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"I know of no 'new programme'. Only that art is forever manifesting itself
in new forms, since there are forever new personalities-its essence can never
alter, I believe. Perhaps I am wrong. But speaking for myself, I know that I
have no programme, only the unaccountable longing to grasp what I see and feel,
and to find the purest means of expression for it."
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
The psychophysical problem is long standing and, probably, intractable.
We have a corporeal body. It is an entity subject to all the laws of physics. Yet, we experience ourselves, our internal lives, and external events in a manner which provokes us to postulate the existence of a corresponding, non-physical complement. This corresponding entity ostensibly incorporates a dimension of our being which, in principle, can never be tackled with the instruments and the formal logic of science.
A compromise was proposed long ago: the soul is nothing but our self awareness (introspection) or the way we experience ourselves. But this is a flawed solution because it assumes that the human experience is uniform, unequivocal and identical. It might well be so - but there is no methodologically rigorous way of proving it. We have no way to objectively ascertain that all of us experience pain in the same manner or that the pain that we experience is the same for all of us. This limitation on our knowledge prevails even when the causes of the sensation are carefully controlled and monitored.
A scientist might say that we can map and pinpoint the exact part of the brain which is responsible for pain. Moreover, science is even be able to demonstrate a monovalent relationship between a pattern of brain activity in situ and pain. In other words, the scientific claim is that patterns of brain activity ARE the pain itself.
Such an argument is, prima facie, inadmissible. The fact that two events coincide (even if they do so without fail) does not make them one and the same. The serial occurrence of two events does not make one of them the cause and the other the effect, as is well known ("correlation is not causation").
Similarly, the contemporaneous occurrence of two events only means that they are correlated. A correlate is not an alter ego. It is not an aspect of the same event. Activity in the brain appears WHEN pain happens, but it by no means follows that it IS the pain itself.
A stronger argument would crystallize if it were convincingly and repeatedly demonstrated that playing back these patterns of brain activity induces pain. Even so, we would be talking about cause and effect rather than an identity of pain and its correlate in the brain.
The gap is even bigger when we try to capture emotions and sensations by applying natural languages. This seems close to impossible. How can one even half accurately communicate one's anguish, love, fear, or desire? We are prisoners in the universe of our emotions, never to emerge and the weapons of language are useless. Each one of us develops his or her own, idiosyncratic, unique emotional language. It is not a jargon, or a dialect because it cannot be translated or communicated. No dictionary can ever be constructed to bridge this lingual gap.
In principle, experience is incommunicable. People - in the very far future - may be able to harbour the same emotions, chemically or otherwise induced in them. One brain could directly take over another and make it feel the same. Yet, even then these experiences will not be communicable and we will have no way available to us to compare and decide whether there was an identity of sensations or of emotions.
Still, when we say "sadness", we all seem to understand what we are talking about. In the remotest and furthest reaches of the globe, people share the feeling of being sad. It might be evoked by disparate circumstances - yet, we all seem to share some basic element of "being sad". What is this immutable kernel?
We have already said that we are confined to using idiosyncratic emotional languages and that they cannot be translated to other idiosyncratic emotional languages or otherwise communicated.
Let us postulate the existence of a meta language. This language is common to all humans. Indeed, it seems to be the language of being human. Emotions are statements in this language. This language must exist to make even the most rudimentary communication between humans possible.
It would appear that there must be a correlation between this universal language and our myriad idiosyncratic, individualistic languages.
Pain is correlated to brain activity, on the one hand and to this universal language, on the other. We would, therefore, tend to parsimoniously assume that the two correlates are but one and the same. In other words, it may well be that the brain activity which "goes together" with pain is merely the physical manifestation of the meta-lingual element "PAIN". We feel pain and this is our experience, unique, incommunicable, expressed solely in our idiosyncratic language.
We know that we are feeling pain and we communicate it to others. As we do so, we use the meta, universal language. The very use (or even the thought of using) this language provokes the kind of brain activity which is so closely correlated with pain.
It is important to clarify that this universal language could well be a physical, even a genetic one. Nature might have endowed us with it to improve our chances of survival. The communication of emotions is of an unparalleled evolutionary importance and a species devoid of the ability to communicate the existence of pain, for instance, would surely perish. Pain is our guardian against the perils of our surroundings.
To summarize: we manage our inter-human emotional communication using a universal language which is either physical or, at least, has strong physical correlates.
The function of bridging the gap between our idiosyncratic, private languages and a more universal one was relegated to a group of special individuals called artists. Theirs is the job to experience (mostly emotions) and to mould their experience into the grammar, syntax and vocabulary of a universal language in order to communicate to us the echo of their idiosyncratic language. They are forever mediating between us and their experience. Rightly so, the quality of an artist is measured by his ability to loyally represent his unique language to us. The smaller the distance between the original experience (the emotion of the artist) and its external representation, the more prominent the artist.
We declare artistic success when the universally communicable representation succeeds at recreating and evoking in us the original emotion (felt by the artist). It is very much like teleportation which allows, in sci-fi yarns, for the decomposition of the astronaut's body in one spot and its recreation, atom for atom in another.
Even if the artist fails to faithfully recreate his inner world, but succeeds in calling forth any kind of emotional response in his viewers/readers/listeners, he is deemed successful.
Every artist has a reference group, his audience. They could be alive or dead (for instance, he could measure himself against past artists). They could be few or many, but they must be present for art, in its fullest sense, to exist. Modern theories of art speak about the audience as an integral and defining part of artistic creation and even of the artefact itself.
But this, precisely, is the source of the dilemma of the artist:
Who is to determine who is a good, qualitative artist and who is not?
Put differently, who is to measure the distance between the original experience and its representation?
After all, if the original experience is an element of an idiosyncratic, non-communicable, language, we have no access to any information regarding it and, therefore, we are in no position to judge it. Only the artist has access to it and only he can decide how far is his representation from his original experience. Art criticism is impossible.
Granted, his reference group (his audience, however limited, whether among the living, or among the dead) has access to that meta language, that universal dictionary available to all humans. Still, no member of the audience has access to the artist's original experience and their capacity to pass judgement is, therefore, in great doubt.
On the other hand, only the reference group, only the audience can aptly judge the representation for what it is. The artist is too emotionally involved. True, the cold, objective facts concerning the work of art are available to both artist and reference group, but the audience is in a privileged status, its bias is less pronounced.
Normally, the reference group will use the meta language embedded in us as humans and a modicum of empathy to try to vaguely compare their emotions to his, to try to grasp the emotional foundation laid by the artist. But this is very much like substituting pornography for real sex. Talking about emotions - let alone making assumptions about what the artist may have felt that we also, perhaps, share - is a far cry from what really transpired in the artist's mind.
We are faced with a dichotomy:
The epistemological elements in the artistic process belong exclusively and incommunicably to the artist.
The ontological aspects of the artistic process are observable by the group of reference but they have no access to the epistemological domain.
And the work of art can be judged only by comparing the epistemological to the ontological.
Nor the artist, neither his group of reference can do it. This mission is nigh impossible.
Thus, an artist must make a decision early on in his career:
Should he remain loyal and close to his emotional experiences and studies and forgo the warmth and comfort of being reassured and directed from the outside, through the reactions of the reference group, or should he consider the views, criticism and advice of the reference group in his artistic creation and, most probably, have to compromise the quality and the intensity of his original emotion in order to be more communicative.
I wish to thank my brother, Sharon Vaknin, a gifted painter and illustrator, for raising these issues.
ADDENDUM - Art as Self-Mutilation
The internalized anger of Jesus - leading to his suicidal pattern of behaviour - pertained to all of Mankind. His sacrifice "benefited" humanity as a whole.
A self-mutilator, in comparison, appears to be "selfish". His anger is autistic, self-contained, self-referential and,
therefore, "meaningless" as far as we are concerned. His catharsis is a private
But what people fail to understand is that art itself is an act of self
mutilation, the etching of ephemeral pain into a lasting medium, the ultimate
private language.
They also ignore, at their peril, the fact that only a very thin line separates
self-mutilation - whether altruistic (Jesus) or "egoistic" - and the mutilation
of others (serial killers, Hitler).
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The Case of Sergej
Sergej Andreevski is one of Macedonia's foremost painters. I visited his studio in the outskirts of Skopje to avail myself of a rare opportunity: an open invitation by a practicing artist to enter his mind.
Sergej is an action painter in an age of for-hire artisanship, he is an expressionist, bucking the trends of modernism, abstract and otherwise. He splurges paint from his tubes all over the (usually largish) canvass and then dives into it, fingers and soul. He prefers green and blue.
Sergej is a very physical artist. He loves the texture of his colors (though not their smells). He is tall and imposing and likes his experiences raw and direct. But he rebels against the limitations of the physical and its intrusion on his spirit: he makes battle with his canvass, jabbing at it and piercing it, in a bid to extricate himself from its disciplining dimensions.
