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Baja Exploring with #33
After my last Goose Egg gulch ride with my daredevil buddy Mark, I swapped buddies and headed to Baja. Enter the new buddy "Recon" Don, which was very appropriate considering our trip was to meet up with another group of 4 for a 2-week recon ride to map out a path for a 2019 group ride.
Recon and I decided to go a few days early to ride the northern section of Baja on our way down to meet up in Loreto 5 days later with my 4 buddies that were driving down from the Bay Area. Recon has been to Baja to pre run with me and got to participate in the Baja 250 in 2017, but has never gone any further south. So this was a first for him every day!
We had a great time exploring on our way to meet the group and covered some ground pretty quickly considering Recon is a pretty good rider and there was only two of us. We made Bahia de Los Angeles fairly early even throwing in the Window Rock trail along the way. This is one of the must do trails in Baja and has become very well-known and established. The scenery is fantastic and the trail, when you get to the single track, is challenging and fun. I thought it was great because I never had any dust! I could have let Recon lead but then I would have to ride in the dust……..uhhhhhh, No! Recon never complained and I was having a great time not being the chase rider for a change.
We continued our next few days heading south and made stops along the way to meet people and see sights that were all new to Recon. We stopped to visit with Pancho, I know you think I am making this up, but his name is REALLY Pancho! He welcomed us and offered us drinks, coffee and something to eat. This guy has lived in a shack with a camper shell as an addition in a small cove on the gulf for over 30 years! I always bring Pancho a pack of cigarettes and he is thrilled. You could not live a simpler life than Pancho and he always seems happy.
We continued on and stopped at a Rancho that offers sodas, snacks and gasolina for sale. They also have a couple of cabins to rent for the night. I have stayed there once before just to see what it is like and thoroughly enjoyed myself. They have a kitchen and will make you something for dinner and desayunos (breakfast). I think Recon was liking the place but wondering how the hell would you find this place since we had been riding for hours through the desert. We drank our sodas and moved on.
Next stop was Fong's little hole in the wall motel in San Ignacio. Most riders stay at a bigger place known as "Rice and Beans" when they come to San Ignacio. I liked Fong's because it was a true Mexican motel experience, not Americanized. It is a small room with stone and mortar construction. Recon noted that there was not a square or even corner in the whole place. PERFECT! Just like being in Mexico! Although I think Recon was wondering about the plastic PVC pipe sticking out of the wall in the shower. I had to convince him it was from the container on the roof that held the water supply for the showers. I usually just wash up in the sink.
Our ride the next day took us down the Pacific side of the Peninsula through a fishing village where we bought gasoline before heading on to our crossover to Mulege. It goes from Pacific coast to the gulf using a riverbed drainage through the mountains that has a few rocks, lol. A few hours of that and Recon was wondering when it was going to end. That may have been Recon's least favorite part of the ride. I always like this part of the ride, but my SBB suspension is Awesome! We arrived in Mulege and met a trio of Canadians at the motel on their way back north. Those guys had already logged a couple thousand miles. Our next stop would be Loreto to meet up with the Bay area group. We arrived a day early and checked into some deluxe accommodation for $57 a night! It really is a nicer place than where we usually stay and we had time to go out exploring. Are we lucky or what!
We headed out to see a place I had never been to called Comundu. Boy oh boy, not much there, no gasolina, no store available to outsiders and not many people around to ask. Even when we stopped to walk through the old Historic Church that was still obviously still in use we never spoke to anyone. Took some pictures ate snacks out of our packs and moved on. We found a new gas facility near San Ysidro, it looked like about a 5000-gallon tank above ground and was very new looking. It was our lucky day. A good day of exploring and we made our way back to Loreto and our Deluxe accommodations. Of course then we had to head out to find an ice cream shop that could make Milk Shakes, since Recon requires a Milk Shake every other day, at least! It was particularly funny when Recon asks for a Milk Shake and is met with a blank stare from the Mexican ice cream girl. Recon has now expanded his vocabulary in Spanish to include 'Malteada' in order to get a Milk Shake in Mexico. The boy catches on quick when it includes food ordering.
The next day we will meet up with the group comprised of Doug, Rocky, Marshal and Senor Hawk (Dean). Then the trip continues south with our new riding partners. So more players always means more action! I can hardly wait.
The ride continues, headed first to San Javier, a stop with another very old Mission Church that is open for visitors. Then on to try a road we had heard had been repaired after a hurricane. We passed through several canyons I had never been through so it was now a new ride to me! I always enjoy riding somewhere for the first time. The newly repaired road turned out to be almost impassable but since Marshall, who looks just like Sasquatch on a motorcycle, had bike problems we decided to go back and not risk it. This turned our final part of the ride into a road ride since we did not have an abundance of gas or daylight left with the back tracking. One of our group, Senor Hawk (Dean) looked at the clock and reminded us it was already 3pm and he didn't have a headlight. He reminded us a couple of times, I think Senor Hawk is afraid of the dark! I know he is not too good on rocky hill climbs, but that is another story……………. he talks a lot of smack and I always crack up. But now I know just where to take him when he gets a little too big for his britches!
