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The Man Who Brought Sunshine
by Frances Thornton
The world knows Dr. John Harvey Kellogg as a famous doctor, surgeon, author, inventor and philanthropist, but he was also a humanitarian who brought sunshine into the lives of many adults and children in Battle Creek.
According to Leta Browning, Kellogg's personal secretary and later social director at the Sanitarium, Dr. Kellogg always had time to go out in his garden on a starlight night and commune with the stars. He was a man "to whom the smallest and most fragile flower was of major importance, to whom the laughter of a child was divine music."[i] In both his personal and public life, the doctor repeatedly demonstrated this concern for the youngest and most fragile members of society.
To start at the beginning, when he was a child prodigy of thirteen, Kellogg sat in the sun on the back step of his father's house. He saw a vision of a little red schoolhouse on a hill with a group of children coming toward him with arms outstretched. He pictured himself standing in that doorway, beckoning the children to come to him. So vivid was this boyhood vision that in later years he found himself searching the faces on passing children to find those in his dream.[ii]
As a successful doctor and director of the world-famous Sanitarium, Kellogg found himself in a position to offer substantial help to those members of society less fortunate than himself. Known around the world for his accomplishments as an author and health reformer, in the slums of Chicago he was better known as the founder of the Life Boat Mission. The Mission tried to rescue men from the streets through a combination of Gosper teaching, a free medical dispensary, the first free baths in the city a soup kitchen and free lodging for 400 homeless men.[iii]
One cold night in December 1910, when Dr. Kellogg was visiting the Mission, a five year old boy wandered into the shelter, seeking warmth. The staff of the Mission was unable to gather any information about the child, so Dr. Kellogg gathered him up in his arms and went out into the wintry Chicago night to learn the boy's identity.
Every painted girl in Clark Street, every wretched pan-handler in Van Buren Street, knew the doctor. But none could tell him whose was the child he carried in his arms. In and out among the scenes of sordid revelry he went, searching to find where the baby belonged. Through the dance-halls and dives and back rooms, he inquired in vain until he met "Slippery Joe" coming with a "pail of suds" from Hinkey Dink's saloon. "Aw, if it ain't Katie's kid," volunteered Slippery Joe. Katie hadn't been seen for months, and the child had been living mostly from garbage cans.
Now that he had heard the child's history, Dr. Kellogg hugged the little one to his heart, and boarded a midnight train to Michigan. When he reached Battle Creek on Christmas morning, the town was white and quiet under a new snowfall. His latch-key opened the door of the great house set in a grove of oak trees. The sleeping bundle still wrapped in a shawl, he laid softly in a Morris chair in the library. There the other children later found it.
"Oh, the Christ-child," murmured one little maid in awe. "No, a new little brother," cried the rest.[iv]
Dr. Kellogg and his wife, Ella Eaton, had no children of their own, but they adopted a houseful of children – more than forty in all. Some of these children were adopted as infants, some as older children, some came from broken families around the country, some from abroad.
To accommodate this growing family, the Kelloggs built a 20 room mansion on the NW corner of Manchester and North Wood streets, on the site of the old race track and fairgrounds. They moved into "The residence" in June 1894 and lived there for the rest of their lives. The nine acres of grounds around the house extended three blocks north from Manchester to Greenwood Street, between Wood and Hubbard streets. Around the house was "the grove" of stately shade trees, bushes and flower gardens. A fenced area held the famous "Deer park" where a herd of tame deer were kept to the delight of young people and the occasional consternation of neighbors, when the animals escaped their enclosure.[v]
According to Leta Browning, "The Residence" was the "most lived in house she had ever known."[vi] Ella Eaton Kellogg described her home and its pastoral setting in her diary:
The summer is passing very swiftly by. I wonder if I shall ever see another one. I hope so for I love summer time and the beauties of this grove around our home. I think it is the most wonderful setting for a house I have ever yet seen.[vii]
Each adopted child was given a choice between a Shetland pony and a bicycle. The ponies were housed in a large barn and stable located near the end of Ann Avenue. This was the barn which was later converted into the Sunshine center. There was also a small zoo for the collection of animals kept by the children.
Between Oaklawn and Ann Avenue the Kellogg's also constructed an elaborate playground for their active family. The playground area was surrounded by a high wooden fence, painted green, which also divided the park area into two sides, one for boys and one for girls. There was a wading pool for small children and a larger swimming pool, 75 by 25 feet, which graduated in depth from 18 inches to four feet. The pool area was equipped with modern dressing rooms and toilets. Alice Davis remembers "the outdoor lockers, with white canvas curtains and the wooden crate-like stands on the floor so that water could drip down into the cement troughs below."[viii]
The playground was also fitted out with teeter totters, swings and sand boxes, a baseball field and drinking fountain.
A large sand box was build around a huge oak tree. …There were two toboggan slides. One was small and straight, the other taller with a dip in it for the more adventurous. There was a row of lovely swings with oaken seats.[ix]
As one of the children growing up in the west end, only a block away from The Residence, I can remember that sometimes beautifully gowned women who were visiting the Kelloggs would come outside and ask us neighborhood children to push them on the swings. We would swing them as high as we could and all enjoyed it.
Many parties were given at The Residence and often when my family would be driving by after dark, we would see the driveway and grounds lit up with Japanese lanterns. Ella Eaton Kellogg described one evening in 1918:
Some two weeks ago I gave the youngsters an outdoor frolic on the playground where I have been giving of late several entertainments for San students. The grounds were lighted with Japanese lanterns over electric lights and a huge bonfire in which the children toasted marshmallows.[x]
As the family of adopted children grew older they lost interest in the play equipment. As early as 1911 neighborhood children were encouraged to use the playground. Ella Eaton Kellogg wrote in her diary in the summer of 1916:
A hot day. The playground is in full swing and the children come in floods.[xi]
Alice Davis remembers the days when:
Children were lined up at the gate when it was opened every weekday morning at 9:00. On several occasions…Dr. Kellogg stood in his white splendor by the gate and gravely shook our hands as we entered. Sometimes the pony cart and groom were put at our disposal and we would line up for a ride around the neighborhood.[xii]
In 1915 Dr. Kellogg employed Arch Flannery, then a student at the School of Physical Education, to supervise the playground facilities while area children enjoyed them.[xiii]
To fully understand the extraordinary nature of the gift Dr. Kellogg was offering to neighborhood children, it should be noted that in this period there were no recreational programs – or recreational facilities – available for children anywhere else in the city. During the summer, children were left to their own devices, to play in dangerous, unsupervised situations, or to get into trouble.
