1. It says, "The sin which so easily entangles us." I want to see if we can't this morning talk about dealing with entangling sin.
It is the nature of man, even the nature of a believer, to be easily entangled in sin. It happens so easily. And frankly, there are certain sins which more easily entangle each of us than other ones. Each of us in our own lives have certain propensities for specific kinds of sins. It can be because we have in the past life cultivated habits of sin which now plague us even after our salvation. It could be because in our spiritual weakness even after becoming Christians we continued o develop habits of certain types of sin, certain specific sins that now we find more easily than others do entangle us.
It is true of every Christian that we have certain sins that easily capture us. But it is also true in general that sin easily entangles us. Not all sins are what we could call "our personal entangling sins," or "our personal besetting sins," "our personal habitual sins," the sins which we commit and then confess and then commit again and then confess and then commit again and then confess and go on that way in our lives. Some sins fall into this category but in general all sin seems to have sway with us. And maybe it will help you to understand why that is true if I just give you three very simple points about sin. First of all, sin has great power...sin has great power over our flesh. Sin has great power over our flesh. The reason it so easily entangles us is because of its power, its strength, its force. It exerts strong influence on our will. It exerts strong influence on our motions. it exerts strong influence on our affections. It rarely suggests things to us, it almost always commands them. It rarely leads, it most always pushes from the rear, drives, forces. Galatians 5:17 says, "The flesh sets its desire against the spirit." They are in opposition to one another so that you may not do the things you please. The beachhead that sin has with its power is our flesh. And sin exerts tremendous power, tremendous strength against our flesh. It is a very powerful force. And it finds in our flesh a very willing ally, a very receptive environment.
Secondly, sin easily entangles us because it is so close, it is so close. More than just forcing its way from the outside powerfully on our flesh, it forces its way on our flesh, as it were, from within us...from within the very flesh. It is very close. In fact, it is in our being. You can become a monk and sit in a cave and you will still deal with sin. Jeremiah 13:23 says, "Can the Ethiopian change his skin? Or the leopard his spots? Then you also can do good who are accustomed to doing evil." The point being you can no more change the internal sinfulness that is a part of your life then the leopard can change his spots or the Ethiopian can change the color of his skin. It is a part of what you are. Sin is very powerful and finds a willing ally in your flesh because your flesh is fallen and your flesh itself has propensities toward sin. Sin is very close. Your heart, says Jeremiah 17:9, is deceitful, it is more deceitful than everything else and is desperately sick.
There's a third component that makes sin easily entangled into our lives and that is that sin does not remain separate but it mingles in all our motives and all our actions. Sin is powerful, sin is near in that it is in us, and it isn't categorically separated. You can't draw a line and say..."Well this is where my righteousness ends and this is where my sinfulness begins." It has a way of weaving itself into the fabric of all our duties and all our motives and all our thoughts and all our actions. It entangles itself with our purposes and our plans. In fact, even your best deed, even your best deed is not unmixed with sin. It is tangled up in our lives. In Romans 7 Paul cries out, "O wretched man that I am." Why? Because no matter how I try I cannot disentangle myself from sin.
And so, sin is powerful and sin is near even within us and sin does not separate itself but is mingled into everything. It is interwoven with everything in our lives. The best that we do is somehow corrupted in some way, large or small, by a taint of self-will or self-pleasure or self-aggrandizement or self- righteousness, or self-gain or whatever. And so we become easily entangled. And as I said, there are certain sins that more easily entangle us, each of us, than others do.
But if we are going to be the kind of Christians God would want us to be, this verse says, "Let us lay aside the sin which so easily entangles us." Put it aside, put it away. Now the question comes...how do we do that? How do we do that? It's not the first time we've been commanded to do that. Second Corinthians 7:1 says, "Let us cleanse ourselves of all filthiness of the flesh." Ephesians 4:22 says, "Laying aside the old self which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit." Romans 6:12 says, "Don't let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lust." First Peter 2 and verse 1 says, "Lay aside all evil." And verse 11, "Abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul." So we are very often told to set this aside.
The question comes...how do we do that from a practical standpoint? We know, yes, it is the work of the Spirit and if you walk in the Spirit you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. We give all the credit for this to the divine Holy Spirit and yet there is a responsibility that is ours as we yield to the Spirit. How can I lay this aside?
