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Monday, July 30, 2012
Don't Stop Till You Get Enough
We already know that Saturday was spent concocting a Plan B on the run, when my meditation instructor called in sick. When I got home late-ish Saturday afternoon, I half-watched some of the Olympics on TV but then gave up and retired to my air-conditioned room to make a me-sized dent on the bed and watch an episode of "The Hollowmen" on DVD. I swear that show is freakishly accurate.
I was seized by a bizarre compulsion to go out and despite the weather threatening to turn bad, I texted Westo and said it was up to her to devise a social plan. Yes, I outsourced the planning but I knew that if one of us was going to have a clue what people did on Saturday nights in this town, it would be Westo. You know it's true. And I wasn't totally mean, I dictated the night's parameters: we had to have pasta and red wine, and we had to stay in Westo's neighbourhood. Ever the good sport, my friend accepted the challenge.
So fast-forward an hour and we were standing on a street corner in the West Village, waiting for a table to open up at the gorgeous Malatesta Trattoria. The little restaurant was packed, and had opened up all its side windows to usher in the fresh air. Every now and again, fat droplets of rain splotched us, and the heavens were truly threatening to open up, so we had wimped out and decided not to take one of the (many) empty outdoor tables. Instead, we alternately gave pleading looks and vicious stink-eyes to the diners inside, willing them to stuff in the last of their tasty morsels and surrender their tables to us.
The meal was incredible - simple, yet hearty and plentiful. We had the Chianti, as planned. And we split an appetizer of four assorted crostini (prosciutto & mozzarella, goats cheese, sauteed mushrooms, and tomato). We shared a basic mixed side salad that complemented our respective pasta dishes beautifully. We rounded out the meal with a rich, decadent chocolate mousse. I didn't spill anything down the front of me, which was doubly helpful as I was wearing a new, sequinned top (operating on the assumption that wherever we went for dinner, if I dressed like the human disco ball, I'd be so dazzling that the hostess would give us a table faster).
Come Sunday morning I was up again, this time to head to brunch in NoHo (local speak for the area "north of Houston"). Shars had booked us a table at the popular "Five Points" restaurant. As I had a coffee at home beforehand, I looked up the restaurant to make sure I knew how to get there, and a took a peek at their brunch menu. Huevos Rancheros, kids! I was so excited. You know how I feel about this dish - it's fun to say, AND fun to eat. I was sold. Brunching is very popular here in New York and even though we had an early-ish reservation by the city's standards, as we enjoyed our meal in leisurely fashion, the restaurant filled up quickly and pretty soon there was a crowd of people waiting for tables, milling around in the bar area at the front. My huevos did not disappoint, and I can't tell you how lovely it was to just shoot the preverbial sh*t with the girls and not be in a rush to go anywhere or do anything.
After our meal I could feel a food coma setting in, so we parted ways and I headed to the air conditioned sanctuary of my local cinema to soak up the new Batman movie. It's a bit disconcerting to notice the NYPD presence outside of the movie theatres these days, but I guess we can't do much about that. The only thing we can do is to enjoy the movie and I totally did. Tom Hardy playing Bane was a great choice - even though you could only see his eyeballs. That dude is a TANK. I read afterwards that he put on 30lbs to play the role, and wore 3" shoe lifts, AND he did martial arts and other fighting training. Ding ding ding! Genius. Even Anne Hathaway didn't make me want to vomit, so that's a good thing.
When you read my weekend back, I don't sound incredibly social but believe me, this was a jam-packed weekend by my usual standards haha. I really had a wonderful time and I'd forgotten how nice it is for someone else to make your meals for you, and enjoy them in a restaurant setting. I might have to make a bit more of a habit of this.
Saturday, July 28, 2012
An impromptu communion
Sunday, July 22, 2012
The weather brings 'em out
Having finally established with myself that it was, in fact, the weekend I took my time making some breakfast and getting myself organised. Then I took the bus to Central Park, but this time just to kick back and enjoy storytime. I know it's supposed to be for kids, but I enjoyed it there last week and with no other pressing engagements yesterday, I figured why not?
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Sensual Assault
So after a morning spent pottering around, I met up with JoHa at lunch time and we headed out to Brooklyn - her first visit there. Earlier in the week Stokesy had told us about the big Bastille Day celebrations in Brooklyn, and we wanted to be part of it. This article explains really well how the party has come to be so big out there - but even I wasn't prepared for the crowds and the heat and the craziness.
First of all we wandered up and down Smith Street, pausing to especially enjoy some of the petanque games going on in little makeshift sandpits. This video was taken a couple of years ago, but shows you how well the Petanque championship is incorporated into the street party:
As we got closer to the really cute Bar Tabac (on the list for a return visit in less-crazy times) we could hear some music playing and so we grabbed a sandwich, found a spot to sit (in the gutter, no less!) and enjoyed the show. We didn't enjoy it as much as our acid wash jean-clad friend here, but we were grooving on the spot, trust me.
Some of the local vendors were out keeping people hydrated with what looked to be JUGS of sangria, but neither me nor JoHa partook. Instead, we enjoyed a couple of delicious sandwiches prepared by Bien Cuit - the Smith Street Bakery. You have to visit their website - just LOOK at the breads and cakes on offer...yummo!
For a change in culture, we then took the train to Coney Island. The sun had stopped shining, but the heat and humidity continued unabated. It was altogether rather unpleasant, but I was buoyed by the hope that maybe - just maybe - by the time we reached the boardwalk, the ocean breezes might improve conditions a bit. On the way up to the boardwalk, we saw the famous Nathan's hotdog stand and THIS fantastic billboard:
Silver Lining
Last weekend I went to see "Macbeth" at the Rose Theater, which is part of Lincoln Center but is located off-site, at the Time Warner Centre, opposite Columbus Circle and Central Park. The best part is, its location affords you views like this, while you're waiting for the show to start:
See? Gorgeous. Now I'm a huge Shakespeare fan, no question. But I'm not a purist in the least. I love it when people mix Shakespeare up a bit and do funny, silly, or just different things with it. So I was totally on board with the National Theatre of Scotland's production of "Macbeth", not least of which because it stars the super-talented and charming Alan Cumming. This production is effectively a one-man show, that takes place in a mental institution. Alan Cumming basically plays all the major roles of the play, and slips in and out of the characters pretty seamlessly. If you know the story well, you can tell what character he's playing by where you're up to in the plot. But if you don't, Cumming's characters have "tells", just like in poker, so you can tell who he's playing by his mannerisms. (smoothing his hair, eating an apple, talking all pompously-British). The way he breathes life into the three witches is especially eerie, with slitty eyes and malicious grins - one step away from an all-out cackle. With no intermission, the performance is pretty intense (to watch surely, but certainly to perform too). I thought it was a really interesting take on a fantastic play.
