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Light-driven synchrony of Prochlorococcus growth and mortality in the subtropical Pacific gyre
Edited by David M. Karl, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, and approved May 21, 2015 (received for review December 23, 2014)
The cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus is the most abundant photosynthetic organism in the oceans, driving marine food webs and biogeochemistry. Estimates of Prochlorococcus cell mortality and cell production are critical to determine how organic matter is transferred into the food web. Using novel high-resolution sampling methods on two winter-time cruises, we show that the daily production of Prochlorococcus cells in surface waters of the subtropical Pacific gyre is consistently balanced by their nightly consumption by other organisms. These synchronized loss processes suggest that Prochlorococcus-derived organic matter stabilizes multiple species interactions, from viruses to grazers. The observed resilience of this synchronized food web dynamic as temperature increased within the gyre suggests that ecosystem stability may persist in future warmer oceans.
Theoretical studies predict that competition for limited resources reduces biodiversity to the point of ecological instability, whereas strong predator/prey interactions enhance the number of coexisting species and limit fluctuations in abundances. In open ocean ecosystems, competition for low availability of essential nutrients results in relatively few abundant microbial species. The remarkable stability in overall cell abundance of the dominant photosynthetic cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus is assumed to reflect a simple food web structure strongly controlled by grazers and/or viruses. This hypothesized link between stability and ecological interactions, however, has been difficult to test with open ocean microbes because sampling methods commonly have poor temporal and spatial resolution. Here we use continuous techniques on two different winter-time cruises to show that Prochlorococcus cell production and mortality rates are tightly synchronized to the day/night cycle across the subtropical Pacific Ocean. In warmer waters, we observed harmonic oscillations in cell production and mortality rates, with a peak in mortality rate consistently occurring ∼6 h after the peak in cell production. Essentially no cell mortality was observed during daylight. Our results are best explained as a synchronized two-component trophic interaction with the per-capita rates of Prochlorococcus consumption driven either directly by the day/night cycle or indirectly by Prochlorococcus cell production. Light-driven synchrony of food web dynamics in which most of the newly produced Prochlorococcus cells are consumed each night likely enforces ecosystem stability across vast expanses of the open ocean.
Potential interdependencies between species diversity and ecosystem stability have gained increased focus due to global changes in species distributions and abundances (1). Strong predator–prey interactions are predicted to enhance the number of coexisting species and limit fluctuations in abundances (2, 3), whereas competition for limited resources is predicted to reduce biodiversity, in some instances, to the point of ecological instability (3, 4). Mechanisms underlying ecosystem stability remain challenging to characterize on relevant temporal and spatial scales, in part because few empirical data are available to test these theories.
Our focus is on the microbial communities within surface waters of the vast oligotrophic gyre of the north Pacific Subtropical Ocean. Here, competition for low concentrations of essential nutrients is hypothesized to result in relatively few abundant microbial species, typified by their extremely small cell sizes and streamlined genomes (5). The cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus numerically dominates the photosynthetic community in these regions, with a relatively constant cell abundance close to half a billion cells per liter despite a population doubling time of approximately one day (6). Such constant cell numbers are predicted when both prey and predators are abundant and broadly dispersed and when the predator–prey interactions are tightly coupled (7). Understanding the stability of this coupling is important as loss processes determine how Prochlorococcus cell production is transferred into the marine food web. Estimates of cell production and cell mortality rates for Prochlorococcus remain sparse, however, as they are commonly derived from incubations in bottles (8) or measures of cell cycle progression over the day/night cycle (9), both of which are labor intensive and thus limited in their broad-scale applicability (10). Here we estimated Prochlorococcus cell production and cell mortality rates continuously across a 2,900-km transect in the northeast Pacific Ocean in winter (October–November 2011) using a shipboard-based flow cytometer, SeaFlow (11) and show that, throughout the gyre, rates of Prochlorococcus cell production and cell mortality are both tightly synchronized to the day/night cycle, which likely helps stabilize open ocean ecosystems.
Results and Discussion
Temperature Regulates the Rates of Prochlorococcus Cell Division.
Prochlorococcus division rates were estimated using a size-structured population model (12, 13) with the continuously measured size distribution of Prochlorococcus as input (SI Appendix, Figs. S1–S4). Continuous, daily averaged division rates of natural Prochlorococcus populations along the transect increased from 0.2 to 0.9 d−1 (Fig. 1A) and were linearly correlated with temperature (R2 = 0.97, P < 0.001; Fig. 1B). These computed division rates were similar to our independent estimates based on cell cycle analyses (SI Appendix, Figs. S2 and S3). Lower division rates were encountered in cooler waters (16–19 °C) at the edge of the north Pacific gyre and further inshore where the high-light-adapted Prochlorococcus ecotype I (eHLI) dominated (>95% of all Prochlorococcus 16S rDNA barcoded sequences), and were similar to those previously observed in that region (<0.4 d−1) (14) (Fig. 1A and SI Appendix, Fig. S5). Higher division rates were observed in the warmer subtropical gyre waters, which were dominated by the high-light-adapted Prochlorococcus ecotype II (eHLII) (65–94% of all Prochlorococcus 16S rDNA barcoded sequences) and were similar to, or higher than, the few individual measurements available from the Sargasso Sea (>0.7 d−1) (14), another warm water ecosystem.