Before I answer that question, let me suggest to you that this is an appropriate moment to be discussing this. I suppose it would be typical for many Christians, if not most, to come to the Lord's table and confess their sins in order that they might partake of this table and not bring judgment on themselves, as Paul warned us. And so we tend to come here perhaps with our accumulated sin from the last time that we had communion or the last time we seriously confessed our sin, but with really very little change in the pattern of sinning. And that's because while we want to confess our sins and have the confidence that He is faithful and just to forgive them, we don't take the steps, the necessary steps to so live that every time we come there is a decreased load of sin. The list is a little shorter because we're dealing with it on a day-to-day basis, we're laying it aside. We're not just accumulating it at the same rate, dumping it all, as it were, on Christ, receiving His forgiveness in those great moments of confession, but seeing no diminishing pattern of sin in the day-to-day routine of our life. So let us then this day as we come to unburden ourselves of the accumulated sin and confess it and make our hearts right with God also make a covenant, also make steps of commitment to start out a new pattern of life in which we will take strides, take the necessary strides to lay sin aside...a preventative act, not simply a remedial act of confession.
Let me give you some principles that will assist you in laying aside sin. Number one, don't underestimate the seriousness of your sin. I think the major reason we don't deal with sin strongly and firmly is because we underestimate its seriousness to God...to God, to us, to those with whom we fellowship, to the church, to the unbelievers. Our sin steals joy. Our sin ruins fellowship with God. Our sin diminishes fruitfulness. Our sin robs us of peace. Our sin renders our service useless. Our sin mitigates against our effectiveness in evangelism. Our sin hinders our prayers. Our sin brings the discipline of God. We need to understand the seriousness of our sin. It violates first and foremost our relationship with the Lord.
One of the most tragic days in the history of England was August 17, 1662. A tragic day because it was the last day for certain pastors to be able to preach to their congregations before they were exiled. Some of them lost their lives. Some of them were exiled out of England to other countries. What precipitated this was something called "the act of conformity." Through the years there had been developing in England a group of preachers and a group of churches that were called "non- conformists" because they did not subscribe to all of the ritual and ceremony of the Church of England and nor did they confine their worship to the Book of Common Prayer. They were more concerned about biblical Christianity, they were more concerned about teaching proper doctrine. They were more concerned about worshiping God in spirit and in truth and so they were known as non-conformists. Many of you would know them as Puritans. They did not conform to the strictures of the Church of England, which, of course, had neglected the Word of God and the gospel for the most part.
And so a law was passed making them illegal. Twenty-five hundred of their ministers were exiled, forbidden to preach. Three thousand non-conformists were killed and 60,000 families were disrupted. And it all came to focus on August 17, 1662 because that was the last Sunday when these non-conformist preachers could preach in their churches.
For the last two weeks I've been reading a book called Farewell Sermons, it is a compilation of twenty-four of the sermons preached on that day...sermons from a pastor who would never see his people again, some of them died in exile, some of them later came back. But this was the end of their ministry and this terrible terrible thing was being done, this terrible act of persecution. And they were being dispossessed. The churches were losing them as their pastors. There were going to be none to replace them and they were being shipped off to exile.
It's very interesting to see their...their approach, to hear their sermons, to see and hear what was really on their hearts. None of the sermons which I have read so far were self-serving. None of them condemned really the government for what it did. None of them were vengeful or retaliatory. There was a common thread in all of them. All of them sort of were along this line, "This is the will of God, we accept the will of God, we gladly suffer with Christ and our greatest concern is what happens to you."
One of the sermons struck me as extremely powerful, preached by a man named Calamy, C-a-l-a-m-y. He made one statement in this sermon that struck me, he said to his people, "You have experienced a calamity, this is a calamitous thing...this is a calamitous event." But then he said this, and I quote, "There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest calamity." There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest calamity. And he later said, "There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest misery." That is profound.
You look at your life and generally speaking you are distressed about your calamities and you are distressed about your miseries but you are tolerant about your sins. You do not understand what that man understood. There is more evil in the least sin than the greatest calamity. A calamity, a certain misery is not necessarily sin. Sin is sin. Treat your sin seriously. It dishonors God. It abuses mercy. It despises grace. It presumes on forgiveness. It defiles worship, service and fellowship. It stains and taints and poisons and destroys everything good and holy.
Secondly, another principle that is necessarily understood if you're to lay aside sin, strongly purpose and promise God not to sin...strongly purpose and promise God not to sin. Take a solemn vow and say, "God, I do not want to sin. I don't want to break Your law. I don't want to grieve Your Spirit. I don't want to dishonor the name of Your Son which I bear."
