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Preaching is an audacious act. It is strange that a person might claim to speak about God. It is exponentially presumptuous to proclaim, "Thus saith the Lord." It is an audacious act. Yet, when we speak under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, it is a faithful act. And, it says far more about God's character and nature than it does about the character and nature of the human mouthpiece – after all, God spoke to Balaam through an ass. God speaks, which is to say, God acts and interacts directly with and in this world. But, God always empowers and acts through agents. That God entrusts us with such a great gift suggests that God is less concerned about getting something accomplished but is concerned with relating with all of Creation. As such, preaching is not simply about communicating information (although that does happen). Nor is preaching simply about accomplishing a task (say, "getting people saved"). Instead, preaching is about communicating the heart of a God who invites us into relationship with God's Self and brings us into engagement with our world.
Preaching is such a large task. After all, how might a person actually communicate the mind of God or the heart of God, especially if we are finite, limited beings? It is an impossible task, an exercise in futility. It is beyond our capacity to know God when we struggle to even know ourselves! Add the brokenness of a sinful world, of which the preacher is a part, and you're more likely to scale Mount Everest in biker shorts and tank top than communicate a genuine word of the Lord. Thus, preaching begins with the recognition that only God can speak on God's behalf. Apart from God nothing can be communicated about God other than perhaps vague generalities (i.e., God exists). But, vague descriptions about God do not allow us to know God's character and nature intimately.
Yet, thanks be to God, God has tangibly revealed God's Self to humanity. John's Gospel gives us insight about this proclivity in God to move toward God's Creation. The prologue of John ventures into a world of new creation. Darkness gives way to Light. What was once barren now teems with life. God speaks into the void and amazing possibilities now are opened up. The fourth Gospel opens with focused intention on the Word. It is a Word that was with God in the beginning and, to our surprise, is also God. This same Word has power to create ex nihilo. And, it is a Word that has become flesh (incarnated) and "tabernacled" among us. This Word is the glory of God made manifest in our midst. The Word, whom we discover is Jesus, gives new birth, opens blinded eyes, restores broken lives, and even conquers death. Through Jesus the world is reconciled to God.
As a community that has experienced God's redemption, we testify to God's work in our lives. We are a community rooted in praise and engaged in proclamation, announcing God's salvation to the world and living it out as ministers of reconciliation. Language is the tool for the craft of preaching. Language is learned in community and is a way to comprehend the world and to live into that world. Language is not simply the communication of ideas, although that's part of it. More than that, our words are embedded in a culture and embodied in actions. Language describes and prescribes a way of life. Each culture re-tells its story, holds up exemplars, and implements practices that mold identity toward a particular telos. On a practical level, that's what preaching is about. It's about forming a community's identity (culture) and creating disciples (identity) by rehearsing God's story of redemption, remembering exemplars of the faith (both positive and negative), and reflecting God back in the world (practices or cultural liturgies). After all, the very meaning of theology is "God words." It is the language of the community about God.
The old adage says, "Knowledge is power." Typically, that is how our world employs language. It is used to control, coerce, and command. The media and politics have become particularly adept as using and changing language as a means of transforming culture. Because our people and pastors participate in the world's culture, they are susceptible to being shaped by that culture. We can name powerful influences in our culture: consumerism, nationalism, militarism, traditionalism (tradition for tradition's sake), and other such labels. When this happens, the Church's language (and life!) are infiltrated and shifted to mean something entirely different. Thus, our culture (sometimes positively but often negatively) infiltrates the Church's culture by changing its language. The world's telos replaces God's telos in our lives, although we may maintain a thin Christian veneer over the world's culture.
For this reason, language must consistently and constantly be re-energized and re-vitalized. In this effort, preaching must take into account that we are not simply "preaching against" the world. In fact, preaching must name God in the world! But, neither does preaching assume that the world's (or our country's) motivations are God's desire. Thus, preaching must communicate redemptive engagement and prophetic disengagement with the world. Another problem arises at this point for the preacher. Preachers have acquired a reputation for preaching condemnation while placing themselves on a pedestal. Brueggemann calls this "triangulation." Basically, in any relationship of three individuals, if two side together there is a power shift which leaves the lone individual in a defensive posture. Preaching has a similar dynamic with preacher, congregation, and Scripture. When the preacher sides with the Scripture, there is a power shift which leaves the congregation defensive. However, if the pastor joins with the congregation as one standing exposed before the Word, the congregation is able to hear the Word in a non-defensive position. Of course, in order for that to happen, the pastor must be humble, willing to be open and listen to the Spirit, and honest and open before the community. This does not mean that the pastor needs to air out all of their dirty laundry. Yes, there should be transparency. But, too often pastors simply use this as another way to draw attention to themselves rather than the Word. The preacher shouldn't be the "hero" of the sermon. Christ and the Gospel are always central in the sermon.
As noted earlier, a theological understanding of language is rooted in the drama of Creation. God breathes, speaks, and inspires (ruach) the world into existence. Space is opened up where life is created, sustained, and blessed. This same breath or spirit both enlivens Creation and empowers the disciples for their commission (the story of Acts). The Spirit descends on the disciples as they are gathered together in worship. In that moment, they are emboldened and equipped to preach and proclaim the Gospel. And, most importantly, it is a proclamation re-presented in both word and deed in and through the community of faith. As such, it is important to note that preaching is not merely what we say. Instead, preaching must arise out of a life of faithfulness lived before God. In other words, it is only through communion with God lived out with the community of faith that we can preach a faithful word.
