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No. 454
My dear Brethren: Grace and peace through our Beloved Master!
"In those days there will be great distress on the land, and wrath against this people [the Jews]... and Jerusalem will be trodden down by Gentiles, till the times of Gentiles may be accomplished." (Luke 21:23,24, Dia.)
As most of our readers know, Brother Russell accurately measured off the times (years) of the Gentiles as 2,520 literal years, beginning in the Fall of 607 BC (606 years before 1 AD) and ending in the Fall of 1914. In that year the great war erupted, which afforded positive proof that he had correctly foretold the times of the Gentiles.
However, probably quite a few of our readers may not know that a "foolish virgin," Doctor Guiness, had come out many years before 1914 with the theory that those Gentile Times would not end until nineteen years later – in 1933. And, when the destruction of present institutions did not occur immediately after 1914, with peace being declared in 1918, quite a few brethren in the Truth movement accepted this error, and caused no little furor among the brethren at that time. On the surface it did seem that a mistake had been made; but when 1933 arrived, and not the slightest event of any consequence occurred then, the controversy just passed into limbo. And of those who did accept the error after peace had been restored on November 11, 1918, and things seemed to be going along quite peacefully (with the exception of the overthrow of the Czarist regime in the Fall of 1917), it was a puzzling situation – but no answer appeared then to solve the puzzle. And many of those who had accepted the error are now floating around more or less without any anchor at all in the chronology. It is our firm conviction that the Gentile Times did end in 1914; and this will become more manifest when Armageddon confirms the interpretation of 1 Kings 19:11, 12.
That Servant himself was thoroughly convinced that The Times of the Gentiles ended in 1914, and that the chronology was correct. Here are some quotations from his Foreword in Parousia Vol. 2, written after 1914 and published October 1, 1916:
"We could not, of course, know in 1889, whether the date 1914, so clearly marked in the Bible as the end of the Gentile lease of power or permission to rule the world, would mean that they would be fully out of power at that time, or whether, their lease expiring, their eviction would begin. The latter we perceive to be the Lord's program; and promptly in August, 1914, the Gentile kingdoms referred to in the prophecy began the present struggle, which, according to the Bible, will culminate in the complete overthrow of all human government, opening the way for the full establishment of the Kingdom of God's dear Son.
"Our thought is that somehow the Lord is taking a hand in the affairs of the world now as He did not do in times past. We do know that the great Time of Trouble, which has begun, very closely corresponds to the Divine declaration respecting the time and conditions of the establishment of Messiah's Kingdom. The Lord Himself informs us that, at the time He shall take to Himself His great power and reign, the nations will be mad and the Divine wrath will come. A little later on the time will come for the judging of the dead, and the giving of the reward to God's servants, small and great, leading on finally to the destruction of the incorrigible, who would exercise a corrupt influence upon the earth. (Rev. 21:8)
"All over the world people knew of the expectations of Bible Students in respect to the year 1914; and when so stupendous a war as the present one broke loose, when the winds of strife began to blow with such fury and destruction, thousands remembered what they had heard and read respecting the end of the Gentile Times. Thousands today have come to fully appreciate the times in which we are living.
"The author acknowledges that in this book he presents the thought that the Lord's saints might expect to be with Him in glory at the ending of the Gentile Times. This was a natural mistake to fall into, but the Lord overrules it for the blessing of His people. The thought that the Church would all be gathered to glory before October, 1914, certainly did have a very stimulating and sanctifying effect upon thousands, all of whom accordingly can praise the Lord – even for the mistake.
"Our mistake was evidently not in respect to the ending of the Times of the Gentiles; we drew a false conclusion, however, not authorized by the Word of the Lord. We saw in the Bible certain parallels between the Jewish Age and the Gospel Age. We should have noted that these parallels follow the nominal systems to destruction in both cases, and do not indicate the time of the glorification of the New Creation."
It should be noted here that Brother Russell put too much faith in "parallels," and failed to heed his own faithful doctrine – "that parallels, types, as well as Pyramid dates, cannot teach a doctrine, but only corroborate a doctrine already taught in plain terms." And Brother Johnson often reiterated this same doctrine; but he, too, relied too heavily on the "parallels" and types for the glorification of the last saint in 1956. But, as Brother Russell has stated in the above quotation of his Foreword: "This was a natural mistake to fall into, but the Lord overruled it for the blessing of His people."
And in the Reprints 5522 and 5523 Brother Russell corroborates his above statements in regard to the Time of Trouble beginning after the Gentiles Times End – also that the Epiphany period started with the Time of Trouble: "These Bible students call our attention to the fact that the Bible distinctly differentiates between the Parousia of Christ and His Epiphania at His second coming. The word Parousia [5522, bottom] signifies presence, without any sense of the word indicating that the presence is visible. The word Epiphania signifies the revealing of one who is already present. These Bible students claim that in the end of this Gospel Age Christ will be present, invisible to men, during a period of forty years doing a work especially to His Church – rewarding the faithful, as shown in the parables of the Pounds and the Talents, and receiving the 'wise virgins,' as in the parable of our lesson... The world will know that He has taken His great power and begun His reign of righteousness, not by seeing Jesus in the flesh, but by seeing the great Time of Trouble which then will break upon the world – 'A time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation.' (Dan. 12:1; Matt. 24:21)"
"The Scriptures indicate that the Gentile governments will receive from their own peoples their first notice that their lease of power has expired... The judgments of the Lord will begin to be manifest in the world, and will run counter to many of their interests. This manifestation of His presence is Scripturally called the Epiphania, the shining forth, the revealment, of the King of Glory. 'He shall be revealed in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.' (2 Thes. 1:7‑10) As a result, the nations of earth will be broken to pieces like a potter's vessel. (Psa. 2:8,9)
"The picture given of the end of Gentile Times is that of a stone striking the image of Gentile supremacy in its feet. (Dan. 2:34, 35) The impact will be so sharp and so thorough as to leave nothing of them. Having had their day, they will cease to be 'become like the chaff of the summer threshing floor.' The next event in order will be the Messianic kingdom, of which it is written, 'The desire of all peoples shall come.'" (Reprint 5527, top, col. 2, par. 2)
"Emphasizing the suddenness with which the calamity will overtake the world, Jesus said that on the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained down fire and brimstone from heaven; and he declared that thus it will be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. The Greek text shows a difference between the Parousia, or presence, of Christ before the time of trouble, and the later Epiphania, or revealing." (Reprint 5456, col. 1, par. 2
Under the Caption of Present Duty and privilege of the Saints in Reprints 5630‑5633 Brother Russell gives us the following: "What time, then, is signified by the expression 'in the days of these kings,' when the kingdom of God was to be set up in power? To our understanding the first step in the setting up of this kingdom was the raising of the sleeping saints of the Gospel Age, which we believe was in the spring of 1878. Then began the glorification of the Church. The work of setting up the kingdom has, we understand, been progressing from that date, and is now merely lacking the last members of the Church class. When these shall have taken their places as members of the Church in Glory, the Kingdom will be fully set up.
"This does not signify, that there may not be a part of the kingdom work begun while some of the members of Christ are still in the flesh. Indeed some Scriptures seem to imply that there will be a kingdom work done this side the veil, while a work of still greater magnitude and authority is progressing on the other side of the veil. We read, 'Let the saints be joyful in glory; let them sing aloud upon their beds.' This seems to imply, as we have mentioned before, that there is a special work to be done while these saints still have beds, while they are in a condition of repose – not 'tossed to and fro, and carried about by every wind of doctrine,' but fully at rest in God's great plan. The Scripture goes on to say that they have a two‑edged sword in their hands – this is the Word of God. They use it as the sword of the Spirit. This would not be true of them on the other side of the veil. They would have no use for a sword there. The Scriptures also declare that the high‑sounding praises of God are upon their lips. This, too, seems to be applicable to those this side the veil." (Reprint 5631, col. 2, par. 4)
"The final phrase, 'to execute the judgments written,' would seem to imply that there would be something for the saints on this side of the veil to do in connection with the execution of the judgments upon the nations. As to just what this means, we have not yet fully learned. But we see nothing here to conflict with the thought that the Lord's kingdom may be properly understood to have begun operations and the present smiting of the nations is under kingdom control. The fact that some of the members of the kingdom class are still in the flesh does not militate at all against this thought. We see the kingdoms of the world now being dashed to pieces, and we are expecting to see the process continued until they are completely ground to powder. They shall become as the chaff of the summer threshing‑floor, and the wind shall carry them away. Then shall they be found no more at all. (Dan. 2:35)
"The Kingdom of God Set Up: Because certain important things are to be accomplished, we see that God is permitting what to others might seem to be purely human devilishness. For a wise purpose He permits this reign of lawlessness, this condition which evokes universal odium. Our thought is that we should look for still further evidences day by day that the Gentile Times have ended, and that God's kingdom has begun its work. We are expecting to see multiplied proofs of the kingdom power, though the world will not recognize it as such until it is manifested in the flaming fire of anarchy, which is still further along... But many will not begin to see until the flaming fire is revealed. When we endeavor to tell them now they will not receive it, but they will be thoroughly convinced when they see the destructive fire of anarchy.