The psalmist did that in Psalm 119:106, "I have sworn and I will confirm it that I will keep Thy righteous ordinances." Unless you have that kind of resolution in your life, you'll find it more easy to be entangled by sin. In fact, I believe it is that kind of heart purpose, it is that kind of bold affirmation that is at the root of all holy living. And until you make that kind of conscious commitment to the Lord, you're going to battle the same things over and over and be defeated.
There's a great verse, verse 32, in the same Psalm, Psalm 119, "I shall run the way of Thy commandments for Thou wilt enlarge my heart." It's a very beautiful picture. I shall run the way of Thy commandments for Thou wilt enlarge my heart. What it means is I'm going to run in the way of obedience because I have a heart to do that. It starts in the heart. It's like a runner, very good illustration, a great runner, a long-distance runner, an endurance runner, a marathoner very often has an enlarged heart muscle because of the tremendous development of his running ability and the strengthening of his heart to keep pumping all that is needed to that body as it pushes itself beyond normal limits. And a great runner can run the way he runs because his heart is enlarged. And the psalmist is saying, "I will run in the way of Your commandments because You have enlarged my heart, You've given me a heart for obedience."
That's the kind of purpose that is absolutely essential. There's a great difference, you see, between sin dwelling in us and sin entertained by us. There's a great difference between sin remaining and sin harbored or sin preserved. And to lay aside sin means to purpose and promise God to obey, a firm promise...I promise You I will obey You.
There's a third component in this kind of commitment to lay aside sin and it is this, be suspicious of your own spirituality...be suspicious of your own spirituality. Paul said it this way, "Let the one who stands take heed lest he fall." Job 31:1, Job said, "I made a covenant with my eyes, how then can I gaze on a virgin?" He said I've got to be careful where I look because I don't trust myself. I've got to start with what I see because I don't trust myself.
Proverbs 4:23 says, "Watch over your heart with all diligence for our of it are the issues of life." There's a certain watchfulness. You have to be watching for sin's subtle movements within your own supposed spirituality. Your heart is, as I noted, desperately wicked, very deceitful. And Satan is desperately wicked and very deceitful. And the seducing motions of your own heart can sometimes rise out of the moments of your most supposed spirituality. Be suspicious of your own spirituality, don't trust it. Understand that except for the grace of God you would fall into any and every sin and you can be deceived so easily.
Fourthly, resist the first risings of the flesh and its pleasures...resist the first risings of the flesh and its pleasures. Don't try to stop the process near the end, stop it near the beginning. James notes for us a certain process, "People are tempted when they're carried away and enticed by their own lust, then when lust has conceived it gives birth to sin." Well you want to stop it at the point of conception not try to stop it at the point of birth. You want to stop sin at conception after its been conceived and run through a certain period of pregnancy, if you will, and now is about to give birth to the sin. You don't try to stop it at that point, you resist and oppose the first risings of the flesh and its pleasures. Sin comes to you promising pleasure. And you remember at the very outset, my goal is not to please myself but to please the Lord.
There's a fifth principle in this and that is meditate on the Word...meditate on the Word. There's a wonderful verse, verse 31 of Psalm 37, you probably should write this down...Psalm 37:31, it's a bit more obscure than some but it really is very very important, listen to what it says. "The law of his God is in his heart. His steps do not slip." The law of his God is in his heart, his steps do not slip. When a heart is controlled by the Word, the steps don't slip. Another more familiar text dealing with this and a wonderful one at that is Psalm 119. And you remember that that Psalm begins in the very first part of those 176 verses with these words, down in verse 9 of Psalm 119, "How can a young man keep his way pure?" How can you lay aside sin? How can you win this battle? "By keeping it according to Thy Word." By guarding it with Scripture. It is the constant input of the Word of God that begins to fill up the mind and control the thinking and that alone becomes the strength and resource in us that can resist the initial impulses of the flesh. How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping his heart completely committed and guarded by the Word of God. Then in verse 10, "With all my heart I have sought Thee, do not let me wander from Thy commandments, Thy Word I have treasured, or hid, or kept in my heart that I may not sin against Thee." It is the Scripture that must be meditated on. Meditate on the Word of God. You are always studying the Word...studying the Word...learning the Word...learning the Word...meditating on the Word. As you get the Word so filling you up so that it dwells in you richly, Colossians 3:16, you will find that it controls you. And as you start in to some kind of attitude of sin or some kind of act of sin, the Word of God will act as a restraint. When you feel the impulse of the truth you know, meditate on that, not on the enticings of the flesh and its pleasures. So watch for sin's subtleties and don't trust your own spirituality. Resist and oppose the first risings of the flesh and its desires to please itself and meditate on the Word, the engrafted Word which is able to save your souls. Number six, be immediately repentant over your lapses...be immediately repentant over your lapses. It says in Matthew 26:75 that Peter having obviously been aware of his sin at the crowing of the cock went out and wept bitterly. Something very admirable in that. We castigate, and rightly so, Peter for his defection but we must also honor and respect him for his immediate...his immediate remorse. Be immediately repentant over your lapses and go back to the place of confession. And repentance isn't only saying, "I'm sorry, Lord, forgive me," it is saying, "I'm sorry, Lord, forgive me and I don't want to ever do that again." That's the stuff of real repentance. And if that third element isn't there then you're not fooling God about the genuineness or lack of genuineness.
