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Vegetarians in Paradise takes great pride in presenting its 24 Carrot Award to Dr. Hans Diehl, founder and director of CHIP (Coronary Health Improvement Project). Dr. Diehl is an epidemiologist and heart researcher who holds a doctorate in Health Science and a master's degree in Public Health Nutrition. He is founder and director of the Lifestyle Medicine Institute in Loma Linda, California and is a Clinical Professor in the School of Medicine of Loma Linda University.
Professor Diehl has co-authored two books--The Optimal Diet: the Official Cookbook and Health Power: Health by Choice Not Chance, translated into almost 20 languages and an international bestseller with 2 million copies in print.
For more information on CHIP, click here.
As is customary, Vegetarians in Paradise takes this opportunity to interview our award recipient to share his/her accomplishments with our readers. What follows are the questions asked by Vegetarians in Paradise (VIP) and the answers by Hans Diehl (HD).
VIP: What circumstances in your career led you to focus on diet and nutrition as a means for combating disease? And how does that tie in with the vegan diet? What personal experiences led you to vegetarianism? How long have you been vegan?
HD: Freshly minted with my doctorate in the health sciences and a graduate degree in public health nutrition and quite self-confident that I had the answers as a healer and researcher to help people with their health problems, I met Nathan Pritikin, and that changed my life and my career. I saw for the first time what a truly healthy lifestyle--centering around a simple diet of foods-as-grown unapologetically applied--could do in a residential clinical setting, in not only preventing, but more importantly in reversing chronic disease and restoring health; and that often within a few weeks with risk factors becoming measurably affected within days!
While the Pritikin program was not a purely vegetarian program, my conviction about the advantages of an all-plant diet grew as I became more aware of its ecological and economical advantages and the health dangers of dairy products, which resulted in my next step of adopting a health-oriented plant-based diet without any animal products about 15 years ago.
I had already adopted a lacto-ovo vegetarian lifestyle some 45 years ago as an undergraduate at an Adventist university, where I also met my wife. This was further reinforced in my graduate studies with a growing awareness that being a vegetarian was only part of the picture of a healthy lifestyle. Reduction in the consumption of sugar and oil, an increase in the intake of fiber and water, and daily exercise all moved into the picture frame of a healthy lifestyle.
VIP: You are well known for developing CHIP (Coronary Health Improvement Project). What motivated you to develop CHIP?
HD: My ambition as a health professional during graduate school became heightened by the work of Dr. Pekka Puska, the director of the ambitious North Karelia project in Finland. This young epidemiologist transformed a region in Finland known as the "Valley of Beautiful Widows" (due to its very high fatal heart disease rate) into one of the healthiest provinces in Finland. Dr. Puska's scientific publications laid the foundation for my commitment to community-based intervention in combating Western killer diseases.
Before I could embrace this concept, however, I had to become better acquainted with the power of a simple diet of foods-as-grown. This happened at the Pritikin Longevity Center, where--as the director of research and education--I saw, observed and recorded the clinical benefits of such a therapeutic diet. But I had some concerns: it was a program that was more easily accessible to the affluent, and I was concerned about the recidivism once graduates would be in their usual environment without the needed support.
Concerned with how best to bring these concepts to society-at-large, and taking my cues from Dr. Puska's community-based intervention model, I began to better understand that advocated lifestyle changes without thorough education, skill acquisition, and a supportive infrastructure would be doomed to failure. I also learned that it was necessary to find a way to integrate the medical and public health models, and to take advantage of an ecological, social concept where people would learn in a social setting as a group, would feel supported by communal infrastructures and would have an on-going alumni maintenance program.
VIP: CHIP could be described as a community-based lifestyle intervention program. What does this intervention entail?
HD: As a community-based lifestyle intervention program that enrolls groups of self-selected people, CHIP consists of several components that are carefully integrated:
VIP: What principal benefits will people derive by participation in the Coronary Health Improvement Project (CHIP)?
HD: Participants can expect LDL-cholesterol drops of 15 to 20%, which by itself will lower the coronary risk by some 50%. In addition, high blood pressure and glucose levels consistently come down to the extent that medical intervention is often needed to lower or eliminate the prescribed medications within the first four to five weeks.
People eat more, and yet they lose 6 to 8 pounds with ease. At the same time, people learn how to walk about two miles a day with a goal of taking at least 10,000 steps a day as measured by pedometers. Many people coming into the program with clinically assessed depression, leave with significant improvements. Nearly 20 articles published in peer-reviewed medical journals (done as part of a major randomized clinical trial funded with close to $1 million by the State of Illinois) have documented the consistent benefits of a more natural diet consisting largely of foods-as-grown accompanied by an appropriate daily exercise program. These benefits are consistent with the expectation that reversal of heart disease is facilitated over time.
VIP: You have been involved in the formation of the Lifestyle Medicine Institute at Loma Linda University? Could you tell our readers about the functions of the organization and your role in the institute?
HD: Some 25 years ago, I formed the Lifestyle Medicine Institute in Loma Linda, California, to not only prevent chronic disease through a lifestyle-related program, but to also apply these preventive strategies unapologetically in the treatment of these diseases with the goal of reversing them. As the director of the CHIP program designed to educate, motivate, and inspire people to adopt healthier habits, I have seen the program grow where we now have more than 50,000 graduates. Aside from running in North America, the program has expanded to New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom, India, Germany, Dubai, Egypt, and the West Indies. And the clinical results are quite similar. More than 2 million copies of our textbook Health Power have been translated into nearly 20 languages with more than 2 million copies in circulation. And our Optimal Diet Cookbook has also done remarkably well.
To help our alumni anchor their new CHIP lifestyle, we are producing not only a new and updated video series, but we are also providing professionally designed DVDs quarterly. Our weekly 30-minute radio broadcasts heard on some 175 stations are designed to spread the message of hope and good health. As a Clinical (voluntary, part-time) Professor in the School of Medicine of Loma Linda University I am engaged in bringing these lifestyle medicine concepts to the attention of students, medical residents, and colleagues.
VIP: How does CHIP differ from programs developed by Doctors Ornish, Esselstyn, and McDougall? What are the similarities?