We made our way back to Cuidad Constitution and checked into the motel. We proceeded to walk down the main street to a taco stand I had eaten at before. Recon ordered up a couple of tacos and a beverage. A big grin came over his face after the first taco and I saw him motion to the Mexican chef he wanted 4 more! If the taco stand had been open for breakfast I think Recon would have had tacos!
Our trip continued south toward La Paz and a lot of miles that crossed open plains, endless dirt roads and finally into some beautiful canyons that reminded me of miniature Grand Canyon. The canyon finally dumped us out on the east side of the peninsula at the Gulf almost 80 miles north of La Paz. A long coastal dirt road with great scenery and it led us to La Paz. From La Paz we visited Las Barillas, San Jose del Cabo and Todo Santos. It was in Todo Santos that we ran into a snag with rooms. While part of our group was able to check into the 'Hotel California' we were a bit too late and it was booked up, which was ok because it was a little out of our price range. Recon and I are cheap! So Recon and I went looking for accommodations. We finally discovered one that had a laundry service in front and the Motel in the back. Mostly because Recon's butt was hurting and he was ready to pull in anywhere!
This turned into Recons worst nightmare and my best night on the whole trip! I have not laughed so hard throughout the whole evening in a long time! But the room was cheap so what would you expect. The ladies working in the laundry told us we could put our bikes up in the courtyard by the front door of our room. Excellent since we carry a lock they should be fairly secure. As we parked and took our gear into the room we noticed the two guys in the room next to us with the door open. As I observed them I was trying to figure them out. Maybe they are just down on their luck, maybe they are homeless and the nice laundry lady took them in or maybe they are overflow from the local prison sent out because of overcrowding. We didn't have much conversation but I attributed that to us speaking English and them speaking Spanish. Good enough for me so I went into the room. Not bad, it had 2 beds, a TV and a bathroom, scored. So Recon wants to jump in the shower and wash off the trail dust. I am thinking, great he will let me know if there is any hot water. So Recon turns on the TV as he preps to shower and it has a picture and sound! The picture is a bit fuzzy but we find an English speaking channel and leave it there. I start to work on my gear for tomorrow and as Recon finishes his shower I hear him holler out, "Hey there is dirt on this floor mat!" I asked him why didn't you wipe your feet off before you went to shower. He said he did. So naturally I ask him where did the dirt come from. He says it came with the room! I have no idea why but this struck me as hilarious and I started laughing and was hoping there was no extra charge for it! I went in to look and sure enough there was a perfect size 10-foot print on the white mat where he stepped out of the shower. Impressive, I could see every toe imprint. I should have brought my thongs. No problem, I will just wipe my feet good when I get out. Besides, it was a distraction from the water stains on the ceiling and walls. But at least the water was hot!
I shower so we can head out to find something to eat, Recon lays down on his bed for a cat nap. When I come out he is waking up and complaining that he can feel the springs in his mattress poking him in the back. He says he is sure he has spring impressions on his back. So I look and tell him, just barely and they will be gone in a few minutes. So I make a note to myself, sleep with my riding jacket on. Recon says the prison guys next door probably have a mattress Chrono/note from the doctor and have our good mattresses. He may be right.
As I begin to dress for dinner Recon goes back in to use the toilet. A few minutes later I hear a scream, kinda like a girl panicking and Recon is yelling there is a cockroach in there. He comes rushing out telling me that as he picked up the toilet paper the roach came out of the roll and started to run up his arm! Startled, he jumped up and was flailing his arm to get it off. He said it was over in the corner behind the toilet. I looked and saw what I would refer to as a Water Bug, but then I am not an entomologist, so it could have been a roach. I told Recon to go smash it and he refused saying he thought if it got hold of his leg it would put a UFC twist on his leg until it broke or he yelled UNCLE! Since he did not know how to say Uncle in Spanish he was not taking any chances and I would have to do it. I got my camera and went in to document the incident cause only one of us was coming out of that bathroom alive!
By the time we were dressed and ready to go meet the rest of the crew for dinner I had been laughing so hard and for so long since we checked in my sides were hurting! Riding in Baja is almost always an adventure!
Our group decided on different kinds of food so we split off with Senor Hawk, Sp Ed, Recon and I and walked to a small place Senor Hawk liked. Good meal with good friends then it was time for bed. Recon and I were about to head home as the rest of the crew was staying a few days to rest and do a few more days of poking around places on their way home.
Since Recon and I had ridden down 5 days ahead of them we hit the road and made our way back toward the border. Recon and I did one exceptionally long day, around 230 miles with some awesome scenery along the way. Since we knew where the new fueling stop was in La Purisima we stretched it out a bit that day. We rode river beds, miles of soft sand and 17 miles down the beach where we came across a baby whale washed up on the shore. We stopped to take pictures thinking it was dead, but Recon looked closely and said it was just barely alive. It was sad but there was not a thing we could do for it. I got a picture of Recon with it and I am pretty sure he was saying a prayer, although he will never admit it! We made one last stop at a fishing village for a rest break and a soda. Recon asks if we should get fuel. I thought we only had about 50 0r 60 miles to go so I looked at our tanks which were still about half full and said we should be alright. Recon reminded me of something I had told him earlier, never pass up gas in Baja. I thought, good thinking and got the kid to split 4 liters between our bikes. Good call Recon. As we were riding into San Ignacio Recon had to stop and lay his bike on its side to get fuel on the petcock side since it had quit a few miles back. My KTM low fuel light had been on for about 12 miles and I stopped to do the same in order to get fuel on the fuel pump side. Turns out the 60 miles I thought we had was more like 80 miles. That's funny, I didn't remember it being that far. Doh! Thanks Recon for saving me from pushing for who knows how many miles at the end of a long day!!


