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How do I answer the question "can A Christian lose their salvation?" My answer to that question is "Yes, they can". But "will they lose their salvation?" My answer to that is "No, they won't". The first question is a modal question; a question about what can and cannot happen. "Is it possible for a Christian to fall away?" "Is apostasy something that has the potential to come about?" The next question is de facto question – is it in fact the case that any elect people will fall from grace and lose salvation? Will that happen? That is a de facto question. Maybe some will, maybe no one will. The de facto question is "Is this potential for apostasy something that will actualize in the future?"
So there is a difference here. A difference between the modal question and de facto question. My view is that Christians can become apostate; this is something that has the potential to come about. But I don't it will come about. I don't think God would allow His elect to end up in situations where He knew that, if they ended up in those situations, they would freely reject Christ.
God uses means to keep the elect persevering. Christians have the ability to exercise their free will to turn their backs on their Lord, but God gives plenty of warning passages (Hebrews 3:12, Hebrews 6:4-6, 2 Peter 2, 2 Peter 3:17, etc.) because He knew before creating the universe that if He put plenty of warnings in scripture not to fall away, then those who are truly saved would freely persevere in their faith. It's like a mother who warns her child not to touch the top of a stove because he would be burned if he touched the stove. As a result of the warning, the child is fearful of being burned and chooses not to touch the top of the stove, and hence, he never gets burned. I see these warning passages in scripture (Hebrews 3:12, Hebrews 6:4-6, 2 Peter 2, 2 Peter 3:17, etc.) in the exact same way. As a result, we can make sense of these passages telling believers to be careful not to turn their backs on Christ while at the same time, we can make sense of passages like 1 John 2:19, which essentially says that anybody who abandons the Christian faith never belonged to Christ in the first place. And also passages like Ephesians 6:24 which says that a Christian's love for Christ is an "undying" love (meaning it will never end). And several other passages indicating the eternal security of the believer.
I often call this view "The Keathley/Craig Model Of Eternal Security" because I first learned about it from Kenneth Keathley and William Lane Craig.
There are, however, some objections I've encountered to this eternal security model from both Arminians and Calvinists alike. Let's take a look at them.
*There Are Passages That Seem To Imply Salvation Loss Is Impossible
My model of eternal security, while affirming with the Calvinists that no true Christian ever will lose or forfeit his salvation, nevertheless can forfeit his salvation. It's possible, but it's a possibility that will never be actualized. The problem though is that there are some passages that seem to imply that not only will the falling away of true believers never happen, but that it cannot happen. For example, Matthew 24:24
"For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect." - Matthew 24:24
For those of us who deny either eternal security or at least the Calvinist version of it, and hold that salvation can be lost/forfeited, what do we make with a passage like? The way Jesus said this seemed to imply that it was impossible for the elect to be deceived. The "If it were possible" part seems to imply that the false Christs and false prophets will try to deceive the elect but they'll fail because it isn't possible.
What should we make of this passage? Are Christians really incapable of being deceived?
The passage does not answer the question at all. The Greek does not have "were" but reads simply "if possible," which gives no indication of whether it is possible or not. It is a common sort of statement as when anyone would say that someone would try to do something if possible. "The student will try to pass the test if possible." "The man will try to win the woman's heart if possible." "The salesman will try to sell the car to the couple if possible," etc., etc. It doesn't fit into the normal conditional clause typology. There is no verb, only the Greek conditional particle ei, and the adjective possible.
While I deny that Jesus' statement is intended as an assessment of the possibility of the elect being able to be led astray, the context of warning I pointed out gives indication that the elect can be led astray, and that further supports the reading I initially gave, that this is a common sort of statement as when anyone would say that someone would try to do something if possible. "The student will try to pass the test if possible." etc. While these sentences don't say anything about possibility or impossibility and formally leave the matter uncertain, such statements normally assume possibility while leaving uncertainly as to whether the possibility will become actualized.
There's also Ephesians 6:24 that seems to imply that it's not possible. But I won't address that passage here since I already addressed it in another blog post. Click here to read it.
*"it seems to me that if God makes something impossible, then it is impossible. The warnings would really amount to God saying: if it were possible for you to fall away, you could fall away, but I won't let that happen, so it is not possible (i.e. you can't in fact fall away).
This objector is conflating modality with actuality. Can a Christian fall away? That is a modal question, a question of what can or cannot happen. Will the elect fall away? That is a de facto question, what will or will not happen. Yes, losing your salvation is possible. No, it won't actually happen. Just because something is possible doesn't mean that it will happen. Being trampled by a herd of elephants is something that could happen to me in my life time. That does not mean that it will in fact happen to me. And the fact that it won't happen does not negate the fact that it could happen.
God has not made apostasy impossible. He just know what means to use to deter us from committing it. We have free will and choose to stop serving the Lord at any time. It's not like God has got us in a choke hold or anything. It is very much possible to forfeight one's salvation, but God has used His middle knowledge to actualize a possible world where no one will lose their salvation. God acted on His knowledge of what everyone would freely do in any given circumstance to arrange the world in such a way (by that, I mean choosing when and where people will be born) and inspired the words of scripture in such a way that everyone of the elect would freely persevere in the faith.
God is not lying when He tells us that we could fall away if we don't watch ourselves. It is a very real possibility. But I think that God knows we would persevere to the very end if He put warnings in scripture. As an analogy, suppose your mother knows that you would obey her if she gave you a warning not to touch the stove when it's on. She knows if she doesn't give you the warnings, you wouldn't know any better. Consequently, you'd touch the stove and burn your hand. To prevent you from getting burned, she gives you the warning. Lo and behold, the child is frightened from the thought of being burned, so he obeys and isn't burned. Now, was it impossible for the child to be burned? Did the fact that the mother used her warning as a means to keep her child safe meant that she was rendered the child getting burned impossible? Did it mean the mother was talking about something that couldn't happen? Of course not! The child very well could have disobeyed the warning or ignored it and put his hand on the top of the stove anyway. It wasn't that the child couldn't get burned, but that the child wouldn't get burned. The mother knew ahead of time that her child would stay away from the stove if she had provided him that warning. She gave him the warning, and lo and behold, he obeyed. But no factors prohibited him from reaching up and touching the stove.
*"Your Interpretation Makes God's Word Contradict Itself. You're Saying That God says it is both possible and impossible to lose salvation."
Once again, this objector is conflating the modal question with the de facto question (see the objection above). Think of this: what if God came down from Heaven and said to me "If you go to the zoo, you will be trampled by an elephant because the zoo keeper will accidentally leave the gate open and the pachyderms will make a mad dash for the exit." but then an hour later God says " Evan, you will never get trampled by an Elephant in your entire life."
