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There are a few things that I learned there that I think are very universal for all families. The main thing is something that Dr. Purvis calls "getting in yeses."
A newborn who is born into a family who wants him and takes loving care of him child hears an average of several thousand "yeses" before they get to toddlerhood. Baby is hungry and cries and mom comes to him and by feeding him, is essentially saying, "Yes! I hear you! I know you are hungry and I will take care of that need!" A baby that is tired cries and by mom rocking him to sleep while singing songs, she essentially says, "Yes! I hear you crying! I want to love on you and put you to sleep!" A baby who is lonely cries and by mom coming to him and playing with him and giving him attention and eye contact, she essentially says, "Yes! You are so precious and adored! I want to spend time with you and show you how valuable you are!"
Babies are hardwired to need adults every two hours (when they get hungry). If that need is met, that baby's sense of self and his place in the family and in the world is established. After a couple of years of having constant needs and having those needs met , that child has had two years of continuous reassurance that he is loved and valued and safe. So when that same darling little baby, at two years of age, tries to stick something in the outlet and mom shouts out "NO!" he might be angry, but he still knows that mom is safe and that he is still loved even though he's been told no. His sense of self and his place in the family is not shattered because he has years of positive responses "in reserve".
Now- take the child who has lived in an orphanage or on the street. He has not heard "Yes." He has never been made to feel valuable by knowing that someone cares enough to meet his needs. After only 30 days of not having his needs met, a newborn baby will stop crying when he is hungry. Thirty days is all it takes for a baby to determine that he can not rely on someone to meet his needs.
When we bring these children into our homes, we have to be understanding of how profound this sense of self reliance can be. We have to be patient when helping them assimilate into our families. Creating a culture where a child feels safe enough to be reliant on another takes time, creativity and the patience of a saint. Dr. Purvis says that one of best ways to do this is to make a concerted effort to get as many yeses in every day as you can. We have (sometimes) years of making up for all those yeses that our children never heard. For me, this is one of the hardest things that I do all day. For example:
Miles comes to me and wants a snack. It is not snack time. He is not truly hungry and it is almost dinner time. In no way is he going to get a snack out of me. Instead of saying to him, "No. It is not snack time. Go play." It is better to say, "Yes! Of course you can have a snack! As soon as dinner is over!" Turn the natural no into a yes. It goes against our gut to say yes when we really mean no, but in our children's mind, they just need the affirmation that eventually that need/want/desire will be met .
Often times, as adoptive parents, we forget that even the smallest amount of neglect and/or abuse can have a long and lasting impression on a child. We tend to believe the old adage that love is enough and that once these children from hurt places have a family that they will simply forget all the old feelings that they have.
Dr. Purvis gave an example of a scientific study done on 5 month old babies. A stranger came in the room and stood in front of the baby's faces and would not smile. The stranger remained stoic even when the babies cooed, laughed, cried and tried everything they could to engage the stranger. This encounter lasted only 2 minutes then the stranger left. 15 months later, when those same babies were 20 months old they were shown a slide show of different people's faces. When the stranger's face (who had acted disengaged before) came up in the slideshow, the baby's became visibly upset. Many of them turned their heads, some cried, some even gagged and choked because the image created so much stress in them. In this instance, there was no abuse or neglect- simply a failure to connect. Now imagine the impact that adding trauma, abuse and neglect add into that equation!? The power of making important connections for children from birth is HUGE!
For me, it was a wake up call in not only parenting therapeutically, but in parenting from a place of understanding. So many times we expect our children who are adopted from hard places to just fall into our families and forge those connections and they don't know how. While it is so easy to get angry and frustrated (which is almost always my gut reaction) the response needs to come from a place of empathy and understanding. We wouldn't adopt a child with no arms and expect them to come home and be able to swing across the monkey bars. So why do we adopt children and expect them to know how to love and be connected when they don't always have the tools to be able to do it?
Attending the seminar was so valuable for me. I still struggle with my reactions to many of my child's behaviors, but I at least recognize when I am not appropriate. Many times as parents, who are parenting any type of special needs, we need to take a step back, re-evaluate and reassemble the big picture. They need us to remember that those early years before they came to us have a bigger impact than we can always know or understand. Our children deserve that from us. They deserve our "yeses". They need our actions to remind them that "Yes. I see you. Yes. I hear you. Yes. I will take care of you. Yes. I adore you." Even when it's hard. Even when it hurts. Even when it's not easy. Get your yeses in.
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not like any other butterfly i had ever seen- living or otherwise ;p sooo unique, i like how its made of glass/jewels fav
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Wow, there are a lot of details in this work o.o. This must've taken ages. Looks a lot like some sort of jewelry. Those gems are so well coloured, you can just see that those are gems. And the work is also incredibly clean!
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A butterfly made of gems and colorful glass and gold or so- how beautiful and clever!! It kind of reminds me of the mirror I bought the other day. (it had a turquoise/silvery gem design) I adore the azure/gold jewel in the middle. 5/5h and favorites.

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'Mission' and 'evangelism' are buzz words in the church. Yet they conjure up quite different emotions. 'Mission' is like the phrase 'healthy living' – who could possibly object? And so 'mission' is championed by the evangelical, the liberal, the catholic, the charismatic, the emergent and all points between and besides. What each means by 'mission' will differ wildly but the concept is heartily endorsed. And if we were being cynical we'd add: so long as it remains a concept.
On the other hand… 'evangelism.' That's like 'long distance running.' It's a punishing option for the super-keen, not the be-all and end-all of 'healthy living'. So we say, 'God bless the Baptist revivalists and all their kind', safe in the knowledge that 'mission' is surely broader than soap-box preaching and the four spiritual laws.
Well, yes indeed. But there are some fundamental problems with this way of thinking. In particular, mission is being conceived too broadly and evangelism too narrowly.
We need to be more focused in our understanding of mission. This will mean excluding all manner of competing agendas. At the same time we should have a broader vision for evangelism. This will mean all the church in all of life proclaiming the gospel as we go.
In a follow-up paper I'll try to paint our evangelistic task in broader brushstrokes. In this paper I'll be arguing the first point – our mission is an evangelistic mission grounded in God's own gospel life. It's a Gospel Mission from a Gospel God. Therefore we will examine,
1) the origin of mission in God's missionary being, and then
2) the content of mission as the proclamation of this eternal gospel.
But first a definition…
Let's begin by defining what we mean by the church's mission.
