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|Directed by
|Alejandro Amenábar
|Produced by
|Emiliano Otegui
José Luis Cuerda
|Written by
|Alejandro Amenábar
Mateo Gil
|Fele Martínez
Eduardo Noriega
Ana Torrent
|Music by
|Alejandro Amenábar
|Hans Burman
|Edited by
|María Elena Sáinz de Rozas
|Distributed by
|Las Producciones del Escorpión
Release dates
Running time
|125 min, (Mexico: 118 min)
Tesis (Thesis) is a 1996 Spanish thriller film. It is the feature debut of director Alejandro Amenábar, and was written by Amenabar and Mateo Gil. The film was made while he was still studying at Universidad Complutense in Madrid [1] The movie won seven 1996 Goya Awards (The Spanish equivalent of an Oscar), including the award for Best Film, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Director. It stars Spanish Actors, Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez and Eduardo Noriega.
The film starts as Angela sits on a subway. The train halts and passengers are told to evacuate, as a man has just stepped in front of the tracks and died. While being led out of the station, Angela begins to move towards the tracks to see the man's remains. She is warded away at the last instant. Angela is a university student in Madrid, writing a thesis on audiovisual violence in the family. At a thesis meeting, she asks her thesis director, Figueroa, to help her find the most violent videos in the school's library. After class, Angela seeks out the help of a fellow student, Chema, who is known for his collection of violent and pornographic videos. As Angela begins to watch violent films with Chema, Professor Figueroa finds a tape in a hidden hallway of the school's audiovisual archives. The next day, Angela finds Figueroa dead of apparent heart failure in the university's viewing room, a video tape in the player. Angela takes the tape and leaves for class. She later learns that Figueroa died of an asthma attack, and that a younger professor, Castro, will now be directing her thesis project. Angela goes to Chema's house to watch the stolen film, and Chema realizes that this is a snuff film, or a film of someone actually being murdered. As they watch the women being tortured, killed and disemboweled, Chema realizes that the women in the film was named Vanessa, a girl who attended their university and went missing two years ago. Chema and Angela are also able to determine which kind of camera the killer used, and XT 500, based on the quality of its digital zoom, and that the film was shot in someone's garage.
While at the library working on her thesis, Angela notices someone using an XT 500 camera. she leaves the library and realizes that she is being followed by the same man. She runs through the hallway but her pursuer, a handsome young man named Bosco, catches up. He notices that Angela has a newspaper clipping about Vanessa's disappearance, and states that he knows what happened to her. Angela pretends that she is filming a documentary about Vanessa's disappearance and asks if she could interview Bosco about it. At the interview, Bosco insists that Vanessa must have run away with a boyfriend, because she sent a note to her family saying that she was in love. Angela is convinced of Bosco's innocence, but Chema believes he is a psychopath. Once home, Angela realizes that Bosco has broken into her house and is waiting for her. Although initially frightened, Bosco charms Angela's family and they invite him to stay for dinner. Once alone, Bosco attempts to seduce Angela, although she resists his advances. At the school library, Chema asks a security guard to see the security tape of the library on the night of Figueroa's death. That night, Angela has a dream that Bosco performs oral sex on her and video tapes it.
At a thesis meeting, Professor Castro asks Angela what she knows about Figueroa's death. Angela denies all knowledge, but Castro has a security tape of the viewing room, which reveals Angela passing by Figueroa's dead body and taking the video. As Angela is about to admit why she took the tape, Chema calls. Angela answers the phone in a separate room and Chema tells her to leave Castro's office immediately, saying that Castro is involved in the snuff film. Angela hurriedly flees Castro's office. Later that day, Bosco's girlfriend, Yolanda, comes to Angela, and explains that she, Vanessa and Bosco had been taking a class on snuff films two years ago with Professor Castro, when things began getting out of hand. Yolanda states that she believed that Bosco and a friend of his killed Vanessa in order to make the snuff film. Yolanda reveals that Chema was also in the snuff film class. Once with Chema, Angela asks him whether or not he knew Bosco, and Chema admits that he did, but that he left the snuff film class as soon as things got out of hand. Chema then shows Angela the hidden library corridor he discovered on the security camera. Once in the corridor, they find shelves of video tapes, revealing that hundreds of women other than Vanessa had been murdered on camera. As they discover this, the door to the hidden corridor closes and they realize they have been locked inside. Chema and Angela walk through the corridor, with only a match lighting their way. They realize they are going to die. Chema and Angela fall asleep in each other's arms as the light of the last match dies.
When Angela wakes, she discovers that the lights have turned back on and Chema is gone. She walks toward a doorway and is chloroformed. She awakes tied to a chair, facing Professor Castro. Castro apologizes to Angela for having to kill her. He admits that he only edited the snuff videos, and that Angela's death would be much cleaner than Vanessa's. As he aims a gun at Angela's head, Chema appears and wrestles with Castro. The gun goes off, and Castro is killed. Angela and Chema escape. Once at her house, Angela's father tells her that her sister, Sena, is at a party with Bosco. Terrified, Angela hurries to the party. Once there, Sena refuses to leave with Angela, insisting that Bosco is in love with her. In order to force her sister to leave, Angela approaches Bosco and passionately kisses him. The next day, Angela informs Chema that they need to see the police. Although first reluctant, Chema agrees, and tells Angela he must take a shower before going. While Chema showers, Angela finds an XT-500 camera among Chema's things. The tape inside the camera reveals footage taken of Angela from outside her bedroom window. Convinced that Chema was stalking her, Angela takes a taxi to Bosco's house, and is followed by a figure in a black rain coat.
Once at Bosco's house, he helps Angela feel at home. A crash is heard downstairs and Bosco and Angela discover that Chema has followed her to the house. A struggle ensues and Bosco beats Chema to the ground. Chema tells Angela to look at Bosco's garage before falling unconscious. Once in the garage, Angela realizes that it is the same background from the original snuff film of Vanessa. Bosco appears and subdues Angela, tying her up and explaining how he intends to torture and kill her. However, Angela unties herself when Bosco isn't looking, steals his gun and shoots him. Angela visits a recovering Chema in the hospital and asks him out for coffee. As Chema and Angela leave, the news reporter announces that they will be showing footage from Vanessa's snuff film on air. The film ends as news reports covering the events play on television screens throughout Madrid. Patients in the hospital watch their televisions interestedly.
