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I have been itching to do something fun on this wall for years & I FINALLY did...thanks to cutting edge stencils!
*Winner will be chosen at random on Friday, June 14th @ 12:00pm
It looks awesome!!!
much improved from when you first moved in . ;)
It looks really good! I love your entry!
Great job, love it! Can't wait to see it in person on Thursday. :)
I have two treasure boxes I want to do the chevron on! I didn't even know you had a blog. I love it!
And I think I followed the Facebook page :)
Liked on Facebook! Oh, and I'd pick the Casa Blanca. Definitely!
Aaaand, followed on Pinterest! Awesome decor ideas.
And on pintrest too :)
I love the Fuji Allover Stencil
Can Mom's win? If I win, then you will have to come and paint it for me, so I guess that counts me out right there, haha. Love your wall. I can't believe I haven't even see it yet. Looks amazing!!!
Staci this looks awesome. Love it.
I'd LOVE the Chinese Ginkgo Stencil by Kim Myles
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So hard to decide! I like Tuscan Trellis or Zagora.
I liked Cutting Edge Stencils on Facebook!
I am now following Cutting Edge Stencils on Pinterest!
Mom's are probably out but maybe I could just borrow yours! Such a cute idea! You have so much talent!
Love that wall!
I follow Cutting Edge Stencils on pinterest.
I follow them on fb.
I like the Marrakech Trellis Allover Stencil.
So pretty, Stace! We love love love CES- your wall looks amazing! (: xoxo
I love the Casablanca Stencil. Great job on your home make over and that stencil - so anxious to try a stencil on my family room wall at home.
The Tuscan Trellis Allover would be my pick. I have a Tuscan inspired kitchen so it would be a great design for me!
I liked The Cutting Edge Facebook page (already was a fan!).
I am following Cutting Edge Stencils on Pinterest now. Great job on your wall. Thank you for the inspiration.
Rabat Allover Stencil! Would like to redo headboard for the bed!
PS following them on FB!!
pss now following on pintrest! Thanks for the opportunity and great job on your crafty space
i'd love to order The Georgian Ceiling Medallion Stencil if i win!!
i have liked CES facebook page as Ann Hbez
So hard to pick! I'd like the butterfly and dragonfly set for my daughter's room and the salamander set for my sons' room or the star stencils.
Love the TUSCAN TRELLIS ALLOVER STENCIL
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I already have the casablanca and the zamira, I want to try the zinnia 3 pc.
I log onto cutting edge facebook everyday to see all of the creativity.
Following on pinterest.
Where can I order the stencil from? I live in Switzerland and want my daughter to send it to me. Thanks for the great tutorial.


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Kyle Walker will undergo his Manchester City medical on Friday as Pep Guardiola's side close in on the signing of Tottenham's England international.
Press Association Sport understands City will pay £45million up front for the 27-year-old right-back, with further adds on that could take the eventual price up to a maximum of £50million.
Walker will therefore not become the outright most expensive defender ever, an honour that currently belongs to David Luiz following his £50million transfer from Chelsea to Paris St Germain in 2014.
The £47.5million City spent on centre-back John Stones last summer would also be greater than the initial fee they are giving Spurs.
Guardiola has been keen to upgrade the full-back regions after Pablo Zabaleta, Bacary Sagna and Gael Clichy all left the Etihad Stadium at the end of last season.
The pacy Walker made over 180 Premier League appearances for Spurs since joining from Sheffield United in 2009 and has 27 international caps.
His move to City should be completed by the time they head on their pre-season tour to the United States next week, and Walker may come up against his old team-mates given there is a friendly fixture with Spurs in Nashville on the calendar.
Walker would be the third signing of the summer so far for City, who have already brought in midfielder Bernardo Silva from Monaco and goalkeeper Ederson from Benfica from a combined £77.5million.
Spurs themselves returned to pre-season training on Friday and Walker's spot in the team looks set to be filled by his England team-mate Kieran Trippier.

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We are a volunteer run, non-profit organization providing the best opportunity for junior golf in Northern California. We are creating "Champions of the Future".
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Each year we solicit help from our supporters in order to continue administering one of the largest and most comprehensive junior golf associations in the country.
The funds collected help "bridge the gap" between the actual costs associated with running the association and the membership dues we collect. We are able to keep the costs to our participants reasonable only through your support of the Junior Golf Association of Northern California.
The JGANC's annual fundraising efforts help us balance our budget, provide scholarships and keep costs at a reasonable and affordable level for our membership.
The funds we raise support our JGANC Invitational events and Teams, which include the Junior Boys & Girls America's Cup Teams, Boys & Girls North Teams, Hogan Cup Team, Mary Cave Team. Invitational events include our All-Star Championships and our year ending Tournament Of Champions.
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Sleep Studies is the branch of medical science dealing with sleep disorders and sleep apnea. Memorial Hospital currently offers the following Sleep Study clinic at our Aurora facility:
To make an appointment for a Sleep Study, a referral from a physician is required. If you believe you may need to be evaluated for sleep apnea, please make an appointment with your Family Physician or one of the Pulmonologist in our Specialty Clinics.
Below is a list of some of the conditions that that our specialists treat. This is not an all-inclusive list and you should call to inquire about specific services.
- Insomnia
- Narcolepsy
- Parasomnias
- Restless Legs/Periodic Limb Movements
- REM Behavior Disorder
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Benjamin Graham (1894-1976) was a British-born American investor, economist and professor. He is generally known for being the author of two of the most famous and important financial books ever written, "Security Analysis", published in 1936 with the help of his colleague David Dodd, and "The Intelligent Investor", printed the first time in 1949. Moreover, … Continue reading Benjamin Graham
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It was 1934 when "Security Analysis" was published for the first time, introducing to the world the concept of value investing, then treated again in the essay "The Intelligent Investor" in 1949. The authors were Benjamin Graham, a professor at Columbia Business School, and his colleague David Dodd. What is value investing? Keeping it simple, … Continue reading Ben Graham & Value Investing


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Founded with a vision of developing and
managing premium brand select service hotels.
Huntington Hotel Group was founded in 1998 by Kevin Keefer and Brent Andrus with the vision of developing and managing premium brand select service hotels in markets with high barriers to entry. Huntington Hotel Group has developed 13 hotels over the past 14 years and operates a portfolio of 24 select service hotels with a total of over 3,400 rooms located in California, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas, and Virginia.
In addition to developing, owning and operating hotels, Huntington Hotel Group provides operating and asset management services for hotel owners through its affiliate, Huntington Hospitality Management. As such, Huntington Hotel Group is able to understand and maximize brand marketing as a result of its experience in diverse markets. Huntington Hotel Group's longstanding exemplary profit performance, with strong returns on equity, has earned Huntington Hotel Group a respected reputation with its lenders, franchisors and investors.
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The No BUTS! and Star Store both work with Tobacco Retailers. No BUTS! reduces purchase of tobacco by underage customers. Star Stores reduce the tobacco advertising messages that normalize tobacco use.
The No BUTS! program was created by the Maine State Attorney General's Office and the Partnership for a Tobacco-Free Maine in an effort to prevent retailers from selling tobacco products to underage customers. Along with stiff fines and penalties for selling tobacco to underage consumers, there is a compelling public health incentive for blocking tobacco sales to minors: in the state of Maine 27,000 kids will die prematurely as a result of using tobacco products. Tobacco retailers play a significant role in reducing sales of tobacco products to underage customers.
Tobacco products that are restricted to anyone under the age of 18 include:
- Cigarettes
- E-cigarettes and other vaping devices
- Chewing tobacco
- Snuff
- Cigars and little cigars
- Pipes
- Rolling paper
Retail employees must ask for and examine customer's ID with tobacco sales. If the customer is under the age of 18 then the employee must refuse the sale. Employees can be fined up to $1,500 and lose their job for selling tobacco products to underage customers! Employers can also be fined up to $1,500!
No BUTS! at RVHCC
RVHCC annually contacts all tobacco retailers reminding them of No BUTS! and the benefits of the training program and related materials. Someone from the RVHCC staff is available to come to your location and help with understanding the program and getting everyone trained. And good news, there is a new shorter online training version in 2014.
RVHCC reminds retailers to train every employee every year to be eligible for all the benefits of the No BUTS! program and assure no underage tobacco sales!
For more information on No BUTS!, and to make sure your northern oxford county store is part of the No BUTS! program, contact Patty Duguay at email@example.com or 207-364-7408.
Star Store is a voluntary program for stores that encourages responsible retailing of tobacco products. Studies show that in-store tobacco advertising heavily influences youth. The goal of the Star Store program is to reduce the amount of tobacco messages, advertising, and promotions that youth see in stores.
Star Store at RVHCC
Becoming a Star Store has many benefits such as being able to display a decal showing Star Store membership, being recognized in a statewide listing of Star Stores, and being recognized in local papers and social media for commitment to Maine youth. Also, having fewer signs and ads is proven to create a more inviting store environment for customers! A store can be recognized as a Gold, Silver or Bronze level store depending on the amount of tobacco ads that they have in the store.