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Down and dirty with catcher Will Bastian
Wed, 07/04/2018 - 8:57am admin
Dirt is the word.
Will Bastian is a catcher with a brilliant past, and perhaps a brighter future.
He recently graduated from Bishop England High School after helping the Bishops win back-to-back Class AAA state championships and will matriculate to The Citadel this fall to continue his education and "baseball career."
He plays catcher and wears about 10 pounds of equipment behind the plate, and that can cause even the best of those in shape to perspire during a two-hour game played in the Lowcountry humidity. And when that perspiration meets occasional blood and a lot of dirt, whether it's from a head-first-slide, hook slide or collision at home plate, Bastian's uniform looks like a crime scene.
Just ask BE coach Mike Darnell.
"He's the dirt bag of the team," Darnell said in a preseason interview last year. "He's always hustling and getting dirty. It's exactly what you want from a catcher. He will determine how our season goes."
The Bishops posted a 31-2 record and arguably were the best team in the state. When the going got tough, Bastian calmed the pitchers, collected the big hit and provided the spark.
He also got dirty -- very dirty. His mom, Lee, often works extra innings to get his uniform clean.
"My uniform cleaning trick is to soak it in Oxiclean, Dawn, Fels-Naptha soap … and at times, (I use) a power washer."
Just in case you are wondering, Fels-Naptha soap is a laundry soap and was once used as an effective home remedy for exposure to poison ivy and other skin irritants.
It seems Bastian was born to play baseball – and get dirty. As a youngster he wore a T-Shirt that proclaimed "I make dirt look good" and was often found playing baseball on the BE softball field while his older brothers played on the varsity baseball team.
Bastian started playing baseball and getting dirty at the T-ball level. Umpires had to remind him that there were no head-first slides at that level of competition. But a legend was born.
"I pride myself on that more than anything," Bastian said of getting dirty. "My skills on the baseball field are not going to make your jaw drop, but there's not a single player in the state who works harder than me. I always play at the maximum level."
Bastian was a fixture on the BE varsity team since March 15, 2014 when he was called up to the varsity as an eighth-grader. He started every game once he was on the varsity. He earned all-state honors, but drew a blank when asked about offensive statistics from 2018. He does know his fielding percentage from his senior year: 1.000.
He said winning the state championship as a junior was incredible because not many expected the Bishops to accomplish the feat.
"We wanted to prove the skeptics wrong," Bastian said. "We wanted to prove our worth – and we did. The second (title) was a work of domination. We lost two games and redeemed both of our losses."
Next up is The Citadel, the military college his older brother Drew graduated from in 2015.
"Drew and Morgan, they instilled the love of baseball in me," Bastian said. "They taught me how to love the game. I have a lot of Citadel connections. Playing baseball for The Citadel is something I wanted to do since I was little."

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So what you're saying Keith, is that everything that's wrong in the forum/world is someone else's fault, and you're not going to change your approach.
All you need to do is drop the unwelcoming, aggressive line that you use on everyone who doesn't start with an intro and replace it with something that makes more sense, and conveys your requirements better. There's no need to tell people off, just show them what you want, and what matters to you. There's really no need either for a "after you were prompted" comment if/when they comply, just say thanks.
Let me suggest this instead:
"Welcome to the forum. It helps us to help you if you post loads of info about your car in an introduction thread here: Forum: New Members - Introduce Yourself Here before you get into asking us to solve any problem you may have. This will reduce the need for members to ask lots of questions to narrow down what they're dealing with before they can get on with helping you solve your problem. Useful facts are the exact model of the car, the year, the engine code and transmission code (see here: Data Sticker/Options Sticker and Engine Codes). Basically the more details you share at the start the better.
Also, and very importantly, when you do fix your problem, please come back and tell us what the solution was. Doing this will make the forum a better, more informative place for everyone. Thanks. "


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I'm not ready, but then, I don't think I ever will be. In the first place, I never would've been where I am now if I didn't force myself to take the leap, and scare myself shitless in the process.
I've always been afraid of change and if I weren't so, I wonder,
Where would I be now?


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You will stay in a spacious Deluxe Room, the third most luxurious room category, which is beautifully decorated with antiques and period features. You will dine on both evenings in the relaxed Lygon Bar & Grill, where you will enjoy a complimentary glass of Prosecco before dinner. A full English breakfast is on offer each morning and during the day you can relax in the spa, with 10% off pre-booked spa treatments.
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The Lygon is a former coaching inn dating from 1377 on the route between London, Wales and Worcester. Last year it was acquired by London and Regional, the hotel and property investment company run by the brothers Ian and Richard Livingstone (who also own Chewton Glen hotel in the New Forest and Cliveden House in Berkshire).