In a similar vein, I seized an opportunity on Tuesday night to be Kell's "plus one" at a performance of "End of the Rainbow", a Broadway show I'd been wanting to see since I was in London and the play had been taking the West End by storm before coming across the Pond. The musical drama takes place in London, and focuses on a string of comeback concerts that Judy Garland gives, three months before she is found dead of an accidental drug overdose. The play is punctuated by beautiful songs (that are often painful to watch, when you realise what it took to get her out on stage in the first place). Of course I cried, particularly when she closed the show with "Somewhere Over The Rainbow", but sang it so full of bitterness and pain, with her eyes full of tears, that it was a far cry from the innocent black-and-white Dorothy Gale on film. The play was brilliant, and I'm so glad that Kell thought to take me with her.
My rather rotten week rounded out last night with an absolutely beautiful dinner with K and her aunt and uncle, at The Water Club, right on the East River and just a stone's throw from our apartment. I had delicious bluefin tuna for my main meal, that was served with a crunchy rice cake, some freshly-roasted corn and some cool, refreshing tomato salsa. Dessert was a butter pecan and toffee parfait (cause everybody likes parfait!), that was sitting on top of espresso coffee icecream. Yummo! But the prize for theatricality definitely went to K's aunt and uncle, who cleverly ordered the Bananas Foster for dessert. Our waiter prepared it table-side, and the heat that came off that explosion of rum and banana liqueur warmed my cheeks for minutes afterwards. Whoa. I almost had to check I still had both my eyebrows attached! And despite the little slip-up in my Dry July fundraising campaign on Friday night (one glass of white wine, for which I paid my $25 fine), I climbed back aboard the rickety ole wagon and did not have a sip of alcohol at all yesterday - no matter how tempting the cocktail list looked. An opportunity for another time, for sure!
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Meditate on THIS!
Central Park NYC
Originally uploaded by Ronaldo F Cabuhat.
I stood Buddha up again today. I think that's twice I've missed the weekend meditation class. But you know what? The jolly old fella will forgive me because I have had the most beautiful Saturday morning just hanging out in Central Park.
The week just gone was pretty rotten, to be honest. I had been looking forward to the meditation class for the rare opportunity it afforded to sit still, put the week's events in perspective, and decompress. Then it occurred to me that if I got up early on Saturday morning, I could go back into Central Park, walk for a bit, and THEN get to the class. A double dose of meditation, if you will.
I got to bed early last night and awoke this morning in a really good mindset. Bagel and coffee for breakfast, huge bottle of water chugged, and I left the house by 8.15am. A quick cab ride to Central Park and I set off on my 10-mile walk around and around. The Park looks so different now than when I was last here - back on NYC Half-Marathon day in March. Green trees, fluffy squirrels, lush grass - it was just gorgeous. And so many dogs off their leashes - and young kids off theirs too - everyone, human and not, seemed in great spirits.
From behind my chic sunglasses and full face of make-up (of course!), I sweated it out up towards Harlem Hill. As I approached the ascent, I bumped into Flock from work, who was jogging down the hill in a super-fit style that put my strutting to some shame. We chatted for a bit and then went on our merry ways. I was rocking out to my iPod music list and trying very hard not to mouth the words along the way.
10 miles in, I found myself back at the Central Park boathouse and I grabbed a large coffee. I walked a little way to the little lake by 5th avenue and watched a family floating a little electric boat along the water. A few more sips of coffee and I figured I should probably start heading for home.
Rounding the little lake, I saw some chairs set up by the Hans Christian Andersen statue (did I even know that was there before??). Sure enough, the clock was almost striking 11am, and I realised I was just in time for Saturday Storytime. Kids and their parents were settling themselves onto the folding chairs, so I sat on a public bench close by and the story-tellers told their tales. The kids were completely spellbound even though some of the stories were a bit more adult than I thought would have been appropriate. Storytime Saturdays take place at 11am every week between early June and September, and I am sure they are very well-attended. Being a big kid myself, I certainly enjoyed it and would like to come back.
Storytime ended at noon so I figured I would head home. It was already clear that I wasn't going to make the 1pm meditation in Chelsea, so I didn't rush myself at all. I walked most of the way home, but grabbed a bus for the last 20 or so blocks, when my Boathouse coffee and chugged water started to catch up with me.
I really enjoyed my solitary morning, and I don't even care that the longest conversation I'd had out loud was when I ordered my coffee. My morning in the Park was quite enough to erase all the bad feelings and stress of the week that was. I may not have been doing guided meditation this morning, but I think this is what zen feels like anyway.


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Two exciting conferences are coming up soon and all aquatic professionals should do their best to be there. One is the Association of Aquatic Professionals (AOAP), March 3 March 6 in Austin, TX and the other is National Drowning Prevention Alliance(NDPA) in Ft. Lauderdale March 13-15, 2013. While both conferences offer excellent educational and networking possibilities, they do cater to slightly different audiences. AOAP tends to draw aquatic professionals working at municipal pools, YMCA, water parks, fitness centers and the like. NDPA attracts all those wishing to prevent drowning including many governmental agencies trying to achieve this mission. Both conferences are excellent and should be on every aquatic professional's calendar. It's not too late! Register now and we'll see you there!
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Drowning Prevention definitely a passion of the Y. Wish I could make it this year. Tom is a great speaker and motivator. Thanks for joining us last May in Pa. Have Fun !
Fantastic advice Tom!
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Under the HSWA, health and safety is everyone's responsibility in a business, but the act also recognises that officers have more influence and control. This means that senior business leaders such as Directors, Board Members, and CEOs - among others - are responsible for ensuring that the business meets its health and safety responsibilities.
Those in very senior leadership positions are accountable for ensuring that the business understands and manages key risks. This is called the duty of due diligence.
What is due diligence under the HSWA 2015?
It isn't necessary for officers to be directly involved in daily management of health and safety, but they must "take reasonable steps to ensure the business is complying with its health and safety responsibilities". This includes ensuring that they:
- Have relevant, up-to-date knowledge of workplace health and safety
- Understand the nature of the business and its operations and associated health and safety risks generally
- Ensure the business has appropriate resources and processes to eliminate or minimise risk
- Ensure the business has processes for receiving, considering and responding to information about incidents, hazards, and risks.
Even in a large company, officers cannot simply rely on the fact that they have a health and safety management system in the business. They need to understand how their OSH system works, and take action to ensure it is working.
Officers in smaller businesses may be talking directly to their staff, supervising health and safety practices, and investigating any OSH incidents.
Here is a useful table showing what due diligence looks like.