RVHCC supports the Star Store program by surveying the amount of tobacco advertisements in stores and providing a report with suggestions to decrease youth-targeted advertisements. Suggestions could include moving tobacco advertisments away from the candy counter, moving tobacco advertisements higher so they are out of kids' view, or taking down tobacco signs with cartoon characters on them. If you are interested in becoming a star store or helping a store in your community become a Star Store, contact Carol Emery at firstname.lastname@example.com or 207-364-7408.


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May 28, 2009 / Posted by: Michael K
This is nothing. When I do Bey's hair I'm standing on my head, gagged, blindfolded, handcuffed, and forced to listen to "Single Ladies" on repeat while Bedazzling high-wasted acid-washed denim skort rompers for House of Dereon. – Basement Baby
Look at the lengths a gay hairstylist will go to in order to avoid rubbing his peen on a female's arm. – jazzfish_77
You laugh now, but in a couple weeks these poor hairs will be dyed blonde and sewn into Paris Hilton's head! – Stoney
If you think that's tricky, you should see how he trims her snatch. – City Barbie
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"If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world" – C.S. Lewis
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Where: 55.070 1.003 Dogger Bank
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We have next to record a very sanguinary battle familiarly
known as the Dogger Bank action. The British squadron,
under Vice-Admiral Hyde Parker, being off the Dogger
Bank, on its return to England with the Baltic convoy, consisted
of the following :—
[ships listed]
On the 5th of August [1781], at daybreak, a Dutch squadron,
commanded by Rear-Admiral Zontraan, was discovered
steering nearly the same course as the British, and also
escorting a fleet of merchant ships. The Dutch squadron
consisted of the following :—
[ships listed]
At 4h. A.M., Vice-Admiral Parker, placing the convoy in
charge of Captain Sutton in the Tartar, ordered him to
make the best of his way to England. At 6h. A.M., the
British squadron was ordered to form a line of battle, at two
cables' length distance, and make all sail in chase. The
Dutch admiral, however, showed no desire to avoid an action,
and, having stationed his frigates and convoy to leeward of
the squadron, hauled to the wind on the larboard tack under
easy sail. The morning was fine and clear, with a light
breeze of wind from north-east, and the British, led by the
Berwick, were soon bearing down in good order to the
attack. At 8h. A.m., the British having arrived within
pistol-shot to windward without the enemy's having fired
a shot, an action commenced, which, for steadiness on both
aides, has been in few instances surpassed ; but, owing to
some little confusion among the British ships in taking
up their stations, occasioned in some measure from the
damages sustained by the fall of spars at the commencement,
the ships were not equally matched. After an incessant
cannonading of three hours and forty minutes, Vice-Admiral
Parker hauled down the signal for battle, and the British
ships hove to, and commenced repairing damages. The Fortitude
lost in the action twentykilled, and Lieuts. Joseph Harrington
(mortally), John Waghorn, and Martin Hinckley, the
boatswain, the pilot, and sixty-seven men wounded. Princess
Amelia had her captain, the gunner, and nineteen men killed,
and Lieuts. Richard Hill, Isaac Smith, and Richard Leggatt,
and fifty-six men wounded. Berwick, two midshipmen, and the
pilot, and eighteen men killed, and Lieuts. William Skipsey,
George Maxwell, Captain James Campbell, and Lieut. Hugh
Stewart (of the marines), six midshipmen, and fifty-eight
men wounded. Bientaisant, six men killed, and the gunner
and twenty-one men wounded. Buffalo, twenty men killed,
and Lieut. Randall (mortally), the boatswain, and sixty-four
men wounded. Preston, ten men killed, and Captain
Grteme (lost right arm), Lieut. David Hotchkis, and forty
men wounded. Dolphin, Lieut. Dalby, and eleven men
killed, and the boatswain and thirty-three men wounded.
Total, 109 killed and 362 (many mortally) wounded. The
Fortitude received ten shot between wind and water, masts,
&c., badly wounded, most of the standing and running
rigging shot away, and seven guns rendered unserviceable.
Princess Amelia, lower masts and bowsprit rendered unserviceable,
and hull much damaged. Berwick, fourteen shot
between wind and water, mizen-topmast shot away, several
ports beat into one, ten guns dismounted, and part of the
poop shot away. Bienfaisant, hull and masts much damaged,
and main-topmast shot away. Buffalo, thirty-nine shot
passed through the hull, stern gallery beat to pieces, and
masts, &c., much damaged. Preston, five shot between wind
and water, thirty-two 42 lb. shot sticking in her sides, and
fourteen passed, clean through her. Dolphin, all her masts,
Arc., much damaged.
The Dutch loss was even more severe, and the Hollandia
sank the same night. Her flag, which was kept flying, was
taken away by the Belle Poule, and carried to Admiral
Parker. The total loss in the Dutch squadron, exclusive of
the crew of the Hollandia, is reported to have been 142
killed and 403 wounded. After Vice-Admiral Parker discontinued
the action, the Dutch admiral put before the
wind with his shattered ships, and reached Holland. It is
to be regretted that the British should have had nothing
else to show by way of trophy than the Hollandia's flag,
which had been nobly kept flying by her gallant defenders.
The Dutch claimed a victory, and published an exaggerated
version of the affair ; and the States-General liberally rewarded
the surviving captains and officers.'
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Now Hiring for Fall 2017
The Making Center is now hiring Tool Room Workers and Student Technicians for Fall 2017.
Though the school year is coming to a close, we are already building our team for next year! If you are interested in being considered for re-hire or as a new team member, please fill out the form in the link below. We have several positions to fill across our many shops, so this is an opportunity to let us know what your skills and interests are. Qualified candidates will be notified over the summer to interview and arrange work schedules.
Ideal candidates are:
- Personable, reliable, and responsible problem solvers
- Demonstrate excellent interpersonal communication working both in teams and independently
- Interest in learning and sharing knowledge of new tools and processes
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The 28-year-old Aberdeen defender has been reportedly given permission to speak to the Black Cats and the Clydesdale Bank Premier League side´s £1million valuation is unlikely to be a major obstacle with the player expected to undergo a medical on Wednesday.
Anderson´s agent Blair Morgan told the Scottish Sun: "Russell has been given permission to talk to Sunderland. We are here for those meetings and we will see how it all progresses."
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The Congregation of the Franciscan Hospitaller Sisters of the
Immaculate Conception (FHIC) was founded on 3rd May, 1871,
in Lisbon, Portugal by Mother Maria Clara of the Child Jesus.
In reply to the clamor of the deprived and suffering people,
Clara became an expression of God's tenderness and mercy
by offering her life for the service of the most needy in the
spirit of the Beatitudes.
Having a total trust in the providence of God, like the poor
man of Assisi, St. Francis, she led her life in simplicity, poverty,
availability and joy.
Our identity as Franciscan Hospitaller Sisters of the
Immaculate Conception
Franciscan : As Franciscans we follow the spirit
of St. Francis of Assisi who being rich, gave up everything and
lived a life of poverty and simplicity for the love of God.
Hospitaller : As Hospitallers we live the charism
of Hospitality by receiving and serving everyone with love, simplicity
and joy.
Sister : As Sisters we live in community, having
one mind, one heart, one spirit, and sharing all goods together
in common.
Immaculate Conception : Under the patronage
of the Immaculate Conception we have a filial devotion and confidence
in Mary our Mother.


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2 Star Hotels in Delhi
Delhi is one of the preferred tourist destinations in India and hence sees many tourists flocking to the city especially during the pleasant seasons. For many tourists, it becomes imperative to look for an affordable accommodation which is safe, comfortable and provides all the basic modern amenities that fits their pockets and probably are comfortable to spend a bit more if the Hotel is worth it but not at the price of an expensive stay with no services available.
Tourists visiting Delhi do look for a long duration of stay as it is impossible to cover all the tourist sites in a few days. A few also take the advantage to tour to the neighbouring tourists attractions of the city like the Hill Stations and Himalayan Treks. This makes it mandatory for these tourists to take up a comfortable and reasonably priced accommodation which is easily available in the two star hotels dotted across the City.
Delhi has many 2 Star Hotels that cater to the need of the tourists and especially those who cannot spill out big bucks. These 2 Star Hotels in Delhi provide excellent budget accommodation with a comfortable and warm Indian hospitality and services available at the perusal of its guests. They are located in close proximity to the tourist spots, museums, attractions, trade fair venues and exhibition venues, International Airport, Domestic Airport and the New Delhi Railway Station including the major business centres, Shopping Malls and famous eating outlets of the city. These hotels feature well appointed Guest Rooms equipped with all the modern facilities and amenities that include complimentary breakfast, Airport / Railway Station Transfers, high speed internet access, round the clock in room dining service, a helpful lot of multilingual staff, currency exchange, doctor on call and many more at the cost of a budget accommodation.


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Web Development: Putting business processes online to streamline business
Computer technologies make business processes easier. PI Web Solutions can help design, code and release a new tool that is specific to your business so that staff and customers can move onto other tasks.
e-Commerce : Time to get onboard?