The highest in situ division rate (0.9 d−1) occurred at 25 °C in low-latitude waters (25°N; Fig. 1B) and is remarkably similar to the highest division rate reported for a cultured representative of eHLII (MIT9312) grown under nutrient-replete conditions (SI Appendix, Fig. S6). Thus, the eHLII-dominated field population in the subtropical gyre was likely dividing at near-maximal rates, despite low ambient nutrient availability commonly found in this region (15). Similar to other ecotypes (16, 17), Prochlorococcus eHLII must possess efficient nutrient acquisition mechanisms and reduced physiological nutrient demands that allow it to maintain such high division rates in the face of nutrient scarcity. Under laboratory conditions, the growth rate of Prochlorococcus is positively correlated with temperature across the range of conditions tested in this study (18). In the field, Prochlorococcus is most abundant at warmer low latitudes (6). Both observations suggest a central role of temperature in regulating the rate of Prochlorococcus cell division in surface waters.
Synchronized Oscillations in the Rates of Prochlorococcus Cell Production and Cell Mortality.
Despite the significant differences in daily division rates along the transect, maximum cell abundance (∼400 × 106 cells/L) was comparable in both cooler and warmer waters (Fig. 2 A–D). In warm waters (>19 °C), cell numbers were tightly synchronized to the day/night cycle, with a net increase in abundance during the day and a net decrease at night (Fig. 2 C, day 1, and D). No such synchrony was observed in the colder waters (<19 °C; Fig. 2C, day 3–6). The day/night pattern observed in warm waters differs from those observed in other warm water regions such as the equatorial Pacific, where cell abundances increase during the first half of the night and decrease or remain stable during the day (19). These different patterns of cell abundance over the day/night cycle indicated an underlying difference in the timing of cell division and/or cell loss processes among these regions.
Our use of continuous measurements of cell size allowed us to examine hourly cell division over the daily cycle. The peak in cell division consistently occurred near dusk, regardless of ecotype composition (Fig. 1A), and was reflected in the declining mean cell size of the Prochlorococcus population (SI Appendix, Fig. S7). Although most previous studies report essentially stable or decreasing cell abundance in Prochlorococcus with essentially no cell division during the day (6, 19), our data revealed that a significant proportion of the population underwent cell division (SI Appendix, Fig. S7 C and D), similar to populations in the Indian Ocean (20). Our estimates of cell production (Fig. 2 E and F), computed by multiplying our independent measures of cell abundance by our estimates of division rates, accounted for most of the observed changes in Prochlorococcus cell abundances during the day (Fig. 2D) and indicated that loss processes were negligible during this period.
The net loss rate of Prochlorococcus cells from a given location is a combination of biological factors (i.e., consumption by grazers and/or lysis by viruses) and physical factors (i.e., the removal or addition of cells through physical transport). In our study, the greatest source of physical transport was due to sampling from a moving ship, with other sources of physical transport considered as negligible for our calculations. Physically driven rates of changes in Prochlorococcus abundance was estimated based on the spatial gradient of Prochlorococcus abundance along the cruise track (SI Appendix, SI Materials and Methods). Biologically driven rates of cell loss (i.e., cell mortality) were based on the difference between the cell production and the rates of change of cell abundance over time, after correcting for physical transport (SI Appendix, Fig. S8). Hourly mortality rates were near zero during the day and peaked at night in subtropical gyre waters (<34°N; Fig. 2 E, day 1, and F), with a more stochastic pattern observed further inshore (>34°N; Fig. 2E, day 2–6). In the subtropical gyre, the peak in mortality consistently occurred about 6 h after dusk (Fig. 2F) such that the bulk of the daily Prochlorococcus cell production (ranging from 88 × 106 to 289 × 106 cells/L per day; SI Appendix, Fig. S9) was consumed over the course of the night. This 90°-phase difference (i.e., 6 h in a 24-h cycle) between the rates of cell production and cell mortality was consistent across 2,240 km of the gyre, regardless of water temperature or Prochlorococcus ecotype composition (Fig. 1A). The consistency of the phase and period of the oscillations in the rates of cell mortality was particularly surprising across such a large spatial scale given the diversity of potential sources of Prochlorococcus mortality (e.g., viruses and grazers) (21, 22). A similar diel pattern of cell production and cell mortality was observed in the same region the previous year (November 2010; SI Appendix, Fig. S10), suggesting that these synchronized oscillations may be relatively stable, at least over an annual cycle.
Light-Driven Prochlorococcus Cell Mortality.
In dynamical systems theory, a synchrony between two coupled oscillators indicates that the periodicity of one signal entrains the phase and period of the other. The periodic biological signal in the subtropical gyre is the light-driven photosynthesis and division rate of Prochlorococcus that produces a daily pulse of new carbon. This pulse entrains a synchronous, phase-coupled transfer of the carbon into the food web. Synchronized predator–prey cycles such as those observed here are predicted to promote food web stability (7). No such synchrony was observed in the colder waters where the abundance of Prochlorococcus was significantly lower (<150 × 106 cells/L), and the phytoplankton assemblage was dominated by larger sized phytoplankton (SI Appendix, Fig. S11). As predicted by systems theory, changes in Prochlorococcus cell abundance over time were more stochastic in this region (Fig. 2E, day 3–6).
The synchronized oscillations in the rates of cell production and cell mortality observed in the subtropical gyre mirrors two-component models of virus/host or predator/prey systems, although compressed over the course of a daily cycle. We explored different models to determine which best emulates the observed oscillations in Prochlorococcus mortality rates characterized by limited cell loss during daylight. Classical models commonly assume that mortality rate depends exclusively on prey abundance, with a constant per-capita rate of host infection or prey consumption (23, 24). These models produce a diel oscillation in mortality rates but do not explain the negligible cell loss during the day (Fig. 3 A and B). There is growing evidence that viral infection rates in the cyanobacteria Synechococcus and other marine phytoplankton depend on light either directly or indirectly via the host's cell cycle (25, 26). Mixotrophic protists, such as crysophytes, can graze at night and photosynthesize during the day (27), some of which consume Prochlorococcus in oligotrophic regions (22). Modeled cell mortality emulates our observations if we assume that the per-capita rate of viral infection varies over the day/night cycle or that grazing only occurs at night (Fig. 3 C and D). The relative contribution of grazers and viruses to overall Prochlorococcus mortality in natural communities has not been quantified. However, Prochlorococcus abundances in the Sargasso Sea were observed to decrease dramatically during the latter half of the night, similar to the timing observed here; this nearly identical period of cell loss was experimentally linked to grazing activity rather than viruses (14). Regardless of whether the mortality we observed in the subtropical gyre is caused by viruses or by grazers, our results indicate that the day/night cycle, either directly or indirectly, restricts mortality to the night, allowing Prochlorococcus abundance to recover each day and maintain a stable population over vast regions of the ocean.