How can you make sure you are protected?
Talk to the Health & Safety specialists at Safety First. We can ensure that you understand how to take the right actions, and can demonstrate that you are working to meet your obligations under the Health and Safety Workplace Act 2015.


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FDA Continues Debate as Cancer Centers Reaffirm Avastin for Breast Cancer Treatment
(NEW YORK) -- The debate over the use of Avastin for advanced breast cancer took another turn Monday when the National Comprehensive Cancer Network -- a group of leading cancer centers -- reaffirmed its existing recommendation that the drug be used for women with advanced breast cancer. This contradicts the recommendations of an FDA advisory panel which this summer voted 12 to 1 that Avastin did not prolong life for women with breast cancer, and may in fact cause harm.
The FDA is in the midst of trying to decide whether to pull the breast cancer indication for the drug.
The NCCN does agree that Avastin doesn't appear to improve overall survival, but does appear to slow the progression of the disease, so women have better quality of life for a longer period of time.
Avastin is also approved for lung, kidney and colon cancer. Doctors could prescribe it off-label for breast cancer, but then insurance probably wouldn't cover it. The drug can cost thousands of dollars a year.
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Selection & Sizing
The selection and sizing of the heat pump system require two things.
- The building's heating and cooling loads and the domestic hot water heating requirements must be provided by the heat pump system.
- An estimate must be made of the ground heat exchanger loads given the heat pump operating hours.
The steps to follow are:
- Calculate the building's heating and cooling design loads using one of many alternative methods including:
- Hand calculations based on ASHRAE recommendations.
- Air Conditioning Contractors of America Manual J for single family detached homes , or
- Manufacturer or other accepted computer software programs such as those available from Carrier, Right-J, WaterFurnace, and Trane, or from Oklahoma State University for multi-family and commercial applications.
- Hand calculations based on ASHRAE recommendations.
- Select a properly sized heat pump to serve these loads. This subject is discussed in more detail in the Heating and Cooling Equipment Sizing segment, and in equipment manufacturer's catalogs.
- Select the type of indoor distribution system. An air system is typical for single family residential and some commercial and institutional applications. A water-to-air system is often considered for larger multi-zone commercial and institutional type buildings. In the latter case, the primary heat pump is a water-to-water unit, rather than the water-air type.
- Size the indoor distribution system. There are a number of manuals and some software programs that can assist the distribution system designer.
- Select the proper air supply and return diffusers, registers and grilles.
- Estimate the building's energy requirements given:
- The heating and cooling loads,
- The type and size of heat pump equipment selected, and
- The thermal characteristics of climate and soil.
- The heating and cooling loads,
- Estimate the ground heat exchanger loads, considering the annual load and the design month's load.


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Antique rugs- These things are seriously too perfect. And we know it's not just us. I mean granny has had one in her living room for years. All of a sudden this room accessory catches our eye every time. Between the the color and geometry, we are mesmerized. Along with the stories and craftsmanship behind them. I have never seen a stain on these things, it's like they're made out of mystery material. Should we even be walking on them in the first place? I don't know, but we have found the most perfect site for admiring and getting to read a little background by each individual lovely rug. - http://nazmiyalantiquerugs.com/
You may or may not regret going to this site. But you will end up wanting one for every room.
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Dear Etiquetteer: For a long time I've given a big party every year to celebrate something fun, but this year I've decided to do something different for myself that won't be a party. What's my obligation to tell people they won't be hearing from me as usual? It feels weird to tell people, but I also want to be thoughtful for folks to make other plans if they want to. What's the rule?
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Your query brought to mind two things almost at once. The first was the voice of a Dear Friend, who delights repeating the old saw "When you assume, you make an ass of you and me" when Situations of This Sort arise. The other was Washington author and journalist Sally Quinn and her 1997 book The Party: A Guide to Adventurous Entertaining. Etiquetteer recalls La Quinn writing about her annual New Year's Eve party, but that also some years she and her husband Ben Bradlee would just go off to the country place instead and not host it. This led to some confusion from guests who, out of force of habit, just showed up at their dark town house and found nothing happening.
It's the responsibility of your guests not to assume there's a party if they haven't received an invitation. There is no social requirement to issue an un-invitation*, a term of Etiquetteer's invention that means "an announcement of an event that will not take place." That said, if you want to "control your own narrative" and ensure that people don't start creating Gossip, it makes sense to email your usual guest list to say that your plans have changed and that what they have come to expect will not, in fact, be on the calendar. Etiquetteer imagines that such an announcement would be helpful for those who travel.
*Etiquetteer was all set to call this an "unvitation," but that term has already been invented and defined by the cast of Seinfeld.


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In one form or another, Damien Echols has now been a star of at least five films, but this is not a distinction that fills him with pride.
Along with Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr., Mr. Echols, now 39, was convicted in 1994 of the murder of three boys in West Memphis, Ark.
After years of efforts to prove their innocence, Mr. Echols, a onetime death-row inmate, Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Misskelley — who together came to be known as the West Memphis Three — were freed in 2011 in a deal that required them to plead guilty to the murders.
Regarded by their supporters as victims of a runaway prosecution, the men have been subjects of four documentaries: the three-part "Paradise Lost" series (1996-2011), directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, and "West of Memphis" (2012), directed by Amy Berg. And now their lives and the case are being depicted in a scripted dramatic feature, "Devil's Knot," due Friday from the director Atom Egoyan.
For Mr. Echols, the constant attention has a double edge: It helps keep attention on the crimes and efforts to exonerate him, but also forces him to revisit a traumatic experience.
"You have to keep talking about it," he said in a recent interview, "but at the same time, I've reached a point where I'm so sick of this stuff. It's eaten up 20 years of my life."
Yet the creators of these movies find themselves entrenched in the projects more deeply than most typical filmmakers. They say the case is worth revisiting and revisiting, even after the cameras stop rolling. To them, their work is not finished until the murders are solved and justice is done.
"There's no conclusive ending," said Elizabeth Fowler, a producer of "Devil's Knot." "There are still things going on that are worthy of documentation." Ms. Fowler, who optioned Mara Leveritt's nonfiction book of the same title as the basis for the project, has pursued her own research into the case, communicating with families of the victims, lawyers for the defendants, private investigators and others.
All the filmmakers say they remain connected to the case to varying degrees, continuing to receive tips and information that they share with one another and research teams. Mr. Berlinger said that when he and Mr. Sinofsky first traveled to Arkansas in 1993 to make the original "Paradise Lost" for HBO, they expected to tell a story about "kids killing kids, and how teenagers became so disaffected from life that they became devil worshipers," a theory advanced by prosecutors and media coverage.
