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If a church service takes up one or two hours of a week, and there are 168 hours in a week, how does that one or two hours inspire and equip for one's devotion to God and others the rest of the week?
This final post is the conclusion to some notes from one of the top books I have read in 2018: The Eternal Current: How a Practice-Based Faith Can Save Us from Drowning by Aaron Niequist. Below are the previous two posts of notes from The Eternal Current:
City Notes '18 | The Eternal Current: A Prayer for Practicing Forgiveness
City Notes '18 | The Eternal Current: Praying the Daily Examen
Today's notes focus on how to step into a practice-based life of following Jesus throughout the week with a practice-based community after we gather with His Church on a weekend.
Chapter 6 | Sunday Is Not the Main Event: A Practice-Based Life
The weekly gathering of the Church is incredibly important for those who want to swim with God's River (John 7:37-39; Ezekiel 47). No one can do it alone, and something supernatural happens when the whole body is together (1 Corinthians 10:16-17, Hebrews 10:19-25). God is creating a people on earth, not a collection of spiritual individuals, and the Church is eternally important.
But placing too much emphasis on a weekly church service of worship results, for many people, in de-emphasizing practice-based faith throughout the week. Overemphasizing what happens with a local church during a service of worship also tends to assign too much importance to professional church workers. They have a role to play, to be sure, but their primary job is to launch everyone else into the remaining 166 hours of the week. Of the fifty-plus "one another" commands in the Scripture, such as "Love one another (John 13:34) and "Forgive one another" (Colossians 3:13), most can't happen fully while sitting in a church service.
What does practice-based faith look like Monday through Saturday? How do we swim with the River of God in every area of life—family, work, and relationships with our neighbors? Let's return to a key text with Jesus:
What does practice-based faith look like Monday through Saturday? How do we swim with the River of God in every area of life—family, work, and relationships with our neighbors? Let's return to a key text with Jesus:
Come to Me. Get away with Me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with Me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with Me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly (Matthew 11:28-30, MSG).
Grace and Faith Fuel Works with Jesus
While there is much to affirm in proclamations like "It's not about what you do for God but what Jesus has done for you," and "There is nothing you could ever do to earn God's favor or blessing," these teachings often leave people paralyzed. God gives us grace because God is gracious, not because we deserve grace; this is a foundational reality at the heart of the Good News. But Jesus does not handcuff us from participating in our spiritual lives with Him. He does not have a one-dimensional understanding of faith versus works. Notice the way He ended the Sermon on the Mount:
Everyone who hears these words of Mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash (Matthew 7:24-27).
Jesus basically said, "In summary, do this. Whoever puts My teachings into practice will survive the storms of life." He didn't say, "Whoever believes that My words are true ... " It is not just a matter of assenting to the rightness of certain teachings or affirming one's beliefs in the correct doctrines. His final teaching was do this if you want to live. The invitation is participation.
Dallas Willard, a brilliant teacher on the Kingdom and spiritual practice, said it this way:
You can be sure that if you do not act in advised fashion consistently and resolutely you will not grow spiritually. We all know that Jesus said, (in John 15) "without Me you can do nothing." We need to add, "if you do nothing, it will be most assuredly without Him."
It is crucial to realize that grace is not opposed to effort, but to earning. Earning is an attitude, effort is action. When you read the New Testament you see how astonishingly energetic it is. Paul says, "take off the old self, put on the new." There is no suggesting that this will be done for you.
We have been invited into the River by grace and grace alone. There's nothing we can do to earn our way into the water. But the invitation is to swim, and that takes grace-empowered practice.
Practice-Based Living: 4 Suggestions
What does this grace-empowered practice look like in our daily lives? I will offer four suggestions: we need a toolbox, a rule of life, a plan to help us throw off sin, and a commitment to engage messy, risky service.
| 1 | A Spiritual Toolbox for Interacting with God: One afternoon, while meeting for spiritual direction with Father Michael Sparough, SJ, I mentioned that my daily quiet time was feeling really dry. I wanted to learn from his personal practice, so I asked what he does every morning. "There are a couple practices I follow every day," he said, "but for the most part, if I don't vary my prayer practice, I get really bored." He went on to describe the different ways he opens his day with God. I am grateful that this godly priest admitted he could get bored in prayer. Me too. His humble honesty created space and grace for my relentlessly spinning mind. He met me where I was—rather than where I should be—and reminded me that I was neither alone or hopeless. Further, as he described the ways he prayed and practiced his faith, I noticed how many tools he had in his spiritual toolbox. All I had was a "daily quiet time," so my options felt scarce and binary: do a quiet time or avoid God. But Father Michael, in his robust Jesuit tradition, talked about prayer practices such as the Examen, Scripture practices such as Lectio Divina and the lectionary, different prayer postures that help a person open to God, ways to connect with our Creator in His creation, and on and on. I encourage you to take advantage of accessible books that focus on historic (and modern) spiritual disciplines of the Church. Richard J. Foster's book Celebration of Discipline and Dallas Willard's book The Spirit of the Disciplines are classics. Others include Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's Spiritual Disciplines Handbook, Barbara A. Holmes's Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church, Mark Scandrette's Practicing the Way of Jesus, and Tish Harrison Warren's Liturgy of the Ordinary. While you are immersing yourself in the wisdom of these books, remember that the invitation is participation. Knowledge is essential to learn how to swim, but the goal is to get into the water. Take holy risks. Try different practices for a set period of time and notice how they help you align with God's unforced rhythms of grace. If they do help, add them to your toolbox. If not, do some prayerful reflection about why not; then feel free to set the practice aside. No one can or should do every practice, but we all need a well-balanced set of practices. Nathan Foster, author and son of spiritual disciplines teacher Richard J. Foster, told me, "When you boil it all down, each spiritual discipline is simply a slightly different way to offer our bodies to God as a living sacrifice." It really is that simple ... and life changing.
| 2 | A Rule of Life: The key involves small, consistent practices. Engage the small stuff over and over. A rule of life simple refers to an "exterior framework for our interior journey: a kind of scaffolding to use to build the spiritual structure of our individual life with God." Pete Scazzero said, "It is an intentional, conscious plan to keep God at the center of everything we do." Every one of us has some type of rule of life—how we organize and spend our time and energy—but few of us have a holistic framework that will form us into the fullness of Christ. "A rhythm of life is a description of the life we long for and the disciplines we will practice to open ourselves to the transforming work of the Holy Spirit to close the gap between the life we long for and the life we are living." Build your rule on four relationships: with God, ourselves, our communities, and the world. Commit to a time-bound experiment. For the next three to six months, what concrete practices will help you close the gap between your deep longing and your lived reality in terms of your relationships with God, yourself, your communities, and the world?