Current sales trends show that Amazon, a company with all sales on-line is the major competitor to Walmart as the retail giant [1]. Businesses can benefit from this trend with e-commerce systems.
Custom Web Application or CMS plugin?
Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal have an advantage in that many of the tools needed for website add-ons, such as a calendar, blog, social media linking tools, etc. are developed plug ins made by others with similar needs to your own. Web Application development may be as easy as finding the right CMS with the plugin you need, installing it and getting familiar with the tools. However, sometimes those plugins can only get 80% of the job you need done. Development to get the last 20% may be more involved and costly due to the work involved in getting to the source code and making updates that do not cause more issues in other places of the website.
Custom Applications for your business are also an option. The benefit to a custom application is that it can be customized according to your business model from the start.
Web Applications can be developed in a wide variety of Languages.
- Perl
- Phython
Web Applications that can enhance your business operations
Your website can be more than just an information resource. For example, retailers can expand their customer base with an online store and e-Commerce. If you have digital resources that you want to manage and be made available to your online customer base, a customized web application (such as an account management system) can be developed according to your business' specific needs. Allow customers to login to your website, and get the digital resources they need. PI Web Solutions can also manage customer information by developing a custom online database, and supply reports of customer information online. Whatever your business process, you can leverage the web to assist with your business process and get ahead of the competition!
1 "If Amazon Out-Walmarts Walmart, Can Anyone Out-Amazon Amazon?" - Wired.com July 27, 2011.


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Nature Scavenger Hunt
Sat 04/22/2017 - Thu 04/27/2017
10:00 am
Oak Bluffs Library
Contact: Sonja Drotar
Address: 56R School St.
Phone: 508-693-9433
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.oakbluffslibrary.org
Admission fee: Free
Relevant Link:
Sponsors: Oak Bluffs Public Library
Benefit for:
Celebrate Earth Week with a hunt that may be completed indoors or out. Find all the items in the hunt to win a prize. For all kids.


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Havurah Guide
By: Benjamin Maron
Using the Havurah of South Florida as a model, store Mitch Chefitz published the Havurah Guide [PDF] in 1990. Twenty years later, the contents are still useful for those looking to start a havurah or minyan or wanting to find suggestions for improving an existing minyan or havurah.
The Havurah Guide provides a comprehensive introduction. Many topics are covered, from how a havurah or miyan could be run to guidelines for fostering a Jewish fellowship; from the role of text study and how to nurture learning to which holidays and life-cycle events can be observed; from how to incorporate social action to other resources for further programming.
While this is a case study of a specific havurah, we can all learn from each other's communities across the country (and around the world). If you use part of this Havurah Guide, please let us know in the comments. If your havurah or minyan has practices that would complement this resource, please share them!
Benjamin Maron attended his first NHC Summer Institute as an Everett Fellow in 2006. He is on the NHC Board of Directors. He is chairing the 2010 Chesapeake Retreat.
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- (i) Disodium diphosphate
- (ii) Trisodium diphosphate
- (iii) Tetrasodium diphosphate
- (iv) Dipotassium diphosphate
- (v) Tetrapotassium diphosphate
- (vi) Dicalcium diphosphate
- (vii) Calcium dihydrogen diphosphate
Salts of sodium/potassium/calcium with phosphates. All are produced synthetically from the respective carbonates and phosphoric acid. Used as buffers and emulsifiers. E450 (iii) also binds metals and prevents discoloration due to metals. E450 (vi) is also used as bread enhancer and calcium supplement. High intakes may upset the calcium/ phosphate equilibrium.
450(a) - Ammonium phosphate, diabasic and monobasic. Mineral salt, buffer used with baking powders and salt substitutes.


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Whether you are a seller or buyer, you want to be successful in the reality marketplace. That's natural and reasonable, but what are the steps you can take or need to triumph?
In the reality market place there is lot of realtors and mortgage brokers who are well experienced in this buying-selling market but you should choose only one realtor or mortgage broker to learn how to negotiation should be done at the time of buying a home. Of course, negotiation is a complex matter and all transactions are matchless. Both, seller and buyer want to feel that the outcome favors them, or at least represent a fair balance of fair interest. Let's see the four key to successful negotiation;
1. What does the real estate market say?
2. Who has leverage?
3. What are the details?
4. What about financing?
In several times, you are in a buyer market, seller market, or a market where housing supply and demand are roughly equal. If possible, you want to be in the market at a time that it favors your position as a purchaser or seller. Brokers from mortgage companies have long represented sellers, and how buyer brokerage is entirely common. Try out all the keys that have been listed above before dealing with a house as a buyer.


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|Posted on May 11, 2009 at 1:19 PM
Fox News is awful. Just...awful.
I know there isn't going to be any newstation that is going to be without some kind of agenda, or without some kind side they lean on, but Fox News is by far the worst of all the cable news stations for their goddamn tagline "Fair and Balanced."
Who the Hell are you kidding, Fox News? When Sean Hannity isn't breaking down and crying because he feels we're losing civil liberties due to a black man in office, we have Bill O'Reilly who bashes agendas into our head, Brit Hume who has a "roundtable" discussion of peole that do nothing but agree with him and an entire news station backing Rush Limbaugh. At no moment do they stop to take a braeth in showcasing how wrong Barack Obama is on, well, everything. Even when he's right, they'll spin it. Even anti-Bush sentiment didn't come across in media as prevelent as the anti-Obama sentiment does at Fox News. Hell, Fox News has become a parody of themselves. They're like the right-wing version the Daily Show only they sadly take themselves seriously.
It's obviously a conservative news station. You know, that I don't have a problem with. There's a channel out there for everbody, conservatives should have their own. What pisses me off is that they still promote themselves as "fair and balanced." So when the ignorant conservatives see the station and grab on to its agenda, they're under the impression that it's a neutral court.
Trying to hide your partisanship is one thing. It's safe to say all the cable outlets have a slant, but those others don't declare themselves as objective...just that they deliver the news and, yes, don't make their agendas nearly as obvious. Fox News is practicly the rebuplican PR machine.
Please, Fox News, just get rid of the whole "Fair and Balanced" bullshit. You have become a punchline, ironically most showcased on The Daily Show which, I'm sorry to say, has actually surpassed you in legitmacy and credibility.
Instead, I'll offer some alternatives:
Fox News: Watch us bitch about democrats
Fox News: That smell isn't a dying rat, just our aroma
Fox News: Agenda Pez despenser
Fox News: Watch Bill O'Reilly devour a live kitten
Fox News: Just...stop.
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Do humans have free will? Are choices free in the sense that each of us is the concious authour of our actions? Many studies have been conducted to measure the readiness potentials (RP's) (negative deflections of electroencephalography signal which precede a voluntary movement) of a given neural mechanism (generally the supplementary motor cortex (SMA) and the premotor cortex, thogh these signals can be found in many other cortical areas) in order to determine the casual relationship, if it exists, between them and the volitional action itself. The most famous example of this kind of study was conducted by Benjamin Libet and colleagues, whom used EEG to show that, in fact, the RP for a given action precedes the subjective feeling of volition by approximately five hundred milliseconds. Thus researchers suggested that the RP represents the primary cortical location in which the decision to move is processed and carried out.
Obviously, this result has some fairly far reaching implications if it is to be taken at face value. Thus it has been met with a great degree of both healthy and capricious skepticism. Using an fMRI and multivariate analysis, researchers aimed to overcome many of the limitations present in Libet's original experiment by both designing it differently and taking full advantage of the fMRI's ability to detect hemodynamic changes across many brain regions. With this technique researchers were able to determine that "the specific outcome of free choices can be determined several seconds before" the the subjective experience of volition (Haynes, 2011).
In order to understand these findings properly one must understand what mechanisms are involved with the coding of intentions in the human and primate brain. These areas include, but perhaps are not limited to; the primary motor cortex (Schwartz, et al, 1986), the SMA and pre-SMA (Kornhuber, Deecke, 1965), (Tanji, 2001), (Tanji, et al, 2009), the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (Quintana, Fuster, 1999), posterior parietal cortex (Snyder, et all, 1997), (Toni, Shah, Fink, 2002), and the frontopolar cortex (Groll-Knapp, et al, 1977). The parietal cortex has also been implicated as the location where concious action plans are generated (Sirigu, et al, 2009), and where the "predictive control of movements" initiates (Haggard, 2005). It is within these areas that the researchers measured the hemodynamics using an fMRI and subsequently the local field potentials, as there is some good evidence indicating predictive fMRI signals may reflect high frequency local field potentials (Handwerker, et al, 2010), (Augath, et al, 2001).
The independent variables of this study are the type of test given (fMRI), the decoding method used to determine predictions (searchlight), and the choices which the subjects were given (pick one of two buttons). The dependent variables are the hemodynamic changes in the brain as measured by the fMRI in each subject, and thus the frequency of the local field potentials, as well as the choices the subjects actually make between the two buttons.