Instead, Mr. Berlinger said, they realized "this was a film about wrongful conviction" and how "the town fell for the prejudice that prosecutors were selling."
Though the documentary won Emmy and Peabody Awards, Mr. Berlinger said he and Mr. Sinofsky were frustrated that it did not help free the defendants. In 2000, they made a follow-up film whose goal, Mr. Berlinger said, "was just unabashed advocacy."
The "Paradise Lost" movies helped inspire the creation of sites like wm3.org that support the West Memphis Three, and attract celebrity allies like Eddie Vedder and Johnny Depp, as well as the "Lord of the Rings" filmmakers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, who spent their own money to pursue further investigations of the crimes.
Mr. Jackson and Ms. Walsh also started production on their own documentary, "West of Memphis," which was directed by Ms. Berg ("Deliver Us From Evil") and was meant to bring public attention to the new evidence that their investigations had been turning up, but that they felt prosecutors and judges were disregarding.
"Our brief to Amy was very clear," Mr. Jackson wrote in an email. "The film was to essentially be the evidentiary hearing the state had blocked."
He said he and Ms. Walsh had financed the film because that was "the only way we could ensure the full control of information Damien's lawyers requested."
Mr. Berlinger and Mr. Sinofsky returned to make a third "Paradise Lost" film. And Ms. Fowler said, laughing, that at times it could feel as if there were "25 ongoing productions" covering the story, with some collisions inevitable.
Mr. Berlinger praised Mr. Jackson and Ms. Walsh — "I think 'Paradise Lost' saved Damien's life from execution, but I think Peter Jackson's efforts got him out of prison," he said — but expressed frustration that he was prevented from speaking with some longtime sources who had participated in "West of Memphis."
Mr. Jackson said that his production, too, was denied access to sources who had struck exclusivity arrangements with "Paradise Lost." Still, he praised Mr. Berlinger for his "terrific strength as a filmmaker" and "the amazing and completely unique role he has played in the WM3 case."
Mr. Echols, a producer on "West of Memphis," said that it was human nature that "a lot of people got egos wrapped up in the situation," but that ultimately he could not pass up any offer to help clear his name.
"Preserving my life is going to come before nurturing hurt feelings," Mr. Echols said.
He also said he had concerns about "Devil's Knot," which he had not seen. Screenplay drafts he read suggested that he participated in animal sacrifice and other satanic rituals. (Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Misskelley are among the producers of that film; Mr. Echols is not. Ms. Fowler is also producing a scripted feature directed by Mr. Berlinger, "Facing the Wind.")
Ms. Fowler said the scene was included only to illustrate "the local satanic panic" but was removed at his request.
As for the case itself, Scott Ellington, the prosecuting lawyer for Arkansas's Second Judicial District, said in a phone interview, "There are no ongoing investigations by governmental investigative authorities."
Mr. Ellington added that when information is shared with him, he has a duty "to provide that to defense counsel if it could possibly be exculpatory evidence."
"I occasionally get people sharing various thoughts and hypotheses," he added, "but not necessarily facts."
Mr. Jackson said he was disappointed that other recent efforts by Mr. Echols's defense team, including attempts to obtain case files and forensic evidence from the F.B.I., had not succeeded.
Still, Mr. Jackson said that "very compelling circumstantial evidences piles up."
"We're waiting for the day when that slam dunk moment arrives," he added. "And one day it will."
There is at least one more West Memphis Three-related project to come. Mr. Echols, who now lives in New York, is publishing "Yours for Eternity," a collection of the correspondence he and his wife, Lorri Davis, exchanged while he was in prison.
"It's the last thing we can possibly do that has anything to do with that time in our lives," he said. "We're doing this, and we're done."


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At Words Alive, we see first-hand the value of early education programs through our work with preschoolers, early elementary school-aged children, and their families in our Read Aloud and Family Literacy Programs. But what are the tangible and measurable long-term benefits to programs such as these?
While there is research showing that high-quality early education programs are valuable, especially for disadvantaged children, there wasn't much research that analyzed the long term effects of these programs until recently. Nobel Laureate James Heckman and co-authors Jorge Luis Garcia, Duncan Ermini Leaf, and Maria Jose Prados have published a new paper, The Life-Cycle Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program, that answers this question.
The researchers analyzed two early education programs in North Carolina - the Carolina Abecedarian Project (ABC) and the Carolina Approach to Responsive Education (CARE) - both of which work with children from eight weeks old to age five. The programs collected data on the participants on a whole range of factors, including health, quality of life, participation in crime, labor income, IQ and education, and the researchers continued to follow-up with participants through the age of 35.
Through doing this research, Heckman and his colleagues discovered the many ways in which these programs provide long-term benefits to both the participants and to the greater community. Some of the benefits that individual participants experienced compared to a control group were: more developed social and emotional skills (including self-control and the ability to monitor), increased education, reduced health care costs, reduced crime, greater earnings, and higher IQ. The children also had access to health screenings as part of the programs and were therefore more likely to be physically healthier.
"What is turning out from this body of research is that promoting engagement of children, their cognitive and non-cognitive skills, boosting their IQs, at the same time boosting their social engagement, their willingness to participate in society, monitoring their health from an early age, is having huge benefits downstream for the rest of their lives."
In terms of benefits for the greater community, the researchers found that these early education programs not only benefited the children but also allowed their parents to live fuller, healthier lives. Especially in single-parent homes, access to quality childcare allows single parents to pursue work and education opportunities that might not have otherwise been possible.
In addition, when looking at larger societal issues such as crime rates, you can start to see how these early education programs have the potential to influence the greater society. Heckman argues that we tend to look at these problems and search for solutions in a very limited way, by "looking at one problem at a time and one solution very closely linked to that problem." From Heckman's research, we know that the children in these early education programs exhibit lower crime rates compared to their peers in the control group. As such, maybe programs such as these can start to be viewed as bigger picture solutions to these very specific issues affecting society.
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Part of the Obama Administration's effort to build Ladders of Opportunity to the middle class, HUD is offering grants of up to $30 million through its Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Program to support locally driven solutions for transforming neighborhoods struggling to address poor quality housing, inadequate schools, poor health, high crime, and lack of capital.
Speaking at the annual convention of the National League of Cities (NLC) in Austin, Texas, Castro said the grants will help create jobs, increase economic activity, improve affordable housing, reduce violence and expand educational opportunities. Grantees and their partners use the funds as a catalyst - stimulating approximately $7.50 in public and private investment for every $1 in the Choice Neighborhoods funding.
"These Choice Neighborhood grants will empower local communities to leverage public and private investment and achieve greater collective impact," Castro said. "We look forward to working with community leaders to breathe new life into struggling neighborhoods-and to transform them into places where residents can flourish and dreams can thrive."