If we simply trawled the Scriptures for every description of church life we could collect an imposing list. Yet 'the mission of the church' is not the distillation of these many commands, nor a selective listening to these many voices. Mission (from the latin 'to send') is the purpose for which the church is sent into the world. Mission answers the 'Why are we here?' question.
There will be many tasks involved, many roles to play and many penultimate goals in the fulfillment of the mission. But when we identify 'the mission of the church' we are describing the ultimate way in which the church is to relate to its Sending Lord and the world to which it is sent.
This paper will argue that the mission which the church has received from its Lord is to make disciples of all nations by proclaiming Christ. This is the ultimate answer to the question 'Why are we here?' There may be other tasks, yet those tasks ought to serve the ultimate mission and not usurp or distract from it.
Some will view this definition with suspicion. Many will assume that such an evangelistic thrust originates from a certain doctrine of the last things, the reality of judgement, the urgency of the gospel, the need for regeneration, the lostness of humanity, a belief in preaching. Perhaps such a view originates from the simple equation that hell is worse than poverty.
Well all of those motivations are true and right concerns and ought to be decisive in their own way. Yet our theology of mission does not begin here. A true theology of mission arises from a true doctrine of God.
In 1933 Karl Barth addressed the Brandenburg Missionary Conference. There he introduced a missiological perspective which has determined the shape of mission theology in every part of the church.
'Must not even the most faithful missionary, the most convinced friend of missions, have reason to reflect that the term missio was in the ancient Church an expression of the doctrine of the Trinity—namely the expression of the divine sending forth of self, the sending of the Son and Holy Spirit to the world? Can we indeed claim that we do it any other way?'1
Through linking the sending of the Son by the Father, to the sending of the church by the Triune God, Barth finds an origin for mission not in eschatology or ecclesiology or soteriology, but in the doctrine of God. There are missions because of the missio Dei.
If you want to appear hip among a gathering of pipe-smoking, microbrew-drinking theologians, drop missio Dei into conversation. It guarantees instant credibility. The phrase just means 'the sending of God' and it means this: From eternity the Father has always sent forth His Son who is Himself the shining out of the Father's glory. God's very being is as a sending God, even before the world began. Sending (i.e. 'mission') is therefore not just an action that God wills, or a response to the world. It is the nature of His eternal life.
Because our God is Trinity there is not a divine life that then decides mission is a good idea. It's not so much that God enjoys a life of eternal beatitude, unity and worship and then wills to speak or to shine or to send. Rather, those things find expression as He speaks, shines and sends. God's life of unity and worship is a missionary life – one of out-going, spreading goodness. God Himself is a missionary community.
This means that the origin of mission is not in human enthusiasm for outreach. It is not the keen evangelists who 'get the ball rolling.' Mission is the spreading goodness of God Himself as He determines to create, restore and bless in His Son and by the Spirit. We are never the initiators of mission. We are first spectators and beneficiaries of mission before we are ever participants.
We become participants when the Sent One adopts us by the Spirit into His own way of being. That is, Christ draws us into His own life of sent-ness for the salvation of the world.
Before Christ ascended back to the Father He said to His disciples:
'As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you.' And with that He breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit.' (John 20:21-22)
The church is the result of God's mission. And more than this, the church is swept up by the Spirit into the purposes of the missio Dei. Jesus continues...
'If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.' (John 20:23)
Christ's ministry of reconciliation is to be continued by His Spirit-filled followers sent out into the world. The church is created by and carries forward God's own mission.
If a church is particularly zealous for missionary activity we will call them 'a sending church.' By this we mean that the church is a sender and those full-time gospel workers who they support are considered to be the 'missionaries' – the sent ones. This mission is considered to be one activity among many that the church undertakes.
Such a church may seek to enlarge their 'sending arrow' greatly. They may tirelessly champion missionary work, hold constant prayer meetings for overseas workers, schedule regular missions' Sundays with special fundraising efforts. They could receive constant visits and prayer-letters from missionaries. They may even have a missions or outreach committee with a significant budget to support the work.
But what should we make of this?
Certainly such an ethos is far superior to the sleepy church that thinks of nothing but maintaining its own buildings. We might think – better to have one arrow among many than none at all. And that would be true.
Yet even such an activist church has missed something foundational to a theology of mission. Namely this: Mission is not something the local church does. Church is not the sender of gospel witnesses. The church is the body that is sent.
We are the missionaries – the church as a whole. Our very existence is an existence on mission, wherever we may be. We have our being as church in the commission which is laid upon the whole body to be Christ's witnesses to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8). Mission is not what we do, it is who we are.
As a friend from Crosslinks recently remarked, the ultimate missionary movement is not 'West to the rest' nor is it 'The rest to the west.' The ultimate missionary movement is always Heaven to Earth. As members of Christ's missionary body we find ourselves, wherever we are, as His ambassadors, God making His appeal through us (2 Cor 5:20). This is not a function that we resolve to undertake (whether poorly or eagerly), it is the very nature of our life together.
And this means that mission is not one activity among many. It is not one line in the budget, or one committee among others. It is the co-ordinating purpose for all that we do as church.
This does not mean that all of church life becomes an endless round of guest services and evangelism training. But it does mean that every aspect of church life reflects its true nature as a witnessing community.
As we live out our missionary existence, a number of very encouraging truths flow from the missio Dei.
First, notice the organic nature of mission. We are not commanded to be a missionary body. We are made a missionary body. Just as it is the very nature of God to communicate Himself by Word and Spirit, so it is the very nature of church to do the same. We are witnesses (Acts 1:8) and cannot help but be witnesses.
Second, as we 'go' we are empowered and accompanied by the great Evangelist – the Lord Himself. (Matt 28:20) This is so important to remember since some of the greatest enthusiasts for mission can sometimes convey the impression that God is grudgingly involved in the process and requires firebrand preachers to force His hand. The reality is that our Lord's heart beats for mission. Look to the cross and understand that His passion for the lost far outstrips our own.
Thirdly, we are caught up in this mission not as individual missionaries but as the body of Christ. We are not a club for evangelists but are together God's witness in the world. We will speak more of this in the next paper, but this means that we will exercise our different gifts in complementary ways (eg 1 Peter 4:10-11). It will also involve thinking hard about how we open out our corporate life to the world, that they might see our life together and be won for Christ (John 13:35; 17:20-23).
Fourthly, we ought to know that mission does not consist of 'God's job' and 'our job' as is popularly taught. Instead we are included into God's gospel love for the world.
All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to Himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation… Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God (2 Cor 5:18-20).
