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Kid Cruz updates
Horse named for New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz
May 18 -- Vina Del Mar Thoroughbreds and Black Swan Stable's Kid Cruz came out of his eighth-place Preakness finish in good shape and was boarded on a van headed home to Belmont Park shortly after 6 a.m. Sunday morning.
"He came out well and everything was good this morning," said trainer Linda Rice, who remained behind for the sales in Timonium this week. "We will fight again."
Whether that's against California Chrome in the Belmont Stakes in three weeks is still an uncertainty, Rice said.
"I'd say we're about 50-50 right now," said the first woman to ever win a Saratoga Race Course training title. No woman trainer has ever won a Triple Crown race.
Rice said she would meet with the colt's owners sometime soon and make a final determination.
Kid Cruz has had only six career starts, three of them victories, but Rice is confident that the son of 1999 Belmont Stakes winner Lemon Drop Kid has his best races in front of him.
"He's still catching up," she said. "He just had too much to do yesterday. We know he's got talent."
May 16 -- Vina Del Mar Thoroughbreds and Black Swan Stable's Kid Cruz, rated at 20-1 in the morning line for Saturday's Preakness, went out to the track early Friday morning for a 1 1/8-mile gallop over a sloppy Pimlico strip with exercise rider Reul Munoz in the irons.
Trainer Linda Rice, bidding to become the first female trainer to win the Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown, realizes that making his graded-stakes debut in the Preakness will be an uphill battle for the son of Lemon Drop Kid.
"I've been racing horses for quite a few years, but I typically don't like to go places that I don't have a chance," the New York-based trainer said. "I've never been here for this. I know he won't be short odds, but I still think he deserves a shot."
Kid Cruz won the Federico Tesio Stakes over the Pimlico track on April 19 after scoring in the Private Terms Stakes at Laurel.
"I'm not so sure Pimlico is the same when they ran the Tesio as it will be on Preakness Day," Rice said. "There's the big crowd, a lot of noise. It's much different, but he certainly ran well over the track. In some ways I think this is more of a speed-favoring track, but because they usually go hard and fast early, I'm hoping that's the case."
Kid Cruz, a $50,000 claim by Vina Del Mar Thoroughbreds after a November maiden win at Aqueduct, is a late runner whose speed figures may not stack up with some of the other Preakness contenders, particularly California Chrome, as Rice readily acknowledges.
"He looks slow (numbers-wise)," Rice said. "I think the Belmont (Stakes) is really his best option to beat these kinds of horses. I'm aware of that. We just need him to move forward here. We're still going to try hard on Saturday."
Julian Pimentel, who has been aboard for Kid Cruz's two recent victories, has the return mount for the Preakness.
May 15 -- Trainer Linda Rice was on hand to watch Kid Cruz go to the track for his regular post-6 a.m. gallop with exercise rider Reul Munoz. He and fellow Preakness contender General a Rod were out at the same time, but Rice was unaware of it.
"I didn't see him (General a Rod)," she said. "There was so much fog out there I was struggling to find my own horse. We let him stretch out down the lane a little bit and try to let him know where the wire is. He's doing well."
The son of Lemon Drop Kid is set to make his first graded-stakes start in the Preakness. He comes into the Preakness with only five starts, but his last two were stakes wins in the Private Terms at Laurel and the Federico Tesio at Pimlico. He is the only Preakness candidate to run over the Pimlico track.
"He's won over the track, so we're going to find out if he can handle this type of competition," said Rice, who will be saddling her first Preakness starter in hopes of making history. A female trainer never has won the Middle Jewel of Triple Crown. "I'm excited to see how it plays out. We're here and we're ready to go."
Owned by Vina Del Mar Thoroughbreds and Black Swan Stable, Kid Cruz appears to be one of the contenders who would benefit most from a lively, contested pace. All three of his victories have come from off the pace, sometimes far off it.
"When he ran in the Private Terms, he was so far back, I thought, 'Oh, my God, what's wrong?'" she said. "He was 22 lengths back. We planned to be off the pace and make a run, but that was a surprise to me and actually a concern at the time."
Jockey Julian Pimentel apparently was less concerned as Kid Cruz passed all nine opponents and went on to win by four widening lengths. However, that victory came with an unexpected price tag as Kid Cruz incurred an apparent shoulder injury that would keep him out of the Wood Memorial (G1) and cost him any chance he had of making the Kentucky Derby.
"I had sent him for a lot of tests and exams, nuclear scans and what not," Rice said. "We figured out everything it was not, and then landed on it being a pinched nerve at the base of his neck. He responded well to treatment, but that caused us to miss the Wood. I knew it was an outside chance we could even make the Wood, but I was trying to keep the Derby dream alive."
Plan B was the Tesio on April 19 as a prep for the Preakness. His 3 1/2-length victory in that race was less harrowing for Rice as Pimentel kept him a bit closer to the pace. Pimentel has ridden in the Preakness only once previously, having finished 11th aboard Norman Asbjornson in 2011.
"He impressed me enough in his last two races, and he's trained very well where I think he deserves a chance at this race," Rice said.
May 14 -- Vina Del Mar Thoroughbreds and Black Swan Stable's Kid Cruz was sent to the track early Wednesday morning for a 1 1/2-mile gallop under exercise rider Reul Munoz as he continued his preparation for Saturday's Preakness.
"He's fine, doing well and has settled into his new surroundings well," said trainer Linda Rice, who arrived in the Baltimore area later Wednesday morning and headed to the 2-year-olds-in-training sale at nearby Timonium."Everything's been pretty routine."
Named for New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz by Black Swan's managing partner John Destefano Jr., Kid Cruz is the only member of the 10-horse Preakness field with a race at Pimlico. He won the ungraded Federico Tesio Stakes here on April 19 by 3 1/2 lengths in a small field of six sophomores.
"That's definitely a plus," Rice said. "But these are much better horses, so he'll have to step up quite a bit. We're excited to try it."
Rice's other concern centered on the weather and a possibility of a less-than-fast track.
"He's never run in the mud," said Rice, who is preparing to saddle her first Preakness runner. "He's trained well in the mud -- I mean galloped well in the mud -- but I've never breezed (worked) him."
The son of Lemon Drop Kid has tasted defeat only once in four dirt starts after a dismal debut on grass for then-trainer Bill Mott. He was beaten less than a length in an Aqueduct allowance race in his first start after being claimed for $50,000 by Vina Del Mar and partners Steven Brandt of Frederick, Md. and Richard Boylan. Destefano, a former trainer, subsequently bought back into the colt he had named.
Rice is set to become the 15th woman to saddle a Preakness contender. The late Nancy Alberts saddled 45-1 shot Magic Weisner for a second-place finish behind War Emblem in the 2002 edition.
May 13 -- Assistant trainer Samantha Randazzo supervised a routine gallop for Kid Cruz in the colt's first trip over the Pimlico racing strip Tuesday morning shortly after 6:30 a.m.
Trainer Linda Rice is scheduled to be on hand at Pimlico for Wednesday's post-position draw for the Preakness.
"He got in last night at about 8 o'clock and had a nice mile-and-a-half gallop this morning over the track," Rice said by phone from her Belmont Park base.
Rice said she plans to gallop the colt the rest of the week and plans to school him in the paddock sometime on Thursday.
Julian Pimentel, who has been aboard a pair of ungraded stakes victories by Kid Cruz in Maryland, will also be going for his first Preakness victory in only his second mount. He finished 11th with Norman Asbjornson in the 2011 edition.
Rice, representing Vina Del Mar Thoroughbreds, claimed Kid Cruz from Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott for $50,000 off his maiden-breaking win on dirt at Aqueduct on Nov. 13. Mott had tried the son of Lemon Drop Kid on grass in his first start with no success before making the surface switch to dirt. Rice was paying attention.
"I spoke to the connections and we decided to put in the claim," said Rice, who was the first female to ever win a training title at Saratoga Race Course in 2009. "I really liked his conformation and the way he moved."
After closing to finish second in an allowance at Aqueduct on Jan. 26 to begin his sophomore season, Kid Cruz was shipped to Laurel and rewarded his connections with a resounding four-length victory in the $100,000 Private Terms.
The Wood Memorial was next on Kid Cruz's schedule but he couldn't make the race, so Rice opted to aim for the Preakness. He prepped for the Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown with another easy victory in the Federico Tesio at Pimlico on April 19.
"He's stepping up in class considerably," said Rice, who is preparing to saddle her first Preakness starter. "His numbers aren't as good as most of the horses in the field, so we know he'll have to step up in this race, but we're excited to give him the chance. He deserves it."
May 12 -- Federico Tesio winner Kid Cruz galloped and was schooled at the gate for the second day in a row at Belmont Park in preparation for a van ride to Pimlico Race Course that would arrive between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. Monday, according to trainer Linda Rice.