Choice Neighborhoods is HUD's signature place-based initiative and its vision builds on the work that has been done by the Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative, an interagency partnership between HUD, the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Justice, and Treasury, since 2009. Through a variety of interventions, the Ladders of Opportunity plan will help community partners rebuild neighborhoods, expand early learning opportunities, create pathways to jobs, and strengthen families. Choice Neighborhoods is focused on three core goals:
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- People: Improve educational outcomes and intergenerational mobility for youth with services and supports delivered directly to youth and their families.
- Neighborhood: Create the conditions necessary for public and private reinvestment in distressed neighborhoods to offer the kinds of amenities and assets, including safety, good schools, and commercial activity, that are important to families' choices about their community.
HUD's commitment to teamwork means local residents and leaders are leading the way in revitalizing their communities. To accomplish these core goals, communities must have in place a comprehensive neighborhood revitalization strategy, or Transformation Plan. This Transformation Plan is the guiding document for the revitalization of the public and/or assisted housing units, while simultaneously directing the transformation of the surrounding neighborhood and positive outcomes for families.
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Today, Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grantees can be found in cities such as Boston, Columbus, and San Antonio. In Boston, a local community economic development corporation successfully converted a vacant, blighted 36,000 square-foot factory into a food production hub that is expected to bring 50 businesses and 150 jobs to the local neighborhood in its first five years of operation. In Columbus, the City, Housing Authority, and The Ohio State University are now implementing a community driven Transformation Plan with the support of Choice Neighborhoods funds in over $180 million in public and private sources. Finally, cities like San Antonio have leveraged Choice Neighborhoods efforts with federal funding to improve schools and public safety - an effort that has led to a Promise Zones designation.
WASHINGTON, D.C.- The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is encouraging producers who have suffered eligible disaster-related losses to act to secure assistance by Sept. 30, 2014, as congressionally mandated payment reductions will take place for producers who have not acted before that date. Livestock producers that have experienced grazing losses since October 2011 and may be eligible for benefits but have not yet contacted their local Farm Service Agency (FSA) office should do so as soon as possible.
The Budget Control Act passed by Congress in 2011 requires USDA to implement reductions of 7.3 percent to the Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) in the new fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1, 2014. However, producers seeking LFP support who have scheduled appointments with their local FSA office before Oct. 1, even if the appointment occurs after Oct.1, will not see reductions in the amount of disaster relief they receive.
USDA is encouraging producers to register, request an appointment or begin a Livestock Forage Disaster Program application with their county FSA office before Oct. 1, 2014, to lock in the current zero percent sequestration rate. As an additional aid to qualified producers applying for LFP, the Farm Service's Agency has developed an online registration that enables farmers and ranchers to put their names on an electronic list before the deadline to avoid reductions in their disaster assistance. This is an alternative to visiting or contacting the county office. To place a name on the Livestock Forage Disaster Program list online, visit http://www.fsa.usda.gov/disaster-register.
Producers who already contacted the county office and have an appointment scheduled need do nothing more.
"In just four months since disaster assistance enrollments began, we've processed 240,000 applications to help farmers and ranchers who suffered losses," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. "Eligible producers who have not yet contacted their local FSA office should stop by or call their local FSA office, or sign up online before Oct. 1 when congressionally mandated payment reductions take effect. This will ensure they receive as much financial assistance as possible."
The Livestock Indemnity Program, the Tree Assistance Program and the Noninsured Disaster Assistance Program Frost Freeze payments will also be cut by 7.3 percent on Oct. 1, 2014. Unlike the Livestock Forage Disaster Program, applications for these programs must be fully completed by Sept. 30. FSA offices will prioritize these applications, but as the full application process can take several days or more to complete, producers are encouraged to begin the application process as soon as possible.
The Livestock Forage Disaster Program compensates eligible livestock producers who suffered grazing losses due to drought or fire between Oct. 1, 2011 and Dec. 31, 2014. Eligible livestock includes alpacas, beef cattle, buffalo, beefalo, dairy cattle, deer, elk, emus, equine, goats, llamas, poultry, reindeer, sheep or swine that have been or would have been grazing the eligible grazing land or pastureland. Producers forced to liquidate their livestock may also be eligible for program benefits.
Additionally, the 2014 Farm Bill eliminated the risk management purchase requirement. Livestock producers are no longer required to purchase coverage under the federal crop insurance program or Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program to be eligible for Livestock Forage Disaster Program assistance.
To learn more about USDA disaster relief program, producers can review the 2014 Farm Bill fact sheet atwww.fsa.usda.gov/farmbill, the LFP program fact sheet, http://go.usa.gov/5JTk, or contact their local FSA office.
The Livestock Forage Disaster Program was made possible through the 2014 Farm Bill, which builds on historic economic gains in rural America over the past five years, while achieving meaningful reform and billions of dollars in savings for the taxpayer. Since enactment, USDA has made significant progress to implement each provision of this critical legislation, including providing disaster relief to farmers and ranchers; strengthening risk management tools; expanding access to rural credit; funding critical research; establishing innovative public-private conservation partnerships; developing new markets for rural-made products; and investing in infrastructure, housing and community facilities to help improve quality of life in rural America. For more information, visit www.usda.gov/farmbill.
From time to time, Government Deal Funding will highlight programs that are not well known and could benefit you or someone you know. Keep in mind that eligibility requirements vary constantly and Congressional action may halt programs with little notice.
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Purpose: The Very Low-Income Housing Repair program provides loans and grants to very low-income homeowners to repair, improve, or modernize their dwellings or to remove health and safety hazards.
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Terms: Loans of up to $20,000 and grants of up to $7,500 are available. Loans are for up to 20 years at 1 percent interest. A real estate mortgage and full title services are required for loans of $7,500 or more. Grants may be recaptured if the property is sold in less than 3 years. Grant funds may be used only to pay for repairs and improvements resulting in the removal of health and safety hazards. A grant/loan combination is made if the applicant can repay part of the cost. Loans and grants can be combined for up to $27,500 in assistance.
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While football is a well-established tradition at Virginia Tech, its digital presence is relatively new. Social media has quickly become an integral part of sports and can be used in countless ways to change how college football content is publicly shared and consumed. At Virginia Tech, the Athletics Department leverages several social media platforms in order to enhance the fan experience and share Hokie Football outside of Lane Stadium.
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Additionally, HokieVision allows students to have a crucial role in the broadcast process and currently includes eight undergraduate and three graduate students. Castro explained that "we wouldn't be where we are with out the work of students in our office," who account for 80% of the live workload and 80-90% of the online workload. Working all year on both Fall and Spring sports, HokieVision supports students and provides them with an opportunity to learn and experience visual and broadcast communications at the Division One level, which allows them to have a competitive start on careers in their field.
