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Memorizing Scripture Together - Week 2 Update
- 11/30/08
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It is my intention to primarily use email to update the participants in the Memorizing Scripture Together effort (click here to learn about the program). However, this morning I logged in to the software I use to send those emails only to find that it is down for maintenance until 9 AM tomorrow morning. And so I'm going to post this on the blog today just to keep people in the loop. The email blast will go out as soon as the software is available again.
As we began the program last week I received some immediate feedback. Much of it was of the "this is tough!" variety. And I tend to agree. Memorization does not come easily to most of us, so we are only going to commit passages to memory through long, hard work and through endless repetition. Speaking personally, though, I can say that already I've found these times to be a blessing. It has been a worshipful time as I've repeated God's praises again and again. I've emphasized different words and phrases as I've gone through it and have repeated it with different focuses. This has kept it fresh in my mind and has kept me seeking the "heart" behind the passage.
Every week I want to offer a tip, a suggestion, an interview or something that will help us in our efforts. This week's tip is very simple but very effective.
Use Index Cards. Choose a portion of the verse that you'd like to master that week, and either write or print it on an index card. I wasn't able to find printable index cards at Staples so instead purchased cards meant to be inserts in name badges (Avery #05392). They are slightly different dimensions but work just fine. Print the verse on one side and the citation on the other. Put this card in your pocket or in your Bible or in some place where you are bound to come across it at least once or twice a day. You may also wish to print up several of the cards and place them around the house—on the bathroom mirror, above the kitchen sink, below your computer's monitor, on the fridge, and so on. That way, at any time, you will have the verse near you and can recite it a couple of times between other activities. As the program continues you will build up a collection of these cards and you can skim through them every week or two to ensure that the verses stay fresh in your mind. This is a memorization technique "classic" but one that continues to reap benefits.
This Week's Fighter Verse
"Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves."
Philippians 2:3
This Week's Passage
Those of us who are working on the longer passage are focusing on Psalm 8. This is a three week project, taking us until December 14.
O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger.
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?
Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
and crowned him with glory and honor.
You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under his feet,
all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Psalm 8
Join Us!
We would love for you to join us. I plan on sending out weekly emails (every Sunday) to remind you of the commitment and to tell you about the new verse. If you'd like to participate in the program, I ask as well that you sign up for these emails (though you certainly do not have to if you don't want to). Otherwise, just keep an eye on this blog and dedicate time to memorizing the Scripture passages.
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A comment to all who have made a profession for Christ.
The best way to not only memorize scripture but to help properly apply it, is to teach it to others. Start with your kids, or your wife, friends, and move out from there. Try memorizing just the first part at first and repeat it to your loved one, tell them what the verse means, go read some commentary, use it in context in real conversation.
Then take it out into the world, if the topic of a particular verse comes up, use the verse, and explain it to the strangers you encounter, the gas attendant, the bank teller, or store clerk, start conversations with the intent of sharing the truth with others. They may look at you funny, or even mock you, but if you are going to be obedient and take the message of the truth to the lost, Jesus promisses you'll face persecution. He never said life will get better or easier, but harder, it could cost you everything. If on the otherhand you keep it to yourself, and only talk about it with other Christians you can escape the promised trials and tribulation the Lord said would happen to His faithful.
You may stumble or forget part of the verse, that's ok, talk about what you know, share the Gospel. What other reason is there then to be ready to spread the truth? The primary mission of all Christians is to preach the gospel to every creature, so go, and do as the Lord commanded, be a peculiar people.
Millions have died for this message, Christ said that the world will hate you, do they, how have you suffered for this message, are you carrying the cross, or have you ever even picked it up?
The same words we are memorizing are the words that saved us, and they are the very words God will use to save others. Interesting these are called "Fighter Verses". Fighting whom, or what? We battle against spiritual forces, forces that have bound mankind in sin, and the only way they will be freed from that hold sin has is through the word, through Christ. So keep hiding the word in your heart, and take that word to the dying world.
CH Spurgeon"Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you are not saved yourself. Be sure of that. The saving of souls, if a man has once gained love to perishing sinners and his blessed Master, will be an all-absorbing passion to him. It will so carry him away, that he will almost forget himself in the saving of others. He will be like the brave fireman, who cares not for the scorch or the heat, so that he may rescue the poor creature on whom true humanity has set its heart. If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for."
I'm so glad you are doing this. It is such a great motivator!
Though it was very familiar before, I now have 2 Timothy 4: 16-17 down pat. Parts of Psalm 8 were familiar, but I can now recite from memory the whole thing very haltingly. I'll continue to work on it. The new scripture is one I already knew (as part of a larger section which has now become fuzzy through disuse!)
Some years ago I had committed myself to scripture memorization. I would take my index cards along with me as I walked for exercise. I found that speaking the scriptures out loud worked much better than trying to memorize them silently. But I'm quite sure I became known around the area as that strange women who walks around talking to herself :-)
Kathy said…But I'm quite sure I became known around the area as that strange women who walks around talking to herself :-)
Lol, I don't often laugh this early in the morning, but that is just too funny. Just as long as you aren't known as the cat lady that talks to herself. ;b
I'm just doing the fighter verses because I don't haveenough time for both things. The good news is I think 2 Timothy 3:16-17 is officially engraved in my mind and heart after aweek i can still recite it in english and spanish :D
by the way yesterday I bought Mere Christianity so I'm set for that :D
Somewhere I found an easy method to learn long passages. Unfortunately I can't find it to just link to it but it goes like this.Day 1: read the first verse 10 times trying to burn it into your memory. Then recite it 10 times.Day 2: recite yesterday's verse 10 times; then repeat Day 1 for the 2nd verseDay 3: recite yesterday's verse 10 times; then recite the 1st and 2nd verse. Then repeat Day 1 for the 3rd verseDay 4 and beyond. Continue the process of reciting the verse worked on the previous day 10 times, then going back and reciting the whole passage before reading the new verse 10 times and reciting it 10 times.