HD: The CHIP program distinguishes itself largely through its mode of delivery. It is designed as an affordable program, envisioned as a social movement that engenders cultural transformation at the community level. It does this through intensive education, motivation, and inspiration, and is conducted in a group setting that can range from 20 to 1,500 participants at a time. It was made scalable through a state-of-the-art educational video program (16 one-hour lectures), complemented by certified trainers who have carefully delineated manuals of how to operate the program and how to conduct it virtually "minute-by-minute." This assures standardization and quality control.
All selected data is sent to a national data management center in Portland, Oregon, providing for ongoing research. The CHIP program is not a dietary dogma oriented program. It is not ideologically structured as a vegetarian or vegan program. Instead, compelling epidemiological, biological, ecological, and ethical data is presented lecture after lecture in a lego-house-building fashion that shows not only "why" lifestyle changes need to be made but also "how to" make them. CHIP points out the advantages of a diet lower in cholesterol, fat, sugar, and salt and abundant in fresh fruits and vegetables, unrefined grains and legumes, and a few nuts and seeds.
The educational receptivity and readiness influences to what extent the participants can and will embrace the total lifestyle at its optimal level. CHIP, therefore, is a program of choice not chance.
While my esteemed colleagues have done the hard work of clinical research, our Lifestyle Medicine Institute has focused on the distribution of these findings by delivering them as an educational package in a group setting via certified CHIP trainers working through and in churches, hospitals, and corporations.
VIP: You are the author of books on health. Which would you suggest as the best starting point for someone who wants to know about you and your work and how to improve his/her health through lifestyle modification?
HD: I think our most popular books are the CHIP Combo consisting of the well-illustrated, full-color Health Power and the very practical The Optimal Diet Cookbook. Our extensive web site www.CHIPhealth.com is chock full of up-to-date developments in the area of health and healing, diet and disease reversal, and a treasury of healthful information and resources.
VIP: How have your colleagues responded to your efforts to reverse chronic diseases through diet?
HD: The response from health care professionals in the early days was one of disbelief and often plain rejection. This attitude has somewhat changed. Even so, due to a lack of exposure in medical school and also later in continuing education courses, many physicians have limited awareness of the advances in the lifestyle medicine literature that demonstrate unequivocally that regression of heart disease, disarming of diabetes, and lowering of high blood pressure are no longer simply the wishful thinking of some health enthusiasts. Many physicians I have talked to, both young and old, are feeling dehumanized because they have been pushed into the business of medicine that is run with clear bottom lines, very limited patient-doctor interaction time, and well-laid-out production schedules. This, then, does not make for an environment where patient education can take place.
In recent years, more and more hospitals and physicians are getting excited about a lifestyle approach to addressing patients' health concerns. More specifically, many physicians are thrilled to have the CHIP program in their hospitals and in their communities. It gives them a resource center where they can refer their patients with confidence for intensive educational purposes, as well as for needed support to implement positive changes in their lives. It is an honor to have the opportunity of working together toward providing well-rounded care to patients. And I am certainly most grateful that the CHIP program is being acknowledged as a valuable resource and help to hospitals and physicians and to all the intellectually responsible people who recognize that they themselves hold in their hands some of the most important keys to health recovery and well being.
VIP: If a person resolves to improve his/her health and lose weight at the same time, what initial dietary measures would you recommend?
HD: The best way for adults to become involved in health is in becoming more confident in intelligent self-care within the context of an enlightened care provider, ideally with a public health/preventive and lifestyle medicine exposure. Intelligent self care has to do with getting exposed to some of the outstanding books that are now available, such as those written by Neal Barnard, Brenda Davis, T. Colin Campbell, Dean Ornish, Caldwell Esselstyn, Howard Lyman, Rip Esselstyn, and John McDougall. These authors make a strong case for a simpler diet largely consisting of foods-as-grown coupled with a consistent exercise program.
VIP: Of all of your personal accomplishments, which ones give you the most pride and satisfaction?
HD: My greatest joy resides in the fortunate fact that when my wife Lily was born, "the angels danced for joy." And when I married her, "they threw a party for me." For more than 40 years, she has been the inspiration of my life, a soul mate who bought into my dream and encouraged and nurtured a seedling concept toward maturity.
My greatest pride and satisfaction resides in the fact that I feel blessed to be able to reach out to others and to touch their lives in a clinically measurable fashion and to see them turn from despair to hope as a new reality of health recovery emerges for them. It has given my life an unusual richness that is only matched by my gratitude.
VIP: How do your friends and relatives react to your emphasis on a plant-based diet?
HD: I am fortunate in that my aim has been to intentionally preach my commitment to a healthy plant-based diet to my friends and relatives, not with words but through personal example. I have learned not to be like a "jack hammer" making a lot of noise but to be more like a cotton ball gently reaching out to others and propelled forward by a gentle wind, just being there as a "non-self-proclaiming" example.
VIP: What personal goals have you set for yourself in the coming years?
HD: I want to do my best to stay in good health so that I can leverage some of my experience with and lessons learned from life and career to those interested, including the mentoring of students and institutions. To move towards the fulfillment of that goal, I hope to have a new CHIP DVD series out by next year. And, of course, I look forward to continuing to spend time with my wonderful wife, Lily, and with my now grown-up children and their children who affectionately call me "Opa."
VIP: What leisure activities and hobbies do you enjoy?
HD: My life has been enriched by the fine arts (my wife Lily is a recording artist), lecturing, and extensive travel. I revel in hiking in the Alps and seeing the grandeur of nature and collaborating with like-minded friends and colleagues. But it has also been enriched by a commitment to tackle projects that "naysayers" believe cannot be done and by a devotion to maintain and foster relationships and friendships.
VIP: Can you give our readers the main features of your personal diet and exercise regimen?
HD: My healthy lifestyle program centers around a simple diet of foods-as-grown (fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes) and daily exercise. When in town, I am at the university gym from 7 to 8 a.m., where I work my elliptical for 20 minutes, then walk a mile on the outdoor track, and then work the machines for 20 minutes.
My breakfast is simple. It's typically
My noon meal is typically
For more ideas you might want to take a look at our two-week dietary plan in the back of our Optimal Diet Cookbook used by our CHIP chapters.
VIP: What person or persons have had the most influence on your life?