Concluding Remarks.
The observed synchrony between cell production and cell mortality means that each day a pulse of Prochlorococcus-derived organic matter enters the ecosystem, either as dissolved organic matter derived from viral lysis, or as particulate organic matter grazed by higher trophic level organisms, or a combination of both. We estimate that Prochlorococcus pulses of carbon could account for more than 75% of the daily photosynthetic organic carbon production in the surface layer of the subtropical gyre during this time of year (SI Appendix, Fig. S9). A recent study by Ottesen et al. (28) documented synchronous gene expression patterns across bacterial communities within the subtropical gyre and hypothesized that these patterns could result from light-driven pulses of dissolved organic matter released by Prochlorococcus. Our results indicate that a mortality-driven pulsed delivery of Prochlorococcus-derived organic compounds through the food web may serve as a stabilizing factor of additional trophic levels across vast expanses of the subtropical ecosystem. The next step is to determine whether similar patterns are observed in the subtropical gyre throughout the year and whether they are conserved across different oceanic regions.
Materials and Methods
Phytoplankton Abundance and Composition.
Flow cytometry samples were collected underway from the continuous seawater flow-through system (5 m depth) during the northward cruise to California (4–9 October 2011) and during the southward cruise to Hawaii (16–18 November 2010 and 29 October–2 November 2011). Continuous underway measurements of Prochlorococcus abundances and cell size were made using SeaFlow (11), and data were analyzed using the R package flowPhyto (29) version 2.4.1, which uses statistical clustering methods to discriminate phytoplankton populations. Forward light scatter measured by the instrument was converted to cell volume using an empirical relationship between light scatter measured by SeaFlow and cell volume measured by a Coulter counter for different exponentially growing phytoplankton cultures (SI Appendix, SI Materials and Methods).
Estimated Cell Division Rates of Prochlorococcus.
Hourly division rates of Prochlorococcus were estimated using the R package ssPopModel version 0.1.1, a modified version of the size-structured matrix population model developed by Sosik et al. (12). The model is based on the assumptions that (i) cell growth is determined by light exposure, (ii) the probability of a cell dividing depends on size, (iii) all cells within a discrete size class have the same probability to change to another size class, and (iv) a cell divides into two daughter cells, each half the size of the mother cell. The model predicts the cell size distribution over the course of the day using the cell size/cell division relationships and the light dependence of cell division (SI Appendix, SI Materials and Methods). We assumed that there was no differential mortality of Prochlorococcus based on cell size. Size distribution-based division rate estimates of Synechococcus have been shown to be similar between undiluted incubations (higher grazing pressure) and diluted incubations (lower grazing pressure) (30), supporting the assumption that size-selective grazing is not important. To establish the accuracy of our estimates of size distribution-based division rate estimates, we compared size-based estimates of Prochlorococcus division rates (h−1) with rates of changes in cell number for laboratory cultures and with cell cycle-based estimates of division rates for natural Prochlorococcus populations sampled near the beginning and end of the transect (SI Appendix, SI Materials and Methods). Estimates of Prochlorococcus cell production was obtained by multiplying hourly averaged cell abundances by the hourly estimates of cell division rates.
Estimated Cell Mortality Rates of Prochlorococcus.
The rate of change in the abundance of Prochlorococcus, C, measured by the instrument from a moving ship reflects changes in C due to local time-dependent biological processes (i.e., division and mortality) and physical processes (i.e., advection and diffusion) occurring at a particular location and an advective component due to the ship moving through a spatial gradient of C. Given that the greatest source of physical transport was due to sampling from a moving ship, with other sources of physical transport considered as negligible for our calculations, mortality rate is given by
where g is the mortality rate due to biological processes such as grazing and viral infection, µ is the division rate, C is the cell abundance, vship is the velocity of the ship and ∂C/∂x is the spatial gradient of C along the cruise track, x. To approximate the spatial gradient of C, we assumed that Prochlorococcus abundances remain constant from day to day at a given location, as observed from previous studies (31, 32) and during the first day on station (Fig. 2C, from day 1 to day 2). Daily averaged C was calculated using a 24-h running mean of hourly averaged C. The daily distance was calculated as the distance between the location at t0 and the location at t + 24 h. A 1-h rolling window was then used to determine the start of each 24-h period in the time series.
Idealized Ecological Models.
We used two different mathematical models that describe two-trophic-level microbial systems (i.e., virus/host and predator/prey systems) in continuous culture, based on our estimates of Prochlorococcus division rates (SI Appendix, SI Materials and Methods). We modeled the dynamics of host/virus interactions according to Levin's model (23) where the per capita adsorption rate of the viruses was set either as a constant or defined to maximize cell lysis 8 h after the peak of Prochlorococcus cells in S phase (i.e., 2 h before dusk). The dynamics of the interactions between predator and prey was modeled using Lokta–Volterra equations (24), where the per-capita predation rate was set either as a constant or defined such that the predation rate was inversely correlated to irradiance. Abundances were simulated for 100 d to reach a system at equilibrium.
Estimated Daily Carbon Production of Prochlorococcus.