Did God contradict himself? No. Both statements are correct. The former statement is merely a warning not to go to the zoo, because if I were to go to the zoo, then I would be trampled by elephants. The reason the latter statement is correct is because God knew whether I'd stay away from the zoo if He gave me the warning. God's not contradicting himself because I really would get trampled if I didn't heed his prior warning. The reason the statement "You will never get trampled by an elephant your entire life" is true is because I chose to heed the warning "If you go to the zoo, you'll be trampled by elephants". And again, nothing rendered it impossible for me to go down to the zoo anyway. I could have disregarded the warning. I could have gone to the zoo anyway and got trampled. It was within my power to ignore God's warning and go to the zoo anyway. It's just that God knew in advance whether or not I would ignore the warning. He knew that I wouldn't and that's why he gave it to me.
Once again, this objector is conflating the modal question with the de facto question (see the objection above). Think of this: what if God came down from Heaven and said to me "If you go to the zoo, you will be trampled by an elephant because the zoo keeper will accidentally leave the gate open and the pachyderms will make a mad dash for the exit." but then an hour later God says " Evan, you will never get trampled by an Elephant in your entire life."
Did God contradict himself? No. Both statements are correct. The former statement is merely a warning not to go to the zoo, because if I were to go to the zoo, then I would be trampled by elephants. The reason the latter statement is correct is because God knew whether I'd stay away from the zoo if He gave me the warning. God's not contradicting himself because I really would get trampled if I didn't heed his prior warning. The reason the statement "You will never get trampled by an elephant your entire life" is true is because I chose to heed the warning "If you go to the zoo, you'll be trampled by elephants". And again, nothing rendered it impossible for me to go down to the zoo anyway. I could have disregarded the warning. I could have gone to the zoo anyway and got trampled. It was within my power to ignore God's warning and go to the zoo anyway. It's just that God knew in advance whether or not I would ignore the warning. He knew that I wouldn't and that's why he gave it to me.
The same goes with warnings of apostasy in scripture. We still have the free will to ignore the warnings. We still have the freedom to turn away from God. We have the ability to be lead astray. It's just that God knew in His middle knowledge "If I put warnings in scripture not to apostatize, then my children would obey them and persevere."
To suggest that my view has God asserting a contradiction is absurd.
*"Doesn't this render it impossible though? It's impossible for God to be wrong. If God knew in His middle knowledge that the elect would not fall away if He put warning passages in scripture, then it seems the elect cannot fall away. If they did, then God's middle knowledge would be off. But God is perfect! He cannot be wrong! How then could you do otherwise?"
I think this objection (as well as the previous two) stem from the belief that a middle knowledge approach to providence entails determinism, which I used to think myself but eventually saw that it did not. This view is a Molinist view. One does not need to adopt this apostasy/security model in order to be a Molinist, but one needs to be a Molinist in order to adopt this model.
For some reason, people think of middle knowledge in a fatalistic manner. They seem to think that God's middle knowledge has causal power that makes everything happen. So that if God knows "If Bob were in circumstance S, he would choose action A over action B" and then God decides to create a world where Bob finds himself in circumstance S and chooses A over B, they think that somehow Bob was determined to choose A over B and that it was impossible for him to choose otherwise. But if IS possible for Bob to choose otherwise. Bob could have chosen B and refrained from choosing A. If Bob had chosen B instead of A, then what God knew in His middle knowledge would have been different.
If Bob had chosen B instead of A, then God would NOT have known "If Bob were in circumstance S, he would choose A instead of B"
INSTEAD God would have known "If Bob were in circumstance S, he would choose B over A".
The argument that middle knowledge is deterministic fails for the same reason the argument that foreknowledge in general is deterministic fails. It does not follow that just because God foreknows that something would or will happen, that therefore it would or will happen necessarily. All of the propositional truths in God's middle knowledge are contingent facts that could have been different, and if they were different, then God would know them. If you want to go into more detail into why a middle knowledge view of providence is not deterministic, check out my blog post "Molinism and Divine Foreordination".
*There Are Bible Passages That Seem To Imply That Not Only Is Apostasy Possible, But Actual Instances Of Apostasy Have/Will Occur
This is probably the most powerful objection to this eternal security model. I've had some argue to me that this view is false because there are scriptures that do not merely warn that apostasy is possible but that there have been/will be actual occurrences of apostasy. They'll point to verses like 1 Timothy 4:1 and Luke 8:13.
"The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons." – 1 Timothy 4:1
"Those on the rocky ground are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they fall away." – Luke 8:13
The context of Luke 8:13 is Jesus' parable of the seeds, In this story, a sower sowed seed on the path, on rocky ground and among thorns, and the seeds were lost; but when the seed fell on good earth it grew, yielding thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold. The seeds represent people who hear the word of God and how they respond to it. Some seeds fell on rocky ground.
As for 1 Timothy 4:1, it is possible that this passage is talking about people who had merely intellectual assent to the faith but never made an actual commitment to Christ, and they departed from that intellectual assent (e.g they went from being theists to atheists). I certainly believe there are people like that; nominal Christians. I used to be one of them until I was 17. So the "faith" referred to in 1 Timothy 4:1 isn't saving faith, but demon faith. It isn't the kind of faith believers have in Jesus, but it's just mere intellectual agreement with the creeds of the church. This is "demon faith", the kind of belief that James 2:19 talks about; "You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe this and tremble."
But is Paul really talking about nominal Christians in this passage or is this just an ad hoc attempt to preserve the perseverance of the saints? For something to be ad hoc, you would have to say that the only reason that you believe a particular interpretation is to preserve your doctrine. But I do not see that. I do not think it is so implausible that Paul would be referring to the visible church when referring to apostasy, and the invisible church, the elect, when referring to eternal security. One could also make the argument that I'm interpreting scripture in light of scripture. If an overwhelming case can be made for ES elsewhere, you'd interpret those passages that seem to be predictions of people leaving the faith in light of those scriptures. You'd interpret 1 Timothy 4:1 in light of passages like Ephesians 1:13 and 1 John 2:19 among several others that suggest no one truly born again will depart.
Luke 8:13 could also be referring to the changing head knowledge of nominal Christians. However, an Arminian I was talking to about this objected to this interpretation saying: "On Luke 8:13, I think that interp is strained [[[he means the Keathley/Craig view I was espousing]]]. The result of believing for a while is life (the plant springs up), but then withers and dies. So the believing causes life that doesn't last because the believing doesn't last (cf. John 15:6). Even if we view the plant springing up as representing faith and not the person, (which I don't think the context will really allow), the fact that it dies is seen as a bad thing. If false faith is in view, why should false faith (or demon faith) dying be seen as a negative? It would seem that false faith would actually need to die for true faith to begin. But the text sees it as a bad thing that it doesn't last and not a good thing. Why should it be bad if demon faith doesn't last?"