HD: My parents reared me with God-fearing qualities. They instilled in me an ethic of right and wrong, to share and to be a blessing to others, and to develop my talents. They did not block me when I wanted to emigrate to North America and showed pride in my being able to hold my own in a different culture, with a different language, and with limited resources at my disposal.
My family surrounded me with loving support, provided me with much pardonable pride over their accomplishments, and their generous hearts and gave me more respect than I deserve.
My "colleagues in the trenches" stimulated, encouraged, and helped me in contributing to the emergence of a new lifestyle medicine paradigm.
My wonderful CHIP family of fellow workers, associates, colleagues, and some 50,000 CHIP graduates taught me and confirmed in their lives the validity of the advocated lifestyle medicine concepts.
VIP: We may have omitted areas that are important to you. Please feel free to add anything you would like to share with our readers.
HD: I am deeply grateful for the beauty of life with its struggles and accomplishments and for the many people and friends who brightened my pathway and contributed to my exuberance for living life to its fullest--in being called to be a servant-leader.


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Traffic accidents on Grays Harbor County roads were at a record low last year according to new data from the County.
There were 99 reported accidents on County roads during the past year, with no deaths, compared to 109 accidents and 3 deaths in 2012.
Traffic accidents declined 70% from the high of 343 in 1976.
According to the County, "the reduction in accidents is the result of educational programs that have made people better drivers, DUI laws and more enforcement, improved vehicles and roads."
Injury accidents dropped 85% from the high of 240 in 1976 to only 37 reported locally last year.
Accidents involving drugs and alcohol, speeding, right of way, and crossing the centerline have decreased significantly, where accidents due to inattention, weather, and defective equipment have not significantly changed in the past 20 years.
According to the county, although the Target Zero goal of zero traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2030 may seem unreachable, the Grays Harbor County Sheriff's Department is committed to reducing accidents and saving lives through education, awareness, and enforcement programs.


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Talk:Disease vector
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A vector is the medium in which genetic material is carried. A chromosome is also considered a vector.--TimS 10:30, 5 June 2007 (EDT)
As I become more comfortable with LaTeX, i'll be adding many more formuals and pictures. Right now, the article probably doesn't read well because math necessitates a lot of equations. I intend to fix thsi up and also cover many more topics in vectors, extending to calculus of vector-valued functions, assuming I'm not tossed off the wiki for standing up for the truth. Stryker 13:36, 28 June 2007 (EDT)
- Needs disambiguation - or splitting into separate articles. I suggest a bio/math split. Have the two kinds of biological vectors in one article; the math and physics vectors in another. --Ed Poor Talk 12:58, 3 July 2007 (EDT)
- Why in the world would you totally blank my contributions as opposed to clean them up? That's ridiculously counter-productive. It's a much better use of resources to clean things up as opposed to erase them entirely, even if we do switch to a disambiguation. Stryker 00:53, 4 July 2007 (EDT)
- I replaced your contribution with mine, because I thought mine would be easier for our readers to understand. That is a clean-up.


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Monday, 21 May 2012
100 Word Challenge - Just Disappear
David barely registered her. His eyes were caught by the bait of the financial news.
The coffee had bitter overtones and was barely warmer than the life left in his blood.
It mattered no more.
He closed the laptop. The finality of this action brought sweet relief.
Unrelated memories surfaced. Mainly women.
"Just disappear" she'd said.
David smiled at the irony.
He'd noticed her flat mate. Their eyes once met in silent recognition. The flame flickered before Charlotte, oblivious, had wrenched him out the door.
David shook his head.
Time to leave.
I'm linking up with JB47's 100 Word Challenge. This week's prompt was ... the flame flickered before ...
28 comments:
The plot thickens! Compelling reading. I'm looking forward to finding out what happens.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you. So am I .... I'm not quite sure where I'm going. The prompts seem to lead the way.Delete
I admire the line 'the bait of the financial news'. You've made me want a latte now!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you! Oh, could you get one for me too. I fancy a milky coffee.Delete
Looking forward to seeing where this is going.ReplyDelete
There's a lot of mystery here - things that catch his attention then flit past, the irony of "Just disappear." This definitely feels like the beginning of a longer story.ReplyDelete
(In the fourth sentence, I wonder if you meant to put the word 'was' between 'and' and 'barely'.)Replies
Thank you. This is actually the continuation of a story and I plan to carry on until it reaches its inevitable conclusion. Cheers for spotting the typo!Delete
- Anonymous22 May 2012 at 23:54
I love your word choices and the imagery, the disconnection from the waitress, the intrigue of what Charlotte wanted...nicely done!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you .... yes, what was Charlotte's intent?Delete
- Anonymous23 May 2012 at 00:58
I love this! Makes me want to read more.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you very much! More to come .....Delete
Love the imagery used here and looking forward to reading more. xReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you .... yes, lets see where the prompts lead the story. I have a thin outline but it could all change.Delete
Wow! You are so good at this!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous25 May 2012 at 07:10
He's a very believable character! Very well written :-)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you! I am enjoying how these characters are coming to life.Delete
Ah, a twist in the tale. How is it writing this only 100 words at a time? Do you sometimes want to continue on?ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm really enjoying it .... its challenging, and yes I do - that's why I keep continuing the story every week.Delete
We know from the past that he committed suicide. We also know Carlotte thinks it's because she told him she's not interested. We also know, however, that it's due to financial issues (work/personal). Silent recognition of C's flatmate - aha - a new direction. But how can this matter, I wonder, since he is already dead and we know why. Great stuff. Good writing. Enjoying playing Poirot.ReplyDeleteReplies
Brilliant - I'm so glad that you do .... there is going to be an angle here - havent quite worked it out yet - the prompts always help. Thank youDelete
Ooo I love this! So atmospheric and a great interpretation of the prompt. I haven't been able to get round to the 100 w.c. for a couple of weeks but I MUST get back to it!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you! I don't think I'll be joining in this weeks though ... I don't do poetry ... I'm not very good at it!Delete
Great story, looking forward to seeing where it goes next! Polly xReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you! Yes, me too although its going to be a bit tricky if the prompt is poetry.Delete
- Anonymous16 June 2012 at 18:49
very interesting!! love the line "The coffee had bitter overtones and was barely warmer than the life left in his blood" shivered i did!!ReplyDelete
Thank you ... glad you liked the line. :o).Delete


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Sept. 16
Sherri Insco vs. S&M Foods, Inc. d/b/a Milton Foodland; and Jordan's Crossing Limited Liability Company
PA- Norman T. Daniels Jr., Nicholas R. Stuchell; J- David M. Pancake
* On Feb. 15, 2010, Insco arrived at the Foodland to purchase groceries. She claims upon entering the premises, she tripped over a heavy, rubber floor mat placed in the entry way and was injured. Insco is seeking compensatory damages with pre- and post-judgment interest.