"It was merely during the interval between the destruction of the kingdom of Israel and the setting up of the kingdom of the heavens that the opportunity was given to these Gentile kingdoms to see what they could do toward establishing a righteous government on earth. Now the time has come for God's kingdom to displace them; but they will not willingly resign their crowns and scepters; they are in defiance. Therefore force is required to destroy them. Their 2520 years of rule are in the past, and they must now submit to a complete overthrow. We are expecting that the work of their crushing will steadily continue until its full accomplishment.
"But finally, when the Lord's 'due time' has come to permit it, they broke through their restraint. The Lord has at this particular time especially to do with the affairs of the nations. And this war was allowed to occur at about the end of the Times of the Gentiles, at the appropriate time when they are to be dashed to pieces with the iron rod of the iron rule. (Psa. 2:6‑12)... Now in this great day of the Lord everything that can be shaken is to be shaken to pieces and shaken out, to the intent that nothing unrighteous or unworthy shall remain. God Himself is doing the shaking." (Reprint 5632, col. 1)
"The Time For Judgment is Ripe: We believe that the Times of the Gentiles ended just on time, as shown in Vol. 2 of the Studies in the Scriptures. The hand of justice is now doing the breaking – the nations shall be broken as 'a potter's vessel.' The whole cataclysm of trouble may be upon the world during the next ten months or it may be longer deferred. We believe that the time for the setting up of the kingdom was on September 21, 1914. At that time, when it was due for our Lord to take up His great power and reign, the nations were already angry. They were at war over a month in advance of the time, because so angry." (Reprint 5632, col. 2)
From the foregoing we believe there can be no sound argument against our statement that Brother Russell believed that an Epiphany – as a period of time – would become apparent once the Gentile Times ended and the Time of Trouble had arrived. We have gone into quite some detail on the subject, quoting much from Brother Russell. It is our belief that many of our readers still hold him in high regard; they believe that he was That Servant – just as we do. And it strikes us as most unusual that many of those same brethren pay little or no attention to his teachings about the Epiphany and the Time of Trouble.
It is probably in order here to state that the Time of Trouble in the broad sense had its beginning in 1874, between which date and 1914 the reaping work was pretty well consummated. During that forty years such movements as the IWW (International Workers of the World), the Communists, Nihilists, etc., persuaded many that the time for radical change had come. When we were in the U.S. Army in 1918 we came into close contact with some of these. And often when we spoke the Truth to them about the Times of the Gentiles, that the lease of power had expired, and that the Lord was then in process of evicting them, they admitted that they agreed. The only thing then preventing them from tearing down the social institutions of the time was the great war for which they had no sympathy, but were persuaded that the common enemy – the Central Powers – must first be defeated. After the war ended, some of their leaders, or friends, such as Norman Thomas, openly declared that the conflict had been nothing but a commercial war; and that those who refused to cooperate with the Government were the only ones who had shown good sense.
As most of our readers know, fire in the Bible is often a symbol of destruction; and this was certainly true of the Great War. Note 2 Thes. 1:7‑10, Dia.: "The Lord Jesus from Heaven... in a flame of fire dispensing retributive justice to those not acknowledging God [the Second‑Death class in Big Babylon], and to those not being obedient to the glad tidings [the Second‑Death class in the Truth Movement]... when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all those who believe, in that day." In this Scripture St. Paul is directly identifying the Time of Trouble as a period of great destruction.
Further the same Apostle identifies this destruction as a period of time in 2 Tim. 4:1, Dia.: "Christ Jesus is about to judge the living [those who have "passed from death unto life," and the fallen angels who have never been under the death sentence] and the dead [the dead world of mankind whether in the tomb or those still living on this earth], by his appearing [the Epiphany] and by his kingdom [the thousand‑year reign of the saints on earth]."
It should be stressed here that Brother Russell saw much of what we have written herein – perhaps not as clearly as we see things now; but he gave us the foundation upon which to build. Thus it is our firm conviction that his chronology is correct, and that most of his dates are also correct, especially so of the Gentile Times. However, as he himself admits, some of his expectations about those dates were not realized. He used types, parallels, etc., to reach his conclusions; and, when we consider the vast amount of error that was so rampant at the time he entered the ministry, we often marvel that this "man of God" did not make more mistakes than he did; so we are generous in our appraisal of his mistaken expectations and most grateful for the Scriptural doctrines he gave to us – in fact, the whole Plan of Salvation, something no other man could do except that Faithful and Wise Servant, "whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season." (Matt. 24:45)
In many places does That Servant offer reasons for his faulty conclusions, but the following from Parousia Vol. 2, p. 245, par. 2, serves the purpose quite well: "Remember that the forty years' Jewish harvest ended October, AD 69, and was followed by the complete overthrow of that nation; and that likewise the forty years of the Gospel Age harvest will end October, 1914, and that likewise the overthrow of 'Christendom,' so‑called, must be expected to immediately follow."
In 1 Cor. 10:11, Dia., the Apostle Paul makes this statement: "These things [the waywardness of the Jews during their forty‑year march to Canaan] occurred to them typically and were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come." And after they came into Canaan – and until they were ejected in AD 69‑73 – any number of things "occurred to them typically" as forecasts of the things that would occur in Christendom during this Gospel Age. And let us keep in mind that the above quotation from Vol. 2 was published in 1889, 25 years before 1914, and was probably actually written for the printer many months before that date. So it was a reasonable conclusion. On the face of it, the logic of it is very convincing.
MASADA: In the above we are told that the Harvest ended in AD. 69, but the complete subjugation of the Jews did not occur until the year AD 73 at Masada – just forty years after they had "crucified the Lord of Glory." We now quote some comments from one of the prominent Encyclopedias on this subject:
"Masada, Hebrew Horvot Mezada (meaning ruins of Masada) ancient mountain top fortress in southeast Israel, site of the Jews last stand against the Romans in the revolt of AD 66‑73. The name means 'stronghold, fortress.' It occupies the entire top of a great mesa near the southeast coast of the Dead Sea... renowned for the palaces and fortifications of Herod the Great, king of Judea under the Romans, and for its resistance to the Roman siege 72‑73.
"The Romans fired the defenders' wooden walls. The Zealots, however, preferred death to enslavement, and the conquerors found that the defenders... had taken their own lives (April 15, AD 73). Only seven women and children – who had hidden in a water conduit survived to tell the tale... lots cast by the last defenders to determine who should die first. It took 15,000 Roman soldiers to defeat completely less than 1,000, including women and children, almost two years to subdue the fortress."
That small group of defenders were imbued with the idea that they were God's "chosen people"; and, with what seemed to them an impregnable fortress, they concluded that the Romans could not overcome them. But at that time the Romans were experts at destruction; and the Jews were unaware of the words of Jesus just before He died, "Your house is left unto you desolate." (Matt. 23:38) Thus, they no longer had the Divine protection that followed their fathers. They had become a part of "the great city, which is called spiritually, Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified." (Rev. 11:8, Dia.)
But with the Jews so thoroughly eliminated, the early Church – after the Apostles passed away – was readily prepared for the encroachments of the "secret of lawlessness" (the rise of the Papacy to power, especially after AD 539, and which eventually dominated the governments of Christendom until Napoleon broke that power in AD 1799 a period of 1260 years). "The holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months" – months of 30 days each, 1260 symbolic days, but actually 1260 literal years. "Whom the Lord Jesus will consume with the breath of his mouth, and annihilate by the appearing of his presence." (2 Thes. 2:7, 8, Dia.) The word appearing in this text is from the Greek epiphaneia; and this offers just one more proof that the Epiphany is a period of time that we are still in the Epiphany because the Papacy has not yet been destroyed. See Berean Comments on these texts. The Papacy has truly been guilty of all the crimes that the Gentile nations have perpetrated upon their enemies, and upon their own people pouring hot lead into their ears, cutting off their noses, putting them on the rack, etc. In 2 Thes. 2:9, 10, Dia., St. Paul details his prophecy of how the apostate church (Roman Catholic) would perform when they would have the power: "Whose coming is according to the energy of the Adversary, with all power, and signs, and wonders of falsehood, and with every deception of iniquity to those who are perishing." Certainly history offers indisputable proof that this Scripture is true in every detail.
Now follows some brief quotations from Parousia Vol. 2, pp. 73 and 101: "The term Times of the Gentiles was applied by our Lord to that interval of earth's history between the removal of the typical Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Israel (Ezek. 21:25‑27), and the introduction and establishment of its antitype, the true Kingdom of God, when Christ comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe in that day. Strictly speaking, the Times of the Gentiles is the period during which God leased earth's dominion to the non‑Jewish nations. [Thus, they are now operating without that authority which expired in 1914, although it is still the obligation of God's people to be "submissive to the superior authorities." – Rom. 13:1, Dia.]
