pricina) lui Dumnezeu împotriva Israelului. Lunga recapitulare a relaţiei pe care a avut-o Dumnezeu cu Israel în trecut a avut menirea de a evidenţia nerecunoştinţa şi neascultarea poporului.

Spre finalul cuvântării (vers. 51-53), Ştefan nu mai este acuzatul, ci profetul-avocat al lui Dumnezeu care susţine cazul Său împotriva acestor conducători. Dacă părinţii lor se făcuseră vinovaţi de uciderea profeţilor, ei se făceau vinovaţi cu atât mai mult. Trecerea de la „părinţii noştri” (vers. 11,19,38,44,45) la „părinţii voştri” este semnificativă: Ştefan s-a desolidarizat de propriul popor şi a luat poziţie clară de partea lui Isus. Preţul avea să fie uriaş, însă cuvintele lui nu au indicat vreo urmă de teamă sau de regret.

`Când ai fost pus cel mai recent în situaţia de a lua o poziţie fermă şi fără compromisuri de partea lui Isus? Ce ai făcut? Dacă ai ezitat, ce schimbări ar trebui să faci?`This year, writers in the #Reverb11 community are creating unique-to-themselves Reverb experiences. I am writing to a couple prompts each day, usually using 30 minute #wordmongering chunks.
This particular prompting comes from Diana Pritchard as she Cultivates 2012 in Community.
What did I learn about myself in 2011?
This is a poignant question. I tend to look toward the end of 2011 for my lessons learned. Although it isn’t evenly spaced, I look at before September 30 and after October 1.
With this time delineation I seelightness, for the most part, and darkness, for the most part.
If I am less black and white, however, I see more of a slide into darkness.
shines a light in the darkness, no one can see.
torrential tears that tend to accompany a flat-on-my-face-fall.
What was I reminded about myself?
I am a tremendous advocate for others. I need to remember to advocate for myself with the same ferocity.
I am able to ask for help from friends. People love me & come through for me, unconditionally.
I keep getting up and dusting myself off, which is the mark of a successful person.
I am quite a writer. Seriously.
I tend to discount what I do well. The miraculous in me gets shoved aside as unimportant. I am now working on this daily… and I am very grateful.
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The event will remember and celebrate the women, poets, playwrights and musicians who were directly involved in the Rising or responded through their passion and art to the cause of Irish independence. The event programme will include musical performances, vocal and instrumental, to evoke the historical period and pay tribute to the Rising. Documentary extracts showing the significance of the contribution of women to the Easter Rising will be screened. The importance of Australian connections will be highlighted through discussion, musical contributions and a rehearsed reading of a new Australian play by Maeliosa Stafford and members of O’Punksky’s Theatre Company. Performances and readings of key scenes from the works of O'Casey, Behan and Yeats will also feature. There will be crafts, storytelling and musical entertainment for children.
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Processors and ingredient companies share their strategies for helping to control todays high cost of ingredients without impacting quality or safety.
For some processors, there’s no way around engaging a paradigm shift. George Eckrich, owner of Dallas-based Dr. Kracker Inc. (), typically employs two strategies — one basic, the other more daring.
“First, we rented additional warehouse space so we can store packing material and ingredients that won't be affected by storage. That way, we can get additional discounts for truckload purchases. Second, in our new products, we have given up trying to source all ingredients as organic.”
While the company still is using organic grains and seeds, especially as the core of its new product line, Culinary Crisps!, its new products will be “about 70 percent organic.” Eckrich adds, “We continue to bake only with organic flour and organic seeds. But with new ingredients such as dried tomatoes, apple pieces and dried cherries, we’re buying all-natural. We verify that they are 100 percent natural, but we are not going beyond that. We’re balancing affordability and sustainability — which is to say, our own sustainability.”
Eckrich confesses that in the current environment, smaller companies can’t compete with the large manufacturers in securing limited quantities of ingredients at good prices. “We are doing everything possible to keep our prices under control, as we have only seen a few price decreases,” says Eckrich.
Sometimes, cost control means knowing when to sit tight. Many companies, aware that price rises could backfire into lower sales in an economy strained to the limit, choose to simply balance the cost of ingredients with slight retail price rises to avoid larger ones later.
“Across our portfolio, we continue to adjust pricing as needed based on market factors and the value we deliver to consumers,” says Joyce Hodel, corporate affairs manager for Kraft Foods Inc. (), Northfield, Ill.
While commodities have moderated recently, input costs remain at historically high levels, she says. “Some inputs, such as wheat and soybeans, are still 150 percent above 10-year averages. In our Q3 2008 conference call, Kraft Foods announced that we expected full-year input cost inflation for the company to be about $2 billion, which is about 13 percent over 2007.”
Hodel explains that many factors influence the retail price of products in addition to commodity costs. “We have been adding value for consumers through significant investments over the past two years in product quality and innovation. Kraft isn’t just blindly talking the long view — the company knows its policy of putting customer needs front and center is crucial to any cost-management program. We must continue to deliver value to consumers and manage competitive price gaps,” Hodel insists.
Look to the Future
Emerging technology is bringing the future of ingredients into the present by removing barriers to some of the trendier nutraceuticals. An example is overcoming issues of solubility for lipid-based ingredients such as omega-3 oils.
“We initially developed our ‘Powder-loc’ technology to create a no-taste, no-smell omega-3 EPA/DHA ingredient from fish oil,” explains Lori Covert, vice president of marketing and communications for Ocean Nutrition Canada Ltd. (), Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. “But in the process of developing the technology, we discovered we’d developed an ingredient that would pass on significant cost savings to our customers.
“Technologies (like this) allow food companies to optimize their manufacturing process because dealing with a powder ingredient is much easier than dealing with an oil ingredient. Oils are much more difficult and expensive to handle, equipment requires more cleaning (and) performance of oil is not as consistent across batches so significant efficiencies can be lost when working with an oil ingredient.”
PL Thomas’s Rodger Jonas seconds this emerging trend of synergy in form and function. “We believe functionality, coupled with application, is the driving force for future ingredient use.” For its part, PL Thomas is creating new forms of existing oil-based ingredients such as coenzyme-Q10 to be employed in clear beverages. “We change forms to improve functionality and to reduce cost,” says Jonas. “This simple concept has a lot of work associated with development and a broader understanding of the application in order to get the product to work. We are helping reduce use cost and the actual cost of<reponame>brandinho/brandinho.github