Case number: 11-C-695
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Industrial Rehab
When workers are injured, both the individual and the employer are affected. At Greenleaf Physical Therapy and Industrial Rehabilitation, we understand the needs of the patient to recover quickly and completely and the needs of the employer to have the worker return to work quickly and safely. In addition, we recognize the important role of the nurse case manager in monitoring treatment and ensuring that the worker, physician and employer are communicating. Our on-site, free Wi-Fi service and pleasant, quiet conference rooms provide nurse case managers with an opportunity to take care of other work while waiting for patient appointments.
Our industrial rehabilitation services include work hardening through which our therapists work with patients to simulate job-specific requirements. Therapy exercises are initiated to help strengthen and improve the patient's ability to perform required work activities. This can include:
- Work therapy – exercises specifically designed to simulate tasks required on-the-job
- Work hardening – an exercise regimen designed to simulate a typical day on-the-job. Gradual progression in duration and intensity of activities helps the patient identify areas of weakness and the therapist to better tailor therapy goals.
- Return to work job coaching – the physical therapist works with the patient to identify ways of completing their duties at work that will compensate for any residual weakness or deficiency and that decrease the chance of re-injury.
- Ergonomic analysis – the workplace ergonomics are analyzed by our physical therapy to help the patient identify modifications that can be made to protect them from future injury.
Functional Capacity Evaluation
Sometimes a functional capacity evaluation is needed to determine an individual patient's ability to return to work. This will help the physician and employer understand where the individual worker stands in his ability to return to duties performed previous to the injury. A functional capability disability evaluation is utilized for those patients whose injuries and subsequent recovery make it impossible to return to the job previously performed.
Greenleaf Orthopaedics and Greenleaf Physical Therapy and Industrial Rehabilitation understand the barriers in returning an injured worker to the workplace. We are dedicated to maximizing an individual's function for return to a healthy and productive lifestyle. We provide the transition from care in the clinic to on-site services in the workplace to facilitate a successful return to work.
Workers benefit from improved quality of life and ability to return to gainful employment while employers benefit from minimized lost work time and return of a healthy and productive employee.


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Live chat support tool confused me – is it live chat or is it a support tool for some other live chat tool I would use?
You ask for signup too early. Instead of inviting people to sign up, make them read more about it or watch a video. Would need way more info before commitment.
A comparison page would be helpful – how does it line up with Olark or Oggchat?
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Nice design, but I don't like the font in the top nav (which is also used elsewhere). I find it distracting. I have used these tools before, I found it fairly useful as a site owner, but fairly annoying as a site user. I don't mind an image or a link somewhere on the site to initiate a chat, but when things overlay on top of the site in front of my face, that's another matter.
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In this post, Adrian Warnock argues for his view that prophecy in the New Testament is far from infallible. Adrian's words are:
I believe the NT is clear that prophecy is far from infallible.
To respond to that we have to ask exactly what a prophecy is. Is it a word from God or isn't it. I have been re-reading Richard Gaffin's book, Perspectives on Pentecost, as a result of this debate and Gaffin offers the following definition of prophecy:
It is a revelatory gift; that is it brings to the church the words of God in the primary and original sense. Prophecy is not, at least primarily or as one of its necessary marks, the interpretation of an already existing inspired text or oral tradition but is itself the inspired, nonderivative word of God.
Now if I may have a moment of your time to explain how Gaffin writes, he is being unusually precise in this particular definition. Previously in the book he said that all Christians are prophets by definition because we are recipients of and speakers of the Word of God. Similarly, we are all charismatics because we have all received the charisma.
For the purposes of this discussion I'll point out Gaffin's emphasis on the fact that a prophecy is an original, primary, inspired, non-derivative Word of God.
In contrast Wayne Grudem's definition of prophecy is that it is a human report of something that God has brought spontaneously to mind. This is not inspired in the same way that Scripture is, and is not inerrant. This is what Adrian is getting at.
In his Systematic Theology on page 1057 Wayne Grudem has a graphic where there is an arrow marked revelation coming into the back of the head of a man and another arrow coming out of his mouth marked "prophecy" and defined as "report of the revelation." Thus, I suppose the process of going through the mind of the speaker in a sense dilutes the revelation and renders it fallible, though still prophetic.
There is a real sense in which Grudem's graphic is a picture of every man, not just the prophet. We are all recipients of revelation at all times. God is constantly revealing Himself to us through general and special revelation.
Theologians have traditionally distinguished between two kinds of revelation, or "words" from God. There is general revelation which is the general knowledge of God given generally to all men and made known in His work of creation. As to special revelation I'll refer to Louis Berkhof who uses the term "supernatural" to describe what others mean by "special."
It is supernatural when it is communicated to man in a higher, supernatural manner, as when God speaks to him, either directly, or through supernaturally endowed messengers.
Berkhof's definition is broad enough to encompass several different forms of special revelation, be they walking with Adam in the garden, theophanies, prophetic speech, a voice from heaven, the Bible, or the physical presence of Jesus.
All men at all times are receiving one or both kinds of revelation. All men receive general revelation and many receive special revelation through the Word of God. There is even a since in which unbelievers are recipients of special revelation as they receive the knowledge of salvation through the preaching of the Word of God. But, because they do not believe, it does them no good.
This debate about prophecy deals with Christians and their relationship to special revelation. The cessationist believes that God is no longer giving special revelation. The continuationist believes that God is still giving at least one, maybe some types of special revelation.