Owned by Vina Del Mar Thoroughbreds and Black Swan Stable, Kid Cruz will be one of seven non-Kentucky Derby starters in Saturday's expected field of 10 for the 139th Preakness. At least four of the competitors have shown an affinity for early speed while Kid Cruz is a well documented closer.
"It certainly can't hurt," Rice said. "In his two previous races (Tesio and Private Terms), there's been no pace at all and he's managed to close into it. These are much faster horses, though. Hopefully he can catch them."
Kid Cruz was especially impressive in winning the nine-furlong Private Terms at Laurel in his first stakes start on March 8. Sitting dead last in a field of 10 in the backstretch, the son of Lemon Drop Kid passed the entire field under jockey Julian Pimentel and won by four lengths. The margin was 3 ½ lengths in the Tesio at Pimlico on April 19.
Rice will attempt to become the first female trainer to win the Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown and is already set to make history as part of the race's first edition to include a female trainer, jockey (Rosie Napravnik) and horse (Ria Antonia). Unaware of that scenario, Rice said she's more focused on the race itself.
Rice paused for a few seconds, then laughed. "I'm still rooting for Kid Cruz," she said.
Pimentel, who rode in both stakes wins, will be aboard the former claimer for the third time on Saturday.
May 11 -- The two-time Maryland stakes winner galloped 1 1/2 miles and did some gate schooling at Belmont Park Sunday morning, Trainer Linda Rice, who is slated to saddle her first Preakness starter Saturday, reported that the son of Lemon Drop Kid was scheduled to school in the paddock before the fourth race on Sunday.
"He's sharp and he's ready for a race," said Rice, who plans to van the Federico Tesio and Private Terms winner to Pimlico after training at Belmont on Monday. "It's a very prestigious race, and it's very exciting to have a horse go to the Preakness that deserves mention. Frankly, I'm really not interested in going to a race unless I think we have a legitimate chance."
Kid Cruz took an unlikely and circuitous route to the Preakness, having originally been purchased by Black Swan Stable for $80,000 at the 2012 Keeneland September Sale and sent to trainer by Bill Mott. After a dismal outing in his debut on grass, he was claimed out of a maiden victory at Aqueduct for $50,000 by Vina Del Mar Thoroughbreds with Black Swan later buying back a share of the colt.
He has since won two of three starts on dirt for Rice, including the ungraded stakes at Laurel and Pimlico. The Preakness will be the first graded-stakes start for the confirmed late runner.
"We were not able to consider the Kentucky Derby because he didn't have any points to get into it," Rice said. "I had entered in the Wood Memorial (Aqueduct) with hopes of running, but we weren't able to run that day. We ran him in the Tesio (Pimlico) instead in hopes of making the Preakness. It's going to be a big step up in competition from his two previous wins, but at this point I'm excited about giving it a try."
May 10 -- Maryland-based jockey Julian Pimentel will ride Kid Cruz in the Preakness Stakes for trainer Linda Rice. It will be Pimentel's second start in Maryland's signature race; he was up on Norman Asbjornson, who was 11th in 2011.
"It's very exciting to be in those kind of races," Pimentel said, "I'm really looking forward to it. It was a great experience back then. I'm pretty sure this is going to be the same."
Pimentel, 33, rode Kid Cruz to off-the-pace victories in the Private Terms on March 8 at Laurel and the Federico Tesio on April 19 at Pimlico.
"He's a really nice horse," Pimentel said. "I've ridden him twice and he's won both times. He did it going away pretty good. We've got a race on the racetrack, which should help. It's a tough race, but he's tough."
Kid Cruz is scheduled to train at Belmont Park on Monday morning and ship to Pimlico later in the day.


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Insulin pumps may control blood sugar better for some Type 2 diabetics: study
By Sheryl Ubelacker
TORONTO — Insulin pumps appear to be significantly better at controlling blood-sugar levels in some people with hard-to-treat Type 2 diabetes compared to the standard therapy of multiple daily insulin injections, an international study has found.
Type 2 diabetes, in which the pancreas doesn't make enough insulin or the body doesn't use the hormone effectively, is typically controlled by diet and medication, but most people also end up needing insulin therapy to manage their blood sugar as the disease advances.
However, about a third of these patients have difficulty achieving optimal blood-sugar control with insulin injections, which they must administer several times a day. Poor blood-glucose management can lead to such complications as vision damage, cardiovascular disease and kidney failure.
Insulin pumps deliver continuous amounts of rapid- or short-acting insulin through a catheter placed under the skin, without the need for self-injection.
The 2010-2013 study involved 331 people, aged 30 to 75, with Type 2 diabetes in Canada, Europe, Israel, South Africa and the United States. Researchers randomly assigned roughly half the patients to receive treatment with insulin pumps, while the rest continued with multiple daily injections.
Each therapy delivers both basal insulin to cover daily needs and bolus insulin taken near mealtimes. Diabetics on injections take long-acting insulin to cover their basal needs, and rapid-action insulin to cover carbohydrate intake. Insulin pumps deliver small amounts of rapid-action insulin throughout the day and night to cover basal needs, and users can program additional "boluses" to cover food intake.
Before being split into the two groups, all patients had gone through a two-month "run-in" period to optimize their blood-sugar control, "adjusting doses the best that we could," said Toronto endocrinologist Dr. Ronnie Aronson, a co-principal investigator of the OpT2mise trial published Thursday in the Lancet. Each group then followed their therapy regimen for six months.
"At the end of the six months, we found the blood sugar had improved significantly more in the group that was pumping as opposed to the group that had remained on multiple daily injections," Aronson said Wednesday. "And that difference was quite significant both from a statistical point of view and very meaningful from a clinical point of view."
The study found that 55 per cent of diabetics on an insulin pump were able to meet their blood-glucose target, compared to 28 per cent of those on daily injections.
"That's nearly twice as many," said Aronson, noting that "glycated hemoglobin" — the three-month average of blood-sugar readings — dipped by 1.1 per cent in the insulin-pump group versus 0.4 per cent among those injecting insulin.
"So there was a difference, or a benefit, of 0.7 (per cent), which in diabetes terms is enormous. And the pumping group was able to do it with less insulin. And that's really not been seen before. That's a very significant finding as well," he said.
"The main implication is that for patients with Type 2 diabetes who are already using insulin and struggling to achieve the optimal control of their blood sugars, using a pump may be a more effective way to improve their blood sugar, to improve their chance of getting to target levels and to do it with less insulin and in a safe way."
Doctors don't know why the device is more effective in controlling blood sugar for some people, but it may be that continuously pumped insulin is better absorbed and used more effectively by the body. Medication-dose compliance may also play a role, Aronson said.
"When you're using an insulin pump, you're definitely getting all of the prescribed insulin in a given day. When you have to remember to take three or four or five injections a day, it's possible that from time to time you may forget to take those injections.
"It's probably a combination of both."
Lead author Dr. Yves Reznik of the University of Caen Cote de Nacre Regional Hospital Center in Caen, France, agreed that pumps enhance insulin absorption and increase insulin sensitivity due to the drug's continuous delivery through the skin.
"Our findings open up a valuable new treatment option for those individuals failing on current injection regimens and may also provide improved convenience, reducing the burden of dose-tracking and scheduling, and decreasing insulin injection omissions," Reznik said in a statement.
The study was funded by Medtronic, which manufactures insulin pumps, but Aronson said the company was "entirely hands off. We had full independence. We were not interfered with or influenced."
In a Lancet commentary, Dr. Pratik Choudhary of King's College London said the study "provides a compelling case for the clinical effectiveness of insulin-pump treatment in Type 2 diabetes, suggesting that it can help improve glycemic control in this difficult to treat group of patients who are unable to achieve glucose control despite increasing doses of insulin."
"However, cost-effectiveness of pumps in different health-care systems will need to be evaluated," he writes.
In Canada, there are several models of insulin pumps made by different manufacturers. Their average price tag is about $7,000, which does not include the $250 monthly cost for supplies. The devices can be used by people with either Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes. Some private insurance plans will reimburse all or some of the cost. Several provincial health insurance plans also cover the cost of insulin pumps for certain groups of diabetics.
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OVERLAND PARK, KS — Online self-service options headline some of the latest trends in the software sector of the industry, according to vendors.
The most significant trend in the next three to five years, says Paul Sage, director of marketing for ABC Financial, Little Rock, AR, will be automated methods for members and prospects to buy products and services.
"Convenience is the top priority of today's consumer in industries across the board," Sage says.
With that in mind, ABC Financial recently introduced its newest software product, MYiCLUBonline, which features an online enrollment function as well as other ways for members to manage their accounts with a club.
"Club owners will see an increase and improvement in automatic communication software that focuses on building customer relationships," Sage says. "This advancement will be especially effective for recurring services, like personal training, as well as overall retention campaigns."