"Be not surprised, then, when in subsequent chapters we present proofs that the setting up of the Kingdom of God is already begun, that it is pointed out in prophecy as due to begin the exercise of power in AD 1878, and that the 'battle of the great day of God Almighty' (Rev. 16:14), will begin in AD 1914, and that it will end in the complete overthrow of earth's present rulership. The gathering of the armies is plainly visible from the standpoint of God's Word."
When 1914 had come and gone, it caused no little concern in the Truth Movement; and Brother Russell then commented that it seemed the reaping work was not yet ended. He was prompted to this decision because so many people were coming into the Truth after 1914. But he failed to consider that many crown‑losers in Babylon had been watching 1914 very closely; and, when the war broke out as predicted, many members of antitypical Lot (Gen. 19:23‑26) were fleeing from that "great city, which spiritually is called Sodom" when the fire and brimstone (the destructive effects of the war) began to fall on it. They knew the prediction had been correctly made, so they fled from spiritual Sodom, and came into the Truth Movement – although many of them later left the Truth Movement after the Armistice was arranged and things were going along rather smoothly. We were personally acquainted with some of them, and we heard their conclusions about it.
Now more from Vol. 2, p. 73, par. 3: "During this interval, the dominion of earth was to be exercised by Gentile governments; and Israel, both fleshly and spiritual, have been and are to be subject to these powers until their time is expired. While God does not approve or commend these governments, he recognizes their dominion. In other words, He has for wise ends permitted their dominion for an appointed time."
During these Gentile Times some of the basest of men ruled – as instance Nero, Ivan the Terrible, Hitler, et al. However, the glory that was Solomon's had so captivated the Jewish minds that they failed completely to recognize their Messiah when He came to them "meek and lowly of heart." Their national standing had been taken from them in the Fall of 607 BC; and their idea of a Messiah was one who would cast off the Roman yoke and rule Israel again as had Solomon, when all nations had admired his great wisdom – "wiser than all men" 1 Kings 4:31 – his great wealth and the magnificence of his palace and the Temple he had built, the Holy of Holies containing that priceless piece of furniture, the Golden Ark of the Covenant, for which the Jews had extreme reverence, and which had been lost when Jerusalem was taken in the Fall of 607 BC.
And when Jesus mentioned "the times of the Gentiles," it seems the statement had passed right over the heads of the Apostles; they still expected some great person who would throw off the Roman yoke. And this view they held until they were enlightened by the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. All this is well confirmed by their question to Jesus just before He ascended to Heaven: "Wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?" (Acts 1:6) We are told in 1 Chron. 29:23 that "Solomon sat upon the throne of the Lord"; and this caused quite a few Gentile rulers to conclude that they were ruling "by Divine right." And especially in England this opinion was cherished by some of the most debased kings that ever ruled there: it was a general belief that "the king can do no wrong." Gentiles should learn from bitter experience the futility of their efforts at self‑government while the world is in its present sinful condition.
Solomon – "wiser than all men" – gave such a poor performance during the forty years of his reign that there was revolution in Israel immediately after his death; and the ten tribes that left became known as the nation of Israel, and the two tribes, Judah and Benjamin, became known as the House of Judah (Jer. 31:31). Thus we have an excellent example of the Christian Church; the Roman Catholic Church became so corrupt that it produced the great Reformation, with Martin Luther as its hero – altho the great bulk of believers still stayed there, just the reverse of what happened in Israel. In that separation by far the most of the Jews forsook the City of David and accepted Jeroboam as their king; and it is said in the Bible at least seventeen times of the various kings that ruled Israel until it was carried captive into Assyria by Shalmanezer in the year 739 BC: "They walked in the ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin." (2 Kings. 10:29) Eventually they were so absorbed by their captors that they disappeared as a nation and as Jews; they became the "ten lost tribes.
That most of these Gentile governments have failed miserably to uplift their Gentile subjects is proven by the prophecy that they will go to extreme ruin in the end of this Age; they will be involved in "a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation." What the prophet wrote about Zedekiah regarding the overthrow of the Jews is strangely befitting of the Gentile nations now, as we see them "reeling to and fro like a drunkard." "The earth [society as presently organized] shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again." (Isa. 24:20) This is given in more vivid detail in Ezek. 21:25‑27: "Thou, profane wicked prince of Israel [Zedekiah], whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end... remove the diadem, and take off the crown... I will overturn [in the great war], overturn [in the approaching Armageddon], overturn it [in complete anarchy]... until he [the glorified Christ] come whose right it is; and I will give it him."
There is much more to be said about the Times of the Gentiles, and we may discuss it again in some future paper; but we think we have said enough about it herein to convince our readers of the truth in St. Peters statement (2 Pet. 1:21, Dia.): "Not at any time was prophecy brought by the will of man, but men from God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit." And may this help us all to "grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus." Sincerely your brother, John J. Hoefle, Pilgrim
(Reprint No. 287, May 1979)
I cannot bear the vilification of Baruch Goldstein. He was correctly known as the Tsadik of Kiryat Arba, a doctor who well knew the value of human life. He saved many lives during his lifetime and his act of martyrdom will save many more lives. I believe he prevented or at least forestalled another Arab massacre of Jews.
I visited the Cave of the Patriarchs on four occasions during the week prior to Goldstein's courageous act. Each time I was threatened and struck by the Arabs. On Friday night, February 18, 1994, during Sabbath prayers, some of the Arabs rioted and came running into the area which had been assigned to Jews only, Jews and Israeli soldiers forced them back into "their area."
The following morning there were several scuffles which resulted from death threats and insults by Arabs who had again spilled over into contact with Jews during their prayers.
I was shocked by the Arabs' violent threats and actions. I had not witnessed such aggressiveness during previous visits to this holy Jewish site.
Immediately following havdalah Saturday night, February 19, 1994, the Arabs came pouring into the area where Jews were congregated, yelling "Itbah ha yehudi" ("murder the Jews"). They overran some of the soldiers who fought to protect local Jews and a contingent of 120 American Jews who were touring Gaza, Samaria and Judea. Some of the Arabs broke through and struck me, but more soldiers came until the Arab mob could be pushed back at gunpoint into the room where the Arabs were supposed to be praying. It was the scariest moment in my life. I don't know what could have incited the mob each day to attack us, but certainly it was not quiet prayers that characterize Jewish worship.
I returned on Wednesday afternoon, February 23, and it was apparent that nothing had changed. Arabs made certain that they gave me an intimidating bump as they walked past me.
In my opinion another Arab massacre of Jews was imminent. History has shown time and time again that the mob of "slaughter the Jews" has preceded the vast number of mob murders of Jews. Only the sneak attacks on innocent individuals have been exceptions.
Dr. Goldstein being aware of the record of violence and murder of Jews in Hebron and elsewhere, and knowing the symptoms of yet another slaughter, preemptively struck, thus saving many Jewish lives. He may even have become aware of the details and time of such a plot. Only G‑d knows the mind of any man, but it is clear that any attempt to save Jewish lives and decrease the desecration of G‑d's name at the tombs of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, is an act of sanctification. The Bible is full of accounts of such brave acts.
(Carl Bishop, Rancho Mirage, CA, The Jewish Press, March 11, 1994)
BROTHER WILLARD J. CLINARD finished his course March 10, 1994. He was 73 years old September 13, 1993. He was not only our brother in the spirit but also a member of our family in the flesh. He came into the Truth when a young man, and has been a "good soldier" in the Lord's Army since that time. He was our loyal yolkfellow, and was loved by all who knew him well. When such good brethren leave us we have a void that cannot be filled. He is now asleep in Jesus awaiting the resurrection of the Just (Acts 24:15). We mourn his passing with his family and friends.
Brother Roy Ekroth conducted his funeral March 13, 1994, in Winston‑Salem, NC. Brother Leonard Williams furnished a private plane for five who attended the service. The plane left Orlando at 9:30 a.m., arrived in Winston‑Salem at 12 noon, the funeral service was at 2 p.m.; the plane left at 4:00 p.m., arriving back in Orlando at 6:30 p.m. We are thankful to the Lord for His overruling Providence to us in our time of need.
Although we have many proofs of the time in which we are living, this alone would convince us that we are living in the "time of the end." This is a vivid illustration of Daniel 12:4: "Seal up the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased."
We are most grateful to our friends for the many expressions of love and sympathy that have come to us.


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As part of 50 States of Art, Creators is inviting artists to contribute first person accounts of what it is like to live and create in their communities. Greg Gandy is a studio painter and creative entrepreneur from Jackson, MS. With a focus on cultural cross-fertilization, Gandy has traveled the southeast connecting artists and communities to businesses and organizations through lectures, creative consultation, publications, festivals, art exhibitions, and film.