He paints with music in the background and tries to capture motion and magic by deploying naive but endearing techniques. His is a world of guts. He is a quasi-surrealist, though he rejects this label, any label. He is not a man of theory, but of daubed practice.
Sergej regards his art as an expression and a manifestation of what he calls his "instinct." He finds the need to verbalize the sources of his inspiration tedious, difficult, and superfluous. His sensa and his exposure to other countries and cultures should suffice to account for his work. He admits that mathematical precision and the balance of colors have a role in his art, but only as finishing touches, not as an integral part of the primary process of creation.
He is attuned to other people: their body language, their feelings, other intimate information he can glean. This is his raw material. His art is his reaction to the world, an emotive discharge. His paintings are, thus, emotional capsules, a visual internal biography, a landscape of interactions with himself.
Painting is Sergej's compulsion. The public is secondary. He doodles when he is not painting. When at work, he dissociates ("I cut them out"). Frequently, he has only vague memories of events outside his easel and of the intervening time. Sergej is cursed (or blessed) with synaesthesia: musical notes assume colors and shapes and have a profound effect on his mood.
He thinks of his paintings as triggers, not as messages. As far as he is concerned, the viewer is at liberty to disagree with the artist on what a work of art means or says: "art is not a language". What matters is that there is a reaction. Sergej is a great believer in art's power to refine and uplift even the coarsest, most vulgar man.
He brings into his art the spell of his homeland, Macedonia, steeped for hundreds of years of solitude in folktales and traditions, the mists of times, the cradle of legends and of superstitions. "Too much knowledge obstructs the artist." Artists need to work on their associations, not to be too erudite, Sergej concludes.
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List of freeware video games
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This is a selected list of freeware video games implemented as traditional executable files that must be downloaded and installed. Freeware games are games that are released as freeware and can be downloaded and played, free of charge, for an unlimited amount of time.
This list does not include:
- Open source games (see List of open-source video games).
- Games that were previously sold commercially (see List of commercial video games released as freeware).
- Shareware or Free-to-play games that require purchase for play time, game items, new content or features.
- Browser games alias browser-based games.
- Mods: software that cannot be played as stand-alone game.
- Aleph One is a modified version of the Marathon 2 engine
- Ahriman's Prophecy is a prequel to the Aveyond RPG series.
- Alien Swarm is a free top down shooter from Valve used to test the Source 2010 beta.
- America's Army is the official United States Army game.
- Anchorhead is a horror interactive fiction game.
- ADOM is a roguelike game (technically postcardware) by Thomas Biskup.
- Armored Brigade is a freeware tactical wargame, focusing on realism and playability.
- Assault Cube is a Counter Strike-like first person shooter with low system requirements.
- Astro battle is a top down Multi-directional shooter in which players design their own spacecraft and battle other players on-line.
- Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden is a futuristic role-playing video game starring basketballer Charles Barkley.
- Battleships Forever is a real time tactics game with a ship designer.
- Ball 3D is a Sports-like multiplayer game by Unusualsoft. (GAME LINK: http://www.ball3d.com/play/?name=LazP)
- BMW M3 Challenge is a BMW M3 car racing game.
- Black Mesa (originally Black Mesa: Source; stylized as BLλCK MESA) is a third-party total remake of Half-Life.
- BVE Trainsim is a railroad simulator created by Mackoy of Japan.
- Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars is a fan-made Broken Sword game.
- Cave Story is a side-scrolling action-adventure game.
- Cellfactor: Revolution is a single-player and multiplayer game that uses the Ageia Physx engine.
- Chex Quest is a comedic Doom clone (technically an advergame).
- Chicken Invaders is a space shooter by InterAction Studios.
- Chzo Mythos is a set of four separate adventure games: 5 Days a Stranger, 7 Days a Skeptic, Trilby's Notes and 6 Days a Sacrifice by Ben Croshaw.
- Cloud is a third-person computer puzzle game based on weather and atmospheric aesthetics.
- Corridors of Power is a 3D first person shooter.
- Command & Conquer (1995 video game) is a 1995 real-time strategy video game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive.
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert is a real-time strategy computer game of the Command & Conquer franchise, produced by Westwood Studios and released by Virgin Interactive in 1996.
- Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun is a real-time strategy video game developed by Westwood Studios and released in 1999.
- Continuum is a Top-Down multiplayer video game.
- Deadly Rooms of Death is a turn-based puzzle game available in two free versions : Architect's Edition and browser-based Flash version.
- Digital - A Love Story is a computer mystery/romance set five minutes into the future of 1988.
- DinoHunters is an advertisement-supported first person shooter and machinima series created by Kuma Reality Games.
- Dogfights: The Game is a combat flight simulator based on the History Channel series of the same name.
- Don't Shit Your Pants is a text-based browser game.
- Dwarf Fortress is a real-time fantasy roguelike (technically donationware).
- Eastside Hockey Manager is a hockey manager game.
- Eternal Daughter is a Castlevania-style action-adventure game.
- Elona is a Roguelike.
- Elsword is a free-to-play MMORPG.
- Food Force is a game where the player must deliver food to places in which people are starving.
- Future Pinball is a pinball simulation editor and game with many tables available.
- Gate88 is an abstract top-down futuristic real-time strategy space combat simulator.[1][2]
- Genetos is a scrolling shooter.
- General is a strategy game with text interface.
- GeneRally is an arcade-style top-down racing game.
- Grid Wars is a Geometry Wars clone.
- GROW is a series of puzzle games.
- Gunster is a discontinued multiplayer scrolling shooter.
- Guns and Robots is a multiplayer Third-person shooter.
- Hero Core shooter game with Metroidvania elements.
- Ib is a horror/puzzle RPG creation game
- Icy Tower is a tower-climbing arcade game.
- Ikachan is an action-adventure game by Studio Pixel.
- Iji is a platformer by Daniel Remar.
- IMVU is an online social entertainment game.
- Inner Worlds is a DOS platformer where you play a woman that turns into a wolf. (Sleepless Software, 1996)[3]
- I Wanna Be the Guy is a platformer notable for its difficulty.
- Jump 'n Bump is a multiplayer battle game. (Should be moved to List of open source games).
- Junkbot is a Lego-themed puzzle game.
- Knytt Stories is a 2D exploration platformer with a built in editor by Nicklas Nygren.
- La-Mulana is a 2D platform game.
- Lexus ISF Track Time is a Lexus ISF car racing game.
- Liero is a 2D side-scrolling shooting game for one or two players.
- Little Fighter is a beat'em up DOS fighting game.
- Little Fighter 2 is a sequel to Little Fighter released for Windows.
- Loved is a browser-based game released online to various game hosting websites.
- Maldita Castilla is a platformer arcade action game released in 2012, developed by Locomalito.
- Magestorm Revival is a team based FPS game recreated by Sorien.
- Moon Whistle is a classic RPG Maker game made by Kannazuki Sasuke.
- Monster Milktruck is a single-player online game using Google Earth technology.
- MUGEN is a custom fighting game engine.
- The Museum of Broken Memories is an adventure game by Jonas Kyratzes.
- N is a classic platform game with advanced physics.
- Narbacular Drop is a 3D puzzle game developed by Nuclear Monkey Software. It is the precursor to Valve's Portal.
- Noctis is a space exploration simulator. (Should be moved to List of open source games).
- Notrium is a survival game.
- Nitronic Rush is a hybrid retro racing game.
- One Night Trilogy is a series of three freeware survival horror games.
- Open Rails free train simulator.
- Orbiter is a space flight simulator with an emphasis on realistic orbital mechanics.
- osu! is a freeware simulator of the rhythm video games Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan and Elite Beat Agents.
- Perspective is a single player puzzle game that includes aspects of a 2-D platformer where the player switches between a 2D and a 3D game environment.
- Plasma Pong is a Pong game in which the ball is manipulated by a fluid dynamics environment. It is currently in development hell after the website became defunct.
- Play65 is an online multi-player backgammon game featuring 3D graphics and community modules.
- Plobb! is a fast single player 2D arcade shooter, and as a multidirectional shooter shares the gameplay of Asteroids. It features a distinctive game design.
- Progress Quest is a parody of EverQuest and the MMORPG genre, focuses on pure character building with no interaction involved.
- Project Reality is a standalone modification of tactical first-person shooter Battlefield 2.
- Ragnarok Battle Offline is a 2D fighting game that is spin off of the MMO Ragnarok Online.
- Scorched 3D is a 3D remake of an artillery game Scorched Earth.
- A Second Face is a sci-fi adventure game.
- Seiklus is an ambient single-player action-adventure game.
- SimSig is a train simulation game based on real UK signalling systems.
- Skifree is a Windows 95 game.
- Soldat is a 2d, fast paced, action multi-player shooting game with many different game modes and weapon choices.
