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Synesthesia, Photography and the New Art of Synesthography
What is Synesthesia?
Synesthesia affects about one person in twenty-five. Technically, it could be considered a mental 'disorder', however most synesthetic people consider their condition an enrichment of life and have no interest in being 'cured'. In simplest terms, synesthesia is a confusing of, or more accurately, a crosstalk between, the senses. What does this mean in practice?
Most people, hearing a few bars of music, notice only the sound, with varying degrees of pleasure or even of interest. But for some, the same music manifests itself as colour and pattern as well as sound. Somehow, the auditory stimulus affects also that part of the brain responsible for decoding visual stimuli, resulting in a personal 'multimedia' experience. The phenomenon is well recognised but as yet still not well understood.
Ray Davies & Olivier Messiaen
The Synesthetic Artist
Ray Davies of the Kinks might or might not be synesthetic. Many poets and musicians are and, even if they don't realise it themselves, it may well be an ingredient of their success. Ray's most celebrated synesthetic allusion is from Lola - She walked up to me and she asked me to dance. I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said Lola. More subtle are the music and lyrics to Autumn Almanac, where it is impossible to doubt that Ray is literally smelling and tasting the verbal images through the vehicle of song.
Far more self-consciously synesthetic was the French composer Olivier Messiaen. His music was highly experimental and designed to convey colours, moods, even aspects of his faith, through the medium of sound. He even transcribed and incorporated birdsong into many of his works - complex birdsong, not the cuckoo! - believing that birds were the better composers. Though he achieved a considerable academic following, Messiaen was never widely popular. It is quite possible that 95% of the populace (including some of the world's finest musicians) are simply not equipped, synesthetically, to 'hear' what he was seeing. Synesthesia is a mixed blessing.
Forms of Synesthesia
Synesthesia exists in many forms. The most familiar is when sound translates into colour, but in some people the reverse occurs; certain scenes or colour combinations manifest themselves as a form of music, perhaps not melodic or rhythmic, but more as a harmony or perhaps a dissonance awaiting resolution. Then, for others, textures can translate into colour - when the lights go down, velvets all are red, and satins, cream. Poetic imagery owes much to the possibility of synesthesia, approached not directly but through metaphor.
Synesthography - The First Synesthetic Camera
Synesthography is a new art form with very humble origins. The essence of classic photography is to focus light, and light alone, onto the film or, more often nowadays, the image sensor. In pursuit of quality, ultraviolet and infrared are filtered out, and the lens mounting and camera body are designed to resist vibration, fast temperature and humidity changes, and the ingress of dust or other airborne agents to the vicinity of the light path or sensor. One could say that the camera is very single-minded.
The synesthetic camera (synecam?), on the other hand, has no such pretensions to quality. Dust and scratches on the lens ensure that wanted and unwanted light have an equal chance, while the flimsy lens mount and less than rigid camera body conspire to couple high and low audio frequencies, respectively, to the image. (The phenomenon is akin to microphony, a notorious cause of feedback in valve amplifiers). Where can such a marvel be found? On every cheap mobile phone on the market, but none are in quite the same league as the Motorola L6.
The Synesthographer's technique is wholly different from the photographer's. Care, precision and planning are anathematised. Spontaneity is everything. In particular, it is important not to think visually. Your synesthographs should be influenced as much by smell, taste, sound and touch as by sight. You hear a lark singing? Point the synecam any old place, and click. Remember, it doesn't have to see the lark - it can hear it, just like you, so it will feature in the final image. It only needs faith.
The results
It is important to remember that the camera, not necessarily the synesthographer, is synesthetic. It does all the hard work for you. But when you first look at your images, you may be disappointed. You were expecting to see the Trooping of the Colours, while at the same time hearing the horses hooves, tasting your Cadbury's 99 and feeling the sun on your shoulders. Have faith. It is all there. To the synesthete, it is a thing of beauty; to the uninitiated, a mere jumble. Now let's talk about the Emperor's new clothes.
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Reticulated Moleskin Wipes! Wow, I'll bet those are hot sellers. You've cornered the market, LOL!
Well, who knew? When I googled Synesthography, I got your hub on the second line! Sweet. I can see you clapping now.
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the camera LOL, hi Dave, Happy weekend first of 2010, best and best of new decade, Maita
I have a general fondness for lomography, infrared, polaroid transfer and liquid light for the same encompassing reasons you have expressed of synesthography here. A photographer by desire and fine art degree but not by trade, I shied away from commercial application...in school was more interested in the unpredictable aspects of the craft than in learning to control it. That said, I have nothing but genuine appreciation for this beautifully informative hub and its reference to poetic synesthetic metaphor.
Recently read Oliver Sacks's interesting book Musicophilia which has a great chapter on synesthesia which he called, in his wonderful way with words, "The Key of Clear Green."
Thanks for your interesting Hub, as always!
Love and peace
Interesting! Always learning something new. Thanks!
I have to go play Rez now. Thanks Paraglider. ;)
My only experience of synesthesia was on LSD. I was with some friends who hadn't taken it. I kept saying, "can you smell the green?" It turned out to be a gas leak, and an emergency call-out was required. Needless to say it was my straight friends who called the gas board. I was too busy seeing devils by then and watching time going in and out like a concertina.
I actually would love to be able to see music! I would not call it a disability at all.
As one of those 1 in 25, I grew up knowing that mentally I am different, maybe even crazy at times. I couldn't begin to explain what it's like, but will mention that for me it goes hand-in-hand with being both sound and light sensitive. Another great hub, I enjoyed the photography angle.
Very interesting Hub.Thanks
I am wondering if those who experience synesthesia are experiencing their brain more fully, and we who do not see colors while listening to music are missing out. Enjoyed reading this hub!
Interesting! I'd never heard of synesthesia let alone synesthography.
A new descriptor for my favorite poet, Walter Benton...
Very interesting Hub...Thanks
Yeah. My cell phone takes crappy photos, too.
You had me going there Paraglider. I was trying to work out what a synesthetic work of art might be like. I was at a Messiaen organ recital in Canterbury cathedral last week, and that was definitely synesthetic.
Synesthestically speaking I think so, maybe.


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It's our pleasure to host Ryan Peterson, Chief Solution Strategist at EMC, as a guest blogger to expand upon another great step in our partnership to deliver compelling customer solutions through joint engineering efforts. Follow Ryan @BigDataRyan.
Object storage isn't a new concept and EMC's been innovating around it since the beginning. Take our Centera and Atmos products as key examples. The first Centera was created around the idea that objects could store much higher quantities of data than a file system in a single store while the other aspect of Centera was a rich set of security and compliancy features file systems had not been able to achieve. Data shredding for example was a feature required by governments and law firms. We all know some politicians who need a Centera system 😉 Atmos on the other hand was designed with a completely different base requirement. The goal was to support a geo-parity environment mostly seen in large enterprise customers and with service providers. In the Atmos design, data written to one location would be protected by other locations and yet share a common namespace. The design inspired many large internet-scale companies you likely use today and some of them are even backed by an Atmos system.