Situated in the pretty town of Broadway in the Cotswolds, the Lygon Arms sits in an enviable location on the high street, slap bang in the centre of town.
By plane: Birmingham Airport (39.4 miles)
By train: Honeybourne train station (6 miles)
By car: parking is available at the hotel
Look & Feel
In the Charles I suite at this historic hotel, the king's coat of arms hangs above the fireplace. It is reputed that Charles and his supporters assembled here during the Civil War. Later on, Oliver Cromwell stayed the night before the Battle of Worcester; a framed drawing depicts him standing in front of the fire in what is now the Cromwell Room. Ghosts of the past linger at the Lygon, with its creaking floorboards, mullioned windows and ancient hallways.
A multi-million pound refurbishment by Anita Rosato has spruced up the lounges and introduced a slick spa and a bijou cocktail bar. Chewton Glen and Cliveden fans are already trying it out. Former guests include Edward VII, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Evelyn Waugh, Prince Philip and Kylie Minogue.
Service was swift and friendly. The staff in the spa are especially welcoming and the quality of treatments is high.
There's an impressive array of facilities at the Lygon Arms from an attractive courtyard terrace to a slick refitted spa, complete with a three-acre garden. Perhaps the most impressive is the swimming pool and its retractable roof. There's also a state-of-the-art Technogym.
- Wi-Fi
- Sun terrace
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- Spa
- Sauna
- Gym
- Room service
- Laundry
- Access for guests with disabilities
- Dog-friendly
- Family-fiendly
- Restaurant
- Bar
The 86 rooms have an old-fashioned feel, with plenty of antique furniture; some pieces are by Gordon Russell, one of Britain's leading designers in the 1930s (whose father once owned the hotel). Old beams, gnarly wooden doors and sloping floorboards help to create the inn's frozen-in-time atmosphere in the main building, which houses 36 rooms. Others are in outhouses from the 1920s and 1950s by a courtyard with a chestnut tree and landscaped garden. Rooms throughout have been smartened with checked fabrics in purples and reds, wide beds and shiny bathrooms stocked with Floris toiletries. The Charles I suite has a fantastic four-poster bed.
Food & Drink
There are three main dining options, plus a spa café serving wraps and smoothies. The Lygon Wine Bar offers tapas in romantic, dimly lit rooms lined with cabinets of wine bottles. Snacks can be had at the cocktail bar, but the main attraction is the Lygon Bar & Grill, in a former music hall with eye-catching antler chandeliers and walls of old oil paintings. The play-it-safe, unpretentious menu offers fish and chips, pies, burgers, steaks and salads. My octopus and fennel salad starter was fresh and crunchy, the octopus warm and salty. The generous chicken and mushroom pie came in a large iron pan and had perfect pastry. The tiramisu was light and lovely.
Lygon Bar & Grill | informal | seasonal
British menu | ££
Lygon Lounges | sandwiches, burgers & brunch | ££
Wine Bar | Italian and European wine | casual bites | ££
It's great to see a classic hotel being given a new lease of life, but some of the decor is a touch conservative. Rooms can be pricey at weekends but this is a top-class hotel and great for a special occasion.


text: Long story short, year after next I'm backpacking across Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. I want to take a little "disposable" netbook with me but I'm not a fan of Windows. Ubuntu sells itself as cleanly simple, answering to an aesthetic of less is more. I dig this and the interface looks very elegant and polished. Anyone able to tell me more about this OS?


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IBM and Advent One understand this and that is why they designed Power8 with those characteristics at the forefront.
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Located in the heart of Manhattan, 1 Hotel Central Park is just steps away from Central Park. This 18-story building features a restaurant and bar from Chef Jonathan Waxman, a public area for getting work done or grabbing a drink, a 24-hour fitness center, and a three-story exterior living green wall. The Greenhouse Suite is a great option for a large group looking for extra space, but our favorite for spotting some green is the Park Suite with its view of Central Park.
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Helicopter parenting hurts kids, don't be too involved in their life
The study concludes that over-involvement in children's lives could have harmful consequences in children like low self-esteem and high-risk behavior including binge drinking.sex and relationships Updated: Jun 03, 2015 18:03 IST
Over-involvement in children's lives can be harmful, said a research team that had earlier that helicopter parenting backfires. The team concluded that extra love and support did not neutralize the negative effects of such an approach.
Helicopter parenting is defined as over-involvement in children's lives including making important decisions for them, solving their problems and intervening in their conflicts, say the researchers, who hail from Brigham Young University.
And the consequences of helicopter parenting on offspring could include low self-esteem and high-risk behavior like binge drinking, according to the researchers, whose first study indicated that children of helicopter parents are less engaged in school.
"From our past work, we thought there might be something positive about helicopter parenting under certain conditions, but we're just not finding it," said lead author Larry Nelson.
What's more, a lack of warmth combined with helicopter parenting was particularly detrimental to the well being of young adults, according to the study, published in the journal Emerging Adulthood.
In the study, 438 undergraduate students from four US universities self-reported on their parents' controlling behavior, their sense of self-worth and their risk behaviors and study habits.
Responses from the student participants, whose average age was 19, indicated an association between helicopter parenting with decreasing self-esteem and increasingly risky behavior, according to the study.
