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Review and then Focus on the Repentance Raceway
The Reapers Roadmap materials previously presented summarized how The Bible's Gospel of John 1:10-13 and the "Parable of the Sower" found in Matthew 13:1-9 shows the way redemption typically happens, or regretfully fails to happen. That is, it shows how people come to faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, or choose another course both for their life on earth and more importantly for eternity.
John 1:9-13 (NIV): 9 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
God reveals his word and ways so people have the chance to learn more and get to know God better by applying their reason and strength. God presents his message both to Jews and Gentiles. Today, God through his word and the Holy Spirit calls to those who attend Christian Services and who hear God's word elsewhere along life's paths. In the "Parable of the Sower" this is like dropping seeds of God's word along the path, as illustrated in the Bible in Matthew 13:1-9.
Parable of the Sower: Matthew 13: 1-9 (NIV): 1 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. 2 Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore. 3 Then he told them many things in parables, saying: "A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. 9 He who has ears, let him hear."
Focus on the Repentance Raceway
Adam & Eve
While repentance is central to coming to God, we people often exhibit a contrary tendency towards blame and self-righteousness rather than repentance. Consider how Adam and Eve responded after their first disobedient act of rebellion, where they violated God's commands, his trust, and their relationship with him. When caught, Adam and Eve reacted by blaming rather than taking responsibility and repenting. Adam blamed Eve. Eve blamed the serpent. Today people blame society, parents, family, friends, enemies, and others for their behavior. Even when all these are contributors, ultimately we are responsible for ourselves, and must decide to repent and ask for God's forgiveness and assistance to start making better decisions.
Genesis 3:8-13 (ESV): 8 And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?" 10 And he said, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid,because I was naked, and I hid myself." 11He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?" 12 The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate." 13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
Altar Sacrifices
One reason God instituted sacrifices is to remind people of how serious their sins are, so it makes sense that God still expects those who offer sacrifices to God to still listen and to obey God. While the blood of sacrifices was required for forgiveness of sins and to purify earthly symbols of heavenly objects, the higher purposes points to the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, who was to be offered as the sacrifice for forgiveness of sins for all who believe and follow him.
1 Samuel 15:22 (ESV) 22 And Samuel said, "Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams."
Leviticus 17:11 (ESV): 11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.
Hebrews 9:21-23 (ESV): 21 And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship. 22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. 23 Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Jonah and Nineveh
The Lord God forgave Nineveh's people when they believed Jonah's message from God and repented of their sins. Jonah was disappointed because what he prophesied at God's direction did not come to pass. It's also possible Jonah was disappointed because God spared his peoples' enemies. God recognized Nineveh people's repentant hearts and rewarded them with his mercy. This pattern of God rewarding belief and repentance with pardon and mercy is a pattern more fully revealed when Jesus' comes and instructs his followers on righteousness.
Jonah 3:10 (ESV): 10 When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
Jonah 4:1-4 (ESV): 1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. 2 And he prayed to the LORD and said, "O LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster. 3 Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live." 4 And the LORD said, "Do you do well to be angry?"
Nebuchadnezzar's Dream
Great King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream that greatly troubled him. To ensure a proper dream revelation was provided, the King insisted the wise men reveal both the dream and it's interpretation, and threatened to execute all the wise men if they were unable to do so. God revealed the dream and its' interpretation to Daniel, who told the dream and shared its' interpretation with King Nebuchadnezzar.
Daniel 2:31-36 (ESV): 31 "You saw, O king, and behold, a great image. This image, mighty and of exceeding brightness, stood before you, and its appearance was frightening. 32 The head of this image was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its middle and thighs of bronze, 33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. 34As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, andbroke them in pieces. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. 36 "This was the dream. Now we will tell the king its interpretation.
Daniel 2:37-45 (ESV): 37 You, O king, the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the might, and the glory, 38 and into whose hand he has given, wherever they dwell, the children of man, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the heavens, making you rule over them all—you are the head of gold. 39 Another kingdom inferior to you shall arise after you, and yet a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth. 40 And there shall be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron, because iron breaks to pieces and shatters all things. And like iron that crushes, it shall break and crush all these. 41 And as you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom, but some of the firmness of iron shall be in it, just as you saw iron mixed with the soft clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly brittle. 43 As you saw the iron mixed with soft clay, so they will mix with one another in marriage, but they will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with clay. 44 And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever, 45 just as you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. A great God has made known to the king what shall be after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure."
King Nebuchadnezzar's dream prophesied about God's Kingdom to come through the Son of God, Jesus Christ. God's Kingdom is not an earthly Kingdom where people war and fight for it. It is a heavenly Kingdom, where entry is prefaced by seeking the Kingdom of God and God's righteousness, which Jesus Christ reveals. To come to know Jesus is to imitate him and his true followers, knowing God's Kingdom is often opposed by earthly powers. As King Nebuchadnezzars' dream revealed, the certainty of God's Kingdom eternal dominance is assured. Those who follow Jesus Christ, the Savior, the Messiah, the ultimate King of Kings and Lord of Lords are resting on a firm foundation. That firm foundation is the solid rock, the stone God the Father set in place, stands forever.
John the Baptist
As prophesied by Isaiah the Prophet, John the Baptist prepared the way for Jesus Christ's coming, by making a straight path of repentance for God's people to follow.