There's not God's work and our work, rather we are God's 'fellow-workers' (1 Cor 3:9; 1 Thes 3:2). What a privilege!
David Bosch has memorably put it like this:
'To participate in mission is to participate in the movement of God's love toward people, since God is a fountain of sending love.' 2
Missiologies grounded in the missio Dei are extremely fashionable in theology and ministry today. But rarely are the implications followed. For if we agree to a missiology grounded in our doctrine of God then we are driven to confess an evangelistic mission for the church. A Gospel God means a Gospel Mission.
In 1934, one year after Brandenburg, Karl Barth was in a position to apply missio Dei thinking to a stark socio-political crisis. In the face of the pro-Nazi 'German Christians' Barth found himself the chief author of the Barmen Declaration – the founding document of the Confessing Church. And here is its definition of mission:
'The church's commission, which is the foundation of its freedom, consists in this: in Christ's stead, and so in the service of his own Word and work, to deliver to all people, through preaching and sacrament, the message of the free grace of God.'3
Here it is clearly stated that the church's mission is gospel proclamation. And this proclamation is through preaching and sacrament. There is nothing here about socio-political involvement. The mission of the church is delivering to all people the message of the free grace of God.
Ironically, this mission presents the most provocative political challenge precisely because it refuses to engage with the world on its own terms. The Nazis are confronted because the Confessing Church occupies itself with its one true Fuhrer (Christ), its one true Reich (God's Kingdom) and its one true commission: delivering 'the message of the free grace of God'. Far from creating an 'ecclesiastical ghetto' for the Confessing Christians, this single-minded determination to let the gospel set the agenda brings the church into its most significant contact with the surrounding culture.
Against the backdrop of Nazi rule, we might have been tempted to broaden the mission of the church: 'To deliver to all people, through preaching and sacrament, the message of the free grace of God and to fight in Christ's name for equality, justice and freedom, etc.' But to add such an 'and' is to misunderstand the already revolutionary character of the gospel. As Robert Speer has observed:
'Missions are powerful to transform the face of society, because they ignore the face of society, and deal with it at its heart. They yield such powerful political and social results, because they do not concern themselves with them.'4
It is not that the church is neutral with regards to politics, social justice, the environment, etc. Neither is it ineffectual. Not at all. Yet its potency comes as it resolves in every area of life to proclaim the true Lord of this world to the end that He might be trusted. That is the church's mission.
And its evangelistic thrust comes from considering our Gospel God, our Gospel World and His Finished Work.
Think again of Christ's words in John 20:
'As the Father has sent me, so am I sending you.' (v.21)
Our mission is grounded in the missio (the sending) of the Son, i.e. it is grounded in the very life of God. So we ask, What was Christ's mission statement? Why did the Father send His Son? Undeniably it was a mission of salvation. Our God is a Gospel God.
In fact from all eternity the purposes of the Father have been focussed on His Son (e.g. Isaiah 42:1-4). He has created in and through and for Christ (e.g. Col 1:15f) and has redeemed in and through and for Christ (e.g. Ps 110:4). It is the Father's and the Spirit's deepest passion to exalt the Son. To inherit our mission from this Gospel God can only mean carrying on a Gospel mission.
Creation has never been a free-floating entity with means and ends of its own. The Lord does not have desires for creation over here, and desires for salvation over there. Creation and salvation are all a part of the one gospel project fulfilled in Christ.
The world exists both by and for the spreading goodness of the sending God (1 Cor. 8:6). In that outgoing gospel passion it was the same Word who made the world who then entered and reconciled it (Col. 1:20). It is under the headship of this same Word that creation is renewed and perfected (e.g. Eph. 1:10). And, crucially, all things are to be drawn under His feet by the Spirit. This means by the word as Jesus continually emphasizes in, for instance, the upper room discourse (e.g. John 14:10-26).
The mission we have joined is not disjointed, with creational needs on the one hand and redemptive needs on the other. All creation is to be brought under the rule of its true Lord. And this is to be done, not in works of the flesh but by the Spirit – that is, by the word.
The church has not received its mission from a needy Christ, looking for us to finish the job. He really has saved the world through His death and resurrection. For this reason, the risen Christ constitutes us as 'witnesses' (Acts 1:8). We are not the do-ers – we are signposts to His ultimate and all-encompassing Doing. We are a witnessing community not a reforming task-force. We do not bring redemption to the world, we bring Christ to the world as One who has already accomplished our redemption.
None of this is to deny that the gospel has an incredible transformative effect on lives and communities in the here and now. Under the Headship of the true Lord, under the authority of the divine word, in the power of the Holy Spirit, there is a power to transform social structures and bring healing to every aspect of life – even in advance of Christ's return. Yet that is the context for such change. To attempt to bring this healing into a sphere which explicitly rejects this Head, this word and this Spirit, is to trust to the flesh and to deny that the gospel is the power to transform. It is, therefore to betray the evangel – it is to be anti-evangelistic.
As we conclude this section we will address one vital question of application:
Having said all this, let's be very clear: you simply cannot be a Christian and close your heart to the practical needs around you. So much of 1 John is about this. And I must confess that I lavish time and money on my own 'non-spiritual' blessings day in and day out. If I am to love my neighbour as myself, will I really with-hold such blessings from others?
If anyone refuses to feed and clothe the poor let them never claim justification in an 'evangelism-only' missiology. It is greed pure and simple.
But then what should we do at a church level? Where do practical deeds of service fit if our mission is proclamation?
Ministries of mercy will feature in two ways.
Firstly, the life of the church family is a life of bearing one another's loads (e.g. Gal 6:2). Our missionary unity is still a missionary unity and therefore the church will model sacrificial love before a watching world. Jesus makes clear in John 13:35 and John 17:21 that this bears witness to the gospel. Notice therefore that Jesus expects our church life to be opened out to the world as a witness. Notice that a penultimate goal like unity serves a more ultimate missionary goal. And notice that the Spirit gifts certain people for such service within the body (Acts 6:1-4). But again, even with such specialization, the coordinating mission remains one of proclamation.
Secondly, as with Jesus' ministry, deeds of service will accompany the proclamation of the word. It would be impossible for this not to happen, unless we only evangelized the wealthy – an unthinkable proposition (Luke 4:18). But such helps will be provided in the context of people sitting under the word.
In Jesus' own ministry we see, for instance in Mark 6 and parallels, that those who would sit under the teaching of Christ were shown tremendous kindness – the feeding of the 5000! Yet even this deed was a sign proclaiming Christ (and Jesus used words to explain it as such). Note too that Jesus does not put on an evangelistic supper and then give a talk. Jesus sees their primary need: Mark 6:34 – teaching. First He preaches, then He feeds those who sit under His word.
