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Collage Collection- Petal Pop Double Flower Drop-Med Top
Collage Collection- Petal Pop Double Flower Drop-Med Top
These earrings are a part of our Petal Pop 2019 Collection. The range explores the fun and playful shapes of 60s inspired flower power pop imagery.
This pair of earrings has also been created by using at the leftover remnants of previous resin pours, making use of as much material as we can so we can reduce our waste and create our jewellery sustainably. We call this range our Collage Collection.
This clever pair of earrings sits in both Petal Pop and Collage collections, making them a pretty special pair of jewels for one lucky lucky person!
There are some variations of this design
- The size of the top stud component
- A Flower cut-out feature in the drop and stud
They are bright and fun plus they are very light weight making them a pleasure to wear as your everyday/anywhere earrings.
They are 100% designed and created by us, lovingly hand finished, polished and buffed. They are also set with surgical steel findings, a hypoallergenic option that suits most ears.
As these earrings are all made individually, they may have slight imperfections (i.e bubbles) making them extra special and adding to the handmade aesthetic and uniqueness of your selected pair!
Having said that, we can custom make similar pieces, but again, no two pieces are the same, a factor that we really enjoy and embrace about our product.
- Materials Resin, Surgical Steel
- Size Approx 80mm in length, 50mm in width, 4mm in depth, Stud Top 20mm Diameter
- Please note that these dimensions are approximate as each pair is slightly different from the other which is due to the handfinish process. If you want specific measurements, please don't hesitate to contact us.
- Weight Approx 18g per pair.
- Handmade in Melbourne.
Additional Information
- Please note that some pieces are slightly translucent
- These items are available for wholesale. Please contact us for further information.

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I seriously go through a mini period of mourning every time one of your quilts is sold! One day I will own one! They are so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous! One thing about your quilts that I absolutely love is how flat they are. No ripples, no gathers, no wrinkles. nothing. It's as if it came right off a bolt. I have a Bernina too with a really nice walking foot, but I can't get my fabrics to lay as flat as that. My LQS said to use pins every fist length. Maybe I need to pin every two inches or something??? Also, do you prewash your fabrics? If not, do you have photos of what your quilts look like after they are washed?
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MENA Newswire: Dailyhunt, India's #1 local language content discovery platform powered by VerSe Innovation, today announced its strategic multi-year content partnership with MENA Newswire, a media-tech startup that is reshaping the future of content distribution across the Middle East region. VerSe Innovation, currently valued at $5 Billion has rolled out its offering of Dailyhunt in the Middle East countries including UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and Kuwait.
The partnership with MENA Newswire enables Dailyhunt to deliver content that informs, enriches, and entertains audiences across formats like text and video. Leveraging MENA Newswire's SaaS platform, Dailyhunt has onboarded a total of 181 news publishers onto the app. The content from MENA Newswire will be available in Arabic and English across the GCC and further afield to the Levant.
Umang Bedi, Co-founder, VerSe Innovation said, "We are excited about our partnership with MENA Newswire, as we expand our offerings across the MENA region. MENA Newswire is the region's first home-grown internet content provider and is an ideal partner for us. This strategic association is in line with our vision of catering to the unmet content needs of the Middle East market. This will also enable untapped monetization opportunities for MENA Newswire in the region."
MENA Newswire Co-Founder and Chairman, Heba Al Mansoori said, "With Dailyhunt's AI-driven model and its advanced machine learning algorithms, all the sites that are onboarded through MENA Newswire gain additional traffic and revenue, which is a massive game-changer in the region. The content license partnership will facilitate partner websites' organic growth and allow them to leverage their media positions to enhance their content portfolio and develop quality authoritative content."
Dailyhunt is India's #1 local language content platform offering 1M+ new content artifacts every day in 15 languages. The content on Dailyhunt is licensed and sourced from a creator ecosystem of over 50,000+ content partners and a deep pool of over 50,000+ creators. Our mission is to be the Indic platform empowering a billion Indians to discover, consume, and socialize with content that informs, enriches, and entertains. Dailyhunt serves over 350 million monthly active users (MAUs) every month. The time spent per daily active user (DAU) is 30 minutes per user per day. Its unique AI/ML and deep learning technologies enable smart curation of content and track user preferences to deliver real-time, personalized content and notifications. The Dailyhunt app is available on Android, iOS and the mobile web.
MENA Newswire is the brainchild of Emirati entrepreneur Heba Al Mansoori who created a region-first newswire that does not rely on outdated HTML feeds or emails to share content. MENA Newswire is a media-tech company reshaping the future of content distribution using a proprietary SaaS content delivery model. An evolution of the newswire that integrates AI, Cloud computing & storage, Google webmaster guidelines, cutting-edge SEO techniques and provides analytics results once stories are published on websites and news portals. MENA Newswire has content agreements in place with over 500 websites – a first in the Middle East region. With widespread coverage across the Middle East and North Africa, this media-tech startup is making a foray into sub-Saharan Africa. Currently, MENA Newswire distributes content in Arabic, English and French languages and is the only regional/international newswire to offer a money-back performance guarantee.


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11270 kg
A new-generation high-end Higer bus, which have novel and fashionable appearance and meanwhile focus on the comfort for passengers and controllability for drivers. They are used in tourism, long-distance passenger transportation and business reception. After its launching, it has been exported to more than 10 countries and regions. It makes a bold breakthrough in whole shape and reflects the beauty of ingenuity in details and Higer' s persistent pursuit of product quality.
Large luggage compartment
High chassis, good visibility, fuel economy
Dynamic and pretty shape, with a sense of modernity
The seats are spacious and comfortable
Classic interior is widely used for transportation
Various vehicle interiors are available for your choice
Rated total mass(kg) |
16500 |
Fuel tank capacity(L) | 360 |
Wheelbase(mm) | 6180 |
Front/rear wheel track(mm) | 2020/1860 |
Front/rear overhang(mm) | 2510/3310 |
Minimum ground clearance(mm) | 240 |
Approach / departure angle ° | 10/10 |
Maximum gradeability % | ≥30 |
Maximum vehicle speed(km/h) | 110 |
Engine + gearbox |
Yuchai YC6L310-30 (310hp, China Ⅲ) + Fastgear 6DS130T Series Yuchai YC6L280-42 (280hp, including OBD, China Ⅳ) + Fastgear 6DS130T Series |
Clutch | Φ430mm diaphragm spring clutch |
Suspension |
Multi-leaf spring |
Front axle | 5.5T Drum-type front axle |
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Tyre | 11R22.5 |
Others | Brake clearance self-adjusting, ABS, integrated chassis CAN bus instrument |
Air conditioner | Overhead non-independent air-conditioning |
Seat | Luxurious passenger seats (53+1+1) |
Door | Front-opening pneumatic outward swinging door |
Window |
Fully-closed bonded side-windows(semi-push-pull built-in rear windows on both sides, a semi-push-pull built-in window for the driver) |
AV system |
Radio |
Rear-view mirror |
Luxurious and long tie-rod type wide field-of-vision rear mirrors |
Floor |
Artificial leather wear-resistant floorin |
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Weare a company specializing in the manufacture of buses, and subject to theapplicable laws and regulations regarding data storage and cross-bordertransfer of data, data may be shared and passed on to the trustee, such as: Oursubsidiaries, affiliates, and joint ventures, service product suppliers,authorized resellers, distributors and business partners in or outside thePeople's Republic of China in which we are directly or indirectly involved havespecific contractual obligations and may only use them for the purposesdescribed above.
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December 13, 2006
CFP for MiT5: Creativity, Ownership, Collaboration
The Media in Transition Project at MIT now seeks submissions for MiT5: Creativity, Ownership, and Collaboration in the Digital Age:
(submission deadline: Jan. 5, 2007)
Our understanding of the technical and social processes by which culture is made and reproduced is being challenged and enlarged by digital technologies. An emerging generation of media producers is sampling and remixing existing materials as core ingredients in their own work. Networked culture is enabling both small and large collaborations among artists who may never encounter each other face to face. Readers are actively reshaping media content as they personalize it for their own use or customize it for the needs of grassroots and online communities. Bloggers are appropriating and recontextualizing news stories; fans are rewriting stories from popular culture; and rappers and techno artists are sampling and remixing sounds.