|Ana Torrent
|Fele Martinez
|Eduardo Noriega
|Xabier Elorriaga
|Professor Castro
|Miguel Picazo
|Professor Figueroa
|Nieves Herranz
|Rosa Campillo
|Paco Hernandez
|Angela's Father
|Rosa Avila
|Angela's Mother
|Olga Margallo
|Teresa Castanedo
|News Broadcaster
Critical Response[edit]
As film made by a film student about film students, much of Tesis is metafilmic and comments on the Spanish film industry, Hollywood influence and the voyeuristic nature of the horror and snuff genres. Following the aesthetic of the American horror genre, Angela operates as the "Final Girl," or resourceful female protagonist that defies stereotypical feminine traits.[2] Although Tesis fits the suspenseful mold of a Hollywood horror flick rather than its symbol-rich European counterpart, according to European film critic Marguerite la Caze, Tesis has a thesis: "human beings, no matter how well-meaning, are attracted to violence and death in all its forms." [3]
Tesis has generated much critical analysis due to its study of the fascination of violence. Film critic Leora Lev discusses Angela's ethical rejection and simultaneous attraction to violent images as this film's primary conversation. Lev states that Angela's psychosexual conflict with both the snuff film and the murderer, Bosco, is emblematic of the culture that consumes violent films and reality television series.[2]
Historical Context[edit]
Democratic Transition
After the fall of Francisco Franco's military dictatorship in the late seventies, Spain began transitioning into democracy. The shift from a strictly conservative regime to a Westernized democracy resulted in drastic cultural changes known as La Movida. These changes included the introduction of contraception and abortion, the inclusion of women in the public sphere, and a decline in Catholicism.
Violence Against Women
Even after women were considered members of the public sphere during the democratic transition, violence against women was still considered a private or family problem. It wasn't until the late nineties that the Spanish Government began enforcing policies or regulations dealing with the issues of domestic abuse and rape. In 1995, the year Tesis was being created, the United Nations held the first Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, which defined violence against women as "Any act of violence based on gender, which may result or actually results in physical, sexual or psychological harm, including threats, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, in either private or public life." This definition began shaping regulations in Spain during the late nineties, and many laws and acts have been passed since.[4]
Gender Inequality
Although women in Spain earned the right to vote under Franco's military dictatorship, divorce was impossible, women could not open bank accounts, obtain passports, or buy property without their husband's permission. During democratic transition, Spain's socialist government created the Institute for Women in 1983 in order to promote equal rights. Women's rights have been slowly, yet continuously improving since the military dictatorship fell, and Spain in the 1990s was witnessing the beginnings of these cultural changes.[5]
Angela, the protagonist of Tesis, is a female grad student. This is an unusual, but not unheard of, occurrence for the time period. Angela's younger sister, Sena, is also considering going to law school. Amenabar's female characters in Tesis, with the exception of Angela's mother, operate almost solely in the public sphere.
Reality Television
During the mid-nineties in Spain, reality television became one of the most consumed genres of entertainment. In 1993, the brutal killing of three young women became the fixation of the Spanish population. After finding the bodies of the three missing teens in a ditch, showing evidence of torture and rape, television channels rushed to report the investigation. The subsequent trial of the murderers also captured national attention.[6]
Production notes[edit]
The film was shot quickly, in five and a half weeks, preceded by a month of rehearsals, on a very low budget: €721,214.[7] It grossed €2,646,145 in Spain by March in 1997.[8]
- ^ a b "Tesis (1996) - IMDB". imdb.com.
- ^ a b Lev, Leora. "Tesis".
- ^ "Kinoeye | Spanish horror: Alejandro Amenabar's Tesis". www.kinoeye.org. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
- ^ "Nation Report Spain" (PDF).
- ^ "Gender inequality in Spain: glass ceiling or steel barrier?". openDemocracy. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
- ^ ""Snuffing" Hollywood: Transmedia Horror in Tesis". Senses of Cinema. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
- ^ "Thesis (1996) - IMDB".
- ^ "Thesis- Box Office/Business IMDB".
External links[edit]
- Tesis at the Internet Movie Database
- Tesis at AllMovie
- (Spanish) Profile from Amenábar.com


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In the garden
A nose for roses
Gorgeous roses have bloomed all around us during the last month, and seeing them tempts gardeners and landowners to add these magnificent plants to their landscapes.
Many, many varieties are available, and choosing the right rose to get what you want can be confusing.
Just some of the options include hybrid teas, floribundas, grandifloras, and miniatures. Then there are old garden and modern roses, and shrub, tree and climbing roses. And, of course, there are also the ramblers and the polyanthas.
It always helps to talk to an experienced specialist, in this case a rosarian.
Henrico master gardener Don Penzler is a consulting rosarian for the American Rose Society and an active member of the Richmond Rose Society.
"The first question I ask is how much care you are willing to give a rose," said Penzler. "Are you willing to feed it once a month, give it enough water and treat it for diseases or insects?"
Your answers to these questions and a look at the space where you're planning to plant can help you decide what type of rose is right for you.
Roses can be grown in the garden or in a container, provided it is large enough. They need a minimum of six hours of sunlight each day. Without sufficient sun, roses produce fewer blooms and are more susceptible to diseases.
They also need fertile soil that allows for good drainage.
Roses need 1-2 inches of water weekly, more in hot weather, less in cool. "I recommend using a rain gauge," said Penzler. "A rain gauge is a good idea for any gardener. You can tell how much water you're getting from rainfall, and how much you need to provide."
Penzler recommends watering the ground around the rose inside the dripline rather than watering leaves. Overhead watering can contribute to diseases like blackspot.
Blackspot is the most common plant disease that affects roses. Black spots appear on leaves and within days the leaves begin to yellow and later drop from the plant. Spraying roses can help fight the disease as well as control common insect pests such as Thrips and Spider Mites.
"Many people today don't have the time to spray their roses or they don't want to use the chemicals," said Penzler, "so the American Rose Society has become focused on disease-resistant roses."
Penzler said that Old Garden roses, Knockout roses and many of the David Austin varieties are good choices for disease resistance.
Roses need to be fertilized and deadheaded during the blooming season to insure healthy plants that continue to bloom. They also need to be pruned at the start of the season, and protected during winter months.
Penzler recommends taking a look at the Richmond Rose Society's website for additional information about planting and caring for roses and a list of roses that are recommended for the Richmond area.
Members of the Richmond Rose Society will also be available on May 19 and 20 at Strange's Nursery in Short Pump to help people figure out what rose best suits their needs, and the Society will hold its annual rose show at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden over the Memorial Day weekend.
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Tom Friedman is back — and he's pessimistic
First the good news from the New York Times:
We have ended TimesSelect. All of our Op-Ed and news columns are now available free of charge. Additionally, The New York Times Archive is available free back to 1987.
