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I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon, of the church in Cenchreae. I ask you to receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of his people and to give her any help she may need from you, for she has been the benefactor of many people, including me.
Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my co-workers in Christ Jesus. They risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them. Greet also the church that meets at their house. Greet my dear friend Epenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia. Greet Mary, who worked very hard for you. Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was. Greet Ampliatus, my dear friend in the Lord. Greet Urbanus, our co-worker in Christ, and my dear friend Stachys. Greet Apelles, whose fidelity to Christ has stood the test. Greet those who belong to the household of Aristobulus. Greet Herodion, my fellow Jew. Greet those in the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord. Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, those women who work hard in the Lord. Greet my dear friend Persis, another woman who has worked very hard in the Lord. Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother, who has been a mother to me, too. Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas and the other brothers and sisters with them. Greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas and all the Lord's people who are with them.
Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ send greetings.
Phoebe is the person who is carrying this letter to the church in Rome. Paul asks the church there to welcome her as a fellow Christian. She may well have been a deaconess, charged with assisting with the baptism of women and helping the church when it came to caring for women in their home. We find that Paul was in Cenchreae in Acts 18:18.
As we begin the long list of greetings, we find that Priscilla (Prisca) and Aquila are the only names we recognize. They are mentioned six other times in the New Testament (Acts 18:2, 18, 26; Romans 16:2; 1 Corinthians 16:19) 2 Timothy 4:19). Aquila was a tentmaker who arrived in Rome after being expelled by Claudius from Pontus. His name means 'eagle.' Because of his trade, he and Paul became friends. The couple traveled to Ephesus with Paul, instructed Apollos in the faith, had a church in their home in several locations, and were very active in spreading the gospel. We find here that they risked their lives for him and though we don't know what it was they did, apparently the entirety of the churches in the region knew and gave thanks for their work.
The next list of greetings are names of people that we don't recognize, but the interesting thing is the number of women who are named. In a patriarchal society, Paul recognized the power of women within his churches. They weren't a minor part of the community, but were active and engaged.
During this period of time, a kiss during a greeting was quite common. While generally the kisses were given by a man to a man and a woman to a woman, in later years, we find Clement of Alexandria writing of people who were shameless in their use of the kiss … it was then restricted and abandoned as a greeting.


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Once again, my unhappy opinion of boating-like outings was confirmed and my resolve further hardened against repeating such endeavors.
And no, depsite the boat rental guy's vivid descriptions of potential local wildlife sightings, we didn't actually run into any snakes out on the river today (although they do have a nice black snake in the office terrarium).
We did, however, hit and get completely and nearly irrevocably stuck on every *&+!$&)%!$ rock, log and thicker-than-normal chunk of water between put in and take out, resulting in many minutes spent frantically bouncing the raft about and pushing fruitlessly against the local geology in variously successful attempts to free ourselves, eventually scooting free only to run aground again a few more meters down the channel. We also spun around a lot, usually as part of the "rock on, rock off" process, prompting the 4 of us who were on the inflatable together to christen it the Merry-Go-Raft. It was very hot and sunny. I was layered up in sleeves and pants like Micheal Jackson in Dubai drag over heavy sunscreen (and still got some pink on my shoulders). I had on my big pink straw hat (I bring my own shade if none is provided) and flip-flops (it was either that or risk getting my sneakers wet, and they take days to dry if that happens). There was only a spotty breeze. I had to pee when I wasn't waterless with anxiety. My wrists were shot from yesterday's CPR training and by the end of the trip I was paddling with my forearm.
It was quite thoroughly Not Fun.
Thankfully, it is over and, as one of my raftmates said, we can always use this when times get tough during our tour by saying "Hey, at least we're not out on the water." I, however, plan on working hard at simply blocking the whole morning out of my memory entirely.
The rest of the afternoon was devoted to more teambuilding games designed to simultaneously bond and torture. Our afternoon was hightlighted by the arrival of the tinkle-tuned ice cream truck, whose driver has the brilliance to know a captive market base (hot and sweaty post-float-trip tourists) when he sees one. He was summarily mobbed by a dozen Americorps members waving coinage.
So, the float trip is done (float trip? what float trip?). I'm off for the weekend. Oh, and I got my assignment – mornings at Haw Fletcher elementary as a teachers' aid sorta thing and afternoons at Pisgah View after school program as the volunteer coordinator. Not my top picks, but I'm going into it with an open mind. Should be an interesting year.
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Should Christians adopt such practices?
Can we borrow pagan customs and superstitions of ancient peoples and "Christianize" them?
As believers, we are called to "Test everything. Hold on to the good. Avoid every kind of evil. [1 Thesalonians 5:21-22] Who can deny that virtually all of the symbols of Halloween are evil? Witches, monsters, ogres, vampires, ghosts, ghouls, goblins, devils and demons all portray evil. Christians are to "... have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." [Ephesians 5:11]
Is Halloween just another innocent holiday that doesn't harm anyone? Is it really just childish fun? Vandalism and wanton disregard for the property of others is common on Halloween night. Even normally well-behaved children are driven by unseen forces to destructive behavior. Police officials everywhere report a great increase in such activities on Halloween. Worse yet are the horrifying accounts of poisoned candy and fruits booby-trapped with razor blades and needles. Such threats are so real that many hospitals offer free X-rays of Halloween treats in order to prevent children from being harmed. Who but Satan could inspire such monstrous actions?
Should the church be compromised by accommodating itself to the culture?
"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind." [Romans 12:2]
"For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial?" [2 Corinthians 6:14, 15]
When America and the world celebrates the Festival of Samhain and the powers of darkness by masquerading as evil creatures or decorating our homes, schools, businesses and churches with occult symbols, Satanic power is glorified.
The sort of practices celebrated on Halloween are what defiled the ancient nations [see Leviticus 18:24-30]. The Israelites were warned against such practices when they entered the Promised Land, "When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations." [Deuteronomy 18:9]
Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and because of these detestable practices the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you. You must be blameless before the LORD your God. The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination. But as for you, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so. [Deuteronomy 18:10-14]
As an alternative to the celebration of evil and death, Christians should rather do what Christians are supposed to do every day and that is shine the light of Jesus Christ.A day that emphasizes the light of Christ instead of the darkness of evil.
While you may have participated "all in fun," be assured, Halloween is serious business for Satanists and witches. Those who oppose Christ are known to organize on Halloween to observe satanic rituals, to cast spells, to oppose churches and families, to perform sacrilegious acts, and to even offer blood sacrifices to Satan. While some may say, "But we only do this in fun...we don't practice witchcraft," those things that represent Satan and his domain cannot be handled or emulated "for fun". Such participation places you in enemy and forbidden territory and that is dangerous ground.
Tom Sanguinet, former high priest in the Celtic tradition of Wicca (witchcraft) said "The modern holiday we call Halloween has its origins in the full moon closest to November 1, the witches' New Year. It was a time when the "spirits" (demons) were supposed to be at their peak power and revisiting the earth planet." He went on to say, "Halloween is purely and absolutely evil, and there is nothing we ever have or will do that would make it acceptable to the Lord Jesus." [The Dark Side Of Halloween]
As evil prevails, Americans have embraced an evil day of Satan, with the pranks of 'would be' hoodlums, combined with 'demon faces' on pumpkins, clothing of 'death' being worn, and calling it fun. When Christians participate in Halloween, it sends a message to children that witchcraft, demonism, Satanism, and the occult are something fun, entertaining and harmless.