| 3 | A Plan to Throw Off Sin: The goal of the Christian life is not merely to sin less but to swim more. However, we must acknowledge how difficult it is to stay afloat in the Eternal Current when we are loaded down with the heavy weight of sin. The writer(s) of the book of Hebrews advised, "Since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith (12:1-2). To swim with Christ in the River, we must let go of the sin that sinks our soul. We don't do this to earn our way into the water; the love of God through Christ beckons us to come as we are. But as we wade deeper into the Current, we begin to notice all the different weights of the world around our ankles, wrists, and neck. For some, this is gnawing resentment that keeps us chained to the person who wounded us. For some, this is a secret (or not-so-secret) addiction that anchors us to a substance, activity, or late-night website. For some, this is a subtle but insatiable greed that binds us to our income and what we purchase, can afford, or can't afford. The human soul is easily entangled. Dallas Willard observed that many of Christ's teachings were "mere observations about how life actually works." Jesus wasn't merely trying to enforce God's law. He was trying to save us from the self-sabotage of sin. Would you take a moment to notice the way(s) you are most likely to get entangled and drowned by sin? Especially when you are afraid, exhausted, and disappointed, what sin or "self-medication" do you find most enticing? Try to notice the usual pattern. And then spend some time asking God for eyes to see underneath this pattern. What is the unmet need you're usually trying to meet? What created the empty space, and how can you bring that emptiness into God's presence, rather than filling it in your own way? What most often stops you from swimming with Christ in the River?
| 4 | A Commitment to Messy, Risky Service: A practice-based life Monday through Saturday must involve regular risk in serving others. We need to get our praying hands dirty. We often begin in the safety of personal spiritual practices and comfortable circles, but we can grow only so much in these still waters. There are things we can learn only by moving into destabilizing reality. Reality has a way of exposing who we really are and how we need to grow. Simple answers and self-assured opinions can thrive in the safety of our insular experience, but stepping into the messy world with serving towels over our arms has a way of scaring us straight. Psalm 24 declares, "The earth is the LORD's and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it" (verse 1). A Sunday service of worship is a crucially important subset of reality, but the whole earth is God's tabernacle. Every square inch of existence overflows with the holy potential of God's infinite presence, power, and grace. "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of His glory" (Isaiah 6:3). The whole earth is flooded with the Eternal Current of God. Christ invites us to learn to swim in it for the sake of our lives and the life of the world.
Chapter 8 | We Can't Do It Alone: Practice-Based Community and Family
Practice-Based Community: Gathering with Jesus's Church
Friends, this may be the most succinct way to describe a practice-based life: it is a kingdom vision (swimming with Christ for the sake of the world) that propels us into a wise plan (spiritual practices that form a rule of life) that can be sustained only in community. What does it mean to live a practice-based faith with others? The writer(s) of Hebrews advised,
Let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching (10:24-25).
In my experience, a Sunday gathering is one of the indispensable springboards for practice-based faith. Legendary Presbyterian pastor and author Eugene Peterson has observed, "Every congregation is a congregation of sinners. As if that weren't bad enough, they all have sinners for pastors." Or as the saying goes, "If you ever find a perfect church, please don't join it because you'll wreck it." Eugene Peterson has also made this painfully honest observation: "There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the Church, because there's sin in the Church. But there's no other place to be a Christian except with the Church." We don't continue to gather on Sundays simply out of habit or to maintain a tradition. We gather as a church because God is creating a people, not just billions of individuals on independent, parallel journeys. Gathering in worship helps us submit to something bigger than our personal preferences. We are invited to sing new songs, listen to new ideas, and follow a plan that often is not one we would have chosen for ourselves. As we are stretched, we learn how to find God's fingerprints beyond our preferred pathways.
Professor Soong-Chan Rah, in his masterful book The Next Evangelicalism, makes a case for why we need one another. He teaches that a theology of celebration is not complete without a theology of suffering. Resurrection is impossible without the reality of crucifixion, and crucifixion without the hope of resurrection is pure despair. Yet while Jesus lived and taught both, most of us spend our lives caught in the limits of only one side. For example, those of us who grow up with power, affluence, and mobility often get trapped in a theology of celebration that keeps us most ignorant of the other side—suffering. And even when we try to bring our celebration into the suffering, the holy impulse to "bless the needy" can quickly lead to paternalism, arrogance, and seeing ourselves as the teachers rather than fellow creations and equals. This "hinders genuine mutuality and reciprocity," according to Soong-Chan Rah. The poor are not problems to solve but teachers to learn from. They understand a part of reality that the affluent often can't see but desperately need to embrace, and vice versa. Both the rich and the poor are image bearers of God. Celebrations is important, but it's only half the story. We need every one of one another.
Practice-Based Community: Being More Than a "Small Group"
A small group often has to do with only belonging or only learning. We desire either a place to be known or a place to study the Scriptures. Both of these desires are good and needed. The problem is, I don't believe that either desire should be the goal of a community. The goal should be learning to swim with Christ for the sake of the world. This involves putting Jesus's words into practice, not merely belonging to a group where we talk about them. The goal should be obeying Jesus's words, not simply studying them. Imagine joining a marathon runners' group that met once a week to talk about what it takes to train for a marathon but didn't run together. You'd share life updates, but the question of "How did your running go last week?" would come up only occasionally. That's because for this group, training for the big race is not the goal. Belonging to a running group is the goal. Or imagine that your runners' group met weekly to read books about running but didn't go out running. That's not a runners' group. That's a book club.
I don't oppose belonging or learning, of course. I need to belong and to learn in deep and visceral ways. But they are the means to the end, never the end. One of my friends, Mindy Caliguire, often remarks, "Just because you are meeting with others doesn't mean you are in a transformational community." And the goal of any group (or church or life) is to be transformed into Christlikeness for the sake of the world. Being in community is a matter of life or death spiritually. But when the how gets disconnected from the why, it can lose the plot and lose the power. So with the why clearly in view, let us roll up our sleeves to explore the how of community. How do people form a practice-based community when gathered in a living room or around a dining-room table? They practice the way of Christ together, and they encourage one another to practice this way all week. The community is both the means and a beautiful benefit, but we never mistake it for the highest goal. When we gather with a clear vision to learn how to swim with Christ, we then begin to discover the transformational power of the Holy Spirit through communal practices. Every one of us, whether training for a marathon or learning to swim in the River of God for the sake of the world, needs a vision, a plan, and a community. The first two without the third won't get us there. We can't do it alone. As we learn to swim, not just on Sunday but all week long, the Eternal Current begins to sweep us into participation with God's heart and mission: the redemption and flourishing of all things.
Chapter 10 | For the Sake of the World: Practice-Based Mission
One of the great gifts of Ignatian spirituality is that it honors the connections. It never separates our inner world from our outer actions. Saint Ignatius taught his followers to be "contemplatives in action" rather than to concentrate exclusively on contemplation or action. We engage the spiritual life as a spiral through three interrelated postures: beliefs, action, and reflection/prayer. Our beliefs propel us into tangible action that creates an experience—both inside us and in the outside world. We humbly bring this experience to God in reflection and prayer, receiving God's perspective, healing, and strength. Once grounded in God's grace and power, we are propelled back into the world through action, which continues the spiral. As we grow in Christ, the spiral gets tighter and tighter, sewing action and contemplation into a seamless garment and drawing us closer to the heart of God.