These and related cultural practices have generated heated contention and debate. What constitutes fair use of another's intellectual property? What ethical issues are posed when sounds, images, and stories move from one culture or subculture to another? Or when materials created by a community or religious or ethnic tradition are appropriated by technologically powerful outsiders? What constitutes creativity and originality in expressive formats based on sampling and remixing? What obligations do artists owe to those who have inspired and informed their work and how much creative freedom should they exercise over their borrowed or shared materials?
One source of answers to such questions lies in the past – in the ways in which traditional printed texts – and films and TV shows as well – invoke, allude to and define themselves against their rivals and ancestors; and – perhaps even more saliently – in the ways in which folk and popular cultures may nourish and reward not originality in our modern sense, but familiarity, repetition, borrowing, collaboration.
This fifth Media in Transition conference, then, aims to generate a conversation that compares historical forms of cultural expression with contemporary media practices. We hope this event will appeal widely across disciplines and scholarly and professional boundaries. For example, we hope this conference will bring together such figures as:
- anthropologists of oral and folk cultures
- historians of the book and reading publics
- political scientists and legal scholars interested in alternative approaches to intellectual property
- media educators who aim to help students think about their ethical responsibilities in this new participatory culture
- artists ready to discuss appropriation and collaboration in their own work
- economists and business leaders interested in the new relationships that are emerging between media producers and consumers
- activists and netizens interested in the ways new technologies democratize who has the right to be an author
Among topics the conference might explore:
- history of authorship and copyright
- folk practices in traditional and contemporary society
- appropriating materials from other cultures: political and ethical dilemmas
- poetics and politics of fan culture
- blogging, podcasting, and collective intelligence
- media literacy and the ethics of participatory culture
- artistic collaboration and cultural production, past and present
- fair use and intellectual property
- sampling and remixing in popular music
- cultural production in traditional and developing societies
- Web 2.0 and the "architecture of participation"
- creative industries and user-generated content
- parody, spoofs, and mash-ups as critical commentary
- game mods and machinima
- the workings of genre in different media systems
- law and technological change
Short abstracts of no more than 200 words for papers or panels should be sent via email to Brad Seawell at firstname.lastname@example.com no later than January 5, 2007 . Brad can be reached by phone at 617-253-3521. Email submissions are preferred, but abstracts can be mailed to:
Brad Seawell
Cambridge , MA 02139Please include a short (75 words or less) biographical statement.
This will be our fifth media in transition conference. The previous conferences were the inaugural Media in Transiton conference, MiT2: globalization and convergence , MiT3: television and MiT4: the work of stories.
The call for papers was posted here, on the MiT site: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit5/subs/MiT5_call.html


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In earlier articles, our guest writer Chaturvasi has enlightened us on how to create a 15x15 cryptic crossword grid, and how to number the clue slots in the grid. In this article, he walks us through the crucial process of putting words into the grid. This will be of interest to aspiring setters as well as general readers. Chaturvasi, also known as Rishi, has blogged for weeks on Fifteensquared and Big Dave's Crossword Blog and once on Times for The Times. He is a frequent commenter in international forums. He lives in Chennai and is a published crossword setter. |
Having a 15x15 blocked grid on hand, let's see how we can populate it with words before going on to write clues and complete a crossword.
The grid is:
Where do we start?
It will not be prudent to do so at the four-letter slot at 15ac or 4dn, though some four-letter words may immediately occur to our minds, dirty as they could be. This is because when once we put down some words in the grid, the word-pattern takes a life of its own and we will have to find entries that fit certain configurations. It might become difficult to find candidates for the lengthier slots.
For instance, if we put some words in 1ac, 10ac and 12ac OR 5ac, 11ac and 13ac, then the first, third and fifth letters for the 15-letter slot at 1dn OR 8dn are in and we have to find a fit that has those letters in those positions. I don't say it is impossible; we may indeed find a candidate, if not a list of candidates from which we can choose one. But it is something that we can - and should - avoid.
It is wise, therefore, to fill in 1d and 8d first. These are lengthy slots and give us an opportunity to put phrases that will be interesting in the first place and also yield themselves to nice treatment when it comes to writing clues. Hmm... Let's put LAUGH OUT OF COURT at 1dn and RESISTING ARREST at 8dn. Even here we need to exercise some caution; if we put LAUGH OUT OF COURT at 8dn, some across words would end in U or O for which we need to find suitable candidates; instead, if we put it at 1d, these letters become the initial letters of words required and that would be easy. Thus:
At 8d, except for the I at 16ac, all other terminal letters are not likely to pose any problem.
Next, it would be prudent to find entries for 16ac and 18ac. Try BARRAMUNDI at the former and a phrase OUTER SPACE at the latter. Luckily, the U at 16ac is enclosed. The next logical step would be to fill 9d and 14d; for one thing, these are lengthier slots and had better be tackled first; for another, each of these already has two known letters. Go for FAST TRACK at 9d and LAMPSHADE at 14d. As we put down these entries, we must always have an eye on the consequences: at 13ac, ?T?????S is not a problem as it ends in S and we can choose from a long list of words when the crunch comes and the second letter T too is promising: with A,E,I,O,S,U as the initial letter, we should have no difficulty in finding something. Similarly, 26a ends amenably in D (many words should end in ED, whatever the other possibilities are) and the penultimate letter at 23a is H and we could perhaps find words ending in HE, HI or HY, not bothering immediately about any other possibility. So:
We now find that we have rather isolated, smaller crosswords at the corners which we can tackle one by one.
Let's go clockwise from top left. Here too, the longest first. Let's try LOOPHOLE. Look at 15ac. Since words starting with U may be somewhat limited especially when some other crossing is already in, let's pay our attention to it next. UNDO, which readily occurs to us, goes in. As the third letter of this is D, at 2d a word starting with O and ending with D should not be a problem. What word beginning with O and ending in D can we put in there? Let's OFFLOAD it, as it were. At 10ac, we will have U?F????. Let's not be UNFAZED by it! At 12ac, we now have H?O???. HOORAY, we've got it! At 4 dn, we have L?D?. Let's grab LODE. In grid-filling there comes a stage when we're left with a certain pattern for a word and thus it is that at 3dn we have H?Z?A?. Looking at the first three characters, HUZOOR comes to mind but then we have to tinker with the fill at 12ac. Let's look elsewhere. Some dictionary look-ups and we see Chambers has HUZZAS. With HOORAY at 12a, we have more shouts of joy and so we will go with it and be elated. Now the grid looks like this:
On to top right. At 13ac, one of the two longer slots in this area, let's put STETSONS, the word bobbing up with ST being a possible start and the useful plural form S at the end. At 7dn we have ????O?N. Without dragging on, we can enter DRAGOON. At 5ac, ???D?R should not be a problem. LEADER suggests itself. At 11a we have A???A?S - with the S ending, we can clear the ARREARS. Now, we are driven to the inevitable corner. Look at 6dn: E?R?T?M?. Here, we do have to resort to dictionary lookup. E?R..... suggests that a word beginning with EUR might be found. Chambers has EURYTHMY - which is actually an alternative spelling of 'eurhythmy' but having painted ourselves into a corner, let's go for it, taking care of the alternative/American spelling while writing the clue for the word later. At this stage, the presentation of the grid is:
Moving on to bottom right, let's first consider 29ac. Shall we look for a phrase? Let's exert ourselves to the utmost. Ah, BUST A GUT. At 25d, a four-letter word with U as the last letter should not be a problem. How about GURU, to whom we may pay our tribute. At 27ac, with U?????E, we may UTILISE the chance. At 21d, ????I?G should not be a problem at all with the -ing termination. We shall not be LETTING it go. At 22d, we find ???I?T, where a word ending in –INT or –IST should be possible. Ignoring these, we will go for SOVIET. Luckily, here we have not reached any impasse, for we have ?O?T?R and ?L?G at 20a where we may put down MORTAR and FLOG respectively without resort to any external aid.