Curtis, I'm glad you got a good laugh! I'm afraid to admit it, but I have several cats :-)
I use a similar method to that which Alice has mentioned, except the time frame is shorter. It is a method that works well. Many times I repeat the verses as I am lying in bed at night. It seems like sleep helps solidify them in my brain by morning.
Hello everyone!
While I'm not along for the ride on this one with youz guyz, here is a helpful .pdf that has always served me well.
Hope it helps!
It is hard work memorizing longer passages but it's been so rewarding. I think I finally understand what it means to meditate on Scripture. As I constantly repeat each verse i find myself dwelling on wording and the meaning of words, wondering why certain words and tenses were chosen… I've never really tried to memorize Scripture before and this process has brought exciting new life with my time in the Word. Thanks again Tim for the idea of doing this as a group and thanks to all of you who are participating. It provides encouraging motivation. I had asked several friends and family to participate with me but had no takers. It was a little discouraging, but I remember all of you. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 is memorized and I'm working on Psalm 8. The index cards helped a lot!
Thank you, Tim, for your idea to memorize scripture together. I'm especially grateful this, and "Reading the Classics" together, is bringing the body together, beyond denominational lines. Bringing us closer together as one, just as Jesus prayed for.I'm going to use memory techniques by Jerry Lucas, "Dr. Memory", a NBA Hall of Famer, who co-authored a best-selling Memory Book in the 1960's. He has openly shared that he is Christian and has authored other books for applying his techniques to memorizing verses and even whole books of the Bible verbatim.For memorizing single verses, he has some study cards for about 300 verses, each with pictures to diagram his word associations. I personally feel that his methods are more effective than any other technique that I've heard about. The study cards are still available for purchase, but I was disappointed in his selection of verses. Lucas authored two other books, I believe they are out of print, but available from used-book websites. "His Word" is a bible memory system for memorizing the book of Mark, word-for-word. "Remember the Word" a Bible memorization system for learning each of the four gospels, thought-for-thought. The methods for systematically memorizing whole books is very interesting and creative.
The method for simple memorization is to imagine exaggerated, ridiculous, disproportionate associations between the words and "sound-alike" words in our verse. Making a simple drawing is recommended. ( I'll offer my very amateurish sketch if anyone asks.)
Following is my picture:A donut (DO NOT) is wrapped around a THING (creature with hair from head to foot, with eyes and feet), standing on barrel of RUM with an F written on it (F-RUM). A loaf of RYE bread, with wheels, explodes from the barrel and is VALET parked (RYE+VALET sounds like RIVALRY). The valet runs into an oar (OR) held by a CONvict SEATed in an electrict chair (CON+SEAT sounds like CONCEIT). A ram BUTts the chair into a HUMID TREE, with a letter N hanging from a branch, as well as dew drops, for humidity, exploding in the electric chair. The convict transforms into COUNT dracula, who counts the OTTERS (OTTERS sounds like OTHERS) in his coffin. The otters jump out of the coffin to go to a campfire to eat sMOREs, as will as drink out of CANs with trafic SIGNals IN them (SIGNal +IN + CAN sounds like SIGNIFICANT). THAN (a T-shaped creature with many hands, as well as hands for feet) joins them, having a hand for each of the otters. The THAN grabs an Y-OAR (an oar with a letter Y on it) that is being held by many ELVES.
(DO NOT) THING F-RUM RYE+VALET OAR CON+SEAT BUTT N+HUMID+TREE COUNT OTTERS sMORE SIGNal+IN+CAN THAN Y-OAR ELVES.
I would enjoy working with anyone that would like to work together on this to help us all memorize more efficiently and enjoyable at the same time.
KathyDon't worry about it, in most stories, the cat lady who talks to herself, that everyone thinks is wierd, usually turns out to quite a kind person. :-o I hope you understand I'm just joking with you, I love cats, just as long you don't have like 50 or something.Gods grace and peace be with you.
Larry NicolasInteresting memorization method, but do you think there may be a danger in that practice when applying it to memorizing the word of God? Just seem we already, as a people, think of the scripture out of its context enough, shouldn't we focus on the actual meaning rather than thoughts and images that have nothing to do with the text. It could become a bad habit, and could even lead to misunderstanding or confusion. I suppose I'm one who is willing to do the extra work of repetition, it takes more diligence but I think in the end I think it is more rewarding. Just my 2.
I am up to verse 5 in Psalm 8. It's been great meditating on the verses while memorizing. I use index cards also and post them everywhere! One of the things that has helped is to listen to the verses. I have the Bible on CD, spoken word only, and listen to it in the car. I say it along with the narrator and it has really helped.
I don't think I could the method that Larry wrote about. I struggle just to learn the verses as they are without adding extra stuff! :-)
I'm wishing everyone well in their memorization. I'll not be joining this particular "program" since I have two going on in my own life at present. I'm currently preaching through Ephesians and my personal challenge is to memorize Ephesians. I have a 24 week schedule that sees me working on 6-8 verses each week with a couple of review weeks thrown in for good measure.
I take each verse, print it out on plain white business card stock purchased at the local office supply store. Then, so the cards last a long time, I used a business card laminating machine to laminate each card. Next, I punch a hole in one of the corners and place it on a 1 1/2" ring. I'll have two rings by the time I'm done: one ring with chapters 1-3, another with 4-6. This makes it easy for review: just keep flipping through the verse cards.
I keep these cards in my car. While I'm waiting at stop signs/lights, I can quickly review or refresh my memory on the latest group of verses. But since they're on the rings, I can easily take them elsewhere too. It's proven very handy.
I also purchased a small journaling notebook for this purpose as well. In the front, I simply handwrite out the week's passage. I find that writing by hand helps to solidify the passage in my memory far better than simply typing it out on the computer. Then, starting in the back of the notebook, and working towards the middle, I review the verses/passages each day… again, writing them out. Sometimes, I write one phrase, then re-write it and add a phrase. This takes a long time and I only do it with passages that are giving me a difficult time. Hard work? Absolultely, but it's paying off.