Loving parents were incapable of justifying their helicoptering, said the researchers, who said too much control was harmful in every circumstance.
"Overall, stepping in and doing for a child what the child developmentally should be doing for him or herself, is negative," said Nelson.
"Regardless of the form of control, it's harmful at this time period."
Nelson advised parents not to overcompensate by stepping back too far, for young people needed support from their parents - not control.
"Lack of control does not mean lack of involvement, warmth and support," he said.
In his team's first study on helicopter parenting, published in the Journal of Adolesence in 2012, they established that over-involvement in a child or young adult's life deprives them of the skills necessary for success in marriage, careers and adult social interactions.
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I am writing an e-book on Intimacy that will be published later in the year.
This is a subject that has produced internal panic moments indiscriminate of age, gender or spiritual leanings, no matter who I seem to talk to.
"Of Course I Get Lonely" (see below) was inspired by my recent 28th birthday, especially realising I was the last single friend out of my decade-long friendship circle. Admitting to myself that singleness requires more concerted effort to upkeep close relationships faced me with a conscious choice: embrace the uncertainty and trust the Lord, or slip into feelings of despair.
So it got me thinking - why am I so obsessed with finding that right someone? Am I not content being single?
So here are my musings around what truly makes life sweetest - enjoying our closest human relationships. So to fend off any smug Christians or cynical secular people, I'm jotting down a few starting thoughts as to why we shouldn't be ashamed of getting a little lonesome sometimes.
(Spoiler alert: We were created for intimate relationships!)
There are wonderful things about being self-made and independent.
I bought into the myth that being an autonomous lone ranger was better than tagging along to social events I was only half-interested in.
Enjoying solitude with God is a great thing, as our soul-to-soul connection with Him is where our life-energy springs from. But He desires us to build the church, because that's where people gather, where misfits find belonging, where mistake-makers find grace, and where the lost can be found.
We meet God in solitude as well as with each other.
In my loneliest times I wish to have company. However when I have company but not a high degree of connection I would prefer to be alone.
Someone offends me with an off-hand comment, or the person I'm dating doesn't comfort me when I'm upset. We all have specific ways we need to feel loved, and if our most significant people aren't meeting our needs, and we're not comfortable communicating exactly what those needs are, we erect emotional walls.
I'm convinced that people who lone-wolf it throughout life would actually prefer connection. They're just yet to find their tribe. Maybe it's a matter of adapting to different personalities and contexts, and realising unhealthy internal attitudes, or maybe they just need to keep searching until they find likeminded kinsmen.
The 21st Century loves the "self-actualised" individual. Extended periods of isolation are common; where we don't know our neighbour's names, and occasionally we might worry about whether we might find them dead and rotting in their apartment, their body found 2 weeks after their passing.
It terrifies me to think this could happen to anybody.
Here at the close of the 20th century we have the luxury of living in splendid isolation.
Unlike in more "primitive" cultures, most Americans no longer live as part of a large family or community where we develop a sense of comfort and safety, a network of people to confide in, to feel at home with.
This, I have come to believe, is what has drawn many people into cults--the need to feel part of a bonded community.
There is a sense of being at home emotionally as well as physically. Our culture provides for meeting all other needs, especially the need for autonomy, but not for intimacy. Within this framework, couples today must provide for each other more of the emotional needs that a larger community used to furnish.
Lori H. Gordon, 1969
This brings me to my next point:
A whole network of people might have been God's plan to satisfy our need for intimacy.
A happily married woman once said to me, "Jess I love my husband, but I need my girlfriends. It's a different sort of need."
In my post "Figuring Out Why We Want To Be In A Relationship" I touched on the heavy weight expectations we might put on a romantic partner. Stepping back and shifting the perspective into macro view, I'm placing blame on modern society for why we do this as individuals.
Where has community fled to? The 'bonded communities' into which sketchy cults take shape prey on vulnerable people for a reason.
Modern culture's emphasis on individualism has led to us starving for attention, significance, recognition and fame, because we wrongly think those things will lead us to the love and intimacy we crave.
Social media has perpetuated a flawless image of the individual self, confusing the young person in their formative years on how they should practice healthy interpersonal relationships.
The pursuit of the self-made man or woman has devalued family and community gatherings, seeing it as low-priority to share a meal with their wife and children when those hours could be spent generating more revenue and profits for a bigger house.
Maybe it could have been worse. Maybe radio stations could be dominated with more independent woman songs glorifying singleness, and there'd be more men chorus-worshipping the eternal bachelor lifestyle.
I'm convinced that any assertion of aloneness as a perpetually wonderful thing is either a preaching to oneself to be content in the season they're in, or they have no idea how to manage or cope with expectations that they'd want another person to fulfil. Or, maybe they're still figuring out who the heck they are.
Shifts in our general views about what makes life worth living have
also contributed to a new demand for intimacy. For many generations the answer lay in a productive life of work and service in which the reward of happiness would be ours, in Heaven. That belief has broken down.
People want happiness here and now. And they want it most in their intimate relationships.
Intimacy, I have come to believe, is not just a psychological fad,
a rallying cry of contemporary couples. It is based on a deep biological need.