Witchcraft Many years ago, C.S. Lewis wrote that one of Satan's most deceptive tactics is to convince people that he doesn't exist. Apparently he has done a good job in his deception. Sadly, many people think of the devil as no more than a symbol of evil: like Santa Claus, he is just a fictional symbol. Many people today also do not think of witches as real people who practice magic, but simply as imaginary figures who represent the supernatural world and everything that is 'spooky.'
Recognizing this pagan holiday gives the false impression that what is actually lethal is innocuous. Children develop a fascination with the supernatural which leads them later into more sinister occult practices. It's the spiritual equivalent of painting a loaded gun to look like a toy and giving it to child to play with.
It is the kind of celebration that encourages kids like the 16-year-old in Pearl, Mississippi who stabbed his mother to death in her sleep and then opened fire at his high school, killing two students and wounding seven. Authorities found this student along with at least six others involved in a small, avowedly satanic clique that calls itself "Kroth."
How some people can defend this kind of activity as just another innocent holiday that doesn't harm anyone is beyond me.
Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. (John 3:19-20)
Acceptance of the Supernatural
Central to Satan's goals is the widespread acceptance of the supernatural, including the occult, on the part of North Americans, accompanied by a great revival of spiritism all over the world.
Over the last 30 or so years, the occult has moved into the mainstream of America - in television, movies, magazines, business, and various aspects of daily life. Movies, books, magazines and encyclopedias of the supernatural have abounded. Turn on your TV and hear from the ever-present "Psychic Friends" hotline, or see lead characters in TV shows meet their "spirit guide." Entire bookstores devoted to the occult have become common. Universities regularly offer courses on witchcraft and magic - usually the so-called "white" variety. Myriads of mystical Eastern religions, bizarre and often demonic, have invaded North America and found in most cases an amazing responsiveness.
Indeed, Halloween has taken root in America. Americans spend $21 million on Halloween candies yearly second only to Christmas in total sales. Halloween is the Number 1 season for selling humorous greeting cards. In North America, some 25 million cards are sold annually. (Peter Smith, "By the Numbers," The Toronto Star, 2002-OCT-27.) Halloween is the third-largest party occasion next to Christmas and New Year's Eve.
Increasingly the curriculum in many public schools is becoming a primer in occultism.
Impressions, a curriculum used in many school districts instructs teachers and students in how to cast spells. One teacher's manual reads, "Tell the children that a magician has cast a spell on some children. Have them work in pairs to write the magic spell the magician used. Have each pair write another spell to reverse the first spell. Have them chant their spells."
About 16,000 school districts use the Pumsey the Dragon curriculum, by Jill Anderson. Many of the relaxation techniques used are identical to those used in hypnosis. Another curriculum called Duso the Dolphin employs relaxation techniques and sends hypnotized youngsters off on guided fantasies to a place called Aquatron.
Satanism has become a phenomena that crosses the city limit into the rural areas of our nation. It is reported there are some 6000 witches, and approximately 10 million people are involved in the occult. However, it is very difficult to establish how many actually participate. These individuals are involved in a wide variety of activities from simply casting spells to human sacrifice. The news wires carry story after story about young children being kidnapped, only to be found later as victims of some bizarre ritualistic crime.
As satantic involvement among our youth increases, we begin to see the primary goal of such activity. According to Scripture (2 Cor. 4:4; Rev. 12:9), Satan's goal is to deceive man by blinding him to the truth of the gospel and to receive worship for himself (Matt. 4:9; Isa. 14:12-14).
It has become clear that the primary goal is to alter an individual's values and turn him against himself, his beliefs, family, God and society.
"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour." (1 Peter 5:8)
Young satanists believe the strong will rule with Satan. Once an individual becomes involved, they often make a pact with Satan. They commit themselves to a future date when they will take their own lives by suicide. They believe if they submit themselves to Satan in death, they will come back in another life as a stronger being and rule with him forever. According to recent statistics, fourteen young people a day take their own lives.
Recently, a California skateboard manufacturer used a package enclosure similar in appearance to a gospel tract to encourage purchasers to sell their souls to the devil. The brochure titled, "Let's Make a Deal" has a smiley-faced devil who explains to Flame Boy what happened in heaven after he was banished: "First off, they set up a bunch of dumb rules, and then they imposed a really strict dress code. I'l wager that people must be quite bored up there, but hey, that's what they get for being good." He contrasts this with, "Flame Boy, even a dimwit like you can see that hell is by far the best place to retire. Just look at all the fun to be had." Children are asked to sign and return a contract, by which they give possession of their souls to the devil for eternity.
What's wrong with Halloween?
It does not have even one single redeeming virtue. It is custom born out of pagan superstition. It is a demon-inspired, devil-glorifying, occult festival. It is an evening holy unto evil, death, and divination. The Scriptures tells us to "Abstain from all appearance of evil." [1Thess. 5:22]
Wake up Christian! This is the night of evil and those who love the Lord Jesus Christ should have nothing to do with it.
We are all accountable for our choices and decisions. Ignorance is no excuse. The choice is up to you. Have you been involved in this satanic holiday? Do you struggle with giving it up because "it's just fun" and an innocent opportunity for children to dress up and collect candy? Don't take my word for it. Let God show you what he would have you do. http://www.jeremiahproject.com/culture/halloween.html
Friday, November 2, 2007
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Should Christians adopt such practices?
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Thx for putting that on your blog, I think lots of people need to hear that or read that because people don't know what it really is about.
- November 2, 2007 at 11:31 AM
You should check your other posts comments a few more on them.
- November 2, 2007 at 11:56 AM
Your welcome. I didn't know too much about haloween myself, until I read that. All I knew was that it had to do with witches and such and that is was bad.
- November 2, 2007 at 1:35 PM
- Christy said...
Kudos Sarah! I'm so proud of you! What a blessing to see another youth "sticking by the stuff". It's a lonely road. But remember this: It may never be easy- but it will always be worthwhile. Your comrades in the faith will be praying for you.
- November 2, 2007 at 4:43 PM


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I had to share this story from qisas.com. It is very inspiring, masha'Allah!
A story is told about a King in Africa who had a close friend that he grew up with. The friend had a habit of looking at every situation that ever occurred in his life (positive or negative) by remarking, "This is good, Allah Almighty knows best"
One day the King and his friend were out on a hunting expedition. The friend would load and prepare the guns for the King. The friend had apparently done something wrong in preparing one of the guns, for after taking the gun from his friend, the King fired it and his thumb was blown off.
Examining the situation the friend remarked as usual, "This is good! Allah Almighty knows best."
To which the King replied, "No, this is NOT good!" and ordered his soldiers to put his friend into jail.
About a year later, the King was hunting in an area that he should have known to stay clear of. Cannibals captured the King and took him to their village. They tied his hands, stacked some wood, set up a stake and bound him to the stake.
As they came near to set fire to the wood, they noticed that the King was missing a thumb. Being superstitious, they never ate anyone who was less than whole. So after untying the King, they chased him out of the village.
When the King reached his Palace, he was reminded of the event that had taken his thumb and felt remorse for his treatment of his friend. He went immediately to the jail to speak with his friend.
"You were right" the King said, "It was good that my thumb was blown off." And he proceeded to tell the friend all that had just happened. "I am very sorry for sending you to jail for so long. It was bad for me to do this."