Mark 1:1-5 (NIV): 1 The beginning of the gospel about Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 2 It is written in Isaiah the prophet:
"I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way"— 3 "a voice of one calling in the desert,
'Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.' "
4 And so John came, baptizing in the desert region and preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. 5 The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River
Many people hear the Word of God, recognize Jesus Christ for who he is, acknowledge their need to repent, and do so. Sorry for sinful wrongs they've committed previously, they focus on learning more about God, doing right now and in the future, and even make amends for their past too in certain circumstances. This sincere response mirrors what John the Baptizer expected when he called people to repent.
Matthew 3:10-12 (NIV): 10 The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. 11 "I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire."
John the Baptist called several religious teachers to true repentance, since they appeared externally righteous, yet their internal hearts were far from God. Repentance involves changes to heart, mind, and actions. Repentance requires changing our lifestyles, how we relate to others, and what we think. John the Baptist challenged religious leaders to evidence their repentance was true by their actions.
Matthew 3:7-9 (NIV): 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? 8 Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. 9 And do not think you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
Parable of the Pharisee & Tax Collector
The Parable of the Pharisee and Tax Collector instructs that a repentant heart is one God expects in prayer and when reaching out to him, while also informing that to be self-righteous, full of pride, and unrepentant, is sinful.
Luke 18:9-14 (NIV): 9 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: 10 "Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.' 13 "But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.' 14 "I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."
John's letter likewise reinforces the importance to repent of our sins, and highlights the failure to do is evidence to convict us.
1 John 1:8-10 (ESV): 8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
How do you know what to repent for? You learn more about God, and our need for repentance, by reading the Bible, focusing upon Jesus' life, and joining a community of believers, if one is available to you. What is it like to follow Jesus with a willingness to repent for your wrong-doings? As Jesus' follower, you continue to find more sins to eliminate from your life, knowing you've sinned, as you learn more about God's righteous expectations.
When you follow Jesus, you'll find several behaviors to eliminate. You'll enjoy many successes doing that, despite setbacks causing you to reflect and redraw boundaries to appropriately address your own tendencies. Reflecting further upon God's word, you'll learn what you communicate verbally, non-verbally, and via writing is of key importance. Praying for help and focusing upon the Lord's words, you'll continue to enjoy many successes, as you implement and observe improvements in your own language use.
Delving deeper into God's words, you'll see self-control is expected too, whether its' self-control in expressing your emotions, satiating your appetites, or other varieties. Whether it's this challenge or another area to improve, several years will pass as you face these challenges. With God's help, and the support network of many believers imitating Christ, you are able to conquer these challenge too. You'll understand your thoughts and desires underlie sins which lead you astray at times. Observing your thoughts and watching your desires closely, you'll come to know again how sinful you are, and how needful it is to repent.
You'll find many things worldly people value, such as wealth and materialism, you also value too highly. You'll ask God to help you direct your focus upon what is right and holy, leading to improvements in your thinking, reasoning, and priorities. You realize sin is more than just what we do that is wrong, but is also when you omitted doing the right you ought to do too, and so you'll repent of that too.
You'll realize God's expects us to love and care for others, and recognize you've missed many opportunities to do so, and now aim to be more proactive to find and follow-up on chances to show others love and kindness. The more you improve, the more you'll learn there is to improve. As you repent, you'll admit your ultimate responsibility for your sins. Your recognition of God's holiness leads you to seek to soak up Jesus' life and words to permeate your soul, so you'll be prepared to succeed, and prepared to keep going despite temporary failures and setbacks.
You'll search for ways to share what you've learned and how you've been successful in overcoming many of life's challenges with the support of God's words and his people so others receive help they need too, like you did. You'll realize many others are also seeking to help those in need too, yet you were ignorant of what they've overcome. This realization leads you to pursue opportunities to be a match maker, between those with needs for help, and those who know how to address those needs, with help from God's word and their own life's experience.
You'll discover being wise will help you be more effective when helping others, so you'll advance your knowledge in many areas. You'll be informed there is worldly wisdom and heavenly wisdom that is even higher, so you are careful to use any worldly wisdom as tools to teach the higher wisdom of God. You'll align your assistance with those already forming collective groups to helps others more effectively. You'll explore creative thinking to address needs previously looking insurmountable in your pursuit to bring hope and joy into people's lives.
Perhaps you as a follower of Christ will like the rest of us only fulfill a portion of the repentance and redirection in our lives before we return to the dust of the earth from which we came. Perhaps you'll live a full life, doing the above and much more, as you follow Jesus Christ. Perhaps you'll tackle several challenges at simultaneously. The important part is turning your life over to Jesus Christ, so you begin and continue to walk the narrow path to life until God the Father determines it's time to depart this world.
Jesus Christ the Lamb of God
Sacrifices of animals were a foreshadow and copy of the sacrifice Jesus Christ made as a perfect Lamb for the world's sins when Jesus was crucified on the cross and died for our sins. Our part is to believe, be repentant, and decide to seek and follow God, whom Jesus Christ revealed.
John 3:16-17 (ESV): 16 "For God so loved the world,that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
1 Corinthians 5:7-8 (ESV): 7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Matthew 26:1-4 (ESV): 1 When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples, 2 "You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified." 3 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, 4 and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.
Preach Repentance to All Nations
Repentance is foundational to Jesus' ministry and to his disciples, who seek people who will acknowledge their sinful condition, confess their sins, and turn towards God in truth and action.