Fiserv Inc., Brookfield, WI, offers member self-service and online scheduling of classes and appointments. Fiserv also provides software that allows clubs to sell additional services, such as personal training, the nursery or towel service, as a recurring EFT, allowing members flexibility with their method of payment. Last month, Fiserv became the preferred software vendor for World Gym International, Los Angeles.
ASF International, Highlands Ranch, CO, is testing a new software component that can capture signatures on Apple's new iPad, says Sean Kirby, national sales director. Once members have taken a tour of the club and are ready to sign a membership, club staff can have the members sign right on the employee's iPad, much like they would on an electronic signature pad, Kirby says.
Another component that ASF is working on is goal-setting tracking software that allows club operators to set goals in the areas of sales revenue, personal training revenue and point-of-sale revenue and compare those goals with the club's day-to-day performance. ASF plans to release the component this month. Last month, ASF introduced a software component that lets club owners know if a bank has rejected a member's payment for personal training.
"This protects the owner from having to pay the trainer for sessions that the member didn't pay for," Kirby says.
CSI Software's online services include online joining, in which a club can control which memberships to make available online. Clubs also can implement different pricing online than in the club. The Houston-based company's software allows for members to pay in full with a credit card or set up EFT drafting for monthly memberships, says Andy Wigderson, vice president of sales and marketing for CSI.
New features from CSI include camp management, which allows operators to manage all functions relating to the club's day camps, and "shark tank," which allows sales staff to see which prospects have been inactive for a period of time, allowing anyone on the sales staff a chance to claim leads.
Understanding which members are not participating in the club is important to club operators, says James Reyes, general manager of The Active Network, San Diego.
"Every month, [club operators] can get a report of who has not visited their club in the last two months, then reach out to them with a personalized e-mail," Reyes says. "It's taking the transactional information to the next level."
Like CSI, Twin Oaks Software, Berlin, CT, allows online joining. Carole Oat, national sales manager for Twin Oaks, says the company's online joining component attracted steady traffic to its booth at the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association show in March.
Regarding booking club appointments online, Oat says that that trend has grown more in urban areas, including cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Atlanta, where people on the go can stop in a coffee shop or use a hand-held device to schedule an appointment. By contrast, members of clubs in suburban areas tend to do most of their scheduling right in the club, Oat says.
Although members may use a club's website to join, it still does not replace the experience of shopping clubs in person, says Kyle Zagrodzky, president of Go Figure Inc., Houston.
"In a fantasy world, it would be great if everybody signed up online," Zagrodzky says. "But you don't want club operators to get distracted by the convenience of technology in relation to face-to-face selling and the impact it could have on member retention."
One way to connect signing up online and joining a club in person, Zagrodzky says, is to require members to take a tour of the club or have staff conduct an orientation even after the members have signed up through the club's website.
Another business aspect that club operators can keep track of through a software component is the way members schedule classes online. Time limits — perhaps two weeks in advance at the most — for class scheduling and instructor scheduling could be necessary, Zagrodzky says. Also, clubs could set a maximum number of classes or appointments on the website for members to choose, creating an opportunity for further member scheduling inside the club.
"You don't want people to schedule themselves two years into the future," he says.
Club operators must remain compliant with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard, too. ABC Financial offers end-to-end credit card encryption software and peripherals to ensure the club itself is PCI compliant.
"End-to-end credit card encryption ensures sensitive credit and debit card data is protected from first-card swipe all the way to the payment processor," Sage says.


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The 2009 Princeton Lectures on
Youth, Church, and Culture
Sharing Not Only the Gospel, But Also Our Lives
The Princeton Lectures on Youth, Church, and Culture are designed to foster original scholarship pertaining to youth and the contemporary church. The lectures are delivered as a series at the Princeton Forum on Youth Ministry and are published online annually. Lecturers include scholars who are not directly involved in the practice or study of youth ministry but who can bring the fruits of their respective disciplines to bear on ministry with the young.
The theme for the 2009 lectures is "Sharing Not Only the Gospel, but Also Our Lives," from 1 Thessalonians 2:8. Youth leaders in today's church can easily speak Paul's words to believers in Thessalonica, written two thousand years ago. "So deeply do we care for you that we are determined to share not only the gospel of God, but also our own selves, because you have become very dear to us." The 2009 lectures address this passage through discussion of relational youth ministry, the transcendence of God, and the question of what gospel, "which Jesus" will we share.
2009 Lectures
- From an Incarnational Model of Ministry to Being Ministers of the Incarnate One OR Justin Versus Jan
- Encounter with the Transcendence of God: The Shape of Faithful Place-Sharing for Youth Ministry
- Which Jesus Shall We Teach?
From an Incarnational Model of Ministry to Being Ministers of the Incarnate One
OR Justin
Versus Jan
We had just finished singing some worship song now forgotten when the leader of our meeting picked up his Bible and turned to the first chapter of the Gospel of John. Gathered at the first of our youth ministry leader training meetings of the year, we all scampered to grab a last handful of junk food before he began.
After reading the first chapter of John, the leaders of the meeting began to teach us the significance of the incarnation as it relates to youth ministry. I secretly began to rank who could be most incarnational. My eyes admittedly focused on Justin. He was young, energetic, funny, and kids seemed drawn to him like a magnet. "That guy is incarnational," I thought. At the bottom of my list was Jan. She was in her early fifties, had four children, no time for TV, and dressed like she was in her eighties. Being incarnational will be hard for her,I thought.
Over the course of the year a strange thing happened. Justin remained outgoing, funny, constantly available, and magnetic. But Jan quickly accelerated herself up my (stupid) list and therefore destroyed it. I watched as Jan laughed, cried, prayed, and cared for so many young people. She was still older than Justin, less informed about pop culture, as well as less available and definitely less hip. But she was clearly more incarnational; she had a beautifully rich way of sharing who she was with adolescents. And she invited them to share themselves in the fullness of their suffering and joy. Jan bore each adolescent's story that she was privileged to know. Their realities seemed to affect her, to draw her into their situations so fully that she invested in them.
Justin was often too busy talking to listen, to wild to allow for moments of mutual care, understanding, and support. Justin could go into a school and attract kids to an event, but Jan could open her person to adolescents and invite them to be cared for in the love of Christ that she represented in her presence.
I began to realize that being incarnational had nothing to do with relational magnetism, as though being incarnational meant you could draw adolescents to yourself like movie stars attract paparazzi. The incarnation was about something different. It was about a God that so loved the world that God entered the world in the humanity of God's Son to be with and for those in the world, so that they might be with God (and therefore have salvation). To be incarnational in youth ministry has little to do with magnetism, little to do with your ability to attract adolescents with your aura of "cool." But it has everything to do with gently entering the lives of adolescents as we invite them to enter our own. It has everything to do with place-sharing.
Place-Sharing Vs. Influence
Ray Anderson in his significant (but unfortunately rarely read book) Historical Transcendence and the Reality of God calls the reader to move beyond considering the "incarnation as a theme, but [to instead consider] the incarnate One." 1 Unfortunately, youth ministry has not heeded Anderson's plea. In the last sixty years or so we have tended to see the incarnation as page 2 theme. In a changing world in which tight communal and familial structures gave way to rapid mobility, loss of traditionally centered communities, and the rise of individualism, youth ministry has seen the incarnation as an advantageous theme to give explanation (and justification) for a model of ministry that seeks to meet young people in their own world, in their own space and culture. The incarnation has been justification for making relationships the central activity of youth ministry. 2 Incarnational youth ministry often lives in the theme that just as God left one world to enter another, so adults leave their own world to be in the world of young people. This theme of leaving one world and entering another "earns the adult the right of the young person listening to their message." 3
Now, this was more than a needed (and helpful) transition that sought to missionally address a changing world. But it came with a problem, a problem that few us have directly shaken ourselves free from. The problem is that when the incarnation is considered as a theme it quickly turns into a function, a way of functioning. Justin understands the theme of behaving incarnationally; he now goes into the local junior high and functions incarnationally. As if he were going to a 1970s theme party, he puts on his incarnational ministry garb, seeking to function as an outgoing relational magnet. And we often hear or say things like, "I'm trying to be incarnational. We need a leader who can be incarnational. The function of our ministry is to be incarnational." When the incarnation becomes a theme it runs the danger of becoming something disconnected from the one, from the person, who is incarnate. 4 As a functional theme the relational quality of the incarnation quickly gets molded into a "tool," a tool of influence. 5
The function of being incarnational easily slides into seeking to influence young people toward the ends we want for them (e.g., to confess Christ, to stay in the congregation, to avoid drinking, to be service-oriented), all of which are good things. But these good things, because they are instrumental functions based in a theme, can, ironically, quickly make results or effects more important than the relationship itself. In other words, they can make the relationship serve the functional end. So now the relationship functions as a tool that gets kids to do, believe, or behave in a certain way. Because the incarnation is a theme that turns into a function, the relational core (the relationship to the young person) becomes instrumentalized. The relationship becomes an instrument; your relationship with the young person has an agenda, has an end that you are using the relationship to reach. Then it is not necessarily the young person's humanity that matters, but where your relationship and ministry is taking the young person. The relationship is only as important as the results it achieves. The relationship only matters as a tool to get to another end, which exists outside the relationship itself.