Preaching is situated in worship. The pattern of worship historically has been four-fold: Gathering, Word, Table, and Sending. It is a dialogical pattern – invitation and response. God initiates the encounter (prevenient grace) and we respond back. God calls us together, gathering us as the Body of Christ. We respond through praise. God speaks through the preached Word. We confess our sins. God offers us fellowship and forgiveness through communion. We receive these gifts and are then sent out into the world to represent God. As the gathered community, the Church is a microcosm of the Kingdom present in this world. That is what God is doing through worship – forming and shaping a people ("kingdom of priests and a holy nation") that proclaim the glory of God among the nations.
Preaching plays an important role for the community. Preaching opens up the Scriptures and proclaims a word from the Lord for today. In preaching, we remember God's work in redeeming the world and we are called to re-member as God's people living into God's future. The sermon is one of the most poignant opportunities for the community of faith to be shaped theologically together. Faithful preaching re-presents the Gospel. Some have understood the sermon to be a means of apologetics. But, the early Church's apologetic was kerygma, the story of salvation. As such, preaching must continuously communicate the Good News of the Kingdom of God. When this is our motivation, we join in the work of Jesus who came to proclaim the in-breaking Kingdom of God.
When God is at the heart and center of preaching, when there is a genuine Word of the Lord communicated, we do not need to provide conviction. We don't have to "twist the screws." We need not use fear tactics to generate salvations. Nor do we need to use emotional manipulation to make converts. Rather, when the Gospel is communicated, the Spirit convicts those who hear and is able to cleanse them! The pastor is a vessel. The pastor that attempts to play the role of the Spirit has succumbed to the sin of pride. Again, as discussed with "triangulation," the pastor must stand in a position before the Word to be convicted first and foremost by the Spirit. If we are not open to the conviction of the Spirit, it is likely that our preaching (and our walk) will lack power (1 Cor. 2:3-5).
Romans 10:14-15 highlights the importance of the preaching ministry: "How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: 'How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!'" Preaching is at the heart of the Church's ministry. Preaching is intimately connected with evangelism ("good news" in the Greek). Preaching, in this sense, shoulders the task of sharing what God has done to redeem the Creation with a world desperately needing God's healing touch.
Paul charges Timothy, and thus all preachers: "Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear" (2 Tim. 4:2-3). Preaching is also for the community of believers. The preached word serves to correct, rebuke, and encourage the community. Furthermore, it continues to hold up "sound doctrine" for the congregation. In other words, preaching continuously holds before the community a picture of God's faithfulness and what we are called to embody as the faith community!
Acts records several sermons and mentions "preaching the word" seven times throughout its pages. Acts' testimony of the Church empowered by the Spirit, helps us easily recognize that preaching is at the heart of the Church's ministry. That has not changed, though the methods certainly have changed. All that suggests is that preaching remains vital to the life of the Church while it must always be re-contextualized. This is no easy task, but it is the task that we are called to by God. In addition, this is the charge given to ordinands – "Preach the Word." Ordination is the call by God from within the community of faith to be devoted to the proclamation of the Gospel and the preservation of true doctrine. Ordination, in many respects, is the handing down of that ministry to each new generation of pastors – extending the ministry of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church into the future. Thus, we are called to preach a faithful word, not a novel word.


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The long awaited Solr 4 release brings a large amount of new functionality that blur the line between search engines and NoSQL databases. Now you can have your cake and search it too with Atomic updates, Versioning and Optimistic Concurrency, Durability, and Real-time Get! This talk will cover both use of new Solr NoSQL features and implementation details of how the distributed indexing of Solr Cloud was designed from the ground up to accomodate them.

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Record Producer and Artist, Nino Staxx, was born in Detroit, Michigan in the fall of 1989 as Andre Johnson. Nino's unique style of music sets him apart from many upcoming artists and producers. His passion for music is heard in his sensational style which is bringing an innovative sound to the industry.
He was primarily raised by his mother, along with a lot of support from his grandmother on Detroit's eastside, which is where he lived until age 10. West Palm Beach, Florida has been his home for the past 9 years. Nino graduated from Palm Beach Lakes High School and also graduated with an Associated Degree in Computer Networking.
Tupac is one of his favorite musical mentors, because of his genuine, smooth poetic flow. Kanye West is also one of his favorite musical mentors, because of his different and distinctive sound.
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You may be under the misguided assumption that there is a child in your family cuter than my niece. Let me assure you, you are wrong.
This is my adorable niece hamming it up in the Amanda Hat I knit for her.
And here is her equally-adorable aunt in a coordinating Amanda Hat.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Mine's better
Posted by KnottyLady at 5:00 AM
Labels: Amanda hat, knitting
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She has pretty eyes like you :)
- April 19, 2008 at 10:53 PM
- KnottyLady said...
Thank you!
- April 21, 2008 at 1:48 PM
Look at those eyes!! Let's cast her in a Utica spot...wait, that whole child star curse has proven quite true. This just in, Gary Coleman is getting divorced. Seriously, I read that just today.