Lori H. Gordon, 1969
Even if a person were to truly enjoy singleness, the duration of the season becomes difficult when everyone around you is getting hitched.
When you're young, all your friends are single. Some have boyfriends, maybe one girl gets married at a scandalously young age; ten years later, you reach your late 20s and early 30s. You're an accomplished, self-actualised, content human being now, but your hang-out community is dwindling.
Fellow single ladies and gentlemen, you are not alone.
The struggle is real.
Borrowing from Greek philosophy, I'm going to briefly touch on agape, storge, phileo and eros love and their contribution in completing our human experience of intimacy.
Sacrificial love, God's love
Need this because: God is the Life Source. He is our hope, and without His love our entire network of intimacy finds no fuel.
He is like the power generating electricity through an entire city. He is purely a Gift-lover, expecting nothing in return from us but our complete life devotion.
Personal testimony: My choice to attach to Jesus 11 years ago has pumped my life with more loopy adventures, purpose, excitement and focus than I could have ever mustered on my own; leading me to relationships that have helped me maximise my life up until this point.
This will sound either crazy or romantic/over-religious, but Jesus truly is my Anchor. I have no regrets. Without agape love I don't see how the other loves in my life could continue loving me.
As C.S. Lewis says, "I believe Christianity as I believe the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
Parent's love for children, children's love for parents, family love.
Need this because: We were once infants, brought into the world by 2 people responsible for fulfilling our physiological needs. Our parents could arguably represent God's gift-love, for their love and care could never seriously be repaid.
This is why parenting is a completely life changing responsibility, the most important job in society.
How well our parents loved and raised us forms the blueprint of expectation for future loves into our adulthood. The beautiful thing about storge love is that everyone has access to this, for children may be fostered, friends can become family, and restoration of broken homes (while it takes tremendous amounts of emotional labour) is totally possible.
Personal testimony: My parents were far from perfect, but their love has formed the bedrock of my security, even as an adult. For example, to not have a family gathering at Easter makes me feel lost and off-centre. I find belonging and my 'true-north' when I spend quality time with my family.
Friendship love
Need this because: Our friends scaffold our lives, reflecting our own character, identity and dreams for the future. They are the reason we look forward to the weekend.
They say like attracts like - you are drawn towards the people who are already similar to you or who you want to be like.
There are some people in your life whom your heart simply delights in. As I write these words I'm reminded of the people I adore, and whom reciprocate their adoration of me; but also of the friends I've let down and am grateful for their forgiveness.
Phileo love is warmth and affection towards another person. As each seeks to make the other happy, more feelings of affection ensue. (More on this in another post).
Personal testimony: As a spontaneous, extroverted and energetic personality, I'm addicted to making new connections constantly. I genuinely love meeting people.
Edging towards my 30th birthday, and recently celebrating a 10 year reunion with my Mac Uni friends, phileo love is more the need to build trust in people whom will sharpen, strengthen and walk the journey with me. We have witnessed each other's transformation from young person to adult.
I would not trade these friends for anything. They have become like family.
Romantic and sexual love.
Need this because: well, it's obvious. Sex is the most intense way you could bond with someone, the logical next step for strong emotional closeness with another person you are attracted to.
Marriage and babies are important phases that tend to happen around this type of love.
Erwin McManus says that a shortcut to sexual and romantic intimacy has been caused by a distortion of intimacy in the other 'loves', and we are trying to overcompensate by feeling something extreme.
He even goes so far as to say:
"Ladies, if a guy is in a hurry to make love to you, and skip conversation, what he's really saying is that he finds you boring."
Eros is done complete justice when both parties are intricately connected emotionally and spiritually, where a strong friendship and choice to commit forever (ie. marriage) has been first established.
Personal testimony: I'm 28 and still a virgin. This is the other part of the struggle - the fact that I'm in a body that was made to enjoy certain things, but with the knowledge that I am "between angel and animal". Ok, now it's getting weird.
Let's just say I agree with Erwin. I believe sex with my husband is worth the incredible struggle of waiting for the right timing [insert sexually frustrated emoji here - THERE, I said it].
So what do we do in the mean time?
I'm hopeful that we are not doomed as a modern society to live in isolated nuclear family structures. Neither, that single people are destined for splendid lone-ranger days that will never conclude.
Even if we found the love of our lives tomorrow, sustaining the relationship won't be immune from hard work. This is why psychologists say the reason marriages decline is because couples have never learned reliably how to sustain pleasure in an intimate relationship.
It starts by being honest with each other, but first we must practice being honest with ourselves.
A checklist of thoughts on how we can do this:
- Not shame ourselves for being single, lonely, or needy for affection. (Married people get easy access to this, and maybe some of them are unhappy, but still, they've got free lover hugs on demand, and the chance to do 'intimacy school' with a ready-to-go partner).
- Find people we can trust to be vulnerable with, who won't care to judge us.
- Pursue our best selves in the relationships already in our lives: be the greatest daughter, son, friend, sister, brother and/or employee the people in our world could ever dream of.
- Get counselling to self-examine, ensuring our blindspots are not causing people to distance themselves from us.
- Pack out your schedule with new and old friends! Cuddle your kitty and watch a movie. If you don't have a kitty, go to your mate's house and ambush their animals instead.