When you confess your sins and when you say "I'm sorry I did that, please forgive me, I don't ever want to do it again," name it...name it specifically. Let your own heart and even your own ears hear the naming of that sin so that you develop in your heart a high degree of accountability with God for having named the very sin for which He is holding you accountable not to commit again. That's how you develop accountability. That's how you develop the fear of God. If you hold back from naming your sin it's because you want to do that again and it's bad enough to sin without having to be responsible for telling God you didn't want to do it and defying what you told Him so you'd rather sin only once rather than twice, that's why you don't want to name your sin. Then you're guilty not only of sinning again but of being hypocritical before God. True repentance will name the sin, specifically name the sin. Be immediately repentant over your lapses. Number seven, and there are...just one more after this...continually pray for divine help...continually pray for divine help. Ephesians 6:18, after all the armor is put on and the battle against Satan and demons, after all of the warfare has been said and the battle is engaged against Satan and all of his forces he says, "Praying always with all prayer and supplication." Jesus said to His disciples, "Watch and pray for you know not when you're going to enter into the hour of temptation." Devote yourselves to prayer, Colossians 4:2, being alert in it. Don't fight the enemy on your own. When you engage the enemy, pray...plead with help. But even in a preliminary sense, I really think anticipatory prayer is the most effective. You need to start your day, "Lord, this is the way you taught us to pray, lead us not into...what?...temptation...and deliver us from evil, Lord, please today lead me away from temptation, please today, Lord, deliver me from evil." You need to set the course of your prayers before the tempter arrives, before the flesh begins to rise and entice.
And then lastly, establish relationships with other believers. Establish relationships with other believers that hold you accountable. Establish relationships with other believers that hold you accountable. "Bear ye one another's burdens," says Paul in Galatians 6, "and so fulfill the law of Christ." We are all in the same boat, folks, we all struggle the same way and we need each other. "If a man is caught in a paraptoma, a fall, a sin, a trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, each one look into yourself lest you too be tempted, bear one another's burdens." We're all in this together. It might be you going down this time, it might be me going down next time but between the two of us we're going to hold ourselves accountable for holy living.
By the way, that is in my judgment the greatest factor in a Christian marriage is the intense and intimate spiritual accountability with regard to sin that exists at that level. That is a very very important reason for Christian marriage. I believe that there ought to be in every single sense a high-level of spiritual accountability between a husband and a wife for every aspect of their life in that marriage. The most intimate knowledge of my spiritual life apart from God Himself is in the mind and heart of my wife. The most intimate knowledge of her spiritual life and her struggle as a Christian apart from God Himself is in my mind and heart. We know each other better than anybody in the world knows us. Therein lies the highest level of spiritual accountability...for me and for her. No one apart from God Himself holds me as accountable for what I am before you and before the Lord as she does, and vice versa. And that is what makes a Christian marriage really Christian and really distinctive. That's the highest level of accountability. But beyond that, there are other relationships in which you engage that can be very very strengthening for your own spiritual life. You want people around you who lift you up, not people around you who pull you down. You want people around you associated with you as friends and close co-workers who will see your failures just like you'll see theirs, love you in the process and lift you up and demand of you the highest standards. How are you going to come to the place where you lay aside the sin that so easily entangles you and especially those besetting sins which you tend to fall into over and over again? First of all, realize sin is powerful, it is near, even in you, and it is intertwined with everything in your being. And in order to deal with it you must understand its seriousness. You must promise God not to sin. You must watch carefully for your own spiritual weaknesses. Don't trust your spirituality. You must resist the first risings of sin in the flesh. You must meditate on the Word. You must be repentant immediately for the lapses that come. You much continue in prayer and dependence on God's power and establish intimate relationships of spiritual accountability. And I would say that there's no better place to start this kind of life pattern then right here at the Lord's table. We're here not only to unload the burden of sin we've accumulated for which we will be forgiven, but I hope we're here to start afresh in a new course that's going to bring us back here next time with a lighter load and a shorter list. And maybe the sum of it all is found here in Hebrews chapter 12 in those wonderful and magnificent words, verse 2, "Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith."