The grid now emerges as:
Now we come to the last of the quadrants.
Here we look at 23ac C?????H?. Let's first tackle this so that we don't run into any problem later. No word leaps to our mind. The termination -HT is possible. With C as the initial letter, how about CATFIGHT? Cat? What about big cat? Ah, CHEETAHS. At 26ac a UN- beginning and a -ED ending is possible. In goes UNOWNED. At 17d, ?R?T?N?? does not seem to be insuperable. A CR- beginning is possible, the third letter will of course be a vowel... CRET????. CRETONNE, it shall be.
With the grid position as above, I invite you to suggest words for 28ac and 19dn.
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The San Diego Tango scene in many ways parallels the salsa scene. Both types of dances are experiencing a resurgence in interest from the community and both have a growing presence here in San Diego. Nothing demonstrates this better in the Tango scene than the emergence of new Tango talent in the area such as Krista Ann.
Krista has extensively studied the art of Argentine Tango in Italy, Buenos Aires, Detroit, Chicago, Miami, & New York City under many tango greats such as Juan Carlos Copes, Jorge Firpo, Gustavo Naveira & Giselle Anne, Guillimina Quiqua & Lori Burton of Argentine Tango Detroit. Currently Teaching in San Diego and North County she embraces all styles of Argentine Tango. She recently joined as an Assistant Organizer for the San Diego Salsa and Latin Dancing Meetup Group and will be hosting Tango events here in San Diego. The article below is a guest piece written by her that talks a little bit about the condition of Tango dancing in San Diego today. Enjoy!
Reflections on the San Diego Argentine Tango Dance Scene By Guest Writer Krista Ann
"There's a difference between learning the steps and learning how to dance. Dancing already exists in you, it's in your heart beat and the way you hear the music. My job is to help you translate it into the words of dance".
Argentine Tango is a dance of many different styles and cultural attributes. Having formed during a time of pilgrimage to South America, Tango is a dance reflectant of many cultures including African, European, Latin, and Native American. Tango is the creation of an artistic community that helped in bridging cultural divides.
Over time Tangueros have lost this community. In attempting to preserve the authentic tango, dancers have divided into many different separatist groups that believe in one style; Milonguro, Salon, Nuevo, Neo… No longer embracing the energy that is Tango.
San Diego is a place of pilgrimage and is the cultural fusion of many different heritages.
Just as tango once built bridges between different groups of people, San Diego now does for Tango.
San Diego's Tango scene is starting to merge the tango divides. From the traditional Milonguro to the more the modern Nuevo Tanguero, we welcome you.
With a variety of great instructors and warm Milongas, San Diego is an amazing place to explore Argentine Tango. The dancers are friendly and share a genuine love for the dance.
Argentine Tango is a liberal dance that exists in the hearts of the dancers.
With the smell of the ocean air and music of all kinds, this is the place to develop our very own, Argentine Tango.
Guest Writer Krista Ann
www.argentinetangosoul.com Email: email@example.com Phone: (989) 413-3055


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TechRadar Verdict
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If you're looking for the right laptop to help create your next masterpiece - whether it's composing a new song, writing a new story or programming a new application - then there's a strong case to be made for the HP Pavilion dv7-6c55sa.
This 17-inch black-and-silver beast has both the processing and graphical power to help you create, and a good enough screen and speakers to enjoy the fruits of your labours.
Like the Dell XPS 17, it's unlikely you'll be taking the HP Pavilion dv7 away from your desk and the safety of the AC adapter for too long. It weighs a portly 3kg and the battery only managed to keep alive for 182 minutes during our high-stress benchmark test.
Physically, it's an imposing machine with a large, black chassis. We couldn't find any degree of flex and traditional weak points - the optical drive and screen hinges feel very solidly built.
The keyboard has a numeric keypad added on and each key feels nicely weighted and well-sized. HP's standard keyboard is very similar to that found on an Apple MacBook, although we'd say the travel is slightly shallower. If you're a writer and spend hours hunched over your keyboard then you'll appreciate the firm keys and sizable trackpad here.
Power is handled courtesy of a quad-core Intel Core i5-2450M and a more-than-generous 8GB of RAM. This, coupled with the Nvidia GT630M GPU, means the HP Pavilion dv7 can handle pretty much any creative software you throw at it. Loading up Photoshop, Dreamweaver or ACID Pro is easy and the dv7 comes with Evernote, Snapfish and Blio already installed.
While a 17.3-inch screen might be too much for some users, we found it extremely useful when we had several windows open at once and needed extra screen real estate. The 1,600 x 900 pixel resolution isn't quite Full HD, but the difference is negligible because the screen is bright and colour reproduction fantastic. And, if you feel you want even more screen space, you can always use either the HDMI or VGA connection to hook up a second monitor.
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Sound quality is just as impressive and the dv7 comes with Dr Dre's Beats Audio technology fitted as standard. It's difficult to miss the Beats branding on the speaker grille above the keyboard and at the top left corner of the screen. The tangible benefit is an extra subwoofer on the underside of the laptop that gives the bass a mighty kick. A dedicated Beats hotkey on the chassis would have been a nice addition, but unfortunately doesn't exist.
However, there is a fingerprint scanner that will allow you to lock the laptop and open it with just a sweep of your finger. Safer and quicker than passwords, this is a nice feature that gives you that extra reassurance that your confidential documents will stay that way.
A search for a creativity-driven laptop is a search for a laptop that can handle pretty much everything you throw at it, and the HP Pavilion dv7 fits that description. Neither the most powerful nor the most expensive 17-inch machine we've seen, the dv7 nonetheless excels and is one we happily recommend for anyone on a creative course.


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The Senate is set to vote on Brett Kavanaugh. Where will Susan Collins land?
Susan Collins faces her most pressure-packed vote since Clinton impeachment
Will more debates wake up a torpid Maine governor's race?
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Personal View
by Jens Flachmann
Plants, flowers, macro work, some landscapes and also abstract-experimental photography on nature subjects. Pictures taken in the field as well as in my 'kitchen studio'. Mostly color photography but also some black-and-whites. The nature collection is not very big at the time but still growing. If you are looking for animals, please visit Animals & Wildlife on this site.
Animals & Wildlife
Living in a big city is not the best way to operate wildlife photography. But from time to time I use to get out of my living room for shooting some small-animal macros or a visit in the local zoo. A little bit more real wildlife is stored in a gallery with photos from a journey through Sri Lankan national parks I have made a few years ago.
Urban & Cityscapes
'Urban & Cityscapes' means urban life, street photography and architectural photographs. Things that can be seen in places, were people live. There is no special concept, just a mixed selection. Most of the photographs have been and are taken in my hometown. Especially for people not coming from Germany, it might be interesting to have a look here. Color and black-and-white photography.
People & Portraits
Photographs from people I know - friends, family. Only a very few monochrome pictures at the time. Maybe a growing collection in the future. Have also a look on Urban & Cityscapes and Travel for more photographies of human individuals.
This is a very personal project. In the 1990s I have been experimenting with pinhole photography and self build 'camera obscuras' made of small film-cartriges, cakeboxes and postal parcels. Film developing and printing was done in my 'bathroom lab'. Times have changed and having a regular job time has gotten shorter and shorter and I have closed my personal darkroom years ago. But the idea of a 'pinhole camera project' showing places of my hometown Bielefeld from a personal point of view remained. So this is digital work now and it might be not everyones taste...
Pictures from outside of Germany. A little bit of Europe and much more from different asian countries. India, Vietnam, the Philippines and Sri Lanka at the time. Hopefully more to come. All photos have been taken on personal private journeys. A mix of color and black-and-white photographs.