"No," his friend replied, "this is good…Allah Almighty knows best"
"What do you mean, 'this is good'! How could it be good that I sent my friend to jail for a year?"
The King's friend replied: "Remember that the Almighty knows best and if I had NOT been in jail, I would have been with you on that hunting trip."
"He knows what is before them and what is behind them: And to Allah go back all questions (for decision)"
Qur'an: Surah Al Hajj 22:76
Do Not Judge Things or Events by its Immediate Outcome!
Although the decisions of Allah Ta'alah may seem harsh to us, they are full of wisdom
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903751.post2184888116828206230..comments2017-11-28T07:00:55.039-05:00Comments on Garlicster: Taking the bite off raw garlicMariahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903751.post-43280159262643891662017-09-25T11:44:43.677-04:002017-09-25T11:44:43.677-04:00When one eats garlic stuffed in olives, there is n...When one eats garlic stuffed in olives, there is no sting? How is this achieved? I could live on the stuff. I want to marinate and eat the garlic without the olives, but have no clue how to. Any suggestions out firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903751.post-53661433353645380692015-08-17T15:42:45.855-04:002015-08-17T15:42:45.855-04:00Cooking or apply an acid like lemon juice both alt...Cooking or apply an acid like lemon juice both alter the compounds that are beneficial about raw garlic. Acids are just a chemical method of cooking a food. Of course some of the beneficial compounds will remain, but I don't think anyone can tell you how much. I can't seem to find any way to get the benefits of raw garlic without the burn. They seem to go hand in hand. So eat it however you can handle it as I'm sure some of the benefits remain. The fact that Majestic Garlic dip is so mellow implies that they probably acid cooked the garlic without realizing that this means the garlic is no longer truly raw. :-(email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903751.post-53274614485602340642014-04-26T16:10:36.997-04:002014-04-26T16:10:36.997-04:00I made a raw garlic spreadh this morning and found...I made a raw garlic spreadh this morning and found out that the chipotle chiles seems to fix the bite from the raw garlic!Irina Nguyenhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903751.post-43900847151469576032014-04-26T16:09:07.919-04:002014-04-26T16:09:07.919-04:00I made a chipotle garlic spread today and for my s...I made a chipotle garlic spread today and for my spread, I used lots of chiles chipotle and that took the bite out of the raw garlic! am thrilled to find something that worked! I really wanted to keep the garlic raw and this seems to fix it; however, I may try roasting the garlic next time if I don't have the chiles chipotleIrina Nguyenhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903751.post-56365949553507292042014-03-02T17:41:00.094-05:002014-03-02T17:41:00.094-05:00I used the recipe at this link: http://allrecipes....I used the recipe at this link: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Thick-Style-Lebanese-Garlic-Sauce/
The garlic I used was chopped garlic from our garden that was frozen in olive oil since last October. I think it was a very close match.Tracy email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903751.post-67243806519142332102013-09-03T20:22:33.438-04:002013-09-03T20:22:33.438-04:00Try googling Lebanese garlic sauce. It is lots of...Try googling Lebanese garlic sauce. It is lots of garlic, lots of oil, lemon juice and salt. http://www.mamaslebanesekitchen.com/dips/lebanese-garlic-dip/ Kate email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903751.post-41912918886000717902013-07-31T14:43:07.180-04:002013-07-31T14:43:07.180-04:00So here I am, now addicted to Majestic Garlic spre...So here I am, now addicted to Majestic Garlic spread and trying to figure out how to make it myself! Try pickling the cloves of garlic first. That will take the bit out and you are not cooking them so they remain raw. firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903751.post-22313859241090189302012-08-24T20:42:18.518-04:002012-08-24T20:42:18.518-04:00I make something like this to eat with fafala. I ...I make something like this to eat with fafala. I have made it with a food processor and a mortar and pestle. The recipe said to use the mortar and pestle. It was much better with the mortar and pestle. I don't know why.Rhondahttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903751.post-79498735145780622132012-08-24T20:41:45.240-04:002012-08-24T20:41:45.240-04:00I make something like this to eat with fafala. I ...I make something like this to eat with fafala. I have made it with a food processor and a mortar and pestle. The recipe said to use the mortar and pestle. It was much better with the mortar and pestle. I don't know why.Rhondahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903751.post-44673534178568074802012-02-16T11:36:31.379-05:002012-02-16T11:36:31.379-05:00If you like the bite, then wash and clean, then pu...If you like the bite, then wash and clean, then put in the freezer for about 15 minutes. It should do the job. Or, if you want a milder taste, roast of dehydrate it first.Joy Juicerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903751.post-50252992715837975392012-01-08T21:10:51.906-05:002012-01-08T21:10:51.906-05:00Wow, great site, I too fell backwards swooning aft...Wow, great site, I too fell backwards swooning after my first taste of Majestic Garlic's spread. I made several attempts using less mild variety garlic, roasting the garlic first and blending them chilled. While the renderings were tasty, that sting, still stung. Did you find a method that worked? Please share, I will still support this wonderful local business, but I live literally on an island in the sky (or so it seems somewhere in the middle of nowhere on Hwy. 74:)roxyhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903751.post-80487634258094514202011-11-13T14:51:15.429-05:002011-11-13T14:51:15.429-05:00Oops! Sorry! Didn't mean to post twice - havin...Oops! Sorry! Didn't mean to post twice - having problems with my system!blythehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903751.post-24146435029071529312011-11-13T12:53:38.892-05:002011-11-13T12:53:38.892-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.blythehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903751.post-52261668521555727512011-11-13T12:52:16.380-05:002011-11-13T12:52:16.380-05:00Cooking will mellow the flavor of any garlic. Raw ...Cooking will mellow the flavor of any garlic. Raw garlic, though, has a lot of health benefits that can be lost in cooking. I would suggest trying a different variety of garlic. Some are much stronger than others. Porcelain varieties, although high in allicin content, tend to be rather strong, as do most hardneck varieties (Purple Stripes, Rocamboles, Silverskins). You might want to try a softneck variety, such as an Artichoke (also excellent roasted). Two of my favorites are Polish White and Inchelium Red, which are full-flavored without being extremely eye-watering hot (I would consider the Inchelium Red to be medium-hot). Hope this helps!blythehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903751.post-58808421760820002402011-10-19T06:58:41.977-04:002011-10-19T06:58:41.977-04:00I just surfed into your blog & I have to say: ...I just surfed into your blog & I have to say: I LOVE IT!!!

I'm a big garlic lover & food lover and cuold not help myself from surfing your blog for over an hour. The recipes look divine & I can't wait to try them!

Thou art awesome. :)Thakuranihttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903751.post-74055445844906009922011-10-06T08:52:32.621-04:002011-10-06T08:52:32.621-04:00Roast the garlic first. It takes the bite out of ...Roast the garlic first. It takes the bite out of it.Janhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903751.post-7414458760367796062011-09-11T17:35:03.668-04:002011-09-11T17:35:03.668-04:00Pocono, can't be that as the ingredient say &q...Pocono, can't be that as the ingredient say "raw".

We tried making it just by blending up raw garlic and almost got sick--way too strong ! (And we LOOOOVVVVVE garlic). I like the idea of blanching the slices.

Another recipe idea I saw was to whirl the garlic with icewater and cold lemon juice before emulsifying.