The other verse "program" is at our church, where we're doing our own "Fighter Verses" each week, with some volunteer standing up to recite that week's verse before the whole congregation just prior to the start of the worship service. A thrilling and tremendously encouraging time for all. I'm memorizing those weekly verses (right now, there are about 20 verses out of Deuteronomy), sometimes in ESV, NIV and KJV since our people primarily use those three. Why all three versions? I'm the one up front who will help them out a bit if they start to stumble on a word or two.
I trust God is pleased as His people treasure up His Words in their hearts.
I am memorizing Psalm 8, and what a blessing it is.
This evening, just after sunset, we have the opportunity to see in the southwestern sky an unusual display of "the work of [His] fingers, the moon and the stars, which [He] has ordained": a close configuration of the crescent moon, Venus, and Jupiter. Such a display will not occur again until the year 2052.
I LOVE being a part of this and knowing that you guys are out there learning the same scriptures I am. My paternal grandfather knew entire chapters of scripture by heart and would just flow into them through the course of conversation. I have so longed to have that same kind of engraving on my own heart but have sadly never put the effort into memorizing scripture until now. And WOW — it seems that genuine desire makes a lot of difference. Today I can say Psalm 8 in its entirety as well as the 2 Timothy 3:16-17 verses. Am starting on Phillippians today. Kevin — I love that you are memorizing Ephesians. I have often thought knowing Romans by heart would be a powerful tool, but considered it an impossibly task — you have me thinking about it again.
Thanks, everyone, for sharing in this! It's such an inspiration. And Kathy — there are two crazy walker/talkers. I'm also a crazy driver/talker. :) We're in good company!
You know, it is really hard to think of others as better than myself. I really like myself. I want the only Dragon Fruit Vitamin Water in the fridge. I want to use the Mac laptop instead of my spouse using it. And this is all just in my house. Imagine having to leave the house and apply this! Gasp. I think memorizing Phil 2:3 is easier than doing it.
Jackie, You are so right, taking on the role of a servent/slave is hard for us by nature. You'll notice all the verses in scripture that use bond-servent(a non word), should better be translated as slave. When used rightly you will see our life is one of a slave. Christ showed this type of love with His disciples in washing their feet, the lowest form of service a servent could do. Also to think Christ washed even Judas' feet, even though He knew he was going to betray Him, WOW!
It also follows with the commandment, love other as yourself. We shoe our love for self in how we take care of ourselves, ie. washing ourselves, feeding, clothing,…as indicated by Christ when He said, I was in prison and you visited me, naked-clothed…To show that kind of love for others is not done through our own power, that love comes from God, so really our only hope to live a life of love for other can only be accomplished through prayer and the power of the Holy Spirit through us.
I also believe that the bible shows that love through evangelisation, if we truely love people we will do for them what God has done for us, in that He extended His love for us through salvation in Jesus Christ, and in turn we take the Gospel to the lost. This is the ultimate way to show love for others. We can cloth, feed and show all kinds of love to the world, but the only love of eternal value is to go to them with enough love to tell them the truth about their sin, and who God is and what He has done to show His love by crushing His Son on the cross.
Hope this helps.
I read this a while ago…
Why Memorize Scripture?(Psa 119:10-12 KJV) With my whole heart have I sought thee O Lord:O let me not wander from thy commandments. {11} Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. {12} Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.Memorizing Scripture has many benefits. In Joshua 1:7-8 the Lord tells Joshua,(Josh 1:7-8 KJV) Only be thou strong and very courageous,that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. {8} This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth;but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.Our spiritual prosperity will be greatly affected by our diligence to meditate upon and obey God's word. Memorization is a means to meditation. As we memorize, Scripture, the Holy Spirit can then bring it to our remembrance, we can then meditate on it and apply it to our lives.16 reasons to memorize Scripture:1.Help in avoiding sinPs 119:11 I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. 2.Comfort in afflictionPs 119:50 This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life. 3.Spiritual lifePs 119:93 I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have given me life. 4.WisdomPs 119:98-100 Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts. 5.DelightPs 119:103 How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 6.GuidancePs 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. 7.HopePs 119:114 You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in your word. 8.PeacePs 119:165 Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble. 9.A heart of worshipPs 119:171-172 My lips will pour forth praise, for you teach me your statutes. My tongue will sing of your word, for all your commandments are right. 10.FreedomJn 8:31 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, 32and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." 11.Makes Scripture readily available to teach, witness, encourage or reprove others2 Ti 3:16-17 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work. 12.Increases our faithRo 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. 13.Victory over temptationMt 4:4 But he answered, "It is written, ' Man shall not live by bread alone,but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.'" (This is from the account of Jesus' temptation in the wilderness. Jesus answered each of Satan's temptations by saying, 'It is written…' then quoting a Scripture from memory.) 14.Confidence in prayer1Jn 5:14-15 And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him. 15.To imitate Jesus' own example: Jesus often quoted Scripture, for example,when teaching-(Mat 5:21-22 KJV) Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:{22} But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca{GK=you worthless person}, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
when tempted-(Mt. 4:1-4), Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. {2} And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered. {3} And when the tempter came to him, he said,If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. {4} But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
when confronting the Pharisees (Mt. 9:13), And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? {12} But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. {13} But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice:for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
and when explaining the parables to his disciples (Mk. 4:12). And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: {12} That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.


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FRANKFORT — The Kentucky Public Service Commission (PSC) accepted a settlement granting revenue adjustments that will increase the base electric rates for customers of Kentucky Utilities Co. (KU) and the base electric and natural gas rates for customers of Louisville Gas and Electric Co. (LG&E).
Under the settlement agreement, the average monthly bill for a typical KU residential customer will increase by $5.16 (5.6 percent). A typical LG&E residential electric customer will see the average monthly bill increase by $4.25 (5 percent).
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FORT WALTON BEACH -- Her team clinging to a 57-56 lead and three of her senior teammates sidelined with five fouls, Choctaw's Brittany Washington stepped to the foul line with 11.7 seconds left to play in Thursday's Region 1-6A quarterfinal against Pensacola.