But when you are innovating from scratch, you make design decisions that leave things out and you learn from the 25,000 current EMC object storage customers. So we started with a new baseline of code and added in many of the components of Centera and Atmos to create something new, exciting, and dare I say revolutionary. Enter Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) which can scale from one rack in one data center to many racks in many data centers thus encompassing the design requirements of both Atmos and Centera and with new data protection features that increase performance from the original design such as local replica process, erasure coding for high performance, and geo-protection using XOR to reduce overhead. ECS changes the game!
But with the advent of new technologies in the world such as is near and dear to my heart, Hadoop, the design needed to include the capability to analyze the data in the entire global namespace and do it efficiently.
ECS includes a mapping to Hadoop using the Hadoop Compatible File System (HCFS) guidelines the same way you might see a Lustre or Gluster connect. The metadata controllers in ECS provide the namespace context and allow Hadoop to be able to see the data on that system the same way it would if it were looking at HDFS. In fact, it's as simple as using a different URI string to connect and you don't have to remove your HDFS DAS if you don't want to. Simply take your existing Hadoop cluster and point to viprfs://accesspoint.yourcompany.com like shown below. Hadoop will automatically open a series of connections to access the data at the fastest possible rate.
Now before we wanted to go out and tell the world about this solution, we really wanted to enlist the support of the Hadoop distributions and we wanted to test it thoroughly. The picture below is a setup of 10 racks of ECS running the Hortonworks and Pivotal distributions of Hadoop. This is one of others like it that seek to simplify the implementation process, validate all things are functional, and provides us a place to test scenarios our customers bring to us.
Our friends at Hortonworks really did an amazing job going through all of the features of Hadoop and validating each and every line of Apache code works on ECS. Click here to see all of the certifications that have already been completed with our geo-scale object platform and Hortonworks.
So what? What does this mean to you? Let's get serious and clear. Never before has there been an opportunity to purchase your own Analytics-Ready-Cloud-in-a-Box. So who are the customers that might care?
If you have a need for data to be spread across geographies such as Americas, Europe, and Asia; or even New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, then relying on a single name space to support that environment while keeping the data in a state that can be quickly accessed and analyzed should be top of mind. Thus far, we've seen customers in the following segments (to name a few and not exhaustive):
Let's compare this with the existing technologies used in Public Cloud providers not using ECS. Data is collected in multi-tenant object systems, is copied to another platform for analysis (a Cloud Data Lake so to speak) and the results pushed back into your primary system. Amazon's S3 and EMR are a good example of that type of legacy cloud architecture. With ECS, we remove the need to move data by allowing analysis to happen against the data set where it sits. Now that's Revolutionary!
If you have requirements that you believe are met with ECS, whether you want to host the equipment yourself or are looking for an ECS-enabled Public Cloud Service Provider, reach out to your EMC representative or discuss with our friends at Hortonworks. We can meet your needs with this rEvolutionary architecture.
For more information, you can watch this video of my colleagues Nikhil & Priya discussing the internals of the platform and how it works with Hadoop.
You can also download our Hadoop on ECS White Paper.

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Roughly 300,000 Americans each year experience sudden pancreatic inflammation that requires hospitalization, and up to 25 percent of that group will experience another episode within several years. Fish oil does not cause pancreatitis; gallstones and heavy alcohol consumption account for 80 percent of cases. In fact, in some cases, fish oil may help treat pancreatitis. If you're considering adding it to your treatment regimen, get your doctor's permission first.
Nutrition and Pancreatitis
A low-fat diet is the nutritional therapy commonly recommended to control symptoms in people with chronic pancreatitis. The typical limit is 50 grams of fat per day, but your doctor may set it as low as 30 grams based on your individual tolerance. Bump up your vegetable and fruit intake and stick to lean foods like egg whites, beans, soy, fish, skinless chicken and low-fat or nonfat dairy. It's also important for you to remain hydrated since dehydration triggers pancreatic inflammation. Equally crucial is that you avoid alcohol.
Fish Oil Lowers High Triglycerides
High triglycerides is another cause of pancreatitis. In this case, fish oil may help prevent pancreatitis if you're at risk, or it may reduce the chance of a recurrent episode if you have a history of pancreatitis. Fish oil is very effective at lowering triglycerides, according to an article published in the May 2012 issue of the Biochemistry and Biophysics Journal. The authors conclude that at a therapeutic dose, fish oil reduces triglycerides in your blood by roughly 25 percent to 50 percent after one month.
Fish Oil and Gallstones
Crystallized cholesterol deposits called gallstones are one of the major causes of pancreatitis. They occur when excess cholesterol accumulates in the gallbladder and forms hard, stonelike substances. Fish oil increases the production of bile acids in humans, according to a study published in the April 2006 issue of the Journal of Nutrition. An increase in bile acids helps prevent gallstone formation. When tested in animals, omega-3 fats like fish oil prevented gallstones by increasing bile acids and reducing a substance called mucin, which promotes cholesterol crystallization. The study was published in the November 2012 issue of the Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
Fish Oil and Inflammation
Another characteristic of fish oil that may help treat pancreatitis is its ability to lower inflammation. Researchers conducted a pilot study in which patients with acute pancreatitis took either fish oil or soybean oil. As reported in a 2009 issue of the journal Inflammation, they found that the fish oil helped regulate the immune response by significantly increasing the production of anti-inflammatory proteins. It also helped regulate other markers for inflammation. The authors mention that a larger trial is necessary to determine whether omega-3 fats would result in better treatment for acute pancreatitis.


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The film's co-writer (I presume there was quite a bit of improvisation in that regard) is star Brady Corbet, one of the most interesting actors working today alone based on the list of directors he's worked with. His filmography isn't extensive, but considering he's worked with Gregg Araki (Mysterious Skin), Michael Haneke (Funny Games US), and Lars Von Trier (Melancholia) as well as the aforementioned Sean Durkin on Martha Marcy. He obviously fostered a good working relationship with the team and is now a creative force behind Simon Killer.