Good for them. Interestingly, even though I had paid my money to get TimesSelect, I pretty much stopped reading the stuff behind the barrier because I couldn't connect Climate Progress readers (i.e. you) to the material. The NYT had basically taken some of their best columnists out of the global discussion. Now they are back.
Friedman has a new piece titled "Doha and Dalian" — "Doha [top] is the capital of Qatar, a tiny state east of Saudi Arabia. Dalian [bottom] is in northeast China and is one of China's Silicon Valley." Their growth rates have surprised even itinerant Tom:
In Doha, since I was last there, a skyline that looks like a mini-Manhattan has sprouted from the desert. Whatever construction cranes are not in China must be in Doha today. This once sleepy harbor now has a profile of skyscrapers, thanks to a huge injection of oil and gas revenues. Dalian, with six million people, already had a mini-Manhattan when I was last here. It seems to have grown two more since — including a gleaming new convention complex built on a man-made peninsula.
What does this have to do with climate change? Friedman explains:
If you want to know why I remain a climate skeptic — not a skeptic about climate change, but a skeptic that we're going to be able to mitigate it — it's partly because of Doha and Dalian. Can you imagine how much energy all these new skyscrapers in just two cities you've never heard of are going to consume and how much CO2 they are going to emit?
I am not blaming them. It is a blessing that their people are growing out of poverty. And, after all, they're just following the high-energy growth model pioneered by America. We're still the world's biggest energy hogs, but we're now producing carbon copies in places you've never heard of.
Yes, "Americans" are popping up all over now — people who once lived low-energy lifestyles but by dint of oil wealth or hard work are now moving into U.S.-style apartments, cars and appliances.
Our planet cannot tolerate so many "Americans," unless we take the lead and change what it means to be an American in energy terms.
Tom's conclusion:
That's why we're fooling ourselves. There is no green revolution, or, if there is, the counter-revolution is trumping it at every turn. Without a transformational technological breakthrough in the energy space, all of the incremental gains we're making will be devoured by the exponential growth of all the new and old "Americans."
I don't fully agree. Yes, we should be pessimistic, especially as long as Bush is President, but I don't think we need a "transformational technological breakthrough" — that might never come. We really need a sustained commitment to adopting the clean technologies that we have already developed, plus those that are in the pipeline, like plug-in hybrids and cellulosic ethanol. That commitment will need to be of a scale comparable to what we did during World War II — no mean feat. Later this year I will try to lay out the "solution to global warming" as I see it.
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A silver bullet would indeed be nice, but I can't imagine what it would be. Our CO2 emissions are so large in volume and come from a broad enough range of fuel sources and applications that I can't see how there could be a single silver bullet.
The solution is to find the political will and foresight to use the silver BB's at our disposal. I agree completely on plug-in hybrids (particularly the series variety) and cellulosic, but I think we'll also have to resort to a healthy dose of conservation. In other words [insert dramatic music here] sacrifice. Getting mainstreamers over the conceptual hump to accept even a little sacrifice could be the biggest challenge of all.
He makes me crazy. He doesn't mean to be but is acting like your classic delayer. The two points that everyone will take from this article are:
1) everything we do is irrelevant because it is subsumed by all of the growth in the rest of the world, -so why bother?
2) the only thing that will save us is a "transformational technological breakthrough in the energy space" (he likes sequestered coal and nukes, who is in denial?) -so why bother?
Thanks, Tom, for making all of your readers on Central Park West feel better about their four homes.
Doha, like many development centers in the Pwesian gulf lies far to close to sea level for the comfort of far sighted investors. How long man made islands and beach front developments will take to slip under the waves, but locally produced CO2 will only quicken the day of reckoning. The Chinese are beginning to recognize the folly of expanding the use of fossil fuelsm but knowledge and awareness take ttime.
I tend to disagree with Tom Friedman often enough that I am pleased just to see that he's not playing the total fool like Alexander Cockburn. For example, given what he has written, what it takes is someone to show him a path that will work, and he could just become an enthusiast for that path.
For example, Doha might fall on hard times in a post-petroleum world, except they might find that energy is still their lunch ticket, but instead of pumping it out of the ground, solar thermal electricity generation in the desert might be what keeps those skyscraper lights on. (Whether Europe would like to buy that electricity is another matter, given the security issues.) China has plenty of desert too for solar (though not in Dalian), and of course global warming is expanding those deserts all the time. China also has a pretty large fleet (percentage wise) of alternative fuel vehicles. They are experimenting during their growth spurt. There is a better opportunity to lock in a change (e.g. EVs) in China during the spurt than perhaps here in the U.S.
I've yet to ever have the NYT print one of my letters to the editor, but if people submit enough "there is a way" letters, the editors are likely to pick one to print. As Felix Kramer of CalCars likes to point out, when we needed to after Pearl Harbor, 'In a few short months, Detroit turned from producing Studebakers and Buicks to Sherman tanks and B-24 bombers. It was the engine for the "arsenal of democracy," and we couldn't have won the war without it.' We are capable of enormous change when challenged. The problem is that we don't feel challenged, despite 2005.08.29 (a far more important wakeup call than 2001.09.11). How to generate that sense of urgency is the key question.
I do think it's interesting that during his profile of China, Tom fails to mention China's movement towards an all-electric public/ private transportation system. It's been said the China has invested more money in overhauling it's transportation system than any other country in the world in order to address their pollution problems. While China is continuing to develop, I think it's only fair to recognizes the many efforts they have also invested in to counter balance their urban growth.
In fact, some of China's efforts are beginning to spill over to the United States as they are now beginning to export electric vehicles through an LA distributor/manufacturer called MILES Electric Vehicles. Associated with company is also a very interesting non-profit called No Gas Required that helps students learn about the environment and teaches them how to take action on their campus through conventional and unconventional methods. nogasrequired.com is the website. Very interesting. Despite Tom's pessimism there are people continuing to make an effort despite the challenges. This message is more powerful than Tom's persistent lazy whining.


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Lauzon: State approves TIF district
BARRE The city won approval Thursday from the Vermont Economic Progress Council to create the states last legislatively approved tax increment financing district, said Mayor Thomas Lauzon.
He has been the most outspoken proponent of what he views as an invaluable economic development tool.
The city of Barre will join other municipalities such as Burlington, Winooski, St. Albans and Hartford, to name a few, who have tax increment financing as an economic tool to support private and municipal development, Lauzon said. Like those communities, we will use it well and will promote smart growth in our central business district.
Barres TIF district essentially mirrors the boundaries of its downtown and, if voters also approve it, would put the city in a position to redirect some tax revenues which otherwise would go to the state to finance public infrastructure projects over a 20-year period.