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On the bench were Brittany Brown, Caneisaya Matthews and Lauren Day, who was the last to foul out with 14 seconds left. But before doing so she left a message for the junior.
"I just said you've got this," said Day, who delivered a double-double of 17 points and 15 rebounds. "You've done it before. You just need to take over."
Following the heart-to-heart, Kayla Thompson cut the lead to one with a pair of free throws. And then Washington proceeded to put the team on her back.
The junior calmly buried the two free throws and Pensacola's last-second heave hit off the back of the rim to lead the undefeated Indians into the region semifinals with a 59-56 victory. Brittany Brown, who watched helplessly from the bench for the final 34 seconds of play after pouring in a team-high 24 points to go along with 10 rebounds, five assists and four steals, laid on her back at midcourt with her hands over her face. Meanwhile, Day and Washington embraced in front of the Indians' bench.
"It felt so good. It felt like I just won a million dollars," Washington said.
The Indians had done what evaded them last year, when their season came to an end at the hands of Pensacola in the region semifinals. The Indians had also ended Pensacola's hopes of a sixth-straight trip to the final four.
"We've grown up a little bit since last year and we're going to fight to the end, win or lose," Choctaw coach Don Brown said. "We're going to play as hard as we can and just see what happens."
The Indians next take the home court on Tuesday against Pine Forest, which defeated Fort Walton Beach 64-45 at home.
Back to the two free throws, which left Pensacola the only option of relying on a shot they had made just one time in nine attempts Thursday night, Washington said Lauren's words hit her deep.
"Lauren told to hold my head up and lead the team," she said. "After that I just knew I needed to make these free throws for my team and come through."
Coach Brown said the pair of clutch shots were emblematic of a team that has relied on its depth all season long.
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Along with Washington's 15 points and the double-doubles chipped in by Brittany Brown and Day, Tasharah Sanders shined with 10 rebounds. Not to be left out of the mix, the Indians forced 15 turnovers, held Pensacola to 33 percent shooting and didn't allow a good look on the final 3-pointer seconds before the buzzer.
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It wasn't a battle early on for the Indians, who got 18 first-half points from Brittany Brown to lead 35-25 at halftime. The lead hit as many as 16 midway through the third quarter after a Brittany Brown trey, but Chelsey Gibson scored four of her game-high 25 points and Shamira Hunter added seven to fuel a 13-1 run to end the frame and close the deficit to 48-44.
Choctaw would stretch the lead to seven, but Brown and Day fouled out down the stretch and Pensacola wouldn't go away. That is until Washington headed the call and the Indians delivered one last defensive stop.
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Chelsea's Lucas Piazon criticized his teammates' attitude during Sunday's Club World Cup final defeat to Corinthians, claiming his fellow Brazilians were the only ones to have put in the required effort.
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Chelsea went down 1-0 in Yokohama, Japan, and Piazon, an unused substitute in the match, hit out at an "unacceptable" lack of fight shown by Rafael Benitez's team.
"A lot of us were missing the desire to be champion. I think Ramires and David Luiz, the Brazilians were the ones who gave the most, and now they are sad," he told Brazilian website UOL Esporte.
"We lacked character. Nobody wanted to fight. ... We went into a final without the will to win, and that's unacceptable," he said.
Piazon added that Luiz was one of the few players to show any sign of disappointment after the match.
"David was upset," he said. "I'm not surprised. He was one of the few who cared and gave what he had in the match."
"We lacked character. Nobody wanted to fight. ... We went into a final without the will to win, and that's unacceptable.
" -- Chelsea's Lucas Piazon
Goalkeeper Petr Cech told his Chelsea teammates it was up to them to prove they had not blown their only chance of Club World Cup glory following their stunning defeat to Corinthians.
"I said to the guys on the pitch, 'Now, it's only up to us,' he told Chelsea TV. "If we want to have another chance, we need to qualify for next year's Champions League.
"We will try to win it, and then we can come to the same tournament again and have another go. So, it is the only way."
Corinthians, which won the inaugural tournament in 2000, joined Barcelona as the only teams to win the title twice.
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for family home evening (to learn more about Family Home Evening click HERE) this week we had a lesson on service & made a HUGE mess in the kitchen making two treats. We packed them into a bucket & brought them to our local fire station to thank them for their service & to wish them a happy valentines day! Bonus: they got to get in the fire trucks & see where the firemen hang out! The boys thought it was fantastic & I am pretty sure they walked away with a lesson learned from this weeks FHE.
(this is our FHE board. We rotate responsibilities. the kids love being able to run the show or pick the treat!)
Maddox was a nervous nelly when we were lead to the big trucks. With some quick thinking I decided to have T & Britt walk ahead of us. Maddox really looks up to his bothers. I thought if he sees them going in excited he may too. & ta-dah! It worked. tears were avoided & Maddox even climbed into the trucks. He is becoming such a big guy!
On the 14th I try to make a fun table setting for the children to wake to. Maddox had snuck out & spotted all the red & pink. He spent most of the night asking for his "surprises" I finally lugged him into my bed to snuggle up & help him sleep. Rod is working nights so there is an empty space to the right of me at night. Maddox was happy to fill the spot.
When morning finally did arrive the boys & Presley were greeted with fabric envelopes loaded with sweets & some coupons for the boys to pick a date night with either mom or dad. Heart shaped pancakes, berries, hearts shaped donuts were eaten in excess. oh the tummy aches. The boys went to school is red excited to fill their valentine boxes.
The boys were prepared with their own valentines to hand out.
T had mix CDs with 5 of his favorite danceable (& kid friendly) love songs.
Britt was ready with plastic bugs on outlined jars. Pretty cute. Both valentines were found HERE.
Tte made this fun valentine for Rod & I. It lives on our magnet board right now for all to see. & Rod gave his baby girl a beautiful bouquet of hydrangeas. He is thoughtful like that! Lots of giving today to teachers, friends & each other. It was fun! We even got a little package from our sweet little buddies the Whitings!