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Mark Jones
Ordained Servant: April 2010
Also in this issue
Hearing the Word in the Modern World, Part 2
by Gregory E. Reynolds
Reconciling the Two Covenants in the Old Testament: A Review Article
by Brian J. Lee
Review of God's Word in Servant-Form
by J. V. Fesko
Review of Exploring the Origins of the Bible
by James W. Scott
by John Updike (1936-2009)
The Law is Not of Faith: Essays on Works and Grace in the Mosaic Covenant, eds., Bryan D. Estelle, J. V. Fesko, and David VanDrunen. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2009, 358 pages, $16.99, paper.
It is true, the Lutheran Divines, they do expressly oppose the Calvinists herein, maintaining the Covenant given by Moses, to be a Covenant of works, and so directly contrary to the Covenant of grace. Indeed, they acknowledge that the Fathers were justified by Christ, and had the same way of salvation with us; only they make that Covenant of Moses to be a superadded thing to the Promise, holding forth a condition of perfect righteousness unto the Jews, that they might be convinced of their own folly in their self-righteousness. But, I think, it is already cleared, that Moses his Covenant, was a Covenant of grace.[1]
Reviewing a book with multiple authors often presents a daunting challenge, especially when the contributors manifest some disagreement with one another. Perhaps this disharmony prevents The Law is Not of Faith (hereafter TLNF) from ever setting forth a clearly stated thesis? While I am not persuaded by all of the arguments in this book, the editors to their credit provide the Reformed community with a work that will lead to more, I hope friendly, discussion on what has historically been a complicated and much-vexed issue. This review offers some analysis and asks some questions in the hope that both the authors and readers can properly assess the merit, or lack thereof, of the book's argument, namely, that the Mosaic covenant is "in some sense" a republication of the prelapsarian covenant of works (6).
TLNF is divided into three sections: 1) Historical studies by J.V. Fesko, D.G. Hart, and Brenton C. Ferry. 2) Biblical studies by Bryan D. Estelle, Richard Belcher, Byron Curtis, Guy Waters, T. David Gordon, and S.M. Baugh. 3) Theological studies by David VanDrunen and Michael Horton. The goal of the book is to show that the idea that the Mosaic covenant is in "some sense" a covenant of works has a rich Reformed history. The book is, in part, a response to John Murray's contention that to view the Mosaic covenant as a "repetition of the so-called covenant of works" is a "grave misconception" (16). Thankfully the introduction exercises some caution in applying the term "monocovenantal" to Murray (16), but T. David Gordon thinks Murray goes in that direction (254). The introduction also makes clear that the present volume is needed because the republication thesis has "received much hostility in books, peer-reviewed journals, and trials in the courts of the church" (17). The goal, then, of the book is to: 1) legitimize certain views on the Mosaic covenant as orthodox, that is, primarily with regard to the Westminster Confession of Faith; and 2) foster continuing discussion on the question of Sinai's relation to Eden.
In general, my major concern regarding this book has to do with its basic thesis. The suggestion that the Mosaic covenant given at Sinai is "in some sense" a covenant of works originally made with Adam (6) is not really disputed in the history of Reformed covenant theology, if by that we mean that the moral law first given in Eden is revived and declared at Sinai on tablets of stone. Few in Reformed circles would disagree with "that sense." The more significant question centers on how precisely the Mosaic covenant may be viewed as a covenant of works. TLNF, because of its numerous contributors, does not easily lend itself to a clearly defined thesis. In the end, readers are still left with the question: in what sense is the Mosaic covenant a covenant of works? Do we agree with Anthony BurgessGuy Waters adopts his position (211, fn. 2)or T. David Gordon? Actually, the agreed thesis of TLNF might be that whatever we say about Sinai, John Murray was wrong to recast covenant theology in a monocovenantal direction (16-17).
In the next place, I cannot help but feel that we need to clarify the major point of contention, and perhaps the raison d'être for this book. In this intra-Reformed debate the distinction between the covenant of works and covenant of grace is not really in question.[2] The present debate, rather, has to do with whether this bi-covenantal structure is enhanced by the view that Sinai functioned at the typological level as a means for inheritance by works in antithesis to grace. Hence the argument made by some that Sinai is in some sense a republication of the covenant of works. This precise view has caused some suspicionperhaps even judicial action in church courtsover the language of republication. If anything, this particular view of republication might be worth considering in more detail since there would be a definite thesis to consider.
One should note that a simple appeal to WCF 19:1-2 does not establish all forms of republication. There is a significant difference between formal and material republication. The law first given to Adam was certainly "revived" or "republished" at Sinai (and even in the New Covenant), but most Reformed divines did not make the moral law coextensive with the covenant of works.[3] Critics of republication normally have in view the so-called Klinean version, and not the more typical view that states the moral law was republished on tables of stone. In other words, one may hold to a version of republication and still raise concerns about certain versions of republication, particularly those versions that include the language of merit and works in opposition to grace.
Related to the concerns above, TLNF fails to address what version of the covenant of works Sinai replicates. Such a question is not without reason since from the late sixteenth century many Reformed theologians differed on the precise nature of the covenant of works. One only has to compare the British theologians on this issue, particularly the views of Francis Roberts, John Owen, Thomas Goodwin, Patrick Gillespie, and John Ball, to prove that there existed several perspectives on the covenant of works. Did Adam possess the Holy Spirit as most Reformed theologians maintained? Was Adam's faith natural or supernatural? What about Adam's potential reward? Was it heaven or life in Eden? What about Meredith Kline's own unique contributions to this doctrine (e.g., the role of merit)? Did God assist Adam in his obedience, as Burgess argued? It seems to me that the question over the precise nature of the covenant of works needs to be addressed in some detail before one can understand and formulate the so-called republication idea for the simple reason that it makes all the difference in the world if one understands the covenant of works to be based on strict justice apart from grace.
Following from the above, should we automatically assume that republication places, at the typological level, works and grace in antithesis? I am not saying all the authors do this, but I do want to make it clear that most Reformed theologians have not viewed the covenant of works as devoid of grace. Patrick Gillespie even referred to Eden as a covenant of grace, albeit with qualifications; and Francis Roberts dichotomized between a covenant of works and a covenant of faith because he wanted to maintain that God's grace was operative in both covenants.[4] The issue as I see it is not whether Sinai contains similarities with Eden. Instead, the debate has to do with whether Israel's failure as a nation to maintain a necessary level of obedience under the Mosaic economy was the reason for their exile.[5] If this is true, we might wonder what sort of existential tension this might have created in the life of believers from Moses to Christ! In connection with this, the Westminster Divine Stephen Marshall acknowledges that there was indeed a "rehearsal" of the covenant of works at Sinai. However, he makes an important point about how the Mosaic covenant relates to the New Covenant: "neither did the Lord promise them [Israel] entrance into, or continuance in that Land, but upon the same conditions upon which hee promiseth eternall life, as true Faith in the Gospel, with the love and feare of God, and obedience of his Commandments."[6] Their failure to enter the land was because of unbelief and the subsequent idolatry and disobedience that resulted from their unbelief.[7]
Regarding the "historical" analyses in the book I do not have the space here to register my concerns in any detail. However, the chapter by Brenton C. Ferry, "Works in the Mosaic Covenant: A Reformed Taxonomy," warrants a number of observations. Ferry provides us with a well-researched chapter. He clearly has done a lot of work and there are some good quotes from various seventeenth-century theologians, though at times the names and quotes just roll off each other a little too much without appropriately contextualizing their quotes. My main concern is that Ferry may have been too ambitious. The various taxonomies presented were incomplete. Moreover, Ferry was rather dismissive of past interpretations (78-80). While I agree with some of his criticisms of other writers, he should have exercised more caution in his rhetoric simply because he makes a number of his own interpretive mistakes. These mistakes are nowhere more evident than in the taxonomic chart he provides at the end of his chapter. The problem with such a wide-ranging survey of thinkers on this issue is that individual statements are often stripped from the author's broader way of thinking; the author is then pigeonholed into a category that he himself likely would not have recognized. For example, at best it is an over-simplification to suggest that Owen holds to a fourfold covenant schema; at worst it is plain wrong. The concept of "testament" and its relation to "covenant" is hugely significant for Owen. Once this is appreciated it becomes increasingly difficult to label Owen. But this is not discussed. Owen's position defies neat categorizations, and Ferry's chart only serves to obscure the matter. Importantly, even Owen's more radical position on Sinai must be qualified. He argues that the Mosaic covenant is not a revival of the covenant of works strictly (i.e., "formally"). Rather, the moral law is renewed declaratively (i.e., "materially") and not covenantally: "God did never formally and absolutely renew or give again this law as a covenant a second time. Nor was there any need that so he should do, unless it were declaratively only, for so it was renewed at Sinai."[8] In other words, as noted above, the "republication thesis" does not make Sinai co-extensive with Eden in terms of strict covenantal principles.