So ministry becomes about getting the depressed girl, through your relationship, over her depression, or the doubting boy, through your relationship, past his perplexed searching to belief. And of course, if she doesn't get better or he can't get through his doubt, then because your relationship has become a "tool" you are justified in abandoning these kids for others easier to influence (you have limited resources after all, limited tools). Your job is to influence kids through your relationship, and these kids are too stubborn (more truly too hurting) to be influenced. When the incarnation becomes a functional theme then it isn't the broken and beautiful humanity of the adolescent that matters but their ability to decide, choose, and behave. Relationship isn't the heart of ministry, but the best tool for ministry. Ministry becomes about making kids better (or into something, even something Christian), not joining them in their broken and yearning humanity.
But the incarnate one (to take the shift Anderson calls us to) has become human, truly human. Dietrich Bonhoeffer spilled a great amount ink in asserting that incarnation was not about a function, therefore it wasn't about a theme, but was about a person, about relationship (Stellvertretung). It is about God in God's fullness sharing our place, being our representative by being completely with and for us, by being our place-sharer. 6 While we continue to seek to move beyond our humanity, God becomes human, Bonhoeffer uttered. 7 The incarnation is about God, it is about the incarnate one, Jesus Christ, sharing our place, representing us and loving us by fully sharing our humanity so that we might be in relationship with God, not beyond, over, or around our broken humanity but within it. 8 The incarnation, then, isn't bound in the idea of a theme, but in the encounter of a person. God acts for our salvation, for our restored community with God, not through functions page 3 and tools, but by sharing our place, by becoming the God of an insignificant people (Israel), by being born from a poverty-stricken, morally suspicious girl, by being overcome by death and tragedy in the cross, by going all the way to hell, so now those places of Godforsaken brokenness (deep depression and deep doubt) become places where the incarnate one is found, places where we are called to join God not for a function but for the purpose of being with and being for.
To follow the incarnate one is to do as Jan did: to embrace our frail and fragile humanity as we turn toward young people. It is to see our relationships with young people not as tools to get us to other ends, but as ends in themselves, to act with and for them from the core of our yearning humanity. Ministry is not about getting kids right, but joining them in their humanity; it is not about confessing Christ outside or beyond our relationship with them, but within it, within its questions, fears, and yearnings. To follow the incarnate one in youth ministry is to see our relationships with young people as the invitation to share their place, to open our humanity to them as we invite them to open theirs to us, and thus to claim the presence and continued activity of the one who has truly become human for us. This is what Jan did!
Incarnational ministry then isn't a theme, but a reality; it is not a function but a person. The relationships at the center of incarnational ministry are not the road to some other place, but the destination itself, for in our action of encountering each other, through our broken and beautiful humanity, we concretely encounter God (I'll leave the ramifications of this for my next lecture). 9
But all of this can only be true if the incarnate one, Jesus, is still moving and active in the world, still a person to be encountered within our relationships one to another. Ironically, when the incarnation becomes just a theme and the youth worker's relationship to young people a tool for influence, we don't need a living and active God, we need only an exemplar to serve as a model. But to assert that God through Jesus is encountered in and through our relationships is to confess a God who remains dynamically active in the world.
Who Versus How
In my sophomore year at a Christian college my religion professor posed a provocative question to the class. He asked us, now a half semester through learning the basics of theology, when we were feeling confident, "Where is Jesus' body buried? If we wanted to visit his gravesite, where would we go?" The class paused; no hands shot up. Everyone was silent in deep contemplation. Many of us had just finished taking a semester of classes on the history and geography of the Holy Land. I thought to myself, It has to be somewhere in Jerusalem, right?
After a significant silence, the professor shook his head and said, "The Christian faith is the Christian faith because we believe that there is no tomb, or at least, there is no body in it. We believe Jesus is alive, you idiots!" (Okay, he didn't say the "you idiots" part, but that's how we all felt.)
Bonhoeffer believed that all theology, ministry, and faith begins with the question, "Who?" Who are you? Who is this Jesus of Nazareth? Who is this one who heals? Who teaches with authority? Who is this?
In the same way Bonhoeffer believed that the question "How?" was the question of disobedience. How is God present in Jesus? How is Jesus divine and human? How do I have faith in Jesus? How can I be good? The problem with a "How" question is that even if you get a "right" answer, there's no need for me to encounter the living person of Jesus Christ; in the how Jesus can just remain a theme, an example, a logo, for my functioning. The how costs me nothing.
"Who?" is the better question because "Who?" is a question of encounter. It assumes a relationship; it's a question that assumes that Jesus Christ is still living and moving in our world, continuing in ministry, encountering our person with his own person. "Who?" is about a relationship with Jesus Christ as living and still active in the world.page 4
The question "How?" on the other hand, is absent from encounter; it doesn't need a living Jesus, just a theme. It's simply a theoretical and functional question. "How?" can be solved on a blackboard and then walked away from. But "Who?" demands change and transformation. Encountering the "Who?" of Jesus Christ, encountering his living person, makes Jesus Christ more than a logo for our religion but a living person who encounters our own person (this is the "relational" in an incarnational ministry that follows the incarnate one, not a youth worker's magnetic ability to draw adolescents to herself, but the living, moving Christ in the world who desires relationship with us). 10
When the incarnation is a theme for youth ministry we find ourselves in the land of the How. We find ourselves discussing the incarnation as a functional tool: "The incarnation is how God did ministry, so this is how we do youth ministry," or "This is how Jesus did it, so this is how we should do it," rather than, "We go to whom Jesus calls us," or "We follow the one who gave his life for others." There is a great difference, as I hope you can see, in the who versus the how, for even in these questions you can feel the stiltedness of the how and relational energy of the who. Or to put it another way, when relational youth ministry is about how it easily slides into instrumental influence (e.g., How can we get kids to this or that?). Yet, doing youth ministry from the who of a living Jesus demands that we be place-sharers, for we confess that this Jesus is living and is now sharing our place.
Or to push this further, when we practice relational or incarnational youth ministry in the who, we enter deeply into theology. We search to discover who God is, who God is calling us to be, and to whom we are called to go. When we fall into practicing youth ministry in the how, we become programmers or service providers, seeking to find the best model, angle, idea, or event that matches some idealized frozen form or theme of how to do ministry.
In doing relational or incarnational ministry in the how we can so easily ignore or not be aware of the deep suffering of the adolescents around us. We become too busy conforming to a pattern, trying to master a function, rather than being led by the living God into the deep suffering and joy of adolescents. Or to put it even more pointedly, when we use the incarnation as a theme (a how) for youth ministry, our focus is almost always on how concerns (for example, How can we get adolescents to participate in our event? How can we get them to go to camp? How can we get them to behave or believe?). Instead we should see the incarnation as the living presence of God, the incarnate one, who is found sharing our place, who is empowering us through the Spirit to be with and for adolescents, to share their place, to participate in the continued activity of God.
The incarnation then is the invitation to join God as God enters the lives of adolescents, seeking to discover and support the distinct who that they are in their suffering and joy.
The distinction between the who and the how was the difference I saw between Jan and Justin. Justin knew how to be incarnational; he knew how to be funny, outgoing, and attractive. Justin knew how to get youth to admire him and want to be around him; Justin knew how to do relational ministry in the theme of the incarnation. But his knowing how had little to do with the incarnate one, with the incarnation of the living God who seeks to come to near us in the weakness and brokenness of God's own humanity and in so doing share our place.
It was Jan who understood the who of the incarnation. Jan understood that the incarnation means that God is with and for us. And God calls us to be with and for adolescents. What Justin couldn't do is exactly what Jan could do—meet adolescents as a who, as a fragile person who was brave enough to not hide herself behind the how of techniques and models of youth ministry and to walk toward adolescents as she followed the living Christ. She never tried to be anything other than who she was, and in so being, never asked adolescents to be anything other than who they were. Jan was committed to the notion that somewhere in this meeting of whos, the encounter with Jesus Christ—the Who—would occur.page 5
What I mean, and what I hope I have shown, is that doing relational youth ministry as how is doing it as influence. But to do relational youth ministry in the who is to do it as place-sharing. It is to affirm that God has shared our place, that God is near to our humanity, that God in Jesus Christ is near to the adolescent. Allow me to explain this further by examining the following phrase: The Incarnation means that God has taken on humanity in its fullest, meaning that we are free to be human. Remember this familiar verse from the Gospel of John: "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth..." (John 1:14, RSV, italics added). It was actually this text that was unpacked in our leadership meeting in the story that I began with. Yet there was something I didn't hear that day that I since have come to see in this passage.