- Space Combat is a 3D space simulator featuring realistic physics.
- Space Tanks is a 2D/3D gravity game featuring realistic physics.
- Spelunky is a platforming game that utilizes roguelike gameplay. (Should be moved to List of open source games).
- Stepmania A rhythm based online capable game.
- SubSpace is a 2D top-down space shooter game with massive multiplayer capabilities.
- Super Cosplay War Ultra is a 2D fighting game featuring cosplayers.
- Synaesthete is a student-created psychedelic rhythm shooter.
- Synth uses procedural generation for the graphics and level design.
- Syobon Action is a Japanese game notorious for its difficulty.
- Solitaire is a card game.
- T2002X is a 2D action shooter game. Free remake of Turrican.
- Tag: The Power of Paint is a 3D first-person action & puzzle game that uses paint to manipulate physics.
- TAGAP: The Apocalyptic Game About Penguins and its sequel are 2D side-scrolling platform games.
- TagPro is a browser-based multiplayer capture the flag game.
- Temporal is a platform game involving time travel based puzzles.
- Tinker, also known as Microsoft Tinker, is a 3D puzzle game for Windows.
- Trackmania Nations is a 3D racing game specially developed for the Electronic Sports World Cup by Nadeo.
- Transcendence is a 2D space adventure game featuring extended moddability.
- TUMIKI Fighters is a 3D scrolling shooter.
- Toribash is a 3D ragdoll fighting game in which you control every joint of your fighter.
- Star Control II Ur-Quan Masters, puts you in the position of a space captain
- UnReal World
- Vanguard Princess is a dōjin 2D fighting game
- Visual Pinball is a pinball simulation editor and game with many tables available.
- Warmonger: Operation Downtown Destruction is an apocalyptic, first-person shooter.
- Warning Forever is a vertical shooter.
- Within a Deep Forest is a 2D physics and exploration game.
- WolfQuest is a wildlife simulation game.
- Yume Nikki is an "exploration" adventure game themed around dreams and nightmares with basic pixel graphics.
- Zineth is an indie, 3d person, skating game where you must traverse an environment with speed and agility.
See also[edit]
- List of open-source video games
- List of free massively multiplayer online games
- List of freeware
- List of commercial video games released as freeware
- List of commercial video games with later released source code
- ^ "All your gates belong to us". PC Gamer UK. No. 144. January 2005. p. 113.
- ^ "Gate 88". Home of the Underdogs. Retrieved 2009-10-24.
- ^ "Inner Worlds homepage". Retrieved 12 January 2013.
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The futuristic look of this toy will be the allure for vibrator veterans, and the easy to use design and small size will be the root of attraction for beginners. The handle of this toy makes thrusting, as well as angling, much easier than your average plastic vibrator.Published:
Waterproof, original design, strong vibes.
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I still think this is a wonderful traditional vibrator, but also still believe it is best suited for beginners. Its slender design is thin enough for beginners to use without being so thin it is unable to be felt. I am still in awe with the handle at the base. It really gives you a better handle on the toy and makes it easier to angle.
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Want this but 4 bees is way to loud for me
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Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Moleskine Pages - He Hid The Stars
'All good stuff happens outside my field of vision. I just read all the stale news on other people's faces. His facial furniture spoke in tongues... forked..to hurt. He hid the stars from me just because he could.'
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A small collection of landed birds, possibly crows or blue jays, cawing and chattering in the woods behind my house.
Walking across the hardwood floor of my house in my barefeet. Edirol R-09hr + internal mics.
Bantam chicks chirping, recorded using an Olympus VN-6200PC digital voice recorder. This is an unedited file.
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Saturday, July 30, 2011
11th Hour Preacher's Party:Wrestling Edition
But if I change my mind, and it's been known to happen, I might go with Romans. Last week I offered a brief review of Romans - when it was written and to whom, and it's general theme and context of "Justification" - as in, that's what God is doing in and through Christ. Then I reflected on prayer, our relationship with God, and the struggles we have understanding how God enters into the chaos and tragedies of lire, such as what happened in Norway. So, perhaps I will continue that direction, and if I were brave I might bring up the current power struggles in the three branches of American government....or. Not. I think we will, however, do some praying....
Lastly, one could reflect on the Psalm or the Gospel. Thoughts on food and feeding, anyone? For more on the RevGal sermon prep discussion check this out: Tuesday Lectionary Leanings
Speaking of food. And, don't we always speak of food at this party? ....I have some fabulous fresh summer fruits: blueberries, peaches, raspberries. I'm thinking blueberry pancakes and coffee, for starters. Later, fresh from my garden, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, green peppers, and basil, marinated in balsamic vinaigrette. And, well, more food will come around to sustain us as we work. So, pull up a chair, and let me pour you a cup of whatever beverage suits you!
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Hey! I"m here on a Friday night! THAT never happens...
Just checking in on the way to bed. I'm wrestling with Jacob tomorrow. I've got a good idea, but it's a little complicated and it might take more time to construct than I have time for tomorrow - in between kids in and out, a birthday party at 3, a pedicure with teh birthday girl (she's 9!) and all the rest of the what have you of a Saturday.
I'm sure I"ll be checking in throughout the day - see you tomorrrow!I've got fresh cherries and nectarines, if anyone would like.
I keep getting drawn back to Jesus' directive in the Gospel lesson, "you give them something to eat." A command, and an invitation to take part in his compassion.
Still rattling the ideas around, but running out of time. It's late Friday night now, and hubby and I will spend much of Saturday helping strip out the basement of one of my churches, which flooded and is full of mold.Good morning, preachers!
Thanks, Wil, Cor the link, I'll be over to check it out, after I have taken thendogs for a walk and made hospital visit.
Welcome Juniper! Are you getting a pedicure, too? Sounds like a little rest would nice for you, too.
Welcome, PS! Cherries and nectarines, yum!, I think there is some good food for thought in taking the directive in Matthew to offer compassion!Good morning preachers and friends! I am up too early, considering how little sleep I have gotten the past week, but I am on deck for my first preaching experience at my new call tomorrow morning, and I am scared! Preaching three services and leading worship since the senior pastor is on vacation and the other associate is away.
I've spent the past week on missions trip with 60 of the youth and adults, which is about 1/20 of the new congregation. They are amazing folk, and I really don't want to let them down. So, I would really appreciate prayer!
I am preaching on the Jacob text and have been wrestling with it all week. I was struck by the idea that Jacob sends everyone away, all that he has gained by his tricking and thievery, and prepares for what he is sure will be his final battle with his brother alone. Talking about who we would be if we took off all of our trappings, and how God meets us in those vulnerable moments with a love that will not let us go. I hope it works.
But before I get to the final draft and all the logistics, I am going to play soccer with my mom friends, pick up my CSA share, and go out to breakfast with a dear friend. I'll be back with fresh veggies and fruits to share!
Blessings to all as you prepare.Good morning, everyone!
My scripture of choice is the food one. Title: "Leftovers" and now I wonder what was I thinking when I said that?!
I'm off to officiate at a funeral this morning. It's the best kind -- 95 year old great great grandmother with a loving family.
Thanks for hosting the party today, Terri! I'll check back with you all when I get back this afternoon.Good morning. I'm not preaching, not even giving the children's message this weekend, so I'm not really working on a Saturday, a very odd occurrence for me.
but Sharon! I LOVE that title! and, I may have even used it once.
I'm making blueberry pancakes. Love your array of fresh fruit. one of the best things about summer.I've got coffee and cinnamon roles to share! Preaching on the Jacob text. Heading a similar direction as MumPreacher...God meets us in our most vulnerable dark nights of the soul. Wrote half a draft yesterday and hope to finish this morning.
I also have a memorial service for a 94 year old saint, and 2 pastoral care situations to tend to.
It's my last Sunday of my solo month! Glad to welcome back my colleague on Tuesday and taking some comp. Sabbath time next week.
But first, Jacob! Grace and peace to you all!I'm doing pulpit fill for a friend who is preaching from Exodus all summer. It's fun to jump into the middle of someone else's sermon series. I'm talking about what to do when we aren't feeling God's presence (look for manna) and feeling like it's a good choice for a congregation I don't know.
I am also looking forward to everyone's ideas on the Jacob text. It's one of my favorites but I've never preached it.Hi Diane, Suz, Jill, and Amy! Welcome!
Diane, nice to have a Sunday off from preaching enjoy the day.
Suz, sounds like it will be good to have your colleague back.
Jill, pulpit fill is fun! I did some of that last summer.
Amy, here's hoping your silly things to do will also be fun?
Dogs are walked, now off for the hospital visit. Back later to make blueberry pancakes...I have cereal and raspberries to share. Diane, I have to stay far away from Luna. I had a banana and Nutella crepe there the other night which enabled (in every sense of the word) me to eat chocolate and pretend that I was at a favorite Parisian crepe shop across from Notre Dame -- I could go there every day!