What is interesting about Owen is that he openly acknowledges that most Reformed Divines (e.g., Calvin, Martyr, Bucanus) did not view Sinai as "another covenant, but only a different administration of [the covenant of grace]. But this was so different from that which is established in the gospel after the coming of Christ, that it hath the appearance and name of another covenant. The Lutherans on the other side, insist on two arguments to prove, that not a twofold administration of the same covenant, but that two covenants substantially distinct, are intended in this discourse of the apostle."[9] Owen sides with the Lutherans on this issue: "Wherefore, we must grant two distinct covenants, rather than a twofold administration of the same covenant, to be intended."[10]
The exegetical sections were for the most part well done and particularly useful polemical tools in the continuing justification debates. I want that to be clear because my concerns and questions in this review may overshadow my appreciation for a lot of the exegetical work, and I do not wish for that to happen. However, in connection with my major critique of the book, these chapters fail to establish the thesiswhatever that may exactly beof the book. Byron G. Curtis's article provides a helpful exegetical and theological analysis of Hosea 6:7. However, I am not persuaded that his argument establishes the thesis that the Mosaic covenant is "in some sense" a covenant of works. All Hosea 6:7 teaches is that Israel, like Adam, transgressed God's covenant. It tells us nothing of the precise nature of the covenants themselves. If we were to apply Curtis's logic to Paul's writings we would have to conclude that the new covenant was a covenant of works as well. Paul appeals to Satan's temptation of Adam and Eve in Paradise as paradigmatic for the temptation of the church in the present age (2 Cor. 11:3). All these texts prove is that there is some kind of parallel between the two situations, but it does not necessarily establish that the Mosaic covenant was a covenant of works. The logical distinction between sufficient and necessary condition is ignored here.
Guy Waters's chapter on Romans 10:5 and the covenant of works also contributes to the value of the book. But even he seems to distance himself from the more radical position(s) of Kline and Gordon by aligning himself with Anthony Burgess (211, fn. 2) who clearly viewed Sinai as an administration of the covenant of grace and not different in kind. As noted above, this is what makes the book as a whole rather difficult to interpret in terms of its stated purpose. Nevertheless, Waters's chapter (and Horton's) provides useful arguments in the context of the ongoing justification debate.
T. David Gordon's chapter is in one respect the most satisfying of all the chapters for the simple reason that, agree or disagree with him, you are left in no doubt as to what precisely he is arguing. His argument focuses on five differences between the Abrahamic and Mosaic covenant. He concludes that these two covenants are "different in kind" (251) and notes that he does not blame the first-generation Israelites for resisting Moses' efforts to engage them in the (characteristically legal) Sinaitic covenant (251). In fact, Gordon calls their decision, though rebellious, "judicious and well considered" (251). Gordon then turns his attention to John Murray and provides some reasons for why Murray misunderstood the matter so badly. Indeed, Gordon is grateful that Murray, to his knowledge, never wrote on Galatians. Why? Because Murray could make no sense of the letter and Gordon likes to think that Murray was "entirely flummoxed by Paul's reasoning" (253) and so decided not to write on Galatians. The truth is that Murray's lectures on Galatians can be found on the internet in audio and written form; and judging by his understanding of the letter he does not appear to be as flummoxed as Gordon would like to think he is.[11] Nevertheless, Gordon's chapter was certainly the most interesting of all the chapters and he is to be commended for being entirely candid about his views.
I return to a few general queries, the first of which concerns the so-called form of republication that seems to be offered by some of the authors. The WCF clearly speaks of the prelapsarian covenant of works as demanding "perfect and personal obedience" (7.2; 19.1; WLC 20; WSC 12). Does it not follow that any covenant that does not require both "perfect and personal obedience" is not a covenant of works, even at the typological level? But, in two places (137, 301) we are informed that the obedience required in the Mosaic covenant was "imperfect/sincere obedience." The WCF shows that the only covenant in which God accepts imperfect obedience is the covenant of grace (WCF 16.6). To say, then, that the Mosaic covenant is in some sense a covenant of works can be especially misleading to the average reader in light of the aforementioned concern.
The book attempts to be self-consciously confessional, which can be seen in the opening fictional story. In connection with this, I wish the book addressed which senses of republication are confessional and which are not. The sense one gets from TLNF is that almost all senses of republication are confessional, even the more radical view of Gordon, which has corollaries with the Salmurian theologian John Cameron. I do note, however, that on page 11 they speak of some unorthodox views of republication, but just which views are unorthodox seems to be left to the reader to figure out. Would one have to embrace classical Dispensationalism to finally move from the pale of Reformed orthodoxy on this matter?
Finally, considering the general trajectory of this book, TLNF lacks a chapter that could shed some important light on this discussion, namely, the influence of George Mendenhall on Meredith Klineand perhaps Kline's obvious influence on many of the authorswith regard to Ancient Near-Eastern (ANE) Suzerain treaties. In short, Kline, following Mendenhall's research, argued that there are essentially two types of covenants: law covenants and promise covenants. In this schema, Sinai, particularly Deuteronomy, represents a "law covenant" on account of its striking parallels with ANE suzerain treaty formats. This covenant is almost always conditional, often involving curses upon those who fail to fulfill the terms of the covenant. Juxtaposed to this type of covenant is the Abrahamic covenant, which is an unconditional promise covenant that is modeled on a royal grant. Michael Horton, for example, follows this line of demarcation in several of his own works on the covenant.[12] However, ANE scholars are raising many objections to Mendenhall's thesis. Recently Dr. Noel Weeks, an expert in ANE culture, has shown that both Mendenhall's and Kline's work is not without a number of serious problems, especially in the area of methodology.[13] If the authors, particularly the editors, of TLNF wish to continue this discussion regarding the place and function of Sinai in redemptive history, they will need to reckon with the arguments of scholars like Weeks who, in my opinion, subject Mendenhall's and Kline's methodology to devastating critique.
In conclusion let me summarize what I think are the main points in this discussion. To say that the Mosaic covenant is "in some sense" a covenant of works may not be all that helpful in the final analysis if we are not more specific about what this means. I think the thesis needs to be defined more narrowly, perhaps by asking the following questions:
1. Is the Mosaic covenant distinct from the covenant of grace? Or, is it an administration of the covenant of grace? With the Lutherans, John Owen viewed it as distinct; the vast majority of the Reformed orthodox did not. The authors in TLNF do not seem to agree on this point. But, I think it is an important matter that needs to be settled.
2. If Sinai is "in some sense" a republication of the covenant of works at the typological level then we need to define what is meant by the "covenant of works." Is not Meredith Kline's view of Eden a lot different from, say, Francis Roberts's understanding of Adam's prelapsarian state? Thus, these two writers might agree with each other that Sinai is "in some sense" a covenant of works, but in the end they could still have very different views of the Mosaic covenant and its function.
3. Is the works-principle at Sinai, at the typological level, totally devoid of assisting grace? Or did it (as Estelle and Kline have argued) function in such a way as to provide the "meritorious grounds for Israel's continuance in the land?" (136)
4. In relation to Kline's dependence upon Mendenhall, and Horton's dependence upon them both, can we divide biblical covenants up into two categories of law covenants (e.g., Sinai) and promise covenants (e.g., Abrahamic)? How reliable is Mendenhall's methodology?