As a modern example think of David Wilkerson's missionary efforts to the gangs of New York city. He did not first address the social needs, opening drug rehab units and gaining trust and good will. He went with the foolishness of preaching and then served those responding to the word. This mission had a tremendous social impact, but it was the gospel that was proved to be the power.
It is popular in modern evangelicalism to construe our mission to the world as one of 'service' – an umbrella term under which proclamation fits, along with any number of social ministries.
Yet this is not the way Christ coordinated His own mission. Nor Paul. Think of 2 Corinthians 4:1-6 – proclamation coordinates service not the other way around.
Thus our desire for a powerful social ministry should not be: 'let's have a soup kitchen with a 5 minute gospel talk'. Rather, we should be saying 'let's move into a deprived area and proclaim the word of Christ. And let's provide food, shelter, clothing and every material need for all those who will hear.'
Ministries with powerful social, political and even environmental impact ought to accompany our gospel proclamation since our gospel is powerful to effect such change. Yet it must be clear that it is the gospel that is the power.
Who is God? The Ultimate Missional Community
What is the world? The ultimate mission field, ripe for harvest
Who are we? Sent ones, participants in Christ's mission to the world
We have inherited a Gospel Mission from our Gospel God. This is our true motivation for mission. Not the guilt trips employed by the cults, but the astonishing indicatives of God's own gospel purposes.
In the next paper we will examine how, individually and corporately, we can best fit into God's mission to the world.
1. Norman E. Thomas, ed., Classic Texts in Mission and World Christianity, Orbis, 1995, p.105-6.
2. David Bosch, Transforming Mission, Orbis, 1992, p.390.
3. Article 6 of the Barmen Declaration, 1934: http://www.ucc.org/beliefs/barmen-declaration.html - last checked 3rd Nov. 2010.
4. Robert Speer, Missionary Principles and Practice, Fleming H. Ravell Co., 1902, p.35.
Glen Scrivener is an evangelist with Speak Life and the Lead Mentor for Union Eastbourne. He is the author of 321 and The King's English.


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Years ago, I bought a piano. I always wanted to play. But after a few short weeks, I came to the conclusion I had made a financial blunder in buying it. I still very much wanted to play the piano, but I discovered that I did not want to learn to play the piano!
As I've reflected back on my experience at The Leadership Challenge Forum 2016 in Nashville last month, I was reminded of my piano—the desire to play but not necessarily to learn. You see, programming for the Forum this year focused on "learning leadership", the theme of Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner's newly released book by the same name. And nearly 200 people came to this wonderful and downright enjoyable learning experience to find out more about what it really means to "learn" to lead.
From the opening session to the last, I believe that most attendees would agree it was all very much about learning—about the meaning and heart of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®, about the opportunity for continuous learning the Forum provided, and so much more.
Authors Jim and Barry, once again, Modeled the Way of lifelong learning and generous sharing as they kicked off the two-day event with key insights from their new book, Learning Leadership, that set the stage for beginning to rethink how leaders truly learn to lead and the exciting breakout sessions to come. I also made note of something much more subtle that I will remember perhaps more than their opening session comments. What really struck me was Jim and Barry's full and complete engagement throughout the Forum. As they attended the numerous breakout sessions, for example, they didn't sit in the back of the room checking email or phone messages. They were present, engaged, and contributing. They asked questions. They participated in discussions. And they offered their experience and knowledge freely to all. In our constantly buzzing, chirping, pinging, ringing, and vibrating world of 24/7 access, we should all be mindful of the powerful messages we send, when we remain present and focused on the people at hand. Thanks guys for the clear reminder.
One of the keynote speakers, Dr. Samineh Shaheem, also reminded us of something that's so very critical to learning, to being more effective as leaders, to becoming all that we can be: how important it is to examine our past programming and limiting beliefs. Leaders recognize that Challenge the Process is as much about challenging oneself internally (e.g., how I have always done things, drawn conclusions, or determined my beliefs) as it is about challenging external organizational processes (e.g., how to improve onboarding or product development). And it seems there will always be an abundance of iron clad rules, routines, and personal beliefs conspiring to keep the status quo in place. That is why we need leaders to challenge the way things are done.
Even in our everyday life experiences we are confronted with these iron clad "rules". For example, at the Forum's Thursday reception I picked up a small plate of the Caesar salad (vs. the fruit salad). When I attempted to put the raspberry vinaigrette on it, I was told by the server that 'Caesar dressing goes on the Caesar salad, raspberry on the fruit salad'. Unfortunately for many, "the way it has always been done" is often and incorrectly translated into "the only way it can be done." (BTW… the raspberry was delicious on the Caesar!)
One of the most enjoyable parts of this year's Forum was to see how much the Community truly practices Enable Others to Act and Encourage the Heart. There were a total of 26 breakout sessions, facilitated by practitioners from around the globe who openly shared their talents, experiences, and stories to help everyone in attendance learn to lead more effectively. It was such a great example of mass collaboration and the collective desire to help everyone grow. There was, as always, an enormous amount of genuine and well-deserved praise and recognition provided. I heard a number of people specifically use the word "encouraging" to describe their Forum experiences. And one very important thing that attendees learned (or re-learned) was how vital encouragement is in creating an environment for extraordinary achievements to occur.
And considering how important well-deserved praise and recognition is to building a collaborative community, there's a special shout-out I'd like to make here. As many of us who are part of The Leadership Challenge Community know, a shared vision is different than a big, ambitious goal. Whether working with individual leaders or with teams, defining what a "shared vision" will look like is part of the process. And so it was for the Forum 2016 planning team who had a dream that a couple of hundred people would gather together, bump into long-time friends and meet new ones, enthusiastically share their talents and support of others, and devote themselves to the hard work of learning leadership. For those of us fortunate to be at this year's Forum, we got to see that big dream become a reality. It was truly inspiring to see our community come together around an inspiring vision and to know that many of us will be taking the dream forward, inspiring our colleagues and clients to share in it as well. Bravo to everyone at Wiley and elsewhere for their tireless work to bring that big vision to life in such a meaningful and rewarding way.