- Ask God to bring people into your life that will build, encourage and walk with you for the purpose He has set in this particular season; the type your heart can delight in.
- Realise that even with meeting someone, no matter how besotted you might be with another person, the lustre will fade, and only the unglamorous friendship remains.
- Surrender ourselves to the uncertainty of life; trusting that God is conspiring with Heaven and Earth to give us the Kingdom.
Many of you reading this are ready to fall in love and marry. The process awaits, but the start date is a surprise.
Do me a favour don't settle. I know you're struggling, but the Father places higher value on your worth than you realise. The community will meet your needs for intimacy, and so will He.
Intimacy: The Art of Relationships - How relationships are sabotaged by hidden expectations.
CS Lewis's The Four Loves – A humble summary.
March 2018
- Mar 12, 2018 Stop Worrying About Getting Older Mar 12, 2018
May 2017
- May 31, 2017 How To Not Be Intimidated By Really Attractive People May 31, 2017
April 2017
- Apr 21, 2017 How To Let Him Pursue You Apr 21, 2017
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- Jan 18, 2017 A Note on Work Ethic Jan 18, 2017
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- Jun 8, 2016 Part 5. Navigating Christian Dating Culture: The 10 Blindspots of Faith-Filled Single Gents Jun 8, 2016
- Jun 1, 2016 Part 4. Navigating Christian Dating Culture: The 10 Blindspots of Faith-Filled Single Ladies Jun 1, 2016
May 2016
- May 26, 2016 Part 3. Navigating Christian Dating Culture: In Defence of the Friend Zone May 26, 2016
- May 19, 2016 Part 2. Navigating Christian Dating Culture: Some Practical Applications May 19, 2016
- May 10, 2016 Part 1. Introduction to Navigating The Christian Dating Culture May 10, 2016
- May 4, 2016 The Self-Respecting Person's Guide to Networking May 4, 2016
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- Apr 15, 2016 The Love We Crave Series: LOVERS Apr 15, 2016
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- Mar 24, 2016 A Note on Intimacy Mar 24, 2016
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Professional Consultant ? is that redundant ??
Maybe just Consultant.
Professional Consultant ? is that redundant ??
Maybe just Consultant.
Professional consultant is as redundant as "Cute Shiksa" Zayda would say (My grandfather's Yiddush expression)
Eh, I disagree. Obviously. Hang in there with me on this...
If you have to 'tell' people that you're professional, you've missed it already. ALL REALTORS live by a code of ethics which we know makes no difference to some. Just sayin...
I agree with Lester and Cindy's sentiments.
Professional doctor??? Professional lawyer??? Professional CPA (CA in Canada)??? Labeling oneself "professional" is, in my view, tantamount to acknowledging there is some doubt as to whether we are or not.
Now I'll pretent I'm cool and add "Jus sayin'..." Ha!
I don't think it would be acknowledging any doubt as long as we leave the question marks off. Is there any doubts that in anyone's mind that a doctor, lawyer or accountant is a professional? Having said that I really don't see the need for the term professional, I am liking Association of Consultants in Real Estate.
I appreciate the feedback! But please do keep an open mind when I explain more about why I feel having the word "professional" in there is important. I'll probably do that in our meeting next week as it's easier to SAY than it is to WRITE!


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10 Bizzare Guinness Book Of World Records.
Guinness Book of World Records is a prestigious name in itself and its records equally amazing and seemingly unattainable. Each of the records is incredibly specific and most of them unbeatable. The record holders pushed their limits beyond our imagination to have the world records registered in their names.
I'm sure you know that every record is the best of its kind even if was extremely bizarre. They let you have your name on the book for anything you can come up with, just make sure you are best at it.
Well, there are some weirdly insane and astoundingly abnormal records in the Guinness Book of World Records that need a definite mention.
- Largest Collection of Naval Fluff
Graham Barker, a librarian in Australia has this record in his name with 22.1 gram collection of fluff that he has been collecting for the past 26 years.
Million Dollar Hair
A professional American footballer Troy Polamalu (USA) of the National Football League's Pittsburgh Steelers (USA), whose trademark locks were insured for $1 million (£622,713).
- Farthest Eyeball Protrusion
Kim Goodman popped her eyes out of her eye sockets by 12 millimeters (0.47 inches).
- Most T-Shirts Worn At Once
257 T-shirts are worn at once, which was achieved by Sanath Bandara (Sri Lanka) in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 22 December 2011.
Longest Fingernails On A Pair of Hands
Melvin Booth ( in the male category) and Lee Redmond(in the female category) made the world record for the longest combined fingernails of 9.05 meters and 8.65 meters. It might take several decades to break this world record imagine how long it took them to make the record.
- Heaviest weight lifted by the most delicate parts of the human body.
The heaviest weight lifted by the tongue is 12.5 kg (27 lb 8.96 oz). Thomas Blackthorne of the U.K. holds this record.
The heaviest weight lifted with an eye socket is 14 kg (30.86 lb) by Manjit Singh of the U.K.
The heaviest lifted with both eye sockets is 23.5 kg (51 lb 12.96 oz) by Yang Guang He of China.