Until a boy reaches a certain age he cannot work. Under that age, if he lives in the city, he must spend the days either about home wishing for something to do or else play in the streets, in constant danger physically and morally.[xiv]
A nationally recognized expert on recreation and development of playgrounds cited alarming statistics to make his point about the need for organized recreation:
It has been found that 45 percent of the children who are out of school are on the streets and in the alleys, that 52 per cent of them are doing nothing, and that 65 per cent of the juvenile crime is due to faulty recreation. Last year [1915]…14,000 children under 16 years of age were killed while playing on railroads.[xv]
Until 1918 the only recreation program offered to Battle Creek's children was at the Kellogg playground. Arch Flannery maintained that the Kellogg playground was "one of the first in the country and was a model for many of the children's playgrounds established by municipalities and schools." He said that "representatives from all over the United States came to see Dr. Kellogg's experiment."[xvi]
Finally that summer of 1918 the board of education "decided to establish two playground centers" to "take care of the large leisure time the ordinary boy and girl have upon their hands" in the summer months. Miss Frances Seibert, school play supervisor, was hired to coordinate the programs at #1 school (Central High School) and #4 school (Jefferson School at Fountain Street). A day nursery for children of working mothers was also established at school #7 (Nichols School on Shepard Street), staffed by volunteer high school students.[xvii]
The first day of the city's new recreation program was a "hummer" with 127 children attending. But the facilities were limited and no swimming was available.[xviii]
While the city struggled with developing a recreational program, Dr. Kellogg continued to open his fully equipped and staffed private playground to Battle Creek's children. "A splendid schedule of events: was offered each day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., supervised by staff and students of the Normal School of Physical Education. The day's program opened with flag salute, marching, hygiene and patriotism, and continued with games, gymnastics, story telling and quiet games, singing, Good Citizens club and current events.[xix]
In the summer of 1920 Dr. Kellogg formally turned over supervision of activities at his playground to Frances Seibert and the developing city program. For the next decade the Kellogg playground drew the largest attendance of any of the city's facilities. Average daily attendance at the Kellogg playground was usually over 200 children. During the summer of 1928 over 21,000 children refreshed themselves in the Kellogg pools.[xx]
During the 1920s the city expanded its program and opened recreational centers at Franklin, Jefferson, Nichols and Wilson schools. But the favorite continued to be the "splendid playground" on Wood Street:
Groups from the different school playgrounds…were each given one day a week to visit the Kellogg playground. Activities were kept up at the other grounds, but the one day the youngsters really looked forward to was the day at the Kellogg grounds and the swimming pool.[xxi]
The swimming pool continued to be the primary attraction for many children. Originally the boys and girls swam at different times during the day:
A board wall painted green surrounded the pool, and the door was unlocked only at the proper times. Once in the morning and once in the afternoon it would be our privilege to enter the inner sanctum. If the girls were first to swim in the morning, then the boys would be first in the afternoon. They never swam together. This policy was changed later, but that is how it was at first.[xxii]
Even older children, who had outgrown the teeter totters and sand box, returned to the Kellogg playground. I can remember going back with my friends when I was a teenager. Thinking back to those days it seems as if the sun was always shining. There were huge shade trees to sit under, green wooden chairs where we sat and played checkers, plus many other board games. We made many friends from all over the area and would sometimes just sit under the trees and talk.
The Kellogg "Sunshine playground" continued to be an integral part of the city's recreational program through the summer of 1946. For the first time in 1947 the Kellogg site was not among the 10 sites, including three swimming pools, which were open to the city's children.[xxiii]
In the 31 years that the Kellogg playground with its recreational and educational program was available to the city's youngsters, thousands of boys and girls amused and refreshed themselves in the shady "grove" and in the swimming and wading pools.
In addition to the recreational activities available at the Kellogg "Sunshine playground," special programs reflected the doctor's concern for the health and physical well-being of the area children:
Each child who enrolls at the playground undergoes a physical examination and if discovered to be undernourished is sent to…nutrition class and given a lunch of health food and milk each day at noon.[xxiv]
Miss Lorna Barber of Battle Creek College started "experimental work in health and nutrition" in which special attention was given to undernourished children or those with "nutritional defects."
The advanced nutrition class of the college will do individual work with the children to see how much improvement can be made by each during the summer playground period.[xxv]
Beginning in 1928 a series of "Nutritional Afternoons" were offered "for the benefit of children who suffer from nutritional defects." On the first "Afternoon" in July, the children presented:
a little health pantomime, some being dressed as good foods and some as undesirable foods. In a tug of war, the good foods won out.[xxvi]
Dr. Helen Mitchell, director of the nutritional laboratory at the Sanitarium, extended "an open invitation to any mother in the city" to attend future programs.[xxvii]
The staff of the playground nutrition programs recognized the importance of the remedial work they were doing every day with the undernourished children. They also realized that the whole family, especially the mothers, had to be educated if good health and nutrition habits were going to be instilled in the children.
Gertrude Estill, Dr. Kellogg's secretary and confidante, approached the doctor about the possibility of offering a full educational program for mothers and children.[xxviii]
Dr. Kellogg saw the value of the program and agreed to convert the unused pony barn into a "community house" for classes. On July 12, 1928, the newspaper announced the opening of the new facility where Gertrude Estill was "hostess and superintendent:"
A community house where mothers may gather to talk over problems of home and children and where classes will be given offering the latest scientific principles in home management, nutrition and home nursing is the latest gift of Dr. J. H. Kellogg to the Battle Creek community...[xxix]
The setting of the remodeled barn enhanced its appeal:
It is surrounded by spacious grounds with large spreading oak trees and when landscape work has been completed a more attractive place should be difficult to find. A broad porch extends across the entire front of the building and the outside has been attractively painted in light shades.[xxx]
The Friday "Nutrition Afternoons" were to be held in the new building and the work of the community center and the playground "will go hand in hand."
Health instruction for the children has been made a part of the playground work and the Community house will provide an opportunity for the mothers to keep in touch and also learn principles which will help them…at home.[xxxi]
Dr. Kellogg and the teaching staff of the new Community center planned a wide variety of classes to fill the "needs of mothers and children."