In any case, Majestic garlic spread is outstanding--albeit hard to find except at farmer's markets (and expensive). It has a LOT of oil and a good idea is to use it as your saute fat for cooking.IThttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903751.post-12350727613150633232011-06-30T11:24:21.176-04:002011-06-30T11:24:21.176-04:00I would suggest to roast the garlic in the oil and...I would suggest to roast the garlic in the oil and then blend the other ingredients. It will make a more mellow flavor and have no bite.Pocono Garlic Festivalhttps://email@example.com


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Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)
Journal : Telecommunications Policy, Volume 34, Issue 8, September 2010, Pages 430–443
چکیده انگلیسی
Scholarly and business publications alike convey the message that past and future strong growth in mobile Internet (MI) access and service demand has solely positive commercial implications for mobile network operators (MNOs). This position neglects the possibility that increasing MI use intensity may lead to demand decreases for the highly profitable short messaging service (SMS) and mobile voice telephony. The extant literature provides few insights on relations between MI use intensity, on the one hand, and SMS as well as mobile voice call use intensities, on the other hand. This study developed hypotheses concerning the presence or absence of impacts of MI use intensity and circumstances of MI use (e.g., device type, tariff scheme) on the demand for SMS and mobile voice telephony at the individual customer level. The hypotheses were tested by analyzing actual use behaviors of 304 MI adopters in Germany, for whom objective use intensity data were extracted from the billing system of an MNO. These non-reactive measures were combined with responses collected from the adopters through a telephone survey. Multivariate regression results suggest that though MI use intensity significantly negatively affected both number of SMS sent and received, these effects were so small that their practical relevance is highly doubtful. Further, customers who used MI more intensively did not generate lower volumes of outgoing or incoming mobile voice connection minutes. Conclusions are drawn for MNO, telecommunications sector regulators and scholarly researchers seeking to explain the acceptance of mobile communications services.
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Market analysts agree that demand for Internet access through nationwide cellular wireless networks via various portable devices, that is mobile Internet (MI), has started to boom in the past few years. Further hefty MI subscriber and traffic growth is expected in the near future. IDATE (2009) forecasts that the number of MI customers in Europe will increase from about 70 million at the end of 2008 to more than 160 million at the end of 2012. With regard to the US, the IDATE prediction for this timeframe is that the MI subscriber number will move from 35 million to 110 million. Similarly, Cisco Systems (2009) expects that the average monthly global MI traffic will increase from 0.033 million terabyte in 2008 at a compound annual growth rate of 139% to 1.076 million terabyte in 2012. At a first glance, the bright MI market development projections appear to have solely positive business implications for mobile network operators (MNOs), since they promise increasing revenues and profits from MI access and services. However, a closer look reveals that MI diffusion and use increases may also have negative commercial ramifications for MNOs. MI could substitute the established short message service (SMS) and (circuit-switched) mobile voice calls sold at high prices by Internet Protocol (IP)-based packet-switched traffic, which generates lower prices per service unit and consequently reduces MNOs' profit contribution margins. Demand for SMS or mobile voice calls simply could decrease because customers have a limited time and monetary budget for telecommunication activities and spend more time and money on MI access and applications. Looking merely at SMS, it is important to recognize that many customers use laptops instead of handsets to obtain MI access. Portable computers have fully fledged keyboards, which make it more convenient to send written (short) person-to-person news via the Internet to the email or instant messaging (IM) account of a recipient rather than conveying them by SMS to the mobile access number of the addressee. On the other hand, compared to SMS, customers could perceive MI-based email or IM services as not being functionally equivalent or, in media use theory parlance, as not providing the same "gratifications". A first justification for this imperfect equivalence is that, at least in the residential end-customer market, many mobile users are not reachable without major delays because the share of MI users among all MNO customers with access to mobile (push) email or IM clients is still low in most countries. This in turn decreases the likelihood that any mobile user can be contacted almost in a real-time manner by MI-based email or IM services ( Buvat, Mehra, Beijn, & Prabhakar, 2007). Second, interoperable and easy-to-use email or IM clients are currently not embedded in every MI-ready device. This increases the SMS substitution barriers for customers with limited technology skills or learning motivation ( Haas, 2006). The relationship between mobile voice call volumes and the use intensity of MI services raises complex demand- and supply-side issues. From a customer standpoint it is obvious that mobile calls serve bidirectional/interactive and synchronous/real-time communication needs occurring in work-related, social and emergency situations. Compared with this, most MI services such as IM or emailing fulfill diverging needs for unidirectional and asynchronous information exchange or collection triggered by other work-related and social situations ( Wei, 2008). The proposition that mobile voice calls and mobile access to data services satisfy distinct communication needs is also reflected in the regulatory framework of the European Commission for service markets within the electronic communications sector. More specifically, the Commission Recommendation (2007/879/EC) on the definition of telecommunication service markets susceptible to ex ante regulation for ensuring effective competition implies that mobile data and voice offers address different markets and thus should not be treated as mutually interchangeable ( Commission of the European Communities, 2007; see also ECC, 2004). However, from a supply-side perspective MI access and use may decrease the number and length of "old-fashioned" circuit-switched mobile telephony connections. Technically, voice is just one kind of data with specific performance requirements in terms of maximum tolerable periods of transport delay and variance of such delays. Therefore, it is possible to "produce" a mobile telephony service by carrying voice data over IP networks (i.e. mobile voice over IP/VoIP) ( Heikkinen and Luukkainen, 2008 and Verkasalo, 2009). Put differently, established circuit-switched mobile voice supply is exchanged for packet-switched mobile VoIP traffic. However, up to now, MNOs and manufacturers of mobile communication devices have typically reverted to technical measures, which ensure that VoIP clients downloaded to various types of end-customer appliances do not work on cellular mobile networks ( Heikkinen & Luukkainen, 2008). Thus, at least until today, the potential of MI access to cannibalize the circuit-switched production of mobile telephony by routing voice traffic over (wireline) Internet infrastructures, which are not completely under MNO control is volitionally restricted by MNOs. This limited supply-side substitution potential is unlikely to change quickly even if mobile voice service providers cease the technical blockage of mobile VoIP. Mobile data network transport speed and capacities will remain too limited for several years to allow for large mobile VoIP traffic volumes without severe degradation of the quality of voice calls and other data applications. In addition, a considerable share of residential mobile customers could lack the skills and/or the motivation to install VoIP clients on their mobile appliances. In summary, in most national mobile communication markets the supply strategies of MNOs currently prevent their customers who adopt MI access from the possibility of substituting mobile VoIP for circuit-switched telephony. Nevertheless, it remains an open question to what extent diverse MI access-based applications other than mobile VoIP provide MNO customers with functionalities or gratifications, which have impacts on consumers' use intensity of mobile voice calls. The scholarly literature is almost silent with regard to interdependencies between individual MI use intensities on the one hand, and individual SMS or mobile voice call activity levels on the other hand. This is surprising because not only are these relationships interesting from an academic consumer behavior point of view in order to better explain mobile communication service use patterns in a multi-service environment, but also, an enhanced understanding of cross-demand elasticities between MI use and SMS/mobile voice call activity levels is important for practitioners. First, this knowledge is helpful in making better informed MNO marketing strategy decisions concerning, among others, the degree of aggressiveness in promoting MI offerings in a market, which in the past was dominated by mobile voice and SMS revenues, or the integration of MI access, SMS, or mobile voice service in "bundled" offerings. Second, this understanding is beneficial for telecommunications sector regulatory authorities in improving their decisions on the delimitation of mobile voice, SMS, and MI access as well as services markets. It is exactly this demarcation analysis, which constitutes a pivotal element in appropriately assessing the competitive intensity and the resulting need for regulatory remedies in various telecommunication markets. Considering the paucity of empirical research on demand interdepencies for MI services, SMS and mobile voice calls and the scholarly and practical importance of this subject, the purpose of the present paper is to shed empirical light on these relationships. More specifically, it is guided by two research questions: Q1: To what extent does MI use intensity affect the SMS demand of (residential) MNO customers at the individual level of analysis? Q2: To what extent does MI use intensity affect the mobile voice call demand of (residential) MNO customers at the individual level of analysis? This paper reports the results of an empirical study that addresses these research questions. It extends previous research by providing data on relationships between mobile communications use variables, which have hardly ever been explored by scholars. Moreover, it also contributes to the literature by unobtrusively capturing real use behaviors from the internal billing system of a German MNO while most earlier work on the initial adoption and continued use of mobile communication services merely measured use intentions or claimed use behaviors. The remainder of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 clarifies basic concepts related to the research questions and develops the current study's hypotheses. Section 3 presents the empirical methods and descriptive statistics for the major study measures. It is followed by the results of the variable association analysis in Section 4. The article concludes in Section 5 with a discussion of the findings and their implications for practitioners and researchers working in the fields of telecommunications management and regulation.