5. Does the WCF tolerate Kline's view of a works-principle? D. Patrick Ramsey's work on this was never really engaged by the authors who referenced him but simply dismissed his argument (11, 43).[14] Or, what views of Sinai are confessional and what views are not?
I hope that this review helps us to better understand and address this intra-Reformed debate. To argue that the giving of the law at Sinai has similarities with the covenant of works is not, to my mind, controversial in Reformed circles. To argue that a meritorious works-principle operated at the typological level in the Mosaic covenantbecause Sinai is viewed as a law covenantis, however, a serious point of contention. The Lutherans and some of our Reformed brethren may be right about Moses; but TLNF has perhaps raised more questions than it answers. That is not a necessarily a bad thing, of course. Therefore, I hope that future discussions on this topic will be enhanced because of this work; and perhaps, on a lesser level, my own review will provide the authors of TLNF with some further food for thought.
[1] Anthony Burgess, Vindiciae Legis (London, 1647), 251.
[2] I recognize that some of the authors might feel uncomfortable with what they perceive to be "monocovenantal" tendencies in thinkers like Murray. For my own part, I fail to see how Murray can be described as a monocovenantalist. While he rejects the terminology of the covenant of works, he nevertheless affirms the substance of the doctrine. See "Adamic Administration" where he argues: "The condition was obedience" (http://www.the-highway.com/adamic-admin_Murray.html). That he "flattens" out the covenant of grace does not make him a monocovenantalist, though it may make him orthodox. See also Ch. 8 in Murray's Principles of Conduct (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1957) titled "Law and Grace" (57ff).
[3] WCF 19.5-6 clarifies this point.
[4] Patrick Gillespie, The Ark of the Testament Opened (London, 1661), 221; Francis Roberts, The Mystery and Marrow of the Bible: viz. God's Covenants with Man (London, 1657), 26ff. I could give many more quotes on the presence of grace in the covenant of works, but I will hold them back for my forthcoming work on Westminster covenant theology.
[5] In addition, the land argument based on works seems to suffer from the problem that Israel was later restored to the land as a sign (type) of restoration in Christ, and yet the covenant of works does not make provision for restoration.
[6] A Sermon of the Baptizing of Infants (London, 1644), 11-12.
[7] 2 Kings 17:14 reads "But they would not listen and were as stiff-necked as their fathers, who did not believe in the Lord their God." The Hebrew here for "believe" ("amin") is also used in Gen. 15:6. See also Heb. 3-4.
[8] The Works of John Owen, 23 vols. (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Edition), V.244.
[9] Works, XXII.71.
[10] Ibid., 76. I would point the reader to the quote by Anthony Burgess at the beginning of this review for further confirmation of the Lutheran-Reformed divide on this issue.
[11] http://sites.google.com/site/themosaiccovenant/john-murray
[12] See God of Promise: Introducing Covenant Theology (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2006), 35ff.
[13] Admonition and Curse: The Ancient Near Eastern Treaty/Covenant Form as a Problem in Inter-Cultural Relationships (T&T Clark, 2004). See also idem, "Mari, Nuzi and the Patriarchs," Abr-Nahrain 16 (1975-6), 73-82. Important to note for those who have not read Weeks's work is his unflinching commitment to the inerrancy and sufficiency of Scripture from a classical Reformed perspective. Moreover, I sometimes wonder whether those who adopt Kline's view of Suzerain treaties, and their influence on how we understand biblical covenants, have actually read any recent scholarly literature that dissents from Kline's findings.
[14] See D. Patrick Ramsey, "In Defense of Moses: A Confessional Critique of Kline and Karlberg," Westminster Theological Journal 66 (2004): 394ff.
Mark Jones is the senior minister at Faith Vancouver Presbyterian Church (PCA), and research associate at the University of the Free State (Bloemfontein). Ordained Servant Online, April 2010.
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Vanilla Cream-Filled Doughnuts
These decadent doughnuts from chef Joanne Chang's "Flour" cookbook quickly sell out every time she makes them at her Boston-based Flour Bakery + Cafe.
Vanilla Cream-Filled Doughnuts
yield: Makes nine 4-inch doughnuts
- 1 package (2 1/2 teaspoons) active dry yeast, or 2/3 ounce fresh cake yeast
- 2/3 cup milk, room temperature
- 3 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour, plus more for baking sheet
- 1 1/3 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons coarse salt
- 3 large eggs
- 7 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature, cut into 6 to 8 pieces
- Canola oil, for frying
- 6 tablespoons heavy cream
- Pastry Cream, chilled
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the dough hook attachment, stir together yeast and milk; let stand until yeast is dissolved, about 1 minute. Add flour, 1/3 cup sugar, salt, and eggs; mix on low speed until dough comes together, about 1 minute. Continue mixing on low 2 to 3 minutes more. Add butter, a few pieces at a time, mixing after each addition and until butter is fully incorporated and dough is soft, 5 to 6 minutes.
Remove dough from bowl and wrap tightly with plastic wrap. Refrigerate at least 6 hours and up to 15 hours.
Lightly flour a baking sheet; set aside. On a well-floured work surface, roll out dough into 12-inch square about 1/2 inch thick. Using a 3 1/2-to-4-inch round biscuit cutter, cut out 9 doughnuts. Transfer to prepared baking sheet and cover with plastic wrap; let stand in a warm spot until they've doubled in height and feel poufy and pillowy, 2 to 3 hours.
Fill a large heavy-bottomed saucepan with oil to a depth of 3 inches; heat over medium-high heat until it reaches 350 degrees on a deep-fry thermometer. Working in batches, place doughnuts in the hot oil, taking care not to crowd them. Fry until golden brown on one side, 2 to 3 minutes; turn and continue frying on remaining side until golden, 2 to 3 minutes more. Using a slotted spoon, transfer doughnuts to a paper towel-lined baking sheet until cool enough to handle.
Place remaining cup of sugar in a small bowl. Toss doughnuts in sugar, one at a time, to evenly coat. Return doughnuts to paper towel-lined baking sheet to cool completely, 30 to 40 minutes.
Meanwhile, in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat heavy cream until stiff peaks form. Gently fold in pastry cream; you should have 3 cups of filling. Transfer to a pastry bag fitted with a small round tip; set aside.
Poke a hole in the side of each cooled doughnut and fill with about 1/3 cup filling; serve immediately.


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Fasting is the religious practice of abstaining from certain foods.
Fasting in Roman Catholicism[]
- No fish on Friday during Lent.
Fasting in Protestantism[]
Fasting in the Orthodox Church[]
Fasting in the Eastern Orthodox Church is usually considered abstaining from certain foods during fast days or periods. However, fasting means more than simply abstaining from foods. It includes refraining from evil actions and thoughts, and even marital relations.
Fasting times[]
Extended fasting periods[]
There are four main periods of extended fasting:
- 1. The Great Lent is the period of six weeks preceding Holy Week in anticipation of the Feast of Feasts, Pascha.
- 2. The Nativity Fast (or Advent; also called St. Philip's Fast, coming immediately after his feast on November 14), is the period from November 15 to December 24 (forty days) in anticipation of Christmas, the Festival of the Nativity of the Savior.
- 3. The Apostles' Fast is the period from the week following Pentecost (a variable feast) to the feast day of Sts. Peter and Paul on June 29.
- 4. The Dormition Fast is the period of the first two weeks of August in anticipation of the feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos.
Fasting days[]
- Eve of Theophany (January 5)
- Beheading of St. John the Baptist (August 29)
- Elevation of the Holy Cross (September 14)
Regular fasting[]
Orthodox Christians also regularly fast on Wednesdays and Fridays to commemorate, respectively, Christ's betrayal by Judas Iscariot and His Crucifixion. Monasteries additionally commemorate the angels on Mondays by fasting.