Proposed classes include physiology, in which simple home treatments, emergency needs, care and structure of the body, etc. will be taught; nutrition and home cooking and serving, the proper way to prepare and serve attractive meals; how to entertain properly; how to train the children for the niceties of life and its responsibilities; sewing for infants and children in which the young girls will use various sized dolls for models; an extensive line of beautiful handcraft work.[xxxii]
In August "classes in cooking, paper folding and clothes mending will be new features" in activities in the Sunshine Center, as the new Community center was now called. Health and craft classes for girls began every day at 2 p.m. with programs for mothers at 3 p.m.[xxxiii]
The Kellogg playground closed in August every summer, but the new Sunshine center activities continued into the fall and winter. Children were taken on "little trips through the city, where they visit historical points. This is in order to have an objective for their walks and also give them the benefit of fresh air." Classes in singing and folk dancing also continued from the summer sessions.[xxxiv]
However, the primary purpose of the Sunshine Center was to teach the mothers of Battle Creek "how a modern home, in all its departments, should be conducted." The Center offered classes in home nursing techniques, including equipping the home medicine chest and making fomentation (hot compress) cloths. Upstairs, in a large open room, exercise classes were held in inclement weather.[xxxv]
Domestic science, from cooking classes to setting an attractive table, was taught in the upstairs room. Food grown in a garden adjacent to the Center, as well as food from Dr. Kellogg's own garden, was used in food preparation. Women and girls also learned canning and food preservation techniques using the fresh garden produce. Occasionally demonstration meals, with the "simple home foods…" all cooked and served by the members of the classes," were served in the dining room.[xxxvi]
Doris Sootsman Postma lived in the Kellogg park neighborhood and remembers playing in the park as well as attending classes at the Sunshine Center. She took Home Nursing classes in which she learned how to make beds and prepare and give hot fomentations. In cooking programs she remembers using vegetables from Dr. Kellogg's own garden. At Christmas time there was a decorated tree in the center and presents for everyone.[xxxvii]
In 1922 Dr. Kellogg had helped to form a group of men and women seventy-five years of age an older called the Three Quarter century Club. The group met in various locations around town. After the Sunshine Center was opened, the Club met there frequently and I can remember attending with my foster father, George Wilber.
The Sunshine Center continued to serve the mothers and children of the city through 1943 when Dr. Kellogg died. However, by 1940 at least part of the building was converted into a residence. Jim McFarland remembers living there after he graduated from high school and worked on the lawn and grounds of Dr. Kellogg's house.[xxxviii]
By 1945 Cecile Hatch Pickard, one of the adopted Kellogg children, was living in the Sunshine Center building and it was no longer open to the public. After she died in 1947 the building was vacant and presumably demolished with the Kellogg residence itself in 1958.[xxxix]
Dr. Kellogg believed in the physical and emotional value of sunshine. He knew that exercise in the fresh air and sunshine improved health. His practice of wearing white clothing from top to toe began before World War I as a recognition of the value of sunlight, which penetrates lighter clothing more easily than dark clothing.
In an essay on Optimism, Dr. Kellogg summarizes his credo:
Fear is darkness, death, despair. Hope is sunshine, life and energy.[xl]
We owe a great deal to Dr. Kellogg for bringing so much sunshine into our world.
[i] Leta Browning, untitled typescript, undated (probably c. 1958). p. 1.
[ii] Richard W. Schwarz, J. H. Kellogg, M.D. (Southern Publishing Association, Nashville, TN, 1970), pp. 15-16.
[iii] Mabel Potter Daggett, "A Father to Forty, The Homeless Child is Given a Chance by Sharing All the Advantages and Responsibilities of Dr. Kellogg's Own Home," The Delineator, December 1910, p. 464.
[iv] ibid.
[v] When Dr. Kellogg established his deer herd in the 1890s, the animals were relatively rare in southern Michigan. After decades of commercial market hunting to supply restaurants with venison and the inroads of farmers on grazing lands, the once-plentiful white-tail had virtually disappeared. Kellogg's herd was one of the few collections of the animals in the area. It was not until the 1940s that deer were again plentiful in this area. (See Rollin Baker, Michigan Mammals, Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, MI, 1983), pp. 581.
Battle Creek residents and visitors to the Kellogg residence had mixed reactions to the deer park. Interested in the unusual herd, they also had occasional problems with the wild animals living enclosed behind a fence in the middle of the city. Dr. Lauretta Kress, a physician at the Sanitarium from 1894 to 1898, wrote in her autobiography, Under the Guiding Hand, of a winter evening when she was returning from a house call. A buck deer spooked the horse pulling her cutter, landing the sleigh, and the doctor, in a snow drift.
A 1923 newspaper reported that the herd of fourteen deer, "one of the largest in this part of the state," sometimes gave the doctor "some little trouble, especially in the spring when they usually hop over the tall fence and roam the country." Mischievous children and curious canines also stampeded the deer over the fence on occasion. Dr. Kellogg offered to donate the herd to the city, to be housed in the newly created Leila Arboretum. Apparently the city was not interested in building a high fence to contain the herd in the new park. (See "Who Wants This Fine Deer Herd," May 8, 1923, Enquirer and Evening News).
[vi] Browning, p.1.
[vii] Ella Eaton Kellogg, unpublished diary, 1915-1919, July 23, 1915.
[viii] Alice Davis, "Alice's Adventures in Kelloggland," unpublished, undated typescript, p.4.
[ix] ibid.
[x] E.E. Kellogg, October 21, 1918.
[xi] op. cit., July 11, 1916. "Dr. Kellogg Quits Rearing Children." July 7, 1911. Evening News.
[xii] Davis, p. 5.
[xiii] op. cit., p. 3.
Arch Flannery went to Western Michigan University in 1916-17. He returned to Battle Creek to coach in the public schools before leaving for World War I. After the war he initiated the city's civic recreation program while serving as the first full time director of physical education in the Battle Creek public schools. In 1923 he went to Hawaii for two years. After he returned to Battle Creek he continued the civic recreation program and teaching in the public schools. By 1929 the recreation program became so large that he left the school position to become its full time director. (see "The Castle on the Hill" in this issue, pp. 4-10.)
[xiv] "School in Summer is Advocated by Keeler," June 26, 1916. Battle Creek Enquirer.
[xv] "Interest Aroused in Recreation Congress," Battle Creek Enquirer, June 17, 1916.
[xvi] Quoted in Davis, p. 3.
[xvii] "Expert Engaged For [sic] Playground Center," June 27, 1918; "City Will Have a Third Play Center," June 28, 1918, both from Battle Enquirer.
[xviii] "First Day at Play Center Is 'Hummer'," Battle Creek Enquirer, July 7, 1918.
[xix] "Playground Is Open to Kiddies." Moon Journal, July 21, 1919.
[xx] "Playgrounds' Average Attendance," January 1, 1925 and "Sports of All Sorts Drawing 3,000 Locally," November 1, 1928, both in Enquirer and Evening News.
[xxi] "Playgrounds Are a Big Need Here," Enquirer and Evening News, January 1, 1924.
[xxii] Davis, p.4.
[xxiii] "Many Recreational Activities Available for Local Children," Enquirer and Evening News, June 15, 1947. The ten sites operated by the Civic Recreation department were East End on East Kingman Avenue, Oliver-Exchange playground, Southwestern and Northwestern junior high schools, Verona, Ann J. Kellogg, McKinley and Washington elementary schools (the last three were new in 1947), Kellogg Company playground. Pools were available at Southeastern and Southwestern junior highs and at the Youth building.
[xxiv] July 10, 1926, Moon Journal.
[xxv] "Sunshine Plays Important Role," July 9, 1928, Enquirer and Evening News.
[xxvi] ibid.
[xxvii] ibid.