The researchers replaced the rotating clock from the original Libet experiment with a randomized stream of letters that updated every five hundred milliseconds. The subjects were to report which letter was being shown on the screen the moment their concious decision of pressing either the right button, or the left button was made. Subjects were told to fixate their gaze upon the center of the screen where the letters were being shown and at any time (no time restraints for making the decision were given) to decide to press either button. The researchers used a multivariate decoder to predict how the subjects would decide based on the representation of their brain activity by the fMRI.
The researchers found that two brain regions gave partial predictions about when and which button the subjects would choose, even though the subjects didn't themslevles know which button they would yet choose. The first area implicated in the prediction of the decision was the Broddmann area 10 (BA10) in which predictive information existed a full seven to ten seconds before the subject was even aware of their choice. This indicates that the "which" decision in the brain is processed before the "when" and may involve a much more extended network in the brain. The parietal cortex also contained predictive information seconds in advance. The prediction of "which" button the subjects would choose was gauged at an accuracy of around sixty percent. While this is statistically significant, it is worth nothing that this is ten percent above the chance threshold. Information about "when" the subject would actually perform the volitional action was in congruence with Libet's study (perhaps a bit before). The "when" prediction was upwards of eighty percent accurate without individualizong the multivariate decoding method, while as stated, the "which" decision was at about sixty percent accurate without individualizing the decoding. If the methods for decoding were individualized to the particular subject in the fMRI the accuracy of the "which" decision could be brought up to around seventy five to eighty percent.
Once again, the implications, taken at face value, seem to be vast. We must note, however, the limitations of such a study. Given that an fMRI measures hemodynamic changes, one must note that because of the hemodynamic latency, researchers focused on slightly longer timespans. Brain changes that happen in the millisecond range are not easily detectable (perhaps not at all detectable) by an fMRI. They also do not address "real world" decisions which have a high motivation value and risk of consequences, nor do they involve complex reasoning. It would be very interesting to understand if decisions can be predicted in real time. Doing so would help us to better appreciate and understand how our brain both processes and makes decisions on our behalf, which we subsequently take credit for. Ultimately the researchers proved their predictions to be correct and subsequently took down another barricade between brain activity and "free choice".
Now, for a plain English translation of what I am talking about…This is but a couple examples of the ever growing scientific literature on free will. These studies help illuminate the reality of the life in which we live. The VAST majority of what goes on in out brain is inaccessible to our conscious introspection. We cannot account for the true causes of our actions. We can only act and then confabulate reasons for doing as we did. This is proven in study after study.
For example, in one study researchers asked subjects to hold a beverage in their hands and communicate with another individual in a controlled environment. The subjects were then asked to rate that individual on likability and friendliness. Strangely one group of individuals rated the stranger as "cold," "unfriendly," and said that their overall impression was not good. The other group said that the individual was "warm," "friendly," and said that their overall impression was very good. When each group was asked why they rated the stranger the way they did, they each gave various confabulated reasons for their particular rating of the stranger. The kicker is that all of the reasoning given by BOTH groups was utter and complete nonsense. The stranger was the exact same person, engaging in a pre-scripted conversation, in the same room, at the same time of day, in very much the exact same way. The only difference was that one group was given a warm beverage to hold and one group was given a cold beverage. The group given the warm beverage consistently labeled the person friendly and the group given a cold beverage consistently labeled the person as unfriendly.
Though I don't want to get into the exact neurophysiological explanation for this phenomenon, suffice it to say that it has to do with mirror neurons, a brain evolved to think in metaphors, and cross talk between various brain regions. The point I want you to take away from this is that while the subjects post hoc rationalized the reasons why they did what they did, NOT ONE subject actually had the slightest idea. This test has been replicated, time after time, in a variety of different fashions.
When you do just a small bit of introspection concerning free will, you can easily see right through the illusion. Invoking strange metaphysical claims or adopting a compatablist viewpoint, is either complete nonsense (the metaphysical, supernatural, God, Allah, "Ideas of God," spirits, souls, etc..) or bait and switch (compatablism). You no more control the next thought that pops into your head (and thus the next action you undertake) than the fact that you were born into this world. The act of "willing" something into being is simply misguided, at best. There is absolutely NO SENSE that can be made of such a proposition. Who is doing the willing? You? Who are you? Surely you must say, "I am my brain.". If that isn't your answer, your answer probably isn't much worth considering. So assuming that is your answer, as it very well should be, you must understand that your brain does most of its work outside your conscious control. Indeed, every thought you have, every epiphany you dream up, every "everything" that is you is due to a special wiring of neurons who communicate with each other at synapses and gap junctions using chemical neurotransmitters and voltage gated ion channels. How these neurons interact and produce action potentials IS YOU! There is no more YOU than this. There is no extra part of you that is somehow "non physical" that can "will" an event into action. It's a simple law of physics that the non physical can't produce the physical (and don't ask me how something came from nothing without reading a physics book first. If you can't coherently explain the concept of "nothingness" then you don't get to ask the question as a "got-ya" comment. If your genuinely interested I would be grateful to explain). There is MUCH more to say, but it's not like I'm getting paid for this and who knows who will actually read this so let me end this now after but one more example. If you were to trade places with Charles Manson atom for atom, you must admit, if you have any sense at all, that you would be Charles Manson. You would thus be a psychopath who would kill innocent people for the exact same reason that he would. There is no extra part of you that could "choose" to see the world in a different way. Your synapses would be his synapses. Your life experience would be his life experience. You would do exactly as he did, for the exact same reasons, and God himself couldn't do a thing about it. You must then admit that you are simply lucky not to be born with the brain of a psychopath. It isn't because you willed yourself not to be a psychopath or not to murder children, or not to rape and pillage and steal. You simply got lucky. You live in a reductionist, deterministic universe. (Even if you didn't, which you do, indeterminism leaves no room for free will BY DEFINITION). No respectable authority on any subject would say that the world is indeterministic, thus you have free will. Not one single Quantum Physicist will tell you that. And if you happen to think that Quantum Mechanics somehow paves the way for free will, it doesn't. Also with a proper understanding, quantum mechanics doesn't eliminate classical determinism. I don't have the time nor the desire to explain these more technical points fully. Perhaps if anyone reads this and then wants to explore these escape routes we can then discuss why it won't work. Until then, Sianora and don't think of the word COW! COW! COW! (Exercise your free will)!


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February 10, 2011 Length: 39:45
Fr. Thomas Hopko looks at Abel and Cain and why one offered acceptable worship and the other did not.
We said last time that we really cannot understand Christian worship. We cannot understand worship in spirit and truth, worship in Christ and the Holy Spirit. The Divine Liturgy of the Orthodox Church, the eucharistic service: we cannot understand this without having a biblical mind, without having an accurate, correct, and deep understanding of the Scriptures, of the Christian Scriptures, the Hebrew Christian Scriptures—the Bible, basically. Because, as we are saying, and saying again and again in all the time and over and again, Christ and the Christian Church is the final fulfillment, the final covenanted community, the final act of God in human history. When Christ is crucified, raised, and glorified, it's the end of the ages which has come upon us. There's no new revelation. There's nothing that surpasses Christ, his teaching, his sacrificial death on the cross, his being exalted, his being enthroned. Nothing is beyond this, and Christians believe that we, ancient Christians at least, believe that there's nothing new to expect in history.
There's only to be expected the end of history, the coming of the kingdom of God, which will be total worship of God in spirit and truth forever and ever and ever. But the Christians believe that the Church on earth, until the Lord comes, until he comes in glory, is the worship in spirit and truth that God has wanted from his creatures from the very beginning, and that this is finally available, finally given to us by Jesus Christ, God's Son and the Messiah, so that through him we can worship the Father in spirit and truth and have the worship that God the Father desires from us, the worship of the Father, through the Son, in the Holy Spirit, and it will be also, therefore, the worship of God the Father and his Son and his Holy Spirit by creatures who become by grace and by faith, through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, christs themselves. We become christs, sons of God, and enter into the very inner life of the Trinity itself.
And what we're going to see is that the celebration of the Divine Liturgy is an entering into the communion of the life of the three divine Persons—the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit—as this trinitarian being and life has existed from before the foundation of the world, has existed from all eternity, and will exist forever and ever, unto ages of ages, with human beings, creatures, entering into it, participating in it through worship in a deeper, fuller, more perfect way that literally is without end.
So we have to contemplate the Bible. As I said last time, I believe it was that Bible study is really the best way of understanding the worship of the Christian Church. To understand the Divine Liturgies of Chrysostom and Basil, which is our specific intention here, we have to understand the holy Scripture. As I said last time, I'm really convinced that if we would understand the holy Scripture, we would not need classes explaining the meaning of the Divine Liturgy. Such classes would be superfluous; they would be meaningless. They would be totally unnecessary. And if we would have classes trying to explain the meaning of the Divine Liturgy to people who do not have a scriptural mind, who are not steeped in the Scripture, who are not formed and fashioned by the two hands of God which are his Word and his Spirit—the Word that is vivified by the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit which is always a communication of the Word and a communication with God through the Word: Christ the truth, the Holy Spirit the spirit of truth, God the true God. The God and Father is the living God, Christ is the life, the Holy Spirit is the life-giving spirit.