The charismatic believes that God has stopped giving inscriptured special revelation, but is still giving impressional special revelation. I don't know if they believe that God is still giving visions, theophanies or voices from heaven, but I doubt they do. Usually, these prophecies are "impressions on the mind," and are fallible.
The cessationist has a one-story kind of special revelation which is the primary, original, nonderivative Word of God, as Gaffin says. The charismatic has two-stories in his special revelation house - an upper story that would conform to Gaffin's description and a lower story of impressions on the mind that fallible.
It is the whole notion of fallible revelation that gives occasion for this debate. It is patently obvious to Adrian and others that God reveals himself in a fallible manner, and this is based on two assumptions. This is seen in the post I mentioned earlier by Adrian when he says:
Look, at the end of the day the cessationist has to explain why 1 Thess 5:19 is in the bible if prophecy in the NT times was always authoritive, or indeed how the Corinthian church could be in such a mess but still using the gifts, or indeed why Paul chose to ignore the advice given him not to go to Jerusalem? (italics mine).
Like Grudem, Adrian and others give two lines of evidence for fallible prophecy.
- Examples of inaccurate prophecies in Acts 21
- The existence of testable prophecies in I Thessalonians 5:19 and I Cor. 14:29
In speaking to the first line of evidence, that there are inaccurate
prophecies in Acts 21 I would point out that many of us look to the OT
prophet as a paradigm for
understanding the NT prophet. The OT prophet was one who assuredly
spoke the Word of God, with no fear of fallibility. Thus the prophetic
formula, "thus sayeth the Lord." The word of God that the Old
Testament prophet spoke was infallible. If an OT person claimed to be
a prophet and uttered a prophecy that was found to be fallible he was
worthy of death. Grudem introduces a new
class of prophet - one who speaks for the Lord without being able to
say "thus sayeth the Lord." And we have a NT gift of prophecy which
is of a lesser quality than the OT gift of prophecy, it is a fallible
In Grudem's view neiter the NT gift of prophecy nor the office of prophet have to meet the stringent requirements of the OT gift and office of prophet. On the surface of things it seems that in the New Testament era, an age of expansion of all the blessings of the kingdom we have a shrinkage in the quality and accuracy of the prophetic gift.
It does strike me as odd the way Grudem's view relates to the difference between the blessings of the old covenant and the new. Most traditional theologians see the old as the shadow and the new as the substance. In regards to the gift of prophecy, in Grudem's view it appears that the shadow-prophecy of the Old Testament is more substantive than the prophecy of the New. Certainly Grudem posits that the gift of prophecy is given to more believers in our day but it is a lower quality kind of prophecy.
To introduce this new fallible prophet Grudem first appeals to the
fallible prophecies of Acts 21. Acts 21:4 tells of an incident
involving the apostle Paul at Tyre:
4 Finding the disciples there, we stayed with them seven days. Through the Spirit they urged Paul not to go on to Jerusalem.
The fact that Paul disobeyed this warning is supposed to be an evidence of fallible prophecy. This is what Adrian was referring to when he said cessationists have to explain why Paul ignored the advice given to him.
Adrian, and Grudem neglect to point out is that these words were not
identified as prophetic speech in the context, and the disciples at
Tyre who spoke them were not identified as prophets. The assumption is
that the words "through the Spirit," signifies that these were
prophetic words. I suggest it is very possible that the Spirit was
motivating these believers to speak words of love and concern for
Paul's safety rather than this being prophetic speech.
This takes on greater weight by moving a few verses down. After Paul and his companions left Tyre they came to Ptolemais where they stayed wiht Phillip who had four unmarried daughters who prophesied (Acts 21:9). While there they met Agabus, of whom we hear in Acts 21:10-11:
10 After we had been there a number of days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. 11 Coming over to us, he took Paul's belt, tied his own hands and feet with it and said, "The Holy Spirit says, 'In this way the Jews of Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and will hand him over to the Gentiles.'"
In reference to Acts 21:4 I simply want to note that here in verses 9-11 we have particular people who are identified as prophets and in verse 4 the people were simply identified as disciples. The concerns they expressed in Acts 21:4 were not identified by Luke as prophetic speech, but in verse 10 the notation that Agabus was a prophet clearly marks his speech in verse 11 as prophetic speech.
Also, I think there is some significance to the fact that in verse 4 whatever speech is uttered is the speech of human beings ("they urged Paul"), whereas in verse 11 the speaker is identified as the Holy Spirit. In other words, there is nothing in the text that identifies verse 4 as prophetic speech, thus this is one fallible example of fallible NT prophecy.
It is this very prophecy of Agabus that is the second example of fallible NT prophecy in Grudem's view. Again, the prophecy was:
"The Holy Spirit says, 'In this way the Jews of Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and will hand him over to the Gentiles.'"
Some believe this prophecy was fulfilled based on Acts 28:17:
But Grudem finds that:
"The prediction was not far off, but it had inaccuracies in detail that would have called into question the validity of any Old Testament prophet." (Systematic Theology, p. 1052)
Now please understand that Grudem is not arguing that these inaccuracies render this a false prophecy, they just make it fallible. Thus:
On the other hand, this text could be perfectly well explained by supposing that Paul had a vision of Paul as a prisoner of the Romans in Jerusalem, surrounded by an angry mob of Jews. His own interpretation of such a "vision" or "revelation" from the Holy Spirit would be that the Jews had bound Paul and and handed him over to the Romans, and is what Agabus would (somewhat erroneously) prophesy. This is exactly the kind of fallible prophecy that would fit the definition of New Testament congregational prophecy proposed above - reporting in one's own words something that God has brought spontaneously to mind.
Grudem uses words like "erroneous" and "fallible" to describe this prophecy and his basis is that it had "inaccuracies in detail."
To prove that this is a fallible prophecy based on inaccuracies in detail is the same kind of proof that skeptics offer to prove the fallibility of the Scriptures themselves. It was to address this notion that "inaccuracy in detail" proves "fallibility" that the framers of the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy wrote the following denial in Article 8:
We deny that it is proper to evaluate Scripture according to standards of truth and error that are alien to its usage or purpose. We further deny that inerrancy is negated by Biblical phenomena such as a lack of modern technical precision, irregularities of grammar or spelling, observational descriptions of nature, the reporting of falsehoods, the use of hyperbole and round numbers, the topical arrangement of material, variant selections of material in parallel accounts, or the use of free citations.