- April 27, 2008 at 8:16 PM
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I was looking for the proper way to analyze the downgrading of the United States federal government's credit rating. I may write more on this later, but I think Rorate Caeli has an excellent post on this.
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Golden State Warriors gaurd Shaun Livingston recently helped his old school raise enough funds to expand their gym, get a better sound system for band and orchestra, and also a top rated storm shelter by donating $1 million dollars to them. At the end of November, they had a dedication ceremony for the expansions and even brought him back to his hometown of Peoria to take part in the celebration. In addition to that, Livingston announced that he would have some bronze plated footprints of his made to be on the display in the hallway next to the lobby, and he plans to continue to be involved in the advancement of the school. It was a very memorable event for everyone, and surely exciting to have one of their old alums visit for the special day.
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by Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Manager
The combination of Korea's Seo Suyeon and Russia's Nadejda Pushpasheva, who joined forces with Croatia's Maija Martinovic, duly won Women's Team Class 2-3; similarly Serbia's Borislava Peric-Rankovic, silver medallists at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games secured the Women's Team Class 4-5 title.
However, for their male counterparts life was very different; the partnership formed by Germany's Valentin Baus and Korea's Kim Junggil claimed the Class 4-5 title as expected. Each added to the success gained the previous day, when in the Men's Singles events, Valentin Baus had won Class 5 and Kim Junggil had emerged as the Class 4 champion.
Success as expected, in the other two events, there were upsets.
Italy's Andrea Borgato and Federico Falco, the no.2 seeds, emerged as the Class 1 champions. In the group stage of proceedings they beat the combination of Great Britain's Tom Matthews and Switzerland's Sylvio Keller by two matches to nil; later they met again, this time in the final, a much closer contest ensued, a two-one victory margin was the outcome.
Notably, Tom Matthews and Sylvio Keller were in form; at the semi-final stage they had beaten the top seeded Korean outfit of Nam Kiwon, Cho Jaekwon and Lim Seeun by two matches to nil; Nam Kiwon was the bronze medallist in Men's Singles Class 1 at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.
"I'd like to thank Sylvio, it was great to play alongside him. I'm very pleased with my tournament overall. I played well throughout and even when I was struggling I still found a way to win matches. Not losing any of my singles matches during the tournament shows that what I am doing in training is paying off with my table tennis and fitness. Beating Nam and Borgato was a big confidence boost for me ahead of the World Championships later this year. I've also learned a lot here and know what I need to go back and work on in the training hall." Tom Matthews
Success against expectations for the host nation, it was the same in Class 2; Federico Crosara and Guiseppe Vella joined forces with Korea's Park Jincheol to claim the title, impressively at the final hurdle they accounted for the top seeded formation of Ukraine's Oleksandr Yesyk and Croatia's Sergeii Poddubnyi; a two-nil margin of victory was the result.
Two surprises but arguably the biggest of all came in Class 3; in the group stage Serbia's Mladen Ciric and Sinisa Bradasevic experienced a two-one defeat when facing the second seeded French pairing of Stéphane Gil Martins and François Geuljans. In the final they met again, the Serbians totally reversed the decision to record a two-one win and thus claimed the title.
Such is the nature of sport.
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Why hello there!
This was my first assignment for my painting and drawing class and boy was it a doozie. (The next one is a two-pronged self portrait assignment doomed to fail (My self portraits always do. I'd rather write a paper on the emotional roller coaster of never quite achieving the result your looking for in one. No, I wouldn't. That's a lie.)) Here is a little bit of the process. I was working in the back room of Atangard which meant a friggin' sore back and cold hands, with the upside being frequent input from good ol' Len (Hotel Manager), being able to listen to music as loud as I want and staying set up for a good couple days without being in anyones way. The assignment was to divide a 3' by 3' piece of MDF into 9 squares and paint each group in contrasting values (either dark, light, or only black and white). We had to choose a celebrity and I chose Roald Dahl. Next time though, next time I'll do Quentin Blake (who illustrated most of Roald Dahl's books). The photos are rather dark. I'm sorry. It was rather dark back there.
This last photo is from one of the technical assignments we had to do. It is a copy of one of Albrecht Durer's etchings done with ink pen, presented in an interesting way. Voila!
Now I am going to go watch a movie and eat popcorn with Markie Mark and enjoy the fact that I handed this all in ONE WEEK EARLY. Huzzah!


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Start below 25' corner. Make some technical moves to get to the corner. Climb the corner to a small roof. Move out left and over the roof to gain the bolted slab. Climb thin edges to the Seal's anchors. Very exciting route and can be TR'ed after having led the Seal.
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Andrew Hancox Greenville
7-12-15 My friends and I were top roping this route after climbing the seal. This was the first time we had climbed on this route and one of the guys in our group was up at the flake above the small roof. It was located near the end of the route. My buddy and I were talking at the base of the route when we heard "it moved look out it move!" we jumped up and walked way left. The group decided to trundle this flake as it was almost pulled off onto us belaying below. The flake was large and came loose simply by pushing the top of it with his foot. I hope no one is offended by this. We should have cleaned up the area better after the flake fell and for that I am sorry. Jul 14, 2015
Adam Kunis Athens
I thought this was a great and exciting lead! Gear down low was thin, but not too tricky. Fun interesting movement the whole way with a good rest in between sections Aug 4, 2017
Russ Keane Asheville, NC
Very cool pitch (although the upper slab section is heinous). Kudos to anyone who has led this. I'd call it a test piece. Aug 5, 2018


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I know that things have been fairly hush-hush over at Arizona State but I did finally stumble across their project website. I'd love to hear a report if anyone is heading to LOEX in San Diego.