[xxviii] "Sunshine Center Fills Genuine Need." January 1, 1929. Enquirer and Evening News. Gertrude was the youngest of three sisters who worked for the Sanitarium. Angie was a dietitian and the eldest sister, Mabel, was a nurse. Their brother, Harlan owned and operated the Estill Café, a health cafeteria in the basement of the Elk Temple at North McCamly and State streets.
[xxix] "New Structure Given Mothers," July 12, 1928. Enquirer and Evening News.
[xxx] ibid.
[xxxi] ibid.
[xxxii] ibid.
[xxxiii] "'Center' Plans New Features," August 20, 1928, Moon Journal.
[xxxiv] January 1, 1929, Enquirer and Evening News.
[xxxv] ibid.
[xxxvi] ibid.
[xxxvii] Interview with author, March 1994.
[xxxviii] Interview with author, March 1994.
[xxxix] Obituary Mrs. Cecile M. Pickard, October 13, 1947, Enquirer and Evening News. After Dr. Kellogg died in 1943, the house was vacant except for a caretaker. In 1949 the Army purchased the site for $49,000, intending to tear down the Residence and build housing for commissioned and non-commisioned officers attached to Percy Jones Hospital. After the Korean War ended, these plans were put on hold. In 1955 the city considered purchasing the site "for public use." In the next year the property was finally sold to two Ypsilanti developers who intended to build an apartment house and shopping center. This plan was also abandoned. The house was finally demolished in 1958. The Washington Heights Community Ministries bought the land in 1965 and built the present church/community building in 1977. (Enquirer and Evening News. September 7, 1955 and July 17, 1957.)
[xl] "Optimism," Good Health magazine, vol. 79. #1, January 1944, p. 16.


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I finally had my daughter, Morgan, after some fertility issues requiring surgery. I was 32 years old and I was obsessively anxious to be a Mommy. Morgan was born three months early due to a condition called pre-eclampsia (can somebody find a cure for that, already?) and she took us on the preemie roller coaster ride of ups and downs with fluctuating oxygen levels, blood transfusions and retinopathy, to name a few. She was so fortunate that she emerged virtually unscathed, compared to many preemies who fight a losing battle or live with life-long complications. Even though there were still health concerns to watch and make accommodations for, we considered her normal and got on with the business of raising a girl. A girl, who happened to be fearless (she broke her arm jumping from a church pew at age two, pretending to be Superman), tender-hearted in a Dr. Doolittle way toward animals, and loved rocks and sticks. That little tornado was five kids wrapped in the skin of one tiny little girl who lived her life with a zeal that had her sleeping twelve hour nights!
Now, at 22, she's a mommy. Bless her. Although I was ten years older when I became a Mom, I don't think those extra years prepared me for the frustrations of incessant crying (her, not me. OK, sometimes me) due to colic or sleep deprivation (definitely me!). My mother and I still laugh at my exasperated call to her in which I accusingly asked, "Why didn't you TELL me it was going to be like THIS?" I'll tell you why. Because, darlings, nobody can prepare you and you wouldn't believe it anyway.
Since Morgan was in a hospital for her first three months, I didn't have the same newborn experiences as my friends. I spoke those words many times, sometimes lamenting the loss of the experience. So, when we ended up caring for Jeremiah for most of his first two months, my words came back to me. My sweet baby girl had developed postpartum depression and was admitted to a hospital for treatment. Jeremiah's Dad had to work and spent as much time at the hospital with Morgan during visiting hours as he could. We were all stunned and heartbroken and hanging on by our tattered fingernails with her. She missed Jeremiah, we missed Morgan.
Somehow, through some of the most harrowing days and nights of worry about Morgan, Rich and I loved their precious baby boy without reservation, as if he had been our very own. Boy, did I get my 'newborn experience'! Little sleep, working a full time job and shuttling him to my sweet cousins who cared for him during the day. There's definitely no substitute for having family close by, especially those who are so willing to help. I received his first intentional smiles, his first giggle and we giggled too as we watched him pack on the pounds.
When Morgan was released from her treatment, I knew my role of substitute Mommy would change. I knew I would feel a hole in my heart when he left my arms. But it was time to be the Sweetie and not the Mommy. The day was July 4th when I asked her if she was ready. Her emphatic "YES!" gave me comfort. She'd missed her baby as much as I'd missed her being healthy. So, in a matter of a few minutes, Jeremiah and all his clothes, diapers and furniture were gone from our house. Rich and I wept occasionally for days, but knew he needed to be with his parents and they needed to be with him, too.
We know the bond formed with him will always be safely stowed in our hearts. It's what we'll blame when we let him have cake for breakfast and ice cream for dinner. Being a grandparent brings out even stronger protective instincts than I remember having as a new mommy. I find myself more relaxed as a grandmother than as a new mother, able to soothe him when Morgan can't. It's different when the ultimate responsibility rests on someone else and you know you can go home and sleep all night, except for those times when I feel so connected to him that I STILL wake up for that 3am feeding. Love him so!
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Seth MacFarlane and the Oscars
Funny you should ask.
Besides it being too long -- isn't it always? -- and despite the fact that most of the awards are of interest only to those in the film industry, I thought this year's event was injected with a healthy dose of inventiveness, making it a refreshing change from the recent past.
Most of the day-after water cooler chatter had to do with host Seth MacFarlane.
(A disclaimer: I met MacFarlane when my son was a writer on his animated sit-com "American Dad" and I watched him work several times at "table reads," where the cast performs a script for the first time. He's funny, likable and extremely talented. So let's just say I was inclined to enjoy his Oscar performance even before the first joke.)
Here's what you have to understand about MacFarlane and the Oscars: He was hired in large part because of his appeal to young males, a demographic the aging Oscars show needed to attract to the broadcast. (TV ratings did rise overall and in that category.) And he was selected because the producers wanted what MacFarlane could deliver: the kind of edginess that has helped make his three Fox comedies ("Family Guy" and "The Cleveland Show" are the two) and his movie "Ted" popular, plus his ability to sing standards in the manner of old Hollywood. In short, MacFarlane is a younger, hipper Billy Crystal, a perennial Oscar favorite.
So MacFarlane performed as advertised, something he parodied in a bit-too-long opening routine anticipating him being called the worst Oscars host ever (with which many on Twitter during the show and in the press afterwards were in agreement).
Here's the equation: Past Oscars shows have been considered predictable and, yes, boring. Bring in an irreverent performer and turn him loose. Then duck when spitballs from an offended peanut gallery come flying.
Jokes about breasts, domestic violence and Jews in Hollywood drew the predictable screams of foul from some individuals and special interest groups.
(Meanwhile, the "In Memoriam" segment, something with which MacFarlane wasn't involved, produced anger among Hispanics for the omission of an actress they thought was snubbed. (Days before the Oscars there were reports about "In Memoriam" being such a hotly contested segment, given the guarantee of many exclusions, that the names of those who decide who's in and who's out are closely guarded secret, lest they be subjected to backlash.)