After school we delivered flowers to our little gal pals. This has become a tradition & its a hit with the boys. They each pick a girlie who they want to give a bouquet to. Its darling to watch them walk up to a big door & knock holding pink flowers. We even send T to school with flowers to give each girl in his class one stem.
When flowers & other valentines were delivered we played outside & our fun neighbor Derrick hooked up his riding mower to the barrels & took the kids for a "train" ride. This street is so fun!
The children were kind-a grumpy after a full day of sugar & play. So after dinner & tubs we skipped homework & snuggled on the couch until story time. I really enjoy those quiet moments with the boys. Presley is in bed & I can give them my full attention.
Another successful 14th!
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I am copying below a piece I have worked on for over 10 years based in my educational, therapeutic and spiritual experience. I will be using it tomorrow in introducing Soulforce to a religious group in Atlanta. I covet your comments, critiques, questions. revtj "Violence is defined as any thought, word, action, economic or political structure that predisposes or exposes an individual or group to danger, ill-health or suffering, in opposition to the dictates of conscience and free will. Hence, violence opposes the designs of the Creator, who has created us for blessedness. Biblically speaking, violence is extreme un-neighborliness." ~JoAnne M. Terrell, professor of Theology, Ethics and Culture, Chicago Theological Seminary. 10 Beliefs that have transformed me & my understanding of violence 1. I freely admit I was affected by abusive (i.e. violent) behavior. I resist denial wherever it may arise. 2. I resist and eventually choose to renounce victim-hood. I was a victim but I am not a victim now. 3. I have learned from my past that neither abuse nor complicity with abuse is ever acceptable. 4. I refuse to advance any view which says I deserved abuse or that God willed it. 5. I live in a world where abuse is routinely tolerated, ignored, and justified. 6. It is actually easier to live in a world that rejects violence but this cannot happen until we understand its destructive effects on human living as it manifests physically, mentally, spiritually, economically and institutionally, and discover how it is to be transformed. 7. I do not have to pay anyone money to heal. All I have to pay to heal is attention. 8. I know that if I speak up it may be costly. 9. This is about evolution: physical, mental, spiritual, economic and institutional; therefore, it is a process: the first element of which is conversation. 10. I resolve to speak peacefully and persuasively in opposing violence wherever I see it. © Rev. T. J. McGiffert, 2006
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End of a Shuttle era, on-orbit & launch failures, space station completion, and private space growth highlight an exciting year in spaceflight.
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The Chinese Long March rocket launched into orbit carrying a navigation satellite.
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The unmanned Shenzhou-8 spacecraft landed on November 17 in China, marking its successful separation and return to Earth from the Tiangong-1 space station. This animated look shows the dock, separation and landing.
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The heading of this forum doesn't quite ask the right question because this topic takes the following entry to explain thoroughly:
I've always adored great content and dialogue; Dr. Strangelove, for example, is my favorite film largely because of its exuberant wit ("You can't fight in here this is the war room!"). Its satire is brilliant, its content deep. However, if I were sick and bored, I would rather watch a film like, say, Godard's Breathless. Breathless has, obviously, excellent dialogue and content, but I wouldn't quite rank its script with Strangelove.
I do not mean to compare these two films or even discuss these two efforts specifically, but I use them as examples to bring to light a paradox I continually encounter: I often find myself (or, my emotions at least) drawn to films with a very specific style or tone over films with superior content. This seems backwards to me, but it happens nonetheless. Lost in Translation, for example… All style, so-so dialogue, but I adore the film. The Departed is another example… It maintains a specific tone throughout, and this becomes more important than individual great moments.
So, here's my question (I hope this makes sense) to whomever it may concern: what is this X factor that draws one into a film so thoroughly even when it does not manifest in specific, great moments? Is it simply style? Or is it some intangible ability to "feel" human or believable? Is it subtext? And, is this overall spell a film casts more important than great moments and/or dialogue? I'd say they're of equal importance, but I'm curious nonetheless…
To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body—both go together, they can't be separated.
-Jean-luc Godard
I think "yes." You can't divorce the two in film, not emotionally, not intellectually. They will both want in, no matter how much you try to be 'analytical.'
Trier's "Mandalay" used next to no sets in favor of the most minimal staging, yet that then became part of the "message", regardless of what else the script said.
I just watched Ousmane Sembene's 1966 "Black Girl" and that was his first feature, done on a small budget.
The horror of the giirl's story wouldn't have had the same almost dream-like quality if the film had had a "better" look and more sophisticated sound.
What helps "Black Girl" be what it is, for good and bad, is a combination of Sembene's script, directorial temperament and shot selection, combined with the physical limitations of his production.
Ideally, style should always be a choice, like all other elements in a film. Sometimes, however, style comes from the limitations of reality while shooting.
Lots of thoughts here.
Content vs. FORM, but, still, similar discussion where you might find some good stuff.
At what point do the two become indistinguishable or inseparable? Anyone think of any good examples?
If you define style as the cinematic aesthetics and content as the tradition non-cinematic values associated with storytelling, the standard answer would be that the aesthetic should support the storytelling. Special effects are now regarded as everything in a film that is not characters, setting, dialogue, or props. But realistically, all cinematic aesthetic are special effects. If you ever take a Film History, and go chronologically through the history of film the first few weeks you will get used to the practice of stationing the camera in one position and having all of the action occurring in the mid-ground with nothing obscuring your view of the actors. You might admire how the Lumiere Brothers carried a painterly eye to their aesthetic; utilizing all spacial dimensions on screen and even incorporating a little temporal composition. But in general all cinema was either on the street documentary or recorded theater. Then when you get to D. W. Griffith and start to see close-ups and movement into close-up you will be astonished and understand how superfluousness modern aesthetic has become.
Acting to is simply an aesthetic whereby a person places on display a series of facial gestures that are commonly associated with know emotional states:
Combined with body language, intonation, diction, action, and context you have all of the aesthetic characteristics of acting. All of these things are elements of style that the storyteller uses to tell a story. Even the non-inclusion of these elements can dictate the content of story. The Kuleshov Effect is the classic example how context effects content. Though one interesting variation of this effect I can think of right now, that many people may not associate with the Kuleshov Effect because the film is so sterile in its approach, is in Bresson's Pickpocket. Bresson was known for draining his actors of all outward emotional gestures, in one scene of Pickpocket a voice over indicates what the character is thinking, and that he is thinking of the right moral choice. The character then does the complete opposite. There is a good example of how style dictates content.