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We had a grand renovation plan from back when we first moved here. It's been refined and improved and we even had an interview with an architect. It was an ambitious plan and one we were not sure we would get approved by the council as it involved shifting the front door and building a hallway along the side of the house. Our house, indeed the whole estate in which we live, is subject to a heritage overlay, being one of the most complete returned servicemen estates in Melbourne. These houses while cute, are very, very small, with minimal sized rooms - think a small workers cottage but with more windows. Sometimes it feels a bit odd that there is so much restriction on what you can do with them. On the other hand, they are well built, quite light if you have a good aspect and just big enough.
Our original plan would have given us a hallway (I really miss having a hallway), a big kitchen, a separate dining room and a sizeable lounge room. There would have also been a guest room, a revamped study for me and a big covered deck. There would have been room for most of our furniture and it was a killer plan, if I do say so myself. We would have needed to borrow quite a bit of money to do it and while we'd worked out that we could afford to make the repayments on the amount we wanted, the banks didn't agree. Then I quit work, so that was off the agenda for this year at least. About the same time we started talking about what we could do if we didn't any borrow money at all. And so plan B was born. We have gone through each room and worked out what we could do to make it meet our needs better. For example in the lounge room we need space for an extra armchair now that Grace is bigger. Mainly so we can all watch telly or movies together. We need big bookshelves so we can get all our books out of the shed. The kitchen is not so easy. I can fit the fridge in the kitchen, as opposed to in the laundry, but then I can't fit a dishwasher. People seem to think we really need a dishwasher but it comes at the expense of cupboard space either in the kitchen or the laundry or sun room so maybe we can do without. I still have some thinking to do on that one.
renovations begin
Posted by Janet on Monday, January 28, 2013
categories home, rennovation
3 comments:
- librarygirl said...
sounds fab - we are in the "renew the house" throes too. Lots and lots of getting rid of stuff too....makes more space. I do not need so many things....
- January 28, 2013 at 6:19 PM
- Suse said...
Exciting times!
- January 30, 2013 at 11:19 AM
- Admin said...
I love lots of windows and light.. i'd love to see your plans when you do them ( or even a rough sketch ) so I may visualise.
Bummer about the grand plans. We had heritage listing at the Collingwood house, but luckily is was more about "frontage" and external paint colours. Would you consider going back to the architect with your limitations and seeing what he could pull out of his hat?
- March 7, 2013 at 12:31 PM
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Finally! Some decent outfit pictures for you guys. I'm wearing an outfit that is my current favorite. So I will be wearing this until I'm dead tired of every single piece involved. My Christmas outfit even resembles this outfit. You've all seen me wear this hat, jacket and boots on multiple occasions already. This time I paired them with my new shorts from My Mum Made It, new polkadot panties by Zalando and new sparkly green top by Paplou. Love at first sight I tell you.
We went to Hasselt on Saturday to eat a bagel at Eve and Molly's (BEST bagels in town, I swear), made a very quick stroll through Winterland (I really wanted some glühwein) and bought a present for a baby visit the next day. And while you think this all happened in peace and quiet, you are wrong. Hasselt couldn't have been more crowded! So after the present we quickly escaped all the hassle with a well deserved coffee at King Kong Coffee. We ended up staying there for two hours and then went to Maasmechelen to see The Hourglass Instinct play an awesome set at a local gig.
A weekend well spent!
And before I forget: MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!


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Yep Haleigh again.
The kids can not get over her "tail". Yes it is really blurry - I think Sadie took this one!
This one was Haleigh's and friends form of torture. This is a build a bear outfit....poor K.
Camden attempt at getting her to stop crying - sad that it worked!!!
Isn't she so cute :-)


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The illustration by Jim Salvati of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel hovering over President Barack Obama's desk for the New Republic's June 10, 2010 cover was inspired by the comparative photograph shown below. The cover story by Jonathan Cohn is How They Did It (The Inside Account of Healthcare Reform's Death-Defying Triumph).
Former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation Michael McFaul is the body-double for Rahm Emanuel. The photo hung in the White House. At the time he was Special Assistant to Obama and Senior Director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council.
McFaul gave a talk called "Confronting Putin's Russia: Long-Term Economic and Foreign Policy Implications" at the University of North Florida in September. I used a cropped version of the photo with a story I wrote for my JOU 3109 Multimedia Reporting class, How We Lost The Russian Reset. It's more of a history lesson than it is news about McFaul's ideas on long-term implications of Putin's Russia. I can always go back to the recording at a future date to see if Obama followed McFaul's advice.
The caption I used for the photo is "Michael McFaul in the Oval Office with President Barack Obama as he speaks on the phone with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Feb. 24, 2010. photo credit: White House photographer Peter Graves."
It was taken during a testy phone call with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, who surprised Obama by demanding concessions on missile defense. But that's not why we lost the Russian reset. The reset between the U.S. and Russia began to sour with the Arab Spring of 2011.
Russia abstained from voting on the United Nation Security Council resolution to authorize airstrikes by coalition forces in Libya in 2011. President Medvedev decided not to use a veto to block the resolution which infuriated Prime Minister Putin.
"I was in the White House at the time, actually worked quite a bit on the Arab Spring," McFaul said. "For us, it was the people in their own countries trying to take fate into their hands. We had nothing to do with it except react to the people of Tunisia, the people of Egypt…"
Putin saw it differently. He thought the CIA was fomenting unrest in the Middle East. McFaul said he didn't have any evidence "to back him up" but he thought the Libyan U.N. abstention was the reason Putin decided to run for president again.
The Parliamentary elections of 2011 were fraudulent. Tens of thousands of young, upwardly mobile and social-media savvy Russians protested against the results. Putin couldn't understand as the country had grown wealthy under his presidency. Putin started to vilify the U.S.; McFaul was portrayed in the media as aiding the protesters.