We are contemplating the Scripture here for our first reflections on, that will lead up to a very detailed commentary of the Divine Liturgies. We said last time that it is our conviction, reading the Scripture and reading the Scripture in the light of Christ, reading the Scripture as Christ and his apostles—John and Paul and all of the apostles did—that when we read the Scriptures—the Law, the Psalms, the Prophets, which the Hebrews, the Jewish people, call the Tanakh, the instructions, the Torah, and then the Prophets, the Nevi'im, and then the writings—when we contemplate all that, then we understand what is going on in Christ. And when we know Christ and believe in the Gospel of Christ and the Gospel about Christ, then these Scriptures are open and our minds are open, and we understand what things are about. So this is the fundamental act that we need to understand the Divine Liturgy and to experience it and to do it properly, accurately, for what it really is supposed to be.
Now we said last time that, in the very beginning of the holy Scripture, the first three chapters of Genesis, we have the story of creation. And we said last time that the creation narratives in the Scripture show us that human beings, together with the whole of creation, were made to worship God, that man is a worshiping being. He is a praying being, a worshiping being. That if we are creatures and God is God, then worship is the very word that defines our relationship with God. If creatures are in relationship with God, the result is worship. So we are created to give God glory and thanksgiving and honor. We are created to sing, "Holy, holy, holy," as we'll see later in the prophets. This is what we are created to be and to do.
And we believe that the whole of creation is worshiping God. The sun, the stars, the moon, the trees, the animals, the plants, the fish, the birds are all glorifying God, declaring his glory; and that human beings are created to do this as well, freely, voluntarily, as sons of God, as those who are created to be by God's will and by God's grace, by God's activity, everything that God's eternal Son is from all eternity in the Holy Spirit. In New Testamental terms, that we are created to have the relationship to the one God that Jesus Christ does, and to do so by the same Holy Spirit that Jesus Christ has, the Spirit that proceeds from the Father and rests in the Son from all eternity.
So this is what it is. This is what we are created to do. And we said last time that the primordial sin of human beings is the rejection of their being as worship. It's the rejection of the act of worship. It's no longer human beings offering themselves to God with gratitude and praise and thanksgiving, but, as one of my students once put it, the Genesis stories in the beginning are the stories of humanity trying to be human without God, even against God, even opposed to God, listening not to God's word but the word of the serpent, being inspired not by the Holy Spirit but by the demons, by the devil, by their own fallen rationality, their own psychic minds and powers. This is the tragedy, and it's basically all, we say: tragedy of worship.
It's so very interesting, in our time, that when people say, "I'm spiritual and not religious," what they often mean is: "I just don't want to worship God. I don't want to worship anything. I want to use God for my own purposes. If there is God at all as a cosmic force of good or beauty or whatever it is, I'm going to tap the energies of that God so that I can live the kind of life that I desire and that I choose." If there's anything that's characteristic of modern religion, contemporary religion, certainly in the Western world, certainly in the New Age religions, certainly in many forms of Christianity, it is that worship is no longer the heart of the matter. It's not about worshiping God. It's not about saying to God, "To thee are due all glory, honor, and worship, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit."
It's not about worship at all. It's about activities designed for our own well-being, our own satisfaction, our own health and happiness, as we define these things, we try to use the divine powers, God or the gods or the powers or whatever we would call it, for our own sake as we decide. That, in biblical terms, is idolatry. It's the worship of that which is not God. As many of our holy Fathers, like Macarius of Egypt say, for example, "Everybody worships. We either worship the God who made us or we worship the gods that we have made."
And every god that we have made, every idol, is a projection of our own mind and our own reason and our own will. We manufacture the gods, whatever those gods might be. They might be very primitive-type gods, like, I don't know, Nebuchadnezzar built, or the Canaanite Baalim-type of agricultural gods, or the statues that were built, or they could be more subtle gods. In fact, we could create our own god and call it "God." We can create our own god and call it "the Holy Trinity." We can create our own god and call it "Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit and God the Father." But the reality is nowhere near what that reality really is.
So real worship, worship in spirit and truth, has to be worship of the true God, of God as God actually is, and therefore it would be the worship of human beings as human beings actually are and are supposed to be as created in the image and according to the likeness of God for divine life, whose very essence is worship. So what we said last time already was—and we referred to St. Paul's words in Romans 1 how human beings, knowing God, and in fact even being created to see all of the invisible powers and divinities of God's divine acts in creation, what St. Paul called "ta aorata theou—the invisibles of God," that we were just supposed to know that, naturally, so to speak, just by creating us.
Paradise, in the biblical terms, the garden, is a place of worship. It was to be a place of worship, a place of communing with the Tree of Life, not a place of communing with the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, which is also in the middle of the garden for human beings. That's the possibility of sin. That's the possibility of apostasy, of refusing to give God glory and gratitude and therefore to have our minds and hearts plunged into darkness and to be turned over to all kinds of lasciviousness, lewdness, madness, insanity, and death itself. Read that first chapter of the letter to the Romans. That's the Christian interpretation of Genesis right there, of the condition of humanity.
We are created to know God's dynamis, his power; his theotis, his divinity; by offering him doxa, glory; and efcharistia, eucharist or thanksgiving. That's what we're created to be and do. I quoted Fr. Schmemann who said in the Christian vision, the biblical vision, human beings are worshiping beings or doxological, eucharistic beings. Every sin is a refusal of our being doxological and eucharistic, liturgical beings, liturgics meaning doing the work that God asks us to do, the opus Dei which is the work of glorifying God, praising God, and thereby naming properly all things in creation and consecrating them to the service of God, being the high priest over all creation, the prophet, the one who knows the truth, sees things properly, prays to God rightly, and offers himself freely and voluntarily to God, together with all the creatures of God, as their created Master and Lord. That's the vision.
Now we see that that didn't happen. Humanity from the beginning refused worship, created idols, became idolaters, lived by their own righteousness, and therefore brought disaster and tragedy to the world.
What we want to see today is: How is worship and sacrifice and sacrificial worship depicted in the pages of Genesis after the apostasy of Adam and Eve? In other words, what is worship like outside Paradise, so to speak? What is worship like in the human beings' fallen condition? What can we learn about that already in the first pages in the Bible that then will become crystal clear, totally fulfilled, perfectly realized, in the person of Christ and in the worship of the Church of Christ? What do we see?
Well, what we see—and this is what we're going to reflect on now a bit; we'll just take the book of Genesis today—[is] we see various stories of sacrificial worship, and we see first of all the story of Cain and Abel, and we see the story of Noah, neither of whom were Jews. Fr. Daniélou, in his book about the holy people in the Bible who were not of the people of Israel—he called them the holy pagans, the holy Gentiles. Well, here Cain and Abel, and Noah, whatever they were, they were not children of Abraham, and they did not belong to the Abrahamic genealogy. Abraham had Isaac, Isaac had Jacob, and so on: Joseph and then the twelve tribes and then Moses and then the prophets and then all we know about Israel. These people are not Israelites; they're not Hebrews. But what are they? They are images of humanity; you might even say primitive humanity. They are the first pedagogy of Scripture, to show us, to make us to understand what's going on, what the truth is, what is the reality of things.
Now, what is it that we see? Let's begin with Cain and Abel. That's the only place you can begin, because that's the first act of humanity outside paradise. That's what you have according to the Scripture. The ancient Christian view would be that Adam and Eve are symbolical figures that speak about the origins of humanity, so in a sense we could even say theologically, whatever happened historically and however that emerged, theologically the dogma—I would call it a dogma, not just a doctrine, but really a Church dogma would be—that wherever on the planet earth you would have humanity, you have sin. You have the refusal of worship. You have a turning back on God, but you also have that reality and that instinct in human beings that cannot be completely and totally crushed and demolished.
Here I think that we would say in that sense, ancient Christianity and Orthodox Christianity would be against any understanding that human beings after the so-called "original sin" of Adam and Eve are totally and completely depraved with nothing of the grace of God in them at all, are nothing but a massa damnata, who just deserve nothing but destruction or torment. That would not be the view. The view would be, yeah, the image is distorted, it's obscured, it's perverted, it's corrupted, but still it cannot be completely and totally erased; that there's still the remnants, the memories of paradise inside human consciousness, what the poet Milton called the "intimations of immortality" remain in human beings.
And what also remains is the instinct of worship, the instinct that there are the gods, there are the powers, however obscurely and wrongly and inaccurately understood, even if they're understood as cosmic forces like winds and rain and fire and the physical sun and the elemental powers of the universe, or these gods may be considered to be as kind of demonic forces, daimones, not necessarily evil but just powers that control human destiny and so on. You find this all over the place. You find it all over the map, all over the map of the entire world if you look simply at the origins of humanity as we know them and as we can rediscover them by our study.