Cell volume was converted to carbon per cell using a conservative estimate of 325 fg C/µm3 (33). This yields median values of carbon content per cell of 25 and 50 fg C/cell in the subtropical gyre and near the California coast, respectively. These estimates are in agreement with direct measurements made on cultures (49 fg/cell) (34). The carbon per cell was multiplied by the estimated daily cell production at the end of the southward transect (near Hawaii) to obtain the mean daily carbon production (0.59 mmol C/m3 per day). Our estimate of daily carbon production represents more than 75% of the seasonal gross primary production at station ALOHA (0.75 mmol C/m3 per day) (35), which is based on 18O-labeled O2 in bottles over a 24-h incubation period.
Prochlorococcus Ecotype Composition.
DNA samples were collected underway from the continuous seawater flow-through system. Genomic DNA was extracted from 500-mL water samples filtered through a 0.2-µm Supor filter following the protocol described in Demir-Hilton et al. (36) for the northward cruise and through a 0.2-µm GTTP Isopore membrane filter using the QIAGEN DNeasy tissue kit according to the manufacturer's protocol for gram-negative bacterial cells for the southward cruise. Filters were first thawed and vortexed vigorously with lysis buffer using a bead beater (Bio-Spec Products) for 30 s at 2,100 × g (Eppendorf 5418 with rotor FA-45-18-11), and the buffer with cells was then collected and processed according to the manufacturer's protocol. Barcoded V1-V2 region 16S rRNA data were produced and analyzed using a previously published method (37) that incorporates pplacer (38) version 1.1.15. The number of Prochlorococcus amplicons produced were 1,382, 34,351, 40,046, 30,738, and 38,153 (ordered by ascending sea surface temperature).
Auxiliary Data.
Monthly averaged fields of satellite-based sea surface temperature were obtained from the NASA website (disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni). Photosynthetic active radiation (PAR) was measured using an underwater Biospherical Instruments light sensor with log amplifier. Underway sea surface temperature was measured using a shipboard Sea-Bird Electronics SBE-21 thermosalinograph, and underway chlorophyll a fluorescence was measured using a shipboard WET Labs ECO FLRTD chlorophyll fluorometer.
We thank the officers, crew aboard the Thomas G. Thompson and Western Flyer, and J. Koester for assistance during the cruise onboard the T.G. Thompson; C. Olson for helping with DNA extractions; J. Saunders for providing Prochlorococcus cultures (MED4); and S. Coesel for comments on the manuscript. We also thank H. Sosik and K. Hunter-Cevera for sharing the original version of the matrix population model. This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant OTIC-1154074 and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Grant GBMF3776 (to E.V.A.) and the David and Lucille Packard Foundation and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Grant GBMF3788 (to A.Z.W.).
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I am writing this entry two weeks after my older brother, Keith, died. I am finding my ability to focus is diminished, my task completion rate has plummeted and my range of creativity has reduced.
And these things happen to teams, too. The recognition of grief by project managers is a significant source of interpersonal connection.
You probably won't find that people that are grieving are openly sad, crying or down-trodden at work. However, you may recognize:
- a decrease in conversation, especially in group meetings
- shortened attention span, minds wandering at times
- a desire to commit fully to work, denying the personal loss and taking on more commitments than usual
- team members expressing empathy which is met with flat responses from the grieving team member
- no change at all
So, what does a project manager do when they learn their team members have suffered a loss? I recall speaking with a team member about the loss of her husband. The conversation was as free and natural as if she had misplaced a coupon for lunch. She had processed her grieving and was well beyond any pain she felt discussing his death. There were also cultural implications I did not understand. I said, simply, "I am sorry to hear you lost your husband." She nodded her head. That was it.
In another work setting, a workplace filled with cutting humor and personal slights, I offered a co-worker a word of support when his wife became ill to which he responded, "you are so full of sh**!" Context matters. I was a visitor to the office and hadn't built up enough trust points with this person to have him understand my meaning. He thought I was making a joke out of his personal situation.
In a third situation, as our team was developing our project's funding pitch to our executive board our project sponsor suffered a terrible loss. His wife died in an athletic competition the week before the presentation, leaving him devastated. We all mourned his loss. His charisma and energy had moved the project this far along and was needed, going forward, to sustain interest in the new technology we were proposing. The project was not funded.
In addition to death, people experience grief for a variety of other things which may trigger grieving:
- loss of job
- fear of losing a job
- co-worker lay-offs
- loss of a home due to finances, weather, fire or robbery
- sexual abuse
- awareness of the loss of others through social media
- the loss of a family pet
- a poor performance appraisal
If you are familiar with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) you may benefit from knowing if the person you are speaking to prefers Extraversion (thinking as they speak) or Intraversion (thinking it over BEFORE they speak). The Extraverting speaker will tell you lots of information as it becomes available to their minds, which may seem like rambling, while the Intraverting speaker will respond with a short courtesy such as, "I am fine. Thank you." But you don't need to know the person's type to figure out how to best interact with them.
Go with your gut. Listen. Watch their eyes, their body language. You'll get all the cues you'll need to communicate effectively with a grieving team member.
How long is "long enough" for a person to grieve? We project managers expect quick results. If we have said we are sorry for someone's loss, we've checked if off our To-Do List, and somewhere inside us we expect them to be "over it" and ready to move on, right? Back to normal. Plop, plop, fizz, fizz! It just doesn't work that way. Know that the grieving process takes different amounts of time for different people and may change significantly for the same person depending on the relationship with the deceased and other life events the loss may trigger.
There is no fixed formula or schedule of events. A friend of mine, Doug Thompson, COO of Texas Roadhouse, says that love is spelled T-I-M-E, which plays well for those grieving losses of all types.