Fletcher Library Game Project
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I'm heading to LOEX in May, but I know they presented last year. I thought they were presenting at ACRL in March. If that's the case, I'll blog about it there. Yes I'm been reading there stuff as well, but since there presentation at the Internet Librarian conference it's been quiet.
There is a presentation at LOEX this year by a few librarians at Ohio who are using games as well.
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Davis – a state correction officer – had had problems with the customer at another club where he moonlighted as a bouncer.
Somebody wanted to get into the West Side nightclub Octagon badly enough to kill for it.
Bouncer Reginald Davis was shot to death early yesterday by a man he tried to keep out of the club at 555 West 33rd St., police said.
Davis, 37, was posted outside Octagon at 2:41 a.m. when he recognized the would-be customer.
Police said the would-be customer had caused Davis problems a couple of weeks ago at the Latin Quarter, another club where he works.
Davis told the man that he wasn't going to admit him or his friend.
A fight followed, and Davis threw the man's friend up against a car.
The other suspect then pulled out a gun, and fired five shots, police said.
Davis, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, was hit twice.
One bullet struck him in the chest, but the vest kept the bullet out.
The second shot struck his shoulder, where the vest didn't protect him.
Davis was taken to St. Vincents Hospital, where he died a short time later.
He was a state correction officer who moonlighted as a nightclub doorman, police said.
The shooter and his friend ran off. Police said they don't know the suspects' identities.
Mourners taped two bunches of flowers – yellow roses and carnations – to a fire hydrant outside the club yesterday.
Remnants of police tape were the only sign that the club had been a crime scene.
Octagon, which opened in 1987, features an eight-sided bar, an eight-sided mezzanine and an eight-sided dance floor.
Nobody associated with the club could be reached last night.
In 1992, another patron turned away at the door was arrested after she dumped a gallon of gasoline near an emergency exit and tried to set the club's building on fire.


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Making the best purchasing choice is almost never about making the first one. This is especially true of buying a car, as this will be – perhaps alongside paying for a home – one of the most expensive tasks we ever do in our lives.
Almost all of us need a car: We need to travel to work and home, to get around to acquire necessary items. We need them for errands, to lift kids and so on. But not all of us live the same kind of lives, so we need to get the car that's right for us.
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The Telegraph reported on a study which tested and ranked the best, most reliable cars for students.
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At the other end of the spectrum, you could be a parent. This means student cars would be the worst option, even if they retain qualities you want in your vehicles. Childmag listed some of the best family cars, highlighting the united quality of space, safety, reliability – all despite the size of the vehicle in question.
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Notice: space, reliability, fuel-consumption all top the list of interests for this and all other family vehicles.
Otherwise, perhaps, you're a green or eco-minded person. Well, according to Green Reports, the car to get is the 2015 Volkswagen Golf
"It comes with expanded features and electronic safety systems, while retaining the Golf's fun-to-drive quotient.
"It's the wide selection of powertrains that gives the Golf the gold this year.
"From a pair of turbocharged gasoline engines to an all-new TDI turbodiesel (also found in the A3, but at a higher Audi sticker price), the combustion-engined Golfs get better fuel-efficiency ratings than the outgoing models."
It might be wise to keep an eye out for Volkswagen cars for sale, given Green Reports continued decision to give the award.
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Jen Nash is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, London.
Whilst current health education is focused on the "eat less and move more" message (Haslam, 2010), we know that for every person who can implement this advice there are many who struggle. This leads to a sense of failure and hopelessness for both the obese individual and the healthcare professional (Hörnsten et al, 2008).
Traditional medical and dietary advice treats weight loss as if it is a logical, rational process. There is an assumption that education alone leads to behaviour change. However, education does not always lead to the desired change, as the prevalence of overweight and obesity in the NHS workforce demonstrates (Press Association, 2014). Health messages concerning alcohol intake, food choices, exercise and smoking behaviours are clear, yet how often do clinicians take their own advice? Readers are invited to acknowledge that they too may be the "patient" when it comes to being able to implement lifestyle change.
What is the missing link? Our patients often know what they need to do to care for their health, but something "gets in the way" when they leave us. Is it motivation? Motivation is a hugely complex phenomenon, yet the term is used as if it is something that can simply be summoned up at will. However, when considering weight change, the term motivation can be a red herring. Our patients are motivated; they are motivated to do the things that are important to them. If you consider your own life, you (generally!) do not have to "motivate" yourself to get dressed in the morning, clean your teeth or kiss your child goodbye. You probably do not use the term "motivation" in relation to these tasks of daily living. Why? Because these activities are in line with your identity, self-esteem and values. You value your children feeling loved as they go to school, so you organise yourself to wave them off in the morning. You value having fresh breath, so you make time to brush your teeth in the morning. Likewise, our patients are motivated to do exactly the right thing for themselves, given the following two aspects:
- Knowledge and information.
- Emotions and values.