I have had long talks over tallboys with musicians in the Delta. I have worked with artists on the Gulf Coast to paint buildings lost to Katrina. In Jackson, I have cleaned abandoned warehouse after warehouse alongside other artists to make way for studios. For years I have seen committed educators, museum staff, and art supporters working to communicate the value of art to young minds. From my experience, I can say with complete conviction that the dominant form of art in Mississippi is the art of community building. Yes, we may be at the bottom end of every national list, but we are traveling, reading, and learning. We are experiencing the successes of other communities around the country and sharing them with our own. We are creating, growing, and laying the foundation for future creation.
For artists, resources in Mississippi are limited (there is 1 gallery for every 30,866 residents). However, the void is not an Almighty Oppressor of creative energy. It is an invitation for the strong willed and large hearted to dig deep and lift others up while also blazing their own unique creative path. A blank canvas coupled with a low cost of living provides a rare chance to organically build a creative revolution from the ground up without the strain of fighting against a pre-existing creative monarchy. The openness of the void has led to unique collaborations between artists, community leaders, government agencies, and businesses to create paths for creative development.
Included among the many that have answered the call to action are William Rogers, Kristen Ley, Scott Allen, and Julia Reyes. In the Delta, Rogers has helped develop a creative community through recurring cultural festivals and continues to embolden young creatives through his organization Keep Cleveland Boring. In Jackson, Ley is empowering young female artists through her letterpress business, Thimblepress, and is casting light on local creatives through her thoughtful writing. Allen not only creates murals and studio paintings in the Fondren Arts District, but he also employees artists and trains them to produce hand painted signs through his company A Plus Signs & Creative. On the Mississippi Gulf Coast, artist Reyes runs Almost Circle Gallery to showcase contemporary works by local creatives and works by former residents.
Personally, my creative process shifts constantly between social problem solving and visual problem solving — a consistent back and forth between enabling others and isolated self reflection. In the studio, my work takes the form of small watercolors on paper and large oil paintings on canvas, both dominated by contrasting hues and the human figure. In my community I replace the human figure with human interaction — enabling and promoting other creatives through publications, exhibitions of contemporary work, social events, films, and festivals. My tendency is to create order out of chaos. In paint the focus becomes finding harmony between contrasting colors, variations of line, and developing holistic visual patterns. With social projects, my focus transforms into connecting geographically separated communities through events, distributing the work of Mississippi artists to isolated areas with publications, and taking inventory of creative resources.
Although it is usually unseen and unreported on the national stage, the story of art in Mississippi is the story of individuals working together to build a better path forward.
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Sweet Corn Season
This is happening right now:
And I wish I was there.
Sweet Corn Season. It's a capital-letter-phrase in our household, and it's an experience that I've been looking forward to sharing. Let me tell you the story.
When I turned 12, my parents bought me a cheap, above-ground pool for my birthday to replace the old stock tanks we used to swim in (hashtag farmlife, am I right?). It came with a catch (of course): my brother and I were going to help pick and sell sweet corn the following summer to pay for it.
And thus was born the annual Sweet Corn project.
Starting that year, my dad planted a patch of sweet corn every year in the middle of one of the regular corn fields. Keep in mind that field corn and sweet corn are two completely different things.
Field corn is one of the major cash crops of America; it's what's growing when you see the acres of corn when you drive through the Midwest. It grows to complete maturity, when the kernels are dry and hard, then is harvested and used to feed cattle, sweeten our sodas, and make corn tortillas (and everything in between).
Sweet corn is the kind of corn you eat off the cob. Depending on the quality, it's so sweet and tender that you'll forget to put butter on it. Real sweet corn is sweet and hardly starchy. I'm not really sure what kind of corn they pack cans with in the store - it doesn't resemble fresh sweet corn at all.
We ate buckets of sweet corn during Sweet Corn Season.
The day went like this:
Wake up, stumble out of bed and grab a bite to eat. Throw on a corn shirt (i.e. an old button-down shirt to protect your arms from being sliced by the thin corn leaves) and load up the pick-up by 7:00 am. There is no such thing as cool in Kansas in July, but in order to beat (some of) the heat and humidity, we had to be done picking by 8:00 am.
My brother, Ray, and I usually rode in the back of the pick-up, holding the 5-gallon buckets (usually up-cycled paint or oil buckets that had been thoroughly cleaned) that we used to haul the corn from the field to the pick-up.
At the field, we each had a job. A picker would go up and down the rows selecting only the corn that was ready - too young and corn doesn't have much flavor; too mature and the kernels become starchy and lose their sweet tenderness. When I first learned how to pick, I'd peel back the shuck of the ear while it was still on the stalk just a little to peek inside the ear. After a while, a master picker could identify a ripe ear from an immature one at just a glance.
When a picker filled the bucket, he'd yell, "Need a bucket!" and Ray (the hauler) would grumpily saunter through the rows and switch out the full bucket for an empty one. Throughout the years, various (naive) friends would come join us for sweet corn season and help with hauling. Entry-level jobs during Sweet Corn Season were haulers and shuckers; only seasoned sweet corn-ers could be promoted to picker or sorter.
Once the pick-up bed was full (and verified by Dad - Ray's judgment of "full" was slightly different than Dad's), Ray and I (and any extra helpers for the day) would pile into the back of the pick-up and we'd drive back home.
Once at home, the work was not done. The sorters (Dad and in later years, me) got to work sorting the corn into piles of sellers and shuckers. Sellers were the large, beautiful ears that had avoided attacks from corn earworms or raccoons that we sold in the husk.
Shuckers were the lower-quality ears - perhaps they were small or damaged in some way - that went into a pile to be shucked (the process of removing the husk from the corn). They were then dry cleaned - silks removed, tips and base cut off - and packaged into gallon Zip-Locks to be sold for a slight upcharge.
Then there were the rejects. These poor souls were the ears that, once shucked and cleaned, were determined to be unworthy of selling. They were too short, too ugly, or just not the right maturity. Although not very pretty, they were still tasty! For every lunch and dinner we gorged on these delicious morsels - it was an unspoken rule that you should eat at least three or four (short) ears, or you were (good naturely) teased. The rest of the corn - that which we couldn't sell or consume that day - was blanched and packaged to freeze. Thus we always enjoyed Scheufler Sweet Corn all year 'round.
This "project" originated as a means to 1) pay for a pool that we fit in better than a 2 1/2 foot deep metal stock tank and 2) teach my brother and I how to work hard and value an education. Little did my Dad know it would become so much more. It became an annual tradition that we all simultaneously looked forward to and dreaded at the same time.
For all the hard work, we were rewarded with unforgettable memories. For all of the sore muscles, we were rewarded with dinner table laughter and inside jokes. For all of the hot afternoons, we were rewarded with pool parties every evening in that hard-earned pool.
Even now, almost 10 years after my brother and I moved out and took summer jobs that kept us from being able to participate in Sweet Corn Season, Dad still plants his token sweet corn and Mom helps him pick, haul, sort, shuck, and clean sweet corn for their neighbors and friends.
Sweet Corn Season. If I could, I'd go back and do it all again.
With love, from Peas and Hoppiness.


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The Southern Rock Car
Whenever I interview people for this site, our conversations always touch on several interesting topics. Unfortunately, I have to cut a significant number of ideas from the final article. So that's why it's pretty special when I encounter someone like Marcos.
What makes him unique is that his history, work, and personality all converge into one overarching idea with his car, a 1979 Chevy Opala SS dead center of it all.
Marcos and his Father
As a grizzled old military man, Marcos' father was not very effusive, and while his actions displayed his love for Marcos, his emotional output was similar to a stone's. Marcos himself remembers chafing under that tight laced personality.
However, the one thing they both united on was the Opala. Some of Marcos' strongest memories involve playing in, washing and driving around in his father's 4-door Opala. And in typical fashion for his father they never openly stated it, but both Father and Son loved the car.
So it makes sense that when Marcos's father died, he bought an Opala to help preserve those childhood memories.
Marcos and Southern Rock
On stage as the guitarist of BraveHeart, Marcos is the visage of a southern rocker – straw cowboy hat, Fender Telecaster and all. However, his journey began with classical rather than electric guitar.
Marcos picked up the guitar at 15 after hearing a friend play classical guitar. But his classical facing direction all changed when he first heard Led Zeppelin's song, Achilles Last Stand. The sounds produced by the electric guitar blew him away and after that brush with sonic greatness Marcos began playing electric guitar.
A few years later, Marcos encountered Southern Rock and it just clicked with him. Growing up surrounded by American movies, TV shows and music meant he was primed with all the imagery surrounding southern rock – he just lacked the music that wove it all together. So the moment he heard that music, all these ideas fell into place.