And now, two last quick reflections about this year's learning experience at the Forum. I was thinking back on the presentation by keynote speaker Keni Thomas, one of the leaders of the 3rd Ranger Battalion immortalized in the book and movie, Blackhawk Down. The overarching message of his keynote was that leadership is all about the example you set. And it occurred to me that there is a difference between an extraordinary storyteller and someone who changes lives. People may forget Keni's name in a few weeks but they will never forget him. Nor will they forget the lessons he shared, about standing the line and never leaving anyone behind, especially those who might appear to be a little slower or more challenged in their learning. Thank you for your service Keni, not only on the battlefield but for all the people in the world you continue to touch and inspire.
And finally... with almost 30 years of Leadership Challenge experience, there were many moments at the conference when I felt overwhelmed, perhaps even a bit inadequate. I cannot recall how many times I found myself saying, "I never thought about that," or "Wow, how did you ever come up with such a clever thing to do!" My guess is many of my fellow attendees shared those sentiments.
All that being said…there is little I find more joyful and inspiring than being around really smart and creative people who are graciously willing to teach, coach, mentor and yes, be good friends. Thanks to all for creating a stimulating and rewarding learning environment.
Steve Coats, Certified Master of The Leadership Challenge, is managing partner and co-owner of International Leadership Associates, a leadership development education and consulting firm. For over 25 years, Steve has taught, coached, and consulted with executives and all levels of managers around the world in leadership development, team development, personal growth, change, and business strategy. Steve can be reached at email@example.com.


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2003 OM Gallery, New Orleans, USA
2003 Beatrice Royal Gallery, Petersfield Hants
2003 Leigh Art Trail contemporary art open studios event
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2002 Artclimbers Gallery, Manningtree, Essex
2002 Gildenborough Gallery, Peterborough
2002 Leigh Art Trail contemporary art open studios event
2001 Over The Moon Gallery, St Agnes, Cornwall
2001 Collections of Harpenden, Herts
2001 Southend Arts Festival
2001 Leigh Art Trail contemporary art open studios event
2000 Blackthorn Galleries, Birkenhead, Merseyside
2000 Leigh Art Trail contemporary art open studios event
2000 Inspired and Fired CPA Millennium Exhibition, Metropole Arts Centre, Folkestone, Kent
1999 Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen.
1999 Leigh Art Trail contemporary art open studios event
1999 Cusp Gallery, Burghley House, Stamford, Lincs
1998 Leigh Art Trail contemporary art open studios event
1997 Leigh Art Trail contemporary art open studios event
1996 Terracotta, The Collection Gallery, Ledbury, Herefordshire.
1995 Andrew Lamont Gallery, London
1995 Contemporary Ceramics, London.In The Window.
Bonhams Contemporary Ceramics and Design 1999
Phillips 1989
2004 Art Auction East at Bury St Edmunds Gallery
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2006 Sothebys auction at Flowers East Gallery, London. Fund raising for Ocean by Merce Cunningham dance production at The Roundhouse also featured works by Glynis Barton, Anthony Gormley.
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Victoria & Albert Museum 2006 Leonardo da Vinci audio visual guide film clip- percussion instruments.
Presentation tea tankard for Tony Benn 2005 Chernobyl Children's Project.
West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village, Suffolk. Reproduction pottery.
Liverpool Victoria Assurance Co. Pot for illustrating brochure.
Westcliff Land Cultivation Society. Prize awards.
Southend Museums Service. Replica Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, Roman and Iron Age pottery for exhibitions.
Manoly's Thai Restaurant, Leigh on Sea- lighting features.
Wookey Hole Inn, Avon- lighting features.
St Barnabus Church, Hadleigh, Essex- unusual pantile replacements.
Private house, Hadleigh, Essex- 3 chimneys 1.5m high.
Kevin Mayhew Church Requisites, Suffolk- font bowls 50cm diameter
Romford YMCA, Essex- commemorative mugs
Middlesborough YMCA- commemorative mugs
Greenbelt Arts Festival- commemorative mugs
Brentwood Council, Essex- facimile Victorian glazed tiles for renovation of Hutton Poplars, Shenfield.
Museum of Mankind (British Museum)- Easter Island Heads for museum shop.
Colour In Glazes, Linda Bloomfield. ISBN 9781408131213
The Ceramics Book 2006 Ceramic Review Books ISBN 0-9523576-7-4
Sopot Ulica Sztuki 2004 ISBN 83-919287-5-6
500 Bowls. Lark Books 2003 ISBN 1-57990-362-2
The Glaze Book. Stephen Murfitt. Krauze 2002 ISBN 0-87349-276-5
Potters Directory of Shape and Form.
From Mud To Music contributor to book including a pottery trumpet. 2006
Potters 12th Edition 2000 Ceramic Review Publishing Ltd
Potters 11th Edition 1997 Ceramic Review Publishing Ltd
Potters 10th Edition 1994 Ceramic Review Publishing Ltd
Potters 9th Edition 1992 Ceramic Review Publishing Ltd
Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery promotional brochure Sept-Dec 2005
Ceramic Musical Instruments:degree thesis 1981.
Daily Mail Sat March 25 2006 gardening page.
Grand Designs Magazine Sept 2006 ISSN 1742-0695
Ceramic Review 217 Jan Feb 2006 'Gallery' ISSN 0144-1825
BBC Good Homes magazine, June 2005 photo p.133
Ceramic Review 'tips' 2005 and various older issues
Time Out. June 2004 work and studio pictured.
London Evening Standard. June 2004 Photo and article promoting Leigh Art Trail.
House and Garden magazine Apr 1996 no537 ISSN 0018-6406
St Bernard's High School and Arts College 2006 4 day workshops
Leicester Adult Education College staff training day July 20062811
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Baron's Court Infant School and Nursery, Westcliff on Sea, Essex visiting artist workshops with children 2005-6
Rise / Rethink mental health centre, Rochford Essex a series of 1 day projects with members.
Northwick Prk Junior School, Canvey Island. Short project.2004
Southend Youth PHAB Club for physically handicapped and able bodied children workshops.
Demonstrations for visiting school parties every year at my studio e.g. West Leigh School year 4 class"one of the highlights of my teaching career" Mr G. Lazell. June 2005
Demonstration for children visiting from Chernobyl with cancer.
Shoeburyness High School student project: ceramic mural and pond surround.
Southend Prittlewell Priory Museum: Prehistoric Technology Exhibition demonstrations.