It's interesting to note that Jesus said "Those on the rocky ground are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they fall away. " (v. 13). What does it mean to have no root, except that you are not really in Christ? It would seem that this is
But what about my friend's argument that the falling away of this person is a bad thing? Well, if a lost person has given mental assent to the proposition that "Jesus died for my sins," is that not better for evangelistic purposes than just being staunch atheists? They are clearly closer than they would be if we had to convince them of the truth. It is clearly better for them to give mental assent than to be atheists or some other form of non-Christian. For they already have belief that, all they need is to have belief in. They already believe that Christianity is true, all they need to do is to act on that knowledge and place their trust in Jesus and become born again (John 3:3). But if they lose even the "belief that", I can imagine how that would be viewed in a negative light for now they are even further from their salvation than they were before. So yeah, a nominal Christian converting to atheism or Islam is spiritually no worse off than they were before, but once they cease giving intellectual assent to God's Word, they become even further from attaining salvation than they were before. Now they must be convinced of Christianity's truth and exercise faith in Christ.
* "You want certain promises of final, eschatological salvation to mean that you WON'T fall away, but they just do not indicate such."
It's not about what I want or don't want. I just think this is the best way to understand the apostasy/security issue. This is the conclusion I've come to after a couple of years of scripture reading, study, and reflection. Maybe it's wrong. Maybe there's a better view to explain all of the proof texts both Arminians and Calvinists use. If so, I hope to find it some day. I try to keep an open mind.
I hope nobody here thinks I'm trying to force fit biblical passages to fit a paradigm I favor. I'm honestly trying to figure out what The Bible teaches regarding this subject. I happen to think that both the Arminian and the Calvinist make powerful arguments from scripture to support their views on security/apostasy. That's why I've been so conflicted on this issue for the longest time (in fact, for me, it's been one of the most difficult theological issues I've ever wrestled with). But maybe this isn't the best way to explain the biblical data. I think it is, but maybe it isn't. Maybe there's a better hypothesis to reconcile these seemingly contradictory passages of scripture.
I have no emotional qualms about believing that some who are genuinely saved have and will fall away. I just want to know what God's Word says on the subject. I don't really care which view makes me feel better. I just want to be true to the scriptures.
I think the Keathley/Craig model still stands.


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We are out on the Baltic Sea. There is heavy wind, and in the darkness a helicopter approaches. To be specific, it is the Swedish Armed Force's ship, the HMS Carlskrona. Headlights dance over the ship's helicopter pad as it moves in multiple dimensions simultaneously. The pilot has no easy task ahead of him, with limited reference points in the turbulent environment.
"This is probably one of the more advanced tests that can be done with a helicopter. Everyone involved must know exactly what to do for takeoff and landing to work", says Gunnar Lindell, FMV's project manager.
FMV produces graphs that describe the maximum way in which the ship can move in both roll and pitch. The graphs also describe maximum wind speed in different wind directions in connection with the landing.
The graphs show the preconditions for takeoff and landing in daylight and darkness for three different weight ratios on the helicopter.
Data over the helicopter's movements, wind speed and direction were transferred via a data link from the ship to the helicopter. Inside the helicopter were measuring tools where the ship's data and helicopter's data were presented.
"While testing the operational limits of flight limits from the command ship, Carlskrona, at night, we successfully qualified the airport function of the ship."
Maintenance of the helicopters must be possible to carry out on board; therefore one of the tasks was to validate different types of maintenance equipment on board the ship..
"The prerequisites for such tests include of course, good cooperation between all involved both at FMV and at the Swedish Armed Forces. About a hundred people were involved. We tried several different functions during the same test campaign, which resulted in both financial benefits and in timesaving", says Gunnar Lindell.
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The site for Birchfield School, formerly Beamish House, was acquired by Major Walter Garnett-Botfield in 1908. There was no house, no garden, in fact no vegetation save the wild plants in the field. He commissioned Baillie Scott, a renowned architect, who was considered to be at the forefront of the Arts & Crafts Movement at the turn of the twentieth century. Baillie Scott described his preferred clients as "people with artistic aspirations but modest incomes". He invented a new type of small house by opening up the plan around a spacious living area and extending the interior into the garden. Beamish House typifies his style.
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California Court of Appeals, Fifth District
February 20, 2015
MARTA RODRIGUEZ, Plaintiff and Appellant,v.THOMAS BRILL, Defendant and Respondent.
APPEAL from order of the Superior Court of Kern County, No. CV259482 Sidney P. Chapin, Judge.
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SD Smith and Steven D. Smith for Plaintiff and Appellant.
Clifford & Brown and Robert D. Harding for Defendant and Respondent.
Plaintiff Marta Rodriguez appeals from the denial of her motion for relief from judgment, which was brought under the mandatory provisions of Code of Civil Procedure section 473, subdivision (b) (section
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473(b)). The judgment was entered in favor of defendant Thomas Brill after the trial court dismissed Rodriguezs complaint as a sanction for her failure to respond to discovery requests and to comply with an order compelling her to do so.
In an earlier appeal, we concluded the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it granted a terminating sanction and affirmed the judgment of dismissal. (Rodriguez v. Brill (Feb. 1, 2013, F063770) [nonpub. opn.].)[1] However, we did not reach the question whether Rodriguez was entitled to relief from the judgment of dismissal under the mandatory provisions of section 473(b), for inexcusable failures of her attorney. We remanded to permit the trial court to reconsider the motion for relief. The trial court did so and its new order denying the motion is the subject of this appeal.
The parties contentions present conflicting interpretations of the mandatory relief provision in section 473(b). We resolve those issues by adopting the following interpretations.
First, a judgment of dismissal that implements a terminating sanction for discovery abuse is a dismissal entered for purposes of section 473(b). Therefore, Rodriguez may apply for mandatory relief from the judgment of dismissal entered against her.
Second, the statutory phrase unless the court finds is ambiguous and we interpret it to require an explicit finding by a court that denies mandatory relief. (§ 473(b).) Here, the reporters transcript and the written order prepared by defense counsel do not contain the required finding.
Third, we assume for purposes of this appeal that mandatory relief under section 473(b) is not available when a clients negligence or willful misconduct is a contributory cause of the terminating sanction. Based on the conduct described in the motion for a terminating sanction, the grounds listed in the courts order granting the terminating sanction, and the record before us, we conclude that Rodriguezs conduct was not a contributing cause of the terminating sanction. Thus, Rodriguez is eligible for mandatory relief, provided she satisfies the other statutory requirements.
Fourth, for purposes of section 473(b), we conclude an application for relief from a terminating discovery sanction is in proper form if (1) verified discovery responses are delivered to opposing counsel before the hearing on
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the application for relief and (2) the content of those responses substantially complies with applicable requirements. Here, Rodriguezs proposed discovery responses substantially complied with the statute.