Anyway, I had a seminary friend read my sermon a few days ago and her response was, What are you *talking* about? A major re-write later and three other people, including Lovely Daughter and Quiet Husband, who are hardly sermon aficionados, get it and like it. So I'm off for a walk and then a final look.I, too, have a funeral this afternoon for a 93 year old lady. Her son and his wife are founding members of my parish and I hever met her. But son has shared pieces of her life. The sermon won't bear any relationship to others I have done. Do you all have a "standard" that you fit to each funeral? I've known those who do but can't really imagine how.
Tomorrow will focus on Romans and Isaiah. I think it was at Working Preacher that I read about the importance of believing that God upholds the covenant with Israel; otherwise, what assurance do we have that God is there for us?!
I'm out of food but come by later in the afternoon and I'll open a bottle of 7 Deadly Zins. ;-)Terri - oh yes! The fiance and I are tasting cupcakes and tarts for the wedding. Such a hard life!
Margaret - excellent, I shall be back for the bottle opening!
I took a quick breakfast run break in order to get yummy pastries to share - and on the way found my sermon opening. Everyone wins! In celebration, have some blackberry croissants.Hello everyone!
I too, brought sustenance: freshly baked chocolate cherry muffins and cold milk.
I'm preaching on Jacob, and as often as I reference this text when I'm trying to work out a sermon, I have never preached it. Right now I feel like I'm leaning toward an image I have of God "starting something" with us--fingertips pressing against our shoulders, taunting, "You want some of this?" I think it's going towards the God trying to wrestle us out of the idea that doing the right thing, and doing God's will, should be easy and comfortable and without struggle or scars.
That's the beginning anyway...my plans for the afternoon were canceled due to pink eye (theirs, not mine), so I've got time to keep wrestling!
~BethHello Pals,
I am continuing on my pick a sermon series. This week it's on forgiveness. I am approaching this sermon very carefully. I remember hearing a sermon on forgiveness and becoming very angry because I was not at a forgiving place yet. I want to acknowledge the pain that might be in the pews and not gloss it over yet I want to preach that forgiveness is meant to heal the person who has been wronged. That in letting go of the resentment the person is set free.
Well that's a little bit of where I think I'll go. Let's see what pops out of my printer later on today.
Terri, so jealous of your harvest. Where I live harvest season comes mid August. But I do have some kale, swiss chard and beans to share from my garden.PS I am heading in the same direction. Jesus doesn't provide the nourishment--he asks what the people have, and then distributes it. The food comes from the people and is shared. I'm trying to draw a parallel between that and sharing our gifts in the congregation--not the church leaders job to provide everything, but to learn who has what and bring it all to the table to be shared--finances, talents, ideas, connections, etc.
Hoping this makes sense when it's written out--and trying to get it down soon as my mom and sister are on their way for a visit and want to feel free to have fun with them instead of feeling guilty that the sermon isn't on its way (nor have it hanging over my head for tonight).
On another note, spent (read: wasted) some time on an architectural website which featured churches converted into homes and was struck with how often the apse/chancel was made the dining area. Very appropriate. I may even work into the sermon (tables/sharing/meals/congregation as family...I know, it's been done before).
I have blueberry smoothies to offer!It feels like I'm getting a late start today, but maybe that's because I really want to be done early, so I'm feeling the pressure.
We went to a 125th anniversary of a parish family's homestead last night. Thought it would just be a family reunion type thing - but wow! - it was a full blown, band and fireworks, whole hog roast shindig. So I got home much later than I expected.
I'm preaching on the loaves and fishes, and God's taking our little and turning it into abundance. I had Luke's version for my ordination text and the bishop's tag line for his sermon was, "Jesus, are you STUPID?" I don't think I'll use it in my sermon, but it does highlight the shock the disciples must have felt when Jesus said, "YOU feed them."I was up late last night---actually, early this morning and got the bulk of my sermon written, but lost it by the time I got to the conclusion, so am sitting here over a fresh latte and pondering.
I am preaching on the loaves and fishes, and am focusing on what came before, teaching, rejection, bad news and then more demands; even though he must have been feeling overwhelmed, he still had compassion. His invitation to the disciples to join him in the work of expressing his compassion, seems to be a healthy example of the need for community when we are overwhelmed. "help me out here folks OK?"
As I said, it's very rough and needs some major reworking.Good morning - I have pancakes to share, with bananas if you want, or chocolate chips. Or both!
Got a rough draft of 1000 words or so - I will have time to refine it later tonight, so I'm gonna try and get out and enjoy the sunshine a little this morning! Yes, I think I WILL have a pedicure, thanks. :)
Anyone got a great idea for a childrens time on Genesis btw? I'm thinking of talking about what a blessing is, when we say a blessing, what we mean by a blessing? I thought I might give them a "blessing" ( a note that says "bless you" that thye can either keep as a blessing, or give away?) Seems a little talk-y so far and maybe hard for the average 5 year old to really, you know, GET.
RE question: "Do you all have a "standard" that you fit to each funeral?" - Margaret, I do have some things I ALWAYS say, at some point in the funeral. And there are a few metaphors that know have cropped up more than once. So I guess I might fall into the camp of saying not hte same, but a similar, thing most every time. And yet, people, often thank me the "personal-ness" of the funeral. So, maybe it has as much to do with how we talk about the person themselves as the words we put around their story?Amy, now that sounds like fun!
Beth, welcome, I'll take a muffin! Yum!
GG- I haven't had a garden in ages, so I am really enjoying this!
Margaret, I ove the name of that Zin, although I have not tried it...yet...
Hot cup, welcome!
Rainbow, welcome!
Robin, so diligent! I hope you get some time to rest!
Ramona, sounds like a fun night!
LadyFather, hope it comes together.
I haven't even started. Kne yet. Ack!
But first I'm making brunch, sausage, blueberryancakes, eggs, and more coffee. I've had a busy morning....and can't settle into reflecting on my sermon I til I have had some sustenance.Hi Juniper, I do have a standard funeral sermon that I customize. The standard portion talks about "not only are we here to celebrate the .ice of n. But to also hold up the Christian understanding of life and death..." and then I offer a simple theology of the idea of a life in Christ, the afterlife..." it seems to work well and be appropriately comforting, especially if I have also done a reasonable job of talking about the qualities of the deceased.
ReplyDeleteI'm very interested in this discussion of funeral sermons. Maybe the matriarchs could discuss it sometime. (Maybe they have?)
I've been to a lot of funerals in my home church, many of them for young people, and they have all seemed very distinct from one another. Maybe because each person or family chooses Scripture passages? I think that our pastors do an incredible job of melding the text, the person's life, the loss family and friends, and the circumstances of death -- which means, how could they not be different from one another?
Trying hard to avoid the final revision here . . . .Robin, other than that one section on the Christian understanding/theology section, each sermon and funeral I've done is reflective of the person. That is important, it is a celebration of life....that said, most of the funerals I have officiated at were for parishioner, but many of their family and friends were not church goers..so, a teaching moment ialbeit, gentle, hopeful?
ReplyDeleteHot Cup Lutheran: Add to the Seven Deadly Zins Sin Zin and Cardinal Zin. That's a party!
I'm going with the Gospel. Swirling around in my Zin-free head are the people in the crowd, the deadlock on the debt ceiling, the dis-ease Jesus healed, the hunger and Jesus' words, "You feed them."
Is anyone working with this lunacy in Washington?I have a couple of funeral sermons that I try to customize; one reason for that is that in my six years of ordained ministry I've done FAR more funerals for people I've never met or knew only slightly than for people whom I knew well or even were active in the parish. So it's hard to be more personalized.
Terri spoke of funeral teaching moments; funerals are on time I am MOST grateful for our Episcopal prayer book liturgy. I always print a full text bulletin, knowing that many/most attendees won't be familiar with church--and they can take it home with them to look at again later. I"ve had many people comment on the beauty and appropriateness of the service, which is all right there in the prayer book.Today is Writing Day here at Tether's End, not just the sermon but some overdue letters (pen'n'paper type, old school!) and other ephemera, I am hoping that the tasks will be mutually stimulating and fertilizing.
I do have the armature of a standard funeral sermon, and will blog about it this week, I think.
I have granola (home-made), yogurt (home-made), and cherries (imported!) -- time for the BREAKFAST PARFAIT!I'm wrestling with an old sermon on the Genesis text. I thought it would recycle easily, but it needs some major renovations.
Saving the Gospel reading for next week, so I'm eagerly anticipating all of your insights and tucking them away.