So in every place of the world, you have human beings having one or another type of religious activity and one or another type of worship, but it's not the worship in spirit and truth, and it's not the worship of the real, one, true God. It's a kind of a worship of either creatures, like St. Paul says in the Roman letter, replacing the true God with images of creatures, cosmic creatures; or spiritual forces, which are somehow divine. Even the Scripture says there's many gods and many lords, but there's only one true one. "Among the gods," as it says in the psalm and in the vesper prayer of the Orthodox Church, "there is no one like you, O Lord. You are the only true God." And we'll see that that's a clash that exists all through humanity, beginning in the Bible, where it comes to the point where Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and the prophets say: There is no other God but Yahweh, who created heaven and earth; and there is no other God but the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ who is himself the Lord, who is himself the one through whom all things were made from all eternity, by the power of the Holy Spirit.
So vestiges of this remain. Vestigia, as they're called in Latin. They remain in humanity, and wherever you study humanity, you find, for example, ritual sacrifices, sacrifices to agricultural powers, sacrifices to cosmic powers, sacrifices to allegedly celestial powers and gods of every kind. This is a universal fact of humanity. Wherever you find human beings, you have some type or other of worship. But the claim would be: Only in Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, the prophets, and Jesus Christ do you have the true worship of the true God. That would be certainly a Mosaic and a Christian claim. There's just no doubt about it at all. That would be an Abrahamic claim, that there is no other God. The God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses is the God who created the heavens and the earth.
But you have the God Almighty from the Christian point of view, refashioning that consciousness through the activity of Israel that culminates in Jesus Christ. And therefore, there is a kind of continuity of Christianity with all of human experience everywhere, or what we could call for want of a better term, the religious experiences of human beings, the ritualistic ones, and as Mircea Eliade said, the great scholar of religions, he said: God is a latecomer to religion. Religion begins with holy things, sacred powers, blood, water, and all kinds of crazy things, and leads almost everywhere to some type of sacrificial worship, sacrificing animals, sacrificing grains and crops and burning things, and, alas, even sacrificing human beings. They're scapegoats in the communities that get killed to assuage the gods and to calm the gods and to bring peace to the community.
One of the great scholars on this particular issue is a man named René Girard, G-i-r-a-r-d, René Girard. I would highly recommend, those of you who are interested and capable, because it's very, very difficult reading… I try to read it; I don't understand most of it. Of course, I'm not a scholar; I'm just an amateur and a lover of theology and scholarship, but not one. I always think of the saying of the Desert Father, Poemen, who said, "I'm not a monk, but I've known a few." Well, I'm not a scholar or a theologian, but I've known a few. And Girard and Mircea Eliade and others, they show and they even study various societies and cultures that had ritualistic rites that we would call religious, and would have sacrificial rites and so on. And there is almost that innate tendency in human beings, perhaps until the modern era, but even in the modern era it exists in different forms after the Enlightenment, you might say, but you find it everywhere before the so-called Enlightenment. And it's interesting that the Enlightenment was supposed to be a recapturing of Hellenistic and Roman mores and virtues and so on, and the Roman and Hellenistic and Persian and Egyptian and Assyrian societies were filled with sacrificial worship and the worship of the gods. It was only the dilettantes and the philosophers who came to see that there was one, true higher divinity God that was the God of all the other gods.
If you're interested in this a little more, in my opinion, you could listen to the podcast about bishops in the Christian Church, when what happened in the fourth century, with Constantine, when he tried to bring together the Roman Hellenistic legacies of the cults and even the Mithraic and Isic and these kinds of cults together with Christianity, and how the two interfaced and how the martyrs of Christianity had to stand over against syncretistic and idolatrous and pagan, and I would even call them religious uses of the Christian sacraments and the Christian services and the Christian worship. But that's another story for another place.
However, in Genesis already we see that the very first narrative after the Adam and Eve story, which gives all of these genealogies about the children of Adam and Eve, about Seth, who's now made in the image and likeness of Adam and not in the image and likeness of God, bearing all the wounds and apostasies and failures of Adam in his very humanity, but then you have in Genesis 5, just the names of these various generations, and it even speaks about how, when people began to call upon the name of the Lord or the names of God in that thing, in that particular history, but what we want to see is how it gets to Lamech, and then it gets to Noah. It begins with Cain and Abel, and then we get to Noah.
But what do we have in the story of Cain and Abel, before we get to the time of Noah? Well, we find, definitely find, that from Seth to Enosh we get to the time when the human beings began to call upon the name of the Lord. We don't know who that Lord is, and so on. But before that, we have the Cain and the Abel story. What we're going to see, all the way through our reflections—and there's going to be many, many reflections—is how the Christian understanding of things, the biblical understanding of things, is radically different from the understandings of everybody else; how there's an absolute uniqueness to the understanding of worship and the understanding of sacrifice and the understanding of humans' relationship to God in the Judeo-Christian tradition, which is radically different from all the other traditions of spirituality, ritualism, religion, and philosophy on the face of the earth.
Now if we begin to take a look at the story of Cain and Abel, Genesis 4 says that Adam knew Eve his wife, she conceived and bore Cain, saying, "I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord," and again she bore his brother Abel. Then it says that Abel was a keeper of sheep and Cain a tiller of the ground. And I think that all that wants to say is that there were these two types of people which existed just down to the present day: the agricultural people and those who took care of the animal -type people. In my youth you would even have this clash in America in the cowboy movies between the herders who had the cows and the steers and the horses and so on, and then those who tilled the soil and grew the crops. I would say that this just simply wants to say that there are these two types of humanity, and certainly at the time that's what you had. You had the tillers of the ground, and you had the keepers of the sheep.
Then it says that both of them brought offerings to God. And we don't know how or where. I think we can just say that was instinctive in them as one of those memories of Paradise, that there were the gods, there were the powers, and that they had to be related to in some way. But what it said is that Cain brought to God an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel brought the firstlings of his flock and their fat portion. We will see later that in the Mosaic law, the people of God had to offer the firstfruits of the crops and the firstborn of the animals, and then we're going to see that Christ himself is going to be considered to be the firstfruit of humanity and the firstborn of the dead and the firstborn of all creation. It's all going to be fulfilled in Christ.
But then it says: The Lord had regard for Abel's offering, but for Cain and his offering, he had no regard. And it doesn't really say exactly why not. Some people think that, well, it was the nature of the offering, but I think that's not acceptable. Like, that God would accept, you know, the offering of the sheep and not the offering of the earth. It doesn't seem to be that that's the point at all. And it seems even that the text tells us that that's not the point, because when Cain realizes that God does not look favorably upon his sacrifice, his offering… And by the way, that word "offering" is important, because the Divine Liturgy will be filled with that expression, "the offering": Let us stand aright, let us stand with fear, that we may offer the holy sacrifice, the holy oblation in peace. This is all going to continue to be Christian language in regard to Christ and the Gospel of God in Christ.
But anyway, what we see here is that the Lord says to Cain: Why are you angry? Why has your countenance fallen? That's an expression in the Bible: your countenance, the expression of your face changes. For example, in the story of the three youths in the fiery furnace, when they refuse to worship Nebuchadnezzar's idol, it will say about Nebuchadnezzar that the countenance of his face changed, that it altered. I always remember that in Slavonic: [ispolnisye iarosti i zraku litsa ego izmdjnisye]. I remember that from my childhood, how his face changed when they refused to worship the idol in Daniel. But we're still in Genesis here.
So God says: Why are you angry? Why has your countenance changed, fallen? If you do well, will you not also be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must master it. Then Cain says to Abel his brother, "Let's go to the field," after that conversation with God. And when they're in the field, Cain rises up against his brother Abel and he kills him. He kills Abel because Abel's sacrifice was acceptable, and his was not.
Then the Lord says to Cain: Where is Abel, your brother? He said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?" Very famous words. And the Lord said: What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground, and now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive, a wanderer on the earth, and so on.
Well, we will not go any further in that story, but what we have to see is that not only is it Abel's sacrifice that is accepted, but then Abel himself becomes a sacrificial victim to the wrath of his brother, Cain, who kills him. So Abel offers the proper sacrifice, which is regarded by God, and then gets killed by the brother, whose offering the Lord did not look upon, and that the Lord was not pleased with. So we have to ask the question: What's going on here? It seems, I would offer to you, that the most convincing answer is a simple one, that Abel offered his offering to God as an offering of praise and gratitude and thanksgiving for the righteousness of God in his life, and that he was not trying to con God in any way. He was not simply trying to use God or abuse God, that the offering was a pure offering. It was not an offering, somehow to appease the deity, to win the divine power over to him, and to try to get God to do what he wanted to do. And it seems to be that that's what was the case with Cain.
It said: "If you do well, will you not be accepted?" So if Cain was doing well, if he was living righteously, if he was following what the holy Fathers in the Bible will call, St. Paul would call, "the law written within his heart," if he was following the conscience of his own heart in his behavior and was having a right relationship to God, in other words, sacrificing and honoring and worshiping God and offering what he had to God, whether it was the fruit of the earth or the sheep of the fields, but he would offer it in pureness, in purity, in righteousness, in holiness, or desiring those things at least from God, then it would have been acceptable.