Style IS Content.
I've never really cared for aesthetics, content is where the substance of the film is for me.
I agree that style is content to some extent. For example, if I see a film that's all style and no content, I'll probably enjoy it. But if I see a film completely devoid of style, I'll probably be bored out of my mind. I need atleast a little style. But then again, there are those that will say that every movie has a style. Even "no style" is a style.
I care immensely for aesthetics. That could be the deciding factor in whether the film is pretty good or if it's excellent to me.
I think that's an excellent Godard quote by the way.
I agree with Hans Lucas (salut Jean-Luc) and i will say the content direct the style. In the same mouvement, the style light the content, focus keys elements and the point of view of the director on the content.
Isn't "style" doing a lot of work here? Is content nothing more than dialog and plot? What about, say, composition? There are a lot of elements to a film that I wouldn't describe as "style". I suppose you could say that style is how all the bits come together and get used, but then it wouldn't really be a concept to put in opposition to content.
But perhaps more in the spirit of this thread, many of my favorite movies have relatively little going on in terms of dialog or plot so they are not films about a story.
Consider the following two sentences:
"The boy in a blue hat sat on the mat".
"The boy's hat, coloured as it was with shades of blue, sat atop the boys head. He, in turn, rested upon the mat".
Do these two sentences have the same content? I would say no. The fact is that no content actually exists outside of style. In order to send you a message about a boy and a hat and a mat, I have to stylize it in some way.
So, as David said, style is content.
If you take away the extra details you added then, yes, they do have the exact same content.
Content is what the story is about
Style is how the story is told
Ideally there is synthesis, but this happens rarely. People's inability to make this very basic distinction is troubling.
Personally I am a big fan of content. All the films I love is especially because of the story or the mood. But style is just as important if not more so. It's hard to say what is most important.
The distinction comes from praxis not poiesis.
Elston: "Personally I am a big fan of content. All the films I love is especially because of the story or the mood."
Would you say the two sentences I wrote have the same mood?
Keep in mind also that there is no actual boy, hat or mat. If anything, the content doesn't actually exist, only the style.
I love the above Godard quote… Perhaps it's futile for me to try to distinguish between style and content. I really enjoy screenwriting, and if I get lucky and write a decent line of dialogue often the line's quality comes from an insight into a character or a situation (the content, I suppose) AND from the voice and tone of the script and/or character (style).
There's no mood in that sentence (obviously). I mention mood because content could mean more than just plot/theme (mood, for instance in Inland Empire).
Yes, cinema is an illusion. As many art forms are. A movie consists of tricking us, when we're actually seeing individual pictures moving very fast. BUT, that whole process is not style. It has nothing to do with content or style as we're discussing it. Style is the organization and placement of the basic elements in a work.
All arts cannot recreate life, but they can replicate and represent (or transport to another world). That seems like a whole nother topic altogether. Why bring it up?
"The essential point to keep in mind about the opposition of Form and Content is that the content is not formless, but has the form in its own self, quite as much as the form is external to it. There is thus a doubling of form. At one time it is reflected into itself; and then is identical with the content. At another time it is not reflected into itself, and then it is external existence, which does not at all affect the content. We are here in presence, implicitly, of the absolute correlation of content and form: viz., their reciprocal revulsion, so that content is nothing but the revulsion of form into content, and form nothing but the revulsion of content into form. This mutual revulsion is one of the most important laws of thought. But it is not explicitly brought out before the Relations of Substance and Causality."
-Content is what the story is about -
Style is how the story is told
By defining both in terms of story, though, it sounds like you're saying that story is content. I tend to agree with downbylaw that this is not adequately accounting for all the content in a film.
You ever speak for yourself?
I don't mean to give dogmatic definitions and I agree with that notion. All I wanted to suggest is that: Content is what happens. Style is how it happens (or how it's expressed).
-You ever speak for yourself?-
You mean because I quoted Hegel or because I'm agreeing with what someone else posted? There no point in ignoring useful things that have already been said and rechewing the whole meal out of some misguided sense that one needs to "speak for yourself."
What about editing? A cut is a "what" (content, if I'm following your line of thinking), continuity cutting, for example, is a "how" (style). Reciprocal revulsion.
"There's no mood in that sentence (obviously)." I totally disagree.
As an example, let's look at other ways I could say "I totally disagree":
You're wrong.
That's incorrect.
No way.
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
I respectively disagree.
Obviously each of these has a different style. So is the content the same? No way.
If I said "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard", your response would be far different than if I said "I respectfully disagree". In one case I'm showing you respect and in the other I'm looking to start a fight. It's not just that I'm saying the same thing in a different way, I'm saying something completely different. Style is content.
I'm referring to your obsessive use of quotes. Quoting someone else doesn't show you understand or have thought about the topic at hand. I too have read other thinkers and am influenced by what they say, but I digest it and apply it to my own perspective. It doesn't help that you often quote academic thinkers who express themselves in rather inaccessible terminology.
Editing could go either way yes, I never protested that.
The sentences you wrote are way too simplistic and lacking any sort of context to carry any mood at all. Am I wrong? They were written off-hand and are just an image of a boy in a blue cap sitting down.
Furthermore, you completely prove my point. Because – you ARE saying the same thing! In both cases, you're disagreeing. Except in one way you're doing it emphatically. The other way, you're doing it politely. The difference is in the style, not the content.
Let's say, we have the same 2 sentences. A person says, "Oh, I don't agree with that at all." Except, the first time they say quite matter of factly and calmy, "Oh, I don't agree with that at all." Second time they say it with an emphatic voice of indignation, "Oh, I don't agree with that at all." There you go. Style vs. Content.
As said above, I think that style and content are equally important, but need to be in balance.