God's great and mighty River (John 7:37-39; Ezekiel 47) flows throughout history toward the healing and restoration of all things. God has not given up on this world and invites you to join Him. Jesus showed us the way of the Kingdom—fleshed out through the Beatitudes and resulting in the fruit of the Spirit on earth—and you are invited into His redemptive flow. Can you see why they call it "Good News"? The invitation is to join Christ with the Current of God for the sake of the world. Regardless of what we believe, pray, or declare, if we're standing on the shore, we're missing out on the abundant life that is truly life (see John 10:10; 1 Timothy 6:18-19).
Gilbert Bilezikian was born in Paris in 1927 to Armenian refugee parents, served in the French army and then moved to the United States to teach theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. After returning from the Middle East a few years ago, one of my friends asked Dr. Bilezikian, "Dr. B., what do you think would happen if Jesus walked into Jerusalem today?" The eighty-five-year-old educator, theologian, and mentor to many closed his eyes for a moment and finally whispered in his thick French accent," Jesus would probably do now what He did then: take care of the poor, speak truth to power, and get Himself killed.
May we go and do likewise.
Bonus post: City Notes '18 Bonus | The Eternal Current: Practice-Based Gathering: Why We Receive Communion Together Every Week
Bonus post: City Notes '18 Bonus | The Eternal Current: Practice-Based Gathering: Why We Receive Communion Together Every Week
Here are links to previous City Notes books:
2014 | A Meal with Jesus; The Art of Neighboring; A Praying Life; Building a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church; Family on Mission; Encounters with Jesus; One Thousand Gifts
2016 | Letters to a Birmingham Jail; A Field Guide for Everyday Mission; Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith; The Pursuing God; Yawning at Tigers
2017 | Gospel Fluency; Moving Towards Emmaus; Evangelical, Sacramental, and Pentecostal; Faith Without Illusions
2018 | The Eternal Current Part 1 of 3; The Eternal Current Part 2 of 3
Christ is all,
Rev. Mike "Sully" Sullivan


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New Haven dog attack victim dies
City alder eyes ban of certain breeds
NEW HAVEN >> A woman who was seriously injured last week after she was attacked by a friend's two dogs has died.
City Alder Brian Wingate, D-29, who lives in the neighborhood and witnessed some of the attack, confirmed Jocelyn Winfrey's death Monday night. He responded to the scene last Monday when a neighbor alerted him to what was happening and tried to get the dogs off of Winfrey.
"It's unexplainable, what happened," Wingate said. "It's the first time I have been up close to such a tragic situation."
Winfrey had been with the dog's owner, identified as Hamilton Hicks, when his two dogs attacked her outside his Ella T. Grasso Boulevard home on the evening of June 20, severely injuring her.
According to the emergency response report, Hicks told officers the dogs began to "viciously" bite his friend as soon as they walked onto his property. He said he tried to pull the dogs off but was also bitten.
She was taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital, where she had been listed in extremely serious condition with injuries to her head, arms and legs, but died of her injuries Monday.
During the attack, Hicks, along with neighbors including Wingate, tried to get the dogs off of Winfrey without success. Hicks was issued a misdemeanor summons Monday for crack possession at the time of the attack. He, too, was taken to the hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening wounds from bites.
Officials said the dogs were licensed, vaccinated and had no history of aggression.
"It's unfortunate on both sides of the aisle and it's mind-boggling it happened so close to my home," Wingate said Monday night. "My prayers go with her family and her siblings."
According to her Facebook page, Winfrey was a widow and began attending Albertus Magnus College earlier this year.
Nadine Powell Crespo, a friend of Winfrey's brother Charles Minchenko, started a GoFundMe page to help defray the cost of Winfrey's funeral.
"Their family did not expect to have the sudden expense of a funeral and I am hoping that people can find it within their heart to help them with some of their financial burden at this difficult time," she wrote on the page. Winfrey leaves a "brokenhearted" young son, Crespo also said on the page.
The attack led to changes in the way emergency personnel respond to such incidents. While Deputy Director of Emergency Management Rick Fontana said all city policies and protocols were followed, some have expressed concern because the Fire Department wasn't called to the scene. The Fire Department typically doesn't respond to animal attacks unless it is reported to involve serious injuries, which wasn't immediately clear when the emergency call came in the night of the attack. The person who reported the attack called twice, Fontana said, but didn't provide much information as to the severity of the attack. Both city police and an ambulance were dispatched to the scene. Going forward, the Fire Department will respond to calls for animal attacks, Fontana said.
Winfrey's death comes almost five years after a West Haven toddler was killed by two pit bulls. Neveah Angel Bryant died from her injuries in September 2011. The attack happened at her aunt's house, and her aunt said at the time that the dogs had no history of aggression.
Wingate said the Boulevard incident continues to haunt him and he is considering supporting a ban on certain breeds of dogs. Municipal Animal Control Officer Joseph Manganiello said the two dogs likely are American bulldogs, which often are mistaken for pit bulls. Wingate said he will speak to aldermanic President Tyisha Walker about a ban on breeds likely to attack people, though according to Connecticut statutes, municipalities are not allowed to "adopt breed-specific dog ordinances."
Wingate last week said both dogs were under animal control's supervision, but he said he will recommend the dogs be put down. Municipal Animal Control Officer Joseph Manganiello said Wednesday that the two dogs, which he said both appear to be American bulldogs, are under quarantine at the shelter. He did not allow the dogs to be viewed Wednesday. Manganiello said its unlikely the dogs will be released, and a decision to put the dogs down is made jointly with the owner.


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This grouping channels our inner Garden Princess. Sages, mints, and butterflies celebrated with exquisite needlework. A set designed for those of us that prefer the outdoors, nature, and the magic of the flora and fauna to anything else. As long as we have to wait indoors for the warmer days we may as well be surrounded by gorgeous.


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A majority of accountants use CPA review courses to aid them in getting ready for their Certified Public Accountant examinations. The advantage of a good CPA review course is that it allows you to save time on your studies and it also ensures that you pass your CPA examinations. The following factors will guide you in selecting the most appropriate CPA review course.
Even though CPA review courses dwell on accounting concepts, the way they are delivered to students varies from one lecturer to the next. For this reason, you ought to search for a CPA review course that has lecturers who can not only help you understand the hard accounting concepts very easily but whose lectures are fun to interact with.
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By visiting a CPA product review websites, you will be able to gauge quality of the CPA review course that you wish to purchase.From the reviews of other users of the CPA review course, you can gauge if it will be worthy to settle on that specific review course.
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How to get Playstore credits on finishing easy surveys? :
1 . Download Google Opinion Rewards app from here
2 . Install and begin establishing your account like Name, Postal code (Pin code)
3 . Instantly you'll obtain a survey which is a should to finish and no credit score will probably be given for it
4 . Once you set it up, You will see a message from google to approve your account, which can take as much as 7 days and you'll be notified as soon as the account is authorised
5 . From now, everytime you obtain a survey you'll get an app notification identical to every other notification. Open it and full the survey.
6 . On profitable completion, Google play credits will probably be supplied immediately.