Traditional medical and health education models are excellent at catering to the first of these, but conversations about the latter are absent from our healthcare settings. This is where psychology plays a part, and it is perhaps the missing link in our understanding of people with obesity. Psychology is all about understanding our identities, self-esteem, values and emotions. These are the bridge between knowledge and behaviour, and they are the key to motivation (Leventhal, 2003). They guide our decision making, including decisions about our health and what to eat. Food in particular is intimately connected with emotions, and the association starts in infancy, when hunger and distress are soothed by the caregiver's milk (Carnell et al, 2012). Psychological models address emotions; however, access to a registered practitioner psychologist for people with obesity, although recommended by NICE (2014a) and an integral part of Tier 3 weight management services, is extremely limited within current service provision.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is the treatment of choice for "atypical" eating behaviour such as binge eating disorder (NICE, 2004); however, some of the techniques and jargon of CBT are not user-friendly for the people we work with or non-psychologists. The EatingBlueprint is a new tool that attempts to address this. It is an everyday approach to techniques drawn from numerous psychological models that address the human capacity to change (e.g. solution-focussed, compassionate, mindfulness-based, dialectical and attachmentbased approaches). It is an online, video-based tool designed to develop the emotional and mindset skills that that are required as the foundations to implement weight loss advice. The author is prompted by the McKinsey Global Institute's economic analysis of obesity (Dobbs et al, 2014), which urges clinicians towards a "bias for action" in implementing new initiatives and programmes to tackle obesity, especially where risks are low.
The tools used in the EatingBlueprint are grounded in the theories they are drawn from, and audit data demonstrate an average weight loss of 5 kg over 12 weeks in people who complete the programme (n=162 to date). Work is underway to establish a robust evidence base. The eight areas of the blueprint are provided below.
The blueprint begins by normalising the idea that it is difficult to lose and maintain a healthy weight. We are fighting a biological, psychological and social world that is set up to promote weight gain, and the person is not "wrong" or "bad" for being overweight. This step is designed to provide relief from shame and stigma.
This area aims to encourage noticing and overcoming "mindless" eating. Whilst it is usual to eat mindlessly for non-hunger reasons occasionally (Waller and Osman, 1998), people need strategies to help themselves interrupt frequent mindless eating. We encourage them to do this using a simple question: "WHY am I eating?" or, simply, the acronym "WHY?" This stands for:
Remembering to wait is challenging so, in the short term, participants are invited to use a reminder (e.g. a charity band) on their dominant hand/wrist. This is just a very short-term strategy, until the automatic nature of eating becomes interrupted.
Inviting participants to ask themselves, "Am I really hungry? How physically hungry am I, on a scale of 0–10? If I'm not hungry, what AM I hungry for?" (e.g. for a break, as a reward, as a distraction, to cheer myself up or to bond with someone).
The final stage is to say "yes" to food or whatever the person is truly hungry for. If the person is physically hungry, say "yes" to food and eat. If the person is not truly hungry and still eats, that's ok too. Change takes time and the simple act of pausing brings awareness to what was an unconscious process.
The power in this area is to help people figure out what they are truly "hungry" for and ask themselves whether they can meet their hunger with something other than food. The areas of the blueprint that follow are designed to help increase the flexibility to choose between a range of responses to food.
Eating is pleasurable and entertaining, and it can become "a friend." People may need help to look for ways to increase their non-food sources of pleasure and entertainment when they feel the urge to eat for non-hunger reasons, particularly in environments where food is a ready and available source of pleasure and distraction.
It is common to use food to "stuff down" emotions that are not easy to express. It is a skill to be able to express emotions authentically to both ourselves and others, and we often need strategies to express emotions rather than dull them with food. The EatingBlueprint provides a template for identifying and expressing feelings in ways other than through food.
These are the family stories and rules about food, spoken and unspoken. Phrases like "eat your vegetables before having dessert" and postrationing narratives such as "don't waste food" and "finish your plate" have value, but we need to question the modern-day utility of these fables, and create more helpful narratives that serve us.
To continue to maintain a healthy weight, people need to learn from previous life experiences and manage their thinking styles relating to food. This step encourages people to plan ahead and learn from the "predictability of life" (e.g. Christmas and meals out) and to learn how to experiment with trying out new behaviours. It also invites them to challenge the "good/bad" paradigms of diets (e.g. "I've eaten something 'bad,' I'll give up trying for today and start again tomorrow") using CBT techniques.
Weight loss is not a solo journey. The impact of family influence, the obesogenic environment and social events are all crucial. People need to develop assertiveness skills to be able to say no to the "feeders" in their lives, and to spot the signs of sabotage, often by well-meaning but threatened loved ones. The blueprint provides these skills.
Weight loss is a skill, yet we don't treat it as one. Like learning to drive a car, it is a process that requires coaching and facilitation, and "mistakes" and "slip-ups" are an integral part of the journey that need to be welcomed. The blueprint teaches people how to "update the default" and stay solution-focussed on their weight loss journey.
Obesity is currently treated as a medical or educational problem, not an emotional, psychological or skills-development one. Clinical psychologists are generally limited to using structured CBT, in a one-to-one or small-group format, so these ideas are not particularly available for the multidisciplinary team to utilise.