BUT, what I think is far more important than both is Heart and Deep Honesty on the part of the participating artists.
Not sure why this is a problem for you Elston. For the record, I have posted over 5000 times in these forums, and have not quoted anything in the vast majority of them, so it's hardly obsessive, but when I have it's a way to introduce something other than random, unsystematic (and somtimes ill-informed) individual opinions that are a pervasive feature of so much of the discussion here. Sorry if the "inaccesible terminology" offends your sense of folksy, homespun-ness, Mark Twain.
Mark Twain was a saint.
Elston: "Let's say, we have the same 2 sentences. A person says, "Oh, I don't agree with that at all." Except, the first time they say quite matter of factly and calmy, "Oh, I don't agree with that at all." Second time they say it with an emphatic voice of indignation, "Oh, I don't agree with that at all." There you go. Style vs. Content."
Sorry, but I'd still say these have different content. :)
If they say it calmly, they're sending these messages:
- I am calm.
- I disagree.
- Although I disagree, I'm not going to get worked up about it.
If it's emphatic, there might be these messages:
- I strongly disagree.
- I can't believe anyone would believe what you're saying.
- I'm certain of what I'm saying.
- I refuse to listen to your arguments.
So when the style changes, the content (or the message being sent) is also altered.
-So when the style changes, the content (or the message being sent) is also altered.-
^ reciprocal revulsion
Style and content will always be inextricably linked — after all, the style defines how seriously we take the content. For example, if the dialogue of a Tarkovsky film was implemented into a Michael Bay directed blockbuster, that content would not seem as important as it does in a Tarkovsky work. Now, you may disagree with me on that point, but it's always been my belief that a director shapes his/her style around the content to best get their vision understood.
We could delve further into this topic if we decided to bring tone and rhythm into the debate, but all we would end up concluding is a pretty obvious point: that art is comprised of many components and they are all equally vital to the effectiveness of the work. You can't say that content matters more to you than style because without that style, the content would fall flat.
Unless we go ahead and define these terms, at least provisionally, for the sake of this argument, questions about content versus anything (form, style, etc) always spin off into inane semantic arguments. Now, I don't mind arguments over semantics, but I think they need to be constructive, rather than contrarian (which eventually gets repetitive and masturbatory).
Here are some provisional definitions. If they sound good, maybe we can return to the OP's actual question, which understandably but unfortunately presupposed a consensus on these terms.
I'd like to suggest that CONTENT, for a fiction film, is anything that happens hypothetically within the film world. It's things that could happen even without a camera being there; things that could be described in words (in a script or an adaptation), or shown in visuals, or in animation, and that would remain the same no matter how they were represented to the audience.
Following from that, FORM is the technical apparatus used to represent the CONTENT to the senses. Forms include novel, epic poem, film, video, painting, radio programme, script, etc. There are certainly formal sub-categories… like, "moving image" is a top-level form, and "movie" is a subcategory, and "live-action movie" is an even deeper subcategory. These all have to do with the physical means of recording and reproducing the content.
This would leave STYLE as the creative decisions, made by artists and craftspeople and technical advisors, that bridge the gap between FORM and CONTENT. Because once you've settled on a form (i.e. film?), there are certain innate decisions that have to be made (i.e. black and white? What angles? Studio or location? Tripod or hand-held?).
The lines between these are obviously blurry. Like, you could call "B&W vs. Color" a matter of form, or a matter of style; you could call a certain actor's body language a matter of style, or a matter of content. But to facilitate the discussion, we'll just have to try to stay away from those borderline cases and just talk about major aspects. We can take it for granted that in terms of film, FORM is generally decided ahead of time (by the director and/or producers) and CONTENT is usually crafted by the director and the writers; STYLE is guided by the director, and placed in the hands of the technical specialists and craftspeople.
How do these sound for definitions?
They sound pretty good in a general way. But actual film practice doesn't always work out so neatly, eg. Sternberg, Bresson, Godard, Dreyer, Ozu (to name but a few.)
Jesse: I agree with those definitions. But then it has to be acknowledged that, as it's only ever hypothetical, content does not exist.


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The annual MedEquip4Kids Golf Day took place last week at Bramall Park Golf Club, with twelve teams from across Manchester teeing off to raise funds for the charity.
The weather was smiling on us yet again, as the rain held off until the end of the game.
The winning team yet again was FC United, and all teams enjoyed a well deserved dinner, with raffle and prize giving in the evening.
Alan Tattler, event host and one of the directors of the charity, said: "Thanks to everyone who came along and made the day such a success. And thanks once again to Bramall Park Golf Club for making us feel so welcome."
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And so it begins: Facebook CTO and platform guru Bret Taylor is leaving Facebook this summer, Kara Swisher is reporting, off to do a startup with Google App Engine founder Kevin Gibbs. Taylor confirmed the news in (of course) a Facebook update.
This is one of the first in a wave of Facebook departures we're hearing, as a slew of older employees have hit their four year stock cliffs, and the 90 day IPO lockout fast approaches. According to a source, many Facebook employees including one other executive are already planning what to do next.
It makes sense. With the stock price low, additional RSUs granted to keep people sticking around won't be nearly as good a retention mechanism.
I've also been hearing separately that due to the IPO fallout, Facebook is currently under a modified hiring freeze, with groups that were previously allotted slots for senior-level positions having had those slots reneged. Lower level deals and hires are still happening from what I'm hearing.
So is this a harbinger of a hiring sea change? Facebook has had a monopoly on the best and brightest engineering talent for the past couple of years and it'll shake the Valley to its core if this is indeed the case.
Well, if the founder life isn't for you future Facebook refugee, we hear Pinterest is hiring.
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Elmwood Newsletter - March 13, 2013
Mike Winter - Using the power of positive thinking to bring on Spring! I think Colleen is in the hot tub.
What an interesting little snow storm we had last weekend. What was predicted for a couple weeks ago finally came to us. Saturday was a beautiful spring day calling for shorts and making people plan their gardens. I know the news warned us what was coming but it didn't seem possible after such a pretty day. Yet it started snowing before we even sprang into spring on Sunday morning and kept going all day.