This is week seven of eight straight weeks' pulpit supply (in five different congregation), and I am ready for a break! We are also waiting for the last of the chicken pox to fade enough so that we can get out of the house. I don't think the girls are contagious any more, but they don't look very good yet. Babysitter to the rescue tomorrow morning.I've spent a whole lot of time procrastinating this morning, hanging out with my youngest son. He's about to move to VT after having lived at home part time (in NYC part time) for the last year, and I'm sort of dreading going back to a completely empty nest. But now I MUST write.
I want to focus on how Jesus provided the food but the disciples are actually the ones who did the feeding...just as we're called to do the work Jesus us empowers us to do. Something like that anyway. I was feeling more inspired earlier in the week--I hope it comes back.After a run to the Italian bakery for a little bit of sweet and fatty sustenance (cinnamon twists) with a side of cream horns (I had asked for butterhorns, but the very pleasant but somewhat confused young man behind the counter got it wrong--and I didn't realize it until I got home), I'm now working on the bulletin before I tackle the disaster of a sermon I've got started. So please join me...loaves and fishes don't hold a candle to cinnamon rolls. Do you think that will preach?
ReplyDeleteHi Esperanza, I did that last summer...about twelve weeks of supply in five different churches. It is hard work!
Beth, as I a, writing the preliminary notes and thoughts for my sermon, I may be going in a similar direction...naming, or being named, or maybe Israel?
RecDrMom, here's hoping your mojo comes back. Would you like and iced coffee? Or an iced mocha ...homemade with espresso, cocoa, vanilla ice-cream?OK - procrastinated by walking 3 miles, making a quick trip to the drugstore, trimming the taxus out front, and rummaging around in the basement for a tent to loan to Mumpastor -- but it's finished and printed and I hope it's ok.
The Journey's Arc -- prayer - action - prayer --drawing on my retreat two weeks ago, on the Ignatian concept of contemplative in action, and on the Church of the Savior's Inward-Outward journey idea, recognizing that action includes worship, service, and engaging others to share God's abundance.
I think it contains every one of my three consistent preaching themes: God's love for us, contemplation and action, and abundance vs scarcity. I suppose I could find a kitchen sink to throw in somewhere.TheLadyFather, what is a cream horn? Sounds delicious....
I am just checking in, working with Jacob, the wrestling, the blessing, the journey....
it's not brilliant,
but will be fun to remind the congregation of the story and pique their insights, I hope.
I have nothing in the cupboard to share, except a pitcher of Passion Iced Tea. MMMM. Refreshing.I'm getting there, having figured out what I want to say, I'm trying to fit all the pieces together coherently.
And I have a phrase that I like to use when I think I have a sub-par sermon or worship service that seems held together with Scotch tape: "I'm leaving LOTS of room for the Holy Spirit!"
Usually, She fills the space I've left Her quite well.Hi everyone - sticking my head in between nap and bike ride to say hi to all you diligent hard workers! I am looking ahead to the week to come and not quite sure how I planned so much during what was supposed to be a study week, so going to enjoy my time of leisure while i can! off to the store for turkey kielbasa for a recipe I found in a ww cookbook - kind of wintery (lentils, too) but what i'm in the mood for for some reason. see you later when i'm really working!
I think we have talked about that funeral question before sometime. If only Gord wasnt on vacation....I think he had some good opinions!Greetings everyone! Working away on a lovely day, trying to be finished in time for an outdoor concert and fireworks tonight (and a good night's sleep). Slept in very late this morning recovering from last night's wedding, but still a little fuzzy.
I'm heading in the same direction with Matthew as P.S., Ramona, Lady Father, RevDrMom, and others...Jesus provided the food and asked the disciples to distribute it...today Jesus provides the compassion (not us, cause we're not so great at that) and we are asked to distribute it. Or something like that. Interesting to think about the abundance theme in contrast to the scarcity that is hanging over heads in the U.S.
Pondering some chocolate or a Frappuccino in the fridge...neither a great choice, but hopefully one will get me moving and writing soon.Just getting back from a trip to Church #2 to drop off bulletin and have a place for hubby to configure the new cell phones since we seem to get almost no signal in the town we live in. ACK! I'm about ready to chuck the whole cell phone thing and just do without - hate the idea of paying for service that I can't use at home. But with such a rural parish and visits to hospitals and nursing homes 30-100 miles away (where my cell will work) I just can't quite do it.
Anyway, I'm glad I have an outline. Now to flesh it out.
A nap is sounding good...Am working with Genesis and struggling with God. Have had my own major struggle this week to add to the one that's been going on for several years. My DH's (*$^&$ boss (who cut his pay by 1/3 in May) informed him on Thursday that next Thursday will be his last day at work. Totally unethical and uncharitable boss,but not much to do about it, so I am struggling mightily. I have 2 very part time jobs, so things are scary right now.
So am trying to sift my own stuff out from what God wants me to preach. Prayers appreciate.Sounds like progress is being made everywhere--sometimes slowly but always progress!
Mine is about 2/3rds done--it's in my head, I just need to get it on paper.
Mom and sister have visited my new nest, had lunch, seen the town and headed home...so it's time for me to buckle back down to work. I'd like to have some reading time tonight...we'll see.
Anyone for iced tea and M&M cookies?I have iced tea and dark chocolate with almonds.
Welcome Semfem! I cam brew you up an iced latte with espresso, if that helps!
RevTSB: oh my. Many of us have been in similar places over the last couple of years, myself included. Will hold you in my prayers!
From the glaring eyes of my dogs, I think they are trying to convince me that it is dinner time...Phew! Finished. I've read it through out loud and timed it, so I'll let it stew for now and take a quick glance at it again over coffee in the morning.
And speaking of stew, I was also feeling in the mood for some comfort food, despite the hot weather, so I'll shortly be enjoying a goat-and-lentil stew with lots of CSA veggies in it for my dinner. And maybe a glass of wine since I finished so early.
Blessings as the rest of you continue your wrestling and writing (or simply enjoy your evening)!RevTSB - A scary place to be indeed. We were there in February went dh lost his job and I still had not received a call. God will provide, but I admit there are some tense, uncomfortable, downright hairy moments until God does. Prayers ascending!
Mostly done. As ususal, more than enough words but no ending. Is there a point? Maybe. Can I just tell stories of loaves and fishes moments and leave the congregaiton to figure out the message? Or is that copping out?
Too bad we're not doing a stewardship drive, it would make a great sermon for that,and I'd have an ending.
Time to let it simmer.Terri,
I am joining you for dinner. Fix me a plate, and I will be there. I wrote 2/3 of a draft, then went to exercise, shower....and now I am just tired. But I have to finish...I still have a memorial service meditation to write, and oh, so much to do.
That's why I am glad that Terri cooked dinner! lol.I am uber-late to the party (I had a baby shower to attend that was quite a drive away... but it's the first day I've had "off" from the church in a while! I think I need to schedule time away in order to do anything).
I'm preaching on Romans 8:31-39, a week late, I know, and I am SO uninspired. I think I'm going to sit with my colored pencils and white paper for a while and see what happens.
Terri, dinner sounds amazing. Thanks for fixing and sharing!!Well, the church basement is gutted to the studs. It's cool to see the foundation stones, looks like they used local field stone. Glad most of the mold is gone!
Now to try to focus back on the sermon. I'd rather just go to bed! I think I've rediscovered some muscles that have gone un-used for a while.Hallo, hallo! Dreadfully late here as well, and it's going to be a long night of sermon-wrestling (wrangling?) for me, as I spent the morning supervising farmhands and the rest of the day working my off-farm non-church job. But... I bring fresh-picked blueberries for everyone!
I'm working on braiding the Genesis and Matthew stories together-- both stories carry an element of the protagonist's grief and personal emptiness as a lead-in to an experience of transformational abundance. The congregation to which I'm preaching has been rocked by some tragic and very public untimely deaths this week, so I'm trying to make room for their own grief even as I preach about feasting. Like I said, it's going to be a long night...I'm just popping my head in, horribly late and not really partying, but letting the regular partiers know that I am preaching tomorrow at a church that could potentially turn into a more steady gig, but might not.
We just got back from our trip to Argentina and Uruguay on Tuesday, so I planned way ahead to recycle a sermon for tomorrow. Unfortunately we both (spouse and I) caught colds while we were in South America, so I am praying madly to have my voice back by tomorrow.
Prayers appreciated. for my voice and that God's will be done in the church I am supplying tomorrow. Maybe some day I will be a regular fixture back at the Party!AUGH. I hate having an emotional moment and getting blue and lonely as I am trying to focus and start writing.
It feels so silly, knowing full well that much more momentous things are happening in many other lives. I hate to whine, but there I am.
Maybe I can get out of here and try to write from home.ooo, Jules, sounds promising. Prayers for you and the congregation.
Back at it after getting the girls in bed. We all have cabin fever of the worst kind. Hopefully by Monday or Tuesday we can escape the house together.
I think I have to prepare a prayer and something else...off to check my notes and polish up that old sermon.We have sausage/cream cheese wontons and ravoli alfredo and salads for all you hard-partying preachers.