But what really got him was the Muscle Car imagery. See, Marcos felt so strongly about southern rock that he was willing to pursue it as a musician. So when he discovered the music's connection to muscle cars it transformed his Opala SS from a memory of his father into a bridge between his past and future.
Marcos and the V8
Ask any Muscle Car guy about modern cars, and usually the words "emotionless" and "lack of feeling" are returned. Marcos is no different.
The first time he sat in a V8 powered car he was astounded at the feel of the car. In Marcos' own words Muscle Cars are "something you need to respect. It's like a rodeo bull. You have to respect it with a V8." That's why his next step is to get a small block V8 for his Opala. While the small bay of the Opala was never sold with a V8, Marcos thinks he can get away with it, because the Opala SS prototypes were built with a V8.
In order to offset the massive weight (relative to the chassis) of the V8 he plans on using an aluminum block and head and fabricating mounts to help keep the engine from torqueing its way out of the car. In his eyes, this V8 will complete his southern rocker aesthetic, retain the memory of his father and satisfy the car nut inside of him.


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|my oldest daughter: Isabelle you are my friend and companion all day. Yes-you are only 4 years old, but I laugh, talk and pass the day with you like you are a dear friend....and you are. I love you my little Belle.
|my only son: Judah you are the joy and humor of this house. Your smile makes my heart soar with happiness and I adore your sense of humor and ability to make me laugh. I love you my Judah boy.


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Prayer of Confession, E4B
Call to Confession
Power and authority can be used to help and it can be used to hurt. It can be wielded as a weapon or submitted to service. Humans often view it as a right instead of a privilege and use it inappropriately. Let us confess our passion for power and seek God's mercy.
Prayer of Confession
Like the high priests
and the temple authorities
we are consumed with
By what authority do
others do what they
do, we want to
We place significant importance
on structure and chain
of command instead of
It is this rigid
adherence to rules that
undermines the privilege of
We have created the
vaccuum in which we
now live by our
Forgive our passion for
power, we pray, and
make us servants of
in the name of
Assurance of God's Grace
The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. In the name of the risen Lord, we are forgiven. Thanks be to God!
Since God has forgiven us in Christ, let us also forgive one another. The peace of Christ be with you.
Please extend the peace of Christ to all whom you encounter this day.
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All Call To Worship Ordinary Time 23A Prayer Of Confession Prayers Of The People


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The Story of Anne Mirtschin
A few weeks ago, I invited teachers to relate how their lives as teachers had changed due to engaging with other educators online, and to relate how this change has flowed to their students.
I received the following response from Anne Mirtschin. Here is a quick teaser of what is to follow:
As for me, I am classified a 'baby boomer', have loved using technology. It has reinvigorated me in my final years of teaching, so much so, that I do not want to retire for many years. I have 'refound' my passion for teaching and learning. I am no longer an 'out the front' of the room teacher, but more a facilitator working in amongst the students as their needs arise.
Anne's blog is http://murcha.wordpress.com/ and her Twitter ID is @murcha.
I have added in headings to what Anne wrote:
Recount your journey
The Beginning:
My journey began three years ago, when few
students in schools in Victoria or Australia were blogging. As our grade 6
class was developing podcasts for the nearby volunteer run Volcano Discovery
Centre and as we were to use web2.0 tools as part of the Rich Picture Case
Studies grant from our Education Department, that enabled this project to
continue, blogging sounded like a good tool to use to document our journey. So
my teacher blog was started and a class blog called 'Our Backyard"
A Mentor
At the same time Heather Blakey of Soul Food Café came to our school to run
some professional development, and she became my great mentor, introducing me
to her global contacts. The students had an immediate authentic global audience
and hence our entrance into the wonderful interactive world of web2.0. My
school is a prep to year 12 rural school and is geographically and culturally
isolated, Soon all students from grades 5 to 11 had the own blog.
Growing Relationships
The next step, was to become a member of
classroom2.0 where further valuable contacts were made mostly on a global
basis. This led to the wonderful world of wikis, social networking and global
projects. Twitter was just starting to become mainframe and after a puzzling
start, Sue Waters, now the editor of the Edublogger, adopted me and introduced
me to 20 valuable contacts who in turn led me to make further valuable
connections. A fabulous personal learning network was established. Soon we
heard about and became part of the amazing Flat classroom projects. All these
social networking tools have had an amazing impact on my teaching, classroom
and community.
The next step, was to become a member of
Busting Open the Classroom to the World
It means that I can work interactively and
in virtual teams with those who have similar passions to mine. Here are some of
the many stories from my classroom. My students have appeared on Russian TV
news when we videoconferenced with a school in Soglasie Russia. (I met the
teacher Ekaterina on classroom20.com).
Our whole school was online from prep to
year 9 linked up in a direct
videoconferenece with a research scientist whilst in Antarctica researching the
Adele penguins.
Earthquake in Java
We have spoken directly
using skype to students in West Java, Indonesia within 6 hours of them being
hit by an earthquake at the end of last year. They were still under tsunami
warnings. We heard the fear in their voices, heard what it was like to
experience an earthquake etc. The bell went but students did not hear it but
were still researching the internet for full evidence of the extent of that
Germany, China, Anywhere
Students from their homes at 9pm at night with proud parents
watching, enter 'Elluminate', virtual classroom software, to join a class with
their fellow classmates from Germany (who are at school) and classmates from
Beijing China to work out their global projects as part of the flat classroom
project. My backchannel through twitter are on hand to immediately answer our
questions eg how can we convert an xtranormal video into mpg or wmv format.
What games do you use in your classroom? Could you fill in our survey forms
etc. . It means my students can learn
anytime, anywhere with techn-how. Students have learnt the techniques of
cybersafety, netiquette, responsible online learning and digital citizenship.
They have started their digital footprints in the global world that is theirs.
My students are motivated, engaged, excited,
empowered, willing to return to school virtually at night time to work with
global classmates and most of all have 'fun' whilst learning.
As for me, I am classified a 'baby boomer',
have loved using technology. It has reinvigorated me in my final years of
teaching, so much so, that I do not want to retire for many years. I have
'refound' my passion for teaching and learning. I am no longer an 'out the
front' of the room teacher, but more a facilitator working in amongst the students
as their needs arise. I can teach anywhere, anytime, 24/7/365. At nighttimes I
run online PD sessions for teachers targeted at Australian teachers, but have
found the audience can include educationalists from many countries including
Africa, India, Europe, Asia etc. They come from all levels of education
including pre-school through to university and adult educators all with the one
shared passion – to empower learning and bring education into the 21st


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In my younger years, I was a horror film buff. I saved up paper route money to buy an 8mm copy of Lon Chaney's 1925 silent masterpiece The Phantom of the Opera (this was in the days before VHS or DVDs). I'd make Star Trek and claymation monster movies in the basement. I turned the woods behind our house into a haunted forest during Halloween. When I should have been out mowing the lawn or doing other chores, I'd spend Saturday afternoons watching Boris Karloff and Hammer Horror films on a Cleveland TV station. And I would regularly ride my bike to the drug store to buy a magazine called Famous Monsters of Filmland.
The publisher of this monthly magazine — and the author of most of the articles in it — was Forrest J Ackerman, clearly the world's biggest horror and sci-fi fan. He's even been credited with coining the term sci-fi.
Ackerman died yesterday at the age of 92.
Famous Monsters was culled from Ackerman's monstrous collection of horror memorabilia, including thousands of movie stills and artifacts from the icons of horror – Universal Studio's old-Europe Frankenstein, wolf man and Dracula franchises – to the schlockiest b-movie flicks. (TIME Magazine film critic Richard Corliss discusses Ackerman on TIME.com today.)
As his obituary in today's NY Times recalls, Ackerman's magazine inspired George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and horror novelist Stephen King, who is heavily quoted in the obit. He calls the magazine, and Ackerman, our "Hubble telescope," giving us "a window into a world we really wanted to see."
And in some ways Famous Monsters of Filmland also inspired me, though I didn't go into a career as a fantasy filmmaker or novelist. Its catchy writing gave me the first appreciation for the pun (I knew The Clayman Cometh – a headline for an article on the silent film about the mythical Golem – long before I knew it was a play on the title of a play by someone named Eugene O'Neill), and its images led me to study more closely such great works as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
Ackerman's vast collection was displayed for years in a Hollywood mansion, and I had always wanted to find an excuse to go (but I could never convince the news organizations I worked for to send me there to do a story about him). The place was known as the Acker-mansion, in Horrorwood, Karloffornia. Ackerman — Forry to his friends — would lead guests on personal tours.
I would have loved to see the masks of the gill man from Creature from the Black Lagoon, or all those posters and photos of great (in their genre) actors named Karloff, Lugosi and Chaney.