City officials have identified enhanced parking and the redevelopment of Merchants Row as projects that might be funded with money generated by development in the TIF district.
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Dear readers: Here is this week's sound-off, about motorists not using their headlights:
"Along with people not using their auto directional signals, a great number of drivers do not have low lights or headlights on when windshield wipers are necessary. I have never witnessed this rule being enforced by local or highway patrol personnel. It can be very dangerous, especially when visibility is very low." — A Concerned Reader, via email
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It's been a while since there's been a post and it's primarily because things have been rather more dull than usual. We played the latest Tomb Raider, finishing it up last weekend. It was something to do to get us closer to spring and ignore how it still seems so far away. Like everyone else around here, we have been rather impatiently waiting it to arrive.
The knitting pace since finishing Perianth has been very slow. It took over 4 weeks to work half of Malpeque's back. Something that should have taken less than a week. Well, it is off of the needles now and the weekend might see it blocked, although the top few rows of the piece do need to be looked at for plies that didn't make it into the target stitch.
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Wed Nov 12 2014 (Updated 11/17/14)Strikes by California RNs Kick Off Actions for Patient Safety and Ebola Precautions
UPDATE 11/14: New CA Ebola Mandate Inspired by NNU Appeal to Gov. Brown, Sets National Model
On November 11, two-day strikes started that effect nearly 20,000 registered nurses at 86 Kaiser Permanente hospitals and clinics, a Sutter hospital in Tracy, and Watsonville Community Hospital kicking off a wave of protests in 15 states and the District of Columbia over eroding patient care conditions symbolized by inadequate Ebola safeguards at most U.S. hospitals. Large noon rallies were held at Kaiser Oakland and Kaiser South Sacramento.
Thu Oct 23 2014Lawsuit Launched to Protect Pinto Abalone
Conservation groups notified the National Marine Fisheries Service of their intent to sue the agency for delaying Endangered Species Act protection for the pinto abalone, an approximately six-inch snail with an iridescent inner shell that was once common in rocky, intertidal coasts from Alaska to Baja California.
Thu Oct 9 2014 (Updated 10/14/14)Public Right to Access California Coastline Reaffirmed
Thu Oct 9 2014 (Updated 10/14/14)Martin's Beach Access Lawsuit Won Against Billionaire Vinod Khosla
On September 24, the Surfrider Foundation scored a huge victory in its protracted legal battle against billionaire and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla to restore beach access at Martin's Beach in San Mateo County, California. In 2010, Khosla had locked gates that provided the only public access to the beach. "Today's court decision upholding the Coastal Act is an important victory for Martin's Beach and ultimately strengthens the public's right to beach access in California," says Angela Howe, Legal Director for the Surfrider Foundation.
Mon Oct 6 2014Standing Strong Against the Death Penalty
Mon Oct 6 2014Movement to End Capital Punishment Growing
At a rally in Palo Alto on October 5th, speakers Mary Kay Raftery and Chris Walker said that there is no such thing as the "closure" that death penalty advocates promote. Mary Kay's son was murdered; Chris spoke of his experience as an innocent man in Pelican Bay prison. Long time Amnesty International member Terry McCaffrey said it is clear that support for the death penalty is in decline, but "we must not let up on our struggle to put an end to capital punishment".
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Fri Sep 26 2014 (Updated 09/28/14)Bay Area Residents React to Airstrikes on Syria by Taking to the Streets
On the evening of September 23, the airwaves were filled with reports of strikes by the United States and its allies against targets in Syria. Quick response in Palo Alto by the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center called on SF Peninsula residents to gather and protest. Demonstrations were held in San Francisco and San José as well.
Sun Sep 14 2014Family of Yanira Serrano Sues San Mateo Sheriffs and Deputy Who Killed Their Daughter
On September 9, the family of Yanira Serrano Garcia announced they filed a civil rights lawsuit against San Mateo County and San Mateo Sheriff's Deputy Menh Trieu in Federal District Court in San Francisco for the June 3 killing of Yanira at her home in Half Moon Bay. On August 18, San Mateo County District Attorney Stephen M. Wagstaffe announced charges would not be filed against Deputy Trieu for the killing.
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We always have a choice, Pema Chodron teaches: We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us and make us increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder. Here Pema provides the tools to deal with the problems and difficulties that life throws our way. This wisdom is always available to us, she teaches, but we usually block it with habitual patterns rooted in fear. Beyond that fear lies a state of openheartedness and tenderness. This book teaches us how to awaken our basic goodness and connect with others, to accept ourselves and others complete with faults and imperfections, and to stay in the present moment by seeing through the strategies of ego that cause us to resist life as it is.
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Pema Chodron_ is an American-born Buddhist nun and the author of many spiritual classics, including When Things Fall Apart (Shambhala, 2002), The Places that Scare You (Shambhala, 2004), and Taking the Leap (Shambhala, 2009). She serves as resident teacher at Gampo Abbey Monastery in Nova Scotia and is a student of Dzigar Kongtrul and the late Chogyam Trungpa. See pemachodronfoundation.org.
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Released: Jun 01st, 2006
Running Time: 106
Director: Jake Cruise
Company: Jake Cruise
Distribution Companies: AVNS Distribution, Inc.
Cast: Cypher, Tim (II), Jake Cruise, Kameron
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: Gay Specialty
DVDIn three scenes, middle-aged Cruise fondles and displays young "friends" like they were pets. Himself fully-dressed, he strips impish Cypher and sucks cock, feet, asshole, balls, and tits, bending his friend for easier oral access. Cypher opens Cruise's jeans to suck him, balls and all, then strips him to crawl all over him like Cruise was a cute young hottie. Cruise comes, then fills Cypher's ass with eroto-balls and jacks the youth's load. Kameron, a striking crop-haired blond whose nipple-, ear-, and lip-rings Cruise laughs about, is cooler but cooperative. The contrast between cool Kameron, sitting on Cruise's face indifferently, and Cruise, passionately gobbling anus and jacking pink cock, is fascinating. Kameron shows some pleasure in fucking Cruise's mouth. Jake doesn't undress or come, just jacks the youth and says, "Thank you." Slacker/ skater-type Tim wants "to get into the industry." He does well briefly sucking Cruise's cock (his first). Cruise pays deserved attention to Tim's stunning ass and hole. Tim discovers a dildo hurts as much going out as going in. Then Cruise lets the lad jack himself.