Do all obese people need a clinical psychologist? Controversially, some would argue that, for many people who have received education and are still struggling, yes they do (British Psychological Society, 2011). There is a substantial body of evidence showing that many people who routinely use food for emotional regulation have a history of psychological issues (Felitti, 2003; Bidgood and Buckroyd, 2005). The prevalence of trauma, childhood abuse, sexual abuse, low self-esteem and depression is high among people who are obese and those presenting for bariatric surgery (Gustafson et al, 2006).
Despite this, access to psychological services for obese people has been, in the main, limited to screening for psychiatric disorders in preparation for bariatric surgery (NICE, 2014b). Tier 3 weight management services provide much more scope for psychological intervention, and online tools of this nature may provide a useful and cost-effective support to interventions in these contexts.
Many clinicians report a sense of hopelessness that surrounds the obesity issue (Brotons et al, 2003). This hopelessness may exist because we need to shift our focus. The "what" and "how much" of eating is of key importance, but to be able to intervene at this level we need to first shift the focus onto the "why" of our eating behaviour – and to be creative in taking a macro- and microlevel approach to the obesity challenge. There are reasons for optimism if we learn lessons from the changes we have seen in the area of smoking cessation. In the last decades, widespread change in tobacco use has occurred, but it required the coordination of government legislation, industry responsibility and effective public health campaigns. The same integrated approach will be required for the obesity challenge (Dobbs et al, 2014).
In our food-abundant environment, for many people, weight management is not simply an educational endeavour; it is a skill. Achieving and maintaining a healthy weight requires the skills of emotional regulation, the ability to tolerate distress and the assertiveness to say no. In other words, it takes a highly developed person. We need to widen the scope of interventions for obesity to include these skills of emotional regulation. We need to empower people with skills and strategies to make choices other than eating so that the person, not the food, is in control.
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There isn't really a more quintessential show-business drama than a love story between two professionals, one on the way up, the other on the way down. Variations abound, but the most famous of these——the "Star is Born" story——has been made four times (and a fifth is being readied): The first, about a struggling young actress and an alcoholic film director (Constance Bennett and Lowell Sherman), was a modest success called What Price Hollywood? and was directed in 1932 by George Cukor (one of his first films) and produced by David O. Selznick, who five years later turned it into a rising young actress and a fading movie star (Janet Gaynor and Fredric March), in the smash success——and one of the earliest color films——A Star Is Born (1937) directed by William Wellman.
Seventeen years later——and 22 years before Barbra Streisand's extremely popular 1976 semi-rock version——came the first musical adaptation of the story; directed by the original director, George Cukor, and conceived as a comeback vehicle for Judy Garland, then age 31, whose star had faded at the end of the '40s: it was the brilliant 1954 color and Cinemascope A Star Is Born (available on DVD). The irony is that this Cukor-Garland production–co-starring an excellent James Mason as the doomed star, with a fine, insightful script by Moss Hart and a smashing group of new songs (like "The Man That Got Away") by legendary composer Harold Arlen and equally celebrated lyricist Ira Gershwin——remains both the very best of all the versions and also the only one that in its own day was not a financial success.
There has been a good deal of controversy about this, because the warmly received initial release in New York of Cukor's A Star Is Born ran over three hours; soon afterward, studio head Jack Warner recut the film and replaced the first release version with one that was 42 minutes (!) shorter. Garland and Cukor were furious and heartbroken. Cukor said to me years later: "Awfully sad. Bosley Crowther in The New York Times wrote an article called 'The Star Is Shorn.' For Judy Garland, it was a great injustice, maybe because of that she didn't win the Academy Award."
I was one of the lucky few who saw the original long version down near Times Square the first week of its release, and there was an overwhelming emotional wallop and an epic sense of truth which the shorter one undeniably lacked. For years, Cukor and others tried to find the missing sequences–including a Garland musical number–and finally many of these, though not all, did turn up just before Cukor died in 1983 and have been lovingly restored. The only problem with this version (the only one commercially available) is that big hunks of picture are still missing, while the track has been found, so the decision was made to illustrate those sequences with the few stills or bits of shots that remain. Visually and dramatically, this has the unfortunate effect of pulling the viewer repeatedly out of the picture, out of the story. I believe it would have been better for the impact of the film to use those sound-only sequences as a DVD extra. The movie is a dramatic work, not a film study class.
As a tragic show-business fable, it carries all the substantial weight of Cukor's life experiences in the theater and film with some of the greatest star players of the 20th century, from Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman and Jean Harlow to John Barrymore, Spencer Tracy, both Hepburns (he discovered Katharine!) and Cary Grant, James Stewart, Judy Holliday, etc. And his Star Is Born has the absolutely truthful ring ——no matter how brassy at times, or even sentimental——of the way it really is in show business. Garland is astonishingly good, terribly moving, naked, honest. Mason has charm, dignity and a sense of great talent wasted, but not quite the star allure the role could have used.
Cukor wanted Cary Grant and you can see why——he would have been far more romantic, therefore more touching. (Hitchcock would prove my point in North by Northwest, by casting Mason and Grant as heavy and hero, and in their scenes together, Mason couldn't be better, but Grant radiates stardom.) Cary reportedly read the script aloud superbly to Cukor but was afraid the role might be interpreted as autobiographical because Grant's career was in a slump at the time, and he was fighting a drinking problem. The saddest irony is that Judy Garland's amazing comeback essentially became her swan's song. She did some emotionally charged acting in a couple of films (like John Cassavetes' 1963 A Child Is Waiting), yet A Star Is Born was her farewell to Garland the singer-actress-movie superstar. But then again, what an exit!