Leigh Art Trail: joint founder (1997) and currently a Director
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Coastal Ways -Meridian TV 28th Aug 2003 80 pots shown
The Politics Show -BBC1 5th March 2004 28 pots shown
Houses Behaving Badly-BBC1 May 17th 2004, 18th June 2004, 3rd Aug 2004 70 pots shown
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The Accounting Historians Journal Vol. 8, No. 2 Fall 1981
Frederic M. Stiner, Jr. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
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Adrian Sclawy LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Abstract: Many accounting documents and journals disintegrate every year due to the acidic quality of paper used in them. Using the laboratory of the Office of Preservation of the Library of Congress, certain accounting journals were analyzed for their acidic or alkaline paper. Journals printed on acidic paper, such as the Accounting Historians Journal and the Accounting Review can be expected to dis-integrate quickly. Journals printed on alkaline paper, such as the Journal of Ac-counting, Auditing & Finance and Taxation for Accountants should last for cen-turies. Historians wishing to preserve material appearing in acidic journals should photocopy on alkaline paper or use microfilm.
Accounting historians are accustomed to seeing records and documents which are many centuries old. Unfortunately, this will be rare for new generations of historians. Each year, accounting historians lose an unknown number of irreplaceable documents. Some journals and documents yellow, crack at the edges, and eventually disintegrate. The reason for this is the acidic quality of paper being used today.a The purpose of this article is to examine the problem of document deterioration using current selected ac-counting journals.
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Acknowledgement is made to Mrs. Ann Alexanian of the Price Waterhouse & Co. library for providing samples to be tested.
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The first woman to practise medicine in Queensland, Lilian Cooper, and her lifetime partner Josephine Bedford, were regular worshippers at St Mary's Anglican Church, colloquially known as the naval chapel and once linked by stairs down the Kangaroo Point cliffs to the naval stores below.
Within the church, two large gothic stained glass windows and an altar are dedicated to Cooper and her WWI heroics.
Dismissed by English and Australian military authorities because she was female, Cooper signed up with the Scottish Women's Hospitals Service. Bedford went too. While Cooper worked to stabilise casualties just behind the Serbian front, Bedford ferried the injured to safety. Their war efforts earned them the Order of St Sava.
They returned to Brisbane in time to continue their community welfare efforts and fight the Spanish flu epidemic that returned with servicemen.
The Warriors' Chapel was dedicated in 1950, commemorating armed service and merchant navy personnel who died in both world wars. Navy memorials can be found throughout the grounds, overlooking the Brisbane River.


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When I asked what kind of allergy-friendly recipes everyone wanted gluten-free was the most common response. I was planning on starting with a basic bread recipe but once I started researching I found that gluten-free bread making is going to take a bit of time to perfect. I was naive and expected I could just order a couple of new flours online and get started. This is a gluten free version of my Grandmother's pumpkin pie recipe. You can use non-dairy milk to make it dairy-free as well. I have yet to try making an egg-free version with a flax egg but if you do please let me know how it works out.
The filling is the star of this pie. If you are looking for the pastry to be the star I recommend checking out this recipe.
Flour used in the crust: rice (米粉パウダー found in the flour section of your supermarket)
Milk used in the crust and filling: soy (I usually use milk in the crust and sweetened condensed milk in the filling)
Easy Gluten-free Pie Crust
Based on a recipe I cannot remember the source of
Makes enough for one medium sized pie plate
1 cup gluten-free flour
1 1/2 teaspoons white sugar (or other type of sugar)
2/3 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 1/2 tablespoons milk (non-dairy is fine)
Add the dry ingredients to the pie pan (ungreased) and whisk together. Add the wet ingredients and mix with your hands. Once you have a dough press it along the sides of the pan. You do not need to prebake this before adding the filling.
Gluten-free Pumpkin (kabocha) Pie Filling
Makes enough for two medium sized pies
1 1/2 cups – 1/4 of whole mashed cooked kabocha squash
1/3 cup orange juice
1 cup milk (non-dairy works well)
1/2-2/3 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ginger
1/2 teaspoon salt
Preheat the oven to 220C. Whisk everything together until smooth. I often use an immersion blender. Add to the pie shell and bake for ten minutes at 220C and then turn down to 160C and bake for 40-50 minutes until the top is just starting to brown and it passes the toothpick test. Cool and serve.


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[February 04, 2013]
McLEAN -- Sugar Grove Nature Center
has announced a Little Tappers program, offered three times: on a
Wednesday, Feb. 20, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. and again from 1 to 2:30
p.m., and on a Saturday, March 9, from 10 to 11:30 a.m.
program is designed especially for children 3-5 years with an adult
chaperone. The participants will sing songs and make a craft while
learning how to make maple sirup (the traditional
spelling used at Funks Grove) and listen to a fabulous sirup story.
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The fee is $5 for child members of the nature center and $8 for
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The Lake District Search and Mountain Rescue Association is the umbrella body for mountain rescue teams in Cumbria (UK).
Teams are largely autonomous, but LDSAMRA coordinates the development of operational matters such as radio communications and insurance, as well as the day to day running of an efficient, voluntary rescue service. It also distributes to the teams any donations or legacies received and makes special allowances for major projects such as building extensions.
LDSAMRA in conjunction with Cicerone are pleased to announce our new revised version of 'Stay Safe and Enjoy the Fells' leaflet. You can download a copy, or take a free printed copy from outlets throughout the Lake District. The leaflet is intended to help people make the right choices before going into the hills and provide information for what to do in the event of an accident. It's available in numerous outlets throughout Cumbria and the Lake District and would be a very helpful addition to anyone's rucksack when they head into the fells. LDSAMRA is looking to continue the partnership with Cicerone for future publications with an aim to reducing casualty numbers through free and available mountain safety information.
There has been a significant increase in the number of callouts involving walkers who have ventured onto the Lakeland fells ill prepared, ill equipped, and lacking experience.
Cumbria Tourism has supported the Lake District teams by helping to produce a 6 minute video which highlights these mountain safety issues. You can view the film by clicking the video image, or going to YouTube.
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April 3rd 1858"
Dear Mary"
I seat myself to write you a line
in reply to yours, now before me, bearing date March 18
/58 I rec'd also same day letter from 'Jerrie' and am
pleased to learn each that you are enjoying good
health and peace of mind. Long may you live in the
enjoyment of such privilege, and blessings, shall ever
be my prayer for each of you. Recollect Mary however
that you are mortal & born to die. Let this important
fact early engage your attention in view of its
coming and thereby robbed of its terrors.)
I have nothing special to communicate as nothing
of importance has transpired since you left home."