Use the credits on shopping for something through Playstore like in-game purchases, apps, magazines and so on ?
Also hold opening the app now and then in a day. Rarely you received't get any notification on new survey however will probably be out there while you open the app.
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A Religious Atheist
Human civilization will not continue to thrive on our veneration for God, but rather on the very faith that we retain in ourselves.
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13 May 2016 | By Si Zixin(司子鑫)/ Edited by Prof. Zou Shen(邹申) | SISU
he notion of God's creation of the world and human has always been sort of a fraud to me, for I'm as good a fan of The Big Bang Theory as I am of the Big Bang Theory. Yet it has allowed me to ponder upon the reason for the existence of religion after my experience in a mosque, for when I stepped into the mosque and then paused for a few minutes of meditation, I could feel not the sense of absurdity I had entertained towards religion, but rather such tranquility, such peace that resonated with the prayers around me and later filled my heart.
Intrigued by this experience, I embarked, in pursuit of some enlightenment that might help me rescue a shred of comfort from the tedious routines of an atheist's secular life, on the journey of unveiling the mystery of religion. And it was not until I had recognized some core values of religion that I realized how ignorant I was towards many aspects of the faiths that are relevant and consoling to life.
The most genuine virtue of religion I think is the recognition of our vices. I've learned from religion that the only way to deal with the devil inherently dwelling within us is to face it head-on, for instance, to let out our natural desire for self-indulgence during Christian Carnival, thus creating a space within us where it can be somehow honored and, meanwhile, properly tamed with regard to the merits that is actually advocated by religion: wisdom, kindness, tenderness, love, sympathy and so on. Only when we accept our dark side is it possible for light to come into our life.
Religion is more essential for it tries to teach how to apply these merits to our life, for instance, to yield wisdom by taking education out of the classroom, engaging us in physical activities--meditation, rituals, and then for us to embark on a spiritual journey where we learn its lessons such as Zen Buddhism's idea about the importance of friendship and the inevitability of frustration. Such deeds would help with establishing a faith to cross the hurdles later in life: career depression, troubled relationships and all the other tribulations that people experience in a crisis of faithlessness.
Perhaps the defect of religion is, to some extent, its preposterous insistence on the adherents' total loyalty that is rendered by the existence of God.
While religion has been trying to lead us to a better perception of how the world should be by putting emphasis on its virtues, it is not God that leads to the actual progress towards a better reality. Every breakthrough throughout the course of human history, particularly in the past 200 years, has been indispensable of the development of science and technology, which is propelled by humans ourselves. So there would be a sense of hypocrisy if we still refer to the very existence of a God that is omniscient. And if God is truly what many believe omnipresent, then I'd like to believe the holy truth about God's existence can well be referred in one line in the movie Eat, Pray, Love: God dwells in you as you. The power of creation is held right within ourselves.
Since God is only a fictional figure, why should it not be possible for us to hold reverence for religious rituals and yet refuse to believe its supernatural deities, or to admire God's compassion and yet shun his vengeance?
Human civilization will not continue to thrive on our veneration for God, but rather on the very faith that we retain in ourselves. So it would be possible to remain a committed atheist and yet find religion somehow useful. To know how humble we are but constantly take pride in ourselves for what we have already accomplished; to hold our reverence and awe towards the universe for its infinity while still believing in our potential that can be untapped by virtues. This should, perhaps, be the way we make peace with our life.
This is one of the featured articles by SES Writing Workshop. The author is an undergraduate student of the School of English Studies, Shanghai International Studies University (SISU).
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The essential oil cocktail rollerballs were so much fun to make–all made from different essential oils and coconut oil.
I kept the refreshments somewhat simple. I made three different kinds of doughnuts–Chocolate Fudge, French Toast, and Apple Cider. I also made a breakfast casserole and some fruit with a delicious cream cheese dip.
I also served a delicious Mimosa Bar with pomegranate juice, orange juice, peach nectar, Hibiscus Syrup, and Blood Orangecello.


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Monday, April 15, 2019
By Janet Herlihy
From the Unleashed Collection of Stainmaster PetProtect products by Anderson Tuftex, Pawstruck offers great styling and performance.
As in many specialty flooring stores, Messner Flooring, Pittsford N.Y., has seen soft surface products lose share in the past decade or so. But carpet is still an important category, according to Peter Messner, president Messner Flooring. "Here in the Northern Tier, warmth is the number one reason people still want carpet. They want to put their feet on something warm. It's still cold here in March," Messner said.
Not confined to cold weather locales, the second most cited reason is carpet's non-slip qualities. "Carpet runners on stairs are popular, but more for pets than people," said Messner. "Customers tell us the dog can't go up the stairs without a runner."
The American carpet industry works hard to manufacture broadloom, carpet tile and rugs that look great and provide other not-so-obvious benefits. "Carpeted floors cushion the impact of slips and falls, dampen noise, and make it easier to learn and concentrate," states the Carpet & Rug Institute at its website carpet-rug.org, adding, "Today's carpets are environmentally friendly, engineered to resist staining and fading, and withstand even heavy foot traffic."
The following includes how a sampling of soft surface manufacturers provide carpet that has it all.
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Although Anderson Tuftex is Shaw's premium brand with a well-earned reputation for fashion, AT understands the more practical ways carpet appeals to consumers. "Often, the people who are buying carpet are a little older and they like the softness and warmth carpet provides," said Katie Ford, director of brand strategy at Anderson Tuftex. "Carpet also handles noise transference, especially from the second floor and on stairs. And carpet is also cost effective. There are people and situations, where carpet is what you need," Ford said.
"Consumers want to trust in the quality and integrity of the products they are putting in their homes and know they are adding value," noted Lisa Lux, director of product development at AT. "With advances in stain, fiber and tufting technology over the last few years, consumers can feel confident that carpet can add value and stand the test of time," Lux stated.
EF bases its carpet on value, softness & performance
"CRI has used the slogan 'Carpet, it just feels better,' and I think that slogan rings true," stated Joe Young, soft surface category manager at Engineered Floors (EF). "There is nothing more gratifying than having a safe, comfortable place to roll around on with your kids or pets in front of the TV. And along with that comfort, today's carpet is easier to maintain than ever before," Young explained. "Affordability, comfort, safety, and ease of cleaning have always been at the center of why carpet has been and continues to be the flooring of choice for consumers. These intrinsic features coupled with the modern-day benefits of innovation—stain resistance, fade resistance, bleach resistance, and enhanced durability—make today's carpet a force to be reckoned with. Consumers can be assured that every carpet made by EF will meet or exceed their performance expectations while not sacrificing any of the things that made us fall in love with carpet in the first place," he stressed.
Engineered Floors' Knockout II, a PureColor SD PET style, looks great with EF's hard surface TRIUMPH, style Lux Haus II.
Mohawk builds durable softness
"Consumers look for attributes outside of color and design such as performance, ease of maintenance and softness," said Jamie Welborn, vice president of product management at Mohawk. "When they are making this type of investment that will be on the floor for years to come, they want it to hold up and feel good. People want to live on their carpet such as playing with children, being able to eat or drink in the room or just lying on the floor. This is why it is so important to get a soft carpet that will last such as SmartStrand," Welborn stated.