Luke 5:31-32 (NIV): 31 Jesus answered them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Acts 20:21 (NIV): I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus.
Acts 26:20 (NIV): First to those in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and to the Gentiles also, I preached that they should repent and turn to God and prove their repentance by their deeds.
God is patient and suffers many evil doers who appear successful in what they do. God permits this, as part of his plan to bring as many people as possible to embrace repentance. Despite this, several people will choose the wide path of the unrepentant, to their own eternal punishment.
2 Peter 3:8-9 (NIV): 8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance
Many people who do wrong insincerely claim they are sorry. Several are primarily only sorry they were caught and were not sorry for their actions. This is an ungodly sorrow. Godly sorrow fuels sincere repentance.
2 Corinthians 7:9-11 (NIV): 9 yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. 10 Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. 11 See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done. At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter
Disciples in the faith are called to pursue God's holy righteousness in their lives, avoiding unproductive arguments, and being kind to everyone.
2 Timothy 2:20-26 (NIV): 20 In a large house there are articles not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay; some are for noble purposes and some for ignoble. 21 If a man cleanses himself from the latter, he will be an instrument for noble purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work. 22 Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 23 Don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. 24 And the Lord's servant must not quarrel; instead, he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. 25 Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, 26 and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.
Life's choice is between repentance and stubbornness, between seeking God's mercy versus rejecting God's mercy in favor of God's just wrath, whether received on Earth now, or later for eternity.
Romans 2:20-26 (NIV): 4 Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing that God's kindness leads you toward repentance? 5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God's wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. 6 God "will give to each person according to what he has done." 7 To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. 8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.
As Jesus' followers preach the Kingdom of God, the need to seek God's righteousness, and the critical necessity of repentance to all nations, they can be confident in God's eventual victory, thanks to the Prophesy of Daniel embedded in King Nebuchadnezzar's Dream.
Daniel 2:37- (ESV): 44 And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever, 45 just as you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. A great God has made known to the king what shall be after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure."
Key Points: Repentance Raceway
- Adam and Eve illustrates people's tendency to ________ another to avoid their responsibility, rather than ___________ when feeling ________ as a result of sinning, in a vain attempt to avoid deserved ___________.
- Altar sacrifices remind us that sins are ________ and foreshadow Jesus as the _______ being offered to God as payment for our sins.
- Just like God was _________ after Nineveh was _____________, God expects all people to be ___________ too.
- God revealed to Daniel King Nebuchadnezzar's ___________ and its' _____________, which prophesies Jesus' Kingdom to fill the whole _________.
- John baptizes people with a baptism of ___________, expecting the ________ of repentance as proof of sincerity deep in the heart. Likewise Jesus' disciples declared all must repent, turn to God, and ______ their repentance by their ________.
- The Parable of the Pharisee & Tax Collector shows God ___________ the sincerely repentant, yet withholds __________ from the self-righteous before God, who are full of pride, which is sinful.
- Godly _______ fuels sincere repentance.
- Followers of Jesus continue to find more _______ to eliminate from their life and more ________ to do in their life, as they continue to learn and apply more about God's __________ expectations.
- Jesus Christ is known as the ______ of God because he offered himself on the cross as the _______ for the sins of true believers.
- The Great Commission involves Jesus Christ instructing followers to Preaching the Gospel of ____________ to make disciples of all nations, a mission whose success is ________, thanks to the interpretation of King Nebuchadnezzar's Dream.
Discussion Questions: Repentance Raceway
(1) What did you learn from Adam & Eve's example about our innate tendencies towards repentance?
(2) Considering times you and others have done wrong, why is God patient with evil doers?
(3) What does The Parable of the Pharisee and Tax Collector teach us regarding the importance of repentance and the folly of self-deceptive self-righteousness, pomp, position, and appearances?
(4) What does the history of Jonah and Nineveh show us about God's character, righteousness, and generosity?
(5) Why are there no altar sacrifices in Christianity? What does God value more than altar sacrifices? When was the ultimate altar sacrifice made for all who'd repent and believe?
(6) At a high-level, of what types of thoughts, actions, communications, and omissions do you need to repent?
(7) Why did John the Baptist focus upon preaching repentance? How central is repentance to God's worldwide outreach?
(8) How do you know Jesus' Gospel outreach will be successful in reaching people in all nations in this world despite opposition? How can you contribute to this mission over the course of your lifetime? What progress have you made?
(9) What advantage is gained from applying wisdom, learning from others, and collectively working together on God's mission field?
Next Steps
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Invitation to Delve Deeply into the Parable of the Sower
Hand Drawn Repentance Raceway Roadmap
Key Points: Repentance Raceway: Answers
- Adam and Eve illustrates people's tendency to blame another to avoid their responsibility, rather than repent when feeling ashamed as a result of sinning, in a vain attempt to avoid deserved consequences / punishment.
- Altar sacrifices remind us that sins are serious and foreshadow Jesus as the Lamb being offered to God as payment for our sins.
- Just like God was merciful after Nineveh was repentant , God expects all people to be repentant too.
- God revealed to Daniel King Nebuchadnezzar's dream and its' interpretation , which prophesies Jesus' Kingdom to fill the whole Earth / world .