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Hi there, Timmy! Help me out here, please! We have had questions in Sunday School about a passage in Hebrews 6. Now you know me well enough to know that I am a FIRM believer in eternal salvation, but I just wonder what you think about my take on this scripture and what your take is, please. Here is the scripture. By the way, I LOVE your KJV online! So nice to be able to cut and paste!!! Incidentally, Timmy, this particular scripture was VERY troubling to me in college and seminary, and I had a seminary prof who used this scripture to try to prove that one could be saved and lost again and never be saved again.
What say you? Am I hitting the nail on the head here? Is there anything else I can share with the lady who asked this question: by the way, in our Bible studies on Tuesdays, David does a GREAT job of teaching (We're in Ephesians, and were looking at Ephesians 2: 8-10 yesterday), but he allows for some good discussion, too, and we have some really sharp Christians in the group!
{6:1} Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, {6:2} Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. {6:3} And this will we do, if God permit. {6:4} For [it is] impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, {6:5} And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, {6:6} If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put [him] to an open shame.
David did an excellent job of sharing LOTS of eternal security scriptures in the Tuesday morning Bible study yesterday, but asked to study a bit this week before really responding to this particular passage:
I noted that we need to remember about whom and TO whom this scripture is written: the HEBREWS, Jews (although I also noted that many others find themselves in the same position). I said that they had indeed had the Messiah right in front of their faces and knew exactly what it would take to receive eternal life. They come SO close to salvation and even think they want it, but then back away, to the point that even though they may have a form or repentance (being sorry that they have sinned, but not enough to change directions, which is what true repentance is!). They were close enough to salvation to "taste" it, but refused to really "eat" (i.e., accept it).
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Thanks for helping us out here!
Love always,
David and Dwan
The big question here is "if they should fall away", acting if they had never been saved Dwan. If you will note in verse 4, Paul said: "It Is Impossible". In other words, he's saying "it is impossible, but if it were possible for them to fall away"… Hebrews 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 6:5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. Paul was giving an example of what if, so to speak. He's defiantly not saying it's possible to fall away.
Your dear husband was doing well when he taught on the scripture covering eternal security. When we read the scriptures, we need to understand that the Bible is always specific about whatever subject it covers, and we need to take full context of that particular subject. As you well know this is rightly dividing the word of truth. 2nd Timothy 2:14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers. 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2:16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.


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In the four decades since Billie-Jean King announced the creation of the Women's Tennis Association the world of female sport has changed almost as much as society itself.
Of course, those two trajectories cannot be separated, as women have become more empowered, so their professional opportunities have multiplied and a virtuous circle has been created.
There are many who, rightly, argue that there is still a long way to go, a glance at an average day's national newspapers would see the coverage of women's sport is far outweighed by its male counterpart.
Indeed, only last Saturday afternoon I Googled the outcome of the women's French Open only to find the top entry was the previous days men's semi-final results, without any mention of Serena Williams's victory.
And while we must keep that inequity in mind, there must also be times when everyone sits back and reflects on the progress that has been made, which started when Billie Jean defeated Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes. In truth it wasn't a great match, but it was a Great Match.
Now is one such occasion. The WTA is due to celebrate a landmark birthday next Thursday, 40 years to the day since Billie Jean chaired a meeting at the Gloucester Hotel in London at which it was thought she would announce a boycott of the 1973 Wimbledon Championships.
Instead she and 63 colleagues stepped blinking into the media spotlight having created their own professional tour.
The WTA was born and King and several other leading figures spent the rest of the decade crisscrossing the globe stitching together their calendar, with the aim of making the game a viable career for talented girls.
Chief among those visionaries was Birmingham's Ann Jones, who had stopped playing tennis a few years before having won Wimbledon and two French Championships titles.
The WTA tour is in the Second City this week as the Aegon Classic takes place at the Edgbaston Priory Club where Kings Heath-born Jones is a life member.
Indeed, she's rather more than a life member, her contribution to her club, her country and her gender was recognised last Sunday when the new, permanent Ann Jones Centre Court was opened. The 74-year-old is walking, talking history.
Set aside the enthralling nature of her Ladies Singles victory, from a set down, over King in 1969 and remember her part in helping establish the European leg of the women's circuit.
"It started in America with the Virginia Slims circuit in 1971 – that was the first women-only event that improved the miserable prize money that was being offered for mixed events," Jones recalls. "To gain some self respect they had to set up on their own and make sure they were viable.
"The series was a success in the States and both the WTA wanted to expand into Europe and the international federation wanted a part of what was a growing thing.
"We travelled around, one night Vienna, one night in Perugia, one night in Lugano to set up the European circuit. We split the German championship in two, the men stayed in Hamburg and the women moved to Berlin. The same with the Italian championship, the same with the Swiss."
With that feat on clay it was on to England where Eastbourne ably supported Wimbledon but there was a need for another warm-up event. The LTA experimented with Chichester and Bournemouth before Edgbaston was suggested.
"It came here, I was still tour director and I came with it, we set it up, got it going with the bank of rhododendrons and the sunken centre court that flooded. The poor groundsman, who was called Terry, was up all night with a cover over the court and a commercial blower trying to dry it.
"Billie Jean came and was supporting the whole thing, I kept saying to her 'I hope this court is going to be fit'. We played, everything was fine in the end and Billie Jean won it."
It is a story that has been repeated around the globe and one, while not complete, that should be celebrated over the coming months.
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Bridgeport has still been hanging in there for the boat/bait anglers, as well as a limited amount of trolling success. We haven't talked to any fly anglers lately but there should still be some stillwater nymphing action up in the channels or off of Rainbow Point. Most of the trolling action has been in the Rainbow Point to Paradise Shores area while the bait anglers are still doing well off of Rainbow Point, up in the Buckeye Bay area channels and some in the East Walker channel. Trollers are doing the best with crawlers and needlefish, bait anglers are doing well with mice tails, pinched crawlers, inflated crawlers and power bait.