Listen, He is one who in His striving against sin never fell...never fell. He was in all points tempted like as we are yet He was without sin...He never fell, He never succumbed. So if you're going to look at somebody as a model, look at Him. He was striving with sin even to death and never fell. He's our model, He's our example. So we're here to remember His death, we're here to ask His forgiveness and we're here to ask Him again to be our example as we lay aside our sin and fix our eyes on Him to follow the path of victory over the sin that easily entangles us. Let's bow together in prayer.
Father, we thank You that again Your Word speaks so pointedly and powerfully and directly to our hearts. We thank You that You have given us the resident Holy Spirit who can enable us to be obedient when we otherwise would not have the strength. Help us this morning to make the vows that we've learned about as we've considered about entangling sin and how to deal with it. Help us to take these steps so that we can pursue the path of holiness and not need to be disciplined as often so that we can not miss the joy and the peace that should be ours and the usefulness and fellowship and ministry. And now as we come to this table, we pray that as we think of the bread and the cup we will remember what a price our Lord paid for our sin. And we will take it seriously as You do, we come to confess our sin and to renew our covenant, to lay sin aside, to walk in a holy way. We now confess our sins, all of them, and ask You to wash us and make us clean, forgive us every sin known and unknown, every sin. And help us, Lord, not to do them again but to walk in obedience.
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While receiving press in a Las Vegas hotel room, he was wearing large sunglasses and a sparking gold patchwork blazer.
"This is my Vegas camouflage," he joked. "If I walk around town in this (jacket) no one can see me. It's fantastic. It's the way I blend in in this town. Isn't it nice? I mugged Gustav Klimt," Carrey said, referring to the Austrian painter whose early 20th century works featured gold galore.
That's about as funny as Carrey would get on this day in Sin City promoting "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone," opening Friday. The Vegas-set comedy is about a burned-out old-school magician (Steve Carell) threatened by a newcomer (Carrey) who'll literally risk his life to wow audiences and attain fame.
"This is the guy with the Christ complex," Carrey explained. "This is the guy who looks at other people like he knows everything and they know nothing, and their problems amuse him."
It is perhaps the darkest character that Carrey has ever delivered in an out-and-out comedy.
"I could never be the type of person who thinks, 'Now this works. So, I'm just going to do this forever,'" Carrey said.
It's just the latest transformation for Carrey, who last year had a solo exhibition of his paintings and now has a children's book on the way - something Carrey said he did in part for his grandson, born to Carrey's daughter Erin in February 2010.
"Sometimes when you go to a movie, that can be that. But when you read your kid a story, that is just a little slice of heaven," he said.
Carrey's also making music, having teamed with indie-rock band The Eels for his new single, "Cold Dead Hand," which has an anti-gun theme. "Charlton Heston would not like it," Carrey commented.
"You know, I'm always risking it and pushing it," Carrey said. "I've got nowhere to go. I have no other options. I don't have a trade."____
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Sometimes when you see something that needs doing, you just roll up your sleeves and do it. When medical student Dan Carr '13 saw a flyer seeking blood donors to ease an unexpected shortage, he quite literally rolled up his sleeves and donated a unit of whole blood at the UMass Memorial Blood Donor Center on A level, downstairs from the hospital's emergency room on the University campus. While he was in the reclining donation chair, however, Carr learned that not only does the Blood Donor Center experience worrisome periodic shortages, but a great many of his fellow students—all potential donors—are simply unaware of the center and its need.
"There are nearly 500 medical students on this campus," said Carr. "But many of them, like me, arrive here as first years with no knowledge of the Blood Donor Center and its importance to the hospital's patients. Classmates I talked to all were willing to donate once they learned about the center."