What all this says to me is that there's no tougher "room" than the Oscars, both in the theater and on TV. When you look up "no-win situation" in the dictionary, there's Oscar.
Hey, it's supposed to be entertainment, all in good fun, from the movie capital of the world, no less. Lighten up. If the Seth MacFarlanes of the business are scared away from hosting future Oscars, we'll get more shows hosted by the likes of Ann Hathaway and James Franco. Remember when they had the gig? Yikes.
If you want to know what disappointed me most about this year's show, it was that other than the electrifying performance of "Goldfinger" by Shirley Bassey, the James Bond tribute highlight reel was pedestrian stuff. I'd hoped that all the James Bonds would do a walk-on -- Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig. It's been speculated that both Connery and Brosnan weren't interested in attending.


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The State of modern Germany
Victor Grossman in the only person to have graduated from both Harvard and Karl Marx University. As a young leftist in the United States where the Cold War was being engineered, communists were facing increasing government hostility and harassment.
The Korea War was seeing young men called up, and Victor was enlisted in the US Army and sent to Europe. In 1952 the Pentagon sent him a letter showing that they knew his politics (they left out his membership of the CPUSA probably to hide the extent of their infiltration). Facing the possibility of up to 2005 years in prison, he travelled to Austria under Western powers, and managed to present himself to the Soviet Red Army. He then settled in the German Democratic Republic and became a journalist.
He still lives in East Berlin and writes with a keen eye about the current political scene. A large part of his discussions were about modern day Germany and the perils people face as Capitalism lurches in need of scapegoats and solutions - which often involve militarism and imperialist expansionism, as demonstrated by that great son of Germany Karl Marx.
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(Left to Right: Fredi Kronenberg, PhD, Mark Blumenthal, Morris Shriftman, Peggy Brevoort, Michael Balick, PhD, Tom Newmark, Neil Blomquist, Margaret Wittenberg, Steven Foster, and Bernadette Marriott, PhD)
Michael J. Balick, Ph.D.Vice President and Chair, Research and Training Director and Philecology Curator, Institute of Economic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York
Michael J. Balick, Ph.D.Vice President and Chair, Research and Training Director and Philecology Curator, Institute of Economic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York
Michael J. Balick, Ph.D.Vice President and Chair, Research and Training Director and Philecology Curator, Institute of Economic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York
Dr. Michael J. Balick is an ethnobotanist with a specialty in medicinal and food plants and the role they play in traditional health care (ethnomedical) systems. Since the early 1970s he has worked with indigenous cultures around the world, studying how people interact with the plants in their environment and working towards conservation of biological and cultural diversity. He received his Ph.D. and A.M. in Biology from Harvard University. His undergraduate major was in horticulture and plant science, at the University of Delaware. He has worked at The New York Botanical Garden since 1980, and is currently Philecology Curator of Economic Botany and Director of the NYBG Institute of Economic Botany, and Vice President for Botanical Science. Current field projects regularly take him to the Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Palau, and the island of Manhattan – where, in each of these places, he studies the use of plants by traditional cultures. He teaches ethnobotany at Columbia University and The City University of New York, and has authored, co-authored or edited 18 books and numerous scientific and popular articles. He frequently appears on television, radio and in print media, discussing the need for documenting the ancient wisdom of traditional cultures and keeping it in practice. He has received numerous awards and honors for his scientific research and achievements. In 2009 he received the Distinguished Economic Botanist award from the Society for Economic Botany. In 2007 he received the Rachel Carson Award for Environmental Achievement from the Natural Products Association and was a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation during 2005-2006. He is the recipient of the 2004 American Association for the Advancement of Science International Award for Scientific Cooperation ("For leadership in the field of ethnobotany and devotion to establishing international collaborations and institutions that work toward preserving traditional knowledge and respect for the values of local communities"). He received the Frontiers of Science Award from the Society of Cosmetics Chemists in 2001, was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1999, and received the E. K. Janaki Ammal Medal from the Society of Ethnobotanists in 1998 ("For his long and distinguished service to ethnobotany"). He and Dr. Hans T. Beck received the Oberly Award for bibliographic excellence in the field of agricultural sciences from the American Library Association for their book Useful Palms of The World: A Synoptic Bibliography in 1991. Dr. Balick is a former President of the Society for Economic Botany, an international organization devoted to furthering research in the study of the relationship between plants and people; has been a Visiting Fellow at Green College, Oxford University; and serves on the boards of numerous scientific and cultural organizations. In March of 2009 he was accorded the high title of Luhk En Kairoir Dolen Katau Nett, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, in recognition of his efforts in cultural and biodiversity conservation of that island. Read the HerbalGram article about Michael.View Michael's page on the New York Botanical Garden Web site.
Neil BlomquistFounder and President, Sustainable Solutions Consulting ServicesABC Board Treasurer
Blomquist has over 40 years of hands-on success building brands and companies in the natural products industry. Neil has practical experience in retailing, distribution, brand marketing, product sourcing, product development and organizational management. Founder and President of Sustainable Solutions, a consulting firm specializing in the development and marketing of sustainable business solutions for the natural products industry. (2006 to present) Managing Director, Natural Habitats USA, Inc. – provides oversight of all business activities in the US for the Natural Habitats Group, www.natural-habitats.com. Chief Operating Officer, Numi Tea, Inc. – oversight of Finance, Operations, IT and Customer Service for leading premium Organic and Fair Trade Tea Company based in Oakland, CA. (2009 to 2012; Senior Advisor, 2012 to 2014) Former President, Chief Executive Officer and Board Member, Spectrum Organic Products, Inc. (2002 to 2005) – the leading producer of natural and organic culinary and nutraceutical oils, condiments, and essential fatty acid supplement oils in North America. The company was sold to the Hain-Celestial Group in December of 2005. Blomquist oversaw the daily operation of the company and lead its double-digit annual growth in sales and profits. Other positions held during Blomquist's 16 year tenure at Spectrum include:President of Consumer Brands - (2000 to 2002)President and COO - (1994 to 2000)Director of Sales and Marketing - (1989 to 1994) Natural Foods Retailer and Distributor. Neil has extensive experience in natural product distribution and retailing. He served as Sales Manager of Fairhill Foods, a natural products distributor in the San Francisco Bay Area. Before moving to California, Blomquist co-owned and operated a natural and specialty food retail store in Kalispell, Montana for 10 years.Board of Directors, California Olive Oil Council (1995 to 2005)Board of Directors, American Botanical Council (2006 to present)Board of Directors, Living Harvest Conscious Nutrition (2006 to 2012)Board of Directors, Rudolf Steiner Foundation, Social Finance (2007 to present)Board of Directors, Nutiva, Inc. (2013 to present)Board of Directors, Numi Tea, Inc. (2013 to present)Neil served as Chair of the Organic Standards Subcommittee for Oils in the development of the Organic Foods Act of 1990. Born in South Dakota, Blomquist received a Bachelor of Arts degree in business management and economics from the University of South Dakota.