- John baptizes people with a baptism of repentance , expecting the fruit of repentance as proof of sincerity deep in the heart. Likewise Jesus' disciples declared all must repent, turn to God, and prove their repentance by their deeds / works .
- The Parable of the Pharisee & Tax Collector shows God forgives the sincerely repentant, yet withholds forgiveness from the self-righteous before God, who are full of pride, which is sinful.
- Godly sorrow fuels sincere repentance.
- Followers of Jesus continue to find more sins to eliminate from their life and good to do in their life, as they continue to learn and apply more about God's righteous expectations.
- Jesus Christ is known as the Lamb of God because he offered himself on the cross as the payment / propitiation for the sins of true believers.
- The Great Commission involves Jesus Christ instructing followers to Preaching the Gospel of repentance to make disciples of all nations, a mission whose success is certain / sure / assured , thanks to the interpretation of King Nebuchadnezzar's Dream


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Momma Walters came to visit us in Fresno!
Ben and I showed her our home, the university, and even fit in a trip to the Central coast. On Saturday, we got to spend some time at the Harvest Fall Wine Tasting at some local wineries on a beautiful day! We visited Engelmann Cellars and Moravia Wines.
Mom at Moravia
Mom and I at Engelmann Cellars
Husband and wife PDA 🙂
One of the landmark windmills at Engelmann Cellars
On Sunday we made the 2 hour trek to Paso Robles and Pismo Beach. We fell in love with the Paso Robles area. We stopped at Firestone Walker Brewery and had some delicious beer. Ben's favorite was Velvet Merkin, which is Velvet Merlin, but aged in bourbon barrels for 18 months. That shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. My (Nikki) favorite was the XVI Anniversary Blend an oak-aged strong ale. Mom's was the 805 ale which is only available in that area code! I love the local touch.
The lush green hills in the area surprised us, we felt like we were in the south or on the east coast. Ben and I can't wait to get back to this area to do a little bit more exploring. This weekend was about showing mom the lay of the land and that HAD to include a trip to ocean. Just down the road from Paso Robles is the town of Pismo Beach. The sand is very fine and it was a bit windy, but mom got some good souvenir shells and a sand dollar.
Pismo Beach!
By recommendation, we waited in line for 15 minutes of a late lunch crowd to Splash Cafe. Ben and I got the bread bowl Clam Chowder (amazing!) and Mom got a Spicy Ranch Burger with fries. We will definitely be going back there when we have a chance.
Bread bowl Clam Chowder from Splash at Pismo Beach
It was great to have a weekend with my mom and look forward to more hosting/adventuring.
Cheers, Nikki

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Archive for November 19th, 2008
My Cell Phone Ringtone Scares Me Like Woah
Trust me. You don't want to hear my phone's ring. It brings weathered warriors to their knees, it summons Godzilla, it sucks all the happiness from a room. Um, it also causes my hand to jump and send a line of ink shooting across my paper. Me thinks me needs to keep it on vibrate when I'm drawing from now on…
Now I think I'm going down to the well tonight
And I'm going to drink till I get my fill
And I hope when I get old
I don't sit around thinking about it
But I probably will
– "Glory Days" by Bruce Springsteen


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It was all a lie.
The Top Climate Scientist Admitted in February That Man-made Global Warming Was a Farce–
* The data for the vital 'hockey stick graph' had gone missing
* There had been no global warming since 1995
* Warming periods have happened before – but NOT due to man-made changes
In February one of the chief scientists at the center of the "Climategate" scandal admitted that there had been no significant global warming in the last 15 years.
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But, Al Gore is still beating that dead horse.
At least The New York Times will still publish his crackpot propaganda:
I, for one, genuinely wish that the climate crisis were an illusion. But unfortunately, the reality of the danger we are courting has not been changed by the discovery of at least two mistakes in the thousands of pages of careful scientific work over the last 22 years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In fact, the crisis is still growing because we are continuing to dump 90 million tons of global-warming pollution every 24 hours into the atmosphere — as if it were an open sewer.
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It is true that the climate panel published a flawed overestimate of the melting rate of debris-covered glaciers in the Himalayas, and used information about the Netherlands provided to it by the government, which was later found to be partly inaccurate. In addition, e-mail messages stolen from the University of East Anglia in Britain showed that scientists besieged by an onslaught of hostile, make-work demands from climate skeptics may not have adequately followed the requirements of the British freedom of information law.
But the scientific enterprise will never be completely free of mistakes. What is important is that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged. It is also worth noting that the panel's scientists — acting in good faith on the best information then available to them — probably underestimated the range of sea-level rise in this century, the speed with which the Arctic ice cap is disappearing and the speed with which some of the large glacial flows in Antarctica and Greenland are melting and racing to the sea…
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…The heavy snowfalls this month have been used as fodder for ridicule by those who argue that global warming is a myth, yet scientists have long pointed out that warmer global temperatures have been increasing the rate of evaporation from the oceans, putting significantly more moisture into the atmosphere — thus causing heavier downfalls of both rain and snow in particular regions, including the Northeastern United States. Just as it's important not to miss the forest for the trees, neither should we miss the climate for the snowstorm.