I contend that just as it is wrong to evaluate Scripture according to standards of truth and error tha are alien to its usage and purpose it is also wrong to evaluate prophecy this way. If the inerrancy of Scripture is not negated by a lack of modern technical precision, why would the infallibility of a prophecy be negated for a similar reason?
In Grudem's view the innacurracy in detail comes because the fulfillment of the prophecy did not line up exactly and precisely with the original statement of the prophecy. Because the fulfillment did not match the prediction exactly it is therefore fallible. Under such standards I wonder if the following prophecy of Jonah could be considered infallible.
4 On the first day, Jonah started into the city. He proclaimed: "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned."
Looking at the outcome of the prophesy, someone might want to say it was a little more than "not far off," and that it had a few inaccuracies in details since the city of Ninevah was not overturned in 40 days.
I would love to get into the details of the Jonah prophecy and how it bears on our discussion but this post is way too long as it is. May I suggest Richard Pratt's paper "Historical Contingencies and Biblical Predictions" for a detailed and highly nuanced explanation that does justice to the infallibility of Jonah's prophecy while dealing adequately with the issues raised by its outcome.
For now I will simply say that it is not the case that the Agabus prophecy "had inaccuracies in detail that would have called into question the validity of any Old Testament prophet." Rather it is the case that Grudem has erected a standard of technical precision which, if it renders the Agabus prophecy fallible, it would do the same for much of the other prophecy in the Bible.
So Grudem and Adrian fail to sustain their assertion that the prophecies of Acts 21 are fallible.
As to their second line of evidence, that the fact that these were to be tested proves their potential fallibility I will quote the main Scriptures they offer.
I Thessalonians 5:19 says:
20 do not treat prophecies with contempt. 21 Test everything. Hold on to the good.
And I Corinthians 14:29-32:
29 Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said. 30 And if a revelation comes to someone who is sitting down, the first speaker should stop. 31 For you can all prophesy in turn so that everyone may be instructed and encouraged. 32 The spirits of prophets are subject to the control of prophets.
Adrian could also have been referring to I Corinthians 14:29-32 when he said:
Look, at the end of the day the cessationist has to explain why 1 Thess 5:19 is in the bible if prophecy in the NT times was always authoritive
Adrian is assuming that I Thess. 5:19 speaks of non-authoritative prophecies, but that is no where in the text. It only says that we are to not despise prophecies. Does this mean we are not to despise false prophecies? And it says that we are to test everything and only hold on to the good. I suppose Adrian means that some prophecies will fail the test of goodness. Though they have failed the test and are apparently not good they are apparently supposed to be accepted as genuine (though fallible) prophecies.
Similarly in I Corinthians 14 it says that prophets are to weigh the words of other prophets. It does not say what they are to do if these prophecies are found wanting. There is no mention here that, after being weighed, there are some prophecies that are still genuine though fallible.
It seems that, in Grudem's and Adrian's view, there are three kinds of prophecies - infallible (Scripture), fallible and false. I am sure that Grudem and Adrian would reject a false prophecy, but the merely fallible ones they would accept.
i have tried to show that the notion of fallibility cannot be proven from the Scriptures they offer in Acts 21. And as regards these prophecies in I Thess. 5 and I Cor. 14 neither passage tells us by what standard the prophecies are to be evaluated and what to do if they are not found to pass muster.
It seems that Paul assumed the Thessalonians knew how to evaluate these prophecies and what to do about false prophecies, so he didn't need to spell it out. Hence, the silence on those matters in those passages. But we are not without help in this matter. The Old Testament distinguishes between true and false prophecies and true and false prophets. It doesn't offer this three way thing with true, false and fallible. If it is fallible it is false and is to be rejected. I suggest we fill in the blanks that are left by I Thess. 5 and I Corinthians 14 with this data from the Old Testament instead of creating a new system.
The fallibility option leaves open the possibility for a gift of prophecy where sometimes they get it right and sometimes they don't. This isn't the biblical model. Prophets are either true or false, if they utter a false prophecy they are to be treated as a false prophet.
So, getting back to the statement that started this, I would answer my good buddy Adrian by saying the New Testament gives no warrant for thinking that prophecy is anything other than the primary, original, nonderivative Word of God, which of necessity is infallible.
As I bring this to a close I will again thank the reader for their patience in reading this horribly long post. And I will point out that, like Phil Johnson, I still haven't addressed the issue of cessationism. Adrian seems to know Phil better than Phil knows himself (maybe that's Adrian's gift of prophecy kicking in here) because he insists that, protestations to the contrary, Phil is talking cessationism.
Actually, what Phil and I are both talking about is the biblical definition of prophecy. We accept the traditional view of prophecy, that it is special revelation from God. I haven't and I am sure that Phil hasn't, seen an argument to dissuade us from this view and persuade us in favor of the nouveau "fallible prophecy" view.
And this is more than semantic games. Grudem and Adrian and others seem to want to protect the validity of their "spontaneous impressions" that they credit to the Holy Spirit. Although I put very little stock in such things I have said before that it is possible that, in His providence, God may use impressions to guide his people. Adrian and others have said that it is apparent that we are in agreement and are just using different terminology. In other words, I say providence, they say prophecy, it's semantic.
But semantics are vitally important here. In the Bible when someone uttered a prophecy they began or ended the prophetic saying with a "thus sayeth the Lord," or "the Holy spirit says" as in the case of Agabus. The Biblical prophet was doing so much more than offering his own interpretations of spontaneous impressions, he was speaking the very words of God.
When we call something "prophecy" that is really my own interpretation of some spontaneous impression we are giving a greater weight to that impression/interpretation than it can carry. The same applies when we use phrases like "God told me." Calling my own spontaneous (and subjective by the way) impressions prophecy escalates them in certainty and authority. There is a world of difference in the statements "I think God may be leading me," and "God told me." There is a world of difference in saying "I have an impression that I ought to do so and so," and "I have received a word of prophecy." In both of those examples, the first statement identifies me as the speaker and the latter identifies God is the speaker. If I use the first kinds of statements there is no authority to them, they are not binding, it is up to me whether or not I act upon them, and there is no harm no foul if it turns out my impression was wrong (unless I act on it unwisely). If I use the second kind of statement there is a binding authority to them which I must act upon.