Carr struck upon the idea of using the House Cup to encourage students to donate. The House Cup is a new tradition among the Medical School's five learning communities, or houses—Blackstone, Burncoat, Kelley, Quinsigamond and Tatnuck—and students earn points for their houses through service-oriented activities. The house with the most points at the end of the school year wins the cup and bragging rights. Carr, of Blackstone House, proposed a point system for blood donation (two points for each platelet donation, one for whole blood and one for successfully recruiting a friend from another school) and worked with staff at the center to establish a recording system for donors.
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Beyond points for the House Cup, there is a more compelling reason to donate: patients need it.
"We rely on our donors to help us keep an ample supply at all times," said Eileen Karr. "Patients need us every day."
Taylor Cameron of Leominster is one of those patients. Just 3.5 years old when he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a cancer of the white blood cells, Taylor underwent grueling chemotherapy and needed countless units of platelets and blood products. Although he relapsed and required a second round of treatment, Taylor is now a healthy 11-year-old and frequently visits the Blood Donor Center with his mother and grandmother, who both have become regular platelet donors in thanks for Taylor's treatment. "We were in need and the supply was there for us, so this is my way to pay back," said Taylor's mother Lisa Cameron. "I never had to worry that the hospital wouldn't have platelets when Taylor needed them. I never gave it a second thought."
Though she said she feels she can never fully repay the gift her family received, Lisa was gratified last year to learn that her platelets were a close match for a patient in need, a mother due to deliver her second child, who needed platelets on hand for possible complications. "There's always someone who needs platelets, and you just never know if you'll be the perfect match for someone. Of course you'd want to help, wouldn't you?" she said.
"The students are generous with their time and their donations, but like others on campus, they often don't think to come down and donate," said Eileen Galvin Karr, RN, BSN, Blood Donor Center supervisor. "We loved Dan's idea of generating a little competition among the houses; the students can gain easy points for their houses while also establishing what we hope will be a life-long habit of donating."
Karr said that UMass Memorial Medical Center transfuses more than 30,000 blood products each year and collects a portion of those itself (about 15 percent of red cells are donated on campus, along with 50 percent of platelets; the rest are acquired from organizations such as the Red Cross). Nationally, about 37 percent of the population is eligible to donate, but only about 10 percent do so. She noted that only a small percentage of the center's donors are from the Medical School, something Carr is working to change.
The houses are scheduling group donations and are regularly reminding house members to make donation appointments as they keep an eye on each other's tallies and vie for the House Cup. Carr himself has switched to donating platelets, which can be done as often as every two weeks instead of eight, though it takes approximately 90 minutes to complete a platelet donation, versus just 15 or so for a whole blood donation.
Though Carr, of course, hopes his house wins the House Cup, he's more interested in increasing the number and frequency of blood donations his classmates make. He's already hoping to include faculty and staff in future competitions, noting the thousands of potential donors on campus every day.
"I'm in medical school so I can one day help people. I have to wait until my clinical years to actually work with patients, but donating blood lets me help someone right now," he said.
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February 16, 2013
DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Red Wings have put forward Johan Franzen on injured reserve. They also removed goaltender Jonas Gustavsson from IR and assigned him to Grand Rapids of the AHL on a conditioning loan.
Franzen has missed Detroit's last two games with a hip injury.
Gustavsson was signed by the Red Wings in July and has appeared in one game for them this season. He's been out with a groin injury.
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Greensboro church giving away 1,000 Thanksgiving dinners
A Greensboro church hopes to feed 5,000 hungry families in the Piedmont on Tuesday.
It's part of Lawndale Baptist Church's "Feeding the 5,000."
Pastor Joe Giartelli says the first 1,000 people in line Tuesday morning will receive a free box that includes a 10-14 pound frozen turkey, stuffing, green beans, potatoes, cranberry sauce and an apple pie. For those who don't get one of the boxes, they'll receive the extra food like potatoes and green beans.
Doors for "Feeding the 5,000" open at 9 a.m. Tuesday at Lawndale Baptist Church which is located at 3505 Lawndale Drive in Greensboro. Lines to receive the food had already formed early Tuesday morning.
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This weekend, Taylor Swift joins a long list of artists who have pulled double-duty on the Saturday Night Live set, performing not only as a musical guest, but also hosting the show and acting in several sketches. Time will tell how well the country/pop star will do — though perhaps she picked up a few things while filming Valentine's Day with her boyfriend, Twilight: New Moon star Taylor Lautner. (Oh, we can imagine the jokes already.) As Swift preps her monologue and braces herself for a cavalcade of Kanye West jokes, the Hulu team took a look back at some of the other musical artists who gave hosting a try — sometimes with mixed results. — Rebecca Harper (), Editor
Justin Timberlake: Host with the Most
Few artists from the Billboard charts have managed to resonate with the SNL crowd as well as the guy who brought sexy back. Whether he's wearing a Chess King button-down in digital shorts like "Motherlover" or rocking a white leisure suit as Robin Gibb in the hilarious "Barry Gibb Talk Show" sketches, Justin Timberlake is gold as far as SNL is concerned. Here, he shares some family history in a little sketch called "Immigrant Tale."