I can't watch the horror films of the 21st century. I tuned out somewhere in the middle of the Friday the 13th franchise. (Something about all those scenes of young people having sex before being knifed by a man in a hockey mask, at an age when I was desperately trying to have sex with anyone who would have me, turned me off the series.) And the newer forms of horror — like the Saw movies with their surreal and hyper-shocking images of darkness — just aren't for me. I have enough nasty images stored in my head. I don't need to add any more uncomfortable pictures to the movies that play in my mental metroplex.
Give me the dark shadows in black and white. The creepiness and suspense. The old world monsters threatening torch-bearing villagers. The ancient curses striking a new protagonist. A shiny spaceship and a robot stopped from destroying the world by a few simple words (klatu barada nikto). The makeup, the corny dialogue. Bring it on.
All the things that jazzed old Forrest J and gave him a collecting jones for the flotsam of a good old fright-night double feature.
Rest in peace, Mr. Ackerman. Say hello to Boris, Bela and Lon from the paperboy in Ohio.


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For the 12- and 24-month payment plans, down payment is due at enrollment. In-house financing cannot be combined with other offers or discounts. *Please add $50 to the down payment for medical courier service if you're located in Alaska, Hawai'i or Puerto Rico. **Actual monthly payment will be slightly lower than what is being shown. For the length of the term, the annual storage fee is included in the monthly payment. Upon the child's birthday that ends the term and every birthday after that, an annual storage fee will be due. These fees are currently $150 for cord blood and $150 for cord tissue and are subject to change.
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When a child develops a condition that can be treated with stem cells, they undergo transplant. A doctor infuses stem cells from cord blood or bone marrow into the patient's bloodstream, where they will turn into cells that fight the disease and repair damaged cells—essentially, they replace and rejuvenate the existing immune system.
^ Roura S, Pujal JM, Gálvez-Montón C, Bayes-Genis A (2015). "Impact of umbilical cord blood-derived mesenchymal stem cells on cardiovascular research". BioMed Research International. 2015: 975302. doi:10.1155/2015/975302. PMC 4377460 . PMID 25861654.
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After being treated with high-dose anticancer drugs and/or radiation, the patient receives the stem cells through an intravenous (IV) line just like a blood transfusion. This part of the transplant takes 1 to 5 hours.
First isolated in 1998, there is a lot of controversy around acquiring embryonic stem cells. Thankfully, we can also acquire the stem cells that form just a little bit later down the road, like in the umbillical cord tissue. These stem cells, known as adult stem cells, stay with us for life. (Later, we will learn why not all adult stem cells are equal.) Adult stem cells are more limited in the types of cells they can become, something known as being tissue-specific, but share many of the same qualities. Hematopoietic stem cells (Greek "to make blood" and pronounced he-mah-toe-po-ee-tic) found in the umbilical cord's blood, for instance, can become any of the different types of blood cells found in the body and are the foundation of our immune system. Another example is mesenchymal (meh-sen-ki-mal) stem cells, which can be found in the umbilical cord tissue and can become a host of cells including those found in your nervous system, sensory organs, circulatory tissues, skin, bone, cartilage, and more.
In terms of performance, our PrepaCyte-CB processing method has taken the lead. PrepaCyte-CB greatly improves on parents' returns on investment because it yields the highest number of stem cells while showing the greatest reduction in red blood cells.1–4 Clinical transplant data show that cord blood processed with PrepaCyte-CB engrafts more quickly than other processing methods.7 This means patients may start feeling better more quickly, may spend less time in the hospital and are less likely to suffer from an infection. The ability to get better more quickly and a reduced chance of infection can prove vital in certain cases. Learn more about PrepaCyte®-CB here.
The longest study to date, published in 2011 by Broxmeyer at al found that stem cells cyro-preserved for 22.5 years engrafted as expected. There was no significant loss of stem cell recovery or proliferation.
After the baby is born and the umbilical cord has been cut, blood is retrieved from the umbilical cord and placenta. This process poses minimal health risk to the mother or the child. If the mother agrees, the umbilical cord blood is processed and frozen for storage by the cord blood bank. Only a small amount of blood can be retrieved from the umbilical cord and placenta, so the collected stem cells are typically used for children or small adults.
Your own cord blood will always be accessible. This applies only if you pay to store your cord blood at a private bank. The blood is reserved for your own family; nobody else can access or use it, and it will never be allotted to another family or be donated to research. If you donate your cord blood to a public bank, on the other hand, anyone who needs compatible cord blood can have it; there's no guarantee that it will be available if and when your family needs it.
^ a b Thornley, I; et al. (March 2009). "Private cord blood banking: experiences and views of pediatric hematopoietic cell transplantation physicians". Pediatrics. 123 (3): 1011–7. doi:10.1542/peds.2008-0436. PMC 3120215 . PMID 19255033.
Hematopoietic stem cells can be used to treat more than 70 types of diseases, including diseases of the immune system, genetic disorders, neurologic disorders, and some forms of cancer, including leukemia and lymphoma. For some of these diseases, stem cells are the primary treatment. For others, treatment with stem cells may be used when other treatments have not worked or in experimental research programs.
Cord Blood Registry is headquartered in South San Francisco, California. CBR owns their 80,000 square foot laboratory located in Tucson, Arizona. CBR's laboratory processes cord blood collections seven days a week, 365 days a year. The state-of-the-art facility has the capacity to store the stem cell samples of five million newborns.
Bone marrow and similar sources often requires an invasive, surgical procedure and one's own stem cells may already have become diseased, which means the patient will have to find matching stem cells from another family member or unrelated donor. This will increase the risk of GvHD. In addition, finding an unrelated matched donor can be difficult, and once a match is ascertained, it may take valuable weeks, even months, to retrieve. Learn more about why cord blood is preferred to the next best source, bone marrow.
Several research teams have reported studies in animals suggesting that cord blood can repair tissues other than blood, in diseases ranging from heart attacks to strokes. These findings are controversial: scientists often cannot reproduce such results and it is not clear HOW cord blood may be having such effects. When beneficial effects are observed they may be very slight and not significant enough to be useful for developing treatments. If there are positive effects, they might be explained not by cord blood cells making nerve or heart cells, but by the cells in the cord blood releasing substances that help the body repair damage.
The major risk of both treatments is an increased susceptibility to infection and bleeding as a result of the high-dose cancer treatment. Doctors may give the patient antibiotics to prevent or treat infection. They may also give the patient transfusions of platelets to prevent bleeding and red blood cells to treat anemia. Patients who undergo BMT and PBSCT may experience short-term side effects such as nausea, vomiting, fatigue, loss of appetite, mouth sores, hair loss, and skin reactions.
There is not one right answer. Your family's medical history and personal preferences will play a major role in this decision process. However, we can help you make sense of the available options. Continue to follow our guide on cord blood to understand what is the best choice for your family.
^ a b c American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Hematology/Oncology; American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Allergy/Immunology; Lubin, BH; Shearer, WT (January 2007). "Cord blood banking for potential future transplantation". Pediatrics. 119 (1): 165–70. doi:10.1542/peds.2006-2901. PMID 17200285.
In order to preserve more types and quantity of umbilical cord stem cells and to maximize possible future health options, Cryo-Cell's umbilical cord tissue service provides expectant families with the opportunity to cryogenically store their newborn's umbilical cord tissue cells contained within substantially intact cord tissue. Should umbilical cord tissue cells be considered for potential utilization in a future therapeutic application, further laboratory processing may be necessary. Regarding umbilical cord tissue, all private blood banks' activities for New York State residents are limited to collection, processing, and long-term storage of umbilical cord tissue stem cells. The possession of a New York State license for such collection, processing and long-term storage does not indicate approval or endorsement of possible future uses or future suitability of these cells.
Upon arrival at CBR's laboratory, the kit is immediately checked in and inspected. Next, the cord blood unit is tested for sterility, viability, and cell count. In addition, the cord tissue is tested for sterility. CBR processes cord blood using the AutoXpress® Platform* (AXP®) – a fully automated, functionally closed stem cell processing technology. The AXP platform is an integral component of CBR's proprietary CellAdvantage® system. CBR has the industry's highest published average cell recovery rate of 99%.
A large challenge facing many areas of medical research and treatments is correcting misinformation. Some companies advertise services to parents suggesting they should pay to freeze their child's cord blood in a blood bank in case it's needed later in life. Studies show it is highly unlikely that the cord blood will ever be used for their child. However, clinicians strongly support donating cord blood to public blood banks. This greatly helps increase the supply of cord blood to people who need it.
Cord blood is used to treat children with cancerous blood disorders such as leukaemia, or genetic blood diseases like Fanconi anaemia. The cord blood is transplanted into the patient, where the HSCs can make new, healthy blood cells to replace those damaged by the patient's disease or by a medical treatment such as chemotherapy for cancer.
The stem cells used for autologous transplantation must be relatively free of cancer cells. The harvested cells can sometimes be treated before transplantation in a process known as "purging" to get rid of cancer cells. This process can remove some cancer cells from the harvested cells and minimize the chance that cancer will come back. Because purging may damage some healthy stem cells, more cells are obtained from the patient before the transplant so that enough healthy stem cells will remain after purging.