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Gloria Shell Mitchell enjoys writing skits and personalized poems. Her raps, There's A Time, I Say and Can You Imagine That, have been presented in churches, youth rallies and schools. She wrote and directed church plays Gimme That Old Time Religion and Jesus Is Alive. An advocate for social justice, she writes about real-life issues and talks about them every Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. on radio station KTYM AM 1460. Her greatest inspiration for sharing her thoughts with the world came from reading her first published piece, a letter to the editor of Ebony magazine, at age 12. Seeing her first published article, Let Yourself Have Fun, in a youth magazine inspired her to pursue her passion for writing.
In The Garbage Man's Daughter Series, Gloria, an educator, minister and former certified public accountant, pleads with readers to let go of the garbage they carry from childhood into adult relationships. In addition to tutoring mathematics and teaching social skills, this retired educator facilitates divorce recovery groups in her efforts to save the world, one family at a time.


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Brandon Edwards scored 17 points leading Texas-Arlington to a 60-51 victory over Texas-Pan American at UTPA Fieldhouse on Monday.
Karol Gruszecki had 12 points for Texas-Arlington and Kevin Butler chipped in with 11 points. Kevin Butler had 3 assists for them, while Jordan Reves was the team's top rebounder, grabbing 7 boards.
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Well! I haven't updated my status here for roughly three thousand years but let's face it: nothing's really happened to warrant a status update in that time either! We're in that state between expansions where the only things left to get are either a) heavily RNG-based and therefore not really likely to ever happen or b) Not Very Fun, which means I'm happy to put them off basically forever.
I'm really just checking the AH every day for an abnormally cheap Dragon Kite or Rocket Chicken, telling myself I should play HotS for that eventual Graves (but, again, Not Very Fun), wondering why I haven't put ANY actual effort into finding a Deathwatch Hatchling guild... you know how it is.
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Very Minor Annoyance Time: It's Seagull, not "Sea Gull". One word, Blizzard.
After being so emotionally involved in the plight of the Sporelings back in BC, it does feel a little weird to capture one of their children and send him off into a series of deathmatches, but.... OH WELL.
Random Fun Fact Time:
"Porcupette" is actually the correct term for a baby porcupine! Since porcupine spikes are made of modified hairs and take a while to harden properly, the babies are basically just little fluffballs: http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/porcupine/
Finally found a rare one of these, and... it turned out to be male. I don't even know.
This is probably the only pet I've ever been asked to desummon because it creeped someone out.
Stupid Naming Tip: For the ultimate bad Snakes on a Plane reference, name your King Snake Mother Foo (actually all things considered it's probably better if you don't).
Strangely, both this and the Wanderer's Festival Hatchling are described as young versions of Shen-Zin Su.
Either this is a mistake, or they're leading up to a surprising twist where there's actually TWO wandering isles, and the one we haven't seen yet comes crashing into play during our final epic battle against Garrosh, as it leaps from the sea and swoops majestically over Orgrimmar while... yes okay that's not very likely, probably just a mistake then.


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Lotus Temple, New Delhi. Important visiting information
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The architecture of Lotus Temple was constructed by Bahai Faith which is located at our capital New Delhi. The temple was completed at 1986 by 8000 engineers and other workers in a team. Lotus temple resembles like a lotus flower which consists of 27 petals and it is mainly made up of marbles. All religions are allowed in this temple, there are no restrictions. You can do meditation inside the temple where it has the capacity of 2500 people in it. Almost 50 million people had visited this flower.
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1. Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton Oilers: 212 points, 92 goals, 120 assists, NHL MVP.
2. Moses Malone, Houston Rockets: 31.1 points, 14.7 rebounds, NBA MVP.
3. Robin Yount, Milwaukee Brewers: .331, 29 HRs, 114 RBI, Gold Glove SS, hit .414 in World Series
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As I believe I posted elsewhere, I was bitten on my honeymoon in late June 2011. I didn't start treatments until September and had problems with a miscarriage, whether from the Lyme itself or the treatments we'll never know. So I did one round of doxy and then followed the Buhner herbal protocol until early December. I conceived while still on the full doses, but was already starting to reduce by the time I learned I was pregnant. I continued a modified treatment through the pregnancy. I had to make some changes around week 35 to eliminate suppliments that could have blood thinning effects, but I remained symptom-free. In late mid-August, I gave birth to a beautiful, healthy girl at home with no medications! She's a month and a half old now and we're both doing great. I am breastfeeding, so I stay on the mild herbs, but I can honestly say I feel better now than I have in over a year! Even with the sleep deprevation, it feels so amazing to have energy again!!!
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hi, I am new to this board, but not new to lyme. So happy to hear you are doing well! I just got diagnosed with lyme again (just gave birth in August as well), and am having a really hard time. Right now I am on doxy 100mg 2 times a day. I'm feeling incredibly hopeless that I will ever get better and live a normal life.
Sorry to hear that. I know how you feel and that depression and hopelessness is part of the disease. Hang in there and keep going. You *can* get better! For me, the doxy wasn't so great and I did better with herbs. Everyone's body is different, so keep trying different treatments until you find one that works for you.
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Skip to comments.Farmers tackle pests with colas (Pepsi and Coca-Cola used as pest control)
Posted on 11/03/2004 10:43:30 AM PST by bedolido
For farmers in the eastern Indian state of Chhattisgarh it is cheaper than pesticides and gets the job done just as well. The product? Pepsi or Coca-Cola.
Agricultural scientists give them some backing - they say the high sugar content of the drinks can make them effective in combating pests.
Unsurprisingly, Pepsi and Coca-Cola strongly disagree, saying there is nothing in the drinks that can be used in pest control.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Well, that's a better use for than using it to douche with. I understand that Coke was used by women to douche in the 40s. Eeeooowwww!
Just don't stand in the field when the cropduster unloads the bottles....
Coke has plenty of other uses. It's a GREAT glass cleaner. (I know, it defies logic since you'd think the sugar would leave the glass sticky, but it doesn't.) I've also heard a lot of policemen keep a cache in the trunk because it does a great job of cleaning blood off asphalt.
I believe it is the caffeine. It's a natural pesticide.
(you'll never see fire ants in the coffee grounds.. :^)
Kool-Aid works pretty good on RATS, so far today.
Probably the sodium in it too.....
Want to get rid of coons...pour some 7-up in a ceramic bowl, add some fly bait. The stuff stinks so bad that you don't want to mix it in the house. Coons love it and will make it at the most maybe 25 feet away. Don't know what exactly does it, but the coons drop like flies. Knew an old farmer that kept the coon population down in his haymow with this concoction.
Works great!