The snow was heavy and wet and and if you ventured outside it would swirl in your face like an annoying gnat. Even though it was wet and heavy the wind was able to pick it up and swirl it around and make it drift across yards and roads. It was enough to cause Mr. Novak to declare a Snow Day. Many people ventured out to take kids to ball games or were trying to get home from visiting family and got stranded. Better to be stranded than in an accident though. With news of pileups on the interstate and cars in ditches it was a day I was glad that I could stay home!
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"I love snow," says, Leah. This is Dawn and Randy Romine's precious pooch. She's so cute!
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Saturday morning was a fundraiser for the Down Syndrome Association Foundation at the Christian Church. Angie Willey organized the event in honor of her son, Ben. Angie had jewelry, headbands, scarves, stationery, tutus and other craft items for sale. She is also an ABC Books distributor so those were available, too. Angie is a certified instructor for Signing Times and had their dvds, cds, and books for sale. She held a story time with the kids and signed the story as she was readying it. The Cass County Creative Cats 4-H club brought cookies and snacks and they played games with the kids. They were able to raise $210 for DSAF that day.
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While I was shopping Ben helped me pick out a cd. What a cutie. He said it was his favorite so I should have it, too. He's quite the salesman...I bought it.
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Thank you to everyone who came and helped support Ben's Brigade today and the DSAF of Nebraska. A special thank you goes out to the Cass County Creative Cats 4-H club for baking some delicious cookies and bars, for helping to entertain the kids, and for helping to clean up afterwords. We really appreciate it!
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I did a little shopping in Elmwood this weekend. At Gather Boutique I saw this display, though this is not my picture, and really liked the chairs. Jen tells me she painted them with the milk paint that she sells there. She used to hate painting furniture until she found this paint. Now she loves it. I have a few things I want to paint so I'm going to have to get some. This shopping trip I found a cute fan that I'd been looking for. And some jewelry.
I did some stopped in at 4th Street Market and picked up some ice cream for Joe and did more talking than shopping this time. Love looking at the flowers and crafts and Deb's selection of wine. I managed to avoid the cupcakes but they were beautiful! I forgot to check out her supply of Watkins though. Just another reason to go back!
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Board of Review of the Township of Vermillion in Dakota County, will meet at the office of the Township Hall in said township at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, the 26th day of April, 2012 for the purpose of reviewing and correcting the assessment of said taxes for the year 2013. All persons considering themselves aggrieved by said
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PITTSBURGH, Nov. 30 – The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) have been awarded a five-year, $9.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish the Biomedical Technology Research Center (BTRC) that will develop computational tools for modeling and simulating biological systems from the tissue level down to the molecular level.
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"With these tools, our goal is to better understand and appreciate the impact of defective proteins and interactions at the cellular level, and their effects on the central nervous system behavior," said Ivet Bahar, professor and John K. Vries Chair of the Department of Computational and Systems Biology at the Pitt School of Medicine. "We hope to bridge the gaps between molecular-, cellular- and tissue-level information to build integrated models of cell signaling and regulation."
Bahar is the principal investigator for the award, titled "High Performance Computing for Multi-scale Modeling of Biological Systems," from the NIH's National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Robert F. Murphy, director of the Lane Center for Computational Biology in Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science, will lead CMU's participation. The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's long-established National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing (NRBSC), headed by Markus Dittrich, was seminal to and is the third major partner in the new BTRC. The collaboration also includes the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif.
"We have imagined this new center as a Pittsburgh center, joining the two universities, the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon, with PSC strengths in training and biomedical supercomputing," said Murphy, the Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology and professor of biological sciences, biomedical engineering and machine learning. "We now have an opportunity to combine that work with work in the Lane Center on image-derived modeling of cellular organization and machine learning for structural biology to go beyond what we've done before."
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As part of the NIH grant, a supplementary award of $1.1 million provides two years of additional support for the Anton supercomputer, which the NRBSC has made available to U.S. biomedical scientists since 2010. The special-purpose computing system from D.E. Shaw Research has achieved exceptional results in the simulation of proteins and other biomolecules.
Bahar's team will tailor computational models for five biomedical research projects including neurotransmitter signaling, immune cell regulation and neuronal circuit reconstruction that are under way at Pitt, Caltech, Allen Brain Institute (Seattle), and UT Southwestern Medical Center.
"Until now, experimental scientists have been collecting data that are not testable by computational methods, while the computational scientists have been building models and making predictions that can't be verified experimentally," Bahar noted. "We aim to bridge this communication gap, too, so that we can solve relevant problems computationally while generating new hypotheses that can be tested in the lab."
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As one of the nation's leading academic centers for biomedical research, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine integrates advanced technology with basic science across a broad range of disciplines in a continuous quest to harness the power of new knowledge and improve the human condition. Driven mainly by the School of Medicine and its affiliates, Pitt has ranked among the top 10 recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health since 1997.
Likewise, the School of Medicine is equally committed to advancing the quality and strength of its medical and graduate education programs, for which it is recognized as an innovative leader, and to training highly skilled, compassionate clinicians and creative scientists well-equipped to engage in world-class research. The School of Medicine is the academic partner of UPMC, which has collaborated with the University to raise the standard of medical excellence in Pittsburgh and to position health care as a driving force behind the region's economy.
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Carnegie Mellon is a private, internationally ranked research university with programs in areas ranging from science, technology and business, to public policy, the humanities and the arts. More than 11,000 students in the university's seven schools and colleges benefit from a small student-to-faculty ratio and an education characterized by its focus on creating and implementing solutions for real problems, interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation. A global university, Carnegie Mellon's main campus in the United States is in Pittsburgh, Pa. It has campuses in California's Silicon Valley and Qatar, and programs in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and Mexico. The university is in the midst of "Inspire Innovation: The Campaign for Carnegie Mellon University," which aims to build its endowment, support faculty, students and innovative research, and enhance the physical campus with equipment and facility improvements.
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