Make no mistake, this is purely a horror film in broad psychological terms. There's no blood and not even any thrills despite working within a thriller template. The horror of the piece is in Corbet's performance. He is so good in the role as Simon, mentally unstable and unable to contain it. With him working at such a great level, it's a shame the film didn't pick up to meet him. It's not that the film's first half doesn't work, it's just that characters routinely do things that show such poor judgement. It's hard to be reeled in. Towards the end, however, Campos appears to elevate the material thanks to more abrasive editing and a more hurried pace. Gold stars also for the use of Spectral Display's "It Takes a Muscle to Fall in Love" to such unique and unsettling effect. B-
What the psycho-chills of Simon Killer lacks in the blood and gore department are more than made up for with Xan Cassavetes' Kiss of the Damned. A film that's as super lush and stylish as it is super ridiculous and, at times, over-the-top. One could almost call it a campire tale given its propensity to be flashy and abundantly into its own colourful aesthetic. The film, Cassavetes' debut feature after her 2004 documentary Z Channel:A Magnificent Obsession, frequently looks like Sofia Coppola directing a Florence + The Machine video (and, surely not coincidentally, Coppola's name appears in the end credit thank yous) with some impeccably rich costume and production design. Shame the actors drown in them, which can make for a slower second act.
I think Jason at My New Plaid Pants put it best: "there's a lot of talk in Kiss of the Damned about the magnetic force of Milo [Ventimiglia]'s presence, and you kinda wanna laugh every time it's spoken of." Vampires are, after all, meant to be compelling creatures and lure with lust, but while Milo - as well as the parade of women that surround him all throughout the film - is a very good looking man (that beard is working all sorts of wonders for him) he doesn't exactly command the screen. The women, too, are mostly airy beings that float about through scenes, although if that was Cassavetes' intentions then at least she cast well and got actors that have some truly captivating voices.
Both Simon Killer and Kiss of the Damned are available on demand in America. Simon is also in limited release now, Damned will be in cinemas from May.


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A day is coming for believers when we will have to, for the last time, stand up for the name of Messiah – even if the price of loyalty is our own mortal lives.
In our minds' eyes perhaps we envision ourselves as valiant during the hour of temptation.. shining the way Stephen did at his trial.. stating firmly and unwaveringly whatever words are given us through the power of the Holy Spirit.
But before that day arrives, all we who claim the name of Messiah will increasingly have our respective metals tested against the ever-encroaching mandates of the Establishment.. and each choice made is cataloged and counted, either for us or against us.
It is perhaps easy to imagine an end-of-time grand finale of unyielding support for our Savior.. In the hour that our testimonies are given we will have one choice : obey Messiah or obey sin – a choice most believers would say is 'an easy one'.. but how do our choices measure up on a daily basis.. how 'easy' is it to say "No" to the System in our everyday lives?
At work.. at school.. at church.. in our circles of friends.. with strangers.. by ourselves.. when the choice is presented – is it found to be as easy as we'd like to believe it would be? Usually not, from what i've found.. but i've also found that choice gets easier to make the more it's made.
Recently the company where i work began a practice of saying the "Pledge of Allegiance" before the morning shift begins.. the first time it was announced, just before i was leaving for the day, i remember putting my hand over my heart, turning, along with everyone else in the room, and facing the flag. During the two seconds it took for me to do that i asked myself "What are you doing?"
I didn't want to pledge my allegiance to the flag.. any flag.. or anything or one other than Messiah.. i didn't say the words of the pledge.. and not wanting to make a scene, i stood still in my place.. while i remained there silent i wished that i had been walking out instead.. but i stayed.
Regret was instant, and i considered the choice i would make if that same opportunity was presented again.. and it was. This time as the room full of people, with hands over hearts, turned toward the flag of the government which hates them – i walked out in the opposite direction.
This time there was no regret.. no racing heart asking "what should i do?".. just a calm reassurance that the Almighty likes it when His children honor Him. Perhaps this seems a small choice to make against the Establishment of Evil, but we all have to start somewhere.
Believers have been, and will continue to be, implored to act in a manner unfit for His children.. and we all have to consciously decide whether we will stand up for what is right in the name of Messiah – or if we will sheepishly go with the flow of the System – then physically act on that decision.
Acting on the conviction that we will not yield to evil is something for which believers on Yahushua are known – and there is no better time than today to make that stand.. but how do we stand firm in our conviction without appearing to be a "nut"?
How? – by being meek.. by exhibiting strength under control.. by calmly exercising the rights given us by our Creator. If your job starts saying the Pledge.. refuse to participate.. if the cop asks for your SSN.. simply tell him 'no'.. if the government demands a head-count.. deny it that violation..
These days will draw closer to the end, riding the waves of injustice and mercilessness – but we, as believers, can reject the pressure to conform and instead rely on and remain strong in our loyalty to Messiah. It is, after all, His authority which shall remain when the authorities of the world perish.. and it is to Him that we must answer when all is said and done.
"No"' doesn't go over very well when it comes from what seems to be a raving lunatic..
Instead, as believers, and as individuals who will be judged by the Almighty, let our every 'no to the Establishment' in these days be given in meekness.. with a calm knowledge that Messiah has purchased and owns us, and none can take us out of His hand.. so that in the hour of temptation we will not be doing a new thing, but will be doing what we have become accustomed to do – His will.
"Yet Miyka'el the high messenger, in contending with the devil when he disputed about the body of Mosheh, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, "Yahuwah rebuke you" (Jude 9)


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The Challenge
The firm needed a solution to quickly and accurately analyze diversified portfolios with complicated ownership structures.
The firm needed a solution to quickly and accurately analyze diversified portfolios with complicated ownership structures.
Addepar provides unprecedented control and precision married with modern communication tools.
The firm uses Addepar, its "state-of-the-art" solution, to take its high touch client service to the next level while staying lean.
Cherry Creek Family Offices"I'm a huge advocate for Addepar because it fits so well with how we operate. We're a small shop and we want to stay lean. We're able to look at the whole portfolio and all the elements of it very efficiently in Addepar. It's a great selling point to be able to talk to clients about our state-of-the-art reporting system."Ben Novak / Chief Financial Officer
Cherry Creek Family Offices supports a diverse collection of families, providing insightful investment management, financial counseling and personal services for sustained prosperity. The families served by Cherry Creek hold portfolios that range in value from $30 million and above, with assets including both publicly traded securities, alternative investments and real assets. These families also employ complex ownership structures that can't be easily modeled in legacy software systems.
To provide consistent, optimized client service, Cherry Creek needed a platform that could model and analyze traditional securities and alternative assets on one platform with accuracy and expediency, as well as take sophisticated ownership hierarchies into consideration. The firm also sought paperless reporting that would cater to younger, tech-savvy investors who want a cloud-based solution without a physical document trail. But finding a platform to handle all of these requirements proved initially challenging, says Ben Novak, Chief Financial Officer of Cherry Creek.
"We were using fairly archaic architecture," Mr. Novak explains. "With our previous platform, our ability to efficiently produce reports was very challenging — sometimes it took an entire day to run a report. The legacy software's capacity to create reports other than the standard templates provided was nonexistent. There was also no portal presence or web presence for clients at all. We consistently struggled with the accuracy of numbers and we had to do a lot of corrections to produce accurate reporting, which was time-consuming."