New for 2019, SmartStrand Exquisite Accent features Mohawk's new ColorMax dyeing process along with softness and performance.
Phenix answers consumer needs
"At Phenix Flooring, we believe that consumers should never have to sacrifice style for a carpet that functions best for her home," stated Jason Surratt, senior vice president of product & design at Phenix. We are dedicated to developing products that speak directly to homeowner's needs, like solutions built for pet-friendly and healthier, cleaner homes. All of our latest polyester carpet introductions feature Microban's antimicrobial technology, including our most recent fashion-forward collection, Modern Contours. With this collection in particular, you see statement-making patterns mixed with the durability and health-benefits that homeowners crave."
From the Modern Contours collection by Phenix Flooring, Opulent offers style with durability and Microban's antimicrobial technology in SureSoft SD PET fiber.
Shaw delivers softness, performance & value
Shaw develops soft surface products that deliver years of performance and style. Shaw's Caress line provides the comfort of its softest Anso nylon protected by R2X Stain and Soil Resistance Technology, reported Teresa Tran, Shaw Floors' director of soft surface portfolio management. All Shaw soft surface products feature R2X, which assures that Shaw's soft products perform well even after repeated cleanings, providing long term resistance to stains.
Spills and resulting stains are a concern for consumers. Shaw's LifeGuard Spill-proof Backing, which keeps spills from seeping into the cushion and subfloor, works with R2X to make Shaw carpets stain resistant and easy to clean thoroughly. LifeGuard will soon be available for Shaw Flooring Network members to choose as an option for Caress styles.
Price is a traditional advantage for soft surface flooring compared to hard surface products. Shaw's Simply The Best collection was developed to redefine value at the retail level. "Simply The Best meets the market's need for soft surface with stunning visuals, patterns and a soft hand at an achievable price point," Tran added.
From Shaw's Bellera brand, Outside the Lines features LifeGuard Backing and R2X stain resistance.
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All the Best Faux Furs from Simone Rocha
These furs are unreal! Literally. Simone Rocha's Fall 2017 fashion show in London this weekend was full of chic furs—only, wait for it...they were all faux. One of the special things about London Fashion Week is that fur is taboo there, so to be en vogue, all warm and fuzzy pieces have to be faux. Therefore, all the luxe looks you see on the runway are happily cruelty-free. (Side note, we just have to award extra points to Rocha this season for casting models of diverse ages, including the venerable Benedetta Barzini and Jan de Villeneuve.)
But back to those "furs." In Rocha's fall arsenal, there were soft and fluffy shoes, oversized, belted coats, and large-and-in-charge accent pieces that are clearly not your grandma's stoles.
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This red-embellished number is one of the more fun stoles we've come across in our lives—a great way to add excitement to winter dressing.
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This luxe belted coat on iconic model Jan de Villeneuve? We'll take one each.
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Talk about belting—this one, also in rich, contrasting faux fur, adds a flattering cinch to the waist of the capacious coat.
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Matching your shoes to your stole? CHIC. A thousand times chic! And while we're at it, can we talk about those shoes?
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Welcome to new faculty
The Faculty of Fine Arts community wishes the warmest of welcomes to new Faculty of Fine Arts dean Rebecca Duclos, who joined Concordia as dean for a five-year mandate in August 2015.
Fine Arts also welcomes three new faculty members in 2015-16 – Rilla Khaled (Design and Computation Arts), Joshua Rager (Music) and Angelique Willke (Contemporary Dance).
Every autumn, alumni return to Concordia for reunions, lectures, tours — and to connect with friends, old and new. Join Faculty of Fine Arts faculty and alumni on September 26 at a cocktail and screenings of the film "The Abenaki - People of the Dawn" by Scott MacLeod, BFA 03, MA 13, and Design and Computation Arts Professor Jason Edward Lewis' TimeTraveller™ videos. Register now!
Saluting faculty members of distinction and award winners
Two Fine Arts faculty members, Eleanor Bond and Erin Manning (both from Studio Arts), were inducted into the Provost's Circle of Distinction on June 9. The Circle of Distinction recognizes faculty members and librarians who have gained academic or professional accolades from prestigious external groups and organizations.
At the same celebration, Edward Little (Theatre) was recognized for his work in the area of the in first-year experience. Earlier that week on June 2, Catherine MacKenzie (Art History) received the President's Excellence in Teaching Award for Full-time Faculty.
Faculty research news
On September 15, Sandeep Bhagwati (Music and Theatre) commemorated the 70th anniversary of composer Anton Webern's accidental death by staging a durational performance at Concordia's matralab. More
Yehudit Silverman (Creative Arts Therapies) and her award-winning film, The Hidden Face of Suicide, will be featured on Mountain Lake PBS Television. The film will be broadcast on September 18 at 9 p.m. and September 20 at 12 p.m. The recorded interview about her work will premiere at September 18 at 8 p.m. and be repeated on September at 19 at 1 a.m. and 7 p.m., and again on September 20 at 5:30 a.m. and 10 a.m.. The interview will also be available online. More
A paper entitled "Briser les paradigmes : arts électroniques et actions humanitaires" by Ricardo Dal Farra (Music) will be published in an upcoming issue of Circuit - Musiques contemporaines on September 24. More
An exhibition of new work by Kathleen Vaughan (Art Education) entitled Tissus urbains / Urban cloth will be on view Centre culturel Georges Vanier
until September 27. This exhibition showcases four recent works from Vaughan's ongoing series of textile maps of walks in urban woods and green spaces of Montreal and Toronto, addressing questions of political ecology and personal experience. More
Techniques et technologies du cinéma. Modalités, usages et pratiques des dispositifs cinématographiques à travers l'histoire, co-edited by Martin Lefebvre (Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema), was published this summer. The book extends the work presented at the conference The Impact of Technological Innovations on the Historiography and Theory of Cinema that was held at the Cinémathèque québécoise in November 2011. More
A retrospective work by Geneviève Cadieux (Studio Arts), Voilà le meilleur portrait, que plus tard, j'ai réussi à faire de lui. Passages vers l'abstraction, curated by Vincent Bonin, will open at the Musée d'art de Joliette on October 2 and run until January. The exhibition encompasses the last 27 years of Cadieux's esteemed career. More
Joanna Berzowska (Design and Computation Arts) is one of the judges for WearHacks Montreal (October 2 to 4), the biggest wearable hackathon in North America. Wearhacks promotes innovation, entrepreneurship, and education in the Internet of Things and Wearables space. More
Carey, a work by Janet Werner (Studio Arts), was recently acquired by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Carey joins Aging Ballerina Waving Goodbye, a canvas previously donated by the artist, in the museum's permanent collection.