After your baby is born the umbilical cord will be clamped and cut. Using ViaCord's collection kit, your medical professional will insert a needle into the umbilical cord and let the remaining blood drain into our collection bag.
There are a number of different processing methods out there for a cord blood bank to use, and the processing method can ultimately affect the purity of the final product, which we'll explain in a minute. Once the stem and immune system cells have been isolated and extracted from the plasma and red blood cell, they are mixed with a cryo-protectant and stored in a cryo-bag. We overwrap our bags for added protection and use a technique called "controlled-rate freezing" to prepare the cells for long-term storage. The overwrapped cryo-bag is housed in a protective metal cassette and placed in vapor-phase liquid nitrogen freezer for long-term preservation.
Some brochures advertising private cord blood banking show children with cerebral palsy, a neurological disorder, who were treated with their own stem cells. In the case of Cord Blood Registry, the company lists all stem cell transplants conducted at Duke University. In a list of individuals treated in their "stem cell therapy data" cerebral palsy is listed. However, transplants were part of an early research study and studies of efficacy are just now underway.
With the consent of the parents, blood can be collected from the umbilical cord of a newborn baby shortly after birth. This does not hurt the baby or the mother in any way, and it is blood that would otherwise be discarded as biological waste along with the placenta (another rich source of stem cells) after the birth.
Parents who wish to donate cord blood are limited by whether there is a public bank that collects donations from the hospital or clinic where their baby will be born. Search our list of public banks in your country. Parents who wish to store cord blood and/or cord tissue for their family can find and compare private banks in your country. Family banks usually offer payment plans or insurance policies to lower the cost of cord blood banking.
BioInformant is the first and only market research firm to specialize in the stem cell industry. BioInformant research has been cited by major news outlets that include the Wall Street Journal, Nature Biotechnology, Xconomy, and Vogue Magazine. Serving Fortune 500 leaders that include GE Healthcare, Pfizer, and Goldman Sachs. BioInformant is your global leader in stem cell industry data.
Lead image of baby's umbilical cord from Wikimedia Commons. Possible human blood stem cell image by Rajeev Gupta and George Chennell. Remaining images of blood sample bags and red blood cells from Wellcome Images.
Bone marrow is the soft, sponge-like material found inside bones. It contains immature cells known as hematopoietic or blood-forming stem cells. (Hematopoietic stem cells are different from embryonic stem cells. Embryonic stem cells can develop into every type of cell in the body.) Hematopoietic stem cells divide to form more blood-forming stem cells, or they mature into one of three types of blood cells: white blood cells, which fight infection; red blood cells, which carry oxygen; and platelets, which help the blood to clot. Most hematopoietic stem cells are found in the bone marrow, but some cells, called peripheral blood stem cells (PBSCs), are found in the bloodstream. Blood in the umbilical cord also contains hematopoietic stem cells. Cells from any of these sources can be used in transplants.
A limitation of cord blood is that it contains fewer HSCs than a bone marrow donation does, meaning adult patients often require two volumes of cord blood for treatments. Researchers are studying ways to expand the number of HSCs from cord blood in labs so that a single cord blood donation could supply enough cells for one or more HSC transplants.
Patients with leukemia, lymphoma, or certain inherited metabolic or immune system disorders have diseased blood-forming cells. For some patients, an umbilical cord blood or bone marrow transplant (also called a BMT) may be their best treatment option.
Our annual storage fee is due every year on the birth date of the child and covers the cost of storage until the following birthday. The fee is the same $150 for both our standard and our premium cord blood services. The annual cord tissue storage fee is an additional $150.
The parents who make the decision to store their baby's cord blood and cord tissue are thinking ahead, wanting to do right from the start (even before the start), and taking steps to do whatever they can to protect their baby down the road. Today, many conscientious parents are also considering delayed cord clamping (DCC), a practice in which the umbilical cord is not clamped immediately but rather after it continues to pulse for an average of 30 seconds to 180 seconds. Many parents don't realize that they can delay the clamping of the cord and still bank their baby's cord blood. As noted early, our premium processing method, PrepaCyte-CB, is able to capture more immune system cells and reduce the greatest number of red blood cell contaminants. This makes it go hand in hand with delayed cord clamping because it is not as affected by volume, effectively making up for the smaller quantity with a superior quality. You can read more about delayed cord clamping vs. cord blood banking here.
According to Cord Blood Registry, cord blood is defined as "the blood that remains in your baby's umbilical cord after the cord has been cut, is a rich source of unique stem cells that can be used in medical treatments." Cord blood has been shown to help treat over 80 diseases, such as leukemia, other cancers, and blood disorders. This cord blood, which can be safely removed from your newborn's already-cut umbilical cord, can be privately stored for the purpose of possible use in the future for your child or family member. (It can also be donated to a public bank, but this is not widely available)
Haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) can make every type of cell in the blood – red cells, white cells and platelets. They are responsible for maintaining blood production throughout our lives. They have been used for many years in bone marrow transplants to treat blood diseases.
Umbilical cord blood contains haematopoietic (blood) stem cells. These cells are able to make the different types of cell in the blood – red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. Haematopoietic stem cells, purified from bone marrow or blood, have long been used in stem cell treatments for leukaemia, blood and bone marrow disorders, cancer (when chemotherapy is used) and immune deficiencies.


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Turkey Meatloaf
Just a heads up, this takes one hour to bake! But the preparation is pretty simple! And delicious, as always!
1 pound ground turkey
1 medium onion, peeled
2 eggs
½ cup salsa
¼ cup ketchup
¾ cup carrots, shredded
2 garlic cloves, minced
½ cup chicken broth
⅓ cup oats
2 teaspoons soy sauce
½ teaspoon ground pepper
8 large basil leaves, chopped
Preheat oven to 375°F.
In a small bowl mix together the oats and chicken broth. Next thinly slice ¼ of the onion. Set sliced onion aside (this will be used as a topping for the loaf). Chop the remaining onion. In a large bowl mix the turkey, eggs, chopped onion, salsa, ketchup, carrots, garlic, oat mixture, soy sauce, basil, and ground pepper. Once everything is mixed thoroughly, transfer the mixture into a loaf pan. Top the loaf with the sliced onions. Bake for about 1 hour or until the internal temperature reaches 165°F.


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Self Management
"management of or by oneself; the taking of responsibility for one's own behaviour and well-being."
Take responsibility - that can be an intimidating statement, however it can be fundamental to an efficient social and work life. People are generally happier when they have control over their own life and they tend to flourish when given more responsibility. Self-management gives you the opportunity to have more responsibility.
Here are 7 to keep yourself organized:
1) Color-coding
Color-coding may seem silly, but boy is it a life saver! Colour coding your planner or calendar can help you know the category of a task and how urgent it may be. For example, a bright neon pink can mean "get this done now!" while blue means "I've got time" and green can be "relax time".
2) Calendar
Calendars are amazing. If you don't already have one, get one now. A calendar is a great way to keep your life organized. Here you can colour-code tasks and meetings, you can keep track of due dates, you can also create a schedule of how to get a task done. Time-management leads to good self-management.
3) Know your strengths and weaknesses
Knowing what you are good and bad at will help you create a schedule that works best for you. On a task that is more difficult for you, allocate yourself more time to complete it.
4) Be accountable – accountability partner
When given tasks you need to stay loyal to them. Use your calendar or planner to prioritize and organize your time, and always try to get things done before their due date so you have time for edits, changes, and improvements.
5) Take a break
Breaks are equivalent to sanity. Even if you love to work and feel that a lunch break isn't necessary, take it. Your brain needs a rest from all the work. If you'd prefer to not waste your time eating during a break, read a book, do some yoga, or even mindlessly watch some Netflix. Anything you give yourself a break from your daily work tasks.
6) Be open to improvement
Other people have other ways of getting things done. Keep an open mind to other people's methods. Maybe you can learn something that will make your life a whole lot easier.
7) Work life balance
Work hard, play hard. One of the best statements ever made. Play could mean an awesome hiking adventure, travel, amusement park, or even sitting on the couch and watching tv all weekend. Either way balancing work with life is extremely important. How often do you hear a retired person say "I wish I worked more". Not often.
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Interpret, understand and teach the ACRL's new Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education
Facet Publishing have announced the publication of Teaching Information Literacy Reframed: 50+ framework-based exercises for creating information-literate learners by Joanna M Burkhardt.
This book offers a starting point to understanding and applying teaching practices to the six threshold concepts listed in the Association for College and Research Libraries' (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, an altogether new way of looking at information literacy.
Bestselling author and expert instructional librarian Burkhardt decodes the Framework, putting its conceptual approach into straightforward language and offering more than 50 classroom-ready Framework-based exercises.