And so I won't begrudge my charismatic friends their spontaneous impressions. I have met people who tell me of spontaneous impressions they have received and acted upon to great benefit, and I praise God for that. I have met others who regularly have spontaneous impressions that are completely off base and sometimes ludicrous, yet they believe them with all their heart because they are sure they are words from God, words of prophecy. But when you have your spontaneous impression, please just call it a spontaneous impression, not a word from God or a prophecy.


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December 17, 2013 08:11 ET
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The study has been reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the International Cellular Medicine Society (ICMS). The ICMS IRB is committed to providing peer review of proposed studies of cell-based medical therapies based upon appropriate clinical translation, patient care and safety.
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The battle begins. The DROID RAZR is one of the few devices that will be going head-to-head against the most anticipated device of the year – The Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Needless to say that this device is also one of the most exciting ones we have seen lately. Its specs and form-factor (mainly its thinness) are nothing to scoff at.
This device will be available for pre-order tomorrow, Oct. 27, at 8 am EDT, and it goes for $299.99 after signing a 2-year contract. Simply head to Verizon's DROID DOES site to hand over that cash, and you should be good to go. If you do happen to make your pre-order, you have get ready to start biting your nails, though. This 7.1 mm LTE handset will not be heading out to your doorstep until November 10, which seems to be the biggest release date lately (Galaxy Nexus and HTC Rezound are rumored to be released that day).
The DROID RAZR's specs include a dual-core 1.2 GHz processor OMAP4430, a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Advanced display, 4G LTE, an 8 MP rear-facing camera, and a 1.3 MP front-facing camera. The device will also come packed with Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread, but since it is Motorola's current latest and greatest, we expect it to be getting Ice Cream Sandwich at some point (hopefully soon).
We will see how the manufacturers handle their fight at the Verizon arena. The Motorola DROID RAZR, HTC Rezound and Samsung Galaxy Nexus will all be competing for your money next month. Which one are you going for? Will you be pre-ordering the RAZR tomorrow?


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WELLS - With Andrew Veldman in foul trouble, Chet Prouty came off the bench to rebound well in the paint and knock down free throws late in the game to seal Johnsburg's win over Wells, Jan 4.
The sophomore finished with eight points and went 4 for 8 from the line. Taylor Ordway's 19 points, including two three-pointers led the Jaguars and Ben Richards chipped in with 18 points. Kevin Conner added 14 points to the victory.
Jake Earley and Josh Fish each scored 15 for Wells.
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INDIAN LAKE - Matt Rusch and Hank Evatt held the Mountaineers' post players, Austin Williams and John Evans, to just three points each and lead the Orange to a MVAC victory, Jan 4.
Williams and Evans had been averaging a combined 28 points per game.
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LONG LAKE - Old Forge rallied late in the game to tie Indian Lake-Long Lake at 34, but a jump-shot from Stephen Pitcher's put the Orange back in the lead and lead them to a narrow victory, Jan. 8.
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Jealousy | Bad Habits, part 6
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Our next guest needs, I think, no introduction. We've all experienced jealousy, and most of us have been told since childhood that it's not the healthiest mental habit to indulge in. Creative jealousy is a special breed and in my experience it's poison to the kind of creativity this book is about, Fearless Creativity.
In his extraordinary book 'Effortless Mastery', jazz pianist Kenny Werner describes a moment of transformative clarity encapsulated in 4 simple words. He was listening, with a fellow pianist and friend, to an extraordinary performance by a classical virtuoso, and was in a kind of agony as he realized he would never play like that. He looked at his friend, who was transported by the beauty and perfection of the performance, and the friend looked back at him and said: "Be Friendly to yourself!"
Werner describes this as the moment when everything changed for him, but he never really defines exactly what this 'friendliness' means and why it's so essential and powerful. I guess everyone needs to find out for themselves in the end… but I've thought about it quite a bit, and come up with three essential aspects of 'friendliness':
a) unconditional support and encouragement
b) honest criticism when needed, and
c) sincere praise when deserved.
These are things that I think we should extend to those closest from us, and that we should be able to expect in return from them. I think that 'being friendly to ourselves' means extending them to, and expecting them from, ourselves as well. Let's take a closer look at each one, in the context of creativity:
a) unconditional support and encouragement… I think this is relatively easy. We want to be creative, even if it's difficult sometimes. We don't tend to beat ourselves up too badly for the basic impulse. But it's a good idea to make it explicit anyway: you need to be unconditionally supportive and encouraging towards yourself in your creative endeavours, the same way you would with your closest friends. No matter what.
b) honest criticism when needed… We touched on this in the last chapter in the context of overconfidence. It's completely destructive to believe that everything we do is brilliant, or that we ourselves are so talented that everything is fine and we don't need to really work hard or apply ourselves to create masterpiece after masterpiece. Not many people really suffer from this, in my experience – there are more people sabotaging themselves with insecurities than with genuine overconfidence. However, again, let's make it plain: you need to be able to take honest stock of where you're at and what you need to work on. It doesn't get us anywhere to pretend our weak points aren't there.
c) sincere praise when deserved… I think this is the hardest one of all, but in some ways the most crucial. It's also important to look at the more subtle layers of it; this isn't just about patting yourself, or your friends for that matter, on the back. It's about being able to recognize and acknowledge, in a genuine way, when we've done something really good, or beautiful, or fascinating. In the same way that it isn't helpful to deny our weaknesses, it doesn't get us anywhere to deny our moments of clarity and luminosity. I've known a number of highly creative people over the years who seem unable to let themselves accept that they did something well, and this seems to sabotage their ability to enjoy the whole process… this has always struck me as tragic.
Apples and Oranges
As subtly powerful as this Friendliness idea is, I'm aware that it's not a magic pill that will instantly free us from deeply ingrained habits. And the habit of comparing ourselves to others, always judging our own worth and talents in comparison to the perceived worth and talents of others, is one of the most deeply ingrained habits there is.
This is true for most people on some level, I think – at least, that's the conclusion that a lifetime of observation has led me to. However, in the context of creativity it's especially poisonous, because our sense of self is often tightly bound up with what we do, what we create, what we feel we're capable of.