Peggy BrevoortPresident, Brevoort, LLC, Seattle, WashingtonABC Board Vice President
Peggy is the co-founder and former CEO of East Earth Herb inEugene, Oregon. She is the former President of the American Herbal Products Association, and has also served as a member of the boards at Biomed Comm Inc.; United Plant Savers; Bastyr University Board of Regents; the Corporate Alliance for Integrative Medicine, Inc.; and Citizens for Health. She was named 1990 Woman of the Year by the Association of Women in Natural Foods, and earned Natural Business Communication's 1999 Leadership in business Award. She was also a member of the frist herbalist delegation to the People's Republic of China in 1988. Read the HerbalGram article about Peggy.
James A. Duke, Ph.D., (1929 - 2017)Economic Botanist (USDA, ret.), AuthorFulton, MarylandABC Board Member Emeritus
Dr. James Duke formerly with the US Department of Agriculture, is a renowned senior botanist and who is currently involved with The Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research, and the American Botanical Council. He has written more than a dozen texts, including the Handbook of Medicinal Herbs, The CRC Handbook of Alternative Cash Crops for the Tropics, Amazonian Ethnobotanical Dictionary, CRC's Handbook of Medicinal Plants of the Bible, Duke's Handbook of Medicinal Plants of the Bible, and The Green Pharmacy. He has constructed powerful databases on the ecology, photochemistry and utility of thousands of economic plants. Advocating conservation in the Amazon as well as respect for efficacy of herbs over molecular drugs, Dr. Duke has been an all-important figure in the advancement of alternative therapies based on botanicals. Read the HerbalGram article about Jim.
Norman R. Farnsworth, Ph.D. (1930 - 2011)Research Professor of PharmacognosyProgram for Collaborative Research in the Pharmaceutical SciencesUniversity of Illinois at ChicagoNorman Farnsworth is a world-renowned pharmacognosist and director of the Program for Collaborative Research in the Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), a multidisciplinary program he established in 1982. He is also a UIC distinguished professor, research professor of pharmacognosy, and senior research scholar at UIC. Dr. Farnsworth invented NAPRALERT, the world's largest database on natural products, featuring information on the ethnomedical or traditional uses, chemistry, and pharmacology of medicinal plants, microbes, marine organisms, and fungi. Prof. Farnsworth is also co-founding editor of the journal Phytomedicine. Read the HerbalGram article about Norman. Read Norman's obituary.
View Steven's page on the ABC Web site.
Fredi Kronenberg, Ph.D. (1950 - 2017)Consulting Professor, Stanford University School of MedicineThe New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New YorkABC Board Secretary
Dr. Fredi Kronenberg is a physiologist and international leader in women's health and research in complementary and alternative approaches for menopausal women. She is a leading expert in menopausal hot flashes, and alternative therapies to treat them. Dr. Kronenberg was founding director of the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and, as Professor of Clinical Physiology, was director of one of the first ten Centers funded by the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine – the Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research in Aging and Women's Health at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons. Current affiliations include Stanford University School of Medicine, the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, and the New York Botanical Garden.
Dr. Kronenberg's research has examined women's health across the life-cycle. Work on alternative treatments has included studies of herbal and dietary approaches to maintaining optimal health in menopausal women. She collaborates with institutions in China to study Traditional Chinese Medicine and with ethnobotanists at the New York Botanical Garden to study herbal medicines of various ethnic traditions in New York City.
Dr. Kronenberg initiated groundbreaking CME courses including "Botanical Medicine in Modern Clinical Practice" with Dr. Andrew Weil, "Integrative Pain Medicine," and is co-director with Dr. Andrew Weil of "Nutrition and Health: State of the Science and Clinical Applications."
Dr. Kronenberg was a founding editor of the Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine: Research on Paradigm, Practice and Policy. She is on the editorial board of the journals Menopause, Journal of Tropical and Medicinal Plants, EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing, and the Journal of Women's Health. She was co-founder of the North American Menopause Society, which has become the premier professional society in the field. Her most recent co-edited book is Botanical Medicine: From Bench to Bedside.
Bernadette Marriott, Ph.D.Professor, Department of MedicineMUSC College of MedicineDiv. of Gastroenterology & Hepatology & Department. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Military Division Charleston, SC Bernadette M. Marriott, PhD, splits her time between positions as Principal Associate and Senior Scientist at Abt Associates, and Vice President for Science and Education at the Samueli Institute. Bernadette has 38 years of experience in the fields of nutrition, psychology, and comparative medicine with expertise in diet, nutrition and chronic disease. Dr. Marriott has worked in scientific settings in the federal government, universities, and foundations. Her research has focused on nutrition and related behavioral studies, specifically diet and health research, and food labeling. Other positions include Vice President for Science Integration, RTI International, Founding Director of the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, Deputy Director of the Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine (IOM), Vice Provost for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies at Northern Arizona University, Vice President for Programs and Communications for the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and Associate Director of the Caribbean Primate Research Center, University of Puerto Rico. She is currently leading or has recently led an ASPE-funded project on barriers to meeting the dietary guidelines, two corporate-funded projects on infant feeding, an EPA project on lifestyle factors in the elderly, two US Army diet and nutrition projects, two ILSI NA projects: one on fructose intake and one on added sugar intake and micronutrient adequacy, NIH-funded projects on adult and child intake, TMA-funded Weight Management Demonstration Project: Healthy Eating and Active Living in TRICARE Households (HEALTH), an obesity study supported by OSTP, and was the scientific lead for diet, exercise, weight management, and related health indicators on the 2005 Department of Defense (DoD) Survey of Health-Related Behaviors among Military Personnel, and the Office of Dietary Supplements-funded project on the feasibility of creating a Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD). Bernadette Marriott has a BSc in biology/immunology from Bucknell University, a PhD in psychology from King's College, Aberdeen, Scotland, and postgraduate training in trace mineral nutrition, comparative medicine, and advanced statistics. She has published extensively, is on a number of national committees and university scientific advisory boards, and is a frequent speaker on diet, dietary supplements and health.