We are driving along about as usual with the
same little noisy family circle around
and Charly just now notwithstanding I am writing
is arguing of me how many sweet cakes will
three eggs make. You wrote I might expect a
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A brief thought exercise for media and people ignoring the fact that UCSB shooter was driven to kill by his hatred of and sense of entitlement towards women (all text taken from the posted manifesto on Scribd; h/t to wehuntedthemammoth for highlighting some of the quotes I used below). Needless as it may be to say, trigger warning for graphic hatred of women and depictions of violence against them:
It feels weird to cash in on the "Sorry Not Sorry" title for something super heavy rather than pop culture analysis and feelings, but a) it's clever and I like it, and b) it's pretty apt for how depression remission feels.
Most of the reason I chose to write about having depression is because it's still something that is deeply stigmatized, and my usual coping mechanism is gallows humour, which, when you're also being open about your depression is makes things hella awkward hella quickly.
"How's it going?" "Things are great, I've only wanted to die about three times today!" or during casual lunch chit-chat with coworkers, "You ever wish the rapture was real so the world would end?"
I've always struggled with moodiness, and an overabundance of feeling (hello, person who cries when they're angry, that's me!) but it wasn't until the past eight years or so where it got really obvious I was struggling. I was graduating university, having to job hunt, getting married, moving into a new house, deal with personal relationship fall-outs from a few different sources. It was not a great time to be me, and I was lucky to have a GP who was open to getting me both some pharmaceutical and psychological help. The drugs stayed, the therapy didn't, primarily because you don't have to interview drugs and make sure you click with them on a personal level. When the one therapist I really liked moved on, I looked for a new one kind of half-heartedly and gave up.
When you're depressed, giving up is like your favourite thing to do. You get really good at it, because you're practicing all the time. Grad school looks really hard and expensive, better not apply. Writing makes me feel gutted and uncomfortable, guess I'll stop writing. Showering is exhausting, get rid of that too. The thought of getting out of bed and facing human people with human words coming out of their human mouths makes you dizzy and ill. Eventually, all you're good at is staying in bed and staring at the wall. And you get really, really good at it.
As an added bonus, I wasn't even a weepy, sad sack. I had the angry depression. If you think people don't want to be around you because you're sad or apathetic all the time, they get especially itchy when you're the emotional equivalent of a hissing goose.
I was angry about sexism. I was angry about being tired all the time. I was angry when my husband paid too much attention to me. I was angry when he paid too little attention to me. I was angry when the cats stepped on my hair. I was angry when I was too weak to go to work, but I was angry while I was at work too. Mostly I was angry at my softening, exhausted traitor body.
It was painfully obvious the meds, which worked for a time, weren't working any more. But I still pushed through for another two years, telling myself, "Oh, we just moved to a new town. Oh, I just started a new job. It's stress. Oh, I'm just getting used to not having as many friends around." I might as well have kept writing during this time because I was spinning wild fictions that were so plausible to my fucked-up brain that I believed all of this, even while loading groceries into the car would make me cry.
The one good thing about anything potentially setting you off is that eventually, the catalyst for making a change can be anything as well. For me, someone I knew online posted about their experience with seeing the doctor and getting medication that was making a huge difference in their life. "Whoa," I thought. "That happens? You don't just go on meds and they turn into a meat zombie with a brain full of cotton fluff?" The smart-ass part of me put down the book it picked up years ago when I was ignoring it, and said "Wow, finally, welcome to reality."
So I made a doctor's appointment and together we came up with a strategy for pinpointing places where we could make changes. She looked into the possible issues behind my meds not working and making me feel ill. I did a sleep study to see if it was anxiety disrupting my sleep, or my insomnia making me anxious. (It was the former.) Progress was slow, as it inevitably is in the Canadian healthcare system but I was doing something! What a strange and invigorating sensation!
Eventually, it did come down to the news I was dreading – we'd have to make some changes in my medication. Obviously what I was on wasn't working, but I was terrified of the withdrawal process, scared that a new medication would be worse. My current plan wasn't working but at least I'd come to terms with getting 40 lbs fatter, a little more forgetful, and headachey all the time. Together with my doctor, we made a plan to taper off the one medication and onto the new one, while keeping my second as it was, as a continuity measure.
Day one felt pretty good. Cautiously hopeful. No weird reactions, felt okay about going out for the evening. Day two, Chris and I had plans to see a movie. Midway through, I felt a little weird.
"I don't feel so hot," I tell him. "You need to go to the bathroom?" he asks, moments before I barf into the cup I'm holding. WELL DONE NEW MEDICATION. Take a look at the bottle when we get home, and sure enough nausea is a side-effect. I make it through the rest of the movie, nap off the rest of the queasiness and that's about it.
Aside from that one blip, things have been… good? and yes, everytime someone asks me how I'm doing, and I say "Good?" it's always with that valley girl uptick at the end because I still can't quite believe it. It's only been a few weeks, but who knows what the future holds? Hopefully more "good?" for everyone. And if this doesn't work out for one reason or another, I know that trying something new isn't the end of the world.
What's even the point of telling this story? Well, for one, it's not unique. I'm sure the person who's story motivated me has a similar arc. Secondly, because it is a bit of a PSA. I feel better, I feel stronger and willing to talk, which means hopefully, I am willing to answer questions or help people understand some common and harmful myths about being depressed.
Depression is feeling very sad.
This one should be obvious, but no. It can be that way for some people, but it can also be irritability, anger, anxiety, frustration, exhaustion, or any combination of those. It's not even about feeling it – it permeates your entire being. Your body is Silent Hill and depression is the all the gameplay that takes place in the otherworld.
But you'll get off your meds someday, right?
Maybe! It's entirely possible I won't. But to give you an idea of how insensitive this statement is, think about asking a diabetic, "Have you tried tapering off your insulin?" or someone with kidney disease, "You can't stay on dialysis forever!" I'm not thrilled to think about the cocktail of brain medication I'll be taking for potentially the rest of my life. I might even be less thrilled about it than you. But if it's what I need to do, I'll do it. Not to mention, it's a hell of a lot cheaper than Scientology.
Everyone gets a little depressed sometimes!
Not wholly inaccurate. Sometimes people can get so stressed out or unhappy because of grief, or a bad school or work situation that they have symptoms of depression or anxiety. Often this can get better once they're away from or have dealt with that stress. Not always – sometimes that stress is just the breaking point for chronic depression, rather than situational. Everyone's different. But if you're somebody saying this like depression is going through a sad break up, or getting a bad grade in school, well. You're probably an asshole.
Is depression a disability?