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City Issues Dorm Permits for Former PS 64/Charas-El Bohio in East Village, Breaking Own Rules
We are disappointed to report that the NYC Department of Buildings issued permits for a new 'dormitory' at the old PS 64/Charas-El Bohio Cultural Center at 605 East 9th Street (Avenues A/B) over the objections of GVSHP and many community groups, elected officials, and the local community board. Perhaps most disturbingly, the permits seem to have been issued in violation of the City's own rules regarding student dormitories -- rules passed several years ago after significant agitation by community groups and elected officials to prevent more developers from claiming to include dormitories in developments just to get permits to build.
But last week, in spite of these strict new rules, the City issued permits for the conversion of much of this landmarked building to a dormitory, supposedly for use by Cooper Union and the Joffrey Ballet. However, the terms of the arrangement do not appear to meet the standards for a long-term lease or for an accredited educational institution. Additionally, it has long been the wishes of the community to see this building -- which served as a public school before being converted into the revered Charas-El Bohio Cultural Center -- returned to a true community use. Mayor Giuliani closed the cultural center and sold the building to a developer more than a decade ago, and it has sat in limbo as the developer first sought to demolish it (thwarted by the building being given landmark status) and replace it with successive plans for dorm developments.
GVSHP is working closely with a coalition of community groups, elected officials, and the community board to oppose the City's decision, uphold our hard-fought-for dorm rules, and see the building returned to a true community use.
Time To Move on Landmarking the South Village Phase III
GVSHP has reached out to the new Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) Chair and Mayor de Blasio to urge that they move on landmarking the third and final phase of GVSHP's proposed South Village Historic District -- the area south of Houston Street which the prior administration and LPC Chair refused to landmark. Landmarks designation of this historically rich neighborhood is supported by every local elected official representing the area, the local community board, and nearly every block or civic association and institution located there. In late 2013, GVSHP got this area and the rest of the South Village placed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places, and in 2012 this and the rest of the South Village was named one of "Seven to Save" by the Preservation League of NY State -- one of the seven most endangered, historically significant sites in New York State.
This final section of the South Village is very much threatened; in just the last few years we have seen the demolition of historically significant early 19th century houses at 186 Spring Street and 54 MacDougal Street, one of New York's earliest Art Deco buildings, the Tunnel Garage, and a host of other 19th and early 20th century structures. We have also recently seen a huge spate of out-of-scale high-rise construction going up in this neighborhood, which is otherwise almost uniformly composed of three to six story buildings.
This area, phase III of GVSHP's proposed South Village Historic District, contains an almost entirely intact 19th and early 20th century New York City cityscape, with incredible connections to New York's last great wave of immigration. St. Anthony of Padua Church, the oldest extant Italian-American church, and a series of model tenements built by the Citizen's Investing Corporation for immigrants, among many other beautiful and compelling sites, are found within its boundaries.
Affordable Housing and Preservation Roundtable Sept. 16
In recent months, the real estate lobby has tried to attack and undermine landmarking and preservation, claiming it runs counter to efforts to address New York City's housing affordability crisis. Ironically, these claims come from the exact group which has lobbied heavily for many of the policies which have contributed most profoundly to our city's affordability problems.
Join GVSHP, the Historic Districts Council, and the New School's Center for New York City Affairs for a roundtable discussion aimed at taking back the dialogue about affordable housing from the self-interested real estate lobby. We'll hear directly from advocates and government officials about the obstacles to affordability in New York City, and the real relationships between affordability and preservation.
Panelists include Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer; Harvey Epstein, Project Director of the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center and NYC Rent Guidelines Board Member; Nadine Maleh, Director of the Inspiring Places program at Community Solutions; and Rachel Meltzer, Assistant Professor of Urban Policy at The New School. The discussion will be moderated by GVSHP Executive Director Andrew Berman.
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Southern California Edison's Community Engagement Panel on the decommissioning of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station will meet with experts from the Bipartisan Policy Center on the subject of encouraging the federal Department of Energy to move on finding ways of safely storing spent nuclear fuel.
San Clemente City Councilman Tim Brown, who serves as vice-chair of the CEP, announced the meeting at the council's Jan. 6 meeting. Tim Frazier, the former head of the President's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, is also scheduled to attend the meeting. Frazier heads the center's own nuclear waste initiative.
The speedy removal of spent nuclear fuel from the site south of San Clemente has been a major topic of discussion of both the CEP and City Council in recent months. With no current central repository for spent nuclear fuel, fuel is currently slated to remain at the plant until a repository, permanent or temporary, can be found.
The City Council passed a resolution in December asking that the fuel be removed as swiftly as possible from the site. Anti-nuclear activists have suggested that the safest route may be to remove the fuel to a more inland and less densely populated environment within California, specifically the desert.
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Munnar Club Mahindra Resort Reviews- A Family Holiday amidst Sprawling Tea Plantations of Munnar, Kerala. Being in the company of endless tea estates, expansive hills and lush green valleys is what a holiday at Club Mahindra Munnar looks like. Not all Munnar resorts are capable of gifting you such happiness. But, at Club Mahindra Munnar resorts, you can experience the culture and cuisine of Kerala in the best way along with fun games and activities! So, check out these Club Mahindra reviews to find out more about Club Mahindra holidays.
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Do it yourself projects gives a good chance for anyone to participate. It offers you good results in terms of cost too. When done properly, home improvements boost your home's value. Keep reading to learn how-to carry out some home improvement project for yourself.