Based on the foregoing, and her attorneys declarations of fault, Rodriguez was entitled to relief from the judgment resulting from the terminating sanction.
We therefore reverse the judgment and underlying order denying the motion for relief.
Brill is an attorney in the Bakersfield area. He and Rodriguez lived together as husband and wife for a number of years. When they separated, Rodriguez filed this action in 2006 against Brill, asserting that Brill promised to support her for the rest of her life and, in exchange, she gave up many opportunities to obtain the education and training she would need to support herself.
A jury trial commenced in November 2009. However, a mistrial was declared after a witness called by Rodriguez volunteered information that had been ruled inadmissible in a motion in limine. The trial was rescheduled, but the trial court specifically prohibited additional discovery.
When the second trial commenced in November 2010, the trial court concluded that its order prohibiting additional discovery had been erroneous. It then gave the parties the option of proceeding to trial or continuing the trial and conducting additional discovery. Rodriguez elected to continue the trial. This decision started in motion the following events, which are chronicled in the record before us.
On December 17, 2010, Brill served on Rodriguez a set of special interrogatories, commonly referred to as contention interrogatories, asking Rodriguez to state all facts that supported the contentions in her complaint, name all the individuals who could testify about those facts, and identify the documents that supported those contentions. At the same time, Brill also served on Rodriguez a request for production of documents seeking the documents that supported her contentions.
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On January 19, 2011, Brills counsel granted Rodriguez an extension to January 31, 2011, to respond to these discovery requests, which was confirmed by a letter dated January 20, 2011. Another extension was granted to February 23, 2011.
Rodriguez failed to respond to the discovery requests and on March 7, 2011, Brill filed a motion to compel responses to both requests (hereafter the motion to compel), with a hearing scheduled for April 4, 2011.
Rodriquez did not oppose the motion to compel, nor did she appear at the hearing. The trial court granted the motion and ordered Rodriguez to serve responses, without objection, within 10 days of service of the notice of the order. The notice of order was served on April 4, 2011.
Rodriguez did not respond to this order and on April 18, 2011, Brill filed a motion seeking either evidentiary sanctions or dismissal of the action (hereafter motion for dismissal) as a sanction for Rodriguezs failure to respond to the discovery requests and failure to comply with the order of the trial court. A hearing was set for May 11, 2011.
Instead of filing an opposition to the motion for dismissal, Rodriguez filed a document entitled Notice of Motion and Motion in Opposition to Defendants Motion for Dismissal and/or Evidentiary Sanctions, seeking relief under section 473(b), which apparently was treated by all parties as an opposition to Brills motion. Brill filed a timely reply. The day before the May 11 hearing, after normal office hours, Rodriguez served a proposed response to the interrogatories (via e-mail), but failed to respond in any manner to the request for production of documents. Counsel for both parties attended the hearing. The matter was taken under submission.
On May 16, 2011, the trial court granted the motion for dismissal and ordered the complaint stricken as a sanction against Rodriguez for failing to respond to discovery. Judgment was entered accordingly.
On or about July 13, 2011, Rodriguez filed a motion for relief from the judgment pursuant to section 473(b) (hereafter motion for relief), asserting that the failure to respond to the discovery and the trial courts order dismissing the action was the result of the neglect of her attorney. Plaintiffs papers included a declaration of her counsel acknowledging his negligence. Brill opposed the motion, arguing that plaintiffs counsel never made any substantive admission of neglect. Brills counsels opposing declaration focused on Plaintiffs counsels inexcusable conduct, without mentioning any acts by Rodriquez, personally. Rodriguez filed an untimely reply and, the day before the August 10, 2011, hearing, served defense counsel with verified
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answers to the special interrogatories and a verified response to the request for production of documents.[3]
On August 10, 2011, the trial court held a hearing on the motion for relief. It accepted for consideration Rodriguezs late filed reply but provided Brill an opportunity to file a response to the reply, without further hearing.
On October 13, 2011, Rodriguez filed a notice of appeal from dismissal as discovery sanction under CCP 2023.030, constructive denial of [the] 7/15/2011 motion to vacate.
On November 3, 2011, the trial court denied Rodriguezs motion for relief from the judgment.
Remand and Subsequent Appeal
On February 1, 2013, this court filed an unpublished opinion in Rodriguez v. Brill, supra, F063770, which addressed two main issues. First, we concluded the trial court did not abuse its discretion in granting the terminating sanction and affirmed the judgment dismissing Rodriguezs action. Second, we concluded the trial court lacked subject matter jurisdiction when it filed the November 3, 2011, order denying Rodriguezs motion for relief, because that order came after Rodriguez had filed her notice of appeal. As a result, we concluded the order was void and remanded the matter for the trial court to consider and rule upon Rodriguezs motion for relief pursuant to section 473(b).
On August 30, 2013, the trial court signed and filed an order prepared by defense counsel. The order stated: Plaintiffs Motion is denied. It also ordered the entry of judgment in favor of Brill ...
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We're back for another weekly photo contest, and this go 'round the subject is something near and dear to my heart -- the great outdoors. It means different things to different folks, but I think inside all of us there's a part that loves seeing the beauty in the world around us. Yours won't look like mine or anyone else's, and that's what makes it great. Take a minute and share what you see with us all, and get a chance to win a cool little prize -- the Andru USB charger. It's shaped like bugdroid, has light up eyes, and will keep your phone charged up and ready to go. The rules are simple:
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
Graceful? Not so much
The journaling says:
What I lack in grace, I make up for in zeal and enthusiasm. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not the most coordinated person in the world. In fact, I'm downright clumsy at times. Robert affectionately calls me "Lucy" (as in 'I Love Lucy') because I often cause minor calamities. But as I've gotten older, I've come to embrace the silly, uncoordinated me. I'm not afraid to let loose and dance, jump and be playful.
I also made a card with products from the GRACE kit. I associate the word "grace" with being gracious and showing gratitude. I'm a big believer in saying a proper "thank you" for acts of kindness bestowed upon us by others. Often a verbal "thank you" or a "thank you" email will suffice, but I think sometimes it's nice to send a written thank you -- even better -- in a handmade card. My mom does SO MUCH for me and my family. Her love and generosity go above and beyond. Sometimes spoken words just aren't enough to express my gratitude to her. So I made this thank you card for my mom to thank her for all she does and to tell her how much we love and appreciate her.
I haven't given it to her yet, so hopefully she won't see this blog post before then. Shhhhhhhhhh . . .
7 comments:
- Romy said...
Both your layout and your card are gorgeous! I love what you did with these papers. And I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who can be a bit clumsy at times;)
- March 29, 2012 at 1:41 PM
Gorgeous layout and card design!!! Just beautiful!!! And, yes, I'm clumsy as well! :)
- March 29, 2012 at 7:42 PM
- Lisa VanderVeen said...