If you're anything like me, your eyes (and mind) easily skim past the word dwelt. We rarely use this word as it is being used here. Few people would say "I dwell with my parents," and I have never said, "I dwell with my wife, and we live in Minnesota." It sounds way too stilted. At least to me, it has a feeling of distance, like it would make more sense in a sentence such as, "The ghost dwelt in our house before it left." Dwelt has the feeling of someone hovering above our situation, not entering into it and bearing it.
But the Greek word here, skenoo, actually means something different. Many biblical scholars, such as the one whose office is across the hall from me, have said a better translation of this verse might be, "And the Word became flesh and tented among us, full of grace and truth." It's not that God hovers above us, free from our darkest, scariest, and most difficult moments, but rather God takes residence among and next to these moments, making them God's own in the humanity of Jesus. 11
The incarnation is not a theme or a wooden model of how ministry should be done; rather it is the radical story of God's history, the radical story of God's love entering so fully into human existence that it became God's residence. 12 Now after the incarnation we can be confident that the human experience is not only known fully (like knowing the directions to the mall), but known in God's very being (like knowing that you love your spouse or child, i.e., a relational kind of knowing).
Tenting among people is dirty business. Many of you know how smelly and (honestly) gross a tent or camp area can get after a few short days. I have memories of adult leaders who went on camping trips and tried to somehow avoid the grime and stench of a six-person tent crammed with eight sweaty junior high boys and their bags of junk food. But of course it was impossible. To tent among is to enter the grime and bear the stench. Tenting among has nothing to do with hovering beyond. Tenting among is living deeply with others.
I fear that when we make the incarnation a model for how we do youth ministry, we present a God who hovers above, free from the grime and stench of adolescents' (and our own) existence. I fear that we've lost this radical confession that God in Jesus walks among us, as one of us, who is for us. I fear that we've made the incarnation a pattern of ministry, a theme of ministry rather than a confession of a God who comes so near to us that our suffering becomes God's own.
What I mean is that when we see the incarnation as only a how of ministry, as a theme, we're too often tempted to present a Jesus who's not human, a Jesus who isn't bloody or broken but pristine and handsome, with a white robe and a winking eye just visible behind his perfectly conditioned hair. We do this to convince (influence) adolescents that Jesus is important, so we tell them that Jesus would be a great athlete or a major celebrity, persons in our culture that seem to transcend our normal, frail humanity. Or if we do talk about the bloody and broken body of Jesus, we do so to make a shocking point (e.g., Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ). We say something like, "See how badly he suffered! Now you should follow him and do what the Bible says!" But this too ignores the wonder of the incarnation, for it makes the incarnation about "oughts" and "should," like saying, "Kids, see how hard your dad worked on that swingset? Now you'd better have fun on it and appreciate it." Rather, the incarnation is the fullest picture we have of a God who wants relationship with us so badly that God bears the fullness of human suffering. For human suffering is most often the burden of broken relationship, and broken relationship can only be healed by suffering it, by placing one's being within it and joining your broken humanity with another.page 6
We need a youth ministry that claims that God comes to us, not as a hovering substance, but as our human brother (our place-sharer) who knows fully what it means to be abandoned and neglected. God comes to us in the ordinary, the regular, the average. God tents among us, embracing fully who we are, whether broken or whole, sick or healthy. The incarnate one claims that God is among us, that God is with us, that God is for us, for if you have seen the incarnate one you have seen his Father. To follow the incarnate one is to be free, free to be human, to love one another, free to love God as God made us, human. We can enter suffering and death for the sake of relationship because God in Godself has done this, God has placed Godself within reach of our broken humanity by becoming broken, and now through his brokenness promises us new life, new community, new possibility. 13
The incarnation makes the claim that it's okay for us to be human, that the objective of the Christian life is not to be other than human, but to be fully human as determined by the incarnate one, Jesus the Christ. But do we say this to, and live this alongside, adolescents? Do we look for volunteers that can be human with adolescents? A theology of the incarnation for youth ministry demands that we be human—that is the objective—not to be super pastors, super volunteers, people with all the answers, people with adolescent-attracting magnets. Rather, the goal is to be human beings who seek to be human with and for others in the power of the God who has become human for us all.
Justin could be incarnational (at least in how it is understood in popular youth ministry, Justin could be incarnational as a model and theme), but Jan could be human, which is (theologically) what the incarnation is all about. Justin could get adolescents to an event; Jan could help them be authentic human beings. She allowed them to share their stories, dreams, and fears, and in so doing pointed to a God who loved them enough to bear their reality, and even now stands with them. This is why we do incarnational ministry. Not because it's a great strategy, but because we believe that God is close to our humanity in God's own humanity, because we believe that God is close to adolescents' humanity, loving them through God's own humanity. This is the grace and truth that's the result of God's tenting among us in John 1:14. It is sure grace, sure gift, and sure wonder that God has chosen to be with us so fully. And in being with us so fully, truth (that which is real and right) now lives among us. Grace and truth are now relational and personal; they are the human Jesus who is the incarnate one of God in the world.
Tenting with people is a deeply human act. There's something about living close to the land that reminds us that we are human. Tenting with people inevitably draws us near to them as we live with them. Sitting around the campfire we hear their stories, glimpse their pain, and experience their joy in laughter and silent reflection. Tenting among others is the invitation to join in the lives of others, to mutually open our humanity up to the other so that we together might be known, and in our togetherness know the Creator, who (we confess) has become one of us by tenting with us.page 7


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I have a little story to tell you about your Systema hoodie.
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I set a lofty goal for 2016 – to finish 25 books.
I didn't make it.
But I DID read 20 books. Over 8,000 pages. Not too shabby! (I track my reading using Goodreads which syncs to my Kindle).
Here are my 20 books of 2016:
My least favorites of the bunch?
- The Paying Guests (too long, not particularly compelling, and I just didn't care about the characters very much)
- Shrill (I wanted to like it, but I felt like it was billed as something new, brash and fresh, and it just wasn't)
My favorites of the bunch?
- The Nightingale (so good! I love historical fiction, and I loved these characters, and the writing)
- The Handmaid's Tale (why had I never read this before?! It is brilliant, and terrifying. The mini-series is coming in April – starring Elisabeth Moss! I can't wait!)
Goals for 2017?
- Read 25 books (I just finished my first book of 2017 – The Muse)
- Finish the Harry Potter series (I am planning to read these to my children, and wanted to read them all myself, first)
- Finally read The Goldfinch (it has been on my nightstand for 2 years)
- Read at least 3 non-fiction titles. I'm thinking Between the World and Me, When Breath Becomes Air and Born to Run will make the cut. Speaking of…
- Listen to Bruce Springsteen's autobiography Born To Run on audio book (an awesome Christmas present from my dad!) I was going to read it in hardcover, but Bruce reads the audio book version himself. I'm a big fan (I've been to 50 shows!) and the book is poetry, so I'm going to dedicate my commute to listening. And yes, I'm counting it in my 2017 total.
Do you have any reading goals for 2017? Suggestions for books you think I'd love? Books to avoid? Please let me know! And connect with me on Goodreads, too!


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Of course, if there do wind up being a large number of sliders, I'd be happy to see more than one default configuration offered.
This would be the Drop-Down List To Rule Them All. For example:
- Josh's Default Configuration (LT as Josh prefers to play it)
- Young Universe (few factions, mostly unexplored galaxy)
- Ancient Universe (many well-established factions with few unexplored areas)
- Hobbesverse (few resources, AI/personality bias toward aggression)
- Custom (player can set config/slider options and save them with a unique name for future playthroughs)
Select one of these, and that sets all the actual gameplay control sliders to particular values.


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Looking To Add Excitement To The Game, MIAA Considers New Baseball Tourney
http://bostonglobe.com/sports/2013/01/10/new-postseason-tournament-designed-boost-baseball-interest-high-school/nPlAdvjex6vBWj2bQORPmM/story.htmlFRANKLIN — Baseball is called America's pastime, but at the high school level interest is deteriorating.
Whether it's due to the increasing interest in lacrosse, or increased participation in other activities, such as spring and summer basketball leagues, the sport is losing its place.
In an attempt to curtail the pattern, Lincoln-Sudbury baseball coach Kirk Fredericks designed a new postseason tournament for baseball, the Division 1A tournament, which is similar to the current Super 8 format the MIAA uses for hockey.
The MIAA Baseball Tournament Committee voted 10-4 in favor of the format Thursday, the first step in getting the tournament in place for the 2014 season. The Tournament Management Committee will vote on the proposal in March and the MIAA Board of Directors, if necessary, will review the proposal as well.
"It's a good opportunity to give baseball a real shot in the arm and bring some energy and enthusiasm back to baseball," said Catholic Memorial athletic director and MIAA Baseball Tournament Committee chairman Alex Campea. "Baseball is a great game, and this is a little something different and it should add some excitement."