Cherry Creek required a toolset that could not only navigate the complexity of its clients' portfolios and hierarchal organization, but also connect the firm with its families by using future-forward technology. Addepar addressed all of these needs and more. "Addepar handles complex hierarchical schema, with regard to ownership, very well," Mr. Novak says. "We have significant complexity in our clients' ownership structures. Most of our clients have multiple investment partnerships that are owned by individuals, trusts or other partnerships and we must present the flow-through of investment ownership and related performance on the client portfolios. Addepar helped us model and address these sophisticated situations with ease."
With Addepar, Mr. Novak and his colleagues can directly input and manage all alternative asset data, eliminating the need for the outside team the firm had previously employed to help manage and process the data. Addepar enabled complete control. "We are able to ensure the transactions are entered correctly and that this information is represented accurately in compelling reports for our clients."
Paperless, Seamless Communication for the Next Generation of Investor
In addition to allowing the advisors at Cherry Creek to provide robust, comprehensive reporting, Addepar also provides the team with the ability to communicate with its families and clients through branded portals that leave no paper trail. "We use the portal in two ways: it's a place for us to display some of the key metrics of our clients' portfolios that they're able to look at, at any time. It's also a mechanism for us to distribute reports, so our clients can log into the portal and see them. We can conduct meetings using a portal, where no hard copy information is being sent out at all."
This emphasis on privacy and control is especially relevant to more sophisticated, younger investors. "Our clients can be sensitive about portfolio information, especially the younger family members. For example, the client could be in college and they have a portfolio worth $12 million. It's important to utilize a paperless environment as far as that information is concerned to retain privacy."
Cherry Creek now works more quickly, accurately and closely with its families, using the analytical, reporting and communications prowess of Addepar. The firm directly oversees the input of its alternative assets, utilizing the platform for heightened versatility and management. All of this information merges with direct, instantaneous feeds from custodians for a comprehensive picture to fuel optimized counsel. "Addepar is a very robust database with an unlimited number of variables and attributes for investment information" Mr. Novak says. "We're able to create customized reports and views that we weren't able to create on legacy systems. And we're able to take a deeper look at portfolios in seconds versus hours or days it would have taken on legacy systems."
These enhanced capabilities are a new differentiation point for Cherry Creek, with a "state-of-the-art" solution to legacy issues that have persisted for decades. The platform allows powerful control and oversight for a small firm that would traditionally necessitate entire teams of analysts. "I'm a huge advocate for Addepar because it fits so well with how we operate. We're a small shop and we want to stay lean" Mr. Novak notes. "We're able to look at the whole portfolio and all the elements of it very efficiently in Addepar. It's a great selling point to be able to talk to clients about our state-of-the-art reporting system."
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There's nothing quite as relaxing as reading a good book by the warm fireplace on a chilly evening.
New Fireplace Installations
Many homes have fireplaces and chimneys built into their design, but what about the rest of us? Plenty of homes don't include fireplaces, and once the home is already built, having a chimney added on can be extremely difficult, not to mention expensive and time consuming.
So are you destined to suffer through the winter with no roaring fire for comfort? Or venture out into the backyard and build a campfire from scratch? The answer, mercifully, is no.
Gas log systems are a great alternative to bulldozing a wall and putting in a chimney. They work by venting the heat through piping in the walls. As opposed to wood burning fires, gas log installations have impressive safety and maintenance benefits.
Gas Log Set Installations and Replacements
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It's always a pleasure to hear about other physicians who are choosing to go smaller and return to a simpler way of practicing medicine via micropractices. For one thing, it gives me hope that the American medical system can be transformed/reformed into something that makes some sense. For another, it makes me feel like I'm not the only crazy one for trying it.
Here is a recent article from the Santa Cruz Sentinel about someone else who took the leap:
SANTA CRUZ - There's something different about the office of Dr. Maria Greaves.
Sure, there's a tastefully furnished waiting room with a burgundy leather sofa and a toy box. But there's no receptionist, no nurse, no insurance paperwork to fill out.
"I'm everything," said Greaves with a smile.
She is the first physician in Santa Cruz County to adopt a new style of medical practice pioneered by Dr. Gordon Moore in Rochester, N.Y., five years ago.
Here is another article about 2 doctors from Oregon who also decided smaller is better:
Quillin is part of a growing national trend of physicians breaking away from high-volume practices characterized by short office visits.
Tired of seeing more than 20 patients a day and staying on top of the well-being of 2,500 people every year, they are paring down their practices to a few hundred patients, who get a lot more of their time.
Smaller practices can come in different forms. Some are completely solo like Dr. Greaves and myself. Others look like a traditional practice with a medical assistant and nurse. I accept 3rd party insurance like most practices. Dr. Quillen charges a $400 annual enrollment fee plus $75 per additional family member. You can be full-time, or part-time, like Dr. Wible:
Wible worked in several clinics in Eugene and in Washington state before opening her own part-time practice in April.
Her biggest complaint about working in established clinics was similar to Quillin's: not enough face time with patients.
"I like to talk and my patients like to talk. They want to get to know me, and I want to get to know them. You can't do that in 15 minutes," she said.
When she decided to go solo, she conducted several community meetings that attracted about 100 people. She asked them what they wanted from their primary care physician and three consistent themes emerged.
People wanted more time with their doctors. They wanted to be listened to and they wanted to play a role in their own health care.
Wible knew she wanted more time with her patients, the opportunity to help transform the health care system, and more personal time to explore other activities.
To get there, she stripped down the overhead. She employs no one, and does all the accounting and business work in her home office. She sees clients three days a week in an office she rents at the Tamarack Wellness Center in south Eugene.
Because she carries no debt and lives simply, Wible says she doesn't need the typical physician's salary. But she believes that her low overhead will allow her to exceed her previous full-time salary.
So if this is a growing trend, where are all these micropractices?
Well, you could start by looking at this website where
You may already have a micropractice near you. Or if not, maybe a micropractice will be starting up in your town soon. Then you'll have a choice between the new way of seeing a doctor:
- call to make an appointment and be surprised when the doctor answers
- get an appointment for 2PM that same day
- barely spend any time reading the magazines in the empty waiting room as you are directed to the exam room
- talk to the doctor who sits down and looks you in the eye and actually listens
- spend enough time to make sure everything gets brought up and even some things that you had forgotten about
- receive a thorough physical examination
- leave with all questions answered with an appropriate follow up date (if any is needed)
- since it's only 2:30PM you have time to go to the bank/post office/whatever
- call for an appointment and wait on hold
- get an appointment for 2PM a week from now
- wait in crowded waiting room with sick people
- finally get called 30 minutes after the appointment time
- wait another 10 minutes for the doctor in the cold exam room
- spend 5 minutes with doctor who is busy looking through your chart or writing notes while you talk for 22 seconds before being interrupted
- received a rushed and abbreviated physical examination
- be left with unanswered questions because the doctor is late for his next patient
- spend another 10 minutes trying to reschedule another appointment because there wasn't enough time to talk about everything you wanted
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Do vitamin D supplements help prevent respiratory tract infections?BMJ 2017; 356 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j456 (Published 15 February 2017) Cite this as: BMJ 2017;356:j456
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Saturday, July 07, 2012
Microbial music: Christine Lavin and the Amoeba Hop
The song is "The Amoeba Hop" and the singer is the brilliant Christine Lavin.