Here is what scientists have found is happening to our climate: man-made global-warming pollution traps heat from the sun and increases atmospheric temperatures. These pollutants — especially carbon dioxide — have been increasing rapidly with the growth in the burning of coal, oil, natural gas and forests, and temperatures have increased over the same period. Almost all of the ice-covered regions of the Earth are melting — and seas are rising. Hurricanes are predicted to grow stronger and more destructive, though their number is expected to decrease. Droughts are getting longer and deeper in many mid-continent regions, even as the severity of flooding increases. The seasonal predictability of rainfall and temperatures is being disrupted, posing serious threats to agriculture. The rate of species extinction is accelerating to dangerous levels.
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Something Pretty
Every year, a staggering amount of women and men are robbed of the normalcy of nourishment by an eating disorder. 20 million women and 10 million men a year, to be exact.
So why, as one of the deadliest mental illness in the United States, are eating disorders still stigmatized?
Seeking to uproot this stigma surrounding bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders is Alexandra Bodnarchuk—a Pittsburgh-based dance artist. Through her project, "Something Pretty," Bodnarchuk is exploring the conversation about eating disorders through dance.
What began six years ago as a college project has developed into a full performance. Bodnarchuk suffered from an undiagnosed eating disorder herself, which—combined with her life as a dancer—became the inspiration for the project.
"I just remember wanting to reach underneath my skin, pull out my fat and rearrange my muscles and bones to look more aesthetically pleasing from the outside," Bodnarchuk said. She has since recovered, but the eating disorder left her more passionate than before: "I just knew that I had a lot to say about it."
Bodnarchuk pushes the conversation further by approaching it from a dance lens:
"I know that eating disorders in dance is something cliché. If you hear a ballerina has an eating disorder, you think: 'Oh, okay. That's normal.' We've normalized something that should not be normalized."
Bodnarchuk is aware and ready to address the stereotypes of dancers with eating disorders, and she invites you to join. Also collaborating as the photographer for the project is Pittsburgh-based feminist artist Hannah Altman. The two will work together to "dismantle the stigma from the core" and inspire others to move forward in a healthy direction.
A fundraiser for the event will be held at Stack PGH (5740 Baum Blvd. 3rd Floor, 15206) on July 25. The event consists of two excerpt performances from the work, food from Bar Marco and mingling with the cast of talented artists. Photographs from Altman will also be sold.
Tickets for the world premiere of "Something Pretty" in full will also be on sale starting July 25. The performances will take place at 8PM, August 18-19, at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater.
You can also check out the event page for upcoming info about the fundraiser, project and performances!


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I have been excitingly excited over my summer thus far…. thus the unicorn picture of Tulie (lindsey) is deserving of the top spot. Lughnasadh night was a wonderful time to relax by bonfire with my sabbatt sisters under the stars playing drums and dreaming of underworld animals… but first that day was filled with:
Meandering our way through city streets:
Our new band, Moon Folk, playing for the runners of a race:
Cooking up harvest foods:
Playing marco-polo in cornfields:
Honoring our own personal harvests and blessing our current crops in ritual:
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Hemorrhoids are a painful and irritating condition in which the veins around the lower rectum or anus are inflamed or swollen. The causes for hemorrhoids may be many, including obesity and pregnancy. The disease could also be brought on by lack of exercise. Excessive use of caffeine and alcohol consumption can also result in hemorrhoids, since these substances dehydrate the body.
Caffeine and Alcohol Within Hemorrhoids
Caffeine works as a dehydrating agent and lack of fluids is among the prime causes of hemorrhoids. Therefore, caffeine works as an indirect causal agent. Hence, to prevent hemroids, avoid consuming foods with excessive caffeine, such as coffee and also energy drinks.
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Although caffeine increases blood pressure, it is not known to cause hypertension. Similarly, alcohol does not directly cause hemorrhoids, but is an indirect agent. Alcohol is often a diuretic that causes dehydration and resultant constipation. Since constipation is probably the root causes of hemorrhoid development, avoiding alcohol can prevent hemroids.
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You cannot quit alcohol or caffeine, then you should at least reduce their consumption. Those already suffering from hemorrhoids need to avoid consuming food items containing these, so that the condition is not aggravated. That is, it is possible to prevent hemroid development or stress through effective dietary changes.
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Receiving this package today was just as amazing as hearing the lost & found had my watch. I am so so grateful and thankful for the maid who cleaned room 347 if I knew who she was I would probably send her a year supply of cookies. I seriously just had Christmas all over again on January 11.
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Everything you need is here in J Interiors and Exteriors
We do:
We do external works in garden and external wall decorative stone tiling, garden design and external light design and installation. We supply and install conservatories, verandas and glass rooms.
We do loft conversion and dormer for our customers , fit converted loft and insulate it. Creat bedroom and bathroom in loft. We supply and install outdoor and indoor swimming pools in properties , we also do all plumbing and electric works in houses and flats for our customers.
Long road we came before starting to do full full refurbishment with full interior design of the Property, also full construction of the building from foundation to roof.
In 2004 we were only doing home extensions, alterations and converting loft into a room for our customers. Then we started doing conservatories, getting our conservatory supply company to make bespoke conservatories to suit requirements of our customers.
All extensions we did for our customers needed new bathrooms and sometimes new kitchens, kitchens mostly needed to be bespoke. We used a few kitchen suppliers, really bespoke kitchen makers were not a lot at that time and the ones were in the market were really busy in 2004, so the need for bespoke designer kitchens to suit the extensions of the houses arose.
We could not make our customers to wait long and we did not want to loose them also, that is why we hired a work shop and hired experienced kitchen furniture makers, started our bespoke kitchens manufacture.