The water lost from leaks can add up to countless gallons annually, ultimately causing an unnecessary waste of the natural resource and an increased water bill for you personally. Fixing a leak can be as simple as replacing a washer, so there's no reason to not do this simple property improvement for yourself. Even so, safety is an essential element in any do it yourself project. You can check online for help to make sure you don't fall a victim of injuries when you carry out your project.
Buying cheap timber, plastic or appliances with dents and dings will reduce the original cost of a project but devalue the complete house later. As your home is just a long-term investment, build and restore with quality materials. Whether you are doing it for yourself or for resale there are many advantages that come with having quality work.
Use the tools that make your ceiling look higher. Paint your walls or add a floor lamp. Adding this to your home will generate an optical illusion on your eye to follow. The limit is made to look a little higher than it really is, as the eyes focus on along the traces.
A good way to incorporate a good atmosphere to a room is by lighting a candle. Candles are a romantic gesture in almost any environment, but in addition emit a warm glow delivering an area with the feeling of coziness and warmth. If your candle is scented, in addition, it gives off a nice smell in the space while making you feel comfortable.
As it pertains to home improvement, make sure to improve the leaks at your house for the top as your priority-list. This is significant since leaks might be either harmful, damaging to the construction of your house, or might cost you a fortune. Install a CO2 detector within your house for fuel leaks.
Here's an idea! This really is especially great in the event that you live in an apartment and cannot paint your room a different color besides white. Employ this color and produce a room packed with personality through the use of a brown couch and pink decorative pillows.
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Combine honey and apple cider vinegar to :
-improve the digestion,
-alleviate muscle ache, pain in the joints,throat ache,
-encourage healthy weight loss, etc.
Consume it on a daily basis an just in couple of days you will notice the positive effects ACV will destroys disease-causing bacteria and bacteria responsible for infections and inflammations in the body.
Health benefits :
-Treats improper digestion and constipation
-Alleviates joint ache and arthritis
-Treats acid reflux and heartburn
-Decreases the high blood cholesterol and high blood pressure
-Makes the skin shinier and more hydrated
-Prevents bad breath
-Increases the energy
By consuming this beverage, you wont need to energy daily by alkalizing the body and contributing to the fight against numerous health issues.
Use only organic ingredients !
Ingredients :
1 teaspoon of organic honey
1 teaspoon of organic ACV
1 cup of water
- Put the honey and apple cider vinegar in a cup of water , mix it.
- Consume it every morning, 20 minutes before breakfast, on an empty stomach.
As excessive amounts of ACV lowers the potassium levels in the body and can cause bone density.
Consult your physician for the time and amount you are planing to take.
More ways to use ACV :
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Do you remember how it felt when you and your significant other brought your bond to the bedroom for the first time? Even if the first time was filled with mistakes and miscommunication, you more than likely reached a point as time went on where everything flowed smoothly together like peanut butter and jelly.
As time continued to pass, though, there may have come a point where the sizzle fizzled, right?
However, all is not lost. As is the case with any real-life fire, you can take the steps to rekindle the flames and get the fire burning brighter and bigger than it ever did before. How? Keep reading and find out.
Just Do It
It is much more than just a Nike slogan – it should be the driving force in your relationship when it comes to intimacy in the bedroom. Keep in mind that this does not mean that you should "just do it and get it over with ASAP." This is more of a motivation to stop talking about it or thinking about it or even complaining about it. Just like you need to grab some sticks, a lighter or a matchbox to start a fire, you need to take that first step towards getting the flame going in your bedroom.
Do not waste time thinking about how much time has passed. That will only bring up past issues and old injuries shared between you and your significant other – which may lead to more yells and screams than moans and groans.
Reintroduce the Oiled Massage
It may seem like a move in the wrong direction, but a proper massage can effectively spark a major flame in the bedroom. When you first start having sex with your partner, you may enjoy the "scenic" route of foreplay and anatomical explorations. A thorough massage is a great way to introduce yourself to your partner's body. More importantly, a proper massage is an effective way to reintroduce the two of you and reinvigorate the passion in the bedroom. What is a proper massage? Use candles to create the ambiance and massage oils or lotions to massage his or her body the proper way.
Discuss Each Other's Desires
Everyone is willing to give you advice on your sex life – especially if you invite them to give it to you. Whether they want to share self-help books and helpful online videos or personal recommendations of "adult toys" and lingerie ideas, this seemingly wonderful world of free advice may seem helpful. However, as many couples find out the hard way, it is actually more harmful than helpful.
If you want to find out how to please your significant other in the bedroom, the first person you should go to for advice is your significant other. He or she more than likely has an idea of what they like and dislike with your sexual encounters and can provide you the most accurate insight to improve and add fuel to that fire without having to involve the "peanut gallery" of nosy bystanders.
You May Need a Little Guidance
If there are other issues emerging in other aspects of your relationship, it is understandable why they may manifest themselves in the bedroom. If this is the case, then you should at least consider speaking with an Allen therapist or counselor to guide you through it. Whether you decide to discuss your own personal demons and skeletons or your partner is okay with a couple counseling, you may find that seeking the expert guidance of a licensed therapist may get those flames burning much sooner than you think.
Patience Pays Off with Time
The old saying is that "patience is virtue," right? It pays off in the bedroom as well. Over time, you may get into a rut where it feels like sex is more of a chore than an enjoyable experience that brings you closer to each other and boost the level of intimacy between the two of you. Remember, the best things in life are worth waiting for – outside and inside of the bedroom. Sex should be at the top of that list of things worth waiting for – especially if the person you are having it with is your special someone.