Preparation for receiving the Holy Eucharist[]
Fasting is a part of the preparation for receiving the Body and Blood of Christ. Additionally, confession and a specific rule of prayers are necessary for proper preparation.
For morning Liturgies, one keeps an absolute fast (no food or drink, even water) on arising from sleep until receiving Communion. Some also abstain from meat and dairy after the preceding Vespers. For afternoon or evening Liturgies, one should keep an absolute fast for at least six hours.
One should always check with the primary celebrant of the Divine Liturgy to verify his expectations regarding preparation for reception of the Eucharist.
Because the celebrating priest or deacon will commune and then consume the remaining Eucharist, he observes an absolute fast before every Liturgy he celebrates.
The fasting discipline may be relaxed, if necessary, when one is travelling or ill. Additionally, exceptions should be made when receiving another's hospitality, because the focus should not be on outward shows of piety, but rather accepting the love and generosity of others. Orthodox Christians should not fast to the detriment of their health. Fasting is a means to an end and not an end in itself. If you are new to fasting, ask your priest for guidance before you begin.
Fast-free weeks[]
After certain feasts, Orthodox Christians do not fast, in order to show their joy for the feast.
- Afterfeast of the Nativity of Christ to Theophany Eve (December 25 through January 4)
- Week following the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee (first week of the Lenten Triodion)
- Bright Week (week after Pascha)
- Trinity Week (week after Pentecost)
Fasting related to foods has many different degrees. During Great Lent, Wednesdays, and Fridays, daily fasting is at its most strict, abstaining from:
- meat (anything with a backbone),
- dairy products (eggs are in this or the previous category),
- olive oil, and
- wine.
Additionally, during Great Lent, the size and number of meals, as well as the selection, are smaller. On many other feast or fast days, particular foods are avoided or permitted, in lesser degrees of fasting.
Spiritual meaning[]
Fasting also partners with prayer, almsgiving and confession, readying the whole person like an athlete, body, mind, and soul, for an upcoming feast, similar to the way in which Orthodox Christians would hope to be properly prepared for the Second Coming. For this reason, during fasting seasons, no marriages should take place. (Cf. Pastoral Guidelines.) Another important part of any fasting period is going to Confession.
History and Tradition[]
The Christians inherited the tradition of fasting from the Jews. Jesus, too, gave examples of fasting to his disciples, most notably preceding his forty days in the desert when he was tempted by the devil (Matt 4:1-11).
See also[]
- Almsgiving
- Confession
- Prayer
- Xerophagy (or dry-eating)
External Links[]
- "The True Nature of Fasting" by Bishop Kallistos Ware
- "The Discipline of Fasting" by Bishop Kallistos Ware
- "On Fasting at Great Lent" by Fr. Alexander Schmemann (scroll down to comment 5)
- Concerning Fasting on the Orthodox Church in America site
- "What Should We Make to Eat?" by Mary Ann Castronovo Fusco
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Cookies for Doctors -- This post was inspired by something I read on EchoDoc's blog regarding an ungrateful patient. I wrote about how I felt like I didn't show enough appreciation to my doctors. You know, some people are cookie people and some aren't.
Five Pounds – This post didn't even make it to the "Publish" button. I wrote about how I gained 5 pounds over the holidays and had been walking around hoping that the 5 pounds had been distributed evenly over my 5'7" frame and had not landed all on my ass. The point of the post was that last week I was back down to my fighting weight, yet no one had mentioned it. No one except a U.S. Marshall at the Federal Courthouse that I only see maybe once a week. I know, poor, poor pitiful me.
Men and Cabinet Doors – Another post that didn't make it to "Publish". This was a work rant asking why can't men ever close a cabinet (or closet or any other kind of) door. And why do they leave their Styrofoam coffee cups on the counter instead of just turning their lazy ass around and dropping it in the garbage can. They are standing right next to it!!!
Poop, Pus, Pee and Barf – Post where I attempt to answer the occasional question: Well, MA, if you're so interested in all things medical, why don't you get a job in the healthcare industry? (And no, you perv, I don't have a "thing" for doctors, although I must say y'all look mighty cute in your scrubs.)
The Perfect Patient—After reading the medblogs, I learned that doctors don't like all of their patients. Probably naïve of me to think that they did, but naïve is my middle name. Anyway, the competitor in me makes me want to be the perfect patient. So I wrote about the posts I had read and whether I was, or was not, the perfect patient. This post has some promise and I may actually do a little tweaking and publish it.
Where are all of the Funny Medblogs? – I wrote this when it seemed like every medblog I read was either serious, whiny, or sad and depressing. But then, that was my mood at the time, so I figured it was just the medblogs I was choosing to read. The last thing I want to do is be critical of other people's blogs when, well, look at this post.
Recipes and Medblogs—Enough said. Addendum: Recipes and medblogs are two of my favorite things to read. When a medblog includes recipes, I am in hog heaven.
Sorry, Wrong Blog – This was actually two different posts that I withdrew. I am always surprised when my blog comes up when people are googling medical terms. I do have a suggestion if anyone needs a topic to write about. STAPLES OR STITCHES? I get at least 20 hits a day for that question alone. "Atrophied testicle", "I hate lawyers" and "butt pus" are also very popular. My favorite though was "nurse prostate nude stirrups".
Request for Lawyer Jokes--I know. I was really, really struggling when I wrote this one. Although that post did start off with a great doctor/golf joke. I am considering posting a new lawyer joke on my sidebar everyday. Then I won't feel so guilty about people stopping by when I haven't posted anything new.
Hey Scalpel, It's Snowing!—The title says it all; there is no accompanying post. We came close, but I was never able to hit the "Publish" button for this one.


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He announced today that he is doing it, but he couldn't fully disclose what it is yet. The only hints he gave were that it involves his second favorite color, which is blue, and it's the character John Travolta played in the movie, Michael. Bones got the confirmation call yesterday and they told him not to eat before he comes because he'll throw up. He said he might die doing it, because he's scared to death, but it's coming up in the next couple of weeks. He can't say anything about it until after it's done but will share updates soon!


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New technique dissolves blood clots in the brain and lowers risk of brain damage after stroke
CT-guided catheters carry clot-busting drug to shrink clots, Johns Hopkins-led study shows
Johns Hopkins neurologists report success with a new means of getting rid of potentially lethal blood clots in the brain safely without cutting through easily damaged brain tissue or removing large pieces of skull. The minimally invasive treatment, they report, increased the number of patients with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) who could function independently by 10 to 15 percent six months following the procedure.
At the International Stroke Conference taking place January 31 through February 2 in New Orleans, the researchers will present their findings from 93 patients, ages 18 to 80, who randomly got either the new treatment or standard-of-care "supportive" therapy that essentially gives clots a chance to dissolve on their own.
The new study was coordinated by Johns Hopkins and the surgical review centers at the University of Cincinnati and the University of Chicago. All 93 patients were diagnosed with ICH, a particularly lethal or debilitating form of stroke long considered surgically untreatable under most circumstances.
"The last untreatable form of stroke may well have a treatment," says study leader Daniel F. Hanley, M.D., a professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "If a larger study proves our findings correct, we may substantially reduce the burden of strokes for patients and their families by increasing the number of people who can be independent again after suffering a stroke."
ICH is a bleed in the brain that causes a clot to form, often caused by uncontrolled high blood pressure. The clot builds up pressure and leaches inflammatory chemicals that can cause irreversible brain damage, often leading to death or extreme disability. The standard of care for ICH patients is general supportive care, usually in an ICU; only 10 percent undergo the more invasive and risky craniotomy surgery, which involves removing a portion of the skull and making incisions through healthy brain tissue to reach and remove the clot. Roughly 50 percent of people who suffer an intracerebral hemorrhage die from it.
Although in the United States just 15 percent of stroke patients have ICH, that rate translates to roughly 30,000 to 50,000 individuals - more often than not, Asians, Hispanics, African-Americans, the elderly and those who lack access to medical care. The more common form of stroke is ischemic stroke, which occurs when an artery supplying blood to the brain is blocked.