In 2005 we were already doing bespoke kitchen manufacture and installation of the kitchens. We found a lot of mistakes in plumbing and electric works related to the kitchens we supply and install, we decided to do electrical and plumbing works for the kitchens we supply and install. From end of 2005 electrical and plumbing works in kitchens were 50% of our scope in the properties.
We received a lot of bespoke bathroom furniture orders from our customers in 2006, our talented furniture makers made very good and bespoke bathroom furniture for our customers. Nearly every 2nd property we worked needed bespoke bathroom furniture to suit our customers requirements
As we were producing and installing bathroom furniture, In 2006 few customers asked us if we could complete the bathroom that was incomplete (started by others, under different reasons owners stopped working with them), we started a complete bathroom refurbishment and we developed skills of our team, from 2006 bathrooms became 30% of our scope in the property.
There was a time when the full refurbishment was not in our package, we saw the difficulties we and customers face, we saw unhappy clients in every second project where the other companies were managing full refurbishment and we were doing only part of works. Few customers had no choice than to terminate agreements with the existing refurbishment companies working in their property and give the refurbishment works to the new companies, sometimes asking us if we could complete previous company's incomplete works.
From 2007 we started to be involved in full refurbishment and full interior design of the properties. In addition to our home extensions and alterations company, we have set up an electric company, plumbing company and hired designers to work for our home extensions and alterations company. By the end of 2007 full refurbishment became 80% of our scope in properties. Since 2007 we manage all of property works for our customers, we do complete strip out, bespoke elements of interior design, we obtain permits from local authorities for our customers in order they could do extensions and alterations in their property. We procure materials and appliances, manufacture bespoke furniture (kitchen, Study, Living Rom, Bedroom, Bathroom, Hallway etc), deliver and install them, do bespoke and luxury bathroom installation, do complete electric layout and electrical 1st and 2nd fix, do plumbing layout/design and plumbing 1st and 2nd fix, complete walls and ceilings to the specification and agreed design. We install flooring to the design and with chosen by client materials and color. We do Old windows replacing with double or triple glazed windows, old sash windows replacing with exact look alike double glazed windows. We install all the chosen by client appliances, test and check to make sure they are working and have annual warranty, then we hand over to owners (our client).
As from 2008 external works become part of our scope, we have set up a company to do external works and we started doing Garden design, Garden decorative tiling (using natural and composite decorative stone tiles) and Decking, We do New Electric design for outside lighting and Landscaping. We do plastering/rendering of external walls and install External Timber Cladding. We supply and install external wall lime stone/decorative cladding/tiling. We do roofing and roof repairs, including flat roofs. We do garage building and refurbishment, we install normal and automatic garage doors , we do drive ways for our customers with their chosen materials etc.
To achieve best results and make our customers happy we recently re structured our resources and decided to join all four companies under 1 umbrella of JInteriors and Exteriors LTD, it makes us to be better organised, projects better managed and helps to reduce overhead costs and be flexible to suit customers time requirements, it helps to put additional resources if needed to complete the projects in time.
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Incito Maintenance
Incito Maintenance (Melbourne) provides property and grounds maintenance services for offices, shops and private homes.
Established in 2010, customers include Telstra, Active Property Management Services, and City of Whittlesea.
Incito is a registered NDIS provider. We can provide house and yard maintenance services in the "Assistance in daily life" section of NDIS funding. This is available to people with an NDIS support package.
Visit www.incitomaintenance.com.au for more information.


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The reality is that homosexuality is actually multidimensional and altogether more to do with love and closeness than it is about sex. This really is what all gay relationships and gay marriage survives on; mutual attraction, love and affection. Sex can surely often be a method of showing that affection, the same as it can be for heterosexuals. Being gay and lesbian is substantially more profound than merely a sexual relationship; remember that being gay is located at the centre of a person's central identity.
The healing we want to see in the world does truly begin with ourselves. As more of us begin to own this process, and become responsible for our own lives, our own Divinity begins to emerge, our lights to brighter shine. This in turn, allows others to do the same. By Divinity I mean all those qualities of God which we inherited when we were born: Love, Joy, Abundance, Peace, Acceptance, Harmony, Power, Giving, Creativity, the list goes on and on. As Rev. Michael B. Beckwith, spiritual director and founder of the Agape Movement said during the same Oprah Broadcast, "People don't just Men Seeking Men Ads happen to be gay. People are born gay by Divine Right. We are the image and likeness of God, just as we are."
We have another opportunity for our country to live up to the promise of freedom and equality for all of our citizens. While none of us can be sure why Obama finally decided it was time to declare his support for gay marriage. We can certainly hope that he acted out of a sense of moral urgency and not political expedience. A sad truth-- despite the fact that the majority of Americans now accept gay marriage, Congress is content to ignore this evolution and fan the fires of their partisan agenda. Undoubtedly, speculating about Obama's motives is the perfect topic for revving up partisan feelings-but maybe it's time to turn our attention to the cost we are all paying for the devolution of our political system; rather than the evolution of Obama's views on gay marriage.
It is ultimately up to the parent to decide how to break the news to his or her child. Sensitivity and patience are must have necessities while treating the matter. Lesbian dating couples must never bring a child into a relationship that they are not sure about. They should not treat a kid as the binding factor in their relationship. Unless they have a solid foundation between themselves, bringing a child into the picture can be devastating for all three individuals.