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Stefan Zweig: Stendhal, in war but not of it
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Stefan Zweig: Selections on peace and war
Stefan Zweig
From Adepts in Self-Portraiture: Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy
Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul
He sits in the shadow of war, and is well content to read his book, translate German poetry, and write exquisite letters to his sister Pauline. He is acquiring knowledge and experience, is developing into a connoisseur of life, is a straggler in the wake of every battle, an intellectual dilettante of every art; day by day he throws off further bonds, gaining freedom; and the wider his acquaintance with the world, the better he observes its phenomena, the more intricate is his cognition of himself.
Opposition is the very breath of life to him; independence his delight There are a hundred examples to show how dauntlessly and impudently this fearless malcontent throws down the gauntlet, challenging public opinion to the fight In an epoch when everyone is belauding war, when in France ''the idea of heroism is inseparably connected with that of a drum-major," he describes Waterloo as an immense medley of chaotic forces; he unblushingly acknowledges that he is bored to death during the Russian campaign, though historians in general are wont to extol this adventure as an epic of universal history; he is not ashamed to say that a journey to Italy where he hopes to see his beloved is more important than the fate of his country, and an aria by Mozart more interesting than a political crisis. II se fiche d'etre conquis, he does not care a snap of the fingers if France is occupied by foreign armies; for, being by choice a European and a cosmopolitan, he does not bother about the mad breaks of fortune in war, about opinions which happen to be fashionable at the moment, about patriotism le ridicule le plus sot, about nationalism et hoc genus omne.
We recognize in him, "man" par excellence, the eternal individual, the rare and subtle exemplar psychologically complete – precisely because he did not allow himself to be coloured with the dye-stuffs of his epoch. No other author's work in the French literature of his century, no other man of letters, has remained so fresh, so new, so intact. His books seem to be for all time, to be full of vitality, because, irrespective of what was going on around him, he lived his own life. A man may serve his fellows quite as effectively by safeguarding his personality from the world, as by sacrificing himself to the world.
This "marvellously prescient man," as Nietzsche calls him, though living in the days of post-chaises and wearing a Napoleonic uniform, is amazingly one of ourselves. His total lack of dogmatism, his early preference for being a European rather than a man of some specific nationality, his detestation of the mechanical regularization of the world, his hatred of pompous mass heroics, seem to us parts of our own make-up. How fine is his serene self-composure when compared with the sentimental bleatings of his contemporaries, and how splendidly did he make good by the influence he exerted upon great writers of a later generation. Innumerable are the trails and the ways he has opened to subsequent men of letters: Dostoeffsky's Raskolnikoff is unthinkable had Stendhal's Julien not been created; Tolstoy's battle of Borodino owes much to its classical exemplar, Stendhal's memorable description of Waterloo; and much of Nietzsche's joy in thinking was derived from the refreshing perusal of his predecessor's works. Thus the ames fraternelles, the etres superieurs, whom Stendhal sought in vain during his lifetime, gathered round him in the end, in the only fatherland his free cosmopolitan spirit could recognize and love, the fatherland of men who resembled himself.
Of all his contemporaries, Balzac alone hailed him as brother, and there are none of that generation who are more akin to us to-day in spirit and in feeling than this man, Henri Beyle. Through the medium of cold print and paper we can feel his warm and breathing presence. Although he plumbed his own depths as none other before him, he remains unfathomable. He revels in contradictions, dazzles us with the phosphorescent hues of his enigmatical personality; he lays bare his innermost secrets and hides others from our gaze, fulfilling himself and yet never completing the picture of himself, always and always a live and palpitating personality.
Those who have been out of touch with their own epoch are the very ones whom a new epoch delights to honour. The most delicate spiritual oscillations have the longest wave-length in time and eternity.


text: There's a ton of pediatric advice out there, a great deal of which promotes tummy time for babies. Positioning babies on their stomachs not only helps to prevent flat spots on the back of your baby's developing head, it is also good for strengthening neck, shoulder, and even hand muscles. Tummy time also helps improve motor development, as it works the muscles that are integral for fine motor skills.


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Monday, January 24, 2011
Meal Plan Monday
Last week, my husband took off Monday for the holiday, and my sister-in-law (plus her mother-in-law) visited us on Sunday afternoon through the day on Monday. It was a lot of fun seeing her, and she thinks my three boys are the best nephews ever, so they love seeing her. But, that little change to our routine threw us off all week. It didn't help that the week before had been Snowpocalypse, and I got awfully used to having another set of hands at home.
Today, I am determined to see the bottom of both my laundry hamper (meaning it's all done) and the baskets (meaning it's all put away!).
But, luckily for me, I had a menu plan. It sounds hokey, but I really love my menu plan, and it takes a lot of the thinking out of the late afternoons, which is a good thing. Somehow, my children can entertain themselves at any time of day except two (and they are a big two!). When I am on the phone (what's up with that??!!??) and, again, when I am peering into my pantry wondering what's for supper. I'm all about removing anything that makes my life harder, so a menu plan is a beautiful thing to remove that stress.
Friday--bean tostadas
Saturday--lunch--out for $2.50 Vietnamese sandwiches at this fun place ; supper--fish tacos
Sunday--lunch--asparagus omelets, sausage, homefries, toast; supper--chicken pot pie
Monday--Italian wedding soup
Tuesday--free Moe's to celebrate a grand opening (woohoo! I'm excited about this one)
Wednesday--Thai red curry with pork, snow peas, and scallions, rice
Thursday--lemon chicken pasta (from Confessions of a Foodie Bride whom I discovered last week through Menu Plan Monday at orgjunkie.com) I don't have artichokes, so I'll leave those out, and I'm not sure what to do about the cream. I might replace it with an alternate milk, and I might leave it out. I'll just see when the time comes.
And that's this week in a nutshell. If you need inspiration for your menus, check out orgjunkie's Menu Plan Monday as always. And, even if you make the same things every week, a glimpse onto the plates of 400 different bloggers is always fun.
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