Surgeons performed the minimally invasive procedure by drilling a dime-sized hole in each patient's skull close to the clot location. Using a CT scan that Hanley likens to "GPS for the brain," they guided the catheter through the hole and directly into the clot. The catheter was then used to drip small doses of the clot-busting drug t-PA into the clot for a couple of days, shrinking the clots roughly 20 percent per day. Those patients who underwent supportive therapy saw their clots shrink by about 5 percent per day.
A major advantage is that the minimally invasive surgery busted the clot without the potentially injurious side effects associated with craniotomy, Hanley says.
The minimally invasive approach was also found to be as safe as general supportive therapy, which can involve intense blood pressure control, artificial ventilation, drugs to control swelling and watchful waiting for the clot to dissipate on its own.
For the new study, patients were treated at more than two dozen sites throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, by staff neurologists and surgeons. Hanley says it's a bonus that patients don't need specialized equipment to have the procedure done.
"More extensive surgery probably helps get rid of the clot, but injures the brain," he says. "This 'minimalist approach' probably does just as much to clear the clot while apparently protecting the brain."
The research is supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke.
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When I last wrote about alternative cryptocoins — the universe of small bitcoin competitors — TerraCoin and PPCoin had just debuted, but by and large the list was a relatively stable one that included Litecoin, Namecoin, Devcoin, and a few non-functioning coins. All of these alt-coins paled in size and breadth to Bitcoin, of course, and as the chart below shows, this dominance continues to be the case.
Since April, what was once a trickle of new alternative cryptocoins has turned into a veritable flood. Nowadays, a new coin is being announced every day, and it isn't rare for two or three to debut on the same afternoon. Almost all of these are "copy-paste" coins. Their creator simply takes the source code of a previous coin (usually Litecoin), alters a few parameters, and then announces its debut on the alternative crypto-currency forum at Bitcointalk.
Most of the changes implemented by new alt-coins are arbitrary. RichCoin, one of the newest coins, sets an 88.88 million upper limit for the number of coin in existence and a block reward of 88 coins, presumably to appeal to the Chinese user (Bitcoin has a 21 million upper limit and block reward of 25). FastCoin targets a block generation rate of twelve seconds, compared to Litecoin's 150 seconds, and Bitcoin's nine minutes. These are little more than cosmetic modifications that involve changing a variable or two in the initial source code.
New issuers usually jazz up their coin with a cheezy logo made in MS Paint, a website, and a silly gimmick, like SexCoin did by proclaiming itself as the coin "for the adult industry". Sometimes their creators forget to erase references to the coin they've copied. YACoin, for instance, launched May 6, was mocked for accidentally including NovaCoin's logo on its client, the coin from which YACoin drew its sourcecode. Apart from amusing errors like these, it seems that creating your own coin these days is as easy as printing up business cards. In fact, this blog post provides a complete guide for coining one's own fiat alt-chain.
Here is a partial list of new coins and issue dates. You can find the definitive list here:
The great alt-coin rush seems to be a fine illustration of Milton Friedman's views on privately-issued inconvertible fiat money. As long as the reigning intrinsically valueless currency like Bitcoin, Litecoin, and others have a positive price, individual issuers will have an incentive to (almost costlessly) copy and paste new clones into existence in an effort to capture the premium.
Wrote Friedman:
So long as the fiduciary currency has a value greater than its cost of production—which under conditions can be compressed close to the cost of the paper on which it is printed—any individual issuer has an incentive to issue additional amounts. A fiduciary currency would thus probably tend through increased issue to degenerate into a commodity currency—into a literal paper standard—there being no stable equilibrium price level short of that at which the money value of currency is no greater than that of the paper it contains. [1960, A Program for Monetary Stability]A great example of Friedman's dictum is the odd case of Somali shillings, vividly illustrated by William Luther. Though the Somali central bank was destroyed in 1991, shillings continued to circulate. Local businessmen and warlords printed counterfeit shillings and spent them into the local economy until the purchasing power of shillings was driven down to the value of paper, printing, and shipment.
How does the profit incentive work in the case of new alt-coins? Here's how a new issuer makes a profit. Prior to announcing their new coin on Bitcointalk, the issuer "pre-mines" a few million coins for themselves. When the public starts to mine the new coin in earnest and trade it on the forums — a sort of over-the counter-market — the issuers seize the opportunity to sell all the coins that they've premined. More ambitious coin issuers endeavour to have their coin listed on any of the larger formal alt-coin markets like BTC-e or Vircurex, rather than the OTC market. This adds a larger liquidity premium to the coin, thereby improving the price at which the originator can make an exit. The lure of a listing is so tantalizing that NovaCoin, for instance, a coin premiering back in February, initially premined a quantity of coins which it used to payoff BTC-e in order to procure an immediate listing on its exchange (when controversy ensued, this payoff was later rescinded).
Because premining is roundly vilified on the forums, and coin ledgers are public (rendering it fairly easy to determine if a coin has been premined), issuers have resorted to less overt techniques to profit from new issues. Insta-mining is one practice. An issuer and his/her confederates prepare their computers to mine the coin "instantly" upon the coin's public release on Bitcointalk. The ease of mining is set very low for the first few hours, allowing the issuer and his/her friends to snap up a large percentage of coins. Later, when the public begins to participate, the issuer ups the difficulty and sells their booty. In the first twenty-four hours of Feathercoin's existence, for instance, some 2.9 million coins were mined out of a total of 336 million minable coins, far more than would be mined on an average day.
The dozens of coins issued in the last months are largely worthless, or close to it. You can track some of their prices at Cryptsy, an alt-coin exchange. This would seem to bear out Friedman's theory that the price of a competitive fiat currency will inevitably be driven down to zero. Incidentally, that's the same theory I've been adopting in many of my bitcoin posts, and why I (mostly) sold out of the ledger a few months ago.
A major data point seems to disconfirm Friedman's theory. While we've seen a new wave of coins being issued in order to exploit the value differential between cost and market price, these new coins have not been particularly successful in arbitraging away the positive price of the incumbents Bitcoin and Litecoin. When I posted this, Bitcoin's market cap was around $1.1 billion and Litecoin's at around $50 million.
I take two things from this. Either we're still in the short run, and Bitcoin's price will eventually get knocked down to zero.
Alternatively, something else is at work. It could be that cryptocoins are not indistinguishable fiat monies as per Friedman's theory of fiat money but rather are heterogeneous and differentiable. Multiple carbon copies of Bitcoin are simply not enough to arbitrage away the original's value because the earliest mover has superior features compared to late moving clones. To begin with, incumbents like Bitcoin and Litecoin have already attracted a large mining community. The hashing power that the miners bring with them makes the coin more secure against 51% attacks, or forks, than upstart coins that don't have the same degree of mining power. So while the source code for a clone may be identical to the original, the degree of security inherent in each is very different.
Secondly, incumbents will tend to be more marketable. Merchants may have begun to accept them, securities might be denominated in them, and formal exchanges like MtGox offer direct convertibility into US dollars. This liquidity does not emerge in medias reas, or on its own, a fact that puts Bitcoin and Litcoin clones at a disadvantage. Like the security problem above, the liquidity hurdle is difficult to overcome because, chicken-and-egg-like, you can't become liquid or secure without users, but if you're not liquid or secure you don't attract users.
It appears that Milton Friedman is wrong, at least for the time being. Despite the recent onslaught of competing alt-coins, privately-issued fiat currencies like Bitcoin and Litecoin are still worth many millions of dollars. I suppose we'll have to wait another few years to see if Friedman is wrong not just about the short term, but also the long term. Until then, I'll throw in my chips with Friedman. Bitcoin's biggest competitors probably haven't arrived yet.
Readers may find that George Selgin's Synthetic Commodity Money adds more dimensionality to the fiat/not-fiat distinction. Selgin argues that bitcoin is not fiat money, but belongs to a heretofore undefined category called synthetic commodity money.


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