Oh my gosh I LOVE THESE. You are amazing. XO
- March 29, 2012 at 8:56 PM
- cvanholstein said...
Hi Stacy!
Great layout and I love the subject + journaling. My husband can be verrry clumsy verry often, so I'll start calling him Lucy! He will be so happy with his new nickname! LOL
xxx, C
- March 30, 2012 at 9:26 AM
- BabyBokChoy said...
I dunnno, I recall you full of beauty and grace!!! Amazing work as always!
- April 1, 2012 at 6:19 PM
- Linda Barber said...
These are amazing, Stacy! Amazing! Totally laughing at the "minor calamities." You have yet to set my house on fire. So it's all good! ;)
- April 2, 2012 at 11:05 PM
- Fluffy said...
These both have a lovely fresh feel to them & I have a duaghter who inherited the clumsy gene so you are definately not alone :) Tx
- April 4, 2012 at 1:43 AM


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Expressive Language
Poet and political activist Amiri Baraka first published as LeRoi Jones in the 1950s as a member of the Beat poetry movement. Baraka's 1959 visit to Cuba, where he encountered a group of politically active writers, and his involvement in the burgeoning civil rights movement led him to move to Harlem in the 1960s, where he became a black nationalist and founded the Black Arts Movement.
Baraka's essay "Expressive Language" first appeared in Kulchur in the winter of 1963, and was published in his collection Home: Social Essays (1966). The book grounds Baraka's creative work in a commitment to defining and promoting a black aesthetic, which critic Houston Baker defines as "a distinctive code for the creation and evaluation of black art." Asserting that "words' meanings, but also the rhythm and syntax that frame and propel their concatenation, seek their culture as the final reference for what they are describing of the world," Baraka argues that the artist must use the language and semantics unique to his culture to create his art, and that the work should also be understood within the context of that culture.
While Baraka's political stance has shifted over the years, he has consistently focused on the spoken word rather than the written page, and his interest in the nuances of sound and pronunciation can be heard in this essay. Baraka's work has variously found its form in poetry, fiction, essay, drama, music criticism, and performance. The volume in which this essay appeared marks the beginning of the controversy that would surround his politically driven, uncompromising work in the decades to come.
Speech is the effective form of a culture. Any shape or cluster of human history still apparent in the conscious and unconscious habit of groups of people is what I mean by culture. All culture is necessarily profound. The very fact of its longevity, of its being what it is, culture, the epic memory of practical tradition, means that it is profound. But the inherent profundity of culture does not necessarily mean that its uses (and they are as various as the human condition) will be profound. German culture is profound. Generically. Its uses, however, are specific, as are all uses . . . of ideas, inventions, products of nature. And specificity, as a right and passion of human life, breeds what it breeds as a result of context.
Context, in this instance, is most dramatically social. And the social, though it must be rooted, as are all evidences of existence, in culture, depends for its impetus for the most part on a multiplicity of influences. Other cultures, for instance. Perhaps, and this is a common occurrence, the reaction or interreaction of one culture on another can produce a social context that will extend or influence any culture in many strange directions.
Social also means economic, as any reader of nineteenth-century European philosophy will understand. The economic is part of the social—and in our time much more so than what we have known as the spiritual or metaphysical, because the most valuable canons of power have either been reduced or traduced into stricter economic terms. That is, there has been a shift in the actual meaning of the world since Dante lived. As if Brooks Adams were right. Money does not mean the same thing to me it must mean to a rich man. I cannot, right now, think of one meaning to name. This is not so simple to understand. Even as a simple term of the English language, money does not possess the same meanings for the rich man as it does for me, a lower-middle-class American, albeit of laughably "aristocratic" pretensions. What possibly can "money" mean to a poor man? And I am not talking now about those courageous products of our permissive society who walk knowledgeably into "poverty" as they would into a public toilet. I mean, The Poor.
I look in my pocket; I have seventy cents. Possibly I can buy a beer. A quart of ale, specifically. Then I will have twenty cents with which to annoy and seduce my fingers when they wearily search for gainful employment. I have no idea at this moment what that seventy cents will mean to my neighbor around the corner, a poor Puerto Rican man I have seen hopefully watching my plastic garbage can. But I am certain it cannot mean the same thing. Say to David Rockefeller, "I have money," and he will think you mean something entirely different. That is, if you also dress the part. He would not for a moment think, "Seventy cents." But then neither would many New York painters.
Speech, the way one describes the natural proposition of being alive, is much more crucial than even most artists realize. Semantic philosophers are certainly correct in their emphasis on the final dictation of words over their users. But they often neglect to point out that, after all, it is the actual importance, power, of the words that remains so finally crucial. Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities. Realities being those fantasies that control your immediate span of life. Usually they are not your own fantasies, i.e., they belong to governments, traditions, etc., which, it must be clear by now, can make for conflict with the singular human life all ways. The fantasy of America might hurt you, but it is what should be meant when one talks of "reality." Not only the things you can touch or see, but the things that make such touching or seeing "normal." Then words, like their users, have a hegemony. Socially—which is final, right now. If you are some kind of artist, you naturally might think this is not so. There is the future. But immortality is a kind of drug, I think—one that leads to happiness at the thought of death. Myself, I would rather live forever . . . just to make sure.
The social hegemony, one's position in society, enforces more specifically one's terms (even the vulgar have "pull"). Even to the mode of speech. But also it makes these terms an available explanation of any social hierarchy, so that the words themselves become, even informally, laws. And of course they are usually very quickly stitched together to make formal statutes only fools or the faithfully intrepid would dare to question beyond immediate necessity.
The culture of the powerful is very infectious for the sophisticated, and strongly addictive. To be any kind of "success" one must be fluent in this culture. Know the words of the users, the semantic rituals of power. This is a way into wherever it is you are not now, but wish, very desperately, to get into.
Even speech then signals a fluency in this culture. A knowledge at least. "He's an educated man," is the barest acknowledgment of such fluency . . . in any time. "He's hip," my friends might say. They connote a similar entrance.
And it is certainly the meanings of words that are most important, even if they are no longer consciously acknowledged, but merely, by their use, trip a familiar lever of social accord. To recreate instantly the understood hierarchy of social, and by doing that, cultural, importance. And cultures are thought by most people in the world to do their business merely by being hierarchies. Certainly this is true in the West, in as simple a manifestation as Xenophobia, the naïve bridegroom of anti-human feeling, or in economic terms, Colonialism. For instance, when the first Africans were brought into the New World, it was thought that it was all right for them to be slaves because "they were heathens." It is a perfectly logical assumption.
And it follows, of course, that slavery would have been an even stranger phenomenon had the Africans spoken English when they first got here. It would have complicated things. Very soon after the first generations of Afro-Americans mastered this language, they invented white people called Abolitionists.