Thomas M. NewmarkOwner, Finca Luna Nueva LodgeSan Isidro de Peñas Blancas, Costa RicaABC Board Chair
Newmark brings a deep devotion to environmentalism, conservation, and organic herb production to the ABC Board of Trustees, along with more than a decade of experience within the regulatory environments of the natural products industry. After graduating from Washington University in 1973, Newmark studied political science at Yale for one semester and then left to study Transcendental Meditation, which had a profound and lasting impact on his life and career. He then returned to Washington University for a law degree and worked as an attorney for many years, including the representation of the Animal Legal Defense Fund and the Natural Law Party and Ross Perot's Reform Party bid to be included in the 1996 presidential debates. A self-described "recovering attorney," Newmark came to New Chapter in 1999 after serving as a legal consultant to his college friend and New Chapter co-founder Paul Schulick. Newmark started off at the company as president, and, over the next 13 years, held several additional titles including co-CEO, CEO, and chairman. Newmark describes Schulick as his "first and most important teacher with respect to herbal medicine." Together they co-authored Beyond Aspirin (Holm Press, 2000) and The Life Bridge (Herbal Free Press, 2002), and created the current top-selling combination dietary supplement in the United States, Zyflamend®, a multi-herbal extract formulation to promote healthy inflammation response that has been researched in laboratory studies and a Phase I clinical trial. Newmark remains a tireless activist for organic and non-GMO causes, authoring editorial articles and participating in public-speaking events. He is co-owner of Finca Luna Nueva, a biodynamic and organic herb farm in Costa Rica that provides tropical-grown botanicals for some of New Chapter's products, and he also co-founded Semillas Sagradas, a botanical sanctuary that preserves traditional and medicinal plants and the knowledge surrounding their important uses. Semillas Sagradas, which is on the Luna Nueva farm, was the first installment in what has grown into a worldwide network of approximately 16 similar projects under the nonprofit organization Sacred Seeds, of which Newmark is president and chair of the board. In addition to his new position on ABC's Board of Trustees, Newmark recently joined the natural products merchant banker 6Pacific as chairman, a position in which he hopes to assist natural products companies in achieving greater commercial success. He also serves on the boards of Greenpeace, the Missouri Botanical Garden's William L. Brown Center, and Friends of the Children's Eternal Rainforest in Monteverde, Costa Rica.Read the HerbalGram article about Tom.
Morris ShriftmanCEO, Mozart, LLC, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
Morris has been active in the growth and development of the Natural and Organic Products industry and the Alternative Medicine Industry since 1970. He's had a hand in growing many of the industry's leading companies, as their marketing and branding agency, strategic consultant, executive or Board Member.
In 2004 Morris was recruited by North Castle Partners to reposition and build Avalon Natural Products. As Senior VP of Marketing and Product Development, Morris and his team created "Consciousness in Cosmetics," a new paradigm for safety and efficacy in natural and organic personal care, and reformulated nearly all of Avalon's products. Sales have grown over 25% every year since 2004 and in January 2007 Avalon was sold to Hain Celestial for $120,000,000.
Prior to joining Avalon Natural Products, Morris was CEO of Mozart, Inc., a marketing communications and interactive design firm that specializes in the creation, branding and marketing of natural and organic products and complementary medicine. He has resumed his CEO status.
Mozart's work includes strategy and positioning, branding and packaging, advertising and sales promotion, development of differentiating value- added marketing programs and creation of video and interactive web-based marketing.
Mozart has developed successful, award winning marketing solutions for the industry's leading distributors: Tree of Life and United Natural Foods; for its largest retailers: Whole Foods, Bread & Circus and Mrs. Gooch's, and for the industry's leading food and supplement manufacturers: Horizon Organic Dairy, Smucker Quality Beverages, Woodstock Farms, Spectrum Organic, Organic Classics, Traditional Medicinals, KAL, Sundown-Rexall, Functional Products and others.
Morris has served on the Boards of Foods for Health, Traditional Medicinals and others and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Botanical Council.
A speaker or panelist at Natural Product Expos, OTA's " All Things Organic," LOHAS and BioFach, he authored " Creating Marketing Success For Natural and Organic Products in America" for Penton Media.Morris has an undergraduate degree from Cornell University and a Masters Degree in British and American Literature from NYU. He has been a Visiting Professor of Marketing at the Davis College of Business at Jacksonville University.
Read the HerbalGram article about Morris.
Margaret WittenbergRetired, Natural & Organic Foods IndustryFredericksburg, TX
Margaret's career in the natural and organic foods industry began in 1977 with Sunseed Natural Foods in Wisconsin, co-owned with her husband, Terry. She was hired by Whole Foods Market in 1981 as one of the Company's original team members and retired in 2016 after many years in her position as Global Vice President of Quality Standards.
Currently serving as a member of the Board of Trustees for the American Botanical Council, Margaret also served on advisory panels and boards of trustees throughout her career for many key domestic and international organizations related to seafood sustainability, farm animal welfare, agricultural genetic engineering, and both sustainable and organic agriculture, including the USDA National Organic Standards Board.
In 2005, Margaret received the Rachel Carson Award by the National Audubon Society for her 30+ years of work championing organic agriculture, sustainability and the environment. In 2014 she was inducted into New Hope Natural Media's Hall of, Legends for her lifelong contributions advancing sustainability and global health. Honored in 2013 by Women in Naturals as one of the "9 Wonder Women of the Natural Industry", she was also hailed in 2014 as one of "The Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink" by Fortune and Food & Wine.
Margaret also authored many comprehensive cooking reference books incorporating natural foods, sustainability, and wellness. Her most current, published by Ten Speed Press in 2013, is The Essential Good Food Guide: The Complete Resource for Buying and Using Whole Grains and Specialty Flours, Heirloom Fruit and Vegetables, Meat and Poultry, Seafood, and More.
Mark Blumenthal, Founder and Executive Director, American Botanical Council (ex officio member)
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Chapter 13: What Vision Is
"Every form of foresight begins with insight. Foresight is stifled when insight is shallow." - Kayode Taiwo
Proverbs 29, verse 18 (AMP) says, "Where there is no vision [no redemptive revelation of God], the people perish…."
In simple terms, vision is the redemptive revelation of God. Vision sees the end from the beginning. It captures the heart of God, and then translates it into practical steps that lead to restoration, salvation, community, and empowerment. In Genesis, chapter 1, God created the earth; then He placed man in it. Genesis 1:26 in the NKJV states: "Then God said, 'Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion…'"
This verse is pregnant with divine purpose. Vision always seeks to restore, build, save, encourage, free, empower, uphold, and redeem others. The nature of a God-given vision is seen in its love for others.
There are three principles that arise from this verse:
1. The Principle of Origin;
2. The Principle of Identity; and
3. The Principle of Destiny.
The Principle of Origin
Genesis 1:26 says "Then God said…." If the Bible did not identify the person speaking, it would leave room for guessing and doubt. But it tells us, "God said." If the Bible said, "So-and-so's Great Grandfather said," we could pull the statement apart and say, "So-and-so's Great Grandfather could be wrong." But, the Bible eliminates any doubt or question as to who was speaking. The Bible says, "God said," so man was not man's idea; man was God's idea.
"In a remote Swiss village stood a beautiful church. It was so beautiful, in fact, that it was known as the Mountain Valley Cathedral. The church was not only beautiful to look at--with its high pillars and magnificent stained glass windows--but it had the most beautiful pipe organ in the whole region. People would come from miles away--from far off lands--to hear the lovely tones of this organ.