I have had this song in my head on and off for years and wanted to post about it for a while. I finally remembered to Google it tonight after reading a tweet about combining music and biology. I used to listen to Lavin all the time in college and even went to a show of hers in 1989 in Ft. Collins, CO with my brother and my friend Saul Jacobson. As a side note - we saw Lavin at some music hall type of place the the night after seeing Killdozer at a VFW post. As a second side note - the Killdozer show was crazy (and I even found someone else who wrote about it here).
Anyway - not only did I find the video posted above but I discovered she wrote a book in 2002 based on the song - and the book even got a review in the New York Times. Gonna probably have to get that book at some point ...
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Hi! Christine Lavin here. Th anx 4 th. Kind words. Betsy Franco feeneyy illustrated AmoebaHooop n u can see th bk at puddlejumppress.com. My adddrs is email@example.com. betsy n i hava nu bk HOLE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA about the big oil spill. Like Hop it is 4 kids n has 4 pages of real science.ReplyDelete
Hi! Betsy Franco Feeney here, Christine Lavin's collaborator on the book based on her song "Amoeba Hop". Educators from elementary school to ninth grade biology teachers LOVE it. We recently published HOLE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, all about the environment, clean energy and wildlife rehabilitation. Please check them out at www.puddlejumppress.com!ReplyDelete
Also, check out the video I made for a film festival at this year's Conference on the World's Oceans: http://youtu.be/NIMXTWpDWaM


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This post is part of Cocktail Culture's Drinks of Summer series, in which we will feature light & refreshing warm-weather cocktails.
My latest drink obsession—I love a Ramos Gin Fizz! Now, the TOTC session with Audrey Saunders was not the first time I've tried a Ramos Gin Fizz but it was the first time I realized how fantastically awesome they are. I haven't been able to get them off my mind since. It is, by far, my favorite gin drink at the moment. Reese, over at Cocktail Hacker did a great write-up of the RG Fizz recently, with delicious-looking photos, so check him out.
Here's the recipe I prefer:
Ramos Gin Fizz
1 tbsp. superfine sugar
3-4 drops orange flower water
Juice of ½ lemon
Juice of ½ lime
1 ½ oz. Beefeater gin
1 egg white
2 tablespoons heavy cream
Combine all ingredients (except seltzer) in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake very well (like…you better shake your arm off and freeze your hands) and strain into a Collins glass. Top with Seltzer and stir. I also like it garnished with an orange slice like Reese used in his.
This is not an easy drink to make but, as an occasional treat, I think it's well worth the time and effort. It's a great-tasting cocktail with a wonderful history (read Paul Clarke's article from way back when to read up on all that and more). So if you're feeling ambitious this weekend and can get your hands on some orange flower water, you've absolutely got to try this!


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Wruck through to discus final
13 August 2013
ATHLETICS: The Australian Flame charge has continued at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow, with national discus champion Julian Wruck (Qld) advancing to the discus final and 400m hurdlers Tristan Thomas (Tas) and Lauren Boden (ACT) progressing to semi-finals.
Making amends for his agonising 13th place at the London 2012 Olympic Games, Wruck's third attempt throw of 62.48m to secure his spot in the round-of-12 also creates history, with the 22-year-old becoming the youngest male ever to qualify for a discus final at the championships.
Wruck opened his account with a nervous 60.36m, before backing up with yet another stiff throw of 60.84m. Making amendments to his technique for his last attempt, the NCAA champion threw his best mark to advance 11th placed for the final tomorrow night.
"The first couple of rounds I was really nervous and you can see that in my throws. My arm was nice and tight, but I made a few technical changes and was able to put one out there with my last attempt to scrape through. Fair to say I was pretty anxious to see if it would be enough so I am looking forward to the final," Wruck said.
"It is good that I was able to respond by improving in the last round. That's what I take into the final, the knowledge that if I open badly I can still calm myself down, make a technical amendment and improve. Ideally you throw big from the outset but the piece of mind in knowing that I can adjust what I am doing to get better is a big relief."
"The nerves are something that I am getting better at. They were very bad in London last year, better at the NCAA titles earlier this year and improved again here. It's something that I will keep working on and in the final I will be doing my best to improve from today."
Wruck's compatriot Benn Harradine (Qld) threw in Group 'A' earlier in the morning session on Day 3 but was unable to recapture the form that saw him throw a national record of 68.20m earlier this year and he will miss the final. Hitting his best mark of 59.68m in round two, Harradine fouled with his other two attempts and finished 20th overall.
"This was a great opportunity to throw well and I have missed it. I just couldn't get it out there today. There's nothing else to say other than if sport was the only thing that determined my happiness, I would be very unhappy right now," Harradine said.
"In saying that I am very determined for next year. I don't want that to sound like a cop out but this year has been challenging for me and I am looking forward to getting home, having some rest, and finding myself in a situation where I have finished the year without the need for surgery. I am fit in my head, and my body is starting to take shape so I am hopeful for a healthy and fit build-up for the Commonwealth Games."
Competing in heat one of the men's 400m hurdles, Thomas was initially disappointed by his sixth place behind Michael Tinsley (USA, first, 49.07) thinking that it would not be enough to progress to the next round.
Enduring four further heats, all of which were noticeably slower, Thomas was rewarded for his 49.80 time, with the four-time Australian champion advancing as the second fastest of the non-automatic qualifiers.
"It's really been great being here, I love this track. The Australian team has been amazing and if I do get a run in the relay then I'm really looking forward to that," Thomas said.
"It's mixed feelings. Obviously it's a great honour to be back in the semi-finals for my third World Championships. I'm pretty happy to get another one after a run that I wasn't overly thrilled with at the time today. Obviously a lot more needs to be done, but maybe I underestimated the track and 49.80 isn't that bad a time after all."
"I can go faster in the semi, it's a matter of whether it's fast enough though. As I said, the run didn't feel bad, it just didn't flow as well as I'd like to. It's obviously not as rosy as it looks out there, so I'll just rest up, recover well and hopefully that is enough to get me home tomorrow."