"Kool-Aid works pretty good on RATS, so far today"
There you go, kick'em while their down...BAWHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAA,
GAWDDDDDDDDDDDD, it feels like christmas!!! I feel like a little kid who got everything they wanted on their christmas list....YEEEHHHHHAAAAWWWW!!
1. In many states (in the USA) the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the truck to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.
2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone in two days.
3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.
4. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a rumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.
5. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.
6. To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.
7. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan, wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy.
8. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.
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1. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about 4 days. Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase in osteoporosis.
2. To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck must use the Hazardous material place cards reserved for Highly corrosive materials.
3. The distributors of coke have been using it to clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years! Now the question is, would you like a glass of water or Coke
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On #7, also sprinkle that ham with brown sugar.
Speaking of cooking meat, I make the world's best ribeye. Worked on the prep-juice and methodology for over twenty years. Seriously thinking about marketing it.
I ran out of ant spray one time, tried Windex. It worked.
Just don't stand in the field when the cropduster unloads the bottles....
Go read the label.
Twas a classic........
Really obese vermin run slowly.
"pour some 7-up in a ceramic bowl, add some fly bait"
And what is fly-bait?
>>> Unsurprisingly, Pepsi and Coca-Cola strongly disagree, saying there is nothing in the
drinks that can be used in pest control. <<<
Ha way back when I was in the Navy I was coming in to the back door of our barrack with a can of coke. A big cockroach goes running across the floor. I splashed a few drops on it. And it went legs up in 2 sec.
The best ribeye in the world is served at The Great American Land and Cattle Company in El Paso Tx. If you disagree, you haven't eaten there.
"Coke has plenty of other uses. It's a GREAT glass cleaner. (I know, it defies logic since you'd think the sugar would leave the glass sticky, but it doesn't.)"
Works great on a trip in the rain. Buy a coke, splash a bit on the windshield and wipe it off while you drink the rest. learned that from my dad.
I never had any plan for marketing it, but over the years, every time somebody eats one for the first time, they start raving about how I should figure out a way to sell it. Having taken one product from raw mental concept to the national retail market, I'm not anxious to dive into the process again.
Fly bait is packaged in a can. Stinks like dead animals. You can find it in farm supply stores or where horse supplies are sold. We used to use it in the loafing shed for our cattle. Drew the flies like crazy--just like it does coons. When you open the can, it's blue. There's a couple of different companies that make it. Hardware stores could probably get it for you.
Thanks for the info, I think I know a coon population that could benefit from this concoction.
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Police say an El Dorado teenager who died after her car washed into a drainage ditch called a friend from her cell phone after the wreck.
According to El Dorado police, the friend told 911 dispatchers that they talked for about 10 minutes before the phone went dead Monday night. He told authorities that the last thing 15-year-old Bayleigh Stovall told him was that she couldn't get the door open. He called 911 after the line went dead.
The Kansas Highway Patrol says the girl's car hydroplaned on wet
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washed into a drainage ditch and eventually became submerged.
Stovall's vehicle was found about 50 minutes. She was taken to a
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Oatmeal Brownies
Total Time
Prep 15 mins
Cook 50 mins
These are gorgeous looking and you get two for one! Two different dessert tastes--brownies and brown sugared oats, layered into one rich, scrumptious treat. Makes 48 brownies.
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- 2 1⁄2 cups oats (quick-cooking or old-fashioned)
- 3⁄4 cup all-purpose flour
- 3⁄4 cup brown sugar (packed)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 3⁄4 cup butter, softened (can sub equal amount of margarine)
- 15 ounces brownie mix (with chocolate syrup pouch)
- 1⁄3 cup water
- 1⁄3 cup vegetable oil
- 2 eggs
- 1⁄2 cup nuts (chopped)
- Heat oven to 350°F.
- Grease bottom only of 13x9x2 pan.
- For oat mixture:.
- Mix oats, flour, brown sugar and baking soda.
- Stir in butter.
- Reserve 1 cup of the oat mixture and press remaining oat mixture into prepared pan.
- Bake 10 minutes and then let cool for 5 minutes.
- For brownie mixture:.
- Stir brownie mix, chocolate syrup, water, oil and eggs in medium bowl about 50 strokes or until well blended.
- Stir in nuts.
- Spread over oat layer and then sprinkle with remaining oat mixture.
- Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in pan comes out clean (checking 2 inches from side of pan).
- Cool completely before cutting.
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This was a winner!!! Thanks for the recipe. I didn't have brownie mix with chocolate syrup, I just used what I had at the house and followed the directions on the box for the amounts of oil and water. I liked the amount of oatmeal, I would not lessen. I might consider adding butterscottchy chips to the oatmeal mixture, in a layer between it and the brownies. Yummy!!!
Wonderful!!! The Brownies are easy to cut out of the pan so they look great! So Yummmy!!!!
Wow these are really tasty! I omitted the nuts and baked in an 8x11 pan so I had to bake them about 8 extra minutes. Very chewy and fudgy treat. Thanks Chef Mommie!


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Your article on scams was very informative and hopefully will alert people to them ("Scary Scams," Jan. 25-26).
As well as over the phone, people can get scammed over their Internet and email. These scams can steal money but also infect their computers with malware.
A typical one will tell the victim that the FBI has accused them of a crime and they need to click on it to clear their name. The person will be given a choice to "leave this page" or "stay on this page." If you click to leave or click out, you can't shut the program down. If you were to click on "stay on this page" you would be infected with malware, a malicious software that can infect a computer.
The scammers would then inform you that for a price, usually several hundred dollars, they will remove the malware. If you don't agree to it, your computer will gradually shut down and you will lose everything.
If you do get one of these messages, immediately shut your computer off. The scams you mentioned in your article are on the Internet too. Many Internet security programs cannot remove this malware, but one called Malwarebytes can and it's free.
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Made to Crave Study Guide with DVD
By Lysa TerKeurst
ZondervanCopyright © 2011 Lysa TerKeurst
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Chapter OneFrom Deprivation to Empowerment
Welcome to Session 1 of Made to Crave. You're about to embark on a spiritual adventure with great physical benefits! if this is your first time together as a group, take a moment to introduce yourselves to each other before watching the video. Then let's get started!
Video: From Deprivation to Empowerment (20 MINUTES)
As you watch the video, use the outline below to follow along or to take notes on anything that stands out to you.
God made you wonderful. (Psalm 139)
Indulge: To take unrestrained pleasure in something.
"Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which [wage] war against your soul." (1 Peter 2:11)
Made to Crave is not about helping you to find your how-to; it's about helping you find your want-to.