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On my 31st birthday I was full of insight. I had reflected on a lot. I had a lot to say. I was feeling solid in who I was. I was feeling content and secure. On the eve of my 32nd birthday I'm not feeling as confident. I've just been dealt a hard card and I'm not sure what to do with it yet. (More on that to come in the next few weeks.)
Last year I wrote about "becoming adult" and this year I really feel like one, and the more I embrace my adult self the more I become comfortable with not having answers. Right now, today, I have a lot of questions and almost no answers. But I do know one thing, the woman who wrote last year's post was filled with answers and that woman will be back again soon. And so I sit and listen to my last year self and remember that she's in me right now too.
Originally published here, here is last year's birthday post. I admire the eloquent voice that wrote these words with such conviction and I summon that again in myself today. Enjoy.
I Became An Adult Today
I became an adult today. More traditionally, I became an adult when I turned 18, and when I turned 21, and then again when I got married. But today, on my 31st birthday, I can finally say that I have let myself become an adult.
For me, I had to recognize myself as an adult on my own and that meant releasing the societal labels I always accepted as fact, and trusting that the adult me gets to be an "adult" in whatever way she sees fit.
To do that, I had to let go of my inner child. Not the part of me that makes silly faces and plays in the mud after it rains, (I'll lightheartedly play those games indefinitely). But, the part of me that was still living in the securities that served me as a kid but were hindering more than helping me as an adult.
Child me thought that my life would be exactly like my Mom's. She had a good life and I admired it, and to me that life was the "only way". I'd get married and have kids young and stay at home and smile a lot. Although that last part is still true, the other three are happening slower in life and for a while that was hard for me to accept. I am happy in my life, but I couldn't help but feel inadequate because I was on a different timeline; a timeline that long ago I deemed as wrong because it was different than what I knew.
As I struggled with releasing childhood expectations I realized that what I was doing in my present life was too much "chess playing". I was trying to control every situation so that I would have the outcome that I deemed acceptable. This made it harder for me to feel gratitude and live in the present moment. I had to let go of old thought patterns and step into my adult life with pride and accept it as worthy.
To do that, I walked onto my meditation cushion and sat. I put my palms together at my heart and bowed my head.
Past self, I love you. I love all of your experiences. But, to be my best adult self I cannot take all of your experiences with me. I let go of your pain. I let go of the labels you accepted as fact. I don't need everything you needed to feel special and whole, because I know, I do not need anything to feel that way. I am that way. Past self, I honor you and accept you fully by now honoring and accepting my present self completely. I love you and carry you with me at all times, and can't wait to show you how much fun adult you can have writing her own definitions.
I know this is not the typical Monday Mantra, and it's most likely not your birthday. But, I invite you to reflect this week on what old definitions you are carrying around with you. What thought patterns you could use to release. And how you could find ways to honor the past you by celebrating adult you in all her forms.
Have a happy and healthy week!


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Arts & crafts corner in our house
I realized that since we've moved to this house two years ago I haven't had a good setup for toys. We renovated our basement last year and it is now AWESOME, but I have yet to give our toys and arts and crafts the TLC they need.
With two kids now in full time school I find myself wanting to go through and set everything up better. I finally have the time to do so. I also recognize that I need to set things up better for them at their current ages. They don't always want to share toys and art supplies. Two of my kids have nightly homework now that sometimes requires scissors, markers, etc. And Valentina is three and a half now, the prime age for getting into arts and crafts a lot.
So this is what I did! I randomly, despite having a ton of things on my to do list, decided to tackle the arts and crafts situation. I took out all of our supplies from every nook of our house and laid them out. Then, using things I already have at home, reorganized it all. I took then closet doors off of our "guest room" closet and turned it into a more useable space for us. Without the closet doors the space is easy for all of us to access. Sliding closet doors never seem to work for me because I like to see both sides of a closet at once.
Here's how I organized it:
1: Each child has a memory box where I store very special artwork, not so special certificates they might want to keep, etc. I keep those bins up high so that no child can access them without permission. I started one for each child at birth and we keep adding to it for the years.
2: Out of reach art supplies go on this high shelf. Valentina can't be trusted yet to have access to acrylic paint, the glue gun, stamps or ink.
3: Each child has a school worksheet bin here where they can put the millions of papers they come home with each day. My kids feel pretty bummed out when they catch me throwing these worksheets out, so I'm letting them keep them for now. They can stay within reach because I don't care if they get destroyed and would love for them to be repurposed as recycled paper for other projects.
4. My kids have been having a hard time sharing supplies, especially at homework time. I finally bit the bullet and set up each child with his own supply bin. Each one contains crayons, colored pencils, regular pencils, scissors, an eraser, a few glue sticks, their journals and anything art related that specifically belongs to one of them. For example, Raffi has a Star Wars workbook that is special to him. He doesn't like to share it because Valentina rips out pages, so he will keep it in his bin.
I'm SO excited about this new setup. The kids came home from school today and immediately threw their worksheets into their bins and then took out their supply stuff to start creating. Clean up was easy too as they only have a few colored pencils, crayons, etc to manage.