McFaul planned to step down as ambassador after the Sochi Olympics. His term as ambassador from 2012 – 2014 was tumultuous after Vladimir Putin reclaimed the Russian presidency. The time period coincided the Ukrainian Parliament voting to remove President Viktor Yanukovych from office, leading to Russia's annexation of Crimea. All of this occurred as Putin sought the Ukraine to join his Eurasian Economic Union.
"Who would spend $50 billion on the Olympics only to see the good will it created gone in three days?", McFaul asked.
NOTE: Kargardenia is the companion blog to JOU 3109 Multimedia Reporting. It is no longer a personal blog subtitled "Memorabilia and Airy Nothings" as announced on the Antique Fables post over the summer.


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Monday, September 5, 2011
Project #1 cont'd:Cecelia Gault's interview of Sir Ken Robinson
Click here to watch Sir Ken Robinson's "Do Schools Kill Creativity?"
I found the interview by going to Laura Scott's Blog from Fall 2010. I think it is wonderful and interesting that he summarizes and disagrees with the three myths of creativity. He then follows up by suggesting ways to improve public education to meet the demands of a new world. He emphasizes that the young people of today are simply more technologically savvy due to daily exposure, where those of his generation find it more challenging because computers arrived much later in their lives.
I agree that everyone is creative, creativity should be nurtured and allowed to blossom and that creativity is not limited to the labels we have manifested to represent it. I have been in art classes where those who were adament that they "had not one single creative bone in their bodies" surprised themselves and their classmates when given the opportunity to embrace unconventional art in perhaps an unconventional way. The available visual cues afforded them allowed their creativity to blossom and unfold, where it would have been stifled or even absent in a conventional classroom setting. The interview was short, informative and gave valuable insight to the whos and hows of facilitating creative thought.
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It's time for my first monthly favourites of this year....and it's quite a mixed bunch. There's a beauty favourites mixed in with hair products, and completely random things that I don't think even belong to a category. Here goes...
Each month I've started to write notes as the month goes on of things I'm loving so that when I get to the end of the month I'm not frantically trying to think of things I've loved that month (this has happened before!). On the morning of the 1st of January I opened my notes page, and that night I added my first favourite! I knew instantly I'd love them. They're my new PJ's! I love a good pair of cosy pyjamas (who doesn't?) but these are especially lovely. They're from Primark and I got them as a Christmas present - surely it isn't just me who gets a new pair of pyjamas every year? I'm not complaining! Their white with penguins all over them, and are a really traditional style, which I think is just super wintery and warm!
Next up is a hair favourite and it's the L'Oreal Studio Line Matt and Messy Salt Spray. I bought this towards the beginning of December and in a Blogmas post I did all about my Haircare essentials, I said how I'd only been using it for a few days but was beginning to really love it. Well, it's a month later, and I'm using it all the time. The bottle is quite small so there isn't a lot of product in one, but you don't need a lot, and it's a really affordable buy.
This adds texture and grip to my hair once I've dried it, and tames that out of control chaos, but keeps volume, and the messy look if that makes sense. It does what it says it would, and it's become a firm favourite of mine over the past few weeks.
Only those of you reading who take regular medication will understand my pain when I say how hard it is to remember to take it if your routine changes. I find it so easy to forget to take my tablet if I'm in a rush in the morning or if I don't have my everyday evening routine. If you don't take any tablets, then you'll probably find this favourite very strange, and very uninteresting, but a few months ago I bought a medication pot...thrilling, I know. Anyway, this month it has been a saviour to me as I have been out and about, and the amount of times, I doubt if I've taken it has been huge, so it's always good to be able to look at the day and see if the pot is empty or not. I'd really recommend getting one if you struggle like I do.
I'm a big fan of changing up my nail polish, and applying and removing twice a week in December began to take it's toll on my nails throughout January. I've been using the Soap and Glory Hand Food for the entire month, applying a little bit to my nails every night has really made a big difference. They aren't as brittle, and I think using the cream has really moisturised and strengthened them. I wouldn't say this is it's specific us...it's called Hand Food, not Nail Food, but it's definitely been feeding them with a whole lot of loveliness - and it smells amazing!
Finally is a Winter Lip Saviour. It's the Burt's Bees nourishing lip balm. I would go as far to say this is the best lip balm I've ever owned. It's something I would repurchase over and over again, so I always had one in my bag. It smells delicious, really fruity, and doesn't taste all horrible. It's so nourishing, and really hydrating. It's really helped my chapped, weather worn, winter lips this month.
That's it for this month! Can you believe it's already the end of January!
What would be in your January favourites?


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Jared Diamond talks about oil and how high prices are good for us
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New Nukes in Texas
For the first time in ~30 years an application to build two new nuclear power plants at the South Texas Project site has been submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission . This will eventually help reduce carbon monoxide emissions, since most new electricity comes from coal fired plants.
This reactor is a proven design (ABWR) with four in operation in Japan.
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'Radioactive Boy Scout' Charged in Smoke Detector Theft
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I stumbled upon a bunch of merit badges at "Science Creative Quarterly"
Most dorks I end up hanging around with are ~Level III "I've set fire to stuff" the level III means "…fully aware of all the thermodynamic principles at play".
Adam Parkison is surely worthy of the "I may look like a scientist but I'm actually also a ninja"
we may all end up with the "I work with way too much radioactivity, and yet still no discernable superpowers yet" badge.
A cool badge/warning would be good for guys like Aaron and myself who have the ability to sap the fun out of a movie by pointing out why that was impossible- of course while simultaneously being cool with it if happens to be in movie we like.
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The IAEA has a new radiation sign, I think it means keep to the right OR DIE!
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Even OPEC is talking about peak oil now…
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GORHAM, Maine -- Courtney Cochran hit two free throws with six seconds remaining in regulation to deliver Southern Maine a 68-66 win against No. 16 Babson in the championship game of the Southern Maine Holiday Invitational on Saturday.
The win is the fourth in the row for the Huskies who improved to 8-3. The loss is just the second of the season for Babson and dropped its record to 8-2.
Cochran finished the game with 18 points, eight rebounds and three blocks. She was 8-10 from the free throw line and 5-10 from the field.
Nicole Garland was 4-5 from 3-point territory and 6-9 overall en route to 18 points. She added three assists. Haley Jordan had 14 points, eight rebounds, three steals and one blocked shot.
The Beavers' Sarah Collins led all scorers with 27 points on a 13-21 effort from the field. She recorded a double-double with 12 rebounds, another game-high total, and added two assists, two blocks and two steals.
Kathleen King chipped in a double-double of her own with 14 points, 10 rebounds, three assists and two steals.
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Both teams exchanged baskets over the next two minutes and the Huskies trailed Babson 55-52, before Garland cut to the basket for two and Grant hit the back end of two free throws to tie the score.
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Two Saturdays ago, I finally got to play some poker again, first time since I returned from Vegas in the middle of September. And, ironically, because I started working for AVP (see here) almost immediately after getting to Vegas, I really played less poker during that visit than I had since I started playing poker around 7 years ago. Seven years? Gee, has it been that long? You'd think I'd be better at it by now. Since I got back to L.A., I've been working hard at my new duties. Which consists of talking a lot about poker, but not playing it. So it was good to finally get out and play that little game I'd been talking about so much the past six weeks.
Now as it happens, I just got back to Vegas a couple of days ago and am staying until 11/2. This is mostly a work oriented trip, but if you're in Vegas and want to get together for some poker or whatever, drop me an email or a tweet (both addresses available to your right) and we'll see if we can arrange something.