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A "Crazy Quilt," made to honor Char Kirkegaard's birth, is on display through Feb. 6 at the Mitchell County Historical Society Museum in the Cedar River Complex.
In the winter of 1931-32, Ferd and Odetta Pearson were expecting their second child. It was a cold and snowy winter on the farm eight miles from Genoa, Neb. By the new year, the snow was already several feet deep. They decided their son, Roger, 4, would stay with his aunt Charlotte and her husband. Twelve days before the birth, Ferd took Odetta to stay with her cousin, Muriel Thomazin, who lived 20 miles away in Columbus, Neb., so Odetta could be near a doctor when the baby was born.
Shortly after Ferd returned to their dairy farm, the rural roads became nearly impassable. Communication with Odetta was by party-line phone. It was a week after the baby's Jan. 5 birth before Ferd had the chance to see his wife and new baby daughter, and another ten days before the family returned home. "I was told my dad said to my mother, 'well I suppose I should dig out the 1929 Chevy from the garage so I can bring you and the baby home'," said Charlotte.
To celebrate Charlotte Pearson's birth, her maternal grandmother Matilda Thomazin created a "Crazy Quit" from her collection of velvets in purple, gold, and pink, with fancy embroidery outlining the seams.
Thomazin had immigrated from Germany with her family when she was eight. Her father was a tailor and she learned sewing skills from him.
Charlotte Pearson Kirkegaard now lives in Osage. She uses the quilt as a tree skirt under her Christmas tree every year.
"My family wants the memory of what that quilt represents to live on," she said.
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With Mark Laccay and Marc McCullie. Swapping BMW used parts and talking about movie making.
Not such a new idea. I watched 'Welt am Draht" in 1973, which is based on the same idea.
The Millennium Falcon. Christmas present in 2015 as coupon because we could not find it in the Philippines.
Als Segler: was waren das für tolle Zeiten als man praktisch überall hingehen könnte. Ted Simon. Wolfgang Hausner. Lawrence of Arabia. read more
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Improvising the mast foot for Magayon 2. This one is going to be heavily fiber glass enforced since the wood of the original one rotted away at one spot after only a year and I had to fix it.
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Written by Ken Gaebler
Published: 1/3/2011
NFL offers its 9th Playbook Workshop Series to entrepreneurs and small business owners in the North Texas region.
While North Texas small business owners are already anticipating the added revenue that this year's Super Bowl XLV in Dallas, Texas, will bring, they also stand to benefit from a series of workshops hosted in part by the National Football League.
Through a partnership with the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee, Southern Methodist University and Texas Christian University, the NFL will offer its ninth Playbook Workshop Series to area entrepreneurs, the Dallas Morning News reports. The series is sure to be good news for small business owners.
The organization is offering two half-day business development workshops and is expecting an attendance of 250 small business owners for each. The sessions will include information and advice on marketing, finding capital, creating partnerships and social media.
"Sometimes we get so busy taking care of the day-to-day that we don't often stop to look at the forest through the trees," Brad Hancock, director of TCU's Neeley Entrepreneurship Center and a former small-business owner, told the paper. "We hope this is an opportunity for folks to take a half-day and learn about some real tools and techniques they can take back to help run their businesses better."
Some local businesses are already feeling the early effects of hosting the Super Bowl. Freeman, a meetings services company, expects to generate between $750,000 and $1 million in lighting and audio visual work for hotels and the media, the paper writes.
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Take a look at this story from Natural Resources News Source, which investigates the background of the proposed uranium mining in Southside Virginia. The story behind Virginia Uranium, the company that aims to do the mining, is important in its own right. But I'm most fascinated by the first section, in which two local residents talk about their decisions to allow mining on their land, or not.
Having private landowners make this kind of choice is a very strange situation. The potential effects of mining–air and water pollution among them–would be problems for the region at large. Yet the gatekeepers of these common assets are put in a position of weighing their own economic interests against a somewhat abstract communal good.
One source in the story, Bill Speiden, sums it up thus: "It would be nice to become a millionaire off of the deal, but I couldn't in good conscience risk my neighbors' downstream water supply and clean air."
How many of us would make that choice? How many of us could afford to?
I'm seeing a similar conundrum play out in the hydrofracking boom that's come to my hometown in southwestern Pennsylvania. A neighbor of my dad's signed a lease with the gas company, and now my dad's formerly pastoral view contains an enormous gas well on a flattened ex-hilltop. Worse than the aesthetics are the threats to drinking water.
There's a new well near my mom's house, too. Drillers there are in the process of burning off the first portion of gas before they begin collecting the liquid gold. This means that every night, from my mom's kitchen, a towering flame lights up the horizon, making a sound like a jet engine. It's literally hellish.
Extractive industries are not good to live with. But for individual people, personal wealth can be an offer too good to refuse. When states allow companies to make that offer, they essentially guarantee the degradation of the wealth we hold in common.


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While nothing fully conclusive has been shown yet, several prominent government studies have shown a relationship between deodorants and cancer.
The number of chemicals that are contained in deodorant could fill up that whole area underneath your sink. To avoid contact with these unknown chemical substances and their unknown effects, you can make your own chemical-free deodorants.