Words' meanings, but also the rhythm and syntax that frame and propel their concatenation, seek their culture as the final reference for what they are describing of the world. An A flat played twice on the same saxophone by two different men does not have to sound the same. If these men have different ideas of what they want this note to do, the note will not sound the same. Culture is the form, the overall structure of organized thought (as well as emotion and spiritual pretension). There are many cultures. Many ways of organizing thought, or having thought organized. That is, the form of thought's passage through the world will take on as many diverse shapes as there are diverse groups of travelers. Environment is one organizer of groups, at any level of its meaning. People who live in Newark, New Jersey, are organized, for whatever purpose, as Newarkers. It begins that simply. Another manifestation, at a slightly more complex level, can be the fact that blues singers from the Midwest sing through their noses. There is an explanation past the geographical, but that's the idea in tabloid. And singing through the nose does propose that the definition of singing be altered . . . even if ever so slightly. (At this point where someone's definitions must be changed, we are flitting around at the outskirts of the old city of Aesthetics. A solemn ghost town. Though some of the bones of reason can still be gathered there.)
But we still need definitions, even if there already are many. The dullest men are always satisfied that a dictionary lists everything in the world. They don't care that you may find out something extra, which one day might even be valuable to them. Of course, by that time it might even be in the dictionary, or at least they'd hope so, if you asked them directly.
But for every item in the world, there are a multiplicity of definitions that fit. And every word we use could mean something else. And at the same time. The culture fixes the use, and usage. And in "pluralistic" America, one should always listen very closely when he is being talked to. The speaker might mean something completely different from what we think we're hearing. "Where is your pot?''
I heard an old Negro street singer last week, Reverend Pearly Brown, singing, "God don't never change!" This is a precise thing he is singing. He does not mean "God does not ever change!" He means "God don't never change!" The difference, and I said it was crucial, is in the final human reference . . . the form of passage through the world. A man who is rich and famous who sings, "God don't never change," is confirming his hegemony and good fortune . . . or merely calling the bank. A blind hopeless black American is saying something very different. He is telling you about the extraordinary order of the world. But he is not telling you about his "fate." Fate is a luxury available only to those fortunate citizens with alternatives. The view from the top of the hill is not the same as that from the bottom of the hill. Nor are most viewers at either end of the hill, even certain that, in fact, there is any other place from which to look. Looking down usually eliminates the possibility of understanding what it must be like to look up. Or try to imagine yourself as not existing. It is difficult, but poets and politicians try every other day.
Being told to "speak proper," meaning that you become fluent with the jargon of power, is also a part of not "speaking proper." That is, the culture which desperately understands that it does not "speak proper," or is not fluent with the terms of social strength, also understands somewhere that its desire to gain such fluency is done at a terrifying risk. The bourgeois Negro accepts such risk as profit. But does close-ter (in the context of "jes a close-ter, walk withee") mean the same thing as closer? Close-ter, in the term of its user is, believe me, exact. It means a quality of existence, of actual physical disposition perhaps . . . in its manifestation as a tone and rhythm by which people live, most often in response to common modes of thought best enforced by some factor of environmental emotion that is exact and specific. Even the picture it summons is different, and certainly the "Thee" that is used to connect the implied "Me" with, is different. The God of the damned cannot know the God of the damner, that is, cannot know he is God. As no Blues person can really believe emotionally in Pascal's God, or Wittgenstein's question, "Can the concept of God exist in a perfectly logical language?" Answer: "God don't never change."
Communication is only important because it is the broadest root of education. And all cultures communicate exactly what they have, a powerful motley of experience.
Poet, writer, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka was born Everett LeRoi Jones in 1934 in Newark, New Jersey. He attended Rutgers University and Howard University, spent three years in the U.S. Air Force, and returned to New York City to attend Columbia University and the New School for Social...
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"Le Puy green lentils, so rich 'caviar of the poor'."
AOC cultivated in Haute-Loire, Auvergne, in France, the "Le Puy green lentil" was rediscovered in the 1990s by the famous chiefs Régis Marcon, Paul Bocuse, Bernard Loiseau and Michel Roth.
On the plate, the lobster is lying on a bed of lentils of le Puy: this tasty misalliance between a crested crustacean and a popular legume is the work of Chief Régis Marcon. On the white tablecloths of his three-stared restaurant in Saint-Bonnet-le-Froid, the "caviar of the poor" is everywhere, from breadsticks to green lentil flour sweet confit, which will make you succumb to the dessert.
"It's a great adventure," summarizes with modesty the auvergnat chief, tracing the path since the early 1990s, while he was discovering the gustatory praises of the Green lentils from le Puy. "At this moment, it was synonymous with boarding school or army. Its farming was more or less to abandon. This interested me to develop this product of terroir. I had the click by participating in comparative tests of tasting; simply cooked in water, without salt and sauce, the le Puy green lentil just surpassed all the others."
Read the whole article on the website of "L'Express" (fr).


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If the event has more than one performance, we can usually exchange your tickets to another day. We can't exchange for a completely different show though – because each show has a different promoter, that'd be like buying an orange from one supermarket and trying to return it to another. If we can switch dates for you, you'll need to bring the original tickets back to us at the Box Office before we can give you the new ones. Unfortunately, we can't give refunds.
Can you buy my tickets back?
If the show is completely sold out and we have a waiting list, we can offer to try and resell your tickets. Please note there is no guarantee we'll be able to find someone who wants to buy them, but if we do, we'll cancel your booking and refund you. We'll need your original tickets back in order to do this.
Do you ever get returns?
Yes we sometimes do get tickets returned to us for re-sale – they're offered to Lincoln Drill Hall Friends and those on our Member+ scheme first, so if you'd like to be in with a chance of grabbing a ticket to a sell out (not to mention priority booking, free postage and other perks!) then please look out for our membership schemes which go on sale on 1st Sep 2017.
Lost your ticket?
We can reprint your tickets on the night of the show for you to collect at the Box Office. We usually ask to see proof of your identity for this so please allow plenty of time before the start of the performance.
Can tickets be posted out?
If you'd like your tickets to be posted we'll ask for a standard £1 postage fee which gets added to the total of your booking. If you need your tickets right away then we recommend you choose our Print@Home delivery option which will email your tickets out immediately (one page per ticket,) or the third option is to collect them from the Box Office when you arrive.
Why are there different prices?
We split our auditorium into three price bands to offer a range of prices based on buying patterns, and where we feel you'll have a great experience. Our ticket prices are subject to change as the theatre fills, so by booking early you can be sure to secure your seats at the best price. From our Spring 2018 season, wheelchair users' tickets will match the most affordable price band available at each stage of sale. For their companions/carers, tickets will always be £12. Under 26yr olds pay just £12 anywhere in the auditorium (subject to availability.) Look out for Season Tickets to get the best deals!