Boden too will progress to the women's 400m hurdles semi-final on time after she clocked 55.37 to place 4th in heat three. Excited by her race considering her event progressed to only two (rather than the three) semi-finals, she is confident that she has more to offer when she takes to the track once more.
"It was interesting when we saw that there were only two semi-finals rather than three like I am used to. I tried to not let it phase me, and instead just focus on getting my stride pattern right, executive my race plan and watching the time follow," Boden said.
"My heat was very strong with the Olympic champion and silver medallist, and I did my best to try and ignore it. I am happy with how I just focused on what I was doing and got to the line in a quick enough time to see another day. It's very exciting."
On Day 4 of the World Championships ten athletes will be in action. Tanya Holliday, Jess Rothwell (20km Walk final), Brandon Starc (HJ qual), Ben St Lawrence, Brett Robinson (5,000m heats), Julian Wruck (discus final), Lauren Boden and Tristan Thomas (400m hurdle semi-finals).
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Minority Report squeezes past Disney
Steven Spielberg's new thriller Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise, jumped straight to the top of the US box office charts at the weekend - but only just.
The science fiction story earned an estimated $36.9m (£24.5m) in its first three days, just ahead of Disney's animated feature Lilo & Stitch, with $35m (£23.3m) in receipts.
Disney distribution president Chuck Viane said: "We truly believe we were number one.
Studios base their weekend projections on the ticket sales reported by cinemas for Friday and Saturday - and add in estimates for Sunday.
Chart placings are sometimes revised as Sunday's figures are confirmed.
Minority Report is made by Fox studious, whose president of distribution Bruce Snyder described it as "an original movie".
It is based, like Bladerunner, on a short story by Philip K Dick and is a similarly dark glimpse of a possible future.
The combination of Cruise, one of Hollywood's biggest stars with Spielberg, one of its most popular directors, had been expected to make a big box office impact.
TV cartoon adaptation Scooby-Doo, a previous number one, fell to three with earnings of $24.4m (£16.3m), taking its 10-day total to $100.2m (£67m)
The Matt Damon spy story The Bourne Identity, which also opened last weekend, slipped two places to four with $14.8m (£9.9m), and the nuclear thriller The Sum of All Fears, starring Ben Affleck, fell to five after grossing $7.9m (£5.3m).
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You can always expect a certain amount of monkey business at an airport, but this is ridiculous.
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JESSE LINGARD is setting his sights high at Manchester United by hoping to replicate club icon Ryan Giggs.
The 23-year-old came through the ranks at United just as Giggs did and Lingard is eager to enjoy a taste of the great success that his ideal did.
Giggs, now assistant manager under boss Louis van Gaal, played an integral role in United's domestic dominance for the best part of the last 25 years.
He won 13 league titles among a host of other honours and awards and Lingard has paid tribute to the legendary winger.
He told United's official website: "Ryan Giggs pretty much won everything there is to win in the game. He made over 900 appearances for the club and always stayed loyal to Manchester United, which is really impressive.
"Most importantly, he wanted to get fans off their seats, which is what I like doing myself"Jesse Lingard
"He made his debut at 17 and so paved the way for youngsters here, showing what can be achieved. He came through the ranks and I know I always looked up to him.
"While you appreciate the need to be patient for your chance, you also realise he managed to get a chance at a young age. He obviously had that ability and did very well.
"Playing on the wing, he liked to take players on, score goals and make assists. Most importantly, he wanted to get fans off their seats, which is what I like doing myself.
"As soon as he was on the ball, it was very exciting because he was always going to create something. I would like to take some of that into my game.
"My favourite goal has to be his one in the FA Cup semi-final replay against Arsenal in 1999. That was a highlight of his career. It was a quality run and a great finish.
"To be so composed after such a long run was incredible and the celebrations afterwards were very memorable.
"It's good that he's stayed on at the club, obviously. For young players he knows their background more than the manager coming in. So it's good for him to still be around to look after us lads who want to follow in his footsteps.
"He is always giving advice to all the youngsters and helping us out in any way he can. Whether it's in training or on matchdays, he always gives you little tips and pointers.
"He has one-on-one chats to see how you're doing and how you're coping, stuff like that, and he will always help you out in any way he can.
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Expressiveness Part Two
Sometimes I have what I call "a blinding flash of the obvious". These insights are those "Aha" moments when I laugh in wonderment over something that I think I should have realized earlier.
My latest "blinding flash of the obvious" has to do with dance performance – more specifically, how to improve the quality of my performances so that my audience feels what I feel.
As I wrote in Expressiveness Part One, once the technique is at a credible level, I wanted to start uncovering the character of particular dances. I chose to do this by emotively getting into the music and letting my body move naturally…still focused on me.
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1) How does my partner feel about the music?
2) What emotions are evoked for him?
3) What are his thoughts about expressing those emotions?
And finally: What story do we want to tell through our movement?
This approach assumes that your instructor/partner and you have the relationship to engage in said conversation. Once you have the conversation – probably multiple times for even one performance, the two of you can figure out how to incorporate each others' styles and strengths to best tell the story you both want to tell.
This interaction and connection with each other in telling the story is what really connects with the audience…and hopefully the audience will be drawn into what you both feel.


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Have you heard about the Linked In/Millennials kerfuffle?
So this 26-year-old woman tries to connect on Linked In with a woman who maintains a jobs board in the Cleveland area. Here is the response she receives:
"Apparently you have heard that I produce a Job Bank, and decided it would be stunningly helpful for your career prospects if I shared my 960+ LinkedIn connections with you—a total stranger who has nothing to offer me," Blazek wrote to John Carroll University graduate Diana Mekota. "Your invite to connect is inappropriate, beneficial only to you, and tacky.
"Love the sense of entitlement in your generation. And therefore I enjoy denying your invite. … You're welcome for your humility lesson for the year. Don't ever reach out to senior practitioners again and assume their carefully curated list of connections is available to you, just because you want to build your network."
The last line? "Don't ever write me again."
What the what?! And two other people have come forward with very similar emails from this woman, so you can't even chalk it up to a bad day. This is her M.O.
I think back to how I got my reporting job at the Sacramento Bee: a cold email to the executive editor. He was one of very few Latinos to reach such a position at a major daily newspaper, with decades of experience under his belt. I imagine he had dozens of journalists beating down his door, looking for a job.
He wrote me back. He gave me a chance.
I can't imagine treating someone the way this "Jobs Bank mother" treated this job seeker. And all over a request to connect on Linked In?! Jeez, way to take yourself WAY too seriously.
Have you ever encountered people like this woman? On the flip side, who were the people who helped you up the ladder?