Paul Simon: The Original
Long before Justin Timberlake was born, singer-songwriter Paul Simon paved the way for generations of musical guests looking for hosting duties. His monologue was self-effacing, good-spirited — and still funny after all these years.
Sting: The Rocker
Promoting his 1991 release "Soul Cages," Sting put on a punk rock wig to channel his inner Billy Idol for this classic sketch featuring the who's-who of 1990s SNL. In the end, the sketch served as a vehicle for the late, great Phil Hartman to deliver his belligerent Frank Sinatra impression, but Sting did a respectable job as the snarling rocker.
Queen Latifah: Crossover Artist
Though her 2004 movie Taxi — also starring Jimmy Fallon from SNL — bombed in the box office, Queen Latifah is one of the few music artists who can hold her own in front of the camera. In this fake commercial, she played up the stresses of being one of the only two black women in her office. Fortunately, she had just the cure.
Ludacris: Sharing the Spotlight
In November 2006, actor-rapper Ludacris stepped aside for the debut of the much more talented Blizzard Man (Andy Samberg at his dorkiest), whom 'Cris lauded as "Marvin Gaye mixed with a little Stevie Wonder." And though Samberg is definitely the scene stealer here, Ludacris' performance proves that the SNL writers can't go wrong when they ask their double-duty hosts to just play themselves.
Janet Jackson: Tongue-Tied
Granted, when Janet Jackson — that's Ms. Jackson if you're nasty — hosted, she was no stranger to acting. After all, she starred in "Good Times" in the 1970. Her "SNL" gig was nearly 30 years later, though, so it's no wonder she tripped up in this tongue-twister of sketch that was full of innuendo.
Jon Bon Jovi: '80s Flashback
While Amy Poehler is the true star of this '80s flashback sketch, a cloud of Aqua Net fumes brought a bandana-clad Jon Bon Jovi to life, straight from the "Slippery When Wet" era. For those of us old enough to remember "You Give Love a Bad Name," it's a delight to hear that the young Jon Francis Bon Jovi, Jr., was just another fat kid who played the French horn.
Steve Martin: Role Reversal
SNL alum Steve Martin was no stranger to hosting duties when he headlined the late night show last January — after all, it was his 15th time delivering a monologue — but this time, things were different. Martin also performed "Late for School" as musical guest. In addition to his folksy banjo ditty, he presented one cool digital short: "Laser Cats 4."
Garth Brooks: Alter-Egos
In November 1999, the second time country singer Garth Brooks hosted SNL, his alter ego, Chris Gaines performed as the musical guest. The writers played up this peculiar lineup with an ongoing gag about a bizarre love triangle between Brooks, Gaines and Chris Kattan's "Mango" character.


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NH wine and liquor sales hit an all-time high
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CONCORD — The New Hampshire Liquor Commission had its best year ever in fiscal year 2013, generating $603.5 million in total sales, an increase of $38.9 million — or 6.9 percent — over the previous fiscal year, according to figures released Monday for the year ending June 30.
Revenue to the state general fund from those sales reached $145.6 million, which is used primarily to fund programs in education, health and social services, transportation and natural resource protection.
NHLC Chairman Joseph W. Mollica attributed the record sales figures to the relocation and renovation of 13 New Hampshire Liquor and Wine Outlets, as well as promotional campaigns, sales efforts and new customer service training implemented in the past year.
"Promotional campaigns like the 'In the Mix Kitchen Series' at our Nashua outlet are introducing consumers to a variety of new products and influencing new purchases through weekly food and wine pairings," he said in a news release. "We are interacting with new customers in creative ways through our Summer Fun Tour, a statewide marketing campaign sponsored by Bacardi that encourages residents and out-of-state visitors to shop at our outlets and win a number of great prizes."
The two top-performing stores were the Hampton I-95 northbound location, which netted $32.7 million, and the I-95 southbound location, which netted $28.9 million. Rounding out the top 10 were stores in Portsmouth, Salem, two Nashua stores, the two Hooksett stores on I-93, West Lebanon and Keene.