The 2016 edition of the Body-Mind Centering Association's annual conference will be held at Concordia, in collaboration with the Department of Contemporary Dance. Submissions for presentations on the subject of evolving pathways in somatics will be accepted until September 30. More
The 6th edition of the Media Art Histories conference, hosted by the Hexagram international network, will be held in Montreal in November. In tandem with this conference, a committee of students is organizing a one-day pre-symposium for international and local emerging researchers who wish to attend the main conference, while having an opportunity to present their research and practice, to exchange ideas with peers and receive feedback from experts in related areas. More
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Paul Hardy, MFA 13, John Player, BFA 08, MFA 14, Megan Hepburn, MFA 10, and current student Cindy Phenix were named as finalists in the 2015 RBC Canadian Painting Competition. The winner will be announced on November 18at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver. More
Samantha Bitonti, a student in the Department of Theatre, is the latest recipient of the Developing Artist Grant, a $10,000 bursary issued by the Hnatyshyn Foundation. In an effort to foster excellence in new talent, the foundations assists the most promising young Canadian performing artists enrolled in their final year of a post-secondary educational or training institution program. More
The 13th Annual BMO 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition announced its winners this summer, and Fine Arts' undergraduate student Erin Skelton conquered Quebec as the provincial winner. The invitational competition honours visual arts excellence in post-secondary institutions from coast to coast. Skelton will be awarded $5,000 and have her work showcased from October 22 to December 18, 2015 at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery in Toronto. More
Devon Hansen, an electroacoustics studies student in the Department of Music, is one of the winners of this year's Jeu de temps / Times Play (JTTP) competition—Canada's highest profile emerging electroacoustic composer contest. JTTP is organized by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community. More
Recent Cinema graduate Ari Soulikias (BFA 2015) won the prize for Best Animation prize at the Cannes Short Film Festival for his film Last Dance on the Main. More
La Rentrée events
The Faculty of Fine Arts (FOFA) Gallery kicks off its 2015-16 season with a performance-installation by Goa-based artist Nikhil Chopra in his first Canadian exhibition.
Chopra's new site-specific work La Perle Noire will occupy the FOFA Gallery's main space and Montreal's Parc Jarry (September 18 to 20). La Perle Noire is a 57-hour drawing performance inhabiting multiple spaces, and exploring questions of identity and difference, exoticism and the everyday.
MFA students Anchal Malhotra's Remnants of a Separation and Yoshimi Lee's La femme maison will also be on view in the York Corridor Vitrines and Black Box spaces of the gallery. The exhibitions run until October 23.
Other upcoming back-to-school and autumn events include:
- The POP Montréal festival, from September 16 to 20, will be "bridging the gap between academia and the creative community" and will feature presentations and work by students, alumni and faculty.
- Contemporary Dance's Studio 7, a month performance and gallery series feature emerging student-artists in an experimental setting, on September 25.
- A lecture by Department of Music professor Christine Beckett to launch this year's Music Research Talks series September 29.
- Chantal Pontbriand, renowned curator, in a talk as part of the Conversations in Contemporary Art series on October 1.
- À partir d'aujourd'hui ... Reconsidering Postphotography, an international conference organized by Concordia University in partnership with Université du Québec (UQAM) and Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal that will explore at the changing role of images on October 1, 2 and 3.
- Montreal's South Asian Film Festival, organized in collaboration with the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, October 2 to 4.
Visit the Fine Arts news page for information on these, and other, events.
This bulletin is distributed to all Fine Arts full-time faculty and staff. Department administration: please forward to your part-time faculty and staff, and graduate students.


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BY , WWW.DRAXE.COMInflammation has been found to be associated with just about every health condition, and researchers are furiously investigating chronic inflammation's effects on health and possible preventive medical applications.
It's an emerging field, UCLA's Dr. David Heber says. "It's a new concept for medicine."
Why is it a new concept?
It's new because modern medicine focuses on treating symptoms, not addressing the root cause of an issue.
Arthritis is inflammation of the joints. Heart disease is inflammation of the arteries. Instead of taking a medication to reduce joint pain or lower cholesterol, we would be better served by reducing inflammation in the body.
Instead of taking a medication to reduce joint pain or lower cholesterol, we would be better served by reducing inflammation in the body.
Dr. Tanya Edwards, director of the Center for Integrative Medicine, writes that inflammation is now recognized as the "underlying basis of a significant number of diseases."
Although inflammation has long been known to play a role in allergic diseases like asthma, arthritis, and Crohn's disease, Edwards says that Alzheimer's disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, and Parkinson's disease may all be related to chronic inflammation in the body.
What Causes Inflammation?
What researchers believe is that an overactive immune system results in the body being flooded with defense cells and hormones that damage tissues.
Dietary and environmental toxins may build up in the body, turning the immune system on and keeping it highly reactive.
These foods promote inflammation:
- Corn and soybean oils
- Pasteurized dairy
- Refined carbohydrates
- Conventional meat
- Sugars
- Trans fats
Anti-Inflammatory Foods
Dr. Edwards points out that anti-inflammatory foods such as fiber, fruits, vegetables, and teas have been used to combat cancer, and vitamin E, curcumin, acetylcarnitine, and catechin have had positive and preventative effects on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
Foods high in anti-oxidants help to reduce damage caused by inflammation.
UCLA professor Greg Cole has been looking at how to control inflammation and possibly prevent Alzheimer's disease with food substances such as curcumin, fruit flavonoids, omega-3 fatty acids, and reservatrol.
The Mediterranean diet contains many anti-inflammatory foods and has been shown to lower cholesterol and triglycerides and reduce symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. The diet has also been linked to reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.
Although it isn't the focus, most people who go on an anti-inflammatory diet also lose weight.
Dr. Andrew Greenberg, of Tuft University, says, "There is no doubt that if you lose weight, inflammation is dramatically improved." This is because excess fatty acids circulating in the blood promote the inflammatory immune response.
My Healing Foods diet is also anti-inflammatory in nature. By reducing inflammation, you place your body in a state that is conducive to healing from diseases and other health conditions.
Dr. Nicholas Perricone is one of the leading proponents of the anti-inflammatory diet and has authored several books. He says that "all foods fit into three categories: pro-inflammatory, neutral, or anti-inflammatory."
These are some of Perricone's anti-inflammatory "super-foods":
- Acai fruit
- Allium vegetables (chives, garlic, leeks, onions, scallions, and shallots)
- Beans and lentils
- Green foods
- Hot peppers
- Nuts and seeds
- Sprouts
Dr. Andrew Weil has created a food pyramid of anti-inflammatory foods. The following are just a handful of the foods he recommends:
1. Vegetables. Eat a minimum of four to five servings per day of beets, carrots, cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, and kale), dark leafy greens (collard greens, kale, spinach), onions, peas, salad greens, sea vegetables, and squashes
2. Fruits. Consume three to four servings per day of apples, blackberries, blueberries, cherries, nectarines, oranges, pears, pink grapefruit, plums, pomegranates, red grapefruit, or strawberries
3. Water. Drink purified water, sparkling water, or unsweetened tea throughout the day.
4. Beans and Legumes. Eat one to two servings per day of Anasazi beans, adzuki beans, black beans, black-eyed peas, chickpeas, or lentils.