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I grew up with my Grandfather being my male role model. He was not, by any means, your stereotypical run of the mill Grandpa. He was loud, a bit obnoxious, he had THE most inappropriate sense of humor, he was occasionally slightly embarrassing, and at times he could be hurtful with his blunt honesty. He was not a perfect person, he made lots of mistakes in his life, but what made him great was that he admitted to them and ended up changing himself for the better - something that I think is extremely admirable and takes a lot of courage.
He died at the age of 77 from congestive heart failure. We all knew it was coming, he had been sick for quite a while. But no matter how much you prepare for the death of a loved one it still shocks and saddens you.
I remember when I first heard the news. It was Super Bowl Sunday, and I was in my bedroom in my apartment in San Francisco getting my laundry together. I was just about to head downstairs to my complex's laundry room when I got a phone call from my mother. I answered it in my typical happy voice, but immediately heard the sadness in hers. She told me he had passed away earlier in the morning. She was in no mood to talk about it so it was a quick conversation. I hung up the phone, felt the deepest sinking feeling ever in my chest and then suddenly, I went totally numb. I've never been very good at expressing emotions so this was no surprise to me.
I sat on my bed for a few minutes in silence, not knowing what to do. Then I realized there was nothing I COULD do, so I got up and went downstairs to do my laundry, like I had planned. When I got down to the laundry room there was no one there except a neighbor of mine, a very very old little Russian woman. I had seen her around several times and always smiled at her, but we had never spoken. So I smiled at her like usual, pulled some cash out of my pocket, and went to the machine to load money onto my laundry card. But when I looked at the machine, I realized it was credit card only. I had lived in this complex for six months at this point and had stupidly made this mistake millions of times. It was such an annoying mistake to make, but I would usually just kick myself and then go back upstairs and switch my cash out for my credit card. This time however, was a little bit different. Apparently all I needed was one small thing to push me over the emotional edge of doom, because when I realized I had made this little mistake, I just started bawling. In the laundry room. With the little Russian lady staring at me in horror, not knowing what to do or say. And I'm not talking some small sniffles here, I'm talking full out 'I can't even breathe because I'm crying so hard' kind of tears. I tried so hard to stop myself but nothing was working - as I mentioned earlier, never been good at expressing emotions. The little Russian lady finally came over to me and with her thick Russian accent asked me, "What's wrong child? What can I do to help you?" I'm not the type to unload my emotional issues onto people, but I know I should have said "I just found out my Grandfather died." For some reason my brain was just NOT working, so I told her "I forgot my credit card upstairs." - WHAT THE FUCK ALYSE???? Epic lapse in judgment right there.
At first she looked at me like I was absolutely bat shit crazy, but then something switched in her and she must have looked into her inner wisdom and realized that wasn't actually what I was upset about. She helped me compose myself by telling me to breathe and then sat me down on the nearest chair. Then she took my laundry card, pulled out her own credit card, went to the machine and loaded $10 onto my card. She proceeded to hand my card back to me, grab her clean clothes, give me one of the warmest smiles I've ever seen, and then leave.
That was by far one of the nicest things anyone's ever done for me, especially a complete stranger.
We never spoke again after that, just continued to smile at each other when we crossed paths. Looking back though, I seriously think the whole thing is absolutely hilarious. I laugh thinking about her initial reaction when she first saw me burst into tears, and then I laugh even harder when I think about her face when I told her I was crying because I forgot my credit card.
My Grandfather's funeral was the following week. He lived in Reno, so I took a flight out and met my family there for what was potentially one of the saddest days of my life. That being said, being up in Reno made me remember a lot of fun stories about him. I remembered him taking me on his motorcycle to get lemonade around his neighborhood, playing with his two cats in the snow when I visited him in the winter, sitting on his big bear rug in front of the fire and chatting with him, driving to Lake Tahoe with him and eating lunch by the water. I tried to make it as positive of a day as possible.
To end this incredibly long post, I'm going to share a quick story that I shared at his funeral that shows the kind of person he was. His funeral was literally massive, he was a very popular and well known guy. I've never been very fond of public speaking but I made an exception for him.
It was Thanksgiving 2007. Thanksgiving is always a big deal in my family, and this one was particularly large, so we had maybe forty to fifty people of allll different ages over at my family's house. When dinner time came, everyone sat down to eat and went silent so that we could all say grace. My Mom, amidst this silence, asked my Grandfather if he would do the honors of saying it. He looked up at her with big eyes and said "No, no I will not." We all looked at him confused. Then he sat up nice and tall and said "I would much rather sing a patriotic song!!" At this point I look over at my mother because I know something ridiculous is about to happen, and I can literally see the horror in her eyes and read her mind saying "Oh, shit."
So my Grandpa sits up proudly and says "Yank my doodle. It's a dandy!!"
I literally spit out my water from laughing so hard.
(He and I at my 20th birthday party. As you can see, he was a very tall man. I'm 5'9" and he's slumping to hug me, if that gives you any idea.)
His death reminds me that life is SO short. Don't waste your time on negative people or negative emotions. Don't be afraid to love, don't be afraid to do something you want to do, don't be afraid to say what you want to say. And always make sure to tell the people you care for how you feel about them, because you never know when they won't be there anymore.
Love you Grandpa. Miss you every day.
Jack Allain
December 9th 1934 - February 5th 2012


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And they say chivalry is dead!0
Apparently Alex Pettyfer has some rather inspired ink on his nether regions. You might thinks it's crass but the Sterling Archer in me is shocked and disappointed I didn't think of it first.
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No haiku yesterday I know. Time got away from me. Ran a particularly horrible workout on Monday that consisted of carrying 135 pounds zercher style for a little over a mile. Yes, one mile. That effort plus overtime hockey games from the West Coast and the release of the Gears of War 3 Beta have all kept me running on fumes as of late. I'm glad to do it, it's my choice but my mind is more prone to drifting lately as a result and sadly I let the poem posting slip. Lancers on the brain among other things.
This week felt weird from the start. Ominous and heavy. Time ran away as it always does. Always. Never, ever enough time. Not enough to love someone or kill some stanger in an online deathmatch. To workout and eat right or to keep up with any number of shows or movies or comic books.
Someone I know is dying right now. In the very literal sense.
It's like a slap across the face really. It shocks you and it numbs you. You ask why and there's no answer. Others are way better at dealing with Death than I am. I avoid it, try to ignore it. But at those last moments you can't. I'll run tonight on aching hips and then scarf some food before I shoot thousands of rounds from a virtual rifle. I'll hug my wife and tuck her in to bed before I resume said shooting. And I'll keep running and hugging and shooting. One piece of a clockwork world. Another piece is breaking down today and another will soon take it's place. One day I'll be replaced. As will you. Time is slipping away. Go grab some and do something, anything, before it's all gone.