"But there was a problem. The columns were still there--the windows still dazzled with the sunlight--but there was an eerie silence. The mountain valley no longer echoed the glorious fine tuned music of the pipe organ.
"Something had gone wrong with the pipe organ. Musicians and experts from around the world had tried to repair it. Every time a new person would try to fix it the villagers were subjected to sounds of disharmony, awful penetrating noises which polluted the air.
"One day an old man appeared at the church door. He spoke with the sexton and after a time the sexton reluctantly agreed to let the old man try his hand at repairing the organ. For two days the old man worked in almost total silence. The sexton was, in fact, getting a bit nervous. Then on the third day--at high noon--the mountain valley once again was filled with glorious music. Farmers dropped their plows, merchants closed their stores--everyone stopped what they were doing and headed for the church. Even the bushes and trees of the mountain tops seemed to respond as the glorious music echoed from ridge to ridge.
"After the old man finished his playing, a brave soul asked him how he could have fixed the organ, how could he restore this magnificent instrument when even the world's experts could not. The old man merely said it was an inside job. "It was I who built this organ fifty years ago. I created it--and now I have restored it." "That is what God is like. It is He who created the universe, and it is He who can, and will, and is in the process of restoring it."
The Principle of Identity
God didn't just say that He was going to make a creature. This creature had an identity. God said, "Let us make man in Our image…." This speaks of man's identity. Man was to be God's image bearer on the earth. The word "image" is the Hebrew word tselem meaning a representative figure. When you saw the man, you saw his God. He was an ambassador of Heaven on earth. For many years I questioned God as I was reading Genesis, chapter 2, verse 19. It says that God brought all of the animals to Adam to see what he would name them. I asked God, "Why did You have this man name all of the animals?"
God could have named the animals Himself. You have to understand that chapter 2 comes before the fall of man in chapter 3. Chapter 2 is a picture of the exercise of dominion. Man was made in God's image, and he was exercising dominion as God's representative.
Notice, when Adam named an animal, God didn't come back and say, "Wait a minute, Adam. You missed it. What you called a lion should have been named a dog." God didn't do that. At this time, sin wasn't in the picture. Man was in complete synchrony with his God so that when he spoke, God said, "Yes, that's the name." God approved what Adam declared. But the interesting thing is this. Even though man sinned in Genesis, chapter 3, Adam bore humanity in him; and from Adam, the seed of sin has been passed through all generations. Though man has sinned and is in a fallen state, the ability to name was never recalled.


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Such a good one! Going in an exhibition is it e?bxx
Thanks :) I had planned to put it in a competition but our move lands right in the middle of it so can't do that anymore. So no plans as such yet. Hoping for a private sale I guess ~e xo
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Emily Simanskis, The Miami Student
Wednesday night, Miami University's men's basketball team dug deep to overcome a second half 15-point deficit to eventually beat Grambling State University 78-76 in overtime.
Freshmen twin brothers Michael and Marcus Weathers scored 44 of the team's 78 points—Marcus had a double-double with 18 total points and 12 rebounds, Michael had 26 points and both saw almost 40 minutes of play.
Grambling State's junior forward Averyl Ugba also had a double-double with 21 points and 16 rebounds.
Miami improves to 4-3 overall and 4-2 at home. GSU is now 3-5 with all of its games played on the road.
The 7 p.m. tipoff was won by the Tigers, though the early minutes of play saw no dominance from either side. The 'Hawks and Tigers exchanged baskets to keep the game close until seven minutes into the half.
An MU scoring drought was caused by scrambling for ball possession and too many turnovers, and it didn't take GSU long to capitalize.
"I felt like our faults came from early turnovers," Marcus Weathers said. "They were very athletic, so they were speeding us up and getting us out of our comfort zone. We didn't take our time running our offense which was one of our faults. Also, matching up on the defensive end was another one. With either a bucket or a miss we didn't know who we had, so we had to fix those things during halftime."
Three minutes later, GSU began to steadily increase their lead with numerous three-pointers and few missed shots. In comparison, Miami's regular misses and lacking defense could only attempt to counter the Tigers' momentum.
The first half ended with the RedHawks down 38-26 with 13 turnovers.
"We absolutely stunk it up in the first half—I'll give credit to Grambling, I thought Shawn did a terrific job with their game plan," head coach John Cooper said of GSU's coach. "They were more aggressive, they got all the 50-50 balls, they took balls from us, they did everything they wanted to do. We were just not very good and, at times, it can be quite frustrating because we have some pups going through this and they just have no clue, at times, what's going on and how to settle down and figure things out."
The second half began with a change in the RedHawks' mentality, but not an immediate change in momentum. A gradual shift occurred with the help of Marcus Weather's rebound control and Miami managed to cut GSU's lead to four within the first four minutes of play.
GSU answered, continuing to extend its lead until it reached 15 with nine minutes left in the game. The RedHawks would finally hit their stride and settle down to go on an 18-3 run.
The Weathers brothers and junior guard Abdoulaye Harouna sunk free throws and layups to chip away at GSU's lead. Redshirt senior guard Jake Bischoff played a crucial five minutes and made two free throws to aid the comeback.
The Tigers' vocal bench quieted as the final minutes ticked down but the RedHawk fans volume only increased.
Miami drew a charge in the defensive end and the clocked ticked to :22 with the RedHawks still down two. What started out as a messy play thankfully resulted in Michael Weathers bodying his way through traffic to score a layup and tie the game.
"One of the things when facing pressure is, first of all, you've got to face it and you've got to relax and you've got to make simple plays—that's how you handle pressure," Cooper said. "You've just got to settle down because all pressure wants you to do is speed up and it sped us up."
The five-minute overtime began with the fans on their feet and the team reenergized. Harouna hit a three-pointer to start, Michael Weathers hit two free throws, and the RedHawks never trailed for the rest of the game.
GSU came within one with a minute left to play, but Marcus Weathers came up with a monstrous dunk to push Miami's lead to three. Harouna had the fans cheering with a layup then GSU's senior guard Ervin Mitchell's deep three-pointer quieted the crowd.
Ultimately, the Tigers' failed attempt at a buzzer beater ended the game.
Miami's turnovers were significantly less in the second half of the game and almost nonexistent in overtime, but the first half's mistakes cannot be overlooked. The lack of scoring distribution along the roster is also an issue that Miami looks to fix going forward—Cooper is looking for more from his junior class.
"I feel like crap right now but we won the game. The lesson is for me, you know what? We could have lost the game and I'd feel even worse," Cooper said. "I'll take the win, I'll take these guys growing. Give 'em credit—our guys found a way to win, they did."
The RedHawks' next test is on the road against Fort Wayne on Saturday at 2:30 p.m.


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