Can I take a pushchair/Rock-a-tot seat into the theatre?
We're sorry but due to fire regulations and the limited amount of space inside the auditorium, we can't admit pushchairs or Rock-a-tot seats. However we'll be happy to store them for you during the show so please ask a member of the Front of House team when you arrive.
Why are the front seats cheaper?
Performers love seeing your smiling faces and we believe there should be accessible priced tickets for all. There'll always be over 1500 tickets at £12 or less every season! You just need to book early to ensure you get them!
Why can't I book seats at the back?
If you're booking early we like to reward you with terrific seats, smashing prices and a wonderful atmosphere. To ensure the best experience for both you and the performers, some seats are not offered for sale until seats towards the front of the theatre are sold. If you have any specific access requirements please ask one of our friendly sales team.
What happens if I'm late?
We'll try our best to get you to your seats at the earliest available point in the performance. Sometimes this won't be until the interval – it depends on the show and what the visiting company have told us. We'll get you in there asap though. Promise.
Do young children, toddlers and babies need a ticket?
Babies and children aged 2yrs and under won't usually need a ticket (some kids shows change this policy) but we'll still need to know they're coming for our fire regulations. Just let the Box Office team know when you book. Please note that children under the age of 16 will need to be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Can I reserve tickets without paying for them straight away?
Yes – we'll hold tickets for up to 3 days for you without payment. They'll automatically be released at the end of the third day. Please be aware that our ticket prices will often rise with demand so the total of your reservation may change – take a look at our Season Tickets and Memberships to see lots of ways to save.
Can you post my merchandise purchase out to me?
If it's something we can pop in an envelope with your tickets such as a play text, a car sticker or a wristband then by all means we'll post them to you. It might add a small extra delivery charge which will be displayed with the item and applied at the checkout. For things like puppets, books, mugs etc we'll ask you to come in and collect those because they're just a bit bulky.
Can I film/photograph the performance?
In short, no. Shows are copyrighted – in the same way that it's illegal to record footage of a film at the cinema, live theatre, music gigs and dance shows are also not to be filmed or photographed. It's really distracting for the performers if they're seeing flashes going off all over the auditorium and unfair to fellow audience members.
Mobile Phones
All mobile phones must be switched off for the duration of the show. We totally understand if you're expecting an urgent call and if that's the case, please leave your phone with one of our friendly Front of House team who'll be very happy to alert you. But texting, posting on social media sites and taking/making non-urgent calls may mean that we have to confiscate your phone until the end of the show.
I have a question that you haven't answered!
Give us a call on 01522 873894 or email us and we'll do our best to help.


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X-rays use invisible electromagnetic energy beams to make images of the skull. Standard X-rays are done for many reasons, including diagnosing tumors, infection, foreign bodies, or bone injuries.
X-rays use external radiation to produce images of the body, its organs, and other internal structures to diagnose a problem. X-rays pass through body tissues onto specially treated plates (similar to camera film). It makes a "negative" type picture is made. The more solid a structure is, the whiter it appears on the film. Computers and digital media may be used in place of films.
When the body undergoes X-rays, different parts of the body allow varying amounts of the X-ray beams to pass through. Images are produced in degrees of light and dark, depending on the amount of X-rays that penetrate the tissues. The soft tissues in the body (such as blood, skin, fat, and muscle) allow most of the X-ray to pass through and appear dark gray on the film. A bone or a tumor, which is denser than the soft tissues, allows few of the X-rays to pass through and appears white on the X-ray. At a break in a bone, the X-ray beam passes through the broken area and appears as a dark line in the white bone.
While X-rays of the skull are not used as often as in the past, due to the use of newer technologies such as computed tomography (CT scans) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), they are still helpful for looking at the bones of the skull for fractures and detecting other conditions of the skull and brain.
The skull, also called the cranium, is the bony structure of the head. Two sets of bones comprise the skull:
All bones making up the skull are attached to each other by immovable joints, except for the jaw bone, which is attached via a movable joint.
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The skeleton of the face has 14 bones, which include those that make up the jaws, cheeks, and nasal area.
X-rays of the skull may be done to diagnose fractures of the bones of the skull, birth defects, infection, foreign bodies, pituitary tumors, and certain metabolic and endocrine disorders that cause bone defects of the skull. Skull X-rays may also be used to find tumors, check the nasal sinuses, and detect calcifications within the brain.
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By public transport the nearest stations are Wimbledon (District Line, Tram Link and main line trains) and Putney (main line) or East Putney (District Line). The stations are each about 1 1/2 miles from the windmill and the walk is up-hill, but the 93 bus links Wimbledon and Putney town centres with a stop at Windmill Road.
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Today was Thursday – 10/06/2011. No songs for today as I still have both the Chickenfoot III album and the new Mayday Parade albums going through my brain. Both of those just kick freaking ass.
I don't really have much to say about today. It was mostly just another day, more or less. I took calls and solved problems, as usual. I worked tickets and solved even more problems. That's how I roll.
I IMd with Mom and we small talked. I texted with Lee Jay and Danielle about hockey. I texted with Elisha about The Old Republic. Todd logged into Gmail and we just shot the breeze. Fah Lah!
I came home and watched DVR goodness. I posted a pic of me waiting at the Arts Center Station for the Atlantic Station Shuttle to arrive. Check it out at commonterry.tumblr.com. I still have a ton of shows from this week to watch, and I'm sure more will record tomorrow – like Fringe! But LOL I just watched last week's episode of Fringe tonight. I get way behind sometimes when it comes to DVR stuff. Mainly because I play games a lot as well – it was more KOTOR for me tonight. And that's about it.
So you see – it was a plain day. I'm not complaining. We need days like this. Nothing to get giddy over, but also nothing to get a headache over as well. Just a day that came and went, and it's all good. It's all good, folks.
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Scott Bacon calls on Matthew Groom to resolve gas contract 'crisis'
Opposition energy spokesman Scott Bacon has called on Energy Minister Matthew Groom to resolve the state's supposed gas contract crisis, as the Council of Australian Governments Energy Council meeting wrapped up in Brisbane.
Mr Groom attended the meeting on Friday, along with federal Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg and state and territory ministers.
There, the ministers discussed the planned implementation of the Australian Domestic Gas Security Mechanism, which will serve to restrict exports on liquefied natural gas in times of domestic shortages.
They also agreed for the Australian Energy Market Operator to administer the Capacity Trading Platform and the Day-Ahead Auction, making it easier for gas contractors to trade excess supply.
Moreover, the assembled ministers doubled down on their commitment to advancing the Commonwealth's Gas Acceleration Program, an initiative that will endeavour to provide further gas to Australia's East Coast within three years.