5. Healthy Fats. Have five to seven servings per day of avocadoes, expeller-pressed organic canola oil, extra virgin olive oil, flaxseed, hazelnut oil, hemp seeds, high-oleic safflower or sunflower oils, sesame oil, or walnut oil.
6. Healthy Herbs and Spices. Include unlimited amounts of basil, chili peppers, cinnamon, curry powder, garlic, ginger, rosemary, turmeric, and thyme
7. Protein. Have one to two servings per week of eggs, grass-fed meats, natural cheeses, organic poultry, or yogurt.
8. Tea. Drink two to four cups of green, oolong, or white tea per day.
9. Red Wine. Have one to two glasses of organic red wine per day.
10. Supplements. Co-enzyme Q10; carotenoids; fish oil; selenium; and vitamins C, D, and E are recommended.
11. Healthy Sweets. Dark chocolate, fruit sorbet, and unsweetened dried fruit are good choices.
Though there are many grains, such as buckwheat and barley, that are considered anti-inflammatory and are also high in antioxidants and other nutrients, I don't often recommend that people consume large quantities of grains. Grains still turn to sugar in the body faster than other foods and are generally less nutrient-dense than foods like vegetables.
Dr. Axe's Action Steps
- Eliminate all sources of inflammation from your diet. This includes rancid oils, sugars, conventional meats, pasteurized dairy, trans fats, and sugars.
- Begin incorporating one new anti-inflammatory food to your diet each day. Don't be afraid to try new things.
- If needed, supplement a healthy diet with 1 tablespoon of cod liver oil.
Dr. Josh Axe, DNM, DC, CNS, is a doctor of natural medicine, clinical nutritionist, and author with a passion to help people get well using food as medicine. He recently authored "Eat Dirt"and "Gut Repair Cookbook," and he operates one of the world's largest natural health websites at DrAxe.com


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A friend sent S a whole bunch of these and she shared them with me. So I thought I'd share a few with you. Supposedly, the quotes are accurate. Here's the first one:
Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign:
"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."


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Industry and Technology Minister Mustafa Varank, Filyos Industrial and said they wanted to become a center for Port Region of qualified iron and steel investments, "Here, Turkey's developing and producing economy, we want to become one of the most important ecosystems." He said.
Industry and Technology Minister Mustafa Varank, Zonguldak Governor Erdogan Bektas, Karabuk Governor Fuat Gurel, Bartin Governor Sinan Guner, AK Party deputies, as well as chamber of commerce and industry with the heads of the chamber of commerce and industry Devrek district of Çaydeğirmeni held a closed meeting. After the meeting 3 in Çaycuma district. Western Black Sea Building, Decoration and Furniture Fair and Organized Industrial Zone (OIZ) in the opening of some manufacturing companies operating Minister Varank, officials received information about the work.
Varank visited the Filyos Industrial and Port Area and made inspections in the construction area. Stating that Filyos Port will be one of the most important ports of the region when completed, Minister Varank said, iz We will see this place as a gateway to the Black Sea and then to the world. This is an important port to serve Bartın, Karabük and Zonguldak. At the same time our region with rail and road links even become one of Turkey's most important trade centers. We have an industrial zone just behind the harbor. The Filyos Industrial Zone will also contribute to the development of these three provinces. We want to make this region a center for qualified iron and steel investments. Here, developing and producing of Turkey's economy we want to become one of the most important ecosystems. "He said.
Minister of Industry and Technology Varank said that when investments in the region were completed, 10 predicted more than a thousand new jobs, 1,5 billion dollars of investment and 750 million dollars of exports. Stating that the works continue at full speed, Varank said, "Investors are waiting for the completion of the plans and they want to make their investments after the suspension process. We have quite willing companies. Whether KARDEMİR and Tosyalı Group, they are waiting for the end of our works to invest here. I hope this area will make Turkey's shining star. "He said.


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Game 6 is do-or-die for Spurs
Game 6 loss by S.A. could spell end of the line for Duncan
OKLAHOMA CITY - Tim Duncan walked off the AT&T Center floor Tuesday night without blinking.
His eyes remained fixed forward. He didn't say a word to anyone.
If San Antonio's series-turning 95-91 loss to Oklahoma City in Game 5 of the Western Conference semifinals marked the final home game of Duncan's career, he didn't stop to soak in the moment.
Maybe because it doesn't have to be the end.
The Spurs head into Thursday's Game 6 in Oklahoma City down 3-2 in the series and with more than a 67-win season in the balance.
"We have to go out there and play like our lives are on the line," forward LaMarcus Aldridge said.
The Spurs have not faced a moment with potential for such far-reaching consequences since Game 7 against the Los Angeles Clippers last May.
If the Spurs are to recover to win this series, and delay retirement decisions for the 40-year-old Duncan and 38-year-old Manu Ginobili, they must now follow the path the Clippers blazed at their expense last season.
The Clippers, too, had to go on the road to claim a series-tying Game 6 victory, then closed out the Spurs in an epic Game 7 at home.
"If you want to be a championship team, you need to win on the road," guard Danny Green said. "We've won there before, so we have to do it again."
Track record not good
The Spurs have won only one series all-time when down 3-2, in the 2008 conference semifinals against New Orleans. They are 2-10 in road elimination games under coach Gregg Popovich.
If there is anything that gives the Spurs hope, it's that all the games in the series - save for their 32-point win in Game 1 - have been close.
Maybe it's their turn to win a couple fourth-quarter coin flips.
After Game 5, the Spurs agreed they never should have allowed matters to come down to the wire, when a couple of tough whistles helped decide the outcome.
With 7:50 left in the third quarter, the Spurs were ahead by 13 after a Green 3-pointer. Before Tuesday, it had been 13 years since the Spurs squandered a lead so large in the second half of a playoff game.
Russell Westbrook carried the Thunder in crunch time, notching 10 of his 35 points, three of his nine assists and four of his 11 rebounds in the decisive final frame.
OKC star Kevin Durant summed up his team's second consecutive fourth-quarter victory this way:
"We got stops, and Russ was a maniac."
If both those things happen again Thursday at Chesapeake Energy Arena - and if the Spurs can't find a solution for an OKC frontcourt that seized a 54-36 rebounding edge in Game 5 - the end of the Duncan era might be at hand.
Future up in the air
The centerpiece of five Spurs championship teams since his arrival in 1997, Duncan has made no announcement about his plans. He left the AT&T Center on Tuesday without speaking to reporters at all.
The two-time league MVP and sure-fire first-ballot Hall of Famer has a $5.64 million player option for next season. His future is up to him.
One thing is certain. If this is truly the end, Duncan will not go out amid a Kobe Bryant-style farewell carnival.
"Not my style," Duncan said earlier this season.
If this is the end, Duncan will go out fighting, in a playoff series that has felt at times like hand-to-hand combat.
In the past, Duncan has always been a tough out in the playoffs. When he has gone down, it has been swinging.
As recently as last season, at age 39, Duncan hit the Clippers with 27 points and 11 rebounds in the Spurs' Game 7 defeat.
A similar line would be incomprehensible Thursday in OKC, but Duncan will give what he can.