What a win!!!
I know it seems so silly to write a whole thing about organizing their art supplies, but wow does it feel good. I am a really good mom when I have order and can maintain order, so I like to set myself up for success and set them up for success.
Now I need to tackle the basement… that's next week's project!
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Yes, I update my calendars in three places.
I use Google calendar which I use every day to check in on what we have going on, to send reminders or alarms to myself, and to invite my husband to various events.
I use a month at a glance calendar in our laundry room so everyone in the family generally knows what our month looks like. I only put bigger things on the calendar so it's easy for me to see if we have too much going on or happen to have a free weekend.
I also use a MomAgenda (affiliate link) day planner. It gives you a week at a glance. There is one big row for all of my stuff and then four separate rows for children. It makes it easy for me to understand when I might need a sitter or to keep track of which child has which activity or appointment when. It seems to get lost in Google Calendar. With two different schools, three different classrooms, a husband who travels a lot for his business, a baby and an activity for each child each season, I need all the help I can get in keeping track of it.
Here is what the MomAgenda looks like inside:
All three calendars are important for my family's daily success. It can be a pain but I would miss so much if I didn't update all three places.
Get yourself a MomAgenda! And then don't forget to update it lol.


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Mildura Weekly – 22/11/13 77 www.milduraphonebook.com.au THE heat and pressure will be on at Mildura's Olympic Park Speed- way tomorrow night, with the Mil- dura Motor Cycle Club to host the first-ever LCR Frames 2013 Oceania Sidecar Championship. The event will feature more than 20 furious heats and three finals, with teams to vie for the honour of being the first to have their name etched on the Oceania trophy. After an excellent opening meeting at Olympic Park last week – where patrons were amazed at the new track infrastructure – specta- tors are again expected to attend in large numbers to watch the only international speedway event to be held in Australia this season. The field is headed by past world champions, including Dar- rin Treloar – now with Blake Cox as passenger – and dual world cham- pion Mick Headland and Paul Wa- ters – who won the World Title in 2010. England will be represented by Mark Cossar/Darryl Whetstone and Mick Cave/Gareth Williams – who are both seasoned campaigners. Both Cossar and Cave have been at Mildura in seasons past, and have already ridden the newly configured Olympic Park. Good things are also expected from New Zealand riders Andrew Buchanan and his wife Philippa Burns, with the pair boasting good experience in Mildura. They have looked good in their midweek practice session, with the combination considered one of the most talented to "come over the ditch." Competitors from the United States include seven time US Cham- pions Joey Jones/John Glover, who will prove competitive given their Costa Mesa origins. While the Costa Mesa track is less than 200m around, it has pro- duced a number of World Cham- pion Solo riders who quickly adapt once they arrive in Mildura. Australia's Darrin Treloar – a seven time Australian Champion and arguably the best rider in the sport – will also be in attendance, and has been in splendid form over the last few years. With recent passengers he has done superbly, but will now be invigorated with the addition of Blake Cox – who has amazing pas- senger pedigree. Treloar is thorough with his preparation, and shows amazing skills on the track to always have his machine in such a positive drive situation. The Mick Headland/Paul Wa- ters team are also well skilled, and have great experience around the world, with Mick winning both his World Sidecar Championships overseas on tracks that he had not seen before. The remaining group of Aus- tralians in the field are among the best, with the likes of South Austra- lia's Mark Plaisted/Brian Anthony and Mark Mitchell/Tom Golding to be in attendance, along with Jason Hardy/Geoff Langdon and Trent and Jesse Headland – who never disappoint the crowd. The representation from NSW – apart from Treloar – includes vir- tually the rest of the Bond and Cox families from the Hunter River. Evergreen Grant Bond has Glenn Cox alongside, while Grant's son, Hayden, has Glenn's son Brady as his passenger. All three Coxes are great passen- gers, and Blake's ride with Darrin Treloar will give Darrin a new lease on life in the sport. The elder Bond/Cox team are well credentialed, as they were podi- um-placed at the last World Cham- pionship, but they will have their sons chipping away at every oppor- tunity to get one over the 'old fellas.' The tighter turns at Olympic Park will suit Grant Bond on the throttle, as there is no one better at 'pole line' riding as he has shown over the years. Queensland has Brodie Cohen/ Josh Sinnott and Dylan Blain/Rob Gottardi in the meeting, with both teams young and hungry. The new look corners at Olym- pic Park will provide some spectac- ular interest to all riders, and don't be surprised to see some spectacu- lar action from either Queensland pair during the heats as they search for a place in the finals. One can never discount the ef- forts of the two local teams in the field, with either Byren Gates/Mick O'Loughlin or Warren Monson/ Matt Morgan capable of matching it with the best. Gates and O'Loughlin have had some practice time prior to the meeting, while Monson/Morgan will come in unsighted. Patrons are reminded that gates will open at 3pm for official prac- tice, with a full junior program to entertain patrons following practice. A Victorian Junior Solo and Sidecar Title event will also be held, with rider presentation to begin at 7.15pm – racing to start at 7.30pm. Some grandstand accommoda- tion is available, and patrons are reminded that they will be able to circumnavigate the track at the end of each round of Sidecar heats. 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