Yes – and no. It's definitely a mental illness, and many mental illnesses can be disabling, but my depression isn't so clear cut. Has my depression been a disability? Oh yeah. See: getting really good at staying in bed because getting up is impossible. It's interfered with my life in a way that is disabling. Can depression be a disability? Absolutely – there are many people on disability leave for issues with depression, or another mental illness. (If you're Canadian, you might remember the woman who was cut off from her benefits for looking "too happy" on Facebook.) People with major depression and anxiety can qualify for therapeutic and service animals, for example. That said, I don't personally feel comfortable using my experience with depression to talk about disability in general. It can have physiological effects, and mimics a lot of chronic illnesses that are invisible – but most people don't understand those any better than depression, so I'm not sure how useful that identification would be for me explaining myself to others.
Depression and PTSD is disregarded as a serious issue.
Despite being more talked about now than perhaps ten years ago, it's obvious that overall, people with depression and PTSD are not getting the proper care. Suicide rates among soldiers/veterans are rising dramatically in the past few years due to poor handling of mental health in our veteran's affairs system, for example.
I'm glad I'm able to write about it a little, now. For every one person like me, there's probably dozens out there who are too scared to speak out, or don't know what's wrong with them. Hopefully, in time, respectful dialogue will begin to change that landscape.
jesus, how do you even write a conclusion to this kind of thing? in summary, here's a dog to illustrate that dogs are awesome, and also depression is hella weird to get out of, if you even can
Sorry Not Sorry is a new series of blogs, dedicated to media I enjoy: video games, movies, books, etc. I intend for Sorry Not Sorry to open up a dialogue about the line between being a feminist and doing feminist things. The former doesn't make everything you do automatically feminist (apologies to Lisa Simpson). The urge to close the gap between the two things is natural, I think, and ties in closely with feminists who feel the momentum of the movement flagging, attempting to flog life into it by expanding the definition of feminism so widely that it's catching stray insects and the occasional neoliberal in its mouth these days. It has undermined the concept of subversion to the point of ridicule, where certain online circles take things like leg shaving or nail painting or high heels as a subversion of femme expectations, because they're feminist and they're not doing it because they have to! The average man on the street isn't going to know that though, nor even are people you might hail as fellow feminists. It doesn't mean you can't do those things. It's okay to be a feminist and enjoy watching Game of Thrones. You can be a feminist and read the Dresden files. It's just that it doesn't make those things feminist. Dig me?
So I open Sorry Not Sorry with Homestuck.


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Pilots Greenlit Include "10 Things I Hate About You" To Be Executive Produced by Carter Covington, Directed by Gil Junger and "Ruby and The Rockits," Starring Alexa Vega as "Ruby," With Shaun, David and Patrick Cassidy
Burbank, CA (October 8, 2008) � ABC Family has greenlit two pilots, "Ruby and The Rockits" and "10 Things I Hate About You," it was announced today by Kate Juergens, executive vice president, original series programming & development, ABC Family. ABC Family is coming off a record-breaking summer with the freshman series "The Secret Life of the American Teenager," and new seasons of the network's original series "Greek" and "Lincoln Heights." "10 Things I Hate About You" and "Ruby and The Rockits" will both go into production this fall and will film in Los Angeles.
"We're excited about these pilots and feel they're perfect additions to our existing slate of programs," said Juergens. "These shows are headed by talented teams who clearly possess authentic voices which we believe will resonate with our millennial viewers."
"10 Things I Hate About You," a half-hour, single-cam series is directed by Gil Junger ("10 Things I Hate About You") and executive produced by Carter Covington ("Greek"), who also penned the pilot script. Based on the hit movie "10 Things I Hate About You," the Stratford sisters are two very different people and that is evident as they start at their new high school with very contradictory goals. Kat is a strong-willed, in-your-face feminist who is looking to save the world and get out of high school as fast as she can. Bianca is a social butterfly whose only concern is that she is popular, by any cost. As they both start the year out bumpy at Padua High, can each girl get what she wants in the end as they navigate the popular crowd, boys and their over-protective Dad? The series is produced by Prodco, Inc.
"Ruby and The Rockits," is an ABC Studios' half-hour multi-cam comedy series executive produced by Shaun Cassidy ("Invasion") and Marsh McCall ("Carpoolers"), and directed by Ted Wass ("Less Than Perfect"). The series follows Patrick Callahan, a former teen idol who has chosen to lead a quiet life with his wife and two sons. But when his former Rockits band mate and brother, David, shows up unexpectedly with his new-found teenage daughter in tow, the Callahan family's life becomes anything but normal. David, who refuses to give up his past glory days, comes to Patrick for help raising Ruby while he continues to tour. Patrick must now put the past with David behind them in order to help raise Ruby and keep order within the rest of the Callahan clan. "Ruby and The Rockits" was written by former teen idol Shaun Cassidy and Ed Yeager, with teleplay by Ed Yeager. Alexa Vega ("Spy Kids"), Austin Butler ("Zoey 101"), Patrick Cassidy ("Smallville") and former teen idol David Cassidy ("The Partridge Family") star.
New ABC Family original series previously announced are the comedy half-hour series "Roommates" and "Sophie," both scheduled to debut in early 2009.
The pilot pick-up comes on the heels of the network's record-breaking summer success with "The Secret Life of the American Teenager." During its July 1-September 9 freshman season run, "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" ranked as the #1 scripted TV series in Viewers 12-34 (2.6 million) and Females 12-34 (2.1 million), and cable's #1 scripted series in Adults 18-34 (1.4 million) and Women 18-34 (953,000).
The 2007/08 season will wrap as ABC Family's most-watched season on record, registering double-digit percent year-to-year increases: +18% in Total Viewers (1.3 million vs. 1.1 million), +21% in Adults 18-34 (312,000 vs. 258,000), +19% in Women 18-34 (204,000 vs. 171,000), +14% in Adults18-49 (583,000 vs. 510,000), +13% in Women 18-49 (371,000 vs. 327,000), +18% in Viewers 12-34 (511,000 vs. 434,000) and +20% in Females 12-34 (347,000 vs. 289,000.)
Part of the Disney-ABC Television Group, ABC Family, distributed in over 95 million homes, features original movies, series and specials reflecting today's families and entertaining and connecting with adults through relevant stories about today's relationships, all told with diversity, dysfunction, passion, humor and heart. ABC Family's programming is a mix of quality acquired series and theatricals as well as original movies and scripted dramas. ABC Family is also the destination for Holiday events with "13 Nights of Halloween" and "25 Days of Christmas" branded programming events. ABC Family. A New Kind of Family.