How-to = diet programs
Want-to = the spiritual and mental motivation to make lasting changes
Story of the rich young man. (Matthew 19:16–26)
"if anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me." (Mark 8:34)
Food isn't bad, but it's a problem when it sabotages you mentally, physically, and spiritually.
I had to be really honest. The thing I thought about, ran to, took comfort in, found refuge in, turned to and depended on, was food way more than it was Jesus.
This is a spiritual journey that will reap wonderful physical benefits.
If we can look at healthy options and make the healthy choices—and not feel deprived but instead feel empowered—everything will change. it will change us mentally, spiritually, and physically.
Made to Crave will help you learn how to feel empowered rather than deprived.
We were made to crave, desire, want greatly, one thing: God, not food.
Group Discussion: From Deprivation to Empowerment (5 MINUTES)
If your group meets for two hours, allow 10 MINUTES for this discussion.
Take a few minutes to talk about what you just watched.
1. What part of the teaching had the most impact on you?
2. What, if anything, did you hear that you didn't expect to hear?
Group Discussion: The Vicious Cycle (10 MINUTES)
If your group meets for two hours, include this discussion as part of your meeting.
1. Lysa describes the vicious cycle she experienced of stepping on the scale every morning, vowing to make healthier choices, giving in to the temptation of unhealthy foods, feeling like a failure, and then starting all over again. How would you describe your experiences of the vicious cycle?
2. Do you ever feel that your struggles with food are unfair? Why or why not?
Individual Activity: Assessing My Soul (5 MINUTES)
Complete this activity on your own.
1. Briefly review the list of statements below and place a checkmark next to those you feel are true for you.
I think about food way too much.
My food choices are often high in fat or sugar.
I feel embarrassed about my weight or appearance.
The thought of changing how I eat makes me feel sad.
I'm reluctant to bring this issue to God.
I have gained and lost weight several times.
I feel defeated and discouraged about issues related to weight or food.
I don't have as much physical energy as I wish I did.
When I need comfort, I turn to food before I turn to God.
I say negative things to myself ("You're so fat," "You're ugly," "You're not capable of getting your act together when it comes to food.")
I'm not sure this is an issue God cares about.
I feel guilty or embarrassed about what I eat or the size of my portions.
I have health concerns that are weight related.
I eat foods typically considered unhealthy fast food several times a week.
I eat for emotional reasons—for comfort, out of boredom, to relieve stress.
I sometimes feel like food is more powerful than I am.
I think I will always struggle with this issue.
I sometimes eat in secret or hide food.
I avoid physical exertion.
When it comes to food and weight, I feel like I am trapped in a vicious cycle with no way out.
2. Based on your responses from the checklist, circle the number below that best describes the degree to which you feel issues with food may be waging war on your soul.
Group Discussion: Assessing My Soul (8 MINUTES)
If your group meets for two hours, allow 15 MINUTES for this discussion.
1. How do you respond to the idea that issues with food or weight can wage war on your soul (1 Peter 2:11)?
2. What insights or surprises did you discover in your self-assessment?
3. If you feel comfortable doing so, share the statement from the individual Activity checklist that best describes your thoughts or feelings right now. explain the reasons for your choice.
Group Discussion: How's Your Want-To? (15 MINUTES)
If your group meets for two hours, include this discussion as part of your meeting.
1. In order to eat healthier, we need a how-to (a plan for what to eat), but we also need a want-to—the spiritual and mental motivation to make lasting changes. In previous efforts at weight loss and healthy eating, what ideas, experiences, or relationships fueled your want-to? In other words, what increased your motivation to make healthy choices?
2. How would you describe your want-to right now? Is your spiritual and mental motivation low, moderate, or high? Describe the reasons for your response.
Group Discussion: The Story of the Rich Young Man (13 MINUTES)
If your group meets for two hours, allow 30 MINUTES for this discussion.
1. Read Matthew 19:16–26 and Mark 8:34 aloud. in what ways do you relate the rich young man's struggles with his possessions to your struggles with food?
2. The rich young man is unwilling to deny himself; he doesn't want to feel deprived of his possessions. Lysa had similar feelings about food. She once told God, "You can mess with my pride, You can mess with my anger, You can mess with my disrespectful attitude, but don't mess with my food." How do you respond to the idea of allowing God to "mess with" your food?
3. Jesus asks us to give up being controlled by anything in life that we crave more than we crave Him, which may feel impossible to do. But He also says, "With God, all things are possible." When it comes to your issues with food and healthy eating, what is the one "impossible" thing you want God to make possible for you?
Group Discussion: Empowerment (7 MINUTES)
If your group meets for two hours, allow 15 MINUTES for this discussion.
If we can learn to feel empowered rather than deprived when we make a healthy choice, everything will change.
1. Imagine you are attending a party with a large buffet. in the process of making healthy choices, you say no to some foods. What kinds of things might you say to yourself that would make you feel deprived because of your choice? For example, "Why am I the only one not eating dessert?"
2. What kinds of things might you say to yourself that would make you feel empowered because of your choice? For example, "I overcame temptation and made a healthy choice!"
3. How hopeful do you feel that you can make this mental switch—from feeling deprived to feeling empowered when you make a healthy choice?
Individual Activity: What I Want to Remember (2 MINUTES)
Complete this activity on your own.
1. Briefly review the outline and any notes you took.
2. In the space below, write down the most significant thing you gained in this session—from the teaching, activities, or discussions.
What I want to remember from this session ...
Closing Prayer
Close your time together with prayer.
Maximize the Impact
Maximize the impact of this curriculum with six days of personal study between sessions, alternating every other day between reading a chapter of the Made to Crave book and then completing a Bible study on the theme of that chapter (see next page). Setting aside just twenty to thirty minutes a day for personal study will enable you to complete the book and Bible studies by the end of the six-session group experience.
Between-sessions Personal Bible study
DAY 1: Read and Reflect
Read the introduction and chapter 1 of Made to Crave. if you want to dig a little deeper, use a notepad or journal to work through the personal reflection questions at the end of the chapter. Use the space below to note any insights or questions you want to bring to the next group session.
DAY 2: What's Really Going on Here?
We tend to think of a craving as a weakness, something that compels us to eat something that probably isn't the healthiest choice. But what if our ability to desire—to crave—is something that could draw us closer to God? Would it change the way you think about craving?
1. When it comes to food cravings, we tend to go for something sweet or salty, crunchy or soft, cool or warm.
How would you describe the kinds of foods you typically eat to satisfy a craving?
What is it about this kind of food that you enjoy so much? For example, is it the creaminess of ice cream melting on your tongue? Licking spicy seasoning off your fingers? The feeling of abundance represented by a whole bag or box of something?