Each chapter focuses on one of the six concepts and offers sample exercises that can be applied in single lecture periods or over semester-long courses. The book offers best practices in creating learning outcomes, assessments, and teaching tricks and tips. Finally, it offers perspectives on how learning, memory, and transfer of learning applies to the teaching of information literacy.
This book will assist librarians in teaching information literacy and enable their students to cross the threshold and become information literacy experts.


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Shirley Ann Session Edgerton is a Community Activist, Diversity Trainer, manager and avid cyclist.
Ms. Edgerton was raised in Mount Vernon, New York where she attended local schools. She graduated from Herbert Lehman College ( City University of New York) with a B.A. and Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts with a M.Ed. She began her trek in community work while exposing and involving her now three adult children in community activities.
She is the founder of the Women of Color Giving Circle, the Rites of Passage and Empowerment program and founding Director of Youth Alive performing Arts group. She retired from the Department of Developmental Services as the Director of Berkshire County State Operated Homes for adults with Mental Retardation in January 2015.
After 25 years of services to the department she decided to focus her attentions on other passions. Youth development has been a driving force in her life. Ms. Edgerton credits the women in her life starting with her grandmother as the motivators that incited the fire that drives her to mentor youth. Youth Alive is over twenty years old, this performance arts group has supported hundreds of youth in developing life skills, leadership and team building skills and improving on their self-esteem. The members have participated in cultural and academic programming. YA is proud of its alums and the very low rates of teenage pregnancy and high school drop-out over the years.
The Rites of Passage program is five years old, targets junior and high school girls. This holistic program celebrates girls entry into womanhood and provides the girls with skills and knowledge to be successful and independent women. In 2014, 7 girls graduated from high school and 7 were accepted and are attending college. ROPE collaborates with numerous organizations including Colonial Theatre where 2 of the girls are interns and the Flying Cloud Institute where 5 of the girls are mentors in elementary schools in girls Science Clubs. Other members travelled to Ghana, West Africa in the summer of 2014 and shared with girls from Ghana.
Ms. Edgerton enjoys engaging youth and the community, she is grateful for the women that were role models in her life, so she is paying it forward. Currently, she and the ROPE program are preparing for a visit of four girls from South Africa where she visited and led workshops. She also is working part-time with Pittsfield School Department to assist in recruiting teachers of colors, organizing Diversity training and initiating mentoring programs for the students.


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The perfect blazer is a closet staple. So, we designed ours in a supple lambskin that adds that bit of edge to any outfit. Styled with trousers, denim, or over a dress, this piece is a seasonless classic. Cut with a tailored fit and lined in 100% water color printed silk.
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driving conditions and tell the local authority when
the roads need to be gritted. Indoor lights could track
shoppers and then send them marketing messages on
their smartphones.
But it's miniaturisation, not intelligence, that is driving
aesthetics. As LEDs and their associated electronics get
smaller, product designers have growing freedom to
create luminaires that were simply not possible before.
In some cases this results in whimsy, but hey, the world
needs a bit of whimsy right now. The playful Yanzi
unveiled by Artemide – always a go-to stand at Light
+ Building – is a case in point. Designed by Shanghai-based architect and design duo Lyndon Neri and
Rossana Hu of Neri&Hu (Lighting Vol 50 No 1), it's
what lighting manufacturers are increasingly calling a
'system', a family of components that can be put together
to create, in this case, a graphical structure of branches
and perches, on which can sit stylised swallow-like
birds. The birds, some of whom perch free and some
of whom are in 'cages', have brushed brass bodies,
with their heads a glowing glass sphere. Designed to
animate a space, the lightweight compositions have a
quirkiness and a poetry that's rare in lighting.
Also on the Artemide stand was the Ipno, a design by
the legendary Michele De Lucchi, the man who gave
the company the iconic and spectacularly successful
Tolomeo desk lamp back in 1986. The Ipno appears
to blend modernity and heritage in a suspended clear
glass body. Inside the hand-blown crystal, an optical
unit directs and concentrates the light on to a glazed
part of the bottom surface of the outer body to diffuse
and open it up with soft direct emission.
The glazed surface conceals the inside of the optical
device from direct sight to prevent glare while the
inner optical unit works according to the principle
of total internal reflection. It comes to life when light
passes through the material, but only a minimum rate
of light is emitted into the environment in a diffused
and uncontrolled manner.
Artemide's other outstanding creation was Calipso, by
Scottish designer Neil Poulton. The unique honeycomb
grill was apparently generated by feeding a photo of
the moon into an image-based algorithm found on a
seemingly extinct computer.
The resulting fractal shape, an impure geometry
that displays the irregular beauty of nature, is built
from an organic honeycomb of different diameter
tubes, seemingly arranged in a random geometry.
This honeycomb pattern characterises the lamp both
aesthetically and optically – not only is it visually
arresting, but it softens the light.
Poulton was mentored by Philippe Starck, who these
days does much of his work for Artemide's arch rival


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Netflix has a hidden Stan Lee tribute and it's awesome. Lee passed away earlier this week at the age of 95. While his death is certainly sad, it has produced a number of amazing tributes from fans and people who have worked with the comic book legend for years. The original Avengers took out a full page ad to pay tribute to Lee, while several others have made art, posted pictures, and taken time out of their day to thank Stan Lee for all that he helped introduce to the world.
Netflix still has Marvel Studios content for the time being, and they've added a pretty cool Stan Lee Easter Egg. When you go to the search function, enter Lee's iconic catchphrase, "Excelsior!" and then hit enter. All of the available Marvel content on the streaming platform will show up. Thor: Ragnarok, Black Panther, Spider-Man 3, Jessica Jones, and much more. It's a simple, yet fitting tribute that Stan Lee fans will more than likely enjoy.
Excelsior means "ever upward" in Latin. Stan Lee would often use the word with an exclamation point at the end of it during his cameos or his public appearances. He started using the word in the 1960s when he wrote his monthly column, titled Stan's Soapbox, for Marvel's Bullpen Bulletins. He would end every column with "Excelsior!" and it became his catchphrase. Lee had this to say about the origins of using the word.
"I used to have a lot of expressions that I would end my comic book columns with: Hang Loose, Face Front, 'Nuff Said, and I found that the competition was always imitating them and using them. So, I said I'm going to get one expression that they're not going to know what it means, and they won't know how to spell it. And that's where excelsior came from, and they never did take up on it, thank goodness."
While looking up Excelsior! on Netflix, you can also check out some of Stan Lee's many cameos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and beyond. One of his best cameos is in Thor: Ragnarok where he shows up to cut Thor's hair with a pretty evil looking device. While it's not on Netflix right now, Stan Lee's cameo in Ant-Man and the Wasp is another standout, which is pretty hilarious. Now would be a good time to try and track down as many of his cameos on the streaming platform before Disney launches their own in 2019.
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While Marvel fans are bummed that there won't be many Stan Lee cameos in the future, he already filmed, or voiced a few before he passed away. It was recently revealed that Lee is featured in Wreck-It Ralph 2 as well as Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Additionally, he'll have live-action cameos in Captain Marvel and Avengers 4, which hit theaters next year. It's unclear as to whether or not Lee filmed a cameo for Spider-Man: Far From Home, but Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige has hinted at some tricks up the studio's sleeve. Head over to Netflix and search for "Excelsior!"


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We're official.... we're skippers!
We flew to the island of Skiathos to take a sailing course through the neighboring Greek Isles. The course was designed to give us the skills and abilities we need to handle a boat on our own. We were often reminded by our British instructor, "You are on a course, not a holiday." His words rang true each day as we were focused on learning from sun up to sundown. Nonetheless, we still had a marvelous time laughing with our three British classmates. After 5 intense days, we can now charter a sailboat in any part of the world!
On our last day of sailing, several dolphins swam right next to our boat. Two of them followed us for a while and even came right up to the bow of the boat to check us out. They would swim from side to side on the bow of the boat and were about 3 feet from the side of the boat at one point. It was amazing!
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Later today, we will have another interview with a big name in Virginia politics: Senator Jill Vogel, (R-27, Winchester). She joins Lt. Governor Bill Bolling, who last week participated in a live interview with questions taken from readers (see here); and Dr. Bob Holsworth, Virginia's nationally known and respected political analyst, which we posted in two parts: Tuesday (here) and Wednesday (here). If you don't know Senator Vogel, you should: She's a rising star in Virginia politics and an effective voice for conservatism in the very liberal Senate. She has quickly risen to one of that chamber's leaders on a number of issues. She is the only Republican woman in the Senate and has carried important legislation for us in the past, such as safety bills for unregulated abortion centers. This year, she is one of the leaders of the soon-to-be-signed-into-law Health Care Freedom legislation that exempts Virginia and Virginians from individual federal government health care mandates.
We look forward to hosting Senator Vogel and hope you check back later today. We are sure you will find the interview informative and insightful.