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MARY LAMBERT - SECRETS (FEDDE LE GRAND REMIX)September 16th 2014
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The Root And The Fruit Series
Contributed by Jeff Strite on Oct 10, 2011 (message contributor)
Summary: If I'm not saved by works (Ephesians 2:8-9), why is it that the Rich man in Luke 16 and the Goats in Matthew 25:31-46 went to hell because the DIDN'T DO good works? That doesn't make any sense... or does it?
A Sunday School teacher had spent a great deal of teaching her young class about the fact that doing "good works" could not buy them a place in heaven. To drive home her point she asked her class, "If I sold my house and my car, had a big garage sale and gave all my money to the church, would I get into Heaven?"
"NO"! the children all answered.
"If I cleaned the church every day, mowed the yard, and kept everything neat and tidy, would I get into Heaven"?
Again, the answer was "NO"!
"Well," she continued, "then how can I get to Heaven?"
In the back of the room, a 5 yr. old boy shouted out,
"You gotta be dead"!
(from a true story related by a young woman named Tina Miller)
APPLY: In this morning's sermon we're talking about two people who died.
One man went to Hell… and
One man went to Paradise or Abraham's bosom.
One preacher I read said he could only find one time that Jesus ever spoke about Heaven. "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you." John 14:2
But by contrast that same preacher counted at least 11 times Jesus spoke about Hell.
(Stephen Cook – sermoncentral.com)
Now if I'd have been Jesus, I think that teaching about Heaven would be MORE important. After all, why wouldn't my audience want to hear about what awaited them in heaven and what it would be like. But Jesus apparently believed we needed to know more about Hell than even heaven.
Here in Luke 16 we have Jesus telling us the parable of the Rich man and Lazarus. It's the ONLY parable Jesus ever told about afterlife. He was explaining to His disciples what life would be like… after we die.
And once again, there seems to be a heavy emphasis on Hell.
We're told in detail that
· It's a place of torment "In hell, where he was in torment…" Luke 16:23
· It's a place of thirst and agony and fire "… have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.' Luke 16:24
· It's a place where there is no hope, and from which there is no escape "And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.' Luke16:26
· Or as Mark 9:48 describes it. It's a place "where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched."
As I was preparing for this sermon a question came to my mind:
Why did Jesus tell this parable?
Now, it helps to realize that I meet with several preachers to plan and work on our sermons together. For the month of October we decided to do a series on Heaven and Hell. But as put the ideas on paper we occasionally came up with titles and ideas without having specific Scripture in mind to base the sermons on.
So the title of this morning's sermon was "Why should I care?" and as I began looking through the various passages I could use, I happened upon this one in Luke 16, and was struck by the clarity of Jesus answer to that question "Why should I care?"
Jesus' answer to that question was basically this:
You better care!
You better care, because you and I are going to spend eternity in one place or the other.
You and I are either going to spend eternity in heaven… or in hell.
And Jesus is telling us - Hell is real – and you don't want to go there.
Now, all that leads up the hard part of the sermon for me.
As I was examining this text I was struck by something made me uncomfortable.
There was a teaching here that seemed to contradict everything I'd ever believed about the coming judgment and the afterlife.
To introduce you to this conflict I had, I'm going to give you a quiz.
Question #1: Why did the rich man go to hell?
(wait for a reply)
The parable basically implies the rich man went to hell because he didn't help Lazarus.
Now for question #2 - which goes back to last Sunday's sermon where we read about the last judgment where Jesus separated the sheep from the goats in Matthew 25.
Do you remember why Jesus sent the "Goats" (those on His left) away into eternal punishment?
Jesus explains in Matthew 25.
"Then (the Son of Man) will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
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Those of you who have read my new book on Peter Burnett will have noticed references to Native American fishing at Willamette Falls, near Oregon City. The forty-foot high falls was a traditional tribal fishing ground for salmon for many centuries for the Chinookan peoples and others until the arrival of a white population and industrial development pushed them away.
Well, great to say, some fishing with traditional dip nets has been restored for the first time in a century. The first salmon was netted on May 16 and was ceremonially cooked and eaten by tribal members near the falls. "It is an opportunity to experience something that hasn't happened in a long time,'' said Jordan Mercier, a member of the Clackamas Tribe, which once occupied the area around the falls.
The tribes surrendered their fishing rights in the 1980s in exchange for land for a reservation in western Oregon that brought together remaining members of the Umpqua, Molalla, Rogue River, Clackamas, Kalapuya and Chasta tribes, now together known as the Grand Ronde Tribe, or the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde. The tribe operates the popular Spirit Mountain Casino in Polk County.
The tradeoff of fishing rights for a reservation was painful, said Cheryl A. Kennedy, chairwoman of the Grand Ronde Tribal Council. Recalling the debate at the time, she said, "There were four women and five men on our council and we said, 'We can't give up our rights; but the men were more pragmatic and told us we wouldn't have anything at all if we didn't get a reservation, so we signed the consent decree to give up our rights forever.'' She was quoted in the June 1 issue of the tribal newspaper, Smoke Signals.
But public opinion and gradually changing attitudes have worked in the tribe's favor in recent years, albeit to a limited degree. The Oregon Fish & Wildlife Commission restored limited rights to the tribe, allowing for the harvest of spring Chinook salmon for ceremonial purposes with a limit of 15 per year.
"Even though it is limited, it is monumental . . . '' Jack Giffen Jr., a member of the tribal council, told Smoke Signals. "It was trying at times, but we weathered the storm, and we succeeded.''
Kathleen George, another council member, said in the same newspaper, "It is putting things right for our ancestors. We were the keepers of the falls . .. this is part of the healing and restoring of our Tribe and that relationship. Our hearts are prêtty full now.''
Coincidentally, this year marks the 175th anniversary of the arrival in Oregon City of the first major wagon train in 1843, known as "The Great Migration'' It was that wagon train, bringing approximately 1,000 emigrants, that began the steady displacement and removal of the native tribes from their traditional homelands. The first captain of the wagon train was Peter Burnett, the subject of my new book, "The Troubled Life of Peter Burnett: Oregon Pioneer and First Governor of California.'' More at gregnokes.com


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City Focus : Zurich by Nicco Bra17 Apr
Architecture is all about proportion, the human body grows proportionally, as the human product known as "city" where architecture and human beings meet each other everyday is proportional. The rules that links one to another are often unknown or hardly understandable. Combining these aspects in a single shot, condensing everything in a frame is the real challenge: it can be really hard to find the perfect balance between so many aspects of a complex living organism, however the city, with multiples urban landscapes, guides the eye of the photographer or of the observer till he can find the right perspective and the perfect spot. Zurich in this case is a good example: succession of void and full spaces, different neighborhoods, mixed architectural styles of different ages coexist side by side in a pulsing and evolving bustling city.
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My name is Jarosław Kisieliński. I live in Warsaw, Poland.
Most of my photos are taken in Warsaw, the spaces inspire me a lot. I don't like talk about my photos and believe that a good photograph can create its own contexts and meanings. I prefer abstract and lyrical aspect of photography – it's documentary function is not very important for me.