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After a delicious (and rather IN-expensive) lunch in The Catacol Hotel, we drove down through Thundergay and Whitefarland. Beautiful calm seas and high leaden skies lent the journey a sense of impending.... something or other. I'd not had my fly rod out on the holiday, and although the trout season had finished the October runs of Sea Trout and Salmon were in full flow. A lucky angler walked up to the bridge at Dougarie Lodge as we drove past. He was carrying what must have been a twenty-five pound Salmon. "Wow Look at the fish he's got!" I exclaimed. No answer. My OH was fast asleep in her car seat and the wee fella was snoring gently, slumped on his booster in the back. Hmm, I thought, free time for Druid!
I pulled over about half a mile further on and walked up to Auchencar Farm leaving the two dreamers to their dreams. The farmer was just setting his prize tups out amongst his ewes in the field with the stone and in the one next to it. he stopped on his quad and told me just to go into the field if I wanted. I've been up to the stone many times before and I politely declined, the view is so much better from a distance. You get a better idea of the scale of the stone. A bit of perspective.... Also, I hate to disturb a tup about his business, so I contented myself with brilliant views across the field toward the stone.
Druid is just such a brute of a thing. massive and phallic, a curving, bulging, priapus and yet at the same time it is one half of a very feminine shape (the other half lies broken beside it). There is a slight rise around the stones which could be a well robbed-out cairn but I'm not convinced. Some short cists were ploughed up between the stone and Auchencar Farm about a hundred years ago and a cremation urn was found about a hundred yards North West of the stone in the late 19th Century. The surviving stone faces towards the sea and it is highly visible. This stone was meant to be seen. We saw it from miles away, walking round from King's Caves at the start of the holiday. For the sea-going (and sea-arriving) early visitors, the 70 feet above sea level stones would have been a superb landmark as they arrived by canoe from the South up the Kilbrannan Sound. The stones would have guided them into Machrie Bay and two of the best salmon runs (The Machrie Water and the Iiorsa) on the South Western Seaboard of Scotland. There is an ancient (and large) tidal fish trap by the mouth of the Machrie Water and those runs of Salmon would have been immense in the Neolithic.
I returned to the car and the two still-snoring dreamers and set off for King's Cross Point, our wee holiday cottage and the promise of a game of the new Arran Monopoly set.
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Renowned fifteen year old cellist Bihn Park returns for his second appearance under the rich mosaic of Glencairn's stunning Great Hall Arch, where he will once again be accompanied by acclaimed pianist Nozomi Takashima. The program includes Frescobaldi/Cassado Toccata, Bach suite no. 6 in D major, and Schumann's complete concerto in A minor.
Mr. Park began lessons at age 7 in Chicago. After moving to Philadelphia, he continued his studies with Metta Watts and the legendary Orlando Cole. Mr. Cole, a member of the first class at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia (1934) and a founding member of the Curtis Quartet, gave him lessons once a week until two months before his death at age 101. Cole told Watts that Park was the most talented student he had ever worked with in his 70-year teaching career at Curtis and Temple University, something he reported to virtuoso Yo-Yo Ma as well. "Orlando… gave Yo-Yo a recording of (Park)," Watts said this past spring. "Bihn is very, very special. He was born to play the cello." Park got to meet the world famous cellist when he appeared several years ago at the Mann Center in Philadelphia.
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AskFreelancers is where I ask freelancers a question, this time I asked the question, "What styles or artists do you listen to when working on contracts". Personally I like to listen to music without lyrics when I am coding because it requires concentration and I often find myself distracted as I start to sing along, so I tend to prefer more jazz and chillout music, however when I am designing I tend to listen to more Indie and the older tunes that my parents would listen to.
Creativity is like a breeze: fleeting, invisible and just as hard to catch. Some people relax and let it come to them. Some people work hard to bring it to bear. I'm going to tell you how you can do something enjoyable and effortlessly infuse yourself with creativity. Listen to music.
Whatever your discipline, music is an important factor in your creativity. However, ask most designers about the relationship between design and music and you'll often get a confused response - to some, the link is so intrinsic and consuming that it's almost invisible. Quite simply, it is design that brings music to life visually.
Design Tip: Music May Drown Out Your Message
Music by itself isn't controversial: virtually everyone likes to hear or perform it. But they like to choose when, where, and what to listen to. A Web site is rarely the ideal presentation method. Visitors may just tune out if music is turned on.
Drawar : Which kinds of music do you listen to while working?
What kind of music do you prefer to listen to while getting work done? I usually like something calming like some jazz, or if I have to meet that 5pm deadline that I promised I turn up the BPM to some dance music lol. What works for you ?
Music To Feed Your Soul During Crucial Design Moments
Try listening to these with your eyes closed for at least a few seconds, if even but for just a fleeting glimpse of sheer calm. I guarantee you will drift away into your own creative zone perfectly after listening to at least one of these songs. Any & all of these songs can be found on iTunes, if not Last.fm or Pandora. So kick back, turn up your speakers/headphones, crank the bass, and just fall into yourself…Here are 8 songs to design to.
Should we listen to music while working? The designers answer.
Following is the opinion of my fellow designers, most of them being music listeners when working. Some of them listen to music because they think it helps them to get in the zone and others do so to override external noise. Most seem to agree that not every type of music is suitable for getting things done.
The Design Observer's Playlist
Let's try a bit of blog based research here. Let's try and find out what Design Observer readers are listening to, and build up our own blog playlist. I'm predicting a mixed bag, with not very much Yngwe Malmsteen. But I could be wrong.
What kind of music are YOU listening while you are creative?
What kind of music are YOU listening while you are creative?
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Is the Doctrine of Imminence still relevant?
If you take anything away from this and last week's article, let me sum it up by saying this; the greater the convergence, the lesser the imminence. The same is true in reverse, the greater the imminence, the lesser the convergence. It is impossible for both concepts to take up equal space on the same prophetic timeline. The only caveat to this then applies only to those who choose to remain ignorant of the signs of the times.
If you take anything away from this and last week's article, let me sum it up by saying this; the greater the convergence, the lesser the imminence. The same is true in reverse, the greater the imminence, the lesser the convergence. It is impossible for both concepts to take up equal space on the same prophetic timeline. The only caveat to this then applies only to those who choose to remain ignorant of the signs of the times.
Because the world pushed the 20th century into the modern age with advancements in just about every field of knowledge. One would think that in an era of instant gratification and information, life on earth would become sublimely utopic. Rather quite the opposite has occurred with this world's out of control addiction to technology causing many to self-alienate and disconnect from reality. It is at this juncture that we come to a unique paradox matched only in one other time in human history, the pre-flood world.