The Division 1A tournament will include the eight best teams in the state, regardless of division or section. The teams will be selected by an 11-person tournament seeding committee.
Like the Super 8, teams selected may only compete in the Division 1A tournament and will not be allowed to participate in their respective state tournaments.
The tournament will have two four-team, double-elimination brackets, and the two bracket champions will play a best-of-three final series. All games will be nine innings.
"Until you run something, you don't know what you're going to get," Fredericks said. "As long as you have good people involved, as you go, you make adjustments and changes, so as long as you put trust in this committee, then things should work out."
Not only is the proposed tournament format designed to rejuvenate the sport, but the committee also sought to bring parity to the state tournament.
Over the last 14 seasons, nine of the Division 1 state champions have come from the Catholic Conference, and a Catholic school has been in the championship game all but three times.
A similar trend appeared in hockey. From 1979-90, the Division 1 champion was a Catholic school. But since hockey adopted the 1A format in 1991, 14 of the 22 state champions have been public schools.
Catholic schools have such a stranglehold on baseball that at one point, according to Fredericks, talks surfaced about creating separate Catholic and public school tournaments.
But Fredericks, who regularly schedules his Lincoln-Sudbury team against Catholic schools, enjoys the competition and was opposed to separate tournaments.
He drew up the 1A format for baseball and presented it to the Massachusetts Baseball Coaches Association, which encouraged him to bring it to the MIAA.
"Each year, when the stars align and you have guys that aren't hurt and you can match up against the Catholics, you can put all those teams in a tournament and give them a legitimate shot to beat them," Fredericks said. "You'll beat them once in a while, but the odds are against them and hopefully this will give everybody a chance for that once-in-a-lifetime thing."
Alignment changes for the South section were also presented at the committee meeting. They included: Plymouth South, Wellesley, and King Philip moving up from Division 2 to Division 1; Norwood and Dartmouth moving down to Division 2; Medfield, Bishop Feehan, Westwood, Canton, and Middleboro moving up from Division 3 to Division 2; Randolph, Holliston, and Dennis-Yarmouth moving down from Division 2 to Division 3; Abington, Archbishop Williams, and Diman moving down from Division 3 to Division 4.
Another meeting on March 8 will finalize all North, South, West, and Central realignments.
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Another new guy..
Hi peoples.
Im giving this no meat thing a go for the first time, I have been skeptical in the past but im hoping my health is gonna improve by dropping meat.
I am looking to incorporate food that is mostly geared towards health/nutrition, as opposed to fancy cakes/recipes (im not hard to please), at the same time I have a wheat/gluten and lactose intolerance..
I am also unsure of Soya due to controversy.. but apart from that im willing to try most things..
Any iput at this point will be greatly appreciated. Going to take a look at these Earth shift products...
Hey mumbles. I am new too! (Both to the site and RAW food, which is also vegan) Something quick and yummy (nothing fancy) that I tried and loved was a kale wrap. (I went organic with all the ingredients, but not necissary)
One large Kale leaf (rinsed in cold water)
Tbs of your favorite vegan spread, spread on the inside of the kale leaf (I used roasted red pepper humus, but guacamole or salsa would be good to try as well)
Julianed or thinly sliced carrots and cucumber placed in the center of the kale leaf
I also added pea shoots (yummy sprouts)
Roll up the kale leaf and enjoy!
See which veggies you like and switch them up! I may try some green/red/yellow peppers soon : )
Welcome! And awesome advice from HugMeWithYourSmile, love it!!
I'll also add that you should check out almond, coconut, oat, and hemp milk! They are all absolutely delicious, and a great replacement for cow and/or soy milk!


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MOSCOW - A Russian expedition descended in a pair of submersible vessels more than two miles under the ice cap on Thursday and deposited a Russian flag on the seabed at the North Pole. The dive was a symbolic move to enhance the government's disputed claim to nearly half of the floor of the Arctic Ocean and potential oil or other resources there.
The expedition, covered intensely by Russian news organizations and state-controlled television, mixed high-seas adventure with the long Russian tradition of polar exploration. But it was also an openly choreographed publicity stunt.
Inside the first of the mini-submarines to reach the sea floor were two members of Russia's lower house of Parliament. One of them, Artur N. Chilingarov, led theexpedition to seek evidence reinforcing Russia's claim over the largely uncharted domain. That claim, which has no current legal standing, rests on a Russian assertion that the seabed under the pole, called the Lomonosov Ridge, is an extension of Russia's continental shelf and thus Russian territory.
At least one country with a stake in the issue registered its immediate disapproval of the expedition. "This isn't the 15th century," Peter MacKay, Canada's foreign minister, said on CTV television. "You can't go around the world and just plant flags and say, 'We're claiming this territory.' "
Russia submitted its claim in 2001 to an international commission, which has ruled that the available data is not sufficient to support it. But Russia has pressed on.
"We must determine the border, the most northerly of the Russian shelf," Mr. Chilingarov said on national television before the dive, which was billed as the first of its sort - a descent into the inky darkness far beneath a large window cut into the ice sheet by a nuclear-powered ice breaker.
After resurfacing more than eight hours later, Mr. Chilingarov spoke as if he had been the first to the moon. "If a hundred or a thousand years from now someone goes down to where we were, they will see the Russian flag," he said. The flag is reproduced in titanium. He later added, "Our task is to remind the world that Russia is a great Arctic and scientific power."
The day's events underscored both Russia's restored sense of confidence and the international competition for access, influence and extraction rights in the far north, which has intensified as oil and gas prices have surged and as trends in global warming have encouraged speculation that the region could become more navigable.
President Vladimir V. Putin called the members of the expedition to thank them personally, an unmistakable sign of the significance of the claim to the Kremlin, which has reestablished itself as a world power in recent years in part through its control of its oil, gas, minerals and other commodities.
Five countries - Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia and the United States - have territory in the Arctic Circle and under international convention have rights to economic zones within 200 miles of their borders. Denmark has sent its own scientific expeditions to study the opposite end of the ocean-spanning ridge and to seek proof that it is torn from the continental shelf north of Greenland, which is a Danish territory.
Several other countries seek to extend their influence in the circle, seeing the mostly unpopulated region's potential for providing a hydrocarbon and mineral rush. The ultimate demarcation, if geologists' estimates of its deposits prove true, could be a key to future national wealth and power.
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Russia's foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, speaking from the Philippines, ignored criticism, saying that Russia's claims were sound and in time could be established as fact.
"The goal of this expedition is not to stake out Russia's rights, but to prove that our shelf stretches up to the North Pole," he said on Radio Mayak. "There are concrete scientific methods for this."
The expedition mixed public and private financing, much of which Mr. Chilingarov raised. Any new evidence it collected for the Russian government would eventually have to be submitted to a commission on continental shelf borders, which is elected by members of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Russia has a long tradition of northern exploration and extraction, and since early Soviet times the Kremlin has had research stations on the Arctic ice. Stalin first dispatched a team in 1937, at the height of the Great Terror.
Whatever the merits of any future submission, Russian scientists marveled at the expedition on Thursday, which involved two small submarines, known as the Mir-1 and Mir-2, descending from a drifting, shifting ice pack to the sea floor more than 14,000 feet beneath the surface.
The pair spent about an hour on the sea floor and left behind the reproduction of the Russian tricolor flag at 1:36 p.m., Moscow time, according to Russia's official news agency.
Then they ascended, which the scientists said was the most difficult task, because they had to find their way back to the hole on the surface. The submarines are too small to break through the ice on their own, and errant navigation could have left them trapped beneath the cap.
Once news reached Moscow that the journey had succeeded, scientists spoke with evident pride. "We can say that is a great technical and technological achievement," said Leopold I. Lobkovsky, deputy director of geological studies at the P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology here, which provided a research vessel for the expedition.
Another scientist, Ivan Y. Frolov, director of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in St. Petersburg, cautioned that whatever the brief dive had found, it would do little to settle disputes about future demarcation. But he noted certain values in the event, which was one element in the annual summer expedition to study climate, the sea and the ice.
"I doubt that this one submersion will make a breakthrough in the problem that is being discussed in the media," he said. "It was a good chance to demonstrate the capabilities of this equipment and the depths that can be reached, and to demonstrate the courage of Mr. Chilingarov, which is great."
Andrew C. Revkin contributed reporting from New York.
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Thursday, April 19, 2007
Fabric in the mail!
this tutorial shows a nice way to do it (much classier than the strange fabric binding I saw on some!)
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I was born into a family of seamsters, and started sewing at age 4, in my grandma's sewing room. All the women in my family sew, as well as some of the men, so it was easy and natural to learn. As I was growing up, my mom owned a business teaching children's sewing, meaning there were always new and interesting projects to try. Most of all, I loved making my own clothes!
My love of sewing never faded, and I worked my way through college in the costume shop of the Theater Department at Willamette University. I learned about period costumes, improved my construction skills, and began designing costumes. As the manager of the costume shop, I was responsible for teaching the new student employees how to sew.