Now as it happens, I just got back to Vegas a couple of days ago and am staying until 11/2. This is mostly a work oriented trip, but if you're in Vegas and want to get together for some poker or whatever, drop me an email or a tweet (both addresses available to your right) and we'll see if we can arrange something.
But since I was still in L.A. those two Saturdays ago, getting my poker itched scrachted meant a drive down to The Bike, in majestic Bell Gardens, CA. I got there at lunch time with a big appetite (not a tough achievement for me), knowing that by playing in the $2/$3 game I described here and here (which they call $100-$300 for the min/max buy-ins), I'd be entitled to eat anything I wanted for free. Such a deal.
When I got there however, I briefly considered in playing in Deepstack tournament they were running as part of a special poker series they had. It was a $10K guarantee, $340 buy-in, 2 day event, with 40 minute blinds and starting stacks of $30K. It was tempting. But the realization that I'd have to come back the next day if I did well—and I'd be there way into the late evening or early morning one or both days—gave me pause. I wanted to play some poker, but I didn't really want to play that much poker. I hadn't heard about the tournament until I showed up that day and thus was really prepared to be there for that long (potentially), and I knew I had things to do the next day, if I was so fortunate as to earn a day two. So I went ahead with my original plan—hit that 2/3 game I'd played twice before.
As luck would have it, even tho my name was third on the list, a bunch of folks showed up almost immediately thereafter and they started a new game within minutes of my arrival. This was good not so much because I was desperate to get started playing poker, but because I was starving. And I needed to be in a game so I could order my free meal.
This proved to be a major distraction for the first couple of hours of the session. Ordinarily, the table side service is pretty good, but not this time. I think I heard them say they were understaffed. I believe the turnout for the tournament I mentioned was a lot bigger than they expected; they made the guarantee with ease. During the session, you could see the line of people registering all through the place. It was a big turnout.
It took me a long time to get someone's attention to see a menu; a very long time for someone to come back to take my order; and an astonishingly long time for the food to finally arrive (and without the diet Pepsi I had ordered). The whole process, including eating, took about 2 hours. I only mention it because I know how much such minute detail, making my posts even longer, is appreciated by my readers. No, seriously, I mention it because it affected my play, and is therefore actually relevant.
You see, while I was trying to get the food servers' attention, I was totally inattentive to the poker. Also, I was waiting so long I had to get someone else's attention to get a drink. Then when the food finally arrived, I was distracted by eating. It's a full meal, not just some kind of snack that you can easily consume while playing. I am definitely a distracted poker player while eating. What this means is that while trying to get someone's attention, I'm not studying the players as much as I should. When I fold my hand, instead of watching the action, I'm looking around the room to find a server to call over. Also, while eating, I'm gonna fold marginal hands I might sometimes play, and really only play premium hands.
I suppose that's a good argument for going to the Bike on a full stomach, but I just can't resist the free meal. And one of the incentives for stepping out on this day was, after weeks of being cooped up eating a very boring rotation of my regular meals, I wanted something a little bit different; I wanted a restaurant meal.
Anyway, by the time I was fully satiated, and no longer worried about food, most of the folks at the table were completely different than the ones who had started there (a lot of the original group was just killing time waiting for a different game). So I didn't really miss much in terms of learning the table.
One thing of note, of the first three hands I was dealt on this day, the first and third were both pocket 8's. Very strange. I called a raise with them the first time and missed. The second time, the raise was too big and I folded.
By the time I was fully concentrating on the poker, I was down about $75, give or take. I'd won a few small pots and lost a few small pots, or a few small bets I should say. I wasn't getting really good cards, and I was easily tossing in the bad ones. However, unlike the other games at this level I've played at the Bike, this game was—for pretty much the entire time I was there—rather calm. It was the least wild game I've played at the Bike since I started playing NL there. Most of the preflop raises were reasonable, there weren't a lot of shoves or huge overbets on the flop or the later streets. Yet, there was still enough action to make some money when you hit a good hand.
In hindsight, I think I probably missed a good opportunity during the time I was worried about the food. When the game is wild and full of aggressive types, I can usually do well by just playing my normal very tight game and wait for a hand and get paid off. But I know that when the game is tight, you should play more aggressively, and I should have tried that. It doesn't come naturally to me, but I am learning a little how to do this and this would have been a good opportunity to learn more—and possibly get some money in the process.
But distracted, I didn't really try this, and then after I was ready to give the game my undivided attention, I spent a few orbits really watching and studying the players so I could figure out how best to play which players. There were a few real good players at the table, a couple of really tight ones (one was tighter than me, if you can believe it), and some really mediocre ones. But I really didn't think anyone who was there for any length of time was a truly bad player. The few times when I was in position to try to play a little bit out of my comfort zone came when someone who I had to respect had raised, and I didn't think challenging them would be prudent.
The guy to my immediate left was one of the tough players. He was an older gentleman, but it was clear he was really good player. He started straddling my big blind with annoying regularity. He also like to talk to the other player when he was heads up; something that is apparently allowed at The Bike, although this is now usually prohibited in Vegas. But he was always making positional raises—and even telling us in advance, when it was a multi-limped in pot and he was on the button or one of the blinds, that he was gonna raise if he had an Ace in his hand—and I knew I couldn't be afraid to call one of them if I had something.
Then there was the young or middle-aged (couldn't tell which) Asian fellow two to my right. He raised a lot preflop, but not usually a very big raise. He even said, he raised small (usually $12) because he wanted action. Again, I knew, I couldn't be afraid to call his raises.
Most of the other players I felt I could outplay if push came to shove (so-to-speak).
After another hour of watching and studying and still waiting for the right opportunity, I was dealt pocket 3's in early position. I limped in (I can't remember, but I may have had to call a straddle). There were a lot of limpers. The flop was Jack/10/3, very nice. It was rainbow, so my only concern was the straight draw. I thought about a check raise, but didn't have to. The big blind bet first, he put out $25. So I counted out $75 and bet that. Folded back to the big blind, who shoved. He had just moved over from another table and didn't have that much more than my $75. I didn't have a read on him but it was an easy call.
When I called, he said, "Oh, you already have a set?" I sure did. He had flopped two pair and got no help the rest of the way. He took off and I now had more money than I bought in for—but not by much.
Oddly enough, on the very next hand, I was again dealt pocket three's. What are the odds of hitting a set of three's back-to-back? I don't know, but I didn't get there. I was able to limp in and saw a flop that missed me. Too much to ask for, I know.
A bit later I looked down at two lovely ladies. While thinking about what to raise to (I was in middle position), the aforementioned Asian fellow made it $12. Hmmm…what to do? There are times there—most of them, frankly—where I just call. To be honest, I don't 3-bet a lot. And against a lot of the players at this table, I wouldn't have 3-bet there. But against this particular player, I knew I was ahead of most of his raising range. He raised with pretty much any Ace, or any pocket pair. Of course, there was a time when he just smooth called a preflop raise and flopped a set of Aces (beating the original raiser's pocket Queens). Hey, whenever I try that stunt, it blows up in my face.
So the guy between us folded, I put out $30. It folded back to the Asian fellow who thought about it a bit, then said, "The tightest player at the table……….I fold." Actually, as I mentioned, I think there was at least one player tighter than me, but I knew I wanted to try to use my reputation to my advantage somewhere down the road if I could. He showed an Ace and asked if I had Kings. I just laughed as I took in the small pot (there was some limper money too).