How do you feel before, during, and after eating your craving food? Before eating, I feel ...
While I'm eating, I feel ...
After eating, I feel ...
2. The Bible describes three specific tactics Satan uses to misdirect our desires and lure us away from loving God:
Do not love the world or anything in the world. if anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. (1 John 2:15–16, emphasis added)
Using the following list, think back over the last twenty-four hours or the last few days to see if you recognize how you may have been tempted in similar ways.
Craving: meeting physical desires outside the will of God. in what ways were you tempted by unhealthy desires for things such as food, alcohol, drugs, or sex?
Lust of the eyes: meeting material desires outside the will of God. in what ways were you tempted by excessive desires for material things—clothing, financial portfolio, appliances, vacation plans, cosmetics, home décor, electronics, etc.?
Boasting: meeting needs for significance outside the will of God. in what ways were you tempted by desires to prop up your significance—perhaps by name dropping, exaggerating, feigning humility or other virtues, doing something just because you knew it would be observed by others, etc.?
In what ways was your ability to love God and love others (including yourself) impacted by your response to these temptations?
3. Read Genesis 3:6 and Matthew 4:1–11 to see how Satan used these same three tactics with eve and with Jesus. note each temptation on the chart below.
4. In one sense, we could say that eve and Jesus had similar responses to their temptations—they both kept a laser-like focus on their desires. The difference between them was what they wanted most of all—what they craved. eve's cravings displaced God and made Him secondary to her other desires; what mattered most to her was everything the forbidden fruit represented. Jesus' cravings asserted God's supremacy over every other desire, even a legitimate desire for food; what mattered most to Him was the will of God. Do you see why what we crave matters so much?
Refer back to your responses to question 2. For each temptation you wrote down, how would you describe the craving—what you wanted most of all—behind the temptation?
How do you feel about this principle—that what we crave matters—when it comes to our food choices?
5. Jesus defeated every temptation—every lie from the enemy—by quoting the truth of God's Word. Truth is powerful. The more saturated we are with truth, the more powerful we'll be in resisting our temptations, whatever form they take. As you begin this healthy eating journey, here is a strengthening truth you can soak in every day:
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" ... For when I am weak, then I am strong. (2 Corinthians 12:9–10)
Your weakness with food does not disqualify you from winning this battle. in fact, it may be your best qualification. You'll have to rely on God completely, and that makes you the perfect candidate for grace.
In the space provided, write a brief prayer that expresses your heart to God as you begin this Made to Crave journey. Tell Him your fears and questions, your hopes and desires, your weaknesses and needs. Ask for His grace, all sufficient for you.
DAY 3: Read and Reflect
Read chapter 2 of Made to Crave. if you want to dig a little deeper, use a notepad or journal to work through the personal reflection questions at the end of the chapter. Use the space below to note any insights or questions you want to bring to the next group session.
DAY 4: Replacing My Cravings
When we rely on something, we trust it and depend on it; we have confidence that it won't let us down. if we struggle with food, at some point we have to wrestle with a very raw question: Is it possible we love and rely on food more than we love and rely on God?
1. For each of the items listed below, use the space provided to rate the degree to which you rely on food to give you what you need. Use the following scale:
3 = Food is almost always the first thing I rely on. 2 = Food is frequently what I rely on. 1 = Food is occasionally what I rely on. 0 = Food is rarely what I rely on.
_____ When I need comfort _____ When I want a reward _____ When I feel joy _____ When I experience stress _____ When I feel sadness _____ When I feel happiness _____ When I experience boredom
Pick one of the items you rated as a 3 or a 2 and circle it. Keep it in mind as you respond to the following questions.
What behaviors do you typically engage in when turning to food for that reason? For example, if you rely on food for comfort, do you secretly get takeout from a fast food restaurant and eat it in your car, sit down in front of the television with a bag of chips, curl up in your favorite chair with a pan of warm brownies and a fork?
How do you imagine your behaviors might change if you were able to turn to God at such times? What, specifically, would you do and not do instead?
What feelings arise when you consider the prospect of not relying on food at such times?
Excerpted from Made to Crave Study Guide with DVD by Lysa TerKeurst Copyright © 2011 by Lysa TerKeurst. Excerpted by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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Impressive rookie done for season
The Milwaukee Brewers saw everything they needed to see from Mark Rogers.
And now, they're shutting the rookie right-hander down.
General manager Doug Melvin, assistant general manager Gord Ash, manager Ron Roenicke and pitching coach Rick Kranitz all met with Rogers on Saturday afternoon to inform him he was done pitching in 2012.
The move comes on the heels of the 26-year-old's third consecutive victory, a game in which he threw 5 1/3 innings of five-hit, one-run, five-strikeout ball against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday.
Team principal owner Mark Attanasio made mention of the move on the TV broadcast Friday, but Roenicke didn't confirm it until Saturday because he hadn't yet spoken with Rogers.
Rogers finishes the season having thrown 134 1/3 innings between 18 starts at Class AAA Nashville and seven more with Milwaukee. He went 3-1 with a 3.92 earned-run average with the Brewers, allowing 36 hits, walking 14 and striking out 41 in 39 innings.
"We thought if he pitches one or two more outings for us, is it going to change our mind or the way we feel about him? I don't think it will," Roenicke said. "So to be on the safe side, we thought it was the right thing to do.
"Frankly, if I still had question marks about him and Doug still had question marks about him, he would probably start a couple more times to really get a feel on, 'Can he pitch here or not?' His stuff is good, and it gets out really good major-league hitters."
While shutting young pitchers down has become the rage in the major leagues this season - with Washington's Stephen Strasburg being the most high-profile case - the Brewers have plenty of reason to proceed cautiously with Rogers.
A first-round draft pick in 2004, Rogers has undergone two shoulder surgeries as well as surgery on both wrists to alleviate carpal tunnel syndrome. He pitched just 44 innings in the minor leagues in 2011.
He's been healthy this season, however, and is back to throwing the ball in the mid- to high 90s.
With the Brewers expected to have plenty of competition for spots in their starting rotation in 2013, shutting Rogers down now ensures he'll be a big part of the equation heading into spring training.
Rogers, meanwhile, sees both the upside and the downside to being relegated to the sideline for the remainder of the season.
"I kind of expected it to be coming after talking about it for a while now," he said. "At the same time, I still want to keep pitching. I think if I didn't want to keep pitching, that'd be a problem. I still feel very good, I'm competitive and things are going well right now, so obviously you want to keep taking the ball every five days. And actually, I don't feel like we're out of it, either. I feel like we're right there.
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