It's very easy to misjudge our own talents and those of others; we tend to downplay our own abilities, and overestimate those of others. Their work seems so effortless, so fully-formed and, most of all, so beyond us and our meager talents.
We forget the work that lies behind the work we see, and we forget to value what we can do that they can't, the products of our own hard work and unique experience. In short, we lose sight of our own creative identity, our own amazing possibility, when we indulge in this kind of creative jealousy.
The Fame Game
It's the same when it comes to judging success – we are unable to focus on our own success because we are distracted by that of others, and jealous of it – and by the feelings of unworthiness that come with that. We are especially jealous of people who are 'famous', whose work has led in one way or another to mass recognition, which our culture continually tells us is the ultimate measure of worth and talent.
Personally, I think that the cult of fame is an unmitigated disaster – generally, and more specifically with regards to creative work. I think we lost something very important when we made fame the goal of creative endeavour, and not only because not everyone can be famous.
There's a passage in Kurt Vonnegut's Bluebeard where he talks about how the scale of recognition has changed in the last few hundred years. To paraphrase rather liberally (I haven't read it in many years)… there was a time, not so long ago, when the village bard was likely the 'best' musician anyone in that village had ever heard. Everyone played a little music, but he or she was the specialist. Hardly anyone had ever travelled further than the next village, so opportunities to hear 'world-class' musicians were notably thin on the ground. So much so, in fact, that the very concept would have been alien and meaningless.
Now, however, if I happen to be the one on your block that specializes in music (assuming there aren't eight or ten others), I'm up against the whole world. I have to compete for attention, appreciation and recognition with everyone who's ever played a concert, released a CD or made a music video. Why would anyone pay attention to little old me? Our whole sense of what is good, what is talent, and above all what is successful has changed. Now it's perspective that's thin on the ground.[I managed to track down the original passage, for those interested…]
Chasing shadows
So it's not surprising that we respond with jealousy towards the famous. But in reality fame is mostly an illusion, and setting it – even unconsciously – as a goal is for most people antithetical to cultivating a genuine creative life. In fact, even if we could magically switch fame on, most of us would probably hate it and in fact we would likely self-destruct if we suddenly found ourselves in the limelight. Personally, I like a bit of privacy…
Why do we think we want fame? Why are we jealous of it? I suppose we think it would make everything easier… but I suspect that this is largely untrue. Sure, it would allow us to buy more things, live in bigger houses, stay in more exclusive hotels… but simpler? I'm not convinced. In fact, I'm pretty confident that it makes most things a lot more complicated. Do we really want to be those people we're jealous of, so that someone else will be jealous of us? Does that really improve our lives in any meaningful way?
Moreover, fame requires intense focus and relentless hard work to maintain, as well as tremendous personal sacrifice and risk. Doubtless it would make paying the bills a bit easier, although there would also likely be a lot more bills to pay; but I'm really not at all sure it would make creating anything of value any easier at all, and quite possibly it would make it harder. Some people seem to handle this better than others…
I believe that it really is better to focus on hard work and creativity on our own terms, and define success as when those things are working, making us happy, and, for those who choose to make a living from their creative work, providing a reasonably comfortable and sustainable one. Jealousy about others' fame kills that. Leave it behind.
Of course we cannot ever leave it entirely behind. These habits are very human and the best we can do is keep a close watch for them and try not to let them dominate us unconsciously.
I have a little mental game I play, which like all the others in this book is not intended as a 'magic bullet' but as something to think about. It's this: when jealous thoughts inevitably do come up, I try to replace or at least match every jealous thought with one of gratitude. I think about something I do have that I should be more grateful for, take less for granted, and focus on that instead.
It's not magic, but it helps.
What's your take? Does this make sense to you? Have you had creative experiences that confirm or contradict these musings? Please leave a comment in the Discussion section below, and start or join the conversation!
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Staying cool in the summer
As we get closer to summer time with Summer Solstice officially on June 21, we get more sun and spend more time outside. It's important to prepare ourselves and especially our pets for the summertime heat. Here are some tips to keep in mind for those hot days with your pet.
- Dogs can only cool down by panting and sweating on their paw pads. To help cool an overheated animal, provide cool drinking water, apply ice packs to the head and neck, or give the dog a lukewarm (not cold) water bath.
- Never leave your pet in a parked car. Even if the windows have been left open, temperatures can reach over 100 degrees Fahrenheit in a matter of minutes. Learn more at mydogiscool.com
- Salivation, excessive panting and vomiting can be a sign of heatstroke which can cause brain damage and even death. Remember that your furry friend doesn't get to take off his coat when he gets too hot!
- Make sure to provide your pet with lots of cold, fresh water when headed outside with your pet or leaving him out on a hot day. Make sure he has a nice shady spot or bring your pet inside when temperatures are high.
- Try to keep walks and playtimes to early mornings and evenings and not during the heat of the day. High temperatures can heat up your dog's body very quickly and hot asphalt can burn paw pads.
- If your pet is accompanying you to the beach, make sure he has plenty of fresh water and shade. Water play is fun, but give your dog a good, clean rinse after swimming in salty water.
- Don't use sunscreen or bug repellents on your pet that aren't labeled for animal use. Ingesting these products can cause harmful side effects to your pet such as diarrhea, drooling, and lethargy.
- Watch out for fleas and ticks! A good flea and tick control medication is especially important during the summer. They don't just bug our dogs, these parasites can also be dangerous to humans.


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i'm happy to announce that some dates in europe got confirmed for the quartet tour (w/ anna webber-ts, adam o'farrill-tp, nick dunston - b). more details soon!
there's a nice video of the quartet online,look at the music page!
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For this Transformation Tuesday, we're showing you how to get that flirty, retro look from one of our new pieces in the 2014 Lady Lace Cruise Collection, A Street Car Named Desire, and transform it into a simple night out ensemble!
We chose to keep the color combo classic and simple like our Beach Bunny suit, but made sure to add a pop of pink with some bright lips! Also, we kept the silhouette sexy with a form-fitting skirt & cropped tank. Of course, we couldn't forget to add some height with a sky-high pump.
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