Not long after that came the hand of the day. In early position, I was dealt the Josie, aka, Jack/Ten. We all know this is Josie's favorite hand. And I always play the favorite hand of any of my fellow bloggers.
OK, that's not true. I don't do that. Sometimes I do though. In fact, earlier, while I was eating, the good player to my left had won a hand playing the Grump, yes, the mighty deuce-four. He turned two pair. I was eating at the time so I don't know what he had to call with his weak pair on the flop, but I did almost ask him if he knew he had played the Grump!
And the truth is, if I had gotten that Jack/10 (it was offsuit) earlier, when I was eating, or trying to flag down a server, I would have mucked it, especially in early position. But now, as I was fully engaged, and frankly, getting near the end of my session, I was ready to roll the dice a little.
Again, I think I called a straddle with it. Four or five of us saw a flop, which was Queen/9/rag, two diamonds. So I flopped an open-ender but had to worry about the flush. After the guy to my right checked, I checked, and rather cautious player put out a bet of $25. He had about $150 behind him—I had him covered. So I likely wouldn't have called except the guy to my right called first. Hmm……he had about as much as the other guy did behind him. Now it seemed like I might be getting decent odds. I checked my cards….the Jack was a diamond. So I even had a shot at runner-runner straight flush. Or a Jack high flush (which would not likely be any good, of course). Despite the fact that one of my outs could actually hurt me, I decided to roll the dice again and call.
The turn was a blank, and it was again checked to the guy who bet the flop. This time he put out $50. Again, the other guy called. Of course, I had to consider that at least one of these guys, probably the guy to my right, had the same hand as me, and if I hit my hand I'd have to chop it. But still, it just seemed like decent odds for the position I was in.
The river was the King of clubs, the sweetest looking King of clubs I'd ever seen. I made my straight and didn't have to worry about a flush. In other words, I only had the absolute nuts. First guy checked, so it was on me. What to do?
I could check there and go for the check-raise. But the guy who had been betting only had about $100 left and would likely shove if he bet at all. A check raise wouldn't do much good—unless it would get the guy to my right to call. But with the straight out there, I had to assume he'd only call one or both of us if he had the same hand as me. So not betting would accomplish nothing. My only chance to extract more money on this hand was to bet.
I put out $100. Turns out the better only had $95 and thus called, putting him all in. The other guy folded. No Jack/10 for him.
The good player to my left, who was long out of my hand, said, as I was about to expose my hand, "He's got the nuts. He's got Jack/10. He doesn't even have to show it, I know what he has." The other guy didn't show, I don't know what he had. Two pair or a set, I guess. But I believe he was a friend or at least an acquaintance of the good player to my left. So I don't think the good player was being rude—just helpful—by telling the guy I had beat that he hadn't bet enough, that's why I was allowed to stay in to wait for my straight to come. The guy reluctantly agreed as he left the table. I pointed out that because of the guy to my right calling his flop and turn bets, I was getting decent odds to make my straight.
Oh, and the Asian guy who said I was the tightest player at the table said he was surprised "that's all" I had. He expected Jack/10 of diamonds for the combo draw.
I wasn't trying to criticize the guy to my right, but he said, "Yeah, and I shouldn't have called." He didn't say what he had.
This was a really nice pot, and suddenly I had almost $600 in front of me. By the time I'd stacked up my winnings and counted it, the blinds had passed me. I was happy with my late run. It was getting late, I wasn't there to play all day and night, and If I left a little shy of a double up, I could live with that. I decided to play my blinds, then play one more orbit until the big bland came to me, and then call it a day. For this orbit, I would play ultra-tight, even for me. Didn't want to risk too much at this point. I suppose the right thing to do if I have that attitude is just get up even before the blinds come to me, but I can't resist seeing a few more "free" hands.
The orbit was uneventful. I kept getting crap, easy folds. Finally when I was under the gun, I mucked some crap and got up to get a couple of racks to carry my chips. Now, what had happened was the Asian guy had been away from the table for awhile, so he missed his big blind on that last hand. But as I was racking up my chips, he returned, and announced he would "buy the button." In other words, I could play one more hand for free. So the dealer dealt me in as I was almost done racking my chips. I knew—I just knew—this was going to be a hand I was tempted to play. I really didn't want to look. I wanted to just fold without looking.
You see, I remember a story my pal Lightning had told me—and blogged about, here—when he last visited Vegas. He waited for that one last free hand—and lost all or most of his stack. It happened to him a couple of times, in fact. And I sure as hell didn't want that to happen to me. But again, I had this overwhelming feeling I'd actually get a hand this time. Knowing me, it'd be pocket Kings and I'd lose my whole stack to some donkey who would hit runner-runner flush.
But dammit, I looked. It wasn't Kings, or even Aces. But it was a very playable hand. It was Ace/Jack of spades. Yeah, soooooted. I thought for a second, and came thisclose, I mean, really, truly thisclose to mucking it and getting the hell out of there. But….I couldn't do it. I had to play it. If it hadn't been suited, that's an easy fold, especially in early position and with me anxious to book a nice profitable session. But I couldn't resist the damned suitedness of it. Besides, the Bike has a bad beat jackpot, and me hitting my first royal flush ever right then could have been an terrific pay day.
I limped. Under different circumstances, I'd raise there to thin the field. But I wanted to see if I could get away with a limp. Only risk three bucks out of my profits. No one raised; in fact, only three of us saw a flop—which had two spades on a non-paired board. The Asian guy who bought the button checked. I checked too, as did the last guy. A free card. Nice.
Now ordinarily, I would probably have bet the flush draw there and possibly would have taken it down there. But I didn't I just didn't want to risk anything at that moment. I also thought the Asian guy might check raise me there and put me in a quandary. So I was glad to see the free card.
Which was a very beautiful spade, giving me the nut flush, and the absolute nuts at that moment, pending the river. As I was wondering how much to bet, the Asian guy kind of surprised me by betting out, $25. Do I raise there? Now I am no longer interested in playing it safe, I want more money. I figured based on the action so far, no one would likely call me if I raised, so I smooth called. All I had to worry about was a paired board. The third guy folded, as I figured he would.
The river was a blank, and the Asian checked. I wondered how much he would call. Having earlier said I was the tightest player at the table, I figured he knew I had the nuts. I didn't figure he'd call a huge bet. I frankly thought he'd be unlikely to call any bet. But if I made it small enough, he might just give me a few more chips.
I put out $40. I was still surprised that he called. Maybe I bet too little? He said he had two pair, would he have called $100? $75? Hmm….I think I maybe put a little too much credence in his saying I was the tightest player at the table. Since I was leaving I actually told him I was surprised he called. He thought I might have top pair with an Ace kicker. Oh well.
But I guess because I had already kind of mentally checked out of the game, I had forgotten that he commented on the Jack/10 hand earlier and thought I called light. Maybe now he wasn't thinking I was such a tight player after all. Or, maybe he was thinking I was a bad player who just got lucky?
Anyway, I was now past double-up territory. I ended up with a $370 profit.
Even more, if you count the free lunch I had to wait so long for.
Despite the early aggravation, not a bad day at all.
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Ralph Nader - well-known for a lot of reasons, but in this case, one of the most famous Lebanese Americans ever - sent a letter to President Bush stating that the "U.S. Carries 'Inescapable Responsibility" for "Israeli Government's Escalating War Crimes.'" I wonder if he'll get a response.
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