The heaviest weight lifted with one ear (using a clamp) is 80.78 kg (178 lb 14.4 oz). This record is held by Rakesh Kumar of India.
- Most toilet seats were broken by the head in one minute
You must be wondering who came up with this idea of this record. Well, the record for most wooden toilet seats broken in a minute with the head is 46, held by Kevin Shelley of the United States.
- Most Spoons On A Human Body
- Tallest Mohawk Hairdo
A Japanese fashion designer Kazuhiro Watanabe with his 3 feet 8.6 inch Mohawk, got the place in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the tallest mohawk haircut in the world.
- Most alarm clocks smashed using feet in one minute
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2019 - 2020 Budget Process
Our Goal
To develop a budget for 2018-2019 that is in alignment with the mission of Living Faith. The budget must reflect good stewardship, be focused by purpose, and crafted with prayer. Individual ministry budgets should be an expression of the ministry's vision as it fits within the mission of Living Faith, have measurable objectives/goals, and be an expression of faith.
"The mind of man plans his way. But the LORD directs his steps." Proverbs 16:9
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1. Know Our Mission
What is the mission of Living Faith Christian Church?
Our mission is to reach people across Long Island for Christ
and guide them to live as His disciples for the glory of God.
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." Matthew 28:19-20
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GUIDE: In the Great Commission, Jesus made clear that his followers would need to know and obey his teaching. This was one of the three key elements given to fulfill our mission to make disciples. We as his disciples are commanded to each help one another learn and obey God's Word. In other words, we need to guide them to live what they learn.
Reaching a person for Christ is huge! It is amazing to know God worked through you to bring someone to faith in Christ. But, that is only the first step. Every person who comes to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ needs to learn what God's Word says. Also, they must grow in understanding and how they are to live as a follower of Jesus.
Our vision challenges each one of us to reach one other for Christ. But, it does not stop there. We want to see all of us guide another to become a committed follower of Christ. That means helping them learn what it means to live the Christian life.
GLORY: In the Great Commission, Jesus declared his church should make disciples. He listed three things we should do to achieve that goal. Going was an outward focus to reach others. Teaching was focused inward to develop the disciple. Both are essential to make a healthy disciple.
The third piece Jesus gave was to baptize those who would believe in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The public profession of faith through baptism was focused upward, giving glory to God. Naming the Father, Son, and Spirit honored all three in the role they each played for the salvation of the individual.
The Father created and redeemed us by his sovereign grace. The Son made atonement for our sins so we could be forgiven and have a right relationship with God. The Spirit convicted us of sin, drew us to salvation and sealed us as God's children.
In naming all three, Jesus ensured his church was to give glory to God for what he alone could do. Our vision includes making sure we give glory to God for all he has done and will do.
2. Align your Ministry's Vision, Objectives, and Goals to the mission of Living Faith.
"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails." Proverbs 19:21.
A. Review your ministry's stated objectives and goals for the coming year in light of our mission statement. The Budget Worksheet will help your ministry assess this past year and then plan for the upcoming year. Consider how you plan to measure your outcomes. Ask the Lord what He would have your ministry accomplish.
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Cali is probably the funniest foal we have ever bred. His sense of humor is amazing, and his personality just truly outstanding. He is very well put together, has tremendous movement that is worthy of an upper level dressage career - but we're not so sure he would approve. Cali has "stallion" written all over him, time will tell if that will be the case, but for now, we just enjoy this bundle of surprise and invite you to see his amazing photo gallery!
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More about Cali's dam Econda can be found on her own page.
Coconut Grove xx has his own page on our website: Coconut Grove xx. He is also the sire of our 2006 filly Babette.
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Following on from my post earlier today about law enforcement agencies wanting to break communications encryption, here is another article from The Verge about police in Baltimore just breaking the mobile phone system in trying to investigate cases.
It seems that Baltimore police have used the StingRay phone tracker at least 25,000 times over the past eight years. This is a device (based on my quick read of the Wikipedia page) that is designed to download information from all mobile phone in an area and, as a side effect, disrupts service to the cellular network.
As far as I can tell, this sort of device is common throughout the United States and probably in many other countries. I believe that the use of this sort of device is an unacceptably broad search of the population.
Just merely allowing police departments access to these devices means that they will be used and likely used excessively. When the only tool you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Update: If you want to find out more about the StingRay, have a look at this 2012 page from the EFF, and or this recent article from the Examiner about StingRay use in San Diego.


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It's so quiet, so dark, so Virginia…so not New Jersey. There are at least six thousand stars in the sky – about 5,990 more than I can typically see in the night sky of Central New Jersey.
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Last night I heard the yip and bark of coyotes in the woods. Tonight I think I also heard the screech of a bobcat and a hoot owl's hoot. This is what you call authentic. I half-expect to hear a knock at my writing studio door to find John-Boy Walton and Daniel Boone and Buck Owens and the Buckaroos inviting me to the hoedown over in Danville.
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Alana and Keith,
I'll be missing this Sunday's core and Intermediate classes due to prescheduled travel. As we discussed last week, I'll plan to come in 30 mins early next week, Sunday 1/24, to talk about what I've missed. Anything else I should be doing/reading in the meantime?
Thanks, and have a great weekend.
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