I began writing and publishing my patterns in early 2006, starting with the Farmer's Market Tote. I will continue to write patterns that cater to beginners. By writing simple patterns with easy instructions, beginners have a fun time and more experienced seamsters have opportunities to embellish the projects.
My experience includes garment making, quilting, home décor, and costume design and construction. I have taught sewing to children, college students, and adults, all with great success!
When I am not creating something new in my studio, I am chasing after my toddler, reading with my almost-Kindergartener or experimenting in the kitchen.


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LEGENDARY PICTURES Panel Live! Godzilla 2 Confirmed!
Lucas Siegel wrote:Moderator Jessica Chobot brought out CEO Thomas Tull to the stage, and he introduced a video message of Godzilla director Gareth Edwards "who is locked up in a galaxy far, far away."
"We get to make another one! But first I need a break from the pressure of working on a major franchise, so I'm here in San Francisco doing a little scifi film (a Star Wars one)." Yes, Edwards will be back to direct Godzilla 2, he confirmed.
Next came a bit of teaser footage showing warfare and "A secret remains hidden. There are OTHERS." A flying monster - yup, it's MOTHRA confrimed for the sequel. GHIDORAH confirmed for the sequel. "Conflict inevitable... Let. Them. Fight."
"Now we have more monsters to play with and we're excited about," Tull said, "Thank you Comic-Con, it all started here and we can't wait to show you more."
BleedingCool @ SDCC 2014:
Legendary Announces Godzilla 2, Featuring Mothra, Rhodan, Ghidorah – Gareth Edwards Returns To Direct
Comic-Con: 'Godzilla 2' Monsters Revealed
Classic monsters Rodan, Mothra and Ghidorah are headed to the Legendary sequel.
Aaron Couch wrote:Legendary's Thomas Tull kicked off the studio's Hall H panel with a little taste of the followup to Godzilla.
After introducing a video message from director Gareth Edwards, a teaser featuring stock historical footage and a voiceover from JFK revealed that there are more threats out there. The Comic-Con crowd went wild as three creature names flashed on screen, with grainy, old school footage of the Godzilla classics flashing on screen, along with their names: Rodan, Mothra and Ghidorah.
Edwards, who is directing a Star Wars spinoff before tackling Godzilla 2, said in his prerecorded thank you to fans said needed "a break" from a big sci-fi franchize with lots of fanboy scrutiny.
"So I'm up here doing a small sci-fi movie," he joked.


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Report from the Reubens: Henry R. Martin
This place was heaven to me!
It was here that I located Rendering in Pen and Ink by Arthur L. Guptill - a book I've been searching for for years - and Crescent City had it for only 10 bucks - a steal.
I was almost on my way out the door with my new acquisition when a narrow little hardcover near the cash caught my eye. A quick flip through its pages revealed a series of really wonderful cartoon illustrations by an artist I'd never heard of: Henry R. Martin. I gladly plunked down an extra three dollars for Comic Epitaphs so I could share it with you today.
Martin's work reminds me a little of some contemporary cartoonists, like Seth or Chris Ware - modern day cartoonists who have been heavily influenced by the mid-century styles.
But I'm also reminded of work done by Martin's contemporaries. I see a hint of Roy Doty here...
... a touch of Jim Flora there...
... even a little Jan Balet on some of Martin's pieces.
But as this is the only example I've ever found of Martin's work, its hard to say whether this was typical of his style or what else he produced during his career. The Internet turned up a cartoonist named Henry R. Martin who was associated with Princeton University. Based on this Henry Martin's style, however, I have my doubts that he is the same artist who illustrated Comic Epitaphs.
Still, could there have been two cartoonists named Henry R. Martin working during the 1950's? Remember what I said yesterday about coincidences?
My Henry R. Martin Flickr set.
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i have this book and i love it...all of peter pauper press' books are really wonderful and i snap them up whenever i have an opportunity to do so...all of their illustrators are top notch i think.ReplyDelete
Reminds me a bit of a tamer Johnny Ryan...ReplyDelete
Rachael; I had no idea there were other PPP books! Perhaps you'd consider scanning a few images from yours and posting them on your blog...?ReplyDelete
johnny b - I see what you mean. A tamer version from a tamer time - but again, it shows how influential those 50's styles have been on contemporary character design, doesn't it?
sure, i have a few out of boxes i can post.ReplyDelete
here are two pages i've scanned previously from a book "on friendship: a selection", illustrated by eric carle.
Talk about coincidental serendipity, Leif! I was at the library just today with my daughter in search of a book when we came upon Comic Epitaphs. What a charmer.ReplyDelete
Rachael; thanks for those links :-)ReplyDelete
Jack; well put - it really is a charmer... now if I could only find more of Martin's work...
- Anonymous1:52 PM
I did a little looking and found two PPP titles that were illustrated by Henry R. Martin available.ReplyDelete
Biblio.com has The Little Pun Book by Robert Margolin. The link has a good cover illustration. http://www.biblio.com/books/49502102.html It is more expensive than the copy listed on antiqbook.com http://www.antiqbook.com/boox/bib/309447.shtml $10 v. $5
The only other that I could find was The Little Joke Book at Old Corner Books http://www.oldcornerbooks.com/cgi-bin/fgb455/7783.html?id=xAZ4etoX
It has no images on the site, but from the fact of the same publisher and subject matter, it probably is the same man. It is much more expensive though at $20.
Hope this helps and is some payback for the enjoyment that your site has given.
Thanks Keith - I will probably keep hunting for them in used book and thrift stores... but its good to know they are out there waiting to be discovered! ;-)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous2:51 PM
I have "An Alphabet of Casseroles" from PPP--and it's sort of a Gashlycrumb Tinies of cookbooks (split pea, ham, and pineapple casserole--with cheese on top?).ReplyDelete
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Can anyone find more details on where these graves are? I can't find anything on http://www.findagrave.com/ for any of these. I'm just wondering if they are real or made up. If anyone can find photographs of the actual graves that would be great. Google just seems to be showing me other references to this book.ReplyDelete
I believe only some of the epitaphs are real, nessie. There's a comment to that effect on the inside of the book:ReplyDelete
"The following collection of gravestone inscriptions is hardly a serious historical one. Most of the items are genuine, but many are suspect, and few are frankly contrived. In some cases genuine inscriptions have been somewhat altered; and the place names are not reliable. Scholars are therefore warned not to find fault; but all maen - and also any women who choose - are invited to read further for a little goulish amusement."
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Thanks so much for sharing these Leif! It's such an awesome find. I could look at these illustrations for hours I think!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1:50 PM
I knew I'd seen this before. I had to do a search to make sure I wasnt crazy. Anyone else who wants a copy can get it now at shopgoodwill:ReplyDelete
I'd like to note also that since I started reading this blog, I realized that it wasnt the text I was so fond of but certain illustrators.
- Anonymous9:51 AM
It's been a while since you wrote this post, but I just thought you might like to see the pics I took of another Henry R Martins book, which I blogged about today at http://skinnylaminx.com/2010/09/15/russian-fairy-tales/.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12:24 AM
The Henry R.Martin who wrote COMIC EPITAPHS is a retired cartoonist who did a lot of work for The New Yorker and a graduate of PrincetonReplyDelete


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If you use the "Advanced Search" function, you can specify the "John D. Morrell" collection, and then keyword search on the names of streets or neighborhoods. Doing this, I was able to find pictures of some of my ancestral homes, as well as pictures of the neighborhoods my ancestors lived and worked in. There are also pictures of schools, stores, and other local landmarks. It's easy to find addresses online using Google Street View, but this collection could include buildings that were around at mid-century but are no longer extant, or give you a perspective not as far removed from the time when your ancestors actually lived there.
You can see the collection here.


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I see from "The Joel Test for sysadmin jobs" question on ServerFault that no one said the company better be using ITIL or they wouldn't work there. In fact, no one mentioned ITIL at all.
Is ITIL a fad? Is it too cumbersome to be practical? Do you have to be a certain size for ITIL to work well?
The ITIL definitions of "incident" vs "problem" are interesting, but in a fast-paced help desk environment, have organizations really found it useful to distinguish between the two?


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by Gabriele Trapani in Nutrition
- Macronutrients
last updated: September 04, 2015
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After many years in the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical world, which includes supplements, there are fewer and fewer elements or discoveries that really get me excited or are of particular interest unrelated to my professional activities.
One day the president of Yamamoto Nutrition Italia sent me some supplements and raw materials to evaluate for their launch on the Italian market.
Some of these aroused my interest and approval; I had already seen one of these mentioned in scientific literature, and with positive results.
I'm talking about "alanyl-glutamine", better known commercially as "Sustamine".
Anyone who is involved in the fitness and sports world and uses supplements knows about its "cousin" glutamine, but this relative, at least in Italy, is still very little known.