"Major sales efforts like our Outlet Price Busters and Wine Power Buys played a major role in driving sales," added Mollica. "All of this, combined with a more pleasant shopping experience thanks to store renovations, enhanced customer service training for full-time employees and smarter in-store merchandising, has resulted in more profitable stores."
Eleven of the 78 liquor stores experienced increases of $1 million or more in sales.
Since 2012, the Liquor Commission has renovated or relocated outlets in Concord, Gilford, Hampstead, Lebanon, Lincoln, Manchester, Merrimack, Nashua, North Hampton, Peterborough, Plaistow, Portsmouth, and West Chesterfield.
A new Liquor & Wine Outlet is scheduled to open in Milford in August, while prominent new sites in Bedford and Manchester are scheduled to open in fall 2013 and mid-2014, respectively.
The Governor and Executive Council recently approved plans to construct two 20,000-square-foot Liquor & Wine Outlet stores as anchors to the Common Man Restaurant's redevelopment of the rest areas along I-93 north and south in Hooksett. The two new outlets will be more than double the size of the existing locations.
The new stores will feature larger aisles, prominent displays and greater selections, according to Richard Gerrish, NHLC Director of Marketing, Merchandising and Warehousing.
"We anticipate our spirit selection will increase by 50 percent and wine offerings will increase 75 percent," he said. "All these factors lead us to project up to $6 million in sales increases between the two locations."


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Because we get asked so often about parenting advice by atheists, I wrote a couple of posts a few years ago laying out some basic advice on the subject. Since then I have done two appearances with Dale McGowan, author of "Parenting Beyond Belief." Now when anybody asks about the topic I provide a short list of links, which so far have seemed to thoroughly cover most questions people have. Because of that, I am reposting that entire list here.
- The Atheist Experience episode with me (Russell), Jen, and Dale
- Godless Parenting panel with me, Jen, Dale McGowan, and Elyse Anders
- Dale's book
- My first post on parenting
- My second post on parenting


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In previous posts, I outlined reasons to avoid in-place upgrades of SQL Server, along with detailed migration steps and guidelines for demoting your old server and promoting a new server as part of a 'side by side' migration. In both posts the idea, or notion of acceptance testing was stressed as not only a huge benefit of side-by-side upgrades, but also as something that you'd be dumb not to do.
In some environments, acceptance testing is pretty simple and easy to pull off—especially if there are more formalized QA routines or guidelines (and/or staff) in place. In many environments, however, acceptance testing can be a huge pain for DBAs as it commonly means that DBAs end up being reliant upon non-technical users to carve time out of their day, connect to a 'test' server or application instance and then 'go through the screens' and try to verify that everything is working correctly.
Use Meetings to Prioritize Acceptance Testing
As a consultant, I've helped a number of organizations (especially those without full-time DBAs on staff) with migrations to newer versions of SQL Server. In a couple of cases, overall migration plans and scheduling can and do get sidelined, however, when key users tasked with acceptance testing just don't find (or make time) to verify that everything is working as expected. Fortunately, I've found a fairly subtle (but, in some ways, scummy) way to help move this along when repeated requests to key end users conducting the acceptance testing don't seem to help testing efforts to materialize. And, sadly, the key I've found in the past is to use meetings.
Sadly, the business world runs on meetings. To that end, it's possible to use that fact to your advantage when trying to push the need for acceptance testing along. Personally, I find that many meetings in the business world are a waste of time (or worse), so I'm not advocating something stupid here—such as trying to spin up an 'all hands on deck' meeting where you try and shame someone or anything else as equally lame, sloppy, or vile. Instead, for people who are simply too busy (or too unable to prioritize) to tackle much needed acceptance testing, I've found that a key way to tackle this is simply to schedule a one hour meeting with them—at their desk.
Meet the Needs of End Users
For folks who continuously promise that they'll 'get to it' but don't, something formal and rigid like a meeting can commonly be a great tool for both them and you. For them, it gives them a 'hard' excuse to block out some time to accomplish what is needed. And for you, it gives you the opportunity to stroll over to their work area, help make SURE they're pointed at the right test applications/servers, and observe some of the key 'screens' or activities that they'll be testing. It also gives you a chance to better understand how (and for what) key users end up using your applications and data. Also, when done correctly, a meeting can be a great way to help ensure that you're helping meet the needs of end users (instead of merely being seen as some sort of impersonal 'data dictator' perched in your tour somewhere).