On one hand, life for a majority of the world (the extreme third-world being the exception) has improved technologically, medically, economically, and socially. On the other hand, the Bible states that things will deteriorate morally, socially, and religiously as time goes on. Thus we have the convergence of increased knowledge and travel (Daniel 12:4) which has resulted in the overall increase wickedness and violence on a global scale. And the unintended consequences of man's increased free time and liberty due to said technological advancements (Gen. 6:5; Luke 17:26).
One of the consequences of the curse God put on Adam after the Fall, was that man was to toil and work the land to survive (Gen. 3:17-19). For most of human history, life on earth was brutal and tough. When a civilization reached its apex, what inevitability ensued was a rapid deterioration in that society's morals and values ultimately making societal collapse all but inevitable. We are again at this summit of where mankind need not struggle to eat, shop, buy, marry, etc.
Although there are still some undeveloped places on the planet, for a majority of the world, electricity, the internet, instant communication (cell phones, computers, landlines, etc.), and advanced travel are still accessible. Also consider that today, most of the world does not farm. Only a small fraction of the population actually labors to produce any food. The rest of us buy from stores the things we need and want. As to violence, more people have died in the past century than the previous twenty centuries combined. In Earth's Earliest Ages, G.H. Pember noted (this in 1884)...
...the fitness of man for a condition of extreme liberty, and the worth of a trust in the innate justice supposed to lie at the bottom of the human heart, have been already tested by the great Creator. Modern philosophers are urging a repetition of the experiment; but the history of the times of old proves the fallacy of their views. For the wickedness of man became great; all flesh corrupted its way upon the earth, and the earth was filled with violence. And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man.
The Bible is quite clear when speaking about certain future events which have to happen. Scriptural logic leads one to understand that events rarely just happen instantaneously. There is an unfolding of connected or interrelated events that makes something that seemed either impossible or unlikely, all but inevitable. For example, the Bible speaks about Israel becoming a nation again for the second time (Amos 9:14-15, Isaiah 11:11-12, Ezekiel 37). But were it not for World War I and II, the rebirth of the nation of Israel could not have happened. Could God have brought Israel back into the table of nations without major global wars? Sure, but that is not how things have transpired. So it stands to reason that our recent history has unfolded precisely as God intended it, along with its intended results.
Transitional Imminence: 1917-1948
Israel, as John Nelson Darby taught it, was God's timepiece. If that is true, then Israel's entire history going back to Abraham should be the most chronicled and detailed of any people who ever existed. It is.
As many today note, Israel is the super-sign of the end times. Israel's rebirth as a nation after almost two millennia in Diaspora is absolutely a miracle. No other nation can make that claim. But before Israel became a nation again, there was the stirring of the Jewish people to return to their homeland. The Zionist Movement, which began in 1897 by Theodor Herzl, along with strong Dispensational and other Christian evangelical support, became momentum that would continue from 1897 through 1948. From a Christian perspective, that support didn't occur in a vacuum.
Darby's support in the early 19th century for the return of the Jews back to what was then just a backwater province of the Ottoman Empire became influential amongst other Dispensationalists. Many of the early Dispensationalists had come out of the Anglican and Presbyterian denominations to make up the Plymouth Brethren. Their influence in part helped later shape decision makers like Lord Balfour to instruct England's political position on the rightful return of the Jews back to what was then called Palestine. As World War I began drawing to a close, it was clear that the Ottoman Turks were in no position to continue ruling over the Middle East, thus European powers began to drawing boundaries to set different nations again.
With England's support for the now growing European Zionist movement, teachers and preachers of Dispensationalism were cautiously optimistic that they were witnessing God's word being fulfilled. Men like C.I. Scofield, Clarence Larkin, and others wrote decades before 1948, that the Jews would become a nation again just as the Bible predicted it (Jeremiah 31:35-36, Ezekiel 37, Amos 9:15, Isaiah 2, 11)...and so it was. This Balfour Declaration encouraged and renewed the strength of the literal view of scriptural interpretation and they began to understand that as Israel goes, so goes God's clock for the world. Watching the progress of Israel becoming a nation again, meant for these early watchers that the fullness of the Gentiles and the time of the Gentiles would soon be drawing to a close. I call this period of time Transitional Imminence simply because although the Church could see God moving and shaping events, Israel had yet to become a nation again.
Limited Imminence: 1948-Present
On November 29th, 1947, the United Nations approved a Partition Plan that agreed to divide up what was then Palestine into a separate Arab and Jewish state. The Jews declared their independence some six months later on May 14th, 1948, and were immediately attacked by their Arab neighbors. And from then until now, Israel has tenuously and cautiously lived in a neighborhood hell-bent on her destruction. The significance of her rebirth has worn off since many are not old enough to remember a time when there wasn't a nation of Israel. There are many today who don't even remember a time when Israel wasn't in complete control of Jerusalem. Much time dulls the eyes of many in the church.
The idea of imminence being limited might sound odd to the reader, but what is implied is that our window for Christ's return is rapidly shrinking, thus limiting the timeframe in which imminence can be completely unknowable. Again, we can't know the day or hour, but we will recognize the season. We know this as a certainty, because when Jesus gave His Olivet Discourse...He added a comment about convergence that matches up with the later revelations that were given to Peter, Paul, James, Jude, and John.
"Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near-at the doors! Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. Matthew 24:32-34
We know from the rapid advancements in the past century with technology, communications, warfare, digital currencies, medicine, natural and manmade disasters, that it is quickly placing us in a time that matches the capabilities present in the seven-year window known as Daniel's 70th Week. Along with the geopolitical arrangements with nations aligning themselves as they are (The United Nations, the European Union, Russia, Iran, Turkey, etc.) also point toward the world in which final day events play out.
On top of that, we see what was once the stronghold of the Christian faith in the West is crumbling. Just as political and military power have primarily moved westward over time, we now see the Christian faith moving eastward as God the Holy Spirit once again moves mightily in the Old World. Adding to this is the world's continued attempts to divide and destroy tiny Israel. All of these (the ultimate convergence) points to the conditions in which both Jesus and Paul called birth pangs.
In the final book of the Bible, Jesus addresses seven churches with seven letters. We understand that these were real, literal, historical churches in what was then Asia-Minor in whom John was familiar with. They were also relatively unknown. Why not a letter to the church in Rome? Or the church in Christianity's birthplace, Jerusalem? Antioch? We also know there are other applications in these letters because of how they are constructed and arranged. They contained seven parts: the Lord's title, a commendation, a criticism, an admonition, a call, a challenge, and a promise. Two of the churches received no criticism (Smyrna and Philadelphia), and one received no commendation (Laodicea). Also, the challenge and the promise are reversed for the last four church. For review:
They were real, historical churches in the 1st century
They had a corporate application (admonitory to all churches of all times)...i.e....he who hath an ear, let him hear...