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It's true and you can read all about the tears of Skynet here. I'm positive this is largely due to the fact that no one in China can properly pronounce "Excellent Adventure".


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Today on Valentines day it is 50 days to IMSA.
Went for my LONG ride today and as the picture
suggest it was dead slow with a strong wind. At first for the first two hours it was quite nice but as i changed routes it was tough. Though that it would be better when I turned around but it seems that the wind then just came from everywhere. Round about the 4 hour mark Kim and Dejone brought me some water and Infinit drinks to refill my bottles, THANKS Girls. As they drove off it was heartbreaking to think I still had some 3 hours of riding left. From then onwards until the 6 hour mark was tough but I guess that last hour fly by as you heading home and you know it is close. Rest of the day I am going to rest to be ready for my Long run tomorrow morning. After the long run it is of for a 2.5km swim and then it is my treat. We are going for Dinner at Piatto. Can wait to have a decent steak, haven't had one in ages.
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Long Ride 6h53 196km 4315kcal
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I'm still wandering through Newton's letters to John Ryland. In Letter 54 Ryland is considering a call to a different church. The new position is definitely a "step up." This is part of Newton's response:
"Considering that our Lord's Kingdom is not of this world, I have thought it a little strange, that when his ministers think He calls them to leave one charge for another, it should almost universally be from less to more; to a better income, a larger town or a more genteel congregation. We seldom have an instance of a retrograde call. Ministers frequently move from the country to London, but for one to leave London, for a charge in the country is rare indeed."
The interesting thing is that Newton himself had moved from the country to London to take a bigger congregation. Obviously there are lots of factors to be considered and Newton is very careful in his counsel. But I think this is an interesting point. Is pastoral ministry a career in the sense that one's goal is to move up to more and more influence and more and more money? I remember in seminary hearing about men who were being prepared for significant ministry. I've always wondered how one is supposed to determine in what way one ministry is more "significant" than another.


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Although a print of this film was not viewed, the above credits were taken from a cutting continuity deposited with the Copyright Office. The picture opens with a brief narrated montage depicting the history of the Ku Klux Klan in America. Voice-overs spoken by character "Johnny Larrimer" are heard intermittently throughout the film and are finally revealed to be his confession to the police. An article about the film in the September 1947 issue of Ebony magazine gives the following information about the production: Producer Selvyn Levinson got his inspiration for the project while he was serving in the military during World War II. At his unit in Chengtu, China, an African American staff sergeant was put in charge of an all-white aircraft battery, and Levinson was impressed with the way in which all of the soldiers worked together to make it the "most proficient...on the field." When Levinson sought financing for The Burning Cross, he was turned down by "every national bank in the country," according to the Ebony article. The picture, which cost $150,000 to make, was financed by "individuals interested in tolerance." Levinson also noted that while the writers with whom he consulted refused to "touch it," many actors volunteered their services on the film.
Hollywood Reporter news items and production charts add the following actors to the cast: Rory Mallinson, Betty McMahon, Peggy Wynne, Herbert Wilms, Tom Daly, Victor Zimmerman, Marion Brown, Bill Murphy and Mollie MacIntosh. Their participation in the completed film has not been confirmed, however. According to a Los Angeles Times news item, The Burning Cross was the first film to be shot at the newly renovated Motion Picture Center, formerly the Metro Pictures Corp. studio.
In a May 12, 1947 letter to producer-director Walter Colmes, contained in the MPAA/PCA files at the AMPAS Library, PCA director Joseph I. Breen approved the shooting script, but cautioned that "the Negroes throughout the production will at no time be shown as too subvervient, and that their dialogue will be cleaned up so that the English will be grammatical." Although Breen had only minor objections to the story, Hollywood Reporter announced in late September 1947 that the Virginia Board of Censors had banned the film, calling it "inhuman and an incitement to crime." The Board felt that the film might "arouse animosity" between blacks and whites, not "believed existing in Virginia." In October 1947, Variety announced that Screen Guild Productions had filed a lawsuit against the Virginia Board before the state court of appeals. The disposition of that suit is not known.


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I prayed to Jesus a lot today. I kept going back to the prayer that is listed for today. I kept having awful images pop up in my mind and I immediately gave them to GOD. I feel a bit more peaceful and calm today. We did not argue. I caught myself a few times getting irritated and just intentionally shut up. I did express how I felt a few times about stuff but it was done calmly. I feel like I am growing. I feel like I did a good job today Being Still and letting GOD do his work. My husband of course asked me all day what was on my mind and I would simply reply nothing. It was obvious I was preoccupied with something at times but it serves no purpose to verbalize what I am wondering about or thinking pertaining to the affair. It always ends in an argument and today I chose not to argue. I just wanted to try my best to LOVE GOD so I could love my husband. I have told him it won't be helpful for me to bring it up and I think he is used to me just telling him whatever is on my mind. I am relying more on GOD! Praise the LORD! I'm trying not to have expectations of my husband cuz it only disappoints me. I'm trying not to worry about him and just focus on ME. I'm trying not to ask him to many questions because I don't want to wonder if he is lying or not. Funny thing is it seems that now that I am backing off he wants to be more open and tell me this or that where as before i would have to ask or nag for it. That's truly GOD's work. I can't believe I am halfway through the dares. It's been a bumpy ride but I know I am growing closer to GOD I can just feel it and it is amazing. I am glad that the section now centers more on JESUS and my walk with him. I know nothing but GOOD will and can come out of this. I try to read as many posts and journals as I can and they truly do give me hope that I will be able to overcome this and become a better person which ultimately is what I think GOD wants me to learn from all this. I feel so blessed to have an incredible GOD that loves me so much.
Go back and read my posts to you again.... Do you see when God gives you strength to leave it? What happens? Your husband starts to push the issue...............
Without him even realizing it, he is wondering if you dont care anymore... Not about the situation, but about him. In his mind if you loved him you would be arguing.
He is so used to your love being shown through emotional negatives he looks for it.
On the face he hates it, sure... But deep down he needs it, to know your love still is there.
Now, the more you trust Christ, the more He molds you, the more you trust Him... The less you will do that. The more your husband will start to change. It may get worse because he will want a negative reaction from you.... This is where your testimony becomes critical.
That will break. But only when your testimony can be proven.
WOW that's pretty intense and crazy. He definitely complains about me yelling and screaming and being negative but you are right he keeps asking what is wrong and does push it. That is totally crazy that he needs it to know that I still love him.
I have to keep changing. I have to stop expecting anything from him. Dunno why I even bother when all I do is get disappointed. Guess cuz I've been used to turning to him all this time and now I must only turn to to CHRIST.
Remember.... Listen to things around this situation that can expose your relationship with Christ.
Remember this journey is between you and Christ. Your husband is the tool.


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