So the claim is that what we seem to have here in the Scripture is the whole problematic of sacrifice and worship. Are we worshiping God for God's own sake? Are we worshiping God for his own goodness? Are we worshiping him for his gifts to us and his grace and his sharing his divine life with us? Are we doing it with gratitude—or are we making offerings and prayers to God just to try to get God on our side and to manipulate God by offering him things so that he would kind of take care of us, protect us, give us health, long life, and so on, on our own terms as we define it? This theme is going to run through the whole Bible, and it seems to be here already in latent form, in seed form, in the very first story in the Scripture of the children of Adam, Cain and Abel.
This is what we seem to have here. And a wonderful book by an Anglican scholar of the 19th century who got into huge debates with his fellow Western Christians in England, both Evangelical and Church of England, Anglican-types, and so on, because this man—his name was Frederick Dennison Maurice—said that Christian worship had just become pagan again, and people were only coming to worship God to get what they wanted, to appease the deity, to win his favor, usually against enemies, according to their own desires, and it really wasn't the pure and glorious, true, grateful praise of God. Then he even said that the sacrifice of Jesus was accepted in this way by Protestants, that the sacrifice of Christ was to assuage the anger of God and to get God on our side and to make God deal favorably with us and not to hate us any more. F.D. Maurice, Frederick Dennison Maurice, said this is all paganism. This is not the Bible. This is not the Old Testament nor the New Testament, and he got into huge trouble with people who really hated him.
The title of his book, printed in 1879, which I found almost by accident… Let me just tell you how I found it. Someone gave me as a gift a little book of meditations for every day of the year, a very old book made by Protestants in the 19th century, a very nice book of daily meditations. There are some Catholic offerings in there, Fénelon, Gury, and some others, and Quakers and all kinds of people. But as I would read through this meditation book, the name F.D. Maurice was there several times with what he said, and I always liked what he said. What he said always seemed to really resonate with my Orthodox soul, heart, and mind, and body. So once, when I went to St. Vladimir's seminary—I was already retired, alas; I wish I had this before I retired—I went to the library to see if there were any books by this F.D. Maurice, and I found a book called The Doctrine of Sacrifice: Deduced from the Scriptures. Here let me read to you what F.D. Maurice said about Cain and Abel. He says: The meaning of these two kind of sacrifices go through the entire history. The confession of dependence and trust on a righteous being from whom life came, which is what made Abel's offering an acceptable one. And then there was the proud feeling of Cain, that he had something to give, that something God would be pleased with and then God would have to do what he told God to do, which led to discontent when he received nothing in return for his gift, and which even led to the murder of his brother. So this F.D. Maurice says this. He said:
Do not let us say, as some have said, that Abel was a religious man and Cain an irreligious man. That is not the Bible language, either concerning them or their successors. The acts of Cain are just as religious as those of his brother; one brought a sacrifice just as well as the other. We have no reason to suppose, that there may not have been an abundance of religion among those upon whom the flood came [even in the time of Noah]. [He said the point is:] Abel was a righteous man; his sacrifice was offered to a righteous Being [whom we would call God]: it expressed faith in such a Being. Cain was an unrighteous [man]; he believed in power, and nothing else [as the murderer of his brother proves]. His sacrifice was presented to a power, and was designed to win the favor [of the power]. It was not presented to God [as God is]; it was no [real] worship of [God]; it therefore could not be acknowledged by [God].
In other words, it was an impure sacrifice, a self-serving, proud sacrifice. It wasn't really a sacrifice in spirit and truth. And so this is what we see from the beginning, this clash between these two kinds of religion, so to speak. Or I would even prefer to say, personally, between religion as the fallenness of corrupted beings who simply are trying to appease the deity, win favor from the deity, get God on their side, get God to do what they want him to do, offer sacrifices so God would be constrained to make their life healthy and wealthy and long and victorious over their enemies and so on; that's not the biblical view from the very first pages of Genesis. That is absolutely not it, as we will see as we will go through the Scripture and as we comment the Divine Liturgy.
The problem is that this kind of approach still exists, and it even exists in the Divine Liturgy in the Orthodox Church. In other words, we could have people who come to the Church and offer the Divine Liturgy, participate in the sacrificial rites of the Church—and other kinds of sacrifices: candles, incense, wheat, whatever, holy water, or whatever—doing all these things to get God to sanctify their life the way they want it to be and not as an offering of mercy and peace and thanksgiving and praise to the God who graciously loves them and to the God who alone protects them over all of their enemies as he sees fit to do, and a righteous God who wants to deal with righteous people, not an idol, not a brute force, not a power, but one who is love, one who is truth. This is what seems to be, right from the beginning in the story of Cain and Abel, the issue. And we will continue to reflect on this as we continue to reflect on the sacrifices in the book of Genesis, particularly that of Noah and then Abraham and then Israel.
But for today, this is sufficient. Just to set the stage, to see what it is that we are dealing with. How does sacrificial worship and the worship of the true God exist outside Paradise? And here, you could almost say that you have the same dialectic, the same problematic, as was within Paradise. Do we worship and love God for his own sake? Do we thank him for who he is and what he does for us? Do we accept what he is and what he does for us as righteous in all its ways? Or are we coming to God, as one Christian mystical writer, Eckhart, once said, as to a cow, to milk him for all that he could give to us? And then to believe that if we burn incense or burn candles or offer wheat or offer bread and wine, and even invoke the name of Christ, that that will constrain God to do what we want him to do. That's not worship. Or you can say, yes, it is—but it's religious pagan worship, outside Paradise, of the corrupted human being. It is not worship in spirit and in truth. But we will continue with this the next time.


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French cuisine is very known in the world, their world class, and sophisticated restaurants because as the French say cooking is love made visible but many French people are busy people who want a speed service for food, and that is why they also have different fast food chains. French fast food chains like any other fast food in the world, mostly
There are many fast foods in French, and here are some of the list.
Five Guys at Paris, France a franchise burger fast food chain that serves fantastic burgers and tasty fries, their burger was top with fresh vegetables that make it yummier and tastier. Eating its burger taste like any other franchise of this fast food chain in the world.
Burak in Paris France serves burgers, fries, sandwiches, kebab and more. Cheap fast food in French that will surely not become cheap on the taste of their food, their seasoned fries
Maison de la Poutine Paris, France,
Maison de Gyros Paris, France,
Fermier Gourmet Paris, France, offers
Patati Patata Paris, France, serves baked potato with lots of variations of flavor,
Hamler's Burgery Paris, France, want to have a delicious burger? This is the place to be an American burger in Paris, France. It is a bit pricy than the other burger shop but the taste is worth your money. Aside from its amazing burgers, their fries and shakes are also to die for.
All Star Food Paris France, offers great pizza and crepes. Their food is affordable and taste like heaven that you really want to come back for more.
Ya Hala Paris France, they offer excellent food that you shouldn't miss. Their fan and sandwiches are delicious that you will surely crave for more.
L'As du Fallafel Paris France, offer great kosher, sandwiches and falafel. Falafel
Some French fast foods are franchise and inspired by other nations, but adding French twist and taste with it make it standout and tastier.
DIY Wooden Guitar Rack Using Table Saw
A table saw is actually a very versatile tool that anyone could use Learn the basics and tackle a great new project using that table saw machine. There are advantages and people want to make good use out of the table saw for themselves. The table saw allows for precision cuts that are a must. People can take full control over the table saw and muster some impressive cuts along the way. Choose a durable wood and cut the pieces with confidence after some initial steps. It doesn't take very long to understand how the table saw will be used. Check out some table saws here: http://bestcabinettablesaws.com
First, it is important to check out the table saw that is in use. Examine the specific features and installation guidelines that are helping people move forward. The table saw is worthwhile and could be the best new addition to a garage. The workshop ought to have plenty of room for the table saw. That makes the hobby possible and people want to try out the DIY Wooden Guitar Rack. The rack can be made in short order for those who want to practice their skills. It won't take very long to piece together the DIY Wooden Guitar Rack at home.
Always follow the guidelines closely when cutting the wood. Measure twice and cut once to avoid any kind of complications. The DIY Wooden Guitar Rack is cobbled together using precision techniques. People have made the guitar rack at home with just a little bit of work. Cutting the wood is easier than ever for those who are interested. The DIY Wooden Guitar Rack is the right choice and people have given that a try. Trust that the guidelines will make sense and the project is held together as is needed. The DIY Wooden Guitar Rack will be a stately item around the house.
There are plenty of reviews written by other users at the horn. Their table saw project is a lively discussion and people seem to be captivated by that choice. The table saw is used to piece together wood segments as is needed. The DIY Wooden Guitar Rack is a popular choice for a good reason. Collectors want to keep the components together and make the rack a possible addition to the horn. Write new reviews and learn more details about the project in good time. The DIY Wooden Guitar Rack will prove to be the best choice possible for collectors.
Think about the true price tag for the DIY Wooden Guitar Rack. The table saw will make short work out of wood blocks needing to be cut. The budget should include a few simple materials that can be stored as a is needed. A workshop could be the perfect location for the DIY Wooden Guitar Rack. Make sure that the table saw is set up for work as is needed. The DIY Wooden Guitar Rack is helping everyone learn the ropes. That project is held in high esteem by those who are interested in it. Buy a table saw for use around the house.