It was noted at the COAG meeting that the council was making progress with its Gas Supply Strategy.
The GSS is designed to facilitate greater collaboration between jurisdictions on the issue of gas supply, particularly in respect of regulatory and scientific issues arising from onshore gas supply.
There has been a stoush recently over this state's gas contracts, as Hydro Tasmania's negotiations for a new gas supply contract with the Tasmanian Gas Pipeline have stalled.
The disagreement could see major industrial users experiencing a 95 per cent hike in gas transportation prices, TGP says.
Mr Bacon claimed "hundreds of jobs" were on the line.
"Negotiations between Hydro and TGP have broken down but COAG is yet to sign off on an arbitration process to resolve disputes," he said.
"Not only does COAG need to agree to an arbitration process – it needs to be put in place urgently.
"Time is running out for major industrials to get a long-term deal locked in."
In the wake of the dispute, Mr Groom has previously said that the government stood in solidarity with the major industrials.
"We … will continue to do everything we can in partnership with them to ensure Tasmania's interests are fully protected," he said.
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|The children raised $403 from the sale of lemonade and Tate's brownies at the launch of The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Park Avenue Potluck CELEBRATIONS.
|On a glorious summer afternoon, families from all over the Hamptons came by ferry to Bridge Street, the central gathering place on Shelter Island laid out by Frederick Law Olmstead in the early 1800s and now a historic landmark, to celebrate the hugely successful launch of The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Park Avenue Potluck CELEBRATIONS. Members of The Society of MSKCC and Florence Fabricant, co-authors of the cookbook and entertaining guide, autographed copies of the book which has become a best seller in America and an international phenomenon in over 12 countries.
Abundant presentations of recipes from the book -- gazpacho served in individual small glasses, and platters of tea sandwiches and asparagus canapés were prepared as a gift for The Society of MSKCC by Shelter Island's greatest chefs -- Chef Justin Smillie of Sunset Beach, Lisa and Terry Harwood, Owners/Chefs of Vine Street Café, and Matt Danzer and Ann Redding, Owners/Chefs of Reddings Market.
The delicious menu tastings and The Mecox, a limoncello and vodka libation donated by Shelter Island Wines & Spirits, were served on the house to the delight of the authors and their guests.
In heat that felt like 100 degrees in the shade -- where a glass of cold lemonade was a welcome relief -- members of The Society of MSKCC's Kids Kick In Committee, school age children (age 3 to 14) who raise funds to bring happiness to MSKCC's youngest patients in Pediatrics throughout the year, unveiled their new sidewalk lemonade stand, hand painted by local artist Mary Larsen. At the end of a very busy afternoon, Bryan Carey II, who hosted the stand with his twin brother, Paul Carey II and over 20 members of the Kids Kick In committee said, "I wanted to sell lemonade and brownies today because we give it to the children at Memorial Sloan-Kettering and it makes me feel happy." The children raised $403 for MSKCC's Department of Pediatrics from the sale of lemonade and brownies contributed by Tate's Bake Shop and set the record for one-day sales at a Kids Kick In sidewalk lemonade stand. Paul Carey II (age 5 3/4) said, "I can count more than 64, but we raised too much money and I can't count this much!"
|Members of the Kids Kick In committee make $403!
|Nancy McCarthy, proprietor of Bridge Street Gifts, a destination for the 'hostess with the mostest' welcomed Florence Fabricant along with members of The Society of MSKCC who signed books including Board President Heather Leeds who was surprised with a birthday cake from where else but Tate's, Kathy Thomas, Barbara Tollis, Jessie Araskog, Chesie Breen, Catherine Carey, Shelley Carr, Webb Egerton, Lisa Errico, Amy Hoadley, Kelley Johnston, Robyn Joseph, Leslie Perkin, Dee Dee Ricks and Tracy Snyder. Others who joined the celebration were Tom Leeds, Bryan Carey, Andrew Thomas, Scott Johnston, Ambassador Jay Snyder, Bobby Gianos, Caroline Perkin, Lino Lategan, Sacha Newley, Ginna Cronin and Chris Cronin from Boston, Tanya Traykovski, Kiki Boucher, Carrie Emery, Kim Spivack, Ronnie Estadella, Antonio Estadella, Marianne Carey Hayes, Helen Carey O'Neill, Amanda Russekoff, Donna Jones Marfino and many other friends and families of The Society of MSKCC.
|On Saturday, July 24th, the Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation, (SASF), hosted its 1st Annual "UNCONDITIONAL LOVE" benefit, hosted by Liz Brown and Leslie Alexander at their magnificent, oceanfront home in Southampton. World renowned photographer, Bruce Weber and Nan Bush served as the Honorary Chairs, Nancy Corzine, Sandra McConnell and Andy Sabin, as Event Co-chairs and April Gornik and Jayne Young as Chairpersons for the Charity Buzz online auction. The View's Joy Behar was Honorary Host.
|Drinks & "BITES" were served as guests gathered to honor Bernadette Peters, founder, along with lifelong friend, Mary Tyler Moore, of Broadway Barks. Due to Bernadette's recruitment back to Broadway, by Stephen Sondheim, to star in A Little Night Music, NBC Anchorman and avid animal activist Chuck Scarborough, accepted the "ANIMAL WELFARE" award on her behalf.
|The mission of the Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation is to provide for the welfare of animals and reduce the number of homeless pets. SASF's goal is to promote and nourish the bonds between people and animals through adoption, education and community outreach. Their vision is that every animal receive a loving home with medical care, training, shelter and human companionship.
|This past Monday night on the rooftop terrace of the Hotel Empire, Via Spiga celebrated its 25th anniversary and its collaboration with the irrepressible Kenneth Jay Lane, the world-renowned jewelry designer and a new collection of Via Spiga shoes designs by the company's creative director Paola Venturi.
|Pam Dederer, Tanya Paizas, Marc Dimov, Jamie Streep, and Karen Yashen
|Elena Lazarevic, Zack Harris, Lindsay Dutfield, Justin Attwell, and Erica Alexander
|Juan Carlos Castro, Amy Jackson, Bora Park, and Stephanie Horton
|Heidi Hovland, Dawn Lengeland, Chris Shepard, and Jen Lamoureux
|Charlie Gellman, Shirley Lin, Franco Sarto, Sonny Shar, and Sammy Demas
|Patrick Zangrilli, Debra Lewis, Geoff Green, and Gretchen Mathews
|Last Friday afternoon in Southampton, Marzia Precoda and Tiffany & Company hosted a luncheon at a private estate on Lake Agawam, "The Orchard" celebrating the upcoming "An Enchanted Evening" and honoring Jean Shafiroff and the Past Chairs of Southampton Hospital's Annual Summer Party.
|Photographs by Rob Rich (MSKCC & Animal Rescue); PatrickMcMullan.com (Via Spiga).