They had singular and personal applications...i.e....admonitions and challenges to the believers
They had prophetic applications by the order of their selection and arrangement
Skeptics might debate that last bullet, but let's say hypothetically that the letter to the church at Laodicea was placed anywhere other than at the end of the seven letters. If that were the case then this prophetic application wouldn't make sense and skeptics would be correct in their rebuke of such a claim.
But because the letter to Laodicea is at the end of the letters, we can see a clear progression that also matches what we know from church history. In other words, the church ages (or epochs) can clearly be seen when we review how Christendom has unfolded around the world over these last two thousand years. Remember, Laodicea was just as real a church at the same time as Ephesus or Smyrna was. While it is not necessary to hold to seven-letter seven-epochs as the gospel truth, it is noted that throughout church history, one type of church tends to be the dominant face of Christendom.
Each of the churches unfolded in an age in which their brand (or their type) tended to dominate any other form of Christendom. There was an Ephesus era that had the Apostles who were still walking the earth. But that time came to an end when John passed on into glory. There was a Smyrna era in which the Church then (100-313AD) came under intense persecution from the Roman Empire. There was an era when the Roman Empire legalized Christianity, and thus we see the mixing of paganism into Christianity that is exemplified in Pergamum. So on and so forth. Put an another way, they unfolded individually as eras, but they continued on and overlapped, thus waning in power and influence and giving heed to the next type (or form) of church era.
At the very least, the last four letters to Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea are all still in play. Since the 1960's, the West has rapidly digressed into antichristian territory with the onset of the Sexual Revolution, the reemergence of Eastern mysticism, embracement of socialism, and rapid increases in violence and the occult in entertainment. All of these have morally weakened societies around the Western world, and have enforced a compromise-or-die type of mentality upon western churches in particular. Thus in trying to remain relevant, we have the compromised Laodicean era who is hell-bent on making being lukewarm the hottest trend around.
All that to say this, that if these churches are in fact chronicles heralding the stages the church would go through, then it is equally reasonable to assume that they had to play out first, in order for Christ to return for His church. So while it was reasonable to assume that no sign preceded the Rapture of the Church for most of its history, we now have the luxury of hindsight and can see we are at the last stage of development in the age of the Church. It is not until the conclusion of this last Laodicean church, that John see's the door in heaven open, and hears a voice as a trumpet call from there "Come up here!"
As one with many children and having witnessed pregnancy many times, birth pangs do not go on forever...as all births come to a moment of truth when the child arrives. This writer's belief is that while blind imminence may have been a valid assumption for the first portion of the last two millennia, it is quickly becoming something we can no longer hide behind. Too many events are pointing to too many signs for Christians to simply shrug their shoulders' and say who knows or who cares? It should be a call for us to wake up and wake up our brothers and sisters in Christ and to put on a sense of urgency that our blessed hope is about to be realized. Christ promised a special warning to His believers who did not bother to watch and chose to remain ignorant about His return. To the dead church at Sardis He said...
Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you. Revelation 3:3
Even so, Maranatha!


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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Dear Mr. Harbeck, I will really miss grade eight math, I'll really miss your loud teaching and everything else you do. I'll especially miss this blog, the one I always visited after school or when I was bored. This method that you use for the internet.. for math was really fun and enjoyable. I guess I'll just basically miss grade eight and all the fun and wonders it held, all the teachers.. and those events or whatever they are called that keep us all occupied and busy. Like Pay It Forward, that Four Charities thing.. you know. Movies.. it was really fun. The grade sevens and nines are always asking me why we weren't in class during this day or that day, and I would simply say.. "we were doing blahblahballh" and they would say "how come we didn't do that last year?" I loved grade eight and I'll miss it. I hope your summers fine btw! Love fuzzy.
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Thanks Peachy. YOu will also be missed. I am planning a Grade 9 blog for you next year. Thanks again for all of your input at the 841blog this year
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Glow from Acupuncture: Vitality on the Inside + Beauty on the Outside
Peter Kadar
If your outside looks older than you feel on the inside, then this is the article for you. The first thing that people see when they meet you is your face. It's your introduction to the world, a reflection of your internal health, and the one thing that is judged immediately compared to any other part of your body. Many people go to great efforts, spend a lot of money, and often do not know about healthy, natural ways to nourish and enhance their skin and features. Some people choose fillers such as Botox and Restalyn to retain their youth, while others opt for the more extreme route like plastic surgery. They are paying lots of money for potentially harmful, toxic and surgical remedies and ignoring the connection between overall constitutional wellness and a natural, beautiful appearance.
Here at The Acupuncture Center of New Jersey, we specialize in Constitutional Facial Rejuvenation. I was trained by the acclaimed Mary Elizabeth Wakefield to learn how to successfully treat and remove obvious facial issues (lines, crow's feet, jowls, sagging skin etc). Additionally I have been trained to use Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese medical diagnosis to correlate each part of the face with a specific organ in the body. For example, those laugh lines that so many of us get around the mouth pertain to the health of the digestive tract. So if you are starting to droop in that area, I would choose acupuncture points to help strengthen and detox the intestines. BUT the best thing about my acupuncture facial treatments is that I incorporate other modalities into the mix. One that I will share with you is a little something called "Derma Rolling."
Derma Rolling is a facial rejuvenation technique that I have chosen to incorporate into the acupuncture treatments because I wanted something to really penetrate those problem areas of the skin very intensely. It involves maneuvering a small titanium roller with hundreds of tiny needles on it, across the skin in a very specific way in order to rebuild collagen in those lines and grooves. How does it work? Well it tricks the body into thinking there is an injury in the area that the roller is working, and in turn it causes the body to increase blood circulation and collagen production to begin the healing process. It's very similar to how the facial acupuncture works, but in combination it really packs a punch and gives you the best results possible. It also leaves the skin with a nice rosy glow and a throbbing feeling as if your skin just got heavily exfoliated. Your skin feels alive and healthy just after one session. I call this the "Acu-Glow" result! In order to achieve noticeable, consistent, sustained results the suggested treatment course is 8-12 sessions with routine maintenance. A small price to pay for a healthier and more confident you!
If you're interested in achieving the Acu-Glow, you can call and speak to me about what Acupuncture Facial Rejuvenation can do for you! I would love to help you achieve the best version of yourself, and to help you gain better insight on how to keep your inside and outside looking radiant and youthful.