Using essential oils and household products, homemade deodorant is cheaper, safer, and more reliable than storebought products. You'll also be able to get scents that you can't find on drugstore shelves. Creating your own DIY chemical free deodorant allows you to have a closer connection with your self-care products while knowing exactly what it's made of.
If you're interested in creating your own chemical-free deodorant, you'll find that it's easier than you might have imagined. Here is a simple guide to making your own deodorant
Gather Your Ingredients
Most of the ingredients for your homemade chemical free deodorant can be found at your local health food or grocery store. By using products on your body that are safe to be eaten, you can be sure that whatever you create won't cause an allergic reaction.
Get these ingredients for the best results for your homemade deodorant:
- 1/2 cup coconut oil
- 1/2 cup shea butter, cocoa butter or mango butter
- 1/2 cup organic arrowroot powder or cornstarch
- 1/2 cup + 1 tsp beeswax
- 3 tablespoons baking soda
- Your favorite essential oils. Choose something that smells fresh like lavender, citrus, eucalyptus, rosemary, etc.
- 5 drops Vitamin E oil
- 2-3 probiotic non-refrigerated pills, crushed
Making Your Deodorant Bars
Making your own deodorant bars should take a little under an hour. Set aside plenty of time to make mistakes and for cleanup. A two-hour window is ideal.
Once you've got the ingredients together for your chemical free deodorant, you're ready to begin.
Step 1
Get a double boiler running. If you don't have a double boiler, start by taking a large saucepan and filling it with 2 inches of water. Get it warm and then put an empty pot or a mason jar in the water.
Don't wait until the water is boiling before adding the second pot. The pressure could be dangerous. Add the second bowl, pot, or jar while the water is still warming.
Once the bowl starts to get warm, it's time to start adding some ingredients into the mix of things.
Step 2
Add the coconut oil, shea butter (or replacements), along with your beeswax into the double boiler.
If you get stuck, a large mason jar will suffice for this recipe so long as you have a utensil to stir with. Pretty much anything can be used that won't crack with the heat from the boiling pan. Keep stirring intently to assure that the ingredients are smooth.
Stir until you feel everything is adequately combined.
Step 3
In this step, we'll put in the oils, powders, and all of the remaining ingredients.
First, continue stirring and remove the mixture from heat. Then add arrowroot, oils, baking soda, and your probiotics.
You need to act quickly here because the mixture will soon harden. Stir gently until you feel that everything is adequately mixed.
When you're adding essential oils, remember that they're very strong. Start with just a few drops and then add to your taste. Adding vitamin E is helpful to maintain healthy skin.
Since you're applying deodorant to skin that builds up with sweat and oils, vitamin E can counteract some of that.
Step 4
It's time to make your bars. While the mixture is still warm, you should pour the mixture into something like a muffin tin. find a mold that looks good to you around the house.
You can always use old deodorant sticks. Wait until it's a little denser and then spoon into the stick. Your mixture should be about as thick as peanut better when you do this.
Scoop it in and pack it down to make a solid and dense mold. Once it's filled, leave the cap of your deodorant off overnight so that you can be sure it dries completely.
Make It Your Own
You can take some extra steps to ensure that the deodorant is up to your standards. Try these three ideas to make it unique.
1. Lower the Baking Soda
Baking soda is irritating to some people. If you have sensitive skin, it can make you break out or just itch a whole lot. If you think you might be allergic or sensitive, you can avoid it altogether.
Instead, add cornstarch or some arrowroot. These are both great for sensitive skin and don't interfere with the scent of the deodorant.
2. Add More Beeswax
Beeswax creates a much smoother chemical free deodorant that goes on easily. When you're applying a deodorant higher in beeswax, you'll know the difference.
If you have sensitive skin, it's often much better. If you can't find beeswax, try adding more coconut oil and butter. That will maintain that ease of use while not disrupting the consistency.
3. More Probiotics Fight Scents
Essential oils are great for fighting smells, but Probiotic pills are anti-bacterial and can help fight even better. Scents on your skin are created by bacteria. As you apply probiotic deodorant, you make them feel at risk. The deodorant can kill the bacteria and make you smell a whole lot better.
Chemical Free Deodorant Is a Breeze
If you've never made your own beauty products before, this can be a great project to start with. It's a little more complex than say, making your own lotion, but can be a lot of fun. Play with the essential oils to figure out what your perfect balance is.
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Things got heated at Arkansas in the lead up to their next game and we're not just talking about head coach Bret Bielema's hot seat among the Razorbacks fan base either.
It appears that starting tailback Devwah Whaley was involved in what is being called a "minor disagreement" with a teammate this week at practice. While scuffles in the middle of an intense play are nothing new in football, there were a lot rumors that the running back was actually injured in the brouhaha and wouldn't be able to take the field at AT&T Stadium on Saturday against Texas A&M.
"He's ready to play," the coach said on his radio show, according to Hawgs Illustrated. "How many times are 21-year-olds in a disagreement? Devwah is excited to play in the game in his home state."
Whaley himself confirmed that he wasn't injured and would be playing against the Aggies on Twitter:
While one side of this "disagreement" is all set to play at JerryWorld against Texas A&M, the other side is not. That's because wide receiver Brandon Martin, who was also reportedly involved, is staying home in what Bielema labeled a previously determined decision due to his lingering hamstring injury. Either way, Razorbacks fans are probably hoping for a lot of the same fight they've seen this week from the team to carry over to their game on Saturday.


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