Rhythmic Music help you with bowel movements to help
Many people among us who are not related to science in any form they don't know what bowel movement basically is. It is almost very last stop for the movement of food which you eat through your whole digestive tract in the body. Waste material which is commonly called stool or feces passes out of the body through two different parts known as Anus and Rectum.
Sometimes in a person, this process fails to complete its cycle and feces don't pass out of the body as in normal days. There can be many problems which can take place but here we have a focus on how to make their movement normal so that they can pass out the body easily.
Rhythmic music plays one major role in the bowel movement. If you are having any problem with the movement of bowel then make sure you have the right collection of music at your home. Rhythmic music can keep your mind fresh and relaxed. Listening to your favorite music releases all the stress and anxiety, hormones get relaxed and they facilitate the bowel movement.
Music is said to be the food for the soul but the latest researches show the reaping and healing effect of music on the human mind and body. Music can give us goosebumps to make us cry triggering certain emotions and feelings one can associate with. Music nowadays helps us get a sound sleep, reduces stress and anxiety, eases pain and gets your poop moving. Everything in the world goes by the rhythmic movement. Rhythmic music plays one major role in the bowel movement.
Another part is played by the Toilet seat. If you have a proper toilet seat in your bathroom it can help you to pass your feces easily. The comfortable and proper toilet seat is a must thing to have in your bathroom, if you don't have a proper one you can have different rashes and bruise on your skin. When you don't find your toilet seat more comfortable like kohler's toilet obviously how your bowel movement can be normal. Another important thing which should be kept in mind that the proper cleaning of your toilet seat. It can make a person's mind comfortable that yes the place is neat and one can pass feces without any stress or in hurry.
Apart from the rhythmic music and proper selection of toilet seat you should know one more thing which can facilitate the bowel movement and that is right positioning. Never force to pass your bowel only because of hurry or rush. For better positioning make sure you keep your knees at a higher position as compared to your hips and make your back straight as much as you can. When the time comes to pass feces try to tense the stomach as compared to the rectum. It can help you a lot in the movement of the bowel.
Burger King For Music Artists
Music is one of those things that is universally enjoyed by everyone. The rich sounds and the poignant singing elicits strong emotional reactions from listeners. Music has been around throughout the history of humanity. Pre-historic instruments were limited to drums and vocal sounds. Today, there are a wide variety of instruments which can create many different types of sounds. Which ones an artist chooses to express himself is completely up to him.
While music has always been popular, there are more genres now than have ever been before. This means that more people are listening to the type of music which they like. It has also resulted in a greater demand for high-quality music. With this increased demand, the field is ripe for new music artists to join the scene. Now is the perfect time for budding artists to make a grand entrance and change the industry.
Making music is generally hard work. It requires a lot of creative thinking as well as skill and talent. It can take an artist hours of practice to perfect a song. All this hard work can make anyone feel tired. The best way to revitalize oneself and get back lost energy is by eating.
Food has all the nutrition and energy one could need. The best thing to eat when you're tired is something that's tasty and filling. This makes burgers the perfect food for hard working music artists. Burgers are popular because of how delicious they are.
The best place to get high-quality burgers is from Burger King. Burger King is international and one of the most popular fast food franchises for a reason. Their food stands out as being well-cooked and nice to look at. The burgers they make are appetizing and tasty. One of the most notable aspects of Burger King's menu is the amount of choice and variety that can be found. There's a great deal of choice when it comes to what exactly you want the burger to be like. You can order something small or large and get to choose between chicken and mutton for the meat of the party. You get to have your burger exactly as you want it.
While Burger King's burgers are great, they may not be available close to where you work or live. This is because Burger King joints are limited in number and aren't present everywhere. A great alternative, in this case, would a place like Au Bon Pain. Like Burger King, Au Bon Pain is also a franchise of restaurants. However, while Burger King specializes in burgers, Au Bon Pain is popular because of its baked goods. The franchise is known for the excellent pastries and bread they make. For our purposes though, we'll be focusing on hot and cold sandwiches from Au Bon Pain. These sandwiches are quite filling and tasty. They come in both vegetarian and non-vegetarian varieties where non-vegetarian buyers also get to choose which type of meat goes into the sandwich. The cold sandwiches are refreshing and comparatively lighter. The hot sandwiches can come in grilled form and be eaten as a meal by itself. Either is great for music artists who need to eat something to gain energy.
Good Hurom Design for Music Artists
Hurom is a reputable juicer manufacturer that produces efficient juicers for excellent quality juice. Music artists are professionals who produce music to entertain people. Music artists need a juicer with a compact design in order to derive high-quality juice. Hurom has several juicers with a great design that can be of benefit to music artists. Here are some Hurom great design juicers for music artists.
- Hurom HU-100 Juicer:
Hurom HU-100 Juicer is a good Hurom design for music artists. This juicer comes with a compact design and is very efficient in producing excellent quality juice. This juicer is capable of juicing all types of fruits and raw food ranging from vegetables, almonds, nuts, e.t.c. Hurom HU-100 produces excellent juices with no pulp. Another benefit of this juicer for music artists is that it has a silent operation thereby allowing music artists to concentrate on the production of quality music.
- Hurom Premium Masticating Slow Juicer:
The Hurom Premium Masticating Slow Juicer is yet another good Hurom design for music artists. This juicer comes with a compact design. This product squeezes the juice out of raw foods while still allowing it to retain its taste. The yield from this juicer is always great and of high nutritional content.
- Hurom Model HH-SBB11 Juicer:
The Hurom Model HH-SSBB11 Juicer is a great Hurom Juicer with a compact design. This is a highly efficient Hurom Juicer that produces the least pulp for more juice. This is an efficient juicer that is suitable for music artists. The juicer works with a slow juicing technology that allows it to be silent during operation. The juicer has simplified parts which make it very easy to assemble and disassemble. The juicer is easy to use and equally easy to clean. One of the benefits of this juicer is that it has a self-cleaning mechanism for a fast and efficient cleaning of juicers.
- Hurom Fresh Juicer (JP Series):
The Hurom Fresh Juicer (JP Series) is another good from design for music artists. The juicer comes with a compact design and is highly efficient. This juicer operates silently which is why it is suitable for music artists. Aside from being performance efficient, the juicer is equally energy efficient. The juicer makes use of only 540 watts. Another benefit of the juicer is its compact size, this makes it easy to move from one location to another as it doesn't take space. The juicer is easy to assemble and disassemble which makes cleaning remarkably easy.
- Hurom HK Juicer:
The Hurom HK Juicer is another great product from Hurom. This is one of the most beautiful Hurom juicers. The juicer has a compact design and it juices efficiently. The juicer produces great and tasty juices. The juicer has a built-in strainer that strains out the pulp and ensures that all you get is a smooth juice. The juicer comes with advanced features that ensure that it is properly assembled before it commences operation. The juicer comes with an external pulp ejector which means that you do not have to eject pulp manually. The juicer operates silently.
Ping Pong players as music artists
Do you think ping pong players can be music artists? Yes, there are very many examples in the globe. The main reason for this is each of the careers complements one another, at the same time, music acts as a relaxing activity while ping pong plays the physical exercise role.
Music is a creative art which is soothing to the soul, it allows you to relax and meditate as you plan your life goals as a ping pong player. After a loss in a ping pong game, you cannot afford to lose hope, you need to engage in an activity which allows you to relax and reduce anxiety ready for the next game. All these benefits are found in music. Similarly, music artists need to engage in physical body exercises which not only drain the body but also allows mental thinking to boost mental capability to allow further logic in the development of new hit songs.
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Creative art skills need a sharp brain and practice on intelligence for success. Ping Pong as a game polishes the mental skills to allow music artists to have diverse abilities in the production of the best rhythm and music notations.
Coordination is yet another virtue portrayed in ping pong. You have to manage your body movement, your optical skills, and strategic paddling and ball response skills. All these have a positive long-term effect on the character of a ping pong player. If the same player involves in music where coordination of musical notes and notation is paramount, the effect is double. Most ping pong players who are also music artists have near perfect music careers since the two have a way of supplementing each other for success.
The digital solutions in table tennis support the use of robots, it is also fun to watch then portray the digital skills in the game. Controversial debates of robots, in general, have both positive and negative effects. Health experts foresee and increase in the number of people with lifestyle diseases simply because it reduces the physical exercise among household which means a slow blood circulation to major body organs as well as weight gain.
Obesity is a headache among health personnel, in as much as there is massive awareness of clean eating and physical exercises, it beats logic to involve in physical activities when there are cheaper options to run household chores.
Know the Rhythm of the Day at 90bpm
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Every day is a new creative start, beaten by new aesthetic, musical, social winds and prefiguring the future of our desires, and often of our debates. 90bpm lives with his time and beats the pavement, looking from all sides, often having the audacity to do what we like and talk about what we love, what we live.