I'll get back to my sermon after dinner. I'm still not sure it has a point, but maybe the Spirit will fill in the blanks.
And SemFem and Maincelt, asking the Spirit to wrap her arms around you as you deal with heavy emotions.Semfem... prayers for you, whatever is causing the tears tonight. I too have been scrunching up my face into almost tears and then yelling expletives as I remember yet another thing that needs to be done tonight (the latest is putting my alb in the washer, hoping that it will be able to "hang dry" by tomorrow... it was noticeably gross after church last week so then I left it bunched up in the back of my car, so there is no hope of not washing it before the morning).
I'm very close to giving up on the sermon tonight and just trying to write it early in the morning... of course, now I need to stay awake until the washer stops...YES peregrinaje, I have had Saturdays like that and they absolutely, completely, totally suck. For the alb, can you dry it on low heat for like 10-20 minutes and then hang it to finish drying? That always helps mine (poly/cotton blend) dry quickly without wrinkles.
Terri, yes, I did get away from blogging like so many others...for the most part life is going really well, but every once in a while there is just a really blue time where I feel totally alone and inept. Thanks so much for the thoughts and the prayers, and not reinforcing my feeling that I'm just whining.prayers for all you sisters! just edited again after a full afternoon memorial service and some pastoral care with another situation.
I'm on to yet another draft and it isn't fully coming together or ending strong. but, I'm tired and need to get some sleep. Perhaps something will come to me in my sleep ala Jacob? I'll keep a coffee pot on for those needing to burn the midnight oil!SemFem, thanks for the robe advice --- it has just finished a fifteen minute cycle, so I guess I'll hang it and see what it's like in the morning!
Terri, I treated myself to a Klondike bar already, but hot tea sounds even better!
suz, get some sleep and enjoy your dreams! Having multiple drafts sounds impressive to me :-)It is finished! Read about the miracle of the loaves and fishes if you want. I'd love some feedback.
Since I've already had real ice cream today, I'll have to settle for Teri's virtual (and virtuous!) ice cream as a late night snack!
Now to make sure my son is packed for camp and to fill out his health form. Such fun. And I hear baseball on the TV - why won't my guys watch that stuff downstairs so I can relax after sermonating!?!
Blessing on everyone still writing...the Spirit blows your way!I'm calling it a night...I have a sermon, more or less...but more than that, I need to eat something and go to bed. (Hmm, maybe that's why I'm so up-and-down today...been a long time since I had food besides chocolate...)
Blessings on all pondering, preaching, and proclamation. Thanks to all of you.hey there - anyone else still up? I have 1283 disjointed words. I'm going to either have to write ALOT more to make them hang togehter or cut something. I'm voting for cut something, and I'm guessing my summer Sunday crowd would vote the same. So, I'm more back to the drawing board than I would like to be at this time of night. Gonna work another half hour, then head to bed, to see what wisdom I can get from sleeping on it.
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AFC Champions League Preview: All to play for in Group G
Group G is evenly poised heading into the sixth and final matchday as clubs fight to reach the last-16 of the AFC Champions League.
Defending champions Guangzhou Evergrande, Jeonbuk Motors, Melbourne Victory and Yokohama F Marinos are all locked on seven points after five games.
Chinese giants Evergrande are at home to J.League outfit Yokohama on Tuesday, while A-League club Victory travel to Jeonbuk in South Korea.
Unlike Europe's UEFA Champions League where goal difference is the determining factor, teams on level points are split on head-to-head records.
If head-to-head records cannot separate the teams, goal difference between the specific sides is the next tie-breaker before greater number of goals scored (away goals do not apply) is introduced.
Group F is also on a knife's edge with just two points separating all four teams with one match remaining.
Choi Yong-Soo's FC Seoul top the standings on eight points, clear of the Central Coast Mariners, Beijing Guoan and Sanfrecce Hiroshima, who are level on six points.
The leading South Koreans will welcome Chinese Super League powerhouse Beijing to the Seoul World Cup Stadium on Wednesday, while reigning A-League champions the Mariners are on the road to Sanfrecce in Japan.
Elsewhere on matchday six, the Western Sydney Wanderers are on track to advance to the next round.
Tony Popovic's men lead Group H with nine points, though they are level on points with Kawasaki Frontale.
Guizhou Renhe, who are out of contention on four points, are in action against the Wanderers in Western Sydney on Tuesday.
Ulsan are on seven points and need to beat Frontale at Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium if they are to remain in Asia's showpiece club tournament.
There is also plenty to play for in Group D, with all four teams still battling to qualify for the next phase.
Al Ahli and Sepahan are level on seven points, while Al Hilal and Al Sadd have collected six and five respectively.
Al Sadd play host to Ahli, while Sepahan travel to Al Hilal.
In Group E, Buriram United, Cerezo Osaka and Shandong Luneng - level on five points - all need wins to stand any chance of qualification alongside the Pohang Steelers.
Foolad (11 points), who face winless Al Fateh (two points), are already through to the next round but El Jaish (eight points) and Bunyodkor (five points) will go head-to-head to decide second place in Group B.
In Group A, Al Shabab (12 points) and Al Jazira (10 points), who have already booked their spots in the knockout round, will square-off, while lowly Esteghlal (four points) play host to fellow strugglers Al Rayyan (four points).
Meanwhile in Group B, Al Ain (10 points) host Al Ittihad (nine points) in a blockbuster clash that will determine top spot.
Tractor Sazi (five points) and Lekhwiya (four points) are also in action.


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Rafiee Ghani creates stylised lyrical paintings that are visually stimulating.
Rafiee Ghani attended a printmaking workshop at De Vrije Akademie Voor Bildeende Kunsten at The Hague in 1980. He obtained a Diploma in Art and Design (Fine Arts) from MARA Institute of Technology (ITM) in 1985 followed by Master in Fine Prints (MFA) from Manchester Polytechnic, England in 1987. Between 1986 and 1988, Rafiee became a lecturer in Fine Arts (Painting and Printmaking) at MARA University in Shah Alam and continued teaching from 1989 and 1990 to Major students. Between 1991 and 1993, he taught painting and printmaking for the National Youth Service in Mehe, Seychelles. He has been exploring still-life themes since 1993. He was awarded Minor Award, Young Contemporaries, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur (1984 and 1985); Minor Award, Salon Malaysia, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur (1991); and Second Prize, Malaysian Art Open, Kuala Lumpur (1994). His solo exhibitions in Kuala Lumpur included Room of Flowers (1993), The Painted Garden (1996), Kebun Sultan (2002), Rainbow Warrior (2009), Freedom (2011), The Perfumed Gardens (2012) among others.
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Monday, June 1, 2009
Announcing AFAM-Bell Peppers
Bell pepper is a cultivar group of the species Capsicum Annuum. Bell peppers are cultivate in different colors, including red, yellow, green andorange. Bell Peppers are native to Mexico, Central America and northern South America. Pepper seeds were later carried to Spain in 1493 and from there spread to other European and Asian countries. Today, Mexico remains one of the major pepper producers in the world. Green peppers are less sweet and slightly more bitter than red, yellow or orange peppers. (source:Wikipedia).
They are also frequently used both chopped and raw in salads, or cooked in stir-fries or other mixed dishes. They can be sliced into strips and fried, roasted whole or in pieces, or chopped and incorporated into salsas or other sauces.They can be preserved by drying, pickling or freezing.
Here comes wat u need to do for:
1)1. Prepare any recipe using any variety of Bell peppers as its main ingredient and post about it on your blog by 30th June, 2009
2)Multiple entries are most welcome. You can also send from archives, it should be properly updated and reposted.Posts should be linked back to this announcement post and Maheswari's Blog.
3)Send the following details to firstname.lastname@example.com with AFAM: Bell Peppers as its subject line:
Your Name
Blog name
Recipe Name:
Recipe Url:
A photo of 300pixels (width)
4)The use of logo is optional, but if you use the logo it will be so nice of u guys!
5)If you are a non blogger, dont worry..you can send me ur entries through mail with above details and a picture of ur recipe, i will surely post them in roundup...
Send me all your creative, delicious n fabulous recipes to my mail address before the deadline.. Am eagerly waiting to see all your recipes...
32 comments:
- Curry Leaf said...
Wow,Love the pic.Will not miss this event this time.
- June 1, 2009 at 11:14 AM
- Prathibha said...
Nice Colorful peppers,cooking with them is real fun....I m IN..
- June 1, 2009 at 11:37 AM
- Happy cook said...
I am surely in for bellpepers.
- June 1, 2009 at 11:58 AM
- Suparna said...
hi priya,
good one, happy hosting :)
ENjoy, I'm in for T&T ;)
TC - June 1, 2009 at 12:42 PM
- Hari Chandana said...
good one..very nice pic!
- June 1, 2009 at 1:27 PM
- Trupti said...
lovely theme Priya
- June 1, 2009 at 1:59 PM
- Malini said...
Good theme Priya! happy hosting....
- June 1, 2009 at 2:17 PM
- Padma said...
Cool pic... happy hosting... sure will send many posts Priya :)
- June 1, 2009 at 2:23 PM
- Usha said...
Lovely picture, enjoy hosting this event :-)
- June 1, 2009 at 2:30 PM
- Gita said...
Happy hosting dear :)
- June 1, 2009 at 2:47 PM
- ♥Rosie♥ said...
Happy hosting :0)
- June 1, 2009 at 3:30 PM
- Pooja said...
Happy hosting Priya..Nice choice..
- June 1, 2009 at 3:45 PM
- Vrinda said...
Lov bell peppers...will try to send something..
- June 1, 2009 at 4:44 PM
- A2Z Vegetarian Cuisine said...
Will definetly send something. Beautiful picture, if you are planning to host a photography workshop, count me in.
- June 1, 2009 at 4:51 PM
- Cham said...
Happy hosting Priya, I will be going to Pondy and not sure about blogging!
- June 1, 2009 at 5:29 PM
- Pooja said...
Great event Priya! Will definitely send something. Happy hosting!
- June 1, 2009 at 6:37 PM
- Pavithra said...
Wow thats wonderful theme and i am in ,,will send it soon happy hosting
- June 1, 2009 at 9:20 PM
- Ashwini said...
Nicew choice.. i will send in some entries..
- June 1, 2009 at 9:30 PM
- Lisa said...
I will certainly try to send something along.
- June 1, 2009 at 9:47 PM
- Parita said...
I love bell peppers..nice choice dear..sure to be a BIG hit :)
- June 1, 2009 at 10:26 PM
- Anu said...
Lovely event! Will participate :)
- June 1, 2009 at 10:57 PM
- aquadaze said...
good choice priya. I cook a lot with bell peppers, will certainly send in something soon!
- June 2, 2009 at 5:07 AM
- rekhas kitchen said...
nice theme will send some soon
- June 2, 2009 at 7:11 AM
- sowmya said...
happy hosting ..will send in my entry..
- June 2, 2009 at 9:08 AM
- egglesscooking said...
Hi Priya, why don't you submit the event to the events calendar in foodworld?
- June 4, 2009 at 7:47 PM
- Sonia said...
I came across your blog some weeks back. I am amazed to see your recipes and would try some of them soon.
However,I recently started posting recipes on my blog. I would request you to please visit whenever you find time and leave a comment. - June 5, 2009 at 7:49 AM
- Sonia said...
I have a question for the bell pepper entry event. Does the picture have to be taken on my own?
- June 5, 2009 at 7:53 AM
- Anu said...
Happy hosting Priya....
First time to your blog. Very nice blog. I will try to send something for this event.I recently started posting recipes on my blog. I would request you to please visit whenever you find time and leave a comment. - June 5, 2009 at 5:59 PM
- Kitchen Flavours said...
I just mailed u my entry....
- June 25, 2009 at 7:13 AM
- Amu's Mum's Kitchen said...
Hi Priya,
Just Come across your blog and event "AFAM - Bell Pepper". I have a entry to send but not very sure how to link to ur blog ... Can u plz help with the same ? This would be my first event. - June 28, 2009 at 1:36 PM
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Sahil, Natasha (2008) Novation agreement in design and build contracts. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Engineering.
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In the current market of Malaysia construction industry and among its players, the term 'design and build' is no longer require a proper launch as it has been in the implementation since the late 90's. However, the term 'novation agreement' in the design and build definitely requires a long and detail explanation. This is of course a new exercise in the local industry implemented massively by the semi-government holding company being the developer for a development of a territory. The implementation which grants the advantage on the part of the developer due to its mechanism has attracted other private employers to implement the same. This is because the traditional system has been revolutionized. Apart from providing single point responsibility by the procurement system, the employer can also take fully charge of the design prior to the tender stage and transfers his whole burden under the project to the contractor which includes employer's design team. This total litigious arrangement if not being properly monitored will produce arising numbers of contractual disputes and arbitration cases. Rights of contractors and design teams seemed not to be catered for in the novation agreement due to the bespoke agreement drafted in project to project basis by the employer's contract drafters. Protection to the interest of the contractor and consultant is to be attained. Therefore, the objective of this research is to identify the feasible contractual solutions to the implementation of novation agreement in design and build in order to suit the requirement and the intention of the employer and at the same time to ensure the impartiality of the rights and obligation of the contracting parties. The scope of this research is confined under the design and build system implemented in Malaysia and in UK. The methodology of this research adopts from literature review together with the conduction of semi-structure interviews with various construction professionals. As a conclusion with this research, the probable solutions shall be either the institution of the Malaysia standard form of novation agreement or warranty furnished by the design team on pre-novation breaches, supplementary agreement to the novation agreement or the change in the methodology where the contractor is allowed to step in earlier during the design stage.
Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
Additional Information: | Thesis (Master of Sciences (Construction Contract Management)) - Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 2008; Supervisor : En. Norazam Othman |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Novation agreement, design and build contracts |
Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences |
Divisions: | Built Environment |
ID Code: | 5908 |
Deposited By: | Mr Syahrul Hasni Hasnan |
Deposited On: | 16 Sep 2008 02:51 |
Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2012 08:29 |
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Last week, I got this email from a reader:
I work 12 hour ER shifts. Our cafeteria is too expensive and the food is horrendous anyway (where do you think hospital food gets that reputation?) My staple has been making half sandwiches by just folding a single piece of bread around some meat, cheese or tuna. But of course Grok didn't make bread. The convenience of being able to eat these little sandwiches while standing at the nurses' station (we often get very limited or no breaks on busy days) is indispensable to me. Eating things that require utensils and cleanup is not feasible. Are there more primal, non-carb substitutes that could actually serve as dinner in such an environment as well as my improvised panini? I'm drawing a blank here. Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Ah yes, the sandwich. After rice [1], mashed potatoes [2], and pancakes [3], it is perhaps the most pined-for pre-Primal food around. The convenience factor is tough to beat, and that Subway guy who supposedly lost tons of weight eating nothing but sandwiches certainly makes it look appealing. We can almost imagine Grok [4] picnicking with a crusty baguette and gooey brie, pack of Gitanes tucked into his loincloth.
But really, those little sandwiches may be convenient, but that bread is bad news [5]. Though it may be just a single piece, it's still a single piece of anti-nutrient insulin-spiking starch that serves little purpose other than keeping your hand from getting meaty. If it's convenience and clean hands you're after, how about wrapping that meat and cheese in cabbage or lettuce? Same convenience level. I mean, you're already assembling sandwiches on the fly; lose the bread and opt for a lower-carb wrap. Assuming you bring tupperwear containing the sandwich makings, it won't take you any more time to swap out the bread for lettuce or cabbage. No clean up or utensils required. You eat the evidence.
Or how about something that doesn't try to emulate a sandwich? Every week, make a big batch of trail mix. Throw together some almonds [6], macadamia nuts, pecans, walnuts, dark chocolate chunks [7], and a bit of dried fruit [8] in a big bag and dole yourself out some before every shift: high fat, high protein, and moderate carbs [9]. Don't make it your daily meal, but as a snack it's perfect (hey, a half sandwich isn't much of a meal, either). You could also turn that trail mix into a homemade protein bar [10]. Make a big batch every week and take one to work. Very filling. Other options include jerky [11] or even a Responsibly Slim shake [12] (maybe augmented with some nuts and fruit and carried sealed in a bottle).
But you're interested in an actual meal. Twelve hours can be a long time (and it's probably not feasible to make it a 12-hour fast every single day, although you might want to experiment with Intermittent Fasting [13]), and you want something that's filling and doesn't require utensils or cleanup. The lettuce/cabbage wraps would work as a meal. Try cooking and slicing steak, chicken, or lamb the night before and bringing it to work, along with a few sliced veggies (carrots, cucumbers, bell peppers), some homemade dressing [14] or mayo [15], maybe a few slices of goat cheese or aged gouda (since you can obviously tolerate cheese), and the lettuce/cabbage wrap of your choice. Bring a separate container with some berries for dessert and you're set.
Or how about a frittata, which is essentially a crustless quiche [12]? Sautee some veggies [16] and meat in butter in an oven-safe pan (spinach and chicken; bacon and mushrooms; steak and peppers), whisk together six eggs [17], add a bit more butter to the pan and pour the eggs over the meat and veggies. Add some salt and pepper [18] and maybe a light sprinkling of aged parmesan. Stir everything together and let it cook for about four minutes until it begins to set. At this point, pop it in the oven under the broil setting for four minutes, or until it begins to brown. When it's lightly brown and fluffy, remove it from the oven. Cut it into slices and you have a healthy, Primal hand-held meal that fits in a plastic bag and tastes great at room temperature.
If you absolutely insist on a bread-like item, I have something that may interest you. I call it spinach bread, and it actually works pretty well as a bread substitute. You can certainly slice it and pile meat and cheese and condiments atop it like bread, but it's ultra-low carb and high in good fat, along with some decent protein.
Pesto Spinach Bread
Five large eggs
16 oz frozen spinach, thawed, cut, and drained
Butter (I used raw pastured-raised)
1/2 cup pine nuts
3 cloves crushed garlic
Small bunch of basil (about 15 leaves)
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
Grease your glass baking dish with butter. I used a circular pan about 8 inches in diameter.
Toast your pine nuts in a sautee pan with about a tablespoon of butter. Be very careful! Pine nuts burn easily. Watch them like a hawk and stir constantly. When they start to turn golden brown, they're done and on the verge of burning.
Chop the nuts up in a food processor (or crush them to a similarly fine texture if you don't have a processor) and mince your basil.
Mix your eggs, garlic, basil, nuts, and spinach together in a mixing bowl. Add some salt and freshly ground pepper to taste.
Once it's all mixed together, pour it evenly into your greased pan.
Pop it in the oven for about 15 minutes, or until it has set.
Slice and enjoy as if it were bread, or all by itself!
Nutrition Analysis:
Calories: 1080
Fat: 91 grams (72% calories from fat)
Carbs: 27.6 grams (10% calories from carbs, 12.7 grams from fiber)
Protein: 54 grams (18% calories from protein)
Share your thoughts on low-carb, grain-free bread substitutes in the comment board and check back this weekend for a Primal sandwich recipe featuring the spinach bread. Thanks, everyone!
Further Reading:
Primal Pie Recipes [20]
The Dope on Energy Drinks [21]


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Yes, Nebraska is now taking assistants from Georgetown
The latest bit of evidence that Nebraska is really investing in basketball came Monday -- when Huskers coach Tim Miles announced he's hired Kenya Hunter away from Georgetown.
Turns out, Otto Porter wasn't the only person to leave Georgetown this offseason.
The majority of John Thompson III's staff is gone, too.
Nebraska coach Tim Miles announced Monday that he's hired Kenya Hunter away from Georgetown, making him the third assistant coach to leave the Big East school since the Hoyas lost to Florida Gulf Coast in the Round of 64 of the NCAA tournament. Former assistant Mike Brennan is now the head coach at American, and he took former Georgetown director of basketball operations Scott Greenman with him.
JT3 hired Northwestern's Tavaras Hardy and George Washington's Kevin Sutton to replace Brennan and Hunter as full-time assistants. The DOBO job remains open.
So what does all this turnover mean?
The moves by Brennan and Greenman make sense, honestly, because both are now in obviously better positions -- Brennan as a first-time head coach, Greenman as a first-time assistant. But the Hunter-to-Nebraska development is wild, mostly because it means Nebraska just poached an assistant from Georgetown. And while it would be easy to question how Georgetown could let that happen, I think a better use of this space would be to highlight exactly what's going on in Lincoln.
Simply put, this is not your grandfather's Nebraska.
Or your father's Nebraska.
Or even your older brother's Nebraska.
The Big Ten school opened a new $20 million basketball practice facility in October 2011, will open a new $179 million basketball arena this season, and is paying second-year coach Tim Miles a salary that'll eventually exceed $2 million annually, which brings me to Hunter and his salary. A source told CBSSports.com that it'll be $230,000 a year, and that all three Huskers assistants now make at least $200,000 a year. So while Nebraska is still quite obviously a "football" school, the administration has made it clear it thinks there's no reason basketball can't operate at a high level, too.
Will it?
We'll see.
But the school is undeniably investing properly.
And that's almost always the first step toward something great.
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Craving turkey, but don't want the hassle of cooking the whole bird? Have a go at this fabulous slow cooker Herb Crusted Turkey Breast recipe, it is the perfect size for several servings. You can enjoy it any night of the week, or prepare it for holiday celebrations. Our special mixture of savory herbs forms a delightful crust that envelopes the juicy breast meat. If you would like added moisture and flavor, quarter a large apple and onion and place them inside the cavity of the bird before cooking. After 4 or 5 hours in the slow cooker, the turkey will be tender and ready to eat. It is a savory straightforward meal that anyone can make.
Turkey dishes are often reserved for special occasions, but this dish is great for any day of the year. Turkey is lean and full of protein. It also makes a great alternative to chicken and fish. Slow cooker recipes make turkey making even easier. Prep your meal in the morning and you will have a delicious turkey dinner by evening. Quick, easy, and healthy, just like we love it!
Our Herb Turkey Breast pairs beautifully with a batch of our moist and delicious Cornbread Stuffing. You can also add our Garlic Mashed Potatoes to the meal if you want a Thanksgiving feast.
You might also like these other Slow Cooker Recipes by SkinnyMs.
Serving Size: 1/6 of the finished recipe | Calories: 233 | Total Fat: 3 gm | Saturated Fats: 1 gm | Trans Fats: 0 gm | Cholesterol: 112 mg | Sodium: 119 mg | Carbohydrates: 4 gm | Dietary Fiber: 1 gm | Sugars: 1 gm | Protein: 45 gm | SmartPoints: 3 |
- 2 1/2 lb. turkey breast (on the bone and had skin that we removed before eating)
- 1 tbsp. garlic powder
- 1 tbsp poultry seasoning
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- 1/4 tsp. black pepper
- 1 tbsp. onion powder
Mix all the spices together in a small mixing bowl.
Place your turkey breast on a plate and cover both sides with spices. It should be completely coated in spice mix.
Place in slow cooker (no liquid) and cook as directed. Recommend 5-7 quart slow cooker.
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At Lighthouse we believe that there is a God as described in the Holy Christian Bible. God created the heavens and the earth and is responsible for the creation of all of us. The relationship between God and man was severed due to sin and the human desire to try and be independent of God - in affect trying to become gods ourselves. Despite our actions, God chose to create a bridge back to Him through His Son Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ became the ultimate sacrifice that allows us, if we believe, to re-establish a relationship with God.


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Real Madrid striker Alvaro Morata has thanked Jose Mourinho for instilling a new-found work ethic into his game.
The Chelsea boss left the Santiago Bernabeu at the end of the season but only after leaving his mark on the Spain Under-21 star who excelled in los Blancos' 2-0 win over Malaga on Saturday.
Speaking to Marca Morata said: "I want to thank Jose Mourinho who drilled it into my head that if you don't work and toil you're less likely to play."
Morata who was handed his first team debut by Mourinho back in 2011 and was afforded a rare start against Malaga having impressed as a substitute in his side' opening league fixtures this season.
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I mostly agree that a religion from God would be peaceful. But I would like to ask a few questions in that regard:Christians often complain about how Muslims are narrow-minded and judgmental. But here we have a Muslim who is asking some very good questions (I think). He deserves your prayerful answers.
1. Who defines what is peaceful?
People have different opinions on things like death penalty, abortion, and even spanking. If people can differ so much in just the US, how much more so about religions that span the globe? Who sets the criterion and says "OK this is peaceful, this is not. This is good, this is bad"?
2. How does a religion being peaceful prove it is from God?
Unless you wanted to get into a complicated philosophical discussion that God must be kind (which I don't think either of us want to do)
Let me also clarify: I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT GOD IS CRUEL OR UNMERCIFUL. I AM ONLY POSING THESES QUESTION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SOMEONE OPEN TO ALL RELIGIONS AND WAYS OF THINKING.
--Abu Daoud


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Conan O'Brien
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
Abraham Lincoln
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."
Helen Keller
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving."
Dale Carnegie
"The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty."
Zig Ziglar
"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."
John Wooden
"Being named outstanding wrestler talks about his character as well as his wrestling skills. When coaches talk about David, they always talk about what a great person he is first and that means more to me than anything because that's what will take him a long way in life."
Chris Adams


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An agitated mob killed a leopard in the presence of senior forest, police and civic officers in a village under Sector 55 police station on Wednesday evening. The incident occurred when the leopard attacked a woman in Kheri Gujran village earlier in the day.
Even as the cornered leopard climbed a tree, wildlife officials rushed to the spot with tranquilliser guns to sedate the wild animal. But all efforts failed as a strong mob chased the leopard and killed it.
"The villagers killed the leopard on the spot," said Gashi Ram Bhadana, sarpanch, Kheri Gujran village. "Yes, the mob killed the leopard," said V Tyagi, DFO, Faridabad range.


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Teresa gave props (18 Jan 2009):
Awesome shot!
Neil Woo said (1 Feb 2009):
great shot
Joerg Schlagheck gave props (31 May 2009):
Nice portrait!