It is a dipeptide that binds glutamine to alanine, resulting in a form that is very resistant to heat and acids, and presents a high level of solubility.
Starting from its base, or a quick biochemical "review", alanine is a nonessential amino acid, while glutamine is considered "partially" essential; both are involved in the exchange of nitrogen between tissues and in the production and storage of glucose.
Chemical formulas of the amino acids L-Alanine and L-Glutamine
What is fundamental is the role they play in intracellular hydration; they are of particular interest for their use in intense workouts and other forms of physical stress.
Having said this, it seems that they act in a very similar manner. But more than anything else, I'd define their action as being rather synergistic, especially if we consider that alanine is the most important amino acid involved in the transportation of nitrogen from muscles to the liver.
Once they reach the liver, the carbon fraction of the amino acid skeleton is converted into glucose (a process called the glucose-alanine cycle).
Glutamine is the first "carrier" in cells of the nitrogen derived from the catabolism of proteins and it stimulates GLP-1 (glucose-like peptide-1), thus it helps maintain circulating glucose levels as well as promotes the synthesis of the same.
But the main factor that arouses my (and not only) interest is how it improves cellular hydration. Let's see how:
Alanine seems to influence hydration and cell volume by raising the concentration of intracellular potassium, dragging water inside the cell. Glutamine helps keep the equilibrium of the acid-base balance (a particularly popular subject in recent years).
But what has glutamine got to do with it?
Well, muscles produce lactic acid in training, which passes into the bloodstream and acidifies it, giving us that potentially pleasant feeling related to pump, which can then become annoying or a hindrance in certain sports performances.
The increase of lactic acid induces a decrease of pH, and renal glutamine consumption can be significant, which then indirectly raises the percentage of bicarbonate.
After the newly synthesised bicarbonate has reached the blood, it serves as a buffer by binding to the blood's acidic portion in order to make the pH neutral and restore the acid-base balance.
During particularly intense workouts, typical of bodybuilders and very serious physically stressful situations, the muscles release both amino acids in substantial quantities. If these concentrations are not restored, not only will the muscles themselves suffer, also performance, recovery, the immune system and other biological functions will suffer.
That's why, after having clarified where and how they synergistically carry out their functions, this dipeptide "combination" finds its best application with bodybuilders and athletes who perform intense and also prolonged activities that require a marked anti-catabolic action to protect muscles, thereby favouring protein and glucose synthesis as well as giving cells the chance to remain hydrated, and therefore in an anabolic state.
The benefits of taking a dipeptide instead of a greater polypeptide chain relate to the aforementioned resistance to heat and acids, and the vastly improved solubility compared to glutamine thanks to the improved efficiency in its use.
Chemical formula of sustamine
Glutamine is rapidly degraded into ammonium when placed in solution and is barely soluble, while alanyl-glutamine is instead incredibly soluble.
This is all because where free form amino acids compete for their uptake with highly selective amino acid transporters, dipeptides are much more easily absorbed through much less selective carriers (PEPT1).
In animal models, alanyl-glutamine has led to an increase in weight and nitrogen retention, while decreasing muscle catabolism and leucine oxidation, and improving the intestinal flora environment.
And here I must note and add to the list of glutamine's important qualities its role as intestinal fuel and its support to the defensive role of the mucosa. But the beneficial role that reigns supreme is the cellular hydration provided by its extreme solubility and stability, and as I mentioned this has already been clearly documented. Doctors Roger Harris and Jay Hoffman ascertained that the concentrations of glutamine in blood were almost 60% higher in subjects who took alanyl-glutamine than in those who took the free form of glutamine, which then became a total level of plasma glutamine of 126%. Another interesting finding of the studies is that the regular consumption of alanyl-glutamine appears to increase the levels of muscle glutamine much more than the regular consumption of free form glutamine.
The main areas of application for alanyl-glutamine are the same as with glutamine (please see my article on its functions):
Adding alanyl-glutamine to an oral rehydration solution or beverage seems to significantly increase the absorption of water and electrolytes at a cellular level, compared to the addition of L-glutamine or glucose.
This factor is already interesting. In a study by Hoffman and associates, the researchers concluded that the increase in the performance of university-level cyclists that emerged was due to the increase of water and electrolyte absorption, which was much more effective after having taken a Sustamine-based solution.
Those who took Sustamine were able to delay the onset of fatigue and generate only a modest level of dehydration. In this study, Hoffman's team also found that 1g of alanyl-glutamine in 500ml of water can maintain the quality of athletic movements and visual reaction time in a better way in athletes.
When the dose of the dipeptide was doubled in 500ml of water, fatigue decreased but there was no improvement in performance and reaction time. There is a good deal of literary material, which is quite interesting and promotes its use with high marks, (for example the study in the field of clinical nutrition) but must we consider the need for further investigations?
For example, there are still no studies on humans relating to the use of oral alanyl-glutamine to increase an athlete's muscle hypertrophy or strength; it would also be very interesting to study its effects during phases of high workload levels, low carb diets, low hydration levels and/or a combination of all these.
We all know the different roles that glutamine plays in various fields of application, and sustamine does not substantially deviate from these, it essentially adds a huge "plus" with its stability, and thus its ability to reach "where we want" in higher concentrations in order to best carry out its functions.
Its consumption on training days before and during exercise should be suggested for helping cellular hydration, electrolyte transport and the metabolism of glucose and branched amino acids.
After exercise it can be useful for supporting recovery, especially in phases of caloric and/or carbohydrate reduction.
On rest days it is instead recommended to fraction intake throughout the day, preferably along with a minimum intake of carbohydrates to optimise glycogen concentrations. Alanyl-glutamine does not need to be cycled.
There is also evidence that chronic intake, compared to a single high dose, results in an increase in the concentration of glutamine in the muscles compared to those who take it in free form.
Having said that, I invite you to read the various scientific reviews. Most likely with this form of glutamine, we will guarantee the highest expression of the activities of dipeptides, in particular the benefits it offers for absorption, all obviously favouring improved efficacy.
Interesting new supplement on the horizon? I would say so.
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3. Wernerman J Clinical use of glutamine supplementation . J Nutr. (2008)
4. Harris RC1, et al L-glutamine absorption is enhanced after ingestion of L-alanylglutamine compared with the free amino acid or wheat protein. Nutr Res. (2012)
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6. Hoffman JR1, et al Examination of the efficacy of acute L-alanyl-L-glutamine ingestion during hydration stress in endurance exercise . J Int Soc Sports Nutr. (2010)
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9. Alteheld B1, et al Alanylglutamine dipeptide and growth hormone maintain PepT1-mediated transport in oxidatively stressed Caco-2 cells . J Nutr. (2005)
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Unplug Meditation To Open In West Hollywood October 2017
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Rocking The Round Mirror
So excited to hand these two 40" mirrors in my dining room! From CB2.
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Sunday, June 12, 2016
White Bathrooms I'm Loving Now
I am still searching for the perfect white bathroom for my remodel! Would love any suggestions:
Like the white framed mirror above
This rustic modern Eric Olsen bathroom would be perfection in my guest bath.
Simple clean easy chic. A little too traditional for me but love anyway.
The mirror on the right gives depth
Like the floor
Obsessed with these fixtures! Does anyone know who makes them?
The mosaic tile is so sparkly and clean J'adore!
Love an oversized frame
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Patio Furniture Perfection!
This is on my patio vision board. I am never buying outdoor white furniture again so the cushions will be in charcoal or navy.
Restoration Hardware Marbella collection
Thinking this color combo below.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
The Best White Marble Alternative FOUND! New Statuario Pol Porcelain.
The search is over and you will love me because I finally found it! After bouncing around between Ceasarstone, Silestone, Granite, and the real thing (which of course looked so much better than everything else) I finally found perfection in the form of porcelain tile. My husband and I kept looking for a really white looking carerra marble with grains that didn't just look like dirt, beige or faux. Then by a fluke, I found Statuario Polished Porcelain Slab made in Italy by Iris. Not only is it much less expensive than the runner up which was Ceasarstone Calacatta Nuvo but it looks exactly like the real thing. Why? Because it is not a drawn on pattern, but a digital high resolution photographic image that has the beauty of a natural slab of marble. How cool is that? It is thin so you have to build it up with a solid piece of wood.
I overheard the sales person whisper to my contractor that it is $1600 a slab.
I overheard the sales person whisper to my contractor that it is $1600 a slab.
(I ended up getting this and it looks AMAZING and never gets dirty) Link Here
Shout out to Studio McGee for sharing this perfect kitchen with the world. I empaled them to ask what the divine countertop was and they replied,"We used Hanstone - Tranquility in this kitchen. It came out really good and looks even better in person. Please let me know what additional info you need from us".
I am obsessed with this white and gold kitchen that is chicer than chic